October Half Term 2017

Welcome back to The 20 October 2017Noticeboard. A Visit from the Sporting VictoriesAnother half term has goneflying by for pupils and Swiss On the 16th October All Saints School won theteachers and there has been Sampson Trophy at the Weymouth Swimming Clubso much happening in school On Thursday 5th October, we annual gala, a competition between the local schoolsalready this year. welcomed 13 pupils and their at Weymouth swimming pool. This is the second year teacher from our Swiss German in a rowWelcome to all our Year 7s partner school near Lucerne to they havewho seem to be settling in All Saints. Pupils currently won thevery well and enjoying the studying GCSE German in Year 4x 50mnew challenges and subjects 10 got involved by spending the freestylethat secondary school brings. day together with their race. partners, taking them to theirWe have had another lessons. In the afternoon they Congratulations to Josh, Charlie, Freya and Caitlin.successful summer of exams even embraced the chance to Many thanks to the parents for their support.where we once again further practise theircelebrated excellent GCSE communication skills \"speed We have also had great results in boys football thisresults. For the third year in a dating style” in one of their term in regard to the County Cup. So far our scoresrow we have the best results German lessons! Many are still are:-in the Weymouth and in touch and we are delighted toPortland area with 61% of have been invited to visit Year 7 - v - Lychett School - 10 - 2 WINpupils achieving 5 A*-Cs (4-9) Switzerland in the near future. Year 8 - v - Budmouth - 11 - 0 WINincluding English and Maths. Much enjoyment was had by all Year 10 - v Woodroffe - 8 - 1 WINWithin this, 70% of pupils and our thanks go out to all theachieved a grade 4 or above in staff and pupils who made theEnglish and a grade 4 or above experience such a great one!in Maths. Club Focus - Music  Next Summer will see the newformat GCSE marking system All Saints School Choir meets on Thursday lunchtimes and is currently an everin place for most subjects,where a top mark is 9 and a evolving entity with a few definite external invitations to perform, nearer the end of term.pass is a 4. With very few Please come to Hope Church on afternoon of Thursday 7th December, additional pupilscontrolled assessments now are still very welcome to join as we start our preparation for Christmas. Pupils who joinforming part of the exam the Choir and show commitment to attending will also be able to audition for variousprocess, results are based on a solos at the Christmas Music Celebration. Miss Musgrove will be personally inviting somefinal Year 11 exam. pupils who she knows enjoy singing, after half term.We would like to encourage The Eclectic Orchestra is a new 'Band' gradually forming. It is currently made upeveryone to refer to ourwebsite more regularly for of a variety of brass, woodwind and string instruments. This is a Friday lunchtime activityupdates on what is happening for anyone who plays an instrument in or outside of school and knows enough notes toin the school. Our new Media play a simple melody. One of the more recent pieces of music heard coming from theTechnician, Mr Williams, has Music Room was 'the theme for The Muppet Show'! Again, there is an open invitation tolots of ideas and is working new members. Miss Musgrove has dusted off her Alto Saxophone to join in and Mrhard to ensure all the Stradling has been spotted playing the drum-kit....relevant information is up todate and meets with needs of If 'Rock School' is more your child's thing then Mr Stradling is regularly meeting topupils and parents, so pleasekeep looking. lead a group of enthusiastic pupils wanting to 'Rock-out' after school on Thursdays for about an hour. It is musical riffs a plenty and includes budding guitarists, bass guitarists, drummers and singers, of all ages.

Music Reporting… Dates for Your DiaryOver 40 Music and Drama pupils went to 30 October Higher Education Access Day @ Weymouth CollegeLondon on a day trip to see 'Wicked' the 31 October World Challenge 2019 Launch Event 3.30-5.00pmmusical which was a great success and 2 November Year 11 Parents Evening 4-7pmallowed the GCSE music pupils to see one oftheir 'setworks' (a song they have to study “Choices” play to Years 10 and 11 regarding post 16and analyse) - Defying Gravity performed 16 November optionslive on stage! 16 November GCSE Certificate Presentation Evening 2017 Leavers 23 November Year 7 Parents Evening 4-7pmI am delighted to say that Music is 24 November Year 11 Mock Exams commencehighlighted in our “Club Focus” section thisnewsletter so I hope you have read about 7 December School Choir performs in the afternoon at Hope Churchsome of the Clubs we are offering. We alsooffer private instrumental lessons which are Non School Uniform - Christmas Jumper Day £1 fornow up and running on various days during 8 December charityschool time for the following instruments: 11 December All Saints School Christmas Music Celebration in thevoice, piano, keyboard, flute, clarinet,saxophone, recorder, drums, guitar, bass main hallguitar, trumpet, trombone, violin, viola and 15 December Last Day of Term 2.30pmif there is an instrument missing from thislist Miss Musgrove is happy to explore 3 January Staff and Pupils Return to School - Week 1getting in new teachers to cater for pupils'musical wishes. Should you require anyinformation about any of the aboveactivities do not hesitate to [email protected] forfurther information, prices, days etc.Don’t forget to see the diary dates fordetails of performances and shows wherewe welcome all the support you can give usand a chance to see a result of all ourpractise and hard work.All Saints Admissions PolicyGovernors ask that you please keep an eyeon our website over the next few weeks forthe statutory consultation on ourAdmissions Policy.The Food PoliceThanks go to our local police officer, Kelly Heath, who kindly came tovisit our lesson to deliver ‘Crime Scene’ documents to support pupillearning in Food Hygiene this week. Mrs Allen and Mrs Shepherd madea dedicated area of S16 kitchen into a crime scene, which made a visualclassroom showing common aspects of breaches of the law that lead tofood poisoning and in extreme cases even death. We hope that thechildren will find this useful when taking the CIEHO Basic Food HygieneCertificate exam.

Macmillan Cake Sale andCompetitionMiss Gordge decided that an “InsetChallenge” would keep pupils busy whileschool staff were being trained, she threwdown the gauntlet to pupils for a“European Bake Off” to raise money forMacmillan, and what a show of cakesappeared, raising £50 for charity. Welldone to all those who took part. Pleasesee our website for the category winnersand other pictures. It’s all happening in Science We welcome “Chocolate” the baby corn snake into the team donated by a parent. Chocolate is our second snake and is living in N4 with the other animals cared for Mr Burdett and the fabulous Eco Club. There are revision classes in abundance for Year 11 now so please see your teachers for details . All of Year 11 now have work booklets at home to help you with exam questions relevant to the course. Please put them to good use! The trip to CERN in Geneva was very successful with all pupils enjoying a visit to the largest physics experiment inhistory. See the website for the full trip report.In November the Chemical Ambassadors will be visiting a local mineand we look forward to welcoming world famous scientist Dr KeithBarnard Jones to talk to students. World Challenge 2017 - Nicaragua Photographs of this years World Challenge can be found on our website. Some of the highlights included this year were: Climbing 4 volcanoes on the volcanic ring of fire, sandboarding down Cerro Negro, an active volcano, meeting Francisco one of the original Sandinistas, and talking about the revolution, digging the foundations to extend a primary school in a deprived area, climbing the roof tops overlooking Leon the city of culture, swimming in the Pacific, zip wiring through forest tree tops on Mombacho volcano, exploring the food markets in Granada and interacting with the local school children.The next expedition is to Belize in 2019 and will include a jungle trek, a community project and the opportunity to exploreMayan ruins. Years 8, 9, 10 and 11 have until the 29th October to sign up - please see the website for further details.