CAUSEWAY CONNECTION Edition 278 17 June 2016

Causeway School Larkspur Drive Eastbourne East Sussex BN23 8EJ 01323 465700 www.causewayschool.org office@causewayschool.org

IMPORTANT EVENTS COMING SOON June 17 Spain trip leaves. 20-24 Year 10 Work Experience 20-24 Real Learning Week July 01 INSET Day 04 Year 6 Transition Evening 05 Year 7 Taster Day 05 Year 10 Sussex College Taster Day 07 School Sports Day 11 Yr11 Leavers Assembly & BBQ 15 Year 11 Prom 22 End of Term 6

Please see website for future events.

This week has seen some impressive teamwork from our students and staff as we hosted another successful Primary Sports Festival for local primary schools in the area. We like to work with our local primaries, as was seen in our last production of Bugsy and we look forward to increasing our links with local schools in the future. Next week is also another busy week for the school as our Year 10s venture out into the working world for their Work Experience week and for our Years 7,8 and 9 with our annual Real Learning Week where students undertake a range of exciting courses to help them learn more about the real world as well as develop new skills linked in with their overall learning and our Causeway values. The week will end with a grand showcase of work from all projects. Please do try and come along and see what your child has been

doing during Real Learning Week. There will be a catwalk show to exhibit the dress making, bridal hair and jewellery making skills. There will be a street party feel with delicious food produced by the causeway catering company, along with many individual exhibits of artwork, photography and films of student work across the week. Not forgetting the final court case to determine who killed Mr Dyer!!

The Causeway sports leaders hosted a brilliant Primary School Olympic Sports Festival this week. Students from local Primary schools enjoyed an exciting, competitive afternoon of sports including basketball, rounders, athletics, tennis and football. Following careful planning and preparation, the year ten Causeway Sports Leaders were accomplished in their delivery; they supported pupils, planned interesting activities to motivate, stretch and encourage good sportsmanship, creativity and

involvement from the youngsters. The Sports Leaders are fully aware of the benefits of sport and exercise and this was a brilliant demonstration of inclusion with students from all abilities. The whole afternoon was devoted to providing an opportunity for youngsters not only to participate in a range of sports, learning new skills; rules and achieving in those sports; learning about playing fairly, encouraging others and about effort and sportsmanship and what rewards this can bring. Bronze, Silver and Gold was awarded in all of the activities and students enjoyed the experience of standing on a podium and gaining recognition for their efforts. The Award Ceremony had an extra and interesting twist as Causeway were lucky enough to have the support from the founder of Football for Peace Geoffrey Whittmore to award all winners. Parents were proud, pupils were exhausted and the leaders were amazing. Well done all involved - we look forward to hosting another sporting event in October for all Eastbourne primary Schools.

Primary Schools Olympic Festival

Science Revision Guides

Year 10 embark on their final GCSE year next year. To help prepare them we have the opportunity to offer them revision guides produced specifically for their course. The books are designed to help consolidate and support the work done at school by developing their understanding of the topics covered. These books cover all topics that will be studied throughout their GCSE course. We are currently offering these books at the reduced price of only £2.75 each. We advise all students to purchase a revision guide to support their learning. This can be done via the pay station, then your child can collect the guide itself from the science office. If you have any questions or queries regarding the availability or content of the revision guides please feel free to contact me Dr Reid at lreid@causewayschool.org.

Causeway Duke of Edinburgh Expedition 2016 On Saturday 11th June, two Causeway Duke of Edinburgh groups set out to complete their assessed weekend. It was the most beautiful morning up at Birling Gap and after checking the group equipment and filling rucksacks with even more equipment the two groups met with their assessors to show them they knew exactly where they were going on the map and set off up onto the Downs to walk the first day over the Seven Sisters and along the Cuckmere River. The day was successful and all reached the campsite in good time with smiles still on their faces! The assessors were happy with how the tents had been put up and lastly the teams settled down to their own cooked cordon bleu meal. Day two on the expedition was a different story all together, the heavens opened all morning and by 12 the two groups were soaked to the skin and not very happy anymore. The weather did improve slightly as the rain stopped the cold wet fog came down up on the hills and visibility was down to about 20 metres in some places. The groups battled on and found the correct route through the fog back to clear skies down at Holywell for their debrief and kit handback. The two groups worked extremely hard to complete two weekends away walking

for over 13km each day and pulled together as a team to cook and walk without aid over these four days. Congratulations and Well done to Ellie Hughes, Tanya Sharma, Oscar Bell, Joe Francis, Caitlin Ston-er, Finlay Harris, Holly Leister, Evan Tinsley and Harrison Coleman on completing the expedition part of their Bronze Award successfully.

We would like to invite all parents to our

Real Learning Week Exhibition

Friday 24 July 2pm Here at the school.

