Meols Cop High School Weekly Bulletin Week Ending Inclusive Excellence for ALL Friday 25th November 2016
Reminder of Early Closure and Inset Day Next Week [from 2 bulletins ago]
Friday December 2nd is an Inset Day on our calendar, so the school will be closed for students on that day. The night before is our Reward’s Evening for the ex year 11 students who left us last year. The event will be in school this year and not Southport Theatre and other events will follow for current students in the summer term. School will close early on Thursday 1st December at 2.10. so that our Teaching Assistants and Teaching Staff can receive additional training as a group at the same time. Apologies in advance.
Sad Farewell
Today sees the last day at Meols Cop for Miss McQueen before she joins the staff at Highfield school in Blackpool as subject leader for English! Miss is one of the first teachers in the NW to be ‘parachuted’ into failing and coasting schools as part of a government initiative to employ outstanding teachers in the most needy areas of the country. Sophie McQueen joined us 8 years ago helping out in music before qualifying with us as a full time teacher of both music and drama. She then gained promotion to become subject leader for performing arts and has made a significant contribution to our school in terms of both her classroom teaching and her extra-curricular clubs and performances. The highlights for me have been the Shakespeare festivals and the power of ‘My Mother Said’ alongside some of the vast improvements the choir has made under her tutelage. Winning the Southport Music Festival last year was testament to the hours of after school work Miss put into the choir and performing arts in general. Sophie is a reflective teacher, always keen to improve and collaborate and she has taken on a huge challenge in her next role. I know that she has the drive and skills to make the most of this new post and to make the changes that will ensure the students and staff at Highfield are able to enjoy and achieve success in their English lessons. Good luck and thank you from all at Meols Cop.
Almost Newly Wed!
Mr Abram, who students will know as the man in the finance office, gets married tomorrow! We wish the new Mr and Mrs Abram a lovely day and a happy future married life. Congratulations Wes!
SEND Ofsted
A huge thank you from me to all of the staff, students and parents who supported MCHS when the HMI visited us this week. There were lots of volunteers to speak to the inspectors and to cover duties when senior staff were involved in the meetings.
Year 11 Revision Evening
What a great turn out there was for both sessions of our interactive revision sessions this Tuesday night. Thank you to mums and dads for supporting your children and to all of the teachers who organised, led and supported. So much has changed following on from the latest research re learning and memory and I hope that year 11 learning ‘sticks’ in the trial examinations which begin in 2 weeks!
Meols Cop High School Weekly Bulletin Week Ending Inclusive Excellence for ALL Friday 25th November 2016
Christmas Movie Night
Year 7 and year 8 are invited to join us for a Christmas movie and to get into the Christmas spirit
Friday 16th December from 6pm until 8pm in the school hall
There will be a tuck shop, popcorn stall and drinks available to buy
Tickets are £2 and are available from the Progress Managers Office
All proceeds will be donated to help fund Noah Cunningham’s Hydrotherapy Pool
Well done to all the students who achieved 10/10 on their Week 9 Science
“Golden Retrieval”!
