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“World Challenge Expedition to Sri Lanka”

Newsletter October 2014

MESSAGE FROM THE PRINCIPAL

We have had an excellent start to the new school year. The Year 7 students have settled in well and it has been lovely to welcome so many new students and their families in other year groups throughout the school. Our Year 12 students have made an impressive start to their A level studies, they look very smart and are following the new dress code very well. Year 12 attendance is excellent, at 97%, which is slightly above the main school, this highlights their very positive work ethic- they are determined to succeed and they have already demonstrated as a year group their resilience and resourcefulness.

Open Evening was very busy this year and it was a pleasure to welcome so many families from outside our traditional catchment area. I hope our prospective new parents and students got a sense of the 'Settle College Buzz'! My immense thanks go to the students who acted as guides. I have received many e-mails from prospectus parents who have said that the student guides were excellent ambassadors for the school.

I am so proud of all the students who get fully involved in the school community and who also contribute to the wider community. The articles within this newsletter give a flavour of the range of activities in which the students are involved, from World Challenge to raising money for local and national charities. These types of activities help to develop skills for life and also demonstrate that Settle College students have an excellent 'moral compass'.

We launched the Duke of Edinburgh Award in September and I have been amazed by how many students have wanted to be involved. As this is the first year of the programme we are keeping it small, but we do hope to grow the programme in the future.

At Settle College we continue to encourage students to 'strive for excellence in everything they do' and ultimately to 'be the best they can be'. Thank you for the continued support we receive from parents and families, it is this support that enables us to work together for the mutual benefit of our young people.

Have a lovely half-term.

Ms M Costello Principal

2 SRI LANKA Eighteen months of dedicated fundraising culminated in an enormously successful World Challenge trip to Sri Lanka by eighteen Settle College students in the summer. The aim of the trip was to develop team building and organisational skills. Many of the students embarking on taking up their places at University are now furnished with money management talents, having juggled a budget of $5000. Students were required to organise all accommodation and food requirements on site. During the three week trip, tasks ranged from teaching school children extracts of Oliver Twist, painting a 4m high world map including the naming of 162 countries, plastering and painting an education centre at a Buddhist monastery comprising 6 female monks!

Students also undertook their own physical challenge, which involved climbing Adam’s Peak, the 4th highest mountain in Sri Lanka. At 2243m high it is in excess of all 3 Yorkshire peaks on top of each other.

For most students it was their first venture beyond Europe and it was great to see how much they embraced the culture and gained confidence throughout the trip.

Miss S Doyle Assistant Principal

3 WORLD CHALLENGE COMPETITION FINALIST Many congratulations to former student Will Larmour, who was one of the eighteen Settle College students who accompanied the World Challenge Sri Lanka Expedition in summer 2014. Will is a keen photographer and one of his photographs made the final twelve in the World Challenge national photographic competition. Will’s photograph of the trek phase of his expedition is starring as ‘June’ in the 2015 World Challenge calendar.

Miss S Doyle Assistant Principal

POPPIES FOR SALE

Many thanks to friends and family of Settle College Knit and Natter Club, who have helped accrue in excess of 200 poppies to sell. The poppies are currently starring in a WWI Exhibition at the Folly in Settle. They will be on sale in school straight after half term on a ‘donation of your choice’ basis. All proceeds will be split equally between the Royal British Legion and Help for Heroes. Many thanks in anticipation of your generous donations.

Miss S Doyle Assistant Principal

4 OPEN DAY AND EVENING

I was part of the team of Prefects who were showing parents and children from many primary schools around on Open Day 2014. During the day the visitors were able to see the school at work and from some of the impressions that I got, they seemed pretty pleased with how the school performed. In the evening there were a lot more visitors; pupils returning in the evening with their parents, and people who had come from further afield like Skipton and its surrounding areas.

There were a lot of activities going on in all of the departments, for example: Ice Cream surveying in Business, rehearsals for “Grease” in Drama, a MacMillan fundraiser in the canteen, Autumn Poetry in English, Magic Maths, Kangoo in PE and many more. Altogether, they created a colourful and interesting spectacle. The evening included speeches from Ms Costello and current students as well. I had a great time helping on the day, meeting lots of new people and seeing younger faces that I haven’t seen in a long time! The school looked great and it was a pleasure to show people around.

James Fielden Year 11 Prefect

5 THE NATIONAL CITIZENSHIP SERVICE

Up until last year most of us had never even heard of NCS before. We were all sure that Duke of Edinburgh was the only programme of its kind and it was only when a representative of NCS came in to do an assembly that we

found out what it was all about.

NCS is a government-run programme, enlisting young people aged 15-17 to take part in one of two programmes: one in the summer and one in the autumn. Although the two courses vary in length they entail the same things: a residential trip doing all sorts of outdoor activities and

pursuits; a second residential to the halls of residence of a nearby university; and then sessions run locally in which each group composes a plan of how to raise as much money as they can for a charity, or charities, of their choice. But there is only so much facts can tell you, it is the experience of the students involved that tells the real story. We gained so much from the scheme that we wanted to share our experience with the other students in school and so presented an assembly about the programme directly after representatives from NCS did their presentation to the new Year 11 and 12 students.

