Weatherhead High School WEATHER REPORT A high performing academy providing excellence for all Spring Term 2018 WEATHERHEAD ON A WINNING STREAK! Students Rise to the Challenge MUSIC TO THE EARS Four Year 9 students beat over 14,500 Talented Year 13 musician, Marco Cavaluzzi, entered students in the Ventura Design Museum the prestigious Southport Music FestivalERHGEQI½VWX Challenge, winning a competition to design a in the Pianoforte Solo Category with his performance new product for the Design Museum shop in of Prelude in C minor by Chopin. Marco London. Sanjita Aktar, Emma Baldwin-Quirk, was awarded the highest mark across Libby Evans and Shiann Smith designed an the competition and was delighted ingenious poly-propylene reusable flower to perform at the winners’ pot. The girls were one of ten shortlisted celebration concert. teams, invited to pitch their idea to a panel of expert judges in London and attended the Honorary Secretary, Sue Dexter, commented, “Marco was a sensation celebration event with Mrs Pearson. The team last night. What a lovely young man, will take part in the product development with such nice manners. It was a great process and launch and will eventually see evening, and Marco’s performance was their product sold in the museum shop! the pinnacle! Please congratulate him from us”. Visit the school website www.weatherheadhigh.co.uk/podcasts to listen to a recording of Marco playing his winning piece. Winning design SQUAD GOALS Our Under 13, Under 16 and Under 19 Gymnastics Squads competed in the Regional Milano Gymnastics Finals achieving outstanding results! Congratulations to Sarah Clement Evans, Emma Jones and Katie Jones (the Under 19 squad) who took 1st place in the North West and will represent the VIKMSRMRXLIREXMSREP½REPW8LI9RHIV 16 squad, comprising Lauren Ayers, Ella Greaves and Ellie Gordon, and the Under 13 squad (Sydney Martingell, Molly McCleod and Maya Wilcox) Weatherhead Gymnasts placed 3rd. Resilience Respect Reach Reward Jumping to Key Dates for Your Diary Monday 16th April Victory School opens Friday 25th May Congratulations to our trampolinists, who took part in the School closes for May half term Regional Schools’ Trampolining Championships. Both the Under Monday 4th June 15 and Under 19 squads exceeded expectations and gained outstanding results: School opens Thursday 14th June st Maylin Tsang, Year 10 - 1 place (Under 15 category) Open Evening st Under 15 squad - 1 (team competition) nd Friday 15th June Amy Cheevers, Year 11 - 2 place (Under 19 category) Open Morning Under 19 squad - 2nd (team competition) Monday 25th - Friday 29th June 8LIKMVPWEYXSQEXMGEPP]UYEPM½IHJSVXLINational Zonal½REPW Year 10 Work Experience Week where the Under 19 squad was delighted to be placed 4th. Lucy Cook, Year 11 came 6th out of 40 competitors and Amy Tuesday 3rd July Cheevers placed 10th in the intermediate category - fantastic KS3 Awards Evening achievements amidst tough competition! Wednesday 11th - Friday 13th July Year 7 Conway residential Thursday 19th July School closes Thursday 16th August A Level results day Thursday 23rd August GCSE results day Monday 3rd September INSET (staff only) Tuesday 4th September INSET (staff only) Wednesday 5th September School opens (Years 7 to 12 only) Weatherhead Trampolinists A MEMORABLE EXPERIENCE Congratulations to Year 8 student, Molly Nash, who won the 11-13 age category in the Christopher Salmon Poetry Extravaganza 2018 with her poem The Last Day of June. Molly wrote the ‘memories’ themed poem and scooped first prize of £100 and had her poem printed in the winners’ anthology of poems. Visit the school website www.weatherheadhigh.co.uk/podcasts to listen to a recording of Molly reading her winning poem. 2 WEATHERHEAD ON A WINNING STREAK! Drum Roll Please …. Weatherhead Three of the Ventura design team also took part in the Alu in the Top Ten! D&T Challenge, which teaches students about the sustainability The Department for Education½KYVIWVIPIEWIHEXXLIFIKMRRMRK of aluminium, allows them to of the year showed that when compared with schools that get creative, put their design have similar intakes, Weatherhead students’ GCSE results are skills and technical knowledge the 8th best in the country. This is a wonderful achievement to the test. Over 100 entries VI¾IGXMRKXLIXEPIRXERHLEVH[SVOTYXMRF]WXYHIRXWERHXLI were judged by a panel of support of their teachers. industry experts and whittled HS[RXS½REPMWXW8LIKMVPW were delighted to win the Packaging Category with their Water Aid Filtration Crate design and were also crowned overall grand prize winners! Congratulations to Sanjita, Emma and Libby! The girls were thrilled to win an all-expenses paid trip to Milan and £1,000 worth of equipment for school! Senior Awards Evening Over 170 students were recognised for their success, effort and achievements at Senior Awards Evening. Vice Chairman of Tranmere Rovers FC, Nicola Palios, gave an inspirational speech to students and the audience enjoyed Marco Cavaluzzi, performing Chopin (his winning piano piece from the Southport Music Arkwright Festival), a beautiful performance by Dance Company and a TSIXV]VIEHMRKF]+EFVMIPPI+VMJ½XLW