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Gable Talk The Gable Hall School Newsletter
Issue 3 - Summer Term Thursday 19 May 2016
Diary Dates
Monday 23 May New grades sent home for
year 7 and 9
Tuesday 24 May GCSE Drama Curriculum
Evening 6pm
Wednesday 25 May GCSE Drama Curriculum
Evening 6pm
Friday 27 May Year 11 Leavers Assembly
(period 4 and 5) Year 7-10 dismiss at 1.30pm
Half Term
Monday 30th May - Friday 3rd June
Monday 6 June
Return to school week 2
Wednesday 8 June 9VIY Curriculum Update Options Evening 5-6pm
Monday 13 June
8VIY Curriculum Update Options Evening 5-6pm
Thursday 16 June
A Level Art, Textiles and Photography exhibition
5.30pm Arts Awards Evening 7pm
Tuesday 21 June
Culture Night 7pm
Tuesday 28 June
New Intake Evening
Last half term, 60 students from year 10 participated in the Jack Petchey Speak out Challenge. This involved creating and developing a speech which was then delivered in front of their peers. The judges were very impressed by the quality of speeches that Gable Hall students produced. Jordhi Nullatamby was nominated by the judges and her peers to deliver her speech “Look Closer” at the regional finals at The King John School on Monday 9th May. Her speech was described by the judges as ‘Powerful. Her delivery was charismatic and the content was fantastic’.
Jordhi did at brilliant job at representing Gable Hall, it is always a real challenge to deliver a speech, without any notes, to a large audience. We are very proud of her achievement! Well done Jordhi.
Miss Ashford nominated Casey Pham for a summer residential at Cambridge University and she has been offered a place! Casey will be staying at Emmanuel College in Cambridge for two days to experience student life. She will be able to attend lectures on her chosen degree subject to learn more about studying at university level. This will be a fantastic opportunity to develop her UCAS application and understanding of the subject. Enjoy the experience Casey!
Our visit to Cambridge University!
On Tuesday 19th April, twenty students from year 9 Violet, Indigo and Yellow travelled by coach to visit two colleges at Cambridge University to see what life is like for university students. When we first arrived we sat through two very informative and interesting lectures about languages and the background behind Germany. After sitting through the two lectures at the first college, we then walked around Cambridge as we made our way to another college. We looked around the different facilities that each college had, one college even had a swimming pool! There was a library with so many floors that it went underground, it was huge! We were told that it had at least one of every book that has been published. After visiting Cambridge we were all inspired and even more determined to get grades good enough to be able to go to Cambridge University!
Jack Petchey Speak Out Challenge
Casey goes to Cambridge!
Once again we are busily reading our eight short-listed books for the Carnegie Reading Challenge and have had our first full meeting (Working Lunch), in the Library, with all years taking part. Lots of positive, animated and excited students with their heads in the books. We have over thirty students taking part this year, double the amount we usually have. Looking forward to 20th June when we go to the Thameside Theatre for the day to discuss the books, with other schools in Thurrock. Lots of Very Happy Reading to you to.
- Mrs Georgiou—Librarian
Ex Gable Hall Students gathered last Saturday to remember Karis-May Darling for her 18th Birthday. Karis sadly passed away 5 years ago from streptococcal meningitis. She attended Gable Hall and was a very talented young lady; singing and dancing. It was emotional but very inspiring. God Bless you Karis.
German Visit
Back in March, students from Geschwister-Scholl Gymnasium visited Gable Hall during their school trip to England. Year 7 Violet and Indigo had the opportunity to meet the German students, give them a tour around the school and partake in activities such as football, a quiz about London and speed dating task that Mrs Handford had prepared.
Femi says “This day was a good opportunity to practice our German speaking
skills, by speaking to German children our age. I really enjoyed doing this and also made a few friends through it!”
Megan says “we met some of our pen pals that we have written to in class and it was amazing to
meet them in person! It was a wonderful experience and really helped us with speaking German!”
Sophie says “It was a unique chance to practice our German speaking with German students, as well as the chance to talk to the students about life in
Germany, discussing topics such as school, pocket money and shopping! They had the chance to talk to us about life here in England and alles in allem war es sehr interessant!”
You should have received a letter (hard copy and via InTouch) outlining changes to Gable Hall reporting of attainment from May 2016. Our changes tie in with the National model of GCSE grades becoming 9 (high) to 1 (low) from 2017 (English and Maths only) and 2018 for every subject. Flight paths can be adjusted up or down but the expectation is that a student will move at least horizontally from their starting point in year 7. For example a child arriving with a 4B (now graded ‘1’) would gain a grade 5 in year 11, the new GCSE ‘good grade’ pass.
Carnegie and Kate Greenaway 2016
Reading Challenge
New Flight paths 1-9
STUDENT ACHIEVEMENTS Congratulations to...
