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| 25th March 2022 |
| Student Bulletin |
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Book Sale
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I am delighted to tell you, the Library Book Sale to celebrate World Book Day, raised the sum of £165! Proceeds to go to the Ukraine appeal.
A big thank-you to all those who bought books and to the members of Bookies Book Group who helped run the event. |
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| Dr Bike free bike safety checks |
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A team from Sustrans will be coming into school on the following dates to check bikes and make light adjustments and repairs. This will be done a year group at a time due to the size of the school. More information will be given closer to the dates. This is one element of our campaign for safer riding at Highcliffe School.
24th April Year 11
5th May Sixth Form
12th May Year 10 and 9
26th May Year 8 and some 9
2nd June Sixth Form and staff
9th June on hold if we have anyone missed through absence. |
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| Year 7 and 8 AFC Bournemouth Trip |
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| Please click here to read an article about a recent trip to AFC Bournemouth for a group of our Year 7 and 8 students. |
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Upcoming Dates
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28th March – 1st April
Y10 Ski Trip- Departs Sat 26th March, returns Sat 2nd April
Y12 Work Experience Week
Wednesday 30th March
Y8 Robotics Day
Thursday 31st March
Y11 & Y13 Drama Scripted Exam Day
4th April – 8th April
Monday 4th April
Y10 Art Internal Exams
Tuesday 5th April
Y10 Art Internal Exams
Y13 Soton Geog Trip
Wednesday 6th April
Y10 Art Internal Exams
Y12 UCAS Higher Education Trip @ Bournemouth Uni
Y11 NCS Assembly
Y9 Holocaust Talk in Hall P 1 and 2
Friday 8th April
End of Spring Term
School closes 12.20pm |
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| Have you seen all our Clubs? |
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| Click below to view all the clubs and extra curricular activities that are presently running. |
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| Home Study Club |
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Home Study club is an opportunity for students to undertake either Home Study or further school work using the schools IT facilities. It is held every lunchtime in IT3 and after school Monday – Thursday 3pm – 4pm in IT2. The Home Study club is supervised by a member of staff who is there to help support the learning, if requested. This is a quiet working room available to all students who wish to take advantage of it.
This room is particularly important for those students who:
- Do not have reliable access to IT
- Need support developing good habits and routines of working outside of timetable lessons
- Need to keep school separate from home. Especially students who struggle to cope with the distractions of technology
- Need a quiet place to work away from younger siblings
If you do not wish for your child to take advantage of the Home Study club, I would strongly encourage students adopt a ‘lesson 6’ to their normal day. This then becomes a set routine: come in from school, have a snack and a drink, settle down to home study or retrieval practice, revision or additional work if no home study is set. Do this before the TV or games console is put on. This time works best when a student treats ‘lesson 6’ like school with phones put away. Ideally this work should be done downstairs and where someone is able to check in on them. At the kitchen table where a parent is able to take an interest at the end of the hour would be the best situation. I appreciate this will not be possible for all households. Please ask your child to show you their work and discuss what they have been doing celebrating their successes.
If they are unable to do this at home we would recommend the Home study club. |
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| Update on Dance and Drama Clubs |
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Year 7 Dance Club:
Running on a Tuesday lunchtime in the Dance Studio at 1:30pm, please eat your lunch first and bring PE shorts or trackies to change into.
Starting on 22nd March once the heating has finished being installed.
Year 7 Drama Club:
Running on a Wednesday lunchtime in the Performance Hall (Ex1) 1:30pm prompt, please eat your lunch first.
Year 8 and 9 Dance Club:
Running on a Thursday after school in the Dance Studio from 3:10pm - 4:15pm, please bring PE kit to change into.
Starting on 23rd March once the heating has finished being installed.
Year 8-10 Drama Theatre Company Rehearsals
Running on a Thursday after school in the Performance Hall (Ex1) from 3:10pm – 4:15pm
New recruits welcome to join the company working on a scripted performance.
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| Music Notices |
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Music Enrichment this term
Note that due to ongoing heating works instrumental lessons and many school ensembles are now postponed until first week back after the Easter break.
RSL Music Production Exams
The Grade 3 & 4 exams will take place at 10am on Tuesday 29th March in Ex5 |
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Highcliffe Brass Ensemble
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Congratulations to the Highcliffe Brass Ensemble on achieving a distinction for their performance at the New Milton Music Festival on Saturday
Well done to Jamie who won his class, g2 solo, gold medal; Anselm and Ed who did really well in g3 solos: Ed won the class with a gold medal, Anselm the silver;
Ted did well in g4 solos: silver; Max won his class, g5 solo, another gold |
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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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