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Friday 9th November
Dear parents and carers, Today we have remembered all who laid down their lives to enable us to live in peace. Our whole school assembly this morning involved every student and it was an incredible atmosphere with over 1000 students sharing the 2 minute silence together. We were delighted to welcome the Deputy Lord Lieutenant, Lieutenant Colonel David Langford MBE, the Reverend Poppee, Betty Bilk from the British Legion and Captain Paul Sydenham and Sergeant Price. Thank you to everyone who attended our sixth form open evening this week. We had a very busy night and the main inspiration zone was packed for the formal presentation - we were delighted to welcome so many students from other schools and thank our Head Boy and Girl for speaking so well. We presented our destination data which shows we have 10% higher successful university applications than the national average, 8% more successful apprenticeship applications than the national average and higher than average Russell Group and Oxbridge successful applications. Our new prospectus is available both through our website and reception. You may have seen in the press that an appeal has been launched to reimburse us for hosting Island Con after the company behind the event went into liquidation, leaving us unpaid by several thousand pounds for our letting fee. We were very proud to host the event and disappointed that the considerable fee was not paid as we had planned to use this for additional text books for our students. A former student Dan Bailey has very kindly taken matters into his own hands and launched a Go Fund Me appeal aiming to reimburse us with a partial amount of our lost fee and members of the community have also made donations directly to the academy. We have been overwhelmed by Dan’s thoughtfulness and by the support of the whole community and its generosity and care for our students. Thank you to all of you who have so generously donated for our students. In these days of austerity schools need to be financially proactive to ensure they still deliver the best education for their young people and it is making a huge difference to us to have these donations. A reminder that I hold parent forums on Tuesdays. Please either email dharrison@cowesec.org or phone on 01983 203103 asking for Donna Harrison to book in a slot in advance of each Tuesday. With best wishes, Rachel Kitley