ST SAMPSON’S HIGH SCHOOL PARENTS’ NEWSLETTER May 2014
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A Message from our Headteacher
Dear Parents/Carers It has come around to that time of year again when our Year 11 students are currently on Study leave and sitting all their examinations. A copy of the Exam timetable is included for information. We wish them all the very best of luck in their exams and their future pursuits. The Year 11 Prom is due to take place on Wednesday 25th June and tickets are available from Mr Pearce, Head of Year 11.
This month’s newsletter is packed with information; please take the time to read through. We try to mention all that has taken place over the term and all events coming up so if you have any news you would like to share in the Newsletter regarding the school or the Students please let us know.
The second half of the Summer Term promises to be a busy and fun packed time for students. We have Opportunities Week, the PTA Summer Fayre, the Westcoast challenge and year 10 on their work experience placements, see further information in the following pages. All these events will be reported upon in our next Newsletter – the last in the current school Year!
Yours sincerely
Mrs A Bolt Headteacher
Staff news
Mrs Chesters will be on maternity leave from Friday 23rd May and we wish both her and Mr Chesters the very best, we will report on the new arrival in the next newsletter! Mr Mauger will be acting Head of Year 8 whilst Mrs Chesters is on maternity leave his e-mail address is [email protected].
Mr Wooldridge has had a new addition to his family, a little girl Lucy born on 12th May. Mum and baby are doing well! Congratulations to the Wooldridge family.
Students raising funds for charity
Once again a group of Year 10 girls have organised a sponsored swim for charity, and together raised £260. This money will be divided between Cancer Relief, Chest & Heart and Cheshire Homes, and will obviously be gratefully received. Well done to Tonicha Topley, Tiegan Batiste, Savi Gow and Jade Ferbrache.
Accelerated Reader Programme
This term we have started using an online reading programme put together by Renaissance Learning. Mrs Henry spent a long time last term organising and labelling the appropriate library books and all of Year 7 did an online reading test. This gave them a ‘zone’ (a range of number numbers) to select their reading books from to suit their ability and help their reading to progress. When students finish a book, they take a quick online test on the book and receive a score and points. Points make prizes!
The programme is designed to improve reading with understanding and give us improved data on students, leading to better teaching and learning in all lessons, and therefore, ultimately, improved exam results. If you have a child in Year 7, please encourage them to read their chosen book in a quiet room for 20 minutes each night.
This scheme has been paid for using the money raised by last year’s West Coast Challenge Sponsored Walk – the date of this year’s walk is Friday 4th July. More details to follow...
EXAM TIMETABLE Date Start Length Exam Year Group Mon 02 Jun 09:00 01:30 Building A Business Yr 11 Mon 02 Jun 09:00 01:00 Music Unit 1 Yr 11 Tue 03 Jun 09:00 01:45 English Language - The Writer's Voice [F] Yr 11 Tue 03 Jun 09:00 01:45 English Language - The Writer's Voice [H] Yr 11 Tue 03 Jun 09:00 02:00 AQA Certificate in English Language Paper 1 Yr 11 Tue 03 Jun 13:30 02:00 D & T: Food Technology Unit 1 Yr 11 Fri 06 Jun 09:00 01:30 Geography - Geographical Decisions [F] Yr 11 Fri 06 Jun 09:00 01:30 Geography - Geographical Decisions [H] Yr 11 Fri 06 Jun 09:00 02:00 AQA Certificate in English Language Paper 2 Yr 11 Fri 06 Jun 13:30 01:00 Biology Unit 1 Tier F Yr10/Yr11 Fri 06 Jun 13:30 01:00 Biology Unit 1 Tier H Yr10/Yr11 Fri 06 Jun 13:30 01:30 Science A Unit 1 Tier F Yr 10 Mon 09 Jun 09:00 01:45 Maths Paper 1 - Non