Message from The Headteacher

HeadsUP September 2015

Issue 31

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Dear Parents

We have had a fantastic start to the autumn term! I am extremely proud to welcome our new Year 7 students and their families to the Haygrove ‘family’. We have also received new students in other year groups too, and I want to wish them, and the whole of Year 7, a happy and successful journey through our school.

I also want to congratulate last year’s Year 11 students on their stunning achievements and also thank our highly committed staff for all the support they provided, particularly in the latter stages of the year. We are so proud of them all.

The autumn term is now well underway and I am pleased to observe that our students are well engaged in their learning. It is so important that at this stage of the year all students are establishing effective learning routines both in school and at home. I am also keen to see every student involved with at least one extra-curricular activity. Information about our extra curricular programme is available on the back page of Heads Up or on our website.

We are expecting to receive a visit from Ofsted during this term and I would encourage you, as parents, to express your views about Haygrove School via the Ofsted ‘Parent View’ website which you can access from the school website home page www.haygroveschool.co.uk. Thank you, in advance, for your support.

For the safety of our students, particularly at the start and end of the school day, I must ask parents not to drive onto the school site, unless by prior arrangement, or to collect a student for medical reasons. I would also advise you to avoid parking in the bus lay-by, particularly if the buses are already arriving. I appreciate your co-operation in this matter.

I would now like to wish all our students another successful year at

Haygrove. If you have any concerns regarding any aspect of your

child’s education, please do not hesitate to get in touch.

Yours sincerely

Karen Canham

Headteacher

Haygrove School are looking for Exam Invigilators to oversee and supervise

examinations, ensuring guidelines and regulations for the integrity and security of the

examination papers and procedures are followed during examination sessions.

Required for 2015/16 Exams. No closing date, we are accepting applications

throughout the year. Salary: £7.50 per hour Hours: Variable

To find out more about this opportunity visit www.haygroveschool.co.uk/about-us/

vacancies

Could you be an Invigilator?

School Health Clinic

Having trialled the drop in health clinic for the summer term of 2015, we are pleased to announce that we will be operating it again every Tuesday lunch-time from this term onwards.

The principle aim of the drop in health clinic is to provide a confidential advice service on a range of issues affecting young people. Support could include advice on sexual health, emotional health and well-being (e.g. self-harming), healthy lifestyles and alcohol safety. Young people will also have access to the c-card system, contraception and chlamydia screening kits.

Other schools in the area already offer this service and have noticed that young people are encouraged to make healthier life choices, self-esteem is raised and they are more confident when using mainstream health and welfare services. The clinic is run by a qualified nurse and each young person is individually assessed to ensure the most appropriate support and advice is offered.

If you have any questions or queries about the health clinic, please contact the School

Nursing Team on 01278 410044

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Extremism and Radicalisation STUDENT LOCKERS

From September 2015, student lockers will be provided by Independent Lockers Solutions (ILS Ltd). Students can rent a new locker for the academic year (September – July) for an annual fee of £22.00. Parents with more than one child at the school can choose for their children to share a locker.

Students entitled to Free School Meals may be eligible for support from the Pupil Premium fund. Please contact Mrs Witts if you need further information on whether your child qualifies for Pupil Premium funding for a locker.

A letter was sent home at the end of the Summer Term (dated 8 July 2015) explaining how to apply to rent a locker. A copy of this letter can be found on the school website: www.haygroveschool.co.uk/school-life/student-lockers

NEW SCHOOL PREFECTS

Year 11 students Sion

Wilson and Ellie

Newton have been

selected to be the

school’s Head Boy

and Head Girl for the

coming academic

year. They will be supported by fellow students Felix

Temple and Eloise Jarvis who will act as their Deputies.

The four exceptional youngsters were selected by the

Headteacher, Mrs Canham, after a thorough selection

process and they will now head up a team of over 40

School Prefects, all of whom are expected to act as

exemplary role models for the younger students at the

school and help the new Year 7s to settle into school life.

