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Banchory Network

Welcome to the Banchory Network Active Schools web page. This page provides information about programmes and activities taking place in your area. The schools in the Banchory Network are Banchory Academy, Banchory Primary, Crathes Primary, Crossroads Nursery, Drumoak Primary, Durris Primary, Hill of Banchory Primary and Strachan Primary.

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Programmes and Activities

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A well done to all those who took part in the Commonwealth Games handover Shire Shindig’ in the October break. The whole event went really well and everyone who came to watch was impressed with the show. P4 and 5 pupils at Banchory, Hill of Banchory, Crathes, Durris and Strachan Primaries are currently taking part in a joint project with Aberdeen Football Club and the Food Standards Agency. Each school will receive resources from the Food Standards Agency relating to healthy eating and food hygene which will be used by the class teacher. AFC will then be providing 6 hours of football coaching to the class with the coach asking questions relating to the work they have done in class. Mr Munro, one of Banchory Academies PE teachers, is working with a group of swimmers from Banchory Primary to improve their swimming skills on a Monday afternoon. If you are interested in your child taking part, please contact me.
The South Aberdeenshire Active School Festival for the secondary schools which was cancelled on Monday 29 th November will be rescheduled when the schools are all open again once the snow has cleared.

HIP HOP AT BANCHORY ACADEMY (term 3 - 2010)

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What's happening in and around Banchory in sport and physical activity for all age groups and abilities. Activity, times and venues all for your information.

Volunteer Opportunities

The Banchory Active Schools programme is always on the lookout for new volunteers to help within the schools. The success of the programme can only continue to be developed with the help of willing and enthusiastic parents. This may be help in current activities or perhaps you would like to set up a new activity.

Current volunteer opportunities:

- After-school running for fun at Hill of Banchory or Banchory. Thursdays at 2.35-3.20pm.

- Lunchtime Skipping clubs throughout Term 1

- Extra-curricular athletics clubs

If you are interested in helping out with any of the above, or anything else, Please get in touch.

Programmes and Activities for Primary

Active From the Start
Banchory School, Hill of Banchory School and Cross Roads Nursery will soon be introducing this programme to their Nursery classes. This will involve the children working on core competencies during the school day and they will then also receive a ‘Skill Bag’ to take home and perform the activities with their parents. Training workshops will be set-up to work with parents.

First clubgolf
All P5 pupils will be introduced to Scottish Golf’s National Strategy for golf, clubgolf. They will complete a block of lessons involving modified golf equipment then invited to attend Banchory golf club to undertake the next stage of the programme. All pupils will be invited to Bnachory Golf Club or Inchmarlo Golf Club for lessons.

Cross Country
The annual cross country run for all of the network primary schools at Tillybrake Field will be changing from term 4 to term 3 to be in line with the cross country season.

Extra-curricular Schools Clubs
This school year has seen many extra-curricular clubs running across the primary network. These have included hip hop dance, basketball, netball,cycling, running and yoga. Many of these sessions have been run by school terachers or parent volunteers without whom, it would not be possible to run these clubs, so the time they give up is very much appreciated.

Go For It
Banchory Primary will be taking part in this year-round incentive project to encourage school communities to travel actively (walking or cycling) to school, even just part of the way, wherever possible. Every time a pupil walks / cycles to or from school they will get a tick on the wall chart. When the pupil has 40 ticks, they will earn a reward card that they can redeem for free access to certain leisure facilities across Aberdeenshire.

Orienteering
Primary 5 pupils will receive curricular introductory sessions of orienteering in term four. These sessions will be in the lead up to a festival to be held at Deeside Activity Park, to which all schools who have undertaken the curricular sessions will be invited. Following this festival, all Primary 5 - 7 pupils will be invited to participate in the Scottish Schools Orienteering Festival, at which Banchory Schools have faired very well in the past. A training course for teachers will be held in January with Jon Musgrave from Maroc Orienteering Club to allow the class teachers to deliver the curricular sessions in the lead up to the festival.

Young Leaders
Primary 6 and 7 pupils in all the network primary schools have been undergoing Young Leaders training with myself. The training is now complete and the majority of the schools have their Young Leaders sessions up and running suuccessfully at break or lunch times palnning, leading and delivering games to the younger pupils in the schools. Well done to all those who took part in the training and keep up the good work!

Programmes and Activities for Primary

Community Sports Leader Award

21 senior pupils at Banchory Academy are undertaking the Community Sports Leader Award this year. They will be taking on many different voluntary roles including delivering the First Clubgolf programme to primary five pupils at Banchory Academy and have already assisted with the organisation of the primary schools cross country event in term 4 of last session. Two of the girls have also undertaken a ‘Getting Started in Basketball’ course and are now assisting with the Academy’s girls basketball team.


Girls Basketball
A girls basketball team has started at Banchory Academy this year and has been very successful with around 30 girls attending each week. The sessions are being run by Banchory Stags Coach Mike Reilly and parent Andreas Christophersen. Two senior girls are now also coming along each week to help coach the sessions.


Training opportunities
Senior pupils have been offered a number of training opportunities this school year. These have included Level 2 Power Boat Training course, Getting Started in Basketball and Rugby Ready level 1. Eight senior pupils have so far taken part in these courses.


Fit For Girls
The funding for the Fit For Girls project has been received from Sport Scotland. The project is aiming to increase the level of girls participation in curricular and extracurricular sports and physical activity. A number of changes have been made to the curricular PE sessions with the aims of the project in mind including providing single sex PE lessons wherever possible and introducing a uniform for PE lessons so all pupils are wearing the same kit. An extracurricular girls only group has also been established with the girls making the choice of what activities they are participating in.


Basketball National Cup
Banchory Academy have five teams entered to Basketball Scotland’s National Cup. The cup has changed format a little this year with the removal of the Plate competition and the introduction of regional group stages. Banchory have still to play their matches in the group stages but the open boys team will be looking to repeat their success of reaching last years Plate final!

Contact Banchory Network

Holly McIntosh
Active Schools Coordinator (Primary)
Banchory Network
Banchory Primary School
Arbeadie Road
Banchory
AB31 4EH

Tel: 01330 823351
Mobile: 07917271812