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Welcome back to all of our young people and an extra-special reception for our brand new S1. You looked spectacular!
#littleschoolbigheart
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Thanks to our brilliant S5 pupils for sharing their video diary to keep us all smiling
#toiletrollworldcup
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Huge shout out to new S6 girls Kayla and Ellie for organising assemblies to give all female pupils sanitary products to use over the summer, with the help of fellow S6 pupils they made up bags for every girl in Doon Academy.
#periodpoverty
#leadership
#TeamDoon
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We’ve done it again!!
Massive congrats
@LargsAcademy
and
@DoonAcad
who are joint winners of the
@SirTomhunter
challenge 👍👍👍❤️❤️❤️
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At Doon Academy we know we have one of the best Pupil Support teams in the world. But who knew they were this talented?! Two of the biggest hearts in the business. Please like and retweet and make this duo go viral in the best possible sense!
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Christmas Concert - Simply stunning performance from an incredible performer. And her younger brother on the drums! Music definitely feeds the soul... and this had the hair on the back of our necks standing up. More pics of our other stars to follow...
#futurestars
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An amazing afternoon at our DYW Skills Academy, officially opened by Depute Lord Provost Claire Leitch. Thanks to all those who participated, particularly our young people who made us really proud!
@DYWAyrshire
@EastAyrshire
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Fantastic article highlighting the great work being done at Doon by some very hard-working pupils and an equally hard-working dedicated staff
#GoTeamDoon
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We are proud of all the offers and places that our young people in S6 have received this year but we are absolutely delighted to share with everyone that Katie S has received an unconditional this morning for Music teaching at the Royal Conservatoire in Glasgow 🎶
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We received some amazing news today ... 3 of our young people who took part in the Community Challenge project through
@ypi_scotland
and were 1 of the 50 teams is Scotland chosen to win £4000 for charity
@Dalmellington_B
. Well done Natasha, Jack & Danni we are so proud of you 😀
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We are absolutely delighted for our very own Gaela... she’s always been a
#DoonLegend
but is now officially a
#LockdownLegend
. Thank you to everyone in the Doon Valley and beyond who got behind Gaela and voted, it meant the world to her and the rest of us at
#TeamDoon
🤩🥳
⭐️WINNERS ANNOUNCEMENT⭐️
So here we go, thank you to everyone who took part!
All our
#LockdownLegends
nominees are AMAZING but, the winners are....
(Prizes sponsored by
@BarclaysScot
)
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Totally brilliant. Massive congratulations to you and Miss Calder from all
@if
us here at Team Doon!
Baby Finlay William Stormonth arrived Thursday 1601 weighing 8pounds 6oz. To say happy is an understatement we are over the moon to welcome this wee bundle of joy into the world! Welcome wee man! 👶 cant wait for you to meet everyone!
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Please say both HELLO and a massive CONGRATULATIONS to our Head Boy and Girl and their Deputes who were appointed today following a very competitive application and interview process. Together with our Prefect team... they make a fantastic and formidable bunch
#pupilleadership
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Huge congratulations to all the staff and young people involved in making this afternoon’s
#FootballVersusHomophobia
event such a success. Full report to follow once we catch up with our amazing reporter team!
#TeamDoon
#Equality
#LGBTQ
#LGBTHM22
🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️
@LGBTYS
@tiecampaign
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Some useful apps to help support our learners using mobile devices or tablets for
#remotelearning
- these apps are all FREE to download via your app stores.
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It’s finally happened! Our own piece of community art is up in Dalmellington! Miss Fletcher is so proud of pupils & staff who have made this project possible. Now the challenge...can you spot it where it is located?
#communityart
#partnershipworking
@EacCreative
@EacEducation
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A huge congratulations to our Miss McKenzie who will return to us as Mrs Lowrie after the October holidays! We hope you have a
wonderful wedding!! 👰🏻 🍾🥂🎉
#expressiveartsdept
#misstomrs
#Congratulations
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This afternoon we said a fond farewell to our S6 pupils! What they have given to this school since August has been outstanding and many events would not have taken place without them! We will miss you! Best wishes for the future! Special thanks to Mr McCulloch for the bagpipes!
