Staffing

Following interviews for our Curriculum Leader of Maths (Numeracy) and Computing, our preferred candidate is Paul Goodall, currently CL Maths and Newbattle High School.

Congratulations to Lorraine Arnot (currently Senior Business Support Assistant at Meadowpark) who will be joining the Knox Academy team, in January 2025, as Business Support Administrator.

Prelims (S4-S6)

These have gone well and there are only two days left of our prelims now. Well done to all of our young people for their hard work and commitment to their studies and giving these their best!

Christmas Concert

It is less than one week away from our concert, which takes place on Thursday 12 December. Tickets are selling fast! They can be bought from the Music Department - £4/£2 cash. It would be lovely to see as many parents/carers along as possible on this evening! There's going to be a fabulous array of talent and lots of festive cheer! 

End of term arrangements

Parents/carers should have received a letter from me on Monday regarding these. A copy of this letter can be read here.

Christmas Lunch

Please note this has now changed to Tuesday 17 December 2024. The menu can be accessed here.

Christmas Dance (S1-S3)

Great to see just about all of our S1-S3 young people attending last night’s Christmas Dance. It looked like they all had a great night! A huge thank you to our PTA for organising the refreshments; to Liam Morrison for being our DJ for the evening; and last, but not least, all the staff who gave up their evening to supervise it. Thank you all!

Christmas Fundraising

The Christmas Advent Calendar we will be using this year will be one based on the United Nations Rights of the Child and register classes will discuss these rights each morning as there is a different right covered each day of advent.

We are also going to be collecting for the Lammermuir Larder. If you are able to provide your young person with something to bring for this (non-perishable), by Monday 16 December, that would be...