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School uniform dates & prices

Mon, 13 May 2013 00:00:00 +0100

The school uniform supplier will be selling uniform from the front of the school at the following times. Please check the price list for items that you may want to buy.

Friday
19-Jul
Loxford
3:30 to 5:30pm
Pre-Summer Sales

Friday
26-Jul
Loxford
1
12 to 4pm
Set Up & Summer Sales

Friday
02-Aug
Loxford
2
11am to 4pm
Summer Sales

Thursday
08-Aug
Loxford
3
3pm to 7pm
Summer Sales

Monday
18-Aug
Loxford
4
3pm to 7pm
Summer Sales

Friday
30-Aug
Loxford
5
10am to 3pm
Summer Sales / Limited Stock

Loxford proudly welcomed the teachers and educationalists from Hubei, China.

Fri, 10 May 2013 00:00:00 +0100

On the 9th of May Loxford proudly welcomed the third delegation of teachers and educationalists from Hubei, China. The visit was organised by the SSAT and we were chosen due to our Outstanding Ofsted status.

The group of 21 teachers, plus Eva Wei, who was the translator for the day were from the Hubei Provincial department of Education. They visited Loxford as part of a three week programme for teachers based in schools in rural parts of Hubei province.

They toured the Primary and Secondary buildings, visiting lessons and taking part in activities. They enjoyed presentations from staff and students on our curriculum, leading schools and the wide range of extended schools activities. The day finished by an interesting question and answer session where we learned of the differences between schools in China and England.

Family Services Directory

Tue, 23 Apr 2013 00:00:00 +0100

Do you need information and advice on issues relating to your family? Try the Family Services Directory (FiND)

This Family Services Directory is produced and managed by Families Information Direct
(FiND) - who are part of Children’s Services in the London Borough of Redbridge.

This is a 'one stop' information and advice service for families and people who work
with families.

They specialise in providing information and advice on a wide range of issues that
impact on family life – from childcare and childcare funding; activities for children and young people through to care and support services available for when the going gets tough! We know that children don't come with an instruction manual and that most families need guidance and support at some time as they face the rewards and challenges of bringing up children.

FiND is made up of a small team of highly knowledgeable information/outreach officers
and project workers who are happy to assist with any question you may have – so long as they're related to you and your family's needs. Our philosophy is 'If we can't help you, we'll find someone who can!'

For more information please use the following link –

http://find.redbridge.gov.uk/kb5/redbridge/fsd/home.page

TFL Live Bus Information System

Fri, 19 Apr 2013 00:00:00 +0100

Loxford is proud to have been chosen as one of the 4 sites in London to trial the new TFL live bus arrival information system.

Students can see this information in the school foyer and on the plasma screens around the building from 3.10 everyday. We can see the 4 local bus stops and the arrival times of buses on the 366 and 145 bus routes. The information is also available in the main school reception throughout the day. Staff, visitors and students can see this on a screen in the reception window.

Over the next few months we will be part of the development of this new system. Our students are working with a research company – 2CV, giving their feedback and ideas for improving the TFL live bus arrival system.

You can read more about this exciting development by reading the TFL press release.

Click here to view live bus times.

Visit from Holocaust survivor.

Mon, 25 Mar 2013 00:00:00 +0100

Bob Obuchowski visited the Loxford School of Science and technology to tell the story of his life as a Jewish child in Nazi-occupied Poland and his personal expereince of surviving the Holocaust/
Bob, who now lives in Redbridge, was transferred from the ghetto in Lodz, Poland to the Auschwitz death camp.
Teacher Will Blatherwick said: “He described his terrible journey on the cattle trucks and using the dead bodies as pillows.
“He said “we weren’t human anymore”. “Bob showed the students his tattoo on his left arm - B7650 - and explained how this robbed him of his identity. He explained his treatment in the Death Camps before describing his liberation by the Russians in 1945.
. Year 9 student Michael Groom-Starling said: “It was a real honour to be in the same room as someone who has gone through so much.’
Year 9 students shall be sharing their experience of meeting Bob in an assembly entitled:
‘Why we should remember the Holocaust’

