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Parent/Carer Newsletter Issue 4 Parent/Carer Newsletter The Marches Academy Trust has gone from strength to strength The festival’s aim is to bring together leading educational experts since its inception in 2014, and the Spring Term has brought and inspire debate and discussion amongst industry professionals, even more opportunity for cross-Trust collaboration. Since the offering engaging and motivational workshops and presenting beginning of the year, our staff and students have had many panel interviews with a variety of prominent and inspirational chances to work side-by-side. We have had another joint-Trust practitioners. The one-day festival has been designed to attract PD Day, an important step in reinforcing professional delegates from across the entire breadth of the education sector, partnerships between our two schools, while our students have including teachers, governors, leadership groups, students, flown far and wide together to destinations such as Krakow and parents and support teams. Practitioners already confirmed for the New York. event include Aardman Animations, the Royal Shakespeare Company and Into Film. This past term has offered many highlights. At The Marches School, Performing Arts students put on a high-quality Other exciting Summer events for the diary include the ‘SJT performance of Willy Russell’s Our Day Out to a public School of Performance’ production of Mamma Mia!, the second audience of parents, friends and carers over three nights, as annual Marches Fun Day and Sir John Talbot’s Summer Music well as delivering shows to over 500 primary school pupils. At Concert and Creative Exhibition. Sir John Talbot’s School, Year 9 and Year 12 students were honoured with an opportunity to listen to 93-year-old Holocaust The Marches Academy Trust is committed to providing the very survivor Chaim Henry Ferster speak about his fascinating life, best opportunities and education for each and every one of our while both schools have had the chance to learn about ethics, students, and we are expanding the vision for the Trust together, politics and humanity through joint visits to locations such as across both schools. By working together and encouraging Auschwitz-Birkenau. collaboration, we have the ability to offer enhanced opportunities for all students and staff across the entire Trust. With GCSE and A Level students currently working hard towards their summer exams, as we move into a new term, there is plenty more to get excited about. The Trust will be Executive Headteacher and CEO presenting its inaugural Education Festival which will take place The Marches Academy Trust at The Marches School site in July. We are setting our sights high and plan to make this annual event one of the largest education festivals in the country. Spring/Summer 2016 Trust News Leadership Sarah Longville Alison Pearson Ruth Lloyd Tim Stonall Executive Headteacher Associate Headteacher Deputy Headteacher Deputy Headteacher Joanne Jones Hugh Jackson Tom Whitworth Claire Buckle Business Manager Assistant Headteacher Assistant Headteacher Assistant Headteacher Head of Sixth Form Sarah Peacock Sally Wilmot Associate Assistant Associate Assistant Headteacher Headteacher Developing Learners Director of Science Pauline Roberts Assistant Headteacher David O’Toole Claire Dawson Olivia Glackin Julie Johnson Maths Development, Headteacher Assistant Headteacher Assistant Headteacher Assistant Headteacher Pupil Premium, Safeguarding, SEND Closing the Gap Spring/Summer 2016 Trust News The Futures Award At the beginning of the academic year, The Marches Academy Trust launched a new initiative at The Marches School to help ensure its students can leave school equipped with the skills they need to enter employment. Recent research carried out by the Career Colleges Trust revealed that 76% of students feel their school trains them to pass exams and get good grades, rather than preparing them for the world of work, and it is this very issue which our new ‘Futures Award’ initiative aims to address. As part of the initiative, students have been working hard on an array of different activities to achieve the many badges and pins on offer. As part of their Community Pin, they have been getting involved in a number of local events such as the Christmas Parade and Christmas Fayre, and undertaken charity work such as the MD Warriors Foodbank Charity Drive and a non-school uniform day which raised money for the Alzheimer’s Society. Joanne White, Business and Community Development Manager at The Marches School commented, “Since the launch of the Futures Award in September 2015, students have been very enthusiastic in their approach to becoming involved in community life and they are now more aware of community projects in which they can be involved in the future.” Other opportunities afforded to students have included a chance for Year 11 students to hone their interview skills through mock interviews with members of The Oswestry Rotary Club, and an