Pupils bid for menu spot
Belmont Academy S3 Home Economics pupils recently took part in the Café Ginger Challenge.
For this challenge, pupils were asked to develop a soup and a sandwich product to go on the Café Ginger menu. A total of 80 pupils developed their ideas and four finalists were chosen to go prepare their dishes for Café Ginger owner Eddy Ecrepont.
Mr Ecrepont came to the school to sample the finalists’ dishes.
After much deliberation he chooe Marion Murdoch’s carrot and courgette soup and Shannon Doolan’s supper salmon bagel as the winners. Both pupils received a Café Ginger voucher and will have their dish placed on the Café Ginger menu for a week in October.
Jarred Swan and Kayleigh Reid were the runners up and each received a £ 5 voucher. Mr Ecrepont was so impressed by their dishes that he decided to put them on the menu for a week as well.
Pupils who are part of PC Gilmour’s Duke of Edinburgh Bronze award group recently worked together to build a wooden picnic bench.
On completion the bench was donated to Braehead Primary School and has been placed within their school garden.
Belmont Academy pupils Sarah and Rachel Smith continue to enjoy huge success playing chess. Sarah toured this year with the WSSSO in Tuscancy and both girls represented Scotland in the Euroyouth Chess championships in Prague.
This was in addition to the Glorney, where both received awards as the highest scoring members of their team. Rachel was the highest scoring member of the entire Scottish squad this year. Well done to both girls.
In addition to this, both girls continue to excel in music. Sarah recently passed her grade eight piano and is now working on her performance diploma. Rachel is also working towards this and both girls are expected to complete this prior to leaving school.
The Belmont Academy S1/ 2 rugby team has enjoyed a positive start to the new session with a convincing win over Girvan Academy.
Belmont pupil Ruben Lindsay has also won his first Scotland cap having been selected to play in the six man squad in an under- 14 international match ( Scotland v France) in September.