SCHOOL NEWS OCTOBER 2016
SCHOOL MATTERS
TERM DATES 2016 - 2017
Mon 5 September* Fri 21 October
Mon 31 October Tues 20 December
Tues 3 January* Fri 10 February
Mon 20 February Fri 7 April
Mon 24 April Fri 26 May
Mon 5 June Fri 21 July
Bank Holiday: Monday 1 May INSET Days: Friday 2 December Tuesday 3 January* Friday 23 June
SCHOOL DIRECT
Have you thought about a career in teaching? Did you
know that you can train to teach at the Long Eaton School and gain a PGCE qualification with the University of Derby through our School Direct programme?
Recruitment starts soon for September 2017. Subjects include Maths, English, PE, RE, Geography, History, Music, Languages, Computing, Food Tech, Resistant Materials, Physics and Business. The placements are based at one of 5 schools within the alliance including The Long Eaton School, Focus School and Ecclesbourne.
If you are interested in a place for September 2017, come along to our Teacher Training Coffee morning ‘drop-in’ on Friday 11th November, 9-11am or contact us at [email protected] for more information.
PARENT QUESTIONNAIRE
As part of the school's self-evaluation process and commitment to continuous improvement, we are always keen to seek the views of parents and students regarding aspects of school life and their educational experience. We would be grateful for your support in completing a questionnaire so that we can evaluate parent's perceptions of the school's performance. Issues raised in previous questionnaires have resulted in us introducing Vivos (our Rewards System), various texting systems, including our most recent, School Comms, which we would invite you to give us your feedback as part of this questionnaire. Please copy and paste the following URL into your web browser: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdy6X8sjYReAH4SRzQk4fTutSMz-Efbgnh6AHQZtK1QUxETGw/viewform A link to the questionnaire will be emailed to parents for whom we hold an email address. Hard copies will be available from Student Services
YEAR 7
Congratulations to all the Year 7 students who have made a fantastic start to Secondary School. The students are enjoying their new experiences and have made lots of new friends. I would encourage all the students to try out one of our amazing Extra Curricular Clubs in the next few weeks as this is a great way to try new things and make like-minded friends. Many students have ticked off some of their targets in their Year 7 Passport Booklets, I hope that they can achieve lots more in the next few weeks. Miss Turner
SCHOOL NEWS OCTOBER 2016
NATIONAL POETRY DAY
Thursday 6 October was National Poetry Day – an annual event to celebrate all things poetical. Four Year 7 classes took part in a carousel of poetry activities in the Library, and enjoyed creating their own poems and performing favourite ones. This year the theme was Messages, and students wrote their own poetical message, which then was displayed on a ‘Poet Tree’!
TRAVEL TO AND FROM SCHOOL
We are increasingly concerned about the safety of students who come to school along Thoresby Road, at the start and end of the school day as they enter and leave the site. Despite a number of requests for parents to avoid driving into school to drop off and pick up, there is still a significant number of cars coming on to the site unnecessarily at these times, causing congestion whilst several hundred students are cycling or walking through the main gates. If you bring your child to school by car, please ensure that you find somewhere off the school site where it is possible to drop them off and turn around safely. We would also appreciate the support of parents in emphasising to students the need to obey the Highway Code when cycling to and from school, and to encourage strongly that cycle helmets are worn at all times. Thank you.
SPORT MATTERS
U16 Netball Tournament On Wednesday 21st September the following students represented the school for the U16 netball tournament. They were Lucy Shotton, Beth Clutterbuck-Allen, Lauren Stead, Lilly Lymn, Eden Sulley, Mollie Daniels, Hollie Read and Phoebe Cartwright. The girls were fantastic and won 2 games, drew 1 and just lost to Ockbrook by 3 goals, finishing 2nd overall at the Erewash Tournament. They beat Kirk Hallam 8-1, beat Wilsthorpe, drew again St John Houghton 4-4 and lost to Ockbrook 4-7 in the last half.
27th September U14/U16 League match
The following girls represented the school for the U16 netball team and won both their league games again Friesland 15-3 and Wilsthorpe 8-4. They were Lucy Shotton, Beth Clutterbuck-Allen, Lauren Stead, Lilly Lymn, Eden Sulley, Mollie Daniels, and Hollie Read. The girls played fantastically and another staff member even commented on how well they played as a team and how good their passing was during the game. Well done! The U14 girls played excellently considering they had limited practice time. They won against Friesland 6-1 and unfortunately lost against Wilsthorpe 3-1. They tried really hard and developed as a team throughout the games. The team was Kelsie Hughes, Heather Goodall, Maddie Ford, Ella Smith, Olivia Stevenson, Meg Atkinson, Lucy Harriman and Kitty Murphy.
