Highclare School Termly Newsletter Feb 2019

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Highclare School

2019 WINTER ISSUE

Welcome to the winter edition of the Headmaster’s Termly Newsletter

New year, new name!

This exciting enhancement to our brand is a small step in the life of the School but a very significant one because of these reasons: • The use of ‘Highclare Preparatory School’ underscores our one-school approach to delivering a first-class early years and primary education regardless of the setting in which it is delivered.

• The use of the word ‘preparatory’ places more emphasis on our status as a truly Independent school.

• The new name provides for all stakeholders a greater level of clarity to our purpose as a trusted and successful school.

Our school, as a whole, will continue to be known as Highclare School, with the name of the senior section also remaining unchanged, as Highclare Senior School.

This, in summary, is what our structure will look like: •Highclare Senior School

We are proud to call our junior school: Highclare Preparatory School.

Our two settings are now officially known as:

•Highclare Preparatory School • Highclare Preparatory School: St Paul’s (including Pre-prep) • Highclare Preparatory School: Woodfield (including Pre-prep)

• Highclare Preparatory School: Woodfield

Our respected and recognisable school badge and motto will not be changing. More substantially, neither will our steadfast commitment towards educating the boys and girls in a manner that allows them to fulfil their potential, in a safe, healthy and nurturing environment.

Our pre-schools in both locations have changed their names also, to become pre-prep.

With best wishes for a successful spring term.

Dr R Luker - Headmaster

• Highclare Preparatory School: St Paul’s

Highclare Business Network: A Superb Inaugural Event During a superb inaugural event: An audience with Paul Faulkner, CEO of Greater Birmingham Chambers of Commerce and Douglas Wright, CEO of Wright Restaurants and chairman of the board of directors at Ronald McDonald House, Birmingham, attendees from a variety of industries heard first-hand many fascinating experiences from Paul and Douglas’ career in an honest and insightful question and answer session. In the relaxed environment both speakers divulged remarkable facts about their career journeys, followed by an opportunity for attendees to ask questions, network and catch up over good food, supplied by the event sponsors Mahirs Experience.

With no stone unturned, questions regarding developments happening within Birmingham, Paul’s career with Randy Lerner leading to his position of CEO at Aston Villa and Douglas’ business journey, including winning the McDonald’s world franchisee award in 2016, the significance of business mentors and the importance of giving back to the community, left the audience with plenty of food for thought.

During the evening Mr Chris Williams also addressed attendees on the work of the Buddy Bag Foundation, a charity Highclare School has recently championed. The Network event was free of charge and attendees kindly donated £430 to the Buddy Bag Foundation, which will directly help children who find themselves in emergency care.

Douglas Wright concluded the Q&A session by congratulating Highclare School on the calibre of its pupils. “Great kids with a great future ahead of them. Dr Luker and the school’s ethos have made the school a facilitator of success.”

It was a fantastic evening and we look forward to the next Highclare Business Network Event in February.

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Senior School News Senior School Prize Giving 2017/18

Geography Tectonics Conference London 2018 U6 Geographers recently attended a fantastic A level conference in London.

On Friday 16 November we welcomed past and present pupils, parents and staff to an evening of celebration at Senior School Prize Giving, always a wonderful event on the school calendar, giving, as it does, an opportunity to reflect on the previous school year and a chance to celebrate and recognise students for their outstanding achievements.

The evening began with a touching ‘Year in Pictures’, a visual review of the 2017/2018 academic year and a welcome and introduction from Mrs L Flowith, our Chair of Governors, who was once again truly impressed with all that our pupils have achieved.

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Dr Luker presented his report of the academic year to pupils and parents, including inspirational quotes from Einstein, reference to Take Charge and how we instil the initiative throughout the school and the Highclare holistic approach to education to help the young learners develop not only their academic intelligence, but their emotional and spiritual intelligence too. It is always wonderful to look back at the year and reflect on all of the brilliant events that have happened at school.

The report was interjected with music and speeches, including an excellent account of the 2017 Iceland trip by pupils Jessica Bonner and Jack Newman and superb performances by Joshua Cahm, a music scholar, who performed Cool (by SJ Wood) and Harry Mills who performed Violin Concerto No.5, Op 22. Both recitals thrilled the audience.

Special thanks go to our guest speaker Mr Alex Caan who captivated and enthused pupils, parents and staff with an inspirational presentation. Alex’s reputation is founded on working with a diverse range of sports and his achievements include working with Olympic and Commonwealth medallists. In addition to his sporting achievements, at the age of 29 Alex won a place at the world famous Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) and, as an actor, he has worked extensively in theatre and television. During Senior School Prize Giving Mr Caan spoke positively about his relentless pursuit of excellence, including how he has coached athletes on the run up to the Olympics. A powerful presentation on his five P’s for success concluded an incredibly motivating and thought provoking speech.

