SCHOOL NEWS OCTOBER 2016

SCHOOL MATTERS

TERM DATES 2016 - 2017

Mon 5 September* Fri 21 October

Mon 31 October Tues 20 December

Tues 3 January* Fri 10 February

Mon 20 February Fri 7 April

Mon 24 April Fri 26 May

Mon 5 June Fri 21 July

Bank Holiday: Monday 1 May INSET Days: Friday 2 December Tuesday 3 January* Friday 23 June

SCHOOL DIRECT

Have you thought about a career in teaching? Did you

know that you can train to teach at the Long Eaton School and gain a PGCE qualification with the University of Derby through our School Direct programme?

Recruitment starts soon for September 2017. Subjects include Maths, English, PE, RE, Geography, History, Music, Languages, Computing, Food Tech, Resistant Materials, Physics and Business. The placements are based at one of 5 schools within the alliance including The Long Eaton School, Focus School and Ecclesbourne.

If you are interested in a place for September 2017, come along to our Teacher Training Coffee morning ‘drop-in’ on Friday 11th November, 9-11am or contact us at teachertraining@longeaton.derbyshire.sch.uk for more information.

PARENT QUESTIONNAIRE

As part of the school's self-evaluation process and commitment to continuous improvement, we are always keen to seek the views of parents and students regarding aspects of school life and their educational experience. We would be grateful for your support in completing a questionnaire so that we can evaluate parent's perceptions of the school's performance. Issues raised in previous questionnaires have resulted in us introducing Vivos (our Rewards System), various texting systems, including our most recent, School Comms, which we would invite you to give us your feedback as part of this questionnaire. Please copy and paste the following URL into your web browser: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdy6X8sjYReAH4SRzQk4fTutSMz-Efbgnh6AHQZtK1QUxETGw/viewform A link to the questionnaire will be emailed to parents for whom we hold an email address. Hard copies will be available from Student Services

YEAR 7

Congratulations to all the Year 7 students who have made a fantastic start to Secondary School. The students are enjoying their new experiences and have made lots of new friends. I would encourage all the students to try out one of our amazing Extra Curricular Clubs in the next few weeks as this is a great way to try new things and make like-minded friends. Many students have ticked off some of their targets in their Year 7 Passport Booklets, I hope that they can achieve lots more in the next few weeks. Miss Turner

SCHOOL NEWS OCTOBER 2016

NATIONAL POETRY DAY

Thursday 6 October was National Poetry Day – an annual event to celebrate all things poetical. Four Year 7 classes took part in a carousel of poetry activities in the Library, and enjoyed creating their own poems and performing favourite ones. This year the theme was Messages, and students wrote their own poetical message, which then was displayed on a ‘Poet Tree’!

TRAVEL TO AND FROM SCHOOL

We are increasingly concerned about the safety of students who come to school along Thoresby Road, at the start and end of the school day as they enter and leave the site. Despite a number of requests for parents to avoid driving into school to drop off and pick up, there is still a significant number of cars coming on to the site unnecessarily at these times, causing congestion whilst several hundred students are cycling or walking through the main gates. If you bring your child to school by car, please ensure that you find somewhere off the school site where it is possible to drop them off and turn around safely. We would also appreciate the support of parents in emphasising to students the need to obey the Highway Code when cycling to and from school, and to encourage strongly that cycle helmets are worn at all times. Thank you.

SPORT MATTERS

U16 Netball Tournament On Wednesday 21st September the following students represented the school for the U16 netball tournament. They were Lucy Shotton, Beth Clutterbuck-Allen, Lauren Stead, Lilly Lymn, Eden Sulley, Mollie Daniels, Hollie Read and Phoebe Cartwright. The girls were fantastic and won 2 games, drew 1 and just lost to Ockbrook by 3 goals, finishing 2nd overall at the Erewash Tournament. They beat Kirk Hallam 8-1, beat Wilsthorpe, drew again St John Houghton 4-4 and lost to Ockbrook 4-7 in the last half.

27th September U14/U16 League match

The following girls represented the school for the U16 netball team and won both their league games again Friesland 15-3 and Wilsthorpe 8-4. They were Lucy Shotton, Beth Clutterbuck-Allen, Lauren Stead, Lilly Lymn, Eden Sulley, Mollie Daniels, and Hollie Read. The girls played fantastically and another staff member even commented on how well they played as a team and how good their passing was during the game. Well done! The U14 girls played excellently considering they had limited practice time. They won against Friesland 6-1 and unfortunately lost against Wilsthorpe 3-1. They tried really hard and developed as a team throughout the games. The team was Kelsie Hughes, Heather Goodall, Maddie Ford, Ella Smith, Olivia Stevenson, Meg Atkinson, Lucy Harriman and Kitty Murphy.

