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Headline 17 July 2015 Page 1 Email: [email protected]fl.ac.uk @ilkleygrammar Follow Follow Follow us on twier us on twier us on twier @ilkleygrammar @ilkleygrammar @ilkleygrammar 17 July 2015 17 July 2015 17 July 2015 Learning Learning Community Community Champions Champions Student Student Success Success Mul Match, Music, Mul Match, Music, Sports Awards, Maths, Sports Awards, Maths, Languages, Rowing and Languages, Rowing and Taekwondo! Taekwondo! CERN CERN Visit Visit Home Home of the of the Hadron Hadron Collider Collider Super Tutor Super Tutor Group Group Winners Winners Student Success Student Success Ilkley in Bloom and Ilkley in Bloom and Taekwondo Taekwondo Media Media Madness Madness Candyman as Candyman as never seen never seen Challenge Challenge and and Celebraon Celebraon 2015 2015 Goodbye Goodbye and and Hello Hello Welcome Welcome To Team IGS To Team IGS

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FollowFollowFollow us on twitter us on twitter us on twitter @ilkleygrammar@ilkleygrammar@ilkleygrammar

17 July 201517 July 201517 July 2015

Dance, Dance, Dance!Dance, Dance, Dance! Leavers’ Leavers’ Ball Ball 20152015

Learning Learning Community Community ChampionsChampions

Student Student SuccessSuccess Multi Match, Music, Multi Match, Music, Sports Awards, Maths, Sports Awards, Maths, Languages, Rowing and Languages, Rowing and Taekwondo!Taekwondo!

CERNCERN VisitVisit Home Home of theof the

HadronHadron ColliderCollider

Super Tutor Super Tutor Group Group

WinnersWinners

Student SuccessStudent Success Ilkley in Bloom and Ilkley in Bloom and TaekwondoTaekwondo

Media Media MadnessMadness

Candyman as Candyman as never seen never seen

Challenge Challenge andand Celebration Celebration 20152015

GoodbyeGoodbye andand

HelloHello Welcome Welcome

To Team IGSTo Team IGS

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Goodbye As we head towards the end of the year we are pleased to share with you further details of staff both leaving and joining IGS following on from the update we gave you at Easter. We wish the following members of our team at IGS a fond farewell and the very best for the future as they head off this summer to pastures new.

Dawn Morgan (Assistant Headteacher) We are delighted to celebrate Dawn’s promotion to Deputy Head (Student Services) at King James's School Knaresborough. Dawn has been an integral part of our Leadership Team at IGS where she has had responsibilities for Pastoral, SEN, Post 16, Inclusion and Alternative Provision, Safeguarding and teaching since joining us in 2005.

Jon Beynon (Head of Geography) Jon Beynon is looking for opportunities outside teaching and hoping to work in a Geographical field in the Leeds and West Yorkshire area. He is looking into a career change but not ruling out returning to teaching in the future as he has enjoyed passing on his enthusiasm for the outdoors and Geography as a subject.

Graeme Stonehouse (Co-ordinator of Citizenship) Graeme has been at IGS just under 4 years after carrying out his PGCE placement here too. As he leaves, he admits to IGS taking a very special place in his heart.

Ali Cass (Teacher of English)

After 35 Years of teaching, Ali is retiring. His immediate plans include re-stringing his guitars and getting a chance to play them again, walking the Camino de Santiago in the spring and learning to enjoy Sunday nights!

Hughes Mouton (Teacher of MFL) Hughes is leaving IGS after joining the MFL department in 2012 and is looking forward to new challenges.

Amy Drogan (Teacher of Biology) Amy joined IGS in 2010 and is returning to the North West, taking up a post teaching Biology at St. Ambrose College, an all-boys’ Catholic school in Cheshire.

Jo Daly (Key Stage 4 Administrator) Jo heads off on maternity leave at the start of summer – we wish her and her family all the best for their own special project!

We also say goodbye to Jaafar Abbas (Teacher of ICT), Beverley Scott (Teacher of Art) and Jennifer Hutchinson (Teacher of RE and Citizenship) who have been with us on fixed term contracts this year. We wish them the very best in their new endeavours.

Dawn Morgan

Graeme Stonehouse

Jon Beynon

Hughes Mouton

Jo Daly

Ali Cass

Amy Drogan

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Welcome... We are thrilled to announce the following new appointments:

Thomas Boyd has been appointed as Teacher of History, currently studying for his PGCE at Leeds University.

