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International Day of Prayer against
Human Trafficking, February 8
God, who led Saint Josephine Bakhita
from abject slavery to the dignity of being
your daughter and a bride of Christ,
grant, we pray, that by her example we
may show constant love for the Lord
Jesus crucified, remaining steadfast in
charity and prompt to show compassion.
Through Christ our Lord.
Amen.
COLLEGE PRAYER
Friday 06 February 2015
All Hallows Catholic College Newsletter Epiphany Term
Congratulations to the January students who have been named linguist of the month. We celebrate linguists of the month who are students who seize the opportunity to use the language they are learning as the natural means of communication. They are not afraid of making mistakes and use all the resources available to them to express themselves in the foreign language. September KS3 Alistair Nickson KS4 Emma Nay October KS3 Ryan Martin KS4 Charlie Fox November KS3 Ashley Capinianes KS4 Grace Murtagh January 2015 KS3 Isabella Cook KS4 Sophie Royle
SPECIALISM SUCCESS
Wednesday 13 May 2015
Year 7 Attend College
Activity Day
Year 8 CONSULTATION DAY
Reading Blog at home when not in for appointment
Year 9 Work Related Learning
Reading Blog from home(Careers Theme)
Year 10 CONSULTATION DAY
Reading Blog at home when not in for appointment
Year 11 Home Study—Science Revision Study in College/Exams
Sixth Form Revision Day/ Private Study
In College for at home
Parents / Carers are invited to attend a Principal's
Surgery to discuss any concerns or ask questions, on
the following dates
There is no appointment system so please be
prepared to wait
PRINCIPAL’S SURGERIES
Wednesday 11 March '15, 9am - 10am
Tuesday 24 March '15, 3.45pm - 4.45pm
Tuesday 10 February '15, 3.45pm - 4.45pm
ARRANGEMENTS FOR PARENT CONSULATION DAY
Please note that all letters regarding school trips are available on the College website.
We are aware that letters don’t always make it home, so we take care to upload them to the College website to ensure the information is
readily available. Letters can be found by going to http://www.allhallows.org.uk/parent-information/letters-magazine/trip-letters
TRIP LETTERS
Year 13 students have now received letters outlining the application process for student finance. Applications for student finance are now
open and can be made on line. Students don't need a confirmed place at a university or college to apply. Applications are made direct to
student finance at https://www.gov.uk/student-finance. Please log on for further guidance.
YEAR 13 UNIVERSITY FINANCE APPLICATION
Parents are reminded that Friday 13 February 2015 is an
inset day and students are not required to attend College
INSET DAY
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There are 91 days left until the start of the Year 11 exams. Students who were
more than one grade below flight path in their mock exams will be required to resit. These resits will take place on
Saturday 7 February. For all Year 11 students a revision booklet is available on the College website under Student
revision. Further details will be sent shortly to parents of those students required to resit
EXAM COUNTDOWN
Year Group Dates Type
12&13 Friday 6 March 2015—Friday 13 March 2015 Mock Exam
10 Monday 16 March 2015—Friday 20 March 2015 Mock Exam
7,8,9,11 Monday 16 March 2015—Friday 27 March 2015 Assessment
7,8,9 Monday 15 June 2015—Friday 19 June 2015 End of Year Exam
10 Monday 15 June 2015—Friday 26 June 2015 Assessment
COLLEGE INTERNAL EXAMS / ASSESSMENTS
Reports for Years 7 to 13 are now available to view on the Parental Gateway. Reports will all be issued in this elec-
tronic format unless a paper copy is requested. Tasc Software, the makers of the software we use, are now offering
access to the Parent Gateway using an app for iPhones, iPads (iOS 8.1 minimum) and also most Android devices.
The app can be downloaded from the App Store or Play Store by searching ‘Tasc Insight’ and costs £2.49. The Pa-
rental Gateway is also accessible for free from any internet enabled device through common web browsers using
your user name and password.
PARENTAL GATEWAY
Dropping off and collecting students:
For reasons of health and safety, parents are requested not to use the Brooklands Avenue gate car park. The residents of
Brooklands Avenue also respectfully request that parents do not park in their avenue.
PARENT AS PARTNERS - TRAVEL TO COLLEGE
Do you need help remembering long list? - Take the first letter of each word in
the list and see if they make a word or short phrase. For example, the colours of a rainbow can be shortened to:
ROY G BIV
EXAM TIP
When topping up your child’s school meals account with ParentPay, please can we ask that you are extra vigilant that you
top up the School Meals account and not the College Shop account? We have had a few instances of this and unfortunately,
we cannot transfer the money on the College Shop account to the School Meals account because the canteen is managed by
a third party.
