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All the latest news from Ringwood School ~A National Teaching Academy~
Autumn 2013
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Award Winning Staff, A French Exchange, Buckets of Charity fundraising and much more!
A Royal Harvest Festival
Written by Subject Leader for Food Technology, Mrs ingwood School students harvest hamper with lots of goodies took part in this year’s from the School and the New Forest. harvest festival at We had a specially made hamper basket, Westminster Abbey. an amazing harvest loaf from The Pig, and Grow Your Own Group and food the students cooked a range of dishes students worked together and cooked and harvested all of the vegetables and some amazing items from produce fruits that were used. grown in the school. Products included The service at Westminster Abbey homemade jam made from the abundant was truly inspiring. We learnt about crop of Summer strawberries, goats food, farming and being thankful for the cheese and onion tarts made from the abundance of food that we can grow onions grown this year, and apple and ourselves! Students loved celebrity raspberry cake, to name but a few. spotting and enjoyed chatting to the With a delicious selection of treats likes of Damien Lewis, Martin Clunes, we applied to Love British Food who Gregg Wallace and Dave Myers. It was a host the ‘Harvest Lottery’ for school privilege for four students and I to meet children. They challenged young people the Duchess of Cornwall who was very in the community to create the most impressed by our harvest hamper filled imaginative and inclusive harvest hamper. with delights from School and the New They loved Ringwood School’s entry as it featured the hard work of gardeners and cooks, and the students were invited to attend the harvest festival at Westminster Abbey on 16th October. This years theme was “Bring Home the Harvest” so we enlisted the help of New Forest Marque, who specialise in local foods and products, and The Pig in Brockenhurst who are experts when it comes to seasonal, home grown produce. Together they helped students’ source local foods, and helped us fill our
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Stewar t Forest. I would like to thank all those involved with this year’s harvest festival, you did Ringwood School proud.
Big Walk raises £10,000!
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ollowing our successful Golden Jubilee walk in 2008, we held a sponsored walk to help raise funds for covered outdoor spaces on the school site. The BIG Walk 2013 was the school’s response to requests from students and parents to provide covered outdoor spaces to further improve facilities on the school site for the benefit of students during the school day. This was the start of a new fundraising campaign led by students who identified a number of areas around the site for outdoor
Written by Assistant Headteacher, Mrs Olive canopies. cards were stamped and they were then The sponsored walk took place on able to start their half term break. Friday 25th October, the last day before Grateful thanks goes to our site half term. Lots of adults, staff, parents, manager, Mr Coombes, who helped Ringwood Rotary and signage ensured to organise the event. Mr Preston, in students’ safety at the few road crossing the finance office who organised the points. Everyone arrived hopeful of a collection of the funds, who with sixth dry day and we were lucky! Students form helpers, collected over £10,000 left on a rota and walked in their tutor in the week after half term. Planning groups escorted by teachers and sixth permission is now being organised and form students. There was an excellent students should see the benefit of their atmosphere and lots of laughter, some actions in the Spring Term. singing and the inevitable consumption of food. On return students sponsorship
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Headteacher’s News
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s we approach this Christmas time I want to focus on the good news stories of the year because we often hear so much about problems around the world. Looking at morning papers, listening to the radio and watching television it is only too easy to conclude that nothing is going right in the world. Yet there is a lot of good news with some wonderful things going on at school, in the local community, in our country and across the world. I never cease to feel a great sense of pride and joy in all the acts of care, kindness, helpfulness, courage and dedication I see on a daily basis from students and staff who give so freely of their time and money to support others including those less fortunate than themselves. Small acts of kindness really do make a difference. To the students,
staff and parents who generously supported our Shoebox Appeal and our appeals for food to help the Ringwood Food Bank and the homeless at Christmas, I say thank you. Thank you for making a difference to the lives of others in Ringwood, those living in shelters across the South Coast and children in Eastern Europe. To the Sixth Form who work with such passion and enthusiasm to provide a special Christmas Party for Senior Citizens in the Ringwood area I say thank you. For many this is an opportunity to come together as a community to enjoy Christmas with young and old alike. I know from the thanks, cards and messages how much it means to so many people. To the students who travelled to Rwanda and Borneo in 2013 thank you for the time, dedication and commitment you have given to make a difference to the lives of people across the world. To everyone who has contributed to the many charities we support each year your
contribution really does change lives. Over the past week we have all been remembering with great fondness the life of Nelson Mandela. This message given on his release from prison is as relevant today as it was then, “what counts in life is not the mere fact that we have lived, it is what difference we have made to the lives of others that will determine the significance of the life we lead”. Christmas is a time of good news. I believe it is a time to look at the good things in life and remember there are a great many people trying to make the world a better place, even though their efforts may go unrecognised. This is a lesson for us all and we should never forget the obligation to make our individual contributions, however small, towards the sum of human goodness. I wish you all a very Happy Christmas and I hope we will all try to make some good news in the coming year. Chris Edwards Headteacher
