Levi Roots is visiting The Winston Churchill School

The Levi Roots "School of Life Tour" arrives at the Winston Churchill School on the 13th October with a promise of culinary creativity, entrepreneurship and musicality. 

 

Students  will be given the opportunity to be inspired by Mr Roots enthusiasm for food, music and business.​ Business talks, Musical performances and cookery demonstration are all on the menu for the day.

 

 

Are you interested in Teacher Training?

Details about information days and an information pack can be found here

Presentation from the Year 7 Infomation Evening

The presentation from the year 7 information evening held on 18th September can be found here

Year 7 Parent Information Evening Thursday 18th September 5.30pm-6.30pm

The year 7 parent information evening letter to parents


Date: 12^th September 2014

 

Dear Parent(s)/Carer(s) 

Year 7 Parent Information Evening Thursday 18^th September 5.30pm-6.30pm 

As you may have noticed on the school calendar, on Thursday 18^th September we are holding a parent information evening for all parents and carers of Year 7 students.  The purpose of the evening is to provide important information and guidance for this academic year that will be key ingredients to maximising the chances of academic success for your child in Year 7. There will be a number of short presentations from key staff which will include the following: 

• Introductions and welcome

·         Key guidance: English, Maths and Science

·         The Home School Partnership to maximise success in Year 7

·         Maximising attendance to maximise achievement

·         Pathways and Careers

·         Meet the Form Tutor 

There will be opportunities for you to ask questions and get clarification about Year 7 and Key Stage 3, as well as seek further guidance on how you can best support your child in their learning in this most important year. You will also receive your Parent/Career FROG logins and have the opportunity to check the contact details we hold for you are correct. 

Please be aware that this is an evening for parents and carers, not for the students themselves, however we would advise you to bring your child’s school planner with you to the evening. 

We hope that you will be able to join us and look forward to seeing you. 

Please kindly complete and return the reply slip below by Wednesday 17^th September. 

Finally, we would like to take this opportunity to highlight the two Inset days Winston Churchill has in the calendar this half term: Friday 26^th September and Wednesday 8^th October.

 

Yours faithfully,

 

                                                                                               

Mrs R Smith                                            Mrs N Cotter                                                             Miss L Chapman

Year Leader                                           Deputy Year Leader                                                Deputy Year Leader                                                                      

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YEAR 7 PARENT INFORMATION EVENING REPLY SLIP – THURSDAY 18^TH SEPTEMBER 5.30-6.30PM

 

The Winston Churchill School                                                                     Please return to Form Tutor

Student’s  Name: ………………………………………………………….                              Tutor Group: ……………

I*/we*  will*/will not* be attending the Year 7 information evening.      

             

Signed …………………………………………………………                 Date: ……………………………………

                              (Parent/Carer)

 *Please delete as necessary

 

Please return this form to the Form Tutor by Wednesday 17^th September 2014

Year 11 Information Evening, The presentation

The presentation shown on the Year 11 information evening can be found here http://tinyurl.com/pvez62q

The Winston Way can be found http://tinyurl.com/pxtlqg5

Early Closure on 25th September

Please note that the school will close early on 25th September. The school will close one hour early for students at 1.55pm

MMR Catchup letter to parents and guardians

Please read the MMR catch up letter to parents and guardians

Tucasi Payment Account

Please note that at the beginning of term, the first few days transactions do not show in as much detail online as will normally be the case. This is because new students are being registered and the canteen have to input details manually for a short time. The balance shown will match the catering system. Details of catering purchases and top-ups from this week onwards will be available to view through your Tucasi account.

The Winston Churchill School GCSE Results

The Winston Churchill School GCSE Results: Up-date 9th September 2014

We continue to celebrate the results of the GCSE examinations, the second highest outcome in the last 10 years.  Students and parents should be very proud of all that has been achieved.  Although there has been some concern that the English Language papers have been marked incorrectly by the examination board, AQA, and a number of up-grades have been received, improving our overall figure of 5A*-C including English & Maths to 68%.  The school is pursuing the board to ensure that our students are credited with an accurate grade.

With 26% of all grades achieved being A*/A, work continues to challenge students to achieve their personal best.  As you are probably aware schools are now judged on the outcomes from the first sitting of an examination, our results below compare the first entry against best entry. Winston’s entry policy is fully in line with government expectations.

1.  % First Entry A*-C Eng/Eng Lang = 79.1% (238 students)

2.  % Best Entry A*-C Eng/Eng lang = 79.5%

3.  % First Entry A*-C Maths = 79.9% (240 students)

4.  % Best Entry A*-C Maths = 79.9%

 

 

 

 

 

Students and parents are celebrating a very positive set of GCSE results, where the school has managed to minimise the impact of recent government changes on examination outcomes.

The headline figure of 68% 5A*-C incl English & Maths, ensures that the school has met its target for this year.  Particularly pleasing is that 73% of students achieved at least a C grade or better in both Maths and English. 

The percentage of students achieving the EBacc is 47.2%, this represents students achieving C grade or above in an academic range of subjects.  Pass rates in subjects such as Maths, Geography and German have significantly increased and reflect the hard work of both staff and students, to ensure that we achieve the best outcomes possible.  Collectively, through a range of strategies, our students have been very successful and thanks should also go to Our Head Boy and Head Girl, Harry and Lily, for their contribution to leading the Year Group by example. 

 

These are very good results, which have been achieved by young people in a local authority comprehensive school.  Although examination achievement is regarded at Winston as very important aspect of the education we provide, it is complemented by the range of life skills and experiences that help our students develop from being children into young adults of whom we are rightly proud.  Our examination entry policy is simple; if we have taught you then we will enter you for the examination, we are not selective.

Winston has achieved a consistently high standard of examination results for several years now, but we are not complacent and will continue to work together to support individuals and groups and to drive up standards. 

Well done to all our students, staff and parents!

Information Evening for Year 9 and Year 11 parents

An information evening will be held on Thursday11th September. Year 9's meeting is at 5.30pm-6.30pm and year 11's meeting is at 7pm-8pm. Letters have been sent home with the students. Please log onto Frog where a  copy of the letters can be found in the letters sections for the relevant year group.

 

Cashless Catering Payments - issues resolved

The issues with the cashless catering system  (referred to below) have now all been resolved and the system is now fully operational.

Thank you for you patience.

8th September 2014

 

 

 

Parents should be aware that the school has experienced problems with the electronic links between the on-line payment system and the school catering system in the past 24 hours.  This happened as far as we can determine between 15:15 and 19:50 and then after 21:00, until around 08:00 this morning.

In addition there have been problems with the revaluation machines on site and we are in the process of addressing this.  This means that some payments to student accounts have yet not updated on the system in school.  

These are systems outside of the direct control of the school, but we are currently working with the appropriate providers to rectify these issues.

These problems did affect the pace of the lunchtime service for Year 7 today as we confirmed the situation for each individual student, however as these problems are rectified the service level will improve significantly.  Additional time was allowed for students to finish their meal.

In the meantime any student affected will still be able to receive their lunch and any adjustments made at a later date to the individual account.

It appears any payments now being made are working correctly.

Mr S Phillips
Business Manager

4^th September 2014