The account for the Pod in the Quad is called “College Shop”.
The account for the canteen is called “School Meals for All Hallows Catholic College”
Many thanks, Finance.
PARENT PAY
We received a request from a Spanish family looking for accommodation for their two daughters who hope to study for one term in
autumn 2015 in our college. The girls are aged 14 and 13 and the family is willing to pay for board and lodgings.
If you are able to help and would like more details then please contact Mr Blades, Assistant Principal, at the college for more details (01625
426138 [email protected]).
CAN ANY FAMILIES HELP?
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Year 12 and 13 Mock Exam Week
Friday 6 March - Friday 13 March
Year 11 photos
Tuesday 10 March 2015
Year 7, 9 and 11 Assessment Week
Monday 16 March 2015
Geography drop-in session
KS4/5 students every Thursday 3:30p.m.- 4:30p.m.
The session will provide assistance on case studies,
exam questions and key terms.
AHLC Basketball Tournament
Wednesday 16 February 2015 - 1p.m.-3p.m.
Andalucía Trip
Thursday 12 February 2015—Monday 19 February 2015
SKI Trip
Friday 13 February 2015—Saturday 21 February 2015
Celebration Assemblies Week
Monday 2 March 2015
Year 8 Pathways Evening
Thursday 5 March 2015 —7p.m.-9.p.m.
TRIPS AND UPCOMING EVENTS
PEANUT & NUT ALLERGIES
Applications are invited for new panel members to join independent education appeals panels in Cheshire East. If you
have an interest in education and feel able to offer some time, we would be most grateful to hear from you. Appeals are
heard Monday to Friday during normal office hours.
Each panel is made up of three members who are independent of the Local Authority. The panel hears
admission appeals against decisions not to admit children to particular schools.
Applications are invited from people of all backgrounds as the panel is made up of lay members and those with experience
in education. A lay member is a person without personal experience in the provision of education in any school
(disregarding experience as a school governor or in another voluntary capacity). A member with experience in education
is a person who has experience in education (such as a retired headteacher or
teacher); or has knowledge of educational conditions in the local area or is a parent of a registered pupil at a school.
Full training will be provided for new members and if you are successful you would be required to attend a training
day on Tuesday 21 April 2015.
The work is unpaid but panel members are eligible to receive travel allowances for all meetings they attend.
If you are interested in becoming a panel member, please contact Brett Dainty by email: [email protected]
or telephone 01270 686469 for an application form and more information.
SCHOOL APPLICATION PANEL
A number of our students have allergies to nuts. In some cases they will only react when they touch or eat nuts, but
in rare cases their reaction may be caused when traces of nuts are in the air. It would help these students if nuts or
nut related products were not brought into school. We thank parents and students for the co-operation with this
matter.
Students on free school meals can now get a 189ml carton of semi-skimmed milk every day for free from the school
canteen. This will not affect their free school meal allowance of £2.25, as this is additional. Students simply need to
pick up the milk and take it to the till.
The milk is also available to students not on free school meals at a cost of 65p.
FRESH MILK NOW AVAILABLE IN CANTEEN
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Students must sign out at the Attendance Office before leaving College to attend a medical appointment. When they return to College the student must sign back in. This ensures registers will be accurate and we know the student is off site should we have a fire alarm. The Attendance Office is located in the office along the RE corridor. We thank parents for making medical appointments, where possible, that do not take up a whole day of schooling. This often allows a student to have their legal registration mark for both morning and afternoon sessions and so their overall attendance does not fall.
Most students appreciate the importance of being in College on time. Children who are regularly late do miss out on their education and form bad habits that will not be tolerated in the workplace. As a result of the change to the College day we need to inform parents that students must be in the registration form class for the register to be taken at 8.45a.m. This means students should arrive 5-10 minutes earlier in College to be on time. Any student who arrives after 8.45a.m. will receive a L code. Two L codes within a week will result in a whole college detention (which started on Thursday 6 November). This is a recent change in procedures and moves the detention away from the form tutor and it will now be seen as a whole college issue. Any student who arrives after 9.05a.m. will receive a U code. This means they will be classed as absent for the whole morning and this may have consequences for overall attendance. We are aware that College buses are sometimes late and we can confirm these students are not negatively marked in the register when this happens. Thank you for your co-operation in this matter.
If any parent would like their son or daughter to have a careers interview with Mrs Pilling, our Careers Advisor, this year then please notify the relevant Year Learning Leader who can ensure names are added to the list. Priority is now with Year 10 students (now Year 11 have all been seen) and also with sixth form students. Students in Year 7, Year 8 and Year 9 are welcome to attend her lunch time drop in. She uses the Student Support Office based next door to Music.
