MESSAGES FROM THE HEADTEACHER SUMMER TERM 2019 T · 2019-07-16 · 17 MESSAGES FROM THE HEADTEACHER...

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MESSAGES FROM THE HEADTEACHER

SUMMER TERM 2019

T he summer term is always an unusual one; a term in which we see

students take their GCSE and A Level exams, where we say goodbye to

some students and some staff, and where we begin to look forward to the

new academic year. However, as you can see from this newsletter, the activities and

opportunities available to our students do not reduce in number or quality

throughout this term. Indeed, as I am writing this we are at the start of our annual

Activities Week, with students experiencing a wide range of educational activities,

including the majority of Year 8 visiting either France, Germany or Spain to assist

them in their language studies.

The students in Years 11 and 13 were brilliant throughout the exam season and

coped extremely well, approaching their exams with focus and drive. Public

congratulations also need to be given to all the parents and carers who went

through the exam season with their children, and to the staff who have worked

tirelessly to prepare our young people for this crucial period in their education.

The team in the Examinations Office also need a special mention as the

organisation required to make sure that the exams are administered effectively and

efficiently is mind boggling!

One of the post exam season highlights for the students was the opportunity to

attend their year group’s Prom, photographs of which can be seen in this

newsletter. And, as we said goodbye to Year 11 and Year 13, we had the

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opportunity to welcome the new Year 7 students, in anticipation of them joining

our community in September. We are very much looking forward to working with

a new cohort of fantastic young people, and getting to know them and their

families as we journey through secondary education together.

Perhaps one of the most pleasurable parts of the summer term is also the selection

of students for the various leadership roles we have in the school. Competition for

these roles is fierce, and every student who applied for a role should feel very

proud of the fact that they were willing to put themselves forward and apply.

Again, I am looking forward to working with our new student leaders over the

course of the next academic year.

Some staff are leaving us at the end of this term, as outlined in this

newsletter, and we thank them for all they have done to make the school

as successful as it is. We also have some new staff joining us in

September. They have been into school for an Induction Day and they are

all very excited to be a part of the Coopers Coborn family.

So, the only thing left for me to do is to say a final thank you to you all

for your support of, and interest in, the school. It is a wonderful place to

be and it is made so fantastic due to the amazing people working in, and

connected to, the school. I hope that you all have a restful summer and I

look forward to seeing many of you again in September.

Ms Sue Hay—Headteacher

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YEAR 7 FOUNDERS’ DAY

O n Thursday, 20 June all students in Year 7 went to St Dunstan’s and All Saints Church in Stepney to celebrate the foundation of the school by its two founders, Nicholas Gibson and Prisca Coborn. Nicholas Gibson is

buried at St Dunstan’s. This is an important date in our school calendar and one of the highlights for Year 7. Students were joined for the service by Chair of Governors (Mr John Fahy), Chair of Foundation Governors (Dr Ian Frood), Master of The Worshipful Company of Coopers (Mr Perry Bousfield), the Company Clerk (Cdr Stephen White RN (rtd)), Foundation & School Governors, Senior Staff and the Year 7 Form Tutors. Many thanks to our organist, Mr Bob Norris, and the school choir who sang ‘I Sing Because I’m Happy’ and ‘This Day’ under the musical direction of our Head of Music, Miss Lexi Williams.

We were most grateful to The Revd Canon Graham Foulis Brown (Honorary Chaplain Emeritus of The Worshipful Company of Coopers) who stepped in at the last minute to lead the service. Our new 2019-20 School Captains Jessica Smith & Stephen McLoughlin (pictured) laid a floral tribute at the Nicholas Gibson Memorial while the members of the congregation sang the hymn ‘Shine Jesus Shine’. As always, we are very grateful to The Revd Trevor Critchlow for his hospitality, and also to The Revd Dave Tomlinson who read the Sermon.

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YEAR 11

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. German Exchange

to Rheinbach 18-25 June 2019

A t 5.30am on Tuesday 18 June fifteen very nervous, excited and brave Year 10 students started their return journey to Rheinbach (near Bonn and Köln) to spend one week living with their German exchange partners and their

families.

We were met with hugs at the school bus stop. The week was filled with shopping trips to Bonn and Cologne, visits to the beautiful cathedrals in Cologne and Aachen, experience of German lessons, sampling lots of German food, practising of German in ‘real life situations’ and swimming in the impressive pool in Rheinbach (on one day it reached 36°).

At the weekend the German families organised extra visits, but most students also made it to the theme park, Phantasialand. When we left on Tuesday afternoon there were hugs, but also plans to meet up again in the summer holidays, as the friends said goodbye. “The exchange was amazing! I have met many new friends, who I would love to keep in contact with. We got to go to Phantasialand (the massive theme park), Bonn, Cologne, a chocolate museum and on lots of other fun trips. I am going to miss it loads!”.

