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Meols Cop High School Weekly Bulletin Week Ending Inclusive Excellence for ALL Friday 8th February Thank you! The last 2 weeks have seen our first two parents’ evenings of 2019 with both the year 11 evening and year 8 options’ evening extremely busy with mums and dads and the percentage attendance going through the roof. I can’t repeat enough times how important it is for our students to see how much their parents value education by attending and showing so much interest in learning progress at these events. Huge thank you to you all. Thank you too, for the many lovely comments and good wishes too that have come my way after my surprise announcement the other week. It has been a strange experience, but a very proud one, showing prospective candidates around our fantastic school and discussing my own job! Some of the stories surrounding my retirement have amused me greatly especially the ones from parents and other schools that I’m on my last legs and gravely ill! I am a very fit and healthy 61 year old and that is exactly why it is the right time for me to consider, hopefully, the remaining active and fun filled years of my existence by taking a well-earned break and leaving our school in a brilliant position for the next Head teacher to keep Meols Cop flying high. Have a smashing weekend. Mr Jones Head Teacher Meols Cop High School Weekly Bulletin Week Ending Inclusive Excellence for ALL Friday 8th February Become a year 10 Science Seneca Champion Taking part is easy!! All you have to do is answer the most questions on biology, chemistry and physics using Seneca in the two weeks prior to your mock exams on 25th of February. All students who take part will receive at least a praise and will benefit from this revision in their Science mock examinations. Meols Cop High School Weekly Bulletin Week Ending Inclusive Excellence for ALL Friday 8th February Merseyside Youth Association SPACE has engaged schools and youth groups from all across Sefton to create performing arts pieces for the NOW Festival. This year’s theme is Rise Up: Adverse Childhood Experience, which is showcased through drama, dance, film and music performances. This year, Meols Cop are entering a Year 10 group into the Festival and have prepared a drama and dance piece. If anyone would like to come and watch, please see the details below: Date: 12th February Location: The Atkinson (Southport) Time: 6pm start (doors open at 5.45pm) Tickets are available and can be purchased from the box office at The Atkinson (01704 533 333); priced £8.00 each. Booking fee is £1 per ticket online/ phone. Any more information please see Miss R Pilling! Meols Cop High School Weekly Bulletin Week Ending Inclusive Excellence for ALL Friday 8th February Meols Cop High School Weekly Bulletin Week Ending Inclusive Excellence for ALL Friday 8th February Radio 2 500 words competition! Do you enjoy writing stories? Why not enter the 500 word competition open to students up to 13 years old! Interested? Call in to the library for details or ask your English teacher- you have to be in it to win it! Closing date is 8th March 2019. What are the prizes? As well attending a spectacular 500 Words Final from Windsor Castle, where superstar celebrities will read the winning stories live on the radio, this year we're introducing an extra-special prize – Six well- known illustrators: Helen Oxenbury, Tony Ross, Susan Varley, Jarvis, David Roberts, and Briony May Smith – will each be set the task of illustrating one the winning stories. The winners in each age category will also receive: Gold Winners - Chris Evans' height in books, 500 books for their school and an invitation to visit the set of a CBBC Production. Silver Winners - HRH The Duchess of Cornwall's height in books. Bronze Winners - Their own height in books. This year’s 500 Words Final will be broadcast live on BBC Radio 2 from Windsor Castle, on The Zoe Ball Breakfast Show, on Friday 14th June. Thank you Mrs Burt Meols Cop High School Weekly Bulletin Week Ending Inclusive Excellence for ALL Friday 8th February If you were in the Textiles Technology Assembly last week, you will remember Miss Morgan mentioning that GCSE Textiles Technology is not just for girls; anyone can do the course. In the assembly I mentioned some facts about Textiles, can you remember them? Which footballer regularly sits with his daughter sewing? Harry Kane David Beckham Gary Lineker What material is carbon fibre? Plastic Wood Textiles Which actor is a qualified tailor? George Clooney Brad Pitt Chris Pratt Which Beatle band member regularly sewed his own clothes? Ringo Star John Lennon Paul McCartney