summer news letter

A Specialist Science College

KING JAMES’S SCHOOL July 2010

Headteacher’s comments

Welcome to the academic year’s final edition of the school’s Newsletter and I hope that you will find it as enjoyable as the last issue. Reading through it you will get a taste of the many extra-curricular activities that take place at our school. So many activities have taken place since Easter that the present Newsletter, despite having 32 pages, only gives a flavour of life at King James’s School. These exciting and enjoyable activities are provided by every department and definitely contribute to our continued success and popularity. The Summer term, of course, is also a crucial time for examinations. Our Year 11 students have taken their GCSE’s and we fully expect them to have done ex-tremely well. In addition, all of the Year 10 students have taken a number of GCSE’s and GCSE Module ex-ams. We are equally confident that their results will be of a similar high standard. We now eagerly look forward to the results being published at the end of August. The end of every academic year is always a sad time as we say farewell to staff who are leaving. This year, amongst the leavers, are two members of staff, Patrick O’Brien and Walter Raleigh who are both re-tiring after very successful and memorable teaching careers. Mr O’Brien has spent his entire teaching ca-reer at King James’s School. He joined us initially in 1971 as a student teacher and was appointed as a teacher in 1972. Mr Raleigh joined the school in 1978 after starting his teaching career at Almondbury High School. Both Mr O’Brien and Mr Raleigh have had a

major impact on the lives of thousands of young people who have been educated at King James's School. Talk to any ex student of the school and Mr O’Brien and Mr Raleigh are fondly remem-bered with gratitude and respect. They are both outstanding classroom practitioners whose les-sons are always interesting and stimulating. Their hard work and contributions over the years have been major factors in the success of our school. They are true legends of the teaching profession and in years to come when the next book on our history is published both of them will feature prominently. They will be truly missed by every-one connected to the school and we all wish them a long and happy retirement. We also bid farewell to David Bradford, Sam Burns and Adam Turner. Mr Turner has been with us as for less than a year and is leaving to train as a teacher. Miss Burns, who has completely trans-formed the SEN department, is leaving to take up a similar post in another school. Under her leader-ship the SEN department has become a depart-ment renowned throughout Kirklees for its excel-lence. Mr Bradford is also retiring. He joined the school in 1984 as Head of Mathematics and re-tired as a teacher, after a long and successful ca-reer, in 2007 to take up the post of Examination Officer and Data Manager. He has carried out this post with equal success. We wish Mr O’Brien, Mr Raleigh, Mr Bradford, Miss Burns and Mr Turner all the best for the fu-ture and thank them for their hard work, dedica-tion and friendship. Finally on behalf of the staff and governors I would like to thank you all for the wonderful support you give the school and I hope that you all have a lovely summer. Robert Lamb


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Q1) What was your initial opinion of the school

when you first joined and how has it changed

as the years have progressed?

Mr O’Brien – I first joined King James as a student teacher in 1971. The school was organised and disci-plined. On my first day I followed the Latin teacher, at the time, up the maths stairs to room 20. There was no sound and when we went into the class there were 30 students all sat in silence with their books open. Dave Bush, the deputy head at the time, showed me around. It was an all boys school back then with only one female teacher. It was a lot smaller as there were only about 380 pu-pils. The staff room was room 12 and the ceiling was yellow, not because it was painted that colour but because of the smoke. Almost every teacher smoked a pipe or cigarettes so the ceiling was yellow be-cause of it.

QUESTIONS & ANSWERS

Mr Raleigh – Of course back then it was an all boys

grammar school and I remember playing

football against the boys there when I was

young. I first worked however at Almond-

bury High School and worked there for 3

years. My P.E group used to run down St

Helens Gate to Castle Hill and I remember

saying ‘that looks nice’. But to get my job

here was tough because 104 people ap-

plied for it – but I got the job! I became

Head P.E teacher here and I remember in

the staff room there was 36 staff but only

30 seats. We used to call each other by

number, I was No.33 I think and Mr O’Brien

was No. 19, it was very amusing we just

called each other by number and nobody

was offended it was just how it was then.


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Q2) Over the years how has your

opinion of the school changed?

Mr Raleigh – When I joined King James I thought the pupils were fantastic, they all wore blaz-ers. They started in Year 9 then. Of course there were one or two ‘herberts’ but then again if anyone misbehaved the headmas-ter would ‘whack their backsides’. In 1990 Year 7’s came from all over, their parents believed that if they went to King James’s they would be ‘transformed into human beings’ but some of them were naughty. The number of ‘herberts’ has progressively decreased over the years and now all of the kids are nice kids. But King James has always had a high percentage of fantastic kids. I remember back then the head of Year 9 had hurt his arm and there was some boys misbehaving, I had to cane all of them and I had never done it before. The man said ‘well you didn’t hit those very hard!’

Mr O’Brien – In

1990 I remember a

number of

teacher’s left be-

cause we started

taking on Year 7’s

and they were only

happy teaching Year 9 upwards. The head-

master used to have to keep a corporal

punishment book – ‘Sheared, theft, 20

March 1972 received 4 strikes of the cane.’

Discipline was a lot more strict back then

and the teacher stood at the front of the

class and the pupils had to listen and take

notes. Nowadays lessons are lot more in-

teresting and interactive.

Q3) How do you feel about leaving?

