This year has been jam packed and full of exciting events.

The school year in our opinion has gone incredibly fast we

just don’t know where the time has gone. We have finally

got planning permission and the school is on its way with

being built the whole school have taken their end of year

assessments (congratulations to everyone with the results).

Next year the new year 9s will be looking forward to a new

building and we have another set of year 7s coming into

school we can’t wait to continue the journey of the school

as it grows in size and pride. In this edition of the newsletter

we are going to be sharing everything RFSS has been up to

this year.

We would also like to apol-

ogise or the lack of newslet-

ters posted this year, it has

been an incredibly busy

year. We would also like to

say well done to both the

year 7’s and 8’s for, the

amount of work and effort

they put in over the year.

Congratulations to another

fantastic year at RFSS and

I’m sure next year will be as

great as the last. Thank you

from, Poppy and Emily.

We interviewed Kumail Naqvi, be-

cause he got the most achieve-

ment points in the entire school;

333.

Interviewer: Hi Kumail.

Kumail: Hi.

Interviewer: We’re interviewing you because you have

333 achievement points. How do you feel about this?

Kumail: I feel happy and shocked that I’ve got 333

points.

Interviewer: How did you get this many?

Kumail: I don’t really know…

Here Miss Callaghan, head of Art and Design, stepped

in and answered for him, by saying: “Because he’s an

absolute legend!”

Kumail: I think it’s because I’ve been helping out

teachers and everything like that, getting the laptop

trolley and helping out and I fixed Miss Leighton’s com-

puter.

Interviewer: So what sort of awards have you got?

Kumail: I have a 50 achievement point certificate, a

100 achievement point certificate and a 150 achieve-

ment point certificate. When I had 200 achievement

points I got a £5 gift voucher and a certificate and I

had a 250 achievement point award with a £10 vouch-

er and a certificate. I also got a 300 achievement

points award.

Interviewer: Are there any awards you haven’t won?

Kumail: No. I won a medal last night.

Interviewer: What did you win it for?

Kumail: I won it for a nomination for the best contribu-

tion to RE at the awards evening. I was the winner of

that award.

Interviewer: Well done!

Keira Humphries recently won the Secondary Leader in Engi-

neering Year 8 Award—Interviewed by Eva Pickering

What was the award for?

The award was a national competition to design a product

that solves a problem. You could choose any issue and were

challenged to think of an inventive and practical to tackle it.

What was your idea and why did you

choose it?

I designed a mug for people with De-

mentia and Alzheimer’s. I decided to

call it the ‘ Forget-Me-Not Mug ‘ be-

cause an alarm goes off when your

drink has been in the mug for 10

minutes without being touched. I wanted to help people with

Dementia and Alzheimer’s because I know someone who

has Dementia.

How many entered and how many won?

2156 children in the UK entered who were aged between 5

and 16. There was a primary engineer award and a second-

ary engineer award, 14 children won overall (12 primary and

2 secondary). Also 127 students were shortlisted (5 were from

Rugby Free Secondary School) their inventions were dis-

played at Coventry university.

Overall summary of your experience at

the award ceremony?

At the award ceremony the 14 winners

received a certificate in a frame and a

plaque. I got to meet an engineer from

BOSCH and engineers from Coventry

University, I really enjoyed this experi-

ence. Coventry University are still decid-

ing on which invention they are going to

make a prototype of. Well done to eve-

ryone who took part and for the people

who got shortlisted.

On the 14th May 50 pupils from RFSS

went to Cantabria, Spain. Went had a

2-hour drive to Heathrow, then 1 hour

30 minutes flight to our destination.

When we arrived we went on a coach

which was 1 hour 30 minutes long

which was a painful as we had no air

conditioning, when we arrived we

went straight to the rooms. For the rest

of the day we stayed in the hotel as

we were too tired after the 4 hour jour-

ney there.

On the second day, we went to the

zoo which outstanding. We went all

around the zoo seeing: lions, monkeys,

elephants and bears that were climb-

ing up a cliff. Then we went on the ca-

ble carts over the mountains, the view

was amazing.

