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The Clyst Mail June 2016 Issue Five Clyst Vale Community College ALL THE SCHOOL’S A STAGE Four hundred years ago, William Shakespeare Steven Spielberg in his direction of ‘The Tem- Twelfth Night”. died of a cause that no historian has been able pest’? Will Miss Mann need maths to calculate to determine. A turn of fate could have caused the complexities of ‘Romeo and Juliet’? And I This festival is not set out to be the average Clyst his manuscripts to be lost and buried, along with think we’re all excited to see how Mr Simpson Vale performance and will offer more of an in- the stories and characters that were so loved and Miss Gilborson will unleash their inner teractive experience for the audience. Various over the estimated 20 years that he was writing. Kanye West with their rapping chorus for ‘Much locations will be used across the school for mul- Instead, for four hundred years his works have Ado About Nothing’. tiple plays to be performed at the same time been celebrated, studied, performed and ad- meaning that the audience will be able watch During these nights of festivities there will also mired all over the world. This year it’s Clyst and enjoy a variety of styles and genres at their be a performance of the tragedy ‘Macbeth’ di- Vale’s turn. own accord. rected by Miss Brotherton, the mystical ‘Midsummer Night’s Dream’ as co-ordinated by Miss Williams and ‘Othello’, brought to life by Mr O’Brian . Clyst Vale’s Sixth Form performing arts group will also be performing their contem- porary version of ‘King Lear’, with the challenge of multi-roleplaying and self-direction testing their creative abilities. Not only have an assortment of teachers taken on the challenge of a 17th century play, a great number of students spanning across all year groups have shown a keen interest in getting involved. Some older students are helping to On July the 6th and 7th, a Shakespearean extrava- This festival coincides with many celebratory direct, and for some of the younger students this ganza will be taking place at our school which events going on this year across the UK and al- will be their first acting experience! Amelia Hop- will give audiences the chance to experience a lows the whole school to get involved with the kinson from year 10, who previously starred as number of the Bard’s greatest tragedies, histo- beauty of Shakespeare’s classic works. However Cinderella in ‘Into The Woods’, has said that “I'm ries and comedies. This event is being coordinat- a big audience will be needed and at just £5 a taking part in ‘Twelfth Night’ and ‘Romeo and ed by the head of drama, Miss Ruscoe, who has ticket for three shows it’s definitely a date for Juliet’, rehearsals so far have been great fun and not only taken on ‘Twelfth Night’ to direct but the diaries! I'm looking forward to playing a more serious has encouraged a variety of other teachers to role as Juliet and a comedic role as Maria in Sophie Ellis get involved. Will Mr Bailey become the next TAKE NOTE OF THE EU VOTE As we have been exploring in our previous is- security in trade. The most significant support former Treasury Adviser under Alistair Darling. sues, the upcoming referendum (which takes that the stay campaign has comes from our own With all of this support, the stay campaign has place on 23rd June) will decide whether Britain Prime Minister, David Cameron. plenty of funding. remains in the European Union (EU), or decides The counter argument to remaining in the EU to ‘Brexit’. With the day just under a month comes from the ‘Vote Leave’ campaign, claiming away, the Clyst Mail examines the two official we need to ‘take back control’ of our country’s campaigns and their successes up to now. money and laws. Their website claims ‘We The campaign hoping to persuade the majority should stop sending £350 million per week to to stay in the EU has titled itself ‘Britain Stronger unelected politicians in Brussels, and spend our in Europe’. Their website outlines their strongest money on our priorities, like the NHS.’ arguments, claiming ‘We are stronger, better off Their main arguments for leaving come from and safer in Europe than we would be out on concerns about immigration, the number of our own,’ and ‘Why we’re stronger in: better countries that are now part of the EU, and the economy, better leadership, better security.’ The PM currently dedicates 2-3 days of his week amount of money that we give to the EU and spreading his pro-EU message around the coun- The main argument of the ‘Stronger in Europe’ how little we receive in return. try. Other key supporters include huge business campaign is that the European Union benefits us and political figures; including Stuart Rose, for- Continued on Page 2... in the UK more than it holds us back. It is a safe- mer Chair of Marks and Spencer and Will Straw, ty net for our economy and means we have IN THIS ISSUE: Endangered Trees ● PCC Controversy ● Leicester FC’s Victory 1 The Clyst Mail 2 Continued from Page 1... with 46% to the stay campaign’s 44%. There is Research has highlighted that older people are still plenty of time for the polls to swing howev- more likely to vote to leave the EU, while most They also feel that British MEPs should have er, and there is no saying how people will vote young people want to remain. Polls have also complete control over what happens in Britain, on the day. shown that voters in Scotland may swing the rather than EU politicians that operate from vote. Despite SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon’s de- Brussels, who were not elected by people in the sire to stay in the EU, most of her supporters say UK. they would vote to leave the EU. Those who support the Vote Leave campaign include former mayor of London Boris Johnson, This referendum is undoubtedly of critical im- former Secretary of State for Education Michael portance, and the results will have an enormous Gove, and UKIP leader Nigel Farage. impact on the lives of everyone in Britain. The support for Vote Leave is currently triumph- Neave Cunningham ing in the latest ICM poll, but only by a little way BARKING UP THE WRONG TREE? Currently, only three million hectares of the in Britain. However, are the trees ever actually many problems, as there is a limiting factor in United Kingdom consists of woodland, equating planted? the number of young trees in plant nurseries, to about 13% of the British landmass. The trees and that Countryside Stewardship pays £144 to Currently, our 13% woodland coverage is defi- and foliage of Britain play a vital role in our land- cut down a tree, but only £1.28 to plant one. nitely an improvement after World War One, scape: we can use them as timber; they store when we only had 5%, and the Forestry Commis- carbon; create habitats for the native British sion had to be formed to safeguard the limited species and even absorb air pollution. As hu- population we had. Annual planting levels have mans, we need trees and other plants to convert been at the same rate for the last forty years, so carbon dioxide in our atmosphere into oxygen clearly governmental initiatives haven't caused for us to breathe. the drastic improvement that was promised in 2013 when it was stated that there was scope to increase planting levels “significantly”. Some pledges, however, have been met by the Forestry Commission, who announced in Febru- ary that they had managed to plant over 1 mil- There is also not enough vigilance in the upkeep lion trees in just a year, mainly in areas which of the planted trees; they can suffer health and already suffered with low levels of foliage and survival problems after planting. Also, a variety greenery, namely towns, cities and neighbour- of tree species needs to be planted in order to hoods. maintain biodiversity in the woodland areas. In the 2015 Autumn Statement, Rory Stewart, So whilst measures have been attempted to be Financially, trees are believed to reduce the risk the Environment Minister, promised that 11 put in place to increase the percentage of wood- of flooding, as the Department for Environment, million new trees would be planted during our land areas in Britain, we still have to wait and Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) state that wood- current parliament. He proposes that one mil- see whether the proposals can be met, and hope land areas can reduce the water flow and build- lion of the trees will be planted by schools, and that in the future our countryside and landscape up of earthy matter in rivers. they rest should be carried out by farmers and may be covered once more in glorious trees and Since the presence and function of trees is cru- landowners. A £900 million Countryside Stew- greenery. cially valuable as a resource, many government ardship scheme has been set up to reward the Ferne Kelly initiatives have been pledged to plant large plantation of new woodland spaces. numbers of trees and restore areas of woodland However, this proposal is idealistic and faces EXETER PRIDE’S JOYOUS STRIDE The sun was shining on the 7th of May, when under the sun, a giant pink double decker bus, and classes such as samba drumming and the Exeter held its annual Pride festival, celebrating Morris dancing and a Street Heat samba band! evening music events were attended by large all things LGBTQ+.