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INSIDE THIS EDITION: From the Head Environmental Art House Reports
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Fun with Numbers
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Natural History Museum
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Remembrance Sunday
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Payday Marketing...
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Callum’s sky didn’t fall…
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Newsflash is a smash!
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Bar Mock Trial
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Auschwitz
D E C E M B E R
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In the ‘House’...
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Sports
Quizfest
2012/2013
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All new School Council!
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Christmas card competition
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ICT trip
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Creating Cyber Mentors
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Budding designers
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Staff News
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Dates for your diary
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A Level Government & Politics and Law Students with Sam Gyimah MP at the Houses of Parliament On Friday 9th November, Year 12 Law and Government & Politics students gathered in London in order to visit the Houses of Parliament. After a trek through the chaotic streets of London and a thorough security check, we finally reached our destination. Upon arrival, we were given a tour of the House of Commons that provided us with a first hand insight into the way in which laws are debated. With the help of our appointed guides, we were able not only to refresh our knowledge but also to expand it. Our tour of the Commons was followed by a workshop designed to
test us on the law-making procedure. It succeeded in bringing out the competitive nature of all the students! The heated competition was brought to an end by the arrival of Sam Gyimah (MP for East Surrey and Private Secretary to David Cameron). Mr Gyimah had taken time from his busy schedule to provide us with an overview of his role within Parliament and to answer our questions; these ranged from his views on tuition fees to his opinion on the current coalition between the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats. He wished our school the best in the future and then we moved on to the final stage of our trip: the House of Lords.
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From the Head ….
During the 31 years that I have been part of Warlingham School there have been 14 different Secretaries of State for Education, each with his or her own vision for education in England. Changes in government policy, and the subsequent implementation at school level, means that we have been kept busy! Significant curriculum changes have included a move from O levels and CSEs to GCSEs and the introduction of the National Curriculum in 1988, the development (and subsequent partial demise) of diplomas and other vocational courses, different assessment mechanisms and amendments to examination specifications too numerous to quantify. Other policies which have fundamentally impacted on the way in which schools work include the introduction of stronger accountability through Ofsted inspection and “league tables”, increased autonomy through “local management of schools” in the late 1980s when control of funding and staff appointments shifted down to school level, the introduction of grant maintained schools (and their later abolition) and the growth of “specialist schools”,
academies, free schools, university technical colleges etc. Given that the average period of office for a Secretary of State for Education is 2 years, some might think that Michael Gove is approaching the end of his tenure in office but there are no signs of abatement in his agenda for educational change; in fact, the pace of change seems to be increasing and he certainly wishes to make his mark on the educational landscape! You will be aware from national news items and school briefings of a major curriculum overhaul that is currently underway and the examination system is clearly under the spotlight, especially in the light of grading issues this last summer. A consultation on proposals to replace GCSEs with EBCs (English Baccalaureate Certificates) has just closed and it is likely that these new examinations will be implemented from September 2014 ie for our current Year 8 students. Whilst there is consensus that the examination system requires reform, some educationalists have reservations that the proposals as they stand will lead to a system which excludes a large proportion of middle and lower
Black Forest Trip
ability students from meaningful qualifications and could be detrimental to the arts and technology curriculum. Some, on the other hand, welcome the arrival of a test akin to the old O level. Whatever is decided, I hope that the new qualifications equip young people for the future demands of our society as well as being rewarding to study in their own right. As we have always done in this constantly changing environment, Warlingham will engage students and parents in discussion to help shape our provision and ensure that we remain true to our values in meeting the needs of our students and the aims of the school. Over the next couple of weeks I wish our students, staff and their families an enjoyable Christmas break, returning on 8th January ready to face the learning demands of 2013. I am off to South Africa for just a week over the festive period to visit relatives so I am looking forward to welcoming in the new year for the first time in warm sunshine!
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After a challenging maze through Parliament in search of an exit, the Law students separated from the Government & Politics group. The Law students were fortunately extending the day with a trip to the Old Bailey, where we developed a better understanding of criminal law during a murder case; any confusion of the roles played in court were cleared up immediately.
Just like the House of Commons, we were able to witness the House of Lords in action; albeit for a brief few minutes. Nevertheless, it was fantastic to gain some experience from it. Lord
Rennard was kind enough to guide us, and from our time with him, he was successful in breaking the stereotype commonly associated with Lords.
The trip itself was brilliant and can only serve to benefit us all in the future, but none of it would’ve been possible without Ms Benjamin and Mr Johnston, so I’m sure I speak for both classes when I say thank you!
Environmental Art If you go down to the woods today…….. You may well be in for a nice surprise! A group of Year 11 boys took advantage of a fantastic opportunity to work with a visiting artist to create Environmental Art in the local woods. Jono Retallick is an artist who, with his company ‘Metal Monkeys’, has worked with a variety of groups in the South East. He introduced the work of Andy Goldsworthy to the boys and
discussed how we can respond to the natural world around us to express our ideas. The boys soon took to the idea and worked together to create some interesting and thoughtprovoking pieces using chalk and the natural materials they found in the woods. This was certainly a different way of working. Some of the comments made by the students were; “It was fun to be outside and work with different materials”, “It made me more confident”, “Fun”, “Inspiring” and “different!”
The boys that took part were Max Aldous, Warren Beale, Perry Long, Adam Martin, Harry Pryor, Joe Sultana, Josh Wickham, Matt Cook, Lyubomir Ivanov, Rene Woolford and Ross Bartholomeusz.
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The new year has been an exciting time, moving to Chichester House and getting to know all the staff and students. I would like to thank everyone in the house for all their hard work since September and I look forward to this continuing throughout the rest of the year. Throughout this term there have been several house competitions in which all students have participated. In the merit competition, I would like to congratulate 10R and 11R for being the top achieving tutor groups in their year in the first half of term and I am hoping that by Christmas, we will be top in even more year groups!
