WILSON’S SCHOOL Issue 162 Sept 3, 2010 WEEKLY UPDATE
IMPORTANT DATES FOR YOUR DIARY Tuesday 7 September - Academy Status Meeting Thursday 9 September - Y13 Parents’ Information Evening Friday 17 September - Y7 Parents’ Social Evening Wednesday 22 September - Late Start Wednesday 25-28 October - Half Term CORRECTION - TERM ENDS ON Thursday 16 Decem- ber
ACADEMY STATUS FOR WILSON’S SCHOOL? - LET US HEAR YOUR VIEWS ON TUESDAY 7 SEPTEM- BER AT 6PM Further to the Head’s letter in July inviting par- ents to a meeting with the Chair of Governors to discuss the possibility of Wilson’s School taking on Academy Status, this is a reminder that the meet- ing will be held on Tuesday 7 September at 6pm in the main school hall and all parents are welcome to attend. In order for us to accommodate numbers, please contact Mrs Ware on 020 8773 7680 if you wish to attend.
UPPER SIXTH PARENTS’ INFORMATION EVENING This will take place at 7pm in the main Hall and we look forward to welcoming as many parents as possible.
TEMPORARY CANTEEN ARRANGEMENTS While building work is still in progress in the new Bowden Room Y7 will use the Camberwell servery A selection of photographs from the watersports and all other students will use the Southwark trip will be available soon on the school website. canteen. Welcome back to school to one and all after the summer break and an espe- MENSA TEST RESULTS cially warm welcome to all new students and sta!. We are delighted that the If your son sat the MENSA test at the end of the following members of the teaching sta! are starting with us this week. summer term, his results are now available for col- lection from Mr. Cole. Ms Aathavan (Chemistry), who will cover for Mrs Banks until her return from Maternity Leave in December. SECOND HAND UNIFORM SALE Mr Chappell (DT) who replaces Mr Parker who has retired from teaching. Please note Mrs Phillips will be holding a second Ms Clarke, who will be teaching Physics, replacing Mrs Henderson. hand uniform sale on Wednesday 8 September Mr Haynes, who will be teaching Physics. between 3pm and 4.30pm. If there are any items Mr Coop (Head of Art) who replaces Mr Smith who has moved to a new post that you haven’t been able to get hold of please do at Trinity School. pay her a visit. She will be based in the Southwark Mr Johnstone (English), who is replacing Mrs Daly, who has moved to a pro- canteen. moted post at Wallington High School for Girls. Ms Mauthoor (Mathematics) who is replacing Mrs Kowal and Mrs Sharma NOTICE OF A CHANGE IN THE TIMINGS OF THE who have retired. SCHOOL DAY FROM SEPTEMBER 2011 Mr Ng (Mathematics) who is replacing Mr Saxon. The Governors are required to give twelve months Ms Nicholls (Classics) who is replacing Ms Cullen. Mr Stathopoulos (Head of ICT) who is replacing Mrs Roberts who has de- notice of a change in the school day. From Sep- cided not to return to teaching straight away following Maternity Leave. tember 2011 the school day will start at 8.25 a.m. Mrs Hess, who is replacing Mr McDonald, who is ill. Mrs Kelly, (Geography) who will cover for Mrs Prestney until her return from Maternity Leave in December.
Mr J Matthews is joining the sta! as Resource Centre Manager. Mr Gary Roberts is joining the sta! at the end of September as the new Reprographics O"cer. WILSON’S SCHOOL Issue 163 September 10, 2010 WEEKLY UPDATE
IMPORTANT DATES FOR YOUR DIARY BRITISH NATIONAL CHAMPION FOR 100M Monday 13 September - Y12 Parents’ Info. Evening BREASTROKE Friday 17 September - Y7 Parents’ Social Evening Wednesday 22 September - Late Start Wednesday 25-29 October - Half Term
LOWER SIXTH PARENTS’ INFORMATION EVENING This will take place at 7pm in the main Hall and we look forward to welcoming as many parents as possible. If you are unable to attend but would like a copy of the presentation please e-mail Dr Pye on [email protected].
Y7 - MEDICATION If any Y7 students require medication (e.g. epipens) that should be kept with the First Aid Officer for emergency use please can parents ensure that they have been brought in to school. Our congratulations go to Hiroki Harazawa who won the national title for MUSICAL ENSEMBLES British National Champion 14 years old category for 100m Breastroke and also All musical ensembles begin next week – a copy of achieved silver medal in the 14 years old category for the 200m Breastroke.. the weekly timetable of activities is attached. Some activities do not begin until January.
HISTORY CLUB History Club – For Year 7-10. Takes place during lunchtime (1.15pm) on Thursdays (Week A only) in A selection of photos of Room 20. All historians welcome. See Mr Engle- the recent Borneo Trip field for more details. can now be seen on the school website. HISTORY READING GROUP Are you in Year 9-13 and consider yourself to be a talented historian? Do you want a challenge outside of the main curriculum? Do you want to develop skills that are essential university prepara- tion? Come along on Thursday lunchtimes (Week B only) at 1.15pm in Room 20. PRIZE FOR LOCAL HISTORY THE DUKE OF EDINBURGH’S AWARDS 2010-2011 Y10 - BRONZE Provisional dates for the diary Dec 16th D of E Walk April 8th Orienteering Walk May 7th/8th 2 days overnight training weekend July 21st/ 22nd 2 days expedition assessment
Y11 SILVER Boys who have completed or nearly completed the Bronze award and would like to enrol on the Silver award must have their cheque for £90 payable to Wilson’s School and consent forms posted in the red box under the stairs by 17th September. Provisional dates for the diary Dec 16th D of E Walk Our congratulations go to Sam Pearce whose entry in a recent history essay Feb 18th Orienteering Day competition caught the eye of the judging panel of the Young Historian April 2nd-4th Silver Training 3 days Awards. He has been awarded the Historical Association Prize for Local June 17th-19th Assessment 3 days History 16-19. Such was their estimation of the quality of his research and writing, he waits to hear if his entry will be published in either The Historian or Local History Magazine. Sam won a book token for £100. Issue 163 September 10, 2010
FREE THINKERS UNION This club takes place every Monday lunchtime dis- cussing a wide range of philosophical issues. All are welcome
HOUSE TIES The school has discovered this week that the supplier to Cladishes has inadvertently used the wrong colour dye in both the Hayes House tie and the Southwark House tie. The school is aware of this and is currently arranging for replacement ties with the correct colour to be produced free of charge. Once these ties are available for collection your son will be notified.
Y7 INSTRUMENTAL LESSONS All new Y7 students should now be aware of who their new instrumental teacher will be and most of you will LONDON BOROUGH OF SUTTON SEEKING have been contacted and a lesson time agreed. If there PARENT VOLUNTEERS are any problems, please see either Ms Bright or Mr Lissimore. Timetables with details of location of les- Would you like to volunteer to become a Member of Sutton’s Admission sons will be going up in the music corridor shortly. Forum? The London Borough of Sutton is looking for Parents and Local Community representatives with an interest in school admissions to WEEKLY TIMETABLE OF MUSICAL ACTIVITIES volunteer to become Members of its Admission Forum. MONDAY Lunchtime The Admission Forum is a statutory group and provides a vehicle for 1310 Brass Group Music Rm R Willey admission authorities and other key interested parties to discuss the ef- After School fectiveness of local admission arrangements, consider how to deal with di!cult admission issues and advise admission authorities on ways in 1545 Chamber Ensemble (from January) which their arrangements can be improved. Its main focus is to consider Bowden Rm TRL the fairness of admission arrangements in their local context.
TUESDAY Sutton’s Admission Forum usually meets three times a year at Civic Lunchtime O!ces in Sutton and meetings normally last for two hours. Members 1330 Wind Band Music Rm TRL/P Sanders comprise of representatives from Schools (Governors and Headteach- 1330 Guitar Ensemble Percussion Rm J Warwick ers), the Local Authority, Parents, the Local Community and the Catholic After School and Church of England Diocesan Bodies. 1545 Junior Orchestra Bowden Rm HB Parent Representative WEDNESDAY In order to be considered as a parent representative, you must not cur- Lunchtime rently be a governor at a Sutton maintained school and you must be 1330 Junior Strings Music Rm TRL/C Taylor resident in the London Borough of Sutton and be the parent of a child who: 1330 Flute Group Rm 1 HB a) has attained the age of two and is receiving primary education, 1330 Intermediate Jazz Percussion Rm S Ashworth or After School b) is of compulsory school age (Years 1-11) 1545 Senior Orchestra Bowden Rm TRL Local Authority Representative THURSDAY In order to be considered as a Local Community representative you Lunchtime must not currently be a governor at a Sutton maintained school or 1310 Wind Ensemble Music Rm H Dennis qualify as a parent representative. Applicants under this category will be 1330 Year 8 Choir LT TRL asked to set out the groups within the local community that they feel 1330 Junior Choir (from January) able to represent, what quali"es them to represent them and how they LT TRL might represent them in the context of school admissions. 1330 Senior Jazz Percussion Rm S Ashworth Application Forms After School Application forms must be received by 1 October 2010. For more infor- 1545 Senior Choir Bowden Rm TRL mation or to request an application form please telephone Claire Potier, Head of Admissions, on 020 8770 6080 or email claire.potier@sutton. FRIDAY gov.uk Lunchtime 1330 Chamber Choir Music Rm E Littlewood Can you help with the above? If so, please do consider applying. There 1330 Junior Jazz Percussion Rm S Ashworth are signi"cant political moves afoot in Sutton to bring about a change in the pattern of places allocated in the Grammar Schools, which if suc- cessful would certainly change the character of the schools over time. It is important that there are parental voices from the Grammar Schools in the Admissions Forum to ensure that the Grammar School voice is heard clearly. If you are interested in applying and would like to discuss this with the Head, please drop him a line at [email protected] ton.sch.uk D M Charnock, Head Issue 163 September 10, 2010
FOOTBALL FIXTURES SOME FACTS AND FIGURES A level Wilson’s vs. Glyn - Saturday 11 September 1st XI Home 23% of grades were A*. ( To achieve this grade you need to score 90% or 2nd XI Away more in your U6 units.) U15A Home 70% of grades were either A* or A U15B Home 91% of grades were A* to B U14A Away 53% of the students gained 3 A grades or better. U14B Away U13A Home GCSE U13B Home U12A Away 43% of grades were at A* 81% of grades were at A* or A U12B Away 35% of the students gained 6 or more A*s 92% of the year group gained 5 or more A*-A grades. Wilson’s vs. Latymer Upper - Weds. 15 September 1st XI Home League Tables 2nd XI Home 3rd XI Home Wilson’s was the 3rd boys’ state school in the country at A level and the 4th XI Home 7th boys’ state school for GCSE. 5th XI Home University Entrance
75% of students applying to University this year gained their "rst choice. EXAMINATION RESULTS 2010 21% got their insurance place. Five students gained places through clearing. 11 students are taking a gap year and applying to University The GCSE and A level results this year were, once again, next year or deferring entry. excellent and do both the students, the teachers and the school as a whole great credit. The tables of results can now The most popular University for Wilson’s boys this year be seen on line on the school’s website. Nottingham: 17 Among the A level results there were some spectacular Southampton: 12 personal achievements, not necessarily among those who Cambridge: 9 gained the highest grades, but certainly including them as LSE: 8 well. Congratulations to Tim Kasoar who got Imperial 8 5A*s, to George Chater, James Larkworthy and William UCL, Warwick, Durham, Manchester: 5 Perera who got 4A*s; to Nicholas Baker, Dinal Kumarasinghe and Daniel Singarajah who gained A*s in three of their The most popular University courses for Wilson’s boys this year subjects and to Joseph Byrne, Mat Devine, Amandeep Dhillon, Joe Kenway, Andrew Malcolm-Neal, Jinesh Patel, Joe Economics: 27 Rifat, Jegadeesh Sithamparathas and Civaram Sivakumaran English: 10 History: 10 who got 2A*s and 2A … and to all those, too many to Engineering: 9 mention who achieved the very high standards required of Accounting/Business Studies: 7 them to gain their University places. Mathematics: 6 Law: 5 The GCSE students did no less well. Again the were many Medicine: 5 outstanding personal successes; so well done to all who, through hard work achieved their goals. Top scorers were World Ranking Universities William Roberts, who was top scorer with 11.5A*s grades, closely followed by Dariush Micallef, Charlie Osborn and 4 British Universities are ranked in the top 10 Universities in the world. Kourosh Pakroo with 10 A*s plus 2 short courses at A*. They are Cambridge, Oxford, Imperial and UCL. There were also 9 boys with 9 A*s grades: they were, William Gunnell, Ashok Menon, Michael Moneke, Alexander Nash, 26 of our students this year gained places at these institutions. Kushal Patel, Kenny Pydiah, Yash Shukla, Thomas Grimes and Calum Perera. WILSON’S SCHOOL Issue 164 September 17, 2010 WEEKLY UPDATE IMPORTANT DATES FOR YOUR DIARY Wednesday 22 September - Late Start - 9.40a.m. Thursday 23 September - Y11 Parents’ Info. Evening Wednesday 25-29 October - Half Term
Y11 PARENTS’ INFORMATION EVENING This will take place at 7p.m. in the main Hall and we look forward to welcoming as many parents as possible. If you are unable to attend but would like a copy of the presentation please e-mail Mr Doyle at [email protected]. The presentation will include information on key dates for Y11, coursework deadlines, NEW entry requirements for Wilson’s sixth form and we will be issuing your son’s potential GCSE grades. We are looking forward to meeting our new Year 7 parents Y11 DofE Reminder socially this evening. Copies of the black and white photo- Boys who have completed or nearly com- graphs on display will be available briefly for download from pleted the Bronze award and would like the school web-site. to enrol on the Silver award must have their cheque for £90 payable to Wilson’s School posted in the red box under the stairs along with their consent forms CHESS AT WILSON’S by 17th September. If parents have any questions please e-mail the school office Wilson’s hosted the Russell Inter-school Chess Jamboree on on [email protected]. Friday 10th September. Eight schools took part with each team having eight players. In the first round Wilson’s scored a per- CLASSICS CLUB fect 8/8 against a mixture of all the schools. However, in the We will be looking at a range of topics tougher second round, when playing in a group of the leading four schools, we only scored 3.5/8. Our total of 11.5 was only including mythology, art, warfare, theatre just enough to win, ahead of Hampton with 10.5, Whitgift with and much more. This takes place in Room 9.5 and Sutton Grammar with 8.5. This is the first time in fifteen 5 during lunchtime (1.20pm) on Wednes- years that any school has successfully defended the Russell days. All years are welcome. See Miss trophy, and hopefully bodes well for our first team’s defence of Nicholls for more details. the Surrey League. JUNIOR ENSEMBLES With more chess teams (five) than any other secondary school Students in Year 7 (and other lower school in Surrey, there is the opportunity for many pupils to represent years) are reminded that there are several the school at chess. Any boy who would like to can come along musical ensembles available to them! to chess club which meets on Monday, Wednesday and Thurs- Boys interested in the Junior Choir or Ju- day lunchtimes in Room F12. We already have over 50 mem- nior Strings should speak to Mr Lissimore bers but there is always room for more - last year over 100 boys as soon as possible, while those interest- came to chess club! It is not easy to get into even the fifth team, but do let Dr Cooper know if you are interested. ed in Junior Orchestra should approach Ms Bright in the Music Department.
