Students Excel in Car Valeting Training

For the past few weeks and over the next few the Caledonia Centre has been training students from S3 to S6 on Car Valeting. A professional car valeting training team has come to the school on Tuesday mornings and the students have been trained by the team with 2 or 3 staff members having their cars cleaned.

The S6 Class has been running it as an enterprise scheme as part of Personal Development and Car Valeting National Course with invoices given to staff to contribute to part of the cost.  One of the S3 students has been described by James (the Car Valeting Instructor) as one of the best pupils he has ever seen. The student’s ability to take leadership and their attention to deal  has been outstanding. James has taught over 7000 pupils and he is very impressed.

The students have very much enjoyed the car valeting and have looked forward to every session. Mr Anderson from the Caledonia Centre said that a wonderful job had been done on his car, it was beautifully clean and shiny, inside and out.

Cheerleading Team Shines in First Competition!

The King’s Park Cheerleading Team is an exciting new addition to our school, led by the dedicated Miss McKay. Since September, our young athletes have been training hard, learning the skills and discipline required for this dynamic sport.

For many of our team members, cheerleading was completely new. The first few weeks were all about mastering the fundamentals, building strength, and developing teamwork. However, their passion and dedication quickly became evident, inspiring us to enter them into the prestigious Scottish Schools Cheerleading Competition—the largest event of its kind in Scotland!

With months of rigorous training and determination, our team put together an incredible routine. Competing against 11 other schools in their division, they delivered a fantastic performance and secured an impressive 3rd place finish—bringing home a well-earned trophy!

The girls were incredibly proud of their achievement, especially after witnessing the high standard of competition throughout the day. We couldn’t be prouder of their hard work, team spirit, and commitment.

A huge congratulations to our Kings Park Cheerleaders—this is just the beginning of an exciting journey!

Senior Phase College Applications

If you are planning to apply to college on the Tuesday and Thursday afternoons, and have selected this on your Column B of your options, the applications are now open.

The website links for each of the colleges is below – Registrations on each of the websites are now open

City of Glasgow College – https://www.cityofglasgowcollege.ac.uk/senior-phase

Glasgow Clyde College – https://www.glasgowclyde.ac.uk/study/schools/courses-for-pupils

Glasgow Kelvin College – https://www.glasgowkelvin.ac.uk/departments/senior-phase-schools-programme/

There is also a prospectus for the courses available from the following link. PLEASE DO NOT USE THIS TO APPLY and apply using the links to the colleges above.

https://registration.goglasgow.org.uk/Register

No pupils should use the links on the site to register for the Lvl 4-7 or Foundation Apprenticeship programmes, pupils looking for spaces on these programmes should register directly on the college website, any registrations will be deleted.

RSHP Education in PSE

Throughout March and April, all year groups will be completing their Relationships, Sexual Health and Parenthood Education in PSE. All the lessons we use can be found at www.rshp.scot. Please go through the attached powerpoint that has all the information regarding the content of the lessons.

RHSP Parents & Careers Powerpoint

If you do not wish your young person to be involved in these lessons and instead would rather educate them on RSHP at home please email the relevant pastoral care teacher on the emails below. If a young person has not to be involved in the lesson, they will be completing other work in the Learning Zone during their PSE time:

Arran – Miss McGugan (Mon, Tues and Wed): kmcgugan@kingspark-sec.glasgow.sch.uk

Arran -Miss Armour (Thurs and Fri): sarmour@kingspark-sec.glasgow.sch.uk

Lewis – Miss McTaggart: fmctaggart@kingspark-sec.glasgow.sch.uk

Mull – Ms Gibson: agibson@kingspark-sec.glasgow.sch.uk

Skye – Mr Samson: isamson@kingspark-sec.glasgow.sch.uk

All Houses – Ms Bertolini: lbertolini@kingspark-sec.glasgow.sch.uk

Caledonia Centre – Mrs Ogilvie: jogilvie@kingspark-sec.glasgow.sch.uk

Sporting Success

A big well done to Grace McDermott in 2L1 who achieved a bronze medal in Acro Gymnastics at the Spelthorne Acro Cup at the weekend.

Well done to Grace and her partner Summer from East Kilbride Acro Gymasntics Club and good luck for the Scottish Championships in 2 weeks time.

Grease Rehearsals

Rehearsals for our school show are well underway!

Rehearsals take place after school on a Friday until 4.30pm in the assembly hall and new members of the cast are always welcome!

Well done to our amazing cast who are working incredibly hard on their singing, dancing and acting to ensure that the show is a complete success.

Performances will take place on Wednesday 18th and Thursday 19th June 2025, promising a night of electrifying music, dazzling dance moves, and unforgettable fun.

New Timekeeping Procedures

We are aware of the increasing number of young people arriving late each morning and the impact this has on learning and teaching.

