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Beauchamps Issue 43 News Spring Term - February 2016 Beauchamps Students Headteacher’s Celebrate Their Success Dear Parents, Letter Our recent Presentation Evening was a wonderful celebration of the outstanding achievement of our students who passed their GCSEs and A-Levels last year, and those who won prizes for their efforts, achievements and contribution to the School community. I would like to take this opportunity to thank the staff involved in organising the event and thank you to all the students and family members who attended. January also gave us the opportunity to celebrate the success of our current students who recently took their Beauchamps High School students the CBBC series ‘Wolfblood’ playing GCSE Mock exams and are working past and present were invited to attend the role of Rhydian for which he won very hard to replicate the success of the annual Presentation Evening on a BAFTA. Bobby also took part in, and last years students when it is their turn Monday 4 January to celebrate their won, the BBC reality series Tumble in for the real thing in May. success at GCSE and A-Level. 2014, where celebrities trained with As always the school calendar has professional gymnasts, to learn the The evening was, as ever, a fantastic been jam-packed with extra curricular new skill, and then competed against event and a true celebration of the activities and educational visits. Read each other over six weeks of live achievements and successes of the on for information on our numerous shows. students. It is also an opportunity to STEM projects, a Music trip to thank the staff for the tremendous Bobby gave an inspirational speech Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, a work that they do to support the to our students about how you must Geography trip to the Natural History students over time, to help them never give up, no matter how many Museum and a very successful IOD achieve their fantastic results. knock backs you get, and that you can Challenge to name a few. achieve anything you want if you really It was great to catch up with last year’s I am delighted to tell you that put your mind to it. He spoke fondly GCSE and A-Level students and to Beauchamps High School was about his time at Beauchamps and welcome the Guest of Honour, former included in the 2014-15 Annual Report how he feels it contributed to keeping student Bobby Lockwood who is now of Her Majesty’s Chief Inspector for him the grounded person he is today. an actor and celebrity. Ofsted as a good practice case study. He sees himself as a normal boy from Bobby left Beauchamps in 2009 and Wickford who is lucky to be doing I was invited to a special launch event is now a successful actor starring in something which he loves, and he in December, at the Institute of Civil television shows such as the award hopes to inspire fellow Beauchamps Engineers, for Michael Wilshaw’s winning series ‘House of Anubis’ and students to aim for their dreams too. Annual Report which had already been presented to Parliament. Former Year 11 and Year Dates For Your Diary 13 students were awarded We are incredibly proud that The first half of the Spring Term ends with their GCSE and A-Level the schools’ relentless drive to on Friday 12 February. Students return certificates at the ceremony and improve the life opportunities for to school on Monday 22 February. The there were eighteen additional students has been recognised. Easter break begins on Friday 25 March. trophies awarded for a variety Mr Hodges, Headteacher of special achievements. Beauchamps High School Presentation Evening Photos From top left: Cristina and Charlie with their John Davies Trophy for Best G.C.S.E. results; Raj winning the Mansfield Trophy for the Best A-Level Results; Guest Speaker Bobby Lockwood; Charlotte also winning the Mansfield Trophy for Best A-Level Results; Raj winning the Kim Goldspink Memorial Award for Achievement in Science and Giorgio winning the Business Student of the Year Award for achievement in Business. Beauchamps News Issue 43 2 Beauchamps High School Presentation Evening Photos School in Year 11; Fraser and Abigail who won the Governors Trophies awarded to the girl and boy who have From top left: made a significant contribution to the Oliver who won the Award for life of the school; James who won the Achievement in Media; Andrew Award for Achievement in French; who won the award for Outstanding Paige who won the Kathryn Edwards Performance in a Vocational Memorial Trophy for Achievement in Qualification; Abigail who won Geography; Lois who won the Pitman the Graham Moulds Trophy for Trophy awarded for service to the Charlotte who won the award for Achievement in Technology; Charlotte School in the realm of Music; Jack Service to the School in the realm of and Matthew