NEWSLETTER
Summer Half Term 2022
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HEADTEACHER'S WELCOME
Hello everyone and welcome to the latest edition of the newsletter.
As usual, this edition is crammed full of interesting and inspiring stories. Some highlights include our amazing Young enterprise team Tote.lly. They won the Devon Finals and went onto the regional finals. You may also have heard the team being interviewed on Radio Devon. Elsewhere, Sofia was elected into the British youth council which is a tremendous achievement, we are so proud of her. Across the school, our students have enjoyed lots of success in sport as well as a host of other activities. As usual, the ‘latest news’ page on our website is a great place to stay updated on what our students are doing.
We enjoyed reviewing all of the entries for the ‘PHSG got talent’ competition. The students were amazing and we also very much enjoyed the staff entries. A big thank you to everyone who took part. We will submit our winning entries to be part of the Trust wide talent competition and will be keeping our fingers crossed for PHSG success.
PHSG will be 150 years old in 2024 and the first part of our celebration has started with the ‘PHSG through the ages’ display in the main corridor. Students and staff have really enjoyed it.
A reminder that school will finish for students at 1.15pm on 22nd June to enable school staff to engage in essential training. Food will be available for students at breaktime as usual, but there will not be a lunch serving. Students in receipt of free school meals will be able to order a packed lunch or choose to buy their food at break time. We are unable to change the times of any bus or train services for 22nd June, so alternative arrangements for some students may be necessary. Parents should contact their child’s Head of Year if they wish for their child to stay in school on the 22nd June until 3.30pm.
The last day of the summer term will be on 22nd July 2022 and this is the day we will hold our whole school Music Festival. The Gym and Dance Festival before the Easter break was really successful, so we have high hopes for the Music Festival.
I wish you all a restful and enjoyable half term break and Jubilee celebrations.
Very best wishes,
Best wishes,
Mr Underdown
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23 May 2022
We are delighted to announce that Lyla, 9L, is the winner of the Student Planner design for 2022-2023
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19 May 2022
Elizabeth and Libby, 8K, were selected for the official British Basketball league Dance Squad and performed at the Playoff's final at the O2 in London last weekend.
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28 Apr 2022
Bella, Year 9, has become a finalist in the SONG ACADEMY young songwriter competition for 13-18 years against nearly 900 song entries.
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27 Apr 2022
Megan and Reema in 9K have won a poster competition for 'Waste…Of Our Time' art exhibition in Plymouth.
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26 Apr 2022
Sofia. Year 11, was shortlisted earlier this year to represent students across Plymouth in this year's Youth Parliament. Voting took place in schools across the city, and we are delighted to announce that Sofia has been elected as a Deputy Member of the local British Youth Council.
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23 May 2022
Abi and the Earth Alliance Team have been busy organising and helping to manufacture a batch of bee wild flower planters for their local community. Do you know of any local businesses, primary schools, nursing homes, offices etc with space to accommodate our bee planters?
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17 May 2022
Earth Alliance group is a climate awareness group created by the students, for the students, to make the school and city more environmentally friendly. They have created a Newsletter to share with our school community which includes some highlights of the Year so far and also what they hope to...
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Wellbeing Wall Brick Painting Starting after Half Term!
After half term, from Monday 13th to Friday 17th, we’ll be starting up brick painting again! The idea for the wall is that it will be a time capsule, but also a space promoting wellbeing. You can paint a picture, an uplifting message, something symbolic to you or something monumental that has taken place recently, really anything that has meaning or spreads positivity, so get creative! Bricks will cost £1.20 and will be paid for at the wall. Any additional donations are welcome, and you can paint two bricks for £2! Paint is provided and all proceeds will go towards Young Minds UK, the national charity that PHSG has chosen to support this year and the leading mental health charity in the UK for children and young people. They are committed to improving children and young people’s wellbeing and mental health by providing expert support and advice. We hope to see you there!
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Do you have any old newspapers at home? The Art Department uses a lot of newspaper during art lessons and we are currently running very low.
We are always very grateful for any donations of newspaper to the Art Department and we can offer house points in exchange for your donations.
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12 May 2022
7K has set the bar high following their task, set by Miss Readey, to create their own dramatic interpretations of ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ as part of their Shakespeare unit this term.
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25 May 2022
Thank you to everyone who baked cakes or came to buy cakes yesterday for our first ‘Bakes for Books’ cake sale. With your help we made an amazing £91.55 to spend on new books for the library
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26 May 2022
After the athletics trials last week, we are delighted to announce that some of our amazing PHSG student athletes have been selected to represent Plymouth in the Devon School Track and Field Championships at Exeter Arena on Saturday 11th June.
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18 May 2022
An adventurous class of year 10 students accepted the challenge in PE today of abseiling down the rock face at Mountbatten.
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18 May 2022
Eight of our Year 7 students attended the Plymouth Schools Super 8 competition held at Brickfields on Wednesday 11th May. They combined with a boys team from St Boniface school and our scores were put together as one team. All the girls put everything into their events and were a credit...
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06 May 2022
The year 8 rounders league got off to a flying start for PHSG as they won their first three games against All Saints, Stoke Damarel and DHSG. They played really well as a team and demonstrated some excellent teamwork in their fielding and individual strength and accuracy in their batting. Well done...
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12 May 2022
Exciting practical demonstrations took place in Year 11 Science class this week to consolidate their learning.
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27 May 2022
PHSG will be 150 years old in 2024 and the first part of our celebration has started with the ‘PHSG through the ages’ display in the main corridor. Students and staff have really enjoyed looking at some of the old images that have been displayed in the main corridor this week...
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19 May 2022
There's a new face in our front office team. Miss Shattock joined our amazing front of office team this term as our new PHSG receptionist. Here's what she has to say about joining PHSG.
