Windsor News and Information Website: www.windsor.windsoracademytrust.org.uk 5th July 2019 Issue 37

School closures: School will be finishing early on two occasions next week: Wednesday 10th July: 2.30pm (for staff training)

Friday 12th July: 12.40pm (to prepare for Activities week)

School uniform and standards We are very proud of the high standards students at Windsor consistently achieve as we understand how important ly future employers value individual progress, effort, leadership, resilience and appearance.

With this in mind I would like to remind all at Windsor that our updated uniform expectations can be found on our website. All students need appropriate school shoes and those choosing to wear skirts must ensure they are of suitable length, which we deem to be between knee length to just above the ankle. Trousers should be black and tailored (skinny jeans, leggings or tight trousers are not acceptable).

Other than a plain stud earring, piercings are not allowed in school, hoodies should not be worn under blazers and headscarfs should be black. Any student wishing to have a piercing over the holiday will need this to be done at the start of the holiday as no piercings are permitted in school and would need to be removed before being allowed to class.

I would like to therefore ask that parents and carers use the summer break to ensure your child’s uniform meets these essential standards as students not in correct uniform will not be prepared for excellence and cannot therefore be allowed in lessons.

Kind regards Mr Morley

Important Information regarding Lockers for ALL YEAR Groups

Please remind your son/daughter to empty their school locker by Friday 12th July and remove their lock. Any locker that has not been emptied by this date will have the lock removed and contents taken to Lost Property. In line with school procedure these items will be kept for 2 weeks only before being disposed of. If you have paid for a locker in advance or wish to pay for one next year, these will be allocated when school commences in September.

It is essential that all lockers are emptied and padlocks removed to enable site team to repair any damage and move lockers if necessary.

RNLI respect the water campaign As we approach the summer, we would ask that you discuss water safety with your child/ren as hot weather may encourage more young people to take to the water. In tutor time we will be working with students to ensure they know how to keep safe and how to float more effectively and efficiently should they need to, using resources from the below RNLI website. https://www.respectthewater.com/

Stuart House Achievements!

Attendance!

As we know, attendance is a vital key to success at Windsor and I am pleased to see so many students

still at 100%! Please see the name listed below and huge congratulations to…

Well done, such a fantastic achievement! We are very proud of you! Miss Heeley and the Stuart Team

A very special well done to Mia Simcox!

Mia attended the European Hip Hop Championship in Barcelona this weekend representing the UK in a number of categories. She had an incredible weekend with coming first place in the following

categories - crew, quad, individual Hip Hop winner, 2v 2 battle winner. What a fantastic achievement

and a weekend where Mia made some fantastic memories!

Very well done Mia, as a team, we are very proud of you!

Hollie Bowring Connor Davies Abby McDaniels Smith Mia Percival

Shi Yuan Chen Lily Evans Ellie Miles Cadence Sadler

Xiang Yu Chen Alisha Griffths Abigaile Moore-Henderson Charlotte Shuker

Betsy Cooper Marissa Hayes Chloe Moore-Henderson Kirstie Westwood

Laura Cox Emily Linford Cyrus Pearsall Alex Zaykov

Year 8 Spanish students have been busy writing to their penfriends in Spain this week. Here are some of the lovely letters they received from their Spanish friends.

NEW ACADEMIC YEAR 2019-20 Tuesday 3rd September: School starts for students. New Year 7 arrive at 8.40 and assemble on the playground. Years 8 - 13 arrive during morning break (10.40 – 11.00) and go to tutor rooms at the start of lesson 3.

Annual Awards Ceremonies – 11th July 2019: We are delighted that our Annual Awards Ceremonies will take place this term on Thursday 11th July. All prize winners and their parents/carers were notified during week ending 14th June. Years 7 and 8 at 2.00pm: Students will come to the Sports Hall at the end of lunch to be seated by 1.45pm, in full school uniform. Years 9 and 10 at 7.00pm: Students attending the ceremony should wear full school uniform and be seated in the Sixth Form Sports Hall by 6.45pm. If you are coming to school to attend either of these events we would ask you to note that only limited car parking is available. We look forward to celebrating the achievements and talent of our students. Mr Leafe

Festival of Literature 8th July- 12th July 2019

We have arranged two author visits for the coming week in addition to the house competitions and other events.

Monday 8th July RUTH EASTHAM

Her debut novel, The Memory Cage, received wide critical acclaim. It was shortlisted for the

Waterstones Award and was nominated for the Carnegie Medal, the UKLA Book Awards and at least

seven regional prizes.Her second book, The Messenger Bird, is a gripping tale of modern day

treachery set in Bletchley Park.

More recently, she has published Arrowhead, a thrilling story set in Norway, and The Jaguar Trials, a South

American adventure. https://www.rutheastham.com/

Wednesday 10th July JONATHAN MERES Author and comedian. He is best known for being

the author of over 30 books for children and in particular his bestselling, award-winning series,

The World Of Norm, with over 800,000 copies sold in UK. http://www.jonathanmeres.com/

Books for both authors will be on sale at break and students may have them signed.

