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High Challenge
Why is it important to achieve the top grades? The job market and higher education places are increasingly competitive. Employers always check GCSEs. Aim high. How can school, pupils and parents help?
Striking the Right Chord
Students from every year across the school came together on Wednesday 25th January to form part of a recital evening where they performed as a soloist in the annual ‘Deer Park Young Musician of the Year Competition’. Students were competing for the prestigious title of ‘Winner of Young Musician’, divided into 2 categories; Key Stage 3 and Key Stage 4.
Choices at 14
Our Year 9 Choices Evening on Thursday 26 January aims to help pupils make positive and informed decisions about their learning over the next two years by providing ‘guided choice’. Pupils and parents will have a further opportunity to talk to subject teachers at our Year 9 Parents’ Evening on Thursday 9 February 2012 before stating their preferences by Tuesday 21 February 2012. As they move into Key Stage 4, pupils will find new curriculum and pastoral structures designed to support their learning and help them achieve their very best.
Holocaust Memorial Day
The Humanities Faculty is constantly determined to promote equality and to challenge intolerance and prejudice of all types. With this in mind, we are using our Faculty in Focus time to promote Holocaust Memorial Day. Holocaust Memorial Day is on 27th January each year, the date commemorating the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp in 1945.
Gloucestershire Academies Funding
Academies in Gloucestershire are receiving significantly less funding per pupil than in many other counties to purchase services which were previously provided by the Local Authority. For example in 2012 Gloucestershire secondary academies will receive £156 per pupil for central services. For comparison, the rates in some other similar counties are as follows – Dorset £262, Somerset £319 and Shropshire £232. If you would like to know more about this and are interested in supporting a campaign by Gloucestershire Academies to address this inequality please follow this link which will take you to a draft letter you could send to opinion formers.
Teacher Taster Day
We are holding a Teacher Taster Day on 23 February 2012. Deadline to register Monday 6 February 2012.
Mock Results Day
The Mock Results Day for our Year 11s on Friday 6 January marked the very beginning of the very end of their time at Cirencester Deer Park School. The day provided our pupils with the latest marker of how they are progressing towards their GCSE outcomes and it obviously had a big impact on all of our Year 11 pupils.
In the presentations before the results were released, Chiquita Henson, Head Teacher, and James Johnson, Head of Key Stage 4, were able to reflect on the pupils' collective achievements and celebrate the progress that the year group had made to this key point in their journey through Key Stage 4. Ms Henson also shared some key pieces of advice and details of up-coming events in an assembly designed to simulate the experience that pupils will have in August when they collect their final GCSE results.
Happy New Year
We were very pleased to welcome our pupils back to school on Wednesday 4 January and we look forward to sharing our Year 11 pupils’ mock exam results with them today, Friday 6 January. Their performance will give them and us an indication of what their results may look like later this summer and will help individuals identify areas for improvement! We are also expecting some module exam results this month, specifically in Maths
Christmas is Coming
on Saturday 3 December at 5pm, Cirencester’s town centre reverberated to the sound of the Deer Park Samba Band. Pupils and accompanying staff had been invited by the organisers of the Christmas Markets to lead the Lantern Procession from Park Street, through Black Jack Street and around the Market Place.
Wednesday 30 November National Day of Action
As you are aware Teachers and Support Staff Unions recently balloted their members with regard to a national day of action across the public sector on Wednesday 30 November 2011. I have been notified today that over 50% of our teaching staff as well as several members of our support staff team are planning to take industrial action on Wednesday 30 November. Therefore, regrettably, we will be unable to open the School as normal as it will not be possible for us to provide a worthwhile and safe educational experience for all our pupils.
