Your Coombe Monthly Live: February 2014

C oombe
Monthly
Issue Fourteen ---- January/February 2014 ---- 08444 87 87 88 ---- info@coombemonthly.co.uk
Welcome to your fourteenth edition of Coombe
Monthly, and the first of this new year.
With the half term approaching, it’s important to look
back and reflect on the last six weeks. Note your
achievements, and note your targets for improvement.
We’ve had a fantastic half term; with Love Kingston
Day this Friday, our Public Speaking Triumph, plus being
noted in the Top 30 Most Improved Schools in the
country, there is so many achievements we should all
be proud of.
With Kind Regards,
James Giles
Editor of Coombe Monthly
Quote of the Month
“If I think I can; I can.”
Jack Petchey, CBE
Inside this Issue...
Jack Petchey Awards.
Year 7 Football Tournament
Year 7 Talent Show
Year 9 National Cup
Top 30 Most Improved!
Coombe Monthly Live!
Events in our Local Community
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Jack
Petchey
Winners at
Richmond
Theatre!!!
by James Giles
Any pupil or member of staff can nominate someone to win a Jack Petchey award. Awards are given to young
people who make ‘a wholehearted, unselfish, and dedicated contribution to their school.’
Winners of the Jack Petchey Achievement Award receive £250 to spend on the school. It is up to the winners how
they spend their money.
All winners of this prestigious award from 2012 to 2013 were invited to the annual Kingston and Richmond Jack
Petchey Award Ceremony to receive their boxed gold medallion.
All of the winners should be extremely proud of their award, and the outstanding contribution they give to the
school, and the school community.
Further Pictures from the evening can be found on our Facebook page, at https://www.facebook.com/pages/
Coombe-Monthly/672452582776229?fref=ts and on our website, at www.coombemontly.co.uk
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Year 7’s Got Talent!!!
by Nicholas Winter, Edward Reid, Vishaol Vignaraja and Kishanthan Yogalingam
The Year 7 Talent Competition, held on 19th December
2013, was an event organised by Miss Pomeroy and Mr
Pellett, to finish the Year Seven Induction Program on a ‘high
note’!
The event was extremely enjoyable for the teachers and students alike. The teachers were laughing after many of the acts
and were utterly amazed by the talent shown by the Year Seven pupils who performed. All forms had to take part but other
singles and groups did it of their own accord.
We spoke with Kishanthan, who performed ‘My Heart Skips a Beat’ by Olly Murs at the competition, and achieved second
place! He was amazed and proud of his accomplishment.
On introducing the judges, Mr Pellett said “We searched high and low for judges with particular experience in this field…
Unfortunately, we couldn’t find any!!!” – The Judges were Mrs Morris, Assistant Headteacher, Miss O Reilly, Head of Drama
and Miss Cockar, House Co-Ordinator.
Individual Winners
1st – George Harvey 2nd – Kishanthan Yogalingam 3rd – Isadmehr Jamal-Poor
As a tutor group, 7Stephenson won, with their piece dedicated to Mr Sagoo.
Year 7 Football Tournament
by Edward Reid and James Giles
Macmillan Cancer Support believes think “no one should
face cancer alone.” The Shooting Star-CHASE Hospice help
terminally ill children around London and in the South East
also.
The Year 7 Football Tournament held last term raised funds
for these two charities. Through the initial process of tutor
groups ‘bidding’ in assembly for the top football players in
the year, to playing football and organising refreshment
stalls, the Year Seven fundraiser was a success, with monies being split between Shooting Star-CHASE and Macmillan
Cancer Support.
Well Done to all who participated, and fundraised for these two very worthy charities.
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The Year 9 Football Team won in the semi-final of the
National Open Cup with an emphatic 5-0 win to setup a
mouth watering final against Christleton High School from
Chester. In a close first half, Liam Miller finished off an
exquisite team goal with a low driven shot from the edge of
the box to put Coombe 1-0 going in at half-time.
Coombe started the second half playing at an exceptional
tempo, which Bishop Challoner failed to cope with and two
quick fire goals from Cameron Thompson and Liam Miller
putting Coombe 3-0 up and looking very comfortable.
Year Nine National Cup Success!
based on article from www.coombeboysschool.org
This took away any hope from Bishop Challoner and
Coombe tasted blood as the boys continued to pour
forwards in numbers. A delicious in swinging cross from Liam
Miller and pressure from Ryan Sessegnon forced an own
goal to go 4-0 up and a composed finish from Liam Miller meant the game ended 5-0 as the unstoppable Coombe Boys stormed
their way into the final.
It is a phenomenal achievement to reach the final of a national cup, which any school in the country can enter and the boys can, and
should be very proud of themselves.
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Top 30 Most Improved Schools!!!
by James Giles
Coombe Boys’ has this month been placed in the Top 30 Most
Improved Secondary State Schools in the country by The Telegraph.
Coombe Boys’ School is one of the most improved schools based on
5A*-C Grades at GCSE inc. English and Maths from 2010 to 2013.
