Winchcombe Weekly Weekly updates during school closure – Friday 19th June 2020

Positions of Responsibility 2020-21

HEAD BOY: Ed Cowper

HEAD GIRL: Bethan Munro

DEPUTY HEAD BOY: Anthony Sutton

DEPUTY HEAD GIRL: Florrie Turfrey

PRIME MINISTER: Lucy Hammond

DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER: Morris Osawe

CLEEVE (yellow) LANGLEY (purple) PRESCOTT (green) SUDELEY (blue)

House Captain(Girls) Daisy Theobald Polly Turner Izzy Carter Gwen Williams

House Captain (Boys) Dylan Pryce Jones Oscar Harding Ethan Cheale Adam Eccles

Vice House Captain

(Girls) Ellie Berriman Katy Godfrey Molly Tustin Mia Roberts

Vice House Captain

(Boys) Rui Nixon Sam Yates Jem Westgate Joe Peck

Prefects Teams:

Cleeve: Bryony Tustin / Toby Hodgson / Martha Webb / Sophie Godfrey

Langley: Ruby Garrett / Kelly Anne Smith / Lucy Tricks / Abbie Cowling Smith

Prescott: Millie Hitchin / Caroline Gombert / Jess Hancox / Aerin Jen

Sudeley: Nelly Davies / Rachel Perry / Ed Keen / Amy Mason

Sports Captains:

Girls: Lucy Tilley / Lauren Houghton Brown / Lottie Andrews / Emily Hopkins

Boys: Theo Young / Benjie Bingham / Monty Stead / Coby Wood

Peer Counsellors:

Amy Charles [Lead] / Amelie Powys [Lead]

Esmie Menell / Freya Greenslade / Grace Davis / Hannah Marsh / Gabriel Tompsett

Message from the school It has been a successful week at school. It has been wonderful in welcoming back half of Year 10 over the

last five days. We have had 100% attendance to all sessions with Year 10 demonstrating how much they

had missed school by working exceptionally hard in their six lessons each day. Across the course of next

week we will welcome back the other half across the next five days.

We anxiously await news from the government over their guidance for how schools can open safely to

more students in September. We are keen to get students back at school and will work hard to react

quickly to government guidance.

Positions of Responsibility

Last week I had the pleasure of being a part of the final interviews for Head Girl and Head Boy. The

quality of applications were outstanding. Each candidate was tasked with delivering a presentation on

what our ASPIRE values mean to them, followed by an interview with myself and Mr Young. All students

were a huge credit to themselves and the decisions were very difficult. The results of all the positions of

responsibility are on our front page. I want to congratulate all the successful students and look forward

to them leading our student body with integrity and pride.

Building Update

Another excellent piece of news we received this week was the decision to grant planning permission for

the building expansion scheme. We are excited to have finally been given the green light to improve the

facilities to the current and future students at Winchcombe School as we grow from a roll of 498 to a

maximum roll of 600 over the next few years. The building scheme will provide much needed and

improved facilities:

A full size Sports Hall

An additional Science Lab and a refurbished Science lab

A covered quad area for casual dining

Extended dining hall to allow for seated dining

Refurbished Design and Technology and Food rooms

Extended SEND facilities

A dedicated assembly hall

Improved and secure reception area and meeting room

With a phased programme being delivered over the next year there will be some minimal disruption to

the school but it will deliver some outstanding facilities. Our School Business Manager, Ms Franklin and

Site Manager, Mr Hagger will now work closely with the contractor E.G. Carter to allow works to begin.

At present they hope to begin in late July 2020.

Year 11

We are keen to hear from you if you would like to use the Winchcombe Weekly to send a message to

other students, staff or simply to let us know your plans.

Well done to all students who continue to work so hard on the Distance Learning tasks, it is great to hear

the feedback and see the work that you are producing, and a huge thanks to your families who are

continuing to support you during this really difficult time.

Mr Templeton

A message from the Head Boy, Henry After not sitting in a classroom for 3 months now, I have had a lot of time to reflect on my time at

Winchcombe School. Firstly, the size of the school, Winchcombe is very small in comparison to others

near us like Cleeve, this gives students a comfortable environment to learn in while hopefully knowing

most people in your classes as well in your year. Secondly, I think that teachers don’t get paid enough for

what they must deal with sometimes (sorry) and the work they do in order to let us excel.

I don’t feel that bad for leaving early, especially as I didn’t have to do my GCSEs however I do miss the

social aspect of school. But it is good that I don’t have the pressure of my exams and not having to revise

every day.

My advice for other years is to just listen to your teacher, they have a lot more experience than you and

they know what you must do to get to your targets (even if this does mean doing 2+ hours of poetry

annotating), so don’t complain about work, all of it is done to help you get better at the subject.

