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Deer Park Packed Lunch
From September 2011 the Canteen will be offering “The Deer Park Packed Lunch”. Parents can select from a range of healthy food and drinks which will be prepared to order and packaged in a paper bag for collection by pupils either at morning break or lunchtime. Prices will be £1.90 for any 4 items and £2.20 for 5 items. Parents can download an order form from the school website and e-mail this to the canteen on a daily/weekly basis.
Exam Results Day 2011
Our congratulations go to the ‘Class of 2011’. We are absolutely thrilled with our pupils’ achievements this year.
End of the Summer Term
This term our pupils have demonstrated all that Deer Park stands for by achieving more than they first thought possible in our annual Enrichment Week. You can read about the challenges they faced and enjoyment they had . In particular, I congratulate our pupils in our ‘new’ Year 11, who impressed local employers with their resilience, resourcefulness, confidence, skills and readiness to take on responsibility. They were definitely a credit to the school and their parents.
New Year 7 Pupils
We hope your son/daughter enjoyed his/her Induction Days on Thursday 14 and Friday 15 July. As a year group, our new pupils certainly made a good impression. Our staff enjoyed working with them and our local MP, Geoffrey Clifton-Brown, who coincidentally visited the School on Friday 15 July, commented specifically on the calm and purposeful atmosphere within the School and the high levels of engagement including Year 7.
YEP! team scoop award
The YEP! team are proud to announce that they won the “Best YEP! event” award at the YEP! celebration on Tuesday 12 July. The YEP! project has been running in Gloucestershire for the past 3 years and Deer Park were invited to join in September 2010. In that time, we have surveyed the school and written an energy saving report to outline changes that could be made to save energy in the school. We have recently started the energy Spies program which aims to “spy” on classrooms that are wasting energy!
U14 Cricket District Finals
Cirencester Deer Park U14 v Rednock U14: Having dashed back from Enrichment Week all over Europe to play in the U14 Cotswold Final at an overcast Frocester ground on Tuesday evening, Deer Park walked into battle knowing this was their toughest game of the season so far. The battle between Deer Park and Rednock was to be a closely fought one, where pride and passion were at stake.
Enrichment Week Reports
This week pupils and staff from Cirencester Deer Park School will enrich their learning through a range of activities and visits, both in this country and across Europe. Pupils from (new year groups) Year 8 to Year 10 will engage with different communities, whether on the Music Tour to Spain playing a series of concerts in different venues, or acting and performing with a Community Theatre project in local Primary Schools. Year 11 pupils will have the opportunity of work experience in placements around the Cotswolds and beyond.
Enrichment Week - Year 7 Team Building
‘A week of brilliantness’, ‘An epic week’, ‘Fantastic experience’, ‘Fun, fun, fun’ are some of the quotes from pupils who took part in the Year 7 Team Building Activity. The activities were selected to give pupils the opportunity to develop team building and communication skills as well as provide a personal challenge. Each tutor group experienced a new challenge each day, including an aerial challenge at Cotswold Country Park, watersports activities at South Cerney Outdoor Education Centre, survival skills with Mr Perkins and reflecting on local history from the Victorian age through to the present day at the Steam Museum.
Enrichment Week - Work Experience
During the week beginning Monday 4 July 221 pupils in Year 10 (new Year 11) went out into the community on work experience. This is a fantastic opportunity for our pupils and we are pleased they have all gained valuable life skills and discovered new talents from spending a week in a different environment. The Key Stage 4 team would like to congratulate all of our Year 10 pupils. They are a credit to Deer Park and we are very proud of them and their achievements. The work experience team enjoyed visiting them in their placements and commented on their maturity and confidence.
Enrichment Week - Water Sports
A group of 28 pupils opted to take part in a week of Water Sports locally in the Cotswolds. The objectives of the week were to experience a greater element of risk and challenge within water sports’ activities, whilst developing team work, leadership skills, communication skills and perseverance in both the tasks and against the elements! (Unfortunately it poured down during the afternoons on Tuesday 5 July and on Friday 8 July). During the week the pupils also had the chance to socialise with a group of people they would not normally meet around school.
