WEAVERS UPDATE February 2013

raising aspirations...raising achievements

March GCSE Timetable

Date Start Length Exam Title

Thu 28 Feb 13:15 1 hour 45 mins Maths - Non Calculator

Fri 01 Mar 09:00 1 hour Biology - Components of Life

Mon 04 Mar 09:00 1 hour 45 mins Maths - Calculator

Tue 05 Mar 09:00 1 hour Chemistry in Our World

Tue 05 Mar 09:00 1 hour Discovering Chemistry

Thu 07 Mar 09:00 1 hour Universal Physics

Thu 07 Mar 09:00 1 hour Physics for Your Future

Further details on the Exam noticeboard on the ground floor R block.

Dear Parents and Carers

Fingers crossed, it looks like we are through the worst of the winter weather! As you will appreciate we are one of the few schools with an effective snow clearance plan. Unless it is actually snowing faster than we can clear, we will always be open.

As we wave goodbye to the term we also wave goodbye (or at least say “ciao”) to our ski party, off to spend the week on the slopes in Piancavallo. I’m sure that they will have a great time. My thanks go to Mr Kirk, Mrs Ball, Mr Higgins, Mrs Horn, Miss Boon and Miss Jones for organising and running this trip.

In the last week we have welcomed Miss Karen Barker as an Associate Assistant Headteacher to our Senior Leadership Team. Miss Barker will be with us through the rest of this academic year, working primarily on curriculum issues.

It always strikes me that when we return from the February half term holiday, it is just that much lighter in the mornings and evenings and Spring is finally on its way, with all the unfolding joy that it brings.

Have a great half term week, whatever you are doing. As ‘Anon’ once said, “You don’t have to wait until Valentine’s Day to show someone that you care for them.”

We start back on Monday 18 February.

Jon Davis

Animation 13 competition. Open to all year groups. Please see Miss Kerr for

further details.

Term Dates 2012

Spring Half Term

Close at 3.10 pm Fri 8 Feb Re-open Mon 18 Feb

Easter

Close to students Wed 27 Mar Teacher Day Thurs 28 Mar Good Friday Fri 29 Mar Easter Monday Mon 1 Apr Re-open Mon 15 Apr

May Day

Close at 3.10 pm Fri 3 May Re-open Tues 7 May

Summer Half Term

Close at 3.10 pm Fri 24 May Re-open Mon 3 June

Summer 2013

Close at 3.10 pm Tues 23 Jul

Year 10 Work Experience Monday 11 - Friday 15 March

2013

As the placements for Work Experience are confirmed, student / parent contracts will be sent home. Please would you check the details and sign and return them to the Student Office as soon as possible.

Students must then contact the employer to arrange an interview.

Brickhill Road Wellingborough Northants NN8 3JH

Telephone: 01933 222830 Fax: 01933 276347

E-mail: mainoffice@weaversschool.co.uk

Author Andrew Newbound visits Weavers School

On Friday 11 January, Andrew Newbound, author of Demon Strike, came to Weavers School to run creative writing workshops.

Students from Year 7 to Year 11 attended different sessions and were challenged to think about describing their home or school using all 5 senses. Some associations were easier to think of than others. Then volunteers were given an exercise to describe a word or phrase to a blind person with no visual references or to someone who is deaf without any aural references using the senses as a guide.

Another exercise involved emotions with some more unusual words being put into a sentence about students’ experiences.

The final task was to portray how emotions are displayed by describing body language and appearance.

Library news

Student feedback comments: ‘I enjoyed the activity of describing something without a sense’ ‘The author was fun and interacted with us’ ‘The author helped us learn a new English skill’ ‘Awesome, exciting’ ‘It got us thinking’ ‘He involved the audience in a lot of activities’

During December 2012 there was a competition running in the Library. Students answered 12 general knowledge questions about Christmas and wrote a poem as a tie breaker.

Winners: Vikram Kumar 8RF and Cara-Louise Nimmo 10PR

Runners-up: Callum Slack 9VS, Rebecca Hunt-Murphy 7RH and Megan Turner 7SC

The BBC has launched this year’s 500 Words short story competition

If you have written a fantastic short story why not enter the Chris Evans

Breakfast Show's 500 WORDS competition? The competition has two age categories: 9 and under and 10 - 13. There are bronze, silver and gold prizes in each category

Submit your story online before 7.00 pm on Friday 22 February 2013 at www.bbc.co.uk/radio2/500words/2013/.

SSCo programme at Weavers

During this half term Weavers has had 60 Year 3 & 4 Freemans pupils every Wednesday learning how to play hockey. Our Sixth Form leaders Emma Bolton, Tia Wray, Sandy Strathern and Ben Pegg, with the help from Year 10 leaders have led a class of 30 pupils and taught them some fantastic hockey skills. These new skills were on display at the district hockey tournament for the school games on Wednesday 6 February at Weavers.

Well done to all leaders involved

School Parliament 2013

7RH - Anand Jobanputra and Hannah

Parry

7CF - Vicki Wilson and Harry Gayton

7TW - Liam Parkin and Alex Lancaster-

Lennox

7AI - David Price and Jake

Weatherstone

7MW -Bradley Munns and Shane

Steele

7SC - Nishay Gower and Shar’le

Francis

8RB - Sophie Furnell and Ghislaine

Hallacy

8RF - Lauren Holt and Vikram Kumar

Khosla

8OB - Abbie Wilson and Scott Ireland-

Ward

8TH - Louis Jones and Jessie King

8MH - Emily Prowse and Leon Guy

9HS - Monir Idrissi and Nicole

Robertson

9LG - Marcus Vaughan and Imogen

Napier

9VS - Teegan Roche and Charlotte

Hancox

9KW - Kyle Draper and Ian Darker

9SO - Eloise England and Mika Jolley

9AP - Neve Rawlings and Alycia Baker

10JE - Josh Cayford and Bhumi Trivedi

10JA - Sophie Whittemore and Jamie

Robertson

10SS - Adam Payne and Rosie Watts

10RB - Shannon Unsworth and Harry

Lloyd

10PR - Ryan Payne and Emma Green

10SJ - Sam Garner and Amos

Makuyana