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EDITION 59 5th July 2019
The weekly newsletter for the Holyport College family
Inaugural Careers Fair The first Careers Fair at Holyport College was held on Monday 1st July. The 28 organisations exhibiting were drawn from colleges, apprenticeship, volunteer and work placement providers. These ranged from KMPG, the RAF, Reading University, Projects Abroad etc .. and many had freebies to go. Mrs Matovu Huge thanks to Mrs Matovu for organising this very successful event! Fatehjang Mann gives his thoughts:
The Careers Fair was an interesting addition to Holyport; opening up the possibility of work after education, noting what qualifications you may need and the skill that may help you land you that job. I really enjoyed having the opportunity to talk to potential future employers and ask questions that may interest me. The fair showed me the different types of jobs and work experience I can receive at a younger age or even after education. On top of that the swag I collected was great! All the pens, booklets and bags were very generous. In summary, I really enjoyed the fair and opportunities that opened my perspective to the world of work after education and types of work experiences available to us. I would love to have more of these things, as they are much needed for the outside world.
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IN THIS EDITION
From the CCF Second Lieutenant Loudoun reports from CCF Summer Central Camp
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From the Sixth Form UCAS applications, a visiting Artist and Scholars
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From the DofE Bronze Expedition weekend report
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From the Fives Courts Miss Kerr’s report on Fives at Holyport College
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From the Community Information from a local community interest company
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From the Refectory Next week’s lunch menus
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From the Calendar Upcoming events and dates for your diaries
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FROM THE CCF
DIXIT 5h July 2019
What to expect on a Combined Cadet Force (CCF) Summer Central Camp Barry Buddon military camp fully embraces all the army principles. It allows cadets to revise and practice army lessons under the leadership of senior cadets, CCF officers, regular soldiers and the Officers Training Corps (OTCUniversity students doing CCF to train as officers). The Scottish accent is strong and the London based and fringe schools have struggled to understand what is going on at times during drill and parade. Accommodation is fairly basic, it is essentially a military boarding school, a little clinical but a welcoming shelter from the Scottish elements. Moths accommodate all bathrooms and are the size of small bats - we had all been warned about the high likelihood of getting ticks. The cost of the camp was ÂŁ100 per cadet which was fantastic value for what they received! Every day cadets line up on parade outside their accommodation block and march everywhere on camp in their sections both in army dress or civilian clothing. One of the Eton boys even played the bagpipes while our section marched to the army stores. Breakfast is served at 7:00 followed by rifles being issued by the armoury at 8:00. Lunch is either provided in containers at the range or back at base with dinner at 17:00. All Officers and CFAV's (Cadet Force Adult Volunteers) attend a board meeting at 18:00 to review and brief on daily activities. Cadets are then debriefed in the evenings with further military lessons between 19:00-21:00hrs.
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FROM THE CCF
Breakdown of Camp: Friday - 18:00 meet at Eton for a 'last supper' of Dominos pizzas in the Officers mess followed by a lot of boot polishing, packing and ironing. At 20:00hrs we depart Eton and got on the coach to Scotland for a 10 hr+ overnight journey. Saturday- Arrive at Barry Buddon training camp at 7:00. Settled into accommodation, iron kit and personal admin. We took the boys to the beach for a swim and all went in including staff. Sunday- Morning parade and inspection of all 300+ cadets who had arrived for the week’s camp. There were a range of schools both State and Independent with contingents from Scotland and England. Schools included: Eton, Fettes, George Herriot, Merchiston, Dollar Academy, Loretto School and Islington Academy. The afternoon was formed up of revision lessons from Second Lieutenant Loudoun, Major Osborne and Under Officer Couchman on Fieldcraft including: Two person shelter, admin in the field, why things are seen, camouflage and concealment, observation, judging distance, target indication, obstacle crossing, stalking, fire control orders and individual fire and movement. We also covered some of the Tactical Principles including: Quick Battle orders, section formations, patrolling, section attacks and contact drills. Cadets brushed up on essential weapons handling revision on the Cadet GP 5.56mm rifle; including shooting coaching on how to position your body and control your breathing while firing. Monday - This was our Adventure training day and only nonmilitary day. We took the bus to the coast in civilian clothes where cadets were sized up on mountain bikes and taken through a very scenic and fairly challenging 2 hour ride through various trails. After lunch, cadets put on wet wet-suits and got ready for Coasteering. We did a variety of jumps into the sea from 3-10 meters along with bouldering on the Scottish coastline. Cadets helped others and Miss Loudoun face their fears of heights! We teamed up with Edinburgh Academy CCF and headed to the beach for fish and chips in the evening followed by sports games on the beach from boys and girls from both schools. Tuesday - Our D company, containing 4 schools and 50 cadets headed to the Range day. Cadets got to shoot around 60 live rounds at the targets from 100 meters. Cadets got to work the target system, pulling the leavers to raise targets. Staff were deployed onto sentry duties (where they man a box and report to the range control any ship movement at sea in the danger zones and control entrance to the range). This gave Second Lieutenant Loudoun some time to write Year 10 reports and mark trials! In the evening we attended archery lessons on camp and laser shotgun simulating clay pigeon shooting.
