Staffing

Our acting DHT post closes on Sunday and interviews will take place for this next Friday (10 May 2024).

SQA

Exams continue to go well and attendance at these very good.

Curriculum

We have been working with our staff, pupils and Parent Council to review our curriculum. Please find a link to our revised curriculum rationale  (parental summary) which was the result of this process.

S2 Under the Stars Trip

Last week a group of 30 S2s were lucky enough to take part in the annual Knox Under the Stars Trip.  This is a trip ran alongside EL Outdoor Education where the pupils get to experience a night of camping.  We walked to the beautiful Lennox Love Estate and camped right out the front of the main House.  The surroundings were majestic and the pupils enjoyed many team building games around the estate as the sun was setting.  The pupils then cooked dinner over the camp fire and even enjoyed delicious popcorn!  The night ended with everyone sharing stories in the dark round the fire and it just showed that the rich Scottish storytelling tradition is still strong in East Lothian. After successfully scaring each other the pupils then went to sleep in tents and survived the chilly temperatures.  Next morning they made breakfast, played some more team building games and headed back to school with many new stories of their own. It was a very successful trip and the pupils behaved impeccably.  We hope to run more of these trips in the future. (By Mrs Reynolds, English)

Community Event Fund Competition

Haddington Rugby Club has entered a prize draw to support funds for Meadowpark. Please can our school staff, pupils and parents/carers vote here (voting is open for the month of May). Thank you.

Successes

Rugby

Congratulations to our S1 team who won the East Lothian 7s at North Berwick last weekend. They remain unbeaten this season! Congratulations also to Hamish Mainstone and Andrew Millar, who were playing for Edinburgh Gunners Under 16s, and won their games against Glasgow and Newcastle Falcons at the weekend. These matches for Andrew and Hamish competed the Scotland U16s pathway programme for this season.

Music

Congratulations to David Hunter (S3) has won Best Newcomer award for Dalkeith Brass Band (trumpet).

Maths - UKMT Junior Mathematical Challenge

S1 and S2 pupils participated in the UKMT Junior Mathematical Challenge last week. This involved solving up to 25 multiple choice questions encouraging mathematical reasoning to make pupils think. If you're interested in having some fun and trying some out yourself you can access the paper (and answers!) here. This is the first time Knox Academy has participated in the competition for a number of years and we're super proud of the amazing standard set by the pupils - not only in terms of their participation, engagement and effort in attempting to solve these unfamiliar problems but also for those who achieved a Bronze, Silver and Gold certificate. 16 pupils achieved Bronze, 10 achieved silver and 4 achieved Gold! I'd like to further congratulate Fred and Lexi in S2 who scored enough to go forward to the next round on 11 June 2024 - more details to follow!

 

Dates for your diary:

22 April – Friday 31 May - SQA exam leave for S4/5/6 pupils

6 May - holiday (all pupils/staff)

13-17 May – S1-S3 Activities Week

16 May – Parent Council – 6.30-8pm (school library)

20 May - holiday (pupils only) - those sitting exams must still attend these

24 May – S3 BGE Graduation (Pupils only)

27-31 May – S3 Work Experience

3 June – start of new timetable 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

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