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Cox Green School

Newsletter

4 September — 8 September 2017

Committed to Achievement

What’s On

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Dates for your Diary

Indoor Rowing

Charity non-uniform day

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Year 10 Achievement Awards

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Year 10 Achievement Awards

Year 9 Achievement Awards

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Year 9 Achievement Awards

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Lauren Roach

Student Leadership Team

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Student Leadership Conference

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Positive Points Winners

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Positive Points Winners

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Careers and Career Choices

Work Experience—Jack Sharpling

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Work Experience—Jennifer

Knight

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Cox Green School Vacancy

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Cox Green School Vacancy

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Ski Trip-Coming soon

Library News

Weekly Calendar

Monday 4th September Start of Term for Year 7—11.35am Start

Tuesday 5th September Start of Term for Year 7-11—8.40am Start

Year 12, 13 &14 Induction Day

Wednesday 6th September 6th Form Normal Lessons Commence

Thursday 7th September Year 13 Sports Academy Career Appointments

Friday 8th September Year 13 Sports Academy Career Appointments

Have a lovely Summer and we will see

you in September

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Dates for your Diary

Thursday 17 August A Level Results day 9am—11am

Yr12 into Yr13 Admission Interview—11am onward

Friday 18 August Uniform Shop is Open—9am to 10.30am in Room 4A

Yr12 into Yr13 Admission Interview—11am onward

Thursday 24 August GCSE Results day 9am—11am

Yr11 into Yr12 Admission Interview—11am onward

Monday 28 August Bank Holiday

Tuesday 29 August Uniform Shop is Open—10am to 2.30pm in Room 4A

Wednesday 30 August Uniform Shop is Open—10am to 2.30pm in Room 4A

Thursday 31 August Uniform Shop is Open—10am to 2.30pm in Room 4A

Friday 1 September Uniform Shop is Open—10am to 2.30pm in Room 4A

Professional Development Day for Staff

Indoor Rowing

Congratulations to Tess Horler, AmetzParcell-Arregi , Olivia Stewart and Olivia

D'Aversa for their amazing individual and team results in the Indoor Rowing

event at the Berkshire School Games. All the girls showed amazing mental

strength and superb team work. The girls came 3rd place in the sprint relay

and 5th place in the 2020m (just 0.6 second behind 2nd place). Individually

Olivia S came 5th in her heat, Tess came 6th in her heat, Ametz and Olivia D

both came 4th in their heats. With Ametz placing 4th overall.

Well done girls.

Charity non-uniform day—Thursday 13th July

On behalf of baby Oliver and his parents, I would like to say a huge thank you to all the students and staff for their contributions at yesterday’s non-uniform charity day,

helping to raise funds for #HelpOliversHeart A total of £795.25 has been raised which will help Oliver to be a step closer to life saving surgery.

Thank you. Mrs Feetham

https://www.gofundme.com/oliversheartsurgery

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Awards for PE

Abbie Jones

Alfie Branwhite

Year 10 Achievement Awards

At the Year 10 Assembly this week the students were given awards from each subject. Congratulations!

Awards for Food Tech

Joshua Price

Raina Darsham Nivas

Awards for Drama

Katie Curtin

Wezel Leiper

Awards for English

Julita Ciuba

Sophie Moore

Awards for French

Ben O’Keefe

Chara Vettou

Awards for Geograpy

Jasmine Porter

Joshua Jones

Gold Crest Award

Aidan Silvey

Awards for History

Max Stone

Amy Pugh

Awards for IT and Business Studies

Charlotte Greenwood, Aidan Silvey

Chris Harman, Matthew Crocker

Award for Music

Chara Vettou

Awards for Media

James Poots

Tom Brackenridge

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Year 10 Achievement Awards cont.

Award for Spanish

Julita Ciuba

Awards for Technology

Max Stone

Travis Ash

Awards for Business and IT

Jodie Ford, Brady Dance,

Ryan Jefferies

Awards for Drama

Hollie Gill

Annabel Shrimpton

Year 9 Achievement Awards

At the Year 9 Assembly this week the students were given awards from each subject. Congratulations!

Awards for English

Daniel Dwyer

Awards for Food Tech

Anna Jankovic

Torrin Bailey

Awards for Geography

Torrin Bailey

Anna Jankovic

Award for Science

Elias John

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Year 9 Achievement Awards Cont.

Awards for History

Daniel Cook

Sophia White

Highly Commended Award

James Meyrick

Awards for Maths

Annabel Shrimpton

Xavier Butum

Award for Media

Charlie Kingston

Awards for Music

Alex Taylor

James Bailey

Awards for PE

Arthur Herman-Haynes

Hayden Netherwood-Meek

Award for Spanish

Lilli Bailey

Awards for Technology

Oliver Shiel

Daniel Hubbard

Awards for Tutees of the term

Anna Jankovic, Jasmine Manikoo, Carys Peters

Daniel Cook, Matthew Smith & Max Kinnon

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Student Leadership Team 2017-18.

