Our newsletter is an opportunity for you to catch up on all the news articles and items from the school website over the last term.
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As we approach the last few weeks of term, we will be holding year eleven and year thirteen examinations as well as a number of seasonal events. Our Christmas dinner day will be combined with Christmas jumper day to be Wednesday 18th December. In order to ensure that the activities are as inclusive as possible, the day will be a dress down day with voluntary donations to charity.
Allocations have now been made for our activities week in the summer and we would ask that parents ensure that you meet the deadlines for payments so that we can keep places available for students.
We say farewell at the end of this term to two highly valued colleagues. Sharon Mellors will be leaving us as teacher of health and social care and Diane Gibson will be leaving as head teacher's personal assistant. We will miss them very much and are in the process of appointing new staff to these posts.
We will be holding the Christingle service with our partner primary schools on Monday 8th December. The following week, on Monday 16th December, we will host an evening of carols in the quad and will end this school term with a 12.00 finish on Thursday 19th December. I wish you all a memorable and happy Christmas and we look forward to starting term in the new year on Tuesday 7th January.
DATES FOR YOUR DIARY
Monday 9th December - Christingle
Monday 9th December - Year Eleven mock examinations start
Tuesday 10th December - Year ten parents' evening
Friday 13th December - Year thirteen mock examinations start
Monday 16th December - Carols in the Quad 6-7pm
Wednesday 18th December - Christmas dinner and jumper day
Thursday 19th December - Last day of term. School finishes at 12.00pm
We ended this week with the first of our Discovery Days of the year. Year ten students visited the Skills show, students in key stage three undertook a range of workshops and our year elevens and sixth form considered their next stages.
After school on 12th December a group of sixth form students will travel to Birmingham christmas market. This has become something of a tradition for the students and is always greatly enjoyed.
Two year thirteen students achieved gold awards in the recent senior maths challenge. One of them achieved the best in year thirteen with 70 marks.Two Year twelve students were the best in their year.
Six year thirteen students undertook their Gold final expedition last weekend, covering a distance of about 50 miles over four days in sometimes difficult conditions. They encountered a couple of minor difficulties but overcame them well thus succeeding in passing their expedition section...
