Black Country news and blogs Sunday 13 December 2015
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Tis the Season to DO Maths… 
Pool Hayes Arts & Community School 13 Dec 15
Maths intervention work has seen a seasonal twist with measurements, area, shape and past exam papers being tied into the festive period.
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Leaders of the Future: Lifesavers
Barr Beacon School 11 Dec 15
We would all like to think we would be cool and calm in an emergency situation.
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Young Chef Competition
Barr Beacon School 11 Dec 15
Well done to the eight ‘ budding Chefs’ Morgan Garrand 9B2, Sohan Bhandari 10B1, Callum Burnet 10B1, Josh Holsey 10B1, Hollie Thornhill 10C1, Kenya Heath 9 M1, Scott Robinson 10W1 and Ushnah Badar 10W1 who have taken part in the Rotary Young …
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Thursday’s Christmas Bakers
Pool Hayes Arts & Community School 11 Dec 15
‘Dasher and dancer have joined Santa today ’…also check out the stretch and challenge attempt at a 3D biscuit…harder than you think year 7…
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Creating Christmas Biscuit Houses
Pool Hayes Arts & Community School 9 Dec 15
It was lovely to see pupils from all year groups as well as staff working together and sharing ideas, and getting a tad competitive at times when creating Christmas biscuit houses at lunchtime on Tuesday 8th December in art.
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Competition winner meets Father Christmas!
Delves Junior School 9 Dec 15
Recently, one lucky child won the Design a Christmas Tree Competition.
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Germany Trip Updates
Barr Beacon School 9 Dec 15
Day one: “All arrived after a long day travelling, eaten dinner and now unpacking and getting an early night ready for our adventures tomorrow!” Day two: “Lovely weather today, even the sun is out! Spent the morning browsing the Christmas …
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Do you want to be a nurse or midwife or paramedic?
Pool Hayes Arts & Community School 8 Dec 15
On Monday 7th December 11 students plus parent sat in on a very informative talk by Kim Turner from the University Of Wolverhampton Faculty Of Health.
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Christmas Jumper Day
Pool Hayes Arts & Community School 8 Dec 15
Reminder that Wednesday 9th December is “Christmas Jumper Day”.
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Politicians For The Day
Barr Beacon School 8 Dec 15
Students from Barr Beacon School have been to London to experience the realities of being an EU politician.
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Academy Status Consultation
Pool Hayes Arts & Community School 8 Dec 15
The Academy Consultation Evening took place on 7th December 2015 and was attended by almost 40 parents who expressed their views on the school’s planned switch to academy status with the Academy Transformation Trust (ATT).
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6th Form Discuss Crime
Pool Hayes Arts & Community School 7 Dec 15
By Chanel Kainth year 12 16 Pool Hayes sociology students joined hundreds of other post 16 students across the region in Birmingham last week to take part in a Criminology conference with a variety of academics from the discipline.
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Disability Awareness Week
Pool Hayes Arts & Community School 3 Dec 15
Disability awareness has been the school’s focus this week whereby pupils have been asked to think about what it would be like to live with a disability.
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Christmas Has Started
Pool Hayes Arts & Community School 3 Dec 15
Christmas has started in food…..
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Joyeux Noël and Bonne Année!
Delves Junior School 2 Dec 15
In the run up to the Christmas holidays all children in school will be learning about and taking part in fun activities as part of their French lessons all about Christmas, New Year and and the festive period.
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Christmas 2015 – Early Closure
Oldbury Academy 2 Dec 15
On Friday 18th December, school will close at 12.30pm for students.
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Academy Status Consultation
Pool Hayes Arts & Community School 2 Dec 15
Pool Hayes Arts Community School has announced it is consulting to change to Academy Status with their proposed sponsor being the Academy Transformation Trust.
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Duke of Edinburgh Licence for Pool Hayes
Pool Hayes Arts & Community School 2 Dec 15
Mr Allman and Miss Sheridan recently attended a star studded event at Middleton Hall to collect the Duke of Edinburgh Licence for Pool Hayes.
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Vaughan Christmas Foodbank Challenge
Pool Hayes Arts & Community School 2 Dec 15
Over the next couple of weeks, Vaughan are going to help feed hungry people in Walsall by donating to the Foodbank.
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The Fire Service Visit To The Hub
Pool Hayes Arts & Community School 1 Dec 15
On Wednesday 25 th November and Monday 30 th November the West Midlands Fire Service came into the Hub to deliver sessions on Road Safety, Life in the Fire Service and Personal Safety to Year 10 and Year 11 Hub Students.
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CA Sport: WAKE UP! Saturday Badminton
Joseph Leckie CA 1 Dec 15
Filed under: Uncategorized…
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Are Year 7 The Team To Watch For The Future?
Pool Hayes Arts & Community School 1 Dec 15
As a PE teacher, we love to get as many students excited and engaged in an array of extracurricular sports as possible regardless of the good headache it causes when picking teams for fixtures.
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Beacon’s Got Talent 2015
Barr Beacon School 30 Nov 15
An array of acts auditioned for our annual Beacon’s Got Talent 2015 live show.
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Y7 & Y8 “Make A Noise”
Pool Hayes Arts & Community School 30 Nov 15
On Monday 23 rd November and Friday 27 th November both Year 7 and Year 8 took part in this years’ anti-bullying campaign ‘Make A Noise’.
