Heathcote School and Science College: a Leading Edge School Issue No. 36, Spring 2013 HEATHCOTE NEWS www.heathcoteschool.com 1 H S Inside This Issue! Page 2/3 Page 2/3 Page 4/5/6 Page 4/5/6 Page 7/8 Page 7/8 A Message from the Head 2 Dates for Your Diary Art Trip Geography Fieldwork Children in Need 3 Book Fair Good Heathcote Garden 7 Sports News PE Extra-Curricular Timetable NTC – Proving to be a huge success Karate Champion 8 PE News Indoor Rowing Competition Heathcote After -School Clubs 4 Castles Competition 2012 Speak Out Shakespeare's Globe Maths problem of the week Parent View 5 Maths Challenge Old Folks The Eco School initiative 6 Rotary Chef Competition Breakfast Reading The Year 12 Product Good reading and writing skills are key to your child’s success. As a school our students make good progress but I want them to make great progress. Please help us by encouraging your child to read and ask them questions about what they have read to test their understanding. Please help us by completing the Ofsted Parent View Survey, see page 4. Zoë Cozens Congratulations to Jack Waller, one of our sixth form students, who has been awarded the Young Leaders Award for London for 2012 by England Athletics. He received the accolade at the Westfield Centre in Stratford during a prestigious awards event. This is an amazing achievement, which recognizes Jack’s skills and ability. Well done to everyone who handed in their English homework projects last term. Congratulations to the winners: Brandon Reid (Year 7), Thomas Chesnaye (Year 8) and Taylor Dimond (Year 9). Don’t forget that if you need any help with your homework project, the English department run a homework club on Tuesday afternoons in H50. You don’t need an appointment – just turn up. Young Leaders Award Homework Projects
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Heathcote School and Science College: a Leading Edge School Issue No. 36, Spring 2013
HEATHCOTE NEWS
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Inside This Issue!
Page 2/3Page 2/3
Page 4/5/6Page 4/5/6
Page 7/8Page 7/8
A Message from the Head
2 Dates for Your Diary
Art Trip
Geography Fieldwork
Children in Need
3 Book Fair
Good
Heathcote Garden
7 Sports News
PE Extra-Curricular Timetable
NTC – Proving to be a huge success
Karate Champion
8 PE NewsIndoor Rowing Competition
Heathcote After -School Clubs
4 Castles Competition 2012
Speak Out
Shakespeare's Globe
Maths problem of the week
Parent View
5 Maths Challenge
Old Folks
The Eco School initiative
6 Rotary Chef Competition
Breakfast Reading
The Year 12 ProductGood reading and writing skillsare key to your child’s success. Asa school our students make goodprogress but I want them to makegreat progress. Please help us byencouraging your child to readand ask them questions aboutwhat they have read to test theirunderstanding.
Please help us by completing the Ofsted Parent View Survey, see page 4.
Zoë Cozens
Congratulations to JackWaller, one of our sixthform students, who hasbeen awarded theYoung Leaders Awardfor London for 2012 byEngland Athletics. He received the accoladeat the Westfield Centre inStratford during aprestigious awards event.
This is an amazing achievement, which recognizesJack’s skills and ability.
Well doneto everyonewho handedin theirEnglishhomeworkprojects lastterm.
Congratulations to the winners: Brandon Reid (Year 7), Thomas Chesnaye (Year 8) and TaylorDimond (Year 9). Don’t forget that if you needany help with your homework project, theEnglish department run a homework club onTuesday afternoons in H50. You don’t need an appointment – just turn up.
Young Leaders Award
Homework Projects
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ART TRIP
The GCSE Year 10 andYear 12 AS level Art &Design students spent an
interesting day at the Tate Modern Gallery, on Tuesday4th December 2012, undertaking art history research tosupport their current projects on Expressionism andNatural Forms.
Tate Modern offers a vast collection of fine art paintings,sculptures and installations that our students were able to use toinspire them in their own artwork and creations. Students madedrawings of the exhibits in the galleries that related to theirindividual projects.