Johnson - 100 points
This term we have also had the Inter-house Rugby and several students from Years 7, 8 and 9
After a fantastic Olympics filled with excitement and success the positive momentum has continued into this autumn term with students enjoying various lessons as well as participating in many inter-house competitions and activities. I would like to commend the Year 7s for a smooth transition from primary school and settling into the Warlingham School and Johnson house ethos very quickly! Unlike the snow stopping the public transport system…. nothing was stopping our students performing really well in the inter-house activities this term including the photography competition (Year 10), Christmas card competition and inter-house Rugby competition. Congratulations must go to Kate Scarborough (10W) for being the
have taken part. Well done to all who represented the house and achieved valuable house points. Especially well done to Year 8 and 9 who came second in both competitions! At the start of December, students from Years 7-10 entered their own creative designs in the Christmas card competition. Congratulations to Eleanor Hicks in 7L who had the top design in the whole house - a fantastic effort, well done! The Art Department also held the Photography Competition, which was won by Charlotte Bleakley in 11L. Congratulations, Charlotte! And well done to Ethan Hodgkinson and Katie Costidell in Year 10 for their excellent entries.
winning Johnson photographic entry and Daniel Harvey (7A) for coming 2nd in the Christmas card competition. The rugby competition was a fantastic event with many boys from all the houses playing in some treacherous British weather conditions! The competition was very close with our year 7 finishing 2nd, the year 8 finishing 1st and the year 9 finishing 3rd. Well done boys on a fantastic effort. I am looking forward to the girls’ Inter House Netball competition and am confident of some great success there too. We have also had Number Day which went very well and the Year 11’s are currently sitting their mock exams (fingers crossed for good results in January). Students have also
I would like to remind everyone that attendance plays a huge part in a student’s success at Warlingham and to congratulate the large number of students in the house who have managed to achieve 100% attendance over this term. Lastly, I would like to thank Mr Hurley for all his hard work in the house and wish him good luck for the future as he will be leaving us at the end of this term. As we approach the end of term I encourage students to reflect on the positive and weaker points of this term and start to prepare resolutions for the New Year. Have a good Holiday!!
been working hard in rehearsals for the School show (Return to the Forbidden Planet) and the School Concert, both of which will have taken place by the time of publication. This term has been an exhausting term for students and staff alike and I would like to thank all of the tutors for their ongoing hard work and Miss Wernham, Johnson’s Achievement Co-ordinator for her excellent support of the house too. I would like to take this opportunity to wish you all a very Merry Christmas and I look forward to seeing you all in the New Year, refreshed, raring to go and ready to thrash the other Houses at next term’s interhouse competitions.
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Mr Janalli has been welcomed into the house by his tutor group, 8N, who together will be baking up a storm for their charity cake sale next Wednesday. Mr Johns and 8G have gained some valuable house points in interhouse rugby recently, with students receiving praise postcards for their efforts.
We had a number of entries for the Christmas card competition and I am pleased to announce that Sammy Redman in 7H won 1st place, a special mention also goes to Libby Hartnup 7H, Harriet Emery 7H, Madison Hobbs 7H and Lucy Redman 7M who achieved a special commendation for their entries.
became the District Sports Champions; three of the five were Mallory Students, Joe Bee, Cee-Jay Walker Reifet & Josh Costellow. Well done, Boys! Mallory, we are on a roll, so let’s keep it up! I’m sure by now it is no surprise to you that I will be leaving for a short while after the next half term and therefore this will be my last newsletter entry before I go. As with the last time I was on maternity leave I will be keeping a close eye on Mallory’s progress and I expect to see that this year will be our year to win the House Competition. Have a fantastic Christmas holiday!
Congratulations to the Year 9 five -a-side football team who
Students from 9G have retained their record of success at interhouse rugby, much to the delight of their new form tutor, Mr Gardener, who also had the privilege of taking many of the students on a Geography field trip. Mr Toop and 9N have continued their success in the merit tables and are hot on the tails of 9G for the attendance chocolates in the next achievement assembly. Our Year 10s have begun their GCSE/BTECs and settled into the new routines of homework and revision, with many students already achieving well in their tracking. Well done on some excellent results! Thank you to Miss Gallagher and Mrs Hubbard for their tireless support and encouragement with work experience applications. Only a few more to go! On to the Year 11s. Miss Webb
has continued to encourage and support 11N through their modules and mock exams. We were also pleased this year to welcome Mrs Williamson and Mrs Wells back into Sharman House as co-tutors of 11G. I would like to thank Mr Bradwell for his continued support and encouragement throughout this term. Also many thanks to Mr Lyon-Wall, our enthusiastic House Achievement Coordinator, for his motivational and inspiring achievement assemblies. Final thanks to Mrs Perry for her continued support of Sharman pupils; your efforts are appreciated. Thank you to all staff and students in Sharman House for all your hard work, effort and support. Let’s hope our team will continue to succeed and impress next term.
Sharman– 80 points
Sharman House has made an excellent start to the new school year; we have welcomed our Year 7s and a number of new staff to the house. Miss Meredith and Mrs Hilton have been working hard to ease the transition into secondary school for their forms; both tutor groups have done wonderful house assemblies on Civil Rights and Thanksgiving. As well as working hard in the classroom, the Year 7s have taken part in two school events, Newsflash and the Community Roadshow, during which they developed teamwork and communication skills.
acting as helpers for our Year 6 open evening. Although we are currently first we are being very closely followed by Johnson so we need to make sure that next term we put some distance between us and I look forward to seeing the year 7-10 girls taking part in the inter-house netball next week.
Mallory - 105 points
So far Mallory has had a great start to this school year. The Year 7 students have certainly settled in well and have been involved in lots of activities over the past couple of months including a trip to the Natural History Museum and Number Day. Everyone in Mallory House has been working hard on various inter-house competitions throughout this term. The competition has been tough so far this year but I am really pleased to announce that we are currently 1st in the House Competition. These results include results from merit, attendance, and punctuality awards. The Year 7, 8, 9 boys put in a sterling effort one cold night for inter-house rugby, and Year 7 & 8 were involved in
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Fun with Numbers
On Monday 3rd December, the Maths Department held its annual Number Day. Number Day is a fundraising event created by the NSPCC which happens every other year. The school adopted Number Day and runs it every year to help students in lower years develop their maths skills and to be able to work well with / meet some of their peers. This year, the Year 13 maths leaders, who recently received the leadership award, played an important role in deciding what the Year 8 students would be doing and also in helping to organise and run the event. On the day the Year 13 and Year 12 maths leaders all got involved in helping the event run smoothly. The morning started with Year 8 Y block lining up outside the main hall as they were sorted into their groups by the sixth form helpers. After being brought in and seated in their groups they were given a small presentation on what it was they would be doing by
sixth form Head Boy and maths leader, Chirag Vadhia. His enthusiasm for maths and the event helped kick start a very productive morning. The experiment conducted by the Year 8s was all about reaction times and whether you were quickest with your left or right hand according to which hand you write with. They were given a ruler which, with a partner, was held above their hand with 0 cm inline with the top of their finger. The idea was to have the ruler unexpectedly dropped and for the other person to catch it; the result would then be read off and
recorded. They then had to analyse all the data on the sheets which they had to fill out in their groups. The maths leaders were assigned to a group each to help the students stay on task and to guide them. The sessions for both Year 8 blocks ended with a short quiz using interactive voting pods. Later in the day the Maths Department also ran a different event for Number Day for the Year 7s. In this session the Year 9 and 10 maths leaders helped.
