Framingham Earl High School Spring Term 2021
Friday 26th March 2021
Another busy term at Framingham Earl High School with a whole array of different experiences for us all.
I am so proud of all the children and how they have worked during the recent lockdown, adapted to the Lateral Flow Testing and returned to school full of joy and hope for the future. Staff too have worked together as a team, supporting our development of remote learning, running our bubble school and ensuring positive experiences for our young people. As families, you have contributed so much to the success of the school; motivating young people, communicating challenges and giving huge amounts of care and support.
This end of term newsletter shines a light on some of the positives from the last term and looks forward to a range of experiences in the Summer term.
Thank you to all and enjoy the delights of the Spring sunshine (with hopefully a few Easter eggs too!).
Mrs Becky Arnold
Headteacher’s Awards:
Congratulations to the following students who have received a Headteacher’s Award this week: Ewan Delbridge and Ella Young.
Site Works:
Over Easter the finishing touches will be in place for our ‘Snack Shack’ by the MUGA. This will allow an additional outside food outlet for children to use to reduce queuing and close contact.
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Framingham Earl High School Spring Term 2021
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Our planned improvement of the social area courtyard between the hall and Music/Drama rooms is on track for completion in the Summer holidays. This will include a new canopy, window replacements and resurfacing the area. Unfortunately, the work that was planned for Easter has been moved back to May, due to issues with the supply of the new windows.
The revitalisation of areas of the school continues with the Art rooms ‘face-lift’ complete and work beginning in Food, following our successful bid to Savoy Education for new equipment.
Many thanks to Matt, Marcin, Janet and Paul who work continuously to improve our facilities.
Student Voice Groups:
Congratulations to Headteacher’s Council for their fantastic non-uniform day! Over £800 was raised and will be split between WaterAid and our partner school in Malawi. Judy Jones, who knows Fram well, will be leading an assembly and starting some project work with our students that will carry on in Malawi.
AtoBetter School Travel Plan work:
Next term as part of our travel plan, the school will be offering:
• Lessons with PSHE to all Year 7s on road safety • Bike Maintenance • Level 3 Bike-ability Courses
In addition we will complete a travel plan survey to support our knowledge of how all students arrive at school and areas where they feel vulnerable or unsafe.
We are also hoping to offer guided cycles to our local areas with the support of NCC, to show children and parents the safest ways to arrive at school.
Attendance:
Thank you so much to all families for your support with attendance. We are currently meeting our 96% target for all students across the school, which is fantastic!
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If your child is too unwell to come to school, please email the office [email protected] or call the school on 01508 482547.
Mr James Edwards (Deputy Headteacher)
School Lunches:
Parents are asked to continue to book school lunches after Easter. The food outlets will all be open and serving breakfast, break and lunch.
Please use this link to book lunches for w/c 12th April: https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=DOFJ4V491Ui- MgzsG50Ui2Lyk_RcYD1CrxS6b1L97lRUQ0JTR0Y1WEEwWlpaNjhKWFJEQlIzQVQ5Ny4u
Festival of Sport: This Summer @ Holkham
Rugby greats Will Greenwood and Austin Healey have teamed up to create Festival of Sport at North Norfolk’s beautiful Holkham Estate from 13th – 15th August 2021.
“As parents, we were acutely aware of the impact this year has had on families and especially kids. We want to do something to bring the fun back into people’s lives and bring families together. We can’t wait to get families engaged and active outside in this beautiful environment.” said Healey.
“We recognise that not every kid gets involved in the same way”, added Greenwood “Our mantra for the festival is that “no-one gets left on the bench”.
It doesn’t matter if you’re a budding junior champion or just want to stick your toe in the water and try something new. There’s something for everyone. Festival of Sport will also have live music, outdoor cinema, a Taste of Norfolk food village and a spa and wellness area. And one of the country’s most stunning and unspoilt beaches is just a stone’s throw away. www.festivalofsportuk.com
The school have been donated tickets for this event and these will be awarded by Directors of Learning to those who have shown excellence in attitude and engagement this year.
Uniform:
After Easter students are able to wear FEHS Logo tailored shorts as part of our Summer Uniform. All other rules remain in place and a full uniform list can be found here: Uniform - Framingham Earl High School
Marks & Spencer will become our second uniform supplier from May, alongside Birds of Dereham.
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Framingham Earl High School Spring Term 2021
Friday 26th March 2021
EasyFundraising:
If you use online shopping – including Amazon - you can help support the school raise funds by being part of our easyfundraising scheme. Every purchase you make means money comes to the school at no cost to you. To sign up please follow this link or download the app from your app store: https://www.easyfundraising.org.uk/causes/framinghamearlhs/?utm_campaign=raise- more&utm_content=cpl
Parents’ Events this term:
Thank you to all the parents and carers who have been involved with events this term including Parent Forum, Year 9 Options Evening, Year 7 Parents’ Evening, RSE Consultation and Re-Opening Q&A.
