#4
Easter 2017
Message from the Headteacher
Well here we are at the end of another term. One
which has been particularly challenging for us as a
school. The hardest thing for us to swallow this
term was that Ofsted found us as Requiring
Improvement, and whilst everyone knows that all
schools always require improvements here and
there, I think we all felt that this was a particularly
harsh judgement, but we are determined to bounce
back from this and the best response to Ofsted’s
judgement will be our future success. Our current
Year 11 will be an important part of that comeback.
When they go on to secure great results this
summer it will signal to everyone that this really is
the good school we know it to be. But, those results
won’t just happen, Year 11 will have to work
incredibly hard between now and the exams to
secure those great results. So Year 11: don’t waste
the opportunities that are there: in lesson time,
revision classes, Saturday revision sessions and
please make sure that you do plenty of revision
over Easter. This has also been a great term for All
Saints in so many ways: from food to football, from
theatre to Cornwall we really have been out-there
All Saints School hosted the Rotary led Technology Challenge
with all local secondary schools involved
Technology Challengers from Years 9 and 10
this term. 40 pupils have passed their Institute of
Environmental Health Officers Certificate; amongst
other sporting triumphs our Year 11 footballers got
to the semi-final of the area cup and our Year 9s to
the final (football not being traditionally our
strongest hand); the English department, along with
Drama, went to the theatre to see ‘An Inspector
Calls’ in London and ‘The Curious Incident of the Dog
in the Night-time’ in Southampton – we received
compliments in that the behaviour was exemplary
on both visits. We have large numbers of Year 7 and
8s attending book club, we have had outside visitors
giving demonstrations of how to cook Thai food and
pizza and then there’s our amazing triumphs in the
STEM competitions – both the Rotary Club
competition held here and the competition hosted
by Atlas Elektronik (which you may have read about
in The Echo) both of which we won! But at All Saints
we realise that it’s not all about us – and once again
we have proved that through the money that we’ve
raised for charity – Crisis in Africa, our ex-pupil Sean
(who we think of at this time) and for Brain Tumour
Research. To reiterate: in some ways a challenging
term, but in others a term in which we’ve already
started bouncing back. It was perhaps fitting that a
class were making rubber balls in Science this week.