Light Hall School

Reminder: No school until next year! We return on Tuesday 3rd January 🤩

Last night we hosted Light Hall Schools Christmas Concert and the overall consensus is that it was our best ever yet!
We had Christmas Carols, Christmas Rock, Christmas Classical and even a Christmas singalong at the end 🥳
A very special piece came from Renee S who played the flute beautifully and was this years winner of Light Hall's Got Talent!

We wanted to celebrate the hard work of some of students in English this Christmas!

Brandon C 10H1- fantastic work and effort this term!
Courtney C 11H5- incredibly hard work in a difficult mock exam time!
Lucas A 11H5- constantly trying their best.
Brian Yat C 10L1- amazing English work.
Olivia L 11L4- great resilience and effort.
Ruby LS in Y8 - always enthusiastic in class, keen to contribute, asking questions to improve and producing excellent work.

Miss Welsh would like to thank the whole of 11L5– they have been working so well on their practice essay writing and I have been really impressed with their thesis writing.
Below are pictures of Ruby LS work and Aimee B work.

Reminder:
Friday is non-uniform and school closes at 12.30pm for the Christmas break

The MFL Christmas Poster competition closed on Monday and we were overwhelmed with the amount of entries! 🇦🇩🇧🇯🇧🇪🇧🇩🇧🇴🇧🇪🇨🇦🇧🇮🇧🇴🇧🇶🇩🇰🇬🇭
A selection of them have been put on display in the schools reception area are the top 3 entries were by;
1st Josh H year 8
2nd Corey T year 9
3rd Ben T year 7

Here are some examples of year 7 homework from Chloe H. It has been wonderful to see students perform independent research outside of the classroom and to gather these creatively in the form of posters and coloured notes!

Etymologically, Great Britain means “great land of the tattooed” and the oldest English word that we still use is ‘town’. Here is some lovely research work by Chloe L year 7, she was fact finding about a Jackie Kay.

Condolences to the families of the 3 boys who have sadly lost their lives. Saying our prayers for the little boy to pull through who is critical.

The Battle of the Houses castle competition has closed!
The task was to design a motte and bailey castle and the winners are . . . . . . .
Best castle - Abbie T Atlantis
Most accurate - Isaac D & Josh D Endeavour
Most creative - Nasr H Endeavour
Well done all who entered, they were all fantastic! 🙋‍♂️

Miss Barrett’s WOW words that Year 7 have been learning this term through looking at themes of post colonialism, alternative cultures and contemporary literature.

Welcome to English, the beating heart of Light Hall school!
English is the place where you can express your opinions, critique society and comment on the world you live in. Exploring a diverse range of voices, English will empower you to see everything in a different way, and be a traveller of the world through word.
Here is a range of the novellas, plays, and novels we have studied this term.

Monday 12th December is the start of Week 2 and here’s what is coming up!

⭐️ English week on Facebook
⭐️ Year 8 PSHEC day on Monday
⭐️ Celebration assemblies all week
⭐️ Year 11 mocks continue
⭐️ Year 7 PSHEC day on Tuesday
⭐️ Loudmouth workshop on Tuesday
⭐️ Christmas Concert on Thursday
⭐️ Non- Uniform for all and early finish at 12.30pm on Friday

Please remember to return your Year 7, 8 and 9 consent forms by tomorrow. If you do not have one please call in to reception.

Recent figures suggest flu hospitalisations in young children are nearly 20 times as high as last year — with this week showing 230 under-fives in hospital compared to 12 the same time last year.

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We will always go above & beyond for our clients. 🤩

Thank you Solihull Young Dancers ☺️

Please can Year 7, 8 & 9 parents/caters return the flu vaccination consent forms before Monday 12th December

Mr Marsh's year 7 and 8 classes have been printing this week and looking at still life 🖌🎨✏️

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Our Art department are so proud of some of the work last years Year 11 art students produced. Here is a little flavour of what was created ⭐️

Thank you to all of the students who took part in our recent Origami Enterprise house event. The entries were all amazing but there could only be one winner. . . . Atlantis' Connor C took 1st place and you can see why!