Seven of us from Settle College, four still at Sixth Form, went on the NCS programme this summer: Aspen and Tala Pattinson, Fred Price, Beth Smith, Georgina Holliday, Olivia Brennand and Josh Greenwood. Our course was four weeks long, starting in late July. Our first week was a residential in Shropshire, staying in a large manor house surrounded by all kinds of outdoor activities: rock climbing, canoeing and kayaking, mountain biking, fencing, abseiling, camping, and much more. We were put into groups almost as soon as we got there, with some people from our own school and some we hadn’t met before, we all bonded straight away and could call each other friends by the end of the day. The next week we stayed in the Leeds University halls of residence and spent the week with various charities and organisations who gave us talks about what they did and what we could do to help them. We had all kinds of organisations come to speak to us, from the Teenage Cancer Trust to the Bradford Soup Run, and plenty of inspirational speakers including the Olympic swimmer Chris Cook from the Dame Kelly Holmes Legacy Trust. Also during the week we were given £250 to spend on food for our group and team leaders for the entire week, which for us was sixteen people. Each night we took it in turns cooking for our group – which was more challenging than we initially imagined but it was still very enjoyable – and we got to spend even more time with everyone and made friends with people in other groups as well as those in our own. At the end of the week our group decided that we wanted to raise money for Leeds Children’s Hospital – although we hadn’t had a talk from them it was a cause that was close to a lot of people’s hearts in our group and we felt it a more than a worthy cause – and raise awareness for teenage homelessness.

6 THE NATIONAL CITIZENSHIP SERVICE CONTINUED... The next week we dedicated to deciding how we were going to organise and carry out our fundraising. We met up every day in a hall in Skipton and by the end of the week we were well prepared with what we were going to do. The following Monday our group set off for a scout camp in Cottingley where we set up our overnight camp. We organised to spend the night sleeping in cardboard boxes under tarpaulin in an open clearing to raise awareness of teenage homelessness; but before we camped we managed to climb the equivalent of Mount Everest (from sea level rather than base camp) between all the members of our group up a climbing wall, which took us five and a half hours in the dark, rain and cold, but it was well worth it. We raised an incredible £1240 for the Leeds Children’s Hospital in just over a week!

We celebrated our time at NCS with a graduation, but the best part by far was all the new friends we made and what an incredible experience it was. We still haven’t been able to stop talking about NCS, and we see our new friends regularly despite them being from different schools. Going into the programme in summer we didn’t know that much about it and weren’t quite sure what to expect, but without a doubt it was the best thing any of us have ever done and we couldn’t recommend it highly enough if we tried. It was an incredible experience that we think anyone given the chance should take part in.

Aspen and Tala Pattinson Year 12

7 VISIT TO THE WW1 BATTLEFIELDS

In July a group of us travelled to the World War One Battlefields and we wanted to tell you all about the great experience we had.

For many of us it was our first experience of an overnight ferry journey which really was different from any other way of travelling. On the first morning we travelled from Zebrugge in Belgium to Somme in France to learn about the Battle of the Somme which began on 1st July 2016. We began at a small cemetery called Autille where a soldier called Willie McBride is buried who inspired a very moving song that we listened to. We then went on to the Canadian Newfoundland Memorial where many thousands of soldiers died during the worst battle in British history; 57000 soldiers died or were wounded on the first day alone ‘going over the top’. Thiepval was next which is a very impressive ‘Memorial to the Missing’ which holds the names of 74000 missing soldiers whose bodies were never found; it dominates the whole surrounding area.

We were very impressed by how well the cemeteries and memorials were looked after and how touching it was that the soldiers and the sacrifice they made have not been forgotten. Each gravestone was carved from white Portland stone, surrounded by well-tended flower beds and perfectly manicured lawns. Tom noticed that at the entrance of each cemetery there was a plaque that said “The land on which this cemetery stands is the free gift of the French/Belgium people for the perpetual resting place of those of the Allied Armies who fell in the war of 1914- 1918 and are honoured here”. We than went to Lochnagar Mine Crater, this was the site of the biggest man made explosion up to that time, an explosion that could be heard in London! It was really massive. On the way back to Ypres in Belgium we stopped at Ploegsteerd Memorial and cemetery where 11500 soldiers are remembered. This was a special place for James because two of his great-great grandfathers are remembered there – Private Joseph Bridge and Private Howard Fielden, the latter died the day before the end of the war which is especially sad. As a bit of a bonus Daryl, the bus driver, took us on a quick detour to the site of the Christmas Truce football match which took place on 25th December 1914, where both sides stopped fighting for a few hours and even shared presents!

