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Letters and emails sent home this week

• Year 10 Internal Assessments

• Year 9 Internal Assessments

• Year 8 students not attending the Science trip on Tuesday 11th February 2025

• Year 9 Parents’ Evenings – reminder booking window opens today at 4pm

• * To view these letters please check your ParentMail or alternatively, please click here

If your child is ill during the school day

If your child is taken ill during the school day they should firstly report this to their teacher who will authorise them to go to the medical needs office where they will be assessed by a qualified first aider.  Parents will be notified immediately if their child requires to go home or in the case of an emergency, an ambulance may be called and parents will be notified.  It is important that students follow these procedures and do not phone home themselves.

If parents turn up without being contacted by med bay and take their child home the child's absence will be recorded as unauthorised.

Important Information: First Aid Training for Students at Aylsham High School

Dear Parents and Carers,

We are pleased to inform you that your child will be participating in an important first aid training session at Aylsham High School. This session will cover essential life-saving skills, including how to administer CPR (Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation) and the proper use of defibrillators in emergency situations. The training will take place during school hours between Monday 27th January and Friday 14th February.

This is a fantastic opportunity for our students to gain hands-on experience in these crucial life skills, which we believe are invaluable. At Aylsham High School, we are committed to ensuring that all our students are well-prepared to handle emergencies confidently. As part of our curriculum, this training will be revisited annually, reinforcing their knowledge and abilities.

We understand that some students may have personal experiences involving the use of CPR or defibrillators. If your child has encountered such situations, we kindly ask you to inform us. This will allow us to provide the necessary support and ensure that your child feels comfortable and supported during the training.

Please feel free to reach out if you have any concerns or foresee any issues that might arise with your child’s participation in this first aid course. We are here to assist and ensure that every student benefits from this invaluable learning experience.

On behalf of the staff at Aylsham High School, we wish you a very happy new year. We look forward to your continued support in helping us provide a comprehensive and enriching educational experience for all our students.

Kind regards,

Dr Susie Poock

Head of PSHE

Aylsham High School

spoock@aylshamhigh.norfolk.sch.uk

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School Reports

The table below provides information about the sharing of school reports:

Autumn

Year	Sharing information
7	Shared on Wednesday 18th December
8	Shared on Wednesday 18th December
9	Shared on Friday 6th December
10	Shared on Friday 6th December
11	Shared in October – two copies were shared: Copy for families/students Copy to be used as their reference for post-16 applications

Spring

Year	Sharing information
7	Being shared in March
8	Next report will be shared in the summer term
9	Being shared shortly
10	Being shared shortly
11	Being shared shortly

Once your child’s report has been shared with you, please ensure that you read your child’s report on SIMS Parent. Your child can also access a copy of their report on their SIMS Student account.

If you have any issues with accessing SIMS Parent or your child’s report, please email our SIMS Parent team simsparent@aylshamhigh.norfolk.sch.uk.

SIMS Student

Students have access to SIMS Student using their school alf.education email address. 

To get support with SIMS Student, students can see their computing teacher or Mrs Cooke in the STAR office at break or lunch time.

For more information about SIMS Student, please see the SIMS Student page on the school website under the students tab.

https://www.aylshamhigh.com/ahssimsstudent

SIMS Parent

All parents/carers with parental responsibility are able to access SIMS Parent once registered. 

To get support with SIMS Parent, parents/carers can email simsparent@aylshamhigh.norfolk.sch.uk.

For more information about SIMS Parent including guidance on how to register, access SIMS Parent and about the information being shared with you, please see the SIMS Parent page on the school website under the parents & carers tab.

https://www.aylshamhigh.com/ahssimsparent

Clubs for students

To view all clubs please click here

Parents Evening Dates

During the Spring term, we have Parents’ Evenings on SchoolCloud taking place for years 7-10.

Information about Parents’ Evenings can be found here: https://www.aylshamhigh.com/ahsparentsevening

Work Experience information - Y10

The links below are to help support students and parents with work experience placements.

