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Issue 3 2012/2013 30TH NOVEMBER 2012 INSIDE THIS ISSUE: Headteacher‘s News 1 ‗Movember‘ 2 Effort & Achievement Prize Winners 3 Year 7 Summary 4 Year 8 Summary 5 Year 8 Drop In sessions 6 Crest Awards 6 Year 10 Summary 7 Year 11 Summary 8 Math Challenge 7 9 Maths Challenge winner 10 Maths Revision 10 Children In Need 11 Engineering Taster Day 11 Christmas Concert 12 Craft Fair 13 CSI …. 13 Stage ‗65 14 LAMDA Awards 14/15 Year 8 Geography Projects 15 Road Safety Initiative 16/17 Halloween Shorty Story Winners 18 Primary PE Festivals 19 Lost Property 20 Don‘t Forget!! 21 Cross Country Successes 22/23 Attendance Officer Vacancy 24 THE STONEHENGE SCHOOL NEWSLETTER ATTENDANCE LINE 676650 (24 hours) Or alternatively e-mail [email protected] HEADTEACHER’S NEWS Olympic Champion at Certificate Evening …. Gold medallist Heather Stanning, the 2012 Olympic champion in the rowing pairs, presented awards and certificates to the students who left school this year at our annual Certificate Evening on November 22 nd . Captain Stanning is based at Larkhill, and is pictured here with prize winners and her London 2012 Olympic gold medal. With more A* and A grades than ever before there was strong competition amongst top performing students. Mayor of Amesbury Councillor Swin- dlehurst presented the Mayor‘s award for Excellence to Ashley Chan.

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Issue 3 2012/2013

30TH NOVEMBER

2012 I N S I D E T H I S I S S U E :

Headteacher‘s News 1

‗Movember‘ 2

Effort & Achievement Prize

Winners

3

Year 7 Summary 4

Year 8 Summary 5

Year 8 Drop In sessions 6

Crest Awards 6

Year 10 Summary 7

Year 11 Summary 8

Math Challenge 7 9

Maths Challenge winner 10

Maths Revision 10

Children In Need 11

Engineering Taster Day 11

Christmas Concert 12

Craft Fair 13

CSI …. 13

Stage ‗65 14

LAMDA Awards 14/15

Year 8 Geography Projects 15

Road Safety Initiative 16/17

Halloween Shorty Story Winners 18

Primary PE Festivals 19

Lost Property 20

Don‘t Forget!! 21

Cross Country Successes 22/23

Attendance Officer Vacancy 24

T H E S T O N E H E N G E S C H O O L

N E W S L E T T E R

ATTENDANCE LINE 676650 (24 hours)

Or alternatively e-mail

[email protected]

HEADTEACHER’S NEWS

Olympic Champion at Certificate Evening ….

Gold medallist Heather Stanning, the 2012 Olympic champion in the rowing

pairs, presented awards and certificates to the students who left school

this year at our annual Certificate Evening on November 22nd. Captain

Stanning is based at Larkhill, and is pictured here with prize winners and

her London 2012 Olympic gold medal.

With more A* and A grades than ever before there was strong competition

amongst top performing students.

Mayor of Amesbury Councillor Swin-

dlehurst presented the Mayor‘s

award for Excellence to Ashley Chan.

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THE GREAT SHAVE

OFF!!!!

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CERTIFICATE EVENING 2012

CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR TOP PRIZE WINNERS FOR EFFORT AND

