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Dates for your Diary:

Our calendar for parents events is now online: http://kesacademy.co.uk/calendar/dates-for-your-diary/

Term dates for 2017/18 & 2018/19 can be found on our website click here to view

Saturday 27th January – DofE Bronze training morning

Wednesday 31st January – Year 8 Options Evening

Wednesday 7th February – MFL Spelling Bee

Friday 9th February – Fix Up Team on site for Year 11

Monday 12th February – Half term

Monday 19th February – Sixth Form Wellbeing evening

Saturday 24th February – Dof E Bronze navigation exercise

Monday 26th February – Y11 mock 2 commence

Parent Bulletin

Friday 19th January 2018

MFL News Congratulations to the Stars of the Week in MFL this week - some great work and effort from you, keep it up! Year 7 - Anna De Carvalho Marques 7E Year 8 - Prerana Poudyal 8R Year 9 - Ema Tomkova 9R Year 10 – Emily Edwards 10A Year 11 – Ashley Hutchison 11A Mandarin Club this week focuses on Spring Festival, and you will make dragons and lucky red envelopes - come along on Monday from 3-4pm and join in the fun! Can year 11 students who have not yet returned their reply slip to let us know if they can come along to the after school revision webinar please bring it to Mrs Hawkins as soon as possible!

Year 8 Options Evening Last week letters were sent home to Year 8 parents inviting you and your son/daughter to our Year 8 options evening, being held on Wednesday 31st January from 6pm until 8pm. REMINDER: The presentation will run four times throughout the evening. Places for the session are limited, so to ensure everyone has access to this, please could you book your preferred session on Eventbrite, following the link below: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/year-8-options-evening-tickets-42275459036 Please could you register with Eventbrite by Monday 29th January to confirm that you will be attending this important event and book the presentation session you wish to join.

Year 7 – Mrs Wright

The following students achieved the most achievement points last week.

Kornelija Ukneviciute 7H Brandon Payne 7D

T-Jay Shaw 7H Joseph Russell 7R

Kye Myers 7W Nikitas Cobuscean 7Z

Kristina Troka 7W Violeta Olehnovica 7W

Finlay Minns 7R Alexa Merrishaw 7K

Svet Petrov 7H Maddie Dear 7A

Kiara Goodson 7Z Niesha Clarke 7W

Yara Dias 7Z Brooke Bocking 7G

Well done to all of them.

So many of the Year 7 students are working so hard, enthusiastically and producing some excellent work. The

following students have received a certificate in assembly for gaining 1000+ achievement points since their arrival

in September.

Violeta Olehnovica 7W Maxim Bland

Joseph Futter 7Z Aiden Eley

Shannon McArdle 7W Gabija Susko

Akvile Jakaityte 7X Gracie Woodhouse

Ruby Goodchild 7W Finlay Minns

Kiara Goodson 7Z Callum Kearvell

T J Shaw Gracie Blamire

Kristina Troka Olegs Dimovs

Kian Preston Yara Dias

Mante Karosaite Kornelija Ukneviciute

Kye Myers

Well done to all these students. I don’t think it will be long until we have the first student who reaches 2000

achievement points. That will be quite some accomplishment.

Brooke Bocking was nominated as student of the week in the Modern Foreign Languages department last week.

Well done to her.

This week’s Science stars of the week go to Alina Cirsa and William Hindmarch. That is excellent work, well done.

P.E. stars of the week are Maddie Flaxman and Max Sturgeon. Well done to both of them.

One of the most popular House events Dodgeball will be taking place on Friday 26th January. Netball club takes

place on Tuesday’s after school on the MUGA. Badminton club also takes place on Tuesdays after school in the

Sports hall. There will be a Street Dance Workshop starting this Wednesday 24th January in the Sports hall. Students

must go to the Sports hall to sign up for this club. Girl’s football club takes place on Wednesday’s after school from

3.15 to 4.15.

I would like to wish you all a lovely weekend.

Mrs B Wright – Head of Year 7

Year 8 – Mrs Stonach

Our year 8 attendance has slightly improved again this week which is great news, thanks to parents and pupils for

coming in despite the coughs and splutters. Many students are really keen to keep their attendance above 95% in

order to win awards and qualify for prize draws – every lesson really does matter.

Well done to last week’s top year 8 achievers (see list below)

Well done to the following pupils for working hard and being recognised by the following departments –

Keira Bullen – MFL

Tilly Pemberton and Tatiana Gomes – Science

The Pride awards this week were given to…….

