St Faith’s Church Appeal

Friday 11th January 2019 Upcoming Events:

Monday 14th January

Week One

Thursday 17th January

Parent Forum 6pm

Monday 21st January

Week Two

Tuesday 22nd January

Year 13 Parents’ Evening 4-7pm

Monday 28th January

Week One

Our calendar for events is online:

Term dates for 2018/19 can be found on our website

As reported in our newsletter on Friday 7th December, parents and students attended our Christmas Concert on Thursday 6th De-cember and had a lovely time.

We raised approxi-mately £100 for St Faith’s Church Appeal for providing Christ-mas dinners to local people who were on their own on Christmas Day.

On Monday 17th De-cember, Mrs Nicholls escorted some of the students who partici-

pated in the concert to St Faith’s Church to give the money to Reverend Laura Pur-nell. The Reverend explained how the money would be used to purchase food for the Christmas dinners they were providing for people. She informed us that there would be a gathering of helpers on Christmas Eve to prepare all of the veg-etables for approxi-mately 60 people.

The students enjoyed visiting the church and meeting Reverend Laura.

Big Thank You to Mrs Nicholls for organising!

A huge well done to the MFL Stars of the week. The students did really well in lan-guages last week!!

MFL Stars of the Week

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TO ALL YEAR 11 FRENCH AND SPAN-ISH STUDENTS

If you would like sup-port with your Spanish and/or French, come to D9 on Tuesdays and Thursdays @ Lunch time and on Thursdays from 3-4pm

MFL Stars

Year 7 Luca Jary

Year 8

Laimis Samulis

Year 9 Dominika Lukasevic

Year 10 Calum Nicol

Year 11

Emile Geceviciute

Sixth Form Katelyn Hall

CHINESE CLUB

We are Celebrat-ing Chinese Spring Festival. Come along to take part in discover-ing the Chinese tradi-tions and making 3D Pig Cards as it is the Year of the Pig. Wednesday 16th Janu-ary at LUNCH TIME in D10! Bring your Lunch!

Hockey Trip

FearTools:

Provides information on anxiety and some ideas for ways to im-prove. Gives you a tool to create expo-sure to a fearful situ-ation. Also includes a thought diary.

SAMapp:

An anxiety app with information and ways to track you feeling anxious.

Worrytime:

This app allows you to write down worries on your mind and put aside a short period where can think about them so they don’t sit on your mind.

PanicShield:

Centred on panic, this app has infor-mation on what pan-ic is and different ways in which you

can expose yourself to what makes you panic.

MindShift:

Allows you to pick sce-narios you would like help with, improve thought patterns, and get information on anxiety in general. Has a rating scale for anxi-ety with what you feel when feeling anxious.

What’s App:

Cognitive way of work-ing through your anxi-ety and tracking it.

Booster Buddies:

Diarise your feelings and read about the reasons you may feel this way.

Apps for meditation

Calm:

A relaxation app based on mindfulness.

This app gives you relaxation tips breath-ing, meditation or at-tempting to sleep.

WellMind:

Provides information and help for stress, anxiety and depres-sion. Also contains relaxation audio clips.

Headspace:

Meditation and relaxa-tion app.

Apps for self-harm

Calm harm:

Password protected app to find alternatives to self-harm. Also monitors when you are harming yourself to see when you struggle.

APPS FOR ANXIETY

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KES Academy Friends

Below are all the dates for our car boots in 2019:

Sunday 24th March

Sunday 28th April Sunday 19th May

Sunday 23rd June

Sunday 14th July

Sunday 15th September

We are holding our first meeting (with the AGM) of 2019 in

the Centre at 4:30pm on Monday 11th March. We are hoping to see as many par-ents as possible as your voice is very im-portant to us to make our Academy even better.

GOOD NEWS Happy New Year to you all! After a very enjoyable holiday I am hopeful that all the stu-dents have come back refreshed and ready for learning.

This term sees the stu-dents completing their second assessment in all subjects.

Next week you should receive your child’s first school report. This has effort, behaviour and deadlines along with CAG data. I will talk more about this next week.

