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Issue 617 - 2nd February 2018

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By Jo Hickford Acting Head

We have survived ‘Blue Monday’, supposedly the most depressing day of the year, where a combination of factors conspire to make the third Monday of the year singularly the most despondent,.… and we are still standing. It may in fact be that you were blissfully unaware as that passed you by, leading me to question whether it is helpful to acknowledge an upcoming challenge or hurdle before we face it, taking a ‘forewarned is forearmed’ perspective, or is it better to reflect in hindsight on challenges that we have overcome (or at least survived)?

Certainly recognising moments where we have triumphed is important in building the resilience to face further challenge.

But equally important is recognising times that we have tried, have battled, have given our all; we have looked in the mirror at the end of the day knowing we have done our best. If we don’t celebrate when we have done a good job, and know when it is right to be satisfied with ‘good enough’, we don’t replenish the emotional energy to be able tackle whatever the next test may bring. Energy-sapping negative emotions such as fear, frustration, impatience, and anger all impact on our resilience levels, meaning we have little in reserve, and very often don’t pay enough attention to restoring depleted resilience.

Keen to replenish emotional energy and to inject some colour into a grey and gloomy January, I visited a new exhibition at Colchester’s Firstsite gallery by Chelmsfordborn Turner prize winning artist Grayson Perry. Entitled The Life of Julie Cope, the exhibition celebrates the life of his Essex every woman. Perry describes the tale as representing ‘the trials, tribulations, celebrations and mistakes of an average life’, by portraying a life through tapestries, woodcuts, sketchbooks and an audio account. Big, gloriously colourful pieces, overflow with cultural and architectural detail, contain a social history of Essex and modern Britain. If you get the chance, I highly recommend a visit! But alongside serving a purpose in raising my spirits, Perry’s portrayal of a life celebrated and of choices made played out in glorious technicolour imagery made me think about whether we do enough to celebrate achievement – not as an accolade but in recognition of perseverance, in persisting in the face of adversity, in being prepared to learn from experience and to work and re-work towards the ideal.

The brain is central to the delivery of success, whatever the challenge. It is rarely our physical selves that stop us from achieving a major challenge, more often it is our loss of belief, commitment and motivation that leads to failure. When we are able to genuinely appreciate challenge and see the value in learning from set-back, rather than seeing failure as the antithesis of learning, then we are able to truly unlock potential.

Integral to our My Learning Attributes curriculum is the development of the personal characteristics to be able to cope with failure, reflect upon and learn from experience and use it as an impetus to improve.

Nowhere more so do we see this brought to life than in the learning review discussions we have with our learners and their families. Considered reflection on challenges overcome is invaluable in opening our thinking about potential ways forward, to raise aspiration and to unlock a wider range of possibilities than possibly ever previously envisaged.

Quintet Learning ‘We know all about Pythagoras, but we don’t know how to open a back account!’ In keeping with the theme of facing challenge, this week saw our learners engage in the second Quintet week of this year, with a focus on developing life skills.

‘Quotes’ “Not only am I learning important life skills in Quintet this week, but I am also helping those younger than me develop their life skills” Kassia Stevens-Moore 11DBr “This Quintet week has definitely prepared us for the future!” Eloise Dockerty 11AMi “Quintet is preparing us for our future lives!” Shanti Simonelli-Nurthen 9SLo Read more on this on page 7 DNA Drama Production A gang of teenagers commit a crime. An awful crime. The group need someone to take charge, but who do they trust?

Who should lead?

DNA explores social and relationship issues within teenage gangs. The play acts as one of the GCSE set texts which C10 Drama learners will analyse as part of the written element of the course. Congratulations to Chloe Angell (10MGr), James Clayton (10OCi), Skye-Louise Dickins (10HTr), Sophie Gaskell (10HTr), Shannon Grealis (10OCi), Elizabeth Grinter (10MRa), George Gullick (10OCi), Abigail Lee (10KHo), Georgia MeyerHek (10OCi), Connie Sarti (10HTr), Lara Stevens (10MRa) and Lily Vickers (10MWo) for their spine-chillingly good DNA performances in this powerful drama production this week.

