| Administrative History | Built in 1906 by Aberdeen Burgh School Board as Sunnybank Public School, accommodating infant, junior and senior pupils. It became an Intermediate School on the 19th August 1924, closing to primary pupils.
In May 1934 the School Accommodation Sub-Committee reported to Town Council of Aberdeen's Education Committee on school accommodation in the north east of Aberdeen. It recommended that Sunnybank School revert into a Primary School and, to accommodate the Intermediate School pupils from Sunnybank, that a new school be built and Old Aberdeen School be converted into an Intermediate School.
In June 1936 the Director of Education recommended to the General Purposes Sub-Committee of the Education Committee that Sunnybank School be reconstructed and enlarged as a Primary School to relieve demand on Causewayend School, which had 'unsatisfactory accommodation'. This recommendation was accepted in December 1936.
Sunnybank Intermediate School closed on the 2nd June 1939 and its intermediate or advanced pupils were transferred to the new Powis Junior Secondary School on St Machar Drive, which opened on the 5th June 1939 (see Powis Academy ED/GR6S/A55).
In the intervening time the Second World War had broken out and the military authorities had taken over the Sunnybank School site. The Infant, Junior and Senior pupils of the reconstituted Sunnybank Primary were accommodated in Old Aberdeen, Seaton and Causewayend Schools in October 1939 and St Machar Church's halls until they were able to return to Sunnybank School on the 9th September 1940. |