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News from Highgate Wood School arts college
Issue No 6 June 2012 CONSIDERATION COOPERATION COURTESY CONTRIBUTION
Loughborough University
University for the Creative Arts
Nottingham University
Newcastle University
University of East Anglia
Edinburgh University
Bristol University
University of Leeds
University of Sussex
University of Hull
University of Southampton
Sheffield University
University of Keele
University of Exeter
Imperial College Queen Mary’s College Goldsmiths College UCL
Over of our
students finishing
A Level courses this
year have applied
for places in Higher
Education. All have
successfully received
offers.
Here are some of the
university destinations
from which confirmed
offers have already
been received. University of Chester
University of Swansea
University of Cardiff
Birmingham University
90%
Manchester University
Durham University
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The school’s mobile friendly website
now carries the exam timetable.
If you go to the regular school website
from a mobile device you will get the
mobile screen rather than the usual one
and will be able to access the exam
timetable for this summer’s GCSE and
GCE public exams.
Cover picture:
Our Year 13 students have already received a large
number of confirmed offers from institutions around the
country to study a wide range of different subjects.
Our students will be studying things as diverse as Marine
Biology, Aeronautical Engineering, Creative Writing,
Fashion, Advertising and Criminology, as well as the more
traditional English, Economics, History, Geography,
Linguistics, Mathematics, Psychology, Pharmacology and
Politics & Philosophy degree pathways.
We wish them all the very best in their chosen careers.
Chair of Governors:
Charles Wright (Community Governor)
Vice Chair:
Imogen Pennell (Representative Governor)
Representative Governors:
Cllr Eddie Griffith • Oliver Blackaby • Brenda Allan
Parent Governors:
Andrew Boardman • Diana Brown • Philip Cavendish
Caroline Conlon • Elizabeth Hess • Carol Vincent
Rob White
Community Governors:
Phil Cocksedge • Janice Dolan • Violet Hazelwood‐Henry
Chris Parr Headteacher Governor:
Patrick Cozier
Staff Governors:
Tristan Ashman • Jack Fitzgerald • Saad Gul Mohammed
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
Katharine Boardman writes:
Calling all parents.
Madfest is rapidly approaching and we need
donations. Teenage books, computer games,
DVD's ,CD's, vinyl, seedlings, plants, homemade
produce ‐ jams, honey, chutney, lemon curd and
prizes for the tombola and raffle.
All donations are welcome.
Please help make this the most successful Madfest
ever.
Donations can be left in the Wren Office at the
school.
HIGHGATE WOOD SCHOOL GOVERNING BODY
COURSE OUTLINES
Course outlines for the new academic year will be
posted on the school website and the Parent’s page
of the MLE during the half term break. However,
changes to exam specifications, following the
Department for Education’s GCSE reform and the
move towards linear exams, has meant that detailed
specifications are not available for all courses being
started in June 2012. The Key Stage 4 handbook will
therefore be fully revised over the summer break
when fuller details are available.
To receive mailings on these updates please e‐mail
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MESSAGE FROM THE HEADTEACHER
A Special Edition for
each Year Group!
Welcome to the June
edition of Insight. As
always you will find this
edition full of
information highlighting
many of the
achievements of our
incredible students over
the last few months. We
hope that you will get a
sense of the amazing range of activities and
opportunities that our students benefit from at
Highgate Wood School thanks to our dedicated staff.
We have also decided that at this time of timetable
roll, we would make this June edition special by doing
a bespoke edition for each year group to include a
message from the respective Heads of Learning.
New Timetable Starts on June 11th – New Year
Group Names
The new timetable will be in operation from 8:35am
Monday 11th June after half term . As well as the
curriculum advantages that I referred to in the March
edition of Insight, the other bonus for students is the
progression into their new year groups.
From Monday 11th June, we will consider that our
students have graduated one year up – hence our
Year 7s will be the new Year 8; our Year 8s will be the
new Year 9; our Year 9s will be the new Year 10, our
Year 10s will be the new Year 11. Our current Year 11
students who have begun their public exams will be
known as Year 11 Exam Group or Year 11 Plus.
