Thank you

Please remember that we have the INSET day on Wednesday 13 March. The school will be closed for students.

For Parents/Carers

Our Year 12 Virtual Online Parents’ Evenings will be running on Thursday 21 March 3.45pm - 6.45pm for lessons taught at both Cotham Learning and Redland Green Learning Communities.  This event will be held virtually, via our online Parents Evening System platform.  You will have the opportunity to book video appointments for each of the courses your child studies.  While we use the same software for booking and appointments at both sites, they are separately hosted so you will need to ensure you do not double book an appointment slot. 

A huge thank you to Miss Knight and Mr Farmer for taking 12 of our refugees and Asylum seekers students to Shallowford farm last week for three days.  The students all came back beaming and had such a positive experience.  Thank you for offering them such a great opportunity to fully immerse themselves in nature, and the farm community and most of all for giving them a much-needed breather.  Thank you also to our wonderful students, feedback from the staff at Shallowford was excellent. 

A huge congratulations to the swimmers:

Tom Year 7, Mia Year 7, George Year 8,  Imogen Year 10, Rosie Year 10, Gen Year 10, Martha Year 10 who took part on Sundays swimathon.  They swam an incredible 684 lengths between them, raising over £500 for St Peters Hospice.

If you would like to support them here is the link here.

Miss Bingham - Faculty Lead MFL

Year 7 are finishing their French part of the carousel and will be moving onto Spanish.  This is their final language in the carousel.

In Spanish students will be learning how to meet and greet one another.  Students will be able to describe themselves in Spanish with basic details such as names, ages, birthdays and say where they live.

There is a focus on oracy and developing confidence with Spanish pronunciation and taking part in short conversations in Spanish. 

Two teams from Year 9 competed in the Airbus regional highflyer finals.  Throughout the day teams were judged on there engineering skills and had to complete a range of tasks as well as present on the glider they had built and designed earlier in the year. 

Out of the 20 teams that qualified for the regional final 1 of our teams took 3rd place and qualified for the national final. 

Congratulations to the three girls involved in team REN you have made us very proud! 

Shoutouts for 10Z/Fr1: Mr Dutton

• Bonita - making so much progress and showing amazing reading and translation skills on a Higher text

• Sooniya - showing so much creativity and imagination in your written General Conversation answers

• Logan - completing higher reading and translation tasks and always aiming to achieve more

• Suhayb - actively participating and articulating strong spoken answers to spontaneous questions

• Leo - consistently scoring such high marks on vocab challenges and using the vocab in reading tasks

• Sasha - demonstrating an impressive focus and doing the higher listening without reading the transcript

• Agnes - already using top grade complex structures and tenses in your writing tasks

Shout out from Art

• Miss Forbes gives a shout out to - Sasha who has done an incredible double page on acrylic painting

Cotham's own Young Enterprise business "EcoEdge" had a tremendously successful day at their trade event at Cabot Circus last weekend.  Despite a slow start and the bitter weather they managed to make over £150 by selling their sustainable chopping boards to the public.  They also picked up awards for "Best Company" and "Best Trade Stand" from the judges and  we are all extremely proud of them. 

The students only have limited stock of their boards left so get your orders in quick !

Thank you to the large number of parents and carers who attended our Post Mock Surgery.  The conversations were purposeful and we were impressed by the high levels of maturity and responsibility of our students.  Please contact Yasmin Mohamed if you were unable to attend your appointment

The MFL department award the Linguist of the Month certificates to students who have shown tremendous effort in their French, Spanish, or German lessons.  They will receive a lolly and a certificate in their next MFL lesson

Any questions please email Mr Dutton at duttonp@cotham.bristol.sch.uk

Congratulations to Sophia in Year 7!  She has won 2nd place in the art competition 'Pollution to Solution', organised by the Eco Church, Victoria Methodist. 

The Year 7 art students entered some very impressive work, and these pieces have been awarded highly commended.  Their work will be displayed at the Victoria Methodist Church in Clifton this Saturday. Well done year 7!

Synonyms:

Refuge, haven, shelter....