Manor High School Excellence—Inspiration—Care—Respect

Manor High School Newsletter

2018-2019 | Spring Term April 2019

“The house system promotes healthy competition and develops pupils’ Ofsted Gives Us A resilience” Our management of the transition process was also praised highly: Glowing Report “The school has excellent transition We were delighted to share with the “Teachers prepare pupils well for arrangements. Pupils, including those with community the full report from the full examinations” SEND, get off to a flying start at secondary Ofsted inspection which took place in school” “A demanding, well-taught curriculum January. We were eagerly awaiting its helps pupils of different abilities to make “Pupils transferring to the school settle in arrival for several weeks and, after a long strong progress and attain well”. quickly” delay, it has finally been published. “Leaders are committed to providing a first There was also endorsement of our extra- There is a great deal of which we can be -class standard of education for pupils” curricular offerings: rightly proud and this is reflected in the excellent feedback from parents, pupils Unsurprisingly, the inclusiveness and “School staff offer an exemplary range of and staff and from the inspection team ethos of our school are strongly evidenced extra-curricular activities for pupils” throughout the report. in the report and this is what makes “There are many opportunities for pupils Manor High School unique. We are particularly pleased with the to develop their leadership skills, which comments made by the team about “Pupils are proud of their school”, pupils appreciate” Leadership and governance of the school: “Leaders have created a positive climate “The school’s wider curriculum makes a “School leaders have created a highly for learning. The school is a calm place” strong contribution to pupils’ personal development” ambitious culture” “Pupils from a wide range of backgrounds “Leaders and governors have established a come together as a single community” Enjoy reading the report and thank you for the role that you have played in highly aspirational 11 to 16 school with a Our tutoring and pastoral systems were maintaining excellence and high levels of distinctive character and ethos”. acknowledged for its supportiveness: expectation in our school. “Governors and school leaders have “The school’s house system and well- managed the change of age range thought-out tutoring arrangements exceptionally well, taking the local support pupils’ welfare”. community with them” “The school’s tutoring arrangements mean There is recognition of our curriculum and that pupils of different ages socialise and the high level of challenge we provide for work together. Younger children find this our GCSE classes across Years 9-11: very reassuring” NEWSLETTER | Spring Term 2 Parliament Trip

Our student leaders enjoyed an inspiring and Wigston, hosted a Q&A session with picture and he was delighted by the day in Parliament on Wednesday 3 April. interesting discussions about current interest they showed and their They visited the House of Commons, the affairs and the differences between the enthusiasm to pick up on this as an area House of Lords, the Central Lobby, Single Market and a Customs Union. for improvement in our school and the Westminster Hall and the Education wider community. As always, there was strong praise from Centre. the public for the manners, confidence All round, it was a great trip for our Neil O'Brien, MP for Harborough, Oadby and respect shown all day long by our student leaders! students. Neil O’Brien commented, “The students were great - a real credit to Manor High School and the teachers there.” One of many interesting features of our trip to Parliament, was a peaceful and effective protest against the growing global problem of plastic waste. Our students spoke with the man in the

Yvetot, in Normandy and there have been BARCELONA MFL News a number of replies between our students With the Barcelona trip only two and a and their French counterparts. half months away, preparations are well PEN PALS Friendships are blossoming and some underway. Parents will be notified after The department continues with two have even been exchanging gifts. This is a Easter of the date of the information penpal exchanges in France and Spain. superb way for our students to practise meeting. In the meantime, we ask that Students in Year 9 enjoyed reading their language skills while getting to know parents please send in their children’s introductory letters from a school in more about life of a European student. passports and European Health Insurance Barcelona (below) and have now sent off FOREIGN LANGUAGE PLAYS Cards. their replies. The French school is in The MFL department is looking forward to hosting two plays in May performed by French and Spanish native actors. Onatti Productions have visited the school a number of times before and the students always have a fantastic experience. This year the French play is called La Salle des Énigmes, while the Spanish play is called El Viejo Saloon. We will also welcome students from Grammar to watch the Spanish production with us. NEWSLETTER | Spring Term 3