This was Will’s favourite stop on the first day because the heart-warming story was so inspiring. In the evening we walked through the pretty town of Ypres, which had been completely destroyed during the War and rebuilt exactly as it had been afterwards, to attend the Last Post Ceremony at the Menin Gate; there were hundreds and hundreds of people there.

8 VISIT TO THE WW1 BATTLEFIELDS CONTINUED…

In the morning, after another early start, we drove to an old mine crater called “The Pool of Peace”; it was beautiful and very calming. We then had to walk through a field of Belgian Blue cows to another small cemetery attached to a farmyard to see the graves of Irish soldiers killed in the blast which made the crater. Next we had our own free time to explore the town of Ypres, we had our lunch and it was a chance to buy some of the famous Belgian chocolate and try a delicious Belgian waffle. We went to many inspiring cemeteries and museums throughout the day. Our favourite was the preserved trenches at Hill 62, also known as Sanctuary Wood as it gave us a feel of what the soldiers had to go through and how hard life would have been for them. Later that day we also went to Tyne Cot cemetery which is the biggest British and Commonwealth cemetery of World War One, you could really tell because it was massive. It left a big impact on us, showing so many fallen soldiers who fought for us and who are still heavily respected today. This is in contrast to the German soldiers’ cemetery at Langemark which was dull and eerie which seemed to have been made like this purposely to show that they were the enemy but we thought this was sad because they were just normal like you and me, some not much older than ourselves and forced to fight.

Overall the Battlefields trip was brilliant, moving and inspirational. It was good to see how other cultures commemorate the lives of the fallen.

A big thank you from all of us goes to Miss Fisher, Mrs Wildman, Mrs Tarbox, Mr Edwards and of course ‘Storyteller’ Daryl, the coach driver.

Will Simpson, Eddie Holgate, James Fielden, Tom Riley, Amy Lawson, Katy Bentley, Sarah Hibbert and Jasmin Pennett Year 11

9 AS GEOGRAPHY FIELD TRIP

On Tuesday 23rd September twenty AS level Geography students went on the first field trip of the year to the River Wharfe near Kettlewell, to work on various data collection techniques, aiding the field work section of their first topic: rivers.

All of this year’s Geography AS students gained excellent grades in the GCSE version of the subject, however rivers was not a topic in our course so it was a first for all of us. After just a few lessons in the classroom, learning about river formations, features and data collection techniques, our class of twenty started a few miles outside Kettlewell in the River Wharfe using five measuring techniques to measure the river and gain all the data we needed. Equipped with plenty of layers and wellies, we waded into the low river following the unusually dry September weather to collect data about the cross section, speed, depth and bankfull width of the river, including sampling rocks to determine their size along the way. We took the same measurements at four different sites along the few miles leading back into

Kettlewell, meaning we could get an idea of how the river changed as it followed its course downstream. After stopping for lunch in Kettlewell, we met up with two Yorkshire Dales National Trust employees, the two Peters, who both work to conserve the local area. They took us on a walk down the river, stopping at various points to show us what they’d been doing to try and conserve the local farm land, while also allowing the river to take its natural course to some extent. They discussed with us the methods of restraining the river where it needed to be, but also how they’d negotiated with local farmers to allow the river to meander into their land so they weren’t encroaching on its natural course.

It was at this point that the weather, which had been bright and sunny all day, finally decided to turn on us. The day we see a field trip go by without any sign of rain will be a day to remember! Nevertheless, we continued on our guided tour, learning more methods about how to protect the local landscape which would help with our studies.

Aspen Pattinson Year 12

10 GREASE IS THE WORD IN DRAMA!

Well it’s that time of year again and work on the school production has begun. Rehearsals are underway every Wednesday and the cast are working very hard to make this show the best one yet. Grease is planned to be shown on the 10th, 11th and 12th of February 2015, the week before half term.

Danny is going to be portrayed by Tom Parkinson and Sandy by Mary Davis, Rizzo by Molly McHale and Kenickie by Tom Hollyhead. The show is being produced by Alice Taylor, Edd Garland and Harry Garman; set design by Andrew Huck, costumes by Mary Davis and Molly Summersgill-Smith. Jake Tatham will be taking the role of marketing the show and Alice Syms will be leading choreography along with Year 11 students Amy Lawson, Evie Henshaw and Sophie Marshall. There is a huge cast of students from Years 7, 8 and 9, providing backing singing and dancing!

It’s bound to be a great performance. We very much hope to see you in February.

Harry Garman Year 12

ATTENDANCE UPDATE

As we approach half-term our overall attendance figure for Years 7 to 11 is 96.1%, just short of our 2014/15 target of 97%. With a break over half-term we should easily be able to reach and maybe even exceed our target. Two hundred and seventy seven students have achieved 100% attendance so far, congratulations to 7K who are currently the best attending form with a fantastic 99.11% . Remember every lesson lost is an hour’s teaching missed. Over the year this can make a significant impact on any student’s level of achievement and ultimately their final GCSE grades. Attendance in all lessons is vital to ensure the best possible outcomes for all.