Following the presentation of prizes the evening ended with a rousing performance by the Senior Choir and Rhapsody Chamber Choir of This Is Me from The Greatest Showman. A fantastic night was had and congratulations go to all involved.

Highclare Awarded Gold By National Citizen Service Highclare recently received a gold award as part of the National Citizen Service (NCS), delivered by The Challenge.

NCS aims to bring together young people from different backgrounds for a common purpose. Each programme consists of three separate phases delivered over a 3-4 week period during the Summer holidays. The programme combines teamwork, adventure and social action, with 30 hours committed to a local community project.

Highclare School received Gold for the percentage of U5 pupils who took part in the National Citizen Service empowerment programme during last Summer.

We are so proud of all those who got involved.

During the annual Geography Tectonics Conference 2018 top experts in tectonics, including Professor Iain Stewart, gave insights into recent seismic events and the processes behind them; including insights from Iain’s first-hand experiences in the world’s most tectonically active regions, exploring the geology of Iceland and the global disaster risk around the growing numbers of mega cities – especially in Asia.

The Hazard Student Conference always intends to ignite students’ interest in all aspects of hazards geography, from volcanoes, earthquakes and tsunamis to human responses and management, and that it certainly did. Event speakers updated students on the very latest developments in this ever-changing field with fascinating talks.

Law Students Visit Law Courts On 27 November 2018 A level law students visited Birmingham Magistrates Court and Crown Court.

The tour of the Magistrates Court included a visit to the courtroom from where defendants were sentenced to death and an opportunity to observe the legal roles that take part in trials. It was an extremely interesting day, enabling students to see law in action, bringing studies in the classroom to life, as well as giving a valuable insight into Law as a career.

40 Pupils Pass Their Duke Of Edinburgh Expedition During the first weekend of October half term 40 Highclare pupils packed their rucksacks and participated in their Duke of Edinburgh qualifying expeditions culminating with a 100% pass rate.

24 L5 pupils travelled to Anglesey for 2 days of walking and camping as part of their Bronze Duke of Edinburgh award and 16 U5 pupils spent 3 days in Snowdonia in order to complete the expedition part of their Silver Duke of Edinburgh Award.

All students demonstrated confidence, enthusiasm and resilience as they took on the challenge.

Sixth Form Social: London Highclare School Sixth Form had a great day out in London on Wednesday 5 December. A visit to Madame Tussauds was followed by a 3 course lunch at Maxwell’s in Covent Garden, before they watched Kinky Boots at the Adelphi Theatre on the Strand. After some shopping around Covent Garden they returned to Birmingham after a thoroughly enjoyable day in London.

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Ben Fogle Inspires During Duke Of Edinburgh Expedition

Loudmouth Interactive Drama Sessions

On Sunday 30 September, National Get Outside Day, a small group of pupils working towards their Silver Duke of Edinburgh Award took to the peaks of Dovedale to perfect their navigational skills in preparation for their upcoming practical expedition.

Loudmouth, an innovative theatre in education company, recently visited Highclare Senior School. They delivered two fantastic interactive drama performances and workshops based around some of the important topics that pupils study in their PSHE lessons.

During the practice expedition, pupils and teachers walked a circular 11.5km route via the famous Stepping Stones which allowed them to relate their map to the ground, pointing out distinctive features along the way. During the afternoon the group covered more open countryside where they could get to grips with taking bearings, a more advanced navigation technique. After a tiring day pupils and teachers ended the trek at the National Trust Ilam Park, relaxing in the Manifold Tea-room and enjoying views of Thorpe Cloud.

During the day pupils were lucky enough to bump into the team from Ordnance Survey(OS) and Get Outside champion Ben Fogle who were enjoying one of OS national guided walks and exploring the Peak District. Ben came over to talk with the pupils, taking an interest in what they were doing and sharing some of his own navigation experiences. It was an inspiring moment for the pupils and an opportunity for them to meet a well known broadcaster, traveller and adventurer in the great outdoors.

Highclare Pupils Work On A Live Brief For Porsche Senior pupils at Highclare School have worked on a live design brief for Porsche to celebrate its 70th anniversary. Attending a digital design workshop with Rachel RichardsonJones on November 5, pupils were asked to consider the 70th anniversary celebrations as well as reflect Highclare Schools’ support of the charity ‘Young Minds’, by incorporating a positive and uplifting message into their designs.

Pupils were introduced to a range of Photoshop tutorials to create both a seamless repeating pattern or ‘tile’ and a single-image combined with typography elements. They used a range of colours inspired by the Porsche exterior paint colour range in their designs.

The school was very fortunate to be visited by two wonderful Porsche models later that week, the Miami Blue was a real hit! Two U5 pupils photographed these iconic cars, as part of ongoing GCSE coursework.

Junior Creative Writing Competition Results During November, Highclare Senior School English department invited all potential young authors to take part in our exciting creative writing competition. This year local junior schools were invited to write a poem to commemorate the end of the First World War. Following a fantastic response to the creative writing competition we invited all the 379 participants to a reception at the Senior School to celebrate their amazing entries. Mrs Dawson, Head of English, was very impressed by the entries and was inspired by the moving and poignant poems that she read.

