All pupils that have been selected to represent Knox Academy at the East Lothian Cross Country Event next week, Can you please come down at the start of break on Fridday 31 January 2025 to meet Mrs McSherry and Thomas in the Games Hall.
January 2025
Published: 29 January 2025
The Christmas Dance 2024 Thumbnails are now on display. If you wish to place an order please carefully fill out the order form, and submit payment (£1 per photo, or the special deal 3 for £2) with Mrs Swallow or Mr Dempster.
It would be great to get all orders in quickly so you could receive after the February Break. Time is marching on!
ORDER BY THURSDAY 6 FEBRUARY 2025
Published: 29 January 2025
The stage is set - let the battle commence!! Battle of the Bands - Thursday 30 January 2025
Published: 29 January 2025
if you are involved in the Knox Girls football team, Please meet Thomas in the Games Hall at break time today - Tuesday 29 January 2025.
Published: 28 January 2025
THURSDAY 30 JANUARY 2025
The following S3s have been selected to be judges for our S2 Battle of the Bands competition on Thursday since they were in the winning class last year:
- Rosanna Lyall
- Freya Musgrave
- Boyd Fearnside
- Malcolm Crawford
- Maia Minel
- William Nathan
- William Smedley
- Sam Hippe
- Cameron Calder
- Peter Murray
- Samuel Maguire (Lighting all day)
- Morven Kenny
- Yve Murdie
You should go straight to the hall period 2, 4, 6 on Thursday. Please do not attend if you are not on this list.
Published: 28 January 2025
Have you lost either of the following 2 pieces of jewellary; speak with Mr Dempster if these belong to you.
- One silver sparkling star bracelet charm - FOUND OWNER
- One silver/bronze ring - with figure of eight or infinity design
- One black small hairbrush
Lost glove from last week is now in the School Office,
Published: 24 January 2025
EDT are hosting an in person 3-day event in Edinburgh for S3/S4 pupils interested in further education/careers in STEM.
Routes Into STEM – Bronze Accredited: To help students understand the different routes to further STEM education and career pathways, S3 and S4 students will explore STEM careers, participate in interactive workshops, site tours and hear from young professionals. Parents register and apply for their child, there is a cost of £190, bursaries are available – details on link in LEAFLET or WEBSITE.
- Tuesday 11 February 2025 - University Day at Heriot-Watt University, EH14 4AS
- Wednesday 12 February 2025 - Company Day at STMicroelectronics, EH3 5DA
- Thursday 13 February 2025 - University Day at University of Edinburgh, EH9 3JL
Published: 24 January 2025
Please find this week’s job vacancies at the following link:
Job vacancies - East Lothian Works
See your Pupil Support Leader or Mr Flood for more information.
Published: 24 January 2025
The Diversity Show will take place on Thursday 6 March 2025 7-9:30pm after the Workshops and Marketplace have finished. This is a ticketed event and will be a fantastic mix of music, dance, poetry, primary school performances, paralympian guest speaker, Against Fast Fashion, Chinese Lions ...
There will be two opportunities to audition:
1) Solo performer - song/piece of music on any diverse theme
2) The LGBTQ+ club have suggested songs to represent their community in the show. We are looking for a soloist or group of musicians/dancers to perform their own arrangement of either of the following:
Auditions will be held on Monday 3 February 2025 during lunchtime. If you wish to be given an audition slot please email Mrs Middlemiss mmiddlemiss@edubuzz.org
Published: 23 January 2025
All pupils involved in Knox Academy Girls football team - Please come down to the games hall at break time today to meet Thomas.
Published: 23 January 2025
The Diversity Show will take place on Thursday 6 March 2025 after the Workshops and Marketplace have finished. The show will be a ticketed event with lots of music, dance, Paralympian speaker, poetry, fashion show, Chinese Lions...
The Knox Choir would be delighted to welcome more singers from across our school community. We'll be singing 70s hit 'I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing'.
It's super easy to pick up - you don't need to be able to read music.
If English is not your first language then we'd be extra happy to have you join us!
Rehearsals take place in the Music Department on Wednesdays 3:30 - 4:15pm
Mrs Middlemiss
Published: 22 January 2025
All runners should check the PE board to see if they have been selected to compete in the House Championships for Cross Country.
MONDAY - PERIOD 1
- S1 RUNNERS TO MEET IN THE SMALL GYM.
MONDAY PERIOD 2
- S2/3/4/5/6 - RUNNERS TO MEET IN THE SMALL GYM PERIOD 2 CHANGED AND READY TO RUN
All competitors come to school in PE KIT, You can change into school uniform after the event.
