Hline July 2020 Welcome to Healing School, A Science Academy Principal, Mrs M. Dewland Healing School Celebrates Great Results Pupils celebrated ‘excellent’ GCSE results last summer Gold Edition Healing School A Science Academy Low Road, Healing, Grimsby, North East Lincolnshire DN41 7QD Tel: (01472) 502400 Fax: (01472) 502401 Email: offi[email protected] www.healing-school.co.uk Swimming Squad Success Victorious pupils from Healing School became Grimsby and District swimming champions for the fourth successive year. An 80-strong team competed against four other schools at the annual event at Grimsby Swimming Pool. In addition to the overall Challenge Shield, pupils walked away with five other trophies. They won: Year 7 boys, Year 9 boys, Year 9 girls, Year 10/11 boys and overall boys. Swimming coach Mrs Arnold and the Healing PE department went to support the pupils and came away delighted and proud of the whole team. Sporting Success This year, Year 7 boys won the ESFA 5-a side football finals at Derby. The team played against schools from Lincolnshire, Leicestershire and Northamptonshire and will now play in the national finals in Brimingham. The KS4 girls netball team represented the county in Skegness earlier this year, showing some exceptional skills and teamwork in an exciting game. Healing F24 Racing Team An electric car built and driven by Healing pupils was raced at Silverstone against 97 other schools from across the country. The pupils had an incredible day looking at some of the ex racing cars, including an Aston Martin and a Ferrari. They also got to try the winners podium for size! The team came a respectable 16th place in their category. Celebrations took place at Healing School in 2019, after pupils improved on consistently strong GCSE performance. The new-style English and Maths exams saw 82% of pupils achieve a 4+ pass or higher, while 57.4% achieved a strong grade 5 pass in both. The school also obtained one of the highest progress 8 scores in the region and performed in the top 20% of schools nationally. A 4+ pass was recorded by 95% of pupils in either English Language or English Literature. In Maths, the 4+ figure was 83%. Pupils studying triple Science achieved a phenomenal 100% pass rate for Biology, Physica and Chemistry, with the school performing strongly across all other subjects. Mrs Dewland was ‘delighted’ with another set of impressive results. “Congratulations to everybody concerned. These outstanding and sustained results are only achieved as a result of the dedication and hard work of staff and pupils. We wish former Year 11 pupils every success and happiness with their future endeavours”. Lockdown Stories On 20th March, schools across the country closed their doors to pupils in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic. Over the next 4 months, we watched as our pupils found new ways of learning from home, learnt practical skills and contributed to their communities. We are very proud of you all! Feedback in Education KS4 Learning Co-ordinator, Mr Goodwin, has been very busy during lockdown engaging in the research education community. This has led to a collaboration with writers Kirschner, Oliver Caviglioli, Kate Jones and Mr Goodwin has been asked to write a case study for Michael Chilies new book, The Feedback Pendulum: A manifesto for enhancing feedback in education. Mr Goodwin will spend his summer writing his essay and we look forward to seeing it in print later in the year. This is a special “round up” edition of our school newsletter, Hotline. This golden edition of our newsletter rightly celebrates another amazing year in the life of Healing school, and what a year it’s been! We proudly celebrate our strong academic success but it’s also heart-warming to note the range of activities outside the classroom which play such a critical role in the lives of our pupils. A plethora of exciting opportunities have been made available for pupils, including the chance to travel to France as well as the Geography field trip to Skegness and who could forget the unforgettable talent demonstrated by our young actors in the highly emotive Blood Brothers performance! Pupils have also enjoyed extensive activities within school with visits by Oxford and Cambridge university representatives and the inspirational Harvesting Light workshop by Sheffield University. Such experiences, as well as academic achievement, have contributed to our holistic approach to education which helps to equip our young people for their future lives. Although many of our planned activities were sadly curtailed this year due to the Covid-19 pandemic, it has been inspiring to learn of the many skills that pupils developed and honed at home, not to mention supporting their local community, whilst also embracing their online learning - we are really proud of our pupils. Enjoy this special publication and thank you, as always, to our parents for their unfailing support of our outstanding school.