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2016 B WEEK

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Options Process The Year 8 and 9 options processes are underway with launch assemblies and our Options Evening on Wednesday 9th March. Year 9 students have already had their interviews to discuss their choices and the Year 8 interviews start next week and will run until Thursday 24th March.

The Year 8 Options Process The Year 8 into 9 options process is the start of an important and exciting phase in your education. For the first time in their school lives, students will be able to personalise parts of their curriculum by making individual choices from a range of options subjects. Over the next few weeks, students will receive a lot of advice and guidance to help them make informed decisions; these decisions will not only shape their Year 9 curriculum at Ilkley Grammar School, but will also help to support the decision making process when they select their final GCSE options next year.

There’s a saying: ‘If you don’t know where you’re going, you’ll end up somewhere else’. We want students to choose courses which will extend their knowledge and skills, courses they will find interesting and challenging whilst offering you real opportunities for success. They should support your progression to GCSE and help meet their career needs and aspirations at Post 16 and beyond. Our Year 9 curriculum is ambitious, aspirational and is designed to provide opportunities for all students to achieve.

Deadline for the return of Year 8 Options Forms: Wednesday 13th April 2016

The Year 9 Options Process Last year, students were given the opportunity to personalise part of their Year 9 curriculum in line with their interests, abilities and aspirations. This curriculum flexibility was created to help further develop their knowledge and skills in subjects which they were considering for GCSE, allowing specialisation alongside the chance to experience new subjects which were previously only available in Years 10 and 11. Consequently, their experiences this year should help to inform some of their decisions as they start another important and exciting phase in their education: The Key Stage 4 options process. Students have already received lots of advice and guidance to help them make appropriate choices from a range of option subjects; these decisions will not only shape their time at Ilkley Grammar School, but they will also affect their future lives.

Our Key Stage 4 curriculum is ambitious, aspirational and is designed to provide opportunities for all students to achieve. In order to ensure breadth and balance, all students must follow a core curriculum of English Language, English Literature, mathematics and Combined Science (covering physics, chemistry and biology) which leads to 5 GCSEs. Students must also continue to study PE as part of promoting an active, healthy lifestyle, as well as a programme of Citizenship/RE to ensure spiritual, moral and cultural development.

Deadline for the return of Year 9 Options Forms: Wednesday 16th March 2016

National Careers Week is here…

this year is all about future jobs! Happy National Careers Week! It is often said that students entering secondary education now will have jobs that may not have even been invented or created yet. Hold on to that thought. The future is about personal skills and their portability and this is reason Careers week (#NCW2016 ) is dedicated to Future Jobs. Have a look at the National Careers Week digital magazine for more news and advice.

Click here for more information on Careers Week

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Wheelchair Basketball Wheelchair basketball is one of the largest Paralympic sports, with its roots going back to the late 40s. Although initially a rehabilitation and recreational activity for spinal cord injured patients, it quickly developed into a competitive sport and today, the National Wheelchair Basketball League consists of sixty five teams playing in 9 divisions.

Wheelchair basketball embraces a wide range of disabilities including paraplegics, spina bifida, amputees, brittle bones, cerebral palsy and multiple sclerosis. Able bodied players are eligible to play in divisions 1, 2, 3 and 4, junior league and women's league.

Ben Smithson (10JDA) plays wheelchair basketball and started his basketball career training with the Leeds Spiders in January 2008 aged just 7 years old. He played his first competitive tournament two years later aged 9 and a year later he got his own sports wheelchair. In October 2012, Ben was selected to play for Yorkshire U15s at Stoke Mandeville. This was an amazing experience for him, and the team, who came away with a bronze medal. In 2015, Ben was again selected to play for the Yorkshire U15s, this time in Worcester, and again the team came away with a bronze medal. In September 2015, Ben changed teams and now plays for Wakefield Whirlwinds. The newly formed team had a great season and played their first set of tournaments together. Ben is hoping to again play for Yorkshire in August 2016. Last week, representatives from Great Britain’s Wheelchair Basketball Association came into school to deliver wheel chair basketball sessions to Ben’s Year 10 core PE class.

Left to right: Ben Smithson, Mr Peltier and Steve Greatorex form GBWBA

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The Year 10 class were taught the basic skills of wheelchair basketball and were also given a quick rundown on how to control a wheelchair. It was great fun with the boys learning some key skills in this exciting sport.

