August 2016 Sunday

Monday

Tuesday 1

Gold DoE, Chamonix

7

Wednesday 2

Gold DoE, Chamonix

8

Thursday 3

Gold DoE, Chamonix

9

Gold DoE, Chamonix

10 Silver DoE

Gold DoE, Chamonix

14

15 INSET

16 INSET

Friday 4 Gold DoE, Chamonix

11 Silver DoE

17 INSET

Saturday 5

18 Term begins for all pupils

6 Gold DoE, Chamonix

12

13

19

20 Bon Accord Brass Band

26

27

Silver DoE

Individual photos for all pupils and staff

21 Bon Accord Brass Band

22 US Co-Curricular Freshers’ Fair (lunchtime)

23 ASPA Meeting

U4 Parents’ Information & Futurewise Evening (5.30pm)

U6 UCAS talk for parents (5.30pm)

28

29 LS Parents’ Welcome Evening (2.45pm)

24 U4 Pupils Futurewise launch (p7/8/9)

30

31 U4 Futurewise Profiling (am) H/AH Geography trip to the Lake District

25 U1 and New Parents’ Welcome (6pm)

September 2016 Sunday

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

1 H/AH Geography trip to the Lake District

2 H/AH Geography trip to the Lake District

Saturday 3

9

10

U4 Biology Trip to Forvie L3, L6, L7 visits to Techfest U5 Information Evening (5.30pm) 4

5

7

AH Biology Trip

AH Biology Trip

U4 Futurewise Interviews begin (3 weeks)

Bronze DoE Training (4-6pm)

US Pupil Council

Techfest begins (2 weeks)

11

6

AH Biology Trip

L7a&b visit to the Bible Exhibition

12 U2 Social Studies Trip

13 U2 Social Studies Trip

U1 MidYIS testing

Governors’ Meeting

U2 Information Evening (5.30pm)

L7g visit to the Bible Exhibition

14 US Pupil Council

15 U4 Distillery Trip

L6b Victorian Trail

L5 visit to hear Chris Riddell, Children’s Laureate: Beach Ballroom

L7 Cosmic Dome (in hall p1-6)

L4 Lochter Trip

8 U5/6 Teambuilding Day at Kockburn Loch

Open Morning Silver DoE Presentations, Wood Theatre (46pm)

16 Morning Briefing: Maths (9am)

17

U4 Distillery Trip Model UN (4pm)

Engineering Centre Official Opening 6pm 18

19 U3 Information Evening & Bronze DoE talk (5.30pm)

20

U4 Biology Trip to Forvie L6a Victorian Trail (TBC)

Visit by Johanna Basford OBE (9.30am12.15pm)

Scottish War Blinded Afternoon Tea (2-3pm)

U1 MidYIS testing 25

26 Holiday Monday Gold DoE

21 Peace Day

27

22 US Clan Dancersize

Gold DoE depart at 3pm

28

29 LS Parents Evening

Lower School Book Fair (until 3rd Oct)

Settling-in reports completed

Bronze DoE

European Day of Languages

Gold DoE

Visit by Dame Esther Rantzen (12.30-2.30pm)

US Clan Dancersize

Scottish War Blinded Afternoon Tea (p7-9) (TBC)

30 Bronze DoE

24 Gold DoE

L5 visit to St Andrews

LS Parents Evening

U2 Teenage Cancer Trust presentation (3-3.55pm)

23 INSET

October 2016 Sunday

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Saturday 1 Scottish Schools Head of the Canal

2 Scottish Schools Head of the Canal

3 U4/5/6 Progress Check completed

4 Concert rehearsal (from 2pm)

Orchestra rehearsal (4pm)

Whole School Music Concert (7pm)

5 U6 Personal Impact Workshop (TBC) US Clan Dancersize (4pm) Scottish Seconardary Schools Relay, Falkirk

6

7

U6 Futurewise Clinic (TBC)

LS & US NonUniform Day

H Drama to HMT (2pm)

Morning Briefing: Learning (9am)

AH Spanish Teachers’ Workshop (TBC)

H/AH Art to Jordonstone School of Art (TBC)

Sports Tour departs

8

YPI Bake Sale

Godspell Rehearsal (4pm) 9

10

11

October break

16

12

13

14

19

20

21

17

18

October break

23

24

25

26

27

AH Biology Kindrogan Trip

AH Biology Kindrogan Trip

L7 Planetarium visit

U2 Classics Roman Reenactor Visit (pm)

U2 Classics Roman Reenactor Visit

FP Annual Quiz & Bridge Night (TBC)

