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Cox Green School

Newsletter

16 January — 20 January 2017

Committed to Achievement

What’s On

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Dates for your Diary

Year 8 Options Day

Options Timetable

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Positive Points Winners

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Berkshire Cross Country

Championships

British Synchronised Skating

Championships

Mobile Phones

Sanders Street Dance

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Competition –Name the New

School Classrooms

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Library News

Teach Maidenhead

Yr8 Careers Insight Morning

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Academic Extra Curricular

Timetable

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PE Extra Curricular Timetable

Weekly Calendar

Monday 16th January Year 11 Student Council Meeting 10.50am – 11.20am

Tuesday 17th January Year 10 Student Council Meeting 10.50am – 11.20am Meeting for Parents re: Expansion Plans

presentation 5.00pm – 6.00pm

Wednesday 18th January Year 9 Student Council Meeting 10.50am – 11.20am

Thursday 19th January Year 8 Student Council Meeting 10.50am – 11.20am Year 8 Options Day—School closes at 12.15pm for

all years EXCEPT YEAR 8

Friday 20th January Year 7 Student Council Meeting 10.50am – 11.20am

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Dates for your Diary

Wednesday 25 January PSHE All Years– Periods 3 & 4

Thursday 26 January Year 8 Options Evening for Parents 6.00pm - 8pm

Friday 27 January INSET DAY—School Closed

Monday 30 January Year 8 Parents Evening 4.30pm - 7.00pm

Tuesday 31 January Year 13 You’re Hired—Take 2

Monday 6 February Year 10 Parents’ Evening 4.30pm - 7.00pm

Mon 6 – Fri 10 February Year 7 Careers Interviews

Friday 10 February End of Term - school closes at 3.15pm

Monday 13 February —Friday 17 February

Half Term Holiday

Year 8 Options Day Thursday 19th January

School closes at 12.15pm for all years EXCEPT YEAR 8

School Buses will run at 12.15pm

and again at 3.15pm for Year 8’s

Date Event

13th January Choices for Options Taster Day – Students will choose 4 subjects to attend during Taster Sessions (these are not their option choices at this stage. It is an opportunity to experience subjects they are considering).

19th January Options Taster Day – Students receive information and guidance on career paths as well as attend lessons based on their choices for Taster Day

26th January (6:00pm – 8:00pm)

Options Evening – Presentation in theatre to all parent/carers and talks given by all Option subjects explaining their GCSE.

30th January Year 8 Parents Evening – Opportunity to speak to all subject staff to discuss your child’s progress and information about the GCSE.

01st February Year 8 Option Choices Deadline using Insight (insight.coxgreen.com).

Mid-February Personalised meetings with students following option choices.

Mid-March Letters to parents confirming option choices.

Year 8 Options Timetable

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Positive Points Winners

Congratulations to our Silver(300) Positive Points winners:

Chelsea Coe (year 7) with Ms Swidenbank

Congratulations to our Silver(200) Positive Points winners:

Sara Barsoum (Year 7) with Mr Hillyard Year 7s Isobelle White, Emma Fortuin

and Inbar Ayash with Mr Hillyard

Congratulations also to Silver(200) Positive Points winner Harry Palmer-Hayward (year 10)

Congratulations to our 100 Positive Points Winners some of whom are pictured below:

Year 7s Cerys Moore, Glorianne Mutemaunga and Mandie Trice.

Congratulations also to 100 Positive Points winner Nathan Winterton (year 7)

Please note : Your child will not be pictured or named as a positive points winner if we have them on

the database as ‘No Photo External ‘ or ‘No name External’ unless you have agreed for this to happen.

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Berkshire Cross Country Championships

Luke-Lom Hynes from Year 8 won a silver medal in U13 Boys Berkshire Cross Country Championships and he has qualified for the Cross Country Inter-Counties Championship in Birmingham on March 11th.

Anuucha Hynes, Katie Crowhurst and Abbie Jones also competed in Berkshire Cross Country Championships.

