Class Chat

          By Carrick’s Press Pack Team

Work Shadowing

The work shadowing is an initiative which Carrick has participated in for many years and this year is sure to be no different. It involves one of the S6 business management, administration or accounts pupils entering there CV to a company, after this the applicants are interviewed and one of them is chosen to represent the school. This year the judges had an extremely hard job in choosing Carrick’s representative but they eventually decided on Elizabeth McJannet. Elizabeth will be placed into a business and follow the manager for a total of 1 week to see what their job entails. After this she will submit a report on her experience and also do a presentation, along with participants from other schools, to a board of judges who will then decide who the overall winner is. We wish her the best of luck and will update you nearer the time on how she gets on.

Class Reps

Every year each house has representatives from each class who work with the house captains and vice captains to discuss different issues with in the school.  This year the response for class reps was fantastic and the final reps are as follows.

Yellow house

S1: Keillen Cook, Elli Coulter

S2: Catherine Easter, Megan Kirk

S3: Steven Logan, Ginny Collie, Leigh Cairns, Connor Kennedy

S4: Emma Smith, Claire Scobie

Blue House

S1: Anne-Louise Hall, Ryan Wilson, Connor Lorrimer, Mark Sloan

S2: John Dewar

S3: Louise Allan, Shannyn Henderson, Erin Bayne, Sarah Brown

S4: Danielle Horton, Robert Sykes

Red House

S1: Gordon Gregor, Blair Cooper, Amber Johnstone

S2: John Dempster, Tiffany Lafferty, Beth Davidson, Shannon Brown

S3: Derek Dorrans, Liam McMillan

S4: Allannah Dewar, Lana Hamilton

Choir

 The choir started on 26^th September.  If anyone who is interested to join please come along every Wednesday at 1.15pm. It will be held in Mrs Burrell’s music room (N20). Boys and Girls are welcome to come along. Early lunch passes will be provided.

Jeans for Jenes Day

This year’s Jeans for Jenes Day will be held on Friday 12^th October.  A small reminder to all pupils that it is NOT a non-uniform day. A range of events will be held throughout the day.

P7 Peer Helpers

On Thursday 27^th a group of primary sevens from Maidens, Cairn, Crosshill, Straiton, and Kirkmichael came up to Carrick for the afternoon to work with the sixth years. They were trained on how to be buddies so they could go back to their primary and carry on the skills they learnt within their school. They were split into groups with a mixture of schools in each group, after that they then spent the afternoon being trained by the sixth years on various skills such as, how to be a good listener, how to get people to communicate and also to express yourself and deal with different emotions. The primary sevens seemed to enjoy themselves and they had a lot of fun. The next group of primary sevens will be coming on 4^th October and they will do similar activities so hopefully they will have as much fun as the previous group.

Culzean Trip- Young Roots

On Friday 28^th September, Gemma Scobie, Hannah McCubbin, Claire McNeillie, Catlin Grieg and Grant Kidd went to Culzean Castle as part of the Young Roots Project to research the Kennedy family. They were given a guided tour of the castle and access to the education suite. The visit proved to be of great benefit to the research team.

S3 Substance Abuse Day

On Friday the 28^th September all pupils in S3 attended a Substance Abuse Day, the aim of which was to show the pupils what negative effects drugs and alcohol can have. Not only were the pupils shown the drugs for real (though all safely packaged!), they were also permitted to try on some beer goggles to allow them to experience being under the influence of alcohol first hand. The pupils then returned to the school to be given a fire safety demonstration, in which they were shown how flammable and dangerous chip pans can be when left on. All in all S3 enjoyed an educational and interesting day, and have both an advice pack and a water bottle to take home with them.

S1/S2 Mentors

A number of S6 were selected at random who have been trained as peer helpers to work as mentors for S1/S2 classes.  This commenced on Wednesday 3 October at registration.  The selected senior pupils went to their mentor class and accomplished the areas they were to check up on i.e. No trainers, No dangling earrings.

S4 Parents Evening

Reminder to all S4!! Your parents evening will be held in the canteen area on 30^th October. Tea and Coffee will also be served.

Career Scotland

 Career Scotland advisor, Marion Milligan is in school every Monday for a number of weeks to talk to every fifth and sixth year individually about their future plans.

Newsletter Delivery

If you would like to receive your copy of the school newsletter by e-mail please contact Rebecca Duffin at the address below:

Rebecca.Duffin3 @ carrick.sayr.sch.uk

Contact

If you have any queries please contact the school:

Carrick Academy

Kirkoswald Road

Maybole

KA19 8BP

Phone: 01655 882389