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Lord Grey News
23rd July 2010
Issue 22
Farewell
It is that time of year when we must sadly
say thank you and goodbye to
members of staff who are leaving and wish
them well for the future:
Felicity Webb
Emma Beckley
Ann Caborn
Deborah Coles
Susan Matthews
Miguel Forti
Andrew Murray
Mary McKinnell
Melissa Gilbert
Alaina Blight
Terrence Bolton
Head of Performing Arts
Head of RE
Head of SEN Services
Teacher of Psychology
Teacher of English
Teacher of Spanish
Teacher of Art/DT
Teacher of Music
Teacher of PE
TA Level 2
Groundsman
Our Foreign Language Assistants come to Lord Grey School for approximately 8 months experience
each year and we wish them good luck for the future.
Xiong Gushui
Elisabeth Brochard
Maria Garcia-Garcia
Sebastian Breymann
Foreign Languages Assistant
Foreign Languages Assistant
Foreign Languages Assistant
Foreign Languages Assistant
INSIDE THIS
ISSUE
GOODBYE & THANK YOU
START OF TERM
ARRANGEMENTS
SEPTEMBER
2010
NEW BEHAVIOUR CODE
ATTENDANCE
ACCELERATED READER
CELEBRATION AFTERNOON
SPORTS ACHIEVEMENTS
YEAR 11 PROM
SUMMER CONCERT
SIXTH FORM MASKED BALL
BUSINESS LINK
INFORMATION
ICT & HUMANITIES EVENTS
September 2010, Start of Term Arrangements
Years 7, 11 & 12 will start school promptly at 8.45am on Monday 6th September
Years 8, 9 & 10 will start school at 10.00am on Monday 6th September
Year 13 will be contacted directly by Dr Trevenna.
Year 7 students must go to the main hall on arrival and Year 11 students must
go to tutor bases at 8.45am. Years 8, 9 & 10 go to tutor bases for a
10.00am prompt start.
New Behaviour Code
We are launching a new whole school behaviour code for September, to fit in with our new vertical
tutoring House system. The Implementation Plan for this is outlined below. We are trying to involve
parents as much as possible, as it will be vital that parents support us on this. More details will follow in
our first Newsletter of next term. This is in response to one of our recent Ofsted inspection targets.
Date
Monday 19th July 2010
Action
Mini launch to staff in Lecture Theatre by Headteacher for 20
minutes; followed up by HoH meeting for 40 minutes
Tuesday 20th July 2010
Assembly to Years 7-10 by Dr Jones and Mr Handyside to launch;
followed up by HoH/AHoH assembly, 3pm same day, to years 7-9
to reinforce
Wednesday and Thursday, 21st and
22nd July 2010
Mr Handyside to see small groups of students to reinforce
message
Friday 23rd July 2010
Initial information to go out to parents in Newsletter, about our
new whole school Behaviour Code
Summer holidays
All paperwork for new system finalised and photocopied; posters
for all classrooms produced and laminated; target cards and
remove slips produced; rewards stamps ordered
Summer holidays
New larger Isolated Learning Room created to support system
Thursday September 2nd 2010
Major launch to staff by Mr Handyside on Inset Day
Monday 6th September 2010
Heads of House assemblies to all new Houses – message
reinforced
Weeks Beginning 6th, 13th and 20th
September 2010
Academic Tutorials with parents of Years 7 and 11 (500 sets of
parents) for message to be passed on/ reinforced
Week beginning 6th September
Individual teachers negotiate classroom rules for C1 and C2 with
their classes
Thursday September 9th 2010
Email alert to parents and letter home inviting them to
major launch for parents – Parents’ Forum – 6pm in Hall;
Dr Jones and Mr Handyside to go through new code and reasons
for it, to parents
W/B 6th September 2010
Details of new code in Home School Agreement;
Newsletter and on Parent Portal: Insight and on Website
W/B 11th October 2010
Student Council review new system and give feedback
W/B 18th October 2010
Second Parents’ Forum meeting, with Dr Jones and
Mr Handyside to do a follow up on parents’ impressions of new
system and how it is going
New Behaviour Code
NOTE TO PARENTS
These slides are an overview of the launch of the new
whole school Behaviour Code that I recently went
through with staff. I have copied them here for parents
so you can see the focus of our ethos - but please bear
in mind that the ‘target audience’ is the staff of LGS, so
it might read as a bit jargon ridden. However, I think that
this will give parents a flavour of just how important this
change is going to be for the school. More information in
‘parent speak’ will follow in the next newsletter.