Thanks to Spirit of Honywood and the following Learners for helping out at this event. Ellie Houghton (8PBl).

Megan Gaunt (10MWo), James Bass (10NPo), Alfie Holland (10HBr), Bethany Jarrad (10KHo) and Alana Kettle (10HBr).

Thanks to Gabrielle Assuman (8PBl) , Adam Edwards (8CRs), Lauren Evans (8EPe), Jonathan Harris (8HGi), Oakley Jacobs (8EPe) and Molly Mead (8AIs) for leading tours this week for visiting Headteachers from Norway.

Thanks to David Brown (8AIs) and Sophie Penn-Bowen (8CRs) for leading a tour for a visitor interested in pursuing a career in teaching.

Community Letter Please see over on next page letter sent to the school by Parishes Against INcinerator detailing the proposed Rivenhall Incinerator, which will shortly be determined by Essex County Council.

Parents’ Time Members of the Leadership Team will be available to see parents without appointment: Monday 9.00am—9.45am Tuesday 7.15am—8.00am Wednesday 3.00pm—3.45pm Thursday 5.00pm—6.00pm Friday 7.15am—8.00am

Dear Mr Mason and Mr Saunders I am writing on behalf of Parishes Against INcinerator (PAIN) regarding concerns I have for the proposed Rivenhall Incinerator, which will shortly be determined by Essex County Council. I am one of many who are extremely concerned about the impact of this facility on the health of our children in all the local schools, which will be impacted by the air pollution from this facility. If you saw the programme on air pollution shown on 11/01/18 on BBC 2, ‘The Birmingham high street that cut air pollution’, you will appreciate the heath issues that surround air pollution. The same pollutants that emerge from a diesel engine will come out the top of this 600,000 tonne per annum facility.

PAIN has many objections to this facility and can answer all of your questions regarding need, alternative ways to process waste, impact on the roads, the environment etc. However, for now I would like to talk about the nearly 300,000 children within a 25 mile radius of this facility and their health. This figure excludes future residents that will come as a result of the new housing developments, especially the proposed garden communities at West Tey. Here are those schools:

On this web page we have a plume plotter that takes the height of the chimney and local weather data for a year to plot the plume and where it blows. The most local schools are plotted on this map. http://no2incinerator.co.uk/impact/

PAIN are currently preparing a comprehensive document that explains all the arguments why this facility should not be built. For your information, attached is the extract on health.

Sadly we do not believe this to be ‘scaremongering’. To further support our concerns we are now working with David Drew MP, Shadow Minister For Waste. We will be attending a moratorium with a cross party group of MPs to debate incineration and health. The debate will propose that all incineration in the UK should cease due to the enormous health imbalance found between those that live in their shadow and those that do not.This information on health has to date been suppressed. In addition, Priti Patel MP is working with us to prevent this facility from being built, as are numerous local councillors and Parish Councils.

Whilst this isn’t quite in your back yard so to speak, many of your pupils will live much closer to the area and this facility will have a detrimental effect on their heath and in turn their schooling. As teachers and governors who offer an exceptional duty of care to the children at your school we would ask that you please consider the impact of this facility and consider the weight that responses from all the schools and their children impacted would carry. This is not political. This crosses the divide: this is heath - it’s our children's and our own health.

We would be happy to meet with you to discuss further the implication and how your school children could be involved. Time is, however, of the essence. This facility may go to committee this February or March unless it is called in by the Secretary of State.

Yours sincerely, Julie Standen & Alex Stevenson PAIN No2incinerator.co.uk 1

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D of E Learners Our Duke of Edinburgh learners were in school on Saturday 27th January to take part in a first aid training course courtesy of Train to be Safe who offered this course free of charge to support our learners in gaining their qualification. They had a fantastic time, learning CPR and being challenged in a 'mock emergency' where they were faced with potential victims of incidents and had to respond to the situations using the skills they had learnt. Thank you Train to be Safe for giving our youngsters this opportunity.