Mr M Kaye Assistant Principal

11 GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND It is not often that students come into the hall saying “Aw isn’t he cute?” At first I blushed but then I realised they were talking about the Labrador Retriever sitting next to me. Of course the star of this assembly was Ralph, a beautiful and well behaved Labrador Retriever. Ralph had come along with his handler and representatives from the Guide Dogs association. This year, Guide Dogs is one of our chosen charities at Settle College and we felt that it was important for students to hear about the charities work. The representatives explained the charity’s mission statement and how the Sixth Form could get involved in fund raising activities. We were particularly moved by Ralph’s handler who told us how having Ralph had made him more confident; able to get out and socialise more. Above all he felt he had got his dignity back. The Sixth Form committee are working on events so please keep looking at the website for updates.

Mr S Murphy Assistant Director Sixth Form

12 DRY STONE WALLING IN LANGCLIFFE The Year 11 COPE students have attended two days of dry stone walling with Tom Lord of Lower Winskill Farm, Langclifffe. They were taught about the farm’s history first and looked at the many examples of dry stone walls around Lower Winskill. Students were amazed that some of the walls have stood there for over 600 years! Tom then began teaching the practical skills. On their second visit the students were able to show their new skills to delegates from the annual National Parks Conference, who were visiting Lower Winskill with the Yorkshire Dales Millenium Trust. The delegates were very impressed with the wall the students had built and proposed they continue to build on these skills in the future. A good dry stone waller can earn £40 a metre square, not a bad job really!

Mrs Hill and members of the COPE group

Group members learning new skills

Mrs R Hill

13 STUDENT OF THE MONTH At the end of each month teachers are asked to nominate students in their subject areas who have shown outstanding effort, achievement or progress and every student nominated will receive a letter home. This information is then collated and the student who has received the most nominations in each year group is named as “Student of the Month”, with a letter sent home and their names displayed on the boards in the Upper and Lower School reception areas. In the event of a draw the names are given to the Learning Managers and Pastoral Officers to choose who is most deserving of the title. There is also a “Community Award” , which is given to a student who has done something outstanding to help others both in or out of school, and a “Technologist of the Month” award for students who have excelled in a Technology subject. We are proud to announce the September winners as: Year 7 – Charlie Hickson Year 8 – Jessica Sanders Year 9 – Josh Capstick Year 10 – Cassie Hastie Year 11 – Mollie Saffery Year 12 – Connor Hastie Year 13 – Jacenta Rush-Morgan Community Award – James Fielden Technologist - Ben Bradley Congratulations to the winners and to all nominees.

OCTOBER CAREERS NEWS This half-term has been packed with careers advice for students as now is the time for Year 11 and Sixth Form students to decide which career path they would like to follow. The students have heard from guest speakers from a wide range of professions, including nursing, emergency services, engineering and the Army, as well as specialist careers workshops and one to one meetings with an Independent Careers Advisor. Throughout the year members of the Settle College Governing Body are conducting mock interviews with Year 11 students to prepare them for the future. On Wednesday 1st October Year 11 students were visited by speakers from IGEN, a Careers and Personal Development Service who offer impartial advice to enable students to achieve their potential in their chosen career or to help in the process of choosing a career path to follow. They will be in school every 2-3 weeks to offer one to one support. Thursday 2nd October saw a visit from speakers from the National Citizenship Scheme (please see article on pages 6 and 7), and one to one interviews were arranged for Year 11 students who wanted specific careers advice on Monday 6th and Monday 20th October. Sarah Hussain from Craven College delivered a very well attended Apprenticeships Workshop on Wednesday 8th October, where students were given a wealth of information including details of available apprenticeships, advice on contacting perspective employers, completing an application, attending interviews, and the importance of having a backup plan.

Visits from guest speakers and careers advice will continue throughout the year. We are always on the look out for motivational speakers - if you feel you would like to speak to students regarding your profession or are able to offer work experience or apprenticeship opportunities, please contact Gill Walker by telephoning 01729 822451 or via email: [email protected] Mrs G Walker Year 11 Pastoral Officer/Careers Co-ordinator

