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A View from the Bridge 1st December 2017

Developing the Cooperative Values and our

Spiritual, Moral, Social and Cultural ethics in the

Holsworthy Area Federation

Mrs Willliams, Head of School On Wednesday, we had a memorial service for the

family of Chloe Martyn. Family, friends, students and

members of our community gathered in our library,

where a beautiful plaque was revealed, in

commemoration. The library was chosen as this was

a space that Chloe had enjoyed. I had the honour of

speaking and I chose to read the poem ‘Remember’ by

Christina Rossetti. To me this poem expresses the

emotion and tone of remembrance, the last two lines

are:

“Better by far you should forget and smile

Than you should remember and be sad.”

The theme of Safeguarding has been very prominent this week. Firstly, on Monday, the police visited our school to talk with Year 9, and 10 and 11 about the issues relating to Child Sexual Exploitation. The importance of our students understanding predatory, grooming behaviour and how to keep themselves safe online is paramount. ‘Kayleigh’s Story’, which is a hard hitting story used for training in our communities, was shared with our older students. If you would like further information, about what has been shared with students, please click here. https://leics.police.uk/categories/kayleighs-love-story-film Parents and carers were invited to learn more about e-Safety on Wednesday 29

th November. It is important to

note that some students’ parents do not want their child’s photograph or name to be on social media websites.

Therefore, at events such as our upcoming Winter Concert, (which is on Tuesday 12th December), or during

times when parents might photograph their child, to capture precious memories, we ask that the photograph is

not posted on social media websites. We thank you for your understanding and cooperation with this matter.

As well as the e-Safety learning, on Wednesday night, there was a session by the Head of Maths, David Hosie,

about how parents can support their children at home. We hope that all those who attended found this input

helpful.

Tonight the PTFA are holding a Bingo night; doors open at 6.30pm with eyes down at 7.30pm. We realise that

there is a clash with Holsworthy’s Christmas Lights and the late night shopping event, but hope that the event will

still be well attended.

On Tuesday 5th December will be our school Christmas dinner, which students can purchase for the bargain

price of £2.40. We have extended lunchtime to try and ensure that all of our students can eat and celebrate

together. We will ask for Year 10 and 11 to queue and be served first, then a bell will go to signal the start of

queuing for Year 7, 8 and 9.

With the end of term rapidly approaching, we will be supporting the Save the Children ‘Christmas Jumper Day’,

this is an excuse to wear a ‘JollyJingly pullover on Friday 15th December and a suggested donation of £1 each’

should you wish for your child to participate. It does not have to be a special Christmas jumper, a regular jumper

is also fine, but if you do have a festive jumper, this gives you the perfect opportunity to wear it and support the

charity!

House Attendance - Weekly update

Every lesson counts!

Congratulations to Zeus House once again for having the best attendance this

week:

House 24/11/2017

Apollo 95.2%

Poseidon 94.2%

Thor 93.4%

Zeus 95.6%

Whole School 94.6%

Devon and Cornwall Police Deliver Important Message On Monday 27

th November we welcomed Devon and Cornwall Police Officers, Detective Sargent Phillip Leonard,

PC Nella Barker, PC Andy Ladley, PC Charlie Northcott, PC Andy White, PCSO Emma Tomkies and PCSO Racquel Rowe to HCC to deliver an awareness session to our Year 10 and 11 students on child sexual exploitation and online grooming.

Students were shown an impact film, ‘Kayleigh’s Love Story’ https://www.youtube.com/embed/WsbYHI-rZOE which they then discussed, along with their online habits and how they can stay safe.

This programme is at the forefront of national policing and north Devon is one of the areas it is currently being delivered to. The message is that being exploited for sex can happen to any child from any community and awareness and knowing the signs may prevent this happening to your child. Please visit https://www.devon-cornwall.police.uk/cse for help and advice. If a child is in immediate danger call 999.

The Devon and Cornwall Police website Youth tab also has lots of really good links and advice on other topics such as bullying, mental health, sexting and FRANK advice on drugs https://www.devon-cornwall.police.uk/youth/15-19/

We would like to thank the police officers for delivering this important message.

Holsworthy v Braunton On the 23rd November HCC played Braunton in the County Cup.

To begin with it was a tight game, however the pitch wasn't great. About ten minutes in, Isaac scored his first goal. We later conceded a free kick, the opposition's first goal, after it rebounded off of the goalkeeper. Next, George found a gap in the defence and struck; 2-1!

Soon after Braunton scored again to even the score.

It came down to the last 20 minutes and with another great pass from Joe, Isaac smashed the ball over the keeper to wrap the game up.

The man of the match was Joseph because of his great defending, strength and passes.

