November 29

Hard Work Pays Off!

We enjoyed a marvellous evening this week celebrating our Year 11 (2013 leavers) successes at the King’s

Hall on Tuesday night. Bishop of Bradford, Nick Baines, was our guest speaker and alongside some

musical accompaniment for the evening, our students collected their awards and GCSE certificates,

received praise and accolades and had a thoroughly enjoyable time. And as you can see, they were smart,

smiling and a real credit to their school.

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Philippines Aid Concert – Tickets Now Available Tickets are now available from our Reception for the concert organised by Keiron Anderson to raise money for the Philippines Aid Fund, priced at £5. The concert will see the Phoenix Concert Band play music from the movies. The band was formed in 2001, and

under Music Director Keiron Anderson (Head of Creative Arts) has grown in strength to around 50 regular attendees, enabling it to give rousing performances for its audiences, with a well-balanced sound in all sections of the band.

More information on the band can be found on their website http://www.phoenixband.co.uk

Coming Up Saturday 30th November: PTA Table Top Sale 10am-1pm B Hall

Wednesday 4th December: Arts Evening 7-9pm and Stray FM in school

Friday 6th December: Training Day (School closed)

Monday 9th December: Year 12 Parents’ Meeting

Tuesday 10th December: Clothes Show Live Event, Birmingham, with Adam Leach (Year 11) in the final

Wednesday 12th December: Aid for Philippines Concert 7.30pm

Friday 13th December: Year 11 Craven College taster morning

Wednesday 18th December: Year 13 Presentation Evening 6.30 for 7pm

Thursday 19th December: IGS Swing Band concert at Margaret’s Church 7pm

Friday 20th December: School closes 1.15pm

Christmas Jumper Day Rudolph, Santa and a robin…what do they all have in common? They will all be on show (plus other Christmassy images) on jumpers worn by our Post 16 students on Friday 13th December. They are playing their part in a fundraising drive by Save the Children – who have declared that day Christmas Jumper Day. Post 16 will pay £1 for the benefit/embarrassment of displaying their festive knitwear which will go via Save the Children to the Philippines.

http://www.phoenixband.co.uk/home/4573108513



Free School Meals and Pupil Premium Did you know ... just registering your child for Free School Meals means that the school gets extra money? Register now to make sure we don’t miss out. The Government is giving money to schools to help children from potentially disadvantaged families do their very best. This funding is called a ‘Pupil Premium’. In 2012-13 this extra funding was £900 per student and is utilised by school, to provide extra support directly to the young person. Our new cashless catering system means that those students entitled to Free School Meals are allocated the funds directly to the student’s Parentpay account. If you get any of the following support payments your child may be entitled to receive free school meals and then the school will also be given money to further support your child:

Income Support Income-based Jobseekers Allowance Income-related Employment and Support Allowance Support under Part VI of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999 the guaranteed element of State Pension Credit Child Tax Credit (provided you’re not also entitled to Working Tax Credit and have an annual gross income

of no more than £16,190) Working Tax Credit run-on - paid for 4 weeks after you stop qualifying for Working Tax Credit Universal Credit

To apply for Free School Meals, click the link below, or alternatively contact Mr Calvert at school and he will arrange for a form to be posted to you and if you require more support, get someone to help you fill it in. If you have any further questions please don’t hesitate to contact school.

http://www.bradford.gov.uk/bmdc/advice_benefits_and_council_tax/benefits/free_school_meals.htm

Well done Mo Bros As Movember comes to an end our 18 members of staff who bravely grew their moustaches in November to raise money for the Movember Charity can finally think about shaving! Movember encourages men to grow moustaches and the community to support them in order to raise money for Men’s Health. Funds raised are used to help men live with and beyond cancer and to ensure men living with prostate or testicular cancer have the care needed to be physically and mentally well. Ilkley Grammar School’s Mo Bros were Ben Thompson (Mo Bro Captain ), Jon Beynon, Stewart Goodbold, Keith Holder, Joe Iliff, Chris Washington, James Ibbertson, Ian Radcliffe, Adam Falkner, Nat Adams, Andy Calvert, Andy Colman, Dave Burrowes, Hughes Mouton, Peter Beaumont, Adam Daly, Phil Haworth and Tim Milburn.

