Volume 36 Codsall Community High School
Autumn Term 2019 In Federation with Bilbrook (CE) and Perton Middle Schools
Welcome
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As we come to the end of our first term of the academic year it’s CONTENTS important for us to take stock of the excellent work undertaken by each of the three schools within our federation. Our students are INFORMATION so fortunate to have staff that will always go the extra mile in Exam Invigilators Required ensuring that the students get the very best deal possible. A very brief summary of some of the opportunities our students have this HOUSE NEWS term would include: JAVA / MATRIX
Year 8 and Year 10 visits to the World Skills Show at the NEC OBERON / VECTOR Charity "Bake Offs" STUDENT NEWS Theatre visits to see pantomimes, plays and to speak to DofE Volunteering authors Links with Midcounties Co-op “Bikeability” sessions in both middle schools Children in Need Bake Off "Helping Your Child" events at the High School with Student Investor Challenge
external speakers. A-Level Business Trip University visits for 6th formers Christmas Tea Dance Visits to Birmingham Library for 6th formers Student Parliament "Restart a Heart" training for pupils Y11 Presentation Evening Plane building group for pupils at Perton Middle, Bilbrook
Middle and Codsall Middle Y10 Employability Skills Day
We also had a fantastic Key Stage 4 Presentation Evening at the Green Pioneers Project
High School to celebrate the many student successes of the Careers Round-up
previous year. Our speaker, Matt Currall, was able to inspire the Welcome to the 6th Form
audience with his own story of success following his education at Well Being Award for Codsall High School. Schools
We also celebrated the 30th anniversary of Perton Middle School in Duke of Edinburgh Award
December. We were fortunate enough to have Gavin Williamson, Reading Project Secretary of State for Education (at the time of writing!) as our guest. He was bowled over with the pride and sense of belonging STAFF NEWS Welcome to new staff the pupils have for Perton Middle School, especially during an + unscripted question and answer session with the students! Tough Mudder Challenge for Cancer Research As ever, I want to thank all involved in making the term such a success as well as the parents and carers who have taken the time SPORT to write to us to thank us for the work undertaken across our PE Department Round-up
schools. We will keep on pushing to be better and better each and Rock Climbing Trip
every day. Sports Captains
Wolves Foundation Finally, I’d like to wish everyone a happy BTEC Sport Trip to Molineux and restful Christmas and New Year and I look forward to seeing everyone in DATES FOR YOUR DIARY 2020.
Alun Harding
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For Your Information...
This term we MRS KIELEY - who joined us from Heath Park School as Head of Business Studies. W e l c o m e d … .
MISS DAWE - who joined us from North Birmingham Academy as a Health & Social Care teacher.
MRS PARGETER - who joined us as from Haybridge High School as an English teacher.
MISS MASIH - who joined us from Keele University as an NQT English teacher.
MR SWANN-HORLER - who joined us from Oldbury Wells School in Bridgnorth as a Chemistry teacher.
MS CUTTS - who joined us from Baxter College as a Geography and History teacher. She is also an examiner for AQA and teaches in Iceland with school groups during school holidays.
MRS HOLDING - who joined us from South Staffordshire College as a Health & Social Care teacher.
MRS FOGGIN- who joined us as a SIMS and Student Services Assistant.
MISS WRIGHT - who joined us from Cheslyn Hay Academy as a KS4 Academic Mentor.
MRS CARROLL- who joined us from Bielefeld School, Germany as a Science teacher.
MS RAYWORTH - who joined us as a Science teacher.
MR GORMAN - who joined us as an Apprentice TA.
MISS HUMPHRIES - who joined us as an Apprentice TA.
MR CHADWICK - who joined us as a temporary PE teacher.
And Said Goodbye to:
MS PRICE - who leaves us after BACK TO SCHOOL six months as a Cover Supervisor to join Tettenhall Wood Special The Spring term School. begins on Monday
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For Your Information...
QUIET PLEASE Casual Exam
EXAMS IN Invigilators PROGRESS Required
From May through to June 2020. Please ring Sharon Page for further details: 01902 907567 or email: [email protected]
Parental parking
Please respect our neighbours and be considerate when parking On 4th October in the roads surrounding the our staff made cakes and school. Please try not to block sold them during their drives when parking to collect coffee morning and students. raised Thank you £74.66
MAIN SWITCHBOARD 6th FORM CENTRE Don’t forget our DIRECT LINE 01902 907560 01902 907564 telephone number for STUDENT ABSENCES SCHOOL WEBSITE easier communication 01902 907565 www.cc-hs.com
New School App Receive alerts about important information Read about school news and events Browse and subscribe to the school’s calendar Contact the school with a single click Download at www.ch-pb.com/schoolapps Autumn 2019 Newsletter Page 4
For Your Information...
