News Letter 6 July 2015

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SUMMER NEWSLETTER: Word from Head / Uniform / Health and Well-being Week / Swimming Gala / The Digi's / Macbeth / Special Achievement / Class Residentials / Dates for Diaries / Leavers Ball / Staff Welcomes and Goodbyes / Our Leavers.

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Tettenhall Wood School. Regis Road, Tettenhall. WV6 8XG. Phone: 01902 556519-

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A Word from the Head..

Dear all I really cannot believe I am writing this piece for the Newsletter at the end of my first year as the Head Teacher at Tettenhall Wood School. It has been a truly wonderful year and watching all our young people blossom in so many areas of their lives is a blessing. I have been very pleased to be able to meet so many of you and get to know you and I look forward to many more opportunities in the new academic year.

We have welcomed 21 new pupils to the school this academic year and a number of new staff. We also say goodbye to six of our students who are leaving us for a wonderful next phase in their lives. These are Abbie, Alisha, Alex, John, Rupert and Daniel. We wish all six every happiness and success for their future and we will miss them all in school. Three of our staff are also leaving us today, these are Heather Copson, Ellie Etchells and Jennifer Robbins. Again we wish them every happiness for the future and send our heartfelt thanks for everything they have done for School.

On this note we have some new staff joining us in September and these are James McVickers, Kelly Singlton, Courtney Roberts, Jenny Anslow, Melanie Heywood, Jackie Pacey and Giles Bates. We are very much looking forward to the team growing and continuing to develop to support everything we do in school.

There have been many highlights this year. Some of the most poignant ones including meeting parents in the Meet and Greet sessions when I started and the mornings throughout the year when parents have been invited in to share the learning with their children. Eagles also acted as part of Shakespeare schools festival. This was a truly memorable performance of Macbeth. We have been part of a community project called Can Do. The Christmas performances were amazing. The specialist weeks including our Maths and Science week, Literature Through the Arts week and the wonderful Health and Wellbeing week were so well organised and gave our young people so many opportunities to take part in different activities to extend their learning- thank you for everyone who helped organise these outstanding weeks. The year ended with our Leavers Ball and this was the first held at school quickly followed by the Celebration Evening where a number of our young people received awards.

We have broadened the curriculum this year with the introduction of Rebound Therapy, more massage sessions, the extension of PECs, the use of Talking Mats and the introduction of TEACCH. Next year we are continuing to develop with introduction of Music Therapy, a choir, Numicon, the development of phonics and Letters and sounds and a broader reading scheme to name but a few areas. We are also having a substantial amount of building work over the holiday period meaning an increase of one more class to take us to 13 classes, anew Food and Technology room, and a new Interactive room (as second space to our existing one) and a new 6th form base.

I would very much like to thank all the parents and carers, the Governing Body and all the professionals we for all the support afforded us over the year. I would like to thank the wonderful staff at Tetenhall Wood School for all their hard work, dedication, and commitment to making a difference and making it such a happy place to learn. My biggest thanks goes to a our wonderful pupils and students who make it a joy to come to work every day and makes me the proudest and the most

privileged of Headteachers. Thank you and have a wonderful summer break.

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Uniform Primary 5-11

Tettenhall Wood school is undergoing a reimage and the uniform in no exception. Pupils from Primary, Secondary and Sixth Form have come together offering designs for the new School uniform. It was voted by the school council. For further details regarding ordering please do not hesitate to contact school.

Secondary 11-16

Girls:

Girls:

White polo shirt Grey skirt or trousers Red sweatshirt or red cardigan Red check summer dress (optional) Red fleece (optional) Red waterproof jacket (optional)

White polo shirt Grey skirt or trousers Green sweatshirt or green cardigan Green check summer dress (optional) Green fleece (optional) Green waterproof jacket (optional)

Boys:

Boys:

White polo shirt Grey trousers Red sweatshirt Red fleece (optional) Red waterproof jacket (optional)

White polo shirt Grey trousers Green sweatshirt Green fleece (optional) Green waterproof jacket (optional)

PE girls and boys:

PE girls and boys:

White T shirt Red shorts Red jogging bottoms (optional)

White T shirt Green shorts Green jogging bottoms (optional)

Bags:

Primary:

Sixth Form:

Post 16 16-19 Girls – the choice of uniform is optional from the list below: White shirt or blouse School tie White polo shirt Burgundy knitted cardigan Burgundy knitted jumper Burgundy sweatshirt Grey skirt or trousers Boys– the choice of uniform is optional from the list below: White shirt School tie White polo shirt Burgundy knitted cardigan Burgundy knitted jumper Burgundy sweatshirt Grey trousers PE girls and boys: Grey polo shirt Black shorts Black jogging bottoms (optional) Burgundy quarter zip sweatshirt (optional)

Secondary:

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Health and Well-being Week On Monday we did the gym challenge we did some skipping, jumping and hoops. We did too art work for our teams.

On Tuesday we did our swimming gala.

On Wednesday was sports we did yoga massage tickling, WALKING AND COOKING WITH A WRAP. We did climbing in forest school and jumping on trampoline.

On Thursday we went running we went on the bus to Aldersley we had races I (Umardev ) came first for team wales in one of them.

