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Welcome to our Archived News section. On this page you will find the relevant news and information from the previous term.
Please click here to view the certificate presented to the Boys Freefall Dance Group for thier efforts during the recent Healthy Schools Competition.
We welcomed Philip Cox to Alderbrook to work with all year seven classes in art. Philip is a recognised sculptor working primarily with cardboard. who has had some major exhibitions around the country. He has created animals with the year sevens making ties with the rainforest project previously studied in art. Please click on the pictures to see enlarged images.
The closing date for applications for next year's instrumental lessons is this Friday 25th June. Please ensure all forms are returned by this date. Lessons cannot take place unless a form has been received by this date.
Alderbrook's annual fashion show will be taking place on Thursday 1st July from 7 to 9pm. Tickets will for this unmissable event will be available shortly.
As examinations are taking place this week the revised timetable will operate until FRIDAY 25TH JUNE. The structure of the day will remain as follows.Period 1 8:30 - 9:30
Period 2 9:30 - 10:30
Break 10:30 - 10:50
Period 3 10:50 - 11:50
Period 4 11:50 - 12:50
Lunch 12:50 - 13:40
Period 5 13:40 - 14:40
Registration 14:40 - 15:05
During the school summer holiday the school nurses are holding drop In sessions at a number of Children’s Centres around Solihull Borough. Please click here to view the session times.
The Please follow the link below for further details of this year's Future Chef competition.
The Open Evening for Community Dance will be held on Thursday 27th May. If you are interested in joining the Asian Flava group please come to the Edge between 6:30 and 7:30pm. If you want more details about the Solihull Youth Dance Company please come to the Edge between 7:30 and 9:00pm. Alternatively please contact Mrs Sita Manghnani Hans via the School Office.
Please click here for details of the forthcoming exhibition.
Please click here for Alderbrook School's mobile phone policy.
Catering services are pleased to announce that pupils may purchase baguettes, sandwiches, filled rolls, homebakes, drinks, fruit and yoghurt from the new Malley's servery. It is open every lunchtime opposite Malley Hall. We hope to see you there soon.
Don't forget to bring in your school vouchers from Sainsbury's and Tesco's. Over the last three years we have used these vouchers to collect Science, I.T., P.E. and Food Technology equipment. Using these vouchers saves the school money!!
The dates of terms and holidays for the next two academic years are now published at the bottom of the calendar page. Please follow the link on the LHS of every page.
The new and exciting community dance schedule is now available. Please follow the link from our Community Arts Page which can be accessed from the LHS of every web page.
We have added links to two Home Office web pages, dealing with abuse in relationships, within the pastoral care section of the website. Please click here to open the pastoral care pages. Alternatively there are links from the student zone external links menu and the parent zone drop down menu at the top of each page.
Congratulations to Fern Wigfield, Ehlana Pando and Rhona Martin who are appearing in Joseph at the Belgrave Theatre, Coventry. Well done to you all.
A big thank you to all parents/friends/family etc of pupils at Alderbrook School who together donated over £1145.92 for Lepra. Congratulations to the pupils who took part to raise this impressive amount of money. Mrs Scriven & Miss Usefina
This year's Tesco's promotion for schools and clubs has recently started. If your family shops with Tesco's please bring into school any vouchers you are given. They enable the school to receive equipment free of charge and enables us to save part of the school budget for other projects. Last year we collected enough vouchers for 3 digital cameras, with associated chargers, batteries and enhanced memory cards and 4 insect habitat kits. Vouchers can be put into the box at pupil reception.
Tom Parsons of Birchfield Harriers will be visiting Alderbrook School on Wednesday 24th March. Tom represented Great Britain at the Beijing Olympics where he finished in eighth place. For further details please contact the P. E. Department.
This year's Active Kids promotion has begun at Sainsbury's. If your family shops with Sainsbury's please bring into school any Active Kids vouchers you are given. They enable the school to receive equipment for P.E. and Food Technology. This equipment is free and therefore saves some of the school budget for other projects. Please click here to view the list of equipment we received last year through this scheme.
Well done to everyone involved in the Year 11 Boys Basketball team. For a full write up of their recent success please click here or follow the link to the Newsletter page at the top right hand side of this page.
