Each year we hold an online safety event for parents/carers. The ‘Supporting your child online’ workshop explores the risks that young people face online such as communication with strangers, sharing personal information and photos, and exposure to inappropriate adult content. Our last information evening took place on Wednesday 8th February. A copy of the presentation and handout from the evening can be found on the school website here.

Well done to everyone who entered previously and got the answer right! This week's puzzle is shown above. For every entry you will receive 1 house point, if you answer correctly you will win 2 housepoints and if you are the fastest person to answer the puzzle correctly then you will win 5 house points!  To enter, simply scan the QR code and fill out the google form.  Good luck! Why not play at home and see who is the quickest to get the answer?

To celebrate National Careers Week, we have some fantastic opportunities to share:

Beauty Therapy Careers: Champneys are hosting an open day for students interested in careers in Beauty Therapy:
The Open Day will be on Saturday 11th March 11am - 2pm. Should students wish to find out more about beauty therapy courses and go on a tour, please contact 01442 291 336 or email Catherine.Hedges@champneys.com to book in.

Optician Careers: Specsavers have sent us this information on apprenticeships for any students interested: Specsavers Careers

Dietetics Careers: For students aged 15+ interested in becoming a Dietician, the Hertfordshire NHS Trust is offering an information session on 31st May 2023 , 09:30-15:30, Location: Unit 10 Sandridge Gate Business Centre, Ronsons Way , St. Albans, AL4 9XR. To book please email rhiannon.hinstridge@nhs.net with the subject “Dietetics Work Shadowing”

We aim to provide information on as wide a variety of careers as we can.  If parents and carers would like to share any information about opportunities within their own places of work please contact carly.eady@sandringham.herts.sch.uk. 

Despite the weather, our Sixth Form Young Enterprise company - T.K.Minimum - enthusiastically held a pop up stall on Thursday outside C Block. They were selling their hand-printed tote bags and secondhand clothes as part of their motto to give new purpose to old clothes. If you would like to support this great venture, you can purchase their products here.

This week you will have received a letter regarding Year 11 Revision and Support Sessions. You can indicate which sessions you would like to attend here and make payment via ParentPay (if you are FSM then please contact the admin email address and we can arrange payment.) The deadline to sign up is 9am on Monday 27th March. 

A reminder as well, that our next Key Stage 4 Parent/Carers information evening is taking place on Tuesday 14th March starting at 6:30pm in the Main Hall. During the evening, we will be delivering key information about your child’s final few months studying in Year 11. In addition, we will provide an opportunity to hear the insights of some current Year 12 and their experiences last year when they were in the same position as your child. We are confident that there will be useful takeaways for all parents/carers.

The whole school theme this week celebrates British Science week to signpost all of the events running in school next week as part of Sandringham’s Science week. British Science Week is a ten-day celebration of science, technology, engineering and maths that is celebrated from 10th March to 19th March. This year's theme is connections! The students received an excellent assembly from STEM coordinator, Mr Tattersall, which encouraged them to sign up for events that are running next week such as, the Chemistry show, Plastic melting or the STEM quiz. We hope the students enjoy all of the additional activities. 

Vodafone have created a fantastic resource for parents including information, YouTube videos, and an interactive resource providing information about parental controls and safety settings.

Everything is free and you can find further information here. We hope that you find the information useful.

On Thursday, we had an amazing day with our KS3 company, TripleEdge. It was lovely to watch all the performances from other schools and TripleEdge smashed it! Thank you @hertscdta for organising a fabulous day 

As mentioned previously, we have a new podcast, Sandcast, which follows life and events at Sandringham School. The hosts are Mr Cracknell and Ryan D in Year 12 and the episodes have already featured Assistant Headteacher, Mr Allday and Head Students Shiam and Maddie. Future episodes will include other students, staff, parents and people associated with Sandringham. You can subscribe where you usually find your podcasts and if you have an interesting topic or experience that you would like to share- you can speak to Mr Cracknell or Ryan about appearing on the podcast. 

A reminder that next Friday, 17th March is a non-uniform day/ opportunity to engage in red related fancy dress for Comic Relief. Donations of £2 or more can be made via ParentPay. Thank you for helping to support this worthwhile cause. 

Well done to Newton who won the House Maths this week and now top the leader board! Thanks to the Mathematics Faculty for organising the event. Special mentions this week also go to Finn J and Billy E in 7T who both gained 10 house points and to 8S with the highest average points overall (100.3)

UPCOMING EVENTS 

• KS3 STEM Quiz – Monday 13th March
• Staff badminton – Monday 20th March
• House Basketball – W/C 27th March

We are really looking forward to our Fo$S quiz night next Friday, 17th March. There are still a few tickets available if you would like to buy them. Click on the link here to book your table now and join us for a fun night as Nick Grubb returns with his music themed quiz. Cheese boards are available to preorder and there will be a fully stocked bar.

We look forward to seeing you there!

This week we feature Jess R (10J) who has recently gained her Foundation Radio Licence. This means that she can now contact anyone with an amateur radio licence across the world. To gain this, Jess had to complete an exam in Radio (including rules and regulations/ electrical components to name a few) which meant completing many practice papers. Jess says "I enjoy amateur radio as it allows me to speak to different people across the world and also deepen my understanding of technology. If this sounds like something you enjoy, you could join our Radio Club which takes place on Fridays after school in H1. It's a great chance to meet different students from across the school, speak to people internationally, learn new skills and have fun."  Sounds great Jess!

