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Altwood Church of England School
Friday 21st September 2018
Open Evening
On a warm sunny evening last week, the school opened it’s doors to
prospective students and their parents at our annual Open Evening.
A significant number of families were welcomed into the school and
were given a tour of our facilities by our students.
Departmental areas had been busily preparing throughout the day to
ensure that they showcased the impressive facilities our school has,
but also the high quality work that students produce.
Science remained a popular stop on the tour with the opportunity to
dissect lungs or look at the ignition of methane!
Across the English and the arts faculty, guests were asked to solve a
series of crimes inspired by the GCSE text “An Inspector Calls.”
Guests cross-examined a range of suspects in the drama studio,
looked for clues in English and had the chance to star in their own
‘Wanted’ poster in Media Studies.
PE resurrected the popular Tour de Altwood and guests were
challenged to see how far they could cycle in 1 minute!
The evening provided the opportunity for guests to hear
more about our school community with speeches from
two of our new Year 7 students Ellie Dowdican and Colin
Schwiderski, our Head Student Megan De Alwis and the
Headteacher.
At the end of the evening, guests could not speak highly
enough about the quality of our tour guides and how
much they had enjoyed the evening, particularly
commenting on the passion of our staff and feeling of
community.
We look forward to welcoming families on a series of
Open Mornings where there is an opportunity to see the
school in operation on a normal day.
These will run on Tuesday October 2nd, Thursday October
4th and Tuesday October 16th, 9.30 for a 9.45 start
through to 11:10 finish.
www.altwoodschool.co.uk
Altwood Church of England School
Friday 21st September 2018
Information Evenings
As the new academic year gets underway, we have been pleased to welcome parents into school for the “Now
You’re In” evenings in both Year 7 and 10. These evenings are key as students begin their Altwood journey with us
in Year 7, and progress into the next phase, preparing for their GCSE examinations in Year 10.
On both events, parents were met by their son/daughter’s academic tutor to discuss progress and character
development, before attending a presentation which highlighted important information to allow effective
home-school partnerships in the year ahead.
Parents have been overwhelming in their support for the evening commenting on the positivity of all staff they met.
Thank you to all who attended and for those unable to have been with us, the slides will be made available via the
school website within the next week.
We look forward to welcoming parents/carers of Year 8 & 9 students on Monday 24th September for a “Meet the
Tutor” event at their allocated meeting time.
www.altwoodschool.co.uk
Headteachers Awards
Wednesday this week we held the annual Headteacher’s Awards for the academic year 2017 - 2018 in the main hall.
This event is a celebration of student achievement over the past twelve months. Successful students were present-
ed with a glass plaque to recognise their commitment, effort and positive contribution to the school. The award win-
ners are:
Subject Junior Winner Senior Winner
Art Honey Adams Kuba Hryniewicki
Design Technology Keira Coggins Marc Cockerton
Drama Thomas Bainbridge Shazmina Khan
English Robbie Couper Daniel Harris
French Nicole Ceausu Sadie Parkinson
Geography Jusleen Gill Kay Fletcher
History Anna MacDonald Karampal Dhaliwal
ICT Peter Jones Christopher Dance
Maths Gursukh Sembi Henry Pole
Media N/A Abigail Wright
Music Adam Stoker N/A
Physical Education Sophie Phillpot-Hall Laura Perring
Religious Education Skye Little Bethany Slater
Science Gursukh Sembi Shazmina Khan
Spanish Freya Romero Priya Sagoo
Sociology N/A Maddison Hatfield
Psychology N/A Katie Griffin
Community Award
Sophie Phillpot - Hall Freemasons of Berkshire
In recognition of her outstanding charity work.
Altwood Church of England School
Friday 21st September 2018
Headteachers Awards cont’d
Student of the Year
Year 7 Rayhan Qurban
Year 8 Toby Hind
Year 9 Beth Maidment - Cargin
Year 10 Shazmina Khan
Year 12 Gurleen Gill
Our congratulations go to them all.
www.altwoodschool.co.uk
School Photos
On Tuesday this week, the school photographer was in for year groups 7,9,11,12
and 13. As you can see they were prepped with three photo ‘booths’ to process the
students quickly. The students were given a printed form with their photos on and
the instructions for parent/carers to order on line.
Luckily the weather was kind for the outdoor year group photo!
House Stars
Faith
Keira Coggins performed the pro-
logue from Romeo and Juliet dur-
ing open evening. She did the solo
performance as parents entered for
the Headteachers presentation and
she performed with excellent
composure and expression.
Hope
Lauren Moody, Hope House, for
fundraising with Cerys Ali, Joy
House, at Tescos last weekend, all
for British Heart Foundation
Joy
Katie Harris for this well earnt recognition: Cary Holyoake the Chairman
of Timbertown has written in with the following praise:
‘One of your students, Katie Harris, helped at Timbertown this year. In
fact, she is a regular helper. She was there helping to set up the event,
worked hard throughout and helped to tidy up afterwards. She was an
absolute credit to Altwood.’
Altwood Church of England School
Friday 21st September 2018
www.altwoodschool.co.uk
September
24th Meet the tutor – 3.30pm – 6.30pm
25th Yr 12 Design Technology trip to NEC Manufacturing Innovation
26th Yr 11 Geography trip to Hengitsbury Head
27th – 28th Yrs 7 – 12 Bushcraft trip
October
2nd Open Morning
4th Open Morning
4th Yr 11 Success Fair – 6.30 – 8pm
November
1st Yr 11 Parents Evening 3.45 – 7pm
15th Yr 9 Parents Evening 4.45 – 6.15pm
13th Yr 12 Safe Drive Stay Alive
December
4th Sixth Form Information Evening
13th Carol Service – All Saints Church
19th End of term early closure – 12.15pm
Calendar Dates
Peace
Theme for the Fortnight
