NEWSLETTER
www.ascension-island.gov.ac/government/school
Tuesday, 09 February 2016
Dear Parents and Carers,
Reminder
The school holidays for October this year are
Monday 10th to Friday 16th October inclusive.
become a member, please contact the school
office on 64432. Thanks for our volunteers
support in running the library: Mrs Carmen
Piek, Miss Catherine Leo, Mrs Samantha
Bates, Mrs Carla Smith, Ms Kitty George, Dr
Bill and Felicity Hardy and Mrs Rachel
Holland.
KS4 Geography trip
On Wednesday KS4 students went to Jubilee
View and Long beach to conclude their
investigation into how
Longshore drift effects the
width and shape of Long
Beach. The sea was a bit
kinder, but the sun was
hotter, which probably contributed to the very
quick time it took us to conduct the
measurements. We found
that during the past week,
on average the width of
long beach had grown by
about 2 meters. The side
near
the
conservation
beach hut gaining the most.
Bicentenary Exhibition
Primary pupils have been working hard on
presentation work for their bicentenary
exhibition at the museum. Parents are invited
to attend this exhibition on Monday 19th
October at 6pm. This work has involved
several visits for the pupils to explore the
island’s history. Thank you to their teachers
for making the most of this opportunity and
the extra effort it has taken to organise these
visits.
Library
Our library is open to visitors from 5:30pm to
7:30 pm on Thursday evenings and on
Saturdays from 11 to 1pm. Donations of
books and DVDs are appreciated…To
World Maths Day
World Maths Day this year takes place on
14th October, during our half term holiday.
Children are invited to participate in this
online game on this day. School will be open
from 9am – 2pm just for children to come up
to ICT2 and play on the World Maths Day
game. We will have juice and snacks
available, but if children are here over lunch
time, they should bring a packed lunch with
them.
If your child would like to do this, they should
sign up for the time that they would like to be
in school to ‘book’ a computer.
LS children may book for 1 hour.
MS and Secondary children for a maximum of
3 hours.
All children will have a logon for the website,
although we appreciate that the cost of the
internet may mean that they are not able to
access this from home.
Sports Day
The school’s annual sports day will be held
on Sunday 4th October 2015 from 9.00 am –
1.00 pm approximately, at Two Boats Sports
Field.
There will be individual and team competitive
races, including some with novelty value for
lower and middle school pupils.
Senior
students will all participate in track and field
events. There may also be the opportunity
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for you to participate – so bring along your
running shoes!
There will be special mention for the best
supported house throughout the morning, so
we encourage you to help your child’s house
win the coveted ‘overall champions trophy’ by
wearing house colours, (red for Dampiers,
yellow for Elliots, blue for Cronks) and
cheering for your child’s house.
Transport will be provided for Georgetown
children. The school Bus will leave
Georgetown at 8:20am from the bus stops.
Two Boats children should be at the Sports
Field by 8:30am. Parents may wish to take
their children home with them after the
presentation. If you decide to do this, please
let their teacher know on the day.
There will be chicken curry, fish cake on roll
and hot dogs on sale from 11.00 am, and
drinks will be on sale throughout the day. The
School will also provide juice and water for
students. Students will be encouraged not to
eat lunch until their races have finished.
Parent Rep
(WB)
Mr Mark Lamond
School Staff Rep
Stringer (PM)
Mr Paul Murray-
Primary
Miss
Andrea
Business Rep
(DS)
Mr Duncan Smith
Director of Resources
(JM)
Mr Jamie Manson
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Report on School Governor’s Meeting
Andrew Reade, year 5 & 6 teacher.
Melanie Robinson, IT specialist /
Computing teacher.
Pauline
Millard,
Secondary
Senior
Teacher / Maths teacher who will arrive in
January 2016.
The post of English/History teacher to
replace Mr Murray-Stringer has been
advertised. The successful applicant will
need to be in post by January 2016.
BUILDINGS
The inaugural TBS Governors Meeting for the
new academic year took place on Tuesday 15th
September 2015.
Refurbishment of the Lower School toilets and
installation of six new interactive screens has
taken place although there is still a requirement
for additional staff toilets and shelter in the middle
school playground.
Those in attendance:
Ms Patricia Babin
Parent Rep
(ML)
The new Head Teacher Ms Patricia Babin
introduced herself before giving detail on new
staff appointments:
Mrs Millard our Secondary senior teacher and
Maths specialist will be teaching the
secondary curriculum in January when she
joins us.
Head Teacher
(PB)
Miss Christabelle
STAFF
Miss Tompsett will be teaching year 9 and
KS4 maths from 6/10 to 11/12.On Mondays
Maths lessons for year 9 will be taught by Mrs
Robinson.
Mrs Caroline Yon
Parent Rep
Wade (CW)
Senior Teacher
Tompsett (AT)
New timetable
Chairperson
(CY)
Mrs Winnie Bagley
The next SGC meeting is scheduled for the 24th
November 2015.
Duncan Smith (Business Rep)
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Superheroes and Princesses!
Foundation Stage are asking for donations of
any old Barbies, dolls, superhero toys or
costumes. Missing limbs are not a problem!
Please drop them in to the Foundation Stage
classroom.
Thank you
Puzzle
Can you find four consecutive prime numbers
that add up to 220?
Solution Number 6
From the UK to the Falkland Islands according to Google Earth the
direct route is 8,064 miles.
At maximum speed of 1320 miles per hour in theory, this would take
just over 6 hours of flying time.
At 26 Kg of fuel an hour x 6 flying hours, it would burn up 156 kg of
fuel for the whole journey. This does not take into account tankers to
refuel at mid-air and we cannot fly direct route to the Falkland Island,
it does not allow for wind.
Fact of the Week
Each year about 500,000 detectable
earthquakes occur in the world. About
100,000 of those can be felt and about 100 of
them cause damage.
Wishing you all the best for the coming week,
Patricia Babin
Headteacher
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