Dear Parent/Guardian

I hope you enjoy reading this festive edition of Hotline. This last week has seen several events that

have started to get us all in the

festive mood. Monday 14th December saw our Year 8 pupils welcome over 100 Grandparents into school for the afternoon. On

Tuesday 15th December we all enjoyed a Christmas lunch

prepared for us by our kitchen staff from Chartwells. Wednesday 16th

December saw some of our extremely talented pupils take to

the stage for our Christmas Performance and the term

concluded with tutors hosting small

parties for their tutees.

Earlier in the term, we again had lots of individual and year team

successes at the District Swimming Gala. The pupils represented the

school in an exemplary fashion and overall finished an excellent second (by only the smallest of margins).

Tragic incidents that have happened in Paris and in schools in America recently have impacted on

decisions we have made at Healing School recently. In early

December we cancelled the Year

11 trip to France and have now taken steps to further safeguard

everybody in school by introducing a new electronic gate system to

prevent any strangers from entering the school. We know this

may cause inconvenience to parents who come into school

during the day, but I am sure you will accept our priority is to protect

our pupils.

I would like to finish by wishing you all a very Merry Christmas and look forward to working with you in

the new year to ensure the continued success of every pupil at

Healing School.

Healing School, A Science Academy

December 2015

Hotline

New Security Measures Now in

Operation to Access School.

In order to further improve the safety of

pupils in the school and to safeguard

everybody, we have introduced two

electronic gates.

Visitors can still access both school car parks, but

between 9:00am and 3:00pm every day visitors

and parents will no longer be allowed to just walk

into the school. At each gate there is a “bell

button” which can be pressed to speak to our

reception, who will then allow visitors or parents

onto the premises. All people entering the site

must then report to the main reception. We hope

this will not inconvenience parents too much, but

will help make the school a safer environment.

Visitors to Healing

School will now have

to request access to

enter the school, via

the new electronic

gates.

Healing School Remembers With Poppies

Each year, Pupils and staff of Healing School,

like to pay their respects to those who gave their lives fighting in both the First and

Second World Wars, by laying a wreath of remembrance at the cenotaph in Healing

village. This year, the wreath was laid by Year 11 senior prefects Amber

Harris, Lucy Howes, Jack Herring,

Jonathan Borrill Townsend, Head Girl Kaysha Nada and Head Boy Jaden Walker, pictured

here with the poppy wreath and Mr Knapton.

Principal, Mr Knapton

Children in Need

Fundraising Day

Pennies on Pudsey

ABOVE: It’s a thumbs up from Pudsey

(Alfie Hallett) with Jaden Walker.

Pupils raising money for Children in Need, came up with a

novel idea about how to raise more money for the charity.

Pupils in Years 7 and 8 drew six enormous Pudsey bears and asked

pupils to cover the images with any spare change they had after

the cake sale. Every Pudsey was filled and went a long way to

boosting the final donation total of £2,856.

BELOW: Mrs Watcham with Year 9 pupils Alicia James, Dana Stanley, Mrs Fiona Kemp from Lloyds Banking Group, Abbie

Bloomfield, Holly Barker, Harvey Cherry and Phoebe Coles.

Annually, the school

supports Children in Need

fundraising appeal and, this

year, we worked with

Mrs Fiona Kemp,

representative from the

Lloyds Banking Group, to

embrace their ‘Champions

of Change’ initiative.

Mrs Kemp spoke in assemblies

about the good causes, both

home and abroad, that

benefit from the money raised

by the annual Children in Need

appeal. The children were

inspired and came up with

some excellent ideas about

how to boost fundraising.

The non-uniform day raised

over £1,000 alone!

Mrs Watcham held a successful

Pudsey cake competition.

Pupils also took part in a

sponsored silence and participant Jenna Ornsby from Year 7 raised

an impressive £80 by staying silent all day! The break time cake

sale stall was a huge hit and heaved with cakes and goodies made

by generous pupils, staff and parents. Within 15 minutes, almost

all were sold, with the last few disappearing over lunch time.

