year 12 visit to cern year 12 visit to cern

July 2012
Issue 4
YEAR 12
VISIT TO
CERN
Also inside:
Headteacher’s comments
Action in Art - it’s been a busy term!
Developing a taste for technology
Latest sports results
A note from the Headteacher .....
Welcome to our last High News of 2011 – 2012: I know many of you have
already started to keep particular copies (as you collected the previous ‘glossy’
newsletter) which include your children, as a souvenir of their achievements
and participation at Wilmslow High School.
As I write this introduction all our students have just completed ‘Olympic Week’
during which we focused on the Olympic and Paralympic values of ‘friendship,
respect, excellence, determination, inspiration, courage and equality’: these
values resonate very well with the ‘Wilmslow Way’.
It was a pleasure to see our Year 7 students enjoying a residential at Colomendy; Year 8 and 9 students
walking to Alderley Edge supported by staff and Year 12 students; students from all years displaying their
art work or singing at our arts showcase evening; Year 9 students being challenged in our version of ‘The
Apprentice’ and enjoying activities at Manley Mere; Year 7 students visiting Blackburn Rovers and Year
8 students visiting Quarry Bank Mill in Styal to consider their impact on the respective communities;
Year 9 students preparing their speeches for the final of the Public Speaking Competition and Year 10
completing their work experience; just to name a few of the activities! A week in the life of Wilmslow
High School with much evidence to show that the values highlighted above are part of everyday life at
the high school.
During this year particular highlights have been our productions of ‘The Crucible’ and ‘Oliver’ and
several arts showcases (art, music, drama and dance); county, regional and national sporting success in
trampolining, tennis, netball, hockey, badminton, football (girls and boys) and rugby; our many charity
events including the annual fashion show in support, this year, of CLIC Sargent, Sports Relief, Children in
Need, Air Ambulance and the ongoing ‘50p Shop’ in support of Fairtrade; educational visits to the theatre
and art galleries, Savio House in Bollington for RS students to reflect, London for our law and business
studies students, Moscow and St Petersburg as well as Hampton Court for our history students, Paris for
design and technology students, France, Spain and Germany for modern foreign languages students, Cern
for physics students and many, many more. We felt our sense of community particularly as we pulled
together, staff and students, when we sadly lost one of our students this year.
It is hard to believe it is over a year now since we got our ‘outstanding’ Ofsted inspection report: it was a
moment to enjoy and celebrate but we are never complacent and continue to strive for further improvement
in all that we do at the high school. When much is changing on the national stage in education, including
even tougher Ofsted inspections, we need to remember the importance of what education is really about:
providing opportunities for young people to discover and develop their skills and talents, to enable them to
be happy in school to achieve of their best, to ensure we all maintain the values and attitudes, standards
and expectations, culture and ethos that we see as the bedrock of Wilmslow High School. This is all in an
everyday commitment to mutual respect and everyone being of equal value within our school and wider
community.
2011 – 2012, a busy, fulfilling and successful year for which I would like to thank the staff, without whom
all that we achieve would not be possible, our students who make it all worthwhile and you, our parents,
for your support.
May I, on behalf of everyone at the High School, wish you a pleasant summer: I look forward to another
exciting, challenging and enjoyable year for us all in 2012-2013.
Mrs G Bremner
Headteacher
FROM READING STARS TO FOOTBALL STARS
This term, students in Year 8 and 9 have taken part in the Premier League Reading Stars Scheme.
This scheme motivates young people to read for pleasure using their enthusiasm for football and
the high profile of the Premier League. Students are inspired to engage with reading, helping to
improve their literacy skills across the curriculum. Joe Potter 8TCH, Josh Hulme 8BJM, Harry
Madeley 8HML and Adam Rowark 9TTS all successfully completed the scheme and were
rewarded with a visit to Manchester United’s Old Trafford Stadium.
