Insight 29 by Highgate Wood School

Half-termly news from Highgate Wood School Issue No 29 March 2016

GOVERNING BODY UPDATE Charles Wright, our Chair of Governors writes: As many of you will have seen, the Government is now planning huge changes in the state education system, which will mean, if all goes to the Government plan, schools like Highgate Wood becoming academies. The preferred Department for Education model, it seems, is the Multi-Academy Trust – several schools brought together under the control of a single trust. If you want to know more about these sort of arrangements, I can recommend an article by educationalist Mike Cameron: http://tinyurl.com/MATblogcomment There are arguments on both sides, and the governing body will be thinking hard about the way forward, and seeking the views of parents in due course . From my point of view, I think what is important is that we maintain the character of Highgate Wood as an inclusive, comprehensive, community school for our area, constantly looking to do the very best for local young people , in partnership (formal or otherwise) with other local primary and secondary schools. On that note, I can confirm that, after five years service, I will be standing down as chair of the governing body at our next meeting in May. The demands of the role have increased significantly over recent years, and with my current commitments as a local authority councillor it is time to hand over. I’m immensely proud of the school’s achievements, and I’m sure that with a strong group of governors in place, including a number of new faces, Highgate Wood will continue to go from strength to strength. Happy Easter, and good luck with the exams all who are taking them! Cover picture: World Book Day 2016

For World Book Day on 3rd March staff and students from years 7 and 8 came to school dressed as their favourite characters from a book. There were some fantastic costumes, and it was an incredible day. A wide selection of photographs are now available online at http://bit.do/hwswbd2016

SATURDAY 9th JULY Many thanks to all the parents, staff and students who completed the recent MADFest survey. Your comments have really helped us to think about how we can make things even better this year and make MADFest 2016 an event to remember. Lots more information will be coming out during the coming term.

2016 MADFest Committee

Don’t forget easyfundraising.org.uk. Visit www.easyfundraising.org.uk/hwspsa

HIGHGATE WOOD SCHOOL GOVERNING BODY Chair of Governors: Charles Wright (Co-opted Governor) LA Governor: Cllr Eddie Griffith Parent Governors: Julia Chalfen • Dr Torun Dewan • Mark Harber • Mano Manoharan • Chris Tully Co-opted Governors: Brenda Allen • Oli Blackaby • Phil Cavendish • Phil Cocksedge • Joe Demetriou • Phil Dileo • Violet Hazelwood-Henry • Elizabeth Hess • Chris Parr • Imogen Pennell • Jack Samler • Charles Wright Headteacher Governor: Patrick Cozier Staff Governors: Emily Ford If you wish to contact the Governing Body please write to the Chair of Governors, c/o Mrs K Ozturk, Highgate Wood School, Montenotte Road, London N8 8RN Issue 29

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MESSAGE FROM THE HEADTEACHER The Spring Term is already behind us This has been the shortest half term in memory, but as always another very busy one at Highgate Wood. It’s been another very successful term. Many positive achievements (which you will see reflected in this edition if Insight) have occurred, and as you would expect, lots of hard work and diligent effort from staff and students to continue the high quality of learning that takes place across the school. Our Year 11s and Post 16 students are only a matter of weeks away from taking their exams so they are preparing quite intensely at the moment, and I know that many of them will be coming in over the Easter break to continue these preparations. Do spare a thought for them and their hard working teachers over the next couple of weeks. During the course of this term I have had the genuine pleasure of attending a range of events that have showcased the talents of our students and demonstrated some of what is special about Highgate Wood. We have good reason to be proud, and when I watch our amazing young people in action, it is exactly that sense of pride that I feel. Unfortunately, there aren’t enough hours in the day for me to attend all of the events that happen, but I feel just as proud of our students when I hear of their success if I can’t witness it directly. The highlights for me have been;  Attending the final night of the musical production Our House. The exceptional talent of our students both in the acting and the musical disciplines were a joy and great entertainment for those who attended  Seeing our students impress in the annual North London Model United Nations Conference. They really do look and sound the part during the Issue 29

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very mature and sensible discussions that take place on the day, trying to solve real world problems. I want to mention in particular Beth Gosschalk for making an inspired speech to launch the conference, and also draw attention to our year 8 students who participated for the first time and did so well Post 16 at Highgate Wood Following on from my message in the last Insight, in the last few weeks I have had the joy of interviewing some of our year 11 students following their applications for places in the 6th form. It is always fascinating getting the opportunity to listen to them talk about themselves as learners and to hear about how much thought and care they are putting into their decision making about their future. What has been really pleasing for staff is listening to them explain why they have applied to the Highgate Wood 6th form. Students have talked about  The enjoyment that they have experienced at Highgate Wood over the years and that they see Post 16 as a natural continuation of the learning that is taking place in Key Stage 4  The benefits or remaining at a school that they know, but more importantly a school that knows them; where their teachers know their strengths and how to build upon them; where their teachers are aware of their areas for development  The good progress that they are currently making, and a belief that this will continue in the 6th form  The trust that they have (and the evidence that they have seen and heard) that teaching in the 6th form is of a high quality  The wide (and growing) range of opportunities available to them at Post 16 to embrace extracurricular opportunities  Knowing that at HWS, they benefit from teachers who really do care about them and will go the extra mile to support them throughout

their studies to achieve their potential and go on to the very best universities It is heart warming to know that they are so proud of their school and that they want to stay because they feel that they belong and where they know they will do well. A record number of HWS students have applied which demonstrates their commitment to doing well at this school. I am proud of them all and want them to remain here at ‘home’ at HWS. I am looking forward to having another excellent Year 12 cohort in September.

You can see from the table that our results in 2015 place us in the top 18% of schools nationally in terms of the progress that our students make. The Sig + row demonstrates that the gap between the progress that HWS students make compared to national average progress rates is significant, i.e. that we can draw the conclusion that students make better than expected progress at HWS. We are proud of what this data shows and both indicators are further indication of the incredible dedication and consistent efforts of my staff and students. I would like to congratulate them all.