LOST PROPERTY CONGRATULATIONS A reminder to parents that we are only able to return lost property to students Congratulations to the following boys on their recent music examination results. Jeremy Wong ( 11S ), passed grade 4 Alto if their names are in the items that they Saxophone; Joshnu Seelan (10C) passed with merit his grade lose. Please do remind your sons to put 3 Alto Saxophone; Maksymilian Tobiasiewicz (U69) passed his their names on any items of clothing and grade 6 singing with distinction; Rowan Brearley (U61) passed equipment that they bring in to school. If his grade 6 singing with distinction; and Priyank Shah passed they have lost something please remind his grade 4 singing with distinction. Well done to all of them. them to check the lost property area (which is currently bulging at the seams) at lunchtimes. This is located by the side of the school office. Issue 164 September 17, 2010
Academy Status Erratum
Many thanks to all those parents who attended the meeting There was an error in the information about examination re- concerning Academy status last Tuesday. We had a good turn out sults given in last week’s newsletter. William Gunnell, Ashok and a stimulating discussion. The views, questions and concerns Menon, Michael Moneke, Alexander Nash, Kushal Patel, raised by parents at the meeting were reported back to Gover- Kenny Pydiah and Yash Shukla obtained 9A* grades plus two nors at their meeting yesterday evening. The Governors had a short courses at A* ( not 9A* grades as stated). very lengthy discussion of the full and complex range of issues that we need to think about. They have now passed a resolution to move to the next stage which will be to make an application for Academy status. We will now start a detailed process of due diligence and formal written consultation with staff, parents, lo- cal authority and schools. The Head will be writing shortly to all parents with further details. The school will not adopt Academy status unless and until it signs a formal funding agreement with the Secretary of State and the school can pull out of the process at any time until them. FOOTBALL FIXTURES FOOTBALL RESULTS Saturday 18 September - 7 a side competition Wilson’s vs. Glyn - Saturday 11 September
Weds. 22 September 1st XI 0 v 1 Glyn Lost 1st XI Training 2nd XI 1 v 2 Glyn Lost 2nd XI Training U15A 5 v 1 Glyn Won 3rd XI Training U15B 5 v 0 Glyn won 4th XI Training U14A 1 v 1 Glyn Drew 5th XI Training U14B 1 v 2 Glyn Lost U13A 3 v 6 Glyn Lost U13B 1 v 7 Glyn Lost U12A 1 v 6 Glyn Lost U12B 1 v 9 Glyn Lost WILSON’S SCHOOL Issue 165 September 24, 2010 WEEKLY UPDATE IMPORTANT DATES FOR YOUR DIARY £4079.05 RAISED FOR ST RAPHAEL’S HOSPICE Monday 27 September - Entrance Exam NO SCHOOL FOR STUDENTS (APART FROM Last June, Lower Sixth students from Wilson’s and Wallington Girls participated THOSE ASSISTING WITH THE ENTRANCE EXAM) in a two day joint Management Event one of the aims of which was to raise Tuesday 28 September - Late start Y10 money for charity. In teams students, aided by a business advisor, had to Wednesday 25-29 October - Half Term come up with a project and business plan to raise money for the hospice and were given a week to put the plan into action. The amount raised was fan- 11A.M. START FOR Y10 - 28 SEPTEMBER tastic. Students were inspired by the cause and approached their tasks with In recognition of the fact that it is a long day humour and very high levels of enthusiam. Congratulations to all the students, and by way of a thank you to the boys, school business partners and parents who were involved in the event. will start at 11 am on Tuesday 28 September for all Year 10. Students should go straight to period 3. FOOTBALL RESULTS THE MALCOLM-NEALE SHIELD Wilson’s 7 a side competition The house debating competition opened this week, with Y9 teams from Greencoat and The Wilson’s 7 a side 2010 competition was once again a huge success. Hayes going head-to-head in front of an en- thusiastic and very partisan audience. Thanks Nine schools and eighteen teams competed in both the Y7 and Y8 age also to 9G and 9H form tutors for their support. groups. There was a great atmosphere with the focus upon scoring goals Teams need to watch the plasma, where fix- as the top two teams with the most goals went on to play in the semi- tures and topics are posted a week in advance, finals and then the final. and a running score can be found on the De- bate notice board in the foyer. The Y7s came fourth and the Y8s came second losing to Riddlesdown in the final, after beating last year’s champions, Carshalton, in the semi-final GCSE SCIENCE RE-SITS FOR Y11 1-0. Year 11 boys wishing to resit a science multiple choice paper on 11 November, must give Mrs A massive thank you to all the boys, staff and leaders involved for helping Jones the money/cheque in an envelope with with the organisation, refereeing, refreshments, collation of results, first their name and which unit they wish to resit. aid, coaching and setting up. The cost is £5 per unit and the money must be with Mrs Jones by Monday 27 September.
JUGGLING CLUB! Wilson’s v Latymer Upper Why not come along and give it a try. Expe- rienced and novice jugglers are all welcome. 1st XI Drew 2 v 2 This will take place every Friday lunchtime 2nd XI Drew 4 v 4 (1.15 - 1.45) in Room F17. Please see Mr Ng for 3rd XI Won 2 v 0 more details. 4th XI Won 5 v 0 5th XI Won 7 v 0 SCHOOL CALENDAR Parents may find it useful to check our school calendar on a regular basis to see what is happening at school. It will help to keep you up to date with events at school and any late FOOTBALL FIXTURES starts etc. It can be found at the following link: http://www.wilsonsschool.sutton.sch.uk/calen- Saturday 25 September - Wilson’s vs. Cheam Old Boys’ dar/calendar.html. 1st XI Away LOST PROPERTY 2nd XI Away A reminder to parents that we are only able 3rd XI Away to return lost property to students if their U15A Away names are in the items that they lose. Please U14A Home do remind your sons to come and look in lost U13A Away property for anything they have mislaid - it is U12A Home currently very full. U12B Home
Wednesday 29 September - Wilson’s vs. Trinity CHESS RESULTS 5th XI Home Wilson’s A 5 - 1 Whitgift A Wilson’s C 1.5 - 4.5 Sutton B Thursday 30 September - Wilson’s vs. Trinity Wilson’s E 3 - 9 Sutton D U12A Away Issue 165 September 24, 2010
COMPETITION DEADLINES EXTENDED!!!!
Photography Competition
There have been a number of entries for the house photography competition but in order to allow for entries in all categories and most importantly to allow current Year 7 to take part the deadline will be extended until Thursday 21 October. The categories are: • People- formal or informal portraits. • Places - Landscape, cityscape, architecture etc • Events - Sporting or musical events, theatre or similar. • The Natural World - Wildlife, trees, flowers. • My House - Anything relevant to the photographer’s House (Brecon, Camberwell, Green Coat, Hayes and Southwark). Entries should be sent to [email protected]
“I Spy”House Badge competition extended and New Celebrity Category added
The winners of three of the “I spy categories are decided • Most Northerly Location (in the world) – Arjun Gill of 9G for Scotland • Most Southerly Location (in the world) – Mr Carew-Robinson of Camberwell for New Zealand • The highest location – Joshua Elliott (9G) tried to claim the joint height of Ben Nevis, Scar Fell Pike and Snowdon after a succ- essful Three Peaks Challenge but won on the strength of Ben Nevis alone.
The competition remains open with the following categories
Take a photo of your house badge to compete in one of the following categories and send it to [email protected] with “I Spy” as the subject.
The Categories • The lowest/deepest location • Most unusual/strangest location • The most relevant location to the house. • Biggest celebrity holding or wearing a house badge.
The Rules Attach the photo as a jpeg and let us know your name and form and the location of the badge and the category you are entering. • The photo must not be Photo Shopped or tampered with in any way. • It should be obvious from the photo where in the world the badge is. • The photo must clearly contain either your house badge or a printed image of a school badge. • Each genuine and unique entry will earn one house point. • Each category winner will earn fifteen. WILSON’S SCHOOL Issue 166 October 1, 2010 WEEKLY UPDATE NJDC DEBATING COMPETITION
Many congratulations to George Driscoll, Harry Gower, Conrad Je eries and Will Ries, who as the Y11 team made a successful debut at the NJDC, a national tournament run by the same administration as the Cambridge debate but in Newcastle-upon-Tyne. After coming through three very competitive rounds, Wilson’s missed making the nal four out of sixty teams by only two points. It is a tribute to the hard work put in by our students that, with no prior experi- ence of the British Parliamentary style, they individually placed within the top quartFS. ENTRANCE EXAMINATION
This year, for probably the rst time since the school was re-opened in 1883 (and possibly for the rst time since its foundation in 1615), the school’s Entrance Examination was held in September. With over 1500 candidates, the organisation required was extensive and as ever the sta and students of Wil- son’s rose to the challenge with aplomb. Special thanks must go to the Year 9 & 10 boys who acted as friendly guides within the building and of course the CCF who masterminded the external operation!
The school was tremendously grateful to have the expert assistance of Police Sgt John Withersby and his team who helped minimise disruption to the local com- munity by monitoring the roads around the school. We must also acknowledge the support of the Surrey Health & Racquets Club (ESPORTA) who kindly pro- vided us with access to their car park in order to keep To parents of pupils at Wilson’s School, sta and governors tra c owing on Hannibal Way. 29 September 2010 We wish all the candidates the best of luck. Objection to the admission arrangements of Sutton Grammar School for MUFTI DAY - FRIDAY 15 OCTOBER Boys, Wallington County Grammar School and Wilson’s School This mufti day is being held in aid of the Do- Case references ADA/001770, ADA/001771 & ADA/001772 minican Friars, one of the school’s designated charities. It will cost the boys £1 if they wish to Dear Parents/Carers, Sta and Governors come to school in mufti. We have received an objection to the admission arrangements of Sutton Grammar School for Boys, Wallington County Grammar School and Wilson’s School for September 2011.
The adjudicator appointed to determine this case is Mrs Janet Mokades. She has decided to hold a public meeting at 6.30pm on Wednesday 6 October 2010 at The Civic O ces (meeting room 1) St Nicholas Way, Sutton SM1 1EA, to enable all those who wish to present their views to do so. She is particu- If anyone is interested in membership to the Esporta larly keen to hear the views of parents. health club the membership rates are as follows:- 12months Meanwhile, if you would like to submit any written comments, please send these to: Monthly Annual Mrs Lisa Short £84.99 £1,008 Full Adult O ce of the Schools Adjudicator £67.99 For Concession Mowden Hall Darlington ALL MEMBERSHIPS ARE SUBJECT TO A JOINING FEE DL3 9BG For more information contact details are as follows:- Email: [email protected] Sales Team: 0208 253 1313 or e-mail at: membership- [email protected]. Esporta Croydon, Han- If you require further information please call 01325 735617. nibal Way • Croydon • Surrey • CR0 4RW T: +44 (0)208 253 1304 F: +44 (0)208 686 7525 Yours faithfully visit www.esporta.com Mrs Lisa Short Case Manager If you wish to see the school’s response to the adjudicator you will nd this on our website. Issue 166 October 1, 2010
HOUSES TO SPONSOR CHILDREN VIA ACTIONAID Meet Boaz Mahiri who is being sponsored by Green- coat House. Last term the 6th formers were asked to consider each House sponsoring a Child via Actionaid. This would mean that every member of the house would need to contribute £1 each school year for a minimum of ve years. The Houses would be able to write to their sponsored child and receive correspond- ence and photos from them too. As a sponsor you can help end poverty for the child, their family and others in the com- munity thus giving poorer people the chance to work their way out of poverty and improve their living conditions.
We are proud to say that 3 of the houses decided to sponsor a child and they will each be receiving 180 points for their house.
For more information you can visit the Actionaid website. http://www.actionaid.org.uk/
If you would like to nd out more information about the children being sponsored do keep an eye on the House noticeboards which is where the information will be placed.
Meet Relebohile Molia from Lesotho who is being spon- Meet Mukeshimana who is being sponsored by Southwark sored by Camberwell House. House. WILSON’S SCHOOL Issue 167 October 8, 2010 WEEKLY UPDATE IMPORTANT DATES FOR YOUR DIARY Wilson’s Students receive Jack Petchey Wednesday 13 October - Senior Musicians Eve. Thursday 14 October - U6 Parents’ Evening Awards from the Mayor of Sutton Friday 15 October - Mufti Day Tuesday 19 October - Glyndebourne Opera Visit Thursday 21 October - Y9 Parents Info. Eve. - Y7 Parents/Tutors Eve.
U6 PARENTS’ EVENING - REMINDER A reminder that U6 students are expected to make the necessary appointments for them- selves and their parents to see any staff that they wish to discuss their progress with. If they have not already done this then they need to do so very soon. Ms Nye would be grateful if parents could confirm their attendance with Mrs Kitchin in the sixth form office.
