Chailey School Careers Evening

Our successful annual Careers Evening took place on Thursday 25^th September.  This year there were more than twenty displays by colleges, apprenticeship and training providers, and students and parents from years 8 – 11 attended.

There was also a demonstration of Fast Tomato – a  careers website – that can be accessed from school and home.  

Year 10 visit Sussex University

Kess Rowe, 10 Glynde, writes about her experiences of the visit

We started the day by being taken to a small room in the huge library (lecture halls were full as classes had just started). Laura, a student in Media and Communications, gave us an amusing talk on the reality of university life and how you do actually have leisure time. She gave us useful information about what to bring on your first day and that you may experience friendly pranking with mates.

We were then taken in groups of ten on tours of the buildings in the central area of the campus. It was fun but we didn’t actually get to see the accommodation or many of the lecture halls. However, we were shown the different areas where people lived and where they bought food.

After lunch we were taken into an amphitheatre lecture hall where we were taught about different learning styles. On the board there were 27 words and we had four minutes to try to remember as many as possible. Ten minutes later the tutor asked one person to come up and recite as many as possible. He only remembered two. Then he asked someone else so I volunteered and got 17, which was only one under the average!

All in all the day was very interesting; we experienced the atmosphere of a university and I found it nice to have an informal talk about the future rather than a serious one that is meant to push people with already high aspirations into education.

Open Evening at Chailey

Our Open Evening was very busy as usual and our students were an essential part of the success of the event as you can see from these photographs.

Cambridge University Press filming at Chailey

A film unit has spent the day at Chailey filming Year 11 students talking about teenage life. CUP are producing supplementary educational materials for students across the world from Brazil to Russia who are learning English as a foreign language.  

Year 11 Geography field trip to Brighton

Year 11 students visited Brighton to collect data for their geography controlled assessment - 'What are the land uses in Brighton's Central Business District?' - they completed land use maps, transport surveys and questioned members of the public.

Miss Jones led the trip and was impressed by the way all year 11 students approached and carried out this activity.

  

Chailey Young Artists Exhibition

Eco competition

 An ‘Eco sculpture’ is being commissioned to be made and be on permanent display in the Quad area by an ex-Chailey pupil who is a qualified blacksmith.

Pupils are welcome to submit a design idea (1xA4 sheet drawing) and your design could be made into the real thing! The theme of your design can be anything to do with ecology, the environment, recycling, and sustainability plus of course Chailey School!

Entries can be given to or emailed to Mr Cossutta by the end of next week

(Friday 19^th September).

Looking forward to seeing them!!

scossutta@chaileyschool.org

Chailey students display their work at the Lewes Artwave festival

A selection of the fantastic work Year 10 Chailey Art students exhibited as part of the Lewes Artwave festival in the summer holidays. The work was shown at the Westgate Chapel alongside the work of the Surrealists Roland Penrose and Lee Miller. The project was sponsored by the Farley Trust.

Year 9 student to play a lead role in new CBBC series

We are very proud to announce that Cleo Demetriou, a Year 9 student, has a leading role in a new CBBC 13-part series called 'So Awkward' which is coming soon.  Cleo plays the part of Lily Hampton and has been filming throughout the summer.

Year 11 Results Day