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FROM THE CCF
5h July 2019
Wednesday - Round robin exercises in field tactics. Cadets learnt how to clear a bunker and formed section attacks using paint ball guns and a series of targets which were raised with pulleys in the field. Some students got confused and waved back to staff on a stalking exercise, where they were meant to remain unseen. Here 3 cadets reached the watch tower without being noticed. On the range we were able to fire a sniper rifle and check our bullet holes through the targets. First aid was a race to help casualties and a talk and demonstration of a medic's job in the field. There were some missing arms in the battle scenario along with fake and live casualties. Lessons continued until 10pm in the evening run by our staff before cadets packed their rucksacks ready to deploy on exercises in the field the following morning. Thursday - Second Lieutenant Loudoun was officially in charge of the Eton Contingent, as the highest ranking staff member, after Major Osborne had flown to Cyprus to visit the other Eton College camp of older cadets. With loaded rucksacks of kit, our ration packs ready and rifles loaded with blank ammunition we headed into the field for a 30 hr exercise. We practiced battle routines and picked up intelligence to help us plan tomorrow’s attacks on the enemy. There was a visit from Major General Bathurst to all London District schools (Eton and Islington Academy) who had recently inspected the Eton Military Tattoo and had come up especially to see the boys. We were allocated a designated area called our 'Harbour' which we had to enter in a certain way. String marks the triangular route of the camp with all basher shelters facing outwards. Cadets slept with their rifle weapons systems in their sleeping bags and were woken up throughout the night for 1 hour patrols. Friday - We woke up on camp at 5.30am and began the morning routines of eating our mysteriously labelled breakfasts in our ration packs. After, we were conducting the planned platoon attacks on the enemy with Charlie and Delta teams Personal Radio headsets. We headed back to camp for a debrief and wash before leaving Barry Buddon at 20:00 for an overnight coach journey home. Saturday - We are due back at Eton College after a 10 hour + overnight coach at 7:00 hrs. At this time we will all enjoy and appreciate being able to eat what we like, when we like and being able to walk in lines that aren't straight and regimented! The trip was thoroughly enjoyable and it is a shame than none of the thirteen Holyport cadets who signed up in September 2018 could make it to camp this year due to various circumstances and prior holiday commitments. We hope more students consider joining CCF and come and experience this amazing opportunity. If you are still interested in joining in September 2019 please email Second Lieutenant Loudoun as soon as possible before the end of the academic year. (K.loudoun@holyportcollege.org.uk) 5
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FROM THE SIXTH FORM
UCAS Accounts are now set up – deadlines coming… At the back end of last week the Year 12 came off timetable to set up their UCAS accounts for application to UK universities. They also began work on their Personal Statements. We were lucky enough to have an admissions tutor from the University of Reading over for the morning as well as two recent Oxford graduates to help out. All students have now been given guidance on how to write their Personal Statements and one of their big tasks over the summer is to complete a full first draft. Holyport College final draft deadlines are as follows: Oxbridge, Medicine, Dentistry and Veterinary Courses – Friday 13th September Everyone else – Friday 4th October
Artist talks to Year 12 and Arts Award Students On Tuesday 2nd July professional artist Tania Still came into Art to give some talks. Year 12 students were lucky enough to spend some time with Tania, hearing about her own journey from A level Art to having her first solo exhibition. Silver Arts Award students also got to hear Tania talk about her experiences as a professional artist and got to interview her about all things art. A massive thank you to Tania for giving up her time to speak to and inspire our students! It was also great to see examples of Tania’s beautiful paintings in the flesh. More information about Tania’s work can be found on her Twitter @TaniaStill
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FROM THE SIXTH FORM
The last Scholar’s lecture of the year Matt Webster and Kieran Crimmins from EA games came to talk to our students. The Year 9, selfidentified, gamers were out in force and had some very pertinent questions about the business of making games and recent controversies that have been in the news. Matt and Kieran also spoke about some of the complexity of designed character models and then fitting them into the world, such as the humorous story about a four armed playable character not fitting through doorways designed earlier in the game. They revealed the sheer manpower and cost of designing popular games such as Fortnite and Battlefield V. Budgets were as high as £150 million with teams of up to 300 people working on games for over 2 years. Careers in the games industry are growing fast and many of our computing minded pupils could start thinking about programming and art design in the digital space.
