Spring Term 2 - Easter 2018

SPRING TERM 2
Christ the King CVA
Newsletter

Dear Parents,
Easter is an extremely special time for Catholics as we remember the sacrifices made by our
Lord Jesus Christ. Holy week allows us to think about our faith as we are encouraged to attend
reconciliation as well as recollect Jesus’ journey leading to his Resurrection on Easter Sunday.
For many students, the Easter break will be an opportunity to prepare for GCSE and A’ level
examinations and I wish them every success during this important time. May I remind you that
the Summer term starts on Monday April 16th.
I wish you all a very happy and Holy Easter and I look forward to seeing our students fully
refreshed next term.
Best wishes
Carlo
AUTISM AWARENESS
Between Monday 26 th March – Thursday 29 th March Christ the King has
celebrated World Autism Awareness Week.
We have set up lots of activities , held Acts of Worship and done our best to
raise awareness and fund raising for our school sensory room. Fund raising
activities included a cake sale, tuck shop, bracelet sale and Ribbon sale. We
would like to say a special thank
you to Emma Anstock, Claire
Thomson and Emma Boyle who
kindly baked and donated for us.
Students have been extremely
supportive during the week and
enjoyed getting involved.
As this goes
to press we are unable to give a fundraising total.
Once we do know we will post it on social media.
We have been explaining Autism to our students and
staff. To see what we have been saying please see the
back page.
To close we would like to thank everyone for their
support, donations and help in raising awareness.
ICE Team

FOOD TECHNOLOGY
Our Year 11 GCSE Food Students have been really busy in the kitchen recently and they worked tirelessly to
present three very complex dishes, in their allocated 3 hours. Additionally, everything they made also counts
towards their final GCSE Mark. This was no mock!
The students demonstrated a high level of skill and the patience they showed was phenomenal. To give you
an idea of the lengths they went to – they made the bread in the exam so they could then make bread crumbs.
The images below show a small taste of the absolute success of our very talented students.

National Careers Week Update
5th – 10th March was National Careers Week which we marked with a range of activities
designed to help students to consider their future Career options and deepen their
understanding of the world of employment.
During registration, a spotlight was shone on a different career each morning, including
NHS careers, Digital and Media vocations, Business and Finance; Marketing, Production and
Manufacturing; providing students with essential Labour Market Information to help them
consider which careers will be in high demand when they complete their education,
training or higher qualifications.
Corridors were emblazoned with inspirational quotes and words of wisdom from
entrepreneurs and business people alike as well as essential information about
apprenticeships and traineeships.
Our teaching staff also got on board by sharing their career histories on their classroom
doors and the employability skills they gained from their different roles.
Students were invited to participate in our ‘Careers Week Competition’ by finding out the
career histories of 5 teachers and explaining the employability skills they gained. Their
quizzes were entered into a prize draw and Rowell Hartley ( Year 10) was the lucky winner
of a £10 WH Smith Gift voucher for his efforts!
Rowell said that finding out about teachers’ career paths taught him that ‘people have
many different skills and that I will probably have lots of careers in my lifetime’ and that ‘it
is possible to start off small and if you work hard, it can lead to bigger and better things’.
Year 10 Work Experience Reminder
Work Experience is an important part of our Careers programme at our Academy and has
been shown to really help students to hone their employability skills and prepare for the
world of work. Many Year 10 students have already arranged a placement for June; if your
child is yet to confirm a placement with an employer, please direct them to the Work
Experience Clinic which is open Tuesday - Thursday lunchtimes in E5.
If your child has confirmed a placement, it is imperative that they return their Notification
Form to either Miss Southgate, Mr Pringle or Student Service at the earliest opportunity
( additional forms are also available from Student Services).
The final deadline for all students to notify the Academy of their placement is 9th May,
however the academy should be informed of placements not sourced through the Futures
website before the Easter Holidays.
Miss Southgate, Work-Related Learning Co-ordinator

