Dear Parents,
This term, as
always, saw the round of scholarship
exams for some of our Form 7 children.
With just nineteen of the year group
leaving in the summer it was unlikely
that there would be as many awards as we
gained last year, but six children were
successful and that represents a very
healthy proportion. Mairi Hill started
the ball rolling, winning an academic
scholarship to Kilgraston and Cameron
Montgomery was top of the academic
scholars and won a Piping Exhibition at
Glenalmond while Ross Davies and Annabel
Flowers both won All-Rounder awards at
the College. At Strathallan, Marcus Black
won a Sports Scholarship and Martin
Marshall became a Music Scholar. Well
done to all of them, to those others who
took the tests but narrowly missed out on
awards and those who passed entrance
exams to Dollar and the High School of
Dundee. These achievements reflect the
quality and breadth of the education on
offer at the school and some of the
following will reinforce this.
We had over 200
entries to “Perform in Perth”
and the children did us proud in the
Speech sections with over 45 gaining
scores in the distinction category.
Alexander Warren performed particularly
well to win the Under 14 Bible Reading
Quaich. Mollie MacLean, Liam Kirkpatrick
and Sacha Taylor all won their vocal solo
classes and our Middle and Junior Choirs
won three trophies between them. |
Strathallan Hockey 6s
Tournament Winners |
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Our boys
hockey players won the
Strathallan Sixes outright for
the first time in 28 years,
beating Loretto 7-0 in the final,
the under 11 netballers won the
Ardvreck Tournament and the under
12s were placed third in the IAPS
Northern Region qualifiers in
Nottingham. The first few weeks
of term brought great snow for
the skiers but unfortunately all
of the races have had to be
cancelled. The Chess team
retained the Fair City Trophy and
our “A” team debaters
reached the final of the
Glenalmond Competition. There
have been plenty more noteworthy
events throughout the school:
academic, cultural, sporting,
green, fun and, as always, the
website gives a very good account
of these. |
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Throughout
the year there has been a number of
groups from the local community at the
school after the children have gone home;
cricketers, golfers, badminton players,
skiers and hockey players have all
benefited from use of the school’s
facilities. The Sport Relief Mile on the
last day of term will hopefully raise
another tidy sum for charity and
listening to the children’s
conversations about what they will be
wearing it should be a colourful and
enjoyable event.
Thank you for
your co-operation helping the new morning
drop-off arrangements work smoothly and
for your continued patience in the
afternoon. While the car parks are still
busy at this time, there seems to be less
congestion and as a result the
children’s safety and your waiting
time has improved.
I am changing the
format and timing of next term’s
Sports Days. Forms 1 to 3 will have their
sports on the afternoon of Friday 23rd
May and I hope that as many parents as
possible will be able to watch. Forms 4
– 7 will have their Sports on the
final Saturday of term, 28th June, at 11.30am.
All children in these year groups will
compete on the day but there will be a
new format to the events and I would ask
that you keep this morning free of other
commitments. It may also be a timely
reminder that there will be Saturday
morning games from 10 am until 12 noon
for children in forms 5 – 7 next
term and I expect all pupils to attend. |
Burns Day |
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The Ardvreck Netball Tournament
U-11 Winners |
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F.2B on RSS Discovery |
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I
hope that in the future there will be
fewer requests from parents for their
children to miss school during term time.
The extension of next year’s Spring
half-term to nine days will hopefully
mean that there will be fewer school days
lost this time in 2009 and I would hope
that this will be the case in the Winter
and Summer Terms, too.
On a practical
note, there are two email addresses of
which you should be aware. My secretary,
Amanda MacGowan can be contacted on reception02@craigclowan-school.co.uk
and Wendy Stewart, the School Secretary
is reception01@craigclowan-school.co.uk
My email remains headmaster@craigclowan-school.co.uk
and Mrs Robinson’s is bursar@craigclowan-school.co.uk
There are other staff email addresses on
the “Contact Us”
page of the website. |
F.III are the recycling
organisers! |
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Skiing at Glenshee |
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| Included in this
report package is the list of extra-curricular
activities
for next term and I hope that this will
help you plan your busy lives and those
of your children. Thank you for your
support in this, our first year at
Craigclowan: the first three terms have
flown past and have been made very happy
by the children, parents and staff. I
wish you and your children a very
relaxing Easter break. |
Term Dates:
SUMMER TERM 2008:
April 16th - July 4th (Half Term May 26th -
28th)
WINTER TERM 2008: August 28th - December 12th
(Half Term October 20th - 24th)
SPRING TERM 2009: January 7th - March 26th (Half
Term February 9th - 13th)
SUMMER TERM 2009: April 22nd - July 8th (Half
Term May 25th - 27th) PROVISIONAL
School Calendar
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