Sanders Street Company

Dance club is continuing this term

New members welcome (All Year Groups)

Mondays 3:30pm-4:30pm

£5 per week payable at the beginning of term

via sQuid

British Synchronised Skating Championships at the National Ice Centre

Nottingham 14th and 15th January 2017

Emma and Laura Carpenter will be competing in the Ice skating championships this weekend in

Nottingham. It's a special year for them both as they are Captain and Vice Captain of their team , so we

hope they get a chance to be on the winners podium again and add to their collection of medals.

As an addition to the championships, Emma is giving a demonstration skate with her Special People on

Ice Synchronised skating team. SPICE are the only Special Needs organisation to run a Synchronised

skating team and as such this is a special occasions for people with disabilities to perform in front of the

other skaters and spectators and especially at the British Championships.

Mobile Phones in School

Please note that the use of mobile phones are not permitted on the school

site at ANY TIME including before and after school.

Mobile phones must be switched off and will be confiscated if not.

Students must not use their mobile phone to contact parents directly.

Confiscated phones, MP3/iPods and valuables can be collect from the Main

Office between 8.30am and 4.15pm, by parents or any named contact on our school database.

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Competition - Be Part of History

This summer building work will begin. We will get:

•2 new science labs

•New ICT rooms

•New classrooms

•Bigger classrooms

•More changing rooms and

•A much needed new canteen

As and when the buildings are completed we will need to name 6 teaching blocks

So…we need you to make history and name the teaching blocks.

You need to: 1. Identify 6 names, 1 for each of the 6 teaching blocks. You will be renaming Lower School, Sports Academy, Main School, Science/Maths, 6th form/Music and Sports Note: Each of the 6 names will need to start with a different letter eg: Astor, Brunel, Spencer 2. Tell us in no more than 100 words why the teaching blocks should be named in this way. 3. Closing date for entries will be Wed 25th January at 9am. 4. Entries should be emailed to:

bepartofhistory@coxgreen.com

The winner will win a Tablet

and will be part of history:

the teaching blocks will be

named by the winner.

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Library News

Students - How to print work from a library computer

When printing, you must wait for an onscreen box to confirm that you want to print. Click ‘Yes’.

The printer is black and white, and printing is free.

You can use Access, Word, Excel, Publisher and PowerPoint on the library computers.

You can bring in work from home on a memory stick, to print off in breaktime. The computers are all on Windows 7. Word Games Wednesday Come along to the Library on Wednesdays in Break 1 and Break 2, and enjoy the selection of word games, wordsearches and crosswords for you to play in the Library. There is a different selection each week, so come and try. Everyone welcome! FREE websites from home all about Famous People Who’s Who contains over 33,000 short biographies of noteworthy and influential individuals alive today, from all over the world. Who Was Who is the archive, dating back to 1898, of people who were included in ‘Who’s Who’ before they died. Your library card barcode number is the Username and no PIN is needed. Or go to any library and search there for free: http://www3.rbwm.gov.uk/info/200341/online_library_resources/400/online_resources

Library Opening Times

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday

8.30am to 3.30pm 8.30am to 5pm 8.30am to 7pm 8.30am to 5pm 8.30am to 5pm 10am to 1.30pm 11am to 2pm

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Academic - Extra Curricular Timetable –Term 3 Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday

Break

Times

Junior Jazz Orchestra

Music Department

Mr Davie - All welcome

1.40-2.15pm

Debate club

R8 - Mrs Kiely

Led by Sixth Form

Debate team.

