Annan Academy News

05/03/2025

PLEASE KEEP SHARING .. this is a great revision resource for the Easter holidays! Encourage your child to sign up.

Thanks to everyone who has shared our post launching the Easter Study Support 2025 programme.
Find out more here https://bit.ly/EasterStudySupport2025
where you can also download the timetables for the live webinars which begin on 7th April.

(NOTE: You must log on to Glow before accessing the link to the registration form, and you should check the timetable carefully before choosing the webinars you wish to attend.)

04/03/2025

Apprenticeship opportunities in Cumberland Council

A list of job vacancies in Cumberland council.

03/03/2025

This week is Apprenticeship week! If you’re thinking University isn’t for you why not look at why Apprenticeships are becoming so popular with school leavers

https://www.facebook.com/share/r/14t7FyMWzA/?mibextid=wwXIfr

28/02/2025

Sporting Success 💃

Last weekend, Aoife and Freya Carruthers were competing at the Amateur All England Classical Sequence Championships.

Both girls did exceptionally well as Aoife and her partner placed 4th on Saturday, and 5th on Sunday. Freya and her partner placed 3rd within the Under 21 category, 3rd in the Modern Sequence section and 4th in the Classical Sequence section.

Fantastic achievements girls! 🥇💃

28/02/2025

Today is Purple Friday and pupils and staff in the school added touches of purple to their uniforms to show their support for the LGBTQIA+ community.

https://lgbtyouth.org.uk/purplefriday

27/02/2025

Sporting Success 🏉

Yesterday, we welcomed Langholm and Lockerbie Academy for another great U14 rugby festival! With 27 girls and 58 boys taking to the field we seen some competitive games, powerful tackles and speedy trys.

Highlight of the day was watching our development boys’ team grow in confidence with every game after only a few sessions.

A huge well done to all players for putting on a fantastic display of rugby! Next up is the D+G finals in March🏉

A big thank you to Annan Rugby Club for organising and setting up the day! 🏉

26/02/2025

The next Parent Council Meeting is on Tuesday 4th March at 6pm in the Learning Plaza. All Welcome.

25/02/2025

Friday 28th February is Purple Friday.

This means that pupils can add a touch of purple to their school uniform to show their support for the LGBTQIA+ community. Please note this is NOT a non-uniform day. Some suggestions include wearing a purple shirt instead of the black or white one, a purple tie in place of school tie, Purple socks or tights, purple nails or hairband etc.

Purple Friday is a day to celebrate the spirit of the LGBT+ community and our allies. Learn more and find out how you can take part.

25/02/2025

Police Scotland’s Cybercrime Harm Prevention Team are hosting their next virtual Cyber Security Work Experience week from Monday 24th March to Friday 28th March 2025.

The program is for S4-S6 and will include two daily 1-hour inputs on various topics from both Police officers and industry partners.

This will be an online event and places are limited so if interested please see Mrs. Coupland as soon as possible this week.

24/02/2025

Speed, Distance & Time
Miss. Todd’s S2 class have been developing their knowledge and understanding of Speed, Distance & Time. Today we headed out onto Solway Street to be human speed cameras; calculating the speed of cars travelling on the road.

How did we do this?
First, we measured out 50 meters using a trundle wheel. Then we used a stopwatch on our mobiles to time how long it took a car to travel the 50 meters.
Once we had enough data we went back to class and calculated the speed in meters per second. Using a formulae we changed our speeds into miles per hour. We caught 3 cars speeding! But only just - 21, 24 and 24 mph.

24/02/2025

Travis McKenna Johnston competed at the Junior U13 National Championship at the National Piping centre in Glasgow on Saturday 22nd February.
He competed in 2 events, first was the Piobairachd, finishing 3rd out of 17 competitors. He then competed in the March, finishing 2nd out of 21 competitors.
An absolutely amazing performance against some of the best pipers at his age group in Scotland. Well done!

