Bay House School & Sixth Form

Gomer Lane

Gosport

PO12 2QP

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O’Byrne Year Newsletter

Year Office Telephone: 023 9250 505210

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23rd February 2018

Year Team

Head of Year

Ms K O’Byrne

Deputy

Head of Year

Mr R Mackay

Pastoral assistant

Mrs S Forfar

Issue 9

Year 9 Fundraising Updates – Street Child

The fundraising endeavours of

O’Byrne Year for Street Child has

raised just short of £1,700.

Pupils have every right to be proud of their efforts and we as a school are delighted by the effort and

commitment made by so many to raise this amount of money.

Because the revenue is

UK Government Fund Matched this

equates to £3,400 of funds available to street Child.

The difference this work will make to the lives of young people in

Sierra Leone is immense.

Our efforts alone can send over 100 children to school for a year or go a long way to making a school

self-sustaining. (we were just £400 short of achieving this!)

Miss A Carter , tutor to 902, coordinated the food bank collections for the year and a huge contribution was made by the year 9 pupils.

We would like to thank Miss Carter for the idea and for being so proactive in

supporting the collection and delivery of food.

We have decided to continue to fund raise and are going to focus on a local charity that supports our own community for the next half year. More information will follow and again as a year team we thank you for your generosity and ongoing support.

Having discussed this with a

number of pupils they have said that thinking about other people and trying to help has made them appreciate what they have a little more – which feels like a very

positive response.

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Guided Choices

The official deadline of 19th February has now passed and many thanks to those of you who have completed the forms on line. We are aware that there have a been a few issues where pupils have either lost their letters or been

unable to log on – tutors will be

allowing pupils to access the system during tutor time this week and

amendments can now be made until Friday.

Tutors have a copy of options selected by pupils and have been asked to

identify where there may be issues with those choices initially made. The Guided Choices team will also be flagging issues of concern.

Once the system closes a copy of the choices made will be sent to you for you to sign and agree.

The options will not be confirmed until you, the parent/carer, has done this. If you have any queries please do not hesitate to call or email us obyrneyearoffice@bayhouse.hants. sch.uk

Attendance and Punctuality

The attendance team and year team continues to

monitor punctuality and attendance.

We are continuing to do detentions on a weekly basis for attendance. These are issued by Mrs Forfar, but she can only issue these based on the registers. We are finding that this is effective in improving punctuality. If there are extenuating circumstances for lateness can you please email the Year office to let us know.

Youth Speaks – A message from Mr G Tapp and Miss S Dewey

Congratulations to ALL the Youth Speaks teams yesterday! Members delivered their speeches with confidence, eloquence and rhetoric –-- and as the judges said, it was a re-ally difficult decision. Well done Joe Wallace, Aaron Middleton, Christopher Wright, Sinead Neville, Josie Lee-Ralph and April Leckey on providing some tough competition.

Special congratulations to Keira Buckland, Elena Tapp, Laura Tapp, on making it through to the next round!

Individual Achievement

Kiera Venables – Girl Guiding. Kiera has been invited to become the first

Junior hostess at Foxlease Guiding Centre in the New Forest. This is a great honour and the manager, Phil Jarmyn commented that having had “very positive feedback from my management team and seeing for myself your willingness to get involved and help around the estate, I am convinced you will be an asset to Foxlease”.

Well done Kiera!

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Uniform Unacceptable clothing

Polo Shirt short sleeved, dark blue with

School logo Any items visible above the button opening on the collar, or below the sleeve edge

V-neck Jumpers or Sweatshirts dark blue

with School logo. Prefects are presented with

a grey V-neck jumper

Non-school items, hoodies – with or without

zip, cardigans, branded items, track suit tops

Trousers plain black or dark grey, ankle

length work style appropriate for school

Skoolkit Girls products; 3831 “Westbury” or “GPR” or identical Boys; ST1 “Senior” or iden-

tical

Brushed denim, cord, canvas, jeans, leggings,

bootlegs, tight fitting, stretch fabric, fashion zips or other extremes of fashion

Skirts plain black or dark grey, knee length

work style Skoolkit products; SSK242 “Senior” or SK303 “Charleston” or identical

Skater style, stretch fabric or any extremes of fashion

Outdoor Coat plain, dark single colour. [We

are considerate of lighter colours where the coat is essential to being visible when cy-

cling.]

Denim, camouflage, leather, knitwear, cardi-gans, bright colours, hoodies or anything with obvious markings and logos

Shoes plain black work style shoes

Trainers, plimsolls, leisure wear, Converse, Nike, Vans or similar brand-named foot-

wear, any combination of black with other

colours, sequins or decoration, thick plat-forms, heels higher than 6cm or any other extremes of fashion

Socks black, grey, white or dark blue Coloured or patterned socks. Frilled socks

Tights plain black Grey, coloured or patterned tights

Belt plain black Coloured, studded or extremes of fashion

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Dates for the diary

Easter break—March 30th to April 13th inclusive.

Spring Bank holiday—7th May

School Bag suitable for carrying books, pencil case [pens, pencil, calculator and ruler as a mini-

mum], lunch and an A4 folder

Jewellery a maximum of one small ear stud per ear and one charity bracelet

Make up subtle and appropriate for school as a place of work

Hair one natural colour, grade 2 or longer

Mobile Devices These may only be used in lesson time with the teacher’s permission. All de-vices should be turned off and put away before entering the school site. Mobile devices are likely to be confiscated if seen by a member of staff. Confiscated mobile devices can be col-lected after school and will require collection from a parent on second and subsequent oc-casions.

TRAVELLING TO AND FROM SCHOOL IMPORTANT NOTICE

We ask for your support in speaking to your son/daughter about their journey to and from school. Several concerns have been raised by road-users, neighbours and passers-by about some extremely unsafe behaviour, both on Gomer Lane and other neighbouring roads. These have included cycling with helmets ‘dangling’ from handle-bars rather than being worn. Cyclists riding several abreast and risking facing oncoming traffic. Walking out in front of traffic causing drivers to break heavily. In response to this, and in an attempt to do what we can to ensure the safety of our pupils and students, senior members of staff have been offering support and guidance. Thank you for you for support

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The Bay Badminton Club Badminton club for adults and children - Saturdays 12-2pm The cost for 2 hours for an adult is £3.50 and £3 for under 18s. One hour for an Adult £2.50 and under 18s £2. In the Bay House sports hall. All abilities welcome. Park in the school site and walk across. For further information or to book a place. Email:rbloxsom@bayhouse.hants.sch.uk Rackets and shuttles provided.