TERM 1: October 2016 Night of the What is your favourite What’s on at CNS Staff Profile sport? Musicals My favourite sport is TERM 2 OCTOBER CHIPPING Trampolining. Wk 9 B OPEN CLASSROOM WEEK NORTON What’s your favourite Mon 31 Y12 Spires trip to Oxford SCHOOL University this week CNSNewsletter meal from the canteen? NOVEMBER I haven’t eaten in the canteen Wed 2 University Admissions Tests yet but when I was a student Thurs 3 Y13 Parent Teacher Consulta tion my favourite thing were the Wk 10 A ice buns.. Mon 7 Y11 Rehearsal exams begin What interests do you Y11 Drama 9am-4pm Unit 2 exam On Wednesday 12th have outside of school? Tues 8 Y12/13 Senior Maths Challenge Students excel in October the students I play netball for a team in Governors’ Staffing Committee Banbury. I have two young Meeting 6pm in Year 7 took part in Wed 9 CNS CSLA Street Dance - HEAD’S LINES boys and therefore spend a Dennis Victory 1.25-3.05pm the annual Night of Mrs De Bruyn, lot of time at ‘Rugrats’. I love Thurs 10 Y11 Citizenship Day Head of Sixth Form What is new at A Level and GSCEs the Musicals concert; a Fri 11 Y12/13 D+T visit to V&A reading and my favourite Progress Reports home (Y7, Chipping Norton celebration of the work How do you pronounce Once again students at Chipping Norton book is Pride and Prejudice 8,9,10,11 + 13) School? they have been doing in your surname? Wk 11 B School are celebrating outstanding ‘A’ by Jane Austen and also Mon 14 A level Biology DNA Day this Sporting Success: We their lessons, alongside My husband pronounces it as Bridget Jones’ Diary. I enjoy week (prov) have had recent sporting level results. This year the headline A*-B performances from the Du Brain but I prefer it to be going to the cinema and Tues 15 Unit 3 A2 Performance Evening successes in hockey, percentage figure is 59%, the best that the 7pm school choirs. This year's said as Der Bruan. my favourite film is ‘Dirty cricket and rugby. Last school has ever achieved, and for the sixth Wed 16 Y11 Rehearsal exams end term the U12 cricket concert saw Max Mazower Why did you decide to Dancing’. Thurs 17 Y12 EU Mock Council year in succession the A*-B percentage has team were victorious in and Amelia Ledgard-Hoile come to CNS? If you had to teach a (London) been well over 50%. The overall pass rate Unit 3 Drama A2 exam the Oxfordshire County was an extremely high 99.5%. One quarter guiding the audience I was Head of Sixth Form at subject other than Sport/ 9am-4pm league final, convincingly of all students achieved two or more A through the highlights of my previous school which Dance what would it be? Sixth form Open Evening beating Icknield School. Wk 12 A House Match Week grades and eight students achieved grades was quite a small school. I English, because I love it. The girls’ hockey teams go the best-selling West End Tues 22 KS5 Awards Evening that were all A* or A. wanted to work in a bigger Have you ever met any Thurs 24 Y8 Parent Teacher Consultation from strength to strength and Broadway musicals, Especially high performing students Sixth Form and one which famous sports stars? Sat 26 Y8-10 Rugby Trip to with good wins over featuring songs from The Twickenham other West Oxfordshire include: Leonie Jurkschat (A*A*A*A); Monica is high achieving. CNS Sixth Yes, I once met Will We 13 B Lion King, Buddy, We Schools. The U15 rugby Schroeder (A*A*A*); Megan Humphreys Form is in the top 15% Greenwood, one of England’s Tues 29 Y12 Safe Drive Stay Alive Will Rock You and Les Y7 Puzzle Day team are progressing well (A*A*A); Alice Ortona Coles (A*A*A); Jack nationally for achievement. greatest Rugby players, and Miserables among many Wed 30 CNPS SH Athletics in the National Cup having Williams-Sharkey (A*AA); Daniel Thompson I was a student at Chipping it was very embarrassing 3.00-4.45pm with CSLA defeated Bablake School, (AAA); Alisa Mann (AAA); and Poppy Grimes others. The evening was Norton School and because I spoke to him in a DECEMBER Coventry, 31-29 this week, Thurs 1 Y9-13 German Christmas (AAA). a great success, and the remember it fondly. and the 1st XV remain very high pitched voice and Market visit (until 3 Dec) Year 11 students also enjoyed some Year 7 students sang their Have you always enjoyed Family Focus Y7 Maths 6.00- unbeaten this season tried to hug him! great GCSE successes. Over two thirds of students (67%) achieved the threshold in English and socks off! Reflecting on the sport? Bake Off or Masterchef? 