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Successful Learners | World Citizens Keeping parents/carers informed Issue 15— July 2017 Follow us on Twitter: @NCSBedworth Bulkington Road, Bedworth, CV12 9EA Highlights in this issue It is with sadness that we bid P2&3—Yr11Commemoration farewell to Stewart Garside 2017 after 34 years of dedicated P4&5—Griffin Arts Festival service to our school and community. During this time P6—GAF Week Photographs he has taught generations of P7—London GAF Trip & GAF students, parents and grandparents, always going the 3D Sculptures extra mile and giving his time P8&9—Yr 6 Induction Day freely and generously to support. He has been a staunch P10&11—Bugsy Malone supporter of all school events, P12-16—Wide Horizons cheering on students and staff alike and taken part in P17-19 –Spotlight on PE numerous trips in England and abroad. Stewart has been the P20—High Achievement backbone of Nicholas P21—Youth Academy Chamberlaine School, quietly helping colleagues with his P22—Behaviour immense curriculum P23—E-Safety knowledge and inspiring students to widen their P24—Farewell from Mr Walker horizons and aim for the best universities. We all owe him a P25—Diary dates & Online debt of gratitude and wish him Safety a fulfilling and active P26—Leave of Absence retirement. Message from Alison Ramsay, Head Welcome to the final newsletter of the year – and what a year! There have been so many events, trips, speakers and opportunities that it is impossible to list them all, and there is more to come. I am so proud of all the hard work students have been doing and of the brilliant teachers that make this all possible. We say farewell to a number of colleagues this year due to promotion, relocation and retirement. From Science, Ms Jones, Ms Francis and Ms Annison; from Languages Mr O’Meara and Ms Fall; from PE Ms Lindstrom; from Techology Ms Allton and Ms Crawford; from Drama Ms Armstrong; from English Mr Turner; from History Mr Hart; Mr Walker is moving to Birmingham as a Deputy Head and Ms Coupland will be going back to work in industry. Huge recognition must go to Mr Garside who is retiring after 34 years at Nicholas Chamberlaine. He has worked tirelessly for our students, having taught generations of families. He has been a true inspiration. We are looking forward to welcoming a number of new colleagues who are full of energy and enthusiasm. Joining the senior leadership team will be Mr Devine, Ms Bayliss and Mr Smith as Assistant Heads and Ms Turner will be Deputy Head. There will be lots of exciting developments next year. The change of the school day will give us so many more opportunities to widen the horizons of our students and support them to boost their learning. Our proud traditions will be bigger and better with a huge focus on student leadership opportunities. Finally, we expect work to start on out new building in March. So now that holidays are round the corner we want to make sure our students stay both productive and have fun. Summer holidays are about rest but that doesn't mean we stop being our best. Learning is fundamental and there are lots of creative ideas online to challenge ourselves. Students will also have holiday homework which we expect them to complete to the best of their ability so that the new term gets off to the very best start! Thank you as always for your support. I look forward to seeing you in the new term. 1 Proud Traditions Commemoration Day 2017 Year 11 Commemoration is a Proud Tradition for Nicholas Chamberlaine School and each year students arrived in special transport. For example classic cars and limousines are current favourite choices. The event is to mark the special occasion where students officially finish their GCSEs and 'leave' Nicholas Chamberlaine School. This year was as amazing as ever with students looking fabulous, speeches and awards given and lots of photos taken. This year's colour scheme was silver and white with a theme of fairy lights. 2 Students were entertained by their form tutor’s speeches including a shock performance by Ms Bayliss who rapped to her form. The staff video was a double bill of Year 11 tutors dancing and singing to Justin Timberlake before DJ Smallz and Heatz performed and a NCS version of Stormzy 'Big for your Boots' played. We had a fantastic day with Year 11 as they now leave us for jobs, college courses, apprenticeships and also many of the coming back to our Sixth Form to study A Levels. We wish them all the best for their futures and look forward to their results day in August. 