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Cox Green School

Newsletter

15 May — 19 May 2017

Committed to Achievement

What’s On

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Dates for your Diary

New Headteacher Appointment

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HPV Vaccinations

Student Stationary Shop

Year 13 Access Card

Year 11 & 13 Leavers

Sixth Form Cake Sale

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Positive Points Winners

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Positive Points Winners

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Work Experience

Fidget Spinners

Library News

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Social Media Letter

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National Citizen Service

Weekly Calendar

Monday 15th May Year 10 Career Interviews all week GCSE and A Level Exams commence

Tuesday 16th May

Year 10 Student Council Meeting Year 8 Girls HPV 2nd Vaccination 3pm - 6pm - Yr 7 Athletics - District Trials @ TVAC Eton

Wednesday 17th May Year 9 Student Council Meeting Yr7-10 Boys Atheletics ESAA Track & Field Cup R1

@ Palmer Park, Reading

Thursday 18th May Year 8 Student Council Meeting 3.30pm - 5.30pm - Yr 7 Rounders - RBWM League

@ Charters

Friday 19th May Year 7 Student Council Meeting

Football Lilly

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Dates for your Diary

Mon 22—Fri 26 May Year 10 Career Interviews

Wednesday 24 May Whole School Student Council Meeting

Friday 26 May End of Term 5—School Closes at 3.15pm

Monday 29 May —Friday 2 June Half Term Holiday

Monday 5 June INSET DAY

Tuesday 6 June Start of Term 6

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Year 8 girls HPV Vaccinations—Part 2

On Tuesday 16th May 2017

Please ensure your child has had breakfast and wears a short sleeved shirt

THE STUDENT STATIONERY SHOP

will be

CLOSED

1st Break on Tuesday 16 May

Year 13’s

Don’t forget to return your Access Card to the finance Office

to claim back your £5 deposit

Sixth Form Cake Sale - Friday 12th May

The Sixth Form organised a break time Cake Sale raising a fabulous £89.40 to go towards the year 13

Prom on 29th June. Well done to all involved!

Year 11 and 13 Leavers

sQuid catering and trip balances – if your child is coming towards the end of their time at Cox Green

School, please be aware that sQuid will only refund balances over £5. Please plan your top-ups and

spending so that your child’s account is at a minimum on their last day and cancel any auto top-up on the

account. If you have more than £5 on the account, please contact sQuid directly at customerserv-

ice@squidcard.com quoting your child’s sQuid SRN (which can be found under their name on the

homepage of your online sQuid account.

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Positive Points Winners

Congratulations to our Gold (300) Positive Points winners:

Year 7— Max Elliott, Amber Gilbert, Poppy Cusmans, Harvey Duncan-Taylor, Isabelle Heath, Stevy-Ann

Knight

Congratulations to our Silver (200) Positive Points winners:

Year 7— Natalia Chabasiewicz, Oliver Johnstone, Absalom Ody, Tamsin Miles, Curtis Anderson, Andrew

Cox, April Rinder, Jamie Calvert, Harry Duncan-Taylor

Year 8— Victoria Ripley, Devansh Bhikhan, Gemma Pearson

Year 9— Xavier Butum, Chloe Taylor

Year 10— Firoza Amin, Talhah Chaudhri, Aidan Silvey

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Positive Points Winners (cont…)

Congratulations to our Bronze (150) Positive Points winners:

Year 7— Jamie Calvert, Lola Campbell, Jodi Carter, Bejamin Colton, Ella-Victoria Ford, Tia Groom, Charlie

Henwood, Zakie Johns, Ellen O’Mahony

Year 8— Valen Britton, Aaron Cheung, Annabel Cronin

Year 9— Chloe Taylor

Year 10— George Beckett, Jack Shepherd, Sean Hogan

Congratulations to our 100 Positive Points Winners:

Year 7— Viraj Khakh, Thomas Hohlotsov, Isabelle Hunt, Zakie Johns, Jan Pleskac

Year 8— Nadia Rycabel, Sophie Simmonds

Year 9— Chloe Pearce, Chloe Taylor, Samuel Fernandez-Titcumb, Arabella Hill, Michael Humphreys,

Jessica Payne, Hashim Saeeid

Year 10— Scarlet Defreitas, Chris Harman, Jake Hulme, Tayanana Masango

Year 11— Yasmin Pogson

Please note : Your child will not be pictured or named as a positive points winner if we have them on

the database as ‘No Photo External ‘ or ‘No name External’ unless you have agreed for this to happen.

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Term Time—Library Opening Times

Library News

Have you got urgent Homework to finish? Use your library card to get online at home, and access the FREE websites. We especially recommend Britannica Online. Log onto the ‘student version’ and search your topic: http://www3.rbwm.gov.uk/info/200341/online_library_resources/400/online_resources

URGENT! Calling all Sixth formers! 2nd May Do you have any books on loan from the library? Please start looking for them now! You will shortly have a reminder letter about what needs to come back before you leave CGS. Thank you!

FREE website from home for Learner Drivers Theory Test Pro is an online simulation of the UK’s driving theory test. It has all the official test questions licensed from the DSA. You can practice as often as you like! Your library card barcode number is the Username and no PIN required. Or go to any library and search there for free: http://www3.rbwm.gov.uk/info/200341/online_library_resources/400/online_resources

Library Cards for Students Every student can have a free school library card: Up to 4 books (including stories on CD) at any one time. On loan for 3 weeks at a time. Renew items if you haven’t finished them. Use your school library card to gain access from home to the public library online resources: http://www3.rbwm.gov.uk/info/200341/online_library_resources/400/online_resources To borrow DVDs you need a public library card and some money – and be older than the age on the box! If you have lost your school card, come and ask about a replacement.

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday

8.30am to 3.30pm 8.30am to 5pm 8.30am to 7pm 8.30am to 5pm 8.30am to 5pm 10am to 1.30pm 11am to 2pm

Fidget Spinners

Please note that both Fidget Spinners & Cubes are banned from

school and will be confiscated from any student using them in lessons.

They can be collected by students from Main Reception at the end of

the school day.

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