July 2016 Dear Parents & Guardians
hank you to everyone who has supported students through their exams, trips, activities or work experience in what is T often the busiest term of all. We have welcomed trips safely back from Morocco, Croatia, around the UK on the Duke of Edinburgh Award, Barcelona and later this week we expect trips home from the Brecon Beacons and the North Coast of France. At the same time we see off the trips to New York, Tanzania and the Gold D of E to Scotland. We are so very lucky to have staff, students and families willing to engage in this vibrant part of life at King Alfred's. The Music and Dance shows were great successes and thank you to all who took part or attended - thoroughly enjoyable evenings were had by all.
We also welcomed all of our new Year 6 students and families whilst saying goodbye to our Year 13’s at their Leavers' Ball, and celebrated with Year 11 at their Prom. They were all wonderful evenings and all the staff felt extremely proud of all of our students.
We are grateful to the small group of parents who recently offered up their time and attended an evening to review our new website before we move towards the launch. They provided really valuable and detailed feedback, Inside this issue: which we are now working on, but I am pleased to say that the overall response was Social Media Guidance 3 that the new site looks to be a significant Year 7/8 News 4 improvement! We hope that the new website will be up and running early in September. Oxfordshire Voices 5 Festival On a similar note, we have started this month Creative Arts 8-10 with our regular slot on e-safety. This first article is about Social Media guidance for History 11 parents and which we will be visiting more Year 9 Stockmarket 12 closely during Anti-bullying month in November. I hope that you find it useful. Women in Engineering 13 KING ALFRED’S ACADEMY Please don't forget that last month in First FirstThursday Thursday we gave details of a very powerful Sports Results 14-
site for parents set up by Vodafone, which you
may find time to explore over the summer. What’s On 17- 22 (Continued on page 2) Finally, we have completed our new assessment plan for all year groups, and we will be publishing this to parents in September on the website, by email and at the parent information evenings. Your feedback from all of the surveys has been very useful, and I hope, like the website, that you will see the real improvements that we have worked on to help students make good progress, and for parents to understand their child's progress.
We wish you all a safe and happy summer and we look forward to seeing you on Results Days or in the new academic year.
Jo Halliday Headteacher
July Lottery Winners 1 Middleton ( M ) £250 Prize 2 Rennie ( B & CA) £50 Prize 3 Ley ( JA&PJ) £50 Prize 4 Nunn-Price ( Mrs ) £50 Prize 5 Fennell ( C) £25 Prize
Page 2 Social Media Guidance
nline social networks, such as Facebook, Snapchat and Instagram are playing an increasingly important part in many of our lives. Children and young people, we accept, find them extremely O attractive and correctly used, such networks have many positive benefits. However, they open up a whole range of social and pastoral issues which we are having to deal with on a more frequent basis. In order to do the best we can to keep children safe online, parents and children (including older children) need to be aware of the following:
1. Whatever is written online remains traceable permanently, and is potentially visible to everyone. Posting certain comments or images on sites such as those mentioned above can quite easily lead to someone committing a criminal offence and the evidence trail is extremely easy to follow. 2. Ultimately, schools have no power to control what a student puts on their own computer/mobile device outside school hours. However, we have a duty to investigate the misuse of online social media where it results in bullying or abusive behaviour involving our students; this includes the use of such media outside school hours. 3. Most social media sites require the user to be at least 13 years of age. Users who are under 13 years of age break the terms of the site’s use. If children give a false age in order to open an account they will be exposed to material deemed to be suitable for that false age. So if a child of 8 claims to be 13, parents need to be aware that once that child actually reaches 13 years of age, they will have access to all 18+ adult material. Our understanding is that Snapchat, Facebook and Instagram all require the user to be 13 years of age, and therefore it is clear that many Year 7 and Year 8 students are using these sites against the advice that is put in place to protect them.