inspirational trip to the University of Cambridge for 45 Year 6 pupils from Oswestry, Whitchurch and surrounding areas. For Primary Schools, the award is encouraging pupils to begin thinking about their ambitions for the future and to be inspired by the possibilities available to them, as well as supporting their transition into Year 7. The Award has been welcomed by students, teachers and local businesses alike and has been hailed as a great success across the board. To celebrate this, we recently held a ‘Futures Lunch’ to reward the students who have done particularly well during this inaugural year. The event was attended by representatives from some of the lead sponsors of the Award - Tara Professional Recruitment, British Ironwork Centre, Oswestry Town Council and BMW Rybrook Shrewsbury – and gave local businesses a chance to directly interact with those who have made the most of this opportunity. After an extremely positive and inspiring first year, the Award will be launched at Sir John Talbot’s School in September. Joanna Phillips, Progress Leader Spring/Summer 2016 Trust News Spring/Summer 2016 Trust News Working with the Leadership Team, this is the mission we have drafted for the Trust to plan our development route for the next 5 years. I want your thoughts and ideas to add to this and help to develop it to reflect Our Mission the aspirations of everyone across the trust. Achievement Through Caring What do you want to see in our schools? Since the beginning of the school year we have been asking parents, carers and staff to write on post-it notes with thoughts and ideas about the 5 year development plan for the Trust. Here are some of the suggestions: Parents: ● "Twinning with inner city schools in Britain that are multicultural" ● “Improve communication” ● “Offer more vegetarian food” ● “Teach Life Skills” ● “Introduce meditation” ● "Create a buzz stop for wildlife that can be shared for the public" Teachers: ● “Provide projects to primaries to help with standardisation entering year 7” ● “More collaboration with public school sector – look at what they offer students in terms of networking, confidence, training, etc.” ● “Alternative provision local centres which students can book into for half term - having ‘women's group’ – ‘young men’s group’ as a focus, with specialist staff” You can email me your ideas at [email protected] or just jot down your thoughts on one of the many vision boards around site. Sarah Longville, Executive Headteacher Spring/Summer 2016 Meet the Science Department Mrs Brown - Director of Science I have a degree in Chemistry and Biology from Keele University and I went on to do a Postgraduate Diploma in Cancer Chemistry at the University of Leicester before completing my PGCE at the University of Chester. I am an ex-student of The Marches and also completed my second PGCE placement there eventually joining SJT as Director of Science in September 2014. Prior to joining SJT, I worked at The Thomas Adams School in Wem for four years. I absolutely love my job and love teaching Chemistry. Chemistry is a demanding subject and I love seeing students grapple with the content and seeing the satisfaction when they understand a difficult concept. In my spare time I enjoy running and swimming and, contrary to popular belief about Scientists, I also enjoy being creative – particularly drawing, painting and print-making. Miss King - Second in Faculty I did my Biology degree at the University of Manchester and then did my PGCE at Manchester Metropolitan University. I started teaching at SJT in September 2015. Prior to being a teacher I was a Relationship Manager for a bank. I love teaching biology because it's all about us! It makes students appreciate how amazing their body is and gives them an insight into the complex processes that occur to keep them alive without them even knowing it! I'm a big United fan and play netball (badly) twice a week. Mr Jacobsen - Teacher of Science and Physics I have a degree in Physics from Coventry University and did my teacher training with the University of Manchester. I joined SJT in September 2014, initially in the Maths department, before moving to Science in January 2015. Prior to teaching I worked for North Wales Medical Physics, calibrating and servicing surgical lasers. My favourite thing about teaching is that I get to talk about Physics all day and share my passion for the subject with others. I love how Physics can be used to explain everyday phenomena and make people think about their surroundings more. I am a Level 1 Rugby Union Referee and outside of school I coach Rhyl Rugby Club Under 10s. I have two children aged 14 and 10, collect vintage film cameras and support Hull City. Mr Atkinson - Teacher of Science and Chemistry I studied at the University of Bristol and Durham University. I worked at a large number of schools in Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin (and a few other places besides) before joining SJT at the beginning of 2016.
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