April 2011 Full Copy - The Whitby High School

March 2011
The Whitby High School
See inside for;
Aim Higher STEM Day (Year 9)
Honda School of Dreams Day
Music BTEC ‘Live Lounge’
Star Drummer from Dire Straits
visits school (bottom photo, far right)
World Book Day Balloon Launch
New Mini-buses for school
The Seahorse Bulletin is written by the Student Newsteam - Layout and Editing by Mr Royden
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nd of all the musiFleet, and a combined ba
cians who played a stomping Blues finale.
It was an excellent evening in a
relaxing setting and
the high quality of musicianship
was impressive to all
who attended. Well
done to everyone involved!
Live Lounge - Music BTEC
sits Whitby and
Rock Star Drummer Vi
passes on a few tips!
z’s former
aits and Bob Dylan and Joan Bae
A FOUNDER member of Dire Str
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to
Merseyside talent
the local scene is at the moment.
en her husband died,” explains
wh
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p
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to
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rried, and our three grandchildr
ma
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her
up
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Pick. “She’d live
us to come up and lend a hand.”
settled here, so it made sense for
was
rking with local musicians and
wo
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sta
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low
fol
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tha
in the time
judge a battle
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a school, and they asked me to
at
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ple there were
impressed at their talent and ded
surprised at how many young peo
s
wa
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bu
ch,
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ect
exp
ds
t
of the bands. I went along, no
reasingly I was hearing about ban
inc
and
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tim
g
lon
a
for
ry
ust
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do the track
playing instruments. I’ve worke
nts and singers who wanted to
me
tru
ins
ir
the
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pla
to
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g
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who’d turn up to the studio no
air it so it sounded half decent.”
once and get the producer to rep
er at
Straits he was the house drumm
e
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ing
nd
fou
ore
bef
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ing
ence in record
Edmonds and Nick
Pick certainly has great experi
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Rockfield Studios in Wales, where
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t Whitby
producer, come along to our firs
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wif
his
and
k
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see
d to
the musicians and
Consequently we were so please
dents. He took time to speak to
stu
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BTE
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r
Yea
by
sed
ani
org
ts and tips.
VIP Live Lounge music evening
al tuition, passing on valuable hin
son
per
for
de
asi
wn
do
Ash
ie
even took drummer Oll
lared, “It’s so
of an excellent show, Pick dec
end
the
at
ce
ien
aud
and
s
ian
tching these young
Speaking to the gathered music
g up here and playing live. Wa
tin
get
s
ian
sic
mu
ng
you
nt
elle
are some
encouraging to see such exc
just do a dance routine. There
or
gs
son
ir
the
e
mim
to
nts
wa
everyone
people has shown me that not
e!”
We need to keep the music Liv
really talented musicians here.
ians
their time. Some of our music
ing
giv
and
ng
alo
ing
com
for
e
Pick and his wif
ents!
We agree, and our thanks go to
horse News for further developm
Sea
the
of
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issu
ure
fut
ck
che
future – so
may work with our guests in the
Progrediamur Moving Forward Together
Year 9 Aim Higher
An Aim Higher day was organised for pupils in
Year 9 to show them what it might be like to take
up Science or Engineering as a Career.
An organisation called The Smallpeice Trust came to school to
present a STEM day where students worked on projects
to make renewable energy.
The Smallpeice Trust has been going for over 40 years
and it is an independent educational charity that runs
hands-on Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths
(STEM) activities and exciting engineering courses for
pupils.
After taking part in an icebreaker activity, students were
split into small teams to design and make at project
which encouraged creative thinking.
The main project was designing, testing and refining
wind turbines. Throughout the day, the pupils were constantly learning, improving and putting into practice skills
such as mathematics, physics, budgeting, working to deadlines, project management, team working and enterprise
skills....
