NEWSLETTER OCTOBER 2010

 

A C H I E V E • D E V E L O P • E X C E L

Dear Parents and carers

This academic year has started with another set of good and improved examination results. Every year I have been in the fortunate position of commending the students and staff for increasing our students’ grades. Our vertical curriculum with students taking examinations at the end of year 10, means that we are on target to continue with this upward momentum.

If academic attainment is to continue to increase I would like to ensure that the partnership between you as parents and the school remains strong. We have vacancies for parent governors, which is a valuable way to fully contribute to the school’s progress. Details are included within this newsletter. The Friends of Lea Valley Association has gained momentum and has regular social events for parents. We are also pleased to announce the opening of a Community Sports night every Thursday which will enable you and your children to participate in a range of sporting activities.

We very much appreciate the vast majority of parents who work with us to ensure that all students maintain minimum standards. However we are concerned about the number of students who are bringing mobile phones into school, as this detracts from learning. Mobile phones will be confiscated and returned at the end of the half term at a specified time. Parents should be mindful that if they wish their child to bring a phone to school and we fully appreciate the reasons why this may be the case, that the phone will be confiscated if it is abused. Confiscated mobiles will be returned on the following dates between 3.30pm and 4.30pm. Thursday 16th December, Thursday 17th February, Thursday 7th April, Thursday 26th May, Thursday 21st July

Parents/carers must sign for them at the school reception.

We consulted on the introduction of biometric registration. Thank you for the positive response we re-ceived. We have taken the decision to defer this at present because of the economic climate. As with many schools we appreciate the headline announce-ments following the comprehensive spending review but are waiting for the detail before embarking on expensive purchases.

Thank you for your continuing support. I wish you all a good half term break.

Janet Cullen

Principal

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Principal and Director of Year Appear In National Newspaper

The Principal, Janet Cullen, along with Di-rector of Year 7, Joanna Tate appeared in The Independent on Thursday 16th Sep-tember 2010. The article promotes the fan-tastic work the school has been doing with the Teach First charity, which helps us ap-pointment top graduates as teachers to sup-port the effective progress of students as well as being excellent role models to raise our student’s aspirations.

 

Lea Valley Celebrates the best exam results - EVER!

The examination results published in August 2010 saw Lea Valley High School achieve its best examination results to date in all of the year groups completing examinations.

Our students have built on previous success in 2009 ,working exceptionally hard with our dedi-cated staff , taking the many opportunities that were made available to them throughout the year in order to support their preparation and revision. I think it is also worth noting that , due to the success of our innovative vertical curricu-lum, the students who have just started in year 11 this year achieved an exceptional set of re-sults in 2010 which promises even greater suc-cess next year.

A special mention to:

Year 9:

107 students successfully completed their French and Physical Education GCSE. This is the first year students from year 9 have been entered for GCSE qualifications and 2 years ‘early’ by other schools’ standards. Congratula-tions to all those students!

Year 10:

Because of our ‘stage not age’ policy, 8% of Year 10 have already passed the minimum benchmark figure of 5 A* - C grades which in-cludes English and Maths. This represents an increase in achievement of 100% from 2009.

17% of year 10 have already achieved 4 A*- C grades including English and Maths a 200% increase on 2009!

Year 11:

43% of the students achieved a minimum of 5 A* - C grades which included English and Maths.

98% of year 11 achieved a minimum of 5 A* - G grades.

52% of year 11 achieved a minimum of 5 A* - C grades.

13 of our top Able, Gifted and Talented stu-dents who started their A levels a year early in year 11 successfully passed their AS level in English and their AS units in Maths.

Ian Broad

Vice Principal

Enrichment

Even more Lunchtime Enrichment Activities offered!

Since the first day of term, students have been enjoying a series of Lunchtime Enrichment ac-tivities offered by staff and sixth form students from all areas of the school.

The split lunch times, where year 7, 8 and 9 have lunch for the first hour, followed by the upper school has made it possible to have a wider range of activities. The queues in the dining hall are shorter and the lengthened break gives more time for students to get in-volved in enriching activities.

Key Stage 3 students can choose from 37 ac-tivities over the week. Reflecting our specialism as a Sports College there are of course a wide range of sports clubs provided by the PE staff and community coaches, but there are a wide variety of clubs including Circus Skills, Alchemy Club, Craft club and two large groups are pre-paring to sit a half GCSE examination in ‘Preparation for Working Life’. ‘Meet and Greet’ club, run by sixth form prefects has been very popular.

Key Stage 4 students have 17 activities to choose from including Dodgeball, Mandarin Chinese, Choir and Dance Theatre. The range of activities are extremely popular with over 700 students participating each week. There is of course always the quiet space and opportunity to complete home work and to use computers to carry out further research into the subjects students are studying.

Sharon Rayner Assistant Principal Sex and Relationship Counseling

As you are aware at Lea Valley High School, part of our Life Skills programme is aimed to deliver the PSHE curriculum in order to pro-mote well being and effective health education for our students.