All in all, it was a fun occasion, with serious money donated. The

school raised over £2,800. Thank you to all who participated in the

event and to all those who made donations.

Pudsey Cake Competition

Operation Christmas Child Shoebox

Appeal 2015

For the twelfth year running, Healing School has

once again supported the Samaritan’s Purse

Operation Christmas Child shoe box appeal.

This year, the school managed to fill an impressive 172

boxes: twenty two more boxes than last year.

Pupils and staff donated

goodies to fill the boxes

and all tutor groups

were involved in making

sure each box was

filled with useful items

and treats, before being

wrapped in festive paper.

The boxes are on their

way to Romania to be

distributed in orphanages

and rural areas, to those

less fortunate.

RIGHT: Lewis Gilby

hands over the

shoeboxes.

BELOW:

Learning Co-ordinator

Mrs Watcham (centre),

with Year 10 pupils (l-r)

Charlie Dunstan, Lewis

Gilby, Ellie-May Riley,

Ellie Maloney and

Sophie Davies.

To raise money for this year’s Children in Need

appeal, Mrs Watcham ran a Pudsey inspired cake

making competition.

The level of entries were very impressive and it was

difficult to choose a winning cake, However, Eleanor

Pickett from Year 11 won the competition with a fantastic

cake which was filled with Smarties.

The cake was raffled off and won by Premises Manager,

Mr Flarty, who then very generously returned the cake to

Eleanor to enjoy with her family after all her hard work.

ABOVE: The bakers with

their cakes.

LEFT: (L-R) Mrs Watcham,

Mrs Horner, Eleanor Pickett

with the winning cake, Mrs

Croft and Mrs Kemp from

Lloyds Banking Group.

BELOW: The judges

struggle to find a winner

from the excellent cakes

submitted.

Yr 8 Grandparents’ Day 2015

On 14th December, Year 8 pupils

invited their grandparents into school

for a Christmas themed afternoon of

hospitality and entertainment.

Pupils met with their grandparents in the

New Hall for tea and cake and to take part in

a Christmas quiz, hosted by quizmaster

Mr Knapton. Two families were successful in

answering all 28 questions correctly, but

Olivia Edwards and her grandma went on to

answer the tie-breaker question correctly

and received a tin of Quality Street for their

efforts.

The audience were then treated to a medley of

seasonal songs performed by pupils across all year

groups. Kaysha Nada in Year 11 performed a

delightful rendition of ‘Have yourself a merry little

Christmas,’ accompanied by Mrs Pankhurst on the

piano, while Year 10 boys Martin Riley and Ryan

Kirby performed an up tempo rendition of ‘Frosty

the snowman’ on electric guitars.

After a festive sing-a-long, everyone was in the

Christmas spirit and the pupils and their

grandparents thoroughly enjoyed their afternoon.

RIGHT: Hallie Edwards with her grandparents.

MIDDLE: Heads together for the quiz.

BOTTOM:

Kacey Buckley offers cake to her nana and Max McGill serves tea and cake to his mum, aunt and cousin.

ABOVE: Lauren Wells enjoys a cuppa with her grandparents.

RIGHT: Olivia Edwards won the Christmas quiz with the help of her grandma, Mrs Lynn Kicks.

Prize Giving Ceremony 2015

On 11th November, a prize giving

presentation evening was held,

to congratulate and recognise

the achievements of the Year 11

pupils who left Healing School,

last academic year.

The event was held at the Humber

Royal Hotel in Grimsby and was

attended by staff, Governors and ex

Healing pupils, who have now moved

on to further education, or

apprenticeships. Mrs Ranyard

presented pupils with their

certificates and ex pupil, Mrs Sarah

Burgess of engineering company

Phillips 66, was the guest speaker.

LEFT: Rachael Maultby won the Health and Social Care cup, Jasturan Padda won the Denise Birrell Trophy for Physics and Ellie Mulligan with the Heghelinge Cup for History.

LEFT: Ex Pupils Nathan Stephenson-Roberts, Jacque Taylor-Vine, Tyler Smith, Katie Thomas, Amelia Steel and Laura Twitchett with their award certificates.