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This week Miss Hair set her pupils the task to design a social distancing logo for a well known brand as part of a worldwide competition, Harry (S1) designed this for Amazon and made the top 8 out of 100s of entries from around the globe!!
#ProudTeacher
#Enterprise
#Branding
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We are ready to welcome our new S1 pupils for their Induction Days tomorrow and Friday!
#readytolearn
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From all of us to all of you. No matter what's going on in the world just remember. You matter. To us. And the entire Doon Valley. Stay safe and we will see you soon. We miss you!
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Happy (Physically-Distanced) Hallowe'en from everybody here at Doon Academy!
@DalmellingtonPS
@BellsbankPS
@eacLittlemillPS
@eacDalrymplePS
@WestsoundFM
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Just brilliant to welcome our young people back to Doon. Looking spectacular and ready to learn. We have really missed you!
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Farewell S6! - The most wonderful young people in the world. School might have ended in a weird unexpected way for our S6. But you sure went out in style!
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Yes Sir,
#TeamDoon
can boogie! Delighted to announce we will be broadcasting
@ScotlandNT
vs Czech Republic tomorrow afternoon. Pupils (and staff) are encouraged to wear blue or tartan to support
#TeamScotland
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It’s exciting times for
#TeamDoon
on Monday... a rowing skiff, named in honour of former HT, Patrick O’Rourke is coming to Doon Academy. Full details from Mr McCulloch in the image below👇
@DofEScotland
@DofETimCSO
@eaclost
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Mr Kelly and the LGBT Equalities group are working hard to organise our upcoming
#Footballvshomophobia
event later this month. Pupil teams can get a registration form on the Doon Learners Team or from Mr K!
#TeamDoon
#LGBTHM22
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Congratulations to S2 pupil Scott for placing as runner up and to senior phase pupil Jack for representing Doon at last nights East Ayrshire Young Musician competition. Two fantastic performances. Well done!
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This would have been the last day of school for our Class of 2020! Mrs Elder’s first S6! Couldn’t be prouder of all of you!
#StaySafeStayHome
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Christmas Disco - Well. This is Scotland. Is there really any other way to finish a brilliant night? Thanks for being great fun tonight. We are very proud of you all. We will see you all again Christmas 2020!
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A fantastic night was had at our Young Musician of the Year event last night. Congratulations to our winner Jack and well done to all our amazing performers. A big thanks also goes to Mrs Lowrie for all her hard work organising the event and to our visiting judge Aimee Wilson
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And we have loved every minute. We will miss you in ways we don’t even know yet. But we also know you will always be a part of the school whatever the future holds. Good luck!
It is the end of a wonderful 9 years at Doon Academy today 🥲
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iPhone or iPad doubles as a scanner! If you are planning to scan any work to your teachers, use the ‘Notes App’. Open a new note, press the camera button, the option to scan document will pop up. Once the document is scanned you can email it with less band width than a photo.
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The pupils with most merits in each Year Group were invited along for cake and coffee with our HT today. Some brought their friends... some brought their mums... and some brought their grannies! Great to see you all enjoying our community cafe. And well done pupils!
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Mr Kelly and
@MISSNEIL3
have been raising
#LGBTQ
awareness in PSE as part of LGBT History Month in partnership with working towards our Silver Charter status.
#LGBTHM22
@LGBTYS
@tiecampaign
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Merry Christmas from the Expressive Arts Dept. We hope all of our pupils have a wonderful Christmas time. See you all in the new year! 🎄🎅❤️
#doonacademyexpressivearts
#art
#music
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Massive thanks to Mr McCulloch for piping S6 out of school for the final time! 👏
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Christmas Disco - The official welcome party. Let’s do Christmas, Team Doon!
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Christmas Jumper Day at Doon - getting into the Christmas spirit and raising money for charity at the same time. Friday night Mathematics supported study has never been so festive!
