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Gloucester Cathedral Impressive Setting For Autumn Music Jamie Anderson speaks in memory of his father as ‘intergenerational’ orchestra supports the School’s Dementia Project.

After months of preparation, the biennial Winter Concert took place in the grand Gloucester Cathedral on Novem-ber 18th, 2014. What was particularly memorable about this year’s event was the broad talent of the students of Newent Community School alongside the students from Picklenash Primary School who joined us for the evening. Opening the evening was a duet from Colin Willis (piano) and Liam Bowers (trumpet) performing “Haydn’s Trumpet Concerto”. The Year 7 Massed-Choir accompanied by the students of Picklenash, sang “Count on Me”, “Cup Song”, two African style songs, “Mr Blue Sky” and “We are the Students of Picklenash School”. After this, the School’s Jazz Band and Orchestra performed “Smoke on the Water” and “Dance Big’un Dance”. The Orchestra performed the “Harry Potter” theme tune, “Ode to Joy” and “Make You Feel My Love”. Before the First half con-cluded, we also had a vocal solo from Emma Gooch,

By Georgia Fazey

singing “With You”, and a piano solo by Jo Harding. After the brief interval, the evening continued with a per-formance by Rosie Da Silva Teixiera and the GCSE Hel-la Dank Jazz group performing “Ain’t No Sunshine”. The school choir performed a tribute to the school Brass coach and mentor, David Currie, singing “It don’t Mean a Thing if it Ain’t Got that Swing” and a tribute song, “Fix You” to our Year 11 Student, Will Luckett, to whom this concert’s fundraising is dedicated. We also heard a ren-dition from the First Newent Hand Bell Ringers, perform-ing “Compline chimes” and “My Grandfather’s Clock”. A solo vocal was also performed by Hollie Mullins. Colin Willis performed his own composition “Three” within the second half of the concert. The school’s ukulele group also performed within the evening, playing “I’ll be there for you” accompanied by

the Music Tour Singing group, which is their first ever per-formance in the concert, before the much anticipated Mu-sic Tour to London in February 2015. The theme “Reunion”, was present throughout the Winter Concert, aiming to bring an awareness to the history and the com-munity attitude that signifies our school. The evening was concluded by a version of the “Thunderbirds March”, as arranged by Richard Ling, and performed by an Intergenerational Orchestra, combining past music students of Newent School and Teachers, alongside present students. The Orchestra was also ac-companied by performers currently living with Dementia. The aim of the Concert was to raise awareness about De-mentia and the impact it has on family life, alongside rais-ing money for Will Luckett’s Music Centre. Jamie Ander-son, son of Thunderbirds creator Gerry Anderson, spoke about his father and about his appreciation of the School’s work on Dementia, from which his late father suffered. Jamie brought along a Lady Penelope puppet, a Pink Rolls Royce, and a model of Thunderbird 2 illustrating to many how important memory is as a relish to life and one which Dementia can spoil. Overall, the concert was a huge success, many students saying that “They loved the community feel of the evening and loved performing with other students, not only from Newent School.” One member of the First Newent Hand Bell Ringers said that “I was in awe of all the performanc-es, both solo and groups. Listening to some of the work that students had composed themselves was just amaz-ing.” – Joshua Cole. I’m sure we are all in anticipation to see what the next Concert is going to come up with to

beat what was performed this year.

All Photo Credits at Cathedral: Ashley Mortimer

Make the World Better by Wearing a Sweater! Christmas spirit will be flowing on Friday as Sixth Form students and staff take part in National Christmas Jumper Day to raise money for the Save the Children charity. Students have dug out their classic Christmas jumpers from the bottom of their wardrobes and donated £1 for the privilege of wearing it to school for the last day of term. We are promised a bizarre range of designs including Mrs Edwards’ light-up reindeer, Beth Creese’s silver mistletoe and Mrs Lawrance’s fluffy Christmas robin. Christmas Jumper Day is now in its third year and, thanks to fantastic supporters popping on their pullovers up and down the nation, more than £1.6 million has been raised to date for Save the Children. As a special present the UK Government is going to double all donations this Christmas. So we hope that popping on our pullovers this year will help to make an even bigger difference for vulnerable children around the world.

