2017 Lent Term No. 01 Newsletter 13.01.17

Key Values:

Innovation, Confidence, Aspiration, Respect, Enthusiasm Dear Parents and Children

Welcome to this week’s newsletter. This week the Headteacher’s report includes information on: City of Culture 2017 & Ferens Art

Gallery, Growth Mindset, Leadership project – Year 5 and 6 Sleepover event, Parents Lunch, Providing Challenge at Hull Collegiate

Senior School, GCSE Writing, Philosophy Corner, Headteacher’s Challenge, Charities, Run with it Programme, Instrumental/Vocal

Exam Success and Headteacher’s Commendations.

Welcome back to school. It was lovely to feed off the children’s pleasure to be back to school last week. This is a busy term with

many new clubs and enrichment to look forward to.

City of Culture 2017 & VIP treatment at the Ferens Art Gallery We are supporting Hull as the City of Culture 2017 and are holding our concert ‘Made in Hull Collegiate’ at Hull City Hall on Monday 27 March. This will be a musical showcase and a celebration of the arts. All of the art curriculum this year is being built around Hull as the focus. On Tuesday night Mrs Silk was invited, along with many other art teachers, to enjoy an exclusive preview of the newly refurbished Ferens Art Gallery in Hull. The evening began with a toast to celebrate the fact that it was exactly 100 years ago to the day when the land was first purchased by Thomas Ferens. The gallery has been extended, refurbished and new systems have been put in place to control the temperature and humidity to help protect the paintings and acquisitions. During the evening Mrs Silk had the opportuni-ty to tour the gallery, see the new education facilities and meet with four resident artists. Heritage learning, who work closely with Ferens, have developed many new exciting workshop opportunities to offer schools. Mrs Silk is currently liaising with the gallery to organise workshops for our pupils in the Prep school. The Ferens reopens to the public on Friday 13 January. There is an exciting new exhibition of work on loan from the National Gallery in London including a fourteen century painting by the Italian artist Pietro Lorenzetti; this piece is over 100 years older than the rest of the collection in the gallery - an opportunity not to be missed!

Message from the Headteacher

Growth Mindset

Over the Lent Term each year group from Reception to Year 6 will be taught a series of discrete growth mindset lessons as part of a whole Prep School approach. The lessons are designed to provide children with opportunities to learn about and discuss the key characteristics of a growth mindset and effective learning.

These include:

learning from mistakes

failure

resilience

perseverance

challenge

effort

It is great to see CBeebies supporting our philosophy on growth mindset on social media. This is really interesting read and a very parent-friendly guide.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/grownups/help-your-child-try-new-things

Leadership project – Year 5 and 6 Sleepover event

The overnight event on the Friday 27 January is aimed to inform, engage and inspire members of the school community through a series of workshops before bedding down for the night in their very own cardboard box.

Of course it would be immoral of us to expect the children to sleep outside in such harsh January sub-zero temperatures with nothing but their wits, a sleeping bag, and a cardboard box to keep them safe and alive! Therefore, participants will be sleeping rough on the wooden floor at the foot of the staircase, in an alcove or by a draughty door in the Tranby Croft entrance hall. The sleepover is sure to be fun yet informative as we aim to raise awareness of the plight to be homeless in Hull during our City of Culture Year 2017.

A minimum donation of £10, secures a cardboard box shelter and provide participants with a visit to the soup kitchen. Monies raised will be donated to the charity Hull Homeless Community Project (HHCP) Registered Charity Number 1166893. Further details of the organisation can be found by visiting their website hullhomeless.co.uk.

Andrew Smith Founder and CEO of HHCP will be attending the sleepover to discuss his own personal circumstances and provide a workshop highlighting the charitable work as well as bust a few myths and facts during a Q&A session of what it is like to be homeless.

Andrew has had an interesting life to date, with some amazing highs and some devastating lows, all of which would’ve made most people want to give up. At the age of 17 Andrew joined the Royal Navy as an operator mechanic and was soon deployed on HMS Edinburgh to the Mediterranean whist still just 18, almost immediately he began his next deployment to the South Atlantic and Falkland islands anti piracy patrol, Gaining qualifications and training moving in to operational arenas and specialised units in the wake of 9/11 he was unfortunately injured and eventually forced to be medically discharged from the ser-vice as pensioner with severe health problems and a lifelong disability.

