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End of term newsletter for the Godolphin and Latymer School

OLPHIN NEWS Spring 2011 – Issue 18

INSIDE Netball this season at Godolphin

Development Office news Young Enterprise – Promoting the entrepreneurs of the future

A week packed full of science

School visit to The Cathedral and Abbey Church of Saint Alban

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Contents PE

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Development Office News

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Festival

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Staff Zone

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Failures Board

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Art History

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Community Links

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Social Services

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Drama - Blood Wedding

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G&L Film Festival

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Modern Foreign Languages

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Green Team

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Visit to Dublin

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Young Enterprise

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Science Week

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UIII Visit to St Albans Abbey

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PE Netball this season at Godolphin This year Netball teams have been put through their paces with tough training sessions and hard fixtures, resulting in high level performances and excellent results.

The Under 13, 14, and 15 Netball teams were offered the opportunity to watch England take on New Zealand at the O2 stadium. This was a great match which everyone thoroughly enjoyed and allowed the girls to see excellent play firsthand. The Under 15s and Firsts also have had a Saturday morning coaching clinic with Amanda Newton (Ex England Netball Captain) where they learnt many new skills and found this experience very valuable.

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The Under 15s have succeeded in qualifying for the Netball Middlesex finals after finishing second in the qualifying rounds. Portia Fellows captained this team and should be congratulated for an outstanding performance throughout the tournament. Alice Martin displayed excellent vision on attack and passed accurately to the shooters. A great team effort that resulted in a very pleasing result.

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The Under 16s have stepped up to another level and have qualified first in their Middlesex draw. Sasha Segar and Alice Hewitt led the team defensively, both players contesting strongly and aggressively for the ball and succeeding with a lot of intercepts. Eleanor St Aubyn

and Alice Harman combined well in the shooting circle, converting the defenders’ efforts into much needed goals.

The U16s will be joining the U15s at the Middlesex finals in March.

Another fantastic success is the U16 Godolphin and Latymer team qualification for the National Qualifiers.

This team consisted of U15 and U16 players, Alice Harman (captain) Eleanor St Aubyn (vice captain) Alice Hewitt, Sasha Segar, Frankie Lyell, Portia Fellows, Alice Martin, Isabelle Scott, Isabelle Kent,Vicky Letrilliart and India Clare.

A special mention is to go to Vicky Letrilliart an Under 13 player who replaced an injured India Clare. She played exceptionally well, bringing the ball down through court strongly and playing tightly on defence against her older opponents.

This is the second time only that Godolphin and Latymer have qualified for this tournament where the top two teams from North, South, East and West London compete.

The team played with great determination and Alice Martin and Alice Hewitt performed outstandingly.

The Under 12 Netball teams have proved an eager and enthusiastic group of girls. There are six teams this year that have been competing in fixtures over the past two terms. Between them they have played 36 matches and have been victorious in all. A fantastic effort, well done girls and keep up the unbeaten record.

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Development Office News

Friends The philosopher Mary Warnock gave her lecture on her latest book Dishonest to God, in January.

Arguing for the separation of religion from politics, especially in relation to contemporary medical issues, Baroness Warnock led us through an interesting and thought provoking evening.

And the year is not over yet. On 23 May, Professor Gordon Campbell will join us in celebrating 400 years of the King James Version of the Bible.

Booking forms are available on the Friends section of the website or through the Development Office on 020 8735 9550 or friends@ godolphinandlatymer.com.

Sinai Each year, having just returned from the Sinai with the UVI, Dr Wolfe takes a group of Friends and Parents (and perhaps this time a few Old Dolphins) to the Sinai for a week. Sleeping under the stars, philosophical contemplation and getting to know your camel, makes this a truly unique experience. The climax is a trek to the summit of Mount Sinai and a day and night in the sixth century monastery of St Katherines. It was here that a German scholar found the oldest copy of the New Testament that is now in the British Library. As well as being good for the soul, the trip aids the Bursary Fund and is arranged by the School with travel company Wind, Sand and Stars.

By now you will have received your Annual Giving Programme in the mail outlining our focus for your support this year. For all of us, parents, girls and staff alike, improving our ICT provision at the school and embedding it within all that we do at the school is important. Annual Giving will allow us to bring forward the introduction of Godolphin’s Virtual Learning Environment (VLE), alongside development of the girls’ experience of athletics and with a new initiative, inspire the girls with an eminent Writer-inResidence.

