Message from the Headteacher - Mrs John

@StanboroughS www.stanborough.herts.sch.uk

Forthcoming Events:

9th - 13th March

Week two

3rd - 12th March

Year 11 Mocks

9th March

Year 10 National

Apprenticeship Show

9th - 13th March

Progress Update 2 Issued

10th March

Post 16 National

Apprenticeship Show

Welcome Prospective New

Year 7 Evening, 6pm

11th March

Year 8 Parent Teacher

Interviews, 4-7pm

17th & 18th March

Dance Production, The

Sandpit Theatre, 6.45pm

18th, 19th & 20th March

Parents’ Coffee Morning,

9am. Please contact the

school office to confirm your

attendance.

19th March

Year 12 Parent Teacher

Interviews, 4-7pm

Edition 23: 6th March 2020

Message from the Headteacher - Mrs John

Stanborough welcomed 31 inspirational women into

the community to celebrate International Women’s

Day 2020. This was an opportunity to celebrate the

achievements of women but also a chance for the

Year 8 and 9 students to speak to the women about

their careers, the challenges they have faced and

how they have overcome them to get to where they

are now in their lives. Thanks to Mrs Adams for

leading this and to Paypoint for helping mastermind

this initiative. A special thanks has to go to all the inspirational women who gave up

their time to help raise aspirations.

As a community we will be welcoming our future Year 7 students and their families to

Stanborough. The new Year 7 welcome evening will be held on Tuesday 10th March

from 6pm to 7pm. This is the first step in ensuring that our future students and their

families are supported and nurtured through this next phase.

Headteacher’s commendations for this week are: Emily Turner, (Yr. 7) for her amazing work in

raising money for the Ollie Foundation;

Georgia Perrott and Emily Bolton, (Yr. 7)

for taking part in a 5K mud run;

Turki Al-Haddabi, (Yr. 8) for consistently

working hard and always being willing to help;

Shane Meenan, (Yr. 8) for always having such

a wonderfully positive attitude and being hard

working;

Aimee Collom, (Yr. 8) for her brilliant

citizenship;

Nathan Davies, (Yr. 9) for being awarded ‘Leading Bowler’ by Saracens

Hertfordshire Men’s Cricket League;

Sailash Kirivasan, (Yr. 9) for his outstanding answers in a topic assessment in

Business Studies;

Archie Chaplin, (Yr. 9) for winning the Premier League Tournament with Chelsea

Youth FC whilst on tour;

Bradley Loughnane, Ellen Green and Laura Wells, (Yr. 10) for always going

above and beyond in their French classwork and homework;

Luke Laurence, (Yr. 11) for his excellent Classcharts record this academic year and

for having no negative points.

Quote of the week:

“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” Aristotle.

Hope you have a wonderful weekend.

Mrs John

http://stanborough.herts.sch.uk/

High Expectations Quality Learning Mutual Respect Success For All

If you need to contact the school please call 01707 321755 or e-mail us at [email protected]



Year 7 Attendance:

96.5%

Year 8 Attendance:

96.0%

Year 9 Attendance:

94.4%

Year 10 Attendance:

96.2%

Year 11 Attendance:

95.7%

Stanborough Attendance:

95.8%

Attendance Matters…….

At Stanborough, we believe that attendance is essential in order for students to make good academic progress and to feel that

they are active members in the school community. Did you know 97% attendance equates to 5 days off a year? Regular school

attendance helps our young people to learn; progress; establish good habits; be supervised and safe and prepare for the future.

Should you have any questions or wish to discuss any issues that may be preventing regular attendance or causing lateness,

please do not hesitate to contact the school. Please remember that if your child is absent for any reason, parents/carers

should call 01707 321755 and press option 1 on each day of absence.



Student Success

Here are some of the achievements our students have made out of school over the last few

weeks. Well done to all of you. We are all so proud!

Duke of Edinburgh - Gold Award

Well done to Callum for securing a Gold award in the DofE. The awards were presented by

HRH Prince Edward, Earl Of Wessex and Rav Wilding. We are all extremely proud of you.

Well done Callum and thank you to Mrs Elliott for supporting all our students with the DofE

scheme over the last few years.

If your child has taken part in an activity outside of school and you would like to share this with us we’d love to hear from

you. Please email in a short description of the activity and, if possible, a photo.

Thanks for supporting us in celebrating all the things that make Stanborough students great.

Archie, Year 9, recently took a tour to Mumbai, India, along with the rest of his

Youth Chelsea FC team Mates and we are pleased to say that they won the Premier

League Tournament!

Emily and Georgia in Year 7 completed a 5KM

mud run. They displayed great resilience and

determination to complete a very tough

course, getting soaked to the skin with water

and mud, but finished the course and did

amazingly well.