If you would like to nominate someone for the Student Spotlight next week, please contact Melissa.holian@sandringham.herts.sch.uk with any details and/or photographs. 

Our trip to Hamburg has been going well and the students are returning today. More on this next week in the Sandprint. 

The MFL team are also currently looking for 5 host families who would be willing to welcome a student from our exchange school in Hamburg. There would be a contribution towards expenses as well as the opportunity to develop a link with a German student. The German group arrives in September and will stay for one week. The dates have yet to be confirmed but the current plan is for them to arrive on Wednesday 20th September to depart on Wednesday 27th September.  There would be an opportunity for your child to take part in joint activities including a visit to Harry Potter Studios and a day trip to Oxford. If this is of interest to you, would you please contact admin@sandringham.herts.sch.uk referencing FAO Mrs Kincaid, as soon as possible.

Thank you to Year 10 parents and carers for supporting students in finding work experience placements and filling in the relevant forms.  The students who do not yet have a placement will be given a link2 code to login and put in their preferences today.  Please ask them to do so by 19th April.  Any questions, please email eadyc@mysandstorm.org

On Wednesday, four of our fantastic Year 10 girls took part in the annual physics tournament at St Helen’s School in Northwood. They competed in events including an experiment competition, a physics-themed escape room and a calculations relay race! They also heard an inspiring talk from an engineering graduate. Although they didn’t win on this occasion, the students - Jessica R, Azima M, Angelina M and Bea M - were brilliant representatives of Sandringham School.

FRENCH: Le mot de la semaine: Abominable, infâme, malfaisant

GERMAN: Das Wort der Woche: Schlect

SPANISH: La palabra de la semana: Nefario

Thinking Question

• An interlanguage is when people speak a mixture of two languages – how do these come about?

In this eye-opening book Dr Ben Goldacre takes us on a hilarious, invigorating and ultimately alarming journey through the bad science we are fed daily by hacks and quacks. Dr Goldacre takes on the MMR hoax, misleading cosmetics ads, mankind's vexed relationship with all manner of 'toxins' and much more. Emilia H 9J who has recently read the book says 'This is a really amazing and informative book. Some chapters are more complex than others, and I had to research some aspects, but I really loved it. The placebo effect was the best chapter

N is for … nefarious  [adjective]

Definition: (Typically of an action or activity) wicked or criminal.

Example: The nefarious activities of the organised crime syndicates were well known.

Synonyms: shameful, vicious, vile

Antonyms: delightful, gentle, good

Etymology: From the French ‘nefas’ meaning  ‘wrong’.

Please see our upcoming fixtures above. Good luck to all the teams involved. You can follow the results @SandringhamPE

The U15’s played against Queenswood in a very enjoyable and competitive match this week. With a mixture of experienced and new players to the squad, the team gelled quickly with some excellent passing and defence. The team created some scoring opportunities but it was Queenswood who converted three of their opportunities. It was fantastic to see the team grow in confidence and with their decision making throughout the match and was a definitely a game to inspire more participation. Overall, the team played very well, enjoyed the match and should be very proud of their performance.

Last Saturday saw our Year 9, 10 and 11 boys' teams in away fixtures against St Albans School. Unfortunately we lost in all fixtures against their stronger sides but well done to all involved.

Our Year 10 football team also unfortunately lost 4-2 to Sir John Lawes in the District Cup on Wednesday. Sam P and Tommy E with the goals. 

Well done to the Year 7 Basketball team who gained an impressive 23-8 win against Longdean in the Junior NBA on Monday with 3 debuts. Well done to Sam W - MVP

Well done to the U13 Girls' Basketball team as well who put in a great performance on Tuesday, beating JFK 31-13 in the county league.

A great week for our netball teams with wins all round!

On Saturday, our U19 Netball Performance Squad had an excellent win in the county cup semi-final 38-28 over Herts & Essex! OPM - Ida S & CPM - Molly C

Our U15 Netball team also retained their District Champions title for a second year! A fantastic performance from the whole squad. POT - Charlotte H.

And our Year 7 A netball team did brilliantly against KWS, taking them through to the final of the district plate! OPP - Madison W, CPM - Arabella R

Our Year 8 netball teams also played STAGS on Wednesday. The B team had a bit of a messy game , but kept fighting and came back from 3 goals down to draw the game. OPM Temi who was a defensive force to be reckoned with and CPM Hattie for some excellent shooting! After a shaky start, the U13A team were convincing winners again STAGS in the District League. OPM Ella who was a rock in defence and CPM Siya for playing the best we've seen her play!

This extraordinary I Spy game is nothing like the one you might remember from long car drives with your dad though.  Instead, it's a magical adventure full of fun, giggles and all your favourite sing along song including Head, Shoulders Knees and Toes, Sing a Rainbow, The Ants Go Marching and BINGO.

I Spy with My Little Eye is based on the popular children's book by author Steven Lee and was created alongside education and child development experts to be great for kids’ minds. So, it's not just wonderful entertainment for your little ones but good for them too!

After sell-out shows from as far afield as Dubai, Dublin and Derby the cast of the wonderful People's Theatre Company are bringing I Spy with My Little Eye to The SandPit Theatre!