July 2015 Newsletter

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newsletter
JULY 2015 | EDITED BY ALA-ELP
ALA-ELP President
IN THIS ISSUE
Annie Merat

ALA-ELP President 1
By the time you read this newsletter all ENP pupils
ENP Update 2 will already be on vacation enjoying a well-deserved
rest from classes and Brevet, GCSE and OIB Bacca-
2015 OIB Baccalauréat Results 2
lauréat exams. The older students, who graduated in
July after their Bac results, are looking forward to the
Programme development plans 3
next step in their lives; whether that will be university,
Retirement of M. Brech 4
‘classes préparatoires’ or taking a gap year that may
take them far away from their families.
New St. Genis site of Lycée 5
There are 74 Terminale students who graduated this
Primary CP Classes 6
year. Many have already said their goodbyes to their
Staff News 6
ENP teachers and their university counsellors who
guided them in their university applications. I wish
School Activities 9
them success in their studies and other learning acti-
‘ENP’s Got Talent II’ 9 vities. Perhaps they will come back next year to Fer-
ney to share their experiences with the ENP 1ère and
Book Week 11
Terminale students.
Visit of WH Auden’s Niece 13
Staff Update
Other ENP Activities 16
Also reaching a milestone in June were several ENP
Term Dates & Contacts 18 staff members, who have worked with the programme
for many years. This year the ALA-ELP Committee
formally recognised the work of these staff.
*ALA-ELP
Andrea Knowles, Head of Mathematics, was part of
*ALA-ELP stands for ‘Association de this celebration. Andrea has been teaching Mathema-
Langue Anglaise- English Language tics at ENP for 11 years and will now taking a sabbati-
Programme’, and is the association cal year abroad to complete her Masters degree. We
governing and financing the English
National Programme (ENP). All the pa-
rents of the pupils attending ENP
classes are de facto members of the
ALA-ELP.
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thanked her for her tremendous contribu- School and ENP Pro-
tion to the Mathematics department and
gramme Update
for having transmitted her passion for
Mathematics to hundreds of pupils. You
Peter Woodburn, Head of
will find more details about ENP staff
Programme
changes in the Head of Programme’s sec-
tion, which includes a farewell to Jean-
Paul Brech, the Proviseur of the Collège 2015 OIB Bacca-
and Lycée, who is retiring. lauréat Results
Thank you to the Programme Staff The results of ENP candi-
dates (and all other results)
I would also like to thank all of our ENP
in the French Baccalauréat
teaching staff, who in their day-to-day
were released on Tuesday 7th July. The version that
work demonstrate dedication and care in
concerns ENP includes the International Option
helping our children reach their potential.
(OIB) subjects; Language, Literature and History-
They are continually engaged in integra-
Geography which the Programme teaches at Lycée
ting new methods of teaching and lear-
level. For many ENP students the overall average and
ning, such as the new skills curriculum
the detail of marks in individual subjects are what
introduced this year, and they strive to
their UK or other university places depend upon.
ensure that the Programme maintains its
quality standards. This would not be pos- The key results (‘Mentions’) are as follows, there were
sible without the constant support of the no fails. More detail can be found on the ENP web-
Office staff members who look after the site.
administrative tasks of running the Pro-
‘Tres Bien’: 34%
gramme and assist ENP teachers in their
mission. Many thanks to them. ‘Bien’: 32%
‘Assez bien’: 19%
Finally, a big thank you to parent and
student volunteers and ALA-ELP* Com- ‘Admis’: 15%
mittee members for their continued sup-
Fails: None
port. We are looking for new parent go-
vernors to join us and become actively
involved with the work of the ALA-ELP
We express our congratulations to our students and
Committee for the school year starting
the teachers who have taught the 74 graduating stu-
this September. Look for the email sent
dents over the years. In particular we thank the ‘Ter-
by the ENP office for more details if you
minale' teachers.
are interested.
Wishing you all a
wonderful summer.
Annie Merat
ALA-ELP President
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The Aims of the ENP De- Programme Development plans
velopment plan
Last year’s inspection report and the annual report of
The six aims in the development
our school improvement partner, Edward Gildea, pro-
plan, defined by the ALA-ELP
vided a factual basis for the ALA-ELP Committee to
Programme Planning Sub-Com-
set aims for ENP’s development over the next year.
mittee (PPSC) involve;
These insights were supplemented by those coming
from internal self-evaluation and review, conducted by
- improving the staff appraisal
the Leadership Team and the Head of Programme.
scheme
Self-review and review working with the school im-
- more consistent entry and use provement partner allowed us to address the analysis
of data on pupil’s attainment of 2014 exams results and plan actions based on this
analysis.
- action planning to work to-
wards improved exam results The Six Aims of the ENP Development plan
- actions to improve teaching The six aims in the development plan, defined by the
and learning ALA-ELP Programme Planning Sub-Committee
(PPSC), involve improving the staff appraisal scheme,
- creating a vision for ICT deve-
more consistent input and use of data on pupil’s at-
lopment mid-term
tainment, action-planning to improve exam results,
actions to improve teaching and learning, creating a
- staff training for new Heads of
vision for ICT development mid-term, and staff trai-
Department and the Leader-
ning for new Heads of Department and the Leader-
ship Team.
ship Team. The success we have had in addressing
these areas will be reviewed towards the end of 2015.
Improving Teaching and Learning
Appraisal and other lesson-observations by the Lea-
dership Team show that a high percentage of single
lessons are of a high standard - good or very good. Un-
der the general aim of ‘improving teaching and lear-
ning’, we are working now on the qualities and the im-
pact on learning of sequences of lessons and on the
longer cumulative effects of good teacher-pupil rela-
tionships and teaching.
Looking at and changing our use of standard routines
and practices, such as marking, setting of homework
and planning of lessons will help us to improve not just
the quality of teaching in the individual lesson, but the
cumulative effect of teaching on learning over the mid-
term.
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Revised Appraisal Scheme have been shared; more training is planned for Sep-
tember.
A revised appraisal scheme has been writ-
ten, together with an implementation
Changing Our Marking Policy
plan. Targets for end of year attainment
The Leadership Team have engaged in review and re-
were entered on our results data base for
building of our marking policy so as to make sure that
all pupils this year and end of year at-
marking time is not wasted and that work is not set
tainment will be compared with these.
for its own sake but to ensure the maximum gain in
Heads of Department now sign off data
learning. This review will involve consultation of tea-
entry on pupils’ attainment by staff in
chers, pupils and parents to elicit their expectations of
their subject. Analysis of exams results,
marking and it will culminate in the creation of new
targets and records of achievement has
practice across the Programme. This will necessarily
led to action-planning for teaching and
lead us on to reconsider and improve our Homework
learning which has been applied within
Policy and our lesson planning practice.
departments. Targeted management trai-
ning has been organised and other schools Formal review of all development planning outcomes
invited so that management approaches and achievements will take place at the ALA-ELP An-
nual General Assembly next school year.

