Open Days
Reminder: It is the responsibilty of each pupil to catch up on all work missed and ensure that their Prefect Duties are covered.
Open Days Students may attend a maximum of 2 Open Days during school time, with permission. If wishing to attend any further open days a letter/email MUST be given to their Guidance Teacher prior to the Open Day. Dates of all open days, as well as other higher education opportunities, can be found in the calendar on our UCAS pupil page. All senior students have been isseud this list in school and should check the university website before attending as registration may be essential. Reminder: It is the responsibilty of each pupil to catch up on all work missed and ensure that their Prefect Duties are covered. UCAS Convention UWS, Ayr Campus are hosting a UCAS Convention on Tuesday 30th August. All pupils in S5 and S6 were invited to attend in June. If anyone is unsure if they are on the list to go please speak to a member of guidance staff. UCAS Information Evening
What a week for Marr Physics students!
In June, a fantastic team of 8 students took part in the Mission Discovery event at Ayr College, working with astronauts. They worked in different teams to produce an invention that could be launched into space for research. Megan Niven (5D2) and Ryan Williamson (6D2) were on teams that made it to the all-Ayrshire final! Meanwhile, Craig Young (6D1) had a fantastic experience at the Scottish Space School and Rory MacAskill (6F) fuelled his passion at the Glasgow University Particle Physics Masterclass. Students accounts are below: Mission Discovery - Megan Niven Eight Marr students including myself were given the fantastic opportunity to attend a week working alongside other selected pupils from around Ayrshire and even some employees of NASA! In the five day-long programme, we were introduced to astronaut Michael Foale (OBE) who told us many stories about how his journey led him into space six times. Through listening to his advice each of the 23 teams were set a challenge of planning an experiment to be carried out on the International Space Station by a chosen astronaut. It was a very worthwhile experience, where each and every pupil gained great experience in areas such as teamwork, communication and even in developing future career plans. On the last day, two teams that included Marr College students made it to the final and were runners up in the overall competition! Scottish Space School - Craig Young When I first decided to apply for the Scottish Space School, I thought I would be met with a long and tedious application form, but it was actually very simple, and contained some interesting questions that I enjoyed answering. Once everyone who had obtained a place was told via e-mail, a Facebook group was set up which allowed everyone to stay informed about the event, and also to get to know each other a bit before we arrived which thankfully replaced any awkward introductions. When we got there on the Sunday, the first night was spent mainly on teambuilding exercises and introductions to the astronauts and engineers that would be with us for the week; who were very helpful answering any questions we had on the tasks we were set and also on their ground-breaking field of work. The rest of the week was spent on different activities, such as building gunpowder rockets, making a heart-rate monitor and taking part in the Mars Rover challenge. Throughout the week, we also had to work as a team of ten on our big and small projects which took a lot of time, but were very interesting as they concerned potential future missions to Mars and looking at improving the quality of life aboard the International Space Station. We also spent some time working on our open mic night performance for the Wednesday night which was a lot of fun. On the final night they set up a ceilidh with a live band which was great and a really suitable way to round off the week. The five days we spent there were residential and the halls and food that we were provided with were excellent, as were the mentors and staff that helped us during the week in the challenges and projects. I thoroughly recommend Space School to anyone who is interested in a career in engineering, and also to those who are unsure what they want to do in the future as Strathclyde provide a short insight into some of the courses that take place at the university. Troon Chess Club visited Marr in June 2016, to host the first school Chess Championship for years. They kindly provided a very handsome trophy, upping the stakes and giving the young players everything to play for!
The format was a knockout tournament starting with 14 players across S2-S6. The draw was random and with no seeding, producing some very tough first round matches and a couple of early exits for very strong players who suffered from the luck of the draw. The tournament clocks were used, making the pressure even more intense! Calum Brown and Matt Penman battled through to face each other in the final – with Calum emerging as the 2016 Marr College Chess Champion. Calum will be presented with his Championship trophy during the Celebrating Success Week in August. We thank Troon Chess Club immensely for organising the tournament and providing the resources – including the Championship trophy. Chess Club is every Friday lunchtime in STB 19 – all are welcome, even if you have never played chess before! Marr College is delighted to announce the school captains for session 2016-2017. The pupils were put through a gruelling selection process, including a presentation and interview. They will now take up their respective roles and have already met with the head teacher to discuss the year ahead. Our School Captains are: Jack Donnelly and Ella Kennedy, who will be supported by a great team of vice captains: Calum Crombie, Donald Matthews, Callum Ogston, Hazel MacGarvie, Lorrie Malcolm and Natalie Smith. More details will follow on the school captains page and you can follow their year on twitter @marrcaptains .
