AUTUMN TERM 2016 /05 World famous gymnast visits AESG! plus! A snapshot of work from this Term & our Enrichment Curriculum /06 Gifted & Talented: Art Stars /10 Technology: Coding Club /09 and more... Busy rehearsing for our Junior Production, ‘Stable Manners’ – Year 3, 4 and 5 ‘Stable Manners’ – Year for our Junior Production, Busy rehearsing AUTUMN TERM 2016 AUTUMN TERM 2016 WelcomeWelcome to the first issue of our new Junior School magazine. With the advent of this came our first challenge, what to call our new publication! After much discussion, we decided on Aspire. This seemed fitting as not only does it link with our school motto, Nursery World famous A snapshot of work from this ‘Aspire not to have more, but to be more’, but this is what we & Pre-School 04 gymnast visits AESG! 05 Term & our Enrichment Curriculum 06/07 strive to develop in all our girls, a desire and drive to aspire to be the very best they can in whatever they do, both at this age and in the future. As you know, each term at AESG is jam-packed with a multitude of events, more than we could probably fit into a termly publication. What we shall be aiming to do is to give you a termly snapshot of life in the Junior School at Alderley Edge School for Girls. Our magazine will evolve each term, depending on the events in Technology: Gifted & Talented: school so it should always be kept fresh and exciting! Not all the Mindfulness 08 Coding Club 09 Art Stars 10 Sport 11 goings on at AESG are predictable or expected so these need to be captured too - who would have thought that we would have enjoyed a visit from Beth Tweddle this term? This is what makes our school so special and such a wonderful environment in which to have your daughter educated. I hope you enjoy our first edition! Enrichment: Celebration Bridget Howard Music 12 Creative Clubs 13 Board 14 School Vision 15 Junior School Headmistress ASPIRE ASPIRE 02 ALDERLEY EDGE SCHOOL FOR GIRLS ALDERLEY EDGE SCHOOL FOR GIRLS 03 AUTUMN TERM 2016 AUTUMN TERM 2016 We were thrilled when we heard that Nursery we had been selected as just one of two schools in the North West that Beth Tweddle was to visit at the start of this half term! & Pre-School Renowned for her Olympic and Commonwealth successes, it was a great honour to be able to welcome Britain’s greatest Nursery got off to a wild start in ever gymnast to our school. Beth, who is used to impressing audiences around the world with her gymnastics, spoke to the September. They spent most of the Junior girls about the benefits of gymnastics, wellbeing and term investigating bugs and mini beasts. nutrition, and about her time on the TV show Dancing on Ice, which she won alongside Daniel Whiston in 2013. Activities included putting on their investigative goggles and She also discussed her shyness whilst at school and how discovering types of bugs living in a huge pile of autumn gymnastics helped her to overcome this. Resilience is such an leaves, making play-doh bugs, using googly eyes to enhance important quality to acquire and Beth spoke to the girls about the appearance of the creations and exploring the skill of learning from disappointments in life. She also reiterated how papier-mâché whilst making shoes for a huge caterpillar! important it is to constantly strive to achieve your goals, no matter how big or small. Wow, what a great start to our new term for our Pre-School girls! She was an inspiration to us all! All the girls have settled in quickly and have made the most precious friendships already. The girls have found their confidence within the room; they access our exciting resources happily, getting stuck into all manner of activities. World famous gymnast visits AESG! ASPIRE ASPIRE 04 ALDERLEY EDGE SCHOOL FOR GIRLS ALDERLEY EDGE SCHOOL FOR GIRLS 05 AUTUMN TERM 2016 AUTUMN TERM 2016 ption Ar ece t R sque visi Mo t – Y ea r eception 5 – R ox yb The Aztec Legend The Diary of la p l ta of Chocolate a Stone Age Child n e D One day there was a glamorous edge of a large I had the most bizarre dream last night! I dreamt lake. The sun god Nanahuatzin had hidden a tree that I was a 10 year old Stone Age child, I was of cacao pods and Nanahuazin thought that it called Squirrel because we were named after was only for the gods. Nearby Quetzacoatl the nature. We were nomads, which meant we moved god of delight came by and saw the cocoa pods around a lot. and said, “You should share the cacao pods We had just finished carving our new steam because the earth people need to have the cooker and I had been sent out to forage for some beauty not just you!” Nanahuazin said very angrily, berries, I was quite successful as the clay basket I s CD “Ha! 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By the pond, inside large pods he hides ke n Ro Ba i berts We had just eaten and were getting ready to a the secret food of Gods.” h sleep. c y And all the children went back to the village and s i When it was morning, we carved a new boat out a they came back with their mothers and the frog d of a tree and set off for our winter camp. e sang again, “Rrrreeep. Rrrreeep. Sun god hides h T his treasure deep. By the pond, inside large pods ‘ As soon as we got there we started making our he hides the secret food of Gods.” So the children it to the Me house as it usually took a long time. My dad, and mothers went to get their fathers and it sang vis mo 3 ce ria Otter, had just finished making a fire by rubbing ar n l e again. Finally they found the cocoa pods and ra G two sticks together in a circle of stones. Y b a – r it they started to grow cacao pods and it is now m d is e e I much prefer my life than a Stone Age child’s! v n one of the favourite foods. m s m e – Goodnight diary R u e Nirvanah Boccuto, Year 4 Y s e u a From, Amy r M 1 k Amy Kouvarellis, Year 5 r s e a c if r P c a t Yea 4 S s – r 3 t n s e r g e im a r n e e p W u Y x o e – Y h t o e A lovely boy so happy and bright, t o a T l But on his eighteenth birthday it was o Ye a c r 6 o time to fight. h C upo He lined up, sed n the ba ir d s re Cheers as he signed up. em am o compo p hem se s t th . te lp e e ir He didn’t know what would lie ahead, ro h p w to oe ic m He definitely didn’t know it would take d t s n s . a ro him to his death bed. c G a F n B a No one knew if they would end up dead or alive, e s h t a Dream a dream They were all just desperate to survive. g S Right away the dreams float in n i M We should remember those who fought in the war, d A Early they would go to a world of time. a E And every year pray for them a little more. e r R Asleep you stay D n It doesn’t matter how we pray, 6 e d May you dream good dreams r r e o As long as we thank them, especially today. b a Sounds are not to be found. w e e v 4 Y e a r , h R t h a e Camille Backhouse, Year 3 e e v d 3 m a Y e r r s a g – e u y e m s B Y y e e n ll b h e o b T r t na a e n l A n By e c k e S v is it to 1 t r h a ASPIRE e e ASPIRE M Y 06 ALDERLEY EDGE SCHOOL FOR GIRLS em s – ALDERLEY EDGE SCHOOL FOR GIRLS 07 orial Garden AUTUMN TERM 2016 AUTUMN TERM 2016 Technology: </Coding Club> The teaching of mindfulness in schools gives children a toolkit that they can use as they go through life.