We did too dance football parachute throwing rockets jumping over the sand And we go on the bikes. We did jumping over the little ones and the yellow ones.

There was a race where the teachers and mommys and daddys ran.

On Friday we did the reach up tower a tiny bit of bowling football rounder s picnic lunch and assembly. The Winners in Races got Medals and the Winning Sports Team was Team England.

By Alssya Dunn, Sahil Joshi and Umardev Bansal

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Well done Rupert and Olivia for winning prizes for sports day and I will miss you are my friend when you are older and I own my bar you can come any time you want you was very good at playing foot ball doing bikes and trying hard.

Ben Calendar

Swimming Gala It was fun. Mommys and Daddys was there to see everyone swim we won medals then we was finished and went back home or to school. The winner team was New Zealand they wore black.

By Jamie Bennett

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Digis which was fantastic as there were only 60 finalists. The following pupils were nominated for an award they were Tyrai Belle who was a runner up in the category for best animation. Billy Tyler for Digital Art work known as “The Scream” that was a winner and he was very pleased too.

Matthew Lees was also a finalist for his self-

In this year a variety of pupils went to the DIGIS which is an annual event which celebrates achievements across the city of learners and teachers in digital film and media, and also art work. This year 600 entries were submitted and Tettenhall Wood School had 8 pieces were nominated,

portrait in the same category. Matthew Whiddon’s Macbeth Ticket was a runner up in Digital Design and Ryan Buryk was a finalist with his “House” picture in Digital Design, Sarah collected the award. I, Alex Shevchenko also came runner up in both my categories in Digital Music and Best Short Film. It was a great night for Tettenhall Wood

School.

Alex Shevchenko

Macbeth On Wednesday the 13th of May Eagles performed Macbeth to Teachers, parents and adults at Tettenhall Wood School. Just like we did for the Shakespeare Schools Festival.

We performed our show in the hall on

the stage. We acted out scenes my favourite was where I had a sword fight with Alex who played Macbeth. We remembered our lines and where to stand which was good.

We did something

different too by crawling under the “ I really enjoyed performing stage as witches. I really liked this as Macbeth to all the parents and well it looked scary and I think the people.” people watching Matthew Worrall got scared. I would like to thank all the people to come see our performing.

Matthew Worrall

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Special Achievement One benefit of using your newsletter as a promotional tool is that you can reuse content from other marketing materials, such as press releases, market studies, and reports.

Ladybirds

Ladybirds have made so much progress over the year.

Grasshoppers

Alex for great communication.

Kingfishers

Billy for great artwork and winning a Digi.

Bees

Jayden for getting a 100% in Phonics screening test.

Rabbits

Noah for settling in to school well.

Badgers

Beth for Transition over health and wellbeing week.

Caterpillars

Zakarija for fantastic progress in all areas.

Deer

Hayden for independence and communication.

Woodpeckers

Kyle for excellent effort in swimming.

Butterflies

Sahil for independence in class.

Swallows

Kascper & Tymoteus for great progress in communication.

Eagles

Alex for all his hard work over the year.

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Residential

Pupils form Tettenhall Wood School went on some residentals. Lets see what they have been getting up to...

Eagles went to pioneers centre.

Woodpeckers went with swallows and Kingfishers to PGL. Caterpillars class went to Dodford Farm.

Eagles Class:

Butterflies and Grasshoppers went to Laches Wood.

By Thomas Walsh

Woodpeckers Swallows Kingfishers Class

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Caterpillars Class

Butterflies and Grasshoppers Classes

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Leavers Ball This year we did something new. We had a prom for leaver’s people.

Not all of them came to the prom only Me (Abbie), Alisha, Rupert and Alex Teachers and Eagles class was there too. Lots of people also come. It was in the School Hall and tables and chairs and plates looked nice. There was presentation and meal which was nice. There was chicken and cheesecake which was lovely. I said thank you to David and everyone. We had a disco dance and Matthew Worrall sang to Gary Barlow. Josh was there too I liked seeing him. Alex did a dance to YMCA was good. Man came with camera took photos.

Abbie Davies

Tettenhall Wood School would like to say a very big thank you to Jade and Amy for organizing the event, Theresa and cooking staff and waitress for making this even possible.

We would also like to say a big thank you to Derek Short for the fantastic photos he took on the night. His telephone for bookings is 07515 349963.

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Welcome

Staff Welcomes

Rob, Richard, Giles, Bunita, Rachel, Helen, Claire, Chvena, James, Jen, Kelly and Lauren.

“Welcome, I hope you enjoy this school and I hope I get to meet and see you. .” From Alyssa Dunn

Goodbyes “We will miss you Jen Ellie and Heather. I will miss Jen in class going to college with Ellie and doing enrichment with Heather, good luck”. Chloe Martin

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Our Leavers We got to say goodbye to some children and staff of this school. I will remember some good memories from the past like some trips, sports week, Christmas, birthdays, special days and your work. So good luck at college Rupert, Alisha, John, Alex, Daniel and Abbie.

Heather good luck on your retirement at home. Ellie enjoy your new job and Jen have a good time at your university.

So from Thomas that me and Edwina and everyone at Tettenhall Wood School goodbye you 9.

Thomas Walsh