School successes celebrated despite lockdown restriction
Ardnamurchan High School’s annual celebration of success was held virtually on July 2 from the more relaxed environment of head teacher Christopher Millar-Craig’s home.
He thanked everyone for pulling together and supporting each other, during the recent challenging times – parents for helping children stay on task and engage with the work; young people for quickly getting on board with working on line through the G-suite; and staff, who worked so hard to change the way of doing things and deliver all aspects of learning and teaching on-line through Google Classroom.
Mr Miller-Craig added: ‘Everyone has played their part to make, I believe, the last three months as successful as they could be.’
He highlighted a moving piece of work by Mrs White in the English department and head girl Janie Patterson, where pupils’ voices were heard as they reflected on lockdown.
He also mentioned Alastair Tait’s success in the United Kingdom Maths Challenge; the school’s two awards in the annual Film G competition, and the consequent invitation to the international film competition in Italy (cancelled due to Covid 19); the notable success of Helen Jones in the young chef competitions, where she won through to be invited to London for the final (again cancelled due to Covid 19); the excellent Youth Philanthropy initiative final this year, where S3 excelled themselves and made the school proud of them.
As a result £3,000 was awarded to the charity West Lochaber Hospital Transport project and the school’s Digital Leaders, who supported other pupils, parents and staff through the year and worked together to gain the school its first prestigious Digital Schools Award .
The life and challenge and successes of the school before lockdown were also shared in the annual presentation ‘that was the year that was’, narrated by school captains Janie Patterson and Ian Kammerath.
The major award winners were: Overall nominations for the school: Beth Jackson (S1)
Sgeulachd Trophy For Enterprise: Mya Carmichael (S2)
Rural Excellence Award: Nathan Pleming (S5)
Community Partnership Award: Mrs Jillian Campbell and Mrs Lyndsay Bradley
Rotary Club of Lochaber Prize for Endeavour Alistair Tait (S6)
Ewen Gillespie Memorial Trophy: Janie Patterson (S6)