Medina Matters24th November 2017

Head of School’s updateKaren Begley, Head of School

Well done to the top house point achievers for last week. George Terry in Year 7, Honey Wilkinson in Year 8. Chloe Rimmer in Year 9. Leah Miller in Year 10. Riley McDonough in year 11.

It was great to have such a good turnout at the Year 13 Parents evening last night at The VI Form Campus. Their rehearsal exams start in earnest the first week back after the Christmas break.

Year 11 Rehearsal Results Day is next Friday. On Wednesday 6th December they will have mock interviews focusing on future career and educational pathways. At the beginning of next term they will have the opportunity to visit the VI Form Campus for subject taster sessions. More information to follow.

Olivia-Rose McCreath, Jodie Murphy, Aeryn Bond, Alexander French and Lyra Shorrock attended the UNLOC Student Voice Summit at Ryde School on Wednesday 22nd with Mrs Shorrock. They were a credit to the school.

Miss Andrews took a number of year 9 students to Southampton University to attend “learn with us”. They all came back buzzing from the experience.

It will be Mufti next Friday in aid of the Salvation Army Christmas Food Collection and our own charity.

It has been lovely to see year 6 students from Godshill, Carisbrooke and Summerfields Primaries working in Drama, PE and Science Master Classes this week. This is part of the calendared transition between Medina and its feeder primary schools.

Next Tuesday is the Parent Voice Meeting at 6.10pm in the college library. I look forward to meeting parents then.

Have a lovely weekend

The Community Safety Partnership is seeking residents’ views about potential issues relating to alcohol in their local area. Please complete the survey at the link below to give your views by Friday 8th December:

https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/IOWResident

Diary Date:

Tuesday 28th November 2017Parent Voice at 6.10pm in the Library.

Friday 1st December 2017Mufti Day.

Friday 1st December 2017Year 11 Mock Results Day.

Tuesday 5th December 2017Year 11 Dickens Trip in London.

Wednesday 6th and Thursday 7th December 2017Year 11 Mock Interviews.

Thursday 7th December 2017Year 7 Subject Parents’ Evening.

Wednesday 20th December 2017Christmas Lunch.

Thursday 21st December 2017Mufti: Christmas or Seasonal Jumpers.

Friday 22nd December 2017 - Wednesday 3rd January 2018Christmas Holiday.

Thursday 4th January 2018Spring Term Starts.

Tuesday 9th and Wednesday 10th January 2018Year 11 VI Form Taster Days.

Wednesday 17th January 2018Year 8 ‘Learn With Us’ at Southampton University.

Thursday 18th January 2018Year 11 Subject Parents’ Evening.

Books, Books, Books

This week’s recomended books are:

The Garbage King - Elizabeth LairdThe Wereling Series - Stephen ColeHachet - Gary Paulsen

Favourite Books

Miss Caballero

La Chica Miedosa que Fingía Ser Valiente Muy Mal, por Barbijaputa

Este libro está escrito por la articulista y activista Barbijaputa. Cuenta en primera persona la historia de una chica llamada Bárbara que comienza a trabajar como azafata y viaja a países exóticos. Al principio le emociona su trabajo, pero poco a poco se cansa de tener que cumplir los estrictos cánones machistas que gobiernan su trabajo y lo deja.

En uno de sus viajes a Cuba, conoce a un piloto, a quien apoda EHMMDM (El Hombre Más Maravilloso Del Mundo) y con quien empieza a salir e incluso a vivir juntos. Sin embargo, un día se da cuenta de que ella misma no es como el mundo espera que sea. Incluso EHMMDM se aleja por ello.

Este libro es un repaso por todos los obstáculos y dificultades que sufrimos las mujeres en un país como España (que podría ser cualquier otro país occidental) a lo largo de toda nuestra vida, pues también refleja pasajes violentos de sus relaciones amorosas adolescentes y la culpabilización (intencionada o no) de la persona que los sufre. Con humor, ternura y una buena dosis de realidad social, la tuitera mas famosa de la Red, bien conocida por sus tweets feministas y de acida critica, nos brinda una reflexion sobre el rol femenino.

The Coward Girl Who Pretended to Be Brave, very bad by Barbijaputa

This book is written by the Spanish journalist and activist Barbijaputa. It tells in first person the story of a girl called Bárbara who starts working as a flight assistant and flies to exotic countries. At first, she loves her job, but step by step she gets tired of keeping up with the strict and sexist ideals that rule her job and she quits.In one of her trips to Cuba she meets a pilot, who she calls TMWMITW (The Most Wonderful Man in the World) and they start dating and, after some time, they also start living together. However, one day she realizes she is not the kind of person the world expects and that causes her suffering and frustration. She feels guilty and punishes herself. Even TMWMITW abandons her.