Year 12 Math Mentors

Tue, 19 Mar 2013 00:00:00 +0100

Year 12 Maths whizzes at Loxford are sharing their expertise with year 11 students as part of an innovative scheme to use sixth form mentors with strong maths skills to tutor year 11 students who need extra help in preparing for their GCSEs.
The Year 12 Maths Mentors all had to have a grade A in maths themselves to enable the m to apply for one of the prestigious paid positions as a Maths mentor. The Year 12 students were very keen to participate and over 40 of the able youngsters applied for the positions. All the applicants were put through a rigorous interview process to check they had the necessary communication skills to coaxh the younger students effectively and those selected were delighted to have been chosen by the Headteacher for this responsible position.
The Year 11 students were really pleased with the additional support and said that it was sometimes easier to ask another student (even an older one) to explain rather than asking the teacher.

Year 12 Poetry By Heart Competition

Tue, 19 Mar 2013 00:00:00 +0100

PoetrybyHeart is a National Competition organised by the Department for education which challenges students in years 10-13 to choose a poem from a list of “classics”, learn it by heart and perform it to an audience.
Every student in Year 12 at Loxford chose a poem and attempted to learn it by heart. The students then performed these in class heats to choose a couple of representatives to go through to the final which was held on March 15th. Some were more successful than others but most students managed to memorise at least a few lines of their chosen poem.
The finalists’ performances were of a very high standard with all the students remembering their poems very well and the best contestants also producing dramatic and emotional performances.
The three winners for the year group were Kemal Cakli, Aaron Peters and Tanya Ahmed. The winners will now compete in the regional contest and hopefully get through to the national final in April.

Visit from author Laura Dockrill.

Thu, 14 Mar 2013 00:00:00 +0100

On Wednesday the 13th March something very exciting, special and colourful happened to Loxford. Laura Dockrill came to visit! The inspirational author came to give year 7 pupils a sneak preview of her brand new children's book 'Darcy Burdock.'

The students heard hysterical and imaginative sections of her text and were then invited to ask the author questions: some silly, some serious. As Laura herself says... 'ask a silly question, get a silly answer; ask a serious question, get a silly answer.' Everyone had fun!

Keep an eye out for Darcy Burdock in a bookshop near you!

The Box Clever Theatre Company

Wed, 13 Mar 2013 00:00:00 +0100

The Box Clever Theatre Company came into Loxford on Tuesday 12th March to perform a production of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet to the whole of Year 10. With only three actors, the company performed a dynamic and contemporary version of this well known play. Year 10 were a brilliant audience and this performance will help them with their GCSE Literature controlled assessment which they will complete in the summer term.
The company also delivered an hour long work shop to the whole of Year 7 on ‘An Introduction to Shakespeare’. Year 7 students were fully engaged and this workshop should have them excited to study Shakespeare in the summer term and beyond.

Physics Department Study Visit to the Large Hadron Collider in CERN

Wed, 06 Mar 2013 00:00:00 +0100

During half term Mr Gillett was part of a study visit to the Large Hadron Collider in CERN, Switzerland. CERN is the European Organization for Nuclear Research and is one of the world’s largest and most respected organisations for scientific research.

Its business is fundamental physics, finding out what the Universe is made of and how it works. At CERN, the world’s largest and most complex scientific instruments are used to study the basic constituents of matter — the fundamental particles. By studying what happens when these particles collide, physicists learn about the laws of Nature. CERN is also the place where the World Wide Web and the touch screen computer were invented.

The particle accelerator itself is a 27km circle which is 100m underground. Particles are fired in loops around this circle until they are travelling close to the speed of light, when they are made to smash together in huge collisions. The detectors record the collisions and physicists can use this data to look for new particles.

During the visit we spoke to many physicists working on cutting-edge experiments, including the ATLAS and CMS detectors that are currently publishing work about the discovery of the Higg’s Boson particle. We were also lucky enough to go 100m below the ground to see where the detectors are located and to see the huge computer rooms that process the data recorded.

What to look out for from this trip:

Building Cosmic Ray Detectors: As part of science week this year we will build detectors to spot muons, which are cosmic rays from outer space

Large Hadron Collider talks:

We are looking to arrange an opportunity to talk with scientists working at CERN

Possible trip to CERN: Watch this space!

