Fitzharrys School

Yesterday, our Yr12’s visited Oxford Brookes, who hosted the UCAS & Apprenticeship Fair.  With many stalls and lots of information on offer, everyone came away with something .. including armfuls of tote bags and free pens!

In the national year of reading, we know that parents are looking for ways to support their young people to find books they love and persist in reading for pleasure. This webinar from Educake may help you on 30th June at 3:45pm: please see the link below. Parents webinar: Top tips to help your child enjoy reading independently this summer | Educake

Today, Fitzharrys welcomed almost 20 employers into the school hall as part of our careers programme. Year 10 were able to practice their interview skills using the CVs they made as part of careers week. Feedback was overwhelmingly positive, with employers saying our year 10s were 'inspirational' lovely young people who gave hope for the future. Well done year 10! This was a challenge you all rose to brilliantly and can be very proud of yourselves.

Yesterday, we were lucky to have Innocent from Trinity College, Oxford University, who delivered our Personal Development session with the Year 12 cohort on Personal Statements.  She then did a Super Curricular Interactive Workshop with those who wanted to attend.

It was brilliant, and we were grateful she gave her time to support JMF6.

Last week, year 10 DofE silver students practised their skills on the water ahead of this week's expedition. Capsize training is a key element of their preparation!

Well done to all those who took part in the year 7 house rounders competition today. A brilliant house event organised by the PE team.

The school council's Active Travel Fortnight initiative began today with a lunchtime walk around the school field, marking the average distance students live from school and highlighting the practicality, and health and social benefits, of walking. Each day for the next two weeks, students are reporting to tutors how they have got to school; each time a tutor group hits the 60% target our Harrier icon will move a space on our beautiful Fitzharrys Game Board, made by Mr Miles. There is a choose your own adventure where numbers of active journeys determine decisions for the characters. Finally, any student who gets to school by active means over the next two weeks will win a leaf badge chosen by the school council. They have worked incredibly hard on this project.

Friday night's drama showcase was a superb performance of the original play Blue, by our very own Ms Lancaster, alongside a series of Shakespeare monologues and duologues. The performers and the tech and backstage teams were brilliant: congratulations to all involved.

This month we are providing new resources to parents about resilience and emotional regulation, in partnership with The Wellbeing Hub.

This week The Wellbeing Hub has a new video called "raising resilience: how to help our children thrive", you can access this and a wide range of other resources to support young people through adolescence here: https://club.teentips.co.uk/

We provide unlimited free membership to The Wellbeing Hub for all parents of pupils at Fitzharrys (usual price £7.99/month), so if you have not yet signed up to access this and wide range of free resources to support your children through adolescence please fill in this quick form and we’ll get you connected: https://forms.office.com/e/hR3PNuGk3j

Tickets are now available for our summer concert.