The annual Christmas show will take place this year. And not next year.

Termina el semestre.

Mañana

This is the traditional egg throwing festival on the Island of Greater Muck in the Outer Hebrides. Young men gather eggs from wild ptarmigan and "hurl" them as far as they can into the air. The winner is the one who manages to catch the highest hurled egg.

The representative of Herf-Jones, the company that produces and sells graduation rings, will be in school today and tommorrow. Any parent, or student on work experience wishing to see the 'Ring Man' should come today between 3.10pm and 4.00pm. All Year 12 students still in school will be called to see him by Mr Hewitt and must not attempt to see him in class time without being called. Only students who have paid their exam fees in full will be allowed to order graduation rings.

Professor Julian Douglas will talk to students about hard disks today. Hard disks were invented in the 1950s. They started as large disks up to 20 inches in diameter holding just a few megabytes. They were originally called "fixed disks" or "Winchesters" (a code name used for a popular IBM product). They later became known as "hard disks" to distinguish them from "floppy disks." Hard disks have a hard platter that holds the magnetic medium, as opposed to the flexible plastic film found in tapes and floppies. At the simplest level, a hard disk is not that different from a cassette tape. Both hard disks and cassette tapes use the same magnetic recording techniques described in How Tape Recorders Work. Hard disks and cassette tapes also share the major benefits of magnetic storage -- the magnetic medium can be easily erased and rewritten, and it will "remember" the magnetic flux patterns stored onto the medium for many years.

The IT department is selling free disks for $10 a piece at lunch time.

In many European countries this is a school holiday.

New students should meet at 10am. They will assemble in the Islay Connolly Hall. School day ends at 3.00pm.

Last day of school. School closes at 1.00pm.

School closes at 1.00 p.m.

The SwimGala 2004 starts today. All participants should go to their tutor group and then to the changing rooms.