@KCJSWimbledon JUNIOR VIEWS NEWSLETTER FRIDAY 15 November 2019 #436

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B e f o r e & A f t e r

Just before half term Rushmere held a sponsored spelling and tables event to raise money for our outreach project in Kenya. The Obera Schools’ Project is raising money to build classrooms in rural Kenya based in the area where Mr Baker once taught. This year we raised the magnificent sum of £8160. With gift aid, this will increase to well over £10,000. This is easily enough money to build and furnish our 15th classroom. Well done the boys of Rushmere!

the oBerA SchoolS’ Project

In their introduction to studying history, the boys in Transi-tion look at the range of evidence available to historians. On Thursday we visited Southside House just next door to King’s to discover the evidence which reflects the history of the house and the people who have lived there. This house, which we walk past so often without a second glance, has a fascinating history dating back to the Jacobean period. We were shown around by Anna Vibeke Eilert, a teacher at King’s, who told the story of the people and events of this surprising and wonderful house.

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On Thursday 17 October, we arrived in Japan where we were warmly greeted by our host families after a quite a long flight. Throughout the week we visited many places, discovering many new and amazing things about Japanese culture that had been unknown to us before. The food that was provided for us was deli-cious. When time came to go home, our hosts were always there to welcome us into their homes after a great day either at school, dis-covering how school worked in Japan, or out on an excursion finding out about the history and traditions of the fascinating country we were staying in. Finally, at the end of our abso-lutely fantastic stay, we sadly had to leave while wishing that we could stay for evermore. Virgile URHM

SeAford BAyOn Friday 8 November, the Lower Remove travelled down to the south coast for their an-nual fieldtrip to Seaford on a glorious Novem-ber day. The boys investigated how and why coastal management is necessary at Seaford Bay; considering the role that geology, coastal and non-coastal process, and human interven-tion plays in shaping the coastline. Highlights of the trip included seeing Seaford’s magnifi-cent chalk headland and sea stack, and getting close up to the monster trucks involved in beach reprofiling after a number of early win-ter storms.

I am delighted to see that fully half the players currently registered to play in the first round of the “Chess Champi-ons League” on November 24th are from King’s.

If you are still hesitating whether to enter, I can reassure you that it has lots going for it for anybody in the 3rd Form or below: it is local, friendly, well-organised, and the games are all ECF and FIDE rated.

Reduced “early bird” entry ends on Monday. Further de-tails and entry are available here: https://www.ccfworld.com/Chess/Results/2019-11-24_CLC_SW.htm

Congratulations to the Junior School team (Shahvez, Die-go, Sanjit, Wilf, Sen and Samvrit) who lost narrowly (2-4) last week to the Hampton U18 team which finished 3rd in the national schools U19 competition last year. It is truly remarkable that we have a Junior School team which is able to run the very best senior school teams so close over 3 hour games of chess.

The school is currently competing in an international cor-respondence chess competition. Here is the team (one teacher and three boys) greeting and wishing good luck to the Samian high school representing Greece in the tourna-ment.

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In our 3rd Form Set 2 French class, we looked at a folk song about autumn in French…

Nuage dans le ciel

S'étire, s'étire

Nuage dans le ciel

S'étire comme une aile

La feuille d'automne

Emportée par le vent

En ronde monotone

Tombe en tourbillonnant

Et ce chant dans mon coeur

Murmure, murmure

Et ce chant dans mon coeur

Murmure le bonheur,

L’Automne

Colchiques dans les prés

Fleurissent, fleurissent

Colchiques dans les prés

C'est la fin de l'été

La feuille d'automne

Emportée par le vent

En ronde monotone

Tombe en tourbillonnant

Châtaignes dans les bois

Se fendent, se fendent

Châtaignes dans les bois

Se fendent sous les pas

La feuille d'automne

Emportée par le vent

Then we had a go at writing our own…

L’AutomnePar 3rd Form 2

Je porte une belle veste

En automne, en automne

Une chemise. un bonnet

C’est la fin de l’été

Il pleut et il fait beau

En automne, en automne

Il y a du vent et du brouillard

Ce n’est pas encore l’hiver

Je joue au foot, au rugby

En automne, en automne

J’aime rester à la maison

C’est ma saison préférée

Les feuilles tombent dans le vent

KC J S G r e e n A m b A S S A d o r S

Last week as a challenge I walked to and from school every day to improve my carbon footprint. After a few days it started to get more enjoyable walking instead of taking the car and I felt a lot better about myself because of the efforts I was going through to improve my carbon footprint. I would recommend it to everyone at school, who is able to, as a fun activity which also helps to save the environment.