Progress 8 You will now probably be aware that the accountability measures that are used to inform parents how well their child’s school is doing is changing this summer for GCSEs. The current Year 11 will be the first one whose results will be reported according to the new measures. The new measure is called: Progress 8 (a measure of how much progress students make according to their best 8 GCSEs) For our 2014/15 Year 11 cohort, the progress 8 measure is 0.26 which is a very good score. A score of zero would indicate progress in line with the national average. A score of less than zero would indicate progress being poorer that the average progress of students nationally. Our Progress 8 score means that students at HWS are making better progress than peers nationally. The other value added figure that is used by Ofsted to judge the progress being made by schools is produced on a dataset called RAISEonline. RAISEonline is based on an average of 1000, where above 1000 means better than national average progress and less than 1000 means less than national average progress. Below is a table that shows this figure for HWS over the last three years.

Year 11 and post 16 students – Preparation for exams As referred to earlier, Year 11 and Post 16 students are now entering into that final stage of preparation leading up to their exams, hence the range of exam preparation sessions available over the Easter Holidays. Students are encouraged to make full use of these and to follow the guidance that they have been given by their teachers in terms of revision and preparation. We are confident that they will all do fantastically well – but they have to put in the hard work to make sure! New Homework Policy at HWS; what’s your view? As you will be aware, we have been implementing a new homework policy for some time. One of the aims of the policy was to increase the consistency with which homework is set across all departments. Another key aim was to make homework more frequent and challenging for our students in Key Stage 3 – preparing them more adequately for the demands of GCSE and Post 16 study.

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Top 25% of schools nationally

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We have some very positive feedback form parents, but there have also been some concerns raised about some aspects of the policy.

 Short sleeve shirts are a perfectly acceptable alternative to long sleeve shirts for girls and boys

As a consequence, we have recently sent out a survey to parents in Years 7—9 via survey monkey so that we can gather your views prior to any amendments or adaptations that we may decide to make to the policy for September. In the meantime, if you have any comments or queries please send an e-mail for the attention of Mr Mansfield on admin@hws.haringey.sch.uk.

As always, we ask for your support in ensuring that not only is the correct uniform is worn by all of our students, but that it is worn appropriately, smartly and with pride. This means that

Kirkland Rowell Surveys for Parents/Carers As above, your views are really important to us. A few weeks ago we sent home a survey via your child to seek your views on a wide range of matters to do with HWS. The deadline for getting these back has passed, however we will still accept them if you can get them back to us by the first week back after Easter. If you have any queries about this then please e-mail the school for the attention of Mr Hewitt on admin@hws.haringey.sch.uk. Uniform Issues The issue of school uniform is one that changes throughout the year, mostly depending on the overriding temperature. With the anticipation of warmer months ahead and would like to reminder parents/carers and students that:  Blazers are compulsory (and must be worn at all times – other than in lessons and at lunch time), but jumpers/cardigans are not – hence if students do not wish to wear two layers on top of their shirts, it’s the jumpers/cardigans that should not be worn. After May half term blazers will no longer be compulsory the rest of the academic year

 Shirts must always be tucked inside trousers and skirts  Ties must always be worn with the knot high and at least five stripes being visible on the wide part of the tie  Skirts work unrolled with four buttons visible

... And Finally – Thank you for your support! I would like to thank you all again for your valued and continued support. I wish you and your families a pleasant Easter break. Please remember, we return on Monday 11th April at the later start time of 10.50am. Regards Patrick Cozier Headteacher

 If at some stage the weather is very hot before May half term, then we will relax the need to wear a blazer at all times – however, we will inform you and the students if and when this happens  No other alternative to the school jumper/ cardigan (with the HWS Blue trim) can be worn. If they are they will be confiscated Issue 29

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MENTORING AT HIGHGATE WOOD SCHOOL Ms Jago writes: Over the last few months Highgate Wood School has been restructuring and developing a new and exciting approach to mentoring. The school has a strong belief that everyone matters and, as well as celebrating every individualâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s unique qualities, we recognise that all of our students have their own personal needs and as a school want to provide the support and guidance required for everyone to reach their full potential and achieve their personal goals. Through our newly developed whole school-mentoring programme Highgate Wood School will ensure that students are able to receive additional individual support, where necessary, to achieve their goals and reach their potential. The Pastoral Care Mentors that were once attached to House teams are now working with students across all Houses and all year groups and with the new programme will provide a mixture of group work and one to one mentoring sessions. All mentoring programmes will have a beginning and end and will run for 10 weeks, during school time. Referrals for mentoring will be made by Heads/Deputy Heads of House to the Mentoring Coordinator. Students who are allocated for mentoring will, in conjunction with teaching staff, have their needs assessed so that mentors are able to focus on bespoke programmes and can effectively evidence and measure student progress. Once students are referred to a mentoring programme, parents will be contacted by the Mentoring Coordinator to inform them of the referral and request consent; the Pastoral Care Mentoring Team will update parents as to the progress of the student during and following their cycle. The new structure of the Pastoral Care Mentoring Team is as follows: Lynda Jago Mentoring Co-ordinator Adam Sturdy Pastoral Care Mentor

Jackie Smith Pastoral Care Mentor

Leon Mitchell Pastoral Care Mentor

Dayna Byfield-Grant Pastoral Care Mentor

We are looking forward to providing our students with the support they deserve and require to flourish as individuals, and to working more closely with parents to ensure your child can get the best out of their time at Highgate Wood School. Those who have already experienced mentoring have seen a number of improvements from the additional support that it offers. Whether the benefits are academic, social or emotional, mentoring at Highgate Wood will always strive to help students to become all they can be. Mentoring, alongside good teaching and learning, is a key element to supporting student attainment and progress and allows students to get the most out of their education and achieve personal results to be proud of. If you would like further information on mentoring at Highgate Wood School please feel free to contact the Mentoring Coordinator on: 0208-348-7970 ext.245 or alternately via email lja@hws.haringey.sch.uk

JACK PETCHEY WINNERS Ms Gribble writes: Congratulations to Rory Butler, Tia Dyett and Caleb Wycoff-Smith. Following recommendation by the School Council and approval by the Houses they are all recipients of Jack Petchey Awards. 6

