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End of term news letter of the Godolphin and Latymer School

OLPHIN NEWS Autumn 2011 – Issue 20

Visit to Morocco 2011

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Contents Christmas Bazaar

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Music

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Development Office News

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Staff Zone

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Cross Curricular

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Movember

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Library

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Useful Info

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PE

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Rowing

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Modern Foreign Languages

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Art and Design

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Geography

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Christmas Bazaar 2011

This year's Christmas Bazaar was a huge success and raised ÂŁ18,000 Many thanks to eveyone who supported the occasion and donated items to sell or for the raffle and silent auction.

We had 37 different groups of girls with their own stalls and every year group was represented in that number.

Our apple strudel team made 215 strudels and the UV gave up their lunchtimes and delivered nearly 2000 leaflets to the neighbouring streets.

Special mention should go to the Christmas decoration making ladies (and one man) who created some stunning decorations this year, their stall in the gym was amazing.

It was really lovely to see so many Old Dolphins here and catch up with their news.

Every year the donations and prizes differ tremendously but the atmosphere and strong sense of community are always the driving force behind the Christmas Bazaar and its success. Thank you all very much.

Sue Adey and Julia Hodgkins

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Music As ever, this Autumn Term has seen a great variety of music making happening across the school and large numbers of girls have taken part in a variety of different performances.

These include the School Birthday, in which the senior choirs took part, and the Autumn Concert which featured all of the larger orchestral and choral groups and, of course, the Carol Service.

The Latymer & Godolphin Joint Orchestra Concert was a great success and featured solo concerto movements from two girls in the UVI; Abigail Magrill who performed Mozart's Adagio in E on the violin, and Molly Reid who played the first movement of Stamitz Bassoon Concerto.

Congratulations to both on superb performances!

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Development Office News With creative writing now part of the curriculum and an integral part of the A level and IB courses, this Programme will not only add to those studying English at this level, but will also prepare the school’s younger pupils for advanced English. During the half term break, LVI pupils also spent 3 days immersing themselves in writing and reading and gleaning expert advice from Mario in a converted Abbey near Oxford.

Award-winning Writer Launches Literary Initiatives Award-winning writer and poet, Mario Petrucci, is launching various literary initiatives as the Writer in Residence at The Godolphin and Latymer School, as part of the school’s Creative Life Programme.

Mario, formerly a Royal Literary Fund Fellow at Oxford Brookes and Westminster Universities, and currently RLF Fellow at Brunel University, is running a residential writing course, evening classes, and lunchtime club for Sixth Form English pupils. Mario will be visiting Brackenbury Primary School where pupils are also participating in the Creative Life Programme.

The programme also encompasses classes as part of the curriculum, in particular creative writing. In addition, after school, pupils can attend a Writing Clinic, where they can spend one to one time with Mario, focusing on a particular area of writing. Mario will also be sharing his expertise with parents, friends and local residents through two 4 week adult writing courses at The Godolphin and Latymer School.

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Head of English, Mr Julian Bell, said, “Having a Writer in Residence is a fabulous asset for those studying English in the Sixth Form at Godolphin and Latymer, and one which very few schools can boast. The pupils will really benefit and enjoy learning directly from a professional writer.

Having our very own Writer in Residence has only been possible due to the school’s Annual Giving Programme, for which we are enormously grateful.”

Mario said, “It’s unusual, and somewhat intriguing, to be involved in a school residency that so prominently involves its wider community. By bringing science and study skills into the equation too, this writing residency begins to have the feel of a layered onion that can survive the seasons, rather than a single blade of grass that might wither once the visiting poet has gone.”

Mario has received many awards for his poetry: he is four times winner of the London Writers Competition and recipient of the 2002 Arvon/Daily Telegraph International Poetry Prize. The school’s Annual Giving Programme is supported by gifts from former pupils, staff, parents and past parents. This year every member of staff supported the programme.

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FREE AND LOYAL ART THOU Telephone Campaign 2011 We are indeed fortunate to have such wonderful supporters who generously provide their time, interest and financial backing to Godolphin and Latymer.