As a challenge, I did not use any electronics for 1 hour before I went tosleep. I mostly found it easy but there were certain times when I felt theneed to check or do something on an electronic device. Artificial bluelight given out by these devices makes it more difficult to sleep so Igenerally slept quite well. I used to read anyway before bed but only forfive or ten minutes. Without the time I used to be on a phone I was ableto read much longer than usual, perhaps for half an hour to forty-fiveminutes. I would recommend this challenge to others as you can reallyrelax without the stress of being on your phone/iPad and you find moretime on your hands which you can use in better ways.

Robert LRW

Walking To School/No electronics

A couple of weeks ago, I started not going on technology atleast one hour before I went to bed and after I woke up. Atthe beginning it was a struggle for me as I was used tomessaging people before I went to bed or watching videos.Over time though, it got easier, and I began reading a bookbefore going to sleep instead. Now I have managed to dothis challenge for over a month and it doesn’t seem like achallenge anymore, just what I normally do. The reason Iattempted this challenge was because of the artificial bluelight that is given out by my iPhone. This can causedifficulty in sleeping or a restless night. Other effects of bluelight are eyestrain or headaches due to the high energy ofthe wavelengths. I recommend that if possible, parents tryto do this challenge at the same time as their children andmake it a family challenge to keep everyone motivated.

Lucca 4L

Callum 4L

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Monthly Maths Challenge

Congratulations to all those who have already completed October’s challenge. The cut-off date for last month’s challenge is Monday 11th November – get your answers in!

Here is the Maths Challenge for November:

Post your solution in the post box opposite P5, every good attempt will receive a Distinction. Deadline: Monday 9th December.

A total of 642 digits was used in numbering the pages of a book (the front and back cover are

included in this total).

How many pages did the book contain??

newS from the muSic SchoolThe Magnard Quintet visited King’s last week and led a Junior School assembly. Third Form enjoyed a talk by the quintet covering some history of music from Re-naissance, through Baroque to modern day. Transition enjoyed an introduction to music where each of the instrumentalists introduced their instrument. There was even some audience participation when the French horn player played through an 8 me-ter long hose pipe!

On Tuesday evening, we held our second Priory Soloists’ Recital of the term and en-joyed performances of Beethoven and Tele-mann amongst others.

Next Tuesday is the Priory Autumn Con-cert. Boys should be back in school for 6.20pm. Drinks will be served to audience members from then. A reminder that tick-ets should be booked in advance through the box office, as no tickets will be available on the night.

Finally, well done to Ashvin (1C) who took part in the Kingston Piano Festival last Sat-urday and received the Gold Medal in his category (Exam music for Grade 2 or 3).

f r o m t h e t o u c h l i n eAnother wet, windy yet positive week of junior school sport. The ever promising U12s put St James’s to the sword with three dominant wins for the A,B and D teams. The U12As were able to nil their opponents whilst putting a number of points on the scoreboard. Mr McCluskey looked to challenge the boys with the whistle, however little could be done to stop the boys who are yet to be defeated this term. The U12B and D teams were just as thorough with their performances, putting together some superb displays of rugby for parents to see. The U13s have continued to work hard on developing their rugby with the U13Bs and Cs taking away excellent wins against St James’s away. Mr Rogers and Mr Brady were very complimentary of their sides as they defended with heart, attacked with flair and rose to the occasion. It was not to be the case for the U13As who should be pleased with their second half performance once they found a little more rhythm to their attack as they began to move the ball away from the breakdown and produce some go forward. Nevertheless, the U13AB teams will be looking forward to next week when they take on Rutlish on Tuesday. Friday afternoon will see the U10s travel to Rokeby, hopefully looking to pick up five wins.

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Prosopagnosia – a medical condition, also called face blindness, which means you cannot recognise peo-ple’s faces.

From the Greek proswpon (prosopon), meaning “face”, and (agnosia), meaning “lack of knowl-edge”.

Johnny was convinced that his Latin teacher suffered from prosopagnosia. Why on earth was it so difficult for him to tell Johnny apart from his little brother?

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