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YEAR 11 - REVISION TIMETABLE Mr Hartley writes: The exams are nearly upon us and as many of you will know they are earlier than ever. We believe that revision is most effective when students have access to expert professional input from teachers. That is why we offer revision sessions in school during the holiday, at weekends and after school. It is also why some parents invest to further support their child with private home tutoring. We expect students to attend school up until the half term holiday so that the study at home or in the library in the evening and at weekends is enhanced by expert input in the classroom. For the same reason that parents and students value extra school sessions, we know that revision at school during this period is extremely important. However we also know that attending normal lessons in the morning (for example) when there is an exam to sit in the afternoon can be counterproductive. Students, rightly, would like to spend the time revising for that exam. So, in order to assist students to have the expert help of their teachers prior to their exams we have designed a bespoke timetable for year 11s for the weeks prior to the half term. Students will, where appropriate, get specialist teachers to help in their revision on many occasions in accordance with the timetable shown. For example students who have a biology exam in the afternoon will be taught biology on the morning of that exam by a specialist biology teacher. We have designed this timetable very carefully so it is important that Year 11s attend school as usual right up until the half term break (during which there will be many more revision classes available also). We will not authorise absence for revision â&#x20AC;&#x201C; we believe that students and parents will trust that the school has designed the best system to help ensure all students do as well as they can possibly can.

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ONLINE RESOURCES

Mr Ashman writes: Year 11 students should now be fully engaged in preparing for the summer exams. Information about revision sessions happening at school are available under the Learning Tab on the school website, and you will also find lots of other resources here to help you revise. During the Easter break we will be putting information packs for some of your subjects on the Exam Preparation pages and you will also be able to find details of the exam timetables under the Exams link. All students at Highgate Wood School have access to SAMLearning which has proved to be an extremely valuable resource as part of your revision routine. Our Centre ID for SAMLearning is N8HW and it is easy to work out your username and password. They are both the same and are a combination of your initials and your date of birth. If your birthday is 24th April 2001 and your name is Alex Patel then your username is 240401AP - and your password is the same.

With SAMLearning, as with all school login details (Show My Homework, e-praise, MathsWatch etc.) you can contact me on data@hws.haringey.sch.uk if you have problems logging in. SAMLearning also have a direct helpline. Call 08451304160 or email: support@samlearning.com Over the past few years we have succeeded in getting a donation from the PSA to reward those students who make best use of SAMLearning with free tickets for Celebration Evening. We hope to be able to the same this year.

DADS & ASD

Coffee morning: Friday 6th May 9:30 â&#x20AC;&#x201D;11:00am Haringey PDC, Downhills Park Road, N17 6AR Haringey Language and Autism Team and Educational Psychology Service are hosting a coffee morning aimed to give fathers\carers of children with a diagnosis of autism the opportunity to share experiences and ideas as part of an informal support network. For more information contact: Email: tim.oconnor@haringey.gov.uk Tel: 020 8389 1408

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VISIT TO BERLIN

Ms Birnie writes: During February half term, 32 Year 13 students, from History, Art and Photography went to Berlin accompanied by myself, Ms Harding and Mr Holmes. Rosa Tully comments on her experience “The Berlin Trip was a great experience and I’m very happy that I was lucky enough to go. We had a very packed schedule but there was a great balance between fun and serious activities. We learnt all about the significance of the Berlin Wall, life under the Nazi’s and were able to explore Berlin a city.

The most striking thing for me was how upfront Germany are with their past, despite the horror and sensitivity of it. Unlike in Britain where we rarely talk about the wrongs of our past, Berlin has memorials and museums all over, meaning that the legacy of those who died lives on and the legacy of those who wronged can never be repeated. The teachers were great and supportive and it made the trip even more enjoyable, especially as we all went out in the evenings for meals as a group. I would definitely encourage other students to take this opportunity next year as it was hugely enriching and great fun. A big thanks to the teachers that came with us and made it such a memorable trip”.

HIGHGATE WOOD SPRING CHAMBER CONCERT Ms Ugboma writes: On the last Tuesday of term we staged our first Spring Chamber Concert. It was a lovely evening of classical and popular music everything from Bach to The Beatles. All the students worked hard to bring it together in such a short time. Issue 29

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Well done to all the performers! Kathleen Archbold, Cassia Begg, Eden Cavendish, Matilda Heath, Rosie Hegarty-Morrish, Kate Jevons, Izzy McBroom, Tamsin Orford-Williams, Elsa Pountney and Scala Tromans from Year 7. Faber Bell, Maya Culverwell, Tia Ezer-Ahern, Max Hanson, Sophia Urumova, Leah Whittaker and Thea Wilson from Year 8. Amy Davis, Iola Elson, Maddy McBroom, ,Sian Walker-Evans and Eleanor Wetherall from Year 9.

Mr Brown writes: I am delighted and proud of all those involved in our school musical at the beginning of this term. The designers, musicians, cast and crew had worked very hard to put together a memorable performance and we were pretty confident that it was going to be good - but you never really know until the day of performance. As it turned outalmost everything went according to plan and the team put on two spectacular shows to incredibly appreciative audiences. But it wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t just the final performances that made it so worthwhile. Throughout the period of rehearsals it was a pleasure to see students working together, supporting each other and helping each other to be the best that they can be. They worked together as a team, and managed to achieve more as a group than they could have dreamt of as individuals. There are lots of people who need to be thanked for their help in the production. I would like to take this opportunity to express my gratitude to all my colleagues in the drama, music, art and DT departments, without whom it simply could never have happened. I hope everyone is looking forward to the next school production next year!

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THANKS SET TEAM!

YOUNG WRITERS’ POETRY TRIALS

Maya Koski-Wood writes: At set club, we painted the backdrop for Our House - but it wasn’t just painting it was laughing and chatting too. I really enjoyed it, and despite the few of us we managed to create a great set after a lot of work and effort. Thanks to everyone involved.

Mrs Monaghan writes: The English Department recently entered Young Writers' The Poetry Trials competition. We are delighted to announce that 67 students from Years 7, 8 and 9 have been successful and now have the opportunity to be published within a special anthology. Students work appears in The Poetry Trials - London and Middlesex and will be available in the British Library and a copy will be available in our school library after publication on the 30th June.

