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Sporting Excellence
Clubs & Activities
School Productions
Ysgol Stanwell School
Greetings from the School School Calendar 2014/15 School Trips 2014/15 School Holiday Dates 2014/16 Duke of Edinburgh Award Scheme Eco-Schools Healthy Schools Learner Voice School Sponsorship Cycle Department News Year Group News 100% attendance pupils
Contents
I feel very proud to bring you this collection of our pupils’ achievements both in school and in the wider community. Here at Stanwell, the autumn term has been busy and event-ful, culminating in our spectacular production of ‘Aida’ which had a rapturous reception from sell-out audiences over four consecutive nights. I am also delighted to inform you that work has begun on our new all-weather pitch which will further improve the quality of sporting facilities at Stanwell on completion. I would like to take this opportunity to thank all the staff, pupils, governors, parents and friends of the school who have contrib-uted to our success this year. I wish you all a happy and restful Christmas break. Mr D. Jones, Headteacher.
Rydw i'n teimlo'n hynod o falch i ddenu eich sylw at holl gampau ein disgyblion yn yr ysgol ac yn y gymuned ehangach. Yn Stanwell, Mae tymor yr hydref wedi bod yn bry-sur a digwyddlawn, yn diweddu yn ein cynhyrchiad syfrdanol o 'Aida' sydd wedi cael derbyniad brwd gan gynulleidfa llawn dros gyfnod o bedair noson ddilynol. Yn ogystal, mae pleser gen i ddweud wrthoch chi bod y gwaith ar ein cae pob tywydd wedi dechrau ac fe fydd hyn yn parhau I wella ansawdd ein cyfleusterau chwaraeon yn Stan-well. Hoffwn i gymryd y gyfle I ddiolch i'r staff i gyd, i'r disgyblion, i'r llywodraethwyr, i'r rheini ac i ffrindiau'r ysgol sydd wedi cyfrannu at lwyddiant yr ysgol eleni. Rydw i'n dymuno Nadolig llawen a gwyliau ymlaciol I chi i gyd.
Mr D Jones, Pennaeth
Greetings from the school
School Announcements The date of 2015’s PTA quiz will be Friday 30th January. This event is one of the
social highlights of the school year so gather your teams together and register! The maximum number of members per team is 6 and entry costs £7 per head to include a buffet supper. Wine, beer and cider can be purchased on the night to accompany your meal. Please telephone main reception to reserve your team’s space we look forward to seeing you there!
Parents and pupils are reminded that Monday 5th January is an INSET day.
Monday 1st September INSET DAY
Tuesday 2nd September FIRST DAY OF TERM FOR PUPILS
Tuesday 21st October OPEN DAY
Monday 27th October
Friday 31st October
Tuesday 11th November Year 13 Parents' Evening
Tuesday 18th November Year 7 Pastoral Evening
Monday 1st December Examination Week Years 11, 12 & 13
Friday 19th December END OF TERM
Monday 22nd December
Friday 2nd January
Monday 5th January INSET DAY
Tuesday 6th January FIRST DAY OF TERM FOR PUPILS
Tuesday 27th January Year 11 Parents' Evening
Tuesday 3rd February Year 12 Parents' Evening
Tuesday 10th February Year 11 Options Evening
Monday 16th February
Friday 20th February
Tuesday 24th February Year 10 Parents' Evening
Tuesday 3rd March Year 8 TEAMX Parents' Evening
Tuesday 10th March Year 8 WORKL Parents' Evening
Tuesday 17th March Year 8 Options Evening
Tuesday 24th March Year 9 Parents' Evening
Friday 27th March END OF TERM
Monday 30th March
Friday 10th April
Monday 13th April FIRST DAY OF TERM FOR STAFF AND PUPILS
Tuesday 21st April Year 7 TEAMX Parents' Evening
Tuesday 28th April Year 7 WORKL Parents' Evening
Monday 25th May
Friday 29th May
Thursday 11th June Examination Week Years 7, 8 & 9
Wednesday 24th June Award Cermony
Tuesday 7th July New Year 7 Parents' EveningWednesday 15th July Last day of term for pupils
CALENDAR FOR 2014/15
HALF TERM
HALF TERM
HALF TERM
CHRISTMAS HOLIDAYS
EASTER HOLIDAYS
Proposed Overnight Trips for the next academic year.
Department Year Group Location Date Length
History 7 France 25th to 27th June 2015 3 days
French 7 France 9th & 10th June 2015 2 days
Geography 8 Bristol Zoo June 2015 1 day
Languages 8 France 5th to 7th March 2015 3 days
DT 8 Boulogne October 2015 3 days
Geography 9 London Olympic sustainability 5th & 6th February 2015 2 days
German 9 Exchange Easter 2015 8 days
History 9 France June 2015 2 days
PE 9 Storey Arms 8th to 10th May 2015 3 days
RE 9 London 14th & 15th April 2015 2 days
Geography 10 GCSE Fieldwork June 2015 1day
History 10 Berlin Thursday 26th March to Monday 30th March 2105 5 days
Geography 12 Regeneration Cardiff Bay March 2015 1 day
History 12 London March 2015 2 days
Skiing 7, 8, 9 & 10 Austria 27th March to 4th April 2015 8 days
Geography 9 & 10 Italy/ Sicily Half term Oct 2015 5 days
Skiing 11, 12 & 13 Austria February 2015 8 days
Art 9 to 13 Madrid February 2015 7 days
Expedition 12 & 13 Borneo Summer 2016 17 days
DT 10 to 12 Barcelona November 2016 4 Days
SCHOOL HOLIDAY DATES 2014/2015
Term Begin Half term End No. of School Begin End Days
Autumn
2014
Monday 1 Sept 2014
Monday 27 Oct 2014
Friday 31 Oct 2014
Friday 19 Dec 2014
75
Spring 2015
Monday 5 Jan 2015
Monday 16 Feb 2015
Friday 20 Feb 2015
Friday
27 March 2015
55
Summer
2015
Monday 13 April
2015
Monday 25 May 2015
Friday 29 May 2015
*Monday 20 July 2015
65
TOTAL 195 i) Monday 1 September 2014 and *Monday 20 July 2015 will be
designated INSET days for all LEA Maintained Schools. The remaining three INSET days to be taken, will be at the discretion of each individual school. *It is intended that this INSET day will either be taken on Monday 20 July 2015 or at an alternative time to be decided by individual schools following appropriate consultation with staff for example in the form of twilight sessions.
All schools will be closed on Monday 4 May 2015 for the May Day Bank Holiday. Significant dates: Christmas Thursday 25 December 2014 Easter Good Friday 3 April 2015 Easter Monday 6 April 2015 May Bank Holidays Monday 4 May 2015 Monday 25 May 2015
SCHOOL HOLIDAY DATES 2015/2016
Term Begin Half term End No. of School
Begin End Days
Autumn 2015
Tuesday 1 Sept 2015
Monday 26 Oct 2015
Friday 30 Oct 2015
Friday 18 Dec 2015
74
Spring 2016
Monday 4 Jan 2016
Monday 15 Feb 2016
Friday 19 Feb 2016
Thursday 24 March
2016
54
Summer
2016
Monday 11 April
2016
Monday 30 May 2016
Friday 3 June 2016
Weds
20 July 2016
67
TOTAL 195 ii) Tuesday 1 September 2015 will be a designated INSET day for all LEA
Maintained Schools. The remaining four INSET days to be taken, will be at the discretion of each individual school.
All schools will be closed on Monday 2 May 2016 for the May Day Bank Holiday. Significant dates: Christmas Friday 25 December 2015 Easter Good Friday 25 March 2016 Easter Monday 28 March 2016 May Bank Holidays Monday 2 May 2016 Monday 30 May 2016
SCHOOL HOLIDAY DATES 2016/2017 Term Begin Half term End No. of School
Begin End Days
Autumn 2016
Monday 5 Sept 2016
Monday 24 Oct 2016
Friday 28 Oct 2016
Friday 16 Dec 2016
70
Spring 2017
Tuesday
3 Jan 2017
Monday 20 Feb 2017
Friday 24 Feb 2017
Friday 7 April 2017
64
Summer
2017
Monday 24 April
2017
Monday 29 May 2017
Friday 2 Jun 2017
*Tuesday 25 July 2017
61
TOTAL 195 i) Monday 5 September 2016, *Monday 24 and Tuesday 25 July 2017 will
be designated INSET days for all LEA Maintained Schools. The remaining two INSET days to be taken, will be at the discretion of each individual school. *It is intended that these INSET days will either be taken on Monday 24 and Tuesday 25 July 2017 or at alternative times to be decided by individual schools following appropriate consultation with staff for example in the form of twilight sessions.
All schools will be closed on Monday 1 May 2017 for the May Day Bank Holiday. Significant dates: Christmas Sunday 25 December 2016
New Year Bank Holiday Monday 2 January 2017 Easter Good Friday 14 April 2017 Easter Monday 17 April 2017 May Bank Holidays Monday 1 May 2017 Monday 29 May 2017
Duke of Edinburgh Award Scheme
This year has seen record numbers of pupils registering for their Duke of Edinburgh Award at all levels. There are 170 pupils en-rolled on bronze level, over 100 pupils for the silver award and 44 pupils at gold level. To cover the pupils the expedition dates are quite extensive this year. They are as fol-lows:
7th February 2015
Bronze daywalk, Cowbridge (first half of the group)
28th February 2015
Bronze daywalk, Cowbridge (second half of the group).
Thursday 19th—Saturday 21st March
Silver practice
Thursday 16th – Saturday 18th April
Silver assessed
Thus 18th – Fri 19th June
Bronze practice (first half) Thurs 25th – Fri 26th June
Bronze assessed (second half)
Thus 2nd – Fri 3rd July
Bronze practice (first half)
Mon 13th – Tue 14th July
Bronze assessed (second half)
Proposed dates for Gold Award: Final weeks:(last two weeks of summer term) Monday 6th – Friday 10th July Stanwell Open Gold group Monday 13th – Friday 17th July
Penarth Gold Night Class group.
With such large expedition groups and changes to kit hire from the Vale, pupils may wish to purchase some of their own equipment espe-cially if they are hoping to continue to the higher DofE level. Pupils must also remember to obtain their evidence and upload it onto their personal DofE accounts. Without the appropri-ate evidence they cannot obtain their award.
The bronze award participants have been re-ceiving first aid training delivered by FAST. Pupils receive basic training which is specifi-cally geared towards what could happen on an expedition. Many thanks to the trainers for their enthusiasm with the pupils when they come into school.
A number of our ex-pupils went to St James’ Palace on Wednesday 26th November to re-ceive their Gold award. They met the Duke of Edinburgh who spoke to them prior to the pres-entation of certificates from TV star Ruth Jones. The pupils were James Williams, Iso-bel Davies, Eleanor Davies, Hannah Buchal-ter, Amelia Newton, Leonor Marques-Worssam, Jemima Bushby and Anna te Wa-ter Naude. It was a fantastic day and we were all very pleased that it was the Duke of Edin-burgh himself who was in attendance this year!
“Fist aid training delivered by FAST”
Miss H Jenkins
Eco-Schools
The Eco Stanwell committee has been in-volved in a number of initiatives this term. This began with the establishment of a new committee for 2014/2015, the names of members old and new are listed below: Year 13 Sam Laity, Rebecca Te Water Naude Megan Wookey, Emily Thomas Ailsa Maxwell, Robyn Keene Year 12 Jessica Boland, Jack Bosley, Ben Rose Abbie Isaacs, Lauren Faulkner, Martin Doyle Year 11 George Prickett, Ray Vandyck, Sean Mian Year 10 Robert Brown, Michael Conway, Harry Newman, Clodagh McKechnie George Lush Year 8 Zoya Yousef, Neil Power, Enyala Banks Arianne Banks
During November, Eco Stanwell week was organised and to help promote the theme for 2014, “mix it up, use a more sustainable form of transport”; an outside speaker from Sus-tran came to talk to Year 8 pupils in an as-sembly. Other year groups and staff were also asked to complete an eco-survey based on transport habits. In addition, Year 7 pupils created an Eco Wish for the future.
Congratulations to Mrs Symonds, Mr Spils-bury and Mrs Hall for receiving an Eco cer-tificate for all their help with green issues within the school. Stanwell school is to be assessed for the final Green Flag Award early in 2015, more infor-mation will follow in the New Year.
“International eco-organisations”
Mrs J Laity
Eco Stanwell’s Committee attend an inter-national meeting in Cardiff
An Eco Schools Operators’ meeting was held in the Maldron Hotel Cardiff, on Friday 5th December 2014. This is an annual event that occurs throughout the world and in 2014 Wales hosted the event. Members of the eco Stanwell Committee were invited to the meet-ing, along with eco members from Llantwit Major and three local primary schools. The pupils shared their eco experiences with dele-gates from over 60 countries. Harry Newman, Robert Brown and Michael Conway of Year 10 and Neil Power of Year 8 spoke with confi-dence and maturity about Stanwell's environ-mental initiatives during the event. The boys commented, "it has been an interesting experi-ence to speak to so many people from all over the world and we are amazed at the variety of environmental projects going on globally.” Hopefully the pupils have developed environ-mental ideas to use at Stanwell and made inter-esting links with international eco organisa-tions in the process.
Over the Christmas period about 30% more rubbish is produced. Glass, cans, Christmas trees, cards, wrapping paper and plastic are all thrown away in dustbins across the country. This year, why not make a special effort to try and minimise the amount of waste produced over the festive period? The Eco committee hopes that all members of the school and local community remember to save used Christmas cards for the annual “Vale Recycling Competition”. Cards can be brought into school from the 8th January 2015.
ECO STANWELL WEEK 2014
SMARTER JOURNEYSDO THE RIGHT MIX!!!!
Healthy Schools
“Promoting health and well-being”
Mrs L Crowter
Stanwell School actively promotes healthy liv-ing and well-being. Pupils take key roles in de-cision making and participation in order to im-prove the health and environment of our school. We adopt a whole-school approach across the seven different health topics: food and fitness, mental and emotional health and well being, personal development and relationships, sub-stance use and misuse, environment, safety and hygiene. This term, the Healthy Schools’ group has been busy creating a new logo, which summarises our values. The idea that what we put in to our bodies affects our healthy outcomes was the favourite choice and we think our logo (pictured below) captures this idea perfectly.
Well done to all members of the Healthy Schools’ group and especially Joe Andrews from Year 12 for his excellent design! As a group, we have also been considering school policies, our menus and dining areas and the school website, to ensure we are promoting health and well being as effectively as we can.
This term, we have also seen the introduction of ‘Free Fruit Fridays’, an exciting new initiative from the Stanwell catering team. All pupils are entitled to choose one free piece of fruit on Fridays. We are pleased to be able to offer healthy choices and hope to see all pupils take us up on this offer!
Rhys Fford (Year 12) and Joe Stanton (Year 12) from the Stanwell Healthy Schools’ Group have also been into assemblies this term to raise awareness of healthy options and encour-age other pupils to join us and have a say in the school community. If you are interested in be-coming part of the Healthy Schools’ Group, see Mrs Crowter in F31.We meet each half term to discuss the seven health topics and we are always keen to receive the opinions and thoughts of pupils on how we can promote health across the school. We also meet with Mr Robinson, the Head Chef; the Eco-Committee and the 5x60 officer to discuss joint opportunities and initiatives.
You can also follow our regular updates on Twitter—@StanwellHS
Learner Voice
‘Learner Voice’ continues to provide oppor-tunities for pupils to work in partnership with their teachers. The Student Council links all the learner voice groups together and pro-vides a forum for each group to update pupils on recent and planned events and proposed improvements across the school. The all- weather pitch currently under construction was initially suggested by the Student Coun-cil about five years ago and this idea is now on the way to reaching fruition.
