Summer Newsletter 2019
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TERM DATES 2019-20 Summer Newsletter 2019 Start of Autumn Term As we come to the start of my fourth year at Philips High School I would like to thank you all for your continued support. It is with great pleasure Monday 2nd Sept 19 that I would like to share and celebrate with you everything our staff and pupils have achieved and to also let you know about a number of changes Staff Training Day coming up. Uniform Friday 18th Oct 19 We will be looking forward to getting the new year off to the best possible Half Term start and as you are aware we will be rolling out the changes made to the school uniform last year to ALL pupils in September. This means that NO Fri 18th Oct - Fri 25th Oct 19 skirts should be worn at all by any girls in any years. Please see full details below:- End of Autumn Term Pupils who attend school in incorrect uniform will be sent home to Wednesday 18th Dec 19 change All Staff will check regularly for the wearing of the correct uniform by pupils. Staff Training Days When pupils are given a Non-uniform Day, the School are still expecting pupils to be dressed appropriately. Instructions for this will be given on the 19th/20th Dec & Mon 6th Jan website. 20 The following are also included in this policy, as they embody the School Start of Spring Term Rules concerning dress and appearance: Tuesday 7th Jan 20 1. Football scarves, hooded tops and hats are not to be worn to School. 2. Jewellery, except wristwatches, should not be worn to School – this Half Term includes any form of piercings. 3. Pupils should not wear any form of make-up including fake tan, Mon 17th Feb - Fri 21st Feb eyelashes, coloured or acrylic nails. 4. Extreme hair styles or colours are unacceptable. 20 5. Hair should be tied back using plain bands or slides. 6. Any form of Headdress worn for religious purposes must be in plain blue/ End of Spring Term black material. Mon 6th Apr - Fri 17th Apr 20 The Headteacher will have the final decision on all uniform issues. Start of Summer Term Blue Shirt (no “button down” collars) Blue Open Neck Shirt Mon 20th Apr 20 Clip on blue tie – only available from school Bank Holiday Navy Blue Blazer with school badge Navy Blue Blazer with school badge Navy Blue V Neck Jumper (optional) Navy Blue V Neck Jumper (optional) Friday 8th May 20 NO SWEATSHIRTS NO SWEATSHIRTS Plain BLACK SMART “suit style” trousers Plain BLACK SMART “suit style” trousers Half Term NO LEGGINGS/JEGGINGS etc. Plain navy blue or black socks Plain navy blue or black socks Mon 25th May - Fri 29th May Plain ALL BLACK “business like” shoes Plain ALL BLACK “business like” shoes 20 YEAR 11 BOYS YEAR 11 GIRLS End of Summer Term All above except – White Shirt All above except – White Shirt (no button down collars) (no button down collars) Fri 17th July 20 Year 11 Tie Year 11 Tie All Pupils are requested to wear a plain outdoor coat Personnel Changes New Head Boy and Head Girl / Pupil Leadership Team We welcome the following new staff: The New Head Boy and Head Girl have now been Mr J Shepherd - Maths appointed. Congratulations to Mariam Ahmed and Mr T Bennett - History Anton Collett. As we had so many pupils of such a high calibre apply for the position we have appointed The following staff are leaving: two Deputy Head Boys and two Deputy Head Girls. Mrs P Shepherd Mr P Patel We also have 12 Senior Prefects and a Pupil Leadership Team as follows:- Miss E Duthie Miss J Armstrong Deputy Head Boys: Cole Schofield and Dhanitha Additional/Changes in Staff Roles Rajapska Mr C Hibbert - Deputy Headteacher - Quality of Deputy Head Girls: Jessica Rigby and Ellie Gent Education Senior Prefects: Alexa Adetimehim, Khalil Aslam, Mrs D Makin - Associate Assistant Headteacher - Nadia Ali, Elaina Calberbank, Nicholas Hopkins, Daniel Curriculum Standard Galloway, Mae Chadwick, Jacob Long, Leah Taylor, Mrs E Tachauer - Associate Assistant Headteacher - Halle Davies-Ferneyhough, Matthew Taylor and Caleb Personal Development Woods. Mr C Clayton - Second in Science (permanent) Mr D Sullivan - Instructor of Psychology Pupil Leadership Team: Mrs C Gill - Temporary Head of Year 7 Mrs T Clayton - SEN Administrator Year 7 - Nefeli Leach, Aleesha Zafar , Bodhi Leniham- Miss I Bruce - Temporary Assistant Second in Parker and Summer Darwin Dowell English Year 8 - Dylan Halstead, Maria Ahmed, Montana Breakfast Club Ugbomah and Pritika Puri We have been successfully running a Breakfast Club Year 9 - Leon Halstead, Jessica Taylor, Edith open to all pupils who can receive a FREE breakfast of Sedgwick, Rebecca Liggett and Aaron Nabi bagels and/or cereal with milk. Lots of pupils have taken this up. This initially started off slowly but