NEWSLETTER
End of Spring Term 2022
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HEADTEACHER'S WELCOME
Dear all,
I do hope that you enjoy this edition of our newsletter, as usual it is packed with interesting stories; Bar Mock winners, the Oxfam fashion show, the Rotary Art competition and the Young chef team challenge, to name a few.
So much has been happening this term, and it has been capped by the return of our Festivals. On Friday 7th April staff and students enjoyed our traditional Gym and Dance festival. We have not been able to enjoy the Festivals since the start of 2020 and so the everyone welcomed the opportunity to take part with even more anticipation that is usual. A great day was had by all.
I wish you a happy Easter Break and look forward to seeing our students back, rested and ready to learn, on Monday 25th April.
Best wishes,
Mr Underdown
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05 Apr 2022
Lily, 8K, has passed her Grade 5 piano exam and received a merit whilst learning to play the piano throughout the many lock down's.
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22 Mar 2022
Esther, Year 9, travelled to the National Exhibition Centre (NEC) in Birmingham over the weekend to take part in the Fashion Icon finale.
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17 Mar 2022
The Devon County swimming championships took place last term and this years meet was held locally at the Plymouth Life centre. Students from across the county competed, including our very own Student Leader, Klara.
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11 Mar 2022
Cordelia, 7A, has been awarded her silver achievement badge for reading and reviewing 25 books from the school library.
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11 Mar 2022
Temple's new Sports Captain Scarlett, and her horse Apollo have been selected to represent Great Britain for the second time in an upcoming Concours de Dressage International competition at Keysoe.
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We have been so proud to say that three students in Year 10 achieved all 1's in their most recent attitude to learning report. Students Verity, Erika, and Iris should be extremely proud of their achievement and the standard they have set for the year group.
To celebrate success we have also been running a Year 10 house competition with Temple winning this term. They will get to choose which delicious treat they would like for the end of term.
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Duke of Edinburgh Updates
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22 Mar 2022
REMINDER – to parents of Year 10 students participating in the Silver DofE Award. The deadline for the payment of the £126 Silver Expedition fee is Friday 22nd April 2022. Please ensure that this payment is made by this date so that your child can be included in the Expeditions due to ta...
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05 Apr 2022
Each year we submit artwork to the Rotary Club Art Competition which judges hundreds of entries from across schools in Plymouth. This year, Basma and Eva were awarded 1st and 2nd Prize for their final pieces completed at the end of Year 7 last year! We were also delighted to receive belated certific...
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Do you have any old newspapers at home? The Art Department uses a lot of newspaper during art lessons and we are currently running very low.
We are always very grateful for any donations of newspaper to the Art Department and we can offer house points in exchange for your donations.
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31 Mar 2022
On Saturday 26th March a group of PHSG students from GCSE and A level Textiles took part in the Oxfam Fashion show to promote the art of upcycling.
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17 Mar 2022
This week, @nhbyhand owner Natasha Hutchins was in to judge our year 10 fashion project. Year 10 textiles students presented final skirt design ideas alongside their silk screen printed fabric. Well done to Eve who took home a £10 one for all voucher after her finished work was voted the most...
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10 Mar 2022
City College Plymouth, hosted the annual Young Chef Team Challenge completion last week and we are delighted that our student's skills and hard work was awarded with a prize.
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15 Mar 2022
In celebration of National Pi Day, PHSG students were challenged by our Maths captains to learn pi and attend a recital; remembering as many decimal places as possible of pi.
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06 Apr 2022
This term the Chinese club have been using the skills that they have learnt to write to their Chinese pen pals. They were brilliant with writing with the Chinese characters, and they were delighted to get the responses back this week.
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17 Mar 2022
This week some of our Year 10 and 11 German students video called our German friends who they have been emailing in Freiburg.
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10 Mar 2022
Introducing our wonderful Junior Language Captains. Esther, Issy, Rafaela and Lillian in Year 9 are leading our language learners, creating exciting competitions for the whole school to take part in, and displaying exceptional MFL classwork. Their next project: a languages Easter egg hunt. Keep...