Sex and Relationship Education (SRE) is an essential section and is integrated to the Life Skills programme at our school. It is widely accepted that SRE contributes to meeting the five Every Child Matters outcomes.

SRE plays a role in enabling young people to take responsibility for their own and others’ sex-ual health and provides children the knowledge, skills and attitudes to make safe and responsi-ble choices about relationships and sex. Fo-cused on skills, values and attitudes, SRE is a powerful tool in reducing sexually risky behav-iour.

We would like to inform you that SRE pro-gramme at Lea Valley High School will com-mence on 02 November 2010 and continue for the next six weeks. Although the vast majority of parents/carers want their children to receive school based SRE, there is a parental right to withdraw children from the non-statutory as-pects of the programme. We are required to provide an SRE programme which includes information about sexually transmitted infec-tions and HIV/AIDS.

If you would like your child to be withdrawn from any part of SRE programme, please con-tact either myself or your child’s Director of Year.

Thank you very much for your continuing sup-port and cooperation.

Ilgin Williams Senior Assistant Principal

 

The Nine Houses of Lea Valley High School

The House system at Lea Valley High School reflects our Sports College status. There are nine houses, named after nine sporting role models:

Sir Steve Redgrave Steffi Graf Denise Lewis

Michael Jordan Edison ‘Pele’ Dame Kelly Holmes

Lord Sebastian Coe Sir Bobby Moore Tom Watson

All students are in one of the nine houses, forming their tutor group. Being a member of a house gives students a variety of opportunities to take part in a range of activities to get points for their house, to get to know their tutor group, to take on a leadership role and ultimately be part of a team.

Points are awarded for student successes and all Inter House competitions throughout the year. This includes achievement points, attend-ance figures and year group competitions. This leads into the overall School House competition known as the Thomas Mensah Trophy, in memory of a member of staff.

The Year group winners last year were as fol-lows:

Year 7 – Steffi Graf

Year 8 – Michael Jordan

Year 9 – Pele

Year 10 – Michael Jordan

Year 11 – Pele

The overall House winners though for 2009-2010 were Michael Jordan!

This year, Lea Valley has launched their new logos that are attached to each house. De-signed by a member of staff at the school, Mr N Woodville, each house now has its own unique symbol and colour attached to it, that the stu-dents will represent with pride.

Miss Stephanie Holloway

Senior Assistant Principal

House Sport

Lea Valley High School’s improved Inter-house competition programme has got well under way with our new SSCo (School Sport Co-Ordinator) Mr Oyuncu organising Inter House 5 a side competitions for all Year groups. So far we have had competitions for Year 7, 8 and 9 Boys and Girls.

The students have been outstanding in their attitude, sportsmanship and standard of play. Attendance has been excellent with almost half the students in each year group taking part in the competitions. Some of the results so far are below:

Year 8 Boys Year 8 Girls Year 9 Boys

1st – SR 1st – SG 1st - TW

2nd – MJ 2nd – SC 2nd - SG

3rd – EP 3rd – SR 3rd – MJ

All the girls from the Year 8 5 a side competition

Action from the Year 8 Boys competition

Tim Perkins Assistant Principal

Information Advice and Guidance

Roald Dahl Day- 13th September

Roald Dahl day was pleasantly celebrated on 13th September at LVHS this year. The day started off with a ROALD DAHL Assembly by Ms Cullen, the Principal who used the charac-ter of Matilda to underline the importance of reading at all ages and stages.

Activities were planned throughout the day and year 7 students came to the library during their

English Lessons to participate in a range of fun learning activities from quizzes to craft and prizes were awarded for the most creative work.

Students listened enthralled to the Roald Dahl storytelling by our librarian, Mrs Roberts.

Booked Up for Year 7

This is a project run by Booktrust which gives every year 7 student in England their choice of a free book which they can choose from a list of 19 books. Our year 7 students have all cho-sen their books and these should be arriving during December. This is a wonderful initiative to encourage the enjoyment of reading. Our school has also been chosen as a case study by the Booktrust to monitor the success of the programme.

Preparation for Working Life – Lunchtime Enrichment

Preparation for Working Life is a short course equivalent to a ½ GCSE and has been offered to years 8, 9, 10 and 11 as an enrichment club at lunch times.

The aims of the course are to teach students and make them aware of the world of work. Students need to submit coursework which will consist of a CV, Letter of Application and Inter-view Skills. The response from students was overwhelming!

Skills City London Excel 7th October

Every two years EXCEL London hosts the Skills City event. This is the UK’s biggest ca-reers and skills event for young people. It of-fers hands-on-activities that bring the world of work to life, taken to extremes with the snake handling for students who wished to work with animals! Our students had the opportunity to meet over 100 companies offering interactive stands from household names including the British Army, BBC, EDF Energy, London Fire Brigade, Price Waterhouse Coopers to name but a few.

As well as employers there were information stands run by Universities, Colleges and Train-ing Providers.

