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1 Head Teacher s Message Well done to our Year 11 students who this week reached the end of their exams. They have handled the exam process very maturely and we are hopefully for the results in Summer. We have mock exams commencing for Year This is a great way to give students an experience of what it is like at the end of Year 11 and the methods to deal with exam pressure and planning time correctly. Important Dates 18/06/18: Year 11 Leavers Breakfast 18/06/18: Year 7-10 & 12 Mock Exams Begin 21/06/18: Year 11 Prom 28/06/18: Year 10 Sixth Form Taster Day School News Year 7-10 Mock Exams: Our Year 7-10 mock exams commence on Monday the 18th of June. In Year 7 and 8, the exams are restricted to English, Maths and Science for one hour each. These exams are done in the sports hall in exam conditions to start to prepare students for their Year 11 exams. In Year 9 and 10, students will sit exams in English, Maths and Science as well as an hour exam in the majority of their option subjects. The only subjects that will not be running exams are some vocational qualifications where students may have already sat at external exam this year. Again all exams will take place in exam conditions in the hall. It is important that students prepare for these exams with revision completed in the run up to the exam. Teachers will give students advice on which topics they should focus on as well as revision techniques. Please encourage your child to prepare for these exams as it starts to prepare them for the efforts required to be successful at GCSE and beyond. If you have any questions about the mock exam process, please contact your child s year leader who will be able to put your concern to the right member of staff. Year 7-10 Endeavour Grade Cards: We are a few weeks away from the endeavour grades cards being issued for this half term. However, due to Year 10 work experience and the mock exams, there are some differences to the normal process. In year 7 and 8, students will receive their endeavour grade card and a separate sheet with their mock exam results in English, Maths and Science on the 13th of July. In year 9, students will receive their endeavour grade card and a separate sheet with their mock exam results in all core and option subjects in which they sat an exam. These will also be issued on the 13th of July. In year 10, students will receive their endeavour grade card and a separate sheet with their mock exam results in all core and option subjects in which they sat an exam. Due to work experience these will be issued on the 16th of July.

2 Year 10 Work Experience: Most of our year 11 and 13 leavers have firm plans in place for the future but for those who may need further information please note the following events. The first two are at Lancaster and Morecambe College: Open Evening FE,HE, Apprenticeships: Tuesday 5th July, 4:30pm-7pm Advice & Late Applications Day FE,HE, Apprenticeships: Wednesday 8th August, 12 4pm Then for Myerscough College, Bilsborrow PR3 0RY: Advice Morning Saturday 23rd June Summer Half Term: This half term is very busy for all students with events in and out of school taking place each week. Students are kept up to date in form time with the upcoming events and should know what to expect each week. However we have provided a brief summary of upcoming events below and will provide more details for each event as they get closer. As always it is going to be another busy half term. W/C : Year 7-10 & 12 Mock Exams Commence. Year 11 Leavers Breakfast. Year 11 Prom. W/C : Year 7-10 & 12 Mock Exams Continue. Year 10 Geography Field Trips. Transition Evening and Day. Year 10 Sixth Form Taster Day. W/C : Year 10 Work Experience. Year 7 & 8 Oscars. Year 9 & 10 Oscars. W/C : Year 10 & 12 Work Experience. Enrichment Day. Sports Day. Year 9 Geography Field Trip. W/C : Sports Awards Evening. Year 9 Geography Field Trip. Year 13 Leavers Meal. Last day of term (early school closure) Fire Cadet Passing Out Parade: On Wednesday 20th June between 2pm pm, we have our Fire Cadets Passing Out Parade. This consists of a practical drill on the yard, followed by presentations in the hall. Year 8 pupils, Fire Cadet families, school governors and the Mayor will be in attendance. This is a fantastic celebration of these students achievements over this year.

