Kilgraston Speech Day 2022
Kilgraston’s Speech Day 2022 was celebrated this year amidst sunshine and thunderstorms, smiles and tears.
It was the busiest Speech Day in many years as parents and families flocked to celebrated the successes of pupils, and well done to all of you for the many merits, cups and ribbons distributed.
This year’s Speech Day was the first to be experienced by Kilgraston’s Headteacher, Mrs Davie, who congratulated the pupils and in particular the 2022 leavers for their impressive results with 67% going on to prestigious Russell Group universities and with a 100% Oxbridge success.
Our guest speaker this year was Hannah Ovens, who has been mentoring Kilgraston’s Young Enterprise teams for the past three years. Hannah gave an inspiring speech detailing her own non-traditional route to success which was driven by hard work and boundless enthusiasm. Pupils were hanging on her every word as she talked to them about beating 38,000 candidates to become NCR CEO for 24 hours. Hannah imparted four must-dos to succeed, these are:
- Believe in yourselves.
- Never give us because hard work pays off.
- Make sure you have a great support system.
- Say yes to all opportunities because one yes can change the path you are on.
Kilgraston’s outgoing Head Girl, Maria also gave a moving Speech. Maria, who has been at Kilgraston for 15 years, spoke directly to her Upper Sixth peers, encouraging them on as “we stand on the precipice of the next stage of our lives as the uncontested authors of their lives”. We all look forward to reading the next chapter from all our leavers so stay in touch, sign up as an alumnae and we wish you all the very best of luck.
End of term 2021 - activities week
In our last week of school, Kilgraston pupils were treated to an end of term timetable jammed back with fun-filled (and COVID safe) activities.
Separated out into year groups, the pupils had a session baking with Mrs MacGinty, they cycled around the beautiful banks of Loch Leven, they played for House points in cricket and football with sessions with Mr Maxton and Mr Madden. Some visited Willowgate Activity Centre for some water sports excitement, Upper Fifth had fun camping whilst Lower Sixth made a trip to Fox Lake and finally some pupils enjoyed Special FX make up sessions with Mrs Murphy - see below for proof of the oh-so-scary makeup.
Lower Four, Upper Four and Lower Fifth then headed to Dalguise for three days of high octane pursuits including kayaking and rock climbing.
Upper Fifth pupils Lexi and Kaitlyn said: “The Activities week was great fun! One of the best bits was definitely camping on the school sports pitches.
“First we set up our tents and we watched the Euro 2020 football match Scotland v Croatia, followed by some roasting of marshmallows.
“Overall the camping was really fun and it was great to have the year group all together and having a laugh with each other, from the games that we played to the singing on the bus.
“We also enjoyed the early morning swim which woke us up. Thank you to all the teachers that went out of their way to organise this brilliant activity week!”
Huge thanks to Mrs Speed for her superb organisation of the week and to all staff who helped.
Head over to Kilgraston’s Instagram channel to see even more snaps from the week including a brilliant takeover by PE’s Miss Patton.
End of term round-up for Kilgraston School - Spring 2020
We packed a lot into our Spring term so here is just a taster of some of the things our wonderful Kilgraston family took part in.