It was a very valuable experience to see the artwork within agallery setting as the scale, colour and environment have muchmore impressive impact than when seeing it on flat twodimensional pages or a computer screen.
Geography FieldworkOn a cold February morning, the Year 12Geography students set off for a week’sresidential fieldtrip to the North Norfolk Coast.
Fieldwork is an important part in the AS LevelGeography course and students were required toinvestigate the topics of ‘Crowded Coasts’ and‘Rebranding’.
The week’s activities encouraged students to develop their investigative thinkingand developed the skills of data collection and interpretation while using the latestgeographical information systems technology. Students showed their depth ofunderstanding, willingness to learn and great character in all activities, whichincluded measuring erosion and the success of coastal sea defences on a verywindy beach, asking questionnaires whilst land- use mapping in Norwich, andcompleting team building activities in the snow back at the accommodation.
All students worked extremely hard and were great ambassadors for Heathcote School.
Dates for Your DiaryPlease find the useful dates for the Summerterm below.
We have now finalised the dates for the next session ofStudy Support, which will take place on two Saturdays:20th and 27th April. There will also be a session for Year12 students on Saturday, 11th May, from 9am-1pm.
We would like to remind you that the Headteacher’sSurgery takes place every Monday after school, from4.30 to 5.30pm. If you would like to come along todiscuss any concerns you may have, please phonereception and an appointment will be made for you.
15th April Summer term begins
18th April Year 8 Parents Evening
20th 27th April Study Support for Year 11
2nd May Year 7 Parents Evening
6th May May Day Bank Holiday
9th May Year 11 Achievement Evening
13th May GCSE Exams start
24th June Year 10 /KS4 mock exams
27th -31st May Half term
27th June UCAS Information Evening (Year 12)
3rd July Year 6 and Year 12 Induction Day
11th July Summer Showcase
19th July Last day of summer term for students
Our total forChildren in Needwas £181.84.
This is an impressiveamount for a “loosechange” collectionon the day.
Well done!
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On Thursday 24thJanuary the HolocaustEducation Trust in
conjunction with Film Education put on ascreening of the film ‘Good’ at the Odeoncinema Covent Garden.
The screening was accompanied by anintroductory talk before the showing and adiscussion forum following the film so thatstudents could discuss issues that arose fromthe themes in the film and any other Holocaustrelated issues.
Twenty two of our Year 10 History studentswere fortunate enough to attend and take part inthe event. They were moved by the film andtook part in the discussion following it.
One of the students, Anelka Campbell, was interviewed by the organizers andwas able to give some thoughtful feedback. Mrs. Vinning and Mrs. Beattiewould like to commend the students for their excellent behaviour and maturecontributions to the event.
Heathcote GardenWe are really pleased toannounce that the Heathcotegarden project has taken off.
A hardy bunch of staff and studentsbraved the cold and planted over 60specimens of trees and shrubs,including: hazel, holly, dog rose andhawthorn, which will form a nativehedgerow around two sides of thegarden.
A larger apple tree was also planted.At the entrance to the Sixth Formanother group planted around 200daffodil, narcissi and crocus bulbs.
A big thanks to the Woodland Trustand Van Hage Garden Centre forproviding these.
Work will hopefully commenceshortly on building the raised bedsmade from scaffolding boards sothat they are ready for planting inthe Spring.
A hardy bunch of staff andstudents braved the cold andplanted over 60 specimensof trees and shrubs
Book FairTo mark World Book Day thisyear we held a Book Fair in thelibrary. All the students were given a £1 bookvoucher to use in exchange for apromotional book, and we also had agood selection of fiction books onsale for all ages.
We had an organised competitioncalled 'Guess the Book' with cluesaround the library.
This proved to be very popular, andprizes were given for the top threeentries.