Our most exciting news as we write, is that EVERY staff member at Godolphin and Latymer has contributed to this year’s Annual Giving Programme. A huge thank you to our staff who remain committed to broadening the experiences for the girls with their ideas, and have shown us with their support how important it is to them.

Please consider joining Godolphin and Latymer’s staff in giving to this year’s Programme, at a level that is most comfortable for you. We now have the capacity to accept gifts online at www.godolphinandlatymer.com through the Supporting Us tabs.

Thank you, in advance for helping us to build Annual Giving at our school.

If you would like more information on the March 2012 visit, please contact Mrs Chris Lee at the School.

A reunion is planned for Spring 2012 and we hope that as many as possible who enjoyed the trip to Sinai since 1993 will be able to come. More details to come – watch this space!

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Festival ‘Second album syndrome’ is a notorious phenomenon in the creative world: how to replicate a success? Well, we didn’t replicate the inaugural Festival of 2010; instead, we did something different.

This year, we got current Godolphin girls significantly more involved as interns. As well as introducing and thanking the speakers, and assisting with book sales, they also led workshops in their subjects for Year 5 children from local schools. These workshops were much admired, and were a wonderful advertisement for the school.

In fact, everything the interns did was a wonderful advertisement for the school, as, I think, was the whole Festival. To meet and talk with, in one week, a spacewoman, a Cabinet Minister, a best selling novelist (and Old Dolphin) and someone named by The Guardian as one of the most inspirational women of our time, left my head spinning by Friday night. But let the girls, for whom we do everything we do, speak for themselves.

Godolphin and Latymer Festival Report – Xinran, Women of China Three keen interns, ten excitable ten year olds and an inspirational speaker made the Friday 4th March festival talk. We were unaware of what to expect when taking on the role of interns for this year’s festival and running a workshop for ten year olds on issues related to China seemed like a real challenge. However, it proved to be a rewarding experience for all involved.

We had to research and produce a lesson to teach Year 5 children from a local primary school. We had a 55 minute time slot to fill, so focusing on just one activity would not have been sufficient. However, we decided to split the lesson in to two parts: poster making and interactive debating. We taught them about various conservation issues relating to the tiger and the panda and how to

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debate and understand differing opinions surrounding the Three Gorges Dam. The children greatly enjoyed it, almost as much as we did.

Next came dinner with the speaker, Xinran, who gave us a unique insight into Chinese culture. As preparation, we each read a couple of her books, namely The Good Women of China and Sky Burial. After dinner we led Xinran to the Bishop Centre for her to deliver her talk, which moved many of us. We would like to give a big thank you to Mr Bell and the Development Office for organising the festival and giving us this opportunity.

Lisa Losseva, Freya Monro Morrison and Charlotte Tidman

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Staff Zone Interview with Michael Lyons, Groundsman at Godolphin and Latymer Q. Michael, what is your favourite colour and why the attachment to the colour?

A. My favourite colour is green. The national colour for Ireland is green so I am very proud of that colour.

Q. And your favourite dish?

A. Chinese, I love Chinese food; I can eat it forever.

Q. Tell me, what was the reason behind your decision to work for the Godolphin and Latymer School?

A. I came back to the UK after traveling the world experiencing large parts of Europe, Africa and Australia amongst other places. I thought to myself, well I need a job, something nice and comfortable, bit of a challenge and where the atmosphere suites my personality and I can just get on with things. Little did I know I had chosen the perfect job and place.

Q. So Michael, what is your secret to such an active life?

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My boys, I have two sons, Jack and Callum. They’re very active lads, they both play football, so I’ve got to do my best to keep up with them. To be honest with you, I have always been quite active as I used to be heavily involved in athletics.

Q. Interesting, can tell me a little more about that?

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Well I used to coach Linford Christie. He was very young at the time, roughly 17 maybe 18 years of age.

He was excellent, fantastic to train and of course extremely dedicated. I suppose the only problem I had with him was that I had to wake him up and get him out of bed on competition days, which usually took place on a Saturday. I coached many superb young athletes who went on to win the under twenty National Cross Country event.

Q. I hear that you were quite an amazing athlete yourself?

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Yes, well when I was five years old a cow kicked me.