P – Artjoms Ilgacs R – Lauren Plume I – Alicia Billington D – Ellie Godfrey E – Janis Dukats

Well done to the year 8s who were recognised as gaining some of the highest achievement points in the whole

school, last term (see below right) What a fantastic achievement, you should be very proud of yourselves.

Calling all dramatic year 8’s!

Year 7 and 8 Drama club will be happening after school each Thursday in A4. Please see your Drama teacher if you

are interested in joining.

Students were given information about the times and dates of all after school clubs this week. It is great to see so

many of them taking up these opportunities.

Year 9 – Mrs Lees

P R I D E

We think and

act positively

We respect one another in everything we

do

We strive to

improve

We all create a

great place to

learn

We work well

together

P – Bobby Brame R – Jacob Clark I - Libby Howe D – Lily High E – Ryan Senior

GOOD NEWS FRIDAY!

Congratulations to the following students met with Mr Brown to celebrate a successful week –

Emilia Bastian 9R & Enrikas Binderis 9N

TOP ACHIEVEMENT POINTS THIS WEEK – Year 9 have earned 3050 achievement points this week!

Frankie Heron 9E 50

Daisy Davies 9A 45

Rebecca Bush 9E 45

Tinishia Carter 9G 45

Henry Ryder 9R 40

Rio Smith 9A 40

Connor Addis 9D 35

Eliya Ganea 9R 35

Jasmin Blackburn-Boote 9R 35

William Scott 9R 35

GOOD WORK BOARD

From Mrs Watson, RE - Three pupils achieved 100% in their assessments; Tyler Boswell, Ema Tomkova, and Hannah Stoutt. Outstanding work! Eliya Ganea was close to full marks with 87% and Ella Gordon exceeded expectations with 80%, as did Enrikas Prusaitis also with 80%. Some pupils have made a fantastic start on their first drafts of work to enter for a competition to win £500 for the shool – good luck to Aiden Cummins, Tayah Farnham and Harry Lonsdale. Kieran Taylor, Connor Ruane, Macey Simper and Chelsea Venemore for good test scores in French – Miss Geraghty. Business Studies from Mrs Ward Robinson - Nell Ashworth and Holis Lai. Charlie Steeles, Luc Widdowson, William Scott, Aivaras Pulmaras, Kirils Jakusovs, Kyran Wymer, Adomas Abrutis, Kieran Spears, Henry Ryder and Rio Smith – from Mr McNeill - All excellent attitude and performances in PE and or for school teams ( basketball/badminton ). Excellent Test results in Maths from Mr Clarke – Ewa Pieczykolan, Jasmine Ayas, Vladislava Prieskina, Robert Lipodatenko, Rachel Dixon, Poppy Tunmore, Rio Smith, Beryl Ngome and Morgan Wilkin. Mrs Gill, Science – Kiya Dye for brilliant work on Specialised Cells and all of 9A Science for a fab practical lesson on lung dissection. Miss Geraghty MFL - Dzestina Pauliukonyte - absolutely amazing! Also Morgan Wilkin, Libby Howe, Aivaras Pulmanas, Ruby Kirby, Danislav Nikolov, and Will Scott. They’ve just had a ton of assessments, these were the best!

Year 10 – Mrs Cole

Attendance:-

Well done to 10R with 100%.

Absences - Please remember to call our student absence line on 01553 773606 by 8.35am if possible on the

morning of every day of absence.

Behaviour:-

Should your child be removed from a lesson due to their unacceptable behaviour, they will receive a 60 minute on

the day detention with senior members of staff. You will be contacted by either email, text or phone to alert you to

their detention. Teachers who removed students will contact you about the behaviour which led to removal from

lesson.

School Contact:-

Should you have any concerns regarding your child please contact their Form Tutor in the first instance as they see

your child every day. Their email addresses can be found on the KES Academy site.

Achievement Certificates:- Last week This week

P – Harvey Greer - We think and act positively. P – Tegan Chatland – We think and act positively.

R – Tristan Anton - We respect one another in R – Amy Cook – We respect one another in

everything we do. everything we do.

I - Seth Benefer – We strive to improve. I – Amy Fyson – We strive to improve.

D –Jacob Benstead – We all create a great place to learn D – Sophie Ayley – We all create a great place to

learn.

E – George Briley – We work well together. E – Phoebe Hobbs-Dyer - We work well together.