Bring water and all medication/inhalers if needed.
The race will be the RIVER ROUTE which has already been run in class time.
Good luck and bring your best effort.
Ms Borwick's class will be coaching/ marshaling the event.
Mrs McSherry
Published: 21 January 2025
All S1 pupils will attend an event on Wednesday 22 January 2025 called Defending Scotland's Heritage. The event will take place in Miss Milliken's room (M.3) and the timetable for the day is as follows:
- Period 1 Set-up
- Period 2 1T2 Ms Elder (French)
- Period 3 1G1 Miss Milliken (Social Subjects)
- Period 4 1L2 Mrs Milne (Social Subjects)
- Period 5 1T1 Ms Elder (French)
- Period 6 1G2 Mr Tait (Maths)
- Period 7 1L1 Miss Milliken (Social Subjects)
Pupils should go straight to M.3 at the start of your allocated period. Your teacher will register you in M.3. Any questions, please see Mr Flood.
Published: 21 January 2025
“All young people in S3 are offered the Teen Booster MenACWY and DTP vaccines on Monday 27 January and Tuesday 28 January 2025 at Knox Academy and Meadowpark, which protect against meningitis, diphtheria, tetanus and polio. These vaccines are given as an injection in the upper arm and provide longer-term protection against these serious and, in some cases, life-threatening diseases.
Young people who are eligible should have brought a consent pack home from school before the Christmas holidays. If you have not already done so, please return this form to school ASAP.
Please visit the NHS website for further information, including videos about why vaccines are offered to young people and what to expect at the vaccination session.”
Published: 20 January 2025
Please find this week’s job vacancies at the following link:
Job vacancies - East Lothian Works
See your Pupil Support Leader or Mr Flood for more information.
Published: 20 January 2025
Abertay Univeristy have intoruduced 2 new courses, if you have not yet decided what to apply for, these could be for you. Abertay University offers three Built Environment courses at Abertay University. Our existing Civil and Environmental Engineering programme is now complemented with two new programmes in Engineering Management and Environmental Management & Sustainability. Abertay recently ranked 2nd in the UK for student experience, whilst the civil and environmental engineering programme had an overall positivity score of 90% in the latest national student survey. Below are the details of each programme:
BEng (Hons)/MEng Civil and Environmental Engineering, UCAS Code H3H3 (BEng (Hons) and H2H2 (MEng)
BSc (Hons) Engineering Management, UCAS Code HN10
BSc (Hons) Environmental Management & Sustainability, UCAS Code H220
Published: 20 January 2025
The LGBT+ Allies group will meet as usual in T1.1 (Ms Fletcher's room) at 1.25pm on Wednesday 22 January 2025.
Published: 20 January 2025
A number of items of property have been left in Business Education (M.12).
- A Reebok black bag containing chocolate and ear cuffs.
- A Nike black fabric pencil case containing some stationery! Found behind a computer at the classroom door.
- A black glove with 3 fingers having grey tips.
Please reclaim by the end of the week before these are passed to the School Office.
Published: 15 January 2025
As per recent years I am extremely keen to get a large involvement from S5 and S6 for the Edinburgh Marathon Festival whereby we will enter the 10k event.
This is on Saturday 24 May 2025. Several of you ran it last year and we had a great success with fundraising. It is likely that we will support the Teenage Cancer Trust once again.
Could you please complete this Google Form if you are interested.
You can absolutely do this if you are currently a 'non runner' - plenty of time and happy to assist you with plans.
If you have any questions, please pop down to the PE department.
Published: 14 January 2025
If you want to start at Edinburgh College, Full Time, after summer 2025, you can apply now.
Some courses, particularly construction related, tend to fill up quickly.
Remember: Even if you have applied to University you can also apply to college as a backup.
If you don't know what to apply to come and see me or speak to your guidance teacher, or email me, to get an appointment.
You can also come and see me if you know what you want to apply to but want a hand with your application.
Chris Trotter
Careers Adviser
Chris.trotter@sds.co.uk
Published: 14 January 2025
This Friday (17 January 2025) the house captains and PE have organised a 5 a side football tournament after school. If you would like to play please fill out this Google Form.
The form is also linked on the House Events Google Classroom (access code is mfwo4pg). This is where all updates about house events are posted.
The tournament is taking place at the Aubigny Sports Centre pitch at 12:30-3:30pm.
Teams must be 5 players and need to be all juniors (S1-3) or all seniors (S4-6). Everyone in a team must be in the same House.
If you don’t have a team you can use the form to sign up and the house captains will put you in one.
