The theme of the morning assemblies this week has been ‘Protect the Human’. The school’s Amnesty Group presented the assemblies, drawing attention to human rights abuses around the world and, in particular, Burma. Yesterday, a fund-raising Amnesty Stall followed up the assemblies, where the group sold home baking and badges and balloons and raised £113. Congratulations to Ms Montgomery and the Amnesty Group for a successful week.

On Tuesday evening the school hosted a very busy P7 Evening. After being welcomed to Knox Academy, the parents and their youngsters were able to tour the school, ask staff questions and see pupils ‘in action’. I hope our visitors found the evening enjoyable and a good introduction to Knox.

On Wednesday, Mr D Ledingham (Director of Education and Children’s Services) met with the School Council for ‘A Right Blether’ about issues affecting youngsters in schools. Mr Ledingham was very complimentary about the pupils, in particular their caring and positive attitude.

Today the school is alive with the Faculty Inter-House Challenges. Each faculty is offering activities to challenge groups of pupils (mixed S1-6). Challenges range from quizzes to origami to fun maths to sports to Harry Potter. Points are awarded for participation and highest scores and will contribute to the overall House winner of the session. Congratulations to all pupils for their enthusiastic participation and thank you to all staff involved and, in particular, Ms Duff for organising the morning.

Today the school closes for the October holiday, pupils resume on Wednesday 27 October. The school office will be open during the holiday period and can be contacted in the usual way.

Best wishes.

JB Craig