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Friday, 9th December2016

S1/2 Netball

Could all S1/2 netballers come to the fitness suite for a netball meeting at break – Friday 9th December.

To all UCAS Applicants

Deadline: Monday, 12th December 2016 is the deadline for completion of your part of the application.

You MUST see your Guidance Teacher to allow them to fully check and complete the form to process for UCAS. The form will NOT be submitted without full payment (cheque/cash to Harris Academy).

Mrs Gow.

S2/3

To all pupils on Paris trip. Outstanding hoodie payments must be given to Mrs Gow today or tomorrow.

Mrs Gow.

SENIOR and JUNIOR STRING GROUP REHEARSALS 8th and 9th December

Rehearsals for both groups will start at 12.45pm and run to 1.35pm (Period 5a) Pupils are reminded to have lunch first. If you are unable to attend 5a you are expected to attend the lunchtime part of the rehearsal. Let me know at interval if you cannot stay for the full practice.

Mrs Green

House Officials: Spree Books

Could I please see the following pupils at break or lunchtime in my office before the end of the week:

J Young, S King, C Cumming, P Logie, R Smith, B Kerr, L Gulson, S Mohan, A Scott,

R Batchelor, I McInally, J Robertson, J Preston, Y Nasir.

Miss Mitchell

FOR ALL PUPILS AND TEACHERS, COME ALONG TO OUR ‘PIE FACE’ FUNDRAISING EVENT ON FRIDAY 9TH DECEMBER!

This is a chance to help us raise money for Ward 29 – a children’s ward which gives gifts to kids who undergo scary procedures. All money raised will go towards the gifts which we will take to Ward 29 on the 21st December.

This will take place on Friday(9th) lunchtime in the games hall. Come along to join in with the fun and pie your “favourite” teachers (Including Mr Millar)!!!

50p donation to watch and donate more to get involved with the game against the teachers.

Cawdor House Officials (All houses welcome!!)

Fantasy Football

Mr Krachan has set up a Barclays Fantasy football league for Harris Academy. If you want to take join and take part the Code to join this league: 344933-935406

Log into and follow the instructions for joining a new Private league.

Both teachers and pupils welcome, and the points will start being accumulated on Game week 15 (Saturday 10th December)

If you need any more information then pop in to see Mr Krachan up in Computing Science (Room 4306)

CHRISTMAS CONCERT 2016 – Thursday 15th Dec @ 7pm

For the attention of all concert participants – bands, singers, dancers, orchestra members and soloists etc.

Tickets are now available for the Christmas Concert! Tickets are £2.50 and can be purchased from the music department or from Mr Lesslie in Technology.

Due to seating restrictions there are 160 tickets available for the concert. There are 150 pupils taking part in the concert this year so for the moment tickets will be restricted to 1 per pupil.

Mr Lesslie will also attend rehearsals this week with tickets if you would like to buy these then.

Donations

The events committee needs your help. We were asking for donations (bath sets, chocolates, vouchers etc.) for raffle prizes. All money raised will be donated to the Maggie Centre in Dundee. Donation should be given to the Home Economics department before Friday.

Raffle tickets will go on sale next week. Let’s raise as much money as we can for this worthwhile cause!

Thank you in advance

Events Committee.

Panto

The time has finally arrived! 6th Year panto tickets will be on sale starting this week so have your money ready. Tickets are £3.

From the Panto Committee

S4/S5/S6 pupils should report to the following subjects this week

S4 - w.c. 05.12.16
Ba – PSE
Bb – PSE
Ca – PSE
Cb – PSE
Kc – PSE / S4 - w.c. 05.12.16
Cc – RE
Fa - RE
Fb - RE
Ka - RE
Kb - RE
S5 - w.c. 05.12.16
Ba – RE
Bb – RE
Ca – RE
Cb – RE / S5 - w.c. 05.12.16
Fa – PSE
Fb – PSE
Ka – PSE
Kb – PSE
S6 - w.c. 05.12.16
Ba – PSE
Bb – PSE
Ca – PSE
Cb – PSE / S6 – w.c. 05.12.16
Fa - RE
Fb - RE
Ka - RE
Kb - RE

Forres News:

Forres House Charity Drive - How Many Sweets?

