Kingsway News - May 16

Newsletter | May 2016We raised an amazing£30,000! 1

A Message from the Headteacher agreed to set aside £60,000 from the school budget to completely refurbish our existing Foxland toilets. We hope to able to finance Dear parent/carer, improvements to Broadway toilets in the future. Welcome to our summer term newsletter. It feels Finally, again in response to our students, we have fitted water like we have been waiting a long time for the fountains on both campuses where students can fill their water weather to make us feel that summer is here, but bottles. Please encourage your child to bring a bottle of water to it does seem to be on its way at last. school with them, as hydrated students make happy students! In school we welcome the arrival of the brighter, lighter mornings and evenings, but there is also a Pastoral Changes lot for us to do in the few months before we break up. The Senior Leadership Team at the school have been reviewing the current pastoral structure, and have introduced changes to ensure Class of 2016 that our current pastoral staffing meets the needs of our school. The The exam season for our Year 11 cohort has begun and we have high changes will take effect from September 2016. hopes for them all. We’re incredibly proud of the commitment many of The roles of House Leader and Pastoral Coordinator will cease and them have given to their studies over the year, and their engagement will be replaced by Raising Standards Leaders and Pastoral Heads of with the extra-curricular support the school has offered. This will Year. The raising Standards Leaders will each have the responsibility continue over the coming weeks, keep your eye on our website for for the academic progress for a year group. From September, these further details. GCSE results day is Thursday 25th August 2016, again staff will be: Dr Holdsworth – Year 7, Mr Insley – Year 8, Mrs Houlden we will send more details to parents of Year 11 students. – Year 9, Ms Clarke (who returns from maternity leave) – Year 10 and Ms Cox-Brown – Year 11. In addition, Mrs Marsh will be the Raising Class of 2021 Standards Leader for our most vulnerable students including those Can you believe it … the class of 2021 will soon be joining us. I’m eligible for the pupil premium. delighted to inform you that as our reputation is growing in our The current Pastoral Coordinators will each take on the role of community, so are our student numbers – we are over-subscribed for Pastoral Head of Year, but in response to the growing nature of our the third year running. We are very fortunate to have a close working school population we will be increasing this workforce so there are relationship with our excellent feeder primary schools, who keep us two Pastoral Heads of each year focussing on the behaviour, safety well informed of the developments at Key Stage 2 to ensure that we and well-being of each student in their year and providing that vital build upon their high standards when students join us in Year 7. line of communication with parents. We are passionate about ensuring the transition from primary to secondary is as smooth as possible, minimising any anxieties for Parent Voice students and their families. We intend to re-run our very successful We are making communication easier, faster and more effective. If summer school, more information to follow for Year 6 parents. you have a smartphone, both you and the school can save money by downloading the ‘School Gateway’ app from your app store (Android Premises Update and iPhone). By doing this we can send you app messages (avoiding One key reason for our conversion to academy status earlier this year, the cost of texts) and you can send messages back for FREE. was to be eligible to bid for funding to improve our school buildings via It is quick and easy to do. All you need are the email address and the DFE’s Condition Improvement Fund. We are thrilled to have been mobile number that school holds on record for you. successful in our first bid, securing £250,000 for repairs to our roofs We are aiming to get as many parents/carers as possible using the and façades. We plan to re-bid at the end of this year to replace our School Gateway smartphone app. Please support the school with this single glazed windows, providing a warmer and more energy efficient goal. However, if you do not have a smartphone, you will still receive environment for our staff and students. text messages and emails from the school. Work has also just finished on our new cycle storage quad. This was built from monies provided by Transport for Greater Manchester, Additionally, compatible with all devices, our new following another successful bid. It is hoped that these improved Digital Card allows you to easily access The Kingsway cycling facilities will encourage more students to cycle to school. Each School’s contact details and useful links. Once cycle pod has the space for helmets to be stored. However, there is bookmarked to the home screen of your phone or more to cycle safety than wearing helmets, and I am concerned when tablet, it has the most useful information easily I am informed by members of our community that our students are accessible to you, for example, our contact details, cycling in a reckless manner. If your child cycles to school, please ask a link to the calendar and also direct links to the them to do so safely. Parental Engagement Portal and Parent Pay. Furthermore, work will begin over the summer on new student toilet Download the ‘card’ by going to: thekingswayschool.iinfou.com facilities on our Foxland campus. Governors were keen to respond to student voice regarding the poor state of some of our toilets and2

