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LETTER FROM THEHEADTEACHERA

In the Spring Newsletter, I mentioned that the summer term is always busy and this yearhas been no exception. In many ways, the months of May and June are dominated byGCSE, AS and A level examinations that put our students to the test after serious study.The examinations this year, as always went without any issues and all students should becongratulated on their behaviour and positive attitude throughout this time. I lookforward to results days in August when we will see the fruits of their labours.

Of course, the end of Year 11 also witnesses our annual school Prom, whereby theseschool children transform into young men and women. Read about the Prom this yearlater in the newsletter but once again, I congratulate all who attended for their

appearance and behaviour throughout the night. They were a credit to The Whitby High School.

Regardless of the pressures of the examination period, the staff have continued to offer a wide range ofopportunities to all our students. Throughout the newsletter, you will read about our successes both in andoutside of the classroom. Read about Jordan Howell and Aaron McGuinn’s success in the Performance Poetrycompetition, their outstanding presentations gained them first prize. Poetry remained the focus for Alice Corkerand Sophie Ashley who have both had their poems published in the young writer’s book ‘The Poetry Games’.

On the music scene, our students have been out and about showing off their extraordinary talents and raisingmoney for good causes as well. The Musicathon, Battle of the Bands, work with Cambridge Road Primary School,the Mayor of Ellesmere Port Investiture and not forgetting the Italy tour, have all seen our students’ musicaltalents shared across the community. Please take a minute to watch our students in Italy by following the link onour twitter account @WhitbyHigh

In addition to touring Italy, our students had a fantastic trip to Berlin again read the full report later in thenewsletter.

Success on the sports field continues with our students leading the way across most disciplines, highlighted byour success at the recent School Games District Competition. This only serves to support why The Whitby HighSchool was voted Secondary School of the Year in the Cheshire West and Chester Sports Awards 2014. Thisprestigious award only being surpassed on 4 July when we were voted Secondary School of the Year in theCheshire and Warrington Sports Award held at Tatton Park. There was a double celebration as Beth Brizell wasawarded Young Sports Leader of the Year at this County awards event, taking top spot over youngsters fromacross Cheshire West, Cheshire East and Warrington. Well done Beth!

A huge thank you goes to our Parents’ Association who work tirelessly to support the school and who recentlymade cash awards to a number of curriculum areas. My sincere thanks go to parents who give up their time tosupport the school and the students within!

Parents will be aware we continue to offer all our students advice and guidance through PSHCE curriculum andthis term we have utilised the skills of an excellent drama group to highlight the importance of e-safety to all Year10 students. Safe use of social media is vitally important as the danger can lead youngsters into a world ofexploitation. We continue to offer students awareness training and routes to help and support.Please do not forget to get all the latest information from our new website and follow us on Twitter for constantupdates.

Finally, as summer break begins, I hope you and your family have a good summer and take some time to enjoythe sunshine. School starts for students on Wednesday 3 September 2014.

Mr B HeeleyHeadteacher

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GROWING TOGETHERThe Whitby High School welcomed three very special visitorsfrom Zimbabwe, Africa during the last week of June. As part ofour Connecting Through Classrooms, the Global Footsteps clustercame together to introduce our three special ZimbabweanHeadteachers who are linked with The Whitby High School,Woodlands Primary and Wade Deacon High School. Theobjectives of the cluster are to share our global vision

● To understand more about other countries and culturesand understand more about global issues along with therights and responsibilities as global citizens

● To be better prepared to work in a global economy andbuild a fairer more sustainable world.

We held a special global assembly whereby the Modern ForeignLanguages and Music Departments shared a very special lessonlearning ‘Shona’ Kure Kure’ Genre. The event was videoed and isavailable on the school website.

During their visit, the three Headteachers were welcomed atWoodlands Primary School. The visit started with a mind blowingfull school assembly and then a tour of the school that includedwatching lessons demonstrating how we are all connectingthrough classrooms. Wade Deacon also opened their schooldoor, this included students performing an African Drama andthen presenting gifts that students had made through GlobalEnterprise.

