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Headteacher: Mr M F Jackman MA NPQH Y ATELEY SCHOOL
Telephone: 01252 879222
Facsimile: 01252 872517 E-mail: [email protected] Web: www.yateley.hants.sch.uk School Lane, Yateley, Hampshire, GU46 6NW
MFJ/BLE A P E R F O R M I N G A R T S C O L L E G E
23rd September 2015 Issue No. 4
Parents’ Bulletin Dear Parents Design and Technology This is a strong Faculty in our school, consistently achieving excellent results in all of the areas of Graphics, Resistant Materials, Food and Catering and Textiles. Although discussions are still taking place about how compulsory the EBAC GCSE subjects will be for all students making extra subjects compulsory hits those GCSE subjects not compulsory, such as D&T subjects. Already, this uncertainty has led to a reduction in the numbers of would be D&T teachers. Many of our students go on to study in Design Technology and engineering subjects – the latter areas particularly are current shortage areas nationally. If you are interested in these matters, please follow this link to the Design and Technology Associations campaign booklet – naturally they are concerned too. https://www.data.org.uk/media/8901522/summary-campaign-document.pdf School Trips Later on in the Bulletin, you will find a list of the residential trips and non-residential trips being held this year. This should help you, if you are so inclined, to plan for the financial implications and prioritise the trips. Year 11 Predicted Grades We worked hard last year to improve the accuracy of our predictions. We will never get them all right, but we can probably get better. After our recent GCSE results, we have asked departments to reflect on how good they were at predicting and to amend predictions for this year accordingly. These will be reviewed again in early November. It is important that predicted grades are accurate rather than just hopeful, as a student’s plans and our interventions are all based on these predicted grades. Thus, when you receive the predicted grades on the mid-November grade sheets, they might vary from the Year 10 summer predictions. This may, of course, be as a result of a change in your son or daughter’s work ethic. You will be able to discuss this with your son or daughter’s teachers at the subject review day on the 27th November.
Parking Please could parents picking up students after school not park in the bus lane. The convention is that, on entering the car park, parents should not drive alongside the bus bay but should turn right into the second parking lane and wait there. Complaints Procedure Occasionally we receive complaints when parents feel that a matter has not been satisfactorily resolved in their discussions with a teachers or Tutor. There is a complaints procedure and a hierarchy to follow. First the complaint should be addressed to the member of staff then to the Headteacher it is not resolved, then to the Governors. We have had a few complaints sent direct to the Chair of Governors. This just caused extra work as it is sent back to me and the matter has to be explained to the parent concerned. The full complaints procedure can be found on the VLE, Parent Portal and under ‘Policies’ M F Jackman Headteacher Diary Dates
24th September Sixth Form Open Evening – 7pm 29th September Open Morning 9.30am 30th September Open Morning 9.30am 15th October Year 7 Parents Consultation Evening – 5.30pm 19th – 22nd October Scholastic Book Fair 22nd October Year 7 and 8 School Disco – Main Hall 26th – 30th October Half Term.
MACMILLAN COFFEE MORNING – FRIDAY 25TH SEPTEMBER A group of year 11 prefects have taken on the challenge of organising and running a Macmillan coffee morning on Friday 25th September for all the students at Yateley Secondary School. To make as much money as possible for this very worthy cause, please could you send your son/daughter to school on Friday with some change so they can enjoy a hot chocolate and some yummy cakes.
Yateley School Prefects
SPORTING SUCCESS
U16 FOOTBALL TEAM Congratulation to the U16 Football team. They beat St Georges School, Southampton 3-6 in extremely difficult conditions. They were losing 2-3 at half time and came back with four unanswered goals in the second half, in one of the best displays of team work, determination we have ever seen from a school boy football team. Well done! Mr Coggan, PE Dept Football Year 7A - lost 5-6 to Calthorpe Park (MOM - L. Payne). Yea7 7B - lost 2-6 to Mill Chase (MOM - C. Fleming) Year 8A - beat Wyvern 3-2 (MOM - F. Scott) Year 8A - lost 3-5 to Cove (MOM - F. Neville) Year 10 - beat Fernhill 15-0 (MOM - H. Ley) MOM (Man of the Match) Rugby Year 8 beat Connaught School (25-5) and lost to RMS (20-30). Well done to everyone who took part.
