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Update 4th October 2019 Turing House Friends MENSA PUZZLE Date for your diary – Year 7 Families! A factory recycles paper cups for use in its canteen.

Seven used cups are needed to make each new cup.

If there are 2,251 used cups, how many new cups can possibly be made?

Last week’s answer: Wales. The initial of the name matches the third letter of the Country.

Congratulations Welcome to the Turing House family - Matthew Turner was born on Thursday 26th. Congratulations Mr & Mrs Turner!

Forthcoming Events Fixtures

th 17 October – Sixth Form Open Evening 6pm – 8pm th 07 Oct, 2019 Y7/8 Football 18 October – INSET day 19th October – CoderDojo 08 Oct, 2019 Y9 Netball School

24th October – Year 7 Family Bingo (Hampton) 08 Oct, 2019 Y10/11 Netball Twickenham School th st 28 Oct – 1 Nov – half term week 09 Oct, 2019 Y8 Rugby Union Richmond Thames School th 7 Nov – Y9 Parents’ Evening 09 Oct, 2019 Y7 Rugby Union Twickenham School

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Headteacher’s Update Turing House School 4th October 2019 World on Fire! The History of by Georgia Bools Peter Bowker’s emotionally gripping and resonant new Camp Griffiss was a US military base during and after BBC drama World on Fire begun on Sunday at 9pm on World War Two. Constructed within the grounds BBC1. The programme follows the intertwining fates of of Bushy Park in London, it served as the European ordinary people from Britain, Poland, France and Headquarters for the United States Air Army Germany during the first year of the Second World War Forces from July 1942 to December 1944. as this global conflict completely upends their lives. In addition to anti-aircraft batteries being placed in the Screenwriter Peter Bowker said: “World on Fire tells the park, Diana Fountain, Leg of Mutton Pond and Heron hidden human stories within the big historical events Ponds were drained and covered with camouflage we think we know." netting so as to not aid enemy bombers with navigation and bomb-sighting of the base. The camp also required Please be aware that this programme is being played an airstrip for small aircraft to be constructed – this ran after 9pm so will not be appropriate for younger along the length of where the playground is now students. located, near the main car park.

Methodist Church Car Park Now all that remains of the base that housed 3,000 US It has come to our attention that some Turing House and British servicemen are commemorative plaques School families are using the Methodist Church car park and a flag pole marking the former locations of the in Stanley Road as a drop-off and pick up point for their military buildings. The corners of four of the main large children. We have had a very polite request from the blocks of buildings in the North-East corner of the park church to ask you please not to do this. have been marked by sixteen “heritage plaques”.

The car park is only for users of the building. Young Historian Georgia Bools in Year 9 spent two days children are arriving at the end of the school day for tracking down these plaques; she reported that it was dance and theatre classes. It is therefore obviously very tough finding them, but she managed to locate most of dangerous for other people to be driving in and out of the plaques - head into Bushy Park to see what you can there in a rush. find!

We want to maintain our good relationship with the church so would be grateful with your cooperation with this request. Many thanks.

Richmond Literary Festival This takes place on 1 – 24 November. Check out what’s on at: http://www.richmondliterature.com/

Here’s one event you may be interested in: Spend an evening in the company of spoken word artist, rapper, international author and social media sensation Humble The Poet as he shares raw and honest stories from his own life - his rocky start becoming a rapper, financial setbacks and the pain of racial prejudice – revealing how a change in mindset can radically alter our outlook. turinghouseschool.org.uk Turing House School [email protected] Headteacher’s Update Turing House School 4th October 2019 National Poetry Day Year 11 GCSE Revision Sessions Yesterday, Thursday 3rd October, was National Poetry During the half-term holiday, the Teddington Site will be Day. We celebrated by listening to a range of poems open for Year 11 GCES revision sessions; these will be from slam poetry to Michael Rosen. held in the mornings – final timings are TBC.

