Mark Rutherford School

To view more photos from the recent Rockingham Speedway Race Track held on Monday 7 July,

The year 11 students celebrated at the Sharnbrook Hotel on Wednesday 3 July 2014. It was a fantastic evening and the students were all amazing. They were so well dressed and behaved impeccably. Staff at the venue praised them and said what a pleasure it was to host a party for Mark Rutherford School.

To view more photo's including those taken on the evening by the professional photographer,

A big thank you to everyone who contributed their Sainsbury’s Active Kids vouchers to the PE collection – you helped us raise a total of 5,723 vouchers which has enabled us to order……

6 softee rounders balls

15 training gates

1 stability disc

10 orienteering clippers

Orienteering cards

10 Hula Hoops

2 Hula Hoop Carriers

10 SAQ hurdles

Set of rounders bases and posts

3 kangaroo agility balls

NHS England has recommended the introduction of an adolescent booster of Meningitis C (MenC) vaccination in order to extend young people’s immunity to this form of meningitis and septicaemia into early adulthood. Your child is eligible to receive the single vaccine in school as part of this new school based programme for Year 10 Students.

Every Year 10 student will bring home a Department of Health information leaflet and consent form this week. Would you please read the information leaflet carefully. The enclosed form will need to be completed, signed and returned with a YES or NO consent, to your child’s teacher. Copies of the letter and consent form can be obtained by clicking on the following links:- Meningitis C Letter and Consent Form.

For more information regarding Meningitis C vaccination www.nhs.uk/vaccinations or contact the School’s Vaccination team on 0845 521 0030.

On the last Friday of every month, tutors will be collecting contributions to the Bedford Foodbank. Every student who can, is asked to bring one item. The next collection will be, Friday, 28th March, then every last Friday of the month.

Donations could include:
Milk (UHT), sugar, fruit juice cartons, soup (tinned or cup-a-soup), pasta, pasta sauces, baked beans, spaghetti, vegetables (tinned), fruit (tinned), breakfast cereals, rice pudding (tinned), tea bags, instant coffee, potatoes (tinned or instant), rice, meat (tinned), fish (tinned), jam, biscuits, snack bars, nappies, toiletries.

Following feedback from members of the public and the road safety team at Borough Hall

Please continue to be polite to car drivers as you cross Wentworth Drive on your way into school.

Please follow the directions of all Lollipop people if you are cycling near the Lower and

Middle schools- if you are asked to stop, you must stop.

Please drop students off in the laybys at either side of the school, or use the side roads.

Please avoid dropping students by stopping on the Hazard markings or at the crossings.

Please do not drive onto school site to drop off without prior arrangement with the school

(for example if you child has a fracture and is on crutches).

Thank you all very much for your continued support with making this school and the surrounding

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Mark Rutherford School is an academy. There are approximately 1250 students on roll, aged between 11 and 19 years. In the main, pupils live in North Bedford and the nearby villages.

Standing in 18 acres of playing fields at the edge of the town, the school has good facilities for sport including a sports hall and all-weather tennis courts. Specialist accommodation is provided for Music (including provision for Music Technology), Drama Theatre and purpose-built studio, Dance (a performance area), Computing and Design Technology. The school has eleven Science laboratories and a suite of Art & Design and Modern Foreign Language rooms. There is an excellent Space 4 Learning and Careers provision whilst Sixth Form students have their own suite of rooms for independent study purposes.

We believe that every child is unique. Our aim is to provide broad, balanced, personalised learning experiences that will enable them to be healthy, stay safe, enjoy and achieve, make a positive contribution and to achieve economic well being.

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As you may be aware the government are introducing an addition to the pupil premium funding from April 2014, called Pupil Premium Plus. This provides funding for pupils who:

have been looked after for one day or more
ceased to be looked after through adoption
ceased to be looked after through a special guardianship order or a residence order

In order for the school to access the funding we need parents/guardians to inform the school of these circumstances. However this is not obligatory and it is completely at parent’s discretion. If you choose to inform the school, please call Mrs Garner on 01234 290210 as soon as possible.

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	Ofsted Inspection Good in all areas “This is a Good School” That was the verdict of Ofsted inspectors following a full inspection of Mark Rutherford School on the 14 and 15 November 2012 Click here to read the full report