The All Saints Scoop - Issue 3

THE ALL SAINTS

Welcome

Our newsletter aims to celebrate our pupils' successes and school values: Faith, Excellence, Respect, Resilience, Family and Community. As well as this, we want you to feel part of our school's journey. We encourage you to celebrate our pupils' achievements with us.

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H E A D T E A C H E R ' S M E S S A G E

This term has been a busy one with many preparations for the new year taking place. We have key members of staff who will be joining the All Saints Team next year and we are excited about the future of the school. Building work has started to take place in Food Technology, though most of the significant changes to our school building will take place over the summer break. We have listened to concerns our pupils have about key areas within the school and have worked hard to ensure that changes take place so that their time in school is comfortable, enjoyable and safe. We have collected parent voice this term, and have been able to use this advice to support ongoing school improvement. Thank you for your support with this; we really value your input. Also, the teaching staff have gone above and beyond to ensure that supply in lessons is reduced.

We continue to improve our communication with parents and carers using the School Gateway App, which allows us to share insights about rewards, attendance and behaviour along with other notices to keep you well-informed about what is happening in school. We have increased the number of pupil voice surveys that we are collecting, so that we can identify strengths and areas for improvement to help us to continue to improve our school. We have put blue boxes in key areas in school to offer pupils another way of sharing their thoughts with staff.

H E A D T E A C H E R ' S M E S S A G E

Despite the disruption to our usual assemblies because exams have been taking place in the school hall, we have continued our weekly assemblies in the Sports Hall as we feel that this time together in full year groups is an important occasion each week. In these assemblies we share the Sunday Gospel and its meaning for us as a Catholic community; coming together in assembly also allows us to praise and reward attendance.

I would like to thank our school mentors for their support with year 5 taster days and the year 6 transition day. Our pupils were the perfect example to our new pupils of the future and I am very proud of their kindness, sense of community and stewardship – well done everyone involved! Another example of our pupils exemplifying the community value was displayed on PSHE day when some of our pupils, from all year groups, led a culture and heritage session for our year 7 pupils throughout the day. This was an opportunity for our pupils to share their cultures with each other. There was food to sample, any misconceptions were addressed and facts were shared. Well done to all pupils involved.

H E A D T E A C H E R ' S M E S S A G E

Thank you to all parents and carers who continue to support and contribute constructive ideas regarding homework. In order for homework to be impactful for all, pupils must download the Satchel One app to keep up to date with their assigned homework. We will issue all pupils with information regarding this app at the start of the academic year, but please contact a member of the pastoral team if you need support with this. Please be aware that there is a parent app which can also be downloaded to support you in helping your child prepare for the school day, as their timetable is visible along with any homework which has been assigned. As with all areas of school life, it is beneficial for parents, carers and school staff to work together, so that we can secure the best outcomes for our pupils.

Ms Gilligan

CATHOLIC LIFE

During the month of June, we celebrated the Feast of Corpus Christi. We came together at a Mass which was celebrated by the Bishop at St Anthony's.

We are very fortunate to be named after a Feast day where Catholics celebrate Christ's presence in the Eucharist. This was a great opportunity for us to gather as a community. We would like to celebrate our school choir who made us proud singing in front of our community. Thank you to Mrs Millington and Mr O'Neill for supporting our pupils with this amazing opportunity.

Our year 9 pupils have also had the opportunity to attend a retreat to support team building and resilience.

CATHOLIC LIFE

This month, our pupils had the opportunity to attend our school Mini Dash event at St Ambrose College. Our pupils came together in prayer to celebrate the Feast Day of St Peter and Paul. “At the heart of their story is not their own gifts and abilities, but the encounter with Christ that changed their lives.” - Pope

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ATTENDANCE

EVERY DAY COUNTS

As a school we promote a clear vision with attendance and understand that it is underpinned by high expectations for every pupil and our core school values. Take a look at our whole school strategy that we use to promote high expectations for attendance and punctuality.

ATTENDANCE

EVERY DAY COUNTS

At All Saints we implement a whole school traffic light attendance policy where all staff monitor and support pupils’ attendance. We recognise that if pupils do not attend, they do not learn.

We set high expectations for pupils’ attendance and punctuality - for pupils to succeed academically and to become well rounded citizens when they leave us. We expect all pupils to achieve at least 97% attendance and 0 lates.

ATTENDANCE

EVERY DAY COUNTS

Drastic effect on academic achievement. Your attendance will be monitored by your Head of Year and our attendance team.

90%-95%

Cause for concern. Your attendance will be monitored by your pastoral officer.

95%-100%

Excellent. Your attendance will be monitored by your form tutor.

ATTENDANCE

EVERY DAY COUNTS

Each week our pupils receive achievement points in form for our school value - excellence if they achieved 100% attendance in the previous week.

All pupils have the opportunity to enter a raffle and are able to win a £5 Amazon gift voucher for 100% attendance and most improved attendance for the previous week. We reward one pupil per year group for each of these raffles each week.

Well done to all pupils who have displayed our school values and have been entered into these opportunities.

Extracurricular opportunities

Our extracurricular opportunities are open to all pupils MondayFriday 3:00PM-4:00PM. We have recently conducted a pupil survey to gain an understanding of what pupils enjoy and what opportunities they would like adding. This is our current timetable but our pupils have shared some fantastic ideas on what they wouldliketoseeadded.

