Archive for October, 2009
A Rainy Night for Georgia
Written by Sammy on October 30, 2009 – 5:20 am -Congratulations to Academy staff member Diana Barry who won her latest international cap in Scotland’s 3-1 World Cup qualifier win vs. Georgia last night. The Academy was delighted to host the full national team training camps on Tuesday and Wednesday earlier this week. In addition, working with the SFA, we delivered a schools festival on the day of the game, together with a a technical training session for the U15, U17 and U19 national players.
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Kickstart Kick-off
Written by Sammy on October 26, 2009 – 7:11 am -Following the success our 2 week Kicksart programme delivered earlier this year, woking in partnership with Careers Scotland, the Academy is delivering another 2 week kickstart programme for 12 young people, starting today.
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On a 'Hidden Treasures' Hunt
Written by Sammy on October 20, 2009 – 2:55 pm -
The Academy launched it’s latest offering for local young people this week, namely our photography based ‘Hidden Treasures’ project, which has been made possible through Awards for All funding.
Through a series of photography workshops, local young people on our SFSP programme, will work with a professional artist Craig MacLean, to take a series of photographs which reflect and capture the ’hidden treasures’ of our local area, what football means to them, the people who live here and the local landmarks. In the first 2 days of the project, 30 young people have taken part in some shape or form. The finished work, taken by, developed and prepared for exhibition by the young people, will be exhibited around the end of the year, around Edinburgh, including the Academy itself.
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Show Racism the Red Card Campaign
Written by Sammy on October 13, 2009 – 7:38 am -
Show Racism the Red Card’s annual fortnight of Action kicked off with a challenge match on Friday past at Ibrox, between former players, Scottish MSPs and Scottish Secretary Jim Murphy MP and our very own Dan Gerrard. The Academy will be hosting a multi-cultural football tournament for our neighbour community group BCDP on Saturday 31st October.
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Swapping Augustine's for the Academy
Written by Sammy on October 13, 2009 – 5:10 am - 
Michael Connelly, a 4th year pupil from St Augustine’s High School completed a week long work experience placement at the Academy last week.
During his week at the Academy, Michael dealt with various tasks and supported our Academy School Visit Programme, through supporting the delivery of football coaching sessions in various local primary schools.
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A Sizzling Performance
Written by Sammy on October 5, 2009 – 9:00 am -
Until the End of the World movie
Congratulations go to Selex Sizzlers, our newly crowned Academy Lunchtime League champions. Selex Sizzlers completed their league campaign with a record of 7 wins and 1 draw, scoring 40 goals and conceding a mere 17 goals in the 8 games played. Applications are invited now for our next Lunchtime League which will start on Monday 2nd November. All enquiries should be directed to Debbie McCulloch on 552-7854.
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