Francesca Montefusco (Year 10)

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T he Coopers’ Company and Coborn School are the Sir Winston Churchill Public Speaking Competition Champions! We took a Year 10 and a Year 12 team to Churchill’s residence, Chartwell, on Friday 28 June for the

competition. This was a new venture for the debating team. Our Year 10 team enjoyed the workshop held earlier this year and put many hours into the preparation of their speakers. They performed well and were beaten by a very experienced grammar school team.

Students: Niamh Hurley, Dillon Buckley and Anna Davison (with Jenny Churchill)

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Mr Wayne Ferreira Head of Psychology

Students: Alice Mellows and Euan McDonnell (with Sean Lusk and Ian Wainwright)

The stars of the competition were Alice and Euan who, due to a late withdrawal of other members of the team, stepped up to win the competition. Jenny Churchill was there to present us with the trophy. This was a proud moment for the team who were particularly pleased to be recognised for their hard work. Students: Euan McDonnell and Alice Mellows (with Jenny Churchill)

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I n June Year 10 GCSE History students were able to enjoy a sunny afternoon in East London whilst learning about

a dark chapter in the history of Whitechapel. The five classes were taken around the sites of the Jack the Ripper murders by professional guides. They heard about living conditions, policing techniques, the role of the press and the murders themselves which took place in 1888. These are all issues which are covered in the GCSE historic environment module about Whitechapel. It was a very successful afternoon and the students were very impressed by the detailed knowledge of their guides. Picture of students in Mitre Square, scene of the murder of Catherine Eddowes on 30 September 1988.

Mr Simon Barrington Head of History

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Y ear 12 students Euan McDonnell and Nathan Brabham-Neil visited 99 Squadron at RAF Brize Norton last month. Both students are considering careers within aviation and had a personal guided tour of the

RAF’s C17 Globemaster aircraft. Flt. Lt. Evans and Loadmaster Curtis hosted them for the day. Special thanks to Flt. Cdr. Siddall of 99 Squadron for organising the visit.

Mr Mark Edwards Extended Services & Student Conduct Supervisor

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T he little girl with her hands clasped behind her back is none other than Matthew Bannock in 10.1’s grandmother! She recently came to watch one of the Summer Concerts and was absolutely delighted to see this picture

still on display, marking the visit of the Queen Mother to the Coborn School garden in 1955. What a wonderful memory of her time at school.

Mrs Juliet Orton Admissions Manager

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Y ear 6 students from St Joseph’s Catholic Primary School recently visited us in the Food Department to take part in practicals. The students cooked pizza whirls, ably supported by some of our Year 7 and 8 students—

themselves ex-students of St Joseph’s.

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The Year 6 students said:

‘It was a really good experience to prepare us for senior school.’

‘It was a fun experience that took me out of my comfort zone.’

‘It was nice to try something I had never done before.’

‘It was a good experience for teamwork.’ Mrs Ruth was really impressed by the Year 7 and 8 student helpers who were excellent subject ambassadors. Photos reproduced with kind permission of St Joseph’s Catholic Primary School.

Mrs Jenny Ruth Head of Food Preparation & Nutrition

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‘Screen Your Story’ Finalist

A n a t i o n a l s t o r y - w r i t i n g competition run by alumna Dr Anne Mullins, where finalists

are published and have the opportunity for their story to be made into a short film. Molly Gulvin in 8.1 was a finalist and her story was read at Barnes Children’s Literature Festival. She is now a published and illustrated author!

Mrs Emma Robinson English Department

E nglish Department took 60 A-Level students to see Caryl Churchill’s play ‘Top Girls’

at the National Theatre. ‘Top Girls’ is an English Literature A-Level set text, and rarely performed at notable theatres in the UK (the last major production was in 2012) so this was a special opportunity for students to further engage with the content and extend their understanding and appreciation of this modern drama. It was a really enjoyable and worthwhile evening.

Mr Ed O’Brien Head of Engish

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A group of Year 10 students took part in the Jack Petchey Speak Out Challenge, with Year 10’s Joanne Geraldo representing the school at the Havering Final at St Edward’s Academy. Her speech dealt with fears we all

face and a message about overcoming them to make ourselves stronger and better. Well done to everyone involved.

Miss Heidi Smith—English Department

S ixteen Year 12 students participated in the Cambridge Chemistry Challenge for Lower 6th and the results have just been announced …

Joseph Hurley—Silver—1 mark below Gold! Nathan Boachie—Bronze Alex Gray—Bronze Lareina Jude-Manorajh—Bronze Sofia Powell—Bronze Harvir Sangha—Bronze James Talbot—Bronze Well done to all students involved!

Miss Penny Wilson Head of Chemistry

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I n the first week of the Easter holidays 36 Year 11 GCSE History students went to Berlin on a four-day trip to study key historic sites in the city. As part of the trip we visited the Olympic Stadium, centre of the 1936 Berlin Olympics, did a

walking tour of the city, including the Reichstag Building and the Brandenburg Gate, had a guided tour of a prison used by the Stasi, the communist secret police in East Germany, up until 1990, and also were shown around the Berlin Wall memorial to help understand the significance of that structure in the Cold War and learn about the people who died trying to cross the border between east and west. We also travelled outside the city to see Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp which was established by the Nazis in 1936 and the Cecilienhof Palalce in Potsdam, where the leaders of the United States, the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union met in 1945 to discuss the future of Europe after the war. There was also time in the evenings for a session of ten-pin bowling, some late night shopping and a visit to the viewing platform of the 1,207ft Berlin TV Tower. The trip was organised to help students in their understanding of the GCSE modules covering the Weimar and Nazi Germany module and the Cold War module. It was a great success aided by good weather, excellent guides and the valuable assistance of Miss Edmeades, M r W o o d w a r d , Miss Williams and Miss Foster.