WHY NOW? TRYING TO LISTEN TO STAFF AND
OTHER STAKEHOLDERS
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Dr Jones. Headteacher.
Fits in with move to vertical House system
Key target from Ofsted, under Notice to Improve, to sort
out low level disruption
Parents’ questionnaires to Ofsted suggest they see this
as a priority
About 50% of students, in response to Ofsted
questionnaire, suggested they wanted an improvement
– peer response
Staff in ‘open forum’ with Headteacher, feel behaviour is
an area of concern and this also came through staff
responses to Ofsted questionnaire
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CURRENT SYSTEM
SO CHANGE REQUIRED
Does work if staff consistently and assiduously
follow it through, but problems with
communication
 Not always followed consistently by staff
 HOYs end up doing a lot of fire-fighting
 Bottle neck in current system as some teacher
by-pass both the HoF and the Form Tutor and
go straight to HoYs
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Retain some elements of current system
 We hope we have created a pastoral structure
that listens – we believe we have in new House
system and Vertical Tutoring
 Staff and students are encouraged to think
positively
 We want lots of celebration of student success
 We know it is a lot of change all at once, but
hopefully it all dovetails together
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WHAT WE HOPE TO ACHIEVE
Brings teachers on board and releases goodwill
and energy.
 Creates a whole school team feeling and a ‘we can
do this’ attitude.
 Provides clear and direct evidence to students and
parents that the school is improving.
 Has a positive effect on recruitment and retention.
 Provides immediate support to NQTs and new
staff.
 Provides the platform for improving teaching and
learning.
 Is the basis for evolving into a learning community.
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THE FUTURE
Have made some progress with ethos this year
but there is still too much time spent off task
by students – too much time arguing over
behaviour problems
 A behaviour system to answer these needs is
required, that is simple and easy to understand
 This new system is that – based on three core
principles and five ‘Consequences/C’ steps
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New Behaviour Code
A WHOLE SCHOOL BEHAVIOUR SYSTEM TO
SUPPORT BEHAVIOUR FOR LEARNING
From ‘Assertive Discipline’ roots.
Discussed with HOHs and been out to HOFs for
response.
 Provides a whole school supportive and consistent
disciplinary framework that we hope teachers,
students and parents will appreciate.
 Supported by IT to facilitate monitoring, analysis
and response to individual, group or whole school
behaviour.
 Mirrored with a rewards/praise system.
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3 PRINCIPLES
Based on three principles:
 Do as you are asked on the first asking
 Do the appropriate amount of work in the
lesson
 Have the right equipment for learning
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BFL IN THE CLASSROOM – ‘C’ BECOMES
COMMON PARLANCE
COMMUNICATION
For low level disruption:
 First misbehaviour……..Verbal warning (C1)
 Second misbehaviour…….Verbal warning (C2)
 Third misbehaviour……..Detention and/or
Removal in Faculty (C3)
 Fourth misbehaviour…….Removal/isolation in ILR
(C4)
 Fifth misbehaviour …… Fixed Term Exclusion (C5)
Gatekeeper role created, to keep flow of
information going both ways.
 Gatekeeper keeps Form Tutor, AHOH, HOH,
HOD, HOF - informed at appropriate level
 Gatekeeper informs teacher who made the
referral of follow up action
 However, still professional onus on staff to write
up incidents properly for SIMS
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PARENTS INVOLVED
PAPER WORK!
New system based on parents being involved
more often through frequent Academic
Tutorials and from Form Tutor contacting if
there is bad behaviour (C1/C2 etc).
 Students do not come out of ILR until parents
have been in and a contract has been signed.
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New ‘on report’ card designed –including
attendance and punctuality focus
 New ‘C3’ removal slip designed
 Detentions spreadsheet designed that students
cannot ‘slip through the net’ from!
 Whiteboards in classrooms for C1/C2 names
 Gatekeeper logging all incidents
 However, teachers still need to be professional and
ensure that they follow up themselves by logging
incidents properly
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New Behaviour Code
CONSISTENCY IS KEY
Flow charts – look complicated but actually
show the route to take. This is to ensure
consistency. In fact the system is simple.
 All staff must use the new system. Consistency
to support more junior colleagues.
