Knox Academy is pleased to invite applications for the following vacancies:
Closing Date: Sunday 9 February 2020
Closing Date: Sunday 16 February 2020
All current and previous vacancies can be viewed within our Recruitment section of our website.
General News
Published: 02 February 2020
This week staff and pupils were able to put our vision into action that we will ‘Always choose kindness and create a respectful environment where staff and pupils can inspire each other to achieve their goals and become life-long learners."
It is transition time and we have been welcoming parents and pupils who have been given a placement in Meadowpark and for whom a soft, gentle, pupil led integration is key to ensuring continued success. Read more here...
Published: 31 January 2020
On Friday 7th February Higher Drama learners shall meet at the Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh at 7.10pm for a 7.30pm performance of the play Mouthpiece. Pupils shall be dismissed from the theatre at the end of the performance, 9pm.
Published: 30 January 2020
Mumps is currently circulating in the community at a higher than usual level in Lothian. Most cases are young adults, older than school age, but we are starting to see cases in school children. Mumps is a viral infection which is not usually a serious illness but it can take up to ten days or more to feel better. The infection can be easily spread from person to person by direct contact with saliva or droplets of saliva (e.g. via coughs and sneezes) from an infected individual.
Lothian NHS Board have issued a letter giving further information surrounding Mumps and the MMR vaccination.
Published: 30 January 2020
Food Standards Scotland are currently developing a partnership campaign on allergens in young people, and while they are adding the final touches to the campaign they are looking to find out more about what the young people of Scotland feel about food allergies. Partnering up with Young Scot, the national youth information and citizenship charity, they have launched an allergies survey to get young people’s thoughts, whether they have an allergy to something you can eat, or not.
They are specifically looking for 12 – 18 year olds, and those taking part will be entered into a prize draw for the chance to win one of three £50 Amazon vouchers, and if they’re a Young Scot member they can also claim 150 Reward points.
The survey closes on 9 February 2020
Published: 24 January 2020
Today we bid farewell to Judie Hadden, ASN Learning Assistant Extraordinaire! Judie and I were 2 of the original 3 staff who met in August 2015 to begin in a new provision in a school which was still being renovated and with 3 young people with hugely varying profiles. Staff and pupils operated out of one of the SfL rooms in Knox while I sat alongside Curriculum Leaders in what is now the Guidance room. We worked closely together with our Knox colleagues to develop opportunities for our pupils. We were overjoyed to move to Meadowpark in June 2016 and have continued to grow in number and achievements. Judie has accommodated all these changes in her own inimitable way and we know that she will be an asset to her new employers. Our loss is very much their gain. A wee poem follows...Good-Bye Judie
Published: 24 January 2020
Knox Academy is pleased to invite applications for the following vacancy:
Closing Date: Sunday 2 February 2020
All current and previous vacancies can be viewed within our Recruitment section of our website.
Published: 22 January 2020
As Drama isn't on S2 timetables, please come to the department to make an appointment for parents' evening if you are thinking about taking drama in S3.
Published: 21 January 2020
The way our students are using technology to support their studies is continually evolving, and as a school community we are trying to keep up with the pace of change. As a result, we have decided not to continue our school wide use of Show My Homework and will terminate our contract with the company in February. In place of this, class teachers are using the free Google Platform to share resources, deadlines and homework tasks.
All our learners have access to GoogleDocs through their school Edubuzz account, and are already doing so in class time in a variety if subjects. The majority of class teachers are already utilising this facility, with further staff training at our recent in-service following the Christmas holidays. Therefore, we are now comfortable to roll out this development across the school and remove Show My Homework completely. As with Show My Homework, the GoogleApp can be installed on home devices to enable reminders and alerts to function.
Over the coming weeks, I would encourage you to sit down with your child to look at the wealth of resources they already have shared on this platform, and for them to teach you how they are using GoogleDocs to promote collaborative work between their peers.
If Knox Academy is closed in line with ELC procedures, for example during adverse weather, staff will be updating work on Google for the pupils to be able to access.
For individual learners who do not have access to technology at home, paper copies of appropriate resources can always be provided by the class teacher.
Published: 17 January 2020
It’s been great to have all staff and pupils back for a full week and settling quickly into the swing of things. The weather has been against us somewhat alternating between warm, wet, mild, cold and windy which has not been conducive to accessing outdoors at break and lunch. However our innovative staff have provided opportunities for socialising in the gym and common room.
A few brave souls have ventured outside and been a little thwarted because one of the playgrounds has had a ‘face lift – well, perhaps mud pack is a more accurate description…. read more here
