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Annual
Governors’ Meeting with Parents
Dear Parents,
Although the government has removed
the statutory requirement for schools to hold an Annual Governors’
Meeting with parents, here at Comberton Village College
we feel that it is important to continue to provide this opportunity
for parents to discuss any issues concerning the school with
representatives of the governing body and senior staff. The
meeting will be held on Tuesday 13 May at 7.30pm in the School
Hall. If you are able to attend we would be grateful if you
would use the reply slip linked below as soon as possible.
We are constantly striving to improve
the quality of education at Comberton and we value parents’
comments. This usually happens on a day to day basis which helps
us to respond immediately. As you will understand, it is not
appropriate to discuss individual pupils or staff matters at
this meeting. However, if you have a question of a general nature
for the governors would you please include it on your reply
slip with a brief explanation.
Responses can be sent to the college
by
.
We look forward to seeing you at
the meeting on Tuesday 13 May.
Marilyn Manze will be running the
9th annual Country
Music Marathon on 26 April 2008 in Nashville Tennessee (USA)
and she has offered to do it in aid of the CVC Minibus Appeal.
Marilyn is a colleague and friend
of CVC mum Debbie Mansworth and when she heard about the school
trustees raising money to buy a new minibus with wheelchair
access she thought this was a great way to help.
Please make a donation to support
her efforts and spread the word that in the United States on
26 April, among 6000 marathon runners there will be one very
generous lady running 26 miles and 385 yards for CVC.
Please sponsor Marilyn! (donations can be made
to Marilyn's
Page at Justgiving.com).
Posted Wednesday 16 April 2008
Olympic
Games Training Venue
Sports facilities in Cambridgeshire
are on the starting blocks for the 2012 Olympic Games. Four
organisations in the county have been picked as having suitable
facilities for competitors from home or abroad competing in
the London games: Cambridge University, Anglia Ruskin University
(ARU), King's School at Ely and Comberton Village College,
which may be asked to host training sessions for fencing and
judo competitors.
The county's potential
Olympic training camps have been highlighted in a guide unveiled
this week by the London Organising Committee for the 2012
games. The guide, for competitors and coaches throughout the
world, lists more than 600 locations in the UK deemed suitable
to provide training facilities, both for the Olympic Games
and the Paralympic Games.
Sebastian Coe, chairman of the London Organising
Committee, said: "We said that we wanted the London Games
to be for athletes, and the facilities listed in this guide
will really help overseas athletes prepare well. It also provides
a great opportunity for towns throughout the UK to get involved
in our plans. The process we have been through shows a great
spread of high quality facilities throughout the UK that can
be used by elite level athletes."
Our brilliant
catering department does it again!
Lunch on Thursday has a Thai theme offering a wide selection
of mouth watering dishes!
Over 20 choices from 40p to choose from including:
Ginger, Coconut and Chicken Soup.
Mussels in Black Bean and Chilli Sauce.
Fish Cakes with Cucumber Relish.
Fragrant Thai Meatballs.
Lemon Grass Pork Steak with Mushrooms.
Beef in Oyster Sauce.
Chicken Green Curry.
Bean Red Curry (veg).
Coconut and Chilli Noodles (veg).
For the full selection, please see our menu
index page.
A Round of Golf (with Mr Munday?).
Punt Trip on the Cam.
£40.00 of Balloons!
Year 9 would like to thank all
those who have so generously donated lots for their Auction
and hope that as many of you as possible will find something
you would like to bid for.
The 57 original "Promises"
can be viewed here. Those unable to attend the auction but wishing
to purchase any of the items can still do so by writing out
a 'Sealed Bid' and returning it to school no later than Thursday
6 March.
All bids (with the exception of
sealed bids) must be paid for on the night. Payment is by cash
or cheque only.
The event is being held in the
Performance Hall at Comberton Leisure. Viewing will be from
7.00 - 8.00pm and the bidding will start at 8.00pm. Our auctioneer
for the evening will be Will Axon who is very experienced at
this type of event. You may have seen him on the TV programme
'Flog It'. Bid for the following:
Chef for your next Dinner Party
Year's membership for one at cb3 (worth £415.00)
The right to be first in the CVC Lunch Queue for a whole
week!
It only remains for us to thank
you for taking the time to read through the "Promises"
and "Stop
Press Promises" - hopefully you will find something
to tempt you, and we look forward to seeing as many of you as
possible on the night.
Anne Jones [
] (Head of Year 9)
Auction
of Promises - Sealed Bids
Please
write out the form below on a piece of paper and send it in
a sealed envelope to Mrs Jones at Comberton Village College.
Please state the lot number/numbers clearly.
Mark your envelope "Auction of Promises - Sealed Bid. For
the attention of Mrs Jones, Head of Year 9"
Lot No..................Maximum
Price £........................
Lot No..................Maximum Price £........................
Lot No..................Maximum Price £........................
Name...................................................................
Address................................................................
...........................................................................