Basic Skills of Wheelchair Basketball The boys were taught the correct way of performing shooting, passing, catching, etc. in a wheelchair, with the coach reinforcing that to be a successful player, one of the main aims must be to perform these skills consistently and well. The initial training drills included wheelchair tig, where Mr Goodbold was caught easily! The boys then went on to practise their speed and agility in games of bulldog. There was plenty of time to get used to the wheelchairs before the basketballs were introduced into the lesson, which gave the class time to hone their skills...although stopping was proving quite difficult for some of them!

Chair Control It was explained to the students that in defence wheelchair basketball players must keep their chair touching their attacker and the footplate must be two or three inches in front of the attacker so that they cannot push past.

Control of the chair is key and students were shown how to watch the position of their opponents hands on their wheels (they will tell you what direction they will attempt to go in next). Students were told the key to becoming the master of their chair - sit in it and remain on top of it! For defence and attack skills the boys were encouraged to practise 'one on one' and told to get used to moving, or threatening to move, immediately after they had passed the ball. Attacking manoeuvres were also covered in the session, faking one way, then moving the other.

Basketball is a game of brains not brawn and also a team game. The Year 10 boys were encouraged to call for help, reminding them that their other players, the bench and the coach were all in it together. The coaching session was a great opportunity to appreciate the skills required for this exciting sport...and for the boys to see one of their classmates in action!

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Record Score for U13 Cricket Team Congratulations to our U13 cricketers who achieved an all-time record score in the U13 indoor cricket county semi-finals finals at St Bede’s, Bradford. The eight-a-side, eight over format requires batters to retire on fifteen in order to allow as many players as possible experience in the middle. Against their first opponents, Wakefield, Ilkley openers Max Rogers and James Patchett laid the foundations expertly before duly giving way to Arthur Turner, Josh Hall and Isaac Luffman who all continued to score heavily. Finally, Will Hughes, Tom Hills and Rhys Samuels raised Ilkley’s total to a staggering 188 for 2 in 8 overs at a rate of 23.5 runs per over. This proved overwhelming as Ilkley’s bowlers and fielders restricted the Wakefield representatives to 47 for 6. Ilkley’s next task was take on hosts, St Bede’s, and they quickly got into their stride to produce another impressive 134 for 2 before bowling out the Bradford school for 77. The boys now progress to their third consecutive county finals at Headingley on March 18th in very confident mood. The successful squad was: Max Rogers (8ASH); James Patchett (8MEH); Arthur Turner (8MH); Josh Hall (8ASH); Isaac Luffman (8MEH); Will Hughes (8MEH); Tom Hills (8MEH); Harry Strachan (8LNR) and Rhys Samuels (8LNR).

Well done to our Year 9 rugby team who took on Rodillian Academy on Thursday 3rd March. They performed brilliantly, securing a well deserved win, with the match ending IGS 41—29 Rodillian. Our Year 7 team took part in the White Rose Schools’ Rugby Series matches on Monday 7th March winning two out of their three games. The results were: IGS 20 v 0 South Craven, IGS 25 v 5 Skipton and IGS 0 v 15 Settle.

Well done to our Year 7 and 8 hockey teams who played South Craven School on Thursday 3rd March. Both teams won their match with the final scores:

Year 7 IGS 5-0 South Craven Year 8 IGS 5-0 South Craven

Rugby Success

Congratulations to our Year 7 netball B team who won both of their first emerging league games on Wednesday night. The scores were;

Ilkley 13-1 Beckfoot School Player of the Match: Ella Butcher (7DJJ) Ilkley 11-0 University Academy, Keighley Player of the Match: Sara Weller (7AW)

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Bravo to Alexander Wright (11JLF) who recently starred in Guiseley Amateur Operatic Society's (GAOS) production of 'Footloose'. It was Alexander's first senior show with the society as he only had his 16th birthday two weeks before the start of the show. In recognition of his performance in the twin roles of Travis and Jetter he was presented with the David Baxter Rosebowl as the most promising newcomer to the society by GAOS Chairman Chris Ingram.

Congratulations to our synchronised swimming instructor, Mrs Gooch, who’s commitment to sport has been recognised in the Leeds Sports’ Awards. Mrs Gooch picked up her award, ‘Outstanding Service to Sport’, at the presentation ceremony on Thursday 3rd

March at the New Dock Hall, Clarence Dock, in Leeds.