45 students attended this event, 4 Sixth Form students and 41 Year 11 students. A good in-formative day was had by all.

Helen Roberts

Deputy Director, Information Advice and Guidance

Safer Schools Police Officer

I would like to introduce myself as the new Lea Valley High School’s Safer Schools Police Of-ficer having replaced PC Michael White. I am in school every day and share an office with Serat Rahi, the Education Welfare Officer. Our office is located opposite the school’s recep-tion.

My primary role as your school Police Officer is to ensure that the students and staff are, and feel, safe within their learning and teaching en-vironment. I intend to work closely with the school staff and student community to ensure this is achieved.

A Safer Schools Officer is not introduced in a school to criminalise students but to prevent offending by means of active engagement and by clarifying and explaining relevant law topics as and when required.

You will see me on my cycle patrolling around the school area to reduce truanting and to pre-vent any displays of anti-social behaviour. Most days I will be at the school gates from 3.15pm when students are going home so please feel free to see me.

PC Giudi Pell-Coggins

 

Prospective Parents Evening

On Thursday 30th September Lea Valley High School held its annual Prospective Parents Evening, which gives Year 6 students and their families the opportunity to tour the school and experience a variety of activities lead by curric-ulum areas.

With over 200 families attending this year’s evening it certainly was an exciting night. Our visitors were shown around the school by our student tour guides who were mainly from Years 7 and 8 and Years 11, 12 and 13. This ensures that our prospective new students and their families are able to ask our students what life at Lea Valley is really like.

Throughout the evening each department demonstrated the opportunities that students can access by coming to Lea Valley High School. Some of the activities on offer included:

Sports Wall Challenge

Try your skills at Football Freestyle

Newsroom simulation

Meet and listen to our Public Speaking Champions

Maths Magic

Flame on!

Travelling through different lands

Year 7 MFL lessons

Who wants to be a Millionaire

Choreography in Motion

Mono printing

Fairy cake making

Welcome Centre and EAL provision

To name but a few!!

It really was a fantastic evening that highlights the range of learning experiences that exist at Lea Valley High School for all of our students and I would like to thank all of the staff and stu-dents who supported the evening for their hard work.

Stephanie Holloway

Senior Assistant Principal

Rudolph Walker School’s Drama Award

Rudolph Walker OBE, better known to his many fans at Lea Valley as Patrick from Eastenders, visited the school to launch his new project to encourage young people to use their spare time creatively rather than just ‘hanging around’.

He invited our students to form drama groups to create a short play, they will work inde-pendently to organise rehearsals and will write the script with minimal teacher input. They will however be supported by a workshop led by a professional actor. This will lead to a perfor-mance in a London theatre and maybe the win-ners trophy.

Alison Varndell

Director of Behaviour

 

Welcome to the student page of the Newsletter. We are a group of journalists and would like you to join us!

We want to write articles about topics you want to read about - life experiences, your opinions, your interests.

If you are interested, have articles or ideas, come and see one of the team; me, Georgina Morgan, Voldessa Farrell, Evelyn Ayodele or Don Dave Dela Cruz, or speak to one of the teachers helping, Ms Bennett or Ms Powell.

We’ve started you off with some articles on Cul-ture. Why? We have so many different cultures, representatives of many countries and lan-guages in our school it’s great to celebrate them. We are involved in the Culture Evening on 3rd November and we celebrated Interna-tional Day of Languages earlier in the term, so let’s hear what you have to say about your cul-ture.

Send us your articles and comments. Tell us what would you like in your newsletter pages?

Georgina Morgan 12EP

Write Bright Student Editor

Wonderful Wales

It shocks me. The amount of people that be-lieve that Wales is just a part of England is astounding. Wales is completely separate from England - Different accents (which are hard to follow!) Different language (which is hard to follow!).

Wales is home to many celebrities; Singers; Duffy and Tom Jones, Charlotte Church (and ex-husband Gavin Henson), the land of birth of many famous actors; Anthony Hopkins, Dawn French and Catherine Zeta-Jones. We mustn't forget our own celebrity, Mr Broad!

Wales is a place where the grass is fresh, the rain is hard, the castles are ancient and the stars shine bright.

You try standing on a Welsh Hill at night with-out gazing up at the stars and feeling just a rush of wonder and amazement.

I have lots of memories, bad and good. As little as Wales may seem, it is full of big adventures.

Georgina Morgan

Turkey - a city of cultures

There are many qualities of the Turkish culture

and traditions. However I believe the most amazing of all is the history behind Istanbul. Constantinople (Istanbul) was the Imperial capi-tal of the Roman Empire, Byzantine’s Empire. Throughout the Middle Ages, Constantinople was Europe’s most advanced and wealthiest city.

In fact, perhaps another astonishing detail is the influence of Constantinople (ultimately Em-peror Constantine) on the foundations of Chris-tianity.

Hagia Sophia, located in Istanbul, is a major tourist attraction as throughout history it served as both a Roman Catholic church and an Islam-ic Mosque. I believe this fact strongly supports the rich culture of Turkey.

