- Tuesday 22/11/11 Governors 'Students & Parents' committee meeting. 18.30
- Thursday 24/11/11 Year 10 consultation evening. 17.30 start.
On Saturday 12th November 5 year 8 students put on a concert in aid of Children in Need and raised over £450. They did all the preparation themselves with little teacher/parental input. The concert was excellent and made me proud to be their teacher and form tutor.
James Sunderland
Kids' Lit Quiz
On Wednesday evening CNS held the regional finals of the Kids' Lit Quiz - an international children's book quiz aimed at students aged from 10-13. It was a fierce competition with 25 teams from 13 different schools competing and yet from the 100 contestants our CNS B team of 4 year 8 students won! They really dazzled us with some superb literary knowledge, working incredibly hard as a team and accepted their moment of triumph with humble pride. They truly did CNS proud, as did our CNS A team who also did extremely well in the competition.
Extended Curriculum Week
A reminder that KS3 students should return their choices form by Monday 28th November.
Message from Mr Nixon
This term we have had a real focus on teaching and learning. Your child may have spoken to you about the CNS lesson. This is something put together by a group of staff on the training day at the beginning of this term. In all classrooms there is a CNS lesson - it is made up of: challenge, making progress, participation, responsibility and variety. The aim is there should be consistency across all lessons and that all the headings should have an input from teacher and students. In our drive to raise standards it is important that the quality of teaching is at the very centre of it and the quality of learning from students. The improved behaviour policy is clearly having an impact and there are a huge number of professional development programmes taking place throughout the school year for different groups. Our aim as you know is to become a good and then outstanding school, and this is achievable. We are looking to develop teaching and learning continually; to learn from each other and by doing that give every student a high quality experience. We have also now carried out surveys from students, staff and parents and you will soon receive a copy of the parental survey. We are using this to get information as to what you see the areas we are working well on and the areas we need to develop and improve. The same also for students and staff. I have no doubt that by working together we will achieve our vision of CNS not only being a good school and onto outstanding but also having a national reputation for excellence in teaching.
30/11/11 Possible school closure
Due to the strike scheduled for 30/11/11 we may have to close the school. Further details will be issued nearer the time as the exact position becomes clearer.