Thank a Teacher Senior Students 2016–2017A highlight of the summer term for our staff is in the formof a ’Thank You’ card from our students. We ask all We are delighted to announce our Senior Students for 2016-17.students to send a message of thanks to a teacher or Congratulations to these students who, following a rigorous selectionmember of our support staff who has made a positive impact process in March, have been appointed from an extremely strong field.on them over the year. We would love for our parents to get involvedif they would like to. If you would also like to thank a teacher, please The new Senior Students will take up their positions in June. Meanwhilevisit: www.kingsway.stockport.sch.uk/thanks where you will be able they will work alongside our current Senior Students, to prepare forto fill in a virtual postcard. These will then be printed and passed on their new roles and to ensure continuity of student leadership.to the relevant teachers. Shown L-R: Kevin Mutara (Head Boy), Uthman Al-Wandawi (DeputyBehaviour Policy Head Boy), Nuala Pattenden (Head Girl) and Deputy Head Girls NiamhWe have recently revised our school behaviour policy and this can befound on Kingsway Online. Parents are encouraged to read the policy O’Shaughnessy,and feed back any comments to Mrs Maxey. Blanca Corbelli and Isabel Ashmore.High Expectations – UniformSummer uniform is currently in place – this means students are not Read Nuala andrequired to wear their jumpers. However, shirts should be tucked in, Kevin’s report onties should be long enough so 4 stripes are visible and girls’ skirts their evening at theworn at the correct length. Myriad FoundationIn September, students will be expected to wear their full uniform. CommunityWe are proud of our uniform and know that our students are amongst Champions Awardthe smartest in the borough. We share our parents’ frustrations when on page 4.students begin to divert from our uniform, for example sports brandedshoes and non-logo skirts. We are a large school and rely on the Keep in Touch!support of our parents in ensuring that their child is correctly dressedfor school each day. Don’t forget to follow us for the latest school updates:I hope you enjoy reading the amazing experiences that your children @kw_sch /thekingswayschoolhave had during their time at The Kingsway School in this newsletter.I wish you all a wonderful summer, Furthermore, the Parental Engagement Portal allows youMrs Lowe to access attendance, assessment, merit and timetable data about your child/children. You can log in by clicking on theA Message from The Trustees and Governing Body Parental Engagement Portal section on the homepage ofAs you are no doubt aware, as of 1st February this year, The Kingsway Kingsway Online: www.kingsway.stockport.sch.ukSchool became an Academy Trust.All Academy Trusts continue to have Governors, with parents The Kingsway Associationrepresented on this body. They also, like many non-profit makingbodies, have Trustees. If you visit the school website you will see a We are the school’s Parent Teacher association, meetingpage listing our current Governors, three of whom, Joanne Lowe informally once per term. For more information about our(head), Anne Thompson and Caroline Booth, have been appointed work and to find out when our next meeting will be, pleaseas our current Trustees. Anne and Caroline are both local residents, visit: www.kingsway.stockport.sch.uk/tkawhose children have attended Kingsway in the past. They both holdteaching qualifications – although Caroline has, for the last ten years, Kingsway Bake Off & Masterchef – C. Clarkeworked in business.As Trustees and Governors we would like to invite all Kingsway The Great Kingsway Bake Off (Years 7&8) and Masterchef (Year 9)stakeholders – students, teachers, parents and members of our are back! The competitions will take place in June.community to join us on an exciting ‘Academy Journey’. A journey thatwill see us building on all that is good about The Kingsway School, whilst Y7 – Bake Off: Design and make mini cakes.striving for further progress and success for every one of our students. Y8 – Bake Off: Design and make a delicious dessert. Y9 – Masterchef: Cook a two course meal (main & dessert). For more information and an entry form, please see Mrs Clarke in B34. 3

Kingsway ‘Community Champions’ Walking To The Moon! – L. Balfe Kingsway students, staff – and volunteers from our local community – have walked almost as far as the moon to raise money for charity. On Friday 1st April, over fifteen hundred students, staff, parents and community volunteers walked over 20 thousand miles – 13 miles each – to raise money for charity. This was Kingsway’s 12th Charity Sponsored Walk. We have been walking every two years since 1994 – clocking up a grand total of nearly a quarter of a million miles and raising almost half a million pounds for dozens of local, national and international charities. Every penny raised will be divided between three charities nominated and chosen by our students: Cystic Fibrosis Trust, Manchester Dogs’ Home and the Red Cross - as well as our sister school in Kolweny, Kenya, ‘The Kolweny-Kingsway School’. Representatives from some of the charities took part in the Myriad Foundation Community day, along with volunteers from the local community, including Cheadle Champions Award Rotary Club and the Cheadle Churches. The walkers set off from our – Nuala Pattenden & Kevin Mutara (Year 10) Broadway Campus, following a largely off-road route through Bruntwood Park and down to Carrs Park in Wilmslow, where they stopped for lunch, On Wednesday the 23rd March our new senior students took part in before returning to Foxland Campus via Styal and Heald Green. the Myriad Foundation Community Champions Award. Several schools from Greater Manchester took part in the event at the British Muslim It was fantastic to see our young people really ‘going the extra mile’ Heritage