This book is a travel through all the obstacles and difficulties that women suffer in a country like Spain (that could be any other from the occidental culture) along our lives, as it also reflects violent experiences from her teenage love relationships and the victim-blaming phenomenon. With humor, tenderness and a good dose of social reality, the most famous tweeter, well known for her feminist and acid critic tweets, provides us with a reflection about the female role in our society.

Safeguarding Update

Childline counselling for cyberbullying

The NSPCC has released figures which show that Childline held 5,103 counselling sessions about cyberbullying in 2016/17, a 12% increase on the previous year. Source: NSPCC Date: 13 November 2017

Dealing with hate

Voice Box, Childline’s weekly video chat, features Ibz is chatting about what to do if you’re receiving hate online. Source: YouTube Date: 16 November 2017. Further information: Childline

Stop, Speak, Support: cyberbullying campaign

The Royal Foundation’s taskforce on the prevention of cyberbullying has launched the Stop, Speak, Support campaign. The NSPCC along with other organisations and young people have developed guidance for teachers designed to support them to deliver Stop, Speak, Support to 11-16 year olds in their schools. The campaign helps young people spot cyberbullying and highlights three steps that bystanders can take if they witness bullying and ways to provide support to the person being bullied.

Source: The Royal Foundation of The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and Prince Harry Date: 16 November 2017. Further information: The Anti-Bullying Alliance

Learn with Us

On Tuesday 21st November 14 year 9 Grammar Stream students attended the ‘Learn with US’ careers workshop at Southampton University.

It was such a busy day! After a brief tour of the campus, the students listened to some career guidance about making the right choice for university and A ‘levels, before moving on to a session about music and copyright law where they had to decide whether Ed Sheeran had plagiarised a song by Mat Cardle. They did this by analysing sheet music, identifying similarities in the sheet music and listening to excerpts from both songs. All groups got it right, it was ruled that he had plagiarised it, although they did feel that the out of court settlement of $20 million was a bit steep! After lunch, a brilliant Southampton alumni gave a talk about her new career in family law-she was a fantastic speaker who really grabbed the student’s interest. After that was a project where the school groups had to design and pitch (like ‘Dragons Den’, but with less scary dragons)an app that helps students make the right subject choice for the right career. Medina performed really well but were out pitched by Redbridge school.

As usual, Miss Hargreaves and I were impressed and proud of the enthusiasm, conduct and maturity of our students throughout the day.

Our ambassadors, Megan (L) and Natalie (R). Natalie Berry is an ex Medina and IIVI student, now working on her Masters in psychology!

Presenting to the ‘Dragons’

Medina College Parent Voice News

Dear Parents & Carers,

MEETING REMINDER: Our next Parent Voice meeting is on Tuesday 28th November, 6.10pm – 7.30pm in the Medina College Library. Enter through main Reception and it will be signposted. (Parking is free from 6pm.)Open to parents and carers of students at Medina College or VI Form Campus. If you know ahead of time you can come, please email me (address below) so we've some idea of numbers, but it's not essential. If you find you're free on the evening, please do come along. The atmosphere is very friendly. Tea & coffee are provided. Our guest speaker this time will be Assistant Headteacher Mrs Anna Clarke, who has responsibility for Teaching & Learning at the school and also oversees the Grammar Stream, so we'll be covering things like: how to keep tabs on how your children are doing at school; who to ask if you've any concerns; how you can support your children with their learning at home; initiatives that the school has in place to help students who need a boost, such as Fast Track.

Plus there’ll be news updates from school and a chance to ask questions of the school leadership team. If there's anything particular you'd like to raise, please email me and I'll pass it on ahead of the meeting. If you’d like minutes of meetings and aren’t already on the Parent Voice email list, please email me and I’ll add you.

The remaining Parent Voice meeting dates for 2017–18 (all at 6.10pm in the Medina College library) are:

– Wednesday 24th January 2018– Tuesday 20th March 2018– Wednesday 9th May 2018– Tuesday 10th July 2018

CAN YOU HELP?

Medina Music Winter Concert, Wednesday 13th December, 7pm at St Mary's Church, Brighstone. The music department has asked if Parent Voice can help source donations of mulled wine and/or mince pies for this festive event. Please let me know if you can help with either, or have any shop contacts who might be able to help.

Parent Voice will be at the event helping serve refreshments, so if you would like to chip in, please let me know. The more the merrier! It's always a real treat to hear our fantastic students (and staff) perform at these concerts.

Look forward to seeing you soon!

Wendy Varley, Chair of Medina College Parent Voice (Year 11 parent)

facebook page:facebook.com/MedinaCollegeParentVoice/Email:medinaparentvoice@gmail.com

Year 7 Rugby Fixture Medina vs Ryde School B

Medina Year 7s produced a superb performance against Ryde School yesterday winning 40 - 10.