Nathan, Year 9, was presented with an award from Saracens Hertfordshire Men’s

Cricket League for being the leading bowler in the Regional Division B East.

Last summer, Jamie and his teammates at ProFutsal London won the

U14 FA Youth Futsal Cup and became national futsal champions.

Well done for reaching the Hertfordshire regional finals!

Valentine Business Project Faizan Choudhry 10H, Oli Harvey 10B and Ellen Green 10A , write:

On Thursday 13th February 2020, our business class ran a yearly event called the

Valentine’s project 2020. This involves people ordering roses and then runners

distributing them to the recipient during tutor time. This

process involved several people giving up their lunch and break times to ensure the

operation ran smoothly.

The first step was to divide the class into three groups:

Marketing, Finance and Operations. Then leaders were

assigned; Finance: Ellen Green 10A, Marketing: Oli Harvey 10B

and Faizan Choudhry 10H, Operations: Hana Rose 10H. Each group worked

together and assigned roles for each person in the group. Such tasks included making

powerpoints, posters, locating the roses and deciding on prices.

Over time the project began to fall into place with each team providing crucial elements in order for the project

to be successful.

On the day, runners were assigned to different year groups in small groups by Oli Harvey 10B, Joe Johnson 10S

and Daisy Humphreys 10K. They then took the orders that had been placed at break time and ensured that the

roses were correctly arranged and the messages on them were complete. Finally, at form time on Thursday 13th

February the roses were delivered and the project came to an end.

Overall, this project was extremely successful by making a profit of approximately £72 with the initial revenue

amounting to £97 . Much credit to Hana Rose 10H for overseeing the project as a whole.



Parent Teacher Surgery

Thursday 26th March 2020, 2-5pm

Mr T Braybrook, Deputy Headteacher, writes:

Following the upcoming release of PU2 for Years 7 to 10, during week commencing Monday 9th March, we will

be holding a parent teacher surgery. If you are concerned about your child’s progress in any subject this

surgery offers an opportunity to meet with up to three subject teachers.

The PTS is open to all parents and students in all year groups. Parents/carers will be emailed a letter which

outlines how to make appointments for this PTS via our online booking system on Monday 9th March.

Appointments can be made from then until midnight on Tuesday 24th March. Should you have any queries

please contact [email protected].

We do not expect parents to attend this surgery as a matter of course and in some instances members of staff

may also request appointments which will be confirmed with you by email or telephone.

Please note school will finish at 1pm on Thursday 26th March and appointments will run from 2pm until 5pm.

mailto:[email protected]

Stanborough Celebrates World Book Day

Stanborough School Literacy Team, writes:

Yesterday, Thursday 5th March, was World Book Day. To celebrate this we planned a

DEAR time (Drop Everything and Read) and students were given book tokens to put

towards a book of their choice. The day also included tutor time quizzes and a

celebration event for the finalists who entered the 500 words competition.

As part of this we are launching a Read for Good Readathon and we’d love your child to join in. It begins on

World Book Day and runs until Friday 27th March. It’s been proven that children who read for pleasure are

more likely to be successful and happy throughout their lives (OECD).

The charity Read for Good encourages children to read through its unique motivational approach inspiring

reluctant readers to give reading a go, and keen readers to read more widely. It’s all about reading for fun and

they are motivated to read because the money they raise in sponsorship helps to provide a regular supply of

brand new books and a resident storyteller to every major children’s hospital in the UK.

All you have to do is:

1. Take a look at what your child plans to read, or help them complete their list of books. Students can choose

whatever they want to read: fact, fiction, e-books, poetry, audio books, comics – anything goes!

2. Help your child find sponsors among family and friends. They can pick up a sponsor card from the LRC.

Students need to bring the money in (in cash) by Friday 27th March and hand it in at the bursar’s office.

Please support your child’s passion for reading as much as you can.



Volunteers Needed!

Mrs E Daplyn, Assistant Headteacher, writes:

As many of you are aware, we had the main corridors of the school painted in the summer of 2019, and we are

currently undertaking the building of our new classroom block and music and drama block. However, the staff

room where the staff work, meet and relax, is looking tired. We would therefore like to give the staffroom a

makeover, including a fresh coat of paint, over the 2020 summer holidays.

We are looking for volunteers who could offer some time from July 20th to July 23rd to come in and paint to

support the makeover of our staffroom. Mrs John will be there painting and we have asked staff if they are

available to support too. All equipment and paint will be

provided.

If you would like to volunteer to help, even for just half a

day, or you are able to donate paint and equipment,

please contact me at Stanborough School on

[email protected].

“The more that you read, the more things you will know.

