Kilmarnock Academy

The next Kilmarnock Academy Quiz Night with our Quizmaster Mr Taylor, will be held on 22nd April, 7.30 – 10.00pm.  Teams with a maximum of 6 have the chance to win excellent prizes.

£30 per Team

£15 for School Teams.

Bring you own refreshments.

Tickets available from Mrs Hogg, Mrs Devlin and Mrs Moodie.

S1 pupils have been issued with their report card and Option Choice Form today (Monday 29th February) .  For Information booklet on courses available for next year please click link below.

S2 Specialisation booklet 2016 – 2017

S1 Parent’s Afternoon is on Monday 7 March from 4.30 pm – 7 pm.  All S1 pupils have already been issued with their appointment sheets to gather their teacher’s appointments for you to attend.

Horizon Pages, which is the trading name of KA’s S6 Young Enterprise team were set a proposition by Marie Macklin on her recent visit to the school. The aim was to meet Sir Tom Hunter and pitch their idea in the hope of some advice, feedback and sponsorship. After some emails back and forward, the team’s persistence was rewarded and they got the opportunity to meet Sir Tom in person at his Dundonald base. Sir Tom thought it was an excellent idea and was very impressed with the layout of the product and that it was very user friendly to children. Subsequently, he agreed to sponsor the business and offered support on a variety of aspects. All in all, a very good afternoon’s work and an experience pupils will remember for a long time!

All S3 pupils were issued with their S3 report cards today.  They have also been issued with their Option Choice Form to select subjects to be studied next year.  All completed Option Choice Forms should be returned to the school by Friday 4th March 2016.

Please click on link below for all course information.

S4 Progression Pathways booklet 2016 – 2017

click on links below to view Progression Pathways Booklet and Forms for new S5/6 pupils in 2016/17 Session.

S5-6 Progression Pathways Form

S5-6 Progression Pathways booklet 2016-17

College Courses available – 2016-17

Our Burns Supper and Ceilidh was held on Thursday 4th February, 2016 and a great night was had by all. Both pupils and staff enjoyed the sangs and clatter and were impressed by the speakers who made them laugh – and think!

The following is an extract we would like to share with you – taken from the closing speech given by pupils:

“Let’s say thank you to this school, this building, this place. Kilmarnock Academy has been sited here for over 100 years. The school exists to bring us an excellent education and provide a sense of power to the community. It has stood proud in an ever-changing society and I for one will miss it.”

Here are some photographs from the night:

The next Parent Council Meeting will take place on Tuesday 1st March, 2016 at 7.30pm in Kilmarnock Academy.

All parents/carers are welcome.

The National 5 Lifeskills Mathematics prelims due to be held in January are now scheduled as follows:
Paper 1 (non-calculator) – Friday 26th February 2016, period 3 (50 minutes).
Paper 2 (calculator/case studies) – Tuesday 1st March 2016, period 1 and 2 (1 hour 40 minutes). 

Supported Study is available to Mr Wallace’s class and study resources are available to download from the Maths Glow Site.  Past Papers are also available from the SQA website.