You see my mother and father were farmers. I was in the cowshed when it happened and unfortunately the kick broke my leg. As far as the doctors were concerned it was touch and go as to whether or not I would walk again. When at last I could walk my father used to send me to the shop to get the newspaper, approximately one mile away. He did it so often that I began to walk faster each time, until I got so fed-up with going to the shop I started running.

Q. What an amazing story, so that was the beginning of a fruitful and long lasting interest in running?

A. Yes I have completed seventeen marathons, New York, London, Boston, East Berlin when the wall was still there, to name but a few.

Q. I’d love to know your PB (Personal Best)?

A. Two hours and forty seven minutes.

Impressive!

But it was not only running that I excelled in, I took an interest in pole vaulting and represented Ireland on a few occasions.

Exceptional, what a fantastic achievement.

Well you have to live life to the full.

Michael, thank you for the brief chat and I wish you all the best in your future endeavors.

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Failures

Mr Cooper

Maths

There are certain things that we all find challenging, and this term members of the G & L staff were prepared to confess all! Not surprisingly the ‘Staff Failures Board’ generated a certain amount of interest from the girls.

Nevertheless, they did not escape from sharing a few failings of their own, and a number of girls bravely added their own examples to the board.

Using apostrophe’s correctly!

Putting a duvet cover on a duvet.

Miss Shackleton

It is of course commonplace to highlight success within school, and fortunately we have much to celebrate.Yet there are also a number of important lessons that we can learn from our failures. When things go wrong, we need to ask why, and consider what we might do differently next time.

Singing.

Growing a healthy crop of tomatoes.

Sculpting objects in the game rapidough.

The important thing is to appreciate that you haven’t failed until you stop trying. It’s the difference between having a Fixed Mindset – ‘I can’t...’ and a Growth Mindset – ‘I can’t... yet’(Professor Carol Dweck, Stanford University).

Mr Seth

DIY. Organising any sort of paperwork.

Singing

DIY

Teaching my daughter to sleep through the night.

Mrs Sellars

Any kind of small talk.

Realising that I really don’t need yet another pair of shoes.

Eating porridge instead of croissants for breakfast.

Procrastination.

Accepting that life isn’t always fair.

Mr Nelson

Play Chess without cheating.

Putting the bins out on a Friday evening.

Watching Liverpool FC when they are losing.

Speaking on stage

Replying to friends’ emails

Spelling Being tidy

Procrastination Mending punctures

Exercise Public speaking

Driving

Eating Healthily Languages

Dance with confidence I once got 9% in a physics test Swimming

Relaxing when there is so much to do.

Being on time

Maths

Putting on Make-up

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Overcoming shyness

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Art History Presenting 6m tall paintings by David and Gericault to Japanese businessmen alongside our fellow students in the Louvre, working 16 hours a day visiting the Musée d’Orsay and Musée d’Art Moderne and walking through Hausmannised Paris – all in the name of art.

Luckily the History of Art trip wasn’t all intense work – us bohemians need our coffee breaks. We dined out every evening, browsed the luxury stores on the Champs Elysees, saw the city lit up at night from the Eiffel Tower (and then walked half of the 1792 steps down), ate nutella filled crepes, and lapped up the sumptuous atmosphere that oozed from the Art Nouveau entrances and musicians on the metro. We sang and we smiled, photographing every second of our adventures for facebook, even the swaying motion of the Eurostar, an unusual setting for our mock History of Art examination on the return journey.

Looking back it hardly seems like work at all, for what could be more pleasurable than spending four glorious days in arguably the most beautiful city in the world – thank you Ms Osborne and Ms Cutbill - vive Paris 2011!

Oliva Bright and Annabel Harris

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Community Links

Social Services

The music showcase with year 8 students at Cambridge School took place just before half-term.

Fifteen Cambridge School students enjoyed performances from Godolphin girls who showcased different musical instruments ranging from the harp to the electric guitar.

Following the performances the Cambridge students had a chance to find out more about the instruments and have a go themselves. Many thanks to Mr Martin for co-ordinating this event.

Winning design for a flag which will be carried to the summit of Mt Everest

We have also been invited to take part in a video exchange with Kelemework School, our link school in Addis Ababa. The project, ably led by Alexandra Olczak in UVI and Zehra Odunayo in LVI has consisted of putting together a DVD about school life at Godolphin including footage of groups of girls posing questions to the students at Kelemework. We hope to receive a video of their school in due course.