#littleschoolbigheart
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Very emotional day today as our S6 enjoyed their final day as Doon pupils. You have been amazing and we will never forget you. You are now officially Doon alumni and you will always have a place in the school and our hearts. Be safe. But also be bold and brilliant!
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Congratulations to former Doon Academy pupil Samantha Torbet who has been awarded East Ayrshire’s Probationer of the Year award after her first year of teaching at Kilmarnock Academy! Pictured here with the Social Subjects team at Kilmarnock and Head Teacher David Rose.
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An amazing send off for our fabulous
#Classof2021
- our young people have been a credit to the school in their time at
#TeamDoon
and we wish them well as they embark on the next stage of their journey. Thanks to all the staff (and former staff) involved in making today special.
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A final farewell to our amazing
#Classof2020
- special wee audio message from
@MISSNEIL3
and Mr Kelly can be found in the S6 Leadership team (make sure you save a copy of the link!)
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Katie S, Jack Y and Sophie S performed at ‘Patna in the Park’, a fun festival organised by
@PatnaPS_ECC
. They couldn’t get outside as planned but set up indoors and wowed the nursery children. Some have never even heard live music, their wee faces were amazed ❤️
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A wee school with the biggest heart. Well done to everyone who donated some food for The Zone - or money for the dress down day. And a massive thumbs up to the young people pictured below who helped to organise it!
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What a way to end the school year, a huge thank you to all the staff and pupils involved in helping us to achieve our
@Schools_Digital
award!
@EducationScot
@EacEducation
@EACDigiSTEM
@KHair_BusEd
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Love the new team kit ⚽️ we are super proud of our amazing pupils - especially with 1 isolating and 1 on the bench injured. Big thank you to
@MrRowantreePE
and Mr Tonner for all the work they have been putting in with the team.
#TeamDoon
#DoonFootball
First outing with the
@DoonAcad
senior football team this afternoon away to
@EACrobertburns
. Outstanding effort from all involved against a very well organised squad. Loved every minute of it and can't wait til the next one.
#TeamDoon
#schoolfootball
#football
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Thanks to everyone who made our Christmas Fayre a success on Saturday! We have raised almost £900 for the school fund to support our young people!
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A fantastic night was had by all at the schools annual Christmas Concert this week. Well done to all the fantastic primary performers from
@BellsbankPS
@PatnaPS_ECC
@DalmellingtonPS
and our own Doon Academy pupils
#expressivearts
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Congratulations to our pupils who won the East Ayrshire Reader’s Cup this year. The quiz promotes reading for pleasure and is designed to test participants knowledge of books and writers. Thanks to Ms Hall for supporting the team.
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A fantastic day for
#GoPurple2021
for
@AyrshireHospice
today... Courtney and Candice (S6) were outstanding. There’s still time to guess teddy’s birthday 🎂 or buy raffle tickets 🎟 contact
@MissHair_BICT
for more details.
#TeamDoon
#Fundraising
#PupilLeadership
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Massive congratulations to our YPI winners this afternoon, who won £3,000 for
@The_Zone_D_Ton
@elainestewart2
As you can see from the picture they were delighted 😄
@TWF_Scotland
@ypi_scotland
@officialQTS
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Next Year at Doon - We are slowly coming out of lockdown and planning the way ahead at Doon. This video will cover lots of essential points for parents of pupils at Doon next session. Still looking good, Mrs H!
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New school bags have arrived and are being packed for next session!
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⭐️PLANNING PERMISSION GRANTED!! Our project will be up in Dalmellington Main Street in a few weeks!! ⭐️
#communityart
#communityproject
#dyw
#partnershipworking
#artisanartworks
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P7 Parents - A special message from our Pupil Support Team for all of you and your children. We are soooooo looking forward to meeting you properly! We are TOTALLY biased... but they're the best pupil support team on the planet!
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Christmas Disco - No night out is complete without an obligatory selfie. Looking good, Miss Neil!
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🌟Congratulations to Alena Barr 🌟 Alena had recieved 3 unconditional offers to study Art at University! She has accepted her offer to Duncan of Jordanston School of Art in Dundee. Well done Alena, we are so proud of you!
