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1st March 2019

World Book Day: Thursday 7th March 2019

Message from Mrs Cottle:

It was lovely to welcome back staff and students this week, looking

relaxed and rested following an unseasonably warm and sunny half

term break. The theme for my assemblies this week has been the FMAT

value of Excellence and I have already seen many examples of

students striving to achieve excellence in an extremely positive start to

the second half of the Spring term.

GCSE examinations are already underway for some Year 11 students

with both Drama practicals and Business Studies exams taking place

this week; for others there are still a few weeks remaining before the

GCSEs get into full swing. The mock examination fortnight beginning

next week will provide a final opportunity to put their knowledge and

skills to the test and identify and address any areas of weakness that may emerge. It is extremely

pleasing to see that students are continuing to take full advantage of the excellent period 6

revision lessons being provided free of charge each day in school. These are highly focused study

sessions delivered by subject experts covering all areas of examination practice which last year’s

cohort found invaluable in supporting and supplementing their home revision programmes. These

sessions will be suspended during the mock examination fortnight to allow the year group to focus

on their mock exam preparation but will resume on Tuesday 19th March.

Supporting the PSHE curriculum on diversity, students in Years 9 and 10 were fortunate to receive an

interesting and informative talk given by a representative from Stonewall who was an extremely

engaging speaker.

Bournville School will be taking part in World Book Day next week with a number of Harry Potter

themed activities happening that promise to be great fun for the students and staff taking part.

Finally, we are very aware of the financial difficulties many families find themselves in and have

teamed up with the Red Box organisation who provide sanitary products free of charge for anyone

who might need them. Students requiring sanitary products can go to the medical room, or one of

the following places: Mrs Yarker’s office, Ms Cross’ office, Mrs Dovey’s classroom, Mrs Meaney’s

classroom, Mr Lowe’s office, the admin office or the admin office.

All Year Group Section

World Book Day:

On Thursday 7th March, we will be celebrating World Book Day with a variety of ‘Harry Potter’

themed activities:

4th-8th March 2019: The Great Harry Potter Word Treasure Hunt:

o Pick up a clue sheet from Miss Boyle

o Solve the magical clues to find the teacher’s name.

o Collect the clue words from the teachers you find.

o Put all the clue words together to find the magical

spell.

o Hand back clue sheet to Miss Boyle.

7th March 2019 at break time: The Science Magic Show. Tickets

are available in the library.

7th March 2019 at lunch time: Stage Make-up. Get your Harry

Potter Lightning Flash!

7th March 2019 period 5: Harry Potter themed lessons for Years

7, 8 and 9. Students are invited to wear Harry Potter themed

fancy dress during period 5 only.

Celebrating Success:

Thom Bryant in Year 7 competed in the English Schools Table Tennis

Association Individual Championships this week. This is part of a

national programme run by Table Tennis England with players from

schools across Birmingham taking part.

Thom won all of his group stage matches, including winning one set

11-0. He then went into a three-player final round where he finished

runner up.

Well done, Thom. We are very proud of your achievement!

Bournville Singer of the Year

The Bournville Singer of the Year competition will take place on Wednesday 27th March at 7pm in

the PPC. Tickets are £2 for adults and £1 for concessions.

Contacting School:

Should you wish to contact school with any issues or concerns, you should first attempt to contact

your child’s form tutor. If required, you may later wish to speak to the Head of Year or Student

Support Officer for your child:

Year Head of Year Student Support Officer

7 Mr Kesterton Mr Akum

8 Miss Trilloe Miss Porter

9 and 10 Mr Lowe Miss Mahmood

11 Mr Chilton Mrs Sutton

Rewards:

Students in Boulton House logged the most Griffin reward stickers in the last fortnight. The top ten

Griffin earners are:

Teo Wheldon - 7BY

Stephanie Whiston - 7BY

Dotto Wheldon - 7BY

Jaehoon Shin - 7TX

Owen Ho - 9CX

Kye Allsopp - 7BY

Kiera Atheron - 7TX

Santosh Shanmugam - 10CX

Macey Brinkworth - 7CX

Beth Johnson - 7TY

Punctuality

Students are expected to arrive for 8.35am each morning and punctuality is an important life skill

that we aim to embed. The pastoral team will continue to support students with strategies to arrive

to school on time. There is a continued focus on swift movement to lessons, particularly after break

and lunch.

Please check your child's diary and ensure they have their timetable and are ready for the school

day. All students are expected to be ready to move onto their next lesson as quickly as possible

during the school day and ready to make the most of every minute of learning. Students that have

3 or more lates to lesson in a week face a one hour detention on a Friday afternoon. We will be

sending a 'Lost Minutes' report home to some families of students who have persistently poor

punctuality to lessons to highlight the impact of lost learning time.

