No. 92 Friday 23rd March 2012 With this newsletter you will receive Clubs listing Summer 2012

Headteacher’s Commendation

Congratulations to the following children, who received the award this week:

Celia C in 4F for excellent improvement in handwriting Bella B in 4F for consistent hard work and kindness

Daniel K in 4F for excellent Creative Writing Isobel B in 4F for excellent Creative Writing Thomas Y in 4L for excellent work in Science

Well done children!

Dear Parents, We have had a wonderful week at Kew College and as I write the building is resounding to the boom of the Samba drums in the Hall and cheers of children in the playground practising their arch-ery skills. You will receive a full report on the School Birthday with Kew News next Wednesday, but so far the atmosphere is one of pure joy, with the sun shining down on us too. We were thrilled on Monday to receive a visit from Deirdre Ryan, an Olympic high-jump athlete from Dublin, who demonstrated her extraordinary skills to the children in the playground and also let them have a go. The children were very excited to watch this at close quarters and will no doubt follow her progress in this summer’s Games with interest. On Monday afternoon we were treated to a wonderful concert by the children in Year 2, who per-

formed solo on their instruments and then sang three numbers from ‘Oliver’ with tremendous

gusto and energy. Well done, everyone, and thank you to Mrs Thompson for all her work on this.

On World Water Day the school was bedecked with blue again thanks to the Kew College Friends, who put up the water drops the children had prepared and also hosted Bethany Woodward, a Para-lympic athlete, who gave an inspirational talk about the challenges she faces and how she over-comes them. We are nearly at the end of term now and looking forward to the Easter bonnet parade on Wednes-day. This is not a contest (there is no prize) so simple and colourful will do just fine! I wish you all a lovely weekend and hope the weather remains fine. Anne Dobell

THANK YOU I would like to thank all those of you who have written to me following my recent bereavement. I must say

that your lovely children are the best antidote to sadness ever invented!

DATES FOR YOUR DIARIES

Saturday 24th March Year 5 Netball v St James’s Away 9.00am

Monday 26th March

James Hayes Keyboard Assembly—Years 2—6 in the Sedum Final Charity Election

8.40am

Year 1 Outing to The Barbican Coach at 9.00am

Years 3 - 5 Soloist’s Concert in the Sedum Collection from the Main School Entrance

4.00pm

Year 5 visiting The Queen’s School to watch their performance of the ‘Passiontide’.

9.00 - 10.00am Tuesday 27th March

Easter Bonnet Parade Nursery Yellow TBC

Nursery Yellow End of Term 3.30pm

Wednesday 28th March

Nursery Red - Year 6 Easter Bonnet Parade in the playground

End of Term 12.15pm

CLUBS JUNIOR CHORAL CLUB - MONDAY 3.30 - 4.30PM If your child has signed up for the Summer Term Junior Choral Club, Mrs Thompson will be auditioning at the start of the Summer Term. LATIN CLUB - WEDNESDAYS 3.30 - 4.30PM Beginning Summer Term 2012, join Mr Flood and Miss Rosenthal, in their new and exciting Latin club, as they delve into the ancient world, exploring Roman cultures and the fascinat-ing language of Latin. We shall be playing traditional games, researching ways of life and designing and making our own mosaics and pottery. Carpe Diem! If you wish to join this club please contact the office by Monday 26th March. A CHANGE TO MULTI-FIT CLUB - TUESDAYS 3.30 - 4.30PM The Outside Provider, Laura Kelly, who ran the Multi-Fit Club on Tuesdays has had to with-draw the club for next term. But the good news is, Miss Bauman has stepped in with a very similar club for Years 1 & 2 which we are calling Kew Multi-Fit. We hope that those chil-dren who have signed up for the club next term will continue with her. It will run on the same day, time and place . Should you not wish your child to accept this place, please let the office know by Monday 26th March. SPACES AVAILABLE IN SUMMER TERM CLUBS There are still places in the following clubs, El Club Espanol, Arts and Crafts Y 4 - 6, Jazz Dance, Kew Multi –Fit, Knatty Knitting, Little Golfers, Latin, Fencing Y 4 & 5, Fencing Y6, Keyboard Ensemble and Cookery. If you wish your child to sign up please let the office know by Monday 26th March. Thank you Julia Burgess

