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6 www.strathallan.co.uk Perform in Perth Competition Festival This year’s Festival saw a record number of entries and successes from Strathallan pupils, across many different Music and Speech competition classes, against other Perthshire schools. Thirteen pupils won their class and eleven were placed in the top three. Annie Tang won the Wilkie’s Music Shield for the most promising snare drummer in all classes and Ciara Elwis won the Stuart McNab Memorial Trophy for her flute playing. Patsy Reid’s Bridging the Gap Patsy Reid who is a fi ddler and composer as well as Strathallan’s violin teacher will be performing her composition ‘Bridging the Gap’ at the Perth Concert Hall on Wednesday 5th May along with Strathallan musicians from the School’s Folk Group and String Ensemble. Patsy has combined her experience and love of both traditional and classical music in this work which was originally written for Celtic Connections 2008 as part of the New Voices series. The piece is a journey through the seven modern modes of music with Patsy taking the role of soloist. She is joined by a piano, guitar, double bass, percussion and string ensemble. Performing with Patsy on stage is an exceptional line up of internationally renowned instrumentalists Greg Lawson, Peter Tickell, Mairi Campbell, Natalie Haas, Iain Hutchison, Mhairi Hall, Michael Byran, Lydia Whittaker, Deirdre Morrison, Duncan Lyall and Iain Copeland. The participating Strathallan pupils will also have the opportunity to collaborate with the Bridging the Gap ensemble, performing specially composed music after a day of workshops. “An attractive and skillfully assembled work that is coherent, imaginative and beautifully performed.” **** The Scotsman LAMDA LAMDA Gold Medals in acting have been awarded to Ollie Wale, Ollie Beetschen and Hannah Cox. It was a double for Ollie Wale because he also achieved Gold Medal for the speaking of Verse and Prose. Silver Medals in acting went to Alice Inglis and Olivia Quick and in the speaking of Verse and Prose to Josiah Bircham and to Joe McColl for Public Speaking. Achieving high marks, this time in Bronze Medal acting, were Flora Hay and Lucy Garvie. Distinctions also went to Frances Myatt and Ashley Purvis for Grade Four acting. Festivals – Speech and Drama The combined results of ‘Perform in Perth’ and ‘The Edinburgh (Competition) Festival’ speech and drama classes saw Strathallan coming fi rst in twenty four different classes. In Perth our pupils won all three of the verse speaking trophies, Frances Myatt for Bible reading, Lucy Orr the William Soutar Tassie and Ailsa Clifford the Robert Burns trophy. In Edinburgh Frances won medals for Bible reading and verse speaking and Rosie Beech for public speaking. Frances gained a total of nine firsts. Ollie Wale achieved double honours in Perth for Burns poems and in an own choice class and Josiah Bircham did equally well in the Bible reading. Music... There were other firsts over the two festivals for Caitlin Donald, Lauren Dundee, Nick Drummond-Hay, Pasha Konkina, Amber Garvie and Gaydelia Talipova. Form 1J also achieved the highest mark for a number of years in the choral speaking class.
Talks... Spring 2010 | News 7 Colin Montgomerie Gives Annual Sixth Form Lecture 2010 Ryder Cup Captain, Colin Montgomerie took time out his busy schedule to give the annual Lecture to the Sixth Form. He spoke of how his career evolved from his amateur victories in the early 1980s, his decision to turn professional in 1987 and the highlights of his professional career but he also focused on the importance of a good education. Having attended Houston Baptist University in Texas on a golf scholarship and studied Business Management and Law, it comes as no surprise that Colin has a flair for business and he talked about the Elizabeth Montgomerie Foundation which he established in 2007 to raise money for cancer patients in Scotland. Colin is also an extremely well respected Course Designer and spent time explaining the process involved and the importance of a good team which is hand picked for its skill and ability in the many aspects of creating great golf courses. The pupils were given ample opportunity to question Colin and his responses were both candid and humorous. Gap Year Challenge “ I am Kirstin Lamotte and am currently in my final year at Strathallan studying hard for my A levels. As Head Girl I have many duties and responsibilities all very busy but exciting. I have chosen to do some voluntary work as part of my gap year on leaving Strathallan and in February I went to the rural island of Coll to take part in the selection course for Project trust www. projecttrust.org.uk. Project Trust is a gap year organisation that has been established for forty seven years. It is very important to them that the volunteers they place are perfectly suited to their projects to enable them to contribute and make the biggest difference. The placements involve care work in orphanages and schools for the disabled, teaching, outdoor activity centres and journalism, working with children just like those shown in this picture. I was lucky enough to be selected to do care work and teaching in my first choice country Sri Lanka, a place that has always fascinated me. Sri Lanka has faced many horrible disasters , including the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami and the longest lasting war in Asia, but there are also positive aspects especially around tourism, culture, conservation, food and sports. I am planning on doing fundraising events such a Sri Lankan dinner dance with raffle and games, a sponsored sky dive, car boot sales and many more in order to raise the £4600 I require to go this August. I would be so grateful for any donations to Project Trust and my voluntary work in Sri Lanka – no donation is too small. I would be more than happy to speak to anyone on this if it is of interest to them as I think it will be the opportunity of a life time for me personally and I hope to be able to contribute greatly during my placement making a positive impact on the community. For information on donating please contact me by email – Kirstin_lamotte@hotmail.co.uk or on my just giving website www.justgiving.com/Kirstin-Lamotte. Thank you. “ The talk was extremely well received with something for not only the keen sports enthusiasts but all who attended. Author Charlie James Riley pupils were joined by the children of Forgandenny Primary School to listen to author Charlie James as she gave a most engaging talk on her comic novels ‘Dino Egg’ and ‘Fish’. The children discussed the wild adventures of the Finn Family and all their hilarious antics with great enthusiasm and absorbed the surprising number of prehistoric facts with eagerness. Their imaginations were still running riot long after the talk ended. Kenya Book Appeal The Headmaster visited Kenya in November and was shown around the three schools and the orphanage run by the Ann Gloag Foundation. We are in the process of setting up a variety of volunteering options and Gap year opportunities for pupils and staff to help with these excellent initiatives. The Foundation runs the Jonathan Gloag Academy and Orphanage alongside, a rescue school for Maasai girls in Suswa in the Rift Valley and Mashimoni, a primary school situated in the heart of Kibera, the biggest slum in the world. While in Kenya the Headmaster was asked by a member of the Kenyan Parliament if it would be possible to coordinate a book collection to support libraries in some of the poorer schools in Kenya. As a result we have offers of support from a number of HMC and IAPS schools in Scotland which will ask parents and pupils for any reading books suitable for pupils from the age of four to fourteen. These will be collected by the Charities Committee at Strathallan and will be shipped to Nairobi in June. The first gift of books came from Forgandenny Primary School some of whose pupils are pictured with members of the Charities Committee. Anyone who is able to help with this appeal is asked to send the books back with their sons/daughters at the start of term or drop them off at the School for boxing before the end of April.
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