http://www.bradford.gov.uk/bmdc/advice_benefits_and_council_tax/benefits/free_school_meals.htm



Mo Bro Captain Ben Thompson was delighted so many staff wanted to join the cause, ‘It’s really important we highlight the need for men to be healthy and raise awareness of men’s health issues. It’s been an itchy month, we’ve all enjoyed the challenge, but we’ll enjoy shaving our moustaches off even more!’ In total they have raised over £1000 – well done Mo Bros!

PTA Join up and join in! We welcome all new members to our PTA - the remainder of the meetings this school year are due to be held on: Tuesday 21st January, Wednesday 12th March, Tuesday 29th April and Wednesday 11th June. Meetings start at 7pm and are held in the Lower Library in school. If you can’t make our meetings but would like to be included then email [email protected]. Watch out, too, for our 2014 Car Boot Sales: provisional dates are Sundays 6th April; 18th May; 22nd June and 20th July. The PTA also have their own Twitter feed now, follow them on @IGSPTA or like them on their Facebook page IlkleyGrammarSchoolPta.

mailto:[email protected]

https://twitter.com/IGSPTA



Order Order! Our Year 12 Government and Politics group have been studying political parties and the House of Commons. They decided to have a competition to represent concepts learned. The challenge was to decorate a cake with a political theme. Anthony Gray, Year 12, won the politically themed cake competition with his cake interpretation of the House of Commons, narrowly beating the political party cupcakes and the London Riot sponge!

Next Week’s menu

Food, glorious food! Hot sausage and mustard! While we're in the mood…cold jelly and custard!

We like to think our lunchtime fare has moved on in recent years! There is plenty to choose from and remember the meal deal is only £2.15.



Sharing Success Senior Maths Challenge Following on from the Senior Team challenge last week, the individual UKMT Senior Maths Challenge results are in and it's another year of bests! A record-breaking 56% of our Post16 entrants gained a bronze certificate or above. Sam Hill led the charge in Year 12 and 3 students in Year 13 (Ben Fripp, George Ransome & Benji Wilson) achieved Gold, reaching the standard to enter the super-tough Pink Kangeroo challenge. Good luck to our intermediate girls’ cross country

team who compete in the ESAA National Finals on

Saturday in Southend.

The team includes (left to right): Sarah Pickering (10ACD), Lucy Haines (10VEB), Jemima Elgood (10VEB), Lucy Jacques (10AJH), Zoe Judkowski (10VEB) and Abbie White (10BB)

Well done to Oliver Burton (8ALC) who played in two U12 regional tennis tournaments recently. Oliver got through to the final in the first one at Batley narrowly losing in a tight 3 setter. He then went on to win the second one at the St Charles Centre for Sport where he beat the Scottish U12 number1 and the Cheshire U12 number 1. Oliver has now been invited to play in a national tournament in London. Good luck!

Congratulations to Emily Field (7LNR) who took part in a diving competition in Luton at the weekend. Emily competed with the best 12 and 13 year old divers in the country. She did very well finishing 12th out of 30 on the 3m springboard and 11th out of 22 on platform.

Well done to Emma Powell (8JP) who competed in the seniors’ section at the Scottish tooling series in Glasgow at the weekend. Emma secured 2nd place climbing up logs, chains and of course the walls with her ice axes. She had a fabulous competition. The next round is Glenmore Lodge in the Cairngorms in two weeks’ time – good luck Emma!