The latest examinations timetable is now available. Please click here or follow the link on the Left Hand Side of each web page to access the Examinations page.
The Tanzania group will be holding its next table top sale at Alderbrook School on Saturday 13th March. Entrancer is free. Sale times are 11 to 3 (sellers from 10:00). Tables are £5 on the day or £4 if pre-booked. For further details please call 0121 704 2146 extxt 202
.The Wednesday Club, Alderbrook School's link with the community, urgently requires volunteers who could assist with taking our club members home after school on Wednesday afternoons. All our members live locally and if you have spare seats in your car, any offers of help would be much appreciated. Please contact Mrs Anita Collins via the School switchboard (0121 704 2146).
Please click here for news from Mrs. Read about the above course.
Please follow the link below for the guidelines and terms of the upgraded cashless system.
Well done to year 9 and 10 xmas card designers, however the winning cards were Harriet Hunt 10 and her deer image and Anthony Hawang 9 with his Mr Sedgwick and Santa image, both have prizes to collect and will get 5 credits for their college. All other entries have 2 credits! Mrs Roundell. Please click here to see the winning entries.
Any former pupil who studied English with Mr. Stent in the last school year can collect their coursework from Mrs Howard on Wednesdays or Fridays. Alternatively it can be given to a sibling still at Alderbrook School.
Prima ballerina Marion Tait took time out from her busy schedule as performer and rehearsal mistress of ‘The Nutcracker’ with the Birmingham Royal Ballet, soon to be staged at the Birmingham Hippodrome, to talk to the pupils of Tait College. Pupils put forward questions ranging from ‘Why did you become a ballerina’ to ‘What was your most embarrassing moment on stage?’
This was Marion’s second visit to Alderbrook as she opened the school’s Arts Centre, the Edge in September 2005, of which she is patron.
Marion chatted to the college for half an hour, sharing her experiences and offering advice to pupils about how to achieve their goals. Marion expressed a delight that the College is named after her, along with other prominent artists: Shakespeare, Moore, Hockney and Elgar. Miss Tait continues to offer her support to the school, Tait College in particular, and the staff and pupils are very grateful for her patronage.
We look forward to a developing partnership with Marion and the Birmingham Royal Ballet and we wish them every success with their forthcoming Christmas production of ‘The Nutcracker’.
Auditions for the Asian Flava dance group will be held at 6pm on Thursday 26th November. Please click here for further details.
The Tanzania group will be holding table top sales at Alderbrook School on Saturday 14th November and every second Saturday in the month until March 2010. Sale times are 11 to 3 (sellers from 10:00). Tables are £5 on the day or £4 if pre-booked. Entrance is £1. For further details please call 0121 704 2146 Ext 202.
Some Year 9 students are following a pilot course which offers an interesting mix of reasoning skills and broader thinking skills. The course encourages pupils to exercise a range of thinking processes. These skills have a broad range of applications and students should be able to benefit from these in their other subjects.
The skills that learners will develop include some of the following:
- Thinking skills in order to explore ideas and their connections.
- Enquiry skills enabling them to ask their own questions in relation to evidence and information.
- Problem solving skills enabling them to organise and analyse data so that conclusions can be drawn from it.
- The ability to question evidence for relevance, significance and credibility.
- Reasoning skills so that they can analyse arguments, evaluate reasoning and develop reasoned arguments of their own.
Students are encouraged to collect arts miles in their planners. These are collected from arts teachers by signature or stamp.
1 = attending a club or rehearsal
5 = taking part in a longer project or workshop
10 = for each performance
As students fill their planner pages, they can collect a bronze, silver or gold badge from Ms Read or Mrs Manghnani in the Performing Arts Department.
We collect, use and store information about our pupils and may receive information about them from their previous school. Please click here for an important letter from Solihull M.B.C. outlining our responsibilities for the care of this information in accordance with the Data Protection Act 1998.
The School heat of Future Chef will be held on Thursday 15th October at 1:30pm in MT1. Please see Mrs Miller for further details.
Please follow the link for the September bus timetable from Monkspath.
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