Mrs S Short, PE
STRING ENSEMBLE – INVITATION FOR NEW MEMBERS I run a small string group in school on a Friday lunchtime at 1pm. This is a small friendly group who perform at school concerts, as a group. We would welcome more players of the violin, viola or cello to join us. If you have a son or daughter who can play one of these instruments I would be grateful if you would tell them about the group and send them in with their instrument on a Friday. There is a school cello which can be borrowed for the lunch time if any cellists would like to join us. Mrs Taylor, Violin Teacher
SCHOOL TRIPS Listed below is an overview of the residential trips running during the course of this academic year. We hope that this will give you an idea of what is available to students and the costs involved. Residential Trips during Trips Week 11-15 July 2016 Recruitment letters for these trips will be sent via Schoolcomms to the relevant year groups. Paper copies will be available directly from the trip leaders listed below as well as the Administration Office beside the Main Hall and Reception.
Destination Year Group
Approx.cost Trip Leader
Paris ( Languages/Cultural 5 days)
10 £485 Ms Jeffery
Barcelona, Spain ( Spanish/Geography, 5 days)
10-13 £500 Miss Britt
Belgium, France Battlefield (History 3 days Mon 11th – Wed 13th)
9 – 10 £300 Mr Austin
Music Tour Germany ( fully subscribed) ( 6 days - runs every two years)
8 – 13 £560 Ms Pejovic
Normandy ( Languages / History 5 days)
8 £395 Mr Johnson
Rome and Sorrento (Languages/History/Art 5 days)
10 - 13 £620 Ms Landowski
Krakow, Poland (RS, 5 days)
9 – 10 £650 Mr Bristow
Other Residential Trips This Academic Year
Recruitment letters for these trips will be released later in the year. Details will be released via the Parents’ Bulletin or Schoolcomms.
Destination Year Group
Approx. cost
Trip Leader
Israel – Feb half term
(RS, 11 – 16th Feb)
10 - 13 £890 Mr Bristow
Ski Trip –Feb Half term *
(offered Feb 2016 for Feb 2017)
10 – 13 £900 Mr Plummer
Bude, Cornwall –Outdoor pursuits,6 days
(Offered to Year 7,Feb 2016 to go Year 8,Oct 2016)
8 £345 Miss Hunt
French Exchange
March – French students stay in UK for 7 days
May – UK students stay in France for 7 days
9 £400 Mrs Ellicott
American Exchange(11 days in UK/11 days in USA)
May – UK students stay in America
9 £1200 Mrs Williams
June – American students stay in UK
Amsterdam
(Dance, 4 nights ) April
8 - 10 £410 Mrs Wearing
*Two places have become available on the ski trip running in February 2016 .Please contact Mr Plummer for details.
Non Residential Trips This Academic Year
Recruitment letters for these trips will be released throughout the year. Details will be released via the Parents’ Bulletin or Schoolcomms.
Destination Year Group
Approx Cost
Trip Leader
Thorpe Park
( October)
7 £28.50 Mrs
Newmarch
Blood Brothers
( November )
10 £28 Mrs Park
Jewish Museum
( December)
8 £18 Mr Bristow
Woman in Black
(January)
10 £34 Mrs Randall
GCSE Science Live, London
(February)
10 £40 Miss Grey
Gurdwara Trip
(March)
7 £17 Mr Bristow
Bletchley Museum of Computing
(March)
8 £32 Mrs Cobbold
RS, London Study Day
(June)
9 £20 Mr Bristow
Disneyland Paris
(May)
8 £100 Mrs Evans
Boulogne
(June)
7 £65 Mrs Ellicott
Monkey world
( July)
7 – 9 £25 Mr Donohoe
Marwell Zoo
(July )
7 £17 Mrs McCarthy
London Theatre Tour
( July)
7 – 8 £100 Mrs Wearing
Alton Towers
(July)
9 £40 Mrs Cobbold
Harry Potter Studio Tour
(July)
7 £30 Miss Cachia
Thorpe Park Maths Trip
(July)
8 – 9 £30 Mrs Weakley
During trips week Year 10 students also have the opportunity to go on work experience.
