Winter 2015

Welcome to our latest edition of the ‘Communiqué’ from Archbishop Temple School. A message from the Headteacher

The school is about much more than just exam results, and several colleagues and I were part of a glittering awards ceremony in Liverpool Cathedral last month, as our work here was recognised by the Educate Awards. Mrs Beth Harris was runner up as Teacher of the Year, Mrs Cate Gardner was nominated for outstanding teaching in an Arts subject, and Mr Grant Carruthers and Mr Matt Baines won the award for outstanding teaching of social skills for their work with our Lads’ Club. Our congratulations go to all our colleagues.

I am delighted to be writing to you at the end of another very successful term at Our Presentation Evening gives us Archbishop Temple School. I an opportunity to welcome back our am delighted to be writing to Year 11 leavers to collect their GCSE certificates and subject awards. This you at the end of another very year we were joined by Mr Stephen successful term at Archbishop Whittaker, the Diocesan Director Temple School. We were so of Education, who presented the pleased with the GCSE results ex-pupils with their certificates achieved by our Year 11 and awards. It was a joy to see our pupils and hear about the new pupils this summer, especially directions they are taking after leaving when we realised that these Archbishop Temple School. results put us as one of the very best schools in the North of England. I’m even more pleased that this isn’t a one off, but rather a normal part of the work here.

Archbishop Temple School, St. Vincent’s Road, Fulwood, Preston PR2 8RA Telephone: 01772 717782 Email: [email protected] Website: www.archbishoptemple.com WISE WORDS FROM DAVE, OUR CHAPLAIN

Christmas can be hard for a lot of people. I know that’s not the cheerful opening line you’d expect from a Chaplain’s Christmas message but it’s true isn’t it?

The festive period is often the time that we feel the loss of loved ones most severely. We would give all of our presents back in a heart-beat to have them with us for even just one moment.

Being with the ones we love is something that we desperately long for.

“That is what Christmas is all about” you’ll hear people say. They’re right.

That very first Christmas as Jesus The term still has many events As the terms ends I would like to was born, it was all about loved ones which I would encourage you to take this opportunity to thank you being together. support. This year we are celebrating for your continued support of our Christmas in a new way by holding work at Archbishop Temple School. You see, God loves us so much a Carol Service at the Minster at The partnership between home and he can’t bear to be apart from us. 6.30pm on Tuesday 15th December. school is so important to the success So that night, all those years ago, We very much hope you can join us of our pupils; thank you for entrusting thousands of miles from , to sing a mixture of traditional and your children to our care. So I also God came to earth. new carols which will be led by our wish you and your family a happy and outstanding choirs. Wednesday 16th peaceful Christmas, as you spend Matthew 1:23 “The virgin will December is Christmas Lunch day, time together, and enjoy a break from conceive and give birth to a and we are inviting everyone to wear the normal working routine. I like the son, and they will call him their Christmas jumpers on that day quote from Dr Seuss’s Grinch and pay a £1 to raise money for the Immanuel” (which means “God charity, Dementia Care. “Maybe Christmas doesn’t come with us”). from a store. Maybe Christmas Thank you to everyone who supported One of the many names or titles means a little bit more.” the school providing food for the given to Jesus was Immanuel, God Salvation Army’s food in Preston. “Today in the town of David a with us, not far from us or separated I am always overwhelmed by the Saviour has been born to you; from us, with the people that he support our pupils and their families loves. provide to worthwhile causes, and it’s he is the Messiah, the Lord.” Luke 2:11 good to support those in need near Sometimes we mistake Christianity home this year. Mrs Gill Jackson, Headteacher as religion that helps us make our

1 way closer to God. Christianity is able to visit each department within handed out in the week leading actually about a God who loves us the organisation and learn how up to Christmas. As part of the so much he comes close to us. each area fits into the operation as Archbishop of York Award, which a whole, thereby gaining valuable our Year 8 pupils are currently My hope is that your Christmas knowledge and an insight into undertaking, they have to perform holidays, whether you celebrate or the variety of roles associated an act of service to fulfil the not, are full of joy and laughter with with the organisation. This was a community phase. Two groups of the ones you love. wonderful experience which has Year 8 pupils went along to the food My prayer is that you’ll remember opened up the possibility of further bank on Friday 11th and Monday the message of Christmas, that God exciting collaboration through work 14th December to help out. Helping is with us. experience opportunities between at the food bank was not only the Archbishop Temple School and perfect opportunity to complete this Merry Christmas! . section of the award but also a great Dave Buckley, way to see what happens to all the Chaplain food supplies we collected.

