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The Leader 2015 Issue 11 • Summer 2015 e h T Leader Learning to Lead our Lives The Leader cellebrates the achiievements and experiiences of our students and chroniiclles the lliife of the schooll The Leader Issue 11 - Summer 2015 Student Design & Technology Work Charlotte Edge Bronwyn Crabtree John Hamilton Lauren Isaacs Caleb England James Hunt Jack Bishop William Morgan Joell Williams Amelia Ralphs Jake Davies Callum Wheatley Jonathan Hilton Luke Whiting David Watkins Maizie Morgan Will Meadmore Tom Buffin Will Fenn Robert Bowen 2 The Leader Issue 11 - Summer 2015 Welcome Contents 2 Student Design & Technology Work In 1977, J. Alderton, the Headteacher of Monmouth Secondary 3 Welcome School, wrote in the school “Celebration Magazine” about the 3 Editorial 4 A Year in the Life... opening of a new school on our current site and reflected: ”No one 6 Reflections on a busy year knows what the next 10 years or the next 25 will bring. We only 7 Student Art 8 Why would anyone row? know that there will be change and that change is life”. 12 Sporting Round-up 16 Clothes Show Live 2014 He also went on to write, “As one cycle 17 Literary Festival in the school’s life is completed 18 Summer Learning 2014 another begins, growing out of and 23 BBC Young Reporters’ Day drawing life from the experience of the 24 Ben Hopkins first and the contributions made by 25 The Duke of Edinburgh Award 26 April and September generations of teachers and pupils, 27 Three Peaks Challenge parents, governors and friends”. 28 Engineering Projects This edition of our school magazine 30 Charity Matters does exactly what Mr Alderton says, it 32 Ciaran Mann and the Army Cadets 33 Student Art draws together the threads of 34 Out of School Achievements experience at our school as we prepare 38 Mock Election at MCS over the next years to build a brand 39 A Capital Workplace new school. Mr Alderton’s words will 40 Sweet Success be with us all “there will be change 41 Learning with Friends and change is life” as shown in the 42 Belgium History Trip pages of ‘The Leader’. 44 MCS Eisteddfod 46 Behind the scenes of Sweeney Todd Vaughan Davies 47 Student Art Headteacher 2015 48 Musings at MCS 49 World Book Day 50 Greece Sports Tour 54 Madrid Football Tour 2015 56 Music at MCS 58 Ballad of Remembrance Editorial 59 Student Art 60 The Great ‘Eggsperiment’ 61 Eine reiche und erfu ̈llende Erahrung Time marches on, another year has passed and you have before 62 World Challenge Bolivia you the latest edition of The Leader. 67 Young Ambassadors 67 Fencing Academy 68 Monmouth’s Got Talent We have added a new destination to 70 Iceland Explored our repertoire this year – a group of 71 Sculpture Workshop our footballers visited Real Madrid over 72 5x60 / Academy Programme at MCS Easter and, I can quite honestly say, it’s 73 Restorative Award a long time since I encountered such 74 The Royal Marines excitement following a trip – from 76 Austria 2014-2015 both students and staff! Apparently, 78 Lower Sixth Interview Skills Workshop Gareth Bale drove straight past them, 79 Work Experience but I’m sure it wasn’t deliberate! 80 Notre Voyage Français! 81 French Debate As always, I send my thanks to our 81 Wolfstone Translation sponsors for their continued support 81 My experience at MCS of The Leader. Without their adverts, 82 Sports Literacy Competition we couldn’t produce The Leader and 85 Vocational 86 Living and Learning in a New School send it home for you all to read, free of 87 Student Design & Technology Work charge. 88 As I start... As I leave... Wendy Baker School Photography by Des Pugh, Editor Official School Photographer 3 The Leader Issue 11 - Summer 2015 A Year in the Life... Most important news first – no Luke Richards won Designer of the In December, our Y7 students ducklings! Year at the 2014 D & T Design Show transformed the Hall with their with a thoughtfully designed storage Christmas Fair and our Our Summer Showcase on 19 June unit for student accommodation. musicians took part in a brought to an end a fabulous year for This event is always visually concert at Dingestow Village the Department of Performing and stunning, displaying the exam work Hall and in the Monmouth Expressive Arts closely followed by of our talented students. Candlelit Procession. Reindeers Summer Learning Week and the appeared at the school, inaugural Monmouth Children’s Our Peer Mentors received their encouraging two strange Literary Festival. training and certificates during July elves to appear for a photo and our trips went out to The school welcomed authors and opportunity! Llangrannog (see page 45), Belgium poets to perform in the Summer and the Battlefields (see page 42) The