The following advice has been received from the National Crime Agency’s CEOP Command regarding online safety:
How does grooming work online?
Grooming is about building a relationship with a child in order to later abuse them. This can be far easier online.
Games, social media, live streaming platforms and chatrooms enable people to make contact with children to try to groom them. They can create multiple online identities and even pretend to be children and young people to trick real children into chatting and sharing. They can find out a lot about individual children before they make contact by looking at the things the child has posted. Using this information they can target children who are particularly vulnerable and carefully plan what they will say and show an interest in. They can also contact lots of children very quickly in the hope that one will respond.
How can I tell if my child is being groomed online?
There isn’t one clear sign of online grooming and it can be very hard to spot. If your child is being groomed they will probably be trying to keep it a secret from you.
Have they suddenly become very secretive? People who abuse will try to stop young people telling their family and friends about the abusive relationship.
Are they sad or withdrawn but won’t say why? If something is going on with your child online it might be really upsetting them. They might feel trapped, like they can’t talk about it. Let them know you’re there to listen.
Do they seem distracted? We can all get caught up in ourselves if things are worrying us. If they seem unusually pre- occupied it might be because things are weighing on them which they feel they can’t talk about.
Do they have sudden mood swings? Mood swings are not uncommon in adolescence but they can be a sign that someone has built up a relationship with your child which is affecting their moods.
Are they unable to switch off from their phone or social media? Lots of us find it hard not to check our phone or the internet, but if your child gets particularly worried or stressed when they can’t, this can be a sign someone is controlling them.
Concerned about someone your child is in contact with?
If you are concerned that your child might be being groomed or are worried about online sexual abuse of the way someone has been communicating with your child you should seek support. You can contact your local police, children’s social care department or report directly to CEOP. Contact CEOP.police.uk/safety-centre/
If you want to discuss your concerns with someone, call the NSPCC Helpline on 0808 800 5000 or visit their website.
If you believe your child is at immediate risk, call the police on 999. Autumn 2019 Newsletter Page 5
For Your Information...
Revision Guides A range of revision guides and workbooks for GCSE, BTEC and A-Level are available to buy from the library at reduced rates. These are specific to the exam boards and courses run in school, prices vary from £2 to £6 depending on the subject and level.
PLEASE NOTE: Some Year 10 and Year 12 students will be starting new courses, so guides purchased for older siblings may no longer be suitable.
A hamper full of goodies was raffled, with the money raised going 50-50 to the Co-Op charity, Old Tree Nursery in Pendeford Hall Lane, and the Codsall High School 6th Form Tea Dance funds.
The Chocolate Hamper, sponsored by the Mid- Counties Co-Op in Codsall, was won by Toni Roberts, parent of Chloe-Anne and Josh Wootton. Well done!
As part of our Charity Day fundraising at the end of the summer term, Mr Birch hosted a FIFA 19 tournament., which was won by Rajan Mandair from V3. Well done Rajan! Page 6 Volume 36
As part of their Duke of Edinburgh Award, students take part in various volunteering projects.
During the past year, 80 students taking part in the Duke of Edinburgh Award at various levels have donated their time with a combined total of 1,547 hours of volunteering.
Volunteering activities included helping out with Brownies, Scouts and Cadets and in First and Middle schools.
Year 13 students Will Bryan and Ellie Willis explain what they did as part of their volunteering.
Will Bryan: “I started my DofE awards at Codsall High School and worked through the Bronze and Silver to the Gold award. All my volunteering has been based around football and rugby coaching.
For the Bronze award I did football coaching with Old Wulfrunians U7s team for three Ellie Willis: months. For the Silver award I moved on to “For my Bronze and Silver, I volunteered at six months coaching rugby for the U11s team Codsall Library helping the staff by giving at Wolverhampton Rugby Club based in assistance with preparing the crafts for the Castlecroft. children’s activities and completing library duties. For the Gold award, I continued with rugby coaching in Castlecroft for 12 months, moving For Gold Duke of Edinburgh my volunteering up with the U11s as they became U12s. This was participating by helping the younger years has been great as it has helped build up a of Codsall High School with sport in company rapport with them and built up mutual respect. with the PE teachers. To start, I attended the Netball Club after school. I lead the warm-ups I have thoroughly enjoyed the whole and took on smaller groups to practice drills experience of coaching and may continue in and work on tactical skills. This enabled me to future after A-levels.” provide advice as I have had my own netball experience.”