 No system is perfect but human error
sometimes lets us down.
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SEAL AND DE-ESCALATION
However, staff are still expected to de-escalate
situations (keep left)
 Staff must use SEAL techniques
 Toolkit being issued to help staff to deflect
 Always use positive, calm and respectful language
to students
 Calm but firm; avoid negative body language; firm
and consistent in application of sanctions
 10 bits of praise for one bit of punishment!
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LAUNCHING THIS WHOLE SCHOOL INITIATIVE
Time line given out
 Important to ‘launch’ to staff, students and
parents
 Fits in with new House and Vertical Tutoring
ethos
 Lots of change for next year, but hopefully
change for the better.
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I am delighted that nine of our students in
Year 7 have achieved 100% attendance
this academic year.
A fantastic achievement!
Well done to:
Rafik Asryan – 7AMO
Hannah Beazley-Long – 7AMO
Hannah Cerrone – 7AMO
AJ Mistry – 7RXH
Tamara Muyobo – 7JMI
Euan Newbury – 7JGR
Megan Owens – 7LSO
Adam Ruse – 7JMI
Chloe Briggenshaw – 7JMI
Mr Lorne Murray, Head of Year 7
Chemistry at Work
On Monday 14th June, a group of Year 8 students left Lord Grey School in the minibus to attend a
‘Chemistry at Work’ event. This is held each year, sponsored by the Royal Society for Chemistry
and is designed to show young people how various aspects of Chemistry are applied in a variety of
working environments.
There was a variety of talks, some of which enabled the students to take part in ‘hands-on’ activities.
These included working in the Pathology Department of Milton Keynes Hospital and the various
routes which can be taken to obtain a job there; paramagnetism; the oil industry; a talk on poisons;
hydrogen as a fuel; dentistry and applying designs to all sorts of materials, including fridge magnets.
Two of our students, Callum McCarthy and Georgina Bright, were among the twenty or so winners
whose designs were chosen to be made into fridge magnets.
One student assessed the day as follows:
“We all enjoyed the Year 8 Chemistry at Work trip. There were many things to do and see, so our day was
jam packed full of activities. The activities showed us how chemistry was used in every day life and jobs
revolving around chemistry. The activities consisted of anything between a visit from MK Hospital to a woman
who makes printed magnets and t-shirts. There were also talks and experiments about magnets, water and
poisons. We all had a really good day!”
The students were all well behaved, asked and answered a lot of questions, and were specifically
commended for their attention and interest in their final session of the day – which was the session
on poisons. It was a pleasure to take the group to this event.
Stephanie Mann, Science Faculty
Reading Achievements
2010
Year 7 100% Quizzes
Star Readers
Student
Quizzes
Jamie Lawrence 7RXH
26
Aarron Hudd 7LSO
23
Aliyah Khan 7RXH
21
Lauryn Sutton 7JMI
20
Owen Wakely 7DBA
19
Peter Joseph 7LBA
19
Saima Mohmand 7OAB
18
Kieran Cameron 7JGR
17
Kieran Brown 7JMI
17
Blake Higgins 7RXH
12
Emma Courtney 7JMI
12
Tamera Herah 7OAB
11
Mark Alldis 7AMO
10
Bille Foster 7DBA
10
Brooke Williams 7LBA
10
Student
Students who have achieved 10+ 100%
Quizzes and have their Star Names on the
Wall of Fame
Year 7 Forms
Average % Correct
7JMI
81%
7LBA
76.7%
7LSO
74%
7AMO
73.1%
7DBA
71.8%
7OAB
71.2%
7JGR
70.7%
7RXH
70.3%
To pass a quiz you have to get
60% correct; these are the
average % of correct answers
in each form
Jeremy Pitcher 7LBA
1,341,937
Isabelle Williams 7JGR
801,222
Adam Lardhi 7AMO
619,795
Ryan Dowse 7DBA
575,899
Chetna Gorania 7LBA
500,537
Khadija Khatun 7LBA
477,465
Eleanor Whiley 7DBA
409,054
Ben Croft 7LSO
397,687
Esther Cain 7JGR
392,830
Halima Hussain 7LBA
380,698
Students who have been reading longer
books so have a high word count on the
quizzes they have passed
Year 7 Forms
Points Earned
7LBA
7DBA
7JGR
7JMI
7AMO
7RXH
7LSO
7OAB
558.1
372.5
336.6
317.5
304.5
249.1
239.3
234.8
Points are earned on the
length of each book, and how
many questions you get right
in the quiz
Other Years 100% Quizzes
Star Readers
Student
Ahmad Mohmand 11ADI
Katie Lewis 8AHO
Steven Shu 10AMU
James King 8LBE
Wei Chou 10AMU
Jamilur Rahman 8JXS
Christopher Curtis 8LBE
Pelumi Adebiyi 8AAD
Year 7 Word Count
Millionaires Club
No. of Words
Quizzes
42
24
18
14
13
12
10
10
Year 7 Forms
Number of Star Readers
7JMI
3
7RXH
3
7DBA
2
7LBA
2
7OAB
2
7AMO
1
7JGR
1
7LSO
1
Number of Star Readers in
each form
And finally…..
