Showrel Spring 2014

C R E AT I V T Y Beal High’s own Radio Show Re­Launches to Broadcast every Lunchtime Mr Chapman and Mr Winter have allowed pupils from all key stages to broadcast radio shows at lunch. After re­launching in October, the response was overwhelm­
ing with over 200 pupils signing up to broadcast a lunchtime show. The ‘Take it Away’ Team in the studio Timetables displaying what is on and when are up in form rooms and anyone with an in­
ternet connection can listen in Monday to Friday from 13.15­
14.05 on the below link: www.radioxlbeal.blogspot.com The ’Game Over’ Team pose for a photo shoot Media Classes meet Harry Potter On March 11th 2014, two year eleven Media Classes went to visit the Warner Brothers Studio where they filmed all The Harry Potter Films. It was a sunny day and the pupils had a great time appreciating the scale of the pro­
duction which took place in this studio, As a media teacher, I was glad to see they displayed a lot of very detailed planning documents , storyboards and models. The pupils were very well be­
haved and gained a deeper in­
sight into the inner workings of the film industry. Year 9 Photography Workshop This year saw the introduction of the first ever Year 9 Photography workshop at Beal High school. It was designed to give students a ‘taster’ of the projects and skills they would explore when studying GCSE Photography. The students chosen to take part in this excit­
ing workshop began with a warm up activity of photographing the letters of the alphabet. This task was designed to get students to work in small groups and to explore the world around them to find appropriate imagery. Following on from this, students were then given the task of be­
coming studio photographers. They had to work out how to get the correct lighting to create dramatic shadows, how to use filters to create a warm or cold glow in their images and how to use dra­
matic angles to create stunning macro photographs inspired by the photographer Francis Bruguiere. After producing exciting photographic responses to Francis Brugui­
ere, the students then proceeded to learn about post­production methods using Adobe Photoshop. This created dramatic results with students altering the contrast, hues and the surface texture of their photographs. All the results were amazing and just goes to show how the look of a photograph can change with just a click of a button on the computer! After a small break the students were introduced to the final task of the day — to create a moving image using stop motion photog­
raphy. This is the same process used by Nick Park in creating the Wallace and Gromit animations. Students worked in groups to create a story using a range of props such as cloth, children’s toys, cars and plastic fishes. They learnt how to create a moving image using a series of photo­
graphs, with some students taking over one hundred photographs, which were then converted into an animation using an IT pro­
gramme. The results proved to be humorous extensions of the stu­
dents’ imaginations in an animated form. Stills from two animation shorts created by the students The workshop was an informative and creative experience for the students and the start of many excellent workshop opportunities ahead. Many thanks to the following students for making the workshop such a wonderful experience: Harini Suseelan Aleisha Rashid Nafisa Ehsan Jaival Gondhia Rania Tahir Lamees Shah Kodi Pierre­Davis Tanzim Alom Jeevan Panesar Dina Akthar Beal Photographer of the Term To celebrate the successes of our young photographers at Beal, a range of students who have achieved photographs of outstanding merit, have been chosen for the award ‘Beal Photographer of the Term’. The work chosen this term was produced using both studio and location photography with some images developed further us­
ing Photoshop. Congratulations to the following photographers for their hard work and creativity: Dimitru Cepoi —Smoke Sannah Khan Year 13 Shereen Chuhan Year 13 Dimitru Cepoi Year 12 Fabbiha Rahat Year 11 Shanghavi Logeswaran Year 11 Hafsa Khanom Year 10 Stefen Lamothe Year 10 Sannah Khan—Abstract II Hafsa Kanom — Cup Shanghavi Logeswaran— Portrait Alison McGregor PROJECT `MAPPING` A class of Year 10s have had under a tight deadline. the opportunity to work on a Students had various starting project with Ben Cameron – a points of their own journeys Graphic Designer student who and had to reinvent, decon­
struct, displace and discon­
is currently in his final year. nect maps. It has led to new The project `Mapping` gave ways of looking at and appre­
students the political, geo­ ciating maps. graphical and historical under­ Ben has been impressed with standing of maps and social is­ the sophisticated ideas, some sues, as well as the experience of which show real ingenuity.
