Special points of interest:

WHSA – for information about joining phone Rachel Dunne on 0121 550 1452 or 07896 020137.

Lost Property is kept for two weeks. Students are notified of items via the daily message sheet.

Sale of Uniform – Parents or students wishing to purchase items of uniform can do so from school each morning from 8.30 – 9.15 am only. If you have any queries please contact Mrs Goodman.

Windsor High School and Sixth Form

Website: www.windsor.windsoracademytrust.org.uk @windsor_tweets

Newsletter

25th May 2018

Issue 32

Dropping your child at school safely

We are always aware of our students’ safety arriving at and leaving school and we receive a number of communications with reference to this topic. We have noticed that some parents are dropping their child off at the Sixth Form gates sometimes partially blocking the school entrance and some parents are driving through the gates onto school site to drop their child as close as possible. This road should not be used by parents as it is a walkway for students, both Sixth Form and main school. May we also remind you not to park or drop your child off directly outside the main school gates or across the zebra crossing as it is busy, dangerous and illegal to do so. Please ensure we drive, park and interact with the respect and responsibility we ask of our students. Thank you for your understanding and cooperation. Mr Morley

REMINDER

School reopens on Monday 4th June at 8.40am for all students

Vacancies at Windsor!

Site Assistant - 37 hours per week, all year round. Scale 2 points 11 – 13 (£15,788 - £16,555) dependent

upon experience. We require a Site Assistant with a flexible approach to work and a “can-do” and friendly attitude to join our established, experienced Site Team. Applicants should possess a high level of all round maintenance ability along with excellent problem solving and time-management skills. Reporting to the Site Manager, you will have day to day responsibility for security of premises, maintenance (internal/external), compliance, facility preparation and the general operational requirements of school and related Trust activities. You must have a full clean driving licence and be willing to work flexibly. You will be a key holder and required to participate in emergency on-call duties. You will form part of a rotational, 4 way working shift pattern operating between 5.15am – 9.00pm to include sequenced Saturday working and the potential for rotational Sunday facility letting cover (paid at an additional premium). Closing date for applications: Wednesday 30th May 2018 at 12.30 pm

Cleaner - 15 Hours per week, working evenings, Monday – Friday, 4.00 pm – 7.00 pm. All year round. Rate of

pay £7.83 per hour. We require a part time cleaner to work 3 hours per day, as specified above. Main duties include cleaning and buffing floors, and general cleaning. Experience preferred but not essential as training will be given. Previous applicants need not apply. Closing date for applications: Friday 8th June 2018 at 12.30 pm For an application pack and full details of both vacancies, please visit our website, www.windsor.windsoracademytrust.org.uk or contact Sue Cooper on 0121 550 1452.

Windsor High School and Sixth Form is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff and

volunteers to share this commitment. These posts are subject to an enhanced DBS.

Rounders results Thursday 17th May v Hagley

U13 v Windsor won 14 1/2 - 13 1/2

U15 v Haley Windsor won 20 1/2 - 12

Tuesday 22nd May v Hillcrest

U13 Windsor won 16 1/2 - 6

U15 Windsor won 18-4

Girl of the game- Betsy Cooper, Ashleigh Legge

Well played girls - Mrs Rhooms, Mrs Boden & Miss Paskin

PE NEWS

Congratulations to this week’s ‘Artist of the Week’ from Mrs Sterry, Miss Dovey and the Art Department

YYeeaarr 77 Matthew Cole and Rhiannon Sale for their continued hard

work and focus on their Julian Opie inspired portraits YYeeaarr 88

Shiza Rashid and Reed Pountney for excellent efforts with tonal drawings

YYeeaarr 99 Yousef Dhafer and Atwar Kassem for continued efforts and

successful compositions

YYeeaarr 1100 Jasmine Sangha and Brodie Crumpton for taking the

responsibility to attend clubs and producing really good final piece

Year French German Spanish

7 Holly Williamson Logan Preece Mia Lippitt

8 Connie George Anum Bashir

9 Amelia Hooper Rakeeb Ahmed James Lloyd

10 Jack Kennerley-Ellis Imogen Edmonds Domanic Richardson

Yr 11 Spanish and German GCSE - Well done on your speaking exams! Listening and reading shortly after half-term. Please continue to revise using your notes and Active Learn, re look at all past and practice papers studied. Exam board- EdExcel.

Have a great holiday!

Year 11 MFL students: remember to revise your reading and listening skills

on Active Learn.

Primary Mini Tennis Competition Windsor Leadership Academy provided the leaders for the

Primary Mini Tennis Competition at Stourbridge Tennis Club

on Tuesday 22nd May.