Commendations
Well done to the following students who have received an award:
Marcus Adebayo-Bella, Carys Alabaster-Mahoney, Georgia Bates, Hollie Becker, Megan Creed, Jainie Bloss, Jason Braybrook, Aaliyah Brindley, Chloe Cairns, Grace Day, Charli Denny, Alex Dodge, Reece Farley, Chloe Fortis-Wells, Ryan Franklin,
Emily Gee, Rebecca Gower, Laurence Grant, Lewis A Gray, Kyle Harvey, Tegan Herbing, Elissa Hillebrandt, Alfie Jordan, Samuel Kew, Sophie Kew, Shiana Khan, Lily Legg, Shannon Marling, Ben Marven, Hannah Mattock, Robbie Osborne,
Gracie Radcliffe, Emily Rix, Nathan Roberts, Kayleigh, Rogers, Alice Routledge, Maisie Samwell, Finlay Seaman, Keira Smith, Rachel Smith, Molly Spencer, Hannah Stapley, Jake Taplin, Nicole Weller, Dylan Williams, Leon Wood and Carly Wright.
If you haven't already had a letter home, you will receive one shortly.
Morgan Acton—Year 11
The Mayor of Thurrock had requested that all schools in the area produce a piece of Art work to represent Diversity in Thurrock. Morgan Acton produced a beautiful piece of work which she took over to present to the Mayor. We spent an hour or more with the Mayor, where we had refreshments in the Mayor’s ‘parlour’, plus a tour of where she conducted her business. On presenting her work the Mayor said ‘It was her favourite piece’ from all the other pieces already presented, reflecting exactly what she had requested. This is now going to be framed along with all the other school entries to be displayed .
Well done Morgan!
Josh Thompson – Year 8 Josh made delicious Chelsea Buns using a traditional old English recipe - which goes back to the 17th Century! This recipe takes a lot of concentration because; each stage needs to be completed well before you have the end result. Josh worked hard at each stage and ended up with beautiful Chelsea Buns. Well done Josh!
Aimee Goldsmith – Year 8 Aimee made some excellent Sausage Rolls. Aimee was very creative and made a diamond pattern on the top of the pastry which when cooked, looked superb! The pastry was also crisp and golden. Wonderful Sausage Rolls.
Well done Aimee.
Joseph Clifforth—Year 11 Joseph plays for U16 Essex County. On Sunday they played against Bedfordshire at Burnham Ramblers FC for the 2015/2016 East Anglian Counties Championship and won 2-1! Congratulations to Essex.
Mia Lempriere - Year 7 Outstanding Homework
Year 7’s Homework task was to design a menu for a BBQ or a Party. Mia produced an outstanding piece of homework. Her theme was ‘It’s BBQ Time!’ and inside the beautifully decorated handmade box were separate pockets, which included small holders for sachets of salt/pepper and tomato sauce! Each section inside the box had pictures to show you what your food would look like when cooked. Absolutely brilliant! Well done Mia.
Parent Surgery
Monday 23rd May 2016 6-7.15pm Monday 6th June 2016 6-7.15pm
Please wait in the old reception. Thank you!
Contact us Key Stage 3 Co-Ordinators [email protected]
(Miss Burr) [email protected]
(Mrs Jeffrey) [email protected]
(Miss Nancolas) Key Stage 4 Co-Ordinators
[email protected] (Mr McCallen)
[email protected] (Miss Ntiri/Mrs Marks)
SEN Parent Surgery
To cut down on waiting times, SEN surgeries are now by appointment only. Please call to arrange to see the SENCo (Ms Nicola Ely) should you wish to attend. 01375 400800 or email [email protected] FAO SENCO
Do you have (or know of someone with) talents you would like us to shout about? Please contact your child's Form Tutor or email us at [email protected] with details.
Can we do better? We are asking for parents to give us feedback on anything they feel we as a school can improve on. If you have any suggestions please email the school [email protected] for the attention of Mrs Jeffrey.
If your son/daughter suffers from Asthma, it is vital that they have an asthma pump on them at all times, and a spare one in the Medical Bay, especially now the weather conditions have changed!
Year 8: Week commencing 27th June Year 10: Week commencing 20th June
End of year exam dates
PE Extra-Curricular Timetable
Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
Morning
7:45-8:30am
Cricket (Boys)
Year 9 & 10 Mr Dobson &
Mr Wilson
Hurdles
Miss Nancolas & Miss Karkocki
Fitness Suite
All Years Mr Wilson
High Jump All Years
Mr Wilson
Long Jump All Years
Miss Karkocki
Cricket (Boys)
Year 7 & 8 Mr Limpenny &
Mr Driscoll
Track Conditioning (Girls)
Miss Nancolas & Miss Karkocki
Badminton
Senior Squad Mr Dobson
Lunchtime
Afterschool
3:15-4:30pm
Table Tennis
All Years Mr Wilson
Rounders All Years
Miss Marks & Mrs Dobson & Miss Karkocki
Athletics All Years All Staff
Badminton
Junior Squad Mr Dobson
Departmental Meeting
Athletics All Years All Staff
Athletics – Contracted
Athletes Miss Nancolas &
Miss Karkocki
FitnessSuite (15:05-16:00)
All Years Mr Limpenny