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To finish our evening of spamming, here is our Arts Showcase, that was available to look at during the Colour Run this afternoon.

A final and HUGE thanks to our amazing Kingsbrook View Parent Teacher Friends Association for another successful and fun event. Despite the heat, it was great fun for all.

See you all in September! ☀️📝🍎

On Monday, Year 4 went on a school trip for Arts Fortnight. They travelled by coach to St Leonard's Care Home in Aylesbury, where they spent a few hours with the residents there. They spent time interviewing the residents and discussing their likes and dislikes, getting to know each other before taking photos of their person. They then have created some thoughtful and creative sketches and collages from their photos that represent their resident. The staff at St Leonard's care home were so lovely and thoughtful, providing the children and staff with refreshments before teaching the children about dementia.

The children showed such maturity when speaking to the residents and have not stopped talking about their person all week long!

So, a huge thank you to St Leonard's care home for allowing us to visit and a to CimotaTech for sponsoring our coach trip!

Last week, Year 1 took part in an Art therapy workshop with Rebecca from Ophelia Rose.

Rebecca talked about our feelings before getting the children to create patterns on their canvas boards that represented their emotions. They then used string to drag the paint to create interesting patterns and shapes. The children had a brilliant time and have produced some wonderful artwork from it! Thank you so much Rebecca!

Last week, we were lucky enough to be visited by Emily Scott from Scott’s Performing Arts Acadeny.

She spent the morning with every class, teaching them dance, before getting each year group to perform their dance to the staff in our Academy. The children had an amazing time and got the opportunity to practice a skill from a real professional. We have even spotted some of the children practising the dance in the playground since!

A huge thank you to Adrian Paternoster, a local artist, for donating his time and resources to Year 4 yesterday!

He taught the children about his own acrylic paint pouring art work, explaining to them how to mix paint with a medium to make it thinner and what the purpose of this is. The children then produced their own poured paint canvases that look incredible and we even got a professional piece of artwork donated to our Academy by him!

Last week, Foundation Stage were lucky enough to be visited by a local artist named Shanie. She shared a story with us before we then created some little clay characters from the story. We used natural resources and paint pens to construct our creations.
We had the best time, thank you so much Wildwood Wonders - Arts and Crafts

No Friday evening plans? We’ve got your evening entertainment sorted, with a few posts coming up all about our amazing Arts Fortnight.

We have had a fantastic and incredibly enriching couple of weeks and would like to extend our thanks to all of the amazing volunteers, parents and staff who have spared their precious time to make it such a successful event. It has been the perfect end to our year!

First up:

Year 3 have had a wonderful week exploring British folklore. They have taken part in morris dancing workshops with both the New Moon Morris Dancers and Towersey Horseshoe dancers. We have also had great fun learning to maypole dance. We are very grateful for all of these experiences.

I really don't know who enjoyed that more! It was the biggest honour to teach Years 1 and 2 today. Children are such great big sponges. We wrapped up our worries, and focused on our happy thoughts with breathing. My worry monster Sid ate the worries, which left happy energy to let loose with paint 👇❤️❤️❤️

On Tuesday morning, the whole academy took part in a round robin activity where we tried various types of art to create work for a whole academy display.

We tried bark and leaf rubbing, flower watercolours and even some photo editing! It was such a lovely morning meeting new teachers, as we spent time in different classrooms and it was such a wonderful opportunity to try new art skills.

Art fortnight is in full swing at KVPA, with Year 4 planning and creating their own bird sculptures. They used their bird knowledge and clay skills to craft the features of their birds to look like the correct species. We had herons, great t**s, robins, wrens and even a few ravens.

Following a fantastic workshop with The Creation Station Oxfordshire Thame last Thursday, focusing on Science and the environment, every child made a poster to promote positive, earth-friendly behaviours.

Using this artwork, and a lengthy (!) application form filled in at home, we hope to obtain Blue Peter’s Green Badges for every applicant.

A reminder that if you would like to join the Academy’s postage, please return their artwork AND application form by tomorrow ✉️ 🌍 🏅

On Monday, Year 3 had a fantastic day celebrating all things Egyptian! They crawled through chambers and excavated some amazing artefacts from Tutankhamun's tomb, made head dresses to become Pharaohs, learned how to make a Mummy, tasted Egyptian fruits and painted their own authentic papyrus paper.

This morning, the whole Academy joined Picture News for a fantastic assembly, with guest appearances from World Of David Walliams and The Body Coach!

We (virtually) joined 427,343 other children to celebrate the Paris 2024 Games and were also joined by four-time Paralympian Stef Reid MBE, who shared her inspiring story with us all.

