The Sandon School Newsletter 27 September 2018 SANDON RUGBY With more competitions and matches than ever before, Rugby has returned with a bang. The number of fixtures and tournaments mean training is essential for all year groups. Everyone is welcome to attend. Training after school. Year 7 training is Monday after school with Mr Ashley Year 8 training is Thursday after school with Mr Hull Year 9 training is Thursday after school with Mr Hull (this might have to change, I will keep you informed) Year 10 training is Tuesday after school with Mr Hull All years Girls training is Monday after school with Mr Hull Upcoming fixtures. Year 10 Essex Cup vs Westcliff HS Tuesday, 9 October. Year 7 and 8 Tournaments Held at St Martins Year 7 Tuesday, 16 October and Year 8 Thursday, 18 October Held at William de Ferrers Year 7 Tuesday, 6 November and Year 8 Thursday, 8 November Held at Great Baddow Year 7 Tuesday, 29 January 2019 and Year 8 Thursday, 31 January 2019 Held at Ormiston Year 7 Tuesday, 19 March 2019 and Year 8 Thursday, 21 March 2019 Safety First The RFU have developed online concussion resources which include a 30 minute online course explaining what concussion is, how it happens and what teachers, parents and guardians can do to help their players avoid injury or return safely to learning and playing following a concussion. Please follow the link to find out more. http://www.englandrugby-schools.com/the-erfsu/committees/governance/concussion/ We also highly recommend all students have gum shields. The other question I m often asked is about high protection (scrum caps) : https://www.mandmdirect.com/01/details/cn1367/canterbury-mens-ccc-honeycomb- Headguard-Black The only problem I can see with making these compulsory is the fact that once wearing one it gives students a sense of it ll be fine, I ve got a scrum cap on when in reality they should not be placing their head there instead of using safe and correct technique. (Continued)
MATCH REPORT Year 9 Rugby vs Baddow 19.9.18 Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more. But when the blast of the whistle blows in our ears, Then imitate the action of the rugby player; Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood, Disguise fair nature with hard-favour'd tackling; Now set the teeth and stretch the nostril wide, Hold hard the breath and step every defender. To his full height. On, on, you year 9. Have in these parts from morn till even fought, (kick off 3.30pm) And whose boots have stayed clean for lack of games: Whose limbs were made in England, show us here I see you stand like greyhounds in the backs, Straining upon the start. The game's afoot: Follow your forward, and upon this charge Cry 'yes for Rugby, England, and Saint George!' Year 9 took control of the match from the start, running straight and hard at the Baddow line of defence; for the first 5 minutes they held firm. However, the continued attacks made by Sandon were constantly making ground. The breakthrough came with Nathan Dunston scoring after sustained pressure from the forwards had sucked in the defenders to allow space out wide. Monty Payne added two more points with the conversion. From then on Harry Parker and Monty Payne terrorised the Baddow backs, tackling hard, applying tons of pressure and seizing every fumbled pass they made. With this Joe Dawe scored twice, running past the disorganised defence after more good forward play. Monty added two more points and Sandon lead at half time 19-0. The second half continued with more good play, Joe Sandle, Ollie Stephenson, Oliver Turton and Kade Silverman all running through defenders time and time again with Kade scoring the next try and Monty adding two further points. Kade added another soon after on the back of more great forward work. There was one more try from Joe D before the final whistle making the score 36-0. The effort and commitment was excellent from everyone. Will Bowers led an outstanding defensive effort keeping the team organised in defence and Baddow to zero. At scrum half Toby Restall kept the momentum going forward with good ball and game management with his distribution between forwards and backs. In all an excellent effort by all and a well-deserved victory. Well done! Year 10 Rugby vs KEGS 25 September National Cup It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, the season of hope the winter of despair; we had KEGS before us in the first round of the National Cup. We knew KEGS were very strong and quick in their backs but we hopefully had the game plan to deal this