At Codsall High School we have strong links in our local community through our partnership with our local Midcounties Co-op store. Some of the projects and areas we have covered are:
Y9 / Y10 ‘Codsall Cook Off’ Y9 Sustainability Project (legacy from Green Pioneers) Visits to store Y10 Young Co-operators Conference Y12 Business sessions Y10 / Y12 Work Experience Y9 Green Pioneers Project - Outward Bound Y13 Ambassadors sit on local community group Autumn 2019 Newsletter Page 7
On Children in Need day, students and staff held a non-uniform day and a Codsall Bake-Off in aid of Children in Need.
Students were also given the opportunity to wear fancy dress and make a donation., and 6th form students sold samosas.
Codsall Bake-Off for Children in Need results: There were prizes for Best Bake Overall plus runners-up; a trophy for the Best House and a prize for staff ‘Star Baker’, awarded as follows:
Best Bake Overall - Lily Knot (J1) Runners-Up - Zephan Coward (V1) and Callum Kang (O8) Trophy for the best House was won by OBERON for highest student participation. The staff prize of a ‘Baking Champion’ spoon went to Mrs Bennett for representing Matrix on her own.
The winning students received ‘Love to Shop’ vouchers.
Mr Harding, the official cake tasting judge
The cake sale raised £74.33, and the own clothes day and samosa sales raised £1,040.
Thank you to all students and staff who contributed by baking and buying - we raised an amazing £1,114.33 for Children in Need.
Mr Bainbridge in full cake-selling mode Autumn 2019 Newsletter Page 8
In November, our Year 12 A-level Business Studies students started competing in the Student Investor Challenge run by The London Institute of Banking & Finance. The challenge is designed to support students with their studies on market capitalisation and share capital. This is a national competition with over 2,500 schools competing across the UK. Students are working in teams of four where they have been given £100,000 of virtual money that they have to use to trade shares on the live London Stock Exchange. At the end of the competition the winning team has the chance to attend an all-expenses paid trip to New York to visit the New York Stock Exchange and Wall Street.
Students taking part are:
Abigail Speakman Harry Stallard Harvey Rock Amit Nijjar Kyle Bridges Scott Duckhouse Vinay Nagi Lily Davey Maggie Hollis-Everist Olivia Hull Sam Wilcox Eden Crane Kristen Cummings Isabel Dew Amrit Nahal Joseph Dibble James McLachlan William Perry Ben Neilson L-r: Joseph Dibble, James McLachlan, William Perry and Ben Neilson
On Friday 30th November, 22 A-Level Business students attended a Grade Booster Revision Workshop (Strong Foundations) organised by Tutor2U at Star City, Vue Cinemas, Birmingham.
The workshop was designed to enhance students’ knowledge of subject theory and provided valuable insights in exam technique. The main focus of the workshop was to equip students with the key skills needed to succeed at A-Level Business Studies in the summer exams. Page 9 Volume 36
On 4th December, ambassadors from 6th form hosted a tea dance for 62 local guests.
Following the food, entertainment was provided by Perton Middle School and Codsall High School singing groups; party games; and singing from Katie Cross, 6th form president.
Katie Cross singing at the Tea Party
Some of the 6th form in action at the Christmas Tea Party Autumn 2019 Newsletter Page 10
This school year we have introduced a House Council with representatives from each House.
The house councils are made up as follows:
Java: Y11 - Tom Gibson, Leah Bateman, Ivan Pekar and Jenny Roeton Y10 - Joshua Brookes, Isabelle Hunter, Sam Robinson and Carla Walley
Oberon: Y11 - Ellie Eagleton, Ellie Neville, Elliot Moss and Phoebe Mumford Y10 - Millie Dubberley, Daire Gilbey, Luke Gaydon and Katerina Vorontsova
Matrix: Y11 - Will Perry, Isabelle Newey Ollie Rowberry Scarlett Chilvers; Y10 - Dylan Wright, Olivia Bates Alex Keeley and Anna Mayor
Vector: Y11 - Norman Fletcher, Honor Haywood, Thomas Careless and Precious Riley Y10 - James Wall, Hatty-Mai McMahon, Jack Wakeman and Maddison Hughes
Representatives from each house council sit on the Student Parliament group chaired by Executive Headteacher Alun Harding. The Student Parliament acts as the voice of the student population and ensures they play an import part in improving our school.
