Issue 5 - May 2016

t: 01844 210510 e: office.4580@lordwilliams.oxon.sch.uk

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Headteacher’s Message

I need your help in order to avoid a serious accident happening in and around our school sites. Despite frequent requests many parents/carers are ignoring the school’s safety concerns and making this more likely to happen. For example, on Sycamore Drive adjacent to Upper School parents/carers are dropping off their children close to the school entrances causing blockages for pedestrians, cyclists and other road users. At Lower School parents/carers are still driving into school car parks causing blockages. I am surprised that some parents/carers are not prepared to drop their children off at a short distance from the school, for a short walk into school.

At Upper School and at Lower School I would again request that:

Students are dropped off away from school entrances and car parks (at least 100 metres from the entrances).

At Upper School, parents/carers do not turn around in the junction between Sycamore Drive and Beech Road but turn around at a safe point on the estate.

Parents/carers do not drive into school car parks at the beginning and end of the day (the results are bottle-necks because it then becomes hugely difficult to leave the car park, staff cannot get in and queues form on the main road).

These sorts of actions are putting students at serious risk of being involved in an accident.

I also want you to know that teachers and support staff are still having to deal with too many incidents of on-line cruelty and unkindness. The internet provides so many learning opportunities but also an easy means to post hurtful comments/images or content of a sexual nature. Students will be reminded again next term that if they are involved in any activity which causes harm to others because of on-line activities, including sending inappropriate images or messages, then it is likely that an exclusion from school will follow.

We have also tightened up on our uniform expectations this term. It is clear that the overwhelming majority of students come to school smartly dressed. We have clear expectations of what is acceptable for school and dressing modestly is certainly one of them. Please continue to help us with this by making sure your son/daughter comply with the uniform regulations. Regarding the new uniform in September, there is more information on our website by way of Frequently Asked Questions. In Year 11, where the uniform will not be compulsory in September, students will be allowed to wear the new tie with a white shirt and new school jumper. In Years 8 and 9, if the new uniform is chosen, a school blazer will have to be worn.

On a more positive note, summer now seems to have arrived and students can enjoy break times on grassed areas. They are certainly fortunate to come to sites which are very attractive. At Upper School birdsong and flowers are very noticeable at this time of year. Prospective Sixth Form students and their parents/carers are passing back very positive feedback to us about the school and the staff and students they meet.

I would also like to draw your attention to and request your support for the LWA fundraising events on page 9, including the summer raffle. Their work is invaluable to the school.

Finally, I would like to give all students involved in summer examinations my very best wishes for the challenges ahead and hope that all their hard work will bring successful results in August.

David Wybron

Inside this issue:

Distribution & Exchange of New Uniform Music Notes

2

ACE Week 2016

Sixth Form News 3

6,000 Years of History 4

Sod Cutting Ceremony

Rocket Science 5

Parent Governor Election

Lower School Sketch Show

Extra Curricular Activities

Science Magazines

Aik Saath Workshop

6

Anti-Racism Poster 7

Arts Award Student Review Twitter

8

LWA News 9

Train to Teach Info Evening Home School Communication

10

Lord Williams’s Festival Chorus

Fundraising 11

Catering News 12

Advertisements 14

Contact Us/Term Dates/ 17

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Music Notes Singer of the Year - This was an amazing event with a 'full house'. The judges included Sarah Payne and Stuart Wood who are both very fine singers and experienced performers. The Rappers sang for the first time and the Big Vocal Group performed in the second half. Accompanists included Judy Thompson, James Wright and Elizabeth Law who accompanied her own daughter. Everyone sang so brilliantly; congratulations to all who made the evening so enjoyable and splendid.

The Winners Lower School Winner Emma Whayman Highly Commended Brendon Ellis Upper School Winner Keira Green Highly Commended Michael Smith Best Vocal Group Caitlin Tiddy and Keira Green

Singer of the Year and overall winner Mia Wilson

Music Examination Results - Congratulations to the following students for all their hard work and effort.

Piano

Grade 1: Gemma Reaney Distinction

Grade 2: Jadzia Allen Pass

Lucy Ware Pass

Grade 4: Katie McRobert Merit

Grade 5 Jazz Piano: Michael Smith Distinction

Grade 6: Elspeth Jackson Merit Edward Jones Pass

An outstanding achievement - Grade 8 Piano - Lottie Scraton.