Natural History Museum On the 28th of November 2012 the Year 7 Johnson and Chichester houses of Warlingham School went on a trip to the Natural History Museum in London. The trip was an enormous success and all the students enjoyed it. The day was planned by the students and they picked which galleries they wanted to see. The students managed to visit many of the exhibits including the extremely popular Dinosaur Gallery, as well as the whale exhibit. The route was also planned by the students and they had to pick one route and activity plan. For 7W the
group chosen to manage the day were Nick Jones, Bailey Guy, Maisie Keller and Abbie Hoult. Their route was a success and the students arrived at the museum on time and managed to visit many of the exhibits. When they arrived at the museum they headed straight to the dinosaur exhibit and saw many dinosaur fossils and found out lots of information about dinosaurs and how they lived. The next exhibit was the Human Biology Gallery. In this gallery the students learnt all about the human body and how it works. The next part of their trip was lunch and this was in the
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basement of the museum. Now, coming to the end of the trip the students visited the exhibit Earth and Beyond. In this exhibit there were many types of rocks and minerals which the students could take photos of. Also in this exhibit there was an earthquake simulator which was a popular part of the exhibit for the students. Finally, the students visited the gift shop where they were allowed to spend their money on gifts for themselves and on others if they wished. On the whole, the students enjoyed the trip very much.
Remembrance Sunday participated in the ceremony as part of scout and guide groups. This event was especially poignant for some Year 11 students who, earlier this term, had visited the battlefields of Ypres and Dunkirk as part of their history studies; the scale of losses in the two world wars in particular and the dreadful conditions in which people fought were brought home to the young people on seeing the sites of major battles and row upon row of crosses in the war cemeteries marking the graves of soldiers, sailors and airmen who had died. Knowing that some of those buried in France and Belgium were local people, only just a little older than themselves, made them connect with the Remembrance Day Service.
Ten students, Miss Woodhouse and Mr Lazenby represented Warlingham School at the annual Remembrance Day Service held on 11th November. Scott Smith laid a wreath at the War Memorial on behalf of students and staff at the school. The short service,
which was held in bright sunshine, was well-attended by local organisations and local residents in tribute to those who have lost their lives in conflict around the world. Many Warlingham students and staff
Students representing Warlingham at the service were: Grace Redington, Felicity Stinson and Keziah Owusu (Chichester), Calum Stringer, Maisie Stock and Daniel Lazenby (Johnson), Scott Smith and Rebecca Taylor (Mallory) and Morgan Brown and Madison Edmonds (Sharman).
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Payday Marketing... ...attracts a lot of interest! On the 21st of November, nine Sixth Form Business & Economics students journeyed to County Hall in Kingston to take part in the annual Surrey County Council Marketing Challenge. The topic for this year’s challenge was Payday Loans – are they a financial solution or a growing financial problem? We met beforehand to conduct some research into payday loans to find out about what they are and how they work. We then had to decide which stance to take. We all agreed that they were a financial problem but decided to go with the other option as it provided much more of a challenge. In the fortnight preceding the event we got together several more times
to consider our target market, the advantages of payday loans, the need for payday loans and how we would promote them to our target market. Following a bright and early train journey to Kingston (which is at the opposite end of Surrey to Warlingham!) we arrived at County Hall and were introduced to the people running the event and given further pointers on how to score points for the final presentation. We wasted no time and got stuck in straight away to create a PowerPointled pitch we could be proud of. During the preparation time we quickly adapted and perfected our discussion points and marketing strategy. We had a quick lunch break during which a council worker showed us the old courtroom and cells that criminals used to stay in, sometimes for up to 8 hours! These days it’s used to film various TV programmes such as Midsummer Murders.
After final wrapping up of our strategy we started to practise speaking through our presentation slides. We had to be careful with this as we were only allowed a maximum of five minutes to present. The task really tested our ability to speak clearly and coherently, calm our nerves and ultimately ensure we got our message across the way we wanted it to. Our presentation felt as though it went really quickly and the judges tested our ability to think on the spot by asking several questions at the end. After a quick break while the judges deliberated, they announced the final scores - we came a valiant 3rd place overall and the judges said they found it really tough to decide the order of the top three. Thanks to Mr Grimes for entering us in the event and to SATRO and Surrey County Council for organising it.
Callum’s sky didn’t fall... front of a camera!! I believe that this will be the best as Daniel Craig will have evolved into the character of the incredible, intellectual and invincible Callum with his favourite Bond actor, Daniel Craig 007! I have watched both ‘Casino Royale’ and ‘Quantum of Callum Bates, a member of Solace’ at least a dozen times! I Warlingham School’s FilmClub was always feel a pump of adrenaline when selected again by the National I watch these films, they are both FilmClub to attend a premiere and spellbinding and gripping. I think that interview some of the stars. This time, the upcoming film ‘Skyfall’ will be the it was the premiere of ‘Skyfall’ that he most thrilling Bond film yet! I expect to was fortunate enough to attend. He see spectacular new stunts using cool wrote about the movie—before and new hi-tech cameras and new filming after attending the premiere: techniques, as well as the classic Why I Anticipate Skyfall villains and Bond girls. I am really looking forward to the new gadgets as I am really looking forward to the third from the trailer I can see some really Bond film in the Daniel Craig trilogy; cool modern gadgets! my view is that they have progressively become better. Each movie has had I always enjoy the small pieces its own new twist on the original Bond of humour that have been cleverly movies which makes each movie sewn in to the body of the film. These unique in its own way. I enjoyed films really inspire me to make ‘Quantum of Solace’ more than something of my future and do ‘Casino Royale’ as it contained more something good for our country or incredible stunts and also some extra even the world. I really enjoy action comic moments. All the Daniel Craig films, and have done since I was first movies have been more like the able to watch an original Bond film. character in the books than any of the For all these reasons I am really driven other James Bond films making Daniel towards the new Bond trilogy! Craig my favourite Bond actor. Daniel Review Craig is my favourite as he is one of the most successful British actors of ‘Skyfall’ is a fantastic addition to the our modern generation, not only has Daniel Craig era. It’s an adrenaline he been the lead role in over a dozen packed film worthy to celebrate the films he has become famous 50th anniversary of the James Bond worldwide in the role of the series! The film begins with an courageous 007!! He is a role model electrifying chase through a busy town of mine, as I have always wanted to where Bond finds himself being look smart and keep my nerves in
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pursued once again. A new style of filming has been used to really show the realism of the chase and its high speed. Not only has the action been improved since the previous film, it's been placed at the most tense moments making you clench your fists as if you are part of the bloodpumping action! Sam Mendes has brought the past back to life, with the introduction of gadgets like the gun that only 007 can fire and the radio transmitter. You would think that it would become boring, but all these gadgets have been cleverly used to influence the traditional storyline. The car that we all believed had disappeared off the face of the Earth returns in ‘Skyfall’. The Aston Martin DB5, which was first used by Roger Moore in ‘The Man with the Golden Gun’ has yet again proved its reliability in the new film, with usage from its engines to its classic guns! The addition of humour really gives ‘Skyfall’ the edge and gives it the opportunity to be the best Bond film yet! Throughout the film we get to know Bond by delving deeper into his past, his parents’ death and his childhood accommodation. Never before has M nurtured Bond as much as she does in ‘Skyfall’. Throughout the film she expresses a motherly concern towards him and confirms her trust in him as a ‘double-O’. Daniel Craig in my opinion is the perfect actor to fit the role of the invincible 007; he has excelled in the role of Bond and has yet again proved his knowledge on the thrilling franchise. Meanwhile, Javier Bardem, was probably the best actor to play the new Bond villain "Silva". He adds humour by simply saying a short phrase or by his appearance. He really expresses the thoughts and feelings a villain should have.