Year 9s Get Key Year 11 Stage 4 Ready Revision

YEAR 9 SPEAKER Nightclub We had a visiting speaker at school on

Wednesday 10 April to do a session for a The Revision Nightclub is underway with number of our Year 9s who are interested lots of Year 11s making the most of the in working in the creative sector. The students thoroughly enjoyed opportunity to work in silence until The speaker, Piers Shepperd, is director listening to his advice and his inspiring 5.30pm. Members of the leadership team of Wonder Works, a company that anecdotes. “Totally awesome!” was the are on hand to support the students each develops and delivers exceptional live feedback from some students. evening. Plus refreshments and snacks events, both large and small, anywhere in are provided to given them energy. TASTER SESSIONS the world. This term our Year 9 students have been invited to experience Key Stage 4 lessons in each subject area. Sessions were arranged to enable Year 9s to spend time in lessons with our Year 10 and 11 students to see what a GCSE lesson looks and feels like. They had the option to observe lessons in progress,

look at the work students are required to do and get an overview of the course. They were also able to speak to the Over the course of his career, he has students about the subject content. worked on a wide variety of projects, such as World tours for many groups Students were allocated to lessons including the Rolling Stones and U2, and according to their preferences indicated overseeing the opening ceremony of the on their option form. Feedback from London Olympics in 2012. students has been very positive. They felt it was an ideal way to get a feel for the Piers told his story of how he became subjects they were thinking about interested in working as a creative studying and firm up their GCSE options director and how his career has evolved. The Scholastic Book Fair visited the Study decisions. Centre for two weeks at the beginning of this term. quotes, keywords dates and diagrams on It was a great opportunity for students to screen. browse some of the best new releases One of the remarkable things about alongside literary classics and it was GCSEPod is the ability to download the lovely to see Manor High students sharing content to your child’s mobile device via their love for books. the GCSEPod App, so it’s like they are A huge thank you to all for the support. carrying text books in their pockets Exams are fast approaching and so this is We managed to raise £109.77 worth of without the need for internet. a reminder that we have invested in books for our school’s Study Centre so GCSEPod, the award-winning digital GCSEPod is the perfect resource to keep your eyes peeled for these new content and revision provider. ensure your child isn’t missing out on additions over the upcoming weeks. their key revision time. GCSEPod provides over 6,000 3-5 minute Book suggestions are always welcome so bursts of audio-visual, teacher written GCSEPod is being embraced by our please don’t hesitate to speak to Miss Gill learning which can help to reinforce and students, with their high usage meaning if there are any books that you would like consolidate key GCSE topics covered in that Manor High have been entered into to see in our Study Centre. lessons with exam-board specific a world-wide competition against other Finally, huge congratulations to Laila (W3) content. Pod’ing schools! Manor High School’s top who won the raffle for £25 worth of free GCSEPod’ers are Amish Masood, Joseph Experts read and explain everything books of her choice! Bloomer and Shezaan Hajat. Well done! clearly including all the right facts, NEWSLETTER | Spring Term 4 Humanities News

MY EPIC ERA WINNERS One of the students’ favourite parts of the Congratulations to the Year 7 winners in visit is when they get to handle the our "My Epic Era" History competition. various animals that are brought in. This The winners were (with who they wrote year they included a corn snake, giant about in brackets): African millipede and a bearded dragon 1st place: Isa Iqbal (Rosa Parks) lizard. 2nd place: Cayman Spain, Martha Hulme, Students were buzzing with excitement Betty Fagbolade (Martin Luther King Jr) throughout but where hugely respectful 3rd place: Nidaa Ahmed (Mahatma of these sensitive creatures. Ghandi)

Y10 GEOGRAPHY RIVERS FIELDWORK AT BRADGATE PARK On Tuesday the 2nd of April., Year 10 Geography students spent a rather cold and wet day at Bradgate Park collecting ZOOLAB their evidence for their rivers fieldwork, At the end of March we welcomed Zoolab part of their GCSE course.. into Manor High for their yearly visit. Year 7 and Year 8 students got to learn about creatures of the rainforest. They were told about where they live and how they survive. We also invited Year 5 students from Woodland Grange and Overdale Primary schools to experience the day. YEAR 11 HISTORY TRIP – RICHARD III As part of the GCSE history, students have to study a local historic environment. As such we took 40 students to the Richard Students worked as a team and collect III centre in the city centre. data about the River Lin in Bradgate park. The students enjoyed a highly informative They practiced many methods to collect and inspiring insight into the continuous their data and applied their maths skills to evolution of Leicester. Their focus was the help calculate important information. Fransiscan Greyfriars site which Despite the inclement weather students dominated the city landscape from the showed great resilience and 13th to 16th centuries. This is a key part determination to ensure our results were of the story of King Richard III and the accurate. discovery and identification of his remains. NEWSLETTER | Spring Term 5

