T he Modern Languages Department in Uppingham Community College organised a wide range of activities this year to celebrate the European Day of Languages. Every student in Years 7 to 11 and all staff had the opportunity to take part in a variety of competitions with an international flavour. The main language being celebrated this year was Italian. During the day, with the help of native Italian speakers, several UCC students were involved in activities ranging from learning about the Italian Language, Culture and Cuisine. Furthermore, at breaktime and lunchtime a selection of Italian snacks and hot meals including Bruschetta al Pomodoro, Mozzarella en Carrozza, Stracciatella, Cannelloni con la Balsamella, Pollo con Salsa al Mascarpone, Amaretti, Pizzelles and Tiramisu were available in the College’s dining hall. At morning registration, students were asked to respond to their name being called out in Italian. At lunchtime all students were able to watch DVDs ranging from Alice in Wonderland to the Italian Job in the College’s Drama Studio. Throughout the day in the College’s exhibition area PowerPoints were running, giving all students and staff the opportunity to brush up their general knowledge on the importance of languages in today’s society of ever increasing globalisation. BOOKED UP BY MRS PEARSON T his is a programme, run by the national charity Booktrust, which aims to give every child starting secondary school a free book. All our Year 7 students have chosen their free book from a wonderful selection of titles, and are now looking forward to receiving them in November. EUROPEAN DAY OF LANGUAGES Newsletter: October 2011 Uppingham Community College A Specialist Technology Academy
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The Modern Languages Department in Uppingham Community College
organised a wide range of activities this year to celebrate the European Day of Languages.
Every student in Years 7 to 11 and all staff had the opportunity to take part in a variety of competitions with an international flavour. The main language being celebrated this year was Italian.
During the day, with the help of native Italian speakers, several UCC students were involved in activities ranging from learning about the Italian Language, Culture and Cuisine. Furthermore, at breaktime and lunchtime a selection of Italian snacks and hot meals including Bruschetta al Pomodoro, Mozzarella en Carrozza, Stracciatella, Cannelloni
con la Balsamella, Pollo con Salsa al Mascarpone, Amaretti, Pizzelles and Tiramisu were available in the College’s dining hall.
At morning registration, students were asked to respond to their name being called out in Italian.
At lunchtime all students were able to watch DVDs ranging from Alice in Wonderland to the Italian Job in the College’s Drama Studio.
Throughout the day in the College’s exhibition area PowerPoints were running, giving all students and staff the opportunity to brush up their general knowledge on the importance of languages in today’s society of ever increasing globalisation.
Booked Upby Mrs Pearson
This is a programme, run by the national charity Booktrust, which aims to give
every child starting secondary school a free book. All our Year 7 students have chosen their free book from a wonderful selection of titles, and are now looking forward to receiving them in November.
EUROPEAN DAY OF LANGUAGES
Newsletter: October 2011
Uppingham Community CollegeA Specialist Technology Academy
Dear Parents and Guardians,
Welcome to the new Autumn Term at Uppingham Community College. Once again it has been a busy start to the year – setting off to a great start with excellent GCSE results for the College. We remain significantly above the national average in many areas this year. Our Year 10 Statistics students all gained A*/A grades bar one and the majority of the subject areas in school continue to be significantly above the national average, including the number of the A*/A grades and all this was achieved through gold standard GCSE courses. Also all the vocational students passed their courses and all students have gone on to A Levels, college courses or apprenticeships. So well done to Year 11 2011. They will return to collect their certificates and prizes in November.
Year 7 have settled in well and we welcome several new staff this year – Miss Dunmore, 2nd in DT, Mrs Rodgers, 2nd in Humanities and Mr Rhodes in Drama. Mrs Pearson is our new Learning Resources Manager and Miss Crossley is our new Cover Supervisor. We have also appointed Mrs Park and Miss Lewis as
Specialist Teachers in Maths and English and Mr Lewin is now our Sports Academy Development Officer.