On 15th September, fresh from the Summer holidays, twelve members of staff braved the mud to take part in the Tough Mudder Challenge in Stoke in aid of Cancer Research.
Well done to Mr Stinger-Abbots, Mr Rushton, Ms Morgan, Ms Stanton, Mr Pritchard, Mrs Riley Mrs Winnall, Mr Humphries, Mrs Baynam, Mrs Green and Mrs Carmell and Mr Buckley.
Together they raised over £700. Autumn 2019 Newsletter Page 11
In November students, parents and staff attended the Year 11 presentation evening to celebrate their success in their GCSEs.
Guest speaker Matthew Currall, a former student, presented some of the awards. Matthew started his professional career at Barclaycard and became the youngest ever Head of Function at the age of 26. In 2018 he won the prestigious “Best People Culture” award at the European Industry Award.
Special awards were presented to:
Per Ardua Ad Astra Awards Timothy Nightingale (presented by Mrs Davies, SENCO) Alex Bull (presented by Mrs Davies, SENCO)
The Professor David Leigh Award for Chemistry Rachel Evans
The Ryan Birch Memorial Award Lily Pearson Lily Pearson (above) and Rachel Michael Bristow Memorial Award Evans with their Katie Johnson (presented by a friend of Michael Bristow)
Jaguar Land Rover Award for Outstanding Achievement Thomas Farmer (presented by Chris Binnie, JLR) for excellent ex- am results
Thomas Farmer receiving his award from Chris Binnie of JLR
Katie Johnson with her award. Alex Bull (above) with his award
Special thanks also go to the students who entertained the guests during the evening: Ivan Pekar - pianist “Polonaise in A Flat Major, Op 53” Chopin Ziah Grice & Joe Plimmer - duet singing “High Hopes” Olivia McDermott - singing “Don’t Rain on my Parade” Katie Cross & William Lloyd - duet singing “Ain’t No Mountain High Enough” Ziah Grice - singing “Titanium” Katie Cross, 6th Form Ambassador - giving the Vote of Thanks Autumn 2019 Newsletter Page 12
Year 10 students took part in our annual employability skills day back in July at RAF Museum Cosford. They were prepared for the day through PSHEE lessons, tutor time and assemblies.
All students completed a mock/generic application form before the event and took part in a one-to-one interview with one of our volunteers. Our volunteers were from a selection of local businesses, colleges, universities, the NHS and training and apprenticeship providers.
After the interviews, the following students were nominated by interviewers as “The person I would be most likely to employ”. They all received a congratulatory letter from Mr Harding and were entered in a draw to win £30 of Love2Shop vouchers, which were won by Nathan Adams.
Nathan Adams Leah Bateman Miya Bees Ben Brisley
Harriett Bryett Ellie Eagleton Nathan Flynn Tom Gibson Leah Greenaway-Lewis Shani Haselum Eirinn Hawkin Joshua Hawley
Honor Hayward Tom Hipwood Josh Homer Joshua Jones Caitlin Kainth Sadie Knowles Matthew Leek Harry Moran
Isabelle Newey Jack Platt Georgia Powell Lucy Richards Kavita Sharma Lee Small Jack Stallard Theo Thompson Jake Watkins
In total we secured over 60 volunteers to take part in this event, who ensured that our students achieved the very best outcomes for the day. In total they provided eight workshops or information sessions that all students worked their way through during the day.
The workshops were: Mock interview, receiving verbal and written feedback RAF Motivation Team learning how to follow instruction and work in a team Jaguar Land Rover Production Car Challenge. Time management, following instruction, listening skills, working in a team Entrust - Careers Quiz, listening skills and information session Collins Aerospace - Higher Education & Apprenticeships in the workplace. Information session. Ann Pemberton, Open Road Learning - Being My Own Boss, Self-Employment Stafford College (NSCG) - Apprenticeships and the Work Place - Information session Team Building with Rocket Cars. Working in teams or by themselves to build a car and see whose car goes the longest distance. Time management, following instruction, listening skills, working in a team, independent working.
