Friday 28th June 2013
Trinity Term Enterprise Success
Prayer Help me, Lord, to discover the talents I have been given and to not let them lie unused. May I make the best use of them both for myself and for others. May sport help to bring out the best in people, teaching us the lessons of commitment and co-operation, of fairness and appreciation. May sports and hobbies and interests help me to develop my personality that I may be renewed and re-created in your image and likeness. We ask this through Christ our Lord. Amen.
ParentView 122 responses to ParentView - can we reach 150 by the end of the academic year. We really would appreciate parents responses to the OfSTED survey. The link is www.parentview.ofsted.gov.uk It's online and very quick and easy to complete. Thankyou to the parents who have already responded.
Former Students St Hilda's College, Oxford Isabel Devaney - Leys Exhibition in Biochemistry Isabel, a former student of All Hallows has recently been awarded the above by the College's Tutorial Committee in recognition of excellent work in the subject.
Specialism Success From Friday 21 June until Monday 24 June 50 students from year 7 and 8 will be travelling to the village of Rue in Northern France to experience a "Taste of France". Students will be reinforcing the links between Languages and BITE within a European context! The group will be visiting a snail farm and a chocolate factory and will have the chance to try out their language skills at a traditional French market.
Parents as Parents: HAIRSTYLES As a Business and Enterprise College we encourage our students to dress in a business like fashion - "Dress for Success". For this reason extremes of hairstyles and hair colouring are not acceptable. If in doubt about what styles and colours are not acceptable speak to your child's Year Learning Leader.
Jacob Cotterill, Year 12 Business student, has spent this week on a work placement with Mrs Lynch in the BITE Faculty. During the week he assisted in making an application to seek funding from the Community Investment Grant offered by Peaks and Plains Housing Trust. If successful it will allow for the expansion of The Go Shop brand giving students across The College opportunity to manage four market stalls alongside ‘Go Shop’in The Pod. This will be branded The ‘Go Stalls’ Project. Taking this idea further, there are also plans to introduce trade in good quality second-hand clothes and uniform in the future. This will ultimately constitute a further development of social enterprise in The College and a continued demonstration of the inspiring entrepreneurial and interpersonal skills of our students both in leading on projects and in making their visions a reality. Every Cloud has a Silver Lining - Deep Values Learning for Year 7 The North West teachers strike day was put to great use for Year 7 who enjoyed a special day of reflection on the college values with Mr Billings (Principal) and Mrs Connor (Deputy Principal), who were expertly assisted by the college teaching assistants, cover supervisors and the Chaplin (Rev Harrison). The day began with a Year Mass celebrated with Fr Francis (Parish Priest at St Gregory's, Bollington) who used the story of the Centurian's Servant to illustrate how life changing belief in Jesus can be - and to say how we are all loved by God. The students singing was fantastic during Mass and was followed by some community gospel singing led by Mr Gordan. The values reflection used parts of the film 'Evan Almighty' with students encouraged to reflect on their first year at All Hallows - and see if they could identify the college values (or new ones) in the film. Mrs Connor's brain gym activity was great fun and will be very memorable - parents should ask sons/daughters about the 'Hippo'. Well done Year 7 - it has been a pleasure to work with you on this special day of reflection. Mr Billings and Mrs Connor would like to recognise the following students for their work in terms of effort and/or originality: Commendation
Original Idea
5 Merit +
10 Merit+
Natasha Harper Jordan Poolford Danny Sherratt Tom Kerr Lily Kennedy Mollie Easterby Alyana Rosete Katie Millward Christopher Langer Emily Hutchinson Jake Davies Amy Broadhurst Teresa Joseph Luisa Ventisei George Parry Patrick Penny Liam Hinsley Thomas Davis Isobel Bailey Emma Tapp
Tom Kerr Danny Sherratt Katie Millward Amy Broadhurst Christoph Langer Teresa Joseph
Sport Rounder's results All Hallows v Tytherington Year 7- lost 15-13.5 (Player of the matchAlyana Rosete) Year 8- lost 9-7.5 (Player of the match Calista Charlesworth-Simpson) Year 9/10-lost14-13.5 (Player of the match Megan Royle)
All Hallows in the top 20% of non-selective schools All Hallows has been congratulated by the SSAT for high attainment and success in adding value. Student performance in the 2012 Key Stage 4 examinations places the college in the top 20% of non-selective schools and academies nationally. The letter congratulates All Hallows on providing a well rounded education with 'Best 8 average point scores for GCSE' and for Key Stage 4 value-added score.