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In this issue... 05 Make-up Rules in School more coverage needed! 10 ‘Involve Parents in PHSE’ vital step to improve effective teaching 14 Springboard! transformative opportunity first-hand 16 Preparing Girls for their Future which won’t always be easy National title win 17 Facing Up to Gender Stereotypes for gymnasts empowering pupils to develop at their own pace Sheffield High School for Girls has won the British 24 Profile Schools Gymnastics Association National Schools in conversation with Douglas Robb Floor and Vault Finals for the first time ever. Representing Yorkshire, the six-strong under-19 38 Partnership Scheme team had already won the regional competition to qualify and travelled to Fenton Manor Sports getting children excited about learning Centre in Stoke on Trent to compete against 11 other teams from across the country. Emily Wyman, Tiegan Walker, Lucy Buchanan, Plus Freya Grant, Jessica Rodgers and reserve Isabel 06 That Royal Wedding re-lived! Tupholme performed on both the floor and the 07 ‘University’ at school vault beating gynmasts from Tormead School and 08 Changing Faces...Changing Places Surbiton High School to the title. 09 Unique independent/free school collaboration The team is now Under 19 national champions at 12 Growing food for school use both gymnastics and trampolining and the only 13 AEGIS/BSA partnership school in Great Britain to hold national titles at 18 School’s ‘Compass for Life’ initiative both sports. 22 Teacher re-writes history curriculum Liz Rodgers, assistant head (co-curricular) at 28 Music, Dance & Drama Focus Feature Sheffield Girls’ said: “The girls have worked so hard 32 Marketing & Administration Focus Feature all season and were really looking forward to the 40 Sport Focus Feature national finals. They were so full of determination 44 Sexist remarks – quiet word, or disciplinary process? to win a national gymnastics title – the elusive accolade that the school had not yet won, in spite of numerous trampolining national titles and qualification to gymnastics finals”. Chapel broadcasts Lancing College Chapel provided the place of 28 Music, Dance worship for a live broadcast of the well-known BBC Radio 4 Sunday Worship programme, and & Drama 40 Sport was also the venue for BBC Radio 3 Choral Evensong, broadcast recently. The Digest; Heads Hunted; Editorial Advisory Board; Key Personnel; Full story page 12 Contact Us pages 46 – 47. Is Your School Mentioned? A-Z on page 47 LOOKING TO BUY OR SELL A SCHOOL OR NURSERY National SchoolTransfer For a Professional – Confidential Service www.nationalschooltransfer.com Email: [email protected] Tel: +44 (0)1980 621251 Independent Schools Magazine 3 Inspiring fund-raising Meriel Park, a Year 4 pupil from her head out of the water. Meriel Kitebrook Preparatory School, then passed Sam The Dream Stone Gloucestershire, has published to Ben Kruze, a teacher from the a book together with her carer, school. Mr Kruze (pictured) and Anna-Marie, to raise awareness of his support team cycled 174 miles her condition, Nemaline Myopathy. to Snowdon over two days, finally, ‘The Dream Stone’ is a fictional tale returning Sam to Meriel so she about Sam, the Dream Stone and could take him up to Snowdon's his best friend, Meriel. Summit the following day. The book is written in a fun and imaginative manner. Illustrations are by Meriel and her elder brother, Miles and include photographs taken by Team Map Nemaline. All royalties from the book go to MAP Nemaline Fund, a ring-fenced fund for research into Nemaline Myopathy within Muscular Dystrophy UK Charity. Inspired by real events during Meriel’s Dream Stone Triathlon, a Visit www.thedreamstonespirit.org fund-raising effort, in which Meriel for further information about trained hard to accomplish her Meriel’s Dream Stone Triathlon, swim challenge. Anna-Marie was MAP Nemaline, Meriel’s other there to assist Meriel because she fundraising efforts and to purchase Tough call doesn't have the strength to lift copies of the book. As many people know the full to take part in the half mudder Tough Mudder (10 miles - 20 and mini mudder in addition to obstacles) is quite a challenge. supporting the staff. Despite the Throw in unusually cold weather cold and some fiendish obstacles and biting winds in hilly Henley the team started and finished and you are faced with a monster together and proudly wore their of an event. finishers headbands, t-shirts and Thirty teachers from Devonshire