SCHOOL NEWS OCTOBER 2016

GWE root Eco Day was a Hoot

WELCOME ALL OLD AND NEW A big welcome back to Eco Club members new and old who are thoroughly enjoying Friday

lunch club. These include, Aimee and Fred Hodson, Esme and Jasmine Bryan, Sam Coulson, Amber Newton, Jamie Willcox, Caitlin Riley, Abbie Breakwell, Amrita Dhanjal, Rebecca Simms, Ellie Howe, Niamh Grinhaff, Henry Icke, Tiffany Rhodes, Kieran Smith,

Finlay Newton, Christopher Wheatland, Aaron Saini and Louise Smith.

TLES ECO NEWS

TWEET TWEET

Welcome to TLES Eco News – the TLES Eco Team will be proudly sharing news throughout the year.

SCHOOL NEWS OCTOBER 2016

Events Coming Soon

Litter Pick West Park Nov 2016

Focus on Crocus Nov 2016

World Food Day Oct 2016

Spend a Penny Nov 2016

Switch Off Fortnight Nov 2016

Christmas Shoe Box Drive Dec 2016

Events Coming Soon

Litter Pick West Park Nov 2016

Focus on Crocus Nov 2016

World Food Day Oct 2016

Spend a Penny Nov 2016

Switch Off Fortnight Nov 2016

Christmas Shoe Box Drive Dec 2016

JOIN US (AND SANTA) FOR THE TLES ANNUAL CHRISTMAS FAYRE

SATURDAY 3RD DECEMBER 10.00 AM – 2.00PM

VISIT OUR VAST ARRAY OF STALLS AND SAMPLE SEASONAL PRODUCE

THE LONG EATON SCHOOL, THORESBY ROAD, LONG EATON

SCHOOL NEWS OCTOBER 2016

Congratulations to Mr Fox’s Form who won the Olympic Eco Quiz - well done guys, we hope you enjoyed your prize! Look out for the next quiz coming soon.

Eco Club began its first debate of the year

when students joined forces to fight for

endangered animals. Each group were

given one of the endangered animals on

the planet and had to put their case to

everyone as to why they should be saved.

The debate sparked interesting reactions

from the group who were shocked at their findings below:

Amur Leopard -Critically Endangered

Black Rhino - Critically Endangered

Bornean Orang-utan - Critically Endangered

Cross River Gorilla - Critically Endangered

Eastern Lowland Gorilla - Critically Endangered

Hawksbill Turtle - Critically Endangered

Javan Rhino Rhinoceros - Critically Endangered

Leatherback Turtle - Critically Endangered

Mountain Gorilla - Critically Endangered

www.unitedforwildlife.org/Endangered

SCHOOL NEWS OCTOBER 2016

CHRISTMAS SHOEBOX APPEAL

DEAR ALL, THIS YEAR WE ARE WORKING WITH THE

LONG EATON ROTARY CLUB FOR THEIR ANNUAL

SHOEBOX APPEAL. WE ARE LOOKING FOR DONATIONS OF

ITEMS FOR CHILDREBN OF ALL AGES THAT WE CAN PACK

INTO A SHOEBOX. THE SHOEBOXES, ONCE FULL WILL BE

DEPLOYED ALL OVER THE WORLD TO AREAS OF SEVERE

DEPRIVATION.

IF YOU THINK YOU COULD HELP BRING CHRISTMAS TO A

CHILD OVERSEAS, PLEASE SEND SOME OF THE

FOLLOWING ITEMS INTO SCHOOL FOR THE ATTENTION

OF MRS L REEVE:

Gift Suggestions

Toys Include items that children will immediately embrace such as dolls or stuffed toys (with CE label), toy trucks, harmonica, yo-yo, skipping rope, ball, small puzzles etc. School Supplies Pens, pencils & sharpeners, crayons or felt pens, stamps & ink pad sets, writing pads or notebooks & paper, solar calculators, colouring & picture books etc. Hygiene Items Toothbrush and toothpaste, bars of wrapped soap, comb or hairbrush, flannel. Other Items Hat, cap, gloves or scarf, sunglasses, hair accessories, jewellery set, wind up torch, wrapped sweets (best-before-date must be at least March of the following year). Do Not Include Used or damaged items, war related items such as toy guns, play soldiers or knives; chocolate or other food items; liquids or lotions of any type including bubbles; medicines; hand-made or knitted stuffed toys; anything of a political, racial or religious nature; sharp objects; glass containers, mirrors or fragile items; playing cards of the 4-suit variety; clothing other than as listed above.

THANK YOU