Throughout the last academic year, some of our Y9 students worked with Midcounties Co-op ambassadors, completing the “Green Pioneers” project. The project was reported in the Spring 2019 news- letter. As a legacy from this project, Midcounties Co-op have spon- sored six recycle bins which have been distributed through the school. We will raise awareness of the recycling bins and monitor the impact of them being used in school. This, in turn, has an impact on society in general. Autumn 2019 Newsletter Page 13
We have been Business In The Community, Business Class Partners with Jaguar Land Rover for six years now (before they opened their i54 site). Some of the projects we’ve worked on together include:
Built Careers - curriculum links into Y12 Business studies; Annual i54 site visits, Jaguar Land Rover staff facilitate the production car challenge workshop for all Y10 students during our annual employability skills day; Jaguar Land Rover employees present the ‘Jaguar Land Rover Award for Outstanding Achievement’ twice per academic year, Y11 in November and Y13 in January; Annual ‘Women in Technology’ workshops, facilitated at our federation middle schools for Y8 girls.
Our Executive Headteacher, Alun Harding, takes part in “Extraordinary Leaders” meetings with Jaguar Land Rover’s Machining and Manufacturing Manager. They compare issues that have an effect on education and business and explore possible ways to solve them. He also sits on the Business in the Community (BITC) Headteachers’ Steering Group and the newly formed “Curriculum Taskforce”, which is looking at the development of careers curriculum links.
These are just a few of the annual careers activities that take place at Codsall High School.
Y9 Skills & Apprenticeships Show, Wolverhampton Y10 World Skills Show, NEC Birmingham Y10 Work Experience - whole year group Y10 Mock Interviews and Employability Skills Day Y11 and Y13 Intended destinations interviews Y11 Careers Adviser interviews Y12 Work Experience - whole year group Y12 visits to universities (Stafford and Oxford) Y13 Careers Adviser workshops and interviews DofE Bronze, Silver and Gold awards Careers Fair - all year groups (timetabled, including Y8 from feeder schools) with over 30 providers from industry / colleges / universities / training companies.
Relevant and up-to-date information is always available on our School Website, our programme information and many links for students, parents and employers. You will also find local market information links, showing where the gaps are in the employment market.
Please find time to take a look:
https://www.cc-hs.com/careers/
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I am immensely proud of the Sixth Form and all their achievements so far this academic year. They have represented the school in the local community with poise and maturity.
Fundraising so far this academic year is impressive with many more plans in the New Year to support more worth- while causes and bring awareness to campaigns.
I hope you enjoy a little snap shot of what we have been up to!
Mrs Mayor and the team
Jeans for Genes Own clothes day - 20th September 2019
Genetic Disorder UK Making a difference to the lives of children and families living with genetic disorders £143.51
Remembrance Sunday 10th November 2019
On Remembrance Sunday, 6th form ambassadors attended various remembrance services in the area, representing the Federation.
Megan Stoves and Will Davies attended the service in Bilbrook; Will Lloyd attended the service at Brewood, while Katie Cross attended the service in Codsall.
Katie Cross and Will Lloyd, as presidents of the 6th Form, attended the service at the council offices on Remembrance Day (Monday) and laid a wreath from the Federation during the procession.
World Mental Health Day 10th October
Hello Yellow Young Minds “Leading the fight for a future where all young minds are supported and empowered, whatever the challenges.” Wear Yellow
Students from 6th form supported this by wearing yellow on 10th October and raising
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Show Racism the Red Card Wear Red - 18th October
As part of a National campaign, 6th form students joined in the annual Wear Red Day.
Now in it’s fifth year, Wear Red Day is a national day of action which encourages schools, businesses and individuals to wear red and donate £1 to help provide the delivery of anti-racism education for young people and adults through the UK.
Every penny raised during the day enables the campaign to work with more young people and adults to challenge racism in society.
Oxford Visit Christmas Wrapping 20th September Jessica Nash, Emily De- In early September 24 Year 12 students visited Oxford for the day. Loyde and Jess Moody While they were there they visited Christ Church college as a group, spent time recently then were allowed time to visit individual universities related to their wrapping presents for own subject interests. people who will be alone at Christmas. They said “It was a very rewarding experience for us all to wrap presents for our local elderly residents, we were able to provide happiness through these gifts and we hope every- one enjoys them”.
Congratulations
Congratulations to Year 12 and Year 13 for some excellent results in the recent milestones. Individual successes have been acknowledged by their teachers and those students have been placed in a prize draw for Love2Shop vouchers.
Good luck to all of our Year 13 students are busy preparing for their mock examinations after Christmas.
