STRINGER PRESS AUTUMN TERM 2019 A message from the head teacher. Dear Parents, Carers, Staff and Governors, It’s been an exciting and very busy term at Dorothy Stringer. The school celebrated excellent outcomes in the summer and we believe that our students can achieve even more this year! The students continue to work hard, contribute to the school and wider community and generally make us very proud. Year 11s have been working tirelessly preparing for their GCSE’s and have just finished sitting their mock examinations. Their focus in the classroom and dedication to their studies is commendable. They await their results in January with anticipation and then our aim is to support them through to those GCSE exams in May/June. Year 10 have made a successful start to their GCSE subjects and are making strong progress. For Year 9, it’s been a term of reflection as they think about their future and academic achievements to inform their GCSE option choices. Year 8 continue to work hard and contribute to the life of the school both academically and through their involvement in extra-curricular activities. Having successfully made the transition from primary to secondary school, Year 7 are now well settled into school life and taking full advantage of all the opportunities on offer here. The extra-curricular life of the school continues to flourish, with the Carol Service bringing the term to a very special end. Throughout this term students have been working on the school production which is in January as well as participating in sporting teams. The school teams have had another excellent run of wins – more on this later in the newsletter. We also have record numbers participating in the Duke of Edinburgh award and we look forward to celebrating their completion later in the year. The visit of our guests from Ghana was one of the highlights of the term. We were able to share best practice and I know our staff and students are looking forward to the reciprocal visit in February half-term. I do hope that over the Christmas break students can rest and enjoy time together with friends and family and I wish you all a safe and relaxing break over the festive period and a happy and healthy 2020. Matt Hillier 1w:1 www.dorothy-stringer.co.uk t: 01273 852222 e: [email protected] This Terms News... DOROTHY STRINGER This is an interactive document, please use the contents below to go to a particular Enrichment Week Launch page of interest, or click on hyperlinks in the text to visit the web page. SOCIAL Enrichment Week Launch 3 ACCOUNTS Le Touquet Trip 3 Head Students 4 To keep up to date with current news Junior Leadership Team 4 please follow our social media accounts, School Production - The Wooden Frock 5 various departments run their own Duke of Edinburgh Award 6 ENRICHMENT WEEK 2020 LAUNCHED FOR KEY stage3 3 St Johns Oxford 6 accounts and celebrate good work, Year 7 Club Fair 7 events and success’. PE & Sports 8 This term we launched our Enrichment Week booklet with all students in Years 7-9 during assemblies. Dorothy Stringer Beach Clean 10 Girls Network Meeting 10 Enrichment Week takes place in the last full week of the academic year from Monday – Thursday and gives Music Students Visit Nursing Home 11 students in the lower school a chance to try out new activities or further develop skills they may already Carol Service 2020 11 @dorothystringerschool Author Visit: Frances Hardinge 12 have. It gives students a chance to learn outside the classroom and to try a range of activities they may not Drop Everything & Read! 12 have experienced before. We have over 40 activities to choose from this year, both in school and offsite, Poetry Live 13 Berlin Trip 13 ranging from outdoor activities to baking, to creative writing activities. We will be asking students to pick Business Club 14 @dorothystringerschool three activities as we cannot guarantee they will get their top choice. Food Bank Collections 14 Investors Challenge 15 Future First - Alumni 15 Further information will be sent out via the weekly newsletters and Form Tutors will also be going over General Knowledge Quiz 16 the process with students during form time - to view a copy of the Enrichment Week Booklet you can click Future DJ Workshop 16 on the following link : Get Career Confident 17 Local Senior Citizens 17 Ghanaian School Visitors 18 SHARE YOUR https://public.dorothy-stringer.co.uk/DS/Pages/enrichment_week.aspx Veg City Challenge Event 19 Environmental Science 19 NEWS Art Department Mock 20 Exams 20 We are always interested in hearing Katie Booth, Enrichment Week Co-ordinator