28 June 2019 Prep Weekly Newsletter HEADlines ... I have just come back from a quick scoot around and the same day our Under 13 girls were becoming County found some Year 5 children trooping down the front Cricket Champions, beating Millfield in a last bat field to go pond dipping, whilst up in the woods and the thriller! This last piece of news is so recent that it hasn’t top field, Year 2 were being marshalled by some Lower made the newsletter yet! Sixth Formers as part of their Young Leaders course Tomorrow afternoon is the Year 5 to 8 Sports Day and (I think the older children were doing the leading?). we look forward to seeing you there. It is definitely Lovely weather, children outside, loads of smiley faces about a fun occassion, challenging yourself as you with oodles of discovery, exploration and learning taking contribute to your House totals but it is worth noting place. The Lower Sixth were here for breakfast, too, and that among the runners and riders there are seven there was a tad of deja vu seeing some familiar faces once children who have qualified in their events for the again sitting round the dining tables! National Finals that take place on Monday at the A packed week of events has been tucked under our Alexander Stadium in Birmingham. belts with trips including a costal erosion field trip to Enjoy this week’s newsletter and see you all next week Lulworth Cove, marine biology studies in Plymouth, for the final week of term! the British legal structure in action at the Magistrates’ courts and zoological insights at Paignton Zoo. This is as well as having had a great team from South Africa here (thanks to those families who hosted some boys) on Justin Chippendale Headmaster www.kingshalltaunton.co.uk facebook.com/KingsHallSchoolTaunton https://twitter.com/KingsHallSchool Coming up ... 1 – 5 July 2019 Monday Tuesday Wednesday National Prep Schools Athletics Y3 & Y4 Golden Time Girls’ cricket v Perrott Hill Y5 – Y7 Plus Rewards Pre-Prep Summer Show Y8 Town Time (dress rehearsal) Y8 Charity Fundraising Fete Parents v staff Y8 Leavers’ Barbecue cricket and rounders matches Thursday Friday Please refer to the school diary or website Pre-Prep Summer Show Prize Day: for timings and more 10am - Speeches & Prizegiving 11.45am - Summer Concert information. 1pm - Picnic lunch 2pm - End of term SUMMER CRICKET CLINIC 27-28 August 2019 – for 10 -16 year olds for girls and boys based at King’s Hall School [email protected] GROUP 1 Under 12s www.kings-taunton.co.uk GROUP 2 Under 10s GROUP 3 Under 8s • High quality rugby coaching with small coaching groups. South Road, Taunton TA1 3LA for girls and boys aged 12 + years Ed Lewsey Ben Thomas Russell Earnshaw RFU Level 3 coach RFU Level 2 coach RFU Level 4 coach Former professional Bristol ladies back Former England 7s & with Exeter Chiefs coach & academy U18s coach Director of Rugby, coach Magic Academy King’s College Head Regional Scotland Exiles coach PERFORMANCEKing’s College coach Please go to our website to complete the link to register for this camp. Contact:RUGBY [email protected] On receipt of enquiry, we will contact you with further details. Closing date for applications: Wednesday 24 July to Friday 26 July 2019 CAMP Friday 16 August 2019 27 - 28 August 2019 10.00am - 4.00pm £40 per day Payment can be made by cheque or BACS. Please make cheques payable to: King’s College Please send to Ben Thomas, King’s College, South Road, Taunton TA1 3LA. FOR MORE INFORMATION AND TO BOOK: For BACS details please refer to our online booking form. Please visit www.kings-taunton.co.uk/summer-cricket-clinic.pdf TO BOOK: Please complete our online form by visiting: www.kings-taunton.co.uk/rugby You will receive confirmation of places via email. For any queries please email: [email protected] YEAR 8 FETE School Uniform Shop Summer Opening Hours The school shop will be open by appointment only as follows: Monday 8 – Wednesday 10 July Monday 15 – Wednesday 17 July All of our Year 8 tutor groups have been hard at Monday 19 – Friday 23 August work this week preparing for their Summer Fete, which will be held on North Field on July 2nd. Tuesday 27 – Friday 30 August Tokens for this much-anticipated event will be on sale to children in the Outer Quad next Monday To make an appointment, please and Tuesday during morning break. Tokens can contact the School Office on also be purchased at the event. 