The LRC and English Team would
like to congratulate the following
readers who have surpassed all
expectations with their reading
this year. This amazing group of
young people have together read
an incredible 264,000 pages! The
students are:
Alasdair Fyfe
Fiona Christie
Jonathan Shaw
Emily Hamilton
Isobel Coyle
Alice Hutton
Charlie Benton
Elliot Wilson
Josh Woodhouse
7BJD
7BLD
7BLD
7BLD
7BLD
7BSA
7HAM
7HKI
7BSD
Katie O’Neill
Callum McGinty
Isobel Coyle
Reece Towell
Callum Smith
Ellie Cook
Nathan Forrest
Charlotte Foster
Jamie Mason
7HAM
7HAM
7BLD
8HML
8TLG
8TAH
8NMD
8NMD
8HML
Tom Nolan
7NAB
Matt Brickhill
8NMB
Amy Wilmer
7NAB
Chloe Wilkinson
8NMD
Imogen Greig
Amy Colledge
Niklas Edler
7NAB
7TAG
7TAG
Jonathan O’Malley
Carter Hamand
Emily Hughes
8BCB
8TAH
8HJM
Luke Starkey
Isabel Truman
Grace Winterbottom
Rhiannon Wallace
Caitlin West
7TAG
7TAG
7NLL
7NLL
7NKI
Sophie Kraunsoe
Rhys Phillips
Josh Hulme
Oliver Conyers
Becky Medcalf
8NMD
8HML
8BJM
8BJM
8BJM
SUCCESS FOR ANNA!
Anna Perry, Year 9, receives her
certificate of merit from Dr Pullé
for Round Two of the UK Junior
Maths Challenge. Out of 200,000
students from 3,000 schools, who
took part in Round One, Anna
finished in the top 1.5%
A MAGNIFICENT ACHIEVEMENT!
Year 12 Theatre studies
students took part in
a workshop designed
to
enable
them
to
appreciate the options
within
performing
arts available to them
in
Higher
Education. The
workshop
was
led by a former WHS
student,
Ben
LyonRoss, who graduated
from the Central School of Speech and Drama
in London. Students were offered guidance on a
range of degrees, from more classic acting courses
through to directing and technical theatre design. Opportunities such as this are important for students
at this stage of their school career as they move
towards making significant decisions with regard
to their future studies. The students enjoyed the
workshop and were given a fantastic insight into the
abundance of opportunities available to them after
A level study.
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Wilmslow High School planned, organised and again
played host to an exciting celebration of culture and
creativity. The third annual art exhibition has grown
substantially following the success of the previous
two years.
Since January, GCSE and A Level students have been working on
the art projects on display. The opening night, on Monday 25th June, was well
attended as proud students accompanied their parents who sampled canapés and
indulged in a glass of wine, while delighting in the visual extravaganza. Music
was provided by six brave students who performed snippets from The Musical
Theatre Showcase, accompanied by Mr Bramhall on piano. Meanwhile, sixth
form students transformed the drama block into a performance space and
Year 12’s powerful rendition of ‘Pool, (No Water)’ made this, again, a night to
remember.
Making a Good Impression ......
Students in Years 8 and 9 have been exploring the techniques of the Post Impressionist master, Paul Cezanne, in
Arts Xtra this term. They have been developing their use of impasto
painting, allowing their brush marks to reflect light and dark tone. Post
Impressionism relied on breaking down objects into simplistic shapes
with an unnatural celebration of colour; it is said to be the forerunner for
Pablo Picasso’s Cubist Movement. Paul Cezanne is often referred to as
the grandfather of ‘modern’
painting. It is hoped that this
insight into technical painting
will allow students an easier
transition into studying art at
GCSE and will enhance the
skills that have been taught in
the classroom this year.
“One is rather amused.......”