The third day we went to the Gauldi

building in Santander and it was very

well designed. It was also amazing

how it was based on nature and how

far someone would go to express their

passion in a building. Later that day we

went to a park which was very fun.

Then we went to the beach, most of us

went in the sea and some of the others

were playing American football with Mr

Morgan and Mr Hambidge. Then we

went to another park that was next to a

café, we didn’t stay there for that long

as it was only so that the people that

went in the sea could dry off.

On day four we packed all of our bags

and went off to the old mine/caves, it

was very beautiful as all of the crystals

were in formations of all shapes and sizes.

On the walls of the cave there was flow-

stone and there were stalagmites that

looked like the ghosts of men women

and children. After that we went to the

park where we played tag and some

people just sat down. Finally we had to

depart from Spain and we got the bus to

Bilbao International Airport. After the

flight we got on the bus from Heathrow

back to Rugby.

Matty Sanders & Arbi Drishti.

On the 13th July 2018, 10 year 7 stu-

dents went to Lawrence Sheriff school

to participate in a year 8 wind power

competition. The competition was split

into three main parts – the maths

competition, the physics and geogra-

phy competitions and the wind tur-

bine building competition.

When we arrived at Lawrence Sheriff

school, we were given a speech

about the importance of wind power

and its advantages and disad-

vantages. After that, we had to split

into two groups of five students and

began work on our competitions.

First, we assigned roles in our teams.

Two people worked on the maths and

physics competitions, two people built

the wind turbine and the final person

completed the geography competi-

tion. The maths competition had two

parts and it was based on electricity

and power stations. We had to earn

the maximum profit that we could by

sending different percentages of pow-

er to four different power stations. Both

groups got 99% of their maximum prof-

it for the first part of the competition

and 88% for the second part.

In the physics and geography papers

we did very well but didn’t get our

scores back from them. In the wind

power competition, both teams gen-

erated over 2 watts of power however

the winning team generated more

than 4 watts of power.

Overall, both teams did brilliantly in

the competition and came joint fifth in

the maths competition. In the overall

competition, one team even won! This

is a summary of our great day at Law-

rence Sheriff.

In my opinion Warwick castle is very

good and I would definitely go again

it was also very historical and fun and

had very friendly staff , the weather

was rainy which made even more in-

teresting because it showed the stabil-

ity and the care the staff put into pro-

tecting the building.

Firstly when we arrived we walked

down a pathway leading towards the

gates and we entered the Warwick

castle we wandered around the

place for a bit then entered the amaz-

ing indoors of the castle which were

filled with art sculptures and medie-

val weapons after this we went for din-

ner in a grand hall.

To conclude I think Warwick castle

was a brilliant school trip and I would

go again also it helps a lot with edu-

cation with history and helps kids have

new friends.

After in depth learning about World War 1, World War

2 and the Holocaust inside school, a trip solidified our

learning with visuals and true stories.

With several exhibitions depicting the topics, the group

first went through an area with lots of real machines,

pictures, and clothes from the First World War. There

was even a short life-like trench, with audio giving a

realistic impression of the conditions the soldiers might

have witnessed. Along with these sights there were

amazing stories and news from the times of wars won,

lost and beginning.

In the Second World War section the group entered a

mini bunker like the ones people would have taken

sheltered in the war. We also saw the substitute foods

people would’ve eaten and rations, and some foot-

age of the sorts of things shown on TV and what was

talked about other than the war, giving some detail to

the people left behind. There were also uniforms of sol-

diers and higher ups beside Nazi uniforms and infor-

mation.

Next, there was the Holocaust exhibition. We first re-

ceived a presentation about the happenings of the

Holocaust and key words. The museum also gave us

headsets and audio boxes, and as we went around

the sections we listened to a detailed talk of what we

were looking at. In this exhibition we were advised to

be respectful, and so we listened, read and took our

time around the place. First walking inside, there was

an open room with framed pictures, a wall of names

and a screen showing victims talking about their expe-

riences. We saw things such as belongings of Nazis

and Jewish people, a miniature layout/model of a

concentration camp and what happened inside as

well as pictures which showed the cold truth of the

Holocaust.