Centre, each with the task of presenting all of the great for others. This is a very important part of our events which had been held at the schools in the past year in order to school ethos. What the students have achieved raise money for charity. Kingsway boasted their sponsored walk event, will really come home to them at our final Christmas Fayre and the continuing support of Kolweny Kingsway. assembly in July. Representatives of our chosen After an evening of amazing presentations of all of the hard work done charities will be presented with the money raised by pupils, a panel of judges: Robb Potts – Deputy Chief Constable of and will address the whole school, explaining Greater Manchester Police, Alanna Vine – a long serving respected to the students how the money will be used to local councillor from Cheadle, and Muhammed Bangi – Director of make a real difference to people’s lives. This is fundraising from the sponsoring charity Human Appeal International always a very moving and emotional moment and had to make the tough decision as to who would win. it makes all of us, staff and students alike, really proud to be part of Kingsway. At the end of the evening, after comments from Tweets and Facebook comments from our Community: the judges, the winning “I have been working in and around Heald Green today and it was lovely Community Champions to see lots of smiling faces on children doing the walk and marshals were revealed: The making sure everyone was safe. Well done to everyone involved!” Kingsway School! A burst of cheers came from “amazing effort from @kw_sch community #proud” our table, followed by a standing ovation and “Saw them all in Handforth today how fab!!! Well done Kingsway x” applause from other schools and spectators. Each senior student was given a certificate and medal and the school was awarded the Myriad Foundation Community Champions Award 2016 plaque as well as a signed shirt from Manchester City star, Yaya Touré. It was an incredible outstanding, inspirational and elevating evening.4

Merit Shield Winners – K. Guess The Diana Award – L. LavaniniWe like to celebrate success and every month the top merit winners The Diana Award is a legacy to Princess Diana’s beliefin each House are awarded a merit badge, a certificate and a gold that young people have the power to change the worldstar. This has proved to be very popular and as a result we decided for the better. They identify and develop young people,to award the students in second and third place in each House with a then inspire and engage them in social action.certificate to recognise their achievements.By the end of the year over 200 merit awards will have been given out! The Kingsway School nominated 19 students for the Award who all took part in ‘The Diana Award Anti-BullyingThe following students hold the top three places in the school: Ambassador Training Programme’. After receiving training, the • Niamh O’Shaughnessy (Whitworth) – 492 students were named as Anti-Bullying Ambassadors – responsible • Blanca Corbelli (Turing) – 430 for raising awareness of bullying, leading on campaigns, promoting • Tanvia Hussain (Gaskell) – 424 kindness and ensuring their peers stay safe both online and offline.The winners for the last 3 months were: At the start of the year Ambassadors attended Year 7 classes to help their transition and were on hand to help ensure they made friends.House/Month February March April Our Ambassadors have gone on to mentor students who have reported Pankhurst concerns, had friendship issues and have been struggling to make Whitworth Eleanor White, 8E Eleanor White, 8E Eleanor White, 8E friends. Some of our Ambassadors have set up friendship groups, which are available in the mezzanine on Broadway Campus at Break Rylands Niamh Niamh Niamh 2. Additionally, our Ambassadors have organised fundraising events O’Shaughnessy, 10I O’Shaughnessy, 10I O’Shaughnessy, 10I and helped run a successful Anti-Bullying Week, including visiting local primary schools to deliver Anti-Bullying assemblies. They also Estefany Fuguett Estefany Fuguett Estefany Fuguett proposed ideas for our first multicultural awareness week, which Gutierrez, 9T Gutierrez, 9T Gutierrez, 9T finished with some of our Ambassadors having tea and scones with the mayor.Lowry Izzy Cooke, 7Y Izzy Cooke, 7Y Izzy Cooke, 7YGaskell Tanvia Hussain, 10N Tanvia Hussain, 10N Tanvia Hussain, 10NTuring Blanca Corbelli, 10G Blanca Corbelli, 10G Blanca Corbelli, 10GY7 & Y9 Celebration Evenings – R. Knott Well done to the following nominated students: George Lawton, Milo Whelan Frost, Scarlet Aurbert, NiamhThere are two new events this year, a Year 7 Celebration Evening O’Shaughnessy, Salihah Saeed, Jasmin Lukeson, Laura Maguire,(Thursday 14th July) and a Year 9 Celebration Evening (Wednesday Amerha Azam, Ashley Jose, Maddy Prescott, Anna Castle, MahiMa13th July). It is vital that Year 7 students make a good start to their Uddin, Jess Crawley, Ellie Reeves, Hanna Mulroney, Abby Shaw,high school careers and set the foundations for success in later years. Emily Fairlie, Georgina Hancock and Tybah Aslam.For the students in Year 9 it is really important that they are readyfor GCSEs and the demands that these will place upon them. These Maths Challenge – J. Pantelievents will give the chance to recognise those successes. Selected Year 10 students took part in the UnitedWelfare Officer Messages – L. Kelman Kingdom Intermediate Maths Challenge in February, a task which pits students against extremely difficult maths problems.Providing Paracetamol In School – Short Term use Of the 50 students who entered the challenge, 22 received certificates in bronze, silver and gold, anThe Kingsway School keeps its own stock of Paracetamol. This negates extremely positive result! Special congratulationsthe need for students to