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www.testvalley.hants.sch.uk Summer Term Stockfest Test Valley Annual Festival 2019 The school choir was another memorable moment of the afternoon. It consist of pupils from all year groups. They performed three songs. Talent Takes Over the Main Stage The staff choir gathered crowds around the stage, waiting for their favorite teachers to perform. Mrs Stubbs, Mrs De Nitto as well as Mr Murdoch Smith all Crowds gather to watch the talent on the main stage. took part in the choir. The main stage was full of talented pupils performing for the crowds between 3:20pm to 5pm on the top field of Test Valley School, Stockbridge. AMO was the first amazing band to perform at this annual music festival. The band consist of Oliver Armer (on the drums), Angus Bone (as the lead singer) and Marcus Brown, playing the piano. Their band name stands for the first letter of each of their first names. There was also a staff band playing a rock classic. Mrs Leyman was on the piano; Mr Willcox on the electric guitar. Just to name a few. Continued on page 3... Follow us on Facebook and Twitter Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/testvalleysch Twitter: @testvalleysch 1 Headteacher’s Message As we near the end of another busy term, I am delighted to share with you our latest newsletter. This celebrates the many different events and activities our pupils and staff have been involved in this term. We hope you enjoy reading about these. We look forward to celebrating with our Year 11 pupils their GCSE results in August and wish them well as they prepare for the next stage of their education in the Autumn Term. We also look forward to welcoming our new Year 7 pupils in September as they start their secondary education with us. Finally, I take this opportunity to thank parents for your support this year and look forward to working with you again when we return for the start of the Autumn Term. Miss L Hiscock Headteacher Prefect Team 2019-2020 After much deliberation and formal interviews we appointed our Prefects for next year. Griffin Centaur Phoenix Poppy Cragoe Ryan Edwards Kehvani Bhoodhoo Kennedy Kirby Joe Lynch Olivia Summers Louise Roskilly Cody Marsh Casper Hawkes Archie Ward Isabella Mills Cerys Hotchkiss Eleanor Weatherburn Ben Varga Sophie Standfield Olivia Bowman Eve Wansboro Bobb Turpin Joe Jackson James Ashley Annalise Wiggans Patryk Palmer Bradley Hall Oliver Holdich Jen Meade Amy Lane Joe Lovell Alex Davis Katie Middleton Poppy Lovejoy Grace Lovejoy 2 Stockfest Teat Valley’s Annual Festival continued... Invited Pupils to Raise Money for the Swimming Pool There were many fun stalls to keep pupils, All funds from this festival went towards the pool. The pool families and teachers occupied. was going to close this year but thanks to the PTA, pupils and teachers it will now stay open. You can donate £5 a month An amazing BBQ – run by the PTA – sold with details on the school website to help this privilege to stay delicious hotdogs, burgers, soft drinks and open. sweets galore. Guess the sweets in the jar was another brilliant stall. All tutor groups from years 7 and 8 ran their stalls. 7N ran a penalty shootout Splat the Rat was an imaginative idea by a Year 8 tutor. The challenge. The prizes consisted of a foot- hard working pupils of the tutor together made a board to ball, sweets and chocolates. Angus Bone slide the rat down and many posters as well. came 1st Connor Reeves came 2nd and Mr. A tricky stall left may people puzzled! One of the most popular stalls was the famous Stockfest stocks. Pupils and teachers all volunteered to get wet spong- es thrown at them to save our pool. Written by Harriet Davis Year 7 Pupil Council Event Test Valley School had the pleasure of welcoming 21 pupils from some of our local primary schools when we hosted the annual Pupil Council Cluster Event. The pupils who attended are all members of the Pupil Council within their own schools and worked alongside eleven of our own Pupil Council representatives. The pupils began by getting to know each other in small groups, they discussed their schools as well as hobbies and interests. During the morning the pupils designed a logo to symbolize what the Pupil Councils were all about and their contribution will be collated to form a logo that will be displayed not only in Test Valley School but also are local primary schools too. This logo will represent our local Pupil Council forum. After a short mid-morning break Mrs Bottle from Broughton school delivered a session on the Rights Respecting Schools Award. This was fantastic and really challenged the pupils into thinking what is a need and what is a want. Towards the end of the morning the Test