NOTICES

NOTICES

THE HUNT FOR THE MASCOTS CONTINUES

Well done to those of you who found us. We are having a holiday this Easter but will be back with more hiding places next term

The winners this week were: William P (Year 2) Iluysha K (Year 6)

YEAR 2 Ella (2B)

YEAR 5 Edie (5L)

The library have a few books which have been ordered by parents from the book sale and not claimed. There are 2 copies of Yuck, 2 copies of Meerkat Mail, 2 copies of Gilbert the Hero and 1 copy of Norman. If you think these might be yours please contact the office before the end of the term. Thank you Mrs Mogilner

School Website We have added a section to the school website with useful educational links. This includes a link to Purple Mash, Moodle and the Kew College class blogs. The page can be found un-der Our Curriculum > Educational Resources. If anyone needs a username or password for the school website login, please email me at jreid@kewcollege.com

Congratulations to our Golden winners this week!

SPORT RELIEF is coming to KEW COLLEGE

This weekend is the official Sports Relief mile. Kew College’s Sport Relief mile is on Tuesday 27th March 2012

All pupils in Kindergarten and Years 2-6 will take part during their PE lessons by running, walking, skipping or hopping to raise money for this very worthwhile charity (Year 1 did theirs on Thursday 22nd March).

There will be collection buckets outside school on Tuesday morning if you wish to donate any money to cele-

brate your daughters and sons taking part in their mile.

Year 6 in Kew Village Some of you may have seen us in Kew Village on Thursday delivering letters to the shops, restaurants

and other outlets. We wrote our own letters asking for donations of gifts for the school fair which

supports our chosen charity. We decided to hand deliver these for a more personal approach. All of

the shopkeepers were really friendly and told us how polite we were. We have some more letters to deliver,

so look out for us again next week.

This week we were treated to some truly inspirational visitors. Fiona Jeffery from “Just a Drop” talked about

her charity and what Kew College had achieved by their support. In addition to raising £7000 which has

helped to fund a fresh water supply to a school in Uganda, we have also raised the profile of the charity with

our “Go Blue” day on 27th January. Our article and photo in “First News” has inspired other schools across the

country to join in and support the charity. Fiona has recently been awarded an OBE in the New Year’s Hon-

ours list for her work in the travel and tourism industry and we offer her our very warm congratulations. Beth-

any Woodward, who has become the second ambassador for the charity, also spoke to the children about her

life and the reasons why she has chosen to give “Just a Drop” her support. Bethany won the World Champion

IPC 400 m in New Zealand in 2011, shortly after her 18th birthday. She has qualified for the Paralympics in

September and is one of GB team’s greatest hopes for a gold medal. Bethany told the children about her

struggle to achieve her ambitions, despite suffering from cerebral palsy at birth which means that she is para-

lysed down one side of her body. It was a very moving speech and she provided great inspiration for the chil-

dren. We wish her the very best of luck and hope to see her on the middle podium in September. Seema

Pathan, a BBC Sportsround correspondent who is hosting the table tennis at the Olympics, presented prizes to

the two children who won the Art Competition for the most creative “Water Drop”. Well done to Clemmie in

Year 6 and to Amelie in Year 2. We were delighted to see Seema again and wish her well with her work in the

Olympic Stadium. Thank you to all of the children at Kew College for all that you have done for the charity and

to the Friends of Kew College for their continued sterling endeavours on behalf of the school and the charities

it supports.

Deirdre Ryan, born 1st June 1982, is an Irish high jumper, who has qualified for the London Olympics later this year. She visited Kew College this week to demonstrate her amazing talent. She spoke to the children about what inspires her and how she became a successful athlete. Her visit was incredibly motivational, rous-ing and inspirational. Well done to the children who asked Deirdre insightful questions and to the Year 5’s and 6’s who sang the Irish National Anthem. (I think that I saw tears in Deirdre’s eyes!) We might even have some budding Olympians in the making after some children tried the ‘Fosbury Flop’ under the careful coach-ing of Deirdre. Thank you to Mrs. Dowding for making the visit possible.

