School Achievements

June 2008

Carbon Footprint

Congratulations to Iona Halford, Rachel Currie and Iain White who gave a presentation on carbon footprints to the East Kilbride Rotary Club.  They won a laptop for our school and were presented with a trophy and a certificate each.

Burns Federation Art Competition

Congratulations to Jessica McLaren (2C3) who was awarded 2^nd place in the Burns Federation Art Competition.  Her drawing entitled “To A Mouse” based on a Burns poem was awarded a special Robert Burns World Federation Certificate and £75.

Netball

Well done to our S2 Netball team who were Runners-up in the recent South Lanarkshire S2/S3 Secondary Schools Netball Competition.  In the final against Holy Cross High School extra time had to be played after the score was tied at 6 -6.  Unfortunately in the second half of extra time Holy Cross scored twice to win the game 8 – 6.  Our girls conducted themselves excellently throughout the competition and were great ambassadors for our school.

Athletics

We had another very successful day at the SLC County Sports finals.  A full list of medal winners is given below.

S1

Andrew Ravenscroft         200m                  Gold              New South Lanarkshire Record

Darren Hutton                   Shot                    Bronze

Kirsty Jamieson                1200m                Bronze

Kieran Rankin                   600m                  Bronze

Emma Fairlie                    600m                  Bronze

S2

Ainsley Douglas                Shot                    Gold

Hayley Middleton               Discuss              Gold

Stephen Paris                   1500m                Bronze

S3

Craig Finnie                       Shot                    Gold

Craig Finnie                       200m                  Silver

Rebecca Grant                 High Jump          Silver

Kirsty Rennie                    Shot                    Silver

Adam Gatens                    1500m                Silver

Alana Clark                        Javelin                Bronze

Rachel Thomson              800m                  Bronze

Senior

Ian Brown                          Shot                    Gold

Deborah Stokoe                1500m                Gold

Stephanie Wright              1500m                Silver

Fiona Borthwick                1500m                Bronze

Rachel Barclay                 400m                  Bronze

Congratulations to our girls in the U-15s football team who secured 3rd place in the SLC Schools League.  The girls worked hard and were unlucky to just miss out on 2nd place.  As usual their behaviour was exemplary and they were praised by their opponents for their sporsmanship.

May 2008

Cross-country Running

Adam and Kyle Gatens were both running at Balmoral recently.  The boys had impressive runs with Kyle finishing 4^th and Adam reclaiming his title.  He finished 12 seconds clear of the runner-up. 

Chess Success

The following pupils are to be congratulated on successfully completing an Introduction to Chess course:

Jordan McNab                   2A3                          Ashley Dewsberry               4D4

Angus MacLeod                 4D3                          Grant McKenzie                  4D3

David Linton                       4B2                           Martin Kershaw                  4D4

Jennifer Kilpatrick               4C3                          Lewis Gribbon                    1B1

Nicholas McRoberts           2B3                           Mathew Devlin                    2D3

S1 Boys 7-a-side Football

On Saturday 10^th May 2008 Duncanrig’s team were runners-up in an unbeaten run of 7 games scoring 13 goals along the way.  The tournament was over 4 rounds starting last November with      9 schools taking part.  The team were:

Grant Neilson               Jonny Powell                Peter Kelsall                 Iain Crawford

Jack Campbell              Cameron Johnstone      Ian Crum

Well done to all that have represented our school at this event over the four rounds.

Scotland Under-21 Debut