Readers' Cup Final

Friday 10th June saw 4 keen pupils travel to Auchinleck Academy with Ms Borthwick and Mrs Bax and their supporters to compete in the East Ayrshire Readers' Cup Final. The team of Halle Fitzsimmons, John Anderson, Katie Burrell and Keiran Madden tried very hard but were let down by their lack of Knowledge in the Battle of the Books round. The winners were St Joseph's Academy with a fantastic 42.5 points out of 50.
The audience had fun answering the questions for little prizes in between rounds.
Better luck next year!

S2 Readers' Cup Quiz

S2 Readers' Cup Quiz was held in the Library on Thursday 17th March period 3. the question topics were Lucky dip, Eoin Colfer, Witches & Wizards, Historical Fiction and Books& Films. Unfortunately the questions proved to be rather harder for s2 and the teams didn't score as well as S1.
Again the contest was between Finlas and Raecar with Finlas leading all the way through, until Raecar managed to overtake them in the final round with a very good score of 8 points.
Congratuations to the winning team of Tommy Campbell, Stephanie Carrick, Rachel Murphy and Halle Fitzsimmons, and commiserations to John Anderson, Nicky Fairbairn, Lorelle White and Sandy Napier.

Many thanks to the judges, Heather Dunn, Megan Mccleary, Nathan Gilmore and Paige Collins.

S1 Readers' Cup Quiz

The S1 round of Doon Academy's Readers' Cup Quiz was held in the Assembly Hall, last period on Wednesday 16th March. The categories for the questions were Heroes & Heroines, Jacqueline Wilson, Lucky Dip, Comics and Animal Stories.
After a very hard fought contest between all four teams, Finlas and Raecar edged ahead and the contest ended at the bell in a tie with both teams having a respectable 30.5 points.
The final result was decided with a tiebreaker between Finlas and Raecar the following day. Both teams got 6/10 in the tiebreaker and so it went to sudden death and Finlas just managed to answer the last two questions more quickly so they won.
Congratulations to the winning Finlas team of Alana Murray, Morgan Davis, Shannon Clelland and Keiran Madden. They all received W H Smith vouchers.
Well done to the other teams especially Raecar who were pipped to the post.

A big thank you to the judges, Heather Dunn, Lisa McTaggart, Rosie Coles and Hayley Bone.

Readers'C up First Round Winners

The winners of the in class round of the Readers' Cup Quiz are
S2
Halle Fitzsimmons, 2MD
Alexander Nutt, 2SB
Brandon Gasson, 2NP
S1
Danni Cullen, 1MD
Michael Roberts, 1SB
Harry Sloan, 1NP

The highest scorers will go on to represent their clans in the S1 and S2 competitions in March.
Well done to all the high scorers in a very tough quiz.

Readers'Cup Quiz

The first heats of this years quiz will be held in the Library during english lessons this week and next week.

Readers' Cup Final

The annual East Ayrshire Readers' Cup Quiz final was held this morning at Auchinleck Academy. Our team of Fraser Buchanan, Mark McLean, Laurne sham and Halle Fitzsimmons had been practicing and reading for weeks and their hard work paid off with our best ever result of joint second place tied with St Joseph's. Auchinleck won again! Doon was leading after the first round but fell away a bit in round 2 only to make up ground in round 4. Congratualtions to the team, supporters and their coach Miss Borthwick.

S1 Readers' Cup

Raecar, the winners!


Thursday 18th March saw the S1 round of the Readers' Cup competition. Teams from all 4 clans answered questions on Cathy MacPhail,Christmas, Baddies, Families and of course the Lucky dip round. Raecar led from the start and were clear winners. Bradan and Doon fought neck and neck until Doon ended up 2 points ahead in the final round.

The results were First Raecar, then Doon, Braddan and Finlas.

As usual, between round the audience had a chance to test their knowledge and answer some of the questions.

Congratulations and well done to all who took part.

Some of the winning team will go on to represent Doon Academy at the East Ayrshire final in June.




Audience participation!






During the quiz!







Raecar hard at work!

Readers' Cup S2

Friday 12th March saw the hotly contested S2 round of the Readers' Cup quiz. The question topics were Keith Gray, Lucky dip, Crime & detectives, Horror and Scottish connections. The quiz was closely contested until the last rounds when leaders started to emerge. The winners were Raecar with a clear lead of 3 points over their next rival Doon. Thanks for S6 pupils for marking the quizzes.

S1 Readers' Cup quiz

After a tense competition in which the lead changed with each round, 1A the S1 Readers' Cup on after a tiebreak with 1C. 1E were a close third. Well done the 1A team of Fiona, Varri Robbie and Raegan.

S2 Readers' Cup

The S2 round of the Readers' Cup quiz was held on Tuesday afternoon. Doon again just pipped Raecar to win for the second year in a row. The teams answered questions on Thrillers, "Pink" Ghosts/Horror and Lucky dip. Well Done Doon.

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.