Dates for your Diary:

Monday 2nd May – Bank Holiday

Thursday 5th May – Sports Leaders Evening

Saturday 7th May – Bronze DofE assessment Week 1

Tuesday 10th May – HPV injections for Year 8/9

Saturday 14th May – Y7/8 Netball Tour

Monday 16th May – GCSE/GCE’s start

Saturday 21st May – Bronze DofE assessment week 2

Tuesday 24th May – Year 7 parents evening, French exchange visit

Monday 30th May – Half Term week begins

Parent Bulletin Friday, 29th April 2016

Lateness

We are having students signing in late with the reason being given that they have been to Tesco or

Subway.

Could parents ensure their children leave in plenty of time if they need to go to either food outlet in the

morning. Additionally staff will be in those locations when possible before school.

MFL Star of the Week:

Star of the week in MFL this week:

year 7 - Georgina Kendle GW6

year 8 - Hally Grimshaw EY5

year 9 - Ruby Dixon EY1

year 10 - Tamsin Barnes LS9

year 11 - Niamh Jackson KT2

KS5 - Andrea Chua 12DOT

English Stars of the Week:

Year 7: Vladislava Prieskina & Josh Stannett

Year 8: Bruna Rodrigues & Josh Brown

News from the English Department.

Year 11

The English exam is on Tuesday and luckily students have a long weekend to prepare! They should

balance the weekend between getting some much needed rest time and revision. We will be sending them

home with a workbook to help them revise productively.

On Tuesday they will be spending the morning in English and should bring their work books into school.

We are happy for them to bring some snacks and drinks to help them during this long revision session.

Please could we ask that over the weekend you check that students are equipped for the exams. They will

need a number of blue/black pens and 3 highlighters, stored in a see through pencil case.

We wish all of year 11 the best of luck!

Mrs Holland

KS3 News

Remember all KS3 homework is skill based and set on SAM Learning. If your child cannot access this for

any reason they are to inform their class teacher immediately.

It is pleasing to see that more students are completing the extension homeworks which have been

uploaded onto Show My Homework. Continue to encourage your child to work through these as they

develop their skill set needed in lessons. Certificates will be issued at the end of term!

Library reading continues with year 7 different genres and year 8 different cultures. The active

encouragement of reading for pleasure should be a core part of every child’s educational entitlement, whatever their background or attainment, as extensive reading and exposure to a wide range of texts

make a huge contribution to students’ educational achievement.

Miss Ritson

French Spelling Bee

On Wednesday, we took three students to compete in the French Spelling Bee regional Final after they

had won their "classroom" and "whole school" finals. The competition was very intense and, being the 6th

time that I have taken students to the Regional final, I can see the evolution and the increasing difficulty to

win.

Furthermore, as the number of schools from East Anglia is getting larger and larger, there were more

rounds than usual in the competition. Therefore, although our three students didn't go through to the semi

final, it was a very close result with only one point of difference between the last qualifier of the first round

and Vladislava Prieskina (EY5), who managed to translate into French and spell with the French alphabet

13 words in one minute. Nell Ashworth (KT1) and Hope Lake (EY8) also did very well with respectively 7

and 8 words in one minute. It is also important to note that the competition took place in a big lecture

theatre in front of about 50 people.

The three girls were a great credit for the academy and made me very, very proud!

Miss Anton

Special commendation

The following students have been nominated by members of staff for going above and beyond this week.

From Mrs Groom

Natasha Denney, Hannah Denney & Rebecca Denney

Thank you for all of your help at the car boot on Sunday; the girls were litter picking, collecting money at

the gates and handing out leaflets all morning. Thank you

From Mrs Spindler

Y13 Psychology Students

I would like to commend all of the year 13 psychology students for their hard work and determination and

to say well done for their recent blossoming progress. Keep going, we are nearly there.

Ardeche 2017

REMINDER

SUMMER 2017 Who is it for? Students who are Y7 or Y8 now so will be in Y8 or Y9 from September 2016! Deposit to be handed in by 9/05 and to the finance office!! If you are interested, please collect a letter from Miss Anton ASAP!

French Exchange Meeting Wednesday 4th May 7pm – B17 Please bring your passport and EHIC card if you haven’t already.

Y11 Revision presentation At the end of this bulletin is the presentation given by Mr Morrison to Year 11’s during special assemblies this week.

GLOUCESTER WINDSOR NEWS:

GW1 90.5

GW2 93.6

GW3 89.2

GW4 95.8

GW5 94

GW6 95.4

GW7 94.2

GW8 93.6

GW9 93.8

GW10 94.3

GW11 95.5

GW House Attendance:- 93.6%

Student Receptionists

Wednesday 20th April 2016

Ilga Aleksejeva

Oliwia Otulak

These two students did a wonderful job – Well Done!!

Students of the week:-

Peter Rachkov – polite, smart and hardworking – a credit to his Form GW5

Armandas Ruginis – Won student of the week trophy – well done

Morgan Nelson – consistently works to the best of his ability in all lessons

Vivos:-

EDINBURGH YORK NEWS:

Form attendance:-

%

EY1 94.8

EY2 96.8

EY3 91.5

EY4 97.9

EY5 88.8

EY6 87.6

EY7 91.0

EY8 95.4

EY9 88.5

EY10 89.6

EY11 95.2

House attendance:- 92.3%

I hope Years 9/10/11 enjoyed their reward pizza. Years 7/8 will have their delivery Wednesday next week,

this was postponed this week as I had to accompany a trip to London.