We believe that this is more than just a label as it
gives students the additional boost of feeling a year
older.
Please be sure to remember their new year group
when communicating with the school about your
child after half term as their tutor group will also
change name.
Post 16 Applications & Places Offered – An Update
We are very pleased with the number of offers that
we have been able to make for places in the 6th
Form. Having been involved in the interviews
personally, I know just how well our students
presented themselves and I have been impressed
with their maturity in discussing their futures.
Recently, myself and Nick Charlesworth (Head of 6th
Form) visited Year 11s in their tutor periods to give
them an update on recruitment and respond to
questions.
Looking at the last three years, we have good reason
to be pleased. The table below shows the pattern of
offers that have been made to students interviewed
for a place in the HWS 6th Form over the last three
years – including the current Year 11. The BLUE bars
represent offers for HWS Year 11 students. The RED
bars show the number of places offered to students
who do not currently attend Highgate Wood School
You can see that the number of places offered to
Year 11 Highgate Wood School students has
increased over the last three years with a record
number of 164 offers this year. Our feeling that our
Sixth Form is becoming more popular both within and
beyond Highgate Wood is also evidenced by the
number of offers that we have made to Year 11s who
currently attend other schools across Haringey and
beyond. With 98 places offered, we have almost
doubled the places offered in each of the previous
two years.
In order to deal with what we expect to be a high
demand for places at the start of the autumn term,
we have taken the decision to hold our first day of
enrolment on the 23rd August – the day of the GCSE
results. We anticipate that this will give HWS year 11s
the first opportunity to secure places onto their
choice of courses.
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We are very proud of our Year 11s, we have every
faith in their ability to do well in their exams and we
look forward to seeing a large number of them
thriving in the 6th Form from this September.
Year 11 and Post 16 Students – Preparation for
Exams
Year 11 and Post 16 students have been working hard
for weeks now in preparation for their public exams.
In the last issue of Insight I shared with you the GCSE
prediction for our Year 11s – showing that we expect
to improve on last year’s record high.
The same is true of our Year 13 students as shown in
the table below.
We are confident that our Year 13s will do
themselves and the school proud by achieving
excellent results and more importantly securing their
chosen university places for the autumn term.
INSET Afternoons – An Explanation
A number of parents have recently written into the
school raising queries about the number of early
closures that we have for afternoons that have been
designated for staff training. For the absence of
confusion, I will try to clarify the situation.
Every school in the country allocates the equivalent
of five whole school days per academic year where
the school will be closed to students to give time for
staff development and training. This is valuable time
where staff have an opportunity to develop aspects
of their practice and hone their skills to improve the
quality of provision for our students. The way in
which those five days are allocated will vary from
school to school in terms of when those days are
calendared and how they are broken up.
This year at Highgate Wood we have allocated four
whole school days where the school is closed to
students. The other day (equivalent to five hours of
lessons) has been allocated as five one hour INSET
afternoons, i.e. five days during the year when school
finishes at lunchtime to give staff one hour (plus
some time after school) to utilise various training
opportunities.
Importantly, the overall time that has been allocated
to staff training and development is consistent with
what is provided for by law (and what it has always
been at HWS). I hope that this helps to clarify any
confusion on this matter.
Good Luck to Staff who are leaving…
Unfortunately we will be losing a few members of
staff this half term. Sally Wynn (English) is leaving at
the end of this week to begin her maternity leave, but
will not be returning to HWS. Ameena Riaz (ICT) has
been on maternity leave, and has decided to focus on
family life and pursue other interests; hence she will
not be returning. We are greatly indebted to both of
them for the excellent contribution that they have
both made to the school. The students and staff will
miss them and their influence significantly.
Also, Cai Jia Eng (Art) and Bola Awoyemi (ICT) have
been with us on long term supply covering maternity
leaves. Both will be leaving HWS at the end of this
week. I want to thank them for their very positive
contribution and hard work. They have both done a
great job!