Calculator [F] Yr10/Yr11 Mon 09 Jun 09:00 01:45 Maths Paper 1 - Non Calculator [H] Yr10/Yr11 Mon 09 Jun 13:30 01:00 BTEC Fitness for Sport & Exercise Yr10 Tue 10 Jun 09:00 01:30 Resistant Materials Yr 11 Tue 10 Jun 13:30 01:00 Chemistry Unit 1 Tier F Yr10/Yr11 Tue 10 Jun 13:30 01:00 Chemistry Unit 1 Tier H Yr10/Yr11 Wed 11 Jun 13:30 02:00 D & T: Graphic Products Unit 1 Yr 11 Thu 12 Jun 09:00 01:00 Physics Unit 1 Tier F Yr10/Yr11 Thu 12 Jun 09:00 01:00 Physics Unit 1 Tier H Yr10/Yr11 Fri 13 Jun 09:00 01:45 Maths Paper 2 - Calculator [F] Yr10/Yr11 Fri 13 Jun 09:00 01:45 Maths Paper 2 - Calculator [H] Yr10/Yr11 Mon 16 Jun 09:00 01:30 Further Mathematics Paper 1 Yr 11 Fri 20 Jun 09:00 02:00 Further Mathematics Paper 2 Yr 11 Mon 23 Jun 13:30 02:00 Statistics Yr 10 Wed 25 June 09:00 00:45 IFS - (Part A) Unit 2 Financial Capability for the Yr 11 Medium & Long Term Fri 27 June 09:00 01:45 IFS - (Part B) Unit 2 Financial Capability for the Yr 11 Medium & Long Term
Work related learning – Careers Department
St Sampson’s High School is very proud of the achievements of all of its students and especially our Year 11 leavers from last year. Have a look at the fantastic destinations the students ended up in – from College of FE to 6th Form to apprenticeships, they all achieved so much. In fact St Sampson’s High School students achieved the most apprenticeships on island last academic year. We wish current Year 11 as much success and look forward to hearing what they are doing in September.
You can search information about lots of things relating to careers; how to apply for a job, finding a job and help with CVs to name but a few. Contact details below:-
Contact: Sean Parry, Careers Adviser for St Sampson’s
T: 733024
W: www.careers.gg New and Improved website!
You will find us in the Education Department at the top of the Grange.
Opening hours: Monday to Friday 8.30am – 5.00pm including school holidays
The St Sampson’s High School website also has a careers section that will keep you up to date with information about what’s going on at school and any local jobs available! www.stsampsonshigh.com/careers
Year 10 Visits
On Thursday 18th June students in Year 10 will visit the College of FE to see what courses are available for when they leave Year 11. On Thursday 3rd July students in Year 10 will go on another visit to the 6th Form Centre and see what it’s like there and what is available after Year 11. All students will be taken to and from school by bus and will hopefully be able to start thinking about their choices after Year 11! An extremely exciting time!
Work Experience for Year 10
Year 10 are undertaking work experience from Monday 7th to Friday 11th July and details have been handed to the students. If you haven’t already done so, please ensure that the blue form has been signed and returned to Ms Kaufmann as a matter of urgency.
Opportunites Week Year 7 to 9
Opportunities Week for Years 7 to 9 will take place from Wednesday 9th to Friday 11th July, the penultimate week of term. Booklets are being sent home this week and parents are encouraged to read the information carefully and discuss the activities on offer with their children. Please sign the consent /choice form and return it to the schools main office as soon as possible.
PTA News
We held two events during the Spring term, both of which were a great success. The first was the annual ‘Search for a Star’ competition. Twelve acts presented a wonderful show including street dance through to classical ballet, musical acts covering various idioms such as bands, solo vocalists and instrumentalists, and a magician.
We were pleased to welcome compère for the evening Mr Josh Gabriel, and three judges for the competition: Mrs Michelle Nash, Rev. Matthew Barrett, and Mr Jason Alderton. The audience was entertained with music kindly presented by the samba band, Guernsey Burros, whilst the judges considered their verdict.