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05 Apr 2022
A round up of sports fixtures and events for the Spring Term, reported on by the PHSG Sports Council.
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01 Apr 2022
The year 8 netball team played in the PSSP End of season tournament at Heles School on Tuesday and made it into the finals against DHSG.
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07 Mar 2022
This week is National Careers Week, and it is the perfect platform to advise and inspire the next generation as they enter the world of work.
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02 Mar 2022
The Careers Summit will take place online on Saturday 5th March 2022 from 9:30am to 3:00pm, and is open to all parents and young people aged 13-18.
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05 Apr 2022
On Thursday 31st March, sixteen of our students swapped their usual lessons for a virtual courtroom, playing roles such as barristers and witnesses to present two mock trials to a jury and real judges. They competed against schools from across Devon, Cornwall and Somerset to take the title, im...
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05 Apr 2022
The Spring 2022 edition of the student magazine 'Hear me out' has been published today by Amelia, our 2022 Deputy Head Student and this year's editor of the magazine.
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04 Apr 2022
The time has come for the launch of the annual PHSG Student Planner competition. Each year, students throughout the school, submit designs for the following year’s Student Planner Front Cover.
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01 Apr 2022
Mr G was welcomed by his tutor group, 7K, with an April fool this morning, when he walked in to his class with them all ready to learn, but facing the opposite way!
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22 Mar 2022
On Friday 18th March, the PHSG Sports council hosted events throughout the day to raise money for Comic Relief.
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08 Mar 2022
The PHSG Head Student Team take the lead on International Women's Day, with this year's campaign theme of #BreakTheBias
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03 Mar 2022
Today, Thursday 3rd March, students and staff proudly celebrated National World Book Day.
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03 Mar 2022
Our school charity ambassadors are doing a shoe collection for our new local charity “Hugs”.
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Our Razzamataz After School theatre club has been running every Tuesday 3.45-4.45 and it has been an absolute joy teaching these wonderful students. Each week they bring so much energy and enthusiasm and create such fantastic work within all the art forms to a very high standard. We have been busy working on pieces from Legally Blonde: The Musical and Six and are hoping to put together a short presentation for the end of the Summer term. We have students from year 7 to year 10 and each week our group grows in numbers and friendships. If you would like to try a FREE taster session, contact Mrs Jagger-Rowden at plymouth@razzamataz.co.uk.
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Student & Class of the Week
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28 Mar 2022
Class of the week: Student Sports Council ''For a brilliant cake sale and lunchtime of activities for Comic Relief. They raised £170 and were cheerful, organised and great sports leaders.'' Nominated by Mrs Goolden
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21 Mar 2022
Student of the week: Kaisha, 7T, ''For working hard to actively engage in form time and complete extra tasks to keep the form room tidy.'' Nominated by Miss Yarwood, Awarded 10 House points!
Class of the week: Abi and Ebba, Year 12. ''For helping out with KS4 students Germ...
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07 Mar 2022
Student of the week: Sadia, 9CRO. ''For engaging with the first lesson on the Holocaust (01/03/22) really intelligently and has shown compassion in recent lessons. She’s such a superstar.'' Nominated by Miss Tomalin. Awarded 10 House points.
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02 Mar 2022
Student of the week: Claudia, 8L, For making improvements every time we have a Maths assessment and going the extra mile to understand new learning all year. Nominated by Miss Freeman. Awarded 10 House points.
Class of the week: Year 7 Chinese Club. For their brilliant...
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The immunisation team will be in school on 5th May 2022 to administer the first dose HPV vaccines to year 8 and those in year 9/10 who missed their second dose. The link to consent/decline for year 8 students only is https://schoolimms.virgincare.co.uk/hpv/2021/devon. If the link is not working for you, please try to copy and paste it into your Internet address bar. If it continues not to work or you are having any other problems, then please contact the designated team on 0300 247 0082. If parents of year 9 or 10 students have not already consented for this vaccine and would like their child to receive it, please contact the team on 0300 247 0082.
