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Dates for your Diary: Saturday 17 th September – Family Fun Day Monday 19 th – Thursday 22 nd September – Open Day Tours 9.15am and 1.30pm Tuesday 20 th September – Open Evening 6pm Saturday 24 th September – DofE Silver training morning 1 Monday 26 th September – European Languages Day Parent Bulletin Friday, 9 th September 2016 September Welcome Evenings We mentioned in our last bulletin of last term that we would be holding welcome evenings for all main school year groups early in the academic year to give parents an opportunity to meet their child’s new Year teams - tutors, Standards Leader & Head of Year. The dates of these have changed as follows: Monday 17 th October - Y7 Welcome evening Tuesday 18 th October - Y8 Welcome evening Wednesday 19 th October - Y9&10 Welcome evening Thursday 20 th October - Y11 Welcome evening All will be based in the main hall and will be from 6-7pm. Our calendar booklet will be sent home with students early next week. All diary dates can be found on our website: www.kesacademy.co.uk/calendar/dates-for-your-diary/
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Dates for your Diary:
Saturday 17th September – Family Fun Day
Monday 19th – Thursday 22nd September – Open Day Tours 9.15am and 1.30pm
Tuesday 20th September – Open Evening 6pm
Saturday 24th September – DofE Silver training morning 1
Monday 26th September – European Languages Day
Parent Bulletin Friday, 9th September 2016
September Welcome Evenings We mentioned in our last bulletin of last term that we would be holding welcome evenings for all main
school year groups early in the academic year to give parents an opportunity to meet their child’s new
Year teams - tutors, Standards Leader & Head of Year.
The dates of these have changed as follows:
Monday 17th October - Y7 Welcome evening
Tuesday 18th October - Y8 Welcome evening
Wednesday 19th October - Y9&10 Welcome evening
Thursday 20th October - Y11 Welcome evening
All will be based in the main hall and will be from 6-7pm.
Our calendar booklet will be sent home with students early next week. All diary dates can be found on our
website: www.kesacademy.co.uk/calendar/dates-for-your-diary/
Year 7 – Mrs Stonach
A huge welcome to all year 7 parents and students.
I have been really impressed with the positivity shown by the New Year 7 pupils this week. They have
risen to the challenge and made their teachers, parents and themselves proud. Their enthusiasm,
positivity and general excitement has been infectious and long may it continue!
This week we have been focussing on positivity and raising aspirations, keep your eyes peeled for a list of
‘form attendance of the week’, ‘form achievement of the week’ and ‘student of the week’. These will be awarded every Tuesday in our year assembly.
In order to maintain our high behaviour expectations, the year team will be awarding students in year 7
with impeccable behaviour each term, with a free trip or activity. The students will be thinking of ways to
raise money for this in form this week. I am a firm believer that good effort and good behaviour should be
rewarded regularly. We will also be holding stalls at the KESA family fun day (next week) so please come
and see us.
Our students have looked really smart this week and are wearing their new uniforms with pride. I am
aware that there were some problems with the uniform supplier, if your child is missing a piece of uniform,
please send them in with a note.
If your child is off school through illness, please ensure that they bring a note in with them on their return,
even if you have called in; we need the note for their file.
Finally, you should all be contacted in the next 2 weeks by your child’s tutor, they will introduce
themselves and will be your first point of contact should you have any queries or concerns.
I hope that all year 7’s have had a fantastic (but probably very tiring) week and I look forward to greeting them back in next week.
Welcome to Year 8 – Mrs Lees
I am excited to introduce myself as Head of Year 8 team this year, and I very much look forward to sharing
your student’s achievements and successes with you over the coming months. We have a promising year ahead of us with many positive opportunities to support our students in achieving their full potential.
As a year group we have made an outstanding start to the new academic year with 166 students
achieving 100% attendance in the first week, giving us an overall attendance of 94.3%. Students have
earned a huge total of 1067 achievement points.
Very well done to each and every student for their commitment to learning.
Top 5 Achievement Points Tutors Star of the week
Robert Lipodatenko 8A 55 points Hope Lake 8A
Joey Ellis 8N 55 points Emilis 8E
Jacob Clark 8A 35 points Taylor Bocking 8G
Vladislava Prieskina 8R 35 points Kiya Dye 8K
Tinisha Carter 8E 32 points Joey Ellis 8N
Ellie - Louise Ely 8R
Year 9
Hello, my name is Mrs Julie Cole, I have a new role as Head of Year 9. Our year group is made up of 9
forms, I give below the email addresses of all of the staff involved in our year group. Please contact your
son/daughter’s Form Tutor in the first instance either by phone or email – the telephone number for school
is 01553 773606.
