1 Kirkbie Kendal School inform Issue 45 | Spring 2017 Head Boy to join the Ivy League Matthew Stafford reflects on his offer to study at Yale, USA. On 15th December, I received an offer Programme. Run by the of admission from Yale University, in Fulbright Commission, this Connecticut, USA. I was overjoyed. programme offers world At the end of August, I’ll head over class help and mentorship to The States to begin four years of to state school students undergraduate study, and I couldn’t be in the U.K. who want to more excited. apply to U.S. institutions. The structure of an American degree I received tuition for course means that I’ll have two years admissions tests from the world’s of general study, in as broad a range of foremost experts, was mentored Yale University subjects as I choose, followed by two through my college essays by none years of more specialised study that less than the Bank of America’s C.E.O., contributes towards my major – and got free entry to the biggest U.S. the subject for which I’ll receive college fair in the U.K.. To top it all my degree title. I’ll graduate in the off, I stayed on Yale’s campus last summer of 2021, and along the way summer during a week in which the will be exposed to the myriad of programme visited colleges around opportunities that Yale has to offer. the U.S. East Coast (including Harvard, Map Data © 2017 Google, INEGI I could write for Yale Daily News - Princeton and Columbia), which was America’s oldest college newspaper quite simply the best experience of my – join a high-class intramural team in life. The upshot of all the hard work Inside this issue... whichever sport I choose, and make of the Sutton Trust is that I’ve gained the most of Yale’s phenomenal links a place at my top-choice university, to worldwide industry for internships. undoubtedly one of the world’s top World of English & Maths 2-3 In short, my time at Yale will be the institutions. I recommend that any experience of a lifetime and will shape state-school student interested in Trips & Visits 4-5 my future for decades to come. the U.S. for undergraduate study Sports News 6-7 So, how did I get here? What did I investigates the programme. do to secure a place at Yale? Well, it Entries for this year’s cohort are now Humanities 8-9 would have been impossible without closed, but next year’s Year 12 would the help of the Sutton Trust U.S. do well to give it a look. Careers & Other News 10-11 2 3 THE WORLD OF ENGLISH & MATHS WORLD BOOK DAY Year 9 Fire Station Trips Kirkbie Kendal again celebrated World Book Day by having form Year 9s recently visited Kendal Fire groups across the school redesign Station to participate in some activities their classroom doors as covers of involving maths. These activities their favourite books. demonstrated just how much maths is used every day in a fireman’s work Competition was and included checking the hose water intense this year pressure and calculating the volume of and the standard water being used. Pupils also worked was super high. out the length of time a fireman’s Standouts breathing apparatus would last for and included one Year calculated the pressures needed to lift 12 class offering various vehicles. the front cover Some highlights of the trips were of Stephen when pupils got the chance to try on King’s The firemen’s uniforms and use a water Shining, with hose to douse the practise tower. They UK Maths Challenge Mr Hill doing a also practiced rescuing dummies from very passable a blacked out room, mimicking a house On Wednesday 8th March a team of four exceptional mathematicians Jack Nicholson, fire scenario. set out to represent Kirkbie Kendal School at the South Lakes regional and The Cat final of the UKMT Team challenge. At stake was a place in the National in the Hat, by 9.2. Mr Martin’s final in London. door even added a 3D element, Kim Moore in Our team consisted of Luke Tamblin and Will Coxon from Year 9, Isaac with a luggage trolley added to their action, at a Burnett and Sam Wilsden from Year 8. Platform 9¾ based version of reading of The UKMT Team Challenges promote mathematical dexterity, teamwork Harry Potter. her poetry and communication skills. They also give pupils the opportunity to compete against pupils from other schools in their region. The competition has four rounds 1. Group round 10 fearsomely hard maths questions. 2. Crossnumber A Feast of Poetry Half the team have the across clues and half have the down clues, no communication allowed! style; borrowing a structural involved, constructing and sharing feature from a poem that had their work. 3. Shuttle round been shared and adapting the The session finished with Kim Four questions to be answered in eight minutes, the catch is that form and style to their own. reading one of her own published question 2 cannot be answered until question 1 is solved. Again poems, a moving and thoughtful Imaginations were stirred! no communication is allowed. Unique and exciting poems reflection on domestic violence. happened! Everyone left revitalised, their 4. Relay creative juices flowing! On Friday 10th of March, a creative Inventively led by Kim, who also 30 questions gradually increasing in difficulty requiring logical group of sixth form students met heads up the Dove Cottage Poets If anyone is interested in getting thinking with a dash of creativity. involved with the Dove Cottage with Kim Moore, poet, trumpet group who meet twice a month at The contest was hard fought between the 12 schools representing most the Brewery Arts Centre, students Poets (a group of students who teacher and co-director and founder of the Secondary schools in the South Lakes area. of the Kendal Poetry Festival. enjoyed participating, crafting and work with Kim on their own poetry sharing their own poetry writing. writing twice a month at the Our team excelled themselves and after a day of hard thinking, lots of Inspired by some shared poetry Two brave KKS English staff (Ms Brewery – all free), please ask Ms juice and biscuits, they finished the competition in 2nd place! Six more reading and discussion, students Walker and Mr Hutchinson) also got Walker for more details. explored their own poetic written marks and London would have been there for the taking. As always our pupils were a credit to themselves, their families and the school. Next year victory will be theirs! 4 5 TRIPS & VISITS Year 11 Art Visit to Liverpool On the 16th of February, we visited two different places in Liverpool: the Walker art gallery and the Tate art gallery. Firstly, we headed for the Walker art gallery. It was very traditional with much older pieces, such as many Tudor portraits and Victorian paintings. Its Year X Music Students in Liverpool collection dates back from 1819 when the royal institution was given 37 paintings from a collection of William Roscoe, who had to sell his collection Julia Wilson, Year 13, reports when his banking business failed. on her trip to Uganda When we first arrived, there were two statues at Gala Concert the entrance which were Raphael on the right and In January this year I took a two week trip to Uganda, Michelangelo on the left. Both were Italian artists, This October, Africa, with the Christian charity CRMI. The team of 18 draughtsmen and architects. They are recognized Kirkbie Kendal people from in and around Cumbria consisted of doctors, as highly some of the greatest artists of all time, nurses, teachers, management leaders, musicians and both being highly skilled. School hosted students. the annual As we entered the gallery we were greeted with a The purpose of our trip was to provide free basic medical Westmorland great room containing a colossal stairway. To our care for the community around Bombo, a town 20 miles right there was a room filled with marble statues, Gala Concert. from the capital city of Kampala. This occurred through the room was filled with sunlight and spotless, This is a medical clinics that we set up in churches and schools, and white figures. Many had very Roman features to German Choir collaborative concert between we gave free health check-ups, medication and testing for them. As you walked up the stairway it led up to local secondary schools including diseases and viruses such as Malaria and HIV. I even got to the second floor, this had many doors leading to At the beginning of October, Year 7 visit one of the local hospitals whilst escorting a patient to Dallam School, QES, Kirkby different areas of the gallery, each containing very and 8 students were lucky enough to have an X-ray. Stephen, QKS and ourselves. The different pieces from different time periods. At hear a visiting German Choir perform money raised from the concert I found this experience to be invaluable as I plan to go to the time of visiting an exhibition about Victorian to them. The choir were from Alter goes towards musicians grants University next year to train to be a nurse, therefore being Treasures was on. This included more than 60 Holtz near Kiel and had a mixture of for local players. able to practise taking blood pressures and doing blood paintings. tests will help my future training.