Robin Burton has been appointed as Curriculum Leader: PE. Robin is currently Curriculum Leader and a Lead Practitioner at Horbury Academy, Wakefield.

Victoria Broadway has been appointed as Curriculum Leader: Technology, currently Head of Design and Technology at Harrogate High School.

Karl Hansen has been appointed as Curriculum Leader: Creative Arts, currently Head of Drama at St John Fisher Catholic High School, Harrogate.

Robert Greening has been appointed as Head of Geography, currently a Teacher of Geography at Bingley Grammar School.

Claire Harris has been appointed as a Teacher of Art; she is currently a Programme Leader of Art at Temple Moor High School, Leeds.

Faye Allen has been appointed as a Teacher of Girls’ PE, currently studying for her PGCE at Leeds Beckett University.

David Johnston has been appointed as a Teacher of English. David is an NQT and he is completing his PGCE training at Leeds Trinity University.

The following staff join us on fixed term contracts: Elliott Rogerson has been appointed as a Teacher of English, currently completing his PGCE training at

Leeds Trinity University. James Pearce has been appointed as a Teacher of Maths/KS3 ICT, currently studying for his PGCE and he

is an ITT student at Ilkley Grammar School. Jennifer Kesterlian has been appointed as a Teacher of Humanities and is currently teaching RE at St

Mary’s School, Menston. Jane Houghton has been appointed as a Teacher of Biology. Jane has just completed an assignment at

Bradford Girls’ Grammar School teaching Biology. Taylor Mahon has been appointed as a Teacher of Biology, and is currently a Teacher of Biology at The

Ryde Academy, Isle of Wight.

All in all we have had another busy year with recruitment at IGS, but are very fortunate to have attracted and recruited a high calibre staff to replace those colleagues moving on. We are excited about next year and confident that our new members of staff will pick up the IGS mantle and build on it with enthusiasm and dynamism (once we’ve all had a well-earned summer break)! It has been a fantastic first year for me as Headteacher and I have been amazed by our students’ talents, prowess and abilities throughout the year. From sporting success to academic accolades and fantastic fundraising...they have been amazing. We are really looking forward to celebrating our Year 11 and Post 16 students’ exam success in August and also to welcoming our students back in September. Until then, on behalf of all at IGS, we wish you a lovely summer holiday. Helen Williams, Headteacher

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Challenge and

Celebration Week

2015

This year’s Challenge and celebration Week has been a

fantastic success. Whether our students took part in

the ‘Big Mix’, Big Trip’, ‘The Great Outdoors, visited

Stratford or Krakow, took part in the ‘Big Choice’, were

on work experience or enjoyed the school carousel or

Art project...they were all amazing.

Challenge and celebration week is an important and

memorable part of their education. it enhances learning

and helps our students grow in independence and self-

confidence, As well as being great fun! this week has:

Provided students with a variety of enjoyable and

purposeful enrichment

given students and their tutors a chance to really

‘get to know each other in a non-classroom situation.

given students a real feeling of belonging and pride in

your Learning Community.

given students an opportunity for student leadership

throughout the school.

The following pages show just a glimpse of what they

all got up to. for more photos and the story of the week

visit storify here.

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Year 7 Challenge and Celebration Week 2015 Year 7 were ‘Challenged’ and definitely ‘Celebrated’ their way through ‘The Big Mix’ this

week.

They all had a day at the circus and were taught juggling, diablo, trapeze and hoola hooping, tightrope walking and how to unicycle. Step forward the thrill seekers as they headed off to Lightwater Valley, spent a day ‘down pit’ at the National Coal Mining Museum, enjoyed the high life at Aerial Xtreme, appreciated art at the Yorkshire Sculpture park and walked the Wharfe (which they enjoyed even in the rain!). What a week they have had...and they were brilliant!

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Year 8 Challenge and Celebration Week 2015 Year 8 enjoyed a Challenge and Celebration Week in London with ‘The Big Trip’.

It’s probably quicker to mention what they didn’t see! With visits to the Olympic Park, Globe Theatre, Tower of London, The London Eye, Wembley, Natural History Museum, London Dungeons, Harry Potter Studios, a boat trip on the Thames and they even had time to catch a show...Charlie and the Chocolate Factory! Thank you and well done to the Art group who worked on a fantastic Art Project that will go on to be displayed in the KS3 shelter. Their behaviour during the week was...as expected...impeccable...good job Year 8!