14 VOLUNTEERING AT THE COMMONWEALTH GAMES GLASGOW 2014 It all began watching the 2012 Olympics and wishing I had applied to be a Gamesmaker, so knowing that the Commonwealth Games were going to be held in Glasgow I decided to put in an application, and in November 2013 made my first journey to Glasgow for an interview. I had to wait until February 2014 to receive the news that I had been chosen to be a Clydesider and that I was going to be part of the Results Technology Services Team, Table Tennis, gulp! Leading up to the Games I had a few more trips to Glasgow for training, these were held in various venues that would be used during the games, such as the Emirates Arena (Badminton) and Hampden Park (Athletics). It started to feel real once I had picked up my uniform and arranged my accommodation. I travelled to Glasgow on Saturday 19th July and checked into my accommodation which was going to be my home for the next two weeks, ready for the final training, which was to be held at the Scotstoun Centre, the venue for the Table Tennis and Squash. This is where I learnt that I would be scoring the Table Tennis matches alongside the Umpires, another gulp! In teams of two we had to use a tablet to insert the scores as the game was progressing, watching the umpires closely. The most difficult part was during the doubles matches when we had to input which player was serving and which one was receiving, this was quite difficult especially as we didn’t know the names of the players, sometimes we had umpires who were thoughtful and let us know but occasionally we didn’t! There were two areas where the matches were played, the match courts had eight tables and the majority of the preliminary games were here, then there were the show courts where there were only two tables with a much larger area for the spectators and these matches were televised! As we all wanted to score for the matches on the show courts we had to take turns. Due to the larger spectator area it could become very noisy in there, especially when the Scottish or English were playing. The competitors were from many of the commonwealth countries. Some had quite a large squad of players like the English and Scottish but there were others who had very few, Belize only had one and Malawi had two players entered.

My favourite match was on the show court when a Scottish player Gavin Rumgay was in a very hard fought match which he unfortunately lost, but the noise and excitement in the arena was fantastic. My whole experience was something I will remember for ever and I would encourage everyone to do something like this at least once in their lives.

Mrs T Bullock Teaching Assistant

15 ENTERPRISE NEWS Settle College Entrepreneurs Ready to Challenge Again! Once again Settle College has entered the nationwide Young Enterprise competition. After last year’s success winning ‘Best Financial Plan’, we have a new company with twelve more enthusiastic students. Their task is to set up a business and develop a product from scratch that they can then sell in the marketplace. It is early days so far but the team is keen to manufacture or import a product which will have all types of consumer interested. The team is called ‘12Tech’ and is led by Ellie Sharp as Managing Director with Connor Hastie as Assistant Managing Director. We are delighted to have the support of Mr Stephen McNamara from the Head Office of Skipton Building Society, is working with the group as an advisor .

Mr McNamara has kindly offered the Building Society’s conference facilities for one of the team’s meetings. Students are joking about the chance to utter those immortal words “You’re fired!” - perhaps we have the next Lord Sugar in our midst?

THE STATIONERY SHOP IS GOING PLACES!

There is no more excuse for pupils not having the correct equipment in lessons. Sixth Form students Harry Garman, William Polkinghorne, Sam Northrop, Edward Kellett and Andrew Foord are running a school enterprise in the form of a stationary shop.

This is part of their enrichment activity and the shop will be open at break and lunchtime outside the Sixth Form Centre. Pens, pencils, rubbers and rulers as well as other items are on sale at competitive prices. Items can also be ordered by request.

The aim is to run this enterprise at a profit but to put all money earned back into the venture and to look to expand in other areas.

Mr S Murphy Subject Leader for Business Studies

16 THE STUDENT TEACHING AND LEARNING LEADERSHIP GROUP A group of students have been selected to represent their forms as a Student Teaching and Learning Leadership Group, where they will have the opportunity to review policies, express their views and ideas and get involved in teaching and learning research projects.

Last year the nominated students worked with staff to evaluate the Teaching and Learning Policy and offered views and suggestions on the updated version. A Year 8 member of the team, who really enjoyed the experience commented, “It is a great opportunity to represent the student voice and have an influence on our own learning.”

Congratulations to the following students who were nominated to be part of the group:

Year 7 - Talia Caton, Michael Catherwood, Simran Thomas, Thomas Darwin, Matthew Coleman, Isabel Firth, Ben Allan, Abbie Richards.

Year 8 - Emily Carpenter, Thomas Corns, Ellie Wills, John-Jo Cummins, Jordan Firth, Jessica Sanders, Elizabeth Henderson, Joseph Clayton.

Year 9 - Paddy Capstick, Catherine Sawyer, Abigail Adnett, Jordan McKenna, Ben Bradley, India Healing, Katharine Tarbox, Rosa Bryant.

Year 10 - Ben Barton, Jasmine Smith.

Year 11 - Skye Clee-Ramsing, Derek Palmer, Ellie Dugdale, Sarah Hibbert.

PARENT PARTNERSHIP GROUP (PPG)

Students’ success at school is only possible with the full support and encouragement of parents, and as such we aim to work in close partnership with all parents and carers. At Settle College we have a Parent Partnership Group; this is a voluntary voice that meets every half term to discuss current issues regarding school life. This half term we discussed the following:  The overall feeling of how your child started this academic year  “Silver Stickers” for parental review of assessment  Open Evenings  Life after levels - what should Settle College do?

If you are interested in being part of this group please e-mail Mrs K Shutes, Principal’s PA: [email protected], so we are able to contact you with details of future meetings. Mr G Paisley Assistant Principal

17 DUTCH STUDENTS VISIT SETTLE COLLEGE On Monday 13th October 2014, a group of Dutch students from Staring College in Lochem in The Netherlands spent the morning with Sixth Form students in Years 12 and 13, to experience life in an English school. They arrived at 8.30am and we watched a short presentation about life at Staring College. Their school is a lot bigger than ours and they don’t have to wear uniform. Also, we learnt that about 1400 of their students bike for an hour to get to school every day.