All in all itwas a verypopular andsuccessfulevent whichthe studentsthoroughly
enjoyed. A large number of studentscame and swapped their vouchers fora reading book and it all generated ahealthy interest in reading.
Shakespeare's GlobeOn the 5th February, Miss Hill'syear 13 Drama class had a verybusy day.
We went by train to visit the MiddleTemple which happens to be the firstplace Shakespeare’s “Twelfth Night”was performed.
We then went for a tour ofShakespeare’s Globe Theatre. We were met by Ms Rowton on ourway to see Tim Carrol’s version ofShakespeare’s “Twelfth Night” at theApollo Theatre. It was a tiring butextremely enjoyable day for all. The performance at the Apollo wasthe highlight of the day for all.
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Speak OutJamaal Darbasie attended theborough ‘Speak Out Challenge’ finalsin October, with Ms Reid. They wereheld at Walthamstow Academy.
In preparation for the finals, Jamaal gaveup his free time to produce an original,motivational and engaging talk. His topicwas future aspirations; he managed toinclude lots of humour in his talk,although the message was still clear.
Jarmaal said, ‘Speak Out is a great way to gain confidence.
Even though I didn’t win thecompetition, I am grateful for theexperience.’
Parent ViewParents and Carers are able toshare their views of the schoolwith the department for educationand Ofsted via Parent View.
It is easy to access using a link fromour website, just click on “ParentView” on the menu and it will takeyou to the link for the questionnaire. It is easy to access and fill in. We lookforward to seeing lots of yourfeedback and comments on this site.
Castles Competition 2012Many of our Y7 students took part in the HumanitiesDepartment’s annual Castles Competition this year and we hada very high standard of entry, including some in cake form!
Here you can see one of the shortlisted entries, a motte andbailey castle designed and built by Jade McCarthy, 7/2. Jade
has worked hard to include many authentic details ofthese earliest of English castles.
Maths problem of the weekIt’s Maths Time. Do you think you have what it takes? Come on then, Key Stage 3 students, show off your mathsskills by completing the Maths problem of the weekcompetition. The Maths Problem of the Week is a set of problems that surround an event,holiday, math concept, etc. We will publish questions on Monday of each weekand the solutions are available the following Monday in the Maths Problem of theWeek Archive at www.mathcounts.org/potwarchive.When you complete the problem, print it and hand it to Ms. Aduaka; there will bea prize draw every week for the students who complete the problems. The nameof the winner will be published on the Maths Department site.For more information contact Ms Aduaka or your maths teacher
Old FolksOnce again Heathcote’s CoPEgroup ably represented the schoolwhen entertaining elderlymembers of the community.
This year we were delighted towelcome parents and grandparents ofstaff and students.
The evening was greatly enriched bythe entertainment, kindlycoordinated, by Georgia Groom asixth form student. Mrs Samuelssang along beautifully when JessicaJohns-Parsons, performed Etta James’wonderful song “At Last”. We havebooked her in to sing solo next year.
The evening ended with Mrs Cozensleading the CoPE boys in a Christmasdance. Very well done to everyoneinvolved. Parents and carers shouldbe very proud of their children.
If you know of anyone who you feelwould enjoy the evening please let ushave their name and we will be sureto invite them along next year.
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The Eco School initiativeHeathcote School has registered with the Eco School initiative.
The first step we have taken is to form a committee with students, staff, Governorsinvolved. The second step is to undertake a review of what the school presentlydoes within nine categories: such as energy, grounds, recycling, litter and watersaving. It is then up to us to then devise strategies to improve these areas in our school.
We will be concentrating on litter, the garden and recycling.
Alana Hurren 10.4 Jamal Darbasie 10.3 Jonathan Barros 10.3 Marcus Allen 10.4
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Maths ChallengeThe United Kingdom Mathematics Trust Intermediate Mathematics Challenge took place on the 7th Februaryand again the students of Heathcote School excelled.
The competition targets the top 35% of students in England and Wales aged 13-16 and is one of the biggest national mathscompetitions in the UK. I am sure that every student both enjoyed and benefited from this enriching experience.
