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July 2019 Turn the page to read about our School Council’s achievement in raising money to buy this special Friendship Bench... As we come to the end of another academic year I would like to pay tribute to the staff who are leaving us and moving on – Alison, Chrissy, Lorraine, Carly, Hannah, Chris, and Bex. Chrissy and Alison have served St Martins professionally, skilfully and loyally, with 43 years’ service between them. They have positively influenced 100s of students and their families during this time. Lorraine has supported and been a real strength for our more complex students. Her skills and knowledge will be missed. Carly and Hannah have been fantastic teachers, meeting the needs of students across our school with creativity and care. Chris and Bex have not been with us long but they have forged strong relationships and added value during their time. I thank every single one for their own special contributions. Their commitment and dedication has been appreciated by us all. St Martins News Thanks also to Paul, Sophie and Rachel whose Fixed Term Contracts also come to an end. We value all that you have given to our school. We wish you all the very best for your futures and thank you for the difference you have made. I wish a happy holiday to all of our students and their families and look forward to seeing you safe and well in September. Debbie Gerring - Headteacher Attendance The following students have achieved an amazing 100% attendance since the start of the academic year in September. Well done! Year 7 Year 8 Year 9 Year 10 Year 11 Samuel G Thomas Aaron Josh Cindy Amy Samuel Hardy Jamie Lennon Harry Alex Evie Ethan Jamie Michael Nicholas Daniel Dominic Arjan Cameron Joseph Liam Shareen Dillon Leon Shafiera Leah Euan Sabrina Oliver Saskia Matt C Please remember to keep school informed if your child is absent. Thank you. School Council It has been another fantastic year for the St Martins School Council and the Head Boy (Matt) and Head Girl (Mia). We have collectively organised and fundraised for a range of charities and in-school causes – well done! Our Representatives – St Martins staff and students would like to thank the following representatives for dedicating their time to the School Council, sharing their class views and for making a dif- ference for our school and wider community. You should be extremely proud of what you have achieved. KS3 – James (KS3CP), Kelsey (KS3VT), Alex (KS3BG), Sam (KS3LH), Charlie M & Cameron (KS3HW), Leon (KS3CC), Thomas (KS3CO) & Harry (KS3SG) KS4 – Adam (KS4MB), Callum (KS4RK), Ryan (KS4TB), Annija (KS4SW), Luke (KS4PP), Jack (KS4PB), Sufyaan (KS4LB), James (KS4JM), Cameron (KS4ML) and Mia & Matt (MS4LB) What we have achieved - Over the course of the year we have organised and fundraised for a range of charities including; Jeans for Genes, Show Racism the Red Card, Children in Need, Save the Children and Comic Relief. When taking part, the School Council informed students and parents about the events and collected money through non-uniform days and bake sales. Everyone involved was dedicated and all money raised was for a fantastic cause! Our biggest achievement for the School Council has been working for two academic years to fundraise for a Friendship Bench. The idea came from a range of students who believed we needed somewhere for our students to feel safe and to make friends. The School Council also decided to dedicate the Friendship Bench to a very special person—Derek Heal, our ex Chair of Governors. Derek was incredibly committed to St Martins and was an excellent friend and advocate of the school. The School Council completed a range of fundraising events such as; non-uniform days, bake sales, quizzes and discos. Thanks to Glenis and Claire, Derek’s wife and daughter for unveiling the bench at this year’s Summer Fayre. It looks great in our new sensory garden! Turn to the front page for a photograph of the unveiling of our Friendship Bench. Celebrations Hubbub Theatre performed their Visitors from our partner school in Derby Feste performance on India spent a week with us as we Kindness at our 50th celebration. learn about each other’s cultures. Harvey and Niav play in our school band, ‘Notemade’ at the ‘This is Derby’ professionals event; joining other school children from across the city. The athletics Billy won team displayed gold in the St Martins 800m. values at the National Finals. They were all ‘winners’ on the day. Preparing afternoon tea for One of the many student/staff football employers during Careers Day. matches we play. KS4 students won! Students taking part in the UKIT Challenge—a national competition which showcases