Singing

Grade 4: Alice Tanner Merit

Caitlin Tiddy Merit

Grade 5: Lottie Scraton Distinction

Clarinet

Grade 2: Clare Little Distinction

Mrs Brooks, Team Leader KS3 Music

Distribution and Exchange of New Uniform

Distribution Day - For those of you who recently placed an online order to take advantage of the discounted rates offered on the new school uniform, we would like to advise of the arrangement for collection which is as follows: Date: Saturday 18th June 2016 Time: 10.00am – 2.00pm Location: Lecture Room at Lower School (surnames A-M) or the Coffee Lounge at Lower School (surnames N-Z) Please bring your order number with you as a reference. If you are unable to attend the distribution event and wish to send someone else on your behalf, please give your representative a printed copy of your order confirmation that contains your signature, in order to authorise collection. Exchange Day - The exchange day is only relevant if you have items of uniform that you either wish to return, or which you need to exchange for an alternative size. The details of the exchange day are as follows: Date: Thursday 23rd June 2016 Time: 4.30pm – 6.30pm Location: Sports Hall at Lower School Further details regarding the exchange day will be printed on the label of your uniform package. If you have any questions concerning this please email the school on: office.4580@lordwilliams.oxon.sch.uk

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ACE Week 2016

Our annual Alternative Curriculum Week is fast approaching!

You should have received a letter recently with the details for this year's ACE Week which takes place between 4th - 8th July. Please search your inbox (or your child's school bag!) if you haven't yet got it. You can also download copies from the school's website if needed. There are three different letters - one for Year 7, one for Year 9 and one for those Year 9 students involved in this year's Duke of Edinburgh’s Award.

It is very important that payments for the week come into school via the sQuid system by the date in the letter. It is also vital that all Year 9 students return the permission slip to their Science teacher as soon as they can. We will be unable to let any child travel on the Science trip without having parental permission in writing.

More details will be sent home as we get nearer the week but if you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact your child's form tutor in the first instance.

Many thanks.

Mr Clarke, Head of English and Senior Teacher

I would like to wish all Year 12 and Year 13 students the best of luck with their examinations. We know what a stressful time of the year this is and how hard students have worked in the lead up to their examinations. It is particularly important for those Year 13 students who need certain grades to take up their places at university; I have reminded all Sixth Form students recently that there is lots of help and support available in school should they need it.

We say a sad farewell to our lovely Year 13 students who go on study leave on Friday 27th May. They have been a fantastic year group and I would like to say a special thank you to all the Senior Students for the work they have done this year but especially Stephanie Lawal and Harry Parsons (Head Girl and Boy) and Millie Hooper and Chris Mullins (Deputy Head Girl and Boy). Also, thanks for all the hard work by members of the Ball Committee and the Year Book Committee.

A reminder to all Year 13 students that we will be looking forward to celebrating with them on Results Day

on Thursday 18th August and then at the Sixth Form Awards Evening on Friday 4th November.

Congratulations to our new Senior Students! Congratulations to the following students who have recently been elected as Senior Students for next year:

Jessica Yates – Head Girl Alexander Ingell – Head Boy

Charlotte Collingwood – Deputy Head Girl Gabe Locke – Deputy Head Boy

Lucy Daniels Connor Collerton

Shannah Hatch Johannes Hafstad

Tiffany Pedley William Kendall

Elinor Solly Daniel Pearce

I would like to wish all of Year 12 the best of luck with their AS examinations. Year 12 study leave has now started; students return to Year 13 lessons on Monday 13th June.

Finally, I would like to wish all Year 11 students good luck in their GCSE examinations. For those who have applied to stay on at Lord Williams’s we look forward to welcoming them to the Introduction to Sixth Form Conference which is on Monday 27th and Tuesday 28th June.

Best Wishes

Ms Sheehan, Head of Sixth Form

Good Luck to Year 12 and Year 13!

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6,000 Years of History!

Artefacts dating back around 6,000 years were presented to our Lower School students during a special assembly in April. The remains of prehistoric monuments and settlements going back to the Neolithic period were among the exciting discoveries made during a seven-month excavation of Bloor Homes Thame Meadows site, at Oxford Road, opposite Upper School.