Various day trips/evening theatre trips which are year or course specific will also be advertised throughout the year.
BATTLEFIELDS TRIP 2016 This year the History Department are organising a fantastic opportunity for Year 9 and Year 10 students from the 11th July 2016– 13th July 2016. The chance to visit World War One battlefields and memorials in France and Belgium to gain a deeper understanding of the events of one of the most important events of the 20th Century. This will build on Year 9 History lessons and link to Year 9 English lessons on Poetry. This is taking place during the centenary commemorations of World War One, a chance to reflect on the events that still have a lasting impact today, our trip will be during the Centenary of the Somme assault which took place in July 1916, an event we will be looking at closely during the trip. Many families have a link to the First World War and taking part in this trip will be a fantastic way to see and further our understanding of the conditions in which our relatives lived and fought in as well as why they fought. This is an amazing opportunity for students in year 9 and 10 and one worth considering. For further details a letter will be sent via SchoolComms, there will also be a limited number of letters that can be collected from the History Department.”
Mr Austin, History Department
HEADPHONES FOR MFL LESSONS Please could you ensure that your child brings a pair of headphones for every French and Spanish lessons. We often set listening tasks or use online sites with sounds and do not have large numbers of headphones for loan. This applies to all students from Year 7 to Year 13. Thank you.
Mr W Benskin, Head of MFL Department INSTRUMENT HIRE IMPORTANT UPDATE Hampshire Music Service - Instrument Hire 2015-16 Important Update! Revised pricing structure for instrument hire 2015 – 2016 After two years of holding prices at £20 per term for all instruments, HMS has revised prices in certain categories. The pricing structure applies for all new hires from this Autumn term 2015 onwards. New prices will not apply to existing hire agreements with customers, even if they make a size swap or exchange due to damage.
Updated price list – please refer to prices found on our website NEW instrument hire pack – for printing and holding at school offices
Please ensure that copies of all old forms are destroyed, to avoid any confusion, and the NEW attached instrument hire pack above (which includes the hire request form) is made available to all parents/carers eligible to hire for their children.
On enquiry from interested parties, please refer them directly to our instrument hire webpage, so that they are well informed of the choice and process prior to contacting us. Contact details are: Hampshire Music Service - Tel: 023 8065 2037 Fax: 023 8061 8241 - www.hants.gov.uk/hms YATELEY SCHOOL COMMUNITY AND BUSINESS LINKS EVENING – 1ST OCTOBER In C14 at 7.00 pm for a 7.30 pm start. Come and meet staff, parents and local business men and women in a mutually supportive and welcoming environment. Do you own your own business?, Do you need some work doing? Can you help the school? Come along and enjoy the evening. Entrance fee for businesses £2.00. Please reply to [email protected] if you have time to help with planning just come along at 7 pm. There will be the opportunity for a 60 second pitch about your business if you wish. Look forward to seeing you there.
Mrs F Parkes, Assistant Headteacher Design Ventura – Live video chat with Design Museum and Editor of Design Week As part of our Year 10 Resistant Materials course we start with Design Ventura which is a National design competition led by the Design Museum and sponsored by Deutche Bank. We have done this for the past three years and the purpose of it is to encourage our Year 10 students to really start thinking like designers and to respond creatively to a real brief. Last year we had great success and the students who we entered were shortlisted into the top 10 out of over 400 entries, as a result they were invited to London for a workshop and to pitch their ideas and eventually they won the award for Sustainability. This year we were given the chance to have a live webchat with the Editor of Design Week (http://www.designweek.co.uk/) Angus Montgomery. In their teams students were able to show Angus their work and to get live feedback. The students involved really did themselves, the school and their families proud. The feedback was very positive and when Angus summed up his experience of seeing the student’s work he said: ‘Well done, you have lots of different ideas that are imaginative, creative, thoughtful and unexpected’: high praise indeed! I will be keeping a visual log of the students design journey on our department blog (https://yateleytechblog.wordpress.com/) and on our Twitter feed (https://twitter.com/DesignTech_ys ), so if you want to see how they go on to develop their ideas further then head on over! Design Ventura Club for Year 9 Are you in Year 9 and interested in having a go at this project too? Head along to BW0 Friday lunchtimes for the Design Ventura club – bring your lunch for a prompt start at 12:50.