High School at the annual Rotary Club DTA News Technology tournament hosted at Leicester . ART AND DESIGN TRIPS Students were challenged to build a crane Over the course of three weeks, our KS3 with a motorised pulley to lift a weight. art students were given the opportunity Our students conducted themselves to go to London to visit some of the impeccably and we were delighted to famous art galleries and the West End. receive the silver place in the Unsurprisingly, the interest for the trips intermediate category. Particular was high, and so places were allocated on congratulations to all the following a first come first served basis. participants: Sahil Vaghela, Princess The culture continued for each group Atanda, Devan Uppal, Humayara Hossan, when they attended a West End Safia-Noor Patel, Casey Stephenson, performance: Year 7 saw The Lion King, Muhammadshafi Nana, Alex Magill, Mahie Year 8 enjoyed Matilda and Year 9 were Parmar, Unaysah Panjwani, Ella Ayres and treated to Les Misérables. Myah Patel. Year 10s are already looking forward to This year, the following schools their visit in May when they will see participated: Leicester Grammar, Dixie Wicked. Grammar, Uppingham School, Oakham School, Manor High School, , , , , Crown Hills and . The lucky students who attended were Thank you to all involved. treated to a day touring the Tate Modern, the National Portrait Gallery and The National Gallery. Students were able to see some of great works by famous artists including Van Gogh and Andy Warhol. As well as enjoying the art, students were able to spend time soaking up the atmosphere and sights in many famous LEICESTER ROTARY TECHNOLOGY locations, including Trafalgar Square, TOURNAMENT 2019 Covent Garden and The Embankment, On Thursday 28th February, students where some of our Year 8s enjoyed some from Year 8, 9 and 10 represented Manor spontaneous gymnastics during a break.

local charities in our community and Swimarathon raising funds towards international projects. Last year’s Swimarathon has For the fourth consecutive year, Manor allowed the Rotary Club to begin long- High School entered teams to the term sponsorship of Kasupe Primary Swimarathon organised by The Rotary School in Zambia, where they have Club of Oadby. undertaken to feed every child every school day through the charity ‘Mary’s As always, this year’s event is supporting Meals’. On Sunday 3rd March, our caring & You can now determined students completed 360 laps. We had the greatest number turn out as follow us on a team and together they have raised a huge amount for Rotary Twitter and International once again We are very proud of our students who like us on have given this event such amazing support since its inception. Facebook NEWSLETTER | Spring Term 6 House News

preparing for GCSEs. They study for many Bradgate hours beyond their five lessons a day. Knighton Easter school will help them focus on Here we are at the end of further studies and revision. The rest of It’s been another incredible another term. This year really is Key Stage 3 and 4 will be preparing for term in Knighton House where flying by. end of year assessments. the fundraising for The British Heart Foundation has totalled an impressive It has been another very busy term with The student leadership team continue £2000 so far! This is all through pizza and our student leadership team doing a fine with passion to reach a target of £2000 bake sales and the chocolate filled raffle job of organising the tutor groups in for our charity, Wishes4Kids. The prizes that you’ve all planned and hosting fundraising events alongside Clarendon form challenge is going from contributed to. running their own. We have had bake strength to strength accumulating over sales galore throughout the term, which £600 and we are just shy of £1500 The charity bingo evening with the are always fantastic ways to raise money collectively. This is a testament to all the Friends of Manor High was a huge success for charity. They have lots of fantastic hard work the pupils are doing for such a as many students volunteered to give up ideas for the summer term as well, so worthy charity. their evening to run the raffle and watch this space! chocolate fountain. Some talked about Clarendon pupils continually strive to their role as mental health ambassadors It is fabulous to see such a positive achieve their best in their learning and and we all enjoyed the performance by attitude from all the students in Bradgate following the Manor High core values. The the student band. House and this is reflected in the House following students have earned over 3300 Points given, with Bradgate now sitting points between them; Mohammad Hanif, Students from Clarendon, Watermead just 317 points behind second place Kushal Sanghani and Mehul Patel. Well and Bradgate house have joined us to Knighton. I have all confidence that we done to you three and to everyone else become Dementia Friends, helped in the can still climb back up the table to the top who embrace the excellence of Manor. local community as part of The Great spot before the end of the year! British Spring Clean and gained some Remember to enjoy your Easter break, useful exam stress busting techniques I do hope you all have a lovely break and stay safe and I look forward to seeing you through our wellbeing sessions. want to send a big well done to our year all on the return to the summer term. 11 students who have been working so Mrs S Wale It doesn’t stop there as next term we’ll be hard for their GCSE’s, keep up the hard getting organised to collect items and work and the rewards will come to you. help at the Oadby and Wigston Food Happy Easter everyone! banks, again. Another great opportunity Miss V Booth for all students and parents to support those who are struggling in our local community and we’ll also keep working Clarendon on our section of the community harmony scarf. We have finished another busy half term, with only 10 school weeks to The fun rewards afternoon this week saw the end of the academic year. so many Knighton students recognised again for their hard work. Any one of you Clarendon Year 11 students are busy can be part of this in the future, just stay NEWSLETTER | Spring Term 7 committed and do your best- you can do this! Top Achievers Have a wonderful Easter break, all the At Manor High, we celebrate the very best to our fantastic Year 11’s in their achievements of our students and this is up-coming exams and for those fasting in done within our House system. May, a wonderful Ramadan Mubarak! Mrs Ghani Students are awarded house points for