SCHOOL NEWS OCTOBER 2016
GWE root Eco Day was a Hoot
WELCOME ALL OLD AND NEW A big welcome back to Eco Club members new and old who are thoroughly enjoying Friday
lunch club. These include, Aimee and Fred Hodson, Esme and Jasmine Bryan, Sam Coulson, Amber Newton, Jamie Willcox, Caitlin Riley, Abbie Breakwell, Amrita Dhanjal, Rebecca Simms, Ellie Howe, Niamh Grinhaff, Henry Icke, Tiffany Rhodes, Kieran Smith,
Finlay Newton, Christopher Wheatland, Aaron Saini and Louise Smith.
TLES ECO NEWS
TWEET TWEET
Welcome to TLES Eco News – the TLES Eco Team will be proudly sharing news throughout the year.
SCHOOL NEWS OCTOBER 2016
Events Coming Soon
Litter Pick West Park Nov 2016
Focus on Crocus Nov 2016
World Food Day Oct 2016
Spend a Penny Nov 2016
Switch Off Fortnight Nov 2016
Christmas Shoe Box Drive Dec 2016
Events Coming Soon
Litter Pick West Park Nov 2016
Focus on Crocus Nov 2016
World Food Day Oct 2016
Spend a Penny Nov 2016
Switch Off Fortnight Nov 2016
Christmas Shoe Box Drive Dec 2016
JOIN US (AND SANTA) FOR THE TLES ANNUAL CHRISTMAS FAYRE
SATURDAY 3RD DECEMBER 10.00 AM – 2.00PM
VISIT OUR VAST ARRAY OF STALLS AND SAMPLE SEASONAL PRODUCE
THE LONG EATON SCHOOL, THORESBY ROAD, LONG EATON
SCHOOL NEWS OCTOBER 2016
Congratulations to Mr Fox’s Form who won the Olympic Eco Quiz - well done guys, we hope you enjoyed your prize! Look out for the next quiz coming soon.
Eco Club began its first debate of the year
when students joined forces to fight for
endangered animals. Each group were
given one of the endangered animals on
the planet and had to put their case to
everyone as to why they should be saved.
The debate sparked interesting reactions
from the group who were shocked at their findings below:
Amur Leopard -Critically Endangered
Black Rhino - Critically Endangered
Bornean Orang-utan - Critically Endangered
Cross River Gorilla - Critically Endangered
Eastern Lowland Gorilla - Critically Endangered
Hawksbill Turtle - Critically Endangered
Javan Rhino Rhinoceros - Critically Endangered
Leatherback Turtle - Critically Endangered
Mountain Gorilla - Critically Endangered
www.unitedforwildlife.org/Endangered
SCHOOL NEWS OCTOBER 2016
CHRISTMAS SHOEBOX APPEAL
DEAR ALL, THIS YEAR WE ARE WORKING WITH THE
LONG EATON ROTARY CLUB FOR THEIR ANNUAL
SHOEBOX APPEAL. WE ARE LOOKING FOR DONATIONS OF
ITEMS FOR CHILDREBN OF ALL AGES THAT WE CAN PACK
INTO A SHOEBOX. THE SHOEBOXES, ONCE FULL WILL BE
DEPLOYED ALL OVER THE WORLD TO AREAS OF SEVERE
DEPRIVATION.
IF YOU THINK YOU COULD HELP BRING CHRISTMAS TO A
CHILD OVERSEAS, PLEASE SEND SOME OF THE
FOLLOWING ITEMS INTO SCHOOL FOR THE ATTENTION
OF MRS L REEVE:
Gift Suggestions
Toys Include items that children will immediately embrace such as dolls or stuffed toys (with CE label), toy trucks, harmonica, yo-yo, skipping rope, ball, small puzzles etc. School Supplies Pens, pencils & sharpeners, crayons or felt pens, stamps & ink pad sets, writing pads or notebooks & paper, solar calculators, colouring & picture books etc. Hygiene Items Toothbrush and toothpaste, bars of wrapped soap, comb or hairbrush, flannel. Other Items Hat, cap, gloves or scarf, sunglasses, hair accessories, jewellery set, wind up torch, wrapped sweets (best-before-date must be at least March of the following year). Do Not Include Used or damaged items, war related items such as toy guns, play soldiers or knives; chocolate or other food items; liquids or lotions of any type including bubbles; medicines; hand-made or knitted stuffed toys; anything of a political, racial or religious nature; sharp objects; glass containers, mirrors or fragile items; playing cards of the 4-suit variety; clothing other than as listed above.
THANK YOU