EWELL CASTLE SENIOR SCHOOL Spring Term Review 2019
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EWELL CASTLE SENIOR SCHOOL Spring Term Review 2019 INTRODUCTION all our girls’ netball teams competed and Mr Chipperton (an alumnus) starting with grit and flair, achieving some in September 2019. We have also superb results – great team spirit. Girls recruited two new teachers of Physics, and boys from the Prep have competed Mrs Aziz and Mr Ballard, both of whom admirably in the inter-school rugby and will be starting in September 2019. I am hockey fixtures with all pupils having the pleased to confirm Mr Scott as Head opportunity to represent the School on of Computer Science/ICT at the Senior a regular basis. I was delighted to hear School and I hope to announce the new that the boys’ U11 cross country team Senior School Deputy Head (Academic) won a prestigious inter-school event at on our return after the Easter break. Warlingham Park with Josh and Louis I would like to thank the PTA for placed 2nd and 3rd in a field of over organising the very amusing ‘Comedy 60 runners. Huge thanks must go to and Curry Night’ as well as the everyone who represents or supports extremely popular Easter Egg Hunt at Thank you all for the very warm the School on Saturday mornings and Glyn House, and Easter Bunny visit at welcome I have received during my at various other training sessions and Chessington Lodge. I hope that many first term at Ewell Castle School. It fixtures – the determination and mutual of you will join me at the Summer Ball at was a pleasure to meet so many of respect that we all prize so highly is so Ravens Ait, a lovely venue for a Summer you at evening and breakfast events. often in evidence on these occasions. evening on the river: http://www. At the beginning of January, I reflected I have very much enjoyed visiting a ravensait.co.uk/private-party-venue- with you about Ewell Castle School’s large number of academic lessons this london/ Tickets are available on Parent reputation as a happy family-friendly term and seeing the high levels of pupil Pay with an early bird offer for the first place and I have found this to be engagement in their learning. There 80 tickets sold before the 1st May: overwhelmingly true. The pupils are a have been some memorable and highly https://www.parentpay.com/ delight to work with and my colleagues creative learning experiences going on. care enormously about them. My advice for the Easter break to those As I shared with you back in January, taking public examinations this summer Highlights for me have included: we should always be asking our young is to start gradually at this stage with the spectacular and darkly comic people Piaget’s question about true short bursts of revision in bite-size Little Shop of Horrors at the Epsom intelligence: “What do you do, when chunks, and then build up momentum Playhouse; the wide range of talent you don’t know what to do?” Powering towards more intensive study sessions shown at the various Prep School up the higher order thinking skills in once the examination season begins in Words and Music events such as White our learning is a key pillar of our new earnest. I am very grateful to colleagues Wings and Greece; and the stunning strategic plan, launching in September. who are continuing to run revision Concerto Concert held in St Mary’s The renovation of the Castle basement sessions after school, at lunchtimes Church last week. My appreciation goes continues apace and we look forward and during the Easter holidays. Please out to all of the members of staff who to revealing the brand new changing do everything you can to motivate your orchestrated, organised and inspired our rooms, ready for the Autumn Term. daughters and sons in attending these young people: this level of success and opportunities – they will be investing in quality does not happen by accident! I would like to wish Ms Walford well as their own futures. she goes on maternity leave at the end On the sports field, our pupils have gone of this term and to congratulate Mrs I wish you all a very enjoyable Easter from strength to strength with great L Jones on her forthcoming maternity holiday and I look forward to seeing dedication and spirit shown across the leave (from the end of the Summer everyone in the summer term, refreshed School. I was immensely proud of our term). and eager for the challenges ahead. Boys’ U18 tennis doubles pairing (Ben and Luca) winning the highly prestigious We have appointed two new teachers of Go easy on the chocolate. English: Mrs Kerry who will join on the Surrey Cup. Our Y7 boys’ football team Silas Edmonds, Principal had their own “Invincibles” season and 1st June in the role of KS3 Co-ordinator www.ewellcastle.co.uk @EwellCastleUK DRAMA TRIP TO ‘THE CURIOUS INCIDENT OF THE DOG IN THE NIGHT TIME’ On the 10th January 2019, a group of Drama students, GCSE and A Level, went to see the Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time at the Piccadilly Theatre in Central London. It was an innovative production that was largely influenced by the world-renowned physical theatre group, Frantic Assembly. The Performance followed a young Aspergers child, Christopher. The set of the production was amazing, but minimalist. This production was largely influenced by the German practitioner Berholt Brecht. When not acting, the actors would sit on refreshing as it detracted from the blocks were the only set that was stage waiting for the entrance cues performance itself. used. These cloud-like blocks and exits, which also followed the gave the impression of the stage Brecht style of the performance. The sound and lighting amazed the space as being an imitation of The production gave little moments whole audience, as LED lights were Christopher’s mind. These blocks of audience interaction, although imbedded on the stage flooring and were small in size but did enough the performance ended with an walls. This created a feeling of sub- to show stage separations such as: explanation of a geometry problem realism and allowed the audience to houses, roads and a train station. that was mentioned earlier on in separate themselves from the actors They were also used as chairs and the performance. This finally broke in order to act as an onlooker on benches. the fourth wall between the actors the story. The props and set were and the audience, which was minimal, as the cloud-like perspect Zac Conibear BODY WORLDS EXHIBITION VISIT On 17th January a group of pupils system. The references to real life spectacle as well with a person riding and I went to the Body Worlds items with scale such as the heart a horse which were both plastinates. Exhibition in Piccadilly Circus. pumping 7,600 litres of blood a day I would thoroughly recommend for The exhibition was an incredible and the amount of oil barrels this anyone interested even slightly in display of the body, the layout of could fill up, put into perspective how anything related to the human body the sections made it seem as if you amazing the heart was. On display to visit this exhibit, as I know it was were taking a tour through your were these amazing plasticised eye opening to both myself and own body. I thoroughly enjoyed the networks of blood vessels of different fellow pupils. trip and certainly found it beneficial parts of the body, the one which to my Biology course and I can stood out to me was the head as it Tom Hall 6DIS certainly see it having benefits was incredible to see the complexity for the lower years which came of this system. along too. The displays helped the The exhibition was very clever in content within the textbooks come the way it was designed and at the to life and allowed me to develop a end there was as video covering the more in depth understanding of the process of plastination and many of human body. I particularly enjoyed the other questions we all seemed to the circulatory section of the exhibit come up with throughout the exhibit. as I could perfectly visualise the The grand finale of the exhibit was a complexity of our own circulatory 2 YEAR 10 HISTORIANS ART AND PHOTOGRAPHY WORKSHOP VISIT TO THE AND EXHIBITION AT SAATCHI GALLERY IMPERIAL WAR The Year 12 and 13 Arts and Photographers visited the new MUSEUM photography gallery within On the 29th January the Year 10 the Victoria & Albert in South Historians travelled to the Imperial Kensington on 28th January, War Museum in Duxford. A former followed by the Saatchi Gallery in air base, it focuses on the study Sloane Square, West London as of military aircraft. We looked at a part of their contextual studies for number of aircraft relevant to the their A Levels. Second World War and the Cold The students enjoyed looking at War. The Lancaster, the Liberator photography through the ages and and the B17 Flying Fortress were different film and motion media all covered along with the B29 - the like Eadweard Muybridge, to aircraft that dropped the atomic present day digital photography bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. and contemporary artists such as Most impressive and dominating Cindy Sherman and Martin Parr. the gallery was a B52 which was America’s nuclear deterrent in the Photographs and screen based 1950’s. They are still based at Fort images have been sourced Barkdale, Louisiana as a heavy from around the world featuring bomber and used to “kick open the different genres including portraits, door” as the opening salvo of Shock landscapes and conceptual works.