have Paracetamol on their person. Parental to Benjamin Walton and Maddy Prescott for getting Goldconsent, however, is still required, following the non-prescribed certificates. Maddy also advanced to the next stage ofmedicines procedure, before Paracetamol will be administered the competition and has been awarded a certificateto students. Students simply requiring Paracetamol should be of participation in the Pink Kangaroo, a globalencouraged to go to their house office in the first instance. challenge in which the top students from over 50 countries compete for prizes.Acrylic/False Nails Well done to every Year 10 student involved.Acrylic/false nails are NOT part of School uniform and must not be The junior challenge for selected Year 8 students has also taken placeworn to school. There has been an incident this term where injury has and we are eagerly awaiting the results.been caused which required hospital treatment, as the ‘nail bed’ waslifted along with the acrylic nail. 5

Rewards Day Out – K. Guess Inspiring IAG Award – R. Knott The majority of students have managed to gain enough merits to be Kingsway School has recently been awarded the invited on the Rewards Day Out on Wednesday 20th July. Inspiring IAG award (Stage 2). The national award is They can choose from one of the following options: a benchmark for outstanding Careers Information and Guidance and we are currently working towards • Alton Towers the highest level, Stage 3. • Blackpool Pleasure Beach The award is judged by an external assessor who monitors the full • Chill Factore (Multi-activity day) range of careers provision including employer links, independent • Namco Funscape (Ten pin bowling and dodgems) careers advice, curriculum provision and student destination data. • Soccerdome (5-a-side football competition) To give you just a flavour of the activities and opportunities provided this • Oliver Dunn Chocolate Making Workshop year, Year 11 have met with all the local colleges and had one-to-one • Pamper Day careers interviews; Year 10 have been through mock interviews with • Art Based Activity Day employers, and will have a Post-16 evening later this term (see more • D&T Based Activity Day detailed reports, right); Year 9 have enjoyed a problem-solving day with • Multi-media Day (Computer games and DVDs) an engineering company, and met over 30 employers at their careers Speed Dating evening; Year 8 will have a day focussing on work-related All trips have been subsidised by the school’s Rewards fund. skills and resilience; and Year 7 will be having a STEM day at the end of Students who have qualified for Rewards Day have received a letter term with a major employer. regarding selection and payment. During the last 18 months there has been a great deal of change to Parents can pay by visiting the school’s online payment service: our Careers Guidance and the award is a validation of the outstanding www.parentpay.com. Alternatively they can use the PayPoint service work. Mrs Flood, Mrs Woodyer and Mr Knott have been instrumental in to make a cash payment at many locations; newsagents, convenience ensuring that our students get the very best careers advice and benefit stores, supermarkets and garages. from a wide variety of links with employers and colleges. Please note that we are unable to accept cheque or cash payments in school. Payments must be made by Monday 6th June to avoid If your child requires any careers information please ask him/her to disappointment. speak with their tutor, or see Mrs Flood in the careers section of the We hope that all students enjoy their rewards on the 20th July. library. The Wild Roadshow – L. Barson Year 9 STEM Day – N. Hammersley On 27th April the ‘Wild Roadshow’ came to visit the Kingsway School’s On the 20th April, a small group of Year 9 students attended Liverpool Year 7 students. Inside their boxes lurked a variety of different University for the day. The students involved had previously taken part animals ranging from Giant African Land Snails to Bearded Dragons! in the Go4Set Industrial Cadet Bronze Level award relating to STEM The Year 7 students had the opportunity to meet Sponge Bob, a huge (Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths). African Land Snail who crawled all over their hands, leaving a super slimy trail behind. Next the students were introduced to a giant The day was an occasion to see the work of STEM students from other millipede with over 500 legs, a Brazilian Rainbow Boa Snake who, schools, with whom our students had been competing and to see first wrapped itself around the students’ hands and an adorable gecko. hand the projects of Post-16 students on the Engineering Education Finally, the students were shown a Chilean tarantula who made a Scheme – a real life, 6-month STEM project for Year 12 students. All our huge nest out of mud and sand. students presented their own work with great confidence and subject The day was filled with lots of animal facts: knowledge and were an absolute credit to the school. reproductive, eating habits and lifestyle of the animals shown. The afternoon was spent with students working in the University’s All of the Aeronautical Engineering Department where students were able to use, students learnt amongst other things, a state of the art flight simulator to take off from a lot and had Liverpool Airport. some excellent questions to Many of the students have commented since that they had never challenge the thought of a career within a STEM subject and attending University had ‘Wild Roadshow’ opened their eyes to the possible career paths available to them. host too! Well done to Nazneem, Estefany, Matthew, Holly, Tayyibah and Amy for being a credit to their parents and the school.6