Mr O’Brien – I have spent almost my whole working life here . I’ve tried not to think about it, I keep thinking I’m not leaving but in some respects it’s about time to go. I’m 62 years old now, but I live locally and will defi-nitely keep in contact with the school. Mr Raleigh – I don’t

have any regrets. I re-

member when Mr

Wilson, the Maths

teacher, said he was

retiring and I said

‘what you’re retir-

ing?!’ and all he said

was ‘you’ll know when you’re ready.’ I was

going to leave at the Christmas after but I

just thought ‘I’m not ready to go’. I would’ve

stayed another year happily. I am sad to go

but I have no regrets and 95% of the time I

have loved coming. People ask my some-

times ‘having a good day sir?’ and I always

reply with ‘every day at King James’s is a

good day’.

Q4) During your time at the school what

has been your proudest moment?

Mr Raleigh - When I came as a P.E teacher I

taught the under 15 cricket team, the trophy

was the Marshall Shield and in 1982 we won

it. We had a picture with the Examiner and

under the image it read ‘trophy goes home’.

We also did a penalty shoot out for under

15’s against other schools in front of 15000

people and we won!


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they hadn’t won since 1949. For 18 years I

was house master and we still had not won

IN 1998 when I gave up. They gave the

house master to Mrs Weldrake and 2 years

later they won! I would’ve loved to have

held up that trophy! I will be proud this year

because I believe KJS is the best school in

Kirklees and our students will get the best

grades ever!

Q5) What was your most memorable

moment at King James?

Mr Raleigh – I think maybe when I was pro-moted to the senior management team I was very proud. That was rather memorable but what I said in ‘proudest moment’ were also very memorable and of course proud moments for me. Mr O’Brien – The most memorable moment

for me was the ‘run away bus incident’.

I was in the bus bay and two buses hadn’t

come, the K81 to Kirkheaton and the K83 to

Dalton. When they arrived the bus driver of

the K83 let 6 people on. But he didn’t know

the route so he went to ask another bus

driver. I was stood on the side and the girls

at the back said ‘the bus is moving!’ It was

and I had to steer it standing on the side,

hands on the steering wheel, I tried to col-

lide it with the bus in front to stop it but it

just knocked off the wing mirror of the K81.

I knew I couldn’t turn it round the bend so I

crashed it into the barrier and it stalled. One

Year 8 boy said ‘Why have you crashed this?’

and I replied ‘I haven’t, I was trying to stop

it!’ That was very memorable. (I was hero of

the day).

Also the 400th anniversary with the photo of all the students on the playing fields. They asked me to do it and I said ‘how the heck am I supposed to get this done?!’ but Mr Price said ‘Oh can I help?’ and I said ‘Yeah’ and Mr McNamara also said– ‘Oh can I help?’ , ‘Yeah’. I rang grounds mainte-nance to ask if they could draw it out and they said ‘we’d love to do it’ and the boss said ‘we want to do it now’. We also had to organise the flight past! They said they were coming the Thursday before the last day with the aeroplane to do an aerial photo. Everybody was smiling and waving, they emailed the photo very quickly and I emailed it to the grounds maintenance people. When it was put on the book I was very proud!

Mr O’Brien – A very proud moment was

when I got a phone call for a permanent

job here at King James’s. I remember wait-

ing by the phone at home and Mr Taylor,

the head teacher at the time, said ‘you can

have the job’. Also when I applied for dep-

uty 7 years ago, there was a panel of 6 or 7

people and after the interview Mr Lamb

said ‘I’ll call you at 6’ O’clock’ I sat by the

phone in the study until 10 past 6 when he

called and told me I got it. I’m always

proud when the school does well. One

proud personal moment was when I be-

came house master of Jessop in 1977,


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‘Connexions Information Standard 2010’ KJS has been awarded the ‘Connexions Information Standard 2010’ by Calder-dale & Kirklees Careers in recognition of offering a high quality information ser-vice to our pupils. Young people need reliable information in a format appropriate to them, to help them make choices at different points in their lives. Not only is it useful for their GCSE options and choices whilst at KJS but also to plan their future in regards to A levels, apprenticeships & diplomas. University Prospectus’ are available so that students can research courses in their chosen career and reach their po-tential. See the goal, aim, shoot! Our students are encouraged to use this section, which is situated in the ILC, from Year 7.

Aimhigher Associate Scheme

Unhampered by World Cup fever, Laura McGrath made it to the Uni-versity of Huddersfield in June to re-ceive a certificate for taking part in the Aimhigher Associate Scheme. Students were given the opportunity of working with local undergradu-ates to find out about going to uni-versity and how higher education could benefit them in the future. Laura’s associate has helped her to look at the many different subjects you can study at university as well as helping her with revision techniques. Hopefully this will stand her in good stead for her GCSE’s!


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The Easter holidays began with a very long coach journey to Kitzbuhel for 43 pupils and 6 staff. Despite the coach breaking down in Belgium, the moral of the students did not falter! Their patience during the 9 hour delay was fantastic. We went to a restaurant for breakfast while we waited and the behaviour of the pu-pils was so impressive, the owner invited us back to play pool and billiards if the coach was not repaired. Thankfully, we did not have to take up his offer and we were soon on our way.

The first morning skiing is always a bit disorganised as everyone has to be equipped with skis, boots, poles and helmets. Inevitably somebody forgets something leading to delays. This year however, our pupils were so organised they were all sat on the coach 10 minutes early raring to go! This continued throughout the week and we could even stay in bed longer because everyone was up on time and never forgot a thing.

