Worthing High School Newsletter
December 2014
MESSAGE FROM THE HEAD
CHARLOTTE THOMPSON SPEAKS AT GLOBAL TEACHING CONFERENCE
Dear Parents, Carers, Staff and Governors,
Charlotte Thompson Yr 11 was invited to speak at the inaugural TEDx Worthing conference at Worthing College in November. The TEDxWorthing was based on the vision of bringing the Worthing and South East educational community together to share ideas about how students can be best prepared and supported to reach their potential and develop the habits, mindset and skills for success. This is live streamed and recorded and shown world wide to the teaching community and beyond. Charlotte took to the stage first !! No mean feat in an audience of your headmistress, local school leaders and business people from around the locality, all of whom were adults. Charlotte was amazing and talked passionately for 12 minutes about how she epitomises a healthy Growth mindset in everything she does.
Following our improved summer GCSE results staff and students have spent this term building on that success and embedding the good practice that will lead to further success for our students. As we prepare to receive our first Year 7 cohort of students next September our first major building enhancement programme has started with the replacement of all windows, this has been superbly organised by Ricky Beasley and the Facilities team.
Carolyn Dickinson Headteacher More from the Head on page two OLIVIA BREEN PARALYMPIAN PRESENTS AT AWARDS EVENING - PAGE 3
Charlotte did not know quite what she was letting herself in for when I told her to pop and see me in my office one break time.... But as usual she was not deterred from giving it her best efforts despite the event being scheduled for the week of the year 11 GCSE mocks. Charlotte wasn’t really sure what a growth mindset was, but I assured her she showed this every day in everything she did. Charlotte is a very able triple science student but she has struggled with many concepts and works really hard every lesson and at home to be “ the very best version of herself she could possibly be”. Charlotte is the first person who, on getting a test score back, doesn’t go “Ah well I tried” or “it’s not for me”, but instead “how
can I work to improve this grade for next time?” However it is not all about academic work; she also recently won the Child of Sussex award for her support for disabled riders at Ferring country centre where she volunteers every week; her support for a foster child; raising money for a trip to India; and in the words of her friend “for being the most selfless person I know “. After this spectacular debut where Charlotte’s talk was tweeted more than any other presenter’s, she promptly returned to school for her German mock to carry on her pursuit of excellence! For more information http://www.ted.com/tedx Helen Davis Head of Science
SIMON MAYO CHARLIE HIGSON HANNAH BEHARRY BROADCASTER AND ACTOR, COMEDIAN AND GB BOXER, PROMOTES AUTHOR COMES HOME AUTHOR RETURNS TO SKY SPORT LIVING - PAGE 10 WHS - PAGE 11 FOR LIFE - PAGE 12
MESSAGE FROM THE HEAD Dear Parents, Carers, Staff and Governors, At the end of this term we sadly say goodbye to the following members of staff. Seanin Friel, who has sadly not enjoyed good health, has decided to resign from our English Department. Glynis Jones our Senior Cover Supervisor leaves us having raised the profile and efficacy of the cover supervisor team. Her work will stand us in good stead as we go forward.
