We are so proud of the boys who braved the shave for Teenage Cancer Trust in suppport of their friend Dylan. Well done everyone, we are all so proud of you and wish Dylan well with his treatment. Almost £6,000 raised so far, but their JustGiving page is still open.
Today is a sad day for our community as we say goodbye to Mr Gibson. Donald was the best kind of teacher - funny, kind and a champion for our pupils. He is already very missed. A superstar who has helped countless
@LargsAcademyyoung
people and their families since 1988. ❤️☀️⭐️
Our friends at
@Morrisons
in Largs have a stock of A4 lined and Maths jotters plus stationery if anybody is running short. Help yourself and let us know if you need more... 📚 ✏️ 👍🏻
Very happy news from Largs Academy today! Mrs Paterson has given birth to perfect little Freya, who arrived this morning! Congratulations to the Paterson family! 👶
Fabulous day celebrating success at our prize giving. Huge congratulations to our Dux pupils for session 2019/20 - Peter Bradshaw, Aoife Hogan and Lauren Hyde
#achievement
#ambition
🥇
Our Fundraising Friday and 5k have raised more than £3000 for
@MarysMeals
today! Well done to all our staff and pupils and
@largsps
for all the hard work and support! The cheers along the route were so special ❤️👍🏻🏃♂️
You’ve sanitised (despite the smell); masked in corridors... then classes; distanced & staggered; self-isolated if required without ever stopping teaching, learning, supporting, smiling (underneath the face covering). 2020 is dedicated to the pupils and teachers - superheroes!
A pleasure to present Alara and her family today with a cheque for over £1500 thanks to our Fundraising Friday for Alara’s Little Legs: Thank you to everyone for their support ☀️👏🏻😊
We listened when you told us that you can’t always find your Guidance teacher when you need to speak to them. You should now see posters around the school that allow you to get in touch with them directly in non-emergencies 🌟😎👍🏻
And - more importantly - a huge congratulations to Mrs Galbraith in Maths who celebrates 40 years as a teacher in our Maths Faculty today. Thanks to the legendary (ex-pupil) Sam Torrance for wishing her the best and kicking off our new term ⛳️
A fantastic afternoon supporting
@MarysMeals
with our annual 5km staff and S6 fun run. Well done to everyone for braving the weather ☔️ and a huge thanks to our community for helping us raise over £4000 ❤️🥇⭐️
Outstanding pupil community support with our Fundraising Friday for Largs Foodbank. Thousands of donated items and £465 raised. All organised and led by brilliant pupils.
Thanks to everyone in our school community for supporting Dean’s Fundraising Friday for
@supportCHAS
Together we raised over £850 for a cause very close to his heart ♥️ Have a lovely weekend 🤩☃️🌟
Well done to Miles in S5 for organising our Fundraising Friday and £720 for
@AyrshireHospice
- a charity very close to many of our hearts. Happy Friday! 😊
Today we say goodbye to Mr Higgins who has been with us for 10 years in
@AcademyLargs
Science Faculty. All the best at Ellon Academy and thanks for everything 🧪 🔥 ♥️
Superb day celebrating the success of over 300 pupils at our annual Prize Giving ceremonies. Well done to our Dux pupils for the session - Grant Arneil, Max McGregor and Archie Nelson ⭐️💡👍🏻
Please see our leaflet to find out all the supports available from the school and other agencies and services within the community, across North Ayrshire, and at national level. Please remember to ask for help whenever you need it. It's good to talk.
@letstalkaboutmentalhealth
40 pupils collected safely after an amazing few days in Berlin. Thanks to
@LanguagesLargs
Miss Gall for organising and all of the pupils for making it such a pleasure and delight 😊❤️☀️
Last night our class of 2020/21 organised their own prom to celebrate their time at Largs Academy. A great bunch of young people with a great future! We will miss you all ❤️☀️💃
A HUGE congratulations to Adam Johnson who has been elected as a candidate in the Scottish Youth Parliament
@OfficialSYP
this evening. A fantastic young man who will make a real difference ❤️☀️😊
Delighted to introduce our Captains for this session - Archie Nelson & Lily Ewing. Plus our new Vice-Captains - Eilidh Robinson and Joseph McIntosh. Well done ⭐️👊🤩
Reports from staff of full pupil attendance in lots of lessons today and fantastic engagement with online tasks set. This is not easy for anyone but your commitment is making it much more rewarding. Well done!