We wish them all the very best for the future!
... 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 half term break and Jubilee Celebrations (for
those of you participating).
Please remember, we return on Monday 11th June at
8.35am. It will be Week 1.
Regards
Patrick Cozier
Headteacher
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Mr O’Connor writes:
Selected students from
Highgate Wood School
will again be attending
the summer’s London
Model UN Conference.
The theme of this
year’s conference is the
Arms Trade Treaty
and will be held at
Mulberry School for
Girls on 12th and
13th July. There has already been one meeting to
select delegates from the current Year 9 and Year 10.
Ms Hassan writes:
If you are wishing to cancel individual Music
Instrumental Lessons for your child from September
– I need to know NOW either by email or in writing.
Please note that invoices for September will be sent
out late August/beginning of September and must
be paid BY THE END OF SEPTEMBER. There is only 1
month now for payment to be made UNLESS prior
arrangement has been made with Mrs Hassan to pay
by instalments or by post‐dated cheques. This MUST
be arranged prior to September.
Orchestra will re‐start on TUESDAY lunchtimes at
1.30‐2.00pm the WEEK AFTER HALF TERM ‐ 19th
JUNE and will be led by Mr Harlow.
Music Theory Classes will commence in September (if
demand is high enough) for students who are EITHER
working towards their Grade 4 or higher in an
instrument OR are considering studying A‐Level
Music, in which case Grade 5 Theory is essential. If
you might be interested in attending these Theory
Classes please register your name with Mrs Hassan in
the Drum Office. Lessons will be scheduled during a
lunchtime and will last for 30 minutes.
MUSIC NOTICES
MAGAZINE PRODUCTION—A YEAR 7 PROJECT
Ms Pinnick writes:
In English lessons, Year 7 students have been studying
the forms and conventions of magazines. They have
produced sample pages for their own magazines.
7T were set a challenge to launch a new magazine
called KIDZ aimed at 10 to 14 year old boys and
girls. They worked in groups to develop their ideas
and come up with sample pages.
I have been very impressed by the students’ ideas,
their attention to the forms and conventions and the
way in which they have learned to use the software
program InDesign.
I am certain a professional career in the media awaits
many of them.
MODEL UN CONFERENCE
Ms Green writes:
Debating Club will be open for our
current Year 7s from after half term.
The Year 8 debating team have been
preparing a training programme which
they will be running every Wednesday after school
from 3:15 ‐4:15. Anyone who’d like to join needs to
sign up in the LRC as there are limited spaces.
Well done to our Year 8 team who beat the teachers
in a debate on mobile phones in Year 7 assembly!
And a big thank you to Mr Ashman, Ms Wilson, Mr
O’Connor and Mr Fitzgerald who bravely took to the
stage to compete against our Year 8 debating
champions!
DEBATE MATE FOR YEAR 7s
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Elena Baldwin 9D: The original painting 'American
Gothic' was about the traditional roles of men and
women. I changed it by switching the roles. The
woman is now wearing a suit and holding the
pitchfork showing that she's the one working. the
man is wearing an ordinary T‐shirt showing he's
staying at home. My version of the painting shows
equality of men and women.
Felix Brown 9T: The assignment was to create an
advert for "you" emphasising typography from the
media and to include your personality in the piece eg
hobbies, interests etc. I chose to use typography from
the Guardian to include a sense of education and
intelligence. Due to the fact that I was dressed up
smartly for the photograph I chose to create a
character that is rich sophisticated and very musical.
Miss Eng writes:
Year 9 have come a long way this year in being independent with their ideas, seeing the conceptual side of Art
as well as practising their skills. They have created work that really shows their own personalities: unique,
humorous and engaged with the world around them. Well done Year 9, we look forward to seeing what you
bring us at GCSE level!
SAM LEARNING PROJECT
ART AT THE END OF YEAR 9
Mr Ashman writes:
Highgate Wood School has
teamed up with SAM
Learning to see how much
their on‐line revision tools
can help support learning.