We are currently raising money for Roxburgh House. To do this Forres House representatives will be coming to your register class and asking you to guess how many sweets are in the jar.

Its 50p a guess with no restriction on the number of guesses you can have.

The winner wins the whole jar.

Volunteers – Your House Needs You!

We are looking for 2 representatives from each year group to work with us preparing Forres activities. If you are interested in getting involved let us know or leave your name with Mrs Easton (Science room 2, 4205) during registration.

Thanks

The Forres House Team.

It is International Hour of Code Week!

Learning to code is a valuable tool it will help you to develop andnurture problem-solving skills, logic and creativity

Please follow the link it is a short video clipof inspirational figures from the world of technology, business, sport and politics who all explain why learning to code is a valuable skill for learning, life and work.

In Computing Science this week

S1, 2 & 3 will build code to control your favourite characters from Moana, Minecraft, Star Wards, Frozen and more.

NAT 4/5 will build websites using HTML & CSS and/or develop Visual Basic Programs

Higher willdevelop Visual Basic programs to read and write from file. We will also write Python code to control hardware!

Advanced Higher will write searching sorting algorithms

First Lego League will use MindStorm to control their Lego Robot

If there is any pupil who would like to try out some coding this week but are not part of a Computing class, please drop into 4305 on Tuesday or Thursday.

Ski Trip

The following pupils still have forms to hand in. The information from these forms has been sent off to Interski already for everyone else going on the trip as the deadline was last week. It is therefore essential that you hand them to Mrs Leppard (room 4113 or Social Subjects staff base) as soon as possible so that you can be added to the group!

Fraser Taylor – Ski Party Group Member form and Parental Consent form

Deryn Mulligan - Ski Party Group Member form and Parental Consent form

Rory MacRae – Parental Consent form

House Assemblies: Week Beginning 5th and 12th December

House assemblies will be taking place during the week beginning the 5th and 12th December. The arrangements are as follows:

  1. Pupils should register first and listen to the bulletin.
  2. Class Advisors should then bring their classes to the Dining Centre by 8.55am at the latest.
  3. Assembly will last until 9.10am.

Monday 5th December: Cawdor

Tuesday 6th December: Forres

Friday 9th December: Kinloch

Monday 12th December: Birnam

Many thanks

Miss Mitchell

S4, 5 and 6

SQA Booklets

Can the following pupils who have not collected their SQA booklet please come to the office a.s.a.p.

S4

Callum Ahmed / EnesAhmedov
Joshua Alison / Harry Bairstow
Jack Blair / Logan Boyle
Jamie Brandon / Carly Cameron
Tessa Davidson
Charley Finlayson
Lewis Finlayson / Gary Flynn
Kyle Forrester
Kiera Gerrard
Simon Gray
Mark Higgins / Rebekah Holmes
Nicole Hutton
Holly Johnston
Leon Keith
Tiagan Kinsella
Taylor Lawson
Jonathan Martin / David McCallum
Finlay McInally / Sophie McLeod
Joshua Mudie
Christopher Paterson
Ryan Phin / Rose Porteous
Muhammad Rizwan / Kelly-Ann Robertson
Beinn Smith / Matthew Smith
Robbie Smith / Lauren Soutar
Jay Thomson
Kieran Thomson / Lita Walker
Gary Wheeler / Faith Wright
SamierZerouk

S5

Beth Agnew
Jordyn Barlow
Andrew Batchelor / Mandy Bell
Daniel Butter
Callum Dallas / Shania Davidson
Marnie Davie / Barrie Dowie
Lewis Doyle / Megan Essery
Megan Ferrier
Emily Grant / Tabitha Gunning
Liam Hornby / Kiera Kane
Bethany Kiddie / CalliKydd
Ross Laing / Kieron Lawson
Megan Sandeman / Georgina Skelly
James Smith / Cain Stinson
Nathan Thomson / Toni Walker
Bethany Watt
Morgan Younger / Cameron Manzie
Leanne Martin / Mark McCabe
Nadine McLaren
Jordan Miller / Rebecca Moore
Caitlin Neillie / Craig Paterson
Bethany Reid / Scott Reilly
Keir Rodger

