MILNE’S HIGH SCHOOL JUNE 2018 NEWSLETTER

A community where the individual matters and expectations are high

As we end another successful session, it gives me great pleasure to report that there continues to be great progress at Milne’s High School. This has been a very busy term with highlights including trips, activity days, the senior phase leavers’ ceremony, inductions, Baxter’s challenge, sports day, music performances and many more opportunities for our young people to achieve. Our annual Awards Ceremony, held last week, was a fantastic occasion for the school, being held in the Fochabers Public Institute, was a real bonus. In terms of improvements made this session, we set about developing a more explicit staff leadership programme and this is having a great impact on building capacity. We have continued to build on existing business links and introduced new opportunities which have resulted in a wide range of exciting projects to help develop the young workforce which is a local and national priority. We have also benefited from the Pupil Equity Fund to employ Mr MacLeod as an additional DHT to develop a strategy to bring together many existing ventures such as Rights Respecting Schools, Growth Mindset and nurture training. This has already had an impact on making the school more inclusive. We have observed many improvements to learning and teaching with all departments evidencing the impact of more consistent learning conversations and regular tracking which is not only providing pupils with regular feedback and interventions to ensure attainment but has also developed confidence of staff in reporting on levels across the school. A recent visit by the local authority yielded that we have many strengths including the way that wellbeing is naturally embedded throughout our school community. Furthermore, they particularly noted the calm, welcoming and positive relationships between students and staff; the collaborative nature of all our staff team and how the parent council continues tobea strong supporter of the school as co-drivers of policy change and helping to create the School Improvement Plan. Re-organising the Student Voice Ambassadors has resulted in pupils reporting that they have a greater say in decision making and on the whole feel that their views are taken into account. We have a very ambitious improvement plan for next session as we constantly strive to offer the best experience for our young people. Subject departments will continue implementing changes to maximise the opportunities for student success. The attainment of our top 20% of students remains our biggest priority and this will continue to be a focus of our action plans. We are revisiting our vision, values and purpose with the aim of streamlining this in conjunction with the Moray Council three year improvement plan. Parents can contribute to the discussion on what the vision should be by visiting https:// www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/36QBBYV. We aim to continue to develop the capacity of staff to support and offer quality advice for our young people. Our evaluations this session have highlighted that clarity is needed on the school’s response to bullying and that level 6 literacy and numeracy require a greater focus. Our Parent Council and Maths department have begun a task aimed at helping parents and their children learn together and will continue to try to engage more parents out with the parent council. So once again, we have a busy improvement agenda and we look forward to meeting all the challenges that this will bring. The School Improvement Plan and Standards and Quality Report will be available in the new term by request at the school office or direct from our website. We are fortunate to have a dedicated and hardworking senior leadership team continue to receive high praise for their hard work, commitment and dedication to the school but the new term will start without

Contact us: Milne’s High School, West Street, Fochabers, IV32 7DJ one of these valued colleagues as Mrs Janice Simpson leaves at the end of term to take up her position as Head Teacher at Lossiemouth High School. Although we are all very proud of this achievement, many parents, staff and students have expressed sadness that Mrs Simpson is leaving the school community and all point to the significant contribution that she has made to Milne’s High School over the years. On behalf of the school community, I would like to take this opportunity to thank Mrs Simpson for her hard work, high standards and support and wish her the very best at Lossiemouth High School. We recognise that we need to report to parents on the difference made by giving their views and as such have summarised the main feedback in the table below. Some of these points were noted last session and we are pleased to note further updates.

Parents said that: We did: They would like more Rotated the venue for the parent council to hold meetings in information about the work Lhanbryde Primary School and Mosstodloch Primary school. The of the Parent Council Parent Council also ensured greater use of the Facebook page, greater publicity around events and created a newsletter to keep parents well informed about their work. Greater support was A well-attended session was delivered to parents on Tuesday 9 required to understand the January to explain the tracking system in detail. new S1-3 tracking reports The school’s position on On 14 November 2017, we held an anti-bullying engagement evening bullying requires further for parents to further demonstrate our anti-bullying policy and offer explanation and discussion parents the opportunity to explore this issue. Recent evaluations highlight that this remains a key priority. We should continue to We continue to update our website and use the twitter page to progress towards electronic celebrate success. We have greater use of survey monkey and email communication. all letters home. We are still investigating the use of Facebook for next session. We should continue to We have completely moved to a monthly tracking report rather than provide more regular one report after the Prelims for the Senior Phase. This session, we information about their introduced a termly tracking report to inform parents of their child’s child’s progress progress throughout the Broad General Phase (S1-3). They would like more We have and will continue to add online safety slots into open information about online evenings. safety They were pleased to see Building upon the significant acts of refurbishment last session, we work done to initiate have painted most of the internal corridors. Next session, we are improvements to the fabric prioritising essential and sustainable work to include ensuring the of the building and were access doors are secure and essential maintenance of the roof.