Congratulations to our first students in school to achieve their Bronze awards this year (40 credits). They are all Year 7:

James Holmes (7DSF)

Danny Leach (7HED/KE)

Eve Newton (7HED/KE)

Ruby Sugden (7HED/KE)

Sophie Kirkup (7LNR)

Georgina Mumby (7LNR)

India Sahota (7LNR)

Pedram Habibzadeh (7PDH)

Sophie Tarring (7SP)

Well done to our Year 7 rugby team who played South Craven in the Yorkshire Cup at Ilkley Rugby Club on Monday. We had been beaten by this team twice this season, but the score this time was very much in our favour: IGS 40 - 5 South Craven School. More Rugby Success! The Year 8 rugby team were in action on Monday night at Rossett in the White Rose League. They won 34-0 with tries from:

Sam McKinnon Evans 2 (8ADM), Jake Miller 2 (8JRW) Henry Ackroyd (8ALC) and Tony Yarinakas (8KL) Well done to our Year 7 footballers who played in the tournament at St Mary's on Tuesday night:

IGS 2-0 Horsforth A, goals from Tom Schofield and Nathaniel Richardson IGS 1- 0 Horsforth B, goal from Charlie Harrison IGS 1-0 St Mary's A, goal from Adam Shaw IGS 0-2 St Mary's A IGS 0-1 Guiseley

The team came joint second overall out of the 6 teams that played. Congratulations to our U13 and U14 hockey teams who played South Craven School this week. The scores were: U13 IGS12-0 South Craven School U14 IGS 3-0 South Craven School



…IGS SPORT…IGS SPORT…IGS SPORT…IGS SPORT…IGS SPORT…IGS SPORT…IGS SPORT…

B AFTER SCHOOL CLUBS AND FIXTURES

MONDAY 2 Dec

Sen A + B Netball v Bingley (H) (SMB) Street Dance -All ages (JW) Gym 3.15-4.15pm Y10/Sen NETBALL Club (SMB) SpHall/Cts 3-4.30pm Y7 FOOTBALL (PLB) School Fields 3-4.30pm

TUESDAY 3 Dec

U13 Hockey West Yorkshire Tournament @ Silcoates (AJK) Depart @ 11.20pm Y8/9 Netball v St. Aiden’s (H) (SHR) U13 Girls’ Football Tournament @ Beckfoot (LV) Y9/Sen HOCKEY (JH) BR Astro 3-4.30pm Y8 NETBALL Club (SHR) SpHall/Cts 3-4.30pm (Y8 only) Sports’ Leaders (PLB) 3-5pm Y7 NETBALL Club CANCELLED

WEDNESDAY 4 Dec

Y8 Boys’ Football @ St. Mary’s (GS) U13A + U14B Netball v Skipton (A) (SHR) U14C Netball v Carlton B. (A) (SHR) CANCELLED U16 + U18 Hockey v Rishworth (H) (JH) Y12/13 1st XV Boys’ Rugby v QESF Darlington (A) (ACF/VP) Depart 11.45pm Y10 Boys’ Rugby v Brighouse (A) Depart 12.30pm Y7/8 Boys’ + Girls’ SpHall ATHLETICS (PLB) SpHall 3-4.30pm Girls’ Synchro (Mrs Gooch) Pool 3-4.30pm

THURSDAY 5 Dec

Y9 Boys’ Football @ St. Mary’s (ACF/MWC) Y11 Boys’ Football v Horsforth (A) (SG) Y9 Basketball CV1 @ Beckfoot (SP) Y9 BASKETBALL Club (SP) SpHall 12.10-12.55pm (*week B only) Y9 NETBALL Club (SHR) Courts 3-4.30pm Y9/10/11 BADMINTON Club (AJH/KPC) SpHall 3-4.30pm Y7/8 HOCKEY Club (AJK) BR Astro 3.15-4.30pm Sports’ Leaders (PLB) 3-5pm

FRIDAY 6 Dec



Another fantastic week for our news stories –

front page successes included…



GCSE Overview It is important for students, staff and parents to have the overview of what GCSE commitments Year 11 have over the next few weeks. We have provided them all with this information in the form of a bookmark for their planners.

Please see the calendar below.

