King Charles I School Praise Newsletter Issue 4: 10th July 2020 We have been delighted to see so many of our students and their parents/carers over the last couple of weeks as a result of Year 10 lessons, the Microsoft Teams support sessions and the heads of year consultation meetings. We hope you have found these opportunities useful. We are now looking forward to seeing all our students returning in September. A reminder that Year 7 and 12 students return on Wednesday 2nd September and Years 8, 9, 10, 11 and 13 return on Thursday 3rd September. As always we are very proud of the work students have produced in these difficult times. Teachers have highlighted a number of students who have submitted work of an excellent standard or that demonstrates an excellent work ethic. Well done to all our students. Have a wonderful summer holiday! ART Lucy Ratcliffe - Year 8 Picasso Inspired Portraits Great use of drawing packages on an Ipad on these portraits. Violet Williams - Year 7 Cubist Still Life Stunning tonal work in this piece by Violet Emma Powell - Year 9 Fragmenting Shell Great colour washes and metallic tones in this work by Emma. Ciara Ferris & Isabelle Gibbons—Year 10 Bold high contrast work by Year 10 students looking at geological forms. CHALLENGES We set 5 challenges every week that enable students to learn new skills and get away from their screens. Challenges are always something that both students and their families can get involved with. Departments have also been setting additional challenges, which are emailed to students via their head of year. We love seeing the students’ photos. Please keep them coming in. All updates and photos should be sent to [email protected]. Here are just a few recent challenge photos!
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King Charles I School
Praise Newsletter Issue 4: 10th July 2020
We have been delighted to see so many of our students and their parents/carers over the last couple of weeks as a result of Year 10 lessons, the Microsoft Teams support sessions
and the heads of year consultation meetings. We hope you have found these opportunities useful.
We are now looking forward to seeing all our students returning in September. A reminder that Year 7 and 12 students return on Wednesday 2nd September and Years 8, 9, 10, 11
and 13 return on Thursday 3rd September.
As always we are very proud of the work students have produced in these difficult times. Teachers have highlighted a number of students who have submitted work of an
excellent standard or that demonstrates an excellent work ethic.
Well done to all our students. Have a wonderful summer holiday!
ART
Lucy Ratcliffe - Year 8 Picasso Inspired Portraits Great use of drawing packages on an Ipad on these portraits. Violet Williams - Year 7 Cubist Still Life Stunning tonal work in this piece by Violet Emma Powell - Year 9
Fragmenting Shell Great colour washes and metallic tones in this work by Emma. Ciara Ferris & Isabelle Gibbons—Year 10 Bold high contrast work by Year 10 students looking at geological forms.
CHALLENGES
We set 5 challenges every week that enable students to learn new skills and get away from their screens. Challenges are always something that both students and their families can get involved with. Departments have also been setting additional challenges, which are emailed to students via their head of year. We love seeing the students’ photos. Please keep them coming in. All updates and photos should be sent to [email protected]. Here are just a few recent challenge photos!
Well done to the Year 9 ‘brilliant business’ for amazing work throughout the whole of lockdown, especially Grace Bates, Ashleigh Hill, Scarlett Paczowski, Natasha Ragsdale, William Vickers-Ward, Oliver Thornhill, Ethan Clarke, Dan Philpotts, Sophie Ratcliffe, Ollie Whitefood. Amazing work from the Year 10 ‘business brains’, especially William Dearlove, Harvey Green, Josh King, Josie Millman, Jorja Parsons, George Scott Year 12 business ‘business braves’ Caitlin Lavelle, Taylor Stephens, Jakob Holland, Jack Bourne James Harries. We are so proud of the hard work you have put in during lockdown. Be brilliant, Miss Watkins and Miss Bott.
COMPUTING
Piotr Fiodorow - Year 7 Produced excellent programs within the new Micro:bit tasks – he even recorded videos of his programs working and showing him experimenting with the software! It’s great to see students exploring more of what programming can offer.
Thomas Timmins - Year 7 Produced some perfect programs in Micro:bit. Considering this is likely to be his first time programming, his code is very clear and does exactly what the tasks ask him to do. Great work!
Ethan Everett - Year 8 Ethan analysed 3 websites in a great amount of detail and was able to justify which design he thought was best to a very high degree!
Alexia Robinson - Year 8 Produced a fantastic analysis of the design of 3 websites and achieved 100% in her weekly quiz! Her work was of a very high standard and far above that expected a year 8 student.
Grace Taylor - Year 8 Consistently produces work of the highest quality. Her thoughts and comments about website design this week are a particular standout!
