AchieverISSUE 3 AUTUMN 2005 EMMANUEL THE

This issue:

TOGETHER

TO LEARN,

TO GROW,

TO SERVE

Students explore a love for literature

The news magazine of The Nottingham Emmanuel School

NEW HEAD ACHIEVEMENTS THE ARTS CLUBS SPORT

Taken as read

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ON behalf of the whole schoolcommunity, I am pleased to welcomeMrs Fearria as the new Headteacherof The Nottingham EmmanuelSchool. She was very excited aboutjoining the school at such animportant time in its development, asplans are being finalised for the new school build.

I hope you enjoy reading this thirdedition of The Achiever. Our motto“Together to learn, to grow, to serve”embraces the school’s Christian ethosthat underpins all that we do

through the academic andenrichment programme. Students,staff, parents and Governors sign upto the ethos and this is what makesThe Nottingham Emmanuel Schoolsuch a successful faith school.

If you are a prospective parent, I invite you to contact us on 0115 914 4111 to arrange a visit to the school and to come to one of our Open Evenings on Wednesday 5 October and Tuesday11 October 2005.

Keith Charter, Chair of Governors

We look to the futureNew role: Headteacher Mrs Fearria with Katy

Johncock, Saajan Sohal and Karim Abdul.

AT The Nottingham Emmanuel School, we know that moving toa new school can be a daunting experience. We go out of ourway to make the transition from primary school to secondaryschool as reassuring as possible.

Our induction programme begins with Miss Dougan, ourTransition Learning Mentor, visiting pupils at their primary school.

One Year 6 pupil said: “Meeting Miss Dougan gave mecourage about coming to Emmanuel by helping me know whatthe school would be like.”

Pupils who are transferring in small numbers from theirprimary schools are invited to attend “Getting-To-Know-You”sessions, where they have the opportunity to make new friends,meet the teachers and take part in an activity programme.

In July, the pupils meet with their tutors and experience atypical day of lessons, as well as a taster of our extra-curricularclubs. Parental meetings allow all families the opportunity tomeet individually with their child’s Head of House.

Finally, in September, the older students enhance theirleadership skills by supporting the new Year 7 students throughour “Helping Hand” scheme.

Easing the move to secondary school

Lending a helping hand: Year 9 student Jenny Cooke shows TomWells, now in Year 8, the transition pages on our school website.

THE Emmanuel Peer Council (EPC)forms part of the School’s Pastoralservice, providing a system of positivecare and peer support to students.

Seventeen Year 10 students havetaken part in programmes thatincluded active listening,communication skills, questioning andproblem solving and guidancesurrounding aspects of confidentiality.

Any student can arrange to meetwith members of the EPC during breakor lunchtime and, since its launch,almost 40 students have receivedsupport. In addition, the EPC studentshave developed their own self-esteem,confidence, and teamwork andleadership skills.

Peerpower

Working together: Alex Nangle and Matthew Green, Year 10, mentor a fellow student.

IT has been a very successful year for theMathematics department. We moved into therefurbished C block, and an interactive whiteboard n each room has proved a fantastic aid to our teaching.

Last December all students took part in a“Number Day” which highlighted numeracy acrossthe curriculum. Popular activities such as playing aversion of Countdown helped to make it a great day.

Having already become East Midland MathsChampions, the Emmanuel team of Helena Goode,Simon Neville, Daniel Neville and Rory Devonportwent on to compete in the national finals of the UK Mathematics Challenge at the Guildhall inLondon. The team competed against the bestschools in the country. Congratulations go to DanielNeville who scored so highly in the JuniorMathematics Challenge that he was given a goldaward and invited to take part in the prestigiousnational Olympiad.

Finally, our Year 9 students achieved someimpressive results in the recent SATs examinations.Our scores placed the Mathematics departmentamong the top four schools in Nottingham. Wewere especially pleased to see that six of our students gained a level 8, which takes us above the national average.

Number Day adds to Maths successMaths champions: Helena Goode, Year 10, and Daniel Neville and Rory Devonport, Year 9.

FOR the past three years,we have collaboratedwith our friends from TheBecket School to form a reading group whichshadows the prestigiousCarnegie Medal, anannual awardrecognising exciting andchallenging literature forteenagers and youngadults. The group isalways extremely popularand, as there are limitedplaces, we selectstudents based on theirinvolvement in the libraryand their enthusiasm for reading.