The snow was good on the first

morning but as we left that night it

began to snow, by morning there

was nearly 2 feet of fresh snow

which allowed us to ski from the top

of the mountain all the way back

into the village of Kitzbuhel. The con-

ditions were excellent and thankfully

the snow lasted for the whole of the

week. By Tuesday the weather was

brilliant, with clear blue skies and

the afternoons so hot we could ski in

Tee shirts!

Kitzbuhel- SKI SCHOOL SUCCESS!!


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Everyone began to ski far bet-ter in the beautiful weather and made excellent progress. The easy runs are coded blue, then red for more difficult and finally black for the most chal-lenging. By the end of the week, even some of those who had never skied on a mountain before had managed to get down one of the gentler black runs. This is a fantastic achievement with only 6 days of instruction! It took me 3 vis-its before I could claim to have achieved this goal.

Miss Brunning and Mrs Pinkney ran their usual room inspection competition. This is an at-tempt to keep the rooms in a reasonable state of cleanliness, with 9 boys in one of the rooms, it would be essential. Amazingly it turned into a fantastic competition with every-one taking up the challenge with great enthusiasm and trying to outdo the other rooms. Sweets, chocolates, expressions of undying devotion were used as bribes to try and sway the judges, not to mention going and asking for dust pans and brushes and vacuum clean-ers to try and get the rooms as clean as possible! Can you imagine your children cleaning their rooms with such enthusiasm? I don’t think the hotel owner could believe it! In the end it was very difficult to choose between the leading contenders. Thankfully, the journey home was uneventful and we arrived back on Saturday evening having enjoyed a wonderful holiday. Usually these trips are quite stressful for staff, being responsible for over 40 children, 24 hours a day for 9 days. On this occasion however I think all staff arrived home tired but feeling very proud of a great bunch of children who

we would take anywhere! This was undoubtedly the best school trip I have ever been on and I want to thank each pupil per-sonally for their excellent attitude and behaviour. I look forward to next year’s trip to……. I think Zell am See in Austria. Mr S Briggs


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UK JUNIOR MATHS CHALLENGE In April this year 121 students from years 7 and 8 took part in the junior Maths Challenge achieving 25 Bronze, 8 Silver & 5 Gold Our best young mathematicians once again produced outstanding results and broke all previous records.

‘Best in school’ Awarded to Leo Haigh - 8IW.

BRONZE Y7

Jarlath Mohan Ben Hollingworth Emma Appleyard

Nico Varley Aaron Kettlewell

James Stanley Caroline McKeewood

Emma Birkby Shaun Kafanke

Y8

Lewis Tjong Connah Joyce Adam Daffern Amelia Dennis Emily Harling

Jon Duell K C

Alice Clayphan-Taylor Ben Marshall Jack Pullein

Lawrence Ward Chloe Harris

Georgia Breslin Kyle Plaatsman Rachel Palmer

SILVER Y7

Oliver Fox William Tunstall

Kieran Sykes Y8

Ryan Lewis Joshua Brooke

Makenzie Longley Ben Hallitt Arun Singh

GOLD Y8

Leo Haigh Isaac Russell

Emma Donkersley James Harrison James Watson


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JUNIOR MATHS OLYMPIAD Following on from his achievement in the Junior Maths Challenge Leo Haigh participated in the Junior Maths Olympiad. To qualify for this prestigious event a student needs to be placed in the top 1200 out of the 250 000 competitors that took part in the junior chal-lenge. Leo subsequently gained a Certificate of Distinction and a Bronze medal. This fantastic achievement places Leo amongst the best 200 young mathematicians in the coun-try! Well done Leo!!

GREEN DAY MATHS ACTIVITIES Earlier this year the school successfully achieved the Eco– Schools Award. This was awarded for our efforts to make our school more eco-friendly. We now intend to go a step further and try to achieve the prestigious Eco-Schools Green Flag Award On Friday 18 June the whole school took part in GREEN DAY, the purpose being to raise awareness of environ-mental issues. Students took part in a wide range of activities. Year 8 took part in a mathematical scav-enger hunt around the school grounds. They had to find examples of ‘mathematics in the real world’ and provide photographic /video evidence. All students and staff had an enjoyable afternoon doing maths in the fresh air.

University Beyond Schools Programme

Some of our Year 10 Gifted and Talented students had a taste of university life recently when they made a visit to Leeds University to take part in lectures and seminars.

Some of the students took part in Geography les-sons and learnt about volcanoes and earthquakes. Other students got to study about the black civil rights movements in a History workshop.

The students were then taken to a lecture theatre where they bravely stood at the front and gave a lecture to all the other students on what they had learnt during the day. Bethany Lindop said, “I really enjoyed the trip, es-pecially talking to the student ambassadors at the university. They told us what university was really like and they were all very friendly. I felt as though I really pushed myself during the day and found the confidence to talk to students who were a lot older than me. I have also made friends with students from other schools and we plan to stay in touch.”


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Year 10

WISE DAY

WISE stands for Women into Science, Engineering & Construction.