of working with a designer and The class hard at work with Ben Cameron and Head of Art Department, Miss Austin. Art Ambassador Prasad Umavannan said: “It was useful, interesting and fun.” These students will never look at maps in the same way... The project is still in progress and lasts for five days. The final pieces will be on the Beal Website by the end of term – have a look! COMIC CLUB Beal’s `Comic Club` has shown some excellent drawings and it is fabulous to see how Art is still used to develop leadership skills for AS students Farah and Saida even though they aren’t pursu­
ing Art as an AS Level. Students busy inventing their own characters. They plan to create a comic book as an end result. They have kindly offered their expertise to provide `Comic Club` for KS3 students every Thursday lunch­time as part of their Extra Curriculum. Christina Stylianou Young Writers Competition 2014 Three of our year sevens Well Done to Abdul Bham­
jee, Jyothika Vamadevan and Jemma Finch. have been selected to be published in the Young Writers' 'Twist in the Tale' competition. Here is what the organisation said in the letter: 'We have received thousands of applications from all over the UK and overseas. Work has been selected for publication based on imagination, per­
ception, expression and creative use of language.' Rotary Youth Speaks The students will be pub­
Competition lished in 'A Twist in the Tale On the February 6th 2014, ­ Tales from Essex' antholo­
Jemma Finch, Haveen Ravi­
gy and will receive a copy chandra and Ibrahim Desai of the book itself and a cer­
from year seven represented tificate of merit. the school in a public speaking competition. They spoke on the subject of interactive learn­
ing and despite competing against teams of students who were a number of years older, they received high praise from both the judges and the other competing teams. Congratulations to: Tafsir Ahmed, Asif Nadeem Ah­
med, Mehrun Queraishy, Sumayyah Hannan, Anika Rahman and Hossam Uddin. Jemma Finch, Haveen Ravichandra, Ibrahim Desai Year 12 Pupils Collect High Achievers Awards Six Year 12 students collected their High Achievers Awards at the Bangladeshi High Commis­
sion on Sunday 9th February 2014. According to Tafsir Ah­
med it was a ‘brilliant day’. Creativity Across the Curriculum os of their very own poetry English and Media have one lesson with Apple Mac lap­
combined once tops editing the footage and again to take advantage of uploading them to YouTube the Beal High School with the support of Mr Winter YouTube channel. from Media. forces If you visit the school web­
site on the below link: www.bealhighschool.co.uk and scroll to the bottom of the page you will find a small YouTube icon which takes you to Beal High Schools own YouTube channel. Mr Hatton encouraged his pupils to use their own me­
dia devices to record vide­
based performance and spent Challenge Mr Hatton then challenged his pupils to get as many hits as they could and the pupils with the most views would win a prize. The most viewed piece was ‘Never Back Down’ which had 293 views . Most Viewed So far the most viewed vid­
eos on the Beal YouTube channel are a computer generated fly through of The Beal High School ex­
pansion which has received a massive 1852 views, fol­
will be taking place on 27th lowed closely by last years March 2014 with a number of BBC School Report. This Year 7 pupils being asked to year, BBC School Report take part to create the news in a day ready to `Go LIVE` on the BBC’s own website at 1400 hours. Below is a screen shot from The BBC website last year. A Simply Splendid Spelling Bee One of the coaches was also a `step­in’ speller. There were about seven people spelling On Wednesday 5th March and altogether. It started off with Friday 7th March 2014, the ‘nice’ words and they gradual­
English class 7d/En4 had their ly got harder. If someone got own word­tastic spelling bee! a word wrong, they got one They all had great fun and got more opportunity before they to do their spelling bee just were eliminated. One by one, like an American one, with the spellers were eliminated some (bad) American accents and they were down to the fi­
as well! nal four. They started to get a Everyone was quite excited bit anxious because the as it was different from a usu­
words were definitely becom­
al English lesson. Each team ing more difficult! Things start­
had three members; one ed to get even more interest­
speller and two coaches. ing when they got down to the final three. Unfortunately, the ‘economically’. He waited bell then rang and they had to to see if he was correct. carry on next lesson… Everyone was on the edge As Friday rolled around, the of their seats, and then classroom was tense as eve­
our teacher Miss Wilmot ryone was wondering who said......`Correct!’ Speller would win. Anyone could have won; the top three were all `super­spellers’ Once again, the spelling bee began. The class were sur­