Recent updates from the school council:
Following questions about food labelling for allergy sufferers, Mr Robinson (Stanwell Ca-tering Manager) attended the recent meeting to demonstrate the new allergen food label-ling system. Year 11 learners were very com-plimentary about the extra support provided by their maths teachers in preparation for the recent GCSE exam. The breakfast club and early morning revision session were much appreciated and pupils thanked Mr Robinson and his team for the early breakfast before Maths Paper 2. Strategies for coping with pre-exam stress were requested previously by Year 12 and the recent workshop for all Sixth Form Students was much appreciated.
Another visitor to the last meeting was Bethan Watkins from the Vale Youth Ser-vice. She gave an interesting presentation on
“developing links with our local community”
Mr K Watkins
the work of Penarth Youth Action and its links with the local community and the Vale Youth Forum. Stanwell Sixth Form student and the first Vale Youth Mayor Tom Chandler also spoke about the importance of getting involved with decision-making in the local community. Councillors were also asked for feedback on the proposed reports for the Autumn reporting period and made several helpful suggestions about how improvements could be made. The ‘Community Group’ is responsible for organis-ing and promoting charity events and develop-ing links with our local community. The Char-ity Committee of Abbie Isaacs, Alex Warren, Ben Rose, Emilie Waite, Emily Walters, Jenny Blunden, Martin Doyle, Olivia Dwyer, Sarah Brabham, Will Brown and Iman Haq have been very active this term col-lecting 95 shoeboxes of gifts for Operation Christmas Child.
A non-uniform day combined with a Cake-Off competition, sales of Pudsey and Breastcancer Campaign badges and the Year 7 enterprise market all helped to raise a total of £2937.00 for Children in Need and The Breastcancer Campaign. Christmas came early to Stanwell on the last day of term when students and staff wore their Christmas jumpers to raise money for Save the Children. Well done to all those who have taken part.
Staff Sponsored Cycle
“The Teenage Cancer Trust relies on donations”
Mr G Penny
We are delighted to announce that the school was able to raise a combined total of £2120 in aid of the Teenage Cancer Trust this term. This total was the result of a spon-sored cycle which took place on Saturday November 8th, 2014. Many staff, pupils, parents and friends of the school deserve praise for their considerable generosity in making a cash or online donation via the justgiving.com page. Members of the school community also purchased raffle tickets at the open evening in October or donated a prize for the raffle that was held.
The day itself
Thirteen Stanwell School staff cycled across a route which took them from the Stanwell School gates to Ynysangharad Park in Pontypridd fol-lowed by a return to school.
The journey began at 9am and utilised the Taff Trail. Participating staff were as follows: Mr Baldwin, Mr Doyle, Mr Gifford, Mr Griffiths, Mrs Hunter, Miss Jenkins, Mrs Laity, Mr Mans-field, Mr Macpherson, Miss Menhenitt, Mr Penny, Mr Pepper and Mrs Symonds.
The event was enjoyed by all staff involved and, despite the challenging conditions of high winds and rain, all returned safely to the school! Pictured below are the team in Pon-typridd.
The charity The Teenage Cancer Trust relies on dona-tions to enable them to continue with their vital work and to continue to act as a support network for young people affected by cancer. Stanwell School was proud to contribute to this excellent charity. Thanks once again to all within the school community for your generosity and support for this great cause. The participating mem-bers of staff were very grateful for the en-couragement of colleagues, pupils and par-ents. Nadolig llawen a blwyddyn newydd dda!
Arlunio Madrid Visit 2015 Following on from another successful exam season, the Art & Design department has been very busy preparing our pupils for our February visit to Madrid and Toledo. The pupils are looking forward to visiting the
Prado, Thyssen Borne-misza Museum and the Reina Sofia Museum.
Schools Against Ra-cism 2015 Calendar and Poster Competi-tion
A panel of judges selected 15 pictures from hundreds of entries from schools in Cardiff and the Vale, 13 of which will feature in the 2015 calendars, and on two special posters. We are delighted to announce Mia Smith 7W, the winner of this year’s competition, will re-ceive a certificate and £50 in vouchers. The school will receive a cheque for £150. Mia, her family, Miss Owen and Miss Lewis attended a special Calendar and Poster launch on 16th December. Mia’s painting, with the other 14 finalists, is being currently displayed on their website. http://www.refweb.org.uk/schoolcalendarcomp/default.htm
Open Day The depart-ment demon-strated lino printing and marbling techniques to a large number of Open Day visitors this year. There was great interest in the sheer variety and quality of work on display in the Art rooms by all year
groups.
There was a clear indication of the excep-tional standard of creative work regularly achieved by pupils in the department.
Christmas Production A number of Year 11 and 12 pupils have been very generous with their time and skills dur-ing this half term and have created a vibrant backdrop for the school production of ‘Aida’, including: Ella Buehner Gattis, Coire Clarkson, Caitlin Ellis, Clara Hall, Beth Macmillan, Francesca Merrick and Thomas Sharpe. Ellen Ashton and Georgina Smith have been busy creat-ing Egyptian themed props for the set. Addi-tionally, two very tal-ented young artists, Ca-trin Jones 10O and Isabelle Hodgson 10L, have produced a fantas-tic image contained in
“Mia Smith, winner of this year’s competition”
Miss R Lewis
Department News
Astudiaethau Busnes Open Day Open Day allowed prospective pupils, cur-rent pupils and their parents/carers the op-portunity to sample a taster of Business Studies lessons. Pupils completed a variety of interactive tasks during the event to see if they had the skills that are needed to be a successful entrepreneur, develop new busi-ness ideas and be able to analyse the mar-kets for launching a product/service. Year 9 It has been an exciting start to the new aca-demic year for all the pupils in Year 9 studying Business for the first time. Pupils have been introduced to a range of new business topics and used their learning to complete the ‘Big Ideas’ project.
Students have designed new innovative products and identified the use of logos, slogans and adver-tising to promote the ideas to their target markets. They also analysed possible pitfalls of their prod-ucts through the assessments of possible competi-tors.
Year 12
Pupils have been harnessing their creative ener-gies to design an innovative product within the confectionary market. They have been identifying whether there is a market for their business ideas through assessing the current market size and seg-ments, whilst reviewing potential market growth.
Owain Osborne-Walsh, Alicia Chapple, Kate Wilkins, Sarah Brabham, Alice Holder and Re-becca Egerstrom (pictured above), with their promotional campaigns for their product designs.
Business Homework club
Business homework club has been well-attended by students since September. These sessions are run after school on a Monday and Thursday. All students, irrespective of year group, are welcome to attend to receive additional help and support with all aspects of the subject.
“It has been an exciting start to the new academic year”
Mrs J Macnamara
Drama
AIDA Senior Production 2014 Pupils from Year 10-13 have been working incredibly hard on this year’s production of Aida with Verity Tucker (Aida) and Sam-uel Jennings (Radames) playing the lead roles. Kevin McCurdy (a specialist in thea-tre sword-fighting/stage combat) led a fan-tastic sword-fighting workshop in prepara-tion for the show. The pupils thoroughly enjoyed this unique experience. A special thank you to Mrs Matthews and Mrs Holds-worth for their hard work and commit-ment—we wish them all the best in the fu-ture!
GCSE Controlled Assessments Year 11 GCSE Drama pupils recently com-pleted their devised examination on Ordi-nary People and Tragedy. All pupils worked hard in lesson time and after-school rehearsals to produce interesting and thought-provoking pieces of work. Students inYear 10 have also worked incredibly hard towards their Aberfan devised assessment pieces. The teachers have been impressed by their level of commitment at after-school rehearsals.
AS Level Audition Workshops Shelley Norton from the Big Talent Agency led Year 12 audition workshops this half term. The pupils learned useful tips regard-ing auditions and appreciated working with Shelley.
Mrs S McGowan
London Theatre Trip In October, pupils from Year 10-13 enjoyed an overnight trip to London’s West End. Pu-pils had a fabulous time watching The Phantom of the Opera and The Woman in Black. Year 12 Theatre Trip Pupils recently enjoyed a performance of Oh What A Lovely War at The Chapter Arts Centre. Pupils are currently working towards their own production of the play in February 2015. Open Day The Drama Department had a steady stream of visitors during the evening. Visitors en-joyed watching practical A-level coursework and an open rehearsal of the senior produc-tion Aida.. The pupils showcased excellent performance skills, focus and energy. Thank you to all pupils involved in making it such a successful evening. Year 9 Improvisation Workshops Michael Waters from the Royal Welsh Col-lege of Music and Drama ran acting work-shops for Year 9 Drama pupils in Novem-ber.
The pupils said it was a beneficial experi-ence which helped inspire their work this term.
“a beneficial experience which has helped inspire our work this term”
Dylunio a Thechnoleg
“enjoying working in a practical environment”
Mr N Gifford
It has been a very exciting start to the new academic year in DT. KS3 Year 7 pupils have been working on a wide range of projects from bottle openers to pil-lows. Pupils are enjoying the projects, work-ing in a practical environment and producing
some excellent work. The bag project in Year 8 contin-ues to be a suc-
cess. Pupils have produced a range of bags including boot bags, hand bags, tote bags and drawstring bags and are enjoying using the new facilities. The Graphics project, which is based on the redesign of a beach-front cafe, is inspiring some excellent work. The food projects and designer-inspired elec-tronic light projects continue to generate a great deal of interest and enthusiasm. GCSE Year 9 students have made a fantas-tic start to the GCSE courses and are building upon their KS3 skills. Pupils are looking forward to their next project where they will be making products in a range of media.
Year 10&11 Following a excellent moderation last term, Year 10 and 11 are set-tling into their CAT projects. Students are currently complet-
ing the design section of their folders in preparation for the manufacturing stage which will begin early next term. Year 12&13 Year 12 students have made a fantastic start on the AS specification. Mark Crothers is designing a portable water filter for use in developing countries, while Phoebe Christie is designing a safe storage system for vinyl records. Year 13 students have started work on their major projects in Food, Textiles and Product Design, with Keira Ryan making a settee for children. The Food students are studying foods from a range of cultures. Ellie Munroe in textiles is enthusiastically taken charge of the costumes for ‘Aida’ and has been assisted
by Yoko Hargreaves and Rebecca Finley. Open Evening Once again, Open Day
was a great suc-cess for the de-partment with
both staff and pu-pils enjoying the afternoon.
Design Technology Mr N Gifford
“attended the Good Food Show in Birmingham”
INNOVATIONS AWARD This term, students from the Year 13 Product Design visited the WJEC Inno-vations Award. This national award is an annual event run by the WJEC and dis-plays 40 exemplar projects. Students were impressed by the range and quality of projects on display
AIDA
This year, Mr Pepper has overseen the department’s involve-ment with the set con-struction and has been assisted by Year 11 and AS Year 12 Product Design students Martin Doyle, Phoebe Christie and Rowan Lambert-Jones. Students have manufactured a range of set items including
maps, Egyptian Gods and swords.
Year 13
Mrs Katrina Jones was kind enough to invite Year 13 to visit OP Chocolate fac-tory in Merthyr Tydfil. OP Chocolate is part of a large French corporation and makes products for Tesco, Morrisons, Sainsburys and ASDA as well as produc-ing their own brand products. We were treated to a factory tour (as well as some free samples) which allowed the class to gain a much better idea of how products are mass produced as well as the tight controls that are involved to ensure that every bar that leaves the factory is safe. The visit assisted the group in their coursework and helped a number of them in choosing a course to study in univer-sity by showing them the possible careers available to them on completion.
Years 9-13 – The Good Food Show At the end of November, Years 9,10,11 and 13 students attended The Good Food Show in Birmingham NEC to view a cooking demonstration by the Hairy Bikers. Based on the release of their new book of tasty diet recipes from the orient, students were shown how to cook by decreasing the fat but not losing out on any flavour. The show had us all in fits of laughter especially Mr Pepper who is now considering a career in sumo wrestling following a demonstration from David and Si!
After the demonstration, students were en-couraged to explore the show and all the ex-hibits. Year 9 pupils especially enjoyed the American candy store and came home with lots of treats that they gladly shared with Mrs Mead! Year 13 students were drawn to the cupcake decorating stand and came away with an array of different flavoured icings and decorations. Overall the day was en-joyed by all who attended. Thank you to all the students for their excellent behaviour.
Clothes show – 9th December 2014 On Tuesday the 9th of December, 63 GCSE and A level Textiles pupils visited the Clothes show live at the NEC in Birming-ham. It was a great opportunity for pupils to look at boutique, vintage, branded and de-signer clothing. Pupils viewed the work of Designer collections on the Designer cat-walk and emerging designers and graduate shows on the image catwalk. Pupils also had the opportunity to attend seminars led by British Fashion Commenta-tor and MBE Caryn Franklin. Seminars of-fered valuable insight into the breath of ca-reers on offer in the industry. Pupils visited the College and University Forum where they were able to ask vital questions about the industry, meet lecturers and other stu-dents and see the work of graduates.
Economeg a Gwleidyddiaeth
Economeg Congratulations to Stanwell’s Monetary Pol-icy Committee for winning the regional heat of the Bank of England’s Two Point Zero Challenge.
Pictured are Jamie Hitchen, Megan Doran, Zola Hargreaves, Carys Warner and Jay Kapuria. During the competition, they made a fifteen minute presentation to representa-tives of the Bank of England, followed by a demanding ten minute question and answer session. In their introduction to Economics, Year 9 students have been looking at the issues of scarcity and limited resources. They have also been exploring the world of work. Pictured below are Year 9 students with the results of their lesson on the benefits of specialisation in the work place. Economics in the News This month saw the Chancellor George Os-bourne making his Autumn statement. Year 12 students took part in a lively debate ques-tioning the current policies and produced a rival manifesto of their own.
“Stanwell’s Monetary Policy Committee wins ...”
Gwyleidyddiaeth Government and Politics students have been extending their understanding of the democ-ratic processes in the UK and the USA this term. It has certainly been an intriguing few months with regards to events, including the Scottish independence referendum and mid-term elections in the USA, so there has cer-tainly been plenty to discuss and analyse. Year 13 students have taken a keen interest in US voting behaviour, political parties and pressure groups. Several members of the class have given superb Welsh Bac presentations, all focusing on key issues; examples include the possible 2016 Presidential candidates, the American political structure, the recent refer-endum and the relative influence of pressure groups and parties. They also recently partici-pated in a fascinating debate to ascertain whether US elections are indeed too expen-sive. Year 12 students have been examining whether the UK really needs a written/codified constitution and whether the Prime Minister currently enjoys too much influence and authority. They have also studied factors which influence voting behaviour in the UK. These factors include primacy issues such as class, ethnicity and age in addition to other factors which include the role of the media. The students also recently completed a series of presentations on the determinants of voting behaviour in UK elections. Particular reference was made to the role of the media and the Americanisation of British politics, as well as the legacy of class and par-tisan alignment.
Mr J Crook and Mr G Penny
staff from Laing O’Rourke, Severn River Crossings, Techno-Camps, and Stanwell School, girls from Year 8 were able to gain an insight into the world of professional engineer-ing and construction. The objective for the day was to highlight to the students the opportuni-ties that were open to females in what has been traditionally a male-dominated industry. 2 workshops focused on one of the disciplines involved in the construction of the new £65 million Llandough Hospital wing, one work-shop involved the construction of a working
Engineering week 2014 Following on from our Engineering and Construction aware-ness day held back in March, three con-secutive days of events took place at the end of Novem-ber. On Tuesday 18th November, the ECTIB roadshow came to Stanwell and performed to an audience consisting mainly of Year 8 pu-pils. The audience was amazed by the breadth of engineering within society. Wednesday 19th November saw the launch of our new Engineering club. Pupils from all year groups attended the extra curricular club and spent time developing their problem- solving skills in a range of different contexts. On Thursday 20th November, girls in Year 8 were afforded the exciting opportunity to ex-perience work in the engineering and con-struction industry. Through a series of engag ing and challenging workshops delivered by
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“work in the engineering and construction industry”
Mr K Pepper
Engineering Mr K Pepper
“Engineering in Education Scheme”
model version of the Second Severn Cross-ing and another workshop involved the girls programming electronic circuits. The final workshop saw the girls firing paper rockets across the length of the sports hall! Pupils were surprised at the variety of skills and technologies which are required in the engi-neering and construction industry. Staff and pupils thoroughly enjoyed what turned out to be a very busy day. Engineering in Education Scheme Two teams from Year 12 have entered the scheme which is now in its 25th year. One group are linked with RWE Npower and the second with Lion Laboratories. All pupils are thoroughly enjoying being involved with the scheme and are making excellent pro-gress towards presenting their solutions to the specific problems posed at the Celtic Manor Resort in April 2015. We are sure that they will represent the school ably at this prestigious event.