Finally, we continue to issue penalty fines against families who do not send their child to school

every day. We will continue to challenge through legal processes those parents and carers who do

not yet understand their responsibility to support the school and ensure their child attends school

every day. It is your responsibility to ensure your child attends every day. We will work with you to

support you to ensure your child attends every day. If you are concerned at all, please speak to

Elaine Tisdell, our Safeguarding officer, or email her at: tisdell.e@bournville.bham.sch.uk

Attendance

We continue to encourage all students to strive for 100%

attendance. This half term, we are again offering the

prize draw of TWO GT Racer bikes on the last day of the

half term. Well done to Joshua and Aliyah (pictured

below) who won bikes last half term with 100%

attendance. Each student with 100% attendance for

last half term has been awarded an Attendance Griffin

sticker and we would also like to congratulate those

students whose attendance improved last half term -

those students have been awarded a certificate to

recognise their dedication to improvement.

To qualify to be in the draw for the bikes, you need to

have 100% attendance for the period 25th February -

12th April 2019: 35 days of school. Who will take them

away next time?

We will announce the winner of our latest prize on Friday 12th April. It is important that your child is

in school every day to be in with a chance of winning this amazing prize which is worth around

£500.

Medical:

If your child has a medical condition, please contact Ms L Bladen by email

Bladen.l@bournville.bham.sch.uk to arrange to discuss your child’s requirements as appropriate.

If your child has prescribed medicines, please contact Ms Tisdell (see above) to arrange school

provision as appropriate. Students must not bring medicines (including paracetamol) to school

that have not been prescribed by a doctor.

Bullying

Please be aware that we have the S.H.A.R.P System (School Help Advice Reporting System) on our

website. This is an online reporting system which can be used to report any incidents, such as

bullying, which occur within the school and the local community. We actively encourage our

students to report any incidents to us.

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Year 7 parents’ evening will take place on Monday 18th March between 4:30pm and

7pm. Parents / carers can make appointments via the school website:

http://web.bournville.bham.sch.uk/parentseveningbooking/

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No messages this week.

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Revision guides for a number of subjects are available to buy on Parent Pay.

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Year 10 mock exams will take place between Monday 1st April and Friday 12th April.

Students should check Show my Homework regularly for support with their revision.

English Literature revision guides are available to buy on Parent Pay for the following

texts: ‘A Christmas Carol’, ‘Macbeth’, ‘An Inspector Calls’ and Power and Conflict

poetry. The revision guides are £2.75 each, and once purchased, they can be

collected from the admin office in Morris.

If any Year 10 students need support finding a work experience placement, they can

speak to Mrs Matto, Mrs Field or Mrs Meaney.

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Year 11 mock exam fortnight will take place between Monday 4th March and Friday

15th March. Please encourage your child to revise and to seek help if they are

struggling with anything.

There will be no Period 6 lessons between Monday 4th March and Monday 18th March.

Period 6 lessons will resume on Tuesday 19th March. Year 11 students can use SAM Learning to revise for their exams. The website is:

www.samlearning.com and the login details are: Centre ID: B30BS; User ID: date of

birth and initials (e.g. 111002JD); Password: this is the same as the user ID.

Mrs Matto, our Independent Careers Advisor, is available for any Year 11 to speak to

during break or lunch time on Tuesdays and Wednesdays.

28th February 2019

Dear Parent/Carer,

We would like to share with you some information that will be important for your child in the next

few weeks.

Year 11 Mock Exam Arrangements

Our core priority is learning at Bournville School. With this in mind, our Year 11 students are about to

undergo a period of mock exams for two weeks beginning on 4th March 2019. This will mean that

certain areas of the school such as Elgar Foyer will be out of bounds to all students so that the Year

11 students are undisturbed for the duration of their exams. It is important that you speak to your

child about this in order to ensure they can get to lessons in the Elgar building quickly, using the

route through the Elgar ‘Sun’ corridor instead. All Year 11 students are expected to be on time

every day throughout this crucial period.

Behavour Policy – Procedural Update

Secondly, we would like to advise you of a procedural update to our behaviour policy that will

begin on 11th March. Currently, failure to attend two consecutive detentions results in a day in our

Re-Focus room. We have a small minority of students who this affects. However, we would like to

now replace this sanction with a 90 minute senior staff detention on a Friday. This will ensure

students still get to make the most of learning time by being in lessons but still face a serious

sanction for such defiance. We will be writing to the parents and carers of students who may be

affected by this separately next week.

Hoax ‘MoMo’ App

You may be aware through social media about this worrying ‘trend’ app that is currently being

sensationalised by the media and shared widely on social media with parents expressing their

alarm. Essentially, this is a hoax but, naturally, some children may be frightened and worried by it. It

is important that you speak to your child about it. Overleaf is some guidance about the app and

how to speak to your child about it.

Yours faithfully,

Mr J Barton

Deputy Head of Academy

MRS J COTTLE | HEAD OF ACADEMY BOURNVILLE SCHOOL HAY GREEN LANE BOURNVILLE BIRMINGHAM B30 1SH

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