prised to discover that there Number Three had won the Spelling Bee! were no extra lives, so any­
All of his team received one could go out straight beautiful (plastic) medals away! Unfortunately, speller and he also got a box of number one got their word in­
delicious Ferrero Rocher correct. Surprisingly, speller chocolates. number two got their word In the end, everyone had wrong too! If speller number fun. All participants earned three got this word right, he commendations and learnt would win. If he didn’t, all that words can be fun, and three spellers would be put so can you! Why not ask back in to determine a winner. your teacher to have a Speller Three had to spell Spelling Bee? The Adventure Begins On the 18th October 2013, our Ge­
ography Class had the opportunity to visit Epping Forest. We went as a class, and we had the chance to go and study the Loughton Brook river, which travels through Epping Forest. We had to wear sensible clothing as we were going to be in water and mud! I wore wellingtons as they would help me when I was in the water or moving around. I also wore a raincoat as it was a very wet and damp day. arrived, we went to a small room and met our leaders. We completed some worksheets and also learnt some interest­
ing facts about Loughton Brook. After that we immedi­
ately rushed out as we could not wait to see the river. We grabbed our equipment and tools and we headed out. On our way to the river we took a look at a hard rock on the floor beneath us. Our leader dug it up using a special tool. We then felt the rock and de­
scribed how it felt. We did the After registration we headed out same with some unusual mud. on this exciting adventure. We We eventually moved on, and travelled there by coach. When we finally, we found Loughton Brook musical talent! It felt delightful river. In groups we measured to play an instrument with oth­
the river’s length, width and er people and I’m sure other much more. We had a lot of fun people would love to experi­
and we showed great team ence this! The music concert work. Afterwards, we went back took place in the week before and thanked our leader for a we broke up for our Christmas wonderful guide of the forest. Holidays. I played the violin We got back in the coach and and the cornet. There were so travelled back home; tired and many varieties of instruments muddy but very happy! and there were great singers! Rafay Khan It was definitely the most en­
Marvellous Music at Beal High School… Since starting at Beal High School I have experienced amazing times. One of the mo­
ments that will stay in my mind forever was the music concert. Everyone that took part was commit­
ted to making the school feel proud of their amazing joyable event so far! By Athira Nandan Read for Beal High School There has been an exciting reading competition going on throughout Year Seven and Eight. We have had to read as many books as possible, they very enjoyable and gave us could have been online or real books. something to do in our spare There were at least 100 different fa­
time. vourite books to choose from. The Georgia Hampton person who read the most books could win a kindle fire and a pile of books. The competition started at the beginning of January 2014. “Read for My School” is a really good and excit­
ing opportunity for many people who like to read. Many people have spent their lunch times at the library and af­
ter school to do some reading. Once we read a book, our score gradually got higher and higher. If we read one book, we got a £1.00 voucher. If we read another book, £1.00 goes to Children in Need On November 16th 2013, the day of Children in Need ar­
rived and the Year 7s gener­
osity switched on. Promises and deals began. The whole year group were determined to raise money and support the needy children. There were, perhaps, more than twenty opportunities to collect charity. Some books were really diffi­
cult but the books were varied for many different ages. As a class we read 366 books. This competition was money. Most of them definite­
ly required commitment to accom­
plish. A few of them were almost im­
possible — like being silent for the whole school day! Many people were worried about breaking their silence at the end of the day but they were surprised by the out­
come. The school held a non­
uniform day, but there was a mis­
chievous catch to it. We had to give £1 to come in non­uniform! Fantastic Times At Beal During my days at Beal High School, I have been interested in a lot of things but my favourite thing is Art Club. Art Club started on 18th November 2013. Many students have joined since. You can see some students wearing an art badge on their blazer — this tells you that they have joined In my opinion, I think the dedication Art Club. It takes place is on Mon­
