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Volume 5 | Issue 9 | 4th November 2016
Prayer for the week
Heavenly Father, thank you for your goodness to us this autumn, for the beauty of your creation andcolours of this turning seasons. Amen
Welcome back from half term and guess what an inspector calls.
Well, one cannot complain of an uneventful week. Not when inspectors from OFSTED arrive to carry outthe school’s three yearly statutory care inspection of our boarding provision against the NationalMinimum Standards. I was just settling in to a meeting at Roundwood Park School with the HarpendenHead Teachers when my mobile phone started to ring at 08.40am indicating that Mrs Bainbridge wastrying to contact me, which only meant one thing, we had received the phone call. Whilst we had beenexpecting the call since the start of the year the anticipation and apprehension are a little inescapableand in some ways it is a relief to finally get the call and to be given the opportunity to share ourwonderful school with others, even when you know their purpose is to judge your performance.
So from 12.30pm on Tuesday until 13.00pm on Thursday we were host to three Ofsted Social Careinspectors who pored over every aspect of boarding, care and welfare in the school, telephoneinterviewed numerous boarding parents, met with staff, boarders and senior leaders, peered in toevery ‘nook and cranny’, immersing themselves in our boarding experience and emerged bothenergised and complimentary, most especially about the positive atmosphere created by the boardersthemselves which they described as warm, homely and welcoming. Until the report is finished its qualityassurance journey through Ofsted and published I am not able to share the findings in any detail but Ican say that I am delighted with the conduct and indicated outcome of the inspection, which is largelyand mainly down to the Boarding House staff and boarders great team work.
Hopefully in the next few weeks I will be able to share the final report with you. In the meantime I wouldlike to thank all the staff, parents and boarders and the day pupils, who were also observed and spokento by members of the inspection team, for their contribution to the inspection as well as their unfailingexcellent behaviour and attitude at all times. I would like to give special mention to Mr Jon Timmins our
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Director of Boarding and Development, who has only been with us since January, for his leadershipand quiet reflective calm which has been instrumental in enabling us to secure improvements toboarding as well as maintaining much of the great practice that has been a feature of boarding at StGeorges.
As you will see later in the newsletter, Mr Hollingsworth is looking to recruit parent volunteers to be partof our new Parent Forum. The Parent Forum is being developed as part of our drive to improve ourstakeholder engagement. Whilst there are only a limited number of places available please do not letthat discourage you from putting yourselves forward as Mr Hollingsworth would love to hear from you.
Finally this week, congratulations to Jack Scott, Monk, Year 11 on winning the ‘2016 SuperteenMotorbike Championship of Britain’. This is an excellent achievement and we wish him all the very bestfor continued success. For more on this and other school events please see our Facebook Page andthe school's website
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Former staff memberJordan Thomas becomesBritain’s first world karatechampion for 12 years.
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Charity OutreachOn the day before the half term holidays, we had a grandcollection of all the last remaining…
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Maths Department 'PuzzleChallenge DayPlease click on the document below
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Parent Forum InitiativeI am writing to you regarding an opportunity for you to bepart of our Parent Forum initiative which we…
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STUDENT ABSENCE
Call the absence telephone line 01582 765477 or email absent@stgeorges.herts.sch.uk Pleasestate the pupil’s name, year group, tutor group and reason for absence.
The latest edition of the PSA newsletter is now available to view and download from the school website—please click here (September Newsletter 2016)
You can contact the PSA at psa@stgeorges.herts.sch.uk
PE Fixtures
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Community
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Please ensure you are following or have access to the Boys & Girls twitter account for any late noticechanges to fixtures. The last few weeks have been very frustrating due to the home pitches beingunplayable and we are glad to have been able to move games to the away venues.
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October
Sat 5
Lacrosse v St Helens, Home, 1sts, 2nds, U15B, U14B Lacrosse Triangular Tournament v St Helens and St James, Home, U13 and U12 Netball also v St Helens, U13 and U14, Away, 9.15am Rugby v QE Barnet
Sun 6 Family Communion, 10am, School Uniform
Mon 7 Year 9 History / Art Study Day 1, Gym and Assembly Hall
Tue 8
Year 9 History / Art Study Day 2, Gym and Assembly Hall New staff training, 4pm5pm, Gr16 PSA Meeting 8pm Go2 Netball SAIL U12A and B v SJL, Away, 4pm
Wed 9Foundation and Company Directors Meeting, 6.30pm Senior Maths Challenge, p 1 and 2, Assembly Hall Careers in Art Evening for Y12 and Y11, Monk 3, 7.30pm
Thu 10Year 11 History Berlin Trip Departs early am Twilight Inset 2 Netball SAIL U13 and Senior v Royal Masonic, Away,, Away, 4.30pm
Fri 11Remembrance events, 11am Progress Review Issue Years 7,8,10,11,12,13 and Issue of Year 9 Report Boarders' Quiz Night
Sat 12 Lacrosse v Habs, Home, all teams Rugby v St Columba's College
Sun 13Year 11 History Berlin Trip Returns Remembrance Chapel, School Uniform, 9.30 am
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