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ChronicleThe Glasgow Academy 2015-2016 The Glasgow Academy From the Rector Chronicle Another year of record results! Autumn 2016 Number 336 Editors: Emma Ross and Emma Merton with Alison Campbell The Saunders Centre wins its RIAS Award George Young (Dunne Group), Peter Brodie (The Rector), Bryan Duncan (Lead Governor for the Saunders Centre), Marianne Keating (Architect, Page\Park), Sarah Jane Storrie (Architect, Page\Park), Stephen Lynas ( Hadden Construction, a RIAS sponsor), Denise Bennetts (Director at Bennetts Associates; a RIAS judge). Credit: Malcolm Cochrane Credit: ur excellent SQA examination results were again amongst the very finest Oin Scotland. They are the successful outcome of our broad academic curriculum, lots of hard work by children and staff, and rich co-curricular experiences that build children’s confidence, focus, team work, time management skills and sense of self-efficacy. Our pupils gained our best ever Higher and Advanced Award. It has been listed too for the RIAS Andrew Doolan Higher pass rates, as well as our best A grade rate at Best Building in Scotland Award. National 5. The Higher pass rate at S5 was an outstanding 96.8% - 0.7% ahead of last year’s record high. 39 girls Music and Drama reached new heights. The Watson and boys gained 5 or 6 A grades at Higher. At Advanced Auditorium was christened by a classy production of Higher our pass rate was 93.2% and 11 pupils gained 3 The Importance of Being Earnest. That was followed by or 4 A grades. Alasdair Forrest gained the highest mark a charming performance of The Ladykillers, by S1-3. The in the country in Chemistry Advanced Higher, winning Senior School musical - Fame - was widely acclaimed, the Royal Society of Chemistry’s prize for Chemistry and the Prep School show, Ali Baba and the Bongo Advanced Higher. At National 5 our A grade rate was Bandits, was much enjoyed. In the Scottish Schools Pipe 81.2%, an excellent 5.7% improvement on last year’s fine Band Championships, the school’s Pipe Band finished results. The pass rate was 97.9%. second in their category and there have been glowing reports of the school’s chamber choir performances at Our new Saunders Centre won both a RIBA (Royal various venues around Glasgow: the St John’s Renfield Institute of British Architects) Award and a RIAS (Royal Concert alone raised £4500 for charity. Incorporation of Architects of Scotland) Award. It brought our architect, Sarah Jane Storrie, the Emerging Architect The school’s sportsmen and women have excelled. We of the Year Award; it was also shortlisted for the Best Use have a record 26 internationalists, including 11 in rowing of Timber Award and the Scotland’s Client of the Year alone. In addition to that, Katie Archibald (class of 2012) The Chronicle 1 From the Rector Excellence and opportunities won Olympic Gold in Rio as Great Britain smashed the the application of Maths to Formula 1 racing. We have world record to win the women’s team pursuit. Gavin become a UK centre of excellence, through which Horsburgh (class of 2015) became a world champion training and support for other schools are available. for the second year running by winning the World U23 Meet our Internationalists title in lightweight quads. Also representing Great Britain At Scottish Schools Swimming Championships Iain at the World Rowing Junior Championships were Josh Fletcher won the 100m butterfly and the 200m butterfly. Armstrong, Alex Rankin and India Somerside. Our rowing The school’s Girls 12 and Under team won the 200m coach, Iain Somerside, was honoured as Sportscotland freestyle relay, setting a new Scottish Schools record. performance coach of the year and coached the GB At the Scottish Schools Athletics Championships, pupils junior women’s four. The Academy has become one of won three Silver medals, whilst Fraser Middleton became the UK’s top rowing schools, with some of the fastest the British U18 Slalom Champion and ranked number boats in Great Britain, Josh being the UK’s fastest Junior 1 British U18 in the speed disciplines, continuing to sculler, having won every trial and singles competition perform for the Delancey British Alpine Team. this year, and becoming National Schools Champion and Scottish Champion. Our girls pair of Alex Rankin and India In squash, Robert McNaught, Andrew Glen, Ewan Sam Abernethy Holly Allan Josh Armstrong Alexandra Black Jamie Brennan Callum Broad Somerside proved the fastest junior pair in Great Britain MacAndie and Ruairi McGettigan won several of the most Rowing Rowing Rowing Shooting Rugby Rowing Scotland Junior men’s Scotland Junior GB Junior men’s quads Scotland small-bore Scotland U16 Scotland Junior men’s and won six international titles, becoming Belgium prestigious tournaments on the Scottish Junior Circuit, eight women’s eight double Junior Champions, Flemish Senior Champions, Scottish continuing to rise in the Scottish rankings. Our U14 Champions and winners at the Munich International basketball team enjoyed its finest season so far, reaching Regatta, beating crews from eight countries, including the Glasgow schools league semi-finals and the final of the French, Polish, Czech, Austrian and Dutch national the Glasgow schools cup, where the team played hard teams. Callum Urquhart took two Golds for GB at the but lost to a team with national players in it. Coupe de la Jeunesse in Poland and Callum Broad won the double sculls for Scotland at the Home International. 