Year 10 - Mariam Ahmed, Anton Collett, Alexa numbers have now increased. We will be starting new Adetimehin, Dhanitha Rajapaksa and Leah Taylor initiatives in September to get more pupils to access this. Overall it has been a success and of great benefit All of the above are considered to be School Officers to a number of our pupils. As you know eating a and assist in the running of the school. The Head Girl healthy breakfast goes a long way in setting up children and Head Boy will oversee all duties and for the day ahead. responsibilities. Each Deputy Head will be responsible for one of the S,T,A,R quadrants and will lead a project Mentally Healthy School relating to their quadrant with the support of 3 Senior Prefects. We are involved in a mental health pilot scheme where we are receiving additional support for our pupils. A Newsletter counsellor from Early Break is coming into school one day a week in order to support our pupils. As part of Our end of term Newsletter will be published on the this pilot a number of pastoral staff have now received School Website at the end of this term where you will mental health first aid training. In addition to this, our find much more information about the wonderful and Head of PE has attended a course which is supporting exciting events that have taken place at Philips, the pupils with mental health issues via PE. We also have trips and sporting activities etc. that our pupils have a great deal of support in school from the Place2Be been involved with. I hope you will take the time to organisation which can be accessed by both pupils and read this and celebrate with us the amazing staff in school. achievements our pupils have attained. I also hope Exciting Changes to the School Curriculum you will follow us @philipshigh on Twitter. As previously mentioned the major changes to our Finally, I would like to wish you and your families an curriculum include introduction of four different enjoyable and relaxing summer break and look forward pathways in Year 10 - 2019-20: Aspire study 9 GCSEs, to the next academic year. Inspire study 8 GCSEs, Explore study 7 GCSES and Thrive study an individual bespoke curriculum. This has been received extremely well by both parents and pupils. We are currently in the process of building the timetable around these different pathways. College courses are still being explored as part of our extended curriculum offer, this is likely to be offered to a small Ms T Owen number of pupils in both years 10 and 11. HEADTEACHER CONGRATULATIONS School Officers 2019-20 ongratulations to our new school officers: HEAD BOY - ANTON COLLETT C HEAD GIRL - MARIAM AHMED Deputy Head Boys - Dhanitha Rajapksa / Cole Schofield Deputy Head Girls - Ellie Gent / Jessica Rigby Princes Trust Award ongratulations to Dylan Swain-Findlay who has successfully completed a 6 week programme, focused on developing C personal, social and life skills. The programme ended with a one night residential, where Dylan took part in activities such as absailing. Philips High School joins new military Combined Cadet Force UPILS at a Whitefield high school could be set to get a taste P of military life as part of a new initiative with the MoD. Philips High School has successfully bid to have a new Combined Cadet Force (CCF) unit based at the school after joining the Cadet Expansion Programme. The Cadet Force youth organisation operates in schools giving young people opportunities for unique, life-changing military themed activities including flying planes, completing army obstacle courses and learning to sail. The project is overseen by dedicated staff to help participants develop life skills for the future. Headteacher, Tina Owen, said the school is "immensely excited" about the opportunity, adding : "We have been welcomed into a great organisation and we look forward to offering life changing experiences for our pupils over the coming years." The school's initial contingent will be drawn from the Army Section of CCF (Lancashire ) and aims to hold its first parade in September. Brad Marshall, Bury Times Bolton Book Awards 2019 When we arrived at Bolton School we were greeted by the staff and ambassadors which gave good expectations for the day, we were amazed at the size and design of the school. My friend described it as a real life Hogwarts! After we finally finished going on about how amazing the school looked, we were quickly shown to our first venue where we were informed about what would be happening throughout the day…. After the introduction ceremony we went for a session with Will Mabbitt, the author of the book ‘Embassy of the Dead’. He gave us several tips about how to improve our writing, which he expressed in a creative way.