CAREERS ADVICE FOR STUDENTS
BEING PUNCTUAL AT ALL HALLOWS
Year 7: Two surgeries have been held recently, more dates will be announced soon Year 8: held on 11 February (1.15p.m. – 2.15p.m.) and 25 March (1.15p.m. – 2.15p.m.) Year 9: held on 16 March (9.00a.m. – 10.00a.m.) Year 10: held on 27 March (1.15p.m. – 2.00p.m.) Year 11: held on 24 March (9.45a.m. – 10.45a.m.) These are for parents who would like to discuss any concerns relating to their child. No appointment is necessary but please be prepared to wait. Please contact our Pastoral Assistant ([email protected] 01625 410285 x215), should you re-quire an appointment with a Year Learning Leader at any other time.
YEAR LEARNING LEADER “DROP IN SURGERIES”
NAME JOB MON TUES WED THUR FRI VENUE
Mrs J Pilling Careers Advisor Student Support Office
Mrs L Nolan Visyon Counsellor Student Support Office
Mrs J Jones College Nurse Student Support Office
Mrs P Shatwell Family Support Office next to rooms A9 and A10
Mrs J Beard and Mrs P Prince Education Welfare
Pastoral Office (ground floor of Fisher Building)
[email protected] emails will be read by a Senior Teacher [email protected]
= Staff Present
MEDICAL APPOINTMENTS DURING THE COLLEGE DAY
STUDENT SUPPORT ACROSS THE COLLEGE
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Whilst the College requires parents to contact us on each day of absence , school policy now requires that any student who accumulates 7 or more days of absence during the course of the academic year will be asked to provide medical confirmation of the need to be absent before any further absences are authorised for medical reasons. This is a necessary measure as we closely monitor absence due to illness / medical reasons in order that we can ensure students are supported where needed. For your information medical confirmation does not have to be a doctor's note but can also take the form of a medical appointment card, a copy of a relevant dated prescription or evidence of medication being taken
If no medical evidence is provided then the absence will be coded as unauthorised. Ten or more unauthorised absences may result in you receiving a Fixed Penalty Notice. This incurs a penalty of £60 per parent / carer to be paid within 21 days, otherwise the penalty will rise to £120 per parent / carer to be paid within 28 days. If the penalty remains unpaid then the matter will proceed to the Magistrates Court where you will receive a criminal record if you are found guilty.
The link between attendance and achievement is well researched and documented and students should be aiming for an attendance rate of no less than 97% over the year. Thank you for your continued support with this important issue.
ATTENDANCE MATTERS
MEDICAL ABSENCE FROM COLLEGE
The following are the remaining dates for training days in 2014-15. Students are not required to attend on Friday 13
February 2015 and Friday 22 May 2015 unless taking an external exam.
Term College Opens to Students College Closes to Students
Epiphany Monday 5 January 2015 Thursday 12 February 2015
Easter Monday 23 February 2015 Thursday 2 April 2015
Whitsun Monday 20 April 2015 Thursday 21 May 2015
Trinity Monday 1 June 2015 Tuesday 21 July 2015
Year 7 - 91.3% Year 8 - 89.1% Year 9 - 89.7% Year 10 - 86.8% Year 11 - 89.7% Year 12 - 91.20%
Year 13 - 87.90%
All students in Year 7 and Year 8 are challenged to full 100% attendance between Monday 2 February and Thursday 12 February. Those
students who achieve this will be entered into a prize draw for £25 worth of Amazon vouchers. The same competition will run for Year
9, Year 10 and Year 11 students just before Easter and for all students between Years 7 to Year 11 in the summer term.
This first competition is a challenge to Key Stage 3 students to not let their attendance slip at the end of a term.
Holidays have not been authorised since 1st September 2013 under new legislation on all English schools. Requests for holidays must still
be made in writing to the appropriate Key Stage leader (Mrs Garvey KS5, Mr Blades KS4/KS3), but in the vast majority of cases they will
be unauthorised. A Fixed Penalty Notice may be issued of £60 per parent / carer per student, to be paid within 21 days, otherwise the
penalty will rise to £120 per parent / carer to be paid within 28 days. If the penalty remains unpaid then the matter will proceed to the
Magistrates Court where you will receive a criminal record if you are found guilty. Please can all holiday requests be made well in advance
of the holiday being taken if not before the holiday is booked.
