Dates for your diary
- Tuesday 31/01/2023 - Yr 10 Stay Safe Day
- Tuesday 07/02/2023 - Yr 7 Parents' Evening
- Tuesday 07/02/2023 - Yrs 9/10 Careers Fair Trip
- Thursday 02/03/2023 - Yrs 10/11 Macbeth performance
- Tuesday 07/03/2023 - Yr 9 Options Evening
More calendar dates can be found on the school website here
Senior Leadership Team Update
You will know it has been a very busy week at KEVI with our Ofsted inspection, house hockey, students attending the University of Nottingham and preparations for another Saturday School. The Ofsted inspection was a welcome opportunity to share the progress our students are making and the steps we are taking to improve the school even further. All of our visitors this week commented on how politely and confidently our students can engage in conversation.
Thank you to all families who completed the Ofsted survey. All feedback is useful in helping us to reflect on improvement priorities. We are a listening school and if there is anything you wish to raise with us then please don’t hesitate to get in touch on: listening@KingEdwardAcademy.co.uk.
Tomorrow we have another Year 11 GCSE English poetry revision session starting at 10am. We were delighted that twenty nine students chose to join us last week.
Remember we have a programme of Period 6 after school lessons to support Year 11 students to prepare for their final examinations.
Mrs S Jones - Executive Principal
Mr M Wilkinson - Acting Head of School
Values
Our House System
This week in House assemblies we have looked at the important work we do beyond the classroom to develop character. Character education is so important to us here at KEVI. We know that excellent qualifications will help secure an interview. However, good character will shine during that interview and help secure a place on the university course, the apprenticeship or dream career.
Our House system encourages students to show courage through trying different things in front of an audience.
Our House system encourages students to show ambition and aspiration through always striving to do the very best for their house.
Why we do what we do -Academy Rationale
We have a gratitude tree that stands in our canteen, Gino’s. The tree changes with the seasons (well, every term!) and is currently still sporting baubles from Christmas. Over the next couple of weeks our tree will be changing again to house hearts. This will be an opportunity for our students and staff to acknowledge one characteristic about someone else that they admire/like. We believe it is important to recognise the positives, be kind and let people know we appreciate them.
House News
House Table Tennis
Well done to everyone who took part in Table Tennis and everyone who supported their house. The results from Table Tennis have been announced and are as follows:
- 4th place – Arete
- 3rd place – Apollo
- 2nd place – Mercury
- 1st place – Minerva
House Hockey
This week our houses have been competing to see who is the hockey champion! Each day a different year group plays 6 aside hockey games. Well done to all those who took part, remember you get points for having full teams!
The results are very close and will be revealed on Monday.
A little reminder we have a Twitter account for our house competitions. This page alongside the Instagram announces upcoming events, results and much more. Please do follow our page to keep updated @kevihousecomps.
Miss C Eyre - Games Master
6th Form Update
Year 11 applying for KEVI 6th Form
It’s time for Year 11 to start thinking about their next steps and what they might do post 16. There are a lot of options, choices and decisions to be made.
A Levels and BTEC qualifications at KEVI are a good option if students want to study a range of subjects which gives them the chance to decide what to study at university or what career path to follow. Both A Levels and BTEC qualifications are two-year, linear courses and students will select three subject choices to study from a wide range of subjects.
We have an established track record of ensuring that students joining the 6th Form make a smooth transition both to A Level study and a new post 16 environment.
Reasons for staying at KEVI
- We have outstanding success rates academically
- We can improve chances of getting into university, every student in current Year 13 who has applied has been offered a place
- We have outstanding teachers who are specialists in their field
- We offer small class sizes meaning teachers have the time to support students through their studies
- Our 6th Form has grown significantly over the last few years offering more and more subjects
- We are a supportive, self-contained community
- Business wear instead of school uniform
How do you apply?
If you would like to apply for a place in our 6th Form, please complete an application form and return to Mrs Prince in the 6th Form Office. Application Forms are available on the 6th Form page on our website, where you will also find a host of other information, or please collect one from reception. We take all applications seriously and will do our best to offer you a place.
Mrs P Prince - Head of Sixth Form
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 Years 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 this 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 for last week was 93.3% so let’s keep working together to improve attendance!
