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• The JJ Effect

  Mon 17 Apr 2023

  Just before the Easter break we were extremely lucky to have Byron (the JJ Effect) come in and work with both our Year 8 and 9 students.

   

  Byrons approach is to talk to young people in an accessible way. They use hard hitting and real descriptions, video and stories to drive the message home about knife crime and had a huge impact on our students. Byron spoke about the limited time we have at school, 5 short years, 5 years that will ultimately effect the rest of our lives. If we want the nice things in life we have to put the work in now.

   

  Byron talks about his very real experience about his own brother and he didn't dress it down, it was very real and very raw. An example of how life can turn out based on the choices we make. Our students were moved with many wanting to speak to him after, if for nothing more then to say thank you for sharing his story.

   

  If you'd like too know a little more please check out the JJ Effect website https://thejjeffect.org/ or through youtube: https://youtu.be/gTT61u43Q-o

  

• The Good News of Holy Week and Easter

  Fri 07 Apr 2023

  The Good News of Holy Week and Easter were celebrated at the end of last week at The King's Church of England Academy. Worship Assemblies focused on the theme of 'Suffering and the Glory', both in the Academy and by each Year Group attending a service at St Thomas' Church.

   

  They remembered that Jesus came into Jerusalem riding a donkey as the people celebrated with palm branches. Jesus humbly washed the disciple's feet at the Last Supper, and then prayed in the Garden of Gethsemane as he faced his time of suffering and death. In St Thomas's Church, Rev. Iain Baker explained that justice had to be satisfied - but Jesus, out of love for us, took upon himself the punishment our sins deserve when he died upon the cross - as we remember on Good Friday. But the suffering he endured was to bring him glory, as he rose again from the dead and appeared to his disciples on Easter morning.

   

  May we all know more of that glory for ourselves as we celebrate Holy Week and Easter.