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Friday 20 June 2014 Langley School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all its staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
Dear Parents and Care Givers Art Department News All pupils and parents are warmly invited to: An Exhibition of Year 11 GCSE Artwork and Photography on Thursday 26th June 5pm - 7pm in the Art Rooms The Art Department would be grateful for items that can be used for a large 'War' still life, eg replica gas masks, uniform, posters or propaganda, bullet shells – anything from WW1 or WWII. Thank you in anticipation of your support. The Art Department Staff Year 11 Student Requests Please return all library books to Librarian, Mrs Beck as soon as possible. Please will all English and Literature students drop off their texts to Miss Hobbs in Room 28. As a reminder, as you look along bookshelves at home, these could be: Of Mice and Men Lord of the Flies An Inspector Calls Romeo & Juliet – or any other English Department text Thank you in anticipation. If you provided medication for your Year 11 child and wish to collect this, please ring Matron, Mrs Kehoe on 0121 706 9771 X217 to arrange. Any medicine not collected will be disposed of at the end of the summer term. Thank you History Notices 'A Day to Remember' - Rwandan Genocide Workshops 2014 marks the 20th commemoration of the genocide in Rwanda in which over the course of one hundred of history's darkest days, more than one million Rwandans perished. As part of Aegis' 'A Day to Remember' programme the school has been offered anti-prejudice/genocide awareness workshops to Year 9 students. These workshops will take place on Friday 20 June. The students will examine what took place in Rwanda and understand genocide as the final stage of escalation and exclusion, prejudice and discrimination in society. Through the workshop the students will investigate the ways in which the final stage can be prevented, and encourage students to unite to ensure that it never happens again - in Rwanda or elsewhere.
Year 9 Holocaust Centre Visit As part of this term's unit of work on genocides, Year 9 students are been given the opportunity to visit the Holocaust Centre in Nottingham on Tuesday 15 July. Letters will be given to students on Friday 20 June and the deadline for payments is Monday 30 June. Mrs L Yarrington, Head of Humanities Faculty School Nurse Information – “Every individual has a right to be happy and healthy” Our School Nurse is Femy Hill. Students can talk to her in confidence about any concerns that they may have regarding health and well-being or for advice on healthy lifestyles. Femy offers a drop-in session on alternate Mondays between 12.30pm – 1.45pm at Langley – no appointment necessary. If students need to contact her at any other time, just ask at the school office and they will get a message to her. Alternatively, students may contact her at the School Nurse office on 0121 746 4450. Book of the Week The Book of the Week for the week beginning Monday 23 June 2014 is: ‘The Wrong Boy’ by Suzy Zail Hanna is a talented pianist, and the protected second daughter of middle class Hungarian Jews. Relatively late in World War II the Budapest Jews were rounded up and sent to Auschwitz. Hanna and her mother and sister are separated from her father. Her mother becomes increasingly mentally ill until she too is taken away somewhere. Her sister Erika is slowly starving to death. Hanna is quite a naïve 15year-old but when presented with the opportunity to play piano for the camp commander, she is desperate to be chosen. She goes each day under guard to the commander’s house and stands waiting in case the commander should want some music. Also living in the house is the commander’s son, Karl. But the longer Hanna goes to the house, the more she realises there are other things going on secret things. Karl may not be the person she thinks he is. Before she knows it she has fallen in love with the wrong boy…. Books Wanted! Mr Tustain’s Funky Friday Group would like to hold a Book Sale at the Funky Friday Fete in July. If you have any unwanted books to donate, please bring them to Room 25 during registration. Thank you! Will Elvidge 7G and Nathaniel Mackey 7O Diary date: Olton Baptist Church Birthday Party – Saturday 28 June 2-5pm Langley School has provided the venue for 25 years of church life in Olton and you are all invited to join the Olton Baptist Church birthday celebrations! Everyone is welcome to come along and enjoy the food, music, crafts, stalls, bouncy castle and outdoor games on Saturday 28 June between 2-5pm Awards Events The end of year celebrations for students in Years 7 and 8 will be taking place on the morning of Tuesday 1 July and for Years 9 and 10 on Wednesday 2 July. Letters will be posted out soon to parents of students who have been nominated for an award, or who are performing in these events. Yours sincerely Mr P Talbot Headteacher