130 children played tennis for nearly three hours in hot and

sunny weather. The leaders did well, sustaining their

enthusiasm and providing

encouragement, despite the

hot and thirsty conditions!

Thank you Leaders!

Mrs K Jones

Primary Tri Golf Leaders Eleven members of the school’s Leadership

Academy ran the second Primary Tri Golf

Competition on Windsor High School’s

astro last week for over fifty children.

Gareth Snelgrove, the Golf professional

from Hagley Golf Club, helped run the

event and commented: ‘Windsor’s leaders

always ensure the event goes well’.

Well done to everyone involved!

Mrs K Jones

The second Tri Golf Competition was held

at Windsor. The leaders pictured ensured

the Tri Golf event ran smoothly and were a

credit to both school and the Leadership

Academy.

Well done to both groups of leaders.

On Wednesday 23rd May Kris Griffin, social media and marketing expert, visited business-minded Windsor Sixth Form students regarding the campaign of their business idea 'HOP'. 'HOP' stands for 'Helping Others Prosper', a business created by young people for young people to signpost them to professional advice following a range of mental health issues and personal conflicts. As the students want to help as wide a remit of young people as possible they called on Kris Griffin to gain advice on building a web-based business and gaining followers on social media. The advice from Kris was outstanding and the students asked many questions to help them aid their business. The students are currently campaigning to build their business and help others. Please donate to their cause by visiting https://uk.gofundme.com/hoptoday. HOP are also in this week's Halesowen News so look out for them and read their story.

Guest speaker inspires business-minded Sixth Formers

Windsor Golf Academy - The Windsor Golf Academy has continued to grow and develop over this year. In the past two weeks a team of students from Years 8 and 7 completed in the Regional Street Golf competition held at Bromsgrove Golf Club. Students in teams of four played a Texas Scramble over the nine-hole course. In the end it was a close affair with Windsor coming second, just missing out by one shot and joint third out of the nine teams present. Well done to all those who took part. On Wednesday 23rd May, students had the opportunity to visit the PGA Championship at Wentworth for the day to watch the Pro-Am competition. Students across the Academy from Year 7 to 13 were able to witness professional golfers and their celebrity teams play around the home of the European Tour. Students were able to see players such as Rory Mcllroy, Lee Westwood and the Ryder Cup captain Thomas Bjorn to name but a few. Students really enjoyed the experience of seeing these players up close as well as meeting a wide range of celebrities and collecting their autographs. If your son or daughter is interested in trying Golf or would like to find out more about the Windsor Golf Academy, please ask them to see Mr Leathem – Pugh or their PE teacher.

School Uniform If you are planning to replace uniform items during the half term break, can we politely remind you to ensure the correct uniform is purchased. Uniform requirements can be found on our website: http://www.windsor.windsoracademytrust.org.uk/about-us/school-uniform/ To maintain our very high standards we expect students to have excellent school uniform. We will continue to focus on this in the coming weeks and would really value your support as always. Mr Morley Deputy Headteacher

Niall Horan

Thomas Bjorn

First tee at Wentworth

Rory Mcllroy, Teddy Sherringham, Paul Scholes and Michael Carrick

KS4 Revision Zone

http://goo.gl/7LBnsH

Year 11 Exam information: Timetable for w.b. 4th June will be sent by ParentMail on Friday 1st June.

Good luck with your revising this week!

Revision Clock - try this as a revision strategy! Take a topic, make notes in each chunk of the clock. Revise each slot for 5 minutes, turn the clock over, then try and remember what you have written.

Good luck!

This week in Science Club, we made

cupcakes to see what would happen

if individual ingredients were missing!

We found out all ingredients are

needed for a tasty cupcake!!

In previous weeks, we made mini desk

hover crafts, parachutes and made our

hair stand on end with the Van der

Graaf generator!

Y7 and 8, come along to the next science

club Wednesday 6th June in S26!

IMPORTANT INFORMATION With the warm weather approaching, can you please make sure your child brings a drink to school. They should bring a full bottle which they may refill with water from the cool water dispensers around school.

Value of the Fortnight: Giving. I believe that we all have a responsibility to give back. No one becomes successful without lots of hard work, support from others, and a little luck. Giving back creates a virtuous cycle that makes everyone more successful.

Ron Conway, Businessman

Planned revision sessions during half term break are detailed below. Parents/carers and students have been notified of these sessions as permission for attendance is required. Wednesday 30th – Music, Maths, Geography, English Thursday 31st – Economics, History, English, Maths Friday 1st June – Geography