Please find below a letter to all parents and carers from Caroline Stirton, Executive Head Teacher.
Aberdeen City Council is currently seeking your views on the new proposed restructured ASN and Outreach Service.
Our ASN services require to be more responsive to learners needs across the city, to achieve this, our services need a clear structure which advocates consistency and a shared vision. Recent recommendations Scottish ASN review have been considered in the restructuring. The business case attached outlines our proposal for the structure and management of ASN and Outreach Services.
Please use the link to provide us with feedback. Feedback Form Please note the consultation period ends on 23rd December 2020.
The review of Scotland’s ASN can be found here.
There’s definitely something spooky going on at Orchard Brae this week.
Classes have been busy carving and decorating pumpkins to display in our pumpkin patch.
There was even a pumpkin hunt around the school.
And today, some pupils (and staff) were dressed up in their Halloween outfits. We thought they all looked fang-tastic!!
The video below from Singing Hands has lots of spooky Halloween Makaton signs for you to have a go at!
If you are celebrating Halloween this weekend, have a wonderfully spooky and fun-filled time!
We all know how much COVID-19 has had an impact on everyone and PAMIS family carers and staff are also very aware of how COVID-19 has had an even greater impact on people with PMLD.
PAMIS would like to hear from parents and carers of those with PMLD aged 16 and above, as you and the person you care for are living the experience and it is critical that they know what that reality is.
Participating in this survey will ensure that you and your son’s or daughter’s reality is seen and not hidden.
The survey is conducted online, asking highly relevant questions related to your reality of living in ‘COVID-19’ Scotland. Completing this survey will help document you and your son or daughters experience over the months since March 2020. The survey will enable you to tell those who make defining decisions, around how support and care for people with PMLD and their family carers is approached, in this changed and ever-changing COVID-19 landscape.
To register your interest now please email Brenda Garrard b.garrard@dundee.ac.uk.
If an online survey is not something you are comfortable doing please get in touch with PAMIS and they can arrange a different way of responding.
The Aberdeen Endowments Trust Secondary School Bursary is available to low income families with a child attending secondary school from S1-S4 and is normally awarded as £100 per year. It can be applied for at any time from S1-S4 but cannot be granted retrospectively.
Aberdeen Endowment Trust Secondary School Bursary Application
The completed application should be sent to the Clerk, Aberdeen Endowments Trust, 19 Albert Street, Aberdeen, AB25 1QF or please email aet1909@btinternet.com.
Please find below an updated version of the Orchard Brae Covid-19 Risk Assessment which reflects further advice and guidance received from Health Protection Scotland and Aberdeen City Council. All updates have been highlighted in green.
Aberdeen City Council have also published a ventilation flowchart for schools.
Both of these documents can also be found on the Covid-19 website page.
Please find below the updated school lunch menu which will run until March 2021.
On Friday the 6th of November, we will be undertaking a whole school challenge to raise money to purchase at least one of these bikes.
All the pupils at Orchard Brae will help us to complete this challenge. Every class will be allocated a 30 minutes time slot from 10 am until the end of the day to walk around the School Playground. Then Orchard Brae Staff will continue with the challenge over night until 10 am on Saturday completing the 24 Hour continuous Walk/Run challenge.
Some senior pupils and their staff teams have already started their own fundraising activities. In the video below senior pupils explain how much they have raised so far and a little bit more about the bike we are hoping to purchase.
After the October holidays further information will be shared on how to make a donation for this cause should you wish to.
Many thanks,
PE Department
Here are some potential sources of support which families can access.
If you’re interested in dance and movement and wondering what to do over the holidays, then maybe this is for you.
Running from the 15th – 18th of October, DanceLive 2020 is a digital dance festival broadcasting online from Aberdeen. It will feature streamed digital dance performances, live streamed sharings and workshops, online live interviews and Q&As with artists. The digital delivery means that the dance performances can be enjoyed from the comfort of your home. DanceLive is supported by Aberdeen City Council, Creative Scotland, and EventScotland, and is working in collaboration with Aberdeen Art Gallery. There will be short films screened at Aberdeen Art Gallery which you can watch if you are visiting the Art Gallery over the festival weekend. Have a look at our programme and see what there is to watch over the four-day festival.
Festival Tickets cost £7 for a day pass and £25 for a full festival pass which will give access to the whole four-day programme.
Visit the CityMoves website. https://www.citymoves.org.uk/dancelive-festival for more information.
One for the kids is Moon Capers by Shaper/Caper on SUNDAY 18TH OCTOBER 11:00am
The Professor Strikes Back
Age: 4-9 and families
Recruiting all Moon Cadets!
Meet Captain Caper and pilot Peppy and help them on their mission to the Moon. You will be requested to attend Space School in preparation for the journey of a lifetime: A trip to the Moon and Back!
Mission Possible: Rescue Moon Moo, the cow that can’t jump and get back home before bedtime.
3-2-1… Blast Off!
