Focus Summer 2018

C OL L E G E CHURC HER ’S

"stick it to the man" alsO inside: goodbye to the upper sixth and hello to some superheroes!

SUMMER 2018

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the grill lecture 2018 It’s not often you get to meet your hero but Jack Foreman (3C) had that rarest of opportunities to show his wildlife photography to none other than TV presenter and wildlife expert, Chris Packham. Jack had been particularly inspired by Chris’ autobiography ‘Fingers in the Sparkle Jar’ and invited the Springwatch host to come and share his experiences of living with autism to Churcher’s and the wider Petersfield community.

Aided by Scratchy, his faithful poodle, Chris met Jack and his family, along with R&P students and those hoping to study Zoology at university, for an informal gathering ahead of giving the 2018 Grill Lecture. It was a chance to talk about wildlife issues both local and global, and Chris shared some of his personal hopes and fears for the planet.

The focus of the evening then changed as Chris addressed some 800 students, parents and visitors gathered in the Sports Hall. Here, he turned his attentions to speaking with great candour about what it’s like to live with autism and the challenges and rewards it can bring. The enlightening, humorous and very honest speech ended with a Q and A session with the audience, followed by a book signing. There were queues out of the doors as fans waited to have their moment to chat with Chris… and Scratchy of course!

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Dr Katy Gibbons gave a fascinating lecture on the resistance to the Reformation under Henry VIII and Edward VI’s reign. She urged us not to use hindsight and presume that because the resistance failed, it was to be ignored. The Lecture Theatre was packed with over 100 students from Churcher’s, Godalming College and Reading Bluecoats school. A great success!

Philosophical Society Talk

On Wednesday 25th April, the Rev. Dr. Philip Krinks spoke at a meeting of the Philosophical Society. Students, parents and staff listened with great interest as they were taken on a whirlwind tour through 2,500 years of philosophy from Socrates to Gilbert Ryle via Plato, Aristotle, Aquinas and Descartes. At each stage Philip touched on elements of the A Level exam syllabus with questions at the end focussing largely on the difficult soul/body problem. Our thanks to Philip for a fascinating talk.

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Krakow

54 pupils and six teachers headed out to Krakow at the start of the Easter holidays for a History trip. The main focus of the trip was to visit Auschwitz and AuschwitzBirkenhau and be witnesses to the Holocaust.

Mrs Jolliffe said, "We all found it harrowing and walked around both sites in total silence absorbing the appalling evil that took place there against a million Jews as well as gypsies, homosexuals, teachers and priests. We also visited the Schindler factory where Oskar Schindler, a German Nazi, saved just under 1,000 Jews. We were deeply privileged at the Galicia Museum to hear a Polish lady talk about how her family had hidden a Jewish girl called Mira during the Second World War, at great risk to her family.

We stayed in Krakow and had a lovely time visiting the medieval centre and eating in two Polish restaurants, one of which held a folk evening and nearly every pupil got up to dance!"

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FOCUS Senior German exchange The German exchange is an excellent trip to expand your knowledge of German and practise using the language. It also gives a valuable insight into the German culture.

On 6th April we left from Churcher’s at 4:30 in the morning and then travelled by coach to Heathrow.

From Düsseldorf we had a two hour coach journey to Mariengymnasiumin Warendorf and once we arrived we were picked up by our host families. The rest of the Friday and the weekend was spent with the family.

Staying in their houses is quite easy if you have a basic understanding of German and a fair understanding of questions and pleasantries. In the week we went to their school most days which was brilliant but very different to Churcher’s. They start their school day at 7.50 in the morning but they also finish at lunchtime.

We also visited Phantasialand, which is an amazing theme park near Cologne, on one of our trips. At the end of the week there was a farewell meal in the German school and then we left the next day.

Two weeks later our exchange students arrived at Churcher’s. They attended our first four periods and lunch on the Friday. At the weekend the English families did activities and met up just like the German families had done. On Thursday there was a farewell meal in the dining hall and then the next day they left.

This was an excellent trip and it was very enjoyable.

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Politics trip The L6 Government and Politics students endured a catastrophic snowstorm on their annual trip to Westminster; a day spent rubbing shoulders with the great and good at the Houses of Parliament and the Supreme Court. The first stop was the highest legal seat in the land, where students sat in on an active case – discussing the issue of assisted suicide.

From there they swept across Parliament Square for a tour of the Palace of Westminster. As part of the tour they sat in the House of Lords and listened from the press gallery to Philip Hammond answering his monthly Treasury Minister’s Questions.

This was followed by a workshop on Democracy and rounded off with a Q and A with East Hampshire MP Damian Hinds, who was quizzed on the demands of his new ministerial role, having recently been appointed Secretary for Education.

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D&T Exhibition When, as a guest visiting the exhibition, you walk in to the gymnasium, see the mood lighting, carefully staged project work and pristine paperwork mounted on display boards it belies the frenetic effort which has been undertaken to reach this stage. The collective hours taken to complete the practical alone are staggering; 72 pupils working for two months supported by seven staff during lesson time alone adds up to 19 hours per individual. Add to this the extra-curricular time given to ensure products are to the standard we expect and the collective input is nearly 5,500 hours over the eight to ten weeks we allot for the manufacturing period.

One common theme witnessed each year by Design & Technology teachers alike is the transformation of hundreds of painstakingly created components which, for what seems like an awfully long time, bear no resemblance to a GSCE/A level project. Slowly from the sawdust and metal swarf, completed projects spring to life. The most fantastic reward, however, has to be the look of achievement and pride each individual pupil shows, regardless of how humble they try to be, in light of what they have made.

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Range day

On 19th May, seven CCF Army Section cadets attended a range day at Chilcombe Ranges, accompanied by 2nd Lt Clewley and Capt Kelson.

Cadets took part in several shoots beginning with the Scorpion Rifle followed by a 25m zero range, shooting at 100m prone, 200m kneeling and 200m in a fire trench. The cadets were outstanding in their behaviour, field craft skills, organisation and shooting. All cadets have shown that they have mastered the principles of marksmanship and will receive the appropriate insignia to wear on their uniform. A special mention goes to LCpl Guy Drake (4C), who achieved the highest score from the contingent with an impressive 80% accuracy on the 200m range qualifying as a full Marksman on the cadet GP rifle.

Operation Spring Assault

Our Army Section of the CCF held its annual Spring Assault field day on a grim day in March.

Nonetheless, the cadets began the day with optimistic smiles and it was no surprise that all passed their weapon handling test and were cleared to proceed with their main activity of a pair’s fire and manoeuvre exercise, simulating an attack on an enemy position. With 1,000 rounds of ammunition at their disposal the 4th Year cadets showed a high level of professionalism when conducting the exercise and demonstrated what the 3rd Years have to look forward to next year.

The 3rd Year cadets had their own task for the day: to become the best platoon competing in five activities which they had covered during training evenings, including: establishing a section harbour area, range indication and judging distances, camouflage and concealment, sniper crawl and orienteering.

All 3rd Years also showed a high level of professionalism and an excellent knowledge of field craft skills.

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FOCUS Senior Sea Day

This half term six Senior Royal Navy cadets were lucky enough to spend the day on a P2000, a small Naval Patrol vessel. After a brief introduction and tour of the ship HMS Ranger sailed out of the harbour and past the other Royal Naval Ships including the new HMS Queen Elizabeth. Moving out of port and past Spinnaker tower, the commanding officer ordered the ship to increase its speed and we cruised out of Portsmouth and toward the Isle of Wight. As we neared the familiar sight of Fawley power station cadets took turns in learning how to helm the ship as well as new navigational skills.

Royal Navy Field day

On Monday 12th March, 17 cadets and officers of the Royal Naval CCF section arrived at HMS Excellent to spend the night on board HMS Bristol. After a brief of the ship, cadets settled down to watch a film and spend the night on board. Cadets were briefed on how and when to tackle fires, both in the home and on board a ship and then got the chance to dress in firefighting equipment, tackle real fires and use various equipment including hoses and thermal imaging cameras. A great but tiring day was had by all!

Flying

On Friday 4th May, the RAF cadets traveled to RAF Boscombe Down, along the Salisbury plains and adjacent to Stonehenge. Flying 5000ft in the air under the instructions of experienced RAF pilots, the cadets were able to experience flying like never before.

Ben Mackay (4C) and Emily Jupe (L6) were able to provide stunning pictures of the event, as they looped-the-loop, performed a barrel-roll and deliberately turned off the engine and glided before performing an emergency restart and returning safely back to the runway.

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it's all academic 1st year Planetarium Trip

The 1st Year were taken on an exciting and unusual trip through the Solar System and the Milky Way by Dr John Mason OBE at the Southdowns Planetarium in Chichester. As they sat looking at the domed ceiling, John used his state of the art star projector to take the pupils on a thrilling tour eliciting “oohs” and “aaahs” as he displayed the grandeur and wonder that can only come from something so vast as Space. The pupils obviously enjoyed the trip as the questions came thick and fast for John as he deftly and brilliantly gave understandable answers.

Bletchley park

Our Sixth Form Computing students visited Bletchley Park, famous for its code-breaking during World War II, now believed to have shaved two years off the war. Alan Turing and his team worked to industrialise the code-breaking by inventing the first computer called Colossus, of which our students saw a working version.

They also saw perhaps the more important Tunny machine that was designed by Mathematician Bill Tutte and his team to crack the Lorenz machine, used by Hitler to send strategic war messages.

During the visit our students learnt about cyphers and experienced what an amazing feat it was to invent these machines; they learnt how a mechanical calculator worked; they saw the oldest working computer in the world called the WITCH. They were also given a tour of the museum with all its artefacts seeing how, in such a relatively short time since the Second World War, technology has progressed.

Other highlights included a trip down memory lane to play games in the retro gaming room of PC and Console games, writing their own ChatBot to experience how difficult it is to break the Turing test and programming BBC Micro computers to write a game like students did in the 1980s.

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Science gophers

On Friday 23 March , Churcher ’s 1st Ye (Year 7) ‘Science Gophers’ hosted Sh ar eet Primary School stu de science experimen nts for an afternoon of ts and learning tog ether.

The Science Club stu groups of Year 5 an dents managed small d 6 Sheet Primary pupils to conduct some exciting and fun experiments includ ing Cool Sherbet, Walk : Bubble Lab, Slime, ing Rainbow and Density Detectives .

spaghetti and raspberry pis

3rd Year Computing students learnt about networking using the Raspberry Pi mini computers by connecting all their Raspberry Pis together using a network switch and a LOT of wires. They were then able to play Minecraft together and program using Python. A very enjoyable lesson for all!

lockheed martin

5th Years Tom Milner, Sam Mearns and Joshua Coates have been crowned Lockheed Martin UK Code Quest 2018 champions, competing against 14 other school teams.

The annual Code Quest competition, which simultaneously takes place at various locations around the world, was developed to challenge and inspire students as part of Lockheed Martin’s focus on science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM). Students work in small teams through a set of coding challenges developed

by Lockheed Martin information technology professionals, who also assist students during the event.

The winning Churcher’s pupils worked well as a team, with Sam coding while Tom and Josh worked out difficult algorithms. As such, they impressed the judges with their speed and ability to problem-solve.

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Exhibition

In May, Churcher’s pupils and parents enjoyed a ‘Private View’ of their art work in the Flora Twort Gallery in Petersfield Museum, St Peter’s Road. The work featured a selection showing the diversity of work covered in the Lower School by our talented pupils including pottery, silk printing, wire sculpting, line drawing, still life and painting.

pallant house

In March, 4th Year and L6 Art students visited Chichester as part of a creative study day centred around Pallant House Gallery’s exhibition, ‘POP Art in a changing Britain.’

The day started with a visit to Chichester Cathedral where students made their own drawings from the dramatic interior, inspired by the work of John Piper whose tapestries hung in the heart of the building.

Once we had taken the short walk along to Pallant House Gallery, each student had the opportunity to try their hand at screen printing in the fun and fast-paced print workshop led by local artist Helen Peters.

The 4th Year students were particularly fortunate to see this exhibition just ahead of starting their own Pop Art projects and put together some fantastic sketchbook pages based on their experience of the day.

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3rd year portraits

All 3rd Year Art and Design students have been creating their own selfportraits on canvas. They were inspired by the work of a variety of different wellknown artists including Chuck Close and Andy Warhol. They have really enjoyed this taster of GCSE Art and the outcomes have been outstanding.

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music

From the middle of the Spring Term to middle of the Summer Term, there have been a large array of performances taking place...

Portsmouth Cathedral lunchtime concert

Back on 22nd February, a selection of our Music Scholars performed in Portsmouth Cathedral as part of the Cathedral’s ‘Lunchtime Live’ series.

These musicians (from the 1st Year to the Sixth Form) had a fabulous time performing in the wonderful acoustics of the Cathedral.

Reading concert trip

On Monday 26th February, almost 40 GCSE and A Level musicians went to see the Russian State Philharmonic Professional Orchestra perform at The Hexagon in Reading. They were treated to an all Russian programme including excerpts from Tchaikovsky's 'Nutcracker Suite' and 'Sleeping Beauty'. It was a thoroughly enjoyable evening with great music and food.

Spring Concert

In early March, the Spring Concert was held in St. Peter's Church. The audience were treated to performances from the College Orchestra, Senior Choir, Junior Choir, Senior Chamber Choir, SSA Choir, the Barbershop and L6 a capella group. The highlight of the evening was the performance of Vivaldi's 'Gloria', sung by the Senior Choir, together with a professional orchestra who accompanied them. The soloists for this were Isabella Herraman–Stowers (L6), Grace Moran (U6), Halcyon Sheen and Elizabeth Turner (L6). Over £600 was raised for Breast Cancer Now, one of the charities we are currently supporting.

Petersfield Music Festival

Each year, some of our musicians join forces with other local schools around Petersfield to perform in the Petersfield Music Festival, which is a series of concerts throughout the week. Our Junior Wind Band and Jazz Band joined with the other schools for the performances.

House music competition

This year's House Music Competition showcased the musical talent from each house in a variety of classes. Adjudicating for a second year, Mr Neil Valentine had the unenviable task of choosing a winner from each category and then an overall winning house. The quality of each performance was very high, with Mr Valentine saying that he also took into consideration his 'clapometer' to help choose a winner due to each performance being so good! The winners were: Junior Vocal Class - Matilda Shapland (Collingwood) Junior Instrumental Class - Jasper Jones - piano (Grenville) Junior Ensemble Class - Grenville Senior Vocal Class - Grace Moran (Rodney) Senior Instrumental Class - George Whittle (Drake) Congratulations to the overall winning house which was…Drake!

U6 Musicians Dinner

Our talented group of U6 musicians and their parents were treated to a black tie dinner to celebrate all the various musical successes that have taken place during their time at Churcher’s. The U6 musicians took charge of the evening, with the leaders of the ensembles making speeches in between the courses. We were treated to some final performances by the musicians from solos by Madeleine Plummer, Max Healey, Grace Lewis and Grace Moran to ensembles by the Barbershop, followed by a large jazz group playing ‘Runaway Baby’ to round off the evening. Delicious food and quality performances made for a very enjoyable evening.

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Ramshill Records is now in its second year and will be releasing EP’s from two students! William McCathie, as Tom Kirby, will release 'The Revolution is Over (you can all go home now)' - a five track collection of vibrant pop music with a mixture of ironic and heartfelt lyrics with hugely catchy melodies. Grace Moran will also be releasing 'Rise & Fall' - five tracks of ukulele and piano backed ballads featuring Grace’s fantastic voice, all of which was recorded at a live gig in Petersfield to rapturous applause!

evensong

On Wednesday March 14th, the 21 members of the Senior Chamber Choir admirably rose to the challenge of singing evensong at Portsmouth Cathedral. This was a wonderful opportunity for the choir to perform in a glorious building with a generous acoustic and vibrant musical tradition. Although shorter than the average church service, choral evensongs inevitably require a huge amount of music! On this occasion the choir performed Thomas Walmisley’s 'D Minor' setting of the canticles, Smith’s five part setting of the preces and responses, and John Joubert‘s dramatic anthem, ‘O Lorde, the Maker of Al Thing’.

The choir was ably accompanied on the cathedral organ by Mr Webb-Taylor.

Special thanks go to our two language assistants, Georg Lukas (tenor) and Elodie Tranier (page turner and photographer) who were keen to get involved. The choir sang beautifully and have already been asked to sing there again next year!

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We had a very wet Rother Valley expedition in March, during which getting lost in the woods, cooking on a camp fire in the dark and rain, as well as serving a full English breakfast in a muddy field were experienced and, hopefully, enjoyed by all, despite the rain and deep puddles!

Water craft weekend was beautifully sunny but sadly the wind decided not to show up. Incredible fun and laughter was had by all though, and as always, the photos speak for themselves.

Camp craft saw a distinctive lack of rabbits this year, so we learnt how to cook fish with newspaper and water. Chopping and sawing wood is always a fun skill to acquire, and baking al fresco just has to be experienced once in a lifetime.

Our 2017/18 Oscaneers have since embarked upon their Brecon expedition, during which many more exciting activities will have taken place.

So watch this space for future photos from the summit!

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sixth form criminality workshop

On 22nd March, the Psychology Department held a Criminality workshop. Guest speakers included John Bowers, a reformed exoffender, who now gives talks in schools about his experiences while being in prison. We also invited along two safeguarding prison officers from Feltham Prison, who work on the landings for 18 to 22-year-olds.

The presentations included some illuminating stories from both, which then prompted an interesting Q and A session. It gave the students a chance to see part of their A2 course presented in real life terms!

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marketing videos

As part of their enrichment programme L6 students have been making marketing videos. Mrs Inkley and Mr Pellett, who acted as the client, asked the students to respond to a ‘brief’, just as they would if they were working for a marketing company. The students had to make some important decisions along the way, not to mention working to a tight deadline. The final product ‘Life at Churcher’s College Sixth Form’ produced over just 4 weeks, can be seen on the Churcher's YouTube channel. Simply search "YouTube Churcher's College".

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The U6 Leavers’ Day was another fantastic occasion.

After a full English breakfast, the students filed into the Assembly Hall for their Leavers’ Concert which, as in previous years, was a very enjoyable celebration of the creative talents of the year group, not to mention a couple of exemplary staff performances. The BBQ lunch was accompanied by the traditional slip-nslide, where great fun was had. We wish all of the students the very best of luck in their A Levels, and we look forward to seeing them again at the Leavers’ Ball in July.

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Students participating in this year’s Devizes to Westminster race used the opportunity to raise some money for charity.

english theatre trip

This year, English Literature students in both the Lower and Upper Sixth are studying Oscar Wilde’s An Ideal Husband, and so the opportunity to enjoy Jonathan Church’s stylish revival of the play at London’s Vaudeville Theatre, complete with Victorian bustle dresses, bonnets, tails and waistcoats, was too good to miss. This production emphasises the combination of melodrama and comedy that lies beneath the epigrammatic surface of the play, bringing to life the text that they have meticulously studied in the classroom and thus enabling them to appreciate not only Wilde’s language, but his skill and prowess as a dramatist.

Pea Rushin and Tildy Billsberry-Grass (L6) raised money for the Children’s Bubbles Fund at Portsmouth Hospital, a charity with a close personal connection to them. When the race was called off after 55 miles, due to the water level being the highest it had been in 11 years, the students felt they owed it to all their generous donors to finish the challenge. Along with other team mates, they cycled the remaining 71 miles from Dreadnought Reach to Westminster Bridge in early May. Ethan Ogilvie and Matthew Price (L6) raised £635 for Cancer Relief UK and Max Sutcliffe and Theo Ehrmann (L6) raised £1,500 for the Rainbow Trust Children’s Charity.

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d of e palace trip

The Duke of Edinburgh’s Award (DofE) held a Gold Award Presentation in the grounds of Buckingham Palace on Wednesday 24th May, to mark the achievement of 3,000 young people from across the UK, including five very proud Churcher’s pupils: Alex Andrews (U6), Ethan Francis (2017), Julian Greig (U6), Jack Thompson (2017) and Owen Tutt (2017). Ms Cutter, Ms Davies and Mr Snowball were lucky to be invited as Special Regional Guests.

Ms Davies said, "We arrived at Buckingham Palace in good time to enjoy the delights of Her Majesty’s garden, an incredibly tranquil space in the midst of such a busy and noisy city. A little later, HRH Princess Beatrice of York joined our group and spoke warmly to some of the young people about their DofE experiences and managed to make everyone feel relaxed, even eliciting a few laughs from some in the group. She asked Owen, Jack and Ethan about whether they had any particularly memorable expedition experiences in the Lake District – however, they weren’t about to disclose to us what their reply was that made her smile so much!"

Churcher’s DW team baulked by the weather yet again

The Devizes to Westminster Race is always a real challenge, but sometimes that challenge has less to do with the efforts of those who enter it, and more with circumstances beyond anyone’s control. This year it was all the rain, both before and during the race, that dashed everyone’s hopes. The Thames section of the race, from Reading onwards, had such high water levels that locks were almost impossible to land at, and weirs were flowing well above their normal rate.

Churcher's seven boat team of L6 students, along with everyone else, had to stop at the first available point on the river. This was hugely disappointing as the girls’ team of

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In the first week of the Easter break, 23 cadets headed to Snowdonia for their annual dose of Adventurous Training.

Sarah Moses, Lily Rawlings, Anya Pigden, Flo Anderson, Pea Rushin and Tildy Billsberry-Grass were the first placed Junior Ladies Team at that stage. They were well ahead of the opposition, being the 2nd, 3rd and 4th placed school Junior Ladies boats. The boys had also been doing well, with Ben Colgate, Will Allen, Max Sutcliffe and Theo Ehrmann going particularly strongly. Unfortunately, Marcus Davies and Zac Rodber were badly delayed by a broken rudder and Ethan Ogilvie and Matt Price were held up even more after Matt’s nose had an argument with a low bridge (and lost!).

However, despite being stopped half way through Day 2 after 54 miles, it is still congratulations to all the paddlers; they were well-motivated, but dealt extremely well with the huge disappointment of the cancellation.

The 3rd Year cadets started their week with a day canoeing, before heading off into the mountains for a two day expedition: wild camping on the lower slopes before summiting Moel Siabod. They then paddled on to gorge walking, descending flumes and shutes and experiencing the “washing machine”. They finished the week with a day of coasteering on the west coast of Anglesey.

The 4th Years completed a Mountain Skills qualification which proved to be a very practical course spread over two days: summiting Yr Aran and scrambling the iconic Nantlle Ridge. This was followed by a kayak course, collecting a paddle sport award while learning moving water skills on a variety of craft, which were then put into practice kayaking the Rivers Llugwy and Dee, or in open canoes on the Conwy.

Both groups also enjoyed a day split between mountain biking and outdoor climbing and abseiling on a local crag.

Evening entertainment was provided by the instructors with a damp blindfolded woodland rope trail, bivouacking and campfires in the woods and an egg-drop challenge.

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For this year’s Lower School production, School of Rock, Churcher’s pupils proved that every one of them has an inner rock god as they air-guitared their way through the production.

One parent summed it up in two words: “Quite exceptional!”

The children in the production showed they are ridiculously entertaining performers whose infectious delight got the crowd jumping with joy. It’s hard to believe the students are all aged between 11 and 14 (Years 7 to 9) with a standout performance of explosive energy from leading man Oliver Fogelin (3G) as Dewey and a highly polished act from the preposterously talented leading lady, Matilda Shapland (3C) as headmistress Miss Rosalie Mullins. Not forgetting the fist-pumping performance of would be lead-guitarist Zack (Roscoe Davey 1N); the unexpectedly beautiful voice of shy Tomika (Milly Greenall 1N); the flamboyant portrayal of fashion-mad Billy (Jackson Wilks 1N); and the excellent delivery of the class ‘smarty-pants’ Summer (Freya Davey 3N).

In fact, the entire cast delivered an amazing show, too many to mention all by name but all should receive gold stars including the dancers, singers, musicians, and backstage crew.

Reviewed by Mr Lofthouse

LAMDA

It was an outstanding year for Churcher’s at the Godalming Festival with students winning prizes in almost every category and level, including 27 pupils achieving first place and five trophies!

With more than 70 pupils entered this year, including 30 who were performing for the first time. Zoe Walker, LAMDA teacher, said: “Churcher’s College has been taking part in the Godalming Festival for seven years originally starting with 11 entries and growing each year. We are very proud of the students’ achievements, in particular the 30 pupils who had never performed at the Festival before - it takes a lot of nerve to be able to stand up in front of an audience of any size when you are only 11 years old!”

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The Sports Science students came together again for the hotly contested Eaton Games, this time playing mixed netball. The U6 were victorious, but only just!

Regardless of the score, everyone enjoyed the matches, food and fun!

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tennis

The junior tennis tour this year ventured into south Portugal, to the wonderful city of Lisbon and the Beloura Tennis Academy.

Our first day was very hectic as we travelled to our hotel and then straight onto the tennis courts. The coaches split the groups into small numbers and away they went, into basket drills and assessments.

Forehand, backhand and volleys completed the first session. On return to the hotel and a sea-view meal, we eventually retired excited for Day Two. The four hours of coaching each day were split between morning and afternoon sessions, and the groups were able to rotate around the specialist coaches who each advised them on aspects of their movement, positioning, swing action (get those elbows high on the follow-through!) and sliding on the red indoor clay courts! Each pupil had improved at least two areas of their tennis and were raring to return to tennis season.

Mr Herman continues to grow the water polo programme excellently and having already introduced house water polo for the first time, we have now hosted club opposition as well as a triangular against Winchester College and Basingstoke WPC.

With three and a half full days of coaching it is surprising that our tennis stars of the future had any energy left, but they did!

After their afternoon antics in the pool, each night they wanted to take a stroll down to the Jumbo supermarket to stock up on provisions! We had dinner at the best pizzeria in Portugal, strolled along the beach front in search of ice-cream and played endless ten-pin bowling and tablehockey.

An U16 team, captained by Will Hipsey (5N), recorded a big victory over Basingstoke followed by a brilliant 5-4 win over strong competitors Charterhouse, all in the same day. Of the Churcher’s U16s, two are also being considered for regional teams. Congratulations on a successful season!

We returned home on the Saturday ready for the busy tennis season ahead and prepared for our first matches, which we won against both Lord Wandsworth College and Seaford College.

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IN OTHER NEWS...

CAPTAINS OF COLLEGE

The new Captains of College for the next academic year 2018/19 have been elected at Churcher’s College. Chosen in a democratic vote amongst their peers and staff, the new Captains are Tildy BilsberryGrass and Jake Haldenby replacing the outgoing ‘Head Girl’ and ’Head Boy’, Maddie Housden and Joe Keohane.

In addition, the new Deputy Captains and Prefects have been selected. The Deputy Captains are Flo Anderson and Archie Philips, replacing the outgoing Hannah Matson and Timothy Higginbotham.

“Congratulations to our new Captains of College on their election; I am very confident they will be excellent in their new leadership roles,” said Simon Williams. “I would like to say a huge thank you to Joe, Maddie, Tim and Hannah for doing such an exceptional job steering the Churcher’s ship over the last year.”

NELSON BOATS

To raise money and awareness of the plight of Syrian refugees for this year’s house Charity, The Rural Refugee Network, 1N made a giant paper boat, decorated it with news articles and stories of the humanitarian crisis then filled it with smaller paper boats. For a small fee, boats were entered into a prize draw and the winners received an edible reward.

500 WORDs COMPETITION

women of the future

The 5th and Sixth Year 500 Words story competition proved challenging for award-winning author Matt Whyman to judge; he ended up unable to choose and pronounced Carl Flohr (L6) and Flora Edward (5G) joint winners.

Ten Lower Sixth girls attended the Women of the Future’s Ambassadors Reception at the new American Embassy at Nine Elms in London.

With over 150 young women attending the event, students had the opportunity to hear some amazing and inspirational women talk about their journeys to success with an emphasis on being kind, authentic and supportive in our careers.

He said, “The standard was really high with some powerful, pacy stories – a difficult challenge when you only have 500 words! Well done everyone.”

Organised by Pinky Lilani CBE Dl, who was listed as one of the 100 most powerful women in the UK by Radio 4’s Women’s Hour, all those who attended agreed that they had the most amazing experience and one they’d be keen to repeat.

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FOCUS Senior scaling the heights

This year, in order to raise money for their charities The Mountain Rescue and Teenage Cancer Trust, 2R decided that they were going to not only swim the Channel but also climb Everest! They started in November 2017 and completed their 1,320 lengths of the swimming pool on 31st January and by the end of May they had climbed 75% of 1475 trips up the school climbing wall!

churcher's goes nuts!

On Sunday 4th March, 9 pupils from Churcher’s completed the ‘Nuts Challenge’ to raise £400 for Teenage Cancer Trust. The ‘Nuts Challenge’ is a 3km muddy fun event featuring loads of mud, a water assault course, climbing, crawling and challenging obstacles all the way round.

A huge achievement and well done to all the pupils involved!

Founders Day

To round off the term, the Senior Wind Band performed at the Founders Day service in the Sports Hall. They played a range of styles from ‘La Cumparsita’, a catchy tango, to a 70’s disco number ‘Manhatten Skyline’ from Saturday Night Fever. There was also a beautiful solo from Immi Evans (L6) on the flute, playing the popular ‘Schindler’s List' by John Williams.

PARENTS’ ASSOCIATION

2nd Year Grandparents Day

Six musicians from the 2nd Year were selected to perform to the Grandparents that came to look around the school early in May. Whilst the Grandparents were drinking tea and eating cake, they were entertained with a lovely mixture of instruments playing solos including a trombone, clarinet, double bass, flute, piano and voice along with performances from our 2nd Year LAMDA students. > PAY BAR INCLUDING ‘GIN BAR’ < > BLACK TIE <

career bites

Our series of Careers workshops “Career Bites” has had a busy and productive term: not only have Churcher’s pupils visited Portsmouth Magistrate’s Court for a visit hosted by local Magistrate, Mrs Annette Burgess JP but we have also held workshops on Engineering, Law, Politics and Musical Theatre.

Taking on a slightly different format to our usual Career Bites, the Musical Theatre event was run in partnership with the local charity Home-Start Butser.

At this charity fundraising event West End stars Greg Arrowsmith and Carolina Gregory brought their show ‘When Broadway Went to Hollywood’ to Petersfield (in the Assembly Hall at school). After the show the performers and other guests formed an expert panel for a Career Bites Q and A.

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TICKETS £30 TO INCLUDE A WELCOME DRINK, DINNER AND MUSIC

On a warm and balmy evening in May, parents enjoyed dancing and dining at the annual May Ball organised by the Churcher’s College Parents Association. Hosted at the College and starting with drinks on the Headmaster’s Lawn, followed by a three course meal, disco and socialising, it was an opportunity for parents to relax and enjoy time together. A wonderful evening was had by all! churcherscollege.com

The next Parent’s Association event will be a ceilidh on 1 December 2018 - more details to be announced nearer the time.

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3rd Year Adie Matson has found an entrepreneurial way to raise money for her First Challenge trip to Iceland.

She has combined her love of art and animals to start Red Turtle Cards, offering high quality greetings cards featuring her original artwork. Adie’s cards are already being stocked in four shops and she recently set up a ‘pop up’ stall at a school parents’ function. We wish Adie the very best in her exciting venture.

Zain Preston (l6), Sam West (4c) and Catherine Gallagher (4r)

The recent Hampshire Golf Green Jackets inter-club competition featured a nice coincidence, when the team representing the juniors at Liphook Golf Club all came from Churcher’s College! Well done Zain Preston, Sam West and Catherine Gallagher.

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EDWARD RAFTERY (l6)

ELLIE WATLING (4r)

Lottie Jackson (1d)

Harry Cooper (1N), Ben Steele and Sam Russell (1R)

Congratulations to L6 student Edward Raftery who is now a qualified solo skydiver, having achieved his A Licence at the Army Parachute Association recently. He has completed 22 solo jumps at 13,000ft, as well as one “emergency deployment” at 5,000ft, making five jumps on one day alone!

Lottie recently competed in the South East Regional Swimming Championships in Crawley. She competed in 5 events and came away with a silver medal in the 200m Butterfly event and 4th in the 100m Butterfly. Her goal for next year is to try and achieve some National Qualifying Times for her age group.

During half term, 4th Year Ellie Watling qualified for the Cadet British Sailing Team - a huge personal achievement! Amongst other things, this means that she is required to train for a week in Germany before she represents GBR in one of only seven British boats at the World Championships in July.

Three 1st Years returned in one piece following an amazing rugby tour with Haslemere RFC U12s to Italy. They had the opportunity to play against phenomenal national teams such as AS Milano and CUS Torino – really tough competition. The team had a brilliant time and aim to host their own Italian tournament next year.

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rachel Pyke (4g), Eve Rushin (4C) and Catherine Gallagher (4R)

In March, Sixth Former Lily attended PricewaterhouseCooper’s London Office having earned herself a place in the Final of their National Schools Employability Challenge. Lily said, ‘Unfortunately I didn’t win but it was a really interesting day and I learnt a lot especially through the pitch where we had to design a health and wellbeing app.’ Despite not winning the final prize, Lily was very proud to have made so far and learned a huge amount about business.

Lowri Hegan (3G)

12 regional winners from across the UK recently competed in The Acrobatic Gymnastics National Finals in Stoke on Trent. 3rd Year Lowri Hegan’s Grade 5 Trio from Southampton Gymnastics Club represented the South.

They performed two routines demonstrating dynamic and balance elements and won the Gold Medal!

photo courtesy of Richard Washbrooke

Congratulations to Churcher’s students Rachel Pyke, Eve Rushin and Catherine Gallagher who are representing their County at U15 Hockey!

lily rawlings (l6)

Frances Flannagan (L6), Tom Jackson (3C) and Josie Scott-Plummer (1G) Churcher’s is proud to have had three pupils involved in The Hampshire County Youth Orchestra performance at the Royal Albert Hall on 23rd April. ‘Hampshire at the Hall’ began with The National Anthem with The Band of the Scots Guards and featured Frances Flanagan, Tom Jackson and Josie Scott-Plummer among the 1,700 musicians from Hampshire schools.

Poppy Kilpatrick and ollie williams (J6r)

In May the U11 IAPS sailing team competed in Weymouth.

Poppy said, “We fought hard against 30 other Zest boats. Sunninghill school stood out because they were amazing Oppie sailors. Ollie helmed well and steered some amazing starts. I crewed well and I made some really good tacks with the jib.

We won the first race with a big lead, in the second race we came second, sadly in the third race we came fourth due to a bad start. But fortunately we won the last race with another big lead, so in the end we won overall.”

Jasmine Sutton (1G)

1st Year Jasmine Sutton and her acrobatic trio were thrilled to win Gold at the Southern Regional Gymnastics competition in Southampton last month. They were also awarded the highest individual score in the event out of nearly 40 participating teams – a fantastic achievement. A huge well done to Jasmine for an outstanding accomplishment.

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churcher's got talent

Pupils have been raising money for The King’s Arms Charity by holding a talent show. The talent show was run by the School Council as a charity initiative and pupils were required to pay an entry fee to submit a video for judging by a panel of staff and children.

The finalists performed to the school at the end of term assembly and an overall winner was chosen. The winner, from Reception Class, performed an amazing dance routine in costume and it was hard to tell the difference between him and the real Michael Jackson!

Teacher Mrs Pendry described how the standard of the entries was very high and the judges had been faced with a very difficult decision, as all the children who had entered the competition were, in fact, winners.

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FOCUS Junior summer concert

Over 50 performers took part in the annual Summer Concert at the end of May. From harp to bassoon, jazz to folk, ensembles to solos, the pupils of Churcher's showed off their musicianship and performance skills in a dazzling array of pieces. The concert was a great platform for the school’s ensembles to perform; Ballistic Brass, Wacky Winds, Ukulele Group, Sensational Strings, Glee Club and the Advanced Recorder Group all gave assured performances. The audience were treated to many solos, showcasing the breadth of musical talent within the school. We aim to foster a willing ‘can do' attitude amongst the pupils, and to take ownership of mistakes in order to learn and move forward. It was great to see the performers putting this in action on stage and really proving how adept and resilient they are to performing with nerves, not being afraid to try again and knowing that their best efforts are always good enough. The audience were hugely supportive and the children did themselves proud.

Tea Time Concert

Thanks to the Years 5 and 6s for another fantastic Tea Time Concert. It was great to see lots of the older children being independent in organising their own duets and ensemble items with some creative ideas in the programme! Well done to Year 6s Megan Barnes, Rosie Bruce, Holly Gowing, Alice Stratton-Brown and Emily Shaxson for putting together performances for their Music Credit.

All star performance

The children were all stars in their ‘All Star Performance’ in May. With a selection of music, dance and drama including some performance poetry, there was ample opportunity for them all to shine and that is just what they did!

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The whole school enjoyed a wonderful BBQ picnic lunch and a red, white and blue themed mufti day. This was a great build up to the main event of the day, a wedding celebration in Reception Class! The children enjoyed writing invitations to send out to Head of the Junior School, Mrs Robinson, and their brothers and sisters at school.

They made wedding cards to congratulate Harry and Meghan.

The children looked a picture in their wedding outfits, dressing up, smart home clothes and mufti outfits throughout the day. All raised their glasses and said a great big "Cheers!" to celebrate the wedding breakfast, toasting and feasting on lemonade and scones.

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charity

'sew' good!

Many congratulations to William Bailey (5R) and Milly Trench (6R) for winning our school sewing competition. William made a beautifully constructed pair of shorts and Milly recycled an adult skirt to make a very professional looking girl’s dress. It was very hard to judge the competition due to the high standard of work and all other entrants received Highly Commended certificates.

Due to the quality of work attained, all the entries will be collected by Soroptimist International for judging in the County Competition and then they will be delivered to children in The Gambia.

quilt of many colours

Pupils have collaborated with children from their chosen charity The Kings Arms to create a calico drawn patchwork quilt depicting their dreams, with each child drawing their individual dream on a square. The patches were sewn together over the Easter holidays and this giant quilt of over 260 squares was on display in the window of the art shop ‘Sew Creative’ in Petersfield as part of a vintage-themed exhibition.

The Kings Arms is a Petersfield charity which runs a range of clubs and activities to help local young people fulfil their potential and realise their own worth. Our fundraising efforts have reached over £1,400 this academic year alone.

Mandy May, Target Work Manager at The Kings Arms, said, “Wow, how amazing! Thank you very much to the pupils and families for all their contributions. It makes such a difference.”

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readathon

An amazing £1,981.75 was raised by the children’s fundraising efforts for the Read for Good charity. Head of the Junior School, Mrs Robinson, said she was incredibly impressed with all the children’s contributions with 11 children raising more than £50 in sponsorship and of those, two were sponsored for more than £100!

To recognise these amazing individual efforts, we awarded a Year 5 pupil (for raising £105) and a Year 2 pupil (for raising £110) a book token for their fundraising.

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it's all go!

Here’s a snapshot of all the exciting things the Nursery children have been up to over the last term! From snow angels to maypoles and muddy puddle walks to picnics, the children love coming to Nursery whatever the British weather throws at them!

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IS IT A BIRD?...

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out and about

rainforest trip

Year 4 were very fortunate to visit the Living Rainforest as part of their Science topic, Habitats and Geography topic, the Rainforest. They looked at the amazing adaptations of various plants and animals and a lucky few even spotted a sloth! Mrs Pendry and Mrs Moore were extremely proud of the children with one member of staff in the gift shop commenting on how well-mannered they all were. A fantastic trip enjoyed by all!

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Harry potter world

In January, Year 4 went to experience Harry Potter World. We went from the Knight Bus and the Forbidden Forest to sitting down for Butterbeer in the 3 Broomsticks. We also experienced how they made the magical creatures such as Buckbeak and Dobby.

Joshua Wetzel (4P)

St peter's visit

Year 1 enjoyed a guided tour around St Peter's Church in Petersfield and learnt lots! We found out about St Peter's Church and why it is such a special place for Christians. The Reverand Will Hughes gave an amazing tour of his church and the children enjoyed playing the organ, trying on special clothing, ringing the bells and exploring the bell tower.

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maths quiz

Eight intrepid Year 6 mathematicians recently took part in a Maths Quiz, driving up to Hampton, South West London, to join several other schools in the regional heats.

Ethan Castle, Alfie Greggs, Lauren Hill, Annabelle King, Paddy King, Henry Murphy, Oliver Williams and Shoshana Yugin-Power were part of two teams of four pupils who had to answer a series of increasingly complex multiple choice questions.

This was the first time that teams from Churcher's had entered a competition like this and all eight pupils performed brilliantly - well done!

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tin can heads

Over the half term break, Year 4 were given a research topic to find out about different inspirational people.

They made tin can heads and found out facts to share with the class. We are amazed by the hard work they put in! Can you spot any of the inspirational people they found out about?

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open morning

On Saturday 12 May, Churcher's College Junior School & Nursery held its Annual Open Morning.

The school was a hive of activity with pupils across all age groups running a whole range of activities including mathematical art, war-time cooking and science experiments.

The pupils in the Art Department offered fun interactive workshops with visitors able to take part in pebble-painting and other craft activities; Year 5 enthusiastically ran Spanish and French cafés, offering some truly delicious treats to their “customers”; while Year 6 showed off their language skills in Mandarin Club. A particularly popular attraction was the newly-hatched chicks which garnered quite a queue of children and adults alike to take turns at cuddling. There were numerous sporting activities including tennis matches, football drills and cricket, as well as pupils showcasing their musical abilities.

A great morning was had by all and many thanks to all our visitors and to the children who took part.

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haslemere success

The U9 team from Haslemere RFC have been awarded the ‘Respect Cup’ at the Cobham Rugby Festival. The team included 3 Year 4 boys from Churcher’s. The cup was awarded for demonstrating the values of respect towards each other, the opposition players, the coaches, referees and the families who were there in support.

swimming success

We were extremely proud to return again with medals and excellent performances from our Elite Squad at the Hampshire Primary Galas, held at Hart Leisure Centre in Fleet in February.

The A Team achieved a brilliant front crawl relay time of 1.14.62 gaining them Silver Medals; the B Team followed closely behind with a time of 1.24.84 giving them fourth position. Both teams stormed in with a medley relay again: A Team gaining Silver with a time of 1.21.92; B Team fourth with 1.33.13.

Ms Bartram said, "It is a brilliant tribute to both teams for their hard work in the after school Elite Training Squad and their ability to rise to challenges put before them. I am extremely proud of the squad’s achievements."

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FOCUS Junior rugby tournament

The U9 rugby team performed brilliantly at the PGS Tournament in March. They played against a range of other schools including Aldro, Princes Mead and Oakwood. The team should be congratulated for their organised defence, determined tackling and direct running, which proved to be the winning formula.

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netball festival

The sun shone down on us as we welcomed many schools to our annual U8 netball festival. We were pleased to host this successful friendly tournament for ten teams of girls. The afternoon was run with teams being in two pools of five; each team playing one another in their respective pool. This year we added an extra game where each school took on one from the other pool. As luck would have it, two Churcher’s teams drew each other at this stage! All of the girls really grew in confidence with each and every match, representing our school fantastically. We greatly look forward to hosting again next year; fingers crossed that the sun shines again!

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