Tel. No.................................................................
All
sealed bids must be received by Mrs Jones by no later than Thursday
6 March. You will be contacted if your bid is successful.
Posted Friday 29 February 2008
New
Junior Gym Club
The new Junior Gym Club starts Tuesday 4 March and
will be held every Tuesday after school during term.
Session times are: 3.00 - 4.00pm
and 4.00 - 5.00pm.
Spaces in a session can be booked
up to 7 days in advance. Call in at Cb3 reception or phone us
on 01223 264444.
Please remember comfortable sports
clothing and trainers should be worn.
11 to 15 year olds only.
8 Pupils Per Class.
£2.50 per session per person (free
for those who have a Cb3 family membership)
If you have any further questions,
please contact me.
Amy Connell [
] (Healthy Lifestyles Mentor)
(E-mails will be received through
the general college address and should not be used to send confidential
or sensitive pupil information.)
Posted Monday 3 March 2008
Official
Notices
The following Statutory Proposals
for Comberton Educational Trust and Sixth Form Provision were
published on the 22 February 2008:
Statutory Proposal to Form the Comberton Educational Trust[document]
Prescribed Alteration by the Addition of a Sixth Form[document] If you require copies
of the Appendices, please contact the Clerk to the Governors
via the college
e-mail address.
Comments or objections to either of these statutory proposals
should be made either by e-mail to the general college
e-mail address or by post to the school by Wednesday
19 March 2008.
Posted Friday 22 February 2008
Website
Update
The CVC website now
includes a comprehensive Search Facility. Basic search
boxes are being added at the top of individual pages and zoning
is being introduced to exclude searches on duplicated areas
of the site.
Work on the Information area of the website
has been completed but fine tuning the whole site may take several
months.
Search reports now appear within a standard 'CVC page'.
The new facility searches web pages plus all linked .doc Word
documents, .pdf Acrobat files and most other popular formats.
The system automatically re-indexes every Wednesday and Friday
evenings to ensure search reports remain up-to-date.
There are no advertisements.
At the moment, the search facility
searches the Information, Reference and Parents
sections of the site. The system will cover the whole CVC web
site by Summer 2008.
Web pages across the CVC site are
also being rewritten to comply with web standard W3C XHTML
1.0 Transitional to enforce good practice and to maximise
cross-browser compatibility. Work on the Information and Parents
pages has now been completed.
Posted Thursday 21 February 2008
Race
Night and Auction
The rescheduled
Race Night and Auction will now take place in the Performance
Hall at Comberton Leisure on Friday 11 April from 7.00-10.30pm.
A race night involves lots of
guests watching a large screen whilst a number of races are
being played. The audience place bets on their favourite horses
and collect their winnings if they win.
Our race night and auction will
be a great evening for all the family! Everyone welcome.
The ticket prices will include
a fish-and-chip supper, as well as entry on the night. There
will also be a full bar (for the grown-ups!), music, and an
auction. You can bid for a night's stay at a five star hotel,
a spa day, free gym membership, sports memorabilia and much
more. We also hope to have some special guests joining us on
the night so this is an evening not to be missed!
The full list of items for auction
will be out by 11 March. The event will be a great night out
for all your family and friends, so please bring along everyone
you know and we can guarantee you this will be a great night.
If you would like to buy a ticket
then please fill out a Booking
Form, and hand or post to the school's Finance Office with
your remittance. Cheques should be made payable to "Comberton
Village College". Please write your name and 'Race Night
and Auction' on the back of the cheque. Your tickets can be
collected from the Finance Office, taken home by a nominated
pupil, or collected at the door on the night.
Thank you and we hope to see you
there!
The Year 11 Organising Team
Posted Thursday 21 February 2008
Proposal
to Establish a Third Primary School in Cambourne
Many parents will know
that the Local Authority has recognised the need to establish
a third primary at Cambourne. Under new legislation, the Local
Authority has to establish a competition for any new school
and invite organisations to make proposals. The Local Authority
is not expected to make any proposal itself but rather to act
as the adjudicator for all proposals received. In this new legislative
framework, a decision was made by the governing bodies of Comberton
Village College, The Vine School and Monkfield Park School to
submit a proposal to establish the new school in a strong partnership
between all of these schools. This was all agreed rapidly, close
to the deadline of the submission of proposals once it became
clear that such a possibility existed and could be a positive
development for all schools and for the provision of education
of young people in Cambourne.
The proposal was submitted by the soon-to-be
formed Comberton Educational Trust. The proposed school would
be a foundation school with its own governing body who would
appoint its headteacher and staff. It would be overseen by the
Comberton Educational Trust who would appoint two of the governors.
Proposals to establish the new primary school
will be in the public domain very shortly. There is a public
consultation scheduled for Monday 18 February at 7.30pm at The
Hub in Cambourne (see official notice below). This is overseen by the Local Authority
and they can provide details on this. The county are due to
adjudicate between the proposals in April.
