Insight 27

Half-termly news from Highgate Wood School

CONSIDERATION COOPERATION COURTESY CONTRIBUTION Issue No 28 December 2015

ALL GOOD WISHES FOR CHRISTMAS AND THE NEW YEAR

Issue 27 December 2015

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Charles Wright, our Chair of

Governors, writes:

I was pleased recently to attend

Haringey’s Outstanding for All

awards event at Ally Pally,

celebrating achievement across

the borough’s schools, and to see

Hezal Yasar from Highgate Wood pick up the

Overcoming Adversity award. Well done Hezal!

With recognition for students, teachers, volunteers

and governors, the event embraced the whole

school community in Haringey, and was a reminder

that achievement comes in many forms, and all

should be celebrated.

As I’ve said before, it’s not all about exams,

although it is worth noting that London – and

Haringey – schools continue to be among the best in

the country and our own latest value added scores

put Highgate Wood in the top 17 per cent of

secondary schools in the country.

These results depend both on healthy competition

but also on a strong spirit of collaboration and

cooperation between our schools. In a changing

landscape, I think it is all the more important to

emphasise the values of working together, and

working for all the young people in our area, as

community, comprehensive schools – and that will

be a significant challenge for all schools going

forward.

We are currently refreshing the governing body, as

various members’ terms come to an end, and that

includes elections for three new parent governors

(not two as originally notified). See elsewhere in

Insight for details, and there will be more

information in the New Year.

Finally, I hope everyone has a great and relaxing

Christmas and New Year break.

Chair of Governors:

Charles Wright (Co-opted Governor)

LA Governor:

Cllr Eddie Griffith

Parent Governors:

Elizabeth Hess • Diana Brown • Phil Cavendish •

Rob White • Chris Tully • Julia Chalfen • Paul Bennett

Co-opted Governors:

Phil Cocksedge • Violet Hazelwood-Henry •

Chris Parr • Charles Wright • Imogen Pennell •

Oli Blackaby • Brenda Allan • Joe Demetriou

Headteacher Governor:

Patrick Cozier

Staff Governors:

Emily Ford

If you wish to contact the Governing Body please write to the

Chair of Governors, c/o Mrs K Ozturk, Highgate Wood School,

Montenotte Road, London N8 8RN

Or email: [email protected]

HIGHGATE WOOD SCHOOL GOVERNING BODY

GOVERNING BODY UPDATE

Thanks to everyone who has used easyfundraising for

their on-line shopping, but there still is time to make

use of the site for those last-minute Christmas

purchases. Dozens of major retailers are involved,

and it is really easy to use. Every pound that you

spend online through the site will provide a donation

towards school funds - at no cost to you. The School

Council has requested that we raise some funds for

playground cover—and every little helps!

Please also sign up for the PSA School lottery. It costs

just £1 a month and it can bring you great prizes!

For details of how to sign up for Easy Fundraising

follow the link below. For the lottery email us on

[email protected].

Don’t forget easyfundraising.org.uk. Visit

www.easyfundraising.org.uk/hwspsa

Cover picture:

Pictures from our Winter Concert

© Empire Productions

A more extensive set of photographs

of the Winter Concert will be

published on the school website in the

new year.


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Welcome to the last

Insight of 2015. Much

has happened since I

last wrote to you in

October as you will see

when you read through

this edition. What you

will see is that the

achievements of our

students, supported by

my excellent staff

continue to create magical moments and positive

experiences that really sum up what Highgate

Wood School is all about.

We also had very recent confirmation from the

Department for Education (DfE), in the form of

their latest data release that we are continuing to

do really well as a school. The data shows that our

students are making better progress in their

learning than ever. I explain this in more detail

later.

However, our evaluation of how we are doing does

not begin and end with the likes of the DfE and

Ofsted. Your views are also critically important to

us, and having recently conducted our 5th annual

survey of parents/carers’ views, we are excited to

see what you have told us. Unfortunately, the

outcomes have not yet been analysed, so I will

need to feed back to you in the next edition of

Insight in the spring. We take great heart from

your honesty with us about the things that we can

and should improve. We will never be complacent

and, as always, we will take on board your

comments when reviewing your valued and

valuable feedback.

Post 16 Open Evening – the natural route from

Year 11 into the 6th Form

We held our Post 16 Open Evening earlier this

term for all current year 11 students (and some

year 10s) and their parents to come and view the

school and find out more about what we do in the

Sixth Form. Like the previous four years, I was

thrilled with the number of people that attended

the event – particularly the mix between students

MESSAGE FROM THE HEADTEACHER who currently attend Highgate Wood School and

students from across Haringey (and beyond). This is

a testament to our growing reputation locally. I am

proud that more and more Highgate Wood School

is being considered by our community as the local

school of choice.

We are keen as ever to have as many of our Year 11

students remaining here as possible as we believe

that it represents a very good and positive decision

for them to do so based upon...

Our belief in the seven year commitment that

the school has to all of its students that tracks

their education, growth and progress from Year

7 to Year 13 – we see Post 16 as a natural

continuation of the learning that takes place in

Key Stage 4

The benefits or remaining at a school that

students know, but more importantly a school

that knows them; where their teachers know

their strengths and how to build upon them;

where their teachers are aware of their areas

for development and will not allow these to be

overlooked or left unchallenged – our

standards and expectations of our 6th form

students are high

Remaining at a school where they have made

good progress, knowing that progress in the

6th form is further accelerated according to all

national benchmarks and measures

The knowledge that teaching in the 6th from is

of a high quality

The wide (and growing) range of opportunities

available to our students at Post 16 to

experience leadership roles and responsibilities

and to ‘give something back’ to the school

community that has helped develop them

A belief that our Year 11s are very much a part

of HWS and HWS a part of them... a

partnership and relationship that is beneficial

to all during A level study at Post 16

Knowing that at HWS, our students benefit

from teachers who really do care about them

and will go the extra mile to support them

throughout their studies


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One of the most important things to emerge out of

the evening is the clarity that our Year 11s now

have about the expectations of them in terms of

securing a place in the 6th Form. For every student

that wishes to secure their place they must...

1. Work really hard between now and the

summer exams to secure the very challenging

grades necessary to gain access to our Post 16

courses – for many students there is now a

realisation of just what it will take to secure

their place

2. Understand that not everyone will

automatically be offered a place. The days of

Highgate Wood Sixth Form being a ‘reserve

option’ are long gone – a number of students

missed out on places on courses that they

wanted to enrol on because they had us as a

back-up offer

3. Be committed to doing their absolute best in

the Sixth Form which includes taking full

responsibility for their learning, making

learning their first priority and ensuring

excellent attendance and punctuality to all

lessons/study sessions

4. Ensure that they continue to make a positive

contribution to HWS as a positive reference

from their tutor or their head of house is also a

pre-requisite for entry

We will have, early in the New Year, a whole series

of activities for year 11 students which are

designed to give them all a taste of what to expect

in the Sixth Form and to aid the choices that they

will have to make. I look forward to yet again being

involved in the interview process and look forward

to seeing our very successful Year 11s here in

August 2016 at enrolment.

Impressive Exam Results and Students Making

Excellent Progress!

At Post 16…

We are pleased with the improvement levels of

attainment at Post 16 that we have seen at HWS.

You can see from the following table that we have

improved every year over the last few years, and

we are confident that this coming year we can do

even better!

In addition, we also know that the progress that

our students make from the end of GCSE to the end

of post 16 study compares very favourably with

most of the local alternative providers.

At GCSE…

The new statistics released by the DFE recently

confirmed that Highgate Wood has remained

among the top schools in the country according to

the progress that students make at GCSE. The

unvalidated RAISEonline data that we have

received is based upon last year’s Year 11 (summer

2015). The value added for this year was 1023.7

which is the school’s best ever and consolidates

consistent good performance over the last 4 years.

