Rugby Triumph Prince Henry’S Are County Champions
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The news magazine of Prince Henry’s Grammar School in Specialist Language College viewVolume 21 Summer 2008 Rugby triumph Prince Henry’s are county champions Proud of the past, prepared for the future Take pride in our school Ongoing success in languages SINCE the last edition of Inview we have also noted that “students’ progress high expectations and exemplary care We continue to excel as a specialist Language College – and Ofsted agrees received our Ofsted inspection report, goes hand in hand with good personal and support”. which concludes that Prince Henry’s is development and wellbeing; they enjoy Our new Science block is now open, “a good school with outstanding features. learning, show concern for others and take providing state-of-the-art facilities with 11 Students make good progress as a result of pride in their school. Attendance is good laboratories, preparation rooms and new Ofsted confirms re-designation challenging and skilful teaching”. Inspectors and behaviour is excellent, as a result of reception area. PRAISE from Ofsted for our role as a Language College has secured our John Steel, Headteacher Language College status for a further three years. Inspectors commented on our “outstanding contribution to local schools and community language learning”, and highlighted our students’ “strong awareness of their global citizenship”. New developments include Absolutely the launch of a Polish course for beginners as part of our Community That was sum event! Education Programme. WORLD Maths Day was a huge set of 182,455,169 correct eighties success this year, with more than answers given. Awards were Durban dignitary visit a million pupils competing in the presented to Stephanie Rumsey WE were honoured when Ina Cronje, their preconceptions of South Africa ‘mathletics’ event organised to and Rohini Ajaykumar, Year 7, Minister of Education for the South and said she hoped to meet them help improve basic arithmetic and Choi Yi Chan, Year 9, for African province of KwaZulu-Natal, during their trip. skills. A website gave real-time their contributions to the total, paid a visit to Prince Henry’s to meet results as pupils from more than and an entire Maths set won a pupils who had been to our partner 150 countries answered mental subscription to the mathletics school Earlington Secondary in maths questions. website for their efforts. Durban, as well as pupils who will fly A new world record was out this summer. It’s a numbers game: Year Mrs Cronje took part in a live web 7 ‘mathletes’ Madison chat with a teacher from Earlington, Miller, Rohini Ajaykumar who watched the whole event via and Stephanie Rumsey. webcam. She asked pupils about VIP visit: KwaZulu-Natal Education Minister Ina Cronje received a warm welcome when she visited the school. Rousing chorus: The cast of Back to the 80s belt out another classic hit. THIS year Prince Henry’s had a dose of 80s Active role in Amnesty nostalgia when a cast of 105 and crew of 30 YEAR 12 students Vicky Wilson, All three students took an active performed the smash hit musical Back to the 80s. Amy Barker and Rebecca Krengal, role in the working parties and voted along with Miss Alltoft and Miss during the plenary sessions, and Crammed full of classic pop songs from the Colourful conscience: Jordan Drake, Scott Marshall era, the five performances delighted more than and Gaby Gill, Year 9, display their protest pieces. Havas, headed for the University enjoyed having the opportunity to a thousand parents and friends in the audience, of Nottingham during the Easter see how the decision-making process who hummed along to classics such as Girls Just break to attend the Amnesty works. The Prince Henry’s Amnesty Wanna Have Fun, Kids in America, Material Girl Children in arms way National conference and annual group was also awarded a prize for and Man in the Mirror, but the highlight of the general meeting. their work over the past year. show was the final song,Time of our Lives – for PUPILS in Years 8 and 9 tackled an important issue in Art which Emma Roe and Will Cook imitated the and Religious Studies when they examined the implications famous lift from the filmDirty Dancing. for children – particularly child soldiers – of the global Ohayo gozaimasu! arms trade. JUST after Easter a small group of eager Year 9 and 10 pupils began studying As part of the Control Arms campaign, pupils designed Japanese. So far the group has learnt how to introduce themselves, a number and created protest T-shirts, posters and placards. “We News in brief of everyday phrases, numbers up to 120 million, and 20 simple kanji, the TEACHING Assistants Ms Crosby, Mrs Parkinson have so many rights