Scholarship Sixth Former, Cerys Hunter, has been recognised as one of the UK’s future leaders in Engineering at an awards ceremony in London, where she was presented with an Arkwright Engineering Scholarship. The Scholarships ensure that the most talented STEM students stay engaged in engineering by assessing scholar’s academic, practical and leadership skills in STEM through a rigorous application, examination and interview process. Cerys said, “To be awarded the scholarship means a lot to me as it opens up opportunities in Engineering. The process was hard work - the application, exam and interview were new experiences and quite daunting. However, during the experience, I realised how much SSLT with Nicola Palios Engineering means to me and how excited I am to pursue a career in Automotive Engineering. I am thankful for this opportunity and the support that Arkwright is offering.” Sports Awards Evening Year 13 student, Poppy Leigh Heron, who was awarded a Students and staff celebrated Weatherhead’s sporting successes at scholarship last year, has recently been accepted onto the our annual Sports Awards Evening. With over a hundred individual second year of the programme. students and dozens of teams recognised for their achievements in Athletics, Football, Gymnastics, Netball, Rounders, Trampolining and Volleyball and the all-important award for ‘Team of the Year’. The gymnasts opened the evening with a fantastic performance and we were delighted to welcome former England footballer, Sue Smith, to the ceremony who inspired students with her sporting achievements and was keen to congratulate our rising stars. Sue Smith with Sports Awards winners ACHIEVEMENTS 3 We Are the Champions! Weatherhead was been awarded NCS Champion School Status for the third year running. Champion School Status is awarded to schools with 45 students or more graduating from the National Citizenship Service programme. This year Weatherhead exceeded the threshold, with over 100 students taking part. The 2-4 week voluntary programme is geared towards young people aged 15 to 17 years and is designed to advance personal and social development in three phases: Adventure, Skills and Social Action. Miss Whelan accepts the NCS Award WIRRAL CHILDREN OF ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS Weatherhead staff nominated all our CLA students for the Wirral Children of Achievement Awards, celebrating achievement across all areas of their home and school lives. The students enjoyed a celebratory party night at ;EPPEWI]8S[R,EPP[MXLEZMWMXJVSQ*EXLIV'LVMWXQEWGIVXM½GEXIWSJEGLMIZIQIRXERHKMJXZSYGLIVW Going for Gold! We are delighted to announce that we have been re-awarded Gold Artsmark which recognises how the school engages students in the Arts. The award is a culmination of 18 months hard work to achieve a number of Arts related goals including offering live theatre to students, securing external funding for music equipment, offering theatre trips to students, securing high quality practitioners to run Art, Dance, Drama and Music workshops, continuing to provide performance opportunities for all our students and introducing Podcasts to the school website of musical performance and radio broadcasts. Young Carers Support Group Members of Weatherhead Young Carers Support Group enjoyed a Christmas lunch party to celebrate the launch of the Young Carers Awareness Campaign in school. The group have created posters to display around school, which outline the role of a young carer. Students are working towards the National Young Carers Award which they hope to achieve during this school year with the support of Miss Brough. 4 ACHIEVEMENTS ART HEALTH & SOCIAL CARE VENEZIA SIGN OF THE TIMES The HSC department hosted a successful Makaton sign Year 12 Art students enjoyed a memorable trip to Venice, taking language workshop for our Level 2 and 3 Childcare students. in the world famous Academia Gallery, the historically important The group discovered the history of Makaton as a form of Doges Palace and the beautiful Museo Correr. The group spent communication, as well as learning some basic signs, how to time soaking up the atmosphere of the beautiful, ancient city sign nursery rhymes and the Hungry Caterpillar story. The and were able to view all of the important tourist sites by day students thoroughly enjoyed the workshop and have since and at night and took a gondola ride on a very chilly Canale practised their new skills at Weathertots (the school’s mother Grande! This cultural visit gave them a fantastic opportunity to and toddler group). communicate in a foreign language, try new food, become more independent and explore the city. The students took hundreds of photographs and gathered visual and written information which they will use in their Personal Investigation projects (as well as buying one or two of the obligatory Carnivale masks!) Students enjoy Makaton workshop WeatherFriends Mrs Woods was delighted to launch our new monthly community project, WeatherFriends. Year 13 students baked scones and Students enjoy a rainy Venice prepared afternoon tea for the residents of Victoria House Care Home.