I am also proud that our value added ranking

placed Highgate Wood School in the top 17% of

schools in the country for student progress. Our

progress 8 score is 0.27. Both of these figures are

new highs for our school.

In addition, the proportion of students making

expected (or better than expected) progress in

English and maths at Highgate Wood School

overleaf in comparison to the national averages are

shown in the next table.

YEAR A* - E A* - C A* - B

2011 98% 78% 43%

2012 99.5% 79% 45%

2013 100% 83% 53%

2014 100% 83% 55%

2015 100% 85% 56%

Not just doing well:

Making outstanding progress between GCSE and

A Level

All our students making excellent progress

Hitting the highest grades across the curriculum

Taking A level pathways that enable access to the

most demanding university courses


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The tables are just some of the highlights, and the

detailed analysis points to many other very positive

areas of the performance of Highgate Wood

Students. I would like to take this opportunity to

congratulate my students from last year’s year 11

and year 13 on their achievements and to publically

thank my very skilled and dedicated team of

teachers for their excellent contribution to these

impressive results. We are proud that we truly do

make a positive difference to our students at

Highgate Wood School.

Highgate Wood School remains oversubscribed for

September 2015

The local authority have recently released figures

showing the number of preferences expressed by

parents of children in year 6 for secondary schools

for the coming September.

I am very pleased to report that we have again

attracted a high number of parents who wish to

send their children to HWS. Only Fortismere and

Alexandra Park schools have also achieved this

overall level of popularity in Haringey.

This means that for September 2016 yet again, we

will be oversubscribed in year 7. I continue to be

humbled and enthused by the support that we

continue to receive locally from our parents/carers

and our community. It is pleasing to know that this

(along with other indicators referred to earlier in

this message) demonstrates that we are achieving

our aim of being the school of local choice.

Category:

Progress in Best 8 GCSEs studies

Value Added

1023.7

Comment: Highgate Wood School student progress is in

the top 17% of schools nationally.

Category:

Progress in Maths

Value Added

1002.0

Comment: Student progress in maths is in the top 20% of

schools nationally.

Category:

Progress in Languages

Value Added

1005.8

Comment: Student progress in languages is in the top 6%

of schools nationally.

Category:

Progress of girls

Value Added

1030.3

Comment: Compared to the National Average progress

for girls (1009.0) our girls make outstanding progress.

Category:

Progress of boys

Value Added

1017.8

Comment: Compared to the National Average progress

for boys (991.2) our boys make outstanding progress.

Category:

Progress of SEN students with support

Value Added

1050.6

Comment: Highgate Wood School student progress is in

the top 17% of schools nationally.

Category:

Progress of disadvantaged students

Value Added

1009.3

Comment: Significantly better progress than other schools

nationally (975.9). Our disadvantaged young people are

doing much better than their peers in other schools.

Note: A RAISE value of 1000 indicates expected progress. Anything over 1000 is better than expected. Anything less than 1000 is less than expected.

% making expected progress

at HWS Nationally

+/- National

Average

76% 75% English +1

78% 71% Maths +7

% making better than

expected progress

at HWS Nationally

+/- National

Average

41% 39% English +2

47% 45% Maths +2

Highgate Wood School

Pupil Admission Number 2016

Requested Available

Total Preferences

243 First Choices

962

214


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real difference. I know that students and staff alike

will miss his presence in the school.

We also have a number of staff who have been

with us for a term, who will be moving on. Ms E.

Ratcliffe (Science Teacher), Mr D. Asan (Maths

Teacher), Ms M. Smaill (PE & Citizenship Teacher),

and Mr E. Leye (Pastoral Care Mentor – Edison

House). Even though they have only been here for

such a short time, we are ever grateful for the

positive contribution that they have made to the

education and experiences of our students.

Last (but certainly not least), I would like to give a

mention to Ms V. Parchet (Arts and Display

Technician) who left us earlier this term after just

under three years of wonderful service to the

school. Quiet and unassuming in person, but

delightfully visible across the school in the work

that she did to make the school environment a

pleasant one with great displays of student work

and other extra-curricular endeavours. I know that

she is specifically missed by the Art department.

We thank all of those staff who are leaving, and we

wish them all the very best for the future!

... And Finally

At the end of another successful and busy year, I

thank you all for your continued support. For those

of you who celebrate Christmas, have a good

Christmas! For those of you who don’t, please

enjoy the break. I wish you all good health for the

holiday period and the very best for the New Year

ahead.

Regards

Patrick Cozier

Headteacher

New Behaviour Policy in January at Highgate

Wood School

At Highgate Wood School virtually all of our

students behave really well virtually all of the time.

However, in order to maintain and improve this,

reviewing current practice is critical, as it is in all

things.

In view of this, and following some internal

consultation, we will be launching a new behaviour

policy in January. The detail will follow so that

parents and carers are kept fully informed. The new

policy makes the school’s stance clear for all in

relation to expectations

In the classroom, including promoting excellent

learning habits and being appropriately

equipped for lessons

Around school at social times and lesson

changeover

On the way to and from school

In terms of uniform presentation, mobile

phones usage, etc

Our new policy also reiterates our zero-tolerance

approach to the possession of any illegal

substances or weapons as we seek to continue our

exemplary record of keeping students and staff safe

from harm.

Lastly, the policy re-looks at the Vivo rewards

systems that we have for encouraging positive

behaviours and further clarifying sanctions and

detentions. I thank you all in advance for your

support of the school in promoting the positive

behaviours we expect from our students.

Unfortunately we will be losing some members of

staff at the end of this term

We have some members of staff who will be

leaving us at the end of this term. The longest

serving is Mr Joe Taylor who has been with us on

and off for over a year as a Pastoral Care Mentor

and a Learning Support Advisor within our Learning

Support Department. Mr Taylor has been a real

asset to the school and has worked with some of

our most disadvantaged students and has made a


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HOUSE LEAGUE TABLES

24,603 so far this year

Top Vivo Earners

Halil Ekinci (Yr 11)

Anastasia Abramchuk (Yr 10)

Isabel Pountney (Yr 9)

Yusro Abdi Aweys (Yr 8)

Katya Dickson (Yr 7)


Top Vivo Earners

Oscar Dutton (Yr 11)

Rami Ataya (Yr 10)

Rory Butler (Yr 9)

Hugo Clague (Yr 8)

Rosie Boardman (Yr 7)


Top Vivo Earners

Jordan Brown (Yr 11)

Tugba Oguz (Yr 10)

Sam Beach (Yr 9)

Zandile Mathebula-Jonah (Yr 8)

Lily Bacon Barwin (Yr 7)

From caring

comes courage

Many congratulations to Hezal Yasar, formerly of 11D, who received the Overcoming Adversity Award at Haringey’s Outstanding For All Awards at Alexandra Palace earlier this month.

Hezal, who had been nominated by Meltem Erbil, won the trophy in recognition of how she overcame a whole range of personal challenges to achieve success at school. For all those who know Hezal you will agree that the award is very well deserved.

The achievements of other members of our school were also celebrated during the evening. Two of our sixth form students, Berivan Korkmaz and Rowan Juneman, were commended for Outstanding Academic Achievement whilst Learning Support Assistant, Mr Joel Augustus was shortlisted for the Support Staff of the Year Award. Mr Mitchell was shortlisted for the prestigious Councillor Egan Lifetime Achievement Award that recognises the exceptional leadership of an individual in the field of education in Haringey.

This was the third year of the OFA Awards and we were represented not only by nominees and award winners but also by Mr Cozier who presented the School Mentor Award to two students from Heartlands High School.

