The Kimberley School Newsletter February 2015 | Page 6

Sixth Form

Extended Project Qualification
We have an exciting opportunity for our Year 12
students to become involved in The Extended
Project Qualification this year. The students
who have chosen to become involved will
embark on a largely self-directed and selfmotivated project, and will choose their own
topic or research area. The successfully
completed project leads to an AS award. Students
present their project to an invited audience in
November 2015.

has its own PA system which will enable us to
hold events more easily and hopefully raise even
more much needed money for charities.

Cake Sale for the Ryan Lee Trust
Alongside the disco, a break time cake sale took
place just before Christmas to raise money for the
Ryan Lee Trust. The amount raised was £141.20
which is a superb amount for one break’s sales.

Helping the Homeless
Throughout December, the Sixth Form appealed

Charity and School Community Work for warm, unwanted clothing. They collected a
Poppy Appeal News
We are now able to bring you the news that this
year’s Poppy Appeal raised £432.84. This is a superb sum and is thanks to the generous students
who bought the poppies and to the Sixth Formers
who sold them throughout Remembrance Week.

Christmas Jumper Day for Save the Children
This initiative, on behalf of Save the Children saw
Sixth Formers and staff wearing their Christmas
jumpers and paying a £1 to do so. The amount
raised was £145.00 this year, with extremely
interesting and fun jumpers being modelled!
To read more about Save the Children’s
Christmas Jumper Day initiative, visit:
www.savethechildren.org.uk/christmas-jumper-day

Christmas Disco
Before we broke up for Christmas, the Sixth Form
ran a disco for Year 7. A great time was had by
all and £191.00 was raised, which was split
between the local Ryan Lee Trust charity and the
Sixth Form Malaysian trip. The Sixth Form now

very large box full of jumpers and coats which
were distributed by the Help for the Homeless
Charity in Nottingham on the 18th December.

Forthcoming Charity Events
Valentine’s Day
Planning for this term’s charity events is now
underway.
Valentine’s Day will give the Charity Committee
a chance to raise money for a hospice as well as
for the Guide Dogs for the Blind charity. They will
be taking orders from staff and students for roses
and will then be delivering roses, with personalised messages, to the secretly admired on the last
day of half-term (the 13th February).
The Sixth Form have now begun planning for the
big charity event of the term which is Comic Relief
Day on 13th March. We look forward to bringing
you news of how it goes in the next newsletter.

Sixth Form Community Work
Our Sixth Formers continue to carry out very
valuable community service both in and out

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Sixth Form Trips out

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Identity cards for Six

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of February to wear an iden
will be given a personalised
on it and we have a lanyard