Loxford Snowed Under

Mon, 25 Feb 2013 00:00:00 +0100

During the winter Loxford experienced some very bad snow.

Here are some photographs as the sun was rising and before anyone had the opportunity to walk all over it!

Congratulations Salman Rana

Fri, 22 Feb 2013 00:00:00 +0100

Media Studies trip to BFI.

Fri, 15 Feb 2013 00:00:00 +0100

On Friday 1st of February the media department and I went on an amazing trip to the BFI (British Film Institution) in Southbank Waterloo were we where given an insight on our exam topic which is studying the Music Press.
This fun packed amazing day allowed us to meet and talk to Rob Miller who is a teacher, freelance writer and consultant. Rob taught us how to deconstruct a music magazine and analyze it in depth and what features to look for in a music magazine also he taught us about how to deconstruct and an online music magazine.
Furthermore Rob taught us new media terminology which was really interesting. Also we learnt how music magazines are marketed and which company’s oligopoly the music industry.
Another amazing speaker we got to meet was George Gardner who works for Kerrang! As the reviews editor of the world’s biggest selling weekly rock magazine. We had a Q&A session with George about his job and how he became successful. Also, everyone was allowed to ask independent questions relating to music magazines.
However we were meant to have another session with speaker John Doran who is the editor of the music magazine The Quietus. However he could not make it which was really disappointing. Overall it was a great trip and experience with my classmates and I really enjoyed it and I recommend people to go next year.
Leyla, Year 11

BBC Television Centre trip

Fri, 15 Feb 2013 00:00:00 +0100

The trip our school organised to BBC Television Centre was very helpful towards what we currently study and gave us a taste of the real “media” world.

While at the BBC, we got to see many different studios in which the BBC films their programmes and the tour guides showed us a clip about how long it takes to set up one shooting set for a programme. The studio/programme we saw set up was for ‘Strictly Come Dancing’ and we were all amazed by the amount of time it takes to shoot a programme that is just an hour in length.

As the tour went on, we saw other departments such as BBC News and experienced some of the students from our group appearing on the BBC News Weather screen just like as we see it on television. Moving on, we got a chance to go on the ex-studio for Match of the Day and see how it was set up. We also got to see many really exciting props from various BBC television shows such as Doctor Who and Eastenders. We saw a life size Dalek and the Doctor’s famous Tardis.

Overall, I think the experience gained by going to BBC Television Centre was very helpful and exciting as it gave us a sneak peak into what we can work as in the future and how it would be. The job roles for different workers like directors, producers, editors etc., were all explained to us by the tour guides which made it clear to some students what they are interested in and what work pressure they may face. It was an excellent day out and we all thoroughly loved learning all we did about the BBC.

Saher, Year 13

Sainsbury Vouchers

Fri, 08 Feb 2013 00:00:00 +0100

2013 Video Conference with the BBFC

Tue, 05 Feb 2013 00:00:00 +0100

2013 Video Conference with the BBFC

On Friday 25th January, the two year 13 Media classess attended a video conference with the BBFC here at Loxford School. This was a very special opportunity as we spoke
to Emily from the BBFC about the UK’s film classification system and how they reach their decisions.
We also had the chance to ask questions regarding film regulation.
This was especially beneficial as it is a topic for our A2 media exam this year. We asked questions regarding our exam texts with particular reference to The Dark Knight, The King’s
Speech and Casino Royale. We all found this conference interesting as not only did we manage to interact with someone from the media industry, we were able to use their expertise to gain a more thorough and better understanding of the film texts and how they
are classified. We thoroughly enjoyed this unique opportunity getting to speak to Emily as we learnt many useful aspects about the film industry.

Safa 13S

Romanian teachers visit Loxford

Mon, 04 Feb 2013 00:00:00 +0100

A cohort of Romanian teachers visited Loxford as part of the HEART (Helping Education All Roma Together) initiative in Redbridge.

The teachers met with Roma and Romanian Loxford students, and talked to them about the differences between school in the UK and school in Romania. Some very interesting conversations were had!

They also observed English, Textiles and Maths lessons, and some other teachers went to the primary school.