We discussed how poetry can be powerful and relevant Monday - English to our lives today. Students have the opportunity to Tuesday – Maths enter a national poetry competition – please see Ms Andrews for more details. Wednesday – Science https://nationalpoetryday.co.uk/ Thursday – BTEC Sport Science & Art

University of Lincoln – Free lectures! For our students who like to travel, the University of Lincoln is holding an excellent free lecture series this autumn. Their talks are given by high-profile individuals from all over the world and aim to offer inspirational

insights into a range of industries, careers, and passions, Old Vic Schools Project with a particular focus on the ambitions of young people. Some of our GCSE Drama students, who are taking part in the Old Vic Schools Project, had their first workshop The series connects audiences with inspiring figures on Wednesday. Staff from the Old Vic visited school and who are considered leaders in the worlds of business, delivered a session on the content and background of sport, politics, science, and the arts. For more ‘A Very Expensive Poison’, which they then went to see information see: in the evening. https://www.lincoln.ac.uk/home/studentlife/greatlives/ The project is completely free for the school, and we are the only school in Richmond and Kingston who have Parent Support Group – ASD been selected to take part. For parents of children with ASD - there is a parent support group organised by Achieving for Children to be The next production for the group is A Christmas Carol! held at Grand Avenue Primary School on Friday 18th Follow our new Performing Arts twitter account - October at 9:30am – 11am. @performingarts_ths - for more updates on the project and other news from the drama and music If you would like to go along and meet other parents for departments. this informal session to chat, share ideas and generally support each other, please contact Jane Pidduck:

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turinghouseschool.org.uk Turing House School [email protected] Headteacher’s Update Turing House School 4th October 2019 Home Start Jennifer’s role at the DfE is to advise on the design quality of school buildings.

In her talk, Jennifer, will describe her journey to

becoming an architect, dispel some myths around what architects do (and don’t do), and offer some tips about how you might shape your own career - whether you

want to be an architect, another profession within the built environment industry or beyond.

Please sign up for this exciting talk outside Miss Riglin’s classroom.

BBC looking for Cooks!

Save the Date! Save the Date - Saturday 23rd November - Christmas Quiz for parents and carers - more details to follow shortly.

Careers Talk - Friday 11th October - Jennifer Singer - Architect Jennifer is an architect and education design adviser. Originally from the US, Jennifer came to the UK in 1999 Creative Arts – New Instagram – Follow us! to complete her studies at the Architectural Association Unfortunately, during the holidays our Creative Arts and UCL, qualifying in 2004. She has worked in the US, Instagram Account was accidently deleted. UK and Germany on a range of projects, including the Please follow us again on ths_creativearts to see the in Manchester and BBC amazing work our students create! Headquarters in Glasgow, but she found her passion working with pupils, teachers and communities on the Thank you – 281 Bus design of schools and now specialises in the field of Thank you to all students who regularly take the 281 bus ‘learning environments.’ home. A bus driver was eager to tell me that our Jennifer currently works in the civil service at the students were the politest students she's come across Department for Education. In addition to its and was impressed with the politeness shown when responsibilities for education and children’s services allowing an elderly member of the public board the bus across the country, the DfE is a large client of school first. buildings (such as Turing House School – though Well done for representing our school so positively. Jennifer has not been involved in our project!). turinghouseschool.org.uk Turing House School [email protected] Headteacher’s Update Turing House School 4th October 2019 Cycle to School Book Review by Year 10 student Thank you those who have returned their cycle permit “It was the day the clocks went back. That's when I letters to the front office. If your son/daughter cycles to decided to kill him”. This draws you in straight away by school regularly, please ensure that they collect a letter keeping things mysterious. The book takes place in from Mrs Skinnard as soon as possible. Student cycle Newcastle where a young boy named Danny witnesses permits will be issued next week and will help us to his mother's suffering at the hands of her abusive, ensure students are abiding by our expectations for alcoholic boyfriend Callum. safer cycling (including helmets and lights/reflective One day Danny had enough and decides Callum needed clothing). to die; he goes in search of his father who he has never Book Review by Lottie Hughes 9T met to help him kill Callum, but it’s not as easy as he expected. I found this book at the library from a teen book guide. It really stood out to me as a good read because The book focuses on the themes of domestic violence compared with other books about drugs and addiction, and growing up. The theme of domestic violence made it really explained how difficult recoveries are and about me think more deeply about the people affected by it the damaging side effects. because I never thought it affected anyone other than the person getting abused but this book shows the When Lexi Volkov psychological effects it has on the people who witness overdoses on it and can't say anything about it; Danny is deeply heroin, her elder affected by the abuse of his mum, and it affects him so brother decides to much it drives him into planning to kill Callum. check her into a rehab facility for The character of Danny begins as a fun, happy kid but privileged young as the novel progresses he seems to lose his ambitions adults. As she gets and begins to fill with anger. further towards recovery, we learn Callum is a character which at the start seem a nice more about how likable character who is just trying to help Danny and his easily she accessed drugs and how money doesn’t always guarantee a good life. She gets closer with her fellow inmates and starts to learn mum, but as you get to know him, a darker side to his that drugs can ruin lives but recovery brings people character is revealed. together. Overall this book is very good and, even though about I really enjoyed this book because it’s different to other domestic violence, is very fun and humorous. It is an books and shows the struggle of getting sober. I would easy but interesting read with a good storyline. recommend this for people aged 14 and above and for people who want to read a good book with strong morals.

