School April 5th 2019 News Last newsletter of the term Follow us on twitter: @LamptonSch www.lampton.org.uk

Dear Parents/Carers, Welcome to the bumper edition of our school newsletter for the end of the Spring Term 2019. I am pleased Attendance phone numbers: that you can see just a snapshot of the variety of exciting activities that are on offer to students at Lampton. My Year 7 – 11: 0208 538 4704 thanks to the members of staff who organise these and the many other enrichment opportunities which take place within our school. We were very pleased to welcome parents, past members of staff, Governors, Trus- Year 12: 0208 538 1814 st tees and two MPs – Seema Malhotra and Ruth Cadbury - to our Awards Evening on 21 March to celebrate Year 13: 0208 538 4700 the achievements of our students. It was a fantastic event as you can see below. As the Spring Break beckons it is a reminder that Public Examinations for Years 11, 12 and 13 are on the hori- zon. These students must make judicious use of the two week school closure to ensure that it has the maxi- mum possible impact on their achievement. I will be speaking about this in assembly on Friday 5th April with Mr Key Dates Bates (Deputy Headteacher), Ms Jackson (Director of Sixth Form) and Mr Dyason (Head of Year 11) offering  03rd April Year 11 Par- precise strategies to support these students. Please ask your child about this when they return home! As you ents Evening can read below, changes to our school food offer are happening at a rapid pace. The long overdue overhaul of the entire food provision will take place after the Spring Break. Trials of ‘street food’ so far have gone well. My  5th April—23rd April thanks to the staff and School Council members who have been supporting our new Chef with these changes. Easter Break After an impasse with the Planners at we will be able to begin building in earnest of the new dining facility in the new term. Watch this space for further details. And finally, 2019-20 is the school’s “Diamond Jubilee” year of being located on its current site. The school Make sure you add the opened at Lampton, as Spring Grove Grammar School, in September 1959 calendar to your phone becoming the that we now know in 1975. Students, via or tablet—go to Sub- School Council, have already started planning how we will commemorate scribe to Full Calendar this milestone in our school’s history. Again, watch this space! on the website. My thanks for your continuing support of our school and best wishes for the Spring Break. Stephen Davis Canteen update—we are so excited !!!

Our new Executive Chef David Darmanin is now on site after spending a couple of weeks training with CIS. Finances: Dave Darmanin is a chef from Malta who has been active in the food industry for the past 20 years. He started We need to raise at least out volunteering in a kitchen at a YMCA homeless shelter at age 16 and worked his way to open his own £50k to help fund the ex- catering establishments. He also took to food writing – becoming a food magazine editor by day and a restau- citing Canteen project. rateur by night. When he got accepted for a placement at Restaurant Noma in Copenhagen (voted World's We received about 95% of Best Restaurant), he packed his knives and cook books and never looked back. His time at Noma left him with the funding but the school a need to rediscover his culinary roots, so he booked a one-way flight to Italy and spent the next couple of needs to come up with years feeding fussy crowds and doing street food consultancy on the side. Discovering the London food the rest. If you can help scene, he moved to Hackney Wick in 2014 and decided to use his skills and experience in fine dining to create please contact the Finan- dishes that were easily accessible to parties that would not eat at Michelin star restaurants that often. With his brand PFGT - he popped up at museums, government buildings, on BBC's The Apprentice, Glastonbury [email protected] Festival, The Rockefeller Centre (NYC), Buckingham Palace, airports, catering establishments and private Thank you residences. David has also been in charge of food operations at Greenpeace UK for the past few years. David has been working with Nicole Pisani from CIS to finalise the menu that we be on offer here at Lampton. The staff got to taste some of the street food menu before the Awards evening last week. At the moment the GDPR Update: current service is carrying on as normal but this coming week and after Easter we will be launching the full Our newsletter is a little menu. Here is an example of what we will have on offer all freshly made in our canteen. sparse on photos as we are Jerk chicken bun Italian lamb skewers Sticky chicken wings Ziti pasta with basil sorting out all the consents pesto Chicken Chatt with rice Fish pie (with side salad) Option of seasonal salads, one to comply with the new pasta salad and one sandwich / wrap / baguette Buttermilk fried chicken lollipops; smoked GDPR legislation. corn salad Tacos Bow tie pasta with fresh mozzarella, tomatoes and basil Fresh hake fish fingers; potato wedges BBQ beef burgers Veggie lasagne David and CIS are work- ing closely with the stu- dent council and staff as Please help the school raise we are listening to our much needed funds. No cost customers. As soon as to you or the school. the menus are finalised https://www.easyfundraising.org.uk/ they will be put on Parent and search for Lampton Pay. School—Thank you https://www.easyfundraising.org.uk/causes/lamptonschool/ Page 2

