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Students and staff at Hedingham School have been celebrating this year’s World Book Day with a variety of fun, competitions and activities designed to promote interest in books and challenging reading.

Nearly 80 members of staff were allocated badges to wear over the week. Each badge had one half of a famous pair printed on it. Students were challenged to find as many pairs as they could and submit their findings to the Learning Centre by the end of the week. Students were very busy hunting for Romeos for a Juliet, Desdemona for Othello, Laurel for Hardy and Peter for Tinkerbell!

Jack Petchey February 2010

Congratulations to Josh Phillips; he is February’s Jack Petchey Award Winner.

Josh was nominated for the Award because he has dedicated the majority of his lunch time during the past year to working in the coffee bar at the youth club. He has been an excellent worker, dependable, consistent, cheerful, polite and trustworthy.

Mr. Panayi presented Josh with a Certificate, Badge and Cheque on 10 March 2010.

Well Done Josh keep up the good work!!!!

Scholastic Book Fair March 17-24
Learning Centre: Break & Lunch

Our first book fair in 3 years!
Scholastic returns to Hedingham School. Books, posters and stationery for sale. All items are appropriate for Secondary School age students.

This year parents have the option to pay with gift vouchers from Scholastic. Please follow the link below for more information.

Book Fair Vouchers

Local people in the Sible Hedingham area are getting ready to celebrate the opening of a new £500,000 football pitch. Former England international Sir Trevor Booking will officially open the 3G artificial grass playing surface at 7.00 pm on Tuesday 16 th March at Hedingham School and Sixth Form, Yeldham Road, Sible Hedingham CO9 3QH. This is a new date following the postponement of the launch in January 2010 due to snow.

The scheme provides a floodlit Under-16 artificial pitch, which can be used as two or three smaller pitches or for training. In addition improvement works to the school’s field will make it available for community use giving access to three further pitches including a full size pitch. This facility will be a community resource as well as during curriculum time by the school and its feeder primaries

Fairtrade fortnight at Hedingham School kicked off with a football match between Year 11 and the staff. The game was played with a Fairtrade football made with fairly traded rubber and the goal keepers sported Fairtrade football gloves! History teacher Mr Stuart Hodgson, who captained and coached the staff team commented, ‘Even though the staff team won, the real winners were the producers of the Fairtrade footballs’. Year 7 and 8 students have their match planned for later in the fortnight using a special Fairtrade size 4 football made with younger children in mind

Hedingham School Gets High Tech Accolade - 23 February 2010

Students at Hedingham School and Sixth Form are at the forefront of using information and communications technology (ICT) to enhance their work, and that’s official!

Following an extensive external assessment at Hedingham School before half term, the school is delighted to have been awarded the prestigious ICT Mark by Becta, the government-funded body responsible for promoting the use of ICT in Britain’s schools and colleges. The ICT Mark is a nationally recognised accreditation scheme which gives schools recognition for their achievements in reaching a standard of maturity in their use of technology. Schools accredited with the ICT Mark standard are demonstrating that they are committed to using technology to improve their overall effectiveness and efficiency.

It’s been hard to escape the media coverage of the magnitude 7 earthquake that recently struck the Caribbean country of Haiti. The earthquake hit on Tuesday 12 January leaving huge human and economic losses in its wake. 212,000 people are confirmed death and an approximate further 1.2 million have been left homeless.

Hedingham School and Sixth Form are renowned for their charity efforts; doing a biannual sponsored walk and a ‘Pants to Poverty’ day to name but a few. As more information from Haiti emerged the Sixth Form felt they needed to do something to help the aid efforts and decided upon a ‘Hats for Haiti’ day

Halstead Town Football Academy 2010/11

We are in the process of recruitment for the Halstead Town Football Academy for the academic year 2010/11. The programme offers the opportunity for academic study, sandwiched with exceptional football coaching, alongside regular competitive football as part of the National Conference Youth League.

This is a great opportunity for students looking to develop a career in semi-professional football as well as gaining valuable academic qualifications.

The prospectus and application are available to download here. In addition, football trials will be held on Saturday 3 April from 9.30am to 11.00am.

Students at Hedingham School are at the forefront of using information and communications technology (ICT) to enhance their work, and that’s official!