The winner of the Key Stage 3 competition was Declan Simon who had astounded the audience with his magic tricks. The winner of the Key Stage 4 competition was a rock band called the Doomsday Project made up of four year 11 St. Sampson’s High students, Alex Ogier, George Russell, Adam Walford and Jake Pemberton. They performed an original song of their own composition which had a McFly vibe.
The overall winner of the competition was a group called the Bel Air Kids made up of four students from Le Murier – Jordan-Lee Gallienne, Samuel Teixiera, Jacques Gallagher and Kieran Prigent - performing with vocals, ukuleles, bass guitar and drums. They performed the theme tune from ‘The Fresh Prince of Bel Air’ and had the audience clapping along with them.
The technical side of the evening was run by St Sampson’s High Senior Technician James Le Huray with a willing group of students who kept the sound and light show underway as well as making sure all the performers had the equipment they required.
Many thanks to all involved in a great evening, at which the motivation and talent amongst the students of the two schools were clearly demonstrated.
The second event was a quiz with a ploughman’s supper. Caroline Bowker and Sean McManus were the question masters for the evening, and the PTA put together the supper. It was a very entertaining evening with questions included for all ages. As well as parents, students, teachers and friends enjoying a sociable evening, funds were raised which go to supporting the students at both Baubigny Schools. Many thanks to the quiz masters and Guernsey Dairy for their help with the event.
PTA Future Events:
Baubigny Schools PTA are holding a Summer Fayre on Sunday 22nd June from 2 to 4pm. Please come along and enjoy the afternoon. We would welcome donations of books, CD’s and DVD’s dropped in to the school office before the event, and cakes on the day from 10am. If you can help in any way please e-mail [email protected].
The PTA are planning to provide ‘goody bags’ made up from donations from various businesses in the Island for the students to enjoy during the West Coast Challenge on Friday 4th July.
There will be a school disco for incoming year 6 students with Years 7 and 8 on Tuesday 8th July.
Gifted & Talented News from Mrs Appelqvist
The English G&T club, The Dead Poets Society have formed a Carnegie Award shadowing group. We are reading the Carnegie shortlisted novels, sharing our reactions to the novels and preparing to attend a session with all Island secondary schools at the library. We have also launched our own shadowing page, and will be creating reviews, short films and adverts for the shortlisted books.
The English department were also fortunate enough to have a poetry group visit us for a poetry Slam Jam event during the Literary Festival. This session took place for a number of year 9 students on Wednesday 14th May.
On Sunday 18th May the Guernsey Literary Festival came to a close, with a student led poetry slam at St. James. I was really proud to have a student represent our school at this event, as we were the only high school to participate.
Hayley Corbet in year 9 read a wonderful and very moving poem titled, ‘If I weren’t afraid’. Not only did Hayley represent us wonderfully, but she won! She beat representatives from both the Grammar school and Elizabeth College, and the professional poets and judges couldn’t praise her enough! Hayley was interviewed and appeared on tv on Monday 19th May, talking about her poem and the slam jam.
Two year 8 students, Melissa Wilson and Sasha Belford, also participated in the Literary Festival, they attended a writing workshop on Saturday with published and award winning novelist Bali Rai. They did the school proud and represented us wonderfully. They wrote some wonderful stories, which the author Andrew Clover openly praised.
Well done to all.
Music
Music Exam success:
Congratulations to the following: - Toby Batiste who passed his Grade 1 French Horn exam with distinction. Chelsea Kinney who passed her Grade 3 Flute with merit. Deanna Sargent who passed her Grade 4 Euphorium with distinction.
Upcoming Summer Term Performances:
Thursday 19th June - the choir will be performing in the local community in the afternoon. Sunday 22nd June - the orchestra will be performing at the Baubigny Schools Summer Fayre during the afternoon.
Friday 27th June - Year 7 Sweeney Todd It's that time of year again! Each year 7 class will be putting on a performance of Sweeney Todd - the demon barber of Fleet Street. This will be a culmination of work from their Drama, Music and Art lessons this term. Times of the performances will be sent out after half term (please also check for details on the school's Facebook page). All the performances will take place during the day and parents, carers and family are welcome to attend.
