Dates for your Diary:

Monday 10th October – Curriculum Day

Friday 14th October – DofE Silver Practice Expedition

Monday 17th October – Year 7 welcome evening

Tuesday 18th October – Year 8 welcome evening

Wednesday 19th October – Year 9 & 10 welcome evening

Thursday 20th October – Year 11 welcome evening

Thursday 20th – Wednesday 26th October – Greece Classics trip Y10-13

Friday 21st October – end of term 1

Parent Bulletin Friday, 7th October 2016

NATIONAL POETRY DAY - Friday 7 October

WRITE A POEM to be returned to Mrs Potter (Librarian) by Friday 14 October

A SMALL PRIZE MAY BE YOURS!

MFL Stars Last week's MFL Stars of the Week –

y7 Daniel Akula

y8 Tyler Boswell

y9 Alina Orlova

y10 Jasmine Reddy

y11 - Shanice Myers

KS5 - Catherine Hill

well done to you all!

Mandarin Club on Monday (3-4pm in D10) will feature learning about the Chinese National Day along with

fun activities and games

We still have a few seats left for the trip to see Les Misérables in the West End on February 8th, if you are

interested please see Mrs Hawkins in D9 for a letter

Safer Schools Amy Webber is an ex KES Academy student who left in 2015. In 2013 Amy joined the Volunteer Police

Cadets in Kings Lynn. Since joining Amy has been one of the most enthusiastic cadets and is currently the

"Lead Cadet".

Being a member of the cadets has given Amy a confidence and belief and has been a valuable experience

for her. She will be sorely missed as she leaves the cadets soon due to the age restrictions of the cadets.

However, she has an application submitted to join the Special Constabulary and hopes one day to be a full

time Police Officer.

On Thursday 6th October in Norwich, Norfolk Constabulary hosted their annual "Norfolk Safer Community Awards" NOSCA's. Out of the all the volunteer police cadets in the county Amy was shortlisted to the final three for Cadet of the Year. Both myself and the Sgt who supported the nomination, from his involvement with the cadets, felt she was worthy of our nomination of her.

Although she didn't end up winning the overall award she did incredibly well to make it to the final three. She was rewarded with a framed certificate and all three finalists have been given a days "Behind the scenes" VIP day at RAF Marham.

A really pleasing story from a previous KESA student.

Pc 285 John Bolderstone

Year 7 – Mrs Stonach

Well done to 7E for winning the form attendance of the week trophy with an attendance of 99.6%!

Form attainment of the week was awarded to 7W for the second week running, well done to them.

This week we had 3 students of the week for year 7 for collecting the most vivos. Congratulations to

Fergus Martin Lewis, Ethan Brown and Ayden Turner – well done boys and keep up the hard work, your

tutors were very proud of you.

Miss Ritson spoke to the year group in assembly to promote an after school English club, permission

letters were given out to those that showed an interest in attending.

Finally from me this week, please remind your child that if they would like to come to the Halloween party,

they have until next Friday to buy a ticket. Any proceeds from this will be used to fund an end of term

event for our year 7 pupils with zero sanctions this term. The party will be on the last day of this half term

(Friday 21st October) from 5.30-8pm, the tickets are £3.00 each.

Year 8 – Mrs Lees

Our attendance figure is starting to rise, with Year 8 students achieving 94.7% this week (93.8% for the academic year to date). Lateness has improved significantly this week – Well done Year 8 students. Please look out next week for letters regarding our Year 8 Welcome Evening, which takes place Tuesday 18 October 6-7pm.

“Attendance matters, every day counts” Tutors Star of the Week Gabija Suruda 8A DAISY DAVIS 8E EMA TOMKOVA 8G CRAIG MARKS 8K EGLE BUCUTE 8N LUC WIDDOWSON 8R SAM SHIPP 8W Vivo Points for This Week:

Year 9 – Mrs Cole

Year 9 Achievement Challenge:-

100% attendance (unless authorised exceptional circumstances)

Plus Neutral or better behaviour/achievement points

Will result in a free afternoon activity off site in the week before Christmas

Attendance:-

Well done to 9R – 99.1% attendance last week.

For the first month of Year 9 – 105 students have 100% attendance, well done to all of you.

Students of the week:-

Chloe Smith

Hannah Robins

Good work board:-

Sam Ruddlesdin

Freddie Laws

Anya Biran

Vivos – top ten:-

Year 10 – Mr Waring

Attendance for our year group went up last week to 94.2 so thank you for all your efforts with that. However, at the end of September, I am currently waiting for some 36 students to bring in notes for absences. If you think your son or daughter is one of them, please send the note in or it will become an unauthorised absence. And the form class with the best attendance figure last week goes to 10A with a figure of 97% so well done to all students in that class Year 10 student behaviour on the whole is awesome with lots of positive stories being shared. However, there are a small handful of students that are on report cards for poor behaviour and these will be shared with parents. I have also implemented a Round Robin system whereby, a request is sent out to staff asking how a student is doing in class with behaviour, attitude to learning and general wellbeing in lessons. These, alongside academic reports, give us a holistic view of school life for the child and form the basis of discussion with parents when needed. So I am hopeful, that working in partnership with parents, a supportive package can be agreed upon that will help students achieve to the best of their ability.

