Category: School: Kingdown School, Warminster

Reunion For Kingdown School Pupils September 1986 To June 1991

The George Inn, Longbridge Deverill, BA12 7DG, will be the location on Saturday 20th July 2013, for a Reunion of Year of 91 Kingdown School pupils who attended Kingdown School at Woodcock Road, Warminster, from September 1986 to June 1991. The Reunion, which starts at 7.00 p.m., will include a raffle, the proceeds of which will be donated to Dorothy House Hospice in mememory of those students and teachers who have sadly passed away. For further information email: sbush22@sky.com

Open Day At Kingdown School, Warminster

Kingdown School, at Woodcock Road, Warminster, is holding an Open Day, on Thursday 27th June 2013, between 9.00 a.m. and 11.00 a.m., and also between 5.00 p.m. and 6.30 p.m. The Headteacher will give talks at 9.30 a.m. and 6.00 p.m. There will also be informal tours with senior staff, an opportunity to join a lesson and be inspired, and a chance to meet the Headteacher and the students. Please telephone 01985 215551 or email info@kingdown.wilts.sch.uk to book your place on a tour. www.kingdown.wilts.sch.uk

Sign Erected By Kingdown School

Thursday 18th April 2013

Yesterday (Wednesday 17th April 2013) this sign (pictured)
was erected on the playing field 
(Kingdown School Sports Field / St. George’s Playing Field)
between 
Boreham Field and Boreham Crossroads, Warminster. 

The greater part of the field is used by Kingdown School
for football, rugby, athletics and sorts’ days.
And the north-east corner is used occasionally by
St. George’s School.

The field has also long been used by local people for exercise,
dog walking, kite flying, practising golf and archery,
racing model cars, drone flying, frisbee fun, sunbathing and
picnicking, and by children from nearby residential estates
and streets for football and games.

When it snows, the slope in the south-east corner
of the field is used by young people for tobogganing
or riding down on sleighs or on large pieces of plastic 
or plastic bags. 

Local teams play football matches here at weekends, too.

And the Wiltshire Air Ambulance (helicopter) has landed on
the field many times during local medical emergencies, and
the field is sometimes used to practice night landings in the dark.

The sign bears the logo of Kingdown School
and the school’s motto: Believe Aspire Achieve.

The wording on the sign reads:
“Kingdown School Field.
You are welcome to use the school field
when not in use by Kingdown
subject to the following strict conditions:
All persons use the field at their own risk.
Kingdown School does not assume responsibility
for any criminal actions committed by
users of the field.
Improper conduct, or creating a public
disturbance of any kind, is prohibited.
Please respect local residents’ rights
to a peaceful and safe environment.
This field is a school facility, intending for
the education of children.
Please help us to keep this site
in good condition.
The use of the field for playing or practising
golf is strictly prohibited.
 Kingdown school and its employees cannot
accept responsibility or liability for any claim,
loss or damage whatsoever which may arise
resulting from the use of this site, except
so far as provided by statute.
 Kingdown School, Woodcock Road, Warminster,
BA12 9DR. Telephone 01985 215551
email: info@kingdown.wilts.sch.uk

Editor’s note:
The sign in these photographs was one of two such signs
(both the same in appearance and wording)
erected on the field (the other one was positioned
near the gated entrance off Boreham Field).
The signs were short-lived. Not long after being
erected someone or some persons with vandalism
in mind removed the signs from the poles and
threw the signs into the bushes and long grass
on the border of the field.

Kingdown School Students Told The Town Council What Irritates Them About Warminster

Tuesday 27th November 2012

From the website of Warminster Town Council ~

Six representatives from Kingdown School’s head students attended Warminster Town Council’s Full Council meeting on Monday 19th November 2012 to present the results from a questionnaire they had circulated to every Kingdown student entitled ‘What irritates you about your town?’

The students, Sarah Gibson, Chloe Hurd, Will Hall, Harry Orchard, Tom Chilvers and Ellis Dackombe, spoke eloquently about the process they had undertaken. They had collated the responses into a report with six main topics: Leisure; Environment; Commerce; Community; Employment and Public Transport, filtering out any unreasonable findings. Litter in town and areas in which young people could socialise, including having access to free wifi, were the main issues that had been raised, along with the desire to update the park and have a road crossing near the school for safety reasons.

