News Warlingham School
ISSUE 4 2015-2016 MARCH 2016 In this edition FROM the headteacher
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Visit from Lord Bowness
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Netball Stars!
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Pi Day
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More Able trip to the Globe
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Warlingham Church Concert
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Stamford Bridge: The Business of Football
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Maths Masterclasses
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Music Trip to Wicked
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Business Studies trip to New York
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Staying Safe
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STOP PRESS: SUCCESSFUL BID
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Primary Cross COuntry Cup
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Year 10 Science in Action
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Interhouse Debating Competition
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Important Information about Examination Certificates
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In the Hot Seat
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Dates for your Diary
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Widening Horizons Raising Aspirations
FEATURE: Visit from Lord Bowness
FEATURE: Pi Day
FEATURE: Business Studies trip to New York FEATURE: Primary Cross Country Cup
FEATURE: Year 10 Science in Action Talk
From the Headteacher...
As the Easter break falls early this year it has made the spring term very short and seemingly very hectic. The silver lining for our Year 11 and 13 students is that there are still five weeks of teaching time after the holiday before the exam period begins. Nevertheless, the countdown to the start of GCSE and A Level exams has certainly begun and revision sessions after school and during the holidays are in full swing. Getting the right balance between work, rest and play over the next few weeks is important to ensure that all our students are in the best position to maximise their performance over the exam period. Senior members of staff will be working with all the students in the coming weeks to make sure they are as well prepared as possible. Mr Kinder and Mr Johnston are running revision study skills sessions for Year 11 students on Wednesday 23rd Page 2
March. We have just completed our first RAG week and a wide range of fun activities have raised over £1,000 for our two charities – the Rainbow Trust and Cancer Research UK. Much thanks must go to Mr Scott and his Sixth Form team and of course all the Sixth Form students who organised the different events. Friday was of course Sport Relief day and all our Key Stage 3 students completed a one mile run during the morning. I am pleased to report that the new build project to extend C Block with the new SRW classrooms continues to go to plan and we hope to be able to move in early in the new term. The demolition of the old huts is planned for the half-term week at the end of May. The School Council has run a very successful competition to re-
app offers you the opportunity to block other apps, internet and other social media sites either completely or for particular periods of time. As you will be aware from the national press the use of mobile phones to send inappropriate images and messages has resulted in a number of young people finding themselves in dangerous and illegal activities. The During this term we have held Parents’ OurPact app is very simple to use and more information is available on Evenings for Years 7, 9 and 10 and Sixth Form students. The attendance our website on the Child Protection and Safeguarding webpage under the at these events has been excellent ‘Information’ tab. In addition, recent and I would like to thank parents for research has shown that the blue light their support and also like to thank which is emitted by phones and iPads all the staff for their input at such a busy time of year. A reminder that the can interfere with sleep patterns so Year 8 Parents’ Evening is the second the advice is not to have these in a week back after the Easter holiday on bedroom. Increasingly numbers of teenagers are struggling with sleep Wednesday 20th April. and do not feel rested in the morning, I would also like to thank the parents some of this could well be attributed to that attended the recent Parents’ this technology. Ideally phones, iPads, Forum on 10th March, where a laptops should be left to charge in a number of the school’s online different room overnight. resources were demonstrated. I wish you all a very enjoyable Easter Parents got a chance to find out about subject materials on FROG and holiday, although our Year 11, 12 and 13 students will be hard at work had demonstrations on the Library revising for the upcoming exams. I resource Eclipse and the careers look forward to seeing all the students guidance resource U-Explore. Whilst refreshed and ready to go for the on the subject of online resources summer term on Tuesday 12 April. Mrs Needs has asked me to bring to your attention a very useful e-Safety app called ‘OurPact’ which can help parents control the use of the internet Mr N Bradwell on their children’s phones. This Headteacher design the area vacated by the huts. Our aim is to convert this area into a recreational space for students to use at break and lunchtime. There were over 500 entries and the three winners were Sami Butt (7W), Katie-Anne Parker (8L) and Sarah Bradshaw (8H). They will be working with landscape designers over the coming months to turn their idea into reality.