A student who attended, Charlotte Bowers from 8WW

said the museum was “good” and that their “favourite

part of the trip was the full scale model of the concen-

tration camp”.

Written by Evie McCrae of 8EH and interviewer Ella

Parkin of 8EH.

On Wednesday 18th July, Rugby Free Secondary

saw its second annual awards evening, where stu-

dents who had been nominated by the teachers

for their performance throughout the school year

were presented with awards. There were 8 nomi-

nees for each subjects and each subject had four

categories: most progress over the year, excellence

in subject, best contribution to the lesson or piece

of work, and excellent participation in extracurricu-

lar activities. 2 students were nominated for each

category in the subject and one was chosen as the

winner.

ENGLISH- Most Progress- Katie Taylor and Aayan

Taseer. Winner- Aayan Taseer. Excellence in Subject

- Jasmyn Boiten and Aaron Naik. Winner- Jasmyn

Boiten. Best Contribution or Piece of Work- Julieta

Morais and Syra Jamal. Winner- Julieta Morais. Ex-

cellence in Extracurricular Activities- Rowan Boiten

and Harry Small-

wood. Winner- Harry

Smallwood.

MATHS- Most Progress

- Michaela Pepper

and Iwan Harrison.

Winner- Iwan Harri-

son. Excellence in

Subject- Lydia Moser

and Charlotte Sand-

ers. Winner- Charlotte

Sanders. Best Contri-

bution or Piece of

Work- Hamish Gill

and Hannah McGuire. Winner- Hannah McGuire.

Excellence in Extracurricular Activities- Karina Patel

and Tim Robson. Winner- Karina Patel.

BIOLOGY- Most Progress- Emily Gardner and Aiden

Purdie. Winner- Emily Gardner. Excellence in Subject

- Hine Machpherson and Megan Mackintosh. Win-

ner- Megan Mackintosh. Best Contribution or Piece

of Work- Olivia Barratt-Tang and Callum Rosten.

Winner- Callum Rosten. Excellence in Extracurricular

Activities- Thomas Edward and Jonathan Middle-

ton. Winner- Thomas Edward.

CHEMISTRY- Most Progress- Sophie Osborne and

Ethan Oliver. Winner- Ethan Oliver. Excellence in

Subject- Molly Campbell. Best Contribution or Piece

of Work- Adelaide Crick-Hughes. . Excellence in Ex-

tracurricular Activities- Thomas Edward and Jona-

than Middleton. Winner- Thomas Edward.

PHYSICS- Most Progress- Filip Stryszowski. Excellence

in Subject- Lydia Moser and

Rowan Boiten. Winner- Lyd-

ia Moser. Best Contribution

or Piece of Work- Tessie

McCubbin and Syra Jamal.

Winner- Tessie McCubbin. .

Excellence in Extracurricular

Activities- Thomas Edward

and Jonathan Middleton.

Winner- Thomas Edward.

CHOIR PERFORMANCE- This

Is Me.

INCLUSION- Most Progress- Joshua Morrison and Oli-

ver Whyment. Winner- Joshua Morrison. Excellence

in Subject- Kira Brightwell. Best Contribution or Piece

of Work- James Mallot and Kyle Hughes. Winner-

James Mallot. Excellence in Extracurricular Activities

- Kelsey Wilkins, Christopher Blanchard, and Maddi-

son Pratt. Winner- Maddison Pratt.

MFL- Most Progress- Lucy Belfield and Thomas Jeb-

son. Winner- Lucy Belfield. Excellence in Subject-

Hamish Gill and Lydia Moser. Winner- Hamish Gill.

Best Contribution or Piece of Work- Jack Lloyd and

Katie Taylor. Winner- Katie Taylor. Excellence in Ex-

tracurricular Activities- Derren Murray.