HOLIDAY ABSENCE FROM COLLEGE
COLLEGE TERM DATES
ATTENDANCE COMPETITION
Attendance last week was 89.5% (a decrease from 95.4% in the previous week and largely due to snow related absence). Our overall
attendance since 2 September has fallen 0.2% to 95.1%. We aim for 97%.
Last week GIRLS attendance was 89% (down from 94.8% during the previous week), BOYS attendance was 90% (down from 96%). The
overall girls attendance since 2 September is 94.6% whilst boys is 95.5%
84.00%
85.00%
86.00%
87.00%
88.00%
89.00%
90.00%
91.00%
92.00%
YEAR 7 YEAR 8 YEAR 9 YEAR 10 YEAR 11 YEAR 12 YEAR 13
FITNESS SUITE
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Students are now able to use our fantastic new Fitness Suite.
Those students who have completed a Fitness Suite .
Induction and wish to use the facilities must sign up on the day using the sign up sheet on the notice board in the Sports Hall.
Places will be allocated on a first come, first served basis, up to a maximum of 28 students for each session.
The following sessions are available:
Monday - Y7/8 (mixed) until 4.30p.m.
Tuesday - Y7/8 (girls only) until 4.30p.m.
Wednesday - Y9/10/11 (girls only) until 4.00p.m.
Thursday - Y11/Sixth form (mixed) until 4.30p.m.
Friday - Y9/10 (mixed) until 4.30p.m.
The Fitness Suite is also open at lunch (second
break).
Any queries please contact Mr Lawson or a member
of the PE staff for more information.
PE NOTICE TO ALL PARENTS
UPCOMING SPORTS FIXTURES
WEDNESDAY 25 FEBRUARY Macclesfield Academy 3:30pm Away
WEDNESDAY 4 MARCH Wilmslow High School 3:30pm Away
WEDNESDAY 11 MARCH Fallibroome Academy 3:30pm Away
WEDNESDAY 18 MARCH Eaton Bank Academy 3:30pm Away
GIRLS NETBALL
YEAR 7/8 INDOOR ATHLETICS
THURSDAY 12 FEBRUARY Knutsford Academy 4:00pm Home
Please make sure students are bringing appropriate clothing to their PE lessons if they are on an outdoor lesson. During extreme
weather (and extreme cold conditions as it has been recently) parents are reminded that students can and are advised to wear the
following:
All Hallows PE trousers (plain black joggers/tracksuit bottoms will also be allowed during the cold weather)
All Hallows Black jacket (or a plain black sports jacket/waterproof)
All Hallows black fleece
Hats (black/dark in colour/plain)
Gloves (black/dark in colour/plain)
Under-armour/skins/undergarments - as long as red/black or white in colour
Also, a reminder that all girls should now own football boots/astro-turf trainers for use on the new 3G Astro-turf pitch.
Many thanks,
PE department
BASKETBA:LL
WEDNESDAY 11 FEBRUARY All Hallows 1:00pm-3:00pm Home
The Librarian is currently running two competitions open to Year 7 & 8 students with prizes of Wimpy Kid and Dork diaries to be
won. All details are available from form tutors, English teachers or the Library.
LIBRARY COMPETITIONS
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LIBRARY NEWS
BOOK AMNESTY
There are still a number of missing and very overdue books that we like returned to the library as soon as possible. Please search at
home and bring them back - no questions asked! We have recently installed a new Library Management System and are in the
process of updating the catalogue so that when this is completed all students will be given log in details and be able to use the
system to search, reserve and review books. Your support in finding and returning these books is very much appreciated.
CHESHIRE SCHOOLS’ BOOK AWARD 2015
Please see this term's Aspire Magazine for information on the annual county book awards and the seven shortlisted titles. The
award runs until May so there is plenty of time for students and their parents to read one of the books and vote.
500 WORDS
If you are a Radio 2 listener, you will have heard about the 500 Words competition and all students in years 7 & 8 have been given
information through their tutors about this national writing competition. If you want to find out more about it search BBC Radio 2
500 Words. As the closing date is Thursday 26th February, it might be a half term activity!
WORLD BOOK DAY
Thursday March 5th is World Book Day and we will be celebrating at All Hallows with a week of book/reading themed
events. Students will all receive a £1 book voucher to spend either on one of the special World Book Day books or to put towards
the cost of a book of their choice. You can find out more about World Book Day at www.worldbookday.com
The highlight of our week is an author visit by Jon Mayhew, who is also our Author of the Month for February. More details about
his visit will be given to students through their English lessons. All of Jon's books are available from the AH library or a local library,
so why not read one? Log onto his website: www.jonmayhew.co.uk for more information.