Mr Simon Barrington Head of History

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. INDOOR TABLE TOP SALES

The Coopers’ Company and Coborn School

St Mary’s Lane, Upminster, Essex, RM14 3HS

Sunday 15th September 2019

Sunday 6th October 2019

Sunday 3rd November 2019

Sunday 1st December 2019

Table Top tables: we supply for £12

seller supplies for £8 (up to 6ft)

Sellers arrive between 7 – 8.30am

Doors open for at 9am

50p entrance fee for adults…..children free

Entrance free after 10.30am

Sellers must book and pay in advance

We only take bookings for 1 event at a time

Toilets & refreshments available

Disabled Access & Parking

Please call 07508135449

e.mail…[email protected]

Facebook: boot sales coopers coborn

Twitter: cooperscobornpa

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Year 9: We have had 71 students enrol this term. They are busy setting up their programs and deciding what they will be doing for their Volunteering, Physical and Skill sections. They will be undertaking their Bronze Expedition Training at the end of September. Year 10: We had 83 participants start in May 2018 and we are really pleased that 78% of them have completed all four sections and achieved their Bronze award!! For outstanding volunteering Oliver Leader & Mason Holley were also deemed worthy of a Jack Petchey award. Year 12: We have 9 participants who have been working on their five sections since the New Year. They are hoping to complete their Residential section this summer and are looking forward to starting their Expedition Training in the South Lake District in the October half term. Year 13: 9 participants are completing their assessed Expedition in the North Lake District on 8-12 July. We expect our participants to have a challenging but fabulous time in the great outdoors and for them to return home with lifelong friendships made, characters developed and fascinating stories to be told. 3 of them should be very close to finishing their award. Year 14+: We are really pleased and proud that more students have completed their Gold award since leaving Coopers Coborn. George Monckton completed in November 2018 and Emma Edgell-Reeves and Anna Clements collect their certificates from Buckingham Palace this summer. Lucy Eost and George Deverill have recently passed and are applying for the next Royal Award Ceremony. We are very grateful to a dedicated staff team of volunteers: Mr Bain, Mr O’Brien, Miss Gibson, Mrs Lay, Miss Wood and Mr Claude for supporting and encouraging the students.

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Mr Julian Teece Duke of Edinburgh Award Manager

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T he summer term is always an exciting time in the Art Department, as our Year 11 and 13 art students get to showcase all their hard work from the last two years.

Of course there is some pressure that comes with that, but it is always a lovely occasion when we have the GCSE and A Level Exhibitions. This summer has been no exception. The amount of students, staff, family members and friends of both Year 11 and 13 art students who attended the Exhibitions had so many positive things to say. The external moderators who check our marks also commented on and were impressed by the range of personal and varied outcomes by our students. There is a really healthy number of Year 11 students who are keen to take up art at A Level, so we are hoping for more great work to come! Below is a taster of what was produced by our amazing students. Enjoy!

Mr Paul Withyman Head of Art

Grace Deavin

Emmanuella Opoku-Asamoah

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Weimin Li

Eliza Ager

Nadia Vaughn

Teresa Alade

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Hannah Wood

Elizabeth Williams

Thomas Molloy

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Holly Robson

Ella Brooker

Rachel Jackson

Yasmin Corbett

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Alyssa Leading

Devan Acharya

Isobelle Johnstone

Megan Kendrick

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Grace Monaghan

Ella Wotton

Joanna Marimon

Frankie Mills

Katie Kemp

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Angel Nwanko

Foyin Bayode

Timothy Ajanlekoko

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. Charity Update

F irst of all we would like to send a massive thank you to all our parents and students for helping to raise in excess of £16,000 this academic year. We really appreciate all your efforts.