The councillors welcomed the approach from the students, and came forward with suggestions of ways in which Kingdown students could become more involved in community issues, including participating in the Wiltshire Assembly for Youth (WAY), Community Area Young People’s Issues Group (CAYPIG), having more involvement in the Youth Centre or even having representation on the Friends of Warminster Park Committee. The students were unaware of the existence of some of the groups, but were interested in finding out more. Councillor Jolley also suggested they could form a Civic Cadet Group under the auspices of the Town Council, undertaking voluntary work within the town for which they could earn credits to use on their CVs.

Councillors proposed that some of the issues the students had raised be dealt with informally, and noted that others, such as having free wifi in Warminster Library, were already being implemented.

The pupils’ desire to have a road crossing in Woodcock Road was commented on by Bill Parks, Head of Services Highways and Streetscene North at Wiltshire Council, who said he would raise this with the Community Area Transport Group for discussion. He congratulated the students on their presentation and the interesting issues they had raised, and also informed them that Wiltshire Council was currently looking at a new contract with regard to litter and the placement of bins, and would be working with the community to look at their requirements.

Councillor Fryer thanked the students for attending and speaking at the meeting, saying they had been a ‘breath of fresh air’. The councilors asked the Clerk to make the appropriate response to the paper submitted by the students.

Kingdown School Acquires Bungalow At 46a Woodcock Road, Warminster

Sunday 15th April 2012

Yesterday, we posted some photographs showing
Tim Davis commencing work on the site of the
military bungalow at 46a Woodcock Road,
Warminster. The Ministry of Defence
no longer require the bungalow as a residence
for disabled personnel, now that new accommodation
blocks have been built at Battlesbury Barracks
nearby, so they have given Kingdown School
(on the opposite side of Woodcock Road)
the use of the bungalow gratis, for educational use.

Danny Howell returned to the location this morning
(15th April) and took some more photographs
to share via www.dannyhowell.net

The bungalow is on the corner of Woodcock Road
and the road that gives access to
Woodcock Trading Estate.

The gate and the spindly specimens of hedge
which have been grubbed out.

View looking up Woodcock Road,
towards the town centre.

Signs which stood on the corner of Woodcock Road
and the entrance road into the
Woodcock Trading Estate,
advertising businesses on the trading estate,
have been taken up to allow a new fence to be erected.

The gift of use by the Ministry Of Defence to
Kingdown School is very good news.

Maybe the trading estate business signs will be
erected in due course?

View from Woodcock Trading Estate to Woodcock Road.

View from Kingdown School,
across Woodcock Road, to the bungalow.

Kingdown School, Warminster, Acquire Use Of Army Bungalow For Gratis

Saturday 14th April 2012

The Ministry of Defence
no longer require the bungalow at
46a Woodcock Road, Warminster,
as a residence for disabled personnel,
now that new accommodation blocks have been
built at Battlesbury Barracks nearby,
so they have given Kingdown School
(on the opposite side of Woodcock Road)
the use of the bungalow gratis, for educational use.

Danny Howell went along with his camera on the morning of Saturday 14th April 2012, to see Tim Davis use a JCB to remove the old wire mesh fence (which was sadly much the worse for wear) from around the frontage of the property.

A new wooden fence is to be erected in due course.

Some old spindly wych elm bushes were also removed.

Tim Davis may be contacted for Plant Hire at
5 Church Farm Cottages,
Longbridge Deverill, BA12 7DG,
telephone: 7774 225404.

Work in progress.

One of the pair of gates at the entrance to the property.

The 46a sign on the gate.

JCB buckets.

Some of the grubbed out greenery and fence posts.

View from the north-west corner of the property.

The junction of Woodcock Road and the
entrance road to Woodcock Trading estate.

Kingdown School is on the opposite side of
Woodcock Road.

You may just be able to see Nick Trimby,
crossing the road from Kingdown School,
behind the JCB, in this picture.

Nick Trimby asks Tim how the work is progressing.

Nick Trimby, from Kingdown School,
is pleased that the
Ministry Of Defence have allowed Kingdown
the use of the bungalow for free.

Tim said he was due to start the work on Monday
but came today while the students from
Kingdown School
are at home, safely away from the site.

The work has got off to a splendid start.

Tim gets on with the job.

And a good job he was making of it too!

What a wonderful piece of kit the JCB is?

Tim Davis may be contacted for Plant Hire at
5 Church Farm Cottages,
Longbridge Deverill, BA12 7DG,
telephone: 7774 225404.

View across Woodcock Road.

Tim at the controls.

The JCB at work.

View along Woodcock Road.

The gift of the use of the bungalow
for Kingdown School is very good news.