#doonacademyexpressiveartsdept
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The match ball has arrived… Football vs Homophobia takes place on Tue 22 Feb, lots of special guests, merchandise and stalls organised by our fantastic
#LGBTQ
Equalities group led by Mr K!
#TeamDoon
#Equality
#FootballVsHomophobia
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S2 pupils have worked very hard in their Digital Media class and created and edited their own forced perspective images. Here are a few great examples!
#doonexpressiveartsdept
#digitalmedia
#photography
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Best Christmas dinner made by the best of folk. You have totally outdone yourselves. Thanks for keeping us fed; thanks for keeping us smiling.
#ChristmasCanteenCapers
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Young Musicain of the Year - Doon is definitely looking and sounding good...
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A brilliant night at our Hawaiian themed P7 disco. Great effort from our new S6 prefects. Thanks to everyone involved! 🌴☀️
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Look at our amazing final mural!! Isn’t it amazing? We cannot wait to get it up in our community for everyone to see! Well done to our super talented pupils and our visiting artist Frank from Artisan Artworks 🎨
#expressiveartsdept
#art
#communityproject
#partnerships
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Phenomenal effort from the S2 Mountain bikers today. This week it was Mr McCulloch’s turn to join our pupils… 16Km ride, climbed over 250m and top speed downhill of 44kmph! Can we slot Mountain Biking into the
#DoonPE
Curriculum?
@AdvCarrick
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Brilliant to welcome the next generation to Doon Academy today. Welcome aboard Patna P7’s and families!
#parentsaspartners
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Leavers 2024! Today we said farewell to our current S6. There were speeches, photos, food, bagpipes, laughter and tears! We wish you all the very best in your upcoming exams and know that you all have an amazing future ahead! ❤️
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Today our LGBT Equalities members, Owen (S1) and Julie (S5) led the virtual assembly to raise awareness for
#WorldAidsDay2021
Mr Kelly couldn’t be more proud! Lily (S1) and Gaela were out and about with red ribbons.
@tiecampaign
#RockTheRibbon
@NAT_AIDS_Trust
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S6 Pupils worked hard today to complete their Mentors in Violence Prevention training. Well done to all involved
#S6Leadership
#mvpscotland
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Next week, P7 pupils would have joined us at Dumfries House for our annual STEAM event. This will now take place digitally on our Doon Academy P7 learners team. Over the week staff will set fun activities and challenges to help prepare pupils for life at Doon!
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Our amazing librarian
@Gaela03641557
is a finalist. Please vote for her and retweet!
#TeamDoon
@EacEducation
@JulieEHope
@DalmellingtonPS
@BellsbankPS
@PatnaPS_ECC
@eacLittlemillPS
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#lockdownlegends
, as selected by our expert judges. The top 2 will WIN a weekend staycation in a
#treehouse
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Update from
@Columba1400
Day 1… staff and pupils have arrived safely in Skye. Today’s focus was on awareness, some fantastic discussions and work from team around this value 👍 Stay tuned for more updates through the week
#TeamDoon
#Leadership
#Values
#Awareness
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What a fantastic night of music! Well done to Katie Sturgeon- best vocalist and Ryan Bartolo - best instrumentalist. Ryan was then chosen as Doon Academy's Young Musician of the Year!! A huge thank you to our adjudicator was Lynsay Brown. 🎶
#expressiveartsdept
#Music
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For the past few weeks groups of S1 and S2 pupils have been working with our AMAZING librarian
@GaelaHall
on a Scots Stories project as part of a collaboration with other
@EacEducation
secondary schools. We cannot wait to see the finished book 📚
#Literacy
#Scotland
#Creativity
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A huge well done to our young people who received exam results today! We are proud of each and every one of you as you have navigated your way through the last few months. You have all achieved, not just academically but in the strong, resilient young people you continue to be!
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Schools and families can request free mobile data increases for students without broadband and/or who can't afford extra data for devices.
Three, Smarty, Virgin Mobile, EE, Tesco Mobile & Sky Mobile are all taking part in the scheme.