ACHIEVEMENT

YEAR 8 TO YEAR 11 2012

YEAR 8 AWARD FOR ACHIEVEMENT/GIRL JASMINE SCOTT

YEAR 8 AWARD FOR ACHIEVEMENT/BOY TOM EVISON

YEAR 8 AWARD FOR EFFORT/GIRL TIFFANY MUNDY

YEAR 8 AWARD FOR EFFORT/BOY CHANDLER COPE

YEAR 9 AWARD FOR ACHIEVEMENT/GIRL HANNAH BRIDEWELL

YEAR 9 AWARD FOR ACHIEVEMENT/BOY EUAN MAUCHLINE

YEAR 9 AWARD FOR EFFORT/GIRL ELLIE PARSONS

YEAR 9 AWARD FOR EFFORT/BOY CALLLUM DAVIES

YEAR 10 AWARD FOR ACHIEVEMENT/GIRL JENNIFER KEE

YEAR 10 AWARD FOR ACHIEVEMENT/BOY NOAH METCALFE

YEAR 10 AWARD FOR EFFORT/GIRL MEGAN ARMSTRONG

YEAR 10 AWARD FOR EFFORT/BOY AMAR GURUNG

YEAR 11 AWARD FOR ACHIEVEMENT/GIRL DANA JACKSON

YEAR 11 AWARD FOR ACHIEVEMENT/BOY JORGE CARTER

YEAR 11 AWARD FOR EFFORT/GIRL SOPHIE PEAREY

YEAR 11 AWARD FOR EFFORT/BOY JOSHUA YATES

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YEAR 7 SUMMARY

Progress

It has been very rewarding to see the progress being made by year 7. Many teachers com-

mented to me about how the classes are a pleasure to teach. Parents will soon receive the

first set of progress grades for their child. These are teacher‘s own grades measuring the level that

the students are currently performing at. It may be that you will feel these grades are a little bit low

but please bare in mind that some subjects are being taught by specialists and that students may not

have had specialists delivering these subjects whilst are primary school. You should receive these

grades before Christmas.

CATS Scores

These will also be published to parents before Christmas. Please do not hesitate to contact me with

any queries.

PARS Points

PARS points are awarded for excellent behaviour and various other reasons, such as representing the

school at a sporting event. We are currently in a race to achieve 30 points. The first student to score

30 points will receive a free paint balling trip. The top 10 is as follows (as of 28/11/12) -

14 Points 13 Points 12 Points

Antony Collins Alfie Cull Katie George

Lucy Gales Ami Martin Rebecca Oddie

Owen Newman Sala Matanatabu

Michael Pritchard Max Pulford

Circus Skills

This takes place from Monday 3rd December until Wednesday 5th December. A letter has gone home

containing further information.

Year 7 Disco

Friday 30th November 7.00 pm— 9.00 pm

Miss Harris

Year 7 Progress Leader

[email protected]

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Miss Reeves

Year 8 Progress Leader

[email protected]

Y

ear

8

Top 10 in behaviour for

learning table

Tiffany Mundy

Tom Price

Abigail Wyles

Ethan McFarlane

Sophie Williams

Tom Evison

Danielle Mackie

Fraser Adams

Jamie Hinton- Hurst

Winners of the ‘Special Award’ week 1

Each week in assembly the ‗Special Award‘ will

be given to a pupil in each teaching set. It can

be given for a number of reasons- progress/

attitude/ commitment to clubs/ enthusiasm.

Wk 2 Wk 1

S Lilli Sides Theo Card

T Leah Yates Daniel Kendall

O Courtney Martin-McKeller Marcus Brown

N Danielle Surgey Sam Hall

E Lewis Hawkesby Jamie Hinton Hurst

‘Special Award’

Dont forget the ‘Year 8

Drop In’ - with me on a

Tuesday 3-4pm. me and ask

me questions, info etc any-

thing I can help with

Week 1—Mr Jamieson

Week 2—Mr Jamieson

Week 3—Mr Briggs

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CREST AWARDS

The following year 9 students are undertaking a Bronze Level CREST Award -

(http://www.britishscienceassociation.org/crest-awards ) in association

with the BSA (British Science Association).

Sam Broadbent Steven Hawkins Aaron Markham

Euan Mauchline Oliver Ivemy Hannah Bridewell

Corrina Begley Eloise Davies-Tyler Katie Miller

Elizabeth Capp

These pupils will be carrying out independent research into a chosen area via a range of scientific investigative

techniques. Wish them luck! Mr Feltham

What progress am I making?

I really wish that we could ...................

