Tracey Loudon: Last News

Sign up to the weekly West Lothian Courier newsletter for the latest West Lothian news and sport.Whitburn Academy has been congratulated on its success in topping a new national awards project.Councillor David Dodds raised a motion before a meeting of the full West Lothian Council paying tribute to the school on its winning of the Reading Schools Gold level award.Cross-party support agreed to ask the chief executive Graham Hope to write to the school’s head teacher,  Tracey Loudon, congratulating her on the school’s achievement.Councillor Dodds, the executive councillor for education, said the award reflected the drive and determination to embed a reading culture at the school.His motion added: “This follows hard of the heels of Whitburn

Sign up to the weekly West Lothian Courier newsletter for the latest West Lothian news and sport.A West Lothian school has become the first in Scotland to win a prestigious reading award.Whitburn Academy picked up the Reading Schools gold award for their drive and determination to embed a reading culture at the school.The Scottish Book Trust’s Reading Schools initiative aims to encourage reading, with Whitburn Academy introducing a number of innovative schemes designed to get pupils interested in books.This hard work by staff, pupils and parents/carers has paid off when it was confirmed that the school has been awarded the first ever Gold accreditation as a Reading School.Whitburn Academy head teacher, Tracey Loudon, said: “As the first