Retirement of Mr. Brech, Proviseur, Cité Scolaire Internationale
Peter Woodburn, Head of Programme
M. Jean-Paul Brech, Proviseur of the Cité Sco-
laire Internationale, will retire at the end of this
school year. In ENP he will be missed for many
reasons. One concerns his support for ENP and
ENP projects, including, of course the MUN
(here, he is pictured at an MUN conference).
I have always found him accessible and welco-
ming and a gifted listener. His sense of humour
is strong and infectious. Personally, I will re-
member about him most the times when he
facilities, the range of subjects on offer and the
paid me the compliment of laughing at some
conditions in which they are taught.
piece of ‘humour Britannique’. He is a very so-
ciable and congenial man who values people and A deeply determined man about what he wanted
relationships. for the school, and how he wanted the school
run, he had the confidence to make those who
He has also been serious and single minded
came close to him – and there were many – hap-
about improving the school. He put the pupils
py to be working with him.
and their needs and interests first and, in a
school that needed change and investment, he
has worked tirelessly to improve infrastructure,
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Departure of M. Bommé, Deputy Proviseur he did that helped us and the school not only to
‘do things better’ but also to ‘do better things’.
We are also sad to be seeing the departure of M.
Bommé, our deputy Proviseur. M. Bommé is not
Our new Proviseur from September 2015.
retiring but going to his first headship – at the
Collège in Peron. He was well known in ENP The new Proviseur is Mr. Xavier Jacquenet, who
for his politeness, firmness, effectiveness and comes to Ferney-Voltaire from headship at the
technical mastery of such mysterious processes Lycée Français in Santiago de Chili. Previously
as creating the Lycée time-table. M. Bommé, he was Proviseur-Adjoint for two years at the
like M. Brech, operated an ‘open door’ policy Lycée Français in
and was always available. He took pleasure in Singapore. He will
discussing and debating with staff. Under M. take up his new
Brech, he applied systems in which decision- post from the start
making about teachers and pupils, their choices, of September 2015.

