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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

During November fifty six second and third year pupils travelled to London for four days of sightseeing and adventures. On their first night they went to see Buckingham Palace and saw King Charles arriving with an entourage, they then walked to Trafalgar Square and finished with a trip to Covent Garden and a dinner at

WW1 Battlefields trip to Belgium and France      On the first of November, thirty-five of us excited students set off from the school in the early hours of the morning, bound for Ypres, Belgium.    Their first day was spent visiting historical sites around Ypres such as battle sites, trenches and war cemeteries, we were told

30 pupils from Kirkcudbright Academy entered the UKMT Senior Mathematical Challenge on Tuesday 4th 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 Marcus Duncan, seven Bronze awards went to Joshua Eade-White, Noah Goodare, Odran Simpson, Finlay Wilkinson, Fergus McClure, Solli Stephenson and Edie

The pupils and staff at Kirkcudbright Academy marked Remembrance Day on Friday 11th November by holding a 2 minute silence along with a Wreath Laying ceremony. The 2 wreath laying parties, one in the main school hall and the other at the memorial stone in the school grounds were joined by representatives from the Parent