Turan Kaya 12 DL

Another Exciting opportunity for Lea Valley Students

Earlier this term, Dominic Bond from the Sabre Trust came into school to launch an exciting project in assembly.

We are forming a partnership with the Amisano School in Ghana and all students can be in-volved in this project. We will be doing curricu-lar projects with Amisano in lessons and hope that we can have reciprocal visits this academic year. In summer 2012 a group of students from current years 10, 11 and 12 will travel to Ghana as a World Challenge expedition to undertake a project with students from our partner school to learn more about Ghana-ian life and culture.

We anticipate this being an ongoing pro-ject so the opportunity to travel to Gha-na will be there for stu-dents in other years as they progress through the school.

Our first big event to launch the fundraising for the partnership is Culture Evening on 3rd No-vember, tickets are £2.50 from the Library. Please come along and bring food from your culture to share, help us celebrate the many cultures that make Lea Valley the vibrant com-munity it is!

Helen Powell

Assistant Principal

Partnership 

 Ghana 

 

School Sport Partnership

Sports Leadership:

This year we have once again put 6 of our best sports leaders onto the Enfield Leadership Academy, which is a Leadership Club for the best sports leaders throughout the Borough. They will receive training, sports leadership and volunteering opportunities throughout the year. The students who have been lucky enough to be enrolled are:

Mollie Kmita (Y12), Rosie Kmita (Y12), Danny Burke (Y12), Shaun Stone (Y12), Kelly Webb (Y12), Hannah Dunne (Y12)

This photo shows one of our Leadership Acad-emy students, Mollie Kmita, refereeing at a re-cent inter House competition.

Young Ambassadors

A further development for Sports Leadership this year is the Young Ambassadors and Adistars programme.

We have two Young Ambassadors within our school who will be given the role of running the school Sports Council, working with the Enfield PE Team on developing Sports Leadership across the Borough and generally having an ambassadorial role within the school and the Borough in raising the profile of sports leader-ship.

Our Young Ambassadors are:

Platinum YA – Elizabeth Baidoo

Gold YA – Laura Gibbings

We are also launching the “adistars” pro-gramme which is an initiative sponsored by adidas that encourages young people to get more active in sport. There are incentives along the way to do this, the best of which is a trip to Los Angeles to meet David Beckham! We have

a number of “adistar ambassadors” in the school who will be used to encourage students to sign up to the programme. These students are:

Mollie Kmita (Y12), Rosie Kmita (Y12), Keisha Hatton (Y12), Tiffany Kelly (Y12).

More details of the programme will be an-nounced to the students in school shortly.

Tag Rugby Festivals

The Lea Valley High School Tag Rugby Festi-vals will start after half term. A number of Pri-mary Schools will come to the school to take part in Tag Rugby tournaments throughout the year ending with a Finals Day in March. Our Young Leaders will be assisting with the prima-ry Schools in preparing the students for these festivals.

Honilands Table Tennis Club

Honilands School have been using our Gymna-sium to allow a group of their students get a taster of a new sport Table Tennis. Table Ten-nis is a very fast moving and active sport that can be played anywhere and we are very glad to help the school promote this popular sport. Two of our Young Leaders who enjoy Table Tennis have been assisting the teachers from Honilands with this club – thanks to Sam Cow-an and Leon Christodolou for their expertise.

Swimming Programme

In January, the Secondary School Swimming Programme will start for the second year. This programme gives students who cannot swim at all, or have difficulty swimming, a chance to improve their swimming skills and make them-selves more confident in water. The pro-gramme will run for twelve weeks after school at Edmonton Leisure Centre from 10 January to 4 April. Places will be offered on a first come first served basis, with Year 7 being offered the opportunity first. Letters will be available to stu-dents after half term.

Tim Perkins

Partnership Development Manager  

 

Year 7

Year 7 students have settled into life at Lea Valley High School very well. They are working well in their form and their new learning groups and have made a positive start to the year. I would like to take this opportunity to thank all Year 7 parents and carers for your support with the transition from primary to secondary school.

The Year 7 Parents’ Evening

I would also like to thank all parents and carers who attended the Year 7 parents’ evening on Wednesday 13th October 2010. This was a very positive event and we appreciate all your support in helping your child achieve their very best at school.

Positive Opportunities

This term all year 7 students have had the opportunity to participate in an Enfield Road Safety Presentation delivered by a theatre company. This was a high quality presentation and an enjoyable experience for all students.

I would like to congratulate 7TW and 7SR for the excellent standard of their form assemblies over the last two weeks. They were around the themes of healthy eating and international days of languages. We look forward to the assem-blies of all the other form groups as next term progresses.

Below is a reminder list of all the staff in the Year 7 team. If you have any questions or con-cerns about your child please feel free to con-tact the appropriate staff below.