REMEMBRANCE SERVICE For a fourth year now at Archbishop Temple School, along with the normal poppy appeal we have been offering Remembrance crosses and crescents for sale. Staff, parents and pupils have supported us, dedicating a cross or crescent with messages on for loved ones no longer with us. We have arranged the crosses on a grassed area close to our reception for all our visitors to see. This year I am pleased to say we have raised £95.50. We hope to promote the Remembrance crosses Miss L. Walsh next year with even greater success. Head of Canterbury House Mr. I Baybutt Assistant Headteacher PANCAKES FLIPPED FOR PRESTON MULTIPLE COLLECTING FOR THE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY SALVATION ARMY FOOD Well done Form WP who raised BANK £164 by making pancakes and selling cakes. The money was raised for Preston and District Multiple Sclerosis Society. Sue, an MS sufferer, and her husband Derrick came into school to receive the money and to talk to the children. The picture below shows Ruth Buckley and Jess Peacock from WP presenting the cheque to Sue and Mr. Duggan Derrick. Head of Design Technology

VISIT TO CHORLEY BUILDING SOCIETY’S HEAD OFFICE On Wednesday 2nd December 2015, a group of pupils were As part of our whole school invited to a tour of Chorley Building charity giving, this term we have Society’s Head Office. The pupils been collecting supplies for the who participated are involved in Salvation Army food bank in Preston running the School Building Society City Centre. We were visited in in conjunction with Chorley Building assemblies by Captain Cadogan who Society. This was a fantastic told us about the needs of people in opportunity for them to experience our local community and what we as how a building society operates a school could do to help. and they were able to gain a real understanding of what life is like in We were also invited to help pack Mr Gray the world of work. The pupils were the food into hampers ready to be Head of Winchester House 2 CREST AWARDS A BUSY TERM FOR ATS MUSIC Before half term the Music department hosted its biggest performance to date. This involved the whole of our Year 7, Year 6 from St Andrew’s Primary School and the Junior Concert Band which meant that we had an amazing total of 240 pupils performing for their schools and families. Year 7 performed percussion based pieces which they had worked on in class, as well as some massed choir pieces. St Andrew’s performed their own vocal pieces and enjoyed joining with our Year 7 pupils for one of the pieces. Solos were performed by Lewis Kirk (trumpet) and Susanna Nash (vibraphone), both in Year The following pupils are the 7. The concert ended with latest to enter for the Bronze a performance from Junior CREST awards and will be Concert Band. delighted to receive their On Sunday 22nd November certificates. Mr Prince from the Junior and Senior Concert Amey came to visit the school Bands travelled to Altrincham this week to hear Lenny and Boys’ Grammar School to take Callum present their work part in the regional rounds and to tell pupils about his of the National Concert Band interesting application of Festival. Both bands played coding in the real world. well. The Junior Band in the Impressive work from Lenny junior section achieved a gold and Callum decoding Morse award and the Senior Band in code using a Raspberry Pi, the schools wind band category well done to all pupils. achieved a silver award. The Junior Band have now been Bronze awards: invited to play in the final at the Royal Northern College of Music Samuel Burns-Moffat 8 Sites of Scientific interest in April. This is a huge honour Niamh Cairns 9 Cancer for our young musicians. Maryam Ibrahim 9 Volcanoes Richa Job 9 Volcanoes Karran Kaur 8 Space exploration Caitlin Kimberley 8 Space exploration Janvi Parekh 9 Human and animal communication Jessica Peacock 9 Dr Who travel! Georgia Rogers-Waterman 9 Sleep Lydia Surtees 9 Sleep Fozia Tailor 9 Volcanoes Thomas Connell 8 Development of car engineering Davina Vadher 9 Sleep The Music department has Silver awards: also put on two additional concerts this term, featuring Lenny Colton many of our ensembles. Our Callum Towers 9 Morse code Raspberry Pi interpreter final performance is the Carol The CREST awards are always running, do something special to set you apart Service at Preston Minster on from the rest and have a go. See firefly pages in the Science area or see me Tuesday 15th December at for further information. 6.30pm. Mrs Storey Mrs C. Gardner Second in Science Head of Music