The event saw VIP guests and sporting heroes, city councillors and sporting partners from across the city come together with a host of individuals involved in sport at every level to truly celebrate Leeds’ sporting achievements. The Leeds Sports’ Awards has a proven record of being one of the greatest sporting events in the city's calendar and we are delighted and proud to hear that one of your coaches was an awardee!

Well done and good luck to gymnasts Ella Shuttleworth (8AMB) and Hayley Brooks (11JI) who have qualified to represent Yorkshire at the British Sports Acrobatics in May. The girls displayed their impressive routine on Tuesday to their fellow PE classmates...good luck girls!

Alexander Wright (left) receiving his award from GAOS Chairman Chris Ingram (right)

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Congratulations to our Year 7 girls’ athletics team who competed in the West Yorkshire School Games Sportshall Athletics finals last Thursday afternoon. They came 7th out of 10 teams. The girls again represented the school brilliantly, and should be extremely proud of their success and making it to the West Yorkshire finals.

Well done to our cross country runners who represented West Yorkshire in the ESAA National Cross Country Championship last weekend. This championship is the most eagerly anticipated event of the winter bringing together the best athletes in each of the 45 counties in England to compete for the honour of being the best in the country. The event took place on Saturday 5th March at Wollaton Park in Nottingham and our runners achieved the following results:

The West Yorkshire junior boys’ team came 28th and included Robbie Matthews (9PB) finishing in a time of 17 mins 58 seconds.

The inter boys’ team finished 38th and the squad included Cameron Reilly (10JB) who crossed the line in 20 mins and 9 seconds.

The junior girls were helped to 18th position by an impressive run from Bethan Morley (9PDH), who stormed home in 13th place with a scorching time of 13 minutes and 9 seconds.

West Yorkshire senior girls raced brilliantly finishing 3rd with Jemima Elgood (12RN) racing home 73rd with a time of 18 minutes and 17 seconds and Sarah Pickering (12TG) 116th in 18 minutes and 46 seconds.

292

Robbie Matthews

WYorks

17:58

Top row, left to right: Neve Tunney (7DJJ), Harriet Foyston (7AW), Charlotte Elston (7TJB), Sara Weller (7AW). Bottom row, left to right: Mia Allan (7JWK), Lucy Harrison (7AW) and Amelia Gibbons (7DJJ)

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The gala included: Team Breaststroke (4x25m); Team Front Crawl (4x25m); Team Backstroke (4x25m); Individually Medley and the Canons race, where one boy and girl from each age group swam 10x25m in breastroke or front crawl. Finalised results will be provided in two weeks time after the other heats and we will then see if we have progressed to the finals. Overall, there were some stand out individual and team performances. Our Year 8 boys won all their races, the Year 9 and 10 teams finished 2nd in all there races, the Year 11 boys came 2nd in the breaststroke relay and 1st in both freestyle and backstroke. The Year 11 girls finished 1st in their backstroke race, 2nd in the breaststroke and 2nd in the front crawl. The Canon races were a closely fought out affair and IGS finished 2nd losing narrowly to Tadcaster Grammar School in both the breaststroke and front crawl. The girls Year 10 and 11 team came 2nd in both the breaststroke and freestyle relays and came 1st in the backstroke relay and the Year 7 boys won the front crawl and breaststroke and finished 2nd in the backstroke A big thank you to Joanne Williamson (13EM) who acted as a coach for both the boys and girls making sure students got to their races on time.

Well done to all the students who took part in the Leeds and District Schools’ Swimming Heats on Tuesday night. Thirty students in total took part in a fantastic evening of swimming.

Year 7 Florrie Pickering (7TJB) Nathen Coy (7FEA)

Lotti Ridgway (7AW) Angus Twigger (7JWK)

Jiska Evans (7TJB) Ashley Leach (7FEA)

Christine Bye (7TJB) Lucas Walton (7AWD)

Harriet Foyston (7AW) Alex Jowett (7FEA)

Mia Allan (7JWK) Isobel Reynolds (7JWK)

Scarlett Spoerry (7DJJ)

Year 8 Becca Ashelford (8RRG) Adam Hind (8RRG)

Libby Ives (8RRG) George Smith (8AMB)

Tom Jackson (8AMB) Archie Minto (8AMB)

Adam Mitchell (8AMB)

Year 9

Alice Rodley (9PB) Dom Coy (9SP)

Caitlin Ives (9DSF) Tom Williams (9LG)

Maddy Morris (9SP) Gemma Winslade (9SP)

Year 10

Esme Pearce (10LV) Cameron Reilly (10JB)

Bea Waller (10MEK)

Year 11

Emma Jones (10JLF) Sam Naylor (11HGW)

Francesca Woodman (11CT) George Wilde (11JLF)

Callum Graham (11BJS)

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Congratulations to our Year 7 hockey team who competed the Bradford Grammar School tournament on Tuesday evening.