At the end of the day, the teachers enjoyed a delicious afternoon tea, including sandwiches and cream cakes, made by Mr McCarey and Alisha Henry.

The Romanian teachers were really impressed by our students and by our school!

Wadham College, Oxford helps our students with their Personal Statements

Tue, 22 Jan 2013 00:00:00 +0100

On Friday 11th January 2013, 12L had a very special visit from Oxford University to teach them how to further their education after sixth form. We were taught about building our ‘UCAS’ by writing a personal statement and handing them in to our designated universities. This session was extremely useful as we gained an idea on how the application process works when applying for your chosen universities and how your personal statement is to your future. We learned that in our personal statement, we have to present our skills and personnel as best as possible and convince the potential universities why we should be offered a place. In the 1 ½ hour session, the visitor explained each step of the university application process and even presented us with examples of personal statements. These statements for Medicine, Maths and Computer Science showed us how significant it is to have a lot of experience for your desired university course. The dedication shown in your statement, the bigger the likelihood that the university will understand your passion and accept you as a part of their community that’s why, the most important thing I learnt is that it’s not impossible to achieve your dream it just takes a lot of hard work and perseverance!

Anayeth Ali 12L

Ernst & Young supporting achievement at Loxford

Tue, 22 Jan 2013 00:00:00 +0100

An Enlightening Visit from a Renowned Accounting Organization

Ernst and Young is one of the world’s leading professional accounting organizations in the world. It has workers in over 140 countries. It supports small start-up businesses to well-established companies by making financial decisions and exploring new opportunities. EY (shorthand for Ernst and Young) has recorded a 22 billion turnover in 2011 and is still rising.

The visit was quite beneficial and very intriguing I would like to explore further as I will consider this as an alternative career route. The representative that visited gave us an insight in to what EY is all about. She also gave us an account of her story - about how she heard about the programme and how she is where she is today. The visitor explained on how to join the programme through various ways which suit every individual.

EY offers programmes for people at different stages in their education. The first one is called the EY school leaver. As soon as you leave sixth form after finishing your two year course EY will take you on straight away. To get a head start into your preferred career, you would jump straight into proceeding gaining technical skills and also professional qualifications. This would be without the stress of university fees which makes the programme so appealing.

Another programme is EY degree which is a university course that combines studies with an eighteen-month paid work placement which ends with professional qualifications and a graduate job offer. This programme gives you an amazing opportunity to study at a world-ranked management school.

The Ernst and Young Organization is an incredible way to step into the business world – doing high profile work on business advisory and financial issues. It is definitely a career path that I will consider pursuing. I would strongly recommend others to research further. It may not be your preferred career choice however it gives you an alternative route and a wider goal for your future.

Written by Simi Oremosu in Year 12

The Year 7 cake sale and raffle

Fri, 21 Dec 2012 00:00:00 +0100

The Year 7 cake sale and raffle raised a staggering £1,520 for the Kafwefwe School in Zambia. The money raised will go towards the new school building (including toilets and roof), which is making good progress, as seen in the picture. Farmers
and local community will resume the building works in February 2013, when the rain season finishes. A visitor from the Kafwefwe School will visit us in January 2013 to provide a further update.

T-Shirt Printing with Uphall Year 6 Students

Thu, 13 Dec 2012 00:00:00 +0100

On 11th December 2012 twelve year 6 students from Uphall visited us to design and print some t shirts with our year 12 Textile students.

Loxford and Uphall together with Mayfield School are working with four schools in Brasov, Romania. The Uphall students had designed a logo and wanted to learn how to print and embroider designs on the t shirts so they could send the finished designs to one of the Romanian schools as part of their football kit.

The schools we are working are in very poor villages and the school has a football team but is not able to play in competitions because the team had no kit – now we have sent the t shirts to them they will be able to take part in local football competitions.

The year 12 students and Mrs Taylor gave up their time to help the Uphall students create their designs - Thank you!

BT Digital Champions

Mon, 26 Nov 2012 00:00:00 +0100

Around 8 million people* in the UK have never been online and Year 12 students at Loxford School of Science and Technology in East London have set to reduce this figure!