3 A VISIT FROM AUTHOR TOM YEAR 9 GEOGRAPHY FIELDWORK TRIP TO EASEDALE TARN, PALMER LAKE DISTRICT

Year 7 were treated to a visit On the 6th, 7th and 8th October 2015, 50 Year 9 students set off to climb on 10th November from prolific up to Easedale Tarn in Grasmere. We walked the features created through children’s author, Tom Palmer. A glaciation thousands of years ago in the last Ice Age as part of our fieldwork on dedicated Leeds United fan, most glacial landscapes. of Tom’s stories are set in the world of football, although he also has a great interest in rugby and military history. His most recent novel, “Over the Line” sees his protagonist, Jack, a professional footballer, bound for the 1914 trenches and delivers a powerful plot throughout.

In each of Tom’s engaging sessions, our pupils were given the opportunity to answer questions on a variety of topics in the news, in magazines and related to books. Those answering correctly took part in a penalty shoot- out with girls outnumbering the boys as champions! Mr Stringfellow even managed to save a few penalties in his role as goalie. Over lunch, Tom chatted to pupils in the Library and happily signed books.

We hope to welcome Tom Palmer to Archbishop Temple School again in the not too distant future.

Ms C Bell Easedale tarn is situated in a Librarian U-shaped valley, or glacial trough. The tarn itself is in a corrie that has been created through erosion; the tarn refers to the water that has collected in the depression. On the walk we also saw drumlins, erratics and moraine that had all been deposited by the glaciers. It was tiring, but well worth the effort as the views were breath-taking. We enjoyed a well-deserved picnic at the top of the hill and views back down into Grasmere. After lunch the walk down was much better and we all looked forward to the gingerbread shop and opportunity to buy some souvenirs and chocolates. By Sabah Hasan, WS, Year 9

CHILDREN IN NEED

In support of Children in Need day Connell led various games and sold the staff took part in ‘The Cube’, biscuits as part of the Enterprize much to the amusement of the challenge turning £10 into £41. pupils. Total raised in school = £208.06 The four house teams competed in a variety of events for the title of Total raised by Thomas Connell ‘Cube Champions 2015’. It was a = £41.06 close run competition, tied until the Grand total donation to Children last round when York snuck ahead of in Need = £249.12 Winchester to claim the title. Thank you everyone! As well as the fun at lunchtime, Pudsey biscuits were made and Miss L. Walsh sold by Cathedral Café and Thomas Head of Canterbury House

4 BATTLEFIELDS TRIP 2015 Tyne Cot is the largest CWGC cemetery on the Western Front with GRIN AND TONIC Our trip to the battlefields 11.953 burials in total. The Tyne Cot got off to a flying start with a memorial forms the far wall of the My experience of Grin and Tonic. prompt departure from school cemetery commemorates those with at one o’clock in the morning no known grave from August 1917 from the car park! This year we onwards; there are 34,780 names had 60 students and 6 staff for recorded. Seeing the cemetery our visit to the First World War at Tyne Cot is a testament to the Battlefields of Northern France horrific battles and suffering that and Belgium. Our first visit, during WW1 and is a deeply moving to the Ljissenthoek Cemetery experience. in Belgium was an emotional one, as several pupils had a personal link to the soldiers who were buried there. The German cemetery at Langemark I am a GCSE Drama pupil in Year emphasised the huge loss of 10 and I honestly couldn’t say life not just for the Allies, but I enjoy anything more than the for the German troops as well. Drama I do in school. Since Year This cemetery is famous for the 7 I have participated in everything statues of four German soldiers, Miss Keller has offered, and that’s a who are watching over the lot! Through the years I have got to resting place of their comrades. Two of our pupils, Elena Ball and know pupils in the years above and Harry Marshall, took part in a moving below me through drama. I feel and memorable ceremony at the Grin and Tonic really challenged me Menin Gate, laying a wreath on this year yet I’ve had the best fun behalf of Archbishop Temple School. being involved in this show than any so far. The talent was sky high from the beginning, all the actors had a real passion for Drama, and I believe this really showed in the performance. My time whilst doing Grin and Tonic was fantastic! You begin to The visit to Essex Farm introduced make friends with people who you our pupils to one of the youngest wouldn’t normally speak to and I casualties of the First World War, feel the cast got along really well. Rifleman Valentine Joe Strudwick, Maddie and I took on the roles of who was 15 when he was killed. The French and Saunders in their school famous poem, In Flanders Fields, girl scene. From the start we loved was written here by the Canadian this scene and practiced almost Lieutenant Colonel, John McRae. every lunch time in the Drama studio. We performed it in front After settling into the hotel, the The following day was spent of the cast and Miss and we got battlefields quiz, which included our examining the battlefields of the plenty of laughs. From that point pupils dressing up in authentic First Somme area following the events onn we were confident in the roles World War uniforms, proved to be an of 1st July 1916. A visit to the and really embraced it, sometimes entertaining end to our first day. crater at Lochnagar allowed the even practicing our lines quietly in pupils to familiarise themselves class after we had finished all of with the area, followed by the our work! Thiepval Memorial. At the small Grin and Tonic did challenge me cemetery near Beaumont Hamel, a this year as I also played the part memorable ceremony served to pay of an old waitress in Two Soups. our respects to those young men It was tricky to keep in character who were cut down on the first day throughout. However, I am always of the battle of the Somme. A group up for the challenge especially in of pupils including Will McDowell, Drama! Like every year, the cast Cally Munro, Alec Riding, Ben Jarvis, always have inside jokes to do with Zac Christie, Hannah Parker Smith, the sketches or something that has Abbie Whitehouse and Serena St gone wrong within rehearsals, and Valle Hoyle completed an emotional to tell the truth, there are too many day by laying a wreath in memory of jokes to tell! As always, I loved the Lancashire Fusiliers. Many pupils working with everyone in order to did find the graves or the names make an audience laugh and I hope of relatives who had been killed in Ypres presented our pupils with other cast members enjoyed it as the war, and were able to pay their a wealth of information and much as I did. Roll on next year!! experiences about the war of attrition respects. that saw three major battles here Mrs B. Harris Domonique West, Year 10 during the course of the war. Head of History

