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The Voice December 2019 DECEMBER 2019 ISSUE 39 www.gms.bucks.sch.uk MESSAGE FROM THE HEADTEACHER Welcome to this Christmas edition of ‘The Voice’, which signals the IMPORTANT REMINDER end of the first full term of this academic year. ABOUT DATES IN THE WINTER TERM During the course of the first two weeks of this term, I spoke with all students in their first assemblies to remind them of the vision Term will end with final assemblies on Thursday 19th for Great Marlow School, which is to be ‘a high quality learning December; buses have been environment that inspires students, staff and the community to booked for 1.00pm. be compassionate, successful and resilient contributors to a better The new term starts, for all society’. In order to deliver on this vision, my commitment to them pupils, on Monday 6th January was to restate my belief in GMS as a place ‘where opportunities are 2020. created, potential is realised and excellence is achieved’. Please note all our At the end of September I reiterated this nominated students every Friday important dates and vision and commitment to the parents afternoon, who have demonstrated events, including Parents’ Evenings and of future GMS students during my Open the very best qualities of the 6Rs. Examination Timetables, Evening speech. I explained that we are plus all letters sent I am certain that as you read this edition certain we can deliver on, and achieve, out, are available on of ‘The Voice’, which showcases some the website and are this vision, because we are committed to of the school activities and events that regularly updated. developing the confidence of every child: have occurred over the course of this celebrating all their successes whether 15 week term, you will also conclude they be in music, art, drama, mathematics that what we offer in the curriculum or sport. Later in the speech I highlighted and in the substantial extra curricular that ‘My Personal Best’ is a key initiative programme is broad, diverse and rich. that we focus on to develop confidence However, this is just a flavour of the and build up the knowledge and skills multitude of reports and pictures that are of students. The initiative is focused on our school website, so do, please, make on the 6Rs, namely Respect, Readiness, sure you take time to browse regularly. Reflection, Responsibility, Resourcefulness and Resilience. All members of the A key feature of every autumn term school community are being increasingly is the charity work that students, in recognised for displaying these attributes. all year groups, become involved Don’t forget to view the online gallery for photographs I have thoroughly enjoyed meeting in. This term we have raised relating to many of the between 40 and 50 Headteacher Award money, or collected items, on articles in this newsletter. behalf of a number of local, national and international Porter. You can read more about the successes of hockey ART DEPARTMENT GETS BRILLIANT GCSE RESULTS A BIG THANK YOU Art & Design charities, including Save the Children; Children in Need; on the PE and Sports pages in this edition of The Voice. Kat Joseph-Stewart, Nicky and Becca The GMS Art and Design department made an incredibly and the One Can Trust, to name a few. At the beginning of Plumridge and Elaine Rooney would This term saw the enrolment of the largest sixth form in the successful return to school life after the summer break, armed like to say a big thank you to Mrs December, the annual week of fundraising to sponsor two history of the school. The students in the sixth form play a with a healthy set of data for our 2019 GCSE results. With 74.4% of Mary Cadogan for giving up her time children in a Tanzanian school took place. I would like to students achieving grades 9-4, and 62.8% of students achieving after school recently to help us make powerful part in supporting younger students, especially and decorate our Christmas cakes. thank the students and staff, who worked hard, in creative grades 9-5, we were delighted to report an improvement of the Senior Prefect Team led by the Head Girl and Head Boy. ways, to raise money for all the charities we support. 6.6% and 15% respectively against last year’s grade brackets, Her knowledge and expertise This group of senior students are an essential link between is much appreciated and we Everyone concerned demonstrated their readiness to and in turn, celebrate results falling in line with national figures. the adults and all other students. They lead through hope the cakes are enjoyed as support people who are less fortunate than we are. I much as we did in creating them! the student councils, which is the all-important ‘student Following this success, our Year 11 cohort has been working hard to would also like to thank the parents and carers who gave voice’ in the school. In addition, they have recently been establish and develop the second components of their GCSE coursework generously to these worthwhile causes. Again, details of trained by experts from Bucks MIND, a charitable trust, as unit, ready to complete just after the Christmas break. This project, all our charitable work can be found on the school website designed to promote independent learning and autonomy, comes as part ‘peer mentors’ for the students with and as articles in this edition of of a re-structure of our GCSE course, and gives the students complete self esteem and confidence issues. ‘The Voice’. We finished the term control over their themes, ideas and outcomes. With techniques, processes When I watch our senior students, and disciplines ranging from exciting digital experimentation, sculpture, with our Christmas-themed non- senior prefects, Head Girl, Head textiles and surface design and Ian Murphy inspired mixed-media uniform day on Thursday 19th Boy, and their deputies in action, workshops, we have great hopes for more of the high quality outcomes we December, this time requesting have come to expect from our talented group of students. The three classes I know we are producing young a donation for the One Can Trust will collate all coursework throughout lessons in January, before embarking people who are compassionate, rather than a monetary donation. on the ever-exciting externally set paper in early February of next term. Kat Joseph-Stewart successful and resilient contributors, There is one event that I wish who will create a better society. A similar picture is unfolding at Key Stage 5, where students are really pushing themselves with some of the most thought-provoking and to particularly highlight in this So I would like to take this culturally-aware topics we’ve seen to date for their A level component edition of ‘The Voice’ and that opportunity to thank our sixth form 1 projects. Their ideas, which include outcomes based on all manner of is the recent school production students for the integral part they starting points such as sustainability and the environment, Grimm’s dark of ‘Bugsy Malone’ that saw, once again, the combined play in delivering the vision of the school. and menacing fairy tales, and Scandinavian laser-cut architecture, will be efforts of the Drama Department, the Music Department supported by a theoretical and reflective critical study which the students This term the Friends of Great Marlow (FoGMS) has will begin early next year. As with our younger students, we are pleased and students from Years 7-12, who came together to continued to offer their own personalised brand of and proud at the amount of time and effort demonstrated with their deliver two evenings of outstanding entertainment. The fundraising, which has substantially improved the facilities work, and are looking forward to seeing and assessing these portfolios. Rooney Elaine quality of the acting and singing was excellent along for the children of GMS. I thank them all for the hard work with the comedic performances, which had the audience Behind the scenes, we’ve been stretching our cross-curricular legs that goes into the planning and execution of each and elsewhere in the school, with some of our staff members spending long laughing relentlessly throughout. I am always in awe every fund-raising event. I would like to particularly express evenings assisting the Performing Arts in their Christmas production of of the students in these performances, in particular my thanks to Amanda Leach, Georgia McCarthy and Jean ‘Bugsy Malone’. With the challenge of making seven 1.5 metre high and their readiness to take on the responsibility, alongside wide light-up marquee letters before her, Head of Art Mrs Joseph-Stewart Senior, who finished their years of excellent service to developing a resilience to navigate their way through the spent the latter half of November and beginning of January cutting, the group with their final event, the highly successful challenging rehearsal and performance schedule. Once glueing and assembling huge amounts of cardboard kindly gifted to the Christmas Market, which took place at the end of November. school by A.H. Tripp and Son LTD removals firm, based in Beaconsfield. again, these performances were only possible because With the help of hundreds of battery-operated festoon bulbs and the Nicky and Becca Plumridge of the dedication of the staff, who demonstrated their I would like to take this opportunity to publically thank my expert parcel taping techniques of own resilience and resourcefulness. I just hope that after hardworking staff for their effort and commitment during the Mrs Rooney and Jade Moyse, Art Mrs Chenery has reflected on this year’s performance course of this term and I hope they have a restful festive break.
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