We Care Award

We are delighted to announce that Edinburgh Young Carers have officially awarded us with the We Recognise level of the We Care Award! A huge thank you to Gail Fraser, from Pupil Support, for successfully leading on this award and showing how important our Young Carers are to us at Knox Academy.  We are leading the way in East Lothian as the first school to achieve it in the county!

Meadowpark’s Christmas Concert

This was an absolutely fabulous event, yesterday, with lots of singing (with audience participation); drumming and a piano solo. The whole concert was very much led by the talented pupils and got us all in to the Christmas spirit. There was even a visit from Santa and his Elf at the end with a selection box for everyone. We also said a fond farewell to Mrs Dalgleish, who has been with us for the last four years and has been an amazing teacher (after only coming on supply for a day). We wish her a happy and healthy retirement.

Anthony Nolan Trust

A huge thank you to so many of our S5/6 pupils, and staff, who volunteered to have a swab taken, to register for STEM cell donation, which can save the lives of others. We had 70 donors! What a lovely Christmas gift!

Achievement Ties

It was brilliant to be able to award sixteen achievement ties and an endeavour certificate yesterday, to pupils across all year groups and for a variety of achievements at local and national levels: football; dance; rugby; swimming; athletics; triathlon; air-cadets; gymnastics; hockey coaching. Thank you too who applied and our Achievement Tie Committee for deciding the award categories.

Quadrant (update)

We have now engaged our S1 andS5/6 pupils in researching the history of Knox Academy, and John Knox, and they have created some designs too. These have now been passed to Tree-ditions to start the design of the Totem pole – which will be a central piece in the new outdoor learning garden. Other year groups will also be involved in the design of other aspects of the garden.

Careers Event - Wednesday 15 January 6-8pm

We are really looking forward to hosting our annual Career Event on 15 January 2025. We have 55 confirmed exhibitors, with...