No.  48

8^TH January 2010

 BOARDING HOUSE REPORT

The last week of last term the school had a full Boarding House Inspection by Ofsted.  I am pleased to say that we passed with flying colours and received good for every aspect of the boarding house.  We have just a few spaces available in our Boarding House for September 2010 and if you know anyone who maybe interested please do get in touch.

P Bate

Headmaster

CONGRATULATIONS

Antonia Mansfield (Year 9) has been selected for the trials for the England u16 Girls Rugby Team.

WELL DONE ANTONIA.

SPORTS REPORT WEEK ENDING 8^th JANUARY 2010

Fixtures for next week are:

Tuesday u9 Football, Tuesday u16 Squash, Wednesday u11 Netball, Wednesday u13 Football, Thursday u15 Football, Thursday u16 Basketball, Friday u11 Football, u11 Netball TBC.

Team lists for the above fixtures can be found on the school website under 'Events'.  They are all subject to the current weather conditions; any cancellations or postponements will be published on the site as soon as they are known.

All pupils selected for representative matches must travel in a school tracksuit and wear the correct match strip; shin pads are compulsory for football and hockey; mouth guards are also strongly recommended for hockey.  Black shorts for boys continue to be available from the uniform shop, as do black skirts for girls and the latter item has the school sports logo on it.

Any queries regarding fixtures should be directed to Mr Tulett – PE Office 01935 414613 or by email to larry.tulett@parkschool.com

SKIING TRIP

All skiers must go to see Mrs Stevens on Monday.

If you have not provided passport details yet please bring these in Monday without fail.

If you have hired clothes through Team Ski these need picking up from Mrs Stevens' room on Monday.

 FLUTE TEACHER

Miss Nicole Willis will soon be teaching flute lesson in place of Miss Bowles. 

Please contact Mr L Gentis for further details.

THE WEATHER!

We were sorry that we had to close Wednesday and Thursday of this week due to the extreme weather conditions.  The main problem is ensuring that there are enough paths free of snow and ice in school for children to move around safely.

The side roads around the school have also been treacherous, as has the bridge between our two sites.

I am pleased to say that we managed to open on Friday and that we had an almost full compliment of staff in the school and that the majority of the children also managed to make it in.

We are taking it a day at a time, so please do look at the website, if you can, early on Monday morning the 11^th January in order to see that we are remaining open.  Looking at the forecast for the weekend it is a strong possibility that we will be able to continue. 

We are having to extend our mock exams by two days at the end of next week.  We will, of course, inform the students of the necessary changes that we have to make.

Public examinations of A-Levels and GCSE's commence on Monday, 11^th January.  We are hoping that as we will be open the examinations will, therefore, take place.  If for any reason they cannot take place the Examination Boards have said that the entries must be transferred to June entries.  If this is not possibly due to the examinations being terminal exams then they will awarded grades on the basis of the estimated grades given by the teachers.  We hope that we do not have to resort to this situation and that the school will be functioning as normal as possible with the examinations taking place.

If for any reason you are not sure then please do get in touch with us at the school.

P BATE

Headmaster