NEWSLETTER Friday 11th October Dear parents and carers, Thank you to all parents who attended the Year 9 and 10 Information Evening this week. The evening covered a variety of items through presentations from members of the senior leadership team, including information about the curriculum, safeguarding, homework and revision. Mr Rice showed parents our online revision and learning support platforms, in particular introducing parents to GCSE Pod and Seneca Learning. These two platforms will be shown to all students over the coming weeks but are excellent support for revision, which we do expect all students in Years 9 and 10 to be doing on a regular basis now students are preparing for GCSEs. Mr Rice, Vice Principal, showed parents the curve of forgetting and spoke about the importance of repetition in overcoming this curve. Students in Year 9 and Year 10 have to recall GCSE information across three years in total and will need to work hard to overcome this forgetting curve by revising and revisiting work every day. Mr Rice highlighted the need to spend three hours an evening on both homework and revising content at this point in a student’s education. The forgetting curve shows that if we return to new information and repeat the learning we will remember more each time we do this. It takes at least 4 repeats before we have strong recall of this new information This week has, as always, been a rich and busy time for us all here. In addition to our information evening, the Isle of Wight Literary Festival has been a highlight for us, with students from across Year 8, Year 10 and 11 all involved in workshops and talks. A reminder that I hold my parent forums twice weekly on a Tuesday afternoon from 1pm – 2.30pm and from 3.30pm – 5.30pm to enable parents to get to know me and discuss the work of the school with me directly. Many thanks, as always, for your continuing support of the academy. Rachel Kitley Click the arrows or swipe to turn pages
TERM DATES FOR 2019/20 ACADEMIC YEAR Fri 25th October
Last Day of Half Term
28th Oct—1st Nov
Half Term Holiday
Mon 4th November
Start of second half of Autumn Term
Fri 20th December
Last Day of Autumn Term
23rd Dec 2019 — 3rd Jan 2020 Christmas Holiday
Mon 6th January
Staff Development Day
Tues 7th January
Start of Spring Term for all students
Fri 14th February
Last Day of Half Term
CATERLINK ALLERGY AND DIETARY REQUIREMENTS Please could parents/carers of students who have any dietary requirements or allergies complete this form and return to the Academy? https://www.cowesec.org/assets/docs/ Allergy-and-intolerance-form-July2018.pdf
17th February—21st February Half Term Holiday
Mon 24th February
Start of second half of Spring Term
Friday 3rd April
Last Day of Spring Term
6th April—17th April
Easter Holiday
Mon 20th April
Start of Summer Term
Fri 8th May
Early May bank holiday (VE day)
Fri 22nd May
Last Day of Half Term
25th May—29th May
Half Term Holiday
Mon 1st June
Start of second half of Spring Term
Mon 15th June TBC
Staff Development Day
Fri 17th July
Last Day of Summer Term
Sat 18th July
Summer Holidays Start
Term dates can also be found on our website.
UPCOMING EVENTS Wednesday 16th October
Year 11 Info Evening
Friday 25th October
Last Day of Half Term
TIKTOK—INTERNET SAFETY At CEC many students continue to work hard to notify us when there are new apps and new groups that are released online and also when there is online activity that may be threatening the safety of some of our community and/or putting them in potentially vulnerable positions. Please be aware of ‘TikTok’. It’s a social media app that gives users the opportunity to share 60 second short videos with friends, family or the entire world. Like Twitter-owned Vine and Musical.ly before it, videos shared range from funny sketches to lip-sync videos featuring special effects. Parents have expressed concern around the inappropriate language of some of the video posted which may make this less suitable for younger children. Predators seeking to connect with children is another risk that parents have said their children. For more insight on parent review, visit Common Sense Media. More information can be found at: https://internetmatters.org/ hub/esafety-news/tik-tok-app-safety-what-parents-need-to-know/
YEAR 7 PUBLIC AND MILITARY SKILLS
Thursdays 2.45—3.30pm Drumming & Drill, Teambuilding, First Aid, Navigation and Outdoor skills, communication skills and signals. Contact Miss Crane—ED11 or CCF office.