Art Club 21 student’s achievements in and out of Graphic Design: Electric Square 21 school, and would love to celebrate SMTC Maths Challenge 22 Work Experience 2020 22 them in our termly news and on social Social Feed Highlights 23 accounts. Please share them with us Stringer Life - Autumn Term 24 by emailing communications@dorothy- Merry Christmas 25 stringer.co.uk Adverts & Sponsors 26 we would love Le Touquet Trip Upcoming Key Dates your feedback If you have any ideas or suggestions We are really looking forward to taking a group of 45, Year 8 to 11 students to Le Touquet in northern of the type of news you would France in the second week of January. This is an exciting new residential trip that we are running in the MFL 6 January 2020 Start of Spring Term like to hear about please email us department. 9 January 2020 Year 9 Options Process Begins [email protected] 23 January 2020 Year 9 Parents’ Evening This trip will offer our students a wealth of culture as well as helping to develop their language skills. We have a 27 January 2020 Inset Day - School Closed jam packed itinerary from 6.30am on the Monday morning until our return at 11pm on the Thursday evening. 29 January - 1 February 2020 School Play weekly news We will be visiting a chocolate factory, a bakery, an artisan workshop and a fishing museum, with tours 10 - 13 February 2020 DEAR Week updates provided in French. We will be doing a scavenger hunt, going bowling, go shopping as well as completing activities with students from our French link school. Our students have already been paired up with French 14 February 2020 Year 11 School Photos students and have been exchanging emails in preparation for meeting them on our arrival at the school. 27 February 2020 Year 11 Parents’ Evening Remember to keep an eye out for our weekly news update from the head 13 - 14 March 2020 Dance Show teacher in your email inbox, it can also This is a great way to experience French life and to learn French in a real life situation and we hope to be able 26 March 2020 Year 7 Parents’ Evening be viewed by logging onto the SLG, to offer a similar trip to Spain next year. 1 - 2 April 2020 Spring Concert under ‘newsletter’. 3 April 2020 End of Term/Non Uniform Day Mrs Revéreault , Heaf of MFL 2 3 Head Students School Production NEWLY APPOINTED HEAD STUDENTS Drama Department This term has been our 2019/20 Head Students first term. We would like to congratulate them on their appointments It’s GO GO GO in the Drama Department! and on their first duty of the year - speaking at Open Evening to our prospective This term the Drama Department and students have been students and parents. extremely busy auditioning and rehearsing for this year’s school production: If you are not familiar with our head students we would like to introduce them to you. ‘The Wooden Frock’ Head Girl: Clara, Head Boy: Malachy Deputies: Milo, Aofie, Tiger and Harry, A fairy-tale, but not as you know it. A happy royal kingdom thrown into turmoil and grief. A man and his pigeon. A Our head students regularly meet with Mr search for a wife. A quest for a dress. A journey over the Hillier to discuss student’s wishes and plans ocean. A love story? Maybe not… for the future of Dorothy Stringer School. Her name is Mary Woodenfrock and she does what she likes. Date: Wednesday 29th January 2020 to Saturday 1st February 2020 Time: 7.30pm (Doors open at 7.10pm) Junior Leadership Team Tickets: £7 (Adults) £5 (Concessions) Tickets will be available from Drama Office at break and Congratulations to Clara, Ellie & Nancy and their Junior Leadership Teams for a very successful start to lunchtime from Monday 13th January 2020. the academic year. Look out on the website/SLG for details in the New Year! The teams have been busy raising money for our Ghanaian link school, the JLT have delivered assemblies to the whole school, talking about diversity and the new D-buck reward system. We celebrated Parliament Book early to avoid disappointment. Week, unfortunately a general election was called so Caroline Lucas had to postpone her visit to the school until later in the year. Ms Ettinger, Head of Drama We are always grateful for any suggestions to reduce single use plastic in the school and hope you support this in using reusable containers in lunch boxes. Miss Poole | JLT Clara Ellie Nancy Key Stage 4 Co Chair Key Stage 4 Co Chair Key Stage 4 Co Chair 4 5 Duke of Edinburgh Year 7 Club Fair DUKE OF EDINBURGH AWARD - CELEBRATING SUCCESS! Our current Year 10’s are now finishing off the last few bits of their sections ready for the March deadline.