The results are as follows:
Year 11 set 1 (Ms. Geldenhuys)
Silver: Hannah Tyzack, JakeMatthews
Bronze: Tom Kirby, SamanthaVincent, Charles Acton, Jade Rowland,Benjamin May Parrott, JamesHancock, Radoslav Boyanov
Our aim is to give children with dyslexia or dyspraxia a rare head start - a chance to have an early taste of secondary school, to make it a bit easier when they start in September. As having dyslexia or dyspraxia can make joining a secondary school a real challenge finding their way round a big school, getting to different classes on time, making new friends and coping with being more organised and independent.
Book early as there are limited places.
W ALTH AM FOREST DYSLEXIA ASSOCI ATION
FREE SECONDARY TRANSFER TRANSITION SUMMER CLUB FOR CHILDREN WITH DYSLEXIA OR DYSPRAXIA MOVING TO YEAR 7 IN 2013
From Monday 29 th July to Friday 2nd August 2013, Waltham Forest Dyslexia Association will hold for the 6th year a free week long summer club at Forest School (subject to funding). This club is for children in Waltham Forest and neighbouring boroughs with dyslexia or dyspraxia to help them in preparing to move to Secondary School. What will happen? Each day from 10.00-3.00 (Monday to Friday) will be
morning with a break in the middle, followed by lunch (each child to bring their own packed lunch). Then a third
In among that are many fun activities woodwork, swimming are particular highlights. We also hold a session for parents/carers, to discuss their concerns
transition.
Areas covered
What is secondary school like
Listening skills Problem solving Organisation skills Finding your way
around Making and keeping
friends Bullying Coping with home
work
Well done to PierceGallagher andGeorgia Groomwho took part inthe semi final ofthe Rotary ChefCompetition.
Both received acertificate and recipebook for taking part.
Georgia was luckyenough to comesecond securing hera place in the SouthEast Regional final atWestminster College.
Georgia was given the opportunity to cook in the college kitchens.Although she did not win, the day was a fantastic experience and she wasoffered work experience at a top London Restaurant by one of the judges.
Rotary ChefCompetition
Design students visitedthe University of EastLondon, Docklandsfor the Product Designworkshop.
Students gained an insightinto the challenges ofProduct Design by solvinga common brief; create aplatform using corrugatedcard to hold theircombined weight 300mmfrom the ground.
Students demonstratedteamwork, problem solvingskills and thoroughlyenjoyed the workshopsession provided by theuniversity.
The Year 12 Product Design
Congratulations to the students who have passed their grade 1 ABRSM piano examinations:Brooke Barker - Merit Amiee Batt -Distinction Ellaerene Cummings - Merit
Heathcote in the Snow
Breakfast ReadingOur Breakfast ReadingClub is a popular club,for students to readwith mentors, sharebooks and get ready tostart the day.
Parents please note thatchildren invited tomorning reading should still be attending unless you receive a letter from Mrs Witham stating otherwise.
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Sports News
KarateChampion
Jamaal Otto, one of our Sixth form students, has achieved great success in his sport, karate.
In 2011, in the 14-15 heavyweight competition, he was Junior European Silver medallist in the competition inSerbia (Novi Sad). In 2013, he won bronze in the Junior European Championships in Turkey (Konya).
Jamaal says: “I’ve been to two Junior European Championships, and medalled at both showing a great levelof consistency when fighting at an international level.”
NTC – Proving to be a huge successNike training club is proving to be a hugesuccess particularly with our Year 10 girls whohave been shown to be the highest attendingyear group.
Our girls have been working hard to get lean andstrong every week with a focus on a particular bodypart for each workout.
Not only can you take part in these great sessionsFREE but you can also work out with your friendswhen you download the free app from iTunes.
