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

Mental Health and Wellbeing Group Sessions for Parents

The Aberdeenshire Getting it Right for every child Mental Health & Wellbeing group are inviting any parent to attend an online session to hear about some digital services which Aberdeenshire Council plan to trial for a year, to support young people from 10 to 26 year age range.

The sessions will be an opportunity to ask any questions about the services offered by two providers Kooth whose service provides for 10 – 18 years and Togetherall for 16-26 age group. Each session will be an oppor…

Young Scots Information

For the latest information about the Young Scots card then please have a look at the attached flipbook:-

Employability Festival

On Friday 21st May at lunchtime, our S3 Employability pupils will be hosting an ‘Enterprise Festival’. Here they will be selling products they have developed, designed and created themselves. Please show them your support by bringing along some spen…

Parents/Carers of S4-S6 School Leavers

Did you miss the webinar Skills Development Scotland ran for parents and carers of S4-S6 pupils who are planning to leave school this year? The webinar was recorded and is available for viewing here: https://www.myworldofwork.co.uk/parents/topics#leaving-school-%E2%80%93-what-next along with other helpful information on the SDS support available to these young people and how to help them make decisions.

Kirsty Hannon
Careers Adviser

Active Schools Virtual Run4Fun Series 2021

It is usually around this time of year that children from across Aberdeenshire are taking part in the Cross Country Series. With the current lockdown we can’t bring those events to you, but we are eager to continue to encourage and supp…

Further News

S2 BOYS VACCINE TIMETABLE - WEDNESDAY 12^th May

Please ask your son to attend the Main Hall for immunisation at the time listed below:

0930	2C1 boys
0945	2C2 boys
1005	2D1 boys
1015	2F1 boys
1035	2K1 boys
10.50	2M1 boys
1120	Break
11.50	2P1 boys
12.10	2P2 boys

Heather Davidson
School Nurse

Aberdeenshire Wellbeing Festival

Fraserburgh Academy in partnership with Aberdeenshire Council CLD team are running a series of lunchtime activities for young people from 10th to 14th May to celebrate the Aberdeenshire Wellbeing Festival. Everyone is welcome to take part. #youthworkchangeslives #Aberdeenshirewellbeingfestival #WWYP.

Mental Health Week Activity - #GrowingResilience

Learners are starting the conversation in school to share how they manage to stay positive ‘peachy’ in spite of difficult times, adversity. Here are some of our learners thoughts on Day 1 displayed in the undernoted flipbook.

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)

School Library

The academy library is open again! Can pupils who have books on loan from last year please remember to return them ASAP - invoices will be sent home shortly for lost books.

School Librarian's

DTP/HPV vaccine consent forms

Vaccine consent forms are being issued to pupils this week for S1, S2 and S3 vaccines plus catch up vaccines for older children who have missed theirs. Please ensure these forms are completed & returned to the school office ASAP.

Vaccine dates are: S2 11th-12th May, S3 25th-27th May and S1 8th-10th June. Please ensure, on these days, your child comes to school wearing short sleeves.

Many thanks,

School Nursing Team

April return pupil information

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

School newsletter

Please find under-noted the latest school newsletter from the Rector. This has been issued by e-mail to all parents/carers.

Newsletter 01.04.2021

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

#BrochBack

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

EU Settlement Scheme - Information resources

GREC have asked the EAL Service to help to distribute information to reach vulnerable EU citizens who may not have applied yet for their settlement in the UK. Families may not have realised that every family member needs to apply, including children. The following link can take families to services that can support them with their application.

Citizens Rights Project (shared) (padlet.com)

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

Listening Service for pupils aged 14-18 years

The Aberdeenshire school counselling listening service is continuing to run up to and during the Easter holidays. The service is for for Aberdeenshire school pupils aged 14+ . Any young person who is struggling with their emotional wellbeing can access the service. Further information is attached for your convenience.

The service is available for a couple of hours each day Monday to Friday. Booking can be accessed via this link Listening Service. The young person can choose a day and appointment time that suits them. They will be asked to enter their name, school and contact details. The counsellor will then call them at the agreed time. Appointments can be booked up to 7 days in advance and cancelled up to an hour before the appointment.

The service is confidential so data on who calls the service will not be passed back to the school. However, the Counsellor is aware of the young person’s name and school in order that Child Protection protocols can be followed where necessary. The Counsellor will also contact the DHT Pastoral Care if the young person asks for something to be passed onto the school.

Listening Service Information for Young People

Fraserburgh Academy – Senior Phase Assessment Window – Update March 2021

Please see attached letter regarding Fraserburgh Academy’s proposed SQA related Assessment Window and new information from the SQA.

Letter to SP parents v2 18.2.21

Mr K Buchan
DHT

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

SQA Awards Letter

Please see attached an important letter detailing current information regarding SQA awards.

SQA Update letter March 2021

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