keen for this to continue We continue to note that most of our students are appropriately dressed to school with black footwear, a black skirt or trousers and correctly-worn tie. As new items are purchased over the holidays, we ask that parents support our drive to raise standards as uniform will be an area of focus in the new session.

I would like to take this opportunity to wish all of the school community a great holiday and look forward to welcoming our students back at 8.40 am on Tuesday 14 August 2018. Trish Cameron Head Teacher Contact us: Tel: 01343 820611 Email: [email protected] Staffing News

In August, we look forward to welcoming new colleagues to the team: Mrs Christina Young joins the Art department and Mr William Allan begins his teaching career by joining the Geography department as a Newly Qualified Teacher. Mrs Shirley Munn returns as our Librarian on a part time basis and we are delighted to see her return. Mr Adam MacLeod continues as a Depute Head Teacher to cover the vacancy left by Mrs Simpson’s appointment to the position of Head Teacher at Lossiemouth High School. There are some updates as a result of staff moving on to other positions. It is always positive tosee colleagues move into promoted positions and earlier this term, Mrs Emily Souness from our Business Studies department was permanently appointed to the position of Principal Teacher of Guidance at Keith Grammar School and Mrs Vicki Jolly was successful in being permanently appointed to the post of Principal Teacher of Guidance at Elgin High School. Ms Jenna Ogg will remain with the Business Studies department and divide her time with Lossiemouth High School and Ms Alena Gardiner will continue as Acting Principal Teacher of Guidance for Spey house. We offer four members of staff our best wishes as they leave us at the end of this term: Mrs Eilidh Caddell is leaving us to relocate to the Highlands, Mrs Vicki Reed from the school office is relocating to North Yorkshire, Ms Naomi Holmes is leaving the Support for Learning department and Mrs Jess Standfast leaves to take up a full time position as teacher of Art at Elgin Academy. At the end of August, we will say farewell to two very valued colleagues – Mrs Sheila Shearer retires after 36 years in the Maths department and Ms Mairi McLennan, Principal Teacher of Music is relocating to Edinburgh. Both will be missed and leave with our very best wishes. We would like to thank all staff who are leaving for their hard work and their contributions to the school community. Parent Council Update The next meeting of our Parent Council will be their AGM and this will be held in room 43 at 7 pm on Monday 3 September 2018. All parents are cordially invited.

Uniform As we approach the end of the school year we appreciate that many parents are already planning the purchase of school uniform for the new session. May we take this opportunity to remind you of the Milne’s High School uniform:  Black Footwear  Black trousers or skirt (no jeans or leggings)  Black V-neck jumper/Cardigan  White shirt or blouse  School tie  S1/2/3 Black hoodie with school badge (Optional)  S4/5/6 Blazer with school badge (Optional)  S6 Prefects - Blazer We have now moved to an online ordering system. Please visit www.pbparentsonline.co.uk/milneshigh to place all orders for school uniform. There is also a link on the school website. Samples of jumpers/cardigans/hoodies are available at Milne’s High School office should you wish to check sizes. We would like to thank you for your continued support.

Visit us on the web: www.milneshighschool.org.uk It’s Rocket Science Recently Andrew Merchant and Andrew Stoker, both doing Advanced Higher Chemistry and planning to study the Sciences at University later this year, visited Lhanbryde Primary School in order to introduce the P6s to chemical reactions. The pupils had great fun learning about the changes that take place during chemical reactions and made their own“fizzy rockets!” as someone said “It IS Rocket Science!”

National Career Ready Awards Jennifer Walker from S6 has been awarded with the AstrazenecaUK STEM award, a national Career Ready award, in London which took place on Wednesday 25 April 2018. Jennifer was mentored by Brian McAuley from Chivas Brothers and completed her internship with them. During this time she has blossomed and now has a love for the distilling industry, as a result she will be pursuing a career in this industry. This is a great achievement for Jennifer personally and one we are very proud of as a school. Thanks to Jennifer’s school coordinator, Ms Gardiner who has supported this fantastic success.

