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3 July 2020
Latest Parental Update –
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3 July 2020
Educational Psychology Service
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2 July 2020
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2 July 2020
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29 June 2020
This week’s tasks –
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26 June 2020
Latest Parental Letter –
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23 June 2020
Please be advised that all North East Scotland College Campuses and Centres are currently closed. We will continue to support our students at NESCol during this period of remote teaching.
See here for Student Advice & Support Team Summer Transition Support Events
The Student Advice and Support Team are available remotely to support students’ study needs during this time. Please contact studentadviceandsupport@nescol.ac.uk with your name, student number (if known) and campus of study, and a member of the team will be in touch as soon as possible.
Please continue to monitor the NHS website for the most up to date information regarding COVID-19. You may find it helpful to access the NESCol Mental Health Toolkit Here
For up to date information on NESCol closures please continue to check our website/social media
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22 June 2020
This week’s tasks –
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19 June 2020
Latest Parental Update –
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19 June 2020
Latest information regarding school transport –
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18 June 2020
Scholar accounts have now been updated to give full (not just guest) access to seniors for their new courses. If you are in S4 and sitting particular N5 courses you will receive your new individual username and password in an email via your glow account in the next few days. Use this to log on via this Scholar link –
Alternatively you can add the scholar tile to your glow launchpad. If you then click on the tile it will automatically log you into your account each time with no need to enter your username or password.
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17 June 2020
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15 June 2020
This week’s tasks –
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A message from Laurence Findlay, Director of Education and Children’s Services –
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12 June 2020
Latest Parental Update –
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11 June 2020
Pupil presentation regarding SQA Awards 2020 –
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8 June 2020
This week’s tasks –
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5 June 2020
Latest Parental Update –
If the survey links in this documents do not work, please see here –
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2 June 2020
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1 June 2020
This week’s tasks –
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28 May 2020
Engineering opportunities at Strathclyde University –
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28 May 2020
Latest Parental Letter –
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26 May 2020
Edinburgh Napier University Open Days –
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25 May 2020
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25 May 2020
Tasks for this week from ASL –
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25 May 2020
This week’s tasks –
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22 May 2020
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22 May 2020
Latest Parental Letter –
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21 May 2020
Read New Scientist, Amateur Photographer, BBC Good Food, Web User, Ideal Home, Cycling Weekly plus lots of other magazines as well as e-books and audiobooks for FREE! Go to https://livelifeaberdeenshire.org.uk/ and choose Libraries then The Digital Library. Scroll down till you see the RB Digital icon. Click on Learn More About RB Digital the Access RB Digital.
You will need your Young Scot card number and your PIN. If you have forgotten them contact Mrs Bain or Ms Slater on GLOW and we can help you. If you know someone who would like to use these magazines they can Join Online on the Libraries front page.
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19 May 2020
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18 May 2020
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18 May 2020
This week’s tasks –
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15 May 2020
Latest Parental Letter
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12 May 2020
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11 May 2020
SCHOLAR’s upcoming Online Tutor Sessions are:
Monday 11/05/2020 6pm Computing Higher
Tuesday 12/05/2020 6pm Chemistry Advanced Higher
Thursday 14/05/2020 6pm Human Biology Higher
For more information on how to take part in upcoming sessions, please visit SCHOLAR‘s Online Tutor Sessions.
Please note that worksheets will be available and should be attempted before some sessions.
You can see regular updates via Twitter @SCHOLARuk and Facebook SCHOLARprogramme.