HARINGEY AWARDS

The best way to predict the

future is to invent it

Success comes from

perseverance


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Due to a number of our governors reaching the end

of their term the Governing Body of Highgate Wood

School now has three vacancies for Parent

Governors.

Being a school governor is an important role, and at

Highgate Wood School we are fortunate in having

always had an extremely dedicated and supportive

group of governors.

We are mindful of trying to ensure that the

Governing Body of Highgate Wood School reflects

the school population as a whole, and will

particularly welcome new parents and carers.

Information on the role of a school governor is

available on the Haringey website, (http://bit.do/

hwsgb) and also from the National Governors

Association (http://bit.do/hwsgovs) as well as on

the school website (under the Governors tab.)

If you are interested in finding out more please

email [email protected]. You can

find the nomination form at the bottom of the

Governor page on the school website, or you may

request one by email at the address above.

PREPARING FOR WINTER

Ms Burniston, Mr Key and Mr Rowlands write:

We are delight to confirm that we will be making

some very important announcements about our

new student leaders early in the New Year.

Ms Copley writes:

As winter approaches please ensure you come to

school prepared for the ‘cold’ season bringing

plenty of tissues and any medication you may need

to take during the school day.

Please also be reminded of the following:

Students are expected to come to school and

stay in school the whole day even if they have

head colds, allergies, headaches, period pains or

any other mild ailments.

It is the student’s responsibility to come to

school prepared with any medications or

supplies they may require during the day.

Students should go to the treatment room to

take any medication brought in from home.

We are unable to store or administer any

medication for students unless it is

accompanied by a GP’s prescription detailing

the dosage and timings.

Following an injury students can have their

dressings changed at school but only as long as

the necessary dressings are brought in.

GOVERNOR VACANCIES

Mr Hartley writes:

Congratulations and well done to Year 11 for their

excellent behaviour and focus during the mock

exams.

The results from these exams will be available on

Mock Results Day, Thursday 14th January, and this

will be followed by Year 11 Parents’ Evening.

Whatever the outcome of your mocks I do hope

you will be able to use it as a starting point for your

preparation for the main exams in the summer.

Past experience has shown us that the students

who learn the most lessons from their mocks are

the ones who do best in their final exams.

http://bit.do/hwsgb

http://bit.do/hwsgb

http://bit.do/hwsgovs


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POST 16 OPEN EVENING

Mr Charlesworth writes:

Highgate Wood School

Sixth Form experienced its

busiest ever Open Evening

in November when more

than a hundred visitors

from other schools joined

our own Key Stage 4

students to find out about

the post 16 pathways that

are available and to get some idea of why and how

our sixth form provision is so successful.

We had another good year last year, where again

the progress of our students was well above

national averages and, as a result, our Year 13

students are now on the degree courses of their

choice at the universities they wanted to attend.

We have every confidence we will enjoy the same

success this year.

The Open Evening was only the first part of the

process of getting used to being sixth form

students. On Wednesday 6th January our Year 11s

will be having a day of Key Stage 5 taster lessons so

they can get a real taste of Highgate Wood School

Sixth Form.

Subsequently we will be providing all Year 11

students with advice and guidance sessions to help

ensure that they are on track to get to where they

wish to be in September 2016. We will also be

running events in the summer, after the exams, to

help make sure all our new students will have a

great start to their sixth form careers.

More information is available at www.hws6.com

Mr Charlesworth writes:

As the year draws to its

end so does the annual

UCAS round of

applications to university.

This year we expect to

send more than 110

university applications from students

in Year 13 and in February another 10 to 15 will

apply for Art Foundation Degree programmes

directly to colleges and schools of Art.

As in previous years the range of destinations and

subject choices is remarkable. As well as a record

number of applications we have two other notable

firsts for 2016 entry. This year we have a record

number of students applying for either Oxford or

Cambridge University for a range of courses

including Natural Sciences, Human, Social and

Political Sciences, History, English Literature,

Maths and Philosophy. Making an application is

not the same as gaining a place and we will have

to see whether our students receive grade offers

in the New Year, but to be called for interview is

an achievement in itself and is testament to the

strength of application that these and other

students have put together. The second first for

this UCAS round comes to a group of students

taking more vocational BTEC options and in

particular BTEC Business Studies. Over the last

three years students taking BTEC options have

been encouraged to apply for the best university

options just as those taking A levels have been and

in 2015 there were a group of students with BTEC

Business Studies and ICT qualifications who won

places at Russell Group Universities such as

Birmingham, Manchester, Leeds and Sheffield.

With offers already in for many students this trend

has continued with students receiving offers to

study at University College London (UCL).

One student with such an offer only arrived at

Highgate Wood aged 14 from Moldova speaking

almost no English and now has the chance of

studying at one of the UKs leading Universities

having done so well on his BTEC course.

APPLICATIONS TO UNIVERSITY


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£50 RAISED FOR WORLD AIDS DAY

Ms Morgan of the PSA writes:

There is a new offer on tickets4schools for The

Lorax at the Old Vic between 17th and 26th

December. The best tickets (up to £60 each) are

just £15.00 (includes the standard £5.00 donation

to the school). The previous offer for Charlie & the

Chocolate Factory has been extended and includes

performances in January and February. Both would

make perfect Christmas presents!

http://tickets4schools.com/highgate-wood-school

So far this year we have raised well over £500 for

the school using tickets4schools.

CHRISMAS SHOWS AT BARGAIN PRICES

Mr Grimmett writes:

Thank you to all staff and students who supported

World AIDS Day 2015. We raised £50 through the

sale of red ribbons in school which will be passed to

the National AIDS Trust to help continue their good

work. Perhaps more importantly many students

engaged in conversation about HIV/AIDS which not

only raised awareness and understanding but also

cleared up some misconceptions.

For more information on this topic please visit

http://www.hivaware.org.uk/ or speak to your

teacher.

Mr Talbert writes:

In December, Intel delegates from around the

world visited Highgate Wood School to see the

work that St Aiden’s primary school pupils have

done with Intel’s Galileo board as part of the

Digital Schoolhouse programme and Intel’s

education summit.

Two weeks prior to the event St Aiden’s primary

pupils had been creating their interactive shoe box

robots which used different sensors to make their

robots move ranging from touch, sound and

moisture.

The event took place in the school’s LRC with

delegates from the USA, South Africa and Turkey.

The event was so impressive it has led to a future

collaboration with Doğa School in Turkey.

INTEL EDUCATION SUMMIT DELEGATES

KEEP HYDRATED - BUT KEEP LEARNING TOO

Mr Hewitt writes:

We know how important it is to keep hydrated so

all students are encouraged to bring a bottle of

water to school every day. You will be allowed to

drink it in most lessons (except when close to

electrical equipment). However, students should

not be late for class because they are filling up

their bottle, or ask to leave class because they

wish to get water from the fountain.


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Mr Ashman writes:

The constant developments

in mobile technology has

brought a whole range of

benefits to education

and life in general.

With a modern

smart phone you

can do pick up

your homework and

check your Vivos, research

your latest project or send an

email from your school account to

your teacher to ask for help.

But smartphones have also created big challenges.

All across the world young people are putting

themselves at risk because they have not

understood how public they really are when they

are online, and how much their behaviour online

can impact on others.

Few youngsters pay much attention to the age

restrictions placed on most social media networks.

But they are there for a reason. It is not that

something magical happens when people turn 13,

but putting that age restriction in place does

acknowledge that people must have a certain

maturity to use them properly. Some are mature

enough before they are 13. Others take a lot longer

than thirteen years to develop those skills.

DIGITAL SAFETY AND SAFER INTERNET DAY 2016

Tuesday 9th February 2016 is Safer Internet Day

and we will be running another Parent Information

Evening to help parents and carers support their

children in keeping them safe on-line.