Our Global guests returned to Zimbabawe with suchknowledge and information about our UK Educationalschools here in the UK and were in awe of The WhitbyHigh School students and staff.

Mrs Balance and Mr Gillam

A VISIT FROMZIMBABWE

A group of Year 13 students accompanied by MrsHoward and Mrs Ravetto travelled to Berlin in March

this year. We were all excited by the prospect of exploringGermany’s vibrant capital city and we were certainly notdisappointed. The wonderful InterCity Hotel, located verycentrally close to the Hauptbahnhof, provided us withluxury accommodation this year and we enjoyed asumptuous European buffet-style breakfast each morning.

After depositing our bags at the hotel, we set off for thewonderfully authentic and welcoming BrauhausGeorgbräu for dinner. Tasty items from the menu includeSchweinshaxe (knuckle of pork) and Schnitzel. It was alovely evening and the perfect place to unwind and settleinto our new surroundings and practise some German!

The following day we embarked on the world-famous FatTire City Bike Tour. Our guide was Julian, a Canadianstudent, and he knows everything there is to know aboutthe city. We cycled along roads, through square andgardens and were fascinated by the different facets ofBerlin. The highlights of the tour included CheckpointCharlie, the Brandenburg Gate, Hitler's Bunker, The BerlinWall, the Reichstag, Museum Island and the Memorial tothe Murdered Jews of Europe and a well-earned lunchbreak in a beer garden. We all loved the Bike Tour – whata fun and exhilarating way to explore a city!

Later on, we travelled across the city to Potsdamerplatz.This famous square is the symbol of regeneration in Berlinand has been under construction for over 10 years! Todayit boasts the most amazing buildings. Cutting edgearchitecture at its best - the design has to be seen to bebelieved! We headed for the Sony Centre, a collection ofrestaurants, bars and exhibitions all housed under a tenteddome. This is home to the Sony IMAX cinema and it wasfun to soak up the atmosphere of this bustling square atnight.

Saturday’s activities included a visit to the fascinating DDRMuseum on the embankment of the River Spree - a hands-on experience of what life was like in the former EastGermany. As well as offering an insight into daily life, themuseum also demonstrates how the secret police kept awatchful eye on the city's people. Exhibits include a typicalliving room and a shiny Trabant car. This was highlyrelevant to our students who have studied the filmGoodbye Lenin this year.

BERLIN BIKERS ON A-LEVELSTUDY TRIP

We all loved the Bike Tour– what a fun and

exhilarating way to explore a city!‘‘

This was followed by a quirky treat aswe paid a visit to the TadschikischeTeestube or Russia Tea Rooms in the

old Jewish quarer, where we enjoyeda traditional tea ceremony, sitting on

cushions on the floor. We also had a lookaround the Hackesische Höfe and weremoved by the museum dedicated to thevisually impaired broom and brush makerOtto Weidt, who, during World War Two,employed many vulnerable blind and deafJews in his workshop at Rosenthaler 39.

No visit to Berlin would be completewithout a trip to the historic Reichstagbuilding with its impressive glass dome.We took a night tour and enjoyed thespectacular views of the city at night.

We took advantage of the beautifulsunshine on our final day and headed offfirstly to the Olympiastadion whichhosted the 1936 Olympic Games and thento the Wannsee, Germany’s largest lake.A short ferry ride took us to Pfaueninsel,home to a folly and lots of peacocks(Pfauen).

We all thoroughly enjoyed every aspect ofour time in Berlin. I would like to take thisopportunity, on behalf of all of us, tothank Mrs Howard for organising so manyfabulous trips to Germany over the years.Vielen Dank Frau Howard!

