King Arthurs, Wincanton, Newsletter Summer 2022

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SUMMER NEWSLETTER 2022

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Welcome As we gallop ever closer to the end of our first ‘normal’ year since the pandemic struck, it is wonderful to reflect on all that the school community has achieved in this time.

First and foremost, we have all been determined to ensure any lost learning has been caught up and determined to support our students in striving hard for their own success across subjects. Despite the significant disruption of the last two years, our students have thrived and had the chance to get back to our wide array of ASPIRE opportunities. We have all been excited to recommence our extensive trip programme and we are thrilled to have filled trips to Berlin for historians and Italy for our skiing crew; both coming in early 2023. Since our last newsletter, we have enjoyed twelve academic trips to a variety of locations. This brings both staff and students great joy and a chance to apply theoretical study in real situations.

I know you will enjoy reading through the newsletter and seeing all that has been achieved and accomplished this term. We are pleased and proud that at King Arthur’s, we are able to offer such a diverse curriculum offer. The successful mix of in class and out of class school experiences, ensures our students can develop their wider world view and knowledge.

As you will read, we have thrown our all into a variety of sports fixtures against other schools. We have also enjoyed being able

to welcome back students from primary schools for sports link festivals and events.

We also loved hosting Sports Days for both Wincanton Primary School and Our Ladies School. Most importantly, this year we have been able to have an onsite induction for the first time in two years. This has been wonderful and allowed all our new (and soon to be) Year 7 students to feel welcome and ready for the year ahead.

As a school, we embraced the Queen’s Jubilee celebrations and took the chance to get involved by taking part in a jubilee challenge. Many students continued their competitiveness, taking part in the History writing competition and submitting some fabulous entries.

One thing we know to be fundamental to our provision, is ensuring students are prepared for the world they will enter on leaving school. Importantly, we take great pride in providing the very best careers provision. Our enhanced offer is 100% compliant with the government’s Gatsby benchmarks, something very few providers can claim. A huge thanks goes to Mrs Huggins for organising our interactive, onsite careers fair for 14th July.

This extensive event includes employer demonstrations and actual practical sessions, in which students can fully engage. This will enable them to have a flavour of what the world of work is like and what certain professions involve, as well as have the chance to talk to employers and institutions in the careers exhibition space.

Year 11 Prom

At this time of year, it is with sadness but also tangible excitement that we bid farewell to our Year 11 students. They worked very hard in preparation for their exams and our invigilators reported that their attitude was exemplary, matching their commitment to their own success.

It goes without saying that our Year 11s will be greatly missed and that their awesome contribution to our school will not be forgotten. What must be noted is that we are all excited to hear of their next adventures and welcome news of how their futures unfold. We were thrilled to have a proper send off for students this year as we saw the return of the prom, along with the leaver’s celebration event. Our students did us proud as they turned out in their finery at Wincanton Racecourse. Well done to Emily S and Libby Y, our crowned prom superstars!

To all our wonderful Year 11s, congratulations to you all and thank you for contributing so well whilst part of our school community.

Have an epic summer and look out for news of Results day plans in the letter being sent before we close for summer.

Another sad duty is to bid farewell to those staff who are also off to pastures new. We are so proud of our leavers this year, who all move on to either promotions or adventures that will take them on the next steps of their career. Our leavers this year are as follows:

Mrs Cadieu leaves us for pastures new, having worked at King Arthur’s for 21 years. She has taught generations of students languages and run numerous trips to France. With new adventures on the horizon, she will be missed and we wish her well in her next steps.

Mrs Saget is moving on to a promotion and will join Preston Academy from September, working as their Deputy SENDCo. We are proud of all that Mrs Saget has achieved and congratulate her on completing her SENDCo award this year, with the support of our school.

Mrs Piras-McEvoy has only been with us for a short time but has made a big impression.

Mrs Piras-McEvoy is leaving to move to a new school, closer to home. Supporting with the development of our ASPIRE programme, we wish her well as she moves on and thank her for her contribution to our school.

To each staff leaver, we offer our huge thanks and admiration for the commitment and support of our mission. You will all be missed and placed very fondly in our KAS hall of fame. We look forward to hearing about all your future adventures.

My final wish for all is a safe, happy but adventuresome summer. We wish you all well for the summer holidays and would ask that you take note of the important end of term letter.

