CGA News 20th January 2017
Happy New Year! 2017 is off to a busy and productive start. Some highlights for January so far have been the focused start students have made to the new term and the number of our sixth form students who have exciting offers from top universities, including Cambridge, Kings, Queen Mary and Birmingham.
Students! Start the new year well by coming down to the CGA gym (R44) where Ms Hamilton will put you through your paces and guide you towards leading a healthier and more active lifestyle!
WEDNESDAYS 3.00 - 4.00PM
A key theme for this term is challenge and we will be working with students to get them thinking about how they challenge themselves and each other. We will be considering the importance of effort and struggle and having really high expectations of ourselves and others. One aspect of this is our Attendance Challenge which will be running this term to remind students about the important link between progress and attendance.
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Attendance Challenge For our attendance challenge we are challenging students to have 100% attendance for this half term. Students will receive prizes and rewards for 100% attendance on a weekly basis.
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Jan 16
Beginning of Attendance Challenge
Feb 10
Professional Learning Day. School closed to students
Feb 13
Half Term 13th - 17 Feb
Feb 20
Students return to school
Year 8 knitting club help the homeless of Hackney Year 8 knitting club have been knitting scarves and hats for homeless people in and around Hackney.
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I look forward to seeing you all this term at parents’ evening and other events.
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Finally, at this point in the year we begin to think about plans for next academic year. You will be receiving paper and electronic copies of a parent survey to make sure that we have your feedback on strengths and areas for development. Please look out for these.
Wed 3-4pm
GCSE trampolining:
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Next week sees the start of this year’s parents’ evenings. Your daughter will be bringing home letters and appointment sheets for these evenings over the next term.
New PE clubs: Alternative sports:
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Key dates
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A Message From the Headteacher
The club was started by Year 8 student Eliza Eaton. She shared her knitting skills with other students which proved popular enough to become a weekly club, which is now 15 members strong! Local shop ‘Wild and Woolly’ donates wool to the students in return for their knitted wares which are then given out to homeless people. Eliza said: “It’s nice that we have all got together and used our time to help others less fortunate than us.”