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Wickersley School & Sports College is an Ofsted Outstanding Secondary School with over 2100 students in Rotherham, South Yorkshire.

Wickersley school staff and students have helped p

Wickersley school staff and students have helped put together care packages for the elderly and those most in need in Wickersley community during the lockdown. Our dedicated team use donations to put these care packages together and deliver them every week to the local community. These are making a real difference to those who are unable to leave their homes. We would like to continue to provide this support to our local community. If you are able to donate to this food bank your support will make a real difference to our local residents and will allow us to continue to support the most vulnerable during this difficult time.⠀
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If you would like to donate we now have two options available, you can either:⠀
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• Bring food donations into school, as usual, school is open Monday to Friday, 8.30AM to 3.30PM. Any donation, however small, will be much appreciated.⠀
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• Donate via our JustGiving Page - Visit the school website for direct link. We would like to raise £500 for our food bank donations.

Some of the visors the Design and Technology Depar

Some of the visors the Design and Technology Department recently manufactured are being used successfully in a Sheffield GP Practice!⠀
#designandtech #helpingthoseinneed #nhsheroes

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We are pleased to announce we have completed the ‘donate to fill a plate’ distance challenge, 8760 miles (which is the distance between Wickersley School and Sports College and Johan Hus Mor school in South Africa) completed in the month of May by 31 students, their families and 16 staff members. 🎉⠀
If you would like to make a donation, please follow this link:https://buff.ly/2MnKaOu⠀
#donateaplate #southafrica #fundraising #challenge #helpingthoseinneed

Ellen Stockdale Y11 has recently won a lockdown ar

Ellen Stockdale Y11 has recently won a lockdown art competition held by Wentworth Woodhouse (13-18 age range). For the competition, Ellen created a watercolour and fineliner painting of the grade 1 listed country house.⠀
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In addition to winning the competition for her age category, Ellen has been invited to afternoon tea at Wentworth Woodhouse and in September she will be a VIP guest at the viewing evening where people will able to see all of the work entered for the competition.⠀
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BBC Radio Sheffield have also invited Ellen to an interview this week to talk more about her work and plans for her future.⠀
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Well done and congratulations Ellen, enjoy the moment and continue to make even more wonderful work!⠀
#artwork #creative #winner #welldone #competition #wentworthwoodhouse⠀
@wentworth_woodhouse

Sienna Lightfoot and Julia Goral in Year 10 have e

Sienna Lightfoot and Julia Goral in Year 10 have each walked a marathon to raise money for Cancer Research – They both completed the distance in one session.⠀
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A great effort from both students, if you would like to contribute to their JustGiving page, you can find the link here:https://buff.ly/2zTOcLM⠀
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https://buff.ly/3dstEbM⠀
#marathon #justgiving #fundraising #cancerresearch

We have our final group of Wickersley Schools Alum

We have our final group of Wickersley Schools Alumni who are supporting us as a community and people throughout the country as key workers on the front line, fighting this pandemic. 🌈👏🏼⠀
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Thank you to everyone who has contributed to our articles over the last few weeks and to everyone supporting us at this current time!⠀
#alumni #WSSC #keyworkers #thankyou

This week we have managed to deliver 18 care packa

This week we have managed to deliver 18 care packages within our local community, this included milk kindly donated by Morrisons. Mr Tipper also brought in some Easter eggs donated by his neighbours.⠀
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With half term next week we will be accepting donations again from 1st June.⠀
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Thank you to everyone for your support!⠀
#community #carepackages #donations

Students continue with their home learning efforts

Students continue with their home learning efforts and are producing some excellent examples of interesting work. We are really pleased with the efforts of the vast majority of students who are showing a great level of independence, something that will stand them in good stead in the future. Working this way, week in week out, creates challenges, but we are pleased to see the teachers and students rise to these challenges. More online teaching has begun this week for Year 10 and Year 12 in the first instance, with teachers using digital technology to teach online, with a chance for questions and answers.⠀
#homelearning #newskills #revision #stayactive #newsletter

The last week of this half term (w/c 18th May) is

The last week of this half term (w/c 18th May) is competition week in Maths for year 7, 8, 9 and 10. We want to see some creative “maths in lockdown” work. You can present it in any way you like, the more creative the better.⠀
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Your work needs to have been submitted to your Maths teacher by Friday 5th June.⠀
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Not sure what to do? 🤔⠀
➕ Think about how you have used or seen Maths whilst you have been in lockdown?⠀
➖ Counting the minutes until lockdown is over… guess what this is Maths! Time is Maths.⠀
✖️ Every time they update you on new cases and show you graphs… this is Maths!⠀
➗ Been baking? Can you think of where the Maths is in that?⠀
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We hope this sparks your imagination… now go be creative!!! Good luck!⠀
#maths #competition #creative