Mrs. Jen Jacklin

.3 LITERACY In addition to our KAS Book Club we have been very excited this year to introduce the Shadowing Carnegie Award reading group. Each year, a range of celebrated children’s authors are nominated for the Carnegie Award and students around the Country are invited to take part in voting for the best young adult book of the year. Holly-Louise, George, Ruby, Lily, Maxine, Roxanne, Hollie, Ellie, Mariana, Evie and Alisha signed themselves up to read like they’ve never read before and devour as many of the 8 nominated books as they could in just 10 weeks.

The shortlist of books this year took us from Jamaican slave plantations to the hinterlands of Northern America; from Japanese Tsunami waters to a zoo in the middle of London during the Blitz and to modern Northern Ireland and the overhang of The Troubles. We have met feisty young ladies: an Irish Catholic determined not to let others’ prejudice influence her decisions, a 10-year-old living in the wild, a manga artist thrown into utter devastation. And we have met troubled young men trying to make sense of the world around them in the most difficult of circumstances. Young men facing oppression, racism, injustice and fear. We have read tales of heartbreak, trauma and despair; of triumph, determination, love and pure joy. The Carnegie shortlist has been a treat indeed.

To celebrate our enjoyment of reading these wonderful stories, we visited SAST sister school, Shaftesbury, to give our students the opportunity to share their thoughts and opinions on what they had read with fellow students and to take part in a writers’ workshop.

Not one, but three celebrated authors Chris Vick, Gillian Cross (previous Carnegie Medal winner) and David Solomons each led a session for students discussing what makes the ultimate book, and sharing their experiences as authors in devising, writing and developing their beloved works and the rocky road to getting published. Our students had the

opportunity to ask these writers questions and hear all about the journey to becoming a writer and the importance of the Carnegie Award to writers striving for success.

Overall favourite of both the public voters and the Carnegie panellists and this year’s winner of the Carnegie Award was ‘October, October’ by Katya Balen.

The captivating story features exquisite

Students find out more about dementia

descriptions of the natural world and

Jess and Mason accompanied Mrs Gale

“An evocative exploration of what it means to be truly alive and wholly human.

relationships that develop and heal, all told through a natural language and style. Wild, clever and caring October’s relationship with the forest sets the tone for her relationship with others in her life.

She is expertly written with an incredibly authentic narrative voice, leaving the

to a talk at Wincanton Memorial Hall about the impact of dementia and how people living in rural communities can support each other. We listened to an inspirational talk by Ian Sherriff, an ambassador for the Alzheimer’s Society.

reader feeling great empathy towards her.

He promoted the message that small acts

This is a beautiful, lyrical novel alive with

by local people can bring about huge

wonder and curiosity which brings your

change, as well as make a positive impact

senses to life.”

on the lives of others.

If we have piqued your interest in this year’s Carnegie shortlist please find a link to this year’s shortlist of books below.

We learnt about recognizing the signs

https://carnegiegreenaway.org.uk/yoto-carnegie-medalshortlist-2022/

prevention. We also got to experience

Get reading and enjoy!

of dementia, as well as treatment and some of the incredible tech that’s used to support people living with dementia.

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Alice in Wonderland In April we staged our very own, unique performance of ‘Alice in Wonderland’, aptly named ‘Alice @ Wonderland’. Those who attended were treated to a glamorous, glitzy night of disco and dancing! The cast, crew and audience had a fantastic experience, with everyone singing and clapping along to some wellknown tunes.

How wonderful it was for the students to have the opportunity to get back to attending rehearsals and working together to be able to prepare this performance after such a long time of Covid restrictions.

‘Alice’ was something different for the students to perform; a piece that they could have fun with and contribute their own creative ideas to foster a love and enjoyment for the performing arts.

For most of the students involved, this was their first experience of performing in a production and it was fantastic to see them develop in confidence and learn to work as part of a team across year groups. Even for those with a little experience already, performing in the style of the performance, along a Traverse stage, with little or no set or props to rely on, was an important learning experience for them.

English It has been another busy and exciting term in the English department! Year 7 have explored the magical world of Shakespeare’s The Tempest, drawing links between the text and the historical context of slavery and British Empire. Year 8 are reading I Am Malala, an autobiography by Malala Yousafzai, charting her incredible life story. Pupils have debated the importance of education in having a free, independent and aspirational life. Year 9 have been reading and analysing a range of love poetry, while Year 10 have started studying the timeless tragedy Romeo and Juliet in preparation for their GCSE exams next year. A huge ‘well-done’ must go out to our incredible Year 11s who have now finished their English exams. Finally, thank you and well done to our brilliant library volunteers who have been diligently stock-taking the library and maintaining the space to ensure we have a quiet and pleasant environment in which to read. We look forward to welcoming more pupils to the library!

