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Elliott News - October 2008

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NEW
Please read the Headteacher's October letter
to Parents Carers and Students
 
 

Parent Governor Vacancy

Summary of our results

   

Extra Curricular activities announcements

 

 

 
Important Dates for your Diary : 
 
     
Tuesday 14th October   Year 9 SATs Information Evening
Monday 20th October   INSET DAY
Thursday 23rd October   6th Form Social Evening
   
Monday 27th - Friday 31st October  Half Term
Thursday 20th November   Year 11 into 12 Evening
Friday 21st November   Borough Professional Day - students stay at home
Thursday 27th November   Academic Review Day for KS4
    PHSE/Citizenship Day for KS3
Friday 28th November   Academic Review Day for KS3
    PHSE/Citizenship Day for KS4
Tuesday 9th December 6.30 p.m. Elliott Supporters 
Tuesday 16th December 6.30 p.m. Elliott Supporters Christmas Social
Friday 19th December 12.30 p.m. Term ends
Monday 5th January   Spring Term begins
     

 

 

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Our focus for the year is as follows:

v     Increasing student responsibility, leadership and voice

v     Preparing for our Buildings for the Future programme due to begin in September 2009

v     Continuing to improve Standards of Achievement for all students

v     Extending our ICT provision

v     Extending our International dimension as a Language College

v     Continuing to improve attendance and behaviour.

 

Over the next few months you will be hearing about how we aim to develop these areas and how you can participate and contribute to the decision making process.

Our website www.elliott-school.org.uk will be our main communication channel for keeping parents up to date with life at Elliott and gaining your thoughts and views on the developments at Elliott School.

The website is updated on a weekly basis with students and parents news, articles, thought for the week, recent achievements and new school policies.

We are currently launching our Good Behaviour Policy and Student Charter. Please find the details here.

This term, as usual has many events and activities arranged. Please find below a list of important dates. Additional events will be posted on the school website.

 

 

 

 

A Summary of our 2007 results

SATs

v     Year 9 produced the best ever Science results with 69% of our students achieving level 5+ and above

v     Our Mathematics results have gone from strength to strength with 71% of students achieving level 6+ and 46 students achieving level 6 and above

v     The English department’s level 5 and above score has risen by 7% from last year

v     These results provide our Year 9 students who have moved into Key Stage 4, with an excellent foundation for their GCSE courses. Well done.

GCSEs

v     Our GCSE results are the best yet in the school’s history surpassing our target

v     52% of our students achieved 5+ A*-C, an 8% increase from last year’s result

v     Our 5+ A*-C scores, including English and Maths were 43% which again surpasses our targets and places us in the top 25% of similar schools. Many of our students will be returning to our Sixth Form.

‘A’ Levels

v     The Sixth Form has continued to go from strength to strength achieving the following results:

o       A - E Grades 96%

o       A - C Grades 74%

o       A/B Grades 51%

v     These results have allowed the majority of our Sixth formers to secure places at top universities. 3 students have also achieved places at Oxford and Cambridge which is a major achievement.

Our success this year has all been due to the hard work and commitment of our students and the positive partnership which exists between home and school. Thank you for your support.

It is clear from these results that Elliott is living out its school motto -  ‘We Aspire to Excellence’.

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Elliott basking in early Autumn sun
 

We are very pleased to announce that the school has been awarded a Certificate
by the Specialist Schools and Academies Trust in recognition of our achievements
in 2007.
 
The presentation will take place at the SSAT celebratory dinner for the most
improved specialist schools and academies.
 
We fall into this category based on a 10 point increase in our  2007 5+A*-C  GCSE
results and 5*+A*-C with English and maths scores which hit the national average.
 
 
 
Ally Carnwath of The Observer on Elliott's musicians
 
Hot Chips off the old block
How one comprehensive has fostered a whole generation of cutting-edge pop
 
The real school of rock
Jonathan Brown and Lucy Kinnear report
 
View images from our EDL event
 
 Saturday October 11th view PDF
 

Elliott has just started a  partnership with Ndagani ­­secondary school in Chuka, Kenya, thanks to funding from DFID Global School Partnerships........read more

 

 
 
 
 
Have a look at our images
   
Activities Week - July 08
 
KS3 Graduation 2008

Our very successful and emotional KS3 Graduation Ceremony took place last Friday (July 4th) and culminated in the presentation of flower bouquets to our two "Students of the Year" Sarah Ehirim and Jake Taylor.