I am also pleased to report that we now have a formal link with Leicester University. Our Year 11 students, who are independently studying for an extra GCSE in the Higher Level Project, are working with university students. Another link is with Corpus Christi College, Oxford where we will be sending groups of students on study programmes during the course of the year.
There have been a number of individual outstanding achievements over the
holidays, some of which are mentioned in this newsletter. Particular congratulations should go to Tom Brown in Year 10, who is on the selection team for the Paralympics to be held next July. He is attending a series of training camps in preparation for this.
There are a number of important pieces of information in this letter which I would be grateful if you could read carefully as they concern the health and safety of our students. Also we will shortly be asking for nominations for Parent Governors as we have 3 vacancies due to the end of terms of office. If you are interested in standing as a governor I would be grateful if you could contact Mr R Sawyer, The Chair of Governors, as we have found that a meeting to discuss the expectations of a governor in a secondary academy is extremely helpful. You could contact Mr Sawyer via [email protected] or a letter addressed to him sent into school.
I wish all our students and yourselves a successful and exciting term.
RegardsJAN TURNERPrincipal
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matHS departmeNtby Miss ives
Year 10 and some of Year 11 will be sitting Maths GCSE unit exams very
soon. These are modular exams which count towards their overall GCSE grade. The dates are as follows:
Year 1014th November - Unit 2 Exam (worth 33.3% of their grade)
Year 119th November - Unit 1 Resit (worth 26.7% of their grade)
A wide selection of revision material is available to buy from the school shop. Students should also be making use of the online revision material available from the My Maths, Manga High and SAM Learning websites.
There will also be two after school drop in sessions to support students in preparation for these exams. These sessions will be on Wednesday 12th October and Wednesday 2nd November from 3pm to 4pm. Students will be expected to bring their own personal revision resources to these sessions if they choose to attend.
matHS eqUipmeNt
We are finding an increasing number of students arriving to
maths lessons without the appropriate equipment. Students are expected to take responsibility for their own learning and this includes arriving with the correct equipment and not expecting it to be lent out. A calculator (preferably scientific) and a geometry set (ruler, protractor and a pair of compasses) are required for lessons. These items are available to buy from the school shop.
WalkiNg paSS
The reason for the introduction of ‘Walking Passes’ is that we are always
mindful of the health and safety of our students and our duty of care towards them. We are legally responsible for the students until they leave the site and they should do so by their usual mode of transport so we are assured that they have departed from us the way their parents expect them to do. We have had an increase in the number of parents who ring us to say their child
has not arrived home on the bus yet and as far as we are concerned that is what they should have done. The parent then has an anxious time until the child is located, usually off with a friend or into town, having omitted to inform parents that this was happening.
Therefore we have issued passes to all students, bus passes as usual and ‘Walking Passes’ for those who live locally or who have to walk into town to get the 747 bus.
Students are not banned from going into town. If a parent wishes their child to go into town to meet them or for an appointment or to go to a friend’s house, then a note in the diary or a letter from home will allow them to have a pass. We are then assured that the parent knows where their child is and is aware of their responsibilities for their child’s behaviour outside school.
car park
We are still experiencing problems with the volume of traffic in the
car park at the start and end of the day. The duty staff are working very hard to ensure the safety of your children at these very busy times and I would be grateful for your co-operation if they ask you to move, if your car is causing a potential hazard.
If you could take note of the following guidelines it would help us all. The greatest help would be if you could delay your arrival for 10 minutes after the close of school, as the car park would then be clear and you could drive in without having to queue.
- Please drive slowly at all times.- Do not drop off or turn around at the front of the College.- Move into the car park to allow room for vehicles coming in behind you and avoid causing an obstruction.- Always aim to drop off against the kerb where possible.- Do not park or wait for any length of time in the drop off area as this disrupts the flow of traffic.- Any vehicle parked on the Lyddington Road between the entrance and exit of the car park, restricts the view of oncoming traffic to vehicles leaving the car park.- Collect after the buses have gone.
