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<strong>NEWS</strong><br />
The Cotswold School<br />
<strong>April</strong> <strong>2019</strong><br />
View the Wonderful Images of the Ski Trip<br />
Sixth Form Trip to Berlin & Krakow<br />
World Book Day <strong>2019</strong>!<br />
Budding Scientists Enjoy Trip to CERN<br />
A Fascinating Brain Day & Evening<br />
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The Cotswold School PTA News<br />
WELL DONE!<br />
THANK YOU!<br />
THE QUIZ NIGHT RAISED OVER £1,500 FOR SCHOOL!<br />
The QUIZ NIGHT was a great success. We raised over £1,500—<br />
and it was the best attended quiz to date! Thanks to all who<br />
came along and to the generosity of local business sponsorship<br />
and donations for the raffle. The winning team, made up of staff<br />
from The Cotswold School, was The Rocket Scientists & David!<br />
Well done!<br />
We would like to thank again Essence Hair & Beauty in Bourton<br />
on The Water; J. Hackling Transport in Bourton on The Water; J.<br />
Harris - The Cotswold Tutor; and Robert Cox - Pilates 4 U in<br />
sponsoring some of the Quiz rounds. Thank you to all who<br />
donated prizes for the raffle on the night: High Bridge Jewellers,<br />
Bourton on The Water; Badham Pharmacy - Upper Rissington;<br />
Smith’s Restaurant - Bourton on The Water; The Coach&Horses<br />
Ali Baba Indian Restaurant - Bourton on The Water; The<br />
Cotswold Brewery and Klaudia Lucas, Tropical Beauty Products.<br />
WELL DONE TO THE ROCKET SCIENTISTS & DAVID—THE<br />
WINNERS!<br />
Can you spare some time to get involved in<br />
The Cotswold School PTA? Come along to<br />
our next meeting on the 21st of May <strong>2019</strong><br />
at 7.00 pm in the School Library.<br />
CAN YOU BAKE A CAKE OR SPARE SOME TIME?<br />
Chastleton National Trust - St Mary’s Church:<br />
The Cotswold School PTA will be serving tea, coffee and cakes in<br />
order to raise extra funds for pupils at the School. Last year we<br />
raised £4,100 and we hope to do even better this year!<br />
If you can bake a cake or two, or if you can spare a few hours to<br />
help us serving during our allocated dates, please get in touch by<br />
emailing: pta@thecotswoldschool.co.uk.<br />
The allocated dates are:<br />
31/3/<strong>2019</strong> 29/6/<strong>2019</strong><br />
24/4/<strong>2019</strong> 6/7/<strong>2019</strong><br />
19/5/<strong>2019</strong> 18/7/<strong>2019</strong><br />
12/6/<strong>2019</strong> 25/9/<strong>2019</strong> and 6/10/<strong>2019</strong><br />
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Welcome...<br />
Contents<br />
2 The Cotswold School PTA<br />
Word from HQ<br />
Will Morgan, Principal<br />
3 Word from HQ<br />
4/5 Ski Trip to Wagrain<br />
6 Open Days<br />
7 Trip to Berlin/Krakow<br />
8 CERN Trip<br />
9 World Book Day<br />
10 Brain Day/Bank of England Talk<br />
11 Testicular Cancer Assembly/Lady Margaret<br />
Hall Trip<br />
12 Big Bang Fair/Fame Lab<br />
13 Brittany Trip/Year 10 Work Experience<br />
14 Sportive<br />
15 Holocaust Day/STEM Riat/Pink Kangaroo/<br />
Chipping Norton Music Festival<br />
16/17 Sports Updates<br />
18 Fairtrade Talk/Aston Martin Trip<br />
19 Governors’ Corner/House News<br />
20 Diary/Year 5 Open Day/Red Nose Day<br />
The Cotswold School<br />
Former Pupils’ Programme<br />
Are you a former pupil?<br />
Do you know a former pupil?<br />
Clarity is a keyword to summarise this term.<br />
Thank you to all those who came along to the “Funding Issues –<br />
Reality Check” meeting. It was an engaging and informative<br />
evening for both parents and staff. What is clear is that per pupil<br />
funding is set at £4,778 which falls below the pre-confirmed<br />
£4,800, leaving us with a shortfall that we did not or should not<br />
expect. The definition of clarity is ‘the quality of being coherent<br />
and intelligible’. How can we be coherent and intelligible with you,<br />
when the information that was confirmed changed. We will aim to<br />
be as clear and honest going forward, but it makes it a challenge<br />
when the goalposts keep changing. The feedback at and following<br />
the meeting has been incredibly positive. We have much to do.<br />
Thank you to those who have signed up so far to help with the car<br />
parking, bringing in monies that are ring fenced for School<br />
Teaching and Learning Resources. We will update you after the<br />
Easter holidays with a full summary of findings following the<br />
