Tesco Bag Packing on

28th April Raises £571.23!

Non-Uniform Day & Easter Egg

Raffle Raises £1,957.88!

Year 10 & 11

GCSE History Trip to London

The Elton Times Newsletter 52 — 30 April 2019

The Elton Times Newsletter No 52—30 April 2019

In recent issues of this newsletter we have communicated information about the dangers of social media and mobile phones, which provide a whole new level of challenges for schools, parents and students in so many different ways. One aspect of this was demonstrated during the recent Easter break when there was considerable media coverage about Shila Iqbal, an actress from 'Emmerdale', losing her job. She had only been in the programme since March but was sacked by the show's producers when some tweets came to light that she had sent five years ago, when she was nineteen years old. Miss Iqbal has protested that those tweets do not reflect the person that she is now, saying that there was "no malicious intent behind the tweets" and that it was "banter" between friends. However, the producers of Emmerdale were clear in making a stand on this matter, stating that "the programme took the decision not to renew her contract as soon as these posts were brought to her company's attention." As a school we are constantly reminding the students about the importance of making a positive impression in the way that they behave and conduct themselves, particularly when they continue to be seen as representatives of Elton High outside of normal school hours. The situation with the Emmerdale actress was a perfect example of a young adult having her dream job destroyed due to comments that had been made in the past. It showed how we now live in an age where comments and statements sent on social media can be stored and used in the future, sometimes for very negative reasons, and it means that young people need to think more carefully than ever before about how they communicate with others and about what they are saying. With the Easter break now behind us many Year 11 exams have already begun, with exams recently completed in Art, Graphics and Photography, moderation sessions taking place in PE and speaking exams being done in French and Spanish. The exam schedule accelerates over the next few weeks with the majority of GCSE written exams being scheduled from May 13th - only a few days from now. We are confident that the team of staff that we have at this school are a match for anywhere else and the intervention and revision being done across all subjects is extremely strong. We have really

pushed a number of revision strategies and materials to Year 11 students, including most recently the work done last week by the 'Elevate' group, who have delivered sessions to those students that received excellent feedback. However, all of this work within school has little overall effect unless the students are working at similar levels at home, with regular revision taking place on a daily basis. We appreciate the support offered by parents/carers in ensuring that Year 11 students are working effectively at home while also following necessary strategies to minimise stress levels prior to those exams. Further to this, during May and June more exams will be taking place for students in all other year groups - from Year 7 to Year 10 - and those students will follow procedures and expectations in the exact same format as GCSEs. As well as providing a useful indication about the different levels where students are currently working, these exams also give them a chance to get used to the exam 'experience' so that they are more thoroughly prepared for Year 11 and can approach their final exams with more confidence. As usual, further details about the exams for all other year groups will be outlined in future issues of this newsletter. In the meantime, please continue to contact me directly about any questions or concerns that may arise about your child's experiences here at Elton -wiltonj@eltonhigh.bury.sch.uk

On Friday 29 March, a group of Year 10 and 11 students set off for a weekend trip to London. The aim to the visit was to learn more about the crimes of Jack the Ripper (for Crime and Punishment GCSE Unit) and also visit the Imperial War Museum. After an early start we arrived at the Imperial War Museum just after lunch time on the Friday. Here students could look at different weapons and artefacts ranging from WW1, WW2, the Cold War and recent conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan. There was also an opportunity in the WW1 exhibition to dress up as wartime soldiers! We then headed east towards Whitechapel for our two-hour walking tour to some of the key locations from the grisly Jack the Ripper murders and gained an insight into what the East End of London must have been like at the time of the Ripper murders. The last stop after a long and busy day was Wildwood restaurant for dinner before we headed back to the Royal National Hotel to get some well deserved rest. After breakfast the next morning our last stop was to Madame Tussauds to see the incredible waxworks. Waxworks ranged from Hollywood, music, sports, politics and even Marvel characters! The students on the trip behaved impeccably from start to finish and were excellent representatives of Elton High School. They were a pleasure to take away on a trip and we hope that they also had a great time visiting London too!

GCSE London History Trip

Silver Awards—Easter Term Prior to the Easter break were the Silver Award ceremonies whereby students from all year groups received awards in subjects where they had achieved high standards over a period of time. Alongside the subject Awards were the tutor nominations for best planner, smartest uniform, outstanding contribution and student of the term. The entertainment during the Year 8 awards was a card shuffling trick performed by Miss Pickering and four volunteers. Miss Hepburn was partially impressed and wowed by the magic tricks that was later replicated in form time! Congratulations to all the winners!