Our initiative for the next half term is high street vouchers, all who achieve 100% will go into a draw and

winners will be picked out at our first assembly after May half term.

Student receptionists:- Excellent job done by all.

Anton Baskaran

Gabriele Brusovaite

Egle Bucute

Aiden Cummins

Students of the week:-

Matthew Bligh

Robert Addis

Good work board:-

Hally Grimshaw

Ruby Dixon

Vivos – Top ten:-

KEENE THORESBY NEWS:

Attendance – 21st to 27th April:

Congratulations to KT8 who, in the last 10 weeks have not finished higher than 3rd, actually smashed

everyone out of the water to finish best attendance for last week, so well done to them.

Group % Attend

KT1 92.6

KT2 93.6

KT3 92.3

KT4 87.9

KT5 91.2

KT6 93.7

KT7 89.5

KT8 94.1

KT9 90.8

KT10 91.3

KT11 93.8

Totals 91.9

Overall though, KT house are hanging onto 3rd place by a very slim 0.1% and need to improve by at least

1% if we are to finish top. So let us make every effort to get our students in please. Thank you

Vivo’s - 21st to 27th April:

Top KT student for gaining most vivo’s last was Cara Alsop so well done to her.

LANCASTER SCHOOL NEWS:

Group % Attended

LS1 94.8

LS2 91.7

LS3 94.6

LS4 91.4

LS5 90.0

LS6 96.5

LS7 88.4

LS8 94.8

LS9 92.5

LS10 90.4

LS11 87.5

Totals 92.1

Well done to LS6 for form attendance of the week, 96.5% is fantastic – it was really close for 2nd place

which is great!

Mrs Stride, has also asked me to thank Anya for bringing in some traditional Trinidadian food – great stuff

Anya (but where was mine?!!)

Tamsin Barnes LS9 was MFL year 10 student of the week this week – well done.

Student of the week for the most number of vivos this week was Anya Biran – excellent work Anya well

done.

Please remember to pick up your prom tickets yr11 and pink slips following absences…

Have a lovely weekend

Mrs Stonach

Sporting Fixtures:

Up and coming sporting fixtures & events for week beginning 2nd May 2016:

Wednesday 4th May U12 cricket v U13 Cricket Internal T20 match

KES

Wednesday 4th May Tag Rugby Inset

Thursday 5th May SPORTS PRESENTATION

EVENING

MAIN HALL 6.45-7pm

Year 7 & 8 Development Football

Coaching

3-4.15pm

Friday 6th May U14 cricket v U15 Cricket

Internal T20

KES

Sports Presentation Evening

• Thursday 5th May

• Main Hall, 7pm

• Please return your reply slips, asap!

Thanks – The PE Department

WELL DONE TO EVERYONE WHO REPRESENTED THEIR HOUSE AT HOUSE FOOTBALL ON FRIDAY! OVER 60 PUPILS MADE A POSITIVE CONTRIBUTION TO THEIR HOUSE! NEXT EVENT: JUNIOR HOUSE ROUNDERS INTERS HOUSE ROUNDERS PLEASE ASK YOU ENRICHMENT TUTOR & GET INVOLVED

Alicia

Salmondo

Grace Faulk

Rebecca

HollandsMillie Bly

Gabija Sulyte

Jacob Clarke Reece Brown

Mantas

Zabaletta

Paulo

Marcelleni

Morgan Smith

Revising revisionCraig Morrison

Colours and labels

• Highlighters

• Particular colours mean particular things or themes

• Highlighti g i di idual ords as ou go is good for seek a d destro but not great for revision

• Beware not seeing the bigger picture

• Bracket chunks

• Label paragraphs

Testing

• Testing yourself is the best method of revision

• Being tested by another a close second

• Duplicate receipt books

• Index cards – treasury tagged in order

• Index card hierarchy – use colours (red for section summaries, blue for individual topics)

• Index card exchange

• Photocopy and write around

Re-reading

• Re-reading is a close second to re-testing yourself

• Write diagrams/flow-charts about how things work after re-reading

• Talk someone through your reading afterwards

• Have them write down what you say in number order

• Give back to the student and have them check it is appropriate against the reading

Post-its

• Post-it notes

• Create a i se ure to se ure ap of ideas o the all• Create post-its for all key elements of learning and then areas on a

oti e oard for , , etc times you have looked at each

• Create post-its for factors in literature, history study etc and then re-order them into different patterns to create arguments/model essay plans

• Overlap post-it notes for questions and answers underneath

• Make your revision timetable with post-its, so you can move sessions, repeat them etc

Past papers

• Past papers, including several goes at the questions that go wrong

• Read all text in bold, italics and underlines very carefully

• Work out the timings

• Read the mark schemes!

• Read the sample material, including sample answers

• Read the e a i ers reports for tips o here thi gs e t ell a d did not

IT – easily shared with parents

• Calendar reminders with tasks

• Set up a google docs or wiki between a group of friends

• Photos of moments on the board or questions

• Podcasts

• Sound recorder

• Revision App – 100s of revision notes and make your own

• PIXL Maths App

• iMindmap App – create interactive mindmaps

The secret

• Spreading out your revision makes all of the methods far more effective

• Distribute your revision into chunks

• Make sure that ou do re-re isio ith gaps of a out hour a d then 3 days

• Cramming is a word for leaving it far too late