The project invites 6000 children from primary and secondary school children (10-14 year olds) to participate in ‘A Licence to Thrill’, a one-off concert performing the music of James Bond including the latest releases as well as contemporary tunes such as Michael Jackson’s Bad and Take That’s The Greatest Day. OO7 finds himself up against the criminal mastermind with a plan to bring down the international money markets. The choir are at the centre of events singing and making actions that define the plot and engage the audience, the ticket hotline is 0844 856 0202 or www.ticketmaster.co.uk

Sixteen of our year 9s are taking part and 15 year 8s from Ipsley. Please support!

Our Year 8 Options Booklet is available for download here.

Arrow Vale Community High School is proud to announce that they have achieved The Leading Parent Partnership Award (LPPA). The award provides a challenging framework to enable schools to strengthen their partnership with parents and carers. It is a developmental process, which, through the involvement of parents, aims to enhance children’s life chances at all, stages from nursery to secondary. Not only did Arrow Vale hope to improve home school communication, but the high school also aspired to engage parents in discussion about the life and development of the school. Already the school has witnessed greater student achievement and improved attendance through stronger parental support.

Sarah Noble (SLT attachment for parental engagement) said “ Working towards the Leading Parent Partnership Award has been a wonderful enriching experience for our school community. At the start of the process we were aware of the strong parental partnership that was already in place however our practice was certainly enhanced and improved by the process. The framework acted as an excellent self-evaluation tool, which gave us a clear indication of our areas of strengths and weaknesses. The shared approach we used to achieve this award united staff, pupils, Governors and parents and helped to really communicate our commitment towards parent partnership work. Achieving this quality mark for our school is an award that is celebrated and valued by all within our school community.”

Our Sixth Form Prospectus can now be downloaded online here.

You can download the Sixth Form Application Form below. The deadline for applications is 12th February! Please hand in your application form to your tutor or at the school’s main reception.

Sixth Form Application Form 2010
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Arrow Vale Community High School has recently held its annual Charity Week. The week was filled with activities and events all organised and managed by Sixth Form students in order to raise money for charity. This year’s charity week raised money for Leukaemia Awareness, County Air Ambulance, Help for Heroes, Cancer Research UK and Children in Need. Events such as Staff Come Dancing, last department standing, leg waxing and many more took place over the course of the week, with all the money that was raised being split evenly and given to all the charities chosen. Overall £1,212 was raised which is a credit to the hard work that Sixth Form students put into the week.

Arrow Vale Community High School has recently invested in a new state of the art radio room from which AVFM will be broadcast. The radio is one of only a few in the country. A team of students produce and broadcast shows for the school. On November 26th the radio will be launched and the opening show will involve Karen Pickering MBE being interviewed by Mr Creasy, Headteacher.

Arrow Vale is moving ever closer to it annual Celebration of Achievement evening. The event is held in recognition of students’ achievements during their time at the school. The guest speaker for the event is Karen Pickering MBE, World Champion Swimmer and she will be handing out awards to all the students selected to receive them.

“Parents Matter” (a government funded pilot) are running an eight week course at Redditch Football Club starting Monday 1st February. Please call 01905 827473 or freephone 0800 587 5980.

Frog is our new learning platform which will enhance the way students learn and interact with each other and their teachers. Students will have 24/7 access to the school network and a wealth of resources.  They will be able to discuss their homework on forums and in chat rooms, receive instant feedback from their teachers and share ideas with their peers.

We wanted to get students onboard from the outset, help shape it and give them ownership of the platform they will be using everyday. We advertised for three different roles and recruited a total of 19 students who were to become the ‘Tadpole Team’. The positions were Frog Wardens (forum and chat moderators), Frog Scholars (students who help departments develop websites) and Flash Developers (students who create Flash content for the platform).

We have been meeting weekly since the start of term and already our Tadpole Team are creating some fantastic pieces of work - all voluntary and all in their own time. We will keep you updated on the work of our Tadpole Team as well as all the other developments we have planned for Frog!