(continued on next page)
Photography by the Good Charlottes - Robinson/Freeman/Lenton (Year 10 Photography Class)
Year 9 Aim Higher STEM Day (continued)
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to build th
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ere
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pr
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fun
Daniel said, “It was
As we moved around
;
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of
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were comments mad
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and interesting and
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w
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Photo editing and layout by Year 10 Photography class - Charlotte Lenton, Charlotte Freeman, Sarah Parry
World Book Day - Balloon Launch!
dent
Special Balloon Correspon
orts,
Andrew Wood (Year 10) rep
on 3
A balloon launch was held
Book Day. This
March to celebrate World
7 to launch the
year it was the role of Year
inflated that mornballoons, which had been
rs under the direcing by a team of voluntee
O’Boyle, and stored
tion of co-ordinator Miss
top right). Everyin the C Annexe (pictured
Annexe ready for
one gathered around the
a countdown by
the 12.45pm launch. After
, dozens of balHeadteacher Mrs Hughes
e skies - apart
loons were released to th
lodged in a nearfrom a couple that became
as a determined
by tree. Pupils scattered
ward with a big
Mrs Hughes marched for
was only the stuck
stick, but to their relief it
ich was freed to a
balloon she was after, wh
loud cheer.
is a short message
Attached to each balloon
favourite book is
telling the finder what the
eased it. There
of the Year 7 pupil who rel
luded to enable
are also contact details inc
ow where the
the finder to let Whitby kn
prize awaits for
balloon has travelled to. (A
on – previous
the furthest travelling ballo
eden!). The
launches have reached Sw
y for charity. So,
event will also raise mone
olved, and to
many thanks to all those inv
the event.
Miss O’Boyle for organising
Progrediamur Moving Forward Together
Honda School of Dreams
The School of Dreams is a series of two-day Thinking
Skills Workshops for Key Stage 3 students. It has been develope
d by Honda
(UK) as a programme to help young people to unde
rstand the importance of pursuing their dreams, and teaches skills and
strategies to
help turn their ambitions into reality. The School
of Dreams also
helps students to discover different, creative and fun
ways to learn.
On Thursday and Friday 3rd-4th February a group of
gifted and talented Whitby High School students, plus pupils from
local primary
schools took part in the Honda School of Dreams
project. All the
events took place in the Overpool Hall, where arou
nd twenty
Whitby pupils from Years 7-9 took part. One of thos
e was
Megan O’Rourke from Year 7 who said, “Firstly we
formed a
large circle and began juggling and catching an incre
asing
number of juggling balls. I think this was to break
the ice and
get to know each other. After this we were taught
a Japanese phrase "Yume No Chikara", which means "See
one's dreams" or
“The power of dreams”. Following a short break we
then learned
about Daruma dolls. The doll had two blank eyes –
we had to make
up a dream we wanted achieve in ten years time, so
we coloured in
one eye – we are to colour in the other eye if the drea
m comes true.
After lunch until the end of the day we took part in
an Apache relay
race (with lots of challenges in between) and when
we finished we
had to shout "Yume No Chikara!".
On Friday we completed mind maps on what we had
achieved on day 1.
After lunch we started to look at problems that are
in the world today
and what can be done to solve them, for example bully
ing and animal
cruelty. We then had to make a poster on it, and desig
n some souvenirs
like key chains. We also had to include a silly idea to
stop our problem
and a sensible idea to solve our problem. At 2.30pm
parents arrived and
we made a presentation about our work. It was reall
y good time”.
Thanks Megan, sounds like a worthwhile experienc
e for all involved!
To find out more, visit the website: www.schoolofd
reams.co.uk
New Mini-Buses
for School
. The school took deliver
y of two new mini-buse
s in February, which hav
PE Department and oth
e been eagerly awaited
er staff who regularly
by the
take students out on ex
school has a very heavi
tr
acu
rricular activities. The
ly subscribed and highly
successful Duke of Edin
the two buses will be a
burgh’s Award program
great boost to their acti
me and
vities too. Duke of Ed C
Mr Simpson, told us th
o
-o
rd
inator,
at staff and students ar
e grateful for the support of the PTA and Sch
ool Management, as th
e new
mini-buses will enable
Whitby to deliver many
curricular and extra-cu
rricular activities that
were hitherto inaccess
ible to our students.
Editing and layout of the Seahorse Bulletin by Mr M.W.Royden