In November the Social Services team raised money for the Patch Expedition to Mt. Everest and promoted the Design a Patch Competition. Girls throughout the school were asked to design a ‘patch’ based on the theme of ‘UNICEF in Nepal’.

Many congratulations to Elizabeth Chan in LV whose design was chosen as the overall winning entry from all participating schools.

Elizabeth’s design will now be made into its very own flag and carried all the way to the summit of Everest later this Spring. Elizabeth will also receive a laptop and a book signed by Sir Ranulph Fiennes. She will be presented with her flag once it has made its spectacular journey back from Nepal and the summit of Everest!

Representatives from The Challenge network came back into school this term to speak to the UV about a unique and exciting opportunity to take part in a scheme which connects young people from different backgrounds across London and inspires them to make a positive impact in their local area. Girls, now in the LVI, took part for the first time last year and we hope that current UV students will be keen to participate too. More information about this project is available on the website www.the-challenge.org Other voluntary work news - we are also in the process of setting up a mentoring scheme with Gifted and Talented 15-16 year olds at Acton High. Sixth formers will be working with individuals in lunchtime clubs to offer advice and support to students aiming to raise their GCSE grades.

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Drama Blood Wedding Congratulations to the cast and crew of Blood Wedding for a fantastic performance. The production looked stunning thanks to the work of Mr Carey, Dr Tait and the Tech Club, and the outstanding costume design of Freya Steveni and Freya Monro Morrison. The acting was exceptional, with memorable performances from Ellie Bailey, Sarah BarfieldMarks and Sarah Renard. Our three boys (borrowed from St. Paul’s and Latymer Upper School), were terrific, and their performances added a new dimension to theatre at Godolphin. The play was a highly emotive one and rather difficult to perform, but the cast succeeded in delivering the tragedy with impact. A superb production!

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The Godolphin and Latymer Film Festival Many congratulations to all those girls who took part in Godolphin and Latymer’s first Film Festival in the first week of February. It was an Oscar’s-style night to remember, complete with red carpet, celebrity judges, live entertainment and fantastically inventive and varied films.

The Film Festival raised in excess of £4800 for the Bursary Fund and for Centrepoint, the charity that acts in support of the young homeless.

‘PE’ (as in ‘tried to make me go to PE, I said no, no, no’).

Congratulations to all who entered and participated.

Special thanks also go to the panel of judges who gave their expert views on the entrants and nominated their candidates for the awards: Simon Curtis, Director and Producer, Diana Phillips, Producer, the actresses Samantha Bond and Bonnie Wright and Edward Snape, Executive Producer.

The short films submitted for the festival showed great range and imagination from the Not the Nine o Clock News spoof to the surreal ‘David Attenborough’ style documentary focusing on the life of the dying ‘Frogdog’.

Then there was the varied and artistic cinematography of the ‘Any Ideas’ team who produced a complex short movie about being stuck for an idea on what to film which encompassed a whole range of genres was a sophisticated take on the task. Ciara Pignatelli’s pop video ‘Kiss the Girl’ showed excellent skill in the handling of a range of film techniques. As judge, Samantha Bond said, how amazing to be able to ‘uneat’ a banana and ‘unpour’ a cup of tea! The finale and overall ‘Best Film was the amazingly witty and accomplished version of Amy Winehouse’s ‘Rehab’ called

The whole event was led, organised and stage managed to perfection by a team of talented sixth formers who ensured the enthusiasm of the girls and the ‘frisson’ of excitement on the night. Frizzy Anderson, Elizabeth Banes, Maddy Gascoigne, Zahra Ahmed, Ciara Pignatelli, Aphra Pilkington, Zehra Odunayo, Zoe Tustain worked together as an inspirational team to drive the project forward independently. They ran workshops, provided technical solutions, managed, marketed, publicised, staged and ran the whole show. Not only did they inspire the whole school to get excited about filming, they inspired parents and celebrities and people prominent in the film industry to lend their support as judges and as sponsors supporting their fundraising efforts.

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Modern Foreign Languages Spanish debating

French enrichment

Congratulations to Georgia Demeure, Olivia Lamming, Ayesha Patwardhan and Rosie Snowball who took part in the highly competitive Spanish Debating Competition held at Sevenoaks School. Topics were wide-ranging and challenging including the equality of women, legalising drug use in sport, and the polemical anti-smoking laws in Spain. Ms Matthews praised the girls for their excellent contributions.