For more info:
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Today we marked our respect for the fallen and those who fought for our freedom with a 2 minutes silence at 11 o’clock. Pupils in BGE Nurture and SLC produced some excellent poppy designs and stained glass poppies
#LestWeForget
#RemembranceDay
#RemembranceDay2021
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Another busy but fantastic day
@Columba1400
- today’s value was focus! A physically challenging day, we had to complete a search and rescue. Both teams were fantastic and rescued their casualties successfully! We will sleep tonight 😴 Tomorrow’s value is Creativity 😊
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The fabulous Katie S (S6) was runner up at last week’s the inaugural Scottish Young Musician competition was organised by the Music Education Partnership Group (Scotland). Katie is due to start at the Royal Conservative after the summer 🎶
#TeamDoon
#YoungMusician
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Team Doon have done it again... bring on the final! Well done to
@WMCKilmarnockAc
who are joining us in the final against North and South Ayrshire next week.
After serious deliberation the judging panel has reached a decision
@DoonAcad
@WMCKilmarnockAc
will be representing East Ayrshire at the all Ayrshire finals next Wednesday. Good luck to our amazing young people, you are already winners in our eyes!
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In order to keep our community safe we would like to remind everyone that face coverings should be worn in corridors and social areas. If you are exempt, please see Mrs Elder for a sunflower wristband!
#TeamDoon
#allinthistogether
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Wow! What an amazing start to the first week of
#OnlineLearning
... staff have been blown away by the amazing levels of engagement from learners - both in live meetings and on class Teams, some outstanding work coming in! Keep up the amazing effort
#TeamDoon
👍
@EacEducation
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New Timetable - We might still be in lockdown but we are always planning the way ahead at Doon. This short video will explain how it is all going to work this year. Looking good, Mrs H!
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What a fantastic day for
@BBCCiN
at
#TeamDoon
… special mention to the S6 pupils and Miss B for organising, and shout out to Mr M for winning the
#DoonsGotTalent
show, the brave seniors getting their legs waxed and the sponsored silence. Over £500 raised for
#ChildreninNeed
👏
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Introducing our AMAZING S6 Leadership Team
Captains: Heather & Katie, Vice Captains: Aidan & Courtney and Senior Cabinet: Candice, Ellie, Chelsey, Ewan & Lily. Outstanding role models and already making a huge impact at
#TeamDoon
#PupilLeadership
#SeniorCabinet
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All set for tonight’s Burns Supper! Looking forward to welcoming our guests!
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Fantastic Bookbug session underway! Please let us know if you want to join us next Friday 😊
@DYWAyrshire
@DalmellingtonPS
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Miss Angus, our newest member of the Maths department was brushing up on her
@DofEScotland
skills yesterday ahead of helping Mr McCulloch lead the upcoming expeditions this year!
@DofETimCSO
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The entire Doon community has embraced the idea of learning and working remotely. Simply spectacular, Mr Berwick!
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And that’s a wrap… huge well done to our AMAZING S5/6 pupils for organising such a great day for
@comicrelief
- especially for making sure Mr McC and the footballers got such good weather! ☀️
#RedNoseDay
#SportRelief
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Thanks to everyone for their generous foodbank donations! Looks like TeamBD have taken it this time!
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Mrs Robb, one of our Art & Design teachers loves to be creative. This is her most recent project where she painted a life size sheep sculpture as a part of the Royal Highland Shows public Art trail!
#expressivearts
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Kerr McCreath became the first pupil in his class to deliver his presentation on his work-based project. He didn’t let nerves hold him back. He thought his experience with Police Scotland was great. And they thought he was great too. Well done!
#developingyoungworkforce
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Community Links - Our community cafe (The Flask) goes from strength to strength hosting our recent coffee morning in the Supported Learning Centre. Festive fun and lots of smiles. Happy, healthy and achieving!
#DoonAcademyDYW
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Today marked a very special occasion for
@MISSNEIL3
and
@Ceilidhj
… our first R4L (Ready 4 Learning) nurture graduation. Some of these young people have grown so much during their time in R4L, we couldn’t be more proud of them!
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