Kingsmead Newsletter April 2014 In this issue: Student News Sports News School Trips Primary Liaison Community Update House Information Term Dates School closes—Friday 11th April 3:00pm School opens—Monday 28th April 9:50am Bank Holiday—Monday 5th May School closes—Friday 23rd May 3:00pm School opens— Monday 2nd June 8:50am The Great Kingsmead Bake Off!!
School closes—Friday 18th July 12:00pm
You have heard of the ‘Great British Bake Off’...well, Kingsmead have been running Future Key Events their own version of this! We have staged our first ever Kingsmead Inter-House competition—and competition it certainly was! Tuesday 6th May The first round entailed each Tutor Group holding their own ‘in-House Bake Off’ to Sixth Form Partnership Evening determine who would go forward as their Representative. Thursday 8th May The second round took place during House assemblies. Here, the Tutor Group winners Y7 Progress Evening turned their skills to producing ‘Cookies’. Offerings included a range of flavours from lemon curd to marshmallow! Thursday 15th May The two winners from each House then progressed to the ‘Live Final’ held after school Y8 Progress Evening on the 11th February. The chosen category was ‘Sponge Cakes’ with students being Wednesday 25th June allocated two hours to create their masterpieces! These included Chocolate, Coconut, Y6 Induction Day Guinness and classic Victoria sponges! Our two well qualified judges, Mrs Robins and Mrs Gill Manley assessed on three Wednesday 2nd July categories: appearance, taste and texture. The decision was extremely close but finally Y6 Induction Day Caitlin Tsang, Y8 student was crowned the winner with her ‘Triple Chocolate Layer Cake’. Mrs Greenwood, who Wednesday 2nd July organised the event congratulated all entrants and finalists. New Y7 Parents Evening “The standard was extremely high and the competition a complete success!”