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Visit from Lord Bowness
L-R: Amin Lmoh (12L), Lord Bowness and Sally Morritt (13H) On Friday 4th March, 16 Year 12 and Year 13 A Level Government & Politics students were lucky enough to have a talk from Lord Bowness, which took place at school. Lord Bowness, who lives in Warlingham, talked about the role of the House of Lords in Parliament, including the primary and secondary legislation process. This in particular was of great use to the Year 12s who are studying the House of Lords this year. It also gave a chance for the Page 4
Year 13s to refresh their minds on the important topic - and take a break from ideologies! For me, it was great to hear about the Lords and their importance from one of them, allowing us to question him which we did. As a group, we asked questions about representation within the House, issues with economics, and a few of us took the opportunity to discuss the hot topic of the EU, something that the Lords are known for doing a lot of work on. Lord
Bowness sits on the EU Committee so he was able to make some very substantial and intelligent points. Lord Bowness answered all our questions with great generosity and detail. I would like to take this opportunity to thank Mr Johnston and Miss Filmer for organising this visit and also to thank Lord Bowness for the enlightening experience; we all learned something from the enjoyable talk.
Sally Morritt (13H)
The visit was arranged through the Lord Speaker’s ‘Peers in Schools’ programme, which has been running across the UK since 2007 and has so far involved around 75,000 young people. This continuing outreach programme sends members of the House of Lords into schools/ academies and colleges across the country to give talks.
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Netball Stars! We are immensely proud of our netball players; 2015-16 has been a highly successful year across the school. With some key events still to come, just look at these performance highlights so far:
in the league and finished runners up in the B team district tournament.
Year 7B – Have also had a successful season only losing a league game to St Bedes and finishing runners up in the B Team District Tournament.
in the league and finished runners up in the B Team District Tournament.
Year 9A – Have WON the league for a THIRD year in a row! That is undefeated in the league for three years! In the Year 9 District Tournament they dominated the group Year 7A – have narrowly missed out stage and made it through to the final, on winning the league by suffering however came up against a strong just one defeat all season - to St Bedes. They finished 3rd in the District LND and therefore finished runners up. They have qualified for the State Tournament with four wins and three draws (against St Bedes, Woldingham School finals for the 3rd year in a row. They’re also the reigning champions. and Lingfield Notre Dame (LND) – the This team has been officially the BEST three strongest teams in the Year 7 STATE SCHOOL TEAM for two years District Competition). However, they didn’t finish higher than St Bedes and and hope to make it three on the 22nd March. have qualified for the State School finals. Year 9B - Have also been undefeated
Year 8A – Have WON the league for a SECOND year in a row (with two games yet to play). They’re currently undefeated. In the Year 8 District tournament they made it to the semifinals against LND (who went on to win the tournament). They have also qualified for the State School finals for the second year in a row! Year 8B - Have also been undefeated Page 6
Year 10A – Have WON the league for a THIRD year in a row! That is undefeated in the league for three years. In the Year 10 District Tournament, they made it through to the final, however came up against a strong Woldingham and therefore finished runners up. They have qualified for the State School finals for the 3rd year in a row. The girls finished 4th last year and are looking to come back with a medal, if not the title.
Y11A – Even with all the pressures of exams and revision sessions after school, the Year 11s are currently 3rd in the league, which is their highest finish in three years. At the Year 11 Tournament, the girls finished in a respectable 4th place, 2nd out of the state schools!
We’d like to congratulate all the team members for a fantastic year of Netball.
Miss Hurst, Miss Bradley, Miss Wallis & Mrs Alger PE Department
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Pi Day On Monday the 14th of March we celebrated Pi day; a fun fact is that in America they spell the date with the month first e.g.: 3.14.2016 and, as you see, the first letters of Pi is 3.14 so this is why we honour Pi Day when we do. I, as a maths leader, supported the Year 7’s who took part in the brain twisting questions and had the tough job of explaining the steps to complete the puzzles. Each maths leader and sixth former had a group to direct and we had anagrams to complete and a quiz to take part in at the end! As another fun activity, the students also had a sheet containing many numbers of pi and, if they had time, they could learn as many digits as they could to compete for a prize at the end. It was a fantastic experience to work with younger students and secretly enjoying working out the challenging questions myself! I would like to give a special thanks to everyone who helped throughout the day to organize the event and to all teachers instructing us on what to do! I’m excited to take part, again, when I am also in sixth form.
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On Monday 14th of March it was Pi Day. Unfortunately it wasn’t a day about pie, however great that may be, it was about the infinite number of Pi, the first three digits being 3.14, which translate to the date 3/14, the fourteenth of March.