good behaviour, exceptional work and representing the school. Watermead students, to be aware about dementia. House points can be viewed through Since then we have worked so closely School Gateway by parents. Big news! Watermead’s with them that they then were kind Please see our top ten for this term. Well efforts have paid off. We are first in the enough to come into our school to teach done all! leader board with 171,565 achievement all of the student leadership teams about points, which is absolutely outstanding! this making our school a dementia We have done so many events to raise friendly place. Now we are all Dementia Name Total hundreds of pounds for our house charity Friends proudly wearing our dementia WaterAid and we couldn’t be happier friend badges, helping all that need it. Samuel Schalch W2 1272 with the results. And all this hard work wasn’t for nothing: Maxime Panne W2 1243 An example would be our WaterMental our House Manager, Mr King, made sure Challenge, something which started as a he rewarded every single student and Abdullah Marfani W7 1161 joke in a meeting and turned into an member of staff in Watermead for the event that would help many people’s astounding amount of effort that was put Mohammad Hanif C5 1139 lives, and provide them with clean water. in this term, by giving everyone in As a reminder, the WaterMental Watermead a cream egg in our latest Aaishah Sheikh W3 1137 challenge was when we would drink water assembly. The eggs were handed out by only for a whole month and people would our two house captains Natalia Spodenko Bhagjot Nahal K7 1136 sponsor us (food allowed, our caring and Megan Falconer accompanied by one school wouldn’t make us starve!). of our deputies Anmol Raj. Zayna Tutla B8 1130 We also did our annual Easter hamper for Honestly, we had the best term ever which every form or tutor group in thanks to all Watermead students and Kushal Sanghani C4 1123 Watermead donated some sort of Easter having such an amazing House Manager. treat to accompany our hamper so that it Keep up the good work next term! Mehul Patel C7 1072 could be raffled to one lucky winner. By Natalia Spodenko W1, House Captain, and Anmol Raj W7, Deputy House Captain Nidaa Ahmed B8 1071 Staying in the Easter spirit, W7 have done an Easter-themed bake sale which did lots to bring up our charity money figures. To throw in a splash of fun, as summer is close anyways, W1 have been hard at work running their Cutesome Celebrity Baby Challenge which had a prize of an enormous bar of chocolate and was won by our own Watermead winner, Hussain Muhammed. Now that we have done the charity, fun and winning bit let us move onto the raising awareness bit! As you may be aware many people are affected by dementia each year, and not many people know how to treat people:. In many cases people do not even know they are affected by it or may be too embarrassed to speak up about it. As we mentioned in the previous newsletter, a trip to Zephs café trained a few of us NEWSLETTER | Spring Term 8 PE News

INDOOR ATHLETICS Leicester Riders’ development day on YEAR 7 FOOTBALL FRIENDLIES On Thursday 14 March, our Year 7s and 8s Friday 15 March. The year 7 football squad have had 2 took part in the Indoor Athletics They received expert coaching from recent friendly matches against Robert Competition. Riders coaches, had a chance to shoot Smyth and Stoneygate schools Great chance for the boys to show off The students effort and attitude was hoops on the court and then watched the their skills and enjoy their football. fantastic, and it was great to see our Year Riders take on Newcastle Eagles in front 9 Sports Leaders encouraging the younger of a sell out crowd. students. The closely fought game Leicester Riders overcame their fierce rivals 86-76 giving them their seventh win in a row. As well as enjoying an electrifying match, some students even got their hands on some free merchandise! Thank you to all involved in making this such an enjoyable trip.

