WINCHMORE SCHOOL NEWSLETTER EXHIBITION OF WORKS IN BARCELONA
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WINCHMORE SCHOOL NEWSLETTER EXHIBITION OF WORKS IN BARCELONA
O C T O B E R 20 1 4 WINCHMORE SCHOOL NEWSLETTER EXHIBITION OF WORKS IN BARCELONA One of our former Sixth Form Art students Pedro Demetriou, has recently been back in touch with the department to share with us his story since leaving Winchmore School in 2010. He went on to study Illustration at De Montfort University... I just thought I'd get in touch to see how you are, but also to say a massive thank you (many a year after leaving Winchmore!). been an absolute dream of mine to have my work in the wonderful city that we visited all those years ago! It's been a busy year, but have had a moment or two to reflect, and I just wanted to say a massive thank you for the support you gave me at school. If it wasn't for you pushing me to better myself, as well as actually suggesting illustration would be a suitable avenue to explore at university level, I have no idea where I would be right now! Hope all is well, many thanks, I'm currently working as a designer with the design team for Ernest Jones and H.Samuel, creating all the POS for store and web. But my Pedro life is my freelance illustration work which is what I'm working on in the evenings and We are hoping to be weekends! able to work with Pedro in the future, in I've got 3 exhibitions coming up, I'll have my the mean time we wish own stand at Brand Licensing Europe in him the best of luck October at Olympia. I've also had one of my with his forthcoming pieces accepted into an exhibition in Rome late exhibitions. November! But, most excitingly, I've recently been selected to exhibit my work at the Miss Grassham Barcelona International Art Fair this December, held in Gaudi's Casa Battlo'! It's PARENT GOVERNOR ELECTION There is currently an election for parent governor posts. Letters have been sent home by "pupil post" with details. The ballot paper should be returned by 3.00pm on Friday 24 October. Please contact Belinda Chapple, Vice Chair of the Governing Body (via the school office ) if you have any questions. PAGE 2 WOODCROFT WILDSPACE This year Mrs Player the art lead practitioner at Winchmore School has been working on a series of projects in collaboration with Woodcroft wildspace. The ARP unit consisting of 6 boys with special needs (including autism) have designed and realised a sensory garden at the wildspace. The pupils made ceramic insect houses in school with the art teacher then visited the site to install them and put in a range of plants and vegetables to grow. The project will also form the basis of their Arts Award Discover certificate which they are working towards. Plans are afoot to extend the sensory garden into the second plot as the ARP unit in school expands. The pupils have found great joy in the creation of the garden and it has been used to support a range of developmental and social skills. The summer school was formed of a 7 day project with 5 days in the school holidays focused on creating a Winchmore sculpture trail at the Woodcroft Wildspace Centre. A group of 14 Year 7 and Year 8 pupils created a range of ceramic sculptures and mosaic pieces to adorn a small path within the site. Masks have also been made from the original clay dug from the wells. Over 70 pieces of art work were produced by the group who are also using the project to complete an Explore Level Arts Award. Mrs Player, Mrs Tapscott-Drake and Miss Crummenauer were delighted with the outcome as were the parents who were able to visit the work on the final summer school day. We received fabulous news on our return to school that our projects contributed to the wildspace winning a Gold Enfield in Bloom competition. Miss Grassham WOULD YOU LIKE TO LEARN TO SPEAK CHINESE? Winchmore School are holding Chinese Mandarin adult classes on Monday’s from 3.15pm—4.00pm. If you would like more details please contact Miss Aldhouse at Winchmore School. SUSTAINABLE TRAVELLERS PRIZE DRAW It is Walk To School Month in October ….. If your child travels to school sustainably (walking, cycling, using the bus or train) please give your child a letter to confirm this and they will be entered into a draw to win vouchers. Ms Liddle PAGE 3 CHAIR OF GOVERNORS I am delighted to be elected as the Chair of Governors and I would like to congratulate Belinda Chapple on her election as Vice Chair. Belinda previously served as the Chair of Governors and I am very pleased that she has agreed to stay on as Vice Chair and to mentor me while I learn my new role. Meanwhile we have to say a sad farewell to Pat Hamill, a very experienced governor and a wonderful role model for new governors. We also have to say a sad farewell to Wendy Winter, who served as a staff governor for many years, and who always offered very sensible advice at governor meetings. However we are very pleased that Wendy is going to continue