Kingsway News - October 2015

Kingsway News Newsletter | October 2015 1

A Message from the Headteacher it is embracing opportunities to develop as a well-rounded individual and have the attributes Welcome to our 2015 Autumn term newsletter. that gives our students the edge. Student council, Duke of Edinburgh, Sports Teams and other extra- I hope you all had a pleasant summer and your child has made curricular activities are examples of ways in which a positive start to the new academic year. As you will read in this our students can develop these skills. So, finally, I newsletter, our new Year 7 cohort have made a very impressive would like to ask parents and carers to encourage start to secondary school which we will build upon over the coming their children to try new things and open their eyes to what is months. I would also like to take this opportunity to give a warm possible. That is what our motto ‘a posse ad esse’ – turning potential welcome to our new staff this term. into reality – is all about. Our priority this year is to develop in our students the skills they Mrs Lowe need to be better learners from Year 7 through to GCSE. We want our students to be more determined and independent learners with a Keep in touch! can-do approach to school and study. During this academic year we will be developing the 4 Rs; Resilience, Resourcefulness, Reciprocity Don’t forget to follow us for the latest school updates: and Reflectiveness. We feel that along with good GCSEs, these skills will support our students in achieving success at school, college, @KW_SCH university, work and life! /thekingswayschool This August, 161 students from the class of 2015 achieved 5 good GCSE passes with English and Mathematics. Though this is a GCSE Results Day 2015 – Mr Knott disappointing 3% lower than 2014, we were pleased with individual successes and the progress that the vast majority of students made There were plenty of smiles on GCSE Results Day when pupils from their starting point at Key Stage 2. Whilst we appreciate that received their results. This year 75 pupils managed to achieve 3x A* 5+A*-Cem remains a key measure for students and schools, we are or A grades and 4 pupils managed to gain 8 straight A* grades. There pleased to see the Government changing its accountability measures were successes across the board, and pupils in B11 achieved notable to a progress indicator, where we know that we perform above success. national average. Nonetheless, we are committed and determined to squeeze every drop of academic achievement out of our students. This year has again experienced volatility with national changes to So it’s all hands on deck for the class of 2016, who are already being GCSE exams, in particular, English GCSE. Although we too were assessed and monitored closely by curriculum and pastoral staff. And our focus extends to students across all year groups who will affected by this, 22 subjects achieved higher A*-C pass rates than be facing increasingly challenging examination systems. Homework is a key feature to success, and we ask that our families support national levels, and 17 subjects achieved higher A*-C pass rates than their children with homework and contact the school if they feel that homework is a concern. in 2014. This term we have a new team of Senior Students including Head Early indications show that already the vast majority of pupils have Boy Joe Corbelli, Head Girl Ellie Swallow and Deputies Ben Attfield, Dan King, Habiba Mohammed and Hollie Wilson. They have already secured places at college or on their desired apprenticeship scheme. shared their ambitious plans with myself and Governors and have begun meetings with the student council to bring about change and improvement for the student body at The Kingsway School. They are a credit to their families and the school. Like our senior student team, being a successful student is more than examination results,2

Enterprise Challenge Day Outdoor Challenge DayEager Enterprise Challengers, you will love the enterprise challenge! Are you looking for a good way to start the new school year? Then take During the first two days of Kingsway a look at the Year 7 Outdoor Challenge with Commando Joes! you will do different activities instead One of our first days in Year 7 was an of lessons. You will really enjoy outdoor challenge day and we took one of them if you like enterprise part in multiple challenges across because the challenge was an the field. enterprise challenge. We did the challenge day with We had to design an app and at the Commando Joes who set up and end of the day you had to try and sell helped us with the activities; some your app to another group. When of them included the key skills like I was doing the challenge I had to teamwork and communication which design a screen cover but the trick was key. was that we had to use as many of The whole year had loads of fun the objects that were in the pack as and the competition was