Cohort 10 Drama Show This week learners in C10 drama performed their first solo play of DNA by Dennis Kelly. The cast and our design candidate (the course allows learners to explore backstage elements of theatre such as costume and lighting design) were outstanding and demonstrated so much professionalism on the night and throughout the rehearsal period. This play explores social issues within teenage gangs and is a text learners are required to analyse as part of the written element of the course. It is a difficult script to explore, including limited stage directions and a large amount of fast paced, repetitive speech. The group approached this amazingly and continued to unpick the script until they were confident with their interpretation of the different characters. Although the script is explored as part of the course, the performance was not mandatory and so the group should be congratulated on their commitment to developing their skills and understanding in drama outside of their usual drama sessions. Both nights were fantastic and the group performed to a sold out audience. Thank you to those that supported the performance and we look forward to welcoming you to more drama performances in the future. ‘ Quotes’ I’m just emailing to say that I was amazed with the play. All of the actors did really well and they’re all so talented. Watching this play really encouraged me to choose drama - I would love to be able to perform as well as that one day.

Joe Partridge ‘it’s the best thing I’ve ever seen at Honywood!’?

Mrs Gullick Many Thanks Miss Weller, Expressive Arts.

Quintet Week 2 This week saw the Quintets get together for the second time this academic year with a focus on Life Skills. The plans for the week looked like this…

Monday – Doing the weekly shop Tuesday – Buying your first car Thursday – Completing Forms & Applications Friday – Managing time The ‘Life Skills’ were chosen by the Quintet Team and some of our Lead Learners as areas that our Learners could find useful later in their life. To make it interesting we made it a competition as well so all the Quintets were competing against each other. On Monday it was who could complete the weekly shop for the lowest price and on Tuesday they had to find a car (that was less than 10 years old, had less than 40,000 miles on the clock and was blue or yellow in colour) for the cheapest amount possible. Thursday saw Quintets completing a Kahoot Quiz and Friday was all about completing as many of a given list of tasks as possible together as a Quintet and sending evidence to Miss Gamble and Miss Trowbridge. Overall the week was massive successive, here are just a few of the quotes learners shared with us at the end of the week…

“We love Quintet because we get on really well with learners from all year groups and have a good laugh with them” Eadon Lagdon 11LSt and Jacob Higgon 11AMi “Quintet is amazing, I love my Quintet group. It’s such a great opportunity to build relationships with the younger cohorts!” Jay Windard 11CGa “A great learning experience” James Baker 10KHo “It is a great way to make new friends” Hannah Lawerence 8APr “I feel that I have learnt new terms concerning filling out forms, such as: next of kin etc. It was a very useful experience.” Anya Sullivan 10ATo

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C11 Essex Cup Team: Harry Critchley, Jake Banyard, Joshua Greene, Jake Horlock, Rhyse Hudson, Ben Macklin, Hayden Matthews, Callum Pennock, Billy Seager, Nathan Seymour, Ethan Webster, Will Whitbread, Ben Whitehead, Jack Whitehead, Matt Wooldridge Honywood played Campion School on Thursday in the U16 Essex Cup Quarter Final. Honywood started off the better team in tricky conditions with great link up play from the strikers testing the keeper early. Honywood continued to pile the pressure on with Harry Critchley and Callum Penncok attacking the wings. Honywood almost found themselves with the opening goal after a long shot was heading for the top corner only to be cleared off the line. Campion come back fighting and had a good spell of their own and found themselves through on goal and great strike on target matched by a brilliant save by Billy Seargar to keep the game at 0-0. After a tough battle in midfield, Honywood finally found a key pass to Jake Horlock in the penalty area to slot the ball in the corner of the net to take the lead. Honywood only had themselves to blame when they let Campion back in the game just 5 minutes after scoring by not picking up their men from a corner giving Campion a free header from 5 yards out. Honywood and Campion entered half time at 1-1.