WISE is a government initiative designed and set up to promote science, engineering and con-struction as a valuable and in-teresting career option for women. At the moment only 1% of modern apprentices in Construction and 3% in Engineering are female. In addition, only 11% of engineering stu-dents in college and 18% of university undergraduates are women. WISE aims to bridge the gender gap in these careers. The WISE day at King James’s involved a number of female Year 10 students from KJS and Almondbury High School undertaking three Science/Engineering workshops to give them a taste of what’s on offer if they opt for a career in that field. The girls enjoyed making a range of bathroom cosmetics including shampoo, body scrub and shower gel from scratch with the help of a team from Huddersfield University. The girls produced some fantastic looking (and smelling) products including an imaginative cherry flavoured sham-poo entitled “Cherry Bakewell”, with the slogan “bring out the tart in you” across the front of the bottle! In another workshop the girls

were asked to construct a musical instrument and play a tune using bottles and tap water. It sounds simple but the girls should be commended on their superb sci-ence skills as they had to inter-pret graphs of scientific data to determine the exact volume of water to add to the bottle to get the desired note. They then used state of the art recording and ed-iting equipment to record and en-hance their renditions of “Twinkle Twinkle Little Star”.


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The final workshop involved pupils working with a group from the Bioengi-neering Department of Bradford Univer-sity. The girls got to compare prosthetic hip replacements and observe first hand how technology has advanced over the years. Pupils then used the latest hand held technology to determine their rest-ing heart rates, and had their blood pressure measured using an electronic blood pressure cuff. The girls were keen to know just how fit they were and some were pleasantly surprised by the results.

A great day was had by all and judging by the comments from the girls we may have some budding scientists/engineers in the making. Here are just a few comments from the girls on the day: “I really enjoyed every bit of the day, it has encouraged me to find out more and go into a career in science or engineering” “I enjoyed the day with the staff and members of the WISE organisation and I thank them all for providing us with vital information about future careers. I’ve already decided on con-tinuing in a medical field and this programme has inspired me even more” “I have enjoyed everything we did today especially making shampoo with my friends and staff and I also learned a lot about medical engineering” “Today opened my eyes to science and engineering and how shampoo cleans hair!” “It was a very enjoyable day. It was a good experience and there should be more days like this” “I enjoyed the day, every workshop was interesting and the information given was great. Thank you”

Dr A.M. Hoyle

(Deputy Head of Science)


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The school again en-tered a team of 4, Year 8 pupils in the Salters Chemistry Competi-tion at Leeds Univer-sity. The team consist-ing of Emma Donker-sley, John Duell, Freya Thompson and Beth-any Smith were cer-tainly under pressure because King James has won for the past two years! The team were set 2 practical chemistry challenges, their first task was on forensic science and the second was to discover how to cool a test tube of chemicals using a chemical reac-tion. The team worked carefully, efficiently and safely to solve both puzzles correctly. Four eminent scientists from the universities staff were the judges, watching how the students worked, how they recorded their results and questioned them closely on their methods and scientific reasoning. The final target was to get the chemicals to cool by exactly 10.50C in 1 minute. Our team

was almost spot on with a temperature drop of 10.40C, a good enough result to win the

competition for the third year running! The year 7’s have a great act to follow next year! So

year 7’s, are you going to keep up the winning run? No pressure.

King James’s wins Salters Chemistry Competition again!

KJS Science club taster day

The King James’s science club team treated each year group at Lepton to a 45min taster of science to come. There were flashes, flames, bangs and explosions in a series of dem-onstrations of chemical reactions followed by a hands on volcano and rocket practical carried out by the pupils. Each class had a great time as did the team who led it. Many thanks to Sarah Smith our technician and Jon Duell, April Denton, Tom Norman our Y8 Science Leaders.


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Science Road Show To help year six pupils with the

transition from primary to secon-

dary school, the Science Depart-

ment visited Rowley Lane Pri-

mary School, Lepton Church of

England Primary School, Kirkhea-

ton Primary School and Grange

Moor Primary School with the

Science Road Show.

Twelve year ten pupils and some

of the science staff all went to

help the year six pupils develop

their practical skills. The road

show was themed on healthy liv-

ing and the two investigations

involved finding out which drink

is most harmful to our teeth and

which hand wash kills most mi-

crobes. Lots of fun was had by all

and the days were a success,

with lots of positive feedback

from the primary schools. We

look forward to welcoming the

year six pupils in September.

ICT GCSE RESULTS

74 Year 11 students passed option ICT—gaining 3 GCSE’s with an overall total of :

A* -33 A -172 B - 56 C - 43

111 Core Option ICT students gained 1 GCSE at C or above. Well done to all your hard work!!!


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Year 7 INTERFAITH TRIP At the beginning of June 2010 nearly all

year 7 students were involved in Interfaith trips to different places of worship. Following a visit in No-vember to Almondbury All Hallows Church, students went to visit a Hindu Mandir, the Masjid Ghausia, Guru Nanak Gurdwara, Vajrapani Buddhist Centre.

Activities that students were involved in include sampling food in the Sikh Gurdwara, observing Mus-lim prayer and the preparation for prayer, playing in-struments at the Hindu temple and learning different meditation techniques at the Vajrapani Buddhist Centre.

Students involved were very impressive both in be-haviour and the engagement that they showed. Staff at the faith centres and Interfaith Kirklees staff and school staff were extremely delighted with King James’s School students. Emma Stone (Interfaith Kirklees) said, “It was a real pleasure to meet and spend time with your students!”

