in-form 14-18 march 2016

in-form 14-18 March 2016

14 - 18 MARCH 2016 A WEEK

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Options Process The Year 8 and 9 options processes are underway with launch assemblies and our Options Evening on Wednesday 9th March. Year 9 students have already had their interviews to discuss their choices and the Year 8 interviews start next week and will run until Thursday 24th March.

The Year 8 Options Process The Year 8 into 9 options process is the start of an important and exciting phase in your education. For the first time in your school lives, you will be able to personalise parts of your curriculum by making individual choices from a range of options subjects. Over the next few weeks, you will receive a lot of advice and guidance to help you make informed decisions; these decisions will not only shape your Year 9 curriculum at Ilkley Grammar School, but will also help to support the decision making process when you select your final GCSE options next year.

There’s a saying: ‘If you don’t know where you’re going, you’ll end up somewhere else’. We want you to choose courses which will extend your knowledge and skills, courses you will find interesting and challenging whilst offering you real opportunities for success. They should support your progression to GCSE and help meet your career needs and aspirations at Post 16 and beyond. Our Year 9 curriculum is ambitious, aspirational and is designed to provide opportunities for all students to achieve.

Deadline for the return of Year 8 Options Forms: Wednesday 13th April 2016

The Year 9 Options Process Last year, you were given the opportunity to personalise part of your Year 9 curriculum in line with your interests, abilities and aspirations. This curriculum flexibility was created to help further develop your knowledge and skills in subjects which you were considering for GCSE, allowing specialisation alongside the chance to experience new subjects which were previously only available in Years 10 and 11. Consequently, your experiences this year should help to inform some of your decisions as you start another important and exciting phase in your education: The Key Stage 4 options process. You have already received lots of advice and guidance to help you make appropriate choices from a range of option subjects; these decisions will not only shape your time at Ilkley Grammar School, but they will also affect your future lives.

Our Key Stage 4 curriculum is ambitious, aspirational and is designed to provide opportunities for all students to achieve. In order to ensure breadth and balance, all students must follow a core curriculum of English Language, English Literature, mathematics and Combined Science (covering physics, chemistry and biology) which leads to 5 GCSEs. Students must also continue to study PE as part of promoting an active, healthy lifestyle, as well as a programme of Citizenship/RE to ensure spiritual, moral and cultural development.

Deadline for the return of Year 9 Options Forms: Wednesday 16th March 2016

National Careers Week is here…

this year is all about future jobs! Happy National Careers Week! It is often said that students entering secondary education now will have jobs that may not have even been invented or created yet. Hold on to that thought. The future is about personal skills and their portability and this is reason Careers week (#NCW2016 ) is dedicated to Future Jobs. Have a look at the National Careers Week digital magazine for more news and advice.

Click here for more information on Careers Week

http://nationalcareersweek.com/2016-digital-guide/

http://nationalcareersweek.com/2016-digital-guide/


Wheelchair Basketball Wheelchair basketball is one of the largest Paralympic sports, with its roots going back to the late 40s. Although initially a rehabilitation and recreational activity for spinal cord injured patients, it quickly developed into a competitive sport and today, the National Wheelchair Basketball League consists of sixty five teams playing in 9 divisions.

Wheelchair basketball embraces a wide range of disabilities including paraplegics, spina bifida, amputees, brittle bones, cerebral palsy and multiple sclerosis. Able bodied players are eligible to play in divisions 1, 2, 3 and 4, junior league and women's league.

Ben Smithson (10JDA) plays wheelchair basketball and started his basketball career training with the Leeds Spiders in January 2008 aged just 7 years old. He played his first competitive tournament two years later aged 9 and a year later he got his own sports wheelchair. In October 2012, Ben was selected to play for Yorkshire U15s at Stoke Mandeville. This was an amazing experience for him, and the team, who came away with a bronze medal. In 2015, Ben was again selected to play for the Yorkshire U15s, this time in Worcester, and again the team came away with a bronze medal. In September 2015, Ben changed teams and now plays for Wakefield Whirlwinds. The newly formed team had a great season and played their first set of tournaments together. Ben is hoping to again play for Yorkshire in August 2016. Last week, representatives from Great Britain’s Wheelchair Basketball Association came into school to deliver wheel chair basketball sessions to Ben’s Year 10 core PE class.

Left to right: Ben Smithson, Mr Peltier and Steve Greatorex form GBWBA


The Year 10 class were taught the basic skills of wheelchair basketball and were also given a quick rundown on how to control a wheelchair. It was great fun with the boys learning some key skills in this exciting sport.