I have a great idea, can I set up ........................

I am really worried about .................

Year 8 ‘Drop in’

Drop In

If you have any problems, concerns or you just want to know about your progress- come and see Miss Reeves at the drop in!

DATE: Every Tuesday

WHERE: Room 13 (Dance Studio) TIME: 3pm- 4pm

Drop in and have

a chat!!

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YEAR 10 SUMMARY

Students in Year 10 are continuing to make a strong start to their GCSE courses.

Many students are completing outstanding work in lessons and at home, or are con-

tributing to the school in other ways, representing our successful sports teams or

working with students from the local primary schools. As a result of this fantastic work, many have re-

ceived commendations as part of our new rewards system - the current top five students being: Megan

Armstrong, Jennifer Kee, Jasmine Bucannon, Lewis Houghton and Myles Jones.

Recently staff have completed tracking information on how students are performing in their various

subjects, and, from my point of view as Progress Leader, it is positive to see that many more students

are on track to achieve or surpass their target grades than are falling short at this time. The data also

provides a picture of which students are demonstrating a good attitude to learning regarding their be-

haviour, classwork and homework. In this regard, our most successful students are currently: Megan

Armstrong, Jack Quayle, Adam Souster, Noah Metcalfe, Robben Sherburne and Katie Warren. My con-

gratulations go to these individuals for their continued efforts. Also worth mentioning are those who

have made significant improvements since earlier in the term, including Emma Adlam, Amar Gurung, Jor-

dan Hicks, Liam Howard, Louis Jackson, Chantelle Neale and Charlotte Shuttleworth.

Alongside the reasons to celebrate the work and commitment being shown by many students, an area

for concern has also been highlighted – that of incomplete homework. The nature of many of the GCSE

and BTEC courses is such that setting homework is necessary to complete the content and to reinforce

learning that takes place in the lessons. Students who frequently fail to complete homework are putting

themselves at a disadvantage as they strive towards success in their various courses. We continue to

appreciate the support we get from home in reinforcing the importance of this.

One other issue that has caused concern recently has been that of bullying, both in a physical sense and

through social media networks. While we do all that we can to clamp down on any issues that arise within

school, we are not in a position to follow up online bullying that takes place elsewhere, and so we would

urge parents to involve the police and internet providers if they have any concerns that cyber-bulling is

taking place. You can look at the CEOP website http://ceop.police.uk/ which gives you guidance about

staying safe on line. (there is also a link from the school website).

Mr Thomas

Year 10 Progress Leader

[email protected]

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Acheivement-

Jorge Carter & Dana Jackson

Effort- Sophie Pearey

Joshua Yates

YEAR 11 SUMMARY

Exams

A reminder to all year 11 students that they should be revising for the upcoming

Mocks and indeed for the real exams which start after Christmas. Attending the weekly revision clas-

ses will help you with some of your revision, but you should also be revising at home. A reminder also

that the ALAN tests are running in room 9 on Tuesday after school. Book an appointment with Mrs

Fletcher or Mrs Daulby and get those out of the way as quickly as possible.

Colleges

Year 11 continue to have college presentations on a Friday in assembly. Please also make use of any up-

coming open evenings. Finally, don‘t forget to send off those applications!

Christmas Fair

Year 11 should start thinking about what kind of stall they would like to run at the Christmas Fair and

start their planning and preparation in tutor time. The Christmas Fair is not just a lovely whole school

event, but also allows the students to gain the other half GCSE to make up the one they sat in the sum-

mer.

PARS

A reminder that the first student to achieve 30 PARS points in the Christmas promotion will receive a

Paintballing voucher for themselves and 9 friends.

Star Students

Mrs Staker

Year 11 Progress Leader [email protected]

Certificate Evening

Winners

Keelin Manning- up 64

Aaron Hammond – up 61

Sharntelle Snowdon- up 57

Paige Tudhope- up 56

Shaun Rice- up 47

Sophie Mercer- up 45

Amy Curtis- up 45

Chloe McGeown- up 43

Nicole Aquilina – up 41

Highest Movers

Attitude to Learning

Mollie Robinson- up 111!!

