Newsletters

Letters and emails sent home this week

• Message from AHS – Important email regarding temporary change in timetabled session

• Message from AHS – Gold Card Statements – Spring 2025

• Message from AHS – SEND Café - Thursday 1st May 2025

• * To view these letters please check your ParentMail or alternatively, please click here

If your child is ill during the school day

If your child is taken ill during the school day they should firstly report this to their teacher who will authorise them to go to the medical needs office where they will be assessed by a qualified first aider.  Parents will be notified immediately if their child requires to go home or in the case of an emergency, an ambulance may be called and parents will be notified.  It is important that students follow these procedures and do not phone home themselves.

If parents turn up without being contacted by med bay and take their child home the child's absence will be recorded as unauthorised.

School Uniform Orders

As you may be aware, Aylsham High School took over the management of school uniform orders from Leopard Boutique, just before the Easter holidays. To order any school uniform please use this link: Aylsham Learning Federation Uniform Shop 

We are pleased to let you know that all school uniform orders placed up to and including 24th April 2025 are now ready for collection. While we have received all available stock, a few sizes have unfortunately run out. This means that some parents may have been unable to place their orders.

Parents who provided an email address when placing their order should have received confirmation of collection times. Students can collect their orders next week either:

• Before school: 08:00 – 08:45
• After school: 15:25 – 16:00

We are currently in contact with the supplier to check availability and lead times for restocking. We will update parent/carers as soon as we have more information.

Thank you for your understanding and continued support.

A call for help! - Allotment Project

We run a very successful allotment project at Aylsham high School where some of our students can learn the importance of teamwork, communication and, of course, horticulture. The students get a great deal out of this environment and often go on to complete similar courses post-16. In order for the allotment to be as successful as it is, we have relied upon the generosity of a few people in terms of sourcing some key materials and support. Unfortunately, we are in need of finding new sources for some of our materials and support this year. Below is a lit of what we are hoping some of our wonderful parents can help out with:

• Manure – any sort will do but pig is usually the best!
• Hay bales – we usually only need a few small hay bales a year for our strawberry and tomato beds
• Summer holiday watering – when the students aren’t here in the summer, the allotment still needs watering – are you able to spare an hour or two a week to water the allotment? There are usually a handful of fruits and vegetables going spare as a thank you for your time!

If you can help with any of this, please get in contact with Mr Bradshaw via email [email protected]

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External exam information

Exam and revision information can be found here: https://www.aylshamhigh.co.uk/ahs-exams

Year 7 and 8 rotation – changing on Monday 5^th May

On Monday 5^th May (which is a bank holiday), the timetable rotates and students in years 7 and 8 will move to their next rotation subject. 

Details of the rotation schedules can be found here: https://www.aylshamhigh.co.uk/yr7andyr8rotationsubjects

The timetable will be updated on Thursday 1^st May.  This will then update on SIMS Parent and SIMS Student.

School Reports

The table below provides information about the sharing of school reports:

Year	Sharing information
7	Spring report - shared on 10th March Summer report – will be shared towards the end of May
8	Summer report – will be shared towards the end of May
9	Shared during week commencing 31st March: Spring individual subject report – option subject Summer report – option subject Summer individual subject report – option subject Summer core reports will be shared in May.
10	Shared during week commencing 31st March: Spring individual subject report – option subject Summer report – option subject Summer individual subject report – option subject Summer core reports will be shared in May.
11	Shared during week commencing 31st March: Spring individual subject report Summer report Summer individual subject report

Once your child’s report has been shared with you, please ensure that you read your child’s report on SIMS Parent. Your child can also access a copy of their report on their SIMS Student account.

If you have any issues with accessing SIMS Parent or your child’s report, please email our SIMS Parent team [email protected].

SIMS Student

Students have access to SIMS Student using their school alf.education email address. 

To get support with SIMS Student, students can see their computing teacher or Mrs Cooke in the STAR office at break or lunch time.

