Weekly Newsletters

Thank you goes to a wide range of staff for enabling the students to realise:

1. To get where they want or need to be is not an easy and straightforward path;

2. The facilities and provision at our school’s sixth form is superb.  Our track record is excellent in ensuring students have a very high success rate onto their preferred destination of choice, whether this be University, Apprenticeship or employment by choice.

The Year 11 will have now received individual feedback based on their pre public examinations undertaken before the end of last term.  As I publish this newsletter, the Year 11 students will be going home with an overview of their PPE results.  Please look out for this coming home with your son/daughter.

My comments to year 11 this week have been based on the ten things that they should not do – a reverse of the positive mindset.  However, sometimes a timely reminder when the pressure is on, is correct to remind them of negative habits they may revert to in a time of pressure:

We will be addressing this issues alongside your wonderful support in the next few weeks to ensure these barriers are reduced.

I look forward to meeting parents and students as part of the Year 9 subject evening on Wednesday 18 January 4- 8pm.  I urge you to make appointments with your child’s subject teachers as this is the precursor with for the Pathways Evening.  I am pleased to report that as part of our enhance career provision, a substantive number of Year 9 students will be interacting with local businesses to help them understand their Pathways choices are one key ingredient  to their future employability.

Best wishes

Bryan Erwin
Acting Principal

The House Points are awarded from PLTS competitions such as Performing Arts talent show competition in December 2016, parents evening events, sports competitions and half-termly House attendance.  At the end of the academic year we will also be adding individual student Connect Points to the totals to identify the House competition cup winners.

Good luck to you all both individually in terms of positive Connect points and within the events and competitions for your houses this term.

Janet Bates completed Lino cutting workshops with year 9 and 10, using aerial views of the local landscape photographed using a drone. Janet then completed a paper cutting workshop with year 11, 12 and 13 students, working from insects and insect cocoon patterns and shapes, creating some beautifully intricate layered designs as you can see here.

I hope that all students enjoyed working with professional and feel inspired and positive about the potential of following a career in the Arts.

Mrs Bamber
Head of Faculty, Art and Design

11a1/b1/a2/b2

• Solve linear inequalities in one or two variables and quadratic inequalities in one variable
• Represent the solution set on a number line, using set notation and on a graph

11a3/b3/b4

• Best value
• Percentage of an amount
• Interest and growth
• Depreciation and decay

11a4

• Real life graphs
• Straight line graphs

Students can use the www.hegartymaths.com to find extra tuition and questions on these topics as well as using this great resource to consolidate areas they are not yet fluent in identified after the recent PPEs.

Mr Donnelly
Teacher of Maths