Go4Set 8 pupils from Year 9 are working with ARUP for the duration of the scheme. They have been set the task of designing a zero-carbon classroom for a school of the future. They are currently in the initial stages of their project which concludes in 3 months’ time.
Saesneg Year 13 ‘King Lear’ Lectures Many English Literature A-Level students en-joyed the ‘King Lear’ lectures that were run by Sovereign Education recently. The speakers were engaging, extremely knowledgeable and passionate about Shakespeare’s masterpiece and tragedy. They learned more about his won-derful use of language, the structure of his writing, the characters and their relationships, as well as the important themes. The final speaker also referred to Sophocles’ ‘Oedipus Rex’ which illuminated the comparisons be-tween the texts effectively; a skill that is re-quired in the summer examination. Year 7 Letters to Lesotho Mrs Jones’ Year 7 English class thoroughly enjoyed writing replies to letters they had re-ceived from pupils in Lesotho. Some of our sixth form students have visited pupils in a school there and have worked with the Lesotho Trust, a long standing Penarth charity which funds Primary Schools and links between Le-sotho in Southern Africa and our local commu-nity. Stanwell pupils loved reading about their culture and beautiful scenery and were amazed by the differences between their school and ours. Our pupils eagerly told them all about Penarth and about our daily routines, hobbies and lessons. They cannot wait to hear back from their penpals in Lesotho and hope they enjoy reading about our pupils’ lives and inter-ests. To Kill a Mockingbird In October, Year 10 pupils visited the New Theatre, Cardiff to watch the Regents Park Production of Harper Lee’s ‘To Kill a Mock-ingbird’. The pupils enjoyed the production and their conduct was a credit to the school.
Harry Potter Visit This November, pupils from Year 7 experi-enced the magic of Harry Potter at the Warner Bros. Studios, London. Hogwarts had under-gone a magical makeover in time for Christmas and model castle was made even more breath-taking with a blanket of snow. From the mo-ment the doors to the Great Hall opened, pupils experienced the wonders of the wizarding world. Stepping behind the scenes, they experienced the castle’s festive makeover up close; the iconic Great Hall was decorated for Christmas using the actual golden partridges, baubles and props seen in Harry Potter and the Philoso-pher’s Stone. Eight Christmas trees lined the Great Hall as well as two long dining tables dressed with a seasonal feast with prop ver-sions of turkeys, hams, fruit, vegetables, snow cakes and real flames licking the plum pud-dings! From practising their wand waving to captur-ing themselves riding a broomstick through the streets of London, pupils were amazed by the attention to detail the studios offered. Pupils could also taste some butter-beer as they wan-dered around Privet Drive as the snow fell about them. To complete the tour, they had the opportunity to purchase in the gift shop - the most popular purchase being Bertie Bott’s Every Flavour Beans (including puke flavour!) and of course, the famous chocolate frogs.
“pupils experienced the wonders of the wizarding world”
Mrs M Williams
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“Geography broadens our horizons”
The Geography department has had a busy and fun packed term broadening our students’ horizons.
On Thursday 11th September, 25 Year 13 geographers were given the fantastic opportunity to visit the University of South Wales Atrium Campus in Cardiff. During the morning, the students attended lectures on the impacts of climatic hazards in Uganda and sustainable food resources. Both topics are part of the students’ A Level studies and the experience not only provided them with up-to-date information on contemporary geographical themes but also gave them a taster of what University lectures are all about. In the afternoon, the group ventured into Cardiff City Centre for some A level fieldwork, where students collected primary data to help them investigate whether Cardiff can be considered a ‘clone town’. The results were interesting and provoked much discussion.
Also in September, 155 Year 11 students visited Tenby in West Wales as part of their GCSE Geography studies. Whilst in Tenby they completed land use maps, pedestrian/
traffic counts, environmental surveys and questionnaires. The results will go towards their Controlled Assignment on the impact of tourism on the coastal resort of Tenby. As a department we were very fortunate that the sun shone all day, the only downside was that the seagulls pinched our sandwiches!
At the beginning of October, Year 9 geographers took part in a day of interactive hazard management provided by the British Cartographic Society in association with the Geographical Association. During the day, entitled ‘The Restless Earth’, the pupils mapped and managed the Japanese earthquake and subsequent tsunami using GIS strategies and Ipad technology.
On Wednesday 13th October, 100 excited Year 8 geographers visited Cadbury World to learn more about ‘the Geography of chocolate.’ Pupils were treated to a talk on the location of industry and Cadbury’s effects on the global environment as well as touring the factory, tasting lots of chocolate and enjoying the new 4D film experience.
Mrs H Jarman
Geography
“Geography is a subject that holds the key to our future”
During the October half term, 50 pupils and 5 staff members from the Geography department travelled to Iceland. The party visited various sites of geographical interest, including Skogafoss waterfall, Strokkur Geysir, Thingvellir National Park, Seltún geothermal area and Hveragerdi geothermal park. Highlights of the visit included a swim in the Blue Lagoon and a walk on the magnificent Solheimajokull glacier. A fantastic time was had by all and we even managed to cram in a few snowball fights!
On December the 5th, approximately 100 Year 7 pupils made the journey west to go to the Field Studies Council Discovery Margam Centre in Margam Park. Whilst in Margam Park, the pupils investigated the changing flows of a river as it travels from its source to its mouth. The pupils thoroughly enjoyed the opportunity to get muddy, wet and dirty in the outdoor classroom while hopefully picking up some important geographical skills along the way.
During the final week of term, 42 Year 12 students also ventured to the Discovery Margam Centre, but this time only using it as a base to go off and explore areas of geographical interest across South Wales. While out in the field the students had to complete a physical investigation into flood management on the River Ogmore and a human investigation into two contrasting rural communities. The students had a fantastic time and we have gained some interesting data to analyse in the new year.
Finally, members of the Geography Club have been carrying out research in preparation for a new corridor display. The display will be based on the theme of 'Maps in Literature'. The club have been working very hard and have shown excellent knowledge of books that contain maps. Books have ranged from Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien to Winnie the Pooh by A. A. Milne. Keep up to date with the latest news from the geography department by following us on Twitter: Stanwell Geography@GEOG2XL
Mrs H Jarman
Hanes It has been another exceptionally busy and eventful term in the History Department. The October Open Evening provided pupils and parents alike with the opportunity to investi-gate several different aspects of the First World War. Topics included recruitment, the daily life of a soldier and censorship. Pupils were also given a chance to write a personal letter to the unknown soldier. Many guests were bowled over by the quality of work displayed in the WWI art exhibition. History Club has continued to attract many interested and enthusiastic historians. All of the members have been eager to learn about History outside the classroom and have thor-oughly enjoyed the range of activities. History pupils have studied a lot of exciting issues this term. In Year 7, pupils have been learning about the Battle of Hastings and who became King of England in 1066. They are looking forward to studying how William the Conqueror overcame his problems and life in the Medieval period. Year 8 pupils have enjoyed studying all about the Tudors during this Autumn term. Topics have included Henry VIII and his six wives and The Spanish Armada. In addition to learning in the classroom, 52 very excited Year 8 pupils also visited London in Decem-
ber and thoroughly enjoyed their visit to the Tower of London, especially seeing the place where Anne Boleyn and Katherine Howard were executed. They also had a great time ex-ploring the cultural side to London; in particu-lar visiting Covent Garden and seeing War Horse in the West End. Year 9 students have begun the GCSE course with a highly impressive attitude and have been investigating the key problems and chal-lenges facing the USA in the 1920s. Events studied have included Prohibition and Gang-sters, Immigration and the treatment of black Americans. They have all made an encourag-ing start to the GCSE course and should be commended. Continuing on from their superb progress last year, Year 10 have been studying the Weimar Republic with particular focus on the political problems faced by the Weimar Republic, hyperinflation and the growth of the Nazi Party. Year 11 are currently examining the problems faced by Britain, 1945-1951. Topics have in-cluded the creation of the Welfare State, the Problems of Housing and the Festival of Brit-ain. They should also be proud of the impres-sive exam results they achieved in the summer. Finally, congratulations to Georgina Bartlett,
Katie Black, Lowri Thomas, Emma Thorne and Jess Vining, who spoke at the Historical Asso-ciation Great De-bate competition in Cardiff. Spe-cial congratula-tions should go to
Lowri Thomas who won the Cardiff Heat.
“Congratulations should go to Lowri Thomas who won the Cardiff Heat”
Mr G Morgan
Technoleg Gwybodaeth
Key Stage 3 Both year groups have worked well throughout the term brushing up on their e-safety and spreadsheet skills. There were many pupils in Year 8 who achieved full marks in the recent spreadsheet exam, including: Daniel Cozma, Rowan Higgins, Lucy Jones, James Steele and Denis Yang. Year 7 pupils have enjoyed working with graphics packages to design a vehicle and character using vector tools, creating some imaginative and intricate work.
After School Clubs
There are a number of after school clubs for pupils at all key stages; these include a Games Design Club, Raspberry Pi Club and a Key Stage 4 Club. Pupils should see their classroom teachers for more information.
Hour of Code
Pupils have taken part in a week long ‘Hour of Code’ scheme to introduce them to the joys of computer programming. One of the themes for this year is based on the film ‘Frozen’.
More Able and Talented We are working with our local primary feeder schools to provide an introduction to computer programming for a group of More Able and Talented pupils in Years 5 and 6. Pupils were introduced to some of the key concepts in computer programming to hopefully stimulate an interest in coding.
Mr P Davies
Sixth Form
Year 12 computing students enjoyed a Computer Taster Day at The University of South Wales earlier this term. The event introduced them to careers in computing,
games design programming, social engineering and the issues facing modern computer scientists. Following this visit, we are looking to develop a series of after school workshops in conjunction with the university and Technocamps for all pupils in the new Year.
Key Stage 4 Year 11 pupils have been working hard this term on the ‘Developing Web Products’ module for their GCSE. Pupils recently sat a mock exam in preparation for their exam on 16th January 2015. A revision booklet and video clips are on Moodle (ICT GCSE CIDA 2014-15) to support pupils. Year 11 Computer Science students have been learning to code in Python during the past term and will be starting a controlled assessment after Christmas.
“a series of afternoon workshops”
Mr A Meddins
Mathemateg It has been another busy term in the Maths department with, again, the main focus being the November GCSE exams for Year 11. Homework Club on Monday evenings was well attended and hopefully these extra ses-sions, alongside the past paper revision dur-ing lesson time will prove beneficial as we eagerly await the results in early January. A special thank you to members of the 6th form who helped out during these after school ses-sions as part of their community participation for their Welsh Baccalaureate and also to Mark, our catering manager, who organised the food for the Breakfast Club revision ses-sions that ran before the 2nd exam! During the summer holidays Sally Jones (of Year 12—pictured below) attended the Sum-mer School for Girls. Here she and forty other girls took part in an intensive week of mathematics including sessions on geometry, polynomials and group theory. Sally was se-lected for the event due to exceptional per-formance in the UKMT challenges. Since September, fourteen pupils have taken part in the Girls Mathematical Olympiad which is a paper designed to challenge the pupils (pictured below before the test).
We also had the Senior Challenge in Novem-ber for Years 12 and 13 students. Following this, Leo Tucker and Balaji Krishna (Year 13) qualified for the BMO1, a 3 1/2 hour paper which includes complex problems. Also Sally Jones and Katie Macleod (Year 13) qualified for the Senior Kangaroo Challenge. We look forward to finding out how they did! The inter-mediate and junior individual challenges will take place over the next few months which will involve Years 7-11. Find out how these all went in future newsletters and on the news up-dates on our school website. A team of Year 13 students took part in a 6th form quiz run by Glamorgan University. Over 250 teachers and students from various schools attended a very enjoyable occasion! It is ex-tremely pleasing to report that “Andy’s An-gels”, a team consisting of Year 13 students Andreas Asprou, Balaji Krishna, Jack Da-vies, Leo Tucker and Jay Kapuria (all seen below receiving their trophy) finished in 2nd place, a fantastic achievement!
Once again the ‘Maths Mindbenders’ on Open Day was a great success. Many current and potential pupils enjoyed the five-puzzle treas-ure hunt around the Department. Those who completed the puzzles received a certificate and a prize. This year, we again ran a Simon Says competition which was won by Ffion Ross of Sully Primary - da iawn ti!
“sessions on geometry, polynominals and group theory”
Media & Film Y Cyfryngau a Ffilm
We are now in our fourth year of teaching Media Studies from Year 9 and our new co-hort of students is more enthusiastic than ever. Pupils who have started particularly well are: Hannah Fletcher, Connor Evans, Amandine Ware, Dan Thomas, Kate Beeslee and Dylan McKee. As a department we have also supported Stanwell’s senior production of ‘Aida’, pro-viding the poster, programme and back-stage support. As you can see from the pictures below, cast members rehearsed in earnest for some time! Years 10 & 11 have been working hard on their controlled assessments and have just sat
their end of year exams. Pupils of note so far are: Sophie Egerstrom (10); Eli Jennings (10); Lucy Dutfield (10); Saumik Dhar (10); Emily Geen (11); Megan Jones (11) and Beth Macmillan (11). AS Film Studies students are once again readying themselves to make some amazing films in the new year. The group recently attended a viewing of the classic film-noir, ‘The Big Sleep’, at Penarth Pier Cinema. This local independent cinema has provided Stanwell students with an excellent facility for seeing classic film texts on the big screen.
A mixed group of Media and Film students also attended a special viewing of the classic South African film, ‘Tsotsi,’ at Chapter Arts and par-ticipated in an enthralling Q & A session with the lead, Presely Chweneyagae. This term, the Year 13 BTEC Creative Media students have been working on planning and
creating their own factual radio programme podcasts. They have researched existing shows and proposed original new ideas that they are currently recording. Special mention should go to Katie Way, Gabrielle Williams, Chloe Saliba and Paige Barry for their original ideas. Year 12 students have been offered a new and exciting BTEC pathway - they now have a choice between the radio industry and the TV and film industry. Lots of our students have opted for the new pathway and are currently filming and editing shorts for new and original programmes. We look forward to seeing the fin-ished products!
“an excellent facility for seeing classic film texts”
Mr I O’Rourke
Ieithoedd Modern Open Day One of the highlights of the term was the ever–popular Europa Café on Open Day. There was a fabulous selection of cakes, kindly baked by our wonderful students. The ‘Decorate a cup cake’ and ‘Best large
cake’ competition took place again and the entries were ‘délicieux/ lecker’ and very creative. Small cake category Joint 1st place: Lucy Jones and Zoya Yousef of Year 8 2nd place: Carys Thomas, Year 8
Large cake category 1st place: Harry Newman, Year 10 2nd place: Anna Hughes, Year 7 3rd place: Yola Bailey, Year 8
We also had a languages quiz which was won by Guillaume Bigsby (Y9). This is the second time he has won the quiz (with a little help from mum) and he is clearly hard to beat!
Many thanks to all staff, pupils and of course, parents, for helping us out by either baking or visiting the café.
“the ever-popular Europa cafe”
Mrs T Davis
MFL Paris Trip
On the international front, Miss Cross and Mrs Symonds will be taking a group of 109 Year 8 pupils to Paris in March next year. This is a joint venture with the Welsh department to sample the St. David’s Day celebrations which take place in Disneyland Paris.
