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N E W S<br />
The Cotswold School<br />
June/<strong>July</strong> <strong>2019</strong><br />
CADENCE, OUR END OF YEAR FESTIVAL OF MUSIC<br />
THE AMAZING GYM AND DANCE SHOW<br />
TRIPS GALORE!<br />
ENRICHMENT WEEK—THE FINALE OF THE YEAR<br />
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, MAVIS, LADY DUNROSSIL<br />
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The Cotswold School PTA<br />
Thank you to the few on the committee and to the many who have supported their enormous<br />
efforts this year. It is greatly appreciated and really does go to the heart of this School in<br />
supporting and raising the bar on the teaching and<br />
learning resources we can offer to our children. Thank you. Mr W Morgan<br />
A few words from The Cotswold School PTA…<br />
“As the end of the school year is fast<br />
approaching, we would like to take this<br />
opportunity to thank all of you who have<br />
supported us and who have helped us to raise<br />
so much needed funds for our children.<br />
From September 2018 to date, we have<br />
successfully raised £16,000 through various<br />
initiatives:<br />
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The bar and raffle at Mary Poppins in<br />
November and at the February Upper<br />
School Production<br />
The Christmas Wreath Workshop (the<br />
<strong>2019</strong> event will take place on 4th<br />
December <strong>2019</strong><br />
The Christmas Raffle<br />
The PTA Annual Quiz<br />
Chastleton Teas<br />
Bags of Help through Tesco<br />
This year we HAVE SUPPORTED ALL<br />
DEPARTMENTS in the School...we have<br />
bought new books for the library, GCSE year<br />
10/11 textbooks, year 12/13 A level books,<br />
History & Geography subscriptions...French,<br />
Spanish, German, Italian language<br />
subscriptions, motivational speakers, the<br />
Rapid Reading programme and the list goes<br />
on...<br />
It was great to welcome new parents at our<br />
meetings, and we hope to see more joining us<br />
in September.<br />
Please do join us!<br />
Our next meeting will be<br />
on Tuesday 17th<br />
September <strong>2019</strong> in the<br />
School Library at 7.00 pm.<br />
You can also follow us on Facebook<br />
@thecotswoldschoolPTA.<br />
We wish you all a great summer!<br />
Best Wishes The Cotswold School PTA”<br />
Fundraising Profit<br />
From 1 st November 2018 (The PTA Financial year)<br />
November 2018<br />
Mary Poppins, bar and raffle - £778.58<br />
December 2018<br />
Christmas Wreath making - £1672.34<br />
Christmas Raffle - £4288.35<br />
February <strong>2019</strong><br />
Upper School Production, bar - £124.50<br />
Tesco Bags of Help Scheme - £2000.00<br />
March <strong>2019</strong><br />
PTA Quiz night - £1501.72<br />
April – June <strong>2019</strong><br />
Chastleton Teas - £1973.93<br />
May <strong>2019</strong><br />
Car Parking - £966.01<br />
November 2018 – June <strong>2019</strong><br />
Easy Fundraising - £252.32<br />
February – May <strong>2019</strong><br />
Amazon Smile- £48.39<br />
Total £13,606.14<br />
For the academic year (September to June)<br />
Sept – Oct 2018<br />
Chastleton Teas - £2291.50<br />
Sept 2018<br />
Easy fundraising - £102.78<br />
Total with above: £16,000.42<br />
With thanks<br />
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Welcome...<br />
Contents<br />
2 The Cotswold School PTA<br />
3 Word from HQ<br />
4/5 Cadence/Music Notes<br />
6 Milly Sargent/Upcycling<br />
7 Henry Cannon/Rotary <strong>News</strong><br />
8 The Sharon Laws Sportive<br />
9 Enrichment Week<br />
10-13 Trips<br />
13 Stuart Langworthy<br />
14 Open Days<br />
16 Year 11 Prom/Year 13<br />
Leavers’<br />
17 Aerial Skills<br />
18/19 Sport’s Pages<br />
20 Greystones<br />
21 Year 7 Buddies<br />
22 Create & Cook/Cyber Security<br />
23 Fun Run/Careers<br />
24 LadyDunrossil/De La Haye’s<br />
25 Governors’ Corner/House<br />
Points<br />
26 Diary Dates<br />
The Cotswold School<br />
Alumni Programme<br />
Are you a former pupil?<br />
Do you know a former pupil?<br />
Can you assist with careers and<br />
mentoring?<br />
The Cotswold School is 30 years old<br />