SAM is already well
established in the education market with more than 2
million students using its resources, which consist
mainly of interactive revision exercises.
We are hoping to exploit these existing resources ‐
which cover most subjects ‐ and also see how the
system can bring benefits to develop independent
learning and consolidate understanding in other
ways.
Our plans include working to integrate it within our
MLE, making SAM Learning available to students
who are off school for some reason and also
involving students not simply in answering
questions but actually putting together possible
revision tasks and exercises.
All Highgate Wood School students have now got
accounts, and details will be issued after half term.
For those who wish to go onto the site early they
should visit www.samlearning.com. The Centre ID
is N8HW and their username is your date of birth
followed by your initials. So Alex Patel who was
born on 1st March 1998 would be 010398AP. The
password is the same as the username.
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Blue Weiss 9G: I think the picture and
captions reflect my hobbies as well as
representing the generation I'm part
of.
Lily Kelly 9T: This painting was adapted from 'Girl with
a Pearl Earring'. The change to a woolly hat, coat and
large earring signifies the change in fashion in the two
different eras even though I used the same colours.
Josie Shand 9W: I have changed the painting 'Portrait
of Pope Innocent X' to show the change in what society
respects.
Alexandra Burgess 9G: I incorporated
an advertisement into a portrait I
drew.
Malik Newman Belfor 9D:
More and more people are
leaving traditional jobs to seek
big money in the city.
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Mme Lacroix and Mr Marriott
write: Modern Foreign Languages have
been working with the Art department to
redesign the languages corridor using
famous cultural elements of France,
Germany and Spain.
This has been an ongoing project
and this term Year 8 students have
been honing their stencil painting and
linguistic skills as they brighten up the
space at the top of Adams building
and develop it as an area for learning. Many
thanks go out to Libby Archer, Martha Berkmann,
Gabriel Clarke, Beth Gosschalk, Hedy Irvine, Fabian Marks,
Colette Rogers, Emma Skinner and Yoshiki Vernon.
Ms Osborne writes:
Eight Year 10 students had the opportunity to take
part in another highly successful trip to Estonia as
part of the Comenius project.
With healthy active lifestyle as the theme, the focus
in Estonia was on international sports. The eight
students had the chance to explore and play a variety
of different sports from 6 other European countries
as well as presenting cricket as the representative
sport of England and teaching the others how to play
it.
All students took part in the games with great
enthusiasm “Learning different version of games was
fun and made it easy to get to know other students”
In addition to enjoying with sporting activities the
students participated in a number of visits to local
sites of interest to experience Estonian culture and
lifestyle, including visiting the capital city of Tallinn
and the traditional town of Vatsellina.
“I didn’t realise Estonia was so old all the buildings
were really different to back in London”
Now we are back in England the students will be
presenting the new sports they have learnt to KS3
students and preparing the PE department to
introduce them in lessons for Year 7 and 8.
COMENIUS PROJECT—ESTONIA VISIT
ART ON THE LANGUAGES CORRIDOR
18th, 19th, 20th June Want to enter? We need:
Your band members\dance group
The song you are playing Instruments each member is playing
Year group of each member
Get this information on paper put it in the Audition Box in Mrs Hassan’s Office
Audition Box Closes on Tuesday 12th June
Remember MADFEST is on 7th July
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This year's exhibition was a great
celebration of all the hard work
our GCSE students have put into
these subjects over the last two
years. The event was well
attended, with parents having the
opportunity to see where all the
hard work has been leading to.
Many visitors commented on how
the level of work was extremely
high and were impressed by the
huge range and breadth of
pieces on display. It included
painting, a range of animation
work, photographic work,
drawing and miniature sculptures,
as well as origami sculpture and installation work,
and much, much more.
In the Design Technology section Product Design a
wide range of desk lamps designed in the style of
Memphis Milano were displayed. Both Textiles and
Food Technology also exhibited work of a very high
standard showing the broad range of our students'
design skills.
