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NEWSLETTER to PARENTS and CARERS October 2014 NEWSLETTER TO PARENTS and CARERS October 2014 Trinity School CO-HEADTEACHERS’ LETTER Dear Parents and Carers As the days begin to get shorter it is incredible to think that more than six weeks of this school year have flown by already. Our new Year 7 students are very well settled now and we have seen them grow in confidence as they take part in the daily life of the school. We look forward to celebrating their first half term at Trinity with them in the Cathedral service next week, at which parents are very welcome. It has been a busy and productive half term. As a senior team we spend a lot of time in classrooms on our learning walks and we have seen students taking their learning seriously, showing a very positive approach and making real progress. A number of school governors have joined us in our visits to classrooms and all have commented on the engagement of the students and the buzz in our classrooms. We have also had families of Year 6 children touring the school during the day and your children have represented our school very well indeed. We have been delighted to welcome Caroline Kennedy as Chaplain to cover Jen Milligan’s maternity leave. She joined us towards the end of September and has spent time so far meeting students and staff, visiting lessons and assemblies and looking with us at ways that we can best continue to develop as a Church of England School with the distinctive ethos that brings. We will be writing to you again shortly after half term to ask for your help in improving the school. Every two years we organise a comprehensive survey to gather the views of parents, students and staff on all aspects of school life; this helps us to plan for further improvements to what we do. The more responses we receive the more useful and meaningful an exercise it is. You will receive a paper copy of the survey for each child you have at the school on Monday, 17th November. We would be very grateful if you could complete this for each child, and then return it to us by the end of the following week. Please encourage your son/daughter to complete their copy of the survey too. They will be given this to complete as homework on Friday, 24th November. We will share the results of the surveys with you when we receive them. Thank you to those who have already joined us for Information and Tutor Evenings, and we look forward to welcoming you into school for events in the next half term. We have Parents’ Evening for Years 11 and 12 coming up, Tutor Evening for Years 7 and 8, and then, just before the end of term on Monday 15th December, we have the Carol Service in the Cathedral, which you are all warmly invited to. Thank you for your continuing support. Yours sincerely Co-Headteachers Sheila Johnston and Derek Kay 1 CHAPLAINCY I have very recently been appointed as School Chaplain at Trinity, so rather than tell you what I have done I would like to introduce myself, mention what is already happening in connection with chaplaincy and explain some of my hopes and aims for the future. My name is Caroline Kennedy. I have a background in secondary teaching and university and college chaplaincy. I am also an ordained minister in the Church of England. School chaplains work in the world as a visible sign of the life of the Church. I see my role as being to do with support, facilitation, communication and bridging the worlds of school and Church. Chaplains are (ideally!) people who notice and listen, who work to help the flourishing of life within their context and who also ask questions of that life when appropriate. Trinity’s status as a Church school means, among other things, that it has links with the community of Carlisle Cathedral and is committed to a particular set of values that come out of the Christian story. The idea of demonstrating care and respect for others is one of these and I have been struck by the calm and caring atmosphere that hangs in the air of Trinity despite its size. Students are generally open and friendly and I have already had some good conversations about faith and doubts and atheism. Although I haven’t yet gone into assemblies, I am looking forward to doing so after half term, both in Houses and Sixth Form. Next week Year 7 students have a Welcome Service at Carlisle Cathedral. This will build on their visits earlier this term and is part of encouraging them to develop a connection with the spiritual life of the Cathedral Chapter and of helping them to see the building as a place that is accessible and available to them outside school. Long term I would like to see the development of a permanent prayer space in a central location in school; somewhere that is open and accessible to staff and students as a place of rest, retreat, reflection and comfort. I would also like to get to know as many students as possible and to be part of the process of helping them to make informed choices about faith and of getting to know and respect themselves. I hope that your relationship with Trinity as parents and carers is and will be good, and that you will sense through it some of the things that make the school distinctive. Caroline Kennedy School Chaplain 2 Registered Address: Strand Road Carlisle Cumbria CA1 1JB T 01228 516051 Trinity School F 01228 516052 E [email protected] Trinity School www.trinity.cumbria.sch.uk A Church of England Academy Sheila Johnston and Derek Kay Co–Headteachers 14th October 2014 Dear Parent/ Carer Year 7 Service of Welcome at the Cathedral On Tuesday 21st October, Year 7 have a service of Welcome and Thanksgiving at Carlisle Cathedral. They have already visited the Cathedral this term and the service adds to these visits and forms part of what makes us distinctive as a school. As a Church School we hold a certain set of values and we hope that you and your child/children will sense these as your experience of Trinity develops. We believe in the importance of welcoming and respecting all our students and a Welcome Service at the Cathedral is one way of doing this formally. Our links with the Cathedral are a visible sign of a connection to the life of the Church and of a commitment to providing a full and rounded education for our students. We believe that to encounter history, beauty and prayer is beneficial. The Cathedral staff are equally committed and delighted to make space and time for us. You too are very welcome. Unfortunately, there is no parking available in the Cathedral grounds but there are always spaces in West Walls car park. The service will be led by Canon Michael Manley and our students will take an active part through singing, reading, contributing to prayers and wishing each other good things by sharing ‘the Peace’. Please encourage them to be open to this and to enjoy the experience and the privilege of spending time in a historic and beautiful place. We will be leaving school at 2.15pm so that we can be at the Cathedral by 2.30pm. Students will need coats if the weather is cold and rainy. Staff will walk students back to school if they need to be collected from there. Please let us know if this is the case, otherwise we will allow students to make their way home on leaving the Cathedral. During the next week we invite you to make a donation to the Harvest for the Hungry appeal. This is launched each year by James, Bishop of Carlisle, and is in support of projects in Uganda and Cambodia. If you feel able to contribute, please send what you can with your child to be handed to his/her form tutor. (Donations by cheque are payable to ‘Harvest for the Hungry Appeal’). Whatever is collected will be offered during the Welcome Service and form representatives will be involved with this. Finally, thank you for your support and cooperation. It is very much valued. If you have concerns about your child/children attending this event please contact the school and ask to speak to the appropriate Head of House or myself. Yours sincerely Caroline Kennedy School Chaplain 3 17 October 2014 To all Parents & Carers Re: Parent Governor Nominations Vacancies have arisen for two new Parent Governors to join our Governing Body in January 2015. The usual period of office is for four years. Parent Governors must be someone with parental responsibility for a child at the school. What do Governors do? The Governors’ role is not about fundraising, neither is it about cheerleading for the school. School Governors provide strategic leadership and accountability in schools. They are responsible for both the conduct of the school and for promoting high standards. The role of the Governing Body is a strategic one, and its key functions are to: Set the aims and objectives for the school Set the policies for achieving those aims and objectives Set the targets for achieving those aims and objectives Monitor and evaluate the progress the school is making towards achievement of its aims and objectives Be a source of challenge and support to the staff (a ‘critical friend’) The Headteacher is responsible for the internal organisation, management and control of the school, and the implementation of the strategic framework established by the Governing Body.
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