Weekly update - 14th December 2018

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Key Stage 2 Champions this week…

KASE – Aiden Gibbard Literate. Aiden has made a wonderful effort with his Accelerated Reading. Aiden has read, quizzed and passed on many books over the last week. Well done!

Owen Anderson for problem solving and being creative in his mathematical answers.

Layla Turner for demonstrating excellent collaborative skills, always working hard to be a positive and supportive learning partner.

ORACY – Ruby Sheldon for being eloquent and expressing her ideas to the rest of the class.

Jack Moorman for trying hard to articulate his answers while working in learning partners.

Mazie-May Johnson- her confidence has increased throughout the term and she willingly shares her ideas in class, self correcting her sentences and ensur-ing she explains her ideas and builds on her peers ideas fully.

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Upcoming Events:

Attendance reward afternoon—KS2—

Monday 17th & KS3 on Thursday 20th.

Friday 21st.—Celebration assemblies—

Friday 21st.—Christmas Carols—

Wed 19th—Year 6 to Redditch Panto

KS3 Department Stars of the Week

ENGLISH –Alfie Hill for his amazing, Antarctica inspired cupcakes. Adam Lone for attention to detail and producing his best piece of work Corey Newman for sharing his thoughts about Clockwork Jack Ledbury for excellent response to the story in a class discussion.

SCIENCE - Maddie Dainter for the continued effort she puts into her homework. Mimi-Rose Ellis – For a wonderfully presented book

PSHE - Connor McAlinden super independent work. FRENCH -Kelsey Bones and Heidi Olorenshaw for always putting their full effort into response to marking and the presentation of their books. DT –Ryan Todd for being incredibly helpful and a student expert during our DT les-son. DRAMA –Lucie Warr & Jess Smith for continuously inspiring and motivating others in their groups. HISTORY - Renae Whyte for a persuasive and creative approach to her civil war assignment. MATHS - Hope Duggan for her excellent explanations of key skills in Maths.

Tutor Stars of the week: 8CHO – Alice Webb – For a positive attitude towards staff and peers. 8LH –Liam Ferris for his good behaviour and effort in lessons across the board. 8SF –Lucie Warr & Harvey Streeter for always being polite and helpful and fabulous. 7HJ –Hope Duggan for being a polite and caring class member. 7EG –Brooke Jordan for always following instructions. 7PM -Heidi Olorenshaw and Katie Matthews for their hard work in pre-paring for the carol service.

RSA8 On the 10th of December our RSA 8 team enjoyed a fantastic Challenge Day at Whitley RSA Academy, where they worked alongside other year 8 pupils to develop their transfer-able “soft skills”. The pupils took part in a range of activities that required communica-tion, concentration, confidence, and cooper-ation. The pupils had the opportunity to re-flect on each activity and consider how these new skills would help their development both in and outside of school.

We seek to develop confident and creative learners who can thrive in a changing world.

Christmas Jumper Day! Save the Children.

Ho, Ho, Ho! On Friday 14 December, thousands of peo-ple up and down the UK started their day by pulling on a Christmas jumper for a great cause – to help create a brighter future for children. At Church Hill Middle School, we stood to-gether in our festive woollies! By donating £1 each, we helped to give children the chance to build a better future. Thank you for all of your kind donations and support during this day.

5IP 93% 6NR 91% 7EG 91% 8LH 92%

5TB 90% 6JM 96% 7HJ 93% 8SF 96%

5CY 95% 6BM 91% 7PM 97% 8CH 81%

Attendance : Week Ending Friday

7th December

Words read Champion

731,933 6NR

297,471 7PM

154,067 Bartosz Cygan

137,127 Demi-Jade Harrison

112,217 Samuel Bench

97,807 Rio Harbone

96,316 Mason Cartlidge

94,620 Owen Teague

James-Linden Jones—being reflective when making im-provements to his English work. Lee Hughes McCann for being a reflective learner, making corrections where necessary. Kiah Towler for her fantastic tonal study of Christopher Walken. Kiah thought she had finished her drawing during the previous lesson, however she used the rest of her as-sessment time to add further detail, blending and contrast and this significantly improved her outcome. – Self-directing Enthused and resilient : Ryan Todd in French – continues to show a positive attitude and stuck with a task that he found difficult to see it through to the end . History -

Renaissance Top readers

Who has been on the KASE?

Readers of the week: Harvey Hanson- improved attitude towards his reading particu-larly to adults. Owen Teague for passing 3 tests in the last 8 days (56,650 words). Harvey Khan Jones for passing 19/20 book tests. Ella-Mai Jones, Chelsey Hodgetts & Lucie Warr for having the top three word counts in 8SF. Demi-Jade Harrison has surpassed her points target by 620% this term. She has read 21 books within her ZPD. Jazmin Arnold for passing 11/12 tests and achieving 21695 words – super effort.

On Friday 14th December, we hosted our annual Christmas Fayre at Church Hill . The pupils had been very busy making various festive treats to sell on the stalls. Lots of parents came to support us and took the time to have a look at the stalls during the afternoon. We had lots of smiling faces and stu-dents who felt very proud of their hard work. Thank you to everyone who supported with prizes and creativity!

Christmas Carol Service:

What a fantastic evening! Well done to Ms Brannelly and her

choir for a marvellous performance at St. Leonards church on

Wednesday evening. Talented singers, musicians and readers

were the perfect start to the festive period. We were also very

pleased to have the heating working this year!

Please can we also thank the parents for their support on the

evening; the church was completely full which just added to the

wonderful experience had by all.