Welcome

Welcome to the Fraserburgh Academy School Website. I hope you find this interesting and informative about our work with our young people in our school community.

Currently, like all other schools in Scotland, we are now in the second term of being fully open and working within COVID-19 health and safety guidelines. Our staff and pupils have very adapted very quickly to this new way of working and learning and teaching activities are ongoing, albeit adapted in some instances to fit within guidelines.

Learning remains at the heart of our school with great emphasis placed on providing engaging learning experiences and focused intervention. We recognise that what happens in our classrooms is key to the success of our students and to the continuation of our upward rise in attainment. It is where we continue to build knowledge, develop skills and promote positive attitudes to learning. We have highly qualified staff who provide a supportive and encouraging environment where every child is known and learning flourishes.

This session there is a strong emphasis on the wellbeing of all pupils and the Senior Executive have devised a programme of activities and initiatives to help support all young people at this difficult time. Further opportunities have been created for pupil participation in the decision-making processes within school.

We understand that this is a difficult time for pupils and their families and should you wish to contact your son or daughter’s guidance teacher please phone the school phone number or contact us using this email address: fraserburgh.aca@aberdeenshire.gov.uk. The website posts below provide a wealth of information about learning at Fraserburgh Academy and more can be found on the Learning on Home tab above. We will endeavour to keep the website and our social media pages updated with information during this time.

Best wishes

Irene Sharp
Rector

News

Fraserburgh Academy Rugby Club

Rugby is running after school at Fraserburgh Academy and is open to ALL pupils. You don’t need any prior experience or Rugby knowledge. Our experienced Fraserburgh Rugby Club coach will help develop each individual ability and help you to learn new s…

Mental Health Peer Education Programme

The Working with Young People CLD team and Fraserburgh Academy are recruiting S3 to S5 young people to participate in a mental health peer education programme at the school. Young people who participate will attend SAMH run online mental health aware…

School Football Training

Next Parent Council Meeting

The next Parent Council Meeting will take place on Monday 27th September at 6.30pm. The meeting will be held through Zoom. If you would like to attend this meeting then please send an email to the Parent Council inbox for them to arrange for you to be added to the meeting. The email address is as undernoted:-

fraserburgh.acaparentcouncil@yahoo.co.uk

Chemistry Supported Study Information

House Points Update

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SQA Invigilators

Are you interested in being part of the Fraserburgh Academy Exam Invigilation Team? – If yes, then please contact Kevin Buchan at Fraserburgh Academy on 01346 417400 for more information.

SQA Assessment Message for parents/carers

Further to positive feedback from schools, colleges and training providers, SQA have written a message for parents and carers to help clarify the approach to awarding in 2021-22. Please click on the undernoted link to view it.

SQA Message

Updated S2 Assessment Dates Letter 2021-2022

Please find attached a letter regarding a change of dates for the S2 assessments.

Fraserburgh Academy S2 Assessments 2021-22

Assessment Dates 2021-2022

Please see letter detailing assessment dates for all learners at Fraserburgh Academy for session 2021/2022.

Fraserburgh Academy Assessments 2021-22

SP Assessments and SQA Planning

Please find attached letter regarding current plans for S4, S5 and S6 school assessments and SQA planning.

SP Assessments & Planning Letter September 2021

Please see attached Assembly delivered on 23rd September 2021 to all S4, S5 and S6 regarding school assessments and SQA planning. This Assembly will also be displayed on school display screens until the end of term.

SQA AWARDS

We are very proud of our senior pupils and their academic performance last session.

This is a group of our high achieving young people celebrating their success with their SQA certificates.

15 S4 (2020-2021) learners achieved 7 National 5 awards at A

8 S5 (2020-2021) learners achieved 5 Higher awards at A

7 S6 (2020-2021) learners achieved 2 or more Advanced Higher awards at A

These are record results for Fraserburgh Academy and we applaud their success.

UCAS Parents Evening

Please click here to access the UCAS Parents evening which was held on Thursday 2nd September 2021.

NESCol Update

NESCol are looking forward to welcoming our young people back on campus this week for various school links courses.

Please see attached School Links NESCol Times 2021 – Your “Exclusive Guide to North East Scotland College”

School Links Nescol Times 2021

Senior Executives for Session 2021/2022

We are delighted to introduce our Senior Executives for session 2021/22:

School Captain Iona Strachan, and Vice School Captains Emma Buchan & Josh Strachan. We wish them well in their new roles.

Welcome Back

We would like to welcome back all our staff and pupils to the start of the new School Academic Year 2021/2022. We would like to pass on praise to both pupils and parents for the brilliant turnout of pupils wearing full school uniform. It is a pleasure to see our pupils take pride in their uniform and wear it confidently. Attached is a photo of some of our pupils in their uniforms.

