PUPIL BULLETIN Monday 18thSeptember2017

Eco - Environmental review - As part of the green flag award we must complete an environmental review. This involves 'Elgin Academy's Community' carrying out the following surveys. The surveys should take approximately one minute each so please take the time to ask your registration classes these questions. If you could do as many surveys as possible over the week it would be very much appreciated but at least one would still be good.Links to the surveys can be found on an email sent out to all staff last Friday. Thank you, Eco Committee.

All S3 and S4 pupils who have French on their timetable are kindly reminded to bring in £2.50 to attend the French play period 2 on Monday 23rd October. Your registration teacher should already have issued a letter to your parents with details a fortnight ago. Please bring in the £2.50 to your respective French teacher by Friday 21st September so I don’t need to contact your parents. If there are any issues with payments, please bring in a letter. Thank you. Mr Lestienne in B12.

Debate Club - If any S1 – S6 are interested please see Rhona Mason to sign up or the signup sheet in the S6 social areas. Further info will be decided once there are enough people interested. Deadline for signing up is Monday 18th September.

Monday Active Schools activities - Athletics with the sports coach Louise Slammin every Monday from 16:30 – 17:30 at the Football pitch. FREE activityfor all students.

S1_S2 Rugby - Training is Wednesday after school. Change in PE.3.30 to 4.45. Bring a water bottle.First home match is Wednesday Sept 20th in Elgin. Any questions, please see Mr Mair (G35) or Mr Kelly (G13).

Comic Characters Club – will meet tomorrow in the library during lunchtime.

No staff tomorrow there tomorrow, but please continue working on your illustrations and stories for Lord of the Rings and we can share them next week.

European Week of Languages is Next Week and the Modern Languages department and the Library have created a packed programmefor all in school:

  • The Library and the canteen will be festooned with bunting and flags and there will be European music playing at intervals and lunchtimes during the week.
  • Information posters about the benefits of language learning will be found around the school.
  • The Library has devised an Around The World Book Challenge and S2 pupils will complete this during their English Library periods.
  • All S1-S2 registration classes are invited to take part in a competition. There are 12 countries to be revealed thanks to picture clues and facts. Each registration class has till 25th September to work out what these 12 countries are.Have fun, amusez-vous bien! Viel Spass! The winning registration class will be revealed on European Day of Languages on 26th September.
  • Get ready for the Speak to Me Challenge on Tuesday 26th September! Pupils should try and talk to as many members of staff as they can in French, German or Spanish and find out which members of staff can speak those languages back to you.
  • More European Glamour and Glitz than Ever Before – OUR EAVISION SONG CONTEST RETURNS - On Friday 29th September!Do not missthis event,in the Library at Lunchtime. We will havefour tremendous acts competing for the top prize, all singing in a foreign language.Judgeswill be Mr Davidson, Mrs Robertson, Mr Tsotsi, Mrs Walker and Mr Hume. Our language wizards and comperes for the event will be Maria and Madiha in S6. They will translate and tell us the judges’ comments and scores.This EuroFun event will be full of fantastic music, costumes and prizes.It all starts at 1.00pm prompt in the Library. Willkomen, bienvenue, welcome to our final, fabulous International Day.
  • The canteen staff will be cooking up a storm of international dishes for all in school on Tuesday 26th September, European Day of Languages.

S1-S3

S2 Assembly -There will be an S2 Assembly on Monday 18th September at registration – all students should report directly to the hall where they will be registered. (KJG)

S2 Middle Years Assessments - Following the email issues on the 29th August, please find below the dates/times for the S2 MidYis tests. As this is now a computer based test, students will complete this in register groups as detailed below.Students should report directly to the computer room detailed below where they will be registered. They should ensure that they have a pen or a pencil for any rough working that they may do.

Class / Date / Time / Room
2C / Tuesday 19th September / Pd 3 / G47
2D / Thursday 21st September / Pd 1 / G47
2F / Thursday 14 September / Pd 3 / G47
2G / Monday 18th September / Pd 5 / G47
2H / Monday 18th September / Pd 1 / G47
2J / Thursday 21st September / Pd 3 / G47

Apologies for any inconvenience this may cause. (KJG)

S3 Recipe Book WE NEED YOU!!(S1,S2,S3,S4,S5,S6) AND YOUR RECIPES!!! Please hand in any recipe for the EA Cook book by Wednesday 20th of September to Miss Ainslie or Mrs Toonen.

S4-S6

Monday 18th September, SDS Careers appointmnets with Jayne Porter in room G46.

9.15 Adalene Donald 5M

P2 Jayne Gilbert 5M

P3 Alfie Hilton 5M

P4 Sam Rushforth 5M

P5 Archie Morley 5S

P6 Liam Watson 4M

Tuesday 19th September, SDS Careers appointment with Gayna England, G42

P1 - Aaron McKinnon, S4P2 - William Lloyd, S4P3 - Callum Taylor, S4

P4 - Ryan Truslove, S5P5 - Wesley Allan, S5

Thursday 21 September, SDS Careers appointment with Gayna England, G42

P2 - Craig Lauder, S6P3 - Chloe Nicol, S6P4 - Callum Farquhar, S6

S6 Jumpers If anyone would like to purchase a 2nd jumper, I have these sizes left:

1 X 38”4 X 36”2 X 34”

S5/6 pupilsSantander have a great opportunity for a full time Customer Service Adviser, ideal for someone to come in and learn about Banking and then build a career. If you are interested in a career in the banking industry with very good rates of pay please come and see the job requirements and advert on the jobs notice board outside of the Guidance base. LB

Employment Board - Please remember to check the jobs/employment notice board outside Guidance. There are new jobs advertised every week and many places are recruiting now for seasonal workers and part time jobs. LB