Last Friday, the boys’ Under 15 Football team did extremely well to finish runners up in the Scottish Football Association's Regional Tournament held at Spartans Football Club (Ainslie Park), in Edinburgh. The team finished second in their group, winning two and losing one of their games. They then went on to beat Hawick High School in the semi-final, winning 1-0. In the final they came up against an excellent Broughton High School team. Knox Academy managed to take a 2-0 lead, however they were eventually beaten 4-2. Congratulations to the boys who did very well to get to the final and many thanks to Mr McFarlane, Team Manager.
On Wednesday, a team of S2 pupils (Katie Scott, Lev Crofts, Peter Gilmour and Owen McHugh) competed against 10 other teams in the Scottish final of F1 in Schools, in Kirkcaldy. The team won awards for "Best Sponsorship and Marketing" and "Best Rookie Team". The competition involved them designing, manufacturing, testing and racing a model Formula 1 car. The pupils' commitment and enthusiasm have been outstanding and on the day they represented the school magnificently. The team (established by Miss Leggatt) was supported and accompanied by Miss Morson and Mrs Ferguson. Congratulations to all involved in such a successful enterprise.
We have heard from the British Council that our application for a grant to fund a new Global Schools Curriculum Project has been successful. The schools involved are: Knox, Kings Meadow PS and the primary and secondary schools in Ruhanga, Rwanda. It is likely that the project will involve developing the existing Rwanda input into ACE as well as funding further reciprocal visits. Many thanks to Miss Orr and Mr Duddin for putting the application together; more details will be available in the new school session.
The Parent School Partnership (Parent Council) met on Wednesday evening and the minutes, of this the last meeting of the session, will be available on the Parents’ website.
Activities Week is almost upon us, yesterday a group left for France, tomorrow a group leaves for Italy, on Sunday the Northern Adventure pupils head to Shetland and the London trip departs early Monday morning. The remaining S2/3 pupils will be undertaking a range of activities on and off the school campus and S1 pupils will be tackling National Sports Week before their Activities Week (from 13 June). I am sure everyone will have an exciting and enjoyable week.
Best wishes.
JB Craig