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Year 9 Challenge and Celebration Week 2015 Year 9 took over the lake District by land and sea (well lake!) and enjoyed a boat load of

activities.

They journeyed through the Lakeland, taking in the beautiful scenery, took to the lake on boats and canoes, orienteered around the Brathay site and enjoyed a cabaret and bonfire and a disco! Even though the weather wasn’t always dry and sunny we know they got the most out of their week and they can all be very proud of themselves that they went that extra mile!

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It is essential that our students have the opportunity to do work experience as it gives them a chance to experience life in the ‘real’ world and make decisions about future career pathways. The week allowed them to impress potential employers on their placement whilst gathering essential work skills which all employers are looking for. Our students always return from their work experience week with a more mature attitude and are more focused in their studies. They showed themselves and the school in the best possible light, impressing employers, who could in the future offer part time work, apprenticeships or even sponsorship through university. We would like to thank those employers who have taken our students for their placements this year. Next year’s Challenge and Celebration week is the week commencing 11th July 2016, so if anyone is able to take one of our Year 10 students for that week, please contact [email protected].

Year 10 Challenge and Celebration Week 2015 Our Year 10s and some of our Year 12s focused on the challenge side of Challenge and

Celebration week and completed a week of work experience, scattered around the country as well as one or two in Europe.

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Post16 Challenge and Celebration Week 2015 Our Post 16 students took part in ‘The Big Choice’ for Challenge and Celebration.

Whether they were an iLeader on a Year 7, 8 or 9 trip, visited Krakow with the Humanities team, headed to Stratford and London with their fellow culture vultures, enjoyed their Chemistry week, organised your own work experience or took part in an EPQ activity they did themselves proud! Thank you and well done!

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The Art Project The Art Project has been based on The Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The week started with students working in small mixed ability and year group teams to research the theme and present their findings. Students were then given an article from the declaration to develop ideas around. At the beginning of the second day students split into four groups to generate compositions for the final murals. The students have been outstanding in their work ethic and creativity this week. We are so proud of the group’s ability to work together to resolve issues and produce work of a such a high quality. Well done!

This is the space that

will be transformed!

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Sadly our 1stXV lost away to Harrogate Grammar school today at Harrogate. Final score 15-3 Thank you and well done to our gardeners; Lucy Flesher (7AMD), Sophie Allman (7AMD), Thomas Lambe (7LNR), George Emsley Sharp (7VEC), Natasha Cheater (9JB), Penny Burns (9CW), AJ Johnson (9GPS), Jake Broughton (9GPS), Peter Phillips (9GPS), and Lewis Hunter (9GPS) who impressed the Ilkley in Bloom judges last week. We were visited on Friday 3rd July and they inspected our front garden and talked to the Gardening Club about, what they had planted, and how they were using the garden.

It’s great credit to the Gardening Club that our garden looks both beautiful and functions on a practical level (regularly providing the school kitchen with fresh fruit and vegetable). They work weekly on the garden, as does Mr Johnson who works voluntarily with the students giving them guidance on how to care for the plants. We should find out over the holidays what the judges though of our garden…watch this space in September for more news.

Illkley in Bloom

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Sadly our 1stXV lost away to Harrogate Grammar school today at Harrogate. Final score 15-3

INININ

THETHETHE

NEWSNEWSNEWS

Congratulations to Jamie Kidd (8PB) who won the London Open for the 3rd time in his Taekwondo career. Jamie defeated Liverpool Academy’s Cameron Murphy 14-12 in a fierce semi-final of his new 53kg weight cadet ground, before winning in style 16-8 against Aaron McCardle of South Hams in the final to win gold. This is Jamie’s second 1st Place finish, having won the Keumgang Open in Belgium earlier this year. Jamie also won Bronze at the USA Open earlier this year. The tournament consisted of over 500 competitors from the UK and other European countries, including Belgium, Holland and Norway.

Jamie Kidd (right) Kieran Young (Jamie’s Coach) and

Jamie (right)

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Excellent Eruptions!

Our Year 8 Geography students took to the front garden last week to demonstrate their skill at both building and erupting volcanoes. Each year students take part in this rite of passage and the volcanic creations never fail to amaze both teachers and fellow students...and this year was no exception! Real volcanic eruptions are produced over thousands of years as heat and pressure build up. That aspect of a volcano is very difficult to recreate in a home experiment. However, this experiment gives them an idea of what it might look like!

