Selly Park Newsletter Winter 2019

SELLY PARK

GIRLS' SCHOOL

WINTER 2019

NEWSLETTER

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WINTER NEWSLETTER

December 2019

Selly Park Girls’ School

Mr McCauley Wins GOLD!

Above: Mr Paul McCauley received his award from Cressida Cowell

On the evening of October 20th 2019, Mr Paul McCauley was awarded GOLD at the

Pearson National Teaching Awards in recognition for his hard work.

This was televised on BBC Two a week later.

Mr McCauley has been at Selly Park for 5 years and works as a learning mentor.

He is a popular colleague. Paul immerses himself into school life from interventions

to music, rights to football. He works closely with the girls and has developed as an

exemplary role model for our pupils.

Well done!! to Mr McCauley. This is an amazing achievement and is a testament to

how hard he works.

CONGRATULATIONS !!!

Follow us on twitter @sellyparkgirls

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Newsletter December 2019

Elevate Education

Elevate Education are a specialist company that supports students to improve their

examination performance through high impact study skills workshops. To date they

are involved with over 2200 schools.

Their workshops explain the techniques used by the best performing students. The

intention is to get all students to use and apply the skills that they learn.

Year 11 have participated in 2 sessions so far this year:

Study Sensei

Utilising the syllabus to frame study

Structuring and reviewing organised notes

Conceptual learning to develop deep understanding

Utilising practice exam papers

Standing out through independent learning

Time Management

Developing routines to balance study and lifestyle

Working smart by completing high value work

Utilising study groups to leverage time

Techniques for overcoming procrastination

Feedback from the students has been overwhelmingly positive 124/124 students saying

they would recommend the seminars to their peers and that it was time well

spent.

Their comments included:

“This actually motivated me and was very useful to us students”

I would rate this seminar 10/10, a 20 nugget McDonald’s item- I loved it!”

“I personally see the session as highly useful for students who are heading to

GCSE’s and A levels”

We also invited year 11 parents and guardians to an evening session, where members

of the elevate team explained some of the topics they cover to the parents and talked

to them about how they can best support their daughters.

Mrs Newton

(Head of History)


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Skills Show

The UK’s largest skills and careers event took place between 21 st – 23 rd

November 2019 at the National Exhibition Centre, Birmingham.

Pupils from Years 7-10 were able to take part in this unique event which provided

an opportunity for them to talk to and get advice from some of the biggest names

in industry as well as colleges and learning providers from across the UK.

Pupils were able to get involved and had a go at a range of activities such as tattoo

art, manicures and media make-up. All pupils had an enjoyable day and felt it was

worthwhile attending as it will help steer them towards making their post 16

choices.


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Maths Interventions

The Maths Department offers after-school intervention sessions to Year 11 pupils.

All teachers are available and provide dedicated and targeted support on the key

topics that pupils most need help with to make more progress. These sessions take

place between 3.05 and 4.05 pm, every Monday. For more information, please speak

to your teacher.

Since the launch of Saturday School, the Maths team has been offering further revision

classes to our highly committed pupils who have already shown strong levels

of interest in attending these sessions (with numbers ranging from 65 to 80 pupils

each week just in the first three weeks). We thank and encourage all our girls to

keep attending and give their best to their Maths revision throughout the year.

Mr Qureshi (Head of Maths)

Tarsia Puzzles

Completing Tarsia jigsaws provides pupils with a fun and engaging way of discussing

their ideas and improve their understanding of a topic whilst developing their

ability to work in pairs or as part of a group.

Below: Pupils enjoying putting their new knowledge to the test by completing Tarsia

puzzles during mathematics lessons.


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Ada Lovelace Day (8th October)

Ada Lovelace Day (ALD) is an international celebration of the achievements of

women in Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths (STEM).

It aims to increase the profile of women in STEM and, in doing so, create new role

models who will encourage more girls into STEM careers and support women already

working in STEM.

Ada was not your typical girl in the mid-1800s. At her mother's insistence, tutors

taught her mathematics and science. It was very unusual for such challenging subjects

to be taught to women during that period. At that time, girls were only expected

to learn music, singing, dancing, drawing, painting, French and needlework.

Ada became friends with Charles Babbage, who was a professor of Mathematics at

Cambridge University. He is known as "the father of computers”. She became interested

in his idea to design a computing machine called the ‘Analytical Engine’. Ada

did more than just translate the article on the ‘Analytical Engine’ – she also wrote

lots of notes including an ‘algorithm’ (step-by-step instructions) for how the machine

(computing device) would work.

ALD was celebrated by the pupils. They learnt about Ada’s achievements and how

she introduced many computer concepts and is known as the world’s first computer

programmer.

It is essential that we get rid of the negative views that STEM careers are only suited

to men. At Selly Park Girls’ School we encourage pupils to explore a variety of careers

and pursue their interests further.


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World Maths Day - 15th October

World Maths Day is a worldwide celebration whereby pupils participate in competitions

and puzzles. This was celebrated by the pupils here at Selly Park where they

completed challenging Maths puzzles during form time. In addition to this, during

lessons, teachers incorporated numeracy into their teaching; giving pupils numeracy

rich experiences.

It is essential that pupils realise that Maths is an essential subject as they will need it

for every-day life. It is a fun subject that can provide much enjoyment.

Have a go and complete these puzzles.


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Selly Park Selly Technology Park Girls’ College School for Girls

Newsletter December Spring 2018 2019

Year 11 Careers Assemblies

“Your career is your pathway through life”

To help our year 11 pupils think more about their post 16 options this term, they

have been involved in various activities. These have included, external speakers and

training providers coming into school and talking to our pupils.

‘MakeUK’ and BMW have delivered assemblies on Apprenticeships to allow pupils

to explore the world of Engineering and STEM.

Throughout PSHE week, various visitors came in from the Royal Navy and West

Midland Police to discuss Careers. The Careers Fair was held in the school hall to

enable our year 11 pupils to find out about post 16 opportunities. Aston University

came in to talk to us about the benefits of Higher Education. We very much appreciate

the help and support from all Courses and training providers who make it a

successful event for all involved.

Mrs F. Nasir (Head of RE and Careers)


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Attendance Matters

Our ethos at Selly Park Girls’ School rests on four pillars. The second pillar is students

being kind and aspirational. Evidence proves that there is a direct correlation

between a student’s attendance and their attainment.

FFT Aspire, a respected educational body which analyses pupil results and pupil progress

has analysed GCSE results against student attendance nationally for all schools

in Summer 2019 and found that only 33% of students with below 90% attendance

achieved a grade 4 and above in English and Maths compared to 81% of students

with 98-100% attendance, thus proving that good attendance equals good grades.

In addition FFT Aspire has produced further analysis showing the correlation between

good attendance and student attainment focusing on student progress for example

showing students with 100% attendance achieved in 2019 exams almost a

whole grade above the national average see below:


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Attendance Matters (continued…)

Role of Parents and Carers in Promoting Good Attendance

The school is keen to work in partnership with pupils, parents and external agencies

where necessary to ensure educational entitlement and regular attendance. The

taking of holidays during the school terms is strongly discouraged, it is hoped that

parents will help in the following ways:

Not letting their daughter take time off school for minor ailments

Arranging appointments and outings after school hours, or as late as possible

in the afternoon, at weekends or during school holidays

Not taking holidays during term time.

The importance of regular attendance is emphasised in the table below:

Attendance during one

school year

Equals days absent

Which is approximately

weeks absent

Which means this number

of lessons missed

95% 9 days 2 weeks 50 lessons





70% 57 days 11.5 weeks 290 lessons

65% 67 days 13.5 weeks 340 lessons

Fining parents for persistent non-attendance

Schools can fine parents for the unauthorised absence of their child from school,

where the child is of compulsory school age. If issued with a penalty notice, parents

must pay £60 within 21 days or £120 within 28 days. The payment must be

made directly to the local authority. The school follows the local authority’s code

of conduct for issuing penalty notices.

Latest Attendance News

School attendance in 2018-2019 was above the national average which is very

pleasing. The school is happy to report that attendance rates have continued to improve

due to a number of attendance initiatives including following local education

authority guidelines for fining parents and court action when necessary.


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Attendance Matters (continued…)

Attendance Fair

On Thursday 21 st November, the Attendance Champions hosted over 500 students

who attended the attendance fair and enjoyed playing games, eating popcorn and other

food and drink celebrating good attendance.

Punctuality

Students are free to enter the school from 7:45 onwards. All students should be on

the school site by 8:40 with registration starting at 8.45am. Students arriving after

this time will be marked late.

Year 7 Cooking Club

This term twenty year 7 pupils have been taking part in a cooking club during

Wednesday lunchtimes, they are completing a 7 week rotation and then other pupils

will have the chance to join. The cooking club is to encourage healthy eating within

school and at home, it allows pupils to practice simple recipes and develop their skills

for use in the future.

So far pupils have created quesadillas, Eton mess, nachos, healthy banana pancakes.

Pupils have been learning how to make food healthier by using alternatives and they

have enjoyed trying different foods.


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Science Club

In science club this term we have been very busy. We’ve learned how to code robots

using Raspberry Pi computers, extracted strawberry DNA and made our

own bath bombs and magnetic slime (to name just a few!).

Each week, volunteers from the University of Birmingham have come in to lead

activities related to their own STEM degrees and we have enjoyed learning

about what encouraged them to pursue science beyond school.

All years welcome!

Year 10 Geography Fieldwork – Brindleyplace

As part of their work on urban regeneration, Year 10 Geography pupils visited

Brindleyplace in Birmingham city centre to look at how redevelopment has had an

impact on the area. Pupils completed three tasks: a pedestrian count and environmental

quality surveys at four different locations in Brindleyplace and along the canals

and a land-use survey around the main square. Back in lessons pupils have analysed

the data they collected and assessed how accurate and relevant it was in measuring

the impact of redevelopment, as well as looking at ways that their data collection

could improve in the future.


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Year 11 Achieve Conference

On Thursday 19 th September 2019 a group of Year 11 girls attended

the Year 11 Achieve Conference at the University of Birmingham.

The conference is a very popular event and over 40 Birmingham

schools attended over a 3 days.

The conference was designed to support students in Year 11 with the run up to their

GCSE’s and impress upon them the importance the next 6 months has on their future

aspirations.

All the key messages were around the importance of working hard to achieve their

full academic potential and what they need to do in order to achieve this.

“I was already revising but wasn’t motivated, after the conference I’m much more

motivated to revise. I now understand how important my GCSE’s are for my University

application process and will now work harder” .

“I found the inspirational stories from past and present students really helpful and

motivating”.


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African Theme Week

On Monday, 2 nd December 14 members of the International Council visited West

Heath Primary School to deliver several sessions surrounding the sustainable development

goals ‘zero hunger’ and ‘gender equality’. Ms Mackuin and Mrs Thomas also

delivered African art sessions whereby pupils were given the opportunity to create

their own African clay masks as well as using a new printing technique to print their

own African masks. West Heath pupils were given an insight into African culture as

well as the significance of our cluster partnership with Zimbabwean schools and the

impact the sustainable development goals have on the lives of the pupils involved.

Pupils showed impeccable leadership skills and represented Selly Park wonderfully.

We have some budding teachers amongst us!


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Zimbabwe Teachers Visit

On Monday, 18th November three teachers from our partner schools; Millennial

Academy, Wisetech College and Reekworth Primary School in Zimbabwe travelled

to the U.K to spend a week with us learning about our schools and our culture

as well as discussing our cluster projects.

On Tuesday, 19th November, our visitors spent the day at Selly Park Girls’ School

observing an assembly and some lessons. We were then joined by pupils and staff

from West Heath Primary School where we visited our sustainable garden and

harvested the potatoes and other fruit and vegetables we planted earlier in the

year. With the fruit and vegetables harvested, everyone then took part in our cluster

baking session making carrot cake, rhubarb and apple crumble and crisps.

On Wednesday, 20th November saw our visitors and 10 members of the International

Council visit Hunger Hill School in Doncaster. We had a tour of the school,

observed several lessons and some pupils were given the opportunity to take part

in lessons and provide feedback to the Head Teacher. Hunger Hill pupils performed

dance routines giving us an insight into their culture and hometown, as

well as reciting a poem on bullying and a presentation on remembrance Sunday.

On Thursday 21st November, members of the International Council along with

pupils from West Heath Primary School The visited The Alexandra Theatre and

watched Billionaire Boy – a popular book written by David Walliams. Pupils had

an amazing time and were able to see the characters from the book come alive.

The Selly Park pupils demonstrated superb leadership skills and set an excellent

example to other pupils attending.


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Zimbabwe Teachers Visit (continued…)

West Heath Primary School were the hosts on Friday, 22nd November. Several lessons

were observed as well as taking part in their whole school assembly. We also

had afternoon tea and a tour of the school from two prefects. We also took part in

the daily mile which was great fun!

Some fantastic new project ideas were also discussed with several new ideas being

raised which will be announced and implemented in the New Year. Exciting times

ahead.


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Hippodrome Song writing workshop

Song writing workshop was held on Tuesday 15 th October 2019 & Tuesday 22nd

November 2019 at the Hippodrome.

8 Cole were chosen to participate in these workshops. Prior to the workshops

starting 8 Cole went to watch the musical Eye of the Storm at the Hippodrome

which gave the students a taster of what is to come.

Workshops were led by musician Darren Dolczech alongside Mr Carvalho. Darren

gave the students the overview of the Eye of the Storm. Students were then

split up into groups to start the song writing process. The end of the 1 st session

students had wrote the following. Joyce composed the chord progression as well as

writing the chorus. While the verse was taken from various students of 8 Cole,

great team effort in this 1 st session. Darren then added the melody for the song.

Storm inside my head

Chorus

There’s a storm inside my head

I kind of wish that I was dead

A crazy storm inside my head

Just want to go right back to bed

Verse 1

There’s a tornado outside my door that I’m trying

to ignore.

Mama is sick and it’s so sad I feel like everything is going bad

There’s no time for me to think, can’t open my eyes to blink

Sinking into my fantasy carried away on a Stormy sea.

The final workshop saw the students adding a rap for the bridge section.

RAP

Dropped out of school, now I’ve left my mum

My sister has come, now I’m singing this song

Dropped out of physics, not learning anymore

Feeling so lonely, cos’ I’m so poor


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‘A Day at the Opera’ by Mr. Hayles

On Thursday 24th October 2019, Selly Park Girls took part in a workshop run by

the Royal Opera House in joint collaboration with the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire.

The workshop was tailored for girls from all year groups and involved girls

with differing abilities. The workshop was incorporated operatic dramatic singing

based on Largo al Factotum from Rossini’s opera ’The Barber of Seville’.

The workshop began with vocal and physical warm-ups and all the pupils explored

the repertoire with a combination of singing and drama activities. The workshop

was led by Nic Chalmers who has a great deal of experience in engaging young

people in opera and the arts and this was very new to our pupils.

By the end of the workshop the group had developed their singing abilities and increased

their awareness of the dramatic possibilities in the art-form of Opera. All

pupils enjoyed this event and said that this was a worthwhile experience of which

they would have never considered prior to their attendance to the visit.


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Rights Respecting News

Gold Rights Respecting Award Assessment Visit from UNICEF

On Wednesday 27 th November UNICEF Rights Respecting Schools paid a visit to

Selly Park Girls School to assess us for Gold RRS Award. You might already know

we have been a Silver RRS school since 2017 and Hilary Alcock a West Midlands assessor,

and Sarah Hooke, an assessor from Wales, visited our school to judge how we

are doing against the GOLD award standards. The assessors met with students,

staff, parents and governors. It was a very enjoyable day. We are still awaiting to

hear if we are successful.

A big thank you to everyone involved in both the organisation of the day, being

part of the assessment day and your contributions to Rights Respecting Schools

over the last few years. We will let you know as soon as we hear any news.

Newly Appointed Chair & Vice-Chair of Rights Respecting Ambassadors

Following successful interviews Madihah (left) and

Imaan (right) were appointed as Chair and Vice

Chair of Rights Respecting Schools.

The students not only completed excellent applications

and a great interview, but have also made outstanding

contributions to our Whole School Rights

Journey. Well done to our new Chair and Vice

Chair. Also, well done to our wonderful Ambassadors

for the amazing work they have done over the

last few years.

Right to Equality

Following anti bullying week, Rights Respecting Schools Ambassadors

worked with St Edwards Catholic Primary School, year 6, to learn

about our Right to be treated equally and the importance of treating

each other with kindness and respect.

Thank you to St Edwards for working with us, your students were

wonderful and our Rights Ambassadors cant wait to work with you

again in the near future.

Oscott Manor School and Selly Park Girls’ School

‘It was an absolute pleasure to host two visits this term from Oscott

Manor School. Oscott Manor are working towards their Silver Rights

Respecting School Award. Selly Park and Oscott Manot students spent

the day learning about rights throughart, music and drama. We were so

excited to invite them back to our Music Department to create their own

rights song. Thank you to everyone involved in this amazing experience’.


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Year 10 ART Trip to MAC

Year 10 GCSE Art students visit the Midlands Arts Centre to see

current exhibitions. It is part of our mission in the Art Department

to provide our students with the opportunity to see exhibitions and

meet artists as often as possible. This not only provides opportunity

for high quality observations and inspiration for their GCSE portfolio,

but also, insight into the world of work within the Art World. Students were

lucky to hear the artists Jim Holyoak and Matt Shane talk about what inspired these

amazing artworks. You can see our students outstanding research in the image

above following the visit. An amazing experience for all.

ART Competition -‘Beyond the Stage’

Isra in year 9 won two theatre tickets for her entry into the art competition run by

the Hippodrome. Well done Isra! Enjoy your visit to see the Pantomime! Have fun.

Message from the Hippodrome

Firstly, thank you and well done to all who submitted art work or photography for

the exhibition. All the entries really showed the great talent and creativity from

across HEN so we are very proud that the works will be exhibited in the Hippodrome

front of house areas from next Wednesday for the next two months. Please

feel free to come down and have a look!


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Year 11 GCSE ART Visit to Cadbury College

Our year 11 GCSE Art students visit Cadbury College arts Department. Thank

you to Julie Swinsco the Head of Art for providing our students with information

about careers, possible courses and a tour of the facilities. Our students were able

to practice their observational drawing skills in a still life lesson and receive some

amazing feedback on their portfolios. Thank you we look forward to seeing you in

the future.

Year 8 ART Careers Day

Year 8 experimented with movie make up and photography during their Art Careers

Day. Fantastic photographs that they should be very proud of. A movie make up

artist and photographer are just two of many exciting jobs you can have following

an art education.


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Hippodrome Drama Projects

Our links with the Hippodrome have provided some amazing experiences for our

girls this term. We have been to see 'Blood Brothers' on the main stage and got to

visit backstage - trying on costumes and walking around the set. One of our art students

came runner up in the ‘Beyond the Stage’ art competition and her work is will

be exhibited at the Hippodrome. We have taken part in music projects based on the

show 'Eye of the Storm' and got involved in an interactive dance project called

'France Dance'. The ultimate and most heart-warming experience was when our

year 7, 8 and 9 pupils performed at the Hippodrome's Blood Brothers festival. This

performance was part of a competition involving 5 other schools from across the

city. After a breath-taking and emotive performance on the Patrick Centre stage, our

girls were announced the overall winners! The judges' vote was unanimous and said

how the performance had moved them to tears. What an experience for both pupils,

parents and teachers. Well done girls - it is something none of us will ever forget.

A Christmas Carol – The Alexandra Theatre

On Tuesday 26th November, we were fortunate enough

to be offered a number of free tickets for our Year 11

pupils studying ‘A Christmas Carol’ as part of their

GCSE English Literature. The classic tale comes to life

in this dazzling musical adaptation!.


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PE Department News

Sports Personality of the Year-Heba Ali

The Sports Awards evening was a fantastic

event to celebrate all he achievement of the Selly

Park pupils in Physical Education last year.

In class achievements such as Year 10 pupils

achieving commendations for the excellence in

their Level 1 Sport Leaders Award. Presenting

the achievements of pupils commitment and

endeavour to extra curricular clubs. Also celebrating

and recognising the pupils competing

for the school in many competitive events and

tournaments. A brilliant celebration and proud

moments for the parents, pupils and staff.

Sports Awards Gallery


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Sports for Champions- GB Athlete

Great British athlete Diani Walker visited the school as part of the Schools for

Champions campaign to raise money for up and coming athletes and encourage pupils

to get fit and active. The Year 7 pupils thoroughly enjoyed the event and bombarded

Diani with questions at the end of the day!

They raised an amazing £445 all together so a big thank you to all!

7MC raised the most amount of money out of all the forms and individually,

Afreen and Bella raised the most money well done!

Year 11 Yoga

As part of P.E’s commitment to improve the pupils health both physically and

mentally the Year 11 pupils have been practising yoga in their Physical Education

lessons. The have really benefitted from taking time to practice the wellbeing and

mindfulness yoga brings. This will now be carried through during a lunch time

club.

Netball

The senior netball team took part in a

School Games Netball Tournament.

The won all four of their games beating;

Mosely. The Senior netball team

have been playing in the Kings Norton

Netball League this term. They have

been a credit to the school and finished

6th. Well done girls.


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Dance at the Hippodrome

Our gifted dancers we invited to attend a prestigious dance work ship with world

renowned choreographer Alvin Ailey and his dance company. The girls participated

in dance work shops and learning choreography from a new touring Alvin Ailey

show. The girls learnt about the technical side of hip hop and contemporary dance

styles and discussed the barriers dancers can face.

School Fixtures

Entrance and participation into the first ever KS4 basketball team. Matches begin in

January away at Lordswood Girls.

School Games Level 2 Handball competition on 16 th December.

Football- the Senior football team are through to the Quarter finals of the West

Midlands cup against Cardinal Newman on

Monday 16th December.

The Junior team are away in the cup at Thomas

Telford on Thursday 12 th December in the EFSA

competition.

Good luck to all the girls involved and thank you

for you commitment in representing the school.


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Girls’ Leadership And Management Squad (GLAMS )

Girls’ Leadership And Management Squad pupils are busy organising events and assemblies

to promote sport in school. They will be running a Christmas football competition

on Tuesday 17th December for KS4 and Wednesday 18th December KS3 at

their respective lunchtimes.

Swimathon

Year 7 pupils participated in the Swimathon on Monday 16 th and Wednesday 18 th

December, supported by the GLAMS pupils. Each pupil will swim as far as they can

in their Swimming lesson. Pupil distances and winners will be announced in assemblies

after Christmas. Good luck to all!

Anti-bullying Week 11th to 15th November

The head girl and senior prefects led assemblies to

all year groups on anti-bullying. ‘Change starts

with us’ was shared with all, encouraging pupils

to be kind and positive to each other.

Pupils took part in an anti-bullying competition,

creating posters to informing others of the impact

of bullying (Left: Posters prepared by pupils).

Well-being Award

Selly Park actively promotes the emotional wellbeing and mental health for all. We

have a vast amount of provision in place to support the mental health of staff and

pupils. The school are currently working towards achieving the Wellbeing Award

for Schools.

The Selly Park Seven


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Progress Day

Progress Day was held on Friday, 13th December

2019.

Thank you to all of the parents that took the time

to attend this years progress day. We hope you all

found the appointments as useful as we did.

A special thank you to the members of the LPPA group who ran

the UNICEF cake sale throughout the day. They raised an incredible

£150 for UNICEF

Parent Voice Survey Highlights


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Parent Voice Survey Highlights (continued…)


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Parentmail

As a school we are now using Parentmail to communication with our parents. You

should have received an email or text message explaining how you can register.

Please follow the instructions to sign up. If you have not received a registration text

please contact reception staff who will be happy to help you or follow the instructions

that are on the school website under the “parents” tab.

Dutch Teachers Visit to Selly Park

We would like to thank all of the teachers that

visited our school from the Netherlands.

We hope you had a wonderful day and we hope

you enjoyed the Sinterklaas celebrations.


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Library News

December 2019

Thank you to all the parents who gave their daughters

extra money to buy a book from the Book Sale held

this month. This event was a great success which allowed

the girls access to a lovely selection of books

whilst benefitting from a 50% discount. Interest was

high and the girls enjoyed looking at the wide range

of books on offer.

Starting January 2020 – Library and Craft Club

We will be looking at new books, reviewing old favourites and

coming up with new ideas to encourage our students to enjoy using

our library. We also enjoy a range of craft activities such as

card making, sewing small gift items and jewellery making. Any

students wishing to join our Library Club should speak to Mrs

Clarke, new members are always welcome!

Library and Craft Club Tuesdays 3.05 – 3.40pm, everyone welcome

Accelerated Reader

Our Year 7 students have been using the Accelerated Reader

(AR) Reading Programme this term working very hard on

their reading skills. As the girls read new books they get

the chance to quiz on Accelerated Reader and earn points for

prizes, the more books and quizzes that they do the more

points they earn.

We have small gifts of stationery and certificates with every

25 points that they earn. Keep reading girls, we look forward

to rewarding you for your efforts!

Mrs N Clarke

School Librarian


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Young Carers

Miss Johnson (Young Carers Lead): “Working at Selly Park means

I am in a position of trust, and as a lead practitioner for young carers

I take my role seriously in helping pupils and their families in removing

any barriers to learning.”

Mr Gibson (Young Carers SLT Lead): “ I will be the strategic lead

to ensure that the most up to date information is available from local

and national sources. This will ensure we offer the best support to the

Girls’.

We are really passionate that these girls need to be recognised and appreciated

for the amazing work they do. Parents/Carers, if you want to discuss anything

please email enquiries@sellyparkgirls.org and reference Young Carers.

Dates for your Diary...

Monday, 6th January 2020: School Reopens after holidays.

Friday, 14th February 2020: INSET Day, school closed to pupils.

Half Term: Monday, 17th February2020 to Friday, 21st February 2020

Monday, 24th February 2020: School Reopens for pupils.

HAPPY HOLIDAYS...

FROM ALL THE STAFF AT SELLY PARK


Selly Park Newsletter Winter 2019

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