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WHS NEWS Important
Dates
Tuesday 6 January Year 7 Visit to Imperial War Museum
Thursday 8 January
Year 9 Parents Evening/Options Evening
Tuesday 20 January Tower Hamlets Year 7 & 8 Girls Sportshall Athletics at Central Foundation Girls School
Wednesday 21 January from 4:00 - 6:00pm
Table Tennis Fixture against East London Science School
Thursday 22 January
Tower Hamlets Year 7 & 8 Boys Sportshall Athletics at Bow School
Friday 23 January Year 8 & 9 Only Connect Crime Prevention Performance & Work-shops
Wednesday 4 February from 4:30pm - 8pm Year 9 Options Interviews
Wednesday 11 February Tower Hamlets Year 7 Netball at Langdon Park
Monday 16 February to Monday 23 February Spring Half Term
Tuesday 24 February
First day back
Tuesday 24 February Year 9 Immunisations
Tuesday 24 February Tower Hamlets Year 7 - 9 Netball at Langdon Park
Message from the Head
Wapping High School—Issue 4 December 2014
Raising Aspirations | Broadening Horizons
There were so many highlights during last half term, particularly in the lead up to
Christmas that it would be difficult to single any out any individually. Our final
week of term saw a whirlwind of activity the highlight being our very own moment
in the spotlight as we welcomed the film crew from Talk Talk TV and X-Factor
celebrities Rylan Clark and Only the Young. It was wonderful to see the surprise
on the students faces when the stars arrived to sing at Assembly the video can be
viewed on Youtube www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDQJFk8Ou7Y&feature=youtube
It was a pleasure to see you at the Winter Concert and PBL World War 1 exhibition
too. Sometimes it is easy to forget just how talented students at Wapping High are
and these recent events have certainly showed it. From a newly formed choir’s
first performance, a top quality Art exhibition, a TV dance act to individual soloists
and dancers, everyone was simply amazing!
Finally, I am sure you will join me in saying farewell to Ms Mohamed, Mr Flynn,
Miss Francois, Mr Sharif and Mrs Goff who leave at the end of term and welcoming
Miss Orton, who joins us as DT Teacher, Mr Gallie as Music Teacher and
Miss Daley as my PA in January 2015.
Many best wishes to all of you for a happy and prosperous 2015!
Karin Rowsell
WHS News—December 2014
Project Based Learning—What’s it all about?
We will remember them - Visit to the Tower of London Poppies
“Project-Based Learning” refers to students designing, planning, and carrying out an extended project
that produces a publicly exhibited output such as a product , publication, or presentation. It is related to
enquiry based learning, and problem-based learning. The distinctive feature of project based learning
is the publicly exhibited output. At Wapping High we have chosen to focus on project-based learning
because it incorporates enquiry, and because, in our experience, public exhibition is a tremendously
powerful motivator for both students and staff.
Project-based learning isn’t a new phenomenon – it was popular at the beginning of the 20th century
(most notably championed by John Dewey) and again in the 1970s. During the 1970s, it picked up a
bad reputation (in some circles) for being unstructured and lacking rigour. However, since then there
have been two key shifts that have reignited teachers’ interest in project-based learning and helped it to
shake off its stigma. Firstly, and most obviously, digital technology makes it easier than ever before for
students to conduct serious research, produce high-quality work, keep a record of the entire process,
and share their creations with the world.
Secondly, we now know much more about how to do good, rigorous project based learning, and we can
evaluate its effectiveness. Today, teachers around the world are designing projects for their students
because they ignite a shared passion for learning in both students and staff; they foster a wide range of
skills (such as time management, collaboration, and problem solving) that students will need at college,
university, and in the workplace; and they can be tailored.
Since September students and staff have achieved some phenomenal outcomes from our project
based approach with the Historical Heroes Book published in October, the World War I murals in our
School’s entrance foyer and the Geocaching which you can gear more about by looking at the students
blogs on http://projectbloggedlearning.wordpress.com . We are particularly lucky at Wapping as we are part
of a nation wide pilot of PBL and we have consultants from the innovation unit coaching and supporting
our staff, ensuring our planning and delivery are outstanding.