Second half Campion came out wanting it more and scored a quick goal after the restart leaving Honywood 2-1 down. Honywood kept their heads and created a few chances on goal but Campion’s keeper was in fine form keeping everything out much to the frustration of the Honywood attackers. Honywood finally brought it back to level pegging with a whipped in corner looping into the back of the net. Both teams had game winning opportunities only for both goalkeepers keeping their sides in the game with some excellent shot stopping.

At the end of full time the honours were level which meant that Honywood had to dig deep to go into extra time.

Extra time was a hard fought battle and it was Honywood that broke the deadlock when a pin point though ball from Harry Critchley was played to Rhyse Hudson with a great touch and classy finish to give the boys an early goal in extra time and take the lead 3-2. This gave the boys the lift in confidence and energy needed to create more chances and Honywood soon found themselves 4-2 up. Honywood finshed Campion off with a well worked set piece with Rhyse Hudson getting on the end of a clever flick at the front post to make the final score 5-3. The boys showed great character to come from behind and finsh the game strong and put themselves into the Semi Final. Well done lads!!

Cohort 8 Inter-Learning Group Football League Football Report 3 This week saw the last of the C8 learning groups battling it out for a place in the semi-finals. Also up for grabs was the top runner up who would then go through as the 4th semi-finalist. So all was to play for as the teams and their supporters lined themselves up for this intriguing final set of group stage fixtures.

First up were EPe v KAr. From the start it was clear that EPe meant business, turning up in a specially designed brand new match kit sponsored by Miss Pearce herself. This was a much anticipated fixture as there was gossip all week about the match-up between Ronnie Hayward and Harry Regan. There was also a sell-out crowd adding to the already electric atmosphere. The game didn’t disappoint, with a strong defensive effort from both teams. Hayward’s runs were mercurial and only matched by the dazzling skills of Regan. In a tight encounter the deadlock was eventually broken through the boot of Regan, making it a 1-0 win.

The second game saw DCa face KAr. After some rest, the action resumed and again there was a tight first 5 minutes. KAr came close on several occasions, only to be undone by the resolute defence of Hannah Day and the cat like goalkeeping qualities of Jonny Adams. At the end of the first half DCa finally found the back of the net, putting them 1-0 ahead. In the second half another goal came through the vision and skill of Josh Taylor, but KAr pulled one back through Hayward. (2-1). After some precarious defensive moments for DCa a 3rd goal was scored putting the game to bed at 3-1 to DCa. The final fixture was EPe V DCa. EPe were keen to notch up another victory to take them through to the semifinals, and DCa were keen to build on their last victory. This was an incredibly tight game with both sides seeing plenty of possession. There really was nothing to split the two sides. Both Harry Regan and Liam Gipson created opportunities, as well as Cole Robins and Josh Taylor for DCa. The goal the game needed finally came through the footwork and vision of Josh Taylor and after some edge of the seat defending for much of the second half. the whistle blew and it was all over.

So DCa now head into the semi-finals to face either AIs or PBl. Thank you to Mr Bilton for helping out.

Games

EPe v KAr = Result 1-0 DCA v KAr = Result 2-0 EPe v DCa = Result 2-1

Points DCa - 11 points EPe - 9 points KAr - 5 points

So the final semi-final place goes to EPe who gained the most points out of all of the other teams. This was partly due to the extra point gained from their customised Team kit! Great effort guys.

Good luck to all teams who made it to the semi-finals!

Player of the match for each game

1st Game – Ronnie Hayward

2nd game – Jonny Adams

3rd game – Harry Regan

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What’s Happening in School (a ‘Snapshot’ of Learning @ Honywood each day)

What's happening in school on Monday 29th January 2018 Our Cohort 10 Geographers took over the Artspace on Monday as they recreated the landscape of Lima, Peru. Using satellite images of Lima, the learners used mud rock to recreate the terrain.