7.30pm after a great 14-12 win Fri 2 Return to the over Burford School. This Mathematics (A*-C grades) and across all subjects 22% of grades were A* and A. evening, students wrote: "It I have always enjoyed sport, Forbidden Planet Musical Definitely Bake Off as I love newsletter shares other This summer the way that school performance is measured has changed and the emphasis and when I was younger 7pm (until Wed 7th) was the best night of my cakes. sporting activities and has shifted firmly to the progress that students make from their KS2 starting point to their I almost made it onto the Wk 14 A life", "I was proud to sing Mon 5 Celebration Assemblies this successes. KS4 outcome. In addition to progress and attainment across 8 subjects schools will report the in front of my parents", squash national team and Zoe Allan: 11WS week BSG and DIRT: Since the percentage of students achieving the threshold represented the school, Tues 6 Y10 Woodlands PE trip (until start of this academic year "I really enjoyed singing 9th) in English and Mathematics. At Chipping county and region in squash. we have been focusing Norton School over three quarters of with my friends", "we were lessons on these two Wed 7 CNPS Dance Workshop CSLA students made expected or better than amazing!" examination, achieving Holy Trinity 1.45-2.45 things. What are they? Singing Exam expected progress in both English and a good merit; Chloe CNPS Ball Skills Y11 Leaders BSG are Bronze, Silver 3.00-4.45pm Mathematics. This represents a significant Mrs Willett: Results Hastings (11WN) also and Gold success criteria. increase on the 2015 results and is well Head of Music passed her grade 3 ABRSM Thurs 8 CNPS English - A,G&T Y4/5 These are set by teachers Keara Koterwas (11EN) 3.30-5.00pm and shown to students above the national figures. examination, with a good Y12 Parent Teacher in lessons so that each There were many notable results and achieved an outstanding Consultation pass. student can identify what there were lots of high achieving students. result in her Rockschool Wk 15 B Mon 12 House Assemblies it is they are learning and 16 of the year group managed to get 8 or grade 4 examination. She Y11 Target-Setting Interviews so that they can push more GCSE grades at A* and A: Elizabeth (and Tues 13) themselves. Students tell us scored 94% which is a very Alarcon-Clark; Max Benson; Charlotte Wed 14 Y12 House Matches that they like the bronze, good distinction. Isabel 1.25-3.05pm Facer; Emily Fothergill; Abi Greenfield; Sladen (11WN) did well Carol Concert St Mary’s silver and gold because it Church challenges them to think Georgia Juckes; Bonnie Lunel; Evie McCabe; in her grade 3 Rockschool Fri 16 END TERM more, pushes them to Elizabeth Moulson; Alice Nottingham; Holly understand better, and that Oliver-Hall; Louisa Oliver-Hall; Marcus they make a difference in Pendery; Ewan Vellinga; Darcy Watkins; and T Tel: 01608 642007 learning. Jenny Woodcock. Special mention should go CHIPPING DIRT is Dedicated NORTON Web: www.chipping-norton.oxon.sch.uk to the Oliver-Hall twins, Holly and Louisa, SCHOOL Email: [email protected] Improvement and who are celebrating a magnificent 15 A* Reflection Time. This is [email protected] grades and 6 A grades between them. time deliberately set aside Chipping Norton School, Printed on recycled paper Burford Road, CNS is an ECO school continued over Chipping Norton, Editor: Judith Bovington Oxfordshire OX7 5DY Head’s Lines continued in lessons so that students can respond to feedback Exploring the art of Photography New Head Boy and Head Girl from their teachers by correcting errors, answering announced CHIPPING NORTON SCHOOL questions posed, adding to explanations, and learning SIXTH FORM OPEN EVENING from mistakes. This time is used by teachers during a sequence of lessons to give THURSDAY 17th NOVEMBER 2016 students the chance to stop and think about their own 6-8pm work and learning. Once some DIRT time has taken place, the students can An opportunity to: consider what they must Have a tour of the school do to make their learning even better. They have EBI Talk to A level subject teachers and see (“Even Better If”) sheets demonstration lessons in the front of their books View our Sixth Form Centre and can keep a record of the improvements they have Photography has grown provided by the school at have recently been Meet the Sixth Form Tutor team made. Talk to current Sixth Form students Multi Academy Trust: in popularity with young the weekly Photography experimenting with macro, Congratulations to the all Will Scantlebury and Ellie In addition to these people over the years.