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Newsletter
22 May 2015
House Logos
New, exciting, logos have just been finalised for our four houses:
Berkeley
Durand
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Go4SET Success!
This year’s Education Development Trust Go4SET design projects drew to a
close on 15 May as eleven Year 8 students, in two teams, presented their
design for an eco-friendly sports centre or classroom to a panel of judges at
EDF in Barnwood. Go4SET links teams of students with local engineering
companies to offer ten week science, technology, engineering and
mathematics (STEM) projects. These projects aim to highlight the exciting
future career opportunities in the STEM subjects.
This is what one of the teams had to say:
Two teams of Year 8 students participated in an engineering competition to design an eco-friendly classroom or
sports hall. They spent 10 weeks designing a model, writing a report and preparing a presentation. Both teams
did exceptionally well, with the girls’ team; Emily Crowley, Anna McLaughlin, Amelia Reeves, Olivia Green and
Laura Dickson, winning the Most Innovative prize, for designing a classroom which would ‘bring the countryside to
the city’. The boys team; Leo Wells, Hayden Brewer, Oliver Wilson, Will Culliford, Ryan Daly and Will Harper did a
fantastic job of representing KLB, winning a lot of praise for their polite behaviour around the venue. Both teams
thoroughly enjoyed the experience and wish to recommend the challenge to future Year 8 and 9 students.
All students involved can be proud of their achievement in completing such a demanding project. Congratulations
to them all and thanks to Helen Rich of STEMnet and Phillip Ashford, Head of Careers, for their support.
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Careers Department
Careers Convention – Thursday 24 September 2015
Students from Years 9 to 13 and their parents/carers may wish to note the date of the next KLB Careers
Convention which will take place at school during the evening of 24 September. As in previous years, we will aim
to have a large number of further and/or higher education providers as well as local employers representing as
many training opportunities and employment sectors as possible.
Work Experience
In recent months Katharine Lady Berkeley’s School
has helped to pilot The Skills for Stroud Work
Experience Charter. This is a quality standard
awarded to businesses and education establishments
in recognition of their commitment to, investment in,
and delivery of work readiness programmes for
young people. The aim is to highlight the reciprocal
benefits of work placements and to enable young
people to identify and develop skills that will ensure
they are work-ready.
Stroud District Council has supported our students over a number of years in a wide variety of departments
including Animal Welfare, Community Safety Services, Customer Services, Environmental Health, Electoral Services,
Museum in the Park, Dursley Pool, and Planning. Early on, the Council identified the value of work placements not
only to the young person undertaking the experience but also to the employer providing the placement. It also
recognised the benefit of matching students with a role that
would best suit their interests and of providing a structured
and good quality experience.
As part of the pilot, representatives of the council
interviewed students who had undertaken work experience
in July 2014, when they were in Year 10. The students
were asked about the process of finding a placement, any
difficulties they had, how well the placement had matched
their expectations and what they felt they had gained from
the experience. The students gave an honest evaluation,
pointing out difficulties as well as positive points.
KLB has now been awarded full recognition status for its
excellent work experience programme under the Skills for
Stroud Work Experience Charter.
The school aims to develop its work experience programme year on year and welcomes comment and feedback,
including suggestions for improvement. We would also like to thank parents and local businesses and other
organisations for the good will and support on which the continued success of the programme depends.
Attendance – Persistent Absentees
The Government has issued new guidelines on attendance. Up until now we have had to report particularly on
those students whose attendance is 85% or less – these are known as Persistent Absentees and include students
with authorised and unauthorised absence. From September 2015, this percentage is changing and we will now
need to report on those students whose absence is 90% or less.
This new guidance means that the expectations for students’ attendance has risen. This means that across the
academic year, a student will be classified as a persistent absentee with 38 or more sessions (half-days) of
absence rather than the current 56 sessions.
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Music Department Summer Prom Concert – Wednesday 24 June
The Music Department’s Summer concert will be on Wednesday 24 June, and will feature students from all year
groups.
The first half will start with the Samba Band hopefully to include some Year 5 and Year 6 pupils that will have been
involved in Samba workshops with us, and the Junior and Senior choirs will then join for a semi-staged
performance of Captain Noah and His Floating Zoo, a hilarious 30-minute mini musical with plenty of solo roles and
memorable tunes
In the second half, the instrumental forces will join together in a Last Night of the Proms spectacular. All the
traditional favourites will be there – the Hornpipe, Land of Hope and Glory, Rule Britannia, Jerusalem and much
more. And, of course, there will be plenty of flags, balloons and party-poppers!
The concert will start at 7.00pm, and will take place in the school’s Drama Hall. Tickets for the evening will be
available on the door, priced £3.00 for adults and £1.50 for children. Refreshments will also be available in the
usual manner.
Year 8 boys football district champions and county runners up
The Year 8 boys football team completed a fantastic season, stringing together an impressive eight game unbeaten
run to reach the county cup final.
The journey to the county final started in January, competing in league games against schools in the Stroud and
Cotswold district. After topping the group, the team continued their good form into the semi-final, beating Thomas
Keble 2-0 to reach the district final.