INDOOR CRICKET The year 7/8 indoor cricket team have been in action in recent weeks with There were track and field events and NEW PE CLUBS everyone who took part put in great fixtures against Gartree, Beauchamp and effort. Leicester Grammar. Now spring has sprung, we have some new PE clubs starting. Overall, Year 7 Boys finished second, Year 7 Girls finished third and Year 8 Girls High jump club is on Monday lunch (Year finished joint second. Congratulations to 7) and Tuesday lunch (Years 8 and 9). all our teams! We had an amazing turnout for our first Athletics club session at the end of March. BASKETBALL TRIP The club will run every Thursday after school 3.05-4.30pm. Forty Manor High students had the fantastic opportunity to attend the

Again, this was a fantastic opportunity for boys in both year 7 and 8 get into their cricket and show what they can do. The boys performed brilliantly, taking wickets and hitting 6's! NEWSLETTER | Spring Term 9 Creative Arts News

SONS OF PITCHES CHORAL Richard Leigh, who runs a group called third row, and zombie teachers before SPECTACULAR Zingaresque for NMPAT (Northampton their morning coffee. This group designed Music service). their own staging and lighting, and On Tuesday 26th March, 15 of our worked as a team to create professional talented singers performed alongside Richard specialises in world and folk performances. eight other secondary school choirs from music, so this was a really interesting day across in a special concert for our students, who may not have at De Montfort Hall. experienced this type of music before. The focus was traditional North American songs and spirituals. Many students said

that it wasn’t what they were expecting, but they really enjoyed it, and found the songs incredibly calming. The day

culminated in a short performance for parents to enjoy.

Organised by Leicestershire Music Service, GCSE THEATRE TRIP the day began as a vocal workshop with Recently, 20 Year 10 and 11 GCSE drama renowned a cappella band ‘The Sons of students were fortunate to see a fantastic Pitches’. production of Emma Rice’s adaptation of Angela Carters Wise Children at the At the workshop, students learnt three Belgrade Theatre in Coventry. songs in four-part harmony, accompanied only by a beatboxer. The result sounded The show was a magnificent example of phenomenal, and they were invited to creative and innovative technique and perform with the band at De Montfort talent. Hall. As part of the GCSE syllabus, students Many thanks to all the parents who were have to write on the process of live able to join us for the evening. theatre and this was a fine example of EXCELLENCE IN DRAMA staging, music, dance, acting and costume. Truly brilliant! Year 7 have been working on their performance skills in Drama, focusing on projection, expression and emphasis. They have planned and delivered some highly entertaining performances of funny poems. RICHARD LEIGH VOCAL WORKSHOP The theme of the poems was school, and We were lucky enough to be able to join we’ve heard about dogs eating with our friends from Lutterworth High homework, students having fun in the and Gartree for a singing day led by NEWSLETTER | Spring Term 10 Science News

Our competition was won by Mariam STEM TRIP GO4SET LAUNCH Ibrahim in Clarendon with a fantastic list On the Friday 29th March, students from of British Scientists. Madhumita Srikanth STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering (Knighton) and Aaishah Sheikh and Mathematics) Club participated in the (Watermead) also handed in an GO4SET launch event, supported by EDT, impressive list of names. Well done to all at The University of Nottingham in their who took part. Engineering centre. Our Science Club had fun creating a They began their projects which involve BRITISH SCIENCE WEEK fabulous display of different coloured designing buildings for the future; such as British Science Week ran from Monday flames with Mr Faruk. Great fun and hotels and stadiums. Over the course of 11th to Friday 15th March this year. To inspiring stuff!! the 10 weeks the project runs for, get our students involved, our Science students will need to carry out research, department launched a competition for develop their ideas, carry out experiments students to create a list of the most and build a scale model. British Scientists they could find out about. They needed to inform us of who Their final designs will be part of the the Scientist was, what they were regional GO4SET competition, and could important for and at what time they were even be put forward to the national finals active. in June at The Big Bang Fair.

w Bronze: Expedition Dates Duke of  Practice expedition: Friday 17 and Saturday 18 May 2019

Edinburgh’s  Qualifying expedition: Friday 14 and Saturday 15 June 2019 Awards Update Silver Expedition Dates:  Practice expedition: Huge congratulations to Anaya Gokani Thursday 23 to Saturday 25 May 2019 who is the first Year 9 student from this  Qualifying expedition: years Bronze Award cohort to complete Thursday 4 to Saturday 6 July 2019 her Volunteering, Skill and Physical walk around Wistow with Mr Heathcote. sections. She now just needs to complete her expedition section in June. It is not long now until the expeditions take place and we recommend all Year 9 students have had two training students make use of the advice and tips sessions to prepare them for their on the DofE website. These will really help expeditions. Firstly, they practised putting make sure that everyone has a really up tents, cooking on Tranjas and other positive and enjoyable experience. essential skills and then enjoyed a practice www.dofe.org/11expeditiontips NEWSLETTER | Spring Term 11