MUSIC NEWS There has been a lively start to the year in the Music Department, with rehearsals already well underway for the Charity Orchestral Concert (Wednesday, 1 December) and several other events towards the end of term. The new Wind Band has swelled to around 30 students, while the Senior and Junior Orchestras are building on their progress from last year; we are already planning another formal collaboration with WHSG in the Spring Term in which we hope Congratulations to our Jack Petchey Award winners who received their to perform Prokofiev’s ‘Peter and the Wolf’ as Jack Petchey medal from the Mayor of Sutton at an award ceremony last well as a large choral work. Over a dozen other week. The ceremony which involved 19 schools from across the borough, ensembles rehearse regularly throughout the celebrated the positive contribution made by young people in schools and week, and there is truly an opportunity for every acknowledged the range and diversity of those individual achievements. student (instrumentalist or not); please contact the Music Department for more details. There In our photo, left to right, front row Bhavraj Chana, the Lady Mayor, Nathan- are a wide range of further possible experiences iel Aloshias and Kes Daood. Back row Dylan Rowley, Charles Filmer-Court for GCSE and A level musicians – last week’s and James Harris. concert visit to see the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Christopher Warren- Green (pictured below) started our season of Hans Woyda Inter-School Maths external concert visits. Competition
Wilson’s convincingly beat Whitgift School 57 to 33 in the first round of the Hans Woyda Inter-School Maths competition. The team comprised of Alex McMillan (U6), Daniel Hunt (L6), Keith Barker (11S) and Philip Knott (9B). All team members did well to answer all their starter questions correctly as well as the Geometry questions, a feat rarely achieved by the team. Well done to all who took part. British Physics Olympiad
An amazing 18 boys (from upper and lower sixth) have met the criteria to take Paper 2 of the British Physics Olympiad 2010 and 4 boys achieved Merit level scores. This is an unprecedented success in the Olympiad’s first round – MUSIC INSTRUMENT STORAGE hopefully it signifies a great Wilson’s performance in the tougher sections of Where possible, instruments should be stored this well respected national competition. This performance provides a strik- in lockers in the link corridor; padlocks can be ing demonstration of the high quality of candidates we have taking Physics obtained from Mr Lissimore or Ms Bright. Only at Key Stage 5, and gives us an early insight into the exam successes we can larger instruments should be stored in the expect of our boys later in the year. Well done to everyone involved cupboard at the end of the Music Department corridor. Issue 167 October 8, 2010
PUBLIC MEETING WITH THE SCHOOLS’ ADJUDICATOR What happens now? The adjudicator has allowed one further week for written representations to be made. If you feel Many thanks to those who either attended the public meeting with strongly one way or the other then use your right to make the Adjudicator at Sutton Civic Offices yesterday or who have already your voice heard. One of the problems yesterday was that contacted the Adjudicator’s office with their views. the meeting was dominated by Sutton parents. If you want the Grammar Schools to continue to be available on an equal The public meeting was certainly a lively affair but firmly handled by basis to those living outside the borough, then let your voice the Adjudicator. The issue at the heart of the Adjudication is whether be heard. Email [email protected]. parents in Sutton should have an advantage over those applying from outside Sutton and whether it has become too difficult for boys from The adjudicator has powers to uphold the objection in full, in poorer areas and homes to apply to the school. The objector, sup- part, with modifications or to lay it aside altogether. ported by the local counsellor Kirstie Jerome, who chairs the Admis- Her judgement will affect this year’s applicants. sions Forum, and one of the LA officers, wished to see a lowering of the pass mark and the application of a distance criterion . This would mean The adjudication will be available before the closing date for that the standards required to gain access to the school would be lower the submission of the Common Application Form on October and that places would go first to boys who, having passed the test, lived 31st. The adjudicator has promised to make her determina- closest to the school. Alternatively, the introduction of a catchment tion as soon as possible. Parents who are applying for this area focussed on Sutton but including limited access from outside the year and who are anxious about the implications for their son Borough was suggested. can therefore afford to wait and see before submitting their CAF. The School’s view, which was articulated by the Head at the meeting, is that the school has to be open on an equal and fair basis to applicants DM Charnock both within and outside the borough. We fully accept the principle of Head the Code of Practice that the school must serve the local area but hold strongly that the school’s physical location at the boundaries between Sutton and Croydon means that its ‘local area’ must include the areas surrounding Sutton, particularly to the East, North East and South. It is a fact that 86% of the school’s population come from an area notion- ally delineated by a circle with a radius of five miles. Five miles is the distance from Wilson’s to the furthest boundary of Sutton in Worcester Park. If it is fair, as it must be, that a boy from Worcester Park should be able to apply then it must be fair that a boy five miles to the East should CROSS-COUNTRY RESULTS also be able to apply and be treated equally. We need also to recognise that the key issue is not distance but the length of time it takes to get to National Schools X-Country First Round held at Guild- school. ford High on Tuesday 5 October
We believe strongly in rank order allocation of places. If you accept the Junior boys came 5th overall premise upon which grammar schools are based, it is simply contrary Ben Barry, Tim Mash, Josh Norman, Alex Storey to natural justice that a boy who comes 150th in the rank order should displace the boy who comes first just because he lives half a mile from the school rather than five miles away, even though they can both get Inter boys came 1st to the school in a very reasonable amount of time. Tom Holden (1st overall), Ollie Sitch (3rd overall), Tim Leake (6th overall), Lakshman Niranjan (12TH over- As a school, we are completely committed to our role in enabling social all), Sam Wright (15th overall), Mustafa Chamadia mobility to the disadvantaged sections of our society. Although the (24th overall). number of pupils in the school with free school meals entitlement is low, according to the an important measure of social deprivation used Well done, all. An excellent team effort. by Ofsted and based on the IDACI index, the school has been successful in recruiting significant numbers of boys from deprived areas and that number is rising. We are now very close to the average for the Borough. We’d like to see it rise further. One thing that bothers us is that we seem to be more successful in recruiting these boys from outside the Borough rather than within it. The boys’ Grammar Heads have resolved to have another go at tackling this issue together. We know from many informal contacts that the issue is not one of inaccessibility ( it stands FOOTBALL RESULTS to reason and is a matter of fact that boys from poor families can and Wednesday 29 September - Wilson’s v Trinity do reach the appropriate standard - level 5a and 5b in the SATs) but a 5th XI 4 - 2 Won (v Trinity 1st XI) matter of perception, parental aspiration and peer pressure on boys to Saturday 2 October - Wilson’s v Sutton Grammar go to the same school as their mates. 1st XI 0 - 1 Lost 2nd XI 0 - 2 Lost Of course, it is an interesting question just how selective a selective 3rd XI 4 - 1 Won school should be. At the moment about 16% of Sutton boys get selec- U15A 1 - 0 Won tive places (including the selective places at Greenshaw High School). U15B 1 - 0 Won We think that is about right unless we were to seriously affect the balance between the Grammar Schools and Comprehensive schools U14A 5 - 0 Won in Sutton. We have no desire at all to make the comprehensives into U14B 3 - 0 Won Secondary Moderns which is what would happen if the objection were U13A 5 - 3 Won to succeed. If it did it would be an unmitigated catastrophe for those U13B 10 - 2 Won who don’t want a Grammar School education - and many don’t. Many U12A 2 - 1 Won just want a coeducational school and it is only the comprehensives that U12B 7 - 1 Won provide that. U12C 1 - 3 Lost Issue 167 October 8, 2010
MUSIC DEPARTMENT EQUIPMENT The Music Department is keen to find parents FOOTBALL FIXTURES or friends of the school who would be willing Saturday 9 October - Wilson’s vs. Carshalton to service some of their electrical equipment. The amps, speakers, headphones and electrical U15A Home instruments are of high quality, safe, and not U14A Home yet ready to be replaced; nonetheless, several U14B Home years’ daily use is taking its toll on them. Par- U13A Away ents should contact Ms H Bright (Director of U13B Away Music) in the first instance: HB@wilsonsschool. U12A Home sutton.sch.uk U12B Home MALCOLM-NEALE SHIELD Monday 11 October - Wilson’s vs.Trinity The competition is now well under way, with U15A Away Brecon taking an early lead. There will be de- Wednesday13 October bates during Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday Wilson’s vs. Archbishop Tennison lunchtimes next week - details on the plasma 1st XI Training screen – so come and support your house! Current points scores: Brecon 210, Camberwell 2nd XI Home 79, Greencoat 60, Hayes 75, Southwark 175 3rd XI Home Wilson’s vs. Glyn 6TH FORM DEBATING CLUB 4th XI Away The motion for this week is ‘This house be- 5th XI Away lieves that equality of the genders is an illusion in our society’. Teams being chosen this week for Oxford Debate, Cambridge Debate, LSE Debate, United Nations and ESU Mace. Friday lunchtimes, room 10. Please see Miss Androlia CHESS RESULTS for further information if you can’t make it. Wilson’s A won 4 – 2 Reigate Grammar Wilson’s B lost 0.5 - 5.5 KCS Wimbledon A Y7 MID-YIS TEST Wilson’s C won 4.5 – 1.5 Wallington CGS On Thursday 14th October, Year 7 will be sit- Wilson’s D won 8.5 – 3.5 KCS Wimbledon B ting a MidYis test during Period 1. The purpose Wilson’s Year 7 won 20.5 – 11.5 Wallington Year 7 of this test is to help the school track and monitor your son’s progress. We do not publish the results of these tests and it is not necessary for your son to do any preparation for them. If you have queries regarding MidYis then please contact Mr Cady at the school.
LONDON WASP TICKETS AT DISCOUNT PRICES
Due to the school having established a link with Aviva Premiership side London Wasps, discount tickets are available to students, their parents and friends and families. There are tickets available for the Heineken Cup match vs Glasgow Warriors on Sunday 17th October – kick off 3pm. Tickets are £5 for students/con- cessions and £10 for adults. Tickets are usually a lot more and special ticket prices will con- tinue throughout the year. The club website is www.wasps.co.uk if you require any details re- garding future fixtures and travel information. If you would like tickets you need to send in a cheque made out to “WWFC” in a sealed enve- lope with your son’s name and “London Wasps Tickets” to the PE Office by Tuesday 12th Octo- ber. This will allow tickets to be dispatched. WILSON’S SCHOOL Issue 168 October 15, 2010 WEEKLY UPDATE IMPORTANT DATES FOR YOUR DIARY British Judo Championships Tuesday 19 October - Glyndebourne Opera Visit Thursday 21 October - Y9 Parents Info. Evening Our congratulations once again go to Will and Tom Johnson for their - Y7 Parents/Tutors Evening performances in the British Judo Championships last weekend. Will won Friday 22 October - Activities Day the Under 60 kilos Cadet Championship against the best from England, 25 - 29 October - HALF TERM Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland (31 boys had qualified via regional Wednesday 17 November - GCSE Musicians’ heats) winning every fight. Tom competed in the U55 kilos category. Having Evening reached the last four in a group of twenty nine, he lost his semi-final contest on judges’ flags. His opponent was the reigning British Champion. Tom then Y7 ENTERPRISE SKILLS DAY - 22 OCTOBER went on to beat the Welsh champion for the Bronze medal. On Friday 22 October Y7 will be taking part in an enterprise skills activity day. Two entrepreneurs will join us to share their experience and help Both Will and Tom retain their places on the England Squad and will be in- judge the skills, presentation and design ideas. vited for an assessment to establish whether they stay on the England Talent Mr Haggett, an old boy of the school, whose Squad. business is www.honeyslug.com, will be setting a 21st century challenge to design a new com- As national representatives for their sport, their names will be inscribed on puter game. Mrs Wood of Pampered Chef will the school’s Honours Board. brief the boys on how to present their product idea for the inter house competition. Could each Wilson’s Launches DofE Gold Award! boy please bring in one magazine or Sunday supplement on the day. Any questions please email Mr Jones via the school office.
JANUARY 2011 - EXAM RETAKES Sixth form students who have requested a re- sit in January 2011 need to give cheques to Mr Harmsworth in the School Admin Office by 10.00 a.m. Monday 18 October. Failure to do so will result in the candidate not being entered for the exam or having to pay double. The charge for each unit is £21. All units can be paid for with For the first time the school is running the DofE Gold Award. It is aimed one cheque. On the back of the cheque should at L6 students who have completed Bronze and Silver or those who have be listed the student’s name, candidate number joined the school in the Sixth Form. Participants will enjoy many new and the unit code of the retake. experiences, discover talents they never thought they had, challenge themselves and the fact that achieving an award will give them skills, MOBILE PHONES IN LESSONS confidence and a view on life that everyone is looking for, from employ- Parents should be aware that from half term the ers to colleges and universities. following policy will be applied to mobile phone use. There will be recognition for doing things they want to do (and may even 1. Students taking mobile phones out during be doing already). They will make a difference to other people’s lives lessons can expect to have them confiscated and and their community, be fitter and healthier, make new friends and have handed to their Year Manager. memories to last them a lifetime. The boys who sign up to the award 2. On the first occasion a Year Manager receives will spend 12 months on a Volunteering project, 12 months on either a student’s phone following confiscation he will a Physical or Skills project and six months on the other (they decide return it to the student at the end of that day. which way round they do it). The big difference at Gold is they will also 3. On all subsequent occasions that a Year Man- do a Residential section - staying away from home for five days and four ager receives the student’s phone following con- nights completing a shared activity with people they don’t know. If the fiscation it will be available for collection by the participant has begun with the Gold DofE programme they will need to student’s parents at the end of that school day. do a further six months either volunteering or on one of the physical or skills activities they spent the most time on. For further information please contact either Mr Beggs or Mr Jones at the school. School’s Adjudicator Bronze DofE Many thanks to the many parents who have written in support of the school’s position outlined in last week’s This week was the first practical exercise for the boys – after a lecture on newsletter concerning the present adjudication on our equipment and safety whilst camping – they were all challenged to see if Admissions Criteria. It really is much appreciated. they could put up a tent. D of E supervisors were on hand if needed – but as the objective was to build up team sprit, the teams were very much left to themselves. Those who communicated and read instructions finished early – those who did not were there quite a while….. Issue 168 October 15, 2010
ACTIVITIES DAY - FRIDAY 22nd OCTOBER Wilson’s staff show their support for the Combined Cadet Force (CCF) Friday 22nd October is the first of this year’s Trips and Activities Days. Normal timetable will be suspended and boys will take part in activities Over the past two Tuesday lunchtimes school staff as follows: members have visited the CCF to undergo a familiarisa- tion range session with the No. 8 target rifles. In addition Year 7: Enterprise Skills Day – this will take place all day in the Founda- Major Burton, Contingent Commander gave them a tour tion Building. Boys should report to their form rooms for registration at of the CCF buildings and a valuable insight into what the usual time (8.30 am) and the day will end at 3.00 pm. They should the cadets do at CCF. Both sessions were well attended wear school uniform. with high praise from all involved. The staff proved more than average shots with everyone managing to hit the Year 8: Classics Trip to Fishbourne – please see Mr Shaw’s letter for target! Special mention goes to Mr ‘Crackshot’ Walters further details. Boys will return to school by 5.00 pm at the latest. They who managed to gain an extremely impressive grouping should not wear school uniform. with his 10 shots. Although he did fail to mention he was a Sutton Grammar cadet during his school years! Thank Year 9: CCF Activity Day – this will take place in school. Please see Mr Burton’s letter for further information. All boys should wear tracksuits you again to everyone who attended these events. The and should report at 8.35 am to the school Hall. The day will end at 4.00 support for the CCF is greatly appreciated. pm.
