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No. 544

The weekly newsletter forThe Junior King’s School, Canterbury 2 July 2021

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From the Head

We felt so lucky to be able to have our Prep Sports Day on Saturday. The field events took place earlier in the week to allow the focus on the track events on Saturday itself. I am very grateful to the sports department for their organisation of the day and preparation of the pupils. There was a special supportive atmosphere across the four houses, and strong community spirit in the Prep School. Pre-Prep enjoyed their sports day in glorious sunshine on Thursday afternoon. Activity Week has been so varied and a wonderful active and creative output for all the pupils. There has been a positive buzz of activity around the school and the pupils have greatly enjoyed the wide range of opportunities on offer. The week began with Mr Harrison, Head of the Shells at King’s, talking to our Year 8s about transition. This was well-received and greatly appreciated. There are so many highlights from this week: the children have learned more about the countries of Europe and about Japan. They have enjoyed events from a hat fashion show to giant tetrahedron team building, screen printing and exhibitions, to djembe drumming, an escape room, a climbing wall and first aid training - I am unable to even begin to list everything on here and do justice to them all, so I hope you enjoy looking at all the photos in this edition of the week to catch a flavour of everything that has been going on. The week ended with our outings day on Friday for all the different year groups in the Prep School. I enjoyed spending time with the Junior King’s support staff team too this week, who have all worked so hard this year to keep their important departments running so smoothly.

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It was wonderful to have the entire school out in the sunshine on Saturday for Sports Day. The races were fiercely contested but in a fun and supportive atmosphere. There were more races than ever before as the pupils competed in their individual year groups, and it was fantastic to see the effort, energy, commitment and determination in their faces as they strained every sinew to earn valuable points for their Houses. One of the highlights of the morning came when Jasper J broke the school record for the 800m, knocking six seconds off the previous record with an impressive time of 2:23.86.The morning ended with the exhilaration of the relays, as every child represented their House with great passion in this frenetic event. The atmosphere reached a fever pitch as the batons were passed from hand to hand, whilst the rest of the school cheered and roared on their teams.When all of the points for the track events were counted up and added to the scores from the field events, which had been running throughout the week, the Macaws won by an incredibly narrow margin of just 10 points.A great time was had by all, and despite all of the restrictions in place at this current time it was just great to be able to get out and see everybody giving their very best.Well done and thank you to the staff for all their help and support in enabling the event to run so smoothly.

Mr Jamieson, Director of Sport

Macaws win Sports Day

Final Results

1st: Macaws

2nd: Kakas

3rd: Keas

4th: Cockas




Calendar

Saturday 3 July 19:00 Year 8 Leavers’ Dinner

Sunday 4 July 12:30 Boarders’ Barbecue

Monday 5 July No evening activitiesJunior House Fun Day and Barbecue Junior House/Middle School - French Play

Tuesday 6 July10:4514:3016:0016:1516:30

No evening activitiesFinal assembly (online) Leavers’ Service in the marquee for Year 8Junior House – End of termMiddle School – End of termYear 7 – end of term

Wednesday 7 July10:3012:00

No evening activitiesSpeech Day Year 8 end of term. Drinks on the lawn in front of Manor House.

Pupils displayed an array of fabulous work from throughout the year at the Art and DT Exhibitions on Saturday.




Scholarship announcements

Last year’s Year 8s were unable to sit the 13+ Academic Scholarship exams. These took place this term instead and we are thrilled that three out of four of our former pupils won academic scholarships and two out of three were awarded exhibitions.

Academic Scholars: Academic Exhibitioners:

Oliver D (OJKS) Enoch A (OJKS)

Purnesh S (OJKS) Dayyan T (OJKS)

Cameron F (OJKS)

We were also delighted by the news that Grace C (OJKS), now in the Sixth Form, has been made Head Scholar at The King’s School for 2021-22.

