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Session 2007 - 2008

Headteacher's Report

Headteacher's Speech at Awards Ceremony

Awards 2007 - 2008

The School Captains
Achievements 2007 - 2008
News 2007 - 2008
5 a Side Football	The Arches 2008
The Assault Course	The Awards Ceremony Photos
The Big Walk	The Car Boot sale
The Ceilidh	China 2008
Come Dancing
The Fire Cadets	Health Accreditation
The Highland Show	ICT Event
The Kinneil Project	Oatridge College
The P7 Parents Night	School Band in Paris
The Prom 2008	Pupil's Dance Contest
Quiz Night	Reward Trips
The Road Race	S1 Football
The 10k Road Race results	Individual Photographs
Tern TV	West Side Story
Safe Drive	Army Activity Day
Asdan Activities	The Botanic Gardens
The Cabaret	Car Washing
The Chainwalk	The Georgian Kitchen
Meeting the Minister for Education	Murder Mystery Weekend
Pupil Council Training	The Band visit Scottish Widows
World Book Day	The Christmas Concert
The News Team	Avon House Registration Groups
Recycling Winners	S5 / S6 Health Day
Mrs McFarlane retires	The April Football Match

English Dept 2007 -08

The second year class attended a workshop led by children’s author Dr Stephen Potts and gained an insight into what it would have been like to be part of a crew on a Bo’ness whaling ship. Pupils also had the opportunity to handle rare books worth thousands of pounds and to survey old maps of Bo’ness. To inspire creativity, part of the `Orkney sea monster` was on display, and pupils are now determined to discover the origins of the beast. Further writing workshops are to be held in the school, with the end results put on permanent display in the NLS as well as Bo’ness Library.

As well as this, other second year pupils have been extremely productive, working collaboratively with staff from Kinneil House to produce a guide to the attraction which will be suitable for Primary Four pupils.

Further up the school, pupils have benefited from the expertise of Janet Smythe from Blast-Off Books, who visited the school to present a selection of texts suitable for personal studies, a compulsory component of the Higher Still English Course.

KINNEIL PROJECT

Miss Henderson and Mr Whitton's 2nd year pupils in the English Department are currently involved in the creation of a DVD about the Romans and their influence upon local people around the Kinnneil area. The target audience for this project will be primary 4 pupils.

The pupils will be able to access the DVD whenever they visit Kinneil where the Roman Fort stood and learn something about how the Romans lived and worked in an entertaining way through a series of monologues and drama scripts written and performed by Bo'ness Academy pupils themselves.

The project should be completed by the end of the summer term

Ms McIntyre's S2 class have been selected to pilot the use of Nintendo in class. The aim of this project is to enhance the learning experiences for pupils through use of a range of ICT equipment. more

Look at samples of work relating to the Nintendo game (pdf file)

Listen to a sound file of our work

AWAY WITH WORDS

Budding poets! A series of poems written for the "Away with Words competition" were selected to be published in a book full of work done by school pupils. The following pupils all have their poems published:

The book is called "Away with Words"
Edited by Allison Jones
ISBN No: 978-1-84431-100-2
Priced £14.99

View website for more details: www.youngwriters.co.uk

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