This issue:

Tour Of The School/

Mtg With Parents

Headteacher’s

Award

Yr8 Progress Review

Mtgs

Careers

Microsoft

Apprentice

CE Payments

New Skirt Design

Yr9 Photos

Inter House Rugby

Books of the Week

Sporting News

13th

March 2015

Tour of the School/Meeting with Parents

This is a reminder that I am again offering parents the opportunity to see the

school at work and also for you to be able to discuss with me any issues or

concerns that you have which are either of a general nature or relate directly

to the progress of your child.

Next Tuesday, 17th

March we invite you to come along on a tour of the school

during the school day when the students are at work so that you can see

first-hand what is going on. We do promise, however, to make sure that we

avoid the lesson that your child is in as I am sure that both parents and

certainly the students would prefer this. There is also the opportunity to

meet with me one to one, again on the 17th

March. Fifteen minute

appointments can be booked between 5.00pm – 6.15pm. If you wish to be

involved in either or both of these, please call Mrs Moss on 01932 219403 or

email her at p.moss@thamesmeadschool.com

Mr Rodin, Headteacher

Headteacher’s Award

Below are the names of the students who are this week’s winners of the

Headteacher’s Award. They have received a Certificate and 25 Vivo points

credited to their Vivo account:

Year 8: Ellie Forey (8P1), Zoe Melvin (8D1), Sophie Munby (8D2), Erin

Phillips, Kayle Sexton (8D1) and Oliver Shore (8P1)

Year 9: Jacob Dexter (9C2), Jean-Paul Greenwood (9P1) and Harry Hogg

(9D2)

Year 11: Navid Mohamadzade (11C2).

Year 8 Progress Review Meetings

Progress review meetings are being held on Monday 23rd

March, 2015,

between 3.30pm-6.30pm. Teachers will start making appointments with

students from next week and this information will be in the student planner.

If you would like to see a particular teacher, please make sure your child

makes an appointment for you. Reports have been sent home with students

today.

MFL Star of the

Week

Word of the Week

Key Dates:

Monday 23rd

March

Yr8 Progress Meetings

Friday 27th

March

Musical Mufti Day

Monday 30th

March-

Friday 10th

April

Spring Break

Monday 27 April

Yr7 Progress Meetings

Monday 18th

May

Y8 HPV Vaccination

A full calendar of the

school holiday dates for

2014/2015

and 2015/2016 are

available on our website.

ATTACHMENTS:

SCITT Recruitment

Revision Aids

Microsoft

Apprenticeship

Careers

West Thames College, Feltham Skills Centre - open evening is on Wednesday

18th

March, 5.00pm-7.00pm. Students need to register to attend.

www.west-thames.ac.uk

ACM, Guildford – open day is on Sunday 22nd

March, 11.00am-3.00pm.

Students need to register to attend. Please see attached flyer for full details.

www.acm.ac.uk

West Thames College, Isleworth Campus - open evening is on Tuesday 24th

March, 5.00pm-7.30pm. www.west-thames.ac.uk

Microsoft Apprentice Insight Event

Microsoft is offering an amazing opportunity for school leavers to join them

as apprentices and they are holding an Apprentice Insight Event on Thursday

19th

March, 4.30pm-6.30pm at Microsoft Campus, Thames Valley Park,

Reading, Berkshire, RG6 1WG. Please see attached flyer for full details.

If you’re interested in applying now for an Apprenticeship at Microsoft visit

www.microsoft.com/uk/students

Applications are open until 30th

March.

Curriculum Enrichment Payments

Please pay balances for trips a.s.a.p. Payment deadline for day trips is Friday

27th

March. More information on residential trips will follow. Payment is via

Tucasi https://www.scopay.com/thamesmead?redirect=true Cheques

should be made payable to Thamesmead School and handed in to the

Finance Office on the C Floor.

Voting Underway For New Thamesmead Skirt Design

After an overwhelming response from parents in support of a standard

school skirt, KS3 girls have been evaluating the options. They have tried on

skirts from other schools and designed their own. We have had the two top

designs made up and now is the time to vote for the option that will become

the new Thamesmead school skirt! KS3 girls can vote via the link on their

Frog Student Homepage - the deadline is 16th

March. The options can be

seen on the attached poster.

We are currently in talks with uniform providers to finalise the cost and

purchasing options and will publish this information to parents by Easter.

The new skirt will be compulsory for all girls in Years 7-10 from September

2015, unless they choose to wear school trousers. It will be compulsory for

all girls from September 2016 (unless, once again, they choose to wear

trousers).

ACM Open Day

Thank you to all the parents and students who have taken part so far – please

discuss the options with your daughters and cast that vote!

Year 9 Photos

Students in Year 9 had their school photos taken on Wednesday and were

given an order form to take home. You can order any of these photographs

as well as order the digital image on disk or download by typing in the

photograph reference number and password in the boxes provided on the

Success Photography Schools website

https://www.successphotography.com/schools/

You can either order online with your debit or credit card or by returning the

order form with a cheque or postal order to the address at the bottom of the

form. There is also an option to order over the telephone.