Extracurricular opportunities

Our extracurricular opportunities are open to all pupils MondayFriday 3:00PM-4:00PM. We have recently conducted a pupil survey to gain an understanding of what pupils enjoy and what opportunities they would like adding. This is our current timetable but our pupils have shared some fantastic ideas on what they wouldliketoseeadded.

Empathy Day 9th June

DEAR - Drop Everything And Read

Years 7-10 took part in Empathy Day on 9th June in their 'Drop Everything And Read' session. All of the texts were centred around empathy. Pupils reflected on the feelings of different characters and how others reacted to them. Pupils also discussed how this links to their lives and how important it is to be empathetic.

National Writing Day

WELL DONE TO ALL PUPILS WHO TOOK PART - THE WINNER AND RUNNERS UP WILL BE

ANNOUNCED ON THURSDAY 6TH JULY

ASCC sport

Well done to our year 7 pupils for entering the Tameside Quadkids! You were brilliant and didn’t stop smiling throughout!

We have our new cohort of pupils starting their CrossFit programme at Ashton Gritstone!! They loved their first session with Gemma!!

Did you know it was National Bike Week from 5th June? If you rode to school that week, you received 5 achievements points each day you travelled to school on your bike! Ms Carrs travels to school on her bike every day!

C R E A T I V E A R T S T R I P

On 28th & 29th June, 40 of our year 9 & 10 pupils enjoyed an overnight visit to London. During the trip we experienced lots of different Performing Arts settings, such as seeing the National Theatre, the Globe Theatre & watching a WestEnd production of ‘Wicked’. We also took a trip on the London Eye & visits to Borough Market & Covent Garden. A fab time was had by all!

ANNOUNCEMENT PERFORMING ARTS DEPARTMENT

After a fabulous school show in April it's time to announce next year's show.

Thank you for all of your votes, Mrs Millington is proud to announce you have chosen... The Wizard of Oz as our school show next year.

DukeofEdinburgh Award

In June our Bronze and Silver expeditions have takenplace.Ouramazing adventurers have undertaken their Bronze and Silver practice and finalBronzeexpedition.

Our Bronze pupils have walked from school all thewaytoBoarfoldScout Camp and back over theirtwodaytrek.

Our Silver pupils have walked from school all the way to Windlehurst and back. They will be undertaking their final expedition in Snowden. We can't wait to share theiradventureswithyou.

DukeofEdinburgh expeditions

DukeofEdinburgh expeditions

DukeofEdinburgh expeditions

GirlsinMathematics

The Head of Maths from Ashton Sixth Form College delivered a 'Girls in Mathematics' session to a group of year 10 students. The aim of the session was to encourage more girls within theTamesideareatocontinue to study Mathematics post GCSE,ascurrentlyonlyabouta third of A-level STEM students arefemale.

Reward Trips

A reminder that our end of year trips will be going ahead on 19th July. The current year 7 and 8 will attend Chester Zoo and our currentyear9and10willattendAltonTowers.Don'tforgetourend of year trips are for all pupils who are meeting our high expectations.Wewanttorewardasmanypupilsaspossible.

Ourletterforourschoolrewardstripcanbefoundhere: https://www.allsaintscatholiccollege.com/application/files/8816/8 717/2193/19.06.23 Rewards trips letter.pdf

Year 9 & 10

Year 9 and 10 will be invited to attend our reward trip to Alton Towers on 19th October to celebrate all of their hard work

Year 7 & 8

Year 7 and 8 will be invited to attend our reward trip to Chester Zoo on 19th October to celebrate all of their hard work,

Beat plasticpollution

On 5th June we launched our beat plastic pollution drive for WorldEnvironmentDay.

Ourwholeschoolbeatplasticpollutionchallengewastocollect as many plastic bottles as possible to raise awareness of the importance of recycling. Well done everyone who participated, the following forms collected the most plastic bottles and won thebeatplasticpollutionchallenge:

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Year 9 and 10 will be invited to attend our reward trip to Alton Towers on the 19th October to celebrate all of their hard work

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Silver conduct award

In March we launched our Celebration of Conduct reward system. Since then, pupils have been working super hard to gain their bronze, silver and gold badges. Pupils were awarded their silver badges and were invited to an escape room afternoon to celebrate their hard work together,

So far, 500 pupils have received badges for their outstanding conduct. Well done everyone!

YEAR 11 LEAVERS

WE SAID GOODBYE TO OUR YEAR 11 PUPILS WHO BEGAN THEIR STUDY LEAVE AT THE START OF THIS MONTH. WE WOULD LIKE WISH ALL PUPILS HAPPINESS AND SUCCESS IN ALL THAT YOU DO. MAY YOU CONTINUE TO USE YOUR GIFTS AND TALENTS TO THE BEST OF YOUR ABILITY SO THAT YOU CAN SUCCEED ON YOUR CHOSEN PATH.

SPORTINGINTHE COMMUNITY

Our year 7 pupil Akie works super hard outside of school on a sport that he is truly passionate aboutboxing.

Akie has done Boxing, Muaythai and Judjitsu. He has taken part in these different sports over a five year course.

Akie loves being a part of the community in boxing, where people come together to help each other physically and mentally. Akie says he is much happier since he has taken up these sports.

Well done Akie for all your hard work and commitment. You display our community and resilence in all that you do.