Tuesday lunchtime – LV and UV – if you are interested in enriching your French – this is the place to be – room 26 at 1:30pm. Girls have been looking at themes as wide ranging as Emile Zola, Maupassant and French rap!

German AS / A2 / IB topic day Eight avid German students attended the Deutscland Hier und Heute topic day. The day consisted of lectures and interactive role-plays aimed at Sixth Form students. Topics under discussion are related to youth crime, education, technology, social issues, tourism, immigration and current affairs. A hugely beneficial day all agreed! Mrs Fenton and Dr Creagh agreed on the high quality of the day.

Nantes exchange We welcomed our 12 Nantes exchange partners, who spent a great time in London, visiting Madame Tussauds, Windsor, all the fabulous sights London has to offer, and of course received a famous G&L welcome from families who were enormously hospitable. Thanks to all involved. We look forward to our return visit in the Easter holidays.

European Work Experience We welcomed 15 students from our partner schools in Berlin (Canisius College) and Versailles (Grandchamp) who spent a fabulous 2 weeks in London. Their work placements were all successful, and long lasting friendships have certainly been made! We look forward to our return visits in the Easter holidays. Many thanks to all the girls involved for their warmth and hospitality.

French topic day Richard Pelletier visited us again with his Gallic sense of “joie de vivre”. He wowed both A level and IB girls with a wide range of language and topical discussion. A great day was had by all, and all agreed it was extremely useful.

Blood Wedding ¡Estupendo! Congratulations to all involved in the production – fabulous to see Lorca’s play coming alive with such vibrancy in the Bishop Centre. Ms Hart commended the play for its “atmoshphere, use of music, effective staging…surreal element…the fine acting all round, in particular from La Madre and La Muerte”.

Esclub If you haven’t heard….Esclub runs every Friday at 1:30pm, in Room 27. Topics covered this term have included La Corrida de Toros, Frida Kahlo, La Movida, Pedro Almódovar, and Hispanic cuisine. Hay que ir. And of course Esplog http://www.esplog-godolphin.blogspot.com/

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Granada Good luck and buena suerte to all those departing for Granada – let’s hope there isn’t a repeat of the ash cloud!

We visit the Andalucian city in the Easter holidays.

LIV and UIV Visit to the Cologne Christmas Markets Shortly before the Christmas holidays 36 LIV and UIV Germanists travelled to Cologne to try out their German at some of Germany’s world-famous Christmas markets.

Following a hearty German breakfast we visited the 4711 shop and museum - home of Eau de Cologne - before enjoying a tour of the city’s iconic Cathedral. Having taken in the relics of the Three Kings, and the cathedral’s impressive gothic architecture, we strolled along the Rhein to the medieval market where we lunched and browsed to the tune of the medieval lute. Dessert was conveniently on hand in the form of the Chocolate Museum’s mouth-watering offerings - but not before we had marveled at the Lindt production line, and educated ourselves about the health-enhancing properties of the cocoa bean. The remainder of the afternoon was spent at the magical Alter Markt in central Cologne. As darkness fell, we witnessed the markets at their best: enchanting Christmas lights, cosy huts, charming gifts and the warming aromas of mulled wine and gingerbread. Many a Christmas gift was purchased – and most of them made it back to Hammersmith uneaten and intact...

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The Green Team Just as they do every year the Green Team has recently celebrated its renowned GREEN WEEK. A series of fun and creative events has taken place during this time involving the majority of the girls across all year groups. And the teachers have done their bit too by competing in the famous Teacher Bleep Test and helping raising money for two green charities: Trees For Cities and the WWF.

Dublin Visit October half term saw thirteen Lower Sixth Godolphin girls, flying across the Irish Sea to the capital city of Dublin.

It was a fun-filled trip focused around English and Irish literature. We were able to visit many monuments around the city centre; a fact-filled writer’s museum; the National Gallery of Ireland; Trinity College Dublin and even a local pub (for soft drinks only)! One evening we were lucky enough to experience a Samuel Beckett play that seemed to imagine the end of the world. The trip was a huge success and was thoroughly enjoyed by everyone. Many thanks to Mr Bell and Miss Wallace for accompanying us.

Alex Hindley LVI-6 Zehra Odunayo LVI-10

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Young Enterprise The Godolphin and Latymer School Hammersmith honoured for its commitment to promoting the entrepreneurs of the future Young Enterprise London’s Centres of Excellence Award Ceremony On Wednesday, 2 February, The Godolphin and Latymer School was honoured for its outstanding commitment to supporting enterprise education at the Young Enterprise London Centres of Excellence Award Ceremony. Miss Drennan is pictured receiving the award from Roy Howard, Operations Director for Young Enterprise London.

