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ST SAMPSON’S SCHOOL PARENTS’ NEWSLETTERDecember 2016
Our school Facebook page for parents/carers is: St Sampson’s High School, Guernsey. We aim to keep Parents/carers up-to date with all the latest news and events, posting any last minute messages where possible. Parents/carers may find it useful to ask non urgent questions on here, of a general nature, which staff may be able to answer.
Our Facebook page for parents/carers now has PE department Twitter feeds.
epartment Twitter feeds.
Dear Parents/Carers
As Christmas fast approaches, we had a wonderful Carol Concert at Vale Church. Senior students joined
Santa on the Bridge to turn on the lights, he commented on how well they carried out their duties and
represented the school!
Our PTA ran another successful table top sale last month and have again, provided St Sampson’s and Le Murier with two beautiful Christmas Trees for Reception. We would like to congratulate Imogen Conlan, ex St Sampson’s student on becoming Head Girl at the Grammar School this year. We know she will do us and the Grammar proud. Sadly, we say good bye to Flo Carre next week, she has only been with us a few months, but she has built some very positive relationships with students and their families that have helped us to improve attendance in school. Our new Yr 7 have settled in well, they are proving to have a real talent for PE, particularly the girls, you will hear more about their successes later. Yr10 are settling well into their new GCSE courses and Yr11 have Mock exams after Christmas, they are not quite so keen on having to revise over Christmas but assure me they will! Rehearsals are going well for our school production Alice, tickets are on sale in the school office.
Wishing you a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
SSHS Year group facebook & Twitter Pages The Heads of year have set up Facebook & Twitter pages for their individual year groups. Here you can find regular updates of success, photographs and useful information.
Y7: https://www.facebook.com/Year7StSampsonsHigh/?fref=ts
Y8: https://www.facebook.com/StSampsonsHighYear8/?fref=ts
D&T News Please have a look at some of the amazing work taking place in D&T Graphics. An Instagram account has been
created to show off some the amazing work that takes place in school. Find us at sshsgraphics and please follow.
Food Tech News
Rotary Young Chef of the Year 2016:
Students from across three of the islands secondary schools competed in this year's Rotary Young Chef Competition.
Competitors had to cook a three course meal for two people for no more than £15 in just two hours. Janis Bormanis
and Caitlin Le Prevost were the two students who represented our school in the competition.
Janis was pipped at the posts by a very competent young chef from Alderney. Caitlin won the coveted award for
Kitchen Craft skills (we have won this for the last three years). The two chefs had a fantastic experience and it was
lovely to see them working so hard, under so much pressure with smiles on their faces.
Children in Need
On Friday 18th November the school came alive at lunchtime and we proved once again what a generous
bunch of fundraisers we can be. Every tutor group put on an event to raise money and we had a great selection of
things to choose from including a photo-booth in the Drama studio, sponsored abseiling, a chocolate tombola and
even pushing teachers into the school pool! The total amount raised was a whopping £1015.15 with Lihou house
raising £230.12, Jethou house raising £284.39 and Brecqhou house raising the most with £499.54! Special mention
must go to 8MTS who on their own raised £190 with their sponsored abseiling. Well done everyone!
Creative Arts News:
It’s been another busy year with the students dedication to rehearsals paying off as they produced some fantastic
musical performances. Our annual Carol Service at Vale Church featured over 150 students playing, singing, reading
and rapping! The Orchestra, Recorder Consort, Brass Ensemble, Chamber Choir, African Percussion group and Choir
all gave stunning performances and the audience really enjoyed the GCSE Drama students presentations of
Christmas poetry as well as the traditional readings.
The choir have been busy in the community bringing some festive cheer to residents in some of the care homes and
the Chamber Choir additionally performed at Le Murier’s Carol service. Both the Brass Ensemble and Woodwind
Ensemble gave up their own time on Sunday’s performing for our Table Top sale at school and at Oatlands Christmas
Fayre respectively. We have received so many lovely comments from the public about how their music really added
to the atmosphere of both events.
Finally, Stage Sound played for Late Night Christmas Shopping in town and represented us superbly playing for the
community carol singing in Market Square. Well done to everyone involved…time for a rest!!
Music Exam Results
Congratulations to the following students who have recently passed music examinations. Great results!
