Useful numbers over the holidays
NHS Direct: 0845 4647
Child Line: 0800 1111
Social Services: 0207 974
6666
Housing Advice Centre,
London Borough of Camden
North Team:
CCfL Key Stage 3 School
0207 974 8855
Families
in Focus
Harmood Street
OSSULSTON TA HALL,
London NW1 8DP
29a Chamberlain House,
Tel : 020 7974 3953
Tel: 020 7974 1957
E-mail wendy.eager@camden.gov.uk AMPTHILL SQUARE TA HALL
Barnby Street,
Tel: 020 7974 1982
KINGS CROSS – ( KCB )
Goodbye
51 Argyle Street,
We are saying goodbye to Janet our
Tel: 020 7 974 3298
fantastic cook who is retiring we
THE WINCHESTER PROJECT
would like to wish Janet all the best
21 Winchester Road,
in her retirement
Tel: 020 7974 6268
She will be missed
Kentish Town Police Station
By all students and staff at Camden
020 7289 5030
Centre for Learning
Camden Direct: 0207 974 5974
Camden Youth and Connexions
Service: 0207 974 8101
DATES FOR
YOUR DIARY
KS3
Benefits Services: 0207 974
5766
Housing Advice Centre, South
Team: 0207 974 5801
Goodbye
We are saying good bye
to Paul Fawcett who has
been a teacher on IP for
7 years. Paul is returning to Australia, he has
been a fantastic member
of the team here at CCfL
and will be missed by
students and staff.
We would like to wish
Paul all the very best for
the future
Spring Term
C H R I S T M A S
2 0 1 5
N E W S L E T T E R
Spring Term for students starts 6th
January 2016
Message from Gaby Thomas
Half Term
Monday 15th Feb
2016 until Friday
19th Feb 2016
Easter Holidays
24th March 2016
until 11th April 2016
Dear Parents and Carers
Here we are at the end of another successful term at CCfL KS3 School. There
have been some great successes this term with students producing excellent
stories in English; creative designs in Art; making clocks in DT; making volcanoes
in Nurture; solving problems in Maths and dissections in Science!
Most students have demonstrated good progress across a range of subjects and
you will hear more about this in your child’s Student Review Meeting on
Tuesday 5th January.
Can I take the opportunity to thank you all for your on-going support for the
Families in Focus Christmas holiday programme 2015
INSET DAYS
Monday 4th January
2016
Student review day
school and your child’s learning and also to wish you all a very merry Christmas
and happy new year from all the staff!
We look forward to working with you again in the new year.
Best wishes
Gaby Thomas, Head of School, CCfL KS3 School.
5th January 2016
Further INSET days
To be advised
Families in Focus
Christmas Holiday Programme
Full details of times and venues can be
found on the back of this newsletter
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Activities
This term the students
from Capricorn class
have been working with
the dogs trust, they
have been learning
about different breeds
of dogs, dangerous dogs
and the dangerous dogs
act, they have made
dog biscuits which were
taken to be sold at the
dogs trust shop,
CHRISTMAS
Students have also calculated the expense of
owning and looking after a dog.
Students went to visit the rehoming centre and
met the staff and residents of the home they
had the opportunity to play with some of the
dogs and exercise them
CCfL will be working with the dogs trust again
next term.
If you are interested in giving a dog a home you can
contact the Dogs Trust
on 020-7837 0006
Remember a dog is for life,
not just for Christmas
During October we had a delegation of teachers
from Belgium visit CCfL , They had heard about
how we resolve conflict through Restorative Approaches and want to implement this in their
Our peer restorative stu-
dents did a role play of a restorative meeting
and they were excellent representatives of CCfL
and we were very proud of them.
Christmas Jumper day
Once again this year
support
Camden Centre for
Thank you for your
learning has embraced
Christmas and Christmas jumper day.
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English
Students will be studying a
range of Newspaper articles. They will looking at
different types of newspapers and how this effects
the stories they report.
Maths
Next term our unit will be
g e o m e t r y
a n d
measures. We will finding
the area and perimeter of
a range of shapes and
starting to transform
shapes on a coordinate
grid.
Citizenship
We will be continuing to
look at diversity and discrimination this term. We
will be considering different forms of prejudice,
including homophobia. We
will look at British values,
what they are and what
they mean in our daily
lives.
Geography
This term we will be studying development looking at
Britain’s place in the economic world. We will look at
why some countries are
poorer than others and how
that is changing in certain
parts of the world.
History
In our History lesson’s we
will start our learning by
looking at what Britain was
like in the years leading up
to world war 1. Then we will
learn about why World War
1 started and why soldiers
joined the war effort before going onto learn how
the war was fought and
how it affected the rest of
the world at the time.
We will be using lots of
photographs and looking at
some old film so if any parents want to share any stories or memorabilia that
they may have been given
by other relatives, email
Wendy at The Camden Centre for Learning and she
will pass your material on
to me at the school.
made a donation to the
PSHE
This term experts will
be visiting each week
from Camden’s Substance Misuse team.
They will be talking to
students
about
the
short and long term effects of using drugs and
alcohol, and how to get
help or more information.
Art and Design
We will be exploring the
genre of Landscape art
in the Spring term, students will have the opportunity to investigate
a wide range of artists’
work and the tradition
of landscape art from
different cultures and
traditions. We will explore a range of media
and develop our skills
with different techniques and processes
over the term,
further extending our
understanding of the
formal elements of art.
Science
In the spring term we
will be exploring the fascinating world of physics. This will involve exploring the mysteries of
space and the solar system, learning about the
nature of light and
waves in the electromagnetic spectrum and experimenting with electricity. Students will be
exercising their scientific enquiry skills and
gaining new knowledge to
equip them for their science GCSE’s.
School Home Support
support and donations
provide you with independent
issues, or don’t know where to go
well done everyone -
advice and support on……...
for help with a problem.
practical issues that affect
I can also help with accessing
your family and your child, and
funds from my own and other
your money is going to
Students and staff wore three worthy causes !
Christmas jumpers and
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Curriculum Spring Term 2016
Visitors
schools in Belgium .
2015
Pisces class made their
own festive tee-shirts
text Santa appeal, which in support of the charithis year is giving monties .
For those of you who don’t know
me I am Juliet Whitfield and my
job is to support the parents of
ies raised to Save the
students at CCfL. I work for a
Children, Make a Wish
charity, School Home Support,
and Macmillan cancer
and we have a contract with the
school. This means that I can
your child’s education.
For example I have helped parents who are looking at returning to work, or have problems
with of the following :
benefits, housing, rent arrears,
or need to talk through family
charities to help support families
who are in financial difficulties.
I work Monday to Thursdays and
can be contacted on my mobile
(07811997304) or through the
school’s offices.