Next term
• 15th April Year 11 Parents’ & Students’ Question and Answer session https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82874378101?pwd=UkhIRU1hcjdoV1BpRUMzSW55UExYdz09
Meeting ID: 828 7437 8101 Passcode: 0GsweP
• 20th April Year 6 Transition Event for new Year 7s https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84990810249?pwd=dld3VFNSTHE0QUxjcmxacVFFZWxYdz09
Meeting ID: 849 9081 0249 Passcode: 0sQEGS
• w/c 26th April Year 8 Parents’ & Carers’ Consultation Evening • 19th May Full Governors’ Meeting • 24th May Parent Forum https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85481332151?pwd=cGg4K1VBY1BncHFvRnlKdVBGU2F0Zz09
Meeting ID: 854 8133 2151 Passcode: 2gYW5N
TestRegister & Lateral Flow Kits:
Your child will receive today a larger box of Lateral Flow Tests to use over the 2 weeks of Easter. When they return after the holiday, they will receive a box of 3 each week.
As a school we are asked to log the kits we have distributed and collate results. This supports us working with Public Health England and the Track and Trace service. We are using the system ‘TestRegister’ which will send emails each Sunday and Thursday. On the email you will also be able to go to the NHS site to log your test result and receive your confirmation email.
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The information on TestRegister is only held by the school.
Support for Families:
Norfolk Support Fund: As part of this vouchers have been provided via Edenred for £30 per child for those families in receipt of Free School Meals over the Easter period.
Laptop Scheme: Mrs Harvey and Mr Vandenbergh continue to provide support for families with our laptop loan scheme. Please be in touch with Mrs Harvey if you wish to discuss Access to Technology further.
If you feel your circumstances have changed and you may be eligible for the Pupil Premium, please complete the application form via NCC website: https://www.norfolk.gov.uk/education-and- learning/schools/school-meals-and-milk
Lost Property:
We still have a wealth of PE kits, shoes, coats and school uniform in the main school office. Those items that have been in the lost property room since December will be taken to the local clothes bank over the Easter break.
Any items that are named are returned to children – please do take a few moments to name clothes and shoes before children bring them to school.
Clubs and Societies:
The PE department will run year group bubble extra-curricular practices when students return to school in April. Specific details will be shared by form tutors.
Levi’s - Youth for Christ Group meets in Mr Neville’s room on a Tuesday lunchtime. Please speak to Mr Neville for more details.
No Outsiders Young people working with Mrs Andrews on a range of initiatives to engage with all parts of our community.
Sports Clubs @ lunchtime for next half term: We have continued our very successful partnership with ProSport Coaching and Paul’s team have been superb with the young people. After Easter, the programme of activities has altered to offer sessions for Years 7 - 10. https://forms.office.com/r/q2DCUVEFMM
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Framingham Earl High School Spring Term 2021
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Subjects Overview:
Drama: 2021 has been a challenging year for the Drama Department, however we have been really impressed by work presented by all year groups. Our Year 7s and 8s have looked at the genre of murder mysteries and many of the students created brilliant video monologues. Some of the videos managed to feature family members and various pets; we thank you all for your participation! The Year 9s have appropriately been looking at the end of world as a topic, again monologues and scripted work have been presented to a high standard. Perhaps the Year 10s and 11s have faced the greatest challenge, maintaining their GCSE study online. It is great to see drama and performance being created, especially when the theatre world has been closed for so long.
Before Christmas, some of the Year 10s auditioned for ‘Find a Partner’, a National Theatre Connections play. The first rehearsals have started, and we hope to see a production with an audience happening in July. We have had to be very patient whilst following the current government guidelines, however if the students’ excitement for the first rehearsal was anything to go by, the play promises to be an exciting end to the year.
There have also been some encouraging discussions with The Garage in Norwich, where we are looking at developing a closer working relationship. We hope to announce more information soon.
Lastly, we have been donated a new lighting desk, LED lights and infrastructure by the Norwich Charitable Trusts; we are looking to update the Drama studio with a new lighting rig in the near future.
Have a lovely Easter from Mrs Bagshaw and Mr Slack.
Computing
Great to have the students back in class this term for Computing. It has been really refreshing talking to students about their lockdown experience. Many students have really enjoyed the computing tasks they have been doing at home, mainly aimed at coding. Some students have produced some fantastic independent projects, making some great games with complex code. Hopefully students can continue to add to the projects on the Make Code Arcade Community page: https://arcade.makecode.com/community
Looking forward to students returning back to Coding Club again on Thursday and Fridays !
Mr Barron
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Framingham Earl High School Spring Term 2021
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English:
The English Department would like to say it’s been lovely to hear about all the books you’ve been reading over lockdown. We really enjoyed seeing some of your World Book Day activities, as well as Year 7 creative tasks linked to your reading books. Thank you for all your book recommendations and suggestions for us to read. We would also like to congratulate the following students for reaching the Millionaire Word Reader level with Accelerated Reader quizzes.
Happy Reading over Easter!