Pupils will also be enjoying a boat trip down the Seine, a visit to the Eiffel Tower and to the cathedral of Notre Dame.
Pupil Achievements
Lots of pupils in French and German have been working hard this term and we have awarded a record number of merit points and certificates. These pupils have then been en-tered into the monthly raffle draws and there have been lots of lucky winners. These include: In German: Year 8 : Jessie Lieu Year 9 : Bethany Cameron Year 10 : Naomi Hills In French: Year 7 : Lloyd Clarke Year 8 : Ethan Mulcahy Year 9 : Stanley Murphy-Johns Year 10 : Lauren Stephens
The MFL Depart-ment wishes you all “Joyeux Noël “ and “einen guten Rutsch ins Neu-jahr!“
“Lots of pupils in French and German have been working hard this term”
Mrs T Davis
Paris 2014
Cerddoriaeth
The start of the new academic year has been a busy and enjoyable one for the Music depart-ment. Key Stage 3, GCSE and A Level classes have all been working towards practi-cal examinations, controlled assessments and busily preparing composition folios. In addi-tion, extra-curricular ensemble rehearsals, production rehearsals, concert trips, work-shops and performances have all contributed to making this term a real success.
I would particularly like to thank all pupils involved with extra-curricular groups this term for their commitment and dedication; may it continue all year! I would also like to formally welcome our two new members of staff Mr Giles and Miss Ghazi-Torbati.
Senior Production 2014 - Aida
The Senior Production is, without doubt, one of the highlights of our school year. The pro-duction culminates in a run of four perform-ances (this year on December 15th-18th inclu-sive), and sees a cast, orchestra and crew of over 200 students supported by staff from the Music, Drama, DT, Art, Media, and Mainte-nance departments, perform in Stanwell’s pur-pose built auditorium.
The production is a real team effort and we are so grateful to all staff who gave so freely of their time to support this huge undertaking.
Preparations for the Senior Production began in September, when staff undertook the diffi-cult process of casting the musical. Over 100 students attended the auditions for principal roles, and many students presented first class performances. Following extensive delibera-tions, Sam Jennings and Verity Tucker were given the two lead roles.
Rehearsals began towards the end of Septem-ber with students performing a showcase of numbers in the school Open Evening on Tues-day 21st October (pictured above). Those in the audience for the event were so impressed with the quality of the performance, despite the event taking place so early in the rehearsal process.
The music for Aida is scored for full orchestra and our talented students in Year 7-13 once again rose to the ambitious task of performing such a demanding work. The challenge of this cannot be underestimated and we praise all members of the production orchestra for their commitment and hard work.
“thank all pupils involved with extra-curricular groups this term”
Ms K Lomas
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Pupils perform at WMC
As part of the preparations for the production, on Friday 7th November a group of 40 stu-dents from Years 10 to 13 visited the Wales Millennium Centre to publicise the show. Year 13 students Tom Chandler and Re-becca Thompson compered the concert, which featured a range of solo and chorus numbers. The performance was highly praised by members of the public and the proud fam-ily and friends who attended the event.
Kev McCurdy Stage Fighting Workshop
The action of Aida features an intricate sword fighting sequence and Stage-Fighting Chore-ographer Kev McCurdy visited the school on Tuesday 11th November in order to add a fi-nal polish to these scenes.
The realism achieved by students was abso-lutely jaw-dropping and the workshop was enjoyed immensely by all involved.
“The students were absolutely thrilled to receive advice from such a legendary figure”
Ms K Lomas
Peter Karrie visits Stanwell!
West End star Peter Karrie visited the school in November to work with the princi-pal cast of Aida. Peter has had a long asso-ciation with the school and last visited in 2011 to tie in with the premiere of the schools edition of The Phantom of the Op-era and we were delighted to welcome him to the school once more.
The students were absolutely thrilled to re-ceive advice and guidance from such a leg-endary figure and are sure that his words will give their performances an extra boost!
Peter Karrie discussing characterisation with Luke Morley (Year 13)
The principal cast listening intently!
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Year 9, 10 and 11 Trip to Lord of the Flies
On October 23rd, a group of Year 9, 10 and 11 GCSE Performing Arts students attended a contemporary dance performance of the clas-sic story Lord of the Flies choreographed by Matthew Bourne.
Many students opting for the GCSE Perform-ing Arts course are dancers and they in par-ticular relished the opportunity to watch live performers in action! Many thanks to Miss Ghazi-Torbati for organising the trip.
Open Evening
A short concert was given at the school Open Evening on Tuesday 21st October to show-case the talents of our extra-curricular vocal groups.
Pupils in ‘Outsiders’ KS3 Boys’ Choir, Junior Girls’ Choir and Senior Choir performed a programme of popular songs that included Fix You, Rude and Livin’ on a Prayer. Visitors to the school were so impressed with the high standards displayed by students, well done to all!
“All students thoroughly enjoyed the day and agreed it added an extra dimension to their A Level studies.”
Ms K Lomas
Careers in Music Talk
Pete Whittard from the Institute of Contem-porary Music Performance visited the de-partment in November to discuss career paths in music such as session performance and composing; he also provided valuable insider information on the industry in gen-eral. In addition to the currently offered A Level Music and Music Technology, the Music department also intends to offer BTEC Per-forming Arts (L3 Double Award) to stu-dents next year. More information will be available at Year 11 Options Evening.
Year 12 Music Technology Trip to the Atrium Campus
On Thursday 11th September, Year 12 A Level Music Technology students attended a day of workshops at the Atrium campus (part of the University of South Wales) to experience taster sessions in song writing, music production and mixing. They also experienced a tour of the state of the art facilities. All students thoroughly enjoyed the day and agreed it added an extra dimension to their A Level studies.
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Year 12/13 Concert Trip
On October 1st, a group of Year 12 and 13 students attended a concert at the RWCMD given by the London Haydn Quartet. The students were thrilled to watch the per-formance in which musicians used period in-struments, producing an interesting and au-thentic sound. The experience will no doubt prove especially useful to Year 13 students who are studying the development of the string quartet as part of their A Level Music studies. Many thanks to Mr Sambell for organising the trip.
Oxjam Penarth
Year 13 student Martin Griffiths along with a superb team of assistants (pictured above) organised ‘Oxjam’, a mini music festival, in order to raise funds for Oxfam that took place on October 14th.
Featuring alongside a host of local musicians were Stanwell pupils Ben Dain-Smith, Cur-tis-Lee McDonnell, Luke Morley and Rhys Woolmer. Praise must go to all students in-volved who raised a fantastic £500 for such a worthy cause and produced a well-run event.
“a truly unique and special event”
Ms K Lomas
Mrs Richards’ Celebration Concert
Following the retirement of Mrs J Richards last academic year, a surprise concert was or-ganised in her honour, to celebrate the tre-mendous legacy she leaves behind at Stan-well.
Over 200 students from every year she has taught at the school presented numbers from past productions, special compositions and meaningful pieces of music spanning across her 23 years at Stanwell. The concert culmi-nated in a group performance of favourite numbers including California Dreamin’ and The Rhythm of Life.
Mrs Connor, together with Mrs Richards’ family, successfully planned and co-ordinated the concert which involved contacting stu-dents around the globe! The concert was a truly unique and special event, befitting such a well loved and respected teacher. We wish Mrs Richards well for the next chapter in her life.
Music in the Vale 2014
Stanwell School once again played host to the annual ‘Music in the Vale’ contest for young musicians on the 15th and 16th November.
It is always a pleasure to welcome the com-petition to the school which sees many en-tries from Stanwell pupils; this year Year 9 GCSE musician Maddy Carver won the ‘Junior Singer’
Mr Baldwin - compere extraordinaire!
National Ensemble Success
We are so proud of the many students who represent Stanwell School in county orches-tras, bands and choirs and this term has seen a number of students accepted as part of Welsh and national ensembles. Year 13 students and keen singers Alasdair Cavaye and Martin Griffiths were awarded placed on the National Youth Choir of Wales and fellow Year 13 student Peter McDonough has been accepted on to the National Youth Brass Band of Wales and the National Youth Wind Band of Wales. Year 9 student Niamh Bannister has won a place in the National Children's Choir of Great Britain, she is also a budding opera star and will perform as part of the “Let’s make an opera” project at the RWCMD in February. Year 7 student and double bassist Jacob Bannister has been successful in gaining a place on the National Children’s Orchestra of Great Britain. Well done to all students!
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Children in Need Concert 2014
The Music department was delighted to sup-port the concert given for Year 7 pupils as part of the fundraising activities for Children in Need.
Countless pupils performed with ensembles and as soloists, many thanks to all who gave their time so freely.
Senior Choir performing ‘Stay with me’ ac-companied by Year 11 student Orla Ember-
son and Year 9 student Rhys Woolmer
Chamber Girls’ Choir Performing ‘Just the Way you Are’ from ‘Pitch Perfect’
“We are so proud of the many students who represent Stanwell School in county orchestras, bands and choirs”
Ms K Lomas
Extra-Curricular Groups—January
Preparations will begin in January for the music department Spring Concert which takes place on Wednesday 18th March. The concert will involve over 300 pupils performing in an array of ensembles and will culminate in the traditional medley of songs performed by all pupils in Year 7. Rehearsals for the following extra-curricular groups will be taking place: Monday - Outsiders KS3 Boys’ Choir, Sen-ior Orchestra, Senior Jazz Tuesday - Rock Academy Wales (see Miss Lomas or visit www.rockacademywales.com for further details) Wednesday - Junior Girls’ Choir, String Group Thursday - Brass Band Friday - Senior Choir, Senior Girls’ Choir, Barbershop and Junior Orchestra
Further details are available from any mem-ber of the Music department team. If stu-dents have not attended an extra-curricular group up to this point they are extremely welcome to join.
We look forward to welcoming parents and friends of the school to the concert.
Music
Music Department Twitter
Follow the department’s Twitter feed @Music2XL for the latest updates on extra-curricular groups, trip news, curriculum infor-mation and more!
PTA Christmas Market Performance
The Christmas Market held at the school on Saturday November 29th was a fantastic event that got all who attended in a festive mood.
The Junior Orchestra and Junior and Senior vocal groups performed carols and Christmas songs alongside other popular favourites such as Thinking out Loud, Troublemaker and I Dreamed a Dream. Soloists Huw Boucher, Emma Davies, Orla Emberson, Alex Haines, Harmony Hewlett, Sam Jennings, Curtis-Lee McDonnell, Verity Tucker and Henry Waddon also presented items, includ-ing a stellar arrangement of Stars from Les Miserables. Performers were warmly received and a good time was had by all!
Junior Orchestra performing carols
“Preparations will begin in January for the Music department spring concert tak-ing place on Wednesday 18th March.”
Ms K Lomas
Astudiarthau Corfforol
Football Years 7, 8, 9 and 11 teams have all progressed through the Cardiff and Vale Schools’ Cup and reached the 3rd round. The next fixtures are due to be played after Christmas. All teams have played with great determination and produced excellent team performances to see off tough competition.
Outstanding performances have come from: Year 7 – Will Lloyd, Ellis Selman and Devon Tyso. Year 8 – Gabriel Howard, Louis Foscolo and Harri Ainsworth. Year 9 – Ellis Dibble, Lucas Murray and Luke Warlow. Year 11 – Ethan Hutchings, Harry Williams and Ben Stewart.
The Year 10s and the Senior team had tough draws, but fought hard against well organised teams. Special mention goes to :- Year 10 – Adam Hearne, Richard Lee and Tommy Friel. Senior team – Jacob Frost, Josh Lewis and Zac Dyer. The following are representing Cardiff & the Vale Schools’ football teams in their respec-tive age groups – Year 7 – Dylan Lyle, James Good. Year 8 – Adam Nilsen; Year 9 – Callum Eva, Lucas Murrey, Ellis Dibble.
“representing Cardiff and the Vale Schools’ teams”
Mr I Summerfield
Boys’ Cross Country The cross country team have been training hard and luckily enjoyed good weather dur-ing their races this season. The following have competed throughout the autumn term in the Cardiff & Vale Schools’ league matches and have been selected for the Car-diff and Vale Schools’ Cross Country team to race in January. Year 7 - Jack Dunning, Jamie Cook, Toby Warlow. Year 8 - Louis Spencer, Callum Russell, Rory Skinner, Reuben Jones, Nicholas Hague-Jones. Year 9 - James Dawson. Year 10 - Antonio Peacock, Jack McCon-key, Rhys Jones. Year 11 – Alex Langrish. Year 12 - David Flanigan.
Additional team members who have shown outstanding commitment are Daniel Jones, Owain Thomas and Alec Smith.
Physical Education
“1st place in regional qualifiers”
Mr I Summerfield
Rhys Jones and the cross-country teams
Girls’ Basketball The girls have had a very good season so far with the Year 10 and 11 teams obtaining two wins against Cwm Rhymni School. They were also entered into the Welsh Schools’ basketball competition at the House of Sport in Cardiff in November. Here they played against a number of teams in the Vale of Glamorgan and achieved 1st place in the regional qualifiers. They are now eagerly awaiting the finals in January. All the girls thoroughly enjoyed the day and were complimented on their high stan-dard of basketball by many coaches who ob-served their matches. They were outstanding assets to Stanwell School. The Year 7, 8 and 9 teams have also made a good start to the year. Their enthusiasm to par-
ticipate and improve their skills has been out-standing and all the girls have worked ex-tremely hard. The Year 7 and 8 teams were en-tered into the 5x60 girls’ basketball competition in December where they played against a num-ber of teams in the Vale of Glamorgan and achieved 4th and 5th place overall. As a result of the high standard of girls’ basket-ball in the South Wales area, there is now a girls’ basketball league that has been set up from December for KS3 and 4. This is a long
Physical Education
awaited opportunity for our girls to demon-strate their ability in this field and they are now very excited to begin their league fixtures in January. Special mention goes to Emily Skinner, Car-mela Hermogeno, Cora Wall and Niamh Sultana who have been selected to represent the Welsh U16s and U14s girls’ squad this year. Well done to all!
Boys’ Basketball The KS3 team were entered into a 5x60 bas-ketball competition in December where they played against a number of teams in the Vale of Glamorgan. The KS4 team was also en-tered into the Welsh Schools’ competition where they came up against fierce competi-tion. Special mention goes to George Kynas-ton and Sam Thomas who have kindly given up their time to coach the boys’ basketball team this year.
Sports Awards Evening The third annual School Sports Awards eve-ning was held at the beginning of the summer term and was yet again a huge success with
“Selected to represent the Welsh U16s”
Mr I Summerfield
over 400 pupils receiving an award for show-ing a commitment to school based sports. The guest speaker was Mr Dale McIntosh (Former Welsh and Pontypridd No.8 and currently Car-diff Blues defence coach) who gave a heartfelt speech about his sporting career, sending a clear message to pupils about hard work, pas-sion and enjoyment. Rugby at Stanwell continues to go from strength to strength since we have been awarded the WRU School of Rugby Status. With over 150 boys and girls now playing rugby as an extra-curricular activity in school, it is proving to be a very popular choice of rec-reation. Hopefully with the continued support from Old Penarthians RFC and Penarth RFC, this will continue for many seasons to come.
