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AHS weekly communication digest -14.02.25

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Letters and emails sent home this week

  • Message from AHS - Parent Governor Ballot

  • SIMS Options will be 'closed' at 9pm on Friday 14th February

  • Year 8 Gressenhall Trip 2025

  • Option choices for students in years 8, 9 and 10 - deadline is this Friday (14th February)

  • Year 11 group photograph
  • Winter Food Support ending – children in receipt of free school meals

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


General Reminders and information

Non-School Uniform Money Raised 

Total raised from Non-Unifom day today was £698.06 - A huge thank you from the student council to all that donated money towards the two chosen charities today! 


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.


Road Safety weekly message

Seeing and being seen is vital – make sure that your child knows the safe places to cross the road – not in between cars and not on a corner or junction.


Neurodiversity Celebration Week
2025 Events Schedule
March 17 - 23

We are excited to share the schedule of events with you for Neurodiversity Celebration Week 2025!

This year we're bringing you more panel discussions than ever before, with inspirational speakers from a range of backgrounds and professions. The discussions will all be focussing on key neurodiversity topics, and aim to educate while inspiring conversations about neurodiversity.

All events are free of charge and open to all. Please do sign up to as many events as you like and share with your networks, so we can all join together in celebrating different minds!

Please note that these events are being recorded, to increase accessibility for all around the world. Links to the recordings will be sent via email post-event, so please make sure you register for the events so that you don't miss out!

2025 Events Schedule | Neurodiversity Celebration Week


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Year 8, 9, 10 option choices

SIMS Options - will be 'closed' at 9pm this evening (Friday 14th February) for students and families

If your child is yet to complete their option choices in SIMS Options or would like to make any changes, please ensure that they do this before 9pm tonight and that you have approved their choices in SIMS Parent. Once the system is closed, students can come to the STAR office at break or lunch time to see Ms Stonestreet or Mrs Cooke to change their option choices.

  • We ask all students to either reconfirm or reselect their option choices each year. Therefore all students in years 8-10 will need to access SIMS Options.
  • Students must ensure that they complete their option choices as we can see that some students have currently part selected their options. The options page tells you how many option subjects you need to select.
  • As parent/carer, you will need to approve your child’s option choices by ticking the parent/carer approval box; you can access your child’s option choices via SIMS Parent.

If your child hadn't finished their option choices prior to SIMS Options being closed, they will be requested to come to the STAR office to complete their option choices after the February half term break.

Further information about options can be found on the school website https://www.aylshamhigh.com/optionchoices

School Reports

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

Spring

Year

Sharing information

7

Being shared in March

8

Next report will be shared in the summer term

9

Shared today – 7th February

Version 2 will be shared shortly (individual subjects version)

10

Shared today – 7th February

Version 2 will be shared shortly (individual subjects version)

11

Shared today – 7th February

Version 2 will be shared shortly (individual subjects version)

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

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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


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.


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 

Online Safety

Please visit our online safety page of the website to view latest information and our monthly newsletter


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

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SEND information

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


Aylsham Sports Hub

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Finance Payment Reminders

Payment Reminders

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

GCSE Drama classes Paston Theatre visit. Deadline for payment is Friday 14th February.
Year 8 Gressenhall Deadline for consent and payment is Monday 3rd March.
Activities Week deposit payments

Payment option is available on ParentPay. Final deadline is 31st March 2025 but you are welcome to make smaller regular payments before this date.

Contributions for new GCSE courses

Available to pay for on ParentPay.


Upcoming events 

U15 Hockey at Greshams
All Day
25
February
U16 7's Rugby at Norwich School
12:15pm – 4:30pm
25
February
Y9 Parents' Evening - Priority Night
All Day
26
February
Y9 Parents' Evening - Secondary Night
All Day
27
February
U15 7's Rugby at Greshams
12:30pm – 4:00pm
27
February
Quiz Night
All Day
01
March
Pre loved uniform sale
11:00am – 12:00pm
01
March
Normandy Trip 2025 - Activities week info evening
6:30pm – 7:30pm
11
March
Y7 Parents' Evening - Priority Night
All Day
12
March
Y7 Parents' Evening - Secondary Night
All Day
13
March

This week's news


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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

 


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