It’s been wonderful to see so many staff and pupils enjoying reading for ‘Keep the Heid and Read’ as part of Mental Health Awareness week. Our BGE classes have enjoyed six minutes of quiet reading time to celebrate the power of reading and promote good mental health and wellbeing

Wednesday was P7 Science day: a fun packed day where all the P7s worked together with the science department engaging in experiments alongside their S3 helpers. #readyrespectfulsafe #transition Hill of Banchory Banchory Primary Crathes Primary Drumoak School Durris School and Crossroads Nursery

This week's assembly discussed ways in which Banchory Academy can Support our pupils mental wellbeing. #readyrespectfulsafe

Congratulations to Cromar Future Group on their Queen's Award for Voluntary Service, and to S6 Banchory Academy pupil Jamie Holroyd who will accept the award on their behalf in recognition of his work with the Everything Electronics Youth Club futuregroup.org.uk

Congratulations to S3 pupil Luc MacLeod who won Silver 🥈 at this weekends Scottish Schools Pentathlon Championship. During the event Luc competed in the 80m hurdles, long jump, 200m & 800m and his points for each event were added together, giving him a total of 2484 👏

Congratulations to our S1 Poetry of Science winners! As usual, the standard was very high and the judges commended the youngsters on their creative thinking around the science experiments as well as use of poetic techniques. #poetryofscience

At Tuesday's prize giving Mrs Wight presented former pupils Neil Simpson MBE and his brother Andrew Simpson MBE with Banchory Academy's gold medal in recognition of their magnificent achievements at Beijing Paralympics in March 2022. A very proud day for the school.

We are very happy to announce we have been awarded a Digital Schools Award in recognition of the all the hard work the staff and pupils have put in over the last few years. Digital Schools

Advanced Higher English and Modern Studies pupils were actively engaged in a Journalism workshop delivered by ex-pupil Daniel Rees (Daniel Rees) who currently writes for the Colchester Gazette and freelances for the P&J. Thanks to Daniel for such an invigorating experience.

Careers Fair returns this year & parents, carers and pupils are invited to the school to meet with a wide range of industry, business, Higher and Further Education representatives. With an opportunity to hear about UCAS, applying to various courses and Young Apprenticeships.

Banchory Academy held a whole school assembly today to mark the passing of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. This was followed by a 2 minute silence. As a matter of respect there will be no updates on this page until further notice.

On the Sep 28th, we are welcoming our Business Partner @WMDonaldLtd into school to inspired and motivated the students with hands on experience. Helping students to make connections between their current subjects and possible career pathways across the construction sector.

A huge thanks to @WMDonaldLtd for working in partnership with the technical department to create a very successful, hands on work experience day for all our technical students. #consideration #opportunity #responsibility #excellence DYW North East

RT Literacy@BanchoryAcademy: It's #LibrariesWeek2022 and how wonderful to see our school library full of pupils all reading for pleasure. #library #schoollibraries #neverstoplearning #rtba

RT Literacy@BanchoryAcademy: Happy Halloween!!🎃 It was wonderful to see all our pupils back at school today - well done to everyone who took part in the library trick or treat event! #schoollibraries #TrickorTreat #rtba

A big thank you to Gregor, Scott and Jenny who helped at the Rotary Bingo night raising funds for Ukrainian and Peru charities. It was a great night and they even managed to take some prizes home too 👏

Congratulations to Matthew Mair and Jamie Holroyde in S6 who have moved onto the next round of the Donald Dewar Memorial Debate beating two other teams by opposing the debate motion ‘This House Would Boycott Sporting Events Held by Oppressive Regimes’. Law Society Scotland

We were delighted to have the poet Don Paterson in to the Learning Plaza to discuss the six poems on the SQA Scottish set text list with Higher pupils who were very appreciative. don paterson #opportunity #excellence

Wishing our amazing leavers the very best of luck in their exams! Embrace your future with confidence, and know we're cheering for you on, every step of the way. Here's to bright horizons and endless possibilities. #Consideration #Opportunity #Responsibility #Excellence

Prize Giving was held yesterday at Banchory Ternan East Church. Special guest speaker was Aberdeenshire Chief Executive Jim Savege following and excellent speech by our School Captains, and a jaw dropping performance Buntu Ndlovu. Congratulations to all our prize winners.