Further to the printed proofs, Success Photography can offer the option of

seeing an electronic version of your child’s photographs. For this you will

need to register your child for e-proofing (electronic proofing) on the secure

website just once.

https://www.successphotography.com/Schools-Online-Registration/

Once you have registered your child/children, each time another photograph

is taken it will add it to your account automatically and you will also

be notified by e-mail when a new photograph becomes available. This will

save time and effort typing in all photograph reference numbers & passwords

for each of the children.

Inter House Rugby

The Inter House rugby took place after school last Friday with over 100 girls

and boys taking part. Well done to all the students and thank you to Mr

Moulton, Mr McCoy and Miss Richards for all their help.

Results were:

Year 7: 1st

Phoenix, 2nd

Griffin and Centaur, 3rd

Dragon

Year 8: 1st

Griffin, 2nd

Phoenix, 3rd

Dragon, 4th

Centaur

Year 9: 1st

Griffin, 2nd

, Phoenix, 3rd

Centaur, 4th

Dragon

Year 10/11: 1st

Dragon, 2nd

Griffin, 3rd

Phoenix, 4th

Centaur

Mr Lever, Senior House Leader

Books of the Week

With this year’s Carnegie Medal shortlist being announced on Tuesday 17th

March it seems a good opportunity to look at the previous shortlists. If you

want to check out more about the Carnegie Medal, see previous winners

or even check out our very own Thamesmead Spoiler Alertz shadowing group

go to The CILIP Carnegie & Kate Greenaway Children's Book Awards The CILIP

Carnegie & Kate Greenaway Children's Book Awards

KS3 - The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman

A mysterious character known only as ‘the man Jack’ sneaks into a family

home and kills mum, dad and older sister. When he reaches the nursery,

however, the family's two-year-old son is missing, having scooted out

mischievously into the night. The man Jack, whose silence and hunting skills

seem not quite of this world, follows the scent of the boy to a nearby disused

graveyard.

The NY times described this Newbury and Carnegie winning book as exciting,

witty and sinister’ which is spot on! Gaiman's villains are a creation so

creepy, the pack of terrifying murderers and a twist in the tale you will not

see coming make this a great read.

KS4 - The Road of the Dead by Kevin Brooks

Late one night, two brothers learn that their sister has died in the worst way

imaginable. She’s found, strangled, in a desolate place hundreds of miles

from their East London home. Ruben's brother Cole fights violence with

violence and not of the Alex Rider or Young Bond variety. This is frighteningly

real. ‘You can taste the blood in your mouth as you read this’ is how Philip

Ardagh described this in the Guardian. Gritty and uncomfortable but well

worth reading. Mrs Garraway

Sporting News

Well done to the Year 7 Netball Team: Georgina (Captain), Safia (Vice-

Captain), Maddie, Abbie, Olivia, Scarlett, Amber Khinda, Amy-Leigh Cook,

Alice and Savannah.

The girls have done incredibly well in their first season at Thamesmead

School. We are currently third in the district league, winning all our games

bar one so far- we narrowly missed out against Matthew Arnold as we were

neck and neck throughout until the last two minutes when we lost 10-12. Our

best game by far was winning 20-0 against Thomas Knyvett. With two games

left to go against St Paul’s and Magna Carta, we will look to secure a top spot

in the league.

Our first of many tournaments took place on Wednesday 18th

March and the

girls went along very excited and nervous. We won our pool beating Thomas

Knyvett 9-0, Jubilee High 5-1 and Bishop Wand 4-0 which took us through to

the semi-finals. It was a very close match with the score being 2-1 to Magna

Carta at half time. Unfortunately nerves got the better of us and despite

having lots of possession and shots the girls lost 4-2.

Our final game was for 3rd and 4th place playoffs, again against Jubilee High.

The girls went on to finish on a high, winning 7-1. So out of 8 schools the girls

came third overall. Well done for all your effort and commitment this year - I

look forward to winning the tournament next year!! Mrs Ward

MFL Star of the Week

The MFL Star of the Week Award for excellent effort in modern languages

was awarded this week to:

In French

Year 7

Sophie Evans, Scarlett Carroll, Eleni Akcil, Cody Keen-Maton

Year 8

Bea Camus, Jack Randall, Alicia Weeks

Year 9

Isabella Drake, Molly Doyle, Daniel Godbold, Abigail Rawlinson

Year 10

Kajal Patel, Charlie Feinson

Year 11

Dion Baker, Lorna Pittrof, Ricardo Da Silva

In Spanish

Year 7

Louie Bisset, Thomas Blandford, Jake Marshall

Year 8

Shelbie Baker, Charlotte Kyle, Liberty Mitchell-Antunes, Dylan Webb

Year 9

Luke Wivell, Katie Jennings, Jade Enoch

Year 10

Naiomi Hargreaves, Beatrice Nicholson, Boaz Dopemu

Year 11

Josephine Hills, Lucy Harris

The WORD of the WEEK for the week commencing Monday

16th

March is:

OPTIMISTIC

French: Optimiste

Spanish: Optimista

music. industry. education.

