1 Kemnal Technology College A wonderful end to a fantastic term! Thank to the Christmas Choir, their musicians for such a festive and entertaining evening. We wish you a Merry Christmas and best wishes for the New Year.! M ERRY C HRISTMAS Contents Jack Petchey Award 2-3 Debate Club Jumper Day 4 Plagiarism Policy Independent Study College Council 5 GSI week 6-7 Zambia Report N EWSLETTER A UTUMN 2014 KTC presents: Oliver Thursday 5 th February 2015 Friday 6 th February 2015 7-9pm Tickets available via www.ticketsource.co.uk/ktcproductions (Get the best seats and save money by booking online!) [email protected]KTC Sevenoaks Way Sidcup DA145AA TEL 0208 300 7112 Fax: 0208 3005619 www.ktc-tkat.org
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K e m n a l Te c h n o l o g y C o l l e g e
A wonderful end to a fantastic term! Thank to the Christmas Choir, their musicians for such a festive and entertaining evening.
We wish you a Merry Christmas and best wishes for the New Year.!
MERRY CHRISTMAS
Contents
Jack Petchey Award 2-3
Debate Club Jumper Day
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Plagiarism Policy Independent Study College Council
Well done to our 2013-14 Jack Petchey Award winners who received their medal-lions
from the Mayor of Bromley yesterday. The event took place at a packed Churchill Theatre
where winners from 21 schools from across the borough joined parents and staff to
celebrate their incredi-ble achievements. Ben and Charlie made Kemnal proud with an
outstanding perfor-mance of Ed Sheeran’s
‘I See Fire’. Mrs Sim-mons also received her Leader Award for exceptional care and support of students at Kemnal.
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THE JACK PETCHEY AWARD
Congratulations to Ms Friar, last year’s leader award winner, who has successfully secured £750 from the Jack Petchey Foundation to
support a 6 week Brazilian drumming workshop at Kemnal!
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New slet ter Autumn 2014
Congratulations to
Nick Du Preez. He has undergone an application and in-terview process to successfully become one of 35 Jack Pet-chey Achievers that join their leadership network. Nick will be involved in a 12 month programme of leadership train-ing, mentoring and volunteering which
will have a positive impact on us all at Kemnal. Very well done Nick.
continually review-ing his work and supporting other students in under-standing tasks. The quality of his work is exemplar and represents an outstanding model for other students to be inspired and
Seann has been nominated by the Art Department for his work and sup-port of others this term. Seann has shown extensive personal effort in improving and de-veloping his Art folder. Seann is
motivated. Mrs Robert ART
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THOMAS ARMSTRONG 11CME
NICK DU PREEZ 11SH
SEANN AYLOTT 13MWA
busy week touring primary schools per-forming twice a day to a range of age groups. Tom has al-so been tirelessly rehearsing in all his free time for his GCSE practical ex-am. He is using the studio morning, break, lunch and af-
Tom has been nomi-nated by the drama department for his outstanding effort and commitment. Tom was fully in-volved in the Creative Arts Weymouth trip last term and gave 100% effort to enter-taining the young au-dience. They spent a
ter school. An excep-
tional drama student.
Ms Garrard DRAMA
George Callaghan 10MH
George was nominat-ed for this award fol-lowing a year10 out-ward bound trip to Aberdovey in Wales. George impressed Mr Godden, Ms Andrew, Ms Quinton and the centre instructors throughout the whole weekend. George attempted every sin-gle activity with great passion and commit-ment and was one of the best team players during every task. He even helped out the staff when they were struggling. He was very aware of other boys' needs and was quick to identify and support those who needed it most. He was superb all weekend. Mr Godden PE
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The Debate Club meets every Tuesday at 3pm in H4, and provides an opportunity for all bud-ding young orators to offer their opinions. It’s been revealed that stu-dents are particularly happy to give their opinion when certain members of staff would quite like to bore every-one with their own opinion.
We have covered a vast range of topics to date such as: this house be-lieves that girls should be allowed to attend Kemnal from year sev-en; this house believes people have the right to bear arms; and ‘this house believes that as-sisted suicide should be legalized.’
