Dear Families, Friends, Students and Staff.
There is only one thing I can think of to begin this week's Newsletter with, and it is this: three huge cheers for Year 11 student Logan who led our assembly today. Yes, you read that right. Logan led the school assembly on a roller coaster ride about his favourite passion - movies!
Indeed such was his passion for his meticulously researched presentation that he held the school in the palm of his hand and you could hear a pin drop. Students listened, put up their hands, answered questions, joined in clearly and were hooked. I was so impressed and heartened - both by Logan's amazing job and everyone else's support. I saw Canbury values of respect, support, achievement and being inclusive. Boom.
Enjoy the weekend.
Best wishes.
Mrs Rich – Head.
Upcoming dates for your diary.
Thursday 27th November - Yr9 Progress check and Options Evening - in person at school, 5pm to 7pm.
Wednesday 4th December: Yr7 & 8 to The Rose Theatre Christmas Show, out all afternoon. Late return to school.
Thursday 5th December: School Christmas Show. All parents/carers invited. 6pm to 7.30pm.
Monday 9th December: Christmas-themed lunch boxes! Pack a festive lunch.
Tuesday 10th December: Whole School trip to Hampton Court ice skating. All afternoon. Christmas activities in school if your child not ice skating.
Friday 13th December: Christmas jumpers day in aid of 'Save the Children'. Break up for Christmas, midday finish.
Students of the week.
Year 7
Emerson, Neve and Ella for their focus and engagement in a ‘Thoughts are like bubbles’ mediation in group work with Ms Chorazyczewska.
Excellent contribution from Miah, Ella and Aurelia today in Spanish.
Well done to Ella who came top in the class in the recent half term test in ICT, followed by Noah and Mia. Excellent work!
Year 8
Sophie B for her active participation, and Alex for his in depth reflection during check-in, in the Wellbeing lesson.
Eloise for being supportive of friends and taking time out of lunch to help Lexi understanding how to solve equations
Elizabeth for her lovely writing about her recent Paris trip in her 1:1 literacy session with Mrs Cowlam.
Amazing work done by Elizabeth, Olivia, Alex and Sofia B in Science.
Well done to Olivia who came top of the class in the recent half term test in ICT, followed by Archie, Layla and Josef. Excellent work!
Fantastic focus and beautiful algebraic solutions from Elizabeth, Danai, Eloise, Oliver, Hattie, Alex, Archie, Layla, Jerusha, Olivia and Tristan, whilst solving linear equations in Maths this week
Year 9
Well done Issy for achieving the highest scores in the latest Science test. Keep it up.
Well done to Benjamin who came top of the class in the recent half term test in ICT, followed by Alfie and Remi. Brilliant stuff.
Excellent participation in Spanish this week from Paco aka Nico. Muy bien!
Great focus and mathematical substitution skills shown by Lee, Carl, Marley, Ryan and Theo as they tried to identify the famous person from history. The clues they worked out were African, Civil Rights, President and Prisoner. Can you guess who it was they were identifying?
Year 10
Alfie for his excellent start working on achieving a personal goal this week.
Finn for his fantastic descriptive writing in his 1:1 Literacy session with Mrs Cowlam.
Well done to Bethany and Sam for achieving the highest grades in the recent Physics test. Keep it up.
Excellent written answers from Lloyd, Mani and Francesca in Spanish today when describing their recent holidays. They really are a joy to teach, says Mrs Porter.
Congratulations to Layla who came top of the class in the recent half term test in Business, followed by Sam and Bethany. Excellent work from you all.
Well done to Sam who came top in the class in the recent half term test in ICT, Excellent work!
Excellent work from Sophie in GCSE Statistics whilst designing suitable data collection methods.
Fabulous effort and collaboration from mathematicians Sam, Sophie, Evan.
Year 11
Well done to Eliot for working hard and making some excellent contributions to English lessons this week.
Well done to Hugo who came top in the class in the recent half term test, followed by Josh and Matt. Excellent work!
Well done to Brendan who came top in the class in the recent half term test in ICT. Excellent work!
Well done to Josh for passing on a very important message in Spanish to Senora Porter at lunchtime!
Well done Reenie and Logan for achieving highest score in the latest science test.