Careers and Post-16 News – S. FloodEducation and Training Information Event: Barclays Work Experience Barclays at Radbroke Hall offered our Year 10 students thePost-16 Options opportunity of applying for one week of work experience during February half term. The work experience programme shows youngPlease feel free to attend the Education Information Event people what life is like working in an IT-related career. Lots ofand Training Information Event on 7th June For years 10, 11, 12 and 13. students came to see me to collect information on how to apply. Workat Stockport Town Hall between 4.30pm Experience always looks good on applications for Colleges and CV’sand 8.30pm where there will be a range of Tuesday 7 June and it looks even better when students have voluntarily given up theirStockport-based Further Education colleges, leisure time in order to participate.school 6th forms and Apprenticeship training 4:30pm - 8:30pm Six of our students were offered this opportunity at Barclays and theproviders present as well as support services. Stockport Town Hall feedback I received following this week was all extremely positive so a massive congratulations to all students. After having spoken to Stockport based further education colleges, school 6th students they obviously enjoyed the experience and found it to be of forms and Apprenticeship training providers will be present, great value to have experienced the ‘work’ environment. Well Done to Anam Riaz, Blanca Corbelli, Shanaz Baksh, Ayesha Pervez, Mariam along with support services to offer guidance to help you Jafar and Kevin Mutara! make informed choices about your future. Thales Presentation No appointment needed - come along! Bring your parents. On the 16th March Year 10 were treated to a visit from RepresentativesIf you would like further information about the 14-19 Services: 0161 474 2350 from Global Company Thales. Our visitors were both Engineers atevent please contact: 14-19 Services on 0161 the Cheadle Office and they came in explain the diversity of options474 2350 or email: [email protected] available within Engineering to both males and females.Stockport College Visit Thales operate in many different areas: transport, defence, spaceStockport College visited our school at the end of March to talk to and cybersecurity to name a few.some of our Year 11 students who were still confused about their They also offered our Year 10 students the opportunity to apply forPost-16 Plans. one week of work experience in the Summer Holidays which wasThe College came in to highlight options and also interview students very positively received from our students as lots of applications werefor college places with them as a back up to any other plans they had. received.Students were offered places there and then which will enable themto make a more considered choice when they are in receipt of their Year 10 GMHAP Visit to People’s History Museum with Loreto CollegeGCSE results. On the 17th March our GMHAP students enjoyed their second activity run by Loreto College. We visited the People’s History Museum inYear 10 Practice Interviews Manchester and enjoyed taking part in 3 different workshops – one ofYear 10 Students have recently had the opportunity to experience which was a Drama Production about the war and why some peopletheir first ‘interview’. Employers and Business Professionals were took the decision to become conscientious objectors – it certainlyinvited to our school on the 22nd and 23rd March to interview our made us all think of what is right and wrong and how sometimes itsstudents, in order to prepare them for the interviews they will shortly impossible to be that black and white! Students also enjoyed getting their hands dirty by making their own clay protest pots. be undertaking when applying for colleges and Apprenticeships. There was also a bit of excitement amongst all visitors Students were initially required at the Museum that day, whilst to complete an ‘Application Form’ having lunch Jeremy Corbyn in preparation for their interview. visited and happily posed with Students arrived at their allocated our students for a photo! times and received a full briefing of how to conduct themselvesduring the interview and how to respond to questions asked. Thenerves were obvious as students were taken into the Hall to meet withtheir Interviewer! A handshake and lots of questions later, studentsreturned to complete an evaluation form with, on the whole, bigsmiles!The Business Professionals were very impressed with our studentsand praised them highly! They told us that students presentedthemselves very well and talked clearly and confidently about theirachievements and future aspirations! We were told that we shouldbe very proud of how our students approached these days and wemost certainly are! A HUGE Well Done to Year 10 students for theirperformance and a big thank you to ‘Our Futures’ and all Volunteerswho helped us out on the day to make it the success it was! 7

My Trip to Kolweny – Evie Longman (Year 7) Coaching To Success Programme – A. MarshI had the opportunity to travel to Kenya over the Easter holidays with As part of my National Qualification in Senior Leadership, in 2015 Imy dad and brother together with Steve and Angela Rowley to see and created a Coaching programme for our Most Able students at Thehelp in the work of the Rowley Projects charity. The charity supports Kingsway School (current Year 11). 