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Hockey Festival
On Wednesday 21st November we hosted a Quicksticks Hockey Festival for Year 5 & 6. Each school was invited to bring two teams. The weather in November is often quite hard to predict and this year was no different. Our intention was to host the event on the Astroturf but due to the wind and the rain we had to change plans at the last minute and host the event indoors - in our sports hall. Following the success of our men’s and particularly our women’s Hockey team winning a Bronze medal at London 2012, it was important to try and continue this enthusiasm, competition and participation in Hockey. We were pleased to host two teams from each of the following primary schools: Woodlea, Marden Lodge, Whyteleafe and Hamsey Green.
Despite being indoors we were able to run the event in two pools and had a different winner from each. The purpose of Quicksticks is that it is a junior version of Hockey and it is designed especially for seven to eleven year olds. It can be played on any surface and uses a larger, lighter and safer ball. Our event is described as a Festival as for the first part of the session the children came to receive some coaching
before entering into some competition matches. We were fortunate to have help, support and expertise from Paul Bateman (Kenley Hockey Club) and Dan Pacitti (Sanderstead Hockey Club). The visiting primary schools were put through their paces to help them understand the game more fully and to develop their control of the ball when in a game situation. We also had the help of our Warlingham Young Ambassadors together with a couple Of Young Ambassadors from de Stafford School. These were the final results: Red Pool 1st Place – Hamsey Green – 15 points 2nd Place – Woodlea – 11 points 3rd Place – Marden Lodge – 7 points 4th Place – Whyteleafe – 3 points
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on the day. Our thanks also must go to the PE department who made the Sports Hall available.
Yellow Pool 1st Place – Whyteleafe – 13 points 2nd Place – Marden Lodge – 11 points 3rd Place – Woodlea – 7 – points 4th Place – Hamsey Green – 5 points
Hosting such events always requires support from a wide range of people. We were particularly grateful to Lynn Banwell, SSCo at de Stafford School who did a lot of preparation beforehand and helped run the event
To help continue the sporting celebrations of the summer and as a lucky mascot each team was given a photo of a GB Hockey Player from either the men or women’s team. Congratulations to both Hamsey Green and Whyteleafe who were our two winners. Both winning teams were presented with medals from Alison Woodhouse and all teams received a participation certificate. We hope some of these children will be inspired to join our local clubs.
Not bad at Badminton! were very unlucky not to win but second place was a very good result. Some of these students are starting to play at clubs outside of school and they are making promising progress. Other Badminton news:
On Tuesday 20th November a squad of five KS 3 girls took part in the Junior District Badminton tournament hosted at St. Bede’s school. Four schools took part but there was a total of five teams as Reigate entered two teams into the competition. Our team, comprising of Lauren Hall, Lauren Pinkney, Issy Cohen, Amelia Hill and Molly Scutt did a super job.
They won all of their matches but the competition was eventually decided on games. We narrowly lost to St. Bede’s by one game. Nevertheless our team played with real conviction and the girls demonstrated some key tactical pay as well as executing some excellent shots. Great sportsmanship was shown by all who took part. They
On Tuesday 4th December four boys from Warlingham School entered the KS4 tournament, also hosted at St. Bede’s school. This time we were not quite so fortunate and came in fourth place. Two of our more experienced players were injured on the day and Atiquil Islam and Dan Hill kindly stepped in to represent the school at the last minute. Nevertheless, congratulations to Ben Quinton, Blue Blake Buchanan, Atiquil Islam and Dan Hill for taking part. We were also very grateful to Ken Leppard for taking our students to this tournament.
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Swimming Gala
Miss Woodhouse with the winning team from Whyteleafe On Tuesday 27th November we hosted our sixth Primary Swimming Gala. Fortunately we didn’t have to worry too much about the weather for this event! Encouraging children to swim is a very important life-skill and although primary aged children do have opportunities to swim none of our local primary schools are blessed with the facilities that we have here at Warlingham. Hence this is a wonderful opportunity for local primary children to swim in a 25m pool. For many of these children it is sometimes their first experience of a gala competition. We were very pleased that six of our local schools came and supported this event. Each of our visiting schools brought a squad of sixteen swimmers who entered a range of stroke races and distances, finishing
the gala with relays at the end. Our six competing schools were: Hamsey Green, Marden Lodge, St. Francis, St. John’s, Whytleleafe and our guest school, Warlingham Park. This is their second year of competing as a guest school in this event. Each year the schools have competed for a winning shield and medals for the top three schools. All participants received a participation certificate and we very much appreciated the efforts of all schools involved, especially those teams who went home without a medal. Each year we rely on the good will of volunteers who come and help with this event and the parents and teachers who bring the teams to our gala. Rather like the Games Makers at London 2012 we
were particularly grateful for the warmth, enthusiasm and professionalism of those that were prepared to come and give of their time and share their expertise. Particular thanks must go to Laura Mitchell (a level 2 swimming coach), Tina Cornelius (Assistant Chief Coach at Redhill & Reigate Swimming Club) and Zsuzzi Pragai (swimming coach). It was great to have so much help this year from those who are already involved in swimming. In addition we also received a great deal of support from Steve Hinton (our starter), Lynn Banwell (SSCo at De Stafford) and Olly Gibbs (Life Guard) who had all helped behind the scenes as well as during the gala. Michael Bentley, also from Redhill and Reigate, came as our official time-keeper. Penny Stock has each year
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provided help and advice prior to the event and been in charge of all the results. Her time and efficiency add much to the smooth running of the event. Further thanks go to Jesse James, Melanie Filmer, the Site staff
and PE department for the various roles they played in making this event happen. Finally, part of our role in hosting this gala is to provide leadership opportunities for some of our
Warlingham students. Our CSLA students, Oscar Cleeter, Lauren Curt, Neil Hutchinson, David King, Jack Lidiard, Luke McGarry, Steph Moore, Georgie Parker, Alex Pryke-Collins and Charlotte Steward did a super job officiating and marshaling the event. Our Young Ambassadors, Jack Perry, Calum Stringer, Maisie Stock, Alice Hobson, Charlie Knight, Adam Ledger, Tom Williamson, Emma Fossett and Georgia Day also played their part, supporting the primary staff and supervising the children. Whyteleafe, for the sixth year in a row, enjoyed receiving their medals and winning shield from Miss Woodhouse. St. John’s however is closing the gap!