3 Year 11 Leavers Breakfast: On Monday the 18th of June, we are inviting all Year 11 students back into school for leavers breakfast. This starts at 9am when students will be able to sign shirts and say goodbye to their friends and teachers in school. They will then have a celebration breakfast followed by a leavers assembly. Students are expected to arrive in their normal school uniform (no jeans or fancy dress). Students who do not wear the appropriate uniform will unfortunately be sent home. In the past, this morning has been a lovely opportunity for students to enjoy a final time in school and we hope this tradition continues with this year group. Technology Bogie-Race Team: A very successful and sunny bogie race on Saturday. We were still the only youth team, steep and twisty course navigated brilliantly by our three drivers and only clipping a hay bale once on the last run! Of the 9 entries, three had accidents and mechanical failure, we placed 6th fastest but still with very respectable finish times. The 2018 team: Drivers - Harry Rider, Ethan Bennett, Sam Dockray Builders - Lewis Stewart, Charlie Norris, Isaac Middleton, Matthew Kay, Jack Walker Photography - James Blaylock Bronze Duke of Edinburgh: The following Y10 students successfully completed their bronze Duke of Edinburgh qualifying expedition over the weekend. Again, they contended with the high temperatures and were a credit as always. Kirsty Hamilton Katie Alty Marli Purchase Natalie Wilson Rebecca Foden Laura Fawcett Emily Coldwell Caitlin Gray Matilda Stuttard Ella Naylor Abbie Thistlethwaite Beth Woods Layla Rogerson Mason Fisher Rachel Bell Jennifer Madden Jessica Miller William Mead Abigail Akin Jessica Clegg Hannah Turner Julia Sawka Lucy Wilding Afton Smith William McGrow PE Kit Support: The PE department would welcome any Carnforth High School PE kit that your sons/daughters do not need (particularly those Year 11 students who will no longer have PE lessons in a few weeks time!). The department is in need of as many football boots and trainers (all sizes), in addition to any of the "new style" navy blue PE kit. The department will utilise any spare kit donated to aid those who have lost kit and cannot afford replacements or for those student who on occasion forget their PE kits.

Sporting News: A busy week of fixtures as the Year 8 competed in the local district cricket tournament which is staged at Torrisholme and Westgate CC.

4 Sporting News: A busy week of fixtures as the Year 8 competed in the local district cricket tournament which is staged at Torrisholme and Westgate CC. The boys were placed into a competitive knockout competition with Ripley, Boys Grammar and Morecambe High. The games would be played in a 10 over format. A good start to the first match as we won the toss vs Ripley and we elected to bat. A magnificent 10 innings as we scored 64 runs. Louis Rogerson, Dan Foden and Jamie Butterfield all scored well with the bat. Ripley replied well with the bat however they fell slightly short of the run rate and scored 54 runs in what was a close game. This was mainly down to the good bowling from the Carnforth boys as Rogerson, Butterfield, Ben Osbourne and George Eccles bowled tight spells which took wickets at vital moments. This set up a final vs Boys Grammar who beat Morecambe High. Grammar won the toss and elected to bat. After a loose first 3 overs, with Grammar scoring quite freely, Carnforth managed to slow down and maintain the run rate. Grammar finished their 10 innings on 68 runs. Carnforth started the batting well but struggled to get as many boundaries as they did against Ripley, this was partly down to the good bowling and high standard of fielding from Grammar. The game changing moment was when Grammar took 3 wickets in 4 bowls as Rogerson, Foden and Butterfield all fell. Carnforth finished their 10 innings on 52 runs. Well played to the boys who competed really well against some excellent cricketing teams. On Thursday afternoon Year 8 competed in the second round of the Lancashire plate at home to Parklands high school. Parklands won the toss and selected to bat. A decision which turned out to work in the favour of Carnforth as a number of wickets fell very early, as Parklands were 21/4 after only 4 overs. Wickets continued to fall, however the opening batsmen from Parklands remained resolute and scored 46 runs before eventually getting out. Parklands finished on 82 runs all out from 17 overs. Credit is due to the outstanding Carnforth bowling and fielding, captained superbly by Jamie Butterfield. Rogerson took 3 wickets, George Eccles 2, Sam Lancaster 4 and Dan Foden 1. Carnforth batted a near perfect innings as Rogerson and Foden scored 84 unbeaten runs between them. Foden scored 38 whilst Rogerson 31. Both boys batted magnificently scoring a number of boundaries and never looked like they were going to get out. Well done to all the boys for an excellent performance. The Parklands teacher was very complimentary of the Carnforth boys not only for sporting ability but also for the way that they represented the school. On to the next round. On Tuesday afternoon we hosted Heysham High in a rounders fixture. Year 9s won against Heysham High as the girls won 13-7 ½. Player of the match was Jenny Hyndes. The girls played really well, it was 5 all after the first innings, then our girls managed to get all their players out within 22 balls, getting the first 5 girls out in the first 18 balls. Playing extremely well with good fielding tactics.