In advance of that parents, carers and students are

requested to visit the e-safety pages on the school

website. Here you will find some information and

advice that might help. This area of the website will

be developed over the next few weeks and will be

part of a wider safeguarding section.

You may also be interested in some new Apps that

can help young people protect themselves on-line.

Shieldbully is an app that allows you to block app

downloads and monitor use of social media. It

includes a location-mapping tool, a picture scanner,

and an internet usage alert, as well as logging hours

spent online. www.shieldbully.com

Selfiecop monitors every picture your child takes by

sending a copy to you, and also warns your child to

think before sharing. www.selfiecop.com

Mobileminder allows parents to monitor text

messages, photos, and browser history, and to

block apps or sites. There’s a ‘help me’ function,

and you can enable GPS so that you know where

your child is at all times. www.mobileminder.com

Secure Teen is designed for older children— it

restricts access to adult sites, blocks apps and

monitors activity. www.secureteen.com

Screen Time is all about managing your child’s time

online. The app allows you to set limits — for

example, no Facebook access after 7pm. You and

your child can agree times in advance, and avoid a

nightly argument. www.screentimelabs.com

Not all these apps work for iphones as well as

android phones, nor do they necessarily provide a

better level of safety or control than what may

already be available on the standard phone

contract, but they may be

worth exploring to see if they

could meet a need.


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THE GREAT BAKE OFF

Ms Went writes:

Winner of the first Year Nine Bake Off and clear

winner with a total of 3 best bakes and two clear

wins out of a possible 6. With her Swiss Roll, Ginger

Bread Cake and Shortbread biscuits our first Master

Baker is Mathilda Horton.

THE GREAT BAKE OFF - SERIES TWO!

It’s your turn next!

We are currently booking the places for the first Y8

Bake Off, starting after Christmas. Only 10 places

are available and they are filling up quickly!!! See

the poster for details and call in to W1 to book your

place. First come first served.

Phoebe Collins writes:

On Friday 28th November, Year 13 Literature

students saw a production of Wuthering Heights at

the Ambassadors Theatre.

The reworking of Emily Bronte’s Wuthering

Heights provides a contemporary twist on the

classic novel and helped evoke a deeper

understanding amongst the audience.

The young cast includes not one, but five Cathys

and Heathcliffs and their performances conveyed

the passion and vengefulness that is so prevalent

within the story. Not only did the 21st century

dialect and explicit language portray comic aspects

at first, the physical representation and movement

of characters set a much darker tone, reflecting

the sinister and underlying themes within the

novel. We were in agreement that the production

succeeded with staging a complex novel.

Don’t forget that Highgate Wood School will be

hosting the North London Model UN Conference on

Saturday 12th March 2016. The theme is A Place

Called Home: refuge and migration.

A DATE FOR YOUR DIARY

A TRIP TO WUTHERING HEIGHTS


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WORLD CHALLENGE FUNDRAISER MICROSOFT’S DIGIGIRLZ 2015

Mr Talbert writes:

In November, sixteen Year 8 female students

attended Microsoft’s annual DigiGirlz event at

Microsoft’s UK headquarters in Reading. The event

was aimed at giving female students an insight into

working at a large enterprise organisation like

Microsoft, whilst challenging female stereotypes of

the high-tech industry.

The students had the opportunity to interact with

Microsoft employees and gained exposure to

careers in business and technology, and had an

inside look at what it’s like to work at Microsoft.

The girls really enjoyed themselves working in

teams to come up with an idea for a new mobile

phone app.

Anya Seymour (8E) and Sabine Kikuchi-House (8W)

both said that they found the experience enjoyable

and fun but also educational as they got a detailed

insight to how a technology business works.

Highlight of the day was Sibylla Baron (8E) tearing

up the dance floor in a dance off with students

from other schools playing Dance Central on the

Xbox One. Although the girls’ mobile app ideas did

not win on the day the girls are working hard on

entering their ideas into the Apps for Good

competition so lets hope they succeed there.

Ethan Fraser writes:

Thanks to all those brilliant Year 7 students who

made the Halloween Disco before the half-term

holiday such a triumph - and also such a fantastic

spectacle of ghoulish costumes, monster make up

and general horror!

Your contributions have helped raise more than

£400 for our World Challenge fundraiser—and

will help us for our collection for Morocco this

year and also preparing for the planned World

Challenge journey to Swaziland in 2017.


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YEAR 11 GCSE MOCKS - TRIUMPH OF HARD WORK.

Ms Zwicky writes:

At the end of November the year 11 cohort kicked

off their exam season with a 10 hour art exam. The

students have worked incredibly hard preparing for

this exam and as a result have managed to rise to

the challenge to produce exciting, challenging and

beautiful work over the given time.

As usual our students created a wide range of work,

from engaging installations (Ella Pollak Fleming,

Ruby Neale) to portrait paintings (Laura Gibbons,

Aoife Allen, Annie Stanford) as well as 3d work like

the incredible hand sculpture by Stephanie Durand

and the engaging piece inspired by the refugee

crisis by Amy Townsend-Lowcock.

The current art cohort have really shown what they

are capable of, and we wish them all the best for

their exam unit starting in January, which will be

intensive as well as demanding for them.

Ella Pollak Fleming

Laura Gibbons

Aoife Allen

Kai Castello


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Alex Maclaren

Annie Stanford


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Ms Gomez writes:

At the end of October, 42 students studying

Spanish in Year 11 (and four in Year 13) went to

Valencia for a week on a programme of total

language and cultural immersion.

The students' feedback could not have been more

positive. They all expressed their gratitude for

organising this trip, and said how well they were

treated and cared for. They praised the very tasty

food and how much they felt their Spanish had

improved!

Our students were kept busy every hour of the day

with lessons, adventure activities and educational

games, and even though it was both challenging

and fully packed with activities, and even when

physically and mentally tired, they made us proud.

The teachers and monitors at the Educational

Complex were very impressed with our students’

character, behaviour and abilities. They were great

ambassadors for our school.

Sina Nafissi writes:

We spent an amazing week in Valencia, Spain. All of

us got the opportunity to speak to other young

people in Spanish. We also did adventure activities

during our trip... Including zip-wiring, rock climbing

and rafting.

Overall, it was a wonderful trip, we learnt lots of

Spanish and had an excellent time.

Thank you for making it happen.

INTENSIVE LEARNING IN VALENCIA


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Mr Brown writes:

In December, thirteen Year 9 students attended

Microsoft Research’s annual Think Computer

Science event at the Imperial War Museum in

Duxford Cambridge.

it was a great opportunity for the students to

experience many exciting new technologies,

concepts and software. They got to test the latest

computer games, virtual reality devices and learnt

about hacking, vintage computers and many more

marvellous ways that computer science helps us.

They attended workshops which were focussed on

the fantastic new BBC project called micro:bit, a

handheld, fully programmable computer that can

be used for all sorts of creations, from robots to

musical instruments

Owen (9G) says “The Microsoft trip was amazing!

We had many interesting activities to attend. My

interest in Computer Science is now bigger than

ever before!!”

MICROSOFT RESEARCH: THINK CS AN INSPECTOR CALLS

Ms Ford writes:

On 28th November, the English Department took a

group of Year 10 and Year 11 students to see An

Inspector Calls at the New Wimbledon Theatre. The

play is being studied for GCSE English Literature,

and so the trip was both good revision as well as

good entertainment!

Students and staff alike were impressed by the

visual elements of the production: the Birling house

was suspended like a disintegrating dolls' house

above the stage, which gave rise to discussions

around symbolism and dramatic effect. Many of

the Year 10 students were experiencing the play for

the first time, and found the unfolding mystery

thrilling. It's important to acknowledge the

importance of seeing plays in live performance for

the fullest understanding of the text.

