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Edition 14 6. May 2016 Follow us on Twitter @kingsley_school www.thekingsleyschool.com

Head’s Welcome The pupils have kept pace with the season and have been literally springing into action. With the summer term flying past we have certainly been out and about with visits far and wide from Warwick Castle and the Sea Life Centre to overseas Normandy. Our children’s appetite for history, culture, science and the arts has been nearly unquenchable. Feast yourselves on the fantastic photos of this fortnight’s events. Mr Paul Berry, Head of Prep

House Points The running totals so far this term are...

Great Charity Bake Off Over the Bank Holiday weekend, rather than relaxing Year 5HM were all busy baking! On Wednesday morning, they hosted a Charity Cake Sale in aid of Three Cheers for Cheers. All of the teachers and pupils enjoyed delicious cakes and cookies for this great cause. Three Cheers for Cheers is a small but vital charity which helps elderly people in need who have been in hospital. After they have been discharged, the charity provides the patient with a hamper to promote their recovery containing essential foodstuffs and welcome treats. We know that the charity will really appreciate everyone’s generosity and we appreciated the cakes! Thank you to Year 5 and their parents for their efforts.

Rocket Science Many thanks to everyone for their fantastic entries to the Science Competition. The corridor outside Miss KnightAdam’s classroom has been transformed into a space themed hangar, complete with shining stars, and is well worth a visit - please do come and see. Kingsley Bear even took a ride on the model Millenium Falcon this week to celebrate Star Wars Day! All entries were judged by Miss Knight-Adams and the science team, and Head of Science in the Senior School Dr Robertson came to congratulate winners on Friday’s assembly. Prizes went to... Youngest Pupil Category: Sonia Taylor Middle Pupil Category: Liana Gill Older Pupil Category: Daisy Southgate Science in Action Prize: Rasna Satsavia Overall Science Award: Scarlett Milner Congratulations to all pupils who took part!

The Enormous Turnip This week Foundation and Reception have been learning about ‘The Enormous Turnip’. They have carried out observational drawings of root vegetables, planted their own turnips, written instructions to tell others how to plant turnips and used iPads to research other vegetables which grow under the ground. The class role-played pulling up the enormous turnip, and when it came out they collapsed onto the floor with the force!

Finding Fractions Year 3 have been learning how to find fractions of shapes, quantities and numbers. They were able to divide shapes equally and practised finding fractions of amounts by sharing objects equally into groups. The class also realised that they can use their excellent knowledge of times tables to help them find out portions of numbers. It was an excellent opportunity for the pupils to work together in pairs towards their learning topic. They were able to discuss when numbers could not be divided into equal fractions and that some fractions were the equivalent to and could be written as smaller fractions. Overall, they certainly had a fantastic lesson full of fun fractions!

Project Pumpkin In 2015, Kingsley Prep were involved in ‘Project Sunflower’, where they each grew and planted a sunflower in Jephson Gardens. This year our youngest Kingsley Prep pupils are involved in ‘Project Pumpkin’. This exciting opportunity teaches the children how plants grow, what they need to survive and how to look after growing plants. After half term, the pupils will be going to Jephson Gardens to plant their mini pumpkin plants. The girls enjoyed meeting Laura Smith, the community ranger. She delivered the plants to school and organised a pumpkin collage activity. Please pop into our classrooms to see how the plants are doing!

Sea in a Shoebox Year 1 and 2 were set a homework challenge to create a seaside themed diorama. The pupils had to make the seaside come to life inside a shoebox. The dioramas are currently on display in their classroom. Please come and take a look at their spectacular work!

Microhabitats Year 1 and 2 went on a hunt through the school grounds, looking at microhabitats with a hope of finding some minibeasts! Luckily an abundance of mini wildlife had come out in the lovely weather.