and we want to reach out to as many<br />
former pupils as possible to make it a<br />
lovely celebration. Please sign up at:<br />
Word from HQ<br />
Mr W Morgan, Principal<br />
We are at the<br />
end of another busy and successful academic year! As<br />
the gruelling four weeks of examinations finish, our<br />
thoughts turn to our summer holidays and with that a<br />
huge thanks to our staff, pupils, parents, governors<br />
and all our supporters of The Cotswold School.<br />
It has been a learning curve for us this year. The<br />
‘promise’ of the full National Funding Formula per<br />
pupil has not been kept and we are facing severe<br />
underfunding. We have had to look at many new<br />
channels to try to find solutions and ways forward,<br />
including lobbying, support, fundraising and income to<br />
ensure our teaching and learning resources are at least<br />
maintained for a School that I’m proud to say is<br />
‘Outstanding’.<br />
Thank you to all you supporters who have given time<br />
to the School, time to the car parking, gifts, donations,<br />
standing orders, match funding payments...the list<br />
goes on. We believe we have raised £100,000 (this<br />
includes the £16,000 raised by our wonderful PTA<br />
team), and if we are successful in two large bids, the<br />
sum will be considerably larger. A special thanks to the<br />
generous grandparent and their match funding offer<br />
and we are almost halfway there. These monies will go<br />
to teaching and learning resources and will make an<br />
incredible difference. It really does.<br />
It was therefore lovely to be able to inform you all of<br />
the good news that we have successfully won funding<br />
from the capital Condition Improvement Funding pot.<br />
So over the summer holiday, works will commence on<br />
completely refurbishing the Gymnasium and further<br />
works to improving the site security.<br />
Looking after your children is a true privilege but comes<br />
with a huge responsibility. Providing facilities to<br />
enhance education and safeguard your children is<br />
paramount. The hard work continues over the summer in<br />
preparation for the start of the new academic year.<br />
In the mean time, wishing you all a warm, sunny and<br />
enjoyable summer holiday.<br />
www.cotswold.gloucs.sch.uk/alumni/<br />
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Music Notes<br />
Rhiannon Ashby is pictured<br />
here playing the pedal harp<br />
for the first time. Peaceful<br />
and exquisite—beautifully<br />
played. Well done.<br />
Louis Ayers in Year 13, is a fantastic<br />
pianist! At the Music Department’s<br />
request, he kindly popped in to play and<br />
entertain staff during a recent lunchtime<br />
before he leaves us! He played<br />
Rachmaninov.<br />
Thank you Louis and good luck for the<br />
future.<br />
Back in Black played at Condicote Jazz<br />
Night on Saturday 6 th <strong>July</strong> and the Music<br />
Department received the following<br />
feedback from the organiser: -<br />
“Just dropping you a line to say a huge<br />
thanks to the students of The Cotswold<br />
School Jazz Orchestra Back in Black. They<br />
were brilliant and each year they seem to<br />
get better. A large number of people<br />
commented on how good they are.”<br />
Excellent Work!<br />
Well done to Sophie Finlay who won the Cheltenham Festival of<br />
Performing Arts certificate for Year 7 and 8 level.<br />
Her presentations were ‘A Touch of Gold’ (traditional) Midas and ‘My<br />
Sister’s Keeper (Jodi Picoult) Anna. She gained maximum marks in<br />
Interpretation and Technique in both scenes she performed.<br />
Comments from the judges included, ‘you spoke with audibility and<br />
clarity’ and ‘you answered all knowledge questions fully and in great<br />
detail’. Outstanding!<br />
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Milly Sargent, Year 10<br />
Earlier this year, Milly Sargeant of Year 10<br />
won an internal competition to create and<br />
design illustrations to compliment Alison<br />
Lane’s first book. Alison comments, “Milly<br />
worked incredibly hard on these<br />
