Independence Friday 19 March 2021 - West Craven High School
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‘Ad Vitam Paramus’
‘We are Preparing for Life’.
Independence
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Friday 19 March 2021
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“To find yourself, think for yourself.”
Socrates
Key Messages
I hope that this E-bulletin finds you and your family well.
A busy week began with the news that our long awaited OFSTED inspection would take place on Tuesday and
Wednesday. I was delighted to welcome the inspection team into school so they could see at first hand the
improvements we have made since our last inspection in November of 2019. I was so proud of the confidence
and conviction of the students who were interviewed. They beautifully articulated their commitment to their
learning, to school work and to their experience of life at West Craven. I would also like to thank parents for
contributing to the Parent View and open response OFSTED questionnaires. The inspectors considered your
contributions in their evaluation of the school’s progress. I look forward to sharing the OFSTED findings with you
as soon as we receive it.
Wednesday evening gave myself and Mr Brook, the Head of Year 7, the pleasure of meeting our prospective new
students and their parents. I hope that the evening gave everyone a flavour of the exciting activities planned at
West Craven. I cannot wait to welcome the new students into school in June for a face to face induction activity
day, and we will hold a parents’ information event and “meet the team” evening. Fingers crossed that we can
stick to the Government’s Road Map and hold these events! In the meantime, I will be looking forward to ‘zooming’
around our Year 6 Primary school classrooms sometime soon to answer their questions!
On Thursday evening we launched our Year 9 Options event; we have a dedicated webpage, subject information
and videos. Students have until the end of term on Friday, 26 March, to use our webpage and chat to teachers
in specially organised sessions in school before making their all important decisions about courses and subjects
they will study from Year 10 and beyond. If you have any queries at all about a particular course, subject or more
generally about our options process this year then please do email us at options2021@westcraven.co.uk
Lateral flow testing of students will continue into next week until all consenting students have had 3 test
opportunities in school. Testing will move to home testing kits after the Easter holiday and I will be writing to
you next week with more details about how this will work.
Next week will be our final week of the term. We are giving away 100 Easter Eggs as prizes to award winning
students! So, good luck to those students who have excelled in their education – both remote and back in school
- and to everyone who has gone above and beyond to support their peers, family and our local community outside
of lessons. You may be a winner!
Please stay safe and follow all Government guidance.
Mrs Tracy Foy
Principal
March
21 World Poetry Day 25 Year 10 Virtual Parents’ Evening
3:30-6:60pm
22 Year 6 SEND Induction event
4-5pm 26 School closes for Easter Holiday
NEW System for Ordering Lunch
from Monday 8 March
Dear Parent or Carer,
In light of COVID19 and the bubble systems we have operating in school, we are
changing the way that our Year 9, 10 and 11 order their lunches to make the process
easier for students. They will be able to select their meals and the days they require a
school lunch via an online form.
Each week on Friday, we will send out a text message with a link for your child to order
their school lunch for the following week. This link will also be on their ClassCharts to
complete.
If your child has a free school meal they just need to complete the form and submit it
for the following week. If you pay for your child to have a school meal, we ask that you
upload funds to parent pay at the beginning of the week to cover the meal costs for
the week.
Please can you ask your child to complete next week’s food order by Monday by clicking
the link below
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScegHer9FZfppmPwQ7Cpa27X3dSzTgdl1
AAstWdAQgBIcLSag/viewform
Art
Year 10 have been getting to grips with some professional editing software, and working in the style of
the famous David Hockney!
Some more great art from
Poppy in Year 10.
A great piece from
Bailey, in Year 7,
celebrating British
Science Week.
Ava’s illuminated letter from
World Book Day
Year 7 Art The Year 7 homework booklets are looking amazing with some really skilful work - some brilliant artists in the making! Thank you to Ava, Grace, Lillie, Elouise, Kaya, Clare, Tyler and Natalie.
Music
Some amazing music work from Lily-Mai, in Year 7!
Geography
Miss Sumner's class have been working hard since their return to school. 9X2 have been writing letters to
the National Trust with their ideas and suggestions about how the sand dune ecosystem on the Sefton
Coast can be protected. Students have chosen to protect a number of species in this biodiverse area
including red squirrels, sand lizards and skylarks and have come up with imaginative ways of doing so.
Being able to write, at length, and presenting work so well within the first week of school (after working
on line for the last 2 months) has been really impressive.
Here are some examples from Callum, Lucy, Ruby and Fennella.