Lampton Awards Evening Sarah Govett author of Our school hall was absolutely ‘The Territory’ trilogy packed to the rafters last Thursday evening to celebrate the accomplish- We were delighted when Sarah accepted our invitation to visit Lampton ments of our talented students. We School for our extended World Book Day celebrations. The Territory had staff and students from past and trilogy books appealed to so many of our student readers (many reading present to join in the ceremony. book 1 before the visit). When Sarah spoke to them about what influ- We were also very lucky to have enced her to write and the world and characters she created she had Amy Leonard from the Transfor- captured the attention of 270 of them. The talk was very interactive with mation Trust to assist in presenting Sarah asking the audience questions throughout and the students desper- the awards. We would like to say ate to ask her questions back! But it didn’t end there; she paused to do thank you to all the staff and stu- some book signing and photos and in the afternoon she continued with dents who truly made it a magical an amazing creative writing workshop for 45 (well oversubscribed!), evening. lucky year 7 & 8 students who began to write their own dystopian novels using the skills. The Library staff have now set them a challenge to complete the first chapter by the end of

this term and have a chance of winning an Amazon voucher each for their entry.

Cream tea anyone ?

Staff enjoying a Cream Tea, pre- pared, cooked and served by the year 11 Food and Nutri- tion students on 19 March 2019 as part of their coursework. In February the students got to experience a Cream Tea at the Park Grand hotel in Hounslow.

Update on our budding scientists On Monday, 18 March, student scientists from Lampton School in Hounslow showcased their cutting-edge research findings at the third anniver- sary celebration of the Institute for Research in Schools at The Francis Crick Institute in London. Students from Lampton School presented their findings as part of a ground-breaking project to map all 15,000 genes in the human whipworm ge- nome – which could change the lives of children across the world. This work was recognised and celebrated by the scientific community. Lampton student scientists are responsible for a huge 20% of the work as part of this truly innovative science project, making them the top per- forming school out of 52 taking part across the country. Please read the full article at https://www.lampton.org.uk/391/news/post/23/student-scientists-from-lampton-school-showcase-at-national-exhibition https://www.easyfundraising.org.uk/causes/lamptonschool/ Page 3

Jack Petchey Gold Award Scheme

Winners this term are:

Simran Year 11 Kelsey Year 9 Baseera Year 10 Sahir Year 11 Joyrich Year 7 Abdi Year Year 8 CONGRATULATIONS

Lampton School are enrolled on the Jack Petchey Gold Award Scheme which means that in a year we can award 9 students a grant of £250 each; students are nominated by staff and school council. The grants can be spent on specific activities of the nominees’ choice, i.e. team sports kit or equipment, art materials, outdoor games, trips, extra books for the library – the list goes on. What is special about the awards are that they are designed for those students who may not be noticed, those who just quietly get on with things despite having overcome enormous barriers. In addition to the £250 grant, each winner has their photograph taken with Mr Davis and displayed at the front of the school and invited with their parents/carers to a winners event, this year held on 13th June where they are presented with a winner’s medal in front of all other schools in Hounslow. Construction and motor engineering classes

For over two years select students at Lampton school have been making a small but positive impact at Lampton. The learners have been intro- duced to construction education and training and have learnt various skills - health and safety, carpentry, dry lining, plastering, plumbing, electri- cal installation, brickwork and painting & decorating. Additionally, they're also learning motor engineering, building both a petrol engine and electronic go-karts. Both Tyler and Eddie have gained a College place to continue their career development within motor mechanics. Moreo- ver, the learners have been afforded the opportunity to demonstrate their abilities by installing & maintaining various areas of the school site. At the heart of this, they've also learnt ways to address certain negative behaviours - lack of motivation and emotional well being, anxiety, con- centration and communication. To further prepare for college, the learners have made various site visits, allowing them to see their future opportunities. The year 11 are currently working hard to gain an accredited construction qualification. On behalf of the learners they’d like to express a thank you for all your continued support and encouragement.