Today Marr College pupils buried a slice of home life in 2016 Marr College was approached by Stewart Milne homes early in 2016 and asked if they would like to work together to create a Happy Home Pod, a time capsule to be buried that would focus on showing future generation what home life was like in 2016. Stewart Milne Homes is one of the UK’s leading home builders with developments across the UK, and are currently working on a new development of houses, Earl’s Green, in Barassie, Troon, which is where the time capsule would be buried. Miss Owens, Librarian, worked with Mr Hendrie’s S1 English class to fill this time capsule. First they have to write an introduction of themselves and describe their own home life and then decide what items they would like to put into the time capsule. Throughout the project they had advice from one of our history teachers, Dr MacKenzie, who advised them what type of items historians find interesting. Three boys also kept a food diary of breakfast, lunch and dinner for a week. Items also included photographs, a mug, sweet wrappers, receipts and travel tickets. Miss Owens accompanied the class to Earl’s Green on 1st June to bury the time capsule. They arrived in glorious sunshine and helped the experts to dig a hole big enough for the time capsule. They helped with fixing the adhesive to secure the lid and dropping the time capsule into the hole, as well as then burying the capsule. The site manager then showed them around some of the development, including a house that hadn’t had carpets laid yet. The trip was finished off with some refreshments and a tour around the show home. All the pupils had a fantastic time and left the site saying: “This is so interesting”, “This development is amazing” and “I can’t wait to return to dig it up in 50 years”. Students involved in this project were: Jamie Brennan, Iain Andrew, Kieran Fisher, Callum Stalker, Alex Hogg, Jamie Kerr, Mark Cryer, Ben Innes and Oliver Reynolds. Our S1 pupils recently took part in a competition run by the business studies department, the S1 Marr's Dragon Enterprise Challenge. They were tasked with creating a product which could entice our very own Dragons, Annabelle Beckwith, Claire Graves and Claire O’Donnell. The winning group was Andrew Milne, Aaron Blair, Ross Gouldstone, Ethan Riddell and Harry Jackson, who won with their product called 'Make your Own' The product is a den for children – which the owners could change the design of – a castle one day; submarine the next etc. The dragons felt that it was a realisable project which could hit the market straight away, the team presented very well and had thoroughly thought through the finance of their project. The group's presentation is here. Well done to all who competed and congratulations to the winners. On Tuesday 10th May Miss Pringle (RMPS) accompanied a group of pupils, who are involved in the rights respecting schools process, to the final of the Show Racism the Red Card creative competition at Hampden Park, Glasgow. The group were the overall winners in their category with a thought provoking poem! They each received a certificate and cinema tickets and they were presented their prizes by Celtic goalkeeper Craig Gordon. The pupils were praised for their passion in spreading the message that Scotland is against racism. Their poem will be used in the future to promote anti-racism and a calendar is going to be produced with all the winning entries with money being raised for the charity. The pupils involved were: Bethan Muir S5, Iona Milne S3, Anna McIvor S3, Amy Murray S3, Olivia Michalek S3, Emily Sheridan S3, Rendia Petjukevica S3 and Louise Milne S5. A huge congratulations to everyone involved. The wining poem is below: Show Racism the Red Card Poem
Nobody on earth is a minority, Everyone must be treated with equality Everyone always deserves respect, So we all need to love and protect Every person in all of our nations, All have a right to a good education We’re here because we want to stay, Please don’t try to take us away Who’d ever think that something like sport, Could sadly make its way to court None of us are from outer space, So please can you get off our case Just because we are all different races, Does not give you the right to shout it in our faces No one ever deserves to feel alone, This is our home On Monday 25th April the Marr U13 football team played in the final of the Ayr and District Cup against Kyle Academy. Unfortunately the team lost 5-2 to a very strong Kyle squad, however, they represented Marr with pride and were a credit to themselves. A special mention must go to Adam Rice who scored both goals for Marr on the night. The team have had a very successful first season and are looking forward to playing in the league next year. The squad are: Harry Jackson, Adam Morrison, Jenson Cameron, Ethan McIntyre, Ross Gouldstone, Nairn Calder, Adam Rice, Stewart Mathieson, Lewis Muir, Calum Mabon, Finn Maley, Jay Malcolm, Lewis Emberson, Josh Davies, Jamie Kaminski and Robbie Peacock.
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