requests and needs, became more transparent
and rigorous. He will be missed because of all
Mr. Xavier Jacquenet, the new
Proviseur of the Cité Scolaire
International.
St. Genis; New School Site Developments

On May 19th an official visit to the new Lycée speeches on site and in the town hall following
site in St Genis was attended for the Associa- the site visit, M. Queyrane gave an overview of
tion by Sylvain Poitras, ALA-ELP Vice-Pre- the project and the region’s commitment. M.
sident and Peter Woodburn, Head of Pro- Bertrand, the Mayor of St Genis, emphasised
gramme. Local educational officials and admi- the importance of the new Lycée site for his
nistrators, as well as the Mayor of St Genis, community. M. Queyrane continued his visit at
town hall officials and Lycée/Collège staff, ac- the Lycée International site in Ferney-Voltaire,
companied the visitor of honour, Jacques Quey- where he was able to see recent building work
rane, President of the Rhones-Alpes region. In financed by the region, and met staff and
M. Jacques Queyrane (2nd from left), President of the Rhone-Alpes Region, with M. Hubert
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Bertrand (left), Mayor of St Genis, and M. Brech, Proviseur of the Lycée, at the new site.
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student representatives. Teachers asked about This visit marks a renewal of interest in the new
infrastructure problems affecting the school’s IT site as the Lycée building in St Genis takes
network. These were noted by M. Queyrane’s shape on its ecologically-designed building site.
technical services. The President then attended ALA-ELP representatives recently met with M.
a small reception prepared by the Lycée’s award- Brech for discussions on the impact of the ope-
winning head chef. ning of the new site on ENP’s pupils and staff.

Four Primary CP Classes to open in ENP next school year.

After a successful school year for the pilot class. This is good ove-
our first-ever CP class, the les- rall. To assist the Programme
sons of the pilot scheme have Planning Sub Committee in re-
been used to create a structure of view, a parental questionnaire has
four full CP classes for next also been used to elicit families’
school year, each with one tea- qualitative views of the class. Of
cher and one or two parent hel- the 11 responses received to the
pers. CP classes will form a fifth statement, ’Your child is happy to
level (and a new intake level) wi- come to ENP.’ 10 were ‘Strongly
thin ENP’s weekly primary agree’ or ‘Agree’.
structure. It will still be possible
The teachers involved in the pi-
to start ENP at other levels.
CP children show how proud they are of lot scheme - Mrs. Woodburn,
their first stories.
The new ‘Protocole’ recently Mrs. Howson and Mrs. Jagoe -
signed by ENP and ALA-ELP, have gained new understanding
and other Programmes and associations within of the needs and capabilities of this age group.
Education Nationale, defines Tuesday afternoons Confidence about these has grown. We look
as the half day for CP attendance. With the lo- forward to seeing next school year’s intake of
cal primary inspector’s agreement, ENP is to young faces in September and applying what has
run parallel classes on Wednesday afternoons. been learnt this school year.
Resourcing, curriculum and skills are now in
Thanks to all involved – our CP teachers and
place and will support our work as we move
the Head of Primary, Mrs. Woodburn, the ENP
from welcoming 17 pupils to over 70. Testing for
office staff and, of course, pupils’ families - for
CP in May was a success, and it is clear that CP
helping to make our CP pilot year a success for
will become, from 2016, the main point of entry
the pupils, and thus establishing the basis on
to the ENP primary section. We have recorded
which a larger intake can now be welcomed.