the immense IT skills held by those in school. Samuel won our ‘Most Positive Person’ trophy at Prize Day; Louisa— our ‘Sports Personality of the Year’ and Sabrina won the ‘Headteachers Award’ trophy. Sabrina contributes to school positively now each day. Well done to all those students who won awards—we are proud of all of your achievements. KS3BG KS3BG have been fantastic across the whole year and are preparing themselves for the final stretch before the summer holidays. The class have worked hard across this term and are getting excited for Year 8. Well done to all the students - enjoy your next adventure in Year 8! In Maths, we have been working on number lines and place value. We have all enjoyed mastering our maths skills by sharing how we work out mathematical problems differently. In English, we have been working on Harry Potter. We worked on our character descriptions with each student selecting a different character to describe. We have also looked at diary passage writing and wrote about a day in the life of Harry Potter. Keep being magical KS3BG! In topic, the students looked at ‘Reuse, Reduce and Recycle’. We particularly enjoyed building our own recycled items from plastic bottles, cardboard and much more. We had some brilliantly made items such as a cat house, pencil pot and wind chime. Great work! The students have also taken part in Outdoor Education which they have thoroughly enjoyed. It has helped to develop the students’ team work and problem solving skills. As the photo shows, we all take different paths but can all reach the same destination. Well done team! KS3CP The Summer term has been a busy one in KS3CP! We have continued to do great work and have been working particularly hard in English lessons, as well as preparing and planning our Karaoke Fundraising event, which we have been very excited about! In English we did some research into different athletes and sports, including Olympic and Paralympic medal winners. We have also written stories and character descriptions from the story Black Dog by Levi Pinfold. We have loved this book and also created our own versions of Levi Pinfold’s book Greenling! We have worked super hard in Maths, spend- ing a lot of time looking at coin values, how to add different coins together and what change we need to give too. We have also spent a lot of time learning about multiplication and division, working on our times tables! It has been tricky sometimes, but we always persevere and get our work done! We were lucky enough to enjoy the sunny weather and help with the make-over of our garden/outdoor learning area this term. This involved painting, planting, digging a hole for the pond and moving soil and plants around to where they needed to be. It was a really lovely morning and everyone was part of the team! KS3FC We have had an amazing summer term in KS3FC. The students have had some great experiences. We have visited Skegness for our residential and we have been to London to see the West End show ‘Wicked’ which everyone loved. Standing outside Buckingham Palace on the way to see ‘Wicked’. We have been involved in a Citizenship project this term, along with other students all over Europe. The project was run by the British Council. The students had to research and design their own project to work on. They chose homelessness as an area of concern. The students decided to fundraise by doing a car wash to raise money to make care bags for the homeless in Derby. KS3LH Wow, this year has flown by! We can’t believe it’s summer already. This term in English, we have been learning about Paralympians and the Paralympic values as well as writing biographies and fact files. We are currently working on reading and writing playscripts. We have just finished reading Kid Normal and the Rogue Heroes, which we have all enjoyed and our current class book is Jessica’s Ghost by Andrew Norriss. At the beginning of May, we went on our class residential visit to Kingswood in the Dearne Valley. The weather wasn’t great, but we still had a fabulous time. We took part in several activities: Buggy Build, Scrapheap Challenge, Outdoor Climbing (in the pouring rain) and Fencing. Everyone was superbly behaved! Over the past couple of months, KS3LH have really enjoyed our Friday baking sessions. We have made scones, cookies, muffins, cupcakes and brownies. Not only have they been delicious, it has helped us improve our mathematical and team working skills and you never know, we might all be the next Mary Berry/Paul Hollywood! The last few weeks of the school year are going to be quite busy, we have lots of different activities in the calendar, including some trips as a reward for another excellent year at St Martins.