NEWSLETTER 4th May 2016

Firstly, a personal thank you for all of the support I have received in my role as Acting Head of School, it is a great honour to be serving the school community in this role. HMI Ofsted recently visited the school and confirmed we are ‘taking effective action towards the removal of special measures’. The pace of life does not let up as Year 11 begin their exams this week. Pupils have been accessing targeted intervention sessions and have received a series of motivational sessions regard-ing how to approach their revision. Shortly we will be expecting them to release their ‘inner rhino’! It is important pupils of all ages take advantage of opportunities on offer to them so they meet their full potential. It was a pleasure to watch a recent Year 10 football fixture and see pupils using their talents; this mindset is something that can be applied to the classroom environment and beyond. The recent appointment of lunchtime sports coaches has been very popular with pupils as they enjoy table tennis and football activities. School parents’ evenings provide an important opportunity for you discuss your son/daughters progress with their teachers. The next evening will take place on Thursday 9th June 4.30pm-7.00pm. See you there!

Holly Rigby (Acting Head of School)

Year 9 Art pupils are busy designing our new school clock, here are some clues as to what it might look like. Watch this space...

ICT News

Year 7 students have been preparing for the delivery of their micro:bit devices with expert tuition from the Tablet Academy.

Micro:bits are provided free of charge by the BBC to all year 7 students this academic year.

You can use your BBC micro:bit for all sorts of cool creations, from robots to musical instruments – the possibilities are end-

less. The micro:bit is a handheld, fully programmable computer which is 70 times smaller and 18 times faster than the original

BBC Micro computers used in schools in the early 1980s.

This little device has an awful lot of features, like 25 red LED lights that can flash messages. There are two programmable buttons that can be used to control games or pause and skip songs on a playlist. Your BBC micro:bit can detect motion and tell you which direction you’re heading in, and it can use a low energy Bluetooth connection to interact with other devices and the Internet.

All current year 7s will be provided with their own micro:bit once they are delivered into school.

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PSHEE D.O.T. DAYS FOR YEAR 8 AND YEAR 9

On Monday 25th April, Year 8 students took part in a PSHEE day. Students watched a performance by the fabulous LOUDMOUTH Theatre Group and then took part in a workshop with the actors. The rest of the day was based around the key themes of Personal, Social, Health and Economic Education (PSHEE). Year 9 had a very similar day on Tuesday 26th April. At the end of both days, LOUDMOUTH said “the Year 8 and Year 9 students were fantas-tic!” This view was shared by the staff from the Primary Health Care Trust and Telford and Wrekin Local Authority. We know our students are fantastic and it is wonderful to hear outside agencies agree!

Safe Squad/Vivo Ambassadors

At Telford Park we have recently launched a team of safe Squad mentors. The safe squad are a group of young people who are there for our pupils to talk to should they have any concerns regarding their own safety or the safety of others. The group recently undertook a training session with The Telford Langley School Safe Squad run by Mr Preece Deputy Headteacher. The training involved looking at scenarios and how they would be handled plus procedures for passing on their concerns.

The group also operate as our Vivo Ambassadors. The role of Vivo Ambassador is to promote Vivos and to deliver the rewards pupils have ordered.

The group is made up of Elise Meredith, Johnson Anozie Nwosu, Summer James, Nikita Jones, Sam Guest and Jamie Arminshaw.

During tutor time pupils were asked to volunteer for both roles, congratulations to all pupils involved.

Bridge Centre

The Bridge Centre are taking part in the ‘Rocket Science’ seeds from space project which is running across

schools nationwide. This is an experiment looking at whether seeds that have been in space grow differently to

those that haven’t, and we are all very excited to be working with something that has been up in space! Look

out for updates in the next newsletter!

Nurture

Students currently using the nurture room have been busy potting up some impatiens plants ( busy lizzies). Courtney Taylor, Toni-Leigh Whiting, Tammy Tarpey and Courtney Ball are now going to nurture these plants into brilliant, colourful blooms for the summer. The plugs, compost and trays have all been provided as part of the Shrewsbury Flower Show Floral Train and will be planted into troughs in the coming weeks and taken to the Shrewsbury showground in June. They will then be on display in all their glory at the Shrewsbury Flower Show in August with the name of the school attached.

Please find below the extra curricular information for different subjects after schools.

This can also be found on our website

The Telford Park School SEND department are pleased to welcome Mrs Creen to the team. She will be working in school every morning across all year groups and is really looking forward to getting to know all our students.

Homework club is still available to anyone who needs a quiet place to complete their homework. Laptops and internet access is available as well as two members of staff. It is currently running on a Tuesday and Wednesday after school (2.35 – 3.35) in A3.59.

Our students are fully embracing our drive to embrace a reading

culture at Telford Park School and it has been an absolute pleasure to

see them engrossed in their books during READ45.