The girls played incredibly well with the games ending: IGS 3—0 South Craven, IGS 0—0 Rishworth, IGS 3—0 Prince Henry's, IGS 2—0 Bradford Grammar C, IGS 1—0 Bradford Grammar B and IGS 0—3 Bradford Grammar A.

The team finished 3rd overall, a fantastic achievement.

Well played to all girls involved, left to right: Amelia Gibbons (7DJJ); Sophie Smeaton (7DJJ); Lucy Harrison (7FEA); Evie Parker (7TJB); Neve Tunney (7DJJ); Lucy Tarring (7GS/JMP); Katie Hills (7GS/JMP) and Lucy Pickles - goalkeeper (7FEA).

Pop Maths Quiz The Pop Maths Quiz took place at Leeds University last weekend, with teams from Year 7 and 8 competing for top maths honours. Our teams finished an impressive 5th and 6th with one of our teams being only 2 points from winning overall!

Those that took part were: Ashley Leach (7FEA); Charlotte Elston (7TJB); Angus Lovell (7AW); Charlotte McCarthy (7JWK); Angus Twigger (7JWK); Emma Whitaker-Pitts (8MH); Josh Hall (8ASH); Ella Shuttleworth (8AMB); Polly Bridges (8RRG); Alex Harlen (8LNR); Matthew Abel (8ELC) and Adam Mitchell (8AMB).

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Intermediate Maths Challenge An excellent achievement by Emmot Finch (9DSF) in this year's Intermediate Maths Challenge saw him qualify for the Olympiad stage of the competition. Qualification into the Olympiad round means that Emmot was one of the best 500 high scorers in the UK this year! Well done Emmot. Ten of our other students qualified for the interestingly named ‘Kangaroo’ round - the name sounds strange, but recognises the fact that the organisation was inspired by the Australian Mathematics Trust. They are: Charlie Franks (11HGW); Jamie Spiller (10KL), Nathan Foster (10MWC), Ellie Cooper (10JDA); Imogen Brodaty (10LV); Krizzler Cree (9SL); Amelia Milner (9PDH); James Holmes (9DSF); Finlay Tunney (9LG) and Nathaniel Richardson (9PB). Well done to all our outstanding mathematicians. All this good news is a great way for us to mark Pi Day which, don't forget, is of course March 14th!

Congratulations to our U13 netball teams who took part in the Bradford District Schools’ U13 Netball tournament at Bradford Grammar School on Monday evening. The girls performed really well and the B team finished 4th after just beating our A team in the last match, meaning the B team finished in 5th.

Well done to: Stef Rose (8LNR); Lily Dobson (8LNR); Libby Ives (8RRG); Charlie Murray (8MEH); Ella Hammond (8ELC); Ella Shuttleworth (8AMB); Erin Turner (8RRG); Emily Mayo (8MEH); Milly Parker (8LNR); Hannah Corbett (8MEH); Abby Lane (8ASH); Jess Wells (8MEH); Ide Gale-Coleman (8AMD); Bernadette Raven (8PO); Alice Kealey (8ASH); Ella Hyde (8AMD); Cerys Richards (8MEH); Emma Whitaker-Pitts (8MH); Louise Steer (8ELC) and Libby Madden (8MEH).

