24Th April 2015 F O the CHORAL CONCERT FINALE
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Academic Year 2014-15 – Number 9 www.farlingaye.suffolk.sch.uk [email protected] twitter @farlingayehigh 24th April 2015 F O THE CHORAL CONCERT FINALE Bar Mock Trial PE Round Up The Skinny Jeans Suffolk Indoor Rowing R Gardeners plus One Championships Intermediate Maths Wheeling Challenge 2015 Rugby Champions Author Visit Farlingaye Flyers Library Donations County Sports Hall Book Mastermind Area Athletics Finals U Finals Year 7 and 8 Handball Music Round Up U13 Netball—League and Little Screening of Tournament Success Horrors U15 Netball RoboCup CoSpace UK Other Results M Challenge FORUM 24 April 2015 well as Ms Hargadon, Mr Tunaley and Bar Mock Trial Mr Picton, who were there on the day WENTY six Year 9 students were supporting us. T chosen to be part of this year’s It was a great experience and I had Bar Mock Trial competition. Farlingaye never done anything like it before. It had two teams, and roles included gave us a fantastic insight into the lawyers for both defence and many aspects of the judicial system. prosecution, magistrates and ushers. I Katya Bathgate 9F was lucky enough to be a defence lawyer defending Olivia Campbell- Barr, who was charged with theft. We The Skinny Jean were well prepared and our confidence improved during group and individual Gardeners plus one sessions with Ms Hargadon and a dry UST before we broke up for the run performed a couple of days before J Easter holidays, I was invited to the competition. appear on stage at the Edible Garden The trials took place in Ipswich Show at Alexandra Palace in London. Magistrates Court and six schools I was extremely excited to meet and including ours were involved. Each perform with the Skinny Jean version of the trial had a Lead Gardeners. If you don't know who Magistrate and a Court Steward to these guys are, they are brothers guide the proceedings, as well as the based in Essex and often appear on competition judges. Blue Peter. The day itself was nerve-wracking They've also spent time with Jamie and exciting at the same time. Oliver and Jimmy Doherty at Jimmy's Questioning the defendant was fine Farm. because we had rehearsed it so many LUCAS HATCH WITH THE SKINNY JEANS GARDENERS times we were word perfect, whereas cross-examining the other school’s witness was harder as I had to be able to improvise if I got an answer I wasn’t expecting. Despite being very nervous before we went in, when I came out, I wanted to do it all again! Knowing this court is used for actual trials made the whole experience seem more important. I was now sitting in exactly the same place as the defence lawyers I had seen on our earlier visit. Being locked in the dock must have been even more daunting for my witness, Olivia, who, the Lead Magistrate pointed out, was facing a possible custodial sentence if I didn’t get her off! Prizes were awarded by Simon Spence QC with Farlingaye coming 1st and 2nd. We’d like to thank all the court staff who volunteered to help as 2 24 April 2015 FORUM I spent two days with them on Additionally, the award of 9 Silver and stage. There were two staged areas at 22 Bronze certificates really the show. One was called the Potting emphasises the Maths talent across the Shed, where there were practical Key Stage 4 groups. demonstrations throughout the day, Following the Intermediate Maths and the other one was called the Expert Challenge, a select few are invited to sit Theatre, where we gave advice and follow on competitions if they score answered detailed questions. highly enough. I am delighted to There were approximately 200 announce that Lotte Tyndale-Hardy, people watching and even more on the Samuel Hopgood, Sam Cottee and Saturday which was a little daunting Anna Vincent have qualified for the but I thoroughly enjoyed it. I was lucky Pink Kangaroo and Josiah Brown for enough to meet James Wong - a well the Grey Kangaroo. Special known botanist. He was on before me congratulations to Alex Cooke and so I think he must have been our warm Peter Strulo who qualified for the up act! I also met this year’s Big Maths Olympiad, a wonderful Allotment Challenge contestants. It was achievement. These rounds were, by all interesting to meet them after watching accounts, tough papers. The results this year’s series on TV. should be here in the coming weeks. It was a brilliant day - one I will Exceptional performances remember! I have also been invited to Highest in the school Alex Cooke the BBC Gardeners World Live at the Highest in Year 11 Lotte Tyndale-Hardy NEC in