Top Pars Points

KATIE NEWHAM

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First person wins!

MATHS CHALLENGE 7

To win the prize and 2 PARS points, bring your written explanation (with your name & tutor

group clearly seen) to Mr Greeves in room 54. All the best entries will be put in a hat and

the

first one drawn wins. Deadline Wednesday

12th December 2012.

Good luck!

"When the day after tomorrow is yesterday, "today" will

be as far from Sunday as that day was which was "today"

when the day before yesterday was "tomorrow"!

On what day of the week did this

puzzling prattle occur?

Competition open to pupils, parents and staff too!

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CHALLENGE 6 WINNER

Challenge 6 winner: Mr S. Rogers! He found the closest answer; and although he did not match the

correct solution, he did provide a 100% correct explanation for his alternative interpretation of the

question. It was most original too. Well done Mr Rogers, your chocolates are waiting for you in Room

54.

Mr. Rogers’ reasoning:

Well if a 3rd equals ¾ of the group behind, then a 3rd of 9 is 3 which equals ¾ of 4. Thus 9 + 4+ Mr

Roper = 14 total (if dancing in a straight line).

The correct solution:

Mr Roger noticed one ‗trick‘ which was to include Mr Roper. However, the 2nd catch in the puzzle was

that the teachers were dancing ―around Stonehenge‖, in other words, in a circle! A third of 12 people

in front (which equals 4) plus ¾ of 12 behind (which equals 9), gives 4 + 9 = 13 which is 12 + Mr Roper.

Runner Up Prizes:

Runner up PARS points (one per person) go to Tom Badger (9RCL), Elouise Horner (7EVJ), Reece

Loveridge (8GJW), Aaron Markham (9RCH), Matthew Tuck (10DGR) and George White (9RCL) for

good effort.

Mr Greeves

Year 11

Maths Revision

EVERY WEDNESDAY W band: Week 1 Sets 1 &2: Room 55 Sets 3 & 4: Room 54

Z band: Week 2 Sets 5: Room 56 Sets 6-8: Room 53

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Children In Need

On Friday 16th November Children

dressed up in mufti, many wearing

spotty outfits to raise money for

children in need. Representatives

of Equality House set up stalls in

the lower school dining hall selling

Pudsey key rings and colourful

wrist bands and raised over £150.

A samba competition and a quiz

also raised some money too, Alto-

gether £688 was raised for Chil-

dren In Need this year. It was a

great success

Mr Langley

Aim Higher Event at Bath University

Engineering Taster Day

Nine pupils from Mr. Grainger‘s Resistant materials Year 10 option Group at-

tended an ‖Engineering Taster Day‖ at Bath University on Tuesday 20th No-

vember.

The day consisted of finding out about the various aspects of ―Engineering‖ ;

Mechanical, Civil, Electronic and Chemical and the careers related to them.

For a large part of the day, the 9

pupils were set to work in groups

to come up with designs and mod-

els to find engineering solutions

to situations presented to them.

All the pupils found the day beneficial and hopefully gave

them an insight into ―Engineering‖.

Mr Monk

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License

d bar

SOLO

ARTISTS

ROCK BAND RAFFLE

The Stonehenge School

Is proud to present

Our Annual

Christmas Concert

Friday 14th December 2012 7.00 pm

Tickets priced - £3.00 adults £2.00 children/oap

Available from Reception

ENSEMBLE

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CRAFTS & GIFTS CHRISTMAS FAIR

SATURDAY 8TH DECEMBER

GLEBE HALL, WINTERBOURNE EARLS

11.00 AM TO 3.00 PM

Charlotte Rowe, Georgina Taylor and Katie Newham all have stalls here in an at-

tempt to raise funds for their trip to

Borneo with Camps International.

CSI ………..

On Wednesday 14th November Miss Ellis took a group of 12 Year 9 pupils to a Forensics ‗Solve it‘ day at

@Bristol.

