Aboyne Pupils play key role at Offshore Europe 2015

Aboyne Pupils play key role at Offshore Europe 2015

This year’s Offshore Europe event at the AECC saw pupils from Aboyne Academy, with whom the school has a well-established partnership, play a key role on one of the ARCADION stands. Pupils had worked with ARCADION staff over the past year to assist in the stand designs and their preparatory work led to the opportunity for graphic design pupils to attend the exhibition. While a whole class was involved, designs prepared by S3 pupils Owen John, Ben Preston and Mhairi Welsh were selected by ARCADION to be incorporated on the stand and a “stand-out” design by James Knowles was also used in ARCADION’s pre-show promotional adverts in both the British Airways and Eastern Airways in-flight magazines.

In addition to the Design pupils involvement pupils from Hospitality classes attended the exhibition to assist with the provision of catering and worked hard during the week preparing and distributing large numbers of venison burgers, pasta dishes and fruit smoothies to many hungry delegates. The hard work of those Home Economic pupils and the ARCADION staff resulted in the collection of over £2000 in donations to the school.

All in all the school’s involvement in the exhibition was a unique learning opportunity for the pupils and staff involved and had the added benefit of supporting school funds.

The photo shows ARCADION Technical Director, Clive Gregory presenting a cheque for the donations collected to Academy Rector, Raymond Jowett.