LEFT: Mr Knapton and Sarah Burgess - Lead Process Engineer of Phillips 66, present ex pupil Grace Lawrence (centre) with the Turner Cup for English Literature and the Green Cup for the highest GCSE results.

BELOW: Georgia Greenbury (left) is presented with the Dusty Rhoades Trophy for Science by Mr Knapton and Maisie Carrol (right) receives the Performing Arts Cup from Chair of Governors, Mr Graham Walker.

Vice Principal Leaves For

Pastures New

Vice Principal, Mrs Croft will

be leaving Healing School

on the last day of term, to

take up position of Head at

South Holderness

Technology College in East

Riding of Yorkshire in January.

Mrs Croft said: “I would just like to say a

fond farewell. It will be my last day at

Healing School on 18th December. I've

enjoyed my time at the school tremendously

and will be sorry to leave. Thank you to you

all for all your support over the years, and

have a wonderful Christmas.”

Mr Knapton added “Mrs Croft has been a

wonderfully dedicated and outstanding

teacher who has always been supportive and

helpful to both staff and pupils. She will be

greatly missed.”

Year 8 Pupil, Charlotte Fox

Nominated For Award

Healing School, Year 8 pupil -

Charlotte Fox, was recently

shortlisted for the ‘Female Driver

of the Year’ award by national

publication – Karting Magazine.

12 year old Charlotte, from Great

Coates, was nominated for the

national karting award along with 19

other racers and although she didn’t

win the award, was delighted to be

nominated and came 6th in the

competition.

Charlotte is currently learning to drive

a car and has been encouraged by her

dad. Charlotte said: ‘I come from a

family that is very interested in motor

sports. When I was little, I used to go

to the track to watch my cousin

racing. I was inspired and my dad

encouraged me to get involved.

I began racing when I was 6 and have

now been kart racing for 7 years. I

am looking forward to racing cars

when I turn 14.’

Charlotte’s commitment to the

sport takes her to the Whilton

Mill race track in

Northamptonshire most

weekends, where she is

currently being tutored by

renowned racing instructor –

Jock Clear, who has worked as

Senior Performance Engineer

for both Lewis Hamilton and

Michael Schumacher. Charlotte

even had the opportunity to

meet Lewis Hamilton at the

track and was delighted that

he posed for a ‘selfie!’

Charlotte describes the

experience of kart racing as

both nerve wracking, but

exciting and loves to compete.

‘My friends are really

encouraging. They think it is

good that I am a girl

competing in this type of

sport. I don’t know what the

future holds, but I would like

to be a professional motor

racer when I grow up.’

ABOVE: Charlotte in action on the race track.

LEFT: Charlotte grabs a ‘selfie’ with Lewis Hamilton.

BELOW: With tutor, Jock Clear.

Year 10 Pupil, Kate Bentham, Wins Grimsby

Telegraph ‘Child Of Courage’ Award

Year 10 pupil, Kate Bentham recently won the Grimsby

Telegraph ‘Child of Courage’ Award, after being nominated

by her swimming mentor.

Despite being challenged by disability from birth, Kate has

become an inspirational role model to other young people. Kate

has been swimming all her life and her mentor, Mary Clark of the

Pilgrims Swimming Club, put Kate forward for the award. Mary

was delighted that Kate won the award and said that she

deserves the award for being such an inspiration to others and

said that despite disabilities, Kate never gives up.

Kate said ‘It was amazing to discover I’d won. I am really

grateful to Mary for nominating me, although collecting my

award on stage was nerve wracking!’

Healing

Pupil Wins

National

Kickboxing

Competition

14 year old

Year 10 Pupil

Lorenzo

Ieronimo

recently took

first prize in the

international

kickboxing

competition.

Lorenzo took first

place in the

competition for

his height and

weight, after

competing against

5 other national competitors at the kickboxing championships in Barnsley.

Lorenzo joined the Grimsby Freestyle kickboxing Club two years ago, but only

decided to take up the sport up at competition level last year. He has done

extremely well in such a short space of time, winning several competitions.

