Search

Education consultations

View details of current school consultations:

Closure of Fisherford School

The council is proposing to discontinue education at Fisherford School, which is currently mothballed, and re-assigning its catchment area to either Auchterless School or Rayne North School or splitting the catchment between Auchterless School and Rayne North School.

The statutory consultation ran from 5th February until 29th March 2024. This covered the required minimum of 30 days term time consultation.

A public meeting to discuss the proposal was held at Turriff Primary School, Meeting Room on 6th March 2024 at 6.00pm and an online survey was available as part of the consultation.

Following the statutory consultation period, officers submitted the proposal document, survey results, written and oral representations, and other relevant documentation to Education Scotland for their consideration. Education Scotland will produce a report addressing educational aspects of the proposal.

Officers will then review the proposal in the context of the Education Scotland report, survey results, oral and written representations and produce a final report on the consultation.

The consultation report will be presented at Formartine Area Committee, Education and Children’s Services Committee and the final decision on the proposal will be made by Full Council. 

To find out more about the proposal, view the closure of Fisherford School documents.

Closure of Easterfield School

The council is proposing to discontinue education at Easterfield School, which is currently mothballed, and re-assigning its catchment area to either Auchterless School or Turriff Primary School.

The statutory consultation ran from 5th February until 29th March 2024. This covered the required minimum of 30 days term time consultation.

A public meeting to discuss the proposal was held at Turriff Primary School, Meeting Room on 5th March 2024 at 6.00pm and an online survey was available as part of the consultation.

Following the statutory consultation period, officers submitted the proposal document, survey results, written and oral representations, and other relevant documentation to Education Scotland for their consideration. Education Scotland will produce a report addressing educational aspects of the proposal.

Officers will then review the proposal in the context of the Education Scotland report, survey results, oral and written representations and produce a final report on the consultation.

The consultation report will be presented at Formartine Area Committee, Education and Children’s Services Committee and the final decision on the proposal will be made by Full Council. 

To find out more about the proposal, view the closure of Easterfield School documents.

Secondary catchment anomaly rezoning at Lumphanan

The council proposed to rezone the Aboyne Academy catchment to include an area anomaly within the Lumphanan School catchment area currently zoned to Alford Academy.

The consultation ran from 5th September 2023 until 3rd November 2023. A public meeting was held on 14th September 2023 in Lumphanan School. An online survey and pupil consultation was also part of the consultation.

Following the statutory consultation period, all documentation on the consultation was sent to Education Scotland for consideration and Education Scotland produced a report addressing the educational aspects on the proposal. Officers reviewed the Education Scotland Report, survey results, oral and written representations and produced a consultation report which was presented to the Marr Area Committee on 12th March 2024, then to the Education and Children’s Services Committee for the final decision.

On 21st March 2024 Education and Children’s Services Committee approved the rezoning of Aboyne Academy catchment to include an area anomaly within the Lumphanan School catchment area currently zoned to Alford Academy.

These changes will take place from August 2024 and from that point the whole of the Lumphanan School catchment area will be zoned to Aboyne Academy.

To find out more about the proposal, view documents relating to the secondary catchment anomaly rezoning at Lumphanan.