During Periods 1-4, both X and Y blocks of Year 7 students as well as Maths Leaders helpers participated in activities in the Front Hall. There were 30 teams of four completing activities for two hours,
ending with a competition to see which student could remember the most digits of Pi. Everyone began on the same activity, a car racing one. They were given cards that gave them various bits of Page 9
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information about the result of a car race and they had to use these clues to deduce the final ranking of cars. This allowed students to use their problem-solving skills, and play around with colourful cars! After this first activity, teams were allowed to complete the remaining ones in whatever order they wanted - calculated chaos! The tasks ranged from word problems to arithmetic. One activity was about using only six buttons on a calculator to create numbers. Another was trying to solve maths-based anagrams. A third was Page 10
trying to figure out how to save people on a sinking ship! Throughout all of this, the students were working together in their teams, all of them seeing not only how maths can be applied to lots of things, but also just having lots of fun. After all these activities were completed, it was the job of the Maths Leaders to try and mark all of these pieces of paper. Luckily I got given the job of helping teams so I didn’t have that problem! While that was happening, the long awaited
competition of reciting Pi occurred. A bunch of students were brought up to try and conquer the infinite beast, with many astonishing us all with the amount of digits they could remember. Even as an A level student I can’t remember more than 10 decimal digits! Ultimately, it was a great day of celebrating all that is maths and I’d like to thank the Maths Department and especially Mrs Billings for organising such a great day, as well as all the Maths Leaders for helping out.
Amin Lmoh (12L)
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More Able trip to the Globe
On Tuesday the 15th of March the Year 9 More Able group were lucky enough to attend Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night at the Globe Theatre in London. At the end of break time at 11:20am we left the school and walked to Upper Warlingham Station. We then boarded a train to East Croydon where we got on another train to London Bridge Train Station. Upon arrival we walked along the side of the Thames to the Globe Theatre.
sister as a messenger. Instead of the countess falling in love with the rich young man she falls in love with the sister who she sees as a man, however the sister is totally against this relationship as she in turn has fallen in love with the wealthy young man.
The brother arrives about half way through the play at the same place. The boy is guided by a man who was washed ashore with him from the boat as an apologetic gesture. He is taken to the countess’ palace, Watching Twelfth Night was however she believes he is the very entertaining. The play itself same person as his sister. A lot of was very simple to understand satirical comedy happens between and entertaining however, the the start and finish regarding the Shakespearean language could put two siblings not meeting and being off younger viewers. mixed up. The end is very romantic; Warning: plot spoilers ahead. brother and sister meet and have a It was a story of two siblings, one very emotional reunion, the brother boy one girl, who were separated marries the young countess and the at sea in a storm. Fortunately both sister and the wealthy young man get siblings survived. The girl wasn’t very together. confident as herself, so she dressed As well as being very talented actors, and acted as a boy, ironically and conveniently dressing the exact same they are also very talented musicians, before the play they sang modern way as her “lost” brother. The sister songs like ‘Hold Back the River’ by finds a job as a personal servant to James Bay, and during the play they a rich wealthy man who is chasing also sang a mix of Shakespearean a young countess and uses the love songs and modern hip-hop. Page 12
What Country, Friends, is this?
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I would definitely recommend going to everybody, it is a very historical and entertaining family day out. You could also do a bit of sightseeing on the way there as you walk past some of our Page Page 14 14
famous landmarks such as The Shard, The Gherkin, Big Ben and obviously The Globe Theatre. We followed the same route heading
home as we did arriving. You would exciting actors you do not feel the think that standing non-stop for 1 hour strain. and 30 minutes may be tiring, however Adam Dunn (9N) & Matthew when you are watching a hilariously Howie (9M) funny play with such gripping and Page 15
Warlingham Church Concert On Friday 11th March, Mia Fryer, Lucas Crawford and Charlotte Faulkes gave up their Friday night to perform at All Saints Church in Warlingham as part of their community music concert. Our students performed with Warlingham Park School, the All Saints Choir and a magnificent organ recital.
herself exceptionally proud!
Mia performed ‘On My Own’ from Les Mis as a soloist on the piano – the dynamics of the piece really rang out throughout the church! This was Mia’s first public performance and she did
Charlotte sang ‘Green Finch’ and ‘Linnet Bird’ by Stephen Sondheim from Sweeney Todd. The audience loved her rendition of this challenging piece – the acoustics of the church
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Luca performed ‘Back to Black by Amy Winehouse, his resonant voice, coupled with the emotive lyrics left the audience stunned and the audience wanting more. Luca has a huge future ahead of him and he carried himself off with such huge praise.
Luca Crawford (10W)
were perfect for this song – her rich voice just cut through so well! I was exceptionally proud of the students involvement in this event, giving up their own time and energies to help the community. The concert raised over £350 for the church to further develop music in the community. We look forward to performing at their lovely church in the future.
