DESBOROUGH COLLEGE

STUDENT BULLETIN
WEEK COMMENCING: 08.05.2017

WEEK A

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*Uniform

Youre part of the Desborough College community, look smart and wear your badge with pride!

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*Student Planner
Planners out on desks please
Your planner is a valuable tool you should use every day. It will help you to
organise your time wisely and is a place to record anything and everything
as a remind of what you have on in your busy lives!
Sporting fixtures
School Clubs
Homework
Appointments (doctors, dentists etc.)
Letter home reminders
Important dates (birthdays, parents
evenings etc.)
Relevant student bulletin information
Trips

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*Make sure you have

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*Attendance
WARNING:
Late x1 (in a week) = break time DT.
Late x2 = 30min after school DT
Late >3 = 1 hour after school RAL DT
Legacy Garden games can be
used exclusively as follows:
Monday Year 11, Tuesday - Year 10,
Wednesday Year 9,
Thursday Year 8, Friday Year 7

BUT please remember that NO food or drinks without a top are

allowed out of the canteen.
Warning some foods on sale may be restricted if litter continues
to be a problem.
*Carnegie Shadowing
with Mrs Hallissey
Monday lunch-times
in Mrs Barross room.
Remember your
books to exchange
and discuss.
YEAR 10 SPEAKING ASSESSMENT
WILL TAKE PLACE
p5 MAY 8th Monday
p1 May 9th Tuesday
It will be in alphabetical order as
always.

Viel Glck
YEAR 9 SPEAKING ASSESSMENT
WILL TAKE PLACE
p5 MAY 9th Tuesday
p1 May 11th Thursday
It will be in alphabetical order as
always.

Viel Glck
*DRAMA REHEARSALS
Make sure you arrive on time for a prompt start

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 School band
Do you play an instrument and want to practice
and perform as a group with other instruments?

If you are interested in joining the school band

please come and see Mrs McFarlane this week

School band will be on Mondays after school

3.10-3.45pm

You must be able to play and read notes pretty fluently to join
 Cadbury World Business Studies
Who: Year 10 Business students
When: Wednesday 10th May
Why: Consolidate and contextualise our
work on Operations Management . . .
whilst eating chocolate!

Payments on sQuid and permission slips

returned to Mr Clawson by Friday 28th
April
 Rhos y Gwaliau
2017
COUNTDOWN: 63 DAYS
Gorge walking
Orienteering
Raft building
Mine Exploration
2 day expedition on and around Snowdon
Sailing
White water rafting (Possibly)

DEPOSIT PAYMENTS AVAILABLE ON SQUID TO

CEMENT YOUR PLACE ON THIS YEARS TRIP
*Iceland Trip 2017 SOLD OUT!

4 Days, 3 nights
Depart: 19th 22nd November 2017
For more information see Mr Snell or Mr Myatt
A message from the RALS
Follow us on Instagram!

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 If your parents/carers need to pay for a trip, put money on your canteen
account and cant figure it out, remind them that there is a new squid
system! To access this they need to follow the link below:

https://portal.squidcard.com/LoginPortal/
If your parents have paid the deposit for a school trip and are having problems making
additional payments, please advise them to log in and follow instructions below

Log in via the home page.

Select Offers (5th tab along the top bar)

Part Paid Offers Part Paid Add trip to basket (Complete payment as usual)

For any further questions or queries tell them to contact reception or: customerservice@squidcard.com.
 *Year 10 DofE Award
Reminder:

Next DofE Expedition training

session:
Wednesday 17th May16:30-
18:00
Complete your HWC loyalty
card to receive your free
food from the canteen.
Terms and conditions apply.
*TECHNOLOGY
STEM Summer School
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5GWhwUN9iaY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgB-Diy8imo
 Summer Plans!

Everyone needs a break.. But why not plan a

few days of STEM fun as well!
 Mathematics for astronomers
Robotic explorers
Anamorphic art
Take a journey through Mathematics

Coding and ciphers Learn to code with BBC microbit

Magnets and motors

Engineering in 3D
Explore life on Mars
Extract your own DNA

Wind turbine engineering and design Crash testing

The magic of computer

science Develop robots
Build bridges

Forensics
Programming
Loudspeakers and acoustics
The mathematics of
rainbows Making music with the BBC
microbit
 The Royal institution:
L'Oral Young Scientist
Centre
Mayfair- London
 How to book a course
Go to the website below and you can chose
what courses you would like from the timetable
given. Be warned spaces run out fast on a first
come first served basis!

http://www.rigb.org/families/summer-schools-
2017

If you book a course please see Miss Kelleher for

further information.
*Riddle of the Week

When was the latest year that is

the same upside down?

Answer: 1961
*Riddle of the week

I turn around once. What is

out will not get in. I turn
around again. What is in will
not get out. What am I?
*THOUGHT OF THE WEEK

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