Melanie Aylward leaves the MFL department to take up an exciting post as Head of Spanish at The Bi-lingual Primary School in Brighton. Melanie has been an engaging and enthusiastic teacher, encouraging many of our younger students to take a foreign language at GCSE. Jacqui McHale leaves us for a challenging post at The Connected Hub in Brighton. Jacqui is not only a very good science teacher but offers excellent care and guidance to a range of students. Her exceptional skills will be greatly missed. And finally, we wish a very sad and fond farewell to Steve Jeffery as he takes up his post of Deputy Headteacher at
TERM DATES AND ARRANGEMENTS: End of Autumn Term 2014
Sion School, Worthing. Steve has been an inspiration to so many students, staff and parents. Anyone who has attended one of Steve’s events knows the uplifting feeling that one gets from sharing in his music. Steve has given of his time to not only our students and staff but also to the local community. We are enormously proud of Steve for achieving this tremendous promotion and his loss to Worthing High will be felt for a long time to come. Joining the staff in January we welcome Michelle Swinbank who joins the DT Department as Subject Leader. I am grateful to all parents for their continued support of our drive to improve standards through ensuring correct uniform is worn and that students are fully equipped with pencil cases, calculators and maths sets. I do hope you all enjoy a peaceful Christmas and I very much look forward to welcoming our students back to school on Monday January 5th. Very best wishes Carolyn Dickinson
WORTHING HIGH SCHOOL NEW LOGO
On Friday 19 December 2014 students will attend school in the morning at the usual time but will be dismissed from school at 1.30 pm. All students who are eligible for free school lunches will be able to obtain these at break time. There will also be a variety of hot snacks for other students to purchase as usual. Start Spring Term 2015 The start of the Spring Term is on Monday 5 January 2015 when students are expected in slightly later at 9.40 am. This will be in time for registration before Lesson 2, of Week 2 on our two week timetable 2
Worthing High School now has a new logo. In preparation for our new uniform, which will be in place in September 2015 for all students in KS3, we have updated our current logo. The new logo is being phased in during this academic year.
Madrigalia and Senior Singers at The Cloisters On Friday 5th December, Worthing High’s Madrigalia and Senior Singers entertained senior citizens at The Cloisters, Carnegie Road, Worthing.
Two Worthing High Students Win Child of Sussex Awards On Friday 31 October, two Worthing High students were recognised with awards at the prestigious Child of Sussex Awards . In their fourth year the 14 awards recognise amazing young people from all walks of life.
We have been developing a friendship with the residents at The Cloisters for a number of years now and thoroughly enjoy meeting together and entertaining through music. Students from all year groups joined the Christmas Afternoon Tea and provided a varied musical programme that included madrigals, part-songs and Christmas pieces from the Senior Singers. We also lead a traditional “sing-along” as well as collective singing of traditional carols. Festive readings were also performed.
MAKE A DIFFERENCE: Charlotte Thompson Charlotte is 16 and since she was 11 years old she’s volunteered every week to help care for horses at the Ferring Country Centre where she also supports adults and children with learning difficulties. She supports a child that is in foster care, and has even raised money to fund a trip to India where she helped teach young children. She was described by her friend who nominated her as “the most selfless person I know”.
Mr Jeffery noticed a beautiful voice coming from one of the residents. Stan was not so sure about providing a solo in one of the carols but did agree to a duet with Mr Jeffery. Everyone was very impressed with his voice (Stan’s, not Mr Jeffery’s!) and Stan seemed to enjoy the adulation. Cloisters’ resident, Barbara Ridler sent this message: Thank so much for giving us such an enjoyable afternoon. A great start to our Christmas celebrations. Stan (with the lovely voice) said it was a joy to hear young people sing so beautifully and with such lovely harmony. Everyone said how much they enjoyed it. We do hope to see you in the future.
Mr Jeffery writes, “I was once again so very proud of our students. They sounded beautiful and performed with energy and commitment. Even after the performance was over, our young people took the time on a Friday afternoon to speak with residents and develop our relationship with the Cloisters. I was so impressed.”
SPORTING STAR: Marc Charlesworth At 14, Marc Charlesworth has been doing archery for the past four years. He has represented Sussex for the past 2 years. Marc is currently Sussex Indoor and Outdoor Champion, English Champion for Cadet Men's Recurve, Junior UK Indoor Champion Under 14, and English Field Champion for Under 15, Blue Peg. Marc was honoured to be selected to be a member of the England Team that attained 1st place at the Home Nations Tournament at the Junior Nationals Outdoor Championships in July 2014. Marc is triple Junior Master Bowmen, the highest achievement award possible, and has 10 county and club records. He is currently ranked 10th in the UK rankings, being the top Under 14. 3
PRESENTATION EVENING FOR 2014 LEAVERS
On Thursday 13 November students who left this summer returned to receive their examination certificates. Over 300 students, friends and family attended the event which commenced with a drinks reception. Our guests were welcomed with a performance from the school choir and a presentation of pictures of days gone by. Photos included pictures of their Intake Day day back in summer 2010. The key note speaker was 19 year old bronze medal winning Paralympian Olivia Breen who gave a fascinating and inspiring talk about the Palalympics and how it has changed her life. The annual Hyder-Wilson trophy for outstanding academic success was presented to Rachel Thomas. A full list of prizewinners can be found here. Photos of the night can be found here.