We were all given a Dutch partner who joined us in our morning lessons to experience the differences from their lessons back at home. The visit was an educational experience for us too as we learnt more about the Netherlands and the sort of lessons that are available to students there such as Economics and German. Similarly, we learnt that they don’t have the opportunity to do Art and other similar subjects. Break and lunch was a good chance to get to know our partners better as we could ask them about different cultural aspects such as television and music, and some even joined in a game of cards. Many of the visiting students also taught small Dutch phrases to the Settle College students to give them a flavour of the language. The students enjoyed the morning here at Settle College, participating in many Sixth Form lessons at AS and A2 level, including English Literature, Chemistry, Forensics and History which included a Dutch History quiz. Although only together for a short while, many of the Sixth Form students made friends with their ‘buddy’ for the day and plan to stay in touch. It was really interesting to see the differences between England and the Netherlands. They left shortly before the end of lunch at 1.00pm and we were sad to see them go, but hopefully we can stay in contact with them through email. The event was a huge success and students showed the best of Settle College, and we enjoyed hosting our visitors. The experience benefited both students and teachers.

Beth Smith, Emma Kayley and Lucy Watson Year 12

18 GREENPOWER - THE ROOKIES’ PERSPECTIVE

Greenpower is an electronic car racing competition which is held across the country at several of the finest motorsport venues. On Wednesday 24th September we got the chance to race at the historic Aintree venue near Liverpool. STEM club gives students a chance to explore all aspects of Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths (STEM) and I have been part of the team since joining Settle College in Year

Driver Ben Bradley with the Greenpower car

On the 24th September at 6.15am we gathered in the lower school car park and travelled the one and a half hour journey to Aintree. On arrival we got straight to work and prepared the car to a race worthy condition, we then did an hour of practice before the first race. This started very smoothly with lap times of around 4 minutes 40 seconds, but this was slower than last year! Not what was expected. The pit stops went smoothly and the people who drove the car were extremely quick at changing roles. In the first race we finished a respectable 20th, completing 26.2 miles. After the first race we decided to change the gear so we would have an advantage cruising down the straights, however doing so would cause us to go slower up the hills. We decided to take this risk as a place in the National Finals was at stake. It was initially a successful decision, Benjamin Coote achieved our fastest lap time at 4 minutes and 22 seconds, however the drain on the batteries was too much and by the end of the race they were dead and we were travelling very slowly, finishing in 23rd place and only covering 23.1 miles. Therefore, we managed to achieve a overall position of a boastful 97 of out of 202 cars entered but sadly not enough to make it to the finals. It was something truly spectacular, unlike anything I had ever witnessed before, despite the weather the time we spent there was great fun.

George Mason Year 8

19 STEM CLUB (Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths) The STEM club is an extra curricular activity for students in Years 8-13. We meet every Wednesday afternoon from 3.30pm till 5.30pm. Over the last four years we have concentrated on the Greenpower competition, designing, building and racing an electric powered vehicle. However, this has become some what outdated and is no longer efficient or fast enough to be competitive.

The team have been very busy designing a new car and trying to secure some extra funding. We have received a donation of £500 from Vertex Engineering based in Giggleswick and technical assistance from Hope Engi- neering of Barnoldswick. We are currently seeking ex- tra funding from local companies. The students have come up with the idea of breaking the car down into “sponsorship parts”. If you are interested in spon- soring us in any way and have your company name dis- played on our car and overalls, please contact Mr Scott at College: [email protected]

The car itself is shaping up nicely. Currently, we have working steering and drive train systems; the body shape has been finalised and we are looking at making it from plywood so we can create a mould for the carbon fibre, with the help of a rather famous manufacturer!!

Keep up to date on our Facebook page:https:// www.facebook.com/#!/SettleCollegeGreenpowerTeam

Components that can be sponsored Cost Current Sponsor. 4 x tyres and inner tubes £100 Sponsor required 4 x 20 inch wheels £336 Vertex Engineering 2 front brakes £300 Hope engineering Safety harness £55.00 Sponsor required Battery Charger £55 Sponsor required 6 12V Batteries £262 (£63 each) Sponsor required Brake light £15 Sponsor required New Motor £150 Sponsor required High impact protection foam £25 Sponsor required Motor controller £300 Sponsor required Overalls with team logo £200 Sponsor required Carbon Fibre Body work £Undisclosed John Croslands Steering system £150 Settle Rotary Club Raspberry Pi data system £75 Sponsor required

Wiring £60 Sponsor required

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CHALLENGE

“How can 3D printers be used in Science and Technology?”