3 Griffin Arts Festival 2017 NCS celebrated Griffin Arts Festival at the end of this term with a timetable of exciting activities through subject sessions all week and during Arts Day on Friday 7th July. The theme this year was Utopia and all sessions were linked to this. Activities ranged from exploring what Utopia is and how we can work together to make a better world. Students had a go at designing their own Utopia and sustainable worlds, considered Street Art and Urban conflict, learned about different cultures through practical sessions making food, lamps and dream catchers. They took part in creative writing in Narnia (aka English), learnt about different music through the BBC's 10 pieces project, took part in Eurovision in MFL and created their own Utopia in the afterlife designing Day of the Dead artifacts. These are just some of activities that took place during a very busy Monday to Thursday.We also had buskers and a staff choir during lunchtimes with stalls and activities running as well. Friday saw our Arts Day where the school was buzzing with musicians, poets, dancers, circus performers, authors and entertainers. Students got to listen, take part, write and perform their own songs, poems, circus acts and Shakespearean plays. Proud Traditions: “Schools have histories and contexts and are rooted in local communities. It is important our schools reflect each history, whilst making new traditions for future generations to be proud of.” Wider Horizons: “There is more to learning than being in a classroom. Through Extra Curricular Activities (ECA) and Enrichment (ENR) students can develop confidence, skills, try new experiences and develop a life-long love of learning.” High Achievement: “We know there are no limits for students and staff where commitment and enjoyment go hand in hand...if you attend a Trust School as a pupil, you know you will be supported as a person, encouraged to explore and experiment, challenged to learn the discipline of becoming expert as well as inspired to achieve your personal best.” This year’s GAF set a standard of high expectation for the future; but we are determined that next year’s event will be bigger and better again in all aspects! 4 We were extremely lucky to be joined by brilliant visitors during our Arts Day. The workshops included: Dr Voice - Vocal coach to the stars Chasing Deer Band - Musicians The Demon Barbers - English Folk and Hip Hop fusion music and dance Matt 'Man' Windle - Performance poet current Birmingham Poet Laureate Tom and Ben from The Anteloids - Musicians Ben Norris - Actor/Writer/Spoken Word Neo and The Gazelles - Musicians and it was great to welcome back 3 of the band who are ex-NCS students Jester Academy - circus skills Shakespeare In Schools - 'Splats Entertainment' Macbeth workshops Beatfreeks - Creativity to empower people Ansley Morris Dancers/Anker Morris Dancers - English traditional dance Confucius Institute (Warwick Uni) - Chinese Paper cutting and Calligraphy Mr Lockyer - Japanese cookery Ms Lindstrom - Dance Mr Stiles - Poetry Health and Social Care - Team building challenges Ms Armstrong and Y10 Drama students led workshops Lunchtimes during GAF week had a variety of stalls set up and mainly run by our Sixth Form students. On Friday we had extra activities and buskers to create our festival feel. Stalls included: Soak the teacher, Face Painting, Glitter tattoos, Floral headbands, Popcorn, Candy floss, Cake stall, Henna and an Ice Cream van . Our live music at lunchtime included: Tom and Ben, Andrew, the violinist , Open mike, Staff choir and a triple bill on Friday with The Demon Barbers, Neo and the Gazelles and Chasing Deer. 5 GAF Week 6 GAF London Trip 9 Sixth Form students travelled to London on the 26th June with Ms Allton and Ms Hopkins to take part in GAF London. Our students were working with Year 10 students from Stantonbury as pastoral leads for the 100 Year 5 students from all GST Primary Schools. Our Sixth Formers were brilliant ambassadors for the school as they helped to guide and support the Primary pupils during the whole week. We were also joined by Mr Hall and 5 performers on the Thursday to take part in the Pre-Proms student concert where they entertained the primary students and the VIP guests including Mrs Ramsay. The days were long as we were up before 6am and often the activities didn't finish until nearly 10pm. The experience was jammed -packed with opportunities including trips to the Barbican, The Royal Albert Hall, Shakespeare Globe, Borough Market, The Tate Art Gallery and the Lyceum Theatre to watch The Lion King. In the evening there were performances from theatre groups, quartets, poets and a Night at the Proms evening. This was an excellent week and Sixth Form students who are interested in getting involved next year should speak to Mr Clayden. 3D Sculptures During GAF week Y7-10 have been working on a 3D sculpture looking at sustainability and recycling.