Sapphire Lee - Year 9 For creating an excellent interactive product which has fantastic use of design elements on all slides. An example is shown below!
Charles White - Year 9
Charles has been working really hard throughout the lockdown and has made sure to ask questions when he needs advice. In his most recent work on embedded systems he produced very detailed examples and achieved top marks in the end of session quiz!
Josh Houghton - Year 9 Josh has been working incredibly hard throughout the lockdown and has always ensured that his work is produced to the best of his ability and responds to the individual feedback given to him. His efforts and high quality of work are impressive. He has scored 100% in many quizzes, but the standout result has to be his work on the CPU.
Daniel Raxter - Year 9 Daniel has completed his work within the first few hours of receiving it, every single week! His work is always of a top quality and his swift and comprehensive responses each week do not go unnoticed.
Daniel Simms - Year 10
For battling on when the programming challenges got tough! Dan created a super program which produces all years within a range that have repeated digits and a program for calculating whether a word is a palindrome or not. You can see his code below!
Megan Lloyd - Year 10
Megan always produces outstanding work, but she excels at her programming. This week, when creating a program to only print out years with repeating numbers in them (a hard task I might add), she came up with her own ingenious solution, using a function making the program very readable and clear. Using high level skills to produce high quality results is always appreciated!
ENGLISH
Over the past few weeks, we have enjoyed hearing and reading the students work that they have started to upload to Microsoft Teams. The example below is from a Year 9 student writing about the Shakespeare play `Othello`. The English department have been really impressed with the level of commitment to these pieces of work and how must students have remembered from their English lessons! Well done to all of our students who have uploaded work so far.
Frankie Cooksley – Year 9
`A clear evening sky engulfed the solemn land of Cyprus and armies of distant stars watched the dreary civilisation down below. Michael Cassio stood stout on guard on the streets outside the army barracks. In the nearby distance, Cassio noticed a figure approaching him through the vague light of the flickering lampposts: Iago. Cassio was relieved to have Iago on watch with him on the peaceful yet interminable evening night, but Iago had other ideas planned. The clock tower struck half past eight and chimes eerily echoed through the extremely empty streets. It was unusually dark for the time it was. Cassio greeted Iago after the chimes died down and invited him to come join him in watch.`
Work sent – Tyler Hughes – Year 10
We have had a number of students getting to grips with MS Teams but when some have struggled they have also send work to us via email. It has been wonderful to see so many students completing tasks and wanting feedback on how they are getting on! Below is an example from Tyler in Year 10 who has been sending work every week to his teacher. Well done to all of our students who are really showing their determination!
Harlun Davies - Year 8
Many students have been doing their work and uploading the tasks each week. Some students have gone above and beyond and have sent in pictures of all the work they have completed as they are so proud of what they have accomplished. Below is an image of one of our Year 8 students who has been sending through his work each week.
Extension Work – Lexie Price - Year 7
Year 7, 8 and 9 have been sent exciting tasks to finish their studies of the texts they were reading in class such as The Woman in Black, Romeo and Juliet and Othello. We have had some excellent responses to the tasks which were in addition to their timetabled work. Well done to all the students who have completed the task sheets whether it be the bronze, silver or gold tasks! Below is an example from a Year 7 student completed the gold task from The Woman in Black task sheet. I was there to find valuables as they were in debt. There was an old abandoned house, this house had ivy covered gates there was no way I was going to get through there. I couldn’t go through the gates I couldn’t get under the gates and I couldn’t go over the gates. I walked around but it was no use It kept getting worse, so I decided to go and lean on the wall again this time I felt as though I was falling back. I was not imagining this. I was falling back! I managed to get myself back up and turn around to find that some bricks had fell out. Enough for me to get through. The house walls covered with ivy from base to roof. A green mesh covered the whole house with little cut out holes just for people to see through, but the strangest thing was there was only one key.
Nomination from Class Teacher Emma Chaloner - Year 8
Emma Chaloner in Year 8 has been completing her work with clear determination, precision and with great care over the past few weeks. Here is an example of her work where it is clear she has
Nomination from Class Teacher Lauren Smith—Year 9
Over the past 12 weeks we have been receiving some excellent work where it is clear that students have used their knowledge and understanding but also their creativity. Students have been asked to complete a range of tasks such as reports, creative writing, comprehension and analysis. Below is an example from Lauren Smith in Year 9 who completed the job advert for a police officer.
Nomination from Class Teacher Aiden Morris - Year 9
The new online platform Educake has been a real success over the past half term with the students in Years 7-10. Some students have even retaken some of the tasks to achieve 100% pass rate. Aidan Morris in Year 9 was one of these students who was determined to get 100% pass rate – well done!
