The 9 pupils below held a Jumble Sale in the Corn Exchange on Saturday. They raised a fantastic £1492.00.
Everyone worked really hard and the kids made a fantastic team.
The event was really well supported by the local community who both attended and donated!
A reminder that Monday 15 April 2013 is a holiday for both pupils and staff.
All resume on Tuesday 16 April at 8.44 am.
This year's Haddington-Aubigny Twinning Scholarship for a one month stay in Aubigny including a work experience placement has been awarded to Louisa Paxton (6T1).
She was up against strong competition for the award and both applicants deserve congratulations for their presentations.
We hope Louisa will find her experience of great benefit in her studies of Law with French at Glasgow University next year.
Félicitations, Louisa
P Hutchinson
Haddington are holding a 'Town Market' in aid of Haddington Festive Lights on Saturday 13 April 10 am - 3 pm in Haddington High Street (outside the George Hotel).
Fresh produce, jewellery and accessories, handmade gifts, sweets, chic bric-a-brac, food stalls, plants flowers and lots more.
Fun for all the family!
Information distributed for and on behalf of Haddington Town Market. Their advertising poster is viewable here.
The latest edition of Knox News is now available for viewing and downloading on this website in the News section: News > Knox News.
If you require a paper copy and cannot access the website, please contact the school office on 01620 823387.
One of our woodwind instructors has started a woodwind group/jazz band and is looking for more saxophonists for the group. Any pupils that are currently playing clarinet/flute can play the saxophone, but we actually need the instruments!
We wonder if anybody might be willing to donate any instruments they no longer use and see them being put to use by our young people.
If you feel that you are able to assist with what would be an incredibly generous gift, or help in any other way please contact the school.
At the recent Listen and Learn Youth Summit, a short video was put together by the East Lothian Youth Council.
The topics they identified as being most important through Listen and Learn and the Youth Council this year are:
For further information, please contact Caroline Davis (Dialogue Youth Co-ordinator).
Everyone is welcome at The Bridges Project, Haddington on Thursdays during term time from 6.30-8.30 pm.
Pop in for a chat, to shoot some snooker, play table tennis, play on the Wii, watch some TV and stock up at the tuck shop.
If you have any health worries pop upstairs to see a nurse – could be about anything: exam stress, healthy eating advice, or just for a chat with someone who can listen.
Today is National Poetry Day, and to celebrate a poem chosen by Mr Swinney,
Every branch big with it,
Bent every twig with it;
Every fork like a white web-foot;
Every street and pavement mute:
Some flakes have lost their way, and grope back upward when
Meeting those meandering down they turn and descend again.
The palings are glued together like a wall,
And there is no waft of wind with the fleecy fall.
A sparrow enters the tree,
Whereon immediately
A snow-lump thrice his own slight size
Descends on him and showers his head and eye
And overturns him,
And near inurns him,
And lights on a nether twig, when its brush
Starts off a volley of other lodging lumps with a rush.
The steps are a blanched slope,
Up which, with feeble hope,
A black cat comes, wide-eyed and thin;
And we take him in.
Thomas Hardy, 1840-1928
I was very impressed with the professionalism and infectious enthusiasm from Pete the Beat with the Knox pupils.
The pupils from Knox were a mix of pupils with specific needs and pupils who had an interest in drumming and wanted to learning new drumming skills. The first session was interesting to see how the pupils would mix and learn to work together to form their own 'band' - I was not convinced they would all be able to come together! They all seemed quite embarrassed and shy initially. By week 4 it was harder to get them all to be quiet as they all wanted to play so much!
Having spoken to the majority of pupils throughout the whole block they seem to have really enjoyed the experience (some even asking if they could do this again next term!) Along with learning some new drumming and percussion techniques on the various different instruments Pete provided, the pupils have tested their listening skills, group work, concentration and communication skills in a very different way.
In the final week the pupils played what they had learned in a final performance. The most interesting thing for me to see/hear was everything coming together, (I had heard them the week before!)
The pupils being able to continue playing their own particular part of the rhythm without being distracted by the other pupils round about them playing slightly different and sometimes contrasting rhythms - the amount of focus they all had was fantastic!
You didn't know you were hearing what you were hearing until parts were 'faded in and out' during the performance - again proving the pupils ability to concentrate on their own part of the whole performance, following cues from Pete.
"From my point of view the project has been a big success. Lots of positive engagement by pupils despite a tricky start and everyone cared about their playing and rhythms as a group. Everyone took ownership of the music and created their own dubstep groove to work with the West African piece we studied. - Peter Vilk"
An all round excellent project for the pupils from Knox Academy to be involved in and we hope to be able to run the project with a different group of pupils again in the future.
J Duff