Causeway School Larkspur Drive Eastbourne East Sussex BN23 8EJ 01323 465700 www.causewayschool.org office@causewayschool.org

Sports Roundup First Aid Live Lesson

Basketball Activator Award Course

The following students were very successful in their basketball course and have since been awarded the Basketball Activator Award: Amber Pryor,Ellie Hughes, Rachel Reace, Megan Cox, Sandra Trajos, Faith Manjoro, Nicole Santos Bruce, Jade Meredith Sullivan, Yana Mason, Charlee Webb, Lisa Peck, Emma Peck & Chloe Smith. They took part in a 6 week programme with level 4 coach Roger Nuess. Roger taught them not only the skills of the games but how to umpire, officiate, health and safety and about setting up competitions. This Award demonstrates that the students have proficiency in the skills of basketball but also the ability to lead groups themselves and organise younger people and run competitions and events. Congratulations. Year 8 Rounders The year 8 girls rounders team last week had their first game against Ratton School and were amazing. They fielded well, batted well and were demonstrating great team work. Best batting came from Jasmine Lambert, Kim La Roche, Taylor Shaw, Rachel Wheeler and Elizabeth Campbell. They had a convincing win against Ratton 51/2 rounders to 31/2. They were unfortunate on the second game this week with an unfortunate couple of injuries & illnesses but tried their best but struggled to find their batting form losing to Willingdon. They play Bishop Bell on 20th June after REAL week . Years 7,8,9,10 Southdowns School Partnership Athletics Championships (Friday)

Rachel Wheeler and Jasmine Lambert performed well at The Sussex Schools Championships last weekend. Rachel for the high jump and Jasmine for the long jump. Jasmine managed to get a personal best so congratulations to her. Both will compete this Friday along with 35 students form The Causeway at the South Downs Sports Partnerships Athletics Championships held at The Sports Park.

Friday see’s our students leaving

on their Real Learning Spain

Trip. The week will see the

students visiting some of the

most historic parts of the coun-

try as well as visiting one of the

best Museums in the Europe.

The Great Causeway Bake-off - Round One

Congratulations goes to 3 of our teaching staff who took part last weekend in the Eastbourne triathlon and came 1st. Miss Whitton took on the 600 metres sea swim, Mr Castano ran 5km and Mr Casebourne rode 25km on his bike. We would all like to say well done on this heroic effort and bringing home the trophy.

New Arrivals

Business Studies Trip to Thorpe Park The students were treated to an amazing and informative workshop from James at Thorpe Park this week. James spoke in detail about the business of Thorpe Park, including how they invest £20million a year on new rides to keep people coming back and to attract new customers. Everyone then enjoyed all that Thorpe Park had to offer and had an amazing time, with Miss Da Silva proving she is braver than Mrs Edwards. Mr Weller showcased his skills by winning a giant cuddly donut, which proved to be a very popular head rest for many weary students on the long journey home. We arrived back safe, sound and early after what was a fantastic day for all. Our students were very responsive and engaged throughout the talk, and over the course of the whole they were a credit to Causeway School.

Year 10 Geography Field Trip to Birling Gap This week the GCSE geography students went to Birling gap, Holywell and the seafront to look for evidence of coastal erosion and to find out what is being done to manage it. They had a talk from a National trust ranger and used fieldwork techniques to collect data. They will spend the next few weeks

writing a report about their finding. Their report is worth 25% of their final grade.

This week our canteen has been working to further improve the offering of food to our students and make available even more healthier choices. We have re-vamped the meal deals to include more fruit options and lighter meals as well as keeping costs to a minimum.

The bake-off has now entered it’s second week and the Competition is hotting up. All houses showed up in force this week to do their best and created some amazing dishes. The following students made it through to the next round because they were independent and had good time keeping in creating short crust pastry dishes: Keller: Kathryn Carter & Shaila Morris, Pankhurst: Jake Pearcy & Kenna Constable, Churchill: Katie Welling,

Amy Briffitt & Sophie Briffitt & Brunel: Chanice Roche, Faith Ripley, Lily Burgess, Ellis Burgess & Wiktoria Doda and Amy baker. A very well done to Katryn carter for coming first, Ellis Burgess for excellent creativity in making mini apple crumble tartlets and wiktoria doda for making a talagio tart with walnut pastry! Star baker went to Amy Baker for her gorgeous chocolate tart.

School Visits This Week

Teacher Champions

This Friday all students learned about life saving first aid skills as we took part in the first Big First Aid Lesson Live. Joining schools across the country we accessed an interactive hour-long online programme streamed live into classrooms. It was filmed in front of a live audience of students and was hosted by Dr Ranj, the co-creator and presenter of the hugely popular CBeebies’ show, Get Well Soon. It covered a whole range of first aid scenari-os including chest pains, seizures and insect bites. But this was a lesson with a difference – with live demos, incredible real life stories, chances to ask questions. This live streaming event covered all years within the school and is a first for Causeway school to take part in.

We are pleased to announce our resident duck has hatched her ducklings this week. All are safe and well and will be released into the school river soon.

New Healthier Menu’s

Adios to the Spain Trip