Weekly Update – 21 March 2025
Year 8 Options – Mr Borkowski will be sending out links to his presentation and the Options Book later today. The Options Evening takes place on Thursday 27 March from 5-7pm, where parents and Year 8 students have the opportunity to talk to staff about their potential choices. If you watch the presentation in advance, there is no need to attend the presentation in the hall, leaving you more time to talk to staff. See the letter here.
Easter Egg Appeal 2025 – Eggs can be brought into Reception or students can take them to their Form Room, and will be donated to Hart Food Bank at the end of term. Because one crème egg would count the same as a large egg or a bag of mini eggs, we will measure the mass of eggs donated to make it fairer. The House who donates the largest mass of eggs wins the competition. The deadline for donating is Friday 28 March. If bringing into Reception, please indicate which House your child is in. After the second week of donations, totals by mass in grams and number of eggs are as follows:
Amethyst 1334 (13) Emerald 5435 (41) Quartz 1347 (9) Ruby 1874 (14) Sapphire 1259 (9) Topaz 3975.5 (26)
The Spring Review music concert takes place on Monday 31 March, see this link to book tickets.
As part of our World Book Day focus, tutor groups were asked to decorate their door using the theme of a book chosen by the group. It has taken a little while to get the results out because they were SO good it was such a difficult to decision to select a winning door from each House. Here are the winning doors with just a range of other decorated doors – we’re sure you will see why deciding was such a tough task!
Calthorpe’s Young Carers – Does your child help to look after someone who is ill or disabled, has a mental health condition or addiction? If this sounds like your child, please do encourage them to complete this form to raise awareness of your child’s needs and allow us to identify support we can possibly put in place to help them manage their caring role and their school work. This link has already been sent out to students so thank you for encouraging our Young Carers to identify themselves via this link. It is sometimes the case that students don’t want to highlight their circumstances to others so have not yet responded via the form. This information will be handled sensitively so please encourage your child to respond, if applicable.
We will be running a second-hand uniform sale on Wednesday 26 March, 8:30am – 4.30pm and Thursday 27 March 8:30am – 4pm. We have Year 11 black jumpers, summer polo tops, a small stock of PE kit, maroon jumpers and aprons available. There isn’t a huge amount of stock, so it will be run on a first-come, first-served basis. Students and parents are welcome to come and purchase/swap items throughout the day on 26 and 27 March. Reception will be open until 4:30pm on Wednesday 26 March. If anyone has items of uniform to donate to the sale, please bring them to school before 26 March so we can include them in the stock. We ask for a donation or uniform swap for the items, suggesting £2 per item. Cash and card payments are accepted. We won’t have change available, so if paying by cash please bring the cash that you are happy to donate with you. Card payment is our preferred payment method. Donations will be given to the Kindness bucket.
Library: Click here for our usual Library news and Books of the Week.
The PE department are seeking additional sponsorship for new kit, specifically for Year 9 boys football and girls football kit across all years. If your company would be interested in supporting us, please contact Mr Frizzell.
Community Notices:
We’re aware that temporary lights will be set up further along Hitches Lane, near Hareshill, for road resurfacing and kerb repairs. This will start on Monday 31 March with lights operating between 9.30am and 3.30pm until the end of term. The lights will be used for a longer period during the second week of works (from 7 April).
Volunteers required in the Quetta Park area, open to anyone interested, not just service families. See this link and this one.
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