Knox Academy Parent Council

The Diversity Show 2025 @knoxacademy last night was an array of colour & talent! Chinese Lions, St Mary’s Primary Choir, @stephenclegg95 Paralympic Guest Speaker & truly stunning performances from all our Knox Academy musicians including a Staff Band! #ItTakesATeam #COMMUNITY

It’s our Diversity celebrations tonight & what an amazing array of workshops, market stalls & world cuisines on offer (all free - 5-7pm.Then we have our multi talented performers at our show (7-9.30pm - tickets only).This is a night our community celebrates together @knoxacademy

The Green Futures Festival will be taking place on 22nd March at Queen Margaret University. The event is open to everyone in the @knoxacademy community. See the poster for further details.

Well done to our Senior Basketball team for winning down @dgs_sport tonight.. big thank you to DGS for hosting and @MrBeatonPE for reffing! 🏀 We are looking forward to a return fixture before the seniors head off on exam leave. @knoxacademy

An invitation to @knoxparents and our community to enter the Diversity Evening raffle ahead of the big rush! - Thurs 6 March 2025 - details on our website. Lots of fantastic local prizes on offer with funds raised going towards school projects. Good Luck! knox.is/diversity2025r…

Battle of the Bands 2025 @knoxacademy was incredible! Thank you to the 2024 winners & the Forder Brothers for judging the 3 competition heats & Sam for lighting. Bands were marked on melody, harmony, rhythm, creativity, communication & confidence…

CHRISTMAS DANCE 2024 PHOTOGRAPHS: These are now available to order - see Mrs Swallow or Mr Dempster for an order form. ORDER BY THURSDAY 6 FEBRUARY 2025.

Our girls football team in action tonight Vs @dgs_sport & @NorthBerwickHS in a 7 a side festival. Thanks to both schools for coming along and thanks to our Senior pupils for coaching and reffing. ⚽️⚽️ #community @knoxacademy

Well done to you both and to all who took part and gave it their all. Given you sprinted round on 9mins I think we’ll have to make it tougher next year - three times round instead 🤔

SCHOOL CLOSURE - ONLINE LEARNING - FRIDAY 24 JANUARY 2025 - RED WEATHER WARNING - knox.is/250124CLOSED

Merry Christmas Everyone! Another successful sing-a-long of The Twelve Days of Christmas with the S6 having the critical line "... and a partridge in a pear tree". Have a great holiday and see you all back at Knox Academy on Monday 6 January 2025.

What a fantastic Christmas concert today @MeadowparkCP @knoxacademy . Lots of singing (with audience participation); drumming and a piano solo. Everyone had so much fun. We even had a visit from Santa & his elf at the end with a gift of a selection box for everyone.

Congratulations to all of our Achievement Tie winners @knoxacademy @Knox4Sport @KnoxParents. They were presented this morning - great ambassadors for wider achievement at our school. Here they are in their House Teams - Garleton, Lammerlaw & Traprain #ARC

Wow, wow, wow - what an amazing evening at our Christmas Concert @knoxacademy - I couldn’t be prouder of all the young people who took to the stage tonight. Your performances were so polished & delivered with such confidence. What a privilege to watch you all & be your HT #ARC

Our Maths study support webinars are proving to be very popular, but there’s plenty more space to register. We’ve created this Maths webinar timetable for you to share e-sgoil.com/senior-phase/s… #NeLO @EducationScot @parentforumscot @sqanews @STEMedscot @CnPNaiseanta @edscot_maths

The 2024 Christmas cake competition is well under way. Here’s a wee sneaky peak from todays S3’s 👀🎄🧁@knoxacademy #cake #Christmas2024 #christmascake #cakedec #Competition

Our S1 basketball team played @PLHSport tonight which was for majority of both teams players the first match they’ve ever played in! 🏀🏀 Big thanks to senior pupils Noah and Thomas for all the help and our two S2 pupils in JD and Arran for running the table. @knoxacademy

The next parent council meeting is on Thursday 21/11/24 at 6.30pm. Tea, coffee and biscuits, along with informal chat, from 6pm onwards. If you would like to let us know of any issues or queries you wish to raise, please email us at: parentcouncil@ka-net.org.uk before 19/11/24.