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Shells News 2010-2011 Page 1 A year full of celebration From talented sportspeople, musicians, cadets, readers and poets to successful gymnasts, swimmers and artists. The Shell students have grasped the wealth of opportunities offered to them this year at King’s and I am delighted to help the Shells produce this ‘end of year magazine’. The articles in this magazine have been written by Shell students, produced by the year group committee (below) and edited by Emily Guest and Kate Coppack in the Lower Sixth. The front cover was designed by Charlotte Knight in SHRA. I hope you enjoy reading the achievements and experiences of some of the students in Shells this year, both in and out of school. I would also like to take this opportunity to say a big ‘good luck’ for the shells as they grow into ‘Third Years’. Mrs Sumner Head of Year Mrs Sumner Emily Guest L6SB Kate Coppack L6KL Holly Ward J Isabel Dawson JJ Stanley Parker RA Abigail Wiseman RA Alistair Andrady TK Emily Jones HL Jack Watson LP Shells News 2010-2011 Page 2 A year full of challenges It started off with the shells challenging me to read different genre books. I told them that my favourite Author was Jodi Picoult and I tended to read her books as I enjoy the way she forces the reader to consider both sides of complex topics with her trademark impeccable research, family dynamics, and courtroom drama. Firstly Emily Cuffin- Munday (SHHL) challenged me to read Holes by Louis Sacher and then Ben Stratton (SHHL) challenged me to read Henry Tumour by Anthony McGowan. My favourite of the two was Holes as recommended by Emily. At the beginning of the story, Stanley Yelnats, a timid boy who is very unlucky supposedly due to a family curse, has been wrongly accused of stealing the baseball player Clyde Livingston’s shoes from a charity auction to benefit a homeless shelter. The judge sentenced Stanley to 18- months at Camp Green Lake juvenile detention facility. At Camp Green Lake, Stanley and his fellow campers, all delinquents, are forced to dig holes to “build their character”. Stanley later learns the Warden of Camp Green Lake is not interested in building the boys' character, but instead is searching for a buried treasure, which she has not found. After some time, Stanley finds a lipstick tube inscribed with "KB", the initials of the Wild West outlaw, Kissin’ Kate Barlow. The story unfolds to look back at the origination of the family curse and the story of the outlaw Kate Barlow and the missing treasure. The story then switches to the present day and the friendship of Stanley and his friend Zero and how Stanley is released from Camp Green Lake. I enjoyed my challenges and will make a point to take a non-Picoult book on my summer holiday with me...although I hear that Picoult has just released a new book for the summer...so, thank you Shells! The Shells Inter Form Challenge The Book Quiz Teams So what was my return challenge to the Shells? A series of inter-form challenges set across the year to determine who the Shells Form Champions of 2011 are. Shells accepted the challenge and it was great to see the Shells perform in and out of their comfort zones, helping each other out along the way. The competitions were Football, Dance, Team Swimming Challenge, The Spelling Bee, An 100 word essay, Book Quiz, First Aid posters, grades and the finale...The talent contest! Pointes were awarded for placings in the competition and there was no clear winner along the way. Each form were successful in an event; SHTK won the football, SHJJ won the dance (with some fantastic dance moves from Adam Sawney), SHRA won the first aid posters, SHLP won the swimming challenge and came joint first in the book quiz. SHHL won the 100 word essay competition, were joint first in the book quiz and won both of the grades challenges. The talent contest was judged by myself, Mrs Crewe-Read, Mr Hughes, Mrs Titmuss and L6 students Lara Goodwin & Edward Peel. The forms took part in great spirit, held their own auditions and rehearsed (some more than others). Hansaj Sing, Tom Cuffin-Munday, Alice Cousins, Niamh Massey and Emily Cuffin-Munday shared their musical and dancing talents with us on behalf of ShHL. Harriet Fisher sang with her backing singers for ShLP and then Adam Fryar, George Neal and Nishchit Adke joined in with a bit of rapping with Marion Vickers adding a well choreographed gymnastics routine. For ShTK Rory Crowe was very entertaining as ‘David Hasslehoff’ in their clever ‘Britain’s got Talent’ sketch, George Tomlinson added some great entertainment and Christian Palmer