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WYVERN ST EDMUND’S
LEARNING CAMPUS
End of Term Newsletter
Staffing
Ms Foster gets married on Saturday and we
wish her a wonderful wedding– she will return
Christmas Message
as Mrs Lee. We also wish Mrs Roycroft all the
from the Head…
best for her maternity leave which starts in
January and we look forward to hearing her
baby news in February. We are currently
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finalising the employment of a Geography
teacher to cover Mrs Roycroft’s classes. We Dear WSE Families,
have been unable to recruit someone
immediately after we start back, so some Christmas is upon us after a long and busy term and I
classes will have some cover work for the first think all the students (and staff!) are looking forward to a
couple of weeks, but this will be set by Mr well-earned rest and some time with their families.
Burley (Deputy Head) and Mr Hunt (Assistant
Head) who are both experienced teachers of
As always, it has been a long and busy Autumn Term, with
Geography, until our new Geography teacher
arrives.
so many brilliant successes: highlights of this term include
the fabulous Year 7 Showcase Evening, the wonderful
We are sorry to be saying goodbye to Mr Day Christmas Carol service at St Thomas’ Church and some
and Mr Brown, both in the Maths department; amazing sporting success. I would like to offer many
we want to wish them all the very best for the congratulations to all the students involved in both of these
future. In January we welcome Mr Lewis to the events and huge thanks to the music department for their
Maths department as deputy head of incredible hard work. Thanks also to the catering staff at
department. He brings with him bring a great both schools for a fabulous Christmas dinner this week
deal of experience and a great sense of and also a huge thanks to my SLT team for agreeing to
humour: we are sure that the students will enjoy
make fools of themselves again in the annual staff panto!
his teaching and make excellent progress.
We also say goodbye to Mrs Sutton, who has
been with the schools for some time, firstly as a I wish you all a relaxing Christmas break and a Happy
TA and cover supervisor and more recently, New Year and hope that you have a really wonderful time.
teaching in both the Technology and English Whilst Christmas is a celebration and a chance to
departments. We wish her much luck in her new reconnect with our loved ones, in worship last week we
role at Trafalgar School. We welcome Mrs also paused to remember those in our school community
Bennion who is joining us as deputy head of for whom Christmas may not be such a happy time
Technology. because of difficulty in their lives. I send my thoughts and
prayers to our families, staff and governors who may be
Obviously, when we have staff changes, there
experiencing difficult times and hope that 2020 brings with
is often few changes to the timetable as a result
of this, and the new timetables will be issued to
it happiness and good health.
the students in the New Year. We have worked
hard to keep the changes to a minimum, and I look forward to welcoming our students back to school on
most students will remain with the same Monday 6th January 2020.
teachers as they've had so far but some will
have new teachers and slight changes to the
order of lessons across the fortnight.
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Charity Fundraising
This term we have raised lots of money for our chosen
charities and other worthy causes:
‘Bring a Pound to Work Day’ raising an impressive
£1091. Year 7 Bake Sale raised a fantastic £165 for the
Poppy Appeal. Year 7 Christmas Bring and Buy Sale
was very successful raising £251.56.
Christmas Jumper Day raised lots of cheer and an
amazing £371.12 which will go towards St Thomas’
Church to help with their renovations.
Along with the sponsored walk and non-uniform days
our grand total this term is a staggering £8639.80!
We are aiming for £20,000 for the year!
Healthy Eating
This year the DT department is running three Healthy
Eating Weeks, one in November, February and June.
Each of the weeks will focus on promoting an aspect of
healthy Eating. The first healthy eating week focussed
on getting your 5-a-day and drinking plenty of water
and students reported that this focus week had an
impact on their nutrition – so we are very pleased!
Lunch
We introduced our new menus this term. The catering
team have been working closely with the MLP
Executive Chef to redesign the food offer. We have had
great ‘feed’ back from both students and parents about
the more healthy options, and whilst some students are
still a little uncertain about Meat-free Monday, we are
pleased with our efforts to become a ‘greener’
school….
Parent Forum – We look forward to We have new recycling bins around the site too and
seeing you at our next meeting where our Eco-council, formed this, year, work hard to come
we will be discussing the school up with ideas to make our school a more eco-friendly
vision, uniform and getting your environment.
feedback on how we report to you –
we know that some of you have some
feedback for us on this.
2.
Sporting Successes
Highlights
- Year 8 Boys rugby team were runners
up in the John Hanson 10’s tournament.
Congratulations to all!
- Year 7 boys’ rugby team beat Henry
Beaufort 45-5, Player of the Match was
Kyle Nicklin.
- U14 girls’ football team won their county
cup match 7-1 against
Stonehenge! Player of match: Olivia Girls U15 rugby had an impressive win of 60-24 against
Glover (5 goals) (photo below) Henry Beaufort School in Winchester.
- U14’s boys’ football team beat Matravers
School 8-1 in the Wiltshire cup!
- Year 8 boys’ football league fixture vs St
Jo’s – 7-0 win.
- Avon Valley Cross Country results: 1st
places for minor boys, minor girls, and
junior girls’ teams
Year 7 boys’ football v St Jo’s - Won 12-1!
Netball
Both the Year 7 and Year 8 Netball teams
played Trafalgar School, all players
fought hard and played some excellent
netball! Congratulations to everyone that
played and for two fantastic wins, Year 7 Boccia Competition
won 12-2 and Year 8 won 15-2. Well done Congratulations to all who took part. Many
to Evie and Olivia who were voted players congratulations to winners, Katie Feest and Alysha
of the match by the opposition. Adaway.
Salisbury League Cross Country
1st in Salisbury – Isaac Routledge
1st in Salisbury – Neve Cousins
3.
Carol Service Events in School
What a spectacular event this was!
The carol service is always a
wonderful event, but this year was
even more brilliant! The theme was
Busy, busy…………
‘carols from around the world’ and
the music was incredibly uplifting. Year 7 Showcase
Many congratulations and thanks to Two packed houses enjoyed a wonderful trip through
all the students and staff involved. the music of the 20th century. Well done to all
involved and many thanks to the brilliant Music and
Dance team for their hard work.
General Election
Senior Prize Giving
In November we celebrated current
and former students at our Annual
Senior Prize Giving. Toby Giles
(former student) gave an
inspirational address to our students. Last week the school took part in our own General
Election. It was interesting talking to the students
about their views.
The results:
Labour 24.8%
Independent 20.6%
Liberal Democrats 18.1%
Conservative 18%
Green 15.8%
Brexit 2.6%
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5.
Dates for your Diary
2020
Monday 6th January Term Starts
Friday 10th January Personal Development Day
Thursday 23rd January Year 9 Subject Consultation and
Pathways Evening
Wednesday 29th January Year 8 Vaccinations – HPV
Thursday 6th February Maths Challenge
Tuesday 11th, Wednesday 12th and School Production of “Oliver”
Thursday 13th February
Friday 14th February End of Term
Monday 24th February Term starts/Healthy Eating week
Tuesday 25th – Friday 28th February Spanish Residential Trip
Thursday 5th March Year 10 Subject Consultation Evening
Wednesday 11th March Parent Forum
Tuesday 24th March Year 11 Subject Consultation Evening
Thursday 2nd April Spring Concert
Friday 3rd April End of Term
We wish all our students and families a very merry Christmas.
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