The first 4 students who come to Miss Morgan with the correct answers will receive a prize. If you are interested in GCSE Textiles Technology and have any questions or queries, please come and speak to Miss Morgan about the course. If you are in Year 7 and would like to do more practical Textiles work, keep an eye out after February half term for news of a lunch time mak- ing club that you could attend. Meols Cop High School Weekly Bulletin Week Ending Inclusive Excellence for ALL Friday 8th February Luca Rimmer Amina Stepans Miss Morgan would like to congratulate her most recent rotation class, 7.2, for making her so proud of their ability to learn new skills. The class have surpassed expectations on the sewing machine and have all achieved Gold for this new skill. A special mention to Luca Rimmer and Amina Stepans for the most precise machine sewing Miss Morgan has seen in a long time. Other students who get a congratulations are Tommy Bryan, Lucy Fish, Finlay Halsall-Pickering, Sophia Hughes, Callum Jackson, Jack Kitson, Bradley Lennon-Potter, Michael McCaw Grant, Alfie Moss and Oliver Wright. Meols Cop High School Weekly Bulletin Week Ending Inclusive Excellence for ALL Friday 8th February Nicola Powell produced an outstanding piece of writing in preparation for her English Language GCSE exam. Mr Meadows was extremely impressed with her writing and awarded her a band 5! Well done Nicola. Technology ‘evolving or devolving’? Evolving or devolving? Is the society that we live in slowly melting away into our phone screens, computers and television screens? I think so. Each year, technology stores are scabbing our money more and more on worthless, detrimental devices that are, slowly but surely, destroying our mental health. Nowadays, young kids are demanding the latest iPhone, whereas in the early 2000s, the best entertainment was smearing PVA glue on your hands and peeling off once dry! I understand that technology can allow distant family members to stay in contact, but social media also allows cyber-bullying – cowards hiding behind their screens, giving hate to others, leading to people despising their own lives. I believe that technology has evolved majorly over the years, going from flip-up phones to ‘unlock your iPhone XS max with your face identification’. Are you a phone lover? Spending hours per week, sat gormlessly staring at a screen, ruining your mental health? If you are, you should spend less time online, and you should get out of the house more (and not just to look for Pokémon on the beloved game ‘Pokémon Go!’. The online world that we love so much is ruining us up to the point where you walk around, watching everyone with drooped heads, phone in hand. 82% of doctors have said that technology is the main destroyer of your mental health, closely followed by drug abuse. Parents, how would you feel if your teenager was sent to a mental hospital, not from the consequences of drugs, but their latest Christmas present: their new 32” TV? Yes, technology has its cons, but I’m not denying that tech is all bad. Technology is a quick and easy way to be entertained; just by the click of a button. The amount of apps out there, swimming on people’s screens, allowing us to have all types of fun – from Netflix to Snapchat, the world’s most used app for contacting friends! One problem is that some apps do contain some long, boring, teeth-grinding ads… I’m sure that 98% of people listening to my speech have been forced to endure a 30 second ad on health diets, interrupting your game of Candy Crush! It’s the worst thing in the world! Social opportunities through advertisements are inferior to your parents’ childhood social lives. A local parent claimed “When we were your age, we didn’t have phones, we would have to go out and have fun!” Aside from the fun tech brings, I think that technology is evolving in a bad way, as more and more children and teens are being influenced by violent video games like Call of Duty. I believe our maddening mobiles and treacherous TVs should have time limits for 2 hours at a time, as our society is becoming more and more dependent on technology. To conclude, what’s your view? Is technology evolving or devolving the human race? Thank you for listening. By Nicola Powell Year 11 Meols Cop High School Weekly Bulletin Week Ending Inclusive Excellence for ALL Friday 8th February Join team science for lunch in S4 each day and get a jump on your revision. Bring your lunch along, grab an iPad and get revising. RANDOM FACT ! In Switzerland it is illegal to own just one guinea pig . This is because guinea pigs are social animals, and are considered victims of abuse if they are alone .