It has been another fantastic week at York High School! This week we held our first parents’ evening of the academic year. Thank you to those parents and carers who braved the cold to come into school to discuss their young person’s progress. It was a lovely evening and fantastic to see so many families in attendance.
It has also been so lovely to celebrate our Excellence Every Day rewards. We love to hear so many individual stories of students’ success in their lessons this week. The number of awards continues to grow each week which has been wonderful to see.
Have a great weekend everyone!
Gavin Kumar
Principal
Thursday 12 December
Festive Showcase – save the date!
Friday 20 December
School closes for Christmas break
Monday 6 January 2025
School closed for Teacher Training Day
Tuesday 7 January 2025
School reopens for Spring Term
On Tuesday we took 22 runners to compete in the York Schools Cross Country competition at the York Sports Village. I want to say a big well done to all of our athletes, for having the courage to show up and compete on such a bitterly cold day!
Mrs Haldenby
Students attending the Liverpool trip have received a letter this week asking them to submit the people they’d like to be in a room with. This will help us to split the students into two groups for the two sets of trip dates. We ask that these are returned by the end of next week (29 November).
If you have a particular request for a set of dates, or have any further questions, please let Miss Bettney know.
On Wednesday we welcomed Carr Junior’s Year 5 students for our ‘Get Set for the Holidays’ creative event! As part of the day, students made and decorated their own reindeer gingerbread biscuits, designed two baubles, and made a gift bag.
It was wonderful to see all the students get stuck into the day and become really confident in the secondary setting. It was also wonderful to see student helpers Annie, Sophie, and Eva lead aspects of the cooking session with individual students.
We can’t wait to share pictures of the incredible baubles that students made once they’ve been in our kiln, when they’ll then be sent back to the students.
There are lots of awards to celebrate this week! Well done to Heather, Rikki, Aisyah, Daisy, Maddie, Daenerys, Evie Mai, Yumi, Lily, Annie, Joe, Tegan, Megan, Maisy, Alexis, Terry, May, Kate, Harry and LJ!
Our Year 6 History Club had a great session on Monday! After a quick round of two truths and a lie, we started using Chromebooks to research our Horrible Histories Sketches.
Really looking forward to seeing our wonderful History Club students record these sketches next week. Look out for Ancient Greeks, explorers, the Victorian Workhouse, and WW2 fighting.
What a wonderful hour and we can’t wait for next week!
Miss Bettney
Well done to last week’s RAS Achievers, nominated by our English department – great work Nyla, Liberty, Kai and Maddison!
And well done to Riley and Mercy, last week’s RAS Achievers, nominated by our Maths department.
Year 8s did an eye dissection in last week’s Science lesson with Mrs Alexander after learning about the parts of the eye in our human body topic.
A vocational course is a training programme which focuses more on practical work, rather than traditional academic exams. The ‘vocational’ part of the name refers to the fact that this course prepares you for a vocation – a particular skill set required in different types of jobs.
The video below will give you more information.
To help your child(ren) make informed decisions about their next steps in education, please see the latest version of the Choices Magazine. Pages 3 and 12 are particularly useful for those with children in Years 9 and 11.
There are three clubs running in York for those who are interested in art. You can find out more via the links below:
https://saturday-club.org/film/national-saturday-club-trailer-2021/
https://saturday-club.org/club/york-college-art-design/
https://saturday-club.org/club/york-st-john-university-art-design/
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🍔Free School Meals are Changing🍕
From September 2026 more families will qualify for Free School Meals.
If your household is in receipt of:
🔘Universal Credit
🔘Income-related Employment & Support Allowance
🔘Support under Part 6 of the immigration and Asylum Act 1999
🔘Guaranteed element of Pension Credit
your child will be entitled to free school meals, but it's not automatic - you MUST apply for them.
Visit: www.northyorks.gov.uk/freeschoolmeals to start your application
(When completing the form, make sure you change the 'Local Authority' to York)
For further information see the letter from Mr Kumar on our website:
www.yorkhighschool.co.uk/2026/07/changes-to-free-school-meals/
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🎤Prizes Galore🎤
What an Unmissable day we have had...
This morning we started the day with our fantastic end of term Blue & Platinum Ticket draws - handing out vouchers for H&M, Playstation & Amazon for the lucky Blue Ticket winners, and the big one, a £250 Amazon Voucher to our Platinum winner, Daenerys!
Mr Kumar then celebrated with our RAS Achievers, Andrea & Carter, both nominated by members of SLT.
And we cannot ignore the fantastic 'SINGO BINGO' which has been absolutely amazing.
Have a fantastic Summer - We will see you all in September!
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⚽Is it Coming Home?⚽
Tonight England take on Argentina in the World Cup Semi-Finals.
Will they win, and join Spain in the Final?
Is Football Coming Home?
We are looking forward to seeing you all in the morning, for those gate chats on how the game went!
Win, Lose or Draw, we can share our thoughts tomorrow.
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