Bridges4Europe visit

The final project meeting of the Comenius ‘Bridges4Europe’ project will be held at Doon Academy during the week beginning 1st June. We look forward to welcoming teachers and students from our four partner countries: Bulgaria, Italy, Romania and Turkey.

Bridges4Europe

The ‘bridges4europe’ Comenius team are busy preparing activities for the final project meeting to be held at Doon Academy the 1st to 7th June.

Turkey Trip

After a very successful Bridges4Europe project reunion in Turkey, where the teachers discussed teaching methods and demonstrated sample lessons to each other and the visiting students, the countries agreed the dates of the final reunion in Scotland. Our visitors will be here from the 1st to the 5th of June 2009. Our Turkish hosts entertained us very well with tours of a cable factory, a sightseeing tour of Cappadochia, a view of their national day parade, and visits to various local dignitaries.

Bridges4Europe trip to Turkey

Mrs. Stewart and Mrs. Bax will be visiting our partnership school in Kayseri Turkey as part of the Comenius Project. They will be seeing how English is taught in schools in Turkey and exchanging pedagogical methods of classroom practice. Teachers from our partnership schools in Bulgaria, Italy and Romania will also at the project meeting.

Bridges4Europe trip to Turkey

Mrs. Stewart and Mrs. Bax will be visiting our partnership school in Kayseri Turkey as part of the Comenius Project. They will be seeing how English is taught in schools in Turkey and exchanging pedagogical methods of classroom practice. Teachers from our partnership schools in Bulgaria, Italy and Romania will also at the project meeting.

Bridges4Europe

Staff and pupils involved in our Comenius Project ‘bridges4europe’ gave a presentation to a contingent of Danish visitors who were visiting East Ayrshire.

28th February 2008

The Scholastic Book Fair was in the school library last week, and was a great success. Pupils purchased a variety of books and stationery
World Book Day is taking place on Thursday, March 6. To celebrate, pupils are holding a “Match the Teacher to the Book” quiz.
World Maths Day will be taking place on the 5th March. Pupils from S1-S5 will be taking part in this challenge, which involves playing online against pupils from all over the world – answering maths questions of course!
S6 GOALS Top-Up students will be attending a Campus Day at the University of Glasgow where they will be meeting students and taking part in seminars and tutorials.
Doon Valley’s Cricket Club Annual Dinner and Prize giving will be taking place this month. Pupils from Doon Academy will be receiving prizes. Guest Speaker is Jim Connell, previously Scotland’s foremost umpire, from Glasgow’s Old Grammarians.
East Ayrshire’s Spring Spectacular Concert took place in Kilmarnock. S2 pupils Laura Halbert and Ryan McKnight sang in the choir. More news on this event next week.
Pupils undertaking the Duke of Edinburgh Award will be visiting the Police Training Centre to find out more about the work of the Strathclyde Police.
In our Comenius Project ‘Bridges4Europe’ the pupils and staff, from the schools in the partnership countries, have produced their 1st page of the project newspaper on the topic ‘My School, My Town’. The newspaper can be accessed through the school website.
Art pupils in S3 and S5 visited the Glasgow School of Art Fashion Show on Wednesday, March 5. Everyone thoroughly enjoyed the visit and cannot wait to return!
The Doon Academy Supported Learning Centre held their Burns Supper in January and parents were invited to a coffee morning on Friday, February 29 to view the excellent DVD taken of the event.