Archaeologists have described the dig, which was carried out by experts from Oxford Cotswold Archaeology, as one of the most significant undertaken in Britain last year.

Chris Ellis, Senior Project Officer at Cotswold Archaeology, part of a joint venture with Oxford Archaeology, presented the findings to the students: “It was such a fantastic experience to show prehistoric remains and artefacts to that many students in one go. They were very enthusiastic and interested in all the items we have discovered just over the road. For the sheer density and range of archaeological features and the long period which they span, this has been the most fascinating and exhilarating excavation I have been involved with in my 25-year career.”

One of the most important finds was the discovery of a rare causewayed enclosure dating back to around 3,700BC, one of only 80 such monuments known to exist in Britain. Consisting of one or more circuits of bank and ditch, they are the earliest known monuments made by some of the farming communities and were constructed to enclose areas of open space where communal gatherings would take place.

Archaeologists also uncovered the remains of at least three roundhouses from the early Iron Age period (700-400BC), and more than 150 pits, used for storing grain and later disposing of rubbish, some containing human remains where settlers had buried the dead.

Discoveries from the Roman period (AD43-410) include a number of enclosures which housed corn drying ovens, while around 14 small Saxon buildings, dating from the 6th to 7th Century AD and believed to have been textile workshops, were also uncovered.

Flint tools, pottery and combs made from animal bone were just some of the thousands of artefacts discovered. The finds from the excavation will be housed with the Oxfordshire County Museum Service and it is likely some of the objects will be displayed in Thame Museum.

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The ground breaking ceremony has taken place at Upper School to mark the start of new building work. The school was successful in a bid to central government for the funding necessary.

E G Carter & Co Ltd has been appointed as the contractors with the final works scheduled to be completed by Easter 2017. The new building will include 9 new general classrooms, 2 refurbished science laboratories, new staff and student toilets and additional office and team room spaces as well as flexible inside and outdoor circulation space.

Sod Cutting Ceremony

Students at Lord Williams’s Lower School have embarked on a voyage of discovery by growing seeds that have been into space.

In September, 2kg of rocket seeds were flown to the International Space Station (ISS) on Soyuz 44S where they spent several months in microgravity before returning to Earth. The seeds were sent as part of Rocket Science, an educational project launched by the RHS Campaign for School Gardening and the UK Space Agency.

Lord Williams’s School is one of the participating schools to receive a packet of 100 seeds from space, which are being grown alongside seeds that haven’t been to space and the differences measured. The students do not know which seed packet contains which seeds until all results have been collected by the RHS Campaign for School Gardening and analysed by professional biostatisticians.

The out-of-this-world, nationwide science experiment will enable the students to think more about how we could preserve human life on another planet in the future, what astronauts need to survive long-term missions in space and the difficulties surrounding growing fresh food in challenging climates.

Mr Bill Zahariadis, Joint KS3 Team Leader Science, says: “We are very excited to be taking part in Rocket Science. This experiment is a fantastic way of teaching our students to think more scientifically and share their findings with the whole school.”

Rocket Science is just one educational project from a programme developed by the UK Space Agency to celebrate British ESA astronaut Tim Peake’s Principia mission to the ISS and inspire young people to look into careers in STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) subjects, including horticulture.

It's Rocket Science at Lord Williams's

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Science Magazines The Science Faculty would be grateful for donations of current/recent magazines such as FlipSide, BBC Wildlife, BBC Focus, EcoKids and NatGeo Kids. We do not need 'grownup' magazines such as New Scientist. Thank you.

Mrs Wainwright, Science Teacher

Lower School Drama

Tuesday 21st June 7.00pm Phoenix Performing Arts Studio

A date for your diary...

Parent Governor Election

Thank you to all those who voted in the recent Parent Governor election. Rebecca Lyall received the most votes and has therefore been elected as a new Parent Governor.

Miss Wormley, Clerk to Governors

Lord Williams's Workshop 'Aik Saath' - Together as One -

Challenging Prejudice and Racism in Secondary School

On Tuesday 8th March I took three of our Year 12 students - Sadia Rahman, Vishali Nareshkumar and

Mira Altaf to make a presentation about the work we have completed in school with Aik Saath regarding

ethnicity and diversity.

