Kingdown WeekFriday 17th May 2019

Number 30, 2019

Rosie Eliot, director of the Warminster based Wessex MSCentre, accepted a cheque from Kingdown Students TheoJones and Taylor Jessop, who also regularly volunteer at thecentre.

The centre was very grateful for the generous donation, raisedwhen the school held a ‘non-uniform’ day and students andstaff maid a minimum donation of £1 in support of the centre’sMultiple Sclerosis Awareness Week on Friday 26th April.

The centre’s Community Fundraiser, Amanda Strong, has alsoasked for a community tie nomination form for anotherKingdown student, in recognition of the regular help they givein their own time with other community events held by thecentre.

Multiple Sclerosis, or MS, is a lifelong condition that affects thecentral nervous system, causing a wide range of symptomswhich affect people in different ways. More can be learnt byvisiting: www.nationalmssociety.org/What-is-MS

Non-uniforn Day Raises£989.61 ForThe Wessex MS Centre

Kingdown students Theo Jones and Taylor Jessuppresent a cheque for £989.61 to MS Centre director, Rosie Eliot

On Wednesday, 8th May, two teams of Year 7 students went to RNAS, Yeovilton, for the regional finals of Race for the Line. Racefor the Line is a national competition inspired by the Bloodhound SSC. This competition was created to inspire young people tobecome more involved in engineering and learn more STEM skills that will be useful later in life. The Kingdown teams competedagainst ten other teams from five different schools. Students spent an hour designing and creating their cars and later raced them.Kingdown’s first team, Winning Dynamics, went through the timing gate with a time of 59.5 milliseconds and were placed in eighthposition. The second team, Finger Lickin’ Good, had a time of 49.5 milliseconds and they came fourth.

Thank you to Mr Webster and Mr Bray for taking us on the trip and thank you to Miss Annetts for arranging the trip. Good luck tonext year’s teams!

Year 7’s Race for the Line in Yeovilton!

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Receptionists for w/b Monday 20th May 2019

After School Clubs W/C 20th May 2019Day Activity Age TimeMon days Trampolining KS3 1500-1600 Trampolining Y7-13 1600-1700Tues days Athletics Y7-13 1500-1600Wednesdays Cricket Y7-13 1500-1600 Rounders Y7-13 1500-1600 Badminton Y7-13 1600-1700 Tennis Y9-10 1600-1700 Dance Club Y7-13 1500-1600Thursdays BTEC Catch Up Y10-13 1500-1600 Tennis Y7-8 1500-1600 GCSE Revision Y10-11 1500-1600 Multi Sports Y7 1500-1600 Table Tennis Y7-13 1500-1600 GCSE Revision Y10-11 1500-1600Fridays Trampolining Y7-13 1500-1600

GCSE Revision Y11 1500-1600A-Level Revision Y13 1500-1600

Billy Morrison LoSPSam Nurdin MiMVJonah Oram MiMV

Daisy Parfitt SiFHCole Parmley WiGR

Star of the Week!This week’s star is Harry Guy (Year 7Millennium), who has achieved themost reward points of any student inthe last week! Harry has earned awhopping 36 reward points in the last5 school days, including recognition forhis excellent participation in RS,Learning2Learn and Drama, forexcellent homework in History, and forcompleting his ‘communication’ tasks

on the PiXL Edge. Well done Harry, for being such a star!

House PointsAs the year progresses, we will reward whole houses as wellas individual students. These points will also be listed on theKingdown website, and updated weekly.After Twickenham won last term’s prize (Cookie Day!) forachieving the most house points, the totals have been reset forterm 5!

Position House Points1 Wembley and Wimbledon 36793 Twickenham 35764 Millennium 34975 Silverstone 32156 Lord’s 3014

Moonwalk 2019On 11th May, Mrs Harris, our School Librarian took part in theLondon Marathon Moonwalk (26.2 miles) to raise funds for thefight against breast cancer. Mrs Harris, with her friend, had been

training hard every weekend,working their way up from a12km walk up to 20 miles.Setting of in Group 2 at10:50pm, they began the longwalk through the night andwere amazed at the constanttraffic with buses running allnight long, but also theamazing camaraderieamongst the women (andsome men) who werecompleting either, the halfmarathon, or the full one. MrsHarris’ daughter cheeredthem on through BatterseaPark and gave much neededchocolate! They passed many

iconic London landmarks including: The London Eye (lit up pinkespecially for the Moonwalk); Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre; TheTate gallery; the iconic, St Paul’s Cathedral, Hyde Park corner toname just a few. The weather was perfect for walking (if a littlecold at 3am!) and eventually they finished where they had startedat Clapham Common exactly eight hours later at 6:50 am havingraised a few hundred pounds for the breast cancer charity.

Take controlof it!Mrs Gordon is running a drop-inrelaxation class for you to learnsome useful techniques to manageexam anxiety. She will be in D7Wednesdays from 3-3.30pm until

the end of GCSEs. Students from year 7 upwards are alsowelcome to attend.

Come along when you can!

KS3 POSITIVITY FORTNIGHT!Years 7, 8 & 9!May 13th-22ndOver the next 2 weeks we will be focusing on all the positivethings you do.

From Monday 13th  May to Wednesday 22ⁿd May allstudents who receive all positive behaviour points and nonegative points will receive a reward on Friday the 24th.

So make sure you shine in our focus fortnight; get homeworkin on time, answer questions in class, be helpful in tutor andremember your correct uniform.

You can do this KS3!2 Weeks – No negative points!Just show everyone how amazing you all are.