Grease – School Show 2025

Last week saw our run of performances of this year’s school show, Grease. The run was a total triumph with a huge number of parents, carers, family and friends coming along to show their support for which we are so grateful. Our amazing cast were absolutely phenomenal, making us, the school and themselves proud. They have been working incredibly hard in rehearsals since October and putting in a string of evening and weekend rehearsals over the final weeks which absolutely paid off.

Now for us to start thinking about next year…………

All photography by Masie Speirs (@mai_spe7)

Silver Duke of Edinburgh Expedition

Our Silver Duke of Edinburgh group recently completed their practice expedition along the scenic Greenock Cut in Muirshiel Regional Park.

Blessed with warm and sunny conditions, the team made excellent progress while developing their navigation, teamwork, and outdoor skills. Spirits were high throughout the day as pupils embraced the challenge and enjoyed the stunning views across the Firth of Clyde.

A great day for all involved!

Introducing our School Captains ’25 – ’26

Click here to view our School Captain Team

Sports Day 2025!

Our annual Sports Day took place last week under bright skies and an atmosphere full of excitement, determination, and school pride. Students from all year groups came together to represent their house teams in a series of athletic challenges, showing outstanding sportsmanship and enthusiasm throughout the event.

This year’s competition saw a close contest among our four house groups: Mull, Arran, Skye, and Lewis. Every race, jump, and throw added crucial points to the team totals, and the final standings reflected just how tight the competition was:

4th Place – Mull House: 498 points
3rd Place – Arran House: 500 points
2nd Place – Skye House: 501 points
1st Place – Lewis House: 523 points

Congratulations to Lewis House, who claimed the Sports Day trophy with an impressive total of 523 points! Their teamwork, determination, and consistent performance across the events earned them a well-deserved victory.

We would like to thank all the staff, student volunteers, and supporters who helped make the event a success.

BGE Awards Ceremony – Programme

Celebration & Launch Day – K.A.R.E @ KPSS

We had a wonderful day on Friday 7th June to celebrate some of our achievements this session. We started off with a GOLD breakfast in the morning, had various activities every period linked to our celebrations and finished up in the afternoon with a launch of our school values in the playground!

We celebrated getting our Green Eco Flag, being a Gold Rights Respecting School and being a Gold SCQF Ambassador School!

We the shared cake, listened to our bands and launched our school values – K.A.R.E @ KPSS from banners to show off our new logo too – Kindness, Ambition, Respect and Equality!

It was a great day celebrating all that we are as a King’s Park community – Well Done everyone! This was a celebration for us all ⭐

 

 

Celebration Day

We’re looking forward to our KPSS Celebration day on Friday 6th June. This is to celebrate our fantastic achievements of earning our Eco Green Flag, Gold SCQF award and our Gold Rights Respecting School status.

On Friday we will also officially launch our School Values of Kindness, Ambition, Respect and Equality (K.A.R.E.@KPSS) which we will refer to in lessons but also in all our work and interactions with each other across our school community.

We’re encouraring our young people and staff to wear gold, yellow or sparkles on Friday for our non-uniform day. We’d love to see lots of our young people and staff at our Gold Breakfast Club on Friday morning. We’re having quizzes and games throughout the day and bringing our whole school together for our final celebration during Period 6.

It should be a great day and a huge celebration and thank you to all of our young people, parents/carers, staff and partners – these achievements are only possible because of the amazing collective work you all do.

Thank you all and bring on the celebration!

 

S1 Project Based Learning

May was a busy month for our S1 Project Based Learning (PBL) classes!

The S1 Protecting Wildlife class went to Troon to do a beach clean. This was organised by one of the teams who were committed to tackling pollution to help protect marine wildlife. This team reached out to the Marine Conservation Society for advice about the beach clean. As a result, Kirsty from the Marine Conservation Society came to KPSS to deliver an interactive workshop about Marine Pollution for an S1 Science class.

Another PBL team visited Refuweegee, a Glasgow based charity to support refugees in our city. They came back with lots of great ideas on how we can support this vulnerable group in our school and local community.

Our S1 PBL classes worked hard this term to develop their solutions to tackle their Big Question and all teams presented their solutions, along with outlining how they have developed their meta-skills, at our fab showcase in May.

Well done to all our S1 PBL teams and to our S1 PBL teachers for their hard work and commitment to this exciting new learning initiative at KPSS. We can’t wait to see how you get on with your PBL projects in S2!

S2 Model Box Sets

Our S2 pupils have been creating model box sets while learning about the roles and responsibilities of a set designer as part of their Boy in the Striped Pyjamas Production Skills unit in which we explore theatre arts skills such as set, lighting, costume and props.

Recruitment of new School/Vice and House Captains

The recruitment process for our new School Captains will commence tomorrow (Monday 2nd June) with information shared as part of the induction programme and where the application form will be shared.
The process will involve:

  • completing the short application form (links will be shared)
  • presenting to year groups as to why you should be considered for School or Vice captain and pupils will be able to cast their vote thereafter.

This process will then be followed by:

  • a group task
  • Interview with Mrs Ayed and captains early next week.

We wish all applicants the very best of luck! Please don’t hesitate to see Mrs Kelly if you have any questions.

S5&S6 Powering Futures

Delighted to share this great video showcasing the brilliant work of our S5&S6 Powering Futures teams.

This fantastic course helps build an understanding of sustainability for our young people but also helps them develop meta-skills like communication, analysis and collaboration to help prepare them for the world of work.

Well done to Esma, Mark, Lara, Matej, Abdullah, Maya and Jack who all successfully gained the Level 6 award and delivered excellent presentations to the panel of industry judges!

We’re looking forward to welcoming our new Powering Futures class in June and excited to continue our partnership with this great organisation whose mantra is to support young people to be happy and successful in their futures 😀