7th October

If you child was involved in the evening, then may I extend my sincere gratitude for the time that they willingly gave up. I also wish to share that the members of staff and myself were so proud of their confidence and belief in the school.  They were real stars!  Later I will share how we wish to convey our gratitude to the students and yourself, as I am so proud of their contribution.

Being good citizens and giving back to society is a core theme of our school. On Friday last week, we held a McMillan Charity Morning.  Staff were superbly waited on by a number of Year 7 students who also showed their business and enterprise skills.  We raised £168.00. Thank you to:

• Amy
• Holly
• Abigail
• Taylen
• Riley
• Rafael
• Mrs Ayre
• Mrs Surman
• Mrs Ingram

I also wish to thank the Art faculty for putting on the KS3 Art Display on Monday evening.  Having visited the exhibition, I was very impressed with the quality of artwork on display.

As the first half term draws in to the last fortnight, we have a number of key events that you may wish to note:

The first of our Personal and Social Education curriculum days will be held on Thursday 13 October.  This will involve the whole school engaging in a range of age appropriate activities and tasks to support personal and social development.  The focus for each year group yell be different:

• Year 7            Friendship
• Year 8            Relationships
• Year 9            Careers
• Year 10          Health Education and Relationships
• Year 11          Personal Well Being
• Post 16          Transition to advanced level study including study skills
  • Progression beyond school

Throughout the day students will participate in a range of challenges.  Look out in next week’s newsletter for photographic evidence of the day.  After Thursday please ask your young person about their experience of the day.

On Wednesday 19th October KS3 will be participating in inter-house cross country event:

Unit 1-2 will be all year 7

Unit 3-4 will be all year 8

Unit 5-6 will be all year 9

All students in year 7, 8 and 9, regardless whether they have PE or not on that Wednesday, need to bring their indoor kit to participate in running, throwing and jumping. Can anyone stop Success from winning again?!

Best wishes

Bryan Erwin
Acting Principal

• Ben Nevis
• Scar Fell
• Snowdon
• As well as include canoeing and caving

The Cost of the trip is £650 for eight days including travel, accommodation and specialist mountain leaders.  If you are interested and you child is in year 8 or above, then please contact Mrs Ayre either by email (a.ayre@kscs.org.uk) or by telephone 01733 765950.

Students enjoyed a wire workshop where they built colourful wire dragonflies, and a walk around the sculpture park taking in the beautiful range of artwork. We even had time for 2 Art workshops of our own, a simple drawing of a sculpture and the students favourite; Nature Art creation inspired by the famous Artist Andy Goldsworthy. I would like to thank the children for their positivity and great attitudes throughout the day. It was a pleasure to have accompanied you.

Mrs Bamber
Head of Faculty, Art and Design

Mrs Thirsk

I grew up in Leicester with 4 brothers and 2 sisters. At school, I enjoyed music and played the violin and piano.  I was involved in a tour with the Leicestershire schools symphony orchestra to Spain and Paris and was also lucky to be part of a European tour with the European schools string consort.  Our tour ended in Venice where we played concerts in St Marks square.  I still enjoy music and 3 of my siblings chose this as their career. 

At school, my favourite teacher was my A Level maths teacher Mr Curwen.  He always made time for me and really helped to build my confidence.  At secondary school, my maths teacher Mr Edwards had a son Chris who now plays in Kasabian as a bass guitarist.

I have taught all over England and also at an international school in Cyprus for a year.

My hobbies include playing badminton and I am also a member of a ladies football team.

The Art team were pleased to show round so many friends and families of our talented key stage 3 student body. Well done to all our exhibitors, your work looked fantastic.

Mrs Bamber
Head of Faculty, Art and Design