Ailie MacLeod

That this House congratulates Ailie MacLeod, a 16-year-old student from Kingussie High School, on winning the NPA Skills for Work Learner of the Year award at the recent Awards for Land-based and Aquaculture Skills; notes her exceptional leadership and organisational skills demonstrated during the Skills for Work Rural Skills course, including her excellence in a business project where students processed, marketed, and sold venison at school; acknowledges her further development through weekend work at the Highland Horse Fun equestrian centre in Kingussie; and commends the support of her lecturer, David Olds, and the encouragement from mentors, Becca Cameron and Ruaridh Ormiston, in fostering her passion for horses and the outdoors.