Dear Parents and Carers
It was such a pleasure to meet with so many parents and carers during Thursday's Parents' Evening and Fridays Academic Review Day. For so many of our children this was a richly well-deserved opportunity for parents and school to come together and celebrate the extraordinary efforts, increasing independence and growing maturity of pupils over their time in Soane.
Technology: A number of parents want to know what more they can do to support their children to thrive academically and socially: for the vast majority of children the answer lies in improving their relationship with technology: taking every step to get them away from mobile phones and computer games and towards reading, socialising and outdoor activities. Please continue to resist the urge to give your child a smartphone or games console - if you would like the school to look after these to improve sleep, social interactions and study habits then please do let your child's form tutor know. If we have specific concerns about your child's relationship with technology then we will let you know.
Sixth Form Admissions: Please note that today is the last day for our admissions consultation (https://arksoane.org/admissions/consultation) in which we are setting out our proposed admissions arrangements for the Sixth Form. Please do email the school if you have any comments.
We look forward to seeing all children return to school at the normal time tomorrow.
This week's highlights
It was a busy week as the pupils began their hustings for student council! There was a fantastic turnout in 7 Ramesses as 10 members of the form stood up to do their speeches, and the campaigns even took to the playground, including this brilliant poster by Faye (7 Cleopatra).
The year 7s also got to enjoy their first science practicals of the year this week, and their teachers were incredibly impressed with the teamwork, focus, and accuracy of the pupils!
There was also a number of exciting sporting fixtures this week. The year 7 boys football team progressed into the cup semi-final on Wednesday after a 1-0 victory over Featherstone, with Micah being the goal-scorer and Baran having a great game. The year 8 boys similarly had an entertaining 2-2 draw with Pheonix Academy on Thursday, coming from behind twice to get the draw, and with Adam C winning Man of the Match. Well done boys!
Clubs this week
All clubs will run this week. You will receive an email from the school office with the club(s) your child has secured a place for. Clubs run from 3:30PM-4:40PM at Soane. Students receiving any reflections of any length cannot attend clubs and must go straight home. Our clubs are very popular, if your child no longer wishes to take up their place in a club, please email firstname.lastname@example.org so we can allocate this to another student.
If you need face-to-face assistance then the school office is open during term-time from 8am-4pm. So that we can deal with email enquiries promptly please see the school email addresses below:
- General Enquiries – email@example.com
- Attendance - firstname.lastname@example.org
- Free School Meals - email@example.com