Over the last few weeks a selection of students in Year 12 have been participating in student leadership

interviews, applying for the role of head boy and head girl. We are delighted to announce the

appointment of Ryan White as Head Boy and Natasha Hill as Head Girl. Both students have acted as

excellent role models and ambassadors throughout their time at Cox Green School and have some

brilliant ideas about how student leadership will evolve over the next year. Jamie Lodge and Elle Peters

will take up the roles of Deputy Head Boy and Girl, alongside student leaders Ieuan Thomas, Tyrese King,

Molly Horler and Megan Black. We were very impressed with the confidence and leadership ideas of all

these students and know that the Cox Green community will be impressed with how the team encourage

and support students in the lower years in becoming better participators and collaborators. Please look

out for further information on the work of the student leadership team in September. I would like to take

this opportunity to say how impressed we were with all the applicants and a massive well done from all

of us for participating in the process.

Ms Kiely

Lauren Roach claims top spot in the Blue Chip Pony Newcomers Second Round

at Port Royal Equestrian Centre—Saturday 8th July 2017

At the hotly contested Pony Premier Show at Port Royal Equestrian

Centre in Holme on Spalding Moor, York, seventy-three

competitors came forward to compete in the Blue Chip Pony

Newcomers Second Round and it was Lauren Roach who claimed

her place at the top of the leader board with three strong clear

rounds.

With two Horse of the Year Show tickets on offer for this October’s

Blue Chip Pony Newcomers Championship Final, the determination

of each competitor was obvious as the class began. After two

challenging rounds, twenty combinations remained to go head to

head against the clock in the final jump-off.

Lauren landed first place with Kerry Grimster’s 8 year-old bay

mare, Renkum Starlight. Showing their fine form in the first two

rounds, this combination took on the jump off with determination

to deliver a treble clear in 37.08 seconds.

What I achieved this weekend. By Lauren Roach

I jumped a Horse of the year show qualifier in Yorkshire on Renkum Starlight (the horse I ride for people)

and we went clear in the first and second round, and jumped the fastest clear round in the jump off. As

we won I will be going to the Horse of the Year show in October. I am proud of how me and Star

performed, we have worked extremely hard.

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Student Leadership Conference at Sir William Borlase Grammar School

On Wednesday 5th July we had the opportunity to

attend a student led Leadership Conference at Sir

William Borlase Grammar School, where three

successful leaders shared their advice and guidance.

Our first talk was by Ray King, managing director of

Leadership Management UK Limited and coaches

corporate professionals on how to be an effective

leader. His key messages were to ‘crystallise’ your

thinking by making a dream list of what you want to

achieve, making sure you don’t hold back. He emphasised the importance of having an aim, planning for

it and having the self-confidence to go on and achieve it. Following this talk we were split into smaller

groups to take part in some workshop style activities. The first of which was entitled ‘leadership in action’

and teams were challenged to build the tallest free standing structure they could, using just newspaper

and tape. Then we had a presentation from student leaders of Princes Risborough School about how their

6th form student leadership team is structured. As Deputy Head boy and girl we intend to try and

implement some of their strong points into Cox Green’s Sixth form.

Our Second talk in the hall was held by Air Commodore Ian Duguid OBE who spoke about his experience

as a leader in the Royal Airforce’s Typhoon Force. He is in charge of 6000 personnel and 150 Typhoon

fighter jets worth £45 million each. Air Commodore Duguid highlighted to us the importance of being a

leader that motivates the team, encourages engagement and sets the bar high. He also discussed the

significance of effective communication, providing examples of outstanding leaders from history.

We had a fascinating talk on Mental Health, from the student leadership team at Dr Challoner’s Grammar

School. This brought to light some fundamental issues in society and how mental health is on the most

part ignored. We hope to see this become an issue that is highlighted more in our school next year so

watch this space!

The final talk was taken by Deborah Fielding, an award winning business woman who runs Mirus Media,

an agency that provide inspirational speakers for conferences and key note speakers to events. Her

clients include Simon Cowell and James Cordon. Her talk focused on the human side of leadership

emphasising the importance of recognising that every person you work with requires a personalised

approach. Her key motto was “believe in your brilliance”.

Overall it was an intriguing day in which we developed our understanding of leadership and how it differs

to management. We hope next year Cox Green will be able to run a session for the other schools to share

our ideas.

