The Academy Star

The Academy Star Issue 10 Tuesday 23rd April, 2019 People aren’t being How could they be so 20p ambitious enough, even mean and ignorant?! Inverurie Pupils Raise £2578 for Comic Relief with the posters! act of Mrs Walkey and Miss Mucke performing as John Denver. Next up was the legendary Mrs Elrick from English acting as the rock god, Freddie Mercury! Performing after Mrs Elrick was a host of teachers who originally only came to spectate, singing ‘The Lion Sleeps Tonight’ to replace an act who couldn’t make it due to a meeting. Winning was the teacher with the loudest cheer which this Something must be year was Mrs Elrick! The crowd Newwwww... loved Mrs Elrick’s performance done... especially with the amazing fall at the end which I think deserves This year Inverurie Academy host- Red Nose Day, the school’s Wii special acknowledgements. ed a range of comical events for was set up for anyone to come and the nationwide charity event, Red just dance off in the assembly hall. Nose Day. Raising an amazing Mostly attending were S1s who all £2578, this year was a great suc- danced until the end of lunch after cess and great fun for all those paying an entry fee towards Comic attending or taking part in events Relief. This event was greatly suc- such as the gunging and pupils ver- cessful and was a fantastic oppor- sus staff badminton. tunity for everyone to get up and have some fun. Being the first event of the week, pupils versus staff badminton invit- The day before the gunging was a Everyone is being ambitious now! ed pupils from all years to the P.E huge success with teachers per- department to face the P.E staff in forming in a lip sync battle. The games of badminton for a fee. Be- assembly hall was packed and eve- fore each game a fee was agreed ryone watched in amazement at and the loser had to donate the the great acts. First up on the Continued on page 2 fee. stage was the new ABBA, Ms Milne from B&IT and Mrs Jones from Hu- 12 On the Wednesday lunch before BY ANDREW CUNNINGHAM3D2 manities. Second up was the great 1 Inverurie Pupils Raise £2578 for Comic Relief We Interrupt this Paper for a Special Report! Continued from page one and orded and helped to edit. The last Mr Duncan, the teacher in skills of base taught us all about FAKE charge of the fundraising the me- NEWS! efforts told us ‘For me the dia, most important thing about news, Our next base was a look on be- Red Nose Day is that you produc- hind the scenes of a ‘shoot’! We don't have to raise hundreds tion and all had to think of ideas on posi- of pounds to make a differ- publish- tives and negatives of a day at ence - £10 will feed a home- ing in- school. Some of our of ideas con- less person in the UK for a dustry, sisted of having to waking up early week or can provide someone with the and dealing with stress of tests at the end of the phone for a Young but the positives were getting to young male on the brink of Shelby, S3, post gunge! Report- see your friends EVERY day and suicide needing someone to you to everyone that took part and er and satisfaction of getting good grades talk to. Even more powerful donated and I hope Red Nose Day On Tuesday the 19th of February, BBC Lab teams demonstrating for me is the fact that £2 can in two years time is just as success- schools from all over the shire and their professional expertise save a life in the form of a ful. the city came to gather at Inveru- through engaging activities.” mosquito net for a Mr Shepherd being gunged in style! rie Academy for a special work- family in Africa who can- shop from the BBC Young Report- Each school was allowed to up to Despite all this being a huge suc- not afford one. These er Team. This was the first work- ten members ranging from a se- cess, all the events led up to the sums of money are not shop they were holding outside of lection of academy school mem- gunging. The house who raised the bank-breaking, but they a BBC Studio. In the past the BBC bers. The event was based around most money would have a repre- are life changing. ‘ Young Reporter Team has come three workshops and a talk form sentative from each register class up to Scotland but have only trav- Callum Tulley, BBC Journalist who at the end of a test. Once our gunged followed by the house’s Red Nose Day aims at elled as far as the BBC Studio in worked with Panorama. One of group had brainstormed positives teacher representative. This year driving this positive Dundee. So this event in the North and negatives, we had to become the winning house was Selbie, change in the world East was particularly special. the camera crew and got to learn mostly down to the spectacular through the power of en- all the different names and words fundraising of Shane Omale (S2). tertainment. Encouraging We were very fortunate to be one that get used during a ‘shoot’ such After the pupils were gunged Mr schools, companies and of the select schools they would as Action, Speed and Cut. Shepherd from Humanities stepped just about everyone to use as a ‘base’ up in the North up with goggles and a snorkel for get involved, this year’s East of Scotland. We are also very Overall it was a great day very and his turn. The crowds from the event was a huge success. fortunate to have Mr Campbell well organised. All the schools quad, canteen and corridors With the nation raising who organised the entire event. who attended came away with a watched with laughter as Mr Shep- almost £64 million, every- Dr Drysdale gunging yet another Selbie pupil Mr Campbell told us “The hat- the bases included using iMovie to new insight into all the aspects of herd was covered head to toe with one certainly did their bit. trick of workshops organised edit a trailer for a BBC III ‘TV Pro- reporting! several buckets of gunge! A huge congratulations and thank offered the young people a won- gramme’. Another involved cre- By Ben Sharp, S3 By Luke Wraight, S3 2 derful insight into the key features ating a short film which we rec- 11 Return of the Mac Academy Star Editors Visit The Evening Express oped into the seventeen-year-old spilling its contents over some board room itself, where we speaking in his living room with a freshly-filled potholes. I hear the worked for the duration of the much deeper voice, but still using sounds of glass crashing into a col- day, was truly impressive, particu- ‘big words’. Since the last election, lection lorry and the harsh ham- larly given the spectacular view of I have met some truly inspiration- merings of the construction of a Marischal College! al young people from across the new community campus. Entering country, many of whom I am the current school building, I hear proud to call friends, as much as distant ranting about the SQA – they are colleagues. who would’ve thought – and pass a group commenting on the costs We, the opinionated so-and-sos from Ullapool, Lossiemouth, of a train journey to Glasgow at Stranraer and everywhere in be- the weekend. In the month which follows the tween, have progressed the fight I am often asked what drives me latest elections to the Scottish for Scotland’s young people dra- to dabble with the daunting, de- Youth Parliament, I reflect on my matically. We have persuaded ceitful, duplicitous political do- Luke (left) and Ben (right) vising the Evening Express time as the MSYP for the sunny companies to remove mosquito main. The simple answer is the th constituency of Aberdeenshire devices, campaigned for free mu- ability to change people’s lives, On December the 10 Ben and nalism a chance to see the process East. This is not campaign piece; sic tuition and secured an agree- and hopefully for the better. If, at Luke – editors of the Academy behind creating a newspaper, in- the elections have closed, and the ment from the First Minister to the end of my tenure, I am to be Star - took a trip to the Evening cluding the difficult decisions re- The trip was a great success and it result declared. It is an incredible incorporate the UNCRC into Scots remembered for anything as an Express to represent the school at quired during editing. was fun to see the process and privilege to have been re-elected Law. In Aberdeenshire, we have MSYP, I hope that it will be for the paper’s editorial day, held at During the course of the day we how much of a challenge it is to to represent the young people of raised the profile of young peo- caring about the role and status of Aberdeen Journals Headquarters were involved in a number of ac- decide in what order everything the constituency which I have ple’s rights, promoted a more in- young people in this community in the newly opened Marischal tivities such as a tour around the would go and make it read fluent- been proud to represent for the clusive society for our LGBTQ+ and having the brass-neck to do Square.

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