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ALADDIN THEATRE TRIP

On Thursday 18 and 25 January the Music and Drama In their form groups, students will now practise the departments took over 150 Year 7 students to London to songs and dances during their Music and Drama lessons watch the matinee performance of Aladdin. before perfoming to their families on Thursday 28 June.

Before the performances students took part in an exciting workshop at the Pineapple Dance Studios. The workshops were led by current cast members of the musical who taught the students the moves to the show’s opening number.

After building up an appetitie at the workshop students headed to Pizza Hut for lunch before walking to the Prince Edward Theatre to watch the show.

It was a fantastic performance, with the Genie being a particular favourite.

3D PRINTER

The Design & Technology team took delivery of a new 3D printer over Christmas. We’ve been excited to get it up and running and have completed a few test prints. We’re really looking forward to seeing what the Year 10 GCSE D&T students produce in a few weeks time when we begin using it for project work. POPPY PROJECT A CHRISTMAS CAROL

Congratulations to Ella A Christmas Carol on 17 January at Stratford upon Avon Pollard (Year 7) who was a welcome reminder of those Christmas resolutions to won the competition to care for others. A combination of this and the homeless on design the logo for the the streets of Stratford really made us all think. Rutland Poppy Project. 47 Year 10 & 11 GCSE students went to watch the play as they are studying the novel for English Literature. The Project will bring The performance began with an actor playing the part of together members of all Dickens, reminding us of the appalling poverty as a result sections of the Rutland of social and economic change. Community over the coming months and For ghosts, we had shadows, projected images & a together we aim to Ghost of Christmas Present festooned in green feathers, create a magnifi cent representing hope and generosity. This was quite a large scale sculpture formed of up to 10,000 challenging production which made us think about the plot handcrafted poppies. The installation will be in the & Dickens’ reasons for writing it rather than sentimentally grounds of Castle where it will remain on sympathising with the Cratchits’ gratitude. display for a month in October – November 2018. Max Devere-Summers thought it was good; Izaak thought the ghosts were particularly eye catching; Sarah felt that If you would like to fi nd out more about the project the message to help other people and not be selfi sh came and how you can be involved, please contact over very strongly. It was an enjoyable and thought- [email protected] or provoking evening for students and staff alike. follow them on facebook www.facebook.com/ Judith Green rutlandpoppyproject.

OLD OPERATING THEATRE TRIP

On Tuesday 23 January the history department took 34 Year 11 students to the Old Operating Theatre and Science Museum in London.

The trip was of great benefi t to the students who learnt about the history of surgery and the gory details surround nineteenth century operating theatres. Students thoroughly enjoyed the trip, particularly witnessing one of their peers pretend to go through an amputation!

The trip to the Science Museum added to the experience and gave them the opportunity to look at a variety of different inventions that further aided the development of medicine.

This was all in aid of further enhancing their knowledge relating to the Health and the People topic currently being studied for their GCSEs.

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CANADA SKI TRIP From 14 to 21 December 2017, 39 relaxing at the hotel using the swimming pool, sauna, and students accompanied by hot tubs, games room and gym. 5 members of staff fl ew from London Heathrow to Montreal, Canada to ski at the Mont Sainte-Anne and On the last evening staff held a presentation evening Le Massif resorts. for all students with a number of students from each ski school group receiving certifi cates, such as Most The group stayed in a beautiful modern Canadian hotel, Improved Skier, Best Skier, Best Team Player, Best Jump ‘Chateau Mont Sainte-Anne’, which was conveniently and Best Racer. a few minutes’ walk to the ski school, gondola and ski rental shop. The students had the opportunity to ski for On the last day in Canada the group visited the 5 days with experienced and friendly instructors. They working huskies in the Saint-Anne resort followed by explored the mountains through a range or slopes from free time at a designer outlet on the journey back to the enchanted forest runs to advanced moguls. They were airport. lucky with the snow conditions and students enjoyed around 5 hours skiing each day. A big thank you to the trip Leader Mr Hurley, supporting staff, ‘Equity Ski’, the ski instructors and the students who In the evenings there were a range of exciting activities all helped make the trip a success. The students had a including outdoor ice-skating in Quebec, shopping at fantastic experience and will have memories that will the Christmas market, swimming at an indoor water last a lifetime. park, late night shopping at a Canadian mall, and time Until the mountains call again…! YOUTH SPEAKS AND ENGLISH SPEAKING UNION

