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31 Jan 2012: Junior Burns Competition 2012
Dollar Academy Junior School was a hive of activity as it played host to this year’s annual Burns Competition on Tuesday 31st January.
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26 Jan 2012: Debating world champion at Dollar
Ruth Cameron is celebrating becoming a world champion after Scotland’s victory in South Africa at the 2012 World Schools Debating Championships in Cape Town last week.
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18 Jan 2012: Dollar Pupil Nominated as Top Scottish Athlete
Dollar Academy pupil Kathryn Gillespie has been nominated by UK athletics as a candidate for the Daily Record Scottish Young Athlete of the Year.
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19 Dec 2011: Sponsored Walk Presentation
The sum of £55 000 raised at this year's sponsored walk was presented to five charities during a special assembly at the school.
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14 Dec 2011: Dollar Academy Christmas Concert
Dollar Academy brought to the capital city their eagerly anticipated blend of festive music.
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9 Dec 2011: Gregor Townsend at Dollar
Gregor Townsend, former Scotland player and now attack coach with Scotland, visits Dollar Academy to take a coaching session with the school rugby teams.
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30 Nov 2011: Form VI perform Grimm's Fairy Tales
Form VI production of Carol Ann Duffy's stage adaptation of Grimm's Fairy Tales...
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29 Nov 2011: Junior School Evacuee Day 2011
History was brought to life at Dollar Academy this week, with pupils transported back in time to the forties...
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26 Nov 2011: Under 16's Scottish Schools Rugby Cup
The Dollar Academy U16 rugby team played at Murrayfield on Saturday in the final of the Brewer-Dolphin Scottish Schools Cup.
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23 Nov 2011: Primary Number Crunching at Dollar
Dollar Academy primary pupils were presented with a series of challenges at a problem solving event...
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16 Nov 2011: Rugby Masterclass
Scottish Rugby Internationalist Chris Paterson held a kicking master-class for pupils at Dollar Academy on 16th November...
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12 Nov 2011: Prize for Top Economics Result
A Dollar Academy pupil has been recognised for scoring the top mark in one of this year’s Business Education examinations...
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11 November 2011: Remembrance
The Story of Dollar pupil Thomas Goldman: the Rector tells an interesting tale in his Remembrance Assembly address...
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29 October 2011: Enterprising Dollar
Dollar Academy Young Enterprise team ‘Aventi’ were trading in Falkirk on Saturday 29 of October, as they set up stall to flog their environmentally friendly ‘Eco Bursts’...
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10 October 2011: Dollar CCF Inspection
Dollar Academy CCF were called to attention on 10th October with their biennial inspection, this year conducted by Squadron Leader Bob Lander from RAF Leuchars...
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U16 Rugby Team reach Murrayfield Final
A beautiful autumnal afternoon provided the backdrop for Dollar’s semi-final clash against the High School of Glasgow in the U16 Scottish Rugby Cup...
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Showcase for top Art & Design candidates
Dollar Academy is hosting a national exhibition of Art and Design excellence later this month...
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Science Success for Dollar
Five Form IV Dollar Academy pupils have reached the finals of a prestigious national competition after winning a place in the finals of the 2012 National Science & Engineering Competition...
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Dollar pupils welcome guest from Kenya
Dollar Academy welcomed Mr Nicholas Mwangala, the Head Teacher of Malindi Primary School HGM in Kenya
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Dollar Academy 'walks the walk'
Dollar Academy made the most of the sunny weather last Friday and took to the hills for the biennial whole-school sponsored walk. This mammoth fundraising event...
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Flourescent Form I
Dollar Academy youngsters turned out in their best fluorescent finery as the school dining hall was transformed into a neon paradise for the annual Form I Disco...
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Tennis Champions!
Dollar girls are celebrating a tennis victory after being crowned champions at the Scottish U15 Aegon Team Tennis Schools National Championships.
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Christmas Concert 2011
Tickets are now available for this year's Christmas Concert, which will take place at Edinburgh's Usher Hall...
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League Table Success
Recent examination results figures published by the Glasgow Herald have ranked Dollar Academy as the best performing school (at Higher) with boarders in Scotland...
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Rugby vs Eton
Dollar Academy’s rugby season got off to an impressive start yesterday with a 1st XV match against Eton...
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Cricket Development in Dollar
Dollar Academy hosted a festival of cricket at the weekend, with 170 children aged ten and under from across Scotland coming to the school...