UKMT Mathematics Circle On Monday 21 and Tuesday 22 May, Callum Hughes, Finlay Hunter, Emily Dale and Hannah Kingham (S3 pupils) attended the UKMT Mathematics Circle at Aberdeen University. The four pupils spent the two days developing their knowledge and understanding of many unfamiliar strands of mathematics. They were given the opportunity to listen to lectures and attempt problems/questions, designed to challenge their thinking while applying problem solving skills. Well done to the 4 students for being part of this experience and representing Milne’s High School. Contact us: Milne’s High School, West Street, Fochabers, IV32 7DJ Queen's Scout Award Two former Milne’s High School pupils received the Queen's Scout Award at Windsor Castle on Sunday 22 April. Hannah McKay and Eleanor Brownlie have worked for this award for the last five years. The girls had a rehearsal from 9.00 am until 12.00 pm at which point they were shown a personal message from Barack Obama. In the afternoon guests were allowed into the Castle to watch the parade and inspection of them by Princess Beatrice and Bear Grylls, who spoke to all the award winners. This was followed by a church service by the Dean of Windsor. It was a brilliant day, the sun shone and many proud parents and guests enjoyed the celebration.

DUX Award and Pupil Leadership Team

We are delighted to announce that this year’s Dux is Peter McHattie. We would like to congratulate him on this award which recognises his excellent achievement in all subjects and commend him for his hard work and dedication.

We would also like to announce our prefect leadership team for 2018/19; Head Prefect – Kelly Munro Depute Head Prefect – Gavin Mackay and Morven Pride.

Contact us: Tel: 01343 820611 Email: [email protected] Modern Languages Lisa Farley from the Scottish Dolphin Centre in Spey Bay visited the school on Thursday 24 May and gave a presentation to all S2 pupils about the importance of foreign language skills in the tourism industry. The S2s are busy creating resources in French for the volunteers to use when giving a tour of the Dolphin Centre. We are looking forward to Lisa coming back to judge their work and select the winning group. On Friday 8 of June, Jennifer Kelly, Marketing Manager at Gordon Castle also visited the school to speak to all S1 pupils. Pupils learnt about marketing, advertising and the value of being able to speak another language before they create a brochure in French. Congratulations to S3 pupils Nicole Reith, Hazel Sherman, Daisy Edmond and Megan Keddie who won the French Eatwell Plate Design Competition, a great effort. Very well done girls and enjoy your 5-a-day prize!

Bronze Duke of Edinburgh

On Saturday 2 June and Sunday 3 June, twelve Duke of Edinburgh Bronze participants took part in their Practice Expedition. The groups walked from Whiteash Monument to Spey Bay, camped overnight at the campsite and then walked from Spey Bay to Earth Pillars. Morale was kept high with some sing- songs, a campfire and of course some toasting of marshmallows. Well done to all participants on the successful completion of this expedition. The qualifier will take place in September.

Flexible Pathways As part of providing flexible pathways for students at Milne's High School, several students took part in Outfit Moray's EnerG strand abseiling/rock climbing event at Cummingston Stacks on Monday 23 April 2018. The focus of the event was to develop students interpersonal skills and qualities with a focus on communication, confidence and motivation. All participating students’ experienced an individual challenge to overcome and it was particularly pleasing for staff to see how they were able to encourage each other to achieve their goals. Well done all!

Visit us on the web: www.milneshighschool.org.uk Activities — May 2018 The S1—S3 Activities days took place between Wednesday 9 May and Friday 11 May, during which pupils had the opportunity to take part in a wide variety of activities, including Indian Cookery, Pony Riding, Golf, Bubble Football, Computer Games, Petanque, Climbing, Canoeing, Mountain Biking, Archery, Circus Skills Workshop, Karting and Lazer Tag. A group also visited Landmark for the day. All staff and pupils had an excellent time learning new skills, enjoying adventurous and exciting sports and creating great food. Our appreciation goes to all those who delivered the sessions and made the days a positive experience for all.