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11 May 2020
This week’s tasks –
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7 May 2020
Latest Parental Letter
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5 May 2020
Free Online resources
Bright Red publishing are currently allowing free access to their revision and study guides. You need to register and then you will be able to access their digital zone for any subjects you may need.
https://www.brightredpublishing.co.uk/
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5 May 2020
The latest #OnlineSafetyAtHome pack is now available to download, containing new activities for parents and carers to use at home! Click the graphic to access them here –
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4 May 2020
COVID-19 Resource pack (Overs 13-18) – ‘it’s ok to worry about coronavirus’
COVID-19 Resource pack – For Parents
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4 May 2020
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1 May 2020
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1 May 2020
Latest Parental Letter
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1 May 2020
SCHOLAR’s upcoming Online Tutor Sessions are:
Monday 04/05/2020 3pm Modern Languages Nat5
6pm Computing Nat5
6pm Modern Languages AdvH
Tuesday 05/05/2020 6pm Chemistry Nat5
Wednesday 06/05/2020 6pm Physics AdvH
Thursday 07/05/2020 6pm Biology AdvH
6pm Maths Higher
For more information on how to take part in upcoming sessions, please visit SCHOLAR‘s Online Tutor Sessions.
Please note that worksheets will be available and should be attempted before some sessions.
You can see regular updates via Twitter @SCHOLARuk and Facebook SCHOLARprogramme.
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30 April 2020
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29 April 2020
29 April 2020
UCAS are hosting a live Q&A session for parent on Thursday 30/04/20 on FACEBOOK at 1600
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28 April 2020
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27 April 2020
As you are aware next week the S3 and Senior pupils will move their learning on to the next level. Scholar is an online resource with tutorials and tests for approximately 37 different National 5, Higher and Advanced Higher courses. These online resources may be useful to those pupils moving to N5/H and AH courses. Please see below for access instructions.
S3 – Currently all S3 pupils should be able to access all N5 courses by using the temporary log in Username: ges3nat5 Password: bird70pear. S3 pupils moving on to N5 Maths have been emailed an individual password, please use this for accessing Maths
Seniors. Most seniors should know their scholar passwords, if they have forgotten their password they should email their teacher. Scholar have opened up access to all other courses. To get onto these pupils need to click on “Display other courses” on their welcome page.
Please note that both of these systems are guest access only at this stage and permanent accounts will be issued in the new academic year.
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27 April 2020
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27 April 2020
Additions to this week’s plan –
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27 April 2020
This week’s Learning from Home plan –
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22 April 2020
As part of Live Life Aberdeenshire’s, Live Life@Home offering, Active Schools Aberdeenshire are releasing a weekly challenge on social media on a Monday morning for pupils to take part in and send in their best efforts during the week online.
The challenges will vary but include physical activities, quizzes and timed challenges. So far, we’ve had obstacle courses and alphabet exercises with plenty more to come. Therefore, if you are looking for something different, then check out our social media feeds on a weekly basis for some new and exciting challenges and ideas.
Active Schools have also uploaded some fun activities and resource cards onto the Live Life Aberdeenshire, Live Life@Home webpage. These alongside many other fun activities and videos across the many services in Live Life Aberdeenshire can be found bit.ly/LLAhome
You can find our local facebook page here – ‘Active Schools Aberdeenshire North‘ which covers the areas of Banff, Ellon, Fraserburgh, Mintlaw, Peterhead and Turriff.
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BBC Bitesize are supporting home learning with new daily lessons –
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21 April 2020
SQA updates –
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20 April 2020
The Student Award Agency Scotland are still very much business as usual. The Online Application service is now open and our General Enquiry Unit are dealing with email and voicemail correspondence on a daily basis. Pupils can get in touch via the ‘Contact Us’ option in their online account if they have any specific queries.
The Funding Awareness Team were scheduled to attend many schools across the country in the coming months which obviously cannot now go ahead so we are currently working on a toolkit of support available and scheduling online sessions on our Social Media channels which will be shared with you in the coming weeks.
In the meantime, please watch the Application Help video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJ3hUrcjpGY that may be useful to view before completing your application for support.
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20 April 2020
The Scottish Qualifications Authority has provided an important update regarding the awarding of qualifications for 2020.
This includes the process on how estimated grades will be determined.
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20 April 2020
Good morning Everyone. I hope you had a relaxing Easter. Back to work now.
Tasks and activities can be located through the English Tile on Glow; you can also contact the teacher directly:
All S1 pupils – Ms Allen
All S2 pupils – Ms Gavin
All S3 pupils – Mrs Wilson
All S4 pupils – Mr Sexton
All S5/S6 pupils – Mr Grant
We look forward to seeing you all soon.