Henry

Keeping Safe Online You may have seen on the news recently that there has been a rise in cases of online exploitation and

cyber-crime since lockdown.

There are lots of resources to help families and children keep themselves safe during a period where we

are all using computers more. A great source for parents is advice from the National Cyber Security

Centre (https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/cyberaware/home) and also parent guides from the NSPCC (https://www.nspcc.org.uk/keeping-children-safe/online-safety)

If you have any worries or concerns please contact a member of staff

who can help you find support.

WS – Term 6 Curriculum – Weekly Overview: w/b 22nd June 2020 Work will be set in Go4Schools each Monday morning – to be completed by the following Friday (mid-day)

Week:

22nd June

Year 7

Year 8

Year 9

Year 10

2 hrs English Analysis of Malala

Yousafzai

Lyra crosses over:

analysis and

inference

The Handmaid’s

Tale: Inference,

Analysis and

Terminology

Poetry Anthology and

19th Century Text

2 hrs Maths Fractions Fractions Fractions Fractions

1 ½hrs -

Y7/8

2 hrs -

Y9/Y10

Science Mixtures and

Separation

Plants Biology –

Respiration

Chemistry – The

Periodic Table

Physics - Electricity

Biology – Organising

animals and plants

Chemistry – Chemical

calculations

Physics – Electric

Circuits

1 hr MFL French: Town,

Hobbies/Activities

French: Sport,

Activities,

Directions,

Opinions

Spanish: Town &

Local Area

French: The Wider

World

Spanish: Healthy

Living

French: Education

Spanish: Festivals,

Food

1 hr Geography British Isles map skills

four and six figure

grid references.

Optional extra work

available.

How plants and

animals have

adapted to the

hot desert.

Depositional

landforms created

at the coast.

Optional extra task

available.

Introduction to ‘Rivers’

– key terms,

characteristics, profile

and processes.

1 hr History Late Medieval

England

Age of reform

(political reform)

Industrial

Medicine

Understanding the

historical context of

medicine in the

trenches revision

1 hr Computer

Science

Computational

Thinking: Pattern

recognition

None set this

week

Protecting digital

systems and data

2.2 The use of records

to store data

1 hr Art None set this week Sharlena Wood:

Artist Study –

analysing effects

of colour schemes

and mixed media

Developing your

primary source

drawing into a

tonal study

Recording Ideas

(Assessment Objective

3)

1 hr Drama None set this week Character

Development

Live Theatre

Production

Research

Live Theatre

Production Exam

Question

1 hr DT None set this week Research Tasks 3

& 4

Isometric Drawing

Task 2

NEA planning

1 hr Hospitality None set this week Food Labels 2 Personal

Protective

Equipment at

Work regulations

(PPER)

Personal Protective

Equipment at Work

regulations (PPER)

1 hr Media Not studied in Y7 Not studied in Y8 Audiences: How

do media

consumers engage

with products?

Set Products: review

and Revision

1 hr Music None set this week History of Music –

Classical Music

Instrumentation 2:

Recognising

instruments

AOS5 Listening Tasks

Review 2

1 hr R&P/Ethics God’s Nature in

Christianity: Trinity

None set this

week

Christian

Pilgrimage – Iona

and Lourdes

Paper 2 Theme B:

‘Religion & Life’ Proof

of a life after death

1 hr Games PE

Challenges Balance –

Speed & Agility

None set this

week

GCSE PE –

Methods of

training

Cambridge

Nationals –

Components of a

warm up

GCSE PE –

Planes and axis for

movement

Cambridge Nationals –

Nutrition task 4

Science

Daniel Y9

Lara Y9

Molly Y9

James Y9

Cora Y9

Rose Y9

Drama

Year 7 are doing some work on Monologues at the moment.

Why does hay fever have to be a thing? It’s only making life worse for me, just making me

go ach-choo! Loads of times repeatedly ach-choo! Ach-choo! Ach-CHOO! Why can’t it be

gone? It’s also a problem even when I’m sleeping, I do that same thing again, my nose is

tickly, and I want to sneeze again. How are we supposed to fix it? We can’t get rid of

flowers and I can’t get rid of my nose, but it’s getting so annoying and getting in my way all

the time. Why does hay fever even have to be a thing?!

Charlie’s Monologue, about something he dislikes.

Careers Support for Year 7 & 8

https://panjango.com/pages/panjango-online

Ms Teague’s Tips

This week is British Flowers Week.

Living in Gloucestershire, we are spoilt by the wild flowers that grow locally on Cleeve Hill and further afield. Even

in more urban areas, where you least expect it, nature can thrive. Some of the better known local flowers to

Gloucestershire are: Pasque flowers (vibrant purple flowers that flower late April/early May), fragrant orchid, bee

orchid, juniper, cowslip, carline thistle, autumn gentian and majoram. There are so many more.