Ms. J. Tate – Director of Year

Mr. N. Woodville – Assistant Director of Year

Ms. S. Wright – Student Welfare Co-ordinator Year 7

7BM Ms. E. Gray / Ms. C. Safer

7DL Ms. P. Bond / Ms. M. Pieciurek

7EP Mr. S. Dayekh / Ms. H. Wais

7KH Ms. D. Uppiah-Leahy

7MJ Ms. A. Marsh / Mr. C. Townsend

7SC Mr. M. Fahey / Ms. G. Francis

7SG Ms. G. Douglas

7SR Ms. V. Torpos / Mr. G. Akkir

7TW Mr. J. McIntosh / Ms. C. Marshall

If you have any other questions regarding your child please do not hesitate to contact me on 01992 704 638. I look forward to continuing to work with you in the future.

Joanna Tate

Director of Year 7

Year 8

It has been a huge pleasure to welcome back the Year 8’s to a new school year at Lea Valley High School. Everyone has settled well in to their tutor groups and made a really positive start to the year. I would also like to take this opportunity to welcome back parents and car-ers.

As you are aware we have started the new timetable system at the school, and I have been impressed by how the Year 8’s have started their courses of study. Achievement is very important in a student’s future life and I expect everyone in Year 8 to try their very best. To be successful students need to support themselves and be supported by others. I ex-pect all students in the year to work hard and behave in an appropriate manner to be taught and also allow others to learn.

Year 8 Team

There have been a few changes to the Year 8 staffing this year so I would like to take this op-portunity to introduce the team:

Ms D Patel – Director of Year

Mr J Rowlands – Assistant Director of Year

Ms K Richardson – Student Welfare Co-ordinator Year 8

8BM Ms S Mussell

8DL Ms S Nayegon

8EP Mr T Langdon

8KH Ms J Nicholls

8MJ Ms M Effah

8SC Ms L Tarantini-Amor

8SG Ms C Callaghan

8SR Mr R Cross

8TW Ms F Khan

 

Uniform

The year group all looked smart on their first day back. Thank you to all parents and carers for this. The school has a uniform to help chil-dren identify as part of our school community. This is compulsory from year 7 through to year 11 so please ensure that your child wears it daily.

The Term Ahead

A long, busy term lies ahead and I will endeav-our to keep you up-to-date with news and events as the term progresses.

I wish the year group good luck in meeting the challenges that lie ahead and know that we can look forward to an exciting and rewarding year ahead.

If you have any questions or queries concern-ing your child please do not hesitate to contact me on 01992 704 692.

Dhanisha Patel

Director of Year 8

Humanities

It has been a great start to the new year in Hu-manities. Our two new members of staff hit the floor running and both have made valuable contributions to the department.

The new schemes of work for Year 7 and 8 have been really well received. In Year 8 the Unit Riveting Rivers classes are making great connections between all the rivers and showing fantastic understanding of all the different sub-jects. The new Year 7s are getting to grips with the ideas behind Me, myself and Enfield. They are developing their use of sources and learn-ing lots of new skills.

The new exam classes have shown great com-mitment to their subjects, attendance has been high to all master classes and lots of BTEC stu-dents have been striving to get the highest lev-els possible. As a department we are pleased with the start to the new academic year.

Jamie Slater

Director of Humanities

Ethnic Minority Achievement Team (EMAT)

Our EMA team are happy to report that the Welcome Centre is running successfully. We offer our new students an intensive 6 – 8 weeks Induction Programme to teach or improve their English language and numeracy skills in a friendly and nurturing environment. Other areas of the curriculum including subjects like PE, Textiles and Food Technology are addressed in one specialised period per day.

This year we continue to support our students through withdrawal or lunchtime ESOL classes which are open to our students across all key stages. We have also re-introduced Study Sup-port lessons for our KS4 students which have met with success.

Finally, I would also like to take this opportunity to welcome Ms Pieciurek & Ms Kellaway who joined our department in September 2010 and to thank Ms Mohamed for all her hard work over the past year.

Alena Demcakova

Subject Leader EMAT

Keyboard Day

Enfield Arts Service are hosting a Keyboard day on:

Sunday 14th November 2010, 10.00am- 4.00pm at Churchfield Primary School, Latymer Road, London N9 9PE

This target audience are pupils that have had at least two terms of tuition up to Grade 2.

Please bring your own keyboard with batteries/power supply.

If you are interested please call EASS on:

020 8807 8881

Or download an application from the EASS website www.enfieldartssupportservice.org.uk

The cost is £15 per pupil

 

Year 7 Boys Are More Like Young Men

As usual, there are a number of Year 7 Boys who want to represent Lea Valley High School at Football. This year has been no exception. We have played 2 fixtures so far in the league, winning 1 and losing 1. We have also played in the Middlesex Cup, where we unfortunately lost to Gunnersbury in the first round. The results have not shown the true display of the perfor-mances that the Boys have put in.

Aside from the performance of the team, it is the attitude and behaviour of the group that should be highly praised. They have led their own warm ups before matches without even being asked by the teacher; been respectful of all refereeing decisions; and have been an ab-solute delight representing the school.