and tracked the progress made by the pupils of
Staff News
Staff moving on from the ENP Programme 

Staff leaving at the end of this school year be moving back to England. The Staff and
include Andrea Knowles (Mathematics), ALA-ELP Committee (on behalf of all pa-
who will be on sabbatical leave for a year rents) said goodbye to Andrea and to Sophie
and Sophie Garne (Mathematics) who will at the end of this year and thanked them for
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the quality of their work as teachers and for also the case for Meriel Rhodes, who has
inspiring their pupils through good teaching been with us for a year, teaching a CM1
and relationships - and for gaining excellent class. She is leaving to take up PGCE stu-
results. dies. Both teachers were thanked for their
dedicated work and commitment to the
Special thanks were given to Andrea for her
progress of their classes and individuals in
departmental leadership and work on deve-
them.
loping the curriculum, on building interac-
tive whiteboard technology into ENP Ma- Earlier this year, the office team and all staff
thematics teaching, and developing pupils’ were sorry to see both Donnamarie O’Reilly
thinking and reasoning skills via, among and Florence Baudry leave. Florence still
other things, excellence in whole class tea- works in the Lycée and focuses her work on
ching . the MUN. Donnamarie has moved to Ma-
drid with her family. Both will be missed in
We also said goodbye at the end of the
the office for their pleasantness and availabi-
school year to Leisa Campbell-Lendrum.
lity and for their efficiency and good ideas.
Leisa joined the English department two
Donnamarie will be missed as a primary
years ago and has contributed much in
teacher of great seriousness and as someone
terms of thoughtful approaches to curricu-
who could show off the merits of pupils’
lum and teaching. She leaves us to devote
work (via use of display space) like no-one
time to further professional study. This is
else could!

Recruitment

Caroline Steele has been recruited as our joins us from an international school in Ve-
new Head of Mathematics for the coming rona. Both these new colleagues are UK
academic year and Suki Cheema will also qualified and trained and have wide expe-
join us in September as our second Mathe- rience of UK and international curricula and
matics teacher. Both have visited the school examinations. In March 2015 Gwenalle
and are very much looking forward to tea- Mary was recruited to work in the ENP Of-
ching English Mathematics. Caroline comes fice. Gwen, who is French has also lived and
from Sir William Perkins’ school in England, worked in the USA and Australia.

where she is Head of Mathematics. Suki
Anniversaries - Staff Service

We also celebrated the anniversaries of star- Ackroyd’s period of work in the Programme
ting work in ENP of several members of (over 20 years) was marked this June as well.
staff at the end of term gathering of staff, During this time, Alan has taught secondary
staff volunteers and Committee. Andrea English to many classes and been a primary
Knowles’ anniversary, with over 10 years of teacher, as well as serving as deputy Head of
teaching and departmental leadership is Programme and Head of English. He has
being celebrated as she leaves us, and Alan been and still is involved with and a strong
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influence upon the Model United Nations staff-members: Katie Nobes, Catherine
(MUN) movement in the Lycée. He is cur- Chevrot, Carolyn Howson, Judith Slade and
rently Lead University Counsellor. Both Aurelia Crampton.
Andrea and Alan were thanked for their
All of these colleagues have taught or wor-
commitment to their pupils’ progress and
ked with and had a positive influence on
success and their upholding of high educa-
successive groups of ENP pupils, families
tional values as teachers.
and staff, bringing expertise with dedication
Angela Horsford, who has taught one of our to their work. It is important that we mark
CE1 reception classes since she joined us, these milestone anniversaries and thank our
has also completed 10 years of teaching in colleagues for their years of work. Between
the Programme. She was thanked for all she them, the staff mentioned here total some
had contributed to so many pupils through 75 years of work in ENP!
primary education in the Programme. Ano-
In the ENP office, Lucy Howen has taken
ther ten-year service award was made to
the new role of Office Manager, leading a
Francine Seller, an essential member of the
team of three other part time staff. The
ENP office team. Francine’s organized ap-
flexible and creative response of Lucy and
proach to all tasks, her pleasantness and her
her colleagues to the manpower needs of
eye for detail are much valued.
the Programme over the last few years has
The first milestone of 5 years of work in been very important.

