Uppingham Community College

16 students took part in their ‘Silver Practise Expedition’.

If you’re interested in doing your DofE, see Mrs Thomas for more information.

THE DUKE OF EDINBURGH’S AWARD

Are you interested in a career working with Children and Young People?

Maybe you are starting out on your career, returning to work, or looking for a change in career?

This is a FREE 15 hour course over 5 weeks, designed as an introduction for anyone thinking about training as a Nursery Assistant, Play Worker, Social Worker, Home Carer, Youth Worker, Teaching Assistant or

Childminder.

This course is being run by Rutland Adult Learning Service and is starting on Tuesday 8th June 2010, 9.30am - 12.30am. Venue is Oakham.

For further information, or to enrol please contact the Rutland Adult Learning Offi ce on 01572 771700.

Newsletter: May 2010

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Uniform‘Advance Notice’

From the start of the new academic year I would like all students, bar the current Year 10, who will then be Year 11, to have the blazer as a compulsory part of the uniform. Therefore all students, apart from Year 11,

will wear a blazer at all times. Students may of course wear the jumper/sweatshirt as well, but MUST wear a blazer. I would prefer Year 11 to have both a jumper and a blazer, as it looks extremely smart, and I know many of them do already have a blazer. However, they will have chosen a special coloured jumper to distinguish them as senior students and I am mindful of the

cost of extra purchases for their fi nal year.

I am sending the information at this time so you can plan for uniform purchases over the summer.

by Mrs Turner

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SCHOOL DAY

The number of items and messages being brought in for students has increased dramatically over recent months. Whilst we are always willing to help, the interruption of lessons is causing greater disruption not only to the student involved but is also affecting the learning of others.

Students need to be more

responsible and organise themselves for school, making sure they bring everything required at the start of the day.

With this in mind, we are only able to ‘deliver’ items or messages to students during the course of the day if it is an emergency. If a student is aware that items will be brought in, they will then be able to collect them personally from Students Services at break or lunchtime.

Thank you for your co-operation.

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On the 5th of May, the musicians from the College staged a superb spring concert in the Drama Studio. The evening was designed to allow students to perform in ensembles, so there were a wide variety of styles on show. The Concert Band, Choir, Recorder ensemble, Saxophone Group, Made in China (Rock Group) Vocal ensemble, Enrichment group, and a Jazz Quartet were all performing along with one or two solo items. If you missed out on this concert, then I do suggest you look out for any in the future as they really do show the depth of talent we

have here in the College.

Congratulations are due to Vanessa White. Not only did she gain a place in the Regional Finals of the Rotary Club Young Musician Contest, she has also won a Music Scholarship to Oakham School. We will miss her Violin and Clarinet playing, but well done Vanessa.

by Mr Moffat

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We continue to monitor the car park at the beginning and end of the day. There are still serious concerns relating to the cars picking up and dropping off students at the time the buses are on site. Some drivers are still stopping in unsuitable places, thus creating hazards for other drivers and for the student’s movement within the car park. Therefore please do the following:

- Use the ‘drop off’ spaces for drop off only.

- Move down the car park using all available spaces rather than the fi rst you come to.

- Arrive after the buses at the end of the day when the large bus lane then becomes available for the safe pick up of students.

- Do not collect students from anywhere other than the car park.

FREE COURSE - SUMMER TERM

PARKING NOTICE

‘MAKING CHOICES’

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Yr 7 Parents’ EveningTheme DayYr 7 Hums Trip to WarwickCooperative Enterprise ChallengeYr 10 Parents’ EveningSports DayCollege Production WeekYr 9 G&T Day (UCC, CBEC, CC)The Demon HeadYr 8 Multi-cultural G&T DayRutland Racing F24 EventInduction Day

Yr 7 Challenge DayYr 8 Rockingham FestivalYr 9 Industry TripsSuccess AssemblyYr 10 Work ExperienceFamily Activity DayYr 8 Trip to Black Country MuseumYr 7 Day Trip to Boulogne

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DR A M AT I C NE W S Year 9 Cricket

The year 9 boys team are through to the Rutland and Melton Competition Semi - Final after winning the Rutland League. They beat Catmose College in a fairly close game and then managed to outplay CBEC to win by 10 overs.