Submit an article Welcome to Gemma Diaper, our new Marketing and Communications Officer. I would like to welcome Gemma to our team. We are delighted she has joined our support team and I have no doubt she will make a big impact in her new role. If you have any good news stories you would like us to report in Ringwood in the News please do not hesitate to contact Gemma. She will be very happy to work with you to celebrate successes in 2014. Please email your story and photos to Gemma Diaper - gemma.diaper@ringwood.hants.sch.uk - Tel: 01425 475000
Seasons Greetings
Written by Head s the Autumn term draws to a close, these past 15 weeks have seen students become more involved than ever in school life. Now, Christmas decorations are going up, carols are being heard and students of all years should look forward to a well earned rest! These past weeks have been very busy! There have been school visits to Belgium and Paris, amongst others. Some students have taken November exams and Year 13 students have been writing personal statements and CV’s in preparation for application to employment or university. Students in Years 10-13 were given the opportunity to attend a careers event hosted at the school which was extremely well attended. Thank you to Mrs Barnes and Miss Challis for organising such a successful event. Student Voice has continued to gain
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Boy and Head Girl, George Whittingham and Evie Davies Committees for the work that they have done, and for the work we know that they will go on to undertake. Sixth Form Students continue to sit on Ringwood Town Council as Student Advisors and are becoming ever more vocal and confident to ensure the views of young people in the town are heard by those that can make a difference. strength with even more students taking We would also like to take this up new challenges and getting involved opportunity to thank anyone who in school life. The Social Committee sponsored a student to take part in delivered a thoroughly successful, the ‘BIG walk’. We would like to thank and oversubscribed, Senior Citizens all those involved, as students raised Christmas Party. The Community a very impressive amount of money Committee have held a series of that will be used to purchase the much ‘Silver Surfers’ workshops to teach the needed canopy that students have elderly how to use computers and new been requesting for a very long time! A technology. Charity is a key part of life at Ringwood particular mention to Mr Denham and his Tutor Group who raised over £600! and the ‘Lions Den’ Event with Burgate From both of us, we wish you a Merry School, where students bid for money for Christmas and a Happy New Year. We local charities, was very successful once hope that endeavours in 2014 are again. We both want to openly thank all successful, whatever they may be. the Leadership Team and Strategy Group
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Art trip to Paris
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Written by Hayley Maxton, Ar ts Committee
uring the October half term 34 Sixth Form Textile, Art and Photography students visited the art influenced city of Paris.
When we arrived in Paris we looked around the Allée Centrale where there was some great contemporary art on display. We then went on to the Pompidou Centre and later finished the
Lions Den Win
Written by Year 13 students , Talia Keen and Beth Brooks he Lions Den Event with the showed a film of her flying a bird at the Lions Club of Ringwood & Liberty’s Reptile and Raptor Centre.Year Fordingbridge was hosted 10 student, Angus Smith who was part this year at The Burgate School. of The 1st Poulner Scouts group came It was organised with us, charity leaders, dressed up in climbing gear which their who have helped to coordinate these four group was pitching to win money for. groups and attended all of the meetings. We were very proud of all the groups, The four groups who took part were on and of Ringwood School as a whole, behalf of the charities: Liberties Reptile for our victory against Burgate! The and Raptors Centre, The Ringwood Ringwood Foodbank were the ‘winners’ Foodbank, The 1st Poulner Scouts and The of the evening being awarded the greatest Lantern Centre. sum of money. Our teams were awarded Our teams all gave magnificent the ‘lions share’ of the cash as it was a presentations with a real personal ‘feel’ competition between the two schools, so said Mrs Olive. We used no YouTube we were very pleased to be able to give official charity films – all films were made something back to or community. Overall by the students visiting the places and it was a great evening for everyone conducting interviews.Year 12 student, involved and we excited at prospect of Charis Donnely even brought a bird, winning again next year! Archie the tawny owl, to the event and
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day with a lovely evening meal in Flunch, which helped us to relax after a busy day exploring what Paris had to offer. We had some great photography opportunities throughout the trip, particularly on the first morning when we went on a river cruise on the Seine, taking in the modern buildings and amazing architecture throughout Paris. That evening we went up the Montparnasse tower and were able to see the whole of the Paris skyline at night. Throughout our trip we visited museums and galleries, such as the Musee D’art Moderne, to help develop our artist’s research and went to many iconic landmarks such as the Sacre Coeur and Notre Dame. Overall the visit was extremely helpful for our art work as we could add to research on artist’s work and produce some great photography to help us develop our coursework. We would like to thank Mr Pigott, Miss Busuttil and Mr Fielder for organising the trip and more importantly, putting up with 34 girls!