The pupils were given instruction on forensic techniques such as examining fingerprints, shoeprints, fi-

bres and inks (they even took and examined their own fingerprints). They then used this knowledge to

identify the criminal in a series of holdups.

The instructor for the course was very impressed with their behaviour and scientific knowledge. They

were a credit to themselves and the school.

Miss Ellis

Bristol Scienc

e Trip by Tom

Wyeth

First we got the minibus to Bristol.

When we arrived we were given

wrist bands that could be scanned.

The whole day was excellent. We

took finger prints and there was

even a metal bar if you bit it you

could hear music!

I had fun a the Bristol Science Museum. The best bit was learning about forensics. It helped me learn about how they sort crimes out and we had a try. I would like to go again

I really enjoyed the trip to ‗@ Bris-

tol‘. It made me look at Science in a

different, more ‗fun‘ way. I would

definitely recommend about this trip.

It was one of the best I‘ve been on

so far.

Beth Powell

I really enjoyed the trip! I loved the forensics, when we had to find finger-

prints, it was really interesting. I also loved being able to walk around the

centre and interact with all the stuff. I would definitely do it again!

Emily Gillett

Page 14 Issue 3 2012/2013

Stage ‘65

Salisbury’s Youth Theatre Group Production of

‘Lord of the Flies’

Congratulations must go to Fraser Adams (8JAR) on his review which ap-

peared on the Salisbury Journal‘s website. Fraser is pictured below

(arrowed) with his LAMDA Award

―The cast is chosen well, each character instantly recognisable to those who have read the book.

While the whole cast is strong, special mention must go to Fraser Adams whose portrayal of Maurice is brilliant, bringing humour at times to what is, on the whole, a rather gruesome story.‖

Another student involved in the production was Thomas Brown.

Well done to both boys certainly stars in the making!

Editor

Stop Press!! Fraser is also starring in production of ―The Pied Piper‖ in Studio Theatre, Ashley Road,

Salisbury !!

LAMDA Acting examination success at The Stonehenge School.

LAMDA is The London Academy of Music and

Dramatic Arts and The Stonehenge School is one

of their private centres.

Nineteen students achieved grades ranging from 4

to Gold, the highest Acting grade possible. Notable

amongst the successful performers were Year 11 students Charlotte

Rowe and Megan Doole. They were delighted to receive Gold awards

with Merits for their three performances. Year 9 students, Gemma

Hammond and Ellie Maple were awarded Silver medals for scenes from

Shakespeare, Wilde and Willy Russell. Euan Mauchline and Fraser Ad-

ams, both Year 8 students earned a Bronze with Merit for their pieces

that included a creepy interpretation of Doctor Jeckyll and Mr Hyde.

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Year 11‘s Holly Holstead and Jessica Andrews came away with Bronzes too for their darkly comic duologue, The Assassination.

Perhaps the most unusual choice of contrasting roles came from Montana Birks who got a Bronze with Merit playing both Ceci-

ly Cardew (from The Importance of Being Earnest )and a cat! Kianna Hardy (Year 9)gave an out of this world performance as a

ghost teenager (Vicky Angel) and earned a Grade 5 certificate alongside Lauren Kenny. Jodie Hill was another Year 9 student

in receipt of a Bronze medal.

Solo performers were Bronze medallists, Nathan Carter, Holly Sherburne, Eloise Davies-

Tyler and Sam Griffiths whose diverse monologues ranged from the Sophocles‘ Antigone to

Grant and Naylor‘s space comedy, Red Dwarf. Younger students included Bethan Ellis and

Leah Yates with Grade Four Solo awards and Jasmine Scott with a Grade 5 (Merit).

Fifty-nine students have gained LAMDA awards since the first examinations in 2010.

Phil Jamieson

(Head of Drama)

YEAR 8 GEOGRAPHY PROJECTS

In Year 8, many of the classes were asked to make a model of a river‘s journey out of a variety of materials IN-

CLUDING Lego, cake, papier mache and cardboard.