The winning teams will earn house points which will contribute to the end of year house cup.
If you are platying, it would be great to see you there to support your House and our first House Event of the year.
Published: 10 January 2025
Please find this week’s job vacancies at the following link:
Job vacancies - East Lothian Works
See your Pupil Support Leader or Mr Flood for more information.
Published: 10 January 2025
The Right to an Education (Article 28 and 29) are this week's Rights of the week.
Appreciate this right as some children around the world (such as girls in Afghanistan) have had this right take away.
If you would like to find out more about rights please come to Mrs Montgomery's room on Monday at lunchtime
where we will be discussing our rights and looking forward to the Diversity evening.
Everybody welcome.
Mrs Montgomery :-)
Published: 09 January 2025
Pupils that paid the office in September can now collect their SQA folios - N5/ Higher Art and Design and Photography pupils from last session can collect them from the Art staff base. See Miss Reynolds if you have any questions. Please try and collect when we are not teaching so we can help you. We have some folders for you to take things home in but we are very short so can you please return them to be re-used. Thanks!
Published: 08 January 2025
Have your say on what we can do to improve the school library at Knox by completing the survey.
We are also looking for lots of recommendations for books, games and craft items that we can buy to make the library a more fun and welcoming space.
Published: 08 January 2025
Reminder that Knox Table Tennis Club will restart next week (Wednesday 15 January 2025)
Published: 08 January 2025
Knox Dance Club will return on Tuesday 14 January 2025.
Published: 07 January 2025
The Music Department will be making a new booking spreadsheet for January - Easter 2025.
If you would like to book a practise room for Break or Lunch then this can be booked by popping in to see Mrs Middlemiss or emailing mmiddlemiss@edubuzz.org from WEDNESDAY 8 January 2025.
The bookings spreadsheet will be printed on Monday 13 January 2025.
Published: 07 January 2025
Knox Choir will resume rehearsals on Wednesday 14 January 2025, 3:30 - 4:15pm
We will be practising a song for the Diversity Show on Thursday 6th March.
Everyone welcome!!
Mrs Middlemiss
Published: 07 January 2025
Knox Netball Club will restart on Wednesday 15 January 2025.
Published: 06 January 2025
Are you ready to take the next step in your performing arts training?
The Theatre College of Scotland are enrolling for September 2025 and invite any school leavers to our next audition date on 10 January 2025. Enrol here
Alternatively, if you would like to come along and meet us you can do so at either of our Open Days this upcoming February:
Musical Theatre Open Day - Thursday, 6 February 6 2025, 10-4 PM
Acting and Performance Open Day - Friday, 7 February 2025, 10-4 PM
See Mr Flood or your Pupil Support Leader for more information.
Published: 06 January 2025
Are you interested in joining EDF's Maintenance and Operations Engineering Technician Training Programme, and working in one of EDF’s Nuclear power stations?
See Mr Flood or your Pupil Support Leader for more information.
Published: 06 January 2025
The East Lothian Cross Country Championships are on 5 February 2025 and being held at Fox Lake this year. We are looking to send a senior team (as we have done in previous years). If you are a runner and would like to represent the school at this event please see Thomas Salkeld in the PE Base ASAP. The distance for the race is 2.1 miles (3.38 kilometers) - so not too far!
Published: 06 January 2025
New year means a new block of sport in PE!
As with previous years this marks the start of our cross country running block. We do this with all S1-S3 Core PE classes from now until February break. All pupils are encouraged to participate with their best effort - this is the emphasis! The block is all about personal challenge and resilience, with the idea that each pupil will do their best and try to improve their pace as the weeks go on.
To be prepared for the Scottish weather please remember to bring appropriate clothing. A suggestion would be, as a minimum, to ensure you have a spare pair of socks and footwear. A jacket, gloves and hat are also highly recommended.
Pupils performing at a high standard will be invited to represent the school at the East Lothian Cross Country Championships on 5th February.
Published: 06 January 2025
The organization "Friends of the River Tyne" and East Lothian Biodiversity are organising a tree planting weekend. 800 trees will be planted on Friday 17th, Saturday 18th, and Sunday 19th of January on land near the River Tyne. If you would like to participate, the meeting is at 10am each day at the Burns Well Car Park on the B6368 just outside Haddington (see map below). If you would like to get involved, you can show up on the day or you can speak to Ms. Laudi who will put you in contact.
Published: 05 January 2025
The LGBT+ Allies club will meet in the library on Wednesday 8 January 2025 at lunchtime to launch our brand new book club! Any pupils interested are welcome.
