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Newsletter 20th July — 4th September 2020

Committed to Achievement

From Tuesday 8th September, the whole school will be following this timetable below until further notice:

Start of Term Arrangements

Date Year Group In School

Time to Arrive on

Site

Entrance to be Used Time to Exit Site

Exit to be Used

Wednesday 2nd Sept Year 7 11.45am Theatre 3.15pm Theatre

Thursday 3rd Sept Year 7 8.45am Main Gate 3.15pm Main Gate

Year 12 11.45am Main Gate 3.05pm Main Gate

Friday 4th Sept Year 7 8.45am Main Gate 3.15pm Main Gate

Year 12 8.45am Side Gate (by PE) 3.05pm Side Gate (by PE)

Year 11 11.45am Main Gate 3.15pm Side Gate (by PE)

Monday 7th Sept Year 10 8.45am Theatre 3.05pm Main Gate

Year 11 8.45am Side Gate (PE) 3.15pm Main Gate

Year 12 8.45am Top Gate (by Science)

3.15pm Top Gate (by Science)

Year 7 8.45am Main Gate 2.55pm Main Gate

Year 9 10.15am Theatre 3.05pm Side Gate (by PE)

Year 8 11.45am Theatre 2.45pm Main Gate

Year 13/14 1.15pm Theatre 3.15pm Top Gate (by Science)

Year Group Start Time Entrance Via End Time Exit Via

7 8.45am Main Gate 2.55pm Main Gate

8 8.45am Side Gate by PE 2.55pm Side Gate by PE

9 8.55am Main Gate 3.05pm Main Gate

10 8.55am Side Gate by PE 3.05pm Side Gate by PE

11 9.05am Main Gate 3.15pm Main Gate

12/13/14 9.05am Side Gate by PE 3.15pm Side Gate by PE

Happy Summer Holidays

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Stars of the Week

Year 7 stars of the week are: Alfie Wishart for making an outstanding effort with his home learning

showing both dedication and a passion for learning.

Aidan McCann for performing a wonderful act of kindness by helping his dad lay a patio for his

grandparents, helping to carry heavy slabs and mixing cement using his knowledge of ratios.

Elin Bartonwood for demonstrating passion for learning by coming first in the historical writing

competition.

Year 8 stars of the week are:

Sophia Hussain for demonstrating insight into others by giving other students helpful advice and for being

considerate, compassionate and encouraging.

Vaishnavi Vatsavai for demonstrating passion for learning and diligence by coming second in the historical

writing competition, the judge wrote "By posing a series of questions about white privilege and black

struggles for equality at the end of the work, the author both demonstrates a clear understanding of the

racial problems of the period and forces the reader to evaluate how much or how little things have changed

over the last 40 years".

Harrison Edwards for demonstrating passion for learning by coming third overall in the historical writing

competition, the judge wrote that Harrison’s work was “convincing and sensitive in the way that it

considered some of the moral dilemmas involved”.

Year 9 star of the week is:

Kayleigh Boyd for her forward thinking and organisation for September.

Year 10 stars of the week are:

Tia Groom, Adam Pawluk and Gemma Collier for excellent participation in the in-school Science

sessions.

Duke of Edinburgh Award

Mr Crowther and Mr Morris received a certificate from the Duke of Edinburgh Award HQ recently, showing how

much our students who have completed an award contributed to their local community. It also includes how many

hours our students worked on improving themselves – both physically and mentally – well done to all!

We are amazingly proud of all the students who have continued to work towards their skill, physical, and

volunteering activities during lockdown – your resilience, determination, enthusiasm, and flexibility is awe-

inspiring! From activities ranging from tutoring younger siblings to shopping for elderly and self-isolating

neighbours, and from running zoom activities for local scout/guide groups to helping at local foodbanks, you have

done yourselves proud.

This academic year, our students have already logged 725 hours volunteering, 1000 hours in their physical activity,

and 800 hours developing a skill – a phenomenal achievement.

Congratulations must go to the following students, who have completed the three individual components of their

award, and so only need to complete the expedition next year.

