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Top 3 things we have asked students to focus on:

1. Excellence: Congratulations to all those receiving an award

at Celebration Evening on Wednesday.

2. Commitment: Stay focused and positive during this final

week and help others to do the same.

3. Adventure: Choose a good book to curl up with this

Christmas.

Dates for Your Diary

Important Dates:

• Celebration of Achievement Evening – Wednesday 18 December 7pm to 9.30pm, Royal Hall by invitation only

• Non-uniform day – Friday 20 December, £2 donation to the school charity • End of Autumn Term – Friday 20 December, 2.30pm finish

Start of next term: • Year 13 Mock Examinations w/c 6 and 13 January • Year 8 HPV vaccinations – Tuesday 7 January • Year 11 Mock Examination results handed out during assembly – Friday 10 January, Hall

• Year 10 Parents’ Consultation Evening – Tuesday 14 January 4-7pm

• PTA Meeting – Wednesday 15 January 6.30pm • Year 9 Options Evening – Wednesday 22 January 7pm, Hall • PTA Burns Night Supper – Saturday 25 January 7pm, Hall • Year 7 Parent Consultation Evening – Tuesday 28 January 4-7pm • Battle of the Bands – Thursday 30 January 7pm • Year 9 MenACWY vaccinations– Friday 31 January

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Parent Bulletin Week Beginning: Monday 16 December 2019 Week A

All upcoming events, term dates and holidays:

• Link to school web calendar

Information

HGS Mock Election – Thursday 12 December 2019

This week students learnt more about the election process and each manifesto before placing their votes on Thursday. Thank you to all

Form Tutors and students for supporting the mock election. The votes have been counted and the results were:

The Sound of Music Tickets on sale from Thursday 19 December We are very excited to announce that tickets for The Sound of Music will go on sale on Thursday 19 December from the Harrogate Theatre Box Office. Tickets will be

priced at £14 adult and £10 concession/student. Link to Harrogate Box Office: https://www.harrogatetheatre.co.uk/whats-on/The-Sound-of-Music

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Parent Bulletin Week Beginning: Monday 16 December 2019 Week A

Year 11 Work Experience Guide – Harrogate District Hospital

Harrogate and District NHS Foundation Trust (the Trust) offers a range of work experience placements. If you wish to be considered for one of the placements listed below, please submit a letter of application (no more than 1 side of A4) explaining the benefit you would gain from this placement and why you should be chosen.

The application should be submitted to Mrs Bennett by 3.30pm on Monday 16th December. Please do not contact the hospital directly.

Non-Clinical Placements – Year 11 Non-clinical placements are suitable for students who wish to gain invaluable experience of how the

Trust works ‘behind the scenes’. These placements take place at Harrogate District Hospital. The placements are open to students in Year 11 and are for 1 or 2 days and will take place after the GCSE exams are finished in the summer. The placements would be ideal for students interested in the areas below or who may not yet know

what they wish to do as a career but would like to know more about working in a healthcare setting. Non-clinical placements are offered in the following areas:

• Catering – provide patients with exactly the right nutrition to help them recover • Clinical Research – be part of cutting-edge research into diseases • Clinical skills – observe clinical skills training in a classroom environment only • Planned and surgical care offices – admin duties for the team

• Corporate Support – admin support to the Board of Directors of the organisation • Decontamination/Sterile Services – see this hidden but necessary process in action • Estates – help with the maintenance of the Trust’s extensive site • Finance – learn how the Trust balances its expenditure against income • Planning and Business Development – prepare bids for multi-million pound contracts • Portering – get patients and equipment to the right place at the right time (over 16’s only)

• Supplies – order supplies for the hospital and ensure they get to the right location

• Switchboard – provide Trust-wide communication

Clinical placements – Year 11 Clinical placements are suitable for students who wish to gain invaluable experience of how the Trust works on the front line. These are open to students who are 16-19 at the time of doing the placement and have a keen interest in a clinical career.

The departments that offer these placements are Dentistry, Maternity/Children, Nutrition and Dietetics, Occupational Therapy, Orthopaedics, Physiotherapy, Podiatry, Radiology, Surgery and Theatres. If selected, you will be given an application form which needs to be completed and returned to Mrs Winters.

Enrichment Activities

Please click on the following link to access the extra-curricular timetable for the Autumn term. Extra-curricular Activities (Autumn Term)

Further details regarding the PE extra-curricular programme can be found here: PE Extra-Curricular Parent Guide The Learning Resource Centre will now be open after school until 6pm Monday to Friday.

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Parent Bulletin Week Beginning: Monday 16 December 2019 Week A

Letter Communications

Year 10 Parent Consultation Evening – click here to access the letter. Year 9 MenACWY vaccination letter, please click here to access. Burns Night Supper and malt whisky tasting, click here to access the booking form Bad weather arrangements letter, please click here to access.

