The Angmering School
Weekly News
This is our weekly newsletter for parents, students and friends of the school. We want to give you
news about what is happening in school, exciting things, future events and things we would like to
see happen.
Issue Date: Week 26 Friday 27 March 2015
HEADTEACHER’S END OF TERM MESSAGE
This has been a very important term for students sitting exams in May and June.
Coursework is nearly all complete and exam practice and preparation is in full flow. For
parents it is a time to help our students with revision and simple testing is a key thing
you can do with them. You can also help them relax and manage their emotions in the
build up to exams.
Our staff have been working hard too! They have been planning and delivering
lessons and marking lots of work. They can be seen here into the evening and before
school. We are very lucky to have such a diligent, committed and skilful staff team.
I would like to take this opportunity to thank Mrs Shaw who is leaving us after nearly 20
years. She has been an excellent teacher and a strong advocate for students with
hearing impairment. She has been a key member of our learning support leadership
team, periodically preparing the timetable for all
students with special needs. We wish her well
in her new promoted post as a Deputy Head of
Rachel Madocks School in Hampshire.
Finally I would like to wish all of our parents,
students and staff an enjoyable Easter break.
D T Brixey
Headteacher
Did you know that Ofsted have a website, “Parent View” which gives parents the chance to tell them what you
think about your child’s school. It will ask you for your opinion on 12 aspects of your child’s school, from the
quality of teaching, to dealing with bullying and poor behaviour.
Ofsted will use the information you provide when making decisions about which schools to inspect, and when.
We would really appreciate you taking the time to look at this website and complete the survey.
http://parentview.ofsted.gov.uk/
Library News
Congratulations to Hannah Titchener of
7RT and Darcey Luscombe 9RA who
have together won the Library's World
Book Day treasure hunt.
Well done to everyone who
supported the library events for
World Book Day. Book Aid
International have written to
thank all staff and students for
the £40 we sent them. This will
enable them to send brand
new books to public and
community libraries in
sub-Saharan Africa.
Book Aid International is
dedicated to changing lives
through books.
Well done to our students who ran their own cake stall in aid of Down's
Syndrome awareness week. They worked very hard and donated some
very tasty cakes for the occasion.
Y10 and Y12 Public Services’ Students meet the Royal Marine Commandos
A group of Y10 and Y12
Public Services' students had the rare opportunity to
meet and experience the work of a Royal Marine
Commando. The fun filled event included high speed
boat rides, climbing, physical training activities and an un-armed combat
display. The students came away from the experience with a greater
appreciation of what a career in the Armed Forces has to offer.
Look out for an article and photos from Holocaust survivor
Dorit Oliver’s visit, in the next edition of Weekly News.
GCSE Easter Revision 2015
Reminder there are revision help links on
the school website:
http://www.angmeringschool.co.uk/
students/exams/
Sussex County Swimming Championships
Well done to the students who recently took part in the Sussex County swimming
championships at the K2 Crawley, representing themselves and their club
Littlehampton SC.
Holly Alman figured as part of the senior girls relay team and Tyler Whitcombe took
part in the relay and individual events, Jessica Brown gained bronze medals in the
200m butterfly, 200m and 400m individual medley and rosettes for the 100m
butterfly, 100m breaststroke and 800m freestyle. Anna Mantle took bronze 200
individual medley, 50m backstroke, 50m freestyle and rosettes in 100m and 200m
backstroke, 100m, 200m and 400m freestyle and 100m butterfly.
FREE FALL ABSEIL FOR CHARITY
On 9th May 2015 Ms Holmes is completing a free fall abseil down the UK's tallest sculpture the Acelormittal Orbit at the Olympic Park London! 114 metres high to be
precise!
She is raising money for ECHO (Evelina Children's Heart Organisation)
which supported her family during her daughter, Emily’s heart surgery.
ECHO provided support by putting them in contact with parents going
through the same issues or helping out with practical things.
Ms Holmes feels it's time to give something back to an amazing charity
and an amazing hospital and had decided to complete the abseil. If you
are able to support her then please follow the link to her just giving page:
https://www.justgiving.com/Kelly-Holmes4/
Gold Stars of the week is a reward system
where teachers nominate
students for
working consistently at Gold standard
which is above and beyond expectations.
Students then have the opportunity to
meet with the Headship team to discuss
their achievements and work.
The students are rewarded with 25 credits
and a well done letter to take home to
share their success with parents/
guardians. We feel this is an excellent
reward system for the students to share
their success with the Headship team.
Congratulations to this week’s
Gold Stars of the Week: Holly
Chant 7HA, Sydney-Dawn Moore
7HH, Florence Funnell 11TH,
Heidi Budgen 11GN.
Year 7 End of Term Assembly
Well done to all the students who received an Easter Egg for
achieving Gold in their reports this term. A special well done to
Isabel Wood in 7WG who increased her effort grade from a
Bronze to a Gold. Also to Felicity Funnell 7WG and Niamh
Kerrison 7WG who achieved the top number of Gold for effort
on their reports. Well done to all the Y7 students for their hard
work this term.
