NEWSLETTER
Autumn Half Term 2022
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HEADTEACHER'S WELCOME
Welcome to our first newsletter of the new academic year. As usual, it is full of interesting and inspiring stories. I do hope you enjoy it, here are just some of the highlights.
The school year began with the usual year 7 camping trip, and yet again it was a huge success. Students got to know each other, had fun camping overnight and putting together a talent show.
I am sure you will enjoy the section on Black History Month. Our students have engaged enthusiastically in this national annual observance and have been taking part in a range of activities including art workshops and making a PHSG pledge.
You can read about how well our Hummingbird team performed at the finals earlier this month. Our students are responsible for every aspect of the race and worked brilliantly as a team.
The Duke of Edinburgh teams have been out and about meeting the challenges of the expeditions, showing grit and determination at every turn. They have worked so well together.
Don’t forget that you can keep up with our latest news by visiting the latest news section of our website.
Very best wishes,
Mr Underdown
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12 Oct 2022
This is the highest accolade any cadet can achieve and means they become ambassadors for their unit and service. They have the opportunity to become part of special occasions within the community, which are not available to others.
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30 Sep 2022
Lottie, 7L, has won the overall Southern Enduro Series MTB 2022 Under 14 girls this weekend.
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30 Sep 2022
Faith and her horse Alf, have competed and won the 70cm Connemara Event Championship!
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17 Oct 2022
On Sunday the 9th October, Team Hummingbird took to the tracks and competed in the Greenpower Education Trust Formula 24 finals at the legendary Goodwood racing track.
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19 Oct 2022
Plymouth High has become the most successful DofE (Duke of Edinburgh Award Scheme) centre out of 442 schools, colleges and other DofE centres in 2021/22 within the South West.
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13 Oct 2022
As part of Black History Month, PHSG staff and students are running their own Art event over Thursday lunchtimes.
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20 Sep 2022
Three students took their GCSE Astronomy in June and we are pleased to announce that Frankie in Year 10 achieved a grade 9 and Daisy in Year 10 and Eloise in Year 9 achieved a grade 8.
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13 Oct 2022
Students visited a knitting workshop at the university as part of their studies investigating knitwear this season.
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30 Sep 2022
The new library is now officially open. Ingrid and Grace, our diversity reading group leaders, had the honour of cutting the ribbon to launch our newly renovated space earlier this week.
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14 Oct 2022
The Moorland Maidens Cricket Team, in conjunction with Yelverton Bohemians Cricket Club (YBCC) and Buckland Monachorum Cricket Club, have launched their winter nets training sessions for girls, at Mount Kelly Prep Sport Hall. Sessions are available for girls in Year 7 upwards and all abilities...
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11 Oct 2022
The U14 netball team had a successful tournament at the Life Centre last week. They beat Notre Dame, DHSG, Stoke Damerel and Plympton Academy but unfortunately lost by one goal to Coombe Dean.
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14 Oct 2022
This year, PHSG will be supporting the Ukraine Christmas Shoebox Appeal, where we will be collecting boxes on behalf 'UKkyi Bear, Devon to Ukraine' group who have teamed up with the 'Na Hvili Krainy' foundation based in Lviv, Ukraine. Along with humanitarian aid, the boxes will...
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12 Oct 2022
Yesterday, our Year 8's swapped their regular timetables and used their skills to set up 'A community project', as part of the Year 8 Enterprise Day.
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20 Sep 2022
Week commencing 5th September, saw our new Year 7's take part in their Team Building camping trip.
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20 Sep 2022
On Friday 9th September, PHSG hosted a Fresher Fayre for students to discover and sign up to the extra curricular clubs, that are hosted by staff and student leaders throughout the year.
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20 Sep 2022
The Earth Alliance Team have published their Summer Newsletter.
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01 Sep 2022
September 2022 will see the arrival of three new joiners for PHSG. Let's meet our new team members.
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25 Aug 2022
Students and staff at Plymouth High School for Girls, part of Thinking Schools Academy Trust, are celebrating today as they received their GCSE results.
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18 Aug 2022
Students and staff at Plymouth High School for Girls, part of Thinking Schools Academy Trust, are celebrating after receiving their A-Level grades.
