NEWSLETTER McMillan Cake sale Friday 30th September

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1 NEWSLETTER 2016 McMillan Cake sale Friday 30th September McMillan Cake Sale School Uniform Page 1 As part of the McMillan coffee morning to fundraise for nurses we will be going to Downs Park in the morning. Could we please ask you to provide pupils with cakes to sell and that pupils come in with a small amount of money in which to purchase the cakes at Downs Park. If any parents would like to visit Downs Park School for the sale, it is taking place from Foredown Road, Portslade. BN41 2FU Visit from Wooden Spoon Page 2 Reporting Absence ParentMail Page 3 Welcome Page 4 # I am whole Page 5 School Governors Page 6 After School Clubs Page 7 School Uniform Please can you ensure that your child attends School in the correct School Uniform. This being black/ grey trousers for boys and skirt for girls with a blue jumper with the school s logo. Uniform can be bought from the school office. Please note that hoodies are not allowed. Elvis Page 8 Trip to see the i-360 Page 9 Dates for your Diary Page 10 Page 1

2 Autumn Newsletter 2016 Tuesday 4th October Visit from Wooden Spoon Wooden Spoon are a locally based charity, who donated money to the school to build the i-play area. On Tuesday 4th October, they are beginning a cycle journey across Sussex to visit the 15 projects they have helped during the last 10 years. We are delighted that we will be their first stop on this journey and look forward to welcoming them, to speak with the pupils and view the i-play as it looks now. We would like to thank them enormously for their very generous donation, which has provided much enjoyment to many pupils over the past years. Page 2

3 Reporting Absence It is important to keep the school informed every day that your child is going to be absent. Either call the school office on or use the Studybugs app or the Studybugs web site Please contact the office if you need any help. Did you know that absence has a serious impact on GCSE results. Pupils missing on average 1/2 day a week of school (10%) are likely to drop at least one grade with each of their GCSE s. Attendance is important, for now and life beyond school. Please can we remind all parents/carers that we use Parent Mail to send lots of information out. May we ask that you regularly check your account so that you dont miss any important information. If you have a problem accessing your account you can go on the website below and click on the help for parents section. -support/ Page 3

4 We would like to give a very warm welcome to a new member of staff - Claire Banfield who is our temporary English and Life Skills teacher. Downs View Links College We would also like to welcome Downs View Life Skills College staff and pupils. They are currently housed in in the annexe as their main base. The small cohort of pupils with learning and some physical disabilities are taught by their own specialist staff. It has been great to meet you all. Page 4

5 #IAMWHOLE Patcham House is delighted to be supporting a new mental health campaign, due for official launch on Monday 10th October. #IAMWHOLE is a new NHS anti-stigma campaign that will launch on Monday 10 October, World Mental Health Day 2016, in partnership with the YMCA across England. Created in Brighton & Hove through a partnership between the local NHS, Brighton & Hove City Council and young people from the city's YMCA Right Here project, #IAMWHOLE aims to reach out to young people on social media, as well as to parents, teachers, employers and services that provide mental health support for young people. Look out for the #IAMWHOLE on your social media accounts and sign up for information. Page 5

6 CDP Federation Governors agreed to operate under a revised model from September 2016 and will have 9 core business meetings a year. These will all be Full Governing Body meetings focused on one of the Governing Body s 3 core functions as established in legislation being: 1. Ensuring clarity of vision, ethos and strategic direction ( S trategy ) 2. Holding the Headteacher to account for the educational performance of the school and its pupils, and the performance management of staff ( Performance ) 3. Overseeing the financial performance of the school and making sure its money is well spent ( Finance ) In addition each Governor will have an allocated responsibility and will undertake monitoring activities reporting directly to the Governing Body at the appropriate meeting. These areas of responsibility will be confirmed after the first business meeting scheduled for 4th October. If you would like to contact the Governors please the Clerk to Governors on teresacarter@cedarcentre.brighton-hove.sch.uk Page 6

7 Calling all budding musicians. This year music club is run by Mr. Hill and Mr. Carolan and will be every Monday in the music room. So far we have two keen students and have already started learning some brand new songs to possibly perform for you guys later this year. We are hoping to also start producing some electronic music at the club this year; so whatever music you are interested in doing we think we have it covered. Come and talk to us about joining the club! ICT club continues this academic year and remains on Wednesday evenings after school. Lots of games and fun for all! Come and join us! Sports Club is now on Tuesdays after school. Lots of fun and fitness for all. Page 7 Please note all after school clubs finish at 3.45pm

8 ELVIS After a long hot summer full of camping and swimming and playing in the long grass, our lovely Elvis was looking a bit bedraggled and matted. The only way round this was to give him a hair cut and start again! It was a bit of a shock for everyone when he turned up on Monday looking like a different dog. It took longer for the staff to get used to it than it did the pupils. But everyone thinks he is still gorgeous. We were a bit worried he might get cold in the winter without his big thick furry coat so we bought him a new jumper and added the school logo so now Elvis has his very own school uniform. What a smart boy! Page 8 PAGE 8

9 We took the nurture group for a walk to view the i360 and the ruins of the west pier. We stopped at the i-360 cafe and watched the i-360 working. Page 10

10 Learning and Sustainability for Life Patcham House School 7 Old London Road Brighton BN1 8XR Telephone (01273) Fax (01273) office@patchamhouse. brighton-hove.h.uk DATES FOR YOUR DIARY Thursday 20th October 3-5pm Parents Consultation Autumn Half Term Monday 24th October Friday 28th October Monday 31st October Back to School Christmas dinner and Christmas jumper day Wednesday 14th December All Welcome More details to follow Christmas Holidays Friday 19th 1:30 pm Tuesday 3rd January 2017 Start of Spring Term Spring Term Tuesday 3rd January Thursday 6th April INSET DAYS Monday 30th January 2017 Friday 7th April 2017 Page 11