Citizen Summer
Wr itten by Year 12 s tuden t, Ryan P urdy ver the Summer I took part in National Citizens Service, which is all about extending skills of communication, team work, leadership, and pushing our own emotional and physical boundaries. The first week focused on emotional and physical challenges. We took part in surfing, kayaking and coasteering activities as part of a team which allowed us experience the feeling of 'going out of the comfort zone' and helping others when they did not feel confident. The second week encouraged us to further our skill base and complete workshops in the local area. Each day was different and full of new community based experiences. The final week was also an investment into the community; we had to design and execute our own fund raising technique to raise money for a donation to a charity of our choice. My group wrote and produced a song about our NCS experience and raised £400 for local homeless charities throughout Winchester.
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Award Winning Staff
arlier in the year Ringwood School’s Claire Waine was crowned Teaching Assistant of the Year in the London and South East region, by the 2013 Pearson Teaching Awards. Claire is a valued member of staff at Ringwood School and provides support and guidance to students with educational needs throughout the school. Her dedication was noted in Miss Edwards nomination: “Claire contributes something very special to the school. Role model, problem solver, listener, guide, mentor - Claire does not simply do her job, she lives it. She is quite simply amazing in what she does!” Regional winners were later submitted
to the national awards, which were held in London on 20th October. Claire and a number of her supporting colleagues and family attended the award ceremony in London. The overall winner went to a teaching assistant Claire Baldwin of Malting’s Academy in Whitham. In response to her nomination, Claire said “I am honoured and touched to have been nominated by two parents whose children I have worked closely with over the years. I am very lucky to have the incredible support of an amazing team in Student Support who like me are passionate about making a difference to the education of all children in the school.”
Armistice P arade
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ear 9 students, Jacob Knight and Robert Brooks were asked to escort two WWII veterans during the Menin Gate Armistice Day Memorial parade. The ceremony, held in Ypres, Belgium was held on Monday 11th November to commemorate the 95th Anniversary of the end of WWI. Service personnel and veterans gathered to remember the fallen. The Ringwood School students did the school proud, and were honoured to be involved with such a special ceremony, which was also attended by The Duke of Edinburgh.
Gambian Success
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atoumatta Jallow, a Gambian student sponsored by Ringwood School has been accepted into college. Fatoumatta recently sat her Year 9 Gambian state exams and came top of her class. Her excellent results has secured her entry to higher education college NUSRAT where she will continue her education for a further 3 years. Ringwood School sponsor Fatoumatta and two other students in Gambia. Funds are raised through SPUD days, and without the our financial support Fatoumatta would not have been lucky enough to have an education. Congratulations to all that have supported Fatoumatta.
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UBS Award for 'Outstanding' students
Written or the fourth time Pure Potential has teamed up with leading financial services firm UBS to recognise and celebrate the achievements of 50 bright stateschool sixth form students who have excelled in their academic studies.Their accomplishments were celebrated at an awards ceremony hosted by UBS at their London office on 29th October. Pure Potential was established in 2005 to plug the knowledge, aspiration and confidence gap between independent and state school students when it comes to progressing to the most competitive universities and careers. Since its formation, the organisation has assisted more than a million students. UBS was established over 150 years ago and serves private, institutional and corporate clients worldwide. Headquartered in Zurich and Basel, Switzerland, UBS has offices in more than 50 countries, including all major financial centres, and approximately 62,000 employees. Shila Bhudia the EMEA Head of Graduate Recruiting said: “UBS is proud to support this outstanding group of state school students. Campus Recruiting at UBS is committed to encouraging talented, hard-working students from all backgrounds across the UK. We wish them the best of luck in their future endeavours.”