After leaving the service his personal life began to fall apart resulting in unemployment, the loss of his house and everything he loved including the breakdown of his relationship. This left him at the mercy of family and friends for care and support with nowhere to live for a time, depression and severe health is-sues, he admits he couldn’t see the light at the end of the tunnel for sometime. Slowly with the support of his family and undergoing many operations and treatments things started to improve, and finally after some time getting back into employment and a more stable way of life.

The sleepover is planned to take place on the evening of the 27th January until early Saturday morning. A full itinerary detailing arrival, departure and workshop times will be provided in due course upon acceptance of a place (due to limited numbers/ space)

The workshops and team building activities will support the children’s work in PSCHE and Thinking Skills sessions in particular, but will also have a long lasting social benefit in all areas of the curriculum and your child’s development. Please reply to the letter sent, by an extended deadline of January 17th.

Parents Lunch

Thank you for confirmation of your attendance next week for dinner on January 17, 18, 19. We would ask all parents to register at the Prep Office at 12 noon. Staff will then take you to lunch to eat alongside the children and experience a typical school dinner service.

So that you can see the daily systems in place to encourage communication, social skills, manners, prayer—KS1 will remain in their half termly seating plan and we ask that parents sit in the row of tables alongside them. At 12.45, Sue Fletcher will lead a short presentation incorporating answers to the questions we collated on the acceptance forms.

We look forward to hosting you.

It is the time of year when our pupils start to get excited about their transition into Year 7. This article will provide you with more information on that phase of our school (taken from the most recent Senior newsletter). Providing Challenge at Hull Collegiate Senior School

‘Stretch’ and ‘challenge’ are two words we take seriously at Hull Collegiate School. All pupils entering the Senior School are given end of year target grades for each subject based on their entrance examination results in Year 7 or baseline testing in Years 10 and 12. Progress towards meeting these targets is checked during five ‘data collection points’ in the school year, and if any pupil is considered to be underachieving then remedial action is taken. Further, if the target grades are considered too low and insuffi-ciently challenging then aspirational grades are set so that pupils ‘up their game’. The Senior School has a Lead Teacher for Advanced Performance who collates the data, and other data provided externally (for instance if the pupil is joining us from another school) and presents this to each faculty which then notes strengths relevant to them in order to ensure that suitable provision is in place for those pupils. All teaching staff are expected to set appropriately challenging work and incorporate Bloom’s taxonomy of higher level thinking into lessons on a daily basis. The school’s rigorous quality assurance programme ensures that this is done. Each faculty offers its own enrichment opportunities. Examples are Senior and Intermediate Maths Challenges at Hull University, Physics Olympiad Challenge, RSC Top of the Bench Chemistry competitions, ISA essay writing competitions, Modern Language Going Global events at Hull University, developing computer programming in Python, BBC School Report Day, and a number of Music concerts at various venues, soirees and festivals. In addition, cross-curricular activities are organised such as earlier this year when Bletchley Park brought a genuine Enigma machine to school which formed the focus of several follow-up lessons in ICT, History and Maths. Pupils who are performing in the top 5% academically are also registered with IGGY, the International Gateway for Gifted Youth which is an on-line community of like-minded pupils aged 13-18 years based at the University of War-wick. Pupils enjoy communicating in forums with leading academics and some have attended national conferences. Pupils in KS4 are also taken to an annual conference organised by Academy Conferences, a group of academics and researchers who lecture across the world; one has a double-first from Oxford and is the country’s youngest professor at the age of 29! This year’s topics to be delivered are ‘Who am I?’, ‘What should I believe?’ and ‘The philosophy of Science’. The lunchtime activity programme also offers pupils an opportunity to engage in a subject of their choice. Next term there will be ‘Enquiring Minds’, Debating, School Magazine, G&T Maths, and ‘Have I Got News for You?’ amongst the ninety or so which are offered. Events and days are organised throughout the year which have a strong emphasis on the more-able. For instance, last term a small group of Year 6 and 7 pupils worked together on descriptive writing approaches including planning, sentence variation, figurative language use, and lexical choice – all typical features of GCSE. Each year, Year 5 and Year 6 G&T days are organised which allow our own high fliers to work alongside their peers from neighbouring schools on topics as diverse as Rocket Science, Japanese, Robotics and Virtual Illusions in Psychology. A similar day for KS4 is being planned for June next year. Aspirations are set high with the ‘Aim High’ trip for Year 11 pupils considering Oxbridge entrance. This gives pupils a chance to meet current undergraduates at Cambridge and to have a Q&A session with an Admissions Tutor. We have a very healthy num-ber of pupils applying to Oxbridge and other Russell Group universities and we follow their academic progress with great pride. The provision for our more-able pupils is always being evaluated and developed, and from January 2017 subject areas will offer a half-day challenge session on a rotational basis allowing pupils to experience an area of more serious academic interest which is not normally available within the usual curriculum. This is an exciting development and we shall report back on this and other developments via the newsletter. If you have any questions regarding challenge at Hull Collegiate Senior School please contact Mr Stephenson, Lead Teacher for Advanced Performance, on Gordon.stephenson@hullcollegiateschool.co.uk.