House Attendance
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 756704 or tkwee@kingedwardacademy.co.uk to discuss ways to support your child's attendance.
Mrs T Kwee Attendance Manager
Table Talk
This is a famous quote from Winston Churchill. He was a British statesman, soldier, and writer who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom twice, from 1940 to 1945 during the Second World War, and again from 1951 to 1955. The reason why Winston Churchill once said that, “Success is not final, failure is not fatal — it is the courage to continue that counts,” was because it does take true courage to keep pushing forward, especially in the face of failure. It takes lion-hearted courage to push forward. But that’s precisely what you must do in order to truly succeed.
Students often experience failure but learning that failure is not fatal and we can learn from it and be successful again is important particularly in our education. This takes not only courage but other KEVI values too including
- resilience - to keep going
- honesty - to one's self
- ambition and aspiration - to want to achieve success
- respect - to one's self to not accept failure.
Please think of a time in your life when you have shown these values in overcoming failure and discuss with your children.
Mr A Carrington - Vice Principal
Gino's Update
Price List – January 2023
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
Teen Support
Many of our students have suffered with their mental health, particularly in the aftermath of the Covid pandemic. In school we support our students' mental health with our house system giving a feeling of community and support, PSHCE curriculum and drop down days. We have 5 mental health first aid trained staff, a dedicated member of staff for student welfare, postboxes for students to raise issues without having to speak with staff and we signpost to external agencies such as healthy minds and CAMHs.
We have also introduced students to KOOTH. Kooth offers emotional and mental health support for children and young people aged between 11 to 24. On Kooth, qualified counsellors are online seven days a week to provide young people using the service with counselling, through chat-based messaging via drop-in or booked sessions.
The chat session can be up to one hour long and can be used to talk about whatever issues are on a young person's mind. It is an online service that does not require an Apple or Android account.
To use the service you will need to create an account:
- Go to www.kooth.com
- Click on the 'Join Kooth' button on the homepage
- Select the year and month you were born
- Click on the gender, ethnicity and background that most closely describes you
- Create an anonymous username and secure password.
Word of the Week
Assuage
Assuage: verb – to make an unpleasant feeling less intense; to relieve someone of discomfort or anxiety. To soothe, to calm.
Word origin: adsuaviare (Latin): ad (to) and suavis (sweet). (French): assuager.
Their worries were assuaged when they heard the good news. I was able to assuage his guilt by reassuring him he was forgiven.
Assuagement: noun – a feeling of being soothed. The team felt great assuagement when their new manager was named. After a hectic week at work, she felt a sense of assuagement when she was finally able to relax at home.
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 30th January 2023 - we will be chanting our 7 times table.
Mrs H Johnson - Head of Maths
Accelerated Reader
We are delighted to be able to launch our Accelerated Reader quizzing next week! Students already use Accelerated Reader when they take their online reading tests four times a year, but now they will be able to take quizzes on the books that they have read as soon as they are completed.
The Accelerated Reader quizzes are designed to show how well students have understood the book they have read and how carefully they have read it. For each book read, students earn points which are linked to their Accelerated Reader account; the number of points allocated to each book depends on its difficulty and its length. A running total of the number of words each student has read is also linked to their account and students will be able to become involved in house competitions linked to their reading totals.
Accelerated Reader quizzing will take place online via Chromebooks in tutor time starting next week and students will receive immediate feedback on how successfully they have comprehended the book on which they have quizzed.
Please encourage your child to either read books from the library as they are part of the 180,000 books which have Accelerated Reader quizzes linked to them. Should your child wish to read a book from home, you can check to see if it has an Accelerated Reader quiz linked to it by visiting www.arbookfind.co.uk.
KEVI 20 WC 30th January: Period 3
Ms K Davis - Head of English Department
Sports News!
As we say goodbye to another busy week for sport, we have had some fantastic fixtures and trips for our pupils. Our Year 7 and Year 9 boys went to take BWA on in 5-a-side football which saw both teams play competitive fixtures and the Year 9s continued their momentum from the start of the term.
This week has also seen the DRET Performance Conference take place at Nottingham University. Three of our boys attended the event and were able to learn valuable information in a wide variety of workshops and lectures by industry leading professionals.
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