During the Summerterm, students and stafffrom both schools metweekly to discuss and

share thoughts on the shortlisted books,culminating in a finaljudging afternoon hostedat Emmanuel wherestudents and staff wereasked to take the “hot-seat” to nominate theirwinning book. Studentsalso took part in funactivities based on thebooks, such as dramaand artwork.

This year’s winner wasMillions by Frank CottrellBoyce. Previous winnershave included AGathering Light byJennifer Donnelly andRuby Holler by SharonCreech, copies of which are available in the library.

Reading allowed:Mrs Hughes withDaniel Flint, Year9 and EstherPayne, Year 8,and some of thisyear’s Carnegiebooks.

Bookwormsread together

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A celebration of our achievements

IN June we were delighted to hear that23 of our Year 8 students who entered aYoung Writers Great Minds Competitionwere invited to have their poems publishedin a book called Great Minds From Near andFar. This is a fantastic achievementconsidering more than 100,000 studentsentered the competition!

The successful poets were Claire Waring,Damien Ebanks, Nafeesa Begum, SeonaidBeaumont, Emma Upton, Lois Brown,

Daniella Binch, Kelly Ridley, SophieWestlake, Ellis Dunkley, Razeena Haque,Emma Boulton, Simon Verhoeven, JamieBuchan, Neha Popat, Matt Slater, GeorgeGadd, Daniel Neville, Daniel Flint, ChrisFord, Tom Mason, Luke Derby andRory Devonport.

The book will be available to buyfrom all good bookshops and

online in the near future (ISBN1846022118).

The write stuff

The nextlevel for ICT students

Last year’s Year 9 students RebeccaThomas, Charlotte Marsh and TomPownall, prepare for their AS-Level ICTexamination.

YEAR 9 ICT students have beenachieving exceptionally highstandards, as confirmed byOfsted, who judged theirachievement as “outstanding”.A group of 13 students havealready achieved grades A-C forGCSE or Short Course ICT, withtwo students – Charlotte Marshand Michael Carré – achievingan A* and A respectively.

We are proud of all theirachievements and wish themwell as they begin their AS-LevelICT course.

IN January, 40 Year 8 students and fivemembers of staff spent a week at HaggFarm, an environmental education centrein Derbyshire. Students had the opportunityto take part in a range of outdooradventure activities such as mountainwalking, rock climbing, abseiling,orienteering, caving, problem solving,night walking and shelter building.

Students had a fantastic time andenjoyed forming new friendships. The tripalso enhanced the students’ knowledgeand understanding of the environment andenabled them to develop important skillsand qualities like leadership, co-operation,communication and teamwork. We arealready looking forward to next year’s trip,which will take place in February.

Teamwork at Hagg FarmPositive reaction atChemistry festival

The greatoutdoors:

Year 8studentshad funat Hagg

Farm.

SINCE the founding of TheNottingham EmmanuelSchool, a committedChaplaincy team has beenworking to support andpromote a strong and caringChristian ethos across thewhole school. Members ofthe team come from avariety of churchbackgrounds and includeteaching and support staff,and ministers and youthleaders from local churches.

The team serves theschool by leading acts ofworship, assemblies andmonthly communionservices, and supporting thebible study group, theweekly showcase and theworship group, all established to enablestudents and staff to explorefaith issues with confidence.

The team also provides a

listening ear for all membersof our community, supportsthe teaching of a faith-centred vision and ethosacross the curriculum and takes part in events and ceremonies.

Chaplaincy team strengthensour vision

Emmanuel students take part in communion.

FOUR Year 8 students were invited torepresent The Nottingham EmmanuelSchool at the prestigious annual RoyalSociety of Chemistry Salters’ Festivalheld at Nottingham University inMay. Seonaid Beaumont, RebekahEtheridge, Jonah Lipman andDaniel Neville carried out asequence of experiments toidentify mystery chemicalsand they also competedin an egg race.

Daniel said: “It was an amazingday and a greatexperience.”

An evening to rememberDURING the last week of the summer term, we held our annual CelebrationEvening, a special event when students,parents, staff and Governors cometogether to celebrate the many and varied achievements of theacademic year.

The evening began with a thanksgivingservice led by Reverend David Rowe, Vice-Chair of Governors, which helped usto reflect on our achievements throughoutthis year and to thank God for theopportunities he has given to us all.