Student comments included:

I enjoyed being spiritual at the Gurdwara (Mateo Villa Taylor) Watching the prayers was extremely fun and memorable. It was really cool to learn and be in an-other person’s shoes. (Scott Spencer)

Experience of a life-time (Samiya Hussian)

I now know there are different ways to pray than simply put-ting your hands to-gether. (Ben Hollingworth)


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I found out that Islam is a hard religion to follow. (Ryan Wooler)

When I prayed this was a new experience because I felt better after. (Caitlin Ross)

I thought the trip was a once in a lifetime experience. (Zac Nicolson-Hirst)

I have never prayed like how Muslims and Sikhs do but I had a go at it on the visit. (Ella McDonald)

Overall I found it an enjoyable experience. Thank you!! (Emma Birkby)

I really enjoyed spending my day in two different cultural environments, especially watch-ing the Muslim men pray. (Natalie Bell)

I have never been to a religious place apart from a church. They were beautiful places and very interesting. (Tegan Sayles)

Spiritually enriching, positively uplifting. (Alex Sykes)

One thing that I said to my parents was how wonderful the day was seeing all the different things in the Mosque. (Sam Ogden)

Overall I loved the day and would love to do it again! (Saffron Stevenson)


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STUDENT OF THE MONTH Summer 2010

Yr Grp Subject

English Emma Appleyard Daniel Stalmach

Maths Jorlath Mohan Leah Haigh

Science Nyall Gibson Christina Kamari

Design Ella McDonald Freddie McGuire

7 Humanities Caroline McKee Wood Liam Harriott

PE Sam Ogden Emily Shaw

Music William Thackray Megan Goodall

Drama Eve Wilson Megan Taylor

Languages Samiya Hussain Jess Park

ICT Hannah Wilby William Tunstall

IS/RS James Fielder Natalie Bell

English Isaac Russell Cieran Keating

Maths Freya Thompson Leo Haigh

Science Jessica Walker George Birkby

Design Tyra Bowen Freya Jones-Kimmings

8 Humanities Faye Boyles Jack Pullein

PE Josh Parker Abigail Osbourne

Music Jasmine Bower Rebecca Liddle

Drama Jon Duell Joe Devitt

Languages Bethany Smith Molly English

ICT Georgia Roberts Makenzie Longley

IS/RS Luke Kolat Faisal Ali


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STUDENT OF THE MONTH Summer 2010

Yr Grp Subject

English Jonathan Kane Beth Holland

Maths Jonathan Rodgers Emma Gardner

Science Philip Hepplestone Charlotte Yoxall

Design Paige McTighe Sophie Pye

9 Humanities Emily Casson Jacob Richards

PE Bradley Powell Stephanie Limb

Music Asia Harpin Greg Atkinson

Drama Freya Williams Hannah Haigh

Languages Matthew Shackleton James Kernan

ICT Gabriella Sedda Gypsy Black

IS/RS Nathanial Jones Ryan Batler

English Jade Hinchliffe Chloe Dyson

Maths Paige Shaw Tom Gledhill

Science Rebekah Brady Rebecca Whitfield

Design Kersha Reid Bradley Phayer

10 Humanities Amy Thornton Tom Sykes

PE Arron Charlton Rebecca Hadfield

Music Ben Ramsden Verity Mitchell

Drama Jessica Eastwood Corey Mitchell

Languages Natalie Armitage Beth Lindop

ICT Sophie Leake Macaulay Asquith

PSHCE/RS Lindon Nugent Beth Letherland


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Tutor Ethos winners Summer 2010 Year 7

Year 8

Year 9

Year 10

PB Joshua Blair Abigail Almond

LR Megan Abbs Mae Inglesfield

PH Jordan Firth Holly Murphy

ED Ryan Wooler Jorja Bolton

SI William Hallas Tegan Sayles

PA William Tunstall Nicole Coverdale

AH April Denton James Raddings

TE George Birkby Bethany Smith

FH Jack Sykes Jack Shuttleworth

IG Chloe Harris Luke Kolat

IW Rehannah Lodge Daniel Hartley

KE Alice Clayphan-Taylor David Smith

KF Josh Sutton Brad –lee Nasey

BP Amy Moss George Pugh

BR Jacob Rogers Leah Midwood

EA Jodie Duell Nathanial Jones

SB Olivia Ellam Florence Jones

TA Harriet English Harrison Cowling

WB Charlie Bennington Beth Haigh

GS Claire Hudson Tom Gledhill

TU Bethany Sandy Samuel Leonard

ZB Nicola Benn Emma Gibson

WH Kylie Noon Tom France-Smith

KG Conor Fitzell Danielle Shooter

RO Rebecca Hadfield Jessica Eastwood


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KING JAMES’S THEATRE & FILM CLUB In light of student voice, the English department has launched two enrichment clubs. A theatre club will run half termly trips to see a variety of per-formances. Year Ten took part in the first visit to see Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman. Despite some initial confusion (and Miss Brunning’s terrible parking) the group enjoyed a stunning performance by Phillip Jackson (from Brassed off and Poirot) as Willy Loman. Year Eight are going to see a performance of Alice in Wonderland and future visits will in-clude a visit to York to see ‘Romeo & Juliet’ and to Leeds to see ‘A Christmas Carol’. Letters and information can be obtained from Miss Brunning. FilmClub in held every Thursday in Room 22. In conjunction with LoveFilm, this is a govern-ment funded project (so far… fingers crossed), enabling schools to run filmclubs free of charge. Pupils can log onto the website at www.filmclub.org and create an account. They can then search and wish for films to be shown. Entrance is free. On occasions the school minibus will be available to take pupils home. Coming up at the end of term is Avatar, the recent futuristic blockbuster.