No visit to Berlinwould be completewithout a trip to

the historic Reichstagbuilding with its impressiveglass dome.‘‘

MUSIC DEPARTMENTBefore Easter the Music Department held a 12 hrmusicathon finishing with a great Battle of the Bandsevent. The music started at 8.00 am and continueduninterrupted for 12 hours. Performers were from allyear groups, playing and singing with live musicians andbacking tracks. Some of the performers performed aspart of their BTEC music performance unit. Even staffgot involved with some epic recorder playing, singing,zither playing and great solo and duet piano playing.The event was used to raise money for our Music Tourto Italy. Congratulations to Kaylea Stanton who raise£180 sponsorship ... well done.

The Battle of the Bands featured six bands including theRelatives and Sunshine Koalas from the Whitby HighSchool. Our guitar teacher invited four other bandsfrom schools on the Wirral to perform. Our musiciansplayed brilliantly and the debut performance openingthe show by the Relatives (Hannah and KathrynGraham, and Molly and Laura Smith) was really wellreceived and got a special mention from the Judges.The event was won by our very own Sunshine Koalas(Max Astbury, Harry Lee, Lewis Williams, Charlie Harrisand Olivia Revans).

JC and the Two Steps, a professional local band finishedthe evening with a great set that had the whole hallrocking. You can check them out on You Tube andFacebook. The musicathon and battle of the bandsraised well over £500 for the tour and we would like tothank everyone who supported, donated andperformed at the event.

Congratulations to all the A2 Music, AS MusicTechnology and BTEC students for completing alltheir work and to such a high standard. We hadthe opportunity to use the AS Music Technologycourse work at the Art Exhibition on the 11th May.We combined tracks recorded in our studio(Studio B @ Whitby) and some Trancearrangements of Patience by Take That to providemusic whilst people looked around the fabulousart exhibition giving the whole evening an ArtGallery quality feeling.

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After the success of Little Shop Of Horrors, we are preparingfor the next show. Auditions done, casting sorted ... we areon our way.

After the amazing audition turnout after Easter with over 70hopefuls (dancers, actors and techies) we have a strong castand crew with the potential for a great show. The standardfor all auditions was very high and we (Mrs Hay and MrSemans) had a difficult time casting the show but did it inthe end.

We have already started rehearsals and our first readthrough was great fun. We continue rehearsing (two re-hearsals a week from September) working toward our finalperformance in November 2014. Once again, URENCO arekindly supporting the show and have over the years helpedus a great deal with previous shows (We Will Rock You, OurHouse, The Wiz and Little Shop of Horrors). Please supportthe show and come and see the sheer quality of what wecan do as a school. Tickets will be available early in Octoberand you will be hearing much more about this fabulousshow that we are all working so hard for.

If you would like to help in any way (set building, donations,costumes, refreshments etc) please contact Mr Semans(dsemans@whitbyhs.cheshire.sch.uk)

Watch this space for news and piccies keeping you informedas to the show’s progress.

Hi Mr Semans,

I just wanted to thank you once again for yoursupport with our charity concert onWednesday evening. As always, your studentswere extremely professional and a credit totheir school. Their performances wereamazing and having spoken to a number ofpeople who attended, they have been aninspiration to a number of the youngeraudience members and adults alike. For mepersonally, this is just as important as thefundraising itself. Please pass on my thanksand congratulations once again to Charlotte(Heyes), Daniel (Finlay) and Curtis (McHugh).

Following a last minute donation, we haveraised £600 for the Countess of ChesterHospital Baby Grow Appeal. All of our studentscan be extremely  proud of this as it was aphenomenal amount and being our firstmusical evening far exceeded anyexpectations, I may have had!I very much hope to have the opportunity towork alongside Whitby High School again inthe future and further developing our musical(and  possibly other!)  Links.

Kind  regards,

Sara Crosland

We were asked if we could provide someperformers for a fund raising event atCambridge Road Primary & Nursery School onthe 19th March for a fundraising musicalextravaganza in support of the Countess ofChester Hospital Baby Grow Appeal. We hadpreviously performed at the school for an artsweek event with a dance performance fromJordan Bool and vocal performances fromKaylea Stanton, Kathryn Graham, DanielFinlay and Charlotte Heyes.