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by Ye a r 1 3 and H ead B oy, G eo rge Whittingham was noted by UBS. However, most significantly, my visit to Auschwitz and work for the Holocaust Trust along with my correspondence with Nick Clegg MP to ensure a modern and contemporary representation of the Holocaust to stop discrimination and prejudice. Over 400 nominations were made by teachers, parents and peers and Pure Potential was overwhelmed with the high calibre of the students. Binda Bhudia, Events & Marketing Director of Pure Potential had a difficult task selecting the final 50 students – “We are delighted to be working with UBS for the fourth time to celebrate the achievements of this country’s state-educated students. Once again we were completely overwhelmed by the exceptionally high-standard of students, and are impressed by the hard work and dedication displayed by the I was selected to receive the award award winners. We are certain they will due to my achieved grades at AS Level go on to achieve great things.” and at GCSE Level as well as my A Level predictions. UBS recognised my Work Experience with Desmond Swayne MP and involvement at Blake Lapthorn LLP. The award also recognised my prolonged commitment with the Scout Association for the past 11 years and for the last 2 years as a Young Leader. Furthermore, my involvement at the Global Young Leaders Conference where I was nominated to chair a UN Global Summit Simulation As well as the award ceremony I also at the UN Headquarters in New York had the opportunity to meet with UBS staff and find out more about their work and gain valuable networking skills. The raft of highly gifted young adults attending allowed their horizons to be significantly lifted, showing what can be achieved through hard work and determination. It was particularly humbling to know that many of the individuals receiving awards ingwood School came up were just as gifted as their privately trumps once again and educated counterparts, if not more so. collected 225 gift-filled The award is open to students who shoeboxes for this year’s Ringwood have just commenced their A2 studies. I Rotary Shoebox Appeal. would therefore very much recommend The annual scheme, which is now in that any student, who feels that their its fourteenth year, aims to provide less achievements constitute an award, ask privileged youngsters with a brighter their teachers, friends or family members Christmas. Ringwood students filled to nominate them. Remember, like with festive-wrapped shoeboxes with toys, many awards – you will have nothing to educational items and games, before lose! Nominations will open for 2014 in they began their journey to those in August/September. poverty in Eastern Europe. If you would like more information on Dr. Geoffrey Ridgway OBE MD, the UBS Award for Outstanding Students, Immediate Past President of the Rotary or to schedule an interview with Sibyl Club of Ringwood, said: “It is great that Zao-Sanders please call 020 7122 1220 we can always depend on Ringwood or email sibyl@purepotential.org. For School to help. Sincere thanks to all any UBS enquires please UBS by calling concerned”. +44(0)20 7567 4714.
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Students top of the boxes (again!)
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Youth Film Festival Award Winners
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ast term a group of Year 12 Media Studies students entered the Youth Film Festival: Wessex Colleges Filmmaking Challenge. Lydia Barba, Anthony Underwood, Hugh Galloway and Alex Jarvis-Ferentinos were given two weeks to produce a short film with the genre, title and a line of dialogue chosen by the organisers of the event. This year the genre was comedy, the
title was ‘The Dead Bird’ and the line of dialogue was “Is it really dead?”. In November the students, who are now in Year 13, visited the Harbour Lights Picturehouse cinema in Southampton for a screening and awards ceremony. Their two minute entry was screened alongside eight other competing titles that were entered by several colleges from the Wessex and Hampshire area, before they were judged by a panel of independent
Careers Fair
W r it t en by C a re e r C o- ord i n a t or s , M s C hallis and Mr s B arnes ow! What an We were delighted to welcome back overwhelming turnout former students Ollie Hebden and Becky for Ringwood School's Shering who represented Bath University, annual Careers Fair. and Melissa Percy and Jessica Mason Thursday 7th November saw the hall, who are currently on the apprenticeship dining room and gym filled with over fifty programme at J.P Morgan. exhibitors from colleges, universities and We hope you found the evening a broad range of industries, for students informative. Any feedback from this event of Years 10-13 and their parents. It was or for future work related contacts a great opportunity for students to talk, please email careers@ringwood.hants. interact and be inspired towards the next sch.uk steps post 16 and 18.
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and professional film makers. The group were awarded Best Actor and Best Film for their entry, The Dead Bird – The one with Jeremy Beak. The film told the tragic tale of Jeremy who conquered being different, found acceptance, found love, but also found that crossing the road is a dangerous game. Jeremy’s tale can be seen at www. youtu.be/LSc5IyS_lHQ
Science Show
Wr itten by Year 8 s tuden t, Nic o le Do ulto n n 14th November forty three Year 7 and 8 students went on a school trip to the Lighthouse Theatre in Poole to see the Horrible Science Show. It was an incredible show. There were four main characters, three who were Scientists and a boy who asked all the questions. It started with ‘The germs’! We learnt that bacteria are everywhere, and that some are good and some are bad. We looked at blood, bones and skeletons, gravity and how to make electrical circuits. We all wore 3D glasses which was really fun! It was a very entertaining show and I was amazed at the special effects.
