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Dates for your Diary:

Sunday 16th July – KESAF Car Boot

Tuesday 18th July – Presentation Evening Y7-10

Friday 21st July – End of Summer Term

Term dates for 2017/18 & 2018/19 can be found on our website click here to view

Wednesday 6th September – Start of Autumn Term

Parent Bulletin

Friday, 14th July 2017

MFL:

Well done to our Language Stars of the Week this week - keeping up the great work right to the end of

term! Congratulations to you all

Year 7 - Georgie Merrishaw 7G

Year 8 - Kyle Simper 8W Year 9 - Anya Biran 9R

Year 10 - Ryan Maia 10G

There is no Chinese Club on Monday, but it will return in the new year - keep your eyes peeled upon our

return for more details!

Snapchat

We are aware that Snapchat, a social media app, has recently been updated with a new feature called

‘Snapmaps’.

Snapmaps allows Snapchat users to view each other’s locations. Clearly this can have safety implications

if the location of children is publically visible.

If your child uses Snapchat, we would strongly advise that you put the app in ‘ghost mode’ which means that their location will not be shared. To do this click the settings ‘cog’ within Snapchat then click on ‘see

my location’.

Childnet have published a useful article with more information: http://www.childnet.com/blog/introducing-snap-

maps-the-new-location-sharing-feature-in-snapchat

Literacy: Language for Learning

Why is writing important? The National Literacy Trust have published research showing that children who enjoy writing and who

write creatively outside school do significantly better in the classroom.

The report stresses that helping children develop a love of writing is important for their academic success.

National Writing Day will play a crucial role in helping children discover that creative writing can be fun and can also boost their attainment, confidence, aspiration and imagination. National Writing Day is

coordinated by First Story, a literacy charity who aims to change young lives through writing, and is

supported by 35 partners, including the National Literacy Trust.

For more details:

http://www.literacytrust.org.uk/news/7889_we_launch_new_writing_research_for_national_writing_da

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Summer Reads:

King Edward VII Academy Staff will be reading the following over the summer holidays:

Miss Faulkner - Picnic at Hanging Rock (inspired by one of the poems from the Foyles 2017 booklet). The

Ice Twins (Thriller) and Perfect by Cecilia Ahern 2nd in series to the novel Flawed (teenage reads)

Mr Brown - Time's Arrow by Martin Amis and re-reading Citizens, Simon Schama's wonderful book on the

French Revolution.

Miss Lewis - I am pilgrim. Nomad, Threat Vector, The boy made of Blocks.

Mr M Taylor - - Small Gods by Terry Pratchett

Graeme Robinson - Germany - memories of a nation - Neil Macgregor and Hitman Anders - Jonas

Johanson

Mr Spetch - Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy and Sapians, A brief History of Humankind and Homo Deus by

Yuval Noah Harari.

Mr Mclean - I'm reading A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman

Danny Gay - The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead

Ms Buckland - Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood and Started Early, Took my Dog by Kate Atkinson.

Miss Stewart-Richardson - Guy de Maupassant - a Parisienne Affair

Simon Anderson - Dare to Dream and Work to Win Paperback by Thomas Barrett

Alex Spindler - The Autobiography by John Cleese, The Chalk Pit by Elly Griffiths, The Summer of

Serendipity by Ali McNamara

Miss Ritson - The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood

Miss Shields - The memoir or a Surfing Legend Making Mavericks Frosty Hesson with Ian Spiegelman

Mrs Hawkins - The Turning Point by Freya North

Miss Valantieje - Janet Fitch "White Oleander" and Winnie-The-Pooh

Miss Grant - Great Expectations - Charles Dickens

Mrs Potter – The Payment by Roberta Kray

Diploma Awards

Eighty of our Year 7 and 8 students attended the Eastern Multi-Academy Trust Diploma awards ceremony

on Tuesday evening at King’s Lynn Corn Exchnage, along with students from King’s Lynn Academy and

Downham Market Academy. Students received certificates and badges awarded for reaching the gold

award, acknowledging the high levels of effort, determination and excellent academic ability.

Cameron Backham welcomed parents, students and VIP guests including the Mayor of King’s Lynn and

West Norfolk, whilst Harry Williamson gave a perfect performance on the grand piano during one of the

musical interludes.