Lorenzo has been fortunate enough to meet some big names in the kickboxing

world, including world champion kickboxers Szolt Moradi from Hungary and

Raymond Daniels of the USA.

Lorenzo said he has made some good friends through participating in the sport and

both his family and school friends are really proud of his achievements.

LEFT: Lorenzo

Ieronimo (top row,

second left.) Adam

Mellors (middle row,

first left) and Rachel

Mellors (top row far

right,) of the

Grimsby Freestyle

Kickboxing Club.

BELOW: Lorenzo

wins 6ft trophy

for his kick boxing

success.

Lorenzo Ieronimo

wins gold at the

International

Kickboxing Open.

Brother and Sister Kickboxers Compete Nationally

Adam Mellors in Year 8 and his sister Rachel, in Year 10 have been training with the Grimsby Strike

Team Freestyle Kickboxing Club for 3 years and for the last year, have travelled around the country

competing at national level. The duo train weekly, including 2 fighting sessions a week.

Rachel said that the training sessions help to build confidence and she really likes the feeling of being

in a team. “I love kickboxing. It keeps me fit and is completely different from anything else I do.

It has definitely increased my confidence and it’s a great way to learn new skills and meet new people

from around the country.”

Year 8 Geography Pupils Volcano Challenge

This term, Year 8 Geography students have been designing and

constructing their own volcanoes.

Students were set the task of creating a volcanic eruption. There were

some superb creations and the pupils couldn’t wait to get outside and

watch their volcanoes blow their tops!

The pupils could either used coke and mints or bicarbonate of soda and

vinegar to create a chemical reaction and make their volcanoes explode.

Some of the students decided to

build volcano cakes. The pupils

really enjoyed competing and

seeing which volcano could blow

the ‘lava’ highest. By the end of

the experiment, Mr McCrae was

drenched in Coca-Cola for the rest

of the day!

Pupils watch some of the superb

volcanic eruptions they created.

Long Service Awards

At the end of each year, Healing School presents long service

awards to those staff who are committed employees.

This year, awards were presented to Lunchtime Supervisor, Mrs Pat Wood

and P.E Teacher, Mrs Helena Yeadon. Both staff members have worked at

Healing School for over 10 years. School of Governors, Mr Graham Walker

congratulated Mrs Wood and Mrs Yeadon and thanked them for their

commitment and dedication to the school.

Mrs Yeadon (far left) and Mrs Wood (above) receive their certificate from School Governor, Mr Graham Walker.

LEFT: The ladies with their proud families.

Healing Helpers

Healing Helpers was

established 3 years ago by

Miss Plant and Mrs Ranyard,

as a support network for

children within the school .

Pupils are able to discuss issues

surrounding friends, homework,

relationships, amongst many other

minor problems they may

experience. It is a particularly

useful service for year 7 pupils

who have made the transition

from primary school to secondary

in the September term.

The service is now run by Mrs

Hallatt, with the support of Miss

Plant and Mrs Ranyard and is also

assisted by Year 9 pupils who

have applied to be Healing

Helpers. The Year 9 pupils have

been given some informal training

on dealing with issues that may

arise with pupils and are fully

aware of the issues that they need

to refer onto a staff member for

further advice and support.

There is also an email system that

pupils can use if they prefer:

healinghelpers@healingssc.net

This is an excellent service

provided by the pupils which gives

them the responsibility to support

their peers. For those attending

for support it is valuable to be

understood and listened to by

other pupils who may have been

through similar experiences

themselves.

Healing Helpers is open every

lunchtime from 12.10 to 13.10

in the room next to Mrs Croft’s

office, where two members of the

team will be present for pupils wishing to access

the service.

Geography Globetrotters

Update

During this half term,

Globetrotters, the

Healing School

Geography Club have

been learning about

where we live.

Pupils were asked to

create their own collage

or brochure using images, postcards and newspaper reports.

The pupils researched about their family life, their home town

and the activities in their area. Here are some of the globe

trotting pupils with their display of work in the background. Mr McCrae

The Children's Commissioner's

Takeover

Challenge

The takeover is a

hugely successful

children and young

people’s engagement

project which sees

organisations across

the UK opening their

doors to young

people, allowing them

to gain experience in

adult roles.

