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The Glasgow Academy Chronicle 2012-2013 Is an Educational Charity Registered in Scotland The Glasgow Academy Chronicle The Glasgow Academy 2012-2013 2012-2013 The Glasgow Academy is an educational charity registered in Scotland. Charity Number SCO 15638. The Glasgow Academy Autumn 2013 Number 333 Editor: Tom Carlin with Alan Whyte, Alison Campbell and Clare Blair Front cover credit: Andy Buchanan From the Rector What a superb year we have had! Results in the 2013 SQA examinations were outstanding. We calculate that our young people came top three in the country in terms of Higher passes per pupil. At Higher we gained a remarkable 333 A grades, 46 more than ever before. 34 pupils achieved 5 or more grade A grades, and 63.3% of our entries were awarded grade A. We also had our second-highest pass rate (95.25%), despite presenting more children for more exams than ever before: our presentation rate is significantly higher than almost all other independent schools. We had our best-ever results at Advanced Higher, with 58.8% of entries gaining A grades, 83% AB grades and 93.2% ABC grades. The Borneo Trip At Standard Grade we enjoyed our highest-ever Credit pass rate (95.8%) and our highest percentage of top grades in the last decade (75.7%). Our S3 gained our Our Senior footballers enjoyed their best-ever season, best-ever results in Standard Grade English (taken a year being unbeaten in the West of Scotland Independent early), including a 100% Credit pass rate. School League. Angus Neilson captained Scotland Rugby U16 and Lyle Hill's batting statistics appeared in Wisden. The class-leading opportunities and 'roundedness' of the A strong Hockey season saw us U16 Scottish finalists education we provide are evident in the remarkable range and winners of the West District P7, S1, S3, and 2nd XI of areas in which our pupils came top in the country. Our tournaments. Our P7s were unbeaten all season and won Young Enterprise company, Dolly Creations, represented all three of the tournaments they entered. Our girls also Scotland in the UK finals, having won Best presentation, won the High School tennis tournament for the seventh Best company report and Scottish Company of the Year. year in eight. Our Maths and Chemistry teams represented Scotland at Outdoor Education goes from strength to strength, the UK Mathematics Trust and Royal Society of Chemistry engaging and exciting more and more pupils. 170 Top of the Bench competitions. pupils took part last session, in activities which included winter mountaineering, Nordic skiing and Eskimo rolling. We were the top-performing school in the Scottish Rowing The numbers doing the Duke of Edinburgh Award have Championships, with 18 rowers winning 16 titles. We increased dramatically: 81% of S3 are doing Bronze, 40 were also the top-performing school in the Scottish Indoor pupils are undertaking Silver and a remarkable 70 are Rowing Championships. Around 120 children rowed last working on Gold. session. Becky Neilson and India Somerside won our first British National Schools silver medal at Nottingham. They Entering the Glasgow Music Festival for the first time, went on to set a new British record and win Gold at the our Junior Boys' Choir and Senior Boys' Choir won their British Rowing Championships in the Junior 14 girls double classes. Our Junior Choir, the Senior Girls' Choir and the scull. Holly Wicklow also won her semi-final, setting a new Senior Choir came second. Growing numbers of pupils British record, which was broken only hours later. have performed in a variety of concerts and dramatic performances. The Senior School show, 'West Side Story', James Wilson and Ben Mazzucco became Scottish Prep performances and our vibrant and creative Art work Schools Squash Champions, and James Wilson was have been widely acclaimed. Scottish Junior Squash Champion, for the third time. Catriona Graves won the Scottish Cross-country We contribute to public benefit in many ways, not least Championship, represented Great Britain in Bulgaria at the with staff playing very significant roles in SQA examining European Hill Running Championships, and finished 6th and in national subject development bodies, and providing in the World Mountain Running Championship in Poland, development and support for teachers and children in other winning the World Mountain Running Championship title schools. Our staff and children work hard and effectively: with the British girls. I am very proud of all that they achieve. Our CCF won the Scottish Military Skills competition again - We welcome experienced hand Graham Scott as our new Scotland's top prize for Army sections. Our Engineering Chairman of Governors and thank Gordon Jack and wife group won the Best Engineered Robot award and the Jan wholeheartedly for all their unstinting devotion over Sumo award at the Scottish Robotic Games. so many years to making our school as good as it can possibly be. They have been outstanding in supporting everyone in their endeavours sensitively and wisely - and they