17 JUNE 2019 ISSUE

WETHERBY HIGH SCHOOL 120

ASSEMBLIES 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 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 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, 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 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. marketing skills to keep cash flow multimillion pound business. At the The team consisted of: RC, Olivia running through the business and to Yorkshire and Humber finals, the team Cox, AW, EW, LK, JD, JB, TS and HW. drum up recognition. were awarded with the Sustainability Young Enterprise is a national charity The students were actively Promoting Award again as they liked that the that prides itself in motivating young their product and where they students were more environmentally people to succeed in changing the would be available on social media. focussed, as opposed to profit world of work by equipping them They also were given a stall by the focussed, which is quite rare in the with the work skills, knowledge and Wetherby Lions at the Dickensian current economic climate. confidence they need. Market in December 2018, sold their The students have been on a massive Over 4,500 people have taking part candles at Oastler Shopping Centre journey and they have made so much in the Young Enterprise scheme in Bradford and at the White Rose progress throughout which they can since it was originally introduced, Shopping Centre in Leeds. take with them into future careers. and in 2017/18 alone the Young At the Young However, it is important to note that Enterprise team engaged with over Enterprise Final 2019, they came their success would not have been 320,000 students to help them home with the Sustainability Award made possible without the help of develop their business, financial and and they were the overall winners. and the Wetherby Lions. entrepreneurial capabilities. Really well done team! Miss Jennings

7 AT A GLANCE / THE COACHING CHRONICLE AT WETHERBY HIGH / ISSUE 120 WETHERBY HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS SUCCEED AT THE MIDDLETON BIKE HUB COMPETITION

On Thursday 6th June, eight of our KS3 students went to compete in the Leeds Area Cycling Competition at Middleton Bike Hub. The winners will represent Leeds in the West Yorkshire Schools Games Cycling Finals at . There were a variety of races that they competed in and we qualified to take a team to the finals. HH and RJ came 1st and 3rd in the boys race and Wetherby High team 1 won the team time trial with RJ, TR, RR and GW. Wetherby High’s team 2 was EG, HH, TD and ZL who were only one second slower than Wetherby 1 but unfortunately only one team per school can compete at the finals. The competition, however, was great experience for them and bodes well for next year’s competition. Mr Roylance

8 AT A GLANCE / THE COACHING CHRONICLE AT WETHERBY HIGH / ISSUE 120 CAUGHT READING Mr Kelly has been caught reading The Life You Never Expected by Andrew and Rachel Wilson.

WHAT IS IT ABOUT? This is not just a book for families Sometimes you end up living the life and friends of special needs you never expected. When Andrew children, but for all who have and Rachel found out that both of their been thrown a curve ball in life. children had severe autism, their world WHY/HOW DID YOU was turned on its head. CHOOSE IT? This is a book about surviving, and I’m currently reading this book thriving, when something goes horribly because I have read a book by wrong. It is a mixture of their story and Andrew Wilson before called If God's story, and the way in which his God, then what? has shaped theirs. The authors are both As I am a Christian - I love Christians and they tackle their problems reading books tackling God and using clarity and biblical insight; they the world we live in today. They share their experience of grief and really challenge me and make worship, struggle and hope. me reflect and think about my from telling the whole truth about the As well as reflecting on the specific life and what it means to have a trials of parenting special-needs children, challenges of raising children with special faith. and it reminds us of our need for the needs, they speak to broader questions The Life We Never Expected is gospel every day. This isn’t a book that’s as well: the problem of suffering, building an honest, confessional, and going to tell you to pull yourself up by a marriage under pressure, fighting for hopeful book. It doesn’t flinch your bootstraps and try harder. joy and trusting in the goodness of God.

CROSSWORD AROUND THE WORLD

ACROSS DOWN 1. US volcano, Mount... 1. Roughly built (2,6) settlements, ... towns 5. Supersonic planes 2. Large African antelope 7. Taj Mahal city 3. Nasty disease 8. Cambridge & named after a river in Oxford universities the Democratic 9. Treeless Arctic zone Republic of the 12. Coniferous tree Congo, ... virus found in Europe 4. Underground train 15. Vienna is there system 19. Croatian capital 5. City in northwest India 21. Peninsula in 6. People from southwest Stockholm 22. Manchurian river 10. Scotland's monster 23. Central attraction of lake, Loch... Piccadilly Circus 11. German industrial 24. Region that includes region 13. Italy's Leaning Tower of... 17. Earth's glacial period (3,3) Japan, China and 12. Washington-based 14. Kuwaiti ruler 18. Portugal and Korea (4,4) spy group (1,1,1) 15. Native American tribe 19. Bantu peoples of Natal 16. Sport played at Wimbledon 20. West African nation

9 AT A GLANCE / THE COACHING CHRONICLE AT WETHERBY HIGH / ISSUE 120 NUMER4CY P4GE SUDOKU CHALLENGE Try and fill in the grid using the numbers 1,2,3,4,5 and 6. RULES: Every row has to have the numbers 1-6 Every column has to have the numbers 1-6 Every 3 x 2 box has to have the numbers 1-6 Good luck!