The girls represented the school brilliantly and we had some superb feedback from Jo Brown - the OCC

Anti-Bullying Coordinator. The conference was attended by a number of primary and secondary schools

and many were very interested in how the students felt they were supported in school and what their

plans are for the future.

Later this term, we plan to have a reunion for all those who attended the workshops across both sites and

discuss how we can continue the programme next year. It will also be an opportunity to discuss how

things have changed and what work is still to be completed to ensure that all of our students feel valued

and supported in school.

Mrs MacKerron, Year 7 Pastoral Support Officer & Young Carers Co-ordinator

Extra-Curricular Activities List

The summer term’s Extra-Curricular Activities list is now on the school’s website. Please click here to take a look at the clubs/activities running at school.

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Lower School students working with charity Aik Saath (Together as One) have designed this really

thought-provoking poster which will be displayed around both school sites to promote our anti-racism

message.

Ms Armitage (School Manager)

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Twitter Follow us on Twitter!

@LordwilliamsJob - latest teaching and support staff job vacancies at Lord Williams’s School

@LWS_News - for up-to-date information about the school’s news and events

@lordwilliamsDoE - for current Duke of Edinburgh’s Award students and their parents/carers

Ms Armitage, School Manager

Silver Arts Award Review – Lauren Child at Mottisfont Abbey

On Thursday 3rd September 2015, I went to the Lauren Child exhibition in Mottisfont Abbey with some of

my extended family. When I entered, accompanied by my younger cousin, the man introducing the show

said "you girls might like the exhibition", but turned to me saying "maybe not you" as I was "grown up".

I'm pretty sure he assumed I was a teenager 'doing their duty', taking care of their younger cousin viewing

'children's art'. Artistically, my tastes will never grow up, I will always appreciate this art as the designs that

paved my childhood. Whilst I understood what he was trying to say, I feel it proves that the world of

illustration deserves more credit than it receives, *it really is art*.

I found the way Child presented the pages fascinating and inspiring, above anything beautiful. Being able

to create a simple yet lovable character that's completely unique is incredibly difficult, and yet in each one

of Child's collages or box frames she managed to create a sense of connection with each.

The exhibition consisted of a variety of items, primarily collages and a few box frames from the “Princess

and the Pea series" were featured, alongside props that were photographed and pasted into some of

Child's most popular books, such as 'Charlie and Lola' or 'Clarice Bean'. It was incredible to see the

objects of my childhood picture books that had previously been flat to me, real only in my dreams, literally

there in front of my eyes.

Unlike many art exhibitions I've seen, which show you the finished product of an artistic process alone,

Child's exhibition also demonstrated her thought process, as if visiting the artist's mind. The collages

opened my eyes to the capability of combining the real world with illustration. I found it interesting to read

about how Lauren used a variety of techniques, she often photocopied fabrics in order to create

wallpapers, dresses and a variety of textures. Her art was bright, vibrant and contrasted greatly. The detail

of the patterns created was outstanding, entering the gallery took me back to all of my favourite childhood

books in a whole new light, appreciating them from an artistic view point and not just the magical stories

inside. In terms of my current Silver Arts Award project, I would like to focus on the digital media elements

of Lauren's work and incorporate them in my own, using film, photography and editing techniques perhaps

in a collage or compilation format.

However, I looked at high quality prints of her work (for purchase) and was thoroughly disappointed. Prints

do not represent the textures, layers and details that Lauren portrays in her original works so an element

of beauty is completely lost within books and prints. I try and persuade people around me to believe that

whilst this work may be in a children's book, it has outstanding artistic skill and beauty, but as the prints

seem to be my only "evidence" online I doubt I will persuade anyone soon.

Despite the show being aimed at children as, after all, it is the work of a children's illustrator, I would highly

recommend the exhibition to anyone. I have spent many days in galleries across London such as the

Royal Academy, White Cube or TATE and honestly feel that Lauren Child's exhibition demonstrates the

same artistic abilities as those seen in legendary galleries and definitely worth a visit.

Niamh Twyford, Year 11

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Lord Williams’s Association News

LWA Summer Raffle

Your child should have received a booklet of raffle tickets for the LWA Summer Raffle. Please help us

raise vital funds for our children's education by returning all monies and the stubs of any tickets sold in the

envelope provided. If you put the name of your child and tutor group on the reverse of the stub, they will

be entered into a separate student draw to win £25.

