Catherine MacPhail visit

On Thursday 20th March, the author Catherine MacPhail came to Doon Academy. Pupils from Cumnock and Auchinleck academies came to join us here and listen to her very entertaining talk.

She chatted about some of her books and where she had got the original ideas from. I am sure that lots of pupils will be borrowing her books from the Library next week. Towards the ned of her talk she decribed a ghost story set is a school. She asked the pupils to imagine lots of creepy things that might happen in a dark school library in the evening once people had gone home. Loads of people came up with creepy suggestions, fortunately none of them featured homicidal librarians!

After the talk she was happy to chat to pupils and sign autographs.

Nicola Morgan

Firday 14th March. Most of Miss Borthwick's S1 class went to Auchinleck Academy to hear the author Nicola Morgan talk about her work. She discussed Monday are red, Fleshmarket, her Highwayman books and Blame my brain. She told us how she was inspired to write Fleshmarket by a visit to the Royal College of Surgeons' museum in Edinburgh and seeing some of the gory exhibits there.

S1 Readers' Cup

This was held on Tuesday 11th March in the Assembly Hall. This was also a very closely fought contest with only 4 points separating the teams at the finish. This time Doon won by one point. The winning team was Keiran Boyle, Bradley Kirkwood, Heather Dunn and Paige Collins. Well done to all the participants.

S2 Readers' Cup

This was a really close competition which ended in a tiebreaker between Bradan and Doon. Both teams finished with 27 points. Bradan won the tiebreaker. It was a fun afternoon with good performances from all the teams and lots of prizes won by the audience. The winning team consisted of Ryan McKnight, Steven Slider, Lisa Chalmers, and Bronwynn Dempsey.