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Dollar Academy and the Rugby World Cup
Scotland coach Andy Robinson’s announcement of the Scotland World Cup squad has confirmed the place of local boys John Barclay, Graeme Morrison and Rory Lawson in the final selection...
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Debating World Championships
Two Dollar Academy pupils were selected to represent Scolland in the 2011 World Schools Debating Championship...
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Malaysia Expedition 2011
Once again, a group of Dollar pupils heading to the far East in order to enjoy the delights of Tioman Island, Singapore and a number of other exotic locations...
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Royal Piping Engagement
Dollar Academy Pipe Band played by royal engagement on Friday 1st July 2011, at a procession in Edinburgh to mark Her Majesty the Queen’s opening of the fourth term of the Scottish Parliament.
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Pupils Scores Record 515 Runs
Dollar Academy has marked current Form VI pupil Kodi Phillips as a cricket star of the future after an impressive season with a total of 515 runs...
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Prizegiving 2011
2011 Dollar Academy Prize Giving ceremony took place at the school on Thursday 30th June with over 130 pupils from the Prep, Junior and Senior Schools being awarded prizes for academic and sporting excellence.
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Pipe Band Victory
For the twelfth consecutive year, the Dollar Academy Pipe Band wins the Scottish Independent Schools' CCF Pipe and Drums Competition...
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Top Award for 'The Galley'
The winning team were presented the Gold Award in the Scottish School Magazine of the Year category by BBC Radio Scotland personality John Beattie at an award ceremony...
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China Trip
For the second time since 2009 a large group of Dollar Academy pupils made their way to the Far East in search of culture, history and not a little bargain hunting...
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USA Trip
Over the February half-term, the Geography Department led a highly successful trip to the USA. The group visited the Grand Canyon, the Hoover Dam and other famous attractions in the American South West.
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Fire Remembered
On Thursday 24 February, Dollar Academy celebrated the official opening of its state-of-the-art Sixth Form Centre, whilst also remembering the devastating fire that swept through the Playfair Building exactly fifty years previously.
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Euroscola
Rebecca Keely, one of our Advanced Higher French pupils, was selected along with 24 other high calibre linguists from across Scotland to participate in the Euroscola event at the European Parliament. We would like to express our gratitude to Alloa Rotary Club for making this possible. To find out more about her week in Strasbourg, follow the link below:
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Intermediate Drama
The Intermediate Production of The Canterbury Tales, postponed from December, went ahead with great success on January 17th and 18th in the Studio Theatre. Many thanks to the cast and crew for their efforts in rescheduling their commitments to ensure that the show must always go on.
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Scottish Rugby Cup
Quarter Final vs Stewart's Melville
This record of the game was kindly provided by Mr Ian McAteer (FP).
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Earthquake detected in Dollar
On 23 January 2011, at 06:02, the Dollar Academy Seismometer detected tremors from an earthquake centred in Glenuig, Scotland. The tremor registered an intensity of 4 on the European Macroseismic Scale, which is sufficiently strong for household objects to rattle and swing.
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Boarding rated 'Excellent'
Following an unannounced inspection visit by the Care Commission in December 2010, the official rating on Dollar’s boarding has been raised from Level 5 “ Very Good” to the top grading of Level 6 “Excellent”.
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AH English Trip to London
In the middle of Shakespeare’s enigmatic late play, The Winter’s Tale, the young prince asks his mother what kind of story she would like him to tell. “As merry as you will”, she replies, and in the event her words also provided a very apt description of the Advanced Higher trip to the Royal Shakespeare production of the play at The Roundhouse in London.
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Pipe Band Visit Sri Lanka
Some people went to extraordinary lengths to avoid the end-of-year arctic conditions – 5500 miles to be precise, for 5 members of the Dollar Academy Pipe Band who travelled from Dollar to Colombo, the capital of Sri Lanka as guests of the Caledonian Society of Sri Lanka.
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Commonwealth Success!
Jen McIntosh, yesterday, became Scotland's most successful athlete of the Delhi Commonwealth Games, firing her way to gold in the 50m prone singles to match her pairs display with Kay Copland, and her 3P pairs bronze. Jen recorded a near faultless score of 597 ex 600 over six cards to record a new Games record, smashing the previous score by a significant seven points and equaling the current World Record.
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Pipe Band World Champions
This has been an extraordinary summer for Dollar’s Pipe Band: in addition to becoming the CCF Scottish Schools’ Champions for the 11th year in succession...
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