Well done to Chrissie Bhima for being awarded Festival
Performer of the Year 2015 at Worthing Music and Arts
Festival .
The festival introduced this prestigious award this year. To
be eligible to be named Festival Performer of the Year you
had to enter at least ten classes across a minimum of any
three different sections from this year's festival: Dance,
Singing, Piano, Speech and Drama, Instrumental. The
best three marks in each section were totalled, and then
the competitor chose their next best mark from any of the
sections to give a grand total aggregate mark for the 10
solo classes. She gained first places in Dance, Singing
and Speech & Drama. Huge congratulations to Chrissie
on being the first winner of this incredible new award!
Emily
Amelia
Sydney-Dawn
Daniel
Elycia
Nicole
Chloe
Eleanor
Eleanor
Tom
Samantha
Barnaby
David
Sahema
Brown
7UP
Friend
7CO
Moore
7HH
Welton 7UP
Rollason 7CL
Smith
7HA
Wheadon 7CO
Culver
7WL
Osborne 7WL
Callaghan
Kimber
Macaskill
Prothero
Noor
8MV
8MZ
8MZ
8AT
8MZ
Gold Certificate
Gold Certificate
Gold Certificate
Gold Certificate
Platinum Certificate
Platinum Certificate
Platinum Certificate
Platinum Certificate
Platinum Certificate
Silver Certificate
Silver Certificate
Silver Certificate
Gold Certificate
Platinum Certificate
Bradley
Alex
Alfie
Darcey
Brodie
Joshua
Darcey
Kristian
Bell
Roebuck
Lister
Luscombe
Hickey
Schofield
9NS
9NS
9SC
9RA
9AO
9RA
Bronze Certificate
Bronze Certificate
Bronze Certificate
Silver Certificate
Gold Certificate
Gold Certificate
Burtenshaw 10HM Silver Certificate
Thorley
7WL Diamond Certificate
It was lovely to meet Issey when she came to our school this week to collect
a cheque for the money raised at the fun run.
Imogen Reckless, Amelia Friend, Chloe Wheadon
and Eva Murad held a bake sale for Comic Relief.
They sold all their cakes in less than
20 minutes and raised £38.55. They
said “It was a great experience and
we would love to do it again. Thank
you to everyone who bought
something”.
SAFETY MESSAGE
There have been 3 incidents in the Ferring
area recently where females have been
approached by a male. Please discuss with
your children about taking care of themselves
and basic personal safety rules. Students
please be vigilant and report any incidents to
the police.
There was graffiti and a floodlight damaged last weekend at the
Angmering Skate Park. Please be respectful in this community area
and report to the police if you witness any damage occurring.
Accelerated Reader Awards
Year 7
Bronze
Angela Alarilla
William Breden
Sophie Brooks
Tova Copeman
Eleanor Culver
Genevieve Fairley
Bethany Fryer
Alexander Gache
Molly Gatford
Lucy King
Olivia McCorduck
Maddalene O’Keefe
Adam Pattenden
Sophie Pragnell
Joseph Purkis
Alexander Roberts
Abigail Robins
Ben Salt
Michael Sargent
Phoenix Smart
Maisie Stephanou
Lara Stokes
Sam Thompson
Amy Wiltshire
Silver
Angela Alarilla
Tianna Bellamin
Sophie Brooks
Jasmine Chate
Louis Evers
Nathan Freeman
Tom Jays
Niamh Kerrison
Leah Lewis
George Lintott-Clarke
Amelie Pearce
Sophie Pragnell
Year 7 Continued
Imogen Reckless
Kristian Thorley
Chloe Wheadon
Matthew Williams
Gold
Jay Alexander
Grace Bolger
Sophie Brooks
Amelia Friend
Annabella Gander
George Lintott-Clarke
Sophie Pragnell
Chloe Sargent
Matthew Stevens
Kristian Thorley
Daniel Welton
Year 8 AR Awards
Bronze
Joshua Bourne
Lucia Bourne
Elizabeth Brown
Hayley Edwards
Alice Martin
Andrew Mates
Courtney Ralston
Thomas Smith
Shanace Swift
Silver
Charlotte Bracey
Lucy Briault
Kayleigh Hall
Gabrielle Phillips
Logan Strudwick
Marcus Yau
Year 8 continued
Gold
Mimi Leclerc
Megan Short
Platinum
Lydia Redding
Emerald
Hannah Greaney
Year 9 AR Awards
Bronze
Maya Challis
Rhys Martin
Ciaran McCaughan
Paige O’Connell
Jasmin Pelham
Macie Sim
Silver
Holly Bradford
Holly Mason
Louise Mowbray
Ellen Nicholas
Sophie Rawlins
Shannon Sands
James Simper
Jessica Smith
Gold
Darcey Luscombe
Finlay Panton
Jack Turner
Luke Twyman
Platinum
Sophie Baker
Keep Reading!