Nowhere has this been more obvious than with our first telephone campaign to Old Dolphins. We know how much our Old Dolphins enjoy a visit or a phone call from someone from the school. For many, who live far afield, a visit or trip back to school is too difficult. So we wanted to connect with our Old Dolphins. The telephone campaign was a chance to do just that.

bursary place for 5 years. The £65,000 raised is a great gift from our old girls to our new girls.

Above all though, the connections and conversations our recent leavers had with other Old Dolphins were incredibly heart warming. Clare, Phoebe, Emily, Mary, Eleanor, Pippa, Julia, Wells, Hiba, Atty, Roxanne, Sian and Isabelle recounted special conversations. Our Old Dolphins gave offers of career advice, work placements and even jobs.

Along the way, Old Dolphins committed to funding a

But our Old Dolphins also gave our callers a remarkable sense and flavour of Godolphin and Latymer over the past 70 years. Inspirational, interesting, independent and involved. Those are our Old Dolphins.

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Anne Sebba Public Lecture

More than 200 Old Dolphins and former staff came back to school on a beautifully warm October day for the Old Dolphins' Day and AGM 2011. The Classes of 1951, 61, 71, 81 and 91 came back for their reunions and to catch up with friends and staff. Our guest speaker was the travel writer Alexandra Fitzsimmons (Class of 1999), who gave a fascinating talk on her adventures, following in the footsteps of Eric the Red – the Viking who founded Greenland.

300 guests enjoyed a lecture by acclaimed biographer, lecturer and journalist, Anne Sebba, about her biography of Wallis Simpson, That Woman.

As well as the annual Old Dolphins v Current Girls hockey match, the Old Dolphins took on the girls in the first debate Life begins when you leave school. Sadly the ODs didn’t make a compelling enough case and lost on one point.

On 16th November, 14 Old Dolphins met up in Brooklyn for the second New York Reunion. Inspiring yet more connections, Old Dolphins will be meeting up in LA and in Exeter before the end of the year as well as planning for reunions in Canada, Melbourne, Israel and Germany in 2012.

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The lecture, which took place in the Bishop Centre, was part of the Friends' Public Lecture Series. 10 pupils from Fulham Cross Girls’ School were invited as guests of Godolphin and Latymer. Teacher of English, Beth Allwood, said, “The girls and I found the talk both extremely informative and enjoyable. Students selected to attend were those that have displayed a particular flare for writing and are intending to pursue careers in literature. Their enthusiastic reaction to Anne’s eloquent exploration of the life of Wallis Simpson and the subject of storytelling, left me in no doubt that they were inspired by the presentation.”

Afterwards, guests joined Anne in the hall where she signed copies of her books. All proceeds from the event were donated to the Godolphin and Latymer Bursary Fund.

Series Convenor, Dr Kenneth Wolfe, said, “Anne Sebba has made a huge contribution to our window into the troubled times of the abdication; and of course has readjusted the common, prejudiced view of Wallis Simpson. We were thus delighted to have this woman talking about That Woman!"

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Staff Zone Mr Neville Smith, Groundsman I feel I have settled in to school life quite nicely. I am really encouraged by members of staff who comment on my work, for example, the grounds are looking nice and tidy. What I am really looking forward to is injecting a bit of creativity and colour into the gardens, which will give me, and I hope others, a great deal of satisfaction.

There is a science to what I do and having knowledge of plantlife and the effect seasonal changes can potentially have is of great importance.

Working outdoors in this type of environment fits quite nicely with my true passion, bird watching. Ornithology has been an interest of mine for many years. I tend to visit particular nature reserves where I can observe many unusual birds not often seen on a day-to-day basis in the UK. I am particularly interested in passage migrants, which are birds that travel through the spring and then back again in the autumn. The data I collect from bird watching is actually very important in regard to the behaviour of bird species within the British Isles. I often feed the data into the London Natural History Society website for analytical and documenting purposes. This data is then colated and revised at the end of the year.

I have been invited to team up with the local bird watching celebrity and urban birder, David Lindo, to work on a TV project together. This has not been finalised as yet but it is an exciting future possibility.