Dylan Burnage, Caitlin Parr, Holly Creak, Ella Gazur, Toby Gillard, Kiera Head-Lewis,

Ashleigh Higgins, Willem Hoonhorst, Harvey Hoonhorst, Amber Ireland, Anneka Kang,

Jack Knight, Gaby Martin, Megan McDonnell, Aimee Munt, Elle Scott, Daniel Skinner,

Darby Skinner, Madison Thandi, Elliot Tomkins, Jess Wood, Joe Camplin, Molly Hall,

Sophie Hosking, Ria Nandra, Sean Truman, Joshua Zgorzynski.

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Exam Results Dates

Event Date Results Available from

GCSE results Thursday 20th August EduLink account from 8am

AS Level results Thursday 13th August EduLink account from 8am

A Level and BTEC results Thursday 13th August EduLink account from 8am

Historical Fiction Competition 2020

A big well done to all students who entered this competition. The judges were impressed by the style, topics and maturity of your stories. First Prize – Elin Bartonwood Year 7 Comment from Dr Claudia Soares, Queen Mary University of London on Elin’s entry: ‘Dropping Bombs’ is a fantastic piece of historical fiction, which has managed to get at the heart of the fear that many children must have felt during WW2 air raids. Your writing is both imaginative and riveting – you have quite clearly engaged with the history you have learned over the past months and used this knowledge to produce an attention-grabbing and convincing plot. I particularly enjoyed how you communicated the feelings of the characters you’ve created, and you have put considerable thought into the ways that your characters express and experience these feelings. The story was attention grabbing – it felt like it could be the start of a bigger, exciting story and left me wanting to read more! Second Prize – Vaishnavi Vatsavai – Year 8 Comment from Gillian Lamb, AHRC-Jesus DPhil scholar at the University of Oxford The Grandmother Chronicles is an imaginative piece of writing from the point of view of the granddaughter of a black woman who lived in 1950s America Shifting between the first person narrative of the granddaughter and the discovered diary of the grandmother, this lengthy piece of writing uses these different genres to explore the society of 1950s America in a way that propels the reader into the emotions of the main protagonists. I particularly enjoyed the analogy of the chess game used to consider the structural constraints of black disadvantage. By posing a series of questions about white privilege and black struggles for equality at the end of the work, the author both demonstrates a clear understanding of the racial problems of the period and forces the reader to evaluate how much or how little things have changed over the last 40 years. Third Prize – Harrison Edwards - Year 8 Comment from Dr Claudia Soares, Queen Mary University of London on Harrison’s entry: ‘Liberty’ uses excellent historical knowledge about the French Revolution to construct a story that imitates a personal account of one man’s involvement in the fighting. Taking the form of a letter to his son, the story was convincing and sensitive in the way that it considered some of the moral dilemmas involved in these events, that no doubt, many ordinary people must have grappled with. The passages about the fighting were written to give a great sense of immediacy and presence – you really managed to convey a sense of being there for readers, showing just how exciting and terrifying it was. By using the form of a letter to his son, this piece of writing also offers us a glimpse of the feelings of the character and his family. In doing so, the story successfully helps us to think more about the longer-term effects of these events, historically, for the following generations.

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Recent Letters

Headteacher Letter - 16th July

Governors Letter - 16th July

Sixth Form GCSE Re-Sit Results Day - July 2020

A Level - Year 13 & 14 - July 2020

GCSE Results Day Letter Yr 10 RS - July 2020

AS Level Results - July 2020

GCSE Results Day Letter - July 2020

EduLink Exam Results July 2020

These letters have been sent to parents via email. Letters can also be found on the Cox Green School Website.

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Reminder and update:

Consultation on new provision for children with special educational needs

The Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead is proposing to open new facilities for children with

special educational needs. These Resource Bases, attached to schools, will be for children with social

communication difficulties and related behaviours. The Royal Borough wants your views on these

proposals.

Since we started consultation in June, a new option has been put forward, and we are now asking for

your views on this. You can find out more on our consultation webpages.

The consultation period has been extended until 31st July 2020.

As the consultation has been running for a few weeks, you may have already completed the survey. If

you wish to comment on the new option, we've added a short additional survey for that option only.

If you have not yet submitted any response, you can still complete the whole survey, which now includes

all of the options, including the new one. Both surveys are available on our consultation webpages.

Thank you, and we look forward to receiving your views.

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Competition

A unique project celebrating the legacy and

achievements of Black people across Britain.