The overall winner was Sonny Stares from Mere Green Combined School and he received a trophy, book token and certificate.

Brilliant acting and interactive activities meant that pupils were engaged throughout the workshop, evident through a thoughtful questions and answers session and well-lead discussions on powerful issues. Both workshops were extremely successful.

Highclare Christmas Bake Off 2018 Pupils across Highclare Senior School have been channelling their inner Mary Berry and Paul Hollywood as they have created some wonderful festive bakes.

GCSE students tackled handmade and decorated Christmas cakes and U3 students perfected decorating Christmas Logs.

All bakes looked and smelt absolutely delicious!

Careers Information Morning Thinking about career choices was on the agenda for our 13 and 14 year olds this term at our annual careers information morning. Guest speakers from a broad spectrum of careers talked about their professions and routes into them, as well as taking questions from our young people.

Our thanks go to all involved, Mrs Michelle Dean of HCB solicitors, Dr Caroline Wall, Mr Stuart Griffiths, Mr John Beggan and Mr Nial Hope.

Overall, pupils got a sense of the variety of career choices available to them and the different ways you can achieve the same level of qualification. Many thanks go to all of our speakers who took time to help keep our pupils informed as they think about their career choices.

Fragmented Portraits In The Art Department It was a fantastic start to the term for our U4 pupils.

During art lessons they are working on Fragmented Portraits using Photomontage technique. This activity is part of their initial explorations in the About Face project. The pupils are exploring how to repurpose and combine existing magazine imagery in new and innovative ways in order to create their own unique visual representations of a face.

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Preparatory School News J4 to J6 Environmental Workshops

Andrew Mitchell MP Visits Highclare Preparatory School: St Paul’s Andrew Mitchell MP recently visited Highclare Preparatory School: St Paul’s to speak to J5 and J6 pupils about his role as their Member of Parliament and to take part in a quickfire question and answer session.

Following a tour of the school, he spent time with the pupils, speaking about his work as the Royal Town’s Member of Parliament and explaining how he represents all of his constituents at Westminster – including children.

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The school year had only just started and Highclare pupils were already enjoying enrichment workshops.

Pupils from J4 to J6 across Highclare Preparatory School enjoyed a series of environmental workshops during their first week of term. Tony and Amy from Veolia talked to the children about how waste is sorted and prepared for recycling as well as their waste to energy plant.

He talked about the history of Sutton Coldfield, how the method of communication from its constituents has changed over the years and the international topic of educating children, particularly girls. His young Highclare constituents asked a range of interesting questions, from local topics affecting the Royal Town, to international issues such as the conflict in Yemen. Local topics included tackling crime, the future of Sutton Coldfield Police Station and the Royal Sutton Coldfield town council. Andrew Mitchell MP also answered questions about his route into politics and his thoughts on other topical political issues.

The children were particularly interested to learn about the precious metals inside their computers and how they can be recovered when the product is recycled. It was a very interesting start to the term.

All questions were thoughtfully and eloquently asked and pupils were engaged and interested in the responses. Pupils showed a great aptitude for understanding political issues and the world around them, and showed a maturity and confidence when conversing with an experienced politician.

J4 In the Footsteps of a Roman Soldier

The question of the day came from a J6 pupil asking the philosophical question, 'What is it like to be you?'

Andrew Mitchell MP said, “It was a great pleasure to visit Highclare School and meet the very engaged and intelligent older pupils of Highclare Preparatory School: St Paul's.”

J5 & J6 Arts Recital 2018 Our very talented J5 and J6 music and LAMDA pupils entertained an audience of friends and family during their arts recital concerts.

As part of their topic on the Roman era, J4 pupils recently visited the Lunt Roman Site near Coventry to learn about what life was like for Roman soldiers living in Britain.

Pupils first listened to a talk about the ways Romans and Celts fought their battles. They then entered the fort through the large gates and climbed up the ramparts to get a good view of everything. One of the most prominent features at Lunt is the huge circular wooden gyrus, which was an area for training cavalry horses. It is the only one in the world to be found inside a fort.

A fantastic active learning session to support our new topic!

These concerts are always a wonderful occasion, giving our pupils the opportunity to perform as soloists or part of a duo in front of an audience of friends and family and to celebrate their dedication to the Arts. Both concerts were extremely enjoyable.

We heard a wide variety of music from all genres including Jazz, Pop and Classical and our LAMDA performances were very entertaining, with funny poems, devised sketches, prose reading and acting.

"I am very proud of everyone who took part in the recitals. The standard of performance rises year on year and I was particularly impressed with the confidence and professionalism of the children. Well done to everyone and thank you to those who came and supported both evenings." Sarah Broder, Head of Preparatory Music .