The deadline for all work experience placements is fast approaching Friday 14 February this should also be added on to Unifrog

This will help in making contact for Work Experience placements in July 2025.

Please could you help your child complete this if they haven't done so already.

Unifrog ? - Aylsham High School - Use this link to add placements on to Unifrog 

Work Experience - Aylsham High School information regarding work experience

Placem Work Experience - Aylsham High Schoolent Opportunities List (updated summer 2024) - Google Sheets (aylshamhigh.com)

Any questions, please email Mrs Wiseman twiseman@aylshamhigh.norfolk.sch.uk

Y11 College assemblies (students only)

Year 11s Help you choose 

Students have now received their log ins for Help you Choose.  Please could you encourage your child to add college placements. They need a plan A and a plan B.

 Miss Wiseman and Mrs Wiseman are both in room 38 at lunchtimes on Tuesdays and Thursday to guide and support students if they would like any help.

Options process dates for January/February 2025

Date	Details
Between: Thursday 16 January and Friday 14 February	Colleagues supporting students and families with choosing options Students can select choices in SIMS Options and parents/carers can confirm approval via SIMS Parent (not through SIMS Student).
Friday 7 February	Reminder will be sent to students and families to select their options
Friday 14 February	Reminder will be send to students and families that today is deadline day
Deadline for options is Friday 14th February 2025 Students’ option choices will then be processed from this time on.  If students wish to make changes to their options they must ask parents/carers to email astonestreet@aylshamhigh.norfolk.sch.uk or come to the Star office at break or lunch time.
Students’ options choices will be confirmed, via email, approximately early May 2025.

Please note that, whilst we will work to these dates, they may be subject to change. Thank you.

Activities Week

Activities week will take place on 14 July to 18 July 2025

Welcome to the activities for summer of 2025.  Activities week will take place this year during the last week of the summer term.  We aim to end the academic year with a fun and exciting range of events designed to enable your child to:

• Spend an extended period of time on an activity of their choice
• Undertake a residential experience if they wish
• Try something completely different
• Progress further with existing skills
• Work with students from different year groups
• Develop the skills needed to be enterprising and utilise key skills in new situations

All students are expected to take part in an activity

The school is unable to authorise absence during activities week, unless there are exceptional circumstances.

We expect cost to be an important factor; activities that have a price associated with them are unable to run unless we can cover the full cost through your contributions.  There is, as usual, a range of free and low cost activities to ensure that every child can take part during the week.

There will be a non-refundable deposit required by Friday 22 November 2024; this will be available to pay via ParentPay on Wednesday 13 November 2024.  The deadline for full non-refundable payment for all activities is Monday 31 March 2025.  Please make payments via ParentPay.  If you need assistance with ParentPay, please contact the finance department on ext. 153/107 or finance@aylshamhigh.norfolk.sch.uk.  If you would like to discuss payment options including instalments, please contact the activity leader once the activity has been confirmed.

If you have any questions please email twiseman@aylshamhigh.norfolk.sch.uk 

TACT (Families)

Please click here to view upcoming courses and events organised by our Family Learning team.  

FREE Workshops available to book.  Please click on the link above to get booked onto the courses

SEND information

• Norfolk County Council SEND Newsletter - https://www.aylshamhigh.com/ncc-send-bulletins
• Norfolk SENDIASS - https://www.aylshamhigh.com/sendiass

Aylsham Sports Hub

Finance Payment Reminders

Payment Reminders

Any items available for payment will be listed on your ParentPay account.

Upcoming events 

This week's news

TACT evening courses

With limited spaces available, booking is essential. We encourage people to sign up using the provided link to a Google form; however, if anyone expresses an interest and encounters difficulties, please contact Monica: mharding@ayshamhigh.norfolk.sch.uk text: 07780 887348

To view courses, please visit: /tact-families-workshop-courses

 

To view our current vacancies please click here