friendlyyou can and you had to incorporate them in to your app. but everyone tried their hardest.We all had a great time and got to work as a team to get to know The activities included: a mine fieldpeople in our year group. which you had to try and get across,– Heidi Dean 7H a memory game where you had to remember an animal and what it teaches you about how to K blocks as you could get and finally, working together toDo you love Enterprise? Then you would have LOVED Ki K transport plastic balls across guttering against the clock.our first two days at Kingsway! We were involved in a achieve your best, bridge building with as many woodenprogramme called The Enterprise Challenge.Firstly, we were put in different teams with different c The best thing about this was it helped us tp makenames such as: Twitter, Instagram and more. We were K kstar friends and you could really find out if you could trusttold we had to design an educational app. My team ingswatyto others to help you. – Ethan Holt 7Tcalled, 100 Balls, and I decided we were going to do onefor school aged 4-16. How do you welcome new year sevens into a new school?Our cards had: a door, a duck, a magnet and a t-shirt on You do exactly what The Kingsway School did for us.them. In our app, you had to control the duck with a magnet, We had an amazing experience doing the outdoor challenge it was a magnetic duck, and take it with Commando Joes. The day taught us to use our team building to the door in the time limit. skills and we had an enormous amount of fun! Each game or hunt had To sum it up, I was SUPER excited an important skill or message that will be vital in high school. Like when I found out what we had to do communication, never giving up and to try as hard as you can with and I had a great time! – Umair Daud 7T 100% effort. WOW! When I got home I felt amazing! School had never been so fun My time at the Enterprise Challenge and educational at the same time! I am so glad I decided to go The Day was a fun, educational and Kingsway School. – Kitty Hinde 7T inspiring experience, that I really enjoyed. This activity was not only fun for us to do, but it also helped us to makenew friendships and helped us improve our teamwork skills, as weworked as a team to complete the tasks set in the time limit. Theteam with the most money at the end would win so we had to thinkcarefully about cooperation and communication.Overall, I really learnt from my exciting experience at the EnterpriseChallenge Day, and would love to do it all over again. – Kirsten Attfield 7H 3

Community Resilience Education & Military Day – Mrs MaxeyOn Wednesday 2nd September, our Year 10 students took part ina dynamic CREAM Project (Community Resilience Education andMilitary). Students worked alongside a range of agencies to overcomea ‘community crisis’.Agencies included the Military, Greater Manchester Police,Ambulance and Fire Services, the Environmental Agency, MetrologicalOffice, Highways England and senior representatives from thelocal authority to name but a few. Some of our students alsobecome ‘roving reporters’ for the day, filming and interviewingstaff and agency personnel, with support from ITN News and theFire Service Media team.The objectives of the day were to give each student theopportunity to work in a collaborative way, to develop resilienceand strategic thinking as well as gaining an insight into thecareers and opportunities of many services.On site throughout the day there were also a number of vehiclesand equipment that students had the opportunity to explore.Some agencies also had career advisors with them so thatstudents could investigate a range of future opportunities.The day was closed by the Mayor and Mayoress of Stockportwho congratulated the students for their participation andengagement in the day. We would like to thank the 110 personnelwho supported the event, and the Year 10 students for engagingso enthusiastically in the day.Kingsway Summer School – Mr JenkinsOver 50 of our new Year 7 students came through our doors each day When asking the students opinions aboutat our week-long event. This was our second summer school which their experience during the week, 96% ofprovides additional support for students with transition from primary the students thought the summer was goodto secondary school. A week full of fun activities including literacy, or excellent and 92% believed that it had anumeracy, history, science, design technology and Commando Joe’s positive impact on their confidence levels– who provided some fun practical activities, building confidence, for the start of Year 7. Feedback given fromteamwork and resilience. our new parents has also been extremely complimentary. One parent said “She hasAlthough an exhausting week, as staff we felt rewarded in working enjoyed the lessons and made friends.with new students who had a thirst for learning and lots of energy for It has significantly reduced her anxietiesfun, with a positive can do attitude. around starting high school” We look forward to many more Summer Schools at the Kingsway School!4