I wish all our students a fantastic Summer holiday; I
hope you do lots of great stuff, but I also hope you
find time to read. We’ve had some amazing success
stories in just five months and I want to see that
continue next year with all KS3 students!
Do some reading; join the Public Libraries - even on
holiday; do the
Summer Reading Challenge and
earn stickers for next year; and come back in
September and tell me about all the great books
you’ve read!
On Thursday 15th July students plus their parents, staff and Governors
gathered in the main hall for a very enjoyable afternoon to celebrate the
achievement of Lord Grey students in the past year.
After a welcome from David Smith, Form Prizes and Subject Prizes were
awarded to students in each form: Years 7, 8, 9 and 10. The students who
had been nominated as the winners of the Subject Prizes then received their
magnificent books which have a commemorative inscription, as well as a
certificate. The books were chosen by Mrs Coles to be relevant to the
subject area in which the prize was won or to the known interests of the
recipient. There were Year Prizes for students who have made a huge
contribution to the school community and MySticker prizes. We hope this
day will remind them of their great achievement.
The musical performances were excellently performed by:
Jamie Hyde - Year 8, Jordan Noel - Year 9, Billy Hammond - Year 10 and
Deborah Winter - Year 7.
Dr Tracey Jones congratulated the students and their parents and invited all
the guests to move to the Dining Room to enjoy some wonderful cakes and
tea.
Congratulations to you if you received an award and thank you to all the
staff and students who helped in the organisation of the event.
David Smith, Assistant Headteacher
7DBA
7AMO
7LSO
7JGR
7JMI
7OAB
7RXH
7LBA
8LBE
8JXS
8AAD
8HDI
8LSA
8ACO
8AAP
9LAR
9RRE
9NMA
9JSM
9MHA
9FCA
9HBO
9MED
10JHE
10MOC
10ADS
10LPH
10AMU
10MDA
10MCO
10CDA
Subject Prizes
Form Prizes
Yasmin Ratnage
Alice Black
Megan Owens
Rayanna Seamark
Lewis Martin
Saima Mohmand
Olivia Gasson
Brooke Williams
Kaitlin Doig
Jesse McCarthy
Katie Ruggles
Charlie Kelly
Annabel Blyth
Elliot Hughes
Jade Walker
Scott Baines
Reece Sherratt
Elizabeth Simpson
Sascha Hand
Alice Barton
Charlie Smith
Abigail Harris
Danielle Osei-Boateng
Joe Falconer
Liam Ashmead
Oliver Hughes
Chloe Tofield
Peter Kirby
Rosie Barton
Daniel Rodger
Luke Bullock
Mathematics
Charlotte Butcher
Toni Rodriguez
Rebekah Newbury
Faduma Bashir
English
Rayanna Seamarks
Chloe Clarke
Joel Ukeni
Jessica Glass
Science
Priyana Jani
Abigail Maxwell
Ashvina Anthakumaran
Umme-Habeebah Rahman
Double Science
Denise Osei
Luke Bullock
Triple Science
James Grufferty
Humanities
Lauryn Sutton
James King
History
Abigail Harris
Atipe Omisade
Geography
Sabah Zubair
Joni Downs
Citizenship
Denise Osei
Religious Studies
Eleanor Brudenell
7LSO
8AHO
9JSM
10MOC
7JGR
8AAD
9HBO
10MOC
7DBA
8ACO
9MHA
10ADS
9FCA
10CDA
10ADS
7JMI
8LBE
9HBO
10MDA
9NMA
10AMU
9FCA
10MDA
AOPE
Zoe Arthurs
French
Samantha Smith
Arob Ali
Jaideep Nagpal
Aidan Causer
German
Adam Goyen
Kaitlin Doig
Scott Baines
Amy Rodriguez
Spanish
Olivia Gasson
Sophie Reid
Imogen Read
Thomas Dowse
Italian
Chloe Turner
Chloe Woodhead
Joni Downs
Language Experience
Daniel Locke
Chloe Clarke