Diversity Club It’s been a busy term for Diversity Club, incorporating both Diversity week and Pride Month. We have welcomed Shelley from LGBTQ+ support group 2BU again and she has met 1:1 with students, joined our group for games and quizzes and given out pronoun stickers and information to the wider student body. As a group, we have focused on allyship – supporting those at greater risk of discrimination than ourselves. We’ve produced posters promoting respectful language to be displayed around the school and talked about how we can support people who experience prejudice. We even had our own Pride party!

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Careers in Year 7 PSHRE We have been exploring job opportunities and future possibilities. Firstly, we thought of a job for every letter of the alphabet. After that we did a word search with different jobs inside. Then we went to the IT room and used a website called Careers Pilot. This website allowed us to take a quiz and then gave us job suggestions. One of the areas you could be quizzed on is what type of environment you would like to work in and who you would want to work with.

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Careers Update We have had another busy term with respect to careers, with Year 11 finalising their post-16 choices and getting advice and support from our Level 6 Independent Careers Advisor Aaron. We have also started thinking about next steps with Year 10 following the successful presentations by ASK and Bridgwater and Taunton College on apprenticeships in the Spring term.

Students have found out about the different levels of qualification (Levels 1, 2, 3 and beyond) and the local providers of these which include: Yeovil College, Strode College, Bridgwater and Taunton College, Kingston Maurward College and The Gryphon, Sexey’s and Gillingham Sixth forms. The rest of the term is really busy for our students, with a planned trip for all of Year 10 to Yeovil College for their Experience Day, where students will have a taster of A levels and professional and technical/vocational qualifications as well as the chance to have a tour of the college. This will be followed by attending a virtual STEM careers fair, where students can interact with employers about next steps within science, technology, engineering and maths. A group of Year 9 students headed to Strode College at the end of June for a STEM workshop event and all of Year 8 will be having taster sessions in different career sectors in the ‘My Futures’ event hosted at Yeovil College. Finally, we are delighted to be organising and hosting a futures-focused careers event for all students at KA on Thursday 14th July. This will include a careers fair in the school hall for all students to attend across the school day, with Year 10 students having a day of careers-related activities and workshops all related to the careers fair. This will include talks by an author and illustrator and the Army as well as T level and A level taster sessions in subjects including health, digital, science, geology, sociology and law. Alongside this there will be hands-on activities in areas such as engineering and book illustration and talks on HE (university-level study). We are still confirming local and national employer attendance and look forward to sharing all of the amazing experiences with everyone after the event … watch this space!

STEM Day Mr Saget took a group of Year 9 students to Strode College’s KS3 STEM day in June. It was an amazing day with fantastic opportunities for our students to make links between English, Maths, Science and Technology subjects with the reality of integrating into industry. Students had a great time and were so excited to share what they had done when they returned to school.

Careers moving forward As we move forward in to the next academic year, we will continue to develop our careers provision at the school. All students will be introduced to an online ‘Padlet’ (available at: https://hotswcareershub.padlet.org/jacquelinehobson/ yfp4rek12r1g196h ) and will complete activities and attend talks, trips and visits where they can find out more about all of the next steps available to them after they leave KA. Some of our planned trips for 2022-23 include a visit to a university to find out more about Higher Education as well as a Year 11 taster session at Strode College. We are also aiming to link careers to a large number of our department trips, where students find out more about the careers linked to the activities that they are completing/experiences that they are having directly from those who are in the industry (eg: what it takes to become an actor, how somebody can get into the world of scientific research).

We will also be inviting in our local FE providers as well as local, national and international employers to speak to and work with our students. It is our aim to promote a wide variety of career/employment sectors to our students across all year groups and we are working hard to ensure that students leave us with all of the skills and knowledge needed to make positive career choices in the future. If you would like to volunteer to come in to give a talk or take part in a careers café, if you have a contact that you would like to pass on to us or if you have any suggestions on how to improve our provision then please get in to contact with Mrs Huggins, Careers Lead: Philippa.Huggins@kingarthurs.org.uk.

Science Trips: In science news, the science team is looking forward to a number of trips taking place this term. Miss Harvey is taking a team of 10 lucky Year 10s to Portsmouth University to enjoy a day at the Salter’s Chemistry festival taking part in a lecture, making aspirin in the lab and a career fair!

