2018

(Open to All Year Groups and Abilities)

MONDAYS 3.15 – 4.15
STUDLEY LEISURE CENTRE

If you’d like to learn some trampoline skills, or just want to try something different and fun, why not come along to our after school club? We use full size Olympic trampolines and work through skills from basic to more advanced. You don’t need to book, just come to Studley Leisure Centre Sports Hall after school, and give it a try!
The club costs £2 per session, which is charged termly. First time bouncers can come along for FREE to see if they want to join.

See Miss Dempster for more information.

Year 10 pupil, Luke Baker is making a name for himself in the world of hockey.

He is currently part of the England Hockey Performance Centre programme, which is an elite player programme that develops players for national age group and GB hockey.

Players are nominated to attend a Performance Centre by their Academy Centre. Players can be nominated from the U15 and U17 age groups and attend a tough selection day to progress to the Performance Centre level. There are only 300 players nationally at this level at 17 different performance centres and Luke’s goal is to be selected for the Futures Cup squad in August 2019.

The Futures Cup is the pinnacle of the Elite Player Pathway and for many of the players it will be their first experience of an intense tournament-style competition on this scale. Each region battles battles it out in their respective age group for a chance to be crowned the champion. National age group squads are selected from this process.

Luke plays club hockey at Redditch Hockey Club and plays in the Men’s 3rd team as well as playing as an invited guest player in the Tier 1 U16’s National League competition for Stourport Hockey club.

Good luck Luke!!

World War One Centenary Poppy Project

The History and Art departments have joined forces for this very special project and are inviting pupils from all year groups to take part.

The project will involve, producing a poppy display to remember those from Studley who lost their lives fighting in World War One.

Starting after school, on Thursday 4th October (until November 11th) – pupils will meet in the Technology room to create a display of decorated poppies and at the same time, researching the lives and experiences of those who fought on the front line. Each poppy will represent someone who contributed to WW1.

These stories and images of the work created, will then be collated to create a ‘Studley Heroes of World War One’ book, available at the end of the project.

The project will also be displayed in Studley Village, during the parade on Remembrance Sunday.

See Miss Massey or Miss Hughes for more information.

Y11 pupil, Tommy Smith is a swimming champion.

Although he’s put competitive swimming on hold to concentrate on his GCSEs this year, we wanted to celebrate and share his accolades and journey so far.

Over the past four and a half years Tommy has been training at Coventry, his achievements over that period are worthy of note.

He has won 15 gold medals at the Warwickshire Championships and numerous silver and gold medals. Tommy has represented Warwickshire at the National Inter County Championships.

This year, he won the Regional Championships, 200m freestyle and he has medalled repeatedly at the Regional Championships over the past four years. Tommy also qualified for the English Nationals in three events this year.

Last year he qualified for the English National Championships and was a finalist in the 200m freestyle.

In 2016 he was the Welsh National Champion in his age category for the 200m freestyle.

Here he is, winning the Warwickshire County under 15 100m freestyle last year when he was only thirteen. Congratulations Tommy!

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It’s not often you can celebrate twice in one day, but canteen assistant, Jane Richardson has managed it.

Today (3rd October) she celebrates her 70th birthday and also 34 years of working at Studley High School. Jane joined us in 1984, the year that Apple launched their first  Apple Macintosh:

And Prince Harry was born!

Jane has worked incredibly hard, since the day she started – supporting the team in the canteen and putting up with us at break and lunchtime. She’s always ready with a smile and definitely brightens up our day.

Happy Birthday Jane!

Year 7, 8, 9 and 10 pupils represented Studley High School at the South Warwickshire Cross Country Trials at Alcester Grammar yesterday. There were 60 competitors in each race.

Our students:

Year 7

Sophie Tolley- Top 20
Ruby Wilcox- Top 20
James Faulks- 4th Place

Year 8

Bredan Colley- Top 10
Kacper Wierzchowski – Top 20
Rosie Ward
Lucy Smith- Top 10

Year 9

George Godwin
James Freeman
Paulina Jurkowska- Top 10
Caitlin Colley

Year 10

James Mucklow- First place (ran against Year 10, 11 & 12 students)

We are awaiting confirmation of qualiiers for the County Cross Country competition.

