Outstanding Performance at Winston
I am delighted to share with you some very exciting news
regarding the performance of students at Winston. Government data arrived just before Christmas
stating that we have:
a value added score of 1017.
A score of 1000 is
expected by the Department for Education but we have achieved 17 points over
that figure, demonstrating that students have made better than expected
progress. Staff and students are to be
congratulated for this excellent outcome.
This information will be available to the public via the DfE
performance tables which will be released later this year. Through these tables it is possible to
compare the outcomes of all schools both local and national; although it is
probably worth pointing out that that the most informative comparisons will be
those made when looking at similar schools.
Exceptional Work
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| Archie produced an exceptional piece of homework for RE. |
Mr McCleish said that it was the most impressive piece of work he has seen for this topic in the last three years.
Lego League Competition
Our trip to the First Lego League Competition did prove to
our Yr 8 team that ‘everything is awesome, everything is cool when your part of
a team’.
On Monday 15th December a team of yr 8 students
made their way to Reading University to take part in the First Lego League competition.
We arrived and launched straight into a series of different challenges. In
their first challenge the students need to split into 2 sub teams, the first
sub team created an object out of lego then only by talking over a divide the
other sub team needed to recreate the model exactly. David Bindschedler was the
star of this task, he gave precise and clear instructions. The model was
perfect. The team then had 3 rounds of Lego robot challenges. They had to
design their robot and then program the robot to perform a series of tasks. Our
second round scored high points and no penalties. Corey Gair, Nishant Vats,
James McNamara and Francis Parker were our chief designers and programmers.
Matthew Woodall put his creative skills to good use with the Apprentice task;
he created ‘Billy’ our team mascot. Finally the team worked together with their
presentation and robot design talks. Additional members included Zak Kingsford,
Jamie Harding, Dominic Buocik and Oliver Coulston. Well done to the team!
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| The Group |
Year 9 Students Visiting a Beauty Salon
Some of our students have the opportunity to take a Beauty Therapy course as part of their Key Stage 4 programme. These students went to see a real working salon as part of the decision making process.