It was a brilliant game, ending 3-2 to HCC.

Great game, guys!

Ethan

British Values—Indigo Haynes, DMYP Reporting Back Hello! Recently, a lobster was found in Canadian waters. Why was it special? On its claw was the Pepsi logo which had come off a Pepsi can, and was ingrained in its skin. This raises a troubling issue. The sheer amount of plastic in our oceans.

According to research by the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, between five and thirteen million tonnes of plastic ends up in the ocean each year, and by 2050 it is estimated that we will have more plastic in the ocean than fish. That is a crazy amount of plastic.

This plastic ends up either ingested by fish and sea birds, which could poison them, or cluttering up the ocean so much that fish and crustaceans end up being caught and suffocated in it. It’s an especially troubling issue. I believe that we need to make sure that we aren’t causing irreparable damage.

It’s important to remember that, I hope you have a good weekend though. It’s December! I’ll be at the big light-up in town tonight, so that I can see the Christmas lights come on. I’ll see you there!

Forthcoming Events

Monday 4th December

Tuesday 5th December College Christmas Dinner—12.30pm—1.30pm

Year 8 County Cup v St Peters—at home—2.50pm—4pm

Staff meeting—teaching and learning (differentiation sharing best practice)

Wednesday 6th December Year 7 and 8 hockey v Okehampton College– away—3.10pm—5.30pm

Thursday 7th December U15 County Cup v Paignton—at home—2.30pm—4.30pm

Friday 8th December

Monday 11th December

Tuesday 12th December Staff meeting—faculty

Winter Concert at HCC—7pm in the Purple Circle

Wednesday 13th December Collapsed Curriculum Day 2:

Year 7 to the Pantomime

Year 8—PE Inter-house competition

Year 9 options tasters

Year 10 Eden trip

Year 11 Exeter trip

Thursday 14th December

Friday 15th December Save the Children Christmas Jumper Day

End of term assembly

Last day of autumn term

Wednesday 3rd January 2018 First day of spring term

Hockey v Bude

On Monday 27th November we hosted a hockey match against Bude.

We played two 20 minute halves.

In the first half we started well, but Bude kept up the pressure, that was until Erin Slade received a great pass from Sophie Hudson on the right wing and managed to shoot from close range.

In the second half we continued the pressure, with many chances on goal.

Lucy Storry then did an amazing roll-out and passed into the D, where Erin Slade, luckily again, put the ball in the goal.

Holly Prime got player of the match for her excellent defending and distribution of the ball.

Great game, girls!

On Wednesday 29th November our Year 8 hockey team went away to Bude to play a 9 a-side hockey game.

We played a forty minute game and played very well throughout, but unfortunately they did manage to score two goals, one in the first half and one in the second half. However, with Ruby Bryant scoring seven amazing goals, we managed to win the game 7-2.

Ruby Bryant and Lucy Storry both received player of the match from the other team; Ruby for her goals and Lucy for some excellent runs down the wing.

The girls played some excellent passing hockey, with all the team being involved in the build up to some of the goals. A big thank you and well done must also go to Poppy Bryant and Abi Wellington for stepping up and playing a Year 8 fixture, despite being in Year 7. Full team- Alisha Squirell, Holly Prime, Poppy Bryant, Abi Wellington, Maddie Olde, Alicia Olde, Erin Slade, Ruby Bryant, Lucy Storry.

Erin Slade

Why not print

this and stick it

on your fridge!

RYLA On Thursday 30th November HCC welcomed Christine Stalley from the Rotary Club to talk to Year 11 students about the RYLA (Rotary Youth Leadership Award).

Year 11 students listened intently as Christine described the many benefits of applying for this residential programme, which this year they can apply to access via Holsworthy Rotary Club who have generously agreed to fund places for two students from Holsworthy Community College.

Christine gave the students some information about the Rotary Organisation which has clubs in 160 countries, as well as examples of the great charity work Rotary does. The Holsworthy Rotary Club supports many local projects, such as the Holsworthy Drop In for Young Carers, and other Worldwide projects. An example of one of these International projects, which involves partner organisations and Rotary members around the World, is the campaign to eradicate polio through a programme of vaccinating children. This has reduced cases by 99.9 per cent worldwide since the programme began in 1979 in the Philippines.

A goal of Rotary is to help young people to discover their leadership potential. One way to do this is through RYLA, which is a one week residential leadership programme based in Okehampton and organised by the Rotary Club of Okehampton. Rotary Clubs around the region choose and sponsor candidates who are between the ages of 16 and 18 on the 1st September 2018. The lucky participants will take part in group activities such as abseiling and orienteering on Dartmoor, these help individuals grow in confidence and learn important team working skills. Participants will also meet people from the business world who can give them invaluable advice which will help them gain the skills they will need for their future in the world of work.