KS3 Year 7 Charmaine Benito, Aaron Beyer-Kay, Emily DAVIES, William Flynn, Amelia Gelling, Emily Hughes, Aimee-Rose Hunt, Lewis Midgley, Joseph Wright, Amy Farquharson, Jacob Fenney, Lucy FOWLER, Charlie McCLUSKEY, Francesco NAVARRA, Nicholas NAVARRA, Hannah Turri, Merry Wylder, Otto Goodson, James Healy, Charles LAMONT, Ruby Lawrance, Brogan Lees, Aimee Machin-Grove, Natasha Moss, Jordan Potts, Joseph SMITH, Harry Walmsley. Year 8 Tia Amy, Jack Barton, Cerys Burrows, Jay Curran, Lewis Griffiths, Molly Harrison, Rachel Hooton, Robert Iles, Rebecca Kilduff, Joshua Leddy, Brooke McFord, Finlay McLeod, Jordan Monahan, Jamie Morris, Jasmine Ray, Scarlet Savage, Dylan Tindall, Caitlin Walton, Daisy Whitehead, Elliot Brammer, Benjamin Bush, Maria Datcu, Alexander Golding, Nicole Helsby, William Holden, Isobelle Hopkins-Lane, Tia Howard, Abbie King, Kiera McArdle, Oliver Potter, Alisha Rimmer, Kimberley Smith, Toby Vickers, Lewis Walton, Brandon Webster, Nancy Whiteside, Matthew Wilson, Shu Yi Yu, Peyton Megan Edwards, Morgan Elliott, Lilly Holmes, Ruby Jones, Abbie Leivesley, Andre Lourenco, Grant, Anthony McCaw, Ruby Pearce, Jade Roberts, Pascal Saleta, Lilli Sweeney, Milosz Swiostek, Molly Veogente, Matthew Bishop, Dillon Beattie, Joseph Blackburn, Leyla Cakir, Teigan Clode, Katie Cowen, Lilly Flint, Charlotte Hughes, Charlie Kearns, Hayley Marshall, Aaron McLaughlin, Talia Owens-Hunt, Toby Povall, Ali Rabiei, Harrison Rayner-Smith, Morgan Redman, Paige Sumner, Annaliese Taylor, Jack Armitage, Liv Douglas, Joshua Halcrow, Chloe Higgs, Jessica Lakin-Ward, Jessica Marr, Jamie Martin, Grant, Maria McCaw, Maisie McDonnell, Courtney Whitehead. KS4 Year 9 Freya Garrett, Esme Goodson, Rebekah Helm, Finn Radcliffe, Max Wylder, Shakil Zaman, Jack Bilsborrow, Amy Christie, Leo Cooper, Emily James, Cameron Munro, Stephen Nelson. Year 10: Martha Jenkinson, Thomas Lamont, Aaron Napier, Ellis Nolan, Georgina Dickinson, Callum Scutt, Jim O'Keeffe, Ellie Blundell, Oliver Brookfield, Jamie Russell.
Meols Cop High School Weekly Bulletin Week Ending Inclusive Excellence for ALL Friday 25th November 2016
Library News from Mrs Burt December 2016 A Christmas Carol ‘Every idiot who goes about with ‘Merry Christ- mas’ on their lips, should be boiled with his own pud- ding, and buried with a stake of holly through his heart’. Ebenezer Scrooge
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 1 2 3 Reading and Reading and Connect Four Connect Four support support
4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Reading. A Christmas A Christmas A Christmas Library Word searches Quiz film at film at and crosswords With prizes lunchtime lunchtime Closed 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 Reading. Reading. Word A Christmas A Christmas A Christmas Connect Four searches and Quiz film at film at Homework due crosswords Con- With prizes lunchtime lunchtime Con- in this week nect Four home- Connect Four Connect Four nect Four work due homework due homework due homework due
18 19 20 21 22 23 24 Final date for Final Christmas Library Closed Connect Four Quiz with prizes homework due
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Meols Cop High School Weekly Bulletin Week Ending Inclusive Excellence for ALL Friday 25th November 2016
Sport and Health
As you all know by now we launched the GULP (give up loving pop) project in September which saw a ban on fizzy and sugary drinks as well as providing every student with a free water bottle to encourage students to drink more water and cut out added sugar in their diets. Myself and Miss O’Callaghan have worked hard to get this off the ground and we are regularly discussing issues around added sugar with students; both in lessons and during form time activities.
In conjunction with this, we would now like to draw your attention to the term health and how this can be achieved by your son/ daughter taking part regularly in after school sports clubs. Being healthy can be defined as:
“A state of complete mental, physical and social well-being; not merely the absence of illness or infirmity”.
