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ELW @ MCSELW @ MCSELW @ MCS Wk Bg 11th July 2016

MAGDALEN GOES QUIET!!

The school going quiet must only mean one

thing, extended learning week is here!

This means the summer holidays are only just around

the corner. This week brings joy to everyone in this

school; this week is for the children and how hard they

have worked this year with all the tests & exams.

The team at ELW @ MCS magazine are going to tell

you everything about what the students have been

doing; the years are 7, 8, 9, 10, and 12.

Flip through these pages to explore what they have

been doing.

TIME FOR FUN

See page 2

Where are we?

What’s th

is all a

bout?

Just what have year 9 been up to?

Stop Press! Year 7 have to feed themselves!!!

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ELW @ MCSELW @ MCSELW @ MCS Wk Bg 11th July 2016

Meet the Team

Year 7

Page 3

Year 8

Page 8

Year 9

Page 15

Year 10

Page 18

Year 12

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Contents

I wish he would just let

me sleep. I’ve been

working sooooo hard!

ELW Quiz

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Archie

Kyle

Owen

Ollie

Senika

James

Ben

Cerys

Emily

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Year 7 Camp!!!

Year 7 enjoyed the activities at the camp; they did rock climbing, shelter building

and completed an obstacle course, then they made a camp fire. Some did not like

the food as it was not to their taste.

They had two groups both had an

instructor to tell them what to do. One

group had to find balls on trees , they

had a map to find the balls. This is

called orienteering. They shot an air

gun at a target. They played cat and

mouse the cat had to get the mouse .

They made a camp fire and cooked

some marshmallows whilst singing

campfire songs. After they had

finished they went to the tents to get

some rest for the last day!

The next day they swapped over and

did the other groups activities which

were rock climbing and they did a

rope course then they both went back

to camp. the tribes had a competition

one team won .

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Activities:

Fire Lighting

Den Making

Bananas with Chocolate Chips Inside

Orienteering

Low Ropes

Obstacle Coarse

Air Rifle

Rock Climbing

Campfire With Marshmallows and Hot

Chocolate

Free Time-

We got free time to relax from the activities and we were allowed to do what ever

we wanted.

My favourite part of camp was rock climbing and air rifle shooting because it was

amazing to do and was really fun.

Food:

Monday:

Lunch: Packed from home

Dinner: Spaghetti Bolognese {with cheese} and with bread. Also a

drink. And for desert: an apple or angel delight

Tuesday:

Breakfast: Bagle or Croissant with nuttella or jam and cereal if you

wanted it

Lunch: Sandwich or sausage roll, crisps, chocolate bar, frube and a

choice of fruit

My experience of camp

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Warwick castle

Warwick Castle is a medieval castle

developed from an original built by

William the Conqueror in 1068.

Warwick is the county town of

Warwickshire, situated on a bend of

the River Avon. The original wooden

motte-and-bailey castle was rebuilt in

stone in the 12th century. During the

Hundred Years War, the facade

opposite the town was refortified,

resulting in one of the most

recognisable examples of 14th

century military architecture. It was

used as a stronghold until the early

17th century, when it was granted to

Sir Fulke Greville by James I in 1604.

Greville converted it to a country

house and it was owned by the

Greville family, who became Earls of

Warwick in 1759, until 1978 when it

was bought by the Tussauds Group.

The year 7’s have been to Warwick Castle on the 3rd day of

extended learning week on the 13th of July

They had a walk around

the walls and then

watched a demonstration

of the Trebuchet; the larg-

est and most formidable

of the siege machines.

This could breach the

walls of the castle.

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Whipsnade Zoo

Whipsnade Zoo, formerly known

as Whipsnade Wild Animal Park, is

a zoo and safari park located

at Whipsnade,near Dunstable in Bed

fordshire, England. It is one of two

zoos (the other being London

Zoo in Regent's Park, London) that

are owned by the Zoological Society

of London , a charity devoted to the

worldwide conservation of animals

and their habitats.

It was last trip of

extended learning

week. The students of

year 7 had been there

on the Friday,15 July.

Eurasian brown bear

at the zoo

A resident of "In with the Lemurs", an attraction at the zoo .

Elephants being led around ZSL Whipsnade Zoo

On Friday the year 7s

went off to explore

Whipsnade zoo. They

went to Whipsnade for

science learning about

all sorts of animals and

sorting them into

groups. They watched

a sea lion show and a

display of Birds of the

World

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NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM.

A trip to the Natural History Museum was linked to the work Year 7 are doing in Art.

The Natural History Museum in London is a museum of natural history that exhibits a vast

range of specimens from various segments of natural history. The museum is particularly

famous for its exhibition of dinosaur skeletons and ornate architecture, sometimes dubbed a

cathedral of nature, both exemplified by the large Diplodocus cast which dominates the

vaulted central hall.

Year 7’s had been there on the 4th day of extended learning week, Thursday,14th July 2016.