Mrs White and Mr Hayley, with students from all year groups, showed their
creative flair and imagination by creating a scarecrow for the Wilmslow
Festival. Endless newspapers, paint, glue, garments and straw were
combined to make the ‘Queen’. Complete with her throne and corgi
dog and still overwhelmed by her Diamond Jubilee celebrations, she
made time in her busy schedule to reside at her northern residence of
Hoopers.
The art team collaborated with the technology team on a residential
visit to the great city of Rome. Mrs
Bennett and Mr Daniels took 14 Year 12
art and design students to experience one
of the most beautiful cities
in the world. During their
stay students visited The
National Gallery of Modern
Art and Borghese Gallery,
the Colosseum, the Trevi
Fountain and the Vatican City.
The visit enabled students to
engage with a variety of art
and culture which included
masterpieces by Caravaggio,
ancient Roman sculptures and the more
contemporary works by Klimt and Modigliani.
ROME
2012
The Art Team
IAN
MURPHY
welcomed Wigan
WORKSHOP based artist,
Ian Murphy, to
work with Year 12/13 students on mixed
media drawing techniques, in preparation
for their Rome visit. Ian, who has lived,
worked and exhibited across the world and
has experienced the beauty of Italy, delivered
a very engaging workshop. Once again this
workshop proved to be another enriching
experience for the Year 12 and 13 students
and will certainly give them practical skills
and ideas for the future.
From Urban
art
The Year
12
cohort
enjoyed a Manchester
art experience during
the
summer
term. Although Manchester
is only 20 minutes away
and many of the students
already visit the city
on a regular basis, it was
intended to offer them a new
perspective on this creative,
urban sprawl. The weather in
the morning provided a typically Mancunian bleak,
grey, monochromatic backdrop but it soon brightened
as the students’ creative ideas took root. The visit started with a photoshoot of New Wakefield
Street under the Oxford Road train station viaduct,
home to ‘Eurocultural Street Festival’. The landscape
here is a fusion of graffiti murals, each showcasing a
different street artist to the backdrop of trendy bars The
Font, Subspace, and The Thirsty Scholar. We journeyed
onward to the Whitworth Gallery to see the
vibrant exhibition, We Face Forward, a
colourful homage to West African culture
that breaks down the misconceptions of
traditional African art. This exhibition is
part of a city-wide celebration of African
culture and we visited the second part of the
exhibition at The Manchester Art Gallery. Also exhibiting at Manchester Art Gallery
was a breathtaking and thought-provoking
assemblage of mundane analogue
technology by artist Haroon Mirza, that,
when electronically linked together, formed a sensory
experience based on sight and sound. The assemblage
relied on relic items such
as a Casio keyboard, a
water pump and hose,
speakers and fairy lights
to create a haphazard
musical
symphony
which complemented a
sinister poetry reading
on a large video screen.
This gave our students a
greater understanding of
conceptual art forms. Our next stop took us to a cultural
photoshoot in Chinatown and a
quick pit stop at the legendary
Ho’s Bakery for refreshments
before we made our way to the
University of Salford, Level 6, end
of year show. This show allowed students to see art
education in a wider context, encouraging them to
think about their own future and also provided a more
contemporary viewpoint of art in modern times.
The visit allowed our students the opportunity to gather
research material including photography and
artist research and to collate their thoughts
for the critical and contextual ‘Unit Three’
module of their
A Level. In this module students must
create in-depth explorations of an artist’s
work and generate a project based on a
theme of their choice alongside a written
element that informs their thinking and
creativity. To
Chinese
Culture
The Year 9 students have been busy producing self portraits
for the national ‘Face Britain’ project during the Spring term.
These have been uploaded on to the Face Britain website and
have become part of a world record attempt for the most artists
working on the same installation. The work of many thousands of
children aged 4-16 was projected on to the walls of Buckingham
Palace on 19th-21st April and formed a special montage image
of the Queen as a run up to her Diamond Jubilee. The image has
also been shown in Exchange Square, Manchester and displayed
on over 400 JCDecaux digital advertising screens in other city
centres, shopping centres and train stations across the UK, as
well as on the national network of BBC Big Screens/Olympic Live Sites.