Under the Sea Last week, Year 1 and 2 enjoyed an exciting trip to Sea Life in Birmingham to launch their new topic ‘Life by the Sea’. The children enjoyed seeing all of the incredible sea life. Highlights for many were the penguins, clownfish, octopus and the sharks. At the rock pools they touched crabs, star fish and sea anemone. They enjoyed a tour of the aquarium with a marine expert. Did you know that more people die from hot dogs than they do of shark attacks? An octopus has 3 hearts and can die of loneliness, so the aquarium staff make sure they play with the octopus every couple of days. Finally, the group watched a 4D movie in the cinema where they travelled underwater in a submarine!

O Warwick O Warwick! On Monday 25th April, a very excited Year 4 headed to Warwick Castle for an amazing day out linked to their history topic, the Normans. The group learned about attack and defence mechanisms that would have been used throughout the castle’s history, explored the main house and prison and even got to navigate their way around a maze! The group had a fantastic day and learnt lots of interesting facts. They were also excellent ambassadors for the school - well done Year 4!

Budding Geographers Year 4 have been working on a very exciting geography project this half term. The pupils have worked in small groups to research a country in Europe and become experts on that country! They have used the iPads to find out everything they can about their chosen country including the capital city, currency, popular foods and many other interesting facts. Next lesson, the pupils will become teachers and teach the rest of the class all about their country.

Pop Up Pages In Year 4 the pupils have been very busy designing and making interactive pages in their design technology lessons. They began by reading a range of ‘pop-up’ books with interactive features, to give them the best ideas. After discussion, they all decided that the best topic for their own interactive pages, would of course be - themselves!

Year 6’s French Adventure Year 6 have just returned from a fantastic few days in Normandy, France. Read the accounts from some of the pupils over the next few pages!

Day 0 - Arrivals Matilda Milner: “On Sunday 24th April, all of Year 6 gathered at school with their luggage. All of the bags were loaded onto the coach and then we set off. Everyone was so excited even though we had a two and a half hour coach journey ahead of us before we even got to the ferry. It was gigantic! We had to climb up lots of steps before we finally got on board.” Hannah Lawton: “We boarded the ferry at 2:30pm and set off at 3:00pm; this was the first time that I had ever been on a ferry and I didn’t know what to expect! It took 6 hours to travel to Caen but it didn’t feel that long as we were occupied doing fun things like limbo and disco dancing. Mrs Holmes and Mrs Adair even took us shopping! Finally, the coast of France approached and we arrived at Ouistreham ferry port at 9:30pm. After a short 30 minute drive we reached the Bon Séjour hotel.”

Day 1 - D-Day Relived Sophie Clarke: “We went down to the dining room for 8:00am where we had breakfast and made a packed lunch. The food was really nice and the jam at breakfast was delicious! Afterwards, we packed our rucksacks and set off for the original Pegasus Bridge – the first strategic point captured by the Allies on D-Day. After taking lots of photos and listening to Mr Berry telling us all about what happened when Normandy was liberated we went to the Café Gondrée where we had an ice-cream. Whilst we were there we actually met Madame Gondrée-Pritchet, who witnessed the battle for the bridge when she was six years old!” Maya Illingworth: “After visiting the Bridge, we went to the Ranville War Cemetery where we were given our hand written tributes to put onto a grave of our choice. While we were at the cemetery, we were given a task to find three soldiers’ graves...

...their names were Herbert Brotheridge, Emile Servais Coreil and Arthur Miller. Arthur Miller was the Great Grandfather of one of Kingsley’s pupils. After our time at the cemetery, we headed down to the beach so that we could see the remains of the Mulberry Harbour and try to imagine what the beaches looked like during the D-Day landings. Our next stop was at the Arramanches 360 Cinema; it was amazing! There were different images and film footage all around the room that depicted many aspects of World War II including the D-Day landings. It was so moving and, as I watched, I wondered how they managed to film and photograph such scenes.” Ishika Doug: “After lunch we went to the Musée de la Batterie de Merville which is a World War II Museum that has been made out of original bunkers! We saw an original bomber and learned lots more about the battles in the area. Afterwards we headed back to the hotel for a much needed swim! The pool was lovely and warm; we had so much fun swimming and splashing about.”

