Doon Academy: 19 November 2008

Nov 21 2008

DOON Academy’s Eco Day will be on Friday, November 21. Groups of pupils from each year group will be involved in a variety of activities throughout the day.

S1 PUPILS in Mrs Dorans’ English class will be taking part in the BBC School News Report. The pupils will work with a mentor from the BBC, and on School News Report Day, March 26, they will be making the news for the day.

S1/2 PUPILS are busy learning their Burns poem for the Burns Competition, which will take place in December.

THE BUSINESS education and ICT departments are at present busy organising a careers roadshow for S2 pupils.

MEMBERS of The Scottish Trade Union Council (STUC) will be visiting Doon Academy on Wednesday, November 26. They will take workshops with all S4 pupils on how trade unions work.

GLASGOW School of Art will be sending students to help Doon’s fashion students with their designs for the school show.

IN the science department, BP will be visiting the school to deliver the Carbon Challenge Roadshow.

THE DOON Academy/Kilmarnock College motor vehicle department’s fourth year group have just finished their toughest challenge to date. The task was to align a damaged frame on a Honda 450 quad bike. The motor vehicle group completely removed all components from the quad and carefully labelled and stored them. When left with the bare frame, the fabrication group straightened and reinforced it to its proper shape. This was then passed onto the motor vehicle group who assembled the bike to its original condition.

Sophie Murphy