{"id":15832,"date":"2025-07-04T12:18:19","date_gmt":"2025-07-04T11:18:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/kirkcaldyhighschool\/?p=15832"},"modified":"2025-07-04T12:19:29","modified_gmt":"2025-07-04T11:19:29","slug":"aiming-high-learning-on-a-different-tac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/kirkcaldyhighschool\/2025\/07\/04\/aiming-high-learning-on-a-different-tac\/","title":{"rendered":"Aiming High &#8211; Learning on a Different Tac"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_15836\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15836\" id=\"longdesc-return-15836\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-15836\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/public\/kirkcaldyhighschool\/uploads\/sites\/12475\/2025\/07\/04121714\/2025-07-04-Excelsior-2-225x300.jpeg\" alt=\"Out KHS sailors, and their fellow crew\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" longdesc=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/kirkcaldyhighschool?longdesc=15836&amp;referrer=15832\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/public\/kirkcaldyhighschool\/uploads\/sites\/12475\/2025\/07\/04121714\/2025-07-04-Excelsior-2-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/public\/kirkcaldyhighschool\/uploads\/sites\/12475\/2025\/07\/04121714\/2025-07-04-Excelsior-2-768x1024.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/public\/kirkcaldyhighschool\/uploads\/sites\/12475\/2025\/07\/04121714\/2025-07-04-Excelsior-2.jpeg 945w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-15836\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Out KHS sailors, and their fellow crew<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Two of our sailors from last year who have been on a huge personal journey; independently travelled overnight by coach and train to Ipswich to board <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theexcelsiortrust.co.uk\/\">Excelsior<\/a> on Saturday 28th June.<\/p>\n<p>They have been apart of the crew- complete strangers until Saturday night -which has taken the voyage over the English Channel to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uneteauhavre.fr\/en\/the-big-sails-of-le-havre\">Le Harve<\/a> in France where Excelsior will be prepared by her crew for and take part in the 2025 <a href=\"https:\/\/sailtraininginternational.org\/event\/tall-ships-races-2025\/\">Tall Ship Race<\/a>. The girls will travel back this Sunday 6th July with lots more memories and lifelong friends.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks so much to the Excelsior crew, and the <a href=\"https:\/\/sailtraininginternational.org\/sailtraining\/youth-development-fund\/\">Sail Training International Youth Development Fund<\/a> for making this happen!<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-15832 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/kirkcaldyhighschool\/2025\/07\/04\/aiming-high-learning-on-a-different-tac\/2025-07-04-excelsior-1\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/public\/kirkcaldyhighschool\/uploads\/sites\/12475\/2025\/07\/04121652\/2025-07-04-Excelsior-1-150x150.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Aiming High - Learning on a Different Tac\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/kirkcaldyhighschool\/2025\/07\/04\/aiming-high-learning-on-a-different-tac\/2025-07-04-excelsior-1-2\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/public\/kirkcaldyhighschool\/uploads\/sites\/12475\/2025\/07\/04121656\/2025-07-04-Excelsior-1-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Aiming High - Learning on a Different Tac\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/kirkcaldyhighschool\/2025\/07\/04\/aiming-high-learning-on-a-different-tac\/2025-07-04-excelsior-1-3\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/public\/kirkcaldyhighschool\/uploads\/sites\/12475\/2025\/07\/04121711\/2025-07-04-Excelsior-1-150x150.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Aiming High - Learning on a Different Tac\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/kirkcaldyhighschool\/2025\/07\/04\/aiming-high-learning-on-a-different-tac\/2025-07-04-excelsior-2\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/public\/kirkcaldyhighschool\/uploads\/sites\/12475\/2025\/07\/04121714\/2025-07-04-Excelsior-2-150x150.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Out KHS sailors, and their fellow crew\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/kirkcaldyhighschool\/2025\/07\/04\/aiming-high-learning-on-a-different-tac\/2025-07-04-excelsior-2-2\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/public\/kirkcaldyhighschool\/uploads\/sites\/12475\/2025\/07\/04121716\/2025-07-04-Excelsior-2-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Aiming High - Learning on a Different Tac\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/kirkcaldyhighschool\/2025\/07\/04\/aiming-high-learning-on-a-different-tac\/2025-07-04-excelsior-3\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/public\/kirkcaldyhighschool\/uploads\/sites\/12475\/2025\/07\/04121721\/2025-07-04-Excelsior-3-150x150.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Aiming High - Learning on a Different Tac\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two of our sailors from last year who have been on a huge personal journey; independently travelled overnight by coach and train to Ipswich to board Excelsior on Saturday 28th June. They have been apart of the crew- complete strangers &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/kirkcaldyhighschool\/2025\/07\/04\/aiming-high-learning-on-a-different-tac\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10574,"featured_media":15837,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[123,72,135],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-2024-2025","category-latest-news","category-summer-term-2024-2025"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/public\/kirkcaldyhighschool\/uploads\/sites\/12475\/2025\/07\/04121716\/2025-07-04-Excelsior-2.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/kirkcaldyhighschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/kirkcaldyhighschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/kirkcaldyhighschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/kirkcaldyhighschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10574"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/kirkcaldyhighschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15832"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/kirkcaldyhighschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15832\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15841,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/kirkcaldyhighschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15832\/revisions\/15841"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/kirkcaldyhighschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/kirkcaldyhighschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/kirkcaldyhighschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/kirkcaldyhighschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}