Then you will be able to use the whole car park, including the bus drop off area.
Ukmt JUNior matHScHalleNge reSUltS
Congratulations to the following students who achieved certificates in
the Maths Challenge event held in May 2011.
BeSt iN ScHool:Toby Leah (Yr 8)
gold certificateS:toby Leah (yr 8)
Megan scott (yr 9)
Silver certificateS:benjaMin tayLor (yr 8)danieL bennett (yr 8)
saM rosseLL (yr 8)eLizabeth huLse (yr 8)jaMes huLse (yr 9)
thoMas evans (yr 9)charLotte hiLL (yr 9)georgia hart (yr 9)asa Moody (yr 9)jacK Morris (yr 9)Lucy wright (yr 9)peter Mason (yr 9)eMiLy cLarKe (yr 9)siMon King (yr 9)
hannah chapMan (yr 9)aLexander bennett (yr 9)
KarL bennett (yr 9)jaroM cheeK (yr 9)
angus nichoLs (yr 9)harry cLarKe (yr 9)
oLivia thoMpson (yr 9)
SeWiNg for cHarityby Mrs berridge
During Activities Week, Year 9 took part in Multicultural Day. Mrs
Berridge and a selection of boys and girls chose to make a patchwork quilt for charity. The students cut and sewed a section each, which totalled 20 squares. They had to show skill in accurate sewing and cutting to ensure all the squares were the same size.
The quilt then had to be wadded and backed. Mrs Berridge then took all the finished squares and machine sewed each block together.
The quilt and a cushion were raffled during the summer holidays in aid of African Famine Relief, at Uppingham Parish Church.
The quilt managed to raise £380, which is an amazing figure and thanks to everyone who took part and purchased a raffle ticket.
cUltUral olympiadyear 8 & 9 Poetry success
by Mrs duffy
Several of our Year 8 and 9 students could soon be hearing their poetry
come to life!
At the end of the summer term many of our Year 8 and 9 students entered a poetry competition entitled ‘Multum In Parvo’ (the motto of Rutland, meaning ‘much in little’). This competition was part of the Music Nation project, which is a countdown event to the London 2012 Festival, the finale of the Cultural Olympiad. Students were asked to submit
poems which describe the diversity of life in Rutland, with the winning poem from each category being set to music as part of the concert.
We had some fantastic entries which were submitted in July in the Years 7-9 category. We have now heard that 16 of our talented writers have been shortlisted which is a great achievement.
Shortlisted students include:
oLivia gerard
poppy cuLbert
bradLey hoLMes
duncan bennett
harry boon
eLLen joyce
sarah waLKer
georgie brown
jodie parr
jacK jenKins
harry cLarKe
Megan thoMpson o’connor ryan FunneLL
jeMiMea oaKey
Lydia thoMpson-o’connor
guy griFFiths
A huge well done to all of these students and best of luck in the final selections. Winners will be announced by the organisers in due course so watch this space!
tHe Big BaNgby dr Major
On 28th June 23 students attended the Big Bang Science Fair at
Nottingham University. They went to showcase their CREST projects and compete for a place at the National Science Fair in 2012. The competition was stiff and the judging was rigorous. All the students who attended are to be congratulated.
Calypso Keightley, Ellen Hemmings and Sabrina Lucas were nominated to go forward to the National finals representing UCC and the East Midlands; a fantastic achievement. Their project investigating waterproof mascaras was highly commended by the judges.
During the day, the students had the opportunity to view the work of other students, visit lots of stands and exhibitions, attend workshops, talks and get involved with the many activities provided to enthuse them about Science and Engineering. Year 8 have a lot to live up to because next year it’s their turn!
tHe ScHool SHop
The School shop is run for the benefit of students and offers the following:
uniForM/pe Kit saLes
Lost property
repLaceMent LocKer Keys
repLaceMent pLanners
sundry ticKet saLes
opeNiNg timeS
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8.15am - 8.30amBreak
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loSt property
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