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| REASONS TO BE CHEERFUL? ..........WE ONLY NEED ONE! The happy faces below were pictured on the morning of Friday 27th June 2008, with only a few hours to go till the start of the summer break. Were they looking forward to the holidays? What do you think? Photos by Euan McIlvanney (new S4) |
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STAFF RETIRING THIS SUMMER From the end of this month some of our more experienced staff will be retiring. (Clockwise from right) Mr Partridge, Mrs Cairney, Mr Hill, Mr McCormick and Dr Neilson will all begin a well-earned rest. Everyone at K.A. wishes them a long and happy retirement. |
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SCOTTISH YOUTH THEATRE SUMMER COURSES Scottish Youth Theatre will be running summer courses during the month of July in Edinburgh, Glasgow and Aberdeen. The courses are aimed at young people aged 12-15 who are interested in the performing arts or are interested in learning and developing new theatre skills. The courses last two weeks and cost
£250 - funding advice is available. |
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REMINDERS..... Dance Summer Courses – Kilmarnock (Mrs Miller) Competition (Mrs Ford) Uniform (Mrs Ford) |
![]() PRIZEGIVING 2008 |
PRIZEGIVING CEREMONY 2008 The Kilmarnock Academy Prizegiving Ceremony took place on Monday 16th June 2008. For details of the event and the list of pupils who received prizes and certificates click here. |
WHAT A SHOW! This year's school show was performed on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday of last week, starting at 7.30pm each night. All of the preparation and hard work put in by the cast, the production team, the technical support team and the band paid of as the show was a colourful and spectacular success. |
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SQA RESULTS ONLINE
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EAST AYRSHIRE READERS' CUP On Monday the 9th of June, the final of the East Ayrshire Readers' Cup was held at Cumnock Academy. This competition was established by East Ayrshire school librarians to promote reading. It is now in its fourth year. The quiz consists of five rounds of ten questions each and this year's themes were Lucky Dip, Fantasy, Philip Pullman, Books as Films and Book Covers. At the end of the Fourth Round, we were in second place but, alas, Book covers were too difficult and Cumnock Academy just pipped us by half a mark. The end result was that we were fourth as we have been for each year of this competition. This year, the winners were Auchinleck Academy with a resounding 45 out of 50 marks and they will host the competition next year. Report by Dr Neilson |
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![]() PRIZEGIVING 2008 |
PRIZEGIVING CEREMONY 2008 The Kilmarnock Academy Prizegiving Ceremony will take place on 16th June 2008. For details of the event and the list of pupils who will be receiving prizes and certificates click here. |
FAMOUS FORMER PUPILS Three suggestions for possible addition to your famous former pupils page - Andrew McLellan - HM Chief Inspector of Prisons Scotland, and a former Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland. Andrew attended the Academy from 1955 to 1960/61. John Miller, another former Moderator of the General Assembly, and a distinguished parish minister in Castlemilk until his retirement. John is now in Zimbabwe. Coincidentally, both John's father and Andrew's were ministers in the West High Church. And thirdly, Davy Brown artist - see his website for details. Davy left the Academy in the late 1960's. Yours, Stewart Roy (Kilmarnock Academy, 1955 to 1961). |
| GET IN TOUCH WITH K.A. We have already heard from Billy Lennon (Derby), Daryn Bolland (Canada), Linda Sewell (Kentucky, USA), Jamie Ross (Weston, Florida, USA), David McGaw (Hamilton), Kara Lou Ross (Kilmarnock), Julie Clemmy (Kilmarnock), Winifred Holland (Ontario), Heather Farrell Andolsen (New Jersey), Laura Hastings (Cape Cod), Russell Dowson (Boston), Alison Macmillan (London), Janet Smith (Auckland), Gordon Mutch (Ontario), Ed Wilson (Arkansas), Lesley Anne Campbell (Glasgow), Iain Brown (Kilmarnock), Jane Henstock (Johannesburg), Angela Brown (New York), Elaine McCulloch (Chicago), Roy McClymont (Atlanta), Craig Hanlon (Paris),Kirsteen Wright (Tokyo), Clifford McMillan (Korea), Elinor Kerr (Kilmarnock) and Scott Bell (Norway). |
K.A. WORLDWIDE Is anybody out there? |
K.A. Promoting Reading and Access to Knowledge |
| K.A. Web - Credits The creation and maintenance of this site has taken place (and continues to do so) outwith school time during evenings and weekends. It consumes serious amounts of time for which the creators receive no payment whatsoever. Neil Dickson and Neil Mcilvanney are both full-time English teachers with full timetables. Eric Gordon works full-time in I.T. for South Ayrshire Council. Alistair and Stuart Livingston The idea to upgrade our school website came originally from Alistair Livingston, (a former KA Maths teacher and member of our school board) and his son Stuart. |
The Pupils of K.A. Enthusiastic contributions to many areas of the site - especially reviews of Books, Films Games and CDs. Keep those contributions coming. Former Pupils of K.A. Contributions from across the world to Former Pupils' Notice Board, K.A. Worldwide, Feedback & Requests. Your contributions are gratefully received - keep sending them in! Neil McIlvanney Creating and uploading all (700+) pages; site layout; all ideas for site content; all photos (except Art); researching links; updating content; developing additional features and content to be uploaded soon; design, layout and uploading of subject content pages (an additional 200+ pages coming soon). |
Eric Gordon Site menu system; many, many hours of invaluable technical support and advice; making up initial country pages for K.A. Worldwide. Dr Neil Dickson Content in History , Famous Former Pupils, Former Rectors. Individual Subject Departments Subject Content; Art Dept. - Art & Fashion photographs. Carole Ford Content for What's on This Month, the Weekly Bulletin and the Term Newsletters; arranging 5 days for Neil McIlvanney to work on the School Handbook Section; sanctioning finance for the creation of the site menu system. Hugh & William McIlvanney For giving permission to include their work on our school website. |