Comenius Trip to Turkey – Mr NicolaouOur final chapter to the Comenius project ended in May this year witha trip to Turkey. We tried and enjoyed the local cuisine, dancing andvisiting the host school and spending time with the pupils there. Wevisited the Lord Mayor, museums, Mosque and a couple of days inCappadocia.Our pupils did us proud once again (no surprises there). Our childrenmade new friends and were so friendly to the locals. We were “I just wanted to sayconstantly praised for our children’s behaviour and manners. thank you very much for takingI would like to thank Ms Balfe for her immense support and such great care of Michael and all thewe are both very proud of our pupils: Iqra Ashraf, Scarlet students during their trip to Turkey.Aubert, Rebekah Higginbotham, Callum King, Jacob Lyndon, Just starting to hear all the stories and “We’d just like to say a bigAlice Poole, Ben Metcalfe, and Michael King. A special thank you sounds like great time was hadto Ben and Michael for organising and managing the traditional Thank You by all.” to you both for organising and accompanying the children on Turkey trip (andgames and to Alice for looking after and organising the seating still a bit of looking after as well, I expect!).arrangements on flights and connecting flights, there and back. It was a wonderful opportunity and Alice absolutely loved it. Thank you for giving up yourA truly amazing and unforgettable experience. valuable holiday to go. The programme was great for the whole week and it’s great to see them all keeping in touch.” Kolweny Visit – Ms Balfe “You have returned home to me my son We were recently delighted to (safe and well!), 1 week older but a thousand welcome to Kingsway Everlineexperiences-wiser, and a happy, more confident, excited Banda, from Kolweny- and enriched young man who, as we speak,is busy Kingsway Primary School Skyping friends from Hungary, Poland, Spain and and Pamelah Sundukwa, who teaches Kiswahili at the High Turkey!” School. The teachers spent ten days in the local area, including five days in school. In addition to taking part in lessons over a wide variety of subjects and meeting groups of students, staff and governors, Pamelah and Everline between them spoke to every House assembly and our students were fascinated to hear about their lives and those of their students. Teachers getting up at 4am to milk their cows before walking five miles to school is not something that happens a lot in Cheadle! Everline and Pamelah also spent a morning at Gatley Primary School and an evening with Cheadle Rotary Club, as well as being entertained out of school by Kingsway teachers, ex-teachers and governors. The visit was supported by the British Council’s ‘Connecting Classrooms’ project. Two Kingsway teachers: Mr Burniston, Head of Geography and Mr Hall, Technology teacher, will be making a reciprocal visit to Kolweny Schools over October half term. 5

The Kingsway First Five! – Miss Cooper KS3 English Presentation Evening – Miss Cooper The Kingsway School has just launched its First Five! On Thursday 25th June, we invited nearly fifty KS3 Kingsway students This is part of our Whole School Literacy strategy and will encourage and their parents to our English Presentation Evening. Students had students to develop their written accuracy in every subject, which is been invited to be presented with awards for their outstanding success especially important now that it is being assessed in a majority of in academic achievement, academic progress, effort in homework, or GCSE examinations. contribution to our extra-curricular and enrichment opportunities. Every half term, we will focus on a different From last September, we launched a new homework ethos, where strand of The First Five; this half term we students could frequently choose how they wished to design and are practising and developing our skills on present their homework projects and for this evening. Parents arrived Sensible Sentences to ensure they to see a gallery of the inspiring homework that has been produced are punctuated correctly, are an this year. Canvas paintings, PowerPoints, scrapbooks, Lego videos, appropriate length, and begin effectively. revision guides are just some of the styles that were on show, conveying the effort, innovation, and imagination that students had put You can encourage your child at home into their English work outside of the classroom. to achieve The First Five by reminding them about the importance of using sensible Following this, we had group performances from this year’s Year sentences in their homework and by asking them to 9 Public Speaking Competition winners; the Youth Speaks Rotary explain what they are. Please see our website for more information. competition; the English and Drama gifted and talented day; and readings from both The Inklings Society and Year 9 Reading Group. It Year 