May they continue with this positive attitude, and pick up some results with it! Well done so far Boys, and let’s go win the league!

Christopher Townsend

Teacher of PE, Year 7 Football Manager

Year 7 Girls’ Netball

The Year 7 Girls’ Netball Team has only played one match so far this season, and on Thursday 23rd September they travelled away to Kingsmead to represent Lea Valley in their first Netball match.

The girls put in a very strong performance against their opponents ensuring they never gave up, and at the end of the first quarter Lea Valley were leading 2-1 with excellent shooting from Shukrije and Lilly, Kingsmead managed to pull it back and take the lead by the end of the second quarter (5-3)

After a positive team talk at half time, the girls went out in the third quarter more focused and determined not to let Kingsmead dominate the game. Defenders Cheniece and Daniella worked hard to keep the ball out of the shooting area, while Tecle, Zoe and Gulmeyram inter-cepted Kingsmead’s passes.

Going into the fourth and final quarter the score was level at 8-8; Lea Valley took the lead with a great goal from Lilly. Kingsmead then came back and made it 9-9, with only a minute to go

Lea Valley gained possession and passed the ball down to the shooting area; unfortunately the shot had too much power and went off the end line. Kingsmead took possession and linked together a series of passes that resulted in the final goal of the match.

Final score Kingsmead 10 Lea Valley 9.

The attitude and effort from Lea Valley was ex-cellent!

Well done girls!

Year 7 Team:

Tecle Longa Longa, Zoe Mavrides, Daniella Maccharelli, Lilly Brown, Shukrije Zeqiri (Captian), Gulmeyram Yaman, Cheniece Warn-er

Laura Hunt

Director of Subject, PE

Year 8 Boys Football Team

Football could not be better for the Year 8 Foot-ball Team. Winning every match in the season so far and heading straight to the top of the league, and in doing so beating Kingsmead (4-1), Highlands (5-2) and Knightingail (6-3).We also passed into the next round of the Enfield Cup. Each member of the football team has shown great compassion, responsibility and teamwork in every match and if they continue like this it may be a very successful season.

Thomas Lally

Teacher of PE, Year 8 Football Manager

Year 8 Netball

The girls have had a good start to the 2010/2011 netball season and have played 3 games so far. The best game this season was the most recent game played against Oasis Hadley at home, where the girls won 12-0. The team are growing in confidence and strength every week, helped by their training with Miss Robinson. The results to date are:

LVHS v St Johns Lost 6-1

LVHS v Kingsmead Lost 11-6

LVHS v Oasis Hadley Won 12-0

The Year 8 team consists of Harriet Ayih, Mon-ica Antwiwaa, Diana Nguimbi, Samantha Smith-Nolan, Nimco, Sterlin Mohammed, Amie Sarr,

 

Dorcas Bokete and Chantelle Ewen. If there are any other Year 8 girls who would like to play for the team please come to training on a Friday lunch time or see Miss Johnson.

Senior Netball

The senior netball team have had a fantastic start to the netball season so far with the follow-ing results:

LVHS v St Johns Won 26-11

LVHS v Kingsmead Won 13-5

LVHS v Oasis Hadley Won 14-11

The team have really worked well together con-sidering that collectively they are too busy to train due to their academic commitments. The shooting partnership of Becky Gilder and Ashlea Thurlow has continued to gain strength with each game, assisted by the consistently dependable skills of Middlesex County netball player Lauren Cole as Centre. The fantastic defence given by Nuria Da Cunha and Hannah Parker has meant that many of the games have been won due to quick interceptions and return balls to the attack-ing end. Let’s hope the success continues into 2011. The Senior netball team consists of Becky Gilder, Ashlea Thurlow, Keisha Hatton, Lauren Cole, Wendy Danso, Hannah Parker, Nuria Da Cunha and Angelina Rowntree.

Lyndsay Johnson

Subject Leader for Girls PE

Senior Football

The senior football team is a mixture of old and new this year. The experienced heads of Luke Foster, Mussa Membar, Ayhan Setirekli and Alex Childs (to name but a few) have returned to play, and the squad’s newest year 11 members, such as Jock Boyton, Sam Bullen, Richard Dixon and Shaquille Brown have added some much need-ed energy and youth.

The first game versus Kingsmead School was a league and cup double header. The Lea Valley team started off slow and things went from bad to worse as Kingsmead took an early lead. This didn’t last long though, as this sparked our senior team into life and we went on a scoring spree, with the game ending 6-3 in our favour.

The next game was later that week against Chis-

wick Community School in the English Schools Football Association Cup. After what seemed like an absolute age to get there, we were com-fortable victors, with the final score 4-0.

The next fixture was in the league. We kept our 100% win record with another comfortable 4-0 win against Nightingale Academy. We were flying high, confident and ready for our next fixture in the English Schools Cup 2nd round. Another trip to West London faced us; however this would turn out to be a completely different encounter compared to our last visit to the area. The Latymer team we faced were excellent; very skllful, organised and disci-pline… and it was discipline that would be our downfall! After both sides exchanged early goals, the decisive moment in the match would come about 25 minutes into the match, when one of the senior Lea Valley players was sent off for an outrageous dissent decision from the referee. We would eventually lose the game 6-2, however I was proud of the players’ effort and the score does not reflect the match as they scored 3 late goals.