What’s happening in school on Wednesday 31st January 2018 Cohort 10 Geographers are making great progress with their Lima landscape projects. Looking forward to seeing the finished articles!

What's happening in school on Wednesday 31st January 2018 On Wednesday morning Cohort 7 Science learners were experimenting with speed and velocity. In one class they are experimenting with sand box craters, dropping a marble from a variety of heights to test theories on impact. They are videoing their experiments and will then anaylse the outcomes in their write up. In the corridor, another group are testing speed against distance and time.

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Week 1 Main Course

Vegetarian Course

Monday Traditional Cottage Pie served with seasonal vegetables or beans Vegetarian Cottage Pie served with seasonal vegetables or beans

Dessert

Forest Fruit Crumble & Custard

Pasta Bake

BBQ Sausage Cheese Sauce Plain

Courtyard Cafe

Pizza Tugo Quad Special

Menu subject to change

Tuesday Roast Chicken with stuffing, roast potatoes & seasonal vegetables Golden Vegetable Loaf with roast potatoes & seasonal vegetables Chocolate Sponge with Chocolate Sauce Chicken Tikka Vegetable Tikka Plain Pizza Tugo Quad Special

Wednesday Beef Lasagne with green salad & garlic bread Vegetarian Lasagne with green salad & garlic bread

Keylime Pie

Thursday Sweet & Sour Chicken Noodles with spring roll & prawn crackers Sweet & Sour Vegetable Noodles with spring roll & prawn crackers

Friday Traditional Fish & Chips with peas or beans Tomato & Basil Quiche with chips & salad

Strawberry Mousse

Fresh Fruit Salad

Cheese Sauce Arrabbiata Tomato & Basil Sauce Plain Plain

Pasta Bake of the day

Pizza Tugo Quad Special

Pizza Tugo Quad Special

Pizza Tugo Quad Special

My Learning Choices English What do you need to do to ensure that you’ll do well in your upcoming assessments? Which learning points do you still need to work on? How do you intend to act on these learning points?

Don’t hesitate to book an MLC today with a member of the English team who can help support and guide you to make progress in your learning.

Important Dates 4th Feb - 10th Feb Honywood Depart German Exchange 12th - 16th Feb Half Tearm 14th March - Cohort 8 Guided Choices Evening

Patrick Sweeney 10KHo has been having great success with his table tennis matches in recent weeks. He plays for Black Notley in the Chelmsford League.

Well done Patrick!

Enterprise & Solutions MLCs this week are available to Cohort 7 learners that would like help completing their Season 3 ‘Castle Estate Challenge’ project. Sessions will also be available for Cohort 8s that would like to go over the key factors to consider when ‘locating a business’ and uploading their work to their MLJ pages.

Business Studies MLCs this week will be focused on the ‘Business in the Real World’ for the Cohort 9s, with the main focus on ‘Business structures’ – sole traders, partnerships, franchises, companies (PLCs & Ltd.). Sessions will also be available for Cohort 10s who would like to go through any aspects of ‘Case Study 5’.

MFL Cohort 7, following on from your recent showcasing, have you identified areas you would like to develop in French or German? If so, why not book an MLC with a Modern Languages teacher today!

Well Done

SCI-FEST

Practise being a doctor with the medical mavericks See Doctor Death and Medievil Pantomime Meet Dr Susie Imber, winner of TV series 'Astronauts' Sports science workshop Creepy Crawlies Roadshow Interactive Forensics Labs Raspberry Pi Workshop

Well Done to our Cohort 8 Duty Receptionists Harriet Wash Sam Trevains Ellen Wilkinson-Goody Jodi Clarke Fleur L’Esperance Hannah Pyatt

Immersive Theatre Essex Wildlife Trust Smoothie Bikes Planetarium

10AM-4PM SATURDAY 17TH MARCH COLCHESTER ROYAL GRAMMAR SCHOOL FREE ENTRY SOME ACTIVITIES INCUR A SMALL CHARGE

Family Learning Team

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