The programme will run from 21-27 July 2018 and those involved are guaranteed to come back ‘buzzing’ from the experience.

If students would like to apply for the programme they need to submit a CV, no more than two sides of A4, giving the following information: Why you would like to apply, some information about yourself such as hobbies, activities you participate in, your interests and any work experience or part time jobs or voluntary work that you have done . You don’t need to detail what you are studying. This should be emailed to ryla.holsworthy@gmail.com

The closing date for applications is the 29th January 2018.

Rotary Club members will then look at the applications and you could then be selected for an informal interview, which will take place in school. This will not be a ‘scary’ experience and will be good practice for work/college interviews. If you are lucky enough to be selected you can feel confident that the Rotary Club will see you as a person having potential. If you are not selected, this does not mean that this is not the case, the Rotary Club are looking for people who would benefit most from the experience.

If you are doing the Duke of Edinburgh Award this residential also qualifies as part of the Gold Award.

If you would like more information please see Mrs Storry. You can also complete your application during the afterschool “Friday til Five" club for Year 11s which run on a Friday in Curie Lab.

Online Safety On Wednesday 29th November Mr Richards held an online safety information evening for parents of KS3 students. Mr Hosie also gave a presentation regarding how parents can support their children with their Maths.

If you were unable to attend the main points of the evening were:

1. Communication is key: By talking and trusting our children we can strengthen their

understanding. Discuss with our children the dangers present; explain that we can

monitor their usage and the behaviour we expect from them.

2. Use a parental control system to filter and create set "activity" times.

3. Careful what you post - Never give out personal information- or images of other

students. 46% of children say that they have given out personal information to

someone that they met online.' - UK Children Go Online.

4. Switch off - Bedrooms could be a no/low tech zone. Children need to sleep and

ideally they need some down time away from tech for their brains to recover from the

blue light.

5. Set rules / boundaries then allow trust and consequences, if necessary! An

example would be to have set usage time enforced through parental control.

If you would like to re-visit the information Mr Richards has prepared a fact sheet detailing the main points of the presentation.

This information can be found on our website at:

http://www.hcc.devon.sch.uk/user/74/173488.pdf

Bradford Primary School On Monday 20

th November the Year 6 children all benefitted from a Federation Writing Day. They all travelled to

Bradford School and spent the day being immersed in high quality work based on the text ‘Night of the Gargoyles’. After learning about the story the children then invented their own stories and came up with great ideas such as ‘Night of the Fairies’ and ‘Night of the book characters’.

Many Thanks to Miss Carpenter who planned the day and to the Year 6 teachers for supporting her.

News from the Learning Community

Bridgerule Primary School Children and Staff recently supported Children in Need with a non-uniform day; £107 was donated to this worthy cause.

During the term parents and carers are invited to join children for lunch. The children enjoy sharing lunchtime with their parents who are later invited to participate in playground games.

Year 6 children recently joined their peers from Bradford and Black Torrington Schools for a writing day on the text ‘Night of the Gargoyles’, led by Miss Carpenter and Year 6 teachers.

Afterschool clubs have proved popular this term, particularly ‘dance club’ led by Jessica Squire. Parents were invited to an end of session performance recently.

Black Torrington

On Wednesday this week, we held our second social lunch of the term. This time families of Class 2 children were

invited into school where they enjoyed a roast beef dinner and chocolate cracknel and then joined the children

playing in the playground.

Inter-House Competitions

Quiz Results

Poseidon 126

Highest groups PB, SST, SPK 18

Zeus 102

Highest group JIB 18

Thor 96

Highest group KS 18

Apollo 91

Highest groups JMB and SDW 18

Mealtime Assistant vacancy at Black Torrington Primary School Black Torrington Primary School requires a friendly and happy mealtime assistant / play leader to join their supportive team to collect and serve lunches and help organise lunchtime playground activities. You will enjoy working with children in an active role.

We are a small rural village primary school with 28 children on roll. The successful candidate will be required to start on 3 January 2018 and will work 5 lunchtimes a week. This is a temporary appointment initially to cover 12 months maternity leave.

JOB ACTIVITIES:

Collection of the food from Holsworthy Community College, mileage allowance to be paid.

Furniture moving for lunchtime service and cleaning dining hall

Serving food.

Temperature testing of food and keeping records

Removal of waste food to designated area.

All cleaning duties according to the kitchen schedule or rota including periodic cleans.

Clearing and cleaning tables during lunch period.

Securing the safety and welfare of pupils during the midday break - Supervision of pupils in and about the premises and site

Help organise lunchtime playground activities.

