News
03 February 2012
Mr Jappy, Miss McPhee, Mrs Slowther and Mrs Barber made a 3-day return visit to our partner school in the city of Karvina, Czech Republic.
Departing on Thursday 26 January, the group visited Auschwitz Birkenau concentration camp in Poland before making their way south to the city of Karvina, Czech Republic. Friday was spent visiting the mountain of Radhost, and the village of Pustevny, to experience traditional Czech mountain life. Saturday was spent visiting the city of Ostrava, before travelling north to Krakow for their flight home early on Sunday morning.
The weather was very cold during their stay, but once again received a warm welcome from their Czech hosts. A group of teachers from Karvina will be visiting the school in mid March.
Photographs of the visit can be viewed below.
A Jappy
03 February 2012
Mrs Baird's S2 and S3 classes have been reflecting on the theme of "Speak Up Speak Out" for Holocaust Memorial Day 2012.
They have been looking at past and present case studies as well as looking at examples abroad and within the UK where the language of hatred has been prevalent.
To commemorate the day, pupils have been making class 'Posters of Hope'. These have included collages of candles as symbols of light and hope as well as personal messages of encouragement from the pupils to the world.
Images of the class collages can be seen below.
Mrs S Baird
02 February 2012
This session we have launched Community Assemblies. We have invited prominent members of the local community to speak to all pupils about their role in the Haddington Community and why Haddington is such a good community to live in.
This month Debi Gliori, local author and illustrator spoke about her life and work. As a result of the Prelim Diet, this assembly was a video-assembly held during an extended registration.
This means that the assembly can be viewed by the wider school community - the embedded video is below - or viewable by clicking here.
26 January 2012
25 January 2012
Kids Witness News (KWN) is a global film competition run and funded by Panasonic.
This year the Knox Academy team members are Caitlin Wright, Saimah Uddin, Owen McHugh, Eilidh Munro, Rhona Taylor, Becky Cole, Andrew Waddell and Janina Calder-Petrie, all S3 pupils.
The subject of the film is "Knife Crime and its effect on society". Our slogan is ‘Think of life, put down the knife’.
Yesterday, the group were lucky enough to be able to visit St Andrew's House in Edinburgh to interview Kenny MacAskill, the Justice Secretary for Scotland. The team arranged the interview with Mr MacAskill themselves, for which they were commended. Mr MacAskill was very friendly and approachable and answered all our questions with great detail.
The KWN team greatly enjoyed the experience and would like to thank all involved for their help.
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Saimah Uddin and Caitlin Wright
24 January 2012
We were very pleased to receive the photograph below of the sunrise over the school on Monday 23 January 2011.
The photograph was taken by C Hall (parent) and reflects the start of a new learning week at Knox Academy.
23 January 2012
Due to unforseen circumstances the Burns' Night Celebrations scheduled for 25 January have been postponed.
"A Taste of Scotland" will be held on Tuesday 8 March.
Further details will follow closer to the time.
M Ball
19 January 2012
Minutes of the meeting of the Parent School Partnership, held on Wednesday 11 January 2012, are now available to view. These are currently a draft version to be finally approved at the next meeting.
Further details of PSP activities and previous minutes can be accessed on this website: School Info > Parent School Partnership.
The Parent School Partnership website can be accessed here.
18 January 2012
The most recent version of the Extra-Curricular Activities Timetable can now be viewed in the Extra-Curricular area of the website - click here.
08 January 2012
Listen again to the fantastic musical talent of Knox Academy pupils who took part in the Christmas Concert held on Tuesday 20 December 2011.
To listen and view the videos please click here.