5 DIA DE LA HISPANIDAD

For Dia de la Hispanidad we did lots of Fun activities and learnt lots about the history and cultures of the Spanish speaking World during special assemblies throughout the week. We decorated the school with Spanish flags and balloons and enjoyed a special lunch provided by the canteen. At Euroclub we made a piñata in the shape of a Spanish Bull and then had a fun quiz and the winners took turns to bash the piñata until the goodies spilled out.

Mrs L. Bergon Head of Modern Foreign Languages

SPORTS ROUNDUP Tunstall. The girls also came second in Citizen Service. They took part in the Preston North End Girls’ Cup, they outdoor and adventurous activities unfortunately lost in the final after for a week and then spent one dominating the game. week staying in the university accommodation at UCLAN taking In October we successfully applied part in team building activities. The for and were awarded a silver sports feedback we received was excellent mark for sporting participation. We from the organisers about all of our were one of three schools in Preston students. to achieve this. A proud day for ATS Sports. We would like to thank all parents for sending in school vouchers and with We are also proud to announce that these we have been able to purchase fifty of our Year 10 students passed new fitness training equipment which their Sports Leadership qualifications. is proving to be vital with the GCSE PE This involved all of them organising class. and officiating at least one primary So far this year we have had a school sports event. We had great fun Thank you, wide variety of successes in PE in hosting and running the Primary The PE Department and Sport. In the Preston Cross Year 5 football event, we also hosted Country Championships ATS did the Year 2 Primary multi skills event extremely well as a school with and the Year 6 tag rugby event. All our results including 1st overall of these events were resounding Archbishop Temple School, boy in Callum Glendinning and 1st successes. A Church of England Year 7 girl Lauryn Wood. Our Year 9 leadership groups have Specialist College The football has started extremely started well and ran a Year 1 primary St Vincent’s Road well with the Year 11 boys remaining school festival at Archbishop Temple, Fulwood, Preston PR2 8RA unbeaten so far and all teams the event was a huge success with Telephone: 01772 717782 progressing through to the next round stars on the day being Oscar Foot and [email protected] of the Lancashire Cup. Amanda Wates. The leaders will be running more events throughout the www.archbishoptemple.com The girls have also had an exceptional year including one at the Guild Hall for start with both the U12 and U14 800+ primary students. teams reaching the next round of the Lancashire Cup. Star performers have 37 of last year’s Year 11 pupils took been Ingram Kusuloka, Dave Marley, part in the “Challenge”, which is an Ben Rosbottom, Imogen Richmond event organised by the National Barnes, Tara Lynch and Lauren

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