What’s new? Happy New Year! The calendar year started with Upper Sixth Preliminary

Examinations and we’d like to congratulate them on the serious approach they have

taken to this. University offers are being received thick and fast now and we’re

excited to report four very generous offers from Oxford have already been received!

Year 11s Prelims. were completed just before Christmas and they have their

“Results Assembly” next Thursday 17th January where they will receive

Preliminary results and have some time to reflect and consider their outcomes and

how they can improve on these between now and the summer examinations.

Evaluating outcomes is an important part of learning; they need to consider which

subjects they achieved well in and identify why this was so successful and where

they have underperformed and consider whether this was due to examination

technique, careless errors, their writing style and accuracy, retention of knowledge

or a lack of quality revision that let them down. Revision is best when it is frequent

and in short bursts with lots of opportunities to recap knowledge, recall information

and re-present this in different ways.

Parents can help by providing a quiet environment, removing phones and social

media during these periods and providing lots of water and a few chocolate biscuits!

You can also provide revision guides, flashcards and test them regularly on

formulae, facts and quotations. You might consider reading set texts for English

alongside them or watching films associated with texts or key topics so you can

engage in discussion and debate on these over the dinner table! You can also take a

text book and ask them questions posed on a particular topic to see how much they

can recall confidently or look on Youtube with them for associated videos that can

enrich and support their learning. The curriculum pages on our website provide a

good starting point.

Course counselling is also pending for Year 11; we have been inundated with Sixth

form applications this year which is a credit to our outstanding Sixth Form team.

Many of our Year 11s are among those applications. Senior staff will be

interviewing them all this half term to ensure they have made aspirational but

realistic decisions, understand the implications of their choices and have a plan B!

We are all too aware that their health and well-being is the most important

consideration; our tutors, Year Leaders, Pastoral Managers, Student Inclusion

Manager, Mental Health Champion and, of course, subject staff are all here to help

or sign-post you to more specialist support. Sleeping well, eating well, exercising

and keeping hydrated are as important as acquiring knowledge in the preparation for

examinations.

We wish all our Year 11 and Upper

Sixth the very best wishes for the

months ahead,

Mrs Gee, Headteacher

Bulletin 14/1/19

Yr 9 Please return the immunisation

consent forms to the school office

by Monday 21st January please.

Course Counselling will take

place over next couple of weeks—

please note the time of your

appointment.

Yr10 The Languages Department would

like to wish those students who

are embarking on the 8 week

Frankfurt exchange a wonderful

visit.

Yr 11 World of Work Day:

Friday 18th January 2019

Students will experience a mock

job interview with an external

professional and take part in

various Employability Skills

Workshops.

Dress code is suitable business

attire

Please could we remind you that

the cost of this event is £5.00 as

detailed on the letter sent via

intouch recently.

Prelim Language Speaking

Examinations take place next

week. Please ensure you arrive to

your appointment on time.

Upper

Sixth

Normal timetable to resume on

Thursday 17th January. Unless

your daughter/son has a final

exam scheduled, they should be in

school for 8:55 ready to attend

their normal lessons.

Sixth

Form Summer 2019 Re-sits

You have been sent information

on how to apply for re-sits. Please

note the deadline is Friday 18th

January 2019. Payment must be

made before the form is returned

to the Exams Office for

processing.

We welcomed a delegation from Nanjing

City of Jiangsu Province who were visiting

the UK and various schools in Essex to

learn about Ofsted inspection, IB 5 Year

Review and self-study as well as school

evaluation and improvement more

generally. #Nanjing

Meet some of our new Year 9 Student

Councillors:

John Porter joined Student Council so that he could be

an ambassador for mental health to help raise

awareness. He feels that it is important that all students

feel safe and supported in school.

Jesulayomi Bello believed it would be a good

experience for her to join Student Council and to be

able to speak on the students’ behalf on any issues that

may arise.

Kate Myall thought that joining the Student Council

would improve her self-confidence. She would like to

help improve the school

for future students.

They are happy for

students to approach them

about any ideas or

concerns they have that

they could share with the

rest of the Student

Council.

A big well done to all the students who took part

in this term’s Book

Bingo competition. Over

2700 books have been

read by Yr7 and 8 which

is an excellent total.

Congratulations in

particular to Bianca

Stefan & Maya Sidhu

(7E), Catalina

McDermott & Noelle

Subrt Holly (7T), Ana

Karina Le Bihan Habig

(8A), Erin Crome (8C),

Ana Vasquez (8M) and

Sophie Davis (8S) for

achieving their gold certificate, reading a ‘Full

House’ of 25 books.

The class who has read the most books was 7T,

reading 244 between them.

Congratulations to everyone from the Library

Team.

