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PARENT BULLETIN Friday 23rd March 2018 NEXT WEEK: Week 1 Timetable

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Dear Parents/Carers We have had another action packed week at Crestwood and there have been amazing activities going on in and out of classrooms. We began the week with a slightly late start due to the unexpectedly weather. Students and staff coped well with the disruption, but also made the most of the opportunity to get outside and enjoy the snow during lunch and break. One Year 7 student accidently hit Mrs Dawkins with a snowball. The look on his face when he realised what he had done was a picture! Fortunately for the student concerned it was taken in good spirits and all was forgiven. Year 11 were focused on core exams which continued throughout the week along with GCSE Drama assessments which took place over the last few days. A Year 11 GCSE Easter revision schedule has been published and we look forward to seeing many students taking advantage of these sessions. At the start of their journey towards GCSEs, Year 7 also had their first experience of formal exams for English and Maths sat in the hall. A team of students drawn from both campuses represented Crestwood at the Global Challenge competition at the University of Southampton. The event included six schools in total and required students to design a display (pictures below) and compose a lengthy presentation to the judges. We are proud to state Crestwood won! Congratulations to all of the students who took part and to the staff who accompanied and supported them. Massive congratulations also go to the U15 Girls’ Football Team who reached the District Final at the Wide Lane Sports Ground in Eastleigh. Many members of Crestwood Family were there in support. The match was very close and remained goalless throughout the first half. Although the girls battled bravely, they eventually lost 2-0. Regardless of the outcome, the girls should hold their heads high. Reaching the final is a fantastic achievement in itself and they did themselves and Crestwood proud. Finally, we are launching a project, where we are hoping to hear from lots of our ex-students and wanted a more formal way to do this. Many of our ex-students enjoyed their time in school, gained friends and gathered many happy memories from their experiences and have gone on to great things. We are very interested in where you all are and what you are doing now. How did you get where you are today? Do you have any advice for our current students? We would love to share your stories you send us to inspire the current generation of students in our community. A number of our alumni already return to visit and talk to our current students and we hope that this Alumni Project will allow many more to explore this opportunity. If you attended Crestwood or Quilley or know anyone that did, please get in contact with us, we’d love to hear from you. We’d love to hear about your journey post-secondary school.

(More calendar information can be found on the school website here http://crestwood.hants.sch.uk/school-information/calendar/) We hope you have an enjoyable and restful weekend. Best wishes

Tim Nash Head of School - Cherbourg Campus [email protected]

Steve Gibbs ead of School - Shakespeare Campus H [email protected]

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SAFEGUARDING ADVICE The theme of this week’s whole school assemblies was around the topic of resilience. Obviously, children face a number of challenges growing up. These can be exacerbated when using the internet and social media. Digital resilience involves having the ability to understand when you are at risk online, knowing what to do if anything goes wrong, learning from your experiences of being online, and being able to recover from any difficulties or upsets. Children who are digitally resilient will be equipped to handle the challenges of the modern, digital world. Digital resilience grows through online use and learned experience and can’t be developed through the avoidance of the digital world. In other words, you don’t help your children to become digitally resilient by keeping them away from the internet. It’s many parent’s instinct to use as many tools and filters as they can to ‘protect’ their child from nasty things they may find on the internet. This may be useful for very young children, and tools are important for all internet users – we’d all do well to check our privacy settings more often – but when it comes to raising digitally resilient children, it is vital that parents ensure they are allowed to explore the online world. The reality is, if you attempt to make parental controls your first line of defense, your child will do what children are programmed to do – they’ll attempt to find a way around them and could end up in much less safe parts of the net, such as the murkier parts of the dark web. More importantly, you won’t be helping them to develop digital resilience. Employ the same parenting skills you use offline to keep them safe, such as negotiating boundaries, talking about the difficult subjects we’d all rather avoid, helping your child to recognise what’s good and bad behaviour. 1. Set fair and consistent rules in relation to your child’s internet use at home. 2. Teach your child to think critically about what they read, see or hear online. 3. It’s much harder for people to empathise with each other when their communications are digital. It’s why trolls find it so easy to post horrible messages. Helping your child to understand that and to pause and think about the impact of things that are posted online, will help them cope with some of the difficult behaviour they will come across and avoid getting caught up in it. 4. Maintain a positive outlook on your child’s use of the internet. 5. Whatever you think to the stuff they watch or the hours they spend on social media, if you constantly criticise the apps and games they love, they’re not going to want to talk to you about their online life. 6. Children who can recover from an online mistake can learn and avoid making the same mistake again. You can help by making it easy for them to talk to you about their mishaps making sure they know where to go for help if they need it, and recognising if they’re not recovering well so you can step in and get help for them. 7. Allow your child to explore and take charge of their online life. 8. Having some control over any given situation is an important part of resilience – and it’s a really important part of digital resilience. It’s essential in helping them understand and develop their own sense of what’s right and wrong online. Digital resilience is not fixed. It’s not a single ability or a set of lessons that can be learnt. It is something that every child can have and parents can do more than anyone else to foster it. Set clear boundaries for their life online and then step away, letting them explore the online world safe in the knowledge that you will be there to help if anything goes wrong.

