All students and staff are welcome to buy presents for family and friends!
Seasonal items range from 20p to £10. Please bring cash.
Many Thanks
PTA
Please contact the school office as we have plenty of free products provided by the DfE.
We have a range of sanitary pads and tampons for you to choose from.
Please either give the office a call on: 01727 853047 or email us on: admin@townsend.herts.sch.uk and we will put aside the products for you.
Kind Regards,
Miss Stuckey
DENS is a charity that aims to be the first port of call for people in Dacorum who are facing homelessness, poverty and social exclusion.
Overall Torben has managed to raise over £800 for his charity sleep out! If you wish to donate, please click the link here
Well done Torben!
He has spoken about personal safety when travelling to and from school as well as when out alone. He has also spoken about hate crime and protected characteristics. This follows a piece of work that students have completed in their form groups over the past 2 weeks within their form times.
The topics that students looked into were about extremism, sexism and homophobia, where we are encouraging pupils to call out and report any nasty comments and language when they hear it.
This also supports the work that has been done in their PSHE lessons and form times across the whole year. At Townsend we want pupils to uphold our Respect for All values and be for students to be kind to one another.
PSCO Russo will be spending more time in school in the New Year and students can ask to speak to him if they wish to do so.
PCSO Russo also recommended an app to pupils called Hollie Guard. It allows pupils to put an emergency contact in their phone (for example: parent/carer). If students are ever in trouble when they are out and about, they can hit a button on the app and it will alert their emergency contact. The app can also be used as an alarm as well.
Pupils under the age of 16 need parental consent to sign up to the app.
Miss Gibbons
Assistant Headteacher
The activities that took place were:
Coding – Students used coding skills to programme a Sphero rolling robot to traverse an airport. Working in small groups, students planned their routes and used speed, distance and time calculations, as well as bearings and angles, to accurately steer the Sphero device through their course.
Humanitarian Aid Drone Workshop – Students used Ordnance Survey Maps to plan a helicopter flight route between several waypoints to allow for the shortest distance or time when flown by a drone.
The students had a great day!
Mrs Armitage
Head of Science
Then you are invited to take part in our Christmas card design competition!
Your design should be no bigger than A5 and should reference Townsend School on the front. Get researching to see what is out there and create your own original design.
All entries our to be handed to Miss Bailey for Mr Flack to judge.
We look forward to seeing what you create for next year’s Townsend Christmas card!
DEADLINE- Wednesday 20th December 2023
Miss Bailey
Head of Art
Payment can be made via the school gateway. Please don’t hesitate to contact me if you need assistance with this.
Thank you.
Mr Brooks
Head of Year 7