Mrs Sievewright.
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20 April 2020
SCHOLAR’s upcoming Online Tutor Sessions are:
Monday 20/04/2020 6pm Modern Languages Higher
Tuesday 21/04/2020 6pm English Nat5 and Chemistry Higher
Wednesday 22/04/2020 6pm Physics Nat5
Thursday 23/04/2020 6pm Biology Nat5 and Maths Higher
For more information on how to take part in upcoming sessions, please visit SCHOLAR‘s Online Tutor Sessions.
Please note that worksheets will be available and should be attempted before some sessions.
You can see regular updates via Twitter @SCHOLARuk and Facebook SCHOLARprogramme.
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20 April 2020
Information from Education Scotland regarding Inclusion, Wellbeing and Equality – Signposting, Advice and Support
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3 April 2020
Keep up-to-date with newspapers and magazines on Press Reader which is in The Digital Library on the Live Life Aberdeenshire website. You are part of Aberdeenshire Library and Information Service. You will need the first 14 digits of the top number on your Young Scot card and your PIN which is usually your birthday eg 20 April is 2004.
https://www.livelifeaberdeenshire.org.uk/libraries/digital-landing-page
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3 April 2020
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3 April 2020
Update from SQA
https://www.sqa.org.uk/sqa/files_ccc/020420-SQA-NQ2020-Parent-Carer-covid-19-FAQ.pdf
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**Calling all #Nat5Maths Pupils** Develop your skills this month with our April Calendar. Download the calendar and view the answers here; http://
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1 April 2020
**Calling all #HigherMaths Pupils** Develop your skills this month with our April Calendar. Download the calendar and view the answers here; http://
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1 April 2020
**CALLING ALL BGE Pupils** Take the ultimate test this month with our CfE 4th Level Numeracy/Maths April Calendar! Download calendar & view answers here; http://
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1 April 2020
**CALLING ALL BGE Pupils** Do you want to consolidate your CfE 3rd Level Numeracy/Maths skills this month? If so, try our April Calendar! Download calendar & view answers here; http://
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**CALLING ALL BGE Pupils** Do you want to consolidate your CfE 2nd Level Numeracy/Maths skills this month? If so, try our April Calendar! Download calendar & view answers here; http://
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**CALLING ALL BGE Pupils** Do you want to consolidate your CfE 1st Level Numeracy/Maths skills this month? If so, try our April Calendar! Download calendar & view answers here; http://
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31 March 2020
R Stoker the school Careers Adviser is available to support pupils during school hours on rebecca.stoker@sds.co.uk and 07786 688829.
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This document has been updated –
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30 March 2020
Problems accessing files in Teams?
Obviously the number of people using Teams for education and works has seen a huge increase globally over the past few weeks. This has meant that the system is often throwing up errors and glitches. A particular issue has been accessing and downloading files, Miss Harrison made a short video of a workaround which will enable you to access files via SharePoint, please watch video for instructions
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30 March 2020
Letter regarding free school meals.
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30 March 2020
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30 March 2020
Good morning Everyone. I hope you had a relaxing weekend. Back to work now but just one more week to the holidays.
S1 pupils remember to keep reading your Accelerated Reader books and taking lots of quizzes (our librarians will help you download ebooks – see their Tile). We look forward to reading your Homework diaries too when we return to school. All additional work has been generated by Ms Allen and is on the English Tile.
S2 please continue with your KAL factfiles. Those with Accelerated Reader access should continue to read as much as possible. Ms Gavin has a great powerpoint to help you with creating those mindmaps.
S3 please continue with your newspaper articles homework, Animal Farm tasks and other work provided by Mrs Wilson on the English Tile.
S4/5/6 materials have been produced by Mr Sexton and Mr Grant and some in particular will help with your new courses next year – particularly your folios. Remember that Scholar has some great advice too for folio production.
Take care, Mrs Sievewright.
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30 March 2020
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27 March 2020
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27 March 2020
For senior pupils missing their Yoga fix in PE each week, Miss Smith is going to share videos regularly that you can do at home. All you need is comfortable clothing, and a mat or towel. You can even get other members of your household to join in so that everyone feels the benefit and schedules a little bit of calm into the day!