Coombe Boys’ School also qualified for being one of the top 10% of
schools in England based on improvement from 2008 to 2011 in the
percentage of pupils achieving 5A*-C grades including English and
Maths.
In December, Coombe Boys’ received a visit from Ofsted inspectors,
achieving good with outstanding features.
. There is so much we can be proud of as a school over the past term, and much more that we will surely be proud of in the
future too.
Upcoming
Event!
Rich Man Poor Man Event @ ACT
in aid of Love Kingston Day
Rich Man, Poor Man is an event which raises awareness
and funds for local people in crisis.
On arrival guests are asked to draw lots to see if they are
to receive a rich man gourmet meal, or a poor man meal
created from Kingston Foodbank's essential shopping list
ingredients. Local bands and musicians include the Apple
Core Beatles, Fear & Loathing and Franklin Collective.
Raffle prizes include donated BalletBoyz theatre tickets for
the their current tour.
Rich man, Poor man - Music and food event
7pm - 11pm, Friday 14th February
The ACT Theatre, Kingston College, Kingston Hall Road, KT1 2AQ
Tickets including a 2 course supper:
tables of 8 £160
or individual seats £20
Box office: richmanpoormanevents@gmail.com (please state if vegetarian or gluten
free)
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Your Coombe Monthly
Update
With a busy start to the year, we’ve been focusing
our time on our latest development, Coombe Monthly
Live, which enables you to keep up to date with all
the latest events at Coombe Boys’ and in the Local Community online. A screenshot can be seen below.
On top of this great development, providing all the latest news
from Coombe, 24 hours a day, we’ve also been working on
promoting our Twitter page, @CoombeMonthly, which at the
time of printing has 105 followers. We thank all those who follow
us for their support, and are proud to have some notable figures/
organisations among those followers, some of which are listed
below
Natalie Bennett, Leader of the Green Party
in England and Wales
Edward Davey MP, Kingston and Surbiton MP and
Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change
The Kingston Guardian
We’ve got a fantastic term and a half ahead of us, and look forward to bringing you our next issue at the
beginning of March.
Kingston Borough Shares the Love on Valentine’s Day
Guest Editorial: Love Kingston Day
by Dawn Salisbury
People across the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames are coming together on Valentine's Day in a unique fundraising appeal.
"Love Kingston Day" is happening on Friday 14 February and is bringing together residents, schools, colleges, businesses, shops,
restaurants, pubs, banks, choirs and gyms who will be doing lots of different activities to raise money for vital local causes.
They will all be helping to change the lives of thousands of local residents including homeless people, abused women, families without
a meal on the table or in financial hardship, and troubled teenagers.
Half of all donations to Love Kingston go to The Kingston Legacy Fund – with 50% match funding. The other half directly supports
five local projects who all work on ‘Pathways Out of Poverty’; Hestia, Kingston Foodbank, Kingston Churches Action on
Homelessness, Kingston Savers and Oxygen.
For more information and to download a fundraising pack visit www.love-kingston.org.uk
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Who is helping to fundraise?
Barclays Bank - Branch Activities and Match-Funding
BHS - Love Kingston activities throughout the store
Kingstonfeet - Donations from treatments on LK Day
Kingston Voluntary Action - Volunteer Collections & Yoga Class
among many more... including Coombe Boys’ School!
On Friday 14th February, Love Kingston Day, Coombe Boys’ are holding a mufti day. To take part and
wear mufti you need to bring in £1 to school on Friday, which goes to support charities in the borough,
listed on the previous page.
After all the fundraising events and donations throughout 2013 over £90,000 was pledged to the Love
Kingston fund and is already making a difference to local charities and the lives of the people they support
across the borough of Kingston upon Thames. We’ve got some big and bold plans for Love Kingston Day
2014 to raise £100,000 just on the day alone.
For more information, visit www.love-kingston.org.uk
Singing at St James’, New Malden
Do YOU have a passion for Choral Singing? For centuries, our country’s cathedrals and larger parish churches have been renowned
for their tradition of choral music, and our choir shares in this tradition.
The choir is an affiliated Guild Choir of the Royal School of Church Music (RSCM). We train our choristers using the RSCM Voice for
Life scheme which covers all the skills and other attributes required both to contribute and to derive the most from being a member of
a choir. Our choristers also partake in RSCM courses, services and other regional events, and some are members of RSCM Voices
(South) – one of the RSCM’s flagship choirs which performs music of the highest quality in important venues around the country.
Each individual is trained to become an accomplished performer, and their natural musicianship is given every opportunity and
encouragement to develop.
Why Join? Choral singing calls on a whole variety of skills and attributes such as musicality,
listening, performing, vocal control, literacy, numeracy, memory, concentration, courage, selfawareness,
blend, rhythm, physical stamina, orientation, comprehension. All these and other
characteristics are exercised and developed as a result of singing challenging and varied
music. These life skills stay with a person forever.
We are always on the lookout for promising new recruits, and hope to hear
from you soon!
For more info. on joining, contact our Director of Music Adam Hope: T:
07908611198 or E: a.hope@kingston.ac.uk
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