in this country – kids would never be characters used in modern Japanese writing. and Mr Whitaker have been working on their forced to join the army or carry a gun,” explains Gaby Gill, If you fancy trying something different and challenging, it’s still not too late NVQ 3/Teaching Assistant qualification, which Year 9. “We have to protect the children of other countries.” to join the group, which meets in Room 53 every Tuesday after school. they will complete by the term’s end. PRINCE Henry’s and seven local primary schools have agreed to establish a Joint Collaborative Centre for the Governance of External Services, Group the new Children’s Centre and the Orchard Centre Learning Support Unit. The long-awaited Otley Children’s Centre at encourages Ashfield School will meet local community needs such as family support and parental outreach. eco-shopping AS part of our Green Day, Waitrose AFTER a detailed feasibility study the school agreed to remove plastic bags from its governors concluded that Prince Henry’s does checkouts for a day. not currently have the resources to offer the The Eco Group took used bags to International Baccalaureate as an alternative the supermarket and helped customers to A-levels. The school is looking into a National to pack their shopping using these Baccalaureate qualification run by AQA. recycled bags, as well as the free Bags for Life provided by Waitrose. YEAR 10 students received some excellent The Eco Group talked to customers GCSE Science exam results recently, with 26 about how they could save energy at students scoring full marks in one or more of home and at work, and are now putting their exams. some of the ideas to use around the school. JOEL Pell and Lyndsey Fox completed their entry-level qualification in Science, working with In the bag: Waitrose Partner Dora Sykes, Ian Nicholls to produce ten pieces of work. Tom Hymers, Waitrose Partner Kevin 2 Buckley, Linzi Ranfagni, Lauren Wilson, 3 Daniel Gleghorn and Lenja Rohlfing. Abroad spectrum for travel Over the past school year more than 350 pupils have taken part in one of 15 foreign visits, meaning that pupils at Prince Henry’s have more opportunities to travel abroad than at any other school in the area A trip to remember THE History department’s trip to Flanders proved to be a poignant experience for the 44 Year 9 pupils who visited battlefields and monuments at Vimy, Thiepval and Ypres, as well as smaller cemeteries such as Langemark and Brandhoek. Several students found memorials to their relatives and a wreath Fountain of youth: Pupils pump it up in Poland. was laid at Brandhoek in a moving ceremony. “One of the aims of the trip was to Far and wide provide an opportunity to reflect on WHILE Year 9 French pupils included the launch of our joint the scale of industrial warfare and enjoyed an exchange visit to recipe book, Europe on a Plate, consider the relevance and nature Otley’s twin town of Montereau, and students were able to practise of remembrance today,” explains German pupils took part in what they had learnt in their Polish History teacher Victoria Canon. History lesson: Laurell Malpass and Josh Blundell, Year 12. an exchange to Rhein-Maas lessons prior to the trip. In Flanders fields: Year 9 pupils on Gymnasium. A group of 45 Year 8 pupils the History trip to Belgium. Year 13 students, meanwhile, flew to Barcelona, where they Harrowing history headed for Madrid, where they visited the Camp Nou stadium, visited our new partner school Parc Güell and the Sagrada YEAR 12 students Josh Blundell of Oswiecim and a guided tour and enjoyed some of the area’s Familia cathedral, as well as our and Laurell Malpass recently of the two Auschwitz cultural sights. partner school IES Montserrat. travelled to Poland with other concentration camps. Another group of students June was a busy month for students, local MPs and a On their return, Josh and visited Bielsk Podlaski and Warsaw Year 7, with 45 pupils taking part Holocaust survivor to take part Laurell passed on their learning in Poland for the finale of our in the annual trip to Le Touquet in the Lessons from Auschwitz by giving a talk to Year 8 students, three-year Comenius Project with in France, and 40 pupils visiting project, which included a visit to who study the Holocaust as part Poland and Italy. The programme Cologne in Germany. a Jewish graveyard in the town of their work on Judaism. Sport and Peak fun on ski trip culture in Dubai IT was Prince Henry’s most ambitious sporting trip ever – taking 47 pupils from Years 9 and 10 to Dubai on a rugby and netball tour. As well as the matches, the trip was also a very cultural experience for the pupils, who visited a Bedouin camp and a spice and gold souk (market), as well as trying the rare treat of camel riding.