21/02/2025

👉👉Student information day.

Did you know Volunteering can provide you with valuable life skills? 🤩

At Dumfries and Galloway Citizens Advice Service we offer a wide range of volunteering opportunities which can help increase Confidence, improve research skills & interview skills and looks great on your CV!

Come to our information day on Wednesday 26th February, 2-4pm and learn what we do as on organisation, what volunteering opportunities are available and how these can help you.

To sign up email: [email protected]

20/02/2025

Scottish Apprenticeship Week takes place 3-7 March and it'll help show that and apprentices are . 🙌

To find out more and to get involved visit apprenticeships.scot/scotappweek.

19/02/2025

Netball Success 🏃‍♀️

Both our junior netball teams performed amazingly last week at our away fixture against Dumfries High School.

Annan A won their first match against DHS A 40-0 - An amazing result with lots of goals scored and none conceded. Player of the match was awarded to Jess Creighton (S3)

Annan B then went on to win their first match against DHS B 23-0. Another fabulous result for the squad! Player of the match awarded to Captain - Erin Mckenna (S2).

Annan A then played DHS B and had their second win of the evening with the score finishing 50-0. This meant that across both games the squad scored a whopping 90 goals and did not concede a single one! Player of the match was Captain - Sian Vickers (S2).

Finally, Annan B played DHS A and unfortunately due to injury played with a squad of 6 for the last two quarter. I am delighted to say that despite being a player down, the squad were victorious in winning 14-9. A special mention to Chloe Walton (S3) who had a tough gig of marking two attackers in the game!

The girls have worked hard all season playing against numerous teams across the region. Well done for all your hard work- the regional finals await for us next month! 🖤💛

17/02/2025

Celebrating Success - Bruce House

Owen McGregor S1 competed in the All England Open Championship last weekend at the Tower Ballroom in Blackpool. This is one of the biggest dance competitions in the UK and Owen did an amazing job gaining the following awards:

Latin - Out of a starting field of over 130 Solo Junior Uk and International dancers Owen was placed 2nd overall in the U16 Latin Championship 🥈
Ballroom - U16 Junior Ballroom Title, placed 6th
Sequence - U16 Classical Sequence placed 3rd 🥉 and U14 Classical Sequence placed 1st🥇

Owen continues to work hard with his teachers from Maureen Smith Dance Academy in Annan.

Congratulations Owen!

16/02/2025

Congratulations everyone!

Today, several young members of the band competed at the Dumfries & Galloway Burns Association-Schools Competition at St Joseph's College Dumfries.
Travis McKenna-Johnston & Thomas Robertson competed in the Bagpiping S1/2 Scots/Medley.

🥇Travis Mckenna-Johnston winning "The David Baird Quaich."
🥈Thomas Robertson second.

Eva Graham, Harris Morford & Maisie Dunlop competed in the Bagpiping S3/4 Scots/Burns Medley.

🥇Eva Graham winning "The Isa Hanley Trophy,"
🥈Harris Morford second
🥉Maisie Dunlop third.

🥇Travis won the overall trophy "The Stuart Jardine Trophy"

They all represented their schools as listed below.

Travis McKenna-Johnston, Annan Academy News.
Thomas Robertson, Wallace Hall Academy - 300 years.
Eva Graham, Annan Academy News
Harris Morford, Lockerbie Academy Lockerbie Academy
Maisie Dunlop, Dumfries High School - Official

A big well done to everyone who took part & the winners, a very big thank you must go to the tutors, our very own Pipe Major, Alan, South West of Scotland Piping and Drumming Academy main tutor Billy & Ewan.

14/02/2025

What a show!
We are so proud of these young people, who were amazing in all 3 performances of Annie! Jr !
Such hard work and dedication - congratulations!

14/02/2025

Final performance tonight!

Come and spend your evening being entertained by this fantastic bunch! 7:30 in the assembly hall! It is sure to be awesome!