Tuesday 1st July - M.A.D night (Music/Art/Drama) this will be our final performance and exhibition of the year. Tickets will be available from the school office shortly.
The first half will feature performances by the Orchestra, The Doomsday Project, Brass Ensemble, Choir, Double Reed ensemble and Recorder Ensemble. The second half will be a short production by the Drama Club and Choir of 'Mr Punch'.
Finally, a big thank you to all the year 11 students who have taken such an active part in the Creative Arts during their time in school. This year group in particular have been reliable, dedicated to rehearsals and have given some superb performances. Many of them of course will be involved in MAD night and I am sure we will continue to hear about their successes during the next few years.
Art Department
The award winning poems and three works of art by local artists’ Charlie Buchanan, Darren Cranmer and Hugh Rose, share the Gate House Gallery with work by Year 10 Students from across Guernsey. Two of our Year 10 students, Imogen Conlan and Michael Sarahs, were involved in the Poetry on the move illustration. Well done to both Imogen and Michael.
The Winners’ reading 2014 with Candy Neubert, Guernsey’s International Poetry Competition was held where winning posts read their work. The poems were selected in two phases; 33 entries were chosen for the new
Poems-on the-buses exhibition and 12 of these also take part in the larger Poems on the Move display, beginning at Guernsey Airport and inspiring local artists and students.
Graphics Department
PE Department
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Sports Day 2014
SSHS Sports Day 2014 saw the highest number of competitors ever! The weather was glorious and only bettered by the performances throughout the day. We had a total of 9 school records broken and a superb 196 (!!) students taking part in the relay events at the end of the day.
School records broken were:
Year 9 - Becksley Wild - High Jump - 1.65m Year 10 - Bast Amies-Nash - High Jump - 1.65m Year 10 - Jade Packham - High Jump - 1.48m Year 10 - Jordan Kelly - Long Jump - 5.71m Year 10 - Jordan Kelly - Triple Jump - 12.37m Year 10 - Jordan Kelly - 100m - 11.87s Year 10 - Atlanta Allen - Javelin - 32.20m Year 10 - Atlanta Allen - Triple Jump - 7.90m Year 10 - Jade Packham - 100m - 12.97s - Y10 Jade Packham 200m – 28.46s, Y9 Sammy Archenoul 300m – 45.01s, Y7 Vicktorija Danilane Discus – 13.14m, Y7 Lihou girls relay – 65.05s, Y7 Lihou boys relay – 60.00s, Y8 Jacob Masterton-Pipet 300m – 46.98s
Lihou were the overall winners with a total of 725 points, Brecqhou 2nd 713 and Jethou 3rd 615.
Pictured with special guest Ryan Zico-Black are: Winner of the Endeavour award - Hollie Sweet (yr8) Winner of the Performance of Day award - Jade Packham 100m (yr10) Top Boy - Sammy Archenoul (yr9) Top Girl - Utopia Blackwood (yr9)
Miss Ozanne completing her victory lap!
Sammy Archenoul and Utopia Blackwood
SSHS PE Department are now looking forward to the inter-school competitions on Thursday 5th June and Tuesday 10th June.