bruises to assembly on Monday House School, London, completed morning. a Tough Mudder in support of the The Headmistress, Mrs Stephanie school’s work in Rwanda. They Piper, seen above trying to do the were sponsored to the tune of backstroke, under chicken wire and £11,000 (and still counting) and in mud, told the pupils how proud were delighted that a large number she was of the incredible teamwork of parents and pupils came along from everyone involved. Escape from Dungeon! Cobham Hall, Kent, Sixth Formers to staff and students to gauge created an Escape Room in the opinion, through developing a School’s dungeon, described by a believable storyline – the murder member of staff as “by far the best of the Prime Minister’s daughter I’ve done!” by a Mafia boss – to details such Catherine Broadhurst, Lana Bakr and as crafting love letters, bank Jana Bakr created an ‘Escape Room’ statements and bills and finally, in the dungeon. Escape Rooms have decorating a room in the dungeon been growing in popularity around as an office. the country, and having completed Several teams of students and one in Year 11 and been awed by staff, including the Senior the ingenuity and overall experience, Leadership Team (pictured right), Catherine felt it would be an ideal booked a slot to take part. The school project. fastest team was three Year 13 The trio spent months planning girls, who completed it in 15 the game; from a survey emailed minutes. 4 Independent Schools Magazine Advertisement Sales: 01242 259249 [email protected] Make-up rules in schools... more coverage needed! Our pupils’ choice of role models can often lead to despair; they seem utterly captivated by Kim (or is it Khloe?!) Kardashian’s latest Instagram antics and many are more impressed by Florence and the Machine than Florence Nightingale. However, as a teacher, and in an attempt to narrow the generational divide (which, due to social media has turned a river into the ocean), one must try to appear ‘down with the kids’, says Beth Kerr, Deputy Head Pastoral at Immanuel College, Hertfordshire.... I certainly did this when one of my hit home to me, was the way she about appearance, no school wants And so, we are bringing a make-up lovely Year 10 pupils (I’ll call her explained that problem skin could to promote the idea that a person’s artist in to give pupils some tips on Jane), came to see me to ask if she really impact one’s confidence to identity should be focused on applying makeup discreetly, and to could contact the ‘Made in Chelsea’ participate in activities, especially the way they look and encourage discuss the importance of a healthy and ‘I’m a Celebrity - Get Me Out when friends felt it helpful to ask young girls especially (although not lifestyle for good health in general. of Here’ star Georgia Toffolo. I her- ‘do you know you’ve got exclusively) that they need to wear I suspect that the first part will be googled her name as she explained something on your face?. make-up. In a Utopian World, our better received than any advice to me that ‘Toff’ had inspired her I asked her what she thought might teens would be totally immersed in about sleeping more and cutting after watching her talk publicly make a difference to sufferers today. their learning and extra-curricular down on stalking celebrities on about her acne, and the impact on She simply said: ‘I really wish I’d or charitable activities. However Instagram, but I felt I should at least her mental health as a teenager and learnt to put make-up on properly in reality we know that during be aspirational! young adult. As an acne sufferer this critical developmental period, at an earlier age, I would have felt One is never quite sure how herself, Jane wanted to invite her to they are programmed to seek peer much more confident and once I parents will react to rule changes, school to talk to our pupils (this was approval and thus fitting in is a remember a teacher coming into but in this case the response was something that Toff had said she pivotal part of adolescence. With a class with a wet wipe and telling overwhelmingly positive, highlighted did on her ‘This Morning’ interview), that in mind, we decided that we those with make-up on to take it off by this typical example: to help de-stigmatise this condition, - I never wore make-up after that.’ I did not want to prevent a child and highlight its detrimental impact thought a lot about this experience applying ‘light touch’ skin make-up “There have been days where she on adolescent wellbeing.