Kingdown WeekFriday 18th January 2019

Number 16, 2019

On Friday 25th January, Kingdown is launching its first ever ‘Plastic Free Friday’. We want to raiseawareness amongst students and the wider community about our aspiration in school to avoid usingsingle-use plastics in the future. We are therefore asking all students and staff on this day to:

• Bring a reusable drinks container to school, and not use single-use drinks bottles• Ensure packed lunches or purchased food items are not wrapped in disposable plastic materials• Bring a container to school (and cutlery where required) for hot drinks or takeaway food items purchased from our food outlets. Remember that this also offers a discount on the price of these products!

We hope very much that you will support us in this approach, which is part of a range of initiativesunderway at Kingdown to raise awareness of our impact on the environment. If you have any furtherideas for ways we can improve the Kingdown environment, or ideas for reducing our environmentalfootprint, please do feel free to get in touch.Mr LockeHeadteacher

Star Of The Week!This week’s star is Mim Gray (Year 7 Wembley), who has achieved the most reward points of any studentin the last week! Mim earned an outstanding 45 reward points in the last 5 school days, including recognitionfor her exceptional progress on the Year 7 PiXL Edge programme. Mim has already completed all 10 tasksin Leadership, Organisation, Resilience, Initiative and Communication! What a week! Well done Mim, forbeing such a star!

House PointsAs the year progresses, we will reward whole houses as well as individual students. These points will alsobe listed on the Kingdown website, and updated weekly. After term 2, the house point totals were resetto zero, so all houses are once again in the running!

Position House Points1 Silverstone 22822 Millennium 19923 Wembley 1840

Position House Points4 Wimbledon 18265 Twickenham 17576 Lords 1373

Mr Adams Mr Adderley Mr Alston Miss Bala Mr Barnes

Mr Bloxham Mrs Bloxham Mrs CookMrs Bunting Mr Cooper

Miss Francis Mrs Gordon Mrs Green Mr Gunstone Mrs Harris

Mr Hatcher Mrs Haydon Mrs Hill Mrs Honeysett Mrs Hooper

Mrs Gardner Mrs Lawton Mrs Miller Mr Player Mr Richardson

Mr Scarfe Mrs Twigger Mrs Rossetti Mrs Whitecombe Miss Wilkins

These are our Wellbeing Champions. They are members of staff who are happy to talk to you about your wellbeing, and point you inthe right direction if you need some support. Check out the Wellbeing boards going up outside Mrs Alston’s office (and soon to be

outside English) to find out when and where you can easily find a Champion to speak to.Keep an eye on the Wellbeing section of the school website too, for lots of updates over the next couple of weeks.

Wellbeing

Sixth Form Peer Mentor. sixth formers are ready

In our ongoing efforts to support healthy minds and positive wellbeing at Kingdown, we have updated our map of support.This information, which we are calling 'Take 5', will also soon be found on the wellbeing section of our website, on our wellbeing displayboards, and in classrooms around the school.

Safer Internet FestivalSafer Internet Festival with workshops for

young people on digital technology

4th to 19th February 2019The Corsham Institute are offering a course foryoung people and parents, around safe usage ofthe internet.

The Corsham Institute are delivering 10 freeworkshops. The workshops vary from creating acyber security workshop for 11-14yr olds to arhyme time for toddlers. Parents and carers canbook places through the link on their website toEventbrite:

www.corshaminstitute.org/safer-internet-festival/

Kingdown School, Woodcock Road, Warminster Wiltshire BA12 9DRTel: 01985 215551 Email: admin@kingdown.wilts.sch.uk Web: www.kingdown.wilts.sch.uk

Receptionists for w/b Monday 21st January 2019

Important Dates & Notices:Mon 28th Jan-1st Feb Swimming Gala Week – All YearsThurs 31st Jan Key Stage 4 Options Evening 6.00pm-8.30pmTues 5th Feb Talk and Tour 9.00am-11.00amWed 6th Feb Parents’ Meetings for Year 12 3.30pm-6.30pmFri 8th Feb Non-uniform Charity DayTues 12-Thurs 14th Feb West Wilts Dance Festival 6.45pm-9.00pm

After School Clubs W/C 21st JanuaryDay Activity Age Time

Mon days Trampolining KS3 1500-1600 Trampolining Y7-13 1600-1700 Cross Country Y7-13 1500-1600Tues days Football Y7-13 1500-1600 Netball Y7-13 1500-1600Wednesdays Girls Football Y7-13 1500-1600 Badminton Y7-13 1500-1600 Badminton Y7-13 1600-1700 Dance Club Y7-13 1500-1600 Swimming Club Yr 7-11 1500-1600Thursdays BTEC Catch Up Y10-13 1500-1600 Girls Fitness Y7-13 1500-1600 Hockey Y7-11 1500-1600 Multi Sports Y7 1500-1600 Table Tennis Y7-13 1500-1600 GCSE Revision Y10-11 1500-1600Fridays Trampolining Y7-13 1500-1600

Josh Govender WePDGeorgia Greatley WeABHOmar Green MiME

Maddison Griggs LoHGHarvey Gurd SiFE

VacancyTemporary Finance Assistant

Must be Qualified to AT Level 4Very Flexible Hours

For more information please contact:Miss A Williams, HR Director: 01985 215551