The pupils and Mrs Patel thoroughly providing further resources and strategies Maths News enjoyed their day, participating in a to support pupils with their final number of team activities, including the preparations for the exams and have group round, crossnumber round, the made each session specifically targeted shuttle run and a relay race. After a day based upon the outcomes of the recent of fierce competition the team achieved a PPE's. very high finish and each pupil received a Exam Dates UKMT Team Maths Certificate in recognition of this. Paper 1 – Tuesday 21st May Paper 2 – Thursday 6th May

Paper 3 – Tuesday 11th June Please ensure your child has the correct equipment for their exams – this includes a scientific calculator(where permitted), a protractor, a ruler, a pair of compasses and pens & pencils.

UKMT MATHS CHALLENGES Intermediate Kangaroo and Olympiad Round Leicester As you will have seen in the last PIXL STRIVE FOR 5 MATHS University newsletter, the UKMT Intermediate CONFERENCE Challenge took place in February. We have recently received the results of these In our efforts to get the very best Informatics Trip and will be posting these on our Twitter outcomes for our pupils, on Wednesday feed in the very near future. 20th March, we took fifteen Year 11 Our Year 10 GCSE Computer Science pupils to the PiXL Strive for 5 Maths students were invited to Leicester Congratulations must go to Siva, Adeel, Conference in London. After an extended University on Tuesday 9th April to spend Shiv, Riese, Jack and Fergus who qualified journey to the capital, the pupils arrived the day with the Informatics Department. for the national follow up Kangaroo at the Troxy Theatre eager to take part in round. an enthralling conference. The pupils This exciting opportunity included were treated to a presentation addressing lectures around current Computer five key areas of GCSE Maths in a further Science topics such as Virtual Reality, drive to improve their understanding and Autonomous Vehicles, Internet Security raise confidence levels in preparations for and experience in practical coding with their final exams. The pupils were a credit Java. to the school and came back eager to The students have enjoyed a superb share their new confidence and exam session on autonomous vehicles and then skills putting them to good use in the final worked on artificial intelligence software. weeks before the exam period They were challenged in a Microbit commences. session making a Battleships game. This was followed by programming and coding which led to a test. Y11 EASTER HOLIDAY PREPARATIONS An extra special mention must go to As well as being fascinating, this has also Stepan who was one of only 8000 pupils This week we released the Easter proved highly challenging and stretching nationally to have qualified for the preparation packs to our Year 11 for all of the Year 10 students. Olympiad round. We eagerly await the pupils. These carefully constructed packs results of the Olympiad competition consist of material which consolidates key which are yet to be released. skills, together with exam questions and practise exam papers. We would Team Maths Challenge encourage pupils to spend at least 30-60 On Monday 1st April, Mrs Patel minutes a day revising for their accompanied four Year 8 and Year 9 Mathematics exams. pupils to take part in the regional Team We will be holding an Easter revision Maths Challenge at Castle Rock School in session on Monday 15th April and Coalville. encourage all pupils to attend. We will be NEWSLETTER | Spring Term 12 Welcome to our New Intake

Our transition programme for new Year 7 The evening was built around a and worries our new students may have students is well under way. presentation which introduced our new about transferring to secondary school. families and students to the The initial Welcome Evening was on Our transition programme will continue #MagicofManor. Thursday 21st March and was really well after the KS2 SATs have finished with our received. It was lovely to meet our new As well as hearing from our leadership Orientation Evening on Thursday 23rd families, many of whom were recognised team, we were pleased to have our Head May and our Induction Days from Monday from our Open Evening back in Girl, Paige, and our Head Boy, Dillon, give 8th to Wednesday 10th July. We look September or our Open Mornings that a talk about their journey through Manor forward to seeing everyone again soon. happen each week. High from the Year 6 to Year 11. We also had some of our current Year 7s explaining the transition process from their point of view. They were very eloquent and confident in their delivery where they explained how quickly and easily they settled into life at Manor High, and how well they were supported by the other students and staff. They really are the best advocates available to help allay