In November, two year 7 classes went to visit the 'Blood
Swept Lands and Seas of Red' installation at the
Tower of London to mark the centenary of WW1. Stu-
dents and staff were taken aback at the scale of the
project, which is now in its final week. The year 7
students are using this as a starting point for creating
their own WW1 memorials in Project-Based Learning
this term.
WHS News—December 2014
X Factor comes to Wapping High
X Factor comes to Wapping High as
students celebrate victory in
TalkTalk TV’s Spotlight Competition
2014
Students were delighted to welcome former X Factor
contestants, Rylan Clark and Only the Young on 17
December to film the School’s winning entry in the Talk
Talk TV’s Spotlight Competition 2014.
Led by Miss Alexandra Piechoczek, students from Year 7 and 8 were delighted to receive the news
of their achievement in being crowned winners of the competition. Now in its second year the com-
petition encourages young people to embrace their creative talents by performing, producing and
submitting an act of their choice using TalkTalk’s Mix Off app. The team’s free style street dance
was developed during the School’s lunch breaks and enrichment hour and choreographed by stu-
dents.
With the help of fellow students across the School, the team had their performance transformed into
a professionally produced music video with the stars. Performers felt like pop stars for the day as
they had their performance professionally directed, filmed,
produced and showcased to 1.1 million homes on TalkTalk
TV. A team of professional hair stylists and make-up artists
were even on hand to perfect the performers’ look before they
even hit the stage.
Commenting on the event, Karin Rowsell, Headteacher said:
“The prize, awarded today, provides a fantastic opportunity
for the students to work with professionals to put their artistic
talents to the test. As a School our aim is to broaden the
horizons and raise the aspirations for our students to help them develop inquisitive minds through
our personalised and enriched curriculum. I am very proud that Wapping High School has had this
opportunity to showcase our truly unique 21st century learning environment. My thanks go to Miss
Piechoczek, and the team from TalkTalk TV for providing this amazing opportunity for our students.”
The film was shown on Talk Talk TV on Monday 22 December. A link to the film is available on the
School’s website.
WHS News—December 2014
Charity Fundraising
Anti-Bullying Week
Child Whispering Workshop We were honoured to have Sandy Kennedy visit our school and talk to us about anti-bullying. The Child Whispering workshop taught us about bullying and mature ways to deal with it. Sandy intro-duced us to the cartoon heart kids; these were characters that had different personalities but they all had heart shaped heads and two toned headshots. Child whispering is unique in that it uses colour,shaped and characters to communicate key life messages for a healthy, happy and successful journey through childhood into adulthood. To learn more go to www.childwhispering.co.uk Children, teachers and parents in all schools should be shown the important messages behind signpost for life. “A signpost for life is great and really makes you think about your behaviour. It should be shown to children of all ages” By Dianna Nourridine
Our Charity Fundraising activi-
ties have continued to keep us
busy this half term.
For Children in Need day staff
and students transformed
themselves into their favourite
super heroes. More fancy
dress fun was enjoyed in
December when we joined the
National Christmas Jumper
day. A total of £310 was
raised for charities Save the
Children and Children in need.
Sport Wapping High Boys 1 Vs LEA 1 On Thursday 23 October, Wapping High School's Year
7&8 football team played against another local team,
LEA (London Enterprise Academy) in a 45 minute
match. It was an intense and spine-chilling affair for the
teams and the audience. Who was going to win?
At the beginning of the match, Wapping High took kick
off and the starting 11 had to only contain year 7s , but
due to the fact that there weren't enough year 7s, 1 year
8 pupil had to come on. LEA had very soon taken the
ball as their attack was quite good but once they passed
it to their goalie, one of our star players (Sami) found an
opportunity in their goalie's mistakes and intercepted his
pass which led Sami into an easy and swift goal. It was
1-0 to Wapping High.
Nearing the end of the first half, LEA's attack were thriv-
ing with chances to score. Unfortunately for us, our
goalkeeper presented the ball directly to a player from
the opposing team who had a 1 on 1 chance with which
he scored. After that it was 1-1.
Once the second half had begun, both teams had pos-
session and chances to score. Wapping High had many
chances but our players just couldn't finish them off.
