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Term One and Two March 2018 Newsletter Term Two 2017-2018 Newsletter – Issue 1 Extra, Extra...Read All About it! Our school is a wonderful place - wonderful pupils, with the support of wonderful families and carers and wonderful staff - all of us working together with the same wonderful goal: to ASPIRE! We all know that part of our ASPIRE goal involves working hard in order to get those academic results that will open the right doors for each individual's right future. Learning well is at the heart of this. However, learning does not just happen in the classroom AND it is not Students, per House, with the just about GCSE results. We do not just strive to do better... we strive most House Points from to Be Better People. September. This supersized, bumper, edition newsletter is a celebration of how we do this every day. It's in the extra opportunities that our pupils take Bronte part in and, even more impressively, the extra opportunities that our Aamena Patel (10B/FAH) 3629 pupils create. That is why our school is so extraordinarily wonderful - it is full of ordinary people, going the extra mile and becoming Pankhurst extraordinary in the process. So, my advice is this: take a moment, Chloe Rahman (9P/HCR) 2778 treat yourself to a cup of tea or coffee and read all about it! Royce Mrs. Doward Azhar Ahmed (11R/AHA) 3370 House News Turing Term One saw Bronte walk away as House leaders, but which House Laurence Ryan (8T/AKY) 3427 has come on top this term? With all the points since September added up I can say that, despite it being one of the closest races to top spot that we have ever had, the House winners at the end of Term Two are Royce House, just ahead of Turing by a 359 points House Points, per House, at Remember it is your hard work and perseverance that reward your the end of Term Two. House with points. If you are ready, show respect and are safe then you are doing everything you can to make your House the best! 1st Royce 369774 Over the last few months we have had two politicians turn up to SHS, whilst they may have generated local and national press, it isn’t 2nd Turing 369415 anywhere near as important as the achievements and contributions you have made. 3rd Bronte 368924 Enjoy your Easter break, relax and if you’re in Year 11 make sure you 4th Pankhurst 325703 spend time revising. Remember to do something special next term to get your name and story in the next edition of the newsletter. Thank you Mr. Freedman Page 1 of 19 What have you been up to since September? The Hub team, including Mr. Devine and Mrs. Lee along with Miss Students, per Year, with the Edwards and Miss Hudson, have been working hard throughout the most House Points From September. year ensuring our newest students can hone in on their cooking and baking by offering a weekly cooking club for six weeks. Year 7 The students have produced everything from pizza to curry and Akeel Hussain (7T/CMC) 3151 cookies to cakes – every time the smell from the kitchen has been Year 8 amazing. If you want to try to cook or bake then speak with Mrs. Lee, I am sure there will be a new club opening soon. Laurence Ryan (8T/AKY) 3427 Year 9 Abdul Nabi Ashraf (9T/KPI) 3028 Year 10 Aamena Patel (10B/FAH) 3629 Year 11 Azhar Ahmed (11R/AHA) 3370 Top Form, per Year group, from September. Year 7 Miss. Robinson’s Form (7P/KRB) 45,114 Year 8 Mr. Kyrcyz’s Form (8T/AKY) 56,683 Year 9 Mrs. Pixton’s Form (9T/KPI) 44,245 Year 10 Mr. Ahmed’s Form (10B/FAH) 55,143 Year 11 Mr. Hakiman’s Form (11R/AHA) 35,908 Remember if you would like anything including in the next edition of the newsletter email me (Mr Freedman). [email protected] Page 2 of 19 STEM Ms. Latif took the STEM team down to take part in robotics. The interactive robotics day introduced young people to the exciting world of STEM, focusing on engineering. Hosted by a Small Piece Trust trained educator and designed to complement the national curriculum in Science, Technology and Maths, this fun and exciting day demonstrated the link to the wider world, enhancing our students’ understanding and aptitude for problem-solving, creativity, design and engineering. In March, three of our Year 8 girls delivered a STEM lesson to Year 6 students in Seymour Park Primary School. The girls outstanding performance and confidence not only brought tears to Ms. Latif’s eyes but the primary schools teachers were impressed with their professionalism, confidence, content knowledge and patience with the primary students. Well done Girls!! The STEM club and Ms. Latif also arranged for the Samsung VR Bus to land in our school yard to allow students and staff to experience Tim Peake’s decent to Earth from the International Space Station in the Soyuz capsule. Using VR technology the experience left students and staff alike feeling like they had travelled the real journey back to Earth. I am sure that there will be another visit of this nature in the near future! If you are not a STEM ambassador and would be interested in becoming one next year, then let Ms. Latif know either in person or by emailing [email protected] and she will give the details you need. Well done to Ms. Latif and the amazing STEM ambassadors for all their hard work this year. Page 3 of 19 Student Council Mission Christmas Tesco Bag Pack On Friday 24th November 2017, Student Council members took time out to raise some money for the Key 103 Cash for Kids Mission Christmas charity. It was an eventful day as we saw many happy faces willing to give money for such a wonderful charity. We are very lucky to have people around us who love us and we are very blessed to have items many unfortunately do not have. However, we have the chance to do good things and allow innocent people to have a happier life because we as a community do give. This has clearly been shown on Friday as we raised a massive £422.26! We completely smashed our target which was £200. This meant that there would be many more happy faces at Christmas. Imagine how many gifts could be provided with the amount we have raised. It is little things like this that can create the massive positive impact we are looking for to better our world. Remember, we are all different individuals but ultimately we are all equal to each other. No one is better than anyone in this world which clearly shows we should be there for one another. Imagine this, if someone was hurt you would go and help them immediately wouldn’t you? Well there are people starving, cold and in constant pain but how much do we really help those people? On the day Mr. Freedman was ready and was happily asking everyone constantly to do jobs. Happy Student Council members bag packed for as many people as they could. Happy faces appeared everywhere on the customers, workers and Student Council member’s faces. Key 103 appeared to be quite popular among all the customer’s because when someone would see the buckets or ask about which charity we are raising for they would always smile as they heard our answer. Even though Student Council members started at 4pm and finished at 7.30pm time flew right as bag packing was actually quite fun and eventful! Many teachers came along to show their support which motivated the Student Council members. Many thanks to all of the teachers and staff who came to show their support. Special thanks to all the Student Council members for taking their time out to raise so much for the Key 103 Cash for Kids Charity! Mavish Razza 11B/SSM Page 4 of 19 Debate Mate Mr. Kyrycz has been organising a large group of students, who are attending Debate Mate each week. There is a fantastic mix of students from Year 7-9 and debates are now beginning to get heated! There is usually chocolate and some form of drink for those who attend. Our Debate Mate students are building in confidence and are becoming rather skilled at taking down the opposition. If you are interested, it is still not too late to join. Come on down and watch a Debating Session or send an email to Mr Kyrcyz - [email protected] if you want more information. RISE The RISE team helped to raise awareness for Anti-Bullying week by speaking in assemblies and running a cake sale to raise money for 'Ditch the Label', an Anti-Bullying charity. They also organised a 'Wear Something Blue Day' for 17th November. They did a fantastic job and managed to raise £203.77!! They are always there to listen to students if they have any concerns about bullying in school and work really well as a team. They should be really proud of all their hard work. Ms. Jakubiel-Smith Community Leaders A huge well done to all the Year 8 Community Leaders for their hard work, enthusiasm and drive collecting food donations for the homeless at Christmas time. Your efforts ensured that the homeless had food, drinks and clothes over the cold Christmas period. Thank you. Ms. Sheldon Page 5 of 19 Remembrance Day Our school was represented at the Remembrance Day service by three Year 9 students.
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