General News

YEARBOOKS: CLASS OF 2013
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 - *

ASSEMBLIES: CHANGE OF DAYS
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

LANGUAGE TOOLKITS
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.
 

LOCAL PHOTOGRAPHY COMPETITION
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.

DRESS DOWN FRIDAY - 11 OCTOBER
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

NATIONAL POETRY DAY 2013
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.
... read more...

SESSION DATES 2014/2015
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.

DO YOU HAVE A QUESTION FOR THE GUIDANCE TEAM?
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.

JERICHO CAFE - OCTOBER NEWS
Published: 01 October 2013

The Jericho cafe will be closed for three weeks reopening on 26 October at The Poldrate.

EUROPEAN DAY OF LANGUAGES
Published: 27 September 2013

The European Day of Languages for 2013 is now done and dusted. Overall the week was very successful. Pupils were able to learn how languages can be useful in the real world, why they learn French and grow their appreciation for language learning. However, you do not need to just take my word for it here is a report written by two S2 pupils who also enjoyed the week’s activities:

H McBride

“In French for The European Day of Languages we looked at different ways people use language in everyday life. We watched a clip about foreign people being in the same football team. The clip was quite interesting and funny. Then we looked at the reasons for learning a different language. Our class thinks it is a good idea to learn a language so you can flirt with foreign people. Next we learnt why we should learn French. The last thing we did was we learnt about the percentages of people who can speak a different language. This was quite interesting and we learnt things we didn’t know.

We thought the lesson was really interesting because we learnt things about languages that we didn’t know. It was great fun to get involved.”

Lauren Blues and Abbey Deevoy 2T2

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