Kelvinside Academy

Community

The School is part of a local community and this section of the Website serves that community. PC Passport provides details of twilight courses run by the School teaching IT skills. KA Facilities provides information about the availability of school facilities to groups and organisations, including Sport, the Performing Arts, social and educational events. The Kelvinside Academy Parent Teacher Association is a particularly dynamic organisation. It is very keen to involve as many parents as possible in its wide ranging programme.

Commitment to others is a core value to the school and this is manifest in so many ways: the Eco Schools' programme, community service and charity fundraising. Over the past two years this has assumed a global dimension, with the formation of a partnership between the school and entrepreneur Ann Gloag's Balcraig Foundation which runs Thomas Barnardo House Orphanage and Jonathan Gloag Academy in Nairobi, Kenya. A whole-school initiative, it has grown quickly and in a variety of ways: fundraising, child sponsorship, support for community projects (e.g. the Kelvin Loaf - an income generating bakery in Kenya), reciprocal educational initiatives and reciprocal visits by pupils and staff. In addition to this other Charities supported by the School include: Lodging House Mission, Children's Hospice, Loaves and Fishes (Homeless Charity) and Children in Need. Voluntary service is undertaken as part of the key activities of the Combined Cadet Force, the Duke of Edinburgh Award Scheme and Senior 6 pupils.

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