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VOL. 6<br />
APRIL <strong>2021</strong><br />
KING'S LEADERSHIP ACADEMY,<br />
WARRINGTON<br />
Monthly <strong>Newsletter</strong> of King's Leadership Academy, Warrington<br />
NEWS &<br />
FEATURES<br />
#IfChloeCan<br />
PAGE 2-3<br />
Super Leaning<br />
Afternoons<br />
PAGE 4-5<br />
Ground breaking<br />
research<br />
PAGE 6<br />
Leadershiop Days<br />
PAGE 7<br />
Oracy<br />
PAGE 8<br />
Springing into Spring <strong>2021</strong><br />
SUPER LEARNING AFTERNOONS IN <strong>2021</strong><br />
As spring awakens, so does our sense of<br />
adventure here at Kings. Throughout<br />
March we have packed our curriculum<br />
full of activity and adventure. From<br />
super learning days to leadership days<br />
our pupils have been running at full<br />
pace, reflecting our ASPIRE values to the<br />
core.<br />
This month we have featured many of<br />
our budding pupil writers as feature<br />
editors to share their own experiences<br />
this term.
#IfChloeCan<br />
"Developing<br />
skills such as<br />
problem<br />
solving, goal<br />
setting and<br />
self<br />
exploration."<br />
BY NATASHA BOYER<br />
We have been lucky enough to be selected to<br />
work with the charity If Chloe Can - which<br />
helps to prepare girls for the challenges of<br />
life. If Chloe Can is a workshop where we<br />
can talk to MP's on a zoom call On the zoom<br />
calls MP's tell you tips on how to boost your<br />
confidence and you learn about successful<br />
people who have reached their goals. This<br />
experience helped me consider my<br />
aspiration and achievements.<br />
Founded in 2013, If Chloe Can has been<br />
working successfully with secondary schools<br />
across the country supporting young girls by<br />
offering them advice on career planning,<br />
workshops to develop skills in problem<br />
solving, goal setting, self-exploration, and<br />
creative thinking along with the<br />
collaborative working and networking<br />
skills that will be so crucial in all aspects of<br />
our future life and work.<br />
KING'S LEADERSHIP ACADEMY
#IfChloeCan continued<br />
"Showcasing<br />
successful<br />
female role<br />
models for<br />
the next<br />
generation".<br />
BY NATASHA BOYER<br />
The charity was created by the founder,<br />
Esther McVey, with the aim of working with<br />
young women who wished to have access to<br />
successful female role models which has<br />
been an issue throughout history. Today, the<br />
task is spread the success of empowered<br />
women and inspire the next generation of<br />
young female role models in powerful<br />
positions across almost all walks of life.<br />
Specifically tailored to the needs of girls in<br />
Years 8 and 9 our Confidence, Assertiveness<br />
& Resilience workshop training helps to<br />
develop critical personal skills.<br />
We have guest speakers each week including<br />
one of the Doctors who helped to created<br />
the Covid vaccine at Oxford University!<br />
KING'S LEADERSHIP ACADEMY
Super Learning Afternoons<br />
Y7-10<br />
Y7 SLA- By Shay Worrall<br />
On Super Learning Afternoon we met<br />
Terry Caffrey, a performance poet,<br />
and it was a exciting experience. We<br />
made poems and participated in his<br />
performances. We learnt on that day<br />
that poetry is not boring and can be<br />
very fun and interesting . The King’s<br />
value I think we showed the most was<br />
endeavour because we really did put<br />
all we had into the poems we created.<br />
"An exciting<br />
experience..<br />
.poetry can<br />
be very fun<br />
and<br />
interesting"<br />
Y8 SLA - By Charlie Philips<br />
During Super Learning Afternoon, we<br />
had a zoom meeting with the MP for<br />
Warrington, where she told us what<br />
happens during her time at<br />
parliament. After learning about<br />
debating in parliament, we made our<br />
own in our forms. As a form we<br />
assigned roles that would be found<br />
inside the Houses of Parliament.<br />
Overall, it was a good afternoon about<br />
learning how MPs in the UK debate<br />
concerns.<br />
KING'S LEADERSHIP ACADEMY
Y9 Super Learning Afternoon<br />
Year 9 took part in Call Push Rescue training as part<br />
of our Super Learning Afternoon last week. There<br />
were some fantastic contributions to all of the<br />
sessions and our students are now equipped with the<br />
skills to support anyone in cardiac arrest. Well done<br />
Year 9!<br />
"By<br />
completing<br />
Bootcamp we<br />
can learn<br />
how to reach<br />
even further<br />
than we have<br />
already".<br />
Y10 Super Learning Afternoon On the super learning<br />
afternoon the past week we had the opportunity to<br />
have an assembly with the former 8x memory world<br />
champion Dominic O’Brien. He went through many<br />
tasks to show us how our memory works, for<br />
example we made a ‘story’ including specific words<br />
which almost acted like trigger words for our brain<br />
to remember something else like the start of all the<br />
elements in the periodic table. But before he showed<br />
us the ‘trick’ of placing what we are trying to<br />
remember in a story or trying to associate what you<br />
are trying to remember with a familiar place we had<br />
the chance to attempt to do it ourselves. Without a<br />
doubt, the improvements were very clear. This links<br />
to when he showed us the meaning of working<br />
