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!
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.
Every school day makes a difference. By making sure your child goes to school every day, you’re helping them build a bright future and reach their full potential.
What supports do we offer if you or your child need help getting into school?
Your first point of contact for support regarding any concerns over attendance is your child’s Pupil Support Teacher. They will work in partnership with young people and parents/carers to create and implement a plan to support young people to attend school.
| House | Pupil Support Teacher | Email Contact |
| Arran | Miss K McGugan (Mon-Wed)
Miss S Armour (Thurs & Fri) |
KMcGugan@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 | Mrs Bertolini
Mrs Ogilvie |
LBertolini@kingspark-sec.glasgow.sch.uk |
Partner Support Staff – King’s Park Secondary School has several school-based partners we work with to support young people including our Campus Police Officer PC O’Neil, our FARE Family Liaison Worker Dawn Cook, our Education Psychologist Alyson McGregor, our School Counsellor and our MCR Pathways Coordinator Ish Khan. We also provide opportunities for young people through external organisations including Rangers, Castlemilk Youth Centre and more. Please contact your child’s Pupil Support teacher if you would like to talk about the range of supports we can offer.
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.
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.
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.
Well done to some of our fantastic pupils who went out to support one of the local food banks this week. Young people were commended for how well they represented our school a great help to the food bank team.
Thanks to Mr Khan for organising this opportunity!
Our Senior Phase Performance Evening was a brilliant success and a great support for our senior phase pupils who have their practical assessments next week. Well done to everyone involved and a huge thank you to everyone who came to watch and to our fabulous music department for organising the evening and getting students ready to perform 🕺🏼🎤🎼🎹🥁🎸🎻
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:
Today our S3 French pupils were looking at expressing ideas in French abut International women’s day. The young people were able to further develop their vocabulary through using their dictionary skills before working collaboratively to research a woman who they found to be inspiring and who has had an impact on society.
Since Wednesday we have been excitedly welcoming new ducklings in to the Ness Room. We have them for the next 7 days before they go back to the big wide world.
They have been named Cole, Sonny, Dwayne and Custard. We are eagerly awaiting the last duckling. It was great fun putting them in the water for their first swim.
Keep an eye out for more updates.
We were learning about Shrove Tuesday and the origins from around the UK. We finished this off by putting our own toppings on our own pancakes.
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.
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!
Another busy week with sports competitions, music recitals and ongoing assessments and we are ready for the weekend! We hope everyone has the chance to enjoy, and rest also. #FeelGoodFriday
