1. The Royal Docks Community School
Student Bulletin
Monday 11th September 2017
(Week B)
Assembly theme:- Mr Hussain
‘New Commitment’
“The only limit to your impact is your imagination and commitment”. Tony Robbins

2. Message from the Head Teacher
Well done to you all…..you have all returned looking very smart and with a clear commitment to achieve well this year.
A special warm welcome to our new Year 7 pupils. You have made an excellent start and I have thoroughly enjoyed seeing you all working so hard to settle in and begin enjoying early success as students of The Royal Docks Community School. I thoroughly enjoyed our team challenge on Friday lunchtime

3. Message from the Head Teacher
On Monday 18th September we will be opening our school to prospective Year 6 pupils. Tours will be run around the school during the day with a spectacular open event in the evening. This is a very special day for us all and I thoroughly look forward to showing our school to our guests.

4. Message from the Head Teacher
Staff are currently putting together a special edition newsletter for Year 7. We will capture many of the exciting things that you have taken part in during your first few weeks and share this with your parents and your primary schools. You will receive your newsletter during the first week of October.

5. Y11 – Tuesday Y9 & 10 – Thursday Y7 & 8 - Friday

6. STUDENT PORTAL The Student Portal includes:
Careers and Aspirations (yrs. 10/11). Pay special attention to the document that reads Please click here to find out about colleges in and out of Newham… (It contains a list of colleges in and out of Newham, their websites and phone numbers). 
Homework Documents: Departments can send me documents to upload for pupils to complete homework/classwork/coursework etc.
Heads of Year
Head Boy/Girl and Prefects
School Calendar
Exam Dates
School Day (lesson times)
Student Bulletin
Google Classroom link
The portal is located at the very bottom of the school website page.

7. FIND YOUR
IN THE LIBRARY

8. Equipment for Sale
Basic school equipment will now be sold in school. This includes pens, pencils, rulers, rubbers and sharpeners and can be purchased as individual items or in mini sets. Each item is priced at 10p.
Set prices are: pen/pencil/ruler - 25p. Pen/pencil/ruler/rubber/sharpener – 40p.
The items can be purchased from breakfast club from 7.30am to 8.20am daily or Internal Exclusion room at break time, lunchtime or after school. If staff or pupilswould like other basic equipment to be sold in school, please let Mrs Haylett, the School Business Manager know.
16G USBs will be on sale in the Library
at a price of £3.00.

9. Messages from the Library
The library is open Monday to Thursday from 8am to 4.30pm. Friday it is open from 8am to 3pm. The library is there for you to use. There are 13,000 non-fiction books in the library that will have the answers to your homework. Every subject you study has books in the library you can use to improve.
In the library you can:
Read
Use the non-fiction books for your school work
Read daily newspapers and quality magazines
Use the computers for your school work
Do your homework

10. Message from Student Support Office
Pupils are not allowed in the main office at any time unless supervised by a member of staff.
On Friday afternoons lost property will be by the student entrance as you leave so you can search for any items that may belong to you.
Any lost PE kit will be given to the PE department so please check with your PE teacher if you have lost anything. You can still check for lost property daily,  at break times, lunch times and afterschool, this is kept in the medical room. Smaller items such as purses, keys, phones please check with the main office. Please be aware that every half term the remaining lost property will be given to charity, so please check for your items as soon as possible.
If you cannot gain access to the Lower North wing please report to the student window. pupilsto check for lost PE kit in the PE office.
If you need to check at any other time then you must be accompanied by a teacher.

11. Message from Ms Bradshaw-Shallow – Student Welfare
Any student having to take medication must have had it handed to medical with a note from their parent/carer at the beginning of the day. Any student given medication to medical will have a note to say they have to take it at a certain time. No student should be carrying medication around with them.