HISTORY- Most Progress- Mikey Robbins and Shaylah

Watts. Winner- Shaylah Watts. Excellence in Subject

- Julieta Morais and Syra Jamal. Winner- Syra Jamal.

Best Contribution or Piece of Work- Erin Morgan and

Sydney Arthur. Winner- Sydney Arthur. Excellence in

Extracurricular Activities- Kiera Humphries and Eva

Pickering. Winner- Eva Pickering.

GEOGRAPHY- Most Progress- Christopher Blanchard

and Kosay Al Tourn Winner- Christopher Blanchard.

Excellence in Subject- Thomas Jebson and Ade-

laide Crick-Hughes. Winner- Thomas Jebson. . Best

Contribution or Piece of Work- Romans Kazenco

and Tom Owen. Winner- Romans Kazenco. Excel-

lence in Extracurricular Activities- Lydia Moser.

RE- Most Progress- Nick Stevenson and Henrique Au-

gusto. Winner- Nick Stevenson. Excellence in Sub-

ject- Katie Taylor and Syra Jamal. Winner- Syra

Jamal. Best Contribu-

tion or Piece of Work-

Kumail Naqvi and

Lisha Mistry. Winner-

Kumail Naqvi. Excel-

lence in Extracurricu-

lar Activities- Kiera

Humphries and Eva

Pickering. Winner-

Kiera Humphries.

SPEECH- Jasmyn Bo-

iten and Phoebe

Duncan read an ex-

cerpt from one of

Barack Obama’s speeches with a twist at the end.

MUSIC- Most Progress- Toby Burwell and Dylan

Ebanks. Winner- Toby Burwell. Excellence in Subject-

Josh Hudson and Liam Tutcher. Winner- Liam Tutch-

er. Best Contribution or Piece of Work- Megan

Mackintosh and Peyton Fincher. Winner- Peyton

Fincher. Excellence in Extracurricular Activities- So-

phie Lucas and Helena Ball. Winner- Sophie Lucas.

PIANO PERFORMANCE- Liam Tutcher- “River Flows In

You”- Yiruma.

COMPUTING- Most Progress- Charlie Moore. Excel-

lence in Subject- Lydia Moser and Rowan Boiten.

Winner- Rowan Boiten. Best Contribution or Piece of

Work- Thomas Carvell and Emily Finnegan. Winner-

Thomas Carvell. Ex-

cellence in Extracur-

ricular Activities-

Thomas Edwards

and Tristan Byrom.

Winner-Thomas Ed-

wards.

PE- Most Progress-

Katelyn White and

Finlay Hughes. Win-

ner- Katelyn White.

Excellence in Sub-

ject- Luigi Bayliss

and Karina Patel.

On the 12th(Thursday) we had a flamenco dancer and a flamenco guitarist come in ,we got a

brief introduction to what flamenco dancing was and got to listen to the guitarist and his talented

singing. Afterwards we went into the hall and tried to learn how you flamenco dance the lady

who was the dancer told us we had to be passionate and put as much effort and pride into what

we were meant to doing. A student from 7BD says –“it was a fun and interesting experience” an-

other student says “I thought I wouldn’t enjoy doing the flamenco but in the end I really liked it”.

Overall it was a new experience and helped us to learn and understand even more what makes

the Spanish culture so amazing and different. -Jessi

On Monday, 2nd July, Author Marcus Alexander came into to school to tell us the

tales of his many adventures and to inspire us to make more of life. He told us

about the years he spent in Thailand where he formed a business and fought

professionally, when he went caving and almost died, twice, and how his first ad-

venture started at only 14, with no parents, no adults, just him and his friend. He

told us how he funded all of this by himself through his job. When he came in, he

taught us how to brainstorm and to develop a character. He also gave inspira-

tional talks, using his life experiences, which encouraged us to be adventurous

and use these adventures to fuel our creativity.