On the 10th of December four students, Scarlett Miller, Kirsty Ball, Lisa Cartwright and Harriot Farmer attended a GP conference at Cheltenham racecourse to speak about dementia and what we have done to combat the issue and make people more aware of the condition. We spoke in front of about sixty GP’s from Gloucester-shire and this really made us more confident in speaking in front of large audiences and it was a really interesting experience. The conference allowed us to inform the General Practi-tioners of Gloucestershire of the emotional side of De-mentia and give them experience of how people living with dementia might feel like and how they should be treated. We have been looking at dementia since 2012 and since then have spoken to primary school students, police com-munity officers, librarians, teachers at Newent as well as people from the nearby care home Sheppard House. Talking to the wider community has really helped us to raise awareness and develop a dementia friendly commu-nity.

Dementia Presentation to GP Conference

Once again in November 2014 Newent Community School and Sixth Form Centre were invited to com-pete at the Gloucester City Swimming Gala, hosted at GL1 Leisure Centre, and organised by the Glouces-ter City School Sports Net-work. Newent School were looking to defend their crown as last year’s overall champions. In a competition which last-ed over four hours, Newent students were entered to compete in all of the races of the day: that’s one hun-dred events – an incredible testament to the depth and quality of swimmers across all of year groups at our

Gala Win

school, with both skill and effort levels of our students ulti-mately being highly rewarded. In sixty-five of those events entered we were able to show dominance and secure top-three (medalling) positions. Almost fifty races resulted in bronze or silver medals, however more significantly in fif-teen races, across multiple disciplines, dominant Gold Medal positions resulted. Swimmers of the day were most definitely the newcomers to the school in Year 7 with both Amy Dowle and Daisy Wood achieving four gold-medals each: that’s a win in eve-ry event that they entered – an incredible achievement. Notable performances should also be mentioned in Gold medal positions for Jamie-Ray Manley (Year 7), Lydia Kelly (Year 9), Josh Gooch (Year 10), Ella White (Year 10) and Ellie Vaughan (Year 7) in their individual races, as well as both of the Year 7 Girls Relay teams, both of the Year 9 Girls Relay teams, the Year 9 Boys Medley Relay team,

and the Year 10 Boys Medley Relay team. Following the individual and relay events the overall scores were totted up, with three main results announced. In the overall Girls’ competition Newent scored 384 points in third position, only points behind second placed High School for Girls with 393 points, and first placed Ribston Hall with 399 points. In the overall Boys’ competition Newent finished in second position, ahead of Crypt School in third, and only just behind Sir Thomas Rich’s in first place. Finally, in the combined competition St. Peter’s High School finished in third position, with The King’s School in second place, leaving Newent Community School and Sixth Form Centre as overall champions once again – the fourth time in six years.

What a busy, exciting and rewarding few months it has been since I became Head of Collingwood House in Sep-tember! Mr Clarke (who, by the way, is having the most fantastic time in Kenya) told me that the students and tutors of Collingwood would be a pleasure to work with and he was absolutely right. Firstly, I appointed a great team to help me with (Names removed) as House Captains and Nisha Moreno-Hill, Cara Seeliger, Danielle Berrow and Aiden Jayne as Vice-Captains. They were chosen because they had exempla-ry school careers and had thrown themselves into all

Collingwood News By Teresa Williams Head of Collingwood House

House activities with enthusiasm and commitment throughout the last four years. The first Inter House competition of the year was Cross-Country and the results really didn’t matter (we didn’t win) because I was so incredibly proud of every single student who turned out on the wettest, windiest day possible. We had some very good results in House Rugby and Hockey matches and we are eagerly awaiting next term’s competitions; Basketball, Football, Netball and the Swim-ming Gala with swimming practices already taking place every Monday lunchtime. As well as the sporting competitions every tutorial has been busy with various charity appeals and activities; we had a tremendous response to the Air Ambulance shoe appeal, the Operation Christmas Child shoebox appeal and, just this week, Collingwood students were, again, so generous in donating to the GEAR Project for homeless people.