ART
A special ceremony was held at 10am on 6th March to reveal the benches, created by local artist Richard
Janes, with the help of our students. Our students helped with the design of the benches. The benches
were unveiled by former miners at the Colliery, wearing their full mining gear for the ceremony.
Mr Janes said the benches depict the overground and underground story of the historic site, which closed in
1991 and was reopened as a country park in 2015. He said: "The benches tell the story of the Colliery at
Gedling. The over-ground story with the headstocks and landscape of the pit, the underground story with the
miners, tunnels, lamps and pit ponies.
Students at Christ the King were shown the ideas and inspirations that went into the Gedling flame tree and
devised their own amazing designs. These then fed into the design of the decorative panels for the benches.”
The benches were commissioned by the Friends of Gedling Country Park, and were joined by local councillors
at the event. Councillor Peter Barnes, Portfolio Holder for Environment at Gedling Borough Council, said:
"These benches look absolutely brilliant and are a fitting tribute to the miners who worked on the colliery site.
Pictured from left students Alexander Hill, 14, Isabelle Taylor, 13,
Cllr. John Clarke and artist Richard Janes
Pictured: Alexander Hill, Lilyella Cantril, Finely Sheenan-Johnson,
Abigail Ward, Kacper Dzialo, Jasmine Carr, Ella Houston-Morris,
Leroy Kasa-Vubu, Isabelle Ridley-Thompson, Agnieszka Kozlowska
Pictured: Alexander Hill, Lilyella Cantril, Finely Sheenan-Johnson, Abigail Ward, Kacper Dzialo, Jasmine Carr,
Ella Houston-Morris, Leroy Kasa-Vubu, Isabelle Ridley-Thompson, Agnieszka Kozlowska

This month, the Art Department launches it’s ‘Student of the Month’ Awards. We are
constantly amazed by the creativity and standard of the students’ work and we are very proud to
share it with you. March’s worthy winners are: Year 11 – Juan Luis Garcia Aibangbee and Klaudia
Sikora, Year 10 – Lucy Watson and Niall Hickling, Year 9 – Katrine Wilson and Randall Labis, Year 8
– George Hammond and Tania Taymouri, Year 7 Millie Brinkworth and Kofi Williamson. However,
don’t just take our word for it take a look yourselves.!!
Top Left - Millie Brinkworth
Top Right - Randall Labis
Middle Left - Katrine Wilson
Middle Right - Klaudia Sikora
Bottom Right - Niall Hickling

Top Left - Kofi Williamson
Top Right - Tania Taymouri
Middle Left - George Hammond
Middle Right - Lucy Watson
Bottom Left - Juan Luis Garcia
Aibangbee

On Palm Sunday I was asked how Lent had gone
for me and I didn’t quite know how to answer. I
had plans to make Lent a real time of prayer this
year, determined to do so, this didn’t quite go to
plan. The first week through half-term was a
success but every week after that it became more
and more challenging to do so and my extra prayer
time became less and less. I must admit that I felt
quite guilty that I had not but more effort into
saving this time for God. That evening I went to
confession and confessed this, the Priest was
wonderfully kind and asked what I had done instead, I mentioned some extra programmes and tasks I’d
taken on to run courses and prayer time for other people in Lent. He said maybe God wanted that time for
prayer but not your own prayer for others.
I say this not to blow my own trumpet, but to say that it never ceases to amaze me that my plans don’t
start being the same as God’s plans, but they do always end that way. I wonder if this is what the disciples
were thinking on Holy Saturday, that dark day when the light of the world had been extinguished. They
had decided to give God some time, three years to be exact they had plans of how they were going to
restore Israel, that foreign nations would come to worship the Jewish God. Now here they were sat in an
upper room, their Messiah dead and their hope gone.
It was never God’s plan to take Israel by force and call the nations into submission, however it was always
his plan to restore Israel and to no longer just be the God of Israel but the God of all nations.
I’ve come to the conclusion that I am pretty rubbish at praying, a shocking thing for a Chaplain to say, but
I know Jesus is. I know the Holy Spirit can give me the words that I can’t find. I know that the Father
already knows my desires and thoughts before they have even been formed in my mind. I know that
instead of praying to God I should pray in and through God. To allow my time of prayer not to be about
what I will do for God but what God will do for me. I look forward to the end of this most Holy Week, the
sacred three days that lead us into the history shattering Resurrection Day.
I invite you to take the opportunity that the Church presents in these three most blessed days to enter into
the life of Christ. Enter into his Last Supper where he gives himself in service and sacrament. Stay with him
as he prays in the garden, as he struggles to bring human will into loving obedience with the divine,
changing us for eternity. Stand with him as his disciples flee, stand with his mother and the women who
show their complete love and devotion to him; watching their salvation being won for them. Enter into the
stillness of the tomb, the moments in life when all seems lost; but it is this place which becomes the hope
for all. In these moments we are not spectators but companions, he is embracing the fullness of our
humanity, so that we can share in the fullness of his divinity. This great drama, this passionate love story
can be lived in our Churches.