A full house tonight as our Events Mgt class presented “Largs Strictly Come Dancing” with over £1000 raised for
@Beatson_Charity
. Congrats to our pupil champs - Ruth & Kayla - and our teacher winners - Miss Parnell & Mr Murchie 💃 🕺🏻 🪩 A fab-u-lous event ❤️
A fabulous evening celebrating the successes of our Senior Phase pupils at our prizegiving. Well done to Corin and Estella our joint dux winners and to all our pupils who gained awards. 🤩💎⭐️
Danny Casey in S6 is raising money for SAMH. Danny hopes that by running a Marathon he can have a positive impact on people struggling with their mental health. Please follow this link to donate and read more about his story:
Fabulous start to the 4 day run of Shrek. Still tickets left for the rest of the week. Well done to all of the cast, crew and our day 1 audience 🌟 🧌 ❤️
At our inservice today staff focused on building positive relationships across the school community with all pupils. Looking forward to seeing our new S5 and S6 back on Monday ☀️😀👍🏻
A fabulous night celebrating success at Prizegiving for our Senior Phase pupils from 22/23. Thanks to Rebecca Colquhoun for sharing her story as our guest speaker and congratulations to our Joint-Dux winners - Declan and Isla 😊🥇❤️
Tears 😢 at interval as we said goodbye to Miss Babb in
@DesignTechLargs
after 22 years at
@largsacademy
. A great colleague and friend to many over the years. Enjoy the next chapter… ⭐️❤️✅
So proud of our staff and pupils at the end of today. We will work around technical glitches and hitches as and when they arise. Keep it up!
#ambition
#responsibility
Today we raised £772 for
@samaritans
with our pupil bake sale to promote
#TimeToTalk
Also a huge amount of donated clothes for our
@EcoSchoolsScot
group and some great efforts on our campus litter pick 🥳👍🏻🌍
Thanks once again to the generosity of our whole school community and the bake sale organised by
@FoodTextiles
! Today we raised £1500 for
@Beatson_Charity
to support one of our pupils receiving treatment there. An amazing cause by an amazing school community ❤️✅👍🏻
Thank you to everyone in our school community for - once again - so generously supporting our 5km Staff and S6 sponsored run for
@MarysMeals
. Over £3500 raised though our and this morning’s collection. Outstanding support and well done Mr Atkinson ❤️✅💯
On Friday 1st of October we kick off this year’s fundraising efforts and community support with a staff & pupil 5k for
@MarysMeals
So far we have over 100 people signed up for the event. Read more here:
This morning during our virtual staff meeting we surprised three superstar colleagues who retire after years of dedicated service to our school community - Mrs Lyon, Mrs Kent and Mrs McGowan - we salute you all and will mark this properly when it’s safe to do so ❤️🌟🙌🏻
Looking forward to seeing all of our pupils back in the building tomorrow! In the meantime here’s a celebration video of our prize winners for session 2019/20 👍🏻👏🏻🥇
Congrats Higher Photography who exhibited at the Barony Centre's Exhibition and were awarded with various certificates acknowledging the excellent digital imagery they created. A special congratulations to Eva McTaggart who was awarded overall winner in the Authority!
For today’s Fundraising Friday we asked pupils & parents to “donate” a positive comment for our staff. Over 250 of you got back to us and were shared with staff this morning. Your support has really made a difference! Thank you so much!
#community
Tonight we welcomed 100s of our P7-S3 parents and pupils into the school for the very first time for our Parent Information Evening. Thank you for all your support and positivity. We hope you had a good night 😀✅🥇
Our campus officers are welcoming kids across
#Ayrshire
back to school. If you see them about give them a wave 👋🏽.