Add the vinegar and the food colouring...

Squeeze in the washing up liquid and 2 tablespoons of bicarbonate of soda...

This is a classic experiment in which a chemical reaction can create the appearance of a physical volcano eruption. The reaction makes the homemade volcano bubble up and flow down the side like a real volcano (only much faster!) Here’s how the experiments went:

A bit more vinegar just to make sure it blows!

Stand back and watch the eruption!

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The summer term, a time to unwind, and gently countdown to the holidays? Not if you’re Molly Harris (12DXB) and Paige Holdsworth (12NPG), two of our Year 12 Media students who have been busy planning two music videos to be shot in just one day, the annual ‘Music Video Day Challenge’!

As in previous years, a host of familiar faces appear in the resultant videos. Molly and Paige deconstructed shot by shot an iconic music video, Christina Aguilera’s Candyman, a jazzy, swing number which uses a 1940s barn dance and diner settings, aiming to reshoot a parody of it. Stand-in locations were identified and rooms booked, with follow-up meetings with site team and catering staff to check on times when B Hall and Courtyard Café could be used. Wigs and hats were sourced, with one of the Year 13 Media students, kindly dashing in to school to lend a wig used for last year’s Lady Gaga shoot!

With shortlists and call sheets sorted, locations agreed, and props, make-up and costume organised, all that was missing was…a cast! Paige and Molly accordingly set about involving students from KS3 and KS4, leading to further meetings and discussions with teachers, tutors and Year Leaders. They also gathered up a good number of their Year 12 colleagues, male and female, to do a turn as Christina – Media Studies is never a drag, but is sometimes in drag!

Media Students Media Students Media Students

Set To Unwrap Set To Unwrap Set To Unwrap

CandymanCandymanCandyman

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There was, of course, a purpose to all of this frenetic activity, the now traditional start to our A2 Media course. For one, it brings to life abstract academic concepts that we explore, such as Judith Butler’s controversial argument that gender does not exist – we ‘perform’ it. The lessons learned from this event, in pre-production planning, production organisation, filming and editing are a key factor in the great success our Media students have enjoyed – already averaging a UK-leading 94% on coursework in 2014, our marks have gone higher again – and many of these productions will be screened soon in a new local cinema (replacing ads!). The 50,000+ views on our YouTube channel is also a small fraction of the views on students’ own channels.

This challenge carries with it the very distinct possibility of failure, as getting all the required shots in such limited time is always extremely difficult, never mind when, as students, you’ve got to organise and direct so many other students (and some staff too!). Having handled two simultaneous shoots at points in the day, with Paige also choreographing dance scenes, we added into the mix another full video shoot, this time getting students and staff to lip-synch and dance in front of a green screen, leading to the viral-style videos we’ve seen following Creative Arts Evenings in the past. These help us explore the academic debate around ‘web 2.0’, with the likes of David Gauntlett arguing we now need to talk about “the former audience” as the barrier between audience and producer has become so blurred. Such ‘convergence’ was also well demonstrated by Paige controlling a Bose speaker through her iPhone for playback of the song during the shoot!

Determined to carry on the tradition of featuring Media Technician Mr Cockshaw in the Media parody videos, the green screen was kept up for an additional day, helping the girls capture not just the iconic twirl, but a host of other staff and students on what turned out to be another busy day of shooting and choreographing! The results of these efforts will hopefully be shared with everyone just before we break up in the final week – the girls have also taken on a request from Ashlands Primary to film their production and produce a DVD for sale!

For now you will have to make do with the sample screenshots from the shoot, and from the blogging and editing that has followed on from this – although you can always google ‘IGSMediaStudies YouTube’ and use the music videos playlists to view past productions, featuring a host of familiar faces, including some no longer at IGS. A link will be sent round once we get editing done – a stiff challenge with Celebration Week meaning this is now down to just a few days of school time!

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Goldilocks - Under Lock and Key? Molly Harris (12DXB) and Paige Holdsworth (12NPG) headed off to Ashlands Primary on Thursday 9th July to film their school production. Holly Margerrison (12DXB) has provided a report.