WHOLE SCHOOL RESULTS YEAR 5 GIRLS YEAR 5 BOYS YEAR 6 GIRLS YEAR 6 BOYS
MARDEN LODGE
WHYTELEAFE
ST JOHNS
WARLINGHAM PARK
HAMSEY GREEN
ST FRANCIS
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42
36
10
23
18
3
31
35
14
28
14
4
32
39
26
27
15
5
40
25
22
35
15
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135
72
113
62
FINAL POSITION Positions to include guests
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1st
2nd
X Guests
3rd
4th
6th
1st
2nd
4th
3rd
5th
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Working with Year 2 our Warlingham Sixth formers could come every week! The infant children really did benefit from a high ratio of coaches to pupils and they clearly enjoyed the novelty of seventeen year olds leading them in a variety of different activities. The leadership skills of all our CSLA students flourished and their communication skills and demonstrations improved throughout the afternoon.
On Wednesday 7th November thirteen Community Sports Leaders Award (CSLA) students went to Marden Lodge to coach and lead a class of Year 2 students. The course requires the sixth formers to gain experience working with young children and to be positive role models for the children that they are leading.
At Marden Lodge, the sixth formers were expected to lead a warm-up and then coach a variety of skills and small-sided games throughout the session. It was super to see the vibrancy and maturity of the sixth form engaging with the lively and enthusiastic year 2 students. The primary teacher asked if
Lauren Curt, Chelcie Franks, Kyren Ghumra, Neil Hutchinson, Hannah Jones, David King, Jack Lidiard, Luke McGarry, Stephanie Moore, Georgina Parker, Alex Pryke Collins and Charlotte Steward were a credit to the school. They worked hard all afternoon and provided the Year 2 class with a fun-filled PE session and most importantly a positive experience.
Indoor Athletics
On Tuesday 27th November Mrs Dearden and I took a group of students to the SSSSA Sportshall Athletics day at Guildford Spectrum.
This day consisted of indoor Athletics, based upon the fundamentals of running, jumping and throwing skills which are important in sport and life. The event was designed to be fast, fun and educational, appealing to participants of all abilities.
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schools, consisted of Chloe Sion 7W, Marcus Skelton 7G, Mark Wakefield 7R, Joshua Johncey 7A, Jayda Ahmet 8W, Olivia Baci 8A, Kane Jakabfi 8L and Calvin Crimp 9W. Every member of the team competed extremely well, participating in a range of events related to indoor athletics, and finished in a well respected fourth place narrowly missing out on a bronze medal. All team members deserve to be extremely proud of their efforts by not only participating, but also challenging in every event. The day was thoroughly enjoyed by staff and students and we look forward to competing again sometime in the future.
The Warlingham School team, which was to compete against nine other
Lacrosse Coaching long-handled stick called a crosse or lacrosse stick.
In October some of our Year 8 boys and some of our sixth formers had the opportunity of some taster sessions in Lacrosse. Matt Carey a young American coach from Purley Lacrosse club came and gave these students an introduction to the game. Purley Lacrosse club are keen to recruit young players and this would be a good opportunity for some of our
students as the club is based at Warlingham Rugby Club. Members of Purley Lacrosse club also attended our Sports Fair at the beginning of this academic year in the hope to generate some interest. To those not familiar with the game, Lacrosse is a fast and exciting team sport of Native American origin. It is played using a small rubber ball and a
The objective of the game is to score by shooting the ball into the opponent’s goal, using the stick to catch, carry and pass the ball to do so. There are ten players on each team: three attack, three midfielders, three defenders and a goalie. Those who were lucky enough to receive the free coaching really enjoyed it. If you are interested in joining the club or wishing to have a go yourself, either contact me or Purley Lacrosse Club who will be happy to help you.
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Newsflash is a smash!
Newsflash is a simulation created by the English department in partnership with Business & Enterprise that was created to help Year 7 students get to know each other and to develop a variety of important skills.
Mrs Hubbard’s Set 1 English students wrote articles about their experiences, excerpts of which appear below: “On the 21st and 22nd of November 2012, Year 7 classes experienced an exquisite day about being a journalist, and a producer of their own newspaper.”
“Newsflash is an event which happens every year for year 7 students. It is the first Business & Enterprise day for Year 7.”
“During first period, the students were mainly deciding
upon their roles for the day as well as determining what they were actually doing for their glamorous newspapers. After hearing the brief, all twelve of the groups got to work on their articles and roles.”
“There were four different roles available: Managing Editor, Sports Editor, Arts Editor and a News Editor. The Managing Editor was the overall group leader. He or she made the big decisions, laid out the page, and took
charge of the money. The Sports Editors (not surprisingly) were in charge of the sports page, which included choosing the stories that would be used and typing them up on a computer. The Arts Editors had to create reviews of various Roald Dahl stories. The News Editors interviewed various people (which they had to pre-book on a firstcome, first-served basis.) They then came back to write up their articles.”
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“People became more organised as the day went on because they had to turn up on time for top secret interviews! There were many different activities to take part in, including writing the stories on the computer and printing them.”
You could win prizes for best newspaper, best article, best sports editors, best art editors, best news editors, and best manager. Everyone who was there participated and clearly enjoyed it.”
“After an amazingly tasty lunch we structured our newspapers with pictures and a front page and logo. They were then collected in and judged.”
“At the end of the day the pupils all had a quiz about newspapers and the team with the most correct answers won some prizes.”
“At the end of the day it was time for the awards to be given out. Obviously everyone wanted a prize but it depended on the standard of your newspaper.
“The purpose of the day was for the students to develop certain English and Business & Enterprise skills such as: sticking to a budget, asking the right questions to get answers they need, sticking to a time-limit, meeting deadlines and more.”
“Many Year 7’s said that it was much better than a usual day at school and was lots of fun and really enjoyable. Newsflash was amazing and is a unforgettable experience that all year 7 students loved. Everyone would like to say a big thanks to all the staff that helped make the day possible!”
“The students finished off by evaluating the day, saying what was good, what could be improved and what they enjoyed most.”
“The children have taken in all the skills they have learnt and should be applying them to all of the future writing they do.”
“We hope you have enjoyed our articles, and don’t forget to take part in future events, because they are really fun!!”