So the English schools wasn’t meant to be this year… however both myself and the team hold high hopes for winning the league and cup dou-ble.

Under 15 Football

This team is probably one of the most talented teams the school has seen. They worked hard for each other and can sometimes play football that is worthy of the Premiership!

The team is unbeaten having seen off school such as Highlands, Nightingale and Greig City, but the team’s biggest test was against last year’s English schools cup finalists, Queens school from Watford.

This highly anticipated match would not have been out of place in the quarters, semis of final of the cup, yet it was a first round clash, mean-ing that one of the “big guns” of the cup was going to be knocked out!!

It was a hard fought, tense match with both players’, managers’ and officials’ emotions run-ning high! Queens took the lead slightly

 

against the run of play, but nearing the end of the first half Gaille Bola picked the ball up just inside the opposition’s half and smashed the ball like a rocket over the Queen’s goalkeeper… AMAZING goal!!

The rest of the match and extra time was thor-oughly entertaining, but both schools failed to add to their solitary goal.

Therefore, the match was decided on penalties. This is where the boys turned into men. Leoni-das Christodoulou, Kirkland, Lamce, Goldy and Jack all scored their penalties with ease… how-ever, so did 4 of the Queens players. The final penalty fell to a Queens midfielder, who in fair-ness had played very well. He stepped up… took the kick…slightly to Leon’s right, but our Goalie matched it and saved the ball!!! The boys all rushed to him and dog piled him… it was fantastic!!!

Can this year be our year?? We believe it can be!

James Parker

Teacher of PE

Year 9 Boys Football Team

The start of the Year 9 boy’s football team has been a bit of a roller coaster ride. The boys have only played two matches this season due to can-cellations. The first game played was a defeat to Southgate in the Enfield Cup, which left the boys disappointed and hungry for success.

The boys’ next fixture was against John-Lyon School in Harrow in the Middlesex Cup which ended in a dramatic 4-3 victory to Lea Valley. The game started evenly with both teams having early chances. John-Lyon were the first to break the dead lock, and they extended their lead to 2-0 five minutes after scoring the first. The Lea Valley boys continued to plug away and this paid off after a 35 yard screamer from Charlie Ryan.

Lea Valley continued pressing for their second and were dealt a sucker punch when John-Lyon scored a deflected goal which put them 3-1 up just before half time. Moral was low within the Lea Valley camp and an inspirational half time team talk was required by Mr Oyuncu. The boys

went out into second half with all guns blazing and in the fiftieth minute Bradley Doherty slot-ted in a coolly taken shot. This gave the Lea Valley boys confidence and they continued to push for the third. It eventually came when Dahnoy Edwards picked the ball up, dribbled passed two players and dinked the ball over the keeper. A goal that would have put Lionel Mes-si to shame. Lea Valley now had the momen-tum and continued to press for the victory.

The winning goal was worthy of Goal of the Season. Lea Valley won a corner ball which was cleared to Jamie De Souza who only had one thing on his mind and that was to shoot. He adjusted his body and shot from forty yards. The shot was unstoppable. Lea Valley had gone ahead for the first time in the game, and the boys managed to defend for their lives for the last five minutes. The final whistle was blown and the boys had their first victory of the season.

Junior Girls Football Team

The girls have made a very positive start to the season. They have shown excellent determina-tion and commitment. In their first game, against Broomfield, they game back from 3-1 to get a 3-3 draw. (goals from Shanice Nourrice and Ellie Williams.) The player of the match was Shanice Nourrice.

The second game against Kingsmead, was won 2-1, with goals from Jessica Abeysekera, who was also voted player of the match.

Brilliant start girls. Keep it up.

Debbie Bostwick

Teacher of PE

 

Girls into Golf” day at Broxbourne Golf Club.

In September 14 GCSE PE students were invit-ed to attend a special ‘Girls into Golf Day’ at Broxbourne Golf Club.

The event was organised as part of the clubs initiative to encourage more females into the sport. The students had expert tuition from the club coaches and players and the two session taught them the techniques of putting, chipping and driving.

The students really enjoyed the whole experi-ence, with the driving proving most popular as they were extremely competitive to see who could hit nit the furthest. The students had a fan-tastic time and were praised by the golf club for their positive attitude, sense of humour and skills.

There will be follow up sessions in the future and an opportunity for the students to become mini-leaders themselves. The students would like to thank the club and Sports Development Coach-ing for providing them with the opportunity. 

Sharon Rayner

Assistant Principal

Changed your contact details?

Please can you ensure that you update us if you change your address, workplace or mobile tele-phone. I have experienced difficulties contacting parents and carers on a number of occasions this term because the details we are holding are out of date. It is essential that we have emergen-cy contact details in case of, for example, accidents or illness.