that was put into raising money was day at 3:15 to 4:30 and on tremendous and I think the teachers Wednesday at 1:30 to 2:00. In Art would agree with me. After a week Club, the teacher gives you an of hard work as a year group, we opportunity to paint, draw or earned our well­deserved money. make something with clay. Stu­
We raised over £2,800, which we dents take pride in their drawings were extremely happy about. Even and paintings. Quote: ‘To be an though some people were quite dis­
artist you have to believe in life’. I consolate by how much they had hope I have collected, the participation and effort encouraged was what counted. you to join Daanyaal Kabir
Art Club as it is a really fun place to go to. Supreme Court Trip On Valentine's day February 14th 2014 Mr Hatton took a group of year 11s to the Supreme Court, they had a tour then worked with lawyers from the court and justic­
es to prepare for and run a de­
bate in the Supreme Court's larg­
est courtroom. Here are some comments from those involved; 'The trip was an amazing experience which gave me a true insight into the world of the Supreme Court.' ­Riddhi Gondhia 'The Supreme Court was a motivating and inspiring trip which has widened my ho­
rizons. It has been a once in a lifetime opportunity to work with profes­
sional lawyers, sit in the justice's seats, take on their roles and have our own debates on points of law.' ­Anoop Naran. London Youth Games boys and girls teams finished Well done to the year 7 boys in 1st place, which means our and girls teams and the year 8 pupils, are number one at in­
teams for making the final of the door athletics out of 100 London youth games indoor ath­ schools across the North East letics North East London Finals. London area, which is a re­
The teams were up against the markable achievement, con­
sidering some of those schools are also athletics specialist schools who are funded. The pupils won nearly all of their races and done just as well in their field events. The school best 7 schools in Barking and Dagenham, Havering, Newham, Waltham Forest, Hackney, Tow­
er Hamlets and Islington and the top two teams would qualify for the London finals in Crystal pal­
ace. The year 8 team, who had two key runners missing, fin­
ished in 7th place, but showed great effort and persistence with­
out their full squad. The year 7 is becoming known as a talent­
ed athletics school, which is down to the amazing students competing at these events. Well done to all those pupils Trainee PE teachers meet famous Athletes The NELTA PE trainees had an inspirational Subject Knowledge training day at Lee Valley Athletics Centre on Monday November 25th 2013. Lee Valley is the training ground for the GB Athletes and, as usual, several of them came over to discuss their training and careers with our group. All of them said they had become professional ath­
letes as a result of a PE teacher spotting their talent. We met Adam Gemilli, who is expected to become the new Usain Bolt as he is already achieving outstanding times for 100m. We also met Jodie Williams who is a gold medalist in the 100m and 200m run. To actually be involved with athletes training at this level is so inspirational and I speak for all 17 trainee teachers when I say that they had a fantastic experience. This will, of course, cascade into their secondary school athletics teaching. Sporting Stars Year 12 students Edvin Krukovskij and Waseem Qureshi give a short insight into the determination and commitment they have to Clubs I play/played for: *Buckhurst hill Cricket Club *Essex county cricket club *Wanstead cricket club *London schools cricket associ­
ation *Inner London *Redbridge at the London youth games *Metropolitan Essex district cricket board Why I like it: Waseem Qureshi *Teaches me to work as part of a team Where I want to go: *Lifelong passion “I would love to represent *Keeps me healthy the Essex first team and *Helps me relax hopefully England.” *Fun! Sporting Stars Achievements: * I was selected to represent Commitment now: Training six times a week! Borough of Newham to swim at 3 morning sessions – the London Youth Games since 5:30 ­ 7:00am 2010. 3 evening sessions – * In 2012, I was part of the relay varies team that won Silver at the Youth games. * I was selected to represent and swim for team Essex at the National County Team Champi­
onship 2012. *In May 2013, I was part of a 4x100 front crawl relay team that won the Essex Relays and are now the fastest relay team in Essex. * December 2013 – became the Edvin Krukovskij Where I hope to go: “I hope to go to a University with a strong swimming team and 200 front crawl swimmer in so that I can continue improv­
Essex. ing and hopefully start going *January 2014 – came 9th in the to national and international meets. One day, I hope to South East Zone of Britain. take part in the Olympics.” champion for 16 and under 100