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All students will have their results certificate delivered to their home address by first class post today, Tuesday 8 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 not receive their certificate with their post, they can contact […]

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

We are delighted to announce that after several rounds of application, voting and interview, Kirkcudbright Academy has selected their House Captains for 2023/24; Kacee Knox (Stewart), Molly Maxwell (Selkirk) and Alexi Baty (McLellan). The final interview panel included Mentor Teachers Ms Syed, Miss Gilliland and Mr Moses, Mr Tuffery, Rector, Ms Laura Moodie, Parent Council

They did it! Since January, our talented cast and crew have been working on Kirkcudbright Academy’s production of Grease

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

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

Just launched at the end of last week is our pupil Radio Station KBT FM. It is planned to broadcast a new episode every month which will be available to everyone to listen to via this website, visit the ‘School Life’ menu tab, and on our school Facebook page. Or click on the link below:

Wednesday 8th of March was a big day for our F1 in Schools Teams, an early start 5.30am, saw them pack up their Pit Displays and box up their Race Cars before heading off to Newcastle University for the Regional Finals of the F1 in Schools competition. The 3 teams, all S2 students, had been

NATIONAL E-LEARNING OFFER: E-SGOIL EASTER STUDY SUPPORT Across Scotland this year, students’ learning and revision is being supported by the National e-Learning Offer (NeLO). A major part of this is the e-Sgoil Senior Phase Easter Study Support programme for 2023. E-Sgoil’s Easter Study Support will run from 3 to 14 April 2023. The programme comprises

Kirkcudbright Academy and its staff provide a variety of support sessions throughout the academic year and are available daily to discuss with students any difficulties they may have in their learning. Staff are delivering Study Sessions in school and an updated list and times of these sessions can be found below and on our Facebook