Last week Stewarton Academy hosted its first in-house event since early 2020 when we welcomed S1 pupils, parents and carers to the S1 Open Evening. Attendees had the opportunity to visit the various departmental stalls, meet teachers and other staff members and learn more about the life of the school. Thank you so much to all staff, pupils and parent volunteers who were involved in the organisation and delivery of this event.
Stewarton Academy was award a Bronze Award at last week’s inaugural East Ayrshire’s Clean, Green Award ceremony. There was special recognition for pupil leadership in this initiative. Thanks go to outgoing S6 pupils, Lois and Jane, for all their hard work. They have shared this short article to sum up the work that has been done over the session:
East Ayrshire Council’s Clean Green Award encourages young people to tackle the climate crisis through their school. It encourages action across the key themes of the climate change strategy: Energy, Transport, Waste and Natural Environment. We met with other schools virtually in October 2021 to discuss how to help our schools be more environmentally aware under the categories of these four themes. Over the past year we have worked towards a bronze award by encouraging energy saving within the school, liaising with the Ayrshire Roads Alliance, the Thrive Stewarton community group and Burns Nursery to name a few. The higher environmental science class also put together the first micro Teams lesson to inform pupils what they can do in their everyday lives to become more eco-friendly.
This week, we attended the Clean Green Award ceremony to accept Stewarton Academy’s Bronze Award with special recognition for pupil leadership. It was really inspiring to see all the hard work the other schools had been putting in over the past few months. We’ve really enjoyed taking on this responsibility as it is such an important issue and we hope our actions toward the award spread awareness of this global priority. This is just the beginning for Stewarton Academy and we can’t wait to hear about the ideas and action taken by next year’s team when aiming towards the silver award. This celebration of achievement has been such a nice way to end our time at Stewarton Academy, and we thank everyone who was involved and supported us throughout.
– Jane McDowell and Lois Anderson
We had a very successful Parents’ Evening Information event on Wednesday night (27th April 2022). Thanks to staff who participated and to parents, carers and young who attended.
Here is a link to the presentation which was shared during the evening:
P7 Information Evening Presentation (Mrs Ward) – Presentation 2022
Stewarton Academy staff visits to our associated primary schools continue next week with Mrs Ward visiting Lainshaw PS on Wednesday morning and Dunlop PS on Friday morning.
We also have a number of Pupil Support visits planned over the next few weeks.
Mr Alexander and Mr Morgan will also be leading Volleyball sessions with associated primary schools during the month of May.
Cash For Kids
You will be aware from previous App messages that Stewarton Academy’s Parent Council have been leading fundraising efforts to support Cash for Kids recently.
We have till the 31st March to raise as much as possible for a chance to win an extra £3000 for the School. There will be more information about these activities in the Newsletter tomorrow.
This message is specifically to highlight the Big Breakfast event this Saturday and the non-uniform day tomorrow.
The Parent Council, Big Breakfast event takes place on Saturday 26th March at St Columba’s Church hall from 9:30 – 12pm. The Parent Council invites parents, carers, pupils and all members of the wider community to come along and join them. There will be tombolas, the chance to enjoy tea coffee and a breakfast menu and also the opporunity to meet with other members of the wider school community.
Non-uniform day tomorrow – Friday 25th March
The Parent Council have requested that we have a non-uniform day tomorrow, Friday 25th March to support Cash for Kids. As with previous events, please note that we are very aware of additional costs which families are experiencing at the moment, so please note that for this event, no cash donations are requested (feel free to donate to the Cash for Kids website or our Parent Pay line if you wish).
Instead of cash donations, we are encouraging pupils and staff to donate a raffle/ tombola prizes for the event on Saturday. Suggested prizes are items such as a box of chocolates (in date please)
or a bottle of something nice. Please only donate what you can afford. Senior pupils to collect prizes from pupils tomorrow at the school entrance or during classes.
Kind regards,
John Stuart
Head Teacher
Update on S4 Parents Meeting
Unfortunately, Net Media were not able to fix the issues in our S4 Parents’ Night. This was a national problem with their network and was beyond our control.
We are very sorry for this problem which was very frustrating for staff and parents and carers.
The system has worked well for all other virtual parents’ evenings this session. Therefore, we are hopeful that Net Media will be able to isolate the problem and allow us to make successful use of the system again.
We will be making contingency plans to provide feedback at another time, as soon as possible. Net Media’s analysis of the problem will inform how we go about this.
Therefore, we hope to be in touch over the next few days to confirm alternative arrangements.
Once again, we apologise for the inconvenience to parents and staff.
This is a reminder that the S4 – S5 options information evening will take place tomorrow, Tuesday the 8th of February 2022 from 6:30pm to 7:30pm. This event is open to pupils in the current S4 and their parents/ carers and is a great opportunity to find out about options and support available.
Follow the link to S5 – S6 options choices to find:
The school app has further information and a link to tomorrows information evening.
This is a reminder that the S3 – S4 options information evening will take place tomorrow, Tuesday the 8th of February 2022 from 5:30pm to 6:30pm. This event is open to pupils in the current S3 and their parents/ carers and is a great opportunity to find out about options and support available.
Follow the link to the S3 – S4 options page to view:
Skills Development Scotland (SDS) is delivering a nationwide webinar to support parents and carers with S2/3 option choices. The webinar will take place on Thursday the 1st of December at 18:30.
To sign up for this webinar please register here:
https://s2-s3optionchoices.eventbrite.co.uk/
For more information about this webinar please visit the school app or visit the post made via our Twitter.
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