There were four football matches taking place on Tuesday MIX evening. DAVE thought the winners would be Coventry, Crewe, Derby AND and Leeds. NICK thought that Leeds, Millwall, Derby and Stoke would be MATCH the winning teams. JOHN said "Wolves, Millwall, Crewe and Leeds would win all their matches and that Bradford would once again score no WHO PLAYED WHO? goals."

10 AT A GLANCE / THE COACHING CHRONICLE AT WETHERBY HIGH / ISSUE 120 GIVE 16-YEAR-OLDS MORE CHOICE – EMPLOYERS SAY

Source: BBC

Sixteen-year-olds in England should not be restricted to a choice of A-levels or T-levels, business leaders say.

The new Technical levels, or T-levels as they will be known, will be introduced from 2020. The Confederation of British Industry says the government needs to avoid "premature" cuts to other qualifications such as Btecs. Ministers have been consulting on withdrawing money from qualifications that may overlap with T-levels. They have made it clear they would prefer students who want to study choosing from these two types of qualifications after GCSEs. John Cope, the CBI's head of education and skills, said: "Bringing In a consultation that has just closed, clarity to an often confusing landscape of 13,000 technical the government has asked for views on qualifications is long overdue, but must be done gradually with time for withdrawing public funding from qualifications employers and providers to adapt." for 16 to 19-year-olds that overlap with either At the moment around 200,000 16 to 19-year-olds study each A-levels or T-levels. While there is support year for either a Btec or one of the thousands of applied general for the principle of a simpler system, with qualifications. These include certificates or diplomas in subjects as strong technical options for students, many varied as engineering, music technology, business and health and organisations are expressing concerns social care. The government has suggested that too many of the about too much change too quickly. The 12,000 qualifications on offer to teenagers may be either obsolete or Confederation of British Industry has told the not rigorous enough. But Geoff Barton, general secretary of the head government it "must not underestimate the teachers union ASCL, said there was a risk of narrowing the options scale of the T-level reforms and the impact too soon for teenagers. "Thousands of 16-year-olds get decent GCSE of prematurely ending funding for existing passes but miss out on the higher grades, and aren't certain whether qualifications." their best bet in the future is to go down an academic or technical path. Btecs are a really good choice for them as they keep their Questions options open." He added that some teenagers • What sort of qualifications do you think needed time to work out you will need post 16? whether an apprenticeship, • Do you know what ‘T’ Levels are? work or university would suit them. "It would be very tough • What do you think are the most on these young people to force them to choose between T-levels and important skills you will need for the future? A-levels. There is a real risk that they may start courses which they find don't suit them and then drop out of education altogether."

11 AT A GLANCE / THE COACHING CHRONICLE AT WETHERBY HIGH / ISSUE 120 RULES 3 points for a correct score 1 point for a correct result CHALLENGE E-PRAISE POINTS: 1st – 500 points to the House 2nd – 250 points to the House KING 3rd – 100 points to the House If you beat Mr King 100 points to the House

WEEK 19 WOMEN’S WORLD CUP SHEETS IN BY MONDAY 17TH JUNE

FIXTURE GK COACHING GROUP

SOUTH KOREA v NORWAY 0-1

NIGERIA v FRANCE 2-0

CHINA v SPAIN 1-2

SOUTH AFRICA v GERMANY 0-3

ITALY v BRAZIL 0-0

JAMAICA v AUSTRALIA 0-1

JAPAN v ENGLAND 1-2

SCOTLAND v ARGENTINA 2-0

CAMEROON v NEW ZEALAND 1-0

NETHERLANDS v CANADA 1-0

SWEDEN v USA 0-2

THAILAND v CHILE 0-2

RESULTS WEEK 18 MR KING 5 POINTS 1ST MISS JENNINGS ​TR4​ 4 POINTS​ 500 EPRAISE POINTS 2ND MR KELLY​​ BR14 3 POINTS​ 250 EPRAISE POINTS

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