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Featuring Brand New StudentFun Broadcast ! MAGAZINE Class of 2020: Reflecting on a Year of Achievements Interviews • Recipes • Reviews VOTE! ‘Most Inspirational Young Person 2020’ “Be the change that you wish to see in the world” ISSUE #3 – Mahatma Gandhi The year is quickly coming to an end, and it has been a strange one. We are hoping that everyone is doing alright and settling into the ‘new normal’, but keeping hope that we will be able to return and be all together again. Years 11 and 13 have not ended as anyone thought, and we have all felt the disruption to our lives as a whole, as well as our work and exams. In this issue, we cover inspirational stories of many young people, including a section from an ex-student, Eleanor Bennett, and some overviews of clubs in school, many of which cannot run under these circumstances. Sports results from before lockdown are here for anyone who previously missed these too. We are not without our usual staples like an interview with a teacher where Miss Weller reveals who she would invite to her dream dinner party, a baking recipe (with the extra article of food in France from Mrs Davies including a fantastic soup recipe), and film suggestions from Ms Sinclair. Book reviews and an article on supercomputers are also here too, before an article summing up lockdown. At the end, there is the additional new ‘Fun Broadcast’ put together by a few students in Year 8, who have worked hard to put together a section for those who are looking for something a little less serious, to bring laughter to this time. Finally, we hope you enjoy what we have put together for you – with help from everyone who contributed content whom we are grateful for - and have an excellent rest of the year! Best Wishes, The Student Magazine Team Main Articles The List 9 Miss Weller Interview 2 Leisure 10 Minutes in the Life of Student 3 12 Leadership by Mr Sanderson A Summer Without France by Mrs Davies 4 Welcome to the Debate Club by Eve Moat Pistou Soup Recipe 13 Raspberry Cake Recipe 14 School Band by Lyra Dymond 6 Best Films to Watch on the Telly Box 15 Who Would Ever Have Thought… - 6 This Month by Ms Sinclair a review of lockdown by Alice Groarke Book Reviews by Katy Platts and 17 Just Slightly Ahead of Our Time by 7 Amira Hollis Louie Wilson Sports Results 2020 with Mrs Hooper 18 Inspirational Young People Check out the brand new ‘Fun Broadcast’ Foreword by Eleanor Bennett 8 at the end! 1 Q&A WITH MISS WELLER https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/KB6XPM As a former DHFS student herself, Miss Dronfield and perform concerts for local Weller tells us the story of how her own charities. teachers at DHFS inspired her to do a full circle, and eventually come back to where Has much changed since you were a student she left off. at DHFS? What inspired you to become a teacher? The main thing that's changed at DHFS is the staff. There are a lot of staff members who I was inspired to become a teacher through have left, moved up in positions and also the the teachers I now work with at Dronfield teaching styles have also drastically Henry Fanshawe School. At university, I changed. Other than that, the site itself hasn't was torn between which direction I would changed much at all. It was also nice to hear want to take my career into, either dietetics on my interview day that the offices are still and public health nutrition or teaching. At referred to "where the fish tank is." my particular university, one of the modules was a six-week work placement, Have you got any interesting stories about which I undertook at Dronfield Henry our former teachers? Fanshawe School where I was fortunate to work with the amazing staff and students A lot of interesting stories occurred during with Technology for six weeks. I was given my time in the library with Mrs Whitelegg and responsibilities of helping students within Mrs Beeden. We dressed up as our favourite the classroom, aiding teachers, gaining a book characters, ate cake, made hats out of true insight into the job and aiding teachers craft items we could find in the library, ate in creating and making classroom and cake and not forgetting the time the library lesson resources. And I absolutely loved it. won a purple book shelving unit which came After speaking to all of the Food teachers with a long tube which you could crawl and technicians and working with them, through (it was called the gnu tube) whilst I this cemented my decision to go into was in sixth form. I seem to remember there teaching and the rest is now history as they being cake there too. say. At your dream dinner party, what would you How do you usually spend your leisure cook, and who would you invite? time? Oh, that's a hard question. I think I would During my leisure time I enjoy reading, probably invite the original Broadway cast of baking and being around friends and family. the musical Hamilton to dinner because not I am also involved with music. I sing with only would their stories be interesting, they the Dronfield Parish Ladies Voices and could provide an excellent show during Dronfield Parish Church choir as well as dinner too. As for what I would cook, help set up Dronfield Parish Young Voices, probably pesto and spinach lasagne for main a group which encourages children to sing with their friends and other children in followed by lemon cheesecake for dessert. • MAIN ARTICLES 2 10 Minutes in the Life of Student Leadership By Mr Sanderson 12:37: Another group give an update on their plans for the upcoming anti-bullying week. Then Friday, 12:30: The bell rings, signalling the start some feedback about what the eco-committee of lunch so I dismiss my Y7s and rush to my are planning this term. office. Students begin making their way out of their classrooms to congregate outside. I grab 12:38: I ask, “who wants to speak in assembly my laptop, some paperwork and an apple and the week after next?” Eight hands go up. I ask, frantically rush over to D1. “does anyone want to attend a meeting with Derbyshire county council about mental health?” 12:31: Several students are waiting outside D1 Ten volunteers. I remind everyone that sports already. “Can we go in, Sir?” they ask eagerly, relief is coming up, and thirteen people give barely giving Mr Jebson’s film studies class time their suggestions for fundraising ideas. to pack their bags before swarming in and taking their usual places around the room. 12:40: I sit down. That’s my job done. I’m here if they have any questions, but I’d rather let them 12:33: Students continue to arrive, greeting me get on with it. They know what they’re doing. I as they enter. A couple of Y10s get out a folder think, as I do every week, about how impressed I and begin showing the contents to a handful of am with this group. Their enthusiasm. Their younger students. A Y11 stops to ask me “did you maturity. Their determination. I think, as I do get the PowerPoint I sent you this morning?”. I every week, about how much I love seeing the pass some posters to the Y8s who head off to different age groups mixing; Y7s and Y12s stick them on a notice board in E block. Others working together as equals with a common goal. are logging on to computers, checking emails I think, as I do every week, how I wish the rest of and discussing the work they have completed the school, staff and students, saw the work since our last meeting. I’ve got some notices I they put in. The independence. The resilience. need to pass on, but I don’t want to kill the buzz. The creativity. They won’t get a lot of recognition 12:34: A quick head count. Thirty-six students for this. There won’t be prizes or awards. About have arrived. A good turnout. half of the things they’re working on will probably never really take off. Most of the 12:35: I pause for a minute to appreciate what is successes will happen behind the scenes; little going on. The students in front of me have changes that might never get noticed. But they willingly chosen to spend their Friday add up over the years. They do make a big lunchtimes compiling surveys, creating notices, difference. And I think, as I do every week, how arranging meetings, organising fundraising, and lucky I am to be a part of it all. • discussing how they can make the school a better place. They do this every week. Some of The student leaders are a voluntary group who them have been doing it for years. I think, as I do meet every Friday. They work on a range of every week, “they don’t really need me here”. projects to improve the school. We will be This group could run themselves just fine. They recruiting new members for the next school could probably do a pretty good job of running year. Please keep a look out for information on the country, if given half a chance. how you can get involved.