Click here to read the full article.

School Council Video Conference

Thu, 22 Nov 2012 00:00:00 +0100

Video Conference 21st November 2012
Our year 2 school council took part in a video conference with members of school councils in 7 Redbridge primary schools. Highlands Primary School hosted the event and it was run by the Highlands school Council.
Each school spoke about the role of their council and then had a discussion about different jobs school councillors do in their schools such as being play buddies and school ambassadors.
Our school councillors explained:
We put our name forward if we wanted to be a school councillor and to write down what we would do for the school if we were elected to the school council. All the names of children who wanted to be councillors were put on a voting slip and we had a secret vote. That is how the four of us were elected to Loxford school council.
We meet every two weeks in the school library. We meet with our Headteacher, Mr Hook and Mrs Kanolik. At the moment we are talking about our new library in our new school building and discussing how we can make school better. We take all the ideas we have in school council back to our class and then discuss the ideas.
We ask the class’s opinion about ideas we have been discussing and write down their ideas and questions in our special School Council books which we can take back to Mr Hook and Mrs Kanolik in our next meeting
An example of this work is our design of our new library.
We thought about questions we needed to ask our class then took the answers back to our next meeting. This was how we knew what the pupils wanted to see in their new school library
Each school then went on to speak about rights and responsibilities. Our year 2s talked about the right of being able to come to school and being taught and our responsibility was to come to school and work hard to follow our Golden Rules so we can learn.

Delegation of teachers and educationalists from Hubei, China.

Wed, 21 Nov 2012 00:00:00 +0100

On the 21st of November Loxford proudly welcomed our second delegation of teachers and
educationalists from Hubei, China. The visit was organised by the SSAT and we were chosen due our Outstanding Ofsted status. Our visitors toured the Primary and Secondary buildings, visiting lessons and taking part in activities. We are proud to have been
chosen and look forward to linking with schools in China. They enjoyed presentations from staff and students on our curriculum, leading schools and the wide range of extended

schools activities. Our visitors were especially interested in the activities which we offer beyond the classroom and how this helps our students grow as citizens.

Paralympic Video Conference.

Tue, 20 Nov 2012 00:00:00 +0100

Students from our school joined with pupils in Oaks Park High School, Ilford County High School, Chadwell Heath Academy, and Woodbridge High School to meet Team GB Paralympians Susie Rodgers, Ali Jawad and 2012 US Swimming Coach Queenie Nicols live via video conference (VC) yesterday to celebrate and learn more about the Paralympic Legacy. We were honoured to be the host school and hope to do this again in the very near future. It was amazing to have 6 schools in London and 2 schools in NY (East Irondequoit Middle School and Rochester City School #9) all talking together and learning from such distinguished guests.

Susie and Ali sat at our school while Queenie joined the conference from New York State. The 2012 Paralympians were able to answer questions, inspire and help the young people learn more about their sports, training schedules, diets, work and coping with their everyday lives.

Thousands of pupils watched the live stream over the internet while hundreds more pupils in Redbridge and New York state connected together through VC via Janet VC services and Monroe #1 BOCES who provided a secure and interoperable connection for all the schools to link up.

We were delighted to announce that our Department for Education supported us for this video conference between London and New York. Please click below to watch the short message from Edward Timpson (MP) Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Schools and Families.

http://www.vcfl.net/2012/11/vc-inspiring-learning-through.html

For a longer article please use the following link :-
http://www.vcfl.net/2012/11/learning-about-paralympic-legacy-from.html

Exchange Visit With India

Fri, 16 Nov 2012 00:00:00 +0100

An exchange programme between teachers from Loxford School and Salwan Public School took place during half term, funded by the British Council. Teachers visited each others’ schools in India and UK to explore teaching, learning and assessment methods. The exchange visit also provided an insight into cultural diversity. Loxford and Salwan Public School have been engaged on several curriculum projects over the past year. The visit has further informed the development of these projects as well as committed both schools to further new exciting projects.
Highlights of the visit to India included the following:
-   learning about each other’s cultural and educational diversities
-   teaching Business Studies and Accounting to Salwan students
-   tour of the Taj Mahal and Fort Agra with Salwan students
-   celebration of Diwali (including dance/musical performances, crafts and lights)
-   observation of lessons in Art, Drama, Maths, RE, Geography, ICT, English, Hindi and German.