Emmot Finch (9DSF)

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…IGS SPORT…IGS SPORT…IGS SPORT…IGS SPORT…IGS SPORT…IGS SPORT…IGS SPORT…

A SPORT CLUBS

MONDAY

14th

March

U16 + Senior netball training (SB)

Y11 Football V Benton Park (A)

U13 Hockey Tournament @ South Craven

Y8 Football CV4 @ PHGS

U12, 13+15 Netball @ Bradford Grammar

TUESDAY

15th

March

Rugby Training Y7 - 10 @ IRUFC (ACF)

Football Y7 @ IGS fields 3.15-4.30. (RB)

U12 Netball Tournament @ Bradford Grammar

Football U19 v AG (H)

Y10 Football V St Marys, Menston (A)

WEDNESDAY

16th

March

Y11, 12, 13 mixed hockey, Sportshall, 12.30-1.15pm (JH)

Synchronised Swimming, 2.15-3.20pm

Rugby Training Y11 – 1XV @ IRUFC (ACF)

THURSDAY

17th

March

Girls’ Football @ Ben Rhydding Astroturf 3.15-4.30pm (LV)

Y7, 9, 11 RUGBY @ IRUFC 3.30-5pm (ACF, MWC)

U14+U15 Netball training 3.15-4.30pm (FA)

Y9 Football CV @ Horsforth

U12 Hockey V Guiseley @ IGS

FRIDAY

18th

March

Sports’ Leader Training @ Astro 3.15-5.00pm

@ilkleygrammarPE

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Alcohol Community Action Partnership (CAP) We mentioned a few weeks ago, in Headline, our involvement in the Alcohol Community Action Partnership. Andy Calvert (Assistant Headteacher) has attended the initial CAP meeting and we have a Parent Information Evening planned, covering Drugs and Alcohol with our CAP partners, on Wednesday 23rd March, 6.30pm—8pm. Please put this date in your diary, everyone is welcome to attend.

CAP activity is determined locally but will generally encourage and include a focus on education, enforcement, public perception, communication, diversionary activity and evaluation. Here is a quick guide to how the CAP schemes operate.

Education Education is key to raising awareness about the law relating to young people and alcohol and the impact of underage alcohol consumption on individuals and society. CAP encourages education of young people, adults and retailers.

Enforcement An essential part of CAP involves enforcement of the laws relating to young people and alcohol including purchase of alcohol by under 18s, sale to under 18s, drinking by under 18s in public places and proxy or agent purchase. Compliance testing is an integral part of any CAP and usually takes place several times in the life of a CAP to provide benchmarking activity and monitor the success, or otherwise, of retailer training.

Public Perception It is important that where schemes are successful in reducing crime and anti-social behaviour in a designated area, local people feel safer as a result. Surveys of local people carried out prior to and after the pilot phase are a good way to gauge any changes in public opinion.

Communication CAP has developed a range of materials which can be adapted as required to suit the needs of local schemes. Schemes are encouraged to make use of these communication tools and to make use also of local radio, local press, social networking media, residents’ meetings etc - to try and ensure that the community understands CAP and is fully engaged and involved.

Diversionary Activity Provision of a range of activities for young people is positively encouraged to ensure that young people have fun, healthy things to do that do not involve alcohol. Diversionary activities have included provision of sports using existing leisure and sports facilities, using youth clubs or “Youth buses” and local cafes to provide opportunities for young people to drop in and meet in a supervised, safe environment.

Evaluation Evaluation is a mandatory part of each CAP scheme. CAP encourages use of the evaluation "toolkit" developed by London Met University which is available in a restricted area of the website (Login area) for registered CAP schemes and encourages collection of data on key indicators. Examples of evaluated data includes local crime and anti-social behaviour statistics, levels of alcohol-related litter, hotspot drinking areas, complaints and incidents reported to partner agencies, ambulance pick-ups for underage alcohol related incidents, hospital admission for under 18s and public perception surveys.The measurement of progress throughout the pilot allows the management team to monitor effectiveness of the action plan activities, and provides firm data for final evaluation.

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Shaping the Future of Education Last week saw the leading education exhibition and conference in the Middle East, GESS. Hosted at the Work Trade Centre in Dubai, the conference brought together over 10,000 educational professionals from 45 countries. The purpose: to help teachers, educators and academics to develop their skills and gain insight from international experts to develop their practical teaching methods. Ilkley Grammar School was selected as a lead school to present within the digital education strand. Tuesday saw Miss Brides, Mr Calvert and a group of KS3 and KS5 students present our Computing curriculum to delegates at the conference. Students spoke articulately about their learning and the programming concepts they had mastered, throughout their schooling. KS3 students demonstrated their coding skills using: Touch Develop for the BBC Micro:bit; Scratch to create retro games; HTML and CSS to create websites and Javascript to mock the effect of a computer virus. The girls from our KS3 coding club did an excellent job of showing their sophisticated joke machines, coded with Python and the Tkinter module to create a graphical user interface. Our KS5 developers, showed off the apps created using X-Code and Apple’s Swift language, whilst they tested the apps’ functionality on their iPads.

