{"id":1088,"date":"2015-12-21T08:41:23","date_gmt":"2015-12-21T08:41:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/kilmarnockacademy\/?p=1088"},"modified":"2015-12-21T08:41:23","modified_gmt":"2015-12-21T08:41:23","slug":"a-message-from-the-head-teacher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/kilmarnockacademy\/2015\/12\/21\/a-message-from-the-head-teacher\/","title":{"rendered":"A Message from the Head Teacher"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';font-size: 14pt\">Dear Parent\/Carer<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';font-size: 14pt\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';font-size: 14pt\">We have had a great first term and are very much looking forward to the Christmas holidays and an exciting 2016 at Kilmarnock Academy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';font-size: 14pt\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';font-size: 14pt\">There have been a lot of activities and successes this year both in attainment and wider achievement.\u00a0I know you will be proud of the school\u2019s success which reflects positively on you as parents and the pupils who are impressive, without exception.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';font-size: 14pt\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';font-size: 14pt\">I would like to take this opportunity to thank you for the invaluable support you have given the staff over the course of the year and in particular to myself since August &#8211; it is very much appreciated. We, as a partnership, will continue to take the school forward as we strive for excellence. The future at Kilmarnock Academy is in safe hands and it is exciting times to be involved in our school.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';font-size: 14pt\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';font-size: 14pt\">Whilst I commend this newsletter to you there are also many ways to keep in touch with what is happening at Kilmarnock Academy.\u00a0 You can find up to date information on our school blog at <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/kilmarnockacademy\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: black;font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';font-size: 14pt\">https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/kilmarnockacademy\/<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';font-size: 14pt\"> which I would encourage you to check on a regular basis.\u00a0 We also have a new Kilmarnock Academy Twitter account where there are instantaneous posts on our school activity.\u00a0 This can be found @KilmarnockAcad, again I would ask that you please follow this to keep abreast of school matters. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';font-size: 14pt\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';font-size: 14pt\">We have a couple of Christmas events coming up very soon. Our fantastic Christmas Concert is on 16th December at 7pm in the Assembly Hall. Tickets can be purchased from the Music Department or at the school reception.\u00a0 We also have a \u2018Christmas Jumper\u2019\u00a0day on Friday the 18<sup>th<\/sup> December where pupils can wear their Christmas jumpers for a \u00c2\u00a31 donation with proceeds going to charity.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';font-size: 14pt\">\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';font-size: 14pt\">Finally, I would like to wish you and your family all the best over the festive period.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';font-size: 14pt\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';font-size: 14pt\">Christmas Closure<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';font-size: 14pt\">Kilmarnock Academy will close on Wednesday 23<sup>rd<\/sup> December at 2.30 pm.\u00a0 The Academy will re-open at 8.44 am on Thursday 7th January.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Parent\/Carer \u00a0 We have had a great first term and are very much looking forward to the Christmas holidays and an exciting 2016 at Kilmarnock Academy. \u00a0 There have been a lot of activities and successes this year both &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/kilmarnockacademy\/2015\/12\/21\/a-message-from-the-head-teacher\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1205,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[37999],"class_list":["post-1088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-head-teacher","eportfolio_category-none"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/kilmarnockacademy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/kilmarnockacademy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/kilmarnockacademy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/kilmarnockacademy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1205"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/kilmarnockacademy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1088"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/kilmarnockacademy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1088\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1089,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/kilmarnockacademy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1088\/revisions\/1089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/kilmarnockacademy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/kilmarnockacademy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/kilmarnockacademy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}