Tyler McCarthy (9) Grade 3 Guitar with Merit
Jonah Ingrouille (9) Grade 3 Guitar
Harry Reade (9) Grade 4 Drum Kit with Merit
Jack Smith (9) Performance Award level 1 Electric guitar with Merit
Keira Taylor (8) Grade 4 Flute with Merit
Chelsea Kinney (10) Grade 6 Flute
Valerie Ryan (9) Grade 6 Flute with Merit
Key Stage 4 Maths Information Evening
Wednesday 11th January 2016 @ 6:30pm
Come and learn how we are using Mathswatch and other resources to help our students achieve the highest
possible grades. Mathswatch is a fantastic online revision tool which can help students with all topics of high school
maths. It contains full length clips to watch, one minute clips, and plenty of practice questions created by
experienced maths teachers, in an easy to understand way.
If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact Mr G Jones, Head of Maths Department.
Careers: Barclays Life Skills and Preparation for Working Life We have been very lucky to have Barclays Life Skills representatives (Amanda and Steve) coming into lessons again this term and assisting students with employability skills. Year 9 have learnt about budgeting! All of these skills will go towards the new qualification Year 9 are undertaking Preparation for Working Life short course (equivalent to ½ GCSE to go with ½ RS).
Year 10 will also undertake the Preparation for Working Life short course this year. The exam will be in May 2017 and all coursework will need to be submitted before Christmas. Students will have this outlined on Show My Homework and Google Classroom.
Carers Twitter Follow Ms Kaufman on Twitter to find out what is going on in the Careers Department and Careers in school – SSHSRKN. Please keep on looking at www.stsampsonshigh.com and go to the Careers page for up to date information and advice and guidance on Careers. We post current vacancies there too!
New careers newsletter for Parents & Carers
Click on the link below for the new careers newsletter for parents & carers produced by Careers Guernsey. This is
the first edition of termly newsletters designed for parents & carers of students in Years 9-11. Features in this
edition include, what next after Year 11, looking to the future, engineering careers, careers that use maths and other
useful information for parents & carers. We hope you find it useful and we welcome any feedback on how we can
improve the content of future newsletters. https://www.smore.com/cqc0m
Careers Advice Services You can search information about lots of things relating to careers; how to apply for a job, finding a job and help with CVs to name but a few. Contact details below:-
Contact: Sean Parry, Careers Adviser for St Sampson’s
T: 733024 E: spa[email protected] W: www.careers.gg New and Improved website!
You will find us in the Education Department at the top of the Grange.
Opening hours: Monday to Friday 8.30am – 5.00pm including school holidays
Click this link https://www.smore.com/u51ma for the autumn edition of the careers newsletter for parents & carers
of students in Years 7–11, produced by Careers Guernsey. Features in this edition include: Post-16 options
information, work experience for Year 10, new careers lesson for Years 7-9, changes to GCSE grading and University
points and the feature career is Graphic Design. We hope you find it useful and we welcome any feedback on how
we can improve the content of future newsletters. Our next newsletter will be available in February.
School Dates 2016
2017 Spring Term
Monday 20th - Friday 24th February Half Term
Friday 7th April Term Ends
Friday 14th April Good Friday
Monday 17th April Easter Monday
Summer Term
Tuesday 9th May Liberation Day
Monday 29th May to Friday 2nd June Half Term
Friday 21st July Term Ends
GCSE Exams
week beginning 9th January. Please see the
timetable below.
Boys Football
Year 8 – beat De La Salle 6-3
Year 7, 8 & 9 B Team Tournaments at Memorial Field
Boys Football Cups
Girls Netball Leagues
Year 7 – lost GRA 25-8, beat GRA 8-6 (B Team), beat
Blanchelande 16-1. 3rd in tournament
Year 8 – lost GRA 40-12, beat Blanchelande 11-4. 4th in
tournament
Year 9 – lost Blanchelande 14-9, lost GRA 22-6. 6th in
tournament
in tournament
Year 11 – 4th in tournament + U16 Tour to the UK –Won
1 & Lost 3
Girls Badminton Results
Grammar 3-2
Grammar 4-1
Students to register with tutor & go
to the Social area at 8:40
Monday 9th January
Wednesday 11th January
P3 & P4 Geography
Option D
Business Studies
Students to register with their tutor
and then go to the Social area at
8:40
1 2hrs 15mins
Sports Hall
P5 & P6 Yr10 Prep for Working Life 1hr 30mins Sports Hall
Students to register with their tutor
and then go to the Social area at
8:40
2hrs
Sports Hall
P5 & P6 Yr9 Prep for Working Life 1hr 30mins Sports Hall
Students to go to the Social area at
13:20
2 1hr 30mins
Our school Facebook page for parents/carers is: St Sampson’s High School, Guernsey. We aim to keep Parents/carers up-to date with all the latest news and events, posting any last minute messages where possible. Parents/carers may find it useful to ask non urgent questions on here, of a general nature, which staff may be able to answer.
