{"id":494,"date":"2017-09-11T08:39:45","date_gmt":"2017-09-11T08:39:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/kilsythacademy\/?p=494"},"modified":"2017-09-11T08:40:45","modified_gmt":"2017-09-11T08:40:45","slug":"kilsyth-academy-news-8917","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/kilsythacademy\/2017\/09\/11\/kilsyth-academy-news-8917\/","title":{"rendered":"Kilsyth Academy News &#8211; 8\/9\/17"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><u>Open Evening \u2013 Pupils in P5, 6 &amp; 7<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Next Tuesday, 19\/9\/17 sees our annual open evening for pupils and parents from our local Primary Schools. This event will start at 7.00pm with a short presentation in the Assembly Hall before parents and pupils will have the opportunity to tour the school, meet staff and pupils and get a flavour the pupil experience on offer at <strong>Kilsyth Academy<\/strong>.\u00a0 We look forward to welcoming as many parents and pupils as possible from our partner Primaries.<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>\u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>Construction careers talk<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We were delighted to welcome Dale from \u2018concrete in the Classroom\u2019 representing Construction Scotland, to provide information and advice to S5\/6 regarding the wide range of careers in the construction industry. This was well received by the young people concerned, who felt that they learned a great deal from the experience.<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>\u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>Firereach<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A group of S3 girls will participate in the <strong>Firereach<\/strong> programme operated by the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service. This programme provides an insight into the importance of teamwork, challenge and self-belief and supports young people to recognise and develop their own skills and abilities.\u00a0 A boys group will also attend this programme in the coming weeks.<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>\u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>UCAS Support<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Our sincere thanks go to <strong>Professor Kevin O\u2019Gorman<\/strong>, from<strong> Heriot-Watt University<\/strong>. For all his work, in supporting our senior pupils with personal statements. For entry to University in 2018 and also for providing support and advice to parents at our recent<strong> UCAS<\/strong> Information evening.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>Kickstart Theatre Company<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Our S1 recently enjoyed a production from the <strong>Kickstart Theatre Company<\/strong> designed to support them to recognise risky behaviour and the impact of making poor decisions. This fully interactive session adopted a humorous approach to serious issues and saw pupils taking on roles in the production and re-writing the events of the play by recognising risky behaviour and decision making.\u00a0 S1 thoroughly enjoyed this event and were instrumental in making this event a success.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>S2 Film Club<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Miss Pollock is starting a Film Club for pupils in S2 in the English Department. The first session will take place this Friday at lunchtime in Room 144.\u00a0 For more information please see Miss Pollock.<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>\u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>Art &amp; Design folios<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Any pupils who would like their Art and Design folios returned from the SQA must see <strong>Miss Andrew<\/strong> as soon as possible. The deadline for this is 25th September.<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>\u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>Dates for your diary<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The school will be closed on Friday 22<sup>nd<\/sup> and Monday 25<sup>th<\/sup> September for the annual September holiday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Open Evening \u2013 Pupils in P5, 6 &amp; 7 Next Tuesday, 19\/9\/17 sees our annual open evening for pupils and parents from our local Primary Schools. This event will start at 7.00pm with a short presentation in the Assembly Hall before parents and pupils will have the opportunity to tour the school, meet staff and &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/kilsythacademy\/2017\/09\/11\/kilsyth-academy-news-8917\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Kilsyth Academy News &#8211; 8\/9\/17&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28120,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","eportfolio_category-none"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/kilsythacademy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/kilsythacademy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/kilsythacademy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/kilsythacademy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28120"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/kilsythacademy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=494"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/kilsythacademy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":495,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/kilsythacademy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494\/revisions\/495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/kilsythacademy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/kilsythacademy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/kilsythacademy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}