School Closures

How to find out about school closures

Guidance for Parents/Guardians on School Closure due to bad weather or other emergency: Use one of the following methods to find out if the school is closed.

1) Outwith school hours, your local Radio Station is a good place to find out information on school closures. This is because the following Radio Stations receive up-dated information every 15 minutes from our website.

Northsound 1 FM96.9 Northsound 2 MW1035kHz

2) Parents can also access information about school closure from the following website .

https://www.aberdeenshire.gov.uk/schools/

3) Parents can register to receive text alerts about school closures and changes to school transport arrangements. Aberdeenshire council has changed the way parents receive online alerts about school closures and changes to school transport. You can now sign up for these notifications through myaccount on the Aberdeenshire Council website – if you currently pay for school meals online, you will already be registered.

myaccount is a simple, secure way of accessing a range of Scottish public services using just one username and password and 13,000 parents across Aberdeenshire are already enjoying the benefits of it.

As well as being able to sign up for alerts, your home page will automatically give you handy information such as your bin collection days, where your nearest recycling centre is and the names of your local councillors.

So, if you want to be kept up-to-date and take advantage of the other myaccount benefits, sign up to the new system by going to the Aberdeenshire Council website and clicking on the red register button in the top right-hand corner.

In the event of closure, the staff have collated stage appropriate activities for the pupils to complete at home. These can be found here School Closure Home Learning Activities .

School Closure Activities

In the event of short term school closures, pupils can access home-learning activities prepared by staff by clicking on the links below:

Home learning activities for use on school closure days p1-3

Home learning activities for use on school closure days p4-7

In the event of longer term closures, parents and carers will be contacted with updates via email.

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