Manor High School Sports Centre and Facilities Fund
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Manor High School Excellence - Inspiration - Resilience - Respect Manor High School Not to scale and for illustration purposes only Newsletter 2019-2020 | Autumn Term October 2019 Manor High School Sports Centre and Facilities Fund Manor High School has enviable outdoor Funding for such projects is not readily If you have ideas or access to useful sports facilities. They are vast, green and available from the Department of contacts or to funding streams, or if you beautifully located. Our sporting ambitions Education or local authority, so instead, would like to raise money directly, please mean that we require a Sports Hall, fit for we will harness the energy and goodwill of use this link and contact us: 21st Century learning. Whilst we have our community, parents, governors and [email protected] been able to evolve our site to meet the alumni. Our students and community deserve the aspirations and needs of our learners, our Our community will help us to realise the best. Our relentless pursuit of excellence current gym was built in 1968 and is too vision. Our parental body covers a wide means that as well as our recent small. range of professions with many contacts in outstanding GCSE success, we aspire to Our vision is to create a sporting facility finance, business and commerce. We ask provide the best sporting facilities so that that will benefit the school and for your support in raising the funds, your every learner thrives. community. As well as state of the art help and any useful contacts you may multi-court facilities, our proposal includes have. a fitness suite, dance hall and additional classrooms/meeting rooms. Examples of similar designs can be seen attached. The Sports Centre will be accommodated comfortably within our existing land without compromising our outdoor provision or our neighbours. The additional inside facilities will enhance the extensive outdoor space available to our students and community users. The Sports Centre will be available to host a number of local sporting groups and clubs who hold regular weekly sessions, and will also available for one off hire. An example of a similar project at a school in Hertfordshire NEWSLETTER | Autumn Term 2 An Exceptional Open Evening Our choir at our Open Evening On Thursday 19 September we invited our As well as information from our local families and community to attend curriculum leaders on the subjects offered our annual Open Evening. at Manor High, there was information available about our bus routes and the It was a great event, with presentations admissions process. from our senior leaders and students past and present. Our orchestra performed It was a very busy evening with a lovely beautifully, captivating the audience with atmosphere, and the opportunity for their harmonies. those attending to learn about and experience first-hand the Magic of Manor. Each department relished showing off their skills and expertise through exciting ADMISSIONS PROCESS hands-on activities, challenges and tasks, We have been asked repeatedly over including liquid nitrogen ice cream making recent weeks about applications to Year 7 which is always extremely popular! in 2020 at Manor High, and are happy to Our student ambassadors were, as clarity the process: always, a true credit to the school. • Applications should be made through Whether they were helping in the your local authority. departments, taking families on orientation tours or running charity stalls. • County residents have three choices of All took great pride in showing off their secondary school and city residents school to our guests. have four. If you have any queries or have heard differently, please contact us or contact • All choices should be used to indicate County admissions for further your preferred schools; it is wise to use clarification. all of them so that the choice is not made on your behalf. We are really looking forward to working with new families and taking new pupils • If you wish to apply for more than one through the Manor High Way on their Oadby secondary school, you can. five-year journey with us. • Your preferences for school will be COUNTY APPLICANTS APPLY HERE: considered when places are allocated. www.leicestershire.gov.uk/education-and • There are no restrictions in regards to -children/schools-colleges-and- the schools you wish to apply for. academies/school-admissions/apply-for-a • The deadline for applications is -secondary-school-place Thursday 31st October 2019. CITY APPLICANTS APPLY HERE: It is essential that you apply for your place www.leicester.gov.uk/schools-and- by the deadline of 31st October. Late learning/school-and-colleges/school- applications receive the lowest priority. admissions/starting-secondary-school/ Please ensure that you do not miss out. NEWSLETTER | Autumn Term 3 LSL Post-16 Careers and Education Event In early October, Manor This important phase of education is a • Wyggeston and Queen Elizabeth I High hosted an mixed market and we are delighted that College informative event around having achieved such high GCSE grades • Gateway College post-16 pathways this year, our pupils gained places in their organised by Learning sixth form of choice. • Leicester College South Leicestershire (LSL). The feedback was extremely positive and • City of Leicester College A wide range of local post-16 providers, families went away with a strong sense • South Leicestershire College apprenticeships and sixth form colleges, of the routes available to them. both state and independent, from • Wigston College Thank you to all of the providers who around the county and city were in attended the evening: • Beauchamp College attendance to raise awareness of the great choices on offer in this area. • University of Leicester • Beauchamp City Sixth Form The event was popular, highly • De Montfort University • Robert Smyth Academy informative and well-attended by • Regent College • Cheryl McCarthy - Careers Adviser students and their families from both Manor High School and across the 16 • Leicester Grammar Sixth Form • Royal Air Force schools within the Learning South • Ratcliffe College Leicestershire group. After seven years of rapid progress, we The school will maintain its caring nature Excellence, conducted the same exercise in 2019 and through the vertical tutoring system, reached the following conclusion. Whilst which supports teamwork across age care is at the heart of all that we do, our groups. This will continue as a unique Inspiration, school has evolved from a 10-14 nurturing #MagicofManor feature. However, it is environment to an 11-16 setting in which right that, through our highly-regarded Resilience and pupils are prepared academically, but also and progressive pastoral work, our in their confidence, eloquence, flexibility, ambitious curriculum and enrichment competitiveness and ability to welcome programmes, we develop our students’ Respect and embrace change and challenges. resilience going forwards. As reported in July, we have recently We live in an uncertain era of rapid changed our core values to those above. economic, social, technological and political development. Students need to Our original values were agreed in 2012 be fully equipped and ready for this world by pupils, parents, carers, staff and and the challenges ahead. governors who settled upon the four front -runners: Excellence, Inspiration, Care and We were delighted to find that resilience Respect. These were well-chosen and emerged as the most popular choice ideal. They provided bespoke values for among stakeholders for our new core our ethos-driven school. value. NEWSLETTER | Autumn Term 4 House News Some of our student leaders May I take this opportunity to say I hope memorable day for us and the school Bradgate you all have a wonderful half term, I look considering it was our very first event to forward to welcoming you all back fully raise money for our charity Wishes4kids. Bradgate have got off to a flying refreshed ready for the run up to From the Clarendon side of the team we start this academic year! I am pleased to Christmas! hosted a raffle, table top sale, guess how see all of the students returning after the Miss V Booth many sweets are in the jar and guess the summer with a very positive mind set. name of the teddy. A lot of preparation Bradgate are currently at the top of the Clarendon and hard work went into all the stalls, a leader board for the House Cup and I very well done and thank you for that! hope this continues through the year. Clarendon have had a successful start to We would like to say a big thank you to the new academic year. As it is the start of a new academic year the Friends of Manor for organising this we have a new Student Leadership Team, As always, the Year 7s have settled in special day and contributing towards it our House Captains are Pearl Sahu and quickly and this continues to show that with the food stall and the face paint and Muhammed Ahmed who are supported our students are welcoming and eager to many other activities that were there. by their Deputy Captains Naila Girach and support all. Another big thank you goes to all the car Netania Martinson. The team have a The student leadership team, led by booters who came to support us and challenge on their hands to exceed the Ayushi Suchak and Aaisha Daya, are busy made this event a successful thing and by total Bradgate House raised for Rainbows raising money for the charity bringing their car along and contributing last year, so I can’t wait to see lots of Wishes4Kids. Read their article about the £5 towards the school. fundraising events taking place. successful event in conjunction with Finally a big thank you to the visitors who Friends of Manor (right).