School Newsletter 27th August 2021

Please find attached latest School Newsletter as at 27th August 2021.

school newsletter 27.08.2021

Home Economics Refurbishment

While our pupils were off enjoying the School Summer Holidays our Home Economics Department was given a full new refurbishment. Our pupils can now enjoy the light, airy modern surroundings with newly fitted kitchen appliances and apparatus in all the Home Economics rooms. It is clear to see from some of the photos taken this week that our pupils are enjoying their new cooking environment.

Education Maintenance Allowance (EMA) - Aberdeenshire Council

The application for next session 2021/2022 for EMA is now live via the undernoted link:-

https://www.aberdeenshire.gov.uk/schools/school-info/assistance/ema/

School Uniform

UNICEF Bronze Award

We are delighted to announce that we have achieved the Unicef Bronze Award: Rights Committed.

Free School Meals/Clothing Grant

A free school meal is a school lunch provided free of charge to children from families on a low income.

Children are eligible for free school meals if their parents (or carers) are in receipt of a qualifying benefit.

If you qualify for free school meals you will automatically be awarded a school clothing grant.

Please see the under noted link to check for eligibility & apply.

Free school meals - Aberdeenshire Council

Free School Meals

Please find attached letters in various languages regarding Free School Meals.

October 2021 Parent-Carers FSM Bridging Payments_ENGLISH

October 2021 Parent-Carers FSM Bridging Payments_ARABIC

October 2021 Parent-Carers FSM Bridging Payments_LATVIAN

October 2021 Parent-Carers FSM Bridging Payments_LITHUANIAN

October 2021 Parent-Carers FSM Bridging Payments_POLISH

October 2021 Parent-Carers FSM Bridging Payments_ROMANIAN

October 2021 Parent-Carers FSM Bridging Payments_RUSSIAN

Diabetes Scotland

We have been asked to share this on behalf of Diabetes Scotland:-

I am contacting you from Diabetes Scotland about a new youth peer support project we launched during the summer for young people aged 13-24 with Type 1 across Scotland. This project will be ran by 18–24-year-old volunteers and they will act as mentors, buddies, and peer supporters to this younger age group.

This peer support will use three different methods:

1-2-1 buddying,
Small local group support
And a national online discussion group

Through this work we are hoping that young people with type 1 will:

Develop more confidence in self-managing their condition
Feel improvement in their mental and emotional health
Report less feelings of isolation and loneliness
Meet new people and learn new skills,
And have fun with other people with type 1.

Living with a long-term health condition can be stressful for us all, however, given the impact of COVID-19 and the general and added stress of being a teenager, this can compound and have negative impacts on your emotional and mental health and wellbeing, your concentration, your attainment and achievement and your positivity about life. Through peer support we have found that people can develop resilience, a strong support system, and learn how to talk about their condition and navigate the health/education system for support.

Due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, we have launched this project online on Discord, and when it is safe to do so we will be moving to a blended approach of online and face-to-face as we know how each of these approaches have their benefits and increase inclusion, but also have drawbacks and create exclusion.

It would be great if you could share this opportunity with any young people in your school that are aged 13+, have type 1 diabetes and would benefit from this support. They can fill out this form https://forms.office.com/r/57QpDYet3Y or email me on the above email to find out more.

https://www.diabetes.org.uk/in_your_area/scotland/youth-peer-support/participants?utm_source=email&utm_medium=directemails&utm_campaign=youthproject_stagetwo&utm_id=youthproject_stagetwo&utm_content=organic

Late Gate

Risk Assessment

Please find below the latest version of our Risk Assessment as at 16th August 2021.

ECS Covid_19 Risk Assessment Fraserburgh Academy v19 16.08.21

INFORMATION FOR EU CITIZENS WHO ARRIVED IN SCOTLAND BEFORE 31ST DECEMBER 2020

If you are staying in the UK after the 30th June, you must apply for Settled or Pre-Settled Status:

To remain legally in the UK.
To be able to rent a property and access benefits in the UK
To secure employment in the UK
To access education and health services in the UK

PLEASE NOTE:

Children who are not UK citizens must be registered as well, even if they were born in the UK.
You do not need a National Insurance number to complete your application
After 30th June 2021, you may be required to prove that you have at least submitted your application

If you need free of cost help to submit your application for settled or pre-settled status, have questions about your individual circumstances or need additional support to find out about whether the Scheme applies to you, or anyone in your family, please get in touch with GREC:

EU Settlement Scheme – Grampian Regional Equality Council (grec.co.uk)

Attached are a sample of posters in English and Polish but many more languages are available in the link above.

EUSS Poster-Polish EUSS Poster-English

EUSS Poster-Polish

Sent on behalf of GREC

http://www.grec.co.uk

Young Scot Comms Toolkit

The NHS have worked with Young Scot to develop the under-noted communications toolkit to help promote understanding and awareness of mitigations in schools, including the testing programme.