This was a great evening and our studentswere a credit to the school and the depart-ment.

MUSICAL TALENTSRAISE MONEY FORCHARITY APPEAL

MusicDepartmentOn tour

Mrs Lewis and the department have organised a mu-sic tour going to Lake Garda in Italy. We are taking 40students (and two rather lovely banners!) to play 3concerts around this beautiful part of Italy. We will bevisiting Venice and Verona exploring Lake Garda byboat and a host of other exciting activities including a30 hour coach trip – videos and egg sandwiches at theready!

It has been good to invite former students Matt Pal-lant and Alex Astbury and our singing teacher BeckyBroadbere along as staff to support the hard work ofthe music department. We are taking a variety ofmusicians from all years and will put together a musi-cal treat for the audiences in Italy. Mr Semans haslearnt some Italian to say hello and a little about theschool (we’ll see how that goes).

@Music_WhitbyHS

MayorInvestitureceremony

Councillor B Jones asked if we would provide someentertainment for the end of the Investiture of the newMayor Ceremony. This we did.

We used some of the cast from our up and comingperformance of Hairspray (Nov 2014) Charlotte Heyesperformed the opening song to the show as TraceyTurnblad in full costume and moves, Jordan Boolperformed as Corny Collins ‘The Nicest Kids in Town’. Theywere extraordinary performances, which the invitedaudience loved.

To finish our section Lauren Selby Hughes (Y13) performeda great song from the musical Sweeney Todd called ‘TheWorst Pies’ London sung by the character of Mrs Lovett.The sound and lighting were outstanding and I would liketo thank the technicians from EPCH who were very helpfuland really enjoyed working with our students.

The performances were slick and professional. A fabulousexample of the talent we have here at the Whitby

DRAWING DAYSYear 10 Art students have spent aday in the Bickerton Hills, drawingand photographing the beautifulcountryside there. We were blessedwith fine weather and had anexcellent day. Students walked upCoppermine Lane to the top of thehill where they had excellent viewsof a wide vista as well as views alongpathways or through trees.

The students produced somebeautiful and well-observeddrawings, which truly captured thenature of the landscape aroundthem. This work will be developedinto a major Y11 GCSE project overthe coming months. Well done tothese students for their hard workand excellent behaviour.

Once again the Art department held a successful and celebratoryexhibition of AS and A2 Art and Design, AS and A2 Fine Art and ourlatest and extremely popular course – AS Photography. This eventtook place in Overpool Hall, on Wednesday 11th June, with exhibitsfrom over 70 students.

There was a wonderful variety of work on display, includingportraiture, architecture, paper fashion accessories, printmaking andintricate cut paper. People delighted at discovering a little room full oftwinkling paper lanterns and cut paper scenes. The event wasextremely well attended by students, parents, governors, staff andfriends. The atmosphere was enhanced by a great soundtrack createdentirely by Whitby Music students, our thanks to Mr Semans forproviding that.

ART & DESIGN EXHIBITSTUDENT TALENT

Students from Drama’s Able,Gifted & Talented have beenenjoying workshops led by MissKilbride. The students havebeen extending their skills andknowledge  by focusing onTheatre Practitioner, styles andGenre. Miss Kilbride isdelighted with the responsefrom drama students and it is clear that the series of workshopshas inspired them and been educationally beneficial withimprovements shown by all. The students who took part rangefrom 13-17 years old and it was great to see how well theyworked in small groups, helping each other on. We are veryproud of their achievement and look forward to watching themtasting success as performers in the future.

ABLEGIFTED &TALENTEDDRAMAWORKSHOPS

The LAMDA Award was offered to Year10, 11 ,12 & 13 Drama Students, as well,as Able, Gifted & Talented Dramastudents who would benefit from such anaward. It has been offered as an extra-curricular qualification since 2008 andthis year students were required toattend rehearsals, one on one tuition, andperformance reviews in preparation forthe summer performance examination.

