Dear Families, Friends, Students and Staff.
We were over whelmed today with the huge generosity shown by our students and staff who brought in bag upon bag of donations for 'Food Bank Friday', our new monthly drive to donate goods to our local food bank, and which helps our most vulnerable neighbours. 'Thank you' doesn't really do it justice - but please know we are very grateful, as is the food bank. Every tin, every packet, every bottle will go to, and be used by, someone very deserving.
We welcomed our School photographer into the building on Tuesday, which brought out the usual response from students and staff. Some were delighted to step in front of the lens, some, not quite so! We do now have up to date photographs of most of our students and the order slips should have come home to you via your child.
It's been a particularly busy week for our sporting students, our arty ones and our older ones. Our younger dodgeball competitors returned to school victorious, our photographic students enjoyed a visit to Kew Gardens today and our older Year 11s and Sixth Formers attended the Surrey Festival of Skills yesterday. Read on to find out what they were all getting up to. As always, thanks to staff who go the extra mile every day to make these extra events happen.
Finally a gentle reminder that beginning on Monday for two weeks we have Mock exams for Years 11 and Sixth Form. Everyone was reminded at assembly today about the need to move quietly about the building and with consideration for those in the exams, especially since some of them run into break times. We wish our exam students a peaceful weekend, not only revising but also sleeping, eating well and taking regular breaks. All will be well in the end.
Best wishes
Mrs Rich.
Acting Head.
Forthcoming dates for your diary.
Monday 27th November - Friday 8th December - Mock examinations for Y11 and Y13.
Wednesday 6th December - Whole school visit to Hampton Court ice rink.
Thursday 7th December - Canbury Christmas show. All welcome. 6-9pm.
Wednesday 13th December - Break up, 12 noon.
Students of the week.
Year 7
Positive contributions from Sofia B and Olivia in Spanish this week.
Great reading from Lexi in English.
The whole of Year 7 for exceptional listening and sensitive engagement with our topic of anti-semitism in Religious Sudies this week
Super work from Eloise when finding the mean in Maths last week and for earning a gold medal on IXL. Many congratulations.
Congratulations to Olivia for scoring 200 points on Dr Frost Maths this week.
Lexi, Layla and Danai for their thoughtful contributions when playing the social and emotional competence game in the group with Ms Chorazyczewska.
Well done to Danai for his hard work understanding inference in his Literacy 1:1 lesson this week.
Mrs Rich says how wonderful it was to pop in and see how hard Oliver and Lexi were working in a literacy lesson this week.
Year 8
Enthusiastic participation from Lysander and Mason in Spanish this week.
Many congratulations to Harry for taking part in travel training with such enthusiasm.
Well done to Eric for his excellent contribution in Games recently.
Great contribution and thoughtful responses from both Year 8 Social Skills Groups this week.
Great pair work from Mason and Alfie - and insightful contributions to class discussion from Lee and Isabella - in PSHE this week.
Lee, Rosie and Isabella for their outstanding and detailed work on the Kindness Matrix.
Excellent consideration and thoughtfulness of others shown by everyone in Year 8 in Wednesday afternoon’s Maths lesson when Miss Boyle had very little voice.
Congratulations to Lysander for scoring more than 250 points on Dr Frost Maths this week.
Well done to Alfie, excellent touch typing in this week’s Literacy 1:1.
Year 9
Great work from Bethany and Sophie in English this week.
Well done to Bethany and Mani for scoring the highest marks in the Chemistry test .
Congratulations to Theo for being the top scoring Year 9 student on Dr Frost Maths.
Lloyd for winning inter-house KS3 cross country.
Evan for joining the sub eight-minute club in cross country this week.
Year 10
Well done to Judah for being organised and prepared in Spanish this week.
Well Done to Reenie for achieving 100% in the science test.
Another excellent response from Judah to an English Literature practice task.
Congratulations to Ethan for scoring more than 250 points on Dr Frost Maths this week.
Year 11
Wonderful work from Layla in Spanish this week.
Outstanding scores in Science practice tests by Layla, Chloe and Lucas.
Excellent mock preparation in Maths this week by Ollie.
Sixth Form
Flora broke her personal record in climbing last week. What a fantastic achievement!
An excellent response from Issy to another English Literature practice task. Keep it up.
Phoebe deserves recognition for the effort she has been putting into revising for her Statistics mocks next week, achieving a “Feel-o the Kilo” Gold Trophy on Dr Frost.
Well done to Matthew for an excellent result on his 'Moments' quick question quiz in 'A' level Maths this week.
Real snake or robotic dog? The choice was yours.
Robotic dogs, live snakes, or virtual reality head sets - whatever your interest, there was something to suit our Year 11 and Sixth Form students at the Surrey Festival of Skills at Sandown Park yesterday.
Tick tock - having fun with a clock.
We simple love these brilliant posters created by Year 8 students Issy and Rosie. The detail in them is amazing. If you need to brush up on your time-telling skills, then look no further. Well done!
Anti bullying ambassadors - well done team.
Anti-Bullying ambassadors Flora, Rory, Carl and Logan did a fantastic job teaming up with Reenie, our Charity Prefect, to raise awareness for BBC Children in Need in their assembly last Friday. They supported one another brilliantly and really demonstrated this year’s theme, which was a focus on positive relationships. Better still, we raised a total of £183.25 for the charity. Winner winner, chicken dinner! Well done, you positive people.
Home made cake to go wild for? Yes please!
Get your best Mary Berry baking head on and thrill your Canbury peers with your prowess in the kitchen. Next Friday our fabulous Eco team (Alannah, Josh, Bethany, Matthew A and Phoebe) are hosting a cake bake and sale for Rewilding Britain. This organisation supports a growing movement of rewilding practitioners across Britain, wherever they are in their journey to restore nature. Challenging decision makers and landowners to change laws, policies and practice to allow rewilding to restore our land and seas, these people are busy shakers and changers . Money raised at the sale will go to this cause, so please get baking and thinking what NUT-FREE cake(s) or cookies you can bring into school. The extra cherry on the cake (see what we did there?) is that the Eco team has asked everything is home-baked, thereby cutting down on the plastic involved in your support. Every little helps.
Dodge ballers dodge defeat to emerge victorious second year in a row!
On Monday we took the KS3 Dodgeball team down to the Guildford Spectrum for the annual SSSSA Dodgeball competition. After winning the tournament last year, expectations were high, and I’m pleased to report that our team did not disappoint. Competing against 15 other schools, our students dodged, ducked, dipped, dived and dodged to win the tournament for a second successive year!
We were unbeaten on the day, with our students showing great teamwork, togetherness and sportsmanship. Well done to all involved, and good luck to the Year 10 team next week. KS3 Dodgeball Team: Remi, Mason, Lysander, Marley, Alfie, Lloyd, Theo, Evan, Mani and Nico.
Games timetable - until December 2023.
Thank you so much!
Students need to get their sorting hats on next week! Mr Fairbrass is all tee'd up to deliver the first consignment of the 'Food bank Friday' donations, but before he does so, we will need to pack up the food and load up the mini-bus. The Kingston sorting depot is all ready for our visit next Wednesday, so there is still time to donate before then. The next 'Food bank Friday' will be on Friday 26th January 2024. We'll remind you nearer the time!