It was Medina’s first rugby match of the season and they didn’t disappoint. Led by the influential Archy Williams Medina struck early with captain Williams showing his pace to get past the Ryde defence and score. Ryde struck back with a good try before the impressive Louis Gulliver showed pace and power to score 2 quality tries. The Medina forwards Josh, Thomas, Korben, Lennon, George and Roman were using their size to good affect and the scrum was very solid. The Medina defence were performing well with some full bodied committed tackles which kept the Ryde attack at bay. Some great interchanging rugby from Oliver and Jenson created space for Cameron to ghost through and score the final try of the half.

Half Time Medina 20 Ryde 5

The second half started and the home side were on the front foot again with Archy scoring 2 more terrific solo tries followed by Ryde scoring their second. A thunderous tackle from Charlie Taylor stopped a certain Ryde try before tries from Cameron and Lennon sealed the victory. Mason took over the kicking duties and produced some really committed tackles which forced the opposition into some mistakes and Koby and Adam were dangerous with ball in hand throughout the match.

Full Time Medina 40 Ryde 10

With 10 out of the 15 players playing their first proper contact match it was a terrific result and I’m sure the boys learnt a lot from the experience of playing. Well done Year 7 and bring on the next game.

Global Rock

On Saturday sixteen students from our wonderful Rock Challenge team packed customer’s shopping at Asda to raise money for our entry performance in February. They raised a fantastic £255.62! Well done! You were an absolute credit to the school and the team.

We are still fundraising so if you are able to help with organising events or perhaps know of a way that could support us including: travel discounts to Portsmouth, van hire, materials for costumes, stage makeup, set materials (paint, brushes, wire, wood) please do get in touch with Mrs Wherry via rachael.wherry@medina.iow.sch.uk.

The PE Department Need Your Help!If you have any trainers or football boots you no longer need/want at home, please bring them into Reception as they will be gratefully recieved by the PE Department.

Mufti Day 1st December 2017

We are having a mufti day in aid of the Salvation Army. We ask that students bring in £1 and an item of food - please see below.

The Salvation Army Christmas Day Dinner and Hampers

Please can you help with donations?

Items we are looking for On Christmas day we server around 100 people who are in need this can be

someone who is homeless, on their own, people who have no money for food or

an elderly person.

We also provide hampers for individuals or families who are in need. Last year

we sent out 65 food hampers and served 123 people on Christmas day with our

community meal

Cereals soup beans

Spaghetti tin tomatoes tin/instant potatoes

Tin vegetables tin meat/fish tin Fruit

Rice pudding sugar coffee

Tea long life milk squash

Pasta/rice pasta sauce biscuits

Custard powder jam/marmalade jelly

Mince pies xmas puddings crisps/snacks

Toilet paper washing up liquid toilet cleaner

This Autumn / Winter Menu is available on the following weeks, date commencing; Lunch Menu

Week 2 Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday

Main Meal

Sausage & Mashed

Potato with Onions

Roast Porkwith Herb Stuffing &

Apple SauceChicken Korma &

Rice

or

VegetableCurry

Fish & Chip Shop

Vegetarian Main Meal

Vegetable &Red Bean

Chilli

Cheese and Vegetable Quesadilla

Cheese & Onion Tortilla

On the SideChoose from our selection of fresh vegetables, salad,

potatoes, rice & pasta our daily menu will confirm the days offerChips are served on Fridays

Soup Station

Try our home made soup served with a home made bread and croutons every day

Pasta & Jacket Bar

Choose a Pasta or Jacket Potato Base; add your choice of hot topping from our freshly prepared selection;

we will offer both meat and vegetarian choices every day

BBQ Chicken or

Piri PiriChicken

orRoasted

Vegetable & Cheese Wrap

Meal Deal Prices Start at £1.95 for a Main Meal with Biscuit OR Bottle of Water

Medina College Christmas Dinner Day Wednesday 20th December 2017

Roast Turkey with Chipolata,

Stuffing & Gravy

or

Roasted Vegetable Roulade

Served with

Roast Potatoes

Carrots & Garden Peas

Christmas Pudding and Custard Sauce

Festive Biscuit

Chocolate Crispy Pud £2.20 Child

(This meal is included for your free school meal)

£3.00 Adult Inc. VAT

Celebrate Christmas at Medina College

Wednesday 20th December 2017

Two Course Christmas Lunch

Student Meal £2.20 (This meal is included for your free school meal)

Adult Meal £3.00 inc VAT

Pay on the day with your PIN number

Also available Sandwiches, Festive Baguettes

and Cold Pasta Pots from £1.10

Christmas Sweet Bakes from 60p

To help with the queues the pasta bar will only be serving Christmas Lunch on this day.

(Hot pasta and sauce will not be available)