In each of the last three years we have had two Young Enterprise Companies in the LVI. The students have applied themselves with huge energy and enthusiasm in running companies that they have set up and run from scratch. Each year we are amazed and greatly encouraged by the entrepreneurship and independence demonstrated by students. It is no mean feat setting up a complex organisation requiring a wide range of skills, from team working, to financial and commercial awareness to general business nous.

Products produced have ranged from cosmetics, decorative candles, jewellery and textiles to salt dough models.

The professional quality of items produced as well as the marketing employed has been most impressive. All companies have made profits, sometimes modest, but more often surprisingly large.

Companies are ably supported by external business advisers who act as mentors. The emphasis is on ‘learning by doing’, however, and the role of the adviser is simply to facilitate. We have been fortunate in having Irene Ruberebuka supporting companies over the last two years, and this year we also have David Willetts as business adviser. Both Irene and David bring a great deal of business and enterprise experience and we are most grateful for the time they have voluntarily given to supporting students with their enterprise initiatives.

At the beginning of the school year 3 girls decided to take part in the Young Enterprise Programme. The girls divided up into two groups and devised their company names.

One was named ISIS; a hand-made jewellery making company. The other was known as Mystie; a company producing home-made, fair-trade lip balms.

The aim of Young Enterprise is for the girls to improve their entrepreneurial skills by setting up a company and running the whole thing from scratch. We needed to find a way to raise funds, either by baking cakes for cake sales or putting the funds in ourselves by buying shares in the company. Each company’s shareholders nominated the MD (Managing Directors) who then consulted and decided on the other positions in the company. Positions included Marketing, Finance, Sales and Administration.

From our Managerial perspective we found the whole process very exciting and a great learning curve. We gained experience in how to run a business, manage accounts and business plans, look after stock, run trade stalls and much more. We are now working towards the final competition in which we present out respective business experiences to a panel of judges at Young Enterprise.

All the girls would agree that it was an extremely worthwhile experience and we would definitely do it again.

We would also advice any younger girls to get involved as it provides a great experience of value for the future.

Zehra Odunayo LVI-10 Caroline Watson LVI-14

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Science Week This year (from 14-18 March) we had our biggest Science Week to date with eight different events for girls, teachers and the public to attend. The lunchtime drop-in lab sessions included girls studying the behaviour of woodlice in mazes, launching egg-o-nauts high into the sky (some over 40 metres) before returning them safely (in the main!) to earth, and our perennial favourite of making bathbombs. We held a LVI science ”pub quiz” jointly with St Paul’s boys’ and girls’ schools and Latymer Upper School and these schools were also involved in an engineering challenge that 13 of our UV girls attended at St Paul’s School (with the top two teams containing Godolphin girls who returned laden with chocolate prizes). On the Thursday, we held a forensics day for the whole LV (where the girls eventually surmised that Mr Wong had murdered our Head in a tragic case of unrequited love) and we closed the week with two excellent events on the Friday – the first a talk and a book-signing by the witty and engaging doctor, journalist and author, Max Pemberton, who by turns moved and enthralled (with some quite revealing and often risqué stories of his times on the NHS wards) over

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a hundred of our girls and other guests before being very generous with his time for a subsequent book signing; the second, our annual LIV Science Nightclub, where 20 LIV girls and their LVI helpers stayed overnight n the labs for hours of fun and learning (and of course, midnight feasting).

This year they experienced a mobile planetarium, did some real star-gazing and looked at the super-moon through our telescope before a spot of kitchen chemistry (sorry if they’ve ruined any kitchens at home!) and code breaking. In the morning, they had a quiz and the usual balloon release which was a wonderful way to round off the event and Science Week as a whole.

We are very proud indeed of our Science Week at Godolphin – it is bigger than any other we are aware of, and the girls who take part get to see science in a totally different light. We are already busy planning next year’s...!

UIII Visit to St Albans Abbey On 1st March the UIII went to St Albans Abbey. It was a really beautiful church. Our group made copies of some brasses using a technique called brass rubbing. We were told the history of St Albans Abbey and shown the legendary stone pedestal which once held St Alban’s bones.

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