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Parents Evening
Our next parents evening will be
on 13th July 2009. A letter will be sent for times to be requested to see teachers. We
hope that you can attend.
In addition, we will be having a
parents pampering session, and also behaviour management advice from our
resident expert, Judith Malone.
 Bingo Night
following the
success of our last bingo night, we are repeating the event after the
parents evening, on the 13th July 2009. We have various prizes, along with a £100 top prize. We
had over 50 people from the local community coming to support us and
hope that this is repeated, along with us raising over £200, a sum which
helps with the extra curricular clubs and activities.
A VERY BIG THANK YOU TO ALL THOSE WHO SUPPORTED US.
SCHOOL VISITS AND RESIDENTIALS
 Pupils continue to
benefit from the extensive programme of off-site learning experiences
planned by staff in school. Our new mini bus has enabled us to take
pupils on educational visits to museums, theatres, temples and churches,
sports events in gymnastics, seated volleyball, football, cross country
and multi games competitions with other schools. Mr Crawford and Ms
Sherring have also given up weekend time to take pupils to Leicester
Rugby Club to see matches.
We have a full
programme of residentials and activities for the week beginning 6-10th
July. The focus for these trips is on learning independence, life skills
and getting along with others, as well as seeing new places. Pupils will
be going on residentials to Skegness, Cromford Wharf, Peak Centre Edale,
Edinburgh by plane (year 11), and the Lake District for camping and
youth hostelling near Ambleside. Every pupil in school will take part in
a subsidised residential or activity trip.
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Edinburgh
Leavers!
The year 11
pupils finish their time at St Martins with a trip to Edinburgh... by
air!
The pupils flew from East Midlands airport to Scotland in June. They all
had a great time, and for some it was the first time on a plane. They
all managed to climb to the top for the Castle, except Miss Rodgers! A
big thank you is due for the time and effort given by the staff.
We
will all miss the Year 11's as they have had such a fantastic journey
through school. This year, every pupil left St Martins with a
qualification, another first for the school. The qualifications included
entry level, level 1 and GCSE. We await the results, due on 20th of
August 2009!
Enterprise
Our very own
apprentices have been working very hard to make money over the past
weeks. They have organised sales of cakes, raffle tickets,
sponsored silences, which kept the teachers very happy, a market stall
and year 11 sold items on eBay for commission!.JPG)
The winners are the
ones with the most money!
E TWINNING
– Pen pals
Using the internet
to making friends with staff and pupils from other schools in the UK,
Europe and around the world. We are working on setting up pen pal
contacts with pupils in a city in Scotland, England, Wales, Northern
Ireland as well as our Derby twinning town of Osnabruck in Germany. We
have set up a link with the Ann Frank Special School in Osnabruck and
they are keen to host staff and pupils from St Martins. Mr Oxley and Mrs
Hanson are working on this project.
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St Martins Around The World
Mr. Lawrence has
returned from an exciting trip to Japan where he has been working on
setting up links with Japanese pupils and teachers.
Our African project-Connecting Classrooms. Adam Davies from year 10 is
now preparing to plan what he is going to take out to children in
Tanzania, Africa, when he goes there in September with Mr Dodds and
other teachers and pupils from Bemrose School and Noel Baker. Adam will
be representing the school and Derby as an ambassador, so we know he
will do a great job for us. he will do a talk for the pupils, staff and
parents when he gets back.
We are also going to help an African village in Mali set up an internet
link for several schools to use. We have managed to acquire a laptop
that will be donated to a project called Village Ventures, who work with
local people in African villages to provide education, water, libraries
and other needed facilities.
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