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Cross Curricular G&L girls win 'Best Picture' In the first week of November, all the girls in UIV took part in a One Day Film School, run by the Young Film Academy.

Their task was to plan, script, film and edit a two minute film within a single day. Most professional filmmakers would be daunted by such a prospect – the girls more than rose to the challenge!

They received expert tuition in all aspects of the process, and were quickly able to combine their creative ideas with their newfound technical skills. After applying a variety of visual effects and sound dubbing to their rough cuts, they quickly transformed them into polished short films.

The day culminated in a film festival with each entry being projected onto the ‘big screen’ in the Bishop Centre. It was clear from the outset that the judges were going to have a very tough time choosing an overall winner. At the invitation of the YFA, the event was attended by Robin Kinsey from Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures UK, who was suitably impressed by both the girls' interest and enthusiasm and also by the high standard of their films.

After much deliberation, an overall winner was awarded ‘Best Picture’ and presented with an Oscar style trophy.

The girls clearly enjoyed the entire day and learnt a great deal from it, as can be seen in the selected comments below. I very much hope to see some of their names appear in the end credits of major film releases in the future!

“The day was amazing! We all had great fun and the instructors were really helpful and interesting! It definitely opened my eyes to the vast world of filmmaking, and I would be really interested in taking it up at another time!”

Emma Neely commented “This course was amazing, I learnt so much and had a great time directing!”

Laura Masselos

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Movember During November each year, Movember is responsible for the sprouting of moustaches on thousands of men’s faces in the UK and around the world. The aim of this is to raise vital funds and awareness of men’s health, specifically prostate cancer and other cancers that affect men. This year, Godolphin and Latymer Staff got involved, is sponsored by the girls. Mr Belfrage, Mr Laflin; Mr Cooper, Mr Workman, Mr Berridge, Mr McGrath, Mr Barot, Mr Davies, Mr Martin, and Mr Hall have all been growing some fabulous Mos, and the whole school is very proud of their support of such a great cause.

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Library Over the summer of 2011, the Dean Room of the Library was refurbished to a high standard. New shelves were installed, as well as power points in the floor beneath the tables for charging laptops. Laptops are useful tools, as beyond the physical collection of books, DVDs and magazines, the Library has a strong collection of electronic resources. These can be viewed from school or from home: https://library.godolphinandlatymer.com/oliver and is also

linked as Library Catalogue from the school website. A quick reference list of websites and databases is available on the Online Resources page. The Library now has an iPad for girls and staff to use in the Library. It has been loaded with educational apps, and reading tools such as iBooks, Kindle and Kobo. New content is being added all the time!

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Godolphin girls and staff have this term been involved in a huge range of activities. Forty seven assemblies, seven formal music concerts, fifty three visits off site, eight visits abroad, one senior play, three separate bonding days, roughly two hundred and fifty sports fixtures, three open afternoons, five parents’ evenings, in excess of seven hundred and fifty calendared “meetings”, somewhere in the region of three hundred society meetings, over twenty thousand lessons, a Christmas Bazaar and of course one School Birthday.

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PE Would a group of noisy school girls who hate the English weather and constantly complain about getting up on a Monday morning really go on a netball and hockey tour to Northern Ireland? Well, at Godolphin we most certainly would, and were given this wonderful opportunity by the sports department, who took us there in the first week of the autumn half term. Though the rain was ten times heavier, the cold was ten times colder and our sleep was hardly sleep at all, we also enjoyed the delights of victory, the excitement of tourism, the comfort of the hotel. We could not have had more fun even if we’d tried! Both hotels were very hospitable and managed to just about put up with our noise and our endlessly losing our room keys.

All the food we ate was delicious and by the end of the tour no one wanted to leave the hotels.