From all in the 6th Form team Autumn 2019 Newsletter Page 16
What is the Wellbeing Award for Schools? The Wellbeing Award for Schools is a national accreditation awarded to school who recognise the importance of emotional health and wellbeing, and implement strategies to support staff and students in these matters.
It’s a fairly new award which was launched in 2017, and first awarded in 2018. It is provided by Optimus Education in association with the National Children’s Bureau
Why have Codsall Community High School signed up to this award? National statistics are startling, with 1 in 10 teenagers experiencing a mental health issue at any one time
We want our learners to be happy and healthy so that they can achieve the very best results they are capable of
1 in 4 of us will suffer a mental health problem at some point in our lives – we want to show that this is not a weakness, and to promote a supportive environment which listens and doesn’t judge.
What are we already doing to support our students? Discussing mental health issues via our student journal every week Providing support via cchs.com/mentalhealthawareness for links of where to get external help
Providing counselling and mentoring in school via the HOPE project and through our on-site mentor
Raising awareness through support of national campaigns #helloyellow
Assemblies and PSHEE sessions focused on mental health and emotional wellbeing
A supportive Pastoral team of Form Tutors, Heads of House and Pastoral Managers who are here to help. The board below shows examples of what individual staff will put in place to help students, including an open door policy, listening to students on a one-to-one basis, talking about wider subjects than school life and chocolates on birthdays
[email protected] where students can reach out for help
Access to external support through Base 25 Autumn 2019 Newsletter Page 17
Last term the PE department took a trip to the Netball World Cup held at the M&S Bank Arena in Liverpool.
Students from Codsall High School and Perton Middle School braved the very early 6am start and joined Mrs Shillingford, Mrs Murphy, Mrs Brown, Ms Lewis, Molly W and Mrs Bennett for the trip to see the first four games in the Netball World Cup.
We arrived at 9am where we watched Our seats were excellent and we were able to the first two games of the tournament: follow two matches at the same time.
New Zealand (45) vs. Malawi (15)
Barbados (69) vs. Singapore (34)
After the interval, the second two games started, with scores as follows:
Australia (88) vs. N. Ireland (24)
Zimbabwe (79) vs. Sri Lanka (49)
It was Zimbabwe’s first time at the Netball World Cup and their opening match against Sri Lanka was very exciting, end-to-end play. The large number of people supporting Zimbabwe made it a very exciting and lively Australia vs. Northern Ireland A delighted Zimbabwe team following match. their win
Millie Dubberley, Rosie Kelly, Olivia Bates, Lauren Jones and Hollie Miller outside the arena
Team “Codsall” enjoying the atmosphere in the arena Autumn 2019 Newsletter Page 18
Well done to all the students who collected their Bronze and Silver awards recently. We are extremely proud of all their achievements which include over 1900 hours of volunteering between them; many hours of learning new skills and ensuring they kept fit ready for their expeditions last summer. On 5th December these students collected their certificates in the main hall.
Thank you to all the supportive staff and parents who helped them on their way.
l-r: Tom Gough, Jakob Woodward, l-r: Amy Jones, Lara Connolly, Thomas De-Loyde and Joshua Brookes Cariad Bowen and Isobel Golden
l-r: Anna Holmes, Olivia Beddow, Erinn Hawkin, Jessica Jennings and Leah Greenaway
MATRIX OBERON In December, Matrix house held Well done to Oberon house who raised £625.67 for a cake sale in aid of Promise their House charity - Midlands Air Ambulance. Dreams and raised £34.10. This was done through Charity Day at the end of last term, and own clothes days. Well done to everyone who took part. Autumn 2019 Newsletter Page 19
In September a group of Year 10 students visited Malvern Outdoor Elements for three-day residential.
The 16 students took part in a rock climbing residential as part of the practical element of their GCSE PE course.
While there they developed their climbing technique and completed an assessment on the final day which will go towards their final GCSE PE grade.
A group of our Year 13 students were delighted to play host to Stephen Kelman, the author of the Man Booker Prize shortlisted ‘Pigeon English’ recently.
The students , who were joined by some keen readers from year 11 have been involved in the ‘Books Unlocked’ initiative, an innovative project aimed at uniting school, community and prison reading groups in a love of reading for pleasure.
With the support of The National Literacy Trust and Alan Smith, Prison Library Service Advisor for Staffordshire County Council, students have had the opportunity to read the powerful novel, which is inspired by the moving true story of Damilola Taylor, and to share their thoughts and ideas with members of the community and young offenders at HMYOI Brinsford. Autumn 2019 Newsletter Page 20
We welcome our new Sports Captains for 2019-20 academic year.