June, to perform with the Highest in Year 10 Alex Cooke Skinny Jean Gardeners again! It Highest in Year 9 Josiah Brown should be fun! Examples of questions (No Lucas Hatch 9F calculators allowed!!) Lucas Hatch won RHS Young Q1. What is the value of 1 – 0.2 + 0.03 School Gardener of the Year 2012 and – 0.004? last year he won best in show for his A. 0.826 B. 0.834 C. 0.926 D. 1.226 garden design at the Suffolk Show E. 1.234 2014. Q5. Which of the following numbers is not a square? A 16 B. 25 C. 34 D. 43 E. 52 Intermediate Maths Q11. Three different positive integers have a mean of 7. What is the largest Challenge 2015 positive that could be one of them? N the recent Intermediate Maths A 15 B. 16 C. 17 D. 18 E. 19 I Challenge, open to students in Years Q20. A voucher code is made up of four 9, 10 and 11, over 70 students characters. The first is a letter V, X or accepted the challenge and produced a P. The second and third are different fantastic set of results with many digits. The fourth is the unit’s digit of notable performances. In total, 56% of the sum of the second and third digits. the students received a certificate, a How many different voucher codes like good haul considering the difficulty of this are there? the paper. Gold certificates were A. 180 B. 243 C. 270 D. 300 E. 2700 awarded to Lotte Tyndale-Hardy and Well done to everyone who took Samuel Hopgood of Year 11, Alex part, rising to the challenge and Cooke, Peter Strulo, Sam Cottee, Anna representing Farlingaye so well. Vincent and James Liddell of Year 10 Mr Daly and Josiah Brown of Year 9. 3 FORUM 24 April 2015 Author Visit Book Mastermind Area OSHUA Winning, a local author and J freelance journalist visited Finals Farlingaye library to talk to Year 9 N Friday March 20th, Alexander and 12 students about his childhood O Richards, 9I, took part in the in Suffolk and what inspired him to Book Mastermind Area Final at become a writer. Copleston High School. Joshua spoke about his writing Alexander competed against and his first book “Sentinel”. He read several schools from the county such a short passage from “Sentinel” and as, Copleston High School, Ipswich spoke about his career as an author High School, St Albans and Suffolk and journalist. Away from book New Academy. writing, Joshua is Contributing Editor Alexander was challenged with two at Total Film magazine and also does rounds; during the first round he was freelance writing for MovieScope, asked twenty questions on his chosen Grolsch Film Works and Spirit & book “The Fault in Our Stars“ by Destiny. John Green. The second round Mrs Mason consisted of twenty general knowledge questions. Donations I am pleased to announce that Alexander won the Area Final and has HANK you to those who have gone through to the County Final, donated books to the library. We T Friday 8th May at Riverside Centre, are very grateful for all the fabulous Stratford St Andrew. books we’ve received. Good Luck Alexander. Mrs Mason Mrs Mason LEFT: JOSHUA WINNING TALKING TO STUDENTS IN THE LIBRARY. BELOW: ALEXANDER RICHARDS ANSWERING QUESTIONS AT BOOK MASTERMIND 4 24 April 2015 FORUM prestigious private school but Fia has Battle of the Books a bad feeling. Over the next two ORTHGATE High School hosted years, Fia is dragged deeper into the N the event, with four other Keane Foundations web of lies and schools attending. Each school had discovers her own powers. previously voted for their favourite The thing that makes you think in book and these chosen books had this book is how far you would go to been sent to the other schools, to be protect your own family. However, read and discussed. This year, the the downside of this book is that it four books all had the same themes: jumps from Fia’s perspective to war, loss and the reflection of society Annie’s, this point was very much now as a whole. picked up on by the other schools. The book choses were: “Sister After 45 minutes of intense Assassin” - Farlingaye’s choice; discussion, each table was asked to “Between Shades of Grey” - St vote on their favourite books and Alban’s choice; “Split Second” - soon it was clear that the battle was Copleston’s choice; “Miss Peregrine’s between “Split Second” (Copleston’s Home for Peculiar Children” - choice) and “Between Shades of Northgate’s choice. Grey” (St Alban’s choice). We had a “Sister Assassin”, our choice, is short break, where many cheese about two sisters whose world is balls were consumed and cakes turned upside down when Annie eaten! Finally it was time to vote, (who’s blind) has a vision of their each person had to write the book of parent’s death.