HEADTEACHER LEARNING WALKS Headteacher Learning Walks This term has seen the start of the Headteacher Learning Walks. These occur once a half term and are an opportunity for parents and governors to accompany myself on a walk of the school, visiting lessons, understanding the scope of the marking that is designed to ensure student progress and to discuss any areas 4
of school provision that a parent might like to raise. In addition I am able to update parents on changes to subject syllabus, exam requirements and other government initiatives affecting education. Parents who have taken part in the two Learning Walks todate have raised some useful questions and points for improvement, these include: 1. Ensuring students’ work that is displayed always carries the name of the student.
2. Parents are informed when a student’s achievements are displayed on the Achievement board. Please do join me for the next walk on Thursday February 5th 2015 at 9.15am. Subsequent dates for this academic year are:-14th May 9th July, both start at 9.15am
Carolyn Dickinson
TRIP TO THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD Students from Worthing High School visited Keble College, University of Oxford for the day. Keble was founded in the 1870s and the architect was William Butterfield who used striking polychromic brickwork in the Gothic style. The founding fathers had the idea of establishing a high church seminary. However, the first Warden, Edward Talbot had other ideas and encouraged the teaching of science and was sympathetic to the theory of evolution.
This was the second visit made by our students as part of the Oxford Pathways Programme and the theme was “investigating options” the idea being to help students plan their progress through Y11 and sixth form leading to “informed choices” at
ALEX BAKER: HEENE SUCCESS Alex Baker has been successful in gaining an award that provides him with individual violin lessons through the local Music Service. This means that Alex has worked very hard to achieve a high standard of playing and the music service would now like to invest in him and enable him to further develop his musicianship through this provision.
University. Students were given an introductory talk about selecting A levels following guidelines provided by the Russell Group. This was followed by a series of four lectures covering a range of disciplines from the ecology of tropical rain forests to the trial and punishment of witches in 17 century literature, the use of statistical analysis in determining randomness and finally the role of international relations in dealing with issues of national security. Lunch was taken in the Victorian Gothic dining hall surrounded by paintings of past Wardens and dignitaries of the College.
Alex said that they were both very encouraging but he was still nervous. They were of course very impressed with his playing and the school is thrilled that he now has this wonderful opportunity.
Phoebe Walker writes: This year’s trip to Oxford was, once again, extraordinary. Keble College is as enormous as it is beautiful and the students who came to talk to us were so passionate that it would have been impossible to have been board, even when they talked about statistics and the like. The dining hall was reminiscent of Hogwarts and their common room is described as the” space ship end”. Overall the diversity of the architecture, people and subjects made for an inspiring and interesting day. Dr P Klemenic Gited and Talented
We all wish him very well as he continues to develop his violin skills and general musicianship. Bravo! Steve Jeffery Music
Alex describes the experience as both interesting and challenging. He had to venture to the Music Service headquarters in Petworth where he was then auditioned by two professional musicians working at the service. 5
EAL CAKE SALE
One that I remember Welcome, Hoşgeldiniz, Witaj,gaidīts, fondly from A group of English as an additional my childhood language students took part in a being where baking session on Tuesday, 9th some families December along with Mrs. Ashby partake and Mrs. Maxted to raise money for in ‘Stir-Up Chestnut Tree House, the children’s Sunday’, the hospice for Sussex. Sunday before Advent, We discussed and researched when a different types of cakes from their Christmas pudding would be made home countries which included and all members of the family would Chinese cup cakes, Arabian take a turn to stir the pudding and cheesecake, Turkish Baklava, make a secret wish. Italian Tiramisu, Biscotti and the ever popular Pizza, Lithuanian On Wednesday lunchtime the honey cake, Greek yoghurt lemon students sold the cakes, biscuits cake, Japanese lemon soufflé cake, and chocolates that they had made Spanish Galletas ‘Maria’, which are the previous day in the Millennium traditional biscuits, chocolate cake Hall. The atmosphere was exciting and an English Christmas cake as they have never had this which they had never seen. experience before, they conversed with eager buyers, took the money The students thoroughly enjoyed and worked out the change. New their time baking and doing the friendships were formed and they washing up! They got to know each took an enormous pride in their hard other, speaking about their cultures work, boosting self-esteem. They and how they had similarities with had gigantic smiles on their faces certain festivals e.g. Ramadan and when they had sold everything, Lent where some people choose to raising £23.10. fast, albeit at different times of the year. With Christmas approaching, “It was fantastic, I didn’t think that I the new students who don’t could cook, I really enjoyed piping celebrate it were eager to learn the buttercream, when can we do it about some of our traditions. again? I made a new friend”.