5 Sixth Form News: Year 12 English Language and Literature students have been studying the novel 'Jane Eyre'. They had the task of writing an alternative ending using a specific genre. The short stories use genre conventions skilfully and show a deep understanding of the novel. Well done Year 12! Riley Hibbert The skeletal remains of a once magnificent structure stood before me. As I manoeuvred myself around the fallen structure I cried out the name of my dearly beloved. My voice racketing across the soft moors beyond, my eyes running with the tears of those who must have been caught in this blaze and would, now, never get the chance to cry themselves. I searched the remaining rubble for what seemed an age, whilst rubbing my arms to fend of the cruel coldness of the savage winter. I tried to imagine the things that I had done to deserve this feeling of emptiness, of sadness, of the excruciating pain in my heart. I prayed now, realizing that god was my only saving grace, that only he could offer me some condolences in this pain, that I had never really needed his presence before now. But he would listen, as he had done so for St. John, as he had done for Helen all those years ago. And as I sat there in the physical embodiment that resembled my heart I apologised, I apologised for all the times I had disrespected all the people around me who were my family, no matter who they were or what they did to me. I apologised to god for not praying to him as I did not now. And lastly I apologised for not listening to my heart when it clearly expressed what it desired, for what it needed, Oh Lord I cried Please forgive me, for I have done wrongs for every right and I do love Rochester, My dear Edward, I love him and I need him. Then it began to rain. Jodie Hamilton Darkness deluged the graveyard, with the occasional cast of moonlight creating eerie shadows on the tombstones. Helens grave stood tall; isolated, lonesome. Gingerly, I wandered towards the gravestone, reminiscing our memories. As I edged closer, I became overwhelmed with melancholy. Helen was my best friend; a model of personal strength for me. I dropped to my knees to place a bunch of pink roses on the grave. The stems were wet and I felt the dampness seep through my silk glove. Without warning, my mind was conquered by an ominous sound. I rose to my feet, I heard a voice somewhere crying- Jane the voice called, in a low, severe tone. I felt apprehensive and astonished. What could the noise be? Could it be Helen calling from above?

6 Jade Whitfield It was 1:30am on a Sunday evening, Jane was still nowhere to be found. Mr Rochester was amongst his wealthy companions about 4 hours South of his entrapped wife. Little did he, or the housekeeper, know what Bertha was plotting... Bertha was sat in bed like every day, staring at each jagged crack in the ancient brick walls and tracing her clammy, rope-burned fingertips against the silky satin sheets. Thoughts of escaping circled her mind as if she were a prisoner about to be hung for the most sinister of crimes. 5 dreary and traumatizing years she had spent memorising every detail of the house, from the dull and dark maroon interior that made the house appear as though it had been during the medieval times, to the layout of the house and which rooms led to the front door to finally allow her to break free from her misery. That night she had suspected that Mrs Poole would accompany her whilst she slept like always, with the keys wrapped round her neck like a lock. Mrs Poole however, was violently sick with what Mr Rochester suspected to be tuberculosis. Bertha soon realised her plan to cut the string and key from around Mrs Poole neck wouldn t go ahead. Poppy Hopkins Blankets of grey slowly blew further east, revealing the musky moorland, injected with marbles of lime and burnt umber intertwined. The pink-hued sky once again lifted and stretched into all corners of the eye. The carriage wheels sunk slightly as we approached the great building, a harsh sound filled my ears as the scratching and scraping of the rocks beneath the wheels struggled out from underneath. As we finally came to an abrupt halt after a three days and sixteen hours, I had arrived at my next chapter, Thornfield. The driver gave me my luggage and off they went, I remained in total ore of the building that stood in front of me, an old, eroded yet somehow greatly handsome piece of architecture. I carried on standing when I was greeted kindly by a tall, dark-haired eminently handsome yet rugged looking man, who went by the name of Mr Rochester. Before I could speak he had my luggage and was showing me where I d be staying. Jack Sowerby The fog descended across the stony path which Jane had followed to return to Thornfield. The path became no longer visible. With nothing but a bright, burning candle, trapped in a casket-like lamp, guiding her way. She had eventually reached Thornfield. She took a gaze upon the intimidating building which she had missed in her time away. Jane wanted to saviour her return; to her it felt like home. She took a deep breath in through the nose. The smell enflaming the back of her nostrils. She began to cough, choke and wheeze, trying everything she could to prevent tasting the ash-filled air. She stormed through the misty air and into the giant structure.