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SAFEGUARDING Safeguarding News

Safeguarding Student Council

At King Arthur’s School, we have a very robust training timetable for all staff. This term we have all updated our Prevent training. The course helps build our understanding of extremism and radicalisation.

It highlights how children are drawn into terrorism and what we should do if we have a concern. We have also had training with Trauma Informed Schools UK delivered by Tony Sammon. They are an organisation that help schools to support students with their mental health.

The Student Safeguarding Team continues to grow and we now have a representative from all years. We have a representative from each tutor group and we all have ideas to help the school be safe. We recently did an assembly for Years 7 to 11 about safeguarding. Roxanne, Holly-Louise, Emily and I all did our own speech about safeguarding and what we have completed and what is going to happen in the next term. I informed them how Mrs Creed is the DSL, all staff have to wear lanyards, and white means they work for SAST and Orange means they are visitors. Holly-Louise spoke about the safeguarding survey, which students completed in October, and they will complete again in June. This will then help us to see what impact we have had. Mrs Andrews ensured robust safeguarding is completed in PSHRSEE and we have all learnt so much this year. Emily informed everyone about fire drills and lockdown procedures. Emily also told them there would be another practice before the summer break .Emily also spoke about how we had supported the change of lunch and duty areas, which Mrs Mason kindly arranged. Roxanne explained about the new initiatives and that every student here has a member of staff they can talk to if they are worried about someone. Finally, Roxanne said that we are creating a culture where inappropriate language will not be tolerated. Finally, Mrs Creed spoke about Harmful Sexual Behaviours (HSB) and clarified what actions and words were never acceptable. I have enjoyed my time on the Safeguarding student Council and definitely want to be part of it next year.

I would like to thank the Safeguarding Student Council who have worked relentlessly this year. They recognise that Safeguarding is ‘Everybody’s Responsibility’ and they have certainly made it their mission to ensure everybody knows it.

Please do not hesitate to contact me on adele.creed@kingarthurs.org. uk if you are concerned about a child or telephone Somerset Children’s Social Care directly 03001232224.

Art & Photography It has been a very busy and creative year for our students. Everybody immersed themselves into the learning so well. Across all year groups, students have completed a variety of creative projects and, as always, created inspirational and original artwork. Students researched and developed ideas from international artists and photographers and built their cultural capital.

To highlight a few projects: Year 7 students looked at African Art and learned about Colour Theory.

They also created very successful self-portraits in a Pop Art style which they were very proud of and were very keen to share their work with the class and talk about their work. This enables them to build their confidence and have pride in their own work.

Year 8 students further developed their skills in tonal drawing and

painting and learned many different techniques when using oil pastels.

Year 9 created meaningful and personal layered pieces, which encouraged students to convey visually powerful messages and express their thoughts. They also enjoyed building a relief piece using Modroc as part of our Text Art projects.

By Daisy R Year 7

Art Exhibition in the Community We are proud to display our students work in our community. The annual exhibition in Wincanton Hospital and in the Health Centre has been updated and it is looking splendid.

Staff, patients and visitors can admire and appreciate inspirational and original artwork and photography created by our talented students.

Our exhibition in Wincanton Hospital beautifully complimented their display created in support of

the Queen’s Jubilee celebration which featured artwork created by the patients on Hadspen Ward - what a great team effort!

The following students’ work is being exhibited: Abi, Ryleigh, Courtney, Katie, Mason, Caleb, Jenna, Dan, Jack, Hannah, Lily, Chloe, Hazel, Millie, Connie, Lucie.

Year 10 groups, both Art and Photography, worked relentlessly on building their portfolio of work and learning new skills. They stood up to the challenge of PPE’s well, these achievements should be encouraging them to sustain these fabulous efforts.

Year 11 Art and Photography students worked tirelessly to meet their deadline to submit their comprehensive portfolio. Well done guys and good luck for your results day and for your next steps.

3D Design In 3D Design, pupils have been busily creating their own ideas in a variety of different projects. Coming towards the end of the academic year, they are all completing finishing touches whether it is Year 7 creating wonderfully interesting masks, or Year 8 producing exciting and different photo frames, or Year 9 applying the final coat of paint or varnish on their table-top organiser product. The Year 9 students have really done the school proud producing these items.