We have reached the end of the longest and busiest terms and it has been a privilege to be Head of Colling-wood House – looking forward to next term.

GEAR charity donations and new House Captains

A team of five students from Newent Commu-nity School have become the 2014 Schools National Angling Champions. They took on teams from across the country, including con-tenders from the northern homelands of match angling, to gain the title at Hallcroft Fisheries, Repton. To make the 9-00am draw time, a 4-30am, bleary-eyed start was needed. The team trav-elled further than any other to take part. The bright sunshine and temperatures reach-ing 25 degrees made the fishing difficult but all five members of our team fished brilliantly; they listened to advice, concentrated, and stuck to the task in hand for the full four hours of the match. In a field of 80 contenders, Matt Anderson, Year 11, won the individual title as well as his section, with a weight of 17kg 40g. An addition-al section win by Harvey Shayle, a section sec-ond place from George Organ and strong per-formances from Jack Cleverley and Tom Clev-erley secured the title for the school with a tre-mendous score of 72 out of a possible 80. To win this competition really does need every team member to put in a top performance and they certainly did. They were very worthy win-ners and the celebratory diversion to McDon-ald’s on the way back was well deserved.

Team Are Schools National Angling Champions

A five hour journey up to Southport is not the average teenager’s idea of a relaxing afternoon, especially when you find yourself developing leg cramp half way up the M6 and desperately requiring the use of a Service station. In fact, it sounds like complete and utter insanity. What teen could possibly put themselves through this nightmar-ish land of traffic jams? Ten of us, it seems, would. Squished inside a Newent Community School minibus, driven by Ms Palmer, and Mrs Lawrence answering phone calls in the front seat, a group of year eleven pupils were travelling North to face other equally competitive schools in the Lionheart Challenge National Finals, host-ed at Edge Hill University. We were not expecting a fighting chance at becoming enterprising champions. Quite the opposite, to be honest. We were just little fish in a very, very big pond- how could we ever win anything? The challenge itself was the next day, Friday 21st Novem-ber, but we arrived a day early, comfortably settling into our hotel rooms after dinner, preparing ourselves for the competition ahead as we got ready for bed. Most of us set our alarms, and eventually got to sleep, waking up bright and breezy in the morning. But, already we were facing a problem within our team. “Where are they?” was the constantly asked question by those waiting to go outside the hotel. Emma Jones, Jade

Keylock, Eva Brockhurst, Tilly Blakemore, Matt Etheridge and our team captain, Ellie Rogers and I shivering in our uniforms: we were getting increasing concerned as three of our teammates had seemingly forgotten to wake up. Fortunately, Will Middle was down quite quickly before our complaining got too much, soon followed by Dan Gay, and lastly, Keenan Brown- Williams. Someone had not set their alarms. Luckily for us, we were able to make it to the University in what I dare to say could be a record time, to have break-fast. Although being scrutinised by the other teams in their posh looking blazers and ties, made us all feel a little underdressed, we continued on in typical Newentian fash-ion. Soon, the challenge would begin. Two hours later, the team was sat around a large round table, drowning in stress levels that far exceeded those produced by our upcoming mocks. All of us were in a flur-ry of determination and could have been verging on the point of madness. Behind on our deadlines, and wonder-ing how we could pull off our idea of the fire preventing spray targeted at foreign nationals, we were the meta-phorical goldfish, sharing a tank with eight other whales. With no help from our teachers allowed, we were all feel-ing the strain of independent time management, and struggling to work in the same tranquillity that the other teams seemed to be exuding in waves. I think that in the end we were starting to pull ourselves together, but were still feeling dwarfed by the impossible unity in which eve-