Winner- Karina Patel. Best Contribution or Piece of

Work- Parka Roderick and Ella Parkin. Winner- Parka

Roderick. Excellence in Extracurricular Activities- Ellie

Langhorn and Eva Pickering. Winner- Ellie Langhorn.

ART- Most Progress- Toby Burwell and Mason Neal.

Winner- Mason Neal. Excellence in Subject- Rowan

Boiten and Olga Orlove. Winner- Olga Orlova. Best

Contribution or Piece of Work- Romans Kazenko. Ex-

cellence in Extracurricular Activities- Jonathan Mid-

dleton and Tristan Byrom. Winner- Tristan Byrom.

DTE- Most Progress- Jasmyn Boiten. Excellence in

Subject- Olivia Barratt-Tang and Reuben Lee. Win-

ner- Reuben Lee. Best Contribution or Piece of Work-

Joshua Jackson and Mikey Robbins. Excellence in

Extracurricular Activities- Charlotte Bowers and Tris-

tan Byrom. Winner- Charlotte Bowers.

There are also awards for each of the four catego-

ries.

PROGRESS AWARD- Aayan Taseer.

EXCELLENCE IN SUBJECT- Syra Jamal.

BEST CONTRIBUTION- Romans Kazenco.

PARTICIPATION- Jonathan Middleton.

Finally, awards were given to those who truly

demonstrated the school values by the governors

and Mrs Green.

GOVERNOR’S

AWARD- Christina

Nestian

HEADTEACHER’S

AWARD- Lydia

Moser.

RFSS SINGERS- A

Million Dreams.

Congratulations

to everyone who

won an award.

To finish off the end of the year at RFSS we went round and asked every teacher and member of staff their fa-

vourite moment of the year.

Mrs Green:

One moment does not define a place or the people in it. It is the

many moments of kindness, hard work, adventures, opportunities,

happiness and victories that make RFSS and all the people in its

unique, an amazing place where children thrive and the best

school in Rugby.

Mr Gaynon:

So many! Seeing the year 8 students taking a new year group un-

der their wing in September, showed how caring our RFSS family

is. The many performances from the orchestra, choir and musical acts, despite my bass accompaniment

showcase the talents we all share. Watching our football teams and seeing the whole school play rounder’s

on sports day highlight out sporting abilities. Finally seeing students receive awards on Wednesday ended a

fantastic year. Thanks to all of the RFSS community for the best year ever!

Miss Ross:

As always, the best moment for me is the musical. Seeing all the hard work the students put in pay off – and

boy did it! They were amazing again. Otherwise, there’s no single mo-

ment, just a complication of moments that make for a great year and a

great school.

Miss Stapley:

So many memories having completed my first year at Rugby Free Sec-

ondary, the team work with 7GS my form on sports day, Big Bang Trip, Fo-

rensic week, meeting so many inspiring incredible students, working with

Nelaski, Reuben, Julieta and Jonathan on their 10 week project

(Awesome job!) and finally being part of RFSS

Mr Kerry:

My favourite moments from the year have been Rockets, Spae Rocks,

Christmas Concert, Arwards evening, National grid trip, Lego Robots –

champions again and STEMM day

Mrs Bird:

My favourite moment from the year would definitely be getting to teaCh

geography to all my lovely classes.

Miss Masaraure:

The first Lego league Robotics competition victory, well done team!

Mr Clancy:

Beating Avon Valley 9 – 1 in football, winning loads of football and net-

ball games and finally getting permission to build our new school!

Mr Morgan:

Year 7 boys beating a year 8 private school from

London in an impromptu Rugby match on the

Spanish trip in Cantabria. Our teaching was im-

mense. The otter school quit because they were

scared about getting hurt! RFSS kids are hard as

nails (not to be messed with!)

Miss Caldas:

We were in a tiny bakery in Span, and had 50 stu-

dents. The poor owner ran out of cash and all the

students were trying their best to speak Spanish!

Miss Leighton:

Listening to Liam Tutcher playing piano at the

Christmas concert. It was beautiful it made me cry.

