Page 1 Friday 5 April 2019 Upcoming Events: Tuesday 23rd April Start of Summer Term Exams Evening Year 11 6-7.30pm Wednesday 24th April Transition Meeting Year 6 4-5pm Thursday 25th April 6th Form Quiz Night 6-10pm Friday 26th April Fundraising Event For Year 11 Prom Horse race night Our calendar for events is online: Term dates for 2018/19 can be found on our website Dear Parent/Carer My final bulletin piece today before handing over the reins to Mrs Hartshorn after Easter. Firstly, a thank you to all parents who I have met over the term for their candour and opinion. This has fed into our self –evaluation and helped to populate our action plan moving forward. As per Mrs Hartshorn’s letter earlier in the week, there will be a huge push on student uniform after Easter, please support this by following the diagram sent (also attached to the end of this bulletin). It has been a pleasure to be the Acting Principal over the last term. I will return to my role at Eastern Multi Academy Trust as Director of Secondary Education, which will involve me working with the Academy for at least two and a half days a week. I hope that you and yours have a safe and lovely Easter break. School re- opens on the 23rd April 2019 at the normal time. Regards Kevin Blakey MFL Stars of the Week A huge well done to the following students who have done really well in lan- guages last week!! Year 7 – Jamie Horsnell 7W Year 8 – Kiara Goodson 8D Year 9 – Greta Bagdonaite 9E Year 10 – Caitlin McCallum 10G Year 11 – All Y11 French students: well done in your effort and resili- ence during your Speaking exams! Sixth Form – Poppy Moore 12DS Chinese Club: we are Celebrating Chinese Earth Day which is all about recy- cling and taking care of our Planet. Come along to make many things from newspaper. Wednesday 24th April at LUNCH TIME in D10! Bring your Lunch!
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Friday 5 April 2019 Upcoming Events:
Tuesday 23rd April
Start of Summer Term
Exams Evening
Year 11
6-7.30pm
Wednesday 24th April
Transition Meeting
Year 6
4-5pm
Thursday 25th April
6th Form Quiz Night
6-10pm
Friday 26th April
Fundraising Event For Year 11 Prom
Horse race night
Our calendar for events is online:
Term dates for 2018/19 can be found on our website
Dear Parent/Carer
My final bulletin piece today before handing over the reins to Mrs Hartshorn after Easter. Firstly, a thank you to all parents who I have met over the term for their candour and opinion. This has fed into our self –evaluation and helped to populate our action plan moving forward.
As per Mrs Hartshorn’s letter earlier in the week, there will be a huge push on student uniform after Easter, please support this by following the diagram sent (also attached to the end of this bulletin).
It has been a pleasure to be the Acting Principal over the last term. I will return to my role at Eastern Multi Academy Trust as Director of Secondary Education, which will involve me working with the Academy for at least two and a half days a week.
I hope that you and yours have a safe and lovely Easter break. School re-
opens on the 23rd April 2019 at the normal time.
Regards
Kevin Blakey
MFL Stars of the Week
A huge well done to the following students who have done really well in lan-guages last week!!
Year 7 – Jamie Horsnell 7W
Year 8 – Kiara Goodson 8D
Year 9 – Greta Bagdonaite 9E
Year 10 – Caitlin McCallum 10G
Year 11 – All Y11 French students: well done in your effort and resili-ence during your Speaking exams!
Sixth Form – Poppy Moore 12DS
Chinese Club: we are Celebrating Chinese Earth Day which is all about recy-cling and taking care of our Planet. Come along to make many things from newspaper. Wednesday 24th April at LUNCH TIME in D10! Bring your Lunch!
WELCOME TO KING EDWARD VII ACADEMY Over the last 3 weeks it has given me great pleasure to welcome so many of our new year 6 families to KES Academy. It’s great for Mr Robinson and myself to get the opportunity to meet students and parents at such an early stage in the transition process. Hopefully we have also been able to answer questions you may have had.
I can understand the concerns that some students may have coming to a big school, but I feel that the friendly welcome from the academy staff will help them throughout the transition peri-od.
The last of these sessions will be on 24th April. After this date Mr Robinson and I will be visit-ing primary schools to speak to student. We will do our best to keep you posted on when we are visiting where. All information that we share with the students, will be displayed on our website.
