Joanne Hesford

Head Teacher @Oldmachar. Committed to achieving excellence together. #AchievingExcellenceTogether #WeAreOldmachar. Own views

[Qualifications Scotland @sqanews]

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[Miss Morrison @MissMoBusEd]

Oldmachar Christmas Door Winner 2024 🏆🎉

[Oldmachar HWB @OldieHWB]

The battle of Staff versus Pupils is complete. Just shy of 100 staff and pupils participated in loads of different events to raise money for the department.
Loads of Christmas prizes won and the competition was intense!
Until next time @oldmachar pupils 💪🏼

[Oldmachar HWB @OldieHWB]

Our winning staff vs pupil cookie decoration design went to Zoe in S2 for her detailed snowman face, and 2nd place went to Natasha in S4 with her sunbathing snowman! Also featuring Mrs Halls scary basketball Santa 🍪🎄🎅🏼

[Miss Hamilton @MissH_HomeEc]

Massive thank you Chef Mike Gray and @MrsHoweyHE who came to work with our Level 6 Hospitality and provide feedback on their development dishes as for their events. I was bursting with pride over their creativity, teamwork and organisation. Event info coming soon

[The Wood Foundation @TWF_Scotland]

There is still time to apply!

We are recruiting a Business & Community Support Officer to assist school-based colleagues in identifying and sourcing partners who can bring well-planned real-world learning to life at Oldmachar Academy @Excelerate_TWF

https://t.co/3awWLvnavG

[Miss Morrison @MissMoBusEd]

Miley, Freya, Jakub and Kai kicking off S3 C’s partnership presentations. Fabulous business ideas all round! 💡

[Miss Downie @MissDownie2]

My S1 class really enjoyed modelling states of matter using play doh!

[Oldmachar Academy @oldmachar]

Huge congratulations Miss Cunningham 👏

[Miss Downie @MissDownie2]

National 5 biologists and my S3s both explored protein synthesis today. They were given DNA strands which they had to organise into codons and translate into amino acids before finally building their protein using play doh 🔶🟡🔻

[Miss Morrison @MissMoBusEd]

It’s that time again in Higher Business. Please vote for your favourite organisational “structure” by liking the relevant tweet. Winners have been promised some prizes! Please RT if you can too ☺️ winners announced on Thursday next week.

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[Oldmachar HWB @OldieHWB]

Quorn demo for S4 Health and Food Tech students and Hospitality students today @oldmachar

[Oldmachar HWB @OldieHWB]

Good luck to James Murray S4 at school golf competition this weekend representing Oldmachar Academy @oldmachar @OAwider_achieve 🏌️‍♂️

[Oldmachar HWB @OldieHWB]

The extra curricular fair was the place to be at lunch time today! So much on offer all across the school 🎉✨ @oldmachar

[Oldmachar HWB @OldieHWB]

Well done to this years selected young ambassadors Kirsty (S6) and Rhys (S4). Two confident and driven young people who have left this years conference extremely enthusiastic about improving sport at Oldmachar. Loads of amazing ideas ready to go. Very proud ✨@oldmachar

[Oldmachar HWB @OldieHWB]

1A working real hard ✨🤸🏻‍♂️

[Mrs Wilkinson @mrswilkogeo]

S3s were enjoying the sunshine while checking to see how many of the staffs’ cars were LEZ compliant 🏎️

[Miss Downie @MissDownie2]

Best addition to my classroom this term 🧬

[Oldmachar Library @Oldie_Library]

What a really lovely morning chatting with families visiting Oldmachar during our open morning today. Huge thank you to Dami, one of our library ambassadors, who led the meet & greet in the library 🌟🤩🌟 #WeAreOldmachar

[Miss Downie @MissDownie2]

Using my iPad to give detailed marking schemes to my Higher Bio class.

These were all questions that had high failure rates in the homework’s. They completed them again and checked their answers, using my annotations to correct and add their own feedback ✍🏻