GCSE Writing

At the end of last term a small group of pupils in Years 6 and 7 worked together in an English activity to explore how to apply concepts in imaginative contexts, a technique required to secure the highest level in GCSE writing. Mr Birch, Head of English who organised and lead the activity, reported that 'it was an absolute pleasure to teach the Y6/Y7 pupils for their English session to-day. They worked together brilliantly and their enthusiasm was infectious. The quality of their input was outstanding! It left me inspired by the skills of the young people who are moving through the school'. These highly positive comments were echoed by the pupils themselves: ' 'It challenged me and I learnt many new things. I will try to use the figurative language in my work from now on' (Tharian Mupparathara), 'I found it really interesting because I learnt lots of things that I probably wouldn't have learnt in a normal lesson. I really enjoyed working with the Year 6 pupils' (Joyce Abouda). GS

Philosophy Corner NEW As promised, we are now including a new section to the Headteacher’s challenge. Welcome to Philosophy Corner. The idea here is that the questions can stimulate a conversation and some deeper thinking about personal, social and environmental is-sues that they might raise.

Parents, our advice is to let your children do most of the talking; letting children formulate ideas and giving them time to express them is really important in the development of reasoning. Prompt your children with open-ended questions and explore any unforeseen impacts which might result from courses of action that children might choose.

It would be lovely to hear of any really good discussions that are sparked off by this. If you would like to give any feedback, then please send in an email to Diane.Fawcett-Ward@hullcollegiateschool.co.uk.

IT’S IMPORTANT TO HAVE SECRETS SOMETIMES BECAUSE…

WHEN DOES SOMEONE BECOME ‘GROWN-UP’?

WHAT IS TIME?

WHAT WOULD WE DO WITHOUT TIME?

IS HAVING TOO MUCH TIME TO DO THINGS EVER A PROBLEM?

CAN TIME EVER BE WASTED?

Headteacher’s Challenge

Entries to the Prep office by Friday 27 January (extended entry date); prizes will be given in Monday’s assembly (30 Jan).

Charities

We are delighted to inform you £463.25 was raised from the Holy Trinity Carol Service and will be split between Candlelighters and Hull Childrens’ University. Thank you to everyone who donated.

Run with It Programme

Pupils from Year 5 and 6 had a great afternoon interviewing Curtis Davies & Michael Dawson at the KCOM training ground at the end of last term. This term, selected pupils from Year 3 and 4 will benefit from the 10 week programme.

Instrumental/Vocal Exam Success

Congratulations to all our Prep musicians who took exams last term. We know how much work and practice you put in to get to this standard and are very much looking forward to hearing you perform at future music events. ABRSM Instrument Standard Prep William Anderson Piano Grade 1 Victoria Mangham Singing Merit Harry Mukerjea Clarinet Pass Mollie Booth Piano Pass Xavier Goddard Piano Distinction Grade 2 Xavier Goddard Violin Pass Trinity Instrument Standard Initial Evie McCoid Violin Distinction Grade 1 Bethan Cairns Violin Distinction Grade 2 Soley Fridriksdottir Violin Distinction

Headteacher’s Commendations

Ethan has had a very productive

week, becoming involved in a

variety of self-chosen and adult-

directed activities. I have been

particularly impressed with his

knowledge of 2D shapes and his

judgements when predicting which

objects will float and sink during

our investigation. He has

demonstrated resilience when

endeavouring to overcome

particular personal barriers to his

learning during literacy. Well done.

Grace Hall

Despite feeling very anxious about House Cross Country this week, Grace was determined to take part. Even though she knew she would struggle, Grace finished and was very proud of how she stuck at it and at the end – and Grace, so are we.

Note from Mr North – this could be said for all the children who ran this week.

Ethan Pearson

George Buckle

George never fails to try his best in EVERYTHING he does! This week, he has achieved well in maths, being determined to succeed when learning about perimeter, area and volume.