On Thursday 9th July, Ashlands Primary School was bursting with pride and excitement as the Year 6 pupils and their teachers prepared for their final dress rehearsal of Goldilocks, a final hurrah to their time at the school. Having just performed their first show the previous night, you could be excused for assuming that the children would be exhausted and that recreating the exuberance of that opening night would be an illusive goal. Perhaps the presence of filmmakers, Molly Harris and Paige Holdsworth, Year 12 students from Ilkley Grammar School’s Media Department, helped provide that extra spark to rekindle that flame. Not only have Molly and Paige just completed two parody videos for Christina Aguilera’s “Candyman”, packed with guest appearances by staff and students, for their Music Video Day Challenge, but they somehow found time to scout camera positions and then film the show the following day.

Ashlands initially requested 30 DVDs from this filming, but ended up inundated with orders, and have sold 70 DVDs, with proceeds shared between the Primary and Ilkley Grammar Schol’s Media department. A Year 10 student, Alex Barrett, on work experience with the department for the week, helped burn, label and ‘guillotine’ 70 DVDs and sleeves!

It wasn’t just IGS students showing technical excellence; as the Media students looked for prime camera positions, I spoke to Cobey Page, who, as had taken on a remarkable responsibility for such a young age, overseeing sound and music production. “I felt really special being in charge of the music. When everyone else had taken a bow the teachers pointed at me in the corner and I got my own round of applause – it made me stand out from the other students who were playing characters”. The music was scrutinized through test performances, passing with flying colours. Keen to ensure that this challenging show showcased every student in their final weeks of primary school, teachers arranged the stage seating so all faces could be seen. Baby Bear, played by Emelia Phillips, dressed in yellow dungarees and a face painted as a brown bear, provided insight into just how hard these young students had worked in their summer term – no chilling out there! “We’ve been rehearsing for around 8 weeks now. Last night’s performance was fun and it went well – we forgot to cheer in one of the last scenes but the audience couldn’t tell so we got away with it!”

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As lights dimmed and the other students filed in, the murmur of voices carried along the walls of the hall. Tufts of pink mesh tutus twitched whilst the batons of the policemen were bashed against the palms of their hands; flat caps and ties were straightened out; silver sequined dresses bounced the stage lights back onto an enthralled audience. With the pre-teen cast primed and ready, what would be served – a steaming bowl of porridge or time behind bars doing porridge? The musical commenced with Goldilocks on trial for her crimes. Could this innocent looking sweetie seriously be the guilty girl who ate the Three Bears porridge and broke their furniture? Only the Jury could decide!

The forensics had the evidence that this louse had been sneaking into their empty house and here she was accused of four crimes: breaking and entering, stealing a bowl of porridge, breaking Baby Bears’ chair and smearing mud from her boots onto the beds. The decision was left in the hands of the Jury, who eventually let the deviant off Scott(s Oats)-free! (Other porridge brands are available…) Baby Bear, not content with the outcome – nor an empty bowl - was given words of advice from Papa Bear that she should eat Goldilocks! As Baby Bear chased Goldilocks off the stage, the production ended on a high note – quite literally (ouch!) – of a scream and one last song.

The standing ovation was well-merited…how did these young children memorise so many words, movements and tunes? Their teachers certainly deserved a bow! Freya Wandless, the playing the lead, Goldilocks, couldn’t hide her excitement, insisting, “tonight’s performance will be the best!” Mrs Pope spoke on behalf of herself, Mrs Wood and Mrs Elliott, saying, “ we’re all very proud of every one of the students. They have worked incredibly hard to produce this exciting and entertaining show”. Thanks to Molly and Paige’s efforts in filming the show at a busy time, Mr Burrowes for editing the footage and designing a DVD sleeve, and Alex Barrett (10LO), on work experience with the Media department, for burning and labelling seventy copies and ‘guillotining’ 70 sleeves, a great many parents and relatives and relatives can now relish a memento of a key moment in young students’ development … many of whom will follow siblings into IGS!

Holly Margerrison (12NPG)

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Friday 3rd July was our Transition Sports Day, when our new Year 7 students joined with students from all the feeder primaries to take part in the event. Our Year 8 and 9 Sports Leaders ably ran the sports on offer, alongside sporting outside agencies. There was American football, cricket, athletics, rugby, dodgeball and tennis to name just a few of the activities on offer...and judging by the sporting finesse on display we have some fantastic talent heading towards team IGS!

New Kids on the Block!

