Term 1 Dates

Mon 23rd – Wed 25th September Year 11 GCSE Geography Field Trip

Wednesday 25th September Year 8 and 9 Curriculum Information Evening 7.00 – 8.00pm

Friday 27th September Sponsored Walk

Tuesday 1st October Open Evening/students finish at 1.00pm

Wednesday 2nd October Inset Day

Tuesday 8th October Open morning for prospective parents (9am-12pm)

Wednesday 9th October Open morning for prospective parents (9am–12pm)

Wednesday 9th October Post 16 Options Evening

Wednesday 23rd October KS3 Drama Club / Orchestra / Arts Evening

Friday 25th October Harvest Festival Assembly

Friday 25th October End of Term 1

October Break – Monday 28th October – Friday 1st November 2019

Langtree School Weekly Bulletin 20th September 2019

Curriculum Information Evenings At the start of the term we like to hold a series of evenings to provide the you need to support your sons and daughters with their learning at Langtree. We will provide general information about the curriculum, homework and support available as well as specific information about the core subjects. The presentation will be in the school hall expected to last for about an hour and is relatively informal. No booking required. The date for these evenings are: Wednesday 25th September at 7pm Years 8 and 9 IF you have sons or daughters in two or more year groups you are welcome to attend more than one of the dates. However, please be aware that there is a great deal of common material in the information provided across the three evenings. The slide show for each evening will be published on our website after the information evening.

LANGTREE ANNUAL SPONSORED WALK—Friday 27th SEPTEMBER 2019:

Sponsored walk money can be paid to school via Scopay. If you are able to GIFT AID your sponsorship please ensure that the sponsor form has the FULL name, FULL address and postcode and the Gift Aid box ticked if applicable.

Please could students bring their sponsor forms into school and hand to their tutor by Thursday at the latest. The forms will be returned to students on Friday to allow them to collect their sponsor money.

Students should wear suitable clothing and footwear for a 10 mile walk, bring a waterproof coat, a packed lunch, plenty of water to drink, a rucksack style bag and wear sun cream.

Lunch time / after school clubs and activities—PAGE 3 of this bulletin

Information on ASSESMBLIES can also be found on PAGE 2 Year 10 Geography Field Trip—letter and kit list can be found on the bulletin / letters page of the website. Year 7 and 8: Watched a performance of “County Lines” this week—further information about this is available on the letters / bulletin page of the school website. Year 10 GCSE English Literature—please see the letter from Mrs Shakespeare about the purchase of set texts and revision guides.

All Students—MATHS: Students must have a scientific calculator for maths lessons. We sell calculators at school for £8.50 and can be purchased by asking any maths teacher. The model we sell is the Casio fx-83GTX (as shown in the picture )"

Need to add the 2019 2020 term date

to bulletin page of website AND add

The 2019—2020 term dates are available on the School website: https://www.langtreeschool.com/parents-calendar/

The remaining INSET days for 2019—2020 are: 2nd October 2019, 20th January 2020, 14th February 2020 and 3rd July 2020.

The sports fixtures calendar can be found HERE

Come and Sing with the

Junior Choir Rehearsals

Every Thursday Lunchtime

the music room

ASSEMBLIES At the Parent Forum last academic year parents requested some information about what themes were covered in our assemblies. Please see below a list of topics. This table comes with a strong caveat that there may be changes to

the assembly depending on external factors. However, I do hope it gives a flavour of our diverse programme. The Assembly Schedule will be published at the start of each half term.

September 2019 October 2019

10 Tu KS3- Working as a team: student 1 Tu KS4: Democracy

11 We KS4- Working as a team: student 4 Fr KS3- Democracy. Plus announce the successful

12 Th Duke of Edinburgh Launch Yr 9s 11 Fr KS4: Wallingford Food Bank

17 Tu KS4: Life Priorities 15 Tu KS3: The rule of law

18 We KS3 - RAF outside speaker 16 We KS4: Celebrating Achievements

20 Fr KS4: Sponsored Walk Assembly 18 Fr KS3 Wallingford Food Bank

24 Tu KS3: Sponsored Walk Assembly 23 We KS3 - Student feedback - World Scout Jamboree

25 We KS4: TBC 25 Fr Whole School Assembly: Harvest Festival

European Languages Day next week: Languages themed cakes on sale on Wednesday and Friday, all funds to go to Macmillan, and a Salsa class during lunch on Wednesday! If you would still like to sign up, please see Mrs Warren.

Our Coffee Morning this year will be an in school event, we are unable to use the Community Centre as we have in previous

years. Students and Staff will be enjoying Coffee and Cake in aid of Macmillan but we are not able to

open this event to parents / carers / public this year.