Twilight – Eclipse Quiz in the ILC

To coincide with the release of the movie,

Sam Womersley (former KJS pupil) put together a 20 question quiz. Everyone said how hard it was… but not for these three

pupils who all managed to score 18.

They each won a bag chain and Amy opted for Bella’s bracelet (By the way, Team Jacob

is definitely winning at KJS for those who may be interested!)

Pictured here with Sam are:

Natalie Armitage 10RO, Chloe Dyson 10TU and Amy Donaghy 9TA

http://www.filmclub.org


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CATTERICK ARMY CAREERS EVENT Year 9 students attended the annual Army careers event at Catterick this June. They min-gled with the professional sol-diers who were keen to show off their training. Team KJS (pictured here in the red helmets) took part in the gruelling - partly inflated - as-sault course and even though we didn’t win, were one of the fastest on the day. Lots of ac-tivities were encountered in-cluding the high zip-wire and Laser Quest-type shooting.


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Lots of information in the Connexions/Careers section in the ILC for anyone interested in joining the

Army as a profession.

Some of the highlights of the day were displays of the Red Arrows and the Royal Engi-neers Regiment parachuting into the grounds aiming for the ‘little white dot’ and the Army Motorcross team - with the help of ramps - flying over cars on motorbikes. Jodie, Ruby, Emmeline, Emma & Lucy landed a seat in an Army Sea Corps helicopter but no matter how loud they pleaded the soldiers would not hand them the keys!

Sam Helme, Ben Kane and Connor Myers (yr10) who were on their 2nd visit to Catterick, were wise to the face painting techniques of our girls… Face paints used by the Army are hard to remove especially with the scratchy, paper hand towels supplied. Due to the red, hard scrubbed faces in school the next morning, it was easy to see who had been to the event! Everyone wore their wristbands with pride in support of our troops in Afghanistan and the Army Benevolent fund for injured soldiers.


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Camira Fabrics French Trip Languages in Business

On the 24th June, a group of Year 9 students visited Cameria Fabrics in Mirfield, a multi-national Company which uses languages to trade fabrics with other countries. To start with, we had a brief power point about the company from the marketing and sales director- Andrew Schofield. We were split into smaller groups to interview mem-bers of staff where we asked the International area Business Manager why she studied lan-guages. She said she studied German, French and basic Spanish because she wanted to learn more about countries’ culture and history. She also said languages helped her get her job at Camira as she needed her German qualification. The group shared what we had found out about the employees then translated some technical, textile related words into French and Spanish. Next the whole group lis-tened to Assia Hizi, a woman from Morocco who worked in the call centre of the company and had learnt 4 languages – including French. She performed a paragraph about herself in French and we had to pick out information to answer questions. Then a South Korean lady, Yooa, taught us a little of the South Korean alphabet. She helped students write their name in Korean and told us a bit about her culture, like how they painted patterns onto their dresses. At the end of the trip we had a quiz about what we’d learnt . The winners of the quiz were Emmeline Wood and Emma Goldsborough, they won some traditional South Korean clothes which Yooa had left. It was a very enjoyable visit and we learnt how important languages are needed in some companies to interact with other countries. Emma Brown & Amy Donaghy

PATRIOTIC PIZZA

Our school Kitchen staff decided to mark the big World Cup kick-off with a special menu– featuring pizzas made to look like the flag of St George. The pizza went down well with students, who were allowed to wear England shirts for the day.


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NETBALL YOUNG UMPIRE AWARD

During the Easter holidays over 30 girls participated in the Sports 5 Active day run at King James’s school which is part of the Newsome Sports Partnership. The girls aged between 12 and 15years old all took part in an intensive day of learning to umpire Netball matches, which is part of the All England Netball Young Umpire Award. The day was organized by Anna Di Napoli the school sport coordinator. Kim Clarke pictured with girls helped Anna Di Napoli to run the coaching. All the girls received umpiring tshirts, fin-ger whistles, certificates and rule book. The girls are now available to umpire matches or-ganized by the Sports Partnership.

Tomorrow’s Leisure Professionals Today (part 2 and 3) Some of the Year 9 Aimhigher boys have been busy recently continuing to learn about sports and leisure related industries. A recent trip to Huddersfield University got them thinking about the complexities of organising events as well as looking at sports advertising and the effects that it has on the public. There was also a practical side to the course when they got to show off their football and rugby skills at The Zone and also had the opportunity to use their gym equipment.


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KIRKLEES ATHLETICS CHAMPS!

The Yr9 Girls Athletics

Team are Kirklees Champions!!!

There were many notable results but the following students came first in their events and are the best in Kirklees. FREYA WILLIAMS (800M) LEAH MIDWOOD (Javelin) The girls relay ( 4x100m) team took first place with a time of 55.83 seconds. The year 9 boys finished very close second to Holm-firth missing out by only 5 points. Due to excellent perform-ances across the year groups at the Kirklees Ath-letic Championships the fol-lowing 4 students have been selected to represent Kirklees in the CZECH Republic in September.