Further theatre trips led by the English Department

are planned for 2016 - further details will be

circulated to parents in the new year.


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Ms Lacroix writes:

I would like to congratulate the 35 students from

our school who attended the Mandarin taster on

3rd November 2015. The survey feedback revealed

that the experience was 100% enjoyable and

positive. We have therefore decided to arrange six

further sessions of Mandarin. They will run between

1:15pm and 1:50pm in A34 every Tuesday from

19th January, with the exception of 16th February.

I have already received many invitation slips back

for this wonderful opportunity, however I am happy

to accept students who did not come to the

Mandarin taster on the 3rd November.

If you want to attend the next 6 sessions and are

really keen to learn Mandarin, please see me .

LEARNING MANDARIN

“I enjoyed the Mandarin taster session. It was made

fun and showed me how important it is. I definitely

want to join the club.” Felix Andrew

“I found it very enjoyable and fascinating. I really

enjoy learning languages. I think that Mandarin

would also be very useful to know” Katya Dickson

“I really liked the Mandarin lesson. They teach the

language really well.” Camilo Chapman

First Mandarin students: Brian Li (7W), Camilo Chapman (7G), Katya

Dickson (7G), Tulsi Vaithilingam (7I), Orgena Kola (7I), Felix Andrew

(7G), Ruby Renner-Gomez (8T), Louise Roberts (8G), Ramneet Bains

(8G), Romilly Gosling (8G), Clara Klein-French (8I), Hugo Clague (8H),

William Carmichael (8I), Jem Cliff (9E), Victoria Stogdon-Culbert (9E),

Arishma Baig (9T), Natalie Manoharan (9E), Billie-Jo Hayden (9D),

Claire Schumann (9S), Rebecca Manoharan (9G), Tia Dyett (9G), Aweys

Abdi (9I), Max Murphy (9I), Ollie Freeman (9I), Owen Rice (9G), Toby

Wyckoff-Smith (9S), Joseph Ferando (9W), Jordan Kennedy (11H),

Callum Escayg (11I),

Mr Grimmett writes:

The International Society is a group of students who

are working together to set up links between our

school and others . Currently we are working with a

school in Kuurne, Belgium, and we are chatting to

each other online via the eTwinning platform. Our

next steps will be to try Belgian cuisine, compare

our schools by creating a video documentary and

finally, to have a trip into London city centre to

compare our local urban environments. We will

also be looking at who else we can partner with.

If you want to join the project, have any ideas or

know of schools in other countries who may wish to

work with our society please get in touch.

A big thanks to the following Year 8 and 9 students

who have worked hard on this project: Ainara

Igesias Gonzalez, Anna Jevons, Brandon Durand,

THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY

Cheyenne Sloane , Day Robinson, Eliya Panayiotou,

Grace Heron, Hugo Clague, Iola Elson, Isabel

Poutney, Lara Juneman, Lebin Abdi, Yasmin Walton

and Zainab Khan.


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Mr Grimmett writes:

Between the 9th and 13th November two teachers

from Olomouc in the Czech Republic visited lessons

in our wonderful Science, PE and Geography

departments. They came to find out and learn

different teaching and assessment methods from

our teachers and to observe how our school works.

They were very happy with what they saw saying

that the lessons they saw were excellent, in

particular:

They were impressed with how smart our

students were and they said they were going to

recommend, to their head teacher, that they

also adopt a uniform policy.

They liked how well behaved and respectful

students were towards each other and staff.

They liked how we use different colour pens for

self, peer and teacher assessment and how

students reply to teacher comments. They said it

seemed useful for students.

They thank everyone they came into contact with

for being so nice, welcoming and friendly to them

despite there being a language barrier sometimes.

Well done to everyone for proving that our school

is such a great place to both learn and work in!

CZECH TEACHERS VISIT HIGHGATE WOOD

Ms Clyne writes:

Eliane Brochu, the languages assistant, is currently

running a French club for year 9 students. It is an

opportunity to develop confidence in speaking

French and to learn spontaneous language in a fun

environment.

Eliane has done some work with the Year 9 group

on her homeland Quebec, as well as on fashion and

will also be talking about Christmas in Canada.

FUN FRENCH CLUB

EXAM INVIGILATORS WANTED Highgate Wood School will need to recruit

invigilators for the upcoming spring and

summer exams.

If you are interested please apply on-line on

the school website. The school is committed to paying Invigilators the London Living Wage

Ms Mayer writes: For the last half term language students have been benefitting from having a lunchtime space to work on their language skills using ICT. The sessions run as follows for invited students: Wednesday lunchtimes (alternate weeks -KS3/KS4) in A35 – check the posters in the MFL corridor to find out the correct week.

MFL WORKING SPACE

GAME OF LIFE

Ms Kemp writes:

Congratulations to

all the Year 7s who

have completed

their Hindu board

games in ECS. The

games are designed

to illustrate the key

elements of Hindu

philosophy.

They were all so

good and I hope you

achieve Moksha as

well as have a lovely

Christmas.


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Beth Gosschalk writes:

It's only possible to understand how incredible the

Poland trip is once you've been and experienced it

for yourself. The main feature of the trip was the

visit to Auschwitz and Bergen Belsen.

It was absolutely heart-breaking to visit a camp

where over one million people were exterminated

and put through experiences that no human should

ever have to experience. It all felt very surreal and

inevitably was a very emotional day. Besides the

visit to Auschwitz, we went to various museums,

spoke to a very inspiring Holocaust survivor, went

out for dinners in and around the city. The trip was

absolutely jam packed with activities and

experiences, but it was 100% worth going on.

Thank you!

Faye Heron writes:

I wasn’t sure what to expect from the Auschwitz

Poland trip, but having spent the weekend visiting

Auschwitz-Birkenau, walking round several

museums, and meeting a Holocaust survivor, I

would recommend the trip to anyone that has the

chance to go.

Beforehand, we were all aware that over one

million people were exterminated at the camp, but

it’s impossible to comprehend the enormous scale

of the Holocaust, and the awful experiences of the

prisoners until you actually walk around the camp

and see the evidence for yourself. And, once we

listened to the survivor –who had been sent to

Birkenau aged three, yet still had vivid memories of

her experiences and an identification tattoo –we got

a chance to listen to a personal story, and learnt

that even though the camp was liberated 70 years

ago, the effects are still felt today.

Unsurprisingly the trip was very emotional, however

it was also an enjoyable experience that I will not

forget, as we got the chance to listen to a

traditional Jewish music concert, to meet some

truly inspirational people and to taste several Polish

dishes.

POST 16 TRIP TO AUSHCWITZ AMD BERGEN BELSEN


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Mr Bomani writes:

YEAR 7

The Year 7 football team have made a great start to

the Haringey League and currently sit top of the

table as we start our winter break. Notable

performances include a 6-9 win over Heartlands

School and a well fought 2-1 win over St Thomas

More.

Well done to all involved and we look forward to

the league restarting in February

YEAR 9

Well done to the Year 9 football team for going the

furthest (along with Year 10) in their debut entry

into the English Schools FA Cup. Our Year 9 team

saw victories against Bedfordshire and

Hertfordshire schools 10-0 and 10-3 respectively

but the John Henry Newman School were one step

too far!

Well done to all involved.

FOOTBALL SUCCESSES

Mr Pedlar and Mr Thomas write:

The Cross Country Club entered the

Haringey Championship held at the

New River Recreation Ground on a

rather windy day at the end of November.

