Join us for the Year 10 Revision Evening on Wednesday 2 April. The evening aims to provide guidance and support to equip parents/carers to support their child on revision. The event is from 5.45pm (6.00pm start) until 7.15pm.
On Friday 14 February, NLS students and staff braved the demands of a lengthy coach journey to Austria to experience all the fantastic things that a school ski trip has to offer! Full of excitement, the executive coach was at Dover for the ferry crossing in near-record time. Before we knew it, we were in France, then Germany and, finally, Austria. A 25 hour coach journey is never going to be fun but students showed great grit, resilience and humour.
The good news: plenty of snow in resort!
By 21:00, everyone was ready for sleep and the arduous journey there soon became a fading memory.
Today, nationally the progress and attainment for A level qualifications has been released by the DfE and we are delighted to share that North Leamington School tops the table and is the number one school for 16-18 performance in progress. Nationally this puts NLS 171st out of over 4000 providers of 16-18 provision across the country, top 3%!
Today, at lunch time, students had an extra dish to chose from when making their lunch selection – the winning dish from our student Winner Winner Chicken Dinner Competition.
We launched a whole school competition earlier this term inviting students to create a healthy, tasty chicken dish that would go down a treat in our canteen. The winning dish would then be prepared, cooked and served to students during lunch time.
We welcome Year 9 students to apply to compete in the Cyber Explorers Cup, which is a one-hour-long cyber security competition, offering the chance to win incredible prizes for the classroom.
The competition follows a 'capture the flag' format with each victory unlocking new puzzles and security tasks, pushing students’ skills to the limit.
We are delighted to share the success of NLS students at a recent Faraday Challenge Day, an annual STEM competition, which enables young people, aged 12 to 13 years, to really experience what it's like to work as a team of engineers tackling a real-world challenge.
Faraday Challenge Days are held at schools and venues around the UK and run by the IET, one of the world’s leading professional societies for the engineering and technology community.
Each Challenge Day gives six teams of six students, the opportunity to research, design and make prototype solutions to real-world engineering problems.
We would like to thank all the 30 external education and employer providers who supported our annual Careers Fair for Year 10 and Year 11 students on January 16.
Students were able, in small groups, to ask a range of questions to our guests to learn about the opportunities that are available and gain further insight into what their next steps post Year 11 could be. Students received a booklet beforehand to record the information that they were able to find out about at the event and will be using this to update their careers journey on Grofar, our careers platform.
This was a fantastic opportunity for students to engage with representatives from a wide selection of companies and a range of local colleges, sixth form, and universities.
We are very grateful to all those who supported our event and the feedback from our students showed they really enjoyed the event which will help them in making informed decisions going forward in relation to their post-16 career journey.
During December our tutor groups have been filling hampers with Christmas items and then, as a group, have decided who they would like to receive the hamper.
As we collate the hampers this week deliveries will start taking place to local care homes, the homeless shelter, food banks and elderly neighbours.
Thank you for all your generosity and kind donations - we are sure they will be very much appreciated.
On Friday 13 December, students were invited to replace their blazer with a Christmas jumper. To support the Save the Children charity, we kindly asked for a £1 donation which could be made in cash on the day or via ParentPay (www.parentpay.com). We are delighted that over £593.59 was raised for this important charity.
Thank you to everyone who took part and for your kind donations.
We would like to thank all the visitors from a range of local businesses, providers and parents who supported us in running Mock Interviews yesterday for our Year 11 students and acted as interviewers.
We are delighted to announce that we have been successful in achieving the Quality in Careers Standard. This is the single national quality award for careers education, information, advice and guidance in an education setting.
Holding a nationally validated Careers award demonstrates to those outside the education setting that a high standard has been reached.
The standard is fully aligned Gatsby Benchmarks for Good Career Guidance and fully complies with the Department for Education's Statutory Guidance.
Last week we supported Anti Bullying week, this year the theme was Choose Respect.
During tutor time students discussed what respect means and sessions also reminded students who they can speak to at school if they have any concerns. Our Anti Bullying week activities culminated with students able to wear odd socks to school on Friday to promote individuality, acceptance and tolerance to show that we are all unique and different.