illustrations. Unfortunately, we cannot<br />
show any of her work until the book is<br />
launched later this year or early next year.<br />
I chose Milly, as her drawings seemed to<br />
fit so well with the storyline and her<br />
attention to detail is excellent.<br />
Her maturity and professionalism throughout the project was second to none. If I suggested some<br />
tweaks or changes, she took it on board and ’got on it’ straight away and I’m delighted with her<br />
illustrations. Thank you Milly.”<br />
Alison presented Milly with a cheque to The Cotswold School to the value of £500 at a recent<br />
assembly. We cannot wait to see your illustrations and well done!<br />
The Upcycling Design Challenge<br />
Ms S Lombardelli ran, for the first time, the<br />
Upcycling Design Challenge for Year 9 and Year<br />
10—what a challenge! Some incredible designs!<br />
The overall winner was Kate Jacovides in Year 10,<br />
with runners up Isobel Blair, Hattie<br />
Davies–Brown, Aidan Thompson and Poppy White.<br />
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Henry Cannon, Year 13<br />
Henry Cannon of Year 13 has been<br />
raising funds for his coming ICS Raleigh<br />
trip to Tanzania. Henry ran in the Rotary<br />
Shakespeare half-marathon in Stratfordupon-Avon<br />
which raised £648. In<br />
addition, the North Cotswolds Rotary<br />
Club agreed to sponsor Henry to the<br />
value of £500. Here is Ed Alexander of<br />
the Rotary, presenting Henry with the<br />
cheque. Henry, have an amazing time!<br />
The North Cotswolds Rotary<br />
“Rotary’s youth competitions offer a platform for talents to shine.”<br />
Each year the Rotary Club runs a series of Youth Competitions. From local and regional heats<br />
through to national levels, these contests are a great way to be challenged in a fun and friendly<br />
environment, plus there are great prizes up for grabs too.<br />
There are a number of competition categories to choose from, and to find out more please visit<br />
https://www.rotarygbi.org/projects/young-people/competitions/. The competitions supported by School<br />
are listed below, along with the key member of staff. You may want to have a go at the<br />
Photographic and Filmmaker competitions over the summer holidays—please visit the website<br />
to discover each competition category. Competition entries will need to be submitted to North<br />
Cotswolds Rotary Club by mid-November.<br />
Rotary Young Chef Competition, please see Ms Lamb<br />
Rotary Photographic Competition, please see Mr Hillier<br />
Rotary Filmmaker Competition, please see Mr Lord<br />
Rotary Young Writer Competition, please see Mrs Dobson<br />
Rotary Environmentalist, please see Mr Ellis<br />
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Enrichment Week<br />
On Thursday each group was offered a<br />
bespoke day tailored to their age group<br />
and to celebrate all the good work that has<br />
gone on over the course of the year. Year<br />
7 took part in the annual sponsored fivemile<br />
walk to raise funds for mental health<br />
in School. Pictured above is Mrs K Pulham<br />
with Mr M Smith and Mrs F Hudson, with<br />
the cheque of £1,000 donated to the Emily<br />
Kent Unit—the charity chosen last year. A<br />
presentation assembly was given to kickstart<br />
this year’s Enrichment Week. This<br />
year, all donations/sponsorship will go<br />
towards the provision of mental health in<br />
School.<br />
Year 8 visited Bristol Docks, including the<br />
M Shed and We Are Curious. Year 9 had<br />
fun at Drayton Manor to mark the end of<br />
their Key Stage and Year 10 spent half a<br />
day dedicated to careers and half a day<br />
enjoying wellbeing activities.<br />
The last week of term is always Enrichment Week and this year<br />
the timetable was slightly different! Open to Year 7 to Year 10<br />
and those still in School and not on School residential trips,<br />
the aim was to give it a different feel.<br />
Over three days, we embarked on an exciting<br />
cross-curricular opportunity for Year 7, Year 8 and Year 9,<br />
exploring a common theme across all subjects. Our chosen<br />
