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Dates for the diary Thursday 4th Oct
- Open Evening— early closure at 1:00pm Friday 5th October - Non learner day, Staff only in school. Wednesday 10th Oct - C11 Careers Fayre Music Evening Soiree Sunday 14th October - Feel Good Fayre Wednesday 17th October - C11 MADE training Half term - Monday 22nd October to Friday 26th October School returns - Monday 29th October Monday 5th November - C11 Post 16 Evening (1) Tuesday 6th November - C11 Post 16 Evening (2) Thursday 8th November - C12 GCSE certificate awards evening W/c 12th November - C11 Mocks commence Friday 16th November and Monday 19th November School closed—staff only
By James Saunders 28th September 2018
Following on from last week’s highly successful sponsored walk it is my pleasure to let you know who our winning group was. We are still in the process of counting the money raised and will announce the learning group who raised the most once this has been completed. I am pleased to inform you that this year’s winning group was 8CPE. We found that they had really bonded well as team and managed to bring cohesiveness as well as individuality to their vintage military theme. Well done Mrs Perella. It was a very close call as so many groups had done such a wonderful job. Thank you to you all. Other favourites and close contenders were the Cohort 11 boys in their Marvel superhero onesies; the star wars group of Miss Golding and the group of girls all dressed as their mum. All our learners and staff really embraced the theme of heroes. Thank you to you all for your support. I had the pleasure of attending some assemblies this week delivered by Mr Matt Ager. He was talking about the theme of perspective and through the use of a series of optical illusions was able to draw upon a range of issues to do with understanding self, managing one’s own behaviour and being empathic to others. The material was highly thought provoking and reminded me that whether staff or learner any situation must be looked at through a range of perspectives not just our own. I hope you will be fully aware of the changes to the school day this Thursday for our open evening. I have just looked at the list of volunteers and it looks to be pretty much the whole school. I would like to thank you all for your support. If you are ferrying your children back and forth so that they may act as guides, we are very grateful. An open evening can sometimes be viewed as a
bit of a game; trying to showcase the school from a certain perspective. The fact that we have so many learners acting as ambassadors gives me confidence that visitors to our school will be able to have an authentic view of what the school is about from the perspective of those that matter most: the learners. I would also like to ask for your collective feedback to allow us to focus our priorities over the next year. You will recall that your feedback last term helped to inform some of the decisions we have already made. We would like to develop this further by creating regular opportunities to provide feedback so that we can evaluate the impact we are having and to ensure that standards remain where they should be. We have created a simple online form to allow us to measure responses across a range of areas. The form can be found at the following link: http://bit.ly/ParentSurveySept2018
IS Club runs on the following days in CS2:
Monday & Tuesday 3:20—4:30pm Wednesday 3:00pm—4:00pm C11 have been given a revision timetable for sessions available through the week Reminder: The school email address suffixed by
@honywoodschool.com Please ensure, when sending emails to the school that the correct email address is used. Thankyou
I wish you all a great weekend.
Thankyou to our Cohort 8 Duty Receptionists
Thank you To: Layla Al Riyami (8RPh) and Nicholas McKeown (8AGi) for taking a visitor on a tour of the school last Friday. The visitor was highly complimentary about the both of you.
Early closure on the 4th October for Open Evening preparations.
Jamie Powell Jake Ring Lillie Seex Basant Sherif
8th—19th October 2018
We have a school inset day on the 5th October— staff only in school.
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