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Ali v Foreman - an account of one of the most remarkable bouts in boxing history by former pupil and sports journalist, Hugh McIlvanney.

Best Years of Our Lives - Hugh McIlvanney recalls one of football's legends.  

                Writing by
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The Prisoner - a short story by author and former pupil William McIlvanney.

 Dreaming Las Vegas - William McIlvanney writes about his trip to the city of shining lights.     
  

 

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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)

  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.


  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.

 For more information and an application form, telephone Scottish Youth  Theatre on 0141 552 3988. Applications can also be downloaded from  www.scottishyouththeatre.org.


  REMINDERS.....

 Dance Summer Courses – Kilmarnock (Mrs Miller)
 Application forms are available at PE for pupils interested in this summer  activity. Places are limited and are on a “first come” basis. The weeks  activities will include a wide range of dance styles. This course is free!  Get you application form as soon as possible.

 Competition (Mrs Ford)
 The BBC has launched a competition to find the best young speaker in  Britain . If you are interested in this please see www.bbb.co.uk/speaker  or email speaker@bbc.co.uk

 Uniform (Mrs Ford)
 There will be a check of uniform shortly. If you wear inappropriate  clothes to school you may be sent home or to the behaviour unit.  Shorts are not acceptable as school uniform. Skirt and trousers only  are school uniform.

 For more details and events click here.


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.


SQA RESULTS ONLINE

Information for S4, S5 and S6 pupils

Results of examinations

Your have all received information from the Scottish Qualifications Authority regarding how to receive your exam results online or by text message.

Follow the instructions in the leaflet but note the following points:

  • The results will be available on MySqa, part of the SQA website
  • You must register for this service
  • If you registered last year you must still register again this year
  • You need an email address. This is necessary even if you wish to receive your results by text message
  • You must register by 21 st July
  • You must activate your account by 28 th July

The results will be available from Tuesday 5 th August, between 8am and 9am .


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



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).

Former Pupils

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We have recently heard from Peter Holt (Portugal), Gerry Greensmith in Brighton and Janie Henstock in South Africa who visited Kilmarnock in July 2006. She sent us some pictures and her thoughts on her visit.
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?

Over the past year we have received a number of e-mails from former pupils living abroad (check out the list on the left). These are being posted on the Former Pupils' Notice Board.

If you are a former pupil living abroad, then e-mail us and let us know what you've been up to lately.

As you can see from our list, we also welcome e-mails from former pupils who are still living locally.

So, what are you waiting for? Contact us at:

formerpupils@kilmarnockacademy.co.uk
            
                
K.A. Promoting Reading and Access to Knowledge

   Read all about it! Access all the UK national daily and Sunday papers at the click of a button.
     
     Here you can get reading lists, advice, book reviews, the latest reads and competitions.


   No matter what your interests, you should find something to suit you here.

   Here you can find out what's going on from L.A. to Moscow, at the click of a button.

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.


Thanks to Sirius Concepts for hosting our school website.
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.