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From Wednesday 9 May to Friday 11 May, a large proportion of the S3 year group went to the Badaguish Outdoor Centre in Glenmore to take part in a variety of outdoor activities. These ranged from staff to instructor led and included problem solving activities that relied on communication and co-operation. Everyone participated in an outdoor activity from learning how to windsurf or abseil to facing their fears on the high level ropes course at Treezone. During the three day experience, the emphasis was on challenge and team working and our pupils were certainly encouraging and supporting each other throughout all of the activities. Our outdoor education partners were full of praise for the high level of commitment , support of each other as well as being fine ambassadors for the school. Paris —May 2018 At 12.15 am on Tuesday 8 May, 38 pupils along with 5 staff set out on, what ended up being, a 23 hour bus journey to Paris. While in Paris, the group went to Cité des Sciences, a cruise on the Seine in a Bateau Mouche and up to the top of Montparnasse Tower (a 210 meter office Skyscraper with a fantastic view of Paris). The following day was spent at Disneyland Paris and Studio Park going on rides, watching the parade and staying to watch the closing fireworks display. There were many different highlights on the trip including: the high temperatures of 29oC, the sing songs on the bus and the rollercoasters at Disneyland. It was a fantastic trip where everyone enjoyed the experience, even with the arrival back at Milne’s High School being 5.00 am on the Saturday morning. London —May 2018

For Activities Week, 49 pupils and 5 members of staff ventured down to the big city of London. What an experience! A fun packed week included trips to the theatre to see an array of fantastic musicals; Wicked, The Lion King, School of Rock and Matilda. As well as this we cruised down the river Thames and saw the fabulous sights of the city from the London Eye. A trip to Madame Tussauds let our pupils rub shoulders with some of their favourite stars and a trip to The Harry Potter Studio gave the opportunity for our pupils (and some teachers) to release their inner wizards and witches. We soon quickly adapted to the hustle and bustle of the city, jumping on and off the tube as if we were locals. Ending the week with a spot of shopping on Oxford Street, we really did get the full London experience. A week that I am sure will be remembered by all involved, packed full of activities and laughter, exhaustion and sore feet! Thank you to everyone that made it such a memorable experience – I am sure each and every one of us will take away something from London.

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In early June our new S6 students spent three days at Badaguish, Aviemore taking part in team building activities and leadership workshops. The team building involved rock climbing, gorge swimming and stand-up paddle boarding as well as physical and mental challenges set by a visiting group from the Royal Marines. The hot summer sunshine made the exertions of these activities challenging but all students put in an excellent performance, encouraging and supporting each other throughout, never once giving up. On the first evening, workshops on time management, role models/leadership, school values and vision were led by Milne’s High School staff. On the second evening Jayne Porter from SDS delivered a workshop centred on Buzz Training which allows people to consider their personality traits and preferred behaviours. Awareness of these individual qualities can help when considering a future career. Jason Inglis from RBS then led a very informative session on interview skills. Many useful tips were gleaned and the mock interviews and role play section proved entertaining and informative.

Travel and Tourism On the 27 April, the travel and tourism class participated in a challenge to create an inspiring tourism marketing campaign for Moray. Three groups took part and were each given a different town within Moray, choosing from Forres, Lossiemouth and Aberlour. This challenge was set by VisitScotland with the involvement of Developing the Young Workforce (DYW) Moray and Gordon Castle. The groups had to use their own prior knowledge as well as conduct research on these places and they used their creative skills to produce their marketing campaign for the selected towns. The presentations were judged by representatives from DYW Moray, Visit Scotland, Moray Speyside Tourism and Gordon Castle. The Chief Executive of VisitScotland, Malcolm Roughead, visited the school on the Friday 8 June to present prizes to the winning group of Alix Buckham, Suzie Hunter, Kerri Owen, Courtney Edwards and Lucy Page for their fantastic marketing campaign on Aberlour. They showed great teamwork, confidence and knowledge during this task and were a credit to Milne’s High School. Visit us on the web: www.milneshighschool.org.uk Baxters Soup Challenge We were delighted to work, once again, with the team from Baxters on our annual Soup Challenge. This year’s challenge was to produce a soup for the Baxters ‘Super Good’ range, a range of soups whose ingredients promote good health. Baxters launched the brief to all S2 pupils in March. Work then began in the Home Economics Department to create an innovative soup recipe to trial and develop. Working in teams pupils investigated ingredients and ideas before coming up with a recipe. Teams had to work to a strict budget and produce all the nutritional information and other relevant information for the label. This information was then used by the Business Studies Department to create the label using illustrations produced in Art. In Music pupils invented and recorded an advertising jingle for their soup and in Science they analysed soup ingredients. Category winners were; Home Economics – Soup Development – ‘Souper Noodles’ Freya Hughson, Emma Morrison. Science – Food Analysis – ‘Mental Lentils’ Hugh Allen, Deveron Hildreth, Ben Rattray, Hannah Spooner Spence, Rory Topp . Music – Jingle –‘ FFLN the Bowl’ – Finlay Downey, Faith Hopkins, Leacsaidh Lucas, Nicole Reith. Baxters were impressed with the standard of work achieved. They had difficulty selecting winners but in the end decided to award joint first prize to two teams. The overall winners were ‘The Souper Noodles’ comprising of Freya Hughson and Emma Morrison and ‘The Soup Queens’ Dionne Campbell and Megan Keddie. Baxters have invited the overall winning teams to spend the day with the Food Product Development team working on their soup before seeing it canned during a factory tour. A visit to the visitors centre to enjoy the famous Baxters Pancake will round off a fabulous day. We are very grateful to Baxters for their continued support, to our judges, Warren Lawson, Kevin Black, Louise Shepherd and Lizzie Sharp and everyone involved in making the project a success. S5 Induction

