Weekly Bulletin: Friday 3 May 2019
Title 2019 Gloucestershire Young Pho- Archie Thornton also picked up an award from the tographer of the Year Mayor of Cheltenham for his photograph of Gloucester Cathedral cloisters (featured in the last On Thursday 2nd May CHS students attended the newsletter). Archie was also snapped wearing the annual GYP exhibition and awards ceremony at the mayor’s chains of office - careful with that bling, Chapel Arts Centre, Cheltenham. Work was Archie! exhibited by Lauren Lee, Max Pyrka, Theo Bridges, Zara Wade-Savage, Maya Davies, Archie Thornton You can see from the photographs how much the Important Dates and Ben Roddis. students enjoyed displaying and talking about their work. It was an absolute privilege to see our students’ May Special Congratulations to both skills recognised; the future of photography at Archie Thornton with his ‘Cathedral Cloisters’ shot Chosen Hill and in Gloucestershire is in safe hands. 10 GCSE Public Examination Start and Max Pyrka whose ‘Heron’ photograph, were awarded ‘Highly Commended’ status 16 Trinity Arts Theatre Trip - Oxford by the judges and were joint 4th place in Gloucestershire. Below are some of the photos 21 Institute of Engineering STEM Challenge exhibited. Day for Y8 If you would like to see these photos they will be on display in an exhibition at the Chapel Arts Centre in Half Term 27th - 31st May 2019 Cheltenham, from Weds 1st May until Sat 11th May, June (Wednesdays to Saturdays only). They were selected from over 600 entries from school students around 3 W/C Y9 Assessment and Exams Week the County.
11 Author Visit - Alan Gibbons
21 6th Form Induction Day for New Y12
20 Y10 Taster Day
25 House Sports Prelim Day Race For Life Alan Gibbons, Children’s Author to Visit Chosen Hill School Who Was a Good Egg in Tudor England? Friday 5th July 2019 Year 7 historians have been judging who was the On Tuesday 11th June Children’s Author Alan best monarch in Tudor England. To reach a decision The Chosen Hill School Race for Life event will be Gibbons will be taking time out of his busy sched- students have been considering who had the most returning on Friday 5th July 2019. Students, staff, ule to visit and meet with the students of Chosen peaceful reign, who was the most popular, who parents, alumni and friends of CHS are invited to Hill School. was successful in conflict and who brought wealth take part in a 5K walk, jog or run to raise money for to England. As part of their work, some students Cancer Research UK. This event has been a huge With his rare quality of capturing and enlivening have made ‘egg-cellent’ versions of their successful success for the previous two years and we are excited the imagination he aims to prove to students that monarch. to see as many people as possible getting involved anyone can write and enjoy reading. again. Further information about training and fund- raising will be released in the coming weeks.
G15 Celebration Concert
Preparations for this Year’s G15 celebration concert to be held in Gloucester Cathedral on the 25th June are well underway. This year we will have a senior choir performing ‘Lift Thine Eyes’ performed from the choir loft in the cathedral and then a solo perfor- mance of the Pie Jesu from the Faure Requiem sung by Lois Jones. The choir members are all working ex- tremely hard and we are grateful to Alan Winwood for once again leading them in rehearsal and inspi- ration for this prestigious event.
Members of the choir are: Izzy Arnold Year 13, Lara Illesley Year 12, Anna Li Year 12, Katie Hadland Year 12, Bethany Jefferies Year 12, Lois Jones Year12, Katie Finch Year 10, Maisie Rackham-Wood Year 10, Eve Westphal Year 10 Head Boy and Head Girl Elections
Information is now available on the school VLE about our candidates for Head Boy and Head Girl. There will be a whole school election process with polling day on the 16 May 2019. We wish all the candidates well and to look forward to engaging all students in other years in the democratic process.