This photograph of the view from Alderley Edge looking towards Hare Hill provided the image for the Christmas card sent by Wilmslow High School to local schools and community groups.

Students, parents and staff are invited to submit images or designs that could be used on the school card for Christmas 2016 by contacting HighNotes@wilmslowhigh.cheshire.sch.uk.

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Friday 18th December 2015 Issue 15

Thinking of othersChristmas is a time for giving, so let us take this opportunity to look back and reflect upon just a few of the charities and groups our students have helped raise money for over the past four months:

Children in Need (non school uniform) £1800 East Cheshire Hospice (Dragons’ Den team) £830 Alder Hey Children’s Hospital and Click Sargent (Harefield Charity Day) £1200 British Heart Foundation (Year 8 Skipathon) £819.74 Shine (Chloe Ward) £100 MIND (Izzy Whalen and Izzy Simpson) £245 Dementia (Ellie Harris and Molly Cunningham) £1200 North West Air Ambulance - bottle top appeal Syria Relief (clothes and goods collection).

We actively encourage all students to get involved in fundraising activities for both local and international charities. Not only do the charities benefit but so do our students, whether it be from a sense of achievement, working as part of a team, confronting a challenge or their development of empathy. We hope to see even more students volunteering their time in 2016 to help raise money and awareness for charitable causes.

Wishing you a very merry Christmas and a happy New Year from the students, staff and Governors of Wilmslow High School.

May this Christmas bring the gifts of peace and joy

No Christmas story told againNo kings, no shepherds, no wise men,No guiding star to BethlehemTo help them on their way.

For sixty million now displacedBy war and persecution’s hateA never-ending human raceIs all they’ll have today.

Some paid their thousand dollar feeTo risk their lives upon the seaThe price of being a refugeeSo cruelly on display.

Those sunken boats when thousands diedThat broken lorry’s endless rideIts human cargo dead insideDumped by the motorway.

Those crammed en route in BudapestBewildered, waiting, anchorlessSome took the train then walked the restSome perished anyway.

You close your borders in defenceWant Donald Trump for presidentAnd build your razor-wire fenceTo push the tide away.

No guiding star upon the treeJust something begging you and meTo salvage our humanityAnd look, and think, and pray.

Paul NorrisDecember 2015

This morning in the Whole School Assembly, Assistant Headteacher, Mr Norris, read the following poem that he had written:

NOTES

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Second hand uniform shopThe second hand uniform shop will not be operating on Tuesday 4th January. Any urgent requests for uniform may be made via the usual contact details.

Controlled assessmentOn Monday 4th January 2016, GCSE art, photography, graphic communication and three-dimensional design controlled test papers will be issued by art teachers. Students will have approximately 11 school weeks to respond to their chosen starting point from the externally set assignment paper relating to their subject title, evidencing coverage of all four assessment objectives.

The art department will be open on a Tuesday and Thursday to offer study support sessions for all art candidates. The controlled test is weighted at 40% of students’ final GCSE grade.

The Wilmslow High 2016 Food Technology calendarThis Christmas, treat your family and friends to this fantastic calendar/recipe book. Each calendar features 12 carefully selected recipes, all made by our talented food

technology students then styled by professional food stylist, Angela Boggiano, and professionally photographed for our calendar.

The calendar also features a perforated tear-off for each month so it can be used as a recipe book afterwards. All for only £8.

Please call 01625 441060 for further information or call into PrintWorks Monday to Wednesday 10.00 am - 3.30pm for your last chance to purchase your copy before Christmas.

Date EventWeek commencing 11th January 2016 Options assemblies and wider horizons session Week commencing 18th January Options booklet issuedWednesday 20th January Choices evening (6.00pm - 8.00pm)Friday 29th January Deadline for initial options choicesThursday 10th March Year 9 Parents’ EveningMonday 14th March Deadline for final option choices

Year 9 Options ProcessFor our Year 9 students, the Options Process will begin after Christmas. The timetable will be as follows:

We are looking forward to helping our Year 9 students with their choices.