Tuesday 5 June, saw our annual S5 Induction programme take place with support from partners, MJD Systems, Skills Development Scotland, Rona McCrone (School Nurse), Martin Kirwan (Moray Council) and Sue Davies (tsi) . Pupils attended a series of workshops providing information on cyber security, positive destinations, health, stress management and resilience and interview skills with the aim of preparing them for the challenging year ahead. Feedback was overwhelmingly positive with all feeling that they had gained useful advice on a range of issues. Contact us: Milne’s High School, West Street, Fochabers, IV32 7DJ Staff First Aid Training

Recently, members of our staff were lucky enough to participate on a first aid course. We were trained in wound dressing, burns, the recovery position and CPR among other things. We were able to demonstrate our bandaging skills on each other and our CPR Skills on a dummy! We hope that we will never need to use these skills, but it was a very beneficial experience for all involved so that we can further support our learners.

RDA Riding Awards

Congratulations to Kathryn Bell on achieving her grade 2 riding and Amber Scholes on achieving her grade 3 riding with RDA. Well done girls! Baxters Winners Visit

Following on from the Baxters Soup Challenge, the two winning teams visited Baxters on Thursday 20 June. ‘The Souper Noodles’ comprising of Freya Hughson and Emma Morrison and ‘The Soup Queens’ Dionne Campbell and Megan Keddie, spent the day with the Food Product Development team working on their soup before seeing it canned during a factory tour. A visit to the visitors centre to enjoy a famous Baxters’ Pancake rounded off a fabulous day.

Dance Show

On Tuesday 5 June, Milne’s High School held their annual dance show. There were 16 performances ranging from Dance Club to Elective Dancers to national, certificated and advanced dancers. The dancers have been working super hard all year and this was a great opportunity to showcase their amazing talent.

Contact us: Tel: 01343 820611 Email: [email protected] Rights Respecting Schools Award

This term, work has been underway at Milne’s High School to gain our Bronze Award for the UNICEF Rights Respecting Schools Award. Through this award, UNICEF works with schools in the UK to create safe and inspiring places to learn, where children are respected, their talents are nurtured and they are able to thrive. The Rights Respecting Schools Award embeds these values in daily school life and gives children the best chance to lead happy, healthy lives and to be responsible, active citizens. Our enthusiastic team have come up with an action plan for next session to raise awareness of children’s human rights and how this can be embedded in our ethos and culture. Look out for posters around the school and for updates on our work in the new term. As part of our work on Rights Respecting Schools Award, Miss McLennan has been working with the group on a project with a school in Lebanon looking at gender equality. As part of the British Council Connecting Classrooms initiative, the group looked at various issues surrounding gender, looking at careers, domestic roles, personality traits and childcare roles. We compared results with our partner school and enjoyed a video call to speak to ask questions about their culture and gender roles in Lebanon. This has challenged stereotypes and made pupils think more critically about gender roles in society.