Students Alice Biran (Y7) and Abby Watson (Y8) were presented with Diploma Champion awards – this is

the overall winner for the entire year group – a great achievement!

Congratulations to all winners.

End of Term

Please note that we will finish for the summer holidays on Friday 21st July at 2.10pm at the end of Period 5

and bus companies have been informed. If you would like us to keep your child on site until 3pm, do let us

know.

Students return to school on Wednesday 6th September, arriving by 8.35am.

Year 7 – Mrs Stonach

Dear parents,

This will be my final parent mail of the academic year as I will be away on a trip next week to Eurodisney

with some year 7 pupils. I wanted to take this opportunity to say thank you for the ongoing support that you

have all given this year. I truly have some of the kindest, most hardworking and proud members of the

school and I look forward to leading them into year 8 and beyond!

This week I have had the opportunity to celebrate successes and achievement. Awards have been given

out to outstanding members of the year and the lucky winners were.

For 100% attendance all year – an outstanding achievement well done,

Cherry Ahsan, Zack Appleton, Mark Chen, Leo Ciobanu, Mario Ciobanu, Maz Dixon, Callum Gray, Charlie Hollands, Keira Jenner-Akehurst, Archie Lee, Fergus Martin-Lewis, Mantvydas Martusevicius, Neve

McDonald, Inese Panancuka, Tyler Pegg, Aaron Pugh, Chloe Ramsey, Jamie Ramsey, Aidan Rhodes,

Kajus Uknevicius, jaunius Vainauskas, Amelia White, Leah Wightman.

For perfect behaviour this year (no behaviour points),

Cherry Ahsan, Daniel Akula, Gabriele Andriuskaite, Alice Biran, William Bligh, Paige Brown, Mark Chen,

Tegan De'Ath, Katie Dicks, Ines Dos Santos, Tatiana Gomes, Kelly Hails, Faye Hemeter, Kym

Hutchinson, Maria Jedrychowska, Akvile Jonusaite, Jack Lee, Liam Martin, Mina-Lea Mcmanus, Carlo

Micu, Jennifer Miller, Millie Milnes, Olivia Patterson, Lauren Plume, Georgia Prior, Chloe Ramsey, Jamie Ramsey, Kelvin Silva, Viktorija Tomaseva, Matthew Travis, Oliver Turrell, Abbie Upton, Wiktor Wisniewski,

Jasmin Yates, Levente Zolei

Form Attendance of the year – 7A – 97.2%

Form Behaviour of the year – 7R – an average of 1544 points each!!

Tutors were also asked to nominate a student for a ‘tutor student of the year’ award, these were won by,

7R – Erin McDonald

7W – Holly Lloyd 7D – Kelvin Silva

7E – Zack Appleton

7G – Callum Howe 7A – Alice Biran

7K – Kaya Kastas

7N – Evie Rasberry

Student achievement points winners were,

1st – Jennifer Miller – 2555 points

2nd – Madisyn Williamson – 2294 points 3rd – Erin McDonald – 2200 points

Just one last note, when buying new uniform for next term, please ensure that you refer to the letter which will be coming out from Mr Brown. Shoes must be formal and trousers traditional (some trousers are being

sold as school uniform but do not meet our uniform policy).

Have a fantastic summer and I’ll see you all in September.

Year 8 – Mrs Lees It was such an honour to attend the EMAT Diploma Awards Ceremony on Tuesday evening and see Year

8 students receive their Gold Awards. I felt proud as their Head of Year to see their hard work and

determination to succeed be formally celebrated, including the address from the Mayor of King’s Lynn and West Norfolk. Congratulations to Abby Watson who was awarded ‘Year 8 Diploma Champion’. A very

special evening!

Students who have achieved Silver and Bronze Awards will celebrate in school with a dedicated assembly

on the last day of term.