It puts children and

young people into

decision-making

positions and

encourages

organisations and

businesses to hear their

views. Children gain an

insight into the adult

world and organisations

benefit from a fresh

perspective about their

work.

Year 11 pupil Alfie

Hallett (Deputy Member

of Youth Parliament for

North East Lincolnshire)

visited North East

Lincolnshire Council for

the day. He explored

the role of Deputy Chief

Executive and attended

several meetings. Alfie

was able to meet council

workers from different

directorates and hear

their views on current

issues.

Camps International

Borneo Trip Update

Regular readers will know that

Year 11 and 12 pupils are visiting

Borneo next summer to take part

in community projects organised

by expedition specialists, Camps

International.

Flights are now booked and the pupils

are well on their way to raising their

individual £4,000 target to fund their

trip.

Mrs Plant visited Borneo during the

autumn half term, for reconnaissance

and to prepare for the arrival of the

students.

The school has supported pupils by

holding a number of events; £220 was

raised from the donation of unwanted

clothes earlier in the year. We intend

to repeat this exercise in the new year,

so please keep hold of any unwanted

items to donate to the school in 2016.

Mrs Plant has also been working with

the pupils, making Christmas

decorations, cards and cake pops, to

sell at the annual staff craft event.

We are also planning on holding a prize

bingo evening in school in February.

If anyone would like to donate a prize

for the bingo, this would be much

appreciated. Please give bingo prizes

to Mrs Ranyard, or hand in at the

school office.

Mrs Ranyard

This term Healing Primary school held a Science Day

event, in which all lessons were entirely dedicated to

science.

By working with our science department, they arranged a

Crime Scene Investigation day. All students took part and

the focus was to look into what it would be like to be

involved in the CSI. A whole range of activities was on

offer, including Chromatography, which involved analysing

the different colours in various pens which enabled the

pupils to match a pen to a ransom note.

Pupils really enjoyed being able to analyse their own finger

prints, plus they had to solve the case and ‘Catch the

Culprit’.

Healing Science Academy provided the microscopes and

the pupils had the opportunity to look closely at various

objects they couldn’t normally see.

It was a very enjoyable for both students and staff.

Mr Ramsden

Forensic Science Day For Primary Pupils

Healing Christmas Concert

The Christmas Concert this year

consisted a range of year groups

involved from Year 7 to Year 11.

The pupils and the school's choir performed

their own arrangements of classics, such

as: 'Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas',

Jingle Bells, 'Fairytale of New York' and 'All

I Want For Christmas'. The pupils conducted

themselves with professionalism throughout

the concert and the backstage and lighting

crew were fantastic. Over 120 people

attended the evening and an enjoyable

evening was had by all.

Many thanks go to all the staff and students

who were involved in making the evening

successful and to those who supported the

event.

See you at the summer recital!

Miss Roberts

ABOVE: Olivia

Bennett, Lily

Richardson,

Ryan Kirby,

Mollie Thorpe-

Green and

Katie Cherrell.

LEFT: The performers and backstage crew.

RIGHT: Guitar soloist, Ryan Kirby.

Impressive Skills Shown By Year 8

Girls Netball Team

Well done to the year 8 Netball team who came an

impressive 2nd position in the Grimsby and District

Netball Tournament on Tuesday 8th December.

All of the girls have improved their game and played

some fantastic netball. We saw some impressive shooting

from Anna Lisztovszki (back row, second left) and Millie

Magson. Well done girls.

Mrs Yeadon

Key Stage 3 Girls Badminton

Champions.

Three teams from Key Stage 3

competed at the annual Grimsby and

District Badminton tournament.

The girls all played incredibly well, used

great tactics and never gave up on any

point. There were some fantastic rallies

and close games, but every Healing pupil

showed great determination. The three

teams finished in 4th, 3rd and 1st place

which was a fantastic achievement. This

event has been won by the same school

every year since the competition began

which makes winning this competition

even more impressive for Healing School.