Medical

Could we please take this opportunity to ask that you inform us immediately if your child is diagnosed with Measles, Chicken pox or shingles. It is important that we are aware as a school so that we can take necessary action to support your child and our school community

Attendance

Ms Tate and Ms Patel are really proud of your attendance as a year group and would like to thank parents and carers for their help with this. Please help us continue this by telephoning the attendance line on the first day of absence and sending a letter on the first day back. If your child is likely to be out for three or more days, please let us know so that we can arrange for work to be collected.

WORLD CHALLENGE

GHANA VISIT 2012

“ACCLIMATISATION

MEETING”

Monday 15th November in the Library

Bring your completed application form and deposit cheque

See Ms Powell for more details

 

School Uniform

We are proud of our school uniform at Lea Valley High School and we realise the importance it has in ensuring we maintain the high standards and expectations of all our students. New school guidelines provided by the new coalition govern-ment at the end of last term have given all schools greater authority to enforce minimum standards and expectations.

From November 1st 2010, students who arrive at school without a Lea Valley High School blazer, without a school tie or without black leather polished shoes will not be allowed to enter school and will be immediately sent home. No trainers, trainer type shoes with logos, shoes with brightly coloured stitching or coloured laces will be tolerated. This also includes the plain black canvas trainers which many students seem to have purchased over the Summer. These are also not appropriate and not part of our school uniform. These will need to be replaced with more appropriate black leather polished shoes with black laces (examples shown below) and no bright coloured stitching .

We will inform all parents/carers of students who have been sent home for not having correct uniform.

If students are seen to be dressed inappropriate-ly during the school day, the inappropriate items will be confiscated and returned at a later date.

Students may also be isolated from their lessons until appropriate uniform items are provided and or purchased by their parent/carer.

I hope this helps to clarify our position on school uniform and all parents/carers will support the schools policy which will help our students fulfil their potential and prepare them to be successful leaders in the wider communi-ty.

Late Desk

I would like to inform you that in order to re-emphasise the importance of punctuality to school with our students, we will start the ‘Late Desk’ procedures from 01 November 2010.

According to this system, any student arriving at school later than 08:50 without a sound excuse for their lateness will receive a 15 minutes detention at the end of the day with one of the Assistant Directors of Year.

If the lateness occurs more than once per week the student will sit a longer detention with their Director of Year on the assigned date which we will communicate to you prior to the detention. The Assistant Director of Year will target the students who are repeatedly late to school aiming to assist them in learning how to manage time effectively. They will monitor the progress of the student from the punctuality point of view and maintain the communication with the parents/carers of the students.

Please let me take this opportunity to thank you for your continuous support and co-operation in making your child’s learning experience a success at the Lea Valley High School.

Do not hesitate to contact me if you have any further enquiries.

Janet Cullen

Principal

 

What’s on at Lea Valley?

Culture Evening

6.30 pm 3rd November 2010

An evening of food, music, dance and poetry

Bring a plate of traditional food from your

culture to share or buy one to fill for £2.50

Tickets £2.50 on sale from the Library

Lea Valley’s Got Talent

Auditions are coming up and this promises to be an exciting and surprising contest.

With Dance, Drama and Music entries your senses will be brought alive by the visual and aural spectacles.

Put the date in your diary for the Special Parents Preview on 16th December.

Grease

This year the Performing Arts Faculty will be hosting a production of that well-loved 50’s musical Grease.

No longer will you be ‘Alone at the drive in’ nor starring at the ‘blue moon’ alone, come and join us and learn to ‘hand jive’ as we head towards the ‘summer nights’ on 5th and 6th April. Don’t leave us with ‘tears on our pillow’ because ‘We go together’ and ‘you’re the one that we want’ to come and see us on the big stage.

Pamper Evening

The Friends of Lea Valley invite you to an evening of pampering and indulgence on 18th November. Therapists will be on hand for you to sample a range of treatments.

Entry of £5 which includes a goodie bag and complementary soft drink. Programmes are on sale in advance and include all the therapist details so you can book your treatments direct with the therapists in advance.

Dates for your Diary

Tuesday 2nd November 6.00pm - 8.30pm

Year 7/8 Halloween Disco

Wednesday 3rd November 6.30pm

Culture Evening

Thursday 4th November 6.30pm

Aim Higher High Achievers Evening

Tuesday 9th November 6.00pm

Friends of Lea Valley

Thursday 25th November 6pm

Level 3 AS/A2 Parents’ Evening

Thursday 16th December 6pm

Lea Valley’s Got Talent - Parents’ Preview

Friday 17th December

Autumn Term ends,

students dismissed at lunchtime

Tuesday 4th January 2011 8.45am

Spring Term begins

21st to 25th February 2011

Half Term

11th to 25th April 2011

Easter Holiday

Tuesday 26th April 2011

Summer Term starts

30th May to 3rd June 2011

Half Term

Friday 22nd July 2011

School year ends

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