Set Construction & Props

The Cast

Milou-Mai Law Romilly Gosling Ramneet Bains Maya Koski-Wood Colette Rogers Anna Keating Sibylla Baron Maya Koski-Wood Edan Silbiger Vuk Winrow Eleanor Bolton The Band Sabine Kikuchi-House Musical Director: Ed Harlow Lila-Rose Marcuson Sax, Clarinet & Flute: Esi Aoife Davey-Gunn Ugboma Camilo Chapman Guitar: Ping Lee Roxanne Norbert Keyboards: Maddy Baron Tatiyana Thomas Bass: Ethan Fraser Gabrielle Percival Drums: Noah Stoneman Staff Trumpet: Lucy Newbold & Neale Marriott Gabe Brown Michelle Mastericks Trombones: Patrick Hegarty- Katty Zwicky Morrish Charlotte Angove Artistic Director: Luke Brown Wendy Bardsley Joe Casey: Max Cowie & Fraser Frengley Sarah: Zoe Hutchings Casey’s Dad: James Courtney Lewis: Celine Gyamfi Reecey: Jayden Bevan Emmo: CJ McCarthy Billie: Phoebe Bennett Angie: Frankie Shand Kathy Casey: Lucy Whelan

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A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE Ms Sen writes: To enrich and support the AS English Literature curriculum and their study of the exam text 'A Streetcar Named Desire' by Tennessee Williams, Year 12 students attended a series of lectures at Euston given by university professors from all over the country who gave them an insight into some of the key ideas of the play. The day enabled the students to become more confident in their understanding of the text and, moreover, how to crack what can be the most challenging assessment objective of them all: context! The day went well and we all felt we were richer for the shared perspectives on the play. Hopefully, these lectures coupled with the hard work and determination of students and teachers alike will enable the current Year 12 students of English Literature to succeed in their exams.

WORK EXPERIENCE

Ms Eisa writes: On February 29th Students from Year 10 embarked on a week of Work Experience. They were prepared with their health and safety guidance and logbooks and sent out into the world of work. Students travelled all over London and some even ventured out of the city as far as Pendarren. There were a wide variety of placements, from the British Film Institute to Marks and Spencer, and from the Metropolitan Police to the London Fire Brigade. All students were faced with brand new experiences and gained new skills that will stay with them for the rest of their lives. Each student was visited by a teacher at some point in the week and we were met with brilliant feedback from both employers and students. Work Experience is often just as much about finding out what you don’t want to do as it is finding out what you do want to do in the future. Our students were an absolute testament to us working hard wherever their work placement was. There really is no bad work experience, if students work hard they gain skills, experience and in many cases this year, fantastic references!

A few students who really do deserve special mention for their exceptional work during the week are: Dolcie Robertson who has been asked to come back and help out during holidays at her placement. Tyreece Facey-White who completed training at London Fire Brigade and is now interested in becoming a Fire Person Lucas Bolton and Berdel Omur whose employer said they were the most hardworking and sensible work experience students he’d ever had work for him. Remi Haastrup-Baptiste received one of the most glowing references from UCL that I have ever seen.

A PERSONAL ACCOUNT OF WORK EXPERIENCE

Caleb Wyckoff-Smith writes As Ms Eisa says, there were a huge range of different placements for Year 10 work experience. Some of us worked in hair salons, others in banks, but five of us were given the opportunity to work somewhere really special at ‘UsTwo’ a digital studio in Shoreditch. There we were tasked with our project for that week: to create an application as a solution to an everyday problem. We started with a few teambuilding exercises before beginning the brainstorming process finding problems and narrowing down which one we want to solve. Then, we researched our competitors and worked with some designers to develop our apps look and feel before pitching our idea to a board of developers and managers. It was a great time and we learnt valuable skills.

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AS IF BY MAGIC

Freya Dougan and Madeleine McBroom write: Highgate Wood School invited Dr Andrew Szydlo, from Highgate School to give a Chemistry lecture during British Science Week. Dr Szydlo explained some “magical” changes that take place during chemical reactions, to our Year 9s.

FIRST STORY PROGRESS

All of the students found this very exciting especially the explosions. Here is what two of the students wrote about their experience. “As a subject that comes up in daily life, Science is extremely important and through this lecture, the audience had the opportunity to learn and also enjoy watching. Sometimes science can come across as a heavy subject and somehow the scientist made the lecture exciting. It was surprising how many people were engaged and interested in what was being said. It is important for students to experience things like this up close rather than just on TV and videos. Overall we both really enjoyed this experience and in the future would definitely be interested in watching and listening to more similar lectures.”

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Mr Gowan writes: The English Department have been working with the First Story charity to encourage numerous students to write creatively outside of the classroom. We have recently enjoyed an engaging visit to UCL, where we were able to visit the lecture theatre and museums of the campus, and experience the atmosphere of a University day. Our stories and poetry are currently at the final stage of manuscript; we'll be announcing a launch date for our published work in the new term.

THEATRE OUTING

DEBATE MATE SUCCESS Ms Sayer writes: On Thursday 3rd March, a group of 18 students represented the Highgate Wood School English Department at the second round of the Debate Mate Urban Debate League at Bishop Douglass School. They came up against formidable competition from a range of schools, including Archer Academy and Parliament Hill.

Caleb Wyckoff-Smith writes: Earlier this term a group of Year 8, 9, 10 and 11 stuThe first of the afternoon’s debates had been dents were invited to visit the theatre to see the play prepared in advance. Students had prepared “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time.” arguments both for and against ‘This House would The play follows the story of a 15 year old boy who ban the emergency services from striking’. The sets out to solve the mystery of who murdered his second motion was announced just 15 minutes neighbour's dog. However, in the course of investibefore the debate started. The motion ‘This House gating he uncovers a secret that could change his life would ban the use of child actors’ proved very forever. interesting, with discussions around accurate All of the students thoroughly enjoyed the show and representation, the sanctity of childhood and the we all had a great time. Some of the highlights were impact of violent scenes on minors. the amazing set and sound design and, most of all, The Highgate Wood teams performed incredibly the choreography of the actors. well, winning three of their four debates (and only losing by one mark!) We are currently awaiting the I would recommend this play to everyone, whether aggregate scores of both rounds, which will decide you go to the theatre every week of you have never who goes to the final at the House of Lords! been.