P R I D E

We think and act

positively

We respect one another in

everything we do

We strive to

improve

We all create a

great place to

learn

We work well

together

P – Alicia Rodrigues Semedo , R – Ewa Pieczykolan I - Gabriele Brusovaite D – Robert Addis E – Anton Baskaran

GOOD WORK BOARD Miss Vaughan - I've been really impressed with Year 8! Their behaviour and effort during the assessments

has been and nine pupils achieved 80% or higher for their end of year assessment: Kina Flores-Yallop,

Nell Ashworth, Eden Barker, Mary-Ann Booker, Jacob Gyton, Aled Melton, Ema Tomkova, Abby

Watson and Louise Woods. I'd also like to mention Emre Korolovs and he's progressed so much,

developing his answers and shows good understanding.

Miss Taylor - Rebecca Bush- player of the match in rounders!

Mrs Lees – Gabriele Brusovaite and Ema Tomkova for their hard work in supporting a new student who

joined Year 8 this week.

Miss Coates - Alfie Royle, Kiya Dye, Joey Ellis, Aleksejs Kravcenko, Corby Mason, Poppy Tunmore,

Alanas Zukauskas, Oliwier Wyszomirski, Luc Widdowson and Robert Addis all performed very well in their

art assessments.

Mrs Faulkner – Emilis Banys, Emilis Laibinis, Tyreece Hutches and Liam Jordan for their outstanding

newspaper articles.

TOP ACHIEVERS THIS WEEK

Year 8 have earned a total of 4115 achievement points this week!

Abby Watson 8R

Olivia Sharp 8A

William Stutchbury 8R

Callum Nicol 8A

Kody Shand 8N

Libby Howe 8A

Aleksejs Kravcenko 8E

Danny Dolman 8R

Year 9 – Mrs Cole

Equipment:-

On visiting lessons over the last few days, it is disappointing to see that a lot of Year 9 students do not

have their basic equipment e.g. pens, pencils, ruler, calculator etc. it is essential they have their equipment

with them every day in order to access their lessons. Please check with your child that they have

everything they need.

Attendance:-

Well done to 9E with 96.9% attendance last week.

Absences - Please remember to call our student absence line on 01553 773606 by 8.35am if possible on

the morning of every day of absence.

Lates:-

Should your child arrive late to school, it not only affects their attendance but also disturbs the learning of

other students which is clearly unacceptable. Please therefore ensure your child arrives to school no later

than 8.35am.

Uniform:-

Please remember to check your child is in the correct uniform every day. If for any reason they are not

then please supply them with a note to show to members of staff on request. Girls’ uniform – skinny

trousers are not allowed despite sometimes being sold in the “uniform section” of high street department

stores, traditional school trousers or knee length skirts please. PLEASE NOTE should a student not have

a note from home – they will receive a 30 minute detention after school on that day.

Achievement Certificates:-

P – Laura Zigunova – We think and act positively.

R – Tomas Varnavicius - We respect one another in everything we do.

I – Katie Sharp – We strive to improve.

D – Megan Adair – We all create a great place to learn.

E – Sara Polcz-Teglas – We work well together.

Top Achievers - 3.7.2017 – 7.7.2017

Good Work Board:-

Alice Whittread Sian Szulc Nonna Senkova

Jennifer Rodrigues Hannah Robins Zack Reed

Cain Nicholson Erica Martins-Cande Ritchie Garnett

Bradie Baker

Year 10 – Mr Waring I had the pleasure to escort a number of our year 10 students this week on a geography trip to a pretty little place called Holt, students got to measure the depth, flow rate and river bed composition. A trip made

even better with the fantastic warm weather we had and oh yes, watching Mrs Pettitt struggle as her foot

got stuck in the mud, almost losing her shoe.

For the last 6 weeks, 10W have made Mr Shaw, their form tutor a very proud teacher, as he witnessed his

form class achieve some impressive attendance figures and be champion attendees. However, finally they

have lost their champions crown as 10R reclaimed their attendance crown back with an impressive attendance figure of 96.3%. Well done to all of 10R for overhauling 10W.