We are very proud of our cohort this year, and how
they have raised the standard of the show. The
breadth of work was truly astounding. Some students
were awarded a prize for their dedication to their
subjects throughout the two years.
GCSE exhibition art & design design & technology
Product Design:
Ozan Bakir
Food Technology:
Sam Boundy
Textiles:
Aya Oguri
Art:
Sophie Gladstone
Kezia Lenton
Abdi Adan
Adriana Hancock
Suraj Deb
Bridie Scott Price
Millie Page
Ben Owen
Laurence Unger
Ellie Patterson
Special prizes were awarded for particular inspiring
and high standard work which had been produced
consistently throughout the two years:
Greg Bushell
Daisy Aldridge
Artist: Daisy Aldridge
Artist: Zoe Waite
Artist: Damla Ozeler
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Mr Hartley writes:
Over the last twelve months many
students have significantly improved
their attendance and punctuality.
The school’s Educational Welfare Officer,
Mr Worth, has already issued 94
certificates to those whose attendance
has been transformed, and is hoping that
this will increase to a hundred by the
end of the year.
As the new timetable begins I urge all
students to remember how important it
is to maintain good attendance. Regular
attendance at school means you will
achieve better grades in your exams and
enjoy greater success in your future
career.
And if you are ill and need to take time
off, please make sure that you catch up
on all the work you missed.
Parents and carers can help by avoiding
booking holidays during term time and
arranging doctor and dentist
appointments outside of school hours.
ATTENDANCE UPDATE
The A-level Art & Design Exhibition will be on 15th June
Examples of some of the outstanding Product Design work on display at the GCSE Exhibition 2012, from Adam
Khan, Brandon Comley and Huseyin Ozkes.
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Football journalist and author, Dan Freedman visited
Highgate Wood School on Thursday 24th May to speak to
students in years 7 and 8 about his books, his
experiences as a journalist, his inspiration and
writing process.
Dan gave a really interesting presentation with some
funny anecdotes about interviewing the likes of Messi
and Beckham and inspiring words about
becoming a novelist before answering lots of
thoughtful questions from students.
Dan Freedman is the author of the Jamie
Johnson series. Dan says about his books:
“The idea behind the books was a very simple
one: I wanted to write the kind of books that I
would have loved to have read when I was
younger. That meant lots of drama, fast‐paced
action and, of course lots of football.”
Ms Green writes:
Book Club members have just finished reading ‘A
Witch in Winter’, the story of a teenage girl who
discovers hidden magical powers when she moves
from London to live in the countryside with her
father. The author of the novel, Ruth Warburton
visited Book Club in the LRC on Friday 25th May to
meet her fans. It was great to meet her and hear part
of her next book ‘A Witch in Love’ (a great privilege as
it’s not even in the shops yet!). Book Club members
had lots of interesting questions and thoughts on the
book, which Ruth was delighted to discuss. Ruth said
the girls were ‘a credit to the school’.
Nazilcan Kucuk says: “Book Club is actually fun! The
first time I heard about it, I thought ‘who would go to
Book Club?!’ But when I joined in, I realised it’s so
fun. We even get to meet the author of the book
we’ve read! The book ‘A Witch in Winter’ was really
exciting – I couldn’t put it down!”
BOOK CLUB NEWS ‐ Ruth Warburton visit
What the author thought of her visit:
“On Friday I had a brilliant school event at Highgate Wood School. I was invited in to talk to a reading group who’d done A Witch in Winter, so I knew in advance that everyone would have read the book which was great as I didn’t have to spend any time filling people in on the plot – they knew it all already!
The girls had lots of brilliant questions about how I went about researching the book, and whether it was hard to get published. In between answering them we ate lemon meringue pies (YUM) and discussed our favourite scene – most people voted for the sleepover scene where Anna first casts the spell, but a few people went for my personal favourite – when Seth’s car has fallen off the cliff.
