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5th April 2019 Priory News Educating Students for Success in Life HAPPY EASTER! Dates for Your Diary Tuesday 23rd April THE PRIORY SCHOOL DAILY BULLETIN Start of Summer Term Parents and students can now view the Daily Bulletin online Thursday 25th April through Show My Homework: Year 10 Raising Aspirations Trip to Oaklands College, St Albans (16 students) https://theprioryschool.showmyhomework.co.uk/school/home Monday 29th April Head Boy/Head Girl Presentations HAND-SEND NEWS Year 8 & Year 9 HPV2 Vaccine (Girls only) Tuesday 30th April Head Boy/Head Girl Presentations Votes for Head Boy/Head Girl 1.30-3.30pm Year 7 & Year 8 Junior UK Maths Challenge, Main Hall 3-5.30pm Primary Tri Golf, TPS Sports’ Leaders, Letchworth Wednesday 1st May HAND-SEND News is Hertfordshire County Council’s free online 3.30-6pm Senior District Athletics Championships, newsletter for parents and carers of children and young people (0-25) Ridlins Athletics Ground with additional needs and disabilities and the professionals who work Thursday 2nd May with them. The newsletter has information and advice for parents and Year 10 Raising Aspirations Trip to Oaklands College, St Albans (16 students) carers, as well as courses, inclusive activities for children, support groups for parents, carers and young people, and much more. Here is a Friday 3rd May link to the latest edition of the newsletter: Non-Uniform Day (Superhero theme for Seraph) Raising Aspirations ReAssure Dragon’s Den Day https://handsendnews.hertfordshire.gov.uk Tuesday 7th May 6.30-7.30pm Parent Information Session: ‘Coping with PAST STUDENTS, STAFF & FUTURE PARENTS OF WHITEHILL JUNIOR Anxiety’, Main Hall SCHOOL Wednesday 8th May th Whitehill Junior School is celebrating its 50 Anniversary in 2019 and is 2-7pm Year 9 and Year 10 Athletics, Ridlins Athletics launching the celebrations with a black tie ball in a marquee on Ground 29th June. They would love to see as many of you as possible. Meet old 7pm Advanced Music Recital Evening, Main Hall friends, make new friends and reminisce about your time there! Thursday 9th May 4-7.30pm Y7 Parents’ Evening There will be a welcome drink, three-course meal, magic by Lee Smith Friday 10th May and music by the Sam Lewis Band. Interviews for Head Boy/Head Girl If you would like to go along please contact the Whitehill school office Monday 13th May or send an email to [email protected]. Appointment of Head Boy/Head Girl Please feel free to share this message with others with a Whitehill 9am-4pm Raising Aspirations Willmott Dixon Day connection and maybe get a group together. 3.30-5.30pm Rounders Years 7 to 10 at Highfield School v Highfield School and St Francis College Responsibility Respect Resilience Teaching and Learning COMIC RELIEF A massive thank you to the staff and students who supported the recent fundraising for Comic Relief through our non-uniform day. We managed to raise a total of £1,032! SUPER SERAPH FUNDRAISING Students from Year 7 have been leading the fundraising for Seraph by selling badges and holding cake sales. Seraph is a four-year-old boy who has neuroblastoma (a form of paediatric cancer). He has a 40% chance of staying alive for the next five years without treatment in America. For more details, please visit the Team Super Seraph website: https://www.teamsuperseraph.org/ In the forthcoming summer term, we will be holding a superhero-themed non-uniform day on Friday 3rd May. Staff and students should aim to come dressed as their favourite superhero for the day. If you cannot support us by wearing a superhero costume, then regular non-uniform is fine. Superhero accessories are also acceptable. It will be £1 per person to take part and all money will be donated towards the Seraph collection. Please remember: no hair dye, face paints or bare midriffs! Teaching and Learning HEADTEACHER COMMENDATION AWARDS RED BADGE (FIRST COMMENDATION) For being part of the Year 7 hockey team that won the County Hockey Tournament: Christopher Gadsden 7SO Charlie Cropley 7SO Tommy Cropley 7SR George Watt 7SR George Malone 7SR Jacob Pledge 7SR Samuel Lacey 7SR For coaching the Year 7 hockey team that won the County Hockey Tournament: Thomas Harvey 10TV For being part of the Year 9 Intermediate team that were runners-up in the first round of the Rotary Youth Speaks public speaking competition: Alice Blackford 9CA For being part of the Year 7 football team that reached the North Hertfordshire District Final: Jayden Walton-Tharp 7KL Zac Burns 7NJ James Herbert 7NJ Pierre Blake 7NS Max Rogerson 7NS Ruby Seaby 7RC Daniel Gill 7SO Finn Scourfield 7SO Eddie Cox 7SO Harrison Donnelly 7SR For receiving a LAMDA award: Matilda