Category: Year 11

Opportunities in hairdressing and beauty

Natalie McGillivary

The following two apprenticeship opportunities may be of interest to your son/daughter if they are considering a future career in hairdressing.

 

1. Hair 2 Order

This salon in Grappenhall is looking to recruit a new apprentice to join its team. Students can come in and shadow its nearly qualified apprentice to see how a salon operates.
For details, book an appointment with Kelly or Kim to see if this is the career for you.

hair2order179@yahoo.com 

Tel: 01925 264544

 

2. Kleek

Kleek has a number of salons in the area looking to take on an apprentice in the hairdressing, barbering and beauty industry. 

If any students would like more information, please contact:

Joy Mullett

Regional Hairdressing Educator

Tel: 012345 678900

Mobile: 07719079638

kleekapprenticeships.co.uk

                                                                                         

Summer 2023 contingency days 

Natalie McGillivary

The awarding bodies have collectively agreed a contingency day for several years now which is always scheduled at the end of the GCSE and A’ Level exam timetables.

The contingency day is in the event of national or significant local disruption to exams in the UK, being part of the awarding bodies’ standard contingency planning for exams.

Following the Covid-19 pandemic, further resilience was needed within the exam timetables. A single contingency day was not felt to be sufficient if a national event or incident had a significant effect on the exam timetable. For example, summer exams could be affected by extremely high temperatures.

For the June 2023 exams, the awarding bodies have therefore introduced two additional half-day contingency sessions. These are on Thursday 8th June 2023 and Thursday 15th June 2023. The standard contingency day remains at the end of the timetable being scheduled on Wednesday 28th June 2023.

Schools and colleges should ensure candidates and parents are aware of the contingency arrangements on these three days. They should consider the contingency day of Wednesday 28th June 2023 when making their plans for the summer. Candidates should be encouraged to remain available until Wednesday 28th June 2023 should examinations need to be rescheduled.

Year 11 Spring Update

Natalie McGillivary

With the exam season just around the corner we want to ensure that we are utilising every opportunity to support and encourage our Year 11 students to achieve their potential. Therefore, we thought it would be useful to provide a couple of updates and advice to best support your child over Easter and beyond.

Please click here to read the full letter.

Work Experience Opportunity at Sellafield, Warrington – Nuclear Design Engineering

Lisa Hughes

Opportunities for Y11, Y12 and Y13 students to take part in the Work Experience programme at Sellafield Ltd, in Risley, Warrington are available. Students will undertake a week-long placement solving real engineering problems. They will gain awareness in Process, Mechanical, Control, Electrical & Instrumentation and Civil & Structural Engineering Design as well as meeting with members of Sellafield’s Operational Research Analyst team. They will experience exciting and rewarding challenges with a clear vision of the future opportunities available in engineering. They will also gain valuable employability skills for future employment and education/training providers. Working as a project team they will experience first-hand how to use STEM subjects to work on a ground-breaking project alongside nuclear industry’s experts.

Student’s interested in applying to this placement, should return the application found here to spoc.work.experience@sellafieldsites.com by 30th May 2023. See the available dates below. On returning this document, please advise the best dates to attend. Sellafield recommend you advise more than one week due to availability.

Sellafield Summer Work Experience Programme

  • WC 10.07.23      Year 11
  • WC 17.07.23      Year 12/13
  • WC 24.07.23      Year 11
  • WC 31.07.23      Year 12/13
  • WC 07.08.23      Year 11
  • WC 14.08.23      Year 12/13
  • WC 21.08.23      Year 12/13

Turkey/Syria earthquake appeal

Natalie McGillivary

Please read below for the fundraising efforts Lymm High is organising over the next two days for the Turkey/Syria earthquake appeal.

Tomorrow, we are having a cake sale and a raffle so students may wish to bring in some cash. If you would like to donate any cakes for the sale, students can bring these to S107 before form time. Raffle tickets can be purchased from the school shop (in-person and over the phone) and there are some great prizes, including:

  • Refurbished Lenovo L490 Laptop
  • Family portrait session with Andrew Collier
  • Afternoon Tea for two at Statham Lodge
  • Meal for two at Ego’s Lymm
  • Sunday roast platter for two at The Jolly thresher
  • Voucher from Karl Welsh Flowers

On Friday, we will be having a non-uniform day. If students wish to dress down they need to give a pound donation to their form tutors. Please note that students still need to bring their PE kit in for PE lessons.

We are also having our regular end-of-term Doughnut Day event where students can buy Krispy Kreme doughnuts for £1 at breaktime in the main hall. The money raised will be split between the PTA and the earthquake appeal.

Thank you for your support.