News & Views Issue 35 13 July 2016 · 2016-07-13 · NEWS & VIEWS OLLINGWOOD OLLEGE - KINGSTON ROAD - AMERLEY - SURREY - GU15 4AE - 01276 457600 News & Views Issue 35 - 13 July 2016

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YEAR 11 STUDENTS GET A TASTE OF SIXTH FORM LIFE On Tuesday 28 June, Mr Woods and the new Senior Prefect Team put together, and successfully ran, the Year 11 into Year 12 Induction Day, to give the new Year 12s a taste of the Sixth Form. The day went incredibly well and our new Year 12s were extremely enthusiastic and very willing to get involved. All of the activities were well received, especially the spaghetti tower, with the winning team reaching the height of 27 inches and the ever popular tug-of-war, which guarantees to reveal a competitive side.

When speaking to students after the event it was clear that they enjoyed getting to know different people throughout their year group, one student said “I had a great time at the Induction Day and despite having already spent five years with my year group, I still managed to make new friends and learn something new about those I had known for some time”.

A full range of engaging trips/activities were organised for our Enterprise Days on Thursday 7 July and Friday 8 July for students in Years 7, 8, 9, 10 and 12, appropriate to their age and maturity.

During my tour of activities, I thought an interesting starting point was to ask a few Year 12 students which Enterprise Day Activities they remembered best, during their previous five years at Collingwood. The London Trip and Science Forensics came out top, and these are activities still presented in our programmes. Meanwhile, I witnessed in the 6

th form two sets of activities – one

involving UCAS candidates and one for students seeking apprenticeships, presented by ‘Futures First’ including former Collingwood student Joanne Denny-Finch OBE. Will Dunford and Leah Mansell appreciated the session on writing Personal Statements, and were looking forward to practice interviews with Rotary members in the afternoon. Barclays Bank supplied some staff to speak with students, and I popped into a session where the grown up world of credit ratings was being discussed.

ENTERPRISE DAYS ARE A GREAT SUCCESS

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Leah Mansell – 12SM / Head of Events


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UNDER 13S SURREY RUGBY PLATE RECEIVED BY YEAR 8 STUDENT, AND CAPTAIN, JOSH

On Thursday 30 June Miss Robinson and Josh Lovell-Smith attended the Surrey Junior Awards evening at Cobham Rugby Club. The evening celebrated all forms of rugby in schools and clubs. Additionally, the students from schools and clubs representing England at Under 16 and 18 level. In April Collingwood’s Year 8 team won the Under 13s Surrey Plate. Josh in his role as proud Captain went to receive the plate and met Matt Hopper who plays for Harlequins RUFC. As I have written in the past I am very proud of the whole team and their achievement in becoming plate winners. I cannot wait for the next season, which will be a tournament format with the new rules of play for age grade rugby across the country.

Miss Robinson - PE Department

Following a creative writing session for Year 9 students run by Ms Chase and Mrs Westland, entries were submitted for a competition for local 14-19 year olds, run by Surrey Heath Museum. The brief of the competition was to write from the perspective of a local soldier at The Battle of the Somme, as part of the museum’s 100 year commemorations. Caitlin Ransom (9H) used her excellent historical knowledge and creative writing talent to complete the entry. Her monologue was given first prize, winning a £15 Waterstones voucher, a collection of BBC War magazines and a One-year membership to Camberley Theatre. She has also been asked by the museum to read her piece at their thank you evening, for all the people involved in the Somme Day events. Read Caitlin’s entry on Page 5.

YEAR 9 STUDENT WINS FIRST PRIZE FOR WORLD WAR 1 MONOLOGUE

Wednesday 13 July: Year 12 Celebration Seminar Summer Concert, 7.00pm until 8.30pm, Kingston Theatre

Thursday 14 July: CAPA Faculty Presentation Evening, 7.30pm until 9.30pm, Kingston Theatre

Tuesday 19 July: Fun Day, PM - non-uniform day for all students Years 7-10 Reports to Parents

Thursday 21 July: Early Closure, finishing at 12.20pm - END OF TERM

Friday 22 July: INSET DAY

DATES FOR YOUR DIARY - DON’T MISS OUT!


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It is difficult to see how such useful and appropriate input could be delivered to our senior students other than an ‘Away Day’ allowed by Enterprise Days. In contrast, the Year 12s were looking forward to studying ‘British Values’ at Windsor Castle on Friday. In J block, Year 8s were observed practising the recovery position, learning about asthma attacks, burns and all other areas required to become qualified First Aiders. “Such a useful qualification”, said Alfie Elcome to me. Will and Joe, returning Year 11s, were happy to come and “give something back”, as helpers with the First Aid sessions.