Nomination from Class Teacher Jasmine Mawby - Year 10
Jasmine Mawby in Year 10 has received another nomination for the final praise newsletter. She's really gone above and beyond with her work over the last few weeks - producing at least one additional essay response a week and sometimes two or three - on top of the compulsory weekly tasks. She has really mastered writing high-quality PEARL paragraphs, especially developing her language analysis with multiple interpretations and integrating context. We have also been impressed with how much she values getting feedback and doing additional research to improve her knowledge. Well done Jasmine!
Effort Nominations from Class Teacher
A number of students have been showing us their determination to continue learning at home by sending in extra work, asking for feedback and help as well as putting 100% effort in to each task they complete. A few students in particular that have shown these traits continuously are Lewis Hasley - Year 8, Will Robinson - Year 9 and Georgia Tyler -Year 9.
GEOGRAPHY
Freya Hill – Year 7 Excellent written work on the growth of
Kidderminster.
Aidan Morris - Year 9 Consistently excellent work, well presented and
high quality.
Bethany Cahill – Year 9 Organising notes neatly and big improvement in
key term knowledge.
HISTORY
Emily Oldnall - Year 8 Consistently high effort with her work and is
completed without fail each week.
Alex Baker - Year 8 Work always completed without fail and answered
in well written full sentences.
LAW
Ryan Cahill, Year 12 – consistent hard work throughout the year and consistent outstanding performance in quizzes, independent study tasks and assessments. Well done!
MATHEMATICS
Irina-Andreea Costache- Year 7 For answering over 1000 questions correctly and
the most Mem-Ri questions on Hegarty maths since the 15
th June.
Max Sutton - Year 7
For completing over 150 Mem-Ri tasks on He-garty maths since the 15
th June.
Callum Savage - Year 8
For completing over 55 hours of Hegarty maths since the 15
th June.
Finlay Watts - Year 8
For completing over 190 Mem-Ri tasks on Hegarty maths since the 15
th June.
Charles White - Year 9
For completing the most unique skills on Hegarty maths since the 15
th June.
Sarah Meikle - Year 10
For completing over 140 Mem-Ri tasks on Hegarty maths since the 15
th June.
Online Junior Maths Challenge 2020
Forty-two of our most gifted and talented mathematicians from Years 7 and 8 recently took part in UKMT’s Junior Maths Challenge. Due to the circumstances, this year’s Challenge took place online. The Challenge is a national competition whereby approximately 4,000 schools in the UK take part each year. The 1-hour long paper contains high-ly challenging multiple choice problem questions. The Maths Department are pleased to report an ex-cellent set of results this year; students are awarded Gold, Silver or Bronze certificates if they score above the respective thresholds - only 40% of participants receive certificates nationally. Our head-lines are as follows:- Silver: 9 students Bronze: 13 students
Best in school (joint): Charlie Hobday and Rebecca Hollyoak
Congratulations to all those who took part and partic-ularly to those who won certificates- this is an out-standing achievement. A special congratulations to Charlie and Rebecca for their achievement. Well done!
MFL
Samuel Tovey - Year 7
For consistently completing all work set to the best of his ability and for designing his own E=MC2 Tiktok
style video, which Frau Collins is still chuckling about.
Ethan Martin - Year 9
For always completing every task to the best of his ability and for sending e-mails in German.
Tayyibar Khatun - Year 9 and
Grace Williams - Year 10 For going above and beyond every week with
Quizlet learning.
MUSIC
Maisie Law, Mika Babbington, Matilda Brothwell, Henry Eastwood, Felicity Crowther, Jessica
Lewis, Oliver Cooper, Mia Aulum, Tyler Matthews, Faith Lucas, Harry Bradley - Year 7
Georgia Tyler - Health & social care Physical Injures work
Emma Powell - Year 9 – OCR Sports Science
LO4
SCIENCE
Matilda Brothwell - Year 7 Sent an excellent video of her dissecting a flower,
fantastic biology work Matilda!
Harry Bradley - Year 7
Harry made a homemade electromagnet, well done Harry!
Charles White - Year 9 Charlie has been completing work over and above in Science during lockdown and always sending work in for marking. The hardwork will pay off Charlie as you will be continuing the triple science course next year!