Amongst their duties, they are responsible for signing students up for Inter-House competitions and helping out with the Middle Schools Sports Festival held at Codsall High School in the summer.
Year 10 Sports Captains
A Block Boys A Block Girls B Block Boys B Block Girls
Ben Weaver Hollie Miller Finlay Townsend Kezia Patel Kamran Smith Isabelle Hunter Oliver Teale Lauren Jones
Dylan Mole Skye Ogbourne Kyle Corns Olivia Bates Oliver Wood Millie Dubberley Finn Daley Leah Doran
Year 9 Sports Captains
A Block Boys A Block Girls B Block Boys B Block Girls Tom Dornan Amelia Hancock Oli Cullen Lexie Langman Kai Bygrave Jess Cooper Louie Selman Ella Aston Hayden Henry Bella Franklin Jones Jack Doubleday Fran Powell Sam Bissell Niyah Bailey Lewis Hunt Freya Smith
In November all three lower school year group football teams played against Shrewsbury School. The Year 9 and Year 10 teams won, and the Year 11s were narrowly beaten 3-2.
The Year 9 football team after their success Autumn 2019 Newsletter Page 21
Well done to Year 9 student Will Payne who played in the Wolves Foundation team at Molineux on 10th November.
While Wolves first team took on Aston Villa in the league, as part of the Foundation team, Will took part in the half time game between Wolves Foundation and Aston Villa Foundation. Aston Villa’s Foundation team were 3-2 winners.
Will has been playing for the Foundation team for the last two years and training at The Dome at Aldersley every week.
Year 12 BTEC Sport students took part in a behind-the-scenes ground tour of the Wolves Molineux stadium as part of their Assessing Risk unit. Students gained an interesting insight into how supporters and staff are kept safe on match days as well as finding out how the stadium is operated on a daily basis.
The students involved in the visit were:
Megan Bastable Millie-Jade Lea Charley Edwards Will Fletcher Fabian Forsyth Spencer Morgan Tyler Wallace Harrison White Page 22 Volume 36
Mr Bainbridge I would also like to thank my fantastic team of tutors in Java. Thank you for all of your hard Head of Java work this term, all of you go above and beyond for
“Out of darkness cometh light” your tutees; I am extremely happy with how this term has gone.
We can now look forward to a nice relaxing Christmas with our families and go into the New What a busy first term we have had, yet again! The Year knowing that we are now, almost halfway new school year has brought lots of new challenges through the school year! including the implementation of the new behaviour policy. I want to congratulate every member of I hope you all have an amazing Christmas break Java House on their efforts with this so far. I hope with your families and a very enjoyable New Year. the positive approach to behaviour continues into the New Year. Take care!
Thank you for making this term move along with purpose and helping to create a positive and Mr Bainbridge constructive learning environment for all pupils at Codsall High.
I would also like to thank the newly appointed student parliament representatives for their contributions to whole school issues this term; you have been a great help and have given useful insight into school life at Codsall High School.
Dreams, and will contribute nicely to our house Ms Wakeley-Jones points tally as we look to retain our title of House Acting Head of Matrix Champions.
“Dream it, Believe Let’s keep up the hard work and continue our successes into 2020! l hope you have a restful and it, Achieve it !!” festive Christmas.
Ms Wakeley-Jones MATRIX… What an excellent term you’ve had! We’ve welcomed so many faces and I am so proud of every one of you and the progress you have made so far this year.
Thank you to Matrix tutors for all your hard work, help and support, it has been a pleasure to work with you all and I look forward to the things to come.
Thank you to all for the support and guidance you have shown to our new Y9s, they have settled in very quickly and are already making a big impact.
Congratulations to our current Y12 students and their successes during the summer with their GCSEs, it was an honour to hand out certificates and awards at Presentation Evening and celebrate your achievements. Keep up the hard work!
At the time of writing we have some exciting fund- raising activities coming up which I hope will raise lots of money for our House Charity, Promise Autumn 2019 Newsletter Page 23
Children’s Hospital this year. Mrs Shillingford In November we saw a number of Oberon Head of Oberon students raising money for Children In Need by participating in the Great Codsall Bake-Off. Oberon won the House award for the highest level of participation from students in one house. The runner-up for Star Baker also went to our own Callum Kang. Well done to each and every one of you that helped, baked or bought cakes It has been a great start to the school year for that contributed to the event. I am very proud Oberon with many successes and achievements. of the charitable efforts from you all. Huge congratulations to the students who have been appointed part of the House Council and Student Finally I would like to wish yourselves and your Parliament, including Ellie Neville, Ellie Eagleton, families a Merry Christmas and I look forward to Phoebe Mumford, Elliot Moss, Daire Gibney, Millie continuing our success through 2020.
