Space Spectacular Over the Last Two Months, We Have Thrown Open Our Doors to Complete an Obstacle Course
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academysummer issue 2016 news Space Spectacular Over the last two months, we have thrown open our doors to complete an obstacle course. To finish off, Year 5s were then over 300 students, from Year 5, to experience life at the High given one hour, for English, to produce the front page of The School. We invited many of our local primary schools to spend Kingstone Chronicle informing and explaining the two day two days with us enjoying a range of lessons and activities event. These front pages will be returned to each respective based around the theme of space. Primary School, in September, along with the list of winners Day 1 saw the students learning about the Science behind and prizes! rockets; completing a Maths Mars mission as well as building, Thank you to all Year 5s, and their supportive teachers, for in D&T, their own rockets before launching them on the school making the days so memorable. The students’ behaviour was playing field. After that exhilarating day, we asked the Year 5s excellent and it was a pleasure to have them visit us. We have had to return to enjoy Day 2! wonderful feedback from a number of schools, so we know that all Day 2 consisted of learning basic Russian in MFL; becoming the hard work we put in to running these days was worthwhile. Astronaut Fit in PE and programming, in ICT, a Rover to We look forward to the next ones See the fantastic film made by Herefordshire’s Shooting Reels Productions which was shot over the 4 learning days at Kingstone High school. It is on our Youtube Channel... www.youtube.com watch?v=KVnsIPZA6PU with many thanks to Stuart and Ed Deacon for their support. http://shootingreels.com ACHIEVING SUCCESS TOGETHER Follow us on twitter @KingstoneHigh “It is a pleasure to see a great number of our students learning new skills and getting involved” Mr S Fisher This year has seen Kingstone building on the success of our It feels like this year we have really found our feet as an Ofsted inspection and the superb examination results we Academy. The High School and Primary School are working achieved last year – the best in our school’s history and which together well and this has created its own added value. Staff puts us into the top four schools in Herefordshire, leaping and students are moving across both sites and primary ahead of many other schools. We take great pride in our students are receiving specialist subject teaching and use our students and the comments we have received from members specialist facilities. We are becoming renowned for having of the public this year about their smartness and excellent good range of options and a balanced curriculum, and, out of behaviour in public back this up. the classroom, for the range of clubs and activities we offer. It We are also delighted to be recognised nationally for the is a pleasure to see a great number of our students learning progress our students are making. This spring we received new skills and getting involved. a letter from Nick Gibb MP Minister of State for schools In September new members of staff at the High School are: offering his warmest congratulations for our schools excellent Mr Jacob Ashworth to the music department and Mrs Amy improvement; making us one of the top 100 non-selective Knibbs to the ICT department; and at the Primary School Miss state schools in the country showing the greatest sustained Amy Bilbrough and Miss Kimberley Harrison as class teachers. improvement in the percentage of pupils achieving 5 or more We look forward to welcoming them to Kingstone Academy A* to C grades including English and Maths. Trust. We are looking forward to this year’s results as all the This newsletter gives you a flavour of just some of the things evidence is pointing to another bumper year for our students. we have been involved with over the spring and summer terms. The primary school has just received its best SAT results ever At this time of year we have said goodbye to our Year 11s and with a combined score of 74% against a national figure of welcomed Year 6s up to High School for their transition day and 53%, which is recognition of all the hard work that the Year 6 have held our annual series of amazing learning days for Year5 students and their teachers have been putting in. students from school across Herefordshire. The PTA is thriving, We now have a culture of self-improvement embedded read more about it in this newsletter, and we have received across the academy and will continue to build on our planning permission for our sports hall development, now comes successes. This is achieved by an excellent staff team