U4 (and new U2U6) Parents’ Evening

H/AH Art to Jordonstone School of Art 31 H BusMan to Tutor2U Live

22 Primary Road Relay C’ships, Grangemouth

AH Biology Kindrogan Trip

30

15

Sports Tour returns

28 L4/5 trip to see Marriage of Figaro (1-2pm) LS/ASPA Halloween Party Indoor Rowing Championships (Glasgow)

29

November 2016 Sunday

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

1 Scottish Economics Society Student Conference (U5/6 Economists)

2 FP Annual Quiz Night (7pm) (TBC)

Visit by Matt Dickinson (am)

Friday

Saturday

3 U5 SafeDrive (p6-p7)

4

5

Open Morning

L3 trip to ASV (TBC)

L4 visit to Coco Ooze (L4b 10am, L4a 1pm)

L2 visit from Zoolab (am)

ASPA Fireworks Night

10 US Pupil Council

11 US Remembrance Ceremony (p3/4 affected)

An Evening With Matt Dickinson 6

7

8

AH Physics Practical Day at Aberdeen Uni (TBC)

9 U2 French pupils to Belmont Cinema (p2-5)

Fairtrade Evening Event (TBC)

U5/6 UKMT Maths Challenge

Higher Philosophy Conference

LS Immunisations (TBC)

L7 Robotics Workshop (TBC)

U5/6 Maths Challenge (from 10am)

U3 full reports completed 13 NE Head of the River

14

15

U2 STEM Day (TBC)

LS Learning Marketplace

L6 Victorian Classroom Visit

Governors’ Meeting

16 US Learning Conference (pm)

12 NE Head of the River

17 US Learning Conference

18 Morning Briefing: Resilience & Learning

19

Maths in the Pipeline Art Show (TBC) YPI Bake Sale

20

21 U2 full reports completed

27

22 Engineering Careers Event (9-12pm, Rox Hotel)

28 U4 Prelims U5/6 Progress Check completed AH BusMan BASE ICAEN Competition An Evening With Alexander Burnett MSP

Metacognition Week 23 U4 Science Live! Clan Public (Edinburgh) Speaking Competition FP Cheese & Wine (TBC) U1 Parents’ Evening AH Chemistry Trip to Glasgow Science Centre

29 U4 Prelims

30 U4 Prelims

24

25

26 ASPA Christmas Fayre (TBC)

December 2016 Sunday

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday 1

U4 Prelims

Saturday 2

3

U4 Prelims Morning Briefing: Science (9am) LS reports completed

4

5 U4 Prelims

6 U4 Prelims

7 U4 Prelims

U4 Prelims LS Pantomime (hall) Annual Microbiology Lecture (H/AH Biology) Oxford University Debating Workshop (4-6.30pm)

U2 Choices Evening

11

12

13

14 Ski Ch’ips

Albyn Chess Championships

8

10

16

17

U4 Prelims YPI Bake Sale

15 Ski Ch’ips

9

Ski Ch’ips

Ski Ch’ips

Lit & Deb Christmas Debate LS Music Assembly (23.15pm) U4/5 Choices Evening 18

Ski Ch’ips

19 Ski Ch’ips

20 Ski Ch’ips Carol Service (6pm, St Marks)

25

26

27

21

22

23

24

28

29

30

31

End of Term (noon)

January 2017 Sunday

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Saturday

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

11

12

13

14

20

21

Start of term

15

Open Morning

16

17

18

19 US Pupil Council

U4 Postestimates Parents’ Evening

Morning Briefing: English (9am)

L7 & U1 Entrance Test (TBC)

YPI Bake Sale

22

23

24

U5/6 Prelims

U5/6 Prelims

U2 Parents’ Evening

Governors’ Meeting

29

30 U5/6 Prelims

U5/6 Prelims

31 U5/6 Prelims

Mindfulness Week

25

26 U5/6 Prelims

27 U5/6 Prelims

28 L7 & U1 Entrance Test (TBC)

February 2017 Sunday

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

1

2

U5/6 Prelims

U5/6 Prelims

Scottish School Indoor Athletics

Scottish School Indoor Athletics

Saturday 3

4

U5/6 Prelims

Intermediate UKMT Maths Challenge (U3/4) An Evening with Venerable Sujan Maharjan Mindfulness Week (continued) 5

6 LS Parents Evening

7 U5/6 PostEstimates Parents’ Evening

8

9

10

11

Subject Choices Deadline LS Parents Evening

12

13

14

15

16

17

18

20

21

22

23

24

25

Half-term Senior Trip to Rome

19

Godspell

Assessment Free Zone 26 Keith Hoban Chess Trophy

27 U1 & U3 Progress Checks completed Clan Quiz, first round

28

Godspell

Godspell

March 2017 Sunday

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

1

Saturday

2

3

Scottish Opera visit L6&7 (9.30am – 10.45am)

