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School Burns Competition 2009

We had a total of 6 schools taking part, with 35 pupils, singing, reciting and one playing the clarinet, also one choir participating. The audience was around 180. Our judges were Audrey McKirdey and John Mitchell they had a very difficult task in finding the winners.

Results Recitations P4/5 1st Kyle Trainer from Auchinraith Primary School

2nd Chloe McCulloch Mossneuk Primary School

3rd Joanna McKinnon Mount Cameron PS

P6/7 1st Andrew Gracie South Park Primary School

2nd Catriona Campbell Mossneuk Primary School

3rd Dylan Gallagher Mount Cameron Primary School

Singing P4/5 1st Ben Robinson

2nd Callum Douglas Both Auchinraith

P6/7 1st Megan Hull

2nd Aimee Douglas Both Auchinraith PS

Instrumentalist 1st Chloe Byres on the Clarinet

Choir Mossneuk Primary School

The event could not have taken place without the following Rotarians from the Club volunteering to giving of their time

John Cardno, Roddy Shanks, Ben Miloudi, David Brown, Leslie Irvine, Ian Craig, Alan Rae, Frank McLuskey, John Murphy, George Ferguson,

Following on to our local Burns Competiion the winners participated in the Lanarkshire finals on the 24th of March 2009 when East Kilbride gained a first and two third prizes. The overall prize for the best performance of the evening event went to Andrew Gracie , Recitation from South Park PS and who came first in his class and now goes forward to the national Finals in Dunns.

Third Places were given to 3rd Chloe Byres on Clarinet from Auchinraith PS

3rd Kyle Trainer ,Recitation from Auchinraith PS

East Kilbride Rotary Club were presented with a momento from the Lanarkshire Burns Association for the support that they had given to the event over the past 10 years