Well done, George!

Foundation Stage News

We have been delighted to welcome several new pupils into the Foundation Stage over the last few days. It has been lovely to

see them becoming increasingly well settled and developing confidence in their new environment.

The Explorers, our youngest class, are beginning to study their new topic theme of Winter Weather; they are learning a wintry

poem, and have been collaging with pictures of winter scenes and adding patterns to winter clothing. Our Adventurers’ new topic

theme is Polar Bears and Penguins, and they have begun to study the characteristics and life cycles of polar bears. Our Reception

children have also started a new topic based around the theme of Under the Sea. We would be very pleased for your children to

bring into school and share with us any items, information or pictures linked with their current topic theme, but please do ensure

that these are robust and named in order to avoid any upsets.

Whilst we are aware that this morning’s snow caused a number of transport challenges, we were thrilled to be able to take

advantage of this increasingly rare event, so we all got thoroughly wrapped up and took our Foundation children outside so that

they could experience and enjoy the snowy landscape and explore the properties of the snow (please see the enclosed pictures,

showing some of our fun).

Please don’t forget that our fortnightly Foundation Stage Parents’ Celebration Assemblies will commence at 2.45pm on Friday 20

January in the Adventurers’ room. We look forward to welcoming any parents and relatives who are able to attend.

Missing: school coat belonging to Zara Kuciakova – please will all parents check to ensure that it hasn’t come home by accident.

Thank you

Just a reminder: Today, we have been sorting through all the Reception children ’s hats, scarves and gloves in order to ensure

that each child had their own, correctly labelled items. Please will all parents ensure that their children’s equipment is clearly

named. Mrs Maltby has a basket of lost and un-named gloves and scarves, which parents are welcome to come and check for any

missing items.

J Maltby

Foundation Stage Menu

Monday Chicken in Gravy

Quorn Piece/ Halal Chicken Rice, Peas, Carrots

Marble Cake and Custard

Tuesday Shepherds Pie,

Shepherdess Pie Green Beans, Carrots

Angel Delight

Wednesday Roast Beef and Yorkshire Pudding

Vegetable Casserole Roast Potato, Broccoli, Carrots

Chocolate Shortbread and Pink Custard

Thursday Sausage and Mashed Potato

Quorn Sausage/Halal Sausage Sweetcorn, Cabbage

Syrup Sponge and Custard

Friday Fish Fingers Bean Burger Chips, Beans Carrot Cake

All Aboard with Reception!

Has anyone seen George? Our week began in unchartered waters with a visit from

Captain Nemo. He quickly whipped up a storm as he gave factual information

about the oceans of the world and how the moon and its gravitational pull causes

the tidal movements of the sea. He talked about the sunlight, twilight and mid-

night zones and some of the weird and wonderful sea creatures that live in the

murky depths: beware of the Hatchet fish and the Angler Fish, but don’t be

spooked by the Spook Fish, as its eyes revolve back to look through its clear skull!

But it was our search for George that was most enthralling. With bubbles blowing,

we boarded our virtual submarine, bracing ourselves for a fantastic underwater

adventure in our search for George, the giant squid. Did we find him? You’ll have

to ask one of our intrepid explorers to tell you their exaggerated and embellished

tales from under the sea…

Back on dry land (well perhaps not quite dry, judging from all the water sloshed

around the classroom floor!) the children have been exploring different found

objects from around the classroom to investigate which items float and sink, with

some surprising results. We have drawn our own story maps as we start to learn

the Octonauts story of the ‘Monster Map’ in Literacy, and have used the internet

to research our homework questions as we begin to compile our class floor

book. The smack of rainbow jellyfish made with Captain Nemo look wonderful

floating above our role-play area.