Year 7 rugby This year has seen an excellent start for the Year 7 rugby team who are unbeaten at present in the Vale of Glamorgan League, with excel-lent wins against Bro Morgannwg, Cowbridge and Barry Boys. The team is well led by Charlie Jowett at No.8 and is well supported by Jack Harris, Oliver Evans, Curtis Finch and Jake Ringer in the forwards. The backs have capitalised on the robust performances of the forwards and have scored some excellent tries; well done to Carter Staples and Will
Physical Education Mr I Summerfield
Lloyd who have benefited from the tireless work of some very talented players such as Steffan Crimp, Will Doran, Lloyd Clarke and Jamie Cook, they have all contributed to the outstanding performances of the team. Year 8 rugby The Year 8 rugby team is again proving to be an excellent all-round side which has been boosted by a number of new players who have gained in confidence throughout the term. Evan Lloyd is again the stand-out player in the forwards who has been well supported by Ethan Mills, Max Crandon and Evan Dyer. Aled Rees has been orchestrating the backs from scrum half and has been well supported by Matt Wiltshire, Cameron Sultana and Nick Hague-Jones. Early season losses against Cowbridge and Bro Morgannwg and and an excellent win against Barry Boys have put the Year 8 team in with an excellent chance of making the Vale of Glamorgan Fi-nals in May. Year 9 rugby The Year 9 rugby team has started off their season in a very positive way. They have con-vincingly won games against St Richard Gwyn, Llantwit Major and Barry. George Cowley, Henry Kynaston, Ben Hanson and Matthew Barber have been the stand out players with a number of their team mates also putting up some excellent displays. eThe hard work must now continue in order to succeed in the Vale and Welsh cup competitions. Year 10 rugby The Year 10 rugby squad has once again started very well in the Vale schools’ league. The team consists of a number of boys who are
currently representing the Vale of Glamorgan Schools’ at Under 15s level, these include; Geraint Williams, Jack Vowles, Ben Jones, Jack Lee, Thaine Baker, Niall McSorley, Tom McSorley, Josh Lewis and Luke Keane-Adams. There has also been the introduction of some promising new players such as Richard Lee, Jonathan Bennet and Tommy Friel. Year 11 rugby The Year 11 rugby squad has had an excellent start to the season winning the Vale League comfortably and progressing through to the next round of the Welsh Cup. Players such as Will Gale, Spencer Robinson, Joshua James, Rhys Picton, Rhys Jones, Morgan Rees and Tom Marsh have also all represented the Senior 1st XV this year. Finally, a big congratulation goes to Owen Lloyd for getting selected for the Car-diff Blues. Senior rugby
The senior rugby team this year saw the ap-
pointment of deputy head boy Matthew Holder as captain. Matthew is an excellent role model for all rugby players at Stanwell and continu-ously sets high standards of himself, both on and off the pitch. The rest of the 30 man squad is oozing with talent with players such as Owen
“excellent role model for all rugby players”
Physical Education Congratulations also go to
Sam Laity who has continued to represent the Crawshays. A highlight of the season so far for the team is winning on Cardiff Arms Park against a very physical St David’s team. Netball Year 7 The Year 7a team has started the season off well with a draw against St Richard Gwyn and wins against Cowbridge, Llantwit and Bro Morgannwg. They are a strong and talented team and their future in the upcoming county tournament looks promising. There are a num-ber of key players who contribute to the game. The team consists of Alissa Courderley, Niamh Sultana, Agatha Leach, Marcy Webbe, Kacie O’Hanlon, Natayah Birchall, Poppy Rapley and Imogen Williams.
The Year 7b netball team has also started the season off well with wins against St Richard Gwyn, Llantwit, Cowbridge and Bro Mor-gannwg. There have been a number of key players in the b team and special mention goes to Tia Donnelly-John who has been shooting well in every match. The upcoming 7b netball tournament will al-low the girls to see how they fare against other teams in the county.
Mr I Summerfield
Year 8 The Year 8a netball team has continued to dominate in their matches with wins against St.Richard Gwyn, Llantwit and Bro Mor-gannwg. A number of the girls have been se-lected for the LA HUB development squad and are showing real potential. The 8b team have also had a number of matches within the Vale and have won some and lost some. In the recent Year 8b netball tournament, the team finished 8th out of 22 schools within the county. Year 9 The Year 9 netball squad has had a number of matches and all the girls have made progress throughout the year. Both teams have played matches within the Vale and although they are yet to win a match, they are improving every match and working hard in training on their skills. Years 10 and 11 The Year 10 netball team played in the recent Year 10 tournament and came 3rd out of 4 in their round. In the Year 11 tournament the girls lost by one goal to Cathedral School
“showing real potential”
Physical Education Mr I Summerfield
which meant they finished 2nd in the group. Congratulations to Bella Birch Hurst who was selected for the U16 Cardiff and theVale county squad.
Senior netball
Congratulations to Tizzie Birch Hurst (Year 12) who was also was selected for the U18 Cardiff and The Vale netball squad. Tizzie also made the Welsh U17 netball squad.
Girls’ cross country There has been some good individual runners this year in the cross country team with many girls running for the first time for the school. In Year 7, Scarlett Russell and Darcey Harry have performed well in the league races with Scarlett finishing in the top 5 in all races. Isobel Brown (Year 8 ) and Taiya Jones (Year 9) continue to run well and along with Scarlett have been selected to represent the county in January at Blackweir. Congratulations to all who took part.
Trampolining
Trampolining club has proved popular again this term with both boys and girls. After Christ-mas there will be an opportunity for those still waiting to attend the club to come along and join us on Mondays after school from 3 -4.30pm.
Many of our trampolinists attended the Welsh Schools’ trampolining championships in No-vember. For many, it was their first ever com-petition in this discipline and despite some ex-pected nerves they performed very well with some very pleasing individual scores on the day.
Our U14 girls’ team, consisting of Bethan Woodley, Taiya Jones, Flora McWilliam and Caitlin Hancock, achieved 3rd place. Well done to the girls on this great result.
Congratulations to George Lush and Taiya Jones who both achieved 3rd place in their individual categories and have now secured a place in the zonal round of the competition in Cambridge in the New Year.
A Merry Christmas to all club members!
“selected for the Welsh U17 netball squad”
Seicoleg
A2 Summer Results
We were delighted by the performance of some of our A2 students in August. Due to their hard-work and commitment, Dominic Bryan, Bethany Hawkins, Wilfred Howard, Kate Lewis and Luke Waddon gained A*’s overall. Wilfred Howard and Luke Waddon have gone on to study Psychology at univer-sity and we wish them the best of luck.
AS Psychology
AS Psychology students have made an enthu-siastic start to the year. They have been study-ing the development of psychological ap-proaches through time and have created some excellent pieces of work.
Early in the term, students were asked to cre-ate models from Play-Doh to demonstrate their understanding of some of Freud’s con-cepts. More recently they were asked to create an animation about cognitive theories. They all rose to the challenge by writing their scripts and then filming or animating. Below is a still from a piece created by Louis De Claire and Will Rotherham.
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
This year we had the opportunity to get a CBT therapist in to speak to our students. Jeny D’Aubyn is a qualified therapist who agreed to come in and speak to stu-dents about the tech-niques and methods that she uses, as well as her career journey. As part of their exam in Year 12 students must be able to describe what happens in therapy, and then in Year 13 they need to be able to evaluate the therapy. Students were very engaged as she discussed topics such as phobias and depression with them. When asked, students said that speakers are useful as they are able to put as-pects from lesson in to real life examples.
Health and Social Care
We have our biggest intake of Year 12 students to date this year and they have made a good start to the course. Health and Social Care is an applied A Level and so we are consistently striving to frame the course in the context of real life settings. To enable us to do that this year we have had a number of speakers in to talk about their jobs.
Rebecca Cadman, the deputy head teacher of Barry Island primary school, came in to discuss her job role and issues around early years’ care with our double award class.
Nuno Mendes, a youth substance misuse worker, came in to speak to our single award class about the skills and qualities required to do his job. Many thanks to all our outside speakers for their contributions to the students’
“Speakers are useful as they are able to put aspects from lessons in to real life examples.”
Miss K Collins
Addysg Grefyddol
Open Day The RE Department had a steady stream of visitors during the evening. Artefact displays provided a colourful background and visitors thoughtfully contributed to our Hope for the World postcard collection. When President Obama visited a school in Newport during the NATO Summit, pupils handed him their hopes for the world and we decided to build on this idea; creating a ‘Hope wall display’ and devising a unit of working identifying people such as Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai (pictured below) who in-spire Hope for the World. RE Charity of the Year RE club members decided we ought to have a community focus for our charity fundrais-ing in RE this year. They researched 3 chari-ties with local links and during open day visi-tors were asked to vote for the charity they would like to support. All pupils who study RE in Stanwell have also been voting and the organisation which has been chosen is Ty Gwyn care home in Penarth. For the rest of this academic year RE club will be working out ways pupils at Stanwell can support the chosen charity.
Zoya Yousef posting her vote!
RE Club Members of RE Club have worked very hard in preparing the decorations for the annual St. Augustine’s Christmas Tree Festival. This year’s chosen theme is, ‘Our Welsh Christmas Poet-Tree’. Our theme is influenced by the late Dr. Joseph Parry (1841-1903), one of the most fa-mous of all Welsh composers, who is buried in the churchyard at St. Augustine's. He became the first Professor of Music at the University College of Wales at Aberystwyth. The pupils have also written their own poems and have chosen their favourite Christmas poems as well as a selection of Welsh poems to link the themes of Christmas, Cymraeg and the Community. Pictured are RE club members: Emily Walters, Tom Burge, Matthew George, Zoya Yousef, and Lucy Jones. Learner Voice We recently had our first meeting of the year for the RE Learner Voice. Miss Tutthill led the KS3 group, Mrs Skilton led KS4 and Miss Norman led KS5. We had a very successful and produc-tive meeting with some brilliant suggestions to implement in the new term. It was a valuable op-portunity to share department successes as well as discussing areas for development. All pupils approached the meeting with maturity, making insightful comments and observations. It was also lovely to hear their continued enjoyment of the subject. We look forward to our next session!
“community focus for our charity fundraising”
Mrs J Skilton
Gwyddoniaeth
Dr H Roberts
Applied Science A number of outside speakers have visited to see the Applied Science classes. STEM Ambassador Mike Smith gave a lecture to explain many of the industrial aspects of the course, while Dylan Carter, a Welsh Assembly Government Energy Manager, spoke to the pupils about energy production and conservation. We are very grateful for the time given up by these speakers as the pupils all found the talks motivating and interesting, as well as helpful with their coursework.
Chemistry The Chemistry department has made a very busy and productive start to the academic year with numbers of Year 10 and Year 11 pupils completing their GCSE controlled assessment tasks. This is an important part of the final grade and all pupils have been mature and diligent in their approach to the work. Many pupils will be completing external exams in January, and have been working well both in lessons and at homework club after school. We wish all the pupils the best of luck for their January exams. The AS Level results in the summer were good with some outstanding individual performances. Of particular note was Balaji Krishna who only
dropped 6 marks in all three of his AS Level exams, with Jack Davies and Jay Kapuria also achieving excellent results. Open Day was a great success with bumper crowds coming to watch the ‘Flashes and Bangs’ demonstrations. The Chemistry staff were ably assisted by Maddy Carver, Ellen Driveman, Karishma Krishna, Mila Monaghan, Sarah Pascoe, Libero Tassinari and Andrew te Water Naude. The pupils impressed the visitors with their knowledge and enthusiasm for the subject, as well as their competence when doing the demonstrations.
Biology
Examination classes have been very busy this term, with GCSE pupils in Year 10 and 11 completing controlled assessments as well as preparing for examinations in January.
Pupils and students have made a number of visits, most notably Year 12, who attended a very insightful genetics conference in December at St. David's Hall, organised by GenePark Wales. Lecturers from a variety of
“Many pupils will be completing external exams in January”
Science
Dr H Roberts
universities gave talks on subjects ranging from epigenetics to the effect of drugs on the body. Pupils also had the opportunity to talk to university representatives about courses
they would like to study. It was a day thoroughly enjoyed by all. Year 9 pupils attended a lecture by Professor Anthony Campbell at the Pier Pavilion in Penarth on the subject of evolution and the role of Welsh scientist Alfred Russell Wallace.
Finally a special mention for Emma Donovan who completed her Nuffield Bursary placement in the summer. She is pictured at the presentation evening at Techniquest, showing the results of her research into flexibility of patients with back pain.
I would like to remind Year 12 students that they can now apply for the Nuffield Bursary scheme for next summer, see Mr Spilsbury for further details.
“It was a day thoroughly enjoyed by all.”
Physics
It has been a busy term within the Physics department, with many classes in Year 10 and 11 completing controlled assessment tasks for their GCSE courses. All have risen to the challenge to succeed. AS level results in the summer produced some excellent individual achievements notably from Jack Davies and Balaji Krishna who both achieved over 90% of the total marks. Year 11 GCSE results improved with an increase in the overall pass rate alongside some outstanding performances by Sayalie Borade, William Seeley, Sally Jones and James Senior. Year 10 Physics module results were excellent with the following pupils achieving full UMS scores so far in both modules; Basil Crack, Izaak Lee, Seren Marsh, Joseph Short and Jonathan Wright. Well done to all our students. Open day drew large crowds with many attempting to blow out candles with an Air-zooka and watch the ever-youthful Mr West perform the balloon and bed of nails demo. He set a new record in kg before the balloon burst! Learner Voice The most recent development in Science has been the introduction of a Learner Voice group. The group is made up of pupils from all Key Stages and discusses areas that may need to be developed, as well as sharing and celebrating our many successes. Pupils should be commended on their mature and thoughtful approach.
Cymraeg Mrs C Flaherty
The Welsh department has had a very active term! We enjoyed the second an-nual Year 7 transition trip to Llangran-nog in September. The pupils had fun participating in many activities such as skiing, archery, horseriding and much more, whilst having the opportunity to enjoy the amazing scenery of West Wales and practising their Welsh. Barod i sgio!
Hwyl a sbri yn gwibgartio!
Urdd Swimming Gala
Elizabeth McCulloch of Year 11 is a keen swimmer and organised a team to represent Stanwell in the Urdd swimming gala in Cogan on December 4th. Stanwell was very ably rep-resented at the gala by : Georgia Carr Y7, Ffion McCulloch, Isobel Brown Y8, Jose-phine Harris Y9, Rhys Jones, Andrew Flanigan, Kabir Knupp Y10, Elizabeth McCulloch, Amy Bond, Lloyd Hanson Y11 and Megan O’Brien of Y13. Nearly 100 swimmers took part in an exciting and highly competitive day.
We were very successful and achieved a num-ber of placings, including 1st place in the 100m Freestyle for Elizabeth, 1st place in 100m breast-stroke for Andrew and 1st place for Amy in backstroke. The girls’ relay team came 2nd, as did Isobel in the butterfly and freestyle and Georgia in backstroke. We hope to qualify for the National Gala in the International Pool, Cardiff Bay in January on the strength of these performances. Llongyfarchiadau i bawb! For Open Day, the Welsh department had an arts and crafts session, along with a quiz on Welsh celebrities - enwogion o fri! Much fun was had by all.
“Carlamu ar y ceffylau”
Cymraeg Mrs C Flaherty
A group of 22 pupils from Year 9 and 10 visited the Glan-llyn Urdd camp in November. Pupils were encouraged to take part in a wide variety of outward bounds activities including orienteering, climbing and raft building on the banks of beautiful Lake Tegid in Snowdonia and Archery. Everyone had a fantastic time and their conduct was a credit to Stanwell School and to their parents.
Robin Hood and Maid Marian in the making!
Having built their raft our adventurers are now ready to test their efforts in the lake in Llyn Tegid.
Robert Brown (Year 10), Guillaume Bigsby (Year 9) and Kayleigh Fisher (Year 8) were nominated for the Eryl Walsh Award, which is an award for pupils who show enthusiasm and commitment to learning Welsh as a second language. The event took place on Wednesday July 9th in the Urdd centre which is situated in the Millennium Centre in Cardiff Bay. They participated in workshops and had an informal chat in Welsh with the judges. The pupils chatted for a few minutes about a topic of their choice and then took part in the award ceremony in the evening. Although they were nervous, the judge could not praise them enough, not only on their standard of Welsh but on their impeccable behaviour and wonderful personalities. We could not be more proud of them. Llongyfarchiadau!
“Everyone had a fantastic time and their behaviour was impeccable”
Sgiliau Gwaith Gwaith
It has been a busy term for the three Workskills classes. The Year 9 group has started the ‘Finance & Money Skills’ course and completed the first three units learning about income and expenditure and how to budget. The Year 10 group started the main Workskills course looking at different types of unpaid work. Year 11 pupils have reflected on their summer work experience placements and are de-veloping their team working skills.