subject was ‘Africa—its peoples and cultures’ and each subject<br />
explored different aspects, thereby building up a<br />
comprehensive picture for our pupils of this fascinating<br />
continent through a wide variety of creative and unusual<br />
activities. Year 10 undertook a review of the year in each<br />
subject and started to think ahead to the challenges of the next<br />
year. Year 12 were carrying out a week of professional work<br />
shadowing.<br />
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Trips—Barcelona!<br />
Year 8 pupils recently visited Barcelona over half-term and visited a<br />
variety of attractions including the Sagrada Familia, Parc Guell, Camp<br />
Nou, Poble Espanyol and Montjuic Castle and shopping on Las<br />
Ramblas, including the famous Boquería market. Our first Spanish<br />
exchange trip to Cadiz took place in June and was a resounding<br />
success with pupils having a great time and bonding with their<br />
exchange friends. By Miss E Tingle<br />
In May half-term, around 40 staff and<br />
children from Year 7 and Year 8 visited<br />
the Rhineland on a cultural visit. They<br />
stayed in Boppard and visited small<br />
towns along the river Rhine including<br />
Cochem / Rudesheim / castle at St Goar.<br />
Trips—Rhineland<br />
Highlights of the trip included cable car rides up to<br />
the top of the hills with beautiful views of the Rhine<br />
below and pupils sampling the traditional Kaffee<br />
und Kuchen (coffee and cake) and Spaghettieis, a<br />
vanilla ice cream which is made to look like<br />
spaghetti with strawberry sauce on top!<br />
By Mrs N Christian<br />
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Trips—Paris<br />
Students from Years 7 and 8 have spent a<br />
memorable long weekend in Paris as well as<br />
visiting the historic city of Arras and the beautiful<br />
Château de Versailles and its gardens. Sightseeing<br />
included eating lunch by the Eiffel Tower,<br />
going on a boat tour on the River Seine, climbing<br />
the 284 steps of the Arc de Triomphe and seeing all<br />
of these again from 210 metres up the<br />
Montparnasse Tower. Those who were<br />
brave sampled snails and ate in a traditional<br />
Parisian restaurant. Speaking skills were put into<br />
practice to buy various items from the Brie market.<br />
The trip finished with a tour of the Stade de France<br />
en route back home. Mrs Kelman would like to<br />
thank Mr A. Thomas, Dr Pearce, Mrs Barratt and<br />
Mrs Webley for their fantastic support on the trip,<br />
the pupils who were well-behaved and good fun<br />
and to Pete Clarke from Pulham's who did a top job<br />
of driving us around. By Mrs S Kelman<br />
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Trips—Aberystwyth<br />
Last week, we (a group of Year 12 Geographers) went<br />
on a fieldwork trip to Aberystwyth in west Wales. The<br />
aim of the trip was to practise our fieldwork skills as<br />
a trial run in preparation for our NEA data collection;<br />
this will help us complete our coursework next year.<br />
On the way to Aberystwyth we stopped in Gloucester<br />
to look at the area’s recent regeneration, testing out<br />
our data collection sheets. En route, we visited the<br />
Elan Valley Dams, one of our case studies for next<br />
year, we focused on water transfer schemes and it<br />
was a welcome break from the singing on the<br />
minibuses! The next day we followed the course of<br />
the River Clarach, recording changes in its depth,<br />
width and sediment size as well as discovering how<br />
much water we could bring home in our wellies! On<br />
our final day we visited sites along the beach between<br />
Borth and the spit at Ynys Las where we spent our<br />
time looking at beach profiles and the impact of local<br />
coastal management. After taking in a little sun on the<br />
beach and a pit stop in Hereford, we made it back to<br />
school late on Wednesday evening. Nothing better<br />
than seeing and experiencing Geography in action!<br />
By Mrs E Johnstone<br />
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Trips—Bristol Regeneration<br />
Equipped for 'scattered showers throughout the day' our<br />
