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Contents: Year 11 Parents’ Evening
KS3 Disco
Photographs
Quiz Night
Parents’ Forum
Sports News
College Production
House News
Garth Hill College
Bulletin
31 January 2019 ISSUE 18
Achieving success by working together
Year 11 Parents’ Evening X Half Pupils – Wednesday 13 February 2019
Y Half Pupils – Monday 25 February 2019
I would like to invite parents/carers to attend a Parents’ Evening for Year 11 X half pupils, Wednesday 13 February and Y half pupils, Monday 25 February. This will be a valuable and essential opportunity for you to meet with your child’s subject teachers to discuss the progress they are making. Please make bookings through the online parents evening system at: https://garthh1llcollege.parentseveningsystem.co.uk
The evening will run from 4:00pm until 6:30pm and will be held in teaching rooms in the Sixth Form Centre. I would like to remind parents/carers that parking is not permitted on the College site. Parking is available in the Albert Road car park opposite the College. A valid parking ticket will need to be displayed. Miss C Barrett Head of Pupil Care
Thursday 7 February 6:00pm - 7:30pm £2.50 on the door
REMINDER SCHOOL PHOTOGRAPHS
Individual school photos for years 8-10 will take place on Thursday 7 February. Please ensure you are neat, tidy and wearing the correct school uniform.
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Parents’ Forum at Garth Hill College
Tuesday 5 February 2019 7:00pm-8:00pm
Auditorium As a college, we strive to provide excellent service and care to the young people in our community. We work in partnership with parents and carers. On Tuesday 7 February we are hosting our next Parents’ Forum event. Parents’ Forum provides an opportunity for Parents/Carers to speak with Senior Leaders at the College, share their views and receive update on developments at the college. Tea and Coffee will be available from 6:45pm onwards. We look forward to seeing you. If you are attending the evening, please email
If you are unable to attend Parents Forum, please share your views with the Senior Team by emailing [email protected]
Silver Medal for the U13 Indoor Athletics Team! On Friday 25 January, fourteen Year 8 pupils took part in the Bracknell Forest Indoor Athletics Competition at Bracknell Leisure Centre. This year, six Bracknell Forest schools were taking part, making it the most competitive event in recent years. The team performed superbly throughout the day with some excellent individual performances in both the track and field events. As a result, it concluded with some of the closest results recorded. In the overall competition, Garth Hill College finished 2nd, just five points behind first place! In the boys’ competition it was even closer. Just one point separated our team who finished 3rd from 2nd place which would have been enough to qualify for the county competition. The girls’ team did manage to secure a qualification place, again though, only narrowly finishing behind 1st place. The girls will now go on to represent Bracknell Forest at the County Competition in March. Overall, it was a fantastic day and all of the pupils represented themselves and Garth Hill College superbly. Well done to the following pupils – Tathan Brooks, Nathan McWilliam, Leroy Chan, Matthew Mulè, Guy Woodward, Josh Ncube, Destiny Iloegbune, Charlie Lawes, Mianke Bosman, Corin Tims, Laura Coppins, Aimee Claypole and Chloe Wilshire Also a big thank you to Ben Britton (Year 10) who helped train and coach the team in preparation for this event.
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Fielden House News
Head of House:
Mr M Weeks
Assistant Head of
House:
Mr S Bennison
House Mentor:
Ms A Russell
Garth Hill College
Be the best you can bee !
Message from Assistant Head of House, Mr Bennison
Last week the focus of our assembly was to remind our pupils of the various people in college that they
are able to speak to if they have any concerns. It was a great opportunity to put faces to names and to
remind everyone that we have a very strong support network within Fielden.
Following this assembly, I would like to remind our parents and carers that if they need to contact
someone in college regarding their child then they should make contact with their child ’s form tutor in the
first instance. Their form tutor will ensure that your concerns are directed to the appropriate people within
college.
BEES OF THE WEEK!
