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Feasibility Studies – The Results

Published by Billy on April 14, 2010 in Bucksburn Community, Bucksburn Nursery, Bucksburn Parent Council, Bucksburn Primary School, Helpful Publications, Joint Parent Councils, Parental Assistance and Parental Involvement. 2 Comments

The feasibility studies are available to download! Yay, I hear you cry…

It’s in three parts, the first is an overview, the 2nd(Bucksburn) and 3rd(Newhills) concentrate on the individual sites(yes, only 2 sites were considered, yes I know we weren’t involved despite promises that we would be…*rolls eyes*).

Part 1 (.doc[4.1MB] | .pdf[549kB])
Part 2 (.doc[11.5MB])
Part 3 (.doc[10.1MB])

There are no pdf versions of 2 & 3 because they become insanely huge(over 60MB each)

Because these are fairly large documents I’ve converted them to html and put them on this site so you can read them online, direct access at

http://bucksburn.info/FR

but please note some formatting is lost in the automatic conversion.

Happy reading, comments below!

Updates

Published by Billy on September 1, 2009 in Bucksburn Nursery, Bucksburn Parent Council, Bucksburn Primary School and Parental Assistance. 2 Comments

The Parent Council met last night for the first time of the new school year. The minutes of this meeting can be found here however there are a few points that should be emphasised on this page.

All parents should note that it is no longer acceptable to park in the Police Office car park because of inconsiderate drivers. The Police offered the use of their car park during drop off and uplift times over the last couple of years to alleviate congestion on Howes Road and reduce the danger to our children. Incidents by parents have caused this kind offer to be retracted, to the shame of the people involved. Please do not use the Police car park even if there is no more room on Howes Road. Find somewhere else to park.

In a similar vain and in order to ensure the continuing safety of the children forced to cross at Howes Road drivers should note that the Police will be enforcing the double-yellow lines with tickets given out for dangerous parking. Any parking on the double yellows in this area will be considered dangerous parking as there have already been incidents of collisions between car and child, so be warned! Thankfully so far this term there seems to be less congestion on the Howes Road so this should not be a problem.

It was also raised that there may be an unawareness of the upcoming September long weekend so the dates for your diary for that are the Friday/Monday of 25th and 28th of September. The parent council try to publish any dates of note in our Diary page, including the term times and holidays for 2010-2015, exclusive of in-service days I believe.

Spring Fever

Published by Billy on May 13, 2009 in Bucksburn Community and Bucksburn Primary School. 0 Comments Tags: , , , , , , .

The kids told me today they witnessed a baby lamb being born on the way into school this morning. What a fantastic way to start the day don’t you think? I for one wish I could begin each day with that kind of excitement, for excitement is what it must be to a child. The three of my children were bursting to tell me that when they got home.

If Aberdeen City Council have their way it’s all going to change. Gone will be the green fields and country feel of the school setting as we will be shuffled off to a site up at Newhills. We continue to campaign to save the school in it’s current state so that future generations can be given the best possible rounded education available in Aberdeen and not pushed into larger classes in the middle of a housing scheme to make ACC’s figures add up.

I’m pleased to report mother and baby are doing well!

Bucksburn Set To Lose Out In Pupil Support Assistant Cuts

Published by Billy on February 17, 2009 in Bucksburn Parent Council, Bucksburn Primary School and Joint Parent Councils. 7 Comments Tags: , , , , , , , , .

(*Edit – 18/02 – I’ve now uploaded the psa allocation report from ACC where this was decided.)

Our school has been placed in the firing line yet again with the announcement that PSA hours are to be cut. Another cut that will affect those who rely on it most. The information I received the other day verbally was something like 50% of our PSA hours will be lost. This will result in more work for teachers who will have to make up for the cut. That of course means that they will be teaching less!

There is massive condemnation of this by EVERY ACC school in Aberdeen, some of which I’ll publish here…

Comments or Questions are welcome below.

What other schools are saying…

Continue reading ‘Bucksburn Set To Lose Out In Pupil Support Assistant Cuts’

Parents Views Rejected – Schools To Merge

Published by Billy on February 12, 2009 in Bucksburn Community, Bucksburn Nursery, Bucksburn Parent Council and Bucksburn Primary School. 0 Comments Tags: , , , , , , .

http://www.eveningexpress.co.uk/Article.aspx/1074422

Aberdeen City Council yesterday rejected our request to keep our school open. They decided to close both Newhills and Bucksburn schools. They are going to then place both school rolls into a building, not yet built, to continue their education.