With exam season upon us, this term is generally a little quieter so below is an update of some of the things we have been involved with this term. During the week 1st-5th July, we celebrated our first Diversity Week focusing on the LGBTQ+ community. Students received an assembly led by Miss Smith who was joined in the KS3 and Year 12 assemblies by Year 13 student Matthew Hale. Matthew delivered a poignant and personal account of his experiences in school relating to the LGBTQ+ community. During this week we supported a charity called Just Like Us (www.justlikeus.org). They are an LGBTQ+ charity for young people that aims to empower students from classroom to career. Last year, Just Like Us launched Diversity Week with 600,000 students taking part, and this year CCCS decided to get involved. We were encouraging young people to be allies and role models who champion LGBTQ+ equality within the school, as well as celebrating diversity and demonstrating acceptance and appreciation for all staff, students, their friends and families in and around the CCCS community. The school was proud to raise a rainbow flag to welcome all staff, students and visitors to the school and lots of form rooms decorated their doors to offer a symbol of acceptance and welcome to everyone who teaches, learns and visits our school. Friday 5th July resulted in a non-uniform day with the slogan: Loud and Proud. A range of staff and students embraced the bright and bold dress code with Maddie Parker, Kerry Pittaway, Ben Wales, Rhys Leach and Leah Taylor all winning t-shirts for their clothing efforts on the day. School Diversity Week is a national initiative with over half a million students and teachers involved in promoting safe and accepting schools. Love as Brethren has reached new limits and the school is proud to continue this important work throughout the school year. Below are some photographs from the week, more can be found at https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1wqYWRQ4QF_8jdY4FS0K2y8dFLX41t8Jn?usp=sharing

http://www.justlikeus.org/

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1wqYWRQ4QF_8jdY4FS0K2y8dFLX41t8Jn?usp=sharing

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1wqYWRQ4QF_8jdY4FS0K2y8dFLX41t8Jn?usp=sharing

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Mrs Juliet Orton Charity Fundraising

Our non uniform day also supported AMMF. AMMF was founded in 2002 and is today the only charity that supports cholangiocarcinoma (bile duct cancer). Over recent years there has been an enormous increase in the disease and the charity supports specialised research teams in their work towards better diagnostic techniques andtreatments and, ultimately, a cure. AMMF works closely throughout the UK with patients and their carers, clinicians, healthcare professionals, researchers, etc as well as collaboratinginternationally.

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A fter working hard all year, Year 9 students have just taken their ICT Functional Skills exam. We should receive their results by the time they return to school from the summer holiday and those that pass will be able

to collect their certificate from the Exams Office. Year 9 are now working on IDEA, digital awards (bronze, silver and gold) endorsed by the Duke of York, during lessons. Congratulations to Hani Singha who completed her bronze award in record time and has sent off for her certificate. Several other students are hot on her heels. Once begun, this award can be worked on independently by students at home. On Thursday 11 July eleven Year 8 students are going to the law firm Field Fisher to find out more about careers in technology. We are currently assembling a team of twelve Year 8 girls to work on a project with Ford Motor Company. They will spend around ten hours developing an idea for an App, before presenting it at the Ford IT Girls Day event in November.

Mr Michael Sheehan Head of Computing

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Year 9 Geography Trip to Margam Park

O n Tuesday 25 June, 60 Year 9 students embarked on our annual geography residential trip which this year was to the wonderful Margam Park in South Wales. Myself, Miss Gibson, Mr Ciobanu, Mr Ryan, Miss Edmeades and

Mr Schultz had the absolute pleasure of watching students grapple with various fieldwork skills such as the use of questionnaires and taking river measurements. On the first day, students worked on understanding the importance and usefulness of field sketches in geographical investigations inside the classroom. Through this, they then made their way to the beautiful v-shaped valleys of Margam Park and conducted field sketches that encompassed important GCSE skills around annotating and labelling field sketches that show the human and physical processes of a landscape. On the second day, our geographers travelled to Cardiff Bay and spent the day finding out about the history of Cardiff Bay and how it has gone through recent urban regeneration. They capped off the day by collecting data through questionnaires to members of the public about their thoughts and perceptions of urban regeneration around this region. In the afternoon, students set their small mammal traps around Margam Park to see what mammal they would find the next morning. The following day students were welcomed by various types of mammals in their traps, which they then released back out into the wild. On the final day, students had their fitness and stamina tested through a 7.5km trek along a river in Margam Park. Through this trek, students calculated various river measurements downstream such as river velocity, width, depty and bedload size. This then allowed students to understand how rivers change as it goes downstream. Through the exposure of such as fieldwork skills and geographical knowledge, students have had a lovely insight into some of the key skills and knowledges required for GCSE Geography topics such as distinctive landscapes and also for their physical geography fieldwork topic of GCSE Geography paper 1. In the evenings, students had a lovely time admiring the beauty of Margam Park from their accommodation and some students even decided to take part in the evening football matches. This led to fierce matches between Mr Abadin and Mr Schultz respective teams. Thanks to Mr Ryan for the amazing officiating of these very intense games. We look forward to many more geographical adventures over the coming years with this fantastic bunch and hope they are ready for more fieldwork in Year 10, Year 11 and even beyond!

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Mr Jamil Abadin Geography Department

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e were delighted to learn that Dr Ian Frood was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) for Services to the Cattle Industry in the 2019 Queen’s Birthday Honours List. Dr Frood is Chairman of our

Foundation Governing Body, as well as a member of our School Governing Body. He will be visiting Buckingham Palace later this year to receive this very well-deserved award.

E nglish Department’s Miss Smith held a creative writing workshop with a company called Kazzum Arts, with a focus on Refugee Week 17-23 June. A group of Year 9 and 10 students wrote poetry with work being read out by

Maddie Parker, Isobel Bramwell, Chris Brown, Safa Faheem, Jasmine Elworthy and Alyssa Reeves - who even read some of her poem in Persian!