The Lionheart Challenge Finals at Edge Hill

By Rebecca Millar

ryone else was managing the task. Hitting our final deadline just in time, we’d done every-thing necessary to win to the best of our abilities. I felt that we could reach the level of the other teams: we were now big fish flopping about in a puddle of our hard work. All the team members worked splendidly in their roles, and as Emma and I were taken away to do a practice of our final product presentation, I couldn’t help but feel that our team was by far the best one at the challenge, purely on the basis that we had done so much to be proud of. We could actually win this, I thought, being led to an audi-torium to watch other teams’ presenters stumble through their speeches, with only our team and one other having apparently practised the speeches before the run through. However, we would not know who had won until after the presentation and the formal dinner that night. Dressed up in our finery, the presentation was delivered well, without any moments of unprofessionalism. Emma had written our speech beautifully. And now for the dinner. It was a relatively pleasant even-ing, if a bit … well … dull, before the awards. For the whole day, we had forgotten that we were only fifteen or sixteen, but we remembered soon enough, laughing and joking like there was no tomorrow. A man stood up and gave a speech about achievement. I say a man because I cannot remember his name, and our team were more interested in what came after he stopped talking: the awards. Made of glass and glinting in the candle light, one tower-

ing above the rest, we knew which one we wanted. Team eight, the little fish in the pond, were going to go straight to the top of the food chain. Firstly, we all got a participa-tion award, but that was just formality more than anything else. Time for the juicy stuff. Having been given promising team feedback, we were all optimistic in our chances. Not winning any of the specific category awards, we were the sharks of Lionheart, wait-ing to receive our tasty morsel of success. We could do it. We all knew we could! The winner was announced, and cheers went up, the team going to collect their prize. Our team sat there, miserably accepting the fact that we hadn’t received any of the awards But what had we done that day? We’d become product designers, or financial geniuses, or confident leaders, or valued researchers, or fantastic marketers, or calm pre-senters, amongst various other things. I like to think that we were robbed. I would like to suggest that we won in spirit. But the truth is, we sat on the bus back to the hotel, like tiny flopping fish out of their depth, and……….. we laughed. It was an exhausting but memorable experience which has taught us many skills and will certainly be go-ing on our CVs for use in the future.

(Name removed) (Year 13), Daniel Carpenter, James Summerfield (Year 12) and (Name removed) (Year 11) represented Newent at the regional heat of this year’s UK

A Little Maths Challenge For You... By Dean Fisher

Mathematics Trust Senior Team Mathematics Challenge held at Wycliffe College in Stonehouse. The competition combines mathematical, communication and teamwork skills and offers students another way to express and develop their enjoyment of Mathematics. This is a fun event and allows our most able Mathematicians to pit themselves against some of the best Mathematicians in Gloucestershire. Our finishing position wasn’t as high as we would have liked, but lesson learned and more prepa-ration for the next event. Events coming up are: Year 10 Maths Feast at Pates Grammar School - a team competition for four year 10 students; A Mathematics Day for our four most able year 10 students run by the Further Maths Support Pro-gramme at Bristol University; UKMT Team Challenge at Wycliffe College but this time we shall be represented by two Year 8 and two Year 9 students.

As a taste of what the students have to do here is a ques-tion from a senior team challenge. In a sale, the price of a computer is reduced by 20%. At this reduced price the shopkeeper still makes a profit of 20%. What would have been his percentage profit if the computer had been sold at full price? The answer is hidden somewhere in this newsletter Have fun.

And Here it is - Merry Christmas…

12 of our talented Science / Maths students in Year 12 have benefitted from our STEM enrichment programme, the Monmouth Science Initiative. Every Wednesday our students participate in practical science workshops at Monmouth Boys School; extending them beyond ‘A’ level to undergraduate concepts and procedures. Chemistry: separation techniques; Biology: DNA technology; Phys-ics: radio astronomy. They have also visited a range of science and engineer-ing departments at Cardiff University. Have you ever looked directly on to someone’s retina or photographed a bovine endothelial cell? You haven’t lived!!!!

MSI Wednesday!

