Christmas Wellbeing For Staff

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Aberdeen City Council have published a Christmas Wellbeing for Staff. This Sway document includes:

  • SAMH (Scottish Association for Mental Health) – 5 ways to Christmas Wellbeing
  • Staff within the city sharing their take on health and wellbeing
  • Directions to the ACC@Christmas page
  • Discounts on offer to teaching staff to help with that ever growing shopping list
  • A message from Eleanor Sheppard, Chief Education Officer
  • Time for Talking update
  • A link to our EP hub 

We hope you find this useful, please use the following link:

Christmas Wellbeing for Staff – new Sway (sharepoint.com)

It can also be accessed via the Wellbeing Supports For Parents, Pupils And Staff page of the website:

Wellbeing Supports For Parents, Pupils And Staff – Orchard Brae School

Holiday Support

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Aberdeen City Council have compiled a list of supports and services available over the Christmas period, should you or your family need help. This includes:

  • Food Banks and Food Parcels
  • Free School Meals
  • Supermarket Offers
  • Financial Advice
  • GP and Pharmacy Contacts
  • Mental Health Support

Countdown To Christmas

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Orchard Brae Advent Calendar: Days 5 and 6

We are delighted to share the next instalment of the Orchard Brae Advent Calendar with you.

For Day 5, the Ashgrove AM Nursery are sharing ‘We Wish You A Merry Christmas’ from their Nativity.

For Day 6, Room 19 are performing ‘I Am Giant’ in Makaton. This also features music composed by one of the pupils during Music Therapy sessions and by the magical wonders of technology, he has been able to join in with his class performance from home!

Countdown To Christmas

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Orchard Brae Advent Calendar: Days 3 and 4

We hope you enjoyed the first day of the Orchard Brae Advent Calendar yesterday and we are delighted to share the next instalment with you.

For Day 3, Room 3 bring you a very special sensory retelling of Twas The Night Before Christmas.

For Day 4, Room 14 perform ‘I Want A Hippopotamus For Christmas’ featuring a great vocal accompaniment from one of the pupils.

Countdown To Christmas

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Orchard Brae Advent Calendar: Days 1 and 2

Welcome to the Orchard Brae Advent Calendar. Everyone throughout the school has had great fun creating these videos and we hope that you enjoy them and they help to bring you some festive cheer in the countdown to Christmas!

For Day 1, Howes Road AM Nursery perform ‘Twinkle Twinkle’ from their Nativity show.

For Day 2, Room 2 bring you ‘Gingerbread Men Attention’ featuring some very snazzy outfits they made themselves.

A Busy Time In Room 6

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Storytime

Room 6 have a “story of the month” which we listen to after lunch. Last month’s story was The Gruffalo. Here we are colouring our Gruffalos, cutting them out and showing them to each other!

Get Well Soon!

We made “Hope you’re feeling better” cards for a special friend. We collected things at Outdoor Education and then chose what we wanted to put on our pictures. Then we wrote our names on our pictures and sent them to her.

Christmas Countdown

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One one more day until the launch of the the Orchard Brae Advent Calendar.

Starting tomorrow, our extra special advent calendar will help to get you in the festive spirit! Each day in the run up Christmas will feature two special treats from pupils and staff at the school.

This will be shared both on the website and our Facebook page, so get ready to join in the festive fun!!!