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It's Panto Time! Oh Yes It Is!! “THE EDGE” WILLIAM BROOKES SCHOOL NEWSLETTER It’s Panto time! Oh yes it is!! See page 18 for more details of this year’s fabu- lous Sxith Form Panto. Mrs Smith says… Congratulations -- to Mrs Jardine, our fab PE Department and all our wonderful sports-loving students ---- you did it again and achieved Sports Mark GOLD. That's Brilliant!!! PARKING AT SCHOOL: All parents dropping off or collecting students are reminded to observe all signage on the school car park and to consider other drivers, including the coach and bus drivers, when negotiating the site. Thank you. take the time to discuss the need for your child/ren to be safe online. This involves knowing the person/people they are It has been a busy and productive first term at school. The year communicating with, having settings that keep started with the school’s best ever GCSE results, putting us very their discussions limited to known groups but high in the County league tables. The school is a very busy and also that they do not use it for negative active place inside and out of lessons, with student numbers purposes. Too often horrible things are done growing term by term. I am very grateful to staff and students via social media which can affect young for their hard work in the many successes that we have achieved people’s mental well-being. I would like to of late. We will have some staffing changes at Christmas: take this opportunity to remind you of our stance about improper * Mrs Leek will leave us to return to her old school following a use of technology, including confiscation of devices for a period difficult time personally. We wish her well for the future. Mrs of time. My fear is that some young people will lose future Brooks will join us as Head of Geography, coming with a wealth career options if they use ICT inappropriately. We will continue of experience at GCSE and A Level. to drive home the message at school but ask that you are vigilant and talk about this again at home. We have some excellent * Mrs Liz Herdson, our Librarian, leaves after 25 years and a literature about this if you would like to see it. term of hard work and support for the school. The Library is a busy and vibrant place and very popular with our students – National changes to the A Level and GCSE syllabi means especially at break and lunch times! During her time at William changing to a curriculum with more teaching time per subject in Brookes, Liz has seen some significant changes – not least the KS5 and earlier preparations for students during Year 9. Library becoming an interactive, technology rich environment Thankfully our more traditional academic curriculum requires over recent years. One huge legacy will be the setting up of all only small changes to meet the new requirements but students the books in school into a system that supports our Accelerator will face more, longer exams in the next few years as coursework Reader programme. This has massively increased book loans is removed. I am confident that this will benefit our students but and reading by all students in school. We wish Liz well in her providing the right support and development will be an essential retirement – one that, I have no doubt, will be a very active one. part of our plans. A big push nationally is to get more students We have already welcomed our new Librarian to the school. studying a modern foreign language as part of the English Miss Samantha Lee joined us on 1 December - see also page Baccalaureate at GCSE. To this end we have introduced Spanish 17. into Year 7 with the intention of moving this through the school * Mr Chadwick will join us in January as our new Head of Maths. up to GCSE level. More information will follow for relevant This comes at a very timely point for the School, having just won parents over the coming months. the regional Senior Maths Challenge. Our team now travels to We have also seen practice sessions taking place for teams, London for the national final in January. performances and competitions as the term moves to its busy In late November a group of staff sadly had to represent the finale. Monday, 5 December saw another enjoyable Carol school at the funeral of an ex- student, Safia Ahmed, who left Service at the Holy Trinity Church in Much Wenlock which started school only 4 years ago. It is incredibly sad to hear about the off the Christmas celebrations for us at school. There were many death of any individual but is much harder when the person is so wonderful performances by our students, covering the full range young. A sizeable group of ex-students attended the service, of performing arts and they received a fantastic response in the demonstrating the friendships she had made during her time in beautiful surroundings of the Church. The support of the Friends the Sixth Form at William Brookes School. Our deepest of William Brookes School ensured that we were all fed and sympathies go out to her family, particularly Aaron, Dotty and watered, allowing everyone to mingle and socialise informally Tilly, and close friends, who will have a big hole left in their lives. too. This followed the Friends of WBS successful stall at the Christmas fayre and the popular Viva La Coldplay event held in We are still awaiting news of a new national funding formula school. A new committee of parents and staff have combined that would ensure all students across the country are treated really well to kick start off an exciting series of events this year. I fairly, enabling schools in rural areas to better provide for the wish them every success and ask you to support them in their needs of students. Significant numbers of school places are left endeavours whenever you can. unfilled in many Shropshire schools at the moment and will be for the coming years. The challenge, which we have managed This academic year has seen many sporting achievements too, well to date, is to maintain full intake numbers. Our students not least the school being awarded the Sports Mark Gold again. have been excellent ambassadors for the school again at our This is down to the hard work and dedication of the PE open events and I am very grateful for their time and support. department and our sport loving students. We have a lot to be proud about this wonderful school and it is The last week of term will see staff and students looking forward important to spread this message. After a lot of hard work, you to Aladdin, the Sixth Form Pantomime, which completes a heavy should have received information to inform you about the launch programme of events led by the Performing Arts staff and I of our new website. It has been a priority for us to make this a would like to take this chance to thank them for their efforts. I more professional and user friendly forum which showcases the am sure that students, like many staff, are feeling tired at the end school in the very best light. There are still new items to be of this busy but highly productive term. Our assemblies at the added, including photographs taken just recently in school and I end of the last week will celebrate student achievements and hope to keep it the fresh and vibrant portal into school life that performances this year. Students will be allowed to wear their keeps you well informed as parents and visitors. All school own clothes on the last day with a small link to their house software functions that you can access are linked within the colour. Sydney students have been given a little extra leeway on parent pages to make it a one-stop place. I am keen to get this but please note that there is no charge for this at such an feedback on the new site and am grateful for the thoughtful and expensive time of year. positive responses we have received to date. On behalf of everyone at school may I wish you all the very best We are a school that places great emphasis on technology. for the festive period and New Year. I hope your house is full of Students make good use of ICT in school and do the same in festive cheer and that the New Year brings you continued joy and their everyday life but unfortunately we are still spending a lot of success. time dealing with the inappropriate use of social media. Please Page 2 “The Edge” - William Brookes School Newsletter to see everyone enjoying themselves! Thank you to all those who have supported an event this term. Friends of William Brookes’ have been able to fund the hire of a very special ‘prop’ for the performance of ‘Little Shop of Horrors’! as well as purchase various resources for our SEN department. Friends of William Brookes We were busy at the school’s brought forth another amazing Carol Concert, providing festive year of fund raising for students refreshments. of the school! Miss C Watkins ran a chocolate This term has been a busy one tombola stall on the Monday again! With the welcoming of and Tuesday of the last week of our new Chair, Jane Shepherd term. Students Chelsea and Vice Chair Jordan Spilsbury Whitfield and Abi Cank helped the committee has had no time at the stall held in the London to waste preparing for the breakout zone.
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