Our Facebook page for parents/carers now has PE department Twitter feeds.
epartment Twitter feeds.
Dear Parents/Carers
As Christmas fast approaches, we had a wonderful Carol Concert at Vale Church. Senior students joined
Santa on the Bridge to turn on the lights, he commented on how well they carried out their duties and
represented the school!
Our PTA ran another successful table top sale last month and have again, provided St Sampson’s and Le Murier with two beautiful Christmas Trees for Reception. We would like to congratulate Imogen Conlan, ex St Sampson’s student on becoming Head Girl at the Grammar School this year. We know she will do us and the Grammar proud. Sadly, we say good bye to Flo Carre next week, she has only been with us a few months, but she has built some very positive relationships with students and their families that have helped us to improve attendance in school. Our new Yr 7 have settled in well, they are proving to have a real talent for PE, particularly the girls, you will hear more about their successes later. Yr10 are settling well into their new GCSE courses and Yr11 have Mock exams after Christmas, they are not quite so keen on having to revise over Christmas but assure me they will! Rehearsals are going well for our school production Alice, tickets are on sale in the school office.
Wishing you a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
SSHS Year group facebook & Twitter Pages The Heads of year have set up Facebook & Twitter pages for their individual year groups. Here you can find regular updates of success, photographs and useful information.
Y7: https://www.facebook.com/Year7StSampsonsHigh/?fref=ts
Y8: https://www.facebook.com/StSampsonsHighYear8/?fref=ts
D&T News Please have a look at some of the amazing work taking place in D&T Graphics. An Instagram account has been
created to show off some the amazing work that takes place in school. Find us at sshsgraphics and please follow.
Food Tech News
Rotary Young Chef of the Year 2016:
Students from across three of the islands secondary schools competed in this year's Rotary Young Chef Competition.
Competitors had to cook a three course meal for two people for no more than £15 in just two hours. Janis Bormanis
and Caitlin Le Prevost were the two students who represented our school in the competition.
Janis was pipped at the posts by a very competent young chef from Alderney. Caitlin won the coveted award for
Kitchen Craft skills (we have won this for the last three years). The two chefs had a fantastic experience and it was
lovely to see them working so hard, under so much pressure with smiles on their faces.
Children in Need
On Friday 18th November the school came alive at lunchtime and we proved once again what a generous
bunch of fundraisers we can be. Every tutor group put on an event to raise money and we had a great selection of
things to choose from including a photo-booth in the Drama studio, sponsored abseiling, a chocolate tombola and
even pushing teachers into the school pool! The total amount raised was a whopping £1015.15 with Lihou house
raising £230.12, Jethou house raising £284.39 and Brecqhou house raising the most with £499.54! Special mention
must go to 8MTS who on their own raised £190 with their sponsored abseiling. Well done everyone!
Creative Arts News:
It’s been another busy year with the students dedication to rehearsals paying off as they produced some fantastic
musical performances. Our annual Carol Service at Vale Church featured over 150 students playing, singing, reading
and rapping! The Orchestra, Recorder Consort, Brass Ensemble, Chamber Choir, African Percussion group and Choir
all gave stunning performances and the audience really enjoyed the GCSE Drama students presentations of
Christmas poetry as well as the traditional readings.
The choir have been busy in the community bringing some festive cheer to residents in some of the care homes and
the Chamber Choir additionally performed at Le Murier’s Carol service. Both the Brass Ensemble and Woodwind
Ensemble gave up their own time on Sunday’s performing for our Table Top sale at school and at Oatlands Christmas
Fayre respectively. We have received so many lovely comments from the public about how their music really added
to the atmosphere of both events.
Finally, Stage Sound played for Late Night Christmas Shopping in town and represented us superbly playing for the
community carol singing in Market Square. Well done to everyone involved…time for a rest!!
Music Exam Results
Congratulations to the following students who have recently passed music examinations. Great results!