Current Vacancies

Vacancies

Current vacancies within Red Kite Learning Trust can be found at: www.rklt.co.uk/vacancies/

Teaching and Learning Assistant (Learning Support) at Harrogate Grammar School, closing date

Monday 16 December Learning Manager (Humanities) at Harrogate Grammar School, closing date Wednesday 8 January Higher Level and Teaching Assistants (Primary and Secondary) at Temple Learning Academy, Leeds,

closing date Thursday 9 January Learning Mentor at Temple Learning Academy, closing date Monday 20 January General Kitchen Assistant at Temple Moor High School, Leeds, closing date Monday 6 January 3 x General Teaching Assistant (SEN/MSA) at Western Primary School, closing date Monday 16

December Senior Midday Supervisory Assistant at Rossett Acre Primary School, closing date Monday 6 January KS2 Teacher (responsible for PE) at Rossett Acre Primary School, closing date Tuesday 7 January

Finance Apprentice at Red Kite Learning Trust, closing date Monday 16 December

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Languages – Word a Day

Help your child learn a word a day!

Please use the links below (click on the flags) to access the words for week 15 and 16

Maths – Puzzler

Last week’s solution:

The Christmas carol ‘The twelve days of Christmas’ involved the cumulative giving of gifts.

How many gifts were given in total? ANSWER: 364 gifts

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Sports Report

Results from last week Date Sport Opposition Age Result Tue 3 Dec Boys

Badminton St John Fisher KS3 A team – 1st

B team – 3rd

Thu 5 Dec Hockey St Aidans U12AB A team – lost 0-5 B team – lost 1-2

Sat 7 Dec Cross Country

National Finals

Sheffield U14/U15 6th best team in the country

Sporting Events w/c 16 December

Date Sport Opposition Age Group Venue Home/Away

Meet/Depart Time

Start/KO Return to HGS (approx.)

Tue 17 Dec Badminton St John Fisher KS4 Away 3.20pm 3.30pm 5.45pm

Thu 19 Dec Football Stokesley U15 Home 2pm 2.330pm 3.45pm

Thu 19 Dec Football Sherburn High U14 Home 3.30pm 3.45pm 5pm

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PTA

Dates for your diary:

Burns Night Supper ***Tickets now on sale***

Tickets for this popular event are now on sale. The HGS Burns Night Supper will take place on Saturday 25 January 2020, it promises to be another excellent occasion of fun, food and frolics!

With a malt whisky tasting, and supported by the PTA, this is a special event for the PE Department to enable them to raise money to fund specialist sports equipment including hockey goalkeeping kit. Please click here for information including a booking form to secure your table.

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Parent Bulletin Week Beginning: Monday 16 December 2019 Week A

Life @ HGS

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‘It’s beginning to look a lot like

Christmas’

What a busy week at HGS!

▪ Terra and Ignis hosted their bizarre

bazaars. ▪ The HGS Christmas Concert that took

place on Thursday. ▪ Christmas Lunch was served in the Hub

and G2. ▪ The festive coffee morning for local

senior citizens took place on Wednesday.

Click here to view some amazing performances

at the Christmas

Concert

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Parent Bulletin Week Beginning: Monday 16 December 2019 Week A HGS LRC Book Recommendations

New Arrivals…..

Amy Wilson has a background in journalism

and lives in Bristol with her young family.

She is a graduate of the Bath Spa MA in

Creative Writing and is the author of the

critically acclaimed novels ‘A girl called Owl’

nominated for the CILIP Carnegie medal and

‘A Far Away Magic’.

‘The Taylor Turbochaser’ The latest brilliant

blockbuster from

best-selling Baddiel! A non-stop thrill-ride

adventure that will

have readers young

and old racing to the

finishing line.

‘The Taylor Turbochaser’ is a road-trip

rollercoaster….with a twist. At its heart is the

unforgettable Amy Taylor. Amy loves cars,

and dreams of being a driver. But there’s a

major catch: her slow old wheelchair with its broken wheel. When Amy finally gets a new

electric one, it’s exciting….at first. But

standard engines only have so much power.

And that’s where Rahul comes in – Amy’s

best friend and genius inventor. Soon Rahul

turns a wheelchair into…a supercar! And so

the Taylor Turbchaser is born. But when it all

goes suddenly wrong Amy is going to have to

hit the road drive….

(lovereading4kids.co.uk)

‘The Good Thieves’

Vita set her jaw, and nodded at New York City

in greeting, as a boxer greets an opponent

before a fight.