danger. The game started positively with both sides playing well; it was always going to be close. After a lost ball, KEGS broke wide and scored the first try of the match, converting it to make it a seven point score. Sandon fought back with a great effort from the forwards, keeping the ball tight, going route one, resulting in Will Boyden scoring a well- deserved try. Each side continued to battle, with Sandon making ground only to be countered by KEGS then attacking wide and our backs forcing them back inside into a dead end. Something had to give and it was unfortunately us. KEGS scored a second try after a turn over, converting again. Sandon again fought back, Harrison Riley scoring under the posts just before half time. With Ollie Hollingworth converting, the score was 14-12 at the break. (Continued)
The second half was an even closer fought affair, but with a few interesting decisions from the KEGS ref, frustration was growing. Then the KEGS back broke wide, but were forced into touch, however the ref didn t blow and we stopped allowing them to score under the posts. A bad call from the ref? Bad play from us for not playing to the whistle? Both? Either way it didn t matter - we needed to get back in the match, but time was not on our side, amongst many other things. The forwards responded well and Louis Cheek forced his way over to score. The conversion bounced off the cross bar and realisation set in that it was going to be one of those days. The final score 21-17. The effort and team work were excellent, the plan executed well. We just came out on the wrong side of a very close game between two very good teams. Mr Hull ENGLISH AND MATHEMATICS YEAR 7 PARENTS INFORMATION EVENING Each year the Mathematics and English departments invite the parents of our new Year 7 pupils to take part in an evening presentation on How to help your child with maths and English. 80 parents attended this year s event on Thursday, 20 September, all keen to learn and listen carefully to any advice offered by Miss Flawn and Mrs Blackman, representing the Mathematics department, and Ms Henderson and Miss Cunniffe, representing the English department. It was very pleasing to see so many of our new parents taking a genuine interest in the education of their child. We are only too aware of how difficult it can be to synchronise many different events after a long day at work. Hopefully the information, tips and tricks of the trade, and educational philosophies shared went some way towards eliminating many of the myths surrounding education. The key strategies offered to help with mathematics were: Never tell you child that you were hopeless at maths and had a bad experience at school in you maths lessons. Try to help examples of work and methods can be found in the handout booklet Ensure your child knows their multiplication tables to 12x12 Try to help with homework if asked don t dismiss the request because the task involves maths! Take up the challenge is there something in your child s book that they could talk to you about, and then be applied to this task? The key strategies to help with English were: Reading research shows us that any form of reading is better than no reading at all the more the better. Conversation engage in asking open questions and new ideas to stimulate their interest it s all about thinking and talking ideas through. Discuss their accelerated reader books with your child. Comprehension can they read between the lines? Do they fully understand what they have read? Can they apply some of their new terms to their reading? Homework using the assessment focus, help and guide your child wherever possible. Any difficulties your child may face then the classroom teacher is the first port of call. Miss C Flawn Head of Maths
OPEN EVENING THURSDAY, 4 OCTOBER 2018 - EARLY CLOSURE REMINDER To enable staff and students to prepare for the Open Evening, the school will be closing at 1.40 pm next Thursday,4 October. Students will attend their normal morning lessons and lunch will be available as usual. The students will be dismissed following their afternoon registration at 1.40 pm. The school buses will run their usual routes at this time. A room at the front of the school will be made available for students who wish to remain in school until they are able to be collected where they can do homework or other study. Students wishing to use this room should inform their form tutor. Alternatively they may wish to help staff set up for the evening. Please remember that Friday, 5 October 2018 is a non pupil day.