Next year’s Scholars A huge thank you to all the speakers from 2018/19 including the parents generously giving their time to provide an insight into their jobs. There are still plenty of dates in 2020 available for any parents that could give their time to inspire our students. Please email r.nosworthy@holyportcollege.org.uk if you would like to be interviewed as part of our scholar’s program.
Lectures for the first half term next year Wednesday 11th September Marc Laniado Surgeon: consultant in London and Berkshire and is the Prostate Cancer lead at Wexham Park Hospital Wednesday 18th September Tim Mollart, Diamond Scientist with C6: Diamond Science - Into the Diamond Verse Wednesday 25th September Cllr Simon Dudley, Head of the council RBWM: How to get into politics and what we really do day to day. Wednesday 2nd October Dr Lorraine Wales, GP for the NHS, How to get into Medicine and the life of a GP Wednesday 9th October Simon Draycott, Lead Psychologist, working onPersonality Disorder Pathway at Broadmoor Wednesday 16th October Joshua Ogden Arts Director a UN live museum and advertising programmes with Oakley and David Beckham
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FROM THE DofE
DIXIT 5th July 2019
Bronze Duke of Edinburgh Expedition The Year 9 participants successfully completed their assessed Bronze DofE expedition this weekend in the blazing sunshine! Smothered in suncream and styling it out in an array of hats they all set off from Lane End in very high spirits with their overflowing bottles of water!
Evie Weaver shares her thoughts: “My experience at DofE bronze was amazing, a lot of hard work but we managed to survive! It was an experience to go through, we ended up getting lost on the first day and were walking around for 3 and a half hours, however did we give up... no we didn't! We managed to get back on route, but there were consequences to this, well two of them, one being we had to walk for 8 HOURS and getting to the campsite 3 hours late! During the afternoon we decided to stop for a short break, we stopped by a field of sheep that Nikole then started to talk to! When we arrived hot and tired at camp we had to put up our tents and cook before we could eat our pasta. I can say for myself and my group that we were extremely resilient especially on the second day where we came 3rd out of the 10 groups which we were extremely happy about. DofE is amazing because not only does it go on your CV but you get to bond well with your friends and get to witness fantastic nature�
A massive THANK YOU to Miss Howard, Mr Nosworthy and Miss Smyth who joined Mrs Day and Miss Lunney to camp with the participants and ensure the students had a safe and enjoyable DofE expedition. More pictures can be found on Twitter @HolyportHum @Holy_Sport
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FROM THE FIVES COURTS
DIXIT 5th July 2019
Holyport Fives Report Holyport College again had a hugely successful year, we played more fixtures and hosted our own girls’ festival at Eton College. We entered our first team competition and performed well at Nationals. Our girls continue to be a strength as we had 3 pairs reach the last 16 at U14 level. C. Cowper and D. Oyewole reached the final where they lost to a good Highgate pair. D. Panizo-Madrid and M. Alvargonzalez won plate A. As a result of an outstanding performance at Nationals, Holyport College awarded the under 14 girls “team of the year”. Not only did this recognise their success but firmly embedded the sport at the College. T. Pendrich and C. Mobley were also awarded “pair of the year” for their commitment to the sport and for making outstanding progress throughout the season.