Basic Skills of Wheelchair Basketball The boys were taught the correct way of performing shooting, passing, catching, etc. in a wheelchair, with the coach reinforcing that to be a successful player, one of the main aims must be to perform these skills consistently and well. The initial training drills included wheelchair tig, where Mr Goodbold was caught easily! The boys then went on to practise their speed and agility in games of bulldog. There was plenty of time to get used to the wheelchairs before the basketballs were introduced into the lesson, which gave the class time to hone their skills...although stopping was proving quite difficult for some of them!

Chair Control It was explained to the students that in defence wheelchair basketball players must keep their chair touching their attacker and the footplate must be two or three inches in front of the attacker so that they cannot push past. Control of the chair is key and students were shown how to watch the position of their opponents hands on their wheels (they will tell you what direction they will attempt to go in next). Students were told the key to becoming the master of their chair - sit in it and remain on top of it! For defence and attack skills the boys were encouraged to practise 'one on one' and told to get used to moving, or threatening to move, immediately after they had passed the ball. Attacking manoeuvres were also covered in the session, faking one way, then moving the other.

Basketball is a game of brains not brawn and also a team game. The Year 10 boys were encouraged to call for help, reminding them that their other players, the bench and the coach were all in it together. The coaching session was a great opportunity to appreciate the skills required for this exciting sport...and for the boys to see one of their classmates in action!


Dinner Time Rota (No Bags in B Hall)

Sitting 1 12.30pm

Sitting 2 From 12.40pm

Sitting 3 Not before 12.45pm

Year 9 Packed Lunch Area: D Floor Social Area

Year 8 N4 and N8

Year 7 N3 and N6

Manners are important in the lunch time queue; any student misbehaving will be sent to the back of the queue. Rotating lunchtime sittings are for Years 7, 8 and 9 only. Years 10 and 11 have optional sittings. Bags must not be taken into B Hall at lunchtime unless they contain essential medication (i.e. Epipen or

Diabetic equipment).

Coming Up...Coming Up...Coming Up

Friday 11th Mar Year 7-10 Learning Community afternoon Tuesday 15th Mar Year 10/11 Cambridge Roadshow Thursday 17th Mar Coutances Visitors arrive Friday 18th Mar Year 10 Artist in Residence Year 6 Art of Maths 1.30pm Thursday 25th Mar Coutances visitors leave School closes for Easter

Easter Holiday: Friday 25th March—Friday 8th April Ski Trip: Saturday 26th March—Sunday 3rd April

Monday 11th Apr School opens

Week A Monday Year 7 & 9

Tuesday Year 8 & 10 Wednesday Year 7 & 9

Thursday Year 8 & 10 Friday Year 7 & 9

Week B Monday Year 8 & 10 Tuesday Year 7 & 9

Wednesday Year 8 & 10 Thursday Year 7 & 9

Friday Year 8 & 10

Years 11—13 are allowed in the Library at all times

Lunchtime Library Rota


Record Score for U13 Cricket Team Congratulations to our U13 cricketers who achieved an all-time record score in the U13 indoor cricket county semi-finals finals at St Bede’s, Bradford. The eight-a-side, eight over format requires batters to retire on fifteen in order to allow as many players as possible experience in the middle. Against their first opponents, Wakefield, Ilkley openers Max Rogers and James Patchett laid the foundations expertly before duly giving way to Arthur Turner, Josh Hall and Isaac Luffman who all continued to score heavily. Finally, Will Hughes, Tom Hills and Rhys Samuels raised Ilkley’s total to a staggering 188 for 2 in 8 overs at a rate of 23.5 runs per over. This proved overwhelming as Ilkley’s bowlers and fielders restricted the Wakefield representatives to 47 for 6. Ilkley’s next task was take on hosts, St Bede’s, and they quickly got into their stride to produce another impressive 134 for 2 before bowling out the Bradford school for 77. The boys now progress to their third consecutive county finals at Headingley on March 18th in very confident mood. The successful squad was: Max Rogers (8ASH); James Patchett (8MEH); Arthur Turner (8MH); Josh Hall (8ASH); Isaac Luffman (8MEH); Will Hughes (8MEH); Tom Hills (8MEH); Harry Strachan (8LNR) and Rhys Samuels (8LNR).

Well done to our Year 9 rugby team who took on Rodillian Academy on Thursday 3rd March. They performed brilliantly, securing a well deserved win, with the match ending IGS 41—29 Rodillian. Our Year 7 team took part in the White Rose Schools’ Rugby Series matches on Monday 7th March winning two out of their three games. The results were: IGS 20 v 0 South Craven, IGS 25 v 5 Skipton and IGS 0 v 15 Settle.

