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JANUARY 2015

Dates for your diary

5 Jan Start of term

8 Jan Year 10 ‘Take Maths Further!’ trip

16 Jan Year 11 reports

17 Jan Cambridgeshire Schools Cross Country Championships

22 Jan Year 9 Dalehead Foods trip

22 Jan Year 9 Options meeting 6pm

23 Jan PSHE Day

23 Jan Friends of LVC Burns Night

26 Jan Staff training day—school closed

STUDENTS RAISE FUNDS FOR CHARITY

LVC students and staff were busy raising funds

for charity in the run-up to Christmas. On Friday

12 December, everyone got into the Christmas

spirit by wearing festive jumpers, raising around

£750 for Save the Children. The amount will be

doubled by the government’s UK Aid, making

£1,500 in total. On the same day, over 130 senior

citizens were welcomed to LVC for the biggest

ever Coffee & Carols party, with music from the

wind band and choir and Year 9 students serving

coffee, cake and mince pies. The students had

raised the money for the event themselves and it

was also generously supported by Linton Co-op.

On Friday 19 December, the last day of term, we

held our traditional Christmas Charities Fayre,

raising almost £2,000 for our partner school in

South Africa and charities chosen by the House

Councils. Well done to everyone involved

in planning and organising these events.

STAFF NEWS At the end of last term, we said goodbye to Karen Milne, History teacher,

who is leaving us to have a baby, and Raquel del Prado, our Spanish assistant, who has gone

to teach in Downham Market. We are joined by three new teachers this term.

Sujana Sudhaman is taking on some additional English teaching and helping us to develop

our new English curriculum in the light of national changes. Warren Rayson and Katie Yates

will job-share the Humanities post and look after 7KM tutor group until the end of the year.

We welcome them all very warmly to the LVC community. Caroline Derbyshire

From the Principal…

Happy New Year to all of our parents

and students!

It looks quite springlike outside from my window, but

during January and February there is always the

possibility of snow causing disruption to schools.

LVC is fortunate to be able to call on the services of

Camgrain if there is snow on our drives to clear because

they kindly send round their snowplough. However, we

can only do this if we have time to clear the site. If snow

falls thickly between 6 and 8.30am, we cannot clear the

site before school is due to start and if it falls during the

school day, when cars and children are on the site, it is

not safe to employ the snowplough until after they have

gone home. In these circumstances, we would need to

close or send students home early in anticipation of the

greater hazards involved in driving on thickly covered

roads or in poor light. We would then clear the site in

order to open the following day, thus keeping disruption

to a minimum.

We understand that school closures are very difficult for

parents to manage. If the school were to close, a

message would go out on all local radio stations from

7am. This message would be reinforced on the LVC

website and Facebook page. If we had to send students

home early, we would contact you via Schoolcomms,

your child’s mobile phone and on the school website.

Messages would also go out via Facebook and Twitter.

Making a judgement about something as fickle as the

British winter is never easy, but we do our best to make

the right call and we bear in mind, as I hope you will,

that you cannot please all of the people all of the time.

Have a very happy January.

Caroline Derbyshire

PS. You may be wondering why the college is wrapped

up like a giant Christmas present at the moment. The

reason is that we have been awarded a grant for the

repair and repainting of our original 1930s Crittall

windows in the listed building. Disruption to classes will

be kept to a minimum and we look forward to seeing

the building restored to its former glory before long.

If you like what you read in this newsletter about this outstanding school, please register your views

on the Parent View website at parentview.ofsted.gov.uk

sQuid online payment deadlines

Haverhill bus OVERDUE

Year 7 Enrichment Week deposit OVERDUE

Temporary sQuid cards (Autumn term) OVERDUE

Kelsey Kerridge climbing and swimming 7 January

BTEC Health & Social Care retakes 8 January

Magistrates Court mock trial 12 January

Thursday night sports club 13 January

GCSE Maths/Statistics revision guides 15 January

Year 9 Enrichment Week final payment 13 March

Year 7 Enrichment Week final payment 17 April

Wind Band tour of Barcelona 1 May

When making payments of less than £10 for ‘Trips and Offers’,

you must top up your online ‘purse’ by £10 to avoid a 25p

administration charge.

Please note that we no longer accept alternative payment

methods. If you are unable to use the sQuid online system,

please contact Mrs Fenn who can arrange a Paypoint card.

Please address any sQuid queries to helen.fenn@lvc.org

and trip queries to amanda.clay@lvc.org

CASH PAYMENTS ARE NO LONGER ACCEPTED

SPORTS NEWS—SUCCESS FOR LVC XC TEAM

Year 7 boys set off at the start of their

race at the district cross-country

championships at Netherhall School in

December. LVC sent a team of 51

athletes who all took part with

enthusiasm on a bitterly cold day.

LVC finished in third place overall, with

the Year 8/9 boys winning their event

with three runners

in the top ten. There were also good results

for the Year 7 girls and Year 10/11 boys,

who both came third. A number of

individuals have qualified for the County

Championships at King’s Ely on 17 January,

including Angharad Evans (right), who came

second in the Year 7 girls’ race.