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Star of the week
Purple House Star of the Week
Shah Alhabib Year 11
Despite challenges Shah returned to KC and worked very hard to improve his grades and achieve his aim of going to Oxford or Cambridge. He is currently working above target in subjects and has been a credit to his family, himself and KC. What a role model!
Red House Star of the Week
Zachary Deacon Year 8
Zachary is a thoroughly lovely student, always polite and well behaved and has shown initiative outside of lessons, looking for and buying books independently to support his learning. He has excellent attendance as well. Congratulations, an all-round star.
Gold House Star of the Week
Reece Minards Year 10
Reece has made a huge effort to improve in all aspects of his education. Reece has been taking his studies much more seriously and has arrived on time and ready to work every day for the last two weeks. Overall Reece has improved his attitude to learning. Well done Reece.
Green House Star of the Week
Max Hardwick Year 7
Max was in the Northampton Scout Gang show on Saturday at the Deco Theatre. He was brilliant and performed really well for a whole 2 hours along with other cast members and he performed a brilliant solo. What a super star.
Blue House Star of the Week
Barika Omar Ali Year 10
Barika’s attendance has improved dramatically. Her attitude to learning and confidence in Drama has also improved. Mr Limb was most impressed with her monologue. All in all, I would like to recognise her achievements. We are really proud of her. Keep up the good work.
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Have a Curry for Charity
In association with Lovelight Romania www.lovelightromania.com a local Indian Restaurant, The Cardarmon in Kingsthorpe (near Waitrose and Asda), is pleased to announce they will be holding two charity evenings on Monday 2nd and Tuesday 3rd June
For the sum of £10 per person they will provide :- starter, main dish, side dish, rice and a naan bread. A vegetarian option is available for £9 per person. The dishes will be a set menu. All drinks and extras are at normal price and are not part of this event.
Lovelight Romania is dedicated to providing support services to children, teenagers and families affected by HIV/AIDS in Transylvania and believe that everyone has the right to die with dignity, where they can access medication and not be alone. It is a charity supported by a number of staff at Kingsthorpe College.
The Cardamon has generously agreed to donate 60% of the proceeds from all meals on those 2 nights to Lovelight Romania.
Please contact the restaurant directly to book your table.
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Inter House competition
The final week of the competition saw an incredibly close contest between Green House and Blue House. Congratulations to Blue House on winning the competition by a slender 61 points. Blue House students now have first choice to go on our annual rewards trip to Alton Towers.
The trip will take place on Tuesday 17th June, with the coaches leaving at 8.00am and returning to Kingsthorpe College at approximately 6.00pm. The cost of the tickets are £26 which covers entry to the theme park and travel. A packed lunch will need to be provided or alternatively some money to purchase food.
Blue House students will have until Thursday 5th June to buy their tickets. After this date tickets will go on sale to the hardest working students in other Houses.
The overall results of the competition are:
Blue House 16286 points
Green House 16225 points
Red House 14975 points
Purple House 13677 points
Gold House 12420 points
The next inter-house competition will commence at the beginning of the next academic year.
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English Revision
On 29th and 30th April, Caroline Bentley-Davies IGCSE examiner and author of the teacher’s book ‘How to be an Amazing Teacher’ came into the school to run a series of active revision workshops with Year 11 pupils. Caroline commented on the behaviour of pupils saying:
‘I really enjoyed working with the Year 11 pupils. I travel to schools across the country and pupils at Kingsthorpe are always a delight to teach I was very impressed with their motivation, work ethic and their evident enjoyment of English. They have many good ideas and they are very keen to succeed. It was great to see them joining in and getting excited about revision. I wish them well with their exams – and would encourage them to revise hard and spend time ensuring that they really know their set texts and poetry well, so that they can shine in the exams.
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Exam Reminder
The exams can be a stressful time for our students but there are some tips that can help reduce this stress such as:
- Get a good nights sleep before the exam
- Have a good breakfast and lunch
- Drink plenty of water
- Bring the correct equipment
- Arrive at least 15 minutes before the start of the exam
- Relax, don't get stressed
- Use a revision timetable.
- Revise in a quiet environment
- Revise in chunks of no more than 40 minutes
- Take regular breaks
- Attend revision sessions.
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Exam Breakfasts
| Monday |
2nd June |
Music |
14 |
Trolley to classroom |
| Tuesday |
3rd June |
English |
117 |
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Anglian Water Challenge
On Monday 12th May Anglian Water worked with 100 of our Year 8 students in small groups. These students were taught about the role of Anglian water with regards to the cleaning processes, and the management of our water supply. They were given the task to plan a route for a series of pipe networks to enable clean water to reach a variety of settlements. The students were asked to justify their route, keeping to a budget of £12,000, which incorporated the cost of the land, and the materials needed. All of the students worked collaboratively and were able to test their water network, to check that all of the settlements had an even distribution of water. This was an amazing opportunity for our students to engage with an external corporation to understand one of the physical processes within the study of Geography.