Kadra Mahamud
Jack Lake
English as Additional Language
Asia Ali
Peterson Joseph
Amin Bashir
Wei Chou
PE Boys
Charlie O’Donoghue
Adam Rolfe
James Wilson
Alex Grogan
9MHA
7RXH
8ACO
9MED
10CDA
7RXH
8LBE
9LAR
10AMU
7RXH
8LSA
9LAR
10MOC
7JGR
8AHO
10AMU
7JGR
8AAD
9NMA
10LPH
7LBA
7LBA
9FCA
10AMU
7AMO
8AAP
9JSM
10MCO
Subject Prizes
PE Girls
Megan Owens
Emily Brotherton
Elizabeth Gbejuade
Sophie Millen
Music
Deborah Winter
Jamie Hyde
Jordan Noel
William Hammond
Drama
Yasmin Ratnage
Devon Roberts
Kieran Maurer
Liam Ashmead
Media Studies
Ashvina Ananthakumaran
Georgia Dunn
Dance
Abigail Griggs
Core ICT
Amanda Harris
Lauren Millburn
GCSE ICT
Issy Schofield
James Grufferty
Business Studies
Sydney Leigh
Stacey Dennaford
SEN Award
Jamie Lawrence
Kaitlin Doig
Zoe Arthurs
Samantha Kennedy
7LSO
8LBE
9NMA
10JHE
7LSO
8HDI
9LAR
10CDA
7DBA
8JXS
9FCA
10MOC
9MHA
10JHE
9LAR
9JSM
10AMU
Art
Esther Cain
Emily-Kaye Trowell
Oliver Cain
Jack Wortley
Design Technology
Samantha Smith
Chloe Clarke
Food Technology
Israphon Thongbaibon
Chloe-Rose Flatt
Graphic Products
Zoe Morris
Scarlett Morris
Resistant Materials
Scott Baines
Connor Finch
Textiles
Imogen Read
Scarlett Morris
Work Experience Award
Chloe Tofield
9FCA
10ADS
9HBO
10MDA
7RXH
8LBE
9MHA
10ADS
Presentation of Year Prizes
Year 7
Year 8
Year 9
Year 10
Blake Higgins 7RXH
Georgina Bright 8JXS
Shaun Stratton 9JSM
Eleanor Brudenell 10MDA
Presentation of My Stickers
Year 7
Year 8
Year 9
Year 10
Ryan Bamblett 7DBA
Jamilur Rahman 87XS
Samantha Ruse 9RRE
Steven Shu 10AMU
7JGR
8ACO
9HBO
10JHE
7RXH
8AAD
10CDA
10AMU
9NMA
10JHE
9LAR
10JHE
9LAR
10JHE
10LPH
Friday 9th July was set to be one of the hottest days of the year. Sports Day was certainly set to be a scorcher and one of the
highlights of the school calendar. Friday came and the weather did not disappoint with the temperature creeping up towards
30 degrees Celsius!
The timetable for the day:
The elite athletes battled it out in the running events around the track in the morning; competing in the 100m, 800m,
1500m and 4 x 100m relay races trying to collect as many points as possible for their House. We saw some outstanding
performances along the way from James Wilson in the 1500m and Sam Howkins in the 800m.
The points were collected and Madrid took an early lead, but only 80 points separated the first and last House and there was
all to play for in the afternoon. The emphasis for the afternoon was not on individual performances but on the cohesion and
team work and again acquiring as many points as possible for their respective houses.
At 1:20pm the activities got underway, the field and astro turf area were a sea of the colours as all the competitors were
sporting their house colours. The activities ranged from shooting at a target goal, whole class Up ‘n’ Under to Discus and
Three Legged races.
The students performed in high spirits, urged on by their Form Tutors, class and team mates. Eighty minutes of activities later
and all the results were in and being counted. Whilst this was going on there was time for one last event… the 6 th Former
100m race with two competitors taking part for each house. The gun went and Nathan Kabeya took the lead in a very
close race but managed to hold his lead until over the finish line.
