Sunflower Competition Winner!

On Thursday this week, we measured the sunflowers at Frank Nicol's. There was a clear winner - number 4 (planted by S5 pupil Rachael MacRae) - standing at 267c cm. Mrs Morton who works at the Academy guessed the closest height and wins the £20 voucher to spend at the garden centre. We would like to thank all those who contributed by making guesses. In total, the competition raised £50 - enough to buy 2 goats for families in Africa! In the top picture, you can see Miss Swallow, Mr MacFarlane, Danielle Burton, Lewis MacKenzie, Catriona MacIver, and Lid Philip from the garden centre who has cared for the flowers so well through the summer holidays! In the second picture you can see Miss Richards at the front. See how much taller than the others the winning flower is!

Below: measuring the shorter ones - "smile"!

Mr MacFarlane needed to use a ladder to measure the highest ones!

Danielle looking studious as she takes down the heights!

How will we get them back up to school? After measuring, we loaded Miss Swallow's trailer and she drove VERY slowly back to school where we carried them down into the garden! They brighten the place up and we'll let them go to seed so we can collect them for sowing next year. We'll feed some to the birds in the winter too.After all that, we still had time to dig some more of the raised bed to get ready for sowing our flower border:On Wednesday it was pouring with rain, so we ate our lunch in the shed and sat planning things for the future!