The S6 Year Books are now available to be collected at the Main Office. There are a few spare copies available to be purchased priced £10 on a first come first served basis.

The latest Scholastic Book Club is up and running! Go to http://schools.scholastic.co.uk/auchinleck-academy to browse the latest books and order online. For every £1 you spend on this month’s Book Club, our school will earn 20p in Scholastic Rewards.

 Please place your order online or by handing the printed order form and payment to Miss McGill in the School Library or your English teacher by June 16th, 2017.

Please see an S3 homework task below. They had to design a shop sign for a fruit/flower shop.

Great creative effort shown here!!!

Sorn Street, Catrine will be getting re-surfaced from Tuesday 30th May 2017. The work will last for up to 10 working days and during this time pupils will need to walk down to the bus stop on the main road (B705) or the Square until the road re-opens.

Friday 12th May was the last of the handball competitions for this year and it saw the S1/2 boys head up to Ravenscraig to compete in the Scottish Finals, in Motherwell.

This was the first time many of the boys had experienced this level of handball and we were reliant on the guidance and skill of our older boys Lewis Young, William Prince, Ross Rollie, Nathan Brown, Caleb Robertson and Scott Howie.

With a tough loss to Marr College in our first game we were always playing catch up. Wins against Our Lady’s in Cumbernauld and Deans from Edinburgh saw us needing a win against Kelvinside Academy to reach the semi-finals. The boys were trailing by 2 goals with 1 minute left and managed to pull it back to tie, but couldn’t find the winning goal. 

A 4th/5th place play-off game saw our boys rally again and thanks to Captain and top goal-scorer  on the day – Lewis Young – we got over the line with a win and a respectable 4th place.

A good building block for us and ready to make some gains next year!

The Minutes from the last Parent Council Meeting are now on the website.

The Netball club held a short presentation of prizes at their last training session on Wednesday night, giving out certificates and medals to the following prize winners

S1-2 Team

Most Improved Player – Robyn Cunningham

Player’s Player of the Year – Jennifer Sharpe

Player of the Year – Bronte Mangan

S3-4 Team

Most Improved Player – Heather Gemmill

Player’s Player of the year – Amy Taylor

Player of the Year – Laura Purdie

Mrs Wallace is extremely super proud of the girls’ dedication and the improvement made this year. Look out next season!!!

The Application Form for selection of School and House Captain is attached.

Your application form should be submitted to Mrs Grove via the main office by 2:55pm on Friday 28^th April at the latest. This can be completed electronically and printed (available on school website) or hand written, but cannot exceed 1 page of A4. No late applications will be accepted.
School and House Captain Selection Procedures 2017-18

The SQA exams start on Tuesday 2^nd May.  Please find attached the whole school exam timetable.  You will notice that some exams are on the May in-service day and May holiday, transport will be provided for these exams.  Please ensure that you let your teacher know if you require transport on these days.  Individual exam timetables will be issued on Tuesday 18^th April.

Make sure that you make the most of the revision time that you have over the Easter holidays, examples of revision activities for each subject as well as study tips and general study techniques can be found in the booklets below.

Remember – the only place where success comes before work …… is in the dictionary!!!

Happy studying!!   

Auchinleck Academy Exam Timetable

Revision Help 2017

REVISION TECHNIQUES

On Thursday the 23rd of March Erin Christie and Abi Davidson visited Frankie and Benny’s in Kilmarnock to compete in the final of the Frankie and Benny’s Pizza/Pasta Challenge. They were completing against St Joseph’s Academy, Grange Academy and Doon Academy and it was a close fought competition. Their creation, the SSP Calzone (which contained sweet potato fries), looked and tasted amazing and received great feedback from the judges. The girls had a fantastic experience, narrowly missing out to St Joseph’s who won the completion.