Yesterday the S3 KWN Group (J Calder-Petrie, B Cole, O McHugh, E Munro, R Taylor, S Uddin, A Waddell and C Wright) were accompanied by Mr Dempster and Miss Duff to attend the KWN Awards Ceremony in Redditch. After an early rise, followed by a flight to Birmingham, they arrived at the Palace Theatre. The day consisted of screenings of all the entries from across the UK, a "5-ring" photographic workshop, followed in the afternoon, by the awards being announced. After a tense wait, Knox Academy was the only school left without a certificate or award and amidst rising tension, the announcement was made: Knox Academy had won the UK Grand Prix. This award is given for the film that demonstrates the best overall performance across all the judging categories. The Knox Team has been invited to attend the Global Awards Ceremony held in August in London. Congratulations to all involved on an outstanding achievement; full details are on the web and you can view their documentary here.
The Parent School Partnership (Parent Council) met on Wednesday evening and the minutes will be available on the Parents’ website. Items discussed included the website, the results of the Management Structure Review and a presentation by Mr Illingworth (Depute) on how the school addresses concerns.
Today, it was a great pleasure to present K Neillans, 1T2, with April’s Purely Positive Pupil prize. Congratulations to Kathryn and all the Purely Positive Pupils.
We were delighted to welcome two teachers from our partner schools in Rwanda this week. Arsene Dukundigena is the Head Teacher of Ruhanga Secondary School and Celestin Kaberuka is a Primary teacher. Our guests observed a variety of classes including Science experiments, trampolining in PE, Art and African drumming as part of the S1 'Destination Africa' project. They were also persuaded to play on the Knox staff football team against S6 pupils! Both Arsene and Celestin have been very impressed with the behaviour and attitude of pupils at Knox, and the welcome that they have received from staff and pupils.
The SQA examinations for S4 pupils continue and those for S5/6 begin on Tuesday. I am sure the whole school community joins me in wishing all the pupils every success in these important examinations.
A reminder that Monday 8 and Tuesday 9 May are holidays for pupils (although Geographers have SQA examinations on Tuesday).
Best wishes.
JB Craig
