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SCHOOL NEWSWORLD BOOK DAY THURSDAY 7 th MARCHThe idea of World Book Day is to highlight literacy and the importance of reading. Allpupils in Woodmill had the opportunity to take a World Book Day book voucher.During March, Mrs Black undertook debating and Mrs Bryant from the English departmentundertook storytelling sessions with our pupils.SCOTTISH SPACE SCHOOL 2013S5 pupil George Wyatt has been awarded a coveted place at the Scottish Space School2013. The week long residential experience will be held in June at Strathclyde University.George will be experiencing lectures, laboratory sessions and workshops all on the themeof Space. The programme will be delivered by leading academics and researchers and issupported by NASA astronauts and engineers. Places on the Scottish Space School arehighly sought after, with only one hundred places available to S5 pupils throughoutScotland. The top ten students from the week will be selected for a seven day learningexperience, to the Johnson Space Center in Houston, later in the year.SPRING FLING CONCERTAt the end of March the school held its Spring Fling Concert. The event was a sell out, witha capacity audience, including a number of our local councillors supporting the school.The evening showcased a range of amazing talent from pupils from all year groups. TheDAS Choir performed two musical items, whilst we also had contributions from the UkuleleGroup from one of our associated primary schools, Carnegie Primary. The evening was asuperb celebration of the talent and commitment of our pupils.FAIRTRADE GROUPThe newly formed Fairtrade group held their first bake sale, to celebrate "FairtradeFortnight", at the end of March. This is the group’s first step towards gaining Fairtradestatus for Woodmill High School. Products sold contained fairtrade ingredients and staffwere able to sample fairtrade tea, coffee and hot chocolate. The event proved to be ahuge success, raising awareness of the benefits of using fairtrade products throughout theschool. It is hoped to set up a Fairtrade tuckshop into the next academic year to supportthe work of this group.FIFE CHAMPIONSHIPS FOR DISABLED SWIMMERSAt the beginning of March twelve pupils from Woodmill DAS represented the school at theFife Championship for Disabled Swimmers, which was part of the Fife Sports Festival forDisabled People. The pupils were a credit to the school and all returned with at least onesilver or gold medal. The standout performance was from the relay team of Curtis Prior,Matthew Blair, Ross Bowman and Carter Taylor who were each presented with a trophyfor their efforts.The pupils also appreciated the chance to see Paralympic swimmer Craig Rodgie and topScottish disabled swimmer Stefan Hoggan racing against each another. We have severalpromising swimmers who we hope will continue to bring back medals for us in futureyears.6