July 2023

Tarff Valley

The Academy are pleased to announce a joint partnership with local agricultural merchants Tarff Valley. This is an exciting partnership offering our young students the opportunity to experience a career pathway into the Land Based Sector, an area where there is currently a labour shortage. Tarff has secured approval from SQA to roll out a […]

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Chemistry Analyst Competition

The Schools’ Analyst Competition took place on Tuesday 23rd of May at the Kirkcudbright Academy. The competition enables students to demonstrate and expand on their existing knowledge, skills, and aptitude for analytical science through practical experiments based on relevant problems. In this competition students were analytical chemists employed to investigate some unpleasant goings on at the

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Chemistry Lab Work

After a very early start on Monday the 12th of June, Kirkcudbright Academy’s higher and advanced higher Chemistry pupils visited the Pure and Applied Chemistry Department of University of Strathclyde. Higher Chemistry pupils took part in the Fun Lab activities like, making transition metal complexes, growing a stalagmite from sodium ethanoate, carrying out a Briggs-Rauscher reaction. Advanced Higher

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