32 students were selected to bethe Kolweny Kingsway Primary and High Schools and also the coached by a member of staff at school to enable the students to takecommunity of Nyandiwa. charge of their progress through regular coaching/planning sessions. The programme was conductedIt took us a day to travel to Kenya via 3 flights and a couple hours’ online and every student wasdrive. We were looked after by our hosts Ayugi and Everline. Ayugi is given a blue USB bracelet to weara teacher at the Kolweny Kingsway Primary School. We also met with every day to save any documents,Diana and Pamela, who are teachers in the High School. They have planning, and targets made inboth visited our school here at Kingsway. coaching sessions. Students were expected to use this bracelet as We were fortunate that we kept safe and well for our 11 day visit. a resource to help them gather The water we used was clean and was rainwater that was collected evidence from their meetings with their coaches so that they could and stored in a large tank by the house that we were staying in. We had look back to see how far they had progressed. to hand pump the water up to a storage tank in the house if we wanted to have a shower. There was no hot water, it was a cold shower each After just one full term of coaching within the day!! Our drinking water was filtered in a concrete tube which had programme the projected results of the student cohort gravel and sand in it, which takes all the bad bacteria out the water, increased by 10%. Additionally, the programme has which then makes it safe to drink. It tasted better than the water we empowered the students to take responsibility for their get at home. own progress academically. The programme has been so successful, that it will be We were able to spend time at both the Primary and High schools, rolled out to the current Year 10 and possibly to Year 9. where we were able to give gifts of pens, pencils and rubbers out to the pupils of both schools. Also, we gave the younger pupils of the Primary Feedback from parents, students and coaches has been very positive: School a toothbrush and a small packet of sweets. “I have really loved going to my meetings – it’s so nice to have a one to We helped paint markings on the small playground area of the Primary one with someone who cares and wants to help. It’s a brilliant way to School for the younger children to enjoy. just stop and think about the past week and how it’s been going and what we need to do to make the next one even better. We saw the newly built Abela at the High School. The Abela will be My coach has been amazing and has given me solutions to my worries used for the dining area and also as a meeting space for assemblies. and I don’t know how to thank her enough. Thank you for involving me We also helped to get a weather vane fitted to the Abela for the in this program, it’s been an amazing help. Please do it for the next geography department. Hopefully they will be able to swap weather Year 11’s, I hope they will appreciate the help they get. I know I do!” data with us. DofE Awards Evening – S. Cooper At the time of our visit, the schools were involved in their end of term exams, but we were able to experience an English lesson with Year Over 30 of our Year 10 students were amongst the many students who 8 pupils of the Primary School. were presented with their DofE Awards at Stockport Town Hall at a They were being taught about celebration evening in March. The Awards were presented by special question tags. Also, I was able to guest Keira Byland, a competitor in the cycling and swimming events play a game of Netball with some in The Special Olympics. of the girls. The Netball court was an area of rough ground, Joe Corbelli, Dan King and Chloe with no markings and some Worswick were the hosts for the hoops mounted on wooden poles. evening which was attended by local dignitaries, headteachers and8 parents. In addition, our students (Ben Attfield, Annabell Haastrup and Megan Bousfield) provided the entertainment for the event and were a credit to the school.

Duke of Edinburgh – J. Mugg Trip to PGL – J. CardenYear 11 students from the Resourced School have been doing their On the last weekend of April, a group of Year 7 students accompaniedSilver Duke of Edinburgh Award. The students are Howard Lui, Jordan the Resourced School annual trip to PGL in Shropshire. DespiteStaddon and Carl Kershaw. To fulfil their voluntary section, they made setting off in snow and hail, spirits were not dampened, and thean appeal to the school to donate food, clothing and toiletry items to students spent two nights in tents in the beautiful grounds ofsupport their collection for homeless people and rough sleepers in Boreatton Park. Greater Manchester. They took part in a range They have worked very hard to develop of activities, including their own understanding and empathy Raft building, Archery, of how it is to be without a home, as Rifle Shooting, Quad well as contributing items they felt Biking, Zip Wire, Giant would be of most benefit. The school swing and a Challenge responded very well to the posters course. In the evenings, and collection boxes the boys made they enjoyed team gamesand so on Wednesday the 30th of March, the boys took their collected and a camp fire talentgoods to the chosen charity. show!‘Emmaus’ is a global organisation. The students were enthusiastic and supportive of each other at allThe charity provides shelter, work, times, and their good behaviour was commented on more than onceskills to learn and unlimited time for by the PGL staff. It was a really inclusive trip and a pleasure to seecompanions to get back on their feet. mainstream students working alongside, and enjoying the company of,The Salford centre manager met us the resourced students.and gave the boys a lovely welcome Many thanks, once again, to the hard working staff who spent their Bank– and some chocolate to express his Holiday making this trip a huge success. A great time was had by all!thanks. We were shown over the centre and were very impressedwith the wonderful work done there. The boys’ donations were very Music Department – Hallé Visit – D. Woodmuch appreciated and plans were made to return to help with somegardening work in the future. Howard, Jordan and Carl would