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REFUGEE WEEK POEM By Jasmine Elworthy

Beep beep black sheep Submit to this now, fodder

To the normalcy – 2 billion trips a year And this just one

The noise will grow on you The stuffiness too-

The air thick with breath and your mouth filled with chip-shop fumes Stuffed with food too distant to chew

The rocking; you hold on to The yellow bar and swing

Pegged up, helpless hanging From the nooses they strung up in town

Your father’s head upside down And the little girls are the crowds

And they’re staring and staring at you

They chatter, their language filthy Each syllable short as the space

Between a trigger-pull and impact Between impact and blood on the floor

They never called it a way; A ‘crisis’ the word is obscene

To you, and each I Is the drawl of the machine-gun

Your ESOL papers in your cheap black bag Like a rag to stuff your throat with

And choke out the refugee As the bus halts I hear your heart scream

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. I see him – a hurdle in flesh

As he enters with eyes gleaming red With the little girl he’s calling back Who trips on your burqa in black I can feel the film unwinding and You can say nothing, do nothing

Mousetrap-tongue Caught on razor wire

Your lungs your ID papers, Folded up

WHAT DO YOU THINK YOU’RE DOING The inflection a mother’s scream

As she tells the children to ‘get back inside! They wouldn’t come on Ramadan,

They wouldn’t dare’ WHAT DO YOU THINK YOU’RE DOING

Every vowel the blast of a shell As it hits you, you burn but still do not move

My heart hammering him off to hell WHAT DO YOU THINK YOU’RE – ‘oh give it a rest will ya?’

My own voice foreign, estranged I tremble as he squirms away

His hand on his daughter’s wrist Like a shackle, as if there’s a risk

Of you going off A bomb

I can see you’ll get used to this As the doors shut again with a hiss

As you sit at the back and avoid every eye As I join you in silence, a wrench in my eye Like tear-gas has hit I do nothing but cry

And I can’t tell you why This sick world will never see

That you, who crossed the sea Who has done nothing but suffer Deserves this land more than me.

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T his year we bid a fond farewell to the following members of staff who are all moving on to pastures new. We all thank them for everything they have done, and wish each of them the very best as they start their

new adventures:

Mr Mohammad Ali—Teacher of Maths Mr Bradley Copper—Trainee Teacher of English

Miss Victoria James—Teacher of Physical Education Miss Angela Jerome—Teacher of Biology

Miss Ronee Lavery—Teacher of Maths Mrs Rong Marshall—Teacher of Mandarin

Mr Dave Messham—Senior Hockey Coach & Cover Miss Emma Orgar—Head of Media

Good friends never say goodbye … they simply say ‘See You Soon’.

W e are very pleased to have the following members of staff joining in September:

Mr Tommy Milton—Teacher of Maths Mr Simon Murphy—Head of Media

Miss Kerry Vickers—Part-time Teacher of Maths Mrs Victoria Bradley—Assistant SENCO Mrs Gillian Double—Food Technician

Mrs Heidi Anastasi—Teaching Assistant (Maths) Mrs Linda Carter—Part-time Teacher of Maths

Welcome to our great team!

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H aving interviewed a huge number of very lovely candidates, we are very pleased to announce the 2019-20 School Games Captains. All eight have done a fantastic job this year in leadership roles and we are

confident they will deliver as a team for the forthcoming year.

Mrs Helen Davies Head of Physical Education and Sport

Charlotte Fransham Dan Hawkes

GAMES CAPTAINS

Alex Dubar Flick Galbally George Hill

Lucia James Harry Jones Francesca Thomas

VICE GAMES CAPTAINS

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M iss Williams and the Music Department are pleased to announce the Music Captains for 2019-20 (left to right):

Emilie Cheung Pemmy Canova

Rohan Dave Charlotte Smith

Congratulations to them all—lots of brilliant ideas already being suggested!

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W ell done to all students for taking part in this year’s Sports Day … this year’s title went to:

Congratulations to absolutely everyone for all your enthusiasm. We hope you all enjoyed the day.

RATCLIFFE

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Year 10 Food Preparation and Nutrition students recently carried out their mock practical exam to plan, prepare and cook two dishes in two hours.

This will help them to prepare for the 3-hour examined practical in Year 11 which contributes to their final GCSE grade.

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The students were given the theme of Multicultural Food and had free choice over the country of focus.

Students excelled themselves and showed off their technical skills such as jointing chicken, filleting fish, and making fresh pasta. Well done!! Mrs Jenny Ruth Head of Food Prep & Nutrition

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A t the age of 10, Eddie Wood in 9.5 entered his first 7km Rookie Run and came 1st, winning a silver medal and trophy. At the age of 11, he ran in the adult category coming 22nd and at age 12 he obtained a large

medal for the 10km run and came in 14th. His final medal was won in the 7km—he actually became confused and ran the wrong way, running 12km—he didn’t get placed that time! Eddie’s ambition is to continue entering races and win again. He said: “I know people have won more medals but these medals are special to me, as I have improved and will carry on in the future.”.