Manor High is committed to giving our Thank you to Zeph’s Cafe who offered our Great British students the chance to learn about the students some welcome substance to environment and the role they can play in boost energy levels during the day. improving it. This campaign is the perfect Together we aim to make Oadby shine! Spring Clean way to support us with this. Year 8 students took part in the Great This national event has been organised by British Spring Clean community project on Keep Britain Tidy. Over half a million Thursday 28 March. people have been inspired to join forces and make a difference in their local communities. Our students set to work with litter pickers and bin bags, collecting as much litter as possible, much of which was recyclable. While cleaning the streets our students came across other groups taking part from Woodland Grange Primary and Brookside Primary, both fellow Oak MAT schools. Well done everyone! NEWSLETTER | Spring Term 13 Wellbeing #ANDYSMANCLUB A series of assemblies were conducted to raise awareness of mental health, in particular male suicide. They were in association with Andy's Man Club, which was created by Luke Ambler, a former Ireland international rugby league player, who is promoting “it’s okay to talk”. There is growing evidence that teens are in the grip of a mental-health crisis. Rates of depression and anxiety among teenagers have increased by 70% in the past 25 years and the statistics are harsh:  In 2017 there were 5,821 suicides together in a safe environment to talk During the session they were shown registered in the UK. about issues and problems they have relaxation techniques using breathing,  In the UK, men are three times as likely faced or are currently facing with others and mindful exercise related to our senses to take their own lives than women. who have been in similar situations. to help us to refocus, relax and let go of our worries.  Suicide is the biggest killer of men Following these assemblies, students have under 45. worked with Mrs Mehta and are ready to We had fantastic feedback from students As a school and as part of the Wellbeing implement a Wellbeing Wednesday after and staff, saying they found the relaxation Award, we feel it is right to raise this Easter, where we are going to conduct a techniques very beneficial. They also awareness and to offer the support for walk and talk to encourage students to commented that they didn’t expect the students to seek help. talk rather than sit in silence. session to be so useful! In the assemblies students found out YEAR 11 WELLBEING SESSION about Andy's Man Club, a mental health Our Year 11s were recently invited to a support network founded by Luke in session run by local wellbeing August 2016 after his brother-in-law, practitioner, Manjit Rai, who is also Andy, took his own life following a period known in the community as Buddhi. It was of depression. The club, which is run by the second session that has been volunteers, hosts talking groups; places delivered for our Year 11’s and this time across the UK where men can come staff joined in too.

and samosas, things that are always Comic Relief popular at Manor High! There was also a general knowledge quiz at lunch, where Our student leaders chose to support teachers pitted their wits against each Comic Relief with a non-uniform day. The other for victory. Even Hot Choc Friday theme was wear your PJ’s or something had a Red Nose theme. In total £874.61 red and many students and staff joined in. was raised on the day. Well done all! The pastoral team made a brilliant effort with their outfits, wowing both students and staff alike. Lots of additional fundraising happened with various food sales, including cakes NEWSLETTER | Spring Term 14 Year 11 GCSE Preparations

There is only a matter of weeks until the Our students and staff are committed to parents and students. However, it is GCSE exams commence. Our students are ensuring the best results are achieved and worth noting that the GCSE contingency being thoroughly prepared through any gaps in knowledge are filled before dates are up to and including Wednesday targeted intervention sessions and the exam season starts. 26 June. All morning exams start at 9am revision sessions that run both after and afternoon exams start at 1.30pm. Below is a timetable of when the GCSE school and during the Easter break. exams fall. Full details will be sent to Good luck to all of our Year 11s.