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Girls U13 County Cup Football Final
 As you may be aware it was the U13 County Cup Football Final last night and it was KCs chance to win the final and retain our title and trophy. The game started slowly and there was an early goal from the opposition. Once the girls settled into the game they played some good football and managed to score 3 goals. At 3-1 we were all on edge as the ball went up and down the pitch with both teams looking like they might score. The other team managed to score 2 making it 3-3 at the end of full time. We played extra time where we had the majority of the ball and plenty of scoring chances however could not get it passed their keeper.
The final whistle went meaning 3-3 and a draw. This means that yet again we are COUNTY CUP CHAMPIONS!!!!!! We do have to share the trophy with Caroline Chisholm School but we still remain the best U13 girls football team in the County.
I would like to say a massive well done and thank you to the following girls:
Georgia Miah, Olivia Perrin, Abi Caborn, Maddie Cooke, Chloe Thompson, Sarah Calpin, Evie Edwards, Jess Lonergan, Caitlyn Robinson, Courtney Barker, Saskia Little.
You were amazing, you played brilliantly as a team and you deserved to come away with that trophy!! You should be very proud of yourselves, you did Kingsthorpe College proud!!
Also I would like to thank the parents and staff who managed to get down and support the girls. It was great to have that support and the girls really appreciated it.
Again, WELL DONE!!!!!!!!
Thanks,
Miss Crossland
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Level One Rugby Leaders Award
(RFU All Schools Programme)
 A group of Year 9/10 boys (Connor Stratton; Tom White; Kallum Lovell; Reece Williams; Hayden Tebbutt; Chris Shepperd; Josh Brooks; Dan Byrne; Bradley Small; Sam Cowley; Charlie Merrey; Reece Waterfield) recently completed a Level One Rugby Leaders Award delivered by the RFU. The training was focussed around the 5 core values of Rugby; teamwork, respect, enjoyment, discipline and sportsmanship. Throughout the training the students worked in groups to plan a variety of games, coaching drills and activities. They were then given the challenge to lead these activities for a group of year 7 and 8 students. Although nervous at the start, all the boys rose to the challenge and lead an activity for their younger peers. They not only demonstrated some fantastic leadership skills, but also began to review each other’s sessions and give positive and constructive feedback to one another. It was great to see them all develop so much over the space of the day. The boys themselves stated that the training made them feel much more confident to lead activities. In the afternoon, the students were also put through their Tag Rugby Umpire Training which they all passed with flying colours.
The RFU not only want this course to develop students as confident, capable rugby leaders but also to have a community delivery element to it as well. We are therefore in the process of organising a Rugby Festival for local primary schools. The students will take complete responsibility for the planning and delivery of the festival. This will provide them with an opportunity to apply their newly acquired coaching and refereeing skills.
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Diary dates
Friday 23rd May:
End of Term 5
Monday 2nd June:
Term 6 Begins
Tuesday 1st July:
Fact Finders Day
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Monday 7th July:
Transition Day – Year 6 students at the College all day
Y6 Parents Evening 6.30pm
Thursday 26th June:
Progress Day 3
Wednesday 23rd July:
End of Term
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Myeloma UK
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A Dream Upon Clouds
I drift away in the clouds, a fantasy of the eternal splendour of the sky
Sense your soul, sense your heartbeat as the clouds cry in pain
I’ll reach out to the blazing stars up stars as life passes by
Howling clouds can only precipitate nothing more but words hurt as much as actions
Excruciating torture day by day not a second may pass to attain your passions
Forgotten, erased, elapsed in your closed eye wonderland
I dream of happiness, a life without a struggle, a place named Neverland,
I’m stuck in heaven, imprisoned, deprived, defected, good or bad only you can decide,
I feel I will wake one day,
But in the real world, filled with agony and sorrow, is the true nightmare
Once upon a time you can run away from fears once upon a time you will understand,
Not matter what they say,
Keep your dreams but don’t dream your life away.
Saheem Islam Year 9
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Croos-Country Race
I was really nervous standing at the line,
I don’t know why they didn’t start the race,
It was already time.
The gun was like a lions roar, going off with a
Loud BANG!
All the 200 girls or so heard it so we started
and ran.
It wasn’t a good start; everyone was
Pushing and shoving,
All I could hear was huffing and puffing.
While I was running I could hear shouting,
It was my club egging me on because I was
Doubting.
In the distance I could see the finish line,
I started to spring; I knew it was about time.
I overtook about 15 people,
Someone tried to spike me, which was lethal!
I dodged past it and crossed the line,
All I knew was the gold medal was mine.
Charis Hayes Year 8
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Nans
No words can describe how great a nan is,
She has wrinkles on her face,
And rollers in her hair,
Her hair is white as snow.
She had many personalities,
She is kind,
She is funny,
She is the one that looks after you.
She is the one person you can trust,
She is cute,
She is caring,
She is short…………
She is your Nan.
Caitlin Malone Year 8
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