Dear Families, Friends, Students and Staff.
This is the penultimate Newsletter of the school year. Where on earth has it gone? This week has felt even more busy than usual, if that is possible! The final completed public exam has been collected today and the builders have moved on site to begin work on our extension which will give us some much needed extra teaching space in September. Exciting times.
It was very pleasant to see so many of our parents and families this week at our annual Garden Party and the photos below give a flavour of what a happy time we all had. We are just counting out the money raised and School council members will have a discussion in September about what they would like to spend it on.
Elsewhere students have been to see the theatre phenomenon 'Hamilton', learned how to be safe when doing water sports, parents attended a meeting about the forth-coming Malaga visit in October and we welcomed new student Elizabeth into Year 7. You've got to admit - we really do like to mix things up here at Canbury.
Enjoy the weekend and see you next Monday morning for the last week. Bring it on, we're ready!
Mrs Rich – Head.
Upcoming dates for your diary.
Monday 1st July - School Talent Show, in school in the morning.
Monday 1st July - Sports Day, 12 - 3pm, Kingsmeadow. All welcome.
Wednesday 3rd July - Whole School Activity Day - Thorpe Park or Richmond Park.
Friday 5th July - Prize Giving & break up for the summer holiday - 12 noon.
Students of the week.
Year 7
Congratulations to you all for their achievements in the RS exam. Oliver, Olivia and Josef did exceptionally well.
Well done to Oliver, Layla and Eloise for their end of year ICT exam results.
Our students were a credit to Canbury at the mosque this week. They listened, asked questions and showed respect at all times. Well done.
Sofia M for an exceptional catch during rounders in Games, helping her team to victory.
Year 8
Congratulations to all Year 8 for their achievements in the RS exam. Special mention to Lysander, Mason, Isla and Benjamin.
Well done to Eric, Lysander and Benjamin for achieving brilliant marks in their end of year ICT exam.
Carl for a fantastic presentation in Science on rock - Ms Anjum thinks he would also make a good newsreader "as he was very articulate".
Well done to Theo for working hard on the reading comprehension and asking thoughtful questions in English.
Great test result in Spanish for Harry…..buen trabajo!
Well done to Remi, Alfie, Carl, Lysander, Mason, Ryan and Marley for amazing Science presentations.
Year 9
Bethany for contributing great ideas about mental health in PSHE and what people can do to improve their mental health.
Bethany for her contribution to discussions in Social Group each week.
Thank you to Logan (Y10), Lloyd and Mani for volunteering so willingly to help carry the delicious samosas into school.
Thank you to Layla, Bethany and Sophie for their decorating skills on the Garden Party samosa stall yesterday.
Bethany and Sam for coming top of the class in their end of year ICT exam.
Year 10
Josh for an excellent result in his end of year business studies exam.
Well done to Matt, Judah and Sam for completing their Spanish speaking exam.
Garden Party is a joyous, if scorchingly hot, affair!
Our Garden Party was such a happy affair on Wednesday evening. For once there was absolutely no rain! It was a very lovely evening with parents, staff and students mingling happily in the playground, whilst enjoying a delicious hog roast and a chilled glass of wine.
Alongside the bottle tombola, the ping pong challenge, face painting, Logan's disco and the mystery sock lucky dip, we had a tremendous array of prizes and experiences to be won in the grand raffle. Our thanks to those very generous people who were able to donate prizes, each and every one of which was won by an excited and appreciative recipient!
Mrs Burke bows out with a cultural visit for her Year 7s.
We said 'goodbye' to Mrs Burke yesterday, who leaves us after seven years at Canbury. Mrs Burke has worn many hats during her time with us, teaching English at one stage and latterly Religious Studies, alongside her literacy intervention 1:1 sessions. As Mrs Rich said, "the students and we will miss your calm and steady teaching style and the wealth of knowledge and experience following 45 years working in the education sector." For her parting words, Mrs Burke, a former Head Teacher, shared with staff that she is off to use her 'retirement' volunteering, helping care for her beloved grandchildren, and developing her dyslexia and dyscalculia tutoring. She is going to be one busy lady, and we wish her all the very best for the future.
Meanwhile, Year 7 had a wonderful afternoon visiting the Baitul Futuh Mosque in Morden, which is the largest mosque complex in the UK, writes Mrs Burke. There are a number of prayer halls and large rooms for community events, such as educational talks, banquets and even sports competitions. We were all impressed by the beautiful marble buildings, which kept us cool on a very hot day, and the amount of charity work undertaken by the Muslim community.
Our favourite part of the visit was checking the sound-proofing in the new babies and toddlers section next to the prayer hall. The trip was rounded off by Mr Hogan and Mr Goodyear singing along to Arctic Monkey tracks - they have their music far too loud!
Builders and Actors work alongside each other.
We happened upon Miss O'Riordan's Y7 drama class this morning. Above the din of the builders, she got her thespians giving their all in the fresh air. Don't you just love the 'can do' attitude at Canbury?
Watch out Ms Boyle!
Year 10 had a guest teacher and LSA for their Maths lesson on Wednesday morning when Matt and Brendan introduced the class to Cumulative Frequency Curves and how to use them to find the Median and InterQuartile Range.
All the students were focused throughout as Matt and Brendan went through the resources they had prepared for the lesson.
No cause for alarm.
Your charity prefect needs YOU!
Newly appointed Charity Prefect Issy in Year 8 is looking for recruits to her squad. Busy Issy wants to get the Canbury charitable works up and running but she has big shoes to fill, replacing Reenie, so please step forward to help. Search out Issy within school and help her start the charity ball rolling for September. Ideas and suggestions very welcome.
Ahoy! Buoy in the water......
Today Year 10 students were lucky enough to go down to Albany Outdoors Centre, writes Mr Barnes, to take part in a practical water safety session on the River Thames. Students were taught how to stay safe by the river, what to do if they ever got into trouble in water and how to help from land if somebody is struggling in the water.
It was an eye-opening and brilliant experience for our students; they learnt lots of real world, practical safety skills. They got to jump into the water too, which after this week's mini heatwave was welcome relief indeed!
Canbury footballers show tremendous teamwork.
Last week Canbury had the pleasure of participating in the London Para Youth Games at Gunnersbury Park, where four of our players represented the Royal Borough of Kingston. Our students, pictured below, combined with some others from St Philips to represent the Borough, performing really well in all of our matches, writes Mr Temple.
It was an interesting challenge playing alongside players against whom we usually compete, but our boys integrated superbly and showed fantastic combination play with their new teammates. In the end, Kingston’s team was a bit unlucky with the results. We played better than most of the opposition we faced, but unfortunately we could not capitalise on our chances. We are really still really proud Kingston finished the tournament in a respectable 11th place.
Prospective Canbury students paid us a visit last week.
Absolutely no reason to be bored....
Saturday netball sessions - including one free taster session, starting Autumn term. Discount code and one free taster session available.
Tween Tribe Holiday Club - summer holiday camps for 10 - 13 year olds. Discount code, Twickenham and Richmond.