News from Lockerbie Academy - Thursday 14 May 2009

S6 Steering Committee

The final meeting of the S6 Steering Committee met last Friday. This group of senior students have made an excellent impact this year helping to organise Prefects, the S6 Common Room, Charities, S6 Prom, House Events, Eco-School, S6 Year Book and S6 Hoodies.

The S6 Steering Committee were presented with certificates for their endeavours:

Head Boy – Taylor Edwards (i/c Prefects)
Head Girl - Mairi Aitken (i/c Charities)
Depute Head Boy - Craig Stoddart (i/c Minute Secretary), (i/c Charities)
Depute Head Girl - Amy MacPherson (i/c Prom)

House Captains

Annan - Liam Scott, Emily Jackson
Dryfe - Dora Lewis, Hollie Dickson
Kirtle - Martin Donaldson, Jemma Dunlop
Milk - Nicola Shortreed, Craig Prater

Eco-School Group Representative

Amy Spence

S3 Monitors

As the S5/6 students go away on Study Leave, the prefect team are replaced by S3 Monitors who carry out supervision duties and assist Staff Duty Teams to make the school a safe and well-organised place at interval and lunchtime. Many S3 pupils applied to be monitors, but special congratulations to the sixty monitors chosen.

Managers of the Month – Fantasy Football League

Although Mr Scott remains the leader and favourite to win the Fantasy Football League, the Managers of the month for April were as follows:

S1 - Evelyn McLennan
S2 - Jay Bryson
S3 - Euan Moffat
S4 - Fergus Barrie
S5 - Roisin Trant
S6 - Grant Bryson
Staff - Mr Turner
Parent - Mr White

Europe Day

In the run up to Europe Day on Saturday 9 May, a number of activities were organized in the school to mark the occasion. A group of S5 pupils, namely Natasha Dinwoodie, Hayley Jardine, Joanna Morris and Rebecca Porteous, all from 5B, were involved in broadcasting facts about Europe on the tannoy each morning. Pupils in S1 had the opportunity to take part in a Euro Quiz organized by the Modern Languages Faculty. Pupils also had the opportunity to sample a French breakfast and the menu at the school canteen had a European theme with Bratwurst and Kartoffelsalat for lunch. Our thanks go to all the staff and pupils involved in these events and we hope that pupils know more about Europe as a result.

S6 Charities Pet Walk

Well done to the pupils and staff who took part in last Sunday’s Pet Walk in aid of the S6 Charities – the SSPCA. This week all monies will be counted and cheques will be passed on to representatives of SAMH and SSPCA at the S6 Valediction ceremony yesterday.