The netball players all played incredibly well. The A team were very almost undefeated but were unfortunate to lose their last match where they came up against some much older and some much taller girls at Rockport School. It was a very tight match and they only lost by 3 goals. Their biggest win was against Loreto College whom they beat 39-14, this was a great game to watch and they all played very well. They all enjoyed coming up against different opposition they had never met. The B team were also almost undefeated, but unfortunately lost one match to Methodist College. The B team's biggest win was against The Royal School of Armagh whom they beat 25-0; this was a great result and they all played extremely well. The netballers were all up and raring to go for the netball season when they got back. They all played very well and both the A and B teams should be congratulated on how they played in Northern Ireland.

learnt a lot from this match. We all went into our final match against Sullivan High School with high spirits, and determination. Again it was a very close match, and we narrowly lost 2-1 to a very strong opposition. Everyone in the team learnt much from this experience, and we are definitely ready for the upcoming season!

We all found the trip to Northern Ireland very enjoyable.

We learnt a lot about Northern Ireland and its history. We all had a great time and improved greatly in our hockey and netball skills. The matches were especially fun, despite the harsh weather. We’d like to say a massive thank you to Miss Row for organising the visit, and to Miss Elfick, Miss Johnston, Miss Nicholas and Miss Row for coaching and supporting us, and making the trip all the more enjoyable.

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Camille Harrison,Viola Lough and Natasha Whitham

Our hockey players also played superbly, improving as every match went by throughout the tour. Our first match against Royal School Armagh displayed some tough weather conditions (hail!) and a very strong opposition.

Unfortunately, despite some excellent shouting on the sidelines by Miss Row, we lost. However we learnt a lot from this first match, and we were determined to not let the defeat get us down, and carry on what we had learned to our next games.

Our second match presented to us again, tough weather conditions and a strong opposition. However we took what we learnt from our previous match onto the pitch, and we were very unlucky to lose narrowly by one goal.

Our third match was again very close, the play was very even and both teams had many chances, and played very well. The match resulted in a fair draw, and again we

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Rowing At the Teddington Head of the River Race in November, the G&LBC won two events in the J16 Fours and J15 Quads. Well done to Phoebe Tatton-Brown, Beattie White, Rosanna Sheehan, Annie Bird and Kitty Walker in the J16s, and Caris Coyle, Tatiana Dowley, Lulu Duns, Emma Ferrabee and with Captain of Boats Victoria Taylor as cox, who won the J15 quads.

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The Festive Races, where G&L rowers combine with KCS to compete in mixed age level races, dressed in Christmas costume, was well attended by girls and their parents on December 4. The G&L J14s certainly got a taste of high rating racing, when the strokes of the crews were usually a sixth form KCS boy! Much fun was had by all.

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Modern Foreign Languages Visit to Madrid Going to Madrid on the School Birthday weekend of 2011 was an experience entirely unlike any of us had imagined. Of course, we knew we would be constantly speaking Spanish and hence would improve our oral skills immensely, but we never realised just how much one weekend could improve our understanding of Spanish culture. Firstly, for some obscure reason, those of us who had not been to Madrid before expected a slightly polluted and vaguely dirty city with traffic, noise and chaos. What we got could not have been further removed from that image. As we mainly walked around Madrid, as opposed to jumping on the metro or a bus, we saw a beautiful city with magnificent architecture and friendly people.

The museums we visited were filled with wonders of the modern and renaissance worlds. La Reina Sofia was our first museum visit, and it presented us with the wonder that is Picasso’s Guernica. Walking through the exhibition room was eye-opening as we looked at the all the stages that advanced into his magnificent work of art. In no way is it possible to be disappointed by Guernica. Spread across an entire wall and depicting possibly every aspect and consequence of the 1936 bombing of Guernica during the Spanish Civil War, we were all taken aback by its presence.

El Prado, a grand museum we visited on the last day of our trip, was equally exceptional. With halls filled with enormous renaissance paintings from the different areas of the world, we could really understand the respective countries’ cultures.

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An especially cultural moment we all experienced when in Madrid was the memorial for the train bombings of 2004 in the Atocha station. These bombings, the perpetrators being the terrorist group Al Qaeda, killed almost 200 people and injured many more. The memorial consisted of a small anteroom we had to wait in to enter the main room, with a wall filled with a list of the names of the fatalities. The main room had a translucent dome in the centre. Looking up, we could see quotes from newspapers and speakers in different languages on the situation in Madrid at the time. Looking up into the dome seemed symbolic of looking up to the victims, wherever they may be now. It truly touched us all.

