Well done everyoneAR has started well – 95,324,367 words have been read since the beginning of September – that is 2,053 books! . Our target is 600 million words this year. Details of the College reward will follow – it will be difficult to think of something more spectacular than Mr Payne - in fancy dress, singing in assembly - which was the reward for achieving 500 million words at the end of the last academic year! Keep up the good work everyone! #readingtime #lovereading

Hot Food Returns! With the colder weather on its way, we are delighted to announce that after half term the Canteen will be serving hot food again. The first week back will be the 'Week 2' menu. There will be no pre-ordering required, as pupils will be able to buy and choose their food on the day. If you would like your child to be able to buy lunch and snacks, pupil payment accounts will need to be 'topped up' with funds. Please see below for details on how to do this. How to Top Up MyEd App > My Students > Payments > Accounts > Select Dinner Topup > Select £ Top Up > Purchase Details: Select Top Up Amount > Add To Basket > Checkout

We are delighted to share Year 7 pupil Noah McLaughlin-Mills' official competition winner photograph! Festival representative, author Martin Edwards, announced the competition winners 'live' on YouTube. Noah and his family were incredibly excited to hear that Noah's story had won first place and that he was to receive a fantastic prize of an iPad Mini and a collection of books written by one of the judges, author Patrice Lawrence. The competition judges commented that Noah's story was 'very imaginative and had excellent use of language which was very colourful and evocative.' They also said 'The pacing of the story was excellent'. Noah is looking forward to developing his creative writing even further during his time at Chulmleigh College.

Congratulations to the following Year 9 pupils who have been accepted onto the UKMT Maths Mentoring Scheme. Sophie Cooper Kieran Reed Isaac Pinhey Christian Woodley Charlie Swan A sheet containing a range of Maths problems is emailed at the start of each month to pupils and their mentors, with solutions also sent to the mentors. Pupils work on the problems with assistance from their mentor before writing up their solutions to the problems and sending them to their mentor for comment. Mentors highlight any gaps in reasoning and suggest improvements to the solutions. The scheme runs from October to June next year and I am confident the chosen pupils will enjoy the challenge. Mrs Button https://www.ukmt.org.uk/enrichment/mentoring-scheme

Here's the latest Sparx leader board - well done everyone!

Amazing attendance! Listed below are the tutor groups who have the best attendance for this term. Well done to Mrs Button's Year 11 group who have the best attendance in the school! Year 7JC - Mr Cookson's group – 98.12% Year 8TD – Mrs Davy's group – 98.26% Year 9CT – Mrs Tancock' s group - 95.67% Year 10 GSF – Mrs Feasy's group – 97.17% Year 11GJB – Mrs Button's group - 98.59%