By Deputy Head Boy, Jamie Lodge and Deputy Head Girl, Elle Peters

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Positive Points Winners from Last Week

Congratulations to our Gold (300) Positive Points winners:

Year 7— Jamie Webb, Oliver Johnstone, Zachariah Richardson, Peter Dias, Toby Gillard, Leah Jay, Nadine

Kalomar, Edward Brimble, Dylan Gilbert, Anu Hynes, Mathew Wilson, Malachi Jones, Jamie Calvert,

Benjamin Colton, Mathew Humphries, Cameron Chapman, Neha Khera, Sasha Lovell, Ethan Miller, Max

Sheppard, Connor Yeates McLaughlin

Year 8— Eleanor Bunce, Gemma Pearson, Harry Chapman, Louise Skelly, Elena Blinco, Lainey

Craythorne, Benjamin Grant, Chloe Howley, Aliyat Osobemekun, Zuzanna Tomczyk, Harvey Young, Layla

Jenner, Annabel Shrimpton

Year 10— Firoza Amin, George Beckett, Talhah Chaudhri, Sean Hogan, Tayanana Masango, Joshua Price,

Aidan Silvey, Kristine Alabastro, Ceri Atkinson, Maison Bowers-Turner, Julita Ciuba, Rebecca Davenport,

Laura Franks, Amanique Khakh

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Positive Points Winners from Last Week

Congratulations to our Silver (200) Positive Points winners:

Year 7— Jackson Green,Warren Halligan, Jamie-Louisa Williams, Joshua Magill-Brien, Grace Chinnery,

Charlie Henwood, Joe Richards, Sophia Butt, Lola Campbell, Jodi Carter, Daniels Clements, Kitty Grayling-

Jones, Tia Groom, Isabelle Hunt, Shanai Kalsi, Emily Lapuerta, Ellen O’Mahony, Tamsin Williams

Year 8— Aaron Cheung, Annabel Cronin, Taya Diaz Rodriguez, Tamirira Masango, Nia Maximin, Cameron

Armstrong, Mia Kulomar, Lainey Craythorne, Mia Ellis, Megan Foley, Sonny Lloyd, Tierney McCann, Freya

Sen, Alicia Whatmore, Ethan White

Year 9— Emma Cook, Fedus Lucas, Hunjan, Aman, Jay Harley, Simone Mizova, Milly Stevenson, Rebecca

Williamson, Amelie Hillier, Niamh McDonagh, Dmitry Michitiuc, Hashim Saeeid

Year 10— Nina Campbell, Chloe Higgs, Jack Shepherd, Megan Dale, Sophie Moore, Aisha Zanini-Hughes

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Work Experience—Jack Sharpling

Work Experience

I was struggling to find a work experience placement that suited me and what I wanted to do as a future

career. I arranged an appointment with Mrs McKay, and we looked at my CV made some amendments

and contacted local possible marketing companies I may be able to do work experience at. After a few

rejections I was asked by one company (Enigma marketing) to send in my CV and covering email, and

with this Mrs McKay suggested to stand out to send my media coursework film along with this, and it

worked, I was offered work experience at the company in a field/position that I wanted to be in and was

interested by.

The day I spent with them I did a lot and it massively exceeded my expectations. On arrival I was

introduced to the team and others that worked in the company in different roles, they suggested I wore

casual clothing and that suited the working environment I was going into.

After this initial meet and greet I went off and did a film shoot for an informational video for a data

company in Ealing. During this I set up and down equipment and did some work with the video and

sound, I was involved with something the whole day. I was there from around 10am until around 6pm.

On return from the shoot I got back to the office and sat and experienced some of the other sides to the

business such as the branding side.

This work experience increased my knowledge of the media and business type of company and the

environment and what goes into a marketing company, it has also helped me further understand the job

role and also develop my skills. I have since been offered more days in the company which I’m very

excited about.

Jack Sharpling

With our New Year 13 students venturing into the work of world next week, some of them have already

taken up positions with pleasing outcomes, and have kindly written about their time with the companies.

Good luck to those who have them planned next week or over the coming weeks, we can’t wait to hear

all about it! If you would like you can send in any pictures and articles from your work experience

placement next week and during the summer, please sent them in to s.mckay@coxgreen.com.

Mrs McKay

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Work Experience—Jennifer Knight

Last week, for my work experience, I had the opportunity to spend five days at Lonza, a global

pharmaceutical and biotech company.

I spent my week at their Slough site, which specialises in the pharmaceutical industry. The first day was

an induction to the business, involving a variety of presentations throughout the day with others who

were joining the company as employees. This gave me a chance to experience what it could be like when

I start a job in my chosen field. I was also paired-up with a year 12 with similar interests from Burnham

Grammar School, who I spent my whole week with and luckily, we got on really well!