Students from top universities came into school last week to work with Year 11 students and share their tips for exam success. The students, who work with Elevate Education, gave a series of lively presentations on ways for students to memorise information prior to exams, using research conducted among those who achieved top grades. Their suggestions included: using word substitutions (like rhyming

words) to remember tricky vocabulary using objects to create a visual story to

help remember sequences using “peg” words (such as 1 bun, 2 shoes,

3 tree) to help remember different information for a range of subjects.

The advice on studying also included recommendations to work alone, in a quiet and tidy place with no mobile phone. The students also suggested doing some brief exercise before sitting down to a short burst of intense study. Elevate students will return to school on Wednesday 8th May at 6pm to run a parental workshop on study skills ahead of our internal year 10 exams. All parents and carers of year 10 pupils are invited to attend.

Top Tips for

Studying

Half Term Study Sessions Since May half term falls during the GCSE examination period, teachers will be running some revision and intervention sessions during the break, to support students in their revision. These sessions will take place as follows:

Tuesday 28th May: Spanish 9.30-12, Business 10-12 Wednesday 29th May: Science 10-12 (invited students

only) Thursday 30th May: History 10-12, Geography 12-3

(see lists for groupings) Friday 31st May: Maths 10-12 Saturday 1st June: English 10-12

In Geography this week…

Year 7 It has been fantastic to see Year 7s getting involved with

learning and researching into how palm oil is used in chocolate making also investigating the harm that it has on the environment and animals. The news report videos that

are being produced are extremely impressive!

Well done and keep up the creativeness.

Year 7 Cadbury’s Trip Shortly before the Easter break a large group of Year 7 students where able to go to the

Cadbury’s factory in Birmingham. Miss Windsor reported that the students were well behaved and a credit to the school, while they returned with plenty of free chocolate!

Callum said “it was interesting to be able to see how chocolate bars are created” and Harry thought the best part of the trip was “being able to write your name in chocolate”.

Fantastic day had by all!

Geography—Year 8 Miss Patel has been most impressed with the creativity and efforts of her Year 8 classes.

They have been tested with creating something unique, that is linked to either the hottest, wettest, or driest place on earth.

Special thanks to those who also shared their project with the class, such as the delicious cake made by Chloe Evans that 8W2 got to indulge in and certainly enjoyed!

Geography—Year 9 Before the Easter break Miss Windsor’s Year 9 class were able to erupt the

volcanoes that they had been building in their lessons. Looks like they had amazing fun despite the weather—Well done!

Geography Intervention Year 11 intervention is continuing following the recent Easter intervention sessions. Groups are the same as previously and the lists are below. Any clashes with other intervention, then please discuss with Miss Windsor.

Group 1: Wednesday Lunch Rm 26 Group 2: Wednesday Lunch Rm 21 Group 3: Thursday PM Rm 26

UDDIN Ibraheem DINES Jack LOUGHMAN Sean

MOSELEY Rhys FLETCHER Ethan RAHMAN Hasan

LITTLE Sam BOND Amber RYAN Alex

BRAITHWAITE Kalysia PRITCHARD Georgia HANLON Tobias

RUSSELL-GRAY Connor ROCHE Jake SHARIF Adam

BRIDGE Scott COFFEY Taylor

CHAPMAN Mackenzie SIMPSON Matthew

ELMEJRI Imran GUNEL Adam

COTTERILL Mia CLEGG Kate

EDWARDS Ben TRAYNOR William

FLEMING Ethan FISHER Kyle

SUNDERLAND Peter SMITH Benjamin

ADAMS Thomas

Group 4: Friday PM Rm 26/21

GUOBIS Dziugas CROWTHER Joshua CHRISP Connor

ALMOND Sophie CHADWICK Rachel KIRKBY Sophie

LOMAX Sophie DAVENPORT Beau MASON Samuel

PEARSON Annalise MITCHELL James WARREN Bradley

EDWARDS Joseph STANDRING Nathan YATES Thomas

GREALLY Emily IBN-HAROON Hudhayfah ENTWISTLE Rebecca

Wadood Kamran FROST Oscar Mahmood Rashid

JOHNSTON Scott BOULTON Louis SMITH Tobey

COOMBES Sophie BLAMIRE Mackenzie QURESHI Hamzah

HULME Christopher CRAWFORD Alex GAFFNEY Jessica

ENTWISTLE Taryn DEWHURST Lauren DOGAR Faizan

HEYWOOD Sam ELLISON Isaac HAMILTON Matthew

Where in the World?? Can you guess where in the UK Ronny the Rhino is

visiting?

Bring your answers to Mrs Shepherd in Room 21 and if you are right then you will be given a

raffle ticket, end of each term a winning raffle ticket will be drawn for a

PRIZE!!!!