Science Department: Would like donations of the following types of insulation for experiments.

Off cuts

(no smaller than 25 x 8cm)

- Foil backed insulating un-derlay ( 3-4mm thick)

- Synthetic wool/wadding

- foam protective wrap/insulation (minimum 3mm thick)

Thank you

Second Hand Uniform ALL Donations of GOOD second hand uniform would be gratefully received,

please drop off at the school office. If you would like to buy second hand uniform please call into the school office.

There is a voluntary contribution for each item, with a minimum payment of £2.00 / item

Lunch Time and After School Clubs Term 1 (2019 - 2020)

Lunch Time 1.15 -1.45 PM

WHAT WHO WHERE

MONDAY

Football Year 11 Astro

Badminton KS 3 - Y 7, 8 & 9 Sports Hall

Boys Choir All Music Room

GCSE Art Year 11 Art Room 10

Homework All IT1

TUESDAY

Football Year 10 Astro

Football Year 7 Sports Hall

Senior Choir Years 9, 10 and 11 Music Room

GCSE Art Year 11 Art Room 10

Homework All IT1

WEDNESDAY

GCSE PE CLINIC GCSE students C5

GCSE Art Year 11 Art Room 10

KS 4 GCSE Art Course Work GCSE Students Art Room 9

Homework All IT1

THURSDAY

Young Carers Drop In Mrs Temple is available in Rm 41 during break and tutor time for any young carers to drop in and have a chat.

Football Year 7 and 8 Girls Astro

Junior Choir Years 7 and 8 Music Room

Homework All IT1

GCSE Art Year 11 Art Room 10

Art Club KS 3 - Years 7, 8 and 9 Art Room 9

Christian Union All English Room 34

Badminton KS 4 - Y 10 and 11 Sports Hall

FRIDAY

Football Year 8 and 9 Astro

Netball All Sports Hall

GCSE Art Year 11 Art Room 10

Homework All IT1

After School 3.30 – 4.30 PM

WHAT WHO WHERE

MONDAY Hockey Year 7 and 8 Girls Astro

TUESDAY

TOURNAMENTS & LEAGUE FIXTURES - no training if there is a match

Rugby (until October) Year 10 and 11 Field

Drama Club (until Oct half term) (3.30 - 4.45 pm)

KS 3 - Y 7, 8 & 9 Main Hall

WEDNESDAY

RUGBY AND HOCKEY FIXTURES - no training if there is a match

Orchestra (3.45 - 5.00 pm) All Music Room

Rugby (until October) Year 8 and 9 Boys Field

THURSDAY

RUGBY/HOCKEY FIXTURES - no training if there is a match

GCSE Food Clinic Year 10 and 11 Food Room

STEM Club Years 8 and 9 DT Room 10

Hockey Year 9, 10 and 11 Girls Astro

Rugby Year 7 Field

FRIDAY Gymnastics All Main Hall

INVITATION TO JOIN THE DUKE OF EDINBURGH’S AWARD Come and find out more!

We have been running the Award at Pangbourne for the last 31 years. It is the world’s leading achievement award for young people. Its balanced programme of fun and activities which develop a range of useful skills through working as a Team. At Pangbourne we believe It encourages you to

live life as an adventure recognising your achievements and we have had a number of Langtree students complete the Awards with us, some of your past students have just completed their Gold having done

Bronze and Silver with us . We are able to offer all the Awards, Bronze, Silver and Gold. We have an experienced leadership team and support for all our members completing their programmes and have assisted young people to fulfil their aspirations and supported expeditions both at home and in Europe, North America, Africa, Asia,

Arctic and Australasia!! We are able to offer a choice of expeditions, by foot or on the water depending on the participants choice.

So come along and find out more and join us. Parents and Young people Briefings Bronze Silver and Gold Monday 30th September at Adventure Dolphin , Pangbourne at 7pm

For More information please join us at our briefing meetings contact: www.dofecoordinator@AdventureDolphin.co.uk

Art Courses for Children and Adults.

Art Clubs and Holiday Courses.

https://thecoachingbarn.com/

We have put together a number of one day courses which we are running for children over this October half term, and we are also planning a term long “Art Club” which will run from January for 12-15 year olds with Ann Spencer (a local artist and teacher) as the tutor, which will be like a mini art foundation course and amazing training for any budding artists headed toward GSCE's.

Pangbourne Library w ill be closing on Tuesday 24th September 2019 for refurbishment. It will re-open on Tuesday 1st October with an official re-opening on Friday 11th October.