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Bar Mock Trial
Ciaran Timblick, Ella Castle, Hannah Carter, Alex Smith and Ella Ovenden pictured with the District Judge On Saturday the 10th of November, after weeks of preparation including a day spent at school during half term, a group of year 12 and 13 students headed off to North East London. We met with Ms Benjamin to compete in the London regional heat of the Citizenship Foundation’s Bar Mock Trial competition at Snaresbrook Crown Court. Due to a very early start (meeting at London Bridge station at 7.30am) it took us all a little while to wake up. We started the day feeling optimistic as we had all managed to be there on time, however meeting a lively fellow competing school on the underground made us a little nervous about the day ahead. We would have to present two fictional cases in court acting as either the prosecution or defence team and adding to our nerves was
the fact that Alex noticed that one of the schools had brought along a candidate from the Young Apprentice to compete… the calibre of students taking part was certainly very high! After the slightly delayed welcome speeches (due to some of the judges failing to wake up for the early morning arrival), our prosecution team
consisting of Nicola, Steph, Hannah, and Ella C. went into one of the many courtrooms to present the prosecution evidence in the first case of Crown vs Speed against Nonsuch School. In this case, defendant Vim Speed was charged with possession of a class B, banned, performance -enhancing drug found on him at the Olympic Velodrome, however he claimed his intentions were to hand in the drug to the police as he had found it in a teammate’s bag. Our prosecution team did a fantastic job of going first and were complimented by the sitting judge on how they presented the case. We also had to sit on a jury for other schools presenting the case of Crown vs Rollins. In this case, defendant Ashley Rollins was charged with possession of a firearm but claimed he was not aware of the firearm’s presence as he was not the owner of the car in which it was found. Being in the jury was also a very
Hannah Carter, Stephanie Lewis, Ella Castle, Jack Tandridge and Nicola Roberts
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interesting experience as not only did it give us some insight into how the other schools were presenting the cases, but it also gave us a chance to consider how we could improve our own performances later in the day. Finally, in round 3, our defence team, consisting of Sophie, Alex, Jordan and I, presented the defence evidence in the case of Crown vs. Speed. The defence barristers Sophie and Alex did well presenting the case and Jordan and I, the defendant and defence
witness, were put under tough cross examination by the other school but we gave as good as we got. With an entertaining judge who seemed to find the conduct of Jack Tandridge, our court usher for the case, very amusing we were complimented on our performances with Jordan being told by the judge he was the ‘best defendant seen all day’. The judge then told us that there were only two points between our two schools in the scoring, a very close result!
Although we did not make it through to the regional final, it was still a very enjoyable and worthwhile day which provided us all with valuable experience in what it is like to work within a court scenario, whether it be as a barrister, witness, juror, court usher or clerk and we would like to thank Ms Benjamin for making it all possible!
The Jury L-R: Ella Ovenden, Reece evans, Ciaran Timblick, Lisa Robertson and Alex Smith
Quizfest On Monday morning, as it was the last tutor period before Christmas it was decided that Year 7 and Year 8 students would have a quiz in their tutor groups with a prize for the winning team in each form. Meanwhile, Year 12 students had a quiz all together in the hall. Their quiz consisted of Dingbats, Oddbods (they had to identify the odd one out), a picture round, a round on TV and film and a trivia round. The total possible score was 80 and the winning team of five students from 12M got a staggering 77 out of 80! They were seven points ahead of the next best team. For their efforts, they
won a £15 iTunes gift card each. It wasn’t exactly an easy quiz as the teams had to identify a ‘theremin’ from a video clip of it being played. The theremin is an early electronic musical instrument controlled without discernible physical contact from the player. It is named after the westernised-name of its Russian inventor, Léon Theremin, who patented the device in 1928. All the scores achieved by all the teams will be averaged and the form
with the best overall scores will win a big tin of Quality Street chocolates which will be presented in Wednesday’s sixth form assembly.
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Auschwitz
Having being successful in an essay competition run by the Sixth Form, Georgie Brown and I were very lucky and privileged to have been invited to attend a trip, to Auschwitz I and Aushwitz II – Birkenau concentration camps. The trip was run by ‘Lessons from Auschwitz’. Mr Rumsey was also chosen to join us as our teacher representative of the school. The Lessons from Auschwitz organisation, who run regular trips all over the UK for 16-18 year olds at college and sixth form with their teachers, were running their 100th trip to Poland. To mark the occasion we were surprised to have been joined by Deputy Prime Minister, Nick Clegg, as well as a swarm of different reporters from the Guardian and BBC News and many other local newspapers. Firstly we were taken to a site in Oświęcim (the town the camps are located), where in pre-Second World War we were told was once a bustling Jewish community and where
we stood was once a grand synagogue…it was a shock to the system standing in this empty space, where it once stood, with nothing but quietness and somewhat chilling peace. We were then escorted into a Jewish museum by Rabbi Marcus, who joined us for the trip, where we sat in the main sanctuary and he told us about pre-war Jewish life in greater detail to us, setting the scene before our arrival at Auschwitz I. When we arrived at the entrance there was a sense of surrealism, the sense of hustle and bustle of tourists from all over queuing to enter and more noticeably the bright sun beating down on us – we imagined Auschwitz to be this small, dark and cold sector in Poland. When we did manage to get into the camp, past the iconic sign declaring ‘Arbeit
Macht Frei’ (Work makes you free) and into a couple of the living quarters of the inmates. There was a sense whilst seeing the numerous documents, posts and maps of Auschwitz that it was like a museum…that was until we were told just before we entered one of the rooms to not use flash photography, being handed a sheet with a poem on it. It was only when entering this gigantic room, surrounded with heaps and heaps of prisoner’s hair behind glass, whilst reading the poem as I walked through the room that the experience began to become very human. We would then move on from that room to see similar rooms like that one, only these times for essentials that prisoners brought with them to the camp, prosthetic limbs and walking sticks, shoes ranging from baby to adult sized and clothes and suitcases in the hundreds of thousands. The fact these were all collected from only when the camp was liberated
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expedition was the presence of a set of house keys, owned by an unknown person. This made it clear to me that the person who owned these keys, believed that after being in the camp that they had every intention of returning home.