Year 10: Geography Field Trip / Debating Skills Day – boys who study GCSE Geography will be on a Field Trip, arrangements for which have been communicated separately by Mr Seymour. All other Year 10 boys will be taking part in a Debating Skills Activity Day run by the English Speaking Union. They should report, in school uniform, at 8.30 am to their form rooms where they will be registered. The day will end at 3.00 pm.
Year 11: Art Trip / History Revision Day / Study Day – boys who study GCSE Art will be on a visit to the London Aquarium and the Natural His- tory Museum, arrangements for which have been communicated sepa- rately by Mr Coop. All GCSE History students (other than those who do Art) should see Mr Englefield’s separate instructions. They must report to the History Department at 8.35 am. All other Year 11 boys have study leave at home in preparation for the forthcoming mock exams.
Year 12: EPQ Research at Southampton University – boys doing EPQ should see Mr Ross’s separate instructions for the day.
Year 13: Chemistry / Physics / Biology / Maths sessions – boys who study these subjects at A Level will be given a time to report by their APPLE DAY AT WILSON’S science teachers. They will have sessions during the day on course- On Tuesday 19 October during Lunch (1.05 - 1.50) work and practical assessments. Mathematicians will have a session and after school (3.45 - 5.00) Wilson’s is holding an with Dr Cooper – boys will be advised by him as to timings. APPLE DAY. There will be information about apple types, fresh apple juice made before your very eyes, All other Sixth Form students have study leave unless asked to attend apple bobbing and other activities and competitions by a member of staff. such as ‘The Longest Unbroken Peel’. Fresh juice will be served with a minimum donation of 20p per cup. There will be a normal canteen service available for all boys at both Everyone is welcome and if possible we would like Break and Lunch. If you have any questions about the arrangements you to bring in any unwanted apples from home. If for the day, please contact your son’s Year Manager. you have apple trees in your garden we would love to have some spares (not rotten!) The house that brings the most in will win points. Bring them to Mr CHESS RESULTS Phillips who will weigh them and register your entry. Other house competitions all for valuable house It is a long time since two British secondary schools played a points are as follows: 36 board chess match. Last week Wilson’s hosted a match with LONGEST PEEL (done on the day) Trinity over this number of boards. The match was split into six 6 Best apple based pudding/meal – apple pie, board matches, the top four of which were league matches. Wil- crumble, etc. son’s therefore could not field their second team as Trinity do not Best apple art (see plasma for examples) have a team in that league. The individual match results were: Most apples bobbed in a minute. Biggest single apple. At lunch the students will be able to join in these events but if you would like to come along and hear Wilson’s A won 6 - 0 Trinity A about ways in which you can get involved then par- Wilson’s C lost 1.5 - 4.5 Trinity B ents are welcome between 15:45 and 17:00. If you Wilson’s D lost 5.5 – 6.5 Trinity C would like to attend please email the office to let us Wilson’s E won 8.5 – 3.5 Trinity D know. You will be able to take part in all the compe- Wilson’s F lost 4.5 – 7.5 Trinity E titions yourself and win house points on behalf of Wilson’s G lost 2.5 - 9.5 Trinity F your son. Issue 168 October 15, 2010
RUGBY REPORT FOOTBALL RESULTS
Year 11/12 Friendly: Wilson’s School 12 – 12 Raynes Park Monday 4 October vs. Heathside (National Cup) An even game throughout with both teams defending U16 2 - 1 Won exceptionally. Adam Drew scored in the corner after Wednesday6 October - Wilson’s v Glenthorne some good build up play and Tom Carnegie scored late 2nd XI 2 - 0 Won on after being camped on the Raynes Park line for 10 Wednesday 6 October - Wilson’s vs. Royal Russell minutes. Matt Taylor scored the conversion from out 3rd XI 5 - 2 Won near the touch line via a drop kick, which sailed through 4th XI 11 - 0 Won the middle of the post, seconds before the final whistle. 5th XI 7 - 1 Won Superb performance by all involved, especially Peter At- 6th XI 2 - 1 Won kinson and Henry Kyriacou who carried a lot of ball and Friday 8 October - Wilson’s vs. Sutton Grammar gained ground on every attempt. Well done to Y7 players. This was the first time representing Wil- Year 9 Friendly: Wilson’s School 27 – 24 Graveney son’s for many of them. We were at a disadvantage as the team An excellent performance by Wilson’s, who were playing played against their A and B teams with none of our A and B team a Graveney side made up of Year 9s and 10s. The backs players available for the match as they were playing in the Na- were sublime with Jake Field scoring 2 tries on debut. tional Cup match and friendly again Carshalton on Saturday. Marcus Christie and Jordan Smith were also on top of U12 2 - 3 Lost (Brecon) their game, scoring 4 tries between them. Pack leader U12 1 - 4 Lost (Camberwell) Harry Rogers led from the front, followed by ever present U12 9 - 2 Won (Greencoat) Aaron Mallet and Ahmed “the Ark” Elgharably, who took U12 3 - 4 Lost (Hayes) the game to Graveney and made sure that every ruck, U12 3 - 5 Lost (Southwark) maul, scrum and lineout was won. A very promising start Saturday 9 October - Wilson’s vs. Ibstock to a long hard season. 1st XI 3- 2 Won Year 10 Friendly : Wilson’s School 45 – 0 Graveney 2nd XI 9 - 0 Won A very one sided affair against a tired and lacklustre- Saturday 9 October - Wilson’s vs. Carshalton Boys Graveney side. The forwards were strong and set up a lot U15A 7 - 0 Won - Sutton League of good ball for the backs, making it easy for the likes of U14A 3 - 1 Won - Sutton League Rob Webster and Chris Mallet to score underneath the U14B 5 - 2 Won - Friendly posts. Special mention must go to Karim Abu-Seer and U13A 0 - 8 Lost - Surrey Cup Samir Dewan who scored their first tries for Wilson’s. U13B 2 - 5 Lost - Friendly Harder games to follow this season but a good game for U12A 3 - 1 Won - National Cup/Sutton League (double confidence. header) Year 7 Croydon, Sutton, Merton and Wandsworth League: U12B 4 - 6 Lost Friendly Wilson’s School 40 – 35 Cheam The Year 7s had their first game for the school, with Well done to the year 7’s for beating Stanley Park 8 – 2 in the Surrey a team containing 3 boys who had played the game Cup on Tuesday 12 October away at Stanley Park before. After being 15-25 down at half time, the boys battled to earn a well earned victory! Notable perfor- mances being Amartyadeep Pal, scoring 3 tries and Man BADMINTON RESULTS of the Match, Tom Hudson with 2 tries and countable try saving tackles! Badminton Surrey Schoools league U19 V RGS Guildford Wilson’s B lost 2-7 Wilson’s A won 8-1
FOOTBALL FIXTURES
Saturday 16 October - Wilson’s vs. Tunbridge Wells U15A Away U14A Away U13B Home U12B Home Wednesday 20 October Wilson’s vs. Harris 1st XI Away 2nd XI Training 3rd XI Training 4th XI Training 5th XI Training Issue 168 October 15, 2010
“Senior Master Chef” challenge 2010 The winning two teams from each round will be eligible to enter the final on 3 November Teams are as follows:- Substitutes are allowed providing Mr Jones is notified the day before. Greencoat Smit Patel Candidates must provide their own ingredients –which should be Michael McGill Wed 20th Oct stored in the Food Tech room on arrival at school. Livio Modarresi Chris Lawrie Thur 21st Oct Judging rules and criteria are available on the shared drive in the cook- Laurence De Souza ery folder – Senior Master Chef competition or on the school website. Brecon Kajahnan Sivakumar Wed 20th Oct Any questions please speak to Mr Jones. Good luck to all participants. Conrad Jefferies Craig Threadgold Nathan Lobo Thur 21st Oct Hayes Will Johnson Wed 20th Oct Ciaran Gowan Milan Patel Thur 21st Oct David Smith Camberwell Bhavraj Chana Wed 20th Oct Jake South Daniel Hunt Thur 21st Oct Simon Loftus Southwark Tom Sutherland Thur 20th Oct Harry Frost News of Wilson’s Old Boy, Denis James Old Boy Denis James, who was colour sergeant in the Wilson’s CCF, is now a Major in the Royal Dragoon Guards. He is at the moment the Squadron Leader of the Green Horse, a part of the Viking Group, in Helmand, Afghanistan. His squadron’s task is to defend a road which the coalition forces are trying to build to help develop the local economy. The troops are encouraged not to give details of precisely what they do or where they are but, according to Denis’ parents, they seem to spend much of their time fighting on foot Denis is front row, second from the right. outside the vehicles.
Denis took 72 men under his command and they began their work in July. Of these so far three have been killed and 14 seriously wounded and returned to hospital in the UK, some with what they nowadays call “life changing” injuries. Two were blown up the day last week.
Denis has recently been home on a few days “rest and recuperation” with his wife and three young sons at Catterick, where the regiment is based, and flew back to the front line on Saturday. WILSON’S SCHOOL Issue 169 October 20, 2010 WEEKLY UPDATE
IMPORTANT DATES FOR YOUR DIARY ADJUDICATOR ‘S DETERMINATION 25 - 29 October - HALF TERM Monday 1 November - Y11 Mock Exams begin The adjudicator’s determination on the objection made to our admis- Wednesday 3 November - Master Chef Final sions arrangements has now been received. The adjudicator has not up- Thursday 4 November - Senior Maths Challenge held the objection and has determined that admissions arrangements for 2011 should be as determined by the school’s Governing Body. LATIN HELP CLUB Accordingly, there will be no change to this year’s arrangements. Year 7 and 8: having trouble with your Latin home- work? Need help learning your vocabulary and We are pleased that the objection has not been upheld as we felt that grammar? Then come along and join us in Room 5 the proposals that were being suggested would have been unfair and on Tuesday lunchtimes for Latin Help sessions. would have had a detrimental effect on the community schools which serve the majority of Sutton’s children. That said, we recognise that the GCSE ART APPEAL FOR LEGO! objection raised serious issues which we have no intention of ignoring. The Art Department is appealing for your help in It is a fact that the number of applicants to this school has risen very collecting lego for GCSE students who require it for significantly over the last ten or so years and that has placed greater their projects. If anyone has any to spare (not the pressure on places. The Governing Body will be considering a range engineering or duplo types) just the small building of possible ways in which we might be able to limit to some extent the blocks in any colour or shapes they would be very number of applicants to the school and protect the interests that Sut- gratefully received! ton parents have in our school. We certainly share the concerns of the objector that boys from deprived areas within the authority are not cur- Y11 SCIENCE RE-SITS rently gaining places in sufficient numbers and we wish to work closely Some Y11 students have chosen to take a science and urgently with primary schools and the local authority in addressing module paper again on Thursday 11 November. that issue in particular. They must ensure that they revise independently for these papers as no revision will be covered in lessons due to the mock examinations. There are THE BANK OF ENGLAND 2.0 CHALLENGE papers and mark schemes on the aqa.org.uk web- Mock Competition site to help. Wilson’s vs. Wallington Boys’ SENIOR MUSICIANS’ EVENING Many thanks to all the participants in the recent Se- nior Musicians’ Evening; notable moments included Sam Gee’s full performance of Glazunov’s ‘Concerto for Saxophone’ and several refreshingly sensitive and interesting guitar performances by Tom Carn- egie, Alex Hill, Matthew Jones, and Chris Willis.
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MUSICAL EVENTS APPLE DAY There are several major musical events to fol- low half-term. Particularly important dates to On Tuesday we celebrated our orchard and the Fruit-full Schools scheme by note include Wednesday, 17 November (GCSE spending our lunch having fun with apples. Fresh apple juice was made us- Musicians’ Evening); Wednesday, 1 Decem- ing a traditional wooden apple press; the competition for the longest unbro- ber (Charity Orchestral Concert); Monday, 13 ken peel was tightly fought, seven apple dishes were made for our judges to December (Carol Service in Croydon Parish taste( from crumble to soup), and the apple bobbing was all going smoothly Church). with varied degrees of success… that is until Mr Parkinson’s turn came!
SECOND HAND UNIFORM SHOP The result of our house competitions were as follows: A reminder that the second hand uniform shop is open on the first Wednesday of every month APPLE BOBBING from 3.30 p.m. - 4.30 p.m. The shop is currently 1st place went to Mr Parkinson of Greencoat with a whopping 10 ap- well-stocked so please do come and visit. ples bobbed in a minute. The winning apple was spotted by the students amongst the mess on the floor – see the school website for the video. 2nd place very close on his heels was Jordan Smith of 9S with an impressive 9 apples. Lu Citeroni LONGEST PEEL 1st place just got in after school and snatched victory from his head of house. Daniel Gonsalves of Camberwell managed to make an unbroken peel of 110cm. 2nd place went to Mr Carew-Robinson whose specialist peeling ability got him a peel of 107cm. 3rd place was Miss Wills who was not far behind for Brecon with 105cm. The next nearest student was Zaid El Bakkouri in 7 Hayes with 44cm.
