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April 2019 www.lordswoodgirls.co.uk Lordswood News We were disappointed, but not altogether A Letter From The surprised, to learn that our bid to create an improved performing arts space was unsuccessful. Successful bids appear to be Headteacher those that are addressing health and safety Dear Parents, issues and I am conscious that Lordswood has received a considerable amount of funding already. Given the I hope that you will enjoy reading about the various contribution that the arts make to the life of the school, events and activities that have taken place this term. we are not giving up on our plans to develop this facility Our students have excelled in so many areas – from and will now need to explore other funding options e.g. participation in the 2019 Big Bang Fair, the Duke of sponsorship. Again, if any parent has any experience in Edinburgh Award, sports competitions to the high this regard, please do get in touch. We are still hoping calibre school production – they are to be congratulated that the new reception area will be developed over on so many fronts. We were also delighted last week to the Easter holiday but at the moment are awaiting receive notification from the SSAT, the Schools, Students confirmation from the Planning Department. The new and Teachers network, that Lordswood Girls’ School security gate on Knightlow Road is likely to be installed and Sixth Form Centre has been recognised nationally at the beginning of the Summer term. for its excellent results in 2018 based on data from the Department for Education and Ofsted. Lordswood Girls’ The Spring term ends at the normal time on Friday 12th School and Sixth Form Centre was found to be among April and the Summer term starts on Monday 29th April. the best performing secondary schools in the country, For Year 11, 12 and 13 students this is a busy time of receiving two awards for being in the top 10% of non- the year as they undertake examination preparation. I selective schools nationally for both attainment and hope that they will ensure that they achieve a sensible progress. balance between revision and relaxation and that they will use the time remaining wisely and take advantage I should like to thank those parents who responded of support available. to the Kirkland Rowell survey; we will be discussing outcomes from the survey at next term’s parent forum. I should like to wish you all a happy and relaxing Easter This term’s parent forum generated some useful break. discussion around parental involvement in school with parents offering their help to support the school With best wishes through the skills and experiences that they are able to offer. I really appreciate this generosity and willingness to support the school and I promised to include this in my end of term letter. We would be interested in hearing from any parent/carer who might be possibly able to help in some of the ways listed below: • Running mock interviews with our Year 11, 12 and 13 students Mrs Jane Götschel • Speaking to students about their work Headteacher • Supporting with/running an enrichment activity • Supporting with Duke of Edinburgh • School refurbishment/ improving school grounds This is by no means an exhaustive list and, given the talents of our students, I can only guess at the array of talents possessed by parents! If you do have a bit of spare time and feel that you could help the school in some way, we would be interested in hearing from you! Beheshta Haroon 9D Mona Khosroshahi 10D Spring Term Namirah Khan 9D Liba Mahmood 10D Daya Bachada 9G Chloe Gandolfi 10G Abbigale McLaren 9G Lisa Sylvane 10G Achievement Awards Bano Salman 9L Sana Kadra 10L Congratulations from the Achievement Caelyn Willbanks 9L Ella Thrush 10L Co-ordinator team of Mrs Peniket, Mr Umaymah Mahmood 9R Raiyan Barrow 10R Lyla Perkins 9R Tania Majeed 10R Baker and Mr Goetschel Hayley Chikerema 9S Manpreet Sahota 10S The Achievement Co-ordinators would like to Sanjana Kumari 9S Mareem Sami Faris 10S congratulate all those students who have achieved Javine Nsongo 9W Alana Higgins 10W an award for developing a positive growth mindset Amrit Virdee 9W Darcie-Lea Lynskey 10W throughout the spring terms, and making excellent progress in their personal and academic growth. Sabaa Kausar 11D Evie Cooper 11R Mehak Kohli 11D Simranjjt Kaur 11R Mrs Peniket said of the Year 7 students, Jodie Keight 11G Kelly Chikandwa 11S “Congratulations to all of those Year 7 students who Zakia Razzaq 11G Esther Ling 11S have received one of our Easter eggs and a certificate Luci Benton-Hawthorn11L Nicole Chikandwa 11W for their determined and positive attitude throughout Amrita Kaur 11L Ashvinder Kaur 11W the spring term. Also, well done to all those students