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“The Park Community School Is a Good School with Outstanding Features”– Park News Summer 2013 web: parkcommunity.devon.sch.uk The Ofsted Summer of 2013 “The Park Every edition of ‘Park News’ celebrates the lives of our students, their adventures, successes and achievements. These extend well beyond the classroom as we offer the Community broadest range of challenge and opportunity, opening eyes to new possibilities, creativity and the resilience to be determined to secure individual potential. On the School is a Good following pages you will read of young people enjoying their teenage years, having fun and helping others as they each find that sensible and appropriate balance of competition and co-operation that maximises outcomes School with through a well-rounded education. Young people responding to challenge and accepting responsibility, exploring university life, succeeding in Outstanding Maths Challenges, achieving Certificates and Awards, navigating across Dartmoor, succeeding in Music and Sport, supporting Fairtrade, developing a love of Features” – literature, appreciating the creative aspects of our world, entertaining others, cooking dinner!, investigating our environment, studying where we have come from and preparing for the future – all is reflected in this one term’s Ofsted, June 2013. glimpse of life at Park! 1. Ofsted Summer! As children only have one real chance, it is important for role in developing the quality of teaching and assessment • Sarah Preece (Maths Teacher) – joining us from the schools to be accountable for the quality of education they throughout the school. His pleasant and friendly approach University of Exeter. Dux Awards 2013 offer. This relies upon close partnership with parents and proved very effective with students and as we thank him • Abigail Dove (English Teacher)- joining us from the the dedication and commitment of teachers and other for his contribution to this school, we wish him every future The Dux Awards Scheme aims to encourage the recognition University of Exeter. colleagues who work with them. Ofsted is there to check success in his career. and reward of top performing students in Year 9 (14 that all is as it should be. All appears quite straightforward, • Karen Bogh (Maths Teacher )- joining us from the year olds). The Award includes a visit to a Russell Group until you begin to ask the key question: what is a ‘good University of Exeter. University. Tilly Porter (Year 9) was successful this year and education’? What are the essential aspects that make it she chose to spend the day at University College London • Wendy Scott ( English Maternity Cover)- joining us ‘good’? Leaving at the End of this during June with Mrs Edmonds. She attended lectures on from the University of Exeter. Bio-chemical Engineering, looking at ‘Manufacturing the ‘flu In Ofsted’s model, first and foremost, are examination Term • Thandiwe Banda ( Science Maternity Cover)- joining vaccine’ and ‘Building Giant Molecules’ in Chemistry. She results. We all know just how vital those grades are and • Lindsey Butler joined us in September 2005 to teach us from Queen Elizabeth’s Academy, Crediton. also toured the University to be able to experience lectures how important it is for each student to be enabled to Modern Foreign Languages. She has been appointed by distinguished University Professors to inspire to inspire secure the very best possible that match full individual to Bideford College and leaves with our best wishes • Henrietta Upsdale (Modern Foreign Languages) – future achievement at the very highest level. potential. Everyone enjoys the pleasure when this is for the future and thanks for her contribution to this joining us from St. Antony’s College, Manchester. achieved. school over the last 8 years. The challenge is how this is most reliably guaranteed • Ben Millan joined us in September 2012 to teach for your son or daughter. Each is unique, with different Foreign Languages. He is returning to University to Head Prefects 2013-14 abilities, interests and aptitudes and the key to personal study for a Masters Degree. Congratulations to:- motivation is not always easily identified. Some are naturally conscientious and hardworking, but how do we • Caroline Webber joined us in September 2012 as Head Girl – Ellen Napier, Deputy Head Girl –Ryleigh identify that varied balance of factors that work best with a Department Technician/Teaching Assistant in PE. Sloman-Gray, Head Boy – Wren Frost, Deputy Head Boy – the others? She is leaving to pursue her PGCE teacher training at Matthew Morrish Marjon University. Most people agree that a good and healthy life must be built around a sensible and appropriate set of balances and • Caroline Smart joined us on 1 January 2013 as a that real learning and education must be based upon more temporary English Teacher. She has been appointed than ‘cramming