VOICE ISSUE02 OUTLINE CREDITS 03 THE PRINCIPAL’S COMMENTS PRINCIPAL MR P MORRIS 04 TRIPS & EVENTS VICE PRINCIPAL DR S CLARK 06 THE ONLINE ENVIRONMENT STAFF EDITOR MRS N OWEN 08 ENRICHMENT DESIGNER MR S MARSHALL PRESS OFFICER MS S PEARSALL NEWS EDITOR MADELEINE READ 10 UK & LOCAL NEWS DEPUTY EDITOR JENNIFER PRINCE 11 WORLD NEWS NEWS LAURA THOMPSON 12 SIXTH FORM SCOOP STEVEN TOMES 14 POLITICS ENRICHMENT TONI HENDRICK LAURA DOWLING ENTERTAINMENT POLITICS CALLUM VILLAGE 16 THEATRE & LITERATURE CHARITY & HOUSE STUART NAGGINGTON 18 FASHION NATALIE JONES 20 MUSIC NATASHA CROOK 22 FILMS SPORT & HEALTH LAUREN BERRY 24 GAMES DANI O’BRIEN LITERATURE ABBIE PRICE FACTUAL FASHION EMILY TROOD 26 HEALTH & FITNESS FILM LEWIS HALL 28 SCIENCE JOSHUA BALL MUSIC JENNIFER PRINCE SCIENCE SOPHIE HAMMOND PHOTOGRAPHER PHILIPPA ROSE 02 THE PRINCIPAL’S COMMENTS On Wednesday 17th November 2004 I took my wife to the old Vetch Field in Swansea to watch the Division Two game of Swansea City versus Kidderminster Harriers. As she is from Liverpool, she had only experienced the “KOP” and Premiership football, so I wanted to show her what real football was like. We lost. We lost 4-0. We were lucky to get nil. The Swansea crowd shouted “Olé” every time Kidderminster passed the ball. It was embarrassing. “Is it always like this?” my wife asked. “No” I replied. I remembered watching Swansea go from the old fourth division to the first. I remembered beating Leeds United 5-1 in our first game. Just over seven years later and Swansea City beat Arsenal 3-2 in the Premiership. We are now called Swansealona! What happened? A Chairman decided that Swansea City would play football as it should be played. Managers may come and go, but they would stick with their beliefs and play. This took courage and strength of character. There was derision from other clubs and they were favourites to be relegated, but they stuck to their beliefs. As an Academy we strongly believe in teaching the right way. Education is not just about passing examinations. It is about developing the person for their future. Giving them the courage to take risks, the confidence to realise that they can cope with success or failure, the ability to recognise that we all have strengths and weaknesses and we all need support sometimes, and that the only thing stopping you achieving your ambition is yourself. It is not the easy way, and sometimes we will not get it perfectly correct, but it is the right way. We may get criticised. We may get told that we will not be successful. It does not matter. We will be successful and we will be recognised as being an establishment that students enjoy going to and one which allows them to develop their full potential. A Premier establishment for the people of Tamworth. Mr P Morris 03 STUART NAGGINGTON TRIPS AND CALLUM VILLAGE EVENTS NATALIE JONES Holocaust MEMORIAL WEEK The word holocaust came from the Hebrew word On the 27th January, Holocaust Memorial Day, ‘Shoah’. ‘Shoah’ means ‘catastrophe’, an appropriate Landau Forte came together to show respect for description of a terrible event. The Holocaust saw the those affected by genocide. The lessons learnt from death of approximately 11 million people, 6 million the Holocaust should never be forgotten, as the of them Jews, but this should not generalise the human rights we take for granted now were stripped individual tales of shocking conditions people had from so many minority groups. Mr Harrison led the to live in. The crimes committed by the Nazis did not Holocaust memorial, and the school had six lit candles only kill people, but drastically affected their lives, in the theatre, representing those lost during the with many families ripped apart, as well as property Holocaust, as well as students from Miss Walsh and and possessions destroyed for no benefit other than Mrs Anderson’s form leading the memorial. Overall, to stop the Jews, or other races from having them. It is Holocaust Memorial Week was very successful, and I important to not only see the 11 million death toll as believe we should all be thankful to Mr Harrison, and a whole, but to see the individual pain and suffering everyone else included, for coordinating the activity. caused by discrimination and racial segregation. “I thought Mr Harrison’s gathering was very informative and very upsetting as you realise the horror what those people went through.” Phillipa Murray-Hogarth 04 ABBIE PRICE ANDREW HAMMOND VISITS LANDAU FORTE! After touring around the