LEA also had chances but our midfield was solid.
In the end, no one came out as winners. However, the
teachers were discussing if the pupils were going to
have a rematch very soon. But all in all it was a fun
game and it was something everyone enjoyed. Finally, a
big shout out to Mr Wood and Mr Bartlett for hosting all
of this. If it wasn't for them, none of this would've hap-
pened.
By Zain Syed Ahmed
WHS News—December 2014
Wapping Girls Triumph in their first football match Wapping High School :3 London Enterprise Academy: 1 On Wednesday December 10th the girls Year 7/8 football team went to a football match in Golding Street. The opposing team were from London Enterprise Academy. We warmed up and started our first match. The match started slowly but we soon picked up the pace. Wapping High girls were on fire, especially our team captain Sia Thomas. After scoring two goals it was half -time and we discussed techniques on how to beat them with our coach Ms Stonebanks. At last we reached our third goal until our opponents
tried to score but the goalkeeper, Abida, saved the ball. It was astonishing! Then we picked up on our last goal. This is how we led our school to victory! By Abida Rahman
Year 8 visits Bioscience Festival The Year 8 pupils went on a trip to the Great British Bioscience Festival which took place in the V&A Museum of Childhood Gar-dens. This event was held on the 14th of November 2014 and it
was the 20th anniversary of the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council.
It was a great ceremony with lots of workshops for exam-ple; antibiotics, microbes, etc. There were activities that stu-dents took part in some of which were: experimenting with glow in the dark bacterias, talking to professional scientists and graduates and much more!
It was a wonderful and informative festival; the students of Year 8 enjoyed their time and we’d like to thank the people at Bioscience for being kind and friendly during our visit. By Emily To
Will I get Ebola for Xmas? This half term Mr Dean's Year 8 Science classes
have completed a project entitled "Will I Get Ebola for Xmas?". The aim of the project was to de-sign a leaflet that could be sent to Primary Schools to educate young peo-ple about Ebola while
reassuring them that the risk to people in the UK is very low. The final designs arrived back from the printers last Thursday just in time for the ex-hibition on Friday 12 December where the leaf-lets were judged by Tina Christodolou, a
virologist from Cambridge University.
Ms Christodolou was very impressed by the quality of scientific understanding and design and congratulated all the pupils for their efforts.
By Mr Dean
WHS News—December 2014 WHS News—December 2014
Science
Art Wapping collaborates with Whitechapel Gallery to create urban art
Students participated in a workshop on 13 November with noted international artist Bart Lodewijks, who has been working with the Whitechapel Art Gal-lery and the Youth Forum, Duchamp and Sons. The workshop, was part of the Whitechapel Galleries Masterclass programme an education initiative that aims to engage schools in the cultural arts by giving students the opportunity to have direct contact with creative pro-fessionals. Bart worked with year 9 students to explore how line can be used to represent the world around us in both conventional and unconventional ways. The lesson, organised by Art Teacher, Ms Campbell encompassed Art, Maths and Science and students had an opportunity to chat with the artist about the importance of his practice as well as lines, angles and colour in art and the synergies across the subjects.
By Miss Campbell
WHS News—December 2014
Artistic talent celebrated in Christmas Art Competiton Wapping High School’s first art competition took place at the end of December. The theme of the competition was Winter and the quality of entries was of an exceptionally high standard. Congratulations go to winners Okchung Park (1st), Cherish Willetts (2nd) and Imane Aliane (3rd). Okchung’s scene depicting a snowy winter landscape took pride of place as the programme cover for the Winter Concert held on 17 December.
1ST by Okchung Park 2ND by Cherish W illets 3RD by Imane Aliane
Year 9 Students get ready for GCSEs
WHS News—December 2014
It’s getting to that time when year 9 students start to make their decisions towards their future and choose future GCSE courses. On Tuesday 16 December 2014 the year 9s had their first assembly to decide what they might like to choose for their GCSE options in the summer of 2015. They will be the first ever students to have the privilege of doing their GCSEs at Wapping High School. A further parent/teacher con-sultation will be held on the 9 January with students making their final choices by 4 February 2015.
By Isabella Toomer
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