Christmas Jumper Day

MERRY CHRISTMAS! It was Christmas Jumper Day on Friday 12^th December and if a pound was paid, you could come in your own clothes!  Ho ho ho! Of course you were encouraged to get festive and dress in a Christmas jumper or it wouldn’t be called ‘Christmas Jumper Day’. But, jumpers weren’t all the same. Some were silly, some lit up, and some weren’t even Christmas related. But Miss Vlaikidou was not the full-blown Mrs Santa I hoped for.

Apart from that, we found out that Kings have the least negative behaviour points!

P.S. I was 4^th on the nice list, beaten by Becky Marks, Lauren Lummis and Abbie Bennett.

Written by Jamie Tait

Additional Assistance by Kyle Snape

Niklaus Tag- German Christmas Tradition.

In Germany, on the 6th December 2014, people there remember the late St. Nikolaus, not to be confused with the English ‘Santa’ who Germans call ‘Weihnactsmann’ Literally: Christmas Man.

St.Nikolaus originally (St.Nicholas) was from Ancient Greece and was remembered for preforming miracles and curing ill-people. On a less serious note, St.Nikolaus left presents for children.

It is tradition for Children in Germany to leave their shoes out overnight, in hope to wake the next morning with sweets from ‘St.Nikolaus’ to remember just a little bit of what he did. However, only good, well-behaving children get a visit from St.Nikolaus.

If you’ve not been so good; the Children of Germany get a visit from ‘Krampus’ ,a demon, who goes to scare the Children and question them about why they don’t have good behaviour. Legend has it, that the Krampus carries a sack, where he kidnaps childrens and takes them to his lair.

Depending on where you live, St.Nikolaus day will be observed differently, but the main celebrations are held in Germany and Austria.

By Holly Woodcock

PSHE DAY

Welcome to Kings’ blog. On Thursday the 27th November 2014 it was Clayton’s PSHE day.

 Year 7 had a visitor who gave us a talk on road safety and then were split into two groups: forms 1-6 were Kings’ 1, and forms 7-12 were Kings' 2. We all had to design posters about bullying, and answer quizzes about our personalities.

Meanwhile, the year elevens were nervously getting their mock exam results. Year ten were doing PE team building activities. Year nine were doing Business Studies and their options. Year eight were learning about the dangers of drugs and alcohol.

Apologies that we covered so much about year 7’s, our fellow King’s bloggers are absent and hopefully will return soon. Thank you for reading our blog don’t forget to tune in for the next edition.

 

                                   By Jamie Tait and Rosie Edwards Y7                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      

‘I’m not Racist, but…’

This week’s theme for assemblies was racism and prejudice. As a school and community, for us racism is an extremely rare problem; as we strive to stop racist language and racist behaviour in general. 
In our assembly, Mrs Hampson taught us about both the history of racism and modern-day dilemmas. Just to further drive the intolerance for racism in our school, we decided that for our second blog post, we would write about the subject.

Here is the definition of racism:

The belief that all members of each race possess characteristics, abilities, or qualities specific to that race, especially so as to distinguish it as inferior or superior to another race or races.

What is considered to be racially prejudiced?:

-Insulting somebody’s religion, culture or ethnicity.
-Insulting somebody’s language or accent.
-Insulting somebody’s skin colour or their racial features.
-Insulting somebody’s religious practices or religious dress.



Our society may be different from that of segregated South Africa, but we believe that no matter what background or religion you are from, the ability to be the best person you can be is prominent in us all.

Thanks for reading!
By King’s blogging team

Welcome to Kings’ First College Blog!

After the development of the school blog 'Claytonia', which is a blog where the students and teachers within the school can gather their ideas collaboratively, individual College blogs were created.

Our aim as a College is to use this space to organize and portray the growth of our students; while celebrating the achievements that reflect the hard-working attitude of the school.   

King’s can always help other people in need, we also do lots of work for our charity. Our charity is the Donna Louise, they help children with terminal illnesses.

In the first half -term our year 7s had a team building day, King’s may have come last but we all worked well as a team and to King’s everyone is a winner. We all have a mixture of talents and abilities and a strong will to help others regardless of their college. We are all willing to learn and do as well as we can. We all follow our school rules and if you are in need of help our prefects will always be there for you.

With a team of 12 Bloggers from each form and a Lead Blogger, we will be producing continual blog posts with a variety of topics, also, this blog is a way to interact not just within our College and our School, but with the wider community outside of Clayton Hall Business and Language College.

The content within the Blog shall present the accomplishments that are particularly prominent for Individuals or as forms; such as assemblies, exceptional behaviour, school work and even form boards, which are a creative outlet for our diverse personalities and ideas. Also, contributions to school life; such as our regular donations to the Donna Louise Trust, a local charity who are supported by frequent charity events in King's.

Any queries you may have concerning King's Blog or any ideas for the content of the Blog, feel free to speak to any of our Bloggers, as we are friendly and approachable!

                            By Rosie Edwards and Holly Woodcock