There is no timescale set for this and no site has yet been chosen for this building.

Last Chance Meeting

Published by Billy on February 4, 2009 in Bucksburn Community, Bucksburn Nursery, Bucksburn Parent Council, Bucksburn Primary School, Parental Assistance and Parental Involvement. 0 Comments Tags: , , , , , , , , , .

We are having our final meeting before the council makes it’s decision on Monday @ 7PM in the school(Room 5). We’ll be collating everything we have to present at the council meeting on Wednesday, making sure we’ve not missed anything, asking if there’s anything YOU want added and giving those tasked with representing us a chance to make sure they’re happy.

Angela and Sarah (+1) will be (hopefully) going in front of the full council to present/appeal/plead/beg on our behalf.

There is no more we can do after this so it’s imperative that if you can possibly venture out in the (hopefully dry by Monday) weather please do.

We need to make absolutely sure we have a coherent argument for them to take us seriously. It’s the last gasp effort. Really.

Update!

Published by Billy on February 3, 2009 in Bucksburn Community, Bucksburn Nursery, Bucksburn Parent Council, Bucksburn Primary School, Joint Parent Councils, Parental Assistance and Parental Involvement. 1 Comment Tags: , , , , .

The parent council, PTA, Newhills PC and other interested individuals have been very active recently as the final chance for our school is approaching.

Aberdeen City Council meet on 11th February at the Town Hall to make their final vote on the proposition as set out by the Culture and Learning, Neighbourhood Services (North) department of the council.

Public attendance at this meeting is offered if you turn up before 2PM. We are in the process of seeing if we can get a group of parents together to make a more formal representation to the council at this time before they vote. This really is the final opportunity to show the councillors that they need to disregard the case as produced and recommended by Culture & Learning, something that they are unlikely to do even with this representation.

Newhills PC have drawn up a petition which I encourage all parents to sign and I will endeavour to make this available to all parents ASAP. I would encourage parents at Bucksburn to communicate with Newhills at this time, we are both working very hard at achieving a common goal. Both schools serve their communities in the way required by those communities, neither favour the merger and the amalgamation will be the death knell of that special something which cannot be measured that I know Bucksburn, and am sure Newhills, has.

So this is it folks. Can we show the council that they need to listen to the huge public opinion on this matter and do what they were voted in to do – represent their constituents? OR, do we just let THEM tell US what’s going to happen instead?

It’s your school, YOU DECIDE!

Amalgamation Update

Published by Billy on January 15, 2009 in Bucksburn Community, Bucksburn Nursery, Bucksburn Parent Council, Bucksburn Primary School and Parental Involvement. 0 Comments

Following a meeting with Mr Brian Adam MSP and as reported here and here it looks for all intents and purposes as if the merger is due to take place regardless of local opinion. The parent council will be writing to all councillors to ensure that more than just the Newhills site be included in feasibility studies and also that the remit of those studies obtain further consultation from parents, or in plain English, they’ll check out more sites for the new school and ask us what points need to be considered when choosing the site.

Feel free to discuss in this forum thread.

Wrap Around Recall

Published by Billy on December 10, 2008 in Bucksburn Primary School. 0 Comments

The fluorescent reflective snappy bangle things the kids got the other day have been recalled as they are prone to the covers splitting, exposing the metal band inside which is effectively a blade!

If you still have one please return it to the school or dispose ASAP!

Weather Services

Published by Billy on December 3, 2008 in Bucksburn Nursery and Bucksburn Primary School. 0 Comments

Here are some of the information services you can use to find out if Bucksburn is open or closed during the impending bad weather.

  • This page on ACC’s Website
  • Listen to Northsound Radio
  • Phone the School Information Line on 0870 054 1999 – PIN 011210
  • Sign up for FREE Mobile Phone Text Alerts
  • Right Here!

Yes this site will be automatically updated as soon as information is known, from the Aberdeen City Council website. Keep an eye on the “Winter Weather Watch” box at the top of the main page.

If all that’s not easy enough for you, drag this link to your bookmarks bar: Weather Watcher