In recent years we have given S1 and S2 pupils the opportunity to take part in an activity week in late May.\u00a0 We have seen a steady decline in participation over recent years and alongside this there have been increased costs for venues and transport.\u00a0 As a result we have decided not to go ahead with the activity week this year.\u00a0 We will instead look to provide a set of activities during the course of the school session.\u00a0 These activities will relate more closely to the school curriculum and be incorporated into the work of the school in a way to keep costs down as much as possible.<\/p>\n
The first two of these activities will take place before summer.\u00a0 They are a forest walk in May and a sports day in June.\u00a0 Letters have gone out about the forest walk and we hope to see almost all S1 and S2 pupils taking part.\u00a0 If anyone has any doubts about participating please contact the guidance teacher or year head.\u00a0 We can help if folk do not have the correct footwear or clothing to go a walk with their classmates in the forest beside Banchory.\u00a0 We have tried to keep the costs of the bus down but again if cash is a problem let us know and we can help.\u00a0 We want it to be a good day, one that everyone takes part in.<\/p>\n
The second event is the school sports day in June.\u00a0 Again this is a great chance for pupils to spend the day taking part or cheering on their classmates and supporting their house.\u00a0 We want to see people participating and making it a positive day for their school.\u00a0 Once again, if people need help with PE kit etc let us know \u2013 we are here to help and to make it an easy event to take part in and one which we can all enjoy.<\/p>\n
If these two events go well we shall be in contact again with details of others after the summer. \u00a0If we do not get the support of parents and pupils we may simply stop these wider opportunities. \u00a0We would prefer that our school provided some \u2018special\u2019 moments where youngsters can do something they might never get the chance to do again. \u00a0We hope you appreciate why we have had to review what we can offer but will support the two events running this side of summer<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
In recent years we have given S1 and S2 pupils the opportunity to take part in an activity week in late May.\u00a0 We have seen a steady decline in participation over recent years and alongside this there have been increased costs for venues and transport.\u00a0 As a result we have decided not to go ahead […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1848,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorised","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.harlawacademy.org\/option1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.harlawacademy.org\/option1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.harlawacademy.org\/option1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.harlawacademy.org\/option1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.harlawacademy.org\/option1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.harlawacademy.org\/option1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1851\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.harlawacademy.org\/option1\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.harlawacademy.org\/option1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.harlawacademy.org\/option1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.harlawacademy.org\/option1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}