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A Word from Miss Cook, Head Teacher

13 February 2026

Staffing  

Steven Illingworth’s secondment is being extended at Preston Lodge High School until March 2027.

This means Zara Machen, Emma Reynolds and Hannah Milligan will continue in their posts, until this date too.

Our Modern Studies teaching post (permanent, full time) is now live and closes on Sunday 22 February.

We are also advertising for a full-time, permanent Pupil Support Worker – this closes on Sunday.

Parents’ Evening S1

It was great to see so many parents/carers and young people along to our parents’ evening on Tuesday. I hope you found the feedback from teachers useful in terms of your young person’s next steps. Certainly those parents/carers I spoke to seemed very happy with the review of progress this far and next steps.

If you were unable to make this evening for any reason, please do contact the House Team so we can get some feedback for you on your young person’s performance. 

Access to School after the end of the day

Pupils are welcome to stay on after school to attend study sessions/clubs and to study in the library (until 4.15pm). Unless attending a club/study pupils are expected to go home as they are not being supervised. Please can you discuss this with your young person to ensure they are aware of this.  Thank you for your support.

Study Support for Senior Pupils

Our Study Support timetable is available here. Please encourage your young people to attend these – especially if they are in S4/5/6 and about to sit prelims and their SQA exams in April/May next year. Our senior can also use ACHIEVE (most departments are using this so pupils should speak directly to their teachers for more guidance on how to use this to its maximum).

There is also an opportunity for all of our Senior Pupils to join the E-Sgoil Evening online study support programme – which is completely free. Study Support comprises live, interactive webinars and are delivered online by experienced, GTCS registered teachers. 55 different webinars are on offer each week during term time, covering the most popular curricular areas as well as an extensive range of other subjects.  All pupils will need their Glow passwords to sign up and they can ask any of their teachers for this. Further information on how to...

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Welcome

Knox Academy is the secondary school for Haddington and the surrounding area in East Lothian, Scotland, UK.  We are an active school community with many events taking place regularly.

The Bulletin is updated with news relevant specifically to pupils on a day-to-day basis, while other school news can be viewed below. Our school calendar contains key dates throughout the current session. A summary of session dates is also available.  Current vacancies for staff are advertised on myjobscotland and also in the Recruitment News section of this website.  

Please contact the School Office if you require further information on any aspect of the community at Knox Academy.