On the 9th November, 2012, the Year 8 class, 8T, presented their creations to the class.

The grades that were given were in between a Level 4 and a Level 5.

Many of the students were happy with their levels and most of them were

hungry for their cake!

Brook Smith 8T

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"Local Business Supports Road Safety Initiative In Amesbury"

Amesbury Area Road Safety Quiz 2012

The Stonehenge School hosted six schools for the "Third Annual Amesbury Area Road Safety Quiz"

sponsored by MEMORY OPTICIANS, just before "The Clocks Change".

On Monday 22nd October 2012 ,Newton Tony Pri-

mary School, Amesbury Primary School and All

Saints Primary School, Netheravon competed in

the first leg of The Amesbury Area Road Safety

Competition with each school sending a team of

four pupils drawn from either Year 6 or Year 5 to

take part in a "University Challenge" style contest

based on The Highway Code and Cycle Safety.

All the teams were keen to perform well and

showed a good degree of understand-

ing of; Road Traffic Signs, The Green

Cross Code, Accident Prevention and

basic facts associated with Traffic

Accidents.

By the end of the competition the

scores were as follows in a closely

fought contest;

Newton Tony Primary School 37

points,

Amesbury Primary School 34 points,

All Saints, Primary School Netheravon also 34 points.

Prizes sponsored by MEMORY OPTICIANS were awarded by

the Quizmaster to all the teams and individuals that took part.

Subsequently on Wednesday 24th October, Woodford Valley

Primary School, Amesbury Archer Primary School and Bulford

St. Leonards Primary School competed in the second leg of the

competition answering similar questions in the same "University

Challenge" style.

Again the knowledge displayed by all the competiting teams was impressive. On this occasion the scores

were as follows;

Bulford St. Leonards Primary School scored 38 points,

Amesbury Archer Primary School scored 36 points,

Woodford Valley Primary School scored 35 points.

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The Salisbury Schools’ Book Awards 2013

Going Solo Roald Dahl

Blood Hunters Steve Voake

Virals Kathy Reichs

Flip Martyn Bedford

Tug of War Catherine Forde

The One Dollar Horse Lauren St John

SIGN UP IN THE LIBRARY TODAY

READ THEM ALL

CHOOSE YOUR FAVOURITE

Prizes from the event sponsors MEMORY OPTICIANS were again

awarded to all those that took part.

Hopefully by raising awareness of the need for young people to con-

sider their safety on the road

whether as a pedestrian, cyclist

or passenger in a vehicle, the

number of accidents involving

young people may be reduced this

Autumn and Winter.

Mr Monk

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31st of October. When the last trick-or-treaters have been called home, the streets are quiet and dark, sweet wrappers floating. Four children dare to enter Old Man Jenkins’ house. One falls through a rotten floor; one opens a battered and mouldy door to be impaled on bloody spikes; one went down to the dingy, cobweb-strewn basement to be eaten alive by huge, ferocious insects. One boy left alive, alive but never to leave. Now every November trick-or-treaters steer clear of the Jenkins house. They dare each other to knock on the door, but no-one ever does. From the shadows, the boy looks on, waiting. By Bradley Such Year 10

WINNERS OF THE HALLOWEEN SHORT STORY COMPETITION

One dark night with a jet black sky and flickering streetlights, a girl was on her way home from trick-or-treating. She had only one way to go, through a pitch black alleyway. She did not know but she was about to meet her worst fear… She took three steps into the alleyway when a wooden hand grabbed her shoulder! A voice whispered “I’ve been looking for you!” Gingerly she turned around. The voice snapped, “You scream, you die!” She was dragged into the darkness and was never seen again…

Fred got out of bed, banging his head on the low cottage roof as he did so. Slowly he made his way to the bathroom along the pitch black corridor, feeling his way to the door. He made his way back again, wriggling into bed to find a comfortable position. As he did so, he heard a noise, a squeak. Who’s there? He jumped out of bed, looking around in the blackness. He could sense a presence. Terrified, he got back into bed. He heard foot-steps behind the door. The handle slowly turned… By Fraser Adams, Year 8

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So far this year we have hosted 3 primary school PE festivals.

