The five pupils from Strichen Primary, aged 10 and 11, were crowned UK champions in February.
Liz Slaven found out Walter Hambock played for Adolf Hitler before coming to Scotland to teach.
Aberdeenshire Council had expressed "regret" last year over how it announced the planned closures.
Options for the way forward are being explored, and a series of community meetings are to be held.
Live Life Aberdeenshire said the locations were seeing lower numbers of users in recent years.
The former first minister's funeral and burial is attended by family and close friends only.
The former first minister died of a heart attack in North Macedonia at the weekend.
The Mormond Hill stag, which was created in 1870, had been hidden by gorse, heather and bracken.
Bill Gault was there at the end of a 200-year-old tradition of manned lighthouses.