Other Year 8s were engaged in Maths activities, based on a ‘countries’ theme. The Japan room was engaged in origami, the France room participated in activities concerned with Le Tour de France, the Cuba room activities were centred around dance, etc. All very engaging activities! Joe Cooper commented how dance concerned concepts of rotation, symmetry and enlargement, to name a few.

In the Kingston building, Year 9 students were enthusiastically embracing Young Enterprise activities, working as teams to present their ideas to the visiting Careers Group speakers. I witnessed ‘Ahhshoe’, ‘a tissue for your feet’ – a shoe to make walking comfortable for older people, whilst another company ‘Stride’ were designing a sports shoe with interchangeable soles. It would be interesting to see which of these many companies would appeal best to Lord Sugar at the end of the day.

Year 10 students were on the Sixth Form field, well occupied by Army staff and the exciting sports they brought with them: Tug of War, the ‘Barrels and Planks’ game, the special assault course and much more, all requiring teamwork. Christian

Attree learned that he needed to “communicate more” to help out his team, but agreed it was also a lot of fun.

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Apart from the activities mentioned above, half the students were off-site: the Year 7s at Portsmouth Historic Dockyard, and separately at Cuckmere Haven, Year 9s at the Science Museum and

Year 10s visited the London Eye, London Dungeons and took a Thames riverboat trip. Year 10 students of Art and Photography spent the day at Farnham Sculpture Park – a good source of inspiration. Thus completed two further days of study beyond the classroom! Grateful thanks

goes to the many staff who took leading roles in organising these varied activities.

Mr Bunter - Enterprise Days Co-ordinator


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Two years ago, the Surrey Heath Youth Council launched a project within all secondary schools in Surrey Heath to try to combat bullying, named ‘Stop Think Smile Repeat’. The Surrey Heath Youth Council, which I am privileged to now chair, created a scheme for which there would be anti-bullying ambassadors, aiming to tackle bullying on a student level, and a workshop was held at Camberley Theatre. About a year and a half's worth of planning went into it, and it was incredibly successful, reducing some members of staff and even some of the caterers at Waitrose to tears. Afterwards, the Youth Council were entered for the Diana Award, which is an award to recognise and inspire youth social action as an act of compassion and care, as part of a legacy to the 'people's princess' herself, Princess Diana. Out of all the nominees, the youth council was successful! It was such a great experience, and I still feel so honoured to be recognised for the work we, collectively, have done.

Khadeejah Hullemuth - 9D / Chair of Surrey Heath Youth Council

SURREY HEATH YOUTH COUNCIL WINS

‘DIANA’ AWARD FOR ANTI-BULLYING PROJECT


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YEAR 9 STUDENT WINS FIRST PRIZE FOR WORLD WAR 1 MONOLOGUE

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YEAR 12 STUDENT PARTICIPATES IN READING UNIVERSITY’S SCHOLARS PROGRAMME

Sarah Wilmore (12SM) has recently participated in the language strand of Reading University’s Scholars programme. The opportunity to apply was brought to Sarah’s attention by Ms Bauduin (Head of MFL) …

By participating in the programme I have gained an insight into what it would be like to study languages at university whilst heightening my academic knowledge of the French language, which has aided my AS level study this year. The programme consists of five days incorporating academic sessions and experiences of student life in conjunction with an e-mentoring system for which I was paired with a 4th year combined honours French and German student at the University. The first event in the programme was an ‘Introduction and Subject Masterclass’, which incorporated two informal seminars, information on studying languages at degree level and a tutorial on how to use the e-mentoring website efficiently. I found the two seminars very interesting; one was titled “Les Expositions Universelles” (World Exhibitions) and the other, “La Chanson” (Song). One of the interesting things about studying languages at university is that you learn about many things: art, culture, literature, history, music, etc. through the use of the French language. We exercised this in our seminar “Les Expositions Universelles” when we studied the history of exhibitions, the first dating back to 1851, London. As well as this we identified many French exhibitions since, namely the one in 1878 for which the Palais du Trocadéro was built and in 1889 when the Eiffel Tower was built. The 2nd seminar was also very engaging as we were able to listen to and translate some French songs, for example, ‘le plat pays qui est le mien’ (The Flat Country which is Mine) by Jacques Brel and ‘poupée de cire, poupée de son’ (Wax Doll, Sound Doll) by Serge Gainsbourg and France Gall. The 2nd event ‘Student Experience Day’ was held in February. During this day I was able to learn a lot about student life at Reading through a talk by the RUSU (Reading University Students Union) President Oli Ratcliffe, as well as partaking in

a Campus Tour which included a viewing of a selection of student accommodation. The day wasn’t held without a couple of academic sessions. I attended one with my mentor on French Caribbean Literature where presentations were given by the students on Chamoiseau’s intentions when writing “L’esclave Vieil Homme et le Molose” (the slave old man and the big dog). The second seminar was about French children’s literature, which I particularly enjoyed as we looked at many pop-up books and how their notion in being a work of art in solitary forms a part of the traditionalist French culture.

