Message from Mr Booth – Executive Headteacher Reflecting on how much has happened last week, I have suddenly realised that next week is half term and term 1 has passed so rapidly. Did you see us on BBC South today or were you listening to Radio Oxford last Monday morn-ing? We took part in the National “re-start a heart day” which was fantastic. Students in Y7,8 and Vi form managed to learn the skills needed to carry out CPR. We also had some staff off training last week. Mr Scully and Mr Dorey are still in South Africa on the connecting classrooms staff development project. Mr Slater has been completing a school review in Luton as part of Challenge partners and alongside that Y11 have been on work experience all week. Staff have rallied round to cover these absences. We say goodbye to Mr Todd in English this term. We are currently advertising for an English teacher but in the meantime we welcome Mrs Dowling who has already met the staff and children and will be joining the team until at least Christmas. Next week the students get a chance to rest after a busy term however I would encourage parents of Y11 students AND Y13 students to revise, revise, revise. I hope that all students have now got a revision timetable in place and if not, spending time creating one this half term will be time well spent. Please remind any parents of prospective Y6 students that the deadline for applica-tions is 31st October. Thanks to St Josephs primary, St John’s Primary and our Federation primaries of Gateway and Carterton for letting us speak to Y5 and 6 this week. If you are a parent of a Y6 starting in 2018 and want a tour of our school just let us know and we can arrange a visit. Finally at our governors strategy evening this week we dis-cussed ways in which we could champion the Federation further within our community. If you have any ideas then do let us know by coming to the parents forum on 11th December Thanks for supporting your local school we often get lots of positive feedback but I am grateful to this parent who emailed me this week.

Dear Mr Booth, I wanted to let you know how impressed my husband and I were with the open evening and also when I my-self came to the open morning. I do already have a son at your school with another coming up next year. It was really great to see the teachers and children interacting with each other when I was looking around. I also enjoyed visiting during school time and seeing the school in action. One of my friends mentioned to me this week that you had also gone into her son’s school to talk about CCC. Her son who’s in year 5 was saying before your visit that he wanted to go to Burford, after your visit , he came home and said he wanted to go to Carterton Community College now, much to his mother’s delight as she too has a boy in year 9 at CCC. So it seems your visit really made a difference and I thought you would like to know this. I do hope you can make more visits to other primary school to talk about CCC and the Great things you do there. It is also great to see the children looking smarter in their uniform. As I say to my son, you should be proud to wear your uniform and look smart! Thank you for your time, Your Sincerely I wish you all and ,Mrs H in particular, a wonderful half term.

20th October 2017

This weekend James McDonagh and Amul Rana will be running

the great south run in aid of the RAF Benevolent fund and in par-

ticular a local Carterton family that is close to their hearts. It’s still

not too late to sponsor them so please go to their just giving page

to help them get to their target.

https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/marshallsrun

Good luck guys!

More Able Opportunities at CCC Term 2

Science: We currently training as a school for SSC

Bloodhound.

STEM challenge week in yr7&8 in the last week of this

term and again the week before Christmas.

Yr 10 MA/triple science trip to Bristol University’s

chemistry faculty.

We are also looking to take Yr10&11 MA students to a

Royal Society Christmas lecture or an Oxford Uni one.

DT: Yr8&9 MA will be invited to a Learners Lunch

(lunch will be provided for pupils and we will do an ac-

tivity to encourage profound questioning). Students

will then have an acknowledgment sticker in the Pass-

ports to show that they have been ‘trained’ to explore

deep and profound questioning in their DT work.

English: Competition time leading up to Christmas. MA

students will be invited to a writing workshop where

they will be able to demonstrate their flair for the Eng-

lish language and have their work judged by an exter-

nal publisher.

MFL: More information to follow on competition time

in term 2.

English On Friday P5, we decided to something different with Yr9 and they are now on a rotation working with different teachers on different skills. Here are some comments from teachers on what they were doing:

HO: I worked with 9x4 and they were using the Google Chrome laptops to research a topic of interest and then had to produce a presentation which taught the rest of the class.

JKC: One of the activities that we did was they had to catch a ball and say an interesting multi-syllabic word then pass onto someone else.

MC: 9x3 analysed the poem, “Education for Leisure” and made lots of perspective original points.

LT: 9x2 generated some really opinionated observations after having read about four real schools with very differ-ent school uniform policies. This was in the context of writing to argue. The challenge was to listen to another’s point of view without interruption.

Next Term in English:

Y7: ‘A Christmas Carol’, the importance of context

Y8: ‘Of Mice and Men’, the importance of culture and history

Y9: Paper 2 Language GCSE

Y10: ‘Romeo and Juliet’

Y11: Conflict and Power poetry

Interhouse Rugby & Hockey Results

Congratulations to Phoenix for winning the Rugby

1st Phoenix 38 points 2nd Griffin 26 points

3rd Pegasus 24 points 4th Wyvern 22 points

Congratulations to Wyvern for winning the Hockey

1st Wyvern 40 points 2nd Griffin 30 points

3rd Phoenix 24 points 4th Pegasus 18 points

Science The Blood hound team have been busy this week de-signing and de-veloping proto-types. Great challenge and fun! Here is a first look at the model prototype of a SSC Bloodhound Rock-et Car .

Tracey Harris

As part of a Federation of schools we often have the opportunity to meet people throughout our Federation who have the

needs of the pupils and families of CCSF at the heart of everything they do. Tracey Harris of CPS is one of those people and

unfortunately for us but positively for Tracey she is moving on. In her email to all Federated staff she said this.

CPS has, and always will be incredibly special to me. I attended the school from 1977-1984 (yes, I'm old!!) my two daughters had an excellent primary education here from 2002-2012 and all through that time I've held the school very dearly in my heart.

We've been told we're a GOOD school in the eyes of Ofsted but I really believe we're a GREAT school- just 'because we care!' The children at CPS always have and always will be the reason I loved my job so much and they are now in great hands!

Thank you so much for all of the support, kind words and inspiration that you've given me during my journey. Thank you also

for my beautiful gifts, flowers, vouchers and cards. Please don't lose touch

Many Thanks Tracey-Good luck in your new role.

Dates for diaries Autumn Term

23rd to 27th October October half term holiday

30th October Start of term 2

1st November Student Achievement Afternoon (school closed at 12.10pm)

7th November U11 hockey tournament

6-10th November Y11 Art controlled assessment

13th November New York parents info session 5.30pm to 6.30pm

15-16th November Y10 Geography field trip

16th November Year 11 & 13 targeted Parents Evening 5pm to 8pm

20th-22nd November Challenge Partners school review

23rd November Y11 mock drama performance

23rd November Year 3 & 4 Basketball Festival 1.15pm to 2.30pm

30th November Y13 New York visit

4th to 15th December GCSE & A Level Mock Exams

11th December Parent Forum 1, 6.30pm to 7pm

14th December Christmas Music Concert 6.30pm to 7.30pm

15th December Christmas Jumper Day

19th December End of term 2 (1:10pm finish)

4th January INSET day 1 (School closed behaviour management training)

5th January INSET day 2 (School closed behaviour for learning training)

8th January Start of term 3

Here is a useful summary of the dates and activities that the pupils will be going through

before the end of this academic year. Please note that should any of these times or ar-

rangements change you will be notified directly.

Carterton Community

College

Gateway Primary School

Carterton Primary School

3 Schools, 1 Governing Body

Carterton Community Schools Federation Upavon Way, Carterton, Oxon OX18 1BU

Tel: 01993 841611

ccsf@cartertoncc.oxon.sch.uk

Maths Joke of the Week

Re-start a heart day