7F1 - Harry Lewis 7F2 - Tino Joguet 8F1 - Amy Forster 8F2 - Finley Perry 8F3 - Tashan Brooks 8FR - Thomas Schafer 9F1 - Harvey Laming
9F2 - Gustavo Chiarelo Costa Cruz
9F3 - Lily Taylor 10F1 - Leah Young 10F2 - Sabina Baloshi 10F3 - Jamie Cook 11F1 - Whole Tutor Group 11F2 - Leah Woodman
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Lawrence House News
Head of House:
Mr J Head
Assistant Head of House:
Miss J Pilley
House Mentor:
Mrs S Ranger
Welcome to Lawrence House
Adversus exitus optio non est
Garth Hill College
Legends of the Week
Year 7 Harrison Penton 7L1 Joseph Galea 7L2
Year 8 Dylan Turner 8L1 Ethan Donica 8L2
Year 9 Maddie Stephenson-Hobbs 9L1 Casey Curtis 9L1 Natasha Robertson 9L2
Year 10 Holly Morten 10L1 Kieran Bishop-Irwin 10L3
Year 11 Harlan Horsley 11L2 Ben Christie 11L2
A message from Mr Head Dear Lawrence House, I hope you all enjoyed the INSET day last week and Lawrence came back a little more refreshed.
This week is our Celebration of Success Assembly where we celebrate so many of the positive events that
happen every day at Garth Hill College. Now is the last couple of days to get the Caught Doing the Right
Thing tickets in the post box outside the House Office to ensure you are in the draw. You could be in for a
chance to win an IPAD.
I sincerely hope that everyone found the assembly on ‘Who can I talk to’ useful. It is encouraging that,
according to the most recent well being survey, more pupils in Lawrence House are feeling safe, supported
and happy to talk to staff. It is very important that every pupil and parent/carer knows how they can access
staff to discuss any problems or issues that they are having.
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Lawrence House News
Garth Hill College
Arun Weston 7L1 achieved this certificate on his own merit of hard work. He attended the Fusion Residential in August 2018 and was awarded an Entry Level Leadership Qualification, which is a recognised qualification. Congratulations Arun.
31 January 2019 is Young Carers Awareness Day. The purpose of the day is to raise public awareness of the challenges faced by young peo-ple because of their caring role, and to campaign for greater support for young carers and their needs. A young carer is someone under 18 who helps look after someone in their family, or a friend, who is ill, disabled or misuses drugs or alcohol. 1 in 5 secondary school children have a caring role, this might include carrying out practical tasks, helping someone communicate or looking after siblings, as well as providing physical care and emotional support. If you or someone you know is a young carer, please let us know so that we can help support them as they support others #careformetoo. Talk to someone in your House Team, your tutor or any of the team that you saw in assembly on Friday. We are all here to help. Mrs Ranger.
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Haversham House News
Head of House:
Ms Murray
Assistant Head of House:
Mr Smith
House Mentor: Mrs Langley
Garth Hill College
Welcome to Haversham House
Haversham House – where pupils ‘make it happen’
Mr Smith’s Message One of the social events of the year is fast approaching at Garth Hill College and I expect to see a strong showing from our Havershamees. I am of course talking about the KS3 Disco that will be taking place on Thursday 7 February. All of year 7 and year 8 are welcome to come along. Your tutors and I would love to see you all there. Also on 7 February is a Harry Potter Quiz just for our year 7s to celebrate Harry Potter night. The quiz will finish at 4:30pm, giving you just enough time to get home and prepare yourself for the disco which will kick off at 6:00pm.