The rain stopped and 18 keen ELBS students descended on The Poultry Park at Oxenhall. A very enjoyable and informative session followed. Housing, selective breed-ing, feeding, incubation; our ELBS students are now ex-perts. This visit has given them a real insight in to poultry keep-ing and will give them a solid body of knowledge to help them in their forthcoming exams.

ELBS Hands On

By Martyn John Attendance Targets

The Newent School Attendance Target is set at 95% for this year. So far this year we have achieved 94.4% for Years 7-11.

By House this breaks down to: Collingwood 94.1% Mountbatten 95.1% Nelson 93.9%

Top Tutorials this year: C11 at 96.9% M8 at 96.3% N8 at 95.6%

Some Year 7 Mountbatten Students here display their finished cushions made this term. Students learnt to design and make their cushions using: cutting out skills, measuring skills, hand sewing and machine sewing. This proved a chal-lenge to a number of students but all have achieved success and certainly made progress in their handling of fabric and textile equipment.

Personalised Cushions in Year 7 Textiles

Good Food Show By Abby Priday and Beth Jones

On Thursday the 27th November, 61 staff and students went to the NEC in Birmingham to watch and look around the Good Food Show. When we were there we watched a very entertaining food demonstration by the Hairy Bikers. From this demonstration we learned how to make a

healthier rice from cauliflower and to put chocolate in chilli for added flavour. It was good fun and funny but while watching we learned a lot too! In different halls there were a huge variety of food stalls, demonstrations, and kitchen appliances on great offer. On the majority of stalls there were free tasters. In every arena there were stalls selling food from different cultures and countries, for example, there was paella, Indian piz-za, sushi and American burgers. There were demonstra-tions from the contestants of the Great British Bake Off.

We were allowed to go around in groups of 3 and explore the site. Students ranged from Year 9 BTEC Food stu-dents; GCSE Catering and Food & Nutrition students and Sixth Form Food Science and Nutrition students. Overall it was a great day out and a real educational trip. It was really worthwhile and everyone enjoyed them-selves.

Operation Christmas Child

Students and staff from Newent Community School have been busy filling shoeboxes for the an-nual Samaritans Purse appeal. Christmas wrapped shoeboxes, filled with presents and useful items, are sent to many countries all over the world and given to chil-dren who may not receive another gift. The appeal went out in No-vember to students in all 3 houses and we challenged each tutorial group to provide 1 full shoebox. All our expectations were exceed-ed and on Wednesday 3rd December, Operation Christmas Child, took delivery of 55 beautifully wrapped boxes. Students from C1 co-ordinated the project as they had chosen Samaritans Purse as their tutorial charity. Miss Terry and Mrs Mackay spoke to students all about the project. C1 would like to extend a big thank you to all the people that donat-ed boxes and/or gifts. We know we will have put smiles on the faces of a lot of children this Christmas. THANK YOU.

Year 7 Personal, Social and Health Education have had the Gloucestershire Police schools unit into lessons helping them to stay safe on line. In the session students learn about what is new online, particularly sites and applications that can impact be-haviour. They looked at what can go wrong when using these sites and apps. Students were made aware of their digital footprint and how detrimental images can ultimately impact on their future careers, and how once sent are in the public domain. Throughout the lesson, students were encouraged to discuss their own use and the safety measure they have. They looked at what can happen if personal details are disclosed. A summary of the main points that were considered and discussed are Personal information - always keep it vague and use a nick name Privacy setting – check them regularly as they can change Meeting up – as a rule never do this, accept with an adult Images – once sent they are out of your control Students were also reminded of the sites ‘Thinkuknow’ and the reporting tool CEOP, which can be used if they feel a need. http://www.ceop.police.uk/safety-centre/

Cyber Safety By Di Harrill, Head of PSHE

In PSHE, all Year 9 students have taken part in a se-quence of financial awareness workshops run by The Forest of Dean Citizens Advice Bureau. Students were taught about debt and budgeting, bank accounts and how to choose the best one. They also looked at bank statements and how to stay safe from fraud. As a result, it is hoped that later in the year, some Year 9 students will peer teach financial capability to Year 6 and 7 students.