The 3rd event was the last one before my exams so was appropriately titled ‘Subject Masterclass and Study Skills Day’. During this event I attended a lecture by Dr Athena Leoussi on “What Does it Mean to Have a National and/or European Identity?” as well as a seminar by Claudia François designed to prepare us for the upcoming French speaking exam, typically held in the beginning of May. Post academic sessions, an admissions talk was given by Dr Sophie Heywood, a language admissions’ tutor who was able to pass on lots of useful advice regarding personal statements, one of the fundamental components of the UCAS application. To conclude the day, I was fortunate enough to attend an extremely useful study skills session from MADE training, entitled ‘Stepping Up’, which provided a range of revision techniques, many of which I hadn’t ascertained previously thus providing spice to my revision which made it more enjoyable.

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YEAR 12 STUDENT PARTICIPATES IN READING UNIVERSITY’S SCHOLARS PROGRAMME

The final 2 days, the 28 June and 29 June comprised of the summer school, a chance to collate academic knowledge. During both days we had an academic session from Claudia François in which we focused on a French comedy film called ‘Bienvenue chez des ch’tis’ (welcome to the sticks). During these sessions we started by annotating a photo from the cover of the film to surmise what it’s about, before watching and attempting to translate the trailer and finally completing a gap fill exercise to reveal the synopsis. It turns out the film is about a man called Philippe Abrams, an executive of the national postal services in Salon-de-Provence, Southern France. He tries to get transferred to a seaside location thinking it would help his depressed wife, but quickly learnt disabled employees had priority of preference, therefore, he pretended to be such. He was quickly found out and disciplinary action was taken against his fraud consequently meaning he was moved to Bergues in the North of France, which he found particularly unappealing until he met Antoine, the

postman and carillon player of the town. Personally, I think this film sounds very interesting and comical, thus after my studies on it, I feel it only appropriate to see what it’s like! Another aspect of the summer school I found interesting was when I attended an Italian beginner’s taster session where I was amused to see that I could actually understand quite a lot of it because similarly to French it forms part of the Indo-European language family for which Vulgar Latin of the Roman Empire formed a basis for. However, hopefully I’ve remembered some new phrases that I can exercise when I next visit Italy. We also looked briefly at Italy when academic Marjorie Gerhardt held a lecture on ‘Great War memorials in Europe: how and what we remember’, we started by looking at these in general before focusing on one’s in the country’s speaking our target language. Being a French student, I was able to study Monument aux morts de Metz, Lorraine, France (1935), as well as, Menim Gate, Ypres, Belgium (1927).

Although I found the history session engaging I was pleased on the second day when we returned to looking at French songs in John McKeane’s seminar ‘A Jacques of all trades: Brel and chanson”. We returned to our earlier work from session one on ‘le plat lays qui est le mien’ where we were now able to analyse the language devices and writer’s intentions of the song much like literature students would do with a poem. Upon completing this, we were given the task (in groups) of researching a Jacques Brel song and producing a full translation and minor analysis of language to fulfil a 5 minute presentation to give to the other language scholars and academics, in a lecture theatre! We found the translation relatively challenging to complete, but particularly when tackling tenses not previously learnt e.g. the past historic which is typically learnt at A2.

Overall, I thoroughly enjoyed the experience of participating in the Reading Scholars programme and am very grateful to the university, academics and my mentor for providing me with the opportunity. I’m also thankful to Ms Bauduin for suggesting applying for the scheme as without her I’d never have known about it!

Sarah Wilmore - 12SM



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SCRAP CAR WANTED The Design and Technology Department is looking for a scrap car to help deliver a new Engineering/Motor Vehicle Maintenance qualification starting in September 2016. MOT failures are fine - the more run-down and worn out, the better! Balding tyres and worn brakes are what we need, but a running car is preferable as it may need to be moved on occasion. Unfortunately, it does need to be possible to drive the vehicle to College, as we have no trailer transport option. Ownership would be signed over to the College, and the vehicle would be declared SORN and kept on College grounds. If you have an old vehicle that you would rather see go to a good home than a scrap yard, please contact Mr Winter by email or telephone: [email protected] / 01276 457600 Ext. 214.

Mr Winter - Design and Technology Department

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LOST PROPERTY

Has your child lost their coat, hoodie, PE kit or other item of College uniform this term? If so, please ask them to come to Barossa Reception next week where all lost property will be displayed daily during break time. Parents are welcome to come in to check too! We have many items of College uniform and PE kit which is either un-named or the name cannot be read. Please note that all unclaimed lost property will be donated to charity at the end of term. Please can we take this opportunity to remind you to clearly name all items your child brings into College. Any named lost property is returned by sending a message to your child in registration. Thank you.

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