With the last race run and the results added up, it was time for the announcement of the overall results:
Year 7 – Paris, Year 8 – Rome, Year 9 – Madrid, Year 10 – Madrid
Overall winners were calculated from the whole days results giving us the
overall winners – Rome!
Congratulations.
Some of the days
events!
This academic year has been an outstanding one for
some of our Year 10 students. In particular the girls
have won every sports tournament they entered and
were runners up in a netball league. The boys are
County and Milton Keynes Basketball Champions.
All students are very dedicated to their sports with
many girls involved with the MK Dons Academy. They
are also potentially involved with an exciting challenge
at the Leon Football Academy where they will meet top
opposition throughout Year 11. Some of the girls are
playing top netball with MK Netters and they have been
recognised in higher netball circles too. The boys are
well linked to the MK Lions.
Overall the success was as follows:
Girls:
Year 10 Milton Keynes Netball Tournament
Winners
U16 Milton Keynes Netball League Runners Up
U16 Basketball Milton Keynes Winners
Year 10 Football Milton Keynes Winners
U16 Football County Cup Winners
U16 Football National Cup Quarter Finalists
Boys:
Year 10 Basketball Milton Keynes Winners
Year 10 Basketball County Winners
Year 10 Rounders Milton Keynes Tournament
winners
On the academic front, twenty Year 10 students have
completed the BTEC Sports Diploma a year early.
These students have gained the equivalent of 4 GCSE
grades and should be very proud of their achievements.
The students are:
Distinction*:
Callum Farmborough
Jason Richards
Rochelle Winkworth
Merit:
Naveed Ahmed
Fraser Mackay
Khalisur Rahman
Harley Shaw
Lucy Kaye
Danni Shaw
Desrell Cole
John Hunter
Mason Murray
Conor Reilly
Toby Roberts
Lauren Ringer
Pass:
Humaira Adil
Hope Coles
Samantha Kennedy Joel Seidu
Bryony Coles
The students who have received a Distinction* will
receive the equivalent of 4 A* grades. Merits are worth
4 B grades and Passes are worth 4 C grades at GCSE.
The students will now spend Year 11 studying BTEC
Health and Social Care Level 2 and will hopefully gain a
Certificate (2 GCSEs) or even the Diploma (4 GCSEs)
depending on time.
Congratulations must go to Miss Sue Jones for all her
hard work in getting this group through and supporting
them in this fabulous achievement.
Faye Causer, Head of Sport and Healthy Living
The AS Level PE Group for next year took part in the Young Leaders Camp held at Leon School between Wednesday 7 th July
and Friday 9th July.
During the three days they gained qualifications
in Football, Tennis and Rugby and were trained
in delivering multi-skills festivals.
On Friday the Young Leaders took on the role
of coaches, assisting SSCO’s at the Partnership
Games for Year 6 students from around Milton
Keynes. Activities delivered included:
rounders, football, swimming, gymnastics, tennis,
athletics, basketball and martial arts.
The students involved will now be assisting with
school clubs and primary school festivals and
using their qualifications towards their AS PE
coursework next year.
Beth Brent-Williams, Georgia Breuilly, Brett
Arthurs, Curtis Cokayne, George Reed, Kieran
Bolton, Joe McCartney, Ross Acland, Jack
Gregory. Well done to all of you!
Jo May, School Sports Co-ordinator
Milton Keynes School Sports Partnership Awards Ceremony
at Stantonbury Campus
On Thursday 15th July, the Milton Keynes School Sports Partnership
Awards Ceremony took place at Stantonbury Campus, where Christina
Cararra and Georgia Breuilly received an award for Lord Grey
Sporting Ambassadors 2009/2010.
The event was a fun packed evening with a special guest appearance
from Dan Magners, World Keepy Uppy Champion, who showed off his
skills that he recently demonstrated during his epic 26 hours world
record breaking success.
Another special guest for the evening was a former British
Snowboarder Anna Turney who broke her back during a pre Olympic
snowboarding event in 2006. She told the audience her inspirational story, of how she thought her sporting life was
over until she heard about monoskiing. She came back four years later at the Winter Paralympics held in Vancouver
this year and came a respectable 6th in her event
A special mention must go to Toni Wright who was asked to make a speech
about her role as Sporting Ambassador for Milton Keynes 2008/2009 and
has been given the prestigious title of Platinum Young Sporting Ambassador
for Milton Keynes next year.
