HEADLINE NOTICES A Warm Welcome Back!

We would like to warmly welcome all of our students back to school at the start of the Autumn term; especially those joining us for the first time in Years 7 & 12. Further details on the arrangements for on-site COVID testing and staggered student return can be accessed via our website here. We are hopeful that during the coming academic year, we shall be able to move towards a more ‘normal’ model of educational activity, whilst also remaining vigilant and responsive to the ongoing demands of the pandemic. Details of how we shall be operating in this regard, including our continued focus on highly effective health & safety and preventative measures, have been issued separately and can be accessed here. We would like to remind parents that throughout the coming weeks we shall continue to focus on implementing our ‘Recovery Curriculum’. Our aim will be to identify and address gaps in student knowledge, skills and understanding caused by the school lockdowns. Specific provision, including on-site and virtual Saturday and after school classes, will continue to be shared with students and parents on an ongoing basis.

School Photographs

Arrangements for taking student school photographs begin from the start of the Autumn term. Following the successful Year 7 photograph sessions which took place last week the schedule for each remaining year group is due to take place as follows: Year 8 Tuesday 7th September 2021 Year 9 Wednesday 15th September 2021 Year 10 Tuesday 21st September 2021 Year 11 Friday 24th September 2021 Years 12 & 13 Wednesday 29th September 2021 Once photographs have been taken and processed, students will be provided with a ‘proof’ slip to bring home to show their parents which will explain how to order pictures and arrangements for collection. Catch up sessions will be arranged for students who may have missed their original allocated day and for sibling family photographs. Should you have any queries regarding this process, please email the school via photographs@kingsdale.southwark.sch.uk

Labelling School Items &Lost Property

As we start the new term, we would remind parents of the importance of naming/labelling all of their children’s school items, e/g blazers, sports kit etc. If your child has lost an item that you would like us to look for, please contact us via: lostproperty@kingsdale.southwark.sch.uk

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SCHOOL NEWS

Celebrating Alex Yee – Kingsdale Alumnus

The entire Kingsdale community would like to send our warmest congratulations to Alex

Yee (ex-Kingsdale student and sports scholar) for his amazing sporting

achievements over the Summer at the Tokyo Olympics.

Alex secured Gold in the mixed Triathlon

relay and Silver in the individual men’s event. A truly remarkable achievement.

We are very proud of you Alex and we look

forward to continuing to follow your blossoming career in the future.

The Big Draw Competition 2021

This term we will be stepping up our preparations for our 2021 Big Draw entry!

If you are have had a Summer sort-out, please donate any OLD uniform items that have seen better days. We will also need lots of colourful

bottle tops so please also save and donate those as well!

Donations can be given to the Art or DT

teachers from the start of term in September.

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NEWS NEWS BULLETIN

Issue 1 Monday 6th September 2021

THEME OF THE WEEK

Doing the right thing – ‘Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the things you

did…So explore. Dream. Discover.’

MARK TWAIN

Kingsdale Foundation School

is A SAFE SPACE

At Kingsdale Foundation School we actively promote and support an ethos where everyone can feel safe and listened to and, should something go wrong as at times it may, know where to go to for support or guidance and have a trusted person to talk to. Whilst the school has an impressive support network which includes an extensive pastoral team working with each year group, mentors, school counsellors, an art therapist, safeguarding team, links to outside support agencies and a staff cohort regularly trained in issues surrounding the mental well-being and safeguarding of young people, we appreciate that not everyone will always feel comfortable talking to a member of staff or may wish to speak to someone outside of school hours. For those members of our school community who feel they need support or advice or, wish to report an incident or concern we actively encourage you to contact us on one of our confidential emails where a qualified member of staff will be there to provide the support you require:

tellsomeone@kingsdale.southwark.sch.uk

health&wellbeing@kingsdale.southwark.sch.uk

Remember at Kingsdale we

do NOT tolerate:

Bullying

Disrespectful Language

Invasion of Personal Space

or Touching

We demand that all members of our

school community

RESPECT

each other’s personal space and

respect each other’s choices.

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On Tuesday 20th May, the Art,

Design & Technology Faculty

celebrated the enormous

achievements of our wonderful

Art, Textiles, Photography,

Graphics and DT students, in

our annual Art & Design

Exhibition. GCSE and A Level

work was showcased, as well as

our Key Stage 3 Art Scholars

and Art G&T work. This

display was testament to the

continued effort and

dedication of our students,

despite the difficulties of

lockdown. It was wonderful to

be able to open the doors to

so many parents, carers, art

alumni, staff, families and

friends. Our Food Science staff

and students made the most

beautiful and delicious

canapés, cocktails and mock-

tails, which were enjoyed by all

of our guests.

Thank you too to our live

musical entertainers and to

everyone who helped to make

the event such a success.

The work in the Art Gallery will

remain on display this term so

there is still an opportunity to

come and have a look!

You can follow the Art

Department on Instagram

#kingsdaleart

(Age restrictions apply)

Year 7 Gifted and Talented and Scholarship Trip to Dulwich

Woods

On Wednesday 7th July 2021, we took a wonderful group of keen Year 7 Gifted & Talented and Arts Scholarship students to Dulwich Woods and the Horniman Gardens.

We gave the students a variety of materials to use in the woods, including charcoal, watercolour and ink, and they created a range of drawings and paintings of the environment. They even managed to create some sculptures in the woods, and enjoyed using the wire to create line drawings. Some students created drawings out of pigments found in the undergrowth.