Every half term we will be posing an interesting science question for you to research. This half term it is ‘How can 3D printers be used in Science and Technology?’ Our Technology department have been lucky enough to have the loan of a 3D printer, a fantastic piece of engineering which can be used to create many things. It was demonstrated during Open Evening and our PTA are currently fundraising to buy one of our own! (please see article on page 22)

Hand your entry into your Science teacher by Monday 1st December 2014, the entries will be judged by the Science Department and the winner will be announced in the next issue of ‘Settle College Matters’. The competition is be open to students in all year groups and there will be prizes. Good luck!

21 THE FUTURE ARRIVES IN SETTLE WITH PTA SUPPORT It has been make, make, make down in the Technology department for the last month as we have had a 3D printer on loan from Ultimaker and the students have been making seemingly impossible things. The PTA were so impressed with the educational benefits and potential of the new technology that they decided, very kindly to donate £700 to the department to contribute towards buying one of our own, leaving us £700 to fund raise separately. How do 3D printers work? You start by designing a 3D object on a PC, connect it to a 3D printer, press ‘print’ and then sit back and watch. The process is a bit like making a loaf of sliced bread, but in reverse. Imagine baking each individual slice of bread and then gluing them together into a whole loaf (as opposed to making a whole loaf and then slicing it, like a baker does). That’s basically what a 3D printer does.

The 3D printing process turns a whole object into thousands of tiny little slices, then makes it from the bottom-up, slice by slice. Those tiny layers stick together to form a solid object. Each layer can be very complex, meaning 3D printers can create moving parts like hinges and wheels as part of the same object. You could print a whole bike: handlebars, saddle, frame, wheels, brakes, pedals and chain - ready assembled, without using any tools! It is just a question of leaving gaps in the right places.

As part of the fund raising we are offering parents the opportunity to come in to school and use the printer, if you are interested please contact Mr Scott for more information. [email protected] Mr G Scott Head of Technology Specialism PTA NEWS At our last PTA meeting we had a demonstration of a fabulous 3D printer that Mr Scott would like to add to the Technology Department. Many visitors to Open Evening will have seen the machine in action, or will have heard about similar machines in the media.

The machine takes ‘printing’ instructions from free computer software and then re-forms plastic wire (like strimmer wire) into solid objects. Different types and colours of plastic wire can be used in the machine to print a vast array of objects (Whistles, wristbands, 3D puzzles, beakers, key ring lights and mobile device covers where just a few of the things that the committee were shown). The printer will allow technology students to ‘build’ in three dimensions instead of two we will offer opportunities for exam students to design software programs that can be translated by the printer into real life objects at minimal cost.

The PTA committee agreed to fund half of the cost of the 3D printer, laying down a challenge to Mr Scott and students to raise funds for the other half of the cost.

The PTA meets regularly to arrange fundraising andsocial events in school and always welcome new members. There is no set time commitment, so if you have any great ideas to bring Settle College families together and/or raise funds for school get in touch! [email protected] Mrs V Sawyer Secretary PTA

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Make-up & Bodycare Evening Settle College Lower School Hall

Friday 7th November 2014 7pm – 9pm

Tickets £5 – Bring Mum Free

Join the Ladies from Rackham’s Beauty Counters for skin care & makeup demonstrations & tips!

Ticket includes: Free Samples Festive Nibbles & Drinks

Raffle available with lots of fabulous prizes

**Excellent Opportunity for doing some Christmas shopping**

Tickets available from Reception or Mrs Nash (SEN Department, Monday-Wednesday) Alternatively call 01729 824873/07814136305 evenings and weekends

23 SETTLE COLLEGE SPORTS NEWS

YEAR 9 NETBALL YEAR 9 RUGBY UNION

The Year 9 girls’ netball team played at Upper Well done to all the boys who attended the local Wharfedale School on Wednesday 8th October tournaments. The first was held at Keighley RFU, against Upper Wharfedale. where the boys managed two wins, a draw and loss being led by captain Omari Kaup-Samuals. The team: Captain - India Healing, Rosa Bryant, The boys showed fantastic rugby and were Rebecca Hulse, Claire Scaife, Jordan Shortreed, beaten on size rather than skill. Man of the Meghan Glover and Abi Adnett all played well, tournament was Jack Pinder. The second even though we lost. tournament was not as successful, led by captain Jack Pinder the team was beaten by speed in

their low scoring games. There was outstanding Wharfedale are a good team and the weather play by some members of the team, in particular conditions didn’t help on the day either but we the player of the tournament Ben Bilsborough. just had to persevere and try and win. After playing 4 ten minute quarters the game ended Well done to all the players, you were a pleasure and the score finished at 8 nets to 7. Adding to to take. India’s score of 6 nets Rebecca’s final net made the score 8-7 from 6-7. Well done Rebecca! Miss A Vickery India Healing PE Teacher Year 9 Captain

