11th Feb - 1st Mar 2013

What’s on this fortnight?

11th Feb - Parents’ Forum 12th Feb - Year 8 Achievement Assembly (P1) 13th Feb - Year 9 Subject Evening 14th Feb - Dance Trip - The Ballet Rambert 15th Feb - Year 7 Group Photos 15th Feb - Year 11 Non-Uniform Day Half Term 25th Feb - Year 8 Camp Information Evening 28th Feb - Year 10 Subject Evening 1st Mar - Key Stage 1 Football Tournament

Year 8 Camp 2013

For the second year in a row, we will be offering Year 8 students the opportunity to joins us for an exciting out-door activities camp in Wales. The camp will take place Sunday 14th July - Friday 19th July at Llangors Lake, Brecon Beacons.

We are offering Year 8 students the opportunity to ex-perience a number of outdoor activities around the banks of Llangors Lake. Students will be able to turn their hands to canoeing, caving (in the famous Dan yr Ogof caves), kayaking, gorge walking, hiking, climbing at the award-winning Llangors Rope Centre, various outdoor activities and a full evening programme. The students will get the full camping experience sleeping in tents, with full facilities nearby including showers and a shop.

Cost: £350 to include travel, accommodation, food, all equipment, and instruction by qualified staff.

If you are interested, an information evening for stu-dents and parents will be held on 25th February at 6pm in the Cavendish School Hall.

Exam Timetable

28th Feb - Maths Exam

Year 9 Subject Evening

All parents and carers of Year 9 students are invited to a subject evening on 13th February in order that we can keep you updated on your child’s progress in various subjects. This year we are trialling an internet booking system and asking parents to make appointments, o n - l i n e , u s i n g t h e l i n k ( h t t p s : / /cavendishschool.parentseveningsystem.co.uk) provided on our website. Any parents without access to the inter-net should contact tutors or Mr. Carville, and appoint-ments will be arranged for them. If a student is unable to make an appointment, please contact the teacher di-rectly (email addresses can be obtained through the School Website – About us – School Contacts).

In addition to receiving an update on your child’s pro-gress, this Parents’ Evening will offer an opportunity to explore the options process with subject staff. Please feel free to ask about GCSE/BTEC course requirements or for details on courses not studied in Year 9, such as Informa-tion and Creative Technology, Performing Arts and Me-dia Studies.

Attendance Matters Thank you to all parents and carers for the sup-port that you have given in ensuring that stu-dents are in school. We are pleased to report that our attendance figures are continuing to improve. However, as we approach the end of term, we will take this opportunity to remind you that every day of school is important, and holi-days should be taken during holiday times.

Any attendance related issues should be di-rected to the Attendance Team who can be contacted by phone: 01323 731508.

Sporting Success

William Goodstone, a student from 8JDe, is the latest Cavendish School talent who has had the opportunity to showcase his skills at a national level, having been se-lected to represent Sussex in the English Table Tennis As-sociation County Championships 2012/13. William earned his place on the team by qualifying at the County Trials last year, and made his Sussex debut in De-cember.

For the past 3 years, William has attended weekly junior training at Hampden Park Sports Centre under the guid-ance of club coach Will Holt and plays for Cavendish A in the Eastbourne Table Tennis League. William also rep-resented Eastbourne last season in the National Cadet League, where he helped the team to finish runners up in their first campaign.

William’s skill and success as a player is clear, as he has recently been invited to train with the Regional Develop-ment Squad and competes in the National Junior League; he is coached twice a week by England no.13 Craig Bryant.

Art At Cavendish

This year Cavendish Art Department are asking all pu-pils in year 7– 9 to be part of the Annual School Art ex-hibition 2013 at the Towner Art Gallery. If your child is interested in Art and is able to work every Thursday evening after school on this Art project, please contact the Art Department. The theme this year is Portraits; exploring the idea of becoming someone else, of stepping into some-body’s shoes, or in fact stepping into an existing piece of art work and becoming the person in the portrait. It’s about what's inside the frame, putting one’s self into the picture- literally. Each school will be given a frame measuring 2.5 metres by 2 metres, and may use any media they wish includ-ing paint, charcoal, collage, montage, fabric, card-board relief, mosaic ,digital or ceramics. Once the work is completed, students will again visit The Towner to display their work.

Parents’ Forum

The next Parents' Forum Meeting will take place on Monday 11th February at 6pm, with a focus on Maths.

The all new innovative scheme of work for year 7 takes the pupils through all of the critical concepts that are fundamental to being competent at Mathematics and delivers them through open, project based tasks. The forum will give you the opportunity to explore these tasks and provide the opportunity to ask questions about the Year 7 Mathematics curriculum.

We hope you are able to attend. To reserve a space, please e-mail friends@cavendish.e-sussex.sch.uk

Cavendish In The News Courtesy of Eastbourne Herald

London 2012 bronze medallist Alex Danson visited Cavendish School to give mentoring sessions and pres-entations to students as part of Sky Sports Living for Sport programme, bringing her Olympic bronze medal with her. The Olympic star was part of the medal-winning Great Britain women’s hockey team and fin-ished the tournament joint-top scorer. She has been part of the sport programme for over four years which aims to encourage children to participate in all differ-ent sports at school. She said “Everything I’ve ever learnt has been on the sports field, so I want to give back.”