turinghouseschool.org.uk Turing House School [email protected] Headteacher’s Update Turing House School 4th October 2019 World Mental Health Day – 10th October Lea Berger and Ben Polhill from Morrama you will produce mood boards, sketches and models of your This year World new product. Mental Health Day is on Thursday 10th Find out more and book here: October. It is an opportunity for all https://www.vam.ac.uk/event/zOBq0JaB/create- sustainable-design-13-15yrs-oct- of us to raise 2019?mc_cid=cd9107d537&mc_eid=3daf2d4639 awareness of mental health STEM Potential Programme issues and advocate against social stigma. Imperial College London Our school has taken the opportunity to add to the Applications open for Year 10 students wider conversation that will be occurring on social The STEM Potential programme aims to support media, television and elsewhere. We already have students in their KS4 and KS5 studies via workshops, positive sessions addressing mental health stigma in our lectures, subject-specific masterclasses and university school through our PSHCE courses and tutor sessions. experience taster days. The theme of this year’s day is suicide and suicide Students joining in Y10 will experience different fields prevention. of STEM to gain a better understanding of subjects they Every year close to 800,000 people globally take their may wish to study at A-level. Y10 students also take part own life and there are many more people who attempt in a non-residential summer school during suicide. Every suicide is a tragedy that affects families, August (students can continue on the programme up to communities and has long-lasting effects on the people Y13) left behind. It's the leading cause of death among young This programme is FREE for applicants. Due to be people aged 20-34 years in the UK and is the second being fully funded eligibility criteria apply. leading cause of death among 15-29-year-olds globally. Applications for Y10 students will close on 27 October Create! Sustainable Design Workshop (13-15 2019. years) Apply and find out more information here: Saturday, 26th October 2019 https://www.imperial.ac.uk/be-inspired/student- 11.00 – 16.00 recruitment-and-outreach/schools-and- colleges/students/on-campus- £20 tickets activities/programmes/stem-potential-programme/ How can we design a more sustainable future?

Find out how products can be designed more sustainably. Working to a design brief you will create designs for sustainable solutions for an object you interact with on a daily basis, such as your smartphone. What would you make them from? How would they be produced using minimal resources? What would happen to your product when it is obsolete? All of these issues will be explored. Working with Andy Trewin Hutt, turinghouseschool.org.uk Turing House School [email protected]