Miss Haddow:

Watching our year 8s discuss online safety at Inter-

net Safety conference and Erin winning an award

for best contribution. Also watching Harry Small-

wood perform as Oliver his voice was incredible

Mr Wong:

Three words – PINK HOT PANTS, making the funny

yoga video with all the other teachers and staff!

Mrs Hudson:

Oliver – The hard work of all of the students paid off

and against all odds they pulled off some fabulous

performances.

Mr Davison:

My form winning sports day was my all-time favour-

ite.

Mrs Gaynon:

Seeing so many students proudly receiving their

awards.

Miss Probert:

My favourite moment of the year has to be year 7

sports day it was so

much fun.

Throughout last week, we had the phenomenal oppor-

tunity to have an involvement in the world of scientific

detective work or also known as “forensics.”

Formerly, it began with a member of a forensics agen-

cy coming into our school (invited by the science de-

partment at RFSS) and acquainting us on the anony-

mous world of forensics. She elucidated what the role

meant and how it functions within modern society;

such as evidence used to prosecute criminals as well

as the different areas in forensics. The guest also brang

in a special microscope which could detect different

ethnicity’s of hair and its structure. Once the assembly

concluded, we were informed that throughout the

week we will get the opportunity to experience this for

ourselves in science lessons by solving a murder using

all the techniques we had recently learnt about

throughout the assembly.

During our science lesson, we were presented with a

murder scene outside room 10; it had a silhouette of a

corpse and weapon with masking tape and police

tape to barricade it. Then, we were given all the evi-

dence uncovered such as hair and blood samples. It

was then our job to become junior detectives and

solve the mystery (kind of like Scooby Doo.)

This was a once in a lifetime opportunity and we are

truly thankful to all the science department at RFSS for

organizing this opportunity for us. It opened our eyes to

the world of forensics and even inspired many students

to take up the career paths of forensics.

This year, in year 8 we have covered the following topics:

Indian music – this year one of the topics we covered was

Indian music. In this topic we had to compose our own

piece of Indian music on the keyboards. We had to include

the following sections in our piece: GAT, ALAP, TALA, JHOR

and a RAG.

The Blues – In the Blues we learnt the twelve bar blues chord

sequence, we had compose our own piece of blues music

and add an improvisation on the keyboards. We also learnt

the typical blues instruments.

Dorian – In this topic we used a xylophone, the glockenspiel

and the keyboard. We had to learn the Dorian scale and

improvise our own riffs but making sure that it fitted with the

chords.

Film Music – In film music we had to compose a piece on

the keyboards that went with the opening scene of the

movie ‘The Shining’. The piece that we chose to compose

could be any genre but it had to fit with the film.

Final keyboard piece – During the last summer term we had

to learn ‘All of me’ by John Legend on the keyboard and

add our own improvisation on the end. We had to try and

learn as much as we could using chords. We also had to do

a written assessment along with the piece we played on the

keyboard.

We enjoyed all of these topics, however our favourite was

the final keyboard piece ‘All of me’. We enjoyed this the

most because we could be creative with the improvisation

at the end of the piece.

Romans:

“Me and our group, we made a giant raptor head

out of clay and we use 2 blocks of clay which costs

about £20. If really hard to carve and spend about 1

day of work on the raptor head.”

Reuben:

Me and Romans have always had big dreams to

make scene (related to Jurassic World) so we could

have it out on open evenings and show it off.

They were working very hard on the Raptor project

which meant they had to stay after school at their

will.

Our teacher for music is Mrs Hudson; she is head of the mu-

sic department. We have learnt a myriad of topics within

music from her throughout year 7 & 8 such as: blues music,

Indian music, rhythm dictation, spot the tune, “all of me”,

playing on the keyboard, Dorian music, how to remember

the notes on the keyboard and film music. It has been

such a pleasure to be taught by Mrs Hudson throughout

these 2 years, she’s persevered to teach us topics no mat-

ter how much we get them wrong, as well as organizing

many musical opportunities for us like; instrument classes

and singing concerts in choir and RFSS singers.