This term’s prize is still available and will be drawn next week:

Young Leaders—

Future Maths Teacher? When asked about future career aspirations, some students will mention their interest in becoming a teacher. This is always nice to hear as it suggests that they have seen something about the job that has appealed to them! On some occasions, a student will step up and express more than an interest. Jacob McDade in Year 9, has for several months now, been helping students on Friday afternoon between 3pm and 4pm, with areas of maths they have been struggling with. This willingness to get involved is admirable enough, but what is just as impressive is the impact he has had with these students. Jacob’s work in particular with one Year 10 student - helping them with algebra topics - has been a great success. As Jacob says, “I quite enjoy teaching maths, as it is a subject I’m comfortable with. By helping other people, I learn more about the common mistakes that students make, including myself! I have had to think of different ways of explaining something, like solving an equation, to help the students I have worked with understand.” If there are any students who are interested in following Jacob’s example and developing their leadership skills by doing an hour of maths tuition each week, please come and see me. If you are a student who feels that they could benefit from an informal style of student-led maths session to boost their confidence, drop me an email at wilsond@eltonhigh.bury.sch.uk.

Easter Egg Raffle &

Non-Uniform Day Fundraising

Thank you to all staff that kindly donated an egg to the Easter egg raffle (and well done to Mr Thompson for winning his donation back!). There were 38 eggs donated in total. A special thank you for Alex Fletcher, Year 10, who donated the fabulous Slattery’s Easter eggs. We raised a fantastic £235.41!

Our Non Uniform day on Friday 5th April was a huge success and we raised a fantastic £1,722.47 towards the build of our 3G all-weather sports pitch!

Total Amount Raised to Date is £7,667 -

only £42,333 to go!

Tesco Bag Packing

Sunday 28 April 2019

Our students spent another day bag packing at Tesco Superstore in Bury to raise vital funds for the build of our new 3G all-weather pitch. We had two sessions (am and pm) with students generously volunteering to give up just a few hours of their weekend across Years 7—10 to support the school.

Thank you to all those students that gave up their time to raise an amazing £571.23!

The Elton High School calls out for votes to

bag a share of Tesco’s community fund The Elton High School are bidding to bag a massive cash boost from the Tesco Bags of Help initiative.

Tesco teamed up with Groundwork to launch its community funding scheme, which sees grants of £4,000, £2,000 and £1,000 awarded to local community projects.

Three groups in every Tesco region have been shortlisted to receive the cash award and shoppers are being invited to head along to Tesco stores to vote for who they think should take away the top grant.

Elton is one of the groups on the shortlist.

Our project is titled ‘Elton’s Community Impact Project

Elton High School is building a new 3G all-weather pitch for our community and requests support with purchasing goals, bins, boot wipers and flagpoles. Please help support us!

Voting is open in the Ramsbottom Superstore (BL0 9AS) from 1 May 2019 until 30 June 2019 and customers will cast their vote using a token given to them at the check-out in store each time they shop.

Tesco’s Bags of Help project has already provided over £71 million to more than 23,000 projects across Britain. Tesco customers get the chance to vote for three different groups every time they shop. Every other month, when votes are collected, three groups in each of Tesco’s regions will be awarded funding.

Alec Brown, Head of Community at Tesco, said: “Bags of Help contributes funds to community projects up and down the country and we’ve been overwhelmed by the response from customers voting in their local stores. We’re looking forward to seeing more projects brought to life.” Groundwork’s National Chief Executive, Graham Duxbury, said: “Bags of Help continues to enable local communities up and down Britain to improve the local spaces and places

that matter to them. The diversity of projects that are being funded shows that local communities have a passion to create something great in their area. We are pleased to be able to be a part of the journey and provide support and encouragement to help local communities thrive.” Funding is available to community groups and charities looking to fund local projects that bring benefits to communities. Anyone can nominate a project and organisations can apply online. To find out more visit www.tesco.com/bagsofhelp.

Voting is open in the Ramsbottom Superstore (BL0 9AS)

from 1 May 2019 until 30 June 2019

Raffle, Tombola, BBQ, Cakes, Books, Toys, Face Painting, Entertainment and many other

stalls & activities throughout the day!

If you would like to organise a stall please contact Mrs Filkins - filkinsj@eltonhigh.bury.sch.uk

Saturday 22 June 2019 From 11am until 3pm—£1 Entrance

Elton High School, Walshaw Road, BL8 1RN

BBQ

Join us for fun in the sun at ...

Elton High School’s

Summer Fair

Any Donations For Raffle Prizes Would Be Greatly Appreciated!

Congratulations to Lauren Heyes, Year 10, who competed at the Bolton Artistic Roller Skating Competition on Sunday 31st March 2019. Lauren came 1st place in the Youth Solo Dance, 2nd place in Solo Dance number 2 and 3rd place in Cadet / Youth Freedance. Well done Lauren!