SPECTROSCOPY IN A SUITCASE Ventisislav Dobrev writes: The spectroscopy in a suitcase workshop from the PhD and undergraduate students at Imperial College gave me and my fellow students an insight into the complexities and also the intricacies of spectroscopy. The workshop began with one of the university students giving us a presentation on the theories of various spectroscopic methods including proton Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR), carbon NMR, IR and mass spectrometry. This was followed by us being given opportunities to run our own IR and NMR on simple and complex organic molecules. It was a highly insightful experience and directly related to our A-level chemistry specification. I truly recommend this workshop to any future Alevel chemists! 14

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GEOGRAPHY FIELD TRIP TO DEVON

CASTLE COMPETITION

Ms Harding writes: Year 7 history students were invited to take part in our model castle building competition. The castles could be made from any materials, for example cardboard, clay, Lego, matchsticks, and even edible castles! We had a great amount of fantastic entries, and it was extremely difficult for the history department to choose the winners. After much deliberating, I have pleasure in announcing the following winners. Joint first place: Felix Andrew & Gabriel Cahill-Coady. Also Nancy Moule & Latisha Rankin Joint second place: Kalem Bumford-Fouad & Alice Jenkins Third place: Mimae James Fourth place: Gareth Davies Best edible castle: Rosie Hegarty-Morrish I would like to thank every student that took part.

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Mr Thomas writes: The Year 12 Geography class visited Slapton Ley in Devon for the Coastal and Urban field studies. The group stayed in the lovely FSC field centre and completed field work along the beautiful Start Bay coastline, Torquay, Plymouth and the local villages. The students worked with great enthusiasm and impressed the instructors with their geographical understanding. A variety of new methods were taught, including the use of Geographical Information Systems (GIS) in the field; iPads are indeed the new clipboards. This is a valuable support for the second unit of the course and students significantly developed their skills and levels of analysis, while enjoying the local geography, as well as being smoothly chauffeured in the school minibus.

LONDON MODEL UN

Our delegates write: Highgate Wood took a delegation of twelve Year 11 and Year 12 students to the London International Model United Nations held at Imperial College, London between 26th-28th February. With more than 1600 delegates, this is the largest universitylevel Model UN in Europe and the second-largest worldwide. Highgate Wood's delegation comprised a group of 15-17 year olds, and we were one of the only schools to send sixth form students and year eleven students. We were able to do this because of the dedication of our delegates, who gladly gave up their weekend to take part, and the support of our teacher, namely Mr Robertson. The conference consisted of a simulation of UN organs and other forums of international affairs. Our delegates assumed the mantles of national ambassadors, and discussed complicated issues on the international agenda, from the empowerment of adolescent girls and the reduction of teenage pregnancy, to preventing an arms race in outer space. Engaging with such topics at the highest level breeds mediation, analytical and leadership skills, while stressing the interdependence of the modern world.

The standard of debate was extremely high. Highgate Wood School students were pitted against university students studying international relations or politics at BA or masters level, yet they rose to the challenge admirably. All our delegates were involved in the resolution process and played an important part in debate, helping to craft the international community's response to their committee's particular area of concern. Highgate Wood hopes to continue its impressive tradition of sending its experienced delegates to this prestigious event. Students who took part: Faye Heron Laura Moss Gabriel Brown Rosa Elson Sina Nafissi Patrick Hegarty Morrish

Colette Rogers Emmy Budis Imogen Sheppard Ruby Neal Jake Canton-Perry Martha White

NORTH LONDON MODEL UN CONFERENCE AT HIGHGATE WOOD SCHOOL Highgate Wood School hosted this yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s NLMUN conference. On the following pages you will find some information and images from the event.

WHAT IS MODEL UN? Ion Elson writes: Model United Nations is a conference where young people can go to discuss and debate real life topics. Each person is assigned a country and a committee and during the day you debate in the position of your country and as a committee you try to come to a resolution on the topic. It is a place where you can learn skills in a formal environment to debate and compromise with others in order to overcome current crises in the world. You meet with new people from other schools, and who you have to work with as your countries are allies in the global community. You learn the skill to work with others in order to reach a positive outcome.

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REPORT FROM THE SECRETARY GENERAL Beth Gosschalk writes: Hopefully the MUN conference on the 12th March was an inspiring and enriching experience for everyone as much as it was for me. The amount of talent was immense, with so many confident and articulate delegates making very well thought out points. I was particularly impressed by the Highgate Wood delegates who were key figures in all of the committees, especially considering that this was, for many, their first time. The day ran very smoothly, thanks to the chairs and directors who successfully moderated the committees. They ensured that all debates were engaging and fast paced, which allowed the delegates to get as much from the day as possible. Committee sessions were also made this successful due to the help of the fantastic rapporteurs who, despite being a bit nervous at the beginning of the day, made sure that delegates knew exactly how long they could speak for and so on. Another vital part of the conference was the teachers. The conference would have been a lot more difficult without teachers so willing to give up their Saturdays to accompany students to it, however it would have been impossible without a handful of Highgate Wood teachers. Mr Robertson dedicated three months of his life to helping us organise the conference, Mrs Sayer made sure all of our delegates were well-prepared and knew exactly what to do and Ms Angove trained the rapporteurs and helped with the organisation on the day.

THIS YEARâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S CONFERENCE TOPIC Madeleine McBroom writes: This year's conference was on refuge and migration, a current topic being discussed frequently by politicians and in the media. I think that this is an important topic to debate because it makes you think about and empathise with people who are less fortunate than you. When you are in your different committees and talking about specific topics you understand how big the refugee crisis is and how many obstacles need to be overcome to provide shelter for those who have lost their homes. I believe that discussing a topic that is currently being discussed in Parliament today makes you feel more responsible, and this makes writing a resolution seem even more important.

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HOW DOES THE CONFERENCE WORK?

WHAT DO YOU GET OUT OF MODEL UN? Freya Dougan writes: Firstly, Model UN is a great way to learn about particular issues that are relevant to today. This year I have learnt a lot about the refugee crisis and the various conflicts that have a huge impact on the refugee numbers. If I was not a part of this conference I would be unaware about problems in other parts of the world.

