Recently, Auchinleck Academy’s Learning Ambassadors visited both Sorn and Catrine Primaries to deliver an Additional Support Needs Assembly.

Iona Charles (S6), Liam Gatherer (S5) and Matt Govans (S3) delivered their message in a clear and powerful manner and then answered questions from the pupils with honesty. The presentation was such that you could have heard a pin drop during it.  The pupils spoke with confidence and enthusiasm about their own difficulties and the support received from all staff in our school.

Applications forms can be downloaded from the website, SMHW and from the school computers on ‘Public-> Captain information-> application form’.

Paper copies are available from the main office and guidance offices.

Remember to tick whether you are applying for school captain, house captain or both.

School captains will be appointed first, followed by house captains.

Completed application forms must be returned by Friday 27th April. No late applications accepted!

School Captain – Selection Procedures 2018-19

SQA exams will start on Monday 30^th April and will finish on Friday 1^st June.  The dates, times and venues for each exam are available by clicking the link below:

SQA Pupil Timetable 2018

Please note that the start times might be different from the times stated on the exam timetable on the SQA website.  Pupils should make sure that they arrive to the exam venue on the day of the exam 10 minutes before the start of the exam.  Seat numbers will be displayed outside each venue.

Pupils will be issued individual timetables during PLP when we return from the Easter holidays showing the exams that they are being presented for, pupils should check their personal details on the timetable and let Mrs Macara know of any changes to address etc as these are the details that SQA hold for each candidate and the addresses that SQA will post exam certificates to.

Details of pupils who have alternative assessment arrangements will be shown on the individual exam timetables.

S4/5/6 pupils are expected to attend all of their timetabled classes until Friday 27^th April.  Study leave will start on Monday 30^th April and will finish on Friday 1^st June.  All pupils should return to school on Monday 4^th June to start their new timetable.

Can all pupils who are attending their College Link Placement Interviews between Wednesday 18th April and Thursday 26th April make their own arrangements to get to and from the College.

Thank you

The 4th annual Young Musician of the Year competition was held at Auchinleck Academy on Monday 26th March. It was an excellent evening of entertainment from the 13 finalists as well as the groups which rehearse within the school. There were 4 junior finalists and 9 senior finalists this year, battling it out for the title of Young Musician of the Year 2018. The finalists were as follows:

JUNIORS

Kirsty MacLeod (voice)

Ava Cook (piano)

Lachlan Schendel (drumkit)

Emma Gemmell (Fiddle)

SENIORS

Natasha Romaniuk (voice)

Matthew Morrison (drumkit)

Kirsten O’Dwyer (voice)

Skye Schendel (piano)

Scott McKee (piano)

Millie Graham (voice)

Morven Guthrie (accordion)

Siobhan Brannigan (voice)

Lynsey Blair (voice)

Junior Winner: Kirsty MacLeod

Junior Runner up: Ava Cook

Senior Winner:  Scott McKee

Senior Runner up: Skye Schendel

Congratulations to all involved in a great night and now all our efforts are concentrated on the production of our school show “Hairspray” which takes place 19th – 21st of June 2018.

Auchinleck Academy’s gymnastics team won the Active schools event held on Friday 23^rd March at the Judo club in Kilmarnock.  The event was run in association with Ayrshire Gymnastics and the girls performed in three events; individual floor, team floor and team equipment.

The team were placed first overall and Iona Young and Lauryn Hanlon were identified as having an ‘outstanding performance’ in individual floor.

The girls this year have grown from strength to strength and hopefully they will continue to develop their skills next year.

The team was taken by Mrs Kelly and Miss Cathie.

Auchinleck Rugby has been busy over the past few weeks. Our U15 7s squad reached the semi-final of the Carrick 7s showing some great character to stay competitive in all games. The following week our U16 7s squad got to the semi-final of the Ayrshire 7s narrowly losing out to eventual winners Marr College in a close three tries to two game. Both teams played open attacking 7s with some impressive tackling taking place.

The big one, however was on Wednesday 21st March when our U16 National Bowl Champions travelled down to Rozelle Park in Ayr to take on a strong and physical Belmont side in the final of the Ayrshire Cup. Belmont were dominant in possession in the first half but Auchinleck defended their line with aggression and passion and held Belmont to 5-0 at the break. Half time instructions were to keep doing the same hard work in defence and use the ball more in attack. Some expansive rugby in the wet conditions stretched the Belmont defence and Auchinleck took the lead 7-5. When more pressure from Auchinleck allowed winger William Prince to slip a neat inside pass to Kevin Van Deer Leest the score took the game to 12-5. Further pressure on the Belmont line followed and after a series of penalties captain Andy Houston scythed his way through the defence to take the game to 17-5. Belmont fought back and scored a consolation try to finish the game 17-12 to the Double National and Ayrshire Champions – Auchinleck Rugby.

Ellie Neil, in S3, won a prize in the Royal Scottish Academy competition and has her work is now being exhibited in Edinburgh.

This week Serena Corr, also in S3, won runner up in the John Byrne Drawing Competition! She is off to meet the artist himself on Wed and to see her drawing exhibited in Paisley Art gallery.

Both competitions are entered by thousands of students each year so to have not one but two winners, we are thrilled.

Congratulations to both girls

Ellie                                                 Serena

On Wednesday 14^th March, the Maths department at Auchinleck Academy celebrated Pi day. There were lots of different activities going on in classes, including making a pi chain where each colour represented a different digit of pi, creating a pi ku and pi dingbats. Some pupils also had a go at memorising some of the digits of Pi and won an apple pie for their efforts!

The Auchinleck Academy Education Group K’nex Challenge was held on Tuesday 20^th March in Auchinleck Academy. Teams came from Mauchline, Catrine, Sorn and Ochiltree primary schools and their brief for the morning was to build a Ferris wheel using K’nex pieces. All teams worked hard to make their wheels and the eventual winners were Ochiltree Primary school.