For students old enough to use social networking sites, we suggest the following specific guidance be followed:
a. Different social network sites have different age limits for users. Parents should make themselves aware of the limits on sites their children are using. The NSPCC NetAware site (http://www.net- aware.org.uk/) has detailed information on the majority of social networking sites and we recommend you visit this site to familiarise yourselves with the sites or apps that your children are using. b. Students must regularly ensure their privacy settings are at the maximum – parents can double check by downloading the apps and trying to access their child’s site. c. Students must never disclose their full name, age, date of birth, phone number, e-mail address, address, school or any other personal data. They should be aware that they can be identified by those not known to them if they upload photos of themselves or others and they do not have their privacy settings correctly set. d. The ‘places’ setting on Facebook, and on other sites where such a feature exists, should be disabled as viewers of posts may be able to locate your child. e. Students setting up groups or message walls must ensure that the content of those pages is not abusive, bullying or offensive to any general reader, even if it is deemed acceptable to the members of the group. f. Parents are encouraged to talk to their children about how they use social networking sites, to check regularly the type of content their children are exposed to online and to support the Schools in their efforts to keep students safe on line. g. As a ‘rule of thumb’, the standard of behaviour we expect is that any material accessed or comments made ought to be suitable to be displayed to the public and should not include anything a student wouldn’t show a young sibling or grandparents.
Finally – most parents are paying for their child’s mobile phone. Knowing that you will occasionally scroll through (as opposed to scrutinising) to check their online safety, will encourage most children to meet the “rule of thumb” described above.
Page 3 A Hair Cut for Little Princess Trust
elissa Quinn, Year 8 ,decided that she would like to donate her hair to Little Princess Trust when she next had her hair M cut, so on her 13th birthday later this month she is going to give some other child a present, her hair, which will be made into a wig that can be worn by a young person undergoing chemotherapy treatment for cancer. Melissa wants to support children with cancer and also raise awareness of young people coping with mental health issues by also raising sponsorship for her upcoming haircut that she will donate to “Young Minds”. Young Minds is the UK’s leading campaigning charity committed to improving the emotional wellbeing and mental health of children and young people. The organisation provides a range of services to improve mental health, including a Parent Helpline which is a lifeline to thousands of parents every year, providing information and support.
We are all very proud of Melissa, a generous and caring young lady, who feels it is an ideal opportunity to raise funds and donate to two very worthwhile causes. Well done Melissa from all of us!
Anyone wishing to donate through sponsoring Melissa’s haircut should visit:
https://www.justgiving.com/Graham-Quinn3? utm_source=Sharethis&utm_medium=fundraisingpage&utm_content=Graham-n3&utm_campaign=pfp -email
Year 7 Visit Barcelona
t the end of June, 60 bold Year 7 linguists travelled to Barcelona. Students experienced the A very best of the Spanish sunshine, visited famous sites including the ‘Sagrada Familia’ and ‘Camp Nou’, tasted delicious tapas and spent a day at the Port Aventura theme park. We were so impressed by how students embraced the language and culture. Our hosts during the tapas tasting were absolutely beaming throughout as they watched the students throw themselves into the experience and were taken aback by the huge round of applause from our Year 7s at the end. These comments from students sum the trip up nicely! The Modern Foreign Languages Team
“I loved the trip because I had never been so far away from home on my own and also it was my first time out of the country other than France and for so long. I also enjoyed the bus journey because we were all so cheerful…I really enjoyed it!”
“The trip was ‘estupendo’ because the activities were fun and well planned.”
“Best time of my life. A life changing experience.”
“This trip was a great experience, it was a beautiful city. All of the activities we did were fun and active …thoroughly enjoyed the weather!”