The London Academy of Music andDramatic Art (LAMDA) is one of the oldestdrama schools in the United Kingdom.Founded in 1861, it quickly establisheditself as a centre of excellence inperformance training.

LAMDA has provided theatre and theworld of film and television withgeneration upon generation of first-classactors and expertly trained stagemanagers across the world.

LAMDA teacher Miss Kilbride says ‘I amvery proud of my drama students whohave worked so hard, both independentlyand in preparation for reviews and finallytheir performance examination. Thisopportunity will allow students to gain anAS equivalent qualification as well asUCAS points banked, if they decideuniversity is somewhere they will begoing in the future.

Congratulations and well done to all ourLAMDA students and I hope you get theaward you deserve’.

GOODLUCK TOLAMDASTUDENTS

DRAMA

Members of our student voice committee met withrepresentatives of Ellesmere Catholic High schoolcouncil to discuss bullying issues and sharestrategies to deal with it.

There was some excellent discussion and ideas wereshared on both sides. We look forward to furtherstudent collaboration with other schools.

STUDENT VOICE

WHITBY LEAVERS DANCE THE NIGHT

AWAY AT PROM

On Friday 20th June 2014, Year 11 celebratedtheir Leavers’ Prom at the The BrookMollington Banastre Hotel, near Chester.

It was an evening enjoyed by both studentsand staff with a huge turn out from Year 11leavers.

Prom organiser Miss Kilbride says-“After hours of planning, ordering dressesand suits, hair, make-up, and nailarrangements Prom was finally upon thestudents of The Whitby High School as theyarrived looking stunning and a fine exampleof the students we have at The Whitby HighSchool.”

Year 11 leavers danced the night awaycreating memories they will cherish for therest of their lives. A fantastic evening withlaughter, fun and most of all students we canbe proud of here at The Whitby High School.

The English department have recently been looking atperformance poetry with year 7, and selected the besteight to represent our school in a local poetry competition!Leading up to this, the selected eight worked extremelyhard to ensure they had their performances down to a T!This included after school sessions with Miss Black andLOTS of practice at home.

On Monday the 30th June Jordon Howell, Lydia Williams,Lauren Young, Roman Bachleda, Kayleigh Elwell, AaronMcGinn, Eve Rudolfsen, Niamh Price and Leah Ferryheaded over to Ellesmere Port Catholic High, to take partalong with several other pupils from local primaries too:

The competition was extremely high, with 24 pupils in totaldelivering outstanding performances in various forms.However, there was absolutely no doubt who the winnerswere once all the contestants had performed, and MissBlack and Mrs Cooper from Ellesmere Port Catholic Highunanimously decided there could be no other winnersthan the superb Jordan Howell and the fantastic AaronMcGinn.

Well done to these boys for stealing first prize, but also abig well done to all the pupils from Whitby who took partand represented our school in such an impressive manner.

PRIZEd poetry pERFORMANCE

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STUDENTSSUPPORTSPORT RELIEF

Over 200 students and staff were inspiredby the work of celebrities like Davina McCalland took part in a Sponsored Sport Relief Mile.The students and staff turned up in their crazyred outfits and walked, crawled and someeven cartwheeled their way around the milecross-country course.

Congratulations to all who helped raise over£300 for the Sport Relief Charity.

Students from The Whitby High Schoolraised more than £1,000 for charity by

taking part in the Wirral Coastal Walk.School’s chosen charity was The MSSociety.

The students took part in the 15 mile walkfrom Seacombe Ferry Terminal toThurstaston Country Park. A number ofstudents also used the walk as part of theirvolunteering section for their Bronze,Silver and Gold Duke of Edinburgh’sAward.

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Congratulations to our Year 7 pupils who participated in the District MinorCompetition. Both boys and girls dominated the event and a number ofpupils have qualified to represent the District at the Cheshire Minors Finals.

