Newsletter
Issue 29 | 07 February 2025
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"You're off to Great Places! Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting, so... get on your way!"
Dr Seuss
Dear Parent/Carer
It has been another action-packed week at Applemore with rewards days, Parent's evenings, trips, sports fixtures, play rehearsals and our Apprenticeship week events. Having a future goal to reach can really help you to stay focused and motivated and understanding what your future careers path might look like is a great start in building confidence and aligned skills.
This week we had a fantastic live demonstration of what it takes to be a very successful barber and an apprenticeship evening featuring the NHS, the Navy, SETA engineering, the border force, Trant Engineering, college apprenticeships and many more. There is an excellent careers section in our LRC so please do come and explore ideas and talk to Ms Charrett about how we can help you find what's right for you.
With very best wishes
Clare
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It's been a jammed packed week at Applemore, with our 'Gold' and 'Silver' Reward Students participating in a range of fun activities! Gold Students enjoyed a whole day off-timetable, Silver Students lessons 3-5, and everyone in the year group enjoyed a film during the final hour of the day.
Activities included: Arts & Crafts, Nerf Gun Challenge, Graffiti with Whearley, Astro Football, Dodgeball, Dancing, Forest Cycling and Pizza Cooking! Check out our photo gallery below...
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Food & Nutrition
In Food & Nutrition this week, Year 10s enjoyed making Sushi and Arancini Balls as they learn the skill of 'binding' with Mrs Hall.
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French
Year 7 are studying the School Topic in French this half term. They have produced their timetables in French and designed and labelled a school uniform. Great work Year 7!
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ExxonMobil
As the second part of Salters Chemistry Experience, fifteen Year 10 Students were invited to tour Fawley Site. They completed a practical filtering dirty water using a combination of sand, gravel and charcoal, competing against other groups. They also had a fantastic careers talk in the afternoon. We're very grateful to Exxon for the opportunity.
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Homework
This week's Milkshake Monday, hosted by Mr Byrne, was focused around homework. Students were asked to complete a 'Diamond 9' activity and rank what was important to them about homework - here are some photos of their responses.
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Intermediate Maths Challenge
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Winners!
Last week, students from Years 9-11 took part in the Annual Intermediate Maths Challenge. Congratulations to all our winners below!
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Interhouse Sport
It's been a super sporty Friday at Applemore, with students across years 7-10 taking part in the latest Interhouse competitions. It was a case of "heads up" as table tennis balls were flying in the school hall, and in the leisure centre the next LeBron James' and Steph Curry's were on show in the basketball!
Thank you and well done to everyone that took part today. We saw an excellent display of sportsmanship, leadership and teamwork throughout the day! Special thank you to our Year 11 Sport Ambassadors who did a fantastic job coaching and scoring today for all year groups, and the PE staff who oversaw the organisation and running of the day.
Final results are in... Keep your eyes peeled for the upcoming Interhouse Sports to participate in next half term!
Final Results:
1st - Holmsley
2nd - Beaulieu
3rd - Hurn
4th - Sopley
5th - Ibsley
Check out some action shots below...
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U16 Basketball
We took four players to New Forest Academy, who played exceptionally well. After the first 5 minutes we were losing 8-2. However, by the end of the 2nd quarter we were winning 25-12, thanks to Sam and Kade with their fantastic off-the-ball movement. By the third quarter, our challenge was fatigue. However, we continued to play with good intensity and were winning by 16 points thanks to deep corner threes by Noah and Ben. Overall, we won 54-29, Kade with 21 points. MVP = Kade.
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Arty News
This week has been a really busy and enjoyable one in the Art and Photography Department. The highlight has been the 'Graffiti With Whearley' rewards sessions (please see this week's Artists of the Week below). Artists created individual pieces which will be displayed as a collective in the near future. We were so pleased with the results which exceeded our expectations. Thank you to Mrs Brearley for being so amazing and for her help in ensuring that the sessions were so successful.
Mrs Lowe and myself had the pleasure of seeing so many year 7 art students and their parents and carers at the Parents Evening on Thursday. It was such a positive evening with lovely conversations about student art journeys. Thank you to Mrs Lowe and to the parents and carers who took the time to come and chat.
Finally, thank you to Kathleen, in year 7, who kindly made me this wonderful 'I Love Art' piece. I love it!! Thank you to all the art and photography teachers and young artists and photographers who have made this another fantastic week.
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Artist of the Week
Each week, Mr Wheatley shines a spotlight on a different artist. This week, he's chosen our Reward Students!
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Next week sees our annual Year 9 Options Evening. This is an opportunity for students and parents/carers to find out more information about our KS4 offer and speak with subject specialists if there are any questions. The evening will start at 6pm in the Hall - we look forward to seeing many of you on the evening.
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History Club for KS3 meets in C012 on a Wednesday lunchtime. New topics to investigate, newcomers always welcome. You can bring your lunch. Next week we will be talking about the Second World War in Hampshire and the New Forest
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Bookings will close on Tuesday 11th February at Midday. Click the image below to head to the bookings page on SchoolCloud.
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A reminder to our Year 11s about our recently launched Study Hub in the mornings before lessons commence. Just turn up and register with the member of staff in the room!
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Future Fridays
At the beginning of the week, we had the absolute pleasure of being joined by Samuel Francis who gave a wonderful workshop on what it takes to be a successful barber. Samuel dazzled the onlooking students by cutting Mr Lopez's hair, whilst telling the students about his career highs - one of which is being the official barber for Brentford FC!
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Next week, two students in Years 8-11 will be invited to attend a workshop by Tim Drake centred around Engineering.
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Apprenticeship Evening
Thank you to all the students and parents/carers who attended our superb Apprenticeship Evening during the week - it was great to see so many of you from across different year groups taking an interest in this possible career path. Big thank you to the amazing Ms Charrett for organising such a brilliant event!
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Other Notices
College Applications: A reminder to get you College Application in as closing dates are fast approaching.
Work Experience: Big push this week on work experience! Ms Charrett will be coming around to all Year 10 tutor groups over the next two weeks.
Mock Interview Day: Tuesday 5th March - more information to follow from Ms Charrett.
Apprenticeships: National Apprenticeship week is on its way so join our webinar where we will be discussing all things apprenticeships! Click here
For more information about our Careers Guidance, click the button below.
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For a full and up-to-date list of our enrichment programme & activities, click the image below to visit our website enrichment page.
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Fake news is a widespread issue in the digital world, and it's overwhelmingly likely that both children and adults will be exposed to it online. In fact, a study from the Alan Turing Institute has found that 94% of people in the UK have encountered misinformation on social media and that’s only the ones who were aware of it!
However, while some fake news is shared mistakenly by well-meaning individuals, it’s also shared by scammers and other cyber-criminals to lend legitimacy to their con. While this presents a clear risk to children and young people online, the question remains as to how we can protect them against such tactics. This week’s guide offers expert advice on the specific ways scammers use misinformation and how to safeguard younger users against these techniques.
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For all the latest events coming up, visit our calendar
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