Winners and Record Breakers Table for Sports Day
Year 7 Boys Girls Event Winner Winner Javelin Brad O'Regan j Chanel Carre l Shot Jake Desperques j Hollie-Ann Langlois l High Jump Callum Le Lacheur l Kara Fitzpatrick l Long Jump Patrick Le Friec b Tammy McNally l Triple Jump Discus Toby Willis l Victorija Danilane l Shania Bostrom De Patrick Le Friec b b 200 metres La Mare 800 metres Patrick Le Friec b Natalie Le Page j 100 metres Brad O'Regan j Tammy McNally l 300/400
metres Hurdles Alex Johns l Natalie Le Page l 1500 metres Patrick Le Frieq b Natalie Le Page j Relay lihou lihou l
Year 8 Boys Girls Event Winner Winner Javelin Seb Fitzpatrick l Mariah Stewart j Shot Harry Ke Page l Leonie O'Reegan l
Elaine Lowe/Lilly Ethan Welsh j l/b High Jump Meale Long Jump Alex Druce/Riley King b/l Melissa Wilson j Triple Jump Tom Vaudin b Discus Oliver Help b Alex Guillemet J 200 metres Jacob Masterton Pipet l Misha Mourant b 800 metres Declan Gilman b Bryony Bailey l 100 metres Harry Le Page l Chelsea Hutton l 300/400 Jacob Masterton Pipet l metres Hurdles JP Druce j Misha Mourant b 1500 metres Declan Gilman b Bryony Bailey l Relay lihou jethou
Year 9 Boys Girls Event Winner Winner Javelin Cameron Taylor j Christina Allen j Shot Jack Mear b Nabiha Rahman l High Jump Becksley Wild j Danni King b Long Jump Tom Walden j Lauren Mauger l Triple Jump Tom Walden j Discus Sammy Archenoul b Nabiha Rahman l 200 metres Tom Walden j Utopia Blackwood j 800 metres Zac Felbabel j Megan Hockey l 100 metres Tom Walden j Utopia Blackwood J 300/400 Sammy Archenoul b metres Hurdles Zac Felbabel j Utopia Blackwood j 1500 metres Max Makepeace l Chanice Page b Relay breq breq
Year 10 Boys Girls Event Winner Winner Javelin Ben Relph b Atlanta Allen j Shot James Jones b Caris Eker b High Jump Bastian Aimes-Nash l Jade Packham l Long Jump Jordan Kelly j Kirsty Marquis b Triple Jump Jordan Kelly j Atlanta Allen j Discus Ollie Salmon l Jess Hughes b 200 metres Sam Mahy l Jade Packham l 800 metres Matt Renouf b Charlotte Coutanche l 100 metres Jordan Kelly j Jade Packham l 300/400 Lewis Drummy j Kirsty Marquis b metres Hurdles Ben Relph b Tonicha Topley l 1500 metres Jack Setters l Charlotte Coutanche l Relay breq breq
Athletics
There will be a hurdles training session on Tuesday 3rd June for all students who are hurdling in the Inter- School athletics competition. The session will be run by Nick Marley, from the Guernsey Athletics Club, from 3.45 until 5pm at Footes Lane. Please could students make every effort to attend.
Humanitites Dept News
On Thursday 15th March, Holocaust survivor Rudi Oppenheimer came to St Sampson’s High to deliver 2 presentations to all of year 8 and some members of year 9 and 10. He talked about his experience of life under the Nazis and his time at Bergen Belsen and Westerborg Concentration Camp. Whilst his mother and father both died at Bergen Belsen, Rudi and his brother and sister were among the lucky few who survived. The talk was a unique opportunity to hear about an important part of our history.
For further information on Rudi, visit http://www.het.org.uk/index.php/survivors-ro
Rudi’s brother Paul wrote a book about his experiences; ‘From Belsen to Buckingham Palace’. Those students who would like to purchase a signed book can ask Miss Tostevin to order a copy. Books cost £5.
School Dates 2014
Summer Term 2014
Monday 26th to Friday 30th May Half Term
Sunday 22nd June Summer Fayre
Friday 27th June Year 7 Sweeney Todd Performances
Tuesday 1st July MAD Night
Wednesday 2nd July Year 6 Transition Day and Parents Evening
Thursday 3rd July MAD Night
Friday 4th July Westcoast Challenge
Tuesday 8th July School Disco for Year 6, 7 & 8
Friday 18th July Term Ends for Summer Holidays
Autumn Term 2014
Monday 1st September Term Starts (Staff)
Tuesday 2nd September Term Starts (Students)
Monday 27th October to Friday 31st October Half Term
Friday 19th December Term Ends