Please remember to label

all items of clothing,

bags, shoes etc and then

if they are misplaced we

will have more success

in finding their owners.

Anything lost without

labels will go to Lost

Property.

Year 7 and 8 School

Disco

Friday, 8th February from 19:00 to 21:00 in the Sports Hall.

Tickets are £7 inclusive of a soft drink. We will also be selling

additional snacks, crisps, sweets and drinks. Please complete the form attached on the recent intouch or

contact the Finance Office by Thursday 7th February.

Quiz Night We are hoping to host another Quiz Night on Friday, 8th March.

Please save the date in your diaries. More information will follow.

Committee Meeting The next committee meeting will be on Tuesday, 15th January in

the Eurolounge at 6.30pm. All welcome.

SIXTH FORM FOCUS

A word from the Sixth Form: As we return from the holidays, the Upper Sixth are now well into

their Preliminary Public Examinations (PPE’s) before their

real exams this summer. The students have been

conducting themselves as we would expect and adhering

to formal examination conditions, so I wish them the best

of luck. We look forward to sharing their results and

reflecting upon them in our Upper Sixth Prelim results

session on the 31st January. As we approach the deadline

for UCAS applications I am also once again encouraged

by the number of students who have used the support

offered in school to submit applications for both

university admission and Higher Level Apprenticeships,

the results of which I hope to share with you shortly.

Finally, good luck to the Lower Sixth, who will be taking

part in mini-Prelim examinations in classes for the

majority of their subjects over the next few weeks. I

encourage them to work hard for these as preparation for

their more formal set of PPE’s in the summer.

Mr Newton, Director of Sixth Form

FOR ALL SIXTH FORMERS

Key Stage 3 Maths Clinic

Extra Maths Clinic for Year 7-9 students

Fridays from 12:15 to 1:15 in A5

This clinic will allow pupils to complete extra independ-

ent work using their Mathswatch account (or any

Mathswatch homework). Students can attend for as lit-

tle or as long as they wish (subject to the availability of

computers).

Key Stage 4 Maths Clinic

Support Sessions for Years 10, 11 and Sixth Form stu-

dents.

Thursdays from 08:00-08:40 in M11 with Mr Beedell

(Head of Mathematics)

We invite you to come along and listen to a

presentation by:

Baroness Ruth Henig

“Building the peace: The challenge of

International Co-operation after the

Great War

Thursday 7th February at 4pm

in the Main Hall

Key:

H=Home

A=Away

W=Won

L=Lost

D=Draw

Co=Conceded

C=Cancelled

P=Postponed

Ab=Abandoned

N/A = Not Attended

Sports Results Sports Fixtures

3/12—Yr10 Football v Eastlea W5-4

4/12—Yr7 boys 5-a-side Football @Shenfield W2 L1

5/12—Yr7 girls 5-a-side Football @Shenfield W 1 L2

7/12—Yr11 Football v Beauchamps Essex Cup L4-0

10/12—Yr7/8 Netball v WDF Yr7 W8-4 Yr 8 L15-3

12/12—Yr8 Football v Shenfield C

13/12—Yr9 Football v Plume L2-1

17/12—L6/U6 Messa Football v Plume W5-1

17/12—Under 14s Netball v Woodlands L27-5

16/1—Yr8 Football v Shenfield A

16/1—Yr9 Essex Cup @ St Martins A

17/1—Yrs10-U6 Swimming Gala Relays @WDF

21/1—Yr7 Girls 5-a-side Football @AES

21/1—Yr10 MESSA Cup semi v Shenfield A

23/1—Yr7 Brentwood Netball Rally @Ursuline

24/1—Yr10/6th Form v Brentwood H

Regi’s Dance Workshop

Saturday 26th January 2019 11:00-12:00

The headteacher of Margaretting CofE school, Mrs O’Regan would like to invite Anglo students to take part

in a dance workshop with Regi Hybride, (Criminalz Crew from Paris) who is currently working in London.

Regi is featured in the new Beyoncé and Jay Z video. You can view his dance compilation here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0Ro9slUX6A

There is no need to book a place. The workshop will cost only £3, please

pay in cash only. The children will need a water bottle and to wear

comfortable clothes to dance in. Mrs O’Regan will be

on hand to supervise. Please do ensure that you notify

them of any medical issues when dropping the students

off.

If your child loves to dance we hope they will take this

opportunity to take part in this one-off workshop.