We are a Reading Academy
Tom Palmer
is making a
virtual visit
to
West Craven in May
Check out the
FREE
Reading resources on this website.
https://tompalmer.co.uk/free-reads/
Tom wrote to us on Twitter and said,
“Looking forward to seeing you all in May. Until
then, my very best wishes. Keep safe”.
We are a Reading Academy
It is wonderful to have all of our buzzing book readers back in the building this week - and our
library shelves are being filled with even more new books! To celebrate our beautiful library
and our love of reading, we invited author, J. Ivanel Johnson to write to us.
J. Ivanel Johnson is the pen name of a Canadian author who once taught in Lancashire with
Mrs Woodward. She is a friend and supporter of our school and has lots of life experiences to
share through her love of books. Also known as Julie, she has lived in Bronte’s Haworth in West
Yorkshire, James Herriot’s Thirsk, and in the Scottish Highlands near to where Robert Louis
Stevenson gained his inspiration for Treasure Island. She has also lived in Joe Medicine Crow’s
Montana birthplace, and the Ottawa Valley where The Handmaid’s Tale author Margaret
Atwood was born and raised. Julie and her family now live self-sufficiently on their farm in the
Appalachian Mountains of New Brunswick, Canada. They have a huge vegetable garden, milk
goats, chickens, and a horse to haul logs for heating their home in the snowy seasons.
Thank you, Julie for your personal message to our West Craven family:
“Reading saved my life. This is not hyperbole. My parents and grandparents read
to me even before I was born and many times daily thereafter. This helped me
quickly learn to read myself – and WANT to read! I read under the covers, in my
treehouse, in the car… This led me to several amazing jobs as an adult. Jobs like
being an actress, an author, a travelling journalist and a park ranger!
My grandparents didn’t have walls in their house – they had bookshelves. My father
built bookshelves for his paperbacks all around his bathtub. I was surrounded by
books – and thank goodness! For when I became disabled at the age of 14 and had
to spend much time in bed, these books became my best friends. Through these
books, I met other disabled, eccentric, adventurous, active, determined people like
me and so I had goals. I didn’t feel so alone. I met people of different races from
far-off places. All of these became my companions and heroines, page after page.
And thus I forced myself to exercise and become stronger. I became a Canadian
champion equestrian, diving horses off cliffs into water and dancing on them in the
moonlight. I learned to rock-climb, white water raft, cross-country ski... I can’t do
these things anymore, but that’s ok. Because I’m surrounded by books and new
friends, adventures and hope.”
-J. Ivanel Johnson
If you would like to write back to Julie, she would love to hear from you!
Reading quote of the week…
“The only thing you absolutely have to know is the location of the library”
Albert Einstein
Reading quote of the week…
“The only thing you absolutely have to know is the location of the library”
- Albert Einstein
We love books!
As part of our new feature ‘We Love Books’ students will be sharing book reviews with us to inspire
others. This week we have Ultimate Football Heroes: Kane, reviewed by Alfie in Year 7.
Ultimate Football Heroes: Kane
By Matt and Tom Oldfield
I’d rate this book a 4-star, because it was a great book. It is about the life of Harry Kane and
his football career. I enjoyed it and would recommend it to people who like football. My
favourite part of the story is when Harry Kane gets released by Arsenal and climbs his way to
the Tottenham team. The worst part of the story is when he goes on loan to Leicester and has
a bad season. The ending is a bit of an anti-climax as it is more about Tottenham than Kane,
however, the majority is decent. Come On You Spurs!
By Alfie, Year 7
This book is just one from the Ultimate Football Hero series
We are a Reading Academy
Author of the Week
Our author of the week is Ross Welford!
This week you can listen to the audiobook of Ross Welford's Time Travelling
with a Hamster! Every weekday at 3pm we'll be adding a new part to the story
for you to enjoy. You can also watch an exclusive video with Ross Welford
about his new book When we got Lost in Dreamland, discover his favourite
children's books and read a Q&A.
Visit: https://www.thenational.academy/library/go-back-in-
time-with-a-hamster-and-ross-welford
Library Updates
We are a Reading Academy
Accelerated
Reader Reading Cloud
Library Webpage
To assist with your online learning, the
https://ukhost
ed6.renlearn.co Library webpage has been updated with https://www.re
.uk/2241441/ how-to-guides for adingcloud.net/
Accelerated Reader
Reading Cloud
Home Connect
Direct links to Lancashire
BorrowBox BorrowBox.
