News from Lockerbie Academy - Thursday 13 May 2010

S3 Monitors

At this time of year 16+ study leave begins and our prefect teams are replaced by the S3 monitors. This year there are 83 monitors who will be helping out with interval and lunchtime duties until the end of June. This means the monitors will be assisting during the move to the new school. The monitors are as follows:

Sports News

Under-14 Football

Congratulations go to the Under-14 Football Team. They followed up last years amazing success in winning the Scottish Cup by retaining the Regional League championship. The team defeated Wallace Hall Academy 2-0 in their last match to remain undefeated throughout the season.

Match report:

Lockerbie Academy 2 v 0 Wallace Hall Academy

In the best performance of the season they defeated a strong team from Wallace Hall Academy 2-0 to clinch the title by 5 points.

Two first half goals by captain, Kieron McCrudden, sealed the win, but Lockerbie’s overall play could have led to a much more convincing win – with Dean Smith, Sean Dunbar and Eddie Booth all hitting woodwork.

Lockerbie’s defence was also solid and reliable with Robbie Carter having his best game for the school in goals and Danny Graham and Kyron Jackson and Connor Graham in excellent form.

In midfield Levi Carrick, Zac Lockerbie and Dayne Earl won the midfield battle, with Dayne having to replace the injured Ross Burgess.

The boys can now enjoy a rest from school’s football as many were playing through a number of injuries.

Well done boys!

Representative Honours

Congratulations go to Dean Smith, Kyran Jackson, Kieran McCrudden and Zac Caldwell who have been selected for the Dumfries and Galloway Regional Under-14 team. They are playing Belfast this week in the first game of the session for the Regional Team.

S6 Valedictory Assembly

In the traditional manner this years sixth year held a valedictory assembly which reviewed their years at Lockerbie Academy. The memories assembly was prefaced by various presentations. The S6 Charities presented two cheques for £415.32 to their two preferred charities – Steps and Macmillan Cancer Research.

A cheque for £318 was also presented to the Lorna Young Foundation, a result of the events from Fairtrade fortnight.

Lockerbie Academy General Election

Pupils at Lockerbie Academy participated in an electronic vote last week to vote for their own Prime Minister. The results were announced by the presiding officer, Mr Terrace, Principal Teacher (Humanities). Gordon Brown was voted Lockerbie Academy’s Prime Minister by a comfortable margin.

Dates for the Diary