The first festival of the year was the year 3/4 football. There were a total of 10

teams at the festival, totalling about 100 8 and 9 year olds. The festival was suc-

cessfully run by the year 10 and 11 BTEC pu-

pils.

Our pupils managed teams, did the score sheets,

took photos and refereed the matches.

Following on from the success of this festival the year 10 BTEC pupils

then ran the year 6 Gifted and Talented morning. Pupils from Woodford Valley, Newton Tony, Ames-

bury Primary and Christ the king came bringing a total of 32 children. Although there were less partici-

pants this festival tested the BTEC pupils more as they now had to explain things that many had not

tried themselves.

The BTEC pupils ran activities which tested the pupils agility, co-

ordination, reactions, balance and team work. The

primary pupils worked with pupils from other schools

at this festival and were challenged in many activi-

ties.

The final festival that has taken place this year is the year 1/2 BISI Badminton Festival, this was run by

the year 10 Sports Leaders group (with the help of a few extra students). Our pupils again received lots of

praise from the primary staff relating to their attitude and their manner with the young pupils.

The sports leaders took charge of the 10 stations that the 80 primary pupils took part in. For many of the

primary pupils they had never held a badminton racket before so this event taught them new skills, that

they appeared to extremely enjoy.

At all of these festivals our pupils received high levels of praise from the Primary staff and par-

ents. They all worked really hard to ensure that the primary pupils enjoyed their day and that it

ran very smoothly. Well done to all the students who took part. Mrs Ruscoe

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LOST PROPERTY

The list of lost property that went out in the last newsletter does not seem to

have gone down and in fact more has been added to it. In an endeavour to reu-

nite students with their lost items of clothing, jewellery, phones etc we have

placed a new page on the student intranet advertising lost property. This will

enable students to immediately check if their lost item has been handed in.

Our current list includes the following

If your child has lost any of the

listed items they should go the

reception. Items not collected

after two weeks will be donated to

charity.

Mrs Lester

Bright Green Water Bottle. Sports Direct.

Blue "No Fear" baseball cap

Maroon Helly Hansen Girls coat

New Look black padded jacket

Pair of "George" black leggings size 8

"Goodnight" V neck black T shirt size 8

Black Dunlop Golf 13 zipped jacket with tube of Aloe Vera lip balm in pocket

Top Shop size 10 grey girls jacket

Regatta Black large soft shell jacket

F and F (Tesco) medium blue lightweight jacket

Dunlop Golf 13 black jacket

White school shirt (boys) 12-13

School Blazer girls

Nanny State medium pink zip up hoodie

"Dare 2 Be" black fleece medium

Brave Soul Grey/yellow hoodie medium

Bright blue scarve

Brown "New Look" jumper size 12

Fila black zip up jacket size

Grey Milletts 9-10 zip up rain jacket

Movement orange/blue zip up jacket medium

Fruit of the Loom Springfields Sports Fleece

Katrin black/orange/white check jacket

Back to School jogging bottoms navy 11-12

3 x black boys school trousers different sizes

Bright pink fleecy "secret" dressing gown (Small)

3 x black boys school trousers different sizes

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DECEMBER Mon 3rd—Fri 14th Year 11 Mock Exams Tues 4th Year 10 Work Experience Parents‘ Evening 6.30—8.00 pm Wed 5th Dry slope skiing, Session A2 Thurs 6th TD DAY Tues 11th Year 11 MFL Oral Exam Tues 11th Music Dept—Stroke Club Concert Wed 12th Year 11 MFL Oral Exam Thurs 13th Year 11 MFL Oral Exam Fri 14th Christmas concert 7.00—9.00 pm Thurs 20th Year 11 Christmas Fayre Fri 21st Tutor Group Christmas Parties 11.15—12.15 pm Fri 21st END OF TERM EARLY CLOSURE 12.30 pm. Buses at 12.50 pm.