Of course, the authenticity of our visit was memorable.

Eating “chocolate con churros”, picnicking in the park and eating typically Spanish dinners all embellished our visit as we experienced true Spanish culture. We had a wonderful time boating on the lake in the park and enjoyed dancing with all the Madrileños in a plaza in front of a makeshift stage. Even when we include the less-disastrous-than expected overnight delay of returning home due to an Iberia strike, the trip was an overall success. All of us were so pleased we had signed up, and with all that we packed into the weekend, it seemed much longer than it really was. A huge thank you is due to Ms Hart, Miss Matthews and Miss Prodhomme for taking us and making our trip to Madrid so much fun!

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An enjoyable and entertaining experience for all.

French Debating Competition On November 9th, Freya Steveni and Rosie Snowball went to Highgate School to represent the school at the North London French Debating Competition where more than 22 teams competed against each other representing over 15 schools. This year the motions which the girls had to prepare were on riots, the Olympic Games and new technologies. The girls expressed themselves fluently and won one of their two debates but unfortunately they didn’t make it to next round.

Congratulations to Freya and Rosie on their excellent performance on the night.

UVI French cultural Visit to Paris During October half-term, 10 UVI girls enjoyed a long cultural weekend in Paris. In addition to touring famous sites such as Le Panthéon and Le Musée d’Orsay, girls were also able to sample some delicious macaroons from Ladurée. On the Sunday afternoon they met a group of French students from the Lycée St Michel de Picupus and that initial meeting was followed up by a visit to the Lycée itself where girls were able to attend some lessons. It was an eye opening and most enjoyable experience for both students and staff alike.

German Exchange 2011 The German exchange was a very interesting and exciting experience for both us and our German counterparts. It was easy for each exchange partner to settle in, and they were all eager to become part of the family. We were very quick to find, however, that their English was a lot better than our German. With Latymer Upper School and Godolphin and Latymer, they went and saw many sights in London. There were museums, a trip to Greenwich, the Tower of London, more museums, and even an Old Operating Theatre.

French Literary Society This term saw the launch of the French Literary Society where girls from the UV to the UVI have had the opportunity to read Madame Bovary by Flaubert in a dual text edition. The group, led by Madame Halls, has thus been able to examine both Flaubert’s style and the culture of XIX century French Society.

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They had a lot of fun, especially in the first week, when the weather defied all their opinions of what English weather was like. It was sunny all week, and didn’t rain at all. By the second week, however, it was back to its usual standard but still, they said, hardly worse than in Hamburg! Soon it will be Easter, when all eleven of us go and stay with our partners for two weeks, and see all the sights that define Hamburg. It can’t come soon enough!

Sophie Drake LV A

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Art and Design Art and Design Visit to The Pitt Rivers and Natural History Museum, Oxford University Earlier this term, the Art and Design department took UV artists to The Pitt Rivers Museum which cares for the University of Oxford's collection of anthropology and world archaeology.

The Museum displays over half a million archaeological and ethnographic objects from all parts of the world. These sources provided a wealth of visual stimulus for the girls to observe and record in their coursework sketchbook.

They selected to work from objects they found particularly relevant to their ideas. Their decisions were made independently and their choices included observing Pacific island objects, including a magnificent Tahitian mourner's costume, collected during Captain Cook's Second Voyage in 1773-74; Hawaiian feather cloaks in brilliant shades of red and yellow; a wide range of hand-woven textiles and looms, pottery from Africa and the Americas, including many pre-Columbian pieces; costumes from North America including Inuit fur parkas, Australasian mammals and Jurassic vertebrates and invertebrates.

As teaching and research is of the foremost importance to the institution and the curators of the museum, girls were allowed to touch many of the exhibits and this enabled them to record not only what they observed by sight but also the texture of objects.

This was an incredibly successful visit which hugely enriched the girls’ development of ideas.

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Alicia Abu Jaber (UV) Wins First Prize in the Bedford Park Festival Film Shorts Competition.

