April 2017

Dates for the Diary -

Term Dates

Children return to school—Wednesday 19th April

Last day of half term—Friday 2th May

Garden opening - Wednesday 19th April at 10am

KS4 Outward Bound Camping—Trip 2nd-5th May

White City Festival—16th July (Wormholt Park)

It has been an excellent and exciting spring term at Cambridge School. We have been encouraging all of our students to improve their literacy skills and there has been a major focus on phonics at key stage 3. The reading skills of the students are progressing rapidly and their confidence is growing in leaps and bounds. As part of this project, we celebrated world book day and students enjoyed dressing up as characters from their favourite books, We will be extending this next year to include presentations on favourite books by adults and children at assemblies so watch this space and start planning your costumes now! Two other major events were celebrated this term, International Women's Day and Science Week. Ms Deere and Ms Baron Williams presented a really inspirational assembly on the rights of women across the globe and really empowered the children to think about equality. Science Week was really exciting for our students and all classes engage in experiments that ‘blew their minds.’

The school is committed to partnership working and we have formed close links with Clarendon school in Richmond. We are collaborating on curriculum and assessment and also quality controlling each other's work. Both myself and John Kipps Head teacher of Clarendon school, have conducted joint lesson observations at both schools to make sure that we deliver the highest standard. This is all part of a strategy to make Cambridge School an outstanding school for your child. Have a wonderful break and I look forward to seeing you all rejuvenated in the summer term

Science Week

Cambridge students took part in a Science Fair during science week (10th-19th March).

Einstein class made ice! Well done Einstein

Shakespeare class also showed real detail and dedication in their work.

Rowling Class

As part of Science Week, Rowling class made kaleidoscopes. We used tinfoil as a reflective surface and painted tracing paper different colours to catch reflections of light as we turned the tubes around. Then we decorated the outsides and personalised them

Healthy Schools

It has been another great term for sport here at

Cambridge. We have had more swimming,

trampolining, fitness, basketball, yoga and hockey.

All students have been taking part and we have seen

some real progression across the school.

Well done to Miracle, John, Barbod, Mehnaz

and Riyad for representing the school and the

Borough at the Boccia tournament. We came

2nd, just missing out on place at the London

youth games.!!!

YR 11s Mini Enterprise!

After Easter YR 11 will be selling juice and water at breakfast club every day.

Children will also be able to purchase a drink for break at this time to put in their bags.

Cost of Drinks will be at a low cost of 40p.

QPR Community Day 2017

QPR held a community day on Saturday 18th March, were they had schools and

companies in the Hammersmith and Fulham come to the football match.

Becky Dent and Tracey Bryon went for Cambridge School and Mencap.

QPR were playing against Rotherham. At half time, the ladies and other

community were show on to the pitch and made their way to the half line,

they were directed to the centre circle, where they had a banner waiting

for a photo.

Becky really enjoyed the game, (as she’s a QPR supporter), and QPR won

5-1.

We are pleased to announce that we have achieved our Silver award in healthy schools. Well done Cambridge!!

We are walking a mile a day!!

Each class has started walking a mile a day so that we can focus on becoming a healthier school.

We do this in Wormholt Park and are doing really well!!!

This will continue next term and as the weather gets warmer it will be a great addition to their

health and fitness at Cambridge School. Well done to

everyone!!!!!!!!!!

Each class has completed 12 miles this term

Thank you for all your hard work!

We are saying goodbye to two members of our

team this month. Patrick Nee and

Patrick Higginbotham. We wish you every success

for the future!! You will be missed!!!

Becky’s Healthy Bites

Tuna and Bean Salad

Preparation time: 15 minutes Cooking time: Serves: 1

Sainsbury’s Vouchers

We are once again collecting vouchers from Sainsbury’s.

Please hand them in at the school office

Ingredients

3 tsp olive oil

Juice of ½

lemon .

Large pinch of mixed herds

Large pinch of mustard powder

Large pinch of black pepper

1 sliced of pepper, chopped 2 spring

onions, sliced

3cm piece of cucumber, chopped

1 heaped tbsp. canned mixed beans in

water, drained

½ x 160g can tuna in spring water, drained

To serve: 1 think slice of wholemeal bread

Method

1. Mix the oil, lemon, mixed herbs, mustard

powder and black pepper

2. Add the salad vegetables, beans and tuna,

mix gently.

