Happy New Year from Culter School

Take a look at our ‘Whole School Acheivements’ page to find out who the December Achievers were.

Well done to our P6 pupil who won an award for ‘Best Junior Film’ in which he played the part of a debt collector!!!  The film along with several others was showcased at Cineworld to family and friends and chosen as the best by a number of judges. 

Script to Screen and Stage is run by a former teacher of Culter School, Mrs Joyce Ogilvie.

Well done to those who took part in the winning film.

If you did anything exciting this weekend, why don’t you come and see me and you can blog about it. Here is one of our P6 pupils telling us her story.

WALT IS A WINNER

Yesterday I spent the day at Loanhead Equestrian Centre taking part in a gymkana.  My pony is called ‘Walt’. He is a blue roan and is 13.3 hands.  He is 7 years old.   As you can see from my picture, we won two rossettes.   One was for showjumping.  We were 6th out of 20 competitors.   We were 4th for ‘the pony the Judge would most like to take home’ (not that I would have let her).  It was a special day and lots of people came to watch.  ER P6C

We are delighted to announce that the above pupil has won the much coveted Lord Provost Trophy.  This is his third year representing Culter School. The first year in P4 he came 6th, in P5 he came 3rd and now in P6 came 1st.  We are very proud of him and think that the current World Chess Champion, Viswanathan Anand, should watch out!

Some of our classes and individual pupils took part in the Aberdeen City Music Festival last week.  As you can see from the following results, we did really well.  A huge thank you to our Voice Animateur, Mrs Simpson for her valuable coaching.   Well done boys and girls!

RESULTS:

On Saturday 24th May, Culter’s p6’s played Stoneywood in the Consolation Cup Final.  Culter went ahead early in the first half after a great through ball from Callum Buchan found Jack Yule who sent a powerful shot low into the corner of the net.  Stoneywood equalised after some good football when their left winger took a high dipping shot over Callum Henderson’s head.  Five minutes later they went ahead after a low cross into the box was budled over the line.

Five minutes after half time, Jack Yule received the ball on the edge of the box, beat three defenders and sent a rocket shot into the roof of the net.  From then on it was one sided with Culter playing all of the football.  Only an outstanding display from the Stoneywood goalkeeper kept the scores level.

The game then went into extra time and with only three minutes remaining, Stoneywood took the lead from a long ball that Culter failed to clear.  The Stoneywood parents were on the pitch celebrating as they thought it was all over.

Almost straight from the restart and after some great play from the determined Kieran Fowler, he took a shot which the keeper could only push into the path of Adam Fisher who calmly slotted the ball home. 

The game then went into penalties.  Culter managed to score all of theirs but Stoneywood had missed their 3rd one.  They needed to score the next to stay in the game.  When Callum Henderson pulled off a great save Culter had won the cup.

All the boys would like to thank Lachie McKinnon and John Craig for all their help throughout the season.

REPORT BY JACK YULE P6B

Parents – why not give a comment to congratulate the boys, they would be delighted to read what you think.

We know we have a talented bunch at Culter School, and none more so than one of our P4L pupils.  He received two certificates, a trophy and a medal at a recent ‘National Burns Festival for Scottish School Children’  held in Greenock.  The Certificate of Achievement was presented in section P4-5 for excellence in bagpiping and the Certificate of Excellence was awarded for ‘First Place’ in Class P4/5.   Here is our star piper holding his trophy.

CONGRATULATIONS!

I have added a new page listing the names of our pupils who received an Achievement Certificate at our Achievement Assemblies.  Take a look and see if you know anyone who was a champion this month.

One of our Pupils was lucky enough to visit Shetland during Up-Helly-Aa.  Read about his adventures in Miss Weighill and P5W’s blog.

HOT OFF THE PRESS

Liam Dyker has won a place in ‘The National boys’ Choir of Scotland’.  He will attend a residential weekend at Easter.  They will be performing in May at Queen’s Cross Church.  Make sure you look out for that performance and secure your tickets early – also take some hankies with you – he is fab!  Well done Liam, we are very proud of you.