as the School's Economic Wellbeing Coordinator. Kirstie Das’s term of office as a Staff Governor has also come to an end, but we are delighted that she remains at school as Head of Learning for the Olivier Community. We would like to thank Pat, Wendy and Kirstie on behalf of the whole school for their tremendous contributions over many years. The governors would like to welcome everyone back to school at the start of the new autumn term. We would particularly like to say a special "welcome” to our new Year 7 pupils. We hope you have settled in well and are looking forward to the next year. We would also like to congratulate our Year 11 and 13 students for their excellent results - the best ever in the history of the school. This demonstrates the hard work and commitment of our staff and students and shows how we are building improvement year on year. We are delighted to say that we are now ranked as one of the best schools in Enfield. A group of governors attended the recent open evening and took the opportunity to talk to prospective parents, carers and students. Many of them told us how impressed they were by the school. Typical comments included: "Very welcoming school", "Excellent ethos", "Inspiring school" and "Students are very proud of their school and enthusiastic to show us their work”. It is clear Winchmore is a school where people want to be. We would like to thank all the students and staff who worked so hard to show our local community what a fantastic school we are. Bernard Fleming (Chair of Governors) Witchmore Science Spooktacular Fair and Fireworks display On Friday 24 October 2014 we are holding our first Spooktacular Fair in school from 5.00pm to 7.30pm with a Fireworks display starting at 7.30pm. The fireworks display will be set to music and should be Spooktacular! There will also be some ‘spot prizes’ for any younger children who come wearing fancy dress. All children attending must be accompanied by an adult. Entry will be £3.00 per person. Payment can be made via ParentPay or cash on the door. We have a number of local businesses signed up for stalls as well as students and staff hosting stalls. The school hopes that our six Communities will each operate a stall so you may get further letters home explaining how you can help. All monies made, by either the Communities or individual VT groups, will go to support school projects or designated charities. If you are interested in having a stall, especially if you run a craft or small business from home, please contact me at [email protected] so that we can discuss this further. We are hoping to make this a great community effort so the more support we have from parents and carers, the better. We look forward to seeing you on the 24th. Miss F Ronketti PAGE 4 YEAR 11 GEOGRAPHY FIELDTRIP TO LOUGHTON ESSEX Fifty GCSE pupils accompanied by Mr Chapman, Mrs Tidmarsh, Mr Cooper and Mr Lasocki, visited the Epping Forest Field Study centre on 19 September. The work carried out here was worth up to 25% of their final mark. They collected data along Debden Brook to prove or disprove the Bradshaw model, which outlines how a typical river behaves. Fieldwork techniques included, standing in the river and measuring its speed, width, depth and the size of pebbles that it was carrying. The pupils were excellent in the way that they carried out their work and we wish them well in their exams next summer. Mr Chapman PERU UPDATE The Peru group are continuing with their fundraising. Several members had a stall at the Palmers Green festival and were very pleased with the outcome and it was a great opportunity to showcase our school to the local community. Once again they have been providing refreshments at various parents’ and carers’ evenings and school events and they are waiting to hear from our local Sainsbury’s about possible bag packing. The group will also be organising a Scalextric Night on the 18 November so please look out for more details. Dates for your diary Tuesday 18 November - Scalextric Night Tuesday 9 December - Christmas Fair Peru Team PAGE 5 COMMUNICATION—PLEASE HELP US TO SERVE YOU BETTER More commonly we are using email and text messaging to get information to parents and carers. It can be a quick and effective way of communicating and we routinely use it to notify unexpected nonattendance, so that you would know quickly if your child failed to attend school. Feedback suggests that many parents and carers find it convenient and helpful to receive information in this way. School Gateway allows us to send you messages instantly just like text messages – only much cheaper. The more people who download the free App for School Gateway, the more money we can save which can be better spent on educating your child. Important Points to Remember We need to be kept up to date with mobile phone numbers and email addresses, as well as actual addresses if you move, so that we could contact you in the event of an emergency Electronic