In October, the Year 10 pupils took part in the Keep Brit-ain Tidy 60th Anni-versary celebrations
and met Great Uncle Bulgaria during a litter pick on Barry Island. Pictured meeting the famous womble are Year 10 pupils Rhys Walker, Cerys John, Owen Harvey and Leighton Mapley. On the 3rd December, Clare Humphrey from the Vale Volunteer Bureau came into school to give an interesting talk on volunteering and discuss the range of opportunities available to pupils. The 8th of December saw 28 Year 10 and 11 pupils head back to Barry Island again for the 6th consecutive year of working with the Vale of Glamorgan
Visible Services Department. Unusually for a Workskills litter pick in Barry, the weather was excellent with no wind or rain!
The pictures show Year 11 pupils Emily Roberts, Bethan Laventure & Sa-vanngh Holbrook-Fox collecting litter from a windy the Barry Island seafront. It was an enjoyable afternoon for all who participated.
At the top of the newly opened Eastern Prome-nade are Shaun Burke-Davies, Laura Berry, Lydia Cheetham-Booker and David Warner half way through their task.
Finally, as part of the team-building units, the Year 11 pupils have decided to set up a cakes stalls selling their homemade cakes to raise money for their chosen charities. Bethan Laventure, Catlin Denton, Sam Jones, Jordan Sawyer and Shaun Burke-Davis are pictured below with some of their cakes.
“It was an enjoyable afternoon for all”
Mr. R Deighton-Jones
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It has been an especially busy term for our new pupils this autumn. The Llangrannog trip provided a wonderful opportunity for the year group to bond. All those present had an excellent time in this challenging environment. The excellent behaviour of the pupils was especially note-worthy. It is sometimes not easy to smile in the cold and wet but their spirit and determination won through!
Another highlight of the term was the Children in Need/Breast Cancer fundraising activities in November. All the forms made a magnificent effort to organise stalls and activities for this important day. The highlight of the day was a concert where the pupils sang and danced through the afternoon in aid of the charities. A huge total of nearly three thousand pounds was raised by their magnificent efforts.
We are so proud that the pupils can respond so well, time and time again, to everything that is challenging and positive in the school. We are sure that you will join us in congratulating the pupils below on a most successful first term.
7T
7T pupils have settled into life in Stanwell superbly and have been a pleasure to teach. I have watched them grow and develop as individuals already, and over the next pages you will read about some individual achievements as well as group achievements. I am very proud to say that our form has done exceptionally well this term. Here in Stanwell School we aim for all pupils to achieve as close
to 100% attendance as possible. The following pupils in 7T have achieved this magical number: Ellen Carolan, Lloyd Clarke, Marisa Crandon, William Davies, Michael Dolbear, Isabella Huggins, Luc Kibblewhite, Brooke Martinson, Lewi Minchin, Emma Morgan, Luca Nardone, Louis Powditch, Christopher Slack, Cyprian Wachowicz and Luke Williams.
Pupils are rewarded for completing outstanding classwork and/or homework by receiving stickers, postcards and house points. In 7T there have been a large number of house points awarded, which is obviously very pleasing indeed. Over half of the form have achieved 10 house points or more, with 20 being the highest number awarded as of 2nd December. The accolade for the most number of house points in 7T goes jointly to Cyprian Wachowicz and Anna Hughes .
“their magnificent efforts.”
Miss R Sterlini and Mr M Baldwin
Newyddion Blwyddyn 7
Year 7
All forms in Year 7 were involved in fundraising for Children in Need and Breakthrough Breast Cancer on 14th November. Half of 7T set up an extraordinarily yummy-looking cake stall (with cakes baked by the pupils!) with the other half setting up a penalty shoot-out activity. Both groups did exceptionally well and raised over £50 collectively, da iawn!
In 7T there are several pupils who excel in the areas of music and sport, two of their form tutor Mr Giles’ great interests in life! Well done to the following for demonstrating excellence in their chosen fields:
Tomos Watkins
Tomos is a very talented young musician who plays the saxophone and piano. He has recently completed his grade 4 saxophone exam and is hoping to start grade 5 soon. He is also a keen member of the junior orchestra who practises on a Friday afternoon 3pm-4pm.
William Davies and Naomi Edgell
Will and Naomi are currently working on grade 2 piano. During music lessons they often excel in performing the pieces that are set as class work.
Lloyd Clarke
Lloyd is a very active and sporty pupil, training with the school rugby, basketball and cricket teams. He also plays matches for the rugby team.
“very active and sporty pupil”
Miss R Sterlini and Mr M Baldwin
Year 7
Joseff Morris
Joseff plays for the school football team. He can often be found chatting to his fellow pupils about the match on the weekend!
Emily Hall
Emily plays for the school netball team and has already competed in several matches. She is pictured here with the rest of her high-achieving team.
Thank you very much for reading 7T’s newsletter, I hope you have enjoyed sharing in the success of the pupils. Merry Christmas everyone!
7E
The form has made a very good contribution to school life in this first term. Tia Lee has gained a level 1 certificate in ice skating. Liam Richardson has started playing football for Sully. Charlie Jowett is captain of the school rugby team whilst Charles Edwards plays football for Sully. Devon Tyso has qualified as a lifeguard, but must now wait until he is 16 before he can officially use his skills of lifesaving. Also of note is Tia Donnelly-John who belongs to the school netball team. Jack Rees has also played for the school rugby team. Isobel Adams has played football for Sully girls’ U12. I am pleased to report that Emily Clarke is learning Welsh for the first time as her previous school was in Cyprus. Lola Davies performed in a musical called “We will rock you” at the Paget rooms during half term. Sally Henry is studying a magnificent total of three musical instruments; harp, piano and flute! During this term, Morgan Lloyd Williams has passed his grade 3 piano. Max Bradley Glinister plays the guitar and will soon be taking his exam. 7A
Idris Aydin has written the story behind the ring made for Doctor Who by his parents and received a letter from Doctor Who himself thanking him! Seren Baker is a member of the Cardiff Swimming club and won first prize in the Welsh national competition. She also took part in a sponsored swim recently and swam 160 lengths.
Rosa Bertini came 4th in the UDO street dance championships in Glasgow and also came 2nd in the Welsh UDO championships in Newport. Rosa also took part in the trampolining competition in Pontypridd.
“received a letter from Doctor Who”
Miss R Sterlini and Mr M Baldwin
Year 7 Isabelle Carter competes in cross country competitions and represents the school. Toby Chapman plays football for Sully football club and helped the team succeed to reach the semi finals of a cup match. Cameron Fofana is the captain of Sully football team under 12s. He has played in Barcelona for the team and in the New Year will be going to Madrid to play against Real Madrid's ADC team. Lauren Harris has been selected to play football for south Wales, Cardiff and the Vale. She plays centre midfield. Kieran Jenkins is a keen footballer and recently played in a semi final for a cup tournament. David Keane took part in the reading challenge in Sully and won. Dylan Lyle is a talented goal keeper who plays for Cardiff and the Vale and Bristol football club. He will be playing in Madrid against Real Madrid's ADC team in the New Year. Tilly McKechnie came 4th in the UDO street dance championships in Glasgow and also came 2nd in the Welsh UDO championships in Newport. Juliet Nottingham has been selected to play football for the Cardiff and the Vale county team. She has also passed grade 1 guitar exam with distinction. Morgan Pratt is a keen cross country runner and was in the Welsh squad. She came 2nd in the British championships. She also has passed her grade 4 piano exam. Lili Rees passed her grade 1 piano exam and grade 3 singing exam. She has also achieved a brown belt in karate. Congratulations and Merry Christmas to all the form!
7M
7M pupils have had a productive, busy term! Adam Grosfils recently won a cricket competition in the Vale. Joe Lewis passed his black belt in tae kwon do in October. Rachel Togden reached the finals of the National Welsh Music competition. Eve Traynor recently competed in Dance for Wales – she won the solo competition. George Marshall won the Welsh Road Cycling Championship. Caitlin Salmon achieved Gold in her lifeguard exam. Jacob Bannister was awarded a bronze medal in the City of Cardiff swimming gala. All the form contributed to a successful Children in Need fund raising day—well done!
7X Pupils in 7X have been busy this term. Grace Eshel has passed grade 2 on the guitar. Gillie Finney was part of the Vale Dragons football team who are top of Division 1. James Harvey has passed level 8 in his swimming lessons and level 4 in ice skating. Ella Radford performed in Mr Baldwin’s spectacular ‘Children in Need’ charity concert. Emily Richards has also been raising money for charity with her drama group.
“finals of the National Welsh Music Competition”
Miss R Sterlini and Mr M Baldwin
Year 7
Scarlett Russell is the 4th best U13 javelin thrower in Wales. Niamh Sultana has gained a place in the Welsh U14 basketball team. Toby Warlow was recently awarded a trophy in a football tournament.
7W
7W have had a very busy term at Stanwell! They have been involved with many school activities whilst also keeping busy outside of school. Arman Abdi and Lily Tracy have been voted 7W Form Representatives. Huw Boucher got a distinction in his grade 5 the-ory music examination. He will be playing the flute in the Aida production and he also gained an honours with distinction in a recent ballet examination. Jack Dunning helped his rugby team win the district trophy. Arman Abdi, Conner Harlock, Anton Rogan, Marcy Webbe and Kieran Utting per-formed on stage in the amazing Children in Need concert. Grace Hynes has represented the school in a trampolining competition. Paris Jackson Newman has recently per-formed in a play called ‘Seusical The Musi-cal’. Agatha Leach is delighted to have won every single netball match with the A team. Edward Norton has started trials with Swansea City Football Academy and went to Belgium to play in the Christmas Truce Tournament. Emily Reypert has started pre-paring for her grade 5 theory music examina-tion. Huge congratulations go to Mia Smith! Her fantastic artwork has been in an online poll with 15 other finalists for the 2015 Peo-ple’s Choice Award. She won and 7W are all delighted as they had been voting for her im-age. Flora Tassinari has taken part in Hansel and Gretel with Opera Ddraig, She has also got into the National Children’s Or-chestra playing the violin and recently sang
in a choir in the Benjamin Britten War Requiem. Madlen Thomas is looking forward to perform-ing in Planet Ice’s Christmas show ‘Aladdin’. Marcy Webbe will be competing in the Welsh junior athletics championships in January. All members of the form worked very hard for Chil-dren in Need and raised money for this worthy cause with different stalls. Well done to you all for your hard work, your fantastic ideas and your eagerness to raise money for charity. 7O 70 pupils have also been super busy. Georgia Carr was the national winner for her swimming club. Flora McWilliam came 3rd in a gymnas-tics competition. Jamie Cook came 2nd in a na-tional sailing gala. Matthew Pringle was very proud that he achieved 100% in his first maths exam at Stanwell. Curtis Finch and William Lloyd have both been accepted to play rugby for the Vale of Glamorgan. Jessica Jones has achieved her black belt in karate. Leon Sinden had a distinction for his grade 3 violin exam.
Hashaam Khan was voted the year representa-tive on the school council. Amy Prangley, Leon Sinden and Felicitity Walker have joined the Junior choir and performed in two concerts. Jacob Sweeney is a talented golfer and won the Steward cup tournament at Glamorganshire golf club where he was consequently selected to be coached professionally. Heather Taylor is cur-rently preparing for her grade 3 singing exam. Alivia Williamson has performed in 'Peter and the Wolf' at the Millennium Centre. She has also competed in a cross country competition against other schools in the vale.
Miss R Sterlini and Mr M Baldwin
“National Children’s Orchestra”
Year 7 7R Bethan Chalk passed her grade 1 guitar and grade 2 piano. Jamie Collinson has taken up free-running. He has learnt to do a wall flip. Cerys Edwards–Rich has passed her level 1 and 2 ice-skating exam. Darcey Harry was picked to represent Cardiff swimming club in a national Arena league. Rhys Knapper saved a penalty in a shoot out in the quarter finals of the cup for Sully F.C. Alex Lewis has been selected for the trials to be in the U12 South Wales tennis team. Jacob Ringer has modelled for the WRU. Sophie Lias has auditioned for ‘Britain’s Got Talent’ with her gymnastics. We eagerly await the results. In the sphere of music, Sophie Thomas has passed her grade 1 piano with a distinction and Tom Walters got into the top 40 in a national drumming competition.
7K
7K pupils have had a wonderful first term in Stanwell. They have worked hard both in school and outside of school to make sure that they have the best start possible. We seem to be a form of talented linguists, espe-cially in French. Niamh Pearse, Emily Lam, James Murphy-Johns, Luca Gentile and Ben Harvey have all had outstanding results in French and Jessica Bullock achieved a level 6 in Welsh. Da iawn! We also have a lot of sports people in our midst including Anoushka Broughton who hit all of the targets in laser rifle shooting on her first go, Sam Davies, Jamal Awed, Johnny Robinson and Skye Regan have all joined the football club, Sam Wheatley who has moved up to a higher session in cycling, Natayah Birchall who is in the A team in
netball and Steffan Crimp who is on the rugby team, the football team, the cricket and gymnas-tics team. Our musicians have had a great first term too with Danny Sullivan taking up Music Tech and James Young taking up the French horn again. Congratulations must also go to Gideon Turton, Ben Harvey, Joshua Slatter Emily Clarke, Sadie Evans and Amina Miah who have all per-formed well academically this term. 7K did a marvellous job with their stall at the Children in Need event in November. Congratulations on an excellent first term 7K! 7L Pupils in Year 7L have been extremely produc-tive this term. As a form group, pupils raised money for Children in Need. Pupils sold cakes, completed the doughnut challenge and had a foot-ball game. Additionally, pupils in our form created a number of Christmas boxes in aid of Organisation Christ-mas Child providing gifts for children to appreci-ate.
Miss R Sterlini and Mr M Baldwin
“performed well academically this term”
Year 8 This has been an eventful exciting term for Year 8. All pupils have embarked enthusiastically on the ‘Real Game’. This is an effective and informative method to provide pupils a glimpse of what it is like living and working as an adult. Mr Pritchard from Careers Wales has also been assisting with preparing our pupils for their option choices later on this year. Look out for more updates on Moodle regarding option choices in the new year. Pupils have also enjoyed a varied pastoral framework. They participated in a Remembrance assembly where pupils studied WW1 poetry —perhaps even more important considering this is the Centenary year. The year group has also benefited from an Eco-Schools assembly titled “Mix it up—sustainable travel” which focused on the issues of alternative travel to ease traffic congestion and environmental pressures. The year group also enjoyed the one day engineering scheme in November which served as a useful window to highlight the career opportunities and challenges. Year 8 girls also benefited from an additional 1 day engineering session. PC Mudie has also delivered a number of informative sessions on drug awareness to individual forms. Pupils in Year 8 have also shown their generosity and compassion by participating in a range of worthwhile causes to help those less fortunate than themselves. Numerous cake sales, non-uniform days and a ‘wear your Christmas jumper day’ have helped to raise a considerable sum of money for organisations like Children In Need and Save the Children. Well done Year 8! Many exciting trips have taken place this term. Pupils enjoyed sampling the delights at Cadbury World with the Geography Department and the recent history trip to London was also hugely
popular. A considerable number are also committed to future field trips, including the Ski visit, the Languages visit to Paris and the Art visit to Madrid. Year 8 pupils benefited from an intriguing and emotional drama workshop which focused on the dangers of bullying during the Anti Bullying Week in November. In addition a number of the year group attended a “Shakedown” workshop in
which they had to serve as newspaper reporters focusing on the harmful effects of cigarette smoking. This year our School Council representatives are Thomas Martin and Natasha Croll. Both have taken on the responsibilities of the role with enthusiasm and maturity, while contributing to the School Council meetings. Each form has elected form representatives for the Year 8 Council. Their role is to act as the link between pupils and the School Council and they have a great opportunity to raise issues that pupils feel are important
“This year our School Council representatives are Thomas and Natasha”
Mr G Penny and Mrs R Baker
Year 8 to them to help improve the whole school environment. The Year 8 form representatives are as follows: 8T– Zeus Kampas and Kayci Yip
8E– Thomas Martin and Lucy Jones
8A– Matthew George and Hannah Kidby
8M– Shafi Chowdhury and Natasha Croll
8X– Jericho Aguinaldo and Phoebe Scott-Quinlan
8W– Owen Evans and Zoya Yousef
8O– Louis Spencer and Isobel Brown
8R– David Thomas and Megan Sully
8K– James Lewis and Carys Thomas
8L– Elinor Pyman and Daniel Hale We wish the year group a restful and enjoyable Christmas break and look forward to another exciting and fruitful term in the new year. 8T Jordan Jones has joined a football club. Adam Weir is enjoying a member of the school football team. Kian Walters participated in the Sports Awards. Ossian Lambert-Jones has joined a free-running club and has successfully completed a front flip. Kayci Yip played a concert in front of more than 60 people. Alexandra Burrows and Charlotte Peach have achieved 100% attendance for Year 8 so far – keep it going! Holly Jenkins has been called up to the Cardiff and the Vale football team. Gabriel Howard is a member of the
County cricket team and the school football team. Evan Dyer won a sailing competition.