Well done to our Year 7 and 8 hockey teams who played South Craven School on Thursday 3rd March. Both teams won their match with the final scores:

Year 7 IGS 5-0 South Craven Year 8 IGS 5-0 South Craven

Rugby Success

Congratulations to our Year 7 netball B team who won both of their first emerging league games on Wednesday night. The scores were;

Ilkley 13-1 Beckfoot School Player of the Match: Ella Butcher (7DJJ) Ilkley 11-0 University Academy, Keighley Player of the Match: Sara Weller (7AW)


Bravo to Alexander Wright (11JLF) who recently starred in Guiseley Amateur Operatic Society's (GAOS) production of 'Footloose'. It was Alexander's first senior show with the society as he only had his 16th birthday two weeks before the start of the show. In recognition of his performance in the twin roles of Travis and Jetter he was presented with the David Baxter Rosebowl as the most promising newcomer to the society by GAOS Chairman Chris Ingram.

Congratulations to our synchronised swimming instructor, Mrs Gooch, who’s commitment to sport has been recognised in the Leeds Sports’ Awards. Mrs Gooch picked up her award, ‘Outstanding Service to Sport’, at the presentation ceremony on Thursday 3rd

March at the New Dock Hall, Clarence Dock, in Leeds.

The event saw VIP guests and sporting heroes, city councillors and sporting partners from across the city come together with a host of individuals involved in sport at every level to truly celebrate Leeds’ sporting achievements. The Leeds Sports’ Awards has a proven record of being one of the greatest sporting events in the city's calendar and we are delighted and proud to hear that one of your coaches was an awardee!

Well done and good luck to gymnasts Ella Shuttleworth (8AMB) and Hayley Brooks (11JI) who have qualified to represent Yorkshire at the British Sports Acrobatics in May. The girls displayed their impressive routine on Tuesday to their fellow PE classmates...good luck girls!

Alexander Wright (left) receiving his award from GAOS Chairman Chris Ingram (right)


Congratulations to our Year 7 girls’ athletics team who competed in the West Yorkshire School Games Sportshall Athletics finals last Thursday afternoon. They came 7th out of 10 teams. The girls again represented the school brilliantly, and should be extremely proud of their success and making it to the West Yorkshire finals.

Well done to our cross country runners who represented West Yorkshire in the ESAA National Cross Country Championship last weekend. This championship is the most eagerly anticipated event of the winter bringing together the best athletes in each of the 45 counties in England to compete for the honour of being the best in the country. The event took place on Saturday 5th March at Wollaton Park in Nottingham and our runners achieved the following results:

The West Yorkshire junior boys’ team came 28th and included Robbie Matthews (9PB) finishing in a time of 17 mins 58 seconds.

The inter boys’ team finished 38th and the squad included Cameron Reilly (10JB) who crossed the line in 20 mins and 9 seconds.

The junior girls were helped to 18th position by an impressive run from Bethan Morley (9PDH), who stormed home in 13th place with a scorching time of 13 minutes and 9 seconds.

West Yorkshire senior girls raced brilliantly finishing 3rd with Jemima Elgood (12RN) racing home 73rd with a time of 18 minutes and 17 seconds and Sarah Pickering (12TG) 116th in 18 minutes and 46 seconds.

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Top row, left to right: Neve Tunney (7DJJ), Harriet Foyston (7AW), Charlotte Elston (7TJB), Sara Weller (7AW). Bottom row, left to right: Mia Allan (7JWK), Lucy Harrison (7AW) and Amelia Gibbons (7DJJ)


The gala included: Team Breaststroke (4x25m); Team Front Crawl (4x25m); Team Backstroke (4x25m); Individually Medley and the Canons race, where one boy and girl from each age group swam 10x25m in breastroke or front crawl. Finalised results will be provided in two weeks time after the other heats and we will then see if we have progressed to the finals. Overall, there were some stand out individual and team performances. Our Year 8 boys won all their races, the Year 9 and 10 teams finished 2nd in all there races, the Year 11 boys came 2nd in the breaststroke relay and 1st in both freestyle and backstroke. The Year 11 girls finished 1st in their backstroke race, 2nd in the breaststroke and 2nd in the front crawl. The Canon races were a closely fought out affair and IGS finished 2nd losing narrowly to Tadcaster Grammar School in both the breaststroke and front crawl. The girls Year 10 and 11 team came 2nd in both the breaststroke and freestyle relays and came 1st in the backstroke relay and the Year 7 boys won the front crawl and breaststroke and finished 2nd in the backstroke A big thank you to Joanne Williamson (13EM) who acted as a coach for both the boys and girls making sure students got to their races on time.

