Carshalton High School students will be participating in the UK Youth Parliament Elections, scheduled to take place on Thursday 28th January 2016.
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The History Department of The John Fisher School recently took 29 Year 10 students to see the play "A Lesson from Auschwitz" by Brother Wolf theatre company, performed at the Churchill Theatre in Bromley.
The play centred around Rudolf Höss, Commandant of the Nazi concentration camp known as Auschwitz. He addressed the audience as if we were the assembled SS personnel in a secret meeting in 1941. Two of the school's 6th form historians also attended the play. They had been given the opportunity at the start of the year to visit Auschwitz, through the History Department's participation in the Holocaust Educational Trust programme. The two boys will be leading assemblies to all year groups in January to coincide with Holocaust Memorial Day. Year 12 Students from Carshalton Boys Sports College recently embarked on a Geography adventure along the North Kent Coast.
As part of their unit ‘Geographical Investigations’ the year groups has to complete lots of different types of fieldwork and research. The topic this term is Crowded Coasts. The group visited Botany Bay, Birchington, Minnis Bay, Reculver, Bishopstone & Seasalter. Students from Carshalton High School for Girls are showing just how focussed they are in supporting charities with a range of activities coming up in the next few weeks.
The students are taking part in Operation Christmas Child organised by the Samaritans Purse. "This is an opportunity for us to support disadvantaged children across the world and bring a smile to their faces during the festive period," said a spokesperson. The school is also participating in this year's BBC Children in Need appeal. This year's Children in Need is Super Hero themed so students and staff and invited to take part on Friday 13th November. This is a Charity Fundraising Mufti Day when student and staff are invited to wear their own clothes and any super Hero accessories and they must pay £1 for the privilege. This will take place the day after the school will be full of "coppers". All students are encouraged to bring to school all their pennies (and any other coins they can spare) for the CHSG Penny Trail on Thursday 12th November. This is one of our traditional fundraising events for the British Legion Poppy Appeal. All proceeds will be donated to the charity. Greenshaw students celebrated Black History Month in October. Students were involved in a lecture and discussion seminar. Topics included the origins of BHM, the treasures and history of West African kingdoms, inspirational black females and the life and work of Maya Angelou.
On the Friday before half term, teachers and students brought in a range of African and Caribbean food including chicken peanut curry, fried dumplings, jollof rice, plantain and ackee. At least a hundred students enjoyed the tastes and delights on offer and celebrated culture. The school is planning to host a similar celebration dinner before Christmas for charity. Also recently Greenshaw's GCSE Latin students visited Lullingstone Roman Villa in October to explore the structure of the ancient ruin. Students were given the challenge to research the different aspects of life in the Roman period. They are going to teach Year 7 History classes about their visit, as they are also studying the Romans and making model villas for homework. Six Sutton High School pupils took part in the Sutton Borough Cross Country competition recently which is the first round for qualification to the English Schools competition.
In extremely wet and cold conditions there were some excellent performances, and three girls qualified for the Surrey Schools Cross Country Championships to be held in January. It was a mixture of police cadets, exploding pumpkins, and pantomime success in another busy week at Stanley Park High School.
The first meeting of the school's new group of Junior Police Cadets was attended by 18 new members. Recruits took part in an afternoon of activities including using remote camera monitoring for surveillance work in the Police Surveillance Vehicle (PSV). They are looking forward to acquiring useful skills such as first aid and communications, and taking part in team activities. Congratulations also go to two Stanley Park students who have been successful in auditioning for parts in Cinderella at the Richmond Theatre this Christmas. And finally Year 9 students were treated to an autumn experiment without a trick, just a deafening bang! Ignited, gas-filled were balloons placed inside a pumpkin which forced pieces of the pumpkin to rocket forwards, revealing a grinning Jack O’Lantern. Another pumpkin was filled with sodium bicarbonate, food colouring and washing up liquid to produce a fast-flowing ghoulish vapour. Glenthorne High School has announced that it has been re-accredited with the Challenge Award.
"The Assessors were glowing in their praise of the school and spoke about the school as having “a purposeful learning ethos and a culture of challenge” as demonstrated by the 30% of A*/A grades achieved by Glenthorne pupils in last year’s GCSE results," said a statement on the school's website "They described challenge as deeply embedded and consistent across the curriculum were impressed that pupils are encouraged to be independent and inter-dependent learners through exceptional classroom practice, outstanding marking and feedback and innovative home learning." Poet Simon Armitage visited Nonsuch High School for Girls recently.
He read from some of his poetry – including “The Manhunt”, “Harmonium”, “The Clown Punk”, “Out of the Blue” and “I Kicked a Mushroom” - for Sixth Form and Year 11 English Literature students and talked of how his love of poetry was inspired by reading Ted Hughes’s work at the age of 15. He also discussed the influence of music - punk and Bob Dylan – on his work. The hall was full, generous with silence and later with laughter as Armitage recited his work. In an article on the school's website Headteacher, Ms Tracey Hartley said, “We were extremely privileged to welcome The Oxford Professor of Poetry to our school to inspire our students’ love of reading and writing poetry. His dry humour was very entertaining and you could hear a pin drop in the hall when he read his poem about 9/11.” |
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