Hannah Walker Y9 has been keeping herself busy dur

Hannah Walker Y9 has been keeping herself busy during lockdown by helping out her family and getting involved in lots of activities. ⠀
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Hannah has learnt to make homemade chicken goujons, bake a cake and make diamond art. She has also been spending lots of time outdoors walking and taking photographs as well as helping her mum and dad landscape their garden.⠀
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Well done Hannah!⠀
#homelearning #newskills #community #family

Year 7 Student Frank Markham has been finding lots

Year 7 Student Frank Markham has been finding lots of creative ways to complete work whilst at home. Frank recently made a cake and combined his art project with baking decorating it with a fab lolly.⠀
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BASE has also been giving some of their student’s bird boxes to put together and decorate and this is Frank’s completed bird home.⠀
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What a great effort Frank, well done!⠀
#fantasticwork #homelearning #birdhouse #homecooking #art

A full and comprehensive Trust wide risk assessmen

A full and comprehensive Trust wide risk assessment on the reopening of schools in June is now available to view on the school website. ⠀
#wpt #riskassessment #safety #staysafe

Lexi Goward Y7 has been using some of her free tim

Lexi Goward Y7 has been using some of her free time to learn new skills, recently Lexi has been working really hard learning how to touch type.⠀
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Although she doesn’t need to learn this it is a valuable life skill which will help her in the future.⠀
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Well done Lexi!⠀
#touchtype #newskill #homelearning #stayactive

We are still continuing to produce care packages o

We are still continuing to produce care packages of food and basic essentials for the elderly and vulnerable in the local area.⠀
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If you are passing school on your way back from the shops, please consider donating a few items to our food bank if you are able. School is open Monday to Friday, 8.30 to 3.30. Any donation, however small, will be much appreciated and allow us to keep supporting our community.⠀
#donations #community #helpingthoseinneed #carepackages

You are living through history right now, and in t

You are living through history right now, and in the future, your personal account of what life was like during the Coronavirus pandemic will be more powerful than any textbook could ever describe. To help share your story Wickersley School are building a time capsule, and we would love you to be involved.⠀
#timecapsule #makinghistory #community

This week we have two rounds of recognition for Wi

This week we have two rounds of recognition for Wickersley Schools Alumni who are supporting us as a community and people throughout the country as key workers on the front line, fighting this pandemic. 🌈👏🏼⠀
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Thank you to everyone who has contributed to our article so far, check back on Friday for our next installment!⠀
#keyworker #NHS #helpingthoseinneed #alumni

Yesterday Mrs Dyson spent the day putting up a dis

Yesterday Mrs Dyson spent the day putting up a display of all the artwork sent in from students throughout the time at home. Well Done Everyone! 🎨⠀
https://buff.ly/2At0PgO

Do you have a STAR teacher? Do you miss seeing the

Do you have a STAR teacher? Do you miss seeing them every day? This Thank A Teacher Day let’s take the opportunity to say thank you to all our amazing teachers and support staff, who are doing a star job each and every day.⠀
https://buff.ly/3bx9hYY⠀
#howwillyousaythankyou #ThankATeacher

Please visit the school website for information le

Please visit the school website for information letter re plans to partially re-open school for some Year 10 and 12 lessons before the summer holidays.⠀
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Alice Carroll Y7 has been practising her art skill

Alice Carroll Y7 has been practising her art skills to show her appreciation for all the fabulous key workers.⠀
#art #community #keyworkers #staysafe

Another great week for seeing excellent examples o

Another great week for seeing excellent examples of working from home last week! It looks like staff and students have been finding creative ways to adapt to this remote learning, and whilst it can’t replace you coming to school and being in your lessons, we’re really happy to see you have a good go at the work you’ve been set.⠀
#homelearning #newsletter #greatwork

Last week we once again helped to deliver care pac

Last week we once again helped to deliver care packages to elderly people within our community, thank you to Mr Barnett for helping to raise money in school for purchasing produce. Students in school have had fun including letters and puzzles and Miss Cox and Miss Whitham have also done a great job of delivering care packages in the community. #community #donations #staysafe

As you may be aware around 46 students and 7 staff

As you may be aware around 46 students and 7 staff members went to South Africa last year to work on community projects which had huge impacts on our lives. ⠀
Four days ago, we had a plea for help from the expedition leaders to see if we could do anything to help a particular school community close to our hearts that is, unfortunately, experiencing a ‘crisis’ during this global epidemic. The Primary school, Johan Hus Mor in Tsitsikamma is currently closed like all schools but the alarming issue is that around 70% of the students and families rely solely on the school to provide these children with their primary food and nutritional intake. Sadly, families are now struggling to provide and afford food for their families and some are at crisis point. The school would like to provide hot nutritional food via volunteers for these poorer families but need the funds to do so.⠀
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This is how we have responded:⠀
Our amazing students, their families and the PE staff are going to cover the distance in the month of May between the two schools!! 8760 miles to be precise. This is a HUGE challenge and we have estimated between us that we need to collectively cover around 300 miles a day on foot or by bicycle. We are currently on target. We also set out to raise £1000 for this aid response (Donate to fill a plate) and have just surpassed the target which is amazing. We are so proud of the commitment and generosity from our students, families and staff involved.⠀
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If you would like to make a donation, please visit the school website. ⠀
#donations #justgiving #community #support #crisis