7 Carnforth High School Canteen Menu Monday Mince beef dumplings with Lyonnaise potatoes and glazed carrots Mince Quorn dumplings with Lyonnaise potatoes and glazed carrots Macaroni cheese and ham with tomato, basil and onion salad and a garlic & herb slice Macaroni cheese with tomato, basil and onion salad and a garlic & herb slice Week 2 Syrup sponge or Fresh fruit Tuesday Homemade turkey & ham pie with baby potatoes, roast parsnips and garden peas Homemade cheese & potato pie with baby potatoes, roast parsnips and garden peas Salmon & spinach crumble with roast parsnips and garden peas Lentil & vegetable dahl served with a naan bread Cherry crumble or Fresh fruit Wednesday Paprika chicken leg with winter mash and green bean nicoise Paprika Quorn leg with winter mash and green bean nicoise Garlic, coriander & cream meatballs with vegetable cous cous and mixed green salad Garlic, coriander & cream Quorn balls with vegetable cous cous and mixed green salad Apple pie or Fresh fruit Thursday Roast beef & Yorkshire pudding, roast potatoes and cauliflower cheese or mashed carrot & swede Roast Quorn fillet & Yorkshire pudding, roast potatoes and cauliflower cheese or mashed carrot & swede Chicken, broccoli & red pesto pasta with lettuce, carrot and red onion salad and a tomato & herb slice Sweetcorn, broccoli & red pesto pasta with lettuce, carrot and red onion salad and a tomato & herb slice Chocolate sponge with chocolate sauce Friday Fish burger bun with chipped potatoes and garden peas or baked beans Chicken tikka masala with steamed brown rice and naan bread Quorn tikka masala with steamed brown rice and naan bread Selection of cold desserts

8 Carnforth High School PE Department Extra Curricular Programme April - July 2018 LUNCH 12.45pm- 1.15pm AFTERSCHOOL 3.30pm-4.30pm MONDAY All years Badminton (CC) Year 9-11 Girls Hockey (MB) -Astro TUESDAY Y7-8 Boys Football (LN) All Years girls rugby - RFU Staff CPD Year 9-10 PE intervention (JD) WEDNESDAY Girls Trampolining (LN) ALL Years Girls Rounders (LN) THURSDAY PE Staff Duty Day No facilities available FRIDAY All Years Girls Rounders (NT) Academic PE Re-sits (Hi1) Y7, 8 & 9 Cricket Practice (JD) - Sports hall ALL Years Girls Football (M.F.C) ALL Years mixed Athletics (JD/CC) No fitness club, expected to attend Thursday Athletics Boys & Girls Y7-11 if you are a regular team member, please see Mr Chambers for this Half term s fixture list. There may be more added!

School News. Head Teacher s Message. Important Dates

School News. Head Teacher s Message. Important Dates Head Teacher s Message The end of a very busy first half term at Carnforth High School. I hope students use the half term break to rest and relax after all their hard work. Endeavour grade cards have been