KS3 families recently received a detailed Reading Diagnostic Report in

the Student’s report which outlined their reading age and their ZPD

(which stands for Zone of Proximal Development).

All KS3 now undertake regular computerised STAR tests which auto-

matically calculates their reading age and a range of books the stu-

dent can read which will stretch and challenge them. All KS3 students

then take an online quiz for their book and their percentage accuracy

is generated immediately for them.

All KS3 students regardless of ability and reading age have the same

target of 85% as they are all reading books within their ZPD.

If you wish to review the students Accelerated Reader account to

discuss the books they have read, monitor their progress and their

percentage accuracy then please go onto our website, select Quick

Links and then select Accelerated Reader Home Connect.

The log in details were posted home in February however, it is the student’s login and password which they all (should) know. If they cannot remember please email me at sarah.foley1@taw.org.uk and I will provide you with it. If you would like more information regarding our Literacy Pro-

grammes please visit our website and under the title of Literacy Pro-

grammes is more information relating to Accelerated Reader and

Corrective Reader.

Finally, please follow @readingatPARK on Twitter for regular tweets.

Hair & Beauty News All students have now commenced their summative assessments and are working towards their Level 1 NVQ in Hairdressing

Art

This last few weeks has seen a huge effort from Art students to complete their coursework. Pupils have done their exam and have put the final touches to coursework creating some amazing hat sculptures. Well done for all of your hard work year 11’s, once again, you have done us proud.

Keep posted for the GCSE Art exhibition where you will be astounded by the quality of work on display……coming soon!

This month also saw the results of the Rotary Young Photographer of The Year competi-tion. Mariah Lamb took part in the competition and submitted of her photographs into the competition. At a presentation evening at Enginuity we discovered that Mariah has been successfully chosen to enter the Rotary District Young Photographer Final!

The entries will be judged at the beginning of June with a presenta-tion evening on Tue 28 Jun 2016 at Denstone College, Uttoxeter so fingers crossed for Mariah and her continued success with photog-raphy.

Research Project for the Y9s at Park Over the last half term some Y9s have been conducting a research pro-ject within their group. They first of all created a questionnaire and then analysed the results using Excel and then devised a presentation to summarise the results. They were able to use graphs and music to enhance their presentations. Although the students were somewhat nervous at the start of their presentations each one grew with confidence and gave a fabulous perfor-mance of their analyses

Departmental news

We have now moved onto summer sports for most in PE lessons. However, the boys are still receiving 1 lesson of rugby a fortnight to

keep their skills up ready for next year.

We have also had a very popular new club started on Tuesday’s – Handball. This is being run by The Shropshire Handball Association.

Following the first session, 2 students (Sandra Amo and Chloe Leigh Growcott) were asked to go forward for trials for the county

team that is being set up. Watch this space for how they got on.

Girls Fitness!

A huge well done to Mrs Perry’s PE girls for the improvements made in their fitness tests. A special mention to the following who

have gained some great Bleep Test scores:

Mollie Perks level: 10.4, Rhianna Nicholls 10.2, Holly Halford 10.0 & Chloe-Leigh Growcott 12.11

Rugby

At the end of last term over 40 boys attended the RFU All Schools festival at Telford Hornets Rugby Club.

They played against all the other local “All Schools” Schools – Telford Priory, Telford Langley & HLC. Tel-

ford Park played some great rugby and demonstrated how far they have come over the last 2 terms. The

yr 9/10 team won all their games. The yr 7/8 team won 3 out of 5.

We have already got several fixtures booked in for next year when we hope to build on the progress we

have made this year!

Football

Thursday’s football club is proving very popular and students have been improving their skills with the help of Steve & his team from

Double Touch Coaching.

The Yr 10 team played in their Plate Cup match last week against Thomas Telford ‘C’ team. They played well in the first half but unfor-

tunately Thomas Telford showed their class and won the game.

Netball

Mrs Perry, Mrs Jolly, Mrs France & Mrs Jones have all been wowed by the attendance and attitude of the girls taking part in the net-

ball club. Keep it up girls!

Athletics

As we are now in the summer term the inter school athletics competitions will be on from May. See the school TV screens for the

dates and ensure you show us your best in PE lessons! We will be picking the

teams over the next few weeks!

Ski Trip

14 lucky Telford Park school students accompanied Mr Phillips on the school ski

trip during the penultimate week of the spring term. They went to Risoul, France.

The students had a fantastic time and all left the mountains competent skiers and

with some interested tans!! See the pictures attached.

Twitter

The department has a Twitter account where all PE & Sport related news is give.

We will give results, fixtures and photos of sporting life at Telford Park School.

Follow us on: @TelfordPrkSchPE

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