Day/date Time Venue ActivityTuesday 12th January 5.30pm - 7.00pm Main Hall Year 8 Switzerland/Germany/France parents’

information eveningSixth form mock exams finish

Wednesday 13th January Period 1 Wilmslow Library visit 7TNAThursday 14th January 5.00pm - 8.00pm Various Year 11 Parents’ EveningFriday 15th January Period 6 Wilmslow Library visit 7BHC

Official final UCAS deadline

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Week commencing 4th January

CALENDAR

Week commencing 11th January

End of term whole school assemblyDuring this morning’s assembly Dr Pullé congratulated students on their many achievements over the course of this very busy term and presented ‘Student of the Term’ awards: Jess Stansby and Sophie Whittam (Thorngrove), Samantha Daniels and Jed Bailey (Harefield), Mathilda Ward and Grace Wilson (Norcliffe), Toprak Sen and Daniel Bundred (Bollin).

Day/date Time Venue ActivityMonday 4th January 8.50am Spring term starts for staff and studentsWednesday 6th January

3.00pm - 4.30pm Learning area

6th form mock exams start today and finish on Tuesday 12th JanuaryEx Year 13 certificate afternoon

Thursday 7th January 6.00pm (B/H)7.00pm ((T/N)

Main Hall Year 11 mock results evening

Camps International Expedition (Years 11 and 12)Following a number of successful and very popular previous Wilmslow High School expeditions,students in Years 11 and 12 will again be offered the opportunity to be part of an overseasexpedition in July 2017.

A representative from Camps International, the expedition tour operator for the school’s previousexpeditions, will be delivering an introductory talk to all Year 11 and Year 12 students just after the Christmas break during a morning registration session. In that session, the general detailsregarding the destination, price, fundraising and other information will be explained.

Students who express an initial interest will take a letter home inviting their parents/carers toattend a meeting at school led by a Camps International representative and the high schoolmember of staff leading the trip.

Dragons’ Den 2015On Monday, our Year 10 business students returned to Manchester Airport to feed back to the Dragons on their two months of enterprise. With fifteen schools in the competition, products were varied, ranging from simple sweet cones and popcorn to labour intensive glassware (created from kiln melted beer bottles).

Priestnall High School deservedly took the prize this year with their cookie making kits, having made a huge £4100 profit in just two months of trading! (I wonder if Santa is putting a kit in every stocking this Christmas!) The WHS team, once again, did us proud creating a net profit of £830 for East Cheshire Hospice with their mobile phone pamper kits and Santa Sleighs.

Students have worked hard sourcing supplies, creating promotional materials, organising events and the hardest part of all – engaging with the public to create the much needed sales. We have learnt the importance of team work, the benefit of local sourcing and the effect on the bottom line of discounting.

Once again thank you to Kieran Loynton and Rob Sawyer, business mentors, who supported our students this year. Over £14,000 was raised by the Manchester Airport project for our local hospices. Thank you to all teachers, parents and friends who supported the project.

Students in the team: Amy Loynton, Brad Hart, George Collier, Maddison Gill, Harry Hughes, Becky Thornley and Callan O’Brien

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Sound of MusicOn Tuesday evening the learning support team enjoyed a trip to The Lowry Theatre to see the classic musical ‘The Sound Of Music!’ The production captured the imagination of all our the students, who enthusiastically sang along to all the familiar songs, ‘Doe a Deer’ being a particular favourite! The learning support team were very proud of the impeccable behaviour of all students on the trip and are already making plans for our next adventure in the new year!

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Sponsored ‘skipathon’Last week, Year 8 girls took part in a sponsored skipathon in their single PE lesson to promote a healthy active lifestyle and raise money for the British Heart Foundation – Jump for Heart. Students managed to raise £819.74, which is an amazing achievement and will provide funding for the essential research required to save lives. The girls took part in a timed skip in which the number of skips were counted and totalled up. The following students placed 1st, 2nd and 3rd overall and received prizes in addition to those students that achieved 1st, 2nd and 3rd in each class. Overall year group winners (Miss Roxburgh’s group – set 1)1st Daisy Tomlinson (1261 skips), 2nd Jennifer McClure (965 skips), 3rd Sophia Batra (895 skips).