Fire Break
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Louis Clark in year 9 was lucky enough to spend a week working in Shoreham Fire Station, as part of the Firebreak project run jointly by the Youth Service and West Sussex Fire Brigade. Louis, working with students from other local high schools, spent the week learning not only fire service drills and first aid skills but also a lot of personal skills ranging from team work to conquering personal fears they may have had with heights. The week culminated on Friday afternoon with a passing out parade. Arriving at the fire station in a Fire Engine with sirens and blue lights, the group showed parents, school staff and local officials, including the High Sheriff of West Sussex, all the drills and rescue procedures
they had learnt, using breathing apparatus, ladders and water hoses we watched how casualties would be rescued and treated from house fires and car accidents. Louis enjoyed the week very much and was awarded a certificate and medal for taking part. Well done Louis for representing Worthing High School.
Mykalos, Yr.9. “I could make some more at home, I didn’t like cooking before”. Deniz, Yr.9. “We went up to Inclusion on our own and sold more, we want to do it again”. Yumi and Yo-Yo, Yrs.10 and 11. “It’s very good that we have made some money to help sick children”. Omar Yr.8. “It was a lovely idea and the lemon cake was delicious”. Mrs Fillery, Pastoral. Thank you to all who supported us and we wish you all a Happy Holiday. Mrs. P. Ashby EAL Co-ordinator, Inclusion
Babysitting Course
Worthing High School for the first time held the Red Cross Babysitting Training Course, although only attended by 4 students. All girls attended the weekly session and have successfully completed the course. After a test covering all the areas taught over the 6 weeks the students will receive their certificates which can give future employers confidence in the ability of their babysitters. Due to the success of the course, I will be offering students the opportunity to take part starting after Christmas. Mrs Fillery
YEAR 9 TRIP TO THE NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM The whole of Year 9 visited the Natural History Museum to further their learning in Geography and History with the experience of being out of the classroom and visiting the museum and all it has to offer. X-band students visited on Thursday 11th December and Y-band went on 12th December. “We travelled to London by coach and spent the day at the Museum. It was a fun and informative experience and we were able to apply our learning from the last half term” explains Amy Alford. Amy also reported “ With regards to Geography, I particularly enjoyed the Red Zone because it was incredibly interactive and brought to life our learning in the class-room. There was an earthquake simulator which showed us how frightening the ef-fects and consequences would be in the situation. Also, there was an escalator that entered a visual representation of the earth’s internal structure. I enjoyed seeing how the earth is made up, and learning about the characteristics of the different layers.
