150 Seymour Road, Leyton, London E10 7LX Tel: 020 8988 5860 / Fax: 020 8988 5861 Website: www.lammas.waltham.sch.uk 2nd April 2015 ISSUE NO: 349 Email: [email protected]
Head’s Corner Happy Easter to Everyone! I would like to wish Happy Easter and Happy Holiday to all students, parents and carers on behalf of the Staff and Governors of Lammas School. We break up for the holiday today and return to school on Monday 20th April at 8.30am. I hope everyone has a fantastic break and comes back refreshed for the summer term. There is a great deal going on in the holiday to support our Year 11 students in the final run up to their exams. They have been given the timetable of special revision and intervention sessions that take place each day and are encouraged to make the very most of what their teachers are offering. Finally for this term, I would like to congratulate our students who recently helped raise funds for Haven House. Their efforts have been noted in the following thank you letter that I received:
Shona Ramsay Headteacher
Governor’s Corner
Well, would you believe its the end of another term and this must be Ted's sixteenth letter.
I am not going to say too much, but I did want to reflect on the past term and congratulate everyone who has contributed to making Lammas such a vibrant and successful school community. It is with real pride in the achievements that the school and its pupils have made in the recent past, that we welcome the Spring and our future. I am pleased to tell you that the work being undertaken for our next development in September is well underway and that the Governors, at their meeting last week, endorsed and formally agreed that we change the school’s name, from the present “Lammas School and Sports College” to “Lammas School and Sixth Form”. For the governing body, this will allow us to now change our name at the same time as the school governoring body reforms next term ready for our new adventure in September.
Can I encourage all our students set to sit public exams next term, to take the advice and wisdom shared with you by your teachers, do your revision and walk into and take your exams next term with confidence. Whilst at the same time your teachers will be preparing for the introduction from September of not only our own sixth form but also the changes to the National Curriculum and the impact it will have on the curriculum our students will study for examinations.
Easter is the great Christian celebration of joy and hope, and along with my fellow Christians on Easter Day I will no doubt eat too many Easter Eggs but will celebrate new life and certainty of hope.
May I wish you all best wishes for a great holiday and most importantly life, joy and confidence in the future.
Yours as ever Ted Cooke – Chair of Governors
On Wednesday 25th March, staff and students across the school participated in the Science department’s first ever ‘Elements Hunt’ as part of British Science Week. Students enthusiastically went round the school looking for staff wearing ‘Element Lanyards’ and competing to fill up their entry forms with most
elements and facts they could find. Thanks and well done to everyone who participated!
We would like to congratulate the following students who found the most elements, and who are eligible for the top prizes:
Gold: Samuel Zacheu Burghila Blue 3 Silver: Robert Darius Burghila Blue 7
Bronze: Filip Yuler Braimirov Blue 6
Prizes will be awarded at the forthcoming achievement assemblies.
Well done to the Top 50 students in Year 9 and 10 and the Top 30 students in Year 7 and 8. You are ACE (Achieving Curriculum Excellence) which means you are working above expected levels. Please see the lists in the Canteen. Well done and congratulations for your effort and commitment to work.
Ms Readman/Mr Payne
City Year will be officially 5 years old next year. To celebrate there is a film to be shown about all the things they have achieved. The filming took place at Lammas this week. Thank you to Blaize, Thaseeyan and Kiahna who helped with the filming. All superstars in the future – no doubt.
Ms Readman
Who could forget Love Mission? Lammas School’s music video about homophobia that got the most votes in the Adobe Youth Voices music video category. This year, our issue is food waste.
Following on from our UN award winning live event, Eat My Words, in partnership with This is Rubbish, we have filmed our new music video!
Here’s what Leisha Year 9 said about the experience of filming the video:
‘It was a very helpful and lovely experience to be at Tesco’s to shoot a music video. When we were travelling no one really realised that we were going there for something important, until we got there. Everyone was just too busy in chatting with each other. Then, when we were standing in front of Tesco, everybody realised that they were going to be filmed and the video had to be shown to the whole school. Despite the initial anxiety and nervousness suffered by some of our star rappers and singers, they were able to brush this aside with the help of Ms Brogan’s ability to make them think positively and feel comfortable. The professional filmmaker was very caring and loving too, and she worked really hard so our video could be outstanding. I had to go round Tesco to look for perfect places where we could shoot, which I think I was good at that and Ms Brogan was satisfied, after all I worked hard as well.’
We were back in school before lunch, while our top editors Petar and Tautvydas where working with a professional editor provided by Adobe.
CHEMISTRY is …. ELEMENTARY!
On the 16th March, a group of young scientists travelled to the Royal Society of Chemistry to take part in a lecture about the modern Periodic Table by Dr Bryson Gore. Mr Gore has traced the development of the periodic table from ancient Greece to the present day, by using demonstrations to show how the concept of periodic properties has withstood the passage of time. After receiving refreshments in the library, students were ushered into the very old library where they were entertained with explosions, flame tests and tall tales about England’s most famous scientist Sherlock Holmes! This enrichment activity was thoroughly enjoyed by Ms Nel, Mr Bennett and our City Year escort, as well as by most students, that is with the exception of the ones that managed to fall asleep during the explosions!
Wake up Ayush!
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