TECHNOLOGY
The students who have continued to work through the Product Design tasks have demonstrated a maturity and resilience to be successful, we are all very proud of those students. They have demonstrated determination to succeed in adverse circumstances. They have completed all their tasks to the best of their ability each week:
Year 12 - Kamuran Gormusoglu
Year 10 - Aaron Abraham, Robert Boucher, Rhys Jones, Nazifa Tahsin and Alex Wright
Year 9 - Poppy Abel, Miles Gammon, Aidan Morris, Aled Price and Natasha Ragsdale
Year 8: Lexi Bendall, Ryan Brown, Emma Chaloner, Josh Green, Jack Knight, Paulina Makazieski, Natalia Poreda, Amelia Randall,
Ashley Siervo, Kerry Sukkanus and Josh Wood
Year 7: Oliver Cooper, Charlie Ellis, Sam Leaver, Jessica Lewis, Jack Mills, Samuel Tovey
HOSPITALITY AND CATERING
Well done to all the fabulous KCI chefs who have produced some amazing dishes throughout the lock down. You have made the food department very proud. There are some students who have worked especially hard throughout lock down demonstrating commitment to their studies and have shown us how conscientious they truly are:
I have been extremely proud of my students who have continued to work hard throughout lockdown. They have demonstrated determination to succeed in adverse circumstances. They have completed all their tasks to the best of their ability each week:
KS3 – Tong Lin, Alex Baker, Luke Wilson, Ella Collier, James Woodhouse, Daniel Stephens, Seren Williams, Lexie Robinson, Christopher
Murkett, Jessica Price, Aaron Mills, Enid Ralph, Daisy Thompson, Harry Bradley, Harry Wilcox,
Tom Wright
Well done!
SIXTH FORM
A huge well done to Year 12 students for a fantastic set of results from their recent assessments despite such challenging circumstances. Special mention to the following students who had overall positive value added scores across their subjects: Moore Olivia Fox Abi O'Neill James Heraty Peter Cahill Ryan Allen Zach Cocioaba Octavian Taylor Madelaine Mawby Daisy Vaughan Katy Frater Georgia Rhodes Zak Gough Hettie Harper Daniel Meredith Sian Potts Matthew Marshall Lewis Martin Juliet Williams Daniel Tandy-Smith Holly Stokes Jack Stephens Taylor Bourne Jack Goodyear-Payne Megs Holland Jakob Gormusoglu Kamuran Swann Rebecca Palmer Benjamin
LOCKDOWN LEGENDS
Tyler Matthews - Year 7 For consistently getting positive feedback from his online work and Quizizz, especially in Science, Computing, Maths and German and for his determination to complete every task before the due dates and also working on weekends (just because he wants to).
Jack Taylor - Year 7 For being persistent in his learning, getting positive feedback in Science and Maths. Also for making a marked improvement in his reading ability whilst at home which has been noted by mum.
Melissa Robinson - Year 7 Melissa has had a slipped disk for the past few weeks. The medication she was on for it made her sleep 16+ hours a day but when awake she still sat and worked on Hegarty maths and her reading, despite the pain. As she has been getting slowly better, she has been catching up with work that she missed in previous weeks and also completing the current week’s work at the same time. She has shown real resilience and dedication towards her school work.
Rebecca Hollyoak - Year 7 She has been brilliant at getting the majority of the work done each week, missing no more than 1 or 2 subjects each week which compared to most of
the others is amazing!
Tom Timmins - Year 7 He has been fantastic at getting the majority of the
work done each week, an exemplary record!
Samuel Tovey - Year 7 He has been super at getting the majority of the
work done each week, well done Samuel!
WELL BEING
We appreciate that this is a difficult time for everyone. Below is a link to lots of different websites that students may find useful to access additional support during this challenging time. https://kingcharlesschool.co.uk/index.php/advice-guidance-and-support-students#mental-health-wellbeing StarLine is a fantastic website that offers home learning support to parents during the COVID-19 pandemic. StarLine is a national home learning helpline offering expert information and advice to parents and carers. You can access it by clicking the following link
https://www.starline.org.uk/
REMOTE LEARNING
TECHNOLOGY
TROUBLESHOOTING
Well done to everyone who has been getting to grips with the new remote learning technology. If you are having any difficulties, please check out the information pages on the school website which can be accessed via the following link: https://kingcharlesschool.co.uk/index.php/remote-learning-technology
Check out Mr Mander’s easy to follow guide of how to access and use Microsoft Teams:
https://youtu.be/OJwfMnTQ3kU
RARING 2 GO
THANK YOU and WELL DONE
Every one of our students and their families deserve a huge gold star for all their hard work. Thank you for your continued support, have a wonderful summer holiday.
Please see below links to the Summer edition of Raring2Go magazine, which is full of ideas on how to get active, including having your own
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