Cross country running is a sport in which teams and individuals run a race on open-air courses over natural terrain such as dirt or grass. The course may include surfaces of grass, and earth, pass through woodlands and open country, and include hills, flat ground and sometimes gravel road. It is both an individual and a team sport; runners are judged on individual times and teams by a points-scoring method. 

On the 19th September, Science Department held a CSI “Murder at the Manor” event for Year 7 pupils and their parents. Year 11 prefects helped out and the detectives had drinks and doughnuts to help their investigations.

Using your map, and a range of suspects, find out who committed the murder in the manor…analyse a range of chemicals to help you discover the the truth….

Was it Dr Black? Or was it Miss Scarlett…..

More than 30 pupils came with their parents and used chemical and acid to discover that it was Dr Black who was the murderer!!

Earlier this month, our School Catering Manager, Mr Prince, who is a firefighter for Warwickshire, was asked to attend the Firefighters International Service of Remembrance & Wreath Laying ceremony to represent Warwickshire Fire and Rescue.

This was an honour for Mr Prince to attend. He met colleagues from other UK Fire Brigades, Fire Cadets, overseas Fire Fighters and families who have lost loved ones on the front line.

They then marched from St Paul’s Cathedral to St Sepulchre Church, through the centre of London. All roads on the route were closed and the pavements were lined with people who had come to support.

The Firefighters Memorial Trust is a charity, managed by a dedicated Board of Trustees. The Trust exists to recognise the commitment and dedication of all United Kingdom Firefighters, (and those serving in designated British Overseas Territories), particularly those who have died as a result of their duties, serving the community.

This year, we held our Open Event on Thursday 13th September and welcomed over 400 people to school

With Secondary School application date coming up shortly, on 31st October, the entire staff and many pupils, put everything into preparing a day and evening to showcase the school in all it’s glory.

Parents who were not able to attend the evening event, booked school tours in the morning and afternoon, and the evening event started at 6.15pm.

As parents and carers poured through the doors from 5.30pm, they were greeted by pupil tour guides, pupil leadership and members of staff. Pupils gave school tours, answering questions and talking about the activities that were available.

Each department offered activities to engage potential pupils and ignite their interest in a subject they may never had encountered:

Mr Gray, the Principal, then greeted visitors in the hall and spoke about the many benefits of sending their child here and the experiences our students have during their time at Studley High School. Year 7 pupils Kimi Sweet and Jacob Miles delivered a brilliant presentation on settling in to school and their journey from Year 6 to Year 7, including their experiences of Summer School, to ease the transition.

Feedback from parents has been incredibly positive, particularly relating to the expertise of our pupils and the passion they showed in talking about school and the individual subjects, as they carried out their tours.

If any parent or carer still wishes to see the school and meet a member of the leadership team, please contact the office to arrange a personal tour: 01527 852 478.

Thank you to all who attended and all staff and pupils involved, for making this the best ever open event at Studley High School.

Miss Purser and Miss Baker will be running a Mathematics Coding Club for Year 7 students on Tuesday lunchtimes.

If you are in Year 7 and interested come along to M1 lunchtime, Tuesday 18th September.

You will have the opportunity to write and receive letters from students in a schools over 66 miles away – using the coding you will learn!

Last Friday James Kirk in Year 7 competed in the London Men’s Open gymnastics competition in Ilford. He competed against 18 other gymnasts from across the country.

James finished first overall, winning the gold medal, a plaque and a place to compete in the National Development grades in Birmingham in November.

He achieved a medal on every piece, winning gold on parallel bars, silver on floor, rings and high bar and bronze on vault and pommel. James trains 22.5 hours a week at Earls High School in Halesowen and it was good to see his hard work and determination pay off. Well done James!