have been enormous fun. No school can have been better served. PB Chronicle Chronicle 1 Excellence and Opportunities Meet our Internationalists Lyle Hill Catriona Graves Jack Bain Cricket Scottish Schoolgirls U17 Team member Football Scotland U19 Scotland Cross-country Team and Trail Scotland Independent Race Team member Schools U18 Great Britain Hill Running Zack Birnie Susan Al-Haddad Andrew Dickson Football Hockey Rowing Scotland Independent Scotland U16 & U18 Schoolgirls Scotland U18 Coxed Fours Schools U18 and Youth Sebastian Glen Cameron Grant Cameron Turner Rowing Scotland U18 Quad Scotland U18 Quad Scotland U18 Coxed Fours Angus Neilson Georgia Laurie Rugby Shooting Scotland U16 Scotland U12 2 Chronicle Chronicle 3 Excellence and Opportunities Top company in Scotland Top in the UK Our Young and presenting Enterprise company, Dolly Creations, in Sydney represented Scotland in the UK finals, having won Best presentation, Best company report and Scottish Company of the Year. New British record holders Becky Neilson and India Somerside set a new British record and won Gold at the British rowing Sharan Maiya represented the UK at the Championships in the World Education Games 2013 Awards Junior 14 girls double Presentation in the Sydney Opera scull. House. Record-breaking Top CCF - focus yet again! Our CCF won the Scottish Military Skills competition again. Best mark in Scotland Lyle Hill achieved the top mark in the country in Advanced Higher Modern Studies - and won the Modern Studies Association Advanced Higher Zuhayr Siddiqui clocked up a record Modern Studies Trophy - the third time in recent eight Highers and an Advanced Higher, years that the History and Modern Studies all at A grade (plus grade 8 (violin), grade department has produced Scotland’s top mark at 7 (piano) and plenty of hockey, singing Higher or Advanced Higher. and drama) whilst still only 16 and in S5. Youngest wetbob wonder Josh Armstrong won the Scottish Rowing Beginner Men’s title and the Beginner category at the GB sculling Festival at the National Watersports Centre in Nottingham. Josh was the youngest rower there, competing against university students, but won by a considerable margin. 2 Chronicle Chronicle 3 Charities and Community Involvement The total of charitable donations for this session is £26,701. For the first time ever our S6 Young Enterprise Company, Dolly Creations, gained several awards including the top prize at the Young Enterprise Awards Ceremony - Scottish Company of the Year. From their profits, Dolly Creations donated £200 to the Emma Cameron Foundation, a Glasgow-based charity which supports children with cancer. At TGA Milngavie pupils really were busy all session, with over twenty different events supporting eighteen different charities. This included pupils in P1 to P4 singing at an evening Carol Concert at Cairns Church in support of Bobath Scotland, a charity devoted to improving the quality of life for children with cerebral palsy. On a visit to the Bear Factory the pupils in Nursery/Kindergarten chose a bear to donate to Yorkhill Hospital. Red Nose Day was a real community event. Not only did the pupils buy red noses and wear something red, the parents entered into the fun with a Bake Off competition: in total £212 was raised for Comic Relief. Whizz-Kidz, a UK-wide charity which provides disabled children with the essential wheelchairs and other mobility equipment they need to lead fun and active childhoods, was the main beneficiary of a great deal of hard work at Dairsie. Several events, including the Enterprise activities, resulted in a donation of £2013. The P3 Young Enterprise ‘Jog in The Park’ event raised the outstanding total of £2100 for Children in Need. P4 supported Comic Relief with a cheque for £250. The Prince and Princess of Wales Hospice and Cash for Kids were both supported with money raised by the Choir singing at The Avenue Shopping Centre in Newton Mearns. Donations in kind were made to Glasgow Lodging House Mission and Glasgow Caring Society. At Kelvinbridge the pupils were just as involved and as enthusiastic. TGA Tartan Day and a Bring and Buy Sale generated almost £500, which was split equally between Erskine, Friends of the Beatson and Cancer Research. Parental donations at the Christmas Shows and Carol Service raised £1326, which was divided between Shelter, Resurge Africa and Emmaus Glasgow - a local charity which works with the homeless and socially excluded. The annual Children 1st Sale is undoubtedly the single biggest event, and the most popular too, with £2150 being generated. By no means least, the entire school contributed used stamps to Madame Laws for the Oxfam Christmas Stamp Appeal. A large number of individuals showed initiative in organising a great many events in the Senior School. Possibly the most successful was Hattie Greig (S5) who encouraged no fewer than 64 Glasgow Academy pupils, parents and friends to don Santa outfits and take part in Glasgow’s ‘Santa Dash’, running for Friends of the Beatson.
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