Fresh off the boat from England, Vita Marlowe

has a job to do. Her beloved grandfather Jack has been cheated out of his home and

possessions by a notorious conman with Mafia

connections. Seeing Jack's spirit is broken, Vita

is desperate to make him happy again, so she

devises a plan to outwit his enemies and

recover his home. She finds a young

pickpocket, working the streets of the city. And,

nearby, two boys with highly unusual skills and

secrets of their own are about to be pulled into her lawless, death-defying plan.

(lovereading4kids.co.uk)

‘A Heart so Fierce and Broken’

Find the heir, win the crown. Win the crown, save the kingdom. Harper has freed Prince Rhen from the curse that almost destroyed his kingdom. But all is not well; rumours are rife that there is a rival heir with a stronger claim to the throne and that 'Princess' Harper of Disi is nothing but a fraud. Grey has fled the castle carrying a terrible secret. When he is discovered by soldiers and returned to Ironrose by force, Grey's allegiances begin to shift. And as he grows closer to an enemy princess, he is forced to decide whether he will stand against Rhen for the crown he never wanted ... (lovereading4kids.co.uk)

Enter the thousand words of Amy Wilson in her captivating

novel, Shadows of Winterspell sparkling with frost and magic.

Stella has been living behind the magic of the forest for most

of her life. Lonely, she enrols at the local school, and as she

begins to make friends, she discovers that she is even more

different than she thought. But as autumn turns to magical

winter, Stella realises that uncovering her own family secret is

the only way to release the forest from the grip of a dark and

old magic.

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Apprenticeships with Aldi Please click here for more information.

University of Manchester for Discover English, Drama and American Studies, History and Related Subjects 21 and 23 January Click here for more information.

Sutton Trust US Programme

https://us.suttontrust.com/ Please register by 11.59pm on Sunday 19 January

This information sheet forms part of the Sixth Form Bulletin which students received every Monday morning

University Taster Events and Open Days

For more information please click the following links:

University Taster Events Open Days London University Taster Days

Sixth Form Progression Information

Year 7-11 Medicine Discovery Session – an introduction to the concept of problem-based learning and to find out more about studying medicine at university. 15 January 2020 – Hull – 12:30pm to 2:45pm 5 February 2020 – Hull – 12:30pm to 2:45pm Year 7, 8 and Year 9 Medicine Discovery Days – find out more about what it takes to become a doctor and to have a go at some interactive activities. Click here for more information Year 12 Making Connections

22 and 29 January – Hull – 12.30pm to 2.30pm Click here for more information and to apply

Sutton Trust Pathways Programme

Pathways to Medicine at Hull York Medical School, closing date 1st January To register please email: https://www.suttontrust.com/programmes/pathways-

applications-2019/

Go Higher West Yorkshire

Useful resources to help guide application processes and other practical advice for your journey to High Education. https://www.gohigherwestyorks.ac.uk/supporting-someone-into-he/#resources

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Leeds Trinity University Subject Focus Days Business – 22 January Children, Young People and Families – 5 February Computer Science – 12 February Criminology and Sociology – 12 February Health and Social Care/Health and Nutrition – 4 March Philosophy, Ethics and Religious Studies – 4 March Journalism – 11 March Media and Film – 11 March English – 25 March Law – 25 March Click here for more information.

Sixth Form Progression Information

EDT’s YINI Placement Scheme The Year in Industry has vacancies in companies working in technology, science, engineering, business and finance across the UK. Register here: https://www.etrust.org.uk/yini-vacancies

Target Careers Useful resources to help you make decisions about your future. Explore options for careers, university or apprenticeships and get help applying successfully.

More information: https://targetcareers.co.uk/ https://targetcareers.co.uk/careers-advice/job-market-guide

Barclays LifeSkills Provides a range of useful resources to help develop your knowledge of the world of work and also to prepare and be creative about accessing work experience opportunities and preparing job search strategies. More information: https://barclayslifeskills.com/i-want-to-develop-

my-skills-for-work/school

IBM Futures 12-month Placement Scheme The Futures Placement scheme offers you an invaluable opportunity to work with a world-leading company for 12 months, broadening your horizons and giving you a head start in your career. You’ll be deployed onto a challenging work placement, where you’ll support and learn from experienced professionals across IBM. You will benefit from a £18,000 salary, plus a £1k bonus at the end of your placement. Click here for more information.

Social Mobility Foundation’s free 2019 Aspiring Professionals Programme Apply by noon, Wednesday 18 December

More information: https://www.surveygizmo.com/s3/5159030/APP2020/

Degree Apprenticeships at Mott McDonald Construction and Engineering Apply by noon, Wednesday 18 December

More information: https://www.mottmac.com/careers/uk-apprenticeships