The Accolade the Monthly Celebratory Newsletter from County Upper School
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May 2014 The Accolade The Monthly Celebratory Newsletter from County Upper School Dear parents, students, staff and governors, thirteen’s final month at school and we have marked their contribution with our traditional celebration for As a school we show respect for tradition and the them, their parents, governors and staff. We thank past whilst embracing innovation and change. This them for all they have done for our school and, on month that respect has included events to mark both behalf of the whole County Upper community, I wish World Wars, the Magna Carta declaration, established them every success for the future. civic traditions and our sense of community and of As they leave, we have enjoyed meeting our new service. It has also seen groups and individuals year nine with their families and we look forward to continue to challenge themselves on outdoor them joining us as well as to the final half term activities and, of course, in the classroom. of this academic year where there is May has given us a musical feast and an excellent still much to enjoy. start to summer sports. It has also been year Mrs V Neale 2 3 4 7 A great month for History n The Holocaust Exhibition n The Anglia News As part of their history day at Duxford course, year nine students completed a In the build up to the homework project in which centenary of the start they created a memorial of the First World War to commemorate the huge schools across the ITV number of lives lost in the News Anglia region were holocaust and explained invited to produce a their design in terms of the School Report and many history they have studied. did. Just ten were chosen Their thoughtful, well and we were pleased written accounts and imaginative designs were of an to be one of them; the extremely high standard. Many students had discussed their only one selected at work with parents and grandparents and the whole project Key Stage Four. This showed homework at its very best. We held an exhibition of month we attended the the best work for parents, students and staff to view which prizegiving ceremony was very well attended and successful. at Duxford Imperial Throughout the project, year nine were helped and inspired War Museum and by our Captains of History, Catherine Upton and Mark Young congratulate Rosie who went to Auschwitz earlier in the year. Well done to the Grant in year ten for whole year and especially our visitors’ top choices: representing us so well. Gian Chopra, Alana Edgeworth, Ben Hudson, Eloise Keeble, Yasmin Kidd, Megan Manfield, Ryaan Rogers, Nick Scott, Bryony Smith, Emily Smith and Thomas Whitwell. n The Magna Carta Evensong and Viewing Service to the We were also pleased to be represented by staff, parents and students at the special Evensong to mark community the arrival of the Lincoln copy of the Magna Carta in Bury n St Edmunds. The service was attended by the Dean of The Service Above Lincoln, the Lord Lieutenant of Suffolk, the Mayor of St Self Award Edmundsbury, David Ruffley MP and many other civic Each year the Rotary Club of Bury St Edmunds awards dignitaries who, together with the invited congregation, a prize to the student from each Upper School who best viewed the exhibition after the service. exemplifies the Rotary model of ‘Service Above Self’. Later in the month, a group of year nine students This year our prize went to a student who has already viewed the exhibition with pupils from Horringer, Tollgate undertaken voluntary work with the Diocese in and Westley. This was as part of our all-through Trust’s Rwanda and Tanzania, who has helped to lead our special project on the Magna Carta which will Christian Union, is one of this year’s Captains of Music culminate in an ACTION Day later in the year. and performs with St Cecilia’s Chorale, the West Suffolk Youth Orchestra, The Suffolk Youth Orchestra as well as myriad school ensembles. She volunteers at Just Traid and has already received her Gold Duke of Edinburgh’s Award. Above all, she quietly and modestly helps individuals without expecting any reward. This month at a special dinner with the Mayor, Rotarians and other guests she received her well-deserved recognition and reward. We congratulate Philippa Strachan on this excellent achievement. Other academic successes n We congratulate the following year nine students who have achieved their Cambridge Latin Course Stage Eight and received their certificates this month: Olivia Humphreys, Suzanne Lee, Rhiannon Steele, n The Mayor Making Jessica Welton and Lydia Wiliams. Ceremony The annual Mayor making ceremony took place this month. Our Head Students, Bethany Soman and Matthew Wilcock represented our school and were very pleased to welcome