As we come to an end of another term I would like to thank you for all your support.  I have taken the decision to reduce our end of term bulletins to two a year, one at Christmas and one at the end of the summer term.  We plan to change the format of the next bulletin which will be out in July 2016.

Our S4, S5 & S6 pupils are very busy working towards their SQA examinations in May and a large number of our pupils have been attending extra study sessions and will be at our Easter Revision School on Monday 4thand Tuesday 5th April.  We would like to wish all our pupils the very best of luck in their forthcoming examinations and please remember hard work and sacrifice, will lead to improved results.

It has been another busy term and there have been a wide range of events taking place, including, Lip Sync Battle, SQA information evenings, 60th Anniversary planning, BBC School News Report Day, RGU wider access events and many other events and successes.  It is certainly good to say good bye to the dark, cold mornings and look forward to the warmer, longer days ahead, we hope!

Congratulations to our Youth Work Development officer, Colin Lemmon, who won a 2016 National Youth Worker of the Year Award for “Supporting the Curriculum for Excellence and Attainment” at the annual Youth Link Scotland Awards Ceremony held at the Crown Plaza in Glasgow.  Well done Colin.

On Friday 18th March our new Northfield Academy Tartan was registered on the Scottish Tartan register.  Our Tartan, part of our 60th Anniversary celebrations will be launched at our Celebration of Success Evening on Wednesday 15th June 2016.

Sadly at the end of this term, we say goodbye to Miss Arlene Gilleran from Target Support who is moving to Kintore Primary School.  We wish Miss Gilleran the very best in her new role.  I am also delighted to report that during the last month we have made a number of new staff appointments to the school.  Miss Rachel O’Connor, Home Economics; Miss Laura Barrie, Maths; Mr Brian Duncan, Chemistry and Miss Rachel Craig, English will all be taking up permanent posts in August 2016.  We are delighted that all our probationary teachers have all chosen to stay at Northfield and congratulate them all.

We have also appointment Mrs Elaine Sutherland and Mr Ryan Nicol to the Target Support Faculty both will be starting with us on Tuesday 3rd May.  Miss Sheonagh Henderson and Miss Cheryl Wills will be joining us in the Art and Design department from August 2016.  Last but by no means least Mr Calum MacArthur joining the Maths department in August 2016.

We welcome pupils back on Monday 18th April 2016

Dates to Remember

We will be holding the following events during the summer term and further details about each event will be circulated nearer the time

We hope you all have a good Easter break and we look forward to seeing our pupils refreshed and ready to start the summer term.

Yours Sincerely

Neil Hendry

Head Teacher