“This trip was amazing. I loved all of the activities planned and the different types of adventures. The aim was to experience the Spanish culture…we achieved it. It was also the best residential
Page 4 Oxfordshire Voices Festival
s part of King Alfred’s participation in Here is Josie’s poem, using Dreadlock Oxfordshire Gaining Momentum, six Alien’s hip-hop rhythm: Year 7 and 8 students attended the A th ‘Oxfordshire Voices Festival’ on June 17 . I want to read a story that won’t bore me. Students participated in a number of I want to read a novel that tells a story. workshops with a variety of successful I want to read a book that’s full of laughter. professionals expressing themselves I want to read something where we live ever through writing, reading and the spoken after. word. Kelly Browning was lucky enough to I want to read a sticker that just says love. be trained to perform a scene from Macbeth I want to read a sign that comes from above. by a Globe Theatre actor! I want to read your hand when you are stood there. Josie Rowbottom wrote the following about I want to read your expression to show you the festival: care. I want to read a book which shows people at ‘My experience of the National Literacy Trust their best. Festival was unforgettable. It showed me I want to read -- and know what happens that there is more behind English than just next. writing – such as screenwriting, poetry, metaphors etc. I really enjoyed each workshop, and felt like I could show my Alice Visser English ability. I found out that I wasn’t bad at English! Mrs Visser chose me as ‘Student of the Day’ and I got to read the poem I wrote in one of the workshops in front of a large audience. This experience really boosted my confidence and I hope it did for other students too.
Page 5 2016 Carnegie and Kate Greenaway Children’s Book Awards
nce again this year we have been enjoying the Carnegie Medal Awards.
O Thanks to funding from KAPA we were able to buy several sets of books for the students on East and West sites. Our students read the books and wrote reviews which were posted on the Carnegie Shadowing website. Here are two of the reviews for the winning book, ‘One’ by Sarah Crossan. This is the story of conjoined twins, Grace and Tippi, told from Grace’s point of view.
‘I really loved this book as I thought both the structure and idea of it were really original and captivating. It’s written in an almost poetry form, with irregular line lengths, paragraphs and chapters, which I found a bit confusing at first but then once I got used to it, I thought it was very effective and added emphasis and meaning to the story. I really enjoyed the principle of experiencing life from the viewpoint of a conjoined twin and the quite sudden and sad ending expressed every emotion. The book had a great storyline, was very well written and I couldn’t put it down.’ Hannah
‘I think this book is the best one I have read so far. The way it is written is amazing and I love the point of view that this book is set from. The end made me cry. I think the author used good sources to get the information needed to write a book about being a conjoined twin.’ Mabel
In addition to the Carnegie books we were able to buy a set of the Kate Greenaway shortlisted books. This award is for book illustration, and these books were used in English and art lessons to discuss the relationship between the words and pictures, and how sometimes the pictures alone will tell their story.
This year Amnesty International awarded a special commendation to the book on each shortlist that most distinctively illuminated or celebrated our personal rights and freedoms.
When we have our Carnegie celebration party (slightly late this year because of exams) this will be one of the topics for discussion. Chris Riddell (this year’s Kate Greenaway winner for his illustration of Neil Gaiman’s ‘The Sleeper and the Spindle’) has written and illustrated a book called ‘Our Little Book of Freedoms’ which is about the rights and freedoms that we enjoy in this country. We’ll be looking at this book and attempting some illustrations of our own to represent those liberties most precious to us, those that we would feel most keenly were we to lose them. Liz Tucker Library
Page 6 King Alfred’s Year 8 Students at a County Challenge Day
n Thursday 23rd June, twelve Year 8 students represented King Alfred’s O at the MCS Science and Technology Challenge Day at Oxford Brookes University Wheatley Campus. The twelve students were Karla Alkebro, Olivia Harvey, Katie Jarvey, Mohamed Kandeel, Mabel Leighton, Bethany Randell, Zoe Sansum-Wall, William Shelley, Hannah Spindler, Eden Wheatley, Toby White and Robert Whitfield.
