Anglo European School

This week, our new International Co-ordinator, Mr Marshall, has been taking assemblies with all students to publish the 2023-24 visits offer. This morning, he spoke to Year 10 and shared with them opportunities to travel to Paris, Lyon, Heidelberg, and launched a new visit to Venice for GCSE Italian students.

We also encouraged those who study Geography and History to take part in the field visits and History residentials to Durham as fantastic enhancements of the GCSE curriculum, bringing classroom learning to life.

The visits and exchanges programme changes lives and gives our students a global and open-minded view of the world. It develops their communication skills, linguistic skills and confidence and enables them to develop into ambitious, principled and resilience young adults.

With three new destinations, in San Sebastian, Jerez and Venice this year, we hope that students are excited for the new visits season. Check your passports are in date, dust off your suitcases and keep practising new vocabulary. We will soon be booking flights!

On Monday, we welcomed 9 students from the Goethe Gymnasium in Frankfurt, our partner school of over 40 years! These students will join our Year 10 cohort and spend 8 weeks learning alongside our students in school. We are sure that they are going to fit into our school community brilliantly and we can't wait to see the inter-cultural friendships blossom as a result of this exchange.

Improving attendance is everyone’s business. The barriers to accessing education are wide and complex, both within and beyond the school gates, and are often specific to individual students and families. Students have now had the opportunity to experience all lessons on their timetable and for the majority, they will be fully settled into the routine of learning in these lessons. However, for some, it is more challenging and if your child is struggling, please make contact with their form tutor in the first instance to discuss your concerns.

For our new Year 7 students, the following may help as a reminder on how to prepare for the next day and remove the rush that can cause heightened anxiety first thing in the morning.

Well done on an amazing start to the year in terms of attendance. 944 students still have 100% attendance!

Every September, we celebrate Arabic as Language of the month. We were visited by Kareem Samara, a musician, composer, and organizer from London. His work focuses on the electro acoustic possibilities of the Oud and arabic music. He is also a founding member of Raast Collective and has become known as a versatile Oud player and Guitarist. Year 7 heard Kareem perform his mix of traditional and modern Arabic music and our Arabic Club enjoyed a music workshop. We always welcomed new students to our Arabic Club, which explores both language and culture with lots of enrichment activities.

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Thanks to the support of the Safer Essex Roads Partnership Year 7 were visited by The Riot Act theatre production who performed "What Went Down", a hard hitting play telling the story of three friends who were forced to face up to the real consequences of their reckless behaviour on the busy road they used to and from school. This was followed by a workshop promoting key road safety messages. Please could parents enforce these messages at home:

• Beware of distractions such as music, phones and friends
• Help students to cope with peer pressure
• Help promote safe, responsible and positive behaviour amongst students on their journey to and from school

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In assemblies last week, we discussed the opportunities our students have for the year ahead, we explained how we are aspirational for our students, we have high expectations of every student at AES and don’t settle for mediocre effort or poorly executed work. In our school, we strive for a culture of excellence, where all of our students are supported to achieve highly and learning is valued and celebrated. With this is mind we showed all the students the fantastic new visits programme for 2023/24, all the new and existing extra-curricular activities that are on offer, how we want members of the school community to get involved in student voice, and we introduced our new Inclusive Language Guide.

As part of our Work Related Learning modules, all Year 10 and Sixth Form students take a two week work experience placement. This academic year, work experience for Sixth Form students will take place from Monday 11th March – Friday 22nd March inclusive and for Year 10, theirs is scheduled for Monday 3rd June – Friday 14th June inclusive.

Although AES students are responsible for finding their own placements, we keep a database of parent and alumni contacts who are willing to offer placements. Please email enterprise@aesessex.co.uk if you would like to put your contact details on our database. Please include the industry you work in and a brief description of the roles our students may undertake.

Please note change of date - Wednesday 27th September to Friday 29nd September, Fryerning Lane will be closed to all traffic from 9am-3pm, apart from residents and businesses. If you wish to bring your child to school by car during this week, could we ask that you drop off at New Road or along the High Street, to ease with this disruption.

We are busy preparing to showcase the school to prospective parents of new Year 7 students and Lower Sixth. If students have been asked to be involved in this special evening please can parents complete the form on Edulink.

Please feel free to share this advert and any of our social media posts on our Open Evening so that we can ensure that this important evening is a real success. #AngloFamily

Are you ready to make your secondary school experience unforgettable? It's time to go beyond the classroom and discover a world of exciting opportunities through our Extra-Curricular Activities program!

Education should not be limited to textbooks and exams. It's about nurturing your talents, building friendships, and growing into well-rounded individuals. That's why we offer a wide range of extra-curricular activities tailored to your interests and passions. What are you going to get involved in this term? https://www.aesessex.co.uk/assets/Documents/extra-curricular-clubs-Autumn-Term-2023-v2.pdf

The Year 7 Netball team were victorious in their first game of the season, winning 14-0! The girls demonstrated some excellent shooting, and there were some great interceptions in defence. This is a team with fantastic potential. Miss Whitlock's 2 players of the match were Maisie and Lucy and the opposition's player was Sophia. Well done girls!

The Year 8 netball team had an excellent start to the season, winning 18-2. There were some excellent interceptions and brilliant shooting from Avni, Livia and Sacha. Player of the match was Beth. Well done girls!

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Please email requests to the Anglo European School Association at aesa@aesessex.co.uk

Do you have any availability between 9:10am and 3:30pm to support our students with their language learning? Every year we welcome a group of native speakers from our wider school community to support our Sixth Form students with their language learning. The Heads of Subject liaise with the volunteers, who then have a regular slot with a small group of students at a time to practice their speaking skills ahead of their exams.

If you would be happy to volunteer a few hours each week to support our students, it would be greatly appreciated. To volunteer, or for further information, please contact Mrs Latimer via enquiries@aesessex.co.uk

25th September to 18th November - Year 10 Frankfurt long-term exchange to AES

Tuesday 26th September - Year 11 GCSE Geography Fieldwork Visit

Tuesday 26th September 18.00pm - Lower Sixth Oxbridge and Medicine Applications - Parents Evening

Thursday 28th September - early closure 12.30pm

Thursday 28th September 16.30pm - Open Evening for applications for 2024 for Year 7 and Sixth Form

Friday 29th September - Non-Pupil Day

Tuesday 3rd October - 18:00pm - Year 11 Parental Information Evening

Tuesday 3rd October - Year 8 Rugby Festival at Brentwood School

Friday 6th October - Year 11 Destinations Day

2023/24 Academic Key Dates:

https://www.aesessex.co.uk/home/parents/key-dates-and-term-dates/

https://www.aesessex.co.uk/sixth-form/student-and-parents-information/key-dates-and-term-dates/

Finance - finance@aesessex.co.uk

Admissions - admissions@aesessex.co.uk

Attendance - use Edulink

Email: enquiries@aesessex.co.uk
Website: aesessex.co.uk
Location: Anglo European School, CM4 0DJ, Willow Green, Ingatestone, UK
Phone: 01277 354018
Facebook: facebook.com/angloeuropeanschool
Twitter: @angloeuropean73