Text Box: December 2010
Text Box: Information and news for parents, students and the community

Season’s Greetings

Celebrating Success

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Food Science

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Essex University

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Paris Trip

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Important Dates

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2010 has been another excellent year for our school.

We have maintained our achievement with examination results both at Key Stage 3 and Key Stage 4. Our year on year improvement is a credit to everyone who is involved with the school. 

We look forward to 2011 and our challenge is to ensure that our current Year 11 out perform their predecessors!

Over the past year our students have benefited from the many trips, conferences and learning activities organised for them. Our Media Arts and International School status has enriched our curriculum and created exciting opportunities for all.

We  would like to wish everyone associated with the school a Merry Christmas and a happy, productive and healthy new year.

Text Box:  ’THE VOICE’
The Sydney Russell 
Media Arts Specialist School Newsletter

Operation

Christmas Child

Once again the students of The Sydney Russell School have proved their generosity by bringing a little joy to children in difficult circumstances.

For the third year running Miss Patten has organised the collection of toys and toiletries to fill shoe boxes to send to children between the ages of 2 – 14, in countries such as Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bosnia, Kenya, Kosova, Kyrgyzstan, Liberia, Montenegro, Mozambique, Romania, Serbia, Swaziland, Ukraine and Zimbabwe.

The Sydney Russell School also gave a generous donation of cash to help with the delivery of the parcels, which was also very gratefully received.

Miss Patten said, “I would like to thank each and everyone of you that contributed to this years gifts, it really does make me feel proud of us and our school. Thank you”.

 

The Sydney Russell School has donated in the region of 500 books to a charity called READ international. The charity has a network of over 1,000 student-volunteers, based at 45 British Universities. The charity collects unwanted books from schools and donates them to countries such as Tanzanian and Ugandan who follow a syllabus similar to ours.

You can look on their website to see some of the fantastic work done by the charity

http://www.readinternational.org.uk/

READ International