Explore Black British History in a fun way

through artwork, creative writing, poetry,

videos and more!

The competition is open to all age groups. Get

creative and share your ideas with us to win

amazing prizes for your school!

Teachers can also join in and share their

teaching resources or lesson plans with us by

entering our Teacher’s competition to win a

special award.

All the resources shared will help us create a

permanent online resource to support Black

British History in the National Curriculum.

For more information and to enter the

competition go to https://www.100greatblackbritons.co.uk/

Please note: There are many websites and companies on offer that you can search for on the internet. Any data

shared by yourself is with your consent and not shared by Cox Green School so the parent/student is not covered

under the Cox Green School privacy statement. Parent/student should review the sites privacy notice as normal

before entering any personal data.

House Photography Competitions

1. My Favourite Book - My Favourite Place to Read

Open to students and staff. Take a photograph of yourself reading your favourite book in a

favourite location.

All Entries will receive 200 House Points

Send entries by email to s.bissetgarside@coxgreen.com

by 30th August.

2. Summer

Open to students and staff. Take a photograph that makes you think ’Summer’.

All Entries will receive 200 House Points

Send entries by email to s.bissetgarside@coxgreen.com by 30th August.

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Big School Bell

“Big School Bell” is a national campaign to recognise hundreds of thousands of pupils across UK missing end of

school celebrations.

Single moment of national recognition: Friday 24 July at 4pm

A school bell will ring out across the nation to mark a critical milestone in the lives of pupils set to move to

secondary school and all pupils completing this school year

Pupils invited to stand in doorway/at window wearing school uniform or holding something that symbolises

their time at school

Initiative supported by renowned author and psychologist, Steve Biddulph and Sir Michael Gambon, perhaps

one of the world’s most famous ‘headteachers’

The Big School Bell campaign is a simple way to honour those pupils who are set to move to secondary school in

September, those who are completing their time at a school, and all pupils coming to the end of a most unusual

school year.

The call to action is simple… and it is free to get involved. On Friday

24 July – which is the last day of school anywhere in the country - at 4pm a school bell –will ring out across the

nation to mark this critical milestone. This is freely available at www.bigschoolbell.org. After the bell has chimed a

‘graduation message’ will be delivered to mark the occasion.

Sir Michael Gambon (AKA Dumbledore) comments: “I’m delighted to be lending my support to this wonderful

initiative in support of pupils across the country. They have come to the end of what has been a difficult school

year and I wish them all well. I would like to thank the organisers for their efforts and congratulate the teachers

and support staff who have been working tirelessly throughout this challenging time.”

To take part, pupils are invited to stand outside their front door or at an open window wearing their school

uniform, or holding something that symbolises their time at school. This can be done alone, with others in their

household or as part of a community effort, either on-line or in-person.

The team behind the Big School Bell campaign have developed a series of free, downloadable resources. These

Moving On Guides have been created for boys and girls of all ages to mark the end of the school year to help them

with having missed out on all the normal end-of-year activities. Packs are age-appropriate, with specific support

for young people as they transition to their next stage of life.

For more information or to download, visit: www.bigschoolbell.org and www.ritesforgirls.com .

Please note: There are many websites and companies on offer that you can search for on the internet, these are

some samples - any that are chosen by the parent/student and any data shared by yourself is with your consent

and not shared by Cox Green school so the parent/student is not covered under the Cox Green School privacy

statement. Parent/student should review the sites privacy notice as normal before entering any personal data.

Home Learning update

At the end of this academic year (2019-20) Doddle are closing their home learning platform. Our new

Assistant Head teacher, Deborah Kemp, is currently investigating alternative platforms, which can be

used to support student learning at home. Further communication will be sent out once a suitable

platform has been selected, however in the interim period the school will continue to use Microsoft

Teams to support our students home learning.

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Letter for Current Year 8 Only

To view this letter online and to access the links please click here

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Student Sports Committee

This new group is being formed for the 2020-2021 school year. The key objective will be to provide a student voice

around issues to do with sport and PE in school. They will discuss key issues and organise events for students to

participate in. The Sports Committee will play an active role in supporting the PE Department by contributing to

sporting events and encouraging a healthy lifestyle within the school, through their new ambassadorial role.

http://cgss.co/nl230620