We welcomed back Mr Jones as our guestspeaker and students were congratulatedas he presented awards. Students werenominated for certificates in line with ourschool mission statement: together tolearn – academic awards; to grow –extra-curricular awards; to serve –community awards.

Musical items were performed by theschool band, singers and Africandrummers and video footage of ActivitiesWeek and the Royal Ballet School Projectwere also shown.

The final address expressed our sincerethanks to Mr Hermitt, Acting Headteacher,who left at the end of term to take up hisnew position as Headteacher ofCongleton High School in Cheshire. Davidhas contributed much to the ongoingdevelopment of the school and, inparticular, the new building.

All in all it was an excellent celebrationof achievement, as confirmed by ourparents. One parent said: “The wholesense of community came through really strongly.”

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PERFORMING Arts at The Nottingham Emmanuel School are a great strength, with allstudents encouraged to perform both in class and in the many extra-curricularopportunities available to them. We are particularly proud of our partnerships withprofessional agencies and companies, which include the Royal Ballet School, theRoyal Philharmonic Orchestra, Retina Dance and Opera North.

The school has also been represented in numerous projects, concerts and events,both locally and further afield. Two of our most prestigious performances took placeon a single day in July, when Mrs Grosvenor, Head of Arts, had to dash betweenCovent Garden and the Theatre Royal in Nottingham to ensure that she was present at both!

Curtain up

“ONE Night of Shakespeare” provided the chance for 10,000 youngactors from 400 schools to perform abridged versions ofShakespeare’s plays in 100 theatres across the UK – all on onenight in July.

The one-off event was staged to enable all the young actors toexperience Shakespeare’s plays in the way they were meant to beexperienced – on stage.

At Nottingham’s Theatre Royal, Emmanuel School was one of fourfrom the East Midlands performing their version of a Shakespeare

play. In our case it was the Goths versus the Chavs in a brand new version, devised by the students themselves, of Macbeth.

The evening was enjoyed by all – so much so that theperformance was repeated for 80 pupils from South WilfordEndowed Primary School who went on to work alongside the cast in workshops led by Claire Grosvenor, Head of Arts.

One Year 5 pupil said: “It was a really good first experience of Shakespeare. The Chavs and Goths made it much more modern and understandable.”

AS part of the “Endangered Species” programme,30 of our students were given the opportunity to work with members of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.

“Endangered Species” is a nationwideprogramme of work initiated by Youth Music

that tackles the problem of the falling numbers ofyoung people taking up “minority” instrumentssuch as bassoon, oboe, cello, French horn,trombone and tuba. The scheme offers youngpeople the chance of hearing and working withprofessional musicians in order to encourage themto start and continue learning instruments.

Cath Hago (violin), Neil Watson (double bass),Paul Frost (trombone) and Sigrun Saevarsdottir-Griffiths (workshop leader) from the RoyalPhilharmonic Orchestra spent a day at Emmanueland two days at Nottingham’s Albert Hall, workingwith our students to introduce them to the“Endangered Species” instruments and to createand rehearse their own original music.

The final composition was performed at theAlbert Hall in Nottingham Music Service’s “BigSummer Bash” in July. Improvised solos came fromStephen Macdonald, Year 10, and Emma Boulton,Year 9. In addition, as a direct result of the project,Charlotte Vivien, Year 8, has now begun oboelessons and is hoping to join the school band.

for allChavs and Goths: Students

perform their version ofMacbeth for Year 5 and 6pupils from South WilfordEndowed Primary School.

Musicalmaestros

In the band: Emma Boulton, Year 9, Jonathan Holmes,Abigail Page and Stephen Macdonald, Year 10, andCharlotte Vivien, Year 8, rehearse their piece.

WE were one of four schools in thecountry selected to work with TheRoyal Ballet School. This two-year,DfES funded, Dance Inclusion Projectaims to raise achievement in allsubject areas by developing students’strengths and confidence in dance.

It has been a fantastic experience,from the launch of the project inJanuary to the end-of-yearperformance in July, both at CoventGarden. Under the expert tuition ofGeoffery Unkovich, a Royal BalletSchool choreographer, students fromall years have taken part in a number

of workshops at Emmanuel, TheRoyal Ballet Lower School inRichmond Park and the prestigiousUpper School in Covent Garden.

