News Items January 2012
Some Important Dates this Term
Thursday 12 January 2012 S5/S6 Parents Evening*
Thursday 19 January 2012 S4/S5 Senior Curriculum SMT Parents Evening
Tuesday 24 January 2012 S6/Staff Burns Supper@
Thursday 26 January 2012 Holocaust Memorial Day
Monday 30 January 2012 S5/S6 Prelims Start
Thursday 9 February 2012 In-Service Day
Friday 10 February 2012 Mid term Holiday
Monday 13 February 2012 Mid term Holiday
Tuesday 14 February 2012 S4 Parents Evening
Thursday 23 February 2012 S2 Parents Evening —S3 course choice evening (with SMT+ Guidance )
Saturday 3 March 2012 Ski Trip to Austria departs
Tuesday 6 March 2012 S2 Parents Evening (to meet subject teachers)
Friday 9 March 2012 Ski Trip to Austria returns
Friday 30 March Easter Holiday begins
Monday 16 April 2012 Return to School
*Please note the senior Parents Evening is next week
Staffing
We welcome Mr Boyne and Mr Thomson as our new Principal Teachers of Geography and Modern Studies respectively. We wish them both well for a long and successful career in Morgan Academy.
Congratulations to Mr Wallace who takes up the acting post of Principal Teacher of Guidance from Monday (9th). We would all like to take this opportunity to give Mrs Cunningham our best wishes as she begins her maternity leave from Monday.
Miss C Millar starts in Morgan Academy as our new job share PT Music (0.4FTE – Thursday and Friday) and full time teacher of Music. We wish Miss Millar every success in her new post with us.
Guidance and pastoral support has been restructured in Mains as a result of Mrs Cunningham’s maternity leave. The new arrangement is as described in Mrs Rew’s memo issued at the end of last week. Once more our congratulations go to Mr Wallace and our thanks to Ms Griffiths and Mr Ross for their involvement in supporting Mains.
Assemblies
House Assemblies begin next week as outlined below. The theme is making the most of this New Year and planning ahead. In this context effective use of pupil Morganisers will be emphasized:
Tuesday – Mains
Wednesday – Airlie
Thursday – Cortachy
End of term Carol Service
The end of term carol service went very well and provided a positive end to 2011 - well done to all those in attendance. The Hall looked suitably festive with our lovely Christmas tree (thanks to the efforts of Karen and Mr J. Clark and staff in the CDT department). Thank you to all of our performers (readers, singers and musicians) and to everyone who took part. Particular thanks to Rev McLaren who led our service. Thank you also to Mrs Simpson and all the staff of the music department and Mrs Anderson for their hard work in preparing our musical performers and readers. The offerings received at the door of the service combined with the money raised as part of the Staff Communal Christmas Card has resulted in £100 being raised for Diabetes research – well done and thank you to all who contributed.
Senior Inter-House Christmas Debate
This took place on the last Tuesday of last term. Speakers for each House Team and the song they were each arguing for as the ‘Best Seasonal Song Ever’ was as follows:
Airlie Beccy Wright, Natalie McKnight, Live Aid (Feed the World)
Cortachy Claire Ross, Scott Neill, A Winter’s Tale (Queen)
Mains Simone Corr, Scott Hunter Auld Lang Syne (Robert Burns)
This was an excellent debate and the overall winner was Airlie - congratulations Beccy and Natalie! - very well done to both of them and to all of the speakers for putting so much into the event both in relation to their preparation and their delivery - the quality of discussion and debate was very high. Winners mugs and runners up mugs were presented to all of the speakers courtesy of the Business Education/CDT Enterprise Group. Thank you to our judges, Mrs Anderson, Mr Clark and Mrs Smith who had a very difficult job to select the winner. Thank you also to Robyn Petrie and Khairun Khan who stepped in at short notice as timekeepers. Thank you also to our pupil tutors (Jack, Dylan, Nadine, Jordan, Megan and Connor) and staff tutors (Mr Baird, Mr Nisbett and Mrs Crabb) who supported each of the teams. Finally, well done also to the staff and S5/S6 pupil audience who contributed to a very good floor debate and seemed to very much enjoy the event.
Bowling Club Christmas Event
Well done and thank you to Mrs Simpson and staff and pupils from the Music Department involved in providing entertainment at the Bowling Club Christmas event at the end of term. The quality of the entertainment was very much appreciated by the Bowling Club members.
Photographs
New photographs added: Rock&Pop Awards, Halloween, Ceilidh and Chris Hoy Challenge