One Millionaire Word Readers:
Year 8: Year 7:
Olivia Wright Alex Hill
Ella Simmonds Year 9:
Henry Stenton Shannon Holland
Ellie Ryding Jacob Hill
Two Millionaire Word Readers:
Year 8
Elsa Mugridge Daisy Hyder-Alvarez
Lily Narracott Bea Ryding
Food Preparation and Nutrition:
Students have worked hard during lockdown and since being back to school. Every email I received with photos of students’ home cooking was really appreciated, as it was a bit of normality in a very unusual time.
The afternoon tea competition entries have been sent off for judging and it was wonderful to see such creativity amongst the students – well done to all who entered.
Good news was received a couple of weeks ago: there will be lots of new equipment in the food room shortly, as I received confirmation that some funding I had applied for had been approved. So, we are looking forward to deliveries of new fridges, commercial mixers and blenders and a new set of cookers for the room.
Year 11 have been working hard to complete NEA tasks and have some assessed practical work coming up after Easter. Year 10 are entering the Tunnocks Teacake Challenge and the lower school are back cooking. Please remember that at the moment everyone needs to bring an apron in when cooking, as the school ones cannot be bubble mixers!
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Framingham Earl High School Spring Term 2021
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PE
We were so pleased with the engagement of students during the fitness based remote learning lessons. Staff and students improved their fitness as a result! We hope students acquired different ideas on how they can develop and extend their fitness outside the classroom.
We have loved the return to face to face teaching and as always, students have participated with passion and enthusiasm. Lots of students have participated in extracurricular basketball with our community coach Kay Turner and Year 7 and 8 students have continued lunchtime clubs with Mr Blunden.
We are hoping to resume a summer sports extra-curricular programme after the Easter holidays, which we will share as soon as possible.
History
Thank you to all students for their hard work over the period of remote learning and for making such a fantastic return to school. A particular highlight was receiving the entries for the Year 9 Trench Competition. We had trenches made out of cake, cardboard and even trenches where parts were set on fire. Well done to everyone who entered and for presenting their trenches so confidently to the class when we were back together. Here are two brilliant entries from Ewan and Ella.
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Framingham Earl High School Spring Term 2021
Friday 26th March 2021
Intermediate Mathematics Challenge
On Thursday 4th February, we had 55 students participate in the Intermediate Mathematics Challenge set by the University of Leeds. The students did absolutely fantastically.
Adam Watney got a huge 103 points out of 135 and had full marks up to question 17; this is an exceptional achievement. Deservedly, he got Best in School, a Gold Certificate and an invitation to the next round of the competition.
Following in his footsteps, Bethan Dunlop came second in the school; she achieved a Silver Certificate and Best in Year 9. Rhys Howard also got a Silver Certificate and both Year 9 students will be participating in the next round too.
In Year 10, Callum McDuff received a Bronze Certificate and Best in Year 10.
In total, we had 1 gold, 5 silver and 17 bronze certificates. Congratulations to all children for participating. Miss Harris
Partnerships Update:
Bandwagon continues with Adam Lawrence in the afternoons and evenings school hall for students who wish to engage with additional music and singing lessons https://thebandwagon.uk/free-trial/
Poringland & District Men’s Shed are using the school bungalow at the front of the school https://pdmensshed.org/
Peri Music Lessons: If your child would like to have music lessons at school, please complete the form here: https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=DOFJ4V491Ui- MgzsG50Ui2MwkHheYNlFmEPHEwEXtO5UNklUQzBVUVNFNDRWR0xFQkZaWVVFWlc1Ri4u
South Norfolk Council continue to manage the Sports Centre and will reopen on Thursdays to Sundays from April 12th https://www.south-norfolk.gov.uk/visitors/leisure-centres/framingham- earl-sports-centre
Upcoming Dates:
• 12th April: INSET Day (school closed to children for training) • 13th April: Summer Term begins • 15th April: Sports Centre re-opening for evenings and weekends (Thursday to Sunday) • 15th April: Year 11 Parents’ & Students’ Question and Answer session https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82874378101?pwd=UkhIRU1hcjdoV1BpRUMzSW55UExYdz09
Meeting ID: 828 7437 8101 Passcode: 0GsweP
• 16th April: Year 11 Assessment Point published to parents on MCAS • 20th April: Year 6 Transition Event for new Year 7s https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84990810249?pwd=dld3VFNSTHE0QUxjcmxacVFFZWxYdz09
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Meeting ID: 849 9081 0249 Passcode: 0sQEGS
• 23rd April: Year 8 Assessment Point published to parents on MCAS • w/c 26th April: Year 8 Parents’ & Carers’ Consultation Evening • 3rd May: May Day Bank Holiday (school closed to all) • w/c 10th May: Year 7 Road Safety sessions with NCC • 19th May: Full Governors’ Meeting • 24th May: Parent Forum https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85481332151?pwd=cGg4K1VBY1BncHFvRnlKdVBGU2F0Zz09
Meeting ID: 854 8133 2151 Passcode: 2gYW5N
• 28th May: 3pm finish for Half Term
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