Chace Community School

Congratulations to Chace Association whose Table Top Sale/Bazaar on Saturday 15th November raised £1080 towards our new minibus appeal. Thank you to everyone who supported this successful event. Our Post 16 BTEC Business students involved in the Young Enterprise project have set up their own business, 'Kustomize', and sold their fabulous individually designed T shirts on their stall.

Chace Sixth Formers are taking part in a project run by Age Concern called Trans-IT. Our students are mentoring older members of our community to learn to use ICT. The lessons are very lively and full of laughter and some lasting friendships are being formed.

Congratulations to our 3 highest GCSE achievers pictured here at Enfield's High Achievers Conference on 4th November 2008. They were presented with awards which recognise their outstanding GCSE successes and had opportunities to find out about higher education opportunities at top universities.

In October Year 10 Outdoor Education students took a road less travelled following signposts on their successful expedition. Meanwhile in L4L students reflected on Black History Month and the Chace signpost EVERYONE VALUED EQUALLY with a 9DRO student sharing her thoughts eloquently.

Racism is an abomination, an exception, a miscreation,
Diversity is a great creation, non-seperation, a sensation,
We need a society, a variety makes prosperity, unity and community,
Diversity in our lives makes sure we are not boring,
Because if it were not there I'm afraid we'd all be snoring.

Members of Chace Student Council are seen here setting off to represent Chace as delegates at the Enfield Student Voice Conference on October 22nd at the Royal Chace Hotel. They took part in a drama presentation about student voice and attended workshops. One group from Chace facilitated a workshop about the process used by our Student Council to help select applicants for senior posts in the school - based on the idea of speed dating. It was an excellent, informative day. Chace students were very good ambassadors for our school and enjoyed a very nice lunch!

This year's team building weekend (October 17th to 19th) for Year 7s at PGL Caythorpe Court in Lincolnshire was a great success - the best yet! The sun shone on 150 Year 7 students and staff as they challenged themselves on a range of activities, including the high ropes. Everyone had a great time working together and supporting each other to be the best they could be.

Year 7 students have been making delicious Fairtrade banana muffins as part of the Opening Minds project and selling them fresh from the oven at break on Fridays. They are raising money for Peace One Day and also making a contribution towards Chace's aim to become a Fairtrade school.

The Student Council elections were held on Friday 10th October. Turn out was a record 70%. Our newly elected Student Council will meet at the end of this week to plan for the year ahead as they work with us to further develop Chace as a successful learning community.

Accompanied by Ms Davies, our superb songbird performed at the 'Climbing Towards Excellence' celebration on 9th October 2008. The audience was very impressed by her glorious singing.

Chace students celebrated their well deserved successes at the Queen Elizabeth 2 Conference Centre on Thursday 9th October. 4 Chace students received their awards from boxing legend, Frank Bruno. Chace, as one of the London schools involved in Sir John Rowling's 'Climbing Towards Excellence' project, used motivational strategies to enable students to achieve the best GCSE results yet.