Here's PC Ross Pollard campus officer at
@LargsAcademy
@largsps
@StMarysLargs
.
Have a great first day back everyone!
Outstanding community support for our Fundraising Friday raising £769 for the
@oxfam
Covid recovery appeal and 100s of gifts for young people this Christmas 🎄 A huge thanks to Mrs Newton and the Pupil Human Rights’ Group.
Congratulations to Christopher - first recipient of the Gold Award for 10 Pupil of the Week nominations this session. Well done to all the pupils receiving Bronze and Silver certificates today. 🥇
A special message for all of the new S1 pupils joining us tomorrow. We can’t wait to welcome you to our school. (Seniors - don’t worry! We’re looking forward to seeing you too!) 🙌🏻🌟😀
A touching goodbye for Miss Donnelly
@DesignTechLargs
from the S3 involving poems, presents and tears. We will all miss you. Good luck at
@EastwoodHighERC
❤️
The first week of the LA Italian Club run by S3 pupil Luca Spaziani Smith was a huge success! Luca taught pupils and teachers some great facts about Italy and even set us homework! Looking forward to next week already. Grazie Luca! Buon fine settimana a tutti! 🇮🇹
Danny Casey in S6 is raising money for SAMH. Danny hopes that by running a Marathon he can have a positive impact on people struggling with their mental health. Please follow this link to donate and read more about his story:
A joy to be celebrating
#WorldBookDay
all together again at the Reading Oscars - The R’Oscars. A true celebration of reading (and some lovely food too). Thanks Ms Newberry for all your efforts 👊 📖 ❤️
Our Options process is underway and all pupils in S2-S5 had the chance to attend our Careers Fayre today, Thanks to all of the staff and wider community for supporting our work on pathways.
Today’s round of applause goes to Miss Donnelly our
@DesignTechLargs
Probationer who successfully interviewed and secured herself a permanent position at our school this afternoon. 👍🏻⭐️☀️
Delighted that Mr Beattie & Mrs McPherson have been permanently appointed as the Faculty Leaders of Technologies
@DesignTechLargs
@FoodTextiles
Today we also secured Miss Beaton for another year in Social Subjects 🤩👏🏻✅
Music is scientifically proven to make you feel better. Get these two songs blasting (sorry parents) and let us know below which you prefer...
#TuesdayTunes
#community
Grease auditions! What a night. All of you were amazing!
#borntohandjive
thanks to Lucy, Claire, Matt and
@ActiveSchoolsNM
you've given us a lot to think about.
A lovely morning at the S6 Graduation celebrating the end of an era for a fabulous year group. Wonderful to have our S6 Parents and Carers in to close this chapter and start the next… feel free to post any photos below 🌟
Well done to the S1 Football team who were absolutely magnificent tonight in the Ayrshire Cup Final. Sadly, after a 3-3 draw they lost to Robert Burns Academy on penalties.
Goal scorers:
Jamie Jack ⚽️⚽️
Junior Johansson ⚽️
POTM: EVERYONE- you did yourselves & school proud 👏
Blown away by the talent on display at our Young Singer & Young Musician of the year competition tonight. Thanks to
@LargsExpArts
for hosting and well done to finalists Anne and Peter and our runners up Maddy and Rhionna. 🎵 ⭐️ 👊
This morning Mrs Scott and Miss Beaton accompanied our Senior pupils to the Clark Memorial Remembrance Service and laid a wreath on behalf of the school at the War Memorial
#RemembranceSunday
All schools will close on Friday 20 March. There is no need to contact the school at this time. We promise to update you all later today with fuller details.
We look forward to welcoming ALL students back together tomorrow for the first time this year! Remember that we all must keep each other safe so remember your face covering and do your lateral flow test tonight. 👍🏻😷🔜
If you’ve just finished Joe Wicks or a roll and sausage you’ll hopefully be feeling full of life and energy. Share our Motivational Monday quote with your followers or post your favourite one below...
#getinvolved
#community