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Category Archives: Pupil News
India Culture Day
On 29 May 2015, between lunchtime and into the afternoon, the Charity Committee are hosting an India Culture Day to raise money and support for our sponsored Indian pupils.
There will be activities, stalls, dancing, cuisine and a raffle.
More details to follow.
Easter Bulletin
The Northfield Academy Easter Bulletin is now available to download.
This bulletin is packed full of more success stories from our pupils. It has been another very busy term, and for our senior students the next two months are going to be even busier. As a school we must continue to strive to improve exam results; last year saw significant improvement but continued hard work must lead to further improvements this year. Teaching staff have again been offering additional study opportunities and we are pleased to report that a number of pupils have been taking up these opportunities. We would urge you to make sure your son or daughter is taking
full advantage of these sessions.
We would like to wish everyone a good holiday and a very happy Easter.
Launch of this year’s Clean Up Aberdeen Campaign
Eco groups from Northfield Academy, Muirfield Primary and volunteers from Cummings Park Community Flat all came together on Friday 27th of April to launch Aberdeen City Council’s Clean up Aberdeen 2015 litter awareness campaign. Clean Up Aberdeen is part of Keep Scotland Beautiful’s national mass-engagement campaign Clean Up Scotland.
Northfield Academy’s Eco Group aims to encourage all local primary schools and clubs to participate in a week long litter awareness week starting on Monday 27th April to Friday 1st May.
More information on how to organise your own spring clean can be found at www.cleanupscotland.com, and the pledge can be signed at www.cleanupscotland.com/pledge
Once you have set the date for your Clean Up and know roughly how many volunteers you are expecting, please contact your local authority using the contact details below to inform them of your event and to take advantage of any additional support on offer. This could include the disposal of waste collected, the loan of litter‐picking equipment (such as litter pickers, gloves and black bags), staff support and help publicising your Clean Up.
Aberdeen City Environmental Services 08456 080 919 cleanaberdeen@aberdeencity.gov.uk
BBC School News Report 2015
For BBC School News Report this year we traveled all the way to North East Scotland College so that we could use some of the technology they have to help us throughout the day.
Our Team this year consisted of; Erin, Caitlin, Rachel, Hayley, Lanya, Jordan, Amy, Josh, Joe, Rebekah, Brittany,Cameron, Nicole, Jake, Mr Rae, Miss Darroch and Miss Smith. Fiona Stalker from the BBC came back to help us this year and many students from North East College helped out too. The staff and students allowed us to use their television and radio facilities, which was a great insight into the college courses as well as being able to produce good stories to publish.
The day was very busy, from our 8:30 start all the way to our 16:00 finish. With news coming from Pittodrie, Aberdeen City Council and even from Alex Salmond’s car! The day was full of events which kept us busy, although it was a rush to get things done: just like a real news room. BBC School News Report was really fun this year and being able to use equipment at the college was better for the quality of our work produced.
The day was a great success!
We would like to thank everyone who took part this year, it was great! 🙂
BBC School Report 2015
Listen to BBC Radio Scotland bulletins tomorrow morning to hear staff and pupils talk about their experiences of BBC School Report.
Thursday 19 March sees Northfield Academy take part in BBC School Report 2015. This year, we will be working with North East Scotland College at the Gallowgate in Aberdeen with media students, sharing their abilities in producing TV and radio.
The team will be visiting Pittodrie Stadium to interview Aberdeen Football Club players about their journey this year, as well as reporting on the progress of the 3rd Don Crossing. Aberdeen City Council leader, Jenny Laing will be coming in for a visit and we may even have an interview with a famous politician.
Aberdeen’s own Tim Baillie will be joining us on the phone to share his experiences of winning medals and the effort required to succeed as part of our focus on career options.
To keep up to date, follow is on our dedicated BBC School Report website or follow our twitter feed @northfieldBBC
Loch Eil 2015
NorthStar Football Club
Northfield Academy is delighted to working in partnership with NorthStar Football Club.
Archiving the 3rd Don Crossing
A team of pupils from both Northfield and St Machar Academies are archiving the development of the 3rd Don Crossing in Aberdeen.
Once a month, the team will be visiting the construction site and building a portfolio of images and videos archiving the construction of the bridge.
Earlier this month, they braved the snow and met with Project Manager, Ken Brown, who gave a detailed insight into the overall process.
Welcome
This year, Northfield Academy will be participating in the BBC News School Report on 19th of March.
Since 2007, BBC News School Report has been giving 11-16 year-olds across the UK the opportunity to make and broadcast their own news. This film helps explain more about the project and how it works.
With support from BBC staff, teachers can use lessons plans and resources from the School Report website to help students create their reports.
And on the annual News Day in March, all the students work to a deadline, producing and publishing their content onto their school’s dedicated webpage, which the BBC links to, giving their stories a real audience.
New School Website
The Northfield Academy website has a new look!
This new website is cleaner, faster and generally better than the old one. As it is run through GLOW, it will be easy, in the coming months, to add pupil and staff as users, so that they can add news as it happens!
We are still linked to Facebook and Twitter, so any news we post here will still update
Go4Set Success
On Wednesday 11th February six S2 pupils won the Aberdeen City and Shire Go4SET competition.
Since November Miah Allan, Jordan Cobban, Caitlin Scollay, Glen Christie, Kyle Worrall and Jordan Rait have been working in their own time to complete the challenge.
The team were tasked with designing an Eco Hotel, they carried out research into where their hotel would be, what itwould be built from and furnished with (that would be environmentally friendly) and how they would power their hotel. The pupils used this information in a formal report, as well as designing a model of their hotel and posters for a display.
During the finale the pupils presented their design to the judges and faced ten minutes of questioning. The team received £250 for the school, a trophy, a framed certificate and are invited to attend the national final in Edinburgh in June.
Each member of the team will receive a silver CREST award for their contribution to the project.
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