BIGGEST APPLE Well, this was nearly a clean sweep for year 7 with Vasily Berdnikov of South- wark who took 1st and 3rd place. 2nd place went to George Heinemann also in Southwark.
MOST APPLES This looked like a tight contest until Oliver Tollford and Miss Keen turned up and swept Hayes to victory 1st Hayes – 62kg 2nd Southwark – 30kg 3rd Brecon – 15kg 4th Greencoat – 8kg 5th Camberwell – 6kg
THE BIG APPLE BAKE OFF 1st place Max Riddings, 7 Camberwell 2nd place Robert Cooke ,7 Hayes 3rd place Daniel Hunt, L6 Camberwell We were very sad to learn this week of the death of Lu Special mentions go to Rio for his soup and Miss Lemaire for her cake. Citeroni who taught science and chemistry at Wilson’s between 1989 and 2003. Lu died in his sleep on Mon- A huge thank you for all the support and we hope to see you all at the same day after a long battle with cancer. His wife, Virginia time next year. Anyone who is interested in sponsoring the expansion of our and his family were at his bedside in hopsital. As well school orchard can find the form online or ask Mr Phillips for a copy. as teaching here, Lu also ran the Chess Club for many years. After retirement he wrote a book on Opera and Wine, both of which were his great passions. He will be fondly remembered especially by members of the science department who worked with him.
CHESS RESULTS Wilson’s vs. George Abbott
Wilson’s 4th beat George Abbott1st 9 -3 Wilson’s 7th beat George Abbot 2nd 12 - 1 Issue 169 October 20, 2010
FOOTBALL FIXTURES RUGBY RESULTS NO FIXTURES OVER HALF-TERM Croydon, Sutton, Merton & Wandsworth League
Wednesday 3 November - Wilson’s vs. Wilson’s vs. Carshalton John Fisher 3rd XI Home Y10 Wilson’s won 24 - 2 4th XI Home Having been 0-17 down during the second half, the boys turned it on with tries from Chris Mallet (2), Rob Webster and Man of the Match Cameron Clark. The Wednesday 3 November - Wilson’s vs. boys were thoroughly pleased with their efforts in the Glenthorne second half and hope this continues after half-term. 1st XI Home 2nd XI Away Y8 Wilson’s won 17 - 15 The game started at a frantic pace, with Wilson’s domi Friday 5 November - Sevenoaks 7’s nating from the kick off! Wilson’s scored through Competition James Sheridan, Ayo Akin-Agunbiade and Murdo U13A Away Hepburn (plus a Murdo conversion) to lead 17-0. The weather turned very cold making it difficult to spread the play and get the ball to the wings, one of our many strengths. Carshalton started to gradually get back into the game, scoring 3 tries of their own, to FOOTBALL RESULTS make the score 17-15. The boys managed to defend Wilson’s vs. Tunbridge Wells for their lives to hold on for a fantastic well-earned U12A 2 v 2 draw victory. U13A 6 V 2 won U14A 2 v 0 won U15B 3 V 1 won
CAMBERWELL HOUSE SPONSORED RELEBOHILE
Please find below some background information on Relebohile who is being sponsored by Camberwell House.
Relebohile Molia was born in 2001, and he is one of a family of four children. The family are Christian and they speak Sesotho. His family live in a house built of stones with a thatched roof. Houses in rural areas are either round and called ‘randabole’ or traditional rectangular houses called ‘heisi’. Relebohile’s father is a farmer and his mother works on their land.
HIV/AIDS affects education. Many teachers are infected and too ill to teach. Inadequate classrooms, unqualified teachers, remoteness of villages and compulsory school fees hinder children’s ability to receive a basic primary education. Relebohile goes to the local state school where he is learning to read and write.
ActionAid is working with Relebohile’s community to access their rights to food, liveli- hoods, water, education and helathcare, with particular focus on women and children affected by HIV/AIDS. WILSON’S SCHOOL Issue 170 November 5, 2010 WEEKLY UPDATE
IMPORTANT DATES FOR YOUR DIARY Year 7 Enterprise Day Tuesday 9 November - Sixth Form Open Evening Wednesday 10 November - Pianists’ Evening The future captains of industry were challenged and stretched on the - Late Entrance Exam Friday before half term. Mr Haggett, an old boy of the school who runs his own company designing computer games, tasked the boys with the SIXTH FORM OPEN EVENING challenge of designing a new computer game in 40 minutes. Excellent A reminder for all Year 11 parents and their sons that ideas included one involving zombies and a rail track, the concept of next Tuesday 9th November is Wilson’s Sixth Form Open which went over most teachers’ heads, including that of Mrs Mitchel- Evening. The information evening will run from 6.30 more the Deputy Head, who was helping to judge the competition. p.m. until 8 p.m. and is an opportunity for you and your son to discuss possible A level choices with Heads of De- The boys were then given training on the best way to get a product idea partment. All boys in Year 11 have received the Wilson’s across by entrepreneur Mrs Woods of Pampered Chef. The boys used Sixth Form brochure which outlines sixth form entry their new skills to design and then present their ideas for a house prod- requirements, details of sixth form study and informa- uct to Deputy Head Miss Smith and also Mrs Woods. Well done to team tion on individual AS and A2 courses. For any further Laughs of Hayes House with their working model of a game and musical information please contact Mr Doyle ad@wilsonsschool. instrument which won them all the title of Young Entrepreneur 2010. sutton.sch.uk WATERSPORTS TRIP TO FRANCE Please note there are 13 places left on the France Wa- tersports Trip. If you are interested in joining this trip please note that a deposit of £50 is required as soon as possible. The cost of the trip is £620 and the trip will take place from 28 May to 4 June, 2011. A letter with further details of the trip is available from Mr Molyneux.
GCSE SCIENCE MODULE EXAMINATIONS On Thursday 11 November all of Year 10 will be taking one Biology and one Chemistry module examination in the afternoon. They will need black biros and a calcula- tor. Mobile phones and other electronic gadgets must not be taken to the examination venue. Some Year 11 boys will also be re-taking module tests. All boys must ensure that they revise fully and try the practice papers on the ‘aqa.org.uk’ website.
CHRISTMAS LUNCH: Wednesday 15th December Pictured with Mrs Woods : Charlie Allen, Robert Cooke, Sam Hyatt, Tickets for Christmas lunch will be on sale from Monday Kajan Kugananthajothy, Michael Mensah, Perathep Thillainathan, 29 November from the Finance Office during break or Yi Song ,Ethan Windsor lunch times and can be paid for by cash or cheque only. Tickets cannot be purchased using cards. The tickets will cost £5 each. Sutton 2012 Olympic Forum
ECO-SCHOOLS We are delighted to announce that six A level musicians have been There will be a meeting for all eco reps on Tuesday 9 invited by the Sutton 2012 Olympic Forum to perform at the opening November at 13:15 in room 22. Please let Mr Phillips or ceremony of their ‘1948 Exhibition’. Mr Seymour know if you cannot attend.
NEW CAR PARK GATES THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF PSYCHIATRISTS’ CHRISTMAS DE- There comes a point in each year, usually sometime in BATE FOR YOUNG PEOPLE 2010 the spring term, when the number of sixth formers who have passed their driving test and who then wish to Join the Royal College of Psychiatrists’ Christmas Debate for drive to school rises to the point that intolerable pres- Young People 2010, when experts in mental illness will discuss sure is put on parking spaces in the car park. The result- the motion “This house believes that the media are to blame ing overcrowding causes a health and safety hazard. for eating disorders”. You will have a chance to question the That point has not yet arrived, and until it does, the new panel, put your point of view and to vote on the motion. gates will remain open. When we decide that the time is right, however, the car park gates will be closed and The debate will start at 10.30 a.m. on Wednesday 15 December locked by the car park attendant once the car park is full at: The Royal Institute of British Architects, 66 Portland Place, and no later than 8.30 a.m and will remain locked until London W1B 1AD. The debate will be followed by questions 2.30 p.m. Places outside the gates will be reserved for from the floor and a vote. It is expected that the debate will the school minibuses, disabled parking, visitors and for finish at approximately 12.00 noon. If you wish to attend, staff who need to come and go during the school day. please ask for an application form at the main school office. Issue 170 November 5, 2010
MARK McDONALD CCF October Range and JNCO Cadre Camp 24 – 29th Oct 10
Wilson’s CCF returned on Friday from a very successful half term camp at Longmoor Training Camp. The camp has in recent years become a perma- nent fixture for the contingent, utilising the perfect training environment provided by the MOD to deliver a variety of exciting training topics such as fieldcraft, range experiences (both indoor and outdoor), obstacle courses, Drill, PT and sport. This year the CCF took away over 30 cadets to the range camp (held at the start of the week) and 21 boys to the JNCO camp (held during the later stages of the week). The cadets recorded some excellent Mark had decided to retire at the end of this aca- scores during the shooting phase of the programme along with activities demic year. As it is he has cruelly been denied what such as the military obstacle course (with all of the cadets getting over the was sure to have been a full and happy retirement. 10 foot wall), military planning exercises (some excellent results shown by Wilson’s cadets), PT (every morning at 0530hrs, again a high degree of de- Mark joined the school in 1989 and worked tire- termination shown throughout each session.) and sport. The second half of lessly in and for the German department for over the week saw the arrival of the Year 10 cadets, on their JNCO cadre (working twenty years. towards their first promotion to Lance Corporal within the CCF). The cadre was designed to show them the standards required to achieve their initial Staff will remember Mark as a witty conversa- rank in the contingent. Training subjects covered, amongst others, were tionalist and an avid crossword solver who was leadership, fieldcraft, physical fitness, drill and military knowledge, all of always ready with some newly minted merry quip. which were well received. Maximum effort and determination were shown His light-hearted exterior opened up to reveal a throughout, a mark of Wilson’s CCF cadets. thoughtful, supportive and considerate person. Mark was also always most welcoming to new All the cadets commented on how much they had enjoyed their time at members of staff and was able to empathise with Longmoor and whether it was improving their shooting on the range camp their situation. He was ever helpful in the depart- or getting an insight into the requirements to be a successful JNCO in the ment and endlessly supported his colleagues, CCF: they all agreed it was a very worthwhile experience. organising work schemes and supplying the necessary equipment and materials without any Applications are now being taken from this year’s Year 9 to join the CCF. fuss at all. Mark also made an impact on school Letters were given out during the recruits’ day held on 22 October and drama performing memorably in some of the staff should be returned by end of school day on Monday November 8. pantomimes.
It goes without saying that he was a hardworking colleague who always put the students first. He built up very positive relationships with generations FOOTBALL FIXTURES of pupils and gave up many lunchtimes to help those for whom the intricacies of German gram- Saturday 6 November mar were proving overwhelming. He will be fondly remembered by his A level students in particular. Wilson’s vs. Riddlesdown There are also many pupils who will delight in re- U15A Away membering the trips to Germany that he organised. U14A Away Mark enjoyed his role as Form Tutor and many are U13A Home the pupils who are still grateful for his unobtrusive U12A Home but full pastoral care, helping them to meet the 4th XI Home demands of school life without ever being an over- bearing presence. Earlier in his career at Wilson’s Wilson’s vs. Hazelwick Mark helped out with football teams on a Saturday U14B Away morning showing a sound sporting sense and an awareness of how important extra-curricular activi- U13B Away ties are. U12B Away
Mark will be sadly missed by all the staff and pupils Wednesday 10 November Wilson’s vs Reigate Grammar at Wilson’s School. 1st XI Training 3rd XI Home If anyone would like to make a donation in Mark’s memory, his family have requested that it should go 4th XI Home to either St. Christopher’s Hospice or to the Royal Marsden Hospital.
Issue 170 November 5, 2010
SHOOTING FOR HOUSE POINTS INTERHOUSE CAKE BAKE COMPETITION
On return from CCF camp the following house points were added The inter-house Cake Bake competition will be taking place on to the totals for the following: Tuesday 16 November. Each House will have a stall to make as much money for the Pakistani floor relief as possible. There will Best Overall Shot: Rory McNevin also be House points for the best home baked cake, so get baking.
Senior Shots Barrack Range: 1st Sam Taylor(C), 2nd Daniel Hunt(C), 3rd Wilson Lou (B) ANIMATED CHRISTMAS CARD COMPETITION Gallery: 1st Sam Taylor(C), 2nd Ben Newman- Sanders(H), 3rd Chris Reeds (C) There will be an inter-house best animated Christmas card DCCT 1st Tom Watson(G), 2nd Sean competition. The card must be produced from scratch and Mitchener(G), 3rd Wilson Lou(B) this will be verified by Mrs Gill. House points will be awarded for 1st, 2nd and 3rd place in the following groups: Junior Shots Barrack Range: 1st Alex Micallef (H), 2nd Anthony Young Years 7 & 8 (B), 3rd Alan Garrod (G) Years 9 & 10 Gallery: 1st Rory McNevin (s), 2nd Jack Bolt (S), Years 11-13 3rd Hayden Jones(S) DCCT: 1st Joe Howlett (B), 2nd Chris Mallet (B), Entries should be sent to Mrs Gill and the deadline for the 3rd Tom Coates(C) receipt of entries is Wednesday 8 December. WILSON’S SCHOOL Issue 171 November 12, 2010 WEEKLY UPDATE
IMPORTANT DATES FOR YOUR DIARY Master Chef Final Wednesday 17 November - GCSE Musicians’ Evening Tempers were high, ovens were hot – the pressure was on as four teams Thursday 25 November - Prizegiving battled it out for the 2010 Senior Master Chef final. The challenge was Monday 13 December - Christmas Carol Service to deliver a full meal; starter, main course and dessert within a time limit of one and a half hours. The standard was certainly higher than in the previous heats with teams really trying to impress our judge Mr CHRISTMAS LUNCH: Wednesday 15th December Handley. Mr Handley is Executive Head Chef at the Royal Opera House Tickets for Christmas lunch will be on sale from Monday where he manages four restaurants and a team of thirty eight chefs. 29 November from the Finance Office during break or Commenting on Wilson’s Master Chef he said “the boys rose to the lunch times and can be paid for by cash or cheque only. challenge, delivered on time and all had at least one dish that I would Tickets cannot be purchased using cards. The tickets will happily include in a menu”. Well done to this year’s winners, Laurence cost £5 each. De Souza and Patrice Ng Wing Wye of Greencoat House. Our thanks go to Mr Pryse-Hawkins for helping to organise the competition and to Mr Handley for judging it.