YEAR 10 NETBALL SIXTH FORM RUGBY

As captain of the team I would like to say well Settle College Sixth Form rugby team travelled done to Jasmine Cannon, Hebe Shepherd, to Ripon Grammar school for their first fixture Victoria Johnson, Zoe Morphet, Leah Duncan, of the year. Being together as team for the first Rosie Laycock and Emma Franklin who played time showed us our strengths and weaknesses netball on Wednesday 8th October. Although we and our main areas of improvements which we didn’t win there was some outstanding could work on for future fixtures. teamwork and many great passes. Starting off Ripon dominated the the game in the first quarter we had first centre first half as Settle pass, unfortunately we made some mistakes and struggled to organise the ball was given to the other team, who went their structure. The on to score three goals. In the second quarter we second half was much came back with three terrific goals scored from more promising with Rosie and Leah. During our third quarter both Ed Garland scoring a teams were neck and neck with great goals com- great individual try. ing from both sides. In our last quarter the However, we were weather wasn’t great and it began to rain, the unable to prevent court became slippy, making it hard for them from scoring everyone. Hebe who attempted to throw the ball further tries. over to Leah scored instead, although it didn’t count and at the end we were behind by one Things can only improve from here! goal. A special mention to Leah Duncan and Em- Mr G Paisley ma Franklin who both got women of the match Assistant Principal and PE Teacher although it was a very tight call and everyone played excellently! Bethany Duncan Year 10 Captain

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YEAR 8 YEAR 10 The Year 8 team have had a fantastic opportunity The Year 10 team were unlucky enough to meet this year. As the most enthusiastic and best their nemesis team, Bowland High, Lancashire, attenders of lunchtime practices, the Year 8 boys in their first round encounter in the ESFA Cup. have been rewarded with extra coaching sessions The boys made a collective groan when I with an ex-professional player and ex-student of announced their opponents! They met them last the college, Jordan Armstrong, formally of Preston year in the same competition and this time, like North End and Shrewsbury Town F.C. Jordan has last year, were outplayed and soundly beaten. very kindly offered to come in and coach the boys Apparently the excellent Bowland team got very on a regular basis completely free of charge. near to the final stages of the national Jordan now runs a football coaching business and competition last year! Despite the tall task our is also involved in a sports nutrition programme. Settle team tried their absolute best throughout Jordan stated that he wanted to ‘give something the game and, to their credit, never gave up or back to the college’ and the boys and I are very let their spirits drop. Well done boys. Man of the grateful. match was Daniel Cardus. The boys will face Boroughbridge or Rossett next in the Area Cup.

YEAR 11

The Year 11 team had a strange encounter in their first competitive game of the year with a 1-0 loss to a very average team from Nidderdale High School. Our current Year 11 players (last year’s Area Cup finalists) are a very good outfit with some exceptional talent. Strangely, we lost this game despite total dominance and possession, having also had in the region of 15-20 shots on goal! A combination of poor finishing and good goal keeping kept our attack at bay. An extremely frustrating experience for The Year 8 team drew Nidderdale High School at both players and coach! Even the teacher in home in the second round of the National ESFA charge of the Nidderdale team admitted that the Playstation Cup. Outstanding performances result was ‘a bit of a smash and grab’ for them. throughout the team secured a comprehensive The Year 11s will now face Queen Ethelburga’s, victory of 15-1. Five goals from Harry Parsons, a near York, away in the first round of the hat trick from Nathan Bullock and numerous goals Harrogate and Craven Cup, I’m sure they will from other players contributed to the total. We are want to make amends for their first result now awaiting confirmation of the next fixture in against Nidderdale. the third round. Man of the match was Oliver Kilburn (captain). Mr M Harrison PE Teacher Mr M Harrison PE Teacher

25 SIXTH FORM BOYS’ FOOTBALL (SETTLE FIRST XI) The 1st XI have played three competitive fixtures so far this year, the first a 3-3 draw with regular fixture Stonyhurst College, Lancashire. They were unlucky to finish with a draw, having dominated the majority of the game but perhaps not finding that final clinical finish or final creative guile. The return fixture away at Stonyhurst is scheduled for February; the boys are determined to give the Stonyhurst side a tougher test next time. Their second game was a second round encounter with local rivals Ermysted’s Grammar School, Skipton, in the National ESFA English Schools Cup. The inclusion of Tom Windle (Year 11 captain) and Joel Wynne (Year 11 centre half) bolstered an already strong team to easily overcome the Ermysted’s team and cruise to a 5-0 victory. Outstanding performances from Tom Windle, Joel Wynne, Oliver Allsopp (captain), Dan Middleton and Jack Brennand, but everyone played their part…well done! The third game was against our other local rivals Queen Elizabeth School, Kirkby Lonsdale. Our team twice led in the game but the game finished 3-2 in QES’s favour, a late goal from QES was bad luck for us as we had enjoyed possession for the majority of the match and looked likely to go on to win. The boys are keen for a ‘friendly’ rematch against QES to settle the score. We had a cameo appearance in this match from Year 11 player Will Simpson who gave an impressive performance for his first game at this level and scored the first goal; an excellent effort from the edge of the area. We are awaiting a result between Rossett (Harrogate) and Harrogate High for the second round match in the Area Cup.

Mr M Harrison PE Teacher

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