Councillor Robert Everitt as the Mayor of St Edmundsbury as well as to congratulate n Trevor Cheek and Joe Stanton in year nine, Dr Ann Williams on receiving the Freedom of the together with Sam Doye in year ten received certificates Borough. Councillor Everitt is a governor at Westley and medals this month for their results in the European Middle School, part of our all-through Trust and round of the Mathematics Trust’s prestigious competi- Dr Williams was Principal of West Suffolk College which tion. All three were comfortably above the mean on the is represented on our Trust Board. We thank Beth and paper which are taken by 6,741 qualifiers across Europe. Matt who continue to do an excellent job of representing Very well done! our school. n ‘Let’s be proud of n Our Cook’s service is Bury’ campaign recognised Our all-through Trust’s values include having a strong The EATS group which sense of community and taking a pride in the wider runs the catering in most community of which we are part. We were therefore of Suffolk’s schools now pleased to participate in the special day organised by the has its own newsletter. Bury Free Press to clean up our town. In total, eight We were delighted that locations were chosen and the Trust sent sixteen students the second edition which to each of three of these to clear them of litter. Each was published this month group comprised four from County Upper and four devotes a page to our from each of Horringer Court, Howard and Westley. cook as one of its most We thank them all for a job well done and our pupils for successful Heads of giving leadership to the younger pupils. Kitchen. We all know We congratulate: what an excellent job Maisy Allen Molly Lay Mrs Janet Walker does Jon Bourne Chloe Noble and are delighted that she Molly Bonnett Joshua Orugboh- has been recognised in Ellen Burrows Kershaw this way. Jake Davies Ellie Spearman Sinead Knight Joe Stanton Harry Kriteman Jessica Wilson n Sarah Lawrence-Moye The Debating and Public Speaking Society’s annual awards This year The Society has continued to thrive both in local, regional and national competitions and through our weekly debates after school in the library. This month saw the last debate for our year thirteen students and, by tradition, concluded with the presentation of certificates to those who have taken part in external competitions. This academic year we have taken part very successfully in all the major competitions and did especially well to reach the national final of the most prestigious Oxford Union. Certificates were presented to: Paul Anders, Michael Bartram, Will Burns, Evie Courtier, Edwina d’Almeida, Thomas Fisher, Stephanie Foulds, Digby Hayden, Toby Jeffery, Roderick Mansel and Eleanor Thomas. Francesca McEvoy and Eleanor Thomas in year thirteen were thanked for their contribution to running The Society this year, Francesca as Secretary and Eleanor as President. Mr Coleman was thanked for all he has done this year to organise the Society and our teams for competitions. A Marvellous May for Music Even by our standards, we were treated to a veritable feast of music this month, both in school and the wider community. n The sixth form recital n Music for the evening at The Unitarian Bury Festival We congratulate five of our year nine singers who were Meeting House chosen for the Mbawula African workshops and Twelve of our senior musicians who take music at then performed at the Bury Festival. Well done to: ‘A’ level treated us to an evening of great music with Olivia Humphreys, Megan Manfield, Katrina Miller, tremendous variety, all played to an extremely high Rebecca Severy and Alice Walker. standard. The audience was very appreciative of a programme featuring early music pieces through to those from the twentieth century by British and overseas composers. There were performances on clarinet, cello, flute, guitar, piano, trombone, viola and violin as well as solo voice from Paul Anders, Louise Chartron, Esther Colman, Evie Courtier, Thomas Fisher, Chloe Fox, Liliana Luongo, Ashley Nayler, Jake Peters, Sophie Rochford, Riona Snelling and Philippa Strachan. We congratulate and thank them all, together with Mr Jarvis who organised the evening. We also congratulate William Curwen, Ashley Nayler, Joshua Reeder, Sophie Rochford, Douglas Sands, Georgia White and Matthew Wilcock who played in the Festival with the West Suffolk Youth Jazz Orchestra. n The Mayor’s Civic Dinner We were proud to be asked once again to provide the music for the dinner for the outgoing Mayor, Councillor Terry Buckle. Ashley Nayler entertained guests on the piano throughout the evening and accompanied Riona Snelling for the cabaret. The Mayor wrote, “Yesterday was such a lovely day and I can’t thank you enough for organising Ashley and Riona to entertain us throughout the dinner.