Tel : 020 8566 1166 Fax : 020 8566 1177 E-mail : [email protected]Web Site : http://www.ephs.ealing.sch.uk Elthorne Park High School Newsletter Issue 746 Follow the news on Twier @ElthorneHighSch 15th September 2016 Year Ahead meengs The following Year Ahead Meetings will take place next week: Year 11 – Wednesday 21 st September at 6pm Year 9 - Thursday 22 nd September at 6pm. These meetings will be an opportunity for you and your child to find out about the key expectations and events for the coming year. You will have an opportunity to meet their tutor who will be outlining ways that we can work in partnership to support your child. Jeans for Genes Day – Friday 23rd September As part of the school’s on- going support of charies, we will be asking students to raise funds on Friday 23rd September on Jeans for Genes day . This charity funds projects and research to support children born with genec disorders. All students and staff are encouraged to wear a pair of jeans to school next Friday (trainers permied) and donate £1.50 as they enter school at the main gate. Students must however wear their polo shirt, sweatshirt and lanyard as normal. For further in- formaon please go to: hp://www.jeansforgenesday.org. We are encouraging stu- dents to show iniave and organise their own fundraising events throughout the week. Mr White Free School Meals Your child may be entled to free school meals if you are receiving one or more of the following benefits: Income Support (IS) Income Based Jobseekers Allowance (IBJSA) Income-related Employment and Support Allowance (IRESA) Child Tax Credit, provided parents are not entled to Working Tax Credit and have an annual household income, as assessed by HMRC, that does not exceed £16,190 Guaranteed Element of State Pension Credit Support under part VI of the immigraon and Asylum Act 1999 Universal Credit In order to claim free school meals, you must apply annually each September to Ealing Council, who will then inform the school of your eligibility. Eligibility is not automacal- ly carried forward each academic year. If you are unsure if your child may be entled to free school meals please contact the school office. Newsleer Contents: Year Ahead meengs Jeans for Genes Day Free School Meals Funding for extra sup- port in school Year 11 History trip KS4 GCSE Historians Purchasing food in the Dining Hall Exam resits—Summer 2017 Word of the Week English GCSE Acvies Prep for English GCSE D & T Clubs KS3 D & T contribuon ID, Lanyards & Holders Y11 French Speaking Tests Topical talk for parents Musical announcement H.S.A News Don’t Forget Year Ahead Meengs 6pm –7pm except for Year 13 Wednesday 21 September Year 11 Thursday 22 September Year 9 Wednesday 28 September Year 12 & 13 Thursday 29 September Year 10 Wednesday 19 October Year 7
Issue 746 Follow the news on Twitter @ElthorneHighSch 15th September 2016
Year Ahead meetings The following Year Ahead Meetings will take place next week: Year 11 – Wednesday 21st September at 6pm Year 9 - Thursday 22nd September at 6pm. These meetings will be an opportunity for you and your child to find out about the key expectations and events for the coming year. You will have an opportunity to meet their tutor who will be outlining ways that we can work in partnership to support your child.
Jeans for Genes Day – Friday 23rd September As part of the school’s on-going support of charities, we will be asking students to raise funds on Friday 23rd September on Jeans for Genes day . This charity funds projects and research to support children born with genetic disorders. All students and staff are encouraged to wear a pair of jeans to school next Friday (trainers permitted) and donate £1.50 as they enter school at the main gate. Students must however wear their polo shirt, sweatshirt and lanyard as normal. For further in-formation please go to: http://www.jeansforgenesday.org. We are encouraging stu-dents to show initiative and organise their own fundraising events throughout the week. Mr White Free School Meals Your child may be entitled to free school meals if you are receiving one or more of the following benefits: Income Support (IS) Income Based Jobseekers Allowance (IBJSA) Income-related Employment and Support Allowance (IRESA) Child Tax Credit, provided parents are not entitled to Working Tax Credit and have an annual household income, as assessed by HMRC, that does not exceed £16,190 Guaranteed Element of State Pension Credit Support under part VI of the immigration and Asylum Act 1999 Universal Credit In order to claim free school meals, you must apply annually each September to Ealing Council, who will then inform the school of your eligibility. Eligibility is not automatical-ly carried forward each academic year. If you are unsure if your child may be entitled to free school meals please contact the school office.