Well done to all the students who took part in the Leeds and District Schools’ Swimming Heats on Tuesday night. Thirty students in total took part in a fantastic evening of swimming.

Year 7 Florrie Pickering (7TJB) Nathen Coy (7FEA)

Lotti Ridgway (7AW) Angus Twigger (7JWK)

Jiska Evans (7TJB) Ashley Leach (7FEA)

Christine Bye (7TJB) Lucas Walton (7AWD)

Harriet Foyston (7AW) Alex Jowett (7FEA)

Mia Allan (7JWK) Isobel Reynolds (7JWK)

Scarlett Spoerry (7DJJ)

Year 8 Becca Ashelford (8RRG) Adam Hind (8RRG)

Libby Ives (8RRG) George Smith (8AMB)

Tom Jackson (8AMB) Archie Minto (8AMB)

Adam Mitchell (8AMB)

Year 9

Alice Rodley (9PB) Dom Coy (9SP)

Caitlin Ives (9DSF) Tom Williams (9LG)

Maddy Morris (9SP) Gemma Winslade (9SP)

Year 10

Esme Pearce (10LV) Cameron Reilly (10JB)

Bea Waller (10MEK)

Year 11

Emma Jones (10JLF) Sam Naylor (11HGW)

Francesca Woodman (11CT) George Wilde (11JLF)

Callum Graham (11BJS)


Congratulations to our Year 7 hockey team who competed the Bradford Grammar School tournament on Tuesday evening.

The girls played incredibly well with the games ending: IGS 3—0 South Craven, IGS 0—0 Rishworth, IGS 3—0 Prince Henry's, IGS 2—0 Bradford Grammar C, IGS 1—0 Bradford Grammar B and IGS 0—3 Bradford Grammar A.

The team finished 3rd overall, a fantastic achievement.

Well played to all girls involved, left to right: Amelia Gibbons (7DJJ); Sophie Smeaton (7DJJ); Lucy Harrison (7FEA); Evie Parker (7TJB); Neve Tunney (7DJJ); Lucy Tarring (7GS/JMP); Katie Hills (7GS/JMP) and Lucy Pickles - goalkeeper (7FEA).

Pop Maths Quiz The Pop Maths Quiz took place at Leeds University last weekend, with teams from Year 7 and 8 competing for top maths honours. Our teams finished an impressive 5th and 6th with one of our teams being only 2 points from winning overall!

Those that took part were: Ashley Leach (7FEA); Charlotte Elston (7TJB); Angus Lovell (7AW); Charlotte McCarthy (7JWK); Angus Twigger (7JWK); Emma Whitaker-Pitts (8MH); Josh Hall (8ASH); Ella Shuttleworth (8AMB); Polly Bridges (8RRG); Alex Harlen (8LNR); Matthew Abel (8ELC) and Adam Mitchell (8AMB).


Intermediate Maths Challenge An excellent achievement by Emmot Finch (9DSF) in this year's Intermediate Maths Challenge saw him qualify for the Olympiad stage of the competition. Qualification into the Olympiad round means that Emmot was one of the best 500 high scorers in the UK this year! Well done Emmot. Ten of our other students qualified for the interestingly named ‘Kangaroo’ round - the name sounds strange, but recognises the fact that the organisation was inspired by the Australian Mathematics Trust. They are: Charlie Franks (11HGW); Jamie Spiller (10KL), Nathan Foster (10MWC), Ellie Cooper (10JDA); Imogen Brodaty (10LV); Krizzler Cree (9SL); Amelia Milner (9PDH); James Holmes (9DSF); Finlay Tunney (9LG) and Nathaniel Richardson (9PB). Well done to all our outstanding mathematicians. All this good news is a great way for us to mark Pi Day which, don't forget, is of course March 14th!

Congratulations to our U13 netball teams who took part in the Bradford District Schools’ U13 Netball tournament at Bradford Grammar School on Monday evening. The girls performed really well and the B team finished 4th after just beating our A team in the last match, meaning the B team finished in 5th.