I am very pleased to report that Titas Jodokas, a student who only started at KES two weeks ago and came to us directly from Lithuania not speaking any English, has come out as top vivo achiever for last week, earning 50 points so very well done Titas.

Year 11 - Mr Ibbitson (standing in for Mrs Wright)

I am pleased to report that Year 11 students continue to rise to the challenge in their final year and are

making steady academic progress. There is plenty of work ahead and before you know it there will

important assessments to be done. It is therefore crucial that School and Home, over the coming weeks

and months, work together to encourage and support the students so they can fulfil their potential. I, for

one, stand ready to help.

I have the following report from Mr McNeil regarding sporting successes. Mr McNeil reports the following,

“Y11 Basketball lads had 2 wins v Marshland and KLA. Boys did very well. Also, the Y11 football team lost in the first round of the national cup - I was very proud of their performance and attitude - sometimes

you win, sometimes you learn. Boys gave 100% and that’s all you can ask.

Y11 rugby squad came from 12-5 behind to beat Dereham 35-22 in the County Cup. Mr Denton said the

lads were excellent, especially in the second half!

Well done to Mr McNeil’s GCSE PE group - really impressive start to Y11 with lots of excellent work

produced and looking forward to some excellent video presentations, after 'No pen day' this week!”. My thanks for Mr McNeil and to the Sports Department as a whole for all the support you give to the

students.

Monday is Curriculum Day – a full day of targeted intervention across a range of subjects. This will be a

very productive day and is designed to maximise support to Year 11.

Below are the vivo awards over the last week – well done. I cannot help notice the boys are rather absent

– come on boys!

Sports News

Upcoming fixtures:

Monday 11th October U12 A+B v KLA (H) KLA (H)

Wednesday 12th October

U12 Emerging schools rugby Norfolk Schools

U18 Football Neale Wade (H)

U14 WN Netball Tournament West Norfolk schools @KES

Thursday 13th October U12 Football Springwood

Girls Results:

Age

group

Sport Opposition Result

U14 Netball Litcham Lost 14-2

U16 Netball Litcham Won 19-10

U14 Hockey WN Schools Drew 1

Lost 2

U13 Hockey

Boys Results:

Age group Sport Opposition Result

U14 Rugby Norfolk schools Partook

U14 Basketball Downham KLA

Won

U13 Football Litcham Drew

U16 Football Springwood Lost 2-0

U14 Football Litcham Won 4-2

U16 Football Litcham Cancelled

Full Colours Application

Are you playing sport at a high competitive level?

Are you an all round enthusiastic sports performer?

The PE department are launching the school colours scheme to recognise the success and contributions

of some of the students in our school.

Being awarded with school colours is a great achievement and shows your commitment and ability in a

single sport or combination of activities.

If you are successful in your application you will receive a colours tie to be worn with pride which

will replace your standard KES tie.

How to apply:

1) Collect a letter from the PE department

2) Write a letter of application outlining why you think you should be awarded full colours.

3) Deadline - 3pm on the 12th October 2016

Successful applicants will be awarded in assembly

Enrichment programme

House News

7th October Hockey Festival

14th October House quiz

4th November Junior Basket ball

Please see your House Enrichment coordinator to sign up!

PSHE/SMSC

This week’s assembly focuses on the difference between right and wrong. You may want to discuss this

with your child at home.

Curriculum day

Year 7 and 8 will be be beginning work towards the KESA diploma. Look out for a letter home or visit the

website to find out more.

Lauren NobleSophe French

Alice Biran IIga AleksejevaHannah Stoutt

Ashley

Briggs

Jude Hawes

Reece

Homibrook

Connor

Germaney

Elliot Prentice

Christmas Market Trip

to PARIS

Due to a low number of responses, the trip is

now open to any KS3/KS4 students.

Would you like to spend 4 days

and 3 nights near Paris at the end

of the term?

If you are interested, please get a

letter from the MFL office.

Christmas

Craft & Gift Fair

Sunday 27th November 2016

Gaywood Road

Kings Lynn

10am-2pm

All proceeds will support the Music & Dra a depart e ts

A ide sele tio of seaso al gifts a aila le f o lo al afte s!

Co e alo g a d fi d those u i ue gifts fo lo ed o es

50p

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