The latest Food Court menu is now available to view on the website along with special meal deal offers - click here for more details.
October 2013
Published: 30 October 2013
As some of you may already know, the physics department has been working tirelessly on developing a new website with content for the National 4&5 Physics course.
We are pleased to announce that it is now up and running:
While it is still a work in progress please use the information on this page and feedback to you physics teacher if there is something more you would like to see.
Mr Homer
Published: 28 October 2013
A reminder that the next Parent School Partnership meeting will be held this Wednesday at 6.15 pm in the school. The meeting will be held as usual in L.3 (Support for Learning) - turn left as you enter the front doors of the school.
All are very welcome to attend.
Published: 26 October 2013
East Lothian Libraries have recently launched a FREE On-line Magazine service.
The titles currently available are:
25 Beautiful Homes; Amateur Photographer; Computer Shopper; CrossStitcher; Digital Camera World; Economist; Essentials; Health and Fitness; Horse and Hound; Ideal Home; Kitchen Garden; MacUser; Marie Claire; Mountain Biking UK; National Geographic; Newsweek; Papercraft Inspirations; Sailing Today; SFX; Teen Now; Total Film and Woman & Home Feel Good Food.
To access the service as a member of staff, or pupil, you must create a FREE account using your staff card number (see Mr Plain for further instructions), pupils use their Young Scot card number to register. There are a few simple steps to follow to create your account; once you have completed them you will have access to current and some back issues of the titles mentioned above.
FREE Zinio Reader app available for iPhone; iPad; Android; Kindle Fire/HD; Blackberry; Nook HD/HD+; PC & Mac.
The link to the service is here and it is also available on the school library webpage. If you have any questions regarding the service please just ask Mr Plain and he will do his best to answer them.
Published: 24 October 2013
The Yearbooks for the Class of 2013 are now available to collect from the school during the time periods listed below. Please avoid arriving outwith these times, to prevent undue disruption to classes. The office staff are not dealing with the distribution of the Yearbooks.
You may wish a friend to collect your Yearbook, but a signature is required on collection. A younger brother or sister is also welcome to collect your Yearbook and baby photo; in this case they should request this before registration.
There are a few people who have a small final balance to pay, this must be settled before collection.
Should you have any other questions surrounding collection of your Yearbook, please email yearbook@ka-net.org.uk.
Monday: 8 am - 9.30 am, 1 pm - 3 pm
Tuesday: 8.45 am - 9.30 am, 4 pm - 6 pm (except Tuesday 29 October)
Wednesday: 8 am - 8.45 am, 10 am - 11 am, 1 pm - 2 pm
Thursday: 8 am - 8.45 am, 1 pm - 4 pm
Friday: 8 am - 8.45 am, 12 pm - *
Published: 21 October 2013
From next week (week commencing 28 October 2013) the days of daily morning assemblies will be changing for all year groups. This is part of our termly rota system.
The updated days will be:
- S2 - Monday
- S3 - Tuesday
- S4 - Wednesday
- S5/6 - Thursday
- S1 - Friday
Published: 10 October 2013
Latest research into literacy improvement suggests that we should be concentrating on reading, writing, and vocabulary. With this in mind, S1 pupils have been sent around the school looking to collect key/interesting words from all subjects on their timetables in order to help foster their curiosity about the meanings of words. Words should be recorded in the little jotters we have given them. English teachers will follow up - discuss meanings, correct spellings, etc.
Published: 09 October 2013
Do you have a keen eye for a good photograph? Are you aged between 5 and 16 years old?
If so, why not take part in the Miller Homes local Photography Competition
Prizes will be offered to the most thought-provoking and interesting original photographs.
Miller Homes Orchardfields is looking to find the most authentic, creative photography capturing what’s best about your local area. Landscape images can be taken around the home and must be authentic and not digitally enhanced. Entrants can submit up to 2 images and they should be accompanied by a short explanation, no more than 100 words, on why the picture is special
Miller Homes will upload the pictures to Pinterest before selecting a winner.
Photos will be judged by professional photographer Mike Wilkinson and a representative of Miller Homes.
The deadline for entries is Tuesday 31st October 2013
Entries should be submitted online to se.competition@miller.co.uk
Judging will take place early November, with the winners announced later in the month.
Published: 09 October 2013
There will be a dress down day on FRIDAY 11 OCTOBER.
Pupils are reminded that their outfits should be decorous i.e. no shortie shorts, no low cut tops etc.
S Ingham
Published: 03 October 2013
It's National Poetry Day today, and here's something to mark it from Hugh MacDiarmid:
The rose of all the world is not for me.
I want for my part.
Only the little white rose of Scotland.
That smells sharp and sweet - and breaks the heart.
...and in the spirit of things, a short and sweet 'Sport and Physical Activity Contribution'...
I play the game I play it smart,
All my effort comes from the heart,
I use my head, I use my feet,
cause I'm a Knox athlete.
...followed by a demonstration of literacy across the curiculum with a maths poem!
A Week in the Life of a Mathematician
'Twas on a Monday morning I had a bright idea,
I was lying in the bath tub and the strategy seemed clear,
For a problem posed by Erdös back in nineteen forty nine,
On sequences dilated into subsets of the line
'Twas on a Tuesday morning I jotted down my thoughts,
I covered backs of envelopes with surds and aleph noughts.
After several cups of coffee I began to feel inspired,
And a lengthy calculation gave the answer I desired.
'Twas on a Wednesday morning I wrote the details out.
My lemmas and corollaries left little room for doubt.
I filled up many pages just to get the logic right,
And with epsilons and deltas I made it watertight.
'Twas on a Thursday morning I typed the paper up,
With "slash subset" and "slash mapsto" to say nothing of "slash cup".
My LaTeXing was perfect, printed out it looked so good,
Should I send it to the Annals? I rather thought I would!
'Twas on a Friday morning I read the paper through,
I checked out every detail as good authors ought to do.
At the bottom of page twenty in an integral I found,
I'd divided through by zero and the proof crashed to the ground.
On Saturday and Sunday I was too depressed to care,
So 'twas on a Monday morning that I had my next idea.
(This poem appeared in The London Mathematical Society Newsletter, September 2009)
...and finally a Robert Louis Stevenson from the collection "A Child's Garden of Verses"...
Escape At Bedtime
The lights from the parlour and kitchen shone out
Through the blinds and the windows and bars;
And high overhead and all moving about,
There were thousands of millions of stars.
There ne'er were such such thousands of leaves on a tree,
Nor of people in church or the Park,
As the crowds of the stars that looked down upon me,
And that glittered and winked in the dark.
The Dog, and the Plough, and the Hunter, and all,
And the star of the sailor, and Mars,
These shone in the sky, and the pail by the wall
Would be half full of water and stars.
They saw me at last, and they chased me with cries,
And they soon had me packed into bed;
But the glory kept shining and bright in my eyes,
And the stars going round in my head."
Published: 01 October 2013
Session Dates for the academic year 2014/2015 have now been approved by the Education Committee and can be accessed here.
Published: 01 October 2013
A new service is being made available to Knox pupils launching this week. Pupils are now being given the opportunity to email their Guidance Teacher directly. The three email addresses are:
Pupils may wish to use these email addresses to ask a quick question of their Guidance Teacher, perhaps about work experience or a UCAS issue, without having to book an appointment.