Welcome back from the Performing Arts ARTS SPLASH! Curriculum Team. We have an exciting year ahead with many opportunities for students to enrich their education through performing arts and cultural opportunities. As many of you know we achieved Artsmark Gold last academic year and are now continuing to offer quality arts opportunities for young people through dance, drama, music and film/media. One of the first opportunities that we are very excited about is Orchestra Live. Some of our gifted and talented musicians will be receiving workshops with the City of London Sinfonia and composer John K. Myles over the next two months culminating in a special concert at The Chelmsford Cathedral on 5 November. More news soon! Here are some other exciting opportunities for the autumn term; Year 7 Choir Miss Adams is keen to recruit year 7 singers and this club has now started on Monday lunchtimes in A1. See Miss Adams for details or just come along at 1pm (lunch time) and join in. Drama Workshops for talented students We have places left for a series of Drama Workshops with a professional actress. This is an exciting opportunity to improve your drama skills, have fun with drama games and build your confidence as a performer. The workshops run on a Friday after school from 3-4pm in A3 with Holly Hostler-White of Yellow Beetle Productions. Dates of the workshops are below. Workshops are funded by the school with a full commitment expected to ensure you keep your place, we will keep a waiting list. If you wish to take up a place please e mail Mrs Davis today on HDA@sandon.essex.sch.uk or see Mrs Davis on Friday at break to confirm that you can attend after school for the first workshop. Workshop dates: 12/10, 19/10, 2/11, 9/11, 23/11, 30/11, 7/12 Main Drama Production No Place Like Rome! Mr Danko will be offering students an opportunity to tread the boards with this fun Pantomime which will be performed just before February half term and auditions took place last week Please note rehearsals will be on a Monday and Tuesday after school from 3-4.30pm in A4 and a full commitment is expected on both days in order to help staff make a full scale production by the performance dates. The Tempest A small group of gifted and talented year 9 students are busy rehearsing for a 30 minute abridged adaption of William Shakespeare s classic play, The Tempest. This production will be performed at the Boswells school just after October half term. Principal roles are: Joe Bushell (Prospero), Oliver Stephens(Caliban), Helen Clegg (Miranda). The production is being directed by Mrs Davis and stage managed by Holly McDonald from Year 10. Drama Clubs Our year 7 Drama Club is on a Wednesday lunch and is now full with 30 members. Mrs Davis will keep a waiting list for any year 7s who wish to join when places become available. Year 8 and 9 Drama Club is running on a Friday lunch and there are still a few places available. All welcome.
Drama Leaders Congratulations to the following year 10 students who have taken on drama leadership opportunities: Luke Lambert, Finley Nathan, James King, Max Sisson, Lilly Villar, Poppy Damant, Bertie Lambert, Holly McDonald. Young Singing Leaders Talented singers Erin Jacobs, Kate Chaplin, Charlotte Jones, Abigail McCann, Hollie Heard, Jessica Wade-Barry, Emily Clegg, Lauren Hughes and Sophia Seager have been selected as our new YSLs. Congratulations! Dance Mr Ashley, Mrs Davis, Miss Duncan and the 6 th Form Dance Captains (Chloe Blackshaw, Lois Harrison, Emily Raymond and Amy Dennis) have been busy organising Dance Clubs and auditioning for our Gifted and Talented Dance Groups. Final groups and days of rehearsal will be posted on the Dance Noticeboard in the Music Corridor and near the PE office. Our Elite G & T Group will continue to run on a Wednesday after school and we are delighted that Emily, an experienced Royal Academy of Dance teacher, is