“I was really nervous about playing in front of such a big audience, but once I started playing I knew I was going to be OK with my piece!” - Mia Fryer (7N) “It was so nice to receive so many plaudits after the performance. I loved singing in the church; the acoustics were awesome!” - Charlotte Faulkes (11H)
Mr Duff Head of Music
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Stamford Bridge: The Business of Football
On the 3rd December 2015, 42 Business Studies students went to the home of Premier League champions, Chelsea Football Club. We began our day by getting on the Page 18
coach at 9:15. Our journey was fine despite the traffic and an hour or so later, we arrived at Stamford Bridge. We had arrived slightly early so we explored the Chelsea Museum. It was
amazing to see the club’s history and what they had achieved.
Matthew Harding (a devoted Chelsea supporter) just ÂŁ6 million in 1994.
At 11:30, we were greeted by our tour We were shown around the ground guide for the day who guided us to and learned the many different ways the Matthew Harding stand which cost the club makes money. Page 19
Stamford Bridge: The Business of CONTINUED Football Our tour guide then took us to the press room where ‘The Special One’ does his interviews. After that we were shown the TV room where the players do the post-match interviews. Next up was the away changing room. The room was filled with players’ shirts with the likes of Ronaldo, Messi, Beckenbauer and many other legends of the game.
After looking at the changing rooms we were allowed to walk through the tunnel and sit on the managers’ seats, which was an amazing experience. After that the tour was over and we were lead to the club shop but those of us who supported other teams, didn’t buy anything.
We then went back on the coach and arrived back at school on time. Going After learning about the away changing to Stamford Bridge gave us a real rooms we were lead to the home insight into the business of football and changing room where the lockers had also the sporting side of football. the players’ pictures on because Jose We would definitely recommend the Mourinho wanted it to be like Real trip. Madrid’s dressing room. We learned that the players were seated next to Louis Forsyth & Tia Chincharo their friends and people who spoke the (10N) same first language. This was to make the players feel more at ease.
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Maths Masterclasses
L-R: Maisie Skeet (9G), Jessica Maynard (9G) & Karoline Lincoln (9H) For six weeks we were given the opportunity to participate in the Kingston University Year 9 Maths Masterclasses. Our first session was taken by Victoria Martin who taught us about bridges and how their structure has so much to do with how much weight they can hold. We met lots of new children from different schools and we were Page 22
split up into groups with them to have a competition of who could make the strongest bridge! Unfortunately, neither of us won but it was very interesting to find out about the maths behind structures. Our second session was held by Sarah Endean on the 23rd January. She taught us about probability and puzzles; in this session our favourite
part was probably learning how to construct a cube from four strips of paper. We also took part in a dice experiment in which we calculated the probability of different dice landing on a certain number. Our third session was taken by Neil Cooper who showed us that half-life is used not only in maths but science. We learned that the decay of radiation halves every year and had to draw a graph to show that the half-lifeline on the graph went into a perfect curve.
it was taught by Gearge Engelhart who showed us techniques for working out the odds in games and calculating The fourth session was based around which option to choose statistically mathematical challenges, and taught in a game situation. We learned that by PGCE student teachers. In this to work out the play-safe strategy in session we did some game show style each game you must find the worst activities where we worked as a team outcome for each player and pick with others to gain points in the overall the option that doesn’t include those competition; this helped us to gain numbers. confidence in what we had learned and was the most interactive session. Overall, the maths masterclasses were a fantastic experience and we On the fifth session we learned about all enjoyed ourselves very much. Our the mathematics of navigation and favourite class was the mathematics how important it is even though it’s not challenge as we got to work with included in our GCSE’s. We had to different children and complete find two places on the map and work challenges and exciting puzzles. We out where they lay on the map. Then, also took part in maths articulate using this information we worked out which was very fun and needed quick its position using the lines of longitude thinking skills. and latitude. On the sixth and final session we studied games and moral calculations,
Jessica Maynard & Maisie Skeet (9G)
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Music Trip to Wicked
Year 10 were treated to a trip to London to see Wicked as part of their GCSE Music course. The students had amazing seats in the stalls and were enthralled with the spectacular acting, choreography and of the course the music! Wicked is a vivid re-imagining of the classic The Wizard of Oz, Wicked Page 24
spotlights the untold stories of Oz’s most famous (or infamous) characters, namely the Wicked Witch of the West and her unlikely friend, Glinda the Good. The show follows greenskinned star Elphaba from birth to college and through the life-changing events which eventually label her “wicked,” introducing spoiled rich girl Glinda, local prince and heartthrob
Fiyero and even the Wizard of Oz himself, a troubled man very unlike the one you may remember. As Elphaba, a passionate political activist as ever there was one, fights injustice and seeks to undo the mistakes of the past, dark secrets and personal tragedies shape the history of Oz, paying homage to the classic Wizard of Oz story while simultaneously changing fans’ understanding of it forever. Wicked is a cautionary tale about love, friendship and trust, Wicked effortlessly reveals that there are indeed two sides to every story. While the techy-savvy students wandered over to the orchestra pit and sound desk to see how all the equipment worked, the girls and Miss Frayne ate ice cream! There was some enthusiastic singing of the well known songs from our students! ‘Wow – so many lights – and the stage is huge!’ Phillip Clements. ‘Of course, I know all the words to all the songs, I so want to be in this show!’ Luca Crawford We are eternally grateful to Sophie Tapping’s mum, who works at Wicked and got us the tickets and very kindly got us all a free programme! Thank you!
