Events Coming Up
MARCH
27th Rwanda Evening of Entertainment and Food (info below)
19th & 20th Gym and Dance Show
24th Year 9 Trip to Applemore
25th Year 3 students on Roman Day
26th Dance Exam task 2
26th GCSE Art exam
26th Year 9 Progress evening
27th & 28th Year 11 Art Exam
31st Senior prefect Interviews
31st Year 7 & 11 School Photos
APRIL
1st Hamilton Trip
2nd Senior prefect interviews
2nd Careers Day
3rd Spring Concert at 6pm
4th Wear Something different day
Message from the Leadership Team
Dear Noadswood families,
We wrote last week about all the opportunities on offer for Year 10; we’ve loved keeping you all up to date via our social platforms about the Iceland Trip. We will write more about this in our half termly newsletter, but we’re so pleased to be able to offer this brilliant enrichment trip. We’d like to say a huge thanks to Miss Skinner, Mr Wilkinson, Mrs Way, Mr Cox and Mrs White who have led and supported on this trip so brilliantly.
As we transition into the spring term, we want to take a moment to express our immense pride in our Year 11 students for their exemplary conduct during the recent March mock examinations. We recognise that this is a significant time for our students, and we are here to support them every step of the way. We encourage all families to maintain open lines of communication with their child’s teachers or year team. If you have any questions or concerns regarding your child’s progress or well-being, please do not hesitate to reach out. We are committed to providing the best possible support and guidance to our students, and we value your partnership in this journey. Your involvement plays a crucial role in fostering this supportive atmosphere.
We wrote last week about our term dates for the academic year, these are all now live here: https://www.noadswood.hants.sch.uk/term-dates
Key dates for your diary:
INSET 1- Wednesday 3rd September 2025
INSET 2- Friday 26th September 2025
INSET 3- Monday 8th December 2025
INSET 4- Friday 13th February 2026
INSET 5- Monday 9th March 2026
INSET 6- Tuesday 5th May 2026
Open Events
Noadswood will close early on Thursday 25/09/2025 to allow for preparation of the Open Evening. Students will leave site by around 12.30pm. More details about the specific logistics will be released closer to the time.
Best wishes,
Kathryn Marshall and the Noadswood Leadership Team
Rwanda evening of Entertainment and Food
Our 13 students are practicing hard to learn their dance routine to show you on Thursday 27th March from 6-8pm all in aid to raise funds so that they can purchase sporting equipment for our link school along with basic English reading and writing resources. The choir are sounding incredible with a song from Rwanda. Come along to listen and watch the hard work the students are doing and then join us for a game of bingo with a twist.
Tickets to purchase food must be made by 4pm on Monday 17th March whereas tickets for entry only can be bought right up until the day itself.
Tickets will be available from the Finance office W/C Monday 24th March.
Awesome Alumni
After completing my PhD in Neurodegenerative Diseases, I moved to Phoenix, Arizona, USA to pursue a career in scientific research. I am now an Assistant Professor, and my research focuses on the cellular & molecular causes of dementia and other related neurodegenerative diseases. I first fell in love with science at Noadswood and know that the education I received at Noadswood was invaluable to where I am today.
Pi Day 2025
Happy Pi Day!
March has arrived and that can only mean one thing in the maths department – Pi Day!
Pi Day is celebrated on March 14th (3/14) around the world. Pi (Greek letter “π”) is the symbol used in mathematics to represent a constant — the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter — which is approximately 3.14159. This remarkable number has an infinite number of decimals with no repeating pattern, which is hard to get your head around. In fact, Pi has been calculated to over one trillion digits beyond its decimal point.
Help celebrate by baking a cake or pie and bring it in to school on Monday 17th March.
Create a cake or pie within the following boundaries:
● It must be hand made by you, not shop bought and then iced. (You may buy icing)
● It must include either the symbol for pi (π) or at the least the first 3 digits of pi (3.14)
● It must be in a labelled tin or box (with lid) containing the label that your maths teacher has with the reverse fully completed.
Cakes will be judged based on appearance, mathematical content and taste.
Search for ideas by looking for “pi day cakes”.
Get planning and preparing!