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10 May 2022
Last week saw the return of the PHSG Debate competition, where students debate against different subjects to win the Debate Cup.
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06 May 2022
Careers Leader, Heather Longford and Careers Link Governor, Catherine Lewin accept a certificate on behalf of Plymouth High School for Girls celebrating the fact that we have achieved 100% across all the Gatsby Benchmarks for this academic year.
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27 Apr 2022
PHSG were delighted to welcome the return of the end of term festivals last term, and we kicked off with the legendary Gym and Dance Festival.
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Student & Class of the Week
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23 May 2022
Student of the week: Freya, 8L, ''For her organised approach to revision as she prepares for the end of year 8 examinations and for taking pride in her work. Freya has impressed me with her range of strategies and ipad apps as she is revising with flash card games using her revision lists fr...
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17 May 2022
Class of the week: Silver DofE Team. ''For their outstanding efforts last weekend. They completed three days of gruelling walking on Dartmoor, camping overnight on the Friday and Saturday. They learnt a range of skills from navigating with a map and compass, First Aid, Emergency Procedures...
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27 May 2022
PHSG will be hosting an Open Evening on Thursday 30th June from 4pm - 6.30pm. Pre-booking is essential.
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Year 9 Immunisations
The Immunisations Team will be visiting school on Monday 11th July 2022 to administer the Diphtheria, Tetanus and Polio (TDiP) and Meningitis ACWY vaccinations to year 9 students. The link to the online form to consent/decline this vaccination is https://schoolimms.hcrgcaregroup.com/dtp/2021/devon and will remain open until Thursday 30th June 2022. If the link is not working try to copy and paste it into your Internet address bar, or contact the team on 0300 247 0082 for support.
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PARKING
Please can we ask Parents for consideration when parking near the school, there have been some instances where it has been difficult for our students to walk safely due to the volume of cars.
Be reminded that there is NO PARKING allowed on the double yellow lines outside the school main gates.
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HOME SCHOOL COMMUNICATION
Students may contact staff if they have queries, firstly by visiting them in their department area, and only contacting them using school email system if they really can’t see them in person.
Parents may wish to contact staff. The following outlines what the Headteacher regards as important considerations regarding home/school communication, particularly by email:
¨ All communication must respect the dignity of the recipient.
¨ Within 48 hours: receipt of an email will be acknowledged by school either by the person contacted, or the most appropriate person able to deal with the issue (term time only, not after 5pm nor over a weekend).
¨ Within 5 working days: school will provide a response to the email by telephone or in writing, or e-mail. This may include informing the sender that more time is required to provide a full response. If this is the case, staff should indicate a time frame for a response.
¨ Staff will not be expected to monitor or respond to emails outside their normal working hours (nor at weekends and published school holidays).
Whilst this is extremely rare, if a member of staff receives an e-mail or call which is of an aggressive tone, sets unreasonable demands or could otherwise be interpreted as harassing, they will refer this to a senior line manager in the school, who will decide if consideration needs to be given to dealing with further communication under our Complaints Policy.
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PARKING
Out of respect for our neighbours and for health and safety reasons there is NO PARKING on the school site or for collecting/dropping off students on the double yellow lines outside our school gates.
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SCHOOL NURSE DROP IN
Don’t forget for our students, the School Nurse visits school to provide a “drop in” clinic on Friday Week A at lunchtime. Just pop along to the Counselling Room.
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STUDENTS LEAVING SCHOOL DURING THE SCHOOL DAY
For safety reasons if your daughter has to leave school during the school day, and you are unable to collect her, she must have a note in her planner with clear instructions that you give permission for her to leave unaccompanied. Without your express instructions to this effect we will not allow any students to leave school unless they are collected by an adult from reception.
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NUT ALLERGY
Please be aware that we have students who are severely allergic to nuts and we would, therefore, appreciate where possible that you try to avoid putting nuts into packed lunches.
Although we are not going completely nut free, we have stopped selling packets of nuts as snacks in the canteen to try to reduce the risk to them and appreciate your support.
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SOCIAL MEDIA & ONLINE SAFETY
Our Children are spending more and more time on their mobile phones. Making them aware of the dangers of social media, and protecting them from these dangers can be very challenging. These are some of the better known sites that pose risks to children—are they on your child’s phone home screen?
To help safeguard your child please regularly take the time to talk to them about the way they use their social media apps:
Do they always know who they are engaging with?
Do they share their passwords?
Do they feel comfortable with what they are seeing and doing?
Do they feel pressure from “friends” to do/say things they don’t want to?
For more information please regarding online safety, please visit our website: www.phsg.org/
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Calendar Term Dates 2021-2022
Term
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Starts
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Ends
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One
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7th September 2021
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21st October 2021
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| Autumn Half Term |
25th October 2021 |
29th October 2021 |
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Two
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2nd November 2021
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17th December 2021
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| Christmas Holidays |
19th December 2021 |
3rd January 2022 |
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Three
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4th January 2022
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18th February 2022
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| Spring Half term |
21st February 2022 |
25th February 2022 |
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Four
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28th February 2022
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7th April 2022
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| Easter Holidays |
11th April 2022 |
22nd April 2022 |
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Five
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25th April 2022
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27th May 2022
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| Summer Half term |
30th May 2022 |
3rd June 2022 |
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Six
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6th June 2022
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22nd July 2022
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| Summer Holidays |
25th July 2022 |
5th September 2022 |
Curriculum Enrichment Week
Monday 4th July—8th July 2022
Non Pupil Days
6th September 2021
1st Oct 2021
22nd October 2021,
8th April 2022 (additional Bank Holiday for the Queens Platinum Jubilee)
2nd May 2022 (Bank Holiday)
25th July 2022
26th July 2022
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