NEWSLETTER Caroline Chisholm School December 2011 Inside: Initial Teacher Education at CCS ExCELLent Models in Science CCS Friends and Christmas Raffle IT Savvy Students stand out from the crowd! Sixth Form hosts its first Health and Social Care Conference! Rugby Tour Manchester and Leeds Nov 2011 Table Tennis Team Championships Nov 2011 Kajima Community Information Parent Governor Election Results Thank you to those parents who stood for the recent Parent Governor election and to all the parents who voted. The successful parents were Linda Browett, Simon Brown, Rachel Fitzgerald and Sue Robson. Congratulations and a big thank you to all the candidates who stood for election. CCS Community helps the Homeless As a tutor group 12AW decided to focus their efforts on helping those who are without shelter over the cold Winter months. The class decided to focus on local charities and chose to help the homeless of Northampton. Acorn House Shelter for the Homeless in Northampton has accommodation for 31 residents and provides food, accommodation and advisory services to single males who find themselves without a fixed address. Donations from parents, staff, students and library users have been outstanding and Acorn House were delighted to receive over 20 bags of goods. Thank you. Alison Witts, 12AW Tutor Hannah Reed, who left CCS in 2009 after Sixth Form is the first pupil to complete the Gold DofE Award. This is a picture of her with her certificate after the presentation at St James's Palace last Wednesday after meeting HRH the Duke of Edinburgh. Hopefully many more CCS students will go on to achieve this award. Ex CCS Student completes Gold Duke of Edinburgh Award Wishing you all a very happy Christmas and a successful new year! School reopens to students on Wednesday 4th January 2012
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NEWSLETTER Caroline Chisholm School
December 2011
Inside:
Initial Teacher Education at CCS
ExCELLent Models in Science
CCS Friends and Christmas Raffle
IT Savvy Students stand out from the crowd!
Sixth Form hosts its first Health and Social Care
Conference!
Rugby Tour Manchester and Leeds Nov 2011
Table Tennis Team Championships Nov 2011
Kajima Community Information
Parent Governor Election Results Thank you to those parents who stood for the recent Parent Governor election and
to all the parents who voted. The successful parents were Linda Browett, Simon Brown, Rachel Fitzgerald and Sue Robson. Congratulations and a big thank you to
all the candidates who stood for election.
CCS Community helps the Homeless As a tutor group 12AW decided to focus their efforts on
helping those who are without shelter over the cold Winter months. The class decided to focus on local charities and
chose to help the homeless of Northampton. Acorn House Shelter for the Homeless in Northampton has accommodation
for 31 residents and provides food, accommodation and
advisory services to single males who find themselves without a fixed address. Donations from parents, staff, students and
library users have been outstanding and Acorn House were delighted to receive over 20 bags of goods. Thank you.
Alison Witts, 12AW Tutor
Hannah Reed, who left CCS in 2009 after Sixth Form is the first pupil to complete
the Gold DofE Award. This is a picture of her with her certificate after the presentation at St James's Palace last Wednesday after meeting HRH the Duke of
Edinburgh. Hopefully many more CCS students will go on to achieve this award.
Ex CCS Student completes Gold Duke of Edinburgh Award
Wishing you all a very happy Christmas and a successful new year! School reopens to students on Wednesday 4th January 2012
Christmas Raffle A big thank you to everyone who donated a prize for the Raffle Hampers and bought some tickets. The hampers looked amazing and the children had fun decorating them.
Tickets are drawn on Thursday 15th December and winners are listed below.
