The Languages Club

opening many doors that will lead to great opportunities for our future, both in terms of our careers and our personal development. For this reason we have both decided to pursue our language studies at University. Rebecca has the goal of becoming a Languages Teacher and Sophie hasn’t yet decided where languages will take her, but she knows that she has many options to choose from. We hope our perseverance with the Languages Club throughout lockdown will demonstrate to students that, with a bit of hard work, anyone can learn a language, for one language sets you in a corridor for life, but two will open all the doors along the way.

Rebecca Dargie & Sophie Hatrick,

2021 leavers.

Charities Group

Our nominated charity this year was SAMH, which is Scotland’s national mental health charity. This charity was chosen because the Group felt strongly about raising awareness that, in the same way we know we should take care of our physical health, we should also take care of our mental health.

Pupils of the School’s Charities Group raised awareness of mental health and the work of SAMH by handing out information leaflets at whole school events such as parents’ evenings and the School Show. They also worked alongside the Emotional Health Group to display information posters around the school and to stock information booklets outside the school office for people to help themselves.

They also organised a number of fundraising events before the school year was disrupted due to the Covid 19 lockdown. The Group sold ribbons during tutor time but the main event was the stalls on each night of the School Show ‘Grease’. During the intermission, people could buy from a large variety of home-bakes which had all been kindly donated by volunteer pupil bakers, or pay a donation to have their photo taken in the American prom-themed photo booth. The final fundraising event before lockdown was the raffle of a signed AFC shirt which was organised by S6 pupil Grant Mutch alongside AFCCT.

In total the School raised over £700 for SAMH.

Coronavirus: The First Year Experience Alexander Denison

The pandemic has changed the last year and a half for me in dramatic ways; it affected my social life, my life at home and it completely eradicated my regular