Mrs Carson, Head of Resistant Materials
YEAR 11 OPEN EVENING AND APPLICATION DEADLINES Open events give students and parents an opportunity to view the college, speak to tutors and find out more about courses. The following open days/evenings are coming up over the next few weeks:
Yateley Sixth Form – 24th September
Merrist Wood College – 7th October
Guildford College – 15th October
Reading College – 17th October
Farnborough College of Technology – 21st and 22nd October
Farnborough Sixth Form College – 21st and 22nd October
Bracknell & Wokingham College – 7th November Dates should be checked with the colleges before attending. Further details can be found on the websites of the respective colleges. Please note that some colleges have application deadlines which need to be met. Applications to Farnborough Sixth Form, for example, must be sent in between 23rd October and 8th November. For a full discussion of all post-16 options (including apprenticeships), students are advised to book a careers interview by emailing the school careers adviser at [email protected] Alternatively, interviews can be booked at the careers drop in sessions held in the Careers room (next to the Open Learning Centre) in school at break and lunch times on Mondays and Wednesdays.
Chris Jones, Careers Adviser
ROCK CHALLENGE DANCE COMPETITION 2016 What is the Rock Challenge? Rock Challenge is a performing arts event involving students in primary and secondary schools and colleges around the globe. It is an opportunity to celebrate young people being their best without the use of tobacco, alcohol or other drugs, respecting and protecting their bodies. Yateley School has been competing in the Rock Challenge Dance Competition for ten years. Last year the team achieved winning their regional heat, winning their Southern Open Final competition and then scored enough points to go to the National Finals in June. Obviously, we were very proud when our school were crowned National Champions! This year the school will now compete in the Premier Division (no pressure then!). Audition date: The audition for Rock Challenge will take place on Saturday 17th October from 11.15am until 2.15pm. Students who wish to perform in Rock Challenge must sign up on the audition sheet next to the House Dance information. We will then allocate a time that your child will need to attend their audition. The audition will take place in the dance studio and we expect all students to be dressed in suitable dance clothing (no midriffs, shorts, baggy clothes, jewellery etc.). Rehearsals: Rehearsals for Rock Challenge will be on Thursdays (3.10-4.30/4.45pm) in the Dance Studio. Rehearsals for the team will start on Thursday 19th November (after House Dance finishes!). Nearer to the competition and showcase dates we will hold some Sunday rehearsals that we expect all students to attend. We will confirm these dates as soon as possible. Important dates: We will be showcasing our piece at Portsmouth Guildhall during the week commencing Monday 14 March 2016. At this event, the team will not be competing, but will be showcasing their piece as a premier team in an open regional heat and have the opportunity of being awarded certificates of excellence in the different categories. The date of the Premier Dance competition is Saturday 25th June 2016 at the Portsmouth Guildhall. Cost: Each year we ask students for a participation fee to take part of the Rock Challenge. This money goes towards participating at the events, helps fund travel expenses, costumes, set and props. We also encourage all team members to help fundraise throughout the year, starting with a Christmas Raffle! Other roles: Within the dance competition we will also be looking for a large number of students to be part of our stage crew, to help move set and props when the performance is shown on stage. These students must have good team working skills, be reliable and patient! Stage crew members will be expected to attend certain rehearsals. If your child is interested in being part of the stage crew they need to let their dance teacher know and I will be in touch. If you have any further queries, please contact the dance department on [email protected]
VACANCYS Vacancy: Youth Club Assistant Actual salary £686 per annum based on a Grade C Salary for 37 weeks per year We urgently require an adult Youth Club Assistant for Yateley School Youth Club on Wednesdays 6.15-8.15pm (term time only). An interest in, and ability to get along with young people, is essential. For further information please contact Tina Hooker, Senior Personnel Officer on 01252 746910 or email: [email protected] Closing date: Wednesday 7th October 2015 12 noon Yateley School is committed to safeguarding children in its recruitment practices
