Weekly update - 25th January 2018

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Key Stage 2 Champions this week…

Gabriella Hopkins for being self-regulating to improve her reading age by 5 years.

Keira Greaves for always speaking politely, articulately and in full sentenc-es.

Darcey Coombes for applying the language of justification during her group discussions.

Grace Lipscombe for showing the attributes of a resilient learner.

James Claridge for his enthusiasm and engagement in maths.

Kayleigh Rushworth for always trying hard to use technical vocabulary in class discussions.

Connor Larner for Oracy - he finds articulation incredibly challenging, but strives to try and explain his thinking.

Eden Masters for KASE - she’s been a legend.

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Upcoming Events:

11.2.19—French trip for the year 7’s attending. Please contact Mr Miles for any information.

KS3 Department Stars of the Week

ENGLISH : Callum Doughty – literate – super contribution in discus-sions. SCIENCE : Alicia Webber - For a huge improvement in her attitude to learning and homework. PE: Joe Masters for finishing 23rd in the junior boys county cross country on Saturday. Alice Webb for her enthusiasm and much im-proved ability to explain the tactics in games FRENCH: Casey Morroll for using conversational French in the class-room to improve her pronunciation and fluency. ART: Connor McAlinden for attempting an insect drawing three times and showing huge progress! RE: Archie Clinton and Rio Harbone for voluntarily giving up their free time to finish a piece of writing to a very good standard. DT: Ryan Todd, Alisha Webber, Andrei Apostol, Harvey Streeter & Liam Todd for fantastic focus during their textiles lesson and for their resilience when sewing. DRAMA: Callum Quilkin and Kieran Sword for their fantastic enthu-siasm during our epic theatre lesson. Mollie-Ann Barr, Charlotte Sealey, Leah Harrison, Mia Linton and James-Linden Jones for their commitment towards their new Epic Theatre performance piece. MATHS: Kalci Chambers for working through all maths problems with a smile and perseverance. HISTORY: Laila Treadgold for being resilient and self – regulating. Daniel Thomas for being able to discuss the advantages and disad-vantages of transnational corporations clearly

KS3 tutees of the week:

8CHO - Ella Houghton for much improved behaviour and general attitude. 8LH – Jack Wellings for always showing exemplary behaviour and attitude to work. 8SF –Lucie Warr for always doing her best, being polite and generally being fabulous. 7HJ – Ella Rowberry-Poulton for being a supportive and positive influence. 7EG –Heidi Cutler-Trewartha for always being ready to learn. 7PM -Ashleigh Parks for always doing her best in lessons.

We seek to develop confident and creative learners who can thrive in a changing world.

Parent workshops:

Thank you to those parents who attended the KS2 & KS3 parent workshops this week. We hope that you found the information useful regarding your child’s curriculum, learning and assessment. We hope to run them again in order to reach out to as many parents as possible. We will inform you of any additional dates going forward.

5IP 100% 6NR 94% 7EG 92% 8LH 93%

5TB 95% 6JM 90% 7HJ 95% 8SF 98%

5CY 95% 6BM 92% 7PM 92% 8CH 96%

Attendance : Week Ending Fri 25th January

Words read Champion

171,108 Mason Cartlidge

147,020 Demi-Jade Harrison

117,626 Libby Hynes

108,322 Iris Pearce

103,504 Laila Parsons

101,748 Kieran Whitmore

80,243 Connor Larner

75,781 Lola Ellis

Brie-Anna Longman, Brooke Jordan, Ally Marriott, Corinne Clements, Keira Newman for working collabo-ratively in conducting their drama performance. Laila Treadgold – resilience and self – regulating. Callum Doughty – literate – super contribution in dis-cussions. Jazmin and Kamil for working collaboratively when analysing sources. Renae Whyte & Oliwia D for showing resilience during the county cross country. Callum Doughty – literate – super contribution in dis-cussions.

Renaissance Top readers

KS3 Readers of the week:

Mateusz Cygan - more confident reading aloud in class.

Harvey Khan Jones – For passing 24/25 Ren Reading tests.

Isabelle Cheshire for improving her reading by practising regu-larly at home and school, developing her confidence.

Poppy Barton, for reading straight away during registration (morning and afternoon) and showing good focus.

Year 8 basketball team make a winning start

On Wednesday evening, the Year 8 boys basketball team played their first game of the season against Ridgeway Middle School. After a very tight first half, Church Hill narrowly edged it and went into the break 4-0 to the good. Church Hill made a very quick start to the second half, with some slick passing and greater accuracy in their shooting, stretching their lead fur-ther. The boys continued to play well as a team, moved the ball quickly and eventually went on to win the game 14-2. It was a well deserved victory and the boys should be proud of their performances. Well done to all involved.

Team: Timothy Bowman, Joe Masters, George Oloren-shaw, Harvey Khan-Jones, Ryan Berg, Jurgis Leitis, Alec Wynne-Smith and Callum Doughty.

Tutor group word counts:

5TB 139,879

5CY 185,572

5IP 284,763

6BM 412,669

6NR 344,630

7EG 292,647

7HJ 103,201

7PM 226,496

8CHO 184,691

Well done to this week’s winners! 6JM 401,790

Epraise point winners of the week Layton Blewitt

Mollie-Ann Barr Kiera Newman

Jurgis Leitis Autumn Dawson Finnley O’connor

Jessica Harris

Who has been on the KASE?

KS2 Minutes of engaged read-

ing:

5TB—Libbie Hynes—19

5CY—James Claridge—14

5IP—Freya Teague—31

6BM—Evan Walker—94

6JM—Sam Bench—53

6NR—Zara Claridge—32