Money Wisdom from Forest of Dean Citizens Advice Bureau

By Di Harrill Head of PSHE

Ski Trip to Austria 2015 Anybody hoping to join the Austrian Ski Trip in February Half-Term of 2015 should urgently obtain a letter from Miss Palmer or Mr. Gibson.

Year 9 Camp 2015 Year 9 Camp is open to ALL Year 9 students. Some people havn’t re-turned their forms yet!

These past terms the Kenya Exchange has done many things, which have helped raise money to bring the Ken-yans over in March. Last term the school had a very suc-cessful, enjoyable Music and Arts showcase where many talented students shared their work. We performed Haku-na Matata to get us in the African spirit. This was a great accomplishment for the School and helped the Kenya charity raise lots of money. We sold a variety of things, including strawberries kindly donated by Haygrove Farm, ice-lollies and pork rolls. There was also another Tujane 18 mile sponsored walk in September, which was completed in record time, the fast-est walk yet. It was waked with students from Newent, Dene Magna and Lakers to support and raise money for the Tujuane project. A large number of us worked really hard at the Onion Fayre to park over 900 cars for dona-tions to our fund raising. In October a successful bag pack took place at Morrisons in Ross-on-Wye with stu-

The Kenya Project Money Raising Machine

dents from Newent and members of Newent Rotary. In the run up to Christmas there have been two further bag packs in Gloucester raising around £1500, and a car parking day for Gloucester Rugby Club. On Saturday 6th December we served tea, coffee and cake at the County Cross Country event raising another £200. Thanks to all the students and teachers who have helped out these past terms. We are still available at Parents Evening and Open Days throughout the year serving re-freshments. If you ever want to help out with the Kenya Project or just to see what it’s all about; come to H22 on Tuesday lunchtimes to meet with the students and teach-ers who help run the project. Thank you.

To help raise funds for the Kenya Project we hire out Christmas trees to staff over the Christmas term. These are small real trees that were kindly donated by Barry Wellington of Elmcroft Tree Nursery which is situat-ed just a few hundred metres away from the school. We have planted the trees in pots, tended to them and grown them on so that tutorials and classes can add dec-orations and help create a festive atmosphere in the classrooms. The student like to name the trees, with Keith in room G15 and Bruce The Spruce in 114.

Hire Bruce to Make Your Gas Taps a Bit More Festive

All students at Newent 6th Form have Extended Learning Periods in each of their chosen studies. Subject teachers' set extension tasks that are designed to both stretch and challenge students whilst also providing structure to students independent study. In response to a Drama and Theatre Studies ELP task Year 12 students produced their own children's versions of set text 'Antigone' and excelled in producing some highly informative and beautifully illustrated pieces of work. Emma Gooch, who is also studying A-Level Music, composed and recorded her own musical version of the story. Charlotte Parry utilised her photography skills to create a storyboard of the story and many others used their love and study of Art to enhance their work.

Little ELP Here

Four teams, made up of four boys and two girls - Year 10s and Year 7s competed in the District Table Tennis Tourna-ment held at Dene Magna School. The Year 10 boys and the Year 7 girls played superbly, outclassing all opposition and picking up maximum points to win their events. The Year 10 girls and the Year 7 boys both gained a creditable third place. Well done and huge congratulations to all. The two winning teams are training hard for the County Championships to be held in early January and we wish them well.