Alternatively, you can click here to buy tickets using PayPal and we shall write out the raffle tickets in your

name for the summer raffle and your child's name for the student prize.

Thank you for your continued support and good luck!

LWA Summer Quiz Night

24th

June 2016 Please come along and support the

Lord Williams's Association Summer Quiz Night

Doors open 7.00pm for 7.30pm prompt start

Upper School Hall (off Sycamore Drive)

Bring your own drinks and nibbles.

Entry fee for a team is £30 for up to 8 players.

Please pre-purchase your entry tickets using Paypal by clicking here.

It helps us organise the evening.

We need more LWA members - In order to ensure all our events are well supported and run as smoothly

as they can the LWA need more people. There are currently only 5 people trying to raise funds for your child's

school. We need a Vice Chair, a Secretary and any others who can just offer to help at events.

Vice Chair

The Vice Chair steps in to chair the meetings when the Chair is unable to make it. Usually the Vice Chair

will take over the chair if the Chair stands down.

Secretary

The Secretary will take the minutes of each meeting and helps to update the Facebook page.

If you can help or would like to find out more, please contact us to lwathame@gmail.com.

Next LWA Meeting Meetings take place in the library at

Upper School. If you would like to

attend please email

lwathame@gmail.com and we'll let you

know when the meeting is.

You can just show up at the meetings

especially if you would like to help

with upcoming events.

What we're fund raising for £5000 of the LWA funds raised in recent years went towards the big screen

in the sports hall. Some of the funds went towards the new drama studio and

a few new computers were purchased. Funds raised going forward are

expected to be used to improve tablet technology and Wi-fi across the school.

Please like our page on Facebook:

www.facebook.com/Lordwilliamsassociation

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We are sending out more communications to parents/carers via

email and therefore it is vitally important that you inform the school

of any changes to your email and other contact details. You can do

this by contacting the main office at office.4580@lordwilliams.oxon.sch.uk.

Your assistance with this is greatly appreciated.

Home School Communication

Train to Teach at Lord Williams’s School

Information Evening

Thursday 23rd

June 2016

Have you ever thought about sharing your passion for your degree subject with eager enquiring minds? You might be a on a career break or contemplating a change of direction in your career within the next twelve months or two years.

You are warmly invited to find out about teacher training opportunities here at Lord Williams’s School.

Do come along to our Information Evening at Upper School on Thursday 23

rd

June at 6.15pm.

Register online at www.lordwilliams.oxon.sch.uk

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Try Singing!! No audition!

Lord Williams’s Festival Chorus is a local friendly choir which rehearses in the school's

Main Hall and gives concerts in the Thame Leisure Centre.

If you like singing why not come along?

Students at LWS do not have to pay a subscription fee or score hire, so it is free for them to

join the choir. And there is no audition!!

Under 16s need to be accompanied by an adult, so would need to bring a parent/carer with

them if they do not know anyone already in the choir who would take responsibility for them

but A-level students can attend unaccompanied.

Currently we only have one LWS student (Year 8) in the choir but there are a number of parents,

former students and teachers among the members, who range in age from 13-93!

For our classical concerts, we are accompanied by Ealing Symphony Orchestra

and a range of professional and amateur soloists.

We are now rehearsing excerpts from Gershwin’s ‘Porgy and Bess’

and a medley of Beatles hits for a concert on 10th July.

Rehearsals are in the Upper School Hall, Monday evenings 7.30pm-9.30pm.

Why not give it a go? We're friendly and simply enjoy making music!

Just come along!

We are crowdfunding! Please follow our fundraising projects on Hubbub.org or via the main school website. We are currently fundraising for the following:

Tablet Project - We would like to purchase 10 additional tablets. The school has invested

significantly in a Wi-Fi infrastructure in order that students and staff can take advantage of the latest technology for teaching and learning.

3D Printer - We are crowdfunding in order to purchase a 3D printer for our school. The ability to work with 3D shapes will give our students real world experiences. Students will see their ideas and designs come to life! 3D models will help in many subject areas not just tech-nology - Art and Design, Mathematics and Science will all benefit from this type of technology.

