Albyn School

Auditions for the Albyn School production of “Macbeth” will take place during the week of the 27 February. Stage fighting, blood and
gore and, of course, all the drama of one of Shakespeare‟s best known tragedies – all pupils who are interested should come along and be part of the action.

Further details to follow…

Please note that Tuesday’s DofE for both Silver and Bronze groups will now be in the gym, same times, 12.50 register, 1.00pm start.

Albyn’s Lower school pupils have raised over £1000 for CHAS, Children’s Hospice Association Scotland from a successful book and stationary sale held last term.

CHAS is the only charity in Scotland that provides vital hospice services for children and young people with life-shortening conditions. They offer care for the whole family in two children’s hospices, Rachel House in Kinross and Robin House in Balloch and also run a homecare service called CHAS at Home helping families in their own homes across Scotland when they need it most.

 Rebecca Hobart and Jade Whitelaw (Upper 5), 2 of the top performing pupils studying higher Chemistry at Albyn School took part in a SCIS Chemistry masterclass last week. The event was held at St Andrews University and Rebecca and Jade completed a day of practical work making paracetamol and a multi-drug synthesis.

At Albyn our pupils are always busy either with academic work, extra-curricular activities or with charity work. Here are a few of the upcoming events and recent news;

On the 2 February there will be an Upper 5/6 Holocaust Memorial event in the Atrium at 1025am and a Big Bagel Breakfast in aid of World Jewish Relief (organised by Higher RMPS class). Any unwanted Christmas presents for raffle prizes can be handed in to Katy Malone, Hannah Clark, Rebekah Sutherland or Mrs Findlay.

Lower 5a are growing daffodils in aid of Marie Curie Cancer Care on the 22 of February.

Olivia Douglas Lower 3a, has decided to make and sell jewellery in aid of Befriend a Child charity. She has already had a sale at her church and made around £70. Olivia took the idea to Mrs Thomson and now she and three other girls in the class are planning a sale in school on 14th and 21st of March.

Clan Gordon today presented a cheque to Cancer Research UK after having raised over £780 from their recent successful fundraising events.

In the Scottish Swimming Championships held on Saturday 28 January Eilidh Duthie, won the 200m scottish schools back stroke and along with her sisters Niamh and Alisa also won first team at the schools biathlon on Sunday 29 January- well done!

At the weekend we also had a group of boys participating in the Scottish Indoor Rowing Championships.  Nicholas Read, U4 was part of a team who won the gold medal in the Under 19 boys category.  Nicholas also put in a very impressive performance to win the silver medal in the individual Under 17 boys category and only narrowly missed out on the gold medal. 

 Leo McKeever and Ollie Kinghorn, U3, were part of the siver medal winning team in the Under 15 team event.  Well done to all involved.

Mr Craig McDermott, Head of Clan Gordon and senior pupils presenting a cheque to Cancer Research UK

The Scottish Schools’ Minors Race in the 7 February has been postponed until February 23rd of February due to the lack of snow, the pupils wil be advised of the new date in the next few days.

The Upper 1 entrance test for all entrants to Upper 1 in August 2012 will be taking place at Albyn School tomorrow at 9am. Candidates are advised to arrive at least 15 minutes before and to go to the entrance of no 23. The tests will finish at 12.30pm.

All pupils wishing to sit the Upper 1 entrance test must submit their scholarship requests by Friday 20 January at 1pm.

Albyn Reconnected!
Albyn School has recently launched an online network site for the Friends and Alumni of Albyn School. From the minute you register at the following website address;

https://www.webalumnus.com/wa/userLogon.aspx?oid=10017

you will be able to maintain contact with other alumni and Friends of the School via the on-line Who’s Who and via a personal e-mail address that remains the same, no matter how often you move location or change other e-mail addresses. It will ensure that details about you are accurate, appropriate and completely up to date.

We will keep you informed about news, events and issues relating to the School and you can report your own news events and activities. You will benefit from an expanding network of professional and business contacts with whom you share a common school heritage. We also hope that you will also share your knowledge, skills and advice with current and future generations of current pupils seeking university information, career guidance or work experience.

Where we already hold have basic information about you, this will become available only to registered, on-line members of this closed web-community unless you have previously indicated to us that you did not wish any information we hold about you to be shared. By registering, you will be able to add to, or alter, this information as necessary, or make changes to its visibility to other members if you wish. To the extent that we hold contact telephone numbers for you, you will be able to see these, but they will initially be withheld from others’ view. You will be able to alter this if you wish.

The information we keep is never sold or passed on by us to commercial third parties for purposes unconnected with the School or the Former Pupils’ Club; it is only used by us, or by third parties on our behalf and under our direction, for purposes related to the School or the Former Pupil Association.

These purposes include:
• Allowing you and us to keep abreast of where Former Pupils are and what they are doing.
• Keeping in touch with you.
• Supporting the activities of the School.

You will then be able to begin using the system to review any data that we might already hold on you, or use any of the other WebAlumnus features, including the on-line Who’s Who directory.

We look forward to reconnecting with former pupils and please pass this news on to your former classmates.

Sophie Glenn and Victoria Leng, both of U6, are through to the next round of the Donald Dewar Memorial Trophy which is scheduled to take place on Tuesday 31st of January at Gordonstoun.

Good luck Albyn team!