King’s has created a new email newsletter for pupils and parents called ‘The King's Spirit’ to boost morale and keep our community smiling.

It will be a regular bulletin which will feature a mixture of staff and pupil posts which could be videos, pictures, poems, diaries, plays, drawings, music, recipes - in fact anything of interest to our community. It could be homemade or something you have found that is interesting or funny. We will even be running inter-house competitions, virtual 5k runs and weekly challenges - Mr Eriksson has already promised a Lands End to John O’Groats challenge when we will all be adding up our week’s steps to see if we have made the distance.

Start to send things in immediately, however, the challenges from staff will take off after the Easter holiday. Simply drop your posts to this email address: [email protected], where items will be vetted by Alison Grant, Deputy Head before being uploaded by Naomi Warren, Marketing Administrator to The King's Spirit email. We hope to post lots of pictures of your pets.

Examples of what we’ll be getting up to includes:

Sport

• A daily ‘Beat the Teacher’ video shared by one of the King's sports staff. A different member of the sports department will video themselves for each day of the week.
• Mr Gibbins and Mr Hawley will keep a video journal with healthy active lifestyle advice. The challenges will vary and will be light-hearted using hashtags such as #BeatTheTeacher and #IfMrHawleyCanYouCan etc
• A weekly school target with screenshots of the number of steps/distance run which pupils/staff can do e.g. Climb Everest, Cycle Land’s End & John O’Groats. Staff/pupils can send in their screenshots and the number of steps will be added up to see if the distance has been achieved.
• Mr Cahill will do a virtual run where we complete a run at the same time at 10am every Saturday and post a picture which will become a photo montage.

CCF

• Mr Barrow will be demonstrating some survival techniques in his back garden.

Drama, Music, English

• Mr Stainton and the English teachers are running an inter-house monologue competition.
• Mr Stainton and Ms King will hold an Open Mic Night competition for pupils who will be able to perform their best audition/speech/song/stand-up comedy.
• Mr Stainton is also running a radio play. Sign up to be part of it. Pupils will be cast, sent a script and we will record this work and post it out on the website. Think 'The Archers'.
• Mr Barrow will run a Virtual Book Club – for all of us to read and comment on the same book.
• Mr Marshfield is organising a music competition from home ‘Guess the Music’ and details of a Gareth Malone ‘Great British Home Chorus’.

University Lecture

• MOOC of the day - A university online lecture course from Mr Daws.

Chaplaincy

• Philosophical question/Thought for the Day for a discussion posed by Mr Beverly.

Art

• Mrs Goffe is running a photo competition of staff as babies.
• A sculpture competition on household recycling being run by Mr Harkness.
• Mr Cole is running a photo-mosh competition.

Hospitality

• Mrs Vigers-Belgeonne is giving us recipes to bake with easy ingredients we have in the cupboard.
• Mr Barrow will be demonstrating survival cookery from his kitchen.

Beauty

• Mrs Pitt (Arion Matron and an ex-beautician) will show how to do a manicure and polish.

Email - [email protected]

Email - [email protected]