General News

Published: 12 December 2024

Knox Academy are hosting a Career and Opportunities Fair on Wednesday 15 January 2025 6-8pm. Over 50 business exhibitors will be attending and the full list can be found in this information leaflet.

Published: 10 December 2024

Fixing for a Future will be offering more sewing workshops next term. Thank you to all pupils who attended the workshops this session.

If you want to learn to sew, or remodel some old clothes into new clothes or items, these workshops are for you. These workshops will run on Thursdays, after school, from 3.45-5.45pm, and the focus is on improving your sewing skills and making items that are against fast fashion (using old items to create new or to make adjustments to items you already have). The workshops will start on Thursday 9 January and then run on 16, 23, 30 January and then on the 6 and 20 February (there will be no workshops during the February holiday). 

There will also be a second block of workshops (those doing the first block can stay on for these too if they want and new people can also join them). These will run from Thursday 27 February and then Thursday 6 March (when pupils will show what they have made at our Diversity Event) and then 13, 20 and 27 March and finish on Thursday 3 April.

The sewing workshops will take place in Ms Stobie's room (M9) on the ground floor at the corner of social subjects. 

Places are limited to 8 pupils and pupils from all years are welcome to join these. 

If you would like to join these workshops (block one, block two, or both) please let Ms Cook (Head Teacher) know by Monday 16tDecember, at the latest, so I can get a consent form out to you and back before the Christmas holidays. You can let me know you are interested by email or by coming to see me.

Hope to hear from some of you soon.

Ms Cook

Published: 10 December 2024

Due to the high numbers enjoying Christmas lunch there will be two sittings. We ask the S4-S6 pupils to attend at 12.40pm for lunch and then S1-S3 attend at the normal lunchtime of 1.05pm. Lunch will finish for everyone at the normal time of 1.45pm. Once pupils have finished eating their lunch they should leave the dinner hall to allow others a space to eat. Prefects should help with the queue and lunch hall when they have finished their early lunch.

Published: 05 December 2024

Please see attached the Knox Academy Christmas lunch menu. Students can pay for this as normal using their Young Scot card. The Christmas lunch will take place in the canteen on Tuesday 17 December 2024. 

Published: 03 December 2024

The Knox Christmas Concert will take place on Thursday 12 December 2024 7-9pm. 

Tickets have been selling fast with the majority sold so get yours quick!

£4 adults/£2 concession from Mrs Middlemiss in the Music Department at Break or Lunch (Cash Only)

This is always a brilliant event! We'd love teachers to come along too so please encourage them to get their tickets! 

Thanks to Thomas Robertson (S6) for the poster design.

 

 

Published: 02 December 2024

Public Health Scotland have a useful guide for parents and carers, advising of illness and how long young people should be kept off school.

Parents/carers can find further health advice on NHS inform.

 

 

Published: 26 November 2024

The Autumn/Winter term is always packed with activities, which add something special to school life, and this session will be no different in terms of the number of events taking place during the month of December. 

Please see Miss Cook's letter dated 25 November 2024 for full details of all events and arrangements as the term comes to a close.  

Published: 25 November 2024

The library is hosting a fantastic competition which is open to all year groups. 

Write your best 50 word winter themed story and hand it into the library with your name and class on it by Monday 16 December 2024. 

A prize will be given out for the top three entries.

Pop into the library if you have any questions or to find out more! 

Published: 15 November 2024

Knox Academy Christmas Concert will take place on Thursday 12 December 2024.

Matinee performance at 11:30 am for an audience of P7 pupils from our local primary school and residents from local Care Homes. The entire S1 will perform the S1 Christmas Choir song The Bells of Christmas Medley!

Evening Concert at 7 pm. Tickets go on sale next week in the Music Department at Break. £4 adult/£2 concession (cash only)

Published: 06 November 2024

Following a meeting with the Quadrant Committee on Thursday 30 October, we have approved a design (visual and narrative) by a company called Tree-ditions. Pupils will also be involved in the creation of the school’s story on the Totem Pole and also in some of the planting up of the garden itself. Once finished, by May at latest, this will become an outdoor classroom, which various subjects across the school will put to good use for learning and teaching. The design has been based around being eco-friendly and sustainability. Exciting times!

Thank you to all who contributed to the group or fed back to us on the designs.

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