Friday 19th July 2013

Prayer for the Academic Year

O God of all beginnings and endings,

we praise and thank you for the gift of this

academic year.

It has been a time filled with grace and

blessings, and with challenges, opportunities,

joys and sorrows.

Give us the rest and refreshment we need this

Summer.

Let our efforts of this past year bear fruit.

bring all of our plans to a joyful conclusion,

and bless us, according to your will,

with the fulfilment of our summer hopes and

dreams.

Watch over us in the weeks ahead,

and guide each day as you have done this

past year.

May we continue, with a new spirit

and a new energy, and to grow in age,

wisdom, knowledge and grace

ParentView - 25 more responses needed 125 responses to ParentView - can we reach 150 by the end of the academic year? We really would appreciate parents responses to the OfSTED survey.

The link is www.parentview.ofsted.gov.uk It's online and very quick and easy to complete.

Thank you to the parents who have already responded.

Trinity Term

PARENTS AS PARTNERS: MOBILE TELEPHONES Parents and students are reminded that all students’ mobile ‘phones must be switched off between 8:55am and 3:15pm and not be used for any reason during the day. Failure to comply with this rule may result in items being confiscated which will have to be collected from College by a parent. If a student is ill and uses the ‘sick room’, then the office staff must contact home, not the student on their mobile ‘phone. Thank you for your on-going support with this matter.

Enterprise Success

Congratulations to Maciek Madejowski and Jack Lynch who start paid internships with Barclays on Monday, 15 July, based at Radbroke Hall and to Harry Moss and Andrew Loxham who started theirs with Peaks and Plains this Monday. The feedback on Gianluca Ventisei and Aiden Conwry who are currently placed with The Co-operative College in Manchester is that they are doing and excellent job. Successful completion of these internship will mean that all these students will be able to graduate from the Career Academy next Summer.

Thank you for your support Thank you to the many parents, students, governors, partner school Headteacher, and friends of All Hallows who have passed on their con-gratulations on my selection as a National Leader of Education (NLE) and All Hallows' designation as a National Support School (NSS). It is a joy to work and lead in a place where the aspiration 'not to have more but to be more' in order to make a difference is shared so strongly. Mr Billings.

Calling all parents/grand-parents We'd like to celebrate the successes of our former students. If you know of a former student graduating this year could you let us have their name, details of their degree and classification.

Alumni Success Callum Billings has graduated from Lancaster University with a 2:1 in Music Technology.

James Gillan has been awarded 2:1 Honours Degree in History from the University of York

Army Cadet Force Our Principal was delighted to be invited on Monday 15 July 2013, to the Army Cadet Force to see an enrolment of fifteen All Hallows' students as cadets. The students, which make up the majority of the Weston Estate based Squadron, had especially invited Mr Billings to attend the ceremony to show how proud they are were of their achievements which involved passing skills assessments and learning drill. The cadets performed a polished full drill and promises to serve God, the Queen and their country. The Cadets formally signed membership documents and received badges from the leader for their uniform. Mr Billings was very impressed with the discipline shown in the drill and also with the conversation he had with the students where they spoke in detail about the values they were learning, and the content of the ATC skills lessons. Well done students - you are great ambassadors for your college and we are proud of you!

Superb Enterprise Effort!

Students in Year 7 and 8 have raised a total of £1188.10 for our Clin-ic project in the poor mountain village of Varusanadu in Tamil Nadu, South India. They have achieved this through their business projects - setting up and running co-operative businesses - as part of their enter-

prise learning activities.

Inspire evening A message of thanks sent to the Principal Just want to say how much myself and my guests enjoyed the musical talent of both your students and the staff who helped put it all together. The whole evening was brilliant, full of variety, wonderful song choices and amazing talent. It was a credit to you and your staff. Please pass on my thanks to Mr Richardson and his team from myself as a Governor and a parent of a son who was involved. The refreshments were a lovely touch, too, and how the room was set out. A very enjoyable evening! Dawn Franklin

Result Dates

Results Days

A-level (8:30am) & AS-Level (11am): Thursday 15th August

2013

GCSE (10:00am): Thursday 22nd August 2013

RESULTS MUST BE COLLECTED BY EACH STUDENT IN

PERSON.

IF STUDENTS ARE NOT AVAILABLE TO COLLECT THEIR OWN RE-SULTS, THEN THEY HAVE TWO OPTIONS:

LEAVE A STAMPED ADDRESSED ENVELOPE WITH THE EXAMS OFFICE AND RESULTS WILL BE POSTED TO THE STUDENT.

STUDENT WRITES A LETTER OF AUTHORITY TO GIVE A RESPON-SIBLE ADULT PERMISSION TO COLLECT RESULTS ON THEIR

BEHALF.

Attendance matters at All Hallows

Over the last week of College attendance was as follows: Year 7 - 95.9% (up 0.7% on last week) Year 8 - 96.0% (up 1.8%) Year 9 - 92.4% (down 0.5%) Year 10 - 92.4% (up 0.1% on last week)

The average for the week has increased to 0.6% to 94.2% with the cumulative average since September still 94.6%. We aim for 97%.

Parents are politely reminded to avoid absence unless it is absolutely necessary. Holidays will not be authorised from 1st September 2013 under new legislation on all English schools. Requests for holidays must still be made in writing to the appropriate Key Stage leader (Mrs Garvey KS5, Mr Blades KS4 and Mr Diamond KS3), but in the vast majority of cases they will be unauthorised.

Medical absence will continue to require medical proof and appointments should be made, where possible, outside of the College day. Please consider if a whole day of absence is absolutelty necessary for medical appointments, or can part of the day be missed instead?

The link between attendance and achievement is well researched and documented and students should be aiming for an attendance rate of no les than 97% over the year. Thank you for your continued support with this importance is-sue.

Calendar

Reminder INSET Days: Wednesday 24 July is a INSET day and that students finish for Summer on Tuesday 23 July.

To View the 2013 — 2014 Term dates, please click on the link

Term College Opens to Students College Closes to Students

Trinity Monday 3 June 2013 Tuesday 23 July 2013

All Hallows is against bullying

Each year the College uses the ideas of the College Council to promote anti-bullying. This year over 300 students signed a pledge to not use Facebook, as well as other social networking sites, for one school week to make our stand against cyber-bullying. Each lunch time one Year Learning Leader can be found in the office of Mrs Connor, Deputy Principal, should students need to speak to someone discreetly about bullying. The College has a dedicated anti-bullying email address (bullying@allhallowslearning.org.uk) for all students to use should they wish to report bullying against them or others. This email link can be found via our College website.

The vast majority of students here at All Hallows uphold our Christian values and ethos and never bully. On the rare occasions that bullying does happen we need students to speak up - either to their Form Tutor, Year Leader or any other member of staff they feel they can turn to. Please do let us know if your child is being bullied and we will try to help. Together we can stamp out all forms of bullying at All Hallows.

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