Chace Community School

What do you get when, on a Friday morning, you add together a group of Year 9 students, their parents/carers and Maths staff in the School Hall? The answer is a really successful workshop for parents and students solving Maths problems together. Thank you to Ms Kubiangha for organising this, our first workshop. Feedback was so positive that there will be more opportunities for parents/carers to come along and learn Maths together with their daughters/sons.

The sun shone on the Year 10 geographers as they took part in their GCSE field work this weekend in beautiful Hardy country. Here they are at Durdle Door, a natural limestone arch on the Jurassic Coast near Lulworth Cove. Thank you to Ms Charlebois, Ms Cleave, Mr Clare and Ms Savage for leading the trip. Well done to the students who were great to work with.

Our friends at Michamvi School, Zanzibar, sent photos to show us the progress of their building work and send their thanks to Chace for our support. When the building work is complete it will have 4 classrooms and a school hall. Together we have made a difference.

2 of our enthusiastic Year 10 students are put through their paces at Bassingbourn Barracks!!!

Thank you to Ms Sanderson and her excellent Year 10 support, Daniel, for organising an action packed careers trip for Year 10 students to Bassingbourn Barracks. They had a great day out despite the rain and were complimented by the coach driver who was impressed by their behaviour. He described Chace students as a 'quiet, respectful' and 'the best school he's ever had' - praise indeed for our Year 10s - great ambassadors for Chace. Well done!

Move It 2012 was held at Olympia last month and Chace dancers were really lucky to be taught a Streetdance class by Tobias Mead, who was a finalist on Britain's Got Talent! As well as watching live performances in many different styles from Cheerleading and Street Dance to Ballet and Contemporary, they also had the opportunity to find out about furthering their dance experience at colleges and Dance companies.

Post-16 English, Media and Film students extended their studies on a trip to Berlin during the Easter holidays, visiting Sachsenhausen Concentration camp, key historical and memorial sites in the city, Babelsberg Film Studios, Radfunk - Germany's Public Service Broadcasting station and the Berlin Film and Television Museum. It was a fabulously eye-opening experience for all.

Our Post 16 artists were inspired on their successful trip to Venice at Easter and we look forward to seeing the influence of this wonderful adventure and learning journey in their forthcoming artwork.

CONGRATULATIONS to Year 7 student, Chloe, who has won the Enfield Fourth Plinth School Award for this fabulous piece of artwork entitled 'Don't Cry Over Spilt Paint'. Chloe's winning work will be on show at the exhibition at the City Hall.

'Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.' This quote from this week's REFLECTION challenges us all to make the right choices and work hard to achieve success. We returned to successful learning today (16.4.12) and I am looking forward to a successful term with ALL Chace students making the choice to be in full uniform, ready for learning and AIMING TO BE THE BEST THEY CAN BE and succeeding.