Online Brynteg News Cyhoeddiad 61 Newyddion Brynteg Ar Iein
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15th September 2017 Issue No. 61 15 Medi 2017 Online Brynteg News Cyhoeddiad 61 Newyddion Brynteg Ar Iein Dear Parent/Carer, It is a pleasure to write to you as the new Headteacher of Brynteg School. It is a privilege to be able to lead a school which has achieved so highly over the years and I certainly intend to build on this to ensure that Brynteg is even more successful in the future. My work this term will be dominated by my belief that only happy children learn. I see it as my role to ensure that every single pupil enjoys coming to school, that they feel that they are an important part of the school and ultimately, with these in place, they feel able to learn and achieve. This term has certainly started in an extremely positive way as we celebrate excellent results at Key Stage 3, 4 and the sixth form. Recent press coverage focussed on the many successes of our pupils as they collected their results this summer. Whilst it is too early to provide you with an in-depth analysis of our performance, the following head- lines deserve to be celebrated: 90% of our year 9 pupils achieved at least a level 5 in maths, science and English (the core subject indicator) 63% of our year 11 pupils achieved at least 5A*-C grades including maths and English 26% of our year 11 pupils achieved at least 5 A*-A grades 98% of our year 13 pupils achieved at least 2 A*-E grades 25% of the grades achieved by our year 13 pupils were at A*-A Whilst this level of performance is excellent, I will seek to build on this further and achieve even higher outcomes in the future. Our Open Evening for prospective pupils, parents and carers takes place on Thursday 28th September from 4.30pm. This is aimed at those pupils who are currently in year 5 or 6 in our local primary schools. Please would you help us to promote this by mentioning this to those who you think may be interested. I intend to hold open meetings with parents and carers where you will be able to ask me questions about any aspect of our provision. These will take place as follows: Thursday 19th October 6pm – Lower School hall (parents/carers of y7/8/9) Thursday 26th October 6pm – Upper School hall (parents/carers of y10/11/12/13) The meetings are intended to be informal and will be followed up with further meetings in the spring and summer terms. Further information about events and activities can be found in our regular newsletter and on Facebook (Bryntegschool) and Twitter (@bryntegschool). Finally, can I thank you for your support. The response to the change in uniform has been outstanding and it is a pleasure to see the positive impact that the introduction of blazers has had across the school. I look forward to working with you. Best wishes, Mr Ryan Davies Headteacher What a fantastic start to the new academic year. Thank you to our pupils, parents and carers for supporting the new uniform changes so well. We have received a number of supporting messages from people in the community stating how seeing the pupils dressed in their blazers have created such a positive impression. Thank you. Contacting the School – A Kindly Reminder Mobile Phones and contacting the school Important: Please can we remind parents to refrain from contacting pupils during the school day and most importantly to avoid doing so via their mobile phone. It places pupils in a very difficult situation should a call come during a lesson. According to our mobile device policy, this could result in sanctions against the pupil, the phone being confiscated and parents being asked to come to the school to collect. Equally we have had instances where pupils have contacted parents about an issue or illness on their mobile, against school rules and policy, often without informing the school itself. Consequently we have had parents turn up at reception demanding that we resolve an issue or illness that we were unaware of in the first place. If there is an emergency please contact the school on 01656 641800 and we will find pupils as requested As a school we encourage partnership working between teachers and parents and keeping in touch is an important and valued part of this successful partnership. However, recently our busy switchboard has seen an unprecedented rise in the number of calls from parents, the majority of which are routine and non-urgent. Can we politely remind parents that there are a number of ways in which you can contact the school that may help parent messages and enquiries to be dealt with more efficiently and save you the frustration of hanging on waiting for your call to be answered. It would also prevent our