I LOVE YEAR 7 AT KES BECAUSE…
Social time is a great chance for me to meet up with my new friends. Daniel 7N
PE is really fun. You get to try so many different sports Diego 7G
I get to study new subjects that I didn't do before like Food Technology. Jessie 7N
There are lots of clubs and activities. My favourite is girls football. Sky 7D
WEBSITE Do keep a careful eye on the following section of our website www.kesacademy.co.uk/prospective-parents-carers/transition. It will be the portal that I will share all the relevant transi-tion information through.
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS You might find the following part of our website useful http://kesacademy.co.uk/current-parents-carers/faq. It contains a bank of frequently asked questions about daily life at the Academy.
STUDY TIP OF THE WEEK Learning begins at home. Take time to read at home to your parents, this is a great way for students to showcase to you how their reading is improving as well as showing parents areas to improve.
SOCIAL MEDIA The Academy has an active twitter account. If you are a twitter user and would like to receive updates on events, then please sign up. Enjoy your Easter break.
A week which has seen many positives; from excellent form time exer-cises, to students helping improve with each other to increase progress in lessons. Students have also been filling in reviews to assess their pro-gress and will have received their latest progress report, please remem-ber to contact Progress mentors with any queries.
Some really positive news around lessons this week. I had a good walk around and watched some excellent lessons in the academy with year 7. English with Mrs Faulkner, Geography with Mr Denton and Science with Mr Douglas. Students are really beginning to understand how im-proving depth leads to excelling in learning.
Our A team football team were unlucky in the final of the Peter Plowright cup on Tuesday losing to Springwood, the boys have had a fantastic season reaching the last 125 in the National cup as well as the quarter finals in the County cup.
I am very proud of this year group and how so many students have rep-resented the Academy in sporting teams. I have mentioned to new Year 6 students the opportunities in sport at this school: the best in Norfolk!
ASSEMBLY THEME Aspiration to reach your full potential “Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles starts with just one small step”.
Year 7—Mr Gay
STUDY TIP OF THE WEEK
Before you settle into
your holidays, complete any outstanding homework
then you can enjoy all of the
break.
Remember don’t eat too much choco-
late!!!
STUDY TIP OF THE WEEK I am a great advocate of the growth mindset approach to learning. Unfortu-nately many of our students are of a fixed mindset and this can take a while to move from. Lots of the strategies in place in school are geared towards changing students from fixed to growth mindsets – please encourage your son or daughter to do some of the things in the image, and remember that learning is a never ending process.
ASSEMBLY THEME Mrs Setters came into our assembly to talk about how stress affects different people in different ways. A little bit of stress in our lives is often not a bad thing. However, we must all learn how to manage when stress becomes overwhelming – for some people that includes taking enough time out to enjoy ourselves, being organised and prioritising, talking to our friends and family if things are getting too much and sometimes having a good old fashioned cry!
Year 8—Mrs Nicholls ATTENDANCE 8E
8G
8D
REWARDS Nikitas Cobuscean
Erin Morphus
Anastasija Kro-viakva
Nikolina Sladzevska
Violeta Olehnovica
Kenzie Gittins
Katie Sharp
Joseph Bailey
Svet Petrov
Paulina Sanduta
ATTENDANCE
9W
9G
9R
Year 9—Dr Tadikonda
Students have been given their Progress Reports this week. Please do spend time going through these reports with your child and as get in touch with me if any further clarification is needed.
Congratulations to the following pu-pils for showing progress and re-ceiving achieve-ment points in the Year Group:
Our Assembly this week was delivered by Ms Setters on the subject of “Stress and how different people cope with it. It was a very interesting and engaging assembly.
With any issues related to your child’s welfare please contact Ms Sally Nurse is our new Student Support Leader for Year 9 in the first instance. Her email details are [email protected].