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Business Studies trip to New York
On the 10th February 2016 the Year 12 Business Studies & Economics Students went on a trip to New York for five days. We departed from Heathrow Airport at 11am with Delta for an eight-hour flight, which went quickly as everyone was excited, suitcases only half-full and ready for shopping.
On the first night, we ate at the ‘Heartland Brewery’ and then went up to the 86th floor of the Empire State Building. The view from the top was a once in a lifetime experience, as we got to see a lit-up Manhattan.
At the start of Day 2, everyone was wrapped up warm and down in the lobby by 7.30am. We went to Times We arrived at 5pm New York time and Square for breakfast and then made then had an hour coach journey to the our way to Madame Tussauds. Along Holiday Inn on Rector Street which had with having fun, we were there for study purposes, so at Madame 50 floors.
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Tussauds we were given a talk by the Marketing Manager. The talk was very insightful and we learnt a lot. After the talk, we were allowed to walk around the exhibitions and see the wax works. We then jumped on the Metro and went to Central Park and we were given some free time for shopping. After around three hours shopping, we met up at the Rockefeller Plaza and then went for dinner. The next day we were all excited to go to JoMart Chocolate Shop in Brooklyn. The chocolates are handmade on the premises by Michael Rogak and his team. We got to try out different types of chocolates while getting a talk about how a small business copes in a booming economy such as New York. On top of all the chocolate tasters, we got an extra 20% off in the shop, so by the end of the talk we were all hyper and bloated.
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Business Studies trip to New CONTINUED York After lunch we walked across the Brooklyn Bridge, stopping to take photographs of the Manhattan Skyline. We then took the Metro to the world famous 5th Avenue and had free time before we went for dinner.
For lunch we went into Grimaldi’s Pizzeria; the pizzas there were huge!
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On Day 4, we were all prepared and ready to leave by 9am. We took a brisk five-minute walk down the road to the 9/11 memorial, where we got to look at all the exhibitions and see the news stories from the time and how it impacted everyone there. In the afternoon we made our way to Madison Square Gardens, where we had an all-access tour around the venue, got an insight into its history and had a talk from a manager about the marketing and pricing structures
for the different types of events, which whole Manhattan skyline. We then include; basketball, concerts, wrestling went straight to the airport and to and boxing. make leaving even worse, our plane was delayed by two hours! On the final day we were all sad to leave, but there was still one last thing to do. We jumped on the Staten Island Ferry and went to see the Statue of Liberty and got a view of the
Overall the trip was really good and everyone enjoyed it.
Shayan Patel (12R)
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Staying Safe We were really lucky to be able to book In 2012 Misunderstood was the Misunderstood to come in to school. opening act for UK rapper Chip and US R&B sensation Boyz II Men at the Misunderstood are a UK Pop/R&B 02 London. They went on to release Singing Duo. Formed in 2010, their debut buzz single and music Misunderstood consists of two multitalented young men – Stephan Benson video ‘Break Your Neck!’. and Jeffrey Okyere - whom together possess the skills of song writing, vocals and the ability to dance! Both graduates of the popular BRIT School of Performing Arts – it’s through dance that they originally met as a part of dance troupe Myztikal which went on to reach the semi-finals of ‘Britains Got Talent’ and later the ‘X-Factor’.
Misunderstood visit schools to talk about bullying and discrimination. Their approach was very different, using music and dance to put their message across. The students in Year 8 and Year 9 got very involved and many of them stayed at the end of the show to ask questions and get autographs. It is very important that young people know what to do when they have problems. When I spoke to the students afterwards they made some really positive comments about the performance including “they were really talented but they also had a really good message”.
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STOP PRESS: SUCCESSFUL BID We have just been informed that we’ve been successful in another CIF (Condition Improvement Fund) bid. The school has been awarded more than £360,000 of roofing repairs and improvements for those parts of the school with flat roofs that have deteriorated - the shaded areas on the diagram below. Areas to be improved include B Block, the canteen and A3. The existing roofs in these areas have either minimal or
no insulation. Therefore, it is difficult to maintain a warm temperature in the winter and cooler temperature in the summer. This work will be completed in the summer holidays and will improve significantly the learning environment. In addition, there will be a reduction in heat loss of up to 22% and therefore the school will have reduced energy bills.