meeting.<br />
What is also overwhelmingly clear is how busy and outstanding<br />
this School continues to be—recent data has put us in the top 8%<br />
of secondary schools in the county. Thank you to staff, governors,<br />
pupils, parents and carers, this School does go from strength to<br />
strength. Well done to all! You’ve worked incredibly hard in the<br />
classroom and the feedback from the recent trips has been<br />
fantastic. Thank you also for supporting us in our school uniform<br />
initiative – it is working well and if we can all pull together, a smart<br />
appearance will help towards a positive outlook and first<br />
impressions.<br />
We wish all Year 11, Year 12 and Year 13 students all the very best<br />
as they embark on the revision timetables in preparation for their<br />
impending examinations. The accompanying E-safety newsletter<br />
sets out the top 10 tips for revision wellbeing. We recommend you<br />
read and follow. Break it down into bite-sized chunks, be focused<br />
on what you are revising at that moment and all will be clear. Good<br />
luck. Wishing you a good Easter break.<br />
Can you assist with careers and mentoring?<br />
In the autumn of 2018, The Cotswold School<br />
will be 30 years old and we want to reach out<br />
to as many former pupils as possible to make<br />
it a lovely celebration. Please sign up at:<br />
www.cotswold.gloucs.sch.uk/alumni/<br />
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Ski Trip <strong>2019</strong><br />
“In February half-term, 52 excited young skiers made the journey to Wagrain,<br />
Austria to take part in the <strong>2019</strong> Cotswold School Ski Trip. The group was made<br />
up of a range of abilities and age groups, from Year 8 to Year 11. The advanced<br />
group led the way and were tackling Black runs on the first day and they<br />
continued to push their instructor (and the teachers) to take on more<br />
challenging runs as the week progressed! Both intermediate groups excelled<br />
and impressed with their control and technical ability throughout and soon<br />
covered nearly all the routes on the two mountains we had access to. For<br />
many of the novice skiers, this was their first experience of real snow and they<br />
showed huge amounts of courage, determination and teamwork to progress<br />
their way up the mountain; with all groups comfortably skiing Red runs by day<br />
5. All pupils contributed to a fantastic trip and made huge amounts of<br />
progress during a wonderful week of skiing. Mr Walker will be launching the<br />
2020 Trip in the coming weeks so keep your eyes peeled for letters.”<br />
Mr C. Jones, Head of Year 11<br />
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Ski Trip <strong>2019</strong><br />
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Berlin & Krakow <strong>2019</strong><br />
We had another fantastic sixth form trip to Berlin and<br />
Krakow, this time blessed with sunny weather in<br />
February! Both places simply ooze with history and<br />
make for a fascinating and rewarding visit. The trip<br />
included some wonderful opportunities to see the<br />
historical sites we have been studying such as The Berlin<br />
Wall, Checkpoint Charlie, Wansee Conference,<br />
Topography of Terror and The Reichstag, but also<br />
included some great cultural moments such as seeing<br />
the Brandenburg Gate, Jewish Museum, The Olympic<br />
Stadium, the Medieval town and Castle of Krakow and<br />
the famous salt mines. Despite it being such a busy trip,<br />
we also found time to enjoy a street art workshop! One<br />
of the most poignant days was visiting Auschwitz-<br />
Birkenau extermination camp. It is hard to summarise<br />
this visit and place of such horrific crimes, but I am sure<br />
the memory will last for a long time with all the<br />
students. The students all took a lot from the trip and<br />
represented The Cotswold School perfectly. We are<br />
already looking forward to our next trip in 2021!<br />
Mrs E. Wahlen, Head of History<br />
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CERN Trip <strong>2019</strong><br />
With great excitement the group of 20 students, Miss Reeves, Mr Duffy<br />
-Turner and Mr Redding headed to Geneva to visit CERN. CERN is an<br />
international nuclear research organisation, founded in the 1950s but<br />
most famous now for the Large Hadron Collider which discovered the<br />
