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NEWSLETTER CHRISTMAS TERM, OCTOBER 2019

Respect | Integrity | Creativity | Service | Confidence Page 1

N e w s l e t t er

Dear Parent and Guardians,

We have come to the end of the first half of the

Christmas term of 2019/20 school year. It has

been a busy term for all members of the Grange

community. For our teachers, as they proceed on

midterm break, this is the time to mark cycle test

scripts. They will also deliberate and reflect on

the work they have done in the past couple of

weeks as a basis for potential improvement in the

second half term and beyond.

For some of our Year 11 students, it is all about

preparing and writing IGCSE examinations as

well as sitting for 6th form school exams. For all

other students, I will like them to reflect on two

things; what went well and what went wrong in

the past six weeks.

Reflection is the greatest opportunity for mankind

to improve on practice and achieve greater

potential. The Cambridge dictionary defines

‘Reflection’ as ‘a serious and careful thought’.

During this midterm break, I will like our students

to complete a worksheet extracted from the book

‘7 Habits of highly effective teenagers’. I crave

the indulgence of parents to discuss this

worksheet with their children.

For some students, the first six weeks of term

have been quite challenging while for others it has

been a jolly ride. Whichever way, reflection will

do us all a lot of good.

I will like to take parents back to the first week of

the term. At our first assembly, I shared with the

students the theme for the Year which is ‘LOVE

‘IT’ LIVE ‘IT’. The theme came about as a result

of some of the feedback from the parent survey

conducted in July 2019. Our values as a school

collectively became an apparent item for school

improvement. The acronym for the theme can be

found below:

L – Learning L - Living

O- Our O- Our

V- Values & V- Values

E- Embracing ‘IT’ E- Everyday

We start with ‘LOVE’ and we will end the session by

‘LIVE’. Our core values as a school with the

acronym ‘CRICS’ are Creativity, Respect, Integrity,

Confidence and Service. We shall focus on these

values and the ‘6P’s’ in the next few weeks and we

solicit the cooperation of parents in shaping the lives

of these beautiful children we have been blessed

with.

The worksheet is attached to this newsletter. We

shall make hard copies available to the children as

well as soft copies for parents. We expect students to

complete this exercise during the mid-term break and

submit the worksheets to their form tutors on the first

day of resumption after half term.

You will find in the next few pages, a brief

update on some of the activities that occurred

at the beginning of the term as well as future

programmes.

GRANGE SCHOOL

Phone: +234 (0)1 2956984 | Website: www.grangeschool.com | Email: [email protected]

October

2019

CHRISTMAS TERM

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60th

Anniversary Fund Raising Gala

The school’s 60th anniversary celebration will be

rounded off with a gala evening at the MUSON

centre on Saturday, 16th of November 2019.

This fundraising event tagged ‘Unfolding the

Future – The 5 Campaign’ is targeted at raising

funds towards projects that will help our children

to further develop the curiosity, imagination and

confidence that will enable them attain their true

potential and fully participate in the development

of Nigeria and the world at large.

The ‘5 Campaign’ we plan to unfold are:

1. A STEAM Block (Science, Technology,

Engineering, Arts and Mathematics).

2. Design & Technology Centre.

3. State of the art Boarding Accommodation.

4. Performing Arts Theatre.

5. In-door Sports Centre.

Invitation cards for the event will be available for

sale as from Monday 28th October 2019 at a cost

of twenty five thousand Naira per head and forty

thousand Naira per couple. This is the maximum

amount and the school will greatly appreciate this.

Founders’ day

The 61st Founders’ day celebration will take place

on Thursday, 14th of November on the school

premises. We seize this opportunity to invite

parents to the event.

WhatsApp

The School Management has decided to use the

WhatsApp platform as a means of improving

school-home communication. We are aware that

most year groups have a WhatsApp platform. The

school platform will only serve as school-home

communication and not vice versa. The group

administrator from the school will post school

related information. The already established lines

of communication should be used by parents as a

means of feedback. We have received some

complaints from parents about our staff not

responding to mails. We are working on this.

Students Led Conferences

We thank all parents/guardians for attending these

sessions. We received both positive and negative

feedback. We will look into improving on the

conferences for the future. An analysis of the

attendance at the conference per year group can

be found in below:

7B recorded a 100% attendance.

Congratulations to 7B parents.

We encourage more Year 10 and 11parents to

attend the Target Review Meetings that will

take place in February 2020.

Mrs. Adetola Oladeji

Acting Head of School

Year Group Percentage Attendance

7 82.22%

8 76.25%

9 76.36%

10 61.22%

11 60.00%



RISING STAR WRITING COMPETITION AND AWARDS

The Rising Star Writing Competition and Awards is an

annual children’s creative writing competition and

awards organized by The Writers’ Corner Lagos in

collaboration with Vuvuzela Communication Limited.

The aim of this competition is to help children develop

creative writing skills.