S6

Sara Brzezinska / Nathan Burns
Raymond Caithness / Dale Carroll
Brooke Cleary / Ciaran Conway
AmeenaDeeni / Jamie Ellis
Ewan Fawns
Niamh Fry / Jenna Gaffney
Bradley Gray
Isla Harrow / Joe Hayes
Farah Hussain
Niamh Innes
Daisy Johnson
Morgan Kane
Matthew Kermally
Rebecca Levison / Jessica Loftus-Bird
JianaLowrie / George Mackenzie
Ross McGregor / Iona McInally
Robyn McNally
Neil Morrison / Jonathan Munro
Charlotte Neilson / Kianne Newton
Levi Shepherd / Rachel Smith
Matthew Turnbull
Finlay Wilkie

The Christmas Panto

19th and 20th December 2016 at 7pm

Save the date! Come to the yearly 6th year panto to see your teachers live in action this festive season. It will be funny or that bad that it will be funny, anyway, come see!

Tickets will be £3 and be on sale soon from sixth years in registration, classes and around the school and they will also be available from the school office soon.

For 6th years only; please visit the 6th year notice board to see the wide range of roles available to help us with the panto, it won’t go ahead without set, and technology helpers (just some of the roles) and of course actors. Location and time will be posted here and on the 6th year Facebook page (if any 6th years want added let us know)

AUDITIONS (don’t worry not formal just come along and we will make sure you get the best role for you! Not really auditions just making sure the panto goes along well).

Lots of love from your panto team.

Lost Property

Various items of lost property that is stored in the medical room must be collected by end of term (Friday, 23rd December 2016). If not collected, it will be binned.

Important information - All pupils in S5 and S6 who have Alternative Assessment Arrangements

It is important that any pupils who receives assessment arrangements in SQA exams ensures that they use these arrangements for all assessments.

If you have an assessment in class you must either:

Complete a Self-Referral form (available from the Guidance Base) and return it to Mr Milne or Mrs Robertson

Or

Ask your class teacher to inform Mr Milne or Mrs Robertson that you have an assessment requiring support.

L Robertson

SfL

HARRIS ACADEMY SPORTS CLUB TIMETABLE – TERM 1 (SEPT – DEC 2016)
MONDAY
(1.10-1.40) / TUESDAY
(1.10-1.40) / WEDNESDAY
(1.10-1.40) / THURSDAY
(12.30-1.00) / FRIDAY
(12.30-1.00) / SATURDAY
LUNCHTIME / LUNCHTIME / LUNCHTIME / LUNCHTIME / LUNCHTIME / LUNCHTIME / AM
Gym Hall / S1
FUTSAL
Al West
YA – S Pirie / S1-6 BADMINTON
G McKinlay
YA - Tbc / S1-6
BASKETBALL
J Dorward
YA – Jr Boath
YA - Leon Buxey / S1-6
ULTIMATE FRIZBEE
S Hands
C – Haydon
YA - tbc / S1-6
TENNIS
YA – Jed A
YA – Bruce Kerr / School Rugby
Mr Walker/
K Clarkson
Dance Studio / S1
DANCE
A Montador
YA - tbc / S2
DANCE
A Montador
YA - tbc / S3
DANCE
A Montador
YA – tbc
Pool / S1-6
FUN SWIM
K Dundas/Ms Wylie / S1-6
WATER POLO
Mr C/ S Walker
YA – Jack R
Small Gym / S1-6
TABLE TENNIS
E McDonald
YA – tbc
AFTER-SCHOOL / AFTER-SCHOOL / AFTER-SCHOOL / AFTER-SCHOOL / AFTER-SCHOOL / AFTER-SCHOOL / PM
Gym Hall / S1-6
GIRLS FOOTBALL
K Dundas
YA - tbc / STAFF FOOTBALL
S1-6
HOCKEY
(From Nov 16) / S1-6
NETBALL
YA – Claire Cumming
YA – Isobel Reimers
Dance Studio / S1-6
Dance
YA – Cary K tbc
YA - Megan tbc
Elliot Road / S1-6
Rugby
S Walker / K Clarkson
Pool / STAFF
SWIM / S1-6
CLUB SWIM
K Dundas
Small Gym
Others / S1-6
CLIMBING
K Dundas
S1-3 ROLLERAMA
Kerry/Hester