All Welcome

11.05-11.35am

Computing Club

IT2 - Mrs Krishnappan

Year 7-9

1.40-2.15pm

Junior Band

Music Department

Mr Davie - All welcome

11.05-11.35am

Chamber Choir

Music Department

Mr Davie & Mr McDonough

Singers via audition only

11.05-11.35am

String Ensemble

Music department

All string players

welcome

Mr McDonough

1.40-2.15pm

Concert Band

Music Dept

Musicians grade 3+

Mr Davie & Mr

McDonough

1.40-2.15pm

Choir

Music Dept

Mr McDonough

All welcome

1.40-2.15pm

After

School

Jazz Orchestra

Music Department

Mr Davie & Mr McDonough

Musicians grade 3+

3.25-4.05pm

Homework Club

IT2 - All Welcome

Mrs West

3.20-4pm

Photography clinic

Room 1- Mrs Goodrham

Year 10

3.15-4.30pm

GCSE Art clinic

A2 - Mrs Harris

Year 9, 10 & 11

3.15-5pm

Art Enrichment

A1—Mrs Masih

Year 8 & 9

Invitation only

3.15pm - 4.30pm

Photography clinic

Room 1- Mrs Goodrham

Year 9 —3.15-4.30pm

Maths

Various Teachers

All Years—3.15-4.15pm

Technology coursework

T1 –Mr Hamilton

Year 11, 12 & 13

3.15 - 5.15pm

Spanish—Exam Skills

R3a, Miss Stevenson

Year 11—3:15- 4pm

French – Exam Skills

R3b, Miss Selway,

Year 11—3:15-4pm

Spanish – Choco & Churros

R4a , Mrs Lovelock

Year 7 and 8 - 3:15-4:15pm

Science Club

S4 - Mr Crowther

Year 7 & 8—3.30- 4.30pm

History

R8—Mr Tooke

Year 11—3.30—4.30pm

Homework Club

IT2 - All Welcome

Mrs West

3.20-4pm

Maths

Maths Dept

Various Teachers

All Years

3.15-4.15pm

Enrichment Art Club

A1—Miss Goodrham

Year 7

3.15-4.45pm

By invitation only

Art Gifted & Talented

Mrs Harris

Year 11- 3.15-4.30pm

By invitation only

Photography Clinic

Room 3 - Mrs Masih

Year 11—3.30-4.30pm

Concert Band

Music Dept

Musicians grade 3+

Mr Davie

& Mr McDonough

3.25 –4.05pm

Maths

Maths Dept

Various Teachers

All Years

3.15-4.15pm

Technology Exam

technique

T1 – Mr Hamilton

Year 11, 12 & 13

3.15-4.15pm

English Poetry

L4, Mrs Mirkovic &

Mrs La Rocque

Year 10-11

by invitation only

3.30pm-4.30pm

English Clinics

KS3 and KS4

Lower School Dining

and Pods

3.30pm - 4.30pm

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P.E - Extra Curricular Timetable –Term 3 Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday

Before

School

Circuit Training

Mr Morris

All Years

7.20-8.00am

Break

Time

Table Tennis

Break Duty Staff

Year 7

11.05-11.35am

Netball

Mrs Benger

Year 7

1.40-2.15pm

Table Tennis

Break Duty Staff

Year 8

11.05-11.35am

Table Tennis

Break Duty Staff

Year 9

11.05-11.35am

Basketball Boys

Mr Gullick

Year 10 & 11

1.40-2.15pm

Table Tennis

Break Duty Staff

Year 10

11.05-11.35am

Table Tennis

Break Duty

Staff

Year 11

11.05-11.35am

After

School

Dance Club

Crissy Sander

All years

Dance Studio

3.30-4.30pm

Basketball Boys

Mr Rutter

Year 7,8 & 9

3.30-4.30pm

Football

Mr Gulllick, Mr

Stokes

Year 7 & 9

3.15-4.30pm

Girls Football

Ms Glover

All Years

3.15-4.30pm

Netball Matches

All Years

3.15-4.30pm

Football

Mr Stokes

Year 8

3.15-4.30pm

Football

Year 11

Mr Gullick

3.15-4.30pm

Cross Country

Running Club

Mr Morris

All Years

3.15-4.30pm

GCSE/A Level

Support

Hub

Mr Stokes

Mr Gullick

Ms Glover

3.30-4.30pm