Meols Cop High School Weekly Bulletin Week Ending Inclusive Excellence for ALL Friday 25Th January 2019
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Meols Cop High School Weekly Bulletin Week Ending Inclusive Excellence for ALL Friday 25th January 2019 Dear parents, students and friends of Meols Cop, When I first started teaching here in September 1980 I had absolutely no idea that I would still be here in 2019 and as your Headteacher too! There have been some wonderful successes over the years, some marvellous stories to tell and our school is now in a very strong position to continue to move forwards and continue to deliver the high quality of education that you expect of us. I have taught different generations of families and watched 11 year old children become 50+ year old adults and I shall always remember the warmth and support that our community has shown to me. I am almost an honorary Sandgrounder now or as close as an old Mancunian can get! With our school over-subscribed again, financially stable and with the most fantastic supportive colleagues, governors and parents a Head could wish for, it is without doubt the right time for me to retire from Meols Cop and to hand over to a new Headteacher who can drive Meols Cop upwards and onwards. Our school provides a fantastic opportunity for the right person and I know that the reputation of the school will bring candidates of great quality and potential to interview and the successful applicant will be an extremely lucky person indeed. I will say more as the final time approaches for me to say goodbye and will keep you up-dated as to who the next Headteacher will be after the interviews have taken place. Many, many thanks to all of you for your kindness and support over such a long time. It has been my privilege to work in, and lead, a school which has tried its level best to stay true to its inclusive ethos and has made an immeasurable difference to the lives of thousands of children in our local community. Our reputation may have grown but we remain a proud and humble small school with our roots and philosophy deeply embedded in the needs and aspirations of those we serve. Have a great weekend and best wishes. David Jones Well done to our teachers! Much of the news on our bulletins tells our community about student success but I have to say that I was delighted to receive this message about our teachers from Harry Fletcher Wood who visited our school with 15 senior leaders from all around the country [I mentioned the visit on the last bulletin] They had a hectic schedule visiting classrooms all day long and talking to different colleagues on a wide range of topics from CPD and any topics of their choice and interest. Many of their own schools Meols Cop High School Weekly Bulletin Week Ending Inclusive Excellence for ALL Friday 25th January 2019 are very different to Meols Cop and they ranged from Free Schools, academy chains, zero-tolerance schools and so on which makes the learning reciprocal experience of all involved a wonderful one. “Thank you for another brilliant visit to Meols Cop. It left everyone buzzing and thinking hard about how they can give teachers more control over what they do, how they can get them as excited as your teachers are about teaching, and how they can have teachers so keen to stay. There's so few places like Meols Cop and I'm really glad they got to see your work”. Well done to Miss Francis who organised the day and to all brave colleagues who were observed or questioned [grilled!] Mr Jones Headteacher Due to staff training, school will not start for students until 9:45am on Tuesday 29th January. The school day will finish as normal at 3:10pm. Many Thanks for your continued support. Meols Cop High School Weekly Bulletin Week Ending Inclusive Excellence for ALL Friday 25th January 2019 On Tuesday 22nd January, the year 9 and 10 dancers completed a dance workshop with a professional dance teacher from LIPA. The workshop was to provide the students with more experience when Erin Clode Lucy Mercer-Jones Lucy Murray Nicole Helsby Lucy Fowler Charmaine Benito Amy Farquharson Tia Howard Lauren Green Naomi Hall Sophie Lopez Tom Jackson Freya Hargreaves Caitlin Luckett Aimee- Jane Machin Grove Rebecca Kilduff Aimee-Rose Hunt Natasha Moss Cerys Burrows Gabbi Niemen Ellie Marshall Holly Watkins Lilly Flint Megan Inglis-Mason Caitlin Robinson Kayla Heesom Ellie Walker Eddie Whalen Meols Cop High School Weekly Bulletin Week Ending Inclusive Excellence for ALL Friday 25th January 2019 Naomi Wills Talia Owens-Hunt working on their street dance isolations. Street dance has increased in popularity and is embedded into the new GCSE Dance Spec, so this was a great opportunity for the