Sian Evans writes: The Opening Ceremony at the beginning of the day introduced the Secretary General, Beth Gosschalk and Under-Secretary General, Imogen Sheppard. There was also a speech form Mr Cozier and our guest speaker Catherine West, MP for Hornsey and Wood Green. After the speech we were taken to the committee rooms to discuss our individual topics. At the beginning, the committee starts to get to know each others' countries and positions, but as the day goes on you start to form blocks, which is where countries with similar positions work together to discuss solutions to the crisis.

Another benefit of doing Model UN is that it can improve a person's confidence in speaking in front of an audience. By choosing when you want to speak, you can prepare and be confident when it is your turn. First time delegates were given training so that they felt ready for the conference. If I had not participated in Model UN I would not be ready for speaking out in similar events in the future. Lastly, Model UN is a very good opportunity to get used to researching and becoming better at writing to a deadline. These skills are necessary in future jobs and I know I will use them again. I will definitely be interested in participating in future conferences.

WOULD YOU RECOMMEND MODEL UN?

Ella Phillips writes: I would recommend Model UN to friends as it is very interesting. I think it enables us as students to understand other opinions about global issues. It WHAT DID I ENJOY ABOUT THE DAY? also enables us to develop our knowledge of the Eleanor Wetherall writes: world and world issues. I know that many students Overall, Model UN was a highly enjoyable experience are frustrated about most governments' reactions to that exposes you to a formal yet communal many world crises and I would recommend MUN to environment. Model UN gives you the opportunity to them. work alongside other schools to each attain certain MUN also allows us to get an understanding of why goals. You can work together in order to address and countries have done what they have done and find resolutions to real life situations and problems. create a resolution to the problem that is often It also gives you the opportunity to expand your better than what the current government is doing. knowledge on world situations and hear other Model UN gives us an opportunity to release this countries' views. frustration in a positive way. Another enjoyable and exciting element of Model UN A gallery of photographs from the is winning prizes such as Best Delegate, Distinguished Model UN Conference 2016 is Delegate and Honourable Mention, which are available on the school website. presented to you in the closing ceremony. The whole day produces an energetic, enthusiastic and communal atmosphere. 18

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LADY GEEK AND INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY WALLPAPER Mr Talbert writes: Belinda Parmar of Lady Geek visited Highgate Wood School in March to speak to Year 8 students about technology and careers in technology. It’s part of her research for the United Nations and she is keen to get the views of our students as well as providing them with useful information. While visiting the school, Belinda launched a competition to promote International Women’s Day. For the competition students were asked to design a computer wallpaper to promote International Women’s Day. Out of all of the entries, Ramneet Bains’ entry stood out and he was awarded the honour of appearing as the computer wallpaper for all of the computers in the school. Ramneet also received a Raspberry Pi 3 as first price. Congratulations also to runners up Owen Rice, Ollie Freeman, Jem Clift and Daisy Daman Underwood for their excellent entries.

The best way to predict the future is to invent it

From caring comes courage

Success comes from perseverance

47,806

47,378

43,998

so far this year

Top Merit Earners Joel Olatunji (Yr 11) Anastasia Abramchuk (Yr 10) Isabel Pountney (Yr 9) Lotte Ezer-Ahern (Yr 8) Ava Todd (Yr 7)

Top Merit Earners Maddy Baron (Yr 11) Ismaili Daniela (Yr 10) Rory Butler (Yr 9) Hugo Clague (Yr 8) Alice Jenkins (Yr 7)

Top Merit Earners Janice Makambu (Yr 11) Melisa Biner (Yr 10) Sam Beach (Yr 9) Macy White (Yr 8) Zoe Street (Yr 7)

Thanks to all the parents\carers who have logged into e-praise, and for your positive comments. If you still need an account for the system please email data@hws.haringey.sch.uk with your child’s name. Issue 29

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BUTTONS, NEEDLES AND THREAD

SWEDISH VISITORS AT HWS

Students whose buttons break on their skirts or trousers are now able to have emergency repairs completed. Spare buttons, needles and thread are now available in the House office and at the Wren Reception.

FRENCH OR SPANISH TEEN FICTION REQUEST

Ms Lacroix writes: The Modern Languages Department are in desperate need of fiction for native speakers as well as learners of French and Spanish. Cahiers de vacances as well. If you do have any books available please donate them to the school. They can be left at Wren reception.

EXAM INVIGILATORS WANTED

Mr Grimmett writes: On the 18th March, seven teachers from De Geergymnasiet school in Norrköping, Sweden came to see Highgate Wood School in action and visited 6th form lessons in Art, Photography, English, Media, Science and Sociology. They were very impressed with what they saw. In particular they commented on:

 The great relationships students have with staff and the positive working environment this created.  How focussed students were on their courses and how well their work showed progression.

Highgate Wood School will need to recruit invigilators for the upcoming exams.

 How interesting our assessment methods are; they have taken many hints and tips away with them to use in their own lessons.

If you are interested please apply on-line on the school website.

 They liked the display work produced by the art, media and design departments.

We are also looking for individuals who are fluent in English and one of the following languages:

 They also mentioned how nice it was that students held doors open for them as they passed through corridors and that when they said hello to students of all ages everyone was polite to them.

Arabic, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Mandarin, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian to help the languages department in conducting oral exams in those languages. Please contact Mr Demetriou for details: jde@hws.haringey.sch.uk

A special thanks to Buse Kiran and Sam Marks from 8T for giving them a tour of the school and being so nice and informative. Additional thanks to Ella Bullard and Tia Ezer-Ahern from 8T for helping to collect our visitors from classrooms which really helped me out.