ECO-SCHOOLS MEETING There will be an Eco-Schools meeting on Wednesday 17 November in room 21 at 1.20pm. We will be discussing plans for progressing to our Green Flag Award. All members of the Eco teams who have been at previous meetings are invited to attend. If you have any questions please speak to Mr Seymour or Mr Phillips.
Mr Handley with Ciaran Gowan of Hayes House.
The Cambridge Union Schools’ Debating GREEN BOXES Competition 2010/11 You may have noticed a rash of Green Boxes spread- A Debating Triumph for Wilson’s ing around the classrooms in school. The boxes can Congratulations to Damjan Veljanoski and Brandon Lundini for making be used for recycling paper or card and are emptied it through to the regional finals of the Cambridge University Schools once a week. A group of mainly Year 10 students have Debate. The southern heat was held at Epsom College with competition been performing this task over the last half term and from a number of schools in the area including Whitgift, Epsom, Coloma in the process have been scoring each room out of 10 and Wallington Grammar. The boys took part in the prepared debate for their recycling prowess. After six weeks of recy- “This House would ban music that glorifies crime”, and the unprepared cling it is our pleasure to announce that the History debate “This House would ban faith schools”. The debate was extremely and RE Office (which also includes Citizenship and tough, and the boys had to debate hard against worthy opposition from Govt and Politics) was the best room, beating off stiff Coloma and Epsom College. In the end, the judge awarded the win to competition from Mr Cole’s office and room 25. The Damjan and Brandon, complimenting both boys on their debating skills, award will be up for grabs again at the end of this half and in particular Damjan’s strong and innovative summarising skills. The term. In order to obtain high marks, the Green Box boys will progress to the regional final which will take place next term. should be well used with no sign of paper or card in Congratulations to the winners, as well as Kes, Beojan, Ashley and Dhruv the classroom rubbish bin. We are trying to expand who also took part in the competition. 6th form debating is held every the scheme to include as many rooms as possible, so Friday in room 10 at lunch time. If you are interested in taking part in if there is no green box in your room currently, we will upcoming debates including The London School of Economics Debate try and get one to you as soon as possible. and the Oxford University Schools Debate, please see Miss Androlia.
SIXTH FORM OPEN EVENING Debating : World Schools Championships George Driscoll, Harrison Gower, Conrad Jefferies and Will Ries took part Our thanks go to those boys and staff who gave up in a in a warm-up competition for the World Schools Championships last their time to help out at the sixth form Open Evening weekend, gaining valuable experience within a different debating style. on Tuesday 9 November. Everything ran smoothly Competing against some experienced sixth formers, they creditably won due to to all their hard work, enthusiasm and energy. their third round tie, although they are not eligible for the final. Congrat- ulations to all four students on their excellent performance. Issue 171 November 12, 2010
Young Geographer of the Year Army Scholarship Competition
Our congratulations go to Chris Hogg (U61) who has been named Young Geographer of the Year (16 – 18 year old) by The Royal Geographical Society. Chris will receive his prize at an Our congratulations go to Ed Hicks who has been provision- award ceremony in Kensington on Friday 19 November. His ally awarded an Army Scholarship. These are notoriously entry for the competition, themed ‘Sorting the wood from the hard to come by and we wish him well in the final part of the trees: the future of forests’, beat entrants from across the UK competition. and Europe. SUTTON 2012 OLYMPIC FORUM
ATTENDANCE AT INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC LESSONS A number of sixth formers were invited to perform at the Sutton 2012 Olympic Forum’s “1948 Exhibition” on Tuesday, There is now a new system of registering a student when they and made an outstanding impression performing music from should be at an instrumental lesson. Codes are entered into the period in which the Olympic Games were last staged in the system in advance, which means that if your son has for- London! gotten to go to his lesson, the classroom teacher will be able to remind him. This system will not apply to boys who have a music lesson during either morning or afternoon registration.
If a student does not arrive for an instrumental lesson, after 5 minutes the instrumental tutor will fetch him from his lesson. A note will be left on the door of the practice room if a teacher has left the room so that the student will know to wait for them to come back.
It is hoped that this will significantly decrease missed instru- mental lessons. It will also allow for any clashes to be identified early and resolved. If a lesson does need to be changed, please contact the instrumental teacher in the first instance, who will notify the school.
GCSE MUSICIANS’ EVENING - 17 NOVEMBER We do hope to see as many students and parents as possible at our GCSE Musicians’ Evening next Wednesday 17 November at 7pm in the main school hall.
CHARITY ORCHESTRAL CONCERT - 1 DECEMBER Tickets are now on sale for the Charity Orchestral Concert on Wednesday 1 December at 7.30pm. The concert is in aid of St. Raphael’s hospice and tickets can be bought from the Finance Office. Issue 171 November 12, 2010
HOUSE DEBATING COMPETITION INTERHOUSE CAKE BAKE COMPETITION
The house debating competition drew to a close this week, with The inter-house Cake Bake competition will be taking place on Brecon clear winners with 509 points. Southwark were runners Tuesday 16 November. Each House will have a stall to make as up with 436 points, followed by Camberwell with 375, Hayes 358 much money for the Pakistani flood relief as possible. There will and Greencoat 182 points respectively. Many thanks to tutors for also be House points for the best home baked cake, so get baking. supporting their teams. Don’t forget to bring your money in to buy the cakes!!
ANIMATED CHRISTMAS CARD COMPETITION
There will be an inter-house best animated Christmas card competition. The card must be produced from scratch and this will be verified by Mrs Gill. House points will be awarded for 1st, 2nd and 3rd place in the following groups:
Years 7 & 8 Years 9 & 10 Years 11-13
Entries should be sent to Mrs Gill and the deadline for the receipt of entries is Wednesday 8 December.
Andrew Malcolm-Neale presenting the shield to Wilson Lou, Brecon House Captain
Love in a Box
Years 7&8 are to be congratulated for their fantastic contribu- tion to this charitable effort, with over 50 shoeboxes ready for collection this week. 7S were particularly successful in provid- ing thoughtful gifts and decorating the boxes with style.
As part of Global Entrepreneurship week selected teams of year 10 students will be set the challenge of developing a business plan for a product to be tested on a market stall ready for the sales leading up to Christmas. This is a national challenge and also a house competition. After registration the boys will be locked away for the day brainstorming ideas, creating visions and working on the finance for their ideas. Wish them luck – full results next week Issue 171 November 12, 2010
FOOTBALL RESULTS FOOTBALL FIXTURES SURREY CUP Saturday 13 November - Wilson’s vs. Royal Rus- U15 beat Glyn 3-0 sell U12 beat Weydon 5-3 2nd XI Away DISTRICT LEAGUE U15A Home U14 beat Glenthorne 4-0 U14B Away NATIONAL CUP U13A Home U13 lost Thomas Tallis 0 -1 U12A Away SURREY LEAGUE Wilson’s vs. Cardinal V 1st XI beat Glenthorne 4-0 1st XI Home 2nd XI beat Glenthorne 3-2 Wilson’s vs. Stanley Park - matches cancelled. Wilson’s vs. Riddlesdown U15A won 3-1 Wednesday 17 November - Wilson’s vs. Sutton G.S. U14A won 5-0 3rd XI Away U13A won 3-2 4th XI Away U12A won 9-2 5th XI Away 6th XI Away
RUGBY FIXTURES Friday 12th November - Yr 11 vs Riddlesdown RUGBY RESULT Warlingham Rugby Club Tuesday 9 November vs. Harris Academy Monday 15th November - Yr 8 vs Riddlesdown (friendly) Away Y7 beat Harris Academy 35-15 Yr 10 vs Riddlesdown Away Another excellent performance by all involved. Tuesday 16th November - Yr 7 vs Riddlesdown Captain and Man of the Match Rob Cooke led Home from the front with 2 tries, along with some ex- Wednesday 17th November - Yr 11 vs Gl- cellent ball carrying and strength in the contact enthorne Sutton & Epsom Rugby Club area. Another performance of note was Julian Yr 12/13 vs Riddlesdown Home Ford, who made countless tackles and was su- Thursday 18th November - Yr 9 vs Riddlesdown perb at rucking the opposition off the ball. Other Away try scorers were Amartyadeep Pal, Carl Ntifo, Sam Kinch, Kris Page and Reiss Senior. The next league game is Tuesday 16th November, at home against Riddlesdown, kicking off at 2:45pm. All CROSS COUNTRY - 13 parents and staff welcome NOVEMBER The coach leaves Wilson’s at 10.30am and the race starts at 1.50pm. The race is at Beths Grammar school, Bexley, Kent, DA5 1NE and the coach will be leaving the race venue at 3pm. The team consists of: Conway, Holden, Leake, Niranjan, Wright, Sitch TABLE TENNIS Res: Chamadia (only if needed) The school U13 table tennis team began their league season with a comfortable 8-2 win over K.C.S. Wimbledon. Alex Sparks and Ewan Rob- ertson won both singles and doubles matches and there was a very impressive debut for new- ENGLISH SCHOOLS comer Liam Grant who had little trouble win- BADMINTON ning both his singles, playing at number one. Christian Kouppas, also playing his first league Wilson’s took part in the first round of the National match, did well to win one singles match. A competition at Carshalton Boys School, entering an good all round team effort. The next matches A and a B team. The A team won the competition are against Whitgift when the U19 team play and now progress to the next round. The B team a cup match and the U13’s play their second was placed second, only losing to the A’s. A great league match on Wednesday 17 November. effort by the boys. Issue 171 November 12, 2010
SUTTON SECONDARY SCHOOLS CROSS COUNTRY CHAMPIONSHIP 2009 - FINAL RESULTS
RACE AGE GROUP 1ST PLACE 2ND PLACE 3RD PLACE
1 U13 Girls (Y7) Sutton High Nonsuch High Cheam
2 U13 Boys (Y7) Wallington Boys’ Wilson’s Greenshaw
3 U15 Girls (Y7&8) St. Philomena’s Glenthorne Nonsuch High
4 U15 Boys (Y8&9) Wilson’s John Fisher Sutton Grammar
5 U17 Girls (Y10&11) St. Philomena’s Nonsuch High Glenthorne
6. U17 Boys (Y10&11) Wilson’s John Fisher Sutton Grammar
7. Senior Girls (Y12&13) Nonsuch High St. Philomena’s
8. Senior Boys (Y12 & 13) Sutton Grammar John Fisher Carshalton Boys
RACE AGE GROUP 1ST PLACE 2ND PLACE 3RD PLACE
1. Overall Boys’ Team Wilson’s John Fisher Sutton Grammar
2. Overall Girls’ Team St. Philomena’s Nonsuch High Glenthorne
3. Overall Boys & Girls Glenthorne WILSON’S SCHOOL Issue 172 November 19, 2010 WEEKLY UPDATE
IMPORTANT DATES FOR YOUR DIARY Wednesday 24 November - Sutton Careers Fair (Y11) Thursday 25 November - Prizegiving Wednesday 1 December - Charity Orchestral Concert
PARENT GOVERNORS We are pleased to announce that following the re- cent election, we have three new parent governors; Mr Nick Gardner, Mr Tim Kimber and Mrs Bozena McMillan. We look forward to working with them.
GCE/GCSE Examination Certificates The GCE/GCSE examination certificates have now arrived from the examinations board. Students can pick up their certificates and January exam timetables from the ex- aminations officer Mr Harmsworth in the School Admin office before 2pm on the following days of the week:- Upper 6 – Monday/Tuesday Lower 6 – Wednesday/Thursday Year 11 – Friday
OLD TOOLS AND WOODCOTE NURSERY CHRISTMAS VOUCHERS WILSON’S REMEMBERS Gardening club is having a busy time at the mo- ment. The allotment is being expanded as is the The School and The Combined Cadet Force marked Armistice Day and orchard and the number of boys coming is growing Remembrance Sunday in a number of ways. On Monday, Tuesday and week by week. This has left us short on tools for Thursday Mr Charnock conducted moving remembrance assemblies the boys so if anyone has any old spades and forks based around the story of the Battle of Fromell and the recent excava- or indeed any other garden implements that are tions at the site of the battle. Each assembly included the laying of a just collecting dust in your home please could you wreath by the School Captain escorted by two senior cadets drawn from donate them to us and we’ll put them to good use. the Army and RAF sections of the CCF. On Armistice Day F/Sgt Guy You can drop them off at reception and they will Morgan and Sgt Ben Newman-Sanders provided escort to the Mayor be passed on to Mr Phillips for Gardening club on of Croydon as she laid a wreath at the Cenotaph outside the town hall. Thursday lunch time. On Sunday more than five officers, the SSI and more than sixty cadets paraded through Croydon Town Centre with the TA, Sea Cadets, ACF and Your son will shortly be coming home with a ATC and Police Cadets in Number 1 Contingent of the formal Remem- voucher from Woodcote Nursery. All you have to brance Sunday parade in the town. They were complimented for their do is hand in the voucher with any purchase and turn out and bearing and were rightly proud to lay wreaths on behalf of the school will be awarded 25p. If you happen to the Corps and the School. go to their Christmas Grotto you can hand in your voucher to Santa and he will give you a gold ver- sion worth £1 to the school if handed in! As student gardening goes from strength to strength at Wil- son’s we always need funds to support the students and your continued support is greatly appreciated.
MARK MCDONALD
The McDonald family would like to thank all students, staff and parents for their support and generosity throughout this sad time. Your cards, emails and kind words gave us an insight into how much Mark meant to everyone and your tributes to him have provided much comfort.
We would also like to extend our thanks to all those who attended the funeral last week and helped make it such a poignant celebration of his life. You have also helped us to raise a lot of money for The Royal Marsden and St. Christo- pher’s Hospice where Mark received such excellent care. Thank you so much.