Modern Foreign Languages YEAR 7 - SPANISH Mr Whitby's Year 7 on the Cherbourg Campus are having a great time in Spanish engaged in "Running Dictation". Reading a text in Spanish and running across the room to speak it to their partner. No cheating by crossing the middle!

YEAR 10 - FRENCH Mr Whitby's Year 10 French students are spotting patterns of past, present and future tenses using this card sort. They are using it to help each other correct their writing and redraft an extended piece about their holidays.

YEAR 9 - SPANISH Ms Andueza's Year 9 Spanish class are "speed dating" - swapping details in Spanish rapidly before moving to the next partner in the queue.

Learn With Us - Southampton University Trip Year 10 - Global Challenge 2018

Congratulations to all our students above for beating five other schools during the two day Global Challenge and leading ‘Team Crestwood’ to victory! We are so proud of you all. Below is the poster they designed as part of their challenge.

Snowy School Day Can we take this opportunity to thank all students, parents/guardians and staff for their support during Monday’s Snowy Day! It was a brilliant day; it’s not everyday students get to play together in the snow - together we have created an everlasting and joyful memory!

PE - Sport

Science Department Spring Newsletter Now that the Spring Term at Crestwood is coming to an end the Science Department are delighted to update you with our recent goings-on. As ever it’s been really busy as we approach the end of the second term of the year and, as the days begin to brighten, we look forward to an action-packed summer term. Since the term began in January we have been on a variety of trips away from school to enrich the educational experience of the Crestwood children. A dedicated busload of year 10 scientists took a trip to Oxford to hear some of the UK’s most famous scientists deliver a series of lectures on their scientific work and the educational journeys that took them to where they are today. Southampton University’s science faculties have made Crestwood students welcome to their outreach days where students from years 7 to 10 have participated in events that cover the wide range of possibilities of career pathways that come under the Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths (STEM) umbrella. We feel sure that events like these will inspire our young science students to become the medics, engineers or mathematicians of the future. Indeed, as part of our commitment to setting our Crestwood students off on their journey to STEM success we’ve also attended A level taster days at Barton Peveril Sixth form college to give a flavour of the opportunities available at A level in our community. Teaching science at Crestwood Community School is not just being part of a secondary school science department. The word, “community” is very important to us too because we want to engage the children that come to us as well as preparing the children that leave us for the next stage of their lives’ journey. Two weeks ago, one of our teachers took a telescope and a few other bits and pieces to Norwood Primary school to deliver a day of science that was focused on the wonders of the universe. Our intrepid secondary school scientist spent the day with 2 classes of year 5 primary school students where the children had a fun interactive session of science. The primary school children observed through a telescope, built water rockets, observed a collapsing star and questioned relentlessly on the nature of space and time. We hope to take our session on a journey to all the local Eastleigh primary schools in the summer term too – watch out! Just after the Easter weekend we will be taking another selection of young scientists to Geneva, Switzerland to visit the world’s biggest physics experiment: The Large Hadron Collider at CERN. The three staff that are going on the trip to the famous particle accelerator face the additional challenge of explaining the recently confirmed Higgs boson to a group of 15 year olds; even our teachers are lifelong learners. Since we are telling you about the upcoming science related adventures of the science