Students were required to write a poem or a short story

on the theme, “IT’S OKAY TO SAY NO”. Grange

School (Secondary) entered five students for the

competition. The 1st place for a short story, secondary

school category was won by Onyinye Onyema. Her

entry story was titled ‘His Strange Attraction’.

It is moving story of the courage of a teenage girl who

was kidnapped and held hostage by a notorious

pedophile but managed to find the strength to say No

and escape captivity despite being drugged.

The Award ceremony took place on September 28,

2019. Over 20 schools in Nigeria attended. The Hall at

Annes Hotels and Suites Victoria Island was packed

full of students and parents from participating schools.

Winners in all the categories received prizes.

Onyinye Onyema, the winner of the 1st prize for Short

Story Writing, Secondary Category was proud to

receive a brand new HP laptop. Congratulations to the

rising star!

By Mrs. Christine Lemeh

Senior Librarian



LEARNING AND TEACHING: Google Classroom

We are aware that there have been a number of issues as regards migrating from VLE to Google Classroom.

We are working on improving this.

Please encourage your children to make it a habit to login regularly at home to complete all assigned tasks

and also take advantage of learning materials available.

Login issues

Parents should kindly ask their children to report any issue with login difficulties with Doddle and Google

Classroom.

Consent Forms

We still imploy parents who have not sent in the Google Classroom and BYOD consent forms to please do

so as soon as possible.

National Day

The National day celebration to mark Nigeria's 59th Independence took place at Grange School on

September 30th 2019. The theme of the event was; People, Places and Culture.

Secondary School houses represented the following regions:

Benue house: South West

Donga house: South South

Niger house: South East

Ogun house: North

Apart from house presentations by students, there was a talk and a cultural dance by the National Dance

Troupe to spice up the event. After the presentations at the Gazebo, all the houses displayed some traditional

foods of the regions they represented in the Multi-Purpose Hall.

Mr. Obi

Director of Activities





ACCOLADES ASSEMBLY FOR SUMMER TERM 2018/19.

On Friday the 20th of September, 2019, the

Accolades Assembly for the Summer term of the

2018/19 academic year took place.

The gazebo was packed full of very happy and

excited families, friends, staff and students who

came to witness students receive awards for

excellence in academics and conduct. It was an

opportunity for the newest members of the

Grange community, the Year 7 students and

others who joined the school mid-stream to

witness this auspicious event.

As usual, the Acting Head of School, Mrs.

Oladeji was full of appreciation to parents,

students and staff for the great achievements the

school recorded in the different facets of Grange

school life ranging from sports, drama, choir, Art

and many more. She urged everyone to embrace

the core values of Grange captured in the

acronym ‘LOVE IT’; ’ Living Our Values and

Embracing It’.

The Key Stage 3 and 4 academic awards were

presented to students who excelled as the top 10%

achievers in their various year groups. Others

received subject awards in either one, two or

more subjects.

In addition, there were also special awards for

students who had been on the Top 10% accolades

list consecutively for 1, 2, 3 or 4 academic

sessions.

MERIT AWARD- Students who have been on the accolades list for 3 consecutive terms:

Olagunju Busola Year 7

Onyema Onyinye Year 7

Okuneye Ayana Year 7

Ogunwale Oluwadara Year 7

Osinibi Oluwatosin Year 7

Oluwafemi Angelique Year 8

Oyedeji Similoluwa Year 9

HALF COLOURS- Students who have been on the accolades list for 6 consecutive terms:

Mohammed Aisha Year 8

Mike- Aigbe Osemudiamen Year 8

Azeez Khadijah Year 8

Natachi Ogbuebile Year 9

FULL COLOURS- Students who have been on the accolades list for 9 consecutive terms:

Ikenna-Emeka Chizara Year 9.



The musical interlude which is always one part of

the programme everyone looks forward to

comprised a number of individual pieces as well

as a rendition by the ‘best choir in Lagos’. The

Grange School orchestra also performed a medley

of songs which were enjoyed by everyone

present.

The pastoral awards were presented to well

deserving students who are exemplary in conduct

as espoused in our 6Ps: Performance, Personal

conduct, Preparedness, Participation and

Punctuality and in Praise. Students earned either a

Bronze badge or a Silver badge.

For the first time, two students in Year 9 earned a

Gold badge each for reaching the threshold of the

Gold category. They are: Okulaja Chelsea with

525.0 conduct points and Okoya Oladunnni

with 530 conduct points. Both girls are now

strong contenders for the Tan Blazer or Platinum

award!

The highlight of this event without doubt was the

presentation of Light Blue Blazers to two students

having been on the accolades list for 12

consecutive terms, that is, four academic sessions!

There was a rousing ovation as Mrs. Oladeji and

Mrs. Ajumogobia, Chair of the Governing

Council dressed the proud achievers, Teniola

Asade and Adedeji Adesida in their light blue

blazers.