We entered runners in the Year 6/7 events and in

the Year 8/9 events. Well done to all 10 runners,

with special mention to Elodie Soteriou who came

second in the girls’ event and progresses to the

Middlesex Race. Additionally, the Year 8 boys came

4th in the full team event.

CROSS COUNTRY NEWS

EXTRA CURRICULAR ACTIVITIES IN PE

MONDAY

LUNCHTIME Year 7—11 Girls Football Astroturf

LUNCHTIME Year 8—9 Trampolining Sports Hall

AFTER SCHOOL Year 7—8 Basketball Sports Hall

AFTER SCHOOL KS3 & KS4 Netball Training Back PGrnd

TUESDAY

LUNCHTIME Year 7 Boys Football Astroturf

LUNCHTIME Year 7 Trampolining Sports Hall

AFTER SCHOOL Year 7—9 Rugby training Astroturf

AFTER SCHOOL Tennis—Highgate Tennis Club School Tennis

FRIDAY


LUNCHTIME Year 7—8 Indoor Cricket Sports Hall

WEDNESDAY


LUNCHTIME KS3 Indoor Athletics Sports Hall

AFTER SCHOOL Year 11 Football Astroturf

AFTER SCHOOL All Years Badminton Sports Hall

THURSDAY

LUNCHTIME Year 10—11 Boys Football Astroturf

LUNCHTIME Year 7 + GCSE Trampolining Sports Hall

AFTER SCHOOL Year 9—10 Basketball Sports Hall

AFTER SCHOOL Cross country training School to

Lunchtime sessions run from 1:10pm - 2:00pm

After school sessions run from 3:30 pm - 5:00pm

www.immobilise.com


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SCHOOL COUNCIL SUCCESSES

Ms Gribble writes:

The School Council have been meeting regularly

this term to discuss and address issues raised by

their peers and staff.

These included obtaining clarification of certain

rules, investigating issues surrounding equality in

school, asking for cover for wet weather,

requesting more rewards and recognition for

students who don't accrue negative behaviour

points, discussing the diversity of events in school,

questioning rules concerning toilets and uniform,

raising issues about the dining hall and lunch

menus and generally saying sensible things and

being heard.

Aiesha Shallo (Year 10) and Jace Griffiths (Year 11)

are our chairs this year and have done a fantastic

job. Hugo Clauge (Year 8) also deserves a special

mention for minute taking skills that far surpass my

own. Together with other members of the council

they have made a real difference to the school

community and already begun to make things

happen.

Plans for wet weather covering are now being

presented to the PSA and the Governing Body,

whilst the school is also now looking at improving

the environment and the design of the main dining

hall.

The term for the current school council will be

coming to an end at Christmas and a new collection

of representatives will need to be appointed. The

elections for the new School Council will take place

in January and we hope will result in another

fantastic bunch of councillors.

STUDENT CONFERENCE

Over half term Zeki Jones, Lucy Sutton, Ellis

Mbachu, Aiesha Shallo, Tamsin Jacobs and Kate

Jevons represented the school at the Student

Voice conference. They discussed many issues that

affect young people and made plans to enhance

student voice at Highgate Wood.

(see below)

Lucy Sutton writes:

I have been honoured to be given the position of

National Executive for London. This means that

within my school I will work to help make the

student voice heard.

This aim is to build a more democratic schooling

system where students have more of a say in their

education and more of an impact on their

environment.

I will be working closely with the rest of the

Student Council over the coming months to help

bring this about and to try and ensure that our

thoughts and ideas are voiced and that the

opinions of the student body become ever more

central to life at Highgate Wood School.


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SPEAK OUT CHALLENGE

Ms Gribble writes:

This month forty of our Year 10s have taken part in

the Jack Petchey Speak Out Challenge and I was very

impressed by all of them.

The programme involved a day’s training for two

groups where the students developed their skill at

public speaking by holding forth about a range of

issues that they were passionate about. These

included music, chocolate, football, poverty and pay

inequality.

Asha Santeramo, Nasro Tahil and Noah Stoneman

from the first group have all been asked to go

through to the regional finals. We are still awaiting

the results of the second cohort.

Mr Robertson writes:

On 9th November, Highgate Wood School Sixth

Form participated in the North London qualifying

rounds for Debating Matters, a nationwide

Debating Competition for secondary schools and

Sixth Forms. This is the first time our school has

entered this particular competition and is

significantly different to the Model UN events we

are used to; the teams are significantly smaller and

the atmosphere much more challenging and

adversarial.

Our first round was to debate 'compulsory

vaccinations' and we won by virtue of the opposing

school being unable to attend. However, Blue

Weiss and Jonah Berman still gave a compelling

and convincing presentation which was influenced

by John Stuart Mill's 'harm principle' in arguing

that compulsory vaccinations were for the greater

good. Although they were winners by default, they

still dealt effectively with the counter-arguments

put forward by the judging panel. The second and

final round looked at whether gentrification was

good for communities, and we were tasked with

opposing this motion against an impressive team

from Chingford Foundation School.

Our team decided to reframe 'gentrification' as

'social cleansing' and Rosa Tully made a passionate

argument that it changed the character of working

class neighbourhoods, priced out working people

and broke up communities which had formed over

generations.

SIXTH FORM DEBATING MATTERS Harry Vinall-Smeeth

focused on

presenting data

which revealed the

true scale of

London's housing

crisis and skilfully

rebutted the counter

-arguments of the opposing team. At the end of the

debate, Harry won the award for 'best individual

performance'.

Although still relatively inexperienced in this

competition, we look forward to the next London

qualifying round, which will be held at the Barbican

Centre in March of next year.


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HWS FEMINISTS


The HWS Feminist group is continuing to be

involved in exciting projects both inside school and

in the wider community.

At our weekly meetings, the group has been

working on a Feminist Utopia Project and wrote

short stories which described how the world would

look if gender equality had been achieved. They also

produced their own artwork and these have now all

been collated into a booklet. We have also had

meetings which looked at the gender marketing of

children’s toys, the role of the media in how girls

perceive themselves and how views of the roles of

women vary all over the world.

We have also been fortunate to attend a number of

events on the topic of gender equality. On 24th

October, Ms Angove and Ms Sayer took a group of

students to the annual Feminism in London

conference. The event is the largest gathering of its

kind in Europe, and 20 HWS students joined over

1,000 delegates to discuss topics as wide-ranging as

‘Equality & Austerity’, ‘Women in Parliament’ and

the role of men in ending violence against women.

On 5th December, 14 of our students were invited

to attend the launch of Plan UK’s #learnwithoutfear

campaign to end violence against girls in and around

school. Two of our Y13 students were asked to give

some remarks at the opening of the conference, and

we also hosted a workshop on the topic of ‘How We

Started A Feminist Group in Our School’.

Meanwhile, our younger Y9 students attended a

number of engaging workshops which touched

upon the experiences of girls in the UK and how

they can find fun and creative ways to promote

positive messages about equality.

The Feminist group is open to all female students

from years 8-10 and there will also be a number of

events during 2016 which boys will be encouraged

to attend.

Mr Grimmett writes:

International Education Week took place between

16th and 20th November. As we all know,

knowledge and understanding of other cultures and

modern foreign language skills are an essential part

of our future and in preparing young people to work

in an increasingly globalised economy.

As part of this week some of our Year 7 students

volunteered to take part in the British Council’s

homework challenge which offered a range of

activities such as learning words in a different

language or simply tasting food from another

culture they had never had before.

Well done to everyone who took part, but

particularly those listed below. They worked extra

hard and completed 10 or more voluntary

homeworks during that week!