9 Public Speaking Event – Miss O’Gara was a pleasure to see how talented these students are especially as all the performances were written and created independently. Year 9 students went head to head in a battle of the spoken word in the English Department’s annual Public Speaking event in July. The evening ended with our awards presentation presented by Mrs Lowe and Miss Cooper: The evening was a huge success as students showed passion, For Academic Excellence, Hazal Ridley (Y7), Estefany Fuguett, Aila enthusiasm and nerves of steel to talk about a topic that they strongly Kesedzic (Y8), and Mahima Uddin (Y9) were all awarded for achieving believed should be plunged in to the depths of Room 101. the highest levels in their year group. Outstanding homework certificates were awarded to Isha Anwar (Y7), Students were not only humorous, Nazneen Aslam, Lauren Bond, Amy Bradley, Zara Feardon (Y8), Tybah but thought provoking in their Aslam and Maryam Waseem (Y9). speeches and certainly made Outstanding progress to Monica Da Silva, Ricco Gardner, Crystal the audience question their own Woods (Y7), Aksa Haq, Saleh Al-Wandawi, Hifza Sultan (Y8), Haleema beliefs. It was a close contest, but Butt and Connor Richardson (Y9). the winning team of: Jai Khanna, Lastly for outstanding effort: Isha Anwar, Tommy Boardman, Alex Emilia Fagan, Alessandra Heaton (Y7), Elisha Emilius, Ben Metcalfe (Y8), Joel Goulding and Johnson, Ellie Rothwell, Teegan Hannah Moore (Y9). Taylor and Jaime O’Connell took victory. The evening finished with the students gathering for a group photo showing smiles all around celebrating what had been a fantastic A special mention goes to Emilia Fagan who was awarded our star evening at the end of a fantastic year. prize for her supremely confident delivery. A huge well done to all students involved and we look forward to seeing what next year’s competition holds! English Clinic – Miss Cooper English Clinic will continue to run this year every Thursday after school until 4:15pm. This is a drop in support session for help with English classwork, homework and revision for all year groups.6

Literacy Intervention Week – Miss Cooper Sports Presentation Evening – Mr JenkinsThe English department hit the ground running in September with During the summer term we were very pleased to hold our secondKingsway’s literacy intervention week. Following the success of last sports presentation evening, to recognise the talent and commitmentyear’s programme, once again a cohort of seventeen Year 7 students of our students to sport at the Kingsway School.took part in an exciting, intensive week-long intervention, in order toboost key literacy skills and access English in a fun and alternative We celebrated the achievements of overway. A variety of reading, writing, physical activities and games helped 300 students from years 7-11, individualsolidify understanding and use of basic grammar, as well as inspiring and team performances and recognisingthe imaginations of our students. the commitments of the teaching staff in enabling all this to happen. We wereDeveloping a strong literacy base is essential to students being able to honoured to be able to listen to theaccess the curriculum across the school. The intervention week is one experiences of Nigel Burton who works forof a growing number of ways in which we provide additional support disability sport UK and were entertained byfor our students, ensuring they have the best possible educational the local cheerleading group and treated toopportunities. The week was carefully tailored to the needs of a live performance from some of our mostthe students taking part and a fantastic range of resources were talented dance students, which went downemployed to keep students engaged all week; books from Barrington extremely well with the audience.Stoke, iPad apps, story cubes, sentence spinners and spelling fanswere just some of the exciting resources our students had the As a department we would personal like to thank the governors,opportunity to use. teachers, parents and students in making this such an enjoyable evening.The week saw all those who participated making fantastic progress Inklings Society Success! – Miss Deanand was enjoyed massively by all involved, including the staff! Wecelebrated the students’ efforts and successes at the end of the week During the summer term, the Inklingsby inviting parents to come in and enjoy a bite to eat whilst perusing Society was hard at work creatingthe week’s work. The students were presented with certificates and a competition entries for ‘Grim Tales withbrand new book to take home. a twist’. After submitting their entries, I receivedWe will be setting up a breakfast club for those who amazing news that two of our members –participated in order to continue to support their literacy Nicole Harper 8I and Rhiannon Dickensondevelopment across the curriculum. Feedback from the 10E – were going to be published in theweek has been