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Dancing to Success
Dance Organization World Championships in October. Isaac, who is part of Bournemouth and Ringwood based street dance company Shake, competed in the South Coast and UK qualifiers earlier in the year, before finally representing his country in Denmark. Isaac performed alongside Bournemouth student Jack Manly in the Adult Duo category and was awarded 3rd place. He was also part of an Adult Formation group performance which secured 18th place.
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ear 9 student, Charlotte Jenner was invited to take part in this year Strictly Come Dancing. Charlotte, who is a member of the Hampshire based Charisma Dance Academy, travelled to the prestigious Blackpool Tower Ballroom to take part in the ensemble samba dance routine that featured in the opening credits of the
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successful BBC One show on Saturday 17th November. The opening credits had the theme of ‘Something for Everybody’ and showcased dance through the generations. The routine featured the Strictly celebrities, professionals, young dancers and older dancers. Year 11 student, Isaac Farmer represented England at the International
Sailing Success for Burns Brothers
n October Year 12 student, Joseph Burns travelled to France to compete in the Grand Prix de l’Armistice. Joseph, who has previously travelled the Holland and New Zealand to represent Great Britain, and his new team mate Max, competed against ninety two other boats in their 420 two-person dinghy, and sailed to victory in 4th place. They were the first GBR boat to finish the race, beating all the leading British National Squad teams, which was a great achievement as they have only been sailing together for a couple of months. Joseph and Max will be representing GBR in Spain twice over the Christmas period, in preparation for the UK World and European Selection events in Spring 2014. We wish them both the best of luck with their future competitions. Joseph’s younger brother, and Year 9 student, Daniel Burns is also excelling on the water. Daniel competed in the End of Season Championships in October and overall achieved 27th place out of 204 sailors, and he is now ranked 36th in the UK, and as a result will work with some of the best coaches from around the UK.
October also saw Daniel travel to Oxford to take part in one of the Country’s biggest youth and junior team racing event, the RYA Twiname Team Racing event. Competing as part of the six member ‘Flying Spinnakers’ team, Daniel was joined by fellow Ringwood Student, Will Bedford. Daniel explains “Team racing is a type of sailing where you and your team of three boats use the rules to force the team you’re against to take a penalty, and therefore win the race by accumulating fewer points”. The weather was not always on their side, however after some waiting Daniel and his team were finally given the opportunity to compete against some of the top teams in the country. The team competed against other sailing clubs and schools and won the Junior Class (under 16’s) for the second year running.
Year 8 student, Charlotte Goult recently qualified to compete in the DKKQ Championship 2013. Charlotte has been dancing freestyle since the age of seven, and attends the All Stars dance academy in Bournemouth three times a week. She specialises in solo and paired freestyle, and also does Rock n Roll from time to time. Charlotte travelled to the Blackpool Tower Ballroom and competed against 100 others in the solo freestyle category, and also reached the quarter finals in the slow pairs category.
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L’é c h an g e f ra n ç a i s B y K a t y Pe r r i m a n a n d Amalie Ro llins o n, Frenc h P r inc ipal Students
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n March 2013 fifteen Year 12 students paid a week-long visit to Avranches in France accompanied by two members of the languages staff from Ringwood School. Now in Year 13 it was the time for their French correspondents to take part in the return leg of the exchange and visit England in order to experience the English culture and way of life. The exchange gave our French correspondents the chance to immerse themselves into life in England and try out new things such as the food we have here. It was also a chance, just like when we went to France, to practise their language skills in order to improve them further enabling them to make progress in their English lessons back in France. The exchange also offered the opportunity to meet other young people and secure the links already held with Ringwood School. They arrived on Thursday 10th October late in the afternoon after a long day of travelling. They were immediately met from their coach in Manor Road by us, their English correspondents, where we introduced them to our families and Ringwood itself. On the Friday, they spent the day shadowing us in our lessons where they compared our lessons to their lessons in France – they were all surprised by the fact that as students in Year 13 we only have to study three subjects as they have to study at least seven subjects; they were also surprised by the fact that the
class sizes are much smaller. During the day they were given the opportunity to talk to members of staff from Ringwood School, and gain an understanding of different projects going on throughout the school. After spending a weekend with our families and experiencing what we do on a weekend in England, they were able to visit London, Salisbury and Southampton to not only do a spot of shopping but also experience the English culture further and learn about English culture and history. They departed on the following Thursday where there was, needless to say, some tears due to the newly forged friendships that we hope will last and continue for a long time to come. They all said that they “really enjoyed discovering the English way of life in their families during they stay” and found them very “welcoming and friendly” towards them. On behalf of the French school and us in England, we would like to say thank you to all our teachers for allowing us to partake in this rewarding exchange, and to our families as without them we wouldn’t have been able to experience, as strongly, the others way of life. We hope future students get to take part in such a beneficial exchange.