They had a brief to design and make a storage item that can sit on a table or desk. They needed to think of the use and create a range of ideas that fulfiled the brief. Two particularly nice products were one from Madison H where she created a small display unit, and one from Kyra-Jo W who has produced a jewellery stand. Good work everyone!

.7 Geography This year has been a fantastic journey throughout KS3 and KS4 geography. So much has been explored both locally and globally throughout our exciting curriculum.

Gardening Club

Year 7 have studied both physical and human geographies with units such as Global Biomes and Development. For this final term Year 7 can now embed all their learning from the whole year with our Chocolate enquiry unit.

In Gardening Club we are trying to make the school greener. We will try to improve and neaten the school garden and make the school more environmentally friendly.

The team has already cleaned the kit box at the front of school, making it more accessible and useable. We pulled out some vicious weeds as well!

During this time we have been growing and taking care of our own fruit and vegetable plants such as pumpkins and tomatoes. We have planted out our runner bean plants and they are growing well and we have started growing sunflowers. While we are at home or at school we are planning to plant herbs and flowers, to add some floral decoration to our school. In the future we are going to learn how to plant more.

Year 8 have been building on their previous year’s knowledge and understanding to study climate change, tectonic hazards and for this final term we are outside in the sunshine doing fieldwork around KA’s site.

Year 9 started off with population and have now been exploring ecosystems, tropical rainforests and cold environments for the final term.

With this club we aren’t only enjoying it and having fun but we are also including learning about Science. We will do this by measuring the sunflowers and having a chart seeing how well they are growing. We are hoping to include a little bit of art to create a plant/floral or animal mural on one of the walls next to our garden and we are making rain catchers for our plants and maybe even a water filter!

Year 10 have been on their GCSE coastal fieldtrip to Lyme Regis to explore physical and human processes along a coast. Finally, Year 11 have worked so hard this year and their efforts are sure to be reflected in their grades they receive in the summer term.

Adriana, 7IH

Going forward into next year with restrictions lifting we have already planned a variety of trips and activities for KS3 that links into the units they will study.

IT News UKMT Junior Maths Challenge At the end of April some of our Year 7 and 8 students took part in the UKMT Junior Maths Challenge and it was our best year to date! 21 of our Year 7 and 8 students gained a Gold, Silver or Bronze certificate.

They have worked incredibly hard developing their problem solving and reasoning skills this year and have excelled with around 20% of students who entered gaining an award.

Congratulations go to Toren, Leon B, Ben P, George O, Louis, Tegan, Charlie, Lewis and Phoebe in Year 7 for their bronze awards. Owen, Lucas and Kieran all gained a Silver Certificate with Kieran gaining the ‘Best in School’ in Year 7. Well done to all!

Congratulations also go to our Year 8s: Victoria H, Will, Connie, Oliver P, Katie W and Ella all gained a Bronze, Hope and Jayden achieved a Silver award, and Flynn was a Gold Award Winner. Flynn did so well, he got put forward for and also competed in the next round “The Pink Kangaroo” round on 14th June. We are excited to hear how he got on in the next few weeks!

There were also 4 Year 8s so were so close to an award, missing out by just 1 mark: Sabrina, Lucy, Paige and Holly. Fantastic mathematical skills were shown by all these students.

Year 7 have been developing an understanding of the internet and what it actually is. Ask yourself, how much do you actually know about the internet? Where does it come from?

How do we get our data delivered? and in what form? Year 7 have been examining these issues to understand the complexity and development of the internet and what will happen next. What are IP addresses and are there enough? What is the difference between wired and wireless, 3G,4G and 5G? Years 8 and 9 started the term working on understanding how computers talk to each other. Binary language underpins all of computing and an understanding of the way in which a computer processes billions of pieces (or bits) of information in milliseconds

is the core of computing. On the way, we looked at semaphore, morse code and ASCII coding, all key developments in computing and holding resonant markers in the development of society.

We finished by changing Base 10 (decimal) to base 2 (binary units).

Years 8 and 9 are now working on the development of their own web pages. Understanding the basics of HTML and CSS gives the students an understanding of how each web page is created, coloured, indexed and supported by each and every browser. We are moving towards the students being able to create their own web pages in ‘Rocket Cake’, a wellsupported WYSIWYG program that offers up to date drag and drop front end website development.

Year 10 and 11 have been working towards their RO81 exam units and the finalisation of their coursework in RO87. RO87, a course designed by OCR to develop understanding of how to follow specific client briefs, design and structure a multimedia device and deliver a final completed and developed unit. It is a balance of all the skills needed in the creative and development industry.