The Gambia - Lord Williams’s School has a very strong link with Brikama Senior

Secondary School in The Gambia, West Africa. Students and teachers visit each year and several members of BUBS staff have spent time in lessons at Lord Williams’s School. The current situation regarding the library at the school is dire. We want them to be inspired to learn in a room which is safe, clean and appropriate to encourage them to learn.

Please sponsor us and help make this happen or share this with anyone who you think would support us. Thanks for looking and for your support!

Mr Wybron, Headteacher

Fundraising

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Food Facts Our Sugar Facts board has been on display at Lower School. This

showed students just how much sugar is contained in some of the most

popular selling items & some alternatives. This created a lot of interest

and was the topic of discussion in one of our Healthy Eating classes

held by the Catering Manager Julia King.

Catering News - Food Matters

Recipe time

Summer Picnics

JERSEY ROYAL POTATO, LEEK

AND CHEDDAR TARTLET Serves 12

450g young leeks, well washed

Sprig of thyme

Salt and freshly ground black pepper

8 basil leaves, cut into strips

150g Jersey Royal new potatoes, peeled and cut

into 5mm/¼in slices

225g filo pastry, rolled out thinly

55g butter, gently melted

175g farmhouse cheddar, grated

1 cooking apple, peeled, cored, diced and tossed in

lemon juice

Preheat oven to 160°c/325f/gas mark 3.

Cut the leeks into 1cm/½in rings. Cook in a pan of

boiling water with the thyme, until soft. Drain well,

reserving the liquor. Discard the thyme.

Season the leeks with salt, pepper and basil.

Cook the potatoes in the reserved leek liquor until

just soft (about 4-5 minutes). Drain and allow to

cool.

Using a large plate as a guide, cut the filo pastry

into rounds approximately 30cm/12in in size.

Brush all but one of the rounds of filo pastry with

melted butter. Arrange in a baking tin with alternate

layers of potato and leek in between.

Sprinkle over the grated cheddar and diced apple

and season.

Top with remaining sheet of filo, brush with melted

butter and seal edges of pie with water.

Prick several times with a fork and bake in the oven

for about 20-30 minutes

NEW PRODUCTS

Pick and Mix – 5 items plus a bottle of water for

£2.80 with over 60% of the offering low fat and low

sugar-definitely a healthy option for those wanting

the variety of a packed

lunch

Delicious & Healthy

Layered Salad Pots

Tropical Ice Fresh Fruit

Slush is back!

Well done to Lucie Copcutt who completed this year’s Good Morning Britain Tough Mums

assault course, Lucie is an inspirational Mum!

Here are a few pics from our theme days this month…

Mexican Day - Cinco de Mayo

A Taste of Jamaica - Fun days with delicious spicy food and flavourful music

Wishing you all a Fabulous Half Term

from Julia & The Catering Team

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*These are external advertisements and have not been organised by Lord Wil-

Advertisements*

Function Itinerary:

6:15pm Live Steel Band

6:30pm The first bowl will be bowled by the Thame

Mayor, Linda Emery – to our local MP, John Howell

6:40pm – 7:30pm Under 10s match run by Manoj Parmar

7:30pm – 8:30pm 10 to 15 year olds match run by

Manoj Parmar

8:30pm – 8:45pm Sky High Catches

8:45pm – 9:00pm National anthem and then the

distribution of certificates to children

Batfast cricket will run the whole time for all ages

www.batfast.com

Cricket nets for all ages will run the whole time

The High Street will be closed to traffic from 4.30pm and the event

will be opened at 6.15pm with a live Steel Band and at 6.30pm

In front of the town hall, will be all of the cricket activities

The live steel band will be in the middle of the town centre

Behind the town hall will be a picnic area, please bring your own

chairs or blankets and your own food and drinks.

Please do not bring any of your own cricket equipment, all cricket

equipment will be provided by MP sports to prevent damage to

people and property.

If possible please bring a union jack flag (small or big ) so there

are more flags when we all sing the National anthem at 8.45pm

ARE YOU INTERESTED IN JOINING OUR TEEN BOOTCAMP?

45 mins of age appropriate cardio and strength exercise. Think….. running, punch bags, exercise drills,

games…… lots of sweating and lots of FUN!!!!

Great for burning off a bit of steam, getting fit and having fun.

You don’t have to be fit to join, all levels of fitness and ability are catered for.