KEW COLLEGE’S OLYMPIC GUEST

On 19th March, the Debating Club explored a rather contentious issue! The motion for the debate was: “This house believes that the United Kingdom should change to Communism.” This proved to be an extremely entertaining debate and was very well researched by both teams. On behalf of the motion were the following points:

Communism would eliminate the gulf between rich and poor, which in turn would reduce feelings of resentment and the sense of inequality which prompted last summer’s riots.

All people would have the same opportunities and chance of a better life. The following points were made in opposition to the motion:

Communism has not worked successfully in many Eastern Bloc countries, due to the control of the media and sense of resentment that all people have the same, irrespective of education, job skills or effort. North Korea’s secretive, dictatorial regime is living proof that Communism does not work.

Converting to Communism would lead to a massive upheaval; a social revolution that could lead to Civil War.

The motion was rejected by 9 votes to 5, with 3 abstentions. This reflected the children’s belief that although everything should be fair, ultimately Communism would mean the reverse, as everybody would benefit equally from the hard work of a few.

Well done to all this term’s debaters! I am looking forward to next term and a fresh influx of fantastic argu-ments...

Dates for the Diary 18th May – Recycling Day 16th June – Summer Fair – info attached Many of you have bought the sunflowers packs – good luck. A huge thank you to Alexis Coleman who helped to get all the packs ready and gave up much time last weekend to do so. For those of you, who missed it last week, please see below.

Sunflower Growing Competition

To encourage the green fingers of Kew College, KCF is hold-ing a Sunflower growing competition.

We challenge you to grow the tallest sunflower or the largest sunflower head. Sunflower packs will be available in return for a donation of £1. We will be selling on Monday as well to ensure every-one has the chance to enter. The sunflower packs, which include seeds, pots, compost, and growing instructions, are kindly being donated by the Kew Gardener in Kew Village.

PLEASE NOTE THE CANES WILL COME LATER WHEN YOUR SUNFLOWERS HAVE GROWN A BIT! Please feel free to decorate your pot to celebrate the sum-mer holidays! There will be a prize for the Infant House and Junior House. Your Sunflowers will be judged by Dan from the Kew Gar-dener on the last week of school in July. More details to fol-low. Good luck and happy growing!

Calling all budding singers..

We have had a fantastic response and there are enough mums for a great choir.

As we are still working out logistics please encourage each other to get in touch, please e-mail me at alijan-

epalmer@hotmail.com

Wishing you all a Very Happy Easter break

Your KCF Committee

Wanted: a pro - bono designer to help a wonderful West London Children's Charity. West London Action for Children are looking for a designer to help with some promotional work around the launch of a campaign aimed at helping troubled primary school children. You could put your skills to good use in helping a very small charity do it's vitally important work. Only a few hours work of simple design work are

required. We would be hugely grateful for your help.

Contact Charlotte Zamboni on charlottezamboni@hotmail.com for more information

Kew College Summer Fair 16th June 2012

Preparations for the fair are off to an Olympic start! Local businesses have been very generous in their sup-port. Thank you to the Year 6 children for delivering letters to the local shops to get donations of raffle prizes. Stalls Here are the stalls allocations. We will email detailed instructions for each stall to your class reps.

CLASS STALL

Nursery Red Splat the Rat

Nursery Yellow Floating Ducks

Kindergarten Blue Name of the Teddy & Teddy Tombola

Kindergarten Green Old Fashioned Tuck Shop & Ice creams

Yr 1B Pint Pot Tombola

Yr 1M Chocolate & Bottle Tombola

Yr 2B Cake Stall & Guess the Weight of the Cake

Guess how many sweets in Jar?

Yr 2M Face Painting & Tattoos

Yr 3S Drinks Stall - soft drinks and Pimms

Yr 3B Sponge Throwing

Yr 4L Pre-loved Kits/ DVDs/Bikes/Scooters….

Yr 4F Arts and crafts (ceramics painting…)

Yr 5L Sand Art

Yr 5S BBQ

Yr 6 Inflatables in Forecourt

Yr 6 Children Krispe Kreme Doughnuts

Teachers To be confirmed

Tiki Tabor Restaurant Tree

Mark Gregory Beat the Goalie

Claire Hakof Nail Bar

Raffle Prizes You can contribute by giving a raffle prize or sponsoring a stall. We will be asking each class to contribute a

prize for the raffle. We received some wonderful contributions last year. Any unwanted concert tickets or

Olympic Games tickets would make a great prize! Hampers are always very popular and could be themed on

gardening, children’s books, toys, cookery etc. Let us know what you are planning so that we don’t get dupli-

cates! Please contact Imogen Baines (imandandy@aol.com) who is coordinating this for us and who can give

some guidance if required.