The winning Team, who will now go on to

represent the district in the Humber finals,

were (L-R) Anna Lisztovszki, Millie

Magson, Stephanie Skelton and Abigail

Brady. Well done girls.

Miss Sass

Indoor Cricket Tournament

Year 7 & 8 boys came 2nd in the indoor

cricket tournament, losing the final by 14

runs. They played brilliantly throughout

and adapted to the new game really well.

They won both group games against

Wintringham and Havelock so made the

final against Toll Bar.

Mr Blockley

Swimming Team Swim to Success

It was another fabulous year for Healing schools

swimming team, during our last ever gala at

Grimsby swimming pool.

Overall squad captains of Amber Harris and Adam

Nadin led from the front with fantastic effort and

enthusiasm, with Alex Lynn and Jess Skelton both

achieving well as captains of the years 10 and 11

teams.

Our year 7 boys team came away with the winner’s

trophy, and managed to not drop a single point.

Special mention must go to Harvey Harris, for his

assistance during training and with the organisation of

swimmers. Ellie Buxton (year 9 girls captain) lead her

team to the winner’s trophy, with fantastic efforts in

all events – the encouragement reached an all-time

high with these fantastic girls.

Year 8 boys team also came away victorious with the

winner’s trophy, with exceptional swims from Will

Gale (who did not stop smiling for the whole event)

and Alex Woods.

Due to a massive points difference, our 2015 team

also came home with the overall boys champions

trophy, which should give us a great level of

momentum to put forward into next year’s event.

Many thanks to all that swam, we were exceptionally

proud of you.

Mrs Stead

Year 9 Pupils’ Biscuit Decorating

Competition

Year 9 food technology

pupils had a fun afternoon

designing and creating

festive biscuits.

For homework, the pupils were

given a recipe to bake a batch

of biscuits, then brought them

in to lesson to decorate them.

Mrs Bell and Mrs Watcham

then had the task of choosing

a winner, which proved

difficult! Rebekah Johnston was

the overall winner, with a 3D

Christmas tree creation.

ABOVE: Rebekah Johnson

with her 3D Christmas tree

cookie.

Cross Country

Event

The Healing teams did

exceptionally well at the

Cross Country event and

showed great

determination and

character to complete a

gruelling course.

The year 7 boys and year 8

and 9 combined boys team

both won their respective

competitions. Some of the

stand out performers where

George Gale who came 1st

in the Year 7 boys, Will

Gale who came 1st in Year

8 and 9 boys, Grace Lovett

who came 2nd in the Year

10 & 11 girls and Harry

Mckenzie who came 2nd in

the Year 10 and 11 boys.

Well done to all who

participated, you were a

credit to the school.

Mr Blockley

Boys County Badminton Champions

Healing retained the trophy won last year with

another dominant display at the North East

Lincolnshire Schools KS3 badminton

tournament.

The winners, Healing ‘A Team’ of Josh McCloud, Ben

Smith, Nathan Sharpe and Ethan Hall won all their

matches and beat Humberston in the final. They

now go on to represent North East Lincolnshire in

Hull for the regional finals in February.

In the KS4 tournament, the Healing team of Adam

Parker, Jacob Roberts, Jordan Brader and Tom

Armitage came within 2 points of winning the

tournament. It all came down to the final game

against Toll Bar and the final doubles match.

Healing played brilliantly throughout the tournament

and were so unlucky to lose in this final game.

Mr Norman

Key Stage 3 Basketball

Champions

The KS3 basketball team were outstanding

at the Grimsby and District tournament.

They won all their games in the preliminary

rounds and met tollbar in the final. They won

the final 6-2 in a fantastic display of skill and

effort. They have all trained incredibly hard for

this event and their coach Miss Warner was very

proud of them throughout the event.

The winning team were Katie Ramsden, Katie

Donner, Tayah Godfrey, Katie Ramsden, Gabbie

Walker, Amelia Stanley, Ellie Mae Cheung

and Anna Lisztovszki. Well done to all involved.

Miss Sass

BELOW: (L-R) Katie Cherrel, Mollie Thorpe-Green, Brooke Gowshall, Grace Lovett, Alice Howard and Amber Harris.