like to In March the Music Department co-ordinated a trip thatexpress their thanks to everyone who donated to their appeal. allowed all our Year 7 students to experience the Hallé for Youth 2016 concert at the Bridgewater Hall in Manchester.Year 10 students who are doing their Bronze Duke of Edinburgh The Hallé set a theme relating to Manchester becoming the EuropeanAward have also been working extremely hard on their skills City of Science, the first UK city to receive this accolade.section. The students are Katrina Woods, Ummar Hussain, Zayyan The audience were taken on a journey to discover the many linksHelal and Jorden Lomas. Their chosen skill is to contribute to the between science and music, from the mathematical precision of Bachdevelopment and construction of the Sensory Garden in the B11 right through to the science-fiction film music of John Williams. In agarden. The students have helped to clear the site, measure the Hallé first, the concerts even featured two pieces of video game music.area and lay out borders. They havemade Sensory Garden letters for Despite the unexpected snow onthe garden wall. The students have the final day, the concerts were adone a lot of research into sensory huge success. All Year 7 studentsgardens and come up with some really appreciated the experience,wonderful ideas: There will be a enjoying the music and behaving‘Bug Hotel’, performance/teaching impeccably.areas, vegetables and herbs as well as flowers. Every sense has beenconsidered. It is a very exciting project to be involved in and the work Music Diploma Success – P. Lawtonhas been extremely thorough and committed.Additionally, the students have been volunteering their time as part Congratulations to Ben Attfield (11N) who achieved an extremelyof their Bronze Award. They have volunteered at Busy Bee’s Day impressive 95% on his Music Performance Diploma on the piano.Nursery, playing, reading and painting with the children. He is the first student ever to leave The Kingsway with a diploma, andThey are also volunteering in and around school doing various jobs for can now use the post-nominal title DipLCM after his name.staff. If you have any jobs for them please let us know! A massive achievement – well done Ben! 9

Geography Field Trip – Salihah Saeed & George Dickson (Y10) English Department News During the first week back after Easter, 160 GCSE geography students Year 7 Spelling Bee – M. Ebbs went to Scarborough as part of their coursework. We arrived in the small town of Mappleton to a bright sunny day. On 6th May, Year 7 students took part in a Spelling Bee, getting the Firstly, we walked up the B1242 and we recorded the features of the small village on our land use map. We then went to the beach and chance to show their fantastic spelling skills on some very difficult sat on rip-rap to have words (‘Connoisseur’ even had us stumped!). After a group challenge to our long awaited lunch. After drawing a sketch get brains engaged, the students took part in two tough and competitive of the fastest eroding coastline in Europe we individual rounds before we crowned our Spelling Bee champions. Well then boarded the bus and made our way to done to all involved, and special congratulations to our winner, Hassan Flamborough head, where we took several Nawaz, and our two runners up, Zach Moloney and Ruby Hesketh. photographs of the coastal landforms, such as the arch and chalk stack. Year 11 – English Language Revision Day – C. Griffiths After a day’s hard work, we excitedly hopped onto the coach and made our way to the lovely hotel. On arrival we checked into our rooms Sixty-five Year 11 pupils were selected to spend a day in April with and then made our way down for dinner. Later we sped down to the arcade, where the students beat the teachers hands down at pool!! a senior examiner looking at the Reading section of the English And at the end of a very exhausting day we all retired to out rooms for a well-deserved rest. Language GCSE paper. Pupils worked hard throughout the day The next day, we were woken bright and early by joyous teachers! The action-packed day that followed left us longing to stay, yet all good revising the different questions and learning strategies in order to things come to an end. After hours of hard work our investigation of the Holderness coastline was finished. Fish and chips and a coach help them prepare and revise for the forthcoming examinations. ride home was a sign that the 2016 geography field trip was over… until next year! The examiner was impressed with the pupils and their efforts during the session. Year 11 – Revision Reminder All pupils in Year 11 should be revising and completing past papers over the coming weeks before the English Language and Literature examinations. If students wish to have additional help or examination papers marked, please see Mrs Griffiths – Head of English in F22. Year 10 English News – N. Dean Year 10 have two mock exams approaching: Tuesday 14th June covering Language Paper 1 and Friday 17th June covering Literature Paper 1 - ‘A Christmas Carol’ and ‘Macbeth’. Your English teachers will have distributed revision booklets for you to prepare and revise for these mocks. There is also a Year 10 Booster Club running every Wednesday D&T News from 3-4pm in F25 for those interested in extra revision and guidance. After a very busy few weeks, Year 11 controlled – B. Whitham World Book Day, 3rd March – S. Cooper assessments in all D&T subjects are now complete. Staff and students have worked incredibly hard with The Kingsway School celebrated this year’s World Book Day with the many after-school, break time and holiday sessions in order to maximise marks. Following internal theme Nostalgia: How I fell in love with reading. moderation, we would like to congratulate the following students for achieving 