Day 2 - Bayeux & Goats Charlotte Green: “Today we are heading to Bayeux to see the famous Bayeux Tapestry and Bayeux Cathedral. The tapestry was very long but not as wide as I had thought it would be. It was really interesting listening to the recording that told the story of the Battle of Hastings in 1066 and mentioned some interesting facts about how the tapestry was made. We even found out that the tapestry may have a missing final section! Next stop was the Cathedral – it was amazing and had stunning stained glass windows. We took lots of photos here (some of us even took some selfies!).” Phoebe Turner: “We visited Longues Sur Mer and looked out across the channel down the sights of some of the biggest German guns allied forces encountered. Our next activity was the Goat Farm. At Monsieur Martin’s Farm, we met Tony who told us all about the farm and the goats! He took us into the barn where the goats live and here we could feed them, brush them and Maya even had a go at milking a goat! There was a really noisy kid who kept wanting to be picked up so Grace ended up carrying the it around with her!”

Day 3 - Jardin de Monet Amy Barrett: “Today we woke up bright and early as we were off to Monet’s garden which meant a two and a half hour coach trip to Giverny. We started our visit to the garden by going into the Japanese water garden that Monet created more than a 100 years ago! We stood on the actual Japanese bridge that you can see in lots of Monet’s famous water lily paintings. After exploring the beautiful garden we headed for the main garden and Monet’s house. In the main garden, lots of long beds had been planted with so many beautiful flowers – it looked spectacular! After walking around the beds and taking lots of photos, we went into Monet’s house, it was really interesting to see how bright it was – nothing like a typical Victorian house. We also went into his studio and saw a selection of his paintings! After lunch, we had to head off back to the hotel. We had a sandcastle competition on the beach, and managed to get in a quick swim before bed.”

Day 4 - Marché Kitty Lawson: “We were put into groups and headed to Merville for our market task. We were given some Euros to buy a selection of food to make a special lunch with. Mrs Holmes reminded us that our French conversational skills would come in very useful and, even though some of us found it a little tricky at first, most of us used the words and phrases we had been practising in class. We then went back to the hotel where we wrote a menu and presented our food ready to be judged by Adrian, our coach driver. The food was very delicious and some of us even had a starter as well as a main course and a pudding!” Emily Bell: “In the afternoon, we went to Honfleur; it was a glorious, sunny day! As we walked through the town, we could see lots of fabulous yachts and lots of people were sitting out and having lunch. We went to the oldest wooden church in France which had been built by fishermen. Mrs Holmes and Mrs Adair took us all inside and explained that the church had been built with two aisles – we all tried to guess why they...

... needed two aisles! As the day was so nice, we had an ice-cream stop so that we could take in the sights of Honfleur.” Izzie Gore: “The day finished with a trip to Manoir D’Apreval – a cider farm where we found out lots of information about how to make apple juice, cider and Calvados. We couldn’t of course try the ‘proper’ cider so we tried some very delicious apple juice instead. The teachers all had a very small sip of the cider and told us that it was extremely refreshing! Before we knew it, it was time to go back to the hotel for our last night. Before dinner, we had to pack our bags before getting ready for the disco!”

Day 5 - Au Revoir! Sarah Phillips: “On our last morning, we had to make sure we had packed all our belongings and put our luggage on the coach. At 9:00am we set off for the Biscuit Shop – it was pouring with rain! Unfortunately, we were a little late for the start of our tour so we couldn’t see how the biscuits were made. We didn’t mind because we went to a very famous market and managed to pick up a few more souvenirs -

there were lots of things to buy! Some of us even bought a very delicious sweet selection from a stall that had too many sweets to choose from. Finally, we travelled to Cherbourg and boarded the Ferry. It took us just 2 hours to cross the Channel this time as we’d been booked on the ‘Fast Cat’! I loved the French trip and it is one that I will never forget. Thank you to Mr Berry, Mrs Holmes and Mrs Adair for taking us!”

WWF Adoptions

version of their animal, which will be making its way around classes throughout the year.

Ms Harper led an assembly on Thursday 5th May with Mrs Harrold and the Sixth Form Prefects, to announce the different animals Kingsley Houses have adopted with WWF.