for the test! Yes, at the right time, thorough as an English and Humanities Teacher at Route 39 and determined revision is vital, but a good education that School. We wish her well in her new post. prepares a young person for life in all of its aspects must be • Deborah Elsaesser joined us in September 2012 more varied, colourful and challenging across the broadest as a temporary Design Technology Teacher. With spectrum of opportunity and range of experiences. In Tilly’s own words: our thanks, she leaves with very best wishes for the When I got on the train to London, I never thought I’d Each ‘Park News’ places our Ofsted Report into that context. future. be having coffee with a mummified corpse the next You will read of the wide range of activities and successes • Asma Saif joined us on 1 September 2012 as a morning! Nevertheless, shortly after meeting Mrs our students enjoy as we work with you to offer them the temporary IT Teacher for Anne Dufresne’s Maternity Edmonds at Euston Station, getting a bit lost and very best possible education and start in life. Cover. Our thanks and very best wishes for her future grabbing a latte, I found myself looking at a glass box They also only get one chance to enjoy their teenage years. career. with a body inside. I later learnt it was the preserved remains of Jeremy Bentham, the spiritual founder of What better way than to achieve well and to individual • Eliza O’Driscoll joined us during May as an English Head Prefects with Headteacher, David Atton. (Left to right): Matthew University College of London, whose pickled head is potential whilst enjoying life and having some fun! Teacher for Marie Jones’ Maternity Cover. She leaves Morrish, Ryleigh Sloman-Gray, Ellen Napier and Wren Frost. kept in the vaults! Luckily, the rest of the day involved with our thanks and best wishes. On reading the Ofsted Report, the Inspectors appear to fewer dead people and far more biscuits. All the agree. • Catriona Moudy stepped in to help from April 2013 students met in a huge hall and we played a game of David Atton as a Design Technology Teacher following our sad loss 100% Attendance human bingo as an ice-breaker. After we separated of Sara Bluett. Many thanks for her support during into groups and went to a lecture about the history Headteacher Congratulations also to Chloe Holland and Jordan George 27.06.13 this difficult time. of recent science called ‘UCL vs The Little Brown Dog’ (both in Year 11), who have each achieved 100% attendance which appeared to involve a lot of dinosaurs. My over their entire secondary school lives. Well done! group then went off on a scavenger hunt around the campus. Despite a lot of wrong turns and blind alleys Welcomes and Goodbyes in Maternity Leavers (mainly thanks to the less-than-helpful directions • Eleanor Hastings began her maternity leave during of our student ambassador), a ridiculous number of the Staffroom June 2013. cafés and even a tunnel, we finished in time for pizza. Tina Marns, Deputy Headteacher, decided to retire at Our student ambassador, Jama, (nickname “Stop! Easter following over 15 years of service to the school. She Jama Time”) took us to our next lecture where we played a major role in the development of the curriculum Joining us in September for built giant models of diamond and granite atoms out and the teaching of examination courses, leading the of cocktail sticks and polystyrene balls. After another Specialist Technology and Applied Learning Status and the the New School Year essential biscuit break, it was off to my favourite major building programmes the school has benefited from lecture, all about epidemics and how bread and beer • Craig Tamlyn (Assistant Headteacher) – joining over the last ten years. Our very best wishes to her on her could hold the key to a truly successful flu vaccine. By us from Isambard Community School, Swindon, retirement. the end of the day, we’d all learnt lots, made friends Wiltshire. and had great fun. No-one wanted to go home. Rob Spendlow, Assistant Headteacher has left us for • Nathan Rowe (2nd in Design Technology Please can I go again next year?” promotion at a school in North Lincolnshire. Joining us Chloe and Jordan with certified 100% attendance! Department) –joining us from Holsworthy in 2005, over the last eight years he has played a leading Community College. 2. Welcomes and Goodbyes 3. Pupils’ Successes & Achievements this is the first time a student has entered his work from Junior UKMT National Technology. Nathan submitted his Balance Bike Project in Charity Collections this the GCSE Resistant Material Category and came 3rd overall Mathematics Challenge from what the judges described as a difficult task due to Term ‘a high standard of work and the brilliance of the ideas for Our Year 7and 8 students achieved outstanding success. products’. Best in School is Ben Hyde (Year 8).
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