Joe Chadwick (7E), Nicole Pawlikowska (7E); Gabriel

Cahill Coady (7G); Layla Badalova ( 7A); Manon

Elliott (7A); Tatiyana Thomas (7A), Rosie Boardman

(7T), Matilda Heath (7T) and Alice Jenkins (7T)

INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION WEEK


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GLOBAL CLASSROOMS - LMUN


On Friday 27th

November Ms Sayer

and I took a delegation

of students to the annual Global Classrooms London

Model UN conference hosted by Mulberry School

for Girls. This time, the topic was climate change,

which was relevant and timely given the recent

negotiations in Paris for a new global agreement on

reducing carbon emissions.

It is my view that our students’ individual

performances – and the professionalism of the

delegation as a whole – could give some seasoned

diplomats a run for their money. Their research was

at such a high level that they drove debate from the

start and stuck closely to their country’s positions –

even if that proved unpopular with the other

delegates in the room! They negotiated with each

other maturely, showed great calmness under

pressure, and contributed immensely to the

resolution-writing process.

A special mention must be made of Isabel

Pountney’s performance on the more challenging

Crisis Committee; it is the first time we have ever

asked a Year 9 student to take a seat on Crisis and

the fact that she ended the day by winning Best

Delegate reflects just how strongly she rose to the

challenge.

As a school, we should be incredibly proud of their

accomplishments, and can now look forward to our

conference at Highgate Wood School in March,

where we will be looking for new students who are

eager to follow in their footsteps.

Ms Ereira writes:

Karen McCombie visited the LRC on November 19th

and gave a very entertaining talk, ably assisted by

her daughter and powerpoint-clicking assistant,

Amelia from Year 9. Karen is an immensely popular

writer and recently published her 80th book,

Catching Falling Stars.

Karen is a natural storyteller and shared lots of

funny stories about her life and her journey to

becoming a successful author. Also some

disconcerting cat anecdotes.

We heard about her bumpy start with literacy,

caused by a hearing problem as a young child.

Despite her brother’s best efforts to get her reading

by leaving copies of the Beano in her cot, Karen

struggled when she first started school until a

teacher realised that there was a problem with her

hearing. Once this was resolved, Karen fell in love

with reading. Her point? Even if you don’t find

something easy at first, you can still succeed at it.

She revealed how she gets her ideas from her own

teen diaries and from quirky incidents which she

jots down in notebooks for later use. Basically, she

revealed to her audience, inspiration is just nicking

ideas.

This was a really funny, empowering and inspiring

talk. You can find Catching Falling Stars and many

other Karen McCombie books in the LRC.

KAREN McCOMBIE’S LUNCHTIME TALK


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Lily Bacon Darwin (7W)

Seth Bland (7I)

Rosie Boardman (7T)

Reuben Braman (7E)

Eliza Buckton (7T)

Talia Bunting (7T)

Eden Cavendish (7H)

Olivia Dennis (7A)

Manon Elliott (7A)

Noah Gerner (7W)

Ben Gibbons (7T)

Max Haslam (7G)

James Hastings O'shea (7I)

Matilda Heath (7T)

Rosie Hegarty Morrish (7T)

Ellie Hutchings (7S)

Alice Jenkins (7T)

Zeki Jones (7T)

Pia Kanani (7D)

Brian Li (7AE)

Migena Miftari (7W)

Maya Muir (7S)

Maria Tewodros (7I)

Scala Tromans (7H)

Tulsi Vaithilingam (7I)

Anya Seymour (8E)

Felix Andrew (7G)


Tom Biro Sidford (7T)

Amara Blair (7S)

Seth Bland (7I)

Rosie Boardman (7T)

Shanya Braithwaite

Ambrose (7A)

Reuben Braman (7E)

Eliza Buckton (7S)

Gabriel Cahill Coady (7G)

Celeste Clift (7T)

Lily Corran (7A)

Gareth Davies (7G)

Lois Doyle (7H)

Tsiona Fernandes-Tadesse

(7S)

Noah Gerner (7W)

Jess Illari (7I)

Alice Jenkins (7T)

Kate Jevons (7I)

Zeki Jones (7T)

Art Jubb-Baddiel (7H)

Yousaf Khan (7I)

Orgena Kola (7I)

Otis McAuliffe (7D)

Isabelle McBroom (7H)

Rory McDermid (7A)

Migena Miftari (7W)

Taya Miller (7D)

Maya Muir (7S)

Evan Shute (7S)

Jessy Stoneman (7I)

Ella Taylor (7W)

Scala Tromans (7H)

Holly Tunnicliffe (7I)

Fabienne Valancogne (7T)

Peter Vincent (7W)

Jenasia Walker (7G)

Annie Walker (7W)

Shariah Wynter-Bradshaw

(7S)

Sude Bektas (8D)

Tallulah Cox (8E)

Zak Fowler (8D)

Fred Perkins (8E)

Mushtaba Azizi (7S)

Dior Beckford (7G)

Luna Berger (7G)

Tian-Xing Chaudhry (7A)

Nicole Ciobanu (7W)

Celeste Clift (7T)

Gareth Davies (7G)

Risat Hussain (7T)


Jess Illari (7I)

Tamsin Jacobs (7D)

Bruno Lansdown (7S)

Bethany Matsuda Gaviria

(7W)

Taya Miller (7D)

Orrin Ross (7W)

Elodie Soteriou (7H)

Ella Taylor (7W)

Alice Tolipan (7H)

Scala Tromans (7H)

Louis Yule (7W)

Ty Knox (8T)

15 QUIZZES PASSED GOLD AWARD

500,000 WORDS GOLD AWARD

10 QUIZZES PASSED SILVER AWARD

300,000 WORDS SILVER AWARD

Mushtaba Azizi (7S)

Dior Beckford (7G)

Luna Berger (7G)

Eliza Buckton (7T)

Talia Bunting (7T)

Eden Cavendish (7H)

Tian-Xing Chaudhry (7A)

Nicole Ciobanu (7W)

Olivia Dennis (7A)

Manon Elliott (7A)

Ben Gibbons (7T)

James Hastings O'shea (7I)

Matilda Heath (7T)

Rosie Hegarty Morrish (7T)

Risat Hussain (7T)


Tamsin Jacobs (7D)

Pia Kanani (7D)

Ainoa Kontoh (7E)

Bruno Lansdown (7S)

Brian Li (7AE)

Daisy Murray (7G)

Nicole Pawlikowska (7E)

Anders Skovsende (7G)

Elodie Soteriou (7H)

Alice Tolipan (7H)

Scala Tromans (7H)

Tulsi Vaithilingam (7I)

Jenasia Walker (7G)

Louis Yule (7W)

Sude Bektas (8D)

Tallulah Cox (8E)

Maya Culverwell (8H)

Joe Ewbank (8D)

Zak Fowler (8D)

Matthew Free (8I)

Camille French (8H)

Clara Klein-French (8I)

Fred Perkins (8E)

Louise Roberts (8G)

5 QUIZZES PASSED BRONZE AWARD

Abdullahi Ali (7D)

Kathleen Archbold (7W)

Tristan Ashworth (7AE)

Aysegul Aslan (7A)

Layla Badalova (7A)

Ariba Baig (7A)

Najibah Batanda (7S)

Cassia Begg (7H)

Tom Biro Sidford (7T)

Amara Blair (7S)

Camilo Chapman (7G)

Lily Corran (7A)

Daisy Daman Underwood

(7E)

Katya Dickson (7G)

Liam Doran (7G)

Katie Ewbank (7W)

Jenae Feisal (7T)

James Fleming (7D)

Adam Foxsmith (7H)

Chimey Gawa (7D)

Luca Hayles (7E)

Peter Hogan (7A)

Seren Hurst (7W)

Kesena Ivego-Amaiyo (7S)

Filip Jaremek (7S)

Kate Jevons (7I)

William John (7T)

Maya Kane (7I)

Yousaf Khan (7I)