Miss Brides and Mr Calvert Getting ready to ‘go

live’ to Dubai

Year 7s demonstrating on the digital education stage -

Curiouser and Curiouser

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Wednesday saw us delivering again during the ‘Curiouser and Curiouser’ session. Year 7 students explored the use of Makey Makey boards to act as computer inputs that would interact with their Scratch coded, space invaders game. This demonstrated their creativity to use themselves, fruit and graphite to conduct electricity and use a range of objects to act as a joypad or keyboard.

Over to our Year 8’s on Thursday who showed the use of technology in Science during the ‘Creativity Projects’ session. Students have been using StopMotion and Google Classroom to demonstrate their understanding of chemical titrations and modelling electric current.

This was a fantastic team effort from all staff and students involved. We were proud to show the world what we can achieve together and the difference technology can make to our progress!

Post 16 explaining their programming projects to

the conference in Dubai

Our Computer Science Team

Year 8 students showcasing the use of technology in Science

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Our Year 7 and 8 netballers were lucky enough to be coached by 2 Yorkshire Jets players Lydia Walker and Jess Shaw this week. The Yorkshire Jets are one of eight UK netball teams who play in the Vitality Netball Superleague. Comprising players from across Yorkshire and the Humber, the squad includes athletes who have been selected for England U17, U19, U21 and Senior squads. The Jets run an Athlete Development Programme, which launched last year, to identify, nurture and develop the next generation of players with the potential to grow into Superleague and England stars of the future.

After trials in the Autumn involving hundreds of girls from across the region, around 75 girls were selected for the Junior programme, for ages 11 to 13, and the Youth programme, for ages 14 to 19. The Programme sits alongside the England Netball pathway run by Yorkshire Netball and the Counties...maybe some of our netballers had their eye on a slot for next season?

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Join up and join, our next PTA meeting is on Tuesday 15th March, 7pm at The Wheatley. They will be discussing the auction, car

boots and any other ideas for fundraising.

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Good luck to our Year 7 readers who are starting

their Readathon next Monday for the last two

weeks of term, plus over the Easter holidays.

They can read as much as

they want, raise as much as they can for children’s

charities, and above all, enjoy spending time with

books!

CASUAL LUNCHTIME SUPERVISOR Scale point 14 - £8.41 per hour Term Time Only

We require, as soon as possible, 6 Lunchtime Supervisors, working one hour each day, to help supervise our students at school during the lunch

hour. Various patterns are available from 3 to 5 lunchtimes per week. You will be working with a team of experienced supervisors and senior staff at the school, and under direction of the Lunchtime Manager. The lunch break is from 12.30pm to 1.25pm each day. Please note, these posts are term time only and no holidays can be taken outside our calendared school holidays. Closing date for applications: 8am Wednesday 16th March with provisional interview date: week commencing 21st March 2016. For further details, including our specific application requirements for this post, please visit our school website www.ilkleygrammarschool.com