So being healthy isn’t just about being free from a disease or illness, but about a holistic approach to our mental, physical and social well-being. There are a million and one different reasons as to why we should all exercise on a regular basis and a few of these are highlighted below. Mental benefits include: improved confidence relief of stress/tension (often caused by exam pressure) relief of stress related illness Physical benefits include: improved fitness improved body shape improved posture
Social benefits include:
meeting people making friends socialising with friends
Also being a member of a sports club and regularly participating in sport will develop personal qualities from: co-operation – working with others competition – testing yourself against others physical challenge – testing yourself against the environment or your best performances aesthetic appreciation – recognizing quality of movement in a performance
So as the winter starts to draw in and the nights are becoming darker we always notice a drop in our after school clubs. Please encourage your sons/ daughters to continue coming to after school clubs and if you need to see what’s on please refer to the PE timetable. In particular, GCSE PE handball on a Monday (years 10 and 9), girls hockey and boxing on a Tuesday and girls archery (years 8-10) on a Wednesday, appear to be the worst hit so your help and support with this is really appreciated. Mrs Piearce-Swift
SE PE Year 10 Super Stars A massive well done to the GCSE PE students from Mrs Piearce-Swift and Mr Easom’s class who have made a fantastic start to GCSE PE in particular with the theory side of the course which is now worth 60%. Keep up the hard work and make sure you are all attending handball training on a Monday.
Meols Cop High School Weekly Bulletin Week Ending Inclusive Excellence for ALL Friday 25th November 2016
Congratulations Emily James for achieving the dance star of the month award, displaying; 100% enthusiasm, creativity and commitment to dance in and outside of lessons.
Girl’s Soccer
Last Friday we took two Under 13’s football teams to play in a tournament organised by Liverpool FC at Goals North Liverpool. Despite the weather conditions all our girls performed brilliantly! We had some amazing results including beating Range 4.0, Savio 6.0 and Chesterfield 1.0! A special mention goes to Kaitlin Gillespie who scored more than 10 goals in the tournament, a fantastic achievement! Players of the tournament were Kaitlin and Daisy Hynes. Our pupils also got the opportunity to meet England and Everton star Jenna Dear, some of our girls are pictured with her below.
Meols Cop High School Weekly Bulletin Week Ending Inclusive Excellence for ALL Friday 25th November 2016
English Stars
Year 8 have been studying ‘The Highwayman’ by Alfred Noyes. This week the whole class have performed dramatic monologues in role of one of the characters from the poem. Each performance was brilliant and unique and showed a wonderful understanding of the poem from several different points of view. There were outstanding performances by: Joseph Blackburn, Teigan Clode, Charlotte Hughes, Shannon Jones, Harrison Rayner-Smith and Morgan Redman. Some of the class overcame their nerves with this task and showed fantastic growth mind-set; well done to: Matthew Ashcroft-Lamont, Katie Cowan, Lilly Flint, Charlie Kearns and Aaron McLaughlin. The Star Performance for the class is awarded to Laura Clare who Mrs Cliffe, Mrs Gaskell and the rest of the class agree performed the most amazing monologue. Well done to the class for all their hard work.
Mrs Cliffe
Year 8 have been getting into the spirit of the season creating some sensational snow poems. All of the class have worked hard to develop their use of poetic devices, using some wonderful vocabulary too.
Snow As the snow falls my parents moan ‘Wet clothes again!’ they always moan Whilst I’m stuck in the classroom, can’t wait to get home To play out in the snow.
I want to build an igloo with lots of snow walls As I wait for my friends and the silky snow falls I wait in the garden as excited as a mouse with cheese ‘Snow fight?’ I ask them they reply ‘Yes please!’
James Lloyd 8.3B
Snow Snow is my favourite thing We can have snowball fights We can make snowmen as big as a double decker bus! Now Christmas is here it is so snowy It all lays on the floor looking as comfortable as a cloud.
Jamie Ackerman-Scott 8.3B
Meols Cop High School Weekly Bulletin Week Ending Inclusive Excellence for ALL Friday 25th November 2016
More Great Learners to Tell You About!
