Albyn raced to a 17-0 lead after ten minutes with three quickfire tries from Samuel Watson (2) and Kyle Brunsmann. Captain Matt Macfarlane led from the front with an inspired captain’s performance for the entire game with numerous powerful runs and committed tackling. The Grammar School steadily got themselves back into the game with some very controlled rugby and strong running to lead 19-17 when Brunsmann powered over the line, shrugging off four tackles, for his second try that sealed the win.

Flankers Peter Haugh and Sam Johnson put in a power of work on the ground, securing possession on numerous occasions and setting the platform for a back line that was well controlled by Mayon Patel at fly-half. It is testament to the players commitment who trained hard throughout the winter when many sessions were forced indoors due to the weather.

Well done!

This is an incredibly talented team with 5 of the Albyn pupils in the Under 15 district A team and 2 are in the National development squad.

Well done to all of our pupils who took part.

The pupils looked at a range of insects including; stick insects, snail worms and slaters. Using a microscope the pupils firstly studied snowdrops and the anatomy of a flower then butterflies and how they pollinated a flower.

The team are now top of the league with 12 points after having played 5 games with 2 games still to play.

Good Luck Team!

Albyn pupils have always shown a strong interest in all the sciences and in the coming year the addition of 3 new science labs only goes to reinforce Albyn’s dedication to this area of the varied curriculum available at the school.

Check back in a few weeks with further updates on Formula 24.
 

With these grades the pupils have gone on to very competitive courses across the UK including Engineering, Medicine and Law. Further destinations can be found on: http://www.albynschool.co.uk/destination-of-leavers

Well done to all our pupils!

The Scotsman Exam League Tables 2009-09-04

Highers- Passes

School % Gaining Grades A-C

Highers-A-Grades

School % Gaining Grade A

Advanced Highers

School % Gaining Grades A-C %     Gaining Grade A

Behind the Queen’s Road buildings, and in an effort to meet the needs of the youngest members of the Albyn community, the School’s two nurseries will be brought together onto one site. This serves to free up more playground space for the youngest children. For the senior pupils, three additional laboratories and a classroom block are being created to allow the teaching of a greater range of science, technological and arts subjects. The School achieved the best Higher results in the city of Aberdeen in 2009 and is keen to ensure that in the years to come, its facilities match its academic performance

The Headmaster, Dr Long commented. ‘I have been keen to preserve that sense of the city’s heritage that is inherent in the Queen’s Road buildings and I am really pleased that the west end of Aberdeen still has room for schools as well as offices. We want to deliver science, technology and the arts to our pupils in an appropriate environment but recognise that as the School changes we have to be sensitive to the life and work of our residential and commercial neighbours. I am very keen that we do not make their lives more difficult and are soon to launch schemes to take some of our school-run traffic off the local roads.”