Mondays - Upper School 4.00pm - 4.45pm Ages 14-18 (Years 10 - 13)

Tuesdays - Lower School 3.00pm - 3.45pm Ages 11-13 (Years 7 - 9)

Limited to 10 places per session - booking necessary

(4 weeks paid in advance = £20)

Please contact Sharon at Fit & Tonic if interested - Start date to be confirmed

COMING SOON

To LWS Start date TBC

Sharon Ritchie Head Coach & Fitness Trainer

Tel: 07738 660828

Email: Sharon@fit&tonic.co.uk

Facebook.com/fitandtonic

*These are external advertisements and have not been organised by Lord Williams’s School.

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3rd Apr Duke of Edinburgh’s Gold Practice (3rd - 8th)

4th Apr Term Ends

22nd Apr INSET Day (School closed to students)

Duke of Edinburgh’s - Silver Practice Kit Check

23rd Apr Term Begins 8.30am

25th Apr AS Sociology Revision Seminar

27th Apr Duke of Edinburgh’s Silver Practice 'A' (27th—

29th)

Term Dates 2015/2016 Term 5 Friday 27th May - Term Ends 2.50pm

Term 6 Monday 6th June - Term Starts

Tuesday 19th July - Term Ends 12.25pm

2016/2017 Term Dates

are available on the school website

Website www.lordwilliams.oxon.sch.uk

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Mon 6th June 6th-16th French Exchange Thame to Liseaux AS Examinations Begin w/c Year 8 Mathematics Assessment _____ Thu 9th June 9th-10th Year 7 Religious studies Trip to London___ Mon13th June Military Day Aldershot w/c Duke of Edinburgh Bronze Mentor Meeting 3 w/c Year 7 Mathematics Assessment w/c Year Councils__________________________ Tue 14th June 14th-16th Year 9 Humanities Trip to Normandy Year 8 Parents’ Evening_____________________ Wed 15th June Duke of Edinburgh Silver Qualifier A Kit Check___ Thu 16th June Hospitality Challenge_______________________ Fri 17th June 17th-19th Duke of Edinburgh Silver Qualifies A___ Sat 18th June Duke of Edinburgh Bronze Qualifier Kit Check____ Mon 20th June 20th-30th German Exchange Bonn to Thame 20th-23rd Year 8 Trip to Netherlands____________ Tue 21st June Lower School Drama Production_______________ Wed 22nd June Primary Dance Show________________________ Thu 23rd June Year 10 Dance Examination Evening____________ Fri 24th June 24th-26th Duke of Edinburgh Silver Qualifier B Lower School Choreography Challenge Year 11 Ball _____ Mon 27th June 27th June—1st July Gambia Week 27th-28th Introduction to Sixth Form Conference Lower School Technology Trip________________ Tue 28th June Gambia Night Key Stage 3 Author Visit_____________________ Wed 29th June BMW Cowley Visit ______________Key Stage 3 & 4 Awards Evening______________

Calendar

Thu 30th June Creative Arts Open Evening Year 12 Futures Day___________________

Fri 1st July Year 6 & Year 9 Taster Day Slave Ship Assembly 1st-3rd Duke of Edinburgh Bronze A Qualifier _______________1st-2nd Duke of Edinburgh Silver Kit Return_

Sun 3rd July 3rd-5th Duke of Edinburgh Bronze B Qualifier_

Mon 4th July 4th-8th ACE Week 4th-8th Year 10 Work Experience__________

Tue 5th July 5th-7th Duke of Edinburgh Bronze C Qualifier LWA Meeting__________________________

Wed 6th July Full Governors’ Meeting__________________

Thu 7th July 7th-9th Duke of Edinburgh Bronze D Qualifier Year 12 University Visit Royal Holloway _____

Fri 8th July 8th-10th Year 12 Languages Trip to Berlin___

Mon 11th July Duke of Edinburgh Silver Final Sign Off Expedition Year 12 Summer Party Tutor Reports Home Years 7,9,10&12_______

Tue 12th July 12th-16th Duke of Edinburgh Gold Qualifier Year 6 Parents’ Evening__________________

Wed 13th July Sports Awards Evening__________________

Mon 18th July Take Me Home Published________________

Tue 19th July Term Ends____________________________

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