The S4 Progress Reports due on the calendar on 4 October, will now be issued early next week along with details of the Parents' Consultation Evening and the Preliminary Examiniation timetable.
J Young
General News
Published: 04 October 2012
The Advanced Higher Modern Studies class have been working incredibly hard and have recently started their research for their Dissertation. The Dissertation is a 5,000 word investigation into the subject of Law or Order. They have been running tutorials in class and have a busy couple of months ahead of them with visits both in and out of school.
Tuesday 23rd October - Visit from Haddington Community Police
Wednesday 31st October - Visit to Haddington Sheriff Court
Thursday 8th November - Visit from MELDAP
Monday 9th November - Visit from Paul Wheelhouse MSP
Monday 26th November - Visit from Graeme Pearson MSP and Iain Gray MSP
Thank you to everyone who has agreed to help the class with their research.
Published: 01 October 2012
Details of the ELPDT Summer School 2012 can be viewed in their most recent newsletter accessed here.
The primary focus of the course was top prepare pupils for solo piping and drumming competitions. Each pupil was guided through a competition style march, strathspey and reel.
Published: 28 September 2012
Knox Academy was visited by the Marine Biology Association UK who held workshops for S3 pupils. The workshops focused on the use of offshore windfarms to generate electricity.
Some pupils were asked to build a model turbine to investigate the best possible design of turbine blades. Other pupils were asked to debate and present information on the consequences of placing windfarms close to environmentally sensitive areas.
Pupils found their experiences beneficial.
Resources used during the workshops will be available from the Marine Biology Association's website.
Published: 28 September 2012
Knox Academy is pleased to announce the following new vacancies:
Applicants interested, in the following positions are invited to apply through myjobscotland, where further details can also be accessed. The closing date for applications is indicated below:
Closing Date: Sunday 7 October 2012:
- Teacher of Chemistry - Full-Time, Temporary - 1 post
Closing Date: Sunday 14 October 2012:
- Teacher of Modern Studies - Full-Time, Permanent - 1 post
- Teacher of Physics & General Science - Full-Time, Permanent - 1 post
Current vacant posts can be viewed on this website under News > Recruitment
Published: 25 September 2012
Curriculum for Excellence is raising standards of learning and teaching across Scotland, preparing young people with the skills they need in a fast and changing world.
A Guide for Parents and Carers has been prepared by Education Scotland and can be viewed here.
A letter and Question and Answer document (both from Education Scotland) may also prove to be useful explaining the broad and general educational aims of a Curriculum for Excellence.
Published: 24 September 2012
Today we had our first School Council meeting of the year and there was plenty to talk about! Our main area of discussion was S1-S6 issues which included: improving the queuing system to the food court at break times particularly for S1's, increasing recognition of the Sports Council, Common Room furniture and forming a routine to empty classroom recycling bins. We will work on these issues over the following weeks.
We were also the first set of pupils to review the new "School Aims" and I am pleased to say we are all very happy with them and hope the rest of the school will be just as pleased.
Miss Mackinnon and Miss Duff came to speak to us about School Ethos. On our training day we discussed some ideas about improving ethos and we saw that they took our ideas on board and we are keen to work alongside them on this issue. It will be a very exciting few weeks with the introduction of mascotts for each house, competitons to come up with house slogans and more use of the notice boards to boast the achievements of pupils. The House Captains are getting heavily involved with all of this.
Our Librarian, Mr Plain, also came and spoke to us about a "New Charter" for the library which he and the communication faculty have been working on. This is to ensure we can make the library more accessible to all members of the school and create an even more pleasant environment to work in. The New Charter will come into place in the next few weeks.
Five pupils from our School Council are going on a school exchange to the Czech Republic. Preperations for this are underway for the S3-S5 pupils who are all very eager to go. We will provide more information about this trip at a later stage.
A group of us will also be attending the Haddington Town Centre Vision Evening on the 1st October at 7pm to represent the school and our place in the community and also to hear about the new plans for the future of Haddington. We hope a large number of the commuinty are able to attend this event.
Our next meeting will take place Period 1 on Tuesday 9th of October.
Published: 19 September 2012
Drama club runs after-school on a Monday from 4 – 5 pm. In Drama club we play games and complete small tasks to improve our skills in drama whilst having fun! We present our work to one another to show off what we can do, and to receive feedback on our dramas.
During drama club we will look at working with small scripts and will work towards performing before the Christmas Show at the end of term.
Please come along to help us have fun and improve our drama skills! We would love to have as many members as possible to create something fantastic to perform at Christmas!
Miss MacKinnon and Drama Club members
Published: 14 September 2012
Following requests from S6 students, you can now view Mr Edward's UCAS Personal Statement guidelines here. We hope they help you!
Published: 14 September 2012
Today, Friday 14th sees the first work experience deadline and pupils produced self found forms from the recesses of their bags in their 100s - well quite a few anyway. We have over 60 pupils who have handed in forms for placements outwith the database and this is a fairly good number. A few people have asked for extensions and if the form is with the employer then I am happy to accept the completed form on Wednesday when pupils return. Gateway can then get to work and ensure all the placements meet the health and safety requirements.
Pupils without their own placements will then be asked to make 3 selections from the database during their next Work Experience class. After all classes have put in their selections, placements will then be allocated. All pupils relying on the database need to be flexible as we can only allocate one pupil to each space, so if there's one joinery place and 50 requests, 49 pupils will, unfortunately be disappointed.
Please give me a call at school if you are waiting for a form to be completed and let me know when to expect it.
One last point, if you child is intending to do their placement away from home, please give me a call as we will need a note from yourselves agreeing to accept responsibility for travel, accommodation and health and safety outwith working hours.
Thanks to all pupils and parent who have been discussing this endlessly and worked hard to meet the deadline.
Miss Easson