working the focus on fundraising to make it a reality for our community. together. They are determined and caring, and honestly want It is exciting to be moving forward together at this stage in every student to do their very best. Our staff go above and Academy development; a large number of students have joined beyond to ensure that this happens. We have found the change us during the course of the year, many because parents and to the times of the school day and additional break times to be carers have heard about what we are doing and are choosing really beneficial to our teaching and learning. Kingstone for their child. We welcome visits at any time and Our Ambassador programme for Year 8 and 9s is helping also have open days on 20th and 28th September and on 6th to build social skills, leadership skills, team working and October, with an Open evening on 5th October. These are planning. We are proud of Ambassadors and of the way they normal working days and our students will be running the are managing the library, supporting our learning days and tours and answering your questions. Come and join us and see school events, and hosting tours of the school. It is a delight to what we are doing. watch them mentoring younger students. Mr Steven Fisher 2 KingstoneAcademyNews•SummerIssue2016 KINGSTONE NEWS The End of the Year The last two full days of term were our annual off timetable activity days. The PE department organised trips to Jumptastic for trampolining, and 9 hole golf. The Maths department organised trips to the West Midlands Safari Park and Oakerwood The science department took students to Thorpe Park, paintballing at Battlelands and surfing at Llangeneth on the Gower, and the English department took students to Hereford for swimming, tennis cinema and Nandos. There were also overnight trips to Birmingham for Art and Music to see Mamma Mia and visit galleries, and a trip to PGL at Langorse for team building and outdoor activities. In school we had sculpture, tennis, trampoline lessons, basketball summer sports, pizza making and crafts and textiles. We also had a team from the Army with us for the two days, who brought their climbing wall, inflatable assault course, field crafts and mountain bike and they managed to teach 3 students to ride bikes. It was glorious hot weather and on Tuesday students were glad to cool off with a water slide. New Head Boy and Head Girl for 2016-17 We have just appointed our Junior shortlist attended a formal interview This year we are delighted to Leadership Team for the academic year with Mr Fisher, Mrs Butler and Mr announce that our Head Boy is Dylan 2016 to 17. Students wishing to put Ruvino. The JLT have an important Rudolph and our Head Girl is Jessica themselves forward for the positions leadership role to play in the life of Harrison. They will be ably supported of Head Boy or Head Girl had to write the school and are given their own by Deputy Head Boy Joe Heeley and a formal letter of application and the common room. Deputy Head Girl Sarah Gabrielides. Prefects are: • Abi Barnes • Matthew James • Charlotte Osborne • Joseph Bridges • Daniel Jones • Libby Payne • Megan Capel • Eve Jones • Harry Roadnight • Summer Cooper • Joel Jones • Caitlin Swift • Ebony Davies • Katie Jones • Holly Vale • Ellie Guy • Rebekah Lloyd • Nathan Westcott • Max Gwilliam-Gardner • Lana Mason • Alex Williams • Katie Hughes • Cameron Morgan • Will Woodward KingstoneAcademyNews•SummerIssue2016 3 KINGSTONE NEWS Year 11 Prom held at the Left Bank, In the past students have arrived in fancy cars to helicopters. The Left Bank gave the Hereford perect opportunity to arrive by boat! Year 11 students leaving school for Dan Haines and Alfie Lewis, Eden Robinson, Charlotte Ward and the last time Niall Jones Megan Keane 4 KingstoneAcademyNews•SummerIssue2016 KINGSTONE NEWS Outdoor Trigonometry Induction This summer term, as the sun has been shining, our Year 9 students have had the chance Day to get up close and personal with trigonometry in the real world. After studying the topic Kingstone were proud we decided to get outside and put this study into practice! to welcome the Year 6 The classes spent time creating their own clinometers and collecting measures in order pupils from a variety for them to find missing heights of different objects and buildings around the school of Hereford Primary grounds. This was a fun and enriching experience for the students, to which one student schools, on the 30th stated “now I have applied the skill to real life and had a go myself, I understand it!” June and who will join This is the kind of learning that we feel will embed those trickier topics in Mathematics, us in September as our which makes it that much easier and enjoyable for our pupils.