Newsletter Contents:
Year Ahead meetings Jeans for Genes Day Free School Meals Funding for extra sup-
port in school Year 11 History trip KS4 GCSE Historians Purchasing food in the
Dining Hall Exam resits—Summer
2017 Word of the Week English GCSE Activities Prep for English GCSE D & T Clubs KS3 D & T contribution ID, Lanyards & Holders Y11 French Speaking
Tests Topical talk for parents Musical announcement H.S.A News
Don’t Forget
Year Ahead Meetings 6pm –7pm except for Year 13
Wednesday 21 September
Year 11
Thursday 22 September Year 9
Wednesday 28 September
Year 12 & 13
Thursday 29 September Year 10
Wednesday 19 October
Year 7
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Student Academic Year
2016 - 2017
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Autumn Term
Autumn/1
Tuesday 6th September - Thursday 20th October
Half Term
Friday 21st October - Friday 28th October
Autumn/2
Monday 31st October - Tuesday 20th December
Christmas Holiday
Wednesday 21st December - Tuesday 3rd January
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Spring Term
Spring/1
Wednesday 4th January - Friday 10th February
Half Term
Monday 13th February - Friday 17th February
Spring/2
Monday 20th February - Friday 31st March
Easter Holiday
Monday 3rd April - Monday 17th April
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Summer/1
Tuesday 18th April - Friday 26th May
Half Term
Monday 29th May - Friday 2nd June
Summer/2
Monday 5th June - Friday 21st July
Summer Holiday starts
Monday 24th July
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Thought for the Week
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Funding to provide extra support for your child in school The Enhanced Pupil Premium provides extra funding to state-funded schools to give additional support to students from Reception through to Year 11 who have either been adopted from care or left care following the granting of a Special Guardianship, Residence or Child Arrangement Order. The Enhanced Pupil Premium has been extended to include all children who were previously in care and then either adopted or made subject to one of the orders above. Your child may be eligible for this funding. The funding is paid to schools so that they can invest in specific support measures to address any issues that may be preventing your child from reaching their potential. Please contact me on 020 8566 1166 x 1004 if you have any queries or wish to record your child as eligi-ble. Further information can be found at http://www.adoptionuk.org/education/pupil-premium Mrs Marr
Year 11 History Trip The History Department is very pleased to announce that the Year 11 GCSE Histo-rians will be attending a visit to the Imperial War Museum to support their studies and will provide extremely useful knowledge for the GCSE Paper 3: Britain: 1903-28 War and the Transformation of British Society. There are two trips running: Monday 17th October - Ms Clark and Ms Kular's classes Tuesday 18th October - Mr Phippard's class. We would be very grateful if the permission slips could be signed and returned to the student's history teacher as soon as possible. Please ensure that you have completed an updated annual consent and medical SVO form for 2016 to 2017 otherwise your child will not be able to go on the trip. The SVO forms can be downloaded from the school's website. KS4 GCSE Historians The History Department provides every GCSE History student with a textbook to support their studies. We would be very grateful if parents/carers would sign the textbook letters sent home via the students and return these to the student's his-tory teacher as soon as possible so that we can issue the textbooks. Purchasing Food in the Dining Hall Please ensure that your child has enough money on their account to pay for the food they purchase in the canteen as the school does not offer credit. Ms Williams Exam Resits Summer 2017 If you are considering resitting any examinations in the summer 2017 series, please contact the Exams Officer after 1st December 2016. Please note that you may be required to pay the entry fees.
Word of the Week - ANOMALY An anomaly is something which is abnormal or differs from the common rule.
Example of use: 1. The test result was an anomaly; it could not be explained
2. It is an anomaly that those who produced the wealth were the poorest.
English GCSE Activities in Year 11 Tutor Time We are pleased to let you know that our year 11 student will be doing a reading activity in registration every Thursday which is directly linked to their English GCSE exam. Students will receive an extract on which they will answer questions. The questions are all similar to those which they might see in the exam. We will also include the activity in the news-letter to enable parents to understand what the examination entails and how they can support their children. The purpose of this activity is to enable students to practise their reading skills, become familiar with types of questions that they will receive in the examination and be exposed to more challenging texts. The first half term will focus on novel openings and how they are structured to engage readers and introduce main characters and narrators. Preparing for English GCSE: Improving Our Reading Skills George Orwell wrote 1984 in 1948, imagining a dystopian* world where the main character Winston Smith struggles with the oppressive regime in Oceania- a place where every human action is watched and scrutinised by a mythical being- BIG BROTHER and freedom of thought and expression are forbidden. Here is the opening of the novel and it features one of the most famous opening lines in modern Literature. *Dystopian- an imagined place or society where everything is unpleasant or bad and people are oppressed.
__________________________ 1984
Part One It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. Winston Smith, his chin nuzzled into his breast in an effort to escape the vile wind, slipped quickly though the glass doors of Victory Mansions, though not quickly enough to prevent a swirl of gritty dust from entering along with him. The hallway smelt of boiled cabbage and old rag mats. At one end of it, a coloured poster too large for indoor display had been tacked to the wall. It depicted simply an enormous face, more than a metre wide: the face of a man about forty-five, with a heavy black moustache and ruggedly handsome features. Winston made for the stairs. It was no use trying the lift. Even at the best of times it was seldom working, and at present the electric current was cut off during daylight hours. It was part of the economy drive in preparation for Hate Week. The flat was seven flights up, and Winston, who was thirty nine and had a varicose ulcer above his right ankle, went slowly, resting several times on the way. On each landing, oppo-site the lift shaft, the poster with the enormous eyes gazed down from the wall. It was one of those pictures which are so contrived that the eyes follow you about when you move. BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU, the caption beneath it ran.