memory and long term memory - how fast you are to<br />
retrieve it but also how likely you are to forget. The<br />
main takeaway which was apparent is that when<br />
trying to remember you have to use your<br />
imagination so that your brain detects the oddity<br />
and wants to remember it.<br />
KING'S LEADERSHIP ACADEMY
HITTING HIGH<br />
NOTES IN THE<br />
SCHOOL<br />
MUSICAL<br />
KINGS LEADING<br />
THE WAY AGAIN!<br />
Please help us stay open! Kings Leadership<br />
Academy is taking part in the COVID-19<br />
Schools Infection Survey (SIS), this is a<br />
national study that aims to help experts<br />
better understand the virus, and how it is<br />
transmitted. By being a part of this vital<br />
national study, your participation is not only<br />
helping experts, but is also helping us to<br />
protect school pupils, staff and their families.<br />
This in turn, can help reduce school closures<br />
and further lockdowns and help keep<br />
everyone safe from the virus. The next round<br />
of SIS testing of pupils and staff is happening<br />
on 25th and 26th March, it’s not too late to<br />
sign up, just follow this link:<br />
https://www.ocmeridian.com/Desktop/Portal/signup?<br />
id=cisschools&referalcode=138562<br />
and enter this number 138562.<br />
We are so proud to<br />
be performing the<br />
musical 'Annie' this<br />
summer as our<br />
school musical. Save<br />
the dates of Thursday<br />
8th and Friday 9th<br />
July. We are<br />
fortunate to be<br />
showcasing talent all<br />
the way through Y7<br />
to Sixth Form. A real<br />
full school<br />
collaboration! All<br />
rehearsals are going<br />
very smoothly and all<br />
cast are enjoying the<br />
production and<br />
cannot wait to<br />
showcase their<br />
talents to everyone in<br />
July.<br />
Please watch this<br />
space form more<br />
information of ticket<br />
prices and sales!
Y7 & Y8 Leadership Days<br />
During the past month, both Year 7 and<br />
Year 8 have been participating in<br />
activities in place of their usual<br />
residential. Due to Covid, this couldn’t<br />
go ahead as normal which was a shame<br />
but as a school, we managed to pull off<br />
a great couple of days challenging our<br />
students leadership, teamwork and<br />
communication skills.<br />
This included Virtual Reality<br />
Experiences, Team Challenge, MTa<br />
tasks, Orienteering, Shelter Building,<br />
Blind Trail and the Great Egg Drop.<br />
There was fantastic input by all<br />
students and they really showed the<br />
Aspire values throughout! Well done!<br />
Living<br />
our<br />
values:<br />
each<br />
day,<br />
every<br />
day.<br />
KING'S LEADERSHIP ACADEMY
LEADERSHIP<br />
ASSEMBLIES<br />
B y D r R o d r i g u e z<br />
This year our Year 7 & 8 students have been working<br />
extremely hard on their public speaking skills in<br />
PPE (Public speaking, philosophy and ethics). To<br />
showcase their endeavour the PPE teachers have<br />
nominated the best two groups from each year to<br />
present their speeches in assembly. This learning<br />
cycle the following students were chosen to<br />
present their speeches on War (Year 7) and<br />
Abortion (Year 8) :<br />
Year 7<br />
Eleanor Clare, Lydia Cox, Daniel McLaughlin,<br />
Josh Richardson, Leo Rae, Harrison Penketh and<br />
Bradley Kiernan.<br />
Year 8<br />
Mia Muller, Holly Rutter, Harry Capstick, Ella<br />
Laughton, Sienna Truelove and Lily Roberts.<br />
We are extremely proud of the students who have<br />
taken part this learning cycle and there will now be<br />
an opportunity each learning cycle for students to<br />
show off their public speaking skills.<br />
V O L 5
King's Golden Moments so<br />
far in <strong>2021</strong>.<br />
<strong>2021</strong> has hardly been a walk in the park for us<br />
here at King's and yet we still have had a lot to<br />
celebrate despite the obstacles in place. Our<br />
stoic nature runs deep within every aspect of<br />
our school community. Here are some of our<br />
highlights of <strong>2021</strong>: and it's not over yet!<br />
Amazing attendance: We all know the<br />
challenges of home learning. Moving from<br />
classroom to cloud was a daunting prospect<br />
however our pupils rose to the challenge. Our<br />
attendance remained at our usual high<br />
standards with pupils demonstrating the<br />
disruption had been minimal - arguably<br />
unnoticeable!<br />
Over Learning Cycle 3 (an entire term spent<br />
over zoom) our school attendance average never<br />
dipped below 97.5%! Well done everyone!<br />
Featuring<br />
97.5%<br />
attendance<br />
during a<br />
national<br />
lockdown<br />
100% positive<br />
destinations<br />
for graduates<br />
We have also been taking more steps than ever<br />
to protect and support our pupils. The success<br />
of our supportive strategies can be measured<br />
against our 0% NEETS for this academic year,<br />
meaning we have successfully placed all<br />
graduating pupils within full time education,<br />
employment or training.<br />
Pastoral Lead Ms Aldridge has also implemented<br />
a subtle but quick way for pupils to access<br />
support form staff faster by ensuring this smart<br />
shortcut is placed within every classroom.<br />
Pupils only need to use a device to scan the<br />
barcode and they have access to supportive<br />
content and a direct line of communication to<br />
our pastoral leaders.<br />
KING'S LEADERSHIP ACADEMY