With regards to History, I particularly enjoyed the Green Zone because it was inter-esting to see fossils from many different extinct species.“ Yasmin Jeffrey agreed “ it was very enjoyable and we saw incredible sights such as large models of the earth, dinosaurs and the creepy crawly centre”
their teamwork and behaviour, they undertook the tasks set with enthusiasm. The staff would also like to extend their particular thanks Keanan Merritt concluded “ many of to Mr Hardwick for his time in putting us also had fun looking at ourselves the trip together and Mrs Amos in the funky mirrors and lots of for her unstinting efforts to ensure us want to return to the museum nearly all year 9 were able to have again.” the opportunity to go. Overall it was a good day out we all enjoyed it very much and learnt Mr L Hardwick some interesting facts about History Leader of Geography and Geography.” Amy Alford - 9Y1. Mrs Grindel All the staff who accompanied the students are incredibly proud of
Leader of History
DANCEMANIA Chesswood Middle School kindly invited Ricochet Dance Company to perform a dance at their first Dancemania event held at Davidson High School. The evening was a great success and included performances from Chesswood Middle School, Davison High School and Worthing High School. All dancers performed very well and the event was thoroughly enjoyed by all. Ricochet look forward to being part of this event again in the early part of next year. Dancers: Danielle Mansbridge, Olivia Smith, Yasmin Jeffery, Sarah Seacombe, Erin Wake, Ella Bourne, Tammy Davidson, Megan Mustill, Laura Guy, Isobel Hansell, Eva Hobbs, Isabel Milne, Sophie Penfold and Francesca Tratt 7
LEARNING RESOURCE CENTRE
Happy Christmas from the LRC
Meeting the Authors
Charlie Higson visited
Worthing High School in September and talked to our students along with students from: Downsbrook Middle School Chesswood Middle School St Andrew’s CE Boys High School Hove Park School Steyning Grammar School Shoreham Academy He spoke about his love for horror, his television career and his writing process. He told us how he came to be asked to write
the Young James Bond series, which being a James Bond fan he felt honoured to do, through to writing the Zombie Enemy series. He said how his children are his best critics and they would tell him if the plot was scary enough or not! Charlie was an inspiration to all the students
attending and this was evident in the amount of students who queued, for quite some time, to get their books signed.
Competition Winners
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What book?
Name win a prize.
On the front page of the LRC newsletter this year we will be putting the first paragraph of a book. The first few students to come to the LRC with the Title and Author’s
The November winners were: Max Bevis, Alison Burcombe, Matthew Clegg, Olivia Baker, Lucy Brunning and Isabel Mitchell. Would you have guessed the book?
“THERE IS ONE mirror in my house. It is behind a sliding panel in the hallway upstairs. Our faction allows me to stand in front of it on the second day of every third month, the day my mother cuts my hair.”
LEARNING RESOURCE CENTRE Meeting the Authors WHS hosted another fantastic author event with Simon Mayo in October. We were joined by 11 other local schools and had 550 very excited students and staff in the audience. Mayo’s debut novel Itch was published in 2012 and the 3rd book in the series Itch Craft had just been released. Simon talked about the character, Itchingham Lofte, an ordinary 14
Book Clubs: Book club is great fun and we now have over 30 members. We have just started the new Year 8 book group and they are currently reading The Angel Experiment by James Patterson. Year 9, 10 and 11 students are following the Southern School Book Awards and a few lucky members will be off to Roedean in January to see the winner announced at the presentation ceremony, hosted by Kevin Brooks, last year’s winner. At present we also have book clubs with Downsbrook Middle School
Our next author event will be the very entertaining Chris Bradford author of The Young Samurai and Bodyguard series in March.
year old boy, with one extraordinary mission – to collect all the elements in the periodic table. This leads to him finding an unknown chemical element and the adventure continues there… He spoke a
little about his radio career but mainly the scientific facts behind the books as well as reading an extract. The event was followed with a Q&A session and the longest book signing queue we have ever seen. Simon just made the train to get back to his radio show! A great time had by all.
and will be starting a new book group with Chesswood Middle School in January. Students enjoy visiting our library and seeing the vast array of books we have on offer. We then select a popular
book and they read along with our students over a half term and then get back together to discuss. The students have enjoyed this so much that we are now looking at opening up to more schools.