M Dyson

Prep Menu

Monday Leek and Potato Soup

Crown Loaf Chicken Tikka Masala

Thai Quorn and Vegetable Curry Steamed Rice and Naan Bread

Riatta, Toasted Coconut, Mango Chutney Beetroot Pickle, Peas

Marble Cake and Custard

Tuesday

Roasted Red Pepper and Tomato Soup Poppy Seed Loaf Shepherd’s Pie

Shepherdess Pie Minted New Potato, Sliced Carrots,

Green Beans Toffee Apple Strudel and Custard

Wednesday

Spiced Butternut Squash Soup Sesame Seed Bread

Roast Beef and Yorkshire Pudding Country Vegetable Pie

Roast Potato Broccoli, Swede and Carrots, Roasted

Beetroot Chocolate Shortbread and Pink Sauce

Thursday

Beetroot Soup Wholemeal Bloomer Cumberland Sausage

Quorn Sausage Casserole Mashed Potato, Sweetcorn, Spring

Cabbage Lemon Syrup Sponge and Custard

Friday

Tomato Soup Herb Bread

Crispy Fish with Tartare Sauce Homemade Vegetable Bean Burger

Chips, Mushy Peas, Peas Carrot Cake with a Citrus Topping

Freshly baked potatoes with hot and cold

fillings available daily including grated cheese, cheese and baked beans

A selection of freshly filled breads, rolls,

ciabattas and wraps with cheddar cheese, ham tuna plus daily specials

A selection of freshly cooked pasta with a choice of chunky tomato ragout and daily

specials, parmesan cheese

Yoghurt bar as well as assorted seasonal sliced and whole fresh fruit available

daily

KS1 Celebration Assembly

Well done to all our achievers this week...

Good Work Certificates = Josie Benton, Adam Cooper, Annabel Wright, Eddie Bell,

Elijah Dsenis Constantine, Henry Rawson, Tommy Su, Poppy Mountifield

Greenies = Edward Newton, Noah Khan, William Owen, Jasmin El Debek, Claudia

Eastburn, Charles Hart, Philip Wood, Eva Sourbron

Playground Pals = Emma Norris, Gabrielle Gava

Spotted = Eleanor Fryer

Table of the Week = Table 4

Cloakroom Award = In despair! Not awarded this week.

Achievement Tree = Jake Moore – football tournament medal, Poppy Mountifield –

ballroom dancing rosettes

NOTICES

7 February - Key Stage 1 Cross Country

9 February - Maths Mastery information evening

The children in Foundation Stage enjoying the snow!

Sport Results U9 Rugby A v Pocklington – draw U9 B Rugby v Pocklington – win U9 A Hockey v Pocklington – win U9 Hockey v Pocklington - draw

Fixtures Wednesday 25 January U11 Hockey In2Hockey Tournament at Hymers College. Start 4.30. ETr HCS 6.15pm Monday 30 January U8 Football and Netball v Pocklington. Home. KO 2.00pm Thursday 2 February ISA North Cross Country at Beech House School, Rochdale. All day. Friday 3 February U11 A-C Netball v Hill House, Doncaster. Away. KO 2.00pm. Friday 3 February U11 Football ISA North 5 a-side. ST James’ School, Grimsby. All day. Friday 3 February U11 B Football v Scarborough College. Home. KO 2.00pm Inter House Cross Country On Monday and Tuesday this week all the children in KS2 took part in the annual House Cross Country event through the school grounds. Although we celebrate the winners below, it is right to acknowledge all the little vic-tories that were won during the races from first to last and congratulations to all for the amount of effort and also the communal support for all runners that was shown. Thank you for all the support shown by the parents who came to watch. We now turn our attention towards the ISA Cross Country on the 2 February; training for those in Year 5 and Year 6 begins in earnest on Tuesdays and Fridays.

Results Venn provided the winners out of 7 of the 8 categories, so it is not surprising that they finished in 1st place, but only by ½ a point to Holtby. Marvell came third and Johnson came in 4th place. Top three finishers in each category are:

Year 3 Girls

Year 3 Boys Year 4 Girls

Year 4 Boys

Year 5 Girls

Year 5 Boys Year 6 Girls

Year 6 Boys

Priya Smith

Jack Wright

Hannah Black

Xavier Goddard

Evie McCoid

Billy Normington

Bethan Cairns

Toby Greensmith

Ava Luen

Oscar Dsenis-Constantine

Georgina Blowers

Louis Richardson

Bronte Smith

Tom Rennardson

Ruby Dawson

Adam Pashby

Imogen Hollis

Cohen Cross

Lucy Cooper

Harrison Kell

Megan Wright

Hamish Hannam

Zoe Silk

Myles Hall

Year 3 and 4 Swimming Lessons

Due to problems getting suitable times at Haltemprice, swimming lessons will now take place for Y3 and 4 in the first half term in the summer. The gala will also be moved and is (provisionally) booked at Beverley Road Baths for the Thursday 25 May.

Ski Trip – Italy February, 2017

Please ensure all monies, parental consent forms, passports and EHIC cards are with Mr Windeatt or in the Senior School office by Friday 13 January.