Year 10 geographers headed into Bristol on the 14th and<br />
18th of June in order to take part in one of their two<br />
compulsory fieldwork trips for their GCSE course. After a<br />
clear run down the M5, we arrived at the Millennium<br />
Square ready to collect data from the locals and visitors<br />
in order to find out their opinion on Bristol's Urban<br />
Redevelopment. However, the heavy and somewhat<br />
persistent rain reduced the numbers of the general public<br />
around, and our geographers did well to collect as many<br />
questionnaires as they did. Not to be discouraged, they<br />
continued with their data collection, enjoying an hour<br />
long tour courtesy of Bristol Ferry's along the river in<br />
which they were able to learn all about the rise and<br />
decline of Bristol's trading past. Further data collection<br />
saw the geographers doing land use surveys and<br />
environmental surveys before they got back on the bus<br />
and headed home to The Cotswold School. Our students<br />
did us proud and as the saying goes, ‘there's no such<br />
thing as the wrong weather, just the wrong clothes.’<br />
By Mrs F Bradley<br />
Stuart Langworthy<br />
Over the half-term holiday I had the huge honour of rolling a cheese at<br />
the annual Cheese Roll! I had taught at Brockworth for 32 years and now<br />
in my England Manager of the over 50’s England Football Team role, I<br />
was asked and was delighted to accept - it was a colourful and<br />
international event - lots of high spirits and many crazy people who, in<br />
the name of sport and fun, chased an eight pound lump of cheese down<br />
a one in two death slide of a hill. Great experience!<br />
Stuart Langworthy, Holder of The Queen's Award for Enterprise<br />
Promotion, Business Studies Department<br />
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Your New Head Students and Deputies<br />
I have helped run the Key Stage 3 Enterprise Club over the past two years, aimed at<br />
increasing awareness and inspiring the lower years of the School about the<br />
importance of the world of business. This has been part of my role as a subject<br />
ambassador for the Business Studies Department. I have also been involved, for<br />
the past few years, in School Council. As a team, we have been discussing how we<br />
could best use our time in our roles and we have decided that we really want to see<br />
more interactivity amongst the whole school. We are a school with talents in<br />
different year groups. If we could have more interactivity, that would be really<br />
special and is something I want to support as Head Boy. I myself have worked<br />
with students in Key Stage 3 and have seen the benefits for both first hand.<br />
In conjunction, I want more of my peers in the Sixth Form to have the opportunity to take up<br />
unique leadership roles. This is why I am very fond of the work of the Sixth Form Student<br />
Council, enabling individuals to be able to take forward what interests them. I want us all to work<br />
together to leave a legacy. It’s not just about grades, but also it’s the spirit of making the world<br />
greater each day. The support our teachers are willing to provide, to assist individuals to achieve<br />
their ambitions is second to none.<br />
After Year 13, I’m keeping my options open but want to go into business, perhaps finance. I’m<br />
hoping to be able to study Business Economics at University. I feel inspired by people who show<br />
dedication to achieve something over a long period of time. The idea of every day improving<br />
things is what inspires me. Ethan Waller, Head Boy<br />
At School, I have been a House Sports Captain, peer mentor and subject<br />
ambassador for both History and Languages, as well as Captain of netball and<br />
hockey teams. My main objective this next year is to give something back to<br />
School through fundraising. It is also to raise further awareness of current affairs<br />
with clubs, assemblies, perhaps a current affairs bulletin! I also feel strongly<br />
about environmental issues and sustainability and hope to support reducing the<br />
amount of plastic in the School as well as linking up with charities and their<br />
initiatives. I love the friendliness of the School, the support and happy<br />
atmosphere. I hope to either join the Navy or go to University . My inspirations are<br />
progress, improvement and self-development—the satisfaction you get out of<br />
achieving things and the progress made. Kate Edgerton, Head Girl<br />
I have been a Physics subject ambassador and on the<br />
School Council (Sabrina) and I’ve been a Subject Ambassador<br />
for Art and Drama (Huw).<br />
Sabrina Torris, Deputy Head Girl and<br />
Huw Dickinson, Deputy Head Boy<br />
Huw would like to study an Art<br />
foundation year and ultimately go into<br />
TV and production and Sabrina is off<br />
to study Politics and Economics with<br />
a view to entering the Finance world.<br />
Our proposal for the year ahead is to work at integrating<br />
the Sixth Form community and new initiatives for the Arts,<br />
such as a Year 8 Boys Art Club. We also want to put into<br />
place more frequent ‘beyond school’ programs such as<br />
career talks. We love the welcoming atmosphere of the<br />
School and that we can express our individuality and it is<br />
great to see people who do well in things they love!<br />
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YEAR 11 PROM<br />
YEAR 13 LEAVERS’ BALL<br />
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The Sports Pages<br />
District and County Champions <strong>2019</strong>!<br />
Well done to Year 9 and Year 10<br />
An excellent season!<br />
Cotswold 177 for 5 off 20 overs<br />
Pates GS 104 for 8 off 20 overs<br />
Cotswold won by 75 runs<br />
Amazing! England World Cup here we go again!<br />
Sport’s Day<br />
Year 7 and Year 8<br />
Apollo 239<br />
Artemis 245<br />
Poseidon 193<br />
Zeus 271<br />
Year 9 and Year 10<br />
Apollo 238<br />
Artemis 201<br />
Poseidon 180<br />
Zeus 159<br />
Freya Partridge and her own 16 year old dark<br />
bay gelding Master Macky has been selected<br />
to represent Great Britain on the Charles<br />
Owen squad at this years Great FEI European<br />
Championships for Ponies which will take<br />
place on 15-18 August in Strzegom, Poland.<br />
This is a massive achievement. Well done and<br />
Good Luck!<br />
Back in May, Guy Salter<br />
got through to the Mid-<br />
West Regional RDA<br />
Competition and<br />
managed to qualify for<br />
the RDA National<br />
Championships which<br />
were held on Saturday<br />
13th <strong>July</strong> at Hartpury<br />
College.<br />
He came 7th out of 25 in<br />
his class, 'Walk & Trot<br />
Dressage', scoring<br />
67.5% on Benson,<br />
narrowly missing out on<br />
a rosette by 2 marks.<br />
He did really well<br />
and thoroughly<br />
enjoyed competing<br />
for the Chipping<br />
Norton RDA group.<br />
Well done!<br />
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The Gym and Dance Show<br />
Wow what can I say? I'm struggling to put into words just<br />
how proud I am of the gymnasts, dancers and<br />
cheerleaders who came together to put on a spectacular<br />
Gym and Dance Show! The dedication and determination<br />
that the girls showed with their commitment to rehearsals<br />
and choreographing routines were admirable. On the<br />
night the girls were so professional and shone like stars!<br />
I have had so many messages complimenting the girls on<br />
their performances and it just goes to show that hard<br />
work really does pay off! A special mention to Emily<br />
Franks, without whom the show wouldn't have gone<br />
ahead. She worked so hard to choreograph routines,<br />
raise money and design costumes for which the PE<br />
department are very grateful. Loxie Chiles was our<br />
narrator and she was amazing, Well done to you all.<br />
By Mrs H Joynes<br />
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Greystones<br />
A group of students from the Cotswold School are working with Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust at<br />
Greystones Farm. The young people are getting the chance to develop skills, old and new, away<br />
from school and the classroom whilst creating a wildlife garden from scratch.<br />
The project at Greystones is called 'The Branching Out Project'. The project is funded by Health<br />
Connect and Cotswold District Council to facilitate learning out of the classroom and experience<br />
on land based learning activities. Pupils also benefit from the outdoor space supporting their<br />
wellbeing and social skills. Twelve Key Stage 3 pupils attend Greystones once a week and will be<br />
achieving AQA units during their time on the project. The project will be running from May <strong>2019</strong> to<br />
April 2020.<br />
Mr S Powles comments, “The project has allowed our pupils to experience learning outside of the<br />
classroom and this has clearly developed their social skills. Amy from Greystones has worked<br />
wonders with our pupils and the project has been a massive success to date.<br />
The project would benefit from some donations, currently we are looking for a water butt,<br />
guttering, hand tools (trowels etc) and non-peat compost. Thank you for your help.”<br />
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Year 7 Buddies<br />
A number of current Year 7s had a training day to become a ‘buddy’ at the recent Year 6<br />
Inductions Days that took place on third and fourth of <strong>July</strong>.<br />
The two days are always filled with excitement and trepidation as the Year 6s attend the two days<br />
to familiarise themselves with the School layout, timetable and get ready for their start of their<br />
secondary school career! Our ‘buddy’ scheme works well and all did an amazing job! The Year 6s<br />
greatly benefit from these two days and we know from their comments how much they enjoyed<br />
the days and how excited they are for School to start! Well done! Mrs K Bridgwater<br />
Maths Challenge<br />
The Junior Mathematical Challenge <strong>2019</strong> results are in!<br />
Number of entries received and marked: 66<br />
Certificates awarded: -<br />
Best in School 1<br />
Best in Year 1<br />
Gold 1<br />
Silver 20<br />
Bronze 20<br />
Jack Peyton of Year 8 won the Best in School, Best in Year<br />
and Gold. Outstanding Achievement! Well done.<br />
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Create & Cook<br />
Lottie Denne and Isla Mackintosh<br />
of Year 9, reached the finals of the<br />
Midcounties Co-operative Create<br />
and Cook Challenge and achieved<br />
second place. Their macaroon<br />
stack was well received, created<br />
from local ingredients from<br />
Cotteswold Dairy and Mudwalls<br />
Berries! YUM!<br />
Year 12 Cyber Security<br />
Nine Computer Scientists in Year 12<br />
recently attended a cyber security workshop at<br />
the University of South Wales. During the day,<br />
the students were shown around the modern<br />
facilities on the edge of the River Usk. The<br />
students participated in activities relating to<br />
ethical hacking and social engineering. After<br />
lunch, they took part in a cryptography<br />
competition which saw Mr Lord and Mrs<br />
Bogdiukiewicz give the young minds a run for<br />
their money! By Mrs M Bogdiukiewicz<br />
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Fun Run<br />
Can your tutor group run<br />
26 miles instead of me?!!<br />
Mrs Carter, as Head of Key Stage 3 and Head of Houses, ran a<br />
marathon of a morning! Mrs Carter had every intention of running<br />
the London marathon this year, but her time dedicated to looking<br />
after Key Stage 3 meant she ran out of time. She asked each tutee<br />
to run a mile, with the intention of every tutor group running a<br />
marathon! Could we help her achieve lots of marathons instead?<br />
The morning event was held<br />
on a lovely morning and as<br />
well as a chance to be outside,<br />
money was raised for the<br />
School’s three chosen<br />
charities! Over £1,000 was<br />
raised. An amazing morning!<br />
Thank you.<br />
Careers Evening on Wednesday 16th October <strong>2019</strong><br />
The annual Careers Fair will be taking place on Wednesday 16th<br />
October from 5.00 pm to 8.00 pm.<br />
We are in the process of organising exhibitors and have the<br />
following sectors missing which we would love to have this year.<br />
Can you help?<br />
We are seeking career experts in Dentistry, Arts, Cyber Security,<br />
and Trades.<br />
If you are willing to spare a few hours and share your<br />
experiences with our pupils, please contact<br />
Marketing@thecotswoldschool.co.uk.<br />
MANY THANKS!<br />
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Lady Dunrossil—Happy Birthday<br />
At the start of this academic year,<br />
we celebrated our 30th year of The<br />
Cotswold School and honoured<br />
Mavis, Lady Dunrossil with our first<br />
Exceptional Contribution Award.<br />
It is a 30-year story of ‘friendship<br />
and knowledge’ and without her<br />
support and drive, this School<br />
would not be what it is today.<br />
It is with a special congratulations<br />
that we wish Mavis, Lady Dunrossil<br />
a very Happy Birthday on her 90th<br />
at the end of this month.<br />
With Best Wishes<br />
Mr W Morgan, staff, pupils and<br />
governors<br />
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Governors’ Corner<br />
Governors have been as busy as ever – more visits to departments have taken place enabling governors<br />
to discuss with pupils and teachers alike. This is a really important part of a governor’s role as they are<br />
then able to report back to the Full Governing Body as to how they can best support our teachers in their<br />
day to day work.<br />
Governors have also had a full agenda in their two major meetings this term including reviewing the<br />
school’s Self Evaluation Plan and how the school did against its targets for last year’s Development Plan.<br />
The new Development Plan for <strong>2019</strong> - 2020 has also been approved and will be reviewed twice more in<br />
the coming year. They have discussed with our School Council representatives and analysed the staff<br />
survey.<br />
The individual committees have also been busy – Teaching and Learning has heard presentations<br />
about Art and about the House system and from two Heads of Department. Premises has worked on the<br />
refurbishment of the gym. Finance has been working hard on the budget and Pay and Performance has<br />
been monitoring Performance Management. All committees have reviewed relevant policies for approval<br />
by the Full Governing Body. The various school events that have been supported and you will see that it<br />
has been a very busy term.<br />
Thank you to all our governors for their hard work and support on our behalf over the past academic year.<br />
It is much appreciated. If you would like any more information about who our governors are and what they<br />
do please visit the governor link on the school website.<br />
School House Totals<br />
12,524<br />
12,278<br />
12,485<br />
12,561<br />
TRIPS<br />
As well as enrichment week, we have an<br />
unprecedented number of trips heading out<br />
at the end of the year.<br />
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Battlefields<br />
PE Adventure<br />
German Exchange<br />
Duke of Edinburgh Gold Award—<br />
Morocco<br />
Iceland<br />
Galapagos<br />
Bon Voyage !<br />
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August<br />
15 A level Results<br />
22 GCSE Results<br />
September<br />
4 Pupils Return<br />
5 Year 7 Launch Evening<br />
10 Year 12 Launch Evening<br />
12 Speech Day<br />
16/17 Year 7 Residential<br />
17 Year 10 Launch Evening<br />
17 PTA Meeting<br />
18 Year 12/13 History Festival<br />
25 Year 9 Lion King Trip<br />
27 Year 13 Trip to Gloucester Court<br />
27 De La Haye’s Fundraising event<br />
30 Year 10 Art Trip<br />
October<br />
2 Main School Open Day<br />
4 German Exchange Pupils Arrive<br />
7/10 Year 7 trips to Goodrich Castle<br />
8 Year 11 Parents’ Evening<br />
9 Inset Day<br />
15 Year 7 Parents’ Evening—Tutor only<br />
16 Careers Fayre<br />
24 Year 13 Parents’ Evening<br />
25 Half Term<br />
30 Year 13 Oxbridge Examinations<br />
The Cotswold School<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 />
Principal: Mr Will Morgan<br />
Au revoir!<br />
Have a great summer break!<br />
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