Mrs Kelsall’s group (set 1)1st Codie Semenytsh (778 skips), 2nd Jolie Lomas (728 skips), 3rd Amy Worsley (723 skips). Miss Hatt’s group (set 2) 1st Jemima Jackson (657 skips), 2nd Alice Beard (565 skips), 3rd Amy Landers (549 skips). Miss Roxburgh’s group (set 2)1st Daisy Dipple Johnstone (660 skips), 2nd Julia Cusworth (552 skips), 3rd Bethan Shotton (461 skips). Miss Walsh’s group (set 3)1st Nicole Hewison (794 skips), 2nd Libby Hamilton (472 skips), 3rd Ella Padget (452 skips). Miss Richards’ group (set 3)1st Emma Hutt (618 skips), 2nd Hannah McDermott (433 skips), 3rd Katie Scobbie (408 skips).

Drama club performanceOn Wednesday, the lower school drama club, featuring students from Year 7 and 8, performed a Christmas performance entitled ‘Elves in the Workshop’. The students had been working on the performance over a number of weeks and the show was attended by an audience comprised of their peers.

The students attend drama club every Wednesday; new students are welcome in the new year.

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Wilmslow High School supports refugeesWilmslow High School students are support-ing the plight of Syrian refugees with their harvest appeal this term. Students have gathered a large amount of donated clothes, shoes and tinned goods from other students and their parents and families in the week-long appeal in October/November. Local churches also joined in the appeal by having drop-off points in their buildings.

The supplies are now on their way to help Syrian refugees survive the winter.

A massive thank you to everybody who sup-ported this appeal during the term - staff, stu-dents, Rev. Smith, Rev. Rhodes and the local churches. It is of course very poignant at this time of year to remember that there are still so many in need.

Anybody who wishes to know more about the organization can find out more at: https://www.syriarelief.org.uk/?gclid=CPC5_-3R4Mk-CFQTlwgodsToLhw

 

Festive reading rewardsStudents in Years 7, 8 and 9 have been spending even more time reading over the last couple of weeks.

Our Festive Reading Rewards incentive has been extremely popular, with over twenty students clocking up an impressive 1000 pages since the challenge was launched on the 7th December! Prizes have included limited edition ‘Reading Champion’ wristbands, coveted house badges and on 18th December our top six readers will be awarded with an exclusive reading trophy.

We hope our students continue to invest lots of time reading during the festive period!

Community action unitOn Thursday 10th December the BTEC Group (Tamsin Gresty, Chloe Ward, Ruhee Khan, George Fielder Pemberton, Chloe Gowans and Olly Conway) visited Brookview Nursing Home in Aderley Edge as part of our Community Action Unit.

We handed out flyers to people at Brookview and invited them to come and celebrate the start of Christmas with us at the Coffee and Carols Concert.

It was a great morning as we had a chance to talk to the residents and it was good to see some of them again at the concert this week.

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Over 100 local residents enjoyed two hours of mu-sic, poems and students’ home made mince pies and chocolate logs on Wednes-day morning, which followed on from the Christmas Con-cert on Tuesday evening; a wonderful way to get into the Christmas spirit!

