Senior Leadership Team Update
It has been another week filled with visitors at KEVI. We started the week with a number of visitors from local businesses who are supporting our exciting new careers provision led by Miss Henshall. We’ve also had a number of visitors from our DRET family of schools. Every visitor has commented on how polite and respectful KEVI students are. Of course we know this, but it is always nice to have it confirmed by visitors to our school.
This week students have been busy writing gratitude baubles for our Tree of Gratitude. We know that practicing gratitude has real mental health benefits. It has been lovely to read all of the comments from students about who they are grateful for. We will continue to do this throughout the year with seasonal themes.
We are really grateful for all of the work Miss Villiers has done over the last month to transform our library. A huge amount of work has gone into setting up our new library system with thousands of pounds worth of new books. The whole community is really appreciative of this work. We made significant progress this term to embed reading as part of life at KEVI and everyone is very proud of those students who have made significant improvements in their reading ages over the past three months.
Thank you to all of our Year 11 families who attended out first online Parents’ Evening this week. It has been encouraging to see the numbers who are attending period 6 sessions after school increasing. The timetable is as follows and this will continue throughout next term.
Please encourage your children to attend. We know that regular attendance at these sessions will boost GCSE results. If transport is a barrier to attendance please contact the school office or ask your child to speak to their form tutor.
Our Period 6 revision classes will run from 3:15pm – 3:50pm. The timetable is as follows:
- Monday - English / Humanities*
- Tuesday - No P6
- Wednesday - Maths/French
- Thursday - Science/Sport
- Friday - Humanities*
Have a lovely weekend
Mrs S Jones - Executive Principal & Mr M Wilkinson - Acting Head of School
Values
In assembly this week we looked at another one of our core values: Respect. We looked at the brilliant example set by Japanese football fans at the World Cup. Win, lose or draw their supporters spend time cleaning up rubbish in the stadium after every match. This shows such respect to the staff, the environment, their hosts and those who will use the stadium after them.
We looked at the example set by the Japanese footballers themselves who also show the same respect by tidying their changing room after every match. We spoke about how, here at KEVI, we can show the same respect by treating our environment in the same manner.
Why we do what we do -Academy Rationale
We have a list of banned items at the academy that is a standard list across all the DRET academies. The list is:
- Chewing gum
- Fizzy drinks
- Knives and blades
- Weapons
- Alcohol
- Illegal drugs and their associated paraphernalia
- Legal highs
- Equipment relating to the taking of illegal drugs
- E-cigarettes
- Tobacco
- Cigarette lighters
- Cigarette papers
- Fireworks
- Stolen items
- Pornographic images
- Items that the staff member might suspect has been or is likely to be used to commit an offence or cause personal injury/damage to property
- Aerosols
- Any other item that the academy deems will pose a threat to the safety of any member of the school community or is considered highly appropriate.
These items are banned for various reasons, and we operate a zero-tolerance policy to them. Consequences of bringing different items from the list into school vary and decisions around sanctions are made by SLT. These items are banned for a reason, mostly due to the law and/or health and safety reasons.
Advice regarding Scarlet fever and Invasive Group A Strep
As I am sure you will have seen through the media and the latest data from the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) scarlet fever cases continue to remain higher than would typically be seen at this time of year.
We have issued a letter to all parents with advice about the signs of Scarlet fever, the risks and what can be done. Please follow this link to see the letter.
- You can also find the latest advice issued by the Government here
- The latest NHS advice can be found here
If you have any concerns regarding your child attending school who has had Scarlet fever or A Strep, please contact the attendance team at the Academy.
Communication
If you make contact with school, please allow 48hours for staff to respond. it is not reasonable to expect staff to respond immediately to every request as they are busy teaching, in meetings, dealing with issues and they will respond in due course. If you need to speak to someone urgently regarding safeguarding, then please do state that when you make contact
House News
Dodgeball
A busy week of house events this week!