SHOW MY HOMEWORK (SMHW)

All Haygrove School teaching staff are now expected to set homework tasks and submission deadlines using the online tool, ‘Show My Homework’.

All students have been issued with ‘Show My Homework’ log-ins PINS. Remember—Parents can also log-in to ‘Show My Homework’ to see what homework their child has been set.

For help and advice visit: www.haygroveschool.co.uk/

curriculum/show-my-homework

Haygrove School has a statutory duty under the Counter-

Terrorism and Security Act 2015 and the statutory

Prevent Guidance 2015 to have a due regard to the need

to prevent people from being drawn into terrorism.

Extremism is defined as the ‘vocal or active opposition to

fundamental values of our society, including democracy,

the rule of law, individual liberty and mutual respect and

tolerance of different faiths and beliefs”. Radicalisation is

defined as “the act or process of encouraging extremist

views or actions in others, including forms of extremism

leading to terrorism.’

Staff are expected to be vigilant in protecting students

from the threat of radicalisation and should refer any

concerns to the Mr Walters. Staff will receive appropriate

training to ensure they have the knowledge and

confidence to identify pupils at risk, challenge extremist

ideas and know where and how to refer concerns.

Our students also receive information on this topic

through assemblies which is then followed up in tutor

time, with curriculum time in RE and Citizenship used to

educate the students on Extremism and Radicalisation.

Our duties include:

Training Staff to understand the issues of radicalisation

and violent extremism.

Understanding the local risks and threats.

Being alert for students ‘at risk’ of being radicalised.

Working in partnership with the Local Authority/other

Agencies.

Keeping students safe online.

If you have any concerns about any of our students,

please to not hesitate to contact the school.

Could you spare a day to accompany a school trip? We believe field trips are an essential part of learning, but sometimes it is difficult to release staff from their day to day duties to ensure appropriate adult to child ratios are maintained. We urgently need parents to sign-up as volunteers who we can contact when we need additional helpers for a school trip.

To find out more or register your interest, please email: Claire Morgan, School Activities Administrator at CLMorgan@educ.somerset.gov.uk

SCHOOL TRIPS—HELP NEEDED!

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If you feel a little lost at lunch time

and would like to come and join us, let

your tutor know and we’ll send you an

invitation. Or you can come up and see us. C2 is

a club to chill and be yourself, we do lots of fun

things from glass and ceramic painting, cards

and creative making to cake decorating, dvds

and making popcorn. We also sample and try

food from different cultures.

The club runs on Monday and Friday

lunchtimes in Room 29 (Mrs Harper’s cookery

room) with Mrs Brazier and Mrs Wynn.

If you want to bring your lunch and a friend you

may, we would love to see you.

FOOD BANK We are continuing to collect

from each year group in

rotation, but you can donate

items at any time.

This half term we are collecting from

Year 7 tutor groups (starting with 7J).

Please be as generous as you can!

All food donations go to the Bridgwater Foodbank, which is part of the Trussell Trust foodbank network. For ideas on what to donate you can download the foodbank’s ‘shopping list’ at: www.bridgwater.foodbank.org.uk Items particularly required are: MILK, SUGAR (uht or powdered), FRUIT JUICE (long life carton), SPONGE PUDDING (tinned), BISCUITS OR SNACK BARS, TINNED MEAT/ FISH, TINNED FRUIT

Mrs Plece, Head of Careers, is in school everyday to give guidance and support to students on all matters relating to their future education and career choices. To make an appointment contact Mrs Plece on 01278 455531, or students can pop along to her office on the North Corridor.

There’s lots of information about further education and careers at

www.haygroveschool.co.uk

PLEASE NAME YOUR CHILD’S ITEMS!

Each term we have lots and lots of items that are never re-claimed. Please can all parents make sure

that their child’s belongings, especially their

PE Kit, are properly labelled so that if items go missing

and are found they can be returned to their owner.

Thank you.