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Primary Cross Country Cup We held our ninth annual Primary Cross Country Competition at Warlingham School on Tuesday 15th March 2016. The number of primary schools taking part is always really
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pleasing to see. The schools taking part this year were: Audley, Hamsey Green, Marden Lodge, St. Francis, St John’s, Warlingham Village, Woodlea and Whyteleafe.
The primary schools have been taking part in a number of smaller competitions throughout the year and this event is the final one to end the season. It essentially consists of four races: Year 3/4 girls, Year 3/4 boys,
Year 5/6 girls and Year 5/6 boys. At this time of year we always anticipate the weather not being very good and true to form it was grey and cold all day. The good thing was it didn’t rain and it was not windy!
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The results for this year are: For the combined Year 3/4 Boys and Year 3/4 Girls the results are: 1st – Whyteleafe – 58 points 2nd – Audley – 101 points 3rd – St. John’s – 145 points 4th – St. Francis – 156 points 5th – Hamsey Green – 159 points * Note – schools not mentioned in the Cup are those without enough runners to get a placing. For the combined Year 5/6 Boys and Year 5/6 Girls Ian Simpson Cup the results are: 1st – Whyteleafe – 66 points 2nd – Woodlea – 89 points 3rd – Audley – 145 points 4th – Marden Lodge – 203 points * Note – schools not mentioned in the Page 34
Cup are those without enough runners to get a placing. The top five runners in each race received a medal. The individual results are as follows: Race 1: Year 3/4 Girls 1st – Amy Deighton – Whyteleafe 2nd – Olivia Vickers – Audley 3rd – Lexi Carpenter – St John’s 4th – Hannah Younan – St. Francis 5th – Caitlin McTighe - Audley Race 2 – Year 3/4 Boys 1st – Harrison Haymen – St. Francis 2nd – Peter Carpenter – Audley 3rd – Junior Eccleston – Whyteleafe 4th – Leon Wengra-Townsend – St. John’s 5th – Harvey Lee - Whyteleafe
Race 3 – Year 5/6 Girls
Pacitti, Francesca Parker, Natalie Pryke Collins, Daisy Roadnight, Robbie 1st – Devon Hewitt – Woodlea Roper, Dan Whittingham, Alex Hayes, 2nd – Hannah Flaherty – St. Francis Chloe White and Young Ambassadors: 3rd – Maddie Vickers – Audley Connie Hill, Faith Keywood, Lucy 4th – Kenzie-Mae Beck – Whyteleafe Kay, Mia Batters, Harry Brimble, Eden 5th – Sophie Harwood – Whyteleafe Anderson, Ylenia Priest, Emmanuel Race 4 – Year 5/6 Boys Lloyd, James Naylor, Simon Darwin 1st – Max Webber – St. Francis Craggs, Regan Valle and Alex Jordan 2nd – Jay Simpson – Audley Will Fellows, Tom Bartlett, played a 3rd – Ben Carpenter – St. John’s vital volunteering role to make sure the 4th – Chris Hodgetts – Whyteleafe event could take place. Finally, Lynn 5th - Fabien Greggory – Woodlea Banwell from de Stafford provided the lovely stakes and helped set-up Congratulations to all the primary school children who took part and very in the morning and supported the results table together with Nikki Hall many thanks to the primary school (Whyteleafe) at the end. Kevin Mace staff and parents for organising and (Hamsey Green) kept a helpful eye bringing their teams. Well done to during the starts. Whyteleafe for winning both cups! This is a wonderful achievement. It is In the week of Sport Relief, it was also pleasing to see that the individual lovely to see so many participants winners came from across a number of and the individual winners and the schools. All those taking part received team winners claim their medals and a participation certificate. trophies from our Assistant Head, Rob Scott who had also been running Rag Running a community event involves Week for the Sixth form. a wide range of people. I would particularly like to thank June Wise As it said on the participation from Warlingham School for providing certificate: “Always enjoy yourself. First Aid, Pam Mutter for all the Don’t be upset if you don’t win, printing, the PE Department for the you’ve won by simply not giving up.” – facilities and the Site Staff for their hard Unknown. work setting up. Our sixth formers: Wishing you all a happy and healthy Leah Barden, Rebecca Cameron, Easter Break. Natalie French, Olivia King, Amy Vanessa Salem Knight, Megan Langridge, Rebecca McDonald, Lewis Nicholson, Daniel P.E. Teacher
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Year 10 Science in Action On Friday the 4th March, most of the Triple Science students went to a Science in Action talk, at the Institute of Education in London. The talk covered a range of interesting subjects, such as ‘Everest Lab: The science of high altitude’. This was one of my favourite topics, because it showed us how different people reacted to high altitude and thinner air. The presenter, Greg Foot, had been on an expedition to the top of Everest, the highest mountain on Earth. He explained that, contrary to popular belief, the percentage of oxygen in the air doesn’t change significantly with altitude of up to about 85km, or 53 miles, from the Earth’s surface. At Sea Level, oxygen makes up about 23% of the air and on the summit of Mount Everest, it is exactly the same. So why do we struggle to breathe at higher altitudes?