Chaplaincy News Easter 2018
Though this term has only been five weeks, we’ve managed to pack it full as we have been preparing for
Easter.
Stations of the Cross
Throughout Lent we have been celebrating the Stations of the Cross
with every Year 7 Class in the Chapel. This is a great hour where the
students write prayers for the service and design a picture for that
station. They only have 25 minutes to do this as the remaining 25
minutes is them leading each other in a Stations of the Cross service.
We pick our favourite version of each station and they go up in the
Chapel for the remaining year. It is going to be very hard to do that
this year as we’ve been amazed by the incredible drawings and the
wonderful prayers!
Lindisfarne House Mass
We welcomed Fr Paul Chipchase of Holy Cross, Hucknall for the first
time on Friday 23rd March for the Lindisfarne House Mass. This was
another wonderful celebration with each form contributing greatly to
the Mass. Some particular highlights include the Introduction when L.
Augustine challenged the house to seek to do better in this year ahead.
They took the example of their forms patron saint, St Augustine of
Hippo, who turned his life around and became one of the greatest
Christian writers and
Bishops of all time. As a
form they keep winning
the wooden spoon in the
form competitions so they
spoke about what they are
going to do to get better
over the next half term,
then challenged everyone else to do the same. Fr Paul picked
up on this in his homily saying that in the Gospel of the Mass
Jesus is given a pep talk to the disciples to get better. He made
us think about not just accepting what we can do but seek to
find what we are brilliant at and excel in it. L.Louise were in
charge of the offertory and they created a body, with groups
taking a different part. It looked quite strange when put
together but really it is unique and can never be replicated as
it is made up of everyone’s contribution. Lindisfarne are
striving to continue to be inclusive and let everyone have an impact in making their house what it is!

Stations of the Resurrection
On Monday of Holy Week the youth group at Sacred Heart Church
created stations of the Resurrection. These are 14 moments following
Jesus’ Resurrection and finishing with Pentecost. They look incredible
and it was a pleasure to be a part of it, the prayers they wrote to go
with them are very challenging and thought provoking. They will go
up in the Church on Easter
Monday, and it is open
every day during the day
for people to go to pray.
Lourdes Fundraising
Firstly I just want to once again thank everyone for
our Lourdes Fundraising week just before half-term
we raised over £1000. This term we have done 2
bake sales raising an incredible £155. On Sunday
15 th April, Fraser and I will be running the Derby
10K, so please do sponsor us. Friday 27 th April will
see the return of our annual Pub Quiz with Fish and
Chip supper here at Christ the King starting at 7pm;
and finally as a whole group we will be taking part
in a sponsored event in May.
Lent Video Challenges
The publicity group of the Chaplaincy Team
have produced Weekly Challenges in Lent
such as: helping out in school; helping out at
home; taking care of the environment and
giving to charity. They can be found on the
Chaplaincy Youtube channel (search on
Youtube for CtK Chaplaincy) or on the school’s
Facebook page.
Chrism Mass
An important part of Holy Week is something called the Chrism Mass. This is when all the priests and
representatives from across the Diocese (basically the East Midlands) gather for Mass with the Bishop
in the Cathedral. The Holy Oils that will be used for the celebration of the sacraments in the following
year are blessed and consecrated. Christ the King was asked to bring 2 students to take part in the
offertory. Bethany and Katie Boswell represented the school and did us very proud.
Thank you so much for reading this, make sure to read the Easter message and checkout the Masses
and Services to celebrate Easter in our local Parishes.
God bless and Happy Easter
Joe Hopkins, Lay Chaplain