Rarely is sustenance required due to the fiery nature of the de-baters who are always far too busy trying to get their important points across to worry about such trivial things as cake but on the odd
occasion when the bat-tle is hard fought and exhausting, someone might bring in a cherry bakewell or a coffee cake to smooth frayed tempers.
Recently the students decided some kind of teacher revenge was necessary and voted to switch roles and judge the staff debating. The staff members are a resilient bunch and took on the challenge with fortitude and good nature. It was decided that the topic would be ‘this house believes that corporal punish-ment should be intro-duced to schools’.
It clearly wasn’t enough to watch staff suffer so as an added twist it was decided that the male members of staff would argue against corporal punishment being introduced whilst the hugely outnum-bered female members of staff argued for the introduction of corporal
punishment. Suffice to say the ladies fought bravely and never wa-vered from their plan to beat and bully the boys but though their battle was fought valiantly for some reason the male members of staff won; heartfelt thanks to all the male judges.
Please feel free to come and get a taste for debating (or cherry bakewells). We rarely manage to get through a debate without a con-tribution from one stu-dent or another who happen to be serving a detention (corporal punishment would have sorted that out!).
Ladies and gentlemen are most welcome but a few more ladies with a controlled interest in getting even would cer-tainly help to provide some balance!
Ms Bootle, Ms Deram-chi, Mr Roche and Mr Thomas.
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C H R I S T M A S J U M P E R D AY Thank you to all
staff and students
for wearing a Christ-
mas Jumper and
donating money to
the charity Save the
children
Mrs Luff
GEOGRAPHY
DEBATE CLUB
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Last month, we introduced a new plagiarism policy into the Sixth form. The new policy brings our College policy into line with common practice in universities and exam boards. Plagiarism is when a student submits an assignment that contains work that is not their own, without referencing or acknowledging their sources. This is an offence that is taken seriously and could put a student’s place in Sixth Form in jeopardy. What constitutes as plagiarism? This might occur when: •using a choice phrase or sentence that you have come across •copying word-for-word directly from a text •paraphrasing the words from a text very closely •using text downloaded from the internet •borrowing statistics or assembled facts from another person or source •copying or downloading figures, photographs, pictures or diagrams without referencing •copying from the notes or essays of a fellow student •copying from your own notes, on a text, tutorial, video or lecture, that contain direct quotations. Although you are encouraged to show the results of your reading by referring to and quoting from works on your subject, copying from such sources without acknowledgement is deemed to be plagiarism and will not be accepted by the College. This means that you must make it clear which words and ideas are yours and which have come from elsewhere, through the use of quotation marks as well as in-text citations. Our new plagiarism software compares student work to websites and work submitted by other students in school to check that the work is the student’s own. If you have any further questions, please speak to Ms King or Mr Lewington.
parents
Set up an office and a
base for people to view
the progression of our
projects
Prepared Project Green
to be re-launched in Janu-
ary
Built a working website
AND blog to detail the
College Council meetings
and project progress
Collaborated with the
The re-structuring of the
KTC council system.
Set up a buddy scheme
with between KS3, 4 and
5.
Set up KS5 study rooms
that will operate in the
Spring term before ex-
ams.
Created a parents forum
where teachers can col-
late their FAQs for their
subjects to help engage
Dyslexia project groups to
inform teachers about how
to improve lessons for dys-
lexic pupils.
Begun to communicate
with other facilities in the
area to try to improve the
Kemnal reputation.
We have reformed the
queuing system in the can-
teen.
We have found funds to
buy more whiteboards for
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PLAGIARISM POLICY
COLLEGE COUNCIL NEWS
INDEPENDENT STUDY
Year 11 students have an hour a week in their timetable for Independent Study. This is time for the students to work on coursework, homework or simple to revise. This has proved really important in the run up to the mock exams, the success of which will hopefully will be shown in the results. There are lots of resources available to students on the college website, in each departments' section. These resources can be accessed at home and during the independent study lessons.
students learning opportunities, taking them out of
the classroom and taking them on a range of
residential trips with a focus on outdoor education.
Students and staff have thoroughly enjoyed the
activities—and challenges. We are all loking forward
to GSI 2015!