100% in their controlled Staff dressed up as their favourite childhood literary characters and assessments. You should be very proud of yourselves! classrooms were filled with the reminiscences between staff and Aldon Braganca, Huzaifa Qureshi, Abdul Sadiq, Zara Hussain, Sara Ahmed, Olivia Blevins, Alice students alike, sharing their memories of favourite stories from Donnelly, Habiba Mohammed, Josie O’Neill, Jordan Phillips, Nathan Thornhill, Umer Ahmed, primary school, their first memories of reading, and what books Ellie Ashton, Hannah Beaver, Lucy Fetcher – Thomas, Nyeiri Gharib and Lailah Haouche. inspired us when we were younger. There were many shared smiles as There’s still plenty work to do for Year 11 students though, with 40% of the marks still to discussions remembered ‘The Hungry Caterpillar’, ‘Biff and Chip’, and play for in the final exam! ‘The Rainbow Fish’. Students also added their memories to posters that were designed for the day – these have been made into a permanent display, as a celebration of the Kingsway School’s love of reading. Activities were also held in the library with Mrs Lomas hosting reading games and competitions during break times; students and staff were also able to record their own video explaining how they fell in love with reading.10

Sporting Achievements This Term – A. Riley Cycling Success – L. HoldsworthHuge congratulations to all the sports performers this term, with Well done to Year 11 student Tobymany successes from a variety of sports, such as: Edwards (pictured middle) who came • Girls’ U13 football – Stockport Champions; seventh out of 250 riders in the Brian • Boys’ Year 11 football – League finalists and Cup Robinson Challenge Ride. Toby, who completed the race in 4 hours 11 semi finalists; minutes, was one of the youngest riders • Boys’ Year 9 football – Cup and League semi- on the day which makes this even more of a fantastic achievement. finalists; The Brian Robinson Challenge Ride is a • Boys’ Year 7 football – League semi-finalists; tough 70 mile cycle circuit which offers • Boys’ Year 11 Basketball – 4th in Greater riders the opportunity to tackle in the climb of Holme Moss, which was an early Manchester finals; climb in the 2014 Tour de France when the race visited Yorkshire. • Girls’ Year 8 Basketball – winning a close More Boccia Success! – J. Randles game against CHHS; • Girls’ KS3 and KS4 badminton – both Following the students’ success at the Stockport Championship, the team represented the borough at the Greater Manchester School runners up in the Stockport championships Games. and going through to the county round; After winning the group stages of the competition, the students made • Boys’ U15 Indoor cricket – Stockport Champions and County it through to the semi-final. Champions. The team go on to the National Championships later They went on to win the Bronze Medal, with a 4-0 victory in the play- this year, where we hope to become National Champions! off. The winning team were Chloe Andrew, Jack Cuthbertson, Georgia Graham, Laura Wood and Amaan Abbas – well done to all of them!GCSE PEThere are helpful links, a countdown timer and revision topics on@KingswayPE for GCSE pupils who are preparing for their exam onFriday 20th May. Revision sessions are still being run weekly for allYear 11 GCSE pupils. The Year 10 Mock exam is on the 18th May.Cheersport 2016 – Sophie Kindon, (Year 11) Other Resourced School sporting activitiesIn February, myself, Freya Boswell, Kelise Gordon, The resourced students all participated in a swimming competition atDaisy O’Neill and Greta Bailey all flew to Atlanta, Hazel Grove where they all received certificates for their taking partGeorgia to compete at American Nationals with with such enthusiasm!Rising Stars, which is one of the most intense and They also took part in a cricket activity at The Heaton School: Georgiabiggest competitions in cheerleading. Graham and Amaan Abbas were awarded certificates and badges for their enthusiasm and team spirit. We had the amazing opportunity to train at the PE Rules & Expectations – A. RileyStingray Allstars Gym, the home of many World Champion teams.We had training every day for 2 hours, and then did various activities, • Make sure you arrive to lessons on time.for example we visited the Coca-Cola factory, which very exciting. • Get changed into full PE Kit even if you are not participating –We competed in the Senior All Girl Level 3 category, against 10 otherteams. As cheerleading is much more appreciated in America, we you will be coaching/officiating, and it is for hygiene and safetywere very nervous, as we were against previous World Champions. purposes.The competition was over two days: After having one stunt fall on the • All jewellery must be removed with hair tied back. Pupils mustfirst day, we were all very excited to compete on Day 2, as we wanted wear the correct Kingsway PE kit (shorts or tracksuit bottoms,to prove that we could hit all of our stunts. Before the routine was t-shirt, socks and appropriate footwear - this includes studdedover you could see on everyone’s faces how much it meant to them, as boots, gum shields and shin pads).the majority of us were crying with happiness, and our coaches had • It is highly recommended pupils write their names in their kit,beaming smiles and were jumping with joy at the front. in case of lost or misplaced uniform.Having estimated we would place around 7th, we ended up coming 4th • No leggings or tights are allowed to be worn in girls’ PE.which was amazing, and we all still cannot believe it. • Gymnastics must be performed in bare feet. This is for healthWe were all very lucky to have this experience and we will not forget it and safety reasons.in a hurry. • Enjoy and try your best every lesson! 11

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