To Make a Difference!
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A World of Challenge, Inspiration and Achievement To Make a Difference! Friday 30th November saw the arrival of the long awaited, heavily prepared Also that 29,000 children under Children, Water Aid, Stop Hunger for Citizenship Charity Fayre. This rep- the age of five – 21 each min- Now, Womens Childrens Aid resented the culmination of the Year 10 ute – die every day, mainly from Foundation and CAFODwere just Active Citizenship Unit which repre- preventable causes. a few of the charities that we sents 60% of their Citizenship GCSE. focused on. The ideas for activi- Year 10 decided to TAKE ACTION! ties to run ranged from cake and Year 10 had chosen to focus on the sweetie sales, guess the num- Each class wrote a letter to either theme “Our responsibilities as global ber of sweets in the jar, Mario their local MP or to Downing citizens” looking at the issue “Should Kart racing, Glitter tattoos to Street asking what the Govern- the UK Government do more to sup- the more bizarre Can the Cam- ment intends to do to try to port people in less economically eron game! There were various ensure that these issues are ad- developed countries?” We had decided petitions available to sign for dressed as a matter of urgency . to investigate what the UK Government students to pledge their support, and UK citizens are doing to support They then decided to help in which will in turn be forwarded the Millennium Development Goals to the Prime Minister. which were a set of goals agreed by their own way by trying to raise awareness of these appalling the United Nations and non-govern- Students in Years 7-9 had the op- issues and raise some money for mental organisations in the year 2000. portunity to visit the Fayre in pe- the numerous charities who are These goals were intended to be met riods 1 and 2 whilst upper school working to support people in by 2015 but with only 3 years to go, and staff were able to explore we have discovered that many of the LEDCs directly affected by hun- targets that were set are unlikely to ger, poverty and disease. be achieved. Two of the goals that we In groups found will not be achieved are: the MDG1: Eradicate extreme poverty and students hunger chose an issue MDG4: Reduce by 2/3rds between by to focus 2015 the number of children dying on and before reaching 5 years of age. chose a charity to During their research into these goals, support. Year 10 found out some shocking facts. Oxfam, That there are 925 million hungry Save the people in the world and nearly all under nourished people live in LEDCs. “I believe in using what you have, instead of mourning for that which you do not. In thirty years time, I want to be able to look back at my youth and know that I used my talents fully: that I wasted nothing.” A former Highcliffe Sixth Form Student Volume 12 Issue 3, February 2013 2 There was a real sense that difference globally. Nearly £1000 the various stalls at breaktime. the Highcliffe School commu- was raised to send to the chari- nity were all pulling together ties concerned. The atmosphere at the Fayre to ensure the success of this was tremendous and the feel important event. good factor associated with doing something to help others When it was all over, abounded. One Year 8 student Year 10 had a real said “I can’t believe so many chil- sense of achievement, dren die every day just because they had alerted their they don’t have clean water to peers to the impor- drink. I’ve spent all my money on tance of being global this stall so I know I have helped citizens -by acting in a small way.” locally we can make a Sixth Form Hard Work - Great Success A new indicator which has Form colleges both locally and places at Oxford University appeared on the perform- nationally. The publication of for October 2013. ance tables this year is the school performance tables the percentage of students in January of each year by All three were put through gaining Grades AAB in the the Department for Educa- their paces in December 2012 ‘facilitating’ Advanced level tion always provokes a lot of during their interviews held subjects. These subjects interest both within schools at various colleges in Oxford. form part of a list deemed as and the wider community. The Jack applied to Keble College being part of the preferred new format of the tables gives to read Economics & Manage- study options by the Rus- a very comprehensive range ment and has been offered a sell Group universities – the of comparative data looking at conditional place on receipt list includes: mathemat- many aspects of school per- of his A2 results. Francesca ics, further mathematics, formance. The range is indeed underwent a range of inter- English literature, physics, so comprehensive that it must views – whilst she was feeling biology, chemistry, geog- be quite daunting for read- most unwell – but she obvi- raphy, history and foreign ers who are not from the field ously performed well and has languages (classical and of education to understand been offered a conditional modern). Highcliffe’s the wealth of information that place at Lincoln College to figure is 10%, more than is provided. The link to the read Languages. Phoebe has double the figure of 4.8% tables is: http://www.educa- been offered a conditional for state schools, and tion.gov.uk/schools/perform- open offer to read Experi- ahead of the 6.5% fig- ance/ mental Psychology. They are ure for all schools and under no illusions of the com- Sixth Form colleges. As a The beginning of January 2013 mitment needed to achieve school we are pleased that was a time for celebration for their required results. They our Sixth Form students are 3 of our Year 13 students. are determined to reach their clearly being well-prepared Jack Radford, Francesca goals and we await their news for higher education and Crisante and Phoebe Bar- in August. We wish them all performing so well in com- nett have been offered the best with their studies. parison to schools and Sixth H2U, Volume 12 Issue 3, February 2013 3 e x pressive ar ts The Growth of Drama The autumn term was an ac- 13 BTEC Acting group are very have created a truly original tion-packed one for the Drama busy at the moment touring their and enchanting response to the team and students with a Children’s Theatre performances tales which is full of energy and variety of activities involving at our local feeder schools. Having creativity! all year groups and a range already performed to over 100 of external pupils at Acting Workshops! agencies and Highcliffe St Also the Year 13 Gifted and audiences. Mark Junior Talented BTEC Acting students School, are currently working with Drama Club they have Peter Courtney from Direct Festive Fun! several Theatre to develop their impro- further per- Year 7 and 8 visational skills. Peter, a highly formances Drama Club talented improviser/actor has booked all members introduced the students to the way up treated an au- Long Form Improvisation a very until Febru- dience to some challenging technique which in- ary 2013! festive fun volves participants creating an towards the Using the unplanned piece which could end of term. Grimm last up to an hour. Without a Students had broth- script, the Year 13 students will created their ers’ tales be expected to develop char- own Christmas of ‘Snow acter, situation and plot in a themed per- White’ and spontaneous way for an invited formances and ‘Hansel audience. They will use ensem- also provided and Gretel’ ble work, listening skills and a all their own as their range of improvisation frame- costumes, props and sound starting point, the students have works to create what should be tracks. The students’ ideas recreated the poet Carol Ann a highly entertaining piece! were very imaginative and Duffy’s dramatization of these sto- often humorous including ries. Using Santa’s version of ‘Come Dine physical with Me’ to Mother Christmas theatre having to deliver the presents! tech- All students enjoyed perform- niques, ing to their friends and we are music, looking forward to our next move- project. ment, mime and Grimm Tales working as Following on from the suc- an ensem- cessful performances of last ble, the year’s cohort in May, the Year Year 13’s H2U, Volume 12 Issue 3, February 2013 4 The Actor’s Wheel reports. The lighting of the show I thought was very creative, The Year 13 group was joined by Sister Act for example when Deloris was the Year 12 BTEC Acting students day dreaming yellows were Recently, Expressive Arts recently to take part in a devising used to emphasise the feeling students went on a school trip workshop run by Kevin Johnson of happiness and excitement. to see Sister Act performed from Marjon University College, Also when a character felt sad, at the Mayflower Theatre in Plymouth. Kevin is in the process blues and greens were used to Southampton. Before I went of setting up The Actor’s Wheel: a show jealousy and sadness. to the show I was expecting group of undergraduates study- a performance with a few ing for a BA (Honours) in Acting in The costumes and props were singing nuns because of things Plymouth. very effective. The use of glit- I had heard about the produc- ter and sequins on costumes The workshop began with a selec- tion and about the film.