Higgs’ Boson, in 2012, the fundamental particle that gives mass to<br />
everything in the Universe. Currently in a phase of shut-down and<br />
upgrade, we were able to experience a high quality tour from a<br />
Scientist who works there, seeing the original 1950s cyclosyncrotron.<br />
Visitors are now able to view as the radiation levels have fallen to safe<br />
levels.<br />
In the afternoon we headed to the Patek Phillipe Watch Museum and<br />
saw plenty of watches worth more than the teachers’ houses.<br />
Fondue was a popular choice at the restaurant in the evening, before<br />
the students showed off their knowledge in the quiz, the question of<br />
the common name of puffinus confounding all. The next day was spent<br />
completing the Geneva treasure hunt and a visit to the museum of<br />
Science and Technology followed by more fondue.<br />
Geneva is a wonderful city to walk around and with the fascination of<br />
CERN, a great trip was had by all. We look forward to returning in two<br />
years’ time with a new bunch of A level physicists.<br />
Mr T. Redding, Head of Science<br />
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World Book Day <strong>2019</strong><br />
The highlight for this years World Book Day was a visit from the author Tim Hall. Tim, is a former journalist who has written<br />
for the Daily Telegraph and The Guardian, as well as writing freelance articles for magazines.<br />
His first love however, is writing Young Adult fiction. His debut novel, Shadow of the Wolf, is a dark, fantastical reimagining of<br />
the Robin Hood legends. Tim has just finished writing his second novel which is due out in July of this year.<br />
Tim worked with Year 7, Year 8 and Year 9 classes on a mix of creative writing and non fiction writing. Students came away<br />
from the workshops inspired and informed. Some of the students were even lucky enough to win a copy of his book, kindly<br />
donated by Tim.<br />
There was a wonderful 'booky buzz' in the library throughout the day, as students had the chance to meet Tim Hall and order<br />
his book. There was a new and nearly new book sale, proceeds of which will go to the charity, Book Aid International.<br />
Students could use their World Book Day tokens towards purchasing a book from Scholastic's TEEN magazine. A special thank<br />
you must go to the Student Librarians who helped with the various events during first and second lunch.<br />
Mrs K. Williams - School Librarian<br />
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Brain Day<br />
The Psychology Department held their annual ‘Brain Day’ on Friday<br />
15 January <strong>2019</strong>. Dr Guy Sutton, our visiting speaker, spent the<br />
morning session talking about the brain, during which he discussed<br />
neurons, nerve impulses and synapses; genes and brain<br />
development; lateralization and localization of cognitive function<br />
and brain imaging techniques. As part of the morning session, Dr<br />
Sutton also dissected a sheep brain for the students to observe.<br />
In the afternoon session, Dr Sutton turned to Forensic Psychology in<br />
which he covered perspectives on criminality, the psychology of<br />
violence and intimidation, offender profiling, and a number of other<br />
interesting and useful topics including implications from research<br />
for the law.<br />
An evening lecture was also held by Dr Sutton on Thursday 14th,<br />
‘From Here to Maturity: Inside the Teenage Brain’. The lecture<br />
explored the truths and myths regarding the adolescent brain. A<br />
retiring fund for the evening lecture raised £150.00 for Cancer<br />
Research UK.<br />
Economics Talk<br />
Mr Ben Martin of the Bank of England<br />
visited the school on Wednesday 13<br />
March and spoke with A Level Economics<br />
students about the work undertaken by<br />
our central bank. Students benefitted<br />
from this visit as all Economics students<br />
need to have an understanding of how<br />
and why monetary policy is devised and<br />
applied within the UK. The roles of the<br />
Bank of England were discussed in terms<br />
of setting interest rates and quantitative<br />
easing and regulation of the financial<br />
sector. Students were attentive and asked<br />
detailed and thought provoking questions.<br />
Mr M. Sweetlove, Head of Economics<br />
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Testicular Cancer Awareness Assembly<br />
Ben Hughes joined Mr Smith, Design & Technology teacher, and<br />