Deputy Youth Club Leader for November 2015 or as soon as possible thereafter. 2 Hours per week on a Wednesday Evening for 37 weeks per year Salary:- Grade D £19,455-£21,897 FTE Actual Salary = £899.54 to £1,012.45 Closing date:- Friday 2nd October 2015 Yateley School is looking to recruit a Deputy Youth Club Leader to assist with the management and operation of the Youth Club. The Youth Club is run for children aged between 10 and 12 year old and aims to ensure that the children are developed both personally and socially in a safe and caring environment, whilst delivering a programme of both sports and arts activities. You will be supported by both paid and voluntary staff. Other duties will include:-
Managing 5 Youth Club Assistants
Administration (applications / medical forms and information packs)
Income received – petty cash.
Ideally the candidate would have youth work experience, be first aid trained and committed to developing this scheme. If you would be interested in this position please can you contact Tina Hooker (Senior Personnel Officer) on 01252 746910 or email: [email protected] Tutor Vacancies Sept 2015 Adult and Community Learning Tutors required in the following subject areas for the Community learning programme at Yateley School. Makaton, Ballroom and Latin Dance, Badminton and Creative writing We are always looking to expand our programme so if you have any skills or subjects you would like to teach please contact us. For further details contact the Community Learning team on 01252 877190 or E-mail: [email protected] Vacancy for school student Furniture Mover required: Yateley School Adult and Community Learning are looking to recruit a conscientious and reliable Furniture mover for various sessions Rate of pay £4.75p per completed move. You must be over 16yrs with National Insurance number. Yateley School and Hampshire County Council are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We will ensure that all our recruitment and selection practices reflect this commitment. All successful candidates will be subject to the Disclosure and Barring Service checks along with the other relevant employment checks. For further details contact the Community Learning team on 01252 877190 or E-mail: [email protected]
A DAY OF PRAYER What have Lego, African drums, sand, rope and ribbons got in common? Well this Saturday they are just some of the ways in which the community in Yateley is invited to come and pray for family, friends and our town. St Peter's Church is opening its doors to host a day of prayer in the Church building as part of the National Prayer Weekend. The church will be open from 10 until 4 on Saturday with a variety of prayer spaces available for people to come and explore. Each prayer space will allow people to think about something different and be creative - for example there will be a map of the town available with post-it note to stick on streets, businesses, schools and services we all use and can pray for. Lego bricks, rope and ribbons can all be used to help people think about things they would like to pray for. The event is open to everyone and includes more formal prayer and worship times at 10 and 12 noon as well as plenty of time to experience the different spaces. After the quietness of the day things get a whole lot louder with a drumming circle led by the Psalm Drummers at 3pm. This noisier approach to praying will allow people to use African Djembe drums and will ensure the day finishes on a high note. The National Prayer Weekend is taking place across the country between the 25-27 September, during which churches are joining together to pray for their community. Rev. Mike Griffiths said: "We believe that prayer changes things, on a personal, local and national level, but we also believe prayer is about saying thank you and appreciating the fantastic aspects of our community here is Yateley. We warmly invite everyone to come along this Saturday and take part in our day of prayer." For more information please contact Rev. Mike Griffiths [email protected]
WHY NOT JOIN THE PTA
Dear parents and guardians, our friendly PTA are looking for new members or casual members to help with refreshing the parents and teachers at events. Just once a year even is a fabulous help! Please email us to be added to our list of volunteers to assist with us supporting our children. Thank you.
If you require refreshments at your event or funding for some equipment, please contact the PTA on [email protected]