Yesterday we told you about our receptionist taking over the role of Administrator to our SLT and Inclusion team. Well that vacancy arose because current post holder Miss Regan, has also been promoted to Exams Officer! She is busy learning the ropes from, soon to retire, Mr Hemming whilst the Year 11 students are taking their mocks.

Today year 10 enjoyed a visit from Sergeant Andy Chambers who is in the RAF. He delivered a session on careers within the RAF to the whole year group and a personal development session to year 10 students who have expressed an interest in careers in the armed forces.

We would like to say a huge thank you to Solihull Fire Station for removing a ring from one of our staff members very swollen fingers this morning. They were amazing -thank you!
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Our last 2 receptionists have been so good 😊 that they have had internal promotions within their first year of joining the Light Hall family. This time it’s the turn of Miss Grady who from January will be our Administrator to our SLT and Inclusion team.

That does mean we will be advertising for a new receptionist in the coming days 📞

Monday 5th December is the start of Week 1 and here’s what is coming up!

⭐️ Art week on Facebook
⭐️ Year 10 PSHEC day on Monday
⭐️ Year 11 mocks continue
⭐️ Year 9 PSHEC day on Wednesday
⭐️ Take 10 @ 10 on Thursday

House Competition time in December.
Origami, sport, Light Hall's Got Talent. Click here to find more details: https://www.lighthall.co.uk/house-competition-time/

We are so excited to welcome students and their families to our annual Prize Giving event. Well done to all of our prize winners, we are so proud of our Light Hall family 🏆

🏀 Well done the Year 10 and 11 girls Basketball Team who played Arch Bishop Ilsley yesterday and won 29 - 17! 🏀

A reminder that pre-loved school uniform and PE kit is available for parents to buy at a discounted rate on www.uniformd.co.uk/lighthallschool

A reminder that pre-loved school uniform and PE kit is available for parents to buy at a discounted rate on www.uniformd.co.uk/lighthallschool

We are always looking for more to add to the site, so whether you are a leavers parent or your child has just outgrown their uniform and it is still in good condition, please do bring it in to the school reception when we re-open.

Thank you

So our tree is up! 🌲🎄🎄🎄🌲
Also, under our tree we have boxes for each House as we are doing the annual collection for food bank Trussell Trust. If you have any non-perishables at home please do sent them in with your child.

I think we can all agree that our very own Mr Busst is a very talented photographer indeed. What a beautiful dewey picture taken this morning of one of our back fields 🌅

Monday 28th November is the start of Week 2 and here’s what is coming up!

⭐️ Music week on Facebook
⭐️ House Assemblies
⭐️ Year 11 mocks begin
⭐️ Year 10 Child Dev trips this week
⭐️ Prize Giving evening on Thursday
⭐️ Year 7-10 reports issued on Friday

Some of our Year 10 Geographers were taken to Brindley Place this week to look at regeneration in the city. It has changed so much in recent years and is well worth a visit.

Year 9 are Learning about Global Cuisine and Food Provenance and they have made mini pizza and Calzone. 🍕
They have sourced all their ingredients locally to reduce food miles and being more sustainable.

Reminder
Friday 25th November is an Inset day so school will be closed

A selected group of year 9 students were invited to take part in the STEM activity ran by the Smallpeice Trust and HS2 in collaboration with the Royal Academy of Engineers and the Lord Bhattacharyya Engineering Education Programme.

By taking part in the days workshop, students were joining the EPIC ( Extra Ordinary People Initiating Change )
Students were involved in designing railway stations, building tunnels, managing rail networks and strengthening their STEM skills in games and challenges.

Railway Station of the Future Winner
• Scarlett B, Szofia D, Dexter D and Jack P

HS2 Tunnel Challenge Winner
• Tom M, Aiden D, Jayden M and Enoch L

It was so lovely to see some of our year 11 leavers this afternoon who were in school to collect their GCSE certificates.

Mr Brookes got chatting to one of our success stories, life long Blues fan Zahra K, who we see wearing her AVFC training kit with pride 🤣