Head of Year - Mrs Cole – [email protected]
Standards Leader - Mr Barker – [email protected]
9K – Miss Coates – [email protected]
9N – Mrs Geraghty – [email protected]
9G – Mr Masabo – [email protected]
9E – Mrs Waring – [email protected]
9E – Mrs Seymour – [email protected]
9D – Mrs Stewart-Richardson (Mon, Tues and Fri ) –
9D – Mrs Tennant (Wed and Thurs) – [email protected]
9W – Mr Hall – [email protected]
9A – Mr Blake – [email protected]
9R – Mr Bradley – [email protected]
9S – Mr Allsop – [email protected]
Every week I will be giving you our attendance figures. Should your child be absent from school, please
phone our absence line on 01553 773606 on the morning of the first day of the absence. All absences
should be followed up with a note from home when the student returns to school. Please endeavour to
make medical/dental appointments outside of school times, where this is unavoidable please send in the
appointment slip in order that the appropriate coding can be applied.
I would like to celebrate successes of our Year group for achievements both in school or outside, some
students are very shy to “blow their own trumpet”, therefore please let us know about successes that your
child has outside of school.
The top ten Vivo winners will also be shown each week.
Year 10 – Mr Waring
Welcome to our first parent mail report for the new school year. I hope you and your families had an
awesome summer break, I know I certainly did, especially as the weather was so nice.
As your aware, we are now structured into year groups and I am ecstatically pleased to be working
alongside some amazing academic staff as we guide our wonderful year 10 students through, not only this
academic year but their Year 11 also. This structure allows us to get to know our students and their
families much better, so ensuring we give the best support and guidance possible.
The structure of the team includes, myself as Head of Year 10 and I can be contacted either via email at
[email protected] or on the telephone on school extension 239. Alongside the form
teachers, I look after the pastoral wellbeing of our students, monitor behaviour, attendance and uniform
standards amongst other things.
Our Year 10 Standards Leader is Dr Tadikonda who is responsible for ensuring that our students are
getting the best academic opportunities possible and for ensuring that interventions are in place for
students who are weak, or possibly need extra tuition in certain subjects. She can be contacted via email
Then there are our amazing form tutors consisting of,
Form 10A Mr Spetch and Dr Tadikonda
Form 10D Mr Okinyemi
Form 10E Mrs Wilson and Miss Lewis
Form 10G Mr Thomas
Form 10H Mr Wheeler
Form 10K Mr Cook
Form 10N Ms Waterman
Form 10R Mrs Ward-Robinson
Form 10W Miss Price
Overall attendance for the year 10’s currently stands at 96%, the challenge is to keep this up for the whole
school year. Remember, at the very least students need to be getting 96%. However as these next 2
years are vitally important to your children, I would be hoping for closer to 99%.
Since being back, students had their photographs taken on Wednesday. We have our first assembly on
Friday, where I will be reiterating expectations of behaviour, uniform and punctuality.
In assembly we will be celebrating the fantastic news of how 18 of our year 10 students were successful in
passing their music exams recently, so well done to them.
It’s a well-known fact that positivity breaths positive results and good news is always nice to share
wherever and whenever we can. But I am also keen to share good news from out in the community, so if
you know or hear of positive news involving our year 10 students, please do share with me so the whole
team can congratulate the relevant students also please.
Music Department exam success
The following students all passed the RSL Level 2 qualification in music last year (year 9), equivalent to a
GCSE. They all worked incredibly hard and their success deserves to be recognised
Mathew Bowen - Distinction (equivalent to an A grade)
Sinead Marray-Woods - Distinction
Aimee Cousins - Merit (equivalent to a B grade)
Alex Petriv-Shaw - Merit
Alice Zelepukina - Merit
Harry Chandler - Merit
Iasonas Emmanouel - Merit
Katrina Borovika - Merit
Lauren Yates - Merit
Lily Newbury - Merit
Nathan Smalls - Merit
Rhiannon Ankers - Merit
Vianh Do - Merit
Arron McAllister - Pass (equivalent to a C grade)
Claire Stevenson - Pass
Ellie Buckley - Pass
Irene Cascales Aldeguer – Pass
Ben Tyler – Pass
In addition to this some students took instrumental examinations:
Katrina Borovika passed Grade 2 Piano
Jacob Benstead took Grade 2 Trumpet, passing with Merit.