Parents can log on to the website and view the individual works and even buy merchandise decorated with the self
portrait. If you are interested in having a look at the work, please check the website www.facebritain.org.uk
DESIGN
SHOPPING BAGS
ANYONE?
This term design and
technology launched
a competition to
design a logo or
decorative image
Lara Oliver
which could be printed
on a shopping bag to
Emily Smith and Jun Zhu
commemorate the Queen’s Diamond
with their designs
Jubilee. After receiving many
excellent designs, including sketches
of the Queen, corgi dogs and of course lots of diamonds, the
competition winners were selected from a
shortlist of runners-up. Well done to Lara
Oliver in 7BSD, Grace Georgas in 8HML,
Emily Smith in 9BKN and Jun Zhu in
10BFB. They each received their winning
design printed on to a shopping bag to use
Grace Georgas
for celebrating the event.
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A selection of work from
our AS textiles students
WORKING TO A HIGHER
LEVEL
A Level textiles students have been quietly
getting on with their studies, following a
different examination board this year.
The OCR course consists of 2 elements,
both practical, which the students have
thoroughly enjoyed.
The Year 12s commented “We have enjoyed
the freedom of the course, creating visual
and tactile textile pieces, both in garments
and installation work. Our ‘workshop’ style
of lesson has really opened up the way
we work and helped us explore different
techniques and construction methods”
All of the students on the course are hoping
to pursue a career in the arts, including
costume design for theatre, marketing and
fashion, illustration on printed textiles and
fashion communication. Students will be
applying for university places very soon
and looking forward to getting stuck into
their Year 13 coursework.
design and technology in various forms
throughout the park, while some of the other
students looked at the various structures
“Visiting Disneyland Paris was an incredible
and mechanisms used on the rides. The
experience and everyone who went enjoyed it.”
textiles and food technology students looked
Thirty-two Year 10 Wilmslow High School students
at costume design and the various foods that
embarked on a cross-channel visit to Disneyland
were available from the mass catering facilities. After
Paris. The party consisted of students from all design
all our hard work we enjoyed watching the evening
and technology GCSE courses, including food, textiles, display at the Disney castle. It began at 11pm when
resistant materials, product design and systems
all the lights around us were turned off, apart from
and control. The schedule was very tight and there
a few distant spotlights beamed towards the castle.
wasn’t much time for rest and relaxation as students
What followed for the next 20 minutes was amazing;
were set research and design tasks based on their
fireworks, lasers and many other cool lighting effects.
experiences within the park.
It was a brilliant end to an exhausting visit.
Over the two days of our visit we worked on
Overall, Disneyland was, without a doubt, the best
completing our design and technology activity
school visit that we have been on! ” booklets. We looked in detail at the effects of
Jay Didcott 10TKK
DEVELOPING
A TASTE FOR TECHNOLOGY
Our Year 9 students have been following a course of their choice in design and
technology over the last two terms to help them gain a better understanding of
the level of challenge and subject knowledge
before GCSE level. We have been very impressed
by the quality and creativity shown in some of the
final outcomes which reflect the hard work and
engagement demonstrated during the last term.
In all subject areas the students follow the
design process and conduct research using
various methods looking at artists, designers
and existing work. They then produced a
number of designs and developed one into a final
design, just as they would at GCSE.
In food technology students have been focusing on celebrations and making a range of
party food including savoury galettes, cupcakes and a
decorated sponge cake (featured in the last edition
of High News).
Product design students have been planning and
creating innovative packaging for a perfume
bottle, an ergonomically designed footstool and an
iPod speaker unit using electronics.
In textiles technology students have worked on a
T-shirt design, not only decorating a T-shirt but
make it from scratch, using dye techniques,
different forms of decoration and also gaining
an understanding of ethical consideration surrounding the industry including
Fairtrade. Our students have also been encouraged to enter the Wilmslow Show
competitions for handicrafts: T-shirt decoration section.