Humza Khan (7G)

Betty Knox (7E)

Laurie Logue (7I)

Daisy Mattocks (7T)

Honey McCloy (7E)

Leila Mentash (7D)

Alfie Montgomery (7H)

Joe Morgan (7I)

Nancy Moule (7W)

Patrick Newcombe (7S)

Amaury Peguero Blazina

(7AE)

Finn Quartermain (7AE)

Denai Riviere - Chance

(7W)

Sienna Santeramo (7T)

Siyar Sigirtmac (7W)

Jessy Stoneman (7I)

Florence Stroud (7G)

Ava Todd (7I)

Holly Tunnicliffe (7H)

Fabienne Valancogne (7T)

Peter Vincent (7W)

Jenasia Walker (7G)

Lily Walker (7E)

Annie Walker (7W)

Stanley Webb (7I)

Reece Wright (7W)

Sude Bektas (8D)

Faber Bell (8W)

Tallulah Cox (8E)


Joe Ewbank (8D)

Zak Fowler (8D)

Matthew Free (8I)

Camille French (8H)


Ty Knox (8T)

Fred Perkins (8E)

Louise Roberts (8G)

Amy Tafliku (8W)

Leah Whittaker (8S)

100,000 WORDS BRONZE AWARD

Abdullahi Ali (7D)

Kathleen Archbold (7W)

Tristan Ashworth (7AE)

Aysegul Aslan (7A)


Layla Badalova (7A)

Ariba Baig (7A)

Najibah Batanda (7S)

Cassia Begg (7H)

Luna Berger (7G)

Matthew Brewer (7E)

Leo Chadwick (7D)

Camilo Chapman (7G)

Julia Coroama (7A)

Daisy Daman Underwood

(7E)

Gareth Davies (7G)

John Dewan (7E)

Katya Dickson (7G)

Katie Ewbank (7W)

Jenae Feisal (7T)

James Fleming (7D)

Max Haslam (7G)

Luca Hayles (7E)

Peter Hogan (7A)

Seren Hurst (7W)

Kesena Ivego-Amaiyo (7S)

Filip Jaremek (7S)

Maya Kane (7I)

Humza Khan (7G)

Betty Knox (7E)

Laurie Logue (7I)

Ella Marshall (7E)

Daisy Mattocks (7T)

Maya Mills (7D)

Alfie Montgomery (7H)

Joe Morgan (7I)

Jonathan Moughton-Small

(7W)

Nancy Moule (7W)

Patrick Newcombe (7S)

Amaury Peguero Blazina

(7AE)

Finn Quartermain (7AE)

Denai Riviere - Chance (7W)

Orrin Ross (7W)

Siyar Sigirtmac (7W)

Zoe Street (7D)

Ava Todd (7I)

Lily Walker (7E)

Stanley Webb (7I)

Reece Wright (7W)`

Rosie Allison (8D)

Patrick Alwyn (8A)

Sude Bektas (8D)

Faber Bell (8W)

Aaron Bell (8E)

Zachary Chisholm (8G)

Tallulah Cox (8E)


Daniel Doggett-Jones (8A)

Joe Ewbank (8D)

Zak Fowler (8D)

Matthew Free (8I)

Camille French (8H)

Romilly Gosling (8G)

Sylvie Keen (8D)


Ty Knox (8T)

Maya Koski-Wood (8E)

Matthew Landells (8G)

Lola Neal (8D)

Bell Overton Farnham (8D)

Fred Perkins (8E)

Louise Roberts (8G)

Anya Seymour (8E)

Amy Tafliku (8W)

Sissily Waite (8D)

Leah Whittaker (8S)

Ms Ereira writes:

Well done to all the students in Year 7

and 8 who have made such progress

with Accelerated Reader since

September. The Awards that are

recorded on this page demonstrate just

how much work they have done.


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OUR PATRON OF READING

Keren David writes:

It’s nearing the end of my first term as Highgate

Wood School’s Patron of Reading and I feel as

though we’ve got off to a good start.

Kate Ereira and I have set up an LRC blog (which is

available via the school intranet and the website),

and are getting lots of comments and contributions

from students and staff - and from some of the

authors featured in Highgate Wood School’s very

first Book Award. Reading comments like ‘This is the

best book I’ve ever read’ and ‘This book changed

my life,’ is fantastic. Just as we hoped, the award is

sparking debate among students. I hope lots of you

will be reading the books - and the blog - and

leaving more comments over the holidays.

I’ve met with other authors who are Patrons in local

schools and we’re planning some Top Secret joint

projects - more details in the new year, but I hope

Highgate Wood School will play a big role.

I met the school’s two reading groups, and it was

brilliant to chat about books and writing with such

passionate enthusiasts. I road-tested the first

chapter of my latest book with the Year 7 group -

then went home and rewrote it - and read the new

version to the Year 8 and Year 9s the following

week. Thank you for your help! Next term I hope to

visit again, and also set up a group for reluctant

readers, because I’m very interested to work with

and hear from kids who don’t like to read, and try

and suggest ways of changing that.

I know some drama classes have been working on

my book When I Was Joe, and I’m excited to see

what they’ve come up with. This month I’ve been

working on my own drama project, adapting my

book Lia’s Guide to Winning the Lottery into a

musical. Who knows, maybe Highgate Wood might

stage it one day!

Probably the most memorable Patron of Reading

moment this term came just after I’d spoken at six

assemblies in October. Walking along Tottenham

Lane one dreary Sunday, the crowds parted as

three boys on two bikes came cycling along the

pavement. The boy clinging onto the back of the

second bike took one look at me and yelled: ‘I know

you! You came to my school and you’re a famous

author!’

I don’t know who you were - but you certainly

made me feel that the Patron of Reading scheme

has got noticed. Thank you (and maybe next time

cycle on the road?)!

The LRC blog can be found at

www.highgatewoodlrc.wordpress.com

Ms Ereira writes:

The Christmas holiday is a great time to get reading

for the Highgate Wood School Book Award. Voting

will open next term, both in school and online via

the LRC Blog.

Our shortlisted books are:

A Song for Ella Grey by David Almond

The Last Leaves Falling by Sarah Benwell

The Lost and the Found by Cat Clarke

One by Sarah Crossan

The Door That Led To Where by Sally Gardner;

Better Left Buried by Emma Haughton

The Art of Being Normal by Lisa Williamson

CHRISTMAS BOOKS

The school calendar is available on-line at www.hws.uk.com

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School begins again on

Monday 4th January 2016

at 10:50 am

It will be Week 2

* Term ends for students

SUMMER 2016

Mon 11th April

30th May - 3rd June

Friday 22nd July

Term Starts

Half term break

Term Ends*

SPRING 2016

Mon 4th Jan

15th Feb– 19th Feb

Thurs 24th March

Term Starts

Half term break

Term Ends

Year 8

Year 9

Year 10

Year 11

Year 12

Year 13

Year 7

Tues. 3rd November

Wed. 24th February

Tues.12th April

Thurs. 14th January

Thurs. 28th January

Thursday 11th February

Tues. 26th April

KEY DATES

E-Safety Parent Info Evening Tuesday 9th Feb

INSET AFTERNOON (2:00pm) Tuesday 19th Jan

Half term ends Friday 12th Feb

TERM STARTS (10:35am) Monday 4th Jan

A Level Taster Day Wednesday 6th Jan

Year 12 Parents’ Evening Thursday 28th Feb

GCSE Results Day and Year

11 Parents’ Evening Thursday 14th Jan

PARENT EVENINGS

AUTUMN 2016 *

Mon 5th Sept

24th Oct– 28th Oct

Wed 21st Dec

Term Starts

Half term break

Term Ends

* 2016-17 dates not finalised

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