Dear Families, Friends, Students and Staff.
What a day it's been, never mind the week! From charity prefect Issy's cake sale for Macmillan Cancer Support, to singer/songwriter Natalie Shay's afternoon performance, we've covered all bases today. Whether baking or buying cakes, or swaying to the tunes (we say you Year 11) the atmosphere in school today was electric. Do ask your young person what their take home message today was. We hope to have more events like that if the students enjoyed it.
In other news I have taken great joy from watching students in our new playground shelter, which went up this week. It's also an opportunity for me to thank everyone who made our Open Morning such a success last week. A lot of unseen work goes into Open Morning and I don't under estimate how much time it takes. I am always ever grateful.
All that remains for me to say is enjoy the weekend. See you on the other side.
Mrs Rich – Head.
Students of the week.
Year 7
Great knowledge of Spanish numbers from Sylvie.
Beautiful, expressive reading of ‘Anne Frank - The diary of a Young Girl’ by Brooke in Literacy 1:1.
Excellent work in ICT on their 'About me' presentations - particularly Ella, Arya and Sein.
Lovely writing by Aurelia in Literacy 1:1.
Noah for his outstanding focus and work in the Wellbeing lesson.
Year 8
Excellent reading and spelling from Lexi in her Literacy 1:1.
Great listening skills from Alex in Spanish.
Sophie M and Hattie for outstanding focus and hard work in their Biology lesson.
Sophia M for active participation in the group work with Ms Chorazyczewska.
Oliver S for his hard work and progress with reading.
Great work in the coding club from Danai with his flags of Europe coding activity.
Congratulations to Alex for scoring full marks on the science test this week. Well done, Alex - keep up the amazing work!
Excellent writing by Sofia M and Hattie in Literacy 1:1 - well done!
Year 9
Excellent work in English from Alfie and Lysander this week.
Well done to Rosie and Marley for achieving the highest scores in the science test. Keep up the excellent performance.
Carl and Lysander for being helpful in PSHE.
Great writing by Marley in Literacy 1:1. Fantastic effort.
Excellent work in ICT on Python coding, especially to Issy for showing resilience when debugging her code, and to Carl for going beyond in his extension work - very inventive.
Year 10
Francesca and Lloyd for excellent work in Spanish writing.
Alfie for his consistency and steady progress in reaching a personal goal.
Outstanding work to crack alpha and beta decay equations by Lloyd, Sophie, Layla, Evan and Sam in Physics this week.
Excellent work in ICT from Layla and Sam. Extra well done to Sam for his research on AI as an extension task.
Year 11
Sam for offering a helping hand to sort out the charity board ahead of last week's Open Morning - he had lots of creative ideas. Well done, Sam.
Great team work by Reenie, Logan and Kit during their science lesson activities.
Excellent work in Business on quality control and assurance from Matt, Hugo and Josh. A special mention for Matt for demonstrating sustained focus and completing all the tasks before everyone else. Well done!
Sixth Form
An excellent ‘DIY’ case study in Travel and Tourism from Layla, looking at the problems faced by Thomas Cook and why they went out of business.
Great work from Flora in PSHE demonstrating a good understanding of how to recognise and challenge prejudice and discrimination and understand rights and responsibilities with regard to inclusion.
Upcoming dates for your diary.
Monday 7th October - Meet the teacher for Year 7 parents/carers and parents/carers of any other student who has joined us this school year. In the School Hall, 6-8pm.
Tuesday 15th to Friday 18th October - School trip to Malaga, for those students signed up.
Friday 18th October - Break up for October half term (two weeks).
Monday 4th November - Return to school, 08.10am.
Singer/songwriter Natalie has a captive audience.
Well who knew? Singer songwriter Natalie Shay came into school this afternoon and had a completely captive audience. Her hour long presentation was peppered with songs she has written, a Taylor Swift cover, stories of resilience and how to shake off bad vibes. Her passion for her music shone through and was completely infectious. Great stuff Natalie - it was a brilliant way to end the week.
Thank you so much everyone.
Thank you to all our students who came into school last Saturday morning to showcase the very best of Canbury at our annual Open Morning. The feedback we had from our visitors was that you were ALL the very best ambassadors for our school.
Macmillan Cancer Support cake sale deemed a delicious success.
Nothing beats a cake sale to bring everyone out in an orderly line! Today was no different as the photos below show. Our Macmillan Cancer Support event was a runaway success. From the many delicious cake donations to the generous financial ones, we left school today on a bit of a (sugar) high! Three cheers for everyone for getting behind charity prefect Issy, who can be seen here alongside Mrs Rich and Miss Buchanan selling cakes at break time. (Mr Rush also did his bit, but was banned from handling the goods as his rugby hands were too big for the food gloves!).
We don't know the final amount raised yet, as we are waiting for a final reckoning, but we know it's more than £300, which for a school of just 76 students is absolutely awesome.
Roll up roll up, it's House Competition time.
Speak now....
What do you like about the curriculum your child is studying? What do you think could make it better? What do you think doesn’t work? Well now you have a chance to have your say, with the launch of a Government review of the curriculum and its assessment process. Parents and carers are invited to have their say so please do tell the education experts your thoughts. The ‘call for evidence’ closes on 22 November, but don’t leave it until then. Visit HERE to have your say.
Our new shelter - we love it.
This week saw another addition to the lovely spaces here at school. Here's our new playground shelter, bought with money raised at this summer's garden party. It will provide shelter in rainy times and sunny ones - so that's where your money went!