10D get creative for Community Week

Here are the lovely 10D, led by the lovely Miss Scanlan busy working on a group project for Community Week with their Sixth Form tutor group guests! 

10D have created posters around the theme of Community focusing on celebrating our school community and our local community. They are also crossing the Channel (metaphorically speaking) and thinking about what it means to be a European citizen and a Global citizen. We look forward to seeing their finished product. Meanwhile, here they are in action, working hard with their new Sixth Form pals! 

A visit from a Community First Responder

For many people, once you reach 16 or 18 you never step foot inside a secondary school again. As such many people's views of what goes on in schools remains stuck in time! As part of Community Week we wanted to give local people an opportunity to see what goes on in a modern, successful comprehensive school and at the same time, share with our students the wide range of jobs and opportunities outside the school gates. Our first visitor was a Community First Responder. He spoke to Miss Rigby's Year 11 class about the important work he does as a Community First volunteer. Thierra Currie in 11A found the talk inspiring:"We thought the speaker was very interesting and informative. He spoke in a way that was exciting and the fact that he can save a life doing volunteer work really inspiring"Here he is talking to 11A - a fine way to start a Monday morning! 

For more information about Community First Responders please click on the link below:
http://www.sja.org.uk/sja/what-we-do/community-first-responders.aspx

Sixth Formers go out into the local community

We value the support of our local community and are always looking at ways of strengthening relationships with local residents. As such we have encouraged our fantastic Sixth Form students to use a couple of their free periods for the week to visit local residents in the village. Year 13 students, Luke Sills and George Calcutt, accompanied by Year 12 students Georgia Gain, Eliza Briscall and Fran Parry visited local residents at The Cloisters in Kings Langley and enjoyed chatting about their studies, discussing ways of improving the local area as well as celebrating the wide variety of things to do in Kings Langley and the surrounding towns and villages.  

Not did students get to enjoy tea and biscuits but they also enjoyed celebrating a significant birthday with a local resident - 95 years young! 

Kings Langley Community Week

Kings Langley students are celebrating our wonderful school and local community in a whole school awareness week led by the student council. In this blog we will be sharing with the world (we are aiming high!) some of the fantastic activities we have been taking part in this week to strengthen and celebrate our school and local community. 

In Student Council meetings and form time students have been thinking about how we can improve our participation in the school community and ways we can strengthen the links between different year groups. To this end we are experimenting with vertical tutoring with sixth form students allocated to each tutor group where they can support younger students with class work, home work and other school related issues. Look out for more news stories on this as the week progresses! 

Students will be running activities in tutor groups ranging from collecting food for local food banks to creating short presentations on what it means to be both a British citizen and a Global citizen. Some tutor groups are focusing on specific issues such as homelessness and other groups are using the week as an opportunity to teach their class a new skill! In Miss Scanlan's Technology classes, students will be making pencil cases to send to Tanzania and in Miss Rigby's class, students are collecting Easter Eggs for a local food bank. 

The week will end with a 'Fun Friday' where tutors will have their faces made funny for money for Comic Relief. Students are expected to come in fancy dress or non uniform, £1 for fancy dress and £2 for non uniform. There will be a 'fashion show' for tutees to show how hideous attractive they have made their tutors look!