FREYA WILLIAMS GYPSY BLACK

BRADLEY POWELL AARON KETTLEWELL

CHAMPIONS OF KIRKLEES

Year 7 Boys’ Athletics Team dominated the day at the Kirk-lees Athletics Championships succeeding to take the title—CHAMPIONS OF KIRKLEES!! Individual star performers were Aaron Kettlewell who won the 100m, Long Jump and will represent Kirklees in the Czec Republic in September. Conor Smith won the Javelin, Ben Hooper won the 400m and, Liam Harriott wON the discus. The relay team consiting of Aaron, Ben, Conor and Liam also son the relay by a long distance. Year 7 girls finished 3rd out of 19 schools. A fantastic achievement!!!

CRICKET @ KJS The good weather this year has resulted in the school playing plenty of cricket. The Under 13’s team got to the cup semi fi-nal and finished 3rd in the league. There were Consistently good performances throughout the season from Adam Daf-fern, Leo Haigh, Josh Parker and Alex Beaumont. The Under 15’s team also reached the cup semi final and although still awaiting final results are in pole position to claim the league . Consistent performances throughout the team in particular from Joe Fox, Charlie Mitchell and Aaron Charlton.


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The Yr 7 ‘young leaders’ who were highlighted as showing

leadership potential during the ‘young leader day’ were invited

to the Zone to put their skills into practice. 13 of them took the

opportunity to work with Yr 6 youngsters from the feeder

schools, who are coming to King James’s school in September.

They worked as a team with a Sports Captain.

Pictured above are Charlie Mitchell with Yr 7 girls Ariana Kirk

and Megan Taylor.

YOUNG LEADERS

DAY As part of the Cross-curricular Day on Monday 21st June all of our year 7 completed the Young Leaders Award. Led by PE staff, other staff from Design and Lan-guages assisted in running the day. Every student was taken through step by step leader-ship skills, developing their confidence and ability to lead in small groups initially and then taking control of larger groups. All students worked hard throughout the day de-veloping skills such as confi-dence and communication that are essential in all areas of school. Each group leader nominated 3 outstanding leaders of the day and each of these re-ceived vouchers for Sports Direct. Following on from this day many of the ‘outstanding leaders have worked with Pri-mary students at the Zone, Lepton C of E and Grange Moor Primary Schools. A fantastic achievement for Year 7!

Leaders at the Zone in Huddersfield

Leadership at King James's school

Leadership is going from strength to strength with over 50 students in all year groups leading sporting activities to yr 3 and yr 5 children from the feeder schools. They visited us at King James's and experienced a range of skills and sports. Over 140 children attended each ses-sion. Our young leaders also went to Rowley lane school in June to assist in their sports day. Rachael Senior from the school was very pleased with their contributions and has booked them for next year. In July the leaders helped both Lepton C of E school and Grange Moor to run their sports day which were again very successful. Thank you to all leaders who have worked so hard to give the younger people a positive sporting experience.


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WEST YORKSHIRE YOUTH GAMES 2010 The Year 10 Girls Bad-minton Team repre-sented Kirklees in the West Yorkshire Youth Games held at Leeds Met University. The girls competed valiantly against strong opposition from both Garforth High School, Leeds and Dixon City Academy, Bradford, coming home with the fair play award which was chosen by the opposition and the event organisers.

YEAR 9 FOOTBALL The Year 9 Football Team completed the season having won every game, resulting in a league and Cup double. To recognise this outstanding achievement the School Trust donated money towards football shirts bearing the school badge and Year 9 double Winners, which students will wear throughout year 10 and then keep after the season. Year 9 football squad :

David Tunstall Nial Dobson Joe Farnsworth Gypsy Black Brad Powell Timmy Taylor Daniel Hallitt Jordan Floyd Chris Taylor Ben Boustead Joe Atkin Tom Beaumont Harrison Cowling Corey Marsland Jack Mulhall Fazal Abbas James Arnold Phil Hepplestone Harry Jagger Sam Blair


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A RECORD BREAKING SPORTS DAY 2010

SPORTS RESULTS Leah Midwood Y9 100m 14.67 Ruby Sykes Y8 800m 2.43 (set in 09)

Jessica Park Y7 1500m 5.46 Laura Goddard Y8 1500 5.35 Ruby Sykes Y9 1500 5.25 Emily Shaw Y7 Javelin 12.41 Ciara Blagbrough Y8 Javelin 12.51 Natalie Rowan Y9 Javelin 19.02 Rosy Simpson Y7 Shot 5.68 Anna Harrison Y8 Shot 6.72 Tyler Gordon Y10 Shot 8.00 Aaron Kettlewell Y7 100m 13.41 Lawrence Ward Y8 100m 13.13 Ben Harrison Y7 200m 29.32 Ben Hooper Y7 400m 64.00 Aaron Kettlewell Y7 Long jump 4.64 Gypsy Black Y8 Long jump 4.60 Connor Smith Y7 Javelin 26.21 James Watson Y8 Javelin 17.71 Gypsy Black Y9 Shot 13.10

GIRLS 300M

Y7 Chloe Huntley 55.67 Y8 Rhianna Richards 54.8 Y9 Molly Irons 50.9 Y10 Danielle Shooter 57.2

Gypsy Black Ciara Blagbrough

Tyler Gordon Aaron Kettlewell

Connor Smith Rosy Simpson

Jessica Park Emily Shaw

Congratulations to all competitors who took part and particularly the individuals who broke school records. Pictured below are some of the record holders.