SPORTS LEADERS

A massive thank-you and well done to all Sports Leaders who have led a session this term. So far we have had year 10 students deliver sports sessions to Uppingham C of E students. The Sports Leaders involved in this have been outstanding and deserve much credit. A very special mention must go to Harry Robertson, George Scott and Tom Roberts, who have also helped to coach and umpire the year 9 Cricket team. These three students have given up a lot of their own personal time to do this and have set a great example in doing so. Well done!

BADMINTON

This term has seen the fi rst ever Rutland and Melton Badminton League take place. This is a team event which involves 4 players playing a mixture of singles and doubles against other teams. So far, the boys have won one game and lost one, with more fi xtures to come. Well done to Dom Horton, Jonti Brogan, Harry Robertson and George Scott.

by Mr Logan

SP O R T I N G NE W S

GIRLS WIN YEAR 8 MELTON AND RUTLAND

HOCKEY LEAGUE

back row: Kate Grunwald, Megan Wright, Lucy Steward, Rebecca Glover, Ella Brahmachari. front row: Molly King, Fiona Ginn, Charlotte Gregg, Lucy Ginn.

GIRLS WIN YEAR 10 HOCKEY LEAGUE

back row: Hannah Gregg, Amelia Grice, Niamh Piggott, Lilly Hives, Holly Johnstone, Francis Salt. front row; Zoe Mitchell, Rebecca Whittlestone.

CO N G R AT U L AT I O N S

We are currently reviewing our homework provision here at UCC and are keen to take on board the views of parents/guardians and students as well as that of staff. If you are interested in joining a working party to help review our homework provision I would like to hear from you. My aim is to have two meetings before the Summer Holidays. Please drop me a note via your son/daughter and Student Services or e-mail me directly on: anderson_d@ucc.rutland.sch.uk to let me know your interest and contact details.

I look forward to hearing from you,

by Mr Anderson

HOMEWORK AT UCC

Years 7-10 caught election fever with their own election. Five Year 10 Students volunteered to represent fi ve different political parties and to present their own interpretation of the parties manifestos. On the day, every form had it’s own ballot box. 8SLB were fi rst to return their ballot box. The count was carried out by year 10 Citizenship students. The presiding offi cers, Ben Harford and Olli

Carrick duly returned Harry Robertson for the Green Party as the election winner. The Liberal Democrat (Kyle Macleod) was a fairly distant second. Labour (Selorm Lazare) and Conservative (Dan Worthey) each gained about half the votes of the Lib Dems and the UKIP candidate (Pascal Risi) kept his deposit with a respectable 5th place. Well done everyone involved – we had an 84% turnout.

by Mrs Bradley

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ARTS AWARD SUCCESS

All 21 candidates for Bronze Arts Award were successful in gaining the qualifi cation. The visiting moderator was so impressed by the work going on at the College that she took copies of some of the work to use as exemplar material in training Arts Awards Advisors across the region.

Congratulations to all of the following students on their achievement:

Deborah Allen, Helena Bennett, Amy Bettis, Sarah Boyd, Agnes Cameron, Rachel Cawte, Catherine Crook, Michelle Daft, Beth Drysdale, Ellen Gregory, Alice Hinton, Will Hughes, Tom Johnson, Henry Jones, Hannah Maguire, Hannah McCreesh, Rhian Owen, Alysia Perera, Becky Porritt, Katy Ross and Natasha Whearity.

At least 13 students have now registered on the Silver and Gold Awards and I hope many of the current Year 9s will take up this opportunity next year.

The Year 10 GCSE Drama students perform their Physical Theatre performances on the theme of Teenage Angst to an invited audience on 25th and 27th May in the Drama Studio at 7-8pm.

I’d like to take this opportunity to invite all those who have opted for Drama GCSE next year to come and watch as it will be a great introduction to the kind of work involved in the qualifi cation.

by Mrs Perkins

GCSE DRAMA – PHYSICAL THEATRE

UCC ELECTION