The Hinckley School

Visit our website to read our latest school newsletter. This week we celebrate...
🌿Frankie and Richard - LOROS Inspirational Young Person Award
🤖Impressive Robot Wars performances
🧁LOROS bake sale
🎸Our students rocked at Bosfest!

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🤖Our Robot Wars Club competed in the Robot Wars Regional Finals, hosted at The Hinckley School on Friday 14th June, after building and refining their robots for nearly a year in preparation!

🕹Our competitors performed incredibly in tough battles against challengers from four local schools. Our skill level of robot production and driving really proved the deciding factors, as students from The Hinckley School won both of the trophies on offer!

🏆James and his robot won the overall 1 v 1 Cup Competition, while Hugh and his robot managed to put on an impressive show of skill by progressing through the tournament twice to secure the second title of the day!

🌟A fantastic day for all involved, our roboteers will now progress to the finals at MarchantCain in Coventry, in early July.

⚙️Many thanks to Mr Harrison for his brilliant robotic building knowledge and Mr Anderson for his engineering expertise. Well done everyone!

- Mr C Holmes, Head of Computer Science.

☀️Is your child joining us in Year 7 later this year?
📧Today, we have contacted the families of all our new starters to invite them to sign up for our 2024 Summer School. A free three day programme which allows students to make new friends, create wonderful memories and settle into life here at The Bridge before their official first day, supporting a smooth transition to secondary school.
🌞To sign up, please complete our online form by Friday 5th July: https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=PtOz8mtJU0uapwR_9lM5EA1lYnkmSwREm--25B36IN1UN0hWNDBYTkRFRDJRRlFEUzFQQkJOMEpQNC4u

The Hinckley School have gained recognition for achieving an astonishing 871 hours of voluntary service, with a social value of £4598! This achievement formed part of the Duke of Edinburgh's Award programme, with students not only gaining skills themselves, but also making a significant contribution to our local community. Everyone involved should be immensely proud.

Year 11 students who have received a Conditional Offer to study at The Hinckley Sixth Form in 2024 are invited to register to attend an Offer Holder Day on Friday 21st June. A great opportunity to sample a day in the life as a sixth form student, enjoy subject taster lessons and speak to our expert team and student ambassadors about what to expect as a member of our community. Register online now!

➡Have you registered to attend our Offer Holder Day on Friday 21st June?
📨All 2024 Conditional Offer Holders are invited to join our expert team and wonderful Student Ambassadors as they spend the day as a sixth form student. Offer Holders will be able to take part in subject taster lessons and sample the support, opportunity and independence on offer here at The Hinckley Sixth Form.
💻To register to attend, please complete the online form: https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=PtOz8mtJU0uapwR_9lM5EA1lYnkmSwREm--25B36IN1URVU0WjA0WDVOQzE4RFJET1lOODhGS1hPUS4u

In their Classics lessons, our Year 8 students have been exploring The Odyssey and over half term students in Miss Mathieson's class were asked to make a creative response to their favourite part of the story. We have been extremely impressed with their work and just had to share a photo of this incredible cake version of Odysseus' boat amidst Scylla and Charybdis made by Olivia! It's great to see the creativity and dedication of our students in their extra curricular work.

KS3 SUMMER ART CHALLENGE - We have launched a new Art, Craft and Design competition for our KS3 students! Ms Webster would like students to create 'Explorer Diaries' about their Summer, whatever that may look like - going on holiday, playing in the garden, visiting family or unwinding at home.
🖌We want students in Year 7, 8 and 9 to get creative and present their 'diary' in a format of their choice. All entries will be awarded a PRIDE token and a judging panel will award 1st, 2nd and 3rd place prizes for effort, creativity, fusion of specialisms (art and textiles for example), challenge and development of skills.
🧑‍🎨We can't wait to see and share your masterpieces!
☀️Deadline – 3pm on Friday 30th August. Submissions to be handed to Miss Webster in D7.
👀Look our for more creative competitions in our newsletter 'Competition Corner' !

In GCSE Food Preparation & Nutrition, our Year 10 students were tasked with choosing a complex skilled recipe that was low in sodium and high in calcium, following on from their lesson on Micronutrients and as you can see their final dishes are very impressive! Students will now go on to evaluate the nutritional content of their dishes using a nutrient analyser IT package. Keep up the great work Year 10! 🧑‍🍳🍽

✖️Did you know that today is National Numeracy Day? ➗
To mark the occasion, and in addition to our recent whole year group numeracy assemblies, our Year 7 students students enjoyed a 'Minions vs Dinosaurs' numeracy lesson with Mr Hall during period 1 and 2 today. In each action packed session, the students were taken through a balance sheet that incorporated many mathematical skills such as; multiplication, addition, subtraction, probability, percentages and rounding.