As a result from Monday 24th February we will be introducing late slips.

The doors will be opened to all buildings for 2 minutes either side of 8.50am. If a young person arrives to school out with this time they will report to the school office to be met with a DHT and Pupil Support PT to receive a late slip. Lates will be monitored in order to improve both timekeeping and learning & teaching.

Thank you for your support with this matter.

Construction Aware Programme

Over the last couple of months, 10 of our S3 pupils have been taking part in the Construction Aware programme created by DYW Glasgow in partnership with FARE Scotland, and co-designed with industry leaders such as McTaggart Construction, CCG, and A.C. Whyte.

The pupils visited 7 construction-related organisations and live sites, getting a real feel for the industry from pre- to post-construction! Through hands-on activities, they explored key skills used in the field and heard inspiring career stories from industry professionals.

To top it off, they successfully completed the program and earned an SCQF 3 Work Aware qualification!

A huge well done to everyone involved!

Scottish Space School – Applications Opening!

Scottish Space School 2025

University of Strathclyde

9 – 13 June 2025

Applications Open Monday 17 February 2025

The Faculty of Engineering at the University of Strathclyde is delighted to be offering the Scottish Space School programme again in 2025. The programme will run at the University from Monday 9 – Friday 13 June 2025.

This is a fantastic opportunity for S5 pupils who are keen to move into a STEM pathway and are studying maths and/or the physical sciences at Higher level.

There are 100 places available on the week-long programme this year at which attendees will hear from staff at the University of Strathclyde who will provide an insight into studying and working in the field of engineering, as well as hearing from some of the world’s leading figures in space travel, including NASA Astronauts and engineers. Participants will also take part in a group project which they will present to a selection panel made up of staff from the University and NASA on the final day.

At the end of the programme in June, 8 lucky pupils will be selected to travel to Houston, USA in October 2025 to complete the ‘Learning Journey to NASA’ trip.

There is no cost associated with attending the programme in June, or the trip to Houston in October.

Further information is available on the Space School website here:

https://www.strath.ac.uk/engineering/scottishspaceschool/.

All pupils who are interested in attending must apply using the online form which can be accessed using the link above. The deadline to apply Monday 17 March 2025 and decisions will be sent to all applicants by Tuesday 22 April 2025.

In the application form, pupils are asked to supply the name and contact details for a teacher who can provide a statement in support of their application. If you are interested, please speak to your Pastoral Care teacher or another teacher who knows you well. If you want to find out a bit more about Space School, please speak to Mrs Thyne.

 

S3 Boy’s Football Cup Victory

The S3 Boy’s Football Team secured a place in the Quarter Finals of the Glasgow Cup after a dominant 9-0 win vs Govan High School.

Goals from:

  • Josh Irvine (S3, Skye),
  • Sam Perry (S3, Lewis),
  • Jamie Black (S3, Skye),
  • Rocco Black Ferguson (S3, Arran),
  • Pieters Mayavo (S3, Lewis),
  • Colin Winkler (S3, Skye),
  • Brayden Burns (S3, Skye) and
  • Alfie Gracie (S3, Mull).

Some excellent performances on the day, however Man of the Match goes to TJ Black (S3, Lewis) for guiding the team to a well deserved clean sheet. 

We await our next opponents with plenty of optimism and wish the boys well as they progress to the next round.

S1 Southside Modern Studies Quiz

On Wednesday this week, our S1 team of Elias MacLean (S1, Skye), Joseph Reilly (S1, Skye) and Jade Bonner (S1, Skye) came second to Holyrood Secondary in the annual Southside quiz.

Pipped by a point, this team showed some really good knowledge to compete after losing a colleague who was not able to attend.

Well done and congratulations to Holyrood who have the privilege of hosting the tournament next year.

Check out all our pictures and news @kingsparkhumanities on Instagram.

School Values Logo Competition

Remember, the deadline to enter our School Values Logo Competition is the end of the school day tomorrow!

The logo must feature each of our school values – Kindness, Ambition, Respect and Equality. It should be bright, bold and easy to understand as it will represent our School Community.

Entries can be digital or hand rendered (drawn or painted).

Entries should be put into the Big Blue Box in Miss Joice’s room – (Rm 312, pictured below). Digital entries should be emailed to Miss Joice at gw24joicekatie@glow.sch.uk with your full name and class. The top entries will be selected by a committee following the February Weekend.

Thank you for your ideas!

 

Senior Art & Design Skills Workshops

Miss Joice’s senior class had a very productive double period today experimenting with ink and dying techniques as part of their second National 4 & 5 Skills Workshop for their Design portfolio.

They’ll use these inked papers to cover their white models, which will then become the final piece of their Design folio.

Have a look through our gallery to see some examples of their inking and their incredible white models.

Fantastic work everyone, exciting things are happening!