In June I found out about a film competition for 12-18 year olds based in West London called BPF (Bedford Park Festival) Shorts. It was exactly the type of event I had been searching for. There was a star studded judging panel including Colin Firth, and the enticing prize of a Canon 55OD camera. I decided to make a film on something I loved so I started bringing my camera to my dance lessons and the lessons I taught (however getting three year olds to conform to my artistic vision was a challenge).

I visualised the shots I wanted in my head and then set out to make them a reality. Syncing the frames with the music I had chosen and making them flow without seeming disjointed was a challenge but after endless clicking and the

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wheel of death appearing many a time on my Apple Mac, I was content. When I heard that there had been over 50 entrants, I didn’t get my hopes up so when I attended the awards ceremony and my name was called out after the words “The award for best film goes to “For Those Who’d Rather Not Walk” by:” I was very surprised and thrilled that my hard work had paid off.

Filmmaking is something I love to do and I wasn’t in it for the prize but the Canon 55OD was a huge bonus which is currently serving me well. I’m so grateful to Kelvin Murray for organising the event so I shall do some advertising for him: 2011 was the first year of BPF shorts but from now on it is going to be an annual event so you can get involved next year by going to http://www.bpfshorts.co.uk. It is an inspiring and confidence building experience which I would highly recommend.

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Geography Morocco Geography Study tour During half term a group of 12 sixth formers and 2 staff, Miss lee and Mrs Sutherland, set off for Morocco for a study tour with a difference!

The purpose of the trip was to experience another and very different culture from life in Hammersmith, and G&L! Our trip commenced in Marrakesh, where a sightseeing tour took us round the inner city in horse and carriage.

Visits to a homeopathic apothecary, the Souk and medina were made as well as watching the sunset from the famous Djemaa el-Fna Square.

On our third day we made our way to the High Atlas about two hours from Marrakesh to the village of Imlil.

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Whilst Imlil is relatively accessible, some of the villages are much more remote.

Our stay was in the exceptional Kasbah du Toubkal perched on a hill overlooking Imlil and is second to none as far as an idyllic retreat is concerned. With warmth, comfort and Berber hospitality we had the most enjoyable stay.

Our days were spent hiking in the stunning Atlas Mountains, and we spent one night in the village of Tacheddirt altitude 2293m which has only had electricity installed in the last two years.

We had a marvellous trip and none of us wanted to come back home. The pictures allow you to share our wonderful experience in this country.

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LIV Trip to Burnham Beeches On Thursday 13th October, the LIV went on a visit to Burnham Beeches located in South Buckinghamshire. The trip’s main focus was for us to learn about and explore the environment of a Temperate Deciduous Woodland- for this is what we were studying before the trip. We stopped at numerous areas of the wood to compare the different types of trees and woodlands.

We stopped at the Oak and Birch area, The Pine Woodland and the Beech woodland. The tranquil atmosphere of these woodlands was astounding and breathtaking, and very unlike our everyday city lives. For the woodlands, we measured the angle to the top of the canopy using clinometers- this was quite an interesting task because we had to work as a class without the help of our teacher.

We also observed the shrub layer of each area as well as the ground layer which we observed using a quadrat- a grid made of wire that is placed on the ground to make observing the area easier.

We also looked at the practise of coppicing. We examined an ancient Pollard which was chosen on the Queens Golden Jubilee, so it must be protected by a fence. There were many coppiced trees as well which we were able to look at, which were all protected by a small fence so wildlife couldn’t get at them. These sections of the trip gave us the chance to draw diagrams, which I think we all enjoyed.

The final things we did were visit the visitors' centre, and the Upper Pond. The Upper Pond was a very alluring environment which is one of the main attractions at Burnham Beeches, for it is very calm and has seating areas.

The cafe and visitors' centre was included to educate our community about the importance of Temperate Deciduous Woodland, which was very interesting to look at.

Overall this trip was a very enjoyable experience on a lovely autumn day and I am sure we all learned a lot from it, for we have all grown up in the city and it was amazing to experience the woods.

Molly Banes, LIVB

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You will study some exciting texts from other languages as well as Shakespeare and other classical texts

• The IB Diploma has been described as ‘a first class ticket to the world’ - why not embark on this journey!

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