In addition to House animals, The Kingsley School has adopted a giant panda, and the Sixth Form Prep Prefects announced that they had also adoped a mountain gorilla as their chosen animal.

As well as showing pupils incredible pictures of the actual animals that have been adopted, Ms Harper spoke about how the WWF are helping the endangered animals. House Captains were presented with a certificate and a fluffy toy

The pupils were very excited to find out about their adopted animals, and are looking forward to helping out the WWF and further raising awareness.

Gadesden’s Polar Bear - ‘Ursula’

Huckwell’s Tiger - ‘Kamrita’

Loveday’s Orangutan - ‘Lola’

Milroy’s Amur Leopard - ‘Narva’

Kingsley’s Giant Panda - ‘Mei Xue’

Prep Prefects’ Mountain Gorilla ‘Ihoho’

. . . H T I W T N A MOME Interview with Miss Buswell Tuesday 3rd May 2016 Reporters: Esmé C and Izzie G Location: Early Years Classroom What’s your favourite food?

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“Some might say this is strange but broccoli and mint sauce!” Where is your dream holiday destination? “Absolutely anywhere where the sun is shining. I would really like to go to the Bahamas!” Do you have any hobbies? “I like to read autobiographies when I have time. In most of my spare time I have to work on completing my course work for my degree in Early Years!” What kinds of music do you like? “I like all sorts of music; I particularly like to listen to classical music before bed time!” What is your favourite television programme? “I love watching the soaps for all the drama!” What kinds of games did you like to play when you were a little girl? “I really enjoyed climbing trees and sitting all my friends down in front of me so that I could pretend that I was their teacher!” Name one crazy thing about yourself? “When I was younger, I was an exchange student in a Chinese boarding school which meant starting each day with Tai Chi at 6am!!” And, finally, why did you want to work with really young children? “I wanted to work with young children because seeing them develop throughout the school is fantastic!”

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Work of the Week is awarded to pupils every Friday assembly. The chosen piece of work can be from any subject and ranges from outstanding artwork to accurate arithmetic! The Work of the Week pupils from the past two weeks are...

All Year 1 and 2, for their excellent Kingsley behaviour and manners on the Sea Life visit and Daisy, Year 2, for designing an informative poster explaining how the coastguard can help in an emergency situation at sea.

Claudia and Lulu, Year 5, for a great improvement in their editing and proofreading skills and all of Year 5 for a superb charity cake sale!

Teagan, Year 3, fo r brilliant teamwork in rounders and being very supportive to others , and Isabelle, Year 3, for her excellent progre ss in finding challengin g fractions.

Izzy, Year 6GA, and Maya, Year 6SH, for their wonderfully descriptive accounts of the French trip!

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MOMENT Carla in Year 5 is a news presenter of the future! Every week, she prepares and presents her own edition of the week’s news to the rest of Year 5HM, keeping us up to date with what is going on in the UK and around the world. She researches the news herself and is always lively, entertaining and informative. We look forward to seeing her on Newsnight!

Here at Kingsley our pupils are extended and enriched frequently by the Minerva Programme. In this section we like to celebrate ‘Minerva Moments’ that have taken place over the past two weeks. We’ve included a couple of new puzzles this week too... see how you get on with these!

Inspired by her History lessons, Daisy in Year 5 has been working hard on a project on the Tudor monarchs and has already produced work that has impressed Miss Parry, Head of History in the Senior School. Daisy is now responding to a challenge from Miss Parry to consider which of the Tudor kings was most successful.

PUZZLE TIME 1) Rearrange the letters of the following words to find the names of two UK towns. What are they?

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2) Use the clues to find word pairs, the initials of the two words are given. (for example ‘B & B - Bruised’, the answer would be black & blue.) What are the words?

T & S - Conflict T & E - Solution finding S & D - Theatrical performance

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3) What number should replace the question mark in the grid?