by the Soviets in 1945 which gives an indication of the scale of how many were affected by the concentration camps since 1942. On our way out we passed Rudolf Höss, the first commandant of Aushwitz, accommodation of which he and his family stayed at, where it was then our group co-ordinator told us a poem, telling us of how the perpetrators were not ‘monsters’ as many view them, but in fact very much human. As we were making our way out of the tour around Auschwitz I we were directed into this small, concrete bunker partially buried underground. Upon entering the bunker it began to feel physically cold, there was no beauty or decoration to it. It was only from looking up at the ceiling that I realised what this was – it was a gas chamber. Looking up to see through this cuboid opening made me picture what would have been the horrifying final moments of some of the prisoners, the cyklon B poison falling through into the chamber, suffocating to death all that were trapped inside probably exactly where I stood. We then were moved onto the second camp, the Auschwitz II Birkenau, which was primarily used as a death camp. By going up to the top of the famous guard watch tower seen in the film Schindler’s List we were able to see the how large this camp was, from what I saw on the left to the right was endless amounts of living quarters for
the prisoners and ahead of me what seemed like an endless train track right into the heart of the camp. After taking a look at the inside of the cramped living quarters we then saw a wagon which was actually used to massively transport people into the camp by train; the fact it was placed so far from the gatehouse gave an astonishing indication of the number of wagons were used, carrying up to as many as sixty people a time. We were stood at what was believed to be where the mass sorting process had occurred, where we told of an emotional testimony made by a survivor who described of the moment when he and his son, saw their wife/ mother and daughter/sister being separated from them never to be seen again. We then moved on to see the remnants of the gas chambers used, destroyed by the Nazis to cover up the horrors they had committed towards the end of the war. As the climax of the tour round Auschwitz-Birkenau we entered an exhibition which contained hundreds of different photos owned by the prisoners of the camp; many showed pictures of babies, family photos, weddings and general photos of what was believed to be friends and family. This humanised the concentration camps, rather than made it seem like a historical event that you could read about in a textbook. The most significant piece of this
As the climax to the day everyone who took part in the Lessons from Auschwitz trip held a ceremony and memorial for those affected by the concentration camps and the victims of the Holocaust. Here speeches were given by ambassadors of Lessons from Auschwitz, the Deputy PM Nick Clegg and Rabbi Marcus telling of the importance of trips to Auschwitz like this and of learning to never repeat the events of the Holocaust or any other form of genocide. After a minutes silence of respect for the victims of the Nazi regime, each of us lit a candle as our own personal memorial and placed them along the train tracks in which many lives were destroyed or were so cruelly taken away by the Nazis. It was only when walking back up towards the watch tower along the train track, that anybody that had being forcibly or unknowingly had entered the camp in the 1940’s did not have the same luxury as I did, in being able to walk out of Auschwitz to be able to go home to my loved ones.
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All new School Council!
L-R: Olivia Kavanagh, Jasmine Langston and Manel Boumazouna This year’s school council is all new and improved. Each form elected two school council representatives, a boy and a girl; to make this fair they all gave reasons to why they wanted to be school council reps. After they gave their reasons the class voted for who they thought was responsible, reliable and ready for the dedication needed. Whereas last year’s meetings were held in lunch time, they are now in tutor time. Every fortnight we have a meeting. Students get a say in decisions and generate new projects which are then introduced to the school via the council. Between each meeting, school council members go back to their forms and report what has been discussed that meeting and gather new ideas for the next one.
Furthermore, we now get to decide on competitions run for the students. The ‘Design A Space Competition’ is currently being run. As part of Warlingham’s academy conversion, we are planning to create a more comfortable outdoor space for pupils. This involves picking an area in the school grounds and designing a nice place for students to spend time at break or lunch. Each form group should design their own idea for an outdoor space, which will then be judged by Miss Woodhouse and a board of Warlingham teachers. Posters are up all around school with more information if you would like to take part. Additionally, student council members have chosen the ‘School in a Bag’ charity to raise money for this year. ‘School in a Bag’ is an initiative which provides a backpack to disadvantaged
children in poor countries. The bag contains stationery items including exercise books, a ruler, and pencils and pens; a lunch box, so that pupils can receive what is often their only meal of the day while they are at school; and a water bottle, as many pupils do not have running water in their homes. Often these pupils only receive 1 pencil for the whole year at school, and would be unable to attend without these vital pieces of equipment. Each backpack costs only £15, and could change a child’s life and enable them to get an education and improve their future. In our opinion, this new school council is better and it appealed to us more to run for it this year. Mrs. Hubbard is very kind and treats us all to some chocolate, biscuits or sweets each week. There is also a trip planned at the end of the year for all school council members. We are hoping that school council will be even more successful this year and we will have even more to show for the ideas that every student has the chance to put forward.
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Special commendation went to: Chichester House: Tabitha Daulby-Richardson 7L, Izzy Bates 8R, Megan Quinn-Edwards 7L, Liberty Gardiner 7L and Ella Bishop 7L. Johnson House: Katie Day 7A, Grace Leighton 8W and Charis Fernandez 7A. Sharman House:
First Place: Design by Sammy Redman (7H)
Sophie Johnson 7N, Amir Pandya 7G, Ellie Moore 7N and Grace Cooper 7N. Mallory House:
It always seems to come around so quickly! This year Miss Levy set the theme which was “Decorations and Snowflakes”. We invited all of the Key Stage 3 students to enter a drawing, painting or photograph.
As it is a House Competition we select a winner from each house. Those winners are:
Lucy Redman 7M, Harriet Emery 7H, Madison Hobbs 7H and Libby Hartnup 7H.
1st Place:
All will receive special commendation certificates for their entries.
The vast majority of entries came from Year 7 – so well done to them! - but there were some good designs from Year 8 too.
2nd Place:
Sammy Redman 7H – Mallory
Well done to all the winners!
Daniel Harvey 7A – Johnson 3rd Place: Zoe Warrington 9G – Sharman 4th Place: Eleanor Hicks 7L – Chichester But there were many more that deserved recognition.
Second Place: Design by Daniel Harvey (7A)
Third Place: Design by Zoe Warrington (9G)
Fourth Place: Design by Eleanor Hicks (7L)
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ICT trip The National Museum of Computing is situated at Bletchley Park in Milton Keynes, once the highly secret site where the UK government placed their Code and Cypher school and the home of the Colossus computer which was used to crack messages being sent between German allies during the Second World War. This museum pays homage to those dedicated and highly intelligent men and women who worked to great effect to decipher the Lorenzencrypted communications of the German high command. A group of ICT students visited the national museum of computing to widen their understanding of how technology has evolved. This charity-run establishment houses the largest collection of functioning vintage computers in Europe, ranging from the most modern technology and dating back to the first forms of computing from the 1960s. There are a number of volunteers who dedicate themselves to restoring and repairing computers that have been brought in or donated by people around the world. The donated artefacts are
then restored to a working condition and then put on display around the museum. One piece of machinery that was particularly interesting was the infamous Colossus. Volunteers managed to get their hands on a Colossus MkII in 1993 and in 2007, with the help of photographs and diagrams (which were illegally kept by engineers who worked on the original), it was put to the test when they tried to crack the Lorenz code. This is quite an impressive achievement since the technology is 14 years old and relies on more components than modern computers which can frequently break. However, the Colossus is nothing compared to software today which enabled a professional computer software engineer just 46 seconds to crack the Lorenz cypher compared to the 3.5 hours it took Colossus to do the same task. The museum also displays one of the first mechanical calculators, the Harwell Dekatron aka WITCH and the punched card systems for when hard drives were nonexistent and computers were unable to hold a vast amount of data Today people tend to use USB drives to store data but in the mid-60’s people used hard disk. Normally you would expect them to be the size of a CD, however, that is extremely small scale compared to the 3ft disk that
would only hold a mere 200300MB. Another highlight of the trip had to be using BBC Micro to do some basic programming onto one of the old styled computers that used the language of BASIC to operate. This basically means that you had to enter specific codes to open up certain programmes. The concluding part of our trip was visit the Alan Turing museum which was based near the huts where the men and women used to work in during the war. Alan Turing is probably the most well-known worker involved in working on the Enigma, another piece of cyphering machinery that was used by the Germans. Close to Hut 8, where his work on Enigma was centred, there is a building that concentrates on the work of Turing and his ideas regarding computing and mathematical algorithms which are shown in some of his publications which are on display. Despite the long drive to Milton Keynes and a lack of direction thanks to the Satnav, this trip was highly interesting and enabled the group to extend their knowledge of how technology has evolved from using thousands of valves to components relying on resistors to tiny chips and components being used in computers.