Whitemoor Lakes Residential J5 pupils have been making wonderful memories with their classmates this term during their first residential trip to Whitemoor lakes. With many adventures undertaken, climbing walls conquered and even a birthday celebrated, pupils enjoyed an exciting few days full of fun, friendship and fearless activities. Highlights included the evening campfire, canoeing, abseiling, crate stacking, archery and teamwork activities.

Throughout the trip all pupils showed teamwork, perseverance and resilience, important life skills which will support pupils throughout their education.

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J6 Pupils Visit Jaguar Land Rover On Thursday 27 of September J6 pupils visited Jaguar Land Rover to explore what happens behind the scenes. As well as seeing the robots in action putting the car together, pupils also enjoyed a Lego challenge and discovered how to program robotic arms and conveyor belts.

Woodland Skills 2018 What a wonderful start we have had during our Woodland Skills lessons this term.

J6 pupils have had fun learning many new skills including how to master the clove hitch and timber hitch. The children used rope and sticks to attempt these knots, it took a lot of patience and resilience but pupils all managed it in the end. During the lessons pupils also learnt how to use a sheath knife, once the children were fully briefed and could hold the sheath knife safely they were then able to whittle. All children enjoyed a mug of hot chocolate over a campfire whilst creating their own campfire songs. They were able to roast marshmallows over the campfire once they fully understood the respect position around the fire pit area and explored the fire triangle: fuel, heat, oxygen. All in all it has been an action packed start to Woodland Skills.

Grandparents Afternoon Christmas Charity Carol Singing During the last few weeks of term Highclare Preparatory choir entertained the community through their wonderful singing of carols. The choir performed outstandingly throughout Sutton Coldfield and Lichfield and raised a fantastic amount, over £850 for our charity, Young Minds. It was wonderful to hear so many wonderful comments regarding both the children’s singing and behaviour.

This week our Preparatory pupils put on a wonderful Christmas concert for their grandparents and family.

The concert featured a number of different performances such as Deck the Halls performed on boomwhackers and We Wish You a Merry Christmas performed on handbells. J3 and J4 showed off their recorder skills by performing Good King Wenceslas and Jingle Bells and everyone joined forces, including the audience, to sing some traditional carols. Our fantastic teachers worked hard with their classes in teaching them to recite poetry, which had our audience laughing. The finale piece, Jingle Bells, which included audience participation on percussion, ended the whole concert.

This superb afternoon was immensely enjoyed by all, and I am so proud of everyone who took part. Mrs P Bennett, Head of Highclare Preparatory School.

Outside Of School Achievements

Flamenco Day

To support the pupils enthusiasm for Languages, Highclare Preparatory pupils enjoyed a fantastic day with Flamenco experts, Ana and Rin. During the session all communication took place in Spanish and the pupils learnt about clapping and stamping to a rhythm, by the end of their workshop they had learnt a dance sequence to be proud of. It was a fun opportunity to learn about language and culture outside of the classroom, many children went home and performed what they had learnt for their parents and the staff enjoyed joining in too!

Isabella Rutter

Lily Dudley

Hugh Mason-Williams

Huge congratulations to Isabella who won a bronze medal in the West Midlands pre-compulsory 5 gymnastics competition representing the City of Birmingham Gymnastics Club. We are very impressed.

Lily performed outstandingly at her recent gymnastics competition. She finished an impressive 5th overall out of 50 girls competing in the West Midlands Regional Levels competition. She competed on vault, beam, bars and floor and completed the competition with no falls.

Hugh had a very successful weekend at the Hereford Open for swimming. He won all of his races and came home with 9 gold medals and the cup for the most points won by a male swimmer in his age group.

At the Boldmere Open Hugh took part in 11 events and won 10 golds and 1 silver. He also won the overall best boy trophy as the male swimmer with the highest number of points.

A fantastic achievement.

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Reception Learn About The Colourful Celebrations Of Diwali

Christmas Fun In Highclare Pre-Preparatory School St Paul’s On the lead up to Christmas pre-prep children have have learned about advent and the meaning of a Christingle. It proved to be a lovely sensory activity and the children had to concentrate hard to put the Christingle together. We are very pleased that they are able to talk about what each part represents.

A wonderful gingerbread activity was initiated when a child brought in his book The Gingerbread Man. The children had a great time baking and decorating their gingerbread people.

There was great excitement on ‘Magic of Christmas Day’ when Father Christmas arrived. The Swans took their letters for him to read. Both Swans and Cygnets sang Jingle Bells to him. Each child rang a bell to spread the Christmas happiness.

Reception Learn Life skills In Reception, pupils have had a creative and colourful time celebrating Diwali – a Hindu festival which took place in early November. The word Diwali means ‘rows of lighted lamps’.

Diwali is known as the ‘festival of lights’ because houses, shops and public places are decorated with small earthenware oil lamps.

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Children drew their own Rangoli patterns, typically drawn on the floor, and lit a tea light to not only guide Lakshmi the Goddess of Wealth to our school but also to represent the lights guiding Rama and Sita home, in the legend of Diwali.