Then I read a section from Book 2 which was a bit nerve‐wracking because they were the very first “real” people to hear it. (It’s not in the shops yet).
The best bit was they made some brilliant posters for the book, and gave me a card.”
BOOK CLUB NEWS ‐ Dan Freedman visit
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We celebrated National
Shakespeare Day on 23rd April
by running a Shakespeare‐
inspired poetry
competition. The entries
were all of an incredibly
high standard and choosing
a winner was extremely
difficult.
However, the overall winner of
the Highgate Wood School Shakespeare Poetry
Competition 2012 was Alice Bowen, who wrote an
excellent sonnet about William Shakespeare. Nik
Lerche and Tommy Escott were both runners‐up for
their outstanding poems. Well done to all who
submitted a poem for this competition. All poems
have also been entered into a National Young Writers
competition, where winners could see their work
published in an anthology.
WINNERS OF SHAKESPEARE POETRY COMPETITION ANNOUNCED
Will the Bard by Alice Bowen
Shall I compare yours to another play? They are more clever and more powerful. The Comedies are funny every day And the Tragedies are never dull. The one I love the best is ‘Much Ado’ With Beatrice and Benedick’s love and hate. I saw it with David Tenant (Doctor Who) And Beatrice was played by Catherine Tate. ‘Romeo and Juliet’ is very sad Because they fall in love and then they die. Their family feud was very bad And the story always makes me cry. Will the Bard, you’re the world’s greatest poet.
You’re simply the best and don’t we all know it!
Year 7, 8 and 9 students have set upon the challenge
of reading and reviewing the eight shortlisted books
for the Carnegie Award 2012
To see what our students have to say about the
Carnegie shortlisted books, visit the link off the LRC
pages of the school website (off the Learning Tab).
A special well done to Faye Heron and Rosa Elson
who have been our Star Reviewers so far!
On Wednesday 30th May, Carnegie readers will be
visiting reception pupils at Coleridge Primary School
to run small group reading sessions using the books
short listed for this year’s Kate Greenaway Award.
All Carnegie readers will be invited to a Carnegie
Awards Ceremony in the LRC at lunchtime on
Thursday 14th June to announce and celebrate this
year’s winning author.
A Carnegie member in year 7 says: “Being a Carnegie
reader is really great as I love reading! We get all the
best new books picked out for us so we don’t have to
go through the process of picking a book and then
not liking it, which is really annoying and more
importantly, boring! We get to do loads of stuff that
no one else gets to do for instance, the time when we
got to go down to Coleridge Primary School to read to
the reception classes and making videos about the
books we’ve read.”
THE CARNEGIE AWARD 2012
LEARNING RESOURCE CENTRE Open: every school day at 8:00 am
every break time
every lunchtime
and... every school day after school:
until 5:00 pm Monday to Wednesday
until 4:00 pm on Thursday and Friday
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Highgate Wood School 6th Former, Theo Danko has
been selected from hundreds to take part in the
innovative mentoring programme run by the Dame Kelly
Holmes Legacy Trust and AQA.
Twenty young people from across the UK will take part
in the Unlocking Potential programme. Through a
combination of community projects and personal
development challenges, Unlocking Potential will help
bring out the best in these young people. Theo will be
working with Olympic Hockey player Darren Cheeseman.
Dame Kelly Holmes, said: “Unlocking Potential is a personal development programme that will give Theo a
fantastic opportunity to make a really positive impact on his local community. In a project delivered by world‐
class sports stars, Theo has earned the chance to learn from winners in sport, helping him to be the best he can
be.”
Nick Charlesworth, Head of Sixth Form comments: “Theo is a fantastically hard work student who really
commits to everything he does. It is no surprise to those at Highgate Wood to see Theo selected for this
program and in an Olympic year too.”
Theo himself is thrilled about the opportunities this brings to him personally but is even more excited about
how this will help others. “I am honoured to get this opportunity to make a greater difference for the Hillcrest
Charity” he says.
Louie attended the London Regional Athletics
(disabilities) Games in April and won not just one
medal, but five.
