Newsletter: February 2012

Congratulations to Year 11 on their Maths GCSE results in January. With the aim of increasing their grade further, most of Year 11 will resit in March and we are confident that our results will be better than ever before. The website includes a Revision Calendar showing the after-school sessions that students are encouraged to attend.

S. Jewell, Principal

Years 12 and 13 put on an exciting exhibition of their coursework, impressing visitors with their colourful, vivid and thought-provoking pieces. Look out for their work, soon to be seen in the Littlehampton Arts Trail in May.

Local entrepreneur, Mark Northeast, came to talk to Year 10 Business Studies students about his business Funky Lunch. Mark has won many awards for inspiring young children to eat healthily, using a fun and informative format. The students were interested to hear how he started his business and about his future plans.

Our thanks to Gary Johnson from K'Nex for giving parents and carers a lovely time on Saturday 28 January as they built their own towers and bridges and put them to the strength test. Our thanks also to West Sussex Family Learning for funding the course.

GCSE and AS students visited the Olympic Park in East London to learn about the construction of the stadium and the ongoing social, economic and environmental legacy of the facilities. Students also visited the Westfield shopping centre and six of the college students met Lord Coe, Chairman of London 2012 Organising Committee.

Year 7 members of our newly formed Chess Club were excited to take part in a Chess Tournament at Windlesham House School. There were four teams so each student was able to play three games. A thrilling experience!

Our thanks to Barny Hall from Clear Computing and Jacqui Scerri from Scerri Solutions for their interactive ICT workshops for Years 7 and 13. Students were able to test the security of their most regularly used passwords and to gain an understanding of the commercial challenges of e-security.

Year 11 GCSE Citizenship students arranged a variety of guest speakers for Year 7 classes as part of their coursework. With help from the Community and Events team, their guests included members of Enable Me, Age Uk and University of the Third Age.

Nick Gibb, MP for Bognor Regis and Littlehampton and Minister for Schools, kindly gave up his time to visit AS Politics students. The students were interested to hear all about his work as a politician and felt it brought their course to life to meet him in person.

Fifty Year 8 students took part in a two day training course at The Body Shop Trading Post. The course was delivered by Emma Starling from the ASSIST team and it is part of a schools' programme to help to reduce the number of young people taking up or continuing to smoke.

Mandela Chapter are holding their first charity week raising money for Marie Curie Cancer Care and WaterAid in Africa 6-10 February. We would like to invite you to the Mandela Fashion Show on Tuesday 7 February at 6pm. There will be a raffle, refreshments and live entertainment from our talented students. Tickets are £2 available from Reception.