Unwanted Gifts

If you have any unwanted Christmas presents, Team Uganda would love to have them as raffle prizes and the Prep School Council would be able to use toiletries/socks etc. to give out as part of their homelessness awareness pro-ject. We would welcome donations of anything we can use for either project. SGr

Homless Project

Friends of Hull Collegiate School

Thank you to everyone who has supported our events in the Michaelmas Term - it was packed full of successful fundraising events. We are now busy planning the 2017 events and the following dates are for your diary:

Friday 10 March Quiz Evening. £10 per person to include dinner. Prizes for the winning

team and a raffle too. Team entry forms will be emailed next week.

Saturday 24 June Summer Fête

Saturday 11 November

Michaelmas Ball

Saturday 2 December Christmas Fête

We are looking for raffle donations for the Quiz Evening - if you are able to

help please email fohcs@hullcollegiateschool.co.uk

We Will Rock You World famous rock musicians are the best at what they do because they've spent hours practising guitar chords, writing music or playing on the drums. It's just the same with times tables – all Times Table Rock Stars need to practise and practise and practise. It's essential that your child does a little bit of times table practice every night and with this in mind, we have recently subscribed to TT Rockstars. We are encouraging the children to practise their times tables at home online; as they become more familiar with the software, we will set different challenges for them to practise - this will enable them to compete with other schools in the area. In our experience, short bursts of practice on a daily basis are more effective than spending hours once a week. To access the rock star arena you will need to log into: https://www.ttrockstars.com/ Your child needs to log in with the username and password given to them by their teacher. It is the same as their Active Learn log in. Have fun!

Reporting Club

As part of our extra-curricular enrichment offering Reporting Club had their first meeting this week. These are four exam-

ples of what was written.

Captain Nemo’s Submarine Adventure

We went to Captain Nemo’s adventure. Captain Nemo talked about what animals we

could see and the different countries and then we went on an adventure to get the

pirates in a submarine. We had to make hats to go on the submarine.

The best bit was when we went in the submarine and saw all of the different

creatures especially the shark. It was an emergency!

We learnt about some different types of animals and we got some food from Eddie

who pretended to be the ship’s cook.

By William, Lily and Gabrielle

Y5/6 cross Country

On Tuesday afternoon Y5 and 6 took part in the house cross country event. It was fun, long and very muddy especially in the

forest. One puddle was so deep it felt like you were falling into a swimming pool. We enjoyed it at times but the best part

was running through the forest. The winner was Toby Greensmith in Venn and we are waiting to hear which house won the

championship.

“I felt like I had a car on my back!” (Will)

By Max and Will

Year 5 and 6 cross country took place on Tuesday afternoon and Year 3 and 4 on Monday afternoon.

“The weather was sunny but we had a slight breeze”, said Nicholas (Y6). The course was slightly challenging but the real

challenge was the sun, I prefer to run in the rain.

“It was chucking it down, I got really wet”, said Bobby (Y4) “I thought the course was very challenging.

Report by Nicholas, Finlay and Bobby

Junior Voices

Junior Voices is a choir for Years 4 to 6 on a Monday lunchtime with Mrs Maynard and Mrs Meltham.

“I like going to Junior Voices, my favourite part so far is singing at Holy Trinity” (Phoebe)

“I like Junior Voices because you sing different parts in the school plays” (Heidi)

It’s a good club to find your confidence with singing.

By Phoebe and Heidi

HOPE AND SOCIAL - 24 January

Hope and Social are a band who do things a little bit differently. They wear blue jackets and play mind-blowing, balls-to-the-floor, anything-for-a-laugh, much-more-for-a-tear, heart-on-your-sleeve, foot-on-your-monitor gigs.

IAN MCMILLAN & LUKE CARVER GOSS - 3 February

Poet, broadcaster and comedian Ian McMillan and Olympic composer Luke Carver Goss present a hilarious night of words, music and improv, climaxing in a brand new musical created from the neighbourhood.

Rex’s Blog

Happy New Year!

Rex made it to the Rosenior house in Brighton.

Rex enjoyed meeting our new friend called Molly, followed by dinner with the Rosenior family and some fun days out, includ-ing being at the head of the table at Wagamama's and going to Drusilla’s Park, where he saw the baby meerkats and nearly rubbed noses with an adult porcupine!

The Roseniors say a big "Hello and Happy New Year" to all at Hull Collegiate School! xxx