We were put into pairs, and each pair in turn was partnered up with a pair from a different school to make teams of four. There were Zoe Sansum-Wall and Mabel Leighton working on 120 students there which made for 30 programming their robot teams. We all took part in three out of four activities: We also got to have a tour around the Formula 1 Engineering labs where students Medical challenge - we were taken were building a racing car that they were through some basic first aid, including going to test that afternoon for the first time. CPR, and were taught the symptoms of In all of the activities, there were student different conditions which we then had to leaders from other universities who were use to diagnose someone. studying relevant courses. They ran the E-fit challenge – here we had to use the workshops and shared their experience E-fit software used by the police to with us, and they were brilliant at inspiring reconstruct the face of a ‘criminal’ who and talking to us younger students. we had seen for just 10 seconds or less. Vehicle construction – we were given a Katie and I made up half of the winning number of items, including a battery and team for the E-fit challenge, and Mabel and a motor, in order to design and construct Zoe’s team came in a very high position the fastest possible vehicle. overall. Robotics programming – here we had to programme a robot to negotiate a course ‘I enjoyed the medical challenge because it mapped out on the floor and hit certain was very interesting and the leaders were coloured markers. extremely helpful. I want to go on to study medicine so it was very useful to talk to some first and six year medical students’ Katie
‘I think the whole day was a great opportunity, especially for those who want a future in science and technology. I especially enjoyed going around the Formula 1 Laboratories because I am very interested in engineering and seeing all the projects.’ Beth Beth and Katie receiving their E-Fit Challenge Trophy from Katie Jarvey 8R3 and Beth Randell 8R4 Deputy Lieutenant for Oxfordshire Mr Ian Laing CBE DL.
Page 7 Creative Arts & Design
rt in the Park Thank you to Mrs Brown for organising ‘Art in the Park’ which took place in Betjeman A th Park on Sunday 26 June. Year 7 students from East Site and primary students were able to work with professional artists who gave them some great ideas and tips. Below are some examples of their fantastic results and the session in action!
ummer Music concerts Thank you to all the students who took part in the Summer Music concerts on Monday S th th 27 and Tuesday 28 June. Both concerts showcased some of the truly excellent musicians we have at King Alfred’s and are lucky to work with on a daily basis. A massive thank you to the Year 10 students who came over to Centre Site on the Monday to help the Key Stage 3 students rehearse. They were mature, helpful and professional all day. Additionally thank you to parents and friends who came to support the concerts in the evenings:
Key Stage 3 concert performers and leaders above
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The fantastic students who performed in the Key Stage 4/5 concert
Exciting production 2016-2017 news! The school production for next academic year will be announced before the end of term!!! Students on all three sites will be informed before the end of the term what the production will be!
ear 7 Art Project Year 7 have been learning about the plight of Y endangered animals and how our impact on the environment is playing a part in the extinction and endangering of certain species. We have been creating oil pastel drawings, looking particularly at animal textures and patterns, while also maintaining accuracy. This is a selection of work from 7W2 who worked incredibly hard to peer assess and self-assess, then improve their work based on these targets to create these brilliant outcomes.
Page 9 Summer Exhibition
ongratulations to our Year 11,12 and 13 Art, Textiles, Graphics and Design students. It C was a pleasure to see all the fantastic work displayed alongside work from primary schools and Alumni. We are very proud of the standard of work and the amazing things our students go on to do.
Creative Arts and Design.
Page 10 History Department
orld War 1 Soldier’s Tale What I have learned from LFA as a whole – On the 27th June 2016 a local After the sickening genocide of: Jewish, W company called DNA visited King Homosexual, Gypsy, Disabled, Jehovah’s Alfred’s Academy to deliver their Witnesses and Polish people by the Nazis, the project, ‘WW1 Soldier’s Tale’. It covered the world looked back and began to ask why. In story of a young WW1 soldier from Battersea Poland and Czechoslovakia, post war who goes away to fight in the trenches. But, repercussions meant the mass expulsion of importantly it also covers the lives of those on ethnic Germans from these persecuted countries the Home Front, his parents, his brother, his by use of Nazi methods. Knowing the horrors the girlfriend Lily and others. The whole story which victims of the Holocaust were subjected to, started in March 1914 and will go on until at before hearing the testimony of Ziggy Shipper – least November 1918 (2018) is told in real time a holocaust child survivor who lost his on Facebook, Twitter and a blog. The story is grandparents and father to the camps – I fiction