pantomime trip, annual Marquee, entertaining students from and France (see page 80). Carol Service and Christmas MCS, HMSG and Monmouth lunch rounded off the term School. World Challenge set out for Bolivia and Y12 Physics students Lara in the summer, details and photos of Summer Learning saw our students Gordon and Megan Kinniment- which may be see on pages 62-66. ranging far and wide, working in Williams proved that Father It looks to have been a most amazing school and, in a voluntary capacity, Christmas really does exist for our experience for all involved. out in the community. Details may Christmas Newsletter -something be found on page 18. Awards Evening brought a change of we were all very glad to hear. pace this year as Savage Skills We also welcomed Greg Woods from The annual Ski Trip went out just bounced around the Sports Hall on the WRU who presented the school after Christmas, with skiers and their mountain bikes in a stunning show with the WRU Schools for Rugby snowboarders having a fantastic time of strength and agility, emphasising Award. We were delighted to see (see page 76). to all there that hard work and some faces from the past for the dedication certainly pays off. presentation - John Phillips, John Evans, Stuart Baber and January saw rehearsals steam ahead for Sweeney Todd, and without Jon Osborne - who have interruption from floods or heavy MCS student Felix Hales co- all supported rugby at MCS over the snow this year (although high winds composed a remembrance song, in years. did bring down the marquee!). Our tribute to the Bosley Brothers from Faculty of Performing and Expressive Our new intake visited us during the the Monmouthshire Regiment, Arts took the audience by storm with first week of July for Welcome to which was played on Radio Wales some stunning performances from Wales, their taster days and their on Friday 7 November. Felix’s the cast (see page 46 for more Welcome Disco, warming up ready thoughts on this, along with lyrics, details). for September. may be found on page 58. 4 The Leader Issue 11 - Summer 2015 Twitter erupted with a deluge of well to hear that Josie had won that year but we are more than happy to deserved praise and audience Section, achieving over 200 more increase this figure – please follow us members bravely purchased ‘likes’ than the second placed entry on @LearnWithMCS to catch up on (see page 36) and winning the events at the school. pies during the interval (it’s ok, they came from Marks & school a glass kiln from Spencer and Wigmores not Mrs Warm Glass UK. Lovett’s Pie Shop!!). Later in Our students took part in a Mock January we were delighted to General Election in May and, as we welcome The Band of Her Majesty’s go to press, Commando Training Centre Royal our winning Marines. It was a fantastic day for party is The students and staff, culminating in a Purple Party thoroughly enjoyable concert in the (see page 38 Sports Hall (see page 74). for more Our Geography/Geology students details of the visited Iceland in February (see page campaign). 70). Our Charity March saw us gazing to the skies Committee (safely, of course) as we viewed the has, as usual, partial eclipse, an exciting moment risen to the for those studying astronomy. challenge of fundraising at Easter trips included the Sports tour the school (see to Greece (see pages 50-53), the pages 30-31), Humanities trip to Munich (see page coming up 61) and the football trip to Real with a variety Madrid (see page 54). Tweets were of events for flying thick and fast as students had the students a wonderful time on all three trips. and staff to Josie Harrison, one of our Y8 take part in. students, entered the Glass Prize Our Twitter 2015 – School Section – with her followers have ‘Sword of Agincourt’. increased to Following a flurry of website and over 1,000 this Twitter activity, we were delighted 5 The Leader Issue 11 - Summer 2015 Reflections on a busy year Emily Pardington Head Girl Michael Ellis Head Boy I'm told that all good things must come to an end and it This year has been the busiest year of my life, but also the certainly feels like that's the case as my time as Head Girl one I am most proud of. An exciting journey that I hadn’t reaches its conclusion. It's hard to believe that it's over a envisaged and one that has been totally breathless. We year since I was putting my presentation together, will all question our legacy and I do quite a lot - have I brushing up on my speech and standing with all the other made a difference? Have I really inspired younger nervous candidates waiting for my chance to speak to the generations? Were my speeches actually any good? The School Council.
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