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LEARNING RESOURCE CENTRE Year 8’s - they have only been doing AR for a term and we already have some fantastic results. They are thoroughly enjoying their reading lesson and this is evident in the number of awards we are presenting so early on in the year: Silver Badges: Alexander Baker, Tiawana Usher, Jamie Smith Bronze Badges: Robert Bradley, Tom Suraci-Neve, Isobel Whittle, Finlay Marsh, Ashley Church, Frances Simmonds, Jessica Kowalski, Esja Hodgson &
Samuel Bennett Year 9’s we have our first Trophy awarded to Matthew Clegg for reading £7,500,000 words, truly amazing! Gold Badges: Kyra Usher and Caitlin Buller Silver Badges: Gary Paine, Megan Richardson and
Lucy Brunning Happy Christmas, I hope all those lovely books and E-Readers make it into your stockings! Mrs Phelan
MFL MIDDLE SCHOOL VISITS
HARLEQUINS DAY TRIP
In October this year, several Year 9 students and Subject Leader for Modern Foreign Languages, Miss Karonen, visited three different middle schools, to teach Year 6 and 7 classes a lesson of either French or German. During the visits, Year 9 students worked with small groups and even taught parts of the lesson themselves. Year 9 students had created some lesson activities which helped Year 6 and 7 students to learn more of the language. Overall, we visited three different schools (Thomas at Beckett, Broadwater C of E. and Downsbrook Middle) and taught six lessons, with all of them being an enjoyable learning experience for both Worthing High students and the middle school students alike.
The day started in the gym. Watching professional athlete’s workout is an eye opener. One of the players was chest pressing 150kg ten times. Another player was jumping onto a box which was shoulder height. He was doing so from a seated position.
Kailan Adams Year 9 TMAY
We moved on from the gym to meeting Kyle Sincler, a beast of a man. Kyle spoke to us about his upbringing. Only a few years ago he was involved with gangs. He hit a cross road in life and had a choice to go forward with rugby or spend the rest of his life in crime. He thanks his mother for guiding him into the right direction. The afternoon consisted of eating steak and salmon which was one of five player meals for the day. As well as chilling in the player lounge with the guys and out on the rugby field watching the lads in full flight training. The purpose of the visit was to help inspire Harry Clark. Harry has an incredible talent in his Rugby skills but his attitude and behaviour are letting him down. We wanted to show him what his future will look like if he makes the right decisions in school and in life.
Miss Karonen wants to thank Kailan Adams, Amy Alford, Lucy Brunning, Yasmin Jeffery, Christopher Sherman and Ryan Stimpson for all their help on the trips. You were excellent teachers and ambassadors to our school! 10
Harry has now been offered trials for Harlequins which he will be taking on Monday 15th December. Good Luck Harry!
WORTHING HIGH DOES STRICTLY COME DANCING On 23rd July 2014, Worthing High School staff donned their dancing shoes to take part in a Strictly Come Dancing spectacular! The whole school came to the sports hall to watch and the Drama department collected money for the upcoming production of The Sound of Music. Mr Jeffery and Mrs Fillery twisted their way round the floor while Mr Slaughter and Ms Dugova did a gorgeous merengue. Mr Carey and Mrs Jones dusted off their old dancing shoes – both have had a history of ballroom dancing and it showed in their excellent steps! Mr Janardo and Miss Aylward snaked some hot Latin moves and Mr Martin and Mrs Bolger kicked up a storm in a Charleston. This was all overseen by an esteemed panel of judges –
Mrs Dickinson, Mr Beda and our own dance experts Miss Strudwick and Ms Stevenson. The whole event was compared by Worthing’s answer to Bruce and Tess – Miss McCarthy and Mrs Hunwick. The whole event culminated in a nail biting, three way final between Mr Jeffery and Mrs Fillery; Mr Carey and Mrs Jones and Mr Janardo and Miss Aylward who all had to dance again. It was very close, but the pair to lift the trophy was Mr Janardo and Miss Aylward who were crowned
Worthing does Strictly champions 2014! The event was a huge success and enjoyed by all and the Drama department raised over £150 for the next show.
