Welcome

It has been a really busy Term 3 and there has been a number of exciting  events at King’s Oak. Despite the cold, there has been a great atmosphere around the Academy.  Our Year 11s and Year 13s have been making excellent progress towards their GCSE exams, BTEC qualifications and A Levels.  Keeping up a good record of attendance is so crucial to long term success and I am delighted that our Year 11s have the best record of attendance of any year group.  The Maths GCSE exams that many Year 11s took early, have proved successful for many, allowing some Year 11 students now to focus their efforts on English or other option subjects.   A big thanks to Mrs Osborne who led a superb parent and student  revision session to really help our students learn in more creative ways and to help parents learn new ideas to help their children to be more successful.

In our Newsletter you can read about the new Yamaha Music Project.   Mr Warren has led live interactive music roadshows and we have had hundreds of primary school children coming into King’s Oak on Saturday mornings to try their hand at learning a new instrument.

There have also been brilliant Careers and Enterprise sessions led by Mrs Alam-Lloyd for Year 9s, 10s and 11s this term to help our learners think beyond school.  Our Drama and Media students had a really exciting two days in London with Mrs Powell which included a tour around the BBC and a performance of “Wicked”.

Our new royal blue King’s Oak PE sweatshirts for girls have now arrived.  They are optional and parents can use their £10 voucher towards this.

This week our Dance Leaders, Mrs Holtby and Miss Jones, led the Footlights Dance Evenings.   We were treated to a  wide age range of talented dancers who combined  great technique with enormous enthusiasm and thrilled the audiences on both nights. It was lovely to see the impact of hard practice and talent.

Around the site we have builders in!  We hope that by the start of Term 4 the landscaped path and benches around the Green Area will be ready and we will have a new large wet-weather shelter in place.  Also, our King’s Oak tree will be spotlit!

Can I remind you that in the event of extreme weather we will use our website and local radio stations to keep you informed about whether we are open.

Mr Ian Frost, Principal

 

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