WOLVERLEY NEWS
UNLIMITED October 2014: Issue 1
WHAT’S COMING UP... OUTSTANDING GCSE RESULTS Our students have seen their ambitions fulfilled as they celebrated success in this year’s GCSE results. Highlights include 46% more students achieving five or more A*-A grades compared to last year, giving them all a solid base to extend their unlimited education options. The school’s excellent results also bucked the national trend of declining English results, as the school has seen an increase in both English and maths grades. In particular, religious education (RE) achieved strong results, with 45% of students attaining A*-A grades. Kerry
Poole, leader of RE, has recently won a silver Pearson Teaching Award, a national accolade. There were also some stunning results from the following exceptional students: Victoria MacAskill and Kathryn Craik who both received eight A*s and five As, Olivia Crannage who received an incredible 11A*s and two As, Jack Pugh who celebrated his six A*s and six As and Jamie Powell who succeeded in receiving two A*s and seven As. Other outstanding students include Lauren Field, Alice Conway, Joseph Miller, Gabrielle Slater, Eilidh Shakespeare and Antonia Morris.
COMPUTER GAMES FOR GOOD! Over the last few weeks, Year 9 students have been looking at the use of ‘ICT for GOOD’ and exploring ways they can help make the world a better place. They looked at how websites such as JustGiving.com and Facebook can help publicise campaigns and raise money and awareness for charitable causes, as displayed in the recent ALS Ice Bucket Challenge campaign. As part of this, they have identified some websites that parents and carers may wish to explore further. Playlistforlife.org.uk – this site uses donated iPods to bring music and memories into the lives of people with dementia. Sidekickcycle.org is a computer game, which raises money through playing to provide bikes for people in developing countries in Africa. Cancerresearchuk.org has a downloadable game called Play To Cure. By playing this game, users can help to identify patterns in data, which will be used to identify particular genes and thus lead the way towards a cure for cancers. It would be great if everyone, parents, carers, students and teachers, could download and play the games…it just shows that games can be good too! This hands on experience was fantastic and thoroughly enjoyed by all.
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Headteacher, Bryn Thomas, said, “We are delighted with the results and congratulate all our students on their success. We achieved good results in a wide range of subjects covering both the traditional academic ones and the more vocational subjects, which is testament to the breadth and strength of teaching at this school. Students now have a solid foundation to go and pursue their ambitions and we wish them all well with their chosen path.” Congratulations from PSRE department
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• Wednesday, 5 November Year 11 Fixup Day • Friday, 14 November Children In Need Day • Thursday, 20 November Year 8 Parents Evening • Monday, 24 November Year 10 LC with parents (2 weeks) • Friday, 28 November TED 3 • Tuesday, 9 December Carol Service
We are so proud of the year 11 students that have just left.
• Thursday, 11 December KS5 Parents Evening + Year 11 Invites
As a group they managed to smash their targets and gain 93.9% A*-C grades, we’ll just call it 94%! Out of 83 students that took the exam, nearly half of them got an A or A* - it just goes to show that hard work and dedication pays off.
89% receiving A*-B grades. Students achieved high results in chemistry too, with 61% achieving A*-A grades and 86% receiving A*-B.
The current year 11 now need to take up the baton - challenge set! We will be running the world famous ‘PSRE Fridays’ from December to offer revision techniques and sessions. Until then, we are here every Thursday after school for PSRE support. A well done from the Science department A big well done to all the outgoing Year 11 students who achieved the best ever GCSE results! 69% of students taking additional science gained A*-B grades, and 17% achieved A*-A. In biology, 71% achieved A*-A and a fantastic 93% got A*-B. It was very similar in physics, with 75% of students achieving A*-A grades and
We would like to give a special mention to Kathryn Craik, Olivia Crannage,Victoria MacAskill, Jack Pugh and Gabrielle Slater who achieved 3 A* grades in triple science. Also Eliza Simpson and Liam Timmins who both achieved a distinction* and Kajol Deo, George Boulton, Abbygail Fletcher and Jackpaul Wilding who achieved distinctions in L2 BTEC – the first students from the school to do so.