The children also enjoyed making and decorating their own Diva lamps out of Model Magic. We have loved learning about Diwali.

Reception Celebrate International Language Day

As part of a recent life skills day, a fun and informative day that took place across Highclare Preparatory School, reception children have been learning about people who help us.

We had a visit from a paramedic, who showed us lots of different equipment and even let us go inside the ambulance. We also had a visit from a lollipop lady who helped us to learn to cross the road safely.

Thank you to all those involved who made the day such a success.

Language Stones Make Sutton Coldfield Smile The modern foreign language team at Highclare Preparatory School have had a very busy start to the term following the celebration of the European Day of Languages in September.

Launched within School and hoping to bring a smile to our community, pupils at Highclare Preparatory School have been painting and hiding ‘Language stones’ within Sutton Park. As pupils across all ages have been learning new vocabulary and songs in multiple languages, they have been painting flags and the new words they have been learning onto stones, ready to hide them.

Reception pupils at Highclare Preparatory: St Paul’s have had a fantastic start to their Autumn term, with lots of learning, friendships being made and foundations formed.

The pupils celebrated the European Day of Languages by travelling across the sea to Denmark! During an activity filled day they enjoyed learning about two famous Danish exports: Vikings and Lego. Pupils enjoyed looking at the Dannebrog flag, making hats and learning the Danish version of The Wheels on the Bus.

As a School we are fortunate to be able to offer creative learning opportunities with specialist teachers across all key stages. We believe that learning a language must be a tangible experience not only as an opportunity to learn about different cultures and languages but as an essential opportunity to prepare pupils for adulthood in an increasingly globalised world. Over the coming year the modern foreign language department at Highclare Preparatory School will enjoy visits from both a Flamenco dancer and guitarist and a French story teller, as well as creating an international conversation within the community through our Language stones.

We cannot wait to see photos when you find our Language stones. Don’t forget to hashtag #LanguageStones.

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Rectory Park Visit

KS1 Piece Together An Amazing Magical Christmas Jigsaw Reception, J1 and J2 amazed family and friends with wonderful performances of their nativity on the lead up to Christmas. All pupils who took part in the nativity performed with enthusiasm and confidence, delivering lines with poise and singing beautifully. We are very proud of all involved, it was clear how much hard work and dedication had been put into each performance.

At the beginning of October, Highclare Pre-Preparatory pupils visited Rectory Park on the school mini-bus.

Wearing Highclare visibility jackets, school tracksuits and their colourful wellington boots, the pupils were encouraged to follow a route planner, noting objects found on a checklist.

The photographs were taken during the summer months so we spoke about seasonal changes too.

Remembrance plaques and flower beds, unusual tree formations and informative safety signs were all noted and discussed along the way.

Safety was paramount and all pupils looked after one another stating, ‘Be careful’ down the line as we ventured into the dimly lit woods. When we observed a wandering dog we called, ‘Dog!’ We then stood still, folded our arms across our chest, and quietly waited until the dog had passed by. The dog walkers were very friendly and praised us for being aware and sensible.

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The route led us along dirt tracks where the light was obscured by the foliage, around a pond with safety signs and eventually through the woods where we found the playground.

We took turns to play on the apparatus before returning to school in time for lunch.

Pre-Prep Meet Santa The Cygnet pupils at Highclare PrePreparatory School had an exciting trip to visit Santa at Gracechurch Shopping Centre. The short walk into Sutton proved to be very exciting with traffic sounds, Christmas decorations and we even met our Early Years Governor, Mr Hazel, en route. The children were thrilled with the grotto and enjoyed being met by the elf. Santa was really pleased to see that all of the children’s names are on his nice list and he promised they will all be getting presents!

Callum Dhami A huge congratulation to Callum Dhami who has been selected as part of the 7&U Warwickshire County Cup Training Squad for Tennis. Only 8 players have been selected so a great honour to be chosen. Well done, Callum.

Our Nursery Rhyme Nativity, Pre-Preparatory Performance At Highclare St Paul’s Family and friends have enjoyed a wonderful nativity performed by the children of Highclare Pre-Preparatory School: St Paul’s.

The children all performed amazingly well in front of an audience.

Enthusiastic singing and playing of instruments, confident narration and well rehearsed dance routines ensured a beautiful performance. It was wonderful to see so many proud faces on stage and in the audience.

We believe all of these opportunities help the children to become more selfconfident and we look forward to seeing what Pre-prep do next.

Congratulations to all on a fantastic nativity.

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Preparatory School Sports News Swimming Tuesday 9 October 2018 ISA J3-6 Regional Swimming Gala at Walsall 2nd in Girls Overall 2nd in Boys Overall 1st in J5 Girls 1st in J5 Boys 3rd in J4 Girls 1st in J5 Girls freestyle and medley relay.

National Qualifiers Tiffany Latham – Freestyle & Freestyle relay Hugh Mason-Williams – Breast stroke, Freestyle & Freestyle relay.