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GET STUCK IN
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Newsletter Autumn 2014
There were 14 year 9 boys that went with 4 Kemnal staff to the Lee Valley White Water Rafting Centre where the Olympic kayaking took place. It is one of the fastest man made courses in Eu-rope with grade 4 waves possible. We split in to 2 boats with 7 students and 2 staff in each boat. I think the staff were
more nervous than the students. Once we got changed into our wetsuits, buoy-ancy aids and hel-mets we took to the boats to learn how to paddle together and what to do if someone fell out. Then we had to complete a swim test by jumping in to the rapids and swim-ming to the side. Thankfully everyone
made it (some teachers just about). Then each boat had 5 runs down the course with only a
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THE WHITE WATER RAFTING TRIP
few people falling out from each boat but everyone was recovered safely and we all made it back in the end. A perfect way to finish the term.
Mr Godden PE
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Tag Rugby Trust Tour Report –Ndola, Zambia 2014
Introduction to TRT/Livingstone/Zambia Programme Since 2002 – 62 Tours, 9 Counties around the world – Over 45,000 kids and over 1,000
teachers / volunteers directly trained to coach Tag Rugby. TRT is a registered UK Charity.
Young Leader Projects with UK Groups and groups in all countries
The success of TRT is based upon FUN, FLEXIBILITY and ENGAGEMENT WITH COMMUNITIES.
TRT location’s: Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Mexico, India, Romania, Ghana
and projects in the UK .
TRT is an organisation driven by volunteers that aims to “Build Futures Through Rugby”.
TRT concentrates on teaching children in order to build solid foundations and give teachers
and coaching volunteers a programme that remains in place for the long term (Accreditation
Pathway).
TRT started in Zambia in 2006 and has projects in Kitwe, Ndola, Luanshya, Kafue & various
parts of Lusaka. Locals in Zambia have also developed projects in other areas and Towns
Ndola is not new to TRT, introduced to the programme in 2010 so this our was year four in
Ndola, but with mainly new schools (Year one-Introduction, Year Two- development Year
Three –look for empowerment in an area or school etc)
2014 -- Tour Group
The Tour group was made up of Fifteen Pupils (Boys) from Kemnal Technology College in Sidcup,
Kent, two Teachers and two UK TRT group Leader’s and one TRT Leader in Training. Attached to the
group were three Zambian Young leaders lead by Lwiindi Muleya from Linda Compound in Lusaka.
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Local Area & Schools
The group worked with Grade 4 in four Primary Schools in the Chillengwe area of Ndola. Three
schools were on Year one of the TRT programme and one school was on year three of the
programme
School Names—Lyuni, Kapepwe, Chillengwe all on Year one and Ndola Main on Year three. They
also worked with Chilengwe Special Needs Deaf unit
All the schools are Government Primary Schools in Ndola District.
Schools Figures---Numbers Trained The schools were fully engaged from day one So in a 5 Day Training programme these are the figures
taken for Grade 4 Students
Luyuni Primary--- 140 Children
Ndola Main Primary----110 Children
Chillengwe Primary---- 120 Children
Kapepwe Primary----80 Children
Chillengwe Deaf Unit---45 Children
Total Children Trained in how to Play Tag Rugby: 450 x Grade 4 and 45 x SEN
Children (495 in Total)
Young leader Programmes & Teacher Training The Young Leader programme was run with Three young people from Lusaka who held meetings
with a local secondary school to engage with them on a young leader programme in 2015. Year one
in an area is all about introduction so year two should see an Ndola Young leader programme
launch. All teachers were invited to join in sessions and take an active part and the three Young
leaders from Lusaka were tasked with training teachers alongside the Children’s Tag Rugby
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3 Students from Lusaka were part of the programme and 3 had been to Ndola two
weeks previous with another school group.