but all post are checked by a panel of expected him to be left hollowed by his stolen historians for fact and authenticity. The session childhood. Perhaps even vengeful. Yet instead of was recorded by the BBC and was aired on feeling hatred towards the Nazi’s who oppressed local radio. him for being born Jewish, Ziggy’s gratitude for his survival left a kind man who taught us to see Student comment the world with compassion. If Ziggy can forgive, Last Monday we had a visit from the BBC. There so must we. We must show compassion to the was a young woman called Lily who spoke children of those who commit evil, distancing about WW1. She was playing the part of a them from their forefathers. Yet we must never woman that was alive during the war and spoke forget, else we risk history repeating itself. In about the possible job options for a young order not to forget, LFA taught me that we must woman at this time. The options included: humanise victims of tragedy. Another cause of gardener, factory worker, bus conductor, nurse, mass evil, Stalin asserted how ‘the death of or motorbike rider. I would like to join the land millions is a statistic’ yet ‘the death of one man is army (a gardener). a tragedy’. Therefore, we must reflect on the consequences of each lost life from the Once the session had finished the BBC asked to Holocaust: not only personal but also for their speak to us about this experience and we culture. In the here and now, in Ziggy’s word’s it shared our thoughts. The interview that they did is vital to ask ‘Why are we doing this?’ to avoid and parts from the session can be found on the becoming bystanders. This means accepting BBC Radio Oxford Facebook page. those who need our help by fighting against I think it is important to remember the past and prejudice. apply it to the future so we can learn from what has already happened. It was very interesting What it was like visiting Auschwitz – and I enjoyed it a lot. Zoe Sansum-Wall Year 8 For me, there were three Auschwitz’s during the visit to Poland.
Lessons from Auschwitz Project The first was Oswiecim, the Polish town that was This year four students from Year 12 had the given the Germanic name Auschwitz during its opportunity to take part in the Holocaust Nazi occupation. By visiting the Jewish cemetery Education Trust’s ‘Lessons from Auschwitz’ (58% of Oswiecim had been Jewish so had many project. The project is composed of four parts: ancestors buried here) we were able to reflect on the opportunity to talk to a Holocaust survivor, a Jewish culture. The intricate headstones had one day visit to Auschwitz-Birkenau in Poland, a been carelessly strewn against the walls of the reflection session and delivery of their own next graveyard by the Nazis who had used the stone steps project. The students are currently to pave the camps. It was disgustingly ironic that working on their next steps project. Olivia many Jews walked on the headstones of their Taylor has written about her experience. (Continued on page 12)
Page 11 ancestors who had died naturally, on the way to their executions. It is important to understand that not only did the Nazi’s aim to destroy the Jewish people, but also the memory of them.
A stone’s throw from Oswiecim towered Auschwitz. Upon entering the gates that read ‘work will set you free’ I became livid at the Nazi’s first failed promise. We had been told that ‘seeing is not like hearing’ and this was clear as we walked the prisoner’s footsteps, seeing what they would have seen. They would have seen the children of camp commandant Rudolph Hess play in their whitewashed villa just outside the camp gates. Meanwhile, some of the prisoners’ children would be subjected to Josef Mengele, ‘The Angel of Death’, who would experiment on them without use of anaesthetic only to kill them. The last thing many would have seen would have been the gas chambers, where afterwards fellow prisoners were made to burn their corpses, knowing that they would be next. And what we saw was that this could have been us. We saw Hitler’s plans to conquer England and destroy its Jews or any other groups the Nazi’s despised.
Finally, in Auschwitz Birkenau, we saw the conditions that caused many people to die in the camps before they reached the gas chambers. Then we saw the rubble from where the Nazi’s had tried to rid the evidence of their genocide after it was too late.
Although they were too late, the visit was essential. In order to respect those lives lost, another should never be lost due to hatred and fear. Olivia Taylor Year 12
The Year 9 Business Student Stockmarket Challenge - Update
r Hayward's Year 9 GCSE Finlay Barr also suffered with their shares Business class are currently in Lloyds Banking, both taking a massive M involved in a class stock fall. market competition. Each student had £20,000 of virtual money to invest in the However Lily Bunting and Harry Hayward stock market. By reading and forecasting have both weathered the ‘Brexit’ storm well data provided online, students with their shares in Glencore (the mining selected shares to buy in order to make a company) still showing a profit of over profit. £8,300! Justin Hayward Following the result of the ‘Brexit’ Head of Digital Technology & Business referendum, there were more than a few Business students who suffered serious markdowns in their share portfolios.