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PARKING
Please can we ask Parents for consideration when parking near the school, there have been some instances where it has been difficult for our students to walk safely due to the volume of cars.
Be reminded that there is NO PARKING allowed on the double yellow lines outside the school main gates.
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HOME SCHOOL COMMUNICATION
Students may contact staff if they have queries, firstly by visiting them in their department area, and only contacting them using school email system if they really can’t see them in person.
Parents may wish to contact staff. The following outlines what the Headteacher regards as important considerations regarding home/school communication, particularly by email:
¨ All communication must respect the dignity of the recipient.
¨ Within 48 hours: receipt of an email will be acknowledged by school either by the person contacted, or the most appropriate person able to deal with the issue (term time only, not after 5pm nor over a weekend).
¨ Within 5 working days: school will provide a response to the email by telephone or in writing, or e-mail. This may include informing the sender that more time is required to provide a full response. If this is the case, staff should indicate a time frame for a response.
¨ Staff will not be expected to monitor or respond to emails outside their normal working hours (nor at weekends and published school holidays).
Whilst this is extremely rare, if a member of staff receives an e-mail or call which is of an aggressive tone, sets unreasonable demands or could otherwise be interpreted as harassing, they will refer this to a senior line manager in the school, who will decide if consideration needs to be given to dealing with further communication under our Complaints Policy.
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PARKING
Out of respect for our neighbours and for health and safety reasons there is NO PARKING on the school site or for collecting/dropping off students on the double yellow lines outside our school gates.
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SCHOOL NURSE DROP IN
Don’t forget for our students, the School Nurse visits school to provide a “drop in” clinic on Friday Week A at lunchtime. Just pop along to the Counselling Room.
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STUDENTS LEAVING SCHOOL DURING THE SCHOOL DAY
For safety reasons if your daughter has to leave school during the school day, and you are unable to collect her, she must have a note in her planner with clear instructions that you give permission for her to leave unaccompanied. Without your express instructions to this effect we will not allow any students to leave school unless they are collected by an adult from reception.
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NUT ALLERGY
Please be aware that we have students who are severely allergic to nuts and we would, therefore, appreciate where possible that you try to avoid putting nuts into packed lunches.
Although we are not going completely nut free, we have stopped selling packets of nuts as snacks in the canteen to try to reduce the risk to them and appreciate your support.
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SOCIAL MEDIA & ONLINE SAFETY
Our Children are spending more and more time on their mobile phones. Making them aware of the dangers of social media, and protecting them from these dangers can be very challenging. These are some of the better known sites that pose risks to children—are they on your child’s phone home screen?
To help safeguard your child please regularly take the time to talk to them about the way they use their social media apps:
Do they always know who they are engaging with?
Do they share their passwords?
Do they feel comfortable with what they are seeing and doing?
Do they feel pressure from “friends” to do/say things they don’t want to?
For more information please regarding online safety, please visit our website: www.phsg.org/
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Calendar Term Dates 2021-2022
Term
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Starts
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Ends
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One
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7th September 2021
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21st October 2021
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| Autumn Half Term |
25th October 2021 |
29th October 2021 |
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Two
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2nd November 2021
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17th December 2021
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| Christmas Holidays |
19th December 2021 |
3rd January 2022 |
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Three
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4th January 2022
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18th February 2022
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| Spring Half term |
21st February 2022 |
25th February 2022 |
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Four
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28th February 2022
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7th April 2022
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| Easter Holidays |
11th April 2022 |
22nd April 2022 |
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Five
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25th April 2022
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27th May 2022
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| Summer Half term |
30th May 2022 |
3rd June 2022 |
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Six
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6th June 2022
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22nd July 2022
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| Summer Holidays |
25th July 2022 |
6th September 2022 |
Curriculum Enrichment Week
Monday 4th July—8th July 2022
Non Pupil Days
6th September 2021
1st Oct 2021
22nd October 2021,
8th April 2022 (additional Bank Holiday for the Queens Platinum Jubilee)
2nd May 2022 (Bank Holiday)
25th July 2022
26th July 2022
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