Tyler McCarthy (9) Grade 3 Guitar with Merit
Jonah Ingrouille (9) Grade 3 Guitar
Harry Reade (9) Grade 4 Drum Kit with Merit
Jack Smith (9) Performance Award level 1 Electric guitar with Merit
Keira Taylor (8) Grade 4 Flute with Merit
Chelsea Kinney (10) Grade 6 Flute
Valerie Ryan (9) Grade 6 Flute with Merit
Key Stage 4 Maths Information Evening
Wednesday 11th January 2016 @ 6:30pm
Come and learn how we are using Mathswatch and other resources to help our students achieve the highest
possible grades. Mathswatch is a fantastic online revision tool which can help students with all topics of high school
maths. It contains full length clips to watch, one minute clips, and plenty of practice questions created by
experienced maths teachers, in an easy to understand way.
If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact Mr G Jones, Head of Maths Department.
Careers: Barclays Life Skills and Preparation for Working Life We have been very lucky to have Barclays Life Skills representatives (Amanda and Steve) coming into lessons again this term and assisting students with employability skills. Year 9 have learnt about budgeting! All of these skills will go towards the new qualification Year 9 are undertaking Preparation for Working Life short course (equivalent to ½ GCSE to go with ½ RS).
Year 10 will also undertake the Preparation for Working Life short course this year. The exam will be in May 2017 and all coursework will need to be submitted before Christmas. Students will have this outlined on Show My Homework and Google Classroom.
Carers Twitter Follow Ms Kaufman on Twitter to find out what is going on in the Careers Department and Careers in school – SSHSRKN. Please keep on looking at www.stsampsonshigh.com and go to the Careers page for up to date information and advice and guidance on Careers. We post current vacancies there too!
New careers newsletter for Parents & Carers
Click on the link below for the new careers newsletter for parents & carers produced by Careers Guernsey. This is
the first edition of termly newsletters designed for parents & carers of students in Years 9-11. Features in this
edition include, what next after Year 11, looking to the future, engineering careers, careers that use maths and other
useful information for parents & carers. We hope you find it useful and we welcome any feedback on how we can
improve the content of future newsletters. https://www.smore.com/cqc0m
Careers Advice Services You can search information about lots of things relating to careers; how to apply for a job, finding a job and help with CVs to name but a few. Contact details below:-
Contact: Sean Parry, Careers Adviser for St Sampson’s
T: 733024 E: spa[email protected] W: www.careers.gg New and Improved website!
You will find us in the Education Department at the top of the Grange.
Opening hours: Monday to Friday 8.30am – 5.00pm including school holidays
Click this link https://www.smore.com/u51ma for the autumn edition of the careers newsletter for parents & carers
of students in Years 7–11, produced by Careers Guernsey. Features in this edition include: Post-16 options
information, work experience for Year 10, new careers lesson for Years 7-9, changes to GCSE grading and University
points and the feature career is Graphic Design. We hope you find it useful and we welcome any feedback on how
we can improve the content of future newsletters. Our next newsletter will be available in February.
School Dates 2016
2017 Spring Term
Monday 20th - Friday 24th February Half Term
Friday 7th April Term Ends
Friday 14th April Good Friday
Monday 17th April Easter Monday
Summer Term
Tuesday 9th May Liberation Day
Monday 29th May to Friday 2nd June Half Term
Friday 21st July Term Ends
GCSE Exams
week beginning 9th January. Please see the
timetable below.
Boys Football
Year 8 – beat De La Salle 6-3
Year 7, 8 & 9 B Team Tournaments at Memorial Field
Boys Football Cups
Girls Netball Leagues
Year 7 – lost GRA 25-8, beat GRA 8-6 (B Team), beat
Blanchelande 16-1. 3rd in tournament
Year 8 – lost GRA 40-12, beat Blanchelande 11-4. 4th in
tournament
Year 9 – lost Blanchelande 14-9, lost GRA 22-6. 6th in
tournament
in tournament
Year 11 – 4th in tournament + U16 Tour to the UK –Won
1 & Lost 3
Girls Badminton Results
Grammar 3-2
Grammar 4-1
Students to register with tutor & go
to the Social area at 8:40
Monday 9th January
Wednesday 11th January
P3 & P4 Geography
Option D
Business Studies
Students to register with their tutor
and then go to the Social area at
8:40
1 2hrs 15mins
Sports Hall
P5 & P6 Yr10 Prep for Working Life 1hr 30mins Sports Hall
Students to register with their tutor
and then go to the Social area at
8:40
2hrs
Sports Hall
P5 & P6 Yr9 Prep for Working Life 1hr 30mins Sports Hall
Students to go to the Social area at
13:20
2 1hr 30mins
