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19 pupils from Kirkcudbright Academy entered the 2024 UKMT Senior Mathematical Challenge on Tuesday 1st October. This challenge encourages mathematical reasoning, precision of thought, and fluency in using basic mathematical techniques to solve interesting problems. This year our Silver award winner was Hannah Chen, and three Bronze awards went to Brooke Crane, Iain McGougan and Stewart Walker. All other pupils achieved a participation award. […]

2024 Regional Maths challenge Four pupils from Kirkcudbright Academy recently competed in the D&G Regional Maths Challenge held at St Jospeh’s College. The team had to undertake a variety of mathematical challenges, ranging from numerical questions, to puzzles and problem solving, origami paper shapes and the rapid fire relay quiz. After a day of very

On Friday 13th Sept, Ben H in S4 travelled to Glendalough in the Wicklow Mountains, to compete as part of a team of four representing Scotland in the under 17s, international hill race. The competition includes representatives from Scotland, England, Wales, Ireland and Northern Ireland and across the gruelling hill run (210 metres elevation) Ben

Wednesday 11th September saw a group of our S3 Students head off to Loch Ken to participate in a Water Safety Course. With a number of deaths due to drowning, around the country, this course was offered and run by the Loch Ken Rangers Team to schools around the Authority. Although, following a spell of

In recent weeks and months there has been a significant discussion across the UK on the use of mobile phones in schools, this has led to an outright ban on phones in schools across England and a similar ban is expected in Northern Ireland. The Scottish Government has just published its own Guidance on Mobile

Not got the results you were expecting from your exams? You may need to change the level at which you are currently studying a subject, or may need to re-sit a subject you were studying last year. This could be due to not achieving the grade you were expecting, or you have done better than

Those students who sat exams at National 5, Higher and Advanced Higher will have their results certificate delivered to their home address by first class post today, Tuesday 6 August. Those who have signed-up for and activated their MySQA account will also receive their results by text and/or email the same morning. If students do

Congratulations to our Pupil Leadership Team for session 2024/25. Following a round of interviews the following students have been elected:

Kirkcudbright Academy recently held their annual Awards Ceremony to recognise the hard work and achievements of the students at the school. Following a trial period where the Junior and Senior Awards Ceremonies were held separately, it was decided to combine the two ceremonies once again. It was well attended by parents/carers of our young students

On Tuesday 14 May 2024, myself and several other students had the opportunity to participate in the Kirkcudbright Rotary Young Chemist of The Year Competition. This involved a written test, based on an entire year’s worth of content, and 2 experiments which had calculations we needed to figure out. The test was challenging with the