We spent the afternoon in the Horniman Gardens, admiring the view whilst having our lunch and taking photos assimilating the wire drawings and the view.

The students thoroughly enjoyed the day and the ice creams in the afternoon. What a great trip and it was lovely to be out and about in the local area again!

Year 12 Art Trips

In the last week of the Summer term we took some of our Year 10 and Year 12 Art students to the Museum of London and the Barbican Gallery, as part of their coursework preparation. We had a great time exploring the back streets of the City of London, including the ruins of St Dunstan's in the East church and Tower Bridge. We were given an introduction to the Jean Debuffet show by the head curator, which was a real treat. A thoroughly inspiring and enriching day was had by all.

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To see more of the brilliant Art, Textiles, Photography, Graphics and Textiles work by our students, as well as Art alumni, please follow us on Instagram @kingsdalefs(age restrictions apply)

Reading Recommendations

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Teacher Recommendation This week, Miss Brown recommends The Outsider by Albert Camus

Camus’s novella explores the alienation of an individual who refuses to conform to social norms. Meursault, his anti-hero, will not lie. When his mother dies, he refuses to show emotions simply to satisfy

the expectations of others. And when he commits a random act of violence on a sun-drenched beach near Algiers, his lack of remorse compounds his guilt in the eyes of society and the law. Miss Brown recommends this book because the novel uses simple language but manages to drop the reader right in the action and provide lots of depth. The novel is obscure and surreal but still manages to allow the reader to establish a connection with the narrator, meaning that the reader empathises with him too.

Recommended to students in Key Stage 4 & above.

Student Recommendation

This week Margaux Glipa in Year 9 recommends Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro

The novel tells the story of Klara, an Artificial Friend with outstanding observational qualities, who, from her place in the store watches carefully the behaviour of those who come into browse, and of those who pass on

the street outside. She remains hopeful that one day somebody will choose her.

Margaux recommends this book because it is a very interesting read. The novel discusses new technology, is set in the near future and makes you think about the possibilities of what is to come!

Recommended for Key Stage 3 & 4 readers.

Please send us your reading recommendations so we can share them with the school community.

Recommendations can be sent to english@kingsdale.southwark.sch.uk

In the week of Monday 19th July, some of our Year 7 students were able to attend a workshop with actor Nicolas Tennant, who played the character of Ed in the Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time play in the West End, for a number of years. Nicolas talked in great detail about his time spent playing the character, and had lots of hilarious stories about life in a West End show. The students brought with them a variety of insightful and interesting questions about the staging, directing and acting of and in the production, which made for a fantastic afternoon of student-led discussion!

Book Review Winner

We are pleased to announce that the

winner of last term’s Library Book Review Competition is Rosie Van Halzen.

Rosie received a certificate and a book.

Well done to her!

Speakers for Students!

We would love to hear from you if you think you, or someone you know, could speak to our students on a topic that matters to them. Topics could include an

unusual or aspirational career, a published book, or an area of academic expertise.

If you would like to help, please contact Ms Dawson,

with a few lines about your area of interest viagdn@kingsdale.southwark.sch.uk

SCHOOL NEWS cont.

Year 7 Latin Last term, our students designed their own gladiators.

Year 8 Latin In the final week of last academic year, Year 8 Latin students created fantastic posters about the Romans in Britain.

House News

House Sports Day Mascot Competition Winner!

A big ‘Well Done’ goes to Ariana Clarke, Year 7 - Eagle House who won the House Sports Day Mascot Competition. We are sure this wonderful design will be greatly appreciated by all in Eagle House.

Jack Petchey Award Winners! Well done to our Year 8 Jack Petchey Award Winners who recently collected their Certificates for Outstanding Achievement (left to right: .

Rocco Frost - Year 8 (Dove) Zara Constantine - Year 8 (Eagle) Ibukun Adebiyi - Year 8 (Dove)

Omotoyosi Balogun - Year 8 (Swift)

Extra-Curricular Programme 2021-22

We are pleased to announce that the school’s extra-

curricular programme for 2021-22 will be issued to

parents w/b Monday 6th September 2021 via email

and letter. Parents will be able to sign up their

child/ren to sessions on line. Please direct any queries

to housesystem@kingsdale.southwark.sch.uk

The House Champions

Board 2020-21

The Final House Points Tally at the end of the Summer term 2021 was:

1st Place – Swift with 21,194 Points

2nd Place – Albatross with 21,081 Points

3rd Place – Falcon with 20,979Points

4th Place – Dove with 20,073 Points

5th Place – Eagle with 18,562 Points

Congratulations to Swift House who only just secured the top position for the 2020-21 academic year after a

photo-finish between the top three houses. Congratulations also to Albatross and Falcon for making it such an amazingly exciting completion

throughout the year.

Well done to all students who contributed to this success!

Flora Russell

Jack Rose-Stavely

Natasha

Tetteh

Abi Persson Yr 7

Harper Smith

Alaina Lawes

Kate Aldridge

Martha Holt-Mahn

House Sports Day 2021

Huge congratulations to all our athletes who contributed to a

fantastic House Sports Day on Friday 23rd July 2021.

A big thank you also to our wonderful parents who gave such

enthusiastic support, cheers and encouragement from the

sidelines.

Mr Warren Mr Edwards Mr Mc Whirter

KINGSDALE SPORTS DAY 2021

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KINGSDALE SPORTS DAY 2021

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