This week, you could go for a walk (a great form of exercise, which has enormous health benefits, as well as

reducing stress and anxiety levels). How many flowers can you spot in fields, under trees, in the verges, in parks

etc.? Could you sketch some of the flowers you see? Can you capture the flowers by photography? Consider

writing the diary of a wild flower - how did the seed find itself there and how did it grow, considering the

extremely dry spring we have had, along with the recent storms?

Enjoy nature.

Geography

Xander Y7

Mr Watson’s Album of the Week Graham Coxon is the guitarist in Blur and if you like Blur you will love The album of this

week as it is the 2004 release “Happiness in Magazines” by “Graham Coxon”. This album

only reached number 19 in the album charts but it is so much better than that. My

favourite two tracks are “Freakin’ Out” and “Bittersweet Bundle of Misery”, the two

songs are completely different in style one is really rocking and the other is lovely slow

mellow number that just glides with love and feeling. The album has a bit of everything

and is well worth a listen.

If you like this try this is “His N Hers” by “Pulp” released in 1994. This is the album before Pulp broke out and is

their finest album. Two of the songs are absolutely fantastic in “Babies” and “Do you remember the first time”.

Parent Support Booklet for thinking about Careers (please click images)

Distance Learning and Student Wellbeing: Students, Parents/Carers

Term 6: 1st June – 17th July 2020

Students, Parents and Carers,

As we move towards Term 6 (June-July) we are continuing to consult and improve how best to teach all students

from ‘distance’ whilst always keeping the welfare of students, staff and parents/carers at the forefront.

Since Week 5 of ‘lock-down’ (April 20th) we have evolved how Distance Learning ‘looks’: for example, we have been

setting “sessions” of work every fortnight, dependent on subject/year group;

tracking the students who complete, or don’t complete, work;

reducing the “sessions” to be around 30 minutes of ‘Learning’ for each task;

‘Welfare Contact’ phone calls/emails to check on students’ well-being/work/other

As we have always discussed, there is no ‘one’ correct way this can work. We have increasingly listened to comments

and ideas from staff, parents and students – the recent Tutor/Head of House emails/phone calls were invaluable in

gauging how the work is being managed at home.

We are receiving more and more feedback from parents who are worried about their children - the most frequent

concerns expressed are:

1. Not feeling connected to the school - work set on G4S lacks the teacher interaction that many students are

craving

2. Not being able to see familiar faces of staff and students

3. Too many different subjects on G4S

4. Tasks not suitable for work at home, resources not available or clearly explained

5. Tasks set in too large blocks - students over-whelmed giving up before starting

6. Resources needed for tasks not available when working on devices e.g. cannot fill in worksheets etc.

7. Submitted work not being acknowledged

From Monday 1st June, we move into the next ‘phase’ of Distance Learning and Student Wellbeing

(pages 2-3)

A. Distance Learning 1. Setting Work

Subject work (‘sessions’) will be set on Go4S weekly: every Monday morning, with a deadline of Friday morning (by

mid-day).

From 1st June, Y9 Option Groups will be created in Go4S so that Y9s can be assigned ‘Core’ (English, Maths, Science)

and their 4 Option Subjects’ work.

Also, from 1st June, for the Y7/Y8 Technology Carousel, the classes will rotate for the final Term: Go4Schools will

show the TWO subjects for each student, for this final rotation.

We want to provide parents, via Winchcombe Weekly (WW), with an overview for the learning for the upcoming

week in each year group. This will help parents plan and students understand what is coming next. Mr Clarkson will

publish, every Friday, the overview for the next week. For example: Friday 22nd May, the Topics being covered for

w/b 1st June. This is to help provide some advanced information, if you want to prepare.

All work, for Term 6, will be ‘review and revision’ of previous learning this year: what are the key skills/knowledge

students have learnt and need to embed? We need to avoid teaching ‘new’ work because:

Teachers need to ensure all students would understand all ‘new’ work – which is difficult from ‘distance’;

Our lessons should focus on developing fluency within already familiar concepts – ensure students

understand what has been taught from September 2019 until March 2020.

2. Optional Extension Task

Following the ‘core’ tasks for each session, teachers will offer an ‘extension’ task which is optional for those who

choose it. This does not necessarily need to be submitted and may have less structure e.g. research, reading or a

video. It is to give students the opportunity to do more if they wish.

B. Student Wellbeing 1. Teaching group contact

For those students who have not completed the weekly task(s), by mid-day Friday, Subject Teachers will email the

student to remind them of the work, ask why it is not completed and to offer support –Teachers will copy in the

parent/carer to this email.