Motivating Pupils’ Success

EXAMINATION DATES –2015/2016 TYPE DATES VENUES

Year 9 Exams Monday 14 March STAGE HALL / SPORTS HALL

Year 10 Exams Thursday 17 - Thursday 24th March STAGE HALL / SPORTS HALL

Year 8 Exams Monday 25 –Friday 29 April MRC HALL

Year 7 Exams Monday 9 – Friday 13 May MRC HALL

SUMMER EXAMS Monday 16 May - Tuesday 28 June

GCSE Biology Core/Triple Tuesday 17 May PM STAGE HALL / SPORTS HALL

GCSE Chemistry Core/Triple Thursday 19 May AM STAGE HALL / SPORTS HALL

AQA FSK English Friday 20 May AM & PM STAGE HALL / SPORTS HALL

GCSE Physics Core/Triple Wednesday 25 May PM STAGE HALL / SPORTS HALL

GCSE Maths Linear Paper 1 Thursday 26 May AM STAGE HALL / SPORTS HALL

GCSE English/English Language Tuesday 7 June AM STAGE HALL / SPORTS HALL

GCSE Maths Linear Paper 2 Thursday 9 June AM STAGE HALL / SPORTS HALL

GCSE Biology Additional/Triple Friday 10 June AM STAGE HALL / SPORTS HALL

GCSE Chemistry Additional/

Triple

Wednesday 15 June PM STAGE HALL / SPORTS HALL

GCSE Physics Additional/Triple Friday 17 June AM STAGE HALL / SPORTS HALL

GCSE Biology Triple Monday 20 June AM STAGE HALL / SPORTS HALL

GCSE Chemistry Triple Wednesday 22 June AM STAGE HALL / SPORTS HALL

GCSE Physics Triple Friday 24 June AM STAGE HALL / SPORTS HALL

Calendar Jan/Feb

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday

14

U6th mock exams

15

U6th mock exams

18:30—AESA

Meeting

16

U6th mock exams

15:30– Yr10 DofE

First Aid Training

17

U6th mock exams

Year 11 mock

results morning

16:30—Year 9X

Parents’ Evening

18

U6th mock exams

Yr 11 World of

Work Day

(dresscode is

suitable business

attire)

19 20

21

Yr10 Frankfurt

long term—away

L6th Frankfurt

work exp—home

22

Yr10 Frankfurt

long term—away

L6th Frankfurt

work exp—home

23

Yr10 Frankfurt

long term—away

L6th Frankfurt

work exp—home

24

Yr10 Frankfurt

long term—away

L6th Frankfurt

work exp—home

Yr 11 road safety

16:30—Year 9Y

Parents’ Evening

25

Yr10 Frankfurt

long term—away

L6th Frankfurt

work exp—home

26

Yr10 Frankfurt

long term—

away

L6th Frankfurt

work exp—

home

27

Yr10 Frankfurt

long term—away

L6th Frankfurt

work exp—home

28

Yr10 Frankfurt

long term—away

L6th Frankfurt

work exp—home

29

Yr10 Frankfurt

long term—away

L6th Frankfurt

work exp—home

30

Yr10 Frankfurt

long term—away

L6th Frankfurt

work exp—home

31

Yr10 Frankfurt

long term—away

L6th Frankfurt

work exp—home

1

Yr10 Frankfurt

long term—away

L6th Frankfurt

work exp—home

Sixth Form Mock

Parliament visit

2

Yr10 Frankfurt

long term—

away

L6th Frankfurt

work exp—

home

3

Yr10 Frankfurt

long term—away

L6th Avignon

work exp

4

Yr10 Frankfurt

long term—away

L6th Avignon

work exp

Yr10 Lyon

exchange—home

Yr9 options—

applications open

Online

5

Yr10 Frankfurt

long term—away

L6th Avignon

work exp

Yr10 Lyon

exchange—home

Y9—options—

applications open

online

6

Yr10 Frankfurt

long term—away

L6th Avignon

work exp

Yr10 Lyon

exchange—home

Y9—options—

applications open

online

7

Yr10 Frankfurt

long term—away

L6th Avignon

work exp

Yr10 Lyon

exchange—home

Y9—options—

applications open

online

16:00—History

Presentation—

Ruth Henig

18:00—Law &

Medicine

Information

Evening

8

Yr10 Frankfurt

long term—away

L6th Avignon

work exp

Yr10 Lyon

exchange—home

Y9—options—

applications open

online

19:00-21:00 Y7/8

Disco

9

Yr10 Frankfurt

long term—

away

L6th Avignon

work exp

Yr10 Lyon

exchange—

home

Y9—options—

applications

open online

10

Yr10 Frankfurt

long term—away

L6th Avignon

work exp

Yr10 Lyon

exchange—

home

Y9—options—

applications

open online

TERM DATES 2018-2019

Spring Term Thursday 3rd January 2019 -

Friday 5th April 2019

Half Term: 18th-22nd February 2019

Staff Training Day:

Friday 15th February 2019

Summer Term Tuesday 23rd April 2019 -

Wednesday 24th July 2019

Half Term: 27th-31st May 2019

Staff Training Day:

Tuesday 7th May 2019