S3 College Taster Day

On Thursday 22 June all of the S3 pupils travelled to Moray College to take part in a taster day. We visited three different departments throughout the day and learnt about different paths and career opportunities we have locally. Everyone had a great day, it was informative and a good experience. Megan McKay, 3SP1

Visit us on the web: www.milneshighschool.org.uk Silver Duke of Edinburgh

Over Friday 15 June to Sunday 17 June saw Milne’s High School Silver Duke of Edinburgh Group take on their practise Expedition. Erika Stewart, Hannah Brown, Kelly Munro and Holly Burrell started at 10 am on the Friday morning at Nethy Bridge and walked to Ryvoan Bothy where they camped for the night. On the Saturday they walked to Loch an Eilein and then on Sunday finished the weekend at Feshiebridge. The views throughout the expedition were fantastic. The girls remained in high spirits throughout the expedition, despite the changing weather, by chatting and singing. Their renditions of ‘High School Musical’ and ‘Crazy in Love’ were certainly something to listen to. Well done to all the girls on successfully completing their practice expedition. Their qualifier will take place in September. For up-to-date information about Milne’s High School Duke of Edinburgh, follow us on Twitter @DofEatMHS

Parent Council Coffee Morning The Parent Council held a coffee morning at Milne’s High School on Saturday 9 June. On behalf of the Parent Council, we would like to take this opportunity to thank everyone who contributed to and supported the coffee morning. The Parent Council would also like to say a big thank you to all the parent and senior student helpers. The Gin Hamper was won by Alena Graham and the Food Hamper was won by Lyndsay Allan.

Contact us: Milne’s High School, West Street, Fochabers, IV32 7DJ Awards Ceremony The Milne’s High School annual awards ceremony took place on Tuesday 19 June at the new location of Fochabers Public Institute. The evening was a

celebration of the variety of achievements of our young people with their families. The evening was opened by a welcome from Mrs Simpson, followed by some musical entertainment by our talented musicians. This years address was from former pupil, Dr Kerry Cattanach. This was one of the highlights of

the evening and will inspire our young people to think about the next steps in their life-long learning journey.

Sporting Achievements Well Done to Liam Stuart who captained the Highland Under 14’s Inter-District Hockey team for Tournament in Glasgow in May. Congratulations to Loyd Kinniburgh who broke 3 Archery records at a recent competition and later became Outdoor Northern Champion in his category. Contact us: Tel: 01343 820611 Email: [email protected] Skating Success for Milne’s High School Pupil

Over the May Bank Holiday weekend Emily Dale competed in her first ice skating competition since recovering from her horrific injuries in October 2016.

She did herself, and her parents, proud by finishing 2nd out of 24. Not only that but she got a personal best score and in doing so qualified for this year's British Championships. We would like to wish Emily well for this upcoming competition.

Cricket Lorna Young (ASC) thanked Harriet Whelan, Megan McKay, Abi Scott, Catherine Thom and Layla Severn who helped to officiate the Milne’s ASG Primary 6 Cricket Festival on Thursday 3 May. Lornaalso commented that the young leaders were excellent and vital to the smooth running of the event.

A team of nine pupils from Milne’s, captained by Abi Scott, competed in the Inter -School Cricket Tournament held at Fochabers on Tuesday 29 May. It was a truly glorious sunny day and our team demonstrated some great batting and fielding skills, and most importantly good sportsmanship. Thanks to Active Schools for organising the event and to the officials. If any parent is available to help with up- coming tournaments please get in touch with Lorna Young, our Active Schools Coordinator.

National Sporting Success Hannah Kingham (S3), competed in the British Orienteering Championships at Balmoral on Saturday 19 May and Sunday 20 May. She was placed third in the individual event for age group W14. Hannah was also first in the Team Event, along with colleagues from Moravian Orienteering Club. This is a great achievement, well done Hannah.

