Category: News
Spring Newsletter
Chefs in the making!
Some pupils from the Caledonian Centre had the pleasure of going to Tony Macaroni in East Kilbride.
They enjoyed making their own pizzas starting from simply a ball of dough and then selecting their own toppings. After devouring their pizzas, they all enjoyed some ice cream. Thank you to all the team at Tony Macaroni at St James Retail Park, East Kilbride.
Everyone was made feel very welcome and enjoyed this experience very much.
Sporting Success
We have had more sporting success recently with Grace McDermott (S2, Lewis) becoming Scottish Champion in her category in Acro Gymnastics. Well done and good luck to Grace and her partner Summer at the British in May.
It was also sporting success for Eva Bremner (S2, Lewis) who won several awards in Dance at the Scottish Freestyle championships. Eva took silver for solo, bronze for rock n’ roll, bronze for “boogey wooogey” and her team took overall 1st too. Congratulations to Eva!
Social Enterprise Success!
Some of our S3 pupils have been working with Experian on a Social Enterprise project. This project was then presented to a ‘Dragon’s Den’ to bid for a start up fund.
The group presented their business plan for a swap shop to support those in need of uniform or clothes for summer and successfully gained £100!!!
Well Done to everyone who attended and to the team for working on the presentation, jingle and pitch!
KP Swap Shop will start up soon!
Dance Showcase💃
A huge well done to our senior phase dancers who took part in this years showcase. The pupils performed dances that they have been working on over this academic year.
Well done to Miss McKay’s cheerleading squad and the S3 dancers for being our guest performs of the night. You were fantastic!
Thank you to all the parents, carers and staff who attended the event to support our young people.
Spring Break Revision Classes
This year we are offering extensive support to our Senior Phase young people over the Spring Break. With the guidance of their teachers, they’ll revisit all the key areas of the subject, strengthening their knowledge and working on their exam technique, using past paper questions to ensure they’ve got the know-how and confidence to shine in their upcoming exams.
We have both in person sessions in school and online sessions which are provided online by e-sgoil.
- King’s Park Sessions Sign Up – You must sign into Glow to access
- E-Sogil Sessions Sign Up – You must sign into Glow to access
Please encourage your child to sign up and attend.
SCQF Gold Ambassador School
We are delighted to have received the Gold Award for being an SCQF Ambassador school. This is due to all the hard work we have done in sharing the SCQF opportunities for our learners and their different education progression pathways.
Well done to everyone involved!
SQA – Your Guide to exams
All S4 -S6 pupils should read the SQA Guide to your exams, following the link. This is available in digital format only. We strongly encourage our young people to read this guide as it has valuable information in it regarding SQA exams.
Further details will be shared in preparation for the SQA exams including parent/carer information and an SQA assembly for our young people.
Please see Mrs Kelly if you have any questions.
Calling all S4 – S6 pupils studying towards exams!
Please make use of this excellent opportunity for free supported study online sessions!
Registration for e-Sgoil’s 2025 Senior Phase Easter Study Support is now OPEN.
This webinar programme is a key element of Scotland’s National e-Learning Offer (NeLO) comprising of live, interactive webinars delivered by experienced, GTCS registered teachers.
A total of 57 webinars are on offer, covering 27 subjects at different levels. Each webinar group will meet for three sessions during 7th – 11th April 2025. This provision is free to all learners.
The timetable, registration form, and a range of supporting documentation can all be accessed here.
Please note that our separate Evening Study Support webinar programme continues during term time until the start of the SQA exam diet.
If you have any questions or queries, please get in touch with e-Sgoil.
Rights Respecting Schools – GOLD!
In February, UNICEF visited our school for accreditation to the Rights Respecting Schools Award. Just last week we have had it confirmed that we have been successful in being awarded our GOLD Rights Respecting Schools Award. This is quite an achievement so well done to our full school community for putting children’s rights at the forefront of everything we do!
Special thanks to Miss Mussen, the staff and the large groups of young people involved! We will celebrate more later in the session along with a celebration of our school values too.
It is important we continue to learn about, understand and live through Children’s rights as a GOLD school. Participation, pupil voice, fairness, dignity and excellence in education remain the articles most important to us a school on our school charter.
Senior Phase College Applications Closing
The Colleges (City of Glasgow, Glasgow Clyde & Glasgow Kelvin) have informed us that the Application portals for pupils registering for next term’s Senior Phase College programmes will close as of end of business on Wednesday 30th April.
If pupils who intend on attending the Lvl 4-7 programmes next term who have not yet registered can they please to register as soon as possible to ensure that they don’t miss out.
Senior Phase College Reminder
A reminder that the Lvl 4-7 college websites are open and pupils looking to attend the Lvl 4-7 college programmes from August should register directly onto the college websites.
The links to the 3 college websites are below:
Mother Tongue Show
A massive well done to our Diversity Ambassadors for putting together this year’s Mother Tongue Show!
It was a great evening full of a variety of acts ranging from dancing, music and acting, which showcased the cultures at King’s Park Secondary School.
A very big thank you to all of our young people who spent hours rehearsing, who supported the event and to all staff who helped with the running of the event. I think we can all agree that their hard work paid off!
Well done to all those who took part.
Languages Week
Last week our S1 classes took part in a range of activities to celebrate Languages week.
We would like to say a massive well done to Finlay McFarlane from 1M2 for taking time aside at home to showcase a little about his culture through this fantastic poster.
Well done, Finlay!