Easter Mass Timings.
Good Shepherd, Woodthorpe
Maundy Thursday Mass of the Lord’s Supper:
Good Friday The Passion of Our Lord Liturgy:
Good Friday Stations of the Cross:
Holy Saturday Easter Vigil Mass:
Easter Sunday Mass:
7:30pm
3:00pm
10:00am & 7:30pm
7:30pm
8:00am, 10:00am, 11:30am & 5:30pm
Sacred Heart, Carlton
Maundy Thursday Mass of the Lord’s Supper:
Good Friday The Passion of Our Lord Liturgy:
Holy Saturday Easter Vigil Mass:
Easter Sunday Mass:
8:00pm
3:00pm
8:00pm
10:30am
St Christopher's, Colwick Road, Sneinton
Good Friday Stations of the Cross:
Easter Sunday Mass:
7:30pm
8:45am
Our Lady’s, Bulwell
Wednesday, Women at the Cross:
Maundy Thursday Mass of the Lord’s Supper:
Good Friday The Passion of Our Lord Liturgy:
Holy Saturday Easter Vigil Mass:
Easter Sunday Mass:
Easter Week Mass (Mo - Sat):
7:30pm
7:30pm
3:00pm
7:30pm
10:15am
10.00am
Infant of Prague, Bestwood
Maundy Thursday Mass of the Lord’s Supper:
Good Friday The Passion of Our Lord Liturgy:
Holy Saturday Easter Vigil Mass:
Easter Sunday Mass:
7:30pm
3:00pm
7:30pm
9:30am
Holy Cross, Hucknall
Maundy Thursday Mass of the Lord’s Supper:
Good Friday The Passion of Our Lord Liturgy:
Good Friday Stations of the Cross:
Holy Saturday Easter Vigil Mass:
Easter Sunday Mass:
7:30pm
3:00pm
7:00pm
8:00pm
9:30am

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Autism is a lifelong developmental condition, which affects how people communicate and relate to
the world around them. This can affect how they talk to others and deal with sights, sounds and
changes in their environment.
Autism affects more than 1 in 100 people in the UK which means that 2.8 million people have a
relative affected by autism.
Communication
Interacting with others
Often, people with autism take things
very literally.
Sometimes, people with autism find joining
in within group activities very stressful.
Autistic people may find it hard to
understand humour and to take a hint
Often, people with autism come across as
rude but it may be that they aren't
understanding the conversation.
Holding eye contact for periods of time
can be uncomfortable.
It is important to understand this and try
and make these situations more
comfortable by not forcing someone with
autism to do something the way you do if it
makes them anxious.
Respect that they have their own way, which
makes them feel safer.
Sensory Overload
The main sensory areas which can be
affected are sound, sight, touch, smell,
balance and movement around others.
These can be heightened or under
sensitive.
Autism is known as a Spectrum
Condition
This means that, although people with
autism share some of the same
difficulties, everybody with the
condition is very different.
Christ the King CVA
Darlton Drive,
Arnold,
Nottingham,
Principal: Mr C Cuomo
Tel: 0115 955 6262
Email: office@christtheking.notts.sch.uk
www.christtheking.notts.sch.uk