Well done to: Stef Rose (8LNR); Lily Dobson (8LNR); Libby Ives (8RRG); Charlie Murray (8MEH); Ella Hammond (8ELC); Ella Shuttleworth (8AMB); Erin Turner (8RRG); Emily Mayo (8MEH); Milly Parker (8LNR); Hannah Corbett (8MEH); Abby Lane (8ASH); Jess Wells (8MEH); Ide Gale-Coleman (8AMD); Bernadette Raven (8PO); Alice Kealey (8ASH); Ella Hyde (8AMD); Cerys Richards (8MEH); Emma Whitaker-Pitts (8MH); Louise Steer (8ELC) and Libby Madden (8MEH).

Emmot Finch (9DSF)


…IGS SPORT…IGS SPORT…IGS SPORT…IGS SPORT…IGS SPORT…IGS SPORT…IGS SPORT…

A SPORT CLUBS

MONDAY

14th

March

U16 + Senior netball training (SB)

Y11 Football V Benton Park (A)

U13 Hockey Tournament @ South Craven

Y8 Football CV4 @ PHGS

U12, 13+15 Netball @ Bradford Grammar

TUESDAY

15th

March

Rugby Training Y7 - 10 @ IRUFC (ACF)

Football Y7 @ IGS fields 3.15-4.30. (RB)

U12 Netball Tournament @ Bradford Grammar

Football U19 v AG (H)

Y10 Football V St Marys, Menston (A)

WEDNESDAY

16th

March

Y11, 12, 13 mixed hockey, Sportshall, 12.30-1.15pm (JH)

Synchronised Swimming, 2.15-3.20pm

Rugby Training Y11 – 1XV @ IRUFC (ACF)

THURSDAY

17th

March

Girls’ Football @ Ben Rhydding Astroturf 3.15-4.30pm (LV)

Y7, 9, 11 RUGBY @ IRUFC 3.30-5pm (ACF, MWC)

U14+U15 Netball training 3.15-4.30pm (FA)

Y9 Football CV @ Horsforth

U12 Hockey V Guiseley @ IGS

FRIDAY

18th

March

Sports’ Leader Training @ Astro 3.15-5.00pm

@ilkleygrammarPE


Good luck Year 7, starting your Readathon next

Monday for the last two weeks of term, plus over the

Easter holidays.

Read as much as you want, raise as much as you can for

children’s charities, and above all, enjoy spending

time with books!

Mrs Harrison


Our year 7 and 8 netballers were lucky enough to be coached by 2 Yorkshire Jets players Lydia Walker and Jess Shaw this week. The Yorkshire Jets are one of eight UK netball teams who play in the Vitality Netball Superleague. Comprising players from across Yorkshire and the Humber, the squad includes athletes who have been selected for England u17, u19, u21 and Senior squads. The Jets run an Athlete Development Programme, which launched last year, to identify, nurture and develop the next generation of players with the potential to grow into Superleague and England stars of the future.

After trials in the Autumn involving hundreds of girls from across the region, around 75 girls were selected for the Junior programme, for ages 11 to 13, and the Youth programme, for ages 14 to 19. The Programme sits alongside the England Netball pathway run by Yorkshire Netball and the Counties...maybe some of our netballers had their eye on a slot for next season?


Lunch Menu Week Three

MON TUES WED THU FRI

Beef and Mixed Bean

Chilli and Spicy Rice

Sausage and Mash with

Caramelised Onion

Meat Balls with Spicy

Tomato Sauce and

Penne Pasta

Battered Cod Tartar Sauce and

Lemon Wedges

Roast Turkey

Veggie Spicy Layered

Tortilla and Mixed Bean Bake with Spicy Rice

Veggie Roast Veg and

Mozzarella Stacks with a Tomato Basil

Sauce

Veggie Spinach and

Ricotta Cannelloni

Veggie Red Onion

and Mushroom

Frittata

Veggie Aubergine

Stuffed with Sweet Potato,

Feta and Roasted

Pepper with Pesto Sauce

Classic Bolognese

Chilli Con

Carne Rice Pot

Chicken Tikka Rice Pot

Herby Tomato

Pasta Pot

Ricotta Tortellini

Sweet & Sour

Chicken Noodle Pot

Five Bean Chilli Rice

Pot

Chicken Cacciatore Pasta Pot

Vegetable Stir Fry

Noodle Pot

Pasta Carbonara

Tomato

Leek and Potato

Tomato

Leek & Potato

Tomato

Cheese & Ham Panini

Margherita

Pizza

Margherita Pizza

BBQ Chicken

Wrap

Pizza Style Panini

Cheese and Ham Toastie

Margherita Pizza

Tikka Flat

Bread

Selection of Pizzas &

Panini’s


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