Finn Bliss suffered a very severe fall in the value of his shares in the housebuilder Berkeley and is currently sitting on a paper loss of over £5,000. Both Aidan Kenny and
Page 12 Women in Engineering Day 23rd June- Williams F1
ational Women in Engineering Day (#NWED2016) is now an N international awareness campaign to raise the profile of women in engineering and focus on the amazing career opportunities available to girls in this exciting industry.
This national incentive to encourage more females into this male dominated industry, by opening their doors to students and exposing them to their environment, hopes ‘I thoroughly enjoyed my time at Williams F1 and that it may go some way to breaking down have learnt a lot from the day. What I will take the stereotyping that has been associated away from the day is that Williams is very family with the engineering sector. orientated and it is much broader than just making the cars, as there are many other jobs Williams F1 generously opened their doors associated to the company.’ Rachel Eddy 10V3 to us, inviting 15 girls to their headquarters
in Grove. They had a guided tour and the ‘I thought the day was fun and interesting. My opportunity to network with female favourite part was talking to the people at the end engineers, designers, industrial placement and finding out what they did.’ students and Filipe Massa. Nicola Cheetham
Our students embraced the opportunity to ‘It was such a pleasure to see and talk to Filipe engage fully in the day, asking many as well as all the other amazing apprentices and questions and all seemed thoroughly workers at Williams. It really helped me enlightened by what they saw and heard. understand more about both the engineering Sue Cronin world and what I’d like to do further in the future.’ Molly Smith
‘ ‘I found the day extremely beneficial and fun as well as deeply interesting due to all the people we spoke to, whether they were in HR or an apprentice. This experience has definitely made me more interested in motor sport and all the aspects of it! Thank you for taking me - I appreciate it a lot’ Ella Newbould
‘I found the day extremely useful and interesting as beforehand I knew very little about engineering and I did see it more of a male job. However, after the visit my perception has changed and I would consider it in the future because of the number of opportunities it offers.
Again, thank you for inviting me to go along.’ Natasha Doxey
Page 13 Sports Results Terms 1-5
Team Opposition Date Competition Type Result Won/Lost FOOTBALL U12 Girls Royal Wootton Bassett Academy 29/02/15 ESFA 9-a-side 3-0 Won U12 Boys Blessed Hugh Faringdon 30/09/15 ESFA 9-a-side 3-2 Won Oxford Spires 19/10/15 ESFA 9-a-side 2-7 Won Marlborough 03/11/15 ESFA 9-a-side 2-1 Lost Highworth Warneford 09/11/15 ESFA 9-a-side 3-0 Lost Various 18/11/15 Vale 5-a-side Knocked out at group stage n/a Faringdon 01/02/16 OSFA 9-a-side 0-4 Lost Cokethorpe 04/02/16 Friendly 9-a-side 5 – 2 Lost U13 Boys Cheney 05/10/15 ESFA 6-1 Won St Gregory The Great 13/10/15 OSFA 1-4 Lost St John’s 05/11/15 ESFA 4-0 Won Lydiard Park 09/11/15 Friendly 2-5 Won Larkmead 11/01/16 Friendly 9-0 Lost Cokethorpe 