House dodgeball - over 120 students took part in this event. The games were fast paced, fun and at some points tense. After two days of dodgeball we have the final results. The winners of each year group are as follows;
- Year 7 – Minerva
- Year 8 – Mercury
- Year 9 – Mercury
- Year 10 – Minerva
- Year 11 – Mercury
Despite all these wins from Mercury and Minerva the overall scores took into account all positions. In 4th place we have Arete, in 3rd place we have Apollo, in 2nd place we have Mercury and...... 1st place Minerva!
Well done Minerva!
Music Quiz
Wednesday saw our first ever Now Music Quiz. Each house picked a team of 3 to compete. Many different rounds of general knowledge, guessing the song from different genres and years created a very even score board which meant that all was to play for in the last round.
The last question meant that the final point was awarded to give us our winner. Jacob buzzed in first and proudly stood to give his correct answer! Then we all had a sing along to Sweet Caroline!
In 3rd place we have Apollo, in joint 2nd place Arete and Mercury and...... in 1st place Minerva! Again!
A great week for Minerva!!
Score Board Update
Overall the scores have changed dramatically this week.
- 4th place we have Apollo on 1280 points.
- 3rd place we have Arete on 1295 points.
- 2nd place we have Minerva on 1300 points.
- 1st place we have Mercury on 1355 points.
Next week we have the Santa fun run and improved attendance. We are hoping to see some great improvements in attendance.
One week left make sure you are in every day to help your house!
Miss C Eyre - Games Master
Thinking Ahead – My Future, My Choice
Attention Year 8 & Year 9!
- What are your future plans & career possibilities?
- What plans to do you have after you have completed your GCSEs?
- Do you plan to go on to further/higher education? If so what courses might you study?
- What career ideas do you have for the future at the moment?
In year 7, 8 and 9 you will be learning new skills and knowledge that will give you the confidence to help you plan your next steps. This process starts with your careers education in school which will encourage you to think about your strengths and weaknesses, likes and dislikes. You will also start to make some important decisions that could influence your future career path as you will be choosing your subjects to study for GCSE. This process will begin for all Year 9 students early next year.
Each week we will show you examples of the various careers linked to the subject you are studying. This week’s career idea is ........
KEVI Careers Support
Attendance
Attendance last week has improved and was 90.3% so keep up the good work!
Well done to Year 8 who have made a huge effort to improve their attendance and have gone from 87.3% to 90.5%! Another impressive week from Year 7.
House attendance
Apollo, Arete and Minerva all achieved 91% attendance last week so well done to you!
Just below was Mercury with 89%
If you would like to discuss your child’s attendance or need any support with attendance then please contact Mrs Kwee or Mrs Ziller on 01790 753260 or tkwee@kingedwardacademy.co.uk to discuss ways to support your child's attendance.
Mrs T Kwee Attendance Manager
Sixth Form
Offers of university places so far in 6th Form:
We have had a very busy couple of weeks completing and sending off our UCAS (university application) forms. It is always very exciting when the offers come in and these are some of them received by our students in the last week.
- Jaime Lee- Ashburn York University - Marketing, Leicester University Marketing, Nottingham Trent, Business Management and Marketing
- Jude Bache Sheffield Hallam, Law, Lincoln University Law
- Derran Chuck Lincoln University - Sport Management
- Anya Dennis Lincoln University - Law
- Charlotte Drury Northampton University - Psychology, Lincoln University - Education and Psychology
- Zak Massam York University - Accountancy, Lincoln University - Accountancy and Finance, Hull University - Accountancy
- Jack Sutton York and Liverpool University Business Management with a year in industry, Leicester and Brighton University Business Management
The process continues this week with an internal deadline of the 16th of December although the actual deadline with UCAS is the 15th of January.
