December 2010 - Wentworth High School

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SMSC Faculty What a busy start to the year it has been in the SMSC faculty…. Harvest This year our students showed how caring and considerate they were by donating items of food for the Windsor Loaves and Fishes Drop‐In Centre in Salford. The drop‐in provides, amongst other things, hot food for homeless and vulnerable people in our community. Year 9 volunteers ran the Harvest project themselves as part of their Citizenship Activities; designing posters and arranging form collections. The final collection was an impressive sight and the centre had so send their ‘man and van’ out to collect it all. Special thanks must go to 11H who collected a huge amount of food and wrote a lovely card to the volunteers and users of the centre. Operation Christmas Child At the moment we are all digging out our Christmas wrapping paper and sticky tape… a little early you might think, but this is for children around the world who are living in the direst of circumstances; victims of war, poverty, famine and disease. All boxes are given to the neediest children regardless of nationality, political background or religious beliefs. Volunteers, Dean Mellor, Wayhu Kelsall, Shania Eardley, Kerry Ann Haggan and Bethany Harrop choose and publicised the event and helped to giftwrap boxes. Pupils in school helped to make up nearly 40 shoe boxes. These brightly wrapped boxes are filled with small gifts of toys, sweets, educational supplies, or hygiene items for some of the world’s poorest children. Children in Need As well as the non-uniform day we had busker Mr Riley, raising money through entertaining pupils with his impressive vocal and guitar playing talents at break and lunchtime, and our year 9s helped to run a raffle to add to the total of nearly £700! It never fails to amaze me that our pupils are so thoughtful of others. Teenagers get such a bad press at times, but I am very proud of the citizens of <strong>Wentworth</strong> who so consistently ask, ‘What can I do to help others?’ Miss K Barratt Head of SMSC
Year 7 Year 7 have made a great start to the school year and are currently sitting at the top of the school’s attendance figures. This September saw the introduction of year 7 weekly star awards given out during assembly each week. Form of the week is given out to the form group who have stood out from the rest through contributing to whole school activities or gaining the most merits within lessons. Current leaders for this award are 7T and 7R who have each won it twice. Star of the week is awarded to individual students who stand out through demonstrating a positive attitude and work ethic and contributing to whole school life. Our first winner of this award was Nikolay Bonev who made a great start to earning lots of merits. Attendance of the week is always a closely fought contest however leading the way is 7W who have won 4 times since the start of term. Well done Mr McGinty! And finally the outstanding contribution award is the only award which is not given out weekly, it is only awarded to those students who have gone above and beyond the normal expectations and shown extra responsibility, maturity and respect within school. So far this term we have had one worthy winner Joseph Mort from form 7G who was awarded this for how he welcomed a new student into his form and made it his personal responsibility to ensure he settled in well. Well done Joseph. Miss O’Farrell Achievement Coordinator Year 8 Congratulations to Chesley Brooks 8W who won two gold medals in the Go‐Kan‐ Ryu karate Northern Zone National Qualifiers in September, and then went on to win two medals at the National championships on 20 th November. Chelsey won a silver medal in the kumite (sparring) and a bronze in the kata (patterns of movements). Congratulations also go to Shauna Smith 8N who was awarded tickets to see Manchester United vs. Wigan on 20 th November for achieving the most merits in year 8 and having excellent attendance. Despite not being a Man U fan myself I’ m sure it was a very enjoyable day and hopefully we will have more tickets available for year 8 pupils throughout the season. Miss Mackenzie Achievement Coordinator
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