The visits will enable both schools to:
-   embed global themes and skills within curriculum and wider school activities
-   develop a benchmark of good practice to disseminate to other schools
-   raise levels of achievement
-   ensure both schools develop their activities in an equitable and sustainable way for the benefit of pupils, staff, communities and key stakeholders.

Click below to see an overview of short videos of the visit to Salwan Public School (Afternoon).

Science trip to Cambridge University

Mon, 12 Nov 2012 00:00:00 +0100

On 10th October 15 year 11 Physics students visited Cambridge University, to learn about University life and studying Physics at Cambridge. The trip started with a visit to the world famous Cavendish Laboratory, where the students had a workshop about University science studies, and then were able to take part in their own laboratory experiment. In their investigation students used lenses and a light source to work out “the lensmakers formula”. This is the formula that the optician will use to work out what prescription glasses you need!

In the afternoon, students were given a tour around Cambridge city and saw the library and several of the famous colleges. They then visited Newnam College, and saw where students could live when at University. Newnam is a girls-only college with its own library, sports area and dining area. Cambridge University comprises of lots of colleges where students can stay and study, and they choose which college to go to depending on personal preference.
This was a highly enjoyable and informative trip and many of the students feel they would be able to study at Cambridge University and are working hard to be able to apply for a place.

Loxford welcomes guests from Hubei, China.

Thu, 08 Nov 2012 00:00:00 +0100

On the 7th of November Loxford proudly welcomed a delegation of teachers and educationalists from Hubei, China. The visit was organised by the SSAT and we were
chosen due our Outstanding Ofsted status. Our visitors toured the Primary and Secondary buildings, visiting lessons and taking part in activities. They enjoyed presentations from staff and students on our curriculum, leading schools and the wide range of extended
schools activities. The day finished by an interesting question and answer session where we learned of the differences between schools in China and England.

International Schools – visit from India.

Fri, 19 Oct 2012 00:00:00 +0100

International Schools – visit from India.
SAPNA BAKSHI from our international link school in India will be joining us from 22 – 26 October. Her visit forms part of the Global Partnership Agreement (British Council.)

Ms. Bakshi has been teaching primary classes, including English, for the last fourteen years. She has the proud privilege of being an integral part of several key responsibilities in her school for the last several years including:

•    Co-Activity Coordinator, designing and coordinating the co-scholastic programme right from Primary to Senior Secondary.
•    School Coordinator of the Tony Blair Faith Foundation’s Face to Faith Programme, she organises all the events and videoconferences.
•    Core member of the School Editorial Board, looking after the designing, coordination of various sections and printing aspect of the school magazine.

Ms Bakshi has an armed forces background and as a result has done schooling across India, primarily in convent schools. She loves theatre, travelling and writing stories, articles and poetry.

Cake Sale for Zambia

Mon, 08 Oct 2012 00:00:00 +0100

Every Wednesday, Room G4 (Break times)

Well done to 7L, who managed to raise approximately £100 in the first week of the bakewell sale. All money raised will be donated towards our international link school (Kwafwefwe School), who need access to water and new teaching resources. If you want to be part of this success, please support Kwafwefwe School by donating or buying a cake every Wednesday break time in G4.

UBS Outstanding Student Award.

Tue, 02 Oct 2012 00:00:00 +0100

We are extremely proud that Year 13 student Shuaib has been chosen to receive the UBS Outstanding Student Award. Shuaib and two other students, Joel Saleem and Khallil Benyattou, were nominated by the school in recognition of their outstanding AS and early entry A Level grades in year twelve. Shuaib has also shown his dedication to his studies by attending taster days, lectures and summer schools with both Oxford and Cambridge Universities. He also spent two weeks this summer at Yale University in America, where he gave a presentation about economics to students from around the world.
The Outstanding Student Award is organised by educational charity Pure Potential in partnership with global leading financial services firm UBS to recognise and celebrate the achievements of the brightest state-school sixth form students in the country. On Thursday, 8th November 2012, UBS will be hosting an exclusive event and presenting each successful student with an award for outstanding achievement.
By winning this award, Shuaib has placed himself amongst the very highest achieving students in the United Kingdom. He is applying to study Economics at Cambridge University after he completed his A Levels.