Jo May, School Sports Co-ordinator
NATIONAL SCHOOL SPORTS WEEK (UPDATE)
The National School Sports Week took place between Monday 28th June – 2nd July 2010, with various activities, from
Athletics to Ultimate Frisbee and Extreme Golf to Wii Sports. Many students took part and were encouraged
“to try something new!”
126 students took part in one activity
27 students took part in two activities
21 students took part on three or more activities
The following students received a gold award for participating in three or more activities:
Participated in 5 activities or more
Nathan Bernard 7OAB
Yasmin Ratnage 7DBA
Participated in 4 activities or more
Adam Ruse 7JMI
Chetna Goriana 7LBA
Givence Sarfo 7JMI
Henry Chan 7AMO
Lewis Martin 7JMI
Louise Hulland 9RRE
Megan Owens 7LSO
Participated in 3 activities or more
Ashvina Ananthakumaram, 9MHA
Brogan Pullen, 7JGR
Brooke Williams, 7LBA
Charlie Clarke 7LBA
Charlotte Butcher, 7LSO
Emily Brotherton, 8LBE
Emily Horn, 7OAB
Justice Daniels, 7AMO
Ryan Marshman, 8LBE
Sam Ruse, 9RRE
Sam Howkins, 7DBA
Stephen Kennedy, 8ACO
Congratulations to everyone who participated in the sports week.
Jo May, School Sports Coordinator
On Wednesday evening, 30th June the Year 11 Prom took place at Wilton Hall. It was a rather spectacular evening with
everyone arriving in various types of limousines! All were dressed up in some beautiful dresses and suits for this special night
and a photographer was there to capture the memories. Congratulations go to Jake Hobbs and Jasmine Hayes who were
crowned Prom King and Prom Queen.
Another special thank you must go to Mrs Jayne Dunn, Assistant Head of Year, for all the organisation of this fantastic event
for making it such a special evening for the students, which I am sure they will remember for many years!
Richard Henry, Head of Year
A selection of photographs showing off some fantastic dresses and suits!
On the warm evening of July 14th, the hall was full of proud parents and other family members to watch and listen
to Lord Grey music students in their annual Summer Concert.
A wide programme of music was performed, ranging from soloists, duos, bands, chamber ensembles, jazz groups, singers,
choirs and of course the magnificent full orchestra, playing selections from the upcoming tour to Austria. Too many
brilliant performances to pick out individuals, the standard was universally excellent. The highs of the evening were sadly
counterpointed at the end by the fact Miss Webb and Mrs McKinnell are leaving Lord Grey to teach elsewhere. They
were both presented with gifts to show the affection in which they are held. They will be hugely and fondly missed by
students and colleagues alike, and our best wishes go with them.
Bob Buckby, Performing Arts
An evening to remember!
The Masked Ball held at the Hilton Hotel on Friday 2nd July was an amazing event with everyone wearing
an array of extravagant masks!
Everyone had a great time dancing and socialising with the parting Year 13s signing each others’ books
and watching the jester do his tricks. Kelvin Pearson had a great night as it was this 18th birthday too!
There was lovely speeches towards the end of the evening for Dr Trevenna, Mrs Mohan and
Mr Hoggard, who had helped many students throughout their Sixth Form careers. Also a special thank
you to Laurie Severn who put a lot of time and effort into making the prom an amazing event.
Plans for the prom next year are already on the go, so next year will be equally as good!
Hannah-Mae Brett, Head Girl
Arts Business Challenge
On Tuesday 29th June, 2 teams of
Year 12 students went to the
Cranfield School of Management to
compete in the Arts Business
Challenge. The challenge revolved
around an internet based business
simulation in which each team
needed to work together with their
mentors Dan and Patricia from the
Centre:MK to make business
decisions over the course of a
week. In addition, each team had to
design and submit a logo design for
their company.
One of our two teams, ‘Elite’ got through to the Grand Final on Tuesday 13 th July and competed against
three schools from across Milton Keynes. Elite won first prize for their logo design as the judges said that
it didn’t loose impact in black and white or when scaled down and that it had longevity.
Well done to Elite who are:
Ashaye Edgehill, Lewis Kaye, Dean Phillips, Jess Rocton, Warun Thaper and Adam Warwick.