The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.” - Dr. Seuss




Coronavirus - Advice from the Department for Education

A new helpline has been launched

to answer questions about

COVID-19 related to education.

Staff, parents and young people can

contact the helpline as follows:

Phone: 0800 046 8687

Email:

DfE.coronavirushelpline@educatio

n.gov.uk

Opening hours: 8am to 6pm

(Monday to Friday)

No school should close in

response to a suspected (or

confirmed) COVID-19 case

unless advised to do so by Public

Health England.

Where to find the latest information

Updates on COVID-19: https://www.gov.uk/coronavirus

Guidance for educational settings: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/guidance-to-educational-settings-about-covid-19

Travel advice for those travelling and living overseas: https://www.gov.uk/guidance/travel-advice-novel-coronavirus



https://www.gov.uk/coronavirus

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/guidance-to-educational-settings-about-covid-19

https://www.gov.uk/guidance/travel-advice-novel-coronavirus



Run For Stanborough 2020!

Friday 27th March Mr T Braybrook, Deputy Headteacher, writes:

Plans are afoot for our annual charity extravaganza which is ‘Run for Stanborough’.

This will take place on Friday 27th March in the afternoon where students will either

run the course as part of House Cross Country or walk it as part of our efforts to

support our charity of the year which is the Ollie Foundation who we continue to

work closely with.

Students will be given more details about this event in the next couple of weeks along with a sponsor form to

collect money. As ever, after the run/walk, there will be a variety of stalls with games, sweets, drinks and competitions for students to partake in. If students want to organise a stall they should see their Year Leader /

Deputy Year leader.

We look forward to a great event raising lots of money for the Ollie foundation!

Help! - we need your empty cereal boxes!

Miss H Carter, Art and Design Teacher, writes:

Please can you keep donating your cereal boxes to T5 in the art and design building. They're really useful to us

as disposable pallets as well as building material for our 3D letters. Thank you to all the parents and students

who have already donated, please can you keep them coming - we use them every day!



PE and Dance Newsletter

Mr J Foster, PE Teacher, writes:

Fixtures

Student Achievements

Congratulations to Nathan, Year 9, who was presented with an award from Saracens Hertfordshire Men’s

Cricket League for being the leading bowler in the Regional Division B East. Nathan, who plays for Hatfield

Hyde Cricket Club, took an amazing 22 wickets (including 2 fivers) with an average of 10.73 last season. This is

quite an achievement in his first season in open age cricket as his opponents are typically adult players with

many years of experience. Well done Nathan!

Congratulations to Jamie, Year 10, who has been invited to participate in the ProFutsal team who are heading

off to the prestigious Costa Blanca Cup which takes place in Benidorm, Spain. Pro Futsal competes in the top

division of the country at senior level so this is a great achievement, well done Jamie!

Archie, Year 9, recently took a tour to Mumbai, India, along with the rest of his Youth Chelsea FC team mates

and we are pleased to say that they won the Premier League Tournament! Well done Archie!

Upcoming events

House netball

Monday: Year 7 and 8

Tuesday: Year 9/10/11

Sport relief

Next Thursday and Friday lunchtime, there will be events happening on the hard play to raise money for

sport relief. More details will be delivered in tutor time or for any questions speak to Mr Foster.

The dance production - Peter Pan

The students involved have been working incredibly hard preparing for the shows on the 17th and 18th of

March.

BASKETBALL

It was a successful week for both the Year 7 and Year 8 basketball teams. Year 7 performed brilliantly in their

56-12 win over Hertswood. All players performed brilliantly, but the player of the match was David Manon

Jorge, scoring 8 baskets! Well done David!

The Year 8 team also won their match against Hertswood by 20 points to 12. This was another excellent

performance by the team led by player of the match Tapi Zonda who scored 6 baskets! Well done Tapi!

NETBALL

The Year 10 netball team played a very close match against Queenswood. The lead kept changing from one

team to another, with the girls eventually losing to a very narrow 14-12 score.



Mr Modi, Curriculum Leader: Mathematics writes:

Solve and earn a SILVER Award.

Send your answer/s (preferably with workings) by email to [email protected]

or on a piece of paper to the Maths Office.

For all KS4 Students

Mrs K James, KS4 Leader: English, writes:

Reminder: Your Language Mock Exam is on March 10th

Use the website to help you with the following:

Do you know…?

Which paper you will be taking?

How question 2 differs between the two papers?

Language devices and their effect

Structural devices and their effect

Purpose, form, audience

How to write a PETER paragraph using the bookmark

Where to find past papers?

Extra help in Period 6 on Tuesdays or in

G14 on Thursdays.

(all welcome!)

Stanboroughenglish.wixsite.com/English


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