ENP has also been reached by several other

Left to Right: Alan Ackroyd, Katie Nobes, Judith Slade, Angela Horsford,
Carolyn Howson, Aurelia Crampton and Lucy Howen.
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School Activities
ENP Social Talent Evening: ‘ENP’s Got Talent II'
The second edition of ‘ENP’s Got Talent’ took place at the start of March and adopted this
time a Valentine’s theme. An audience of parents and students enjoyed a relaxed but profes-
sional range of musical talents and performances, selected via video audition by a panel of
judges and led in rehearsal during the day of the performance by Kathleen Tiffay, a parent.
Lighting, bar, catering and publicity were provided by two ALA-ELP Committee members,
Emily James and Philippe Cloesen and by teams of volunteer parents and students. The event
was put on with the support of the Lycée/ Collège with, notably, the loan of a stage for this
event.
The Experience of ‘ENP’s Got Talent II’ 2015
Alice Padlewski

On the 7th March 2015, a few weeks after Two young 6ème students performed their
Valentine’s Day, students from Ferney Vol- own composition, so catchy it could certain-
taire gathered to catch Cupid’s arrow with a ly be on the radio. It stuck inside my head
spectrum of spectacular performances, ran- during the day and their lyrics, ‘I’m trusting
ging from classical, rock’n roll and folk mu- you because I love you’ still ring in my mind
sic to dance. at the thought of ‘ENP’s got Talent II’.
‘ENP’s Got Talent II’ had one rule: do a live Toxic Waves (previously called Monkeys in
performance on the theme of Love. From- Paradise) were brilliant on stage. All four -
this constraint sprang many different visions Sommers Jagoe, Gael Hutubessy, Angus
of Love, but all were painted red. Layclark, and Harry Pryke - had a natural
rock vibe that moved out from Sommers’
Participants, myself included, were selected
majestic hair whip. Camilo Trujillo - a
for the final via video audition, a painless
process. On the day of the final we had Sa-
turday to rehearse and mentally prepare for
the night’s show. We were guided by the en-
thusiastic Kathleen Tiffay, who encouraged
us and gave us stage advice during the day.
It was entertaining to be surrounded by
other performers. During the rehearsals, we
would share our ideas, musical taste and ex-
periences, watch each other and give each
other feedback for the show.
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student in 4ème - had composed a piece on It was the first time that Lucy and I had
the piano for the occasion. His melody had gone on stage together. Lucy plays the guitar
the effect of carrying you away. Although - we have been singing folk songs since
the rehearsal was making him nervous, he summer 2014. ‘ENP’s Got Talent II’ was a
mastered his fear and was a natural on stage. chance for us to try the stage and it turned
His talent led him to first place in the col- out to be a great experience which made us
lege section! even more confident in front of the crowd.
The adrenaline of the stage always gives us a
Lycée students, Adèle Rogers’s beautiful
good feeling.
voice matched with Thomas Bingham’s in-
credible skills at the piano made a brilliant The stage team was very professional and
combination. They had won last year’s show effective, and lighting and sound were of ex-
and this year’s performance gave them once cellent quality, creating a fantastic atmos-
again the gold medal in the Lycée section. phere to sing in. The crowd, mainly compo-
sed of parents and friends, was encouraging
The ballet composed by Laurane Cremese
and gave a warm welcome as each act came
was hypnotizing. It was great to glance
on stage. The lights were so bright we
around the room as she performed and see
couldn’t see them (which helps in handling
all the people stare, their eyes locked on her
stage fright).
elegant movements.
Finalists in the 2015 Valentine’s edition of ENP’s
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