country with his book How was writing your book the C.R.Y.P.T., it must have been workshops and signings of his new sequel C.R.Y.P.T, a very different experience to writing textbooks? Andrew Hammond has hit Landau Forte Sixth Form The first book was tremendous fun! I tested the early drafts Centre. After being educated at Ripon Grammar School on my year eights. The kids described it as good but not gory in Yorkshire and transferring to a Technical College, he enough. I thought gorier, for 15 years I have been an English began to understand his unfound passion for teaching teacher and I have never heard the word ‘Gorier’. So I thought and writing. He has been a teacher for fifteen years right I’m going to really go for it and when I read my final draft and is currently living in Suffolk with his wife and four to my class there reaction was “Sir what have we done, we have children. turned you into a monster, you have gone too far!” I thought great, the publishers loved it! What A-levels did you study? AH: Well I studied Philosophy, absolutely loved it! So what kind of genre would you class your book as? Sociology, English and French. Everyone else says it’s a horror, but my publishers class it as a collaboration of horror and thriller which is great. I don’t like Did you go straight to University after A levels? horror, I have never watched a Horror movie in my life but that No I got a job at a solicitor’s firm for four years. I wanted is what is most fashionable at the moment and if it gets the to become a barrister so I attended York’s college two kids hooked on reading…well I’m happy. days a week. Then I realised after a while, I really wasn’t enjoying it. My friends said to me “so Andrew what do What inspired your characters in the C.R.Y.P.T. The Gallows’ you enjoy?” I thought about it and said well I enjoy from Curse? 6:00pm to 7:30pm on a Friday evening. They finally Historical quests appear in all the books, each figure illuminates caught on to what I was on about; Scout leadership! I a historical character. I wanted aspirational characters. I am had been in the scouts for a very long time. I went to currently working on book number 4 now and from my first Bath University for four years and gained a BA(Hons). book somebody in their review said, and I quote “History just got scarier” and that’s what I want in each of my books. Book Do you believe your tours are helpful to people 1 is set in London and Book 2 in Yorkshire, with each setting around the country? having an element of history and the supernatural. Yes! Of course! I think writing is an elaborate way to educate young people. I’m soon to be taking a Headship Brilliant! Finally to all those aspirational writers out there down south. I think English is a very important subject. what tips would you give? Well number 1 how much do you want it? I believe the saying Have you ever been associated with any major “if you really want it, you can get it” is spot on really because publishers? you can. Number 2, work, work and work then work some Yes! I wrote 40 different school textbooks for major more and analyse what’s out there. Lastly just come out with a publishers such as Oxford and University Press, but new good idea. Harry Potter is a brilliant example with the likes the thing is you don’t make a lot of money for writing of Quidditch, spells - I love it. educational textbooks. Just come out with something remarkable. 05 MADELEINE READ THE LEWIS HALL ONLINE ENVIRONMENT THE CENSORSHIP OF FREEDOM Can you imagine a world without Google? Can laws, to allow the Government to censor and block any website that you imagine a world without YouTube? Can you can be linked to illegal downloads or is in breach of copyright laws. imagine a world without Facebook? If you aren’t already aware of PIPA and SOPA you This means popular sites that everyone has become familiar with probably should be as it is threatening to do just that: and use as a part of our daily lives such as Facebook, YouTube, take down the internet’s most popular website and Twitter, Wikipedia and Google would all be shut down if the bill change the way we use the internet forever. Similar is passed. The first action was taken by the American FBI in New systems are currently being used in communist Zealand with the arrest of Kim (Dotcom) Schmitz, the owner of countries such as China and North Korea to prohibit Mega Upload who was earning $100,000 a day, on Friday 20th any negative action against the Government.