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Essential College Info​ - 20.09.19 

 

Year 7-13 

  KS3 English intervention Parents D Mon
Eve 5-6.30pm in the LRC/Reading I 30th Sept
Mon room
23rd Sept A
PTA Meeting - 7.30pm in the
Tues Boardroom - all welcome. R Tues
24th Sept 1st Oct
Y12/13 Lyric Theatre, London, trip Y
Wed 10am to 6pm
25th Sept Wed
Y9 TTA Evening - 5.30-7pm in the
Thurs Hall E 2nd Oct
26th Sept
Y7 Get together 5.30-7.30 V Thurs Y11 TTA Evening - 5.45-6.45pm
Fri E 3rd Oct
27th Sept
N Fri
4th Oct
T

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Dear Parents and Carers,

Supporting your child with GCSE Maths or English

Do you sometimes feel that you are not able to help your child with their Maths or English? Do you feel that
these subjects have all changed so much since you were at school?
Do you feel that you didn’t do very well at either Maths or English when you were at school?
Do you feel that your own GCSE, CSE or O level in Maths or English wasn’t a very good grade?

If the answer to any of these questions is yes, then you might like to consider taking a GCSE in Maths and / or
English and you can do that with ACRES (Adult Education).
There are also opportunities to take Functional Skills qualifications in Maths or English too, if you would like to
start at a lower level and then work up to taking GCSE Maths or English the following year.
If you are interested in any of these courses, do please look at the ACRES website. Who knows, you might see
another evening course that you are interested in.
As Chair of the ACRES board, it gives me great pleasure to give our adult learners their GCSE certificates in our
annual award ceremony. I can remember a few years ago, awarding a GCSE Maths certificate to a mother,
whose daughter had been in our Year 11 and they had both revised for, sat and passed the same exam at the
same time!

Yours sincerely,
Hugh Hennebry
Principal

 

 

Notices 

If your child needs ​emergency medication in school​ ie: Epipen, please ensure that you provide a spare for
us to keep in student services. You will need to complete a permission to administer medicine form which can
be downloaded from the college website or collected from student services.

 

NUTS! - P​ lease be aware when preparing your child’s lunch box to try and avoid products that contain nuts
as we have to​ consider the potential risk to other students who have nut allergies.

 

Vacancies at the College - ​see a​ ttached​ - Closes on Monday 23rd September.
Cover Supervisor​ - Single Status 4/5 - £18,426 to £19,554 (pro rata)
27.5 hours per week (term time only) - Actual salary equates to £11,872 to £12,599 pa

 

Stand up to Cancer fundraiser - a​ t T​ he Cinque Ports Club, Uckfield this Saturday, 21st Sept at
9pm. See a​ ttached poster.​

 
Extra Curricular Clubs - Term 1 - P​ lease see a​ ttached information.​  

 

Neuro-Ninja Hero Course - M​ y name’s Andrew Wright and I used to be Deputy Principal at Uckfield College
where I spent the last 11 happy years. In January I set up Action Your Potential, a small company with a big
mission to teach parents and students all about their amazing brains to help them do better in school and in
life. We run Neuro-Ninja course and, with the support of Wealden Improvement Partnership we’re bringing
one of those courses to parents and carers across Wealden. We’re particularly interested in social justice and
reaching out to the most vulnerable families in our communities which this project does and thank you to
colleagues in the 32 schools across Wealden have shared with me details (after getting GDPR compliant
permission) of the families you’d like invited to these events. We’ve contacted all of them.

We’re running 4 seminars in 3 different school venues across the Weald.

As well as over 60 invited families, we’re opening up these seminars to all parents and students of children
between Y5 and Y11. More information will be sent to school coordinators soon on how parents can sign up
to the seminars in the different venues.

This message is to tell you about a Free Launch Training Event we’re running at a school near you in the next
3 weeks. The Launch Event is open to any interested professional working in a secondary or primary school
across Wealden.

At the Launch event we’ll be explaining how our Neuro-Ninja Hero course works for young people and
parents. The core aim of the course is to give parents and students a deeper understanding of the
neuroscience and psychology of well-being and anxiety and how their own day to day responses can make a
huge impact to both well-being and the level of anxiety they, and their sons and daughters are feeling.

