Young sports stars motivated for awards push THE school’s sporting stars have vowed to push even harder next year after they narrowly missed out on the borough’s top awards. Norlington School – an award winner for the last three years – saw its pupils named in the team and individual category, while Ms McPortland was shortlisted for coach of the year at the Waltham Forest Sports awards. Year 8 Kyle Finlayter-Lynch was up for the young sports person award while both our U16 and U13 table tennis teams were nominated for the team award after scoring victory in the borough championships for a fifth year in a row. But despite their exceptional sporting performances this year, neither staff nor students were selected for awards. Year 8 Saad Ali, who is in our U13s table tennis team, said: “It was disappointing not to win but at the same time I was glad we were nominated. Not winning the awards has made us all the more determined to come back next year and win.”
Minister visits for STEM day STUDENTS joined the Aviation Minister Baroness Sugg at a STEM challenge run by London City Airport (above). Professionals from top industry firms, including British Airways, NATS and Accenture were on hand to tutor our students. They learned about voice recognition, machine learning, artificial intelligence and virtual reality at the event held In November.
OUR sixth form students examined coastal erosion on a geography field trip in September.
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Close: The under 13 table tennis team Assistant Headteacher Mr Hobbs said: “The Young Sports Person was won by someone who had won medals in an international athletics competition and the team award went to a swimming team competing nationally.
“We are very proud that our boys have been recognised. It is an achievement just to be at the awards, especially when you see the calibre of the competition. This will motivate our boys to push on to the next level.”
Ofsted focuses on family ethos OFSTED has hailed Norlington School’s the best in the borough of Waltham Forest. The “distinctive family ethos” in its latest report, inspectors said: “The school has maintained praising the good behavior of students and the the good quality of education since the last quality of education offered. inspection. Inspectors noted that results continued to “At GCSE, pupils’ outcomes have shown improve at the school and confirmed it remains further improvement. The progress of all groups rated Good. of pupils in key stage 4, including the most able, In the report published in November, the is strong. watchdog described behaviour at “Staff are supportive of your the school as calm and orderly, with THE TOP leadership and enjoy being part of the procedures to keep students safe said school with its distinctive family ethos. to be robust and effective. “The behaviour of pupils around They found students were challenged the school is calm and orderly. The to reach their potential and also said pupils enjoy being part of the school the sixth form was improving under SCHOOLS community. new head Mr Wadey. “Sixth-form students said that they were It comes as the school was likely to be proud of their school and they value the support ranked in the top 100 in the country for GCSE they receive from staff.” results, according to figures published by the The report added: “Students receive strong Department for Education in October. challenges in the sixth form. In economics, for The school is also in the top three non- example, students were given demanding work selective boys’ schools in London and among on the principles of supply and demand.”
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STUDENTS across the school have been fine-tuning their chess skills at the school’s popular club.
Norlington School newsletter n Winter 2018