Governors at Comberton Village College are
very keen to confirm that this proposal would in no way unfavourably
affect our positive relationship and partnership with all of
our named partner feeder primary schools. We remain utterly
committed to this in the future as we are now. The proposal
has been made due to the new legislative framework within which
such a proposal has been seen as a way of ensuring excellent
education into the future for all young people in our catchment
area involving a strong ongoing partnership with all partner
feeder primary schools.
Stephen Munday [
] Principal
Cambridgeshire
County Council
Deloitte
New Primary School
Cambourne
Public
Meeting 18 February 2008, 7.30-9.00pm The Hub, Cambourne
Cambridgeshire County Council
has received two proposals to establish the new
primary school in Cambourne. This meeting gives
you the opportunity to hear the proposers' plans,
and to ask questions or comment on the proposals.
The meeting will be chaired
by Deloitte (a firm appointed by the Department
for Children, Schools and Families to support
school competitions) and will include talks by
Cambridgeshire County Council and the two proposers:
Big Wide Talk Archive Schools Trust and Comberton
Educational Trust. A brochure summarising the
proposals, together with a comments form, will
be available at the meeting.
Consultation
Responses to Proposed Developments at CVC
The Governing Body
of Comberton Village College would like to thank everyone who
responded to the recent consultation asking for views about
possible future developments at the college.
A summary of all the types of points raised
has been made. Following each point made, the response of the
governing body is written in italics. The responses have been
collated under the headings of the three key areas of consultation.
Anyone interested in these responses is encouraged
to view them here.
Comberton Village College
is currently constructing a new 3-year Development Plan
for the years 2008-11. We would like to offer parents the opportunity
to contribute ideas for the new plan.
If you feel that there are priorities that
we need to address within this plan I would be grateful if you
would let us know via developmentplanning@comberton.cambs.sch.uk
Thank you for your help in this process.
Paul Lawrence Deputy Principal
Posted Tuesday 22 January 2008
UK Youth Parliament Elections
Young people across the county will be voting in UK
Youth Parliament elections in January, including CVC pupils
on PD Day (Tuesday 22 January). One of our pupils, Sam W,
is standing for election in the South Cambridgeshire and Cambridge
City constituency.
The UK Youth Parliament aims to
give the young people of the UK, between the age of 11 and 18
a voice, which will be heard and listened to by local and national
government, providers of services for young people and other
agencies who have an interest in the views and needs of young
people.
Go to the UK Youth Parliament
Cambridgeshire website
to view the manifestos of the candidates standing for election
in our area.
Vote for Sam!
Posted Friday 18 January 2008
Term
Dates 2008-2009
The school dates for year 2008-2009
have now been issued. See Term
Dates 2008-2009 (.doc) for details. Dates for 2007-2008
are given in the School Diary.
Posted Monday 14 January 2008
Minibus
Appeal
The CVC
Trust Fund are launching an appeal for funds to purchase
a new Minibus for the school. You can donate vehicle 'parts'
or buy a 'square' on the above plan for £10.00.
Click on either graphic for full
size .pdf posters. Further details will be announced in the
New Year.
Posted Tuesday 18 December 2007
Ofsted
Inspection 9 October 2007
CVC
was inspected by Ofsted on 9 October 2007. "Comberton Village
College is an outstanding school... the college's commitment
to continuous improvement has ensured that all aspects of its
work have strengthened". The college has been rated as
"outstanding" in each of the 26 categories evaluated.
Read the full Ofsted
Report here.
Posted Wednesday 31 October 2007
New
CVC Fleeces Now Available!
The school
has introduced a warm fleece as an addition to the existing
CVC
uniform. Although the new CVC fleece is not intended as
a compulsory item of uniform, pupils may wear them in school,
in classrooms and during lessons.
The CVC
fleeces are available in mid-grey with yellow logo (to match
the CVC sweatshirts). The black option is reserved for Year
11s.
If you pre-ordered a fleece before half-term, then your order
is now available for collection (and payment!).
Fleeces are now in stock and available
from the School
Shop.
Re-Posted Monday 29 October 2007
Exciting
New Development at CVC!
The images show an artist's impression of
the proposed extension building which is due for completion
in June 2009.
Click on images for display
presentation (.pdf file).
Full screen images as above: exterior
view, interior view
(.jpg).
Posted Wednesday 26 September 2007
Register
with ParentMail
All CVC
parents should be registered with ParentMail
in order to receive general school communications by email.
This can be done by clicking
the image (left) to go to the ParentMail
site. Then select
'Parent Entrance' and then follow the instructions to register.
You will then receive all general school communications directly
to your email inbox.
This saves
time and trees!
If any parents
wish to continue to receive paper copies of general communications
then these need to be requested from the school office.
Posted 7 September 2007
This page was last updated on: Wednesday 7 May, 2008
Posted Tuesday 6 May 2008
Ginger, Coconut and Chicken Soup. 
Bean Red Curry (veg).