tired and sick, as our muscles don’t work properly, so people have to take up additional oxygen. Greg also told us that some people react better to high altitudes than others. This is where the expedition helped. Up Everest, they would do several different challenges and check oxygen levels in the blood. The less oxygen there is in your blood, the more tired you should be. However, Greg had more oxygen in his blood than his friend, Nick, yet Greg was struggling to eat bread and Nick was doing fine. Maybe it’s to do with their genes….
Charis Fernandez (10A)
On the 4th March 2016, Year 10 Triple Science students went on a fascinating ‘Science in Action’ trip. It included talks about the current space trip, involving British Astronaut, Tim Peak, ugly animals, high altitudes, Nano-science, and the science behind The further away from sea level you magic. I found the science was the are, the more the pressure of the entire most enjoyable to watch as the man atmosphere decreases. A way to doing the talk was quite funny. The explain this is, imagine having lots of talk about high altitudes was very the same thing piled in a tower. The interesting. The man doing the talk one on the bottom will be squashed had recently been up Mount Everest under the weight but the one at the – the highest mountain in the world. top will be fine. So, in effect, there He explained to us why some people is less air, meaning less vital oxygen. can survive better higher up with little Without enough oxygen, we get more oxygen than others can. He told us Page 36
unreleased information, that people could survive high up better for two reasons: how much they can take in and how well they use it.
has such low density that the dust can be captured within the oxygen spaces so they won’t vaporise when touching a high dense material.
Overall, I really enjoyed the trip and I learned some interesting facts that aren’t on the curriculum.
I also found the talk on the Everest labs (experiments at high attitude) very interesting because these labs can help people - who are suffering from Sophie Johnson (10N) life-threatening illnesses in Intensive I enjoyed the Science trip so much. I Care Units - survive. The experiments would recommend it to anyone looking use healthy people to experience for a non-stressful journey to London. low amounts of oxygen and study My favourite and most interesting the effects on the body. These low talk was about how science fiction of oxygen levels in the blood are present superheroes could actually become in those experiencing illnesses in science fact. I learnt that scientists hospital care units. These labs will are developing technologies such as save more lives and will be able to help nanotech that can be used to create scientists understand how we can artificial muscles and viruses that can increase the amount of oxygen carried directly, potentially cure cancer by by the blood, for example by drinking releasing the medicine at the infected beetroot juice, and how genetics can cell, thereby reducing the overall side help you tackle high altitudes. effects of chemotherapy. Scientists I enjoyed this trip and I hope others have also developed materials that can who are able to go will enjoy it too. seem invisible and materials that can capture space dust from comets as it Samantha Redman (10H) Page 37
Interhouse Debating Competition On the morning of Monday 7th March, it was the interhouse debating competition. 64 students (Years 7-10) and 25 sixth form helpers and Mr Leay were there. There were four different motions, which were: • This house believes there should be more censorship on the internet. • This house believes Britain should leave the European Union. • This house supports the use of performance enhancing drugs in sports.
of tension of how you would be judged embedded the room. Then suddenly, in the blink of an eye, each of the pairs had given their speech, and the judges had handed their scores of how well we did to the other sixth formers who were counting them up. Whilst awaiting the results, the few minutes felt like hours. Soon after, the results were decided in the following order: 1. Johnson 2. Chichester
• This house would lower the voting age to 16.
3. Sharman
The sixth formers and Mr Leay set up the chairs in preparation for the impending debate. We then walked to our allocated seats with our kind sixth former, who was the judge, waiting for us to start debating.
After that prizes were given out to people who did exceptionally well – even though everyone did amazingly!
