Chesterton Community College

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Winter Wishlist No 3: Support the Purchase of a Clavinova Digital Piano

🎹 🎶“If you cannot teach me to fly, teach me to sing.” — J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan
🎶The Music department delivers an energetic and inspiring extra-curricula programme that is delivered in lunchtimes and after school and includes Fiddle Ensemble, Samba Band, Jazz Bands, Steel Pans, a full Orchestra, Choirs and more.🎹The music department also provided the PTA with a great lineup for the very successful Summer Bash supporting our young budding musicians and school bands in delivering a two-hour lineup that got us all up off of our chairs! 🎶

🎶 The department would like to purchase a new digital piano that benefit all the students across year groups and will improve and enhance musical activities carried out during the year. 🎹

Support this wishlist by donating what you can. Or, why not consider buying one of the 88 Clavinova keys for £22.72!

We have only 88 slots to fund! Hurry if you can.

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Winter Wishlist – Clavinova Digital Piano “If you cannot teach me to fly, teach me to sing.” — J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan The Music department has built an inspiring and energetic music programme both for in and outside of the taught curriculum.

Winter Wishlist No 2: Support Small (and Not-So-Small) Things that Really Make a Difference

✨Small additions to the classroom can make a huge difference to both students and teachers, enriching the teaching and learning experience, creating opportunities for the kids to enjoy a more well-rounded school experience or to just have a bit of fun in a day of learning.✨

✨This list includes small tools to explore nature in the school courtyards looking at plants or spiders, insects and other crawling things. Periodic table posters and solar cans for the science departments. Or blenders, pasta machines, sewing machines and tools used successfully around the school that might be beneficial to have spread to more classrooms like visualiser, drawing pads, or light boxes.✨

If you want to help the school with this Wishlist please pick up one of the item that you prefer by following the Donate Button on the link below:

Winter Wishlist – Small (and Not-So-Small!) Things that Really Make a Difference Sometimes we can get crazy happy about small things that really solve one problem of ours and really makes our life easier and helps far more than their price of costs. This list is for items like tha

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Winter Wishlist No 1: Support the Wow Moments!

The school would like to offer additional ⚡️Wow Moments⚡️ to enrich students’ experiences during their time at Chesterton and to complement learning. ⚡️Wow Moments⚡️ might be cultural, such as visits from professional theatre companies or musicians, or science opportunities such as a visit from Zoo Labs where younger students can come face to face with visiting reptiles!

Some pupils don’t have the means to access such experiences outside of school so the PTA would like to support the school in providing ⚡️Wow Moments!⚡️ so that ALL students can experience the magic of theatre; visiting musicians; and digital platforms to support revision and learning because “practice makes perfect”.⚡

Winter Wishlist – Support The school provides a rich list of activities to complement learning and enhance students' experiences during their time at Chesterton. The school would like to offer additional Wow Moments to enrich

A message from the PTA

Dear Parents and Carers,
✨Wow! It's the first of December and the countdown to the end of term! ✨
The PTA have underwritten some exciting experiences for Chesterton students in 2024!
🌟Today and for the 'season of giving', we are launching a Chesterton Community College Winter Wishlist Campaign to further support our fundraising efforts via Enthuse.🌟
We hope that you will consider buying an item, or contributing to the wishlists from teachers below.
We have divided the campaign into three wishlists so that you can see the whole breadth of what we are supporting.✨
✨✨✨Don't forget to write your good wishes and thanks to teachers in the comment boxes as you complete your donations.✨✨✨

Our student Christmas fair is only one month away. As part of this we collect donations of presents that are distributed to help support students where money can be tight, especially in light of higher prices at the moment. If you can help please see see the post below.

Our first blog of the academic year is now available on our website. It features what students have been up to and also opportunities. Students have made a great start to the year.
https://ccc.tela.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Chesterton-Blog-15-09-2023.pdf

We are looking forwards to meeting perspective students and families at our Open Evening on the 5th October.

It was great to welcome our new year 7 and 12 students to Chesterton today and to see all of our existing students return from the summer break.

Good luck to all year 11s today!

We are recruiting a minibus driver to join our team. Please see the link below for more details.

https://tela.org.uk/vacancies/minibus-driver/

It was wonderful to welcome our future year 7 students today as part of their induction. We look forward to seeing you again on Monday as you get ready for September.

We are very proud of our school library. It is a great place to read and study.

Today it was lovely to see so many students reading or revising at lunch.

It has been great to welcome students back to school following the Christmas break. Lots of learning underway as students realise their potential.

We wish all students, families, staff and friends of the College a Merry Christmas

A great first day of the ski trip. Lots of skills put into practice and smiles on faces.

It was great to meet so many prospective students and parents last night at our open evening. Thank you to our students who volunteered in subjects and as tour guides.

BBC 100: Share your story

On Tuesday 27th September, students in year 8 &9 participated in a lecture from storytellers at the BBC- Carla Fowler & Flora McCorquodale. Carla is a Video Journalist working with Yorkshire TV and she spoke about her background and building confidence through her career, whilst Flora is a Production Management Apprentice with the BBC. Flora spoke about her experiences with dyslexia and how radio became her escape. The session was very informative whilst had high levels of engagement from the students. This was an exciting opportunity for our students to be involved in, as the BBC UK tour was to celebrate their 100th year of broadcasting!

Thank you to everyone who baked cakes and purchased them on Friday for Macmillan. It was a very busy break time.

It has been great to see excellent thinking and engagement in Sixth Form lessons this week.

We have some fantastic artists here at Chesterton. The photos are just a few of the new art pieces that have gone up on the walls around the school.

It has been great to see students going above and beyond in their lessons this week.

It’s not long until our Year 6 Open Evening. It is set to be a busy evening with talks, tours and lots on offer.

Students have made an excellent start to the year across their subjects. We’ve been especially pleased with our new Sixth Formers rising to the challenge of A-level study.

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