ANOTHER SUCCESSFUL YEAR WITH CROSS COUNTRY AT STONEHENGE SCHOOL

STONEHENGE SCHOOL ATHLETES RECEIVE 20 MEDALS AT AWARDS PRESENTATION

STRIVING FOR EXCELLENCE- EXCEEDING EXPECTATIONS

SALISBURY AREA SCHOOLS CROSS COUNTRY CHAMPIONSHIPS RESULTS OF THE 2012 SEASON

The Stonehenge School sent teams to Wyvern College, Salisbury, for the final races in the 4 fixture series. On a

dry day that provided a good running surface for all the competing runners the Stonehenge School individuals and

teams acquitted themselves well. The results in the races were as follows;

Minor Boys; Kristian Beech 8th Stephen Ingram 16th Leon Stanley 19th Alfie Perry 24th

Jacob Berry 28th Samuel Gilbert 30th

Minor Girls; Megan Ringwood 11th Chloe Maffey 20th Sarah Faulkner 23rd Rebecca Oddie 30th

Emily Hunter 31st

Junior Boys; Josh Sommerton 7th Asa Wilman 8th Connor Dean 18th Theo Card 19th

Tom Price 21st Aiden Fitzgerald 27th Monty Podger 31st Jake Ash 35th

Junior Girls; Claudia Downie 4th Jessica Hall 12th Olivia Worrall 20th Rachel Moody 23rd

Sophie Williams 35th

Inter Boys; Gio Downie 1st, Luke Greenway 2nd, Chris Hill 7 th Tyler Faircloth 10th Matt Woods 19th

Zac Wellock 20th

Inter Girls; Jasmine Bucannon 12th Ruby Collinson 13 th Chantel Herrity 16th Sophie Joynson 18th

All the results from the 4 fixtures are recorded by individual performance and School Team of ( first 4 finishers

form the school). A team, or individual can drop their worst placing for the final awarding of medals on the aggre-

gate scores. As a result of their efforts through the season the Stonehenge School runners picked up 24 medals

( just short of our record haul of 29 medals in 2011) in the following categories;

Minor Boys ; Team Bronze , Individual Gold, Finley Lloyd- Gilmour( absent ill from the Wyvern race, but winner of

the 3 races)

Junior Boys; Team Bronze

Inter Girls ; Team Bronze

Inter Boys ; Team Gold , Individual Gold, Geo Downie, Individual Silver, Luke Greenway, Individual Bronze, Matt

Smith ( absent injured from the Wyvern race)

As a result of their efforts 14 Stonehenge pupils ( a record number), will be selected to represent the Salisbury

Area at The Wiltshire Schools Cross country Championships at Grittleton House School, Near Chippenham, on

Saturday 19th January 2013. Names will be published nearer the event.

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THE STONEHENGE SCHOOL

ANTROBUS ROAD, AMESBURY

WILTSHIRE SP4 7ND

Tel: 01980 623407

Fax: 01980 625547

E-Mail: [email protected]

Web site: www.stonehenge.wilts.sch.uk

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ATTENDANCE OFFICER VACANCY

Required as soon as possible. 32½ hours per week, 8.30 to 3.30 pm Mon-Fri (term time only,

with one week working during the summer holidays). £8.72 per hour

We are looking for someone with good IT skills, to maintain accurate student records and

registration details. This is a demanding role and you will need the flexibility to work effec-

tively in a busy environment, sharing tasks and dealing with enquiries from staff, students and

parents. Previous experience of working in a school environment would be an advantage but

not essential.

The school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young

people and expects all staff to share this commitment. This post is subject to a criminal rec-

ords check.

Closing date for applicants: Weds 12th December

Applications and further details are available on our website and returnable to Mrs D Harker,

The Headteacher‘s PA, The Stonehenge School, Antrobus Road, Amesbury, Wiltshire, SP4

7ND.

Telephone; (01980) 623407

Fax; (01980) 625547

Email; [email protected]

Website: www.stonehenge.wilts.sch.uk