Sharks of the Week
7H1 - Naomi Udroiu
7H2 - Virul Kankanage Nonis
8H1 - Laura Coppins
8H2 - Marcel Wisniewski
9H1 - Eleanor Morten
9H2 - James Barnett
9H3 - Roxanne Thompson
10H1 - Shawn Poile
10H2 - Ellie-Rebecca Hammond
10H3 - Eloise Moore
10HR - Will Jones
11H1 - Veronica Parkes
11H2 - Jack Beynon
11H3 - Madeleine Shaw
Head of House Message
Dear Parents and Carers, Last week’s assemblies focused on key members of the staff and student body who were available should your child have any issues. The Garth Hill College Community came together from all areas – the LSC, student Community Managers, the pastoral teams, Pupil Learning Partners, the LRC team, House Mentors, the Anti Bullying Ambassadors, Site Controllers etc. The Auditorium stage was flooded with these individuals so that our Havershamees could see the wealth of people that they could go to if they needed to report anything. I am so proud of the united team that we have here in Haversham and pupils always go out of their way to support each other. To further add to this, we have quite a few of our Year 10s involved in being trained by Miss Barrett as Peer Mentors for Year 7 this week. We’re really proud of them and grateful to them all for giving up their valuable time for this. Ms Murray
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Haversham House News
Garth Hill College
Is your child involved in something exciting outside of school? Please let us know!
Well Done All of our Year 11 boys who are currently involved in supporting Year 8 with their football. Mr Mortimer reports: “the boys are having such a positive impact on the pupils (and their behaviour at school) and the Year 8s are really responding well to them. The training they have been delivering and the help they are providing has really been outstanding.” I’m really pleased to hear this, boys. Top work! Harley Carter, 9H1, who, Mrs Bhutta reports, “has greatly improved his attitude to learning in his French
class.” Well done, Harley – keep up the great work!
Mrs Langley’s Message
Young Carers Awareness Day Thursday 31 January is National Young Carers Awareness Day. There are approximately 175,000 young carers in the UK doing on average 20 hours of work a week within their homes. Not surprisingly this can have an impact on school. Many young carers can struggle to be involved in social activities and are often left feeling isolated. Here at Garth Hill we have some amazing young carers, and we try to offer them as much support as we can, but how can their peers help too? Be a good friend! Many young carers can find the pressure of being a carer hard to manage and this can impact on their own mental health. The message from young carers was #careformetoo! Try and be a good friend by asking how they are doing, and letting someone know if you are worried. Try and include them in social activities so they know they are part of your group, even if they cannot join in all the time.
Focus Week- 28 January – 8 FebruaryAttendance
• Attend every day for 2 weeks to be entered into the draw
• 100% attendance
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Brownlow House News
Head of House: Mr Swanton Assistant Head of House: Mrs Frost
Garth Hill College
Welcome to Brownlow House - A House for Heroes
Little Gem
We all need someone to talk to, someone who listens, someone who understands
Brownlow Leadership Team
Brownlow had an assembly on 'who can I talk to' on Monday afternoon. During a recent survey some pupils said they didn't know who they could talk to about any problems. As our Little Gem quote says, we all need someone to talk to, who listens to us (without judging what we say) and someone who understands what we say. In Brownlow we have a number of staff who will do this and if you were in the assembly you would have seen both staff and pupils who are available for you to go and talk to if you need to. Mr Swanton is based in the Brownlow office, ground floor B block, opposite B001 or in his classrooms in D block; Mrs Frost is based in the Brownlow office too but also in C001 (food room) at the bottom of C block near the restaurant entrance; Mr Turner is based at the top of Brownlow 2nd floor; your tutors are available mostly in their tutor rooms except for Mrs Stevens who teaches in B001, Mr Hamilton and Mr Topple teach in various rooms on the ground floor of Brownlow. The pupil leadership team are always around, particularly at break and lunch and they do come round during tutor time. If you still do not feel you want to approach any of these people tell your parents, carers, older siblings, close friends and get them to come and talk to us. You are never alone - there is always someone to listen to you - whatever you want to say is important to us.
Heroes of the week
Year 7 Year 8 Year 9 Soraia Moreira Layla chambers Eddie Fowle Harry Dommett Lily Williams Morgan Coleman Liam Berryman Ammie Claypole Year 10 Year 11 Kaelin Dell Sukai Jarra Jacob Day Shae Moors Phoebe Jenkyn Anthony Maillet Zoe Bell Hazel Wedderburn Raul Hira Isabella Varchetta Max Griggs Well done to 9B2 pupils, Liam Berryman and Harvey Woodley, who scored 7 out of the 8 goals at yesterday’s Year 9 Football match against Slough and
Eton School. Garth won 8-0.
