Kingdown Week Friday 30th January 2015

Number 17, 2014-15

Curriculum Support: ‘Heroes and Monsters’

The Learning Centre invited Kingdown’s very own Mr Trimby to their English lesson last week to learn more about real-life heroes in everyday situations. Mr Trimby is the Watch Manager at Warminster Fire Station and spent time with Josh Anderson, Addi Brock, Nelson Davies, Callum Fish, Ben Hill and Daniel Wilson discussing his role as a Watch Manager and what the job of a fire-fighter entails.

As part of their learning, the students asked Mr Trimby lots of questions about his experiences tackling fires, attending traffic collisions and making young people aware of the hazards of fire. Addi said, ‘Mr Trimby is an everyday hero because he saves lots of people from fires’.

All of the students had the opportunity to try on Mr Trimby’s uniform before he had to rush off to the Fire Station to assess a real-life emergency. They all agreed that being a fire-fighter, along with doctors, air ambulance crew and the police was a very dangerous job and they were courageous and heroic people.

Attendance Terms 1 & 2

Student attendance is a key ingredient to the success of any student. At the end of Term 2, we had an overall attendance of 95.3%, slightly below our 2013 figure.

388 students must be congratulated for having 100% attendance during this time and, with the December bug behind us, we hope that overall attendance will begin to rise again. The introduction of attendance tokens which enabled students to vote for a project (like Waitrose) saw’Fighting Fit’ from the PE department being awarded the £500 prize.

For Terms 3 and 4, the projects that will be voted for include: ICT gadgets and cameras; outdoor fitness equipment from the Heads of House; and Wall Art from the sixth form who want to promote student art work and success in the new sixth form block.

On the 11th and 12th February 642, students from Years 7 to 10, who had >97% attendance for Terms 1 and 2, will be awarded with the opportunity to watch a film during the school day. More details of this will follow by letter to the successful students.

Mr Evans Kingdown Attendance Manager

Kingdown TOPS the Tournament

The Year 8 and 9 Kingdown Netball team played amazingly at St Augustines on Tuesday evening. Firstly, we played John of Gaunt. There were some spectacular shots by Gemma Humpries and Ella Daly which put us in the lead and we won by 15-0. In the second game, we played John of Gaunt and won by 14-0. There was some incredible defending by Jess Ryall and both Georgias. Finally, we also won against St Augustines A team 12-2. Great game and superb win girls. Written by Ella Foot (MiHD)

Your Community Needs You...

Would you believe that there once was a safe space for our youth to meet after school and evenings? Sadly those days are now gone as local authorities have had their funding cut by the current UK government and sadly it was Warminster's turn to close the doors on it's youth services towards the end of 2014.

Our local authority now has tough decisions to make when it comes to how to spend the money in the pot. It would be fantastic to see youth assistance being fully funded as a public service to our community again, but it is now our community who need to come together and work with our young people to get youth services back.

“Youth services provide vital support to young people, with so many broader benefits for society – such as reducing unemployment, improving the take-up of education, reducing substance abuse, cutting crime and anti-social behaviour, and improving community cohesion.” (www.unison.org.uk)

After the strong fight that was put up against the cuts from our youth, we now need to keep the momentum going, by encouraging our youth to use their confidence to co-ordinate their own youth committee to put their voices into proposals to the council for funding a project. The younger generation need to lead and run these meetings and become involved in shaping future events directly with Council representatives.

To ensure that your voice is heard and the activities on offer match what you want, become a part of the advisory team. All our youth community can be involved, from being a mentor, a volunteer to collecting donations, sharing your time, sourcing equipment and so on.

It is now up to you. The first meeting will be held in the coming weeks at Kingdown (TBC), please complete and forward to me an application of interest.

Contact: DianeEmail: warminsteryouth@gmail.comfb: Warminster Youth Community, UKTuesday February 3rd 2015 - Early closure

Please note school closes at 1.20pm on Tuesday 3rd February 2015 due to Year 11 Parent Meetings.