Mrs P Prince - Head of Sixth Form
Gino's Update
Price List – November 2022
Breakfast
- Bacon roll 95p
- Sausage bap (Wed only) 95p
- Large bacon roll £1.35
- Fruit – piece or small pot 40p
- Toasted teacake 50p
- Yogurt 45p
Break
- Bacon roll 95p
- Sausage bap 95p
- Large bacon roll £1.35
- Pizza slice 95p
- Toasted sandwich £1.35
- Cheese & ham bagel £1.35
- Toasted crumpet 40p
- Toasted teacake 50p
Break & Lunch
- Salad box £1.80
- Baguettes (small) £1.20
- Baguettes (large) £1.70
- Sandwiches £1.35
- Large roll £1.35
- Small roll 95p
- Tortilla wrap £1.60
- Crusty bread roll 30p
- Fruit – piece or small pot 40p
- Yogurt 45p
- Condiment sachet 10p
Lunch
- Main meal with 2 sides £2.10
- Vegetarian main meal with 2 sides £2.10
- Meal deal (meal, cake/dessert or small drink) £2.40
- Pasta pot £1.65
- Stir fry pots £1.65
- Curry, rice & naan bread pot £2.10
- Panini £1.40
- Pizza 95p
- Jacket potato with filling £1.70
- Cake/Cookie 60p
- Hot pudding 65p
Drinks (Breakfast, Break & Lunch)
- Fruit juice carton 65p
- Flavoured milk carton 65p
- Semi skimmed milk carton 65p
- Radnors fizz bottles 70p
- Large bottles water 80p
- Large bottles flavoured water 90p
- Yazoo milkshake £1.00
Angela Clark - Catering Manageress
Word of the Week
Stellar
Stellar: adjective – relating to the stars; adjective to describe something that is of high quality or having the quality of a star.
Word origin: stellaris (Latin): star
Her effort with revision over the holiday period was stellar.
The stellar final goal screamed past the goalie and landed in the top right hand corner of the net. His fine character was of stellar quality.
Interstellar: adjective - between the stars. The rocket’s movement was interstellar.
Times Tables
Years 7 and 8 will be reciting their times tables to help embed them in their long term memory.
At the end of each lesson, they will stand behind their chairs in silence, preparing for themselves for the next lesson and just before they leave the whole class will chant the timetables assigned for that week.
Week commencing 12th December - we will be chanting our 12 times table
Miss H Broughton - Head of Maths
Accelerated Reader
KEVI20 WC 12.12.2022 Period 4
The vast majority of Y7, Y8 and Y9 students have completed a second reading age test this week with a few more to be completed next. The high investment in students’ reading time that KEVI has certainly already had a significant improvement on students’ reading age scores and there have been some incredible improvements. It’s been a delight to share new reading ages with students and to see their pride in watching their reading ages improve. Although we give students four hours reading time in the Academy each week, the more they can read at home the quicker reading ages rise.
The library is nearly complete and we are overjoyed to see such high numbers of students discovering the new stock there. The library is full – absolutely full – of students each break time and lunch time and it is a delight to see students finding and being guided to books that they love reading and which they then recommend to others. New feminist literature for young adults has proved popular this week and it’s wonderful to see our Year 8 girls taking on books which address challenging ideas and which give them inspiration for their own lives. Year 9 have begun to turn to classic literature and so Miss Villiers made a feature of classic literature stock, allowing them to make choices from a wide range.
The Library is open at 8:30am, breaktime and lunchtime every day.
Ms K Davis - Head of English Department
Credits:
Created with images by lucid_dream - "old typewriter with text respect" • mantinov - "Businessman in black shoes standing on the wrong place that prohibited and not allowed" • Tierney - "Prevent virus and germs - healthcare and hygiene concept" • Gajus - "Person dialing out on a landline telephone" • Chaosamran_Studio - "Engineer technician designing drawings mechanical parts engineering Engine.manufacturing factory Industry Industrial work project blueprints measuring bearings caliper tools" • gballgiggs - "Young asian woman take pillow off the ear,Hates getting stressed waking up early 5 o'clock,Alarm clock" • tonktiti - "Copy space of man raise hand up on sunset sky at beach and island background." • mnirat - "Back view of a female graduate with a university degree" • poplasen - "Colorfully Christmas cookies on rustic wooden background" • astrosystem - "Milky Way stars photographed with astronomical telescope. My astronomy work." • Alex - "An old woman in glasses with a surprised face is reading a book on a blue background. Concept old lady reads books, education, book club." • Liudmyla - "'Save the date' words on a modern board on a white wooden background, top view. Overhead, from above, flat lay. Close-up."