Education, Learning & Leisure.
Education
Aberdeenshire Education is part of the Council’s Education, Learning & Leisure Service. One of the largest education authorities in Scotland, it provides a wide range of services to the people of Aberdeenshire.
Within the Council area are:
- 85 nursery units
- 152 primary schools
- 4 special schools
- 17 secondary schools
- 35 community centres
- 1 outdoor and residential centre
Over 6,000 staff are employed delivering education to 35,000
pupils and a further 40,000 users of community facilities.
This makes it the largest of Aberdeenshire Council’s
services. The Director, Heads of Service and those working
in Central Support Services are based within Council Headquarters.
In addition, each of Aberdeenshire’s six areas and their establishments
are supported by Education Officers and admin staff based in
local offices at Banff, Peterhead, Turriff, Inverurie and Stonehaven.
Learning & Leisure
The Learning & Leisure service aims to:
- Encourage interest and participation in sport, physical activity and related activities which support healthy lifestyles. Create a ladder of opportunity to allow talented individuals to achieve their full potential.
- Initiate and support a programme of arts activity which will ensure that all our residents are encouraged to access and be involved in the arts. Offer enhancement support to the work of active arts organisations.
- Assist and encourage all our residents in realising their full potential through the positive exploitation of all our libraries and information services and those wider resources available through library networks.
- Preserve and maintain the material culture of the North East through the Council’s Museums and Heritage Service and by the support of local heritage interests.
- Encourage visitors to the area through the development and
maintenance of existing high quality visitor attractions
and visitor services which relate to and are supportive of
the culture, heritage and natural attractions of our area.
Develop schemes of financial assistance for individuals and groups which seek to pursue any sphere of interest related to these aims. - Promote policies of facilitating and enabling, establishing and supporting partnerships for action, and increasing the capacity of others to solve problems.
For further information on the Education, Learning & Leisure Service, please see the following links:
