The Cherwell School Letting Department - Build A Business;- Pages 16, 17

During May half term, the school hosted Digeo Productions, a digital video production company working with Oxford University Press. Several of our Year 12 students were lucky enough to work as extras on the set, gaining invaluable experience and creating memories to last a lifetime. Emilia Forster described her week with Digeo: “I really enjoyed working with Digeo; I got to see what a professional set looked like and meet new people that love acting as much as I do. My activities included many things, I would pretend to be studying or pretend to be queueing up at the canteen. Overall it was a fun experience.”

Left: Emilia Forster, on set

Cherwell alumnus and Oxfordshire's Small Businesses founder, Claire Wiseman, at her market stall on Sunday.

Supporting Local Businesses

Last weekend the North Site hall and gym were buzzing with stalls offering everything from jewellery and clothing to cupcakes and other tasty treats at a small business market. Former Cherwell student Claire Wiseman used lockdown in 2020 to create Oxfordshire’s Small Businesses, an online community where small, independent and local business owners can work together to promote their products. The hot, sunny weather was not the ideal forecast for indoor shopping, but the stall holders all made sales and contacts for future markets.

Looking Ahead

We hire our school facilities to businesses, community organisations and private individuals, so if you are looking for a location for your next event, please get in touch with our school Lettings Manager, Jennifer Ingham or email lettings@cherwell.oxon.sch.uk

MATHS DEPARTMENT NEWS-

By Mr Jamieson & Mr Dyer

In May, KS3 students took part in NSPCC Numbers Day. Throughout the week, Year 7 students participated in a treasure number hunt, with various questions hidden in different outdoor spaces. Years 7 and 8 did a number quiz in form time, and lots of fun maths activities took place in lessons. There was a maths joke competition – some of the best are shown below. Students also made a donation to ’dress up for digits’ and overall we raised £203 for the NSPCC. Thank you and well done to everyone who took part.

How do you keep warm in a cold room? Go to the corner, it is always 90 degrees.

So I went to a hotel and I asked for a room for X and Y.

The manager said “Perfect, that’ll be along the corridor and up the stairs.” I have 25 bananas in one hand and 7 oranges in the other, what do I have? Really massive hands!

This year’s UK Junior Maths Challenge was sat on 24th April by 183 Cherwell students across Years 7 and 8. There were many excellent scores including 18 Gold, 27 Silver and 41 Bronze awards. The highest scorers in Year 8: Flora Akerman, Adam Meredith and Rebecca Watkinson, and the highest scorer in Year 7: Carys Pooley, were joined by the rest of the Gold Award winners in the second round of the competition on June 15th .

Congratulations to Rebekah Smith in 7MD who was the best in school in the second round, getting 22 questions correct out of 25!! A fantastic performance and extremely unusual for a Year 7 student to beat all the Year 8s. Well done Rebekah.

Here’s a question from the second round for you to have a go at

SCIENCE ENRICHMENT

Since being back at school, we have had a variety of opportunities for more hands-on Science enrichment, highlights of which are detailed below.

In June, we were so pleased to be able finally to offer all our Year 7 students an opportunity to attend an interactive practical Chemistry demo exploring the three states of matter. Our pupils were able to model the behaviour of solids, liquids and gases and witness some truly magical science - so much excitement and fun to be had, including freezing roses and bananas, whilst consolidating key science knowledge.

During July, we have had an opportunity to conduct some additional practical demonstrations for our KS3 students to complement their taught science lessons and address common misconceptions - this has included teachers delivering bespoke demos of investigations into: Hooke’s Law, the strengths of electromagnets, separation techniques and cell microscopy. Although, due to unforeseen circumstances beyond our control, our original plan had to be cut short, we know that many students benefitted from these sessions.

YEAR 7 CHEMISTRY STATES OF MATTER SHOW - JUNE

KS3 SCIENCE ENRICHMENT PRACTICAL DEMOS - JULY

We were pleased to be able to offer our Year 10 Triple Biologists a chance to spend a day at the Oxford University Museum of Natural History and the Botanic Gardens to explore issues around sustainable food production. This day full of activities gave our students a chance to debate and consider the future of food, and the implications of the current choices we make for the health of our planet. There was even a bag of crunchy crickets thrown in for the truly adventurous!

KS5 BRITISH OLYMPIAD - RESULTS

We are delighted to report an impressive set of results from the March BBO; it is great to have seen so many of our students receiving commendations and awards, and if you didn’t this year, very well done for participating and remember there is always next year for our current Year 12s to do even better!

Year 12 Awards

Commended:

Alisia Roberta Lorelai Maciu Beatrice Vincent-Ratti Raphaela Goeldner-Thompson Halyna Mykula

Year 12 Awards

Highly Commended:

Mwezi Pinne Maia Hudson Edie Rousou Gwen Jones Emily Meredith Bethan Earl

Year 13 Awards Year 12 Awards

Silver:

Katrina Kirby

Commended: - Isra Osman & Annushya Jeshtadi Gold - Carys-Anne Earl & Ahmed Hussain