Students fly high as they enjoy a day of European languages

To celebrate the European Day of Languages, a number of Belmont Academy senior pupils attended at Prestwick Airport where SCILT had organised a Careers with Languages event called “Broaden your horizons with Languages”.

Pupils walked around themarketplaceandspoke to Gap Year companies and international students from UWS.

Then they heard talks from Easyjet pilot Captain Hugh Sheils, the bilingual Education Manager from Culzean and Mark Pentleton from Radio Lingua who did an introduction in eight different languages! The pupils loved hearing about what unusual languages they can learn and what they could do with them.

On Monday, October 2, the Belmont Academy History and English departments took their Advanced Higher pupils to the Glasgow University library for the day.

The trip helped the students get some useful research for their Dissertations. A total of four hours was spent at the library. Mr Marr, from the History department and MissGrantfromtheEnglish department accompanied the pupils during their day of research.

Belmont Academy has recently started a new club, cent red on music technology. This club originally took place on a Tuesday lunchtime, but gained popularity so quickly that it had to expand to take place two days a week.

The club involves teaching members how to effectively use the hardware and software involved in audio production. The end goal of the club is for the members, in teams to each create a five minute long radio show, with a winner being found based on whose show is the most popular. The club helps to develop valuable skills in its members which they may find useful later in life, which is part of why the club is so popular.

S2 Keira Long has just returned from The International Dance ChampionshipsinGlasgow where she made it to the semi- finals for Freestyle Dancing.

Belmont Academy Pupils Zoe Tolloch and Nathan Murray attended the 2017 Sportscotland Young Ambassador Conference.

TheYoung Ambassador programme has continued within South Ayrshire this year with 16 newly r e c r u i t e d S i l v e r Ambassadorsrepresenting each South Ayrshire secondary school. The new Young Ambassadors attended the Young Ambassadors Conference at HampdenonSeptember 12.

Working alongside the existingGoldandPlatinum Ambassadors, these select young people will be motivating and inspiring other young people to participate in sport.

To keep up to date with all Young Ambassadors programmes there is a new Young Ambassador twitter page which launches this month. Follow SA_ YAmbassadors to keep up to date with whats going on. # YASchoolSport

Belmont’s Gold Young Ambassadors are: Tom L a n n i , K i r s t y Ross. Platinum Young Ambassadors are: Jack Anderson, Hannah Paisley.