The main hall of the museum

A balcony view of the

Large Mammals Hall

Museum Entrance

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Ypres

Some of the year 8’s paid a three day visit to

Ypres in Belgium to see for themselves the

location of some of the battles of the first world

war. The rest of the year group stayed in school

and studied the effects of the war. Those in

school produced art work, researched old

students of MCS who lost their lives in the first

world war and learnt a bit about the country and

the language spoken there.

Ypres, on August the 4th, 1914 the invasion

started with Germany invading Ypres, Belgium.

British troop’s stormed in from over the hill after

exploding 5 mine fields. On April the 22 the first

gas was used for the time. At that time the 5th

division suffered badly and 5471 people died or

got painfully injured.

The nickname is “wipers”

FLAG of YPRES

coats of Arms

Historian Mark Connelly states that in the 1920s,

British veterans set up the Ypres League and

made the city the symbol of all that they believed

Britain was fighting for and gave it a holy aura in

their minds. The Ypres League sought to

transform the horrors of trench warfare into a

spiritual quest in which British and imperial troops

were purified by their sacrifice.

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Year 8 arrived at Magdalen at 2:00am and left Magdalen on the bus at

2:30am.

They left Folkestone at 7:20am to get on the euro tunnel

The Coach left Calais to get to Lijssenthoek military cemetery at 9:05am.

An Hour later the Coach arrived at Lijssenthoek military cemetery.

After touring the cemetery, they took part in a couple of workshops; one

before lunch and one after lunch.

They arrived at their hotel at 5:00pm and unpacked their bags.

2 hours later they had a evening meal at their hotel.

Year 8 Ypres Journey

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Art in relation to Ypres and the first world war

Year 8 students worked together to create collages to commemorate the

fallen of world war 1.

Art work was produced, headlines written, articles discovered and poppies

were made by hand and included in the final striking image

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History in relation to Ypres and MCS

MFL in relation to Ypres and the first world war

These are some of the Flemish language

phrases that Molly learnt.

Hallo Hi!

Good morning!

How are

you?

Goeiemorgan

Hoe gaat

het met jou?

THE SWEEP

The sweep also known as the Schlieffen plan was to invade Belgium,

and then sweep round to invade France and take control of Paris

which would mean Germany could take its full attention on Russia.

They decided to invade Belgium first as the military forces aren't

good there and that’s the same for Luxembourg and the Netherlands

at that time.

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Year 8 Ypres history

Year 8 started off in the

chapel and looked at ex

pupils who were in the war

but went to Magdalen.

After that we were given a

person to research who

had fought in world war 1

I looked at Wilfred kibble

and research into his life.

After you found out about your

person you had to make a power

point or poster and then show it

in front of the class after we

showed them we went back to

the chapel and looked and the

names to see if we could see are

person

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Caldecott

Two groups of year 8’s went to Caldecott on 2 separate days.

Caldecott has 2 sorts of bases, they have a water base and a

land base. In the water base they would do rowing, sailing and

raft building etc. In The land base they did archery, caving,

climbing, absailing and zorbing. The year

8 students chose 3 activities to do and

were split into groups of 10

“When I went to Caldecott I did sailing/archery/caving and raft building”

“ We had fun and I came home tired. My favourite activity was raft

building”

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Year 8

Shakespeare

day

William Shakespeare was an English

poet, playwright, and actor, widely

regarded as the greatest writer in the

English language.

Born: April 1564, Stratford-upon-Avon

Died: May 3, 1616, Stratford-upon-Avon

Children: Hamnet Shakespeare, Susanna

Hall, Judith Quiney

Siblings: Gilbert Shakespeare, Joan

Shakespeare,

Quotes

“The course of true love never did run

smooth.”

“To thine own self be true, and it must

follow, as the night the day, thou canst

not then be false to any man.”

“Love looks not with the eyes,

but with the mind; and therefore

is winged Cupid painted blind.”

On Monday yr8 watched a

Shakespeare film called “A

MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S

DREAM” and they also made

a model of the Globe theatre

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Year 9

In year 9 some of their classes

have been learning about what is

right and what is wrong to do

and the consequences of doing

something bad. We then

proceeded to ask the year 9’s if

they liked extended learning

week ,their reply was “yes but

we want no uniform and a

bigger range of activities “ after

they gave their answer we asked

them another question. What

have you learned today? Their

reply was “we have learned what

types of crimes there are.”

Another subject they are learning is all about Charles Dickens who was born on the 7th of February 1812 in Portsmouth . His career was all about being a writer but he died on the 9th of June 1870. We went over to see what the year 9’s were doing in the English block and found them watching Oliver twist so we quickly

left after taking one quick picture

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Frank Bruno came in to talk to the

year 9 about inspirations and how

you get to the top.

The other subject was sport and

health where they were playing

rounder's on the field which is a

good sport for every student as

there are lots of running involved

Franklin Roy "Frank" Bruno, MBE (born 16

November 1961) is a British

former professional boxer who fought

at heavyweight. His career spanned fourteen

years, in which time he won

the WBC and European heavyweight titles,

and faced multiple world champions

including Mike Tyson and Lennox Lewis. He

won the WBC heavyweight title in 1995,

defeating Oliver McCall at a packed Wembley

Stadium. Bruno was known for his excellent

punching power: he won 40 of his 45 bouts

and 38 by knockout, giving him a 95%

knockout rate from the fights he won; his

overall knockout percentage is 84.44%.