Lauren wins 1st Place

in Youth Solo Dance!

Molly Rivers and Rachael Filkins, Year 8, played for YWCA Bury netball team in the prestigious Manchester Thunder national tournament last weekend. Following a gruelling day of match play outside in the rain, wind and cold, YWCA Bury clinched the top spot of winners of the tournament!

Well done girls!

YWCA Bury win Manchester

Thunder Tournament

School Locker Rentals

It’s that time of year when you need to be thinking about renewing your locker for September 2019. Below are the instructions

for the company that manage the lockers. If you already have a locker, you should have recently received an email inviting you

to renew. Please take the time to renew online before your currently locker is reallocated [DEADLINE DATE???]

Language-Link

HAYDN ROYLE Mobile: 07836 346 290

E-mail: haydn@languagelinkintl.com

The Elton High School The Elton High School will be inviting a number of Spanish boys and girls to attend classes again towards the end of the summer term. A number of host families are required to participate in this year’s Language-Link programme commencing from around the last week of June, 2019. Our Spanish students are looking for ‘buddies’ of their own age, who may share similar hobbies and interests and with whom they can stay and accompany to The Elton High School. Families would be paid to accommodate students for either three or occasionally four weeks. British students often get the opportunity to travel to Spain in the future should they wish. The programme can be great fun and is both enriching and educational for everyone who participates. Language-Link has proved to be extremely successful over the last few years, forging many student and family friendships. We are currently looking for a number of caring host families for Spanish boys and girls aged between 11 and 16. This is a fantastic opportunity for students who are studying Spanish as this programme would be very beneficial to their progress in the language. All the Spanish students are from lovely families in Madrid, Toledo and Valencia, attend reputable schools in Spain and are polite, educated and well mannered. Interested families are encouraged to contact me at the earliest for further information regarding the programme. This can be via e-mail on haydn@languagelink.com or by telephone. Alternatively, families wishing to be considered can also complete the reply slip below. Please return this as soon as possible to Mrs Bardsley at the school, Head of Modern Foreign Languages.

A SUBSTANTIAL ALLOWANCE WILL BE PAID TO

SUITABLE FAMILIES WHO PARTICIPATE ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………. NAME OF STUDENT…………………………………………………………...... SCHOOL YEAR : ............... CONTACT DETAILS OF PARENT/GUARDIAN: NAME: …………………………………………………………...... TELEPHONE: …………………………………………………………...... E-MAIL: …………………………………………………………......

1. Teddy Bear (grey with white fur & jewels) keyring

2. Watch – Emporio Armani with black face & strap

3. Black pencil case x 2

4. Pink pen with pink fluffy pom-pom

5. Turtle shell glasses

6. Superdry pencil case

7. Blue & green Pukka pad

8. Pair of blue, green & black glasses

9. Grey pencil case

10. Clip purse with owls on it

11. Blue 7 pink Jack Wills purse (zip)

12. Pair of black glasses

13. Gorji blue earphones

14. Large black comb

15. Black & grey wallet with MR logo

16. Fortnite keyring & 2 keys

17. Blue pouch with a gold key

18. Set of prompt cards

19. Black & blue Man City glasses

20. Blue lanyard with a gold key

21. Pewter coloured rim glasses

22. White Samsung earphones

23. Black & Pink glasses with jewels

24. Pink metal glasses

25. Grey glasses

26. Black tortoishell glasses

27. Unicorn keyring with 4 keys

28. ‘Pink’ All a Dream body spray

29. Large hooped earrings

30. Girl keyring with Union Jack key

31. Blue and grey Buff/scarf

32. Spanner keyring with a key

33. Yellow & pink plastic spring keyring and key

34. Village Gym wrist band

35. Leather keyring with radiator key

36. 2 x sets of white earphones

37. Black fitbit

38. Visitors lanyard with a key

39. Black plastic spring keyring with key

40. Men’s silver coloured watch with black face

41. Ladies gold coloured watch

42. Gold coloured anklet

43. Bury College Handball Challenge keyring with 2

keys

44. Photograph keyring and key

45. Various keys

46. 3 x ladies rings

47. Black/purple tortoishell glasses

48. Black Sanwood watch

49. ‘Makkah Tower’ keyring and key

50. ‘JACK’ keyring and key

51. VW & Mallorca yellow skeleton keyring and key

(found on the front field 01.04.19)

52. Purple glasses

53. Senior Prefect badge

54. Wireless earphones (found under the bench in

Activity studio)

We have accumulated a large amount of ‘small item’ lost property, including many house keys. Please take a look at the list below as at 23 April 2019 to see if anything belongs to your child. All lost property can be collected from the School Office.

Lost Property

The next edition of the Elton Times

will be emailed on Tuesday 14 May 2019