72 School Days Until the Final Exams!

Issue 6

Dear Y11s, Imagine we move 7 months into the future. It is a hot summer‘s day you have a had a fantas-
tic holiday and the words ‗coursework‘, ‗homework‘ and ‗revision‘ are just a distant memory. You walk into
the hall at Hyde Technology School for the very last time. As you hesitantly step over the wooden
floor, you take time to think back over the past 5 years of your life: the friends you have made, the
great trips you went on, those nagging teachers that once in a while showed that they were human too!
You are leaving much of that behind and hopefully taking good memories with you. But the one thing
that you can‘t leave behind, from the moment you walk into school and pick up your envelope, are those
GCSE results. Your GCSEs are with you for life. Every time you fill out an application form whether
you are working in a shop or applying to be managing director of a company, there is one section dedi-
cated to school achievement and GCSEs.

All of the staff hope that come 25th August we will be seeing cheers and tears of joy that the last 5
years of your life have been a success, that you have put in every ounce of effort to be the best you
can be and that you leave our school with your head held high and with pride in your hearts. Unfortu-
nately every year we have to watch some who leave with tears of regret and disappointment. Those who
just assumed they would get the grade. Those who thought they didn‘t need those GCSE things, who
were not prepared to make the effort. Deep down they all did care, they all wanted praise and to feel
proud of something they had achieved.

A GCSE is not just for August it is for life! Imagine yourself on that summer‘s day in August 2011 and
filling out that job application when you‘re 33. You want to be proud of what you achieved - not looking
back with regret or shame. Today is the trial run, the prediction of your future. Today, if you look at
those results and don‘t like what you see, there is still just enough time to make a change, by the 25th
August it will be too late.

This weeks role

models are Masuma
Khatun, Waheda
Parveen and Zahira
Bibi for improving
their maths grade
to a Grade A.
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Continuous effort - not strength or
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2. Log on
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Username: Date of
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(daydateyearinitials)
Every Tuesday
3. Revise!

Ashton 6th Form Interviews

Ashton 6th Form College will be interviewing all Year 11 stu-

dents who have applied on February 10th. Mr Thompson will
give out time slots nearer the time.
 Year 11 GCSE Music

The deadline for ALL coursework (performance and composition) is

Connexions
Closing date for Hyde Clarendon applications is Monday 28th Feb.
All applications can be completed online.

Modern Apprenticeship

Anyone wanting a Modern Apprenticeship will start the applica-

tion process with Rachel from Connexions before the end of
Feb. Before then, you need to put together a CV and Specula-
tive Letter – See Rachel in the Alpha Centre for a template
copy.

Art
We are currently working in collaboration with the youth club.
There is to be a fashion show using recycled materials on
Saturday 29th January at 4.30pm. Bennet St. All welcome!
Mrs Voss would like to praise Sarah Bell, Ryan Denton, James Lee, Megan Walker, Piyana
Aktar, Tahera Begum, Jodie Beaton, Ryan Parker and Leah Scholes they have worked hard in
lessons and done well in their GCSE modular exams.

Mr Eyre would like to say a general well done to all Year 11s who managed to improve their
Unit 2 scores. Those who attended extra lessons certainly made the biggest improvement.
In particular from my class, well done indeed to Kirsty Warren and Hanan Ahmed who man-
aged to get 100% in their Unit 2 Stage 2 exam. Also Sophie Freeman, Shamima Begum, Holly
Smith and Chantelle Ward who significantly improved their result.

Miss Lynch would like to praise her geography group for beating their target grades with
their controlled assessments. I also want them to know how pleased I‘ve been with the hard
work they‘ve put into their SDME exam and I‘m sure they‘ll get amazing results.

Mrs Radcliffe would like to congratulate all the Year 11s in her group who did re-sits in No-
vember – every single one has improved their marks and is now in a stronger position going in
to the final exam in summer. Well done!

Mr Crewe would like to say well done to Josh Cropper, Kieran Davies, Fiona Hilton, Reaj Miah,
Tom Radley, Leah Scholes and Jonathan Slinn for their good progress in BTEC Applied Sci-
ence over recent weeks. Keep it up!

Miss Parish would like to praise Danielle Davis, Elektra Politis, Luke Freeman, Suyeb Ahmed,
Tom Radley, Andy Brown and Raihan Ahmed for getting C or above in English Language exam.

Mrs Gadsby-Mace would like to give mega praise to Taslima Khatun for fabulous work and ef-
fort. Fahmeda Khatun ditto. Year 2011 GCSE group for being a really great, mature group.

