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King’s Academy Ringmer Newsletter December 2018 strong progress. For year 9, it’s been just celebrated the students’ success MESSAGE FROM a term of reflection as they think about in our Key Stage 3 and Key Stage 4 THE PRINCIPAL their future and academic achievements Achievement Assemblies; this was a to inform their GCSE option choices. chance for us to reward students for Dear their effort day in and day out at Parents, Year 8 continue to work hard and school and show case some of the Carers, contribute to the life of the school outstanding work that goes on. Staff and both academically and through their Governors, involvement in extra-curricular activities. I wish you all a safe and relaxing It’s been Having successfully made the transition break over the festive period and a another from primary to secondary school, happy and healthy 2019. exciting year 7 are now well settled into school and very life and taking full advantage of all the Matt Hillier busy term opportunities on offer here at King’s Principal at King’s Academy Ringmer. The focus in Year 7 Academy lessons is excellent and they have taken Ringmer. to new subjects exceptionally well and I NEW HEAD The school look forward to seeing them all develop celebrated its best ever results in the over the next five years. BOY AND GIRL summer and we continue in our pursuit ANNOUNCED of excellence and are pushing the The extra-curricular life of the school students to achieve even better this continues to flourish. This term students year! have been working on their production of Aladdin and making the most of the The students continue to work hard, external trips and visits which we offer. contribute to the school and wider The PE department’s school teams have community and generally make us very had another excellent run of wins – more proud. Year 11s have been working on this later in the newsletter. We said tirelessly preparing for and sitting their a final good bye to last year’s year 11 mock examinations. Their focus in the at our GCSE Presentation Evening; classroom and dedication to their studies this was a wonderful opportunity to is commendable. We are fully aware celebrate their exam success again and of the new challenges of the GCSE we were very thankful to all the sponsors exams, however, we are fortunate to who provided prizes to the successful have an exceptional team of teachers students. It was also wonderful to who are supporting the students in their have a video message from our former preparations for the examinations. head boy who is studying in Spain on their scholarship provided by King’s. Congratulations to our new Head Year 10 have made a successful start Celebrating success is an integral Boy Louis Massingham and Head to their GCSE subjects and are making part of what we do here and we have Girl Martha Swallow! ARTICLES AND VIDEO LINKS IN THIS ISSUE CAROLS BY MORE RADIO VISIT HALLOWEEN DRACULA GCSE ART STUDENTS CANDLELIGHT AT AND INTERVIEW OUR PERFORMANCE BY VISIT LONDON RINGMER CHURCH STUDENTS TRUESTORY GALLERIES - PAGE 2 PAGE 3 - PAGE 4 - PAGE 5 CAROLS BY CANDLELIGHT This year the Carols were held at St Mary the Virgin Church Ringmer, involving 50 students from all year groups. The choir sang alongside members of the cast from Aladdin who previewed one of the songs from the show: ‘A Whole New World’. The choir performed along with dancers from Miss Williams’ dance company ‘Rapture’, and string players from all year groups in a joint piece which was a reflection on The Christmas Truce; a poem by Carol Ann Duffy about Christmas in the trenches of World War 1. After the concert parents, staff and pupils enjoyed mince pies and delicious refreshments provided by the Food Technology department and Year 8 and Chartwells caterers. A huge thanks goes to all involved including students, parents and all the staff who helped make the event a success.The concert was really well received by parents, friends and members of the local community and £188 was generously donated in the retiring collection. This will be used to buy two places for people at Crisis for Christmas, providing shelter, food and support for homeless people at Christmas. TERM DATES 2019 : Wednesday 19th December - End of Christmas term at 12pm January 3rd 2019 - All students and staff return Monday 25th February 2019 - INSET Day 3 Monday 22nd and Tuesday 23rd July INSET Day 4 and 5 Term 2 - 29 October – 19 December Term 3 - 3 January – 15 February Term 4 - 25 February – 5 April (Students return on Tuesday 26th) Term 5 - 23 April – 24 May Term 6 - 3 June – 23 July (Note students finish on Friday 19th owing to INSET days) Activities week and Y10 work experience 2019 - 1st-5th July 2019 2 NEW STUDENT LEADERS AT