Last weeks solution:
The diagram shows part of the ceramic. A and B are vertices of the outer octagon, which has O at its centre. The lines OA, OB, two lines which
are parallel to AB and lines parallel to OA and OB respectively have
been added. As can be seen, these lines divide △OAB into nine congruent triangles.
The shaded portion of triangle has area equal to that of two of the
smaller triangles. So 29of the area of △OAB has been shaded. Now,
the area of the outer octagon is eight times the area of △OAB and the
area of shaded portion of the design is eight times the area of the shaded portion of △OAB. Therefore, the fraction of the octagon which is shaded is also 29.
Can you solve this week’s problem ?
Charlie writes all the whole numbers from 1 to 1000 inclusive on a blackboard.
Which digit appears the largest number of times?
Sanguine
adjective
optimistic or positive, especially in an apparently bad or difficult situation.
"She is sanguine about prospects for the global economy"
Etymology:
Middle English: from Old French sanguin(e ) ‘blood red’, from Latin sanguineus ‘of blood’,
from sanguis, sanguin- ‘blood’.
Foreign translations:
French: optimiste
German: heiter
Spanish: alegre
Russian: оптимистический
Synonyms
bloody, bloody-minded, homicidal, murdering, murderous,sanguinary, bloodthirsty, sanguineous
Antonyms
ashy, doughy, livid, lurid, mealy, pale, paled, palish, pallid,pasty, peaked, peaky, sallow, sallowish, w
an, ashen
Theatre Trip and a Sightseeing Tour
A fantastic trip for the Hearing Impaired
students to see Charlie and the Chocolate
Factory at the Theatre Royal in London.
What a brilliant musical!
A great day out with an impromptu London
Sightseeing trip included.
Meeting an Oompa Loompa was a once in a lifetime opportunity!
Canteen Points System for Healthier Eating
To help promote the eating of healthier options and to help students
be aware of what they are eating, the canteen have put a value on
each of the healthier options.
Fruit – fresh, dried, tinned 5 points
 Main meal plus starchy carbohydrate 3 points
 Drink-water bottle or fruit juice 5 points
 Pasta King 2 points
 Yogurts 2 points
 Salad Pots – no dressing 3 points
 Salad Pots – with dressing 3 points
 Pasta Salad 3 points
 Jacket Potato with one filling 3 points
At the end of each Term three students that have made the healthiest
choices win a £20 Gift Voucher from Sodexo which they can use on
the High Street. Well done to Michael Sargent 7HA , Charlie Collins
11MO and Allan Fraser 8FK as
this term’s winners!
At our school we are committed to
giving all students, whether they
take a school meal or not, a
consistent message about eating
healthy food and support the 5 a
day campaign to encourage
children to eat 5 portions of fruit
and vegetables each day. You can
find out more about Healthy Eating
at www.eatwell.gov.uk.
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Nearly New Uniform Shop
The nearly new uniform shop is
next open on Wednesday 15 April
3.30pm to 4.30pm at the school.
Lost property will be available to
view at this time. The next
Saturday opening (10-11am) is
on Saturday 2 May.
DIARY DATES
March
27
Term Ends for students
April
13
14
15
30
Staff Day 4
Term Starts
3.30pm – 4.30pm Nearly New Uniform Shop open after school
Parent Meet 3 6-8pm
May
2
6
25-29
10am -11.00am Nearly New Uniform Shop open
Y7 Exhibition of work
Half term Week
June
3
9
11
18
23
24
25
22-26
26
29
3.30pm - 4.30pm Nearly New Uniform Shop open
Y12 UCAS Information Evening 7- 8pm
Music Mania 7pm
Speaking and Listening Activity Day 3
Art, DT Exhibition Open Evening 6-8pm
Art, DT Exhibition Open Day 9-5pm
LNC Y6 Induction Day
Sixth Form Induction Week
Y11 Prom 7-11pm
Locality Group Music Festival
July
1
4
6
7
7
13
13-17
16
17
22
Year 6 Induction Day at Angmering and parents evening 6pm – 7.30pm
10am -11.00am Nearly New Uniform shop open
Y7 Exhibition of work
Staff Day 5
Sports Presentation Evening 6pm – 8pm
6-7.30pm Evening of Celebration
12 Work Experience Week
Science fair Y7 & Y8 4.30-7.30pm
Sports Day and LNC Open Day
Term Ends
Reminder : Monday 13 April is
an inset day. School reopens
on Tuesday 14 April at 8.45am
for START. Have a fabulous
Spring Break and we look
forward to seeing you then.
Year 11 Drama Success: MASSIVE congratulations to all drama GCSE
students in year 11 for their stunning performance exams. We are
very proud of you!