85% of S3 worked towards their Bronze Duke of Our girls quad won the prestigious Henley women’s Edinburgh Award, and we have been delighted by the regatta and at the British Championships Alex Milne huge increase in the number of pupils taking part in won gold and Anna Colley bronze. The school has ten the Gold expedition, making us one of Scotland’s top Scottish Champions in rowing. schools in having 101 pupils actively completing their Gold award. In the coming session we will be focusing on Autumn 2015 saw the inaugural Scottish Rugby Schools encouraging our pupils to use their volunteering section Kaydi Burns Anna Colley Youcef Djoudi Bryn Doherty Éirinn Fitzgerald Ben Henderson Dance Rowing Rowing Tetrathlon Shooting Artistic Gymnastics Conference fixtures across Scotland, in which The to make an even larger contribution to community- Scotland U17 team Scotland Junior Scotland Junior men’s Scotland (Junior) Scotland small-bore Scotland U14 Academy was the most successful West Scotland school, based volunteering projects. Our role in the community women’s four eight coming top of the White Conference jointly with George is important to us and our pupils and staff engage with Heriot’s. In hockey, our 1st XI won silver in the Robert their communities in a wide variety of ways. Helped by all Gordon’s tournament and our S1 A team were runners- the support from parents, they raised nearly £33,000 for up in the West District tournament. Five girls represented charity this session. West District, three of whom were selected for the Scotland U16 Development squad. Our 1st XI cricket Sharan Maiya was a finalist in the ‘National Science and team had resounding wins against West of Scotland Engineering Competition’ at the Big Bang UK Young schools after a very successful tour in Dubai. Scientists Fair at the NEC, Birmingham. As well as earning a Gold CREST Award, Sharan’s 6000-word thesis was The school’s CCF won the annual military skills competition published in the Young Scientists Journal and his project held at Barry Buddon, a demanding competition for both won a prize at the Young Scientists Journal Conference the Combined Cadet Force and Army Cadet Force which in Canterbury. Anna Manuel Arran McFadyen Flynn McLean Lewis McLean Fraser Middleton Jenny Olney tests tactics, first aid, command tasks, night navigation and Tetrathlon (Mini) Shooting Tetrathlon (Mini) Equestrian Skiing Rowing Scotland Scotland small-bore Scotland Scotland U18 Delancey British U21 Scotland Junior fitness, with obstacle courses, speed marching and stalking. Congratulations to all our children who have achieved Alpine Ski Team women’s eight Our cadets worked extremely well as a team to overcome so much and had a lot of fun doing so. Bravo! challenges that many adults and some regular soldiers would struggle with. They won two trophies - one for Top CCF and the other the newly-commissioned Piper Lairdlaw VC Trophy for best overall Cadet team. Our CCF also won the Welbeck Leadership Stem Challenge, recording the fastest time of any CCF on the high ropes course. The school became Scottish champions by a wide margin in the Enterprising Maths Challenge, a team maths event for S3/4 across Scotland. In the UK Mathematics Trust Team Maths Challenge our S1s and S2s won the regional final and represented Scotland in London for the fourth Yvonne Zhou Alex Rankin Thandi Smith India Somerside Callum Urquhart Holly Wicklow Philippa Williamson Chess Rowing Tetrathlon (Junior) Rowing Rowing Rowing Tetrathlon (Mini) year in a row. In the Jaguar Cars Maths in Motion World Scotland U12 GB women’s four Scotland GB women’s four GB Coupe Junior men’s Scotland Junior Scotland Belgium Junior Belgium Junior four women’s four Championships we came third in the World out of all the Champion Champion Senior Schools competing. This championship involves Flemish Senior Flemish Senior Champion Champion Winner Munich Winner Munich International Regatta International Regatta 2 The Chronicle The Chronicle 3 they raised a fantastic £524 for Make a Wish, Macmillan persuaded the Deputy Rector to participate in a sponge the Charities and Cancer Support and Save the Children. A very respectable teacher event! Between this, our Carol Service collection £56 was raised through the Peace Poster Art competition and the Santa Dash (a five kilometre fun run through the and the collection after the Carol Service raised £312 for streets of Glasgow, which had 120 pupils and staff taking community East Park School.