presented an assembly to Year 12 and Year 13 male students on<br />
testicular cancer. Both Ben and Mr Smith have suffered from<br />
Testicular Cancer and in Ben’s case it was all down to his brother<br />
Chris going on ITV’s ‘This Morning’ programme that he realised<br />
he may well have cancer. He made an appointment with his GP<br />
and was subsequently diagnosed. Testicular Cancer affects<br />
mainly men under the age of 24 years. Thank You.<br />
Lady Margaret Hall Trip<br />
On Friday 1st March Mrs Newby and Miss Jones<br />
took 30 Year 11 students to an Outreach Event<br />
run by our link college at the University of<br />
Oxford, Lady Margaret Hall. The day started<br />
with a session dispelling many of the myths<br />
surrounding applying for and studying at a top<br />
university. As we sat in a beautifully ornate mini<br />
lecture theatre, the Outreach Officer gave the<br />
students a flavour of what the tutorial system is<br />
like. Our students defended their points of view<br />
admirably against the Marling students in a<br />
philosophical conundrum. After a tour of the<br />
beautiful grounds and facilities, we were<br />
treated to a delicious lunch in hall, followed by<br />
a session with two former Cotswold head boys,<br />
Pip Cull and Joe Salf, and former students,<br />
Sophie Taylor and Ben Darwent – all now<br />
thoroughly thriving during their degree courses<br />
at Oxford. It was an inspiring day, showing our<br />
students what could be in store for them in the<br />
future. Mrs A. Newby, Stretch & Challenge<br />
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Big Bang Fair<br />
The Big Bang UK Young Scientists &<br />
Engineers Fair is the largest celebration<br />
of science, technology, engineering and<br />
maths (STEM) for young people in the<br />
UK.<br />
The Big Bang Fair aims to show young<br />
people aged 7 to 19 the exciting and<br />
rewarding opportunities out there for<br />
them with the right experience and<br />
qualifications, by bringing classroom<br />
learning to life.<br />
A large group of The Cotswold School<br />
Year 7 pupils attended the Fair at the<br />
NEC in Birmingham and had a rewarding<br />
and fascinating trip.<br />
We look forward to lots of budding<br />
STEM students’ heading their way up<br />
through the School!<br />
FameLab<br />
The Cotswold School took part in Gloucestershire Schools’ FameLab Academy final this week at EDF’s headquarters in<br />
Gloucester. Megan O’Brien competed with the finalists from 13 other schools supported by Sam Hollier, Giorgia Griffini,<br />
Sophia Torris and Luca Devereux who had taken part in the workshops at school leading up to the final. Megan gave a<br />
fascinating, confident and well researched three minute talk on ‘Mitochondrial Eve’ and in the face of tough opposition<br />
lost out to the winner Arwen Borthwick-Hunter from Westonbirt School. Our students have benefited greatly from the<br />
experience, enabling them to become effective science communicators of the future.<br />
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French Exchange<br />
What a thrill to take such a great bunch of young people over to France! Twenty-three Year 10 and Year 12 students<br />
headed to France to stay with their French partners on the return leg of our exchange. Six out of our eight Year 12s had<br />
visited two years ago, and they loved it so much that they wanted to go back! This time, they enjoyed a two-day work<br />
experience in various locations including restaurants, a primary school and sports places. We visited the<br />
Océanopolis Sea Life Centre, ate in our favourite créperie, and attended lessons at<br />
the school. We also visited the market, where we ate snails at ten in the<br />
morning, before meeting the mayor of Lannion! We also had a beautiful<br />
day at the Mont Saint Michel with our French partners and enjoyed some<br />
family time at the weekend, with a fantastic time at our disco party on<br />
Saturday. It all came too quickly to an end, but on our way back to the UK,<br />
we managed to see the Bayeux tapestry and visit the D-day beaches.<br />
Everywhere, people complimented our group as one of fun, well-mannered,<br />
tolerant and open-minded youngsters, who enjoyed discovering new<br />
cultures and horizons, representing so well Britain abroad! Thank you to<br />
their amazing British families who showed so much support.<br />
Mrs G. Moss, French Teacher<br />