Elke, Nick, Josephine and Catherine McDonald Issue 172 November 19, 2010
Year 10 House Chemistry Challenge ANIMATED CHRISTMAS CARD COMPETITION
On Friday 12 November 7 teams (one from Brecon, Greencoat There will be an inter-house best animated Christmas card and Hayes and two teams from Camberwell and Southwark) competition. The card must be produced from scratch and comprising 4 boys each took part in the annual Royal Society this will be verified by Mrs Gill. House points will be awarded of Chemistry Challenge for year 10 boys. After four demanding for 1st, 2nd and 3rd place in the following groups: rounds to find the Kings of Chemistry at Wilson’s the final scores were very close. The ‘Camberwell 2 ‘ team were the overall win- Years 7 & 8 ners with the Brecon team a close second and the ‘Southwark Years 9 & 10 Years 11-13 1’ and Greencoat team drawing for the third place. Both the Camberwell 2 team and the Brecon team are now put forward to Entries should be sent to Mrs Gill and the deadline for the the South East Regional competition. We wish them well. The receipt of entries is Wednesday 8 December. Camberwell 2 victors were Tanay Verma, Simon Phillips, Callum Mance and Arslan Rana. Year 10 Rise to the Challenge
For enterprise week teams from each of the school houses were challenged to design a product or service that could be sold on a market stall. The brief stipulated that it should be ready for Christmas and be different from anything else that might be available. The day started with a team building task which allowed the groups to elect a leader and allocate team roles. Once ideas were generated they were further developed and prices and costs calculated ready for presentation to the judges, the Headmaster Mr. Charnock and Year Manager Mr. Phillips. The ideas appeared to centre around food and smells, these included a one stop stall for all your sustainable Christmas products, a world food stall, cards with a Christmas fragrance, a hot fruit soup and winners - Fragrables, an air freshener in the shape of a bauble. Well done to Camberwell who both won points for their house and whose entry will be put forward for the national competition. Pictured: Tanay Verma, Ben Flook, Sam Wright, Karim Abu- Seer, Sandeep Saji and Robert Webster with their Fragrables
HOUSE POINTS Camberwell remain top but are looking behind them at Brecon who swept the board in the debating. Southwark in third continue to put pressure on the leaders after second place in the debate. Year 7 also earnt them 30 points after a nomination for best efforts in the ‘Love in a Box’ campaign. Greencoat have a poor showing in the debate, with no shows to some rounds of the competition, meaning a gap opens up above them and below them...... Hayes continue to gain ground. Issue 172 November 19, 2010
Christmas Lunch 2010 Rotary Debate There was a valiant effort to defend their title at the Rotary Debate held Wednesday 15th December 2010 at Wilson’s on 16th November. Teams from Surrey schools including Wal- Tickets for Christmas lunch will be on sale from Monday 29 lington, Nonsuch and Carshalton gathered to battle it out on the debat- November from the Finance office during break or lunch ing floor. The 3 teams from Wilson’s included controversial topics such as times and can be paid for by cash or cheque only. Tickets “Is money really the root of all evil?” and “Nuclear Weapons should Not cannot be purchased using cards. The tickets will cost £5.00 be Disarmed”, and the main school put in an excellent argument that each. “Society is crushing our independent thought”. In the end, Wilson’s were beaten by an experienced team from Wallington, but hope to regain Roast Turkey with all the trimmings their title next year. Well done to all the boys concerned. Honey roast parsnips A reminder that main school debating is held in room 16 and 6th form Brussel sprouts debating is held in room 10 – both on Friday lunch times. Carrots Roast potatoes Senior Team Maths Challenge or This is a tough tournament where participants work as a group or Spicy roasted Christmas vegetables in pairs. The Wilson’s Team, comprising Alex McMillan (U6), Mayghal with Vijapura (U6), Matthew Rogers (L6) and Aditya Gutpa (L6) travelled to Saffron couscous and roasted garlic relish the central London regional final. They all worked together in the group or round and solved all but one problem successfully. They then tackled the Char grilled salmon steak with chive butter cross number in pairs, where each pair only have half the clues. Again they only lost a couple of marks. Finally came the mini-relay where the Christmas pudding answer to a question solved by one pair was needed by the other pair to solve their problem. Despite another excellent performance Wilson’s were just pipped at the end by City of London Boys School, and so came an excellent second out of the fifteen schools taking part. FOOTBALL RESULTS Senior Maths Challenge Congratulations to the U16’s who beat J K Catho- Wilson’s students taking this toughest of the individual maths chal- lic School 5- 3 to reach the last 64 in the National lenges have obtained outstanding results. A record 9 pupils performed Cup. Goals from Jack Elliott (2) Jacob Paul and exceptionally well and qualified for the British Mathematical Olympiad. Daniel Searle (2). Leading scores were achieved by Alex McMillan (U6), Charlie Osborn (L6), Reaz Baksh (L6), Keith Barker (11S) and Joe Sutcliffe (U6). Daniel Hunt (L6), Michael Vereycken (10C), Victor Mikhno (U6) and Scott Eng- Saturday 13th November - Wilson’s vs Royal land (11S) also qualified for the Olympiad. Another 13 students gained Russell gold awards (making a school record of 22 in total), with 42 silver and 36 U12A won 11- bronze. U13A won 8-0 U14B lost 3-5 Hans Woyda Maths In their second league match in the inter-school Maths tournament, U15A won 6-1 Wilson’s played against Trinity, last year’s beaten finalist. Wilson’s took an 1st X1 won 5-3 early lead, but the match remained very close until the final race round. Trinity then pulled ahead to win the match 50 to 41. FOOTBALL FIXTURES Saturday 20 November - Wilson’s vs. Kelsey Park RUGBY RESULTS U15A Away Croydon, Sutton, Merton, Wandsworth League U14A Home Year 10 vs Riddlesdown Won 12 - 7 U13A Away Year 8 vs Riddlesdown Won 12 - 12 U12A Home Year 11 vs Glenthorne Pending Friendly Fixture Wilson’s vs. Ibstock Park Year 12/13 vs Riddlesdown Pending 1st XI Home 2nd XI Home U15B Away U14B Away U13B Home RUGBY FIXTURES Monday 22 November Year 10 vs Ernest Bevin (Home) 2:30pm ko CHESS RESULTS Tuesday 23 November Year 7 vs Ernest Bevin (Home) 2:30pm ko Wilson’s C 1 Homefield A 5 Wednesday 24 November Wilson’s D 7 Homefield B 5 Year 12/13 vs Graveney (Home) 2:30pm ko Friday 26 November Year 8 vs Ernest Bevin (Home) 2:00pm ko Wilson’s School is Launching
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WILSON’S SCHOOL Issue 173 November 26, 2010 WEEKLY UPDATE IMPORTANT DATES FOR YOUR DIARY WILSON’S TARGET 2.0 VICTORY Wednesday 1 December - Charity Orchestral Concert Thursday 2 December - Unique Timetable Target 2.0 is the interschool contest organised by the Bank of Friday 3 December - Unique Timetable England to encourage the nations most able and enthusiastic economics students to debate the thorny issue of how best to GCE/GCSE EXAMINATION CERTIFICATES use interest rates and money supply to keep inflation at the The GCE/GCSE examination certificates have now arrived target of 2%. The decision also requires consideration of other from the examinations board. Students can pick up their key economic objectives; economic growth, unemployment and certificates and January exam timetables from the exami- imports and exports. The contest involves each team arguing nations officer Mr Harmsworth in the School Admin office their case in the form of a detailed 15 minutes presentation and before 2pm on the following days of the week:- then being subjected to close and prolonged questioning from Upper 6 – Monday/Tuesday the judges (representatives from the Bank of England) on aspects Lower 6 – Wednesday/Thursday of their argument – a very tall order. Year 11 – Friday The first round of the contest took place on Wednesday, 23 No- LOST PROPERTY vember at the Croydon Aerodrome Hotel and this year Wilson’s The school lost property cupboard is overflowing with was able to field a particularly strong team in the form of Jack Di items that have no name on them, therefore we are un- Lizia, Wilson Lou, Nikesh Shah and James Daly, all in Year 13. The able to return them to their owners. If your son has lost competition was formidable, with entrants from Whitgift, Non- some property please do send him to have a look for it such, Coloma and Sutton Grammar amongst the line up. How- and please do remind your sons to mark all their property ever, the Wilson’s team argued convincingly for keeping interest with their name. rates at 0.5 % and holding off on quantitative easing. The team gave an excellent account of themselves: knowledgeable, well SICKNESS rehearsed, confident and more than ready for the panel’s inter- If you are called to collect your son from school because rogation - they swept all before them. So, it’s on to the regional he is vomiting or feeling sick please do keep him at home final in February 2011! Congratulations once again to the Wil- for at least 24 hours i.e. the day he goes home sick and son’s team for their hard work – several months of preparation, the following day. competitive spirit and willingness to stretch themselves in the cause of excellence. Many thanks to Mr Ormonde for mentoring SIXTH FORM DEBATING CLUB the team. Two important debating competitions are coming up. The London School of Economics is holding its annual 6th form debate on 4th December, in which teams will speak on a range of topics, breaking to a final and dinner provided by LSE. The second competition is an unfamiliar competition to Wilson’s, and is being held 15th January at the School of African Studies, which will be an all day debate similar to LSE and Oxford. This will be a great opportunity for the boys to flex their debating skills, and prepare for the upcoming Oxford and Cambridge Debates, as well as having the opportunity to spend time at the universities they may consider applying to in the future. If you are interested in taking part in any upcom- ing debates, please see Miss Androlia. 6th form debating club is held every Friday lunch time in room 10.
MODERN FOREIGN LANGUAGES SUMMER VISITS Lists of the students who are participants in the Modern Foreign Languages trips to Cologne or Northern France are now posted on the school website, (on the Modern Foreign Languages page) Please consult them to see that your deposit payment has been recorded. If your son’s name is not on the list and it should be please contact Mr. Winstone at the school. The next instalment is now due: for the France trip of £120 and for the Germany trip of £150. Please make the cheques payable to Wilson’s School Private Funds and ask your son to place the pay- ment in the red post box underneath the stairs in the main foyer. GCSE AND A LEVEL MUSICIANS GCSE and A level musicians enjoyed a visit on Wednesday night to the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra’s performance of Holst’s Planets Suite and Bruch’s Violin Concerto performed by former BBC Young Musician of the Year Nicola Benedetti. Issue 173 November 26, 2010
CAKE BAKE - RESULTS UNIQUE TIMETABLES - 2 & 3 DECEMBER THURSDAY 2 DECEMBER BEST CAKE Year 7: Academic Tutoring day– all boys will have been given an 1st Southwark appointment time with their tutor. They should report to school, 2nd Camberwell wearing uniform, in good time to keep that appointment. Year 7 3rd Hayes boys need not be in school other than at their tutoring time. Year 8: Academic Tutoring day– all boys will have been given an MONEY RAISED appointment time with their tutor. They should report to school, 1st Camberwell £137.07 wearing uniform, in good time to keep that appointment. Year 8 2nd Greencoat £65.10 boys need not be in school other than at their tutoring time. 3rd Southwark £56.89 Year 9: Normal Timetable 4th Brecon £39:63 Year 10: Geography Controlled Assessment (see Mr Cole’s letter 5th Hayes £30:25 for detailed instructions). Boys who do not take GCSE Geography TOTAL: £328.94 have study leave and do not have to attend. Year 11: MFL / Music Controlled Assessment (see Mr Cole’s letter for detailed instructions). Boys should only attend for their YEAR 7 HOUSE POINTS MATHS CHALLENGE timetabled assessments. This term has seen the Year 7 House Points Maths Challenge Sixth Form: Normal Timetable take place. Each week, Year 7 boys have competed against each FRIDAY 3 DECEMBER other in their houses to be the first to answer challenging maths Year 7: Normal Timetable questions correctly. This has been a closely fought competition Year 8: Normal Timetable with all houses being very keen to claim victory each week. The Year 9: Academic Tutoring day– all boys will have been given an overall winning house for the competition though is Southwark appointment time with their tutor. They should report to school, who have hauled the most house points over the series and wearing uniform, in good time to keep that appointment. Year 9 claimed the trophy. Well done to all houses though as every boys need not be in school other than at their tutoring time. house has demonstrated real teamwork and enthusiasm! Year 10: English Controlled Assessment (see Mr Cole’s letter for detailed instructions). Year 11: MFL / Music Controlled Assessment (see Mr Cole’s letter for detailed instructions). Boys should only attend for their time- tabled assessments. Sixth Form: Normal Timetable
SUTTON SECONDARY SCHOOLS CHALLENGE On Monday this week, six boys from Year 8 represented Wilson’s in the inaugural Sutton Secondary Schools Maths Challenge. This was led by STEMNET (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics Network) Ambassadors who were able to inform students first hand about mathematics used in context. This included real life examples from the Actuarial profession, Project Management and Pharmaceutical Manufacturing upon which each of the challenges were based. The boys representing Wilson’s were: Harry Goodburn, Luke Curran, Max Rivens, Yusuf El-Hilly, Neev Trehan and Harry Fairman, all of whom were exem- plary in their teamworking skills and determination. Although we did not collect the spoils on the day, the boys gained valuable experience competing as a team and discovered first hand about maths used in real life professional applications.