A big thank you also goes to the two team mentors, who gave up their time and expertise out of goodwill.
Jennifer Graham, Teacher of Business
LORD GREY BUSINESS LINK WITH VW AUDI
A couple of weeks ago Joe Wilkinson, sales manager at VW Audi in Blakelands, visited
three Year 8 German classes. Joe talked about how his language learning had enabled
him to follow his career at VW and how he uses German in his job. In a simulated
phone call with the German VW plant in Wolfsburg the students learnt how to report
sales figures for Polo, Scirocco, Golf and Passat for the month of June. Then Joe
answered questions about the importance of foreign language learning.
I’d like to thank VW and Joe Wilkinson for a very
interesting afternoon.
Rosa Mack, Business Links
Mathematics
Dear parent or carer,
The new Year 10 students will now have a new Mathematics examination. They will have three unit exams, Unit 3 (40%) to be
taken in June 2012, with the first Unit 1 exam (30%) to be sat in November 2010.There is a different order in which the topics
will be examined. Please ensure they have a calculator and full equipment for the new term.
Many thanks. Please e-mail corinne.squires@lordgrey.org.uk for further information.
Year 10 Examinations and Results
Year 10 have sat several examinations recently:
External Examinations
GCSE Music (full GCSE)
GCSE Units in Maths, RS, History and Geography
Adult Literacy
Adult Numeracy
Asset Languages
The results of these examinations will be available for students to collect from 11am on Tuesday 24th August. The
results of the BTEC Sport qualification (equivalent to 4 GCSEs) were issued on Monday 19th July 2010 (please see
page 10). If your son/daughter is unable to come into school to collect his/her results these can be posted
provided a stamped addressed envelope is left at Student Services, otherwise results will be issued in September.
Internal/Mock Examinations
The results of all other examinations should have been issued to students via their subject teacher.
If you have any queries regarding the results of external examinations or you would like a copy please do not
hesitate to contact me.
Margaret Cutress, Examinations & Performance Data Manager
Information from the Parent Support Advisor
The summer holidays are upon us. If you require any information on activities or just need a chat I will be in school on the
following dates:
Date:
Time:
27-7-10
9am—1pm
29-7-10
12-30—3-30pm
03-8-10
12-30—3-30pm
05-8-10
9am—1pm
10-8-10
12-30—1pm
12-8-10
9am—1pm
17-8-10
9am—1pm
19-8-10
12-30—3-30pm
24-8-10
9am—1pm
26-8-10
1pm—3-30pm
I hope you have a wonderful summer and look forward to meeting more of you in September.
Joan Beard, Parent Support Advisor—Tel: 01908-626175
EMERGENCY TELEPHONE NUMBERS FOR SUPPORT
OVER THE SUMMER HOLIDAYS
BROOK 01908 669215 (SEXUAL & CONTRACEPTION HEALTH SERVICE)
CHILDLINE 0800 1111
CAMHS 01908 254375 (MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE)
SAMARITANS 01908 667777
FRANK 0800 776600 (DRUGS INFORMATION)
Q-ALLIANCE 01908 241528 (LESBIAN/GAY/BISEXUAL YOUTH SERVICE MK)
Diary Dates 2010
Summer Holidays: 26th July 2010
2nd & 3rd September 2010: Training Days
The END of 8AAP
8AAP and friends went to the Snozone to go
sledging on Thursday the 8th July 2010 to
have fun, before they split into their new
forms next year.
Mrs Kirby joined us in her shirt, jeans and
pumps and wondered why she was cold!!??
Aaron Peck, Teacher in Charge of ICT
On Friday 16th July, Miss Beckley’s class, 8Y/He1, put
on a fete to raise money for Willen Hospice. This was
part of our Citizenship work on charities.
The activities that took place were:
Guess how many bands in a box
Guess the name of the teddy
Knock down the glue
Treasure map
Cake sale
Ball throws into the box
How many sweets in a jar
Everything was organised by us. We decided on the
charity, came up with the ideas, made posters, and got
everything organised. Maisie made the cakes, Jasmina
made the sweets in the jar, Keaghan and Mia made the
treasure map.
Altogether we raised £26.75. All this money will be
going to Willen Hospice. We all had a good time and I
hope we can do it again.
Kaitlin Doig, 8LBE
Our class invited the other Humanities Extra classes
to come along to support this charity.
Aspire, Learn, Achieve
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