Yr 11 Term 5 Key Dates

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Cre­ated: Mon­day, 18 April 2016 10:58

Writ­ten by Mrs C Rouse

Read­ing Week smashes it!

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Cre­ated: Thurs­day, 24 March 2016 15:05

Writ­ten by Mrs C O’Shea

Year 12 Pub­lic Ser­vice Group – moun­tain bik­ing at Fowlmead Park

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Cre­ated: Mon­day, 21 March 2016 11:02

Writ­ten by Mr Jack­son Mr Ben­nett

An excel­lent two hours with a qual­i­fied instruc­tor who had this to say about the group:

‘Thanks for today’s ses­sion,
Fan­tas­tic group of kids they are a credit to your school.’

Kieron Dri­ver

Cycling Oper­a­tions Co-​ordinator

Bette­shanger Sus­tain­able Parks

This is the first of three ses­sions they have to develop their skills and time trial results. As part of their Unit 10 Land-​Based Adven­tur­ous Activ­i­ties, it allows all the stu­dents to even­tu­ally achieve a ‘Dis­tinc­tion’. Who said learn­ing can’t be fun?

Year 12 Pub­lic Ser­vice Group – A morn­ing at TDC Cham­bers

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Cre­ated: Mon­day, 21 March 2016 10:58

Writ­ten by Mr Jack­son Mr Ben­nett

We were invited to the coun­cil cham­bers for a series of pre­sen­ta­tions with ques­tion and answer oppor­tu­ni­ties regard­ing var­i­ous top­ics: how the dif­fer­ent lev­els of gov­ern­ment work; crime sta­tis­tics in Thanet and the police response; Alan Faulkner from the fire ser­vice dis­cussed young dri­ver respon­si­bil­ity; the impor­tance of waste dis­posal and related coun­cil projects and, finally, how var­i­ous offices link together for a multi-​agency response.

Stu­dents all had indi­vid­ual micro­phones and were a credit to the school with some inter­est­ing and very per­ti­nent ques­tions. Watch this space for a project they are going to get involved in lead­ing on from this enter­tain­ing and infor­ma­tive session.

Duke of Edin­burgh Pre­sen­ta­tion Evening

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Cre­ated: Mon­day, 21 March 2016 10:53

Writ­ten by Mr Jack­son Mr Ben­nett

What a tremen­dous evening! This was the Dia­mond Jubilee cel­e­bra­tion of the award and every recip­i­ent received a ‘goody bag’ of var­i­ous gifts. Var­i­ous dig­ni­taries from around Kent were present but the real stars were all the stu­dents receiv­ing their awards. We had twenty four Bronze recip­i­ents and we are immensely proud of their achieve­ment. Thank you to all the par­ents or guardians who gave their sup­port on the night and the raf­fle raised a bril­liant £353.00 to sup­port fund­ing of this event for next year. Lastly, spe­cial men­tion and thanks to Maisie Waller for her superb singing and stu­dents from the Ursu­line for their per­for­mances as well.

To the Year 10s who have enrolled; make sure you are get­ting your Skills, Phys­i­cal and Vol­un­tary sec­tions under­way and reg­is­tered on the ‘edofe’ web­site. Your prac­tice and assessed expe­di­tions are being sorted out for the start of Year 11, Sep­tem­ber and early Octo­ber, but you must ensure the other sec­tions are being com­pleted oth­er­wise you will not com­plete the award.

Well done to the suc­cess­ful Bronze recipients!