On Friday 9^th February, staff and students at Felpham Community College ended a busy and successful start to 2024, by hosting a non-school uniform day, raising money for unicef.

As part of UK Parliament week back in November, everyone at FCC was given the opportunity to nominate and then vote for what charities the school should support this academic year – with a wide range of local, national and international charities being chosen.

Isabelle Isitt, Student Leadership i/c Charity commented:
“Non-uniform is a fun way to end the half term and fundraise at the same time. We were redesignated as a Gold Rights Respecting School last term, an award which is run by unicef. This was a great opportunity to raise awareness of the amazing work the charity co-ordinates world-wide. We are now busy planning our charity event for next half term – an FCC Talent Show fundraising for the local community interest project ‘Save the Post Office’ in Felpham.

The Languages department at Felpham Community College hosted their own ‘International Week’ from the 5^th to the 9^th February, celebrating language diversity and culture at FCC.  The week is organised in recognition of the United Nations International Day of Education, held on the 24^th January each year.

The hugely popular ‘International Bake Off’ took place on the 7^th February, with over 90 entries received. Students and staff had their own competitions, with anyone wishing to enter picking a country to research and represent through a cake/pudding. Congratulations to Eva Johnson Deacon and Sophie Lee for their amazing Brazilian cake!

On the 8^th February, the ‘International Just Dance’ competition proved great fun, and throughout the week both staff and students enjoyed taking part in the ‘Guess the Teacher and Language’ competition.

Mr Cauchy-Duval, Curriculum Leader for Modern Languages, commented:
“The objective of International Week is to raise awareness of the importance of studying a language in a multi-cultural society. Both staff and students have really enjoyed taking part in all the activities we planned, especially the wide range of sweet treats we received which were incredible and completely delicious! The week has been a great success, thank you to all the staff and students who have got involved and joined in.”

International Day of Education | UNESCO

Well done and congratulations to the cast and crew of the Felpham Community College production of ‘Annie – The Musical.’

The sell-out show performed on the evenings of the 7^th and 8^th February, to a packed audience of students, staff and families of the cast.

Miss Coney, Curriculum Leader for Performing Arts, commented:
“Our students have worked really hard on the musical, we started rehearsals in our extra-curricular club back in October. We had to have a couple of last minute changes to the cast, students adapted really well and in a very mature way.  We are really proud of the effort, enthusiasm and talent they have shown. The cast and crew were from years 7 through to 10 and all put in huge amounts of their own time learning their parts. We are now looking forward to, and planning, the next events – after half term we have our dance team performing at Dance House (all year groups), and National Theatre Connections for year 10 and 11 performing arts students.

Scarlett Turvey, Year 8 Student, commented:
“I played Annie and it has been a great production to be involved with. It has been nice working with kids from other year groups and making friends, as you all have a shared interest. We were all quite nervous before the actual show, as we have been rehearsing for so long it seemed crazy that it had actually arrived! I really enjoy drama, dance and singing. I have been a part of the British Theatre for over 2 years now, I currently go up to London every Sunday for it. I have performed in numerous shows around the South, including Frozen, Shrek, Annie and Moana.

All young people across West Sussex are encouraged to vote for the 2024 Youth Cabinet, UK Youth Parliament and Make Your Mark voting.

Students can access the voting to all of this through this link.

Our locality is Bognor and Felpham.

This week, to support Safer Internet Day, Sussex Police will be running a parent webinar explaining Cyber Choices and the risks to young people of committing computer misuse offences. They want to reach out and explain to parents – as well as safeguarding leads and partner agencies through our other presentations – just how young people can cross the line into cyber crime.

They  will be running this webinar three times throughout next week, at the following times:

Tuesday 6^th February 13:00-14:00
Thursday 8^th February 09:30-10:30
Thursday 8^th February 20:00-21:00

And the invitation details are listed below:

When: Feb 6, 2024 13:00 London
Topic: Cyber Choices for Parents & Carers
Register in advance for this webinar: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_w4CZPn-5Sb6PmX5scPuFkA

When: Feb 8, 2024 09:30 London
Topic: Cyber Choices for Parents & Carers
Register in advance for this webinar: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Tpd56MjvSs25i_nz5W8Vlg

When: Feb 8, 2024 20:00 London
Topic: Cyber Choices for Parents & Carers
Register in advance for this webinar: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_guDQFW6TRBiOJWEga_g6qw

After registering, a confirmation email containing further information about joining the webinar will be automatically sent out.

There are 500 spaces available on each, If anyone has any further questions, or wants to know more, please contact email address: cyberchoices@serocu.police.uk

February 6^th marks this years Online Safety Day – to celebrate we are hosting a competition to find a star designer for our online safety posters. Please see the information in the school bulletin or pop in and see Miss Jarvis in N9 for more information!