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Lunch Menu Week Three

MON TUES WED THU FRI

Beef and Mixed Bean

Chilli and Spicy Rice

Sausage and Mash with

Caramelised Onion

Meat Balls with Spicy

Tomato Sauce and

Penne Pasta

Battered Cod Tartar Sauce and

Lemon Wedges

Roast Turkey

Veggie Spicy Layered

Tortilla and Mixed Bean Bake with Spicy Rice

Veggie Roast Veg and

Mozzarella Stacks with a Tomato Basil

Sauce

Veggie Spinach and

Ricotta Cannelloni

Veggie Red Onion

and Mushroom

Frittata

Veggie Aubergine

Stuffed with Sweet Potato,

Feta and Roasted

Pepper with Pesto Sauce

Classic Bolognese

Chilli Con

Carne Rice Pot

Chicken Tikka Rice Pot

Herby Tomato

Pasta Pot

Ricotta Tortellini

Sweet & Sour

Chicken Noodle Pot

Five Bean Chilli Rice

Pot

Chicken Cacciatore Pasta Pot

Vegetable Stir Fry

Noodle Pot

Pasta Carbonara

Tomato

Leek and Potato

Tomato

Leek & Potato

Tomato

Cheese & Ham Panini

Margherita

Pizza

Margherita Pizza

BBQ Chicken

Wrap

Pizza Style Panini

Cheese and Ham Toastie

Margherita Pizza

Tikka Flat

Bread

Selection of Pizzas &

Panini’s

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RYLA Residential Course - An excellent opportunity to develop leadership skills. A financially supported week’s outdoor residential course where you will be part of some exciting outdoor challenges. The Wharfedale Rotary Club have financially supported IGS students through this opportunity for the past 5 years. Find out more and pick up an application at the Post 16 Office. Course 1 - Sunday 24th July to Friday 29th July, Course 2 Sunday 31st July to Friday 5th August

MFL Private Tutoring: Our FLAs are willing to do some extra one to one conversations sessions prior to the AS and A2 oral exams. These must be made privately with either Caroline or Raquel but they are excellent value at £10 for half hour intensive sessions. Students my=ust contact them directly if theyare interested.

STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics): Summer Schools available at the University of Leeds http://www.stem.leeds.ac.uk/events/summer-schools/

Ogden Trust Scholarships: The Ogden Trust sponsors students of outstanding scientific ability wishing to read for a physics, or related, degree at a leading British university. Find out more at http://www.ogdentrust.com/schools-partnerships/ogden-guide-to-university-finances

Study Abroad: Information day at Sunday 20th March at The Hilton Hotel, Leeds 11-4pm https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/study-abroad-information-day-tickets-20862236511

Computer Science Graduate Showcase: University of Bradford, Friday 11th April 3.00-6.00pm. Email for more information - Computing-FYP@bradford.ac.uk

Investment2020: Interested in a career in Finance? Training Programmes available with Investment2020 here

BestCourseForMe.com: Need to research what the best course is for you at University? Check out this website http://educationeconnect.co.uk/educationLZ//lz.aspx?p1=0531020811S1042&CC=&p=0

On Friday 18th March, we are hosting a Queens College Cambridge University Roadshow. It will be the 10th year of hosting the event. It is designed to inspire students to further their education at one of the best universities in the world and also to explain that it is accessible to all. Current students will be leading the seminars.

Year 10 seminar : ‘Why Cambridge University and the Student Experience’ K2 9.35-10.25am

Year 11 seminar: ‘How to access Cambridge University—The next steps’ K2 8.40-9.30am Students who are targeted the highest grades are encouraged to apply for a place on the seminar by emailing post16@ilkleygs.co.uk to register.

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Bradford School of Art are offering some

fantastic free workshops and clubs at

weekends. They also have an Open Day

on 19th March...more information is

available at www.bradfordcollege.ac.uk/

events/saturday-clubs

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Dinner Time Rota (No Bags in B Hall)

Sitting 1 12.30pm

Sitting 2 From 12.40pm

Sitting 3 Not before 12.45pm

Year 9 Packed Lunch Area: D Floor Social Area

Year 8 N4 and N8

Year 7 N3 and N6

Dates for the Diary

March Tuesday 15 Year 10/11 Cambridge Roadshow PTA Meeting, 7pm at The Wheatley Thursday 17 Coutances Visitors arrive Friday 18 Year 10 Artist in Residence Year 6 Art of Maths 1.30pm Tuesday 15 Year 10/11 Cambridge Roadshow Wednesday 16 Year 12 Oxbridge Convention Thursday 17 Coutances Visitors arrive Friday 18 Year 10 Artist in Residence Year 6 Art of Maths 1.30pm Tuesday 22 Year 13 Parents’ Evening Wednesday 23 PIE—Alcohol and Drugs (CAP) Thursday 24 Coutances visitors leave School closes for Easter

Easter Holiday: Friday 25th March—Friday 8th April Ski Trip: Saturday 26th March—Sunday 3rd April

April Monday 11 School opens

Look at our full school calendar here

Term Dates

SPRING TERM 2016

Thursday 24 Mar School closes

Easter Holiday: Friday 25th March— Friday 8th April

SUMMER TERM 2016

Monday 11 April School re-opens

Monday 2 May May Day School closed

Friday 27 May School closes

Half term: Monday 30th May— Friday 3rd June

Monday 6 June School re-opens

Friday 1 July Training Day (school closed)

Wednesday 20 July School Closes 1.30pm

Summer Holiday: Thursday 21st July— Monday 5th September

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