overwhelmingly positive from students, final ‘Grim Tales’ book.staff and parents alike and we hope to run equally We have received our copies of the booksuccessful programmes in the future. A huge thank you and wish to congratulate Rhiannon andto everyone involved for making it another brilliant week! Nicole on their writing success!Greater Manchester High Achievers – Ms Flood Year 10 College Level Taster Days – Ms Flood A small group of Year 10 students enjoyed an Every Summer term Year 10 students are offered the opportunity of evening out at The Royal Exchange Theatre visiting colleges to get a flavour of what is on offer Post 16. in Manchester on Thursday 4th June. These students were part of the cohort that form We offered full days out at Loreto, Xaverian and The Cheadle College. the Greater Manchester High Achievers in Students had an opportunity to navigate their way round the college conjunction with Loreto College. campus and experience their preferred subjects at ‘A’ level to give them an idea of what to expect. The performance,‘The Ghost Train’, was very entertaining and amusing with a few These students will also have presentation assemblies from 6 local unexpected moments thrown in to keep colleges in order for them to start to consider where they want to make up the suspense! All students enjoyed the their applications. Open Days will be held by all colleges in October/ performance and represented The Kingsway November and students and their families are encouraged to attend. School perfectly. 7

The School That Just Keeps Giving! – Ms Balfe Family Support Worker – Mrs Grundy Kingsway students and their families are nothing if not generous. In Although some of you will know me as the Pastoral Coordinator for the summer term, we raised £8,000 for six different charities! Rylands, I have now taken on the new role of Family Support Worker, in which my main focus will be Attendance. Our main event was the amazing Charity Day on June 19th, when over 900 students took part in a mass attempt to break two world records! Research has shown pupils with attendance over the national average We almost doubled the current world record for ‘Most people hopping are more successful academically and as a school we aim to achieve on one leg simultaneously’ and bettered the record for ‘The Longest 95% attendance as a minimum. However, over an academic year, this equates to nearly 10 days absence from school, so it is vitally human chain to pass through a hula hoop’. important that students aim to achieve maximum attendance. Both record-breaking attempts took place on Foxland field, and were witnessed by To support students/parents/carers in understanding percentage representatives from Cheadle Rotary Club, attendance, and the impact on learning, the school have developed local Sixth Form Colleges, Cheadle Parish the following criteria: and members of our local community. Footage of the unforgettable day can be 100% over 3 terms – 0UTSTANDING seen on our website. 100% over a term – EXCELLENT 96% - 99% – GOOD Students were sponsored for the attempts, 93% - 95% – LEARNING AFFECTED raising money for the three charities 85% - 92% – LEARNING SIGNIFICANTLY AFFECTED chosen by students: Manchester Dogs’ 84% and below – SERIOUS CAUSE FOR CONCERN/ Home, Cystic Fibrosis and Ebola Crisis, as POTENTIAL LEGAL ACTION well as the Kolweny School in Kenya. We have donated £1,700 to each of these charities and more will follow after our 2016 Sponsored Walk If you feel your child is not wanting to come to school, we will work on Friday April 1st. together to engage, build up their confidence, guide and motivate Thursday 17th December is our annual Christmas Charity Day, them to achieve and work towards a successful future. including the Kolweny Christmas Fair. Students will celebrate and If you have any concerns about your child’s attendance and need enjoy the end of term, while helping to improve the lives of others. support, please don’t hesitate to contact me on 0161 428 7706, ext 591 In addition, hundreds of pounds has been Attendance Tree raised by our students and donated to causes close to the hearts of two members Pupils have added their name to a leaf which is displayed on the tree of our school community. in their form room, this clearly shows their attendance percentage. The leaf will drop down with any absences and if your child’s Charlotte Jennings in Year 9, has been a attendance drops below 95%, this may result in the school getting in regular patient at the Royal Manchester touch to discuss the situation. Children’s Hospital. Besides being a patient, Charlotte is an incredible There will be prizes and rewards Attendance Tree fundraiser for RMCH. She asked us to help for those students who maintain her give something back to the hospital and excellent attendance in each year 100% the other children they care for - and we just couldn’t say no! group. Also, there is a weekly Attendance Cup presented to the 96-99% Mr