Kinross High School

Kinross High School

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Motto	Learning the Key
Type	Secondary, state funded
Head Teacher	Mrs Sarah Brown
Location	Loch Leven Community Campus Kinross Kinross-shire KY13 8FQ Scotland 56°12′36″N 3°25′29″W / 56.210007°N 3.424672°W / 56.210007; -3.424672Coordinates: 56°12′36″N 3°25′29″W / 56.210007°N 3.424672°W / 56.210007; -3.424672
Local authority	Perth and Kinross
Staff	~100
Students	~1000
Gender	Coeducational
Ages	~11–~18
Houses	Ochil Benarty Lomond
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Website	kinrosshighschool.org.uk

Kinross High School is a state school in Kinross, Scotland.

The school is located adjacent to the leisure centre, and is part of Loch Leven Community Campus, named after the nearby Loch Leven. In 2007, it was announced that the school would be moving to a new campus, as part of a scheme of school building in the Perth & Kinross area. ^[1] The move was completed in 2010. The school has about 1012 pupils enrolled and about 100 members of staff. It is now a Community Campus with public facilities including a climbing wall, a gym, a library and several meeting rooms.

There are three houses - Lomond, Benarty and Ochil. The house the pupil is in depends on the floor that they get registered in - the bottom being Ochil, the middle being Benarty and the top being Lomond.

Uniform

Junior pupils (1st to 4th year) are expected to wear a shirt with a green, purple, red and yellow tie with black trousers/skirt and dark shoes. Senior pupils are expected to wear a purple blazer and a purple tie - both of which display the school logo and the motto - "Learning the key."

Roll

• 2010/2011 - 915 pupils
• 2011/2012 - 895 pupils
• 2012/2013 - 906 pupils

The School Day

The school day starts at 8:45 where the pupils go their first period class. Each period lasts 50 minutes. Morning Break lasts 15 minutes and Lunch lasts 50 minutes.

There is 10 minutes of registration every morning from 8:45 to 8:55. The school day also ends at 13:10 on a Friday. There are two bells at lunch, one at 13:55 to signify the end of lunch and one at 14:00 to signify the start of period 6. On days of assembly, the doors to the assembly hall are closed after the 08:55 bell.

Senior management

Catchment area

The school serves most of the local communities around Kinross shire. Schools that are in the catchment area are:

• Kinross Primary School
• Milnathort Primary School
• Portmoak Primary School
• Fossoway Primary School
• Cleish Primary School
• Blairingone Primary School
• Arngask Primary School (as of 2013)

Facilities

The High School is located in Loch Leven Community Campus which helps try to bring the community together. As a result, many of the services that used to be offered in Kinross have now been moved into the campus. The library is now located near the main entrance. This allows the public to borrow books but also allows pupils to borrow books for their classes. It also provides an areas for the pupils to study on their free periods and other classes to use the IT facilities. There are also various meeting rooms throughout the campus which are available to hire. There is also a new climbing wall used for extra curricular clubs after school. There are now three main PE halls and a gym. The three halls include a large games hall, a smaller games hall and a dance studio. Each hall has the facility to play music through the speakers and the games hall has a large scoreboard if rival teams are playing against each other.

There are also new outdoor pitches. The MUGA (Multi Use Games Area) is used to play sports like basketball, tennis and hockey. There is also a football pitch and a larger pitch used for games, running and rugby.

Exam arrangements

Fourth year pupils who are sitting their standard grades sit their preliminary examinations after the November in-service days which are usually half way through. Pupils doing Intermediate 1, 2, Higher or Advanced Higher sit their prelims after the February half term. All years have two weeks of study leave in which they're expected to make use of their time by studying or catching up on coursework either in school or at home. Pupils aren't allowed to use the facilities like the gym or library while they are on exam leave.

At the beginning of May, pupils sit their final examinations which are assessed by the Scottish Qualifications Authority These usually start at the end of April and usually run into a few days of June. Fourth years generally get their study leave earlier than the seniors since their exams usually start earlier as they have eight subjects as opposed to five or four.

The exams are usually done in rooms around the school, however the main exam hall is the assembly hall which has the capacity for about 150 pupils to sit an exam at the same time. In the case of the class being too large or having two exams running simultaneously, some pupils sit their exams in classrooms or in the activity meeting space. For those with extra time, they sit their exams in the support area so they are not disturbed by pupils finishing their exams earlier.

Security issues

Since the school is now located in a campus, it means that members of the public are allowed to enter the building at the same time as the pupils. Before the move into the new school, many questions were raised about the pupils' security. As a result, there has been a large push to make sure that pupils wear official school uniform rather than jackets or hoodies. Most of the pupils are instantly recognized by the purple blazer. Every pupil is also given a Young Scot Card which allows them to pay for their lunch and access most parts of the building without getting a member of staff to let them in. This means that there are areas in which only the pupils are allowed in and members of the public are not - the teaching block for example where the majority of classes are held.

Notable alumni

Both Laura Muir and Eilidh Doyle went to Kinross High School.^[2]

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Kinross High School.

• Kinross High School's page on Scottish Schools Online
• Kinross High School website