General News

ACCELERATED READER CLASS OF THE MONTH
Published: 02 February 2010

Congratulations to the S1 and S2 Accelerated Reader Class of the Month.

They are Mr McGeehan's S1 class, 1L2 and Mr Edwards' S2 class, S2A.

Mr McGeehan's class passed an amazing 34 quizzes in December and Mr Edwards' class successfully answered 14 quizzes.

Hot on their heels were Miss Machen's S2B class with 12 quizzes passed.

The next class of the month will be announced week beginning 1st March where Mr Edwards will find out if he's been successful in gaining a hat trick.

 

RECRUITMENT
Published: 01 February 2010

East Lothian Council's Education Department are currently recruiting Supply Nursery Nurses and are also still recruiting Supply Auxiliaries and Supply Additional Support Needs Auxiliaries.   

The closing date for all applications is 31 March 2010.

For further information please visit the Council's website www.eastlothian.gov.uk

Application forms can be obtained via the Council's website or by contacting East Lothian Council's HR Department on (01620) 827625.

 

Further details regarding current vacancies can always be accessed on this website in the Recruitment section: School Info > Recruitment

 

SCHOOL HANDBOOK
Published: 27 January 2010

The latest school handbook is now available in the Publications section of the Knox Academy website: Publications > Prospectus.

 

SCHOOL COUNCIL MEETING
Published: 22 January 2010

The minutes of recent meetings are now available in the School Council section of the Knox Academy website: School Info > School Council.

The minutes of the latest meeting on Thursday 21 January 2010 can be viewed below: 

 

STUDY GUIDES
Published: 20 January 2010

Library now has new study guides available for pupil use. They are available for 7 day loan and held in the study support section of the library.

Click here for library catalogue www.libcat.eastlothian.gov.uk

 

S5/S6 PRELIM TIMETABLE
Published: 18 January 2010

The S5/S6 Prelim timetable for Session 2009-2010 can be viewed below: 

 

SANTA CRUZ, CALIFORNIA
Published: 15 January 2010

The Scottish Continuing International Professional Development Programme have arranged a Group Study visit to the New Teacher Centre in Santa Cruz, California, which will take place from the 2nd to the 11th February 2010.

Mr Young (Depute Head Teacher) has been successful in obtaining a place on this visit, funded by Learning and Teaching Scotland.  The central theme is the Mentoring of Teachers. 

The group will be involved in a variety of dissemination activities on their return both at national and local level.

 

EXTRA-CURRICULAR TIMETABLE
Published: 13 January 2010

The latest Extra-Curricular timetable is now available. 

Is there an activity that you could sign up for? 

New members are always welcome.  If you are interested speak with the member of staff detailed in the contact columm next to the activity.

The timetable can be viewed both below and in the Extra-Curricular section of the website.

Due to the nature of the document - please make use of the zoom feature if you are trying to read on screen

 

COMING SOON
Published: 12 January 2010

Watch out for some exciting news in the library ... updates will be made on a regular basis ... coming soon ...

 

 

WEBSITE UPDATE
Published: 09 January 2010

What changes have taken place over the past couple of weeks?

  • House points can now be viewed directly under the Head Teacher's Update section - this should further promote inter-house challenge.  The chart is still visible (where it was and still is)  under the What's On section of the website.  The points totals should now be updated each weekend after the Pupil Points Reports are run on a Friday afternoon.
  • There is now a direct link to the Knox Parents site on the front page of this website - this should further assist in improving communications between the school and parents.  Minutes of the Parent School Partnership (Knox Parents) meetings have been brought up-to-date on this website, while also being available on the Knox Parents site itself.
  • Word clouds and other appropriate images have been added throughout the site to engage visitors and aid literacy skills.
  • Many of the information pages of the site have been brought up-to-date (work still needs to be done in this area - especially extra-curricular activities - of which there are many at Knox Academy).
  • Many publications can now be viewed directly on the website with the use of the popular Scribd service, this provides instant access to the information without having to download first.  However the facility to download and print is accessible as ever.
    • The most recent Interhouse Newsletters and Knox News are examples.
  • Very popular with the local community are our Christmas Boxes: photographs of which have been integrated into the news section of the website.
  • The initial structure of the Departmental pages has been created - this is an area for development with the participation of all departments in the school.  At the moment have a look at:
    • Chemistry: they plan to have a Molecule of the Month, Website of the Month and Interesting Fact of the Month.
    • Business Education:  Higher Business Management materials are in the process of being transfered onto this website - this includes class materials, useful Internet links to business articles and homework!  Revision Questions etc will follow.
    • Physical Education: Revision PowerPoints are available for Standard Grade.  These were published last year under the news section of the website.
  • The News and Head Teacher's Update section now have a monthly archive to aid accessiblility to previous postings.

 

Look forward to:

  • Word of the Week (with archive)
  • Weekly Sports News (with archive)
  • Regular Library Updates (with archive)

 

We're always interested in hearing from users of our website, what they like, what they don't like, what they think is missing....  If you have any suggestions for additions please contact us at knoxacademy@knox.elcschool...

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