Year 10 Work Experience <strong>2019</strong><br />
To coincide with National Careers Week, the<br />
Year 10s took part in their week-long work<br />
experience. The variety of placements<br />
included Hairdressing, Veterinary Practice,<br />
Primary School Teaching and time at a<br />
Community Radio Station, Aston Martin,<br />
BMW and Renault F1. One student event went<br />
to Italy!<br />
On Monday 1st <strong>April</strong>, the Grand Final took<br />
place. Nine students presented on their week<br />
of work experience. Three guest judges, all<br />
from local businesses, kindly gave up their<br />
time. The judges were Richard Emsley,<br />
Graham Ramsay and Sarah Hoyle—an<br />
enormous thank you.<br />
By all accounts, it was not an easy decision,<br />
but the overall winner was Callum Woolley, in<br />
second place Theo Mitchell and in third Kate<br />
Jacovides. Well done!<br />
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Sharon Laws Sportive<br />
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Holocaust Day<br />
As reported in the last edition of The Cotswold News, on<br />
Wednesday 23 rd of January, as part of their RE day on the<br />
Holocaust, Year 10 students had the privilege of listening<br />
to visiting speaker Ernest Simon. Ernest spoke of his<br />
experiences and specifically of how he had witnessed<br />
Kristallnacht, after which his parents managed to secure<br />
him a place on the Kindertransport.<br />
The feedback from students after listening to Ernest<br />
reflects the value of the day and the importance of<br />
remembering events such as the Holocaust:<br />
‘….no one should have to experience what he<br />
experienced and the fact that he shows no anger or<br />
resentment shows how much he understands and<br />
appreciates life, which to me is an amazing thought.’<br />
‘…..listening to him was a once in a lifetime experience’<br />
‘….after hearing about all the dreadful things that<br />
happened, it made me happy to know that there were<br />
some people who escaped.’<br />
‘…..you could really feel what he went through’<br />
Intermediate Kangaroo<br />
Math’s Challenge<br />
In the recent Pink Kangaroo Math’s Challenge, one<br />
student received Gold in the intermediate Math’s<br />
challenge with four receiving silver and ten bronze!<br />
Well done!<br />
Chipping Norton Music Festival<br />
A note from the Music Department!<br />
The Chipping Norton Music Festival was another<br />
great success and the Music Department was nobly<br />
represented with fantastic performances. The<br />
Festival draws many candidates from Oxfordshire<br />
and Gloucestershire. Instrumental pupils perform<br />
every year and consistently gain high results with<br />
praise and feedback from the Adjudicators. They<br />
are a credit to the School—it takes courage to<br />
perform in a competitive environment which is also<br />
of a very high standard. A big well done to::<br />
Gemma Fifield’s pupils:<br />
Piano: Romilly Gapp, Year 8, Emily Melchior, Year<br />
9, Luca Devereux, Year 9, Albertine Wheeler, Year<br />
10 and Henry Wheeler, Year 8.<br />
Senior vocal: Jenny Morafkova, Year 12<br />
Speech and Drama: Maite Capper, Year 8<br />
Piano and Guitar: Reuben West, Year 8<br />
Rosie Meyrick’s pupils:<br />
Clarinet: Albertine Wheeler, Year 11 and Ben<br />
Douglas, Year 9<br />
Flute: Tisa Maunder-Bushell, Year 10<br />
STEM RIAT Event<br />
Robots are used in a variety of settings, particularly in<br />
situations where it is too dangerous for humans such as<br />
in the military. A message needed to be sent over a long<br />
distance and across mountainous terrain, which was far<br />
too treacherous for humans... The brief was to design<br />
and construct a tower using wood and aluminium,<br />
then create a mechanism for remotely raising a flag and switching a light on and off in order to send a coded message. This<br />
required students to design a pressure sensor, solder and build it into a circuit, design a suitable system for raising the flag and<br />
programme a robot to carry out their precise instructions - quite a challenge!! The Year 9 triple scientists did a fantastic job,<br />
demonstrating a high level of resilience and team working skills. Our thanks to Simon Kettle from STEMworks for coming in to<br />
deliver the session. The winning team won 5 tickets for the Royal International Air Tattoo and will go on to represent the<br />
School at the Royal International Air Tattoo in June.<br />
