Dear Families, Friends, Students and Staff.
How on earth have we arrived at Friday? It seems like five minutes ago that I was saying this!
As always it's been a busy week at Canbury. Miss O'Riordan is making a giant turkey, Mr Brinkmanis is planning a trip to Kew Gardens, Ms Boyle is gently coaching her Maths Mocks students to keep on working hard and Mr Barnes has been helping everyone run off their energy running cross country. You name it, we've been doing it.
It was lovely to see such a great turn out from students and parents/carers on Wednesday at our Options Evening. Meeting in person is something I certainly took for granted pre-pandemic. Now I really do appreciate it, and I feel you all did too.
We had a lovely day today supporting BBC Children in Need. It's always good to think about others and look outwards rather than inwards. Thank you to everyone who supported this fundraising initiative.
All that remains for me to say is enjoy the weekend, and a gentle reminder that next Tuesday all students and staff will be having their photos taken. I can't wait to see everyone arrive in school super smart and with all the correct uniform!
Best wishes
Mrs Rich.
Acting Head.
Forthcoming dates for your diary.
Tuesday 21st November: Individual photographs of students and staff, from 9am. Full school uniform please.
Wednesday 22nd November: Y9 Progress Check Evening - 5-7pm, on-line.
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
Great discussion on balanced diets from Oliver in PSHE this week - and his ‘best ever sandwich’ sounded incredible!
Excellent participation from Josef, Olivia and Danai in Spanish.
Well done Lexi and Oliver for their fabulous spelling in literacy.
Well done to Sofia M, Layla and Hattie for winning the Geography Kahoot quiz this week.
Olivia for a fantastic run in cross country on Thursday.
Well done Danai - excellent reading in Literacy 1:1.
Tristan, Olivia, Archie, Lexi, Danai for producing brilliant and colourful posters in Graphics this week. Well done.
Year 8
Great work between Lysander, Mason and Alfie in Maths this week.
Well done Harry on your readiness and focus on the Science test this week.
Carl made an excellent science revision quiz for the whole class. Well done!
Lee, Mason and Isabella for being productive in the Wellbeing lesson.
Nico for representing the school at District Cross Country.
Alfie, Lysander, Lee, Marley, Mason, Nico for making a brilliant start to their animal eye painting in Art. Very creative. Brilliant.
Year 9
Really insightful and thoughtful discussion in English from Tori and Bethany on The Civil Rights Movement - well done!
Congratulations to Lloyd for winning the “Bit of a Legend” Platinum Trophy on Dr Frost this week.
Big 'thank you' to Tori for being so helpful at Options Evening on Wednesday night.
Excellent work and analysis from Mani and Lloyd in the global data science topic we were investigating in ICT this week. Also, a fantastic start made by Layla in ICT, who is new to Canbury.
Lloyd for representing the school at District Cross Country.
Francesca, Sophie, Layla and Tori for being focused all week in both Art and Graphics and for creating lovely artworks. Excellent effort.
Year 10
Really focused work on improving descriptive writing from Morgan in English this week.
Great work from Sam, Ethan and Hugo on their Maths topic tests this week - you passed with flying colours!
Thank you to Reenie, Judah, Brendan and Logan for all your help with the Christmas play props this week. The giant turkey is starting to look a bit like a turkey!
Well done to Judah for his accurate and detailed description of school in Spanish.
Excellent independent revision on Dr Frost for the upcoming GCSE Statistics mocks by Brendan.
An extremely impressive response to an exam style task in English Literature from Judah - his first go at this type of question and he absolutely smashed it!
Huge well done to Ethan, William, Judah, Matt, Hugo and Alex for achieving some great results on their first formal Geography assessment.
Excellent work done by Matt, Hugo, Josh and Alex on stakeholders in Business.
Matt and Hugo for representing the school at District Cross Country.
Brilliant effort from Reenie, Sam S, Morgan and Brendan in Photography. They could teach Mr Brinkmanis a trick or two!
Reenie and Ethan for working hard on their Art coursework. Keep up the good work.
Year 11
Thomas, Angus and Katya are really working hard in preparing for their mock exams in Science.
Great work from Layla, Angus and Katya writing about work experience in Spanish.
Excellent work from Louis in English this week.
Layla for being independent and working hard in preparation for her Art mock exam. Well done.
Fantastic work on the quality of goods and services in Business from Ollie and Louis.
Layla for being sociable and chatty during lunch breaks.
Louis, Thomas, Lucas, Rose and Freddie for doing excellent preparation work for their upcoming Photography mock exam. Well done and good luck on Monday. You will be brilliant!
Sixth Form
Excellent work on descriptive writing in English from Rhiannon this week - absolutely brilliant.
Great response to an exam style question from Issy in English Literature this week.
Excellent work from Alannah and Matthew on the personal finance unit in Business this week.
Pacman to the rescue!
Year 7 students continued their recent focus on finding their way around maps this week (you just never know when you might still need one).
They've been looking at four figure grid references and started to look at six figure ones too. As you can see, they had some help with this in the form of Pacman - look how colourful they all are! Great work Year 7.
Cross Country Heroes.
We sent four students to compete at District Cross Country on Thursday this week at Tiffin School, writes Mr Barnes. Nico and Lloyd competed in the Junior Boys event and Matt and Hugo ran in the Intermediate Boys event. All the boys did fantastically well, with all of them finishing in the top half of their fields. Hugo and Matt came 16 and 18 respectively out of 45 runners, and Lloyd and Nico came 15 and 25 in a huge field of 55 runners.
Well done to our runners, they really gave it their all - as you can tell from the grimaces on their faces above!
Sixth Formers preparing for the next stage.
All the 6th From are really excited about attending the Surrey Festival of Skills next week. The festival focuses on careers education. The students will have the opportunity to meet business, further education colleges and apprenticeship providers. We're looking forward to hearing all about it on their return.
Options, options - so many to consider.
Toothpaste, tea bags and maybe some chocolate??
With the nights drawing in, and the temperature finally dropping, we are turning our thoughts to how we can help others. Next Friday we will be launching our monthly collection for Kingston Food Bank. We are asking students and staff to bring in one (or more) items of food, or other products, suitable for donating to our local foodbank. We appreciate that everyone is feeling the pinch, so please do not feel under pressure to donate. However all items will be gratefully received and will be put to excellent use.
We will be collecting all items at our Friday assembly. Suitable items include toothpaste, biscuits, baked beans, rice, toiletries, breakfast cereals and stock cubes. These are just suggestions.
Children in Need
Thank you to everyone who donated to our Children in Need day today. Students enjoyed wearing their own clothes to school. We had to search out the 'spotty accessories' which were a little thin on the ground - but we did see some! At the time of writing we had raised a heart-warming £88. There's still time to donate if you wish. Here's the link Thank you.
Be kind - what does that actually look like?
We hear the term 'be kind' so often now that it's easy to pay it no attention whatsoever. So this week we tried to be mindfully kind, and really made an effort to put this idea into practice. Students were given 'caught being kind' slips where appropriate - something as simple as opening a door for people, asking how they were or checking in on a friend were all rewarded. In addition students learned about the 'Science of Kindness' in the Wellbeing lessons. Did you know there are scientifically proven benefits of being kind? Kindness increases: energy, lifespan, levels of serotonin and oxytocin. It also decreases stress, anxiety and even blood pressure! So really, what's not to love?
Now all we need to do is keep up the good work and play a spot of kindess bingo - see below. Alternatively, head over to the Random Acts of Kindness website for more ideas.