4. Mallory
I would now like to thank Mr Leay, the sixth formers, the students and Johnson / Sharman went first; we then everyone else who took part in this rocketed off; everyone reading their event. prepared speech. Evidence, quotes; facts and figures were flying across the Jasmine Rodrigues (7A) room, with nerves dying or bubbling away. ‘I believe that, this means, in Conclusion...’ were phrases heard from every corner of the room. After that it was Chichester / Mallory’s first speaker to go. Again the feeling Page 38
Important Information about Examination Certificates Warlingham School has a large number of examination certificates that have not been collected by students. Notice is hereby given that the Examinations Department will destroy any certificates that have not been collected within two years of issue, following the schedule below:
3. Recorded Delivery
To arrange for your certificates to be sent by post, please write to us at Examinations Department, Warlingham School, Tithepit Shaw Lane, Warlingham, Surrey CR6 9YB. Please enclose a cheque for ÂŁ2.50 (payable to Warlingham School) to Exam series Deadline for cover the cost and also confirm the collecting certificates address that you want the certificates sent to. 2013/2014 30 November 2016 2014/2015
30 November 2017
2015/2016
30 November 2018
How can I collect my examination certificates? There are three ways to collect your certificates: 1. Collection in person To arrange this please e-mail exams@warlinghamschool.co.uk 2. Collection by nominated person To arrange this please e-mail exams@warlinghamschool.co.uk giving the name of the person collecting on your behalf and your authorisation for them to do this.
What can I do if I have not collected my certificates and the school no long holds them? You will need to contact the relevant exam boards and follow their replacement certificate procedure. This is a costly and lengthy process which you will need to instigate and pay for yourself. More information on this process can be found on the school’s website: http:// www.warlinghamschool.co.uk/65/ examination-information
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Outside of the work environment I enjoy sports, mainly due to my own teenage son being a sports fanatic. I am an FA qualified coach and am currently Assistant Manager for an U16 boys football team who I have been involved with since they were U9s, however I must confess Rugby is my secret pleasure as I played myself at county level – many years ago I hasten to add!
As a support staff governor for the last four years I am delighted to have been re-elected for a second term by my fellow colleagues. I have worked at Warlingham in the Finance Department for the past eleven years. I thoroughly enjoy working at Warlingham as well as being a governor as the constant changing face of education always presents a new challenge which keeps us all on our toes. Page 40
As for my governor’s role I hope my financial background and school knowledge will continue to enable me to be a significant contributor to the effective decision-making processes which are required to be made for the greater good of the school and to ensure that the high standards of educational services we provide continue well into the future.
Fiona Doyle Assistant Bursar Finance
The role of a governor is an important and a privileged role. I have felt proud to teach at Warlingham for the past seven years and now that pride extends to my appointment as Staff
Governor, for which I feel honoured. At the heart of everything I do at Warlingham School is my commitment to teach and inspire our students to achieve their full potential. My role as a staff governor allows me to strengthen that commitment and contribution to the life of the school.
my position as advocate for the staff body.
Away from the classroom, music is extremely important to me. I listen to a wide range of different styles of music and I particularly enjoy watching musicals. I play the oboe and piano and have recently started to play in I have played a key part in the success the school orchestra. I hope that my participation in this will help the of the Maths Department through students to understand the importance my role as 3i/c with responsibility for of music. KS3 Maths. In addition, I have had a I look forward to working with the other significant role within the pastoral life governors to ensure that we continue of the school through my role as a to work in a school that all students form tutor. My elected appointment and staff love to work in. as staff governor now offers me the opportunity to be a part of the whole Mrs Billings school strategising process, something that is as insightful as it is a privilege in 3ic Maths Page 41
Dates for your diary Friday 25th March - Friday 8th April 2016 Easter Holidays
Monday 11th April 2016 Staff In-service Training Day
(INSET)
Tuesday 12th April 2016 First Day of Summer Term for students Duke of Edinburgh Awards Presentation Ceremony
Tuesday 19th April 2016 Year 8 Tracking home
Wednesday 20th April 2016 Year 8 Parents’ Evening
Friday 22nd April Year 7 Tracking home Year 9 Tracking home
Monday 25th - Friday 29th April 2016 Year 7 Progress Review Week Year 9 Progress Review Week
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Monday 2nd May 2016 Bank Holiday
Monday 16th May - Wednesday 29th June 2016 AS/A2/GCSE Exams
Monday 16th May 2016 Year 11 and Year 12 Special Timetable Week
Friday 20th May 2016 Year 12 Study Leave starts
Wednesday 25th May 2016 Year 11 Leavers’ Day
Friday 27th May 2016 Year 13 Study Leave starts
Monday 30th May 2016 Half Term
Please check the calendar on our website for a full list of dates: http://www.warlinghamschool. co.uk/92/calendar
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Warlingham School Address: Tithepit Shaw Lane, Warlingham, Surrey, CR6 9YB Tel: 01883 624067 Fax: 01883 624026 Email: info@warlinghamschool.co.uk Website: www.warlinghamschool.co.uk