Mrs Carol White Learning Support Assistant

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F ollowing a high level of interest and extremely good quality applications, we have pleasure in announcing our Sixth Form Captaincy Team for 2019-20. Many congratulations to all students and we very much look forward to

working with you all.

Mr Rob Bell Deputy Headteacher & Director of Sixth Form

Tayla Bunting Maxwell Camp Rosie Gospage

Zak Mackay Favour Rosanwo David Sangojinmi

Lorinda Sokoli George Thomas Esther Udoh

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F ollowing a rigorous process of applications, presentations, interviews and votes, we are delighted to announce our School Captains for 2019-20. Pictured left to right are:

Nathan Boachie (Vice Captain)

Stephen McLoughlin (Captain) Jessica Smith (Captain)

Manisha Kaur (Vice Capain) Eloise Dietz (Vice Captain) Jacob Smith (Vice Captain)

We are extremely confident they will all do a wonderful job in these prestigious positions and set a brilliant example to all our younger students.

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A fter weeks of work at lunchtime and after school, the day finally dawned on Saturday 6 July for our two teams of Year 10 students. They arrived at Leonardo in Basildon for a day of competitions with the remote controlled

robotic chariots they had built. The three competitions were Sumo, Obstacle Course and 2-a-side football. Despite technical difficulties faced throughout the day, both teams put on a strong showing for the Coopers Coborn debut at the competition. ‘Out of this World’, built and raced by Emma Kennedy, William Talwar, Stephen Thompson and Rebecca Wright, made a good showing in the obstacle course, finishing 9th in qualifying to be denied one of the top 8 places to progress to the knockout stage. ‘Diamond’, built and raced by Annabel Casey-Sweeney, Jessica Lowrie and Bethan Wimpenny, managed to get into the semi-finals of both the Sumo and the 2-a-side football, but in both instances were knocked out by eventual winners. All the students had a great day, which would not have been possible without the support and hard work of Senior Science Technician, Mr Galvin. Now that Coopers Coborn has a taste for this particular competition, I am sure that next year we can build better chariots and get to the finals!

Mrs Diane Sossou

Physics Teacher

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W e are very pleased to announce our STEM Captains for 2019-20:

Aleera Ewan Tobi Idowu Ella Greenwood

B BC Radio 2 500 Words Competition is a national short story competition which attracts thousands of entries each year. Eva Paget in Year 8 made it through to the second round with her darkly comic short story with a

surprising twist! Mrs Robinson

English Department

T his term, I ran four writing workshops for Key Stage 5 students which took them through some of the writing skills needed to plot, structure and write a novel. The sessions were a success and we are hoping to run them again

next year.

Mrs Robinson English Department

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T he third Havering Learning Partnership Awards Evening was held on Thursday, 20 June 2019 at Drapers Academy., celebrating the achievements of all schools and colleges in Havering in four categories. The evening

commenced with a reception, followed by the presentation to prizewinners. We were delighted to receive three Achievement Awards (based on 2017-18 outcomes) for “Best Progress at A Level”, “Most Improved Progress at A Level” and “Best Progression to Post-18 Destinations” and these were collected by Assistant Headteacher, Mr James Dudley-Hart.

Each school and college is also invited to nominate five members of staff who they consider have shown excellence in supporting student progress during the past year, and our Senior Leadership Team nominated Mr Ed O’Brien (Head of English), Mrs Alison Lay (Learning Support Assistant), Miss Chloe Wood (Acting Head of Geography), Mrs Angela Titley (Data & Exams Officer) and Mr Wayne Ferreira (Head of Psychology) who each received a well-deserved Individual Excellence Award.

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S ince joining the school as Head of English, Mr Ed O’Brien has worked tirelessly to make the department a centre of

excellence. He is determined that every English lesson is outstanding. Not only has he fostered an amazing team spirit amongst the staff, he has also nurtured and developed their individual talents, so that each teacher really is at the top of their game. Every student in the school reaps the benefits of this by having inspirational lessons delivered by passionate teachers. The proof of this can be seen in the GCSE results, where students gain fantastic results and make superb progress.

M rs Alison Lay has gone above and beyond her role as a Learning Support Assistant. Her calm and level

-headed approach has helped to build positive relationships with our students in the SEN department and especially in Year 11. Students actively seek her help and guidance with work or advice they may need. Mrs Lay is a real asset to the school and has had a positive impact on so many students.

A t an early stage in her career Miss Chloe Wood took over head of department responsibilities and did a

fantastic job. In a department with two on maternity leave, she has successfully mentored an NQT and a trainee whilst working hard to drive up attainment and progress at GCSE and A-Level. On top of this she has been a fantastic tutor to a Year 11 form, mentoring and supporting them extensively through revision and exam stress. Miss Wood is highly organised and is on course to becoming an outstanding middle leader.

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M rs Angela Titley is a highly valued colleague who is extremely professional and efficient in her role.