He gained Silver medals for 60 metre, shot and relay
and Golds for javelin and discuss.
Well done Louie. A brilliant result and an inspiration
to us all.
VICTORY FOR LOUIE SMITH
SIXTH FORMER THEO DANKO TO WORK WITH OLYMPIC SPORTSMAN
Ms Harmer writes:
All students are
invited to enter this
official competition to be
in with a chance of winning Olympic
merchandise, signed prizes and wristbands.
Find out everything you can about your favourite
Olympic event or athlete ‐ show what you have
learned by designing and making an exciting display
to be hung in one of our Olympic rings in the school
entrance.
Come to the Art Office to collect your entry
pack. Entry deadline Friday 22nd June.
http://getset.london2012.com/en/heroes/our‐
greatest‐team‐competition
OLYMPIC DISPLAY COMPETITION
TICKETS FOR THE OLYMPICS
Ms Christodoulou writes:
As announced in the last issue of
Insight we are in the process of
selecting those students who will
be considered for the Olympic Tick‐
ets the school has received as part
of the Get Set programme.
We will be announcing the names very soon!
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SCIENCE CLUB EXPLORING BIODIVERSITY
Congratulations Jahii Laudat, Joe Parker, Robbie Dalgliesh, Martin Donnerly, Jem Navin Holder, Luc Hohman,
Tyrane Wynter, Fabio Mariosa, Sushilla Ghose Conveney, Montana Cameron, Ruby Webb, Lauren Gee, Paige
Christopher, Isabella Considine, Christina Broomes, Scarlet Boxer and Lily Kelly ‐ winners of the Super 8
Combined Year 8/9 Haringey Athletics Championships.
Over the next few weeks there are lots of
important public examinations happening at
school.
Please ensure you are as quiet as possible when
you are passing any room where an exam is
happening. It is best to assume that there is
always an examination in the Hall and Gym.
Be considerate of your fellow students
If you have an examination do remember:
Arrive in good time for the exam
Bring the appropriate equipment
Have a breakfast
Drink plenty of water
Ms Taylor writes:
Year 7 Science Club
has been happening
on Monday lunch‐
times from 1.10 ‐ 1.40 in P8—though as you can see
we are not always confined to the classroom.
.Starting next term any KS3 scientists keen to explore
Biology, Chemistry or Physics should come along (we
try to do as many explosions as possible!).
All welcome!
If you want any more information please ask me or
your science teacher.
The school calendar is now available on‐line at www.hws.uk.com
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4th—8th June HALF TERM
Mon 11th June @ 8:35 am New Timetable Starts ‐ Week One
Friday 20th July End of term Early finish @12:25
Fri 22nd June Year 11 Celebration Evening
Thurs 12th July Full Governing Body Meeting
SUMMER TERM 2012
AUTUMN 2012 Wed 5th September
26th Oct ‐ 2nd Nov
Friday 21st Dec
Term Starts *
Half term break
Term Ends
SPRING 2013 Mon 7th Jan
18th Feb– 22nd Feb
Thurs 28th March
Term Starts
Half term break
Term Ends
SUMMER 2013 Mon 15th April
27th—31st May
Wed 24th July
Term Starts
Half term break
Term Ends
* dates for 2012‐13 are provisional at the moment
Saturday 7th July MADFest
* Tuesday 4th September is a Staff training day
Monday 2nd July New Parents Evening
Tuesday 3rd July Year 6 transition day
Monday 16th July Sports Day
Term starts again on Monday 11th June at the normal time of 8:35 am.
It will be Week One.
Students should start the day by going to the first lesson of their new timetable.
Thursday 16th August 2012 A/AS level Results Day (Collection time 11:00 am ‐ 1:00 pm)
Thursday 23rd August 2012 GCSE Results Day (Collection time 11:00 am ‐ 1:00 pm)
Thursday 23rd August 2012 First day of post 16 enrolment
Fri 15th June A Level Art & Design Exhibition