department we thank Mrs Dawkins for approving next year’s trip to Florida which includes a visit to NASA and possibly a rollercoaster park. Returning back to the school, our new Astronomy GCSE is going well. The darkness of the winter months is passed and the opportunities to observe the night sky just after school are no longer extant. The lack of dark skies has meant that the Astronomy students have had the opportunity to focus on the theories that underpin the motion of objects in the solar system. We look forward to using the bright sunshine of the summer term to carry out observations using the sun. Our Science Club has been quietly moving along on regular Thursday slots. The most recent one this term investigated using photocolorimetry to make the perfect cup of tea. This club runs on both campuses and is open to all in Key Stage 3. Crestwood’s Science Fair is going to happen in the weeks just after the summer term commences. It looks like it might be larger than last year’s event already. We have had a lot of Year 7 and Year 8 students making a huge variety of displays that we are looking forward to showing off. The fair has been rescheduled from its original date so that we didn’t clash with the Year 11 mock exams; the result of this is that we’ll have a little bit more time to prepare a fantastic show day. So, with reference to all the above activities the teachers in the science department would like to say a massive, sincere thank you to the staff that have helped us achieve all of the things that we have. We say thank you to the staff that have driven the minibuses for us; thank you to the staff that have covered our lessons when we are off doing an activity; thank you to the staff that take the monies and process the payments; thank you to the staff that let us use their rooms for events. We also offer our profound thanks to the science department lab technicians that provide the real-world stuff that makes our ideas come true. Finally, as we go off on our Easter holidays, we are conscious that our Year 11s will be coming back to their impending GCSE exams. We wish them all the best for their exams and are sure that their hard work will pay off.

Extra-Curricular Clubs - Spring Term Day

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Extra Curricular Activity

Campus

Time

Staff Lead(s)

Football

Cherbourg

3.00pm-4.00pm Mr Vass

Badminton

Cherbourg

3.00pm-4.00pm Miss Cleaver

Netball

Cherbourg

3.00pm-4.00pm Miss Matharu

Football

Shakespeare

3.00pm-4.00pm Mr Buckingham

Trampolining

Shakespeare

3.00pm-4.00pm Miss Yarahmadi

Basketball

Shakespeare

3.00pm-4.00pm Mr Brown

Fitness Suite

Shakespeare

3.00pm-4.00pm Miss Metcalfe

Live Performance Workshop

Cherbourg

3.30pm-4.30pm Mr Lewis

Further Maths Club

Shakespeare

3.00pm-4.00pm Miss May

Year 9 Steel Band*

Shakespeare

3:00pm-4:00pm Miss Glenn

Textiles (Ch club will be Tue/Thu, dependent on teacher availability)

Sh- G4 Ch- T4

3.00pm-4.00pm Miss Dewey

Maths Ambassadors

Shakespeare

Basketball

Cherbourg

Acapella Singing Club

Shakespeare

3.00pm-4.00pm Miss Glenn

Duke of Edinburgh Award

Cherbourg

2.50pm-3.50pm Mr Johnson

Year 8 Steel Band (Cherbourg)

Cherbourg

3:00pm-4:00pm Miss Glenn

Science HPA Club (3rd Wed each month, invite only)