Sunshine Drama Year 3 and 4 made the most of the sunshine and took their drama lesson with Mrs Divers outside onto the prep playground! In their lessons, the pupils have been working on the use of freeze frames and still images incorporated into their work on mime. The photos here depict an ‘accident at home’ including tripping over a sunbather and a DIY disaster when building a shed!

Sainsbury’s Vouchers We are collecting Sainsbury’s Active Kids vouchers again - please give in any collected vouchers to Mrs Parker in the Prep School Office. All collected vouchers will go towards new sporting equipment for the school, just in time for the Olympic season!

May Dates for the Diary... May 2016 9th - Prep School Open House - 10am to 3pm 9th - Kingsley Tiny Tots - 1.45pm to 3pm 10th - Key Stage 1 Infant Agility at Kingsley School Playing Fields - 11am to 2.30pm 11th - Year 4 Residential Trip to Kingswood Centre, Staffordshire - depart 10am 11th - 3 x Under 11 Rounders Matches vs Crackley Hall School at Kingsley School Playing Fields 2.15pm start 12th - Year 6 Assembly to Parents in Prep Gym 8.50am (Refreshments served from 8.30am) 13th - Year 4 Residential Kingswood Trip return 3pm

15th - Aquathlon - Pingles Leisure Centre, Nuneaton, CV11 4LX - Meet at Pingles at 9.15am prompt for a 10am start - finish at 12 noon 16th - Year 5 Residential Trip to The Cranedale Centre, Kirby, Yorkshire - depart am 16th - Kingsley Tiny Tots - 1.45pm to 3pm 16th - Year 3 & Year 4 Quad Kids at Edmondscote Track, Royal Leamington Spa, CV32 6AD - 4pm to 6pm 18th - 2 x Under 9 Rounders Matches vs Crackley Hall School at Kingsley School Playing Fields 2.15pm start 20th - Year 5 Residential Cranedale Trip - return pm 23rd - Prep School Test Week - all week

Off Piste Skiing proved massively popular with pupils, who accompanied members of our Senior School Ski Team on a ski taster session to the Ackers Trust ski slope as part of National Schools’ Snowsport Week. Many were complete novices and it was remarkable how quickly they grasped the basics and were quickly shooting down the slopes.

The Panda Made Me Do It! Sylvia and the Climbing Club had the idea of putting on a sponsored climb for the Prep School’s chosen charity WWF a few weeks ago. This was a tremendous success, with some pupils raising over £30 individually through their sponsor slips. The WWF recognised this fantastic achievement, and Ms Harper awarded all the pupils with a special sew-on badge, which says ‘the panda made me do it!’ Well done to all pupils involved.

Canoe Club Our first ever Prep school canoeing club was basked in sunshine. Despite the glorious weather for our pioneering outing, the water was still extremely icy. Once again our pupils showed their real mettle and wasted no time in taking to the water. As this was a new experience for many, it was great to see our children quickly get to grips with the skills of balancing the canoe in the water and paddling. There were several impromptu capsize drills and a good deal of canoe emptying.

1 Mile Fun Run At Abbey Fields, Kenilworth Monday 2nd May 2016

It was a cloudy, fairly cool afternoon but the girls were in their Kingsley kit, ready for action. The Fun Run set off at 12 noon with Amelia Sealey Stanton being the first Kingsley girl home. All girls ran with a parent or sibling, who were surprised to have to run more quickly than they had expected - just to keep up! It was lovely to have the parental support and very important to the girls. A special mention must go to the Estrada girls. Carla running with Claudia made it feel very special.

The 1 mile Schools Challenge started at 12.30pm with the usual charge over the first 50 metres, then everyone settling into their stride. Hannah Lawton being the first Kingsley girl over the finish line. The remainder of the team, Georgia Rudge, Azra Konca, Jasmine Spencer, Claudia Lihou and Maya Illingworth were not far behind. A lovely time was had by all and more experience gained over a cross country course. Well done girls! The results will be on the Kenilworth Runners website shortly. Mrs K Close