BOOK OF THE MONTH

A shivering of worlds. Deep in the Chalk, something is stirring. The owls and the foxes can sense it, and Tiffany Aching feels it in her boots. An old enemy is gathering strength. This is a time of endings and beginnings, old friends and new, a blurring of edges and a shifting of power. Now Tiffany stands between the light and the dark, the good and the bad. As the fairy horde prepares for invasion, Tiffany must summon all the witches to stand with her. To protect the land. Her land. There will be a reckoning . . . Terry Pratchetts’ final novel should not be missed! AVAILABLE IN THE SCHOOL LIBRARY

NEW

ONLINE

TOOL FOR

PARENTS Parent Info provides high quality information to parents and carers about their children's wellbeing and resilience and covers a wide range of subject matter, from difficult topics about sex, relationships and the internet or body image and peer pressure to broader parenting topics like ‘how much sleep do teenagers need?’

http://parentinfo.org

DATE EVENT

Mon 5 Oct Laycock Abbey Field Trip(Y11)

Wed 7 Oct Year 6 Open Evening 7pm

Thur 8 Oct Inset Day

Tues 13 Oct Year 7 Parents Evening

Wed 14 Oct Bristol Zoo Field Trip (Y10/11)

Mon 19 Oct Tate/V&A Field Trip (Y10/11)

Thur 22 Oct Year 11 Parents Evening

Fri 23 Oct LAST DAY OF TERM

Mon 2 Nov BACK TO SCHOOL

Tue 10 Nov Year 10 Parents Evening

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DIARY DATES Extra Curricular Programme

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LUNCH TIME AFTER SCHOOL

M O N

Rugby Y10/11 Netball Y9/10/11 Boys’ Hockey Y7/8/9 Guitar Club School Of Rock Girls’ Book Club, The Library Y11 Drama Coursework Club C2 Club, Rm 29

Manga Club, The Library Cooking Club (all year

groups) Rm29 (Y7 must have completed ‘Keeping Yourself Safe’ module.)

T U E

Rugby Y9 Basketball Y7/8 Girls’ Football Boys’ Hockey Y9/10/11 Studio Club Haygrove Choir Maths & Numeracy Homework

Club, Rm13 Girls’ Junior Reading Group, Li-

brary STEM Club with Mr Stannett,

(Week B only)

Science Club Y7/8 (starting soon), SC4

School Production (auditions & start date tbc)

STEM Club with Mr Stannett, (Week A only)

W E D

Rugby Y8 Basketball Y10/11 Girls’ Hockey Y7/8 Rehearsal Rooms Orchestra Duke Of Edinburgh Bronze

Open Studio for Art, Textiles & Photography Y10/11

T H U R

Rugby Y7 Basketball Y8/9 Football Y11 Girls’ Hockey Y10/11 Keyboard Club School Of Rock Maths & Numeracy Homework

Club, Rm13 Lego Club, Rm32

Open Studio for Art, Textiles & Photography Y10/11

DT Club, ICT3/WS1 Haygrove Youth Theatre (all

ages) - begins 1 Oct 2015

F R I

Girls’ Hockey Y9 Basketball Y9/10 Boys’ Hockey Y7/8 Netball Y7/8 Juggling Club Y9-11, SC4 Folk Group Big Band Friday Boys’ Reading Group (all years) KS3 Drama Club

Beginners’ Trampolining, Gym If your child is unable to attend school, please report his or her absence to the Attendance Officer before 8.40am on every day of their absence. Please ensure your child’s absence is reported to the Attendance Officer even if it has already been discussed with another member of staff. Text: 07624 880276 Voicemail: 0844 984 2607

Absence Reporting

PLEASE NOTE: If your child has an appointment during school hours they must provide a note (this could be in their planner) to Student Services before they will be allowed to leave school premises. Also, if your child feels unwell during the day, they must report to the School Welfare Officer to be assessed. If they then need to be sent home, the Welfare Officer will contact the parent/carer to make arrangements.

Visit www.haygroveschool.co.uk for our full calendar and to find out more about our extra-curricular programme.