Following an extensive external assessment, Hedingham School has been awarded the prestigious ICT Mark by Becta, the government-funded body responsible for promoting the use of ICT in Britain’s schools and colleges.

The award recognises the school’s success in developing the strategic use of ICT in both administration and across the curriculum. Parents will have proof that their children are attending a school at the forefront of modern technology.

During the two weeks after half term Hedingham school will be celebrating Fairtrade Fortnight with lots of exciting events and assemblies! This year’s campaign is to get people to swap their normal stuff for Fairtrade alternatives. So we will be swapping our footballs, at Hedingham School’s first even Fairtrade Football matches on Tuesday 23 February and Monday 1 March.

There will also be quizzes and competitions for students to take part in, as well as an opportunity to taste Fairtrade goodies on Friday 5 March. Look out for Fairtrade displays which will be going up around the school giving further details of events taking place.
The purpose of Fairtrade fortnight is to get more people talking about and buying Fairtrade products. Fairtrade is one way in which we can help improve the lives of producers in other countries whilst empowering students to ‘Think Global, Act Local’.

Miss E Salmon, Geography

The Friends of Hedingham School are holding a Quiz on Friday 21 May, in the school hall. The Quiz costs £10 to enter a team of up to six people. You must pre-register your teams, if you with to take part, by 19 May. For more information, and a downloadable registration form, please see the Friends of Hedingham School page on this website.

Year 8 PSHE Education Day BODY & SOUL (Personal Identity & Healthy Lifestyles)

On Wednesday 20 January, Year 8 were off their normal timetable to take part in PSHE sessions, which covered First Aid (from Mrs Trim & Ms Miley); advice and help from the school nurses (Donna & Sue) [they are also available in school every Monday lunchtime]; creating posters promoting Healthy Lifestyles (exercise; 5-a-day etc) [these are on display in school foyer].

For the afternoon session all students were in the hall to create their own ‘teenage hobo signs’; they heard about New York graffiti artist and painter Jean-Michel Basquiat/SAMO (whose father is from Haiti), and how words and symbols can be used in self-expressive art. Then they learnt about American hobo signs, and watched a terrific music video by Mrs Crawley’s sister on contemporary hobo signs, before creating their own specials signs and symbols.

Mr D. Stephenson PSHE Education Co-ordinator

Christmas Concert

Hedingham School Music Department hosted its annual Christmas Concert on Wednesday 16 th December, delighting the audience with a huge variety of music. The evening was kick-started with the School Orchestra’s energetic rendition of ‘In the Hall of the Mountain King’ by Grieg. The first half also included a performance by the Allsorts Primary Choir (Years 5-8) who did sign language to Cliff Richard’s Mistletoe and Wine. The Whole School Choir closed the first half with two traditional Christmas Carols, after a spectacular, choreographed performance by the Samba Band, led by Perry James in Year 9.

Hedingham School students have an excellent record of fund raising for charities and are proud of work they have done to support others less fortunate than themselves. Each term a non-uniform day is organised by the School Council and students chose a charity they feel is worthwhile. This term they have decided to raise money for Jimmy’s Shelter in Cambridge, a charity which supports homeless people of all ages

Congratulations are in order for Lisa Hood, she is November’s Jack Petchey Award Winner.
Lisa was nominated for the Award for volunteering to work with Year 7 students during their Geography lessons to support them with their learning. This has involved working with members of the Geography Learning Area staff and with non-specialist staff, who teach Geography in KS3, as well as with Teaching Assistants. She has formed a very positive rapport with staff and younger students and proved herself to be an asset to the department. This is a real achievement when she only is able to attend one lesson per fortnight with many of the different learning groups.
Mr. Panayi presented Lisa with a Certificate, Badge and Cheque on Wednesday 2 December 2009.
Well Done Lisa!!!!

Swimming Success for Scarlett!

Scarlett Merrell, aged 12 from Halstead, recently took part in national disabled swimming event held in Sheffield. Over 200 swimmers from all over the country took part including successful Para- Olympian swimmer Ellie Simmonds. Scarlett was delighted to come 4 th overall in her category for backstroke and 7 th overall in the freestyle event. Her goal now is to knock 4 seconds off her back stroke time to allow her to qualify for the National Talent Squad Programme which aims to train and coach promising young swimmers for the Para Olympics.