ChristmasCoffee and Carols

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Results week commencing 14th December 2015

Fixtures week commencing 4th January 2016

DATE OPPONENTS 1ST 2ND 3RD/U16 U15 U14 U13 U12 SPORT06-Jan-16 LYMM H H HH HH NETBALL06-Jan-16 SANDBACH HIGH SCHOOL H H H FOOTBALL09-Jan-16 LEEDS GRAMMAR A A A A A GIRLS HOCKEY09-Jan-16 KINGS MACC H H H H H NETBALL09-Jan-16 CHEADLE HULME SCHOOL A H A H AA FOOTBALL

Sports X-tra: http://www.wilmslowhigh.com/?p=259Arts X-tra: http://www.wilmslowhigh.com/?p=265X-tra – Xtra: http://www.wilmslowhigh.com/?p=269Previous issues of High Notes: http://www.wilmslowhigh.com/?p=2239Letters sent from school: http://www.wilmslowhigh.com/?p=2043

USEFUL LINKS

England for OliviaHuge congratulations go to Olivia Dixon, Year 10, who has been selected for the England U16 football squad; a feat all the more impressive as she is still in the U15 age group.

Olivia has been a key member of the school team which has made it to the last 16 of the ESFA cup competition as well as being a member of Manchester City’s U16 team.

In the new year, Olivia will travel to St George’s Park, the English Football Association’s national football centre, to link up with the squad for the first time, where she will be involved in training sessions with the national team’s coaches. Well done Olivia!

FootballThe senior football team finished off the term in style, winning 13-0 away to All Hallows in the Cheshire Cup on Monday and 4-1 to Crompton House, Oldham in the ESFA North West league.

The team currently have an outstanding record of played 16, won 13, drawn 2 and lost 1, scoring 55 goals and conceding just 8. The girls U16 football team went out of the ESFA cup in the last 16 on Thursday, losing out to a strong Countesthorpe School side.

RugbyOur senior rugby team booked their place in the last 16 of the Nat West Cup competition with a convincing 38 – 14 away win against Calday Grammar. They will now face Woodhouse Grove at home in the new year.

DATE OPPONENTS 1ST 2ND 3RD/U16 U15 U14 U14  b U13 U13  b U12 U12  b SPORT14-Dec-15 ALL HALLOWS won 13-0 FOOTBALL16-Dec-15 CALDAY GRANGE GRAMMAR won 38-14 RUGBY16-Dec-15 CROMPTON HOUSE SCHOOL won 4-0 FOOTBALL17-Dec-15 COUNTESTHORPE lost GIRLS FOOTBALL

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DIABETES UK EAST CHESHIRE PAEDIATRIC AND FAMILY VOLUNTARY GROUP

DIABETES UK

EAST CHESHIRE PAEDIATRIC AND FAMILY

VOLUNTARY GROUP K.I.D.S

(Kids Insulin Dependent Social)

Meetings are held regularly throughout the year. Meetings generally held on Mon or Fri evenings at 6-30 to 8-30

at Gawsworth Village Hall Chruch Lane, Gawsworth SK11 9RN

The meetings are very informal. Tea and coffee, sugar free juice and biscuits are provided.

The main aim is for parents and family members to meet each other and share the worries and problems of having a child

diagnosed with Diabetes, or just to meet and chat. There is entertainment for the children so the whole family

can come along. All ages of children attend our meetings up to 18 years

We also organise outings and parents events.

For more information please contact

Paul McCandless (01625 232915) or Ann Lowe (07837 994336) Eastcheshirepeadiatricdiabetesukgroup@hotmail.com

COMMUNITY

Local furniture company, Brand Interiors, who have sponsored all our junior and senior football teams this year, have kindly offered staff and parents a 10% voucher off any purchases at their Stockport store. The voucher is valid until Sunday 27th February. https://www.dropbox.com/s/xy3lwa18651ryav/WILMSLOW%20HIGH%20DISCOUNT.pdf?dl=0https://www.dropbox.com/s/2jws3wiq94no9fd/WILMSLOW%20HIGH%20DISCOUNT.jpg?dl=0

Join us for an evening of music and merriment at Wilmslow High School in aid of the Nightingale Centre, supporting their fight

against breast cancer

Friday 8th January

Doors 6:30pm/Start 7pm

Tickets £8

To reserve tickets please call 07792338901 or email anna.stubbs@gmx.com

…and feel free to bring a bottle or two!