Cavendish School Mock Interview Day

On the 30th January 2013, business people from the local community came in to Cavendish School to give our year 11 students the opportunity to experience a mock interview in preparation for their real College or appren-ticeship interview.

Business people from; Stephen Rimmer Solicitors, Hays Education, Lloyds Bank, Sainsbury’s, Mark Bishop Ltd, Sup-ply Desk, Cobb PR, Identity, Army, The People Matter Trust, ASDA, Sussex Downs College and the Beachy Head Rotary club spent thirty minutes with each student, inter-viewing them about their post-16 choices and then giv-ing essential feedback on what students did well and how they could improve for the real thing. The success of the day and the positive feedback from all students en-sured this will become an annual feature for our Year 11 students.

STOP PRESS....STOP PRESS.....STOP PRESS.......STOP PRESS............ As we go to print, we have received news that Lewis Headland has been selected as part of Harlequin Rugby Club U15s into the match day squad against Middlesex on 21st February. He has also been selected to represent the Sussex A team against Middlesex on Sunday 10th February. Well done Lewis!

University Visit

On the 6th February 2013, Cavendish School took thirty year 11 students over to Sussex University to experience a day in a Higher Education establishment. Students got to meet current University students and post graduate students where they found out about University life (both the academic and social sides), students were given a full tour of the University – looking at academic facilities, catering facilities and the dorms. To finish the day off (after lunch in the university canteen) students were given a group task where they had to design their own university. The day was aspirational to all students who attended and with such positive feedback it will defi-nitely be repeated again in the future.

David Laws MP

Cavendish School is proud to have received a letter from Rt Hon David Laws MP, the Minister of State for Schools. Cavendish have not been shy in promoting the exceptional results that were achieved by our students in 2012, and this recent letter from Mr. Laws only further demonstrates how successful 2012 was for the Caven-dish Community. The letter (pictured left) offers con-gratulations on the results achieved by Cavendish stu-dents, which has seen our school become one of the top 100 best improving schools from Key Stage 2 to GCSE. This means that students’ results during their Year 6 assessments have been compared with their GCSE results and show that the high levels of work and com-

mitment from students, staff and parents have seen an outstanding improvement. This is made even more impressive when you consider the number of students who join Cavendish already achieving at a high level.

This accolade underlines what a fantastic year 2012 was for GCSE results at Cavendish School. With Year 11 hard at work during this busy exam period, we look forward to continuing this success in 2013.

Sussex County Cricket Club

Sussex County Cricket Club invite you to come and join Sid the Shark in one of his action packed cricket courses over Feb-ruary half term. Sid's 'Softball Courses' Fun softball courses for children aged 7-11 run over 2-5 days from 9.00am-Midday. There will be lots of games and prizes to be won! You will also have the chance to meet Sid the Shark!

Sid's 'Hardball Courses' For players aged 9-13 who are starting to play hardball cricket. Courses run from 1.00pm-4.00pm and include Batting, Bowl-ing, Fielding and Match Play. Courses will take place in Eastbourne, Heathfield & Hastings . For more information email sidsholiday-courses@sussexcricket.co.uk or go to http://www.sussexcricket.co.uk/sid-the-shark-holiday-schemes

Big Art Club: The Kingdom of Modroc

Tues 19 – Thurs 21 Feb, 10-4pm

£70 Come and spend three exciting days with artist

Sheridan Quigley making the creatures and

castles that inhabit the kingdom of your imagi-

nation. Use modroc (plaster of paris bandage) and other materials

to develop lots of modelling skills while learning how to turn your

ideas into reality.

This course is for young people age 8-12 years. Sculpture is a messy

activity, so please wear appropriate clothing and shoes!

Big Art Club: Urban Art Days

Wed 3 – Fri 5 Apr, 10-4pm

£70 In a fun and safe environment come and

learn more about graffiti stencilling with

artist Tom Goulden. In this new and

exciting course for young people aged 9

–13 years you will research and learn

new techniques about graffiti stencilling. Using paint pens and

sprays you will design and create images on your own t-shirts,

small and large canvases.

Please bring along a plain t-shirt, canvases will be supplied.

DLWP Film Club

Mon 8 – Fri 12 Apr, 10-4pm

£110 can be paid in two instalments The De La Warr Pavilion's Film Club returns for a sixth year with

an action packed five days of film production for young people

aged 13 - 18 in the Easter break. With filmmaker Nick Pilton par-

ticipants will have the opportunity to write, produce, edit and

screen their own films in response to Sean Gladwell's exhibition

Cycles of Radical Will. Young film makers will experiment with

themes of mythology, extreme sports and cultural stories. Film

Club provides a highly practical creative environment for young

film makers to develop writing, camera, sound and editing skills

whilst developing an individual visual style.

After School Film Club Returns!

On Thursday 14th March at 3.30pm, we will show:

Super 8 (12)

The screening will take place in the hall and is open to all students.

FilmClub members have the opportunity to nominate films for screening, write reviews for our display boards and enter competitions to win amazing prizes. To be-come a member, head to www.filmclub.org and use the Cavendish FilmClub code: CC33414Q

For any help, see Luke in the Community and Extended Schools Office.