Wetherby High School's Young Enterprise Team Areaward Winners!
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17 JUNE 2019 ISSUE WETHERBY HIGH SCHOOL 120 ASSEMBLIES WETHERBY HIGH & COACHING SCHOOL’S YOUNG NO ASSEMBLIES ENTERPRISE TEAM ARE AWARD WINNERS! CONTENTS 1 Reflection of the Week 2 Noticeboard 3 House Points 4 Sixth Form Page 5 - 8 Features 9 Literacy Page 10 Numeracy Page 11 Newsflash 12 Challenge King On Wednesday 5th June at York's National Railway Museum, Wetherby High’s Enterprise team took part in The Young Enterprise’s Humber Regional Finals. They won the Sustainability Award. Please see inside Features for further details (page 7). "If you are working on something that you really REFLECTION care about, you don’t have to be pushed. OF THE The vision pulls you.” – Steve Jobs WEEK 1 AT A GLANCE / THE COACHING CHRONICLE AT WETHERBY HIGH / ISSUE 120 JANE TOMLINSON THE APPEAL The Wetherby High School students have a great opportunity to do some NOTICE volunteering on the Jane Tomlinson Water Station as part of the Leeds 10k event. It would be great if we could get a group of students and staff together to BOARD help out on Sunday 7th July. Pupil and Staff volunteers will meet at OUR HOUSE 8.00am at the Kirkstall Road Water Station WHOLE CAST and will leave at approximately 11.30am. MEETING TUESDAY 25TH JUNE If anyone is interested they need to speak MAIN HALL with the PE Department ASAP. 3.15PM Monday 17th June – COACHING IMPORTANT DATES PLEASE CAN ALL MEMBERS OF MONDAY THE SCHOOL COUNCIL 24TH JUNE PLEASE COME TO THE GYM INSET day. AT 9.15AM Students will not be in school. TUESDAY 25TH JUNE All students to go to coaching period 1 to collect their new timetables for the new academic year. WEDNESDAY 26TH JUNE New Year 9 students (Previous Year 8) are visiting the Emmerdale studios. TOTAL THURSDAY WARRIOR 27TH JUNE Get ready for Friday 21st The Year 11 prom is taking place in June Warriors! the evening. Please pick up a letter from the PE office for your wave FRIDAY times and arrangements for 5TH JULY the day. PRESENTATION EVENING. Bring on the mud and fun! Have you brought back your slip yet to confirm your attendance? 2 AT A GLANCE / THE COACHING CHRONICLE AT WETHERBY HIGH / ISSUE 120 HOUSE POINTS HOUSE POINT TOTALS BREMNER 10746 TRUEMAN 8887 ROBINSON 9685 TOMLINSON 8201 TOP YEAR GROUPS TOP PUPILS OF THE WEEK TOP COACHING GROUPS Year 7 8605 JB RO4 379 TR1 Miss Robinson 2028 MT TR1 338 BR14 Mr Kelly 1603 Year 9 8256 DS BR14 289 RO4 Mr Robinson 1293 Year 10 7923 SH BR3 255 BR10 Mr Wilkinson 1277 HS TR12 247 TR12 Mr Keen 1236 Year 8 7113 OC TR6 245 TO4 Mrs Johnston 1194 Year 11 4036 AP RO2 244 RO9 Miss Histon 1130 MK TR1 242 BR15 Mrs Wilson 1113 Year 12 1058 AL BR14 238 TO10 Mrs Waddoup 961 Year 13 528 CH RO11 238 TR4 Miss Jennings 898 THIS WEEK'S HOUSE POINTS 3 AT A GLANCE / THE COACHING CHRONICLE AT WETHERBY HIGH / ISSUE 120 SIXTH FORM PAGE WORK EXPERIENCE 8TH – 12TH JULY 2019 Please make sure that you arrange these placements. We have quite a few companies on our data base but you will need to come select and ring. The work experience placements are really useful for UCAS applications and also Letters of application for apprenticeships. UNIVERSITY UCAS OPEN DAYS FAIR Please make sure that you start to book 20TH JUNE yourself on to these open days, they are 2019 a really useful way of knowing if it is the Please make sure that you place you would like to study or not. have returned the slips. If possible try to avoid missing lessons, This is a really useful trip but I am aware that this is not always where you can see what all possible. the different further education Please let us know if you have to miss providers offer. lessons to attend. ENTRY EXAMS 1ST JULY 2019 Exam timetables are available from the table in the common room. Please check to see when your exams are and let Mrs McCartney know if there are any other clashes . 4 AT A GLANCE / THE COACHING CHRONICLE AT WETHERBY HIGH / ISSUE 120 LEAD LEARNERS Well done to the eighteen Lead Learners who successfully completed seven challenges in their nominated subject. One of the first tasks for the Nominated pupils who have yet to complete their challenges can still become Lead Learners has been assisting with Lead Learners. Completed booklets should be handed to Mr Grant. the Year 5 ‘Day in the life…’ visits, On completion of the ‘Lead Learner’ tasks you will be issued with a badge which but they will also be supporting the will allow you to queue-less entry to the dining hall during break and lunch. induction programme for our new Year 7 pupils. The next round of nominations for Lead Learners will take place in September. In