Miss K. Reeves, STEM Coordinator<br />
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Sporting Successes<br />
NETBALL <strong>NEWS</strong><br />
<strong>April</strong> <strong>2019</strong><br />
Year 7 won against Chipping Norton 33-10<br />
Year 7a won against Pitville Park 11-10<br />
Year 7b won against Pitville Park 6-2<br />
Year 8 won against Chipping Norton 40-2<br />
Year 9a won against Kingham Hill 38-6<br />
Year 9b won against Kingham Hill 13-11<br />
https://cotswold.gloucs.sch.uk/fixtures-and-results/<br />
For full fixtures and results, please visit:<br />
HOCKEY<br />
NETBALL<br />
Year 11/12/13 – The Cotswold School vs Sibford<br />
Cotswold won 3-0<br />
Star Players: Zoe Lenihan and Eleonore Gilbert<br />
“We played really well together, especially as we haven’t<br />
practised or trained together as a team. We were really good<br />
at making the ball do the work and used triangles as a<br />
formation to get around players. The ball was transferred<br />
quite a few times with success, as the opposition quite often<br />
crowded, which gave us a lot of space to transfer the play. I<br />
thought Freya from Year 9 played really well and everyone<br />
was strong throughout the whole game so it would be hard<br />
to choose a standout player!” Zoe Lenihan<br />
Year 7a – The Cotswold School vs Pates<br />
Cotswold won 10-9<br />
Star Player: Hattie Backhouse<br />
“We played in the Sports Hall to avoid the bitter<br />
wind! We started the match off with two lovely<br />
goals from The Cotswold School. The opposition<br />
was strong at attacking but we had great defence;<br />
Charlotte Carol , Lulu Lane-Fox and Emily Baxter.<br />
Some great centres were taken by Lily Morgan and<br />
goals were scored by Martha and Hattie. It was a<br />
great game! Well done girls.” Hattie Backhouse<br />
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Maite Capper, Cross Country<br />
In early March, Maite ran for<br />
Gloucestershire for the first time in the<br />
inter county cross country race in<br />
Loughborough.<br />
“It was a great experience and has<br />
opened my eyes to a whole new world.<br />
Thanks to all the PE team.”<br />
Hannah Rowley, Squash<br />
In February, Hannah won the Bristol Open. Following<br />
this success, she then competed for her county,<br />
Gloucestershire, as number two seed, and came seventh<br />
at the Inter-county finals in Northamptonshire. Then in<br />
early March, she came second in the Thame Open and<br />
then won the Marlborough Open—a busy few weeks!<br />
Well done Hannah.<br />
In addition, she joined Chipping Norton Leisure Centre<br />
Box League and joined in at box five our of six, being the<br />
only under eighteen and only female AND won all her<br />
matches! Go Hannah!<br />
FOOTBALL <strong>NEWS</strong><br />
<strong>April</strong> <strong>2019</strong><br />
Year 7 won against Chipping Norton 2-1<br />
Year 8 won against Chipping Norton 3-2<br />
Year 9 lost against Chipping Norton 2-0<br />
March <strong>2019</strong><br />
Year 8 won against Farmors 6-1<br />
February <strong>2019</strong><br />
Year 8 won against Winchcombe 6-1<br />
January <strong>2019</strong><br />
Year 8 won against All Saints 7-2<br />
CRICKET<br />
The Year 8 Indoor Cricket Team won the<br />
Gloucestershire Finals at Cheltenham Prince of<br />
Wales Stadium. The boys had to win the District<br />
Tournament to qualify for the County Cricket Club<br />
(CCC) run. They continued their undefeated season<br />
by winning matches against Redland School,<br />
Winterbourne School, St Bedes School and Crypt<br />
School, who were unable to deal with the plethora<br />
of spin bowlers deployed! They became County<br />
Champions. Oliver Forbes former pupil and<br />
Gloucestershire Youth Cricket coordinator,<br />
commented “How talented the whole squad were.”<br />
HOCKEY<br />
Players of the tournament were Ben Gilespie and<br />
Henry Wheeler.<br />
Year 8/9/10 – The Cotswold School vs Pitville<br />
Cotswold won 11-0<br />
Star Player: Keira James<br />
“Due to lack of availability through the years, Year<br />
8, Year 9 and Year 10 pulled together to play as<br />
one team. The team did so well in all aspects and<br />
started to use the width of the pitch which<br />
widened their game and helped the play<br />
dramatically. Stand out player was Megan Jones,<br />
due to her excellent team spirit, when she<br />
volunteered for the other team!” Keira James<br />
Good Teamwork!<br />
