Staffing

On 17 May we look forward to welcoming Katy Gourley back to our Maths department following her maternity leave

Congratulations to Phil Gilholm, who will take up a Pupil Support Worker’s post Rosehill High School on 11 June 2023. Phil has been an amazing Pupil Support Worker in our Pupil Support Base for the last five years and made a huge impact with all the young people he has worked with. We will miss him greatly but wish him all the very best in his new post.

Karen Fraser, our Welfare Auxiliary has also been appointed at Rosehill High School as a Pupil Support Assistant and will start her new post there in August. Karen will be a huge loss to Knox Academy too as she has a wealth of experience in the nursing profession and we will miss her expertise.

Vacancies - We are currently advertising for a Permanent CDT teacher; a Biology teacher (0.35 permanent); a Pupil Support Worker (permanent) and an ASN Auxiliary.

Parents’ and Pupils’ Information

Activities Week (S1-S3)

All S1-S3 pupils will be involved in activities week next week. Most of our S3 will be away at PGL for the first half of the week and then on their return, all S3 will be engaging in a First Aid Course. S1 and S2 are involved in exciting local excursions. Great to have our activities week up and running this year!

SQA Exams

These continue to be really well attended and the comments about the exams pupils have sat this week is that they seem to have been ‘fair’ in terms of the words that the pupils have used to describe them.

West OS

West OS is offering a variety of live lessons during the exam leave and pupils can sign up for these here. These live lessons are a way of boosting skills and confidence across a wide variety of subjects (GLOW user name and password will be needed so ask any of your teachers if you don’t have these).

Edinburgh Marathon Festival Fundraiser

A group of staff, pupils and parents are running in the 10k, Half Marathon and Marathon for the Teenage Cancer Trust on the weekend of 27/28 May. This is a charity that is offering support for a pupil at Knox Academy and we wish to reach out as a community to offer our support. We are around 3 weeks out and have now reached the halfway mark with our attempt to raise £3000.00. The training is reaching its peak and some of us are finding it extremely challenging. We would appreciate any donations which can be given online. 

We will also be taking part in more charity events the week beginning 22 May that pupils should also look out for. We greatly appreciate the entire communities support! (L Borwick, CL of HWB)

Parents’ Information

Parent Council

A reminder that our final Parent Council Meeting of the year takes place this Thursday coming, 18 May, from 6.30-8pm, in the school library. All are welcome! Topics include our School Improvement Plan, The Knox Academy Way and Smartphone use in school.

Pupils’ Achievements

Success Stories

If you have any success stories about your young person please send these in to our admin@knox.elc.school.org so we can share these with everyone in our school and community. Thank you.

Support

Please do not hesitate to contact our Pupil Support Team by emailing your young person’s House Team if you would like to discuss any support we can offer.

• Garleton - garleton@knox.elcschool.org.uk(link sends e-mail)
• Lammerlaw - lammerlaw@knox.elcschool.org.uk(link sends e-mail)
• Traprain - traprain@knox.elcschool.org.uk(link sends e-mail)

 

Dates for your diary:

Monday 15 – Friday 19 May – S1-S3 Activities Week

Monday 22 – Pupils’ holiday and staff in-service day

Monday 5 June – New Timetable starts for all year groups

 

Our school calendar is updated regularly and should be used to access all information throughout the year and allows you to plan ahead too.

Sue Cook

Parent Council

The Parent Council has requested a footer on my HT’s update that remains there year round and which offers quick links to remote learning resources, course choices, supported study and careers news. Clicking on these headings takes you straight to these pages.

Please also look at our website for lots of other information. Please also follow us on Twitter for up-to-date news on a day to day basis.

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