Year 10—Mr Chung
NEWS10N on this list. Also well done 10W no one had a day off I once sat in a lecture theatre as a young student in my 20’s having to listen to a motivational speaker. From memory the context of what was said was “if you want to be the best, you have to put in the work other-wise you would never know your full potential”
When I look back at the current report data from the year 10’s, I am en-couraged by what I see. For the vast majority there are pupils that con-sistently work hard to get the best possible grades they can. This links to that lecture. When I see students smile about their achievements I know they are optimistic about their future. Overall the current Year 10’s are in a strong academic position. It isn’t down to just the pupils or to their sub-ject teachers, a big thank you should be said to you, the parents/carers, who have guided them on their journey of life.
Tips
D1, D2, M1,M2, P1 and P2. These are grades for diploma’s and BTECS. D2 is the best grade: equiv-alent of a grade 8-9. A D1 is a good grade but is close to a 7. The grade P1 is equivalent to a grade 1, therefore there is a lot of room for improvement.
Congratulations
Jacob Clarke achieved a Distinction in Construction.
Assembly theme
Aspirations
REWARDS
Robert Addis
Nell Ashworth
Bobby Brame Tinishia Carter Eliya Ganea Ruby Kirby
Olivia Sharp Ellen Skerritt
Ema Tomkova Evan Waling
ATTENDANCE
10R
10N
10W
Equipment Check
Again a reminder that pupils must come well pre-
pared for lessons with all the cor-
rect equipment. Students should
bring the following in a pencil case: two pens, a pen-cil, a ruler, a rub-
ber, a pencil sharpener, a com-pass, a protractor,
GCSE exams start 14th May, that means just 24 school days to go
Our exams department have set up an email address for you to contact directly if you have any questions or queries about exams. The address is [email protected]
Attendance
And yet another week goes by and our year 11 students continue to im-press with another improvement in attendance. Remember, a day missed reduces the chance of GCSE success, so keep encouraging their attend-ance please
Our year 11 students continue to impress with regards to their attendance. For the month of March we had 117 students who achieved over 96% at-tendance for the month. Even better is the fact that of those 117. 104 stu-dents attended 100% for the month, which is fantastic. Certificates will be awarded after the Easter break.
Leavers Hoodies
Great news; we have managed to hit our target minimum order of hood-ies, so I am happy to share that there will be no cost increase. First week back, I will put up hoodie order details, and students will be given a week to check spellings, colours and sizes before I submit the order. It is their responsibility to highlight any problems with the order before it is placed.
After the Easter break, prom tickets will be available to purchase, more details about that in my next bulletin.
Next assembly Subject will be about dealing with stress.
Remember, we are all back on Tuesday 23rd April at 0835, with a new school Principal as well, exciting times ahead for us all. That just leaves me to wish you a happy and safe Easter holiday to all our students and their families.
Year 11 Prom Fundraising Horse Racing Night
The Year 11 Prom Committee are very pleased to be hosting a Horse Racing Night at KES on Friday, 26th April from 7.00pm. We hope that this will be a fun-filled evening and an excellent way to support the Year 11 students in their attempt to raise money for their prom. Tickets cost £5 per person and are now available for purchase. The ticket price includes entry to the event and either a hotdog or burger from the burger van we will have in attendance on the night. We would really like to see as many families as possible here to support the event so please consider coming along for the evening! Bets for the races will be just £1 each and please feel free to bring drinks and nibbles along, although we will have hot drinks and cakes for sale too on the evening.
If you are interested in coming along and supporting this event, please send money for tickets in an envelope indicating how many tickets you would like and whether you would prefer a hotdog, a burger or a veggie burger for each ticket and this should be delivered to Mrs Hawkins in D9.
Upcoming Events
Car boots
Below are all the dates for our car boots in 2019: Sunday 28th
April Sunday 19th
May
Sunday 23rd June
Sunday 14th July
Sunday 15th September
We would be very grateful if you could give us an hour or two of your time to help manning the day...
Also, the time has changed for our next meeting. It is still on Monday 13th May but at 3.30pm in the Centre. We would love to see as many parents and staff there as possible to give us more ideas on how to raise money and how to use the money already raised to make our Academy an even better place to be.
Attendance Matters—Mrs Edwards
As we enter the Easter Break it is timely to remind you of the school policy with regard to ab-sences.
If your child is too unwell to attend school it is your responsibility to inform us, please call the Pupil Absence line at the start of each day that your child is absent, explaining the reason, and on their return we request an explanation in writing along with any medical details ie- proof of GP appointment, prescription medication or similar wherever possible.