As is the tradition, The Head Boy, Adekoyejo

Adegbite, the Head Girl, Sewa Zamba and the

Lead Mentor Boy, Ajibayo Oladapo were also

dressed in light blue blazers as student leaders.

Finally, certificates were presented to students or

their parents who had achieved outstanding

Checkpoint and IGCSE results for 2019.



OUTSTANDING CHECKPOINT RESULTS FOR 2019

S/N Name Maths Science

1. Ogbuebile Natachi 6.0 6.0

2. Tijani Nabeeha 6.0 6.0

3 King Ademurewa 6.0 6.0

4. Ikenna-Emeka Chizara 6.0 6.0

5. Okulaja Charlotte 5.2 5.7

6 Urhoghide Ethan 5.8 5.8

7 Olunuga Modupeooreoluwa 5.6 5.7

8 Kufile Oluwatimilehin 5.1 5.7

9 Subair Oreofeoluwa 5.2 5.2



OUTSTANDING IGCSE RESULTS FOR 2019

S/N Name Grade

1 Olayinka Eri-Ife 10A*

2 Mike-Aigbe Osemudiamen 7A*, 3A

3 Adeseyoju Morountodun 6A*, 4A

4 Onwususika Ebube 6A*, 3A

5 Subair Mofifefoluwa 6A*, 3A

6 Magbagbeola Oluwatomisin 5A*, 4A

7 Ekeng Oluwafisayo 5A*, 4A

8 Aiyenuro Oluwadamilola 5A*, 3A

9 Andem-Osu Kufreabasi 5A*, 2A

After the vote of thanks, the ceremony was brought to a close. Parents, guests and all

awardees were invited for refreshment in the foyer.

REJOINDER

The names of two students were inadvertently omitted during the presentation of the IGCSE

awards. Aiyenuro Oluwadamilola achieved 5A* and 3As and Andem-Osu Kufreabasi

achieved 5A* and 2As. These omissions are highly regretted. Also, Adebayo Toluwani, Year

8 was best in Chemistry but his name was not mentioned during the accolades assembly. Our

sincerest apologies go to the families of the Adebayos, Aiyenuros and Andem-Osus.

Olufunke Sotunde.

Deputy Head Secondary/ Head Pastoral Care and Well Being.



NEWS ON THE EDUCATION FAIR

This year’s education fair took place on Friday 11th

October 2019. It was held in a marquee on the

school field.

We had sixty-seven delegates which included boarding schools, a few universities and quite a

number of school placement agents. These representatives were from Nigeria, UK, USA,

Switzerland and Canada.

It was a colourful event which was well attended by parents, pupils and guests.



SCHOOL BUS SERVICE

We are pleased to announce that the

School bus service is finally up and

running. We currently operate on 3

routes Lekki, Ikoyi/VI and Mainland

route.

There are several advantages to using

the School:

1) IT’S SOCIABLE

Riding to school with friends is fun!

What’s more, school bus riders have a

chance to mix with children of

different ages. You’d be surprised how

protective the bigger kids are of the little ones, and how much the little ones enjoy the chance to

speak to older children. This builds confidence, social skills and self-esteem.

2) IT ENCOURAGES INDEPENDENCE

Getting yourself on the right bus at the right time with all of the bags, snacks and school supplies

that you need for the day, teaches children about self-reliance from a young age.

3) IT’S GREENER

By taking the bus, your contribution to air pollution is dramatically reduced. Buses emit fewer

pollutants per kilometre travelled than cars on a per passenger basis, so by taking the bus, you are

helping us all breathe cleaner air.

4) IT BENEFITS THE COMMUNITY

More children on the bus means fewer cars on the road. This means less traffic, lower emissions,

safer roads around the schools at drop-off and pick up. The impact of your choice to use school

transportation can touch many others in a positive way.

5) IT’S BETTER FOR FAMILY HARMONY

For many families, the start to each school day is a race against the clock — a race to get the kids

up, dressed, fed and in the car, racing to get on the road before the rush hour traffic really hits,

racing to get to school before the drop-off crush, and racing off again to work or whatever other

appointments you have. Now, imagine a school day in which all that stress and responsibility lies

with someone else. Calmer mornings, less stressed parents and happier families.

To sign for the School bus, Kindly email [email protected] or Ms Solape Ajagunna,

08131310515 for more information.

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IMPORTANT DATES

Events Dates

1. PTA Breakfast with New Parents - November 1st

2. Sport Day Primary - November 7th

3. Sport Day Secondary - November 8th

4. Founders’ Day - November 14th

5. 60th

Anniversary Gala Night - November 16th

6. Exams Start - November 25th

7. Breakfast with Santa - December 5th

8.

Charity Walk/Walkathon - December 7th

9. Primary Christmas Concert Evening - December 11th

10. Secondary Christmas Convert Evening - December 12th

11. Last Day of Term - December 13th

Documents

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