JKS pupils win top prizes in national short story competitionAnnabel N (6P), Lili S (6M) and Freya J (4W) were selected as prize winners in a recent series of short story competitions that were open to children aged 7-12 across the country.The Federation of Children’s Book Groups hosted three competitions in honour of Short Story Month in May, with renowned authors setting story starters for the themes Myths, Magic and Mayhem in the three competitions.

We (and more importantly the winners themselves!) were thrilled that Annabel and Lili won 1st and 2nd place in the Myths competition respectively.The judges commented that “their entries really stood apart from the crowd with great use of language, description and ideas”.Freya was also awarded 3rd place in the Mayhem competition, with the judges saying they “were really impressed with her story”.

Mrs Vanstone-Hallam’s Year 6 Language Support set has been reading the first Harry Potter book. Over the last two weeks, they’ve made a poster describing the characters, houses, castle, and comparing the book to the film.




Pupils had the opportunity to learn from visiting artists on Tuesday and Wednesday.

Mr Harrison, Head of Shells at KSC, spoke to Year 8 about transitioning to a Senior School.

Year 6 modelled their towering hats at a fashion show. It got competitive at Year 6’s Tetrahedron Challenge.




Happy Birthday!

We wish a very happy birthday to the following pupils and staff who have their birthdays next week.

4 JulyNora Y Molly J

5 JulySamuel P

Sage S Ms Vleminckx

6 JulyDino C

7 JulyRuby J

Chimkasi O Pippa J (5C) gave a presentation on her fascinating hobby of making miniature clothing!

Sister Adams from our Health Centre spent time with Middle School as part of our Relationships focus this term, sensitively delivering an introduction to puberty. The children were in separate groups to create a secure, safe culture for questions and any pressing worries to be aired.

The Friends of Junior King’s raised £1,240 for Pilgrim’s Hospices with their Summer Raffle!

Our librarian Mr Cox spoke to Mrs Roots’ Year 6 English set to uncover the treasures in the JKS library. He came with inspiring books focussing on genres that would pique the interest of boys. He has been invited back for a session with recommendations for girls. Get ready for some rich summer pickings!




pleased to join the teaching team with the great violin pedagogue, Sheila Nelson. I also started a music events business with the emphasis on promoting orchestral music.

What was your favourite subject at school and why?

My favourite subject at school was English, mainly due to an inspirational teacher who had been a member of the Royal Shakespeare

Tell us a little about yourself.

I studied at the Royal Academy of Music and after graduating I embarked on a career of freelance playing, which included everything from work with the major symphony orchestras to musicals. When my eldest daughter was a baby, she plus the baby sitter , regularly came to work with me when I was playing in Phantom of the Opera. However, orchestral touring to the other side of the world and three children are incompatible, so I was very

Company. I remain a lover of the theatre and am a trustee for a small theatre company.

What’s your favourite thing about Junior King’s?

I feel privileged to teach at Junior Kings, with the possibilities it affords of such a wide variety of music making. I do enjoy being part of the music team - wonderful staff and of course, wonderful pupils!

Meet the Staff: Ms Campion, Violin & Viola Teacher

In 2002, I started teaching at Junior King’s and my roles include violin and viola teaching, ensembles and Pre Prep violin club. I also teach at senior King’s where I teach both the violin and viola, and I assist with Sinfonia too.




Junior House Stars of the Week

3AW: Alexander

3L: Amory

4M: Dylan

4W: Aiza

Year 4 have written haiju poems to go with their Japanese-themed week.

SpringWhere did Winter go?Birds are singing, lambs are bornIt is time for SpringMariiaLLAMA White and like a queen. She is a drama llama. Glam and too pretty. Serena

FOXES Hungry and sneaky. Cunningly they like to hunt. They come out at night. Kayesha BEARS Furious bears eat. Brown and furry, big and strong. Wildly pouncing high. Dylan

7B have been making Save the Planet posters. Year 4 drew Manga Anime.




At just 19 years of age, Matt Stonier (OJKS) came 8th at the GB 1500m Olympic Trials. He’s now been invited to a Diamond League event in Gateshead where he’ll look to break 4 minutes for the mile.