danced for the judges. To top it off Matthew Traynor and Alex Jacquiss performed well as ‘Ant and Dec’. Shells News 2010-2011 Page 3 It came down to the two acts of ShJJ and ShRA to determine the winners of the talent contest. Matthew Rutherford and Daniel Swinnock shared their musical talent with us and blew the judges away with their solo performances on the piano and drums. ShJJ were worthy second place as ShRA entertained us with a rendition of ‘The Lazy Song’ to win the contest. Every single form member contributed to the performance and did Mrs Aldridge very proud. It was well rehearsed, well choreographed and showed a mixture of acting, dancing and musical talent. Ben Cliff and Harry Strudwick delighted us with guitar introductions and Frances Alcock played her saxophone. The rest danced and acted out and were very amusing. The talent contest was more of a success than I hoped; forms bonded and students competed in great numbers. Each form won an event which made the contest nail biting right until the bitter end. I for one enjoyed learning more about the students in Shells and will never forget the talents I witnessed. So...the results. ShTK and ShRA came joint 4th with 30 points, in 3rd place were ShJJ with 32 points. ShLP and ShHL finished on equal points of 35, so a tug of war contest had to decide the first ever Shell Inter-form Challenge Champions. The winners were.....ShHL!! Shells News 2010-2011 Page 4 Comic Relief 2011 The Comic Relief 2011 events began on Thursday 10th March. Pupils raised money to see Sixth Former, Charlie Colicutt (L6KL), dress-up for Monday's Dr Who Quiz. Charlie volunteered to be waxed if sufficient money was raised! Brave Charlie, dressed as a woman, had his legs waxed the following day! The Dr Who quiz on Monday 14th involved teachers (and self-confessed Dr Who fanatics) Mr Hughes, Mr Shepherd and Mr Andrews. Mr Shepherd claimed the title of supreme Dr Who champion in front of a crowd of spectators. A Beat the Goalie and Soak the Teacher competition took place on Thursday 17th, where brave teachers were pelted by pupils with wet sponges! Red noses were sold all week with some lucky pupils finding winning silver and gold tickets. The finale of Comic Relief events took place on Friday, as pupils and teachers dressed up in fancy dress. The standard of costumes was outstanding! On Friday 19th March, The King’s School Chester held a fancy dress day to raise money for comic relief. People came in all different sorts of costumes, from morph suits to historical men and women. Each year and form chose a winner for the best costume. Isabel Dawson won the form and year best costume for shells for dressing up As a bunch of grapes. At lunchtime there was a parade of everybody who had won their form costume competition. It was amazing. There were thousands of people in morph suits, people dressed as the tallest doctor and three 6th formers dressed as cards. The money that was raised from selling red noses and the entrance fee to the parade and coming to school in costume was an enormous amount. Also Catriona Hogg (SHJJ) and Alice Cousins (SHHL) performed a sponsored silence the day before which raised quite a sum of money. We thank those who took part that day and we hope that everyone enjoyed it. By Catriona Hogg (SHJJ) Shells News 2010-2011 Page 5 Shells Fencing at King’s Fencing is a frequently underappreciated sport in the UK. However, every Thursday morning in the Constadine hall there is a fencing practice, open to anyone that’s interested. We all believe that it’s a very appropriate sport for school because it touches on vital skills such as; quick thinking, speed, agility and sportsmanship. Three of us have been attending the club for two years, (Patrick Hudson, Bede Timpson, Joshua Roberts and Tom Cuffin Munday –all SHHL) and it has really changed us for the better, for myself I was never any good at any sport and I was considered to be the unsporty one, but now I have confidence in myself. The King’s School, although very new to the fencing world, is already 2nd best in The North of England. This is amazing considering some people are playing in older age categories. However we still need more support and we need more players! So if you’re interested please come along for a free taster session! Fencing report by Bede Timpson (SHHL) Shells in the New Theatre Several shell students performed in the school’s production of ‘King’s Revisited’. Kings Revisited is a comical farce written by Emma Lucia which was based on John Dighton’s play “The Happiest Days of Your Life”.

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