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Happy Burns’ Day!
Happy Burns’ day! Please enjoy the KHS “Haggis Hoppers” ceilidh band playing the classic James Scott-Skinner tune “The Bonnie Lass O’ Bon-Accord”. 🎻🪈🎹🪗School’s Out 24/01/26
Listen Again: https://player.autopod.xyz/1172250 Presenting: Cobai Lilianna Penny  Playlist: Interpol – Rest My Chemistry John Powell – Flying with Mother フレデリックFREDERIC – oddloop Jack Stauber – Mirror Man Ester Dean and Skylar Astin – Since U Been Gone Artic Monkeys – Snap Out of it BTS – Moon BTS – Boy with Luv Stray Kids – DIVINE Musical Fact: After a few years, BTS are back and ready with their new fifth studio album, ‘Arirang’, coming out on March 20, 2026, which will be their first full-group project since all members completed their military service. Top Ten: https://www.artic.edu/highlights/13/surrealism …Our Blog
Well done to everyone for learning their poetry – it was a pleasure to listen to you all recite your chosen poems. The three winners will get the chance to recite it again during Monday’s Together Time. We have continued learning about analogue and digital times this week. We have been thinking about our daily routines and the times that things happen during the school day. We have also kept working on subtraction work. We have been learning different strategies to work them out mentally, using some of our class “bits and bobs” and using Numicon. We are enjoying our …Friday 23rd January 2026
On Monday, we did our assembly! We performed Giraffes Can’t Dance and it was fantastic! We got lots of great feedback from the other classes and from the families. We then wrote a newspaper article about it. We looked at a newspaper article to find the features and came up with the Steps to Success. They included a headline, an 4W introduction, WOW words and openers. In Numeracy, we have continued to learn and practice strategies for subtraction. This week we used a split strategy and some children moved on to subtracting 3-digit numbers. In French, we learnt some of …Latest updatesFriday 23rd January 2026
We have continued to develop our use of similes and metaphors in our writing this week and we created descriptions of a setting, focusing on using our senses. We have been working hard to learn our Scottish poems and have analysed key features of them. We used this analysis to help us create a piece of artwork based on our poem, where we had a choice of materials. In our Victorians topic, we have been learning about inventions from that era. We used ICT skills to research and then create digital information posters about different inventors. We also enjoyed using …Our Week, Our School 23/01/26
Dear Parent / Carer, Welcome to our weekly family and community communication that provides a Headteacher overview of the weeks events and other school-based events and information. The week that’s been… ​It’s been a very busy week here in KHS with lots going on… This week, learners in S5/6 started to undertake formal assessments in preparation for the SQA examinations in May. It’s been a full week of examinations with lots of focus and determination. Well done to everyone and only a couple more days to go! On Wednesday, Mrs Gibb and I attended Fair Isle and Torbain Primary Schools …Latest News
Advent in Glow Blogs
A couple of example sites both have a different primary age activities published every day. 25 examples of the H5p plugin. Example of using the Draw Attention plugin.Canva Embeds in Glow Blogs
Canva embeds are now supported in Glow Blogs.Fixed: PDF Issue
The PDF Issue that recently developed on Glow Blogs has now been fixed. PDFs can now be uploaded as expected without any workarounds.Glow Blogs Update 30 Sep 2025
Glow Blogs has been updated to WordPress 6.8.2. This update is mostly a behind the scenes one, you might not notice much difference.Fixed: PDF problem
An issue with pdf uploaded to Glow Blogs has recently developed. Our developers are looking at the issue to create a fix. The issue is that pdfs uploaded to Glow Blogs are ‘truncated’ to one page. We hope this is fixed soon. There are a few workarounds you can use in the meantime.
