Scottish Water are actively recruiting for Water Treatment Modern Apprentices to join the team in locations across Scotland including Mannofield, Aberdeen.
Applications close this Sunday 14th of January – there is no upper age limit, but applicants will need to be 17 by 1st April 2024.
Creative Writing Club
Creative Writing Club will start back next Thursday (18th January) in D1-46 from 1.30pm. New people welcome – come along and flex your creative muscles!
S1-3 Netball
Active Schools are delighted to announce that S1-3 Netball is restarting on Thursday 18th January, 3-4pm in the games hall. To attend the club it is essential that you sign up on the Active Schools website as numbers will be limited. Please use the QR code displayed in the PE corridor to sign up. If any senior pupils would be interested in helping out with the club, please see Kerry (Active Schools Coordinator) in PE.
Albyn and RGC Cross Country 2024
The annual Cross Country Event takes place on Friday 15th March and is a great day out representing Alford Academy!
See any member of PE staff if you have any questions.
Deadline for sign up is Thursday 1st February via the Google Form which is on your PE Google Classroom or can be accessed via the QR Code on the poster in PE.
Library News
Just a reminder of the clubs we are holding in the library this term:
Mondays – Mindfulness Mondays – pop in and relax while doing some mindfulness colouring or crafts.
Wednesdays – Lego Club.
Fridays – Quiz and Game Fridays – come and join us for a Kahoot or to play board games.
Well done to our Pipe Band who brought a packed out Music Hall audience to their feet last night as they performed on stage with the Red Hot Chilli Pipers. Special thanks to Ian Dallas and Scott Niven without whom this would never have been possible. Watch their performance of Highland Cathedral and Wake Me Up.
Well done to S3 pupils Christopher, Logan and Katie who took their fiddles down to The Richmond Fellowship in Alford to play some festive tunes on the last day of term.
The Richmond Fellowship Scotland is a charity which supports around 2500 people across Scotland with a broad range of needs to live as independently as possible in their own homes and communities. They are the largest provider of social care services in Scotland, providing personalised, high-quality community-based support services for those who require support in their lives.
Well done to our three musicians who delighted their very appreciative audience with a selection of festive music.
Hope you enjoy reading our Winter 2023 newsletter highlighting the achievements and amazing work this term. Have a great holiday.
Congratulations to Shea and Oliver in S3 who took first prize in the LoveLearning Aberdeenshire Minecraft Santa’s Challenge competition. Their entry had all 4 areas of innovation and they put together a fantastic recording to represent their creation.
Second place went to Team Mrs Clause of Ava, Samantha, Ava and Isabella – an excellent presentation covering all the requirements – we hope you enjoy your prizes.
Third place went to the well deserving Team Charlie with members Riley, Charlie and Dominic producing a top quality representation of their Minecraft world.
Congratulations to all the winners and everyone that took part in this keenly contested competition across our BGE.
Miss Collett and Mrs Czarnecki
The Business and Digital Education faculty is delighted to be working with Alford and District Men’s Shed. Our Higher Computing Science class have been meeting with Alan Rowe and are currently developing a new website for the shed. Planning is well underway and we are looking forward to presenting the Men’s Shed with ideas for a home page and being able to build the website for this very important local group.
We have had an amazing 35 teams from our Business and Digital Education S1 – S3 pupils enter the “Minecraft Santa’s Challenge” competition from the LoveLearning team within Aberdeenshire Council.
Pupils have designed a new workshop for Santa, in Minecraft, with 4 Success Criteria: –
In all of these areas, there needed to be at least one innovative way where Santa can use technology to make things easier.
Competition entries consisted of a two-minute screen recording of the Minecraft world. During this challenge pupils have demonstrated collaboration, teamwork, hard work and determination.
Well done teams and we wish you all good luck!
Mrs Czarnecki and Miss Collett
On Monday 18th December, 65 pupils from our Business and Digital Education classes attend a “Christmas with RGU” event at The School of Computing, Robert Gordon University in Aberdeen. The session showed the pupils how easily we can be hacked, discussed the question “Why computers are not smart?” and demonstrated the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI).
Feedback from the pupils has been really positive and definitely sparked interesting in computing and AI. Our pupils were particularly interested in “Pepper” RGU’s AI bot. It goes without saying the sweets were a highlight too!
We are very proud of the way our pupils conducted themselves and they were a real credit to Alford Academy.
We can’t wait until next year’s event!
Mrs Czarnecki and Miss Collett
As part of Techfest, one of our fifth year pupils recently completed her own TedEd talk on the famous red dot. Isabella, was one of only 12 pupils chosen from across Aberdeenshire to take part in the programme. TedEd Aberdeen is a new initiative created in the spirit of TED’s overall mission to inspire, educate and share “ideas worth spreading”. Isabella’s talk was on ‘Underappreciated women in STEM’. Well done for all your hard work!
