It’s back! Sandringham Dance Faculty bring you the ever-growing Velocity Dance Show from Thursday 1st February – Saturday 3rd February 2024. Sure to be an absolute showstopper not to be missed!
Tickets are on sale and cost £12.50 / £10 / £8.50
Miss A Carter-Downing
Year 9 students went to IMW Duxford yesterday for an enriching ELD experience to learn more about role of aircraft in twentieth century British and European history. Students had the opportunity to learn more about Duxford’s role during the Battle of Britain as a vital airfield to repel Luftwaffe attacks, and witnessed a re-enactment of the wartime operations room in action. They were then able to explore the wartime aircraft and learn more about the observation stations, wartime emergency services and shelters that kept British civilians safe. Additionally, students learnt about the American involvement in Europe in the later part of the twentieth century with an introduction to the Cold War and exploring the bombers and spy planes that were stationed and used by the American Air Force. Finally, students were able to engage with a range of STEM content, including the principles of flight, aviation technology and a tour around Concorde.
It was a wonderful opportunity for the year group to expand their knowledge and appreciation of both their History and STEM disciplines and we hope that they enjoyed the day.
Miss A Constable
On the 18th of March, education charity World Class Schools Quality Mark (WCSQM) will be holding a virtual awards ceremony to acknowledge and recognise the achievements and World Class characteristics of students throughout the UK during a year of lockdown. As a World Class School, here at Sandringham we aim to promote some of their core values: community, learning, responsibility, commitment to sustainability and dedication to challenging the status quo. Over the coming weeks we will be featuring more articles on what we think it means to be a World Class Citizen and students whom we feel are a shining example of this.
The annual World Class Schools ceremony this year will be held virtually on Friday March 18th and will celebrate school and student achievements across a range of different categories, including the announcement of the winners of the annual WCSQM essay writing competition,the winners of the WCSQM Lockdown Competition, and a celebration of the first ‘Students of the Month’, as part of WCSQM’s Student Character Campaign launched in January 2021.
Several of our students will be featured at the presentation: Alumni Sophie Angel, Reuben Mahendra, Nabrissa Badu and Lily Hurp (Y12) and Keerthana Appandairaj (Y10) who was an honourable mention in the essay writing competition. Please keep an eye out for them in the Awards Ceremony which we will share the link to in the Sandprint next Friday 18th March. Further details on Keerthana’s essay are featured under English News.
Sandringham Students across all year groups have joined together to create an incredible artwork honouring and thanking our heroes in the NHS.
Organised in a collaboration by both the Design Technology and the Visual Art Faculties, The project was organised as a starter activity in lessons. Students were asked to make a heart to thank the NHS. The only rule was that it was to be blue, but they were encouraged to use a wide range of materials and tools, which included traditional fine art techniques, photography, CAD, lego, textiles, digital methods and even snow.
Project Leader Trudi Barrow said “We were very impressed with the variety of designs submitted, and the passion from the students when it came to thanking our NHS and frontline heroes”
Drawing Week ‘A Climate of Change’ Prize Winners Announced!
This week we were absolutely delighted to receive a letter from Sir David Attenborough commending our students on their remarkable work for this year’s drawing week ‘A Climate of Change’. We selected ten student pieces to send to Sir David Attenborough which we felt were wonderful examples from the many submitted. We also sent him a copy of our exhibition film created by Mrs Leto. I am delighted to announce the ten submissions to Sir David Attenborough as our prize winners. Each will receive a folder containing a copy of the original letter and a copy of the letter from Sir David Attenborough which they can keep for their portfolios in the future. They will also receive some items for their art kit and a gold Visual Arts Young Leader badge as further recognition of their outstanding achievements from this important week. Well done to Yukta C in Year 12, Sophie T in Year 12, Emma T Year 12, Laila in Year 12, Hywel J in Year 7, Freya B Year 9, Vivian Year 8, Jessica B Year 8, Nico Year 9 and Lauren D in Year 9. You should feel incredibly proud of this recognition and I do hope it inspires more wonderful creative work in the future.
Thank you again to all of the students who took part this week. Through creativity, we hope to have reflected the hopes of our young people, the key changes that need to be made and our shared responsibility to protect our planet.
We would like to extend our most sincere thanks to Sir David Attenborough for taking the time to write to us. We are incredibly grateful for him to recognise and commend the work of our students.
School Resources Collection Update
As school closures continue, we are aware that students are needing to obtain new exercise books. We remain committed to ensuring that there are no barriers to students accessing learning throughout their period of closure.
From Monday 15th June, we are adjusting our collection times so that families will be able to collect resources required from school on any weekday from 9am to 11am. Exercise books will be available to collect from Student Services where a member of staff will be present.
We would kindly ask that just one family member comes onto the school site. There will be social distancing measures in place and we ask that these are respected at all times.
Should you have difficulties getting to the school to collect, please email Louise Turner (louise.turner@sandringham.herts.sch.uk) who will be able to offer assistance.
Dear parents/carers,
Please see attached for the daily bulletin from the DfE to all schools.
I realise that the Irish Government have just announced that all schools will be closing, but as you will see from this communication, the current plan remains as of yesterday with schools open and working as normal.
We have now placed signage on all water fountains to remind students NOT to drink from them, but use them only for re-filling water bottles.
There have been a few parents questioning whether they should send their children to school. As things stand, all students should be attending school as normal unless they are unwell with symptoms that resemble those of Coronavirus. This applies to all schools.
There will be another communication tomorrow as usual.
Kind regards
Alan Gray Headteacher