Year 8 are enjoying their 'Medical Mavericks' workshop today! Our Gateway students are getting hands on while learning about careers in medicine, taking an ECG, trying their hand at key hole surgery, taking blood, performing ultrasounds and much more! Thank you to Medical Mavericks for such an inspiring day! 🧑‍⚕️

As part of their work linked to the Artist Zaha Hadid, our Year 10 3D Design students have been looking at architecture and how it follows organic forms. Today, using their sample designs and inspiration from research, they tried their hand at wood carving for the first time. After this brilliant lesson, the group will now move on to carving their final piece next week.

We were thrilled to welcome Mike Flack from Wize Up Financial Education to The Hinckley Sixth Form Form this week, to deliver an insightful and engaging session about the intriguing and evolving world of cryptocurrencies. We look forward to further collaborations in the future as we continue to empower our students with the knowledge and tools they need to navigate the complexities of the modern financial world.

Last week, Year 9 3D Design students finalised their 3D clay sculptures inspired by Japanese Koi, Dragon and Panda Bears.
The task enabled them to explore the potential and limitations of constructing forms using thumb and pinch pots with hollow centres, making appropriate selections to support the final structure. They also further developed the application of surface qualities representative of texture and scales. Well done Year 9 - really detailed work and effective use of techniques! ⭐️

This week, our school newsletter features...
🤝University of Oxford Outreach Visit
➕Numeracy Assemblies
➗UK Maths Challenge Certificates
👩‍🎨Our Art Bytes Winners
🗺The Duke of Edinburgh's Award Bronze navigational training
And much more!

Visit our website to read this week's edition in full and to find out more about recent student success, events and upcoming opportunities here at The Hinckley School:https://www.thehinckleyschool.co.uk/_site/data/files/users/newsletters/new-folder/82DEAE61F5F8028DF3583D107FA0A33F.pdf

Today, our Year 10 Textiles students were joined by Laura Silveira Illustration who shared insights into her work and love of creating rich, textural, characterful and colourful observations, as well as sharing tips on how to start the creative process. Thank you for joining us Laura and for helping to inspire our students!

Today, students in Year 10 have been learning more about university study, from the team at St Edmund Hall, University of Oxford. Students learnt more about university life, student experience and the future opportunities choosing a university route can lead to, during an informative and interactive session. Thank you to the team for joining us!

Please join us in congratulating our 'Art Bytes' winners!
The Art Bytes voting process concluded last week and they have now revealed 1st, 2nd and 3rd place for each school. Congratulations to Lyla, Sophie and Amber and thank you to everyone who voted to show their support for our artists.

⭐️1st – Lyla
⭐️2nd – Sophie
⭐️3rd – Amber

https://artbytes.co.uk/schools/the-hinckley-school-283/

We are currently recruiting for the following vacancies with our school community:
• Teacher of Maths
• Teacher of History & RE
• Apprenticeship -Teaching Assistant
To find out more about these opportunities and for details on how to apply, please visit our website: www.thehinckleyschool.co.uk/vacancies

Students involved in Ms Crisp's lunchtime Carnegie group and Book Bingo enjoyed celebrating their Reading for Pleasure Awards with hot chocolates on Friday. Well done everyone! ☕📚

✍️Final chance to vote for our incredibly talented students! VOTING CLOSES TOMORROW!
🖌Lyla, Amber and Sophie need your votes as our shortlisted Art Bytes artists!
⭐️Voting only takes a few minutes via the link below and it's a great way to show how proud we are of our students. Thank you to everyone who has already shown their support.

The Hinckley School | Schools | Art Bytes The Art, Design and Technology curriculum at The Hinckley School provides Key Stage 3 students with a wide range of creative, exciting and stimulating opportunities to explore their interests within the Art and Design whilst also providing the potential to question, investigate and understand the wo...

Don't forget to join us on Saturday for our Sports Festival! Come along to enjoy a morning of excitement, camaraderie, and thrilling sportsmanship. Good luck to all the teams participating! Gates open at 10am. ⚽️🏈🍔☕

You and your family are cordially invited to our eagerly
anticipated Sports Festival on Saturday 27th April! It promises to be a day filled with excitement, camaraderie, and thrilling sportsmanship. This is a fantastic opportunity to come together as a community to support our students and celebrate the spirit of sportsmanship.

⚽️Gates will open promptly at 10:00 am for all students
taking part in the events. Parents/carers will be welcome onto the site from 10:00am.
🏈The highlight of the day will be the eagerly anticipated sport matches both kicking off at 11:00am. The Gateway girls will go head-to-head with the Year 9 girls in their long anticipated football showdown. At the same time, an epic all-star rugby match will take place, featuring a mix of Year 8 and Year 9 students.
🍔There will be a food van on-site serving food from 10:30am, please bring cash and card if you wish to purchase refreshments.
🤞☀️As we all know, the weather can be unpredictable, so we kindly ask that if any parents/carers have gazebos, they bring them along just in case!