Daisey-May Price – Freestyle relay

Tuesday 4 December 2018 J3-6 Girls Swimming Gala v Edgbaston High school For Girls 2nd place

Hockey Monday 15 October 2018 Hockey U11 A against Hallfield U11 Lost 5-1 Tuesday 20 November 2018 Hockey U11 A v Lichfield Cathedral School Away U11A drew 0-0 Tuesday 20 November 2018 Hockey U11 B v Lichfield Cathedral School Away U11B lost 8-0 Monday 8 October 2018 Hockey U10 A against Hallfield U10 Lost 4-0 Monday 8 October 2018 Hockey U10 B against Hallfield U10 Drew 0-0 Thursday 18 October 2018 Hockey U9 A’s against Hallfield Lost 5-0 Thursday 18 October 2018 Hockey U9 B’s against Hallfield Lost 2-1 Thursday 29 November 2018 U9A girls v Lichfield Cathedral School Lost 4-1

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U9B girls v Lichfield Cathedral School Drew 0-0

Basketball Thursday 11 October 2018 Basketball U11 against West House Prep Lost 10-20 Monday 12 November 2018 Basketball U11 against Twycross School Lost 16-25

Tag Rugby Tuesday 18 September 2018 U9 Tag Rugby tournament at Twycross School HC v Twycross A Lost 0-1 HC v Denstone B Won 5-0 HC v Twycross B Won 2-0 HC v Old Vicarage Won 4-0

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Football Wednesday 12 September 2018 Football: Under 11 A & B against Foremarke Hall U11A Lost 1-5 U11B Lost 1-2 Wednesday 26 September 2018 Football: U11 A & B against Hallfield U11A Drew 0-0 U11B Lost 2-4 .

Monday 1 October 2018 Football U11 against West House Prep U11 A Lost 0-2 U11 B Drew 1-1

U9 5th out of 20 overall Thursday 22 November 2018 Football U9 against Lichfield Cathedral School U9A Won 11-0 U9B Won 12-0 Tuesday 16 October 2018 Football U8 A/B/C/D against West House Prep U8 A Won 3-2 U8 B Won 2-1 U8 C Lost 2-3 U8 D Won 3-2

Tuesday 13 November 2018 Football U9 & U11 ISA Junior Football at Heathfield HC v Bowbrook Won 2-0 Castle House v HC Drew 2-2 Crackley Hall v HC Drew 1-1 HC v Twycross Won 4-1 HC v St Dominics Won 2-0 Chase Grammar v HC Won 0-4 QF HC v Arnold Lodge Won 2-1 SF HC v Old Vicarage Won 1-0 Final HC v St Winefrides Won 2-1 U11 1st out of 19 overall Tuesday 20 November 2018 Football U10 & U11 against Lichfield Cathedral School U11 Won 5-0 Monday 24 September 2018 Football: U10 ISA Midlands Tournament HC v Crescent Drew1-1 Crackley A v HC Lost 4-2 HC v Stafford Won 5-1 Akeley Wood v HC Lost 5-2 HC v Crackley B Won 6-1 HC v Quinton Lost 1-4 8th overall out of 15 Wednesday 7 November 2018 Football U10 A&B against Westhouse Prep U10 A Lost 1-3 U10 B Lost 1-7 Tuesday 20 November 2018 Football U10 & U11 against Lichfield Cathedral School U10 Won 3-2 Thursday 27 September 2018 Football U9 against Hallfield U9 A Lost 1-3 U9 B Drew 4-4

Tuesday 13 November 2018 Football U9 & U11 ISA Junior Football at Heathfield HC v Bowbrook Won 4-0 HC v Chase Grammar Won 5-0 HC v Twycross Won 3-0 HC v Arnold Lodge Won 4-0 Cup Comp: Birchfield v HC Drew 1-1 Lucton v HC Won 0-3 Hc v Edenhurst Lost 0-4 HC v Twycross Won 1-0

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Sports Results September - December 2018 Netball Sutton Senior Schools U16 League (Sept 2018)

ISA U16 Tournament (St Dominic’s, Sept 2018)

After 2 weeks of league, our combined Year 10 – 11 team played 9 matches, with 2 wins, 1 draw and 6 losses.