Responding to the Text
First Responses- discuss these questions with your partner. What is the passage about? What hints does it give about what is to follow? What impression is created of the mood and atmosphere at the start of the novel?
Close Reading List four things which reveal that the novel is set in a dystopian world. 1.______________________________________________________ 2.______________________________________________________ 3.______________________________________________________ 4.______________________________________________________ C) Analysis of the whole source This text is from the opening of a novel. How has the writer structured the text to interest you as a reader? Write down at one or two ideas for each bullet point: What the writer focuses your attention on at the beginning How the writer presents the main character Any other structural features that interest you.
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Design and Technology clubs Tuesday lunchtime 1:15-2:00pm: Extend yourself Students can use this time to extend their knowledge from the classroom into more challenging products or techniques on their existing products. Thursday lunchtime 1:15-2:00pm: Let’s create Students will be designing and making more challenging products through drafting of their own patterns. Friday lunchtime 1:15-2:00pm: Knitting and crocheting Students will join a very elite club of designers creating knitted products either individually or as collaboratively making products such as blankets, scarves etc. All clubs are open to KS3 however KS4 are welcome to join by invitation only.
KS3 Design & Technology contribution of £8 Students are requested to contribute to the vast array of materials and components used to aid their creative products each year. The money collected also goes towards the awards allocated to our Designers of the Month who are selected every ten weeks. This year the department would like parents to contribute £8 through ParentPay during the first term.
ID cards, Lanyards and Holders
Please make sure that students have their ID card, lanyard and holder. These must be in good condition and not damaged
in any way. If not they will need to purchase a new one from the school. You can also order one on-line from the uniform
shop via the school website
New ID card £3.00
New Lanyard £1.50
New Holder £1.50
Ms Williams
Yr 11 French Speaking tests Ms Kahan’s Yr 11 French class will be doing their CA speaking tests on Thurs 22nd September P3,4,5 Students will be given individual times and a list will be available in the staffroom and outside the MFL office. The task has been set and students should already be preparing for the test. They need to be extremely well prepared for the test as it constitutes 30% of the final grade. I have put the test on when I have double yr 11 so that very few of them will have to miss another subject’s lesson. Ms Kahan
Topical talk for parents On Thursday 29th September, St Paul’s Ealing are hosting an evening aimed to help parents and carers talk with their teens about porn and the online world. It will be run by the Romance Academy, a national Youth project that deals with teens and relationships. See the link for more information It will run from 7:30 to 10pm and there is a cost of £5 on the door, this includes light refreshments. All are welcome. For more info contact [email protected] www.romanceacademy.org
Are you interested in performing in our annual school musical? Or maybe you just want to find out which show we have chosen! If so, there will be a short meeting in the Hall next Wednesday (21th September) at 3.15pm. All students interest-ed MUST attend and we expect to be finished before 4pm. This year’s musical relies on a strong chorus, as well as having an extensive list of named characters suitable for all year groups. We will be looking for talented and committed actors, singers, dancers and musicians. We strongly believe that everyone with the drive to perform should get the opportunity to develop their skills and as such all students who sign up on Tuesday are given a place in the chorus. Auditions for named characters will be held for Years 9 and 10 during the week commencing 26th September. Students in 9E, 9L, 9T or 10E, 10L, 10T should attend the audition on Tuesday 27th September. Students in 9H, 9O, 9R or 10H, 10O, 10R should attend the audition on Wednesday 28th September. Audition materials will be handed out during the meeting on Tuesday 20th. Before casting from Year 7 and 8 we ask students to attend a weekly rehearsal which will commence on Wednesday 28th September at lunchtime (1.30pm) in the Drama Studio. During these rehearsals we are looking for students with commit-ment, enthusiasm and potential. Further notices regarding auditions and rehearsals will be posted on the door of N-Block so please ensure you are check-ing this regularly. See your Music or Drama teacher if you have any questions. Looking forward to seeing you at the meeting on Tuesday! Ms Murray, Ms Joseph, Ms Wickens and Ms Carey
HSA News The HSA is a small group of Elthorne parents dedicated to raising funds for the school. We currently do this by: • Selling refreshments at school productions • Organising Quiz & Curry nights • An annual Xmas tree sale • Running the 50:50 Club monthly raffle • Encouraging donations via Parentpay and Give as You Live In 2015-16 we managed to raise £4,000 and donated: • £1,500 to the library for new books • £2,000 towards the Summer School • A Xmas tree for the hall • New T shirts for the Eltones • New footballs for lunchtime We are currently working with the Year 7 teachers and pupils to put together a school calendar for 2017 to be sold to par-ents in the coming term. We are always in need of new volunteers and fundraising ideas so please leave us your e-mail address or con-tact [email protected] and get involved. We meet every couple of months at the school. The more people who join us, the more we can do! We will be holding our 'HSA Welcome to new Parents' evening on Friday 23rd September 2016, from 7-9pm in the school hall. This is open to all parents to come and chat about the HSA, particularly the new Year 7 parents. We would love to see you there, so book the date now in your diary.
