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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

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