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SCHOOL SPORT COORDINATOR UPDATE

THE 3 HOUR OFFER

National Target for students to do 3hours of school sport and physical education by the end of 2011 is 80%

King James’s current figures are:

Yr 7 : 70% Yr 8 : 77% Yr 9: 61% YR 10: 48% Yr11 : 31%

Since the data was collected in December the figures have increased by 23% at Key stage 3 and by 10% at Key stage 4. The strategies that the school sport coordinator is employing to encourage all students to achieve three hours of school sport and physical education in a week are:

Offering a wide range of sports clubs both at lunchtime and after school. At present there are 25 clubs the stu-dents can access. These range from bellydancing, trampolin-ing, dance ,cricket, tennis, rounders, badminton(by a Yorkshire standard player)benchball, basketball, gym, speed stacking, sports parties and many more.

Activities are promoted via KJTV, notices in registers, notice boards in the PE department, text messages to parents. Currently looking in to emailing students via their school email address. Students targetted with personal invites to activities offering them a priority place.

Multi sports nights on a Tuesday offering a range of leisure op-tions. Transport is available at the end of a session to drop off close to home.

School Sports Council run by the students giv-ing them a voice on type of activities they want to see included.

Free raffle ticket for every after school session at-tended which goes in to a draw for the sports prizes. The prizes range from Ipod shuffles to sports equip-ment,sports clothing, sports vouchers, free entry to sports camps , hair straightners and many more.

Yr 7 parents are sent a let-ter in Septem-ber advertis-ing the activi-ties on offer. At parents evenings these are made avail-able for col-lection.

Newsletters have a copy of the next terms timetable of activities for lunchtime and after school sports. Copies of the new timetables are available for stu-dents to take at the start of each term.


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THE 5 HOUR OFFER

National Target for students to be doing 5 hours of sport per week by 2011 is 40%

Calculated are all hours that the student takes part in sport at school and at evenings / weekends.

King James’s school are :

36% at Key stage 3 and 29% at key stage 4. The strategies employed by the school sport coordinator are:

Sports 5 Active days run during school holidays whereby the students take part in 5 sports for 5 hours at a cost of £5. Selected students were offered a £30 top up with a free More card to encourage par-ticipation at evenings and weekends. Yr 9 students were given the opportunity in a cross curricular day to visit Huddersfield sports centre and participate in climbing, squash, swimming and trampolining. They were offered the opportunity to purchase a More card at a discounted rate , thanks to Kirklees Active Leisure. The card allows free swimming at public swim times and dis-counts at other activities offered by Kirklees sports venues. Yr 10 and yr 8 students were given the opportunity to apply for the More card for free as a result of a joint initiative between Newsome School Sports Partnership and Kirk-lees Active Leisure. This was an attempt to encourage students to participate in activi-ties on an evening and at weekends. Display board in the PE department highlights the students who are already accessing 5 hours of sport. Other students are personally encouraged by the PE department staff to participate further to reach this target. Funding accessed to allow the school to organise specialist sports coaches to offer the students a variety of sports and to develop their skills to a higher level. At the end of these sessions which are funded by Sport Unlimited and the School Sport Coaching it is encouraged that interested performers will continue by attending the local sports club. Such clubs have been hockey, athletics, basketball, badminton, archery, trampo-lining, dance and cricket.

SCHOOL SPORT COORDINATOR—MISS A DI NAPOLI


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Sponsored Bounce

On the 7th July King James’s stu-dents took part in a ‘Sponsored Bounce’ to help raise funds for a new trampoline. Students man-aged to do 27,000 bounces!!!

Sponsor money is still rolling

in and being counted.

The draw for the sports raffle

took place during National

School Sports Week. All stu-

dents had received a free en-

try to the draw every time

they attended an after school

sports club.

The prizes were provided by

the Sport unlimited pro-

gramme as part of Newsome

School Sport Partnership and

by King James’s PE depart-

ment.

The ipod shuffle was won by

Kimberley Mallinson. The

other prizes included sports

equipment, travel hair

straightners, sports clothing,

summer sports camp free en-

try voucher, caps, wrist

bands, pedometers, water

bottles and sports vouchers.

SPORTS PRIZE WINNERS


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KJS ALLOTMENT TREE PLANTING

Following on from last years Solu-tions to the Planet project year 11 students are keenly digging into the very first stage of creating the King James’s allotment. The apple and pear trees were planted to form a barrier for the al-lotment located at the front green area of the school . The trees were bought and grown in conjunction with the successful edible garden for pleasure and leisure competition.

FUND RAISING On the 18th June a fantastic £630.14 was raised

in a non-uniform day which will boost our Eco Schools Allotment funds

The day of the competition the weather was beautiful, very hot and sunny. We arrived to set up the garden and had a spot in the middle between Shelley and Rowley Lane. We set about organising the gar-den placing the bottle shel-ter at the back, the recycle logo in the middle with all the plants and trees situ-ated around decoratively placed with two information boards at the side.

The finished garden looked magnificent and although of course I’m rather biased, I must say that is stood out amongst the rest as the best garden! When it came to judging we were second and very nervous. The judges looked around our garden and asked us many questions like, ‘whose idea was this’ etc they also said ‘you are a credit to your school’, so of course we were very proud and hopeful of a win.

Time to present the winners. The mayor and judges read out the winners, ‘King James’s School has won best in show as well as their category’. All 3 of us were jumping around, we were ecstatic!! All that effort and time put into one garden had paid off and we had won!

Alice Harling—Paige Shaw—Claire Hudson

GARDEN COMPETITION


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