Sunday 21st June sees the Aucmill Gala/ Fun Day at Auchmill Golf Club. There will be activities for all, as well as the opportunity to enter a team for the AM/ AM Golf competition. don’t worry if you don’t have a handicap – there will be a seperate competition for non regular players.
If you, your family or company want to sponsor a hole, contact Gordon Graham on 07736329751 or ggraham@aberdeencity.gov.uk.
To book tee times, contact Auchmill Golf Club on 01224 715214
Come along and tell us what you would like to do in your Centre
Find out what might be on offer
It is with regret that we have had to postpone the STEM Family Challenge.
The EDT (Engineering Development Trust) and BP are running a STEM Family Challenge event at Northfield Academy on Thursday 28th May 2015 from 19.00 to 21.00. Please arrive from 18.30 onwards for refreshments and be ready to start promptly at 19.00.
Students and families are invited to take part in a fun evening event which has been designed to raise awareness and show families of all abilities, some of the courses and careers available in Science, Technology Engineering and Maths (STEM) as well as give them the opportunity to work in teams with their families on an exciting ‘hands on’ activity where they will have an opportunity to win a prize and a trophy. The family teams will be made up to include at least one student and one adult (parents/ guardians/ family friends and/or teachers) and refreshments will be provided on the evening. No prior knowledge of STEM is required.
The evening is focusing on STEM career guidance by giving students a taster of STEM in its broadest context, demonstrating how this fits into the ‘real’ world of work and the pathways available to them. The event aims to enhance the learning experience by raising aspiration and motivation whilst promoting the ongoing study of STEM. Families will have the opportunity to meet people from STEM related industries/ courses and take home information about the range of jobs and routes in these sectors.
If you are interested in taking part in the STEM Family Challenge, please contact A Dow or A Dean at Northfield Academy.
EDT is an independent registered charity which includes First Edition, Go4Set, Open Industry, The Engineering Education Scheme, Headstart and Year in Industry. These programmes are designed to enthuse and motivate young people and encourage them to fulfil their potential through careers and courses in Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths www.etrust.org.uk.The EDT is a partner organisation of Tomorrow’s Engineers.
We very much hope that you will participate in the STEM Family Challenge evening and look forward to hearing from you.
A letter has been sent home with pupils with a tear off slip. Alternatively, staff can be contacted on the numbers below:
A Dow – 01224 717514
A DEAN – 01224 699715
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.
The Scottish Government is currently consulting on detailed guidance that supports parts of the . The attached leaflet provides further information, it is currently on the Family Information Service Website for parents to access.
The National Parent Forum for Scotland have produced new Revision in a Nutshell guides for the new Highers (20 subjects) and updated Revision guides for National 5s (20 subjects).
These revision guides contain direct links to SQA specimen question papers, exemplar question papers plus past question papers, where appropriate. They are designed as digital resources and work well with iPads or other tablets.
The guides advise learners to check with their teachers to make sure that material is relevant. The guides are primarily intended to provide the SQA direct links by subject in one place, and to give some additional revision opportunities (if relevant) which are web-links to school pages or to the websites of subject-relevant organisations.
20 Revision Guides for the new higher qualifications
http://www.npfs.org.uk/new-higher-revision-guides
20 Updated Revision Guides for the National 5 Qualifications
http://www.npfs.org.uk/national-5-revision-in-a-nutshell
We would be grateful to all parents of the school if they could complete a short survey about their experiences working with Northfield Academy. Please follow the link to Survey Monkey below:
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.
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
What is a Photography Exhibition? Well it is an exhibition that will hold current pupils and staff photographs in Northfield Academy.
How do you get the photos to us? Well you can either take them in on a USB and give it to Miss Yule or if you have them printed out then take them in.
When is it happening? It will be happening on 22nd to 24th April, however you need to have you photos in by 20th April.
Where? Class room area in the library on 22nd – 24th April.
How much? It is free to enter and to come and see the work.
This advice was originally published at http://www.abernet.org/learntechteam/2015/02/24/free-microsoft-office-for-all-pupils-and-teachers-via-glow/ by the Aberdeen City Council Learning Technologies team.
Through Glow all pupils and staff in Aberdeen City schools have access to the latest versions of Microsoft Office for free. This includes Office for Windows, Mac OS X and iPad and Android tablets.
To download your FREE Microsoft Office Pro Plus
App based versions of Office are available from the Apple App Store for iOS devices (iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad) and from the Google Play Store for Android devices.
For further guidance please contact Mr Rae at Northfield Academy.
S1 pupils at Northfield Academy worked on a cross curricular project to research a Scottish Scientist and turn their research into a short comic. Working with our fantastic Patrons of Reading Metaphrog, and inspired by the enthusiasm of Allan Burnett (author of “Invented in Scotland”), this short film documents the journey the project has taken so far, showcasing the work pupils produced. The project was supported through the Scottish Book Trust Live Literature Fund and organised by School Librarian Mandy Wilson.
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! 🙂
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
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