communication is only one of the methods we use to keep in touch and keep you informed; it will not be replacing everything else. Effective communication remains a priority, but as ever we need to try to get best value and ensure that we maximise the benefit to our students. Small savings can mean a lot in a large busy school like ours: for example, to text every parent or carer once costs around £90, but if half of our parents downloaded this App, it would save us around £45 each time. That money can then be spent on educating our students. DID YOU KNOW .... advise you when a new service/trip has been created? Using this alert could help you not to miss out on important information. To set up alerts simply : Log onto ParentPay 1. DAILY LIMIT. You can put a daily spend limit on Click on view your child’s account, just communication contact the school office for details. Click on the item you wish to receive an alert for, e.g. 2. ALERTS. You can set up Balance alert (Dinner email or text alerts to Money). New items alerts, Payments alerts or Message alerts. Emails are free of charge, texts will be charged at 6p each. Switching off alerts If you wish to deactivate your alerts, you can either un-tick options on the 'Alert settings' page, or click the 'unsubscribe' link in one of the alert emails sent by ParentPay. Please note if you click an unsubscribe link, all your alerts will be deactivated PAGE 6 STOP PRESS As we went to print we received confirmation from the Scholastic Bookfair company that the Peru team have won the company’s national competition. The Peru team led by Esen Kupeli, and with the support of Mrs Cordiner and Miss Binnie, organised the book fair last term. Holly Marquez produced a diary of the event and this was entered for the competition and achieved first prize. Part of the prize is an IPad and the group have decided to raffle this at a number of events prior to Christmas and the winner will be announced at the Winter Concert. Tickets will be £1 each so please look out for the Peru team next term. Tickets can also be purchased on Parentpay. Mrs Winter LLOYDS BANK—DAY TO MAKE DIFFERENCE We have been very fortunate this half term to be part of the Lloyds Bank volunteering staff scheme, ‘A Day to Make a Difference’. Lloyds staff are encouraged to spend one day a year in their local community volunteering for local projects and we have had two teams visit us. The first team came for the day to help Ms Liddle prepare the school garden and wildlife garden for the winter. The team helped clear ground, cut trees, painted the shed and put up some bird boxes. They worked very hard and Ms Liddle and her gardening club members were certainly very grateful for the help. The second team has been into school to offer interviews to our Year 10 students to help them prepare for Work Experience. The team were happy to discuss CV’s, interview skills and personal branding as well as offer general advice about careers in banking. We have already applied for some more help from the Lloyds staff and are hoping to see some of them at our Christmas Fair which this year will be on the 9th December in the school hall. Mrs Winter PAGE 7 APPRENTICESHIP EVENTS – DATES FOR YOUR DIARY! MONDAY 10 NOVEMBER TUESDAY 11 NOVEMBER WINCHMORE SCHOOL LABURNUM GROVE N21 3HS 6.00pm-7.30pm EDMONTON COUNTY SCHOOL GREAT CAMBRIDGE ROAD 3.00pm-4.30pm FOR STUDENTS IN YEARS 10-13 AND PARENTS FOR STUDENTS IN YEARS 10-13 AND THEIR PARENTS WHAT ARE APPRENTICESHIPS? HOW DO YOU APPLY? WHAT’S IT LIKE BEING AN APPRENTICE? COME AND HEAR FROM CURRENT APPRENTICES, AND FIND OUT ALL ABOUT WHAT APPRENTICESHIPS CAN OFFER AND HOW YOU GET ON TO A SCHEME. VISIT EXHIBITION STANDS FROM APPRENTICESHIP PROVIDERS TALK TO THE EXPERTS FIND OUT ABOUT ENTRY REQUIREMENTS MAKE SOME USEFUL CONTACTS INDUSTRY AREAS COVERED INCLUDE: FINANCE, HEALTH CARE, DENTAL NURSING, MOTOR VEHICLE ENGINEERING, IT, HAIRDRESSING, CONSTRUCTION, HOSPITALITY & CATERING, CHEMICALS & METALS ENGINEERING, HORTICULTURE,LANDSCAPE AND ANIMAL CARE, PERFORMING ARTS, MUSIC, FASHION & MEDIA Who will be there? Hospitality Industry Training Enfield ‘Skills for Work’ Service PLEASE NOTE WINCHMORE STUDENTS MUST BE ACCOMPANIED BY PARENTS WHEN ATTENDING THE EVENT AT EDMONTON COUNTY SCHOOL PAGE 8 YEAR 7 and YEAR 8 NETBALL Winchmore Year 7 and Year 8 netball team played their first match against Latymer this month. The Year 8 team drew 6-6 with all the goals coming from Letitia Innis. Year 7 narrowly lost 2-7. With more practice these teams will produce better results. Miss Murphy and Miss Brazier are proud of you all. YEAR 7 FOOTBALL RESULT The Year 7 football team had their first match against Highlands and managed to beat them 4-2. Mark Carroll was the star of the match scoring a hat trick and Samuel Ogunsanya scored the other one. Daniel Evans put on a mature display of football and earned the Man of the Match award. Mr Passey’s coaching and leadership was praised by the pupils. Miss