CCS Friends
We are a group of Primary and Secondary parents who organise
school events to raise money for items such as Secondary Multi-gym, Primary pergola, assembly hall sound equipment and provide
refreshments at various events. Our next meeting is on Monday 9th
January 2012. So come along and meet the committee. Contact: [email protected]
Reception AS Red B Atkinson
Reception CL Red T Pratt
Year 1MH Green S Morley
Year 1 TE Green L Shatford
Year 2 CB White L Oaten
Year 2 SH White Z Warner
Year 3 JC Orange T Gernon
Year 3 TL Orange S Timlin
Year 4 Gold T Downing
Year 5 Silver E Meredith
Year 6 Blue Caroline
Year 7 Pink M Digby
Year 7 Pink C Kirkwood
Year 7 Pink L Reynolds
Year 7 Pink A Tomlin
Year 7 Pink J McNair
Year 7 Pink A Meadows
Year 7 Pink Mamata
Year 7 Pink E Stanton
Year 8 Gold J McLean
Year 8 Gold J Facer
Year 8 Gold A Costiff
Year 8 Gold Mrs Russell
Year 8 Gold Bosan
Initial Teacher Education at CCS For a number of years now, teachers at CCS have been working with a range of ITE providers to help train
people to become teachers. This brings many benefits to the school and our students as we get to work with new teachers with fresh ideas and access to the latest initiatives in education. We have also employed a
number of staff who have been on teaching placement here and they have gone on to make a great
contributions to their departments and the school as a whole.
If you are considering a career in teaching then there are a number of routes through your training. Two local providers who pride themselves in training local people to teach in local schools are the Northampton Teacher
Training Partnership and the Grand Union Training Partnership. Details can be found at www.nttp.org.uk or
www.gutp.org.uk respectively. Both courses offer a range of subject specialisms within secondary education and are currently recruiting for September 2012 trainees.
PAMPER EVENING
Our next main event is the Pamper Evening on Friday
16th March 2012. So if you are thinking of a gift for Mother’s Day or just
fancy an evening of pampering and shopping, look out
for more information in the New Year.
ExCELLent Models! in Science
Year 7 students have been getting creative making excellent 3D models as part of their Science unit on cells. T Kita 7KK made an amazing nerve cell, I Swann in 7JHN made a pollen cell and R James-Wadsworth 7KK made
her nerve cell using jelly and pipe cleaners! Well done. Mrs Mitchell
I Swann with her pollen cell T Kita with his nerve cell R James-Wadsworth with her nerve cell
Sixth Form hosts its first Health & Social Care Conference! To launch our new A Level in Health and Social Care, we hosted our first multi-professional Health and
Social conference in October. We were delighted to welcome staff and students from Moulton school to join us. Students had the opportunity to listen to a range of health professionals, including
physiotherapists, dieticians and a senior lecturer in Occupational Therapy from the University of
Northampton. Students enjoyed the opportunity to work alongside the Moulton students in group work activities. They particularly enjoyed the variety of practical activities! These included bed making, using
physiotherapy equipment and taking medical observations.
Students learning lifting techniques
Students learning lifting techniques
Students mastering the art of bedmaking! Students listening to the guest lecturer
Student groupwork Student groupwork
Rugby Tour Manchester and Leeds - Nov 2011
The Year 9 team had a successful tour in Manchester. The boys played against Altrincham Grammar School and Sale Grammar School. On Friday 11th November the boys were a credit to the school demonstrating the 2 minutes silence
maturely en route to Manchester. On arrival at Altrincham the boys were fully focussed and had a very committed warm
up and run through prior to the game. During the game the boys were clearly attacking and played some very well drilled rugby. The scrums were sturdier than in previous games. With the lineout winning good ball as well, the backs
were on the front foot with great link up play and continuity. Altrincham vs CCS WIN 32-12
Man of the Match: A Pearmain
In the evening the boys celebrated well and enjoyed a game of bowling and a meal at Frankie and Benny’s.
Sale Grammar School on Saturday morning was a tougher test for the now tired boys and their previous performance the
day before was showing. Sale took an early lead, boosted their confidence and our heads dropped. We matched them in play having most of the possession and territory however were unable to make the correct decisions in play to
capitalise on this. Sale played some very clinical
expansive rugby and made the most of their chances to have a good win.
Sale Grammar School vs CCS LOSS 24-19 Man of the Match: O Newsham
Picture Opposite: Sale Grammar school vs CCS
All the boys were a credit to the school throughout the tour and made it a very pleasurable and memorable
experience. I hope the boys will continue to develop their
rugby and hope they gained valuable life skills from the tour, learning some memorable lessons from their
question and answer sessions with the international players they met in Leeds. An inspiration to us all!
Quote from the tour: “We feel like a real team now…
we’re all a group of great friends.” Mr P Beaumont – PE Tutor.