MAY Subject AM/ MAY Subject AM/ JUNE Subject AM/ JUNE Subject AM/ PM PM PM PM Mon Computer Science AM Mon Portuguese PM Mon History B AM Mon Arabic (Listening) AM 13 20 (Listening) 3 10 Tue French (Listening) AM Tue Mathematics (Non- AM Astronomy PM Arabic (Reading) AM 14 21 calc) French (Reading) AM Geography B PM Media Studies PM Food Preparation AM and Nutrition Biology PM Wed Gujarati (Listening) AM Tue English Language AM Astronomy PM 22 4 Combined Science PM Spanish (Listening) AM Music PM Media Studies PM Biology Wed Gujarati (Writing) AM Spanish (Reading) AM Business PM Tue Mathematics (Calc) AM 15 11 Portuguese AM Turkish (Listening) AM Portuguese PM History B PM (Writing) (Reading) Turkish (Writing) AM Physics PM Turkish (Readnig) PM Wed Combined Science AM 12 Chemistry Physical Education AM Combined Science PM Gujarati (Reading) PM Chemistry AM Physics English Literature PM Thu English Literature AM Wed Spanish (Writing) AM Thu Geography B AM 23 5 13 Thu Chemistry AM Fri 24 Business AM Geography B PM Arabic (Writing) PM 16 Combined Science AM Design & PM Thu Mathematics (Calc) AM Statistics PM Chemistry Technology 6 Computer Science PM History B PM Fri 14 Physics AM Fri 17 French (Writing) AM Fri 7 English Language AM Combined Science AM Physics Drama PM Biology PM Further Maths PM Physical Education PM Combined Science PM Mon Further Maths PM Biology 17 Tue Statistics AM 18 NEWSLETTER | Spring Term 15 English News WORLD BOOK DAY On Thursday 7th March Manor students and staff celebrated World Book Day. It was the 22nd year that the cause encourages people of all ages to come together to appreciate reading. Our students joined in with fun lesson activities to promote reading across the curriculum, they had a go at writing in the style of famous novelists in English lessons and took part in a form time book quiz. Well done to B5 for winning the World Book Day form time competition. They put in a great effort, scoring 19/20 on the book quiz. Runners up were W5 and B7. STRIVE FOR 5 CONFERENCE On Tuesday 2nd April, 15 Year 11 students The winners received hand-made were invited to attend the English Strive cupcakes made specially for the occasion for 5 PiXL conference at the Ricoh Arena by the catering team. in Coventry. There they were given Staff were encouraged to name their practical tips and guidance on how to classrooms after famous rooms in ensure that they secure at least a Grade 5 literature. Unsurprisingly the rooms from in GCSE English, focusing on the idea of Harry Potter featured a lot! Staff also had manipulating a reader when they write posters up telling students what books and considering how they are they are currently reading. manipulated when they read. Becoming hooked on books is the key to a They then listened to an inspirational lifetime of reading for pleasure and speech highlighting the fact that it is thereby unlocking the door to a wealth of never too late to make the marginal gains life's greatest opportunities. needed to secure a higher GCSE grade. It was a lovely day and is always a great All of our students stayed focused and way to encourage children to explore the came away with a booklet filled with pleasures of books and reading. notes to support their revision.

event at Leicester Grammar on Tuesday Junior Quiz 19 March. Careers Week The event plays out a bit like University For Careers Week the entire staff Challenge, where each team of four pupils Challenge displayed their career pathways on their faces off against other teams. It is a classroom doors to inspire our students. Manor High Year 7 and 8 students were fastest finger on the buzzer format and, They also researched a famous person invited to attend the regional Junior Quiz so long as they give a correct answer, get who had once studied their subject and a set of bonus questions to answer as a described their achievements. team. Before every lesson our students were This year there were 12 teams competing motivated by all our individual journeys from schools including Kibworth School, to Manor High School as well as our Loughborogh Grammar, Dixie Grammar, inspirations and career goals. Gartree, Welland Park, and of course the host team, Leicester Grammar. Mr Mehta led careers assemblies that week highlighting "Endless curiosity" and It was great fun and really challenged the opportunities that would not have pupils general knowledge. Our students existed, even in a story book, a had a brilliant time and all thoroughly generation ago. enjoyed the experience. NEWSLETTER | Spring Term 16 FoMH Bingo Night

Our PTA group, the Friends of Manor A number of current and new families and High, did a fantastic job organising their children joined us after school on Friday first fundraising event this year. 29th March for a fun-packed evening of Rewards friendly competition. With dobbers in hand, silence filled the Afternoon hall except for the regular call of numbers. There were 10 games in total, where We had our termly reward sessions, everyone waited with baited breath to where we recognise those students who see if their numbers would be drawn. do the right thing, day in day out. In addition to the bingo, our mental For Key Stage 3, we invite the top five health ambassadors joined us to promote students in each house who have the awareness, and students from Knighton most conduct points, to watch a film house ran a raffle. while enjoying pop and snacks. A wonderful evening thanks to the superb team of Friends of Manor High who continue to raise money to make life in our happy school even better. If you would like to be involved in the Friends of Manor High, please email [email protected] For our Key Stage 4 students, it is the top eight students in each house. Those with the most conduct points are allowed to bring a guest to a delicious lunch of Dominoes pizza and chips, served by one of our very own senior leaders; this time it was Mr Watson’s turn. Well done to everyone for their excellent attitude and conduct this term.