04/02/16 Friendly 1-4 Lost U13 Girls Oxford Spires 01/10/15 OSFA 4-2 Won Littleheath 15/10/15 ESFA 7-0 Lost Various 12/11/15 Vale Tournament A team 2nd, B team won 1, drew 1, lost 1 n/a Marlborough 19/11/15 OSFA 0-8 Lost U14 Boys Lord Williams 12/10/15 ESFA 4-5 (penalties) Loat Oxford Academy 10/11/15 ESFA 0-2 Lost Henry Box 11/01/16 OSFA 2-4 Won Chipping Norton 24/02/16 Friendly 3-1 Won Cokethorpe 29/02/16 Friendly U14A 5-3, U14B 8-1 Lost/ Won. Gosford Hill 12/04/16 Cup 4-2 (penalties) 2-2 Won Larkmead 25/04/16 OSFA 3-0 Lost U14 Girls Royal Wootton Bassett 12/10/15 ESFA 2-0 Lost U15 Boys Kennet 03/11/15 ESFA 2-3 (penalties) Lost Gosford Hill 14/01/16 OSFA 2-1 Won St Gregory the Great 25/02/16 OSFA 4-1 Won Cokethorpe 29/02/16 Friendly U15A 2 – 2, U15B 7-2 Drew/ Lost U15 Girls Marlborough 13/10/15 ESFA 4-0 Lost U16 Boys Wheatley Park 16/09/15 ESFA 7-4 Won Littleheath 11/11/15 ESFA 3-1 Lost U16 Girls St Bartholomew’s 23/09/15 ESFA 1-0 Won Wallingford 29/09/15 OSFA 1-2 Lost Chiltern Edge 19/10/15 ESFA 2-0 (penalties) Lost U18 Boys Little Heath 23/09/15 ESFA 0-2 Lost U18 Girls Swindon Academy 14/10/15 ESFA 0-2 Lost
Page 14 Sports Results continued
Team Opposition Date Competition Result Won/Lost
U19 Boys Gosford Hill 21/01/16 OSFA 5-0 Won
Burford 07/03/16 OSFA 5-0 Won
Matthew Arnold 08/03/16 OSFA 5-1 Won
Wallingford 12/04/16 Friendly 5-0 Lost
Cokethorpe 18/04/16 OSFA 1-0 Won
North Oxfordshire 20/04/16 OSFA 2-1 Lost Academy Henry Box 27/04/16 OSFA 3-1 Lost
U19/U18/U16 Girls Wallingford 01/02/16 Friendly 5-0 Lost ROUNDERS U12 Matthew Arnold 06/06/16 Friendly 14-11 Lost
U13 Matthew Arnold 23/05/16 Friendly 11-13 Lost CRICKET U12 Boys Oxford Spires 07/06/16 League 254-195 Won
Marlborough 09/06/16 Cup Lost
Icknield 12/05/16 League 245-233 Lost
U!14 Boys Icknield 19/05/16 League Won
U15 Boys Bartholomew 09/06/16 League 16-17 Lost
Warriner 26/04/16 League 59-58 Lost
Cherwell 03/05/16 League 110-112 Lost
Burford 12/05/16 League 34-38 Lost
Oxford Spires 17/05/16 Vase 49-52 Lost
U17 Boys Lord Williams 27/05/16 Cup Lost TENNIS U13 Boys Henry Box 16/06/16 League 10-6 (3-3) Won
Wood Green 16/05/16 League 6-0 Lost
U15 Boys Matthew Arnold 03/05/16 League 5-1 Lost
OLA 17/05/16 League 5-1 Lost
Wood Green 26/05/16 League 6-0 Won NETBALL U12 Girls Faringdon 12/10/15 Friendly 10-14 Lost
Matthew Arnold 17/11/15 Friendly 4-29 Won
Fitzharry’s 14/10/15 Friendly 13-2 Won
Various 24/02/16 Tournament Year 7 won the Vale Tournament Won
U13 Girls Fitzharry’s 14/10/15 Friendly 15-8 Won
Various 19/10/15 Tournament 2nd n/a
Matthew Arnold 21/10/15 Friendly A team – 6-7, B team– 7-11 Lost (both teams)
Page 15 Team Opposition Date Competition Result Won/Lost U14 Girls Matthew Arnold 10/11/15 Friendly 13-15 Won John Mason 17/11/15 Friendly 9-23 Lost Larkmead 25/11/15 Friendly 12-13 Won
John Mason 23/02/16 Friendly 9-6 Won U15 Girls St Helen & St Kath- 30/09/15 Friendly 15-17 Won erine’s John Mason 17/11/15 Friendly 9-8 Won Larkmead 25/11/15 Friendly 4-27 Won Larkmead 19/01/16 Friendly 6-13 Won U16 Girls Lord Williams 23/09/15 Friendly 18-8 Won Lord Williams 07/03/16 Friendly 9-5 Lost U19 Girls Lord Williams 23/09/15 Friendly 13-7 Won RUGBY U13 Boys Various 19/11/15 Festival Knocked out at group stage