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Dance Student of the Month
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ovember saw the Dance and P.E department launch Dance Student of the
Month. All students in Year 7 – 11 will be eligible to win, and votes will be cast by Miss Parker and the staff in the P.E department, and the winner will be displayed on the board next to the dance studio. The first lucky student to be crowned Dance Student of the Month was Year 9 student, Sarah Hearn. Congratulations!
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Newham Triumph
ingwood School’s resident racer, Scott Newham recently won the overall prize in the Senior race at Christchurch Motocross Club’s recent AMCA championship race. Despite an early fall and a field of 24 more experienced racers, Scott won two out of three races; including his second successive Ringwood Motocross Club title which he collected at the club’s prize giving event on 14th December.
Top Work!
ingwood School recently donated £134.20 to Naomi House hospice after collecting and recycling over two tonnes of milk bottle tops. Well done to everyone involved!
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News from the PE Department Moors Valley for Key Stage 4
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e’re pleased that we are still able to continue offering a number of offsite activities to our Year 10 and 11 students. Mountain biking at Moors Valley Country Park has proved to be a fantastic opportunity to gain some knowledge of outdoor activities while having a great time under the guidance of a qualified mountain biking instructor.
PE Student of the Month
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ach month the PE department nominate two pupils in each year group for the prestigious title of PE Student of the Month (PESOM). The award could be given for a number of reasons such as: outstanding effort; excellent leadership skills; commitment to learning; the ability to learn independently; extra-curricular success; excellent progress and improvement; or outstanding performances in lesson. Each member of the PE department nominates one male and one female from each year group. The department then discuss the nominations and decide who from the 10 nominees will be awarded PESOM for that month. This month’s winners were: Year 7 Adam Moss and Lauren Sheering Year 8 Jamie Hamer and Francesca Ridsale Year 9 Jack Melonie and Charlie Hardy Year 10 Ben Anderson and Kristy Gray Year 11 Alistair Tobin and Hannah Harrison Winners will have their photos and citation of achievement displayed on the PESOM board.
Recent Results Girls Hockey
• U14 Ringwood School v Arnewood – Win • U16 Ringwood School v Hounsdown – Win • U16 Ringwood School v Arnewood – Win • U16 Ringwood School v Noadswood – Win • U16 Ringwood School competed in a tournament in Southampton and came 3rd Congratulations to recent Players of the Match - Iona Sheerin, Emily Dawe and Lauren Holt. Cross Country Congratulations to all the students that competed in the New Forest cross country in November. We came second in the U13 girls and boys category. The below students finished in the top 25 of their relevant age group: Jared Holland Harry Grubb Jim Dence Charlie Dawkin Morgan Durward Alicia Maude Holly Dawkins Rebecca Newham Maeve Bailey Verity Keu
Lucie Menary Lauren Hudson Peter Smith Rhys Johnson Abi Drake Ella Nicholas Jozie Peaty Aaron Cogdell Jack Hamlin
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his year has seen the Cookery Club held in the Hive grow in popularity. Seasonal highlights include Dorset Apple Cake, Spider cakes for Halloween,
and delicious fudge and peppermint creams which make the perfect Christmas present. The club runs on a Tuesday every few weeks, and is postered around the school.
It costs £1 to take part, and there are 16 places available on a first come first served basis.
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Senior Ci tizen Christmas Party
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Jack Burton
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former Ringwood School pupil, Jack Burton recently won silver at the World School Games in Brazil. Jack, who now trains alongside the likes of Tom Daley at Plymouth College is often ranked 1st or 2nd in his age group for breaststroke came 2nd in 50m breaststroke in 29.45. Jack also won gold in 400m medley relay (heat) and bronze in 200m breaststroke. England sent seven competitors to the four day event and won a massive 21 medals.
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ingwood School held another successful Senior Citizen’s Christmas Party on Monday 9th December. The evening saw Sixth Form students welcome the town’s senior generation into the school for an evening of festive entertainment and supper. The one hundred guests in attendance were treated to a two course supper and endless cups of tea, while the students hosted an evening of entertainment including harp playing, dancing, bingo, carols and a festive raffle.