switchboard being clogged up with routine calls and allow us to give priority to urgent and emergency calls. A note in your child’s planner For routine messages such as dental appointments, lost kit, homework queries. Email: [email protected] Please state your child’s name and form and if relevant, who the email is for. Your email will then be forwarded to the relevant person. For non urgent routine enquires and reporting any concerns, change of address, pupil absences, school trip information. Telephone: 01656 641800 For urgent and emergency matters only please. We reiterate that we are happy to hear from you and thank you for using the appropriate method of contacting us. Mobile phones and MP3 players If you are caught using a mobile phone or MP3 player in class or anywhere on the school grounds it will be confiscated. It will be returned only to your parents/carers who will have to come to school to pick it up. Failure to hand over a mobile phone to staff will have serious disciplinary consequences. Message Board Staff Development Days The school will be closed to pupils on the following dates: Friday 16th February 2018 Thursday 29th March 2018 Monday 23rd July 2018 Tuesday 24th July 2018 The term for pupils will end on Friday 20th July 2018. School Term Dates Mid-term holiday Term Term Begins Term Ends Begins Ends Monday Monday Friday Friday Autumn Term 2017 4 September 2017 30 October 2017 3 November 2017 22 December 2017 Monday Monday Friday Thursday Spring Term 2018 8 January 2018 19 February 2018 23 February 2018 29 March 2018 Monday Monday Friday Tuesday Summer Term 2018 16 April 2018 28 May 2018 1 June 2018 24 July 2018 Uniform reminder Please could all uniform items and PE kits be clearly labelled, this is so we can return any items to their owner. Thank you for your cooperation Show My Homework: Year 7 pupils will receive their login details shortly. Up to date parental email address required for parent / carer access Exam Success! Photographed students and high achievers include: Max Brennan (A*, A* A*), Ellie Butcher (A A A), Ayisha Dyer (A* A* A), Courtney Edwards (A A A), Thomas Exton (A A A), Adam Hogan (A* A* A), Daniel Jenkins (A* A* B), Harvey Jones (A* A* A A), Ellie MacGregor (A* A* A), Amy Morgan (A* A A), Shivani Potnis (A A A), Hannah Pottinger (A* A A), Eliza Scott-Thomas (A* A* B), Carys Sheard (A* A* A A), Emily Stimpson (A* A A), Brogan Thomas (A* A* A*), Gabriella Wilde (A* A* A), Emily Williams (A* A* A*). A-Level Results Day 2017 We are delighted with this year’s results, which once again reflect the hard work of students and staff at Brynteg. These results build on the school’s long tradition of academic excellence in the Sixth Form, with some outstanding individual results. The vast majority of our students are now looking forward to attending their first choice of university. Naturally, we wish all of our students every success for the future! Mr Ryan Davies (Headteacher) Exam Success! Brynteg GCSE Results Day 2017 We are very pleased with this year’s GCSE results, which once again confirm the very high standards we achieve within Brynteg. Performance within English, Maths and Science was very strong. We congratulate all of our pupils and staff on the results. Their hard work has once again been rewarded. Twenty five pupils achieved ten or more A*/A grades and nearly 25% of the cohort achieved 5 or more A*/A grades. We look forward to welcoming back the vast majority of year 11 into our exceptionally successful Sixth Form to further build on their successful GCSE performance. Mr Ryan Davies, Headteacher Photograph List – pupils achieving 10 or more A*/A grades: Samuel Beckett Catrin Membery Prutha Bhor Rachel Morgan Benjamin Davies Finlay Mullens Sophie Davies Olivia Norman Shannon Duckett Hannah Pearson Rhiannon Harries Rhys Spurgeon Dafydd Heyburn Alice Taylor Megan Howe Briony Thomas Lowri Howells Lucy Thomas Kate James Lauryn Vickerman Evan Laidler Anya Williams Alexander Mabey Amy Brier Winn Lydia MacGibbon Art Department News Newyddion Yr Adran Gelf During July a group of sixth form art students completed a fabulous Gruffalo mural on a large container in Brackla Primary School. A fantastic result produced thanks to the excellent guidance and hard work of art teacher Mrs S Topham and her husband Keith who also continued to work on this on their days off. Many thanks and well done to all who were involved including year 13 pupils Cerys Jones, Charlotte Parker, Jack Newman and Demi-Lei Morgan. Information / Photographs supplied by: Mrs S Pearson / Mrs S Topham Drama Department News Newyddion Yr Adran Ddrama The next Performing Arts Department whole school production will be Disney's Updates to follow….