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HEADTEACHER ’ S WELCOME Welcome to the summer 2016 edition of our fantastic news magazine sUCCess produced – as ever – by our hugely talented LRC team of Michelle Lewin, Rachael de la Mare and Lucian Toma with the co-operation of 200 UCC employees and 1400 pupils. There is always huge demand from staff for space in this magazine because there’s so much going on at UCC and with only 32 pages available a lot of events fail to get any column inches each term.

This term, of course, we have an enormous amount to celebrate: the visit by His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales in March, the success of our cheerleaders in the National Championships, yet another breath-taking Art Exhibition, a splendid Design Technology photoshoot, a variety of science events, visiting speakers, UCC’s Got Talent, expeditions for the Gold and Silver Duke of Edinburgh awards and exchange visits to France. All of this on top of A-level and GCSE examinations, the Sixth Form Ball and Year 11 prom and 3 weeks of internal examinations.

This has been another superb term at this vibrant school and we are looking forward to a great summer with new records about to be set on GCSE and A level results days.

Mr Pattinson, Headteacher

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Pablo Picasso once said, ‘Action is the foundational key to all success’; our students certainly live up to his ideal. This year’s sixth form exhibition is exceptional, illustrating just how engaged, conscientious, skilful and hard working our students are. We wish them well in their further studies and entrust the continuing survival of the arts to their capable hands.

Owen Smith

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ART EXHIBITION 2016

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The annual Ready Steady Cook competition against QEGS saw Ella Davidson, Maisie Jones, Toby King and Ella Purdy plan, cook and serve an amazing Year range of restaurant-standard the c 9 geogr a o dishes. All the finalists won a Adri ntinent phers h a a o thre n Faill, w f Antar ve be e trip to Center Parcs and Ella e se c n lea t h ica oh p the f Davidson – the UCC winner o od arate oc as work with loca rning ab , e opp o – also received Amazon ortu weathe casions. d in An l electri ut n c t A r w ar ity ia ,s d vouchers, an apron and a ere ‘Any of a life ocial life rian told ctica on n w o time hat , an cook book. Great work ne us educ ever the can go . His wo imals an about Year 9’s, I was very proud y t r a app tion, el are – re here, jus ds of ins d the of you! ectr ly!’ t ician search, use yo piration Beth ur , Viv Cuthbertson p Leat hers mechan lumbing skills, ic, c hef – , outdo o r and

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A fantastic evening of “UCC’s Got Talent” raised money for the South Africa Rugby Tour and saw 12 outstanding acts demonstrate an incredible range of comedy, dance, music and magic. All the acts showed unbelievable skill, dedication and bravery.

The overall winner was George Usher, who sang “Electricity” from “Billy Elliot, The Musical” with sublime poise, character and personality.

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SCIENCE DAYS

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Sam Webb

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YEAR 11 PROM

Hotel was the venue for this 11 Prom. Arriving in style in a per-cars, tractors and vintage e students looked fabulous. It ly evening – with dinner and that celebrated 5 years of hard work and a tremendous p who will be greatly missed!

Good luck to you all!

Marcus Castle

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DUKE OF EDINB

Congratulations to the successful Silver and Gold Duke Gold expedition persevered through rain and tough te from Penrith to Windermere, with the highlight of a wild Silver groups set off in heavy rain from Grasmere to ta Borrowdale and Thirlmer Jenny Evans

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Year 9 Food Technology students raised an amazing ÂŁ250 for the Breast Cancer Care charity when they took part in the annual strawberry tea fundraising event.

A fantastic variety of goodies was made in lessons and sold to staff and students at break time. Ingredients were donated by the students themselves and by local supermarkets Sainsbury’s and Morrisons. Fantastic work Year 9s, well done!!

Viv Cuthbertson

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DESIGN & TECHNOLOGY SHOWCASE 2016

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DESIGN & TECHNOLOGY SHOWCASE 2016

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More than 400 pupils from 27 local primary schools took part in this year’s primary science days, the purpose of which was to introduce the scientific skills and equipment that pupils will use in secondary school. The activities they needed to complete were dressed up in a real-life scenario – an expedition by an astronaut (an egg!) to an alien planet!

The pupils displayed some impressive teamwork skills as they designed parachutes to land their astronauts (eggs) safely and to extract the DNA from an alien fruit (strawberries). They all received a booklet and a ‘thank you’ certificate for taking part; the winning groups were awarded a certificate. Alex Ford

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FRENCH EXCHANGE Ten of UCC’s finest linguists spent Easter in France on the return exchange visit to Redon. We spent a week experiencing French life to the full – days of lessons at the lycée and visits to the magnificent city of Nantes and the seaside town of Vannes. After long days of classes and visits, we recovered our energies with some local delicacies: galettes, caramel and kouign amann.

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The current Year 10 Rugby team won their second County Cup in three years, beating Austin Friars 19-14. It is not easy to win a County Cup, so to win twice in three years is a massive achievement. One they will treasure for ever!

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