Sports Bulletin: Week beginning 2nd February 2015

MondayTrampolining - KS3 3.00 - 4.00pmTrampolining - KS4 4.00 - 5.00pmArchery Club - All Years 3.00 - 5.00pmGymnastics - All Years 3.00 - 4.00pmFootball U14 Girls v Lydiard Park (Home)

TuesdaySchool closes at 1.20pm no after school clubs today WednesdayTable Tennis - All Years 3.00 - 4.00pmGirls’ Football - All Years 3.00 - 4.00pmBadminton - All Years 3.00 - 5.00pmSwimming - All Years 3.00 - 4.00pmGymnastics - All Years 3.00 - 4.00pmA level PE - Year 12 & 13 3.00 - 4.00pmFootball - Year 7 v Melksham Oak (Away)Football - Year 8 v Melksham Oak (Home)Netball - Years 8 & 9 v St Laurence (Away)

ThursdayHockey - KS4 3.00 - 4.00pmGirls’ Fitness - All Years 3.00 - 4.00pmBoxing - All Years 3.00 - 4.00pmBTEC Catch Up - Years 10 to 13 3.00 - 4.00pmGCSE PE - Year 11 3.00 - 4.00pmFootball - Year 9 v Melksham Oak (Away)Football - Year 10 v Gillingham (Away)Football - Year 11 v Melksham Oak (Home)Netball - Year 7 v JoG/St Laurence (Home)

FridayTrampolining - All Years 3.00 - 4.00pm

Receptionists for next week:

MondayKai Mays Mi TY

TuesdayErin Marsh Mi WN

Wednesday Molly Mallon Mi SC ThursdayCaroline Longley Mi HD

Friday Amy Lloyd Wi VY

Upcoming Dates:

Mon 2nd Feb: Week 2

Wembley Cruise Through Drama King Challenge (RTG)

The 25 Year 7 'Raising the Game' boys continue to battle it out for the ‘RTG Championship’ week after week. They have been supported and guided by their sixth form mentors.

This week brought the 'Drama King Challenge,' each member of their house had to act out a series of sports without talking. There were 16 sports to try and complete within a specific time limit.

Wembley (pictured below) completely and utterly dominated this week’s challenge, storming through all 16 sports with plenty of time to spare.

The overall standings now look like this:House Points Position

Wimbledon 47 3rd Millennium 53 1st Wembley 49 2nd Twickenham 49 2nd Lords 44 4th

Remember RTG is every Wednesday Tutor Time in the gym with Mr Hatcher - DON'T FORGET!

Also a special mention to the students with 100% RTG attendance from Week 2 onwards:

Joseph De’ath (WiBE), Ellis Gane (MiHD), Callum Fish (MiSC), Kai Newman (WeMA), Ethan Jowers (WeNO), Ryan Clarkson (TwCP), Jack Lowe (TwST), Leon Coombs (LoGR), Frankie Morrison (LoAD) and Harry Clark (WiBL).

Zumba Fundraiser

When: March 6th from 6 to 8pm.

Where: Kingdown Large Hall.

£5 per adult for one hour.

£3 for Under 16s and students for one hour.

£2 for second hour.

Tickets must be bought in advance from Ellie Allman Wi BL.

1980’s Disco

When: April 11th from 7.30 to Midnight.

Where: Warminster Football Club.

Tickets: £5

Fancy Dress Optional.

Tickets must be bought in advance from Ellie Allman Wi BL.

Local Pride Maintained

Kingdown travelled to Matravers School on a terribly cold winter’s day. After the Year 11 boys struggling to attend training the team proved their worth.

Kingdown started well with some intense pressure resulting in Chris Office avoiding the offside trap and heading head the first goal. Although, it took the Matravers goalkeeper to show some admirable sportsmanship to admit it crossed the line - goal line technology required?. Two more goals followed by Alex Watson and Luke Hardy. Matravers managed to score a well taken goal just before half time (3-1 to Kingdown).

The boys weren't playing as well as they could have been and listened well to Mr Richardson's tactical changes. With a better shape to the team, Luke Hardy finished the best move of the game with some excellent work by the front players. Chris Office and Will G-B got in on the action, resulting in Kingdown winning 6-1. Roll on Lavington next Tuesday. There were some outstanding performances but a joint man of the match went to Alex Watson and debutant Antony Dodds. Congratulations!

Career News

The January 2015 edition of the Careers Information, Events and Employment Opportunities bulletin for students is now available to view on the Kingdown School website.

This includes a number of upcoming events and opportunities likely to be of interest to students.