Our final Year 11 Parents’ Evening takes place next Thursday (6th March). This is an incredibly important evening as the final examination season for GCSEs is fast approaching and this is an excellent opportunity to get up to date feedback on how your child is progressing. If you are a parent of a Year 11 student, please check that they are making the appointments for you. If you have any concerns about appointments please contact Mrs Cain (Head of Year 11). Congratulations to Katie Hedderson (7T) who has been awarded the Jack Petchey Award for February. Katie made a presentation in assemblies on the dangers of using mobile phones on the tube and for young children to be aware of their surroundings when traveling on public transport. Katie was incredibly brave and courageous in delivering this assembly. Congratulations also to our Year 7 Football team who drew 3-3 with Forest School yesterday in what was a very exciting, fast paced game of football. Highlight of the game though was the great goal scored by Max Wintle (7U)-a great effort! Finally, well done to everyone who was on the Ski Trip to Torgon in Switzerland this half term. The feedback from the students was great and the staff who supervised the trip were very complimentary about the excellent behaviour of our students. Thanks also goes to all the staff who gave up their half term holiday to supervise the trip. We have some important events taking place next week. Next Thursday (6th March) is World Book Day and there will be a number of events taking place across the school to celebrate. Lunchtime will see our usual book sale/book swop with other activities taking place in the hall. The 2nd Year 7 disco takes place next Friday (7th March) from 6.30pm-8.30pm. Tickets are £5 and can be bought using ParentPay. Cash sales can be made in the foyer at break and lunch time. Finally, for those children who are going on the Sorrento Trip, there is a meeting for parents in the hall at 6.30pm on Monday (3rd March). I would also like to draw parents’ attention to a very special event taking place on 31st March 2014. Further details are contained later on in the bulletin, but we are hosting a Charity Dinner to raise funds for our ‘Team Zambia’ trip to Africa this summer. It would be good if we could sell as many tickets as possible to this event and I would like to thank ‘The Olive Tree’ restaurant in Loughton for agreeing to host this event. I would like to wish everyone a good weekend. Paul Banks Headteacher
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