Two highlights of the projectincluded performing at CoventGarden alongside students from The Royal Ballet and attending theRoyal Gala Premiere of new West End musical Billy Elliot.

The project has already had ahuge impact in raising aspirationsand a number of our students, boys and girls, have opted to take GCSE Dance.

Emmanuel students performed at The RoyalBallet School in Covent Garden.

In step with our dancers

Shakespeare

performing artson the

We offer fantastic learningopportunities for our students

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WORLD War Two features highly in the Year 9History course and, as this year is the 60thanniversary of the end of the war, we wereable to enhance the students’ learning withsome special events.

Students and staff spent time at BethShalom, the Holocaust Memorial Centre, the highlight of which was meeting twoHolocaust survivors, whose storiesemphasised that the six million victims were individuals with hopes, dreams, fearsand families.

A special guest in history lessons was EricIrons, whose visit was part of a unit on theBlack and Asian contribution to World WarTwo. Through listening to Eric and examininghis medals and photographs, students

empathised with the experiences of peoplefrom the Colonies. One class also shared teaand memories with “veterans” Brenda andBob Shilling, Norman Hillyard and Ida Wilson.

Miriam Fawcett, now Year 10, said: “This work inspired me to find out more

about my own personal history and my grandparents enjoyed telling me about it.”

We are pleased to welcome another Mr Irons, Eric’s grandson, as our newest PE teacher.

IN May, 40 students represented The Nottingham EmmanuelSchool by performing traditional African music as part of the “One City – One World” music festival in Nottingham’sMarket Square.

The festival, organised jointly by Broadway Cinema, bothUniversities and Nottingham City Council, celebrated our city’srich cultural heritage with music and dance from around theworld. Local and international artists performed Japanese taikodrumming, Caribbean steel pans, Indian dhol drumming andbhangra, Scottish traditional dance, Polish singing, Morrisdancing and Indonesian gamelan.

The festival began for us when a professional musician camein to school to teach African singing and djembe (drum) playing.

On the day of the performanceour musicians filled the stage,both physically and musically and, in the words of a spectator,were a credit to the school.

The beatgoes on…

Studentsstep backin time

History lesson: last term’s Year 9 students with Eric Irons.

Daniel Gregory, Year 9, sings,accompanied by LukeTowner and Rosie Bowman,Year 8, and Anna Hartley,Year 10, playing the djembe.

YEAR 10 student Loren Fawcett has taken theschool’s motto calling her “to serve” veryseriously indeed. Loren has given up her summerholidays for two consecutive years to work with“Orphaids”, a charity helping children with Aids,or those whose parents have died of Aids.

The Nottingham Emmanuel School held a

non-uniform day to raise funds for Loren’s visit toEcuador in July last year. She said: “It was greatworking in the orphanage because it made methink how lucky I am!” Loren has recentlyreturned from a similar visit to Honduras.

Whole school events have also raised funds for Make Poverty History and Tsunami Relief.

Charity begins at school

Mapping the world: Loren Fawcett, Year 10.

OUR new Learning Support Unit, the“Junction”, was recently opened by singerDaniel Bedingfield.

We welcomed Daniel and explained thepurpose of the Junction, which is toprovide tailored, individualisedprogrammes for students experiencingdifficulties within the larger class setting.Working under the guidance of teachersand learning mentors in very small groupsenables students to increase their subjectknowledge and understanding anddevelop their personal skills.

Daniel himself was educated in aChristian school and as a student with

Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder,had to rise above the challenges thispresented to him in order to succeed.

Daniel said: “The power to succeed isinside everyone and everyone has talentsand gifts, but you need to learn how todevelop them and use them.”

Daniel was impressed by the lessons hesaw, the students he met and the positive,caring school ethos. We welcome him asan honorary member of the Junction.Each student who graduates from theJunction is reminded that they can bewhatever they want to be if they riseabove the challenges.

Support atevery step of the way

Programme for learning: Mrs Cooke, LSU Manager, with Ciara Kearton, Year 9, whorecently “graduated” from the Junction.

Singer, Daniel Bedingfield.

We help to Make Poverty History

Artist Anthony Godfrey in front of the mural with members of the Make PovertyHistory campaign: Tom Regan, Year 10, Tom Raven and Amy Nicholls, Year 8,and Leyanne Brumpton Surgey, Year 9.