Deakin, Science teacher and keen mountaineer, was very form with the highest attendance concerned for the people in Nepal suffering the effects of April’s in each year group… the form that earthquake. He and his tutor group (now 8K) set about raising money wins will get a ‘Jump The Queue’ for The British Red Cross Emergency Appeal, and encouraged others pass for the canteen. to join them. 93-95% Since September, Tutor Groups have been responding to the Refugee Crisis by raising money for Save the Children’s appeal through a 92% number of great events including bake sales, a sponsored silence, raffles and a penalty shoot-out. & below In recent years, Kingsway has raised almost half a million pounds for a wide range charities - and we fully intend to make that a million!8

School Uniform – Mrs Maxey Prom News – Ms Guess Thank you to all parents for fully Last year’s Prom took place on 26th June at Stockport Town Hall. supporting the school’s guidance on The senior students had done an excellent uniform. We have only had a handful of job choosing the food, arranging the colour issues which have now been resolved. scheme and making up the goodie bags. Over 320 students and staff attended. At the start of this term, some of our students were wearing their skirts at an The Kingsway Prom is by invitation only inappropriately short length. For the sake and the students who were invited certainly of their decency and the school rules enjoyed themselves. They looked amazing this has had to be addressed. Please be and danced the night away. advised that any student who persists in wearing their skirt too short will have to Professional photographers were on hand wear school trousers. In line with this can to capture their glamourous outfits andwe politely remind families that the school’s skirt does not have an produce lasting mementos of the evening.elasticated waist, and does have the school crest on the left hand side. In addition to this the school had alsoPlease refer to the school’s website (in the Student Area) for full arranged a number ofguidance. If you have any further enquiries in relation to the school photographers. Theiruniform, please do not hesitate to contact the school. photographs of the evening can be foundRewarding Our Students – Ms Guess on Kingsway on Line, or by scanning the QR code.This year we have introduced a new ‘Rewards and Sanctions’ systemin school. It is based around our Non-Negotiables:In order for the students to qualify forrewards, the number of positive marks that THE NON-NEGOTIABLESthey achieve must outweigh the number of Students must:negative marks. All students that have a 1. Arrive to school and lessons on timemerit total of zero or above by the end of the 2. Wear full uniformMay half term will be invited on the Rewards 3. Be fully prepared, with correct equipment, kit and homeworkDay Out which will be on 20th July 2016. 4. Have a positive attitude to learningThis year saw an increase of 11% in the 5. Behave responsibly and respectfully at all timesnumber of students who opted to takepart in a Reward Trip or activity. Over 800 The 2016 Prom is on Friday 24th June. The Kingsway School Presents:students went on one of the external trips. All Year 11 students with 100% Prom 2016 attendance will be put in a draw to winStudents were able to choose from the Opportunit | chievemen | R pec a substantial amount of money towards Criteria Attend9Aa2b%nocevefollowing list of activities: Blackpool their Prom. The runners up will all featuring: receive a free professional photographPleasure Beach, Alton Towers, chocolate at the Prom. pthearnNteo5rmmlatoersemaking at Slatterys, Rampworx, Chill Factore, Ten Pin and Quasar at Mrs Lowe has outlined the criteria that Year 11 students must achieve in orderParrs Wood, a pamper day in school or a 5-a-side football competition to be invitedat Soccerdome. thtaonSNoSoCnemovirseitIn order to motivate our Year 11 students we are trialling a new MeOrfinotsrtrackrewards system. They will collect merits in the same way as the restof the students but after half term they will be able to cash in their exclusNioonsmerits for rewards. They will be able to claim: Canteen vouchers, Love2 Shop vouchers, Cinema tickets and Prom vouchers.If this is successful we will look to roll the scheme out to other Years. 9