Attention Year 9: Remember to collect your sketchbooks from the Art Department by the end of term. If they are not collected, they will be disposed of Thank you, Ms Dovey

Congratulations to Matthew Cole 8H2

for being the second student to complete the bronze iDEA

Award that students have been introduced to in Computing

lessons. He will be presented with his certificate in assembly from Buckingham Palace! To

read more and sign up for free go to idea.org.uk or speak to Miss Allsop for more details.

Create a piece of artwork to feature in the Specialist Crafts catalogue and you could win £100 worth of art materials!! Bring your work to Miss Dovey in M1 to photograph by Friday 12th July to enter.

You can see work on www.specialistcraftsgallery.com

Non- school uniform Friday 12th July Following a successful challenge to keep the school site clean and tidy we will be having a non-school uniform day next Friday 12th July. We are asking for a donation of 50p that will go to Dudley Mind, a local mental health charity which supports those in need of help. We would ask that all clothing is suitable for school wear. The donation can be paid from Wednesday onwards to ensure we raise as much as possible.

Mr Morley

Black Country Games Success! On Friday 28th June, Windsor took nearly 70 competitors and leaders to the Black Country Games at Wolverhampton University, Walsall campus. The sun shone all day and our leaders ran the Dance Festival, overseen by Miss Harris, and the Primary Tri golf competition. There was great team success for Windsor in the Secondary schools events….

Gold medal for Year 9 Girls rounders team

Gold medal for Year 8 Dodgeball team

Gold medal for Girls Tag Rugby team

Silver for Girls Aquathon team (swimming & running)

Bronze for Boys Aquathon team

This is a huge achievement to beat all other schools in the Black Country and be County winners – Mr Lanckham was there to watch and support our competitors and leaders throughout the day. All our students represented their school and Dudley borough in an excellent manner – the staff are SO proud of you! Well done.

Thanks to Mrs Whitehouse (Team Manager for Rounders), Mr Louca (Team Manager for Tag Rugby) and Miss Harris (Dance Festival Choreographer).

Mrs K Jones (Team Manager for Dodgeball).

Our amazing students were: Y13 Volunteers Year 12 Dance Festival Leaders Chloe Adderley 13HLA Holly Boyes 12HDS Abbie Dale 13RRY Rebecca Parkin 12CGO Rosie Rickward 13MNU (Team manager Aquathon) Amber Robbins 12HDS

Hannah Neville 12SBA Year 9 Tri Golf Leaders (Leadership Academy) Daisy Lennon 12AAR Aiden Groves 9T2 Bethany Edwards 12AAR Bradley Bayliss 9T2 Jeorgia Xhika 12HDS Jack Hughes 9T2 Euan Shepherd 9Y1 Alex Taylor 9Y1 Cady Sadler 9S2 Ella Baldock 9H2 Amelia Hill-Wilson 9T2 Morgan Whitehouse 9H2 Isabelle Wall 9T2 Ava Murphy 9T2 Georgia Stafford 9T2 Iestyn Grice 9Y1 Jake Lane 9T1 Billy Elwart 9L1 Tom Forrest 9Y2 Luke Windsor 9L2 Taylor Poole 9S1 Rory Gibson 9S2

Year 8 Boys Dodgeball Year 7/8 Girls Dodgeball Year 9 Girls Rounders Callum North 8Y2 Helena Watton 7H2 Noor Nayif 9Y1 Kealan Cheadle 8T2 Reem Hezam 8L2 Betsy Cooper 9S2 Toby Oakes 8T2 Frances Hammett 8S2 Ellie Allen 9T1 Harry Griffiths 8L1 Mollie Weaver 8Y1 Ru Kafesu 9L1 Callum Saliss 8S1 Ruby Reid 7L2 Laura smith 9H1 Connor Doody 8H1 Siobhan Eales- Branter 8L1 Sophie Siviter 8Y1

Courtney Sherwood 8T1 Paige Allbutt 8Y1 Megan While 9Y2

Year 7 & 8 Girls Tag Rugby Frankie Cox Coley 8S1 Lottie Shuker 8S1 Caitlin Keenan 7T2 Trinity Pickett 9L2 Ella Carr 7T2 Scarlett Elliott 8Y2 Freya Tease 7H2 Carys Grice 7Y1 Hollie Bowring 8S1 Edee Homer 7Y2 Year 9 Boys Duathlon Year 9 Girls Duathlon Jacob Bailey 9S2 Hannah Bate 9H2 Jacob Fellows 8S1 Orlaith Taylor 7T2 Ben Wood 9S2

PE NEWS

Year 7 and 8 boys cricket result Windsor 103 for 6 v OSH 48 for 8 Windsor win by 55 runs Player(s) of the match: Habib Rizwan and William Collumbell

Student health and wellbeing: During this warm weather please ensure your child brings a full bottle of water which they may refill with water from one of the water stations around school.