Dyce Academy

The Expressive Arts Faculty held their second showcase event last Thursday.  Here are some of the comments from parents at the end of the evening and some photographs of the event.

• The Expressive Arts events give the children confidence in themselves and others”
• “Excellent evening! Keep up the great work from pupils and staff. A great show of Dyce Academy Talent”
•  “Gives us all the opportunity to see what talent and dedication the pupils have”
•  “pupils were confident and represented the school brilliantly”
•  “A bigger venue so that more people can see the different types of talent that is being nurtured here”
•  “So many talented kids at the school who deserve opportunities to show how good they are”

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Shell and the Ferrari F1 Racing Team hosted an exciting day at the University of Aberdeen on Tuesday 18^th November.  Thirteen pupils from Dyce Academy attended.  Following a talk about forces the pupils got into teams and constructed a K’Nex car that used gears to help it race down a purpose-built track way.  They were then asked to rejig their designs to enable them to climb the two hills placed on the track. The times of the cars were then taken together over the two runs and one of the Dyce Academy teams was the fastest.  The 4 boys were presented with a fantastic watch each by Ferrari test driver Marc Gene.  Marc spent time with all the teams and signed pictures for the pupils.

The second part of the day took place at Satrosphere with a variety of science-based activities which included building a small kit car powered by salt water.  All the pupils really enjoyed this activity and were pleased to take their cars home. Pupil accounts of the day and more photographs will appear in the end of term Update.

Twenty two S3 pupils studying Modern Studies at Dyce Academy had a fascinating day visiting the Scottish Parliament on Tuesday 18th November. Following an excellent Q&A session, they presented MSPs Mark McDonald and Richard Baker with a newly released Global Citizenship calendar marking six years of successful links with our partner schools in Kenya and South Sudan. Afterwards, they sat in the chamber to watch the final speech of First Minister, Alex Salmond.