Operation Shoebox Thank you to everyone who contributed to this year’s Operation Shoebox. Key Stage 3 adopted this charity as their key charity this year and successfully collected nearly 50 shoeboxes. These boxes will now be distributed to children across the world, who do not receive any Christmas presents as their families simply cannot afford it – the generosity of students, parents and members of staff have made someone’s Christmas!



The Hour of Code is coming! Our world is surrounded by technology. Information, commerce, communication and entertainment all rely on computers. But only a tiny

fraction of us learn computer science, the basics of how computers work, or how to create software, apps, or websites. This year, to celebrate Computer Science Education Week (Dec 9-15), we’re joining a massive campaign to prepare our population for the 21st Century: the Hour of Code. It’s a campaign that has an ambitious goal: to help 10 million students try one hour of computer science. See http://hourofcode.org/ for details.

Are you ready to face the challenge IGS? Coming to ICT and Computer Science lessons soon…

Johnny Tuxedo Pulling out all the stops for Christmas and need a tux? Why not try Johnny Tuxedo? Some of you may remember Johnny Tuxedo from last year when some male sixth form students helped ‘prototype’ his new range aimed at the student market. If you are in the market for suits and tuxs for proms and other upcoming events in your child’s (busier than your own!) social life then you may want to take a look at their website. www.johnnytuxedo.co.uk) It is aimed at young men, 16-22 years old. They launched in April from their head office in Ilkley but are now selling in 20 different countries. The company, Buxton Pickles, are based next to the florist down at Ben Rhydding and make suits for Next, Hobbs, French Connection, Whistles and Jaeger. The suits are £99, very well made, fashionable and washable at 30 degrees, perfect for young men to wear over again at proms, dinners and balls. They also sell a complete package suit, shirt, tie for £120. Johnny Tuxedo are now successfully working with schools, PTA committees, University societies etc. who promote their suits with a 5% discount to our students, members etc. In return they pay a 10% commission to the school, PTA or club fund etc.

Post 16 News

Virtual Work Experience: thinking of working in the Legal Sector? Online programme offering access to your own professional in the sector who can help you develop employability skills to succeed in the legal profession. Commitment of 8 hours online over one calendar month. For more information email getinfinancialskillspartnership.org.uk or ring 020 7367 9542

Armstrong Watson: trainee accountancy opportunities available for commencement in September 2014. Five year scheme offering AAT and chartered exams alongside work experience within their various departments. Starting salary £14,453 rising to £29,756 upon qualifying as a chartered accountant five years later. www.armstrongwatson.co.uk/opportunities

Job Opportunities: Marriott Hotels are offering various job opportunities at their Leeds Marriott. For more information www.marriott.com/careers

http://hourofcode.org/

http://www.johnnytuxedo.co.uk/

http://www.armstrongwatson.co.uk/opportunities

http://www.marriott.com/careers



To be recorded at

Ilkley Grammar

School on

Wednesday 4th

December – to be

transmitted on

Friday 6th

December.



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Calendar

December Wednesday 4 Arts Evening 7-9pm Stray FM in school Friday 6 Training Day (School closed) Monday 9 Year 12 Parents’ Meeting Tuesday 10 Clothes Show Live Event, Birmingham Wednesday 12 Aid for Philippines Concert 7.30pm Friday 13 Year 11 Craven College taster morning Wednesday 18 Year 13 Presentation Evening 6.30 for

7pm Thursday 19 IGS Swing Band concert at Margaret’s Church 7pm Friday 20 School closes 1.15pm

January Monday 6 School re-opens Wednesday 8 Technology Challenge Evening Monday 13 Year 11 mock exams start Tuesday 21 PTA Meeting 7pm Thursday 23 Year 11 mock exams end Friday 24 Year 11-12 Taster Day

Attendance

Year 7 The top spot went to 7DSF this week with a magnificent 100%

Year 8 8JP also secured the winning position this week with a top attendance of 100%.

Year 9 Clear winners this week were 9JLF with 99.1% attendance.

Year 10 10VEB achieved the highest attendance rate this week with 98.1%

Year 11 11ISR were victorious this week with 97.8%


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