Headteacher’s Newsletter
BISHOP VESEY’S GRAMMAR SCHOOL
Half-Term Autumn 2010 Message from the Head
Staff News Welcome to new Language Assistants Ina KleineEickhoff (German) and Azahara Jimenez Fuentes (Spanish) who will work, alongside Marion Binard (French) who joined us last year. François Mahé joins us, spending six months at Vesey’s as a Gap Year French Assistant in the Languages and PE Departments.
What an action packed half-term! Some tremendous news stories of continuing success for individuals and the school community. Amongst all the excitement and achievements beyond the classroom, we have raised our game in the academic stakes with targets for the next exam season ‘Bold but realistic’! We are aiming to take the GCSE results beyond 70% Macbeth at The Old Rep: Vesey boys take ShakeA*/A and A Level results up to the speare back to the original with a touch of modernity! coveted 80% A*-B mark, at the earliest opportunity! High expectations, matched by increasingly high student aspirations, with a good dose of hard work, will ensure we do not ‘wobble the bar’ as we reach out for further new heights! Nearly all members of the Upper Sixth must achieve AAB or ABB to reach their chosen course at top ‘When shall we three meet again..…?’ universities. In Nov. 2003 we arranged interview practice for 14 students aiming for Oxbridge, Russell Group Medical Schools and the like. This year, in Nov. 2010, we are set to provide such practice for more than 40 students! What a performance indicator!
Yr 10: Luke Jones, as Macbeth: ‘If we should fail?’
David Iddon Headteacher
Sixth Formers win trip to Gambia
U6 students Peter Moss, James Barron, Penny Hodges and Lewis Dainty won Leeds Metropolitan University’s national competition by designing a responsible tourist trip beating 110 entrants. They have been awarded £1,000 for the school and won a field study trip to Gambia.
Student Council Constitution
Chairman of Governors, Clive Richards, signing the new constitution, prepared by retiring President Mohammed Bilal, with new President Penny Hodges, who is set to carry on the good work.
Rugby Tour Car Wash
& Josh Williams (right) as Lady Macbeth: ‘We fail? But screw your courage to the sticking-place and we’ll not fail!’ (30mins abridged version Scene 7, performed on 11 Oct)
Year 7 enjoying break together
And fail we did not…...directed by David Iddon, ably assisted by English teachers, Claire Callan and Suzanne McGuire, the powerfully dark drama was interspersed with creatively introduced lighter moments which engaged the audience and led to hearty applause of appreciation for a highly competent performance, remembered for clarity and audibility, poise and control, as the cast carried the plot, emotion and high drama out to a packed auditorium.
Local Fireman and Vesey parent Glenn Hepburn helped to organise this great effort, across the road at the fire station on Saturday 2 October.
Year 8 investigating the Vesey trees in their Science Lesson