continuing to run this prestigious group which is funded by the school and the Step Up to Dance (RAD) programme. We look forward to seeing all groups performing in the Winter Dance Show. Once again a commitment is expected from all dancers to ensure they learn their dances and meet the dress rehearsal deadline. If you missed the dance information and still want to get involved please see Mr Ashley or Mrs Davis. Film/Media Mr Morris is planning Film making opportunities for students in key stage 3 more news soon! Celebrating success We often receive information from students and family members regarding students arts achievements outside of school and would be happy to receive copy for this newsletter to share with the Sandon community. Please send any relevant copy and maybe a photo too to Mrs Davis CTL Performing Arts. Here are the key Performing Arts dates for the Autumn Term: Orchestras Live Rehearsals Wednesday, 26 September: 1:00 2:45pm Thursday, 18 October: 9:30-11:30am Wednesday, 7 November: 1:00 3:00pm Orchestra Live Performance Wednesday, 5 November 2018 The Tempest Tuesday, 30 October 2018 hosted at the Boswells School, Chelmsford Shakespeare Showcase Year 7 Concert Thursday, 8 November 2018 Dance Show Dress rehearsal Friday, 23 Nov 2018 Technical Dress Rehearsal Thursday, 29 November 2018 Dance Show Wednesday, December 2018 Christmas Concert Thursday, 13 December 2018 Mrs H Davis Curriculum Team Leader Performing Arts
BREAKTIME MENU Break Menu MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY Panini Grill 1.95 Hot 'n' Kickin 1.85 Wedge Bar 1.00 Bap Bar 1.85 Miscellaneous 0.95 Pizza Wedge Meat 0.95 Plain 0.90 Pepperoni on Toast 0.95 or Cheese on Toast 0.90 Hot Wraps Hot Wraps Paninis Hot Wraps Hot Wraps Chicken Popcorn Chicken Popcorn Chicken Popcorn Chicken Popcorn Chicken Popcorn Spicy Wedges Hash Browns Spicy Wedges Hash Browns Spicy Wedges Beef Burger Warm Pretzels Cheese Swirls 0.70 or 2 For 1.15 Southern Fried Chicken Bap Warm Belgian Waffles Pepperoni or Margherita Pizza Croissant with Butter, Jam or Marmite 0.95 Chicken Burger Beef Burger Warm Pretzels Warm Pretzels Garlic Doughball 1.00 Cajun Chicken or Margherita Pizza Croissant with Butter, Jam or Marmite 0.95 Hot 'n' Spicy Chicken Bap Warm Belgian Waffles Pepperoni on Toast or Cheese on Toast
Menu B MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY Main Meat 1.95 Main Vegetarian 1.95 Hot Snack 1.85 Pasta Meat Large 1.65 Small 1.40 Small Plain 1.00 Pasta Veg Large 1.65 Small 1.40 Small Plain 1.00 Hot Dessert 0.90 Cold Dessert 0.90 Sausage & Mash served with Peas or Baked Beans & Gravy Vegetable Sausage & Mash served with Peas or Baked Beans & Gravy Hunters Chicken served with New Potatoes, Peas & Baked Beans Jalousie served with New Potatoes, Green Beans and Baked Beans LUNCH MENU Roast Leg of Pork served with Roasted Potatoes, Yorkshire Pudding & Mixed Veg. Vegetable Baskets served with Roasted Potatoes, Yorkshire Pudding & Mixed Veg. Macaroni Cheese Bites Meatballs Sub Melt Roll Cheese Burgers Beef Bolognaise Sauce Tomato Bolognaise Sauce Apple & Raisin Crumble & Custard Gluten Free Chocolate Brownies Chicken Nuggets served with Potato Wedges and Baked Beans Oven Baked Vegetable Nuggets served with Potato Wedges and Baked Beans Chinese Chicken Noodles Battercrisp Cod Fillet or Gluten Free Fishcake served with Oven Chips and Peas or Baked Beans Cheese & Onion Pasty served with Oven Chips and Peas or Baked Beans Buttermilk Chicken Wings Italian Chicken Sauce Spicy Sausage Sauce Ham & Tomato Sauce Meat Feast Sauce Italian Tomato Sauce Spicy Tomato Sauce Herby Tomato Sauce Vegetable Chilli Sauce Chocolate Pudding & Chocolate Sauce Strawberry Mousse Jam Sponge Pudding & Custard Gingerbread 'Man' Cake Soup of The Day 1.00 Gluten free available. Please ask catering staff. Doughnut & Custard Fresh Raspberry Muffins Corn Flake Treacle Tart and Custard Butterscotch Mousse