the next few editions of The Chronicle Lead Learners will be providing articles they have written on subjects relevant to us all. Year 9 student DP article is on… SLEEP... Sleep is an important part of your daily function, mood and disease resistance. coming off screens suppress the routine - you spend about one-third of Research shows that a chronic lack of production of melatonin more than any your time doing it. Quality sleep – and sleep, or getting poor quality sleep, other type of light. It is believed that getting enough of it at the right times - is increases the risk of disorders including the shorter wavelengths in blue light is as essential to survival as food and water. high blood pressure, cardiovascular what causes the body to produce less Without sleep you can’t form or maintain disease, diabetes, depression, and melatonin because the body is more the pathways in your brain that let you obesity. sensitive to this type of light. learn and create new memories, and Sleep is a complex and dynamic "In terms of light and our brains, there is it’s harder to concentrate and respond process that affects how you function a spectrum of wavelengths that impacts quickly. in ways scientists are now beginning to the human circadian system," said David Sleep is important to a number of understand. Earnest, a professor and circadian brain functions, including how nerve rhythms expert at the Texas A&M Health To get a good night’s sleep is almost cells (neurons) communicate with each Science Centre College of Medicine. essential for efficiency, a better mood, other. In fact, your brain and body stay "Blue light is the most sensitive side of and a positive self-image. You’d go to remarkably active while you sleep. the spectrum." bed, read for a bit, and turn the light Recent findings suggest that sleep plays off, and drift out of consciousness. In layman’s terms, blue light affects sleep a housekeeping role that removes toxins Unfortunately, a student’s sleep ritual is BADLY. It ruins the body’s natural day/ in your brain that build up while you are rarely like this. Things like texting friends, night cycle, and adversely affects sleep awake. browsing ‘snapchat,’ scrolling through length and quality. The brain is more Everyone needs sleep, but its biological ‘instagram’; these things are too often active after being exposed to blue light, purpose remains a mystery. done just before bed and more likely on and so should be avoided about an hour a phone. before bed. Reading helps soothe the Sleep affects almost every type of tissue brain, and aids you in having a good and system in the body – from the brain, A study conducted by Harvard University night’s sleep. heart and lungs to metabolism, immune has found that exposure to blue light DP 5 AT A GLANCE / THE COACHING CHRONICLE AT WETHERBY HIGH / ISSUE 120 WETHERBY HIGH HOSTS SUCCESSFUL PRIMARY SCHOOL VISITS Over the last two weeks of term, Wetherby High welcomed Year 5 students from local primary schools (Bramham Shadwell, Deighton Gates, St. James, Scholes, Whinmoor St. Pauls, Crossley Street, Bardsey and Fieldhead Carr) to come and see what the life of a high school student is like. To say it was an experience is an understatement. The students took part in all sorts of activities; lighting hydrogen balloons in Science, making delicious pizza rolls in Food Tech and banging on the drums in Music. They found out what coaching is all about and enjoyed ‘taster’ lesson sessions in a wide variety of subjects. Primary students and staff had a fantastic time gaining insight into life at Wetherby High School. 6 AT A GLANCE / THE COACHING CHRONICLE AT WETHERBY HIGH / ISSUE 120 FENCING SUCCESS On Sunday 9th June, Year 7 NM went to Penistone Grammar School in South Yorkshire to compete in The Yorkshire Youth Fencing League. After battling though ‘direct eliminations’, quarter and semi-finals NM reached the final, this was a great achievement in itself. In the final he faced an opponent who had been unbeaten for over three years. After a hard fought series NM won 10-5. NM won a gold medal and is now a Yorkshire Youth Fencing Champion. Well done Nathan. WETHERBY HIGH SCHOOL’S YOUNG ENTERPRISE TEAM ARE AWARD WINNERS! CONTINUED FROM FRONT PAGE Nine Year 10 students have The team worked hard to develop The judges were so impressed with participated in the International and make their candles in school the individual students and their Enterprise Programme, Young over the year, and then to ensure that determination that one of them even Enterprise and together they have they had the necessary finance and invited them to come and view his achieved lots of success.