Another short, but interesting week at Knox Academy.

Work Experience forms confirming self-found placements continue to come in, and an S4 class that I visited briefly on Tuesday were starting to get to grips with the database that holds offers of work experience placements for people who aren’t set up yet.  Please have a chat with your youngster about what they have chosen and help them plan this important week.

Yesterday we held a UCAS evening for parents and pupils who are applying to university this session.  There were a number of speakers and I hope that they managed to answer questions and allay any concerns that parents might have.  If you missed it and want to have a chat about the process your child is going through, please give the school a call.  These pupils should be in the thinking about their Personal Statements and are asking staff for references, so the process is well under way.  I read all the UCAS forms and I am looking forward to seeing what our seniors’ hopes and aspirations are.

Unfortunately we had to postpone the dance that was planned for Wednesday evening.  By Tuesday morning the pupils who were organising it had only sold 50-odd tickets and we decided that it would be better to postpone than to go ahead on this basis.  Organising a dance is a big bit of learning for our senior pupils and sometimes their best laid plans go very much astray.  We are hoping to reschedule for just before the October Break.  Please also be aware that tickets to any dance held at Knox will NEVER be available to purchase at the door, so make sure that your youngster remembers to get their tickets early.

Next week sees us as busy as ever.  Hopefully the S6 will come back from their weekend at Dalguise in one piece and won’t have worn out the accompanying staff.  I suspect that there will be many a tale and lifelong memories will be made.

On the 26th September the Modern Languages Department will be ensuring that everyone is aware of the European Day of Languages.  There will be various competitions all week – from finding out what languages staff members speak to a “Vocab Hunt”; there will also be a daily screening of excerpts from the Simpson’s Movie in French. 

Just a reminder of two evening dates for diaries:
There is a Settling-In Evening for the parents of S1 on the 1st October at 6.30pm in the Hall.  It’s never a long meeting but it is an opportunity to find out how your child has settled in to their first few weeks at Knox.  It promises to be very interesting.
Owing to the way that the holidays and start of term have fallen there are two, yes two, Parent School Partnership meetings in October.  The first is on the 2nd October and the second is on the 30th.  They will both start at 6.15pm and will be held in a classroom in the corridor to the left as you come in the front doors.  I am looking forward to seeing folks there.

Have a very pleasant weekend.
S Ingham