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NEWSLETTER Friday 14th June
Dear parents and carers, We are so proud of our Year 11 students and today we have had a wonderful morning with them in our celebration leavers’ assembly. This very heartfelt and fun event celebrated our students’ five years with us so far and gave us the opportunity to reflect on the students’ successes across their whole stretch of time with us. We also said a formal well done to the year group for their enormous effort with their GCSEs. With so many of the year group returning to us for their sixth form we were relieved that this wasn’t a final goodbye for too many but will truly miss those who are moving to new experiences in September. Our Year 11s have been excellent role models for our Year 10s and we’ve been very pleased to see the Year 10s take on the mantle by working hard in lessons, engaging in their mock exam preparation and revisiting work studied across the last two years. These mock exams give students a clear indication of which areas of the curriculum they will need to target over the coming months to bridge any gaps and are a key part of our exam programme. Keep it up Year 10 – we are here to support you. Good luck also to students in Year 12 who are also sitting mocks. We continue to make visits to the primary schools to meet our new intake and we are picking up on the Year 6 students’ evident excitement at starting at secondary school and joining us at Cowes Enterprise College. They look forward to our transition days and evening and also our family welcome breakfast on their first day in September. This cohort will be the first to receive our new Maritime Futures curriculum in Year 7, which will enable students to learn certain aspects of their curriculum through a maritime thread which has a significant focus on careers. This week we have held our first Maritime Review Panel as part of our preparation for this new curriculum and national leaders from a number of maritime related fields joined us for the day to assist our planning. The day was very successful and our visitors were very complimentary about what we are putting in place and have offered their national contacts list to support our career work at a high level next year. I continue to enjoy my parent surgeries as meeting parents and hearing your thoughts is key for me. This term my parent surgeries continue on Tuesday afternoons. Please either email dharrison@cowesec.org or phone the school on 01983 203103 asking for Donna Harrison to book a pre-booked slot. With best wishes, Rachel Kitley Click the arrows or swipe to turn pages .