Open DaySunday 22nd March 11am-3pm

Tour our state-of-the-art facilities,meet our world class tutorsand talk to current students.

ACM Alumni includeNewton FaulknerTed Dwane (Mumford & Sons)Joel Peat and Ryan Fletcher (Lawson)Emma Stevens (Singer / Songwriter)Gary Cleaver & Charlie Hart (Ruen Brothers)Josh Mellody aka ZomboyNick Tsang (Modestep, Ting Tings)Ebony Day (MTV Unsigned Artist 2013)Toby Couling (The Noisettes)Ellie Fletcher (Crystal Fighters)plus loads more...

01483 500 800 | the rodboro buildings » bridge st » guildford » surrey » GU1 4SBwww.acm.ac.uk

» Performance, Production and Music Business Courses» Diploma to Degree» Part-time courses and workshops for ages 12+

the academy of contemporary music

Microsoft Apprentice Insight Event –

Come and meet us! We want to offer you the opportunity of a lifetime; the chance to work inside a global technology company during one of the most exciting periods in its history. Following on from last year’s successful launch of the Microsoft Apprentice Programme, we are now recruiting for our next intake of Apprentices and applications are now open! So whether you’re a school leaver, parent, friend or relative, if you’re interested in finding out more about our Apprentice Opportunities then we’d love you to come along and meet us at our Apprentice Insight Event.

You'll get the chance to meet our current Apprentices, find out what it’s really like at

Microsoft and hear all about the fantastic opportunities they’ve had, both inside and

outside of their day jobs. You’ll also be able to find out more about our selection process

and have the opportunity to chat informally with our more senior employees too.

We will also be doing tours of the Microsoft Campus and there will be refreshments too!

Where: Microsoft Campus, Thames Valley Park, Reading, Berkshire, RG6 1WG When: Thursday 19th March, 16.30 – 18.30

To attend this event please click here to register

To get an insight from our Apprentices in advance of the event visit www.beyourfuture.net

If you’re interested in applying now for an Apprenticeship at Microsoft

visit www.Microsoft.com/uk/students applications are open until 30th March.

If you have any queries please contact us on students@microsoft.com

Don’t miss the opportunity to come and meet us and find out more. We look forward to seeing you

on 19th March.

BIC 4 colour pen £1.30 each •Black, red, blue, green

Index/Revision cards pack of 100 White £0.70 or Multicoloured £1.20

Sticky Notes assortment of colours Lemon/ Orange/ Pink/ Lime/ Yellow 75x75mm £0.33 or 75x125mm £0.43

Highlighters £0.20 each or pack of 6 £1

Thamesmead Flip It £1 each

BIC 4 colour soft grip pen £1.45 each •Lime, purple, blue, pink

Revision Aids at the Learning Centre Shop

Skirt option 1 Red piping only Teflon fabric – high quality, stain resistant and fast drying. Option for elasticated back or hidden waistband adjusters. This example shown with elasticated back. Prices range from approx. £17-20 depending on waist size.

Skirt option 2 Red piping and school logo embroidered. Teflon fabric – high quality, stain resistant and fast drying. Option for elasticated back or hidden waistband adjusters. This example shown with hidden waistband adjusters. Will cost approx £3 more for the extra embroidery. Both skirts will be produced in a range of waist

sizes and lengths so you can buy the correct fit. Trousers are still an option for girls.

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Initial Teacher Training

A Partnership Dedicated to Excellence

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A one year programme offering highly personalised training working alongside very experienced staff Training in a variety of subjects on Core SCITT and School Direct Programmes Qualified Teacher Status upon graduation 100% employment rates for trainees completing our programme

Visit us at one of our Recruitment Events this November:

Tuesday 4th 5.00-6.00 p.m. Thamesmead School, Shepperton TW17 9EE Wednesday 12th 6.30-8.30 p.m. The Holiday Inn, Shepperton TW17 8NP Thursday 20th 4.00-5.30 p.m. The Holiday Inn, Woking GU21 8EW Thursday 27th 5.00-6.00 p.m. Thamesmead School, Shepperton TW17 9EE

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SHAPE THE FUTURE - BECOME A TEACHER

Join a small Partnership that is big on quality

We have over 10 years experience in Initial Teacher Training and are highly regarded by Ofsted

A one year programme offering highly personalised training working alongside very experienced staff Training in a variety of subjects on Core SCITT and School Direct Programmes Qualified Teacher Status upon graduation 100% employment rates for trainees completing our programme

Visit us at one of our Recruitment Events this November:

Tuesday 4th 5.00-6.00 p.m. Thamesmead School, Shepperton TW17 9EE Wednesday 12th 6.30-8.30 p.m. The Holiday Inn, Shepperton TW17 8NP Thursday 20th 4.00-5.30 p.m. The Holiday Inn, Woking GU21 8EW Thursday 27th 5.00-6.00 p.m. Thamesmead School, Shepperton TW17 9EE

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