Following the Prime Minister’s announcement yest

Following the Prime Minister’s announcement yesterday evening, we are anticipating further clarity over the next few days. We are expecting the government to provide explicit guidance for schools to ensure any decisions we make have student safety at the core. As soon as we are in a position to relay any future plans we will do so with urgency. In the meantime, please continue to work hard and never give less than your best with your ongoing home learning. I am so grateful for the continued support all our parents and students have shown during this challenging time. Take care and stay safe.⠀
#schoolupdate #guidance

In light of the upcoming 75th anniversary of VE Da

In light of the upcoming 75th anniversary of VE Day on Friday 8th May, this week’s newsletter is all about the event. 🇬🇧⠀
Victory in Europe Day, generally known as VE Day, is a day celebrating Germany’s unconditional surrender of its armed forces on Tuesday, 8 May 1945. The newsletter has more information about D Day, Wickersley staff stories about their own heroes and how to celebrate the anniversary in lockdown.⠀
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To view the full newsletter please visit the school website.⠀
#VEday #victoryineurope #celebration

After receiving over 90 entries, we are really exc

After receiving over 90 entries, we are really excited to announce the winners of our Design a Birthday Card competition!⠀
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Congratulations to…⠀
Darcy Stanley (Monkwood), Esmae Swallow (Ashwood), Faye Scott (Monkwood), Chloe Duddill (Sandhill), Isabelle Pitman (Gainsborough) and Meisha Brown (Gainsborough)!⠀
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We’re busy working on turning your designs into the finished product, and we’ll reveal these next week. Well done and thank you to everyone who took part.

We have been working hard to ensure that Year 11 a

We have been working hard to ensure that Year 11 are given the celebration they deserve. The Year 11 prom will now be held in the same venue, The Holiday Inn Barnsley, but on the revised date of Thursday 22nd of October 2020. Unfortunately, we are still fully reliant on factors that are out of our control. As much as we hope the prom goes ahead on this date, there is no certainty that it will and we may have no option but to look into yet another date change. We simply have to try and adapt to the current situation as and when. Should social distancing requirements still be in place then we will be in contact.⠀
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If this date is no longer suitable for you, please can you email Mrs Burton on jburton@wickersley.net and she will arrange a refund from Parentpay. However, ParentPay is currently receiving a high volume of requests and the refunds may take longer than usual. If you have not already paid, we have now changed the deadline date for payment of the Prom, which is £35.00, to the 1st September 2020.⠀
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We thank everyone for the patience and understanding.⠀
#prom #leavers2020 #year11

Last week Gabby Pilgrim Y10 volunteered her time t

Last week Gabby Pilgrim Y10 volunteered her time to make wellbeing activity bags full of crayons, colouring books, a coronavirus diary and sweets for young SEN children in our local community. Her kindness and selflessness are outstanding and an inspiration to us all.⠀
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Well done Gabby!⠀
#volunteer #community #wellbeing

Introducing another round of our Wickersley School

Introducing another round of our Wickersley Schools Alumni key worker heroes, who are supporting us as a community and people throughout the country as key workers on the front line, fighting this pandemic. .👏🏼🌈⠀
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Thank you to everyone who has contributed to our article again this week and we look forward to celebrating even more next week!

Introducing another round of our Wickersley School

Introducing another round of our Wickersley Schools Alumni key worker heroes, who are supporting us as a community and people throughout the country as key workers on the front line, fighting this pandemic. .👏🏼🌈⠀
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Thank you to everyone who has contributed to our article again this week and we look forward to celebrating even more next week!

To all students of Wickersley School – we are mi

To all students of Wickersley School – we are missing you!⠀
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It’s been six weeks now since lockdown began, and it’s been tough for everyone, but we are starting to see the benefits of what we’ve been doing.⠀
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We don’t know yet when we will be back at school, or how that will happen, but the staff want you to know that they are thinking of you and missing the day to day interactions we used to take for granted. Thanks, Miss Adlington, for putting together this slideshow of messages from staff! The video can be viewed on the school website. ⠀
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Stay with it, stay at home, stay safe, and we’ll come out of this stronger.⠀
#stayhome #staysafe #staywithit

Don't forget there's still time to enter the WPT B

Don't forget there's still time to enter the WPT Birthday Card Competition, you have until the end of the day to send in all entries, please visit the school website for more information. Happy designing! 🎨🎉

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