Our public speaking teams at Catmose College engagement in the Academic Scholarship Programme have been very busy already this year, taking part last year. Harry Sabberton worked well to introduce in two rounds of the Youth Speaks competition, as and summarise another speaker’s speech, whilst well as the fi rst round of the English Speaking Union Alice’s job was to probe deeper into the topic competition. by using a range of questioning styles. The team In Youth Speaks, four of our teams successfully made competed against two teams from Wellingborough it through to the district semi-fi nal held in Bourne. At and and one team from English this event, we competed against teams from Bourne Martyrs in Leicester. We successfully made it through Grammar, Community College and to the next round along with English Martyrs. All of Kesteven and Sleaford High School. The discussions our students were very polite and professional during covered a wide range of topics, from the infl uence the evening and were a credit to the College. The of both Disney and football on society, to men’s role next round will take place the week beginning 5 in feminism. We had great success in this round, February. the Year 7 team and the Year 9 team came fi rst and second in the intermediate round, the Year 10 team Youth Speaks Teams came fi rst in the senior round. Our teams are now Year 7 - Cecilly Parsons, Tom McEnery and Daniel looking forward to taking part in the district fi nal, Williams which will be held at Uppingham Community College Year 9 - Annie Dudin, Anna Nguyen and Begum Gur in February. Year 10 – Ella Withers, Alice Burton and Jessica Falconer On 22 January, we hosted the fi rst round of the English Speaking Union. Teams consist of a English Speaking Union Chairperson, a Main Speaker and a Questioner. Year 11 – Harry Sabberton, Thomas Randle and Thomas Randle spoke passionately about a scientifi c Alice Burton topic, something that has benefi tted from his

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CROSS COUNTRY RELAY

The boys were extremely unlucky in the County schools cross country relay at Rawlins Academy reently coming a close 4th out of 10 schools. At the third changeover we were in second place with all runners extremely close. The positions of the teams kept on changing during the last leg with us being in fi rst position for a while but unfortunately despite our best attempt we were overtaken in the last 300m and fi nished in 4th position. Excellent effort from all the boys and hopefully we can re- charge our batteries and achieve a top three result in the fi nal event of the season, the county championships, which will be held at Ratcliffe College on Saturday 3 February. Anyone interested please sign up on the sports notice board. We can enter individuals or a team for this event. Year 7 Junior (Year 8 and 9) Inter (Year 10 and 11)

Picture of the team Sam Lowings Archie Adams William Way and Harry Window

CROSS COUNTRY Year 7 Boys and Girls County cross country cup squad 7 March – All runners – 5.45 – 6.45pm – 24 March Prestwold Hall Sports Centre

There will be training sessions that students need to attend with Mr 21 March – All runners – 5.45 – 6.45pm – Uppingham School Thomas and Miss Hull, in order to be selected for the Rutland Team Sport Centre

18 January – All runners – 6-7pm – Oakham Rugby Club Parental support in getting students to these sessions will be required. Please sign the sheet on the PE board if interested 22 February – All runners – 6-7pm – Oakham Rugby Club

VARSITY CUP SCROOGE THE MUSICAL On Wednesday 3 January, 68 Year 10 and 11 students We were led through the story of Ebenezer Scrooge travelled to Leicester to watch ‘Scrooge, the Musical’ at and his three visitations of the spirits (Past, Present and the Curve Theatre. Future). The performance was spectacular and the students really enjoyed their time in Leicester watching The students hit the sales at the Highcross shopping the musical. The GCSE Drama students will now be centre and got a bite to eat before walking to the evaluating this live performance in preparation for their Theatre together. written exam.

This musical is based on the original story of ‘A Christmas Carol’ by Charles Dickens. The performance was directed by Nikolai Foster and featured Jasper Britton in the lead role of Scrooge.

We sat in the Royal Circle and had an excellent view of the stage. Professional actors and dancers from around the country took part in this production, which also included several local children who played the family of Bob Cratchit and other roles. The performance was full of rousing music and dance routines.

UPCOMING TRIPS YEARS 8 - 10 SPAIN SKI TRIP, 10 - 17 FEBRUARY 2018

YEARS 10 & 11 ICELAND PHOTOGRAPHY TRIP, 21 - 25 FEBRUARY 2018

YEAR 9 SOMME BATTLEFIELDS TRIP, 15 - 17 MARCH 2018

YEAR 10 CAMBRIDGE BOTANICAL GARDEN, ART, 26 APRIL 2018

YEARS 9 & 10 SUMATRA EXPEDITION, 30 MARCH - 9 APRIL 2018

YEAR 10 VIENNA ART TRIP, 9 - 12 MAY 2018

YEARS 8 - 11 PERFORMING ARTS TOUR, AMSTERDAM, 4 - 8 JULY 2018

YEARS 8 - 10 NEPAL EXPEDITION, OCTOBER 2018

YEAR 11 - WASHINGTON & NEW YORK TRIP, 5 - 21 OCTOBER 2018

More information can be found on our website at www.catmosecollege.com/tripplanner

catmosecollege.com | facebook.com/catmosecollege CONNECT INDOOR ATHLETICS Some of the year 10 Catmose sports leaders organised an indoor athletics competition for year 5 and 6 students from Catmose Primary. As part of their role they had to set up/put away the equipment, record scores and encourage the primary students to do their best. Jessica Falconer welcomed the students to Catmose and explained how the competition was going to be carried out highlighting a few safety rules. The leaders worked in pairs and took turns, as the groups of students moved around the activities, to explain how the event was to be carried out. Scores were collected so that at the end overall winners for each event were congratulated.

The shot, relay, triple jump and speed bounce were some of the most popular with the children.

Many thanks to Catmose Primary for attending and to the 23 young leaders who were absolutely brilliant.

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