For more information about SIMS Student, please see the SIMS Student page on the school website under the students tab.

https://www.aylshamhigh.co.uk/ahssimsstudent

SIMS Parent

All parents/carers with parental responsibility are able to access SIMS Parent once registered. 

To get support with SIMS Parent, parents/carers can email [email protected].

For more information about SIMS Parent including guidance on how to register, access SIMS Parent and about the information being shared with you, please see the SIMS Parent page on the school website under the parents & carers tab.

https://www.aylshamhigh.co.uk/ahssimsparent

Clubs for students

To view all clubs please click here

Year 11s Help you choose 

Students have now received their log ins for Help you Choose.  Please could you encourage your child to add college placements. They need a plan A and a plan B.

Miss Wiseman and Mrs Wiseman are both in room 38 at lunchtimes on Tuesdays and Thursday to guide and support students if they would like any help.

Activities Week

Activities week will take place on 14 July to 18 July 2025

Welcome to the activities for summer of 2025.  Activities week will take place this year during the last week of the summer term.  We aim to end the academic year with a fun and exciting range of events designed to enable your child to:

• Spend an extended period of time on an activity of their choice
• Undertake a residential experience if they wish
• Try something completely different
• Progress further with existing skills
• Work with students from different year groups
• Develop the skills needed to be enterprising and utilise key skills in new situations

All students are expected to take part in an activity

The school is unable to authorise absence during activities week, unless there are exceptional circumstances.

We expect cost to be an important factor; activities that have a price associated with them are unable to run unless we can cover the full cost through your contributions.  There is, as usual, a range of free and low cost activities to ensure that every child can take part during the week.

There will be a non-refundable deposit required by Friday 22 November 2024; this will be available to pay via ParentPay on Wednesday 13 November 2024.  The deadline for full non-refundable payment for all activities is Monday 31 March 2025.  Please make payments via ParentPay.  If you need assistance with ParentPay, please contact the finance department on ext. 153/107 or [email protected].  If you would like to discuss payment options including instalments, please contact the activity leader once the activity has been confirmed.

If you have any questions please email [email protected] 

TACT (Families)

Please click here to view upcoming courses and events organised by our Family Learning team.  

FREE Workshops available to book.  Please click on the link above to get booked onto the courses

SEND information

• Norfolk County Council SEND Newsletter - https://www.aylshamhigh.co.uk/ncc-send-bulletins
• Norfolk SENDIASS - https://www.aylshamhigh.co.uk/sendiass

Aylsham Sports Hub

Road Safety Winners

In the autumn term, we ran a series of competitions to highlight the importance of Road Safety and Active Travel. This was funded by a grant from the Road Safety Partnership at Norfolk County Council and Active Travel England.

We ran two competitions – firstly a competition for students to show their artistic side and design a new banner that would take pride of place at the front of the school, advertising road safety and active travel. We were overwhelmed with the response from our students who really understood the brief and produced some outstanding artwork. We were so impressed, we decided to increase the prizes on offer and offer 3 first prize places, 3 second place prizes and 10 third place prizes.

 Congratulations to Hannah Hamilton, Katie Clarke and Covey Denton on winning your brand new bikes – your banners will start appearing outside school this term! Second and third place prizes included bike accessories and gift vouchers.

We also ran a campaign encouraging students to walk, cycle or scoot to school as well as encouraging parents to use the rear car park to ease congestion at the front of the school. Well done to parent Lydia Bourne for winning the competition and a £50 voucher. We also awarded prizes to 5 students to thank them for walking, scooting or cycling to school.

We do still have some prizes and rewards for walking, cycling or scooting to school so keep an eye out for more incentives in the future!

Upcoming events 

A pre-loved uniform sale will be held on Saturday 3rd May 2025 from 11am through to midday in the reception area of the school.

TACT evening courses

With limited spaces available, booking is essential. We encourage people to sign up using the provided link to a Google form; however, if anyone expresses an interest and encounters difficulties, please contact Monica: [email protected] text: 07780 887348

To view courses, please visit: /tact-families-workshop-courses

 

To view our current vacancies please click here