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| 8th July 2022 |
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| Medical Room/Student Support |
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Injuries/Surgery
Following an injury or surgery outside of school, please could parents/guardians inform Miss Rickard, Medical Officer, as soon as possible via email - office@highcliffeschool.com. Miss Rickard will complete a return to school assessment on the students' first day back in school.
Medication
We are getting a high number of students requesting antihistamines. Any students suffering from hayfever and/or allergies should take an antihistamine tablet before arriving at school.
Please ensure any pain relief/medication is administered before school, we will anticipate a second dose after 12 noon, unless otherwise stated.
Please note we do not permit students to carry medication on them.
Water Bottles/Sun Cream
With the warmer weather approaching, please make sure students have named water bottles in school. We advise students to apply sun cream before coming to school.
Jumpers
Please ensure school jumpers are named. We have a collection of unnamed jumpers in school. If you have misplaced a jumper please contact Mrs Adams in the Student Support office. |
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| Year 8- Meeting for students on the Marwell Zoo Trip |
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Please attend a short meeting in the Dance Studio on Monday 11th July at 1.30pm.
At this meeting you will be able to sign up for a group that you will then be with all day at the Zoo. Each group will contain 14 students. I will also be reminding you of the dress code at the Zoo and where you should meet on the day of the trip.
Please bring a pen to the meeting.
Mrs Barclay |
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| PE Uniform reminder |
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| From September 2022 skorts will no longer be part of PE kit for any year group, as advised in July 2021. In years 7, 8 and 9 girls should wear black show stripe shorts; Year 10 and 11 girls should either wear black shadow stripe shorts or school-crested sports leggings (Trutex Akoa Black) available from PMG in New Milton or Stevenson’s in Southbourne – any other brand or type of legging will not be permitted. |
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| School Diversity Week: Update |
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| Thank you to everyone who donated for the mufti-day as part of School Diversity Week. The school raised £757.06 which is going to akt, a UK LGBTQ+ youth homelessness charity. The winners of the LGBT+ Icons Scavenger Hunt will be announced on Monday 11th July. |
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| Sports Day |
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Sports Day is taking place on Tuesday 12th July. It will be a 3-2 day.
Lessons 1 to 3 – Field and long distance track events. Only students taking part in these events are to come out of lessons to compete. All other students are in normal lessons.
After lunch (lessons 4 and 5) track events are taking place. All years will be watching the track events on the field.
Students who are participating on the day (in any event) are permitted to come into school in their PE kit.
It is forecast to be a warm sunny day so all students must be prepared with plenty of water, sun cream and a hat if they wish. This is particularly important in the afternoon when everyone is out on the field.
Good luck to all Year 7, 8 and 9 competitors. |
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| Free Mental Health Webinars |
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The Charlie Waller Trust is an organisation that offers training and resources to support mental health. They promote a range of free webinars that you may find useful. You can sign up on the link below. The topics being covered are:
17th and 18th July: Transition to adulthood
13th and 26th July: Eating disorders in childhood and adolescence.
1st and 15th August: The Teen Brain
10th and 16th August: Adolescence, angst and anxiety
7th September: supporting a young person experiencing thoughts of suicide
Free webinars from the Charlie Waller Trust
We hope that you find these webinars helpful |
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| Return of Science Text Books |
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| Could I please remind all Year 8 & 9 students to return their science textbooks to the Library before the start of activities week. |
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| Summer Writing Challenge: Capture the Moment |
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| With the summer holiday nearly upon us, this is a great time to document those moments in your life that are worth writing about! This could be something mundane or completely out of the ordinary. It might be something that happened at home, on the beach, on work experience, in the supermarket, at the theatre or on holiday. However big or small, your challenge is to simply "capture the moment". Can you get across the feelings and create a clear image of your chosen moment by your vocabulary choices and use of language techniques? We would love to collect all of your written moments to showcase on our MyWrite site so go to highcliffe.school/L/MyWrite for further details, some top tips for writing and to submit your entry. |
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Upcoming Dates
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Monday 11th July – 15th July
Y10 Work Experience
Monday 11th July
Y12 Leeson House Trip
Tuesday 12th July
Sports Day
Y12 Leeson House Trip
Y7 - Y12 BIC Orchestra Performance
Wednesday 13th July
Y9 and Senior Drama Showcase Evening
Reserve Sports Day
Y12 Leeson House Trip
Thursday 14th July
New Intake Parents Evening
Monday 18th July – Thursday 21st July
Activities Week
School closes for Summer Holidays at 12:20 on Thursday 21st July
Buses have been informed of the earlier pickup. |
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Our Preloved Uniform stock is running low.
Do you have any good-quality uniform that you no longer need? Please consider donating it so we can continue supporting our school community.
Donations can be dropped off to the school reception between 8am and 4pm. |
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| Chemistry Twilight Session |
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"Going to the Chemistry Twilight Session at Southampton University was a fantastic way to bring what we had learnt in class to life. We spent a few hours using different techniques to extract, separate and analyse a specific molecule from nutmeg using different processes and machinery we would’ve never been able to use before, even if we had learnt about some. The atmosphere was completely different to what we’ve been in at school, and it showed us how much chemistry changes and becomes even more interesting, engaging, and relevant to the world we live in as you move up the education ladder. We had the opportunity to talk to several chemistry students at different parts of the course, talking to some about their PhD they have just completed or the chemistry course at Southampton University in general, as well as helping us with the new experiments we were doing. The atmosphere in the lab was phenomenal, it was like being a real chemistry degree student!"
Flora, Yr12 |
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| Yr10 Drama Performance Evening (AWS) |
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| The Year 10 GCSE Drama students performed to an audience of parents, peers and friends last week. Their successful exam performances were both informative and entertaining. It was fantastic to see them showcasing their aptitude at creating and directing; as well as the huge progress made with developing their confidence and performance skills since September. |
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| Have you seen all our Clubs? |
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| Our new updated list of clubs for next term can be found here, please note the PE clubs will be updated after the holidays and start back from week commencing 2nd May 22. |
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| Music Notices |
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Ensembles are now working towards performances on the following dates:
- Around The World collaborative performance at the BIC on Tuesday 12th July 7pm.
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| Music Notices |
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| Please note change of venue for the choir which will now rehearse in the atrium in the Da Vinci building |
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| Feedback Welcome |
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| We welcome feedback on the Bulletin as want it to be as useful as possible. If there is something you would like to see added or changed then please let us know. |
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