Bartering in BarcelonaTHE school’s annual five-day visit to Barcelona in July provided studentswith an opportunity to practise their language skills and experienceSpanish culture. Students visited the Barcelona Football Stadium, theSegrada Familia and enjoyed ordering food in restaurants and barteringin the markets for souvenirs.

Teachers go international in Austria…Meanwhile, as part of the Teachers International ProfessionalDevelopment scheme, funded by the British Embassy, we were able tosend two members of staff to Austria to learn more about education inother cultures. Mrs Bracha and Mrs Hughes spent a week observing

vocational education in and around the town of Eisenstadt. This helpedinform our own 14-19 curriculum, and we are pleased to be able to offera number of vocational courses to our Year 10 students.

… and JamaicaIn addition, Miss Barratt and Miss Darby joined an LEA group to fly toJamaica to visit several schools in order to identify good practice, learnabout the culture and, most importantly, help us continue to raise theachievement of students with African-Caribbean heritage in our ownschool. The visit was followed up with an assembly for all students,Jamaican food days, improved schemes of work, particularly inHumanities, and an opportunity to take part in inter-school competitionsas well as a Jamaican Heroes day planned for October.

Emmanuel goes global

AT Emmanuel, we realise that as global citizens we all have a responsibility to help make the world a better andfairer place.

This year we formed a Fair Trade group, helping to raiseawareness of trade issues. With help from Tear Fund andmembers of a local church, we held a three-day Fair TradeCafé, which raised more than £250.

As a show of solidarity with the Make Poverty Historycampaign, we held assemblies in the week leading up tothe G8 summit. We wrote messages to the G8 leaders,signed up to the virtual G8 rally, wore white t-shirts and mettogether to show our strength of feeling on this issue.

We collected more than 500 prayers, letters, messagesand pictures to highlight our beliefs, which we sent in ahuge bundle to Alan Simpson MP. Not only did he write backexpressing how impressed he was with our work, but he alsocame to visit the school, answered our questions and posedfor a photograph in front of our huge mural designed andpainted by students, working alongside artists in residence,to represent the Make Poverty History campaign.

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JOIN THE CLUBTHE Enrichment programme at Emmanuel truly provides something for everyone. Staff, students and visiting professionals all help ensure that activities at lunchtime, after school and in the evenings are varied,relevant, rewarding and enjoyable.

Clubs and groups on offer include Homework and Study, French,Media, Science, Reading, Chess, Bible Study, Worship, Football, Hockey,Rugby, Netball, Cricket, Basketball, Table-tennis, Music, Dance, Drama, Art and Textiles and Games.

CHECKMATE FOR CHESS PLAYERSAfter just two years, The Nottingham Emmanuel School has made it tothe Premier League! Nine students from the School entered the RegionalBritish Land Chess Challenge against many of the best chess players inthe East Midlands.

In a challenging field, Emmanuel captured three of the five Under 13 places at the Northern British Giga Final held in Manchester in July.

The chess team is part of a 40-member club run by teacher, MrMoore. He said: “This is absolutely fantastic, the students playedbrilliantly and deserve the accolades they have received.” The club is one of the most popular in the school and with this success will continue to go from strength to strength.

SALSA TAKES OFFAll students are invited to the school’s salsa dance club, which was setup to attract potential salseros and salseras.

The traditional Cuban dance has been adopted by all age groups in most of Central and Latin America and much of West Africa. In the last decade salsa has grown into a worldwide cross-cultural hobby for all ages and abilities. Dancers watch demonstrations of each of the techniques and then practise the styles (Cuban, New York and LA style) at the different levels – introductory, improver and intermediate.

The club is always on the lookout for new dancers, particularly boys,who learn very quickly how to lead their partners across the floor withstyle and verve.

Extra-curricularclubs enrich the curriculum

AT The Nottingham Emmanuel School we are pleased tooffer additional opportunities for our Gifted and Talentedstudents. These include a wide range of academic, sportingand artistic enrichment activities and workshops, which areheld at school and across the region. Recent events haveincluded the UK Maths Challenge, Oxford UniversityAspirations Day, Young Consumers Competition and an ICT Masterclass.

We are also celebrating the success of more than 30students who have been accepted into the NationalAcademy for Gifted and Talented Youth. Thirteen studentshave also been awarded places on the Gifted and TalentedSummer School programme.

