Week 38 – 12 July 2024
Key Dates
- LNER Stadium Visit – Tuesday 16th July
- Awards Evening – Wednesday 17th
- Flamingo Land / Bowling – Thursday 18th July
The Final Countdown
Have a great weekend.
Rod Sims
ArtsFest 2024
On Tuesday, all the schools in the SBMAT came together for an incredible day of music making at the Barbican.
Our Art students displayed their work in the foyer for all the audience members to look at as they came into the building.
Our musicians were involved in rehearsals, dance workshops and the all important banner making throughout the day, which culminated in a fantastic performance in the evening.
All the schools (Scarcroft, Knavesmire, Carr, Woodthorpe, Millthorpe and York High) bookended the concert with joint renditions of ‘Come Alive’ and ‘Sing’, both of which involved York High soloists: Hayla, Shanley and Tia Mai.
Congratulations to our We Will Rock You cast, and also our Yr10 band who managed to have most of the primary school children out of their seats, dancing and singing along to Seven Nation Army and Highway to Hell.
Geography in the Wild
13 geographers have spent 3 days in Middleton upon Teesdale.
They’ve enjoyed gorge walking, archery, crate stacking, toasting marshmallows as well as some excellent geography of rivers and waterfalls.
Their behaviour and attitude have been exemplary and all the leaders have commented on their amazing behaviour and enthusiasm, not even the weather could dampen their spirits!
SparxMaths
- over 6341 hours of independent Maths work have been completed
- 766,160 questions have been answered correctly.
- 220 students have improved their times tables.
- 8x/Ma1 have the highest average XP per student.
- Ava B – 8x / Ma1
- Lily E – 8y / Ma2
- Charlie M – 8x / Ma1
- Holly W – 9x / Ma1
- Layce-J R – 8x / Ma2
- Ryder RM – 8x / Ma2
- Sophie B – 7x / Ma2
- Evan G – 8x / Ma1
- Lucy S – 9x / Ma1
- Lucy P – 9x / Ma1
- Sophie L – 7x / Ma2
- Cristina I – 7x / Ma3
- Christina T – 9x / Ma3
- Tally B – 9x / Ma1
- Khalil K – 8y / Ma3
- Lola M – 7y / Ma1
- Lucas SR – 10x / Ma1
- Darren T – 7y / Ma1
- Dexter DM – 8x / Ma2
In Other News
Instrumental / Vocal Lessons from September 2024
Exciting news from York Music Hub: as well as providing full bursaries for any student who is pupil premium, free school meals or a looked after child, there will now be bursaries available for families in receipt of universal credit for 30% of the fee for instrumental or vocal lessons!
Please fill in the following form if you would like instrumental and/or vocal tuition next academic year.
If your child currently has lessons, these will continue next academic year unless you let the hub know otherwise. https://forms.gle/DTcjjzH1BmvQhz9K6
Residential Trips 24/25
Letters for next year’s residentials have gone home to parents of Year 7s, Year 8s and Year 9s.
We’re really excited to be able to offer these residentials!
All slips to express interest need to be back at the Finance Office by Thursday 18th July, with deposits needed by 10th September at the latest.
Trips will appear on your ParentPay from next week, so payments can be made from Monday 15th July.
Lost Property
We have accumulated a large number of coats and items of lost property.
If your child has lost a coat, item of school uniform or anything else, please ask them to pop down to pupil reception at break or lunchtime to check lost property.
Any items not collected will be donated to charity over the summer holidays.
If your child has a tie at home with ‘YHS LOAN’ stamped on the inside label, please could you ensure it is returned to pupil reception early next week.
Thank you
Community News
Your Creative Summer
School Shoe Project
Time to Explore
You’ll see that in Acomb library we have:
- Song Writing workshops at £2 a session
- The Story Engine, a session about seeing how AI stacks up against the human brain, half day session including lunch £5
- Your Creative Summer, a four day creative workshop delivered by Thunk It Theatre, £2 a session.
- We also have some Dungeons and Dragons workshops (not on the leaflet but bookable through the QR code on there), £3 session.
Plus other brilliant activities at York and Tang Hall libraries.
Summer STEM
The Community and Education team at Drax Power Station are hosting summer activities at Selby Abbey on 27th, 28th and 29th August 2024.
Our free sessions are aimed for ages 9 – 13 years old and using Lego they will construct a robot and learn how to code to move the robot around a track.
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