2. Tutor group contact [Form Tutors, Heads of House]

Each Form Tutor will make a weekly contact with their tutor group, as a group. For example, send an email to the

group checking-in with them, maybe discussing a topic for the week.

3. Group Student Contact

Teaching Staff are increasingly looking at our ‘visual contact opportunities’. For example:

Pre-recorded or Zoom assemblies on a topic - Head of House assemblies are already planned

Pre-recorded or Zoom Masterclasses on tricky topics or concepts

Pre-recorded or Zoom tutor time

Zoom intervention for specific groups

Appendix 1: Overview of Term 6: Example first TWO weeks (1/6 and 8/6): Summary for Students

Y7/Y8 Students will move to a new ‘rotation’ for Technology Carousel 1/6/20-17/7/20

Y9 and Y10 Students will study: English, Maths, Science and their 4 chosen Option Subjects

Work Set:

per week

Year 7 Task(s) + Extension(s)

Year 8 Task(s) + Extension(s)

Year 9 Task(s) + Extension(s)

Year 10 Task(s) + Extension(s)

Monday 1st

June

English: X4 sessions (2 hr) X4 sessions (2 hr) X4 sessions (2 hr) X4 sessions (2 hr)

Maths X4 sessions (2 hr) X4 sessions (2 hr) X4 sessions (2 hr) X4 sessions (2 hr)

Science X3 session (1 ½) X3 session (1 ½) X4 session (2 hr) X4 sessions (2 hr)

MFL X2 session (1 hr) X2 session (1 hr) OPTION – 1 hr OPTION – 1 hr

Geography X2 session (1 hr) X2 session (1 hr) OPTION – 1 hr OPTION – 1 hr

History X2 session (1 hr) X2 session (2 hr) OPTION – 1 hr OPTION – 1 hr

Comp. Science None set X2 session (1 hr) OPTION – 1 hr OPTION – 1 hr

Art X2 session (1 hr) None set OPTION – 1 hr OPTION – 1 hr

DT X2 session (1 hr) None set OPTION – 1 hr OPTION – 1 hr

Drama X2 session (1 hr) None set OPTION – 1 hr OPTION – 1 hr

Hospitality X2 session (1 hr) None set OPTION – 1 hr OPTION – 1 hr

Media Studies Not studied Y7 Not studied Y8 OPTION – 1 hr OPTION – 1 hr

Music X2 session (1 hr) None set OPTION – 1 hr OPTION – 1 hr

R&P/Ethics None set X2 session (1 hr) OPTION – 1 hr OPTION – 1 hr

Games None set X2 session (1 hr) OPTION – 1 hr OPTION – 1 hr

Work Set:

per week

Year 7 Task(s) + Extension(s)

Year 8 Task(s) + Extension(s)

Year 9 Task(s) + Extension(s)

Year 10 Task(s) + Extension(s)

Monday 8th

June

English: X4 sessions (2 hr) X4 sessions (2 hr) X4 sessions (2 hr) X4 sessions (2 hr)

Maths X4 sessions (2 hr) X4 sessions (2 hr) X4 sessions (2 hr) X4 sessions (2 hr)

Science X3 session (1 ½) X3 session (1 ½) X4 session (2 hr) X4 sessions (2 hr)

MFL X2 session (1 hr) X2 session (1 hr) OPTION – 1 hr OPTION – 1 hr

Geography X2 session (1 hr) X2 session (1 hr) OPTION – 1 hr OPTION – 1 hr

History X2 session (1 hr) X2 session (2 hr) OPTION – 1 hr OPTION – 1 hr

Comp. Science X2 session (1 hr) None set OPTION – 1 hr OPTION – 1 hr

Art None set X2 session (1 hr) OPTION – 1 hr OPTION – 1 hr

DT None set X2 session (1 hr) OPTION – 1 hr OPTION – 1 hr

Drama None set X2 session (1 hr) OPTION – 1 hr OPTION – 1 hr

Hospitality None set X2 session (1 hr) OPTION – 1 hr OPTION – 1 hr

Media Studies Not studied Y7 Not studied Y8 OPTION – 1 hr OPTION – 1 hr

Music None set X2 session (1 hr) OPTION – 1 hr OPTION – 1 hr

R&P/Ethics X2 session (1 hr) None set OPTION – 1 hr OPTION – 1 hr

Games X2 session (1 hr) None set OPTION – 1 hr OPTION – 1 hr

Note 1: Year 7 and Year 8 have Subjects set alternate weeks: Technology Carousel (x2

subjects in the new rotation groups) is alternating with Computer

Science/R&P/Games.

Note 2: Year 7 and Year 8 are in new Technology Subjects Carousel for Term 6

Note 3: Year 9 and Year 10 have: English, Maths, Science + 4 Options Subjects (No

Tech. Carousel in Y9)