Dress to impress
During the past week in S1-S4 assemblies we have been looking at a very positive aspect of Bucksburn Academy – Dress code. Pupils are being asked to maintain the very high standards of dress code across all year groups ...
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ReThink Your Drink
During this week in S1-S4 assemblies we have been looking at healthy eating and drinking with a particular focus on the quantity of sugar found in sports, fizzy and energy drinks. Pupils are being challenged to ReThink their drink...
Corridor Expectations
A warm welcome to all of our new S1 students and a welcome back to all of our new S2-S6 students. Bucksburn Academy can be a busy place at times, particularly, at change of period and at break and lunch times. Due to this, we are ...
Dress Down Day – Friday 30 June 2017
We will be having a dress down day on Friday 30 June to support CLAN. Please wear pink if you wish. Donations will be collected at Registration and during period 1. Thank you for your support.
Team Sumatra 2017 – The final days and the long journey hom
We spent a few days in a small village called Tangkahan, here we got to come face to face with elephants! We made our way down to the river, where we washed and scrubbed the elephants. They then showered us and some of us were eve...
Team Sumatra 2017 – Update!
Here’s a quick update after a few more days ‘off-grid’. We travelled for a few hours before arriving in Bukit Lawang and our amazing hotel, Eco Lodge. We made some recycled paper and keyrings from natural materia...
Team Sumatra 2017 – the journey so far!
As we’re around the half way point of our expedition, we thought we’d take some time to share our journey so far with you. As many of you who follow @bucksburngeog on Twitter will know, after travelling half way around...
Thank you and goodbye from the Senior Leader Team 2016/17
It’s been a great final year for S6 at Bucksburn Academy. Hard work from pupils across the year group (and some more still to come) has ensured that we are all ready to take the next step when we leave school. We have all en...
S1 – S3 Assemblies 26/04/17
The theme for S1 -S3 pupils assemblies this week has been responsibility. Pupils were sat in teams of four and were asked to complete a simple challenge – to assembly three plastic cups into a pyramid. However, there was a c...
House Points – March 2017
Congratulations to Alba who are currently leading the House Points. There are plenty more points to be awarded next session and a chance for your house to win the House Cup which will be awarded at the school’s celebration evenin...
Free Exam Revision Guides – Saturday 25 March & Sunday
Bright Red Publishing will be offering free exam revision supplements in the Scotsman and Scotsman on Sunday newspapers this coming weekend. Full of tailored subject content! Have a look and see if they will be useful for you and/...
Senior Students – Preparation for the SQA Exam diet
All Senior Students are now being given revision packs to help them to plan for their final exams. The support pack is intended to help them plan for the coming weeks ahead and target specific areas for study. Alongside this there...
S4 Tree of Knowledge Workshop
All S4 students took part in a fun, motivational experience packed Tree of Knowledge workshop on Monday 6 March 2017. ‘Laugh in the face of exams’ is full of inspirational tips for students to help them to cope with ex...
Bucksburn Academy S1 Numeracy Survey
Bucksburn Academy S1 Numeracy Event 16/3/17. Leaflet in pupils’ bags today and on website. Please support. Bucksburn Academy S1 Numeracy Survey available at: https://goo.gl/forms/uFmA64W3hezlx2443 Please support and complete by 2...
Stavanger Study Visit – Day 5
A busy morning today, breakfast at 7 and arrived at St. Olav VGS at 8am. Met Eva at St. Olav and headed over to the nature reserve that surrounds Mosvarnet lake in Stavanger. Here we met with Sylvia from the Nature reserve who gav...
Stavanger Study Visit – Day 4
Today we woke pretty early, had some breakfast and made our way to the Norwegian school – St Olav VGS. Our first impression was that it is really big school and is quite confusing! We did notice how clean and tidy the campus...
Stavanger Study Visit – Day 3
We went to a science museum in a place called Sandnes, just outside of Stavanger. We got the train there and inside there were many activities such as a game where you had to stay as calm as possible in order to move a ball into y...
Stavanger Study Visit – Day 2
Today we started at the Cathedral to meet up with the students from St.Olav. They took us on a guided tour around the whole town and introduced us to a few famous landmarks, such as the old fire tower, viking carvings, old herring...
Stavanger Study Visit – Day 1
After a smooth and quick flight across the North Sea the group has made it to Stavanger! Once settled in our hotel we made our way down to the harbour area, had a quick bite to eat and now everyone is off to bed to re-energise bef...
Back to School Maths Event
The Bucksburn Academy Maths department would like to invite you “back to school” to our junior phase Numeracy evening event on Thursday 16th March 2017 from 7 pm until 8 pm. We would like to show you the interactive and engaging l...