For the rest of the week I visited different departments, gaining a small insight into each one. I didn’t

realise until then just how complicated the whole process of drug development is and how many people

and departments are involved - some that you wouldn’t even think of! It was amazing to be able to work

my way through the different departments and see how it all leads to a potentially lifesaving drug with

years of work and billions of pounds invested into it. I also got the chance to experience what it is like to

work in the labs with state-of-the-art, very expensive equipment, some of it which I was lucky enough to

try out.

I am very grateful to Lonza for allowing me to do my week’s work experience with them; as well as being

a company full of lovely, helpful people who I enjoyed spending my time with, it gave me a real insight

into the pharmaceutical industry. I could now genuinely see myself entering the industry after university

and owe that to Lonza for giving me a completely immersive experience.

Jennifer Knight Year 12

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Cox Green School Vacancies

Lead Specialist Literacy Progress Assistant x 1

28 hours a week, Monday – Friday – Hours by agreement. Term-time plus 5 inset days. Scale 4 point 18-21. Actual Salary £12,743 - £14,202 per annum.

Lead Specialist Outreach, Intervention and Behaviour Progress Assistant x 1

37 hours a week, Monday – Friday - Hours by agreement. Term-time plus 5 inset days. Scale 4 point 18-21. Actual Salary £16,839 - £18,767 per annum.

We are seeking to appoint two highly motivated and inspirational Lead Progress Assistants to join our busy Learning Support environment. One post will specialise in leading literacy interventions and the other in outreach, intervention and behaviour.

Duties will be varied and include working in the classroom and supporting small groups of pupils or individuals. At times, you may be working on a one to-one basis with pupils who have special educational needs. You will need to be highly motivated, enthusiastic and enjoy working with children.

Full details and application packs for these posts can be downloaded from the school website: www.coxgreen.com

Please email completed application forms to j.brown@coxgreen.com

Closing date: 8am, Thursday 20th July 2017

Interview Date:

Lead Specialist Literacy Progress Assistant—Wednesday 16th August 2017

Lead Specialist Outreach, Intervention and Behaviour Progress Assistant—Wednesday 23rd August 2017

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expect all staff to share this commitment. This post is subject to an enhanced DBS check.

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Cox Green School Vacancies

Progress Assistants x 2

We require one role to be 30 hours per week (Hours by agreement) and the other to be 32.5 hours per week, Monday – Friday 8:20am – 3:20pm, term time plus 5 inset days. (Please state on your application form which you are applying for).

Required from 1st September

Scale 2 Point 11 – 13, Actual Salary £11,944 - £12,461 (30 hours) or £12,940 - £13,499 (32.5 hours) per annum.

We are looking to appoint enthusiastic and able Progress Assistants to work with our students. The successful applicants will be working alongside classroom teachers to help deliver intervention, support the learning and progress of the pupils and also deliver specific interventions for those pupils who require extra support.

The successful candidates will join a school team committed to providing a safe and inclusive learning environment where everyone is valued and encouraged to reach their full potential.

You will have:

High expectations of yourself and the children with whom you work;

Creativity and flair;

Dedication and energy;

Communication and interpersonal skills;

The ability and desire to work as part of a team.

Full details and application packs for these posts can be downloaded from the school website: www.coxgreen.com

Please email completed application forms to j.brown@coxgreen.com

Closing date: 8am, Thursday 20th July 2017

Interview Date: Wednesday 16th August 2017

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and

expect all staff to share this commitment. This post is subject to an enhanced DBS check.

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Library News

Special Events for Families in the Summer Holidays Are any of your children aged 13 and under? Then visit your local public library this holiday! We are running activities all over the Borough, often for FREE, often just turn up and join in!

Legoland event for families on Thursday 16th August, from 2.30pm to 3.30pm. Only £5 each (or £4.50 with an Advantage Card), booking essential.

‘Animal Agents’ reading challenge – stickers and prizes for reading 6 books over the holidays.

Colouring and word puzzles to do in the library or take home, every day. And more…! For Legoland, book your place by calling Cox Green Library on 01628 673942. Visit the library website for more events elsewhere! http://www3.rbwm.gov.uk/libraries 2 FREE websites from home about Books and Reading Have you got a favourite author and want to read someone similar? Are you looking for stories in a particular gen-re? Then search these websites. 50 new authors and about 230 new books recently added! Who Else Writes Like? is for adults. Who Next? is for children and teenagers. Your library card barcode number is the Username and no PIN is needed. Or go to any library and search there for free: http://www3.rbwm.gov.uk/info/200341/online_library_resources/400/online_resources

Cox Green Library is open all through the Summer The Library will be open at the following times:

Coming soon …

Letter will be issued in September detailing the next Ski Trip

taking place in February 2019

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday

CLOSED 1.30pm to 5pm 10am to 7pm 10am to 5pm 1.30pm to 5pm 10am to 1.30pm 11am to 2pm