In the new term the courses from OCR will be changing to a new specification that will follow specific areas of the industry more closely and develop students’ skills for creative opportunities across the media jobs market.

Eco Club The summer term brings with it new and exciting horizons. This term the eco club has been launched; a committee format, this club is aimed at environmentally minded young persons who want to really make a difference in the school and wider community. Projects of all shapes and sizes are planned for the coming month and into the next academic year. Watch this space!

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P.E.

As the sun came out for the summer term and restrictions around Covid lifted, KA summer sports clubs took off. Both tennis and rounders have been popular, with practices on Tuesdays and Thursdays after school.

ROUNDERS Amelia - our Year 9 Rugby Sensation Amelia E in Year 9 embarked upon a new hobby this year. Amelia decided that she would begin training with her friends at Castle Cary Rugby club even though she had never played rugby before. Amelia soon realised that she had found a new passion for the game and that she was good at it. As the season progressed, she was selected to attend trials for the U15 girls Somerset squad. Amelia was fortunate to be picked by the coaches at the trial and has since represented Somerset County at two tournaments and in a match that recently she played against Dorset & Wilts and narrowly lost at North Dorset Rugby Club in Gillingham. Well done Amelia for this remarkable achievement this year and long may your passion continue to pave the way for your future in this fast and growing sport for young girls and ladies.

Primary School Sport is Back!!

KA has been pleased to welcome back our feeder primary schools for organised sporting competitions and events since before the pandemic.

Firstly, we hosted the KS1 Multi Skills event on Friday 20th May. Wincanton Sports Centre was invigorated with lots of energy and excitement from the Year reception, one and two children. King Arthur’s sports leaders did an amazing job in running the various coordination, balance and multi skills activities. Well done to all the primary school children and in particular those who were nominated for a certificate for showing a real desire to get involved in all challenges and showing willing to challenge themselves.

On Tuesday 14th June, King Arthur’s School hosted the KS2 Top Link Festival, which consists of field and track athletics in the morning and a rounders competition in the afternoon. The event was attended by all ten-feeder

Year 7, 8 and 9 rounders teams have had fixtures against the neighboring schools in the South East Yeovil District League.

Year 7 have formed a close team under the watchful eye of captains Caitlin and Daisy. Year 8 have proved a dominant force only losing one game by half a rounder. Year 8 captain Hope has led by example and taken full advantage of the extra practices in which she has learnt to mastermind many wins from a losing position at half time. The most improved player this year has been Isobel who has scored crucial rounders in the latter stages of the games.

FOOTBALL

Year 8 and 9 girls have also enjoyed the opportunity to partake in some Yeovil football competitions. These games have been both 11-a-side and 6-a-side on the 3G pitch hosted at Westfield School. Paige and Lacie stole the show with their silky skills and commitment to motivate their respective teams. A special mention must also go to Caitlin and Amelia who were awesome in goal. The girls have relished the chance to do away fixtures and are keen to do more clubs and fixtures next year.

primary schools, which included around 250 primary school students.

The athletics event in the morning was electric with the atmosphere generated by the schools cheering and applauding the runners on the track. The afternoon also witnessed some great batting and fielding performances by all teams and awesome teamwork.

The whole day ran incredibly smoothly and the King Arthur’s Sports Leaders did themselves proud with their levels of maturity and ability to run the event for the whole day without any concerns.

Well done to all competing schools and especially Horsington Primary School who won the overall event from the points accumulated throughout the day to include the athletics and rounders competition.

SKIING

Finally, King Arthur’s School is very pleased to announce the return of our ski trips. The 2023 Easter trip to Prato Nevosa, Italy was sold out within 5 hours of it being launched on Wisepay! Mr Elloway is looking forward to organising a potential dry ski slope trip in preparation for this. The school ski trip will be an exciting opportunity for students to experience a new sport, as well as a new culture, form friendships and create fantastic memories, which we hope they will look back on fondly for many years to come.

King Arthur’s PE team would like to thank Miss Harvey who has kindly given up her time to support fixtures this year both with the boys basketball and girls rounders. Finally, our PE team is growing next year with two new members of staff who will be able to contribute to even more opportunities for the students of King Arthur’s School!

King Arthur’s Community School, West Hill, Wincanton, Somerset BA9 9BX • Phone 01963 32368 • office@kingarthurs.org.uk • www.kingarthurs.org.uk