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Nicholas Thomson of 9BHW
was the lucky winner of the recent
attendance competition. The
impressive mountain bike was
presented by Mrs Bremner and
Mr Green from Rick Green Cycles
Handforth. To enter the draw 100%
attendance was necessary from 20th
February till 25th May.
Congratulations, Nicholas!
ATTENDANCe
COMPETITION ReSULTS...
There is always a lot going on in science but Wilmslow High
School’s wonderful world of science has been exceptionally
busy recently with lots of interesting visits and activities.
It was National Science and Engineering week in March and there
was plenty going on. Miss Raven and her Eureka Club along with
Mrs Mason and Dr Hopkins, helped organise a whole host of
exciting activities, which you can read more about below.
Miss Harrison took a small team of crack chemists to participate
in Chem Quiz 2012. They took part in lots of chemistry based
activities and managed to come back with a prize for winning the Chemistry Sudoku Competition.
The psychology team took a number of sixth form students to an interesting lecture run by the Manchester
Literacy and Philosophical Society. The lecture was about a rare disorder known as synaesthesia, in which
sensory experiences ‘overlap’, resulting in the people with the condition ‘tasting’ colours, for example. Guest
speakers have also come into school to talk to our psychology students on a range of topics.
Dr Hopkins has also just taken some of our budding Year 8 scientists along to the medical school at the
University of Manchester to take part in the ‘Science Stars’ Open Day where they all had a ‘scientastic’ time.
If students are interested in science and would like to get more involved, they should pop along to Miss
Raven’s science club ‘Eureka’. It runs every Tuesday after school and is open to everyone.
Mr Morgan
mad SCIENCE
National Science and
Engineering week at
Wilmslow High School
was filled to the brim with
exciting activities which
allowed students to explore
new elements of science
outside the curriculum
and, most importantly, to
have fun experimenting with science!
The ‘Eureka Extravaganza’ was
a great afternoon both for the
students in Years 7, 8 and 9,
but also for the sixth form
students and staff involved
in running the Eureka Club.
Rat and eye dissections, ice
cream making and hydrogen
bubble experiments are
just a few of the activities which were carried out at
the ‘Extravaganza’, which proved to be a lot of fun
for everyone involved! Tom Jefferis, 8BJM, told us
“The Eureka Extravaganza was
loads of fun; the ice cream
making was really cool and I
particularly enjoyed watching
the dissections. I’ve never
seen anything like that
before!” Year 7 classes had
the opportunity to create balloon
rockets in their lessons,
which, although a bit tricky
to begin with, were very
successful! Anna Mulroy,
7HAM, said “Making the
rocket balloons was
great and we all
really enjoyed
racing them to see
whose was the fastest!” Year 8
classes carried out research
on the skeleton, exploring
the framework of the
body through making
their own skeleton
models, which they all
thoroughly enjoyed. A
science quiz also took
place in the LRC, in
which many students got involved, exercising their
scientific knowledge and competing against their
peers. All in all, National Science and Engineering
week was a great success, seeing
involvement from a wide
spectrum of year groups, all
of whom engaged fully in the
range of activities available
and above all had loads of
fun!
The Large Hadron Collider: it was smashing!
15th June: exams are over, the sun is shining (just) and the Year 12 physics visit to Geneva departs
without a hitch. Organised by Mr Morgan, Mr Egan, Mrs Farrow and Miss Raven, the visit was set to be a
roaring success; after all, this was the second time the trip had run so the teachers knew exactly what
they were doing...
Arriving on Thursday evening it was ‘check in and relax’ ready for CERN, the highlight of the visit the following day.
