Speakers for Schools – Chris Gentle

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On Thursday morning of this week we had the pleasure of welcoming our latest ‘Speakers for Schools’ presenter Mr Chris Gentle. Chris spoke to our Year 9 students as part of Green Skills Week 2022. Chris talked about his role as an advisor for the World Energy Council and how he is hoping to help improve students’ literacy on energy choices and what the future holds. 
Chris is a senior business advisor; energy transition expert and entrepreneur. Previously he was Partner and Head of Research for Deloitte the $50bn, 300,000 person firm. He currently works as senior advisor to the Secretary-General of the World Energy Council. He helped lead the global design and delivery of the Council’s Humanising Energy mission – to bring a clean and just energy transition for people in all four corners of the world. Chris has advised a number of multinational organisations including the United Nations, OECD and the World Trade Organisation.
Chris’s insights and advice were well received by the Year 9 students. There was an opportunity to interact towards the end of the presentation and students asked thoughtful questions. Our Year 9 students were a credit to the school in how they listened attentively to the speaker.
Mr Martin

Child Safety

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Child Safety:
This week Year 7 and Year 8 received some important reminders about how to keep themselves safe in assembly. We discussed how important it is that students understand how EVERYONE is responsible for keeping them safe. We talked a bit about how teachers, parents and students all have different roles to play in this.
Following feedback from students in the annual Young People’s Health and Wellbeing Survey, we shared information about how young people can access support. Below are links to the resources referenced in the assembly. Students have had this sent to them via email but we thought parents may find some of these sites useful too.
– To speak to an NHS health professional contact Chat Health
– To access an online counselling service contact Kooth
– For information about self harming behaviour visit The National Self Harm Network
– For information about any health (including sexual health) visit Health for Teens
– For information about abuse and child safety visit the NSPCC or Childline
– For services for young people visit YC Herts
Finally, this is a quick reminder for parents that the Children’s Wellbeing Practitioner Service is up and running. If you think this is a service that might benefit your child, feel free to make a referral yourself. If you would like help or advice about this please do not hesitate to make contact with a member of the pastoral team.
Year 9 will be receiving a similar presentation later in the term but these resources have been shared with them this week.

Amazing Apprenticeships

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‘Amazing Apprenticeships’ have released a series of podcasts to help parents to talk to their children about careers. Series 2 (8 episodes) will be launching shortly and all podcasts from series 1 can be found here: https://amazingapprenticeships.com/the-parent-perspective-podcast/

Romeo and Juliet – Anthony Glenn Performance

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This morning we were lucky enough to welcome Anthony Glenn back! He visited Year 8 this time to help them get to grips with their study of Romeo and Juliet. We hope to provide more detail of the performance in our next newsletter but for now enjoy these pictures of Year 8 getting stuck in…
   
Mrs Aikman

Renewable Energy Certificate

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We have been awarded a certificate from Total Energies to celebrate the fact we are using electricity that is 100% generated from renewable sources.

Bugsy Malone – Tickets on Sale

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Tickets for our first school production Bugsy Malone tickets are on sale now via the KW-Arts Box Office – https://kw-arts.co.uk/box-office
The Year 7 and 8 (Cast B) will be performing at the Friday Evening and Saturday Matinee shows and the Year 9 (Cast A) at the Thursday Evening and Saturday Evening shows.

UKMT Intermediate Challenge

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Well done to our six Year 9 mathematicians who competed in the follow on round of the UKMT Intermediate Challenge – the Grey Kangaroo. Anton PL, Oliver G, Rayan H and Rayan P all received a Certificate of Qualification whilst Freddie C and Becky D received a Certificate of Merit with Becky D scoring highest out of all of our candidates.

These results are a fantastic way to end the Spring term in Maths.

 

Miss Anderson

Climate Change March

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A group of 15 students from the Eco-committee attended the climate change march in Harpenden on Monday 25th March, with the aim of raising awareness about this important issue.
It was fantastic to see our young people passionately take to the streets to help the national effort of lobbying the government to reduce carbon emissions.
The buzz around school on the day was palpable, showing that it’s an issue which our students are passionate about. Well done to all involved!
Mr Inman and Mrs Stockwell