School News - Week beginning 9th September

Welcome
Hello and welcome to your e-echo. If you are new to the school, this is the weekly newsletter which is written mainly for parents and pupils. Please note the important dates coming up and if you have any comments, please email:

e.humphries@cns-school.org.

Elizabeth Humphries

Communications Lead, CNS

Message from Headteacher Jim Nixon

Welcome back to the new school year. I hope that your children have made the most of a beautifully warm and sunny break. At the start of a new school year, I always look forward to welcoming the new Year 7 and 12 students to CNS and catching up with the many students returning after their holiday.

 For our new students, the daunting prospect of getting lost and arriving late to lesson has been greatly reduced by the huge amount of support that staff and existing students have offered in guiding them in the right direction. This goes to show what a great community we have at CNS and helps the students to know that they are welcomed and cared for by us all.

We look forward to a very positive and successful year.

 Jim Nixon

 Important dates coming up in September

School photographer at CNS               Wednesday 11^th September
Y13 Prizegiving                                   Wednesday 11^th September, 7pm-9.30pm
Y7 and Y12 Welcome evening            Thursday 12^th September, 6pm-7pm
Y10 GCSE evening                               Thursday 19^th September, 6pm-7pm
Y7 Introduction to Sport at CNS          Monday 23^rd September, 3.30pm-4.30pm
Y12 Prizegiving                                   Thursday 26^th September, 7pm-9pm

 This week

Tuesday 10^th               
After school clubs       GCSE Computer Science Club, 3-5pm room 201
Wednesday 11^th          School photographer here
Evening                       Yr 13 Prizegiving 6pm-9.30pm
Thursday 12^th             
Evening                       Yr 7 and Y12 Welcome Evening, 6pm-8.30pm
Friday 13^th                  
After school                 We will rock you rehearsals 3.15pm-6pm ARC

 Sports activities after school :  Autumn Term 2013

Mondays                     Volleyball, Sports Hall
Tuesdays                     Rugby, Year 8/9, Field
                                  Dance
                                  Badminton Club, All years,
Wednesdays               Rugby, Year10/11 Field
                                 Netball, Years 8-10
Thursday                     Netball, Years 7
                                     Dance 2

Football Clubs after school : for team selection and practice

Tuesdays                     Yr 7      Mr.Lee
                                     Yr 8      Mr.Clarke
                                  Yr 10    Mr.Sprake
Thursdays                    Yr 9      Mr.Collard
                                      Y11 and Sixth Form Mr.Pratt
Other Clubs
There are several other clubs at lunchtime and after school at CNS. A full list will be published shortly.

The CNS Summer Holiday Great Gorilla Challenge

For year 6-7 students and our new year 8s.
Did you complete the summer holiday gorilla challenge?
The prize is a £20 gift voucher, prize per House per year group.
Let Ms Cater know.

 Work related learning

At the end of the summer term, Year 10 pupils carried out work experience at various places. There were some very positive reports from businesses including:

“Fantastic , enthusiastic attitude, caring and thoughtful to people.” Roys Ltd

“We were very pleased with all four students who were very willing to complete the tasks they were given each day.” Avenue Junior School
“Communication and work ethic are exceptional.” Lotus Cars Ltd
“Excellent, mature, enthusiastic, keen” BT
“Best work experience pupil we’ve had.” The Reading Rooms
“Can I keep him? Has excelled and exceeded all expectations” Homebase
“A real joy to have, a good balance between confidence and assured authority.”






















We Will Rock You
CNS trip from summer term, written by Ilke Swanepoel

 On Thursday July 11th the cast of the 2013 CNS Musical ‘Schools Will Rock You’ spent the afternoon and evening at the Dominion theatre in the West End watching ‘We Will Rock You’.

Having 46 students attending the trip and sharing one coach, we made the journey more bearable by entertaining the staff with our renditions of Queens greatest hits! The cast and I were buzzing with excitement from the minute we got on the coach, to the end, when we arrived at school at 1:30am!

 We had already rehearsed a couple of times before watching the show but the staff had decided to take us onto this trip so that we were able to observe how our characters were played by the professionals. This gave us an opportunity to learn new things about our characters and with our improved perceptions of the characters we hope to impress with our own performances in December. By going on this trip, although intimidated by the amazing works of the professionals, we are more excited than ever to get on with our own production.

I found the performance that we watched to be exceptional and was quite astonished to find a few of the leads were understudies. Throughout the duration of the musical, students were interacting with the actors when needed to and were emotionally attached from beginning to end. The cast are now looking forward to working together during the first term back. We are also excited to put our own ideas into the play and make it spectacular and fun to watch. I would like say a huge thank you, on behalf of the cast to all the staff that came on the trip and that are currently helping us to make our musical, we all appreciate your effort and dedication towards this.