Weekly Message 254 – 7 February 2025
7th February 2025
Thank you to all parents/carers who joined us for the Year 9 Parents’ Subject Evening on Tuesday and for the feedback provided through the completion of the questionnaire. The next Parents’ Subject Evening will be for Year 7 taking place on Tuesday 25 February 2025 as per the school’s calendar.
February Half Term Holiday
Next week sees the conclusion of the first half of the Spring Term with school closing to pupils on Friday 14 February 2025 and reopening on Monday 24 February 2025.
Children’s Mental Health Awareness Week
During Children’s Mental Health Awareness Week pupils have had the opportunity to discuss their strengths and weaknesses. During tutor time, they have each created a leaf which has a word or sentence to describe something they would like to get better at. The leaf symbolises growing and developing. The leaves are being adding to our ‘Know yourself, Grow yourself’ tree mural. As a tutor group they also picked one word to describe their group’s strong point. The words are being added to the trunk of the tree which symbolises strength. Mrs Farmer and the Nexus tutor group are looking forward to seeing the mural filled with everyone’s leaves as they come in this week.
National Careers Week – Monday 3 March 2025 – Friday 7 March 2025
To mark National Careers Week, we are inviting all Cams Hill pupils to complete a ‘Careers Conversation’ with an adult known to them. Pupils will ask career-related questions to gain an insight into their chosen adult’s career journey collecting the responses on a form (please see link below). As a collective, the adults in the Cams Hill School community are a huge resource to our pupils. All information gathered will be anonymised, and collated, and examples will be fed back to pupils during National Careers Week.
We hope that these conversations will encourage our pupils to remain curious about the careers surrounding them.
Pupils will have until Monday 24 February 2025 to complete the form https://forms.office.com/e/526YJXAime (or use the qr code above)
All pupils who complete and submit a form will be entered into the Careers Week Prize Draw.
Year 7 Netball
Any Year 7 pupil who would like to play in the Girls Netball Tournament at Cams Hill on Thursday 13 February, please sign up outside the PE office by end of Tuesday 11 February 2025 next week.
There will be no general training next week for any netball group due to the tournament.
Remembrance Themed Art Homework
Pupils wanting to collect their Remembrance themed Art homework should go to Ar2 at break or end of school before next Friday, 14 February, or ask their Art teacher during their next lesson.
Ramadan
The RS Department is organising a display and information for tutors about Ramadan and would like to share the importance of Ramadan to members of our Cams Hill Community.
If you are going to be taking part in Ramadan at the end of this month, I would be grateful if you could email office@camshill.com for the attention of Mrs McCune with answers to the following questions by Friday 14 February. We would only use quotes to share with the pupils, not mentioning any names.
- How does your family and community come together during Ramadan?
- What are some of the challenges of Ramadan?
- Why is Ramadan special/important to you?
- What one word describes Ramadan for you?
Head Lice
We have had a few cases of head lice in our school.
Please check your child’s hair and treat if needed as soon as possible. You can find information about head lice and treatment options on the NHS website:
http://www.nhs.uk/conditions/head-lice-and-nits/
Lost Property
We have a lot of lost property in Main Reception. You are welcome to come into school to look at this. Current lost property will be kept until half term when it will be donated to charity and/or recycled.
Please can you ensure that pupils’ belongings are marked with their names to enable us to return lost items to them. Thank you for your assistance.
Maths Countdown
Sports Results
Years 8/9 Basketball lost to Henry Cort 48-24
Year 9 Netball lost to Portsmouth High School 15-26
Menu w/c 10 February 2025
Whole School Letters Published This Half Term
Below is a list of letters emailed to all parents/carers this half term together with the date and time they were sent. If you are unable to find any of the communications, please email office@camshill.com and we can send you a further copy.
Non-School Uniform Day in aid of Solent Mind – 1340 24/1
African Adventures Fundraising Music Event – 1026 17/1/25
We Will Rock You – 0917 14/1/25
Celebrating our OFSTED Success – 1417 10/1/25
Sustrans Bike It Project – 1031 10/1/25
Statistics
House Points Averages per Pupil for This Week
Year 7 8.24 points
Year 8 5.31 points
Year 9 4.58 points
Year 10 4.48 points
Year 11 4.36 points
Attendance
This week – 93.1%
Same week last year – 91.8%
MathsWatch and Educake
These are two online resources that we expect pupils to be accessing routinely with homework set by teachers and independently to support their progress in Maths, Science, and other subjects. We ask parents/carers to check in with their child to see whether they are accessing these resources routinely and to encourage the best use of them.
If there are issues with access, please bring this to the school’s attention as soon as possible so that we can help.
MathsWatch
Average number of questions answered per pupil this week
Year 7 14.9 questions
Year 8 14.6 questions
Year 9 21.4 questions
Year 10 3.8 questions
Year 11 11.2 questions
Highest Number of questions answered by one pupil this week
Year 7 213 questions
Year 8 68 questions
Year 9 142 questions
Year 10 39 questions
Year 11 111 questions
Over 50% in Maths Homework
Year 7 47%
Year 8 40%
Year 9 59%
Year 10 35%
Year 11 31%
Over 75% in Maths Homework
Year 7 40%
Year 8 28%
Year 9 37%
Year 10 23%
Year 11 14%
100% in Maths Homework
Year 7 24%*
Year 8 10%
Year 9 18%
Year 10 4%
Year 11 6%
*For example, this figure means 27% of Year 7 got 100% in their homework tasks.
Figures in green indicate maintaining or an increase from last week.
Not all Maths homework is set on MathsWatch, which is likely to affect the averages.
Maths Homework Club is open to all Years on Wednesdays in ICT2 until 4pm.
Year 11 Maths Revision on Mondays – see schedule in Maths classrooms for details.
Maths Assessment dates for Spring Term
w/b 10 February – Year 8 – non-calculator paper
w/b 10 February – Year 7 – Calculator paper (tbc)
w/b 25 February – 7 March – Year 11 – 3 full mock papers, one non-calculator
w/b 5 March – Year 10 set 1 – GCSE Statistics mock paper – see letter 29/1
w/b 17 March – Year 10 sets 2 and 3 – two papers, one using a calculator
w/b 24 March – Year 9 – calculator paper
w/b 31 March – Year 8 – calculator paper
w/b 31 March – Year 7 – Non-calculator paper (tbc)
A revision list will be published a week before the assessment to support with homework preparation for the test. Assessments will be marked by the class teacher and then feedback will be given in class along with a pupil feedback sheet to support future learning.
Dates for the diary: Pi Day bake-off – Friday 14 March
Calculators and other equipment for sale
Casio fx-83GT scientific calculators can be bought via Scopay and collected from the Finance Office. Prices of these and other items for sale are shown below:
Casio fx-83GT scientific calculator- £9.00
Pre-packed pencil case – £2.50
Pair of compasses – 29p
Protractor – 9p
100 blank flashcards – £1.00
A range of GCSE Maths revision materials for KS4 use – See Scopay for details
Educake – Science
Average number of questions answered per pupil this week
Year 7 20 questions
Year 8 15 questions
Year 9 42 questions
Year 10 60 questions
Year 11 73 questions
Highest number of questions answered by one pupil this week
Year 7 466 questions
Year 8 144 questions
Year 9 500 questions
Year 10 222 questions
Year 11 575 questions