Some pleasing performances in some very tight matches where we were unlucky to lose.

v Sutton Girls lost 2-12 v Plantsbrook lost 3-5 v Fairfax won 10-1 v Arthur Terry lost 3-10 v Fairfax lost 3-4 v Sutton Girls A lost 1-10 v Arthur Terry lost 5-6 v Sutton Girls B won 6-1 v Plantsbrook drew 8-8

Sutton Senior Schools U16 League (Sept 2018) After 2 weeks of league, our combined Year 8 - 10 team played 6 matches, with 1 win, 2 draws and 3 losses. v Arthur Terry B won 3 - 0 v Fairfax drew 4 – 4 v Plantsbrook B drew 4 – 4 v Sutton Girls B lost 3 – 5 v Arthur Terry A lost 2 – 5 v Sutton Girls A lost 4 – 5

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St Dominic’s Grammar St Dominic’s Grammar

Pitsford

Bedstone

Amherst

Highclare

St Edwards ‘B’

Malvern St James

3 1-1

1 4-5

5 5-1

1 1-2

5 7-2

1 2-3

3 1-1

19

4th

5 6-3

5 5-1

0 2-8

1 3-4

1 3-6

1 3-4

16

6th

5 4-2

0 1-5

0 2-5

1 5-7

1 3-5

13

7th

0 2-5

0 0-10

0 1-6

0 0-3

1

8th

5 3-1

5 3-2

5 4-3

35

1st

3 0-0

0 1-8

18

5th

5 4-0

29

2nd

24

3rd

Bowbroo k House

3 1-1

Pitsford

5 5-4

1 3-6

Bedstone

0 1-5

0 1-5

1 2-4

Amherst

5 2-1

5 8-2

5 5-1

5 5-2

Highclare

0 2-7

5 4-3

5 5-2

5 10-0

0 1-3

St Edwards ‘B’

5 3-2

5 6-3

5 7-5

5 6-1

1 2-3

3 0-0

Malvern St James

3 1-1

5 4-3

5 5-3

5 3-0

1 3-4

5 8-1

Sutton Senior Schools KS3 Sports Hall Netball League (Nov 2018) v Sutton Girls 2 lost 0 – 4 v Plantsbrook lost 0 – 2 v Sutton Girls 1 lost 0 – 10 v Sutton Girls 2 lost 0 – 4 v Fairfax drew 1 – 1 v Bishop Walsh lost 0 - 2

Bowbrook House

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POINTS PLACE

Hockey U15 Sutton Schools Hockey League (Wyndley, Oct 2018)

U15 Sutton Schools Hockey League (Wyndley, Oct 2018)

Girls Results After 4 weeks our combined Year 9 and 10 girls team finished 3rd in a closely fought league this year.

GP W D L GF GA GD PTS Fairfax 1 10 8 0 2 14 7 7 24 Fairfax 2 10 5 3 2 12 5 7 18 Highclare 10 5 2 3 15 9 6 17 Sutton Girls 10 5 0 5 17 9 8 15 Bishop Walsh 10 3 2 5 9 9 0 11 Plantsbrook 10 0 1 9 2 30 -28 1

Boys Results The Year 9/10 boys competed well over the 4 weeks of the league to finish 3rd in the league.

L GF GA GD PTS GP W D Fairfax 7 6 1 0 25 4 21 19 Holte 8 3 3 2 12 8 4 12 Highclare 5 1 1 3 1 9 -8 4 Bishop Walsh 8 1 1 6 1 18 -17 4

U15 ISA Hockey Tournament (Cannock Hockey Club, Nov 2018) The standard of play was high and although our team did not win a match we held on own against some very strong opponents with some good passages of play to score a few goals.

Results: finished 7th overall (8 teams) v Twycross lost 0 - 5 v Stafford Grammar lost 0 - 1 v Tettenhall lost 2 – 4 v Bedstone lost 0 - 2 v Lucton drew 1 - 1

Thanks to Archie Cleaver who volunteered his time to umpire every week.

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Cross-Country Sutton Schools’ Race (Bishop Vesey, Nov 2018) Individual Results Year 7 Girls 2nd 9th Grace Robinson 11th Olivia Harvey 13th Eva Robinson 14th Molly Taunton 15th Davina Bodhani

Year 7 Boys 3rd 11th Joshua Andre 12th Archie Moore 13th Harry Hope 15th Ayo Odofin 18th Ben Wilkinson 19th Joe Abbott 20th Hamza Mirza

Year 8/9 Girls 3rd 10th Ruby Newman 13th Jodie Andrews 14th Safa Ali 18th Veronica Ansell 20th Megan Lozneanu 21st Megha Bodhani 22nd Sashanna Grant

Year 8/9 Boys 3rd 9th Samuel Harvey 15th Harry Abbott 18th Cameron Tuck 19th Christian Kalavanas 21st Ibraheem Hussein

Year 10+ Girls 2nd 4th Olivia Keene 7th Sophie Smith 8th Skye Langford-Brown 9th Kaylah Pedro-Ward

Year 10+ Boys 1st 1st Jack Newman 3rd Toby Walton 3rd Simran Bamra 5th Kian Bhanabhai 6th Louis Hughes 7th Marcus Koasha

ISA National Swimming Finals 2018/2019 Results 1 December 2018, Highclare School swimmers put on a superb performance at the ISA National Swimming Finals, demonstrating perfect techniques and setting New ISA records.

Jodie returned to Highclare Senior School triumphant after achieving both a Gold and Bronze medal at the national competition.