U11 Rounders Tournament at The Croft Wednesday 4th May 2016

We had a fantastic day’s play at The Croft rounders tournament. The sun shone and the pupils were full of energy and excited to be competing in this prestigious event. We arrived with plenty of time to warm up and familiarise ourselves with he pitch. Kingsley were drawn in Pool A with Croft A, Eversfield, Bablake and King Henry VIII as the competition. The winners would go on to play the winners of Pool B for 1st and 2nd place and the runners up from each pool would play off for 3rd and 4th place. Kingsley Captain, Amy Barrett, won the first coin toss and we went in to field against Eversfield. Our girls were nervous but soon settled and Eversfield were held to 4 rounders. We went in to bat with real determination, hitting some excellent distances and finishing the victors with 8 rounders. Kingsley were delighted with the win. Croft A were next and they went in to bat first, scoring 5 ½ rounders. We had fielded well and kept their score fairly low but had to score consistently to beat them. This proved difficult as the bowler was very skilled, making it very hard to strike the ball. Our girls knuckled down, supporting each other with advice and encouragement. The time was ticking away and with seconds to go we managed to sneak in half a rounder to bring the scores level at 5 ½ each. A brilliant result. We played King Henry VIII next and after losing the toss went in to bat first. Their fielding was excellent, with 3 Kingsley girls being caught out very early on, but the team still managed a good score of 6 ½ rounders. Even though our fielding was very good KHVIII had some skilful batters, bringing

their final score to 9. Our first defeat. Bablake B were our final pool match and the girls lifted their game after being disappointed with the previous loss and went on to win 4 ½ - 2 ½ . We had to wait for the final match before we heard the results. We had finished in joint 2nd position with Croft A and the winner between us would be the team with the most rounders scored. Kingsley scored 28 and Croft 33. It was very close and the Kingsley team were disappointed not to play off for 3rd place but they had a super day, learning new tactics and having a reminder of some of the more difficult rules. Excellent play from all of the Kingsley team. Congratulations girls. Players of the tournament were Amy Barrett, Phoebe Turner and Lulu Rogers. Most improved of the tournament were Sophie Alder and Maya Illingworth. Mrs K Close

We would like to invite both yourself and your daughter to participate in an end of year sporting pursuit, as part of a fun Kingsley team building challenge. We have partnered with the organisers of the ‘Ram Run’ obstacle race, to access their event at Stoneleigh Park on Sunday 3rd July at a reduced cost. It is an obstacle event, however, what is special about the ‘Ram Run’ is that it caters for all ages and abilities, allowing the whole school community to take part, if they wish to. There are a variety of options which yourself and your daughter can participate in, which are briefly described below: • Baby Lambs (under 6yrs) can complete on the 1.2km Wild Lambs course – with parental consent and support. Entries for this will be on the day once any prospective Baby Lambs have seen the course and want to join in! • Wild Lambs (6-11yrs) run 1.2km course (do as many laps of the course as they can/ want to in 40 mins). • Junior Rams (Parents running with Juniors -12-15yrs) complete the full 8km/12km race - ratio of 1:3 adults to juniors, completing the 8km adult Ram Run course (with the option to stop at 8km or continue to do the full 12km).

• Beginners (Juniors 12-15 and Adults) 4km distance trial run, for anyone 12+ who does not feel they can complete the 8km Ram Run. Juniors will still have to have a parent running with them. • Ram Run Adults (16+) 8km/12km completing the full course – with the option to stop at 8km or continue to do the full 12km. • Rampage 900m – a warm-up and charity event, designed for those who would prefer not to do the full course… some of the proceeds go to the event organiser’s chosen charities (this event has not been discounted due to the fundraising nature of it). As you can see, there are lots of options for all distances and abilities to come and join the fun! Entries are made via the Ram Run website at

http://www.ramrun.co.uk/ram-run-cost-and-entry.html.

If you have any questions, there are information sheets in the PE Office and at Main Reception in the Senior School, with further advice, especially for juniors wanting to partipiate. There is also a good video clip of the Wild Lambs course on the following link: www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYdtHEY2mS8

We look forward to what will be a fantastic event! If you have any further queries, please do contact Mrs Davies in the PE Department at [email protected].