School Awards Ceremony

 

Thursday, 11th June saw the school celebrate its many and varied successes at the annual Awards Ceremony, the last to take place in the old school.

On the evening pupils from first Year through to sixth received awards for Academic Achievement, Attendance, Citizenship, Sports, Outstanding Personal Achievement, Leadership as well as the Awards for Proxime Accessit and School Dux.

This years Proxime Accessit was Jordan Valentine from 5C and the Dux of the School was shared by Abbie Hutchison of 5W1 and John Swift of 5W2.

Full details of all the Award Recipients are available by clicking here

Copies of the pictures taken on the evening are available by contacting Mrs Ferris via the school office and a selection can be viewed by clicking here.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Additional In Service Day

 

To help prepare for the implementation of the new Curriculum for Excellence, West Lothian Council has added an additional in-service day for staff on Monday 15 th June.

 

The school will, therefore, be closed for pupils on this day but will reopen, as normal, on Tuesday, 16 th June.

 

A copy of the letter issued by the school to all pupils about this is available by clicking here.

 

Exceptional Closure Days

 

As you know, the new Academy Building is due to open in August 2009. To allow for as smooth a transfer as possible the Scottish Government has agreed to grant the school some exceptional closure days to allow staff to prepare. The arrangements for this are:

 

Friday 26 th June School closed for pupils.

Pupils will start their summer holiday at 3.30 on Thursday 25 th June.

 

Monday 17 th August School closed for pupils.

 

Tuesday 18 th August School closed for pupils.

 

Wednesday 19 th August New S1, S5 and S6 pupils return.

 

Thursday 20 th August New S2, S3 and S4 pupils return.

 

A copy of the letter issued by the school to all pupils about this is available by clicking here.

 

Operation Focus

27th April 2009

 

As part of the education campaign linked to the Police Operation Focus initiative, members of the Police Drugs and Community Action Teams spoke with every pupil in Armadale Academy via a series of interactive and well received assemblies.  In addition, the local police organised opportunities for the pupils to speak with Officers and look at some of the state of the art equipment that is now being used to help clean up our communities in West Lothian.

 

Armadale Academy Rocks the Primaries!

27th April 2009

Armadale Academy has had a long-standing tradition of taking third year pupils onto the road with a rock tour of all its associated Primaries and St. Anthony’s and this year was no different. The pupils prepared, produced and then performed a very well received concert of a wide range of music lasting well over an hour. They did this as part of their S3 Standard Grade course and the school feels it is essential that pupils get as many opportunities as possible to perform their music in front of audiences. 

The feedback has been tremendous, and the pupils can’t wait to get back on the stage.

 

DrugProof

27th March 2009

This Programme will begin in Armadale Academy on Monday May 11th at 7.00PM. For more information contact the school on 01501730601 or email Elma.Birrell@wled.org.uk

ww.dpyk.org.uk

 

School Closure Reception

27th March 2009 

 

The school closure reception was a sell out event. Over three hundred ex pupils, staff and members of the local community met up on the 27 th of March to celebrate the history of Armadale Academy.

 

Photographs, old newspaper articles and information about the time capsule were on display and tours of the school were led by current staff and S6 pupils. Laughter rang down the corridors as ex pupils revisited their school memories of classrooms and teachers of old. An enjoyable evening was had by all.

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First Performance of Lower School Choir

17th December marked the first performance of the new lower school choir. 

Performing to an audience of invited guests, the pupils accompanied on piano by Miss Cox, sang 3 songs, Hallelujah, Winter Wonderland and Mamma Mia.  The standard of the performance was very high and the pupils did both themselves and the school proud!  Their next performance will be on Friday, 19th December in the schools All Star Christmas Variety Performance. 

The choir is open to any pupils in S1 – 3 and meets every Wednesday Lunchtime in Miss Cox’s room in the music Department.

17 December 2008. 14:45

 

The New School Plans

Open June 2009

Check out the digital movie for the new school. Right click then select PLAY

Tip: There is a detailed version of the movie available for download on our documentation section

New HMIe report

HMIe Report

A new HMIe Report is now available online for viewing along with our other documentation.

These documents and more are available in the documentation section.

Tip: Every document listed in each of the sites sections is also listed in the documentation section!

Parent Council

new documentation added

The minutes from the new Parent Council are now available online, in addition to the new Parent Council Constitution.

All minutes from the meetings will be available in the documentation section as well as viewable online as web pages.

 

Tip: Every document listed in each of the sites sections is also listed in the documentation section!

New reports

Standards and quality

A new standards and quality report is now available online for viewing along with our current Improvement Plan and other documentation.

These documents and more are available in the documentation section.

Student internet access

and protecting your child

The school, in conjunction with West Lothian Council will do everything it can to protect your child whilst they use the internet at school. Sites which have been deemed inappropriate by staff are blocked and all other internet sites are filtered to ensure students are unable to access with swearing, violent content etc.

Please note that this process is not 100% accurate and on rare occassions pages that should have been blocked aren't. In these circumstances and under the usage policy students are asked to report the offending page to staff.