Summer School - 30th July-3rd August 2012

Wed, 22 Aug 2012 00:00:00 +0100

This summer 100 new year 7 students and 18 members of staff took part in Loxford Summer School. Everyone had a great week taking part in a variety of activities such as a mini-Olympics Sports Day run by Premier Sports (http://www.premiersport.org/ ). We tried some new sports such as Fencing and played Hockey, Tennis, Cricket and Dodgeball. This day was great fun even though it did not manage to stay dry all day and we had to dodge the rain! At the end of the week everyone who took part was presented with a winner’s medal and those that did really well in various sports got certificates too!

As the Olympics had just started most of the activities had an Olympic theme. We had our own opening ceremony and watched some of the Olympic ceremony too then we did research into some of the 204 countries taking part. We designed our own Olympic bookmarks in the library which we were able to take home. We also designed Olympic T shirts and Olympic Flags which we also got to keep. We learned about the history of the Olympics and took part in an Olympic quiz. We had a Science lesson where we did experiments about the effects of exercise on the body. We did lots of exercise and discovered how this affected our lungs. We now know all there is to know about the Olympics!

Mr Louis and the year 8 Steel Pan group played for us at the opening ceremony and we were able to learn more about the steel pans. Later in the week and some of us played at our closing ceremony. The year 8 steel pans group were brilliant and they came in every day of Summer School to help out – Thank You!

We also took part in poetry and speech writing, mathematics and spent time reading in the library. Some of the students presented their work at the closing ceremony and everyone got medals, certificates and a book.

I hope that the Summer School was a great introduction to Loxford life. Thank you to all the staff who helped out and thank you to all the students for taking part!

Uniform Summer Sales

Mon, 23 Jul 2012 00:00:00 +0100

Thursday 19th July - 3.30 to 5.30pm (Pre Summer Sales)
Monday 30th July - 12.00 to 4.00pm
Monday 6th August - 11.00 to 4.00pm
Monday 13th August - 3.00 to 7.00pm
Tuesday 21sy August - 3.00 to 7.00pm
Wednesday 29th August - 10.00 to 3.00pm

PEPAIDS Schools of Good Hope Project

Fri, 20 Jul 2012 00:00:00 +0100

Loxford School are partnered with Kafwefwe to help provide resources and materials for schools.

Click here to download the full report

National Booktrust Creative Writing Competition

Mon, 16 Jul 2012 00:00:00 +0100

Congratulations to Minahil Khan for achieving one of 3 Runner-Up places in the National Booktrust creative writing competition for young people on the subjectt of the London Riots
You can read her entry by using the link below.

Well done Minahil!

http://www.booktrust.org.uk/books-and-reading/teenagers/blog/346

eSafety

Tue, 03 Jul 2012 00:00:00 +0100

eSafety

The Government has launched an Internet Consultation focused specifically on whether Internet Service Providers (ISPs) should support parents in providing filtering and other Parental Controls.

The consultation information is here:

https://www.education.gov.uk/aboutdfe/departmentalinformation/consultations/a00211052/parental-internet-controls

Responses can be completed online:

https://www.education.gov.uk/aboutdfe/departmentalinformation/consultations/submit

Please we encourage you to respond to the consultation and give your views on this very important issue. Your views will hopefully influence national policy.

The consultation ends in the first week of September.

Eco-Warriors - Our ‘Switch It Off, Go Green’ Campaign!

Mon, 02 Jul 2012 00:00:00 +0100

For the past 4-5 months, we have been working on a ‘Switch It Off.... Go Green!’ campaign to save energy and electricity at Loxford School. Throughout the year we produced a range of posters, stickers, messages and videos to drive the campaign.

         To initiate the campaign we designed posters/stickers to remind students and teachers to turn off their monitors, computers/laptops and lights off when they are finished using them. We put these up in every classroom, corridor and staircase!