Henry Ryder passed Grade 2 Classical Guitar with Merit
Kim Hutchinson passed Grade 1 Classical Guitar
What is KES Academy Friends?
We are a group of parents and staff who all give our time on a voluntary basis to organise and run fund-
raising activities for those in our academy community.
Our parent and teacher association (PTA), King Edward VII (KES) Academy Friends, has charitable status
and raises significant funds for the academy. We also value voluntary help from parents who may want to
join academy trips; help with learning support, hear a child read, or even come in and talk about careers to
our older students.
Our aim is to use the funds we raise to provide ‘extras’ for the academy. The academy gives us a ‘wish list’ of items they feel would be of benefit. For example, recent purchases have included equipment for
ICT, music, technology, drama, art, PE and science departments.
During the last academic year we raised over £10,000 for the academy. This was through a series of
events including carboots, race night, ladies pamper night, school discos, quiz night, Christmas
Celebrations and bingos. If you have any new ideas we would love to hear from you!
If you would like to know more about ways that you could contribute contact us on 01553 77360 or email
Our next fundraising event is KES Family Fun Day, if you would like to come along, bring the family and
support that would be fantastic or if you would like to volunteer to help please email: Sarah-
House News
Forthcoming house events:
12th September Cross Country Week (PE lessons)
16th September Junior Football
23rd September Inters Football
Please see House Enrichment coordinators for more details.
We also invite applications for house captains at all levels. Any interested students should apply in writing
to their House Enrichment Coordinator by Friday 30th September outlining why they would like the role
and what they can offer to the house.
Mr Davis (KT)
Mr Gay (EY)
Mr Allsop (GW)
Mr McNeil (LS)
Assemblies (PSHE/SMSC/FBV)
Next week sees the launch of our PSHE topics for the half term. PSHE tutors will lead year group
assemblies on the following topics.
Year 7 Effective Friendship
Year 8 Peer Pressure
Year 9 Contraception
Year 10 Motivation
Year 11 Stress management
You may wish to discuss these areas further with your child at home.
Left on the coach from Disney Trip
PSVITA Case
Please see Miss Walters if you have lost
one.
Thanks
All PE clubs start
this week
Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
Year 7
Girls Football Badminton
Netball
Hockey
Tennis
Basketball
Indoor cricket
Fitness
Gymnastics
Rugby
Dance
Boys Football Badminton Tennis
Hockey
Basketball
Indoor cricket
Fitness
Gymnastics
Rugby
Dance
Year 8
Girls Football Badminton
Netball
Tennis
Hockey
Basketball
Indoor cricket
Fitness
Gymnastics
Rugby
Dance
Football Match Night
Badminton
Tennis
Hockey
Basketball
Indoor cricket
Fitness
Gymnastics
Rugby
Dance
Year 9
Girls Football
Indoor cricket
Badminton Hockey
Tennis
Basketball
Fitness
Netball
Gymnastics
Rugby
Dance
Boys Indoor cricket Badminton Hockey
Tennis
Basketball
Football Match Night
Fitness
Gymnastics
Rugby
Dance
Year 10
Girls Football
Indoor cricket
Badminton Hockey
Tennis
Basketball
Fitness
Netball
Gymnastics
Rugby
Dance
Boys Indoor cricket Football Match Night
Badminton
Hockey
Tennis
Basketball
Fitness Gymnastics
Rugby
Dance
Year 11
Girls Football
Indoor cricket
Badminton Hockey
Tennis
Basketball
Netball
Fitness
Gymnastics
Rugby
Dance
Boys Indoor cricket Badminton Hockey
Tennis
Basketball
Football Match Night
Fitness
Gymnastics
Rugby
Dance
Sixth Form Girls Football Badminton Hockey
Tennis
Basketball
Netball
Fitness
Gymnastics
Rugby
Dance
Boys Badminton Hockey
Tennis
Basketball
Fitness Gymnastics
Rugby
Dance
Trials are at UEA Norwich on
Saturday 1st O to er ‘16
If you are going to attend you should arrive 30 minutes before your trial to complete the admin.
U13 BOYS AND GIRLS 1.40 P.M. TO 2
U15 BOYS 2.20 P.M TO 2.55 P.M.
U15/17 GIRLS 2.20 P.M TO 3 30 P.M
U17 BOYS 2.55 P.M TO 3.30 P.M.
You will meet current coaches and work with some Norfolk players.
For more information please see Mr. Allsop in the PE department!
Norfolk Basketball Trials
Christmas
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