The school is committed to paying Invigilators the London Living Wage

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BBC SCHOOL REPORT

Ms Wildman writes: On Thursday 10th March, twelve Year 10 students had the day off timetable in order to create Highgate Wood School's BBC School News Report. This event runs annually , and around 30,000 students from more than 1,000 schools up and down the United Kingdom and beyond took part this year in what was the BBC School Report's 10th annual News Day. This project enables students to get into role as the production team for a news broadcast and it thus gives them a sense of how it feels to research news stories, film and then edit them. Prior to the day, the reporters committed a large amount of their lunchtimes to filming news stories. This involved contacting interviewees, considering the shot types they would like to use and attempting to consider the location in which to film. They discovered that there was a lot more to an interview than sitting and asking questions! Sammy especially became an expert in "the nods", which is when you film a reporter nodding to show interest in what an interviewee is saying. We had some great interviewees for our "exclusive" stories, such as our school Reading Patron, Keren David, and BBC Young Jazz Musician of the Year finalist, Noah Stoneman. We were very pleased to have them on board! Coming up with some more topical news stories required some thought. Eventually, they settled on an investigative news report about religious tolerance and a report on what feminism means to people. However, on news day they realised that not everything you film can be used and thus the Issue 29

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feminism project had to be cut and the religious tolerance project trimmed down. News day itself was fun: we had James working hard in the edit suite, Manel and others filming the last part of the their project and then the rest filming the news bulletin and the links in between. The latter part became slightly stressful when there was a technical breakdown with an SD card and we had to quickly film and upload it all again. As a result the students had a real flavour of working to a tight deadline on news day and how you cannot relax until all work is complete! The report was a great success and everyone contributed equally. They worked excellently as a team and stayed positive throughout. Everyone learned or enhanced their media skills, or their teamwork skills and yet again showed how fantastic HWS students are. Well done Karina, Alice, Nimisha, Manel, Fiona, Lauren, Sammy, Anoushka , Mahjaben, Isabelle, James and Afsun. Their work can be viewed at www.hws.haringey.sch.uk\schoolreport

ACCELERATED READER AWARDS

Ms Ereira writes: Congratulations to all the AR award winners this half-term. We have raised the thresholds so it is an even bigger achievement than before.

ACCELERATED READER SURVEYS

Do you read for pleasure?

Gold Certificate for 800,000 words read: Lily Bacon Darwin (7W) Katya Dickson (7G) Joseph Screene (8G)

How often do you read for 30 minutes or more?

Silver Certificate for 400,000 words read: Lily Bacon Darwin (7W) Cassia Begg (7H) Sude Bektas (8D) Luna Berger (7G) Gabriel Cahill Coady (7G) Eden Cavendish (7H) Zachary Chisholm (8G) Aidan Dakhama (8S) Gareth Davies (7G) Olivia Dennis (7A) Max Eatherden (8D) Manon Elliott (7A) Joe Ewbank (8D) Lottie Ezer-Ahern (8H) Tsiona Fernandes-Tadesse (7S) Zak Fowler (8D) Noah Gerner (7W) Alice Jenkins (7T) Pia Kanani (7D) Nancy Moule (7W) Daisy Murray (7G) Bell Overton Farnham (8D) Lucas Ramos-Thornton (7W) Joseph Screene (8G) Scala Tromans (7H) Holly Tunnicliffe (7H) Silver Certificate for 15 quizzes passed Klodian Mustali (8A)

How useful do you think AR lessons are in helping you improve your English?

Ms Harris writes We have carried out some work in looking at the impact of Accelerated Reader on the reading habits of students in Year 7 and 8 and it does look positive. Many students are now reading far more regularly, and the majority of students say that their AR lessons have helped improve their English. All Year 7 and 8 students are able to access Accelerated Reader with their regular school usernames and passwords. Parents and carers can also access the site and see their childâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s test result and progress by logging onto the Home Connect site. Information for how to do this is on the Accelerated Information pages of the school website, under the Student Tab. Issue 29

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WET WEATHER COVER

DINING HALL REDESIGN

HWS PSA LOTTERY FUNDED PROJECT Mr Hatch writes: Following the announcement in the last issue of Insight I am pleased to confirm that we have now instructed contractors to begin Phase 1 of the project for weather cover. This will involve constructing a canopy on the wall outside the school hall, where students line up for the canteen. This project was initiated by a request from the School Council to provide more wet weather covering in the school and has been entirely funded by the PSA’s lottery fund. It is the first phase of a plan to improve our playground environment and make it a better place to be, whatever the weather. We hope the project will get underway during the coming term— possibly too late to provide shelter from this year’s April showers, but certainly ready for next academic year.

Mr Hatch writes: The School Council has alerted us of the need to improve the design and the arrangement of seating in the dining hall. Many of the existing tables are damaged and unsafe, as well as taking up far too much space and making the area seem cluttered and cramped. We will retain the best of the current furniture so we can maintain areas that retain a café-feel, but we are going to supplement these with tables that are far better designed for our needs and also can be folded up and stored away very easily when we are using the dining hall for other events, be they parent’s evenings or school social events.

PSA CURRY AND QUIZ NIGHT - THURSDAY 21st April

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WORKING WITH COLERIDGE PRIMARY

HIGHGATE WOOD SCHOOL BOOK AWARD

Ms Ereira writes: Historical fiction, sci-fi, fantasy, adventure… the Haringey Children’s Book Award shortlist is very strong and our Year 7 book club are thoroughly enjoying them. They’re looking forward to voting at the awards ceremony in April, although some are feeling very torn between their favourite titles. The award, now in its second year, is aimed at Years 5-7 and so is a good way for secondary schools to link up with their local primaries. On March 17th we were visited by Coleridge Primary School’s book group for a quiz on the shortlisted books. Teams composed of both Highgate Wood School and Coleridge students fought a closely-matched battle to show the best knowledge of the five books. Highgate Wood’s Orgena, Louisa, Ayse, Ellie and Najibah, together with Coleridge’s Calem and Finn won – but it was a very close thing and all five teams were impressive. Thanks for coming, Coleridge! The shortlisted books are:

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The Boy in the Tower by Polly Ho-Yen Whistling in the Dark by Shirley Hughes Wolf Wilder by Katherine Rundell Phoenix by SF Said The Broken King by Philip Womack

Ms Ereira writes: The winner of Highgate Wood School's first book award was announced by our Patron of Reading, Keren David, in the LRC on 4th March. The winning book, as voted for by staff and students, was The Art of Being Normal by Lisa Williamson. This book has been hugely popular here and is much borrowed from the LRC (and surprisingly hard to get back – please return it if you’re holding on to a copy!) Students' comments on The Art of Being Normal on our LRC blog pages have included: 'intriguing... I highly recommend it', 'changed my opinion... an amazing book' and 'it might be my favourite book I have ever read'. At the awards ceremony students were able to tell Lisa Williamson themselves how much they had enjoyed her book via a Skype call. Despite a few technical glitches (I expect we looked better upside -down anyway) it was great to have the chance to tell her how much her book is appreciated. The awards process has been a lot of fun. We've loved reading and talking about our shortlisted books. Students designed posters to advertise the award, we took over the Pickled Pepper Books shop window, and some students even recreated the cover of shortlisted books for World Book Day. We were also lucky enough to host talks by two of our shortlisted authors. Let’s do it again next year! Issue 29