6 Teachers trained and started their Level One Tag Award (2 x Kap & 4 x Ndola Main)
Lwiindi Muleya
Lwiindi is a 17 Year old Zambian Girl from Linda Compound in Lusaka area. She joined the group on
the Saturday and travelled and worked alongside them and trained Children and Young Leaders from
Ndola. Lwiindi had previously travelled to Ndola with TRT and was able to guide the Kemnal boys in
many aspects of their experience. She also controlled and guided two Lusaka young leaders who
joined the group (Michael and Isaac)
She took a lead role in the Deaf unit coaching and has started to learn sign language as part of the
programme
When returning to her home in Linda compound, Lusaka she is setting up a young leader
committee and Tag Centre structure to grow the game on the compound. She has already
contacted to say that the committee is set up and the Saturday Morning Tag Rugby club she
runs has now grown to over 120 children every session. The Tag Centre is aiming to run
tournaments on a regular basis.
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Tournament Report
The Tournament was held at Simba School and with enough kit to field 3 teams from each School, it
was a big event (14 teams)as two teams of Deaf children also played on one of the pitches.
Dignitaries from the ZRFU and local Primary School teachers and Heads joined the watching crowds
as 14 teams were split onto 4 pitches and played round Robin games to sort out there levels. Each
school were presented with a trophy and the winners of the overall tournament were ??? Primary
School
Cup—Ndola Main Primary
Bowl—Lyuni Primary
Plate— Chillengwe Primary
Participation Trophy—Kapepewe Primary
Fair play Participation trophy—Chillengwe SEN Deaf Unit
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Special Needs Programme
Throughout the week sessions were run with Chillengwe Special needs Deaf unit. Children with
various disabilities and levels of deafness were taught for three days how to play the game and had
for them some of the only organised sport sessions they have ever had. They didn’t quite get to
passing backwards but 2015 will see a development programme take them further and look for
integration into a main tournament structure. This year they played various games against the
Kemnal Boys, Local teachers, other school teams and even teams with dignitaries in them. All part of
their learning the game
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Rugby Kit left in the Copperbelt Area and around Zambia
The group and TRT brought an immense amount of Rugby kit some new and some donated. Three
bags of kit and Balls (46) were shipped to Kitwe for the Copperbelt to use in developing School
programmes. This Kit included Balls, tackle shields and kits from clubs including Sussex RFU
Sevenoaks RFC, New Ash Green RFC kits (Kent Clubs), Leamington Spa RFC, Farnham RFC, Blackheath
RFC, Westcliff RFC, Rye RFC, Durham University RFC and a number of donated Rugby items, also
some kit/t-shirts from Kent RFU and Kent CCC. Essex Referees donated lots of kit including
Tracksuits, shirts and even some whistles and flags. Tryline Rugby also donated hundreds of pairs of
shorts for the development of the game in Zambia and around the world.
A lot of the kit has been left on the Copperbelt to develop Schools and Clubs Youth teams Ndola
were left a big donation of kit (outside the kits donated to the children to play in the tournament)
which included Balls, Cones, Bibs, Tag Belts, spare Kits, kit bags etc A number of Items were also left
for future development in the area.
Full list below
Balls Over 150 (new/2nd hand), Tags—Over 250, Cones—Over 200, Bibs over 200, Trophies x 4,
Medals x 30
Wristies over 200, Pin Badges –over 200 plus lots of other kit to help the game develop.
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Community Work
The entire group enjoyed morning Tag sessions with the primary schools and in the afternoon they
visited and worked in Mackenzie community School. The Kitchen and storage block and new Toliet
block was cleaned and painted and the inside of the kitchen was also cleaned and re-painted. Excess
materials and tools were donated to the school so they can paint at least one or two more rooms at
the school. A lot of work achieved in a short space of time
On going Programme The Programme was very successful and the Kemnal team helped to develop lots more Tag Rugby
players but also helped to deliver the TRT Accreditation pathway and trained others in Rugby skills
that can be transferred into life and work skills in Zambia.
Simba School are very supportive to TRT and groups and Phil Dongo with his team of teachers and
support workers (inc Chola) help the programme work as smoothly as it can. Work was also done
with Ndola Wanderers and coaches and players were shown how to introduce Tag players into the
Tackle game through progressions (Tag to Tackle) rather than straight into the contact game.
Another teacher from a UK school also joined the group to Recce for his school to visit in 2015 which
enables TRT to continue its programme and develop the schools started this year.
A Full Library of Pictures can be found at www.tagrugbytrust.co.uk Picasa link