RINGMER On Thursday 6th December, 24 Year 10 students were interviewed for various leadership roles within the college. We were delighted with the number of applications, 28% of the year group. The candidates were incredibly strong, making it a very tough decision however, we are very pleased to announced the following results; Head Boy – Louis Massingham Deputy Head Boy – Aidan Redshaw Head Girl – Martha Swallow Deputy Head Girl – Robyn Read This year we will run a two tier system in terms of senior students and also prefects. The prefects will lead on the Year book, Prom & new links to Gambia. We would like to congratulate all the students who applied as the standard was again extremely high this year. All the clips were recorded in just one take a couple MORE RADIO FM VISIT of days before the show was aired on Friday 23rd More Radio came into school to chat with both students November. and staff. Students introduced songs, read the Ringmer News and travel as well as playing the game ‘Articulate’. Marketing Manager Jamie Peacock said, “our students More Radio breakfast show presenter Izzy Bishop really did the school proud; they spoke clearly, with great pre-recorded the students live. confidence and should be very proud of themselves!” 3 DRACULA PERFORMANCE On Halloween, a number of students across the two key stages got the opportunity to go and see the fang-tastic production of ‘Dracula’ at the Spire in Brighton. It was a breathtakingly good production and seeing it piece of theatre, we were immersed in the action, with on Halloween made it all actors appearing from all directions creating suspense the more atmospheric. and fear. All the performers were superb, skilfully The Spire, an old taking on multiple roles and rivalling any West End deconsecrated Victorian performance. church in Kemptown, was We were incredibly fortunate and took part in a private the perfect venue to enjoy Q and A session with the cast after the performance. True Story’s interpretation Students asked question after question about plot and of one of literature’s most infamous monsters. stage craft. There were even a few cheeky requests Students were gripped by the production. Amazingly, for ‘selfies’ with the cast, a sign of how impressed they the theatre team had managed to condense the entire had been by the performance. We are already looking story down to just over an hour – a remarkable feat forward to next year’s performance. considering the size of the novel but it did not feel like anything had been missed. Performed as a traverse DISNEY’S ALADDIN Jr The production has now been cast and all the students are working amazingly! The show is on the 2nd and 3rd of April 2019. Tickets are available from reception. Adults £5, Concessions £3.50 and Family £15. Please get your tickets before they sell out! 4 CHRISTMAS PARTY WITH THE MAYOR OF LEWES The Mayor of Lewes, Cllr Janet Baah, invited students to join her at the town hall today for a Christmas party! The school was invited to bring 13 students to the event. King’s Academy decided to use this opportunity as a reward for some of our year 7 students; the 13 students we took had the highest achievement points and zero behaviour points. The group had a great time playing party games, eating pizza and each student received a personal Christmas present from the Mayor! ANNUAL ART TRIP TO LONDON The annual visit to London galleries was a huge success. Students visited The Victoria & Albert Museum and The National Portrait Gallery, whereby various exhibition of Photography, Mixed Media art, Sculpture, Print Making and Painting informed their research and investigations. Students were also able to experience the atmosphere, surroundings and architecture of Trafalgar Square/ The Fourth Plinth, Horse Guards Parade, Leicester Square and Covent Garden Market. Here the students recorded and which will be provided in January 2019. Students will need to purchase a new sketchbook for January 2019 to use as their exam book. Students will also need to have an A1 folder ready to organise their coursework books and responses. I would like to thank all the students for their participation, all were very well behaved. Their attitude and commitment to their GCSE Art and Photography their observations through sketches, note taking and photography. These observations and experiences will inform two ‘mood boards’ to support their coursework grade. In addition, these first hand experiences will inform their imminent exam projects, which students will select from course was outstanding and they mirrored King’s Academy Ringmer’s aims of Integrity, Resilience and Leadership. In particular, J Taylor-Jones, B Charles and B Bailey were exemplary and produced some excellent sketch work and photographs.