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Dinner Time Rota (No Bags in B Hall)

Sitting 1 12pm

Sitting 2 From 12.10pm

Sitting 3 Not before 12.15pm

Year 9 Packed Lunch Area: Social Area D Floor

Year 7 Packed Lunch Area:

N3 and N6

Year 8 Packed Lunch Area:

N4

Rotating lunchtime sittings are for Years 7, 8 and 9 only. Years 10 and 11 have optional sittings. Bags must not be taken into B Hall at lunchtime unless they have essential medication (i.e. Epipen or Diabetic equipment).

A Levels Results Day

13th August A2 9.00am AS 9.30am

GCSE Results Day

20th August Between 9.00am and 12.30am

Students are expected to be in attendance to collect their results. Staff are available on Results Days to assist any student (in attendance) whose results are below expectation. It is school policy that results will not be given over the telephone or by e-mail. We will accommodate requests for alternative arrangements as outlined below, but these should be arranged before leaving for the Summer break.

1. Stamped self addressed envelope for results to be posted. 2. Written authorisation, from the student, for someone else (including parents) to collect their results

on the day.

Exam Exam

Results Results

DayDay

PTA Update So many of our students have benefitted from money raised by the PTA this year. This year the PTA have funded: The Key Stage 3 Shelter £16995 Biology microscopes £750 Drama microphones £2438.49 Piano £4000 RE Department artefacts collection and trolley £375 It has been another great year for the PTA, full of fantastic fundraising, and many of you were involved either attending or supporting an event or helping at the car boot sale or taking part in the quiz night...thank you! So far this year the PTA have raised £8500. This includes: £107.67 from The Weather Lottery £479.50 from The Quiz Night £2890.43 from The Auction of Promises £5406.90 from the 3 Car Boot Sales

£ £ £

£

£ £

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Learning Support Assistant (With a Focus on Vocational Learning)

Pattern of hours – 33.75 hours per week, 8.30am – 3.05pm on three days; 8.30am-4.45pm on college days (2 days) with half an hour unpaid

lunch break each day.

Term time only (plus 3 days) Salary scale 3, Point 14. (Annual salary range points 14-17 £ 12,496 - £13,374)

We are seeking to appoint a suitably qualified Learning Support Assistant with a focus on vocational learning to join our established Learning Support team in our highly successful and oversubscribed Converter Academy. This post is required from September 2015, and as soon as possible after interview subject to satisfactory recruitment and vetting procedures.

Summary of the post: To support students by facilitating their achievement in their vocational learning at alternative

provisions to Ilkley Grammar School To assist students, under the direction of the subject teacher, in following educational programmes

and activities To keep appropriate records of students’ performance and to carry out other special needs duties as

required by the teacher and the Learning Support Manager To encourage the students to develop life skills and enable them to develop independent learning

skills To drive students to and from college and providers as and when required.

For further details, including our specific application requirements for this post, please visit our school website www.ilkleygrammarschool.com. Closing date for applications: 9am, Friday 28th August. Provisional Interview date: Week commencing 7th September 2015.

He’s Behind You! Upstagers are holding open auditions for anyone aged between 6 and 20 years old, who is interested in being part of their pantomime, Peter Pan. The show will take place on the Sunday 6th September 2015 and rehearsals will commence in October. The auditions are mainly for the chorus and anyone interested in a principal role should contact the artistic director ahead of the auditions on [email protected]. There will be no need to prepare anything specific for the audition, but it will involve some singing, dancing and acting. Keep an eye on the Upstagers website and Facebook page for further information.

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Coming to

IGS December

2015

OliverOliver

2/3/4

December

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Dates for the Diary

July

Monday 20 Super Tutor Group Tuesday 21 Year 10 Blackpool Trip Celebration Assemblies Wednesday 22 Celebration Assemblies School closes 1.15pm

23rd July - 2nd September Summer Holiday

September Thursday 3 School closed Training Day Friday 4 School opens Years 7, 12 & 13

Term Dates

SUMMER TERM 2015

Wednesday 22 Jul School closes 1.15pm

Summer Holidays: 23rd July—2nd September

AUTUMN TERM 2015

Thursday 3 Sep School closed Training Day

Friday 4 Sep School opens for Year 7, 12 and 13

Monday 7 Sep School open for all years

Friday 23 Oct School Closes

Half term: Monday 26th October— Friday 31st October

Monday 2 Nov School re-opens

Friday 18 Dec School closes 1.15pm

Stay Connected! Have you got anything you want to contribute or see included in our newsletter? Let us know, we can be contacted by email, telephone or on twitter.

[email protected] 01943 608424 @ilkleygrammar

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