This year's evening was funded by the Waitrose isolation campaign for the elderly. Sincere thanks to the school staff who volunteered transport, Ringwood businesses for donating items for the raffle and bingo, and more importantly to our group of Sixth Form students for working tirelessly to make such a valued and appreciated evening happen. Joyce Renson attending the evenings festivities and said: "Once again you have all given a great deal of enjoyment and pleasure to us oldies. Thank you so much for a most enjoyable party".
team of sixth form students are currently taking part in the Student Robotics 2014 competition. The competition, which is run by Southampton University, challenges sixth form schools and colleges from across the country to build fully autonomous robots. The Ringwood School team went to the opening event at Southampton University in October and received a box of electrical components to aid them with their build. The students were given the opportunity to figure out how to work the kit, with some assistance from graduates at the University. Students will need to build a robot that can perform three specific tasks: pick up a box, flip the box over and finally place the box on a shelf. The robot needs to complete this task by itself so will need to be able to detect the box using a camera, and then be programmed so that it knows what to do. The robot will then need to perform the task alongside three opponents in the arena next year.
Please Sir, will you grow a mo for Movember? Mr Massimino, Mr Denham, Mr Little, Mr Southern, Mr Powell, Mr Owen and Mr Hoggett embraced the mo this November and raised a brilliant £256 for charity. Congratulations to all, and especially to Mr Little who was awarded this years ‘Best Mo Award’.
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W r i t t e n by Ye a r 1 2 s t u d e n t , Lu ke Co ttenham activities. These included taking a site n 20th November twelve tour, finding out many interesting facts sixth form students about the company itself and networking visited J.P. Morgan in with several staff members at the end of Bournemouth. the evening, finding out about how they The visit was part of the schools started working there, what they do and interaction programme and whilst how they find their job. we were there we took part in many
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Urban Education
Wr it t en by Ye a r 1 3 s t u d e n t s , N a t a l i e Harr is and L uc y H ines
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n the 22nd November A level Geography students travelled to Southampton for an Urban characteristics field work trip. We started the day at Hedge End where we studied the rural urban fringe, looking at housing quality, accessibility and noise pollution. We then moved into the inner city area and looked around Derby Road, St Mary’s and Rockstone
Lane in the Bevoirs Valley. We compared characteristics such as housing, wealth, ethnicity, employment and services. There is a huge difference which surprised us greatly. We finished off the day with lunch and shopping at West Quay. We will use our results to create a case study for Southampton showing the changes to characteristics in urban areas.
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C h a n c e of a l i f e ti m e Wr itten by Year 13 s tudent and H ead B oy, G eo rge Whittingh am
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lifford Chance: The third largest law firm in the world; an annual turnover of $1.8 billion; 35 offices in 25 countries and 3400 lawyers. This is the sort of law firm that individuals at all levels of their education aspire to establish their career and students wish to visit. ‘Pathways to Law’ is available, following an application process, to Sixth Form Students at the start of their year 12 courses. The course is aimed at students from state schools who have a passion for a career in law but who do not have the traditional background of lawyers. It was through my involvement on the ‘Pathways to Law’ scheme at Southampton University that I was invited to attend a day at the Clifford Chance Head Office at Canary Wharf in London. The day at their Headquarters allowed networking with trainees undertaking their Training Contracts, a tour of the office and a selection of workshops. Such workshops included a guide to the competitive application process from the Graduate Recruitment Team. When only 5% of applicants are offered a Training Contract position, any insight, however early, is of the utmost importance. I was also fortunate enough to be able to undertake a legal case study from the litigation and international arbitration (dispute resolution) area of law – a particular area of interest. This allowed the development of invaluable negotiation, communication and analytical skills. I urge any student in Year 11 who fits the entry requirements for the ‘Pathways to Law’ scheme and has an interest in law to keep monitoring the ‘Pathways to Law’ website and be prepared to apply next year. The course is extremely beneficial and leaves no monetary burden, as it is sponsored by the Sutton Trust. If you would like more information about ‘Pathways to Law’ visit their website at: http://www. suttontrust.com/students/pathways-tolaw/
Ringwood in the News
Autumn 2013
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Send My Friend To School Campaign - A Remarkable Year