Coronavirus Young People's Campaign 220421

Parentsportal information

Please see under-noted link for info. on updating your contact details via parentsportal.

ParentsportalUpdateAccountDetailsPostHolidayMessage 26.04.2021

Lateral Flow Device testing live Q&A with Jason Leitch

Prof Jason Leitch held and broadcasted two live Q&A sessions with S1-3 and S4-6 pupils recently, in partnership with Young Scot and e-Sgoil as attached below:

Digital learning from Comhairle Nan Eilean Siar | e-Sgoil (e-sgoil.com)

Lateral flow testing info.

Please find under-noted the lateral flow testing consent form & information. All S1-6 pupils are now invited to take part in the voluntary programme.

Completed consent forms should be returned to: Fraserburgh.aca@aberdeenshire.gov.uk – as soon as possible.

Testing kits cannot be issued without a completed consent form sent to this address.

Consent Form 11.02.2021 NHS Intro to Rapid Self-Testing for COVID-19

Privacy Notice - Covid Testing updated 16.02.2021

Privacy Notice 01.04.2021

NHS Intro to Rapid Self-Testing for COVID-19

NHS - How to Do a Rapid COVID-19 Self-Test

Director of Education letter for S4-6 students

Please find under-noted a letter from the Director of Education regarding National Qualifications.

Parents Carer Nat Qualifications 210401

Director of Education latest letter

Please find attached the latest letter from the Director of Education regarding pupil return to school. This letter has been issued to all parents/carers by e-mail today.

Parents.Carers.Covid19.Letter 210331

S.H.A.P.E. Initiative

Great news! Our school along with 8 others in the whole of the UK have been selected to Pilot the S.H.A.P.E initiative, please see details below. Massive thanks to Miss Carey and Mr Macmillan for submitting an outstanding application and resulting in a fantastic growth opportunity for all our learners in the land of Humanities!!!

SHAPE is a new collective name for Social Sciences, Humanities and the Arts.

There are three core objectives for the SHAPE initiative:

Increase the visibility of SHAPE subjects.
Demonstrate the global relevance of SHAPE subjects.
Enable people to consider themselves as students of SHAPE.

The SHAPE schools programme, which is being supported by the London School of Economics, aims to meet the SHAPE objectives by partnering with schools across the UK. The schools programme will run in the summer term 2021 to pilot a model of training teachers as ambassadors of SHAPE subjects and facilitators of SHAPE learning materials. In recognition of their time commitment each school will be offered a £300 bursary.

Click here to learn more about the schools programme and to fill out an application.

Visit the website and read this article to learn more about SHAPE.

Carbon Capture Project continued

Day 2 of our tree planting and it's the turn of our Senior Executive - School Captain Isla, and Vice School Captains Rachael and Alex-Rae. Leaving a legacy for years to come of a fine row of rowan trees up the school drive.

Carbon Capture Project Begins!

Huge thanks to our senior phase learners who have worked so hard in their practical classes that they can spare an afternoon planting some of our new Rowan trees along the drive at Fraserburgh Academy.

This is just the beginning of a major change to the school campus as we aim to help improve the built environment of our town with more trees and fruit growing bushes over the coming weeks.

All thanks to our partners Keep Scotland Beautiful for their funding and local partners Oor Bairns Charitable trust for a fabulous donation of protective netting.

#CCAF http://www.keepscotlandbeautiful.org/ccaf

New video for learners- Studying for SQA Qualifications Using SCHOLAR

We are delighted to announce the release of our latest support video for learners. This new resource, “Studying for SQA Qualifications Using SCHOLAR”, has been created to show learners how to use SCHOLAR in their studies as they work towards a National 5, Higher or Advanced Higher qualification. The video is suitable for learners with no prior experience of SCHOLAR, but may also be of benefit to students with summative assessments or exams approaching who may wish to use the interactive course materials and automatically marked, end of topic and end of unit assessments for consolidation and revision.

We would be delighted if you wished to post a link to our video on your school website, or include it in any study support or revision resources issued to learners.

Our new video is available at http://bit.ly/StudyWithSCHOLAR

Best wishes,
SCHOLAR Team

https://scholar.hw.ac.uk

Mental Health Ambassadors

We have a brand new, exciting initiative for two Fraserburgh Academy pupils to become Mental Health Ambassadors. Through this initiative, you will have the chance to undergo training to become a Mental Health Ambassador. You will then get the chance to run workshops and drop in sessions for other pupils at Fraserburgh Academy, promoting positive mental health and wellbeing.

If you would like to find out more or apply for this project please fill out this form https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=BpPZ_i1NCUSVndDttzBKC7h-ibWMlLJEswWiBiWgAAlUNEVJV1o1SjVWMjFMQUIzSlRNVTFSWkwxQi4u