Month: November 2023

Head of School’s Blog – 10 November 2023

Written by Gemma Long on November 10, 2023. Posted in HoS Blog - MC, Medina College.

Head of School’s Blog – 10 November 2023

Welcome back to a new half term!

I hope all students have had a restful half term and have come back to school refreshed for the weeks ahead. For our Year 11 students in particular, it is a busy half term with mock exams taking place, so please encourage them to access as many after school revision sessions as possible. We also have our VI Form Opening Evening taking place on Thursday 16 November (at The Island VI Form campus) between 5-8pm, please come along and see what we have to offer.

You will have hopefully seen the letter I sent out about our ‘Call it Out’ campaign this week. This will be launched to students during assemblies next week. We strongly encourage you to continue to have conversations with your children about the power of words and using ones which inspire positivity rather than negativity.

Congratulations to our boys football team who managed to play a game against Ryde Academy (despite the weather!) and secured a victory of 7-1. We also hosted an excellent cross country running event for all secondary schools on the Island yesterday. Well done to all involved! Remember, we have a host of after school and lunch clubs that students can get involved in, sporting and non-sporting.

This morning, we held our Act of Remembrance and took part in a two minute silence to honor those who have served and remember their sacrifice. Unfortunately, the weather meant that we were not able to come together as a whole school community as we usually would. My thanks go to Mrs Southwell who organised a virtual alternative where we were able to broadcast the Act of Remembrance into every classroom. Thanks also go to Mr Len Pullinger from Vectis Brass Band who came in to play the Last Post and Reveille.

Please can I draw your attention to this letter from the Violence Reduction Unit Director for Hampshire and Isle of Wight regarding knife crime awareness.

Lastly, well done to our hot chocolate recipients this week: Jacob, Niall, August, Grace, Jayden, Harrison, Marika, Adam, Millie and Tommy.

Have a lovely weekend.

Mr Pearce-Jones

Head of School – Medina College

Head of School’s Blog – 10 November 2023

Written by Gemma Long on November 10, 2023. Posted in Carisbrooke College, HoS Blog - CC.

Head of School’s Blog – 10 November 2023

Welcome back to a new half term! I hope you had a good break, despite the wet weather.

I have had the pleasure of leading the assemblies this week. My focus is always on sharing with our students our mission statement which is ASPIRE & ACHIEVE. Our core values are built around ASPIRE which are Ambition, Success, Progress, Inspirations, Respect and Equality. My focus this half term is on Respect. I talked about ‘The Animals’ war – Remembrance Day from a different perspective.

Today we held our Remembrance Service in school. Unfortunately due to the wet weather, it was held indoors this year but we received a beautifully played Last Post by Mary Teague and readings from Eleanor C which were heard over the tannoy system. It was very sombre and the respect shown by the school community was outstanding. We are so proud of them.

It was good to see so many year 11 students come into school for the revision sessions over the holiday. Huge thanks to the staff for running these. There are a number of revision sessions available to year 11 leading up to their rehearsal exams – please encourage them to attend. Next Thursday, 16 November, we have our Island VI Form open evening from 5.00 pm – 8.00 pm. If your child is considering post 16 education, please come along and see what the college has to offer.

The students who visited Vietnam over the holiday had a fantastic time! Take a look at the pictures of the trip on our facebook and instagram pages. The students were amazing and made the staff on the trip very proud!

On Monday we are having ‘Odd Socks’ day. Students and staff are encouraged to wear odd socks for the day for £1 which will be donated to the Anti-Bullying Alliance.

Finally, can I please draw your attention to this letter from the Violence Reduction Unit Director for Hampshire and Isle of Wight regarding knife crime awareness.

Have a good weekend.

Miss Begley

Head of School – Carisbrooke College

Act of Remembrance

Written by Gemma Long on November 10, 2023. Posted in Medina College, News - MC.

Act of Remembrance

Ahead of Armistice Day this weekend, we held our Act of Remembrance this morning and took part in a two minute silence to honor those who have served and remember their sacrifice.

Unfortunately, the weather meant that we were not able to come together as a whole school community as we usually would. Thankfully, Mrs Southwell organised a virtual alternative where we were able to broadcast the act of remembrance into every classroom.

Mr Len Pullinger from Vectis Brass Band came in to play the Last Post and Reveille. Year 11 readers, Nishani and Dillon, did a fantastic job as readers for the exhortation and Kohima Epitaph, and a poppy wreath was presented by Ashleigh, Josh and Ethan.

They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them.

Year 7 Disco!

Written by Gemma Long on November 10, 2023. Posted in Carisbrooke College, News - CC.

Year 7 Disco!

To celebrate a very successful first half term at Carisbrooke College, Year 7 had a School Disco on 16 October.

It was so lovely to see all students (and staff!) getting involved and having a great time. We saw some fantastic dancing and, even more impressive, was seeing students who were gently encouraging others who were worried to give dancing a go.

AJ, who put on our Disco commented on how lovely our year 7 students were and that they are a credit to the School. I am a very proud Head of Year 7! As always, thank you for being awesome!

Mrs Lythgoe