The first two are completely beginner friendly – the first one has some simple postures to get you moving and breathing and gives you some great alignment tips which is handy if you’re a beginner and you don’t have a teacher there! The other is a short explanation and a couple of practises showing how our breath can be a really valuable tool to help improve our mental wellbeing. For maximum benefit, try 3 times this week!
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27 March 2020
Health and Wellbeing
Hope everyone is coping with these unusual circumstances. We thought that this clip was an interesting way to look at our current situation and make something positive come from it. Pupils are advised thar Guidance teachers will be posting tasks in Glow relating to this video and parents may also find it reassuring to view.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4uL5sqe5Uk8&feature=youtu.be
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27 March 2020
Can all pupils receiving Brass tuition with Mr Oddo please check their Glow emails as there is a message waiting for them regarding lessons.
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27 March 2020
SCHOLAR’s upcoming Online Tutor Sessions are:
Tuesday 31/03/2020 6pm Chemistry Adv Higher
Thursday 02/04/2020 6pm Biology National 5
For more information on how to take part in upcoming sessions, please visit SCHOLAR‘s Online Tutor Sessions.
Please note that worksheets will be available and should be attempted before some sessions.
You can see regular updates via Twitter @SCHOLARuk and Facebook SCHOLARprogramme.
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26 March 2020
BBC Bitesize is here to support you. Over the coming days and weeks we’ll be changing to bring you daily content that supports you as schools close across the UK, to help you with your education and wellbeing.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize
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25 March 2020
Family Zone
For Information
In response to school closures across the UK, the National Literacy Trust has launched a free online zone for parents seeking ideas and guidance for activities that will engage their children at home, whilst also benefiting their reading, writing and language development.
Family Zone www.literacyfamilyzone.org.uk is a one-stop shop for families. Drawing on our expertise and partnerships with teachers, authors, publishers, educational organisations and corporates, Family Zone brings together some of the UK’s most exciting literacy resources and activities in one place. Family Zone is curated for early years to early teens and is full of engaging activities for families to do together.
We will continue to develop and publish new content on Family Zone over the coming weeks and months to ensure that we’re keeping families engaged and motivated to learn and share stories together.
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25 March 2020
Scholar update
Covid-19 Additional Support
Temporary guest account for S3 learners
Scholar is an online resources which currently has materials for 37 National 5, Higher and Advanced Higher courses. Our seniors are already aware of scholar and have individual passwords which enable them to access courses that they are specifically studying. However, in addition to this, Scholar have identified that learners in S3 studying level 4 material as part of the BGE often cover topics common to National 5 courses and may find access to SCHOLAR National 5 courses useful.
During this time while schools have been effected by Covid-19 they have agreed to allow our S3 learners to work on the course materials. For the next 28 days they will be able to access our National 5 courses using the account details below
Username: ges3nat5
Password: bird70pear
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25 March 2020
Message from the Rector
Update from the Head Teacher
Dear Parent/ Carer,
You may be aware the update SQA made yesterday evening with regard to Higher and Advanced Higher course work. If not please see the attached link. I know that your young person will be feeling a wide range of emotions from disappointment, upset and uncertainty. Please make them aware their hard work is not wasted and that any work they are continuing to complete should be e-mailed to their teacher as this will help them pull together their most recent work and support estimates. I know that individual teachers will be in touch should they require any additional work or evidence. Please also thank them for their patience and continued commitment to their studies at this time.
https://www.sqa.org.uk/sqa/93658.html
I would also like to remind them that if they need to contact either their guidance teacher or class teacher directly that they can email them. Currently Turriff Academy office is closed and I am looking at ways to enable phone contact which I will up date in due course.
Take care all,
Kind regards,
Ms L Menzies
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24 March 2020
English Department
All pupils and parents looking for resources for English should visit – English SharePoint Tile, via the Turriff Academy tile on glow. Materials have been organised into year groups. One member of the department has been assigned to each year group e.g. Ms Allen – S1
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