➕Today, students in Year 7 and 8 took part in the UK Mathematical Challenge. The Junior Challenge, from the UK Maths Trust, takes 60 minute and features 25 multiple choice questions. It encourages mathematical reasoning, precision of thought and fluency to make students think.
➗We can't wait to see how everyone did, well done to Year 7 and 8 for taking part!
➖You can find out more about this national mathematical challenge online here:

Junior Challenges - UKMT UKMT Junior Challenges are aimed at students year 8 and below. Starting with the Junior Maths Challenge, with the Kangaroo and Olympiad as follow-on rounds, these are designed to challenge and engage your students. Junior Mathematical Challenge A 60 minute, 25 multiple choice Challenge. It encourage...

Celebrating with your classmates and teachers at your end of year prom is a rite of passage for students in Year 11 and 13, therefore we wanted to ensure that we helped as many of our students as possible to enjoy making treasured memories together. As a result, our students can now request support from the 'Prom Hardship Fund' to access help with the cost of a prom ticket and visit the 'School Prom Shop', overflowing with donated dresses, suits and accessories - some of which are brand-new! To read more about the support available, please visit our website: https://www.thehinckleyschool.co.uk/prom-support
👗Generous donations to this support package continue to come in from our wonderful community, and today we received six beautiful and brand-new prom dresses from Liney's Brides to add to our free School Prom Shop. Thank you Liney's Brides.
🩷 Thank you for every donation, it means so much to our community.

Are you passionate about building brighter futures?
We are currently recruiting for the following vacancy:
• Teacher of Maths
For more information and to view all current vacancies, please visit our website:

Vacancies Our Teacher of Girls’ PE will play a pivotal role as a champion for sport at The Hinckley School and within the wider community. Leadership opportunities include positive outreach work, strengthening our existing links with local sports clubs and societies, as well as nurturing new partnerships to...

It has been great to see students enjoying our lunchtime enrichment sessions again today, including KS3 Electronics and Summer Science clubs! After school today students have even more opportunities to enjoy our enrichment programme, with our Programming Club, KS4 Badminton and the Duke of Edinburgh's Award. 🧑‍🔬🏸🔋🥾💻
A reminder of our full Summer Enrichment Timetable can be found in our weekly newsletter:https://www.thehinckleyschool.co.uk/_site/data/files/users/newsletters/A931AEC04396C76F90075C26A37AFAE4.pdf

The Hinckley School has kindly been gifted a set of our old school newsletters, the earliest of which dates back to 1944! ‘The Hinckleyan’, The Hinckley Grammar School’s original newsletter gives an incredible insight into our history as a school and features articles written in Latin, poetry, comic strips, illustrations of school buildings and sports fixtures. These editions also feature lists of former students who were on active service at the time.

These delicate newsletters are now on display here at The Hinckley School, sitting pride of place in our Main Reception for everyone to enjoy. We encourage any members of our community interested in
getting up close with such wonderful historical items of particular local interest to come along and take a look for themselves.

Hinckley District Past & Present

This week, to mark World Book Night, we will be holding our next 'Reading Café' event. Students from all year groups are invited to join Ms Crisp in the Library for an hour of peaceful reading with cushions, blankets, gentle music and refreshments. ⭐️🌝📚☕

You and your family are cordially invited to our eagerly
anticipated Sports Festival on Saturday 27th April! It promises to be a day filled with excitement, camaraderie, and thrilling sportsmanship. This is a fantastic opportunity to come together as a community to support our students and celebrate the spirit of sportsmanship.

⚽️Gates will open promptly at 10:00 am for all students
taking part in the events. Parents/carers will be welcome onto the site from 10:00am.
🏈The highlight of the day will be the eagerly anticipated sport matches both kicking off at 11:00am. The Gateway girls will go head-to-head with the Year 9 girls in their long anticipated football showdown. At the same time, an epic all-star rugby match will take place, featuring a mix of Year 8 and Year 9 students.
🍔There will be a food van on-site serving food from 10:30am, please bring cash and card if you wish to purchase refreshments.
🤞☀️As we all know, the weather can be unpredictable, so we kindly ask that if any parents/carers have gazebos, they bring them along just in case!

Interested in joining our team?
We currently have the following exciting vacancies within our community:

Teacher of Computer Science
Teacher of Humanities
Teacher of English
Teacher of Girls' PE
Teacher of Science - with leadership responsibilities

If you are dedicated to building brighter futures, please visit our website to find out more about joining our team.

Vacancies Our Teacher of Girls’ PE will play a pivotal role as a champion for sport at The Hinckley School and within the wider community. Leadership opportunities include positive outreach work, strengthening our existing links with local sports clubs and societies, as well as nurturing new partnerships to...