Well done boys!<br />
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Midcounties Fair Trade visit<br />
On Monday 4 of March, Year 9 food pupils were treated to a visit from<br />
Judy Cheyne from Bourton Midcounties Co-operative. She was here to<br />
talk to pupils about Fairtrade fortnight, 25 February to 10 March, which<br />
links in well with the current module of international cuisine. Pupils learnt<br />
all about the Fairtrade products that are available at the Co-Op, what<br />
Fairtrade meant and why it was introduced. And being a food lesson,<br />
pupils were of course allowed to try some produce! Cookies made from<br />
Fairtrade chocolate and sugar, and banana smoothies, all of which were<br />
well received. A big thank you to Judy for taking the time to come in and<br />
talk to pupils.<br />
Trip to Aston Martin<br />
Back in November, Year 9 Design and Technology students, took part<br />
in a Cotswold Car Challenge supported by Aston Martin Lagonda. The<br />
prize for the winning team, Team Egg, made up of Jake Clarke, Charlie<br />
Gillett, Milo Lane-Fox, Charlie Phipp and Jake Vanstone, was to visit the<br />
Aston Martin factory at Gaydon…..and so they did!<br />
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Governors’ Corner<br />
Governors have a four year tenure and therefore there is always a rolling programme of election.<br />
There are various types of governor - we have one local authority approved governor (this is<br />
currently Dr Warren, our Vice Chair). Then we have an equal balance of six co-opted governors who<br />
are invited on to the board for their particular expertise, six parent governors who are elected by<br />
the parent community and two staff governors who are elected by the staff. Associate governors are<br />
nominated for a year at a time and this includes four further senior colleagues and maybe one or<br />
two governors who have come to the end of their term but who are invited to stop on for a year in<br />
order to complete any unfinished business. A list of our governors is on the website with a quick<br />
profile about them.<br />
We recently held a parent governor election and were pleased to have a good field of three strong<br />
candidates. As it turned out we had three vacancies so were delighted to welcome Mr Backhouse<br />
and Mrs Havill aboard for the first time and to welcome back Dr Emsley who was standing for<br />
re-election<br />
Monitoring of the School Self Evaluation Document which feeds into the next School Development<br />
Plan will be coming up for governors after Easter. There will of course be the<br />
usual policy reviews and presentations and updates on governor visits.<br />
On behalf of the governors can I wish you all a very Happy Easter.<br />
Mrs F. Hudson, Clerk to the Governors<br />
SWIMMING GALA<br />
Year 7 Boys ARTEMIS<br />
Year 7 Girls POSEIDON<br />
Year 8 Boys ZEUS<br />
School House Totals<br />
7799<br />
Year 8 Girls<br />
ARTEMIS<br />
Year 9 Boys ARTEMIS<br />
Year 9 Girls ZEUS<br />
Year 10 Boys POSEIDON<br />
7258<br />
8557<br />
7759<br />
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Diary dates...<br />
<strong>April</strong><br />
6-11 <strong>April</strong> Madrid Trip<br />
23 <strong>April</strong> Summer Term Begins<br />
25 <strong>April</strong> Year 8 Y-Half Parents’ Evening<br />
29 <strong>April</strong> Premises Governing Meeting<br />
29 <strong>April</strong> Finance Governing Meeting<br />
May<br />
2 May Year 8 X-Half Parents’ Evening<br />
6 May Bank Holiday Monday<br />
10-12 May Year 7 & Year 8 Osmington Bay Trip<br />
13 May National Examinations Begin<br />
13 May Full Governing Body Meeting<br />
14 May Teaching & Learning Governing<br />
Meeting<br />
16 May Year 7 Y-Half Parents’ Meeting<br />
21 May PTA Meeting in the Library<br />
23 May Year 7 X-Half Parents’ Meeting<br />
23-27 May Barcelona Trip<br />
23-27 May Rheinland Trip<br />
27-31 May Summer Half Term<br />
The Cotswold School<br />
Principal: Mr Will Morgan<br />
The Avenue, Bourton on the Water<br />
Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, GL54 2BD<br />
Telephone: 01451 820554<br />
Fax: 01451 810658<br />
Email: admin@thecotswoldschool.co.uk<br />
Marketing: marketing@thecotswoldschool.co.uk<br />
Website: https://cotswold.gloucs.sch.uk/<br />
School returns on Monday 3 June <strong>2019</strong><br />
Red Nose Day <strong>2019</strong><br />
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