Kingstone High School

Mrs Hirons and Mrs Roden become licenced Thrive Practioners

What is the Thrive approach?

The Thrive approach is a therapeutic technique to help support young people with their social and emotional development. Our focus is to build secure relationships and provide positive experiences for young people. Thrive helps young people to feel safe, supported and understood; all of which are needed to enable learning to take place.

How do we do this?

We aim to screen all children and young people against age related expectations, which will enable us to identify those that would benefit from additional support, either as a group or individually.
We use a range of simple strategies and activities that are targeted and effective to meet the child or group’s identified needs. These strategies and activities encourage positive relationships and are often creative and art-based.
We then chart and measure the progress of individuals and groups over time through a review and re-assessment process. The goal is to bring children to an age-appropriate stage of social and emotional development in order to ‘Thrive’.
Your Licensed Thrive Practitioners are Mrs Hirons [email protected] & Mrs Roden [email protected] If you have any questions then please get in contact and they would be happy to help.

A successful evening at Kingstone Academy last week. The Year 9’s,10’s & 11’s were able to discuss future careers in depth and ask questions.

Many thanks to the following companies and organisations for their help and support:

Hereford College of Arts
University of Worcester
Herefordshire Council Learning and Development
ETL Systems
British Army
Lanyon Bowdler Solicitors – Hereford
NHS
Natural England
Hereford and Ludlow College
KGD
Royal Navy and Royal Marines
HWGTA
Halo Leisure
HSFC
Duchy of Cornwall
Stride Active
Avant Garde Hairdressers
NMITE
Riverside Training
Wye Valley Trust – NHS
Duke of Edinburgh

Careers’ Fair tonight! Start time 18:00. Years 9,10 & 11.

Come and meet a wide variety of organisations and training providers looking to talk with talented individuals.

Open Mornings & Open Evening!
These sessions are for year 6 children who will be starting High School in September 2024.
Both children and their parents are most welcome at any of the sessions

Book your appointment:
Phone - 01981 250224
E-Mail - [email protected]

Today's lunchtime activities in the sports department. Open events including a penalty shootout and a sit up challenge! Plenty of opportunities for all the children to sign up to clubs too

Following the successful bid, as voted for by the students, we have managed to replace the long standing football goals at Kingstone. The goals needed replacing as they no longer conformed to regulations and were unsafe to use.

The new goals have proved popular with the students, giving a more professional feel to lessons, training and fixtures. This has been matched with the success on the pitch this year, with 5 of our 8 representative teams qualifying for the knock out semi finals, with the winners getting to progress to Edgar Street. Our Year 9 team have also managed to advance to the final of the Rural Cup, being held at Edgar Street, 6pm kick off on 10th May. A number of teams across the age groups, both boys and girls' teams, have had success in the National Cups as well. We hope that this is the beginning of a long journey of success for football at Kingstone.

The honour of "christening" the new nets went to Year 10 student Harley Price as he struck first in a very impressive 4-1 win for the Year 10 team vs St Mary's.

Thanks to all that contributed towards the funding, the PTA team that for the fundraising events, and finally, to the students that voted for our bid.

Key Stage 3 students at Kingstone High School marked Holocaust Memorial Day on Friday 27th January with a ‘Drop Down Day’ where students had a series of special lessons to find out more and reflect on the events of the Holocaust. This included a lower school assembly and work looking at the roles played by Perpetrators, Collaborators, Bystanders and Resisters. Students also looked at artwork portraying the Holocaust and learnt about the Jewish practise of using stones as memorials. The day culminated with students finding the name of a Holocaust victim and decorating a stone in their memory. The stones were then used to create a cairn in the school grounds to remember the day and the events of the Holocaust. Mr Booy, the school’s SPHERE Coordinator, said ‘Each year we like to come together as a school to raise awareness and focus on a particular event or theme. This year we chose the Holocaust as it is important that students do not forget and can actually speak out against actions of genocide that unfortunately continue around the world to this day. Thank you to B&Q Hereford for providing the stones at a discounted rate.’

Congratulations to Students in Year 9 who have won prizes for their good behaviour this first half term.

For every positive point awarded, students get a raffle ticket that they can enter to win their choice of prize. A ticket is then picked at random from each prize box.

Well done to the following students who had their tickets chosen for the following Prizes:

Jacob P – Voucher for Burger & Fries for 2 at Beefy Boys Hereford and 2 film tickets for The Courtyard

Olivia R – Half a Day Canoeing with Hereford Canoe Hire

Macy-Mae B – A flight in an RAF Bulldog Aircraft with thanks to Hereford Left Bank and Lyde Court

A BIG thank you to all the Herefordshire companies for supporting this initiative.
The Beefy Boys The Courtyard Hereford Hereford Canoe Hire Hereford Left Bank Lyde Court Hereford

Open Day on Thursday 6th October, bookings at 9.30am or 11.30am or join us later for our Open Evening. Call 01981 250224 to book.

Our Open Days for Year 6 pupils are on 20th September, 28th September and 6th October and our open evening is on 6th October. Please phone the school to book your place.

Students and staff at Kingstone High School are celebrating, following an impressive set of GCSE results.

In Key accountability measures, 74% of students gained standard passes (Grade 4+) in both English and Maths with 60% of students achieving strong passes (Grade 5+) in the same subjects.

There were some exceptional performances from individual students:

Zoe Fogg: 10 x Grade 9
Tsvety Mihaylova: 5 x Grade 9, 3 x Grade 8, 1 x Grade 7
Iustin Tamasanu: 5 x Grade 9, 2 x Grade 8, 1 x Grade 7
Lottie Watkins: 4 x Grade 9, 3 x Grade 8, 2 x Grade 7
Barnaby Williams: 3 x Grade 9, 6 x Grade 8,
Esme Akroyd: 3 x Grade 9, 5 x Grade 8, 2 x Grade 7
Freya Metcalfe: 3 Grade x 9, 3 x Grade 8, 3 x Grade 7
Lucy Smith: 3 x Grade 9, 2 x Grade 8, 4 x Grade 7

Our students have worked hard throughout the past two years during a time of disruption and uncertainty. This hard work along with efforts and support of the teaching staff and parents have allowed us to achieve these fantastic results today. The entire school community is immensely proud of each student for their achievements.

Our Summer Term Newsletter is now available to view on our website - https://www.kingstoneacademytrust.co.uk/page/?title=Newsletters&pid=88

Have a great summer and we look forward to welcoming students back on Monday 5th September.

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