Eton Summer School Programme Reusable and recyclable products in Congratulations to the following students that have been accepted onto the Canteen the Eton Summer School Programme As promised we have starting looking at all the recycling and waste Vaaruni Amrita Freddie Jake Okasha Aaysh that is produced in our school. This has become a very important issue for both the staff and students at Lampton. All packaging the The Summer School is a ten day residential course for pupils at the end food is served on in the canteen will be compostable and most of our of their first year in Sixth Form. The aim of the course is to provide an disposable ware will be either made of paper or non‐GMO corn (in intensive and exciting programme to enrich the students’ intellectual the case of cutlery). This is a very posive step in the right direcon development and to give them the opportunity to exchange ideas with as the Canteen up unl now has been using polystyrene. This will be those with similar interests from other schools, including Eton College. a focus of the canteen when making future decisions. We are also phasing out plasc aer the old stock has been used. https://www.easyfundraising.org.uk/causes/lamptonschool/ Page 4

Some of our sixth formers are taking As easy as PI part in Prudential

Ride London bike ride taking place over the A huge congratulations to the 142 pupils from years 8 to 11 who took part weekend of the 3-4 in the Intermediate Maths Challenge. This prestigious competition sees the August 2019. The ride top Maths minds from Secondary Schoolls around the country compete on is 46 miles starting in a selection of puzzling problems on all things Maths. An outstanding 59 East London and pupils from years 9, 10, and 11 achieved a bronze or above, with 5 of these finishing on The Mall. pupils progressing to advanced rounds. Year 7 Pupils scored the top prize The team had a team- of achieving gold: Ali ,Yogya, Siron, Jaanvi, Senuth, Muskaan and Ayushi . bike fitting day and Although just missing on a bronze award, extra recognition is deserved for nutrition workshops last week. The ride is being sponsored by the Transformation Term time leave Trust and the stu- Lampton school has seen an upsurge in requests for term-time leave this dents get to keep the year with over 50 requests submitted since September 2018, this is sig- bike after the ride. nificantly higher than at this point last year. Now for some seri- ous training! Please note in September 2013 the Government amended the 2006 regu- lations on school attendance and have removed all references to family holiday and extended leave as well as any reference to a 10 school day discretionary allowance for holiday for any reason, this includes visiting ill relatives abroad, weddings and religious trips etc. Therefore any requests NOTICES for term-time leave will not be authorised.

Parents should be aware all incidents of leave are logged and forwarded to the London Borough of Hounslow who keep the details for the entire of the child’s statutory school age period (Age 5 – 16). Therefore those parents who repeatedly take their children out of school during term time (including leave taken at Primary school) will automatically be issued with a Fixed Penalty Fine. Please note the current fine is £60 per parent per child and doubles if not paid within the 21 day period.

With exam time coming up fast please ensure you have signed up SINCE SEPTEMBER 2018, 4 FINES HAVE BEEN ISSUED TO to GSCE Pod. It is a valuable system that has the potential to sig- PARENTS FOR TAKING REPEATED TERM-TIME LEAVE nificantly strengthen students’ revision throughout their GCSEs Planning your summer 2019 holi- Tassomai –gentle reminder we day? Think of exams really need your help The exam boards have introduced a contingency day should the summer Lampton School’s science department have organised for GCSE 2019 exams be postponed due to any kind of disruption. This is timetabled th exam students to have access to the revision program, Tassomai, for Wednesday 26 June 2019 and all students sitting exams will need following some extremely promising results last year in science. to be available to sit rescheduled exams UNTIL that day. We therefore Statistical analysis of our own GCSE results for the cohort of year 11 advise that if you have students who are due to sit exams next summer in 2018 suggested that regular users of Tassomai at Lampton Acade- (year 11 and year 13) that you do not plan holidays etc. until after that my last year achieved a higher level of progress than their peers who day. We also recommend that they are in the country and available to th did not access the programme regularly. collect their own exam results on 15 August (GCE) and 22nd August (GCSE) In order to access this exciting and innovative revision tool which gives tried and tested results we request a voluntary contribution of £5 per pupil which can be paid via the Parentpay website - Parent Pay www.parentpay.com. To learn more, please take a look at Please remember that you must pay for a trip to guarantee a www.tassomai.com or call 0203 380 7968. place. A returned form alone does guarantee the place Leave during term Drop off and pick ups Eco Tip time We kindly ask that parents please avoid Lampton As much as possible, create a tree-free home: To help us keep the high attendance % at Avenue where possible and please do not come Lampton please be mindful of the school and into the Lampton School carpark. If you do need  replace paper napkins with cloth napkins to come down Lampton Avenue then please be local authority policy on term time leave.  replace paper towels with a special set of considerate of other drivers and the local residents. cloth towels/napkins (or cut up old t-shirts for great towels) - store the used ones in a Lettings at Lampton - We have a number of facilities at the school that can small container or drawer in your kitchen hired for all occasions—sporting groups, tutor groups etc. Go to our website https:// and just wash and reuse www.lampton.org.uk/744/letting-facilities for our full brochure. https://www.easyfundraising.org.uk/causes/lamptonschool/ Page 5 https://www.easyfundraising.org.uk/causes/lamptonschool/ Page 6