4 Secondary Cross Country C’ships

Ensemble Concert (Queens Cross Church) 5

6 iGCSE History Revision Conference An Evening With Alexander Burnett MSP

12

7

8

US Pupil Council

FPs At Home (TBC)

13

9

14

15

17 Albyn v RGC Cross Country (TBC)

Clan Debate

11

Morning Briefing: Resilience & Learning (9am) Scottish Opera L6&7 workshop (all day)

16 YPI semi-finals

LS reports completed

10

18 Higher Maths Revision Day Bronze DoE Walk

Clan Quiz Final U4 full reports completed 19

20 U5/6 full reports completed

26

21 U3 Parents’ Evening

27

22 L6 Residential?

28

29

Links Cup (TBC)

Links Cup (TBC)

Governors’ Meeting

Elphinstone Hall Concert (orchestra from 2pm)

23

24

L6 Residential?

L6 Residential?

YPI Final (5-7pm)

Swimming Gala (TBC)

30 Links Cup (TBC)

31 Links Cup (TBC) End of term

25

April 2017 Sunday

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Saturday 1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

10

11

12

13

14

15

Easter holidays

9

Easter holidays

16

Good Friday (school & nursery closed)

17 Aberdeen Holiday

18 Staff INSET

19

20

21

Term begins for pupils

22 Primary Cross Country Championships

Assessment Free Zone 23

24

25

26

27 Junior UKMT Maths Challenge (U1/2)

Assessment Free Zone 30 North of Scotland Chess Megafinal

28

29

May 2017 Sunday

Monday

Tuesday 1

May Bank Holiday

7

Wednesday 2

Thursday 3

4 US Pupil Council

U4/5/6 Exam leave begins

8

Friday

Saturday 5

6

U2 Progress Check completed

9

10

11

12

13

16

17

18

19

20

U2 AfE Testing

14

15 L6 Alltnacriche

L6 Alltnacriche

L6 Alltnacriche

L6 Alltnacriche

L6 Alltnacriche

L6 Alltnacriche

U3 Exams

U3 Exams

U3 Exams

U3 Exams

U3 Exams

Foundation Ball

21

22 U3 Exams

23 U3 Exams

24 U3 Exams

Bronze DoE

U1 full reports Completed

28

29 LS Reports completed

30 US Musician of the Year SemiFinal Governors’ Meeting

31 U3 Geography Field Trip

25

26 Bronze DoE

27 Sports Day

June 2017 Sunday

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Saturday

1

4

5

6

2

London & Cambridge Trip (TBC)

London & Cambridge Trip (TBC)

Burnside Cup

Last SQA exam

LS Musician of the Year SemiFinal

SSAA Secondary Relays, Hutcheson’s

7

Scottish Schools Pentathlon

8

9

L7-U4 Activities Week

L7-U4 Activities Week

L7-U4 Activities Week

L7-U4 Activities Week

L7-U4 Activities Week

Gold DoE training

Gold DoE training

Gold DoE training

Gold DoE training

Gold DoE training

L5 Alltnacriche

L5 Alltnacriche

L5 Alltnacriche

New L1 Induction

3

10 Scottish Schools Athletics C’ships FP Reunions (TBC)

L1 End of Year Celebration Scottish Schools Athletics C’ships

11

12 U4 and U5 return

13

14

15

16

U3 full reports completed

Silver DoE Training*

Silver DoE Training*

Silver DoE Training*

Open Morning*

Open Morning

Young Musician of the Year & Shireff’s Cup*

Gold & Silver DoE Planning (4-7pm)

New U1 Induction Day

U5 Uni Open Day visit (TBC)

US Clan Highland Games (pm)

LS Musical Assembly/L2-4 End of Year Celebration (am)

17 German Exchange pupils arrive

LS Picnic & Clan Highland Games (pm) 18 U5/6 Dance

19

20

21

Silver DoE Training

Silver DoE Training

Silver DoE Training

New U1 Induction Day*

U5 UCAS Workshop

US Clan Highland Games (pm)*

US Prizewinners’ Rehearsal

Lower School (L5-7) Closing Ceremony

22 US Closing Ceremony (6pm)

23

24

US End of Term

Gold & Silver DoE Planning (4-7pm)* 25

26 German Exchange pupils depart

27

28

29

30 Music Trip to USA departs (date TBC)

* suggested alternative arrangement for post-Activities Week programme, to be confirmed – should it be Tue-Thu as this is what has gone home?