Cherwell 25/01/16 Friendly 7-41 Lost
U14 Boys Oxford Academy 07/10/15 ORFSU 66-5 Won
Chipping Norton 11/11/15 ORFSU 52-5 Lost
U15 Boys Abingdon B 23/09/15 ORFSU 62-12 Lost
U15 Girls Various 26/11/15 Festival A team 3rd, B team 8th n/a
U15 Girls Various 25/02/16 Friendly 65-5 Lost
U16 Boys Burford 07/01/16 Stow Floodlit Cup 43-7 Lost
U16 Girls Various 10/11/15 Festival Cheney 5-0, Wallingford 6-0, Won 4 Drew 1 Cherwell 2-2, Wood Green4- 1, Carterton 6-1 BASKETBALL U13 Boys Woodgreen 12/01/16 OSBA 72-12 Won
Bartholomew 25/02/16 OSBA 68-15 Won Cherwell 16/05/16 OSBA 28-18 Won Cheney 23/05/16 OSBA 44-43 Won U13 Girls Cherwell 01/02/16 OSBA 18-37 Lost U14 Boys St Birinus 05/11/15 OSBA 67-8 Lost U14 Girls St Gregory the Great 11/01/16 OSBA 50-19 Won
Cherwell 25/04/16 OSBA 30-17 Lost Cherwell 10/05/16 OSBA 28-58 Lost U15 Girls Cherwell 09/02/16 OSBA 38-23 Lost U16 Girls Bartholomew 07/01/16 OSBA 50-16 Lost Oxford Spires 11/04/16 OSBA 27-32 Lost Cherwell 18/04/16 OSBA 20-18 Won U19 Girls Bartholomew 24/11/15 OSBA 29-8 Lost St Clare’s 26/01/16 OSBA 34-15 Won ANGLING U15 Boys Various 20/10/15 School Games Not Placed n/a
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Summer 2016 25th- 29th July 2016 Merton College, Oxford About us Established in 2013, The Oxford and Cambridge Singing School is for boys and girls aged 7–13 who love to sing. The singing school was established to give children the opportunity to sing great clas- sical music with world class coaches in a relaxed and fun environ- ment and to develop their confidence and ability in singing and performing.
About the course Held at Merton College Oxford, pupils will learn some beautiful music and at the same time gain a background in vocal technique, music theory and history. In honour of the Queen’s birthday, this summer we will be working on some of the greatest pieces by Henry Purcell, considered to be one of the finest English compos- ers; and Handel’s Zadok the Priest.
Families are most welcome to come and listen to a mini-concert at the end of each day. Courses include whole-group singing, musi- cal games and exercises to improve sight reading, small group vo- cal coaching and much more.
“How lucky are these young singers. They are brilliantly taught and have a lot of fun, and you will be amazed at what they achieve in just a few days - and all in the most beautiful surroundings”. Bob Chilcott
Places are limited. Please book early to avoid disappointment
We have regular courses in Oxford, Cambridge and London. For more information and to book a space, please visit our website. www.oxbridgesingingschool.co.uk
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Dates for your Diary (more dates/details can be found on our website)
July 2016 13th-20th July Year 10 Work Experience 21st July Year 10 Work Experience Debrief End of Term 6—Buses at 12.15pm
August 2016 18th August GCE Results Day 25th August GCSE Results Day
September 2016 Monday 5th September – Years 7, 9, 11,12,13 in school Tuesday 6th September – All years in school
Centre Site Portway Wantage Oxfordshire OX12 9BY Telephone: 01235 225700 Email: [email protected] www.kaacademy.org