Alford Academy

Now that it has been confirmed there will be no further industrial action, we are looking forward to welcoming parents and the wider community along to our Performing Arts Showcase on Thursday 23rd March at 7pm.  The format will be a relaxed evening with performances from a number of individuals and groups across various venues in the campus.  The event is free but we would welcome donations on the evening to support future concerts.  The event will begin in the school canteen (our “Main Stage”) for a very special performance by the school orchestra, pipe band and Inverurie Concert Band.  From 7.30 – 9.00pm, guests are then welcome to follow their own choice of progamme by visiting various venues and enjoying music and drama performances.  This includes our Young Musician of the Year competition which is sponsored by the Rotary.  There is still room for more young people to get invovled in this event so if your son or daughter plays a musical instrument, sings, recites poetry, dances, etc., please drop an email to the school and we will get a consent form sent home with your child and add their name to the programme.

Well done to the Alford Academy Pipe Band who performed this afternoon with the Inverurie Concert Band at their Christmas Concert in the Thainstone Centre, supported by their tutors Ian Dallas and Scott Niven.  Playing Highland Cathedral, Amazing Grace and Celtic Crest to an audience of well over 200 people, the band were on top form.  For the majority of pupils, this was their first formal concert and the standard of playing was exceptional.  Three members of our school orchestra also performed with the band after missing out on our school concert due to its postponement last week.  Many thanks to Ian Dallas, Scott Niven, Hamish Wood, Ben Light and Nicola Tierney for rehearsing the pupils involved and for their support of the performing arts at Alford Academy.