8E Megan Lowe and Lucie Franks 8W have raised £70 for Cancer Research Wales. Maisy Gibbs has represented the school in Year 8 football in the Cardiff City house of sport competition. Michael Bennett has represented the school in basketball and also represented Penarth Town Lions FC. Tom Jenkins represented the school in a Year 9&10 table tennis tournament. Sophie Hunnan took part in a trampoline competition in school, and also took part in 2 national company of Wales dance shows. Alexandra Preece started gymnastics club in October. Rory Skinner has been very busy representing the school in cross country and football where they won a cup match. He has also been chosen to play for the PG10 football academy. Rhys McGowan has also represented the school at cross country. 8A 8A is an active and busy form. William Bennett and Jay McIntyre are keen free runners. Reinel Castillo enjoys rock climbing. Amelia Cummins is at stage 5 in sailing. Mia Daniel and Meredith Holland are figure skaters. John Lemmer is in the school rugby team. Matthew George plays football for Penarth. Joseph Moores is a keen boxer. Nicholas Johnson plays tennis for Cardiff
Mr G Penny and Mrs R Baker
“Many exciting trips have taken place this term”
Year 8 Castle and plays table tennis in school.
Dex Trivett is a Welsh Gymnast and is currently ranked 12th in the UK. Joseph and Thomas Ramage are in the Every Man Youth Theatre drama club and will be performing in their
Christmas play, ‘Elf on a Shelf’. Laura Macleod is in the Go Theatre performing arts group. Connor Ferguson is a scout. Ollie Lloyd is an Air Cadet. Kaci Johnson is a St. John’s Ambulance cadet and is in the school’s girls’ choir. We have more musicians too, Joseff Collins, Hannah Kidby and Billy McCullagh play the guitar, Mia Gordan-Davies is grade 5 in piano, Thomas Griffiths is in the school outsiders choir, plays the drums and is grade 6 in trumpet. Lucy Simpson also plays the drums and Abigail Bryan is learning to play the ukulele. Finally, Menna Chandler is a portrait artist. It is great to see so many of the form who have regular hobbies and interests. Well done from Miss White. 8M Faith Mattinson passed her membership course for St John's Ambulance. Ffion McCulloch swam for the school in the Urdd competition. Courtney French has sung in the choir since it began again in September and has performed in all the school shows. Carys David has helped the Autism Directory six times and has raised money for the charity. Shafi Chowdhury and Natasha Croll were elected as a form representatives and joined the pupil council, with Natasha also joining gymnastics club. Harriet Marshall gained grade 3 in the piano, and with Natasha Croll, performed in
the Christmas fayre.
8X Megan Lages has very kindly started to help out at her dance school with grades 1 to 4 while practising for her modern dance exam on the 22nd January – good luck. Zoe Jennings sang in the Christmas concert. Josef Davies has been braving the elements and playing both football and rugby for Dinas Powys. William Hardy has been playing in the 5-aside football tournament. Dan Munro-Morris has won the Glamorganshire Gold Championship and also taken part in 3 cross country races. Jericho Aguinaldo came in second place in the badminton competition against all Vale schools. Jacob Huish plays football for the local team. Nia Isherwood and Stephanie Willan have joined a basketball team. Phoebe Scott-Quinlan has competed in the school trampoline competition. Isabelle Dain-Smith and Olivia Tyso are undefeated in their netball league with Penarth Allstars A team. Morgan Mitchem is enjoying playing for Dinas Powys FC U13s. Calan Cross has played his first game of football for Cogan AFC and has also been playing for the school team. Zachary Mclellan-Morgan has joined the PG10 football academy.
Mr G Penny and Mrs R Baker
“they had to serve as newspaper reporters”
Year 8 8W Aliyah Jama plays for Cardiff City Ladies U16s and they reached the quarter-finals of their tournament; she also competes with the school basketball team. Ethan Mulcahy scored 2 goals and captained the football team to a victory in the second round of the cup. Tariq Amaria, Owen Evans and Evan Lloyd played for the victorious school rugby team in the match against Barry. Jamie Taylor recently scored a hat-trick to send Canton Rangers to the top of their league. Adam Nilsen has been named as his football club’s top goal scorer. Zoya Yousef has been heavily involved with the RE club and this included participating in the St Augustine’s Christmas Tree Festival. Several members of the form have had lots of academic success this term including Sophie Whittaker and Dan Cozma in Maths; Tristan Edwards in History, Aleena Akhtar and Liam Perry in Geography; Erin Langford and Jagjeet Singh-Landa in English; Josephine Paine in Science and Maliyah Khan and Bethany Kelly have both achieved over 100 stars in French. Emily Griffiths did very well at a Welsh Squad boxing assessment and Tomas Dlouhy has been very busy with several activities including cycling, karate and archery. 8O 8O is a form group full of sports men and women. A number of the male members of the class are keen football players including Louis Foscolo who plays for the school team; Louis Spencer and Henry Lloyd who both play for Sully FC and helped them to win the Vale cup with Henry scoring 5 goals in 2 games. Louis is also ranked number 2 in Wales for cross country. We also have many members of the school rugby team including Matt Wiltshire who scored the winning try in the cup final.
“an intriguing and emotional drama anti-bullying workshop.”
The girls are not to be outdone by the boys in 8O, with Alys Price competing in dance and gymnastics competitions and coming 4th out of 100 in the beam. Megan Lias is a keen horse rider and came 2nd in the dressage competition. Angharad Goodhew raised money with her whole family for the Special Care Baby Unit at the Princess of Wales Hospital, Bridgend by doing a sponsored walk from Penarth to Bridgend, a fantastic achievement. Well done 8O! 8R A large number of form members contribute to the school teams. Firstly, Nicholas Hague Jones, Fin Evans and Karl Webber play for the school rugby teams. Ellie Macmillan, Sophie Anderton, Lily Ireland, Lauren Selman and Grace McIntosh have all enjoyed contributing to the school netball teams. George Hardess and Finley Stevens have contributed to Media Club. Ella Cole has been practising the drums with the music department for a gig with Rock Academy Wales. Eddie Price has been involved in the school’s table tennis team and lunchtime 5x60 activities. Lloyd Thomas has participated in
Mr G Penny & and Mrs R Baker
Year 8 the cross country team and Finn Rogers has enjoyed badminton club. Megan Sully, Pia Sully, Sophie Anderton and Lauren Selman represented Stanwell at the recent football tournament and the team reached the finals. Lily Ireland has been enjoying her saxophone lessons. Lauren Selman has embarked on singing lessons and has begun grade 4. Ellie Macmillan has been enjoying her drum lessons and also participates in the choir and basketball
club. Nicholas Hague Jones continues to be a keen member of the school cross country team. 8K Cameron Willan has enjoyed playing rugby for Penarth, the team have enjoyed a successful year. Rhys Newman and Cameron Sultana play football for Penarth Town Lions and the team is currently second in the league. Lucas French plays for the same team and also won an U14s tennis tournament recently. William Cornelius has enjoyed free running and playing badminton. Jack Garrett has participated in full contact karate. Jack is also a member of the
“We wish the year group a restful and enjoyable Christmas break.”
Old Pens’ U13s. Carys Thomas, a form representative, recently achieved a distinction in her grade 3 violin exam. Carys also raised £60 from a bake sale for Children in Need and also enjoys swimming outside of school. Georgia Murray recently took part in trampolining and gymnastics competitions. Alicia Wells raised money for ‘Jayla’s Fund’ and Felix Price recently became a junior lifeguard. Max Baker attended the WUKF karate championship in Poland. Well done to all. 8L Arianne and Enyala Banks have both completed their grade 5 piano, and have performed in a charity show for the musical theatre school which they attend. A big congratulation goes to Enyala who won the county badminton competition for Stanwell. Well done to Elinor Pyman who came 2nd in an ice-skating competition. Hannah Williams, Mia Sutcliffe-Hill and Emma Monaghan are in the Penarth Allstars netball team who are currently undefeated so congratulations to them. Emma Monaghan has achieved a distinction in her grade 2 singing and is now working towards grade 3. She has competed in the Treorchy annual singing competition and achieved 2nd place. Congratulations to Dan Jones who has qualified to play for the Welsh league in table tennis and to Deiniol Knight who is only one belt away from becoming a black belt in karate. Serena Jemmett and Oliva Tucker have been performing at Sadlers Wells, London with the performing arts academy Wales dance group so a big congratulations to them. Megan Edwards has achieved a junior bowmen short metric 2 in archery. Well done to Seren Sullivan who has achieved a grade 2 in flute.
Mr G Penny and Mrs R Baker
Blwyddyn 9
It has been an interesting and challenging start for Year 9 pupils who have begun to study their chosen GCSE courses. They have been approaching their studies with great en-thusiasm and maturity and we hope this posi-tive attitude will remain throughout the 3 years. Pupils have been gathering evidence of their successes inside and outside school for their progress files, as well as writing per-sonal statements about their achievements. Pupils have also enjoyed a varied pastoral framework. In assemblies, recognition has been given to world events, historical memo-rials, activities and the precepts of the week. Pastoral themes have included learner voice, thinking flexibly, learning pathways and re-spect. Remembrance was also a key theme of the term and we learned about ex-Stanwell pupils who fought and died in the Great War. Year 9 pupils were also involved in Taking Flight’s theatre workshops, teaching pupils about Disability Hate Crime. The perform-ance and follow-up workshops were excel-lent and all pupils thoroughly engaged with the production, learning a great deal about issues facing people with disabilities. This year our School Council representatives are Maddy Carver and Oliver Marsh. Both have taken on the responsibilities of the role with great enthusiasm and maturity, adding much to the School Council meetings. Each form has elected form representatives for the Year 9 Council. Their job is to act as the link between pupils and the School Coun-cil, and they have a great opportunity to raise issues that pupils feel are important to them to help improve the whole school environ-ment.
Year 9 School Council Representatives Oliver
Marsh and Maddy Carver The Year 9 form representatives are as fol-lows: 9T– Daniel Sheppard & Hannah Weeks 9E– Connor Hamilton & Annayah McNa-mara 9A– Maddy Carver & Isaac Grant 9M– Luke Haynes & Mila Monaghan 9X– Celsea Ferry & Jordan Sheppard 9W– Ellie Adams & Daniel Thomas 9O– Anthony Jomon & Shannon Smith 9R– Toby Dyer & Mollie Hogg 9K– Oliver Marsh & Mini Terao-Rich 9L– Jacob Dimond & Ffion Jackson
Congratulations to all of the above! 9T Owain Jones won two regattas in rowing. Hannah Stephens won a bronze medal in a 4 mile sprint kayak race and has been asked to be in the first sprint kayak club in Wales. Molly Newman completed the Blades 1 row-ing course during the October half term holi-day. Taiya Jones has been extremely busy this term. She came 3rd in the Welsh Pen-
Mrs K Chelliingworth and Mr R Macpherson.
“The School Council representatives are Ollie Marsh and Maddy Carver”
Blwyddyn 9
tathlon Championships for U16 girls and will be competing in the British final in Glasgow against England, Ireland and Scotland. She has also competed in many cross country races for U15 girls for Stanwell and for her running club and came in the top 30 for each race, between 2.9k and 4.5k. Furthermore, she competed in the Welsh Challenge cup for gymnastics and came 2nd. Finally, she came 3rd in the Welsh Schools’ trampolining com-petition and will now be going to Cambridge for the finals. Well done, Taiya.
Year 9 pupils enjoying Taking Flight’s production
earlier this year 9E Grace Mallory recently sang at the turning on of the Christmas lights in Penarth town centre. Holly Thomas has achieved grade 5 in her ballet exam and Daniel Marsh achieved grade 2 in trumpet, well done both. Connor Evans is playing well for Dinas football team and Callum King has been awarded with goal tender of the season in ice hockey. Well done to Connor Hamilton who has recently played hockey for South Wales' Under 15s team. Well done to every-one.
9A
This year the pupils of year 9A have been busy both in and out of school. Many of the pupils have achieved music grades with Kar-ishma Krishna achieving grade 2, and Christina Kulamannage achieving grade 5 in piano. Karishma also performed with the Welsh National Youth Opera in their summer showcase. Well done to Amy Stout and Ellie Croft for entering the ‘Young Writers’ com-petition and having their work published. Congratulations to Charlie Thomas, whose daily hard work paid off when she won 2nd place in the National Figure Skating competi-tion. Also, congratulations go to Grace Bea-call for winning junior female tennis player of the year and Hannah Ross for winning junior girls’ basketball player of the year, as well as being team captain. Well done to the many boys in 9A who have been playing for local football teams and a special congratula-tions to Callum Eva who won ‘squad man of the Year’ at Cardiff Schools’ football.
9M 9M has proven, throughout the autumn term, to be an exceptionally hard working form, both in school and in extra-curricular activi-ties. Some pupils have been involved in fund raising activities. These include form repre-sentative, Luke Haynes who is a member of the Sea Cadets. On a sporting front 9M have also excelled, with Solly Bridges coming 3rd in the Welsh junior fencing championships. Mila Monaghan was also selected for the Welsh transition laser sailing team. Con-gratulations go to Niamh Bannister who has managed to pass her grade 5 ballet exam, and Emily McConnon and Cerys Harvey both sang in a recent school performance along
“Amy Stout and Ellie Croft have had their work published”
Mrs K Chelliingworth and Mr R sMacpherson.
Blwyddyn 9
with many former Stanwell pupils. 9X Joya Sims has just taken her grade 5 piano exam - good luck with the results. Libero Tassinari plays basketball for the school and for the Vale team. He also plays water polo for the Welsh Wanderers. Rhys Meddins plays tennis for Dinas Powys and recently won a tournament. Da iawn, Rhys! Will Hall recently enjoyed participating in the World Sailing Championships and spent three weeks in Argentina where he represented GBR in the Optimist World Championships. He will also be one of two sailors to repre-sent GBR while competing in a national re-gatta held which will be held in Oman in January.We are very proud of his achieve-ments. Harriet Preece has been improving her fitness levels by attending circuit training classes and has enjoyed the DAPS Drama Club that she has joined.
William Hall– Sailing Champ
9W Ellie Adams attended a youth camp in Blandford where she completed a number of outdoor activities such as canoeing. Tom At-
kinson has been signed for Newport County Junior Academy and his team won the Junior Football League. Morgen Jay has been se-lected to train with Cardiff International Swimming Club. Lydia Milward recently completed a 3.6km cross-country run in Bre-con. In November, Harrison Williams com-peted in the World Karate Championships in London. Many thanks to our form represen-tatives (Ellie Adams and Daniel Thomas) for all their hard work this term.