Visit us on the web: www.milneshighschool.org.uk Sports Day This years sports day went off without a hitch on Friday 15 June 2018. Staff even took to the field in some fun sporting events including the obstacle course, welly throw and tug of war. The day was rounded of with a fun pyjama relay. A fantastic effort was put in by all participants and the overall winners were; S1 GIRLS 1st Catherine Thom— 45pts 2nd Julie Juliao-Wong — 26pts S1 BOYS 1st Joshua Ward— 36pts 2nd Evan Taylor— 33pts 3rd Bruce Taylor— 29pts S2 GIRLS 1st Harriet Whelan— 40pts 2nd Megan McKay— 34pts 3rd Abi Scott—30pts S2 BOYS 1st Lucas Addicoat— 49pts 2nd Lewis Hay— 42pts 3rd Linton Muckle— 31pts S3 GIRLS 1st Hannah Kingham— 60pts 2nd Rachel Wood—32pts 3rd Nadine Corbett—27pts S3 BOYS 1st Dean Murdoch— 42pts 2nd Dylan Archibald— 34pts 3rd Luyanda Mdluli— 29pts Senior GIRLS 1st Niamh Whelan— 29pts 2nd Emma Craig— 20pts 3rd Katie-Jayne Ward— 18pts Senior BOYS 1st Blair Milne— 27pts 2nd Joshua Milne— 21pts 3rd Aidan Streames—16pts Eight records were also broke this year! Congratulations to: Hannah Kingham (3 new records), Dean Murdoch (3 new records), Evan Taylor (1 new record) and the S3 boys Tynet relay team. The house results were as follows: 1st SPEY House 514pts 2nd TYNET House 386pts

Well done to everyone that took part.

Ten Pin Bowling Congratulations to Jamie Johnstone and Alix Buckham, who have been selected for the Scottish Nationals team in ten pin bowling. They will be taking part in the triple crown in Guilford and we wish them every success with this.

Contact us: Milne’s High School, West Street, Fochabers, IV32 7DJ Scotland Junior Archery Team Congratulations to Euan Pride, who has been selected for Scotland Junior Archery Team. Euan will compete in the National Junior Outdoor Championships in Lillieshall on Saturday 7 July and Sunday 8 July. Good luck Euan! Congratulations also to Morven Pride, who has achieved five more Scottish archery records to her list of earlier successes.

Orienteering

Congratulations to Hannah Kingham, who won the Scottish W14 championship and came 2nd in the team W44 event. Hannah will be travelling to Gottland in Sweden during July to represent Scotland and has also be invited to attend a British training week in Aviemore during August. We wish Hannah good luck with these up coming competitions.

North of Scotland Championships Congratulations to the following pupils who represented Milne’s High School at the North of Scotland Championships in Inverness on Thursday 14 June. Hannah Kingham 1st in the Discus and Javelin with a new Championship Record Blair Milne 1st in the 3,000m Grace Whelan 2nd in the 1500m Dean Murdoch 3rd in the Shot Putt Harriet Whelan 3rd in the 1500m Joshua Milne 3rd in the 1500m Well done to all of the Milne’s High pupils who represented Milne’s at this event. Information

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Contact us: Tel: 01343 820611 Email: [email protected] Music Update The Milne’s Fiddlers competed at the Elgin Strathspey and Reel Society Fiddle Competition on the 28 April. They played very well and were given a commended performance by the judge, Paul Anderson. Also competing in the competition were the ‘Arc Fiddlers’ which many of our young people are also a member of. On Friday 18 May the Jazz Band performed at the Fochabers Institute for a Jazz Night. They were supporting the duo Ian Milllar (saxophone) and Dominic Spencer (piano). The Jazz Band performed a variety of music and were received very well by the audience. Some of the band also enjoyed staying to watch the rest of the show, this was a great opportunity to hear jazz musicians in Fochabers. On the Sunday 20 May, the Jazz Band also performed at the Gordon Castle Highland Games. We were very proud of our young people who took part in the St Giles Theatre Group production of ‘Joseph’ who put on a fabulous show. It was great to see the girls working beyond school to develop their skills in musical theatre. The last few weeks of term is always a busy one for the Music Department and pupils have been preparing for the Awards Ceremony and the ASG Primary Tour on Wednesday 27 June. This is one of the highlights of the year for the department as we share with primaries what we have been learning this year and meet lots of P7s who will be joining us after the summer. Macaulay Ross, who has just left S6 supported Irish accordion player Sharon Shannon as part of the ‘Arc Sessions’ on Thursday 21 June. The opportunity was great to give Macaulay experience performing solo before he goes off to study music in Edinburgh after the summer and he played beautifully, his rendition of ‘Miss Jamieson’s Favourite’ being a particular highlight. Miss McLennan would like to thank all those who have just left in S5 and S6 for their contribution to the Music Department during their time at Milne’s High School. This year group has been particularly involved in the musical life of the school and we wish them every success in the future.

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