3 February 2017
Newsletter
Our Mission is: To support parents in developing young people
who know God and are trained to serve and influence their
generation through godly attitudes and actions.
Absence from school due to illness
You should all have received an email from the
school yesterday about the outbreak of a flu-like
illness in the school. We would like to thank you for
being so efficient at keeping in touch with the school–
we really appreciate your help with keeping track of
the pupils. As we said in our email yesterday, please
remind your children about the importance of regular
hand washing and provide them with tissues if they’re coughing and sneezing. If your child still has
a temperature, please do not send them into school as they may be sent home.
Please remember that we are on
an INSET day next Friday (10th),
which means that school will be
closed to pupils. It will then be
Please remember to let the office know ([email protected]) if you have changed any of your half term. We look forward to
contact details, just in case we need to ask you to come and collect your child from school during seeing all the pupils in school
again on February 20th.
the day.
Party Night
Face paints, fun games, funky dance moves and photo shoots (See images below left) were all part of the
fun and frolics of Friday night. Yet again the infant and junior discos were a huge success in spite of the
challenge of sickness and flu bugs which affected the FoTKS team and children alike. As a late Christmas
disco the new lights (which have been donated to the school) brightened up the dreary night and tuck
ensured everyone had enough energy. Musical statutes, guess the leader and silly balloon games kept
everyone on their toes, whilst the Wii and PS3 were popular chilling choices. With just 11 seniors in the
house we wondered how their event would pan out, but after a chilled start we decided to change
track by opening up the corridors and quad, killing the lights, equipping three leaders with face paints
and a mandate to splodge from the neck up……the entertainment began. The main hall was a safe zone
and the girls spent a lot of time in the loos!! But after round two and three we were all ready for a
break. Overall we think it’s been a great late Christmas 2016 disco and would like to thank everyone for
coming and helping. Takings were £312.75 although we have yet to account for tuck expenses.
Kerstin Campsall
If you’d like to be involved with the FoTKS, their next meeting will be at 7.45pm on the 28th February.
Please contact [email protected] if you’d like to know more.
Dates for your diary
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Registered office: The King's Centre, Osney Mead, Oxford, OX2 OES
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Y8 Sleepover
Primary IEPs
6-8.30pm Y9 Parents’ evening
INSET day (school closed to pupils)
Half term
Blood Brothers Theatre trip
10.30-12.30 Open Morning
6-8.30pm Y8 Parents’ evening
Y8 French Exchange trip
Stepping Stones Vision Screening
Primary Production
Primary Golden Week
Whole School Assembly
Term Ends at noon
Staff INSET day
Beginning of term
The Romans are Coming, Part II
Having designed and made Roman shields, Y4 were put through their Parade Ground and Battlefield manoeuvre
paces - ‘Ad signa … Intente!’ followed by ‘facite testudinem’ or ‘orbem instruite’ as appropriate.
(Thanks to Mr Gill for the photos)
If your child is interested in learning the piano or flute, you may be interested to know that
Mrs McKendrick, the teacher who comes into school, has currently got a vacancy for a lesson on a Tuesday. Please contact the school if you’d like to get in touch with her, and we
will pass your details on.
Vacancies at The King’s School
School Business Manager and Bursar
Please see the advertisement that will be attached to the
Newsletter (and is also on our website) for this position
within the school, the deadline for which is on February
6th.
The Lost Property boxes are overflowing
again. Please come and take a look through
before we clear them out at the end of next
week. Thank you.
This is Y3 at Forest School. We made a bridge across a muddy
puddle, a number of them found holes in their wellies when exploring
the puddle!
Miss Laird
Primary Teacher for Maternity Cover
We are now recruiting for a team member to cover for
Mrs McKenzie, our Y5 teacher, while she is on maternity
leave. The full advertisement for this position is also
attached to the Newsletter. The deadline for applications
for this position is February 27th . Please pass this
information to anyone you believe would be interested.
Please pray for the whole team here at TKS as we recruit
for these key members of our staff. Many thanks.
Sainsbury’s Active Kids 2017 vouchers
Sainsbury’s have just begun handing out their Active Kids
vouchers at the checkouts. We are collecting these again,
and are looking forward to being able to choose new
equipment for the school. The collection bin for the
vouchers is currently only in the Primary foyer, but we have
ordered a second one for Secondary, which should be here
in a few weeks’ time. Please note that we can’t use vouchers
from previous years, they need to be from the current
promotion.
Thank you.