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Friesland
SCHOOL
Part of
The Two Counties Trust
Newsletter
10th December 2021
( 0115 9397326
* enquiries@friesland.ttct.co.uk
Word of the Week Headteacher’s message
Gullible (adjective) easily tricked and that you I am sure that you have all seen the news on the
probably should have known better. Government’s covid ‘plan b’, and will have noticed no
mention of education in any of the communication.
Can you use this word in a sentence? This is good news and means that nothing has changed
Contact details for us over the run up to our Christmas holiday, which
begins at 12pm on Tuesday 21st December.
You can now tell us online of any changes to
your details via our webform - go to The message from Government is very consistent, in that
www.friesland.ttct.co.uk/information/forms/ it remains unlikely schools will be closed again, and we
and select 'Update Student details'.
would be the very last thing to be closed should the new
variant prove to cause the feared problems. To those of
"Non-Fiction November" you who may be worried about exams in the summer or
further closures, it is business as usual and I fully expect
From 22 November to 3 December students
exams to take place in the summer of 2022.
were encouraged to borrow a non-fiction book
and complete the corresponding Accelerated
Reader Quiz. These activities tied in with Drop
Thank you to those of you who have consented for
Everything And Read Day on 30 November. testing in January, I will write again next week with details
The names of students who completed these of how January 6th and 7th will work in school.
tasks were entered into two prize draws. The
winner of the non-fiction borrowers prize draw Please remember not to give consent for testing if your
was Evan Thomas, 7L. 23 students child has had covid within 90 days of January 6th (so
successfully completed AR Quizzes on non- since October 8th), as it may show up a false positive
fiction books and the lucky winner was Lavikha result. The link to the consent form is below:
Vijayathas, 7A. Congratulations to both!
https://forms.gle/Cc7AZuawPaKBhAiD7
The winner of the book review competition will
be announced in the next newsletter. Craig Patterson - Headteacher
Mrs Wallace and Mrs Morgan
Dance Workshop
Last week we had the pleasure of welcoming Emily from the
Centre for Advanced Training programme to deliver a
practical workshop for our A Level Dance students. The
session was excellent and gave the students a real insight
into the type of work they would be doing if they joined the
Nottingham based company.
This company is open to all year groups to audition for
should they wish to.
Please come and see Mrs Swindell for more details.
Well done to this week’s Accelerated Readers
Y7 Jamie Higgins - 1,112,166 words
Y8 Joe Linley - 243,779 words
Y9 Beatrice Stevenson - 257,154 words
Twitter Sixth Form News
As part of our willingness to engage with local employers, our
Did you know many of our departments in school Year 13 Computer Science group spent an informative morning
post regularly to Twitter? It's a great way to keep at a leading logistics company -Microlise, where their skills were
up with what's going on day to day across the put to good use alongside gaining an invaluable insight to the
school! workplace.
Microlise particularly value skills developed within Computer
Science, including coding and an ability to solve problems and
be creative in relation to technology.
The Technology department recently joined Twitter,
you can find them @FrieslandDandT
The Performing and Expressive Arts faculty,
featuring Art, Dance, Drama, Music and
Photography, launched their Twitter feed last week
- building on the successful Drama account to
shine a light on all things arts at Friesland! You can
the faculty @FrieslandPEA and the Drama
department @FrieslandDrama
And of course the main school account can be
continue to be found @FrieslandSchool
Superstars My recent visit to Microlise, a major software development
company, gave me the chance to spend time within an industry
720 students were awarded Superstar environment and witness first hand the teamwork and dedication
points over the past fortnight for that goes into the development process of a large scale project.
outstanding work and effort. The prize The visit also opened my eyes to the amount of work and time that
draw has been completed. goes into building a successful application and that a project's
Each student will receive a £10 success isn't necessarily down to the final code written by the
amazon voucher. developers. Instead it is down to the work put in by a whole team of
Congratulations to all the people, each with different roles and responsibilities to ensure that
winners! the application is as robust as possible
Sam Davidson -Year 13 Computer Science student who is
applying for Computer Science at university.
Career of the Week
Nutritionists share scientific food knowledge and advice about
the effects of diet and nutrition on health and wellbeing.
The pay scale is £24,907 to £37,890. They work in an NHS or
private hospitals, in the community, at a GP practice, at a health
centre or in a laboratory.
You can get into this job through:
• a university course
Please book your tickets and select your
seats is through our box office on the school
website -
www.friesland.ttct.co.uk/information/tickets
We hope you are able to join us and support
our very talented cast!
Friesland Football News Our Year 8 Friesland team had a very slow start which meant we were 2 down in ten minutes, most of the team still thought we were at Hogwarts and couldn’t quite get their head round the fact that Harry Potter wasn’t there. A battle ensued on a very sticky and very small pitch but for all the possession we couldn’t score. Somehow with ten minutes to go, Dinero scored from a very acute angle and Bella delivered a wicked corner that their 6 foot centre back turned into his own goal. 2-2! Fading light meant it went straight to penalties, and with a former world cup referee (true) he loved taking notes down about each penalty taker making it take longer, colder and darker than it needed to be. Ben made a great save on the first pen and we thought it was plain sailing….. loads more misses from both teams, including a chance to win for both teams, left Issac to be slighted bullied into taking penalty number 7, scoring and then a Repton miss meant we go into the quarter finals. DCFC Under 19’s Women’s Team The Derby County Under 19’s Women’s Team, who study at the sixth form at Friesland, visited St George’s Park on Tuesday for a training session delivered by FA staff. For some of the girls it was their first experience visiting the National Football Centre, home of the England football teams. The girls took part in various activities throughout the day and were highly praised by the FA staff. As part of Derby County Community Trusts relationship with the FA, this enables students to enjoy these additional experiences with plans for students to visit again in the future. A Chorus Line It was lovely to be back in the theatre with our GCSE and A Level dance students on Tuesday evening. We travelled to The Curve theatre to watch A Chorus Line. The students were a credit to the school and behaved superbly. New York City. 1975. On an empty Broadway stage, 17 performers are put through their paces in the final, gruelling audition for a new Broadway musical. Only eight will make the cut. The audition takes an unexpected turn as the director, Zach, invites the performers to open up about their lives and what brought them into theatre.
Practical Dissections in A-level Biology In A Level Biology this week we have been learning about the gas exchange systems in different living organisms. We conducted a fish dissection to identify the different components of the respiratory system and how the gills are adapted to carry out gaseous exchange efficiently. First, we cut open the operculum using scalpel and forceps so that we could identify. Next, we separated the gill arches so that we could cut them out using metal scissors. We then placed the gill arches in a beaker of water to see them in greater detail. The fish carry out efficient gas exchange due to their large SA:VOL ratio because of their gill filaments, further increased because of their lamellae. Efficient gas exchange is able to take place in the lamellae because of its large supply of blood creating a steep concentration gradient. This allows the oxygen in the water to diffuse down a concentration gradient into the blood, and the carbon dioxide to diffuse from the blood in the gill filaments into the water. Bella A-level Biology December 2021
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