Albyn Netball Team Wins Junior Aberdeen Schools Netball Tournament
Upper 3 pupils at Albyn School have won the Junior Aberdeen Schools Netball Tournament. This is the first time in the history of Albyn School that the school team has won this tournament and beat teams from RGC, St Margaret’s and Aberdeen Grammer.
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.
Former Pupils Award 2010
The Former Pupils Award has been jointly awarded to Kate Willox and Emily Legge of Upper VI. This is a most prestigious award given to pupils in Upper VI who have fully involved themselves in life at in the school and represent the best traits of all Albyn pupils.
Lower School Pupils Visit History Museum
Lower 5b pupils at Albyn School this week went to the Conoco Natural History Museum at the Zoology Department, Aberdeen University to celebrate Science Week.
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.
Final Round of the Aberdeen University Secondary Schools’ Law Mooting Competition
Haley Bouma and Emily Legge, Upper VI pupils were runners up in the final round of the Law Mooting Competition. The pupils were highly praised by Sherrif Cusine and the Head of the Law Faculty at Aberdeen University.
Football Team Top of The League!
The Upper I boys football team beat Aberdeen Grammar 2-1 on Saturday 6 March 2010.
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!
Formula 24 Progress Update
A few weeks ago we announced the launch of a new engineering and science club at Albyn, Formula 24. The latest photos in the School’s workshop below show the fantastic progress the team have made so far in preparation for the race in June.
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.
Albyn Achieves Best Higher Results in Aberdeen
Albyn School’s recent exam results are continuing to demonstrate the high academic excellence of it’s pupils with the publication of The Scotsman’s Independent league tables for 2009. These tables show that Albyn has achieved higher results than a number of local and national independent schools, with 93.6% achieving A-C grades at Higher level and 55.4% achieved A grades.
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
|
St Mary’s Music |
95.7 |
|
George Heriot’s |
95.6 |
|
Clifton Hall |
95.2 |
|
St Columba’s |
94.5 |
|
Stewart’s Melville College |
94.1 |
|
St Aloysius College |
93.75 |
|
Albyn School |
93.6 |
|
Hutcheon’s Grammar
|
93.6 |
|
Glasgow Academy |
92.9 |
|
Mary Erskine |
92.9 |
|
High School of Glasgow |
92.3 |
|
Kilgraston |
92.3 |
|
High School of Dundee |
92 |
|
Wellington |
91.7 |
|
Lomond |
91 |
|
St Margaret’s Edinburgh |
90.8 |
|
Morrison’s Academy |
90.7 |
|
St Margaret’s Aberdeen |
90.6 |
|
George Watson’s |
90.2 |
|
Dollar Academy |
90.1 |
|
Craigholme |
90 |
|
St George’s for Girls |
89.8 |
|
Robert Gordon’s College |
89.8 |
|
Kelvinside Academy |
88.4 |
|
Hamilton College |
86.1 |
|
Fernhill School |
84.4 |
|
Edinburgh Academy |
79.7 |
|
Beaconhurst Grange |
76 |
|
Belmont House |
67.7 |
|
Queen Victoria School |
66.7 |
Highers-A-Grades
School % Gaining Grade A
|
Hutcheson’s Grammar |
61.9 |
|
St Mary’s Music |
60.9 |
|
George Heriot’s |
59.4 |
|
St Columba’s |
58.1 |
|
High School of Glasgow |
57.2 |
|
Dollar Academy |
56.1 |
|
Albyn School |
55.4 |
|
St George’s for Girls |
52.5 |
|
Glasgow Academy |
51.8 |
|
Robert Gordon’s College |
51.8 |
|
St Aloysius’ College |
51.5 |
|
High School of Dundee |
51.5 |
|
George Watson’s |
50.9 |
|
Mary Erskine |
50.8 |
|
Stewart’s Melville College |
49.8 |
|
Kilgraston |
48.7 |
|
St Margaret’s Aberdeen |
48.3 |
|
St Margaret’s Edinburgh |
45.1 |
|
Morrison’s Academy |
43.6 |
|
Wellington |
42.7 |
|
Hamilton College |
39.1 |
|
Kelvinside Academy |
38.7 |
|
Lomond |
38.1 |
|
Craigholme |
36.4 |
|
Edinburgh Academy |
32.8 |
|
Beaconhurst Grange |
29.2 |
|
Fernhill School |
27.5 |
|
Clifton Hall |
23.8 |
|
Belmont House |
21.9 |
|
Queen Victoria School |
8.3 |
Advanced Highers
School % Gaining Grades A-C % Gaining Grade A
|
Kilgraston |
100 |
48.5 |
|
St Margaret’s Aberdeen |
100 |
37 |
|
St Mary’s Music |
100 |
62.5 |
|
St George’s for Girls |
96.4 |
53.6 |
|
Mary Erskine |
94.4 |
45.6 |
|
George Watson’s |
92 |
46.9 |
|
Glasgow Academy |
90.6 |
40.2 |
|
High School of Dundee |
90.5 |
39.3 |
|
Wellington |
90 |
35 |
|
High School of Glasgow |
89.6 |
43.7 |
|
George Heriot’s |
89.4 |
46.6 |
|
Stewart’s Melville College |
89.4 |
36.2 |
|
Albyn School |
88.9 |
33.3 |
|
St Aloysius’ College |
88.3 |
39.4 |
|
Hutcheson’s Grammar |
88.1 |
30.8 |
|
Hamilton College |
87 |
20.4 |
|
Dollar Academy |
85.6 |
42.8 |
|
Craigholme |
85.4 |
27.1 |
|
Morrison’s Academy |
84.6 |
38.5 |
|
St Columba’s |
83.5 |
45.1 |
|
Clifton Hall |
83.3 |
50 |
|
Robert Gordon’s College |
82.8 |
34.3 |
|
Fernhill School |
80 |
35 |
|
Kelvinside Academy |
79.4 |
32.4 |
|
St Margaret’s Edinburgh |
78.2 |
21.8 |
|
Belmont House |
75 |
18.8 |
|
Lomond |
75 |
25 |
|
Queen Victoria School |
71.4 |
28.6 |
|
Edinburgh Academy |
65.7 |
11.4 |
|
Beaconhurst Grange |
64.3 |
14.3 |
Albyn Submits Plans For New Building Developments
Last week Albyn School submitted plans to Aberdeen City Council for changes across its campus. The proposed plans designed by Archial Architects Ltd, will involve improving the frontage onto Queen’s Road by enhancing the links between the buildings and improving the existing front entrance with a structural glass screen. The non-traditional links and entrance way, will be replaced by contemporary glass linkages that preserve the classic granite buildings which give both character and heritage to the School.
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.”
Rowing Notice
There will be indoor rowing at the ASRA boathouse from 1045 – 1215 tomorrow. The river is not rowable and George Watson’s and George Heriots will not be coming up for the racing.
Maths Challenge
Senior pupils at Albyn School have been invited to enter the regional final of the UK Mathematics Trust Team Maths Challenge on Monday 1 March 2010. The event is being held at Aberdeen University.
Good Luck!