Year 10 great growth mind set in Year 8 Great growth mind-set and star lessons: pupils:
Jordan Smith Shu YI Yu Olly Brookefield Nancy Whiteside Martha Jenkinson Kiera Mc Ardle Ellie Blundell Joshua Halcrow Conor Lunt Maisie Mc Donnell Freya Mathews Stephen Todd Callum Scutt Megan Kirk
Year 9 great growth mind-set and star pupils:
Cameron Hayes Megan Tate Miss Douglas Katie Halsall Geography
Year 7 Great Growth mind-set and star pupils:
Chermaine Benito
Amelia Gelling Ben Johnston Morgan Fyles
Year 9 Great Learners
The following students have shown fantastic progress in their coding skills using Python. They worked independently and developed their coding skills at home using advanced features. They are able to understand complicated functions and statements.
Freya Garret Katie Halsall Kieran Samuels Max Wylder Shakil Zaman David Keenan
Mr Roberts
Meols Cop High School Weekly Bulletin Week Ending Inclusive Excellence for ALL Friday 25th November 2016
More Python Stars! Year 8 Progress Stars in Python coding. The following students have shown a flair for programming and have made excellent progress with their coding techniques. They have worked independently and shared their knowledge with their peers. They have also attained an excellent grade in their end of unit assessment. Mr Vinaccia
Dominika Brzezinska Matthew Ashcroft-Lamont The following students showed great Leyla Cakir maturity and intelligence when discussing Teigan Clode issues that affect modern French society: Harrison Rayner-Smith Jake Marshall Abdou Souadi Toby Povall Lloyd Hickey Caitlin Walton Aaron Beyer-Kay Dylan Tindall Aimee-Rose Hunt Rebecca Kilduff Mark Jarvis-Mayern Alfie Dahl Bethany Russell Aaron Gregson Daniel Prescott-Corfield Robert Iles Cameron Nolan Scarlet Savage Lewis Vos Stuart Ball Lewis O’Donnell Tia Amy Jack Roome Paris Basson Ethan Murphy Emily Reed Thomas Kidd Maisy Whalley Jonathon Bateman Amy Colebourn Richard Booth Abbie Henstock Gabriel Murphy Mr James James Lloyd
The following students have been great in History recently:
Liv Douglas James McManus Thomas Wright Charmaine Benito Libby Munro Dylan Burrows Cameron Hayes Jhanaica Mook Kaitlin Dewhurst Alex Williams
Miss Taylor
Meols Cop High School Weekly Bulletin Week Ending Inclusive Excellence for ALL Friday 25th November 2016
GCSE Catering:
The GCSE Catering students are working consistently hard on completing their Catering coursework to very high standard, keep up the good work!
Shannon Bradshaw Molly Crawford Dylan Doherty Taylor Gallagher Adam Johnston Danny Johnston Bella Kenyon Aaron Maynard Savanna Mclaughlan Jack Rickers
Miss O’Callaghan Head of Food Technology
Interesting food fact:
Winter is definitely here and we should all be enjoying what’s in season such as apples, swede, brussel sprouts and sweet potato. To find out more about what’s in season and why it is important to ‘eat the seasons’ use the link below:
http://www.bbcgoodfood.com/seasonal-calendar/all
Did you know.. Brussel sprouts may be small, but this vegetable packs in a nutritional punch. In fact, an 80g serving of sprouts contains four times more vitamin C than an orange!
Progress stars- the whole of 9.2A whom have thrown themselves into a physical theatre lesson in which they are creating the story of the 3 little pigs using just their bodies and sound-scapes! Despite only having a lesson a fortnight, they have been really inspired by the theatre company off balance and their version of Robin Hood. Images to follow!
Meols Cop High School Weekly Bulletin Week Ending Inclusive Excellence for ALL Friday 25th November 2016
Lovely News from our African friends