Preston Lodge High School Pipe Band

S1 pupil Charlie Mack has won 3rd prize in the World On-line Solo Piping Championships in the 12yrs and Under Category. The on-line competition was run by Jori Chisolm, founder of bagpipelessons.com. The event attracted an entry of over 1500 pipers across all age categories. Charlie has been working very hard during lockdown and entered … Continue reading World On-Line Solo Piping Success

Both our Novice and Juvenile bands were in Lurgan Northern Ireland over the weekend of the 15th June 2019 Competing in the UK Pipe Band Championships. The big result from the competition was our Novice drum corps becoming UK Champions after coming in first place in the ‘ Novice B’ category. Our Novice band came … Continue reading Major Championships Success

Preston Lodge High School hosted the 2019 East Lothian Solo Piping and Drumming on the morning of Saturday 23rd February. There were over 60 performance across 8 categories from pupils from all over East Lothian. The adjudicators were Craig Munro, John McCarlie and Tom Speirs for piping and Jim Kilpatrick for Drumming. They commented on … Continue reading East Lothian Solo Piping and Drumming Championships 2019

The band had a successful day competing and said farewell to some departing members of the band

Hi everyone.  I thought it would be good to do a small recap of the world pipe band championships.

We had a great day at one of our local contests on the 11th of August at Recreation Park in North Berwick.  The highlight of the day was our Novice Band winning both the confined and open contest in the Novice B competition and taking the title of best drum corps in both categories.