Tag: Leith Academy
Funding from Sir Ian McKellen provides new seating bank for Leith Academy
Sir Ian McKellen raised funds from the shows he performed in his 80th birthday year, 2019 including a show which was part of the Edinburgh International Festival. Now some of that funding is coming...
EIF celebrate first year of residency with Leith Academy
Today the first year of the Edinburgh International Festival's residency at Leith Academy was celebrated with cake.The pupils also unveiled their new branding for the Leith Academy Residency developed with the EIF marketing...
Local MSP pays a visit to Leith Academy
Conservative MSP Miles Briggs today visited Leith Academy to talk with their S3 modern studies class. The visit was organised so that the pupils could ask Miles about his role as an MSP, and he...
Theatre – ‘Thirteen’, Leith Academy, Festival Theatre Studio
With a delicious (suggestively malicious?) Hallowe'en weekend sense of timing, Advanced Higher Drama students in their final year of school are inspired by the works of theatre practitioners; Artaud, Brecht and Frantic Assembly. Writing...
Leith Academy pupils win internship places on U.S. presidential campaign
Four Leith Academy pupils have won a nationwide competition to intern as part of US Democratic Party presidential nominee Hillary Clinton's campaign in the US in November.Morven MacKay, Caitlin Munn, Liam Stobie and Katie Ewart will...