Both races had close finishes, particularity the 50m Breaststroke. Jodie achieved a Gold medal in this race with less than a second between first and second place. Congratulations!

Hugh returned to Highclare Preparatory School on Monday with an impressive array of medals, including a Gold in the 50m Breaststroke.

Not only did Hugh achieve a Gold medal in this race, but he finished it in an amazing 32.45 seconds, two seconds before second place and establishing a new ISA record, a fantastic achievement.

This annual event is held at the London Aquatics Centre, home of the 2012 Olympic swimming pool and pupils who qualified at the recent Midlands gala were invited to compete.

Congratulations to all of our Junior and Senior Swimmers who competed. You represented the school and yourselves with exemplary behaviour and attitude. We are once again very proud of your achievements.

Swimming

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Senior ISA Swimming Gala (Walsall, Nov 2018) Another closely contested Midlands ISA swimming gala. All swimmers represented their school well and produced some excellent individual and team performances.

Overall Results Girls – 2nd out of 15 Schools Boys – 8th out of 15 Schools Girls (15 schools) Boys (15 schools) Team Places Year 7 7th 5th Year 8 1st 11th Year 9/10 no team 6th Year 11/12 1st 2nd Congratulations to Alexandra Bartley and Jodie Andrews who have qualified to represent the Midlands at the ISA National gala at the Olympic Pool in London in December.

Football U13 Results Friendly Game - Highclare 0 v Bishop Walsh 8 U14 Results: overall 5th out of 5 schools

Stafford Grammar Tettenhall College Chase Grammar Dixie Grammar Highclare

P 4 4 4 4 4

W 3 2 2 1 0

D 0 1 1 1 1

L 1 1 1 2 3

F 11 6 4 4 2

A 2 4 4 5 12

Points 9 8 8 5 2

Friendly Game - Highclare 0 v Bishop Walsh 4 ESSFA League Game - Highclare 1 v Washwood Heath 2

U15 Results ESSFA League Game - Highclare 0 v Stockland Green 5 U16 ISA Football Tournament (Gresham Playing Fields, September 2018) Results: overall 5th out of 5 schools

Winning and runners up teams

Priory Dixie Grammar Chase Grammar Bowbrook House Highclare

P 4 4 4 4 4

W 3 2 2 1 0

D 0 1 0 2 1

L 1 1 2 1 3

F 8 4 3 1 0

A 2 3 3 4 4

Points 9 7 6 5 1

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A Superb Christmas Concert

Highclare pupils from Highclare Senior and Preparatory School put on a very entertaining evening of festive music at the annual Christmas Concert held at Highclare Senior School.

The evening opened with the Highclare Preparatory and Senior schools' orchestras joining forces, performing enthusiastic renditions of Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer and Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas. The evening continued with exceptional performances from pupils across the school, with surprise guest soloists (Mrs Quigley and Mrs Okeghie) during the Preparatory and Senior school guitar ensemble performance of Peter Gunn Theme and a super performance from our Preparatory Choir of Super Santa, superhero props included! The Preparatory School performance of O’ Holy Night was a sure highlight that received a well-deserved standing ovation.

The Highclare School finale of I Wish It Could Be Christmas Every Day had everyone singing and as always the evening was a lovely festive edition to the school calendar. Thank you to all who supported the concert and we look forward to many more in the new year.

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Congratulations to all involved

ISA Art Competition Draws On Highclare Talent token and those who achieved a highly commended will receive a certificate. The 1st place winners were automatically entered into the National Arts Competition.

Two entries HARJOT KAUR and AOIFE WHISKENS received ‘Highly Commended’ at the National Finals. A fantastic achievement.

Congratulations to all the prize winners shown below: First Prize Award Highclare Preparatory School Winners: Aoife Whiskens for William Morris Adele Pike for Aboriginal Art Harrison Wilson for World Cup 2018 Shirt Highclare School pupils of all ages have once again achieved success in the prestigious Midlands Regional Arts competition. The judges received a total of 245 entries from 24 schools and Highclare School artists were recognised in 12 categories, scooping 4 first place, 4 second place and 4 highly commended prizes.

Of particular note was Harjot Kaur’s placing as first in the KS3/4 Photography class. This marks the fourth year running that a student at Highclare School has won this award.

All those awarded a 1st or 2nd place will receive a certificate and book

Highclare School www.highclareschool.co.uk

Highclare Senior School Winner: Harjot Kaur for Poisoned Apple Second Prize Award Highclare Preparatory School Winners: Dian Sing Dhaliwal for Lamborghini Emma Chan for LS Lowry Interpretation Annabelle Wilkinson for Tiles inspired by ‘William Morris’ Highclare Senior School Winner: Shiven Pattni for Life Hangs by a Thread Highly Commended Award Highclare Senior School Winners: Caitlin O’ Connor for Anatomy Tags Noah Griffiths for Spirit of Place Highclare Preparatory School Winners: Arya Gunputh for Aboriginal Art Jhiyan Obhi for World Cup Shirt