The last Monday be-fore Christmas saw the book review; thank you to everyone who attended this. There was 92 students’ par-ents view their child’s books and from the feedback I received, it was a positive after-noon.

I have received a few enquiries regarding moving of sets; if you could please contact your child’s Progress Mentor with any que-ries in the first in-stance.

UPCOMING EVENTS

Wednesday 16th

Development football 3:00-4:15pm

Thursday 17th

Football vs Wymond-ham High at home, 2:00 kick off

STUDY TIP

Read all questions twice in assessments before answering them. Answer what the question says not what you think.

ASSEMBLY THEME

High Expectations

Year 7—Mr Gay

Year 8—Mrs Nicholls

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STUDY TIP

The New Year is a bril-liant opportunity to set goals for the year ahead. These may be general ones about our lifestyles, but we can also use the start of the New Year to look at our learning and whether we are making the best of the opportunities in school. Possible reso-lutions could be reading a book for 10 minutes every evening before bed, making sure home-work is completed on the evening of the day it is set, going to bed ear-lier on school nights, or making sure you have breakfast before coming to school every day.

ASSEMBLY THEME

Assembly focussed on the theme of New Year’s Resolutions and setting targets for self-improvement. We looked at the origins of these from different cul-tures and ancient civili-sations. I set the Year

8 students the chal-lenge of setting them-selves a New Year’s Resolution and being more awesome than last year!

Egor Zaleskis

Charlotte Clark

Lily-Mae Doherty

Rojus Konovas

Brody O’Hara Bradley Kendle

Harry Malton

Aaron List Vinny Marchetti

Jessica-Olivia Ayas

Harry Curson-Pope

ATTENDANCE

7N

7R

7A & 7E

REWARDS

ATTENDANCE

8D

8R

8W

REWARDS

“Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds dis-

cuss people.”

Anastasija Kroviakova

Nikolina Sladzeuska

Erin Morphus

Nikitas Cobuscean

Bradley Bailey

Paulina Sanduta

Svet Petrov

Phoebe Chamber-lain

Oliver Scott Skye Williams

Year 11?” For some it will be sixth form with the possibility of going on to study a degree or a higher apprenticeship. For other students it maybe an advanced vocational course at the College or the possibility of appren-ticeships. I will be asking students, as will other members of staff. In it’s own way this is a New Year’s resolution.

STUDY TIP

I was impressed by a student and her moth-er this week, they ad-vised me they have

GOOD NEWS

Here we are again, an-other New Year. After the break I feel rejuve-nated and ready to ap-proach things with a fresh perspective. In 2019 it is the main push to get subject knowledge right, to de-velop coursework; with better understanding and explanations. We have assessments planned, possibly small group changes just to tweak some of the clas-ses so that learning can be more efficient. But most of all this year I want every student to ask themselves “What is my plan after

started planning for the final exams. The student has created a list having spoken to her subject teachers of things she “needs to know for the exam and things she may strug-gle with”. She is then doing background reading and trying to understand concepts that she struggles with and she fine tunes her knowledge with her subject teachers.

ASSEMBLY THEME

I will be presenting an assembly “the future” having a plan for the future and how it can help with your studies.

Year 9—Mrs Tadikonda

Year 10—Mr Chung

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ATTENDANCE

10W

10K

10R

REWARDS

Robert Addis Nell Ashworth Bobby Brame Rebecca Bush Eliya Ganea

Tyreece Hutches Ruby Kirby

William Scott Ellen Skerritt Evan Waling

Alice Biran

Ashley Bristot Benjamin Dack

Maizy Grimshaw

Weronika Homola

Maria Jedrychowska Holly Lloyd

Dominika Lukasevic Jennifer Miller Kelvin Silva

ATTENDANCE

9W

9E

9R

REWARDS

GOOD NEWS

A Happy New Year and welcome back to the year 9 students. I hope that you had a restful break and en-joyed the time with family and friends. Our students in Year 9 had a great start to Term 2 and I have already seen some excellent work and attitude in lessons.