Studley High School pupils are celebrating another excellent set of results, rising to the challenge of the tougher GCSE examinations introduced this year.

There are many success stories with a number of pupils achieving multiple grade 9s. Among those celebrating excellent attainment are:

• Ellie Harley who achieved 6 grade 9s, 2 grade 8s and 2 grade 7s
• Catalina Chavez who achieved 4 grade 9s, 5 grade 8s and a Distinction
• Ryan Allington who achieved 1 grade 9, 4 grade 8s, 2 grade 7s and 2 5s
• Skyla Dartnall who achieved 3 grade 9s, 3 grade 8s, 1 grade 6 and 2 grade 5s.
• Matt Yapp who achieved 1 grade 9, 2 grade 8s 5 grade 7s and a grade 5.
• Jack Foreman who achieved 3 grade 8s, 5 grade 7s, 1 grade 6 and a C.
• Abdul Muhaymun who achieved 2 grade 8s, 3 grade 7s and 3 grade 6s

Special mention must also go to Larasati Neville who achieved a clean sweep of 10 grade 9s across all of her subjects. This is a remarkable achievement and places her in a very select group of pupils nationally.

Particularly pleasing are the strong results across all subject areas highlighting the broad offer, strong work ethic of pupils and quality of teaching at Studley High School.

Headteacher, Mr Lee Gray said ‘I am delighted to offer my congratulations to a wonderful cohort of pupils who have risen to the challenge of the reformed GCSEs and achieved an excellent set of results.’

‘This group of pupils have enjoyed their time at Studley and have immersed themselves into school life and to see their efforts rewarded with such a great set of results is wonderful. We wish them all every success in the future as they move on to their chosen destinations.’

Cat Chavez:

“I am delighted, I don’t have to worry about where I go, I can choose!”

Cat is going on to study Economics and Spanish as two of her 4 chosen subjects.

Ellie Harley:

“I am so shocked, but I worked hard and it’s clearly paid off!”

Ellie is going on to study Geography, English Literature,French and Psychology.

Abdul Muhaymun:

“I can’t believe these results, I am off to grammar school to study English Language, Geography and Psychology.”

On the 6th July, our Year 11s attended their ‘Leavers Prom’ with all the glitter and glam that exists at a Hollywood gala! The night got off to a exciting start as the creative vehicle choices arrived at ‘The Limes’ in Earlswood, drawing up to a red carpet.

From ice cream vans to a cavalcade of motorbikes, a Police riot van and classic cars, the pupils were determined to impress. Outfit choices also stood out with the pupils (and staff!) looking stunning.

Here is a selection of the 2018 Prom photos (full official photos can be found here)

Sports Day was a huge success this year, with involvement from everyone, excellent behaviour and plenty of our “Whole School Records” were broken.

In the morning we had our field and long distance events, with James Mucklow breaking the 800m school record with a fantastic time of 2:25 minutes and Elliot Dennis breaking the Triple Jump record with a jump of 10.60m.

Over on the girls side, we had a fantastic 4 school records broken in the morning, with Lizzie Kingham’s Shot-Put throw (7.64m), Ellie Fisher’s Discus throw (16.60m), Georgia Fisher’s Triple Jump (7.75m) and Alice Kerridge and Mia Bick jointly holding the Long-Jump record (4.00m).

In the afternoon, we had half the school competitively taking part in the new ‘House bench-ball tournament’, with the other half competing in the sprint track events. The “Whole School Records” broken in the afternoon were:

Abbie Staples – 100m- 13:07s
Ben Tolley – 100m- 12:00s
Phoebe Hunt – 60m- 9:30s
Callum Durnall – 60m- 8:17s

Overall, it was an absolutely fantastic day and we look forward to seeing what records our students can break again next year!

Sports Day 2018 – Results

Year 7 student Ashleigh Green is more than a keen swimmer.

Last weekend, she competed as part of Redditch Swimming Club, in the Novum Netherlands Invitational Swimming Competition in Holland.