Finally, Chanese Edwards-Clarke, Year 10, has workedtowards being an international class gymnast since she wastwo, regularly taking part in major competitions. Chanesesaid: “I am being encouraged by my PE teachers to carry onwith gymnastics and I now have a mentor to help me fit inmy gymnastics training hours and my school coursework.”

A range of choices for Gifted andTalented students

OUR annual Activities Weekpackage once again proved aneducational and enjoyableexperience for all. Students chosefrom a range of activities frombeing a chef, to spending timelooking at pets and their care.Others chose to be active allweek, either on the residentialadventure activity holiday, beingcoached in different sports,playing football and visitingPremier League grounds, or takingpart in a variety of other activitiesincluding raft building, cycling,

and ice-skating. Some chose togarden or to explore history, whileothers spent time studying fashion,beauty or jewellery. There was alsothe opportunity to develop the useof Spanish through the annual visitto Barcelona.

Activities Week provides a greatopportunity for all students todevelop their interests and extendtheir skills beyond the classroom.Staff and students develop anexcellent rapport, which gives agreat boost to effective teachingand learning.

Activities weekboosts our learning

Aiming high: ChaneseEdwards-Clarke,

Year 10, is a buddinggymnast.

Salsa moves: MrBarnes teachesBen Payne, Year 9,and SophieHughes, Year 10.

Bible study: John Pycroft, Librarian, with JennySlack, Year 8, Miriam Fawcett, Year 10, Jamie

Buchan, Emma Boulton and SeonaidBeaumont, Year 9.

Good catch: Mary Earps,Year 9, saves a shot.

THE Nottingham Emmanuel School has beenawarded the prestigious titles of NottinghamshireFA Charter Standard Secondary DevelopmentSchool 2004/2005 and East Midlands FA Charter Standard Secondary Development School 2004/2005.

The awards were presented to our school inrecognition of our dedication and commitment tothe development of football within the region. Theawards are a reflection of the efforts of the PE staffand the enthusiastic students who do a fantasticjob representing the school in local and regional competitions.

Fantastic football awards

Fancy footwork: Year 8 and 9boys Elijah Skervin, LewisWilcox and Sam McGowan.

Eyes on the game:Zack Ellerby andChristopher Ford,Year 9, enjoy a gameof chess, watched bySimon Verhoeven,Year 9, and DanielSmith, Year 10.

Creative workship: Year 9 students Sarah Nyikos, Daniel Neville,Nafeesa Begum, Ellis Dunkley and Simon Verhoeven show thealtar cross they made after Gifted and Talented students from allfaiths were invited to design a flag for communion.

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OUR Community Sports Taster Day took placein March. The purpose of the event was toinform the local community of the activitiesavailable in their neighbourhood andencourage more than 800 people whoattended to try new sports and activities.

The daytime session saw children fromneighbouring primary schools taking part in12 different workshops. Children samplednetball, hockey, lacrosse, dance, gymnastics,football, rugby, golf, cricket, martial arts,outdoor adventure and tennis. Emmanuelstudents from Years 7 and 8 also took part inrowing, basketball, yoga and athletics.

The evening session attracted adults whoenjoyed karate, tae kwon do, aerobics, streetdance, rock and roll dance, badminton andoutdoor adventure.

A tastefor sport

Healthy living: New Year 9 students Brooklyn Norton, Susannah Page, Kimberley Armatrading and Susanna Holt take part in a yoga session.

THIS year has proved anextremely successful year for ourschool representative teams.

In football, our Year 7 boysbecame Nottingham CitySchools League Champions2004-2005. The Year 8 girls’team were joint winners of theNottingham City Schools Under13 Knock-Out Cup while theYear 8 boys were runners-up inthe same event and runners-upin the Nottingham City SchoolsLeague 2004-2005.

Meanwhile, in basketball, Year8 and 9 girls came runners-up inthe Nottingham City SchoolsBasketball Championships, whileYear 7, 8 and 9 boys finishedthird in the same event.

Finally, the Year 7 and 8Cricket Team became theNottingham City SchoolsLeague Champions.

Congratulations to all studentswho have regularly attendedtraining and sporting fixtures thisyear. We look forward tobuilding on our success duringthis academic year.

What a result!

Batting forsuccess:Hunain Buttand PhilipMcNeill, lastyear’s Year 8cricketers.

Courting success: Liam Fox,Leo Periam and HilaryKaphuka, Year 9, playbasketball.

In the net:FormerYear 8 and9 girlspractisebasketball.