5 days a week, 10.45am – 2.00pm 16.25 hours a week, 38 weeks per year uniform will be provided.

Grade A - £7.78 per hour

It would be possible for this to be a job share for the right candidates. For further information and an application form please contact – Susanne Kiff – skiff@hcc.devon.sch.uk – 01409 253430

or for more information on the role please contact Sue Manners 01409 231262 or email:

admin@blacktorrington.devon.sch.uk

Holsworthy Area Federation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of young people.

An enhanced DBS check and Food Hygiene certificate is required for all successful applicants.

Question 1 of 20:

Which of the following items may be included in a new

government tax to reduce the environmental impacts of

rubbish in the UK?

a. batteries

b. takeaway boxes

c. glass bottles

d. all of the above

Answer:

b. takeaway boxes - A tax on takeaway boxes is to be

considered in an attempt to tackle the problem of plastic

waste. The government is expected to call for evidence

on whether a tax on the use of the most damaging

single-use plastics would help the environment.

Material Needed!

Do you have any fabric you no longer require that could be donated to HCC? The Technology Department would be grateful for donations of any material for the students to work with.

Thank you in anticipation.

Year 7 and 8 v Launceston On the 29th November the Year 8 A and B teams played against Launceston.

The As played first and were a bit slow off the mark. Amelia Disney made a great interception to gain possession for Holsworthy and then there was no stopping us! At half time it was 12-0.

In the second half we continued to dominate and the game ended 24-1 to Holsworthy, this means that we are still unbeaten this season! Player of the match was Sophie Oke.

In the B game there was some great interceptions for Maisie Downing and Rebecca Woolsey. Zoe Gilhespy netted lots of goals and the game ended 5-2 to Holsworthy. Player of the match was Grace. Well done girls!

The Year 7s also had an A and B team. The A team played first and won their match 7-1. There was some excellent defending from Rebecca Davy and Katy Martyn and Amy Poole and Jess Lovejoy worked well in the shooting circle together. The final score was 7-1 to Holsworthy. Katy Martyn was picked as player of the match.

The B team then played. Launceston had most of the possession and if it wasn't for some great defending from Olivia, Lily and Holly, the score could have been much higher. The final score was 8-0.

Scarlett played amazingly in C earning her the title player of the match.

There is a Year 7 netball match for both A and B teams next Wednesday against Route 39.

Year 8 English Small Schools Cup 3rd Round

St Ives made the long journey to HCC on Tuesday night to try and get through to the last 32 of the English Schools Cup, with the winner going to Somerset in round 4.

HCC started brightly, but could not get a goal even though they played some good football.

The score at half time was 1-1, with Matt Jones hitting HCC equaliser.

The second half started the same with HCC on top, but no goals to show for their dominance. Then on the break, St Ives went 2-1 up, but Adam Poole fired in a free kick to level. HCC then took the lead, only for St Ives to equalise with 5 minutes remaining. The score ended 3-3, so into extra time we went, but neither team could score the decisive goal, so we went to penalties.

HCC took some amazing penalties, but St Ives were equal to us and we ended up losing 5-4 in the shoot out.

A credit to all the players involved and on a different day we would have made the 4th round. We now have St Peters in the County Cup to look forward to.

Year 10 GCSE Art - Artist Research and Critical Analysis Year 10 Art students have made a promising start to their portraiture project by carrying out thorough independent research on a portrait artist of their own choice. At the start of the GCSE course students were guided through the process of producing an in-depth analysis of an artist, designer or craftsperson and they are now able to use this knowledge, and the verbal and written feedback from this work, to research an artist which they have chosen themselves.

Students have made preliminary sketchbook drawings from their research to start investigating the skills and techniques used by their chosen artist and just some examples are shown here. With a very wide range of different artists and drawing styles being explored, the group are already demonstrating a great variety of work.

Bethany Gifford is researching French Illustrator Stephanie Ledoux, and after creating this tonal study based on her work, is now using charcoal pencil and biro to explore how she draws on interesting surface textures and newsprint.

Bryony Darwin's close up drawing of an eye was inspired by the monochrome work of graphic artist Maurits Escher. Escher was well known for his artwork which was inspired by mathematics and explored infinity and optical illusions, but he also created some more realistic and detailed pieces. Bryony's project will focus on facial features and she is in the process of experimenting with drawing eyes using a range of different materials and techniques so that she can refine her own method.

Daisy Heywood has been closely analysing the work of Thomas Saliot who renders extreme close ups on a monumental scale. So far Daisy has explored recreating his work using pencils and mark-making. Online photographs are Saliot's source of inspiration and students will be going on to explore portrait photography themselves and working from their own images to establish original and skilful final outcomes.

Well done, Year 10!

Miss Urquhart

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