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Some of our S1 pupils have been working on a project funded by Historic Environment Scotland called ‘Cook up the Castle’. We have had local historians come in to school over lunch times to teach us all about what life was like in the castle back when it was functioning. We focused a lot on […]

Study Webinars E-Sgoil have opened the registration for their ‘Study Webinars’, a very popular series of online study sessions covering most N5, Higher and Advanced Higher Courses. Pupils can sign up for these webinars by clicking on the link below: Webinars are available throughout the week, view the e-sgoil timetable by clicking on the link

See below for the September edition of KBT FM

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: