"Be Your Best"

Welcome to Space Camp

Information for students and parents

Well I hope you are looking forward to your experience at Space Camp as much as we are here at Cherry Willingham School.

To give you a little idea of what you are going to be doing I thought I would share some of your mission details

• You will be expected to design your own planet and make some of the species that live on it
• You will be making rockets and getting to know the physics of flight and propulsion
• You will learn all about the history of the space race and all about the future of space travel too
• You will be learning some ICT and presentation skills

Most of all we want you to have lots of fun, make new friends and hopefully get excited about Science and Technology. On Wednesday we are off to the National Space Centre at Leicester and that should be great fun as they have organised a number of specialised workshops for you.

On Friday we are having a barbecue to celebrate your work and hopefully mums and dads can come along to and have some food as well! If you could let us know during the week if you are coming to the barbecue on Friday that would help us plan accordingly.

To help you prepare perhaps you can do some research about the following topics in advance

What does SETI stand for and what does it do?

Why is Sputnik important in the history of the Space Race?

Who was Neil Armstrong and what did he do first?

Extension research

What Scientist links the development of missiles that attacked Britain in the later stages of the Second World War and NASA?

End of term update

It has been a very testing term for all of us here at school. I would like to thank all the students and staff for showing resilience and optimism in light of the difficulties that the fire has caused us. What has impressed me most has been the commitment of everyone to make sure that the fire caused minimum disruption to learning. The fact that we have managed to do the following is a source of great pride to me.

• Started our new timetable in June
• Moved into our vertical options pattern so smoothly
• Began our new faculty structure
• Made sure that our World Cup event went ahead in May
• Ran our early risers programme for Primary students in July
• Are running an able and talented summer school for 48 primary students next week

Out of curiosity I looked up the schools entry on Wikipedia yesterday I was amused to see that the page describes the recent fire as a ‘small fire’ when you consider that the school has lost around a third of its accommodation it is hard to agree with the description. The Wikipedia entry also has a number of other errors and I intend to correct them over the summer holiday!

Goodbye and Good Luck

Today we say goodbye to a number of staff. We wish all of them well and thank them for all their hard work and dedication.

Mrs Roden Davies – retiring
Mrs Thoy – retiring
Mrs Grayson – moving to a promoted post at another school
Miss Tuke – moving to Somerset
Miss Fogg – moving to London to start a PGCE

I would like to wish all your students and staff a very happy and safe holiday. School begins for students on the 6th of September. Please check the website for further updates over the summer.

Our Summer Football Camp has limited spaces on the 1st week if you are still interested in having your child attend.

Sign your child up for only £12 a day or £50 for the full 5 days.

9am - 3pm every day.

Week 1: 26th July - 30th July (limited spaces left)
Week 2: 9th August - 13th August

Contact Scott Russell Football Development Manager for further information and/or registration form.

email: scott.russell@cwcs.lincs.sch.uk
phone: 01522 751 040

In September we will be changing the timings of the school day to the following:

8.40-9.05 Tutor Time
9.05-10.05 Lesson 1
10.05-11.05 Lesson 2
11.05-11.30 Break
11.30-12.30 Lesson 3
12.30-13.30 Lesson 4
13.30-14.15 Lunch
14.15-15.15 Lesson 5

A letter with further details will be issued before the end of the term.

It has been a busy week at CWCS this week, with a number of changes being made and students out and about in the world.
First of all, many congratulations to our new senior student team who were selected this week.

• Head Girl: Megan Stafford
• Head Boy: Caleb Pipes-Goulsbra
• Deputy Head Girl: Jessica Hudson
• Deputy Head Boy: Ben Moss
• Community Champion: Luke Wiles

They have already had their first duty, with Megan and Caleb giving a short speech at the lower school prize giving on Wednesday, just hours after finding out!
Mrs Grayson and a team of students have been working hard on a new mural for the 3G block. The mural celebrates the work of Keith Alexander and the links between Lincoln and St Lucia. Well done everyone, it is a beautiful piece of artwork.

To launch the new faculty system Thursday’s Subject Immersion Day saw students (and VERY competitive staff) throwing themselves into an enterprise challenge to design a logo, mascot and product for Tennyson, Newton and Alexander faculties. The standard of products and the creativity we saw was outstanding. Congratulations to Isaac the Newt and Newton Faculty for winning the first trophy.
Mrs Camm, Mr Beesley, Miss Fogg and Miss Lewis looked absolutely exhausted following their visit to Barcelona with 29 students, but said everyone had a fantastic time. For more details and to see a selection of the hundreds of photographs, please click on the link. Mr Beesley completed his week with a Cricket Tour to Nottinghamshire with Mr Dilks and a group of students.
Well done to Mrs Camm, Frankie Hanson, Beth Felton, Molly Lound, Sophie Primett, Hayley Smith, Luke Taylor, Nicola Ingall, Heather Caines, Kelly Sykes and Whitney Botham who came third in the EBP Fire Challenge. The “Hoax” DVD they produced is now going to be developed further as a fire safety resource.

Student and staff member of the Week
Mr Radcliffe wrote in this week to nominate Billie-Marie Doughty as student of the week. He wanted to thank her for the excellent care and support she provides for other students during science lessons. Well done Billie-Marie.

Mrs Cooper has been honoured as Staff member of the Week. She was nominated by Mr Pindar for her hard work and tireless effort chasing up reports and collating them so that they could be issued today, to every student! Congratulations Mrs Cooper!

I would like to say a big thank you to all the students and staff of Cherry Willingham Primary school. It has been a delight to see you this week and help you settle in. I have got to know quite a few of you over the week and I know Mrs.Scoffield would be very proud of how mature and well behaved you have been. I really enjoyed teaching some of you and hoped that you enjoyed learning how to use the Bunsen burners and had fun melting chocolate. I was very impressed that you all did your research on states of matter and was very very impressed that one or two you managed to find out what a Bose-Einstein condensate was! I am looking forward to seeing you all in September.

Mrs.Pyrah (teaching assistant) composed a lovely email earlier this week explaining how all the non teaching staff make a brilliant contribution supporting students at the school who have specific learning needs. In particular she highlighted the contributions of our two caretakers Mr. Paul Rubery and Mr. David Bates. Well done gents!

There are many students who deserve the title of student of the week. A group of students have been helping our children from the local primary schools navigate their way around the school site and become accustomed to their new school. You deserve a massive thank you for all your efforts. The students of the week for this week however are Abigail Dobbs and Lucy Myers for helping promote the school at an open afternoon at Monks Abbey School they were brilliant ambassadors for the school and did a fantastic job. Well done girls!