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26 September Macmillan Coffee Morning 09:30 - 10:45

OPEN EVENING 01 October 5:30pm-8pm

OPEN Morning 04 October 10am-12pm

10 October Red White & Blue Non-Uniform Day £1

13 October Inset Day

15 October Parents' Forum

21 October King Lear at The Roedean Theatre

A Charity Busking Day and Concert on Saturday 4 October in aid of St Wilfrid’s Hospice is to be the first of a number of planned projects initiated by the newly formed Schools' Partnership.

The partnership is a group of Eastbourne Schools who have come together in the belief that by linking resources, expertise, enthusiasm and commitment we can develop projects and ideas that inspire, excite and offer creative opportunities for children and young people.

Young people from Cavendish School, , , Moira House Girls School, , Sussex Downs' College and Willingdon Community School will entertain from 10am - 4pm on Saturday 4 October in various locations across Eastbourne town centre (including the top of the Wish Tower from 10am – 1pm). At 7pm there will be a Charity Concert at the Birley Centre featuring the young artists who have busked throughout the day. All the schools involved will be represented. Admission is free but generous donation is encouraged in aid of St Wilfrid’s Hospice. Refreshments will be available. Little Shop Of Horrors! King Lear Casting has now taken place and we are pleased A group of Year 9 and 10 students are busy rehearsing to announce the rehearsals have begun! After an adaptation of Shakespeare's "King Lear" as part of the some rigourous practice, an initial group School's Shakespeare Festival, to be performed at Roedean performed in assemblies, and the whole school Theatre , Brighton on 21 October. This most challenging is now humming "Suddenly Seymour"! There are and tragic of plays offers fantastic opportunities and we still places available in the cast so see the music are pleased to be performing as part of the national Department or Mr Sibley if you are keen to play challenge to make Shakespeare relevant and accessible to a role! young people. Tickets are available on 01273 709709

Macmillan Coffee Morning In support of the Macmillan Coffee Morning we are inviting all parents to join us for cakes, coffee and music on Friday 26th September from 9:30 until 10:45am

All ages are welcome, plese bring younger siblings and grandparents to join us in raising money for a worthy charity. Enjoy home made cakes and take part in our "Guess the hundreds and thousands" and "Double Expresso" games for the chance to win a prize.

New York With only twelve months to go, the students and staff are building up to the trip of a lifetime. The first cake sale, organised by the boys, raised £93 to support the cost of the trip, and the challenge was truely thrown down to the girls to achieve a higher amount! We are looking for further ways to raise money, so if you have a challenge for us, please contact Trudie Godfrey.

There are also two spare places for anyone interested in joining us. Congratulations to the following students who have been identified as the top achievers this week for Merits.

Finley Hills 7YFA

Amber Jarvis-Vaughan 8KLE

Thomas Watson 8KLE

Megan Jefferies 9SVI

Matt Koulloupias 9SYO

Jamie Campion 10RHE

William Harris 10JDE C ong Iris Fearnley 11KST ratu Kee latio p up ns a the nd Katie Clarke 11KST w Grea ork! t The top tutor groups so far this term are: 7BBB 8LCO 9OGO 10KST 11JMA

Another fantastic set of GCSE Art results again for Cavendish Art Department.

Congratulations to our Art students for their fantastic work. If you missed the summer Art GCSE exhibition at St Elisabeth's Church you can see photographs of the exhibition and individual Art work on the Cavendish School website. You will find the Art work under the Parents & Students' tab.

A plea from the art department!

Please could parents/carers make sure their child arrives to their Art lesson with an APRON. These are essential as uniforms will get very dirty and sometimes ruined with paint and other media we use. Any colour apron can be worn and white cotton aprons can be purchased from the Art Department for £4:50. Thank you. Boot Camp Many thanks to our Site Team, who over Isaac Hutchinson has been selected for the England the summer have donated over 260 of under 15 football training camp from Friday 3rd - our old chairs to the Barbara Kwateng Sunday 5th October. Lupus Trust. A further donation of tables will be He will be training at St George's Park (England's arranged soon. training ground) in Staffordshire alongside other selected young people from around the country. We hope that these can make a real difference! This is a great achievement for Isaac and a result of his hard work and dedication over the past few years. Well done!

Interhouse Week Peer Mentors Students will enjoy trying their hand (or foot!) at a range of sports As well as setting up the lunchtime club on a during our Interhouse Sports' Week, as part of the PE curriculum. Wednesday in the Learning Space, our Peer This is a great fun week giving students the chance to try out new Mentors will be assigned to Year 7 tutor sports as well having a slightly competitive edge between the House groups and work/read with them during teams. Friday morning registration. Good Luck

Year 7 Anti-Bullying Workshops

This coming Monday, John Khan, former Anti- Bullying Co-coordinator for County Council, will be delivering a morning Donate your pre-loved instruments assembly and workshops throughout the day An old saxophone sitting the attic? A for our Year 7 students; concentrating on dusty guitar sitting on a shelf? creating positive friendships and tackling cyber bullying. Please donate any unused instruments -in good condition - to the school, so we can provide more opportunities for students to learn different instruments as part of their musical education. Please bring them Parent Contacts to reception FAO Mr Baker. We currently hold email addresses for parents of a large percentage of our students which means Thank you we are able to regularly e-mail newsletters and information in addition to sending paper copies home with students. School Counsellor Currently there are 68 students for whom we are Rose from Fegans has returned this week after a very successful term 5 unable to email parents/carers. During this term we will writing to individual families, but if you and 6 last year working with our young people at school, and drop in normally receive paper copies of this newsletter sessions at break (11.00am-11.20am) on Tuesdays and Thursdays will and you have an e-mail address please let us know commence next week. so that we can update our records. [email protected].