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10 Oct 2022
Activities for Black History month are in full swing at PHSG and we caught up with some of the students and staff on their thoughts of this year's campaign.
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08 Oct 2022
Our established Diversity Team at PHSG, welcome the 2022 BHM theme of ‘Action not Words’ as this has underpinned our school campaigns for some time.
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04 Oct 2022
The theme this year is 'Action not Words' and throughout the month the school and the trust will be conducting activities which are designed to make a change that sticks.
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Curriculum Enrichment Week Summer 2023 Years 7 - 9
We are pleased to announce the launch of CEW 2023, to take place next summer.
The CEW booklet and booking form will be emailed to parents and students on Thursday 20th October. It will also go on the school website.
Students will not get a hard copy of the booklet.
The booklet contains all you need to know about the process leading up to CEW, including booking an activity, paying deposits, further payments and other information. During half term, please read the booklet very carefully with your child and then complete and sign the booking form.
Please ensure your child does want to do the activities they choose, as once they are allocated it will be very difficult to change to something else.
You will also find very important deadline dates for when the booking form has to be returned, this will be a different date for each year group, and also the dates for deposits to be paid to ParentPay to secure the activities.
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Student & Class of the Week
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20 Oct 2022
Student of the week: Caroline, Year 13. ''For organising the sixth form prefects for the open evening and being a star in helping out'' dominated by Dr Doddrell. Awarded 10 House Points.
Class of the week: Hummingbird Team. ''For coming 18th in the International Final, exe...
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11 Oct 2022
Class of the week: 8K Geography Class: ''For fantastic Europe countries research homework. A great deal of effort and thought gone in to all of them.'' Nominated by Mrs Nutter
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03 Oct 2022
Student of the week: Katie. 9L. ''For the kindness shown to a Year 7 student who was unwell on the train from St. Germans this morning (29/09/22). She comforted and calmed the unwell student and stayed with her until her parent came to get her. Such a wonderful role model and representative...
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19 Sep 2022
Student of the week: Rosie, Year 11. ''For an outstanding focus on home learning and practice paper work in Mathematics this half-term'' Nominated by Miss Freeman. Awarded 10 House Points.
Class of the week: Izzy, Chloe and Darcey, 7K & 8K. ''For their outstanding spee...
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12 Sep 2022
Student of the Week: Lily, 7K, ''For creating a wonderfully artistic, creative and detailed homework for English, presented in today’s English lesson. She had to present a character analysis of her choice and express her understanding in a creative way. The effort, pride and hard work...
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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.
There have been occasions where students have been late leaving for a sports fixture because parents had parked blocking the minibuses. Students can exit the site via Alton Road, and parents may consider this a convenient pickup point or one of the other streets surrounding the school.
Be reminded that there is NO PARKING allowed on the double yellow lines outside the school main gates.
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Thinking, teaching and learning bulletin
In order to help parents and carers have a clearer idea of how we use thinking in lessons and how we encourage students to use thinking for their independent study, we have posted on our website here our first thinking bulletin for parents and carers. There will be further bulletins posted as the year rolls on. I hope you find them interesting and insightful.
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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 2022-2023
Term
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Starts
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Ends
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One
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1st September 2022
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21st October 2022
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| Autumn Half Term |
24th October 2021 |
31st October 2022 |
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Two
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1st November 2022
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16th December 2022
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| Christmas Holidays |
19th December 2022 |
2nd January 2023 |
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Three
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3rd January 2023
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10th February 2023
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| Spring Half term |
13th February 2023 |
17th February 2023 |
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Four
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20th February 2023
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1st April 2023
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| Easter Holidays |
3rd April 2023 |
14th April 2023 |
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Five
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17th April 2023
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26th May 2023
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| Summer Half term |
29th May 2023 |
2nd June 2023 |
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Six
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5th June 2023
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21st July 2023
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| Summer Holidays |
24th July 2023 |
September TBC |
Curriculum Enrichment Week
Monday 3rd July—7th July 2023
Non Pupil Days
1st September 2022
2nd September 2022 - Only Year 7 and 12 in school
26th September 2022
21st October 2022
20th February 2023
1st May 2023 (Bank Holiday)
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