Jack B (7C) came third at a British Fencing Youth Series event in Liverpool. He fenced really well, winning 5 of 7 matches in the Poules before eventually missing out 10-7 in the semi finals.

Henry Brett (OJKS) helped the Canterbury Hockey Club Under-18s advance from the semi-finals of the National Cup as they beat Cambridge City 3-2. The final will be played this weekend.

Year 6 made Andy Goldsworthy-inspired designs during their TASC Day.




Year 7 sports tournaments: Belgium lift the Mini-Euros Football tournament trophy (top left); Scenes of jubilation after Ayo scores the winning penalty against Hungary (top right); Milly and Nora, winners of the Spaghetti Tower Challenge (bottom left); Steven and Nora, winners of the Tennis Ladder (bottom right).

Year 5 used their creative skills during TASC Day.King’s Week, the Senior School’s unique annual festival, has begun! See what’s happening and view online events on the King’s Week website at kingsweek.co.uk. Pupil volunteers have helped create the website and will publish highlights each day.

Muddy Stilettos have given us exclusive early access to their curated guide to summer holiday activ-ities in Kent ahead of their newsletter next week. View it at kent.muddystilettos.co.uk.


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https://kent.muddystilettos.co.uk/kids/activities/summer-holiday-activites-in-kent/

https://kent.muddystilettos.co.uk/kids/activities/summer-holiday-activites-in-kent/



En crèche, depuis quelques semaines Madame nous a enseigné le vocabulaire du petit déjeuner pendant nos cours de français. Cette semaine les plus petits ont pris un petit déjeuner français. Ils ont dégusté des croissants avec du chocolat chaud. C’était délicieux!

Supper Veggies to the Rescue!!! Reception finished their Superhero topic this week by designing their own Super Veggies to help Supertato in his quest to defeat the Evil Pea. They all made Wanted posters and Sophia, JimBob and Kiara all drew wonderful teams of Super Veggies.

We were all so happy that the sun came back out on Thursday so that we could have our Sports Day. We were keen to show off our Sack Race skills!




In Geography this week, the Year 1 class found their favourite ‘human feature’ in the playground and drew a pictures of it – can you guess what it is?

In Maths we have been finding out about halves and quarters using practical resources. Then we used a programme on the computer to test our knowledge.

In Year 2, we have continued to discover all about our animals in the Pre-Prep and this week we have learnt about our fish. After another interesting talk by Mrs McConkey, the children completed observational drawings of our fish and wrote fascinating fact files.

Here are some of the children’s facts:

•Fish are cold-blooded vertebrates that are covered in scales and have fins that help them to swim.

•Like reptiles, they lay eggs.

•Our tank in Pre-Prep is a community tank because we have different types of fish that live together.

•We have angel fish, glass fish, guppies, mollies, platies and tetras. There are even a few water snails too.

•We love watching our fish, it’s enjoyable and relaxing!

By The Sycamores

Pre‑Prep Notices

♦ Monday 5th July – Normal school day. No after school clubs, Late Club is available.

♦ Tuesday 6th July – Pre-Prep Beach Fun Day. Please wear your own shorts and t-shirt and bring a named bucket and spade. No after school clubs, Late Club is available.

♦ Wednesday 7th July – 12:00 noon finish. Reception , Year 1 and Year 2 ready to be collected 11:30. Nursery children ready to be collected from 11:45.




The Friends of Junior King's present

the Grand Summer Ball 18 June 2022

Proudly supporting

The Brain & Spine FoundationRising Sun Kent




WOULD YOU LIKE TO TAKE THE ROLE OFClass and Year Reps for 2021 -2022?

Welcome new parents when they join the School.Coordinate volunteers for fund-raising events.

Class point of contact for Classlist.Collaborate with the FJKS Committee

to plan events and support new initiatives.Arrange social events for parents/pupils.

If you are interested, please contact us:

[email protected]

Thank youThe FJKS Committee


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