Table Tennis Triumph at Dene Magna

By Tim Drake

On the 2nd December seven of our 6th Form Students represented the school at the annual 'Public Speaking' competi-tion that is organised by Newent Rotary. The evening began with a formal meal, very generously paid for by the Rotary club, and an opportunity for our students to share both food and conversation with the Rotarians. There were enthusiastic conversations on varied topics from West End Musicals to steam engines! David Rippe, of the Rotary Club, then led the competition. Jen Bardsley-Taylor gave an opening speech on animal test-ing. Olga Eisenmann spoke about her journey from Germany to Newent and the rewards of an exchange programme. Gerry Gibbons talked about the importance of community. Emma Gooch delivered a passionate speech about the importance of music before also performing one of her favourite songs. Anahtasia Harris talked about the importance of marriage and commitment and also performed one of her pieces of poetry. This was followed by Annabelle Lloyd who talked about the importance of ambition before Charlie Parish spoke about stereotypes of teenagers. The evening closed with all of the students receiving a certificate from the Rotary Club. Gerry Gibbons was awarded 3rd prize, Charlie Parish received 2nd and Jen-Bardsley Taylor was awarded 1st prize. The Rotary club generously gave book tokens to all of the prize winners and Jen will hold the trophy for a year. Huge congratulations to them all! We are very grateful to Newent Rotary for their long standing support of this formal event which gives our students such an unusual opportunity to experience a mixture of challenge and courtesy that might not otherwise be available to them.

Sixth Form Shine in Rotary Public Speaking

The food rooms saw the making of some amazing dishes which included: Healthy Fruit Crumble, Moussaka, Trench Cake, Moon and Star biscuits, Hummus and Pitta Bread and Danish Apple Cake. All the pupils enjoyed learning practi-cal tips and widened their understanding of their topics of study and how food can be a learning medium.

Primary School Vists from Picklenash, Heron, Redmarley and Huntley

Answer to Maths Challenge Question:

The computer would

have made a 50% profit

Behind the Scenes at Picklenash Preparing for Cathedral Concert and Making Music Together

Year 8 Rugby Girls

Our Year 8s recently took part in a Chance to Compete District rugby competition. The boys played some excel-lent rugby losing in the final to a strong Forest Academy team.

Year 8 Boys Rugby in District Final

The Year 9 Girls competed in the County Netball Tourna-ment this term and came up against a challenging oppo-sition in the form of Wycliffe College, Balcarras and other top schools. Nevertheless the girls did themselves proud and fought for every goal. Beth Broady held firm in the centre with some great attacking skills alongside Gabriel-le Adams. Whilst the duo of Frankie Cox and Sophie Pritchard kept us in each game with their solid defence. A great effort by all. Team: Beth Broady, Lydia Kelly, Gabrielle Adams, Lucy Parish, Frankie Cox, Sam Creese, Sophie Pritchard, Izzy Fraser-Townsend

The new Year 8 Girls rugby team travelled to Drybrook Rugby Club this term to compete in the District Champi-onships run by the RFU. The girls were captained by Beth Parish who led by example in hard fought battles with Dene Magna, Forest Academy and Lakers. Excellent per-formances were demonstrated by Jayah Andrews, Alice Brett and Beth Parish. The team: Beth Parish, Jayah Andrews, Alice Brett, Ame-lie Turner, Laura Evans, Issy Dodd, Issy Lewis, Tia Man-ley, Laurel Masters and Emily Leaver.

The Year 8 hockey team competed in the prestigious county tournament at Dean Close School this season. The standard was extremely high but the girls rose to the challenge to score first in the match. They played superb-ly as a team and finished in the top eight in the county. The goalkeeper, (Name Removed) was the stand out per-former making numerous saves to keep the team in the running. The team: Issy Dodd, Eli Dockray, Alice Horne, Ella Peak, Amelie Turner, Bon Worthing, Chloe Searle.

Year 8 Hockey at Dean Close

Year 9 County Netball

REUNION - A Theme for 2014-15

Join us for Newent School’s

50th Anniversary

Saturday 18th April 2015

The event is open to all past pupils and staff. Those who left 1965-1990: 2pm - 4.30pm Those who left 1991-2014: 4.40pm - 7.30pm IMPORTANT: please let us know if you intend to come.

Email newentschool50@yahoo.co.uk Or

Write to Pippa Palmer, ℅ Newent Community School Include your name - maiden name if appropriate - your year of LEAVING and your tutorial if you remember. It would be great if you could bring your memorabilia along with you, whatever it is!

Please help us to make this BIG!