Science

This Girl Can Project

Shakespeare


Warhammer Club

Shakespeare

3.00pm-4.00pm Mr Murray

Textiles

Ch- T4

Bake Club

Sh- G14, Ch- T8

Trampolining

Cherbourg

Year 9 and 10 GCSE Dance

Shakespeare

3.00pm- 4.00pm Miss Yarahmadi

Fitness Suite

Shakespeare

3.00pm-4.00pm Miss Metcalfe

Handball

Shakespeare

3.00pm-4.00pm Mr Buckingham

Computer Club

Sh- ICT2

3.00pm-4.00pm Mr Kerwood

Acapella Singing Club

Shakespeare


Year 8 Steel Band (Shakespeare)*

Shakespeare


Panatical Steel Band*

Shakespeare

4.30pm-7.30pm Miss Glenn/Mr Downs

Maths Ambassadors (Years 7 and 8)

Cherbourg

Jazz/wind/production band**

Shakespeare

3.00pm-5.00pm Mr Downs

Duke of Edinburgh Award

Shakespeare

2.50pm-3.50pm Mr Johnson

Netball

Shakespeare


3.00pm-3.30pm Miss Ward 3.00pm-4.00pm Mr Vass

3.00pm-4.00pm Miss Bull

3.00pm-4.00pm Miss Dewey 3.00pm-4.00pm Miss Davey / Mrs Howat 3.00pm-4.00pm Mr Vass

3.00pm-3.30pm Mr Hollman

All clubs are free of charge and open to all students unless identified above. Please turn up for the first session and register. *Steel bands are by invitation/audition only. **Jazz/wind/production band is open to any student who can already competently play an instrument. Signing up for a club is a commitment and you should let the member of staff running the club know if you are unable to attend. Registers will be taken at each session. Unless you hear otherwise, please assume that you have a place in your chosen club. If clubs are over subscribed we will contact the students concerned.

Post 16 College Open Events 2017/2018 Please Note: This information is correct at the time of going to print. Before attending any open event, individuals are advised to confirm dates(s) and times with the college. Provider

Website CEMAST

Dates

Times

www.fareham.ac.uk/cemast/ Thursday 26th April 2018

5:00 – 7.00 pm

Eastleigh College

www.eastleigh.ac.uk

Tuesday 20th March 2018 Wednesday 13th June 2018

4:30 - 7:30 pm 5:30 – 7:30 pm

Fareham College

www.fareham.ac.uk

Wednesday 25th April 2018

5:00 – 7.00 pm

www.itchen.ac.uk

Tuesday 2nd May 2018

5:00 - 8:00 pm

www.psc.ac.uk

No future dates confirmed

www.tauntons.ac.uk


www.southampton-city.ac.uk


www.sparsholt.ac.uk

Wednesday 25th April 2018 Thursday 21 June 2018

Itchen College

Peter Symonds College

Richard Taunton College

Southampton City College

Sparsholt College

10.00 – 2.00 pm 4.00 – 7.00 pm

Parenting Courses & Coffee Mornings When

What

Where

Tuesday 27th March 2018 9.30am - 11.00am

Coffee Morning

Shakespeare Campus

Wednesday 25th April 2018 9.30am - 11.00am

Coffee Morning

Cherbourg Campus

Thursday 7th June 2018 9.30am - 11.15am

Triple P - Teen - 6 weeks

Cherbourg Campus

Friday 22nd June 2018 9.30am 11.00am

Coffee Morning

Cherbourg Campus

Monday 2nd July 2018 9.30 - 11.00am

Coffee Morning - Transition

Cherbourg Campus

YEAR 7 Last week seven students walked down to Norwood Primary to help some year 6s with their Maths. Today, to thank them for all their hard work and dedication, Mr Nash and Mr Hollman treated them all to hot chocolate and doughnuts during last break!

Welcome to the 226 year six families whose sons and daughters will be joining the Crestwood Family in September! Over half of you have already submitted your campus preference and additional information and we encourage everyone else to do so as soon as possible (deadline of Wed 21st March). If you have not received your welcome email from the 6th March, please contact [email protected] Key date for your diary: Coffee Morning for Parents on Thursday 22 March from 9.30-10.20am on the school’s Shakespeare campus (SO50 4FZ).