By Sophie Hughes and Nelaksi Sivaraj 8EH

On the 3rd and 4th

of July, various stu-

dents from Years 7

and 8 performed

the iconic play

“Oliver!”. They had

auditioned for it in

February and re-

hearsed since March. Rehearsals took place every

Tuesday and Wednesday after school and as the

date drew closer, on week-

ends and during the school

day. Due to a sudden

change of circumstance,

we had to replace one of

the key roles, Fagin, less

than two weeks before the

show. A new actor was

found 11 days before the

first performance -Jasmyn

Boiten of 8EH. She had to

learn multiple solo parts in

songs and 65 lines, along with assembling her cos-

tume.

When I asked her what motivated her to keep go-

ing, Jasmyn said, ‘I didn’t want to let anybody

down, but it was really hard to have enough confi-

dence to keep going, especially in Reviewing the

Situation, my main solo

song.’ Her favourite part of

playing Fagin was that it

really boosted her self-

esteem, especially after

the first performance. ‘We

both try to look after the

people we care about

and we are both consid-

ered weird people, but

aside from that, not really,’

she responded when

asked if she could see any similarities between her-

self and Fagin. Jasmyn is enthusiastic about doing

the show next

year, but she is

planning to au-

dition for a big-

ger role as she

loves having

something to

work towards.

I also interviewed Harry Smallwood from 7RH who

played Oliver. ‘It’s my favourite film,’ he replied,

‘that’s what inspired me to audition.’ He really en-

joyed playing Oliver and he

liked ‘the sweet satisfaction

of being the lead part.’

However, he also thought it

was quite difficult; ‘It was

much more hard work than I

was expecting, especially

when we had to rehearse

the same scene over and

over again to get it right.’

Harry enjoyed the whole

play but admitted that the

highlight was “punching” Bill Sykes in the face be-

cause it was really fun, but he also liked the part

where he met Dodger. ‘I probably will do the play

again because it will help me with my career,’ he

responded.

Drama is an ex-

cellent way to

boost self-

confidence and

has also been

shown to im-

prove empathy.

It encourages creativity and builds on people’s

teamwork skills. When asked, almost all of the cast

would recommend being in a play because it’s fun,

they made new friends and learnt new skills to

name a few. Our school plays are very inclusive be-

cause anyone who auditions gets a part.

We would love you to get involved with the play

next year! Why not give it a go?

On Wednesday 11th of July, a group of netball

girls went to a netball tournament for the whole

day. This was a great opportunity for the girls to

experience playing against schools that they’ve

never played before. We interviewed some of

the girls that played on Wednesday and they

gave us their opinion on how it was.

The year 8’s said that it was nice to play against

Mrs Probert’s old team and it was nice to win

against them. They also said that they liked get-

ting some tips from the Wasps team and it was

interesting to watch the best team there play the

wasps.

We asked some of the year 7’s that were there

what they thought of the day and if they would

do it again. Most of them said that they really en-

joyed the day and they would go back and do it

again.

There were two awards the cup that was for the

year 8s and then the plate that was for the year

7s. All of the girls are grateful that they had this

oppor-

tunity

and they

would all

do it

again.

By Ellie,

Ana and

Ava

A few weeks ago we had our year 7 & 8

sports day. We had great weather for the

day because the sun was shining and it was

an astonishing 27.3 degrees C so it was real-

ly hot it was hard conditions to play in.

The games went underway there were

three games at a time and there were

five rounds. And in the rounds you

would get a point for a loss and three

points for a win.

In the year eight tournament they did-

n’t get to finish their games because

they were late to start and some of

the games were dragging on so the

time was just getting eaten by one

game which lasted 45 minutes.

The year 7s got to play all of their games

and the scores were quite close in most of

the games but in some of them there were

a quite large difference by about 7 and a

half points in the other games. In third place

for the year sevens was 7GS and in second

was 7RP/RC with the help of Mr Ottaway

and in first the champions 7.B.D!!!!!!!!!!!