Where a students attendance is already of significant concern, I will have already written to you explaining that without medical evidence, your child's absence will not be authorised. If you are not providing this evidence, all illness absences are being unauthorised and if this results in 15% absence over a 6 week period, we will be requesting a Fixed Penalty Notice.
If you are worried about your child's attendance and wish to discuss it, or if there are exception-al circumstances that school are not aware of that are impacting on your child, I would encour-age you to make contact; we may be able to help.
Please contact either myself or the Student Support Leader for your child's year group.
Y11 & Y13 Revision Timetable
The Year 11 and Year 13 Easter revision timetable is attached to the end of this bulletin.
Please note there is a core practical revision day for year 11 students on Tuesday 16th April in E block from 9am - 3 lots of 1 hour sessions on biology, chemistry and physics. Then, after a break for lunch, formula revision for an hour in the afternoon.
Students can come in for just one subject or do all three in rotation.
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Forthcoming Events
Wednesday 24th April
U13 Football Plowright Cup Final
3.45 kick off Terrington
Thursday 25th April
Moderation
GCSE PE moderation
Girls Rounders for all Year groups
Tuesday’s after school. Meet at the Sports Hall.
All abilities welcome! Please come and have
a go 3-4.15pm
REMINDER
Basketball Club for all years EVERY Thursday
3- 4.15
PE THEORY
STARS OF THE WEEK
Pep Mintah/Max Smith—Year 9
Jack Galley—Year 10
Megan Kew/Bradley Ely—Year 11
Rocco Jones Max SturgeonWarren Dowe
Harvey Greer Jude Hawes-Rutterford
Easter Revision Sessions for Y11 and Y13
Monday 8th 9-11am Ancient History B13
11.15 - 12.30pm English Q4 Paper 2 D5
Tuesday 9th 2-3.30pm Maths securing a grade 4 M3
12-1.30pm Y13 English language D7
9-11am Y13 Classics B13
10-11am Y11 English B17
Wednesday 10th 9-1pm French/Spanish D10
10-3pm Art/Photography G Block
9-3pm Graphics G Block
9-4pm Music C3
Thursday 11th 10-3pm Art/Photography G Block
9-12pm Y13 English Literature D7
10-1pm Geography B5
Friday 12th 9-3pm Graphics G Block
Monday 15th 10-11am English grade 4+ D2
11-12pm Literature AO2 focus D4
12-1pm English Grade 7+ D2
1-2pm English target students D2
Tuesday 16th 9-2pm Science core practical E1/2/3
Wednesday 17th 9- 1pm French/Spanish D10
Unless states Y13, all other sessions are for Y11 students
For boys
Plain dark grey or black tailored trousers in a traditional style (cords, jeans, chinos, wide flares or skinny designs are not per-mitted). Preferred supplier is Stratford’s, King’s Lynn.
Plain white shirt with a collar
Navy blazer with the academy logo embroidered on the breast pocket (from approved supplier only)
An academy tie (from approved supplier only) Navy jumper with academy logo (from approved supplier only) Plain dark socks
For girls
Plain dark grey, black or navy blue knee length in a traditional style skirt or dark grey, black or navy tailored trousers (cords, jeans, linens, hipsters, skinny or flared bootleg trousers are not permitted). Preferred supplier is Stratford’s, King’s Lynn.
Plain white shirt with a collar
Navy blazer with the academy logo embroidered on the breast pocket (from approved supplier only)
An academy tie (from approved supplier only) Navy jumper with academy logo (from approved supplier only) Plain dark socks or plain dark or natural tights
Girls Trousers:
These must be in a tradi-tional style.
Skinny trousers or jeans are not permitted.
Shoes:
We require students to wear formal shoes. Trainers are not permitted unless required for medical reasons (a Doctor’s note will be required)
Girls Skirts:
Skirts must be in a traditional style. Skirts should not be figure hugging or contain lycra
Hair
Hair styles should be appropriate. ‘Extreme’ hair styles or fashions are unacceptable. The following treatments, styles and designs are unacceptable: artificial colours/bleached or shaved designs (including eyebrows).
