THE VOICE

TPS Student Magazine Written By Students For Students June 2018

Our latest attendance challenge ran from 21st May – 8th June.

Everyone who achieved 100% was entered into a prize draw to win High Street vouchers. The Tutor Group with the highest number of 100% attendees will win an extended break time and the House with the highest attendance has won a non- uniform day!

Congratulations to Newton House who had the most students who achieved 100% attendance in this period. They will celebrate their success with a non-uniform day on Friday 29th June.

Student trip to RAF Cosford. our presentation was greatly planned.

We all had a great day and highly recommend that Year 8 take part again next year if they Recently, I and eleven others visited RAF have the opportunity. We would certainly love Cosford. We had entered a competition about to be able to do it again! robots and engineering. Although we did not win on this occasion, we all had a great day. We presented a slideshow that showcased a By Emma Matthews helpful product which was designed to save lives in a dramatic situation, such as an earthquake. Also we raced our class-made robots which was great fun. The robots were well made and

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Music Review: Twenty One Pilots Fans of Twenty One Pilots also enjoy: Fall Out Boy, Panic! At The Disco, My Chemical Twenty One Pilots are an alternative musical Romance. duo from Columbus, Ohio. Their style tends to be alternative and rap, but they have experimented with other styles. The duo (Tyler By Bethany Thompson Joseph and Josh Dun) rose to fame in 2015 after their hit album “Blurryface”. The album had popular songs, namely ‘HeavyDirtySoul’, ‘Ride’, and ‘Stressed Out’. Twenty One Pilots also recorded ‘Heathens’ for the movie ‘Suicide Squad’, which was nominated for three Grammy’s at the 59th Annual Awards Ceremony. The vocalist (Tyler Joseph) connects with his fans through the lyrics of his songs. “There’s always that fear of your own head and the things you’re going to think.”- Tyler Joseph

In Year 9 GCSE Music, we have been working on Also in GCSE Music we have been developing our filming and producing our own music videos. All song writing skills. If you came to the winter of the students have chosen a song either in an concert you would have heard Amber Hayden ensemble or as a soloist to perform on their sing her own original song which was fantastic. video. We are looking forward to further performances The songs will all be covers and changed into of our own material in future concerts. different styles. A few of the songs are film By Rebecca Gouge music, others are famous singers own songs. (on behalf of the music department) All the songs will be recorded in the schools recording studio and filmed by members of staff from the music department and made into a playlist and videos will be put up and played around school. THE VOICE 3 June 2018 THE ARTS

Film Review: Notting Hill (1999) anybody who enjoys light-hearted comedy and romance. Notting Hill is a romantic comedy with a star- studded cast including Hugh Grant, Julia Roberts My Rating: 9/10 and Rhys Ifans.

The film itself has a detailed but simple plot, By Bethany Thompson which centres around William “Will” Thacker (Hugh Grant) and his travel bookshop. When Anna Scott (Julia Roberts) meets Will in the bookshop, there is a tension between the two which is later acted upon. There are lots of laughs, love and even some arguments, but Richard Curtis’s brilliant screenplay leaves you falling in love with each and every character. The movie won a BAFTA and was nominated in two other categories, as well as a BRIT Award for the soundtrack. The theme song to the movie was “When You Say Nothing At All” by Ronan Keating. Notting Hill was the highest grossing movie in 1999 and I would recommend this movie to

YEAR 11

Prom is an exciting time of the year for many students in year 11 at TPS. Although there is lots of plan- ning that goes into this event, it will be worth it once we see the amazing venue that has been selected. We are eager to see all the fancy cars but even if you don’t have a fancy, we are still excited to see you all in your lovely dresses and smart suits! The 2018 prom will take place on the 6th of July 2018 at Madeley Court Hotel. We are excited for the buffet and all the new jams that will be playing. As well as all the food and good music that will be there, all students will also receive a free professional photo from photographer Ste- ve Elliott. Additional photos can also be purchased from the photographer either on the night or via his website. In order for all students to go to prom, students have been required to complete the “Passport to Suc- cess” criteria. Having achieved the set criteria, students are invited to attend prom which is a relaxing celebration after finishing all our hardworking school years and hopefully passing our GCSE’s. This is the criteria needed to attend 2018 Prom is:

• Students must attend all lessons and complete all work set. • Students’ attendance must be above 94%. • Students must not have spent more than 1 day in the internal inclusion room. • Students that have more than 6 C4 detentions will not be able to attend the prom. • Students must attend 10 intervention sessions (as a minimum). • Students excluded from school will not be able to attend the prom .

There have also been additional prizes for students working hard and achieving the success criteria. All completed cards are being paced into a prize draw for vouchers (£40 1st, £20 2nd and £10 3rd).

We wish all of Year 11 the very best of luck with exams and hope to see you all at the prom on 6th July!

By Emily Gibson and Mary Essel.

TPS’ student magazine, ‘The Voice’ is recruiting!

If you…

 are in years 7-10  find yourself inspired to write, take photos, or draw because of books and movies that you come across  write short stories for fun  have ideas to write your own book, but you never have the time in English class  are not a writer but you enjoy taking photos, drawing, putting things to- gether using IT  would like to attend sports, drama or other events for free in return for writing a short review  would like to build links with businesses  are interested in growing skills in writing, photography, drawing, ICT, organi- sation, management and team work  want to create a portfolio that you can show off to employers, colleges and even universities

THEN THIS IS FOR YOU!

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We are looking for students to develop this magazine! To take part, please speak to RPT/CTS. Everyone is welcome!