who won the Friends of who won the Winifred Maud Cuthbert Sport. Beauchamps Awards for Service to the Trophy for Special Endeavour and 3 Beauchamps News Issue 43 Spellbinding Music Trip To Watch Charlie & The Chocolate Factory On Wednesday, 16 December, forty- Everyone thoroughly enjoyed the day, arranged it. It really was a day to four Choir and Music GCSE students thanks to Mr Byford, Beauchamps remember! from Years 7, 8, 9, 10 and 11 travelled High School Head of Music, who Report by Mrs Acton to London for a very special treat to enhance their enjoyment and studies in Music. On arrival there was time for the students to stretch their legs and enjoy the sights and sounds of Covent Garden with street entertainers and musicians, surrounded by some wonderful Christmas decorations. After soaking up the atmosphere, it was with much excitement that we then went into the Theatre Royal to see a matinee performance of the musical, 'Charlie and the Chocolate Factory' which was spellbinding. A Tunnel To The Beginning Of Time Experimental Physics At The LHC, Dr Veronique Boisvert Last Spring, the Large Hadron Collider resumed its operations at CERN in Switzerland. The particle collisions now involve energies never before achieved in the laboratory and A group of eight keen Physicists may shed light on new fundamental recently attended a Physics lecture particles and potentially revolutionise at the University of London to gain our concept of space-time! an insight into what goes on behind The lecture took place on Thursday 10 the scenes at CERN, the Eurpoean December in the Windsor Auditorium Organisation for Nuclear Research . at Royal Holloway University London’s discoveries already made by the This opportunity gave potential and Egham campus. ATLAS detector (including the famous current A-Level physics students an Dr Boisvert, a senior lecturer and Higgs particle) and explained what we insight into a revolutionary topic which a very active experimental particle might expect to learn from the new they might want to explore as a career physicist in the ATLAS collaboration data being produced at the world’s path. at CERN, reviewed some significant largest experiment. Report by Mr Barnett Year 11 Mock GCSE Exams Congratulations to all of our students who recieved their GCSE mock exam best of luckWell in the coming Done months as To help Youyou as much All!! as we results on Friday 8 January. we approach the exam period and can. A special mention goes to Rhys, remember your teachers are here to Report by Mr Leslie Hannah, Samuel, Erin, Ahmed, Jack, Alexandra, Amber, Emma, Jamie- Lee, Megan and Tiana who achieved the top marks in the year group. It is clear that you have all put in a lot of effort to achieve your grades and we encourage you all to keep up your hard work. May we also take this opportunity to wish everyone the Beauchamps News Issue 43 4 STEM Club Drone Building, Rocket Launching And Following another year’s successful build, programme, test and modify involvement in the STEM Project, a flying drone. At the launch of the Beauchamps High School continues competition on Saturday 9 January More... payload. Points will be awarded for to be enthusiastic and committed to the students received guidance from design, accuracy and times. promoting STEM subjects (Science, industry expert Denis Stretton of Hi- Technology, Engineering and Maths) point Visuals, who explained the key On the same day as the Drones and careers in these fields. components of drones and where workshop, Beauchamps High School students met John Jacombs who is Two of our Year 11 students, who to begin with the designing process. working with UKAYRoC to launch this left Beauchamps in July last year The rest of the design and build year’s Build a Rocket competition. Our after completing their GCSEs, programme will take place at school, students helped launch some model have secured Apprenticeships in during STEM Club sessions, before rockets to show how different designs Engineering after attaining fantastic the final stage of the competition and recovery systems would affect a exam results. Matthew Goddard where students will have to complete rockets overall flight, giving them an has gone on to PROCAT to study several tasks with their Drones such insight into how they may wish to build for a BTEC Level 3 in Engineering as an obstacle course and drop a their rockets when they start and Abigail Sampson has this project later in the spring. secured a four year Technical Apprenticeship in Engineering Keep a look out in future issues with Selex ES. of the newsletter for more information on the progress More recently, as part of of our students in the Drone Beauchamps High School’s Building competition and the STEM Club run by Mr Barnett Build A Rocket Challenge.

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