Calendar Dates Attendance Top Tutor group for Achievements 19.06.2018 - YR 9 Bath SPA Uni Visit 4th—13th June NLK 230 22.06.2018 - YR 11 Product Design Year 11 93% Exam (08:30) JFG 225 Year 10 93% 23.06.2018 - Mini Marathon (AVC) Year 7 92.6% DJB 175

27.06.2018 - Bulford St. Leonard’s Year 8 89% ERC 127 Sports Day Year 9 87.2%

Success for Lui Natui On Saturday 9th June, I had to travel to Swindon for the next round of Athletics. The reason I had to compete is because I won Long jump at Area Athletics and then got through to the next round. To be honest, I was quite nervous but I have been train- ing and training at Athletics track so that I could be prepared for the weekend. When it came to the day, I was excit- ed and ready, and trying to not think about it much. When it came to my event I was nervous but ready. My first jump, I got 5.64m, second jump 5.74m , so I was gradually going up and then my final jump of the first round was 5.84m. The top 6 ath- letes get an extra 3 jumps and I got through. I got two foul jumps and I had one more left and I thought I have to give this my all and I did and got 5.90m, which meant I had a place in ESAA and the WSAA to compete on the 16th June at Exeter for the South Wales Championships. I was glad because this means I get to represent a different county, , at ESAA instead of North Yorkshire and I am ready for it. It has been a great experience and I am not going to let it end there. Lui Natui

Success for Emily Batty

Athletics success I was very pleased to be invited to compete in the Wiltshire Schools Athletic championships. I qualified to race in the 800m. The race didn’t start well, after 200m I was at the back of the field and worked my way to 7th after 400m. I moved up the field into 5th place with 100m to go, at this point I felt really good and started sprinting I forged ahead and made up about 25m to finish 2nd with a Personal Best time. This was a fantastic achievement for me and I’m now looking forward to AVC Sports day.

Swimming success

On the 3rd of June I swam in the Salisbury Stingrays Open Swimming meet. I won a gold in the 50m free- style and silver for 100 I M and 100 backstroke. Sad- ly I have an on-going shoulder injury, so I could not compete in the afternoon session. Over all I was pleased with my achievements.

Emily Batty Disability Athletics The School games Disability Athletics festival took place at Tidworth Oval. The following schools participated, , Larkrise, Sarum Academy, Kingdown, Shel- don and St Edmunds. Sports leaders from Kingdown and St Edmunds ran the 4 different events, 75m, 300m, Standing Long Jump and the Vortex throw. There was three catego- ries of disability all competing for an individual medal. The hardest event was the 300m but everyone managed with support to complete it. The students enjoyed the day not just having a go at the events but also socialising with the other competitor's.

Results Kiera Rowland 2nd 46 points Stevie Lamb 4th 39 points Lauren Watson and Gemma Staphnill 6th 28 points Rhiannon Howells 7th 27 points

Corey Weston 3rd 70 points Martyn Spicer 5th 62 points Cameron Cox 8th 48 points Curtis Magill 11th 43 points Year 8 Quadkids Ben Axon 12th 42 points A group of Year 8 students attended this Kian Hayes 16th 32 points evening to compete in a Quadkids competition, where they each compete in 100m, 800m, long jump and vortex throw. Mrs Harries They all performed fantastically, in particularly poor weather conditions.

Our team came 2nd overall and we had some stand out perfor- mances from individuals!

Rory Cameron was 2nd boy overall! 5th was Eleanor Flower and Taylor Jewel

Ben O’Callaghan won the 800m - scoring more points than we have ever had in a Year 8 , 800m race!

Mr Burton

Sports Leaders

Aimee, Jas, Grace and Ellie in Year 9 helped officiate and score at the girls Kwik Cricket festival at Collingbourne Cricket club.

After attending a mini Tennis course, Aimee, Tyler and Callum took on the role of official and scorer at the level2 School Games primary Mini Tennis Festival. Flynn, Max, Caitlyn, Chelsea and Jas supported them as an extra pair of eyes on the side line and were on hand to provide the balls for each serve.

After attending Quadkids training in how to officiate the 3 different events - standing long jump, vortex throw and track events the following students volunteered to run the events at the primary Quadkids festival held after school at AVC - Emily, Archie, Callum, Lindsey, Aimee, Molly, Jas, Aimee, Sovaia, Grace, Ellie, Jazz, Heidi and Skye. The following attended Marlborough College for the second Quadkids festivals—Year 9 Jas, Jas, Emilie, Aimee, Molly, Sovaia, from Year 10 Charlie, Jazz, Skye, Megan, Jack, Ben, James, Lui, Georgia and Heidi.

Mrs Harries Jigsaw workshop

Aimee from Jigsaw , which is a Salisbury Youth Dance Company, delivered a 2 hour workshop to the Year 9 girls Dance class to give them an insight in to contem- porary dance and the opportunity for them to attend an audition to join the company. During the session they learnt different ways to warm up, they looked at ways to travel and then finished off by learning a motif and developing it in a group. By the end of the workshop, the girls had lots of new dances moves to add to their vocabulary and were very tired.

Mrs Harries

Year 7 History This term in Year 7 History, students are studying the First World War. As part of this topic we will be looking at Trench Warfare during the First World War and students will learn about life in the Trenches. The Humanities Faculty have decided to have a competition where all students will research, design and build a replica WW1 Trench. This will be judged on Open Evening by a First World War reenactor. Your trench can be designed and built using any materials you like but must not exceed the size limit of an A2 piece of paper. Students are not allowed to hand in their trench until Monday 9th July and the judging will take place on Tuesday 10th July. The winners will be announced in the Year 7 assembly which follows.

Miss Bird

Volunteering

Friends of Durrington Junior School would like to thank the following Year 9 students who helped at their last fund raising event MAYHEM. The students helped to entertain the children and showed them how to use the different equipment that was provided:

Aimee Marsh, Aimee Tudor, Lindsey Allen, Chelsea Guille, Molly Grant and Jas Spencer.

Mrs Harries Geography Year 10 Geography students made the most of the spell of fine weather incorporating some outside learning into the ‘Landforms and Processes’ component of their GCSE. There are 210 chalk streams in the world and the geography depart- ment is lucky to have one of them on its doorstep. Not to let such a fine learning resource go to waste, Mr Hudson donned his (slightly leaky) waders and led the class to a meander just past the recreation ground where measurements of distance and depth were taken by the pupils. This data was then turned into a cross-section of the meander which was used to contrast the inside and outside of the bend. Incidentally this was the very first question of this year’s GCSE exam!

Girls Touch Rugby Festival The Level 2 School Games Touch Rugby Festival for Year7/8 girls took place at Avon Valley College. As the girls had not had any practice the festival started with some friendly games so the girls could quickly learn the rules and see how the game was played. The girls soon got the idea and the actual matches against St Edmunds and St Josephs were close. This just proved how much determination and resilience the girls have. Top performers were Ruby Clancy who showed great pace and managed to score numerous times, while Charlotte Durban gave continuous instructions and advice on the pitch. At the end of the festival the girls from the other schools each chose their players player— St Edmunds A - Ellie Spencer, St Edmunds B - Ella Logan, St Josephs - Ruby Clancy. This was a steep learning curve for the girls but by the end they were playing some good rugby. Other team members were - Alana Guise, Aimee Tudor, Charlotte Orchard, Fa’Amelea Matakibou, Charlie Kinnear, Stevie Lamb, Rhiannon Howells, Gemma Staphnill and Kira Johnson. They have now qualified for the level 3 final in Marlborough so we will start training after half term.

Mrs Harries

Mr S Johnston Principal