I was so pleased to some very different names topping our achievement chart this week that I decided it

was only right to give them all the recognition they deserve. Top of the charts came, Saffron Hudson /

Amber Scott and Caitlin Saddleton, so well done to those 3 ladies but a huge well done to all of you. The top achieving form class award this week went to 10A congratulations to them, with the remaining form

class results as follows;

10A 250

10D 170

10E 110

10G 235

10K 200

10N 225

10R 180

10W 215

Congratulations to Ryan Maia 10G for being nominated year 10 language star of the week

Congratulations also go to Lacey Baker and Alfie Crown for sports stars of the week

A huge well done from everybody in year 10 goes to Lucy Koenigsberger who represented Norfolk

Athletics at a recent 2 day English Schools Athletics Championships being held in Birmingham. Well done

Lucy, you have done us all very proud.

Sixth Form News:

Want to join us at 6th form?

We held a very busy taster day on Wednesday. The day was well attended and hopefully students went away with a good idea of what they want to study in September. If your child hasn't yet applied, it's not too

late. They can still complete the application form on the website or email us sixthform@kesacademy.co.uk

We will be around on results day and students can accept their places then if they wish. It is worth noting

that in light of recent government advice we will be accepting Grade 4 in Maths and English rather than

the advertised grade 5, however some universities may stipulate a 5 grade. If you are at all unsure whether your child meets the entry criteria then please contact us and we will be happy to help.

Year 12 work shadowing

Our year 12 students have been busy at work this week, getting a flavour of the world of work. We have

received some very complimentary feedback about their attitude and conduct during their placements.

They have been a credit to the school and now deserve a well earnt rest before beginning year 13.

Start of term dates

Wednesday 6th September Year 13 interviews only (appointment times included)

Thursday 7th September Year 12 and 13 mixer event (all students to be in school by 8.45)

Friday 8th September Normal lessons begin for year 13 students Year 12 interviews only (times will be given on the mixer day)

Monday 11th September Photos

Year 12 induction day Tuesday 12th September Normal lessons begin for year 12 students

Dress Code

Please see the website or the letter that you will be receiving for information about dress code should you

be planning to purchase clothes for your child during the summer.

Year 13

We hope our year 13 students are starting to wind down after their exams. We will be around on A level

results day from 9.00 AM to help with accepting university offers or with practical help should results not

be what we had hoped.

House News:

Sports day went very well. The sun shone and many Ice Lollies were purchased! There were some great sporting achievements and the over all winners on the day were Lancaster school! Well done everyone.

This means that the overall winners of the Dornay Cup are also Lancaster school!

Well done to everyone who has taken part in events during the year.

A big thank you to all of the house enrichment coordinators who give up their time to ensure all of the events run. Mr Davis, Mr McNeil, Mr Gay, Mr Denton and also Miss Moats.

Sports day raised over £800 for the victims of the Grenfell tower fire.

Sports Results & Fixtures

Fixtures:

Date Sport Opposition

Monday 17th

July

Year 7 & 8 Boys/Girls Cricket 3-4.15pm

with Josh Ring

Y7-9 Tennis 3-4.15

with Matty Franks

Tuesday 18th July Year 9 & 10 Cricket

Away

Wisbech Cricket Club 1pm-6pm

WN Big Bash Competition

Wednesday 19th July Year 10 Cricket

Home

Smithdon

Thursday 20th

July

Year 8 Cricket

Home

KES Y7 / Y8 Mixed

Year 7 Cricket

Home

KES Y8 / Y8 Mixed

Results

Age group Sport Opposition Result

U15 Cricket Terrington Won by 45

runs

U13 Cricket Springwood Won by 50

runs

U12 U13

U14

Rounder's Downham Y7 – Won

Y8 – Lost

Y9 - Won

U15 Cricket Terrington Won by 45

runs

U13 Cricket Springwood Won by 50

runs

Well done to the Y7’s who were excellent during the SKY Sports, Living for Sport Coaching, with

Jade Windley!

Well done to the Y7’s who were excellent during the SKY Sports, Living for Sport Coaching, with

Jade Windley!

Jade wanted me to thank you all for giving 100% and having fun

SKY SPORTS LIVING FOR SPORT 2017

JADE WINDLEY – TEAM GB Tennis

Year 8 Cricket Team

West Norfolk League Champions 2017

OliviaSharp

IzzyOverton&

MiaKing

Abbie

Upton

IlgaAleksejeva

BobbyBrame

Bradley

Ely

LiamOlly

ScoBMoore