Bright-eyed and wide awake the procession of physicists made its way across Geneva to CERN. After
photographs of the group sitting on a model part of the Large Hadron Collider had been taken, we visited
the ‘Universe of Particles’ exhibition at The Globe. The futuristic style museum interactively taught
us about the mysteries of the universe and answered questions such as “What
happened just after the Big Bang?”, “Where is all the antimatter?”, “What is the
space between stars?” From there, we visited the Microcosm exhibition which
explained the secrets of ‘the infinitely large to the infinitesimally small’, Bosons to
the Big Bang and why it is necessary to use a 27km collider to find the now not so
elusive Higgs Boson.
After a fantastic lunch in CERN’s answer to High Options, it was time for the
main event: the tour of the CERN facility! Walking through the corridors past the
offices which homed some of the most intelligent minds in the world, looking at
the blackboards covered in complex equations,
gave tangibility to the fact that we were in
the place that is at the forefront of scientific
discovery. The first stop was across the border
at the computer centre in France, where all the
data from the Large Hadron Collider (LHC)
is processed. We were told about ‘The Grid’
which is the worldwide connection that
Jack Johnson seemed
CERN has to member states of the facility, where
to
be contemplating the
information from CERN experiments is stored and
meaning of life while
can be accessed globally for use in other research. looking at some of the
exhibits at CERN.
Crossing back over into Switzerland, we had a
tour around the LEIR- Low Energy Ion Ring (low
energy as the ions only reached 30% of the speed
of light!). This is where experiments to find super symmetric particles
or ‘dark matter’ take place. It is also the starting point for the particles
where they are accelerated before being sent into the LHC. Having
completed the AS Physics course, we had an understanding of the
basics of the process which meant it was possible to comprehend what
was being explained. The tour also gave us real world context to what
we had learnt in the classroom.
The next day was a break from the hard core physics with a bicycle
ride along Lake Geneva. We stopped off at the Jet d’Eau where we
walked underneath the 140m high fountain: safe to say some of us
got a little wet! We dried off, returned the bikes and got a boat to the Geneva
We all got a little wet when
Plage for an opportunity to play volleyball, relax by the pool and soak up the
visiting Geneva’s famous fountain
Swiss sun. That evening was bowling and an opportunity to get to know all the
Jet d’Eau
members of the group even better and to beat Mr Egan at yet more things. We
went to bed that evening feeling a little sad that we were going home the next day.
The day of departure was upon us but we weren’t going to sit about doing nothing. It was off to the History of
Science Museum for us. Situated on the lakefront, we spent the morning visiting the exhibitions and relaxing on
the grass by the lake. It was a great end to the best school visit I’ve ever been on.
Mike Roe
Wilmslow High meet the
Dragons at Manchester’s
MediaCityUK ......
On Tuesday 1st May four Wilmslow High School
hearing impaired students along with three
students from Lindow Primary School took a train
to Manchester where they visited MediaCityUK.
Olivia Rowcliffe, Imogen
Enright, Caitlin Blomfield and Sam Gillies
tell us all about their fantastic day.
We took the train to Manchester and then a
tram to MediaCityUK where we had a delicious
lunch at Prezzo Italian restaurant! Afterwards
we met Peter Jones, Deborah Meaden and
Theo Paphitis from ‘Dragons Den’ and Miss
Bancroft persuaded them to invest some of their
time in a photograph! Deborah Meaden made
us laugh when she pointed to Caitlin and said,
“I’ll be waiting for you to take my chair in the
Den!”
Hot on the heels of the ‘Dragons’, we entered
the BBC’s lair and met our tour guides. We
were taught about acoustics in the BBC
Philharmonic Orchestra’s studio, although
actually, we could have taught them a thing
or two! After this we hurried excitedly to the
CBBC studio where Caitlin and Olivia wowed
us with their presenting skills and Caitlin and
Sam became Diddy Dick and Dom puppets
and put on a very funny show! Next, we visited
the Blue Peter studio, where we discovered,
amongst other things, that any Blue
Peter guests have to wait in a
small cupboard-like room for
5 minutes before going on the
show for their interview. They
disguise the cupboard for the
cameras with smoke and lights!