students to understand the importance of dynamic quality when performing in the style of street. The workshop challenged all students to try new, complex movement material and all students felt inspired with ideas for their future work in GCSE Dance. Thank you for your continued support, Miss Pilling. As part of the PSD programme of study an upcoming singer, “Jean-Mikhael" has been in school performing for year 7. The main message of the presentation was to empower students to make the right choices in regards to Online Safety & Cyber Bullying, as well as to inform students not to discriminate and to treat everyone fairly. He also discussed mental health and well-being, empowering students with confidence to speak about their state of mind, tools to recognise when to reach out and who to talk to. Jean-Mikhael is a singer songwriter from London. With his unique style of writing, sound and fashion, Jean-Mikhael is starting to make waves in the music industry. He is currently working on his new EP "Reborn" and is due to support 1 Directions Liam Payne on some dates later this year. A very diverse individual, and previously bullied at school, Jean Mikhael is excited to be promoting such a positive message to youngsters around the UK and feels he is in a great position to inspire and give good advice. Check out a link to his music video below; Jean Mikhael - Deal (Private Video) Meols Cop High School Weekly Bulletin Week Ending Inclusive Excellence for ALL Friday 25th January 2019 Meols Cop High School Weekly Bulletin Week Ending Inclusive Excellence for ALL Friday 25th January 2019 Composer of the month Eva Performer of the month Rebecca Boyle has greatly improved her Tomlinson has recently performed for GCSE composition skills over recent lessons. ensemble performance. Her confidence has She has compose an effectively grown and she has combatted her nerves melody making use of contrasting to perform an excellent rendition of a rhythms and developed this into a full Halsey song singing accurately. Well done! musical theme. Well Done! The following students achieved excellent results on Special congratulations to the following their recent keyword recall test. Well Done! students who achieved full marks, a fantastic achievement! Emily Hughes Dominika Brzezinska Abbie King Merry Wylder Scarlet Savage Lucy Peters Olivia Grant Daisy Whitehead Tia Amy Charmaine Benito Matthew Wilson Meols Cop High School Weekly Bulletin Week Ending Inclusive Excellence for ALL Friday 25th January 2019 The Hesketh Colts Reds U13 girls have 6 Meols Cop girls in their team and they have just won the Hightown League. This league has been dominated by a Formby team for years, so they are really proud of their achievement. They have gone from winners of the lower tier, to runners up in the upper tier last year and now overall league winners . Congratulations ! Meols Cop High School Weekly Bulletin Week Ending Inclusive Excellence for ALL Friday 25th January 2019 Laura Heslip (C) Gracie Boydell Jasmine Marshall Erin Carr Amanda Hallom Erin Lovegrove Each week, the English department will be publishing examples of excellent writing in the school bulletin. This week’s writing belongs to Alexander Golding in Year 10. This piece was written in preparation for the upcoming mock exam. Meols Cop High School Weekly Bulletin Week Ending Inclusive Excellence for ALL Friday 25th January 2019 My Hero Nature’s alarm clock awakes me from my slumber. I wake up to the birds singing, the leaves rustling, and the elk bellowing. All was calm. The cool breeze soothed me and I knew that today was my day, at long last. My life as a lumberjack was… stressful at best (all of the feelings of danger, urgency and jeopardy always came back to me). But, today, all of my stresses seemed to cower away in the back of my head. I look outside and see the sun’s light, slicing through the trees and reflecting upon the meadow of poppies and daisies back into my eyes. The birds’ crescendo was the final kick which energized me; I was ready! And so, as my clothes warmed my skin, a wooden handle splintered my left hand and the crisp, cold barrel of Betsy (That was what my grandfather had engraved on the side of it) took up my right. I walked out feeling complete. Meols Cop High School Weekly Bulletin Week Ending Inclusive Excellence for ALL Friday 25th January 2019 However, the air became heavier and as the birds singing became an ear-shattering Meols Cop High School Weekly Bulletin Week Ending Inclusive Excellence for ALL Friday 25th January 2019 shrieking and the bellowing elk became a demonic chant, I started to become anxious. My stresses supressed by the once beautiful song of the birds had been strewed upon me once more. I felt sick.