HomeConnect
https://www.westcraven.co.uk/libra
ry/356.html
https://ukhost
Keep in Touch
ed6.renlearn.c
Libraries
o.uk/2241441/
Link Below Homeconnect/
Top Parent Awarded Points
11.5 Eden Barritt 7.6 Bradley Wood
7.4 Natalie Barritt 8.1 Liam Bennett
10.2 Liam Richardson 7.4 Caitlin Blake
7.1 Ross Swindells 7.3 Keira-Louise Carrington
10.5 Thomas Council 9.4 Florence Garrity 11.4 Rio Garrity
7.2 Riley Moss 7.2 Olly Smith 11.5 Joe McCash
9.1 Erys Gaul 7.2 Megan-Leanne Mitchell
7.6 Jasmine Walton 8.2 Lily Rogan
10.4 Max Lea 7.2 Darcey Sharp
7.6 Bailey Toor 11.5 Cory Tennent
7.2 Bodi WrightSTAR OF THE WEEK
ASPIRE POINTS
Ambition Supportive Positivity Independence Resilience Equality
The Theme of the week is Independence, well done to the following students who received the
most positivity points on Class Charts.
7.6 Amelia Milward
8.2 Kyle Philipson
7.6 Wajeeha Noor
7.6 Ruby Robinson
8.1 Natasha Saffery
7.6 Jasmine Walton
7.6 Tyler Sharp
7.6 Kadie Ashley
7.6 Kayleigh Singleton
7.6 Kaizer Mills
7.6 Gabrielle Thompson
7.6 Michael Richardson 7.6 Ruby Whiteside
7.6 Millie Wild
7.6 Bradley Wood
9.2 Samuel Dawson
7.6 Jobe McDade
7.6 Hailie McNeilly 8.1 Ruby Milligan
7.6 Bailey Toor
7.2 Riley Moss
10.3 Ocean Tyrrell
9.5 Charlotte Robinson
9.4 Jacob Ariss
11.2 Cade White
11.2 Giulia Borseti
11.5 Victoria Whiteside
7.2 Ava Craddock
7.6 Brandon Wolstenholme
9.4 Leah Dickinson 7.2 Bodi Wright
9.4 Florence Garrity
7.2 Emily Gray
10.2 Faith Hargreaves
7.2 Evie Higson
10.3 Chloe Johnstone
7.4 Joshua MacgregorYear 11
Revision Classes
Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
Subject Staff Subject Staff Subject Staff Subject Staff Subject Staff
English
(Triple AT Art HW Business GT Art CK Geography NPR
Scientists)
Maths Computing GT
Health &
(Triple PP Business RE DW History NPO
Fitness
Scientists) French CJ
RG
NRO Geography SB Food PA History AB
Science SH All sessions are:
(Trilogy) JB 3:15pm – 4:15pm
RC Health & Social AP/DW Religious
JG Media Studies AT
GB Care EducationGCSE Pod
GCSE Pod
3 is a Magic Number!
GCSE Pod
Watch 3 pods each day for 3 weeks. In school ‘NOW’
We have a new online resource called GCSE pod.
This is for students to access. It hosts a raft of
resources to support them on their GCSE journey.
Visit: https://www.gcsepod.com/
For further details, view the parent letter dated 8.12.2020
https://www.westcraven.co.uk/letters-202021/1086.html
A BIG well done to the Top 3 podders
Laura Hadfield
Olivia Ralph
Oliver Dewhurst
We are competing against schools from across the North West
on GCSEPod. The more pods our students watch, the higher up
the league table we go.Reading for Pleasure Lancashire BorrowBox
As a Reading Academy
we are committed to supporting your child in their Keep in touch - libraries
reading journey at school and at home https://lccsecure.lancashi
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Resources have been added to the school website ire.asp?qid=488780
The fantastic FREE E-Book and
https://www.westcraven.co.uk/learning- Audio-Book App!
resources/1060.html You can log onto Lancashire
BorrowBox to access eBooks and
audio books.
Visit:
https://www.borrowbox.com
All you need is to have a
Lancashire postcode.
For NEW or existing
You Tube: How to install the
members, please follow BorrowBox App
the link for
https://www.youtube.co
Supporting your child with reading Keep in touch- m/watch?v=7mYB6QoUi
Including places to access FREE reading material libraries and complete uE
and FREE e-Books the online form.
Reading Recommendations
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