The Kingsway Association House News Turing are pleased to announce the new Year 10 House Captains- Blanca CorbelliWe are The Kingsway School’s Parent Teacher Association. Turing and Max Cowan. Both students were chosenWe have an informal meeting once per term from a number of applicants after a gruelling(our next one is on the 23rd November, Turing@kingsway. application and interview process.6:30-7:30pm). Here we; stockport.sch.uk• Decide on bids from the school.• Hear the latest school news. Miss V. Houlden• Have a Q&A session with the Head. HOUSE LEADERWhat do The Kingsway Association do with your contributions?We try to help as many students as possible by providing the extras Also joining the Turing students leadershipthat local authority funding doesn’t cover. Our Headteacher Mrs Lowe group are Benjamin Walton, Nour Al-Makay,receives bids from Heads of Department which she presents to us Eleanor Whitlow, Lucy Godsell and Brookylnat the termly meetings. The Kingsway Association then allocates the Adair who will be supporting KS3 forms in afunds it has available. range of activities.What have The Kingsway Association been able to provide? Ms T. Watson• Whole School: A set of 30 Chromebooks and charging trolley• PE: Competition kit for our excellent Trampolining Team PASTORAL• Whole School: A second defibrillator CO-ORDINATOR• Inclusion & Diversity: Allotment/greenhouse equipment• Science: Molecular modelling kits Whitworth Whitworth House are delighted that our• Design & Technology: Edible Ink Printer Whitworth@kingsway. new House Captains are Salihah Saeed, and stockport.sch.uk Niamh O’ Shaghnessy. We are immenselyWhat do we need from you? proud of the girls, and have no doubt theyWe aren’t involved in organising fund raising events, as we rely solely will will represent our house to the higheston family contributions. That means no more organising and paying standard.for Christmas fairs, Bran Tub donations, Bring a Bottle, etc!The family contribution is £10.00 per quarter – the more supporterswe have, the more money we raise for our children!If you would like more information about The Kingsway Association,please see our section on the school website:www.kingsway.stockport.sch.uk/tkaor email: [email protected] “It’s Safe to Talk” – Ms White In the last half term The Kingsway School, Mr R. Insley as part of its refurbishment programme, installed new wall skins in both canteens HOUSE LEADER to promote our safeguarding message “It’s Safe to Talk”. Miss C. Cropper Also joining are our House Mentors: Emilia Fagan, Burham Chaudhry, Max Collins, These walls enable students to obtain PASTORAL Jade Patchett, Madeline Prescott and Tybah contact numbers to various advice lines CO-ORDINATOR Aslam. All students are a credit to our house, and support agencies, as well as giving and we are reassured they will deliver the positive messages in relation to staying highest level of support to our students in safe online. KS3 - our student team this year are a huge asset to Miss Cropper, Mr Insley, and all As you can see, they have provided bright, students. Let’s go for the cup! informative focal points to the school environment.10

Pankhurst Congratulations to the Pankhurst House Gaskell Gaskell are delighted to announce that the Captains 2015-16: Georgina Hancock, Keira new House Captains are Jessica Herbert 10N Pankhurst@kingsway. Golds and Vice Captains, Anna Castle and Gaskell@kingsway. and Kevin Mutara 10W. There were many stockport.sch.uk Kelise Gordon-Harrison. stockport.sch.uk applicants this year and the process was an extremely enjoyable one as all students delivered excellent presentations and interviews.Dr L. Holdsworth Miss K. Cox-Brown HOUSE LEADER HOUSE LEADER Ms A. Ives The Pankhurst Senior Student team: Ben In addition to the captains Gaskell also has Attfield, Annabell Haastrup, Dan King and two Vice Captains: Hannah Bailey and Olivia PASTORAL Toby Edwards. Varty; two Year 7 Leaders: Emily Forrest CO-ORDINATOR And the Pankhurst Student Mentor team: and Maryam Waseem; a Year 8 Leader: Miles Vare, Aksa Haq, Nimaat Kausar, Laura Vickers and two Year 9 Leaders: Emily Nasneen Aslam Youmna al Rashedy and Hughes and Sophie Leuty. Liam Pollard. Together they will be a formidable force!Rylands The Rylands House team are very pleased to Mrs K. Edgson The newly appointed Lowry House Captains, announce the position of House Captains has Nuala Pattenden and Isabel Ashmore,Rylands@kingsway. gone to Harry Fogwill and Mahima Uddin. PASTORAL alongside the Student Leadership Team have stockport.sch.uk The calibre of candidates was of a very high CO-ORDINATOR begun their roles within the House to make standard and we are very proud of all the sure that all staff and students feel welcome. students who to part in this difficult process. Lowry As well as activities such as sport or singing, some of the dedicated students haveMr P. Lawton Lowry@kingsway. taken on extra roles such as anti-bullying stockport.sch.uk ambassadors. Each member of the Lowry HOUSE LEADER student leadership team have their own Mrs A. Marsh individual skills but all come together, along with Mrs Marsh and Mr James, to create a HOUSE LEADER great team. We would also like to introduce our Student Leadership Team who will help in supporting the House captains. These are Michael Evans, Will Gibbons, Ellie Rothwell, Laura Maguire, Zain Butt, Abigail Hughes.Mrs J. Ward Mr G. James L-R: Alex Donahue; Edward Wakefield; Nuala Pattenden; Isabel Ashmore; Rebecca Kellet; PASTORAL PASTORAL Chloe Tompson and Georgia Leuty.CO-ORDINATOR CO-ORDINATOR 11

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