Congratulations to our Year 10 Boys for coming 2nd in the RegionalQualifying round of the English Schools Athletics Competition. This fantasticresult allowed the boys to qualify for the North West B Finals. The boysstepped up and were a credit to the school finishing 7th out of 12.

StrongShow atAthleticsComps’

A group of 15 gifted, able and talented gymnasts wereselected to take part in a gymnastics and free running clinic atThe Airborn Academy in Liverpool. The session includedexpert coaching from the Airborn staff in a number ofdifferent free running disciplines.

The pupils began with an introduction to different vaults onthe sprung floor and then moved on to the parkour area.However, the highlight of the day was using the foam pit.Pupils used trampolines, a sprung floor and high platforms toperform incredible gymnastic manoeuvres and land in thesoft foam pit.

WHITBY TAKETO THE AIR

The Whitby High School’s PE department were crownedSecondary School PE Department of the Year at theCheshire West and Cheshire Sports Awards. The awardis a fantastic honour and is testimony to the hard workand success of the PE staff and students who haverepresented the school over the past year.

The school’s success continued later in the night whenBethany Brizell was crowned as Young Volunteer of theYear Award. The Whitby High School has dominated theSports Awards over the past four years as the school’steam of Sports Leaders grow from strength to strength.

As Cheshire West and Chester winners both the PEdepartment and Bethany will now go through tothe Cheshire Finals held in July.

PE STAFF AND STUDENTSHONOURED WITH AWARD

The girls U16s football team continuedschool’s proud football tradition by winningthe Cheshire Cup. This was the 10th year in arow school has had a football team in aCheshire cup Final.

The girls managed to pull off a sensational4 – 3 win in a hard fought and close contestagainst a talented team from Helsby HighSchool.

Well done girls!

TEN-IN-A-ROWFINALISTS WINCHESHIRE CUP

WINDSORWOWSWITHFUNDRAISING

Windsor House have been working hard to raise money for theirHouse charity Clare House this year. Spurred on by a story of aChester family who received much needed support followingthe sudden and tragic loss of their twenty one month olddaughter, staff and students have shown amazing creativity,passion and commitment in their fund raising efforts to supportthis fantastic charity.

The hard work was certainly worth it and resulted in the highestever total raised for charity by a single House of £2,230!

Windsor House and Mrs Paulson would like to thank all staff,students and parents who helped to make this possible.

On the 28th March the 2 Engage performing theatre group gave a performance called ‘Risking it all’ to all Year10 students, which looked at the issues surrounding risk taking behaviour in young people.The performance aimed to raise awareness about the importance of being safe online (e-safety), it showedthe consequences of sexting and social media misuse, presented real case studies on sex exploitation andinappropriate relationships, highlighted substance and drug abuse and misuse, and explained routes forsupport and advice for young people

During the performance, pupils were engaged in mid-show discussion, which allowed the audience to decidethe fate of the characters and what consequences they would face.

RiskingIt all

It has been a very successful year for the trainee teachers whochose The Port Alliance as their route to becoming a qualifiedPrimary or Secondary teacher. In its first year, the alliance hastrained 12 teachers, 7 of whom have found jobs to begin theircareers in Alliance schools. The remaining 5 will be working in otherschools next September. Our trainees have really enjoyed thecourse, telling us “we have learned such a lot on this course” and “we got the best support possible – it’s been fantastic”

The Port Alliance is led by The Whitby High School, this year underthe guidance of Assistant Head teacher Mrs Howard and Head ofDrama Miss Speed. The alliance comprises 9 schools, our 8 partnerprimary schools being Woodlands, Meadow, The Oaks, WhitbyHeath, Christ Church, Capenhurst , St. Saviour’s and WilliamStockton.

Our training follows the School Direct route, which allows us toselect our trainees carefully and then assign them to a base school.We work in partnership with The University of Chester and everysuccessful training teacher achieves Qualified Teacher Status as wellas gaining a PGCE qualification.

