Chauncy Newsletter

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July 2010

Chauncy Citizenship in the Community Day News 2010

March 2010

December 2009

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July 2009 Newsletter

Chauncy in the Community News

April 2009

Excerpts from the July Newsletter (see link above):

Headteacher's comments

Leaving us this summer are:- Ed Babington, Harsha Zaver, Jenny Lear and Meg Milton all leaving the area and Ozan Suleyman to be Head of ICT in an Enfield School.

Continuing our expansion, we are delighted to have appointed this talented bunch of teachers:

Miss Rebecca Fanger, Maths; Miss Lindsay Grant-Muller, Media Photography; Miss Samia Masood, Science; Mr Ben Phipps, Business Studies; Miss Ephie Zorpides, English; Miss Sonali Ruperalia, Psychology; Mr Andrew Bowen, ICT; Miss Kathy Lowe, Head of History; Mrs Hazel MacDonald, English; Mr James Rudd, Science.

32 degrees in the middle of our sports field and yet Sports Day was a great success with some stunning performances. Despite occasional showers the 4th Chauncy Community Day was marvellous with a massive range of activities for Chauncy students and hundreds of children from 12 local primaries involved this year. The Art Exhibition was fantastic, particularly the work done on our innovative 6th form BTec course. The wind, however, took our Acoustic Stage at Chauncy Rocks literally to unimagined heights. Fantastic work by Alec Spence saved the event as he set up and ran the sound all night in a hastily re-arranged corridor. Richard Hallman managed the lights and may have served as Alec's apprentice for much of the night. The standard of music was even higher this year as we presented 6 hours of live music and some high energy dance. I warned parents against the trash metal band and the hall was most packed for that band's performance.

So it has been a busy end to another successful year with our new BTec courses in Art and PE setting very high standards of attainment before the August results. 33 A grades at A level in the PE course alone suggest great results for many of our 18 year olds about to embark on university or full time work.

Dennis O'Sullivan

Ware Carnival Day, 3 July 2010

Chauncy School's colourful contribution to the Carnival Procession is shown below. The float depicted the forthcoming Chauncy Rocks event, which will take place on Friday 16 July. Students from Year 7 to Sixth Form helped to decorate the float on the morning of Carnival Day. Headteacher, Dennis O'Sullivan rode on the float and commented today that, although now totally deaf (12 drummers were performing), he had the most fun with other people that he has experienced all year.

Champions!

The Chauncy Senior Football Team were recently crowned Senior District Cup Winners after beating Leventhorpe Schoo 2 - 0. After a goaless first half, strikes from Craig Ross and Adam Clayden secured the win. Click here to view a photo gallery.

ACF

The Association of Chauncy Friends is a group of parents committed to raising funds for School Projects/Equipment. We are constantly requiring help and are now looking for a new team to take over, consisting of a Chairman, Secretary and Treasurer. If you would like more details then please contact Linda O’Neill at Chauncy School on 01920 411200. Many thanks.

GCSE Results Success, 2009!

89% of students gained two Science GCSEs at A*-C, with most of those getting three or four science qualifications. Eleven of the 51 students who sat their ICT GCSE in Year 9 earned an A*-C, setting a hard target for this year's early Year 9 entries in Statistics, French, German, Spanish, Citizenship and ICT.

We welcome children of all abilities at Chauncy and it is incredibly rewarding to see that our students regularly over achieve in terms of national expectations, including the strongest and weakest students. Their confidence in themselves and their teachers, combined with their parents' high expectations and support, ensures exam success beyond the targets we set.

A Level Results success, 2009!

Number of Candidates - 49

% A and B grades - 44%

% A - E pass rate - 99%

Average Point Score - 214

Average Total Points Score - 878

With increasing numbers of students staying on into the Sixth Form at Chauncy, results are a school priority and we are delighted that all of our Sixth Form results are considerably higher than last year.

Chauncy Sixth Form

We have received a considerable number of applications for Chauncy Sixth Form since results day. If you are interested in joining our happy and successful Sixth Form, or would like further information about our innovative and exciting curriculum, which now includes triple award BTEC Art and ICT courses, please get in touch with me by clicking here.

Dennis O'Sullivan (Headteacher)