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The Blue Coat School Faith ~ Vision ~ Nurture The Blue Coat School Spring Newsletter – March, 2015 PHENOMENAL SOLAR ECLIPSE! Students looked on as the earth was plunged into darkness when the moon came between us and the sun on 20th March, 2015 Faith ~ Vision ~ Nurture Dear Parents, Guardians and Carers, Welcome to our Spring Term newsletter, which will give you a flavour of the work students are doing in school, both in their lessons and in all the other activities and projects that go on in a big and dynamic community. We’ve had some great experiences – World Book Day, BBC News Day, the Solar eclipse, the Easter concert, and trips to Krakow and Frankfurt as well as theatre trips and field work closer to home. Improvements to the school’s provision, such as the Power-Write, our new Anti-Bullying Policy, and our Year 7 transition programme in English are well underway. The building work is nearly finished – just the Lees building to complete now. Textiles is in its lovely new space, art has moved back to clean, warm and well-ventilated rooms, and we should be taking possession of the new Science labs after Easter. External work will take a bit longer to complete, but we are getting there, and so many parts of the school are now unrecognisable. The next step will be landscaping, trying to sort out the cars, and then redecorating the Annie Kenney building for History, Geography and RS. You may also have spotted that we are branching out, establishing a Multi-Academy Trust which will include primary schools as well. When the educational landscape is changing so rapidly, it’s important that schools work together to achieve some economies of scale for the future, and ensure that provision for children is as good as it possibly can be. Working with primaries has got us involved in the Early Years sector and we were delighted to secure a £60,000 bid to fund “Tune-in to Talking” – see the article in this newsletter. This week, Holy Week, is a week of reflection, which will culminate in the Easter services in school (Years 7 and 8 – lesson 2), and at Oldham Parish Church (Years 9 to 13 – lesson 3). We will have an early lunch and pupils will be dismissed at 1.20pm for the Easter break. Only the 700 and Y47 can come early; students using other school buses will need to make their own way home, or they could wait at school until 3.20pm. (If this is the case, please could you let school know via (0161) 624 1484 – extension 328, so that we can arrange supervision and ensure the services are not cancelled). School reopens to all students on Monday, 20th April, and will close next on May Day (Monday, 4th May, 2015). We wish all our families a peaceful and joyful Easter. Yours sincerely, Headteacher World Book Day Thursday 5th March marked 2015’s World Book Day. But here at The Blue Coat we went one step further and made it a whole week of events and competitions to celebrate our love of reading and books. Words were read, stories were written, quizzes were taken, prizes were won and points were scored as pupils from all houses and all years battled to be crowned Interhouse ‘Book Week Winners’. The week kicked off with a ‘Guess the Shelfie’ competition. Teachers from across the school pictured their bookcases allowing both staff and pupils a sneaky peek. Students were left wondering, ‘Who lives with a bookcase like this?’ with little more than a few strategically placed books and a couple of clues to figure it out. Which teacher does this book-shelf belong to? For our creative and artistic competitors, Monday and Wednesday offered bookmark making. Over seventy pupils nestled in the library armed with paper, scissors and glue to create eye-catching bookmarks to slot between the pages of their favourite novels. Tuesday offered a challenge for our budding writers. Could they write a twisted Fairy Tale in just 100 words? Settings, characters and ‘props’ were distributed at random, so pupils had to consider how they could formulate a thriller around a rose, a troll and an underground tunnel, or fabricate a fantasy involving a prince, an apple and a ship. Entries have now been sent off to the ‘Young Writers Mini Saga’ competition for a chance to be published. Ssssshhhh! Thursday offered quiet time as staff and pupils gathered in the library for the first ever ‘Blue Coat Big Read’. Over 100 of us (93 pupils and 14 staff) cosied up with book for 20 minutes of silent reading during lunch. A fantastic achievement! Finally, Friday delivered more fun with ‘Book Bingo’. Dabbers at the ready, pupils crossed off literary references including names of books, names of characters and names of authors. For one day only, the library removed its ‘No Talking’ rule and was filled with excitable chants of ‘Library’ (instead of ‘House’ of course). All in all, The Blue Coat’s Big Book Week was one big success. Rountree Wrigley were our Book Week Heroes securing 108 points for their house. However, everyone who got involved received a free book or voucher. Here’s to next year’s… Accelerated Reader Accelerated Reader has progressed in leaps and bounds with the students fully engaged in their books and fully engaged in trying to beat other English classes with their ‘words read’ totals. One student, Katie Webb, is in danger of being poached by other class teachers as she has read more words as an individual than most other classes of 25 students! Mrs Perry is taking great care of Katie and providing her with energy drinks to make sure she helps the class to romp home. Power-Write – Ms Nelson This academic year has seen the birth of The Blue Coat Power-Write and this term has seen a flurry of many truly impressive pieces of pupils' writing as a result. The Power-Write is an extension of The Big Write, a concept from Primary School with which the pupils are already familiar. After a series of focused lessons planning and modelling, pupils write for an extended length of time, with calming music and a flickering e-candle to get the creative juices flowing. There is a focus on VCOP (vocabulary, connectives, openers and punctuation) and pupils are given the opportunity to self-assess, edit and improve their work. When the pupils finish, the work is levelled by the teacher and targets are set. We have seen beautiful creative writing, sophisticated essays and rousing written speeches. Because this model is used in a range of subjects across the school, it becomes truly embedded, allowing pupils to develop a greater understanding of the writing process and access high level literacy skills every day. Ros Wilson, the creator of The Big Write, has complimented The Blue Coat pupils’ work on Twitter. Find out what she has to say and view the pupils' work for yourself @BCpowerwrite. New Anti-Bullying Policy – Mr Coe Our new Anti-Bullying Policy was launched this term (see website) with work done by students in all Key Stages in wellbeing and communion time. It has focused our thoughts on a celebration of identity and what it means to be a Blue Coat student in 2015. We have adopted the slogan #iambluecoat. Both staff and students were inspired by the work of Stonewall in tackling homophobic bullying on a national scale and we wanted to bring this clear message into our school community. The first piece of work was to renew our commitment to a zero tolerance approach on prejudice based bullying. All students have discussed the issues and impact of prejudice based bullying and are reminded of the importance of respect for others through our very own “get over it” campaign. It is really important that the Anti-Bullying Policy is owned by everyone in our school community. We were delighted that the Junior Leadership Team in Year 8 led the review of the old policy and the design of the new one! Students discussed the policy, and why it is so crucial that we all invest, as individuals and a community in this. A key message has been that students must have the courage to speak out against what is wrong, and challenge it. To be a bystander to wrong doing is not an option in our school. The posters displayed around the site serve as a daily reminder for everyone who works in our school. Finally as a celebration of our core values and beliefs, form groups have decorated boxes to show what it means to be a member of our community in 2015. Under the heading #iambluecoat each form has produced a piece of art work which will be assembled by to make a year group cross that will form part of our Easter celebrations. Thanks to all tutors and Directors of Learning for the work done on Anti-Bullying and to Mr Brough who has lead this important work in school. Special thanks also to Mrs Darne who has gone to extraordinary lengths to demonstrate that with nine cardboard boxes, a few lengths of wood and a drill that you can indeed make an impressive piece of art work that brilliantly sums up the work done at this time of year! Chaplaincy – Mr Ford This term we have continued to focus on the school verse for the year: “For God loved the world so much that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him may not die but have eternal life.” (John 3:16) Form worship continues to be both active and reflective with many students taking responsibility for leading form reflection.
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