HALF TERM!

A reminder that the school will be closed to students from Monday 24^th – Friday 28^th October for the Half Term holiday break.  

YEAR 11 PARENTS/CARERS - ADVANCE NOTICE

We will be holding a Destinations Evening (after Year 11) and Study Support Evening for ALL year 11 students and parents /carers on Wednesday November 2^nd at 7pm. We are expecting a FULL attendance at this as there will be something on display or shared that will be relevant for every child and every parent/carer. Please add the date to your diary now! We look forward to seeing you on this important evening. In the meantime if you have queries or questions about GCSE preparation please do contact subject tutors.

Food Tech year 8

A range of chicken fajitas made by year 8 recently. Well done to everyone who worked at the medium and challenge levels!

Food Tech!

Well done to year 8 this week in their omelette challenge. Chefs of the week was Natalie and Addur

Art Christmas competition!

No Pens Day

Dodecahedrons made in maths for no pens day!

Morfa Bay trip last week

Year 10 students enjoyed their weekend away at Morfa Bay for their GCSE PE course!

No Pens Day!

AS Product Design Coffee Cup Challenge on No Pens day. Well done Matthew and Benedict!

Year 10 Food Technology

Well done to Year ten who had to make a British dish of their choice recently. Chef of the week was Yaw for his homemade fish&chips!

Year 7 Art

In Art Year 7 have started the year well studying tonal drawing. They started by producing a tonal bar and drawing four key shapes using a range of tone here is an example by Olivia. They  then moved on to looking at still life focusing on improving their sketching skills and tonal shading. Example by Pippa (still to complete) Great Effort so far ladies!

Youth Connexions

Robert Brown the Youth Connexions Youth Work Team Leader for St Albans Services for Young People will be coming in Tuesday lunch time to promote the services Connexions provides for young people across the district.

DUKE OF EDINBURGH - BRONZE

Townsend’s second qualifying expedition of 2016 will be held this weekend at Hudnall Park Outdoor Centre. There are 24 participants and there were 28 for the first weekend. They are all working towards their Bronze Duke of Edinburgh Award. We wish them all luck with passing their expedition section and also with the weather. If any year 10 students would like to join us for next year please see Mrs Liddington as there are a few places left.

WORSHIP AT TOWNSEND

Our value focus for October is Responsibility ‘For each will have to bear his own load’ Galatians 6:5. Our values for each month will be shared in daily worship sessions. Students will have the opportunity to reflect on their meanings with a particular reference to how we lead our everyday lives.

Last Week's open evening!

Some exciting experiments took place in the Science Department at our open evening last week!

For more information on Townsend or to book your school tour please call 01727 853047

YEAR 11 PARENTS/CARERS - ADVANCE NOTICE

We will be holding a Destinations Evening (after Year 11) and Study Support Evening for ALL year 11 students and parents /carers on Wednesday November 2nd at 7pm. We are expecting a FULL attendance at this as there will be something on display or shared that will be relevant for every child and every parent/carer. Please add the date to your diary now! We look forward to seeing you on this important evening. In the meantime if you have queries or questions about GCSE preparation please do contact subject tutors. 

PHYSICAL EDUCATION update

Another great performance from our Cross Country runners on Thursday in the district competition. 

If any students are playing for sports clubs and competing outside of school please let Miss Pennifold know so we can celebrate and share your successes! 

Fixtures this week: 
Monday 3rd October – Year 10 Basketball away at Nicholas Breakspear 
Wednesday 5th October – Year 8 and Year 9 netball matches vs Nicholas Breakspear at Townsend School 3.30 – 5. 
Thursday 6th October – District Cross Country competition at Verulam school playing fields 3.30 – 5. 

YEAR 11 MORFA BAY 
Year 11 GCSE PE students will be visiting Morfa Bay for an activity and team building weekend leaving school Friday October 7th and returning Monday October 10th. We wish them a good weekend! 

Macmillan bake sale last Friday

Staff and Sixth Form students at Townsend have raised £105 for @macmillancoffee by hosting a cake sale last Friday! Well done to all who gave for this great cause!

DYSLEXIA AWARENESS WEEK

DYSLEXIA AWARENESS WEEK 

October 3rd to October 10th is Dyslexia Awareness Week. For further information and resources do visit the website:

http://www.bdadyslexia.org.uk/fundraising/dyslexia-awareness-week