She has significantly developed the Exams Department and its processes since joining the school in 2016. These upgrades have included a new system for processing the post results service, vastly improving the organisation, and delivery, of mock examinations and providing regular, lazer-sharp, analysis of data to key stakeholders. These measures have contributed to an increase in the results achieved by the school in recent years, including progress scores at both GCSE and A-Level, enabling more students to fulfil their career and further education ambitions.

M r Wayne Ferreira makes a significant impact to our school community in a myriad of different roles. On a day-to

-day basis he is a passionate and dedicated Head of Psychology and the department is one of the highest performing within the school, as well as being one of the most popular destination subjects for undergraduate study due to the passion he instils. Mr Ferreira also leads our debating provision, giving his time freely at weekends to enter numerous national competitions against schools within the independent sector. Mr Ferreira has also strategically led our Sixth Form enrichment provision over the past eighteen months.

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C ongratulations to Phoebe Day (8.2), Katie Waller (8.6) and Emily Hill (8.7) who each

received the Jack Petchey Award for outstanding achievement and contribution to guiding from the Mayor of Havering at the Essex West 2019 Girl Guiding event. Emily represented Hornchurch and both Phoebe and Katie represented Upminster. They all attend Guides regularly, taking on very keen and active roles in all activities with enthusiasm and always with a smile on their face. Well done girls!

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W ell done to James Wingate (13.3), Tilly Metz-White (13.3), Tom Carter (13.1) and Max Prior (13.4) for being selected from 1,500 participants as semi-finalists of the Vlogstar Challenge. They will all be attending a

workshop at YouTube’s offices inside the Google Headquarters in London.

A series of interactive workshops from head honchos at YouTube will teach them all they need to know about video production, growing an audience and harnessing the power of social media to gain views and subscriptions.

This is a rare chance to learn from YouTube and they will be briefed on their next vlog, which could win them a place at the Vlogstar Challenge Final at YouTube Space again! We wish them all the very best.

The day will be rounded up with a YouTube Creator panel where they can put their questions to established YouTube Creators.

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Jacob Fortune & Alex Orton

School Captains 2018-19

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A s part of the national Healthy Eating Week 2019, Key Stage 3 students (and staff) had the opportunity to suggest new healthy meals for the school canteen based on the Eatwell Guide. The ideas were judged by Head of

Food Preparation & Nutrition Mrs Ruth and Chef Derek Vickers, with the five winning meals served in the canteen for all students to buy:

Taco Twist—Jack Edwards 8.2 Roasted Chicken & Vegetable Couscous—Miss Brennan

Bacon & Avocado Salad—Grace Attwood 8.8 Chicken & Chorizo Jambalaya—Joseph Whitehead 8.8

Cheese & Chive Savoury Flapjacks—Sadie Abel 8.8 The winners received a £10 voucher donated by Accent Catering. Well done!!

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W e have much pleasure in sharing the list of the fourteen Year 11 Prefects for 2019-20. They undertook a very rigorous selection and interview process over ten school days, involving poetry recitals and facing a panel

of up to five members of staff. They are now wearing their brand new Prefect badges with pride. Last Monday and Tuesday they undertook a two-day leadership training workshop to equip them to lead, debate, listen, project manage and communicate more effectively, amongst other equally critical life skills. Thank you to the nineteen teaching and support staff who assisted in the interview and selection process.

Mr Leigh Marshall Head of Year 10

Madeleine Parker Elena Redrup Stan Healy Rory Haynes Grace Ewenson

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. William Talwar Angel Adegbabyibi Rebecca Mitchley Rebecca Wright Ashton Thatcher-Gray Jess Collier Mason Holley Evie Barker Bethan Wimpenny

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GCSE Physical Geography Fieldwork with Year 10

I n May, Year 10s had their first experience of GCSE geography fieldwork when we visited Walton-on-the-Naze. We had a whole day at the coast, and students used a range of methods to investigate whether erosion is the most

significant geomorphic process shaping the distinctive coastal landscape at Walton-on-the-Naze. Our methods included producing a range of field sketches in contrasting locations along the coastline. Followed up with a number of beach measurements using the coastal management strategies to our advantage. However, the sea was not always our friend, which for parts of the day made the beach inaccessible, and therefore taking our measurements become slightly more challenging. Finally, to compliment the observations and measurements we had taken throughout the day, we conducted some questionnaires to find out what local residents thought about the geomorphic processes and what were the challenges facing the local community in relation to the coastline. Once back at school we used all the results we had collected, analysed them and drew conclusions to answer our investigation question. We were again very fortunate to have some great fieldwork weather (no rain), although it was rather windy. The Year 10s have shown what fantastic geographers they have become over their past four years at Coopers Coborn applying the knowledge they have gained to ask and answer great geographical questions. We are now planning for next year and our new Year 10s.

