Christmas designs are winners
Congratulations to Prestwick Academy S2 pupils Lawson McVie and Mairi McLean who were successful in having their design chosen for the Owen Kerr Project Christmas banner.
This will appear on lampposts in Ayr at Christmas time.
Ayrshire schools swimming heats
Several Prestwick Academy pupils competed in the Ayrshire schools swimming heats recently achieving some impressive times in their chosen events.
Livianna Pezzaioli, Claire Cunningham, Jennifer Bell, Sarah Wilson all achieved good times in their events.
Lewis Hammond, Victoria McCormick, Brogan McKinnon and Elizabeth Burns achieved times qualifying them for going forward to Scottish National Schools Finals in January.
Individual times are stated below: Livianna Pezzaioli: 100 breast, 2: 05.50; 200 breast, 4: 25.67; 100 free, 1: 46.89. Claire Cunningham: 100 free, 1: 29.39; 200 free, 3: 30.84; 200 breast, 4: 15.11. Jennifer Bell: 100 free, 1: 32.75. Sarah Wilson: 100 free, 1: 21.81; 100 fly, DNF; 100 back, 1: 27.75. Lewis Hammond: 200 free, 2: 20.03 ( consideration time) – bronze medal; 200 back, 2: 42.77 ( consideration time) – silver medal; 100 fly, 1: 19.61 ( consideration time) – bronze medal. Victoria McCormick: 100 back, 1: 08.00 ( consideration time) – gold medal; 200 back, 2: 28.42 ( consideration time) – gold medal; 200 individual medley, 2: 37.16 ( consideration time) – silver medal. Brogan McKinnon: 100 back, 1: 13.46 ( consideration time) – bronze medal; 100 fly, 1: 19.28 ( consideration time) – silver medal; 200 back, 2: 39.65 ( consideration time) – bronze medal. Elizabeth Burns: 100 breast, 1: 18.45 ( consideration time) – gold medal; 200 breast, 2: 49.77 ( consideration time) – gold medal; 400 individual medley, 5: 32.61 ( consideration time) – gold medal.