This free event aims to give professionals an overview of these innovative and engaging approaches to
parental and student engagement. We’ll be exploring a common language to explore the concepts of
well-being and anxiety (and the neuroscience underpinning them) so every young person and parent on the
course can take action the very next day to help build well-being as a skill and tackle anxiety.

There are three events locally;

 

 

If you’re in Uckfield join us at Rocks Park School 4 – 4:45pm on Monday 23 September;

If you’re in the Heathfield area join us at Parkside Primary School in Heathfield 4 – 4:45pm on Tuesday 1
October to find out more;
If you’re in the Wadhurst area join us at Stonegate Primary School on Thursday 26 September 4 – 4:45pm.

Please sign up here (​click on this link.​) you’ll receive the slides afterwards. We will collect your email only to

be able to send you the slides after the CPD session and updates on the times and dates of the parent
student seminars.

The human brain is at the heart of every learning act we carry out. By unleashing in young people and their
parents a deep understanding of how their brains work and, particularly what is happening when they’re
suffering anxiety or struggling with their well-being, we can equip them with strategies, tools and activities
enabling them to do the right things to give themselves the best chance of being the best version of
themselves every day.
See you at a Free Launch Event soon and thank you for listening… C​ lick ​on the link to hear information​ about
some exciting Neuro-Ninja Hero Courses coming to parents and students across Wealden during Term 1, 2, 3
and 4 this year.

 

Please see the ​attached presentation and timetable for all of the M​ usic clubs offered at Uckfield College, our
upcoming concerts and details on how to book out practice rooms during the school day.

 

Study Support - ​before and after college
The first session will be commencing on Tuesday 17th September - please see a​ ttached information.

 

Please find the link to our coach timetables below:
https://www.eastsussex.gov.uk/roadsandtransport/public/secondary-school-coach-timetables/ 

 

The first PTA Meeting​ of the college year 2019-2020 will be held on Tuesday 24th September at 7:30pm in
the Boardroom at the college. Everyone is welcome to attend. As some of our previous Sixth Form parents
have now left we would especially welcome new members who would offer new ideas and support us with
our fundraising activities.

Kathleen Southall - PTA Secretary

 

Ecuador Scuba Expedition 2021 - Years 9 - 11 only - Y​ our son/daughter had an assembly delivered by
'Camps International' this week. If you would like more information then please register your interest via this
letter and come to the information evening next week (details in the letter). A​ ttached letter

 

Year Group Information 

Year 7

Intervention In English Workshop Tuesday 24th September - ​please see a​ ttached letter

Year 8

There is no specific information for Y8 students this week.
 

 

Year 9

Dear Parents/Carers - I would like to take this opportunity to remind you that this ​Thursday 26th
September our Year 9 Together To Achieve Evening will be taking place in the Hall between 5:30pm
and 7:00pm. This evening will be something of an introduction to the GCSE courses, with a particular focus
on the core subjects of English, Maths and Science. We hope to provide you with useful information about
these courses, as well as tips and advice for how you can support your children through these crucial years of
GCSE study. I hope to see you all there.
Lianne Shaw
Director of Year 9

Year 10

There is no specific information for Y10 students this week.

Year 11

Together to Achieve Parents’ Information Evening, Thursday 3rd Oct​ - Please see a​ ttached letter

Year 12

There is no specific information for Y12 students this week.

Year 13

There is no specific information for Y13 students this week.
 

Apprenticeships parent pack​ - ​September’s addition 
 

Term dates​ for the Academic years 18/19 & 19/20 - h​ ttp://www.uckfield.college/termdates

Reporting Absences - S​ ee li​ nk to information on Website

Extra-curricular Clubs - ​see a​ ttached​ for procedures for the purpose of safeguarding.

Uckfield College Life​ ​- ​July Issue

Uckfield College Life will be published once a month. W​ e have attached the Newsletter to the title
above - if you wish you can click on the title to see the newsletter. ​Please e-mail details to Toni Fletcher,
[email protected].​

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