Keegan 7SR Fran Peace 8MH For being a great representative of The Priory School whilst in Whitwell raising money for the food bank: Gus Beard 8RF For being the second student (first Year 8 student) to achieve both Bronze and Silver on iDEA, taking hours of his own time to complete: Omar Aboushaeshae 9SH For completing his Bronze Duke of Edinburgh Award: Joshua Bates 10MA James Cook 10BC For being awarded a Silver Certificate in the UK Senior Maths Challenge: Harry Walker 12LE For being the second student (first Year 8 student) to achieve both Bronze and Silver on iDEA, taking hours of his own time to complete: Omar Aboushaeshae 9SH Teaching and Learning HEADTEACHER COMMENDATIONS: AWARDS RED BADGE (Cont’d…) For being a winner of the Year 7 Enterprise Day (Design Your Own Sandwich for Chilli Banana): Macsen Howard 7KL Harrie Maylin 7SR Isla McConnellogue 7SR Jack Cannon 7NS Erin Williams 7RC Eadie St John 7NJ Francesca Gwilliams 7SO Ruby Deane 7SO BRONZE BADGE (THIRD COMMENDATION) For being part of the Year 7 hockey team that won the County Hockey Tournament: Leo McKenna 7SR Oliver Brigginshaw 7SR For achieving 3rd place in the Zonal Schools Trampoline Competition and qualifying for the National Schools Trampoline Competition: Harry Emler 7HF For being part of the Year 9 Intermediate team that were runners-up in the first round of the Rotary Youth Speaks public speaking competition: Sam Johnson 9CA Elliot Mainwaring 9HF For being part of the Year 11 Senior team that took part in the first round of the Rotary Youth Speaks public speaking competition: Molly Root 11AA For being part of the Year 7 football team that reached the North Hertfordshire District Final: Frank Finch 7KL Szymon Pochodaj 7SR Teaching and Learning EXTRA CURRICULAR PE CLUBS: SUMMER TERM ROTARY YOUTH SPEAKS The Intermediate team (Sam, Elliot and Alice) came third in the District Semi-Final and made it into the District Final, which took place on Tuesday 26th February 2019 at Vandyke Upper School, Leighton Buzzard. The Senior team (Grace, Harry and Euan) came first in the District Semi-Final and also made it into the District Final, which took place on Wednesday 27th February 2019 at the same venue. Both teams did exceptionally well at the finals and performed the strongest I have ever seen them perform; the Seniors, in particular, were outstanding. However, unfortunately neither team made it through to the Regional Finals. Congratulations to all the students who really did TPS proud. Miss Anderson-Bonner Teaching and Learning MUDDY MAYHEM On Saturday 23rd February a group of KS5 students and Miss Wilcox participated in Muddy Mayhem, an event organised by Garden House Hospice. We climbed, crawled, ran, swam and jumped. It’s safe to say it took at least three showers to get the mud out of places you never knew mud could go, mainly in our ears! It was a brilliant day and the weather was surprisingly fantastic (they had experienced a snow storm the year before). Collectively we raised £1,108 for Garden House Hospice which is incredible and we are all so grateful to everybody who helped us. The JustGiving link is still open in case anybody would like to donate to this amazing cause, this is our link: https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/theprioryschoolmudrun?utm_id=124 In the future we (The Priory School) are 100% going to be doing more events for charities including this summer’s Colour Run in Cambridge! Anybody from KS5 is welcome to participate, just pop and see Mrs Hamer in A7 and she can sign you up right away. The charity we are collecting for in the summer is ‘Feed Up, Warm Up’ which is a local homeless charity set up by a Hitchin resident that runs every Wednesday evening. It should be a great day doing something extremely worthwhile and having fun with your friends. Overall we had a great day and can’t wait for many more events in the future! Teaching and Learning LIVE HATCHING CAM On Monday 4th March we went to William Ransom Primary School to help set up a webcam that the students can use to view the incubation and hatching of chicks that their school had received earlier in the day. The set-up included locating the IP address of the webcam, connecting it to the school network and an algorithm on the Raspberry Pi that uploaded the camera footage onto a livestream on the Priory YouTube channel. You can watch the live stream by going to www.hatching.live if it’s still working! William Box & Briony Arnold, Year 10 THE COMET NEWSPAPER SPORTS AWARDS 2019 Baylin Johnson 9CA was nominated for The Comet Newspaper Sports Awards 2019. He was shortlisted and was a runner-up in the final awards on Friday 1st March. Baylin is an extremely talented and able footballer.