3. Serve with the bread and low–fat spread

Tips

Double the recipe to use the rest of the can of tuna and

save for the next day.

Complete your lunch box with:

1 Satsuma

Slice of malt loaf

You could use cold pasta instead of bread.

200ml semi-skimmed milk

Art Therapy

Ellis (Year 7) from Columbus class has been attending Art Therapy since September 2016 and has made some amazing progress both artistically and emotionally. Brightening up the school with his laughter and smile, he has shown great independence attending all Art Therapy sessions with a positive outlook and willingness. As of recently creating an amazing pokeman puzzle, using his

imagination and detailed planning. Amazing progress and achievement Ellis!!

Bailey (Year 11) has shown great creativity and passion in Art Therapy. Using the space and materials as means to communicate his bond with pet dog ‘Rocket’, he is proud of his progress and so is Cambridge School!

Sadly Dane (Year 11) has left

Cambridge School, but has been attending Art Therapy since summer 2016. He has been an amazing creative individual and will be missed, his skills in art making and the therapeutic space has without doubt empowered his social and emotional skills. We will truly miss

We have also had

some amazing

parent workshops.

Its great to see so

many new parents

attending!!

BTEC—Child Care

Some of our year 10 /11’s have been doing child care as part of their BTEC qualifications. One

of their task was to play the role of an adult in the home with a child. Looking at the photo’s

think they enjoyed themselves.

International Women’s day The school celebrated International Women's Day on 8 March with a special assembly looking at the different experiences of women around the world. We learned that despite progress in many areas, women still earn less than men and don't always have the same rights and opportunities. We also looked at the achievements of many women throughout history - with staff and children giving presentations on the women they felt most inspired by. We enjoyed some fantastic speeches from the students: Jaffar spoke about Anne Frank and hope, Miracle chose Michelle Obama as the first African American First Lady, and Morgan and Annas talked about what Rosa Parks' brave example meant to them about standing up to injustice.

A big THANK YOU to parent, students, staff and bus escorts, for your donations, we raised

£46.00 for epilepsy action.

Learning Support Unit

World Book Day

Congratulations to Harry and Shane who have now

completed their level 1 City and Guilds in bike

maintenance . Ozzy has 2 more assessments to complete and then will also have passed. Well done boys, the LSU team are very proud of you.

Billie has been doing really well at her part time placement within a nursery and they are extremely pleased with her

contribution and Jessy has been working very hard at her English and is working towards her GCSE’s. Jessy will also be starting a work placement after Easter.

Cambridge School celebrated World Book day 2017 with a special assembly and the

opportunity for all students – and staff- to come to school dressed as their favourite book character.

Amongst the characters were a selection of superheroes and sports celebrities – many

students being keen on comics and auto-biographies. JK Rowling’s Harry potter books remain a popular choice and we also had appearances from Oliver, Mary Poppins, Hana Montana and Jacob from the Twilight trilogy!

The children looked and listened to their favourite stories in class and had the opportunity to write book reviews and draw their favourite characters.

We are really looking forward to World Book day next year and dressing up again!

Cambridge school visited the House of

Parliament on the 25th of February. Our

visit started at the Educational Centre in

the 360⁰ sensory interactive room where

we had 15minutes virtual tour through

parliament and democracy’s history and

a virtual

recreation of the House of Commons

and the House of Lords Chambers.

We had the opportunity to enter the hall

where King Henry VIII used to play tennis

and ride his horse. In this hall, we stood

on the stairs where important people

such as Barack Obama, Nelson Mandela

and Queen Elizabeth stood to give

speeches.

The highlight of the trip was watching

the Speaker of the House John Bercow

preside over the debate on preventing

domestic violence.

Cambridge get political

We have had an amazing response from Parents, Governors and private sponsors to fund our

sensory garden and forest area. We have also secured funding from the Clothworkers Foundation

and so are able to go ahead and start creating the space!!

The grand opening of the garden will be on Wednesday 19th April 2017 at 10am.

The “John Rowlands “ garden is dedicated to a very loved teacher who worked at the school

previously and who unfortunately died of cancer.

Thank you again to everyone who contributed!

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