Priory Press Brought to you by The Priory Press Team Cultural x Social x Moral x Spiritual Editor’s Letter Catherine Jane Booth Hello, As Module Three draws to a close, so does some of the great House Quizzes that have been on offer to you for a period of time, made by many departments across the school. This includes the Math's House Quiz that was sent out by Mr. Hardy on email. Avalon and Alexandria dominated whilst Sempringham and Castille managed a draw in House Participation Points. After last weeks house assemblies, we hope that many students will begin to put in the effort in an attempt to guarantee the House Cup! Will the ribbons on the trophy be blue, yellow, green or red?! It is up to you to make the difference!! We hope you have a great Half Term Break and are all refreshed for the upcoming 4th Module of this Academic Year. Enjoy the articles, Catherine Year 8 News Sophie Harrison What's Going on in Year 8? This year’s school show is West Side Story, a romantic musical based on Shakespeare’s ‘Romeo and Juliet’, and it will be performed this week on Wednesday and Thursday. From the main parts to the lighting crew, everyone has worked exceptionally hard to help bring the production together. Last year’s production of Les Miserables was a huge success and, though it will be hard to top that performance, we’re sure the 2017 cast will do their best. Good luck to everyone taking part, or in other words, break a leg! Though the half term break is drawing ever closer, the Year 8s have had yet another busy week full of opportunities to get involved with house events. With valuable house points on offer, there will hopefully be lots of participants in the House Paper Aeroplane competition (which is taking place on Wednesday 8th February in the Sports Hall). If this isn’t the type of activity for you, don’t worry. There are a range of house events introduced every week, giving students the chance to contribute towards their house total at the end of the academic year. The Music House Quiz, put together by Mr Billinger, is still open for anybody who wants to take part. It doesn’t take long, but it will certainly make a difference to your house’s number of participation points. With only a few days left to enter, make sure you don’t miss out! Paper Aeroplane Competition Mrs Nicholson 58 people competed in the 2017 House Paper Aeroplane Competition heats, with 12 being invited back today to compete for the crown. Final results below: 1st - Finlay Cox, 7.2, Sempringham - 21.2m 20 points 2nd - Dylan Higgs, 8.3, Avalon, 18.15m 15 points 3rd - Aymen Bouandel, 7.5, Avalon, 13.8m 10 points 4th - William Kerrigan, 9.1, Sempringham, 13.18m 5 points The final also featured: Leo Millar, Joshua Mabbott, George Strachan, Alexander Moore, Oliver Robertson, Joseph Giles Jens Schlatmann (plus special guest thrower) Everyone who participated earned a point for their House – well done all! Cultural x Social x Moral Spiritual Healthy Crème Brulèe Mr Goffe (Serves 4/ 153 calories per Method serving) • Put the blueberries in a small saucepan with the lemon zest and honey. Heat gently, swirling the berries around occasionally, until the honey has Ingredients melted and the blueberries are on the verge of bursting. Remove the pan from the heat and divide the fruit between 4 ramekins. • 150g blue berries (fresh or • Beat the crème fraiche and Greek yoghurt together, then spoon them frozen) over the fruit, making sure none of the blueberries bleed through. Put the ramekins in the fridge until you are almost ready to serve them – if you’re • zest of 1 lemon in a real hurry you could pop them in the freezer, but for no more than 5 • 1 tbsp. runny honey minutes. • Put the grill on to its highest setting. Sprinkle the puddings with the • 125g half-fat crème fraiche sugar, then place the ramekins on a heatproof tray and put them under • 125g Greek yoghurt the hot grill until the sugar is brown and bubbling. Remove and serve – the sugar should set into a caramel almost immediately. Alternatively, • 2 tbsp. granulated sugar caramelise the sugar with a blow torch if you have one. Cultural x Social x Moral Spiritual Future Chef Competition Mr Goffe After a fantastic performance in the Future Chef Local heat, Holly Blockley attended the Regional heat at Loughborough College. With the help of her Mother Holly set about improving her dishes acting upon feedback received by the local heat judges. On the day, Holly held it together and set about