At KES, we believe that academy holidays provide ample opportunity for ‘experimenting’ with hair colours and styles. Please ensure extreme styles and colours are grown out before returning to the academy.
Jewellery & Make-up
Make-up should be discreet. Fake lashes and drawn on eyebrows should be kept for the weekend and not in school.
General wearing of jewellery is not allowed. However, a watch and one small, plain stud in each ear is permitted. No other visible body piercing is acceptable. Acrylic nail extensions are not permitted.
Uniform specifications
Stories and warnings often circulate online about online scares or suicide challenges which
are alleged to have encouraged children to engage in harmful activities. Most have been
found to be hoaxes, fake news or wildly exaggerated stories.
Seeing or hearing about this content can be distressing for both children and parents.
What to do if you’ve heard about a viral scare/suicide challenge? As a parent, there is a lot you can do to support your child. It’s important to help your child feel safe by staying calm.
If your child has not yet heard about the scare, don’t bring it to their attention by naming it or trying to explain it. You don’t want to frighten them, and the last thing you want is for your child to feel curious and try to look for the scary content online.
Instead, remind them that if they ever feel worried about something they see online
- or hear about from friends - worries them they can come to you or another adult
they trust for help.
Make sure they know if they do see something upsetting or worrying, they are in
control. Tell them that they can report it to the platform they are using and close
down their app or browser – and you can help them with this.
Use this as an opportunity to check that privacy settings are enabled on the apps
they use and set parental controls to filter out inappropriate content.
Continue to have open and honest conversations with your child. Keep up-to-date
with what they are doing online, celebrate the positives, and keep talking about how
they can stay safe.
What to do if your child has seen, or been
involved in, a viral scare or suicide challenge?
Understandably you may be distressed or angry if you hear that your child has seen,
or been involved in, a viral scare/suicide challenge. It’s important to stay calm, take their concerns seriously and reassure them that they have done the right thing by
telling you.
Reassure them that it is not real and that it has been put online to frighten
people. BBC Own It have made a video which explains this clearly for young
people.
Remind them that when they do see something upsetting or worrying that they are
in control. They can report it to the platform they are using and close down their app
or browser.
Talk to them about other sources of support – speaking to you will have helped, but
further support from other sources could also help. There are lots of
April 2019 Dear Parent/Carer, Attendance at school and legal intervention Research commissioned by the Department for Education shows missing school for even a day can mean a child is less likely to achieve good grades, which can have a damaging effect on their life chances. At King Edward VII Academy our aim is to work with parents to ensure that all our pupils receive the most from their education and reach their full potential. This letter is to remind to all parents/carers regarding the law that requires them to ensure that their child attends school regularly. The Government remains very clear that no child should miss school apart from in exceptional circumstances and schools must continue to take steps to reduce absence to support children’s attainment. The Local Authority operates a system where any pupil will meet the criteria for legal intervention where they have:
1. 10 consecutive sessions of unauthorised absence where some or all of the absence may be
attributed to an unauthorised holiday in term-time (for absences from 1 September 2018); or
2. 15% unauthorised absence over a period of 6 school weeks for reasons other than
unauthorised term time holiday.
Any pupil at King Edward VII Academy who meets either of the criteria will be referred to the Local Authority for action to be considered.
If a Fixed Penalty Notice is issued it is a fine of £60 per parent per child which must be paid in one payment in 21 days. If a notice is unpaid within 21 days the fine will double to £120 per parent per child if paid within 28 days . If A Fixed Penalty notice is not paid in full within the timescale set out above, the Local Authority is required to start legal proceedings against the parent(s) in the Local Magistrates Court for the offence of failing to ensure their child has attended school regularly. King Edward VII Academy also uses the Fast Track to attendance process when necessary for students whose attendance falls below 85%. The intention would be to see your child’s attendance improve to a satisfactory level. Should this not be achieved then it could result in court action being taken. If your child is absent through illness it is important that you contact the pupil absence line daily, if the illness is protracted school will request copies of medical information to ensure that the absence is correctly recorded and authorised if appropriate. I hope we can count on your support in this matter, please do not hesitate to contact me if you have any questions. Yours sincerely Sarah Hartshorn Principal
