- 21/3/12 Guidance Day 3.
- 22/3/12 Parents Forum 7-8.30 6th Form Common Room
- 30/3/12 Year 7 Reports home.
- 2/4/12 Easter holiday starts.
A bit about the CNS Association (CNSA)
CNS had a thriving school association for many years. During this time it raised funds for a range of resources, for example picnic tables, and lighting and drapes for the Arc. Recently CNSA has not been active, but this is about to change with your help!
The recent pet show was a starter event for a revived CNSA. The next step will be to hold an Annual General Meeting to appoint a committee, review finances and to plan some events for the benefit of our students and their families, and for the wider community in which the school resides.
Alison Coyle will be speaking for a few minutes about CNSA at the Parents Forum next Thursday 22 March, 7-8.30pm in the Sixth Form Common Room. Details of the AGM will follow in the e-Echo.
CNSA Pet Show: Friday 9 March 2012
Last Friday evening the Arc was host to a wide variety of local pets from Dr Skinny, the stick insect to Lady, the goose, and Colin Eggles the boiled egg! This fun pet show was the first CNSA event of the year and raised £145 for the Association.
Our judges were impressed with the range of pets entered into the 8 fun categories, but there could only be one first prize for Best in Show which went to Zeus the cat, and his owner Jemima Davis (yr 9).
We are ever grateful to Alan McEwen from the Eaton Veterinary Practice for joining Mr Baker as a judge; and to Colin Ware from the Eastern Herpetological Society for bringing along an interesting selection of his snakes.
I was conscious this week that it is all too easy in a school day to focus on lessons and meetings, and that only captures part of a school’s role. I believe it is a wonderful community that can (and these are just the events I have seen or popped along to this week) offer such a diverse range of experiences in a week from a Pet Show, a University Finance Evening, Year 8 Parents Evening, Sports fixtures, English revision, and tree planting. Beyond my own interests in football (I watched some of the Year 11 match versus Notre Dame, which we won 1-0), I have been truly impressed by Ms Witting’s and Mrs Thomson’s Garden Club this week and when Jared Ling asked if I minded helping, I was only too happy to help. The opportunity for the students to flourish and organise their own time so productively will provide them with many skills for their lives. If I link this back to my thoughts last week about re-sit cultures, all of these opportunities provide students with transferable skills that will prepare them for their futures; inter-personal skills, team working, planning tasks, pride, patience and resilience. The lasting impact that these trees will have on improving our environment will benefit many future students at the school and it is to great credit that these students take this long term view of the benefits of their endeavours. Whilst the key passport to students’ success is attainment in their qualifications, as a school we should provide these types of opportunities for different groups of students and this diversity allows them to express themselves as individuals in a large and rich community. 
We are ever grateful to Alan McEwen from the Eaton Veterinary Practice for joining Mr Baker as a judge; and to Colin Ware from the Eastern Herpetological Society for bringing along an interesting selection of his snakes.
We were also overwhelmed with the support from local businesses who contributed a number of generous gifts for the raffle.
Thank you to all the students, staff, parent helpers and contestants who made this event so enjoyable. Watch out for the next pet show in September!
The Parents Forum is an opportunity for parents and carers to hear an update on progress with school improvement and information about school and an opportunity to contribute views and ideas on topics that will feed into school development planning.
Message from Mr Frost
Parents Forum -
Thursday March 22nd 7-8.30pm in Sixth Form Common Room
The Parents Forum is an opportunity for parents and carers to hear an update on progress with school improvement and information about school and an opportunity to contribute views and ideas on topics that will feed into school development planning.
This time there will be discussions at tables to gather parents and carers views on proposals to refine the current school uniform requirements. You can also hear an update on progress and feedback from the recent Local Authority inspection of the school and feedback on the issues discussed at the last Parents Forum and how that has fed into the school development planning process. There will also be news of the revival of City of Norwich School Association (CNSA).
There will also be a chance for you to raise any general school issues and give us any ideas or comments.
Look forward to seeing you there.
Message from Mr Frost
I will just mention the tragic news from Switzerland this week and hope you share with me in thinking about those communities, in particular Belgium that have lost so many bright young lives in such an awful fashion.