Creating Cyber Mentors telephone to iPods, games consoles and laptops.
On Thursday the 29th November I attended the parents workshop on cyber bullying. As part of Warlingham schools latest anti bullying campaign the charity Beatbullying have been in school training up 30 student cyber mentors. The charity has also been presenting to various groups within school which included an evening aimed at parents who wanted to learn more about keeping their children safe on line. The need to understand and learn more about the current technology available to our children in their day to day lives has never been more important for both parents and teachers. It was a very informative and interactive evening and I think that all the parents who attended took away a few tips and learned from both the representatives from Beatbullying as well as each other. Are you aware of the red eye icon which indicates an option to report threatening or intimidating behaviours online? Did you know that there is a special number you can send bothersome and threatening chain texts to? Are you aware of how easy it is to hack into the internal webcams incorporated into many of our smart devices? All these topics and many more were covered along with useful tips and websites to contact for further information and advice. Beatbullying covered all the various mediums our children can now use to access the Internet from their mobile
The final conclusion we came to as a group, was that trying to keep up with todays technology is key but far more importantly, was how vital it is that we educate young people and parents. Simple behaviours such as keeping your password secret, changing it regularly and never disclosing certain information online must be a consistent message to enable our children to take full advantage of all the benefits that the internet can provide, whilst keeping them safe.
On Thursday 29th and Friday 30th November, 30 Warlingham Years 7 to 9 students were trained to be cyber mentors. Cyber mentors are young people aged 11-17 trained to talk to other young people about any problems they may have, particularly bullying, but also friendship issues and anything they are worried about. There are two ways that cyber mentors work. They can do face-to-face mentoring where someone can come and speak to them or cyber mentors can also mentor over the internet on a social network, set up especially to speak to someone you don’t know over the internet, so that you can speak to someone without worrying about looking face to face with them. Although it is a social networking site, it is monitored 24/7 by hundreds of trained adults who watch and monitor everything that is sent and to stop anything being sent that has anything inappropriate or not acceptable. In the two days of training everyone was trained face to face and also cyber mentoring. It was quite difficult to think about some of the situation that people might
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come to us with and how we should react to the situations. In the training we all found it hard at first to work together and pretend we were in those situations but once we realised that we really would be in these situations just with people we didn’t know, we got really stuck in to it and really enjoyed it. All of us learnt a lot from doing the training days as we all knew that the online world in particular could be a dangerous place, but I think we were all shocked by what we found out. Being bullied online or on phones should not happen and on this course everyone learnt that there is always someone to talk to, even if it isn’t talking to someone face to face but online, no-one should be alone. The biggest thing I learnt was that no-one should be bullied, whether it’s what they look like or anything else.
Beatbullying is the UK's leading bullying prevention charity, creating a world where bullying, violence and harassment are unacceptable. Beatbullying empowers people to understand, recognise, and say no to bullying, violence and harassment by giving them the tools to transform their lives and the lives of their peers. Working with families, schools, and communities to understand the problem, campaign for change and provide a sustainable efficient and proven solution. Beatbullying has gained significant recognition for it's anti-bullying work in schools and communities across the UK, working with more than 1.6 million children and young people since it's launch in 2002.
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Budding designers
On Thursday 18th October, the whole of Year 9 took part in the ‘Promo-T’ T shirt Design Company Challenge, as part of the Business & Enterprise in tutor periods programme. Split into teams of up to six within their tutor groups, students formed a graphic design company specialising in designing T Shirts for charities. Each team had just over an hour (registration plus one period) to decide on a company name and logo and a design for each of three different charities: Small Steps for Sophie, Riverside Animal Centre and Croydon Churches Floating Shelter. After splitting the team into three, it was then time to get creative and complete their designs before pitching to the ‘Marketing Directors’ of the three charities. Good presentations were vital, as the company would only survive if it won new business. Each team were able to vote for the teams that they thought did the best presentation and t-shirt designs. Melanie Filmer then looked at all the work across all eight tutor groups and picked one winning team. The winning team, whose three t-shirt designs are shown on the left, was ‘Waves’ from 9N. The members of Waves were: Charlotte Henderson, Rebecca McLean, Katie Wickers, Matt Summers and Jake Cooper.
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Congratulations go to Mr Price (Deputy Headteacher) who has been appointed as the Headteacher of Jubliee High School in Addlestone. He will start his new role in January. He has played a key role in the school’s improvement strategy and has been very supportive of numerous students and their families so I know that you will want me to thank him for all that he has done at Warlingham. Mr Hurley (2i/c Business Studies), is also leaving us at the end of term. He is moving to live in Thailand. Having been part of our Business Studies team for 8 years, he leaves a legacy of good examination achievement and well-organised course structures, especially in BTec. We are sorry, too, to be losing Mrs Vandoros (ICT and Business Departments, part-time) who is
expecting her second child. Our best wishes to her and to her son, Lucas, who was born last year. Mrs Wilson (Head of House Secretary) is leaving for a promoted post in a marketing company. She has done a lot of work behind the scenes in
supporting students so we say a big “thank you” to her. Mrs Alger (Head of Girls’ PE) and Mrs Hickox (Science Department) will be starting maternity leave early next term. We wish them well and look forward to them returning later in the year.
Dates for your diary Thursday 20th December 2012
Sixth Form Revue School Show
Friday 21st December 2012
Sixth Form Revue School Show Last Day of Term. Early closure: 1.25pm
Monday 7th January 2013
Staff Training Day 3
Tuesday 8th January 2013
First Day of Spring Term. Students return to school.
Wednesday 16th January 2013
Year 10 Parents’ Evening (3.30pm - 7.30pm)
Friday 25th January 2013
Year 11 Reports go home
Monday 28th January 2013
Modern Foreign Languages Day 9W, 9A, 9R & 9L Periods 1 &2 9N, 9G, 9H & 9M Period 3 &4
Thursday 31st January 2013
Parents’ Forum (7pm - 8.30pm)
Wednesday 6th February 2013
Year 9 Options’ Evening (7pm)
Wednesday 13th February 2013
Year 9 Parents’ Evening (3.30pm - 7.30pm) Year 9 Reports handed out
Monday 18th - Friday 22nd February 2013
Half Term
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