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Albyn School SPORTS DAY CLAN REPORTS SCHOOL TRIPS Highlights of our pupils on the An overview of what each clan Our pupils went to places near biggest sporting event of the year. took part in this school year. and far during activities week. Albyn held a Lower School mock evacuation day to Inverurie so pupils could see the effects of the war at their age,read more inside... Take a look at our new website and shop online 19 Bridge Street, Aberdeen AB11 6JL Tel: 01224 405 316 www.aitken-niven.com 377 A&N albyn advert 2013.indd 1 14/04/2013 19:07 Albyn Overview A LOOK AT WHAT OUR HEAD PUPILS, CLAN LEADERS AND FORMER PUPILS HAVE BEEN DOING THIS YEAR. Lower School AN INSIGHT INTO WHAT OUR NURSERY AND LOWER SCHOOL PUPILS HAVE ACHIEVED THIS YEAR. Upper School A COLLECTION OF WORK PRODUCED BY OUR PUPILS IN THE UPPER SCHOOL. School trips WHERE OUR PUPILS HAVE BEEN VISITING NEAR HOME AND ABROAD. SHOW HOME NOW OPEN HAZELWOOD WEST END, ABERDEEN Welcome to Hazelwood... 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You will find reflections activities that Albyn’s pupils have been about the School from the recipients of the involved with this last year. You will read Former Pupils’ Award. Because we have about the inter-clan competitions such altered publication of The Albyn Review to as dancersize, debating, swimming, sports the summer, we also have accounts of the and for the first time this year, singing. You Closing Ceremonies together with an account will also read about how the Clans came of Sports Day, when 17 athletic records were together to raise money for the charities broken all in the one morning. As an all 06 that they selected. There are an eclectic mix through School, you will also see how our AO of accounts in the Review from reports on youngest children watched the incubation the Social Studies trip to Edinburgh and the of eggs, chose a Christmas tree from Kirkhill fieldwork undertaken in Biology to how the Forest and met a guide dog for the blind. Fairtrade and Literary and Debating Societies You will read about how pupils in the Lower are both thriving. You will read about how School learnt about emotions, dinosaurs well the Music and Drama Departments’ and acted as Roman legionaries while their production of Oliver! was enjoyed by all who older counterparts enjoyed their activity took part as well as the Music Department’s week in Alltnacriche, a visit to Edinburgh own superb concerts. You will also learn Zoo, an overseas trip to Normandy and most about the Duke of Edinburgh expeditions imaginatively, a recreation of the evacuation and the Upper School Activity week trips of children from Aberdeen at the outset of to such places as Krakow, Barcelona, Nice World War 2 reported on by the local press. and Iceland. As always, we write about the While The Albyn Review tells many The School’s teachers and their assistants seek sporting success of teams up and down the stories, it hides the many hours of hard to enrich the learning experience of all the work and dedication by the school staff children through their teaching and through who made these activities happen. the societies, sports, trips and visits that they organise. The Review also doesn’t describe the less exciting but important changes that have occurred during the year. At the beginning of the year we opened a new Sixth Form Study Centre and a very well received new junior library – The Warrack Library. Lower School pupils have been immersing themselves in the International Primary Curriculum while last August, for the first time, all Upper 1 pupils experienced Classics, Mandarin, French, German and Spanish before deciding upon the foreign languages to take forward. As I write, the School has just received its 2015 public examination results. THE RECORD BREAKING HIGHER RESULTS ARE A GREAT TESTAMENT TO EXCELLENT TEACHING, 07 HARD WORK BY PUPILS AO AND SUSTAINED PARENTAL SUPPORT who continually seek to further the aims, none of what the School has achieved aspirations and success of the School would be possible without the leadership by raising funds to enhance Albyn’s of the Governors who despite their own environment and resources. Beyond them, commitments, give up their time freely and I am grateful for the support of the Former with the sole aim of promoting the interests Pupils Club and to Miss to Francesca Milne of Albyn School. Overall it has been an exciting who co-ordinates the Albyn Foundation year although not without its challenges! and generates support from Parents, FPs Finally, it would be remiss of me not to thank and benefactors to Albyn School, some of Miss Chantelle Robson who has been the whom have no family connections but are editor of The Albyn Review and who, I hope simply patrons who believe that what we you will agree, has created a stylish, colourful do for Albyn’s children is so worthwhile. On The record breaking Higher results are a great and interesting magazine. I am very grateful that same theme, we were so pleased and testament to excellent teaching, hard work by to all those who contributed articles and delighted when Sir Ian Wood brought his pupils and sustained parental support and will photographs as well as those companies two sisters, Lorna Jackson and Meg Duncan enable many of our senior pupils to embark who helped sponsor its production. We to talk about their time at Albyn School and upon the courses and careers of their choice. would like to thank our advertisers and when Lady Helen Wood opened a new arts sponsors HSBC and Rugby Plus. I hope I recognise that the broader Albyn community and lecture theatre. At that same event Sir that you enjoy what you find here. has also played such a large part in the Ian announced a breathtakingly generous success of the School. I am so grateful for sum for the creation of an engineering Yours sincerely, the work of the parents’ association (ASPA), centre for the School. I should add that Dr I Long, Headmaster HEAD REPORTS AN INSIGHT INTO WHAT OUR HEAD PUPILS AND DEPUTY HEADS HAVE BEEN INVOLVED IN THIS YEAR. 08 AO Introduction the 6th year, which has proved very popular invaluable and unique experience that would (debut album out soon!). The opportunity be difficult to find in any other school. Thinking back to when we were in Upper 1 in to record and master the recordings using 2009, the school was a very different place. The athletics this year has also been successful, technology within the studio has been The 6th years seemed like invincible, scary with many new faces joining in at training immensely useful to me in particular, as women ready to take on the world. Now it is sessions, and even a new evening to train sound engineering and audio production is our turn. Although Upper 1 seems like it was during the winter. The nearby Aberdeen part of what I want to study in the future. only yesterday the school has done a fantastic Sports Village track has been very useful, job in preparing us to leave and become adults The music department has had a hugely allowing the athletes to hone their technical outside of the comforting cushion of Albyn. successful year, with the War concert in skills in the field events while still sprinting or autumn last year being an emotional highlight. running longer distances. More pupils than Since starting at Albyn the school’s The joint production between the music ever travelled to the Scottish Schools Indoor appearance has changed immensely. Building department and the drama department of Athletics Championships, in the fantastic developments have been on-going since Oliver! The Musical was incredibly successful, Emirates Arena venue in east Glasgow. Built we started secondary school. The addition running two nights in a row and being for the commonwealth games last year, it of the Oliver Wing, the all weather pitch in enjoyed by students and parents alike. As played host to athletes from all over Scotland the playground, recent Atrium development, part of the crew, I can attest to the incredible as Albyn competed for glory. While not as and the foyer entrance have all made the amount of work put in by everyone involved, successful as hoped, it gave younger pupils school a much more modern and accessible with multiple rehearsals a week running for valuable experience in a larger competing environment. As some of the first students months leading up to the performance. All environment and an opportunity to experience to go through the school with these changes the hard work was worth it however, with a prestigious venue and track.