Top Achievers - this week

Good Work Board:-

Reinis Libers Oliwia Otulak Sara Polcz-Teglas

Peter Rachkov Alice Riches Alyssa Roye

Caitlin Whiteside Laura Zigunova

0 10 20 30 40 50

Declan Shults 10N

Anya Biran 10R

Victoria Caldwell 10W

Sara Polcz-Teglas 10A

Alyssa Roye 10G

Hannah Robins 10R

Erica Martins Cande 10K

Leanne Brett 10E

Amy Cook 10A

Martynas Liepinis 10K

Year 11 – Mr Waring Can you believe it, there are just 10 school days left until the half term break and 15 school days until the second, and last, set of mock exams; meaning the real GCSE exams are not too far away now. Has your child made preparations for what they want to do once they leave KESA? If they need any help, do ask them to come and see me. Attendance

The message from school is still the same, good attendance matters and will lead to GCSE success. Do everything you can to support your child’s ambitions, by getting them into school EVERY day of the week. Very pleased to report this week that a form class who came 5th last week, smashed everybody else aside to take the top spot with an attendance figure of 98.7%, that class is 11N! Well done to them and their form tutor of course. They were closely followed by 11R with 97.8%. Year 11 Stars of the Week Awards

Our language star of the week award goes to Ashley Hutchinson Science stars of the week go to Connor Pyper and Matthew Bowen Sports star awards this week go to Alex Mitchell and Kieron Farley Sports theory champion awards go to Isobel Overton and Aoife McGovern Positive Achiever stars are Laura Brivkalne-Tamilove / Ruby Dixon / Angel Benefer / Amber Scott / Daniel Pereira / Eminas Musaibov / Lucy Schofield / Matthew Bowen / Lydia Short / Jack Eales / Alfie Crown / Paige Fenn / Faiza Azam / Evilina Gliozeryte / Selina Gerbeniute and Guilherme Moreno Franqui. Congratulations to all this week’s star award winners.

Important dates for your diary

12th to 16th February is Half Term 26th to 14th March – Second and final set of GCSE Mock exams 14th May to 25th May – GCSE exams 28th May to 1st June – Half term 4th to 22nd June GCSE exams 25th June – Last day in school for year 11 students 29th June - Year 11 School prom Congratulations to the year 11 football team who this week played a good sports academy team in the quarter final of the county cup, only to smash them 5 – 1 with some great football, good organisation and discipline. Thanks to Mr McNeil for all his hard work with the team. Hoping you all have a good week ahead. Mr Peter Waring – Year 11 Head of Year

Sports Results & Fixtures

Forthcoming fixtures:

Date Sport Opposition

Monday 29th Jan U13 Football Sprowston

Tuesday 30th Jan U18 Rugby Wymondham College

Norfolk Schools

Wednesday 31st Jan Girls Rugby

U12 boys Rugby

Springwood + Thetford

Norfolk Schools

Thursday 1st Feb U12 Girls Basketball

U12 Boys Basketball

KLA (A)

KLA (H)

Results:

Age Group Sport Opposition Result

U13 Rugby WN Schools 2nd

U13 Football Sprowston Postponed

U16 Football CNS Won

All ages Cross Country Norfolk Schools Congratulations to all that took part

U12 Basketball KLA 2nd / 4th

Y7 Rugby - County Cup 1/4 final

Sports Results & Fixtures

We have just finished at the County badminton championships and our amazing Y9 boys team won the event

against tough opposition from across Norfolk! Squad: Luc Widdowson – Captain, Will Scott, Max Smith, Rafe

Manning. Very proud of them! We played so well!

Y9 Basketball - WN champions ( Y8's in there too - WN Champions too!)

Sports Results & Fixtures

Y8 Rugby - 2nd in WN at development tournament

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The School login is KE1854, followed by surname and first initial.

This weeks NEW Maths App Top Ten Users! – Great Effort

Can you be in the top ten?

Have you tried the ‘therapy videos’ or

‘walking talking marks’?

THIS WEEK!

Please remember to bring a calculator to every lesson!

It is crucial that all students, in every year group, bring a calculator to every lesson.

Vast majority of scientific calculators are fine. It is incredibly important students know how to use their own calculator!

The easiest to understand, most accessible, and best value is the Casio fx-83GT PLUS.

Any questions, please ask

Year 11

Jessie Rawlings Mia Farnham

Annabel Bastian Rebecca BushLisa Evans

AkimsSudnicks

Max Smith

Jacob Lockheart

Joe Taylor

Luc Widdowson

Sophie Ayley Lauren NobleLuke Faivelowitz

Olivia Sharp

Science Department

Stars of the week

Year 7Aaron Grant

Erin Morphus

Year 8Milly White

Alfie-Jay Wadham

Year 9Kiya Dye

Jack Galley

Year 10Bailey Took

Inga Aleksejeva

Year 11Daniel Barber

Selina Gerbeniute