 

View a slide show of our Summer Festival

 
ELLIOTT SUCCESS
An extract from a letter to our Chair of Governors from Councillor Kathy Tracey, Cabinet Member, Children & Young People's Services, Wandsworth:

 

Dear Mr Clark

AWARDS CEREMONY - ELLIOTT SCHOOL

A report was presented at the Overview and Scrutiny Committee meeting on 4 March 2008 by the Director of Children and Young People's Services on schools^ which had achieved outstanding results in the end of Key Stage National Curriculum tests.

We would particularly wish to commend the fact that the school:

  • was the most improved school at Key Stage 3 since 2006

  • was the school whose results improved most between 2006 and 2007 in terms of Level 2 (5 or more passes at GCSE at grades A*-C)

I would like to congratulate you all, staff, pupils, governors and parents on this achievement. I would be delighted if you would be able to attend a presentation ceremony in the Town Hall, Marble Hall Reception, on 20 May 2008 at 4.30 p.m. to receive a certificate on behalf of the school as a mark of your success.

 

 

 
An opportunity to purchase this useful title:
GOING TO SECONDARY SCHOOL - 101 TIPS FOR PARENTS
BY JULIE CASEY M Ed
 
 
images from this year's A2 Art exams
 
Is it a Fender?.....Is it a Gibson?.........Find out!
 
Recent events in our Library
The Carnegie Award Shadowing Event
 

IMPORTANT - Please read the Headteacher's letter with regard to the school's expectations for correct uniform dress code.

 

Elliott has just started a  partnership with Ndagani ­­secondary school in Chuka, Kenya, thanks to funding from DFID Global School Partnerships.

DFID Global Partnerships promotes partnerships between schools in the UK and schools in Africa Asia Latin America and the Caribbean. It supports teachers and students from the UK and around the world to learn together about global development issues and to become active global citizens.

The scheme is funded by the Department for International Development (DFID) and delivered by a consortium of the British Council, Cambridge Education Foundation, UK One World Linking Association (UKOWLA) and Voluntary Service Overseas (VSO).

More information from http://www.dfid.gov.uk/funding/globalschools.asp 

For more press information: Please contact:

Kate Cleaver at DFID on 020 7023 1912 or Peter Jones, Head of geography at Elliott on 02087883421 prjonesy@hotmail.com

Two of our teachers, Mr Peter Jones and Miss Sinead Gooden, have just returned from visiting the school in Kenya, and teachers from Kenya have also just visited Elliott School.  The visit was to establish a partnership agreement, exchange and share ideas on education, curriculum and teaching and learning.

The two schools are working together on a shared curriculum project on development and environmental issues with a focus on the global dimension and sustainable development.  They are also working on a development plan to raise the achievement of female learners through peer mentoring.

Comments from teachers and students -

Ms Purity Muthone, Head teacher of Ndagani School:

“The students in Elliott School are very active in their learning and this is something we want to develop in our school”.

Mr John Nkari, Maths teacher of Ndagani school:

“We have learnt much from our partner school in terms of learning strategies.  We now need to make sure that this feeds into our curriculum”.

Mr Peter Jones, Head of Geography at Elliott:

“The visits have enabled a strong partnership to be developed where we will jointly develop strategies for learning and the curriculum…this is the beginning of a long and fruitful journey”.

Miss Sinead Gooden, Maths teacher at Elliott:

“I was amazed by the self motivation of students and the value held for education by all, despite very challenging circumstances”.

Student at Ndagani school (after being taught a lesson by Miss Gooden):

“I very much enjoyed the lesson, we were doing something all of the time”

Student at Elliott school:   “I want to visit Kenya!”

 
June 9th -Sports Day
"Our best ever"
VIEW SLIDE SHOW
  
 
Invitation to: 10th reunion of ex- Elliott historians
 
 
"This Year's Sports Day our best ever" Mrs Sharon Ferrell
 
 
VIEW SLIDE SHOW
  
Wednesday 14th. A scene from an emotional and action packed Sixth Form Prize Giving Assembly.
 
Our 2008 Student Leaders
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Feeling Good - Learning Well
Read all about it!
 
