Weekly Update – 8 November 2024
It was with great sadness that Ms E Jones attended Chris Archbold’s funeral this week which took place at Fleet Methodist Church on Monday, 4 November. Chris joined Calthorpe Park School, relocating from the North-East, in 1970 as Head of RE and he was also a Head of Year. He served Calthorpe Park faithfully for 30 years in his capacity as a teacher and pastoral leader but he was also instrumental in contributing to creating our Calthorpe Park culture that the school is so well-known for today. Chris ran huge numbers of educational visits and played a key role in concerts, musical productions and enrichment activities. Even after his well-earned retirement he continued to serve the CPS community by coming in to run Holocaust Education. Chris enjoyed an active retirement and devoted considerable time to his work at the Holocaust Educational Trust. He worked all over the country highlighting the dangers of extremism and anti-semitism whilst also being part of the Methodist Church’s local preacher network. He will be remembered very fondly by those that he taught for having great passion, conviction and humour. He is survived by his devoted wife, son and grandchildren and we would like to extend our condolences to them at this sad time. Chris was a huge character and there will be many of you in the local community that were taught by him. We will be creating a book of remembrance for Chris’ family. If you would like to contribute to that please see this link.
The Y9 DOSE Programme starts later this month, see this letter as a reminder and we’d be grateful if parents can complete payments as soon as possible.
A number of trips are open for application this week and the deadline for applying is 9pm on Monday 11 November.
There is a Y7 Parents Coffee Morning here on Wednesday 13 November, including the sale of second-hand uniform. See this letter for details and to book a place.
College open evenings for Year 11 students over the next week are as follows:
Guildford College – 9 November
Sparsholt College – 9 November
ACM, Guildford – 10 & 12 November
Farnham College -13 November
Surrey Maths School – 13 November
Merrist Wood College – 16 November
These are all listed on the website on this page. Please check the college websites for timings and for booking information. The deadline for Farnborough 6th Form applications is on Monday 11 November at 4pm.
Click here for our usual Library news and Books of the Week.
The Maths puzzle this week is as follows, due in on Saturday 16 November:
Hampshire CC have started a consultation on making improvements for pedestrians and cyclists along Hitches Lane and would like your views. Please see this page for further details, including links to their information pack and access to the online survey. The consultation will close on Sunday 10 November.
They have an additional consultation about some changes to the Post-16 Transport policy here. This one has a deadline of 15 December.
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