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WELL DONE to all pupils who performed in our school production ‘Charlie & The Chocolate Factory’ over the last few days.

We are extremely proud of the high quality of the performance, including singing, dancing, acting and great Oompa Loompa-ing!

We had great audiences at all three shows, including a matinee performance with the delightful pupils at KingsbrookView and fantastic parental and carer support at both evening shows.

A special THANK YOU to our outstanding staff team who worked tirelessly to put the show together, especially Mrs Malherbe, Mrs Davidson & Mrs Watson and all others who helped in the various voluntary roles.

Buckinghamshire Family Information Centre are offering free workshops for parents/carers of preschool-aged children, who are due to start school in September 2024.

The nearest workshop to Kingsbrook will be hosted at Southcourt Family Centre Plus, on Monday 8th July, 10am-12pm.

Yesterday afternoon, Farhan Kharawala, from Go Football Academy, visited Year 2 for a Euros football workshop. They all had a fantastic time (teachers included!) ⚽️⚽️⚽️

We were honoured to have been invited to a very special time capsule burial, which celebrated Taylor Wimpey’s successful completion of the Aston Reach development.

Our KVPA children contributed special tokens to the capsule, for future generations to discover, including drawings, letters and origami.

Year 3 had a wonderful time at the Bucks County Museum. They explored the Roald Dahl Gallery and learnt more about this amazing author. It linked brilliantly to their reading of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.

Well done to Year 3 for showing our Academy values of respect and integrity, we are very proud of you!

A huge thank you to our fantastic PTA (Kingsbrook View Parent Teacher Friends Association), who have very kindly bought 5 digital cameras for pupil use across the academy.

These will be used by our children on school trips, at photography club, in general lessons and also around the academy for photographs that might even feature in our newsletters 📷

Kingsbrook View had a very exciting morning with a visit from Andy Day and Steve Lenton. They told us all about their book, Dino Dad. They taught us some songs, dances and even how to draw a dinosaur!

💚 For our new starters in September 2024, please see the date for a session at Zoomania. A nice way for the children to meet up and play again, only a few days after their school induction stay & play - please share if you have a Facebook group set up 💚

Year 3 and 4 had a super author workshop with the wonderful Stephen Mulhern. He told us all about his new book Magic Max and showed us some amazing magic tricks! We even made him laugh and do a little dance!

He thanked all the families who bought his book, we will receive them soon.

Wow! What a super sunny trip 🌞 the children were fabulous, so well behaved and were excited throughout. We walked around the model village and we couldn’t believe how the model makers had added so much detail. We enjoyed our picnic and the park. The train ride was a highlight for most. The workshop was so informative, we learnt about when the model village was built and that it’s the oldest in the world. We then enjoyed retelling the story ‘Oi Get Off Our Train’ all about endangered animals. We will learn more about this during the week.

💚 Thank you to all our parents, the children were a real credit to Kingsbrook and were so polite throughout.

💚A shout out to our parent helpers as well, we couldn’t have done it without you.

💚 A huge thank you to the PTFA for subsiding our coach.

Photography Club ventured outside after school and used their knowledge about light and positioning to get some great first wildlife pictures! 📸

Foundation Stage have been studying the artist Vincent Van Gogh. We are recreating his famous piece ‘The Starry Night’. We have enjoyed heading up to our practical room to begin the process. First we colour washed our card blue to create the background. This week we used cotton buds to swirl yellow and white paint. We can’t wait to create the art gallery of our work. ⭐️🌌⭐️

Some of our Foundation Stage children have kick-started the Summer term with fishing, frogs and lots of fun in Forest School 🐸

💚Congratulations to all the new 2024-2025 Foundation intake children!

💚We are looking forward to welcoming the children and their families!

💚The PTFA are excited to have more children to help fund amazing opportunities and unforgettable experiences.

🙏🏼 For any of you that know the new children's parents and carers please share this page to help them join our fab school community

Year 3 had a fabulous day at the Chiltern Open Air Museum.

They trained to be a part of a tribe; making fire, painting with charcoal, throwing spears and making shelter.

They also explored the museum, feeding goats and had a brilliant time on the adventure playground.

Thank you to the PTFA for our coach!

Year 3 had lots of fun this afternoon creating gestural art pieces out of charcoal, inspired by Heather Hanson.

🌿Harvest Festival🌿

Last week Year 2 held a Harvest Festival Assembly.

Thank you to all that kindly donated food for a local food bank. The donations were collected today.