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GCSE Art Work Pupil Standardisation
Pool Hayes Arts & Community School 30 Nov 15
Pupils in Miss Kew’s and Miss Liversidge’s year 10 art group were taken into a specialist room where a gallery exhibition was set up of pupils GCSE work from Streetly school.
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CA Communities: Public consultation on Walsall Libraries
Joseph Leckie CA 30 Nov 15
Received from Rita Mills, Strategic Manager- Development Central Library, Lichfield St, Walsall, WS1 1TR Tel: 01922 653111 www.
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Y8 Basketball
Pool Hayes Arts & Community School 27 Nov 15
Walsall schools basketball campaign kick off.
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GCSE Dancers Make A Noise About Bullying
Pool Hayes Arts & Community School 27 Nov 15
Year 10 GCSE dancers have wowed their audiences with their group dance performance based on the whole school focus “Anti-Bullying”.
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Santa Run 2015
Pool Hayes Arts & Community School 26 Nov 15
THE GREAT TILDESLEY SANTA RUN 2015! On Wednesday 2 nd December pupils from Tildesley House will be taking part in our very own Santa Run in aid of our charity, Acorns Hospice.
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Tildesley Makes A Noise About Bullying
Pool Hayes Arts & Community School 26 Nov 15
TILDESLEY MAKES A NOISE ABOUT BULLYING! During anti-bullying week pupils from Tildesley have been busy sending out the message that we all need to speak out about bullying.
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Carpenter maintain the excellent attendance
Pool Hayes Arts & Community School 25 Nov 15
Carpenter House won the attendance trophy last academic year and are currently leading the attendance this year with 96.39%.
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Carpenter Benefit from behaviour Knock outs
Pool Hayes Arts & Community School 25 Nov 15
Some students who have demonstrated some challenging behaviours around school in Carpenter House have been attending lunch clubs in PE to channel their behaviour in a positive aspect.
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Rangoli Pattern Competition
Pool Hayes Arts & Community School 25 Nov 15
Following on from Year 7’s special Diwali-themed Spanish lesson, Year 7 students were all invited to take part in a Rangoli pattern competition.
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Traditional Christmas Lunch at Pool Hayes
Pool Hayes Arts & Community School 24 Nov 15
The Pool Hayes tradition of a fantastic Christmas lunch is on the horizon and is already getting everyone’s mouths watering.
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Vacancy for Parent Governor
Leamore Primary School 22 Nov 15
Parent Governors Newsletter…
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Y5 Newsletter – 20/11/15
Leamore Primary School 22 Nov 15
Y5 Newsletter 20-11-15…
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Skills Show 2015
Pool Hayes Arts & Community School 22 Nov 15
40 students from Year 10 and 13 have visited the Skills Show.
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Newman University Talk
Pool Hayes Arts & Community School 20 Nov 15
As University applications are being sent off by many of our Sixth Formers and a number of students are starting to receive offers, the Sixth Form were given a highly informative talk on interview techniques led by Newman University.
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Key Diary Dates
Pool Hayes Arts & Community School 19 Nov 15
Christmas is approaching quickly and it can certainly be a busy time for families.
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Year 7 Netball Winners
Pool Hayes Arts & Community School 19 Nov 15
Yet another fantastic win for the Year 7 Netball team.
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David McQueen Talk
Pool Hayes Arts & Community School 19 Nov 15
Year 10 and 11 Student and Parent Evening – David McQueen Talk – #iammagnificent On Wednesday 18 November a number of targeted Students in Year 10 and Year 11 were invited to hear a talk from David McQueen.
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Exam Certificates
Barr Beacon School 19 Nov 15
Exam Certificates for Summer 2015 are now in school.
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Christmas tree competition winner!
Delves Junior School 17 Nov 15
Congratulations to Mason Jones from class 3 who won the design a Christmas tree competition.
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Vaughan House Charity – Walsall North Foodbank
Pool Hayes Arts & Community School 17 Nov 15
Vaughan House, along with other members of the school, were proud donate £89.92 and 207kg of food to Walsall North Foodbank at the end of last half term and preparations are already underway for our Christmas Fundraising plans.
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Sixth Form Open Event
Oldbury Academy 17 Nov 15
Find out more about our excellent range of post 16 courses and what we can offer you! Applications are welcome from external students alongside our transferring Year 11 students.
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Diwali week
Pool Hayes Arts & Community School 16 Nov 15
As part of our celebration of different cultures in modern Britain, our Focus Week has been on Diwali and has seen a wide range of special events and activates designed to boost awareness and tolerance of other cultures and ideas.
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Press Release
Pool Hayes Arts & Community School 13 Nov 15
“Energy, Enthusiasm and Transformational Vision” Pool Hayes Arts Community School was inspected by OFSTED last month and, although the report flagged up areas to work on, it was the strongest report the school has achieved and celebrated the “…
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Make a Noise About Bullying!
Barr Beacon School 13 Nov 15
This year the Champions Against Bullying Committee will be joining in with the national ‘Making A Noise About Bullying’ campaign.
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Inspiring Workshops With Northern Ballet School Professional
Pool Hayes Arts & Community School 12 Nov 15
Over the last two weeks the GCSE dancers have been involved with choreography and performance workshops from our very own professional dancer Jack Brownhill.
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Remembrance – November 2015
Pool Hayes Arts & Community School 12 Nov 15
Remembrance Sunday, which fell on 8 th November in 2015, is a day for the nation to remember and honour those who have sacrificed themselves to secure and protect our freedom.