ANIMATED CHRISTMAS CARD COMPETITION There will be an inter-house best animated Christmas card competition. The card must be produced from scratch and this will be verified by Mrs Gill. House points will be awarded for 1st, 2nd and 3rd place in the following groups: Years 7 & 8 Years 9 & 10 Years 11-13 Entries should be sent to Mrs Gill and the deadline for the receipt of entries is Wednesday 8 December. Issue 173 November 26, 2010
FOOTBALL RESULTS BADMINTON RESULTS Tuesday 16 November - Wilson’s vs Ibstock Badminton National cup first round U.16 U12A lost 2-1 Wilson’s won the first round of the National Champi- U12B won 6-1 onships and join the U.14 team in the next round to be held at Wilson’s in January U12C won 5-0 School sports partnership Badminton Compe- National Cup tition 1st XI won 3-0 (last 64 in the country) Year 7/8 teams v Sutton Grammar, Carshalton, Stan- Wednesday 17th November Wilson’s vs. ley Park and Greenshaw. In this friendly match for Sutton Grammar year 8 teams, Wilson’s entered a team of 10 Year 7’s 3rd XI won 3-0 and 2 Year 8 players. 4th XI won 4-1 Wilson’s were placed first overall. 5th XI drew 3-3 6th XI lost 6-0 U16 lost 2-2 (4-3 on penalties) (Surrey Cup) Thursday 18 November vs. Wallington (District Cup 1/4 final) U14A won 2-1 BASKETBALL RESULTS Saturday 20 November vs. Kelsey Park Basketball u15 U12A won 7-1 (National Cup) In the Surrey schools’ league we lost our first U13A won 7-2 game to Harris Merton by 4 points, we won our U14A won 4-1 second game against Beacon School by 2 points. U15A won 4-0 Our first cup game vs. Harris Merton was played vs. Ibstock on 23 November going into overtime with Wil- U13B lost 0-8 - Ibstock A team U14B lost 0-2 - Ibstock A team son’s winning by 11 points. U15B won 3-0 Basketball u18 1st XI won 2-0 In the Surrey schools’ league we have played 2nd XI won 7-0 three games, against Epsom College, Hollyfield Sixth Form and Richard Challoner winning all of them with double digit scores.
FOOTBALL FIXTURES TABLE-TENNIS RESULTS Saturday 20 November - Wilson’s vs. Kelsey The U16 and U13 teams travelled to Hampton Park on Tuesday and had comfortable wins. The U15A Away U16s had a good 9-1 victory with Alex Yee, Alex U14A Home Rolls and Alex Sparks winning all their matches U13A Away and Amar Shukla winning two. Amar did well U12A Home coming back from the disappointment of los- Wilson’s vs. Ibstock Park ing his first match and Alex Sparks played very 1st XI Home well coming in as reserve at short notice. The 2nd XI Home U13 also had a good 8-2 victory. Liam Grant and U15B Away Curtis Rose won all their matches while Christian U14B Away Kouppas and Vatsal Raina won two. Vatsal did especially well in his first game for the school. Liam Grant is now ranked number four in the country at U12.
RUGBY FIXTURES CHESS RESULTS Tuesday 30 November vs.Cheam National Cup Year 8 Sutton & Epsom RFC 4pm Wilson’s drew with Sutton Grammar 3 - 3 Wednesday 1 December vs.Raynes Park Wilson’s won on tie-break Year 11 Away 2.30pm League Thursday 2 December vsCheam Wilson’s B drew with Caterham School A 3 - 3 Year 9 Home 2.30pm Wilson’s D beat John Fisher 12 - 0 vs. Carshalton Wilson’s E beat Caterham School B 7.5 - 4.5 Year 7 Sutton & Epsom RFC 4pm Issue 173 November 26, 2010
WINTER CONCERT
featuring JOHN WILLIAMS’ ‘SUPERMAN RETURNS’ BLUES BROTHERS REVUE NEW WIND BAND INAUGURAL PERFORMANCE KARL JENKINS’ ‘PALLADIO’ PETER WARLOCK’S ‘CAPRIOL SUITE’
date location time 01/12/2010 WILSON’S SCHOOL 7.30 PM In aid of ST RAPHAEL’S HOSPICE WILSON’S SCHOOL Issue 174 December 10, 2010 WEEKLY UPDATE
IMPORTANT DATES FOR YOUR DIARY WILSON’S CHARITY WINTER CONCERT Monday 13 December - Wilson’s Carol Concert The festive season started in style on Wednesday evening with an Wednesday 15 December -Sixth Form Reunion Evening excellent Winter Concert in aid of St Raphael’s Hospice featuring Thursday 16 December- Duke of Edinburgh Walks all of the school’s major ensembles and culminating with a stun- Thursday 16 December - Term Ends ning performance of Warlock’s Capriol Suite and Superman Returns by John Williams. The concert had been postponed from last SIXTH FORM REUNION (LAST YEAR’S U6) week so many thanks to the parents for their patience and will- This will take place on Wednesday 15 December at 6.30 ingness to turn out a week later on still icy roads. It was certainly pm in the sixth form common room. If current students worth the effort as the quality of the performances was first rate. have brothers who were in the Upper Sixth last year It was particularly pleasing to see so many more of the school’s please can they inform their brothers that the reunion is musicians performing in the ensembles and obviously enjoying taking place and that they will be very welcome. the experience. Thanks and congratulations to all who performed and thanks particularly to the teachers; Ms Bright, Mrs Dennis and WILSON’S CAROL SERVICE - MONDAY 13 DECEMBER Mr Willey who led ensembles, and most especially to Mr Lissimore All parents and friends of the school are most wel- for his work in directing and masterminding the evening as well as come to the Wilson’s Carol Service in Croydon Parish preparing and conducting several of the performances. Church at 7.30 p.m. Boys in the Choir will rehearse in the morning (travelling to the church immediately after morning registration and returning for Period 4), while all boys in Year 7 are expected to attend the service in the evening.
YEAR 7 SOLOISTS EVENING - WEDNESDAY 19 JANUARY This is a celebration of the talents of solo performers on a range of instruments that will take place early next term. Please make a note of the date in your diary.
TANZANIA 2012 The deadline for applying to go on the Tanzania 2012 Ex- pedition is Thursday 27 January. Anyone interested, from Years 10, 11 and 12 should ensure their paperwork is sub- mitted prior to this date. Should you need the paperwork or have any further questions please contact Mr Beggs at the school or alternatively you could attend the parents follow up meeting on Monday 10 January.
DofE WALK - 16 DECEMBER 2010
On the last day of this term all three DofE award groups will embark on a taster/training walk to St Martha’s Hill in the North Downs. Bronze award participants will get their first taste of what is expected of them during the expedition phase of the award. Silver participants will get an opportu- nity to develop their skills by carrying out their own group navigated walk and Gold participants will prepare and help lead the Bronze groups during the day.
Arrangements for the day are as follows:- BRONZE Meet in the lecture theatre at 0800hrs. Boys are to sit in their pre arranged groups. Equipment needed – Daysack with a packed lunch, waterproofs, warm clothing i.e. gloves and hat, whistle, water bottle and snacks as required. Returning to school by 1500hrs. A full briefing is on the pupils’ shared drive in the DofE Bronze 1011 folder. SILVER AND GOLD Meet in the North Study at 0800hrs. Boys to sit in their pre arranged groups Equipment needed – as per Bronze as well as one map, compass and map cover per group (map, compass and map cover will be provided by the school). Returing to school by 1500hrs.
Over 150 boys are due to participate on the day. Issue 174 December 10, 2010
WEDNESDAY 15 DECEMBER HOUSE MUFTI DAY
WILSON’S GETS COOKING - FROM JANUARY AS YOU WILL BE WEARING MUFTI ON WEDNESDAY DON’T FORGET TO BRING YOUR CHRISTMAS LUNCH TICKET WITH YOU. After successfully completing a one day cooking demonstra- tion course with “Let’s Get Cooking” the school is aiming to DON’T LEAVE IT IN YOUR BLAZER POCKET!! set up two cooking clubs next term. Jake South, Sam Giles and Milan Patel all attended the one day course with Mr. Jones and Ms Keen. Skills learnt included how to use a knife properly, how to measure ingredients correctly and most CAMBERWELL are first to break the 1,000 points barrier with importantly how to wash up….. a joint third in the Year 8 Geography quiz but have lost some ground to Brecon who won the Year 8 Geography quiz and The aim of the “Let’s Get Cooking” club at Wilson’s will be to gained some points due to Wilson Lou’s inclusion in the Target 2.0 encourage students and parents to take an interest in food team. Southwark gained points for second place in the Geog- issues, diet and cooking. The course will include teaching not raphy quiz and James Daly being in the Target 2.0 team. Green- just how to make a chocolate cake, but also how to make it coat came third in the quiz but are the only house to have two healthy! Let’s get cooking are providing some funds to help representatives, Jack Di Lizia and Nikesh Shah in the Target 2.0 the school set up the cooking club. competition. Hayes slipped back after their cake bake showing with fifth in the quiz and nobody picked for the Target 2.0 team. It is hoped that the club will run for Year 9’s after school on a Next week’s totals will include credit totals so make sure your Year Thursday and during Thursday lunchtime for Lower Sixth. If Manager gets them this week! any parent would like to become involved, is willing to share their expertise or would like to learn the best way to slice an onion then please do get in touch. To make the club a success we are looking for parent volunteers to help out with the Year ANIMATED CHRISTMAS CARD COMPETITION 9 after school club. Any interested parent should contact Mr. There will be an inter-house best animated Christmas card Jones through the school office. competition. The card must be produced from scratch and this will be verified by Mrs Gill. House points will be awarded For more information on Let’s get cooking visit their web site. for 1st, 2nd and 3rd place in the following groups: Years 7 & 8 Years 9 & 10 Years 11-13 Entries should be sent to Mrs Gill and the deadline for the receipt of entries has now been extended to Monday 13 December.
DIRK GENTLY DETECTIVE SERIES Congratulations to Elliot Sutherland (9G) who will be appearing in the BBC drama Dirk Gently detective series, written by Douglas Ad- ams of Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy Fame. This will be screened on the evening of 16 December on BBC4. We look forward to see- ing him in future productions. Issue 174 December 10, 2010
YEAR 7 MENTORS ADVERTISEMENT On Friday 26 November, twenty hand-picked Sixth Form students were put through their paces by Cynthia Jones a lecturer in Psychology from Kingston University. The day’s training provided the boys with all VOLUNTEERS REQURIED FOR THE the skills necessary to provide support and guidance to the new Year 7 students. They will work closely with the pastoral team and will be HOME START SERVICE IN THE LON- available as a ‘listening ear’ should Year 7 students have questions and DON BOROUGH OF SUTTON issues they wish to discuss. They will be introduced to the Year 7 dur- ing Year assembly at the beginning of December and the Mentors have Home-Start Sutton are looking to recruit home visiting been told to be ready to provide support on a whole variety of issues volunteers. HSS is a family support organisation which ranging from help with homework to ‘Why have I not been picked for provides emotional and practical support to families in the school football team?’!! the London Borough of Sutton with children under 5 years of age who are struggling. Volunteers visit families for a couple of hours each week in their homes. All volunteers need to undergo our volunteer preparation course, which will be starting on January 18th 2011. This will run for two days per week on a Tuesday and a Thursday, during school hours, for a period of four weeks, in the Rosehill area. Expenses paid.
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During the Autumn term, Dr Cooper again ran a series of four twilight FOOTBALL FIXTURES maths sessions for top sixth form maths students in the area. Sessions were about being prepared for Senior Maths Challenge, the Oxford Maths Wednesday 8 December - Wilson’s vs. test, University interviews and the British Maths Olympiad. Students from Latymer Upper School (National Cup) a range of schools attend these, including Wallington Girls, Nonsuch, 1st XI Away Rosebery, Sutton High School, Harris City Academy and Trinity School, as well as Wilson’s. Saturday 11 December - Wilson’s vs. Hamp- Also during this term we have held a series of joint Upper Sixth ‘Future in ton School (Quarter Final of the Surrey maths’ sessions with Wallington Girls. These included an introduction to Cup) mathematical topics such as game theory and fractals as well as prepara- 1st XI tion for Senior Maths Challenge and University interviews.
In the spring term we will be running STEP maths sessions jointly with Old Palace School for sixth form pupils who wish to look at tough maths problems. Whilst for those in the lower sixth such problems can be FOOTBALL RESULTS treated as an enjoyable challenge, for others, learning how to tackle such Surrey Cup - Wilson’s vs Carshalton problems is vital as doing well in the STEP papers (Sixth Term Entrance 1st XI won 2-1 Papers) is a condition of studying maths at Cambridge, Warwick or Bath. to win a place in the Quarter Final.
Congratulations to the following teams who RUGBY RESULTS are now in the last 64 teams in the National Cup. League Wilson’s vs. Ernest Bevin U12 vs. Lealands School Away (Luton) U15 vs. Cardinal Newman Away (Luton) Year 7 Wilson’s 26 – 42 Ernest Bevin U16 vs Riddlesdown Home Year 8 (the team we have played in the Surrey Cup Wilson’s 5 – 19 Ernest Bevin Final for the last 3 years). 1st XI vs. Latymer Upper Away Issue 174 December 10, 2010
TABLE-TENNIS RESULTS RUGBY INFORMATION The school U16 team were close to winning the London Due to the school’s link with London Wasps, we have the South team championship at Whitgift last Friday week. opportunity of receiving discount tickets for the Heinek- They won their quarter final by beating Orleans Park 8-0 en Cup match over the Christmas period. The tickets are and then beat Woodcote Park 7-1 in the semi-final. The available to students, friends and family. For more infor- final against Stanley Park was as close as it gets with mation on this great offer, pupils must come and find Mr the final score at 4-4. In these situations, the result is Collins in the PE Department to collect an order form. on count back of games and we lost 15-13, a difference Forms have to be completed and sent to the address at of two games. Needless to say, the whole team played the bottom of the order form. If the order form is sent very well with Alex Yee and Liam Grant losing just one to London Wasps before Thursday 16 December, tickets match throughout the tournament. They had excellent will be sent to your home address; tickets ordered after support from Amar Shukla, Kartik Iyer and Alex Rolls. 16 December, will have to be collected on the day of the They may get into the E.S.T.T.A. regional event as a close game. DO NOT miss out on this great opportunity! loser, where they will join our U19 team who have al- ready qualified. This will be held at Kemnal T.T.C. Sidcup WASPS vs NEWPORT GWENT DRAGONS on Sunday 16 January. The U13 team also went down bravely when they played in the same event hosted by SUNDAY 19TH DECEMBER – 1:00PM KICK OFF Wilson’s last Tuesday. They comfortably beat Hayes 8-0 but then narrowly lost to the eventual winners, K.C.S. ADAMS PARK STADIUM, HIGH WYCOMBE Wimbledon by 5-3. Alex Sparks remained unbeaten throughout the afternoon and Curtis Rose only lost one TICKETS - £5 (Children) £ 10 (Adult) match. The rest of the team consisted of Ewan Robert- son, Christian Kouppas and Vyas Raina.