For a second year running we hosted a hugely successful Girls, Boys and Beaks competition, which saw 24 mixed pairs enter. It was a fantastic event and congratulations again to our winners M. Ticehurst and J. Ticehurst. The Upper Sixth boys helped run and establish Friday Night Fives Club which has been a huge success all year. As most of them are moving on to University I wish them the best of luck and I hope they continue playing Fives. Miss Kerr
Girls’ festival
Vargas Cup team
Team of the year
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FROM THE COMMUNITY
We have been asked to pass on this information from a local community interest company : Project Fashion Upcycle: Have you ever wanted to learn how to alter clothes or can you sew and want to help others learn? Then this is the project for you! Project starts w/c September 9th at Windsor College. You will spend time learning a few basic sewing skills and then upcycle at least two outfits with the help of our volunteers. The project will end at Easter with a fashion show where you will get to model your creations. You will have full hair and makeup for the fashion catwalk show done by students of Langley Hair and Beauty. There will be a further opportunity to model at a dinner at the Windsor Racecourse in November. Places are limited so please apply to anita.ambasna@giveandtakecare.co.uk as soon as possible to secure your place or for further information on how to volunteer . We are also looking for donations of sewing items - needles, threads, scissors, trims, zips etc. Please email on the above address if you can help. Project Gardening Buddies: Have you ever wanted to grow your own food? Are you aged 11 to 18? Then this is the project for you! You will be teamed with an allotment owner who will mentor you to grow your own fruit and vegetables, from preparing the ground over winter to sowing the seeds, thinking the crop and harvesting. Project starts November and runs till August 2020. NB You will only meet occasionally over the winter months. We are also looking for volunteer gardeners with their own allotments to join this project. For further information & to register interest please contact anita.ambasna@giveandtakecare.co.uk
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FROM THE REFECTORY
5th July 2019
Next week’s lunch menus Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Penne Bolognaise
Peri Peri Chicken
Lamb Rogan Josh
Honey Roast Gammon
(v) Ratatouille
(v) Open Halloumi Burger
(v) Vegetable Jalfrezi
(v) Brie & Leek Struddle
2nd Option –Jacket Bar
2nd Option – Pasta & Jacket Bar
2nd Option – Pasta & Jacket Bar
2nd Option – Pasta & Jacket Bar
Seasonal Vegetable Garlic Bread
Chips Corn Coleslaw
Rice Poppadum’s Dips
Sauté Potatoes Mixed Vegetables Parsley Sauce
Salad Counter
Salad Counter
Salad Counter
Salad Counter
Friday
Saturday
Pizza
Soup Build your own Caesar
Sunday
Brunch Selection
(v) Pizza
2nd Option – Fish n Chips Bar
Wedges Seasonal Vegetables
Salad Counter
If you suffer from a food allergy or intolerance you are
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FROM THE CALENDAR
5th July 2019
Some Dates for Your Diaries Monday 15th July—Sports Day Tuesday 16th July—end of term 2.15pm
Monday 2nd September—Inset day Tuesday 3rd September—Inset day/Sixth form boarders arrive 5.00pm Wednesday 4th September—Sixth form only. Year 7-11 boarders arrive 5.00pm Thursday 5th September—Start of term Greening Holyport Please could we ask drivers picking up from school not to leave their engines idling? There seem to be quite a few people doing this and as we already have enough pollution from the Ascot Road and the flight path we don't really want any more! Parents and carers might be interested to know idling is illegal on a public road, and guidelines are that if you're going to be stationary for more than 30 seconds it's worth turning your engine off. The RAC website states: “Idling increases the amount of exhaust fumes in the air. These fumes contain a number of harmful gases including carbon dioxide, which is bad for the environment and contributes towards climate change, as well as a range of other harmful gases including nitrogen dioxide, carbon monoxide and hydrocarbons which are linked to asthma and other lung diseases.” Please can we all do our bit for the health of our children, ourselves and the planet?
Thank you.
Holyport College has a new member! Meet Kyoto, Mr Boyle’s new puppy, pictured here with “big sister” Akira. Kyoto has already proved a massive hit with the students! We look forward to seeing more of him around the site as he grows up
Sixth Form Open Mornings and Evenings Thursday 19th September - 10.00am Wednesday 9th October - 5.30pm and 7.30pm Thursday 7th November - 10.00am Thursday 14th November - 10.00am Thursday 21st November - 10.00am Thursday 28th November - 10.00am 12