Brazier who watched the match was impressed with the exceptional talent on show. Well done boys make sure you keep it up. PAGE 9 CROSS COUNTRY RELAY For the first time in Winchmore history 3 Year 7 teams entered the Cross Country Relay Championships where each runner completes a 1200 metre circuit of the golf course. There are 4 runners in each team. The Year 7 girls team consisted of: Sharie Bedford (Captain) Nangelie Khelawan Klaudia Jung Melis Mehmet The team came 19th in a race with stiff opposition, from many other schools. Year 7 Boys A Team consisted of: Samuel Ogunsanya Soloman Ogunsanya Will Mc Dermott (Captain) Mario Sergiou This team came a respectable 10th place again with stiff opposition. Year 7 Boys B Team consisted of: Zane Green Fevzi Rasit Louie Rodmay Leonides Prazmo Pavlou Miss Brazier is proud of all the runners. Well done. UNWANTED USED STAMP COLLECTION If you have any unwanted used stamps please send them into school and they will be given to a local charity. Thank you—School Office PAGE 10 WINCHMORE JUNIOR GIRLS FOOTBALL vs LATYMER The long awaited first match was here after several practices. Playing 4-4-2, and led by Captain Berfin Guclu and Vice captain Katerina Joannou. The warm up saw Winchmore having extensive shooting practice that came in good stead during the match. Winchmore went down 0-2 before a stunning right footed goal by Sarah Jade Yates put us back in the match, with several near misses from the Winchmore strikers. The back four consisting of Asha Calnan, Hannah Berry, Jada Branch and Tanya Lancaster were under immense pressure but handled it well. The midfield Katerina Joannou, Melis Mehmet, Ikra Boz and Berfin Guclu, worked very hard and were the engine room of the team. The two strikers Sarah-Jade and Teiko Apafo had numerous shots but did not bear fruit. Then Latymer scored again to make the score 1-3, but the Winchmore girls did not give up. With some changes of players bringing on Lelitia Innis, Jo-anne Chisvo and goal keeper Simran Singh, the girls had a new lease of life. With Katie Anderson, Nayana Brathwaite, Tyler McKenzie and Katherine Tembo also playing a part in the match. Latymer scored another goal making it 1-4 but two great goals from Player of the Match Melis Memet (nominated by the Latymer team) scoring twice brought the score to 3-4 Winchmore had a real chance to get level but several chances went begging. With Latymer scoring 2 more goals and Teiko Apafo scoring for Winchmore. We ended up losing 4-6, but it was a great match played in a good spirit. Prince Darkwa-Marfo from our 6th Form was the referee. Miss Brazier was proud of the whole squad of players. Well done girls. Thanks to Mrs Khan who took our team photo. FITNESS TRAINING The Year 7 pupils have been taking part in a series of Fitness Testing, including the Multi Stage Fitness Test and a Cross Country run. Here are 7 RNMG at the start of the race both Samuel and Soloman Ogunsanya won their respective races. Well done. PAGE 11 A NEW LOOK TO OUR SCHOOL RESTAURANT The beginning of term saw the opening of our new, bright and modern servery providing a much improved service with three hot food counters, two for pupils in Years 7-11 and one for staff and sixth formers, all offering the same menu choices, along with ‘grab and go’ counters for baguettes and sandwiches; granola, jelly and fruit pots, plus a variety of chilled drinks. We also have a self-service salad bar stocked daily with a choice of 6-8 different fresh salads to tempt every palate. Our school chef, Patrick, with our Catering Manager, June, and their team of 11 catering staff, ensure freshly cooked and appetising food is delivered to the counters for breakfast, break and lunch - check out weekly menus on our school web site or on ParentPay. PAGE 12 CALENDAR OF EVENTS 24 October Spooktacular Event (see page 3 for details) 27—31 October HALF TERM 4 November Year 7 Academic Mentoring 5 November A2 Business Studies trip to Sport Indoor Karting 10 November Winchmore Apprenticeship Event 11 November Edmonton County Apprenticeship Event 11 November Enfield Schools Cross Country Championships Bugsy Malone matinee performance to primary schools Year 9 Academic Mentoring 12 November Year 8 Parents and Carers Evening 13-14 November School Production—Bugsy Malone 18 November Scalextric Evening Year 11 Academic Mentoring 20 November Year 11/12 Transition Evening 21 November Dance trip to Piccadilly Theatre—Every Mark Matters Vocational + Life Skills trip to Skills London Event 24 November Sociology/RE trip - Behind Bars 24 November—5 December Year 11 Mock Exams 25 November Year 8 Academic Mentoring 1-5 December Year 13 Mock Exams 2 December Year 9 Academic Mentoring 3 December KS3 Music Cafe 9 December ChristmasFayre Year 7 Academic Mentoring 10 December Christmas Concert 17 December Year 11/13 Presentation Evening 19 December LAST DAY OF TERM 22 December—5 January SCHOOL CLOSED 6 January 2015 Return to school—Week 1