Angling Taster Day The Nith Catchment Fishery Trust is holding an Angling Taster Day over the Easter Holidays. Further details can be found in the attached poster – please feel free to share. It is a free event but booking is essential and places are limited. The Trust will also be running two more taster days of over the summer holidays. Details will be provided towards the end of the Summer term.

Cross Country Success A huge well done to Davie Houston who placed 20th in last weekends Scottish Schools Athletics Cross-Country Championships at Hopetoun House Estate with a time of 14:58. Davie won 1st place in February at the Schools Regional Cross-Country Championships at Kirroughtree Forest and keeps going from strength to strength with his running. Well Done Davie!

Tenner Challenge Market Day A huge well done to our S2 pupils who have successfully set up and managed a business over the last 3 weeks as part of the Tenner Challenge. They used their start up capital of £30 to sell slime, ice cream, bath bombs, candles, popcorn, pick 'n' mix and coasters at yesterdays Market Day event. Thank you to the local primaries and members of the community for supporting our event and an extremely big thank you to the following people for their support as business advisors throughout this competition; Yvonne Barber from A' the Airts, Ian White from Nith Valley Embroidery, Graeme Galloway from Police Scotland, Rose Murdoch from Kirkconnel and Kelloholm Development Trust, Sharon Glendinning from Thornhill Rotary, Alan Hiddleston and Richard Clark from Buccleuch Estate, Alan Daubney from ADCA and Graeme McQuarrie-Parkes from Burnside Tearoom.

Please see the latest classes being delivered at A' the Airts - contact them directly to book your space

"WHAT: PROPEL FUNDING ANNOUNCEMENT EVENT WHERE: Sanquhar Academy, 4 Broomfield, Sanquhar DG4 6LL WHEN: 7 March 2018, 4pm until 5.30pm (approx.) Richard Montagu Douglas Scott, 10th Duke of Buccleuch and 12th Duke of Queensberry, announces the latest development in the Glenmuckloch Community Energy Park funding initiative The Glenmuckloch Community Energy Park funding project distributes revenue generated by two wind turbines to groups across Upper Nithsdale. Since its inception in 2014, the scheme has provided almost £80,000 to 25 community groups in the area. Run by the young people at Sanquhar Academy – who have adopted the name Propel – the scheme began with donations from Buccleuch Estates Ltd, Dumfries and Galloway Council, Scottish Mines Restoration Trust and Hargreaves Surface Mining. At this event on 7 March, Richard Montagu Douglas Scott, 10th Duke of Buccleuch and 12th Duke of Queensberry, will announce the latest development in the funding initiative. Duke Richard will be speaking to the young people, funding recipients, and groups interested in applying to the scheme.

Sanquhar Academy Following weather warnings for tomorrow, the school will be closed Thursday 1st March. Please check the Dumfries and Galloway Council website for further updates regarding Friday 2nd March.

Tenner Challenge Come along to our MARKET DAY and visit a variety of stalls selling fine products and food. Our S2 pupils have been creating their own businesses and would love to show off their products and skills.

Gymnastics news On Saturday 24th February, the re-scheduled gymnastics competition took place at Lockerbie Academy. Sanquhar Academy entered 2 teams at level 1 and 1 team at level 2. Level 2 - Katie Gallacher, Kirsty Gallacher, Emma Gate and Elise Thomson. Level 1 B - Karissa Miller, Roisin Pearson and Halle Graham. Level 1 C - Abbie Duncan, Jorja Lamont and Nicole Telfer-Hulme. All of the girls performed their vaults and their floor routines to their best abilities and did themselves and Sanquhar Academy extremely proud. Full scores have yet to be sent out but we can announce that Roisin Pearson achieved the Bronze individual medal for Level 1 and the Level 1 B team took team Bronze, narrowly missing out on qualifying for the Scottish finals. Well done girls!!

Netball Latest On Wednesday 21st February, 18 girls travelled across the region to play our penultimate league game against the very tough Langholm Academy. Despite conceding both of their games the pupils showed incredible determination to keep playing great Netball until the final whistle. The players of the matches were awarded to Holly Kozicki and Kirsty Gallacher for the juniors, and Ashlyn Waddell for the seniors. Our last game of the season will be against St Josephs Academy.

Holocaust Memorial Day Holocaust Memorial Day falls on 27th January. It marks the liberation of Auschwitz and memorializes the 11 million Jews and other minority groups who were killed during the Holocaust in Europe during WW11. It also commemorates the victims of all other genocides, including Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia and Darfur. On Sanquhar Academy’s Holocaust Memorial, we lay stones each year. In the Jewish tradition, stones are laid on tombs. Unlike flowers, which represent the transience of life, stones do not die and are therefore a good symbol of remembrance. This year’s theme is The Power of Words. Our School Captains Ellie Stewart and Ethan Weir laid this year’s stone, lit a candle and read the famous poem (below) by Pastor Martin Niemöller, ‘First They Came’. Our Mentors in Violence Protection Programme at school has the motto ‘The standard you walk past is the standard you accept’. See something say something. Words have power. First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out— because I was not a Socialist. Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out— because I was not a Trade Unionist. Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out— because I was not a Jew. Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me. By Pastor Martin Niemöller

Propel Bids now open Propel Applications for this year are now open. Application forms are available by emailing glenmucklochcpc@outlook.com and the deadline is 23rd February.