Our assembly focus this week was on -

New Beginnings for the New Year and aiming to “Be the best you can be” in any sphere of life.

A reminder again about the need for cor-rect uniform. Please check on the school website for the appro-priateness of the uni-form before you buy.

Mobile phones must be switched off at all times while in school or pupils will risk their phone being confiscat-ed. As always, if you have any questions or concerns, please con-tact your child’s progress mentors or my-self.

Study Tips

Step one: Under-standing—This is be-cause it’s easier to remember something when you understand it

Step two: Create some revision materi-als using your own words.

Step three: Test yourself by asking questions.

Upcoming Events

GOOD NEWS

Let me start by intro-ducing myself. My name is Mr Waring and I have recently stepped in to help the year 11 team with be-haviour and attend-ance. I have experi-ence of working with last year’s year 11 group. So if you need to speak with me, please call and leave a message and I will call you back at the earli-est opportunity.

ATTENDANCE

All students need to be attending every day

unless there are ex-ceptional circumstanc-es preventing them, it is especially important now as GCSE’s are fast approach-ing. Hopefully the sickness bugs are behind us and as for common coughs

and colds - students should dose them-selves up on remedies and attend school. This is potentially your child’s last year here at KESA, it is when they do their GCSE’s, and the only way they can be successful is to be here learning. A drippy nose or tickly cough does not pre-vent them being in class learning. Please help your child suc-ceed and send them into school. Proof of GP appointments should be sent into school if they truly are too unwell to at-tend. Perfect attend-

ance is crucial to our year group if they are to be successful at GCSE’s.

Once students are in school they should ensure they go to all of their lessons to ensure they are mak-ing the most of the

education system.

On a more positive note, no fewer than 95 students achieved 100% attendance in December which is fantastic, so well done to all of those students

and their families keep it up.

HOODIES

It is that time of the year whereby leaver’s hoodies are available to be ordered. So in the very near future I will be sending home order forms.

UPCOMING EVENTS

KES have developed a number of different strategies in how to revise, as well as showing students how best to plan and man-age the time leading up to their GCSE’s. This information will be shared with students over the next two weeks in seminar time.

As part of this, it is im-portant, that as par-ents you take an ac-tive interest in how your child is going to achieve GCSE suc-cess, so please, do take the time to dis-cuss these strategies with them.

STUDY TIPS

Organise / Plan and Revise STARTING TODAY. Do not leave it until it is too late!

ASSEMBLY THEME Next week’s assembly “How to Revise”

Year 11— Mrs Asquith

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Zoe Alsop

Jacob Benstead

Anya Biran

Hally Grimshaw

Erica Martins Cor-reia

Chloe Pearman

Peter Rachkov

Alice Riches

Hannah Robins

Ying Wong

ATTENDANCE

11W

11G

11E

REWARDS

On Wednesday 14th November, eight young students from Year 7 and 8 travelled to Neatherd High School to take part in the Norfolk round of the International Kids Lit Quiz. Sadly, we didn’t make it to the National round but the competition was very tough. We competed against 32 other teams, over ten

Year 10

Morgan Wilkin

Winner

Year 9

John-Riley Bussey

Year 11

Thomas Wagg

PE Boys Stars of the Week

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PE Girls Stars of the Week

Theory Stars of the Week

Year 7

Beth Ashworth

Year 8

Annabel Bastian

Year 9

Jennifer Miller

Year 10

Ema Tomkova

Year 11

Caitlin Durrant

Year 7

Alex Burt

Year 8

Sidney Gray

Year 9

Mitchell Stokes

Year 10

Joey Ellis

Year 11

Zach Reed

Pixl Maths App—Control and click on the picture to open Pixl Maths App

Sports Round Up

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Results

Forthcoming Events

Wednesday 16th

January

U12 Basketball Vs Ips-wich, Hamonds (H)

Thursday 17th

January

U12 Football Vs Wy-mondham High (H)

Monday 14th January

Year 7&8—4pm to 5:30pm

Year 9&10—5:30pm to 7pm

All players welcome to attend

West Norfolk Cricket Trials