SLT Update November 3

3rd November 2017

 

Senior Leadership Weekly Round-Up – 3^rd November 2017

 

 

• A selection of fantastic First World War trench designs have been made by Year 9 Historians. Mr Tobutt thought the effort and detail was superb and I have thoroughly enjoyed looking at them too. Our students really do produce excellent work.

 

• Congratulations to Mikaela Foumaki who has been selected for the cadet’s regional hockey team.

 

• On Tuesday 31^st October, the year 8 hockey team attended the annual inter school hockey tournament at Bottisham Village College. Despite a lot of hard work, they lost 3, drew 1 and won one game. Player of the tournament was Kayla Dudley.
• On Thursday 2^nd November, the year 7 rugby team attended their annual rugby tournament coming 11th out of 24 teams. Some excellent performances from forwards and backs. Man of the match award goes to Iestyn Hill

 

• Sports leaders this term have been helping at Primary school clubs after school and also enrichment clubs at MVC. They have had training and have logged their volunteering hours online. The following students are top of the leader board for logging their hours since starting in May of this year.
  • Holly Browning: 20 hours
  • Karl Miller:         26 ½ hours
  • Lucy Dickinson: 11 hours
  • Oli Habergham: 33 ½ hours
  • Penny Lowe:     30 hours

 

• Darcy Canning Year 8 has been given the opportunity to exhibit her amazing art at the Foxton Art Gallery on the 17^th, 18^th and 19^th November. For full details please go to www.foxtonart.org.  Darcy’s artwork will be on sale together with printed cards.  Her entry has been sponsored by The MindEd Trust and all monies raised with go back to the charity to further assist others.  D’arcy will also be showing at The Plough in Shepreth early next year. Look out for further details.

 

• On Tuesday I attended a meeting in London for all schools involved in the national Mandarin Excellence Programme. There are only 37 schools in this prestigious group at the forefront of expanding Mandarin teaching across the country. We discussed pedagogy, made links with other schools and began planning for additional experiences for our Yr7 MEP class next Summer as part of an intensive learning week. They have made an excellent start so far, as indeed have all the Mandarin classes.  

 

 

 

 

Have a good weekend.

 

Simon Holmes

Principal

 

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