Sixth Form
Well done to Rhiannon and Lakshmi for demonstrating Canbury values last week, in this case…resilience. We are very proud of you both.
Working hard in the great outdoors.
Photography students enjoyed a chilly visit to Kew Gardens on Wednesday. As usual they behaved impeccably, delighting Mr Brinkmanis, Mrs Davies and Mr Hogan with their attitude towards their work. They spotted wildlife from very nearby (see the fox) and wondered at bananas growing in the green house. All in all a brilliant day was had by all, and some fabulous photographs were captured for their portfolios.
Pop, Crackle and Snap - fiery work in the Canbury Laboratory.
Mr Rush led a stupendous Science lesson this morning for Year 8 students. Ensuring they were behind the safety screen and wearing their goggles, he set about acting like a real scientist, setting fire to things and creating explosions. By the look on their faces (can you spot Lexi?) they were all desperate to have a go. Nice one Year 8.
Festive jumper alert - have you got yours?
Charity prefect Issy has designed and circulated this lovely poster. We will be raising money for Save the Children on the last day of term. For a suggested donation of £1 to £2 you may come to school either in full Christmas mufti or team a Christmas jumper with the rest of your school uniform - the choice is yours. If you don't have a Christmas jumper, then whatever you feel comfortable in is just fine too. Usual rules apply though - if your mufti is deemed unsuitable for school (too rude, too sparse, too much) it will be swapped for suitable items from the lost uniform box.......
Roll up, roll up, it's the great Canbury Art Gallery.
We've seen some fantastically varied work from GCSE students Eliot, Evan and Reenie this week. Scroll down to see what gloriously inventive work they came up with. We're wondering if we could set up a pop up Art shop - we think we'd have a few buyers!
Largest-ever Canbury Cross Country team get on with the job - and step forward Olivia!
Writes Mr Barnes: "On Thursday morning this week our cross country team battled the freezing cold weather (and mud!) at the annual district cross country competition at Tiffin. It’s the largest team we’ve ever taken to district cross country and the students showed great resilience in the face of inclement weather and stiff competition. A special mention should go to Nico and Olivia. Nico for running a great race and also being so supportive of his team mates, and Olivia for mastering her pre-race nerves and performing fantastically. Olivia is also the first girl in recent memory to participate in district cross country."
Flora's off to pastures new - but not until next September!
Three cheers for Sixth Former Flora, who will leave Canbury next summer to take up a residential course at Fortune College in the New Forest. Read on for Flora's account of what a brilliant time she had and what a great future lies ahead for her.
Earlier this month I went down to the New Forest for a residential assessment at Fortune College for three days. Fortune College is an equine centre that helps young adults use their love and interests as a motivation to learn about horsemastership and bring confidence to ride and vault on a horse. Fortune college has two sites for students to stay if they are on the residential course. I was staying at Wootton Hall farm which is the main site for residential students. The other site is on the main college site at Avon Tyrrell which provides second and third year students the chance to live independently, but with the support of staff.
On the first and second days I completed a number of yard based learning tasks involving a private riding lesson and a group lesson. These two days I was asked to groom a horse, sweep the yard, clean the grooming kit, feed the horses, turn out the horses, muckout, clean the tack, and hay down the field. I was able to go swimming on Wednesday evening at a local leisure centre.
On the last day it was my group's turn to do money management day. This provides the chance to go to a nearby town. We planned our journey and what to buy. We had to travel by the mini bus to the train station and to the next stop. At the end of the day we got a drink at a coffee shop before we left to go back to Wootton Hall farm. I met my mum back at the college site and was over the moon to have a place for next year.
My favourite things I did would be going horse riding, helping the horses and going swimming. I am really excited about next year because I get to learn about my favourite animals and ride the horses and learn how to do vaulting.
Christmas Tree Discount Code - get yours here.
The Canbury School Christmas tree is arriving on Monday! We're sooooo excited. We have to go early, as we will break up on 13th December. When you're ready for your tree, don't forget to use the discount code we have ben given from Pines and Needles.
Our local pop up store is located in Kingston at: The Hawker Centre, Lower Ham Road, Kingston upon Thames, KT2 5BH. Further details (including the location of numerous other pop up stores) can be found at www.pinesandneedles.com Use discount code SCHOOL10.