Restaurant Tree This is a new attraction this year. The Restaurant Tree will give you the opportunity to win a meal for two or some vouchers. Restaurant donations will be pinned to a tree in a sealed envelope. You might pick an empty envelope, or if you’re lucky, an envelope containing vouchers for a meal for two… Please get in touch if you know a restaurant that would be willing to make a donation.

Charity aid Foundation You can help us raise money for Kew College and Charity! Have you heard about the CAF (Charities Aid Foundation)? Matched fundraising is when a company offers to 'match' the amount that an employee helps raise for their chosen charity. Below is a list of the companies who offer this scheme. If you work for one of them would you consider raising money for Kew College and the school’s chosen Charity? Companies have different schemes. It can be a one off donation or sponsorship of a stall at the fair. Some companies even pay for their employees’ time spent at the school. Your contribution will make a huge impact on our fundraising efforts.

Trading stalls If you have a business and would like to run a stall, please contact us asap as places are limited. Poster competition This year we will be having a competition to design the poster for the fair. The children will be asked to pro-vide an illustration with an Olympic theme on a sheet of A5 paper, using felt tips, paints or collage. Mr Schmidt will judge the competition and the winning entry will be enlarged to poster size for display at the fair and for use on the cover of the fair programmes. The lucky winner will also receive £10 worth of tokens to use on the day. The remaining entries will be laminated and hung as the bunting for the fair where they can be admired by all. Detailed instructions will be provided on the last day of term and entries will be due on Monday April 30th.

Calling for a baker! We would gladly receive a cake for the ‘guess the weight of the cake’ competition. This should

ideally be delivered to school the day before the fair, so no cream please!

Dinner for six? There are many talented cooks amongst the mums and dads at Kew College. Would you volunteer your time and skills to cook a meal for six guests? This prize will be auctioned. BBQs We will need to borrow a couple of gas BBQs for the BBQ stall. Please let us know if you can lend us your BBQ. We will arrange transport.

If you’d like to get involved in the preparations for the fair, or just give a hand on the day, please let us know. We would welcome any ideas or creative and artistic input!

Your KCF Committee For fair enquiries, please contact Carole Holland – todobien99@hotmail.com, 07779124960 or Ali Palmer ali-janepalmer@hotmail.com.

Abbey national, Alliance and Leicester, Asda BAA, Bank of England, BP, BT Camelot, Centrica, Cornhill Insurance plc Debenhams, DHL HSBC Kellogs, Kingfisher

Littlewoods plc Marks and Spencer plc Natwest group, Norwich Union O2 Peugeot Motor Company plc Royal Bank of Scotland, Royal London Mutual Insurance Sainsbury, Stagecoach Tesco plc Unilever Woolich plc

RICHMOND BOROUGH SWIMMING FINALS Some of our best swimmers attended the Richmond Borough Swimming Finals on Wednesday at Pools on the Park. They swam against the very best swimmers in the borough from over 45 schools. We were very proud to win trophies for second place overall for independent schools for both the girls and boys! Suki was the fastest swimmer in the borough in the year 4 girls freestyle, Georgina came 5th in the borough in year 6 breaststroke and Ted came 4th in the borough in the year 4 boys freestyle. Molly, Clemmie, Margaux and Georgina came 5th in the finals of the girl’s freestyle relay, with Arthur, Frederick, Amar and Huw coming 6th in the boy’s freestyle relay finals. Fantastic results and our most successful year at Richmond ever! Well done swimmers!!! SWIMMING GALAS NEXT TERM Friday 18 May at 4pm - Ibstock Place, A & B team years 3-5 Friday 15 June at 6pm - KEW COLLEGE INTER HOUSE GALA all swimmers years 3-6 Friday 22 June at 4pm TBC - Latymer Prep, A team only years 3-6 All swimmers will be timed early next term during their Thursday swimming lessons at Pools on the Park, so that the teams can be selected for the Ibstock and Latymer galas.