 

 

We are very pleased to announce that the school has been awarded a Certificate
by the Specialist Schools and Academies Trust in recognition of our achievements
in 2007.
 
The presentation will take place at the SSAT celebratory dinner for the most
improved specialist schools and academies.
 
We fall into this category based on a 10 point increase in our  2007 5+A*-C  GCSE
results and 5*+A*-C with English and maths scores which hit the national average.
 
Junior Football Organisers' Event 2008
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Events at Elliott School
The Elliott XL Groups’ Tea Party was a big success, with over 20 elderly people from a local nursing home attending. It was supported by a grant from the Prince’s Trust and held in the library. The visitors enjoyed conversation along with a cup of tea, sandwiches and cakes. We had a raffle with Easter eggs and flowers for prizes and there were several very happy winners. The tables were beautifully decorated with flower arrangements and the event was accompanied with light entertainment from a professional string quartet. We have established links with the events organisers at Ashmead Care Centre and are planning to hold further events.

 

Ally Carnwath of The Observer on Elliott's musicians
 
 
Hot Chips off the old block
How one comprehensive has fostered a whole generation of cutting-edge pop
Velkomin! Komš žiš sęll og blessašur!
 
 
Wednesday April 2nd 2008   See Details
Elliott students at the David Beckham Academy
 
clockwork -Year 9 Design and Technology
 
8.00am March 5th 2008. The school hall laid out in preparation for  Year 11 Science
Module Tests, marking the beginning of the Elliott Summer exam period.
 

posted06/12/07  Elliott 2007 Sports Days Records 

posted11/09/07 Please read and comment on our
Student Charter and Good Behaviour policy
posted11/01/08 PE Lessons - Notice to parents
   

posted14/11/07  

posted 09/11/07 European Day of Languages
   

 

mailings to parents

ELLIOTT MEMORIAL

Following Remembrance Sunday Elliott students participated in a week of Remembrance ceremonies at which wreaths of poppies were laid before the Elliott Memorial by representatives from each year group and by Eric Thompson for the former student group, the Old Elliottonians.

 

Here are two Year 7 students Keegan MacKintosh and Remi Dickinson. 

 

The names that appear on Elliott’s War Memorial are published in Thought for the Day issue 32,  November 12th 2007 and includes the story of one of Elliott’s Fallen, Geoff Cox.  

 

 

PRESTIGIOUS SCHOLARSHIP AWARDED TO ELLIOTT SCHOOL STUDENT 

 

ELLIOTT SPORTS NEWS

 

Great successes in the Wandsworth Athletics Championships with our best contestants moving on to the London Schools Athletics Championships at the Linford Christie Stadium.

READ OUR RESULTS

 

Oxbridge Success again at Elliott

Four students from Elliott’s unique Sixth Form have won offers to Oxford or Cambridge Universities in the December application process.  Gina Robinson’s offer is to do French at St Hugh’s College, Oxford, Deva Gilroy Sen is to read Maths and Philosophy at Pembroke College and Jamie Saunders Maths at Trinity College Cambridge.  In addition, Pablo Strong won a Choral Scholarship to St. John’s College, Cambridge.

These students join the prestigious list of forty three students in the last thirteen years who have gone to Oxford and Cambridge universities, a fine accolade to the traditions of excellence at Putney’s local comprehensive, Elliott School.

 

Elliott's Sixth Form 2007

 

2007 Year 10 GeographyTrip Photos

 

 

The Elliott School Library

A very exciting new section has just been added.

Read our students' book reviews

 

 

 

Student of the Year 2007

William Turner chosen as Student of the Year

on our Key Stage 3 Graduation day.

 

 

 

See more photos of our Summer fashion show.

Read what the Guardian said about the event.

 

 

More photos HERE

Our 2007 Sports Day a great success

despite the occasional shower

 

 

Please browse our recently updated PE pages

 

 

 

 

 

Visit our Art Gallery to view stunning new images

 

 

 

ACTIVITY WEEK - JULY 2007

Eurodisney....Thorpe Park....Chessington....Watch this space for more photos from our activity week trips!

 

What's cooking ? Find out HERE

 

 

 

Look at the results of the Socrates Survey

 

 

Photos from Language Trips

 

BTEC Art and Design

Sculpture and photography by Hannah O'Neill.

 

 

Extracting Kiwi fruit DNA

(Careful Science Investigation)

 

 

 

 

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