A massive well done to the 10 girls who receivedtheir first incentives; Lyndsey , Leah, Katie, Jamilla,Jerry, Isabella, Amy, Jaiye and Dayrin
Come and be a part of the Nike movement –sessions take place every Thursday in the sports hallfrom 3.15-4.15pm. Make it Count!
Heathcote School & Science CollegePE Extra-Curricular Timetable
Girls Boys
Basketball All years (Miss Armitage)
Netball Fixtures (Miss Lewis/Miss Shorter)
Mixed 6th Form Gym Club (Mr. Barrett)
Duke of Edinburgh Award (6th form)(Miss Gogar/Mr. Chambers
Year 7 Football Fixtures (Mr. Prince)
Year 9 Football Fixtures (Mr. Seymour)
A-Level PE Revision (Mr. Hutchins)
Mixed 6th Form Gym Club (Mr. Barrett)
Netball Training All years (Miss Lewis/Miss Shorter)Yr 11 Football Fixtures (Mr. Hutchins/Mr. Monksfield)
6th Form Football Fixtures (Mr. Barrett)
Nike Training Club (Miss Armitage/ Miss Gogar)
Netball Fixtures (Miss Lewis/Miss Shorter)
Year 8 Football Fixtures (Mr. Barrett)
Year 10 Football Fixtures (Mr. Seymour & Mr. Prince)
GCSE Year 11 Revision (Miss. Armitage)
Year 10-11 Girls Gym Club (Miss Gogar/ Mr. Barrett)
Mixed Badminton & Table Tennis Club (Mr. Seymour)
Football Training- Year 7 (Mr. Prince)
Mixed Badminton & Table Tennis Club (Mr. Seymour)
GCSE Year 11 Revision (Mr Hutchins)
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Year 10-11 Boys Gym Club (Mr. Prince)
GCSE Revision Year 11- 3-4.30pm - (Mr. Hutchins & The PE Dept)
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Sports News
As well as the successesof our two sixth formers,Jamaal and Jack, therehas been plenty to reportin about PE this term.
Further down the school,two students were invited tothe Essex Schools CrossCountry Championshipsheld in Basildon in January,due to the unforeseen snowthe event has had to berescheduled to later in theterm. The students wereJodie Hull (yr8) and CharlieWeston (yr10).
Elsewhere our 6thform sports teams haveperformed very well to datewith the football teamprogressing to the latterstages of the Essex cupcompetition and leading inthe Waltham Forest League.
In basketball, our boys’team has only just beenknocked out of the Nationalcompetition following somegreat performances againstvery established basketballcolleges. They maintain astrong position in the localleague.
Yet again, our Yr 11 and Yr10 girls’ basketball teamshave overcome all in theirpath, winning the WalthamForest Play Finals destinedfor them. Throughout theschool we have increasedour team commitment forbasketball this year withteams representing manyyears across the school.
Yr 11 girls were champions-unbeaten throughout theirentire school career withinthe borough. The Yr 10boys’ team were alsofinalists, they lost in thefinal to Frederick Bremer.
On the 7th February2013 14 of our studentstook part in the indoorrowing competition atKelmscott School.
The competition saw ouryoung rowers test theirskills against students fromother schools in theBorough.
The students workedexceptionally hard and reallyimpressed Mr Seymour.
Top performers were:
Jeffrey Bryant (year 10): 2nd overall
Jack Johnson (year 10): 3rd in his heat
Aliyah Boyea (year 7): 1st in her heat
Sophia Shelbourne (year 7):2nd in her heat
Well done to all of thestudents who represented us!
We want to know what yourmotivation is.
• What sports do you like?
• What do you want to try?
• Why not give us a suggestion today?
• It’s quick. Easy and confidential!
We will use these ideas in orderto grab new ideas for our
AFTER SCHOOLCLUBS!!
Our suggestion box is inthe PE office. Come and be heardtoday!
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The aim of Heathcote School & Science College is to provide an excellent education in a safe, supportivelearning environment, where people are valued and make positive contributions to the schoolcommunity and where students go on to become responsible, independent members of society.
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