Ashleigh, who has been swimming competitively for 6 years, scooped no less than 8 medals, 6 Gold and 2 Silver in a brilliant performance that she should be proud of.

I train for around 7 hours a week so results this weekend were well worth it.

Ashleigh qualified for the competition by achieving enough personal best scores to qualify.

Congratulations and we’re looking forward to seeing her at the 2024 Olympics!

This summer, the PTA at Studley High School purchased a new piano for the music department.

We had been in need of a new electric piano for some time and as they are expensive we thought we may have to wait a while longer. Luckily for us though, the PTA kindly agreed to fund the purchase of a new Roland digital piano which will be housed in the main Music room.

It has already been put to good use as it was delivered just in time to be played for the opening night of our recent ‘Grease’ production. We would like to say a huge thank you to Mrs Kirk and the PTA for their fundraising efforts throughout the year which means that we now have a high specification digital piano that many students will benefit from playing in the years to come.

This week, Yr 7 & 8 pupils were treated to a showcase performance today, thanks to Future DJs with guest DJ, Lisa Lashes.

Future DJs is an education business with a large social impact for young people supplying professional visiting DJ and Music Production tutors to schools nationwide (in the same way as traditional instrumental tutors).

Tutors deliver a unique programme of study created by professionals, starting at Key Stage 2 and running through to Key Stage 5, in accordance with the new AQA, OCR and Eduqas GCSE music specifications.

One of the key focuses of the organisation is simply to get more young people into music, and in turn more students taking GCSE and A-Level Music.

Future DJs site

The ‘Pop Up’ Roadshow is highly engaging for students. Austin and Scott Smart came to Studley to show our pupils some DJing essentials. Lisa Lashes then showed off her mixing skills and some of our pupils were invited onto the stage to try the decks.

After the event, pupils registered their interest in joining our peripatetic programme, starting in September.

Here is the ITV news piece, from this week:

And the gallery of images:

Last week we invited Year 6 students from Tanworth-in-Arden CofE Primary School for a fantastic Induction Day at Studley High School. After being picked up in the school minibus they were greeted by Mr Rose who gave them an overview of their day.

They were given a brief tour of the school and then enjoyed a History lesson with Mr Hobbis where there were asked to investigate whether Emily Davidson’s death at Epsom Racecourse in 1913 was suicide or a political statement to support the Suffragette Movement. The students looked a range of primary and secondary sources to help make their final judgements.

During mid-morning, students had an engaging lesson with Mr Salmon and were provided with some basic resources to help make air compressed rockets. The Year 6 students then had a mini competition to see whose rocket could stay in the air the longest.

Some of the Year 6 students coming to us in September will choose whether they want to study Spanish, German or French, before they arrive.

To make the decision making process easier, Year 6 students from Tanworth-in-Arden CofE Primary, Mappleborough Green CofE Primary, Coughton CofE Primary, St Mary’s Catholic Primary and Webheath Academy attended an ‘MFL Taster Afternoon’ where they completed a carousel of 30 minutes in each language. The sessions allowed the students to see teaching styles, content and to experience each language, which they may not have encountered at primary school.

A fabulous start to the Year 6 Induction Days!

Year 10 pupil, Ben Tidmarsh was recently featured on the ‘Fisheries’ website after an amazing catch recently.

Keen fishing fan, Ben, proved that age is no barrier to catching a huge barbel (carp-like freshwater fish) at the River Avon.

Fisheries site reports:

Ben landed a 12lb specimen during an action packed day session with his uncle on the opening day of the 2018 season at Warwickshire’s Anchor Meadow fishery. Fishing three pegs down from the weir he bagged up on barbel and chub for a session most anglers would envy. His haul marked a return to the River Avon hotspot where he bagged up two years ago and first caught the barbel bug.

Ben has been fishing since he was little (mainly in ponds) but 3 years ago he tried river fishing and caught his first Barbel! On the river he catches Barbel and Chub.

Ben is progressing so well that he is regularly catching more fish that the expert fishermen on the river!

Congratulations Ben! That’s an incredible catch!