Report from Mr Stewart

Can I offer my best wishes to staff, pupils and parents for a lovely summer holiday. Thanks to all the parents who have written in to the school throughout the session offering support. It is greatly appreciated.

The start of next session will see the primary seven pupils join us as fully-fledged Carrick pupils. The three-day visit went very well and the feedback from the pupils was very positive.

The Authority HMIe Follow Up Inspection started on Monday 21 June. We have been involved in a number of visits from the Authority to take pictorial evidence as part of their report to the HMIe. Indeed the Time Educational Supplement recently visited to create an article relating to the School Values.

I am finishing off the session with a series of interviews for various posts and details can be found later in the newsletter.

I will update parents in the August newsletter with details of the successful applicants from these posts.

Finally, best wishes from the staff go to our leavers who have been as well prepared as possible to take the next step in their career path.

Regards

R Stewart

Headteacher

Staffing Information

Mr Kellett was appointed to Principal Teacher of Technical.

Arrangements for Interviews for the following posts have been made during the last week of the session.

Teacher of English

Teacher 0.4 Modern Languages

Teacher of Computing

Teacher 0.4 Music

Teacher of Modern Studies

Our best wishes go to Ms Happell who has been given early retirement from her History post. Prior to History being fazed out the present S4 will continue with the History course until such times as they have completed their Standard Grade or Higher.

On 8^th, 9^th and 11^th June, pupils from our Primary schools visited us to find out what life in Carrick Academy is like. We caught up with some of them to find out what their concerns were……..

We wanted to know if after spending time with us, they were still worried……

We also wanted to know what the “Best Bits” were…….

Many thanks to: James Connell, Sam Currie, Kirsty Elder, Justene Farrell, Bryony Harvey, Kate McMillan, Ross McCulloch, Emily Moore, Iain Walker, Jack Wallace.

Prize Giving

On the 16^th of June 2004 prize giving took place in Maybole Town Hall. Awards were given to pupils who were involved in sports, academic excellence throughout the school year. Our thanks to Councillor Murray for his interesting speech and to his wife who presented the prizes. Many thanks to Mr Dibden, Mr Henderson and pupils for fabulous musical entertainment.

Parents Association

We intend to start a ‘new’ Parents Association in Carrick Academy after the summer break.

A Parents Association is a great way to bring interested people together to support the school as it provides an opportunity for everyone to work together and is open to all parents/carers, teachers and interested parties of pupils from S1-S6

If you are interested in becoming involved, please come along to the first meeting, which will be held on Tuesday 7^th September.

If you would like more information or a reminder abut the meeting please contact Karen Walker here at the school.

This event took place on the 26th May - Carrick had 31 athletes taking part. All pupils did extremely well and enjoyed themselves.

The following pupils qualified for the Ayrshire Sports on the 9th June.

Sarah Paxton Javelin

David Paige 1500m

Kenneth McDowall 400m

Philip Brown Triple Jump

Kyle Faulds 800m

Colin Sturgeon 800m

Greg McGregor Shot Putt & Javelin

Craig Hutton 800m

Elaine Montgomery 300m

Sarah Gourley Javelin

Kyle Faulds

Liam Ireland S1 Relay

Kenneth McDowall

Cameron Taylor

Support for Others

In the Easter Holidays, four girls: Holly Dempsie, Caroline Kennedy, Gemma Scobie and Alison Shearlaw did a 15 hour sponsored bounce in aid of the Scottish Cancer Support Group, in particular, we wanted to support a little boy called Ben, who suffers from Leukaemia. Everyone had great fun (even though it was pouring) and the girls would like to thank all staff and pupils who supported them by contributing. A total of £466.58 was raised – Well Done Girls!

Challenges for the XL-club

		The S4 XL-club has been asked to give a presentation about Maybole community – past, present and future. This is a showcase presentation to be held on Tuesday 22^nd June in County Hall, County Buildings in Ayr. The members will be Natasha McGill, Louise McLintock, Joanne Miller and Bobby Jess who will be doing the display boards. Hayley McCulloch will be introducing the PowerPoint presentation. Lee McCulloch, Alex Jones, Kevin Haywood will be telling us about the presentation. The showcase will be for members of South Ayrshire Council Education directorate and members of HMIe (Inspectors of Education who are on a return visit to South Ayrshire following their inspection last year).

Your newsletter team for this session are: Sarah Barbour, Toni Cairns, Lyndsey Craig, James Erskine, Stephanie Gardner, Steven Hill, Siobhan Jess, and Natalie McClung.

Dates for your diary…..

16^th and 17^th August – In-service days for staff

18^th August – Pupils return to school

We would like to wish all our readers “Happy Holidays” and look forward to seeing you all again when we return in June.