Mr Prior would like to praise Sophie Orritt for her hard work in Maths over the last few
weeks.

Well done from Mr. Travers to his top set maths class for their excellent re-sit results, es-
pecially Kyle Barlow and Fateha Akther who got full marks on one of the papers.
Ms Fletcher would like to praise Nabila Choudhury, Nilima Begum, Kyle Barlow, Reshma Be-
gum, Misbah Ahmed,Waheeda Parveen and Amy Mcdermott for continued application and ex-
cellent results in exam responses to poetry.

Mrs Kendrick - Please praise my citizenship class for a responsible and mature approach to
their careers lessons.

Mrs Mitchell would like to praise Matthew Burgess, Aaron Owen and Luke Freeman for con-
sistent hard work and effort. Hannah Hulbert, Jonathan Slinn and Majida Akhtar for being
fabulous members of form- its been a pleasure.

Mrs Johnson would like to praise her health and Social Care group for ‗The effort they are
putting into their controlled assessment task. They are all working exceptionally hard – keep
up the good work Year 11!‘

Mr Joshi would like to praise Aklaq Ahmed, Suyeb Ahmed, Abdul Rahman, Raihan Ahmed and
Reaj Miah for some outstanding design work in their coursework, A- level standard. Nathan
Player for most improved student in the last two years, some excellent work and very focused
on own work. Fiona Hilton for not missing a single revision lesson. Masuma Khatun for one of
the most fantastic perspective drawing I have ever seen.

Miss Howie would like to praise Shannon Monks for continued hard work and an excellent lis-
tening mock exam result! Daniel Worrall for the amount of effort he is putting into his
coursework! Luke Freeman for continued hard work and attending coursework sessions! Callum
Marks for continued hard work in his coursework!

Miss Howie‘s Year 11 Btec class for having their ―New Year‘s Resolution‖ all completing out-
standing units. Some great work shown this term already – Keep it up!!

Mrs Davies would like to praise Nishat Anjam, Jodie Beaton, Nilima Begum, Reshma Begum,
Danielle Bray, Kieran Davies, Robert Lee, Kathryn Randles and Megan Walker for their bril-
liant answers in their second piece of coursework.
Miss Lorenzen would like to thank her fantastic 11FL1 class – Chelsea Armstrong, Tom
Legge, Mohibur Choudhury, Aimee Holland, Lauren Platt and Nathan Goff – they have
worked hard this year and have nearly completed all of their BTEC course work. Well
done!

Dr Warhusrt would like to praise for Matthew Gasse, Megan Walker, Thanzila Ferdous,
Amirul Islam, Laurence Mussett, Aidan McCarron, Masuma Khatun, Waheeda Parveen,
Nilima Begum, Shannon Monks, Samantha MacDonald and Amber Perry, Tilly Hughes,
Callum Marks, Aaron Breeze and Andy Brown for working hard in science.

Mr Brogan would like to praise:

Nathan Player – Producing an outstanding A grade practical project for his coursework
well done Nathan, you now need to put the same effort into your design folder.

Farzana Begum – Outstanding coursework well done, keep this effort up for the rest of
the year and you will easily get a better grade than your sister.

Fatima Johura – Producing outstanding coursework this year, well done Fatima keep it up.

Matthew Gasse – Working extremely hard to produce an amazing practical project that
is very unique, well done Matthew.

Nikita Ainsworth – For producing an outstanding mood light and design folder and com-
pleting all her coursework to an excellent standard despite staring late. Well done
Nikita.

Robyn Westhead – Producing an excellent practical project and amazing design folder
well done! She just needs to figure out how to attach it to a wall.

Ms Walsh would like to congratulate all those Y11s who have already achieved a C or B
Grade in their English GCSE. Well done. We are really proud of you. For those who are
retaking the exam in May—you can do it! Hard work and revision will pay off. There is
still time to make a difference.

If you are not mentioned, you have 3 weeks to work hard and
make sure you are nominated in issue 7.
Ms Fletcher – ‗She helped me learn my new
language, also she supports me.‘ ‗She is nice
and kind.‘ ‗She is nice and kind when you
need help.‘

Mr Brogan – ‗He helps me a lot with my DT

coursework‘

Mr Evans – ‗For helping me get my ICT

coursework up to date.‘

Ms Baxter ‗because of all the work she has

done to help me with my GCSE.‘

Mrs Voss – ‗For being a fantastic teacher and

excellent at helping us in revision classes.‘