Year 9 boys hard at work 90 Pupils in 9O have had a busy term, both in and out of school. Nancy Blenkinsop, Sophie De Grey and Kelli Poole have all enjoyed cross country running club. Nancy and Kelli have also enjoyed playing netball and basketball for the school. George Cow-ley is the Year 9 rugby captain and many of the boys in the form have played in the school side under his leadership, these in-clude; Joe Driscoll, Yaseen Ghandour and Jacob Rosser. Jacob Hatcher has enjoyed playing cricket in Cardiff. Yaseen Ghandour has also competed in Bristol ka-rate championships. Joshua Cook made two finals which allowed his team to come third in the Under 18s UK School Games Wales Championships, da iawn ti!
“William Hall represented GBR in the Optimist World Championships”
Mrs K Chelliingworth and Mr R Macpherson.
Blwyddyn 9
Shannon Smith has enjoyed representing her form in the school council. Anthony Jo-mon, our other form representative in the school council, has achieved grade 5 in violin and has been made scout patrol leader. Sadie Lewis performed in ‘Blaze’ in a national dance competition (Wales) and has also per-formed in London. Holly Morgan came 10th out of 34th contestants in Byrds Dressage competition for the whole of Great Britain. Harmony Truscott-Marsh continues to do well in Scouts. Well done all! 9R Well done to Katy Cutts who has completed a stable management course in horse riding. 9R pupils have been very successful musi-cally and should be congratulated for their accomplishments. Congratulations to Toby Dyer for achieving grade 3 drums, Matthew Frost for achieving grade 5 piano and grade 7 brass, Chloe Lam for grade 4 piano and Mary-Kate McGrath for achieving grade 5 piano. Da iawn pawb. Further congratula-tions should be extended to Eleanor-Rose Griffiths for passing her singing exam and to Joel Heaton-Jones who has had successes in both rugby and guitar. Finally, a big thank you and well done to Katie Streets who has been raising money for Macmillan by selling Hamma bead models.
9K
During the autumn term, pupils in 9K had a number of sporting and musical achieve-ments. Dan Farrell came 1st in a free-running tournament. Stanley Murphy-Johns was selected for the Welsh water polo team. Eleanor Warren completed her grade 5 flute. Bronwen Pearce completed her grade
5 ballet. 9L Thomas Pinnington has shown commitment to badminton and table tennis club. Rory Norris has completed grade 1 guitar and is working towards grade 2. Katie Boden is a member of Bliss Dancers and is aiming to start competing soon. Eve Lumsden is part of the Performing Arts Academy of Wales. Andrew Lewis is a member of the Dramati-cal Arts Performance School. Renee Eshel is a member of the gymnastics, trampolining and netball school teams. Darcy Richardson has represented the school in basketball and trampolining competitions. Darcy was one of 12 competitors who were selected to repre-sent Wales, she was placed overall 10th in the NDP3 under 15s. Amoy Brown repre-sents the school netball team. Cai Lloyd plays rugby for the school and Jacob Dimond has played for the school football team.
Year 9 helpers during Open Day
“Darcy Richardson has been selected to represent Wales. Da iawn!”
Mrs K Chelliingworth and Mr R Macpherson.
Blwyddyn 10 The Autumn term has
been an eventful and challenging one for Year 10 pupils. A number of departments have em-barked on controlled assessments which will contribute to the pupils’ overall GCSE grades. Pupils have had to adapt to the rigours and challenges that this has presented. Year 10 pu-pils have also been working very hard on inter-nal tests and assessments and have been busy revising over the last few weeks. A number of pupils have been attending courses at Cardiff and Vale College and the Military Preparation College. This gives pupils an opportunity to gain experiences and develop more vocational areas of interest in an educa-tional setting. Pupils have begun to arrange their work ex-perience placements which will take place in July 2015. The majority of pupils have already explored the Careers Wales website and have applied for placements or have organised a self-placement. Cardiff University presented a useful Higher Education workshop to our pupils which pro-vided them with the opportunity to begin thinking about options after GCSE and A level study. PC Mudie has delivered a scheme cen-tred around the theme of alcohol to half of the year group and this will continue for the re-maining forms after Christmas. The Taking Flight Theatre Company came in to deliver a series of performances and workshops to the whole year group on the theme of Disability Hate Crime. This was a very informative and educational experience and really encouraged a great deal of thought and discussion amongst the pupils. Many of our pupils have taken advantage of the vast extra curricular programme on offer at Stanwell and we have a large number of Year 10 pupils involved in music ensembles, senior production rehearsals, various departmental trips, Duke of Edinburgh and various sports
clubs. It was lovely to see so many Year 10 pupils gaining awards at the annual Sports Awards Ceremony which took place in September and also so many pupils taking part in the recent school production of ‘Aida’.
10T Ben Jones has been selected to play for the Vale Under 15s rugby team and Elspeth Robertson has been involved in many public dance performances including a performance at the Royal Albert Hall and with the National Dance Company, ’ Blaze’. 10E Ieuan Murray has represented the school in both gymnastics and trampolining competi-tions. Harry Smith has been selected for Car-diff and the Vale County Schools’ football team and Geraint Williams has been selected to play for the Vale Under 15s rugby team. Alex Whitfield has been selected to participate in the Topper UK Sailing squad and came 7th in the UK National Series One. 10A Menna Bafaqih completed a TV and film act-ing course and Alexandra Slack won a bronze and silver medal in a national karate competi-tion in London.
Many of our pupils have taken advantage of the vast extra curricular programme on offer
Mrs R Connor and Mr A Chambers
Blwyddyn 10 10M Emily Bull has successfully passed her grade 3 piano examination with a merit and Tom McSorely has been selected to play for the Vale of Glamorgan under 15s rugby team. Emma Squire has been awarded a bronze medal in the Under 21s karate champion-ships. 10W Robert Brown has represented the school in a recent Vale cross country race and Alex Hodges has participated in a recent competi-tion with Cardiff rowing club. Richard Lee has been awarded the title of under 15s Car-diff and Vale 200m champion and Josh Lewis has been selected to play for the under 15s Vale rugby team. 10O Michael Conway has performed with the Dina Powys Players in their production of “Allo Allo” and Dan Rogers has completed his Young Leaders course. Jack Vowles has been selected for the Vale rugby team. 10R Juliette Cavaye has performed with her dance school at Sadlers Wells Theatre in London and also in the Welsh Millennium Centre. Luc Keane Adams has been selected for the Vale of Glamorgan Squash Squad and has also passed his grade 1 piano exam. Thaine Baker has been selected for the Vale of Glamorgan Under 15s rugby team and Osian Boland has flown a plane at Air Ca-dets. Ellis Hawkins Payne has passed his level 2 at sailing and Joe Stephens Collins has competed in a recent athletics competi-tion. Cora Wall has been selected for the Welsh basketball team. 10K Carmela Hermogeno has been selected for the under 14s Welsh basketball team and Sam and Morgan Salisbury have joined Penarth hockey team.
10X Owen Harvey is a Welsh Chess League quali-fier whilst Jack Francis has done some volun-teering work with Greenpeace. George Lush is a member of the school’s eco club and Bronwen Morgan has passed her grade 1 pi-ano exam. Katherine Peach has taken part in a recent memorial service with air cadets and Lauren Stephens and Seren Mirza-Davies have represented the school in basketball. Chloe Taylor has achieved numerous qualifi-cations at army camp and has completed a Fire Fighter course. Zain Yousef has taken part in mixed doubles at Penarth lawn tennis club and
Chloe Waite has passed her piano exam. 10L Gemma Brinn has taken part in a 5k run and Kris Black has sung at the Millenium Centre. Elysia Hickery has got through the Girl Guid-ing Cymru International selection process to visit Estonia next year and Isabelle Hodgson has been invited to visit the Pet Aid Hospital for PDSA. Jack Lee has been selected to play in the Vale of Glamorgan under 15s rugby team and Emily Skinner has been selected to play for the Welsh Under 16’s basketball squad. Alex Smith has represented the school in cross country and Aaron Wong has achieved a Food Hygiene Award in his place of part time work.
“Cora Wall has been selected for the Welsh basketball team”
Mrs R Connor and Mr A Chambers
Blwyddyn 11 It has been a busy term for Year 11 as pupils complete controlled assessments and work to-wards achieving their GCSEs in the summer of 2015. The Maths GCSEs and mock examinations have now finished and the provisional date for Year 11 pupils to receive their school reports is Tuesday, 23rd January 2015.
During their Pastoral lessons, Year 11 pupils have had a variety of outside agencies involving them in workshops and discussion groups. PC Emma Mudie has talked to pupils about sexual consent. Cardiff University representatives have spoken to the pupils and offered advice for the future. Mr Alun Pritchard of Careers Wales has started his one-to-one career interviews with pu-pils.
Alongside this, assemblies have taken place where recognition has been given to world events, activities and the precepts of the week including Respect, Values, Remembrance, Is it OK to fail?, Anti-bullying week, World Aids Day and Eco-School Week. Also, making use of the school facilities, pupils have looked at dis-ability in the iPad room and the results of dan-gerous driving using ‘The Crash’ resources in the Learning Resource Centre.
Homework Clubs have been running throughout the term and will continue right up to the sum-mer GCSE examinations. We encourage all pu-pils to take part in these sessions if possible in order to fulfil their potential at GCSE. For fur-ther information on homework clubs and support provided in Year 11 please go to : Moodle.stanwell.org
You could also follow us on: @StanwellYr11
“It has been a busy term for Year 11 pupils”
Miss L Jenkins and Mr B Crompton
This year our School Council Represen-tatives are Joseph Burge and Lily Win-nan.
Each form has elected representatives for the Year 11 Council. They are as fol-lows: 11T– Seren Marsh and Callum McSorley 11E– Charlotte Leighton-Price and Jonathan Wright 11A– Esther Buckton and Daniel Ed-wards 11M– Morgan Humphreys and Ebony Rio Rees 11X– Joseph Burge and Lille Tanner 11W– Samuel Lawrence and Lily Winnan 11O– Lily Machlab and Joseph Valek 11R– Katy Gibbs and Logan Nicols 11K– Sean Mian and Abby Mills 11L– Tom Sharp and Charlotte Way
Blwyddyn 11
“Llongyfarchiadau mawr i Blwyddyn 11”
Miss L Jenkins and Mr B Crompton
11T
Llongyfarchiadau to Cara Chivers who came 2nd in a dance competition. Well done to Matthew Dawson who regularly takes part in cross country. Congratulations to Hol-lie Day on passing grade 4 on the piano. Good luck to Bethan Evans with her ballet exam in London. Llongyfarchiadau mawr i Sali Harmes on passing grade 8 on the cello and for completing her First Aid course. Anna Jones often plays for her tennis club and in league matches. Rhys Jones is a val-ued volunteer at Cardiff RFC and he is a member of the Cardiff Blues U16 develop-ment squad. William Judge is taking archery lessons and joining a club. Congratulations to Seren Marsh who is the captain of the girls' basketball team that won the Cardiff City basketball competition. Well done to Paul Monaghan on participating in a concert with Only Boys Aloud and for achieving distinc-tion in grade 5 singing. He has also achieved grade 5 piano and grade 5 music theory. Da iawn to Olivia Munro who often competes in dance competitions. Well done to Harri Pain who has grade 5 in guitar and 6 on the piano. Good luck to Henry Price with his application to the Bake Off. Congratulations to Davey Sheppard-Weaver on winning a local ‘Starcraft’ competition. Good luck to Emma Spray with her grade 6 in modern dance.
11E
Alexander Drake currently plays rugby for Penarth and the school’s senior team. Con-gratulations on winning player of the year for
Penarth. Good luck to Alice Durham with her grade 5 piano exam next week and also to Emily Glaze doing her grade 4 piano exam. Joel Price is working hard designing T-shirts for an internet com-pany. Good luck to Jonathan Wright with his grade 5 guitar in December. He is also looking forward to going to Japan with Scouts in July.
11A
Esther Buckton is currently preparing for the school production of ‘Aida’. Good luck to Coire Clarkson as she prepares for her British Horse Society Stage 1 exam. Llongyfarchiadau to Bethan Hearne on winning a chess competition. Pob lwc to Bill Sims with his grade 6 pi-ano.
11M
Llongyfarchiadau i Bryony Aird on passing her grade 4 theory exam with merit. Olivia Barrett is a member of the stage crew for Aida. Amy Bond is a member of the Arena League (swimming). Congratulations to Rebecca Hardess on wining first place in the Stanwell 'Bake-Off' competition. Mor-gan Humphreys plays for Sully FC foot-ball. Jonathan Ignacio is very busy as he is currently taking part in ‘Aida’, is a member of the cross country team for school; he represents Penarth LTC and has completed his grade 6 on the violin! Ryan Lane is also a member of Sully FC football and is participating in ‘Aida’.
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“Many pupils are participating in Aida”
Miss L Jenkins and Mr B Crompton
Owen Lloyd is a keen rugby player. He represents Cardiff Blues under 16 rugby, Stanwell Senior rugby, and Year 11 rugby in the Welsh Cup. Ffion McGowan is a dancer in Aida and has performed in the Aida con-cert in the Welsh Millennium Centre. Llongyfarchiadau to Ffion Phillips on achieving her Duke of Edinburgh bronze Award. James Price has also performed in the Aida concert at the WMC and is a mem-ber of the Year 11 Welsh Cup rugby team. Ebony Rees is a member of the Mark Jermin Drama Academy and is also participating in Aida. Morgan Rees is a member of Sully FC football and is a kick boxing orange belt. Congratulations to Lucy Richards who has passed her grade 4 in ballet. She is also a member of the Cardiff Amateur Athletics club. James Riley is a member of Cogan football club.
11X
Many pupils in 11X are participating in ‘Aida’; Ruth Blenkinsop, Joseph Burge, Caitlin Ellis, Seren Lewis, Rhiannon Pearce and Jay Ruckley. Caitlin Ellis is also taking part in Science collaboration be-tween the BBC and the Welsh National Op-era. Da iawn to Rhiannon Pearce on partici-pating in the remembrance parade in Penarth.
11W
Well done to both Francine Couzens and Claramae Edwards who have completed their grade 4 in ukulele. Nathan Frost scored two goals in the league final and achieved the tournament’s best player.
Rowan Jones visited London with the circus group, ‘No Fit State’, and per-formed in the Roundhouse, The Rose and the National Theatre Gardens. Calum Wincott has achieved a distinction grade 5 in double bass and grade 7 in guitar.
11O
Lloyd Hanson is very busy swimming for Cardiff and Stanwell. Llongyfar-chiadau to Lily Machlab on wining a Cardiff University hoodie after tweeting a response to their visit to Stanwell school. Pob lwc Joseph Valek with his radio station work. Joe commentated on the Cardiff v Ipswich game for Rook-wood Hospital Radio recently and really enjoyed the experience.
11R
Many members of the form are involved in this year’s production of ‘Aida’; Isa-bel Grafton and Erin Summerhayes are in the chorus and Lewis Campbell, Dan Jennings, Logan Nicol and Joseph Phil-lip are soldiers. Logan Nicol is also an extremely talented surfer having repre-sented Wales in the Azores European Championships. He also won the U18 juniors competition in Porthcawl. Other talented sports people include Annabelle Birch Hurst who has represented the county and HUB in Netball, Nicole Put-land who has gained her blue belt in Taekwondo and Ben Ware who is play-ing football for Sully Sports. On a musi-cal note, Izaak Lee and Matt Rogers have achieved their grade 5 in guitar.
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“Nadolig Llawen to all our learners!”
Miss L Jenkins and Mr B Crompton
11K
There is certainly a great interest in sporting activities in the form group, with some out-standing individual and team performances both inside and outside school. Dominic Al-stead competed in a downhill mountain bik-ing competition, coming second and nar-rowly missing out on first. Basil Crack is an important part of the successful Senior XV rugby team, while Finn Hunt is a member of the Year 11 football team. Rebecca Hump-age and Tara