        The second aspect we worked on for the campaign was an eco- video. The main aim of the video was to inform our audience of the environmental and economic importance of saving energy. The video contains comments and interviews from teachers, students and SLT members regarding Loxford’s energy use. The video also contains a short play showing a few students acting out what would happen to polar bears, living in the Arctic, if we do not reduce our energy usage. We also spiced things up by incorporating sound effects and humour to make it entertaining for the whole school to watch!

       The third aspect we were worked on for the campaign was putting up stickers in classrooms to remind teachers to turn off their heating when it is hot and to open their windows. Also, we put some stickers up in classrooms to remind teachers how to use the CO2 reading monitor (green, yellow/amber, red light).
The fourth aspect of the campaign will be a “No Energy Day” held towards the end of July. The purpose of this event is to save energy and hopefully encourage teachers to continue practicing energy saving habits. We also plan on holding a Green Cupcake sale to raise money to support an eco – friendly solution.

Kejsi Xhafaj 9.S

NHS blood donations

Thu, 28 Jun 2012 00:00:00 +0100

On Friday 22nd June, students took part in a presentation from the NHS Blood and Transplant Service. Students were told how important it was that they consider Blood Donation and how their donation could save lives. Twenty students signed up and many more are considering donation. It is possible to register at 16 and begin donating blood at 17 years of age.

SWIM GALA

Wed, 20 Jun 2012 00:00:00 +0100

Loxford School take over the Education Centre

Fri, 01 Jun 2012 00:00:00 +0100

The Guardian Education Centre was taken over by sixth formers from Loxford School today. They made a newspaper, video and podcast, took photographs and met and worked with journalists, editors and Guardian staff.

Please follow this link to view the entire article, http://www.guardian.co.uk/gnmeducationcentre/tenth-anniversary-loxford-take-over-day

Link to photo gallery, http://www.guardian.co.uk/gnmeducationcentre/gallery/tenth-anniversary-loxford-school#/?picture=390972870&index=0

Link to the new gazette article, http://image.guardian.co.uk/sys-files/Guardian/documents/2012/05/31/EC10fp.pdf

Year 7 Rugby Tournament

Fri, 01 Jun 2012 00:00:00 +0100

On Wednesday 30th May the Year 7 Loxford Lions Rugby Team visited Ilford Wanderers Rugby Club for the first ever Redbridge rugby tournament. This was all of the boys first experience playing in a rugby tournament, so excitement was high. It is important to remember that all of the team had never played competitive rugby before joining Loxford School in september and that during the year they had only played one game and lost.

The Lions played five games and the results are shown below:

1. Loxford 6 - 0 Oaks Park A Team
2. Loxford 7 - 0 Oakds Park B Team
3. Loxford 2 - 3 Mayfield
4. Loxford 4 - 2 Wanstead High
5. Loxford 13 - 2 Caterham.

Winning four games out of five was superb and the Ilford Wanderers coach was extremely impressed, so much so that he requested Jacob Cooper, Eri Krasniqi and Timi Atere to join the youth teams. Next year onwards and upwards for the Loxford Lions who will be joining the first ever Redbridge District Rugby League.

Special mention however to all the boys that played: Jacob Cooper, Eri Krasniqi, Timi Atere, Rohan Hanna, Darnell Yiadom, Kieron Mitchell, Mahmood Mansoori, Danyaal Ijaz, Chaku Chongo, Josh Thompson, Humam Mussa, Shereef Adeyemo.

Mr Simpson

Loxford Primary Conference with Highlands Junior School

Thu, 24 May 2012 00:00:00 +0100

On 24th May one of our reception classes took part in a video conference with Highlands Infants school. We shared some songs that the Highlands' Reception class taught us. The words of the two songs Highlands taught us to sing are:

Oh let’s sing hello together, together, together
Oh let’s sing hello together, I’m so glad you’re here.
For your friends are my friends and my friends are your friends.
Oh let’s sing hello together, I’m so glad you’re here.

and

Hola!
Hola!
Como estas?
Muy bien
Gracias.

Once we had learned the words we then sang the songs with them which was great fun. We then sang some of our favourite songs to the students at Highlands Infants School.

Thank you to the teachers and pupils at Highlands for sharing your songs with us.