Miss Chloe Wood Acting Head of

Geography

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Year 12 Trip to Pembrokeshire Eleanor Apps & Nathan Brabham-Neil—Geography Captains

T he Year 12 geographers recently went on a week’s trip to Pembrokeshire as part of our A Level Course. We had to plan and carry out an investigation of our

choice to look at how physical geography (coastline) or human geography (tourism) has impacted the local town of Tenby. We arrived after a short 6 hour coach journey to FSC Orielton (our home for the week) and got straight to it! We started Investigating the water and carbon cycle and different methods on how to collect data to give us the option to investigate this part of physical geography. On the second day we were focusing on the physical aspect of geography by evaluating shoreline management plans and completing cliff profiles. This involved a few hours

in the classroom before heading to the beach where we were greeted with heavy rain and a strong wind. Not letting this dampen our moods we used clinometers and ranging poles to assess if a particular cliff has been impacted by erosion and conclude if there will be any impact to the local residents. The skills we learnt from this could be applied to our own investigation. On the third day we travelled to a slightly sunnier Saundersfoot and Tenby to focus on the human aspects of geography. We completed clone town surveys which assess the impact of globalisation on an area, environmental quality assessment and learnt how to log the longitude and latitude of our location.

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. Again, the skills that we learnt could be applied to our own investigation. This evening was spent making a question for our investigation focus with 3 sub questions to focus on. We then had to think of suitable methods on what we were going to be investigating, to say this brought stress to some is fair to say but we all made it in time for Love Island that evening! On our final day we went to Tenby where the weather had finally improved and collected data for our chosen investigation using the skills that we have learnt. The human geographers spent their time in the town of Tenby going round completing various different data collections and speaking to residents and tourists, whilst the physical geographers spent the day on the beach

collecting their data. Of course there was the option to look at the carbon cycle where just three students (Mike, Lisa and Joe) stayed at FSC Orielton to collect their data. All the data we collected would be used to help answer our investigation title. Over the course of our trip, we all learnt valuable skills that we can use in geography, other subjects and further on in our post 18 plans. As well as making sure that we were caught up on Love Island every day, watching as a group with the other schools that were there. We learnt how to create an appropriate question, plan and conduct an investigation and analyse data using statistical testing. All of these skills will help us in our A Levels and our future jobs. Once again we would like to say a massive thank you to all the teachers who took us and organised this great opportunity and we hope the next set of geographers will find this trip as valuable and interesting as we did!

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We are pleased to announce that we, once again, have Essex Outdoor Cinema coming on site during the summer. This year we will be showing:

Saturday 20th July 2019

Tickets can be purchased directly from Essex Outdoor Cinema priced at £12.00 for adults and £8.00 for children (https://www.essexoutdoorcinema.com/)

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THE COOPERS’ COMPANY AND COBORN SCHOOL TERM AND HOLIDAY DATES FOR 2019-2020

AUTUMN TERM 2019

First Day of Term for staff only (CPD Day)

Y7 & Y12 only

Whole School Returns

Wednesday 4 September 2019

Thursday 5 September 2019

Friday 6 September 2019

Half Term

Monday 21 October 2019 – Friday 25 October 2019

Last Day of Term (school closing early)

Friday 20 December 2019

CHRISTMAS HOLIDAYS Monday 23 December 2019 – Friday 3 January 2020

SPRING TERM 2020


Monday 6 January 2020

Half Term

Monday 17 February 2020 – Friday 21 February 2020


Friday 3 April 2020

EASTER HOLIDAYS Monday 6 April 2020 – Friday 17 April 2020

SUMMER TERM 2020

First Day of Term Monday 20 April 2020

Half Term

Monday 25 May 2020 – Friday 29 May 2020


Friday 17 July 2020

CPD dates

i.e. school closed to students


Monday 6 January 2020

Bank Holidays

Wednesday 25 December 2019

Thursday 26 December 2019

Wednesday 1 January 2020

Friday 10 April 2020

Monday 13 April 2020

Friday 8 May 2020

Monday 25 May 2020

Monday 31 August 2020

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THE COOPERS’ COMPANY AND COBORN SCHOOL TERM AND HOLIDAY DATES FOR 2020-2021

AUTUMN TERM 2020


Y7 & Y12 only

Whole School Returns

Monday 7 September 2020

Tuesday 8 September 2020


Half Term

Monday 26 October 2020 – Friday 30 October 2020



CHRISTMAS HOLIDAYS Monday 21 December 2020 – Monday 4 January

2021

SPRING TERM 2021

First Day of Term

Tuesday 5 January 2021

Half Term

Monday 15 February 2021 – Friday 19 February 2021


Thursday 1 April 2021

EASTER HOLIDAYS Friday 2 April 2021 – Friday 16 April 2021

SUMMER TERM 2021

First Day of Term for staff only (CPD Day) Monday 19 April 2021

Half Term

Monday 31 May 2021 – Friday 4 June 2021


Friday 23 July 2021

CPD dates

i.e. School Closures

Monday 7 September 2020

Monday 19 April 2021

Bank Holidays


Monday 28 December 2020

Friday 1 January 2021

Friday 2 April 2021

Monday 5 April 2021

Monday 3 May 2021

Monday 31 May 2021

Monday 30 August 2021

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