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illie Wells and Sam Whittingham have now reached the end of their year as Young Ambassadors for the Global Campaign for Education. Their achievements have vastly exceeded our expectations. After winning the Steve Sinnott award for their Send My Friend to School campaign they visited the Delhi slums along with Oxfam UK, Oxfam India, The Guardian and the NUT which allowed them to gather facts. Even at that early stage, they were able to influence a public hearing set up to examine the problems that occur when you take girls out of education. They shared their findings with everyone at Ringwood School then presented to the NUT conference winning the first ever standing ovation. In May, they set up the Global Campaigners, a team who achieved great recognition in their own right, a highlight being the film they produced for the Global Campaign for Education, which will be used for teacher CPD as an example of excellent peer-to-peer education. Individual team members have made major contributions to the campaign: Jade Wardle wrote an article for a national publication, ‘Engage’; Jade and Iona Spence Dingle represented the Campaigners at the recent EFA Conference; Samantha Kimberley combined with Millie and Sam
attended the local UN Association for a final uplifting presentation this November. The UNA presented all three students with ‘Children can do’, a diary that celebrates and broadens awareness of the ordinary and extraordinary actions that children do to help themselves and others. And finally Samantha Kimberley and Katy Barrett joined Millie and Sam for a morning with Oxfam with other schools and for their meeting with Lynne Featherstone MP, who supported the student’s dedication and said: “It was fantastic to meet such passionate children who care so much about the world they are growing up in and helping to shape”. The Young Ambassadors were invited to be amongst the small number of young people who represented the UK youth on Malala Day in the United Nations at New York. On Malala Yousafzai’s sixteenth birthday, they were honoured to take part in a youth takeover of the United Nations, along with Malala, Gordon Brown, BanKi-Moon and the international Youth
Junior Masterchef Challenge B y Ye a r 8 s t u d e n t , He b e G arrett
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n Sunday 16th November six pupils from Ringwood School took part in a Junior Masterchef Challenge at the Seven Fish restaurant. Shannon (chef at the Seven Fish) and Trevor (owner of local book store Paperview) worked together to organise the occasion. To start my brother, Henry Garrett and Michael Poore (Year 10) made Chicken Parfait with Melba Toast. To follow Elisha Selby and Polly Thomas (Year 10) cooked Chicken Lasagne. For desert my partner and I created Sticky Toffee Pudding and Custard. Finally Rihannon Percy (Year 8) and her brother produced Chocolate Pear Pudding and
Ice cream. We cooked for over 50 people; the teams went in on Saturday and Sunday to prepare their dishes, and were supported by Shannon and her colleague Robbie. The final test was to present and serve our courses to a restaurant full of customers who had high expectations of us young chefs. All contestants were rewarded with a well earned lunch of burger and chips at the Seven Fish, together with a £10 Paperview voucher. The winner’s recipe will be on the menu at the Seven Fish in January 2014. Thanks to Paperview and the Seven Fish for a great experience!!
Advocacy Group who arranged the day. Millie also joined an advocacy panel to show how campaigning for the Send My Friend to School campaign worked. Millie and Sam have worked with eight other schools both independently and with the Global Campaigners on the Send My Friend to School campaign. The National EFA Day conference acknowledged that our students have set the bar very high for next year’s Ambassadors. Their use of social media has been careful, targeted and effective with school academy hubs, MPs, Lords and Gordon and Sarah Brown amongst their followers. Millie and Sam leave a huge legacy to the campaigning groups they have joined and influenced. Their influence has spread well beyond Ringwood School and they have persuaded a record number of over 5,000 schools to take part in the campaign. Oxfam calculate that through direct action and through specialist, national, regional and local media, they have informed over 700,000 people of the campaign. At the end of a truly remarkable year, Millie, Sam and the Global Campaigners continue to work with Oxfam and the Steve Sinnott Foundation and we hope that through their endeavours they will continue to improve the outcomes of children everywhere who are denied an education.
Children in Need
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hildren in Need was not a SPUD day this year, but that didn’t stop the staff and students raising money. Year 7 student, Alice Morgan embraced her inner Mary Berry and staged a bake sale.Year 9 student, Jamie Heron completed a sponsored silence.Year 13 student, Jordan Whalen organised a lunchtime penalty shootout. The business department donated unwanted folders and plastic wallets which were later purchased by sixth form students with the proceeds going to charity. The Charity Committee, with help from the Social Committee, orchestrated a sixth form onesie SPUD day. The day was a massive success and raised almost £200 through donations, games and bake sales. Staff in the Hive raised an amazing £235 from a bake sale. Although the sale was originally for Children in Need, they decided to share the money with UNICEF in light of the recent tragedy in the Philippines. Well done to all those involved!