In the BBC News room
we were
shown how
the news was
put together
before we
had the
chance to
experience
the interactive
studio. Miss Bancroft and
Chloe bravely read the news whilst
Mrs Lucas flabbergasted us with her weather
broadcast.
Unfortunately, it was then time to leave and we
dashed through the rain, clutching our BBC
goodies, to catch the tram home.
Thank you to our wonderful teachers for a
brilliant day!
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Mrs Coffey would like to say a massive ‘thank you’ to the English Ambassadors. They have been
incredibly busy this year and a delight to work with. They have participated in a school swap
with Abraham Moss School, written articles for the BBC School Report Day (below), attended the
Olympic torch event at Tatton Park and conducted interviews with the torch bearer using BBC
equipment, organised the Olympic Reading Relay, designed the promotional posters and made the
torch. They also led part of an asssembly and filmed and photographed throughout the Wilmslow
Olympic Week. They will soon receive their Bronze Award for their participation in this event.
REPORTING ON
THE REPORTERS
On the 15th March,
at
Wilmslow
High
School, an intrepid
team of budding young
journalists, led by Mr
Spence and Mrs Coffey,
joined schools from
across the country to have a
chance to write and upload an
article on to the BBC website.
The day started with most of
the journalists scanning the
newspapers for eye-catching
headlines
before
settling
down at a computer to type
out their story. Everyone felt
the pressure of the 2 o’clock
deadline and worked very hard
in order to meet this, with the
reporters only taking 5- 10
minute breaks during the day.
For the first couple of periods
people were busy interviewing
students and staff so that they
could include statistics and
quotes in their articles. For the
last few periods everyone was
busy typing up the articles so
that they could upload them.
As a result of all the hard
work, everyone managed to
submit their articles before the
deadline, some cutting it very
fine!
Some of the articles included
stories such as the rise in
university charges, the 100 th
anniversary of the Titanic
disaster and the dangers of
being a war correspondent,
written by young journalists
Sophie Kraunsoe and Emily
Hughes,
who
commented
that the day was “a fantastic
experience”. Another article
gave details of a school swap
with Abraham Moss High
School, in which six Year 8
students - Josh Sullivan, Oliver
Since the start of this year The 50p Shop has raised
over £1000 for lots of different charities. Every Friday
lunchtime, we sell a range of confectionery products,
many of them ‘Fairtrade’ labelled. This year we have
also branched out to stationery, since December,
Students have been able to buy the ‘50p Shop Charity
Pen’, sales of which have helped raise money for
people (and animals) less fortunate than ourselves in
the UK and worldwide. If any students are interested
in becoming involved, please see Mr Walker in the
geography corridor for an application form.
Matthew Butler, Year 10, 50p Shop Manager.
Buxton, Becky Medcalf,
Amber Wood, Emily Hughes
and Sophie Kraunsoe, had
all participated.
After the frantic rush to
upload everyone’s articles by
2 o’clock, period 6 was a time
to relax and read some real
newspapers. Finally, to finish
the day, Mrs Bremner arrived
and handed out certificates to
all the students, even awarding
a few special badges to students
who had worked exceptionally
hard.
Overall, the day was a great
success for all students and
teachers involved and exposed
a lot of promising journalistic
talent! Who knows, maybe next
year this could be you?
If you would like to read the
articles submitted by Wilmslow
High School, please use this
link: http://www.w ilmslowhigh.
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Sophie Kraunsoe and Emily
Hughes
UL T
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Wi l m s l ow
Year 13 student Joshua Kinder took time out
from completing his studies and preparing for the
forthcoming U19 European Lacrosse
Championships in Finland by completing
a stage in the Olympic Torch
O
R
relay which was a real honour
U
S
for him and the school.