who have completed the Lordswood Challenge; you have proved to be motivated, inspiring students and excellent role models to your peers. Have a wonderful holiday and a well-deserved rest.” Mr Baker said, “Congratulations to all the students who have won an award. These students have displayed an excellent determination and their positivity has been displayed in all aspects of school life, from effort in lessons and involvement in extracurricular activities to being supportive and caring friends and class mates. Well done.” Mr Goetschel said, “Congratulations to all of the Year 10 and 11 students who have been nominated for Our Year 7 award winners Easter awards. It’s a deserved recognition of their determination, resilience and commitment to their studies - rest assured, it has not gone unnoticed by your teachers. I also want to say well done to all of the Year The School Council 11 students who have been regularly attending revision Mrs Riley reports on the School Council’s clubs since Christmas. I have been hugely impressed by your hard work in the run-up to the GCSE exams, and most recent activities I’m proud of the attitude and work ethic shown by the As ever, it has been a busy term for the School Council. vast majority of you. Well done! Year 10, keep up the good work! Year 11, one final push now - make all of Reps continued their amazing fundraising by supporting that hard work count!” Comic Relief on Friday 15th March with a non-uniform day and bake sale. The entire student body, as well as Ria Dhani 7D Kiran Kaur-Sethi 8D all staff, got behind the event and the amount of cakes Daisy Harvey 7D Younas Mehak 8D and biscuits baked and donated for the break time sale Maya Bhambra 7G Molly Gillett 8G was phenomenal. All in all the day was a great success Saina Sadeghimanesh 7G Asiyah Nassim 8G with an impressive £897.73 raised for the charity. Ayesha Ahmed 7L Brianna Carr 8L Council Reps would like to thank everyone for getting Sienna Watts 7L Eliza Hussain 8L involved and being so generous. Kamie Kaur 7R Meshal Akbari 8R Tanzila Khatun 7R Lois Thomas 8R After half term, planning will begin for the School Cerys Gotz 7S Esha Dhilon 8S Council Fundraising Week which is scheduled to take Isla O’Connor 7S Claudia Vuthyani 8S place during the week beginning 8th July. Reps have Bianca Douglas-Wilson7W Sara Ahmed 8W had initial discussions about which charities they would Kate Harper 7W Rhemya Maye 8W like to support and future meetings will be dedicated to planning activities and advertising the charity days. The recycling scheme that I mentioned in the Christmas below. The next Parents’ Forum meeting will take place newsletter was introduced when school restarted in on Wednesday 22nd May 2019 at 8:00am. January and so far it has been a great success. Despite having a very limited number of bins placed around I would like to thank everyone who took part in the school, the amount of recycling generated has been recent school survey. At present all the information really astonishing. School Council Reps work on a provided is being analysed and a report of the findings rota to collect the recycling during registration every will be published shortly. morning, apart from on Wednesdays, and put it in the large bins by the car park ready for collection by Birmingham City Council. We have recently inherited another seven bins thanks to Mrs Mellor’s husband and the Council is in the process of working out where the best places to position these news bins will be. The Council will also need to adjust the collection rota to accommodate new PSHEE Day Review bins, something which, going forward, will be a major Reflections on the day from some of our consideration if we are to expand the recycling scheme. Year 11 students As part of the January PSHEE Day, two guest speakers Issues with the new catering providers, Aspens, have delivered an emotional, thought-provoking and continued and during the last week of the spring term, profound talk to Year 10 and Year 11 students about the School Council met with Kelly and Dan from Aspens the impact of knife crime. PC Rob Pedley, of West to discuss these problems. It is hoped that the Council Midlands Police, spoke passionately about the dangers will continue to work with Aspens to get the canteen of carrying a knife, before introducing Alison Cope - her standards up to a level acceptable to everyone before son, Joshua, was stabbed to death in 2013. She stunned the end of the academic year. an entire hall of students into complete silence with her heart-breaking testimony. As ever we would like to thank all students, staff and parents for supporting the School Council in their Here’s what some of our Year 11 students had to say: endeavours which, we hope, improve school for everyone.