01823 285920. There will be plenty to do – games to play, cakes If you have any uniform related to eat, and ice-pops to quench your thirst (we’re questions, please email: praying for gorgeous weather!). If you have any [email protected]. questions, please contact us on 01823 285920. A few words from ... Wilfie Rice! “Hello everyone, it’s cricket and when you It is rather a strange Wilfie Rice, this term’s get home from school feeling being in Year 8 Deputy Head Boy. it’s still so light outside. at the moment because by next Friday we will I cannot believe it’s Those of us who have all be coming into almost the end of the had exams have finished school for the last time. Summer Term – it’s them and been on an But, at the moment, gone so fast and time action-packed trip to there is still lots of flies when you’re having Okehampton for three excitement ahead what fun! It is always my nights, which was with Prize Giving and favourite term because I amazing. our Leavers’ Ball. absolutely love playing Bombs and Blackberries As part of Arts Week, parents and children were The Year 4 children had a lot of fun preparing treated to a heart-warming performance of Julia for their roles, launching themselves into every Donaldson’s Bombs and Blackberries. aspect of rehearsals. The group acted with true professionalism, sang with gusto, and danced Set in Britain during World War II, the play the jitterbug with such joy! followed the story of the Chivers, a happy family who find themselves suddenly separated Commenting, Lisa said: “It was almost a when their children are sent to the countryside touring production, as due to the British in search of safety. weather the children had to rehearse in three different venues – the Arts Centre, the Sports The bittersweet tale, which was brought to Hall, and the Rose Garden!”. life by Head of Drama, Lisa Kierle, featured ingenious props and costumes, including She added: “The final performance was an cardboard gas masks and suitcases, as well as absolute treat on a sunny Friday afternoon, and authentic sounds, music and dance. was the best way to conclude our celebrations.” ART AT TAC K In another creative Arts Week They were then given the task of activity, we were delighted to creating their own composition, welcome artist Simon Ripley, inspired by the theme ‘Under and the Double Elephant studio the Sea’. It was important that team, who ran a fascinating all elements were stuck down printmaking workshop with our before leaving the work to dry Years 7s. thoroughly. Simon led the children in Following this step, they began creating a series of collagraph experimenting with the inks to prints using two printing see how much would need to be presses, one of which was ours! applied. Once this was mastered, they were able to get creative To begin, the pupils were given with their colours, producing demonstrations on how to some fantastic final pieces. create their collagraph print board, how to roll out the inks Head of DT, Rebecca Cole, to create a background, and said: “It was an utter delight to how to layer the top sections, see the pleasure pupils got from before using the press to create rolling their print through the a design. press and seeing the final result.” Pupils pop n’ lock in dance workshop Last week, pupils in Years 3 to Years 3 and 4 learnt how 7 got their groove on in a series to dance the jitterbug in of dance workshops with the preparation for Bombs and wonderful Miss Kelly from the Blackberries, Year 5 devised Kelly Leigh School of Dance. a routine to the Disney film Zombie, and Years 6 and 7 The sessions were tailored grooved to ‘Ease on Down to the children’s needs and the Road’ as part of their abilities, with the focus being forthcoming production, The on building their confidence. Wiz. Robin Stevens delivers detective masterclass Arts Week could not have ended Following this, she took part in a on a more perfect note. As you Q&A session, before signing the will have read in last week’s children’s books – of which there newsletter, we received a visit were plenty! from superstar children’s author, Robin Stevens, who is known After lunch, pupils in Year 6 for her Murder Most Unladylike were treated to a fascinating series. creative writing workshop in which they examined a “crime For more than an hour, Robin scene,” before devising their held her young audience own narratives. And in true spellbound with reading from Murder Most Unladylike style, her much-loved books, as well as the event was rounded off with a snippets of insight into her own delicious bun break. writing. The talk ended with an interactive exercise in which the If you would to learn more children had to create their own about Robin and her work, murder mystery plot.