Table Tennis Team Championships Nov 2011
On Monday 21st November CCS entered two teams in the Table Tennis Team Championships held at Weavers Sports Centre, Wellingborough, Northants.
The results were as follows;- U 13s lost to NSB but beat Duston to finish 3rd in County. U19s narrowly lost on count back to Sponne to also finish 3rd in County. Well done to all of the boys involved; U13 - A Tate, H Dunn, J Savage, C Torpey
U19 - M Chan, E Baldwin, L Gebhard, G Sparrow
Sports Results for November 2011 Date Fixture Results Player of the Match
02/11/11 Year 7 Rugby v Guilsborough AWAY PP till after Christmas 03/11/11
Year 7/8 Girls Football Tournament at Campion
Year 7 - Campion 1 CCS 6, Sponne 2 CCS 3. Year 8 - Campion 1 CCS 0
03/11/11 Year 9 Rugby Midland Cup v NSB at CCS CCS 0 NSB 52 A Lyons
07/11/11 Year 7/8 Combined Boys and Girls Basketball v Danetre at CCS
CCS 32 Danetre 2 A Reynolds
08/11/11
Year 7 Netball Friendly v Moulton AWAY Moulton 1 CCS 38 L Nash
08/11/11
Year 9 Netball v Moulton AWAY Moulton 21 CCS 16 L Reid
08/11/11
Year 11 Netball v Moulton AWAY Moulton 11 CCS 13
H Kellingray
08/11/11
Year 8 Hockey v Moulton AWAY
Moulton 2 CCS 0
X Feng
08/11/11
Year 10 Hockey v Moulton AWAY
Moulton 2 CCS 6
J Gilding
09/11/11 Year 11 District Netball Tournament at Campion AWAY
Year 8, 9, 10 ,11 Boys Basketball v Year 9,11 Danetre
Danetre 12 CCS 56
S McConnell
23/11/11
Year 8 County Schools Rugby at Northampton Casuals
CCS came third
T O'Driscoll, O Coles, R Willis, H Dunn
29/11/11
Year 9/10 Rugby v Quinton House at CCS
PP by CCS
29/11/11
Year 7 Netball v Danetre AWAY
Danetre 0 CCS 24 A Wyeth
29/11/11
Year 8 Netball v Danetre AWAY
Danetre 4 CCS 12 I Gamble
Community Activities at Caroline Chisholm School
Winter 2011
Xmas Hols :
Coming soon: Bumper Bal l Part ies
Bumper ball parties are energetic, lots of fun and something new and different for the kids to try! Parties involve lots of sports, games and contests, such as bumper ball football, human dodgems, own the cone, body zorb bulldog and roly poly racing.
For more info, give us a ring on 01604 677760.
Learn to Modern Jive in the New Year!
Dance Synergy run classes and social evenings in modern jive every Thursday from 7:30pm until 11:00pm, starting 12
th Jan 2012. The evening starts with a beginners class, followed by an intermediate class
(beginners are taken into a separate hall for extra tuition on the routine they have just learnt). And then there is a freestyle session after 9:30pm. Members of the Dance Synergy crew are on hand to dance with beginners and help them gain confidence.
The evenings are great fun, great music is played in a disco environment, friends are made, and fitness is improved. Please come along and join in. You can come as a couple or with friends or on your own, there is always a friendly face to welcome you. Only £8 for the whole night.
Please call Simon on 01604 779077 or visit www.dancesynergy.co.uk for more info.
Childrens Part ies at Weekends & in the Hol idays
To book a room or hall please contact Kajima Community on 01604 677760 or email [email protected]
Lots more activities to choose from for all ages, please see www.ccs.schoolbookings.co.uk/timetable/
Day/Date Time Activity
Mon – Fri 19th – 23rd
Dec
10:00 – 15:00 Indoor Football Coaching with Freestyle Academy
A Football Fun course for boys & girls Ages 4-14 yrs. Bookings: [email protected] or phone 01604 846 262
Sat 7th Jan 2012
9:45 – 10:45 11:30 – 13:00
The Healthy Chef Cookery Classes for Kids Cook, have fun and take home something tasty. Early session for ages 3-8 and later session for ages
9-12. Please contact Faye on 01604 812800 or e-mail: [email protected]