her task with determination any professional chef would have been proud of. The 6 students were again taken out of their comfort zones and asked to prepare and cook a main dish and dessert in an industrial style kitchen. The set criteria is to cook 2 portions of each of the 2 courses within a 90 minutes timeframe and also within a £10.00 budget. Holly’s dishes were prepared and presented on time, she gave it everything she had. After an anxious wait for the judges to deliberate the presentation took place. With some very high standards of cooking by all competitors, the winner of the regional heat was Holly. The judges were particularly impressed with her dessert. The Grand Final will be taking place 27th March at the Westminster College after an overnight stay including attending a dinner hosted by Celebrity Chef Brian Turner the competition patron. To reach the Grand Final is an incredible achievement, Congratulations Holly. Just one more heat to go, good luck. Cultural x Social x Moral x Spiritual World Book Day 2017 Library Quiz Library Staff Now, then. We have lots of entries from Alexandria, but hardly any from the other houses. Where is your house pride? Who is going to represent your house in the Big Book Quiz on World Book Day 2017 if you cannot be bothered? Hmmm?? The quiz will take place on Thursday 2nd March at lunchtime in the library. If you would like to help your house win, first please enter our online quiz: just go to the Library page on Sharepoint, then select ‘Name Another Book By The Writer Of…’ from the left hand menu. You will be given titles of books, and you need to name another book by the same author. We will then inform you nearer the time if you made it into your house team. Go on, have a go. Cultural x Social x Moral x Spiritual Fantasy Games Afternoon – Friday 17th March Library Staff You have the opportunity to play non-electronic games in the school library including Magic the Gathering, YuGiOh, Dungeons and Dragons, and Warhammer. Please also feel free to bring in other games for people to try. The aim is to raise money for the school charities so you will have to pay £2.50 per session to join in. There will be four sessions: lunchtime, P4, P5 and after school, so staying for the whole afternoon would cost a charitable donation of £10. If you wish to take time out of lessons to play games P4 and/or P5 you must have written permission from a parent/guardian and each teacher whose lesson you are missing and you must catch up with the work in your own time. I’m afraid this opportunity is not open to year 11 as they are too close to their GCSEs, but year 11 students are welcome to join in at lunchtime or after school. If you wish to attend, please email the organiser Lamara Wilson at [email protected] for further information and a permission form. Cultural x Social x Moral x Spiritual Technology News Alistair Niclair Never Get Out of Bed Again Everyone knows that getting out of bed can be one of the toughest parts of the day. One tech company claims it’s found the answer to this living nightmare. At a Beam shop in downtown Palo Alto, California, employees came from all over the world, with not one grumble! Workers, instead of dragging themselves out of bed, “beam in” to the store from the comfort of their own homes. The robots can unlock the doors, adjust the lights, interact with customers and as a special party trick, hand out sweets to curious passers-by. The people behind the screens can control the robots’ movements with their keyboard and mouse and use a webcam to display their face. The sight of what is effectively a huge head on stilts careering around the shop floor like a drunken sailor can be both comical and slightly terrifying to an unsuspecting customer. Mr Hassan has pedigree when it comes to technology. The billionaire previously helped write the code that led to the creation of search engine Google and is reported to have made millions from his early stake in the firm. He was frustrated at the amount of group chat companies yet none where workers could do their job at home. Cultural Social x Moral x Spiritual Film of the Week James Ghest The Lego Batman Movie ‘The Lego Batman Movie’ is a 2017 animated spinoff film from 2014’s ‘The Lego Movie’, based off of the immensely successful toy brand. The film is directed by Chris McKay and written by Seth Grahame-Smith, Chris McKenna, Erik Sommers, Jared Stern and John Whittington, and had a budget of $80 million.