Valley pupils also shared their experience of secondary school with the primary school pupils, the younger pupils really enjoyed this and asked many questions about different aspects of school life. A very big thank you and well done to everyone who participated in this event. We have already started planning for next year! 3 Pupil Librarian Achievement Award Congratulations to Henry King Year 11, who recently received his Gold Pupil Librarian Achievement The Pupil Librarian Achievement Award is a carefully structured training programme, which allows pupil librarians to develop skills, qualities and knowledge in a real life context. Henry has consistently worked in the library, doing a variety of jobs, including shelving, issuing and returning books, suggesting new titles for the library, creating displays and helping with ad-hoc projects. Thank you Henry! HBA Final Voting Day Hampshire Book Award Final Voting Day 2019 Mrs Lowin and Mr Pennicott were delighted to take a group of Year 8 pupils to the HBA Final Voting Day at The Vyne Community School on Wednesday 3rd July. The pupils had been reading and discussing six teen fiction books, and this was their chance to vote for their favourite! On arrival the pupils were mixed with other pupils from schools in the North Hampshire area and took part in discussions about the six books, before voting on their favourite. While the votes were being counted and collated with votes from other schools throughout Hampshire, the pupils took part in a book quiz. Divided into four sections the quiz included questions about the six HBA books, books based in different parts of the world, detective books and books that have featured on television and in films. We were very pleased that Amy Henry and Aneskha Gerrard were on the winning team! After an exciting countdown the winning book was finally revealed, which is ‘Shell’ by Paula Rawsthorne! ‘Shell’ is all about Lucy, who is suffering from terminal cancer and has resigned herself to dying. Her family and best friend cannot accept this outcome, and her family do something radical that not only changes Lucy’s life, but also that of her family, her friends and people she doesn’t know. A story with unexpected twists, believable characters and a thought-provoking plot make this book hard to put down. The six HBA books are all available from the library to read now, and four of the books are available through ePlatform. We are now looking forward to the HBA Award Ceremony later this year, where we will get the chance to see the author receive her award, and find out more about how she wrote the book. 4 75th Anniversary of D-Day Article by Thomas Henry Year 8 What was D-Day? The Normandy landings were the landing operation on Tuesday, 6 June 1944 of the Allied invasion of Normandy during World War II. The codename is Operation Neptune and often referred to as D-Day. It was the largest seaborne invasion in history. Which Places Were Effected By D-Day? The northern beaches of France in Normandy. This is where American, Canadian and British troops attacked the over taken beaches of Normandy, France, by boat, plane and parachutes. How Did The Military Operation Develop During The First Few Days? Less than a week later, the beaches were fully secured and over 326,000 troops and more than 50,000 vehicles went ashore. In the first weeks, the Allies fought their way across Normandy against determined German re- sistance, as well as a dense landscape of marshes and hedgerows. By the end of June, the Allies had seized most of Cherbourg, landed around 850,000 men and 150,000 vehicles in Normandy, and were ready to continue their attack across France. How Important Was D-Day D-Day was very important to the Allies’ victory, because it had a major impact on German strategies. It took time for them to redo their plans and change where troops were diverted to and where resources went. It gave the Allies a good and strong position (on shore) to move forwards and take over the city of Caen south of the landing site. How Was The Anniversary Of D-Day Celebrated? It was celebrated by many events on the south coast. Senior politicians and members of the Royal family as well as hundreds of veterans attended various ceremonies. Other allied countries as well as Germany attended the event at the Ports- mouth Naval Memorial. This event involved 4,000 military people, 11 Royal Naval vessels and 26 RAF aircrafts. More than 200 veterans boarded a cruise ship to retrace the route of the seaborne assault. Who Attended The Celebrations In The Various Countries? Sixteen countries attended, which are: Australia, Belgium, Canada, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, New Zealand, Poland, Slovakia, the UK and the US.