KGS Social Subjects

14/03/2025

Congratulation to all our heritage heroes 🎉

The Heritage Hero Awards

S3 Wider Achievement pupils have completed their Bronze Heritage Hero Awards. The Heritage Hero Awards are a wider achievement award, designed exclusively for history, heritage, and archaeology projects. They aim to break down barriers to participation in cultural heritage and are designed to be accessible to all.

Congratulations to all involved. Fantastic effort!

28/02/2025

11/10/2024

This week, members of the KGS Debate Team visited Thurso High School to attend a workshop led by Jordan Pfotenhauer, the Young Speakers Scotland national coach. The pupils thoroughly enjoyed their time at the workshop and found it extremely valuable for assisting with their debating skills! A big thanks to Thurso High School for hosting and to NorthLink Ferries for their sponsorship!

27/02/2024

Today KGS hosted the annual Fereday Prize Giving, celebrating the achievements of S2 pupils from KGS and Stromness Academy on their local history projects. With a lot of strong competition, the KGS winners for this year were, in first place Oscar, in second place Ran, and in third place Madison. Well done to all the entries across both schools, the judges were highly complementary, and especially to KGS pupil Oscar who received the overall winner prize. Thank you to Stromness Academy for travelling through and for the work of the Orkney Heritage Society and this year's judges 🎉📚

10/01/2023

👏 Fantastic effort by all our S2 Historians 💫

11/11/2022

We were very proud of our History ambassadors today 👏

Today senior pupils, along with the History department, led the annual school remembrance event. Advanced Higher pupils Ellie, Jess, Oliver and Dillon shared their own heartfelt words of reflection and the poem 'For the Fallen' by Laurence Binyon. Accomplished musician Jamsie, who studies N5 History, played the last post. Lest we forget.

25/10/2022

Alistair Carmichael, MP for Orkney and Shetland, visited Higher Modern Studies and Higher Politics pupils this morning. He answered their questions about his role as an MP and spoke to them about how MPs are able to affect decision making in government. The pupils were very keen to hear what Mr Carmichael had to say about the current political situation in the UK and were delighted to get useful examples to use in their upcoming SQA exams.

06/10/2022

S3 Modern Studies pupils received a visit from MSYP Kaydence Drayak. Kaydence spoke to the pupils about her role as an MSYP. S3 Modern Studies have been studying the Scottish Youth Parliament as part of their Pressure Groups topic and found Kaydence's visit extremely informative.

19/03/2022

Congratulations to all the S2 who had their investigations judged by the Orkney Heritage Society. Fabulous work by Angus,Molly and Callum to secure the top prizes 🎉

11/11/2021

Today senior pupils along with the History department, led the annual school remembrance event. This included a reading of the poem ‘In Flanders Fields’ by Zoe and the playing of the last post by Chloe. Lest we forget.