Anti-Bullying Week

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This Anti-Bullying Week the students have come together to have discussions about what bullying means to us, how banter can turn into something more hurtful, and what we can do to stop bullying.

Throughout this week there have been different activities each day to help promote change and bring an end to bullying. Students have been learning and educating themselves in their form time through quizzes and educational video clips on how to prevent bullying in the future.

One of our activities this week has been biscuit decorating with anti-bullying slogans! Look out for some more pictures of the events that have taken place this week, that will come out on our social media accounts later!

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What you need to know about Smart TV’s

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This guide focuses on one of many issues we believe trusted adults should be aware of. Please visit www.nationalonlinesafety.com for further guides, hints and tips for adults.

Year 8 Trestle Masks

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As well as it being non-uniform day, some of our yr 8 drama students had the opportunity to use the Trestle Masks from the Trestle Theatre company to enhance their drama lesson today.

They had great fun using these masks within their lesson, thank you Mrs Coates for the opportunity!

Theatre Trip

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On Thursday evening, a group of yr9 to yr12 Townsend students and staff went to see ‘The Ocean at the End of the Lane’ at the Noel Coward Theatre.

The staff and students had a lovely evening out, enjoying the unique and unusual theatre production. The production was about a young boy’s journey through a series of magical and terrifying events, which uncovers a magical world! Thank you to Mrs Coates for organising the theatre trip!

Harpenden Christmas Carnival

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The Harpenden Christmas Carnival will lake place on Sunday 26th November.

This magical event is always a fantastic celebration just in time for Christmas!

Mentoring with Step

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This week Helena from Step started mentoring a small group of year 9 students.

To help them increase their confidence and self esteem. The mentoring course runs for 6 weeks and will consist of lots of well-being tools for the students to have ready to use to help build their confidence up. Thank you Helena!

If you would like to hear more about what Step do, please visit their website: https://www.stepschoolswork.org.uk

Year 12 Psychology Lessons

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Some of our yr12 psychology students have been using Skittles to understand ‘sampling’.

The purpose of this activity is to dive deeper into the five sampling methods used within psychology which are: random, opportunity, volunteer, systematic and stratified.

Our yr12 psychology students are also looking after ‘baby’ eggs currently, to also look into attachment theory! Fingers crossed they don’t crack!

School PTA- Volunteers Needed!

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We are looking for volunteers to serve refreshments and sell Festive Hamper Raffle Tickets at various evenings before the end of the autumn term.

Anyone volunteering will be needed to help on any of the following dates:

Wednesday 8th November – 5pm- 8pm- Year 11 Parent Carer Evening

Monday 4th December – (Timings to follow)- Year 10 Work Experience Evening

Thursday 7th December – 5pm- 8pm- Year 10 Parent Carer Evening

Friday 8th December – 6:30pm- 9pm- Christmas Pantomime

Festive Gift Stall (dates TBC, either Fri 15th Dec and Mon 18th Dec OR Mon 18th Dec and Tues 19th Dec). 1:15pm- 1:55pm outside underneath the large canteen awning. Please can students bring in cash on the day if they wish to purchase something.

All money raised provides more facilities for our students. Please if you can supply any goods for the Festive Hampers or our Christmas Present Stall please send them into reception attention of Ian Graham.

Many Thanks,

Ian Graham
PTA Friends of Townsend

 

What you need to know about Live Streaming

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Enrichment Afternoon

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On Thursday afternoon we had our first enrichment afternoon! All students completed a wide range of activities in their year groups.

The themes from the afternoon are below:

Year 7 – Spiritual Reflection (Step workshop)
Year 8 – Relationships and Sex Education
Year 9 – Careers
Year 10 – Spiritual Reflection
Year 11 – Relationships and Sex Education

There were lots of activities, talks and workshops throughout the year groups and all students had an informative afternoon.

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