Dubberley, Luke Gayden and Katerina Vorontsova. Well done for getting your voices heard - we know Mrs Shillingford you’ll make tremendous representatives for Oberon.
Our new Y9s have made an excellent start and this transition was made easier by the support and welcome they received from all Oberons in the true ethos of our house. I’m so proud to be leading such a caring and supportive team of students and tutors.
This term we have also seen a change in our House Charity due to a house vote. I am incredibly proud to announce that we will be representing Birmingham
Altruism and Achievement. Make 2020 the year that you try a little harder, be a little kinder and achieve a little higher.
Ms Lewis Have a very merry Christmas. Head of Vector
Ms Lewis
As ever, the first two half terms have been long, but they seem to have gone in the blink of an eye and our Year 9 students don’t seem so ‘new’ any more! For the vast majority they have made an excellent start, and integrated into school and our House seamlessly.
This year there has been some reorganisation of student voice with the introduction of the Student Parliament. I’d like to thank Vector’s House Council members for the contributions that they have made so far: Norman Fletcher, Honor Hayward, Precious Riley, Thomas Careless, James Wall, Hattie-Mai McMahon, Jake Wakeman and Maddison Hughes - cheers folks!
As ever, the New Year offers us all the chance to set new goals and make a fresh start. With this in mind, remember our school ethos of Ambition,
Dates correct at time of going to print - Latest information is shown on the school website.
Friday, 20 December 1.20 p.m. - END OF TERM
Monday, 23 December 2019 - CHRISTMAS HOLIDAY Sunday, 3 January 2020
Monday, 6 January 2020 SPRING TERM - School re-opens for all students (6-17 January—Y13 Mock exams) Thursday, 9 January 7.00 - 9.00 p.m. - Y14 Presentation Evening
Friday, 10 January 6.00 - 9.00 p.m. - Football Academy Winter Tournament - 3G Pitch
Thursday, 23 January 3.30 - 6.30 p.m. - Y11 Parents’ Evening
Wednesday, 27 January 5.00 - 6.00 p.m. - Football Academy USA Parents’ Evening 6.00 - 8.00 p.m. - Football Academy Open Evening Monday, 3 - Friday, 7 February Football Academy Interviews 9.00 a.m. - 5.00 p.m. - Football Academy Taster Day (Friday)
Thursday, 6 February 3.00 - 6.00 p.m. - Y13 Parents’ Evening DofE (Y9 / Y10) Bronze/direct Silver Training Day Friday, 7 February DofE Y12 / Y13 Gold Training Day Y9-Y11 Vaccinations
Monday, 10 - Friday, 14 February Y9-Y13 Careers Week (Monday - Friday) Careers Fair (Tuesday) Y11 - The Doctor’s Show at Redditch (Tuesday) Gold DofE Training Day (Thursday) Football Academy Assessment Day (Friday) BREAK UP FOR HALF TERM (Friday) Monday, 17 - Friday, 21 February HALF TERM HOLIDAY
Monday, 24 February Staff training day - SCHOOL CLOSED TO STUDENTS
Tuesday, 25 February School re-opens for all students
Wednesday, 26 February 3.30 - 6.00 p.m. - Y12 Parents’ Evening
Thursday, 27 February Y10 Silver DofE Refresher
Wednesday, 4 March 6.30 - 7.30 p.m. - Dance Show
Thursday, 12 March 6.00 - 8.00 p.m. - Y8 Options Evening
Thursday, 19 March GCSE PE Student Conference
Thursday, 26 March 3.30 - 6.30 p.m. - Y9 Parents’ Evening
Tuesday, 31 March Y10 Geography trip - Cardingmill Valley
Friday, 3 April END OF TERM - Break up for Easter Holiday Ski Trip to USA (3-11 April 2020) Monday, 6 April - Friday, 17 April EASTER HOLIDAY
Monday, 20 April SUMMER TERM - School re-opens for all students
After-School Clubs / Enrichment
Please note that up-to-date information about after school clubs and enrichment activities are on the school website.
www.cc-hs.com/enrichment-activities