Taster session on Monday 14th October at lunch time or after the Academy day from 2.45— 3.45pm in Capstan House!
INFORMATION EVENINGS YEARS 7—10 Thank you to all the parents who attended our information evenings that have been held over the past two weeks. If you were unable to attend please see the presentations on our website.
Year 8 and 9 Information Evening Year 9 and 10 Information Evening
STUDENT-LED SOCIAL MEDIA Thank you to Oriol and Lily for their work on Instagram this week! Today Lily, a student in Year 7, shared the importance of being online aware. Follow us there @cowesenterprise
Consultation: Admissions Policy 2021-2022
In accordance with the DfE’s 2014 statutory ‘Schools Admissions Code’ guidance the Local Governing Body of Cowes Enterprise College is consulting on the Admissions Arrangements for September 2021 because changes are proposed. The amendment is to the oversubscription criteria inserted as number 4: Children of staff who have, (1) been employed at Cowes Enterprise College for two or more years at the time at which the application for admission to the school is made, or (2) have been recruited to fill a vacant post for which there is a demonstrable skill shortage. The proposed Admissions Policy 2021-22 is available to view by clicking this link or hard copy from the school office. Comments on the proposed admissions arrangements should be sent to the clerk to governors jwareham@cowesec.org or by post to Jill Wareham, Cowes Enterprise College, Crossfield Avenue, Cowes, PO31 8HB by 12 noon on 12th November 2019.
CONGRATULATIONS GEORGIE Congratulations to Georgie Price who gained the prestigious Trinity Grade 8 saxophone with distinction. This is the highest grade possible for a music exam accomplished after many years of dedicated study and commitment to musical excellence. The exam pieces were fiendishly difficult to play and Georgie performed them with confidence and dexterity
DUKE OF EDINBURGH
NEWS
It’s been another great week for the Duke of Edinburgh students. Some more books arrived, the cookery sessions have been very successful and Vinnie is beginning to make some progress on his puppy training.
There will be a meeting after school on Tuesday 22nd October in BU11 for all Duke of Edinburgh participants so please remind your child to attend and to pay careful attention to the tutor announcements in a morning. We are still waiting for some books and I hope to have them all next week.
ACADEMY CLUBS Club Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Time
Location
Cowes Combined Cadet Force (ages 12-18)
5-7pm
Capstan House
Chess Club
Lunch
BT11
Homework Support
2.50—3.30pm
DE10
Oasis Board Games
2.50—3.30pm
Oasis
Ukulele Club
2.45—3.30pm
MU02
BTEC Business Coursework Booster Sessions
2.45—4.30pm
BU11
Isle of Wight Radio Newshounds and Communication Club
2.45—3.30pm
Reception
Homework Support
2.50—3.30pm
DE10
Oasis Board Games
2.50—3.30pm
Oasis
Science Club
2.45-3.30pm
Science IZ
Chess Club
Lunch
BT11
BTEC Business Revision
2.45—3.30pm
BU11
Homework Support
2.50-3.30pm
DE10
Oasis Board Games
2.50-3.30pm
Oasis
Warhammer and Model Club
2.45—4.00pm
DE06
Burnet News Club
2.45-3.45pm
ET13
CEC Glee Club
2.45—3.30pm
MU02
Watch this space! More clubs to follow soon!
SPORTS CLUBS Club
Time
Monday
CCF in Capstan House
5—7pm
Tuesday
Boys Football (All Years)
3-4pm
Netball (All Years)
3-4pm
Wednesday PE Intervention (GCSE and BTEC, Years 9—Sixth Form)
Thursday Friday
3pm onwards
Girls Football (All Years) on Field or 3G Pitch
3-4pm
Badminton (All Years)
3-4pm
Military Skills for Year 7 in ED11
3—3.30pm
Basketball (All Years)
3-4pm