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LISA WILLIAMSON VISITS THE LRC

Ms Ereira writes: The Art of Being Normal was shortlisted for the HWS Book Award, but of course we didn’t know at this point that we were meeting the author of the winning book. Lisa talked about her childhood and teenage years growing up in Nottingham. A desperately shy child, she decided at the age of nine that she wanted to be an actress – but was too shy to tell anyone. As a teenager she found Nottingham very boring. Without mobile phones or computers, she was forced through sheer boredom to develop a great imagination. She was also a keen reader, but felt that none of the books in the library reflected her life or experiences. All that has changed now, and there are now plenty of books being published for teenagers in which they can recognise themselves. The Art of Being Normal is a part of this.

Lisa typed up session notes and found the stories very moving. She also observed group sessions with transgender young people. She found that on top of their struggles with gender identity, they had the same concerns as every teenager: fancying people, exams, peer pressure and so on. Lisa decided that she wanted to write not only about gender identity, but about all of these other things too. The result was The Art of Being Normal, a story about being a transgender teenager. At the end of the talk, the students asked many interesting questions, including whether Lisa had worried about causing offence by writing about this subject. She told us that she did worry about whether she had the right to tell the story, because she is not transgender herself. And in fact while she was waiting for the book to be published she became so anxious about it that her eyebrows fell out. She does feel however that a writer’s job is to tell stories about people different from themselves, and that it is more interesting than simply relating one’s own experiences. Lisa had some good life advice: Don’t be too set on a particular path in life. Let fate do its thing. She wanted to act, but if she hadn’t needed to find work between acting jobs, she would never have written The Art of Being Normal. She also says everyone should learn to touch type!

Lisa did go on to have a career as an actress, but between jobs she would work in offices. While doing some office work, she began to write a novel. The book was quite autobiographical, about an actress. When it was finished, she sent it to literary agents but it was rejected by all of them. Having written this first semi-autobiographical book, Lisa now decided that she wanted to write about someone completely different to herself. While looking for acting work she took a job as an administrator doing secretarial work at the Tavistock Centre in the Gender Identity Development Service. This service supports under18s who are struggling with their gender identity. Issue 29

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WORLD BOOK DAY CELEBRATIONS AND OUR PATRON OF READING

fun and, to my absolute delight, I have just been handed the first draft of a story which was inspired by the workshop. Ms Ereira writes: We saw a lot of Keren David, our brilliant and committed Patron of Reading, during the week of World Book Day. Keren spoke at three assemblies. She talked about the author Louise Rennison, and how her book Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging had turned one Year 7 girl into a keen reader. Louise Rennison's books are extremely funny, and her death last week was a terrible loss to the world of books. Keren talked about how you only need to fall in love with one book to become hooked on reading, and shared the impressive research showing that the influence of reading for pleasure counteracts differences in social background. Reading for pleasure - real pleasure, not the kind of reading you think you're supposed to do but don't really want to - massively increases your chances of success in all sorts of areas in later life.

And finally, the day after World Book Day, Keren was back again to announce the winner of our first ever Highgate Wood School Book Award. We are all very grateful to Keren for her energy, ideas and passion. She is doing wonderful things to inspire a generation of readers and writers here at Highgate Wood, and World Book Day is the perfect focus for this. I very much hope that everyone will use their World Book Day tokens and visit their local bookshop to find that book which hooks them on reading. We've got a display here in the LRC to show the special edition £1 books which you can have in exchange for your token, but if you prefer, you can use the token to have £1 off the price of any other book. Happy reading!

Keren also spent two full days running creative writing workshops for all of the Year 7 classes. They played with plot and post-its, and created characters to drive stories. The second of these two days fell on World Book Day itself, so we saw some fabulous combinations of book characters collaborating on their story ideas – the Cat in the Hat working with Batman while Cleopatra worked with Red Riding Hood. The workshops were a lot of 26

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WORLD BOOK DAY COSTUMES

This year’s World Book Day costumes were better than ever, with both Year 7 and Year 8 dressing up this time – not to mention some impressive efforts from the staff. It was a seriously difficult decision, but the overall winners of Best Costume were as follows: Year 7: • Zeki Jones 7T (Winnie the Pooh) Year 8: Joint winners – four girls all working together as various Alice in Wonderland characters: • •

Aoife Davey Gunn 8W Sabine Kikuchi-House 8W

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Edan Silbiger 8E Sibylla Baron 8E

A LEVEL ART TRIUMPH Mr Marriott writes: The Year 12 AS Art group got to grips with their Art exam in the final week before Easter producing some outstanding examples of skill and creativity over the 10 hour 2 day exam. Most had decided to explore forms of portraiture, but each completed in a range of scales and using a great variety of materials including examples of painting, drawing, stencil paper cutting and photography. Pictured here in progress are Anna Keating and Helen Swinton.

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School begins again on Monday 11th April 2016

at 10:50 am It will be Week 1 KEY DATES Year 10 Parents’ Evening

Tuesday 12th April

Year 7 Parents’ Evening

Tuesday 26th April

Bank Holiday

Monday 2nd May

Year 11 Alternative Timetable

Monday 16th May

End of Half term

Friday 27th May

Year 11 Celebration Eve

Friday 27th May

Year 6 Transition Day

Tuesday 5th July

MADFest

Saturday 9th July

Summer term ends

Thursday 21st July

SUMMER 2016

AUTUMN 2016

Mon 11th April

Term Starts

Thursday 18th August

30th May - 3rd June

Half term break

Thursday 25th August GCSE Results Day

Thurs 21st July

Term Ends* * Term ends for students

Thursday 25th August

A Level Results Day

Sixth Form Enrolment

Mon 5th Sept

Term Starts

24th Oct– 28th Oct

Half term break

Wed 21st Dec

Term Ends

* 2016-17 dates not finalised

The school calendar is available on-line at www.hws.uk.com

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