YEAR 6 & 7 FEDER SCHOOL BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT Well done to all students who participated in the year 6 & 7 basketball tournament held at WHS on Tuesday 9th December. Fantastic basketball skills were on display throughout the tournament. Thank you to all the Worthing High school helpers who help run the tournament. Results 1st—West Park 2nd—English Martyrs 3rd = Chesswood 3rd = Downsbrook 5th—Broadwater 6th = St Marys 7th = St Marys
Miss M Field Leader of PE
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CRICKET ACADEMY UPDATE The cricket academy has gone from strength to strength following its successful launch in June. The mass club has good participation rates and 8 students have been identified as the first WHS academy players. Cricket Academy players Congratulations to the following students who have been selected as academy players.
• Eddie Cracker • Jack Willis • Curtis Rolph
• Maudh Khan • Ammad Khan • Joe Pearcey • Jaynil Patel • Luke Winter
Well done to all students who have attended the cricket club this year and to those students have been selected to become academy players. Please remember if you
would like to get involved in cricket Alan and Matt run the cricket club from 3:15-4:30pm every Wednesday in the SPH. Training for academy players runs from 4:30—5:45pm. Miss Field Leader of PE
ART TRIP TO TATE AND THE NATIONAL GALLERY Art Trip to Tate Britain and the National Gallery Due to huge demand for places, the Art trip was buzzing with many excited students in a 5 seat wide coach, making it feel more like an aeroplane than a road vehicle. We made the journey into London to Tate Britain quickly, getting lucky with the traffic, luck that
where the students were given a tour of a few paintings on the theme of portraits, and encouraged to consider and discuss the subject and symbolism within the works. The gallery guides were persistent and encouraging, so by the end of the session most students had offered some comment or opinion to the group. The journey home did not run too smoothly, with several holdups on the road extending our journey, but again students coped with humour and maturity. It was a great day out with plenty to challenge our artists’ ideas and give them food for thought when it comes to the end of year exam.
was sadly not repeated on the return journey. At Tate Britain students were able to explore and discover art works by a huge range of British artists, taking photos and making sketches to support their current projects and the year 11 upcoming exam. We were impressed by their focus and maturity in the galleries. After lunch we took the coach to the National Gallery 12
Mr Whitaker - Art
STUDENTS EXPERIENCE JOURNALISM AT HEAD OFFICE
Worthing students master their skills as WW1 journalists at the Guardian Newspaper Head Office in London.
same workshop in previous days. Worthing students were particularly lucky to be working on such an exciting project on the 11th November, 100 years to the day the war officially ended in 1914. This was master minded by Jemima Kiss, a former student at WHS who now works as a journalist at the newspaper. She even took time out of her busy schedule to visit the students whilst at work and they were able to ask her questions about her career. The day was a day to see a newspaper at work as well as completing the project.
15 Year 9 History students visited the Guardian Newspaper offices on 11th November 2014 to experience the exciting opportunity of putting together a front page of the events of WW1. They have been studying the Great War this term in class so to have the opportunity to actually visit a leading newspaper to use their knowledge and the resources from the Guardian archives was amazing. Billy Hilton said he was not sure what to expect from the day and his response was that it turned out to be so good. All the students produced a full front page of stories and
photographs written by themselves but based on true accounts and these are now proudly on display at the school. Margaret Holborn, who led the session as Education Officer at the Guardian Newspaper, was so pleased with the results and revealed to the students their work was the best she had seen out of all the groups who had attended the
The students also took part in a two minute silence as part of the Remembrance Day. Mrs J Grindel - Head of History
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CAREERS FAIR/POST 16 EVENING Worthing High hosted yet another successful Careers Fair and Post 16 Evening for our Year 11 students. After a short talk regarding choices Post 16, students and parents were given the chance to wander round and talk with the various exhibitors to discuss career opportunities with employers, who included the following local and national businesses: Buttercup Nursery; Carpenter Box,
NEW WINDOW PROJECT Following receipt of our £500,000 grant, our new windows started being installed on 24 October. The project will take 20 weeks to complete. Classrooms will be closed for a few days as their windows are replaced.