Like Henry Cooper before him, Bruno has

remained a popular celebrity with the British

public following his retirement from

boxing.ank Bruno is a famous boxer facing

Muhammad Ali in a fight but he lost

FRANK BRUNO @ MCS

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Coasteering

A sport or activity where you explore a rocky coastline by

climbing, jumping, and swimming.

Coasteering is a wild fusion of rock climbing, scrambling,

swimming and cliff jumping. It is an activity with no

equipment such as ropes or climbing harnesses, just

basic safety wear, enabling total freedom. The sport

includes exploring hidden caves and rocky surfaces and

observing the fascinating wildlife that lives there. It also

involves jumping off sea cliffs close to the water, short

swims and a few jumps from the cliffs into the sea.

This week the year 9 have gone

to Snowdonia to do all sorts of

activities. They staying at a site

called Felin Bach centre

YEAR 9 SNOWDONIA

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Gorge walking is an activity ,where you

walk along wet rocks and then you slide down

wet rocks and then you slide down a massive

water fall

Snowdonia stands at a amazing 1,085 metres high. Each year 350,000 people

reach the summit by foot or train . The summit has 200 inches of rain per

year and can reach temperatures of 30 centigrade in summer and 20

centigrade in winter , the winds can also go up to 150 mph. on average it

takes 5 to 6 hours to climb .

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WORK EXPERIENCE

Motorsports

This week the year 10 have gone off to do some

work experience. Some of them have go to do

amazing experience and experience what jobs are

like

RED BULL Tilbrook, Milton Keynes. This place

has a simulator for the divers to practice for the

next race. This gives you a opportunity to do

engineering and aerodynamics.

MERCEDES Brackley, Northamptonshire.

Mercedes has a tower were all the old cars are

kept to look at them and explain how they work.

They have a facility were the car is checked to see

if there is any problems.

LOTUS F1 chipping Norton , Oxfordshire. They

have a trophies cabinet were all the trophies are

kept. They have a wind tunnel, a wind tunnel is a

massive square were you test forces against the

f1 car. They have a simulator to do races and

sometimes they use it for fun days.

Mini Oxfordshire. This is the heart of the mini

factory . This place has all the engines like the v8

etc. It takes around 6 months to build a mini

from metal, the stages are carving out the design,

welding it together, attaching the engine and all

the furniture inside, the electrics for the radio and

attaching the wheel to the steering wheel, then

they paint it and ship it of to the car places.

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Work EXPERIENCE

Pets at Home: this is a place where

you can buy animals to look after and

have your own pet. You can also buy all

sorts of toys and treats for you pets, the

pets you can get are hamsters, chinchil-

las, gerbil, rabbit, fish , snake , lizards.

You can take your pet to get vaccinated

and have injections if it needs it, another

thing you can take them there to get a

replacement if they need it.

Wade Gymnastics, wade is a gym

place near Banbury. This place has a bit

more advance equipment than Brackley.

They have very good gymnasts, that

come in the top ten in the UK. They

have bars, vault, floor and beam. They

have British gymnastic trainers.

One man band is a shop where you

can buy musical instruments and a sorts

of pucks for guitars. They have 3 show

rooms. You can pay person to fix your

strings

Am speed is a racing company that do

races for fans. They have Porsche and

fords. They sell cars for 225,000 pounds

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WORK EXPERIENCE

This student was checking the

Laser Cutter was producing its

current job.

Laser cutting is a technology that

uses a laser to cut materials, and

is typically used for industrial

manufacturing applications, but is

also starting to be used by

schools, small businesses, and

hobbyists. Laser cutting works by

directing the output of a high-

power laser most commonly

through optics.

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Here the student was observin

g the circular sa

w in use.

A circular is

a saw designed for cutting wood, but m

ay be used for cutting other

materials with different blades. T

hey can be either left o

r right-handed, depending

on the side of th

e blade where the motor sits.

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Year 12 trips Hunterian museum, in London. It

was purchased in 1799 and was

given to the company of surgeons.

They got their name from John

Hunter the archaeologist who found

most of the bones stored in the

museum. They went to do A level art

Fsc flat ford mill, this cottage is

next to the River Sprout. You can

hire a boat to go down the river. You

can do art projects and history. You

can do family holidays here. You can

do water sport and paint the

cottage. They went to do A level

geography

Loughborough university . It is

one of the top 5 university's in the

UK. “our students, teachers and

graduates are the heart of all we

do”. Within this close knit community

there is an atmosphere of

determination which helps use to

succeed. They went to get an

experience of an university. They

went to do pe and science.

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CRYPTIC CROSSWORD CLUES:

Across

7. go and do some exercise

8. do you care for animals?

9. go and get a massage

10. go and make some cars

Down

1. what are the year 10’s doing this week?

2. who is working down bottom site?

3. go and see the artwork they were creating

4. do you need to see a doctor?

5. musical work experience

6. go and get an animal

(All clues relate to articles in the newsletter)

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