Headteacher: Mr M F Jackman MA NPQH

Telephone: 01252 879222 Facsimile: 01252 872517 E-mail: [email protected] Web: www.yateley.hants.sch.uk School Lane, Yateley, , GU46 6NW

MFJ/BLE A PERFORMING ARTS COLLEGE 7th October 2015 Issue No. 6 Parents’ Bulletin Dear Parents

Waitrose is the place to be We are delighted to announce that Yateley School is one of the 3 green token choices that Waitrose will divide their donation between, so please support us every time you do your shopping. Thank you.

MP Visit Mr Jayawardena, MP for North , came to visit us on Friday. He could only manage a short visit but has promised to come back for longer to meet our students.

He was very keen to discuss the concerns we have as a school and we discussed the following.

1) Recruitment At the Conservative Party conference, the “perfect storm” of missed recruitment targets, rising student population, improving economic prospects making teaching less attractive, coupled with decreasing numbers of graduates, did force the admission that teacher recruitment was “a challenge” from Nicky Morgan. Mr Jayawardena was interested to know my views on regional pay (why not) and bursaries for shortage subjects (not really working).

2) Fair Funding When schools in one part of the country can receive over £6,000 per student and others below £4,000 something is not right. Mr Jayawardena is extremely keen to promote a fairer funding formula and it will certainly benefit the schools in his constituency.

We also discussed teacher workload, massively increased by changes to the curriculum in every key stage and changes to assessment. We are promised a period of stability, but that workload still exists and occupies much of our time.

We look forward to his next visit – our Politics and Economics Sixth Form students were certainly keen to meet him and we would love to show him the excellent things we are doing.

Open Morning We have hosted over 200 families at our Open Mornings for applications for 2016 and were very pleased that so many attended. I think that it is important that parents shouldn’t just believe what they hear and see on an Open Evening but check out a school in operation too.

The feedback was very positive and our sixth form guides did an excellent job. For some sixth form, it was a new experience and therefore a learning opportunity but generally of benefit to all. It was a shame we couldn’t show off our new Hall and refurbished Science labs but I have now learned not to make any promises with the completion dates of building projects.

M F Jackman Headteacher

Diary Dates 8th October Sixth Form Freshers Party – 8pm 13th October School Tours Available for Year 6 and parents – 9.30am 15th October School Tours Available for Year 6 and parents – 11.00am 15th October Year 7 Parents’ Consultation Evening – 5.30pm 19th – 22nd October Scholastic Book Fair 20th October School Tours Available for Year 6 and parents – 9.30am 22nd October Year 7 and 8 School Disco – 7pm Main Hall 26th – 30th October Half Term

SPORTING SUCCESS

Netball Year 8 Netball won v St Nicholas’ 13-11 mvp Amelia Evans Year 11 were unplaced in the district tournament but played very well and thoroughly enjoyed their last tournament for the school.

Rugby Year 9 lost 8-3 against Robert Mays Year 8 drew 10-10 with Connaught Lost 5-25 to Robert Mays Lost 5-20 to Frogmore

Football Year 7 B lost 9-0 to All Hallows 'A' Year 8 A lost 1-6 to Wavell Year 9 lost 2-3 to School (Hants Cup) Year 10 beat Wavell School 1-0

SOUTH EAST REGIONAL WINNER FOREIGN LANGUAGES POSTER COMPETITION

We are very proud to announce that two of our students have won or been highly commended for their European Day of Languages poster. This was a regional competition where students had to choose a word in any European language, write it and illustrate it. Posters were sent to the University of Brighton to be judged.

Sarah Harvey (8DS) was joint first in the most creative word category and will be getting a certificate and a £20 voucher. Emily Page (7PS) did not win but was highly commended and will be getting a certificate. This is a picture of Emily’s entry and as soon as we have a copy of Sarah’s we will include it in the Parent Bulletin.

HYPE EVENT The next HYPE event is this Friday 9th October at the Harlington Centre from 7.30pm. Tickets can be purchased in advance (Serendipity shop in Fleet and Little Shop of Coffee in Yateley) YATELEYS YOUTH CLUB As of Wednesday 7th October, Youth Club will be held in The Community Room, found next to the Drama Studios, for 3 weeks and if the move is successful we hope to make this our permanent base. I look forward to seeing you all! Mrs Buttle

YEAR 10 WORK EXPERIENCE 11-15 JULY 2016 Following on from my presentation to the Year 10 students and parents at the information evening, I’d just like to make sure that everyone in Year 10 is aware that, if they organise a work experience placement during Trips Week (11 – 15 July 2016), they will need to complete a Private Placement Form and return it to me so that I can contact the company to complete some suitability checks.

The Private Placement Form is available from my office, on the VLE under Business, Careers and Work Experience or if you email me, I can send one. Also on the VLE is an Information Booklet with lots of advice about finding a suitable placement. I am compiling a spreadsheet of companies that have offered work experience to our students and can also make that available. I’m here to help, so phone or email me. Good luck! [email protected] Telephone 01252 746923 I am in my office Tuesdays 9am – 2pm, Thursdays 10.30am – 1.30pm Jo Hill, Work Experience Co-ordinator