THE PORT ALLIANCE

TEACHER TRAININGAT THE WHITBY

Christ ChurchC of E Aided

William StocktonPrimary School

WoodlandsPrimary School

St Saviour'sCatholic

Primary School

The OaksCommunity

Primary School

MeadowPrimary School

CapenhurstCE Primary School

Whitby HeathPrimary School

Christ ChurchC of E Aided

William StocktonPrimary School

WoodlandsPrimary School

St Saviour'sCatholic

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The OaksCommunity

Primary School

MeadowPrimary School

CapenhurstCE Primary School

Whitby HeathPrimary School

Our mentors are all outstanding teachers who can provide bespoke training for each trainee and we believewe offer expert tuition on one of the best ways to train as a teacher. Because we are a cross-phase alliance,we offer our trainees experience in both primary and secondary schools and that makes us very special.

To gain a place with School Direct, prospective candidates need a first degree and experience gained in atleast 2 schools. You also need a passion for teaching and a real commitment to taking up this rewardingcareer!

If you are interested in gaining more information about what we offer and how you apply for School Directteacher training, please look at our website and you can always drop Miss Speed a line athspeed@whitbyhs.cheshire.sch.uk if you would like some specific information.

80 Y10 students completed their BronzeQualifying Duke of Edinburgh’s Awardexpedition in June in the unusually sun-drenched delights of the SnowdoniaNational Park. Their 22km route took themfrom Dolwyddelan to Beddgelert via thecampsite at Llyn Gwynant with the warmand sunny weather presenting a differentset of challenges to those we normallyface with wind and rain.

All students who started the expeditionpassed this section of their Bronze Awardand were a real credit to themselves andthe school. For many participants this willhave been the final section to undertake inorder to complete their whole BronzeAward.

Thanks must go to all of the staff who havegiven their time so generously to supportthis and all other Duke of Edinburgh’sAward expeditions.

Duke of ed’Bronzequalifiers

On Wednesday 4th June, 150 eager Y7 students and 15 staffset off from school to spend 3 days at the Conway Centre onAnglesey for our annual Y7 residential. We took advantage ofour new time slot in June rather than going in December toundertake new and different activities such as sailing,kayaking, mountain biking and the via ferrata.

All students also completed a piece of art work on the themeof exploration that will shortly be made into part of a muchlarger piece displayed in school. All students and staff had agreat time and we look forward to next year’s residential.

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The PTA generously made £2,000 available fordepartments to bid for from its funds. Bids weresubmitted from the Science, Languages, English andLearning Support Departments. All will receive £500towards their respective projects. The ScienceDepartment is bringing external speakers into schoolto share their expertise with students,

PTA SUPPORTFOR SCHOOLDEPARTMENTS

The English Department is going to purchase software to promote spelling and grammar in Key Stage 3,Languages are inviting a theatre company in to perform to Year 8 and 9 students and the Learning SupportDepartment is using the money to equip a ‘Sanctuary Room’ for vulnerable students.

I am sure that you will agree that all of these are worthwhile ventures. In the picture, Mr Gray is receiving acheque for £2,000 on behalf of the school from Shirley Bowers, the PTA Chair. The PTA does a great deal for theschool and is always looking for new members. Anyone who is interested in joining should contact Mr Gray atschool.

Students wishing to cycle to school need to see Mrs Hill in order to obtain a school bicyclepermit. Students must not bring their bikes to school without one.

Parents please ensure that students name all property brought to school, includinguniform. This will allow items which are found to be returned and will save you a lot ofmoney!

CYCLE SAFELY

Terms & Conditions- All competition entrants must follow The Whitby High School Twitter account for their entry to be counted. Entrants must be current students of The Whitby HighSchool. Competition closes 20th July 2014. Winners will be announced via Twitter @WhitbyHigh before 1st September 2014.