Lessons might need to be relocated and students will be advised in advance. 14
Equiniti; GSK; HMRC; Northdale Vets; Richard John; Southern Water; Bennett Griffin and representatives from the Armed Forces. Local colleges and other sixth form providers, long with Brighton and Sussex Universities where also on hand to offer advice on a multitude of courses, so that our students are well informed to make the right choices on where they want to go once they have completed their GCSE exams. We are extremely grateful to all those who gave their time and help
to participate with this event. In this ever changing world of work it is really important to keep parents and students informed of what is required to gain the right career information.
MAGNIFICENT MACMILLAN!!
In September we had a cake sale for Macmillan Cancer Nurses in which we raised £277.13 and we followed this by having a ‘Wear Something Green for Macmillan’
non-uniform day raising £669.00 Making a magnificent total amount of £946.13 Wow! Huge thanks to all those parents and students who baked or bought cakes and brought in their £1.00 donation on the nonuniform day. Also to Jack Window who rallied the prefects and Mr Jeffery who organised the nonuniform day.
magical £1000 next year.
I am determined to make the
Mrs Bayford
WORTHING HIGH LUNCHTIME DEVELOPMENT STAY-ON-SITE POLICY FUND We have re-launched the Worthing High Development Fund (WHDF). The fund uses voluntary donations from parents/ carers to enhance the learning environment and opportunities for our students. As an Academy we are also a registered charity (nonacademy schools are not recognised as charities). This means we can also claim gift aid on any eligible donations, increasing your donation by 20%.
If you would like to make a contribution please contact Karen Hayler, Business Manager, at khayler@worthinghigh.net or phone 01903 227295.
CHRISTMAS LUNCH
From September all students will stay on site during the lunch break unless there is a clear medical reason requiring them to go home.
The canteen offers a good choice of reasonably priced food and is managed by a cashless, biometric system. Students can also take part in clubs or other organised activities, use the library, ICT rooms, or remain in or around the buildings.
A large group of students enjoyed the annual festive dinner celebrations in the school restaurant. Students were treated to an excellent Christmas lunch with all the trimmings and a unique pudding of Chocolate and Cranberry Sponge. Festive music played and If you have any queries regarding crackers and table decorations made the lunchtime arrangements the restaurant seem even more festive! please do not hesitate to contact me and I will be happy to answer your queries. Mr M Hillier Deputy Headteacher 15
ENGLAND AND GB Describing how once faced with an uncertain future, she discovered a BOXER INSPIRERS positive channel for her energies at All Stars, one of London’s most OUR STUDENTS prominent boxing clubs. Hannah
Living Projects. Throughout the sessions Hannah will work with students on the six keys to success, mental toughness, hunger to achieve, people skills, sports and life knowledge, breaking barriers and planning for success using her own life experiences and team building skills.
Hannah Beharry, Boxing for England and Great Britain, who has won a string of gold medals, spent a day this term with students at Worthing High school.
went on to explain how she has transformed her life through sport, not only excelling at boxing, but acting as a strong role model for her local communities by promoting boxing in schools.
Hannah delivered several inspirational assemblies to KS4 students on her life to date.
When Hannah returns to WHS in the New Year she will be working with three different groups on Sky Miss M Field - Leader of PE
races, six 3rds, four 2nds and two 1st places an incredible achievement for the young driver. Colburn looks onto next season now and has already started pre-season testing to look to be the Junior Saloon Car champion.
BEN COLBURN SEASON REVIEW It has been a special season in motorsport for Ben Colburn and he couldn’t have expected that it would have gone better than this. Colburn finished an amazing 2nd place in the Junior Saloon Car
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Championship in his first season of motorsport having only learnt to drive the car just two months before the season opener. In the five month period of the season, Colburn grabbed twelve podiums out of fourteen email - achieve@worthinghigh.net
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