R
WE’RE ON THE W
AY TO A WIN
JOSH CARRIES THE LIGHT!
The junior cricket teams have played some
very competitive fixtures this term (once
again disrupted by the British summer!) with the U15
team producing the most impressive performances
(including an unbeaten 90 for captain James Drummond)
on the way to reaching the Cheshire Cup 20/20 finals
day. The U15s will play Kings Macclesfield in the semifinals and then either St Anselms or Sandbach in a final
or a 3rd and 4th place play-off on the same day. The 1st
XI have had an impressive season, beating Stockport
GS, Kings Macclesfield, Grange School, Huddersfield
College Cricket Academy and Myerscough College.
BTEC
SPORTS
AWARDS
EVENING
N D UP
High
sport
Winning means you’re willing to go longer, work harder and give
more than anyone else. - Vince Lombardi
ATHLETICS SUCCESS EVEN IN THE RAIN!
The athletics teams have been hard hit by the poor weather this
term but over 50 students attended the Macclesfield and District
Championships in May. From those that represented the school,
the following students went on to represent the district at the
county trials later in the month. The students were: Isabelle
Reynolds-Duffy (100m), Harvey Harlow (200m), Eve Gibson
(800m), Belal Ahmad (Triple Jump), Tom Morgan (Javelin),
Natalie Mitchell (800m), Joe Swindells (100m), Callum
Atkinson (High Jump), Kevin Acton (1500m), Aiden Westaway
(Javelin), Harris Jones (Long Jump), Harry Williams (High
Jump) and Haruka Okishio (Discus). Three students (Isabelle,
Belal and Harvey) were successful at this trial and went on to
represent Cheshire.
On Tuesday June 12th a BTEC awards evening was held
to celebrate and acknowledge the significant contribution
the students have made this year, both during their lessons
and in their work with the Year 7 students in PE, science
and English lessons and at primary school festivals and
with the sport support they offer to our younger students
at lunchtime.
Congratulations to the following students who gained
awards Sam Broster, Jordan Derricott, Lewis Gallagher,
Matt Burgess, Jess Finney, Jonathan Upton, George
Gibson-Smith, Daniel Williams, Heather Entwistle,
Philippa Gregory, Sean Sivewright, Robert Taylor,
Jonathan Tranter, Flinn Ginder-Poulsen, Jessica Hallworth,
Wilf Noden and Daniel Wright.
ANYONE FOR TENNIS?
During the course of the year we have had much success
with the tennis teams. The U19 boys team reached the
semi-finals of the senior students championships and
fought through several rounds of the National Glanvil
Cup competition. The U19 girls won the senior students
competition and became National Champions! More
recently Sean Sivewright and Kieran Cronin became
British Schools Northern Champions!
At a younger level the main success has been the U15
girls Aegon team, all from Year 9, who reached the
Cheshire County final of this competition. The inclement
summer weather has resulted in many friendly fixtures
being cancelled although most players have had the
opportunity to play in some matches. Year 7 and 8 girls
and boys have all competed in Macclesfield tournaments,
with the Year 7 girls gaining 1st place.
Wilmslow Olympic Week was a huge success with students from Years 7 - 9 and 12 all completing
activities based around the Olympic and Paralympic values. These activities included Colomendy, Arts
Carousel, Manley Mere, Blackburn Rovers and Quarry Bank Mill. All students would agree that they
enjoyed the week, whilst learning a true set of values to live their lives by, the Olympic and Paralympic
values, and the Wilmslow Way. Friendship, Respect, Excellence, Determination, Inspiration, Courage and Equality were
clearly evident during the year group
Fun Olympics on Friday afternoon.
The winners were: Year 7 - Tanzania
(H7AM), Year 8 - Jamaica (H8JM),
Year 9 - Spain (H9EF) and Year 12
- Harefield, completing a full set of
results for Mr Fox!
WILMSLOW
OLYMPIC WEEK