The final, held at Fairford Town Football Club, was a tough contest against a well drilled Cirencester Kingshill team.
Despite going a goal down, man of the match Ewan Hadfield scored a remarkable hat trick that sealed a 3-1 win,
and crowned KLB district champions. As a result, KLB represented the Stroud district in the county cup. The team
travelled to Dene Magna in the quarter finals, comfortably winning 6-2. The semi-final was played against
Cheltenham and Gloucester winners Chipping Campden. Having trailed twice during the game, KLB demonstrated
immense spirit and positivity to fight back to clinch an impressive 4-2 victory. This not only crowned KLB as North
Gloucestershire Champions, but qualified the team to play in the county cup final.
In the county final, KLB faced Mangotsfield at the Fry’s Club in Keynsham. It was a game played with tremendous
spirit, but unfortunately KLB lost out to a better team on the day. Despite the loss, the team should be immensely
proud of their achievements this season. Congratulations to our county runners up: Rhydian Thomas, Ed Hawkins,
Harry Powell, Will Simmons, Tom Cranwell, Jake Harvey, Hayden Brewer (c), Ewan Hadfield, Korbin Walker, Jack
Thompson, Kieran Davis, Denton Phillips, Harvey Butler and Elliot Ashbee.
Year 8 Football District champions, North Gloucestershire Champions and County runners up 2015
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Athletics – English Schools’ Athletic Association Track & Field Cup 2015
On Monday 11 May, the PE department took 52 athletes to The Prince of Wales Athletics stadium in Cheltenham to
compete in the English Schools Athletics track and field cup. The students were in combined age groups; Year 7/8
girls, Year 7/8 boys, Year 9/10 girls and Year 9/10 boys.
The conditions were very good with sunshine for the entire afternoon. There were many fantastic results with
several athletes in each age group scoring highly in both their events.
Congratulations to the Inter boys who had a combined score of 352 points and the Junior boys who had a score of
312 points. Both boys teams will compete in the Regional finals, the dates and venues are as follows;
Junior boys: Wednesday 17 June at Millfield School
Inter boys: Tuesday 9 June at Winchester athletics stadium
Final results:
 Junior Girls 5th place
 Junior Boys 3rd place
 Inter Girls 4th place
 Inter Boys 2nd place
Rounders results
The girl’s rounders teams had their first fixture of the year on the 13th May. The PE department took all age
groups from Years 7 to 10. The result of the year 7 team was 15 – 15. The Year 8 unfortunately lost as they were
missing some of their key players. The Year 9 and 10 teams both won their games convincingly.
Players of the match are as follows;
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Year
Year
Year
Year
7 – Amy McCorkell
8 – Abbie Green
9 – Tarragon Newcombe and Georgia Ford
10 – Jasmine Draisey
The Year 9 and 10 rounders teams took on Wycliffe on Thursday 21 May, here at KLB. It was fantastic weather
and lots of girls were involved and enjoyed themselves!
The Year 10A team beat Wycliffe comfortably with a win of 23-8½. There was some amazing batting from Becca
Hughes, Lexy Bond and Jasmine Draisey, and strong fielding from Scarlet Smith and Ellie Parker. Becca Hughes
was awarded player of the match.
The Year 10B team also had a great win, with a score of 24-9½. Lowri Thomas and Laura Travis provided the
team with some great batting, whilst Octavie Kirk and Emma Leyfield were prominent during the fielding. Lowri
Thomas was awarded player of the match.
The Year 9A team had a close game and narrowly lost 12-11. Georgina Lloyd, Rachel Hughes and Fran Bath
managed to stay in during the batting and Lauren Jones was fantastic as bowler. Tarragon Newcombe was
awarded player of the match.
The Year 9B team had a really enjoyable match, but eventually lost 19-16. Elysia Davis-Evans was effective as
bowler in the middle and Emily Wilson demonstrated solid fielding on 2nd base.
Upcoming rounders fixtures:
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Year 9 v Farmors Home at KLB – Tuesday 2 June
Years 7 to 10 v Stroud High School at SHS – Wednesday 3 June
Years 7 to 10 v Maidenhill at KLB – Thursday 11 June
Years 7 to 10 v Rednock at Rednock – Wednesday 17 June
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Rounders District Tournament dates:
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Year
Year
Year
Year
7 – Wednesday 8 July at Archway
8 – Tuesday 7 July at KLB School
9 – Thursday 25 June at KLB School
10 – Tuesday 23 June at Archway School
District 2015 Archery Competition
Our lunchtime archery club has continued to run this year and the standard of archery on display is very
impressive. For the third year running we were able to enter a team of twelve archers into the District School
Games competition at Archway School in mid-May. To qualify for this competition all the archers had to be deemed
competent and reach a proficient standard in archery. Our 2015 team is featured below:We faced stiff competition at the event; many of the
archers from the other schools were regular club
members and had experience of archery competitions.
Throughout the event our archers were a credit to our
school, showing a tremendous team spirit and
determination. Although we did not win on the day, all
our students enjoyed the experience and are now
looking forward to future archery contests.
The event organisers were amazed at the high scores
achieved throughout this District competition and
commented how well all the teams had done.
At KLB School we will look to run some more archery sessions in the sports hall, after the summer examinations. If
any students would like to try archery for the first time they are more than welcome to attend. No previous
experience is necessary and the first taster session is free. Thereafter the sessions have a nominal fee of two
pounds.
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KLB School Summer Festival Saturday 27 June 2015
The summer festival is our number 1 fundraising event. Whatever the weather it
will be a fun day for all the family with activities, sports, craft stalls, refreshments
and the Battle of the Bands.
As ever, we need helpers to make it a success. Can you spare us some time on the
day to help with a variety of roles, from setting up tents to selling cans of pop?
Any offers of help from as little as 1 hour up to the full day would be very
welcome.
Parents and Carers, many of you put your names on our helpers list, but now really is the time to get involved.
Helping at the Festival is lots of fun and a great way to contribute to the school and community. Older children are
welcome to help too.
Students can contribute to our “mega-tombola”. This will work as a house point competition and the house
donating the most tombola prizes will get a reward from KLB Friends across the year groups. Further details will
follow but if you could start to put aside items such as unwanted gifts and non-perishable foods we would really
appreciate it.
Our feature raffle this year includes hot prizes from MOTs to memberships and vouchers for Tortworth Court,
Bristol Zoo and The Bodkin … among others. Your business can benefit from free advertising in the programme in
return for donating a prize for our grand raffle.
Would you like the opportunity to run a stall selling your products? Running a stall costs just £10 for a 3m X 3m
pitch, or £15 for a double pitch, and you will keep all the profit you make on the day. Please contact us in advance
via email for full details and to reserve your pitch.
Finally, please like and share ‘KLB summer festival’ on Facebook for regular updates and to help
publicise this event.
Contact us via: klbfriends@klbschool.org.uk
Our next meeting is 3rd June at 7:00 p.m. in Dinneywicks, Kingswood.
80/20 Club winners:
The 80/20 Club winners were:
March: 1st: name withheld by request, 2nd: name withheld by request, 3rd Dave Davies
April: 1st: Brenda Murray, 2nd: Anne-Marie Weston, 3rd: A J Gamble
May: 1st: Sian Edwards, 2nd: Peter Stuart, 3rd: Keith & Jo Geary
See our section of the school website for how to join the 80/20 club.
Fundraising
We are delighted to have raised nearly £1000 with our recent fundraising efforts at the Music Concert and Quiz
Night. We were encouraged by the positive feedback we received about the quiz and would love to organise
another social fundraiser like this in the future.
Uncertain future for KLB Friends
Sadly, our future fundraising is under threat: we still need a new Chairperson from October 2015 otherwise we will
close, leaving the school without its PTA.
Current members of KLB Friends Committee have been in post for several years already and as children progress
through the school we need fresh faces to help us keep going.
If you or anyone you know is able to take on this role please get in touch. It’s an impressive addition to a c.v. and
a great way to meet like-minded people.
Best wishes for half term from KLB Friends!
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Vacancy at Alexander Hosea School, Wickwar
SCHOOL BUSINESS MANAGER – H7 point 31 – 34 (£15,675 - £17,083)
25 HOURS A WEEK TERM TIME ONLY
Alexander Hosea Primary School in Wickwar is seeking to appoint a School Business Manager. The successful
applicant will be responsible for the strategic and operational management of the finances, school premises and
personnel.
To be considered for this post you will need to provide evidence that you:
 Have excellent ICT skills including Word, Excel and the ability to work with financial management systems
(SIMS).
 Have extensive experience of working with finance
 Could adapt to meet new regulations and requirements
 Have excellent verbal and written communication skills and can communicate effectively with a wide range
of people
 Can communicate financial information clearly to stakeholders e.g. to governors
 Are well organised, have the ability to prioritise effectively and work to deadlines
 Share the vision, values and aims for the school
 Enjoy working as part of a strong team
Closing date – 10th June 2015
If you require any further information, please contact Mrs Julie Cruickshank (School Business Manager) at
julie.cruickshank@southglos.gov.uk or by telephone on 01454 294239.
Dates for your Diary
The school term and holiday dates for 2016/17 are now available on the school website.
(Full calendar available at http://calendar.klb.org.uk)
1 June
3 to 8 June
11 June
17/18/23 June
23/24 June
24 June
27 June
29/30 June
6-10 July
14 July
17 July
First day of term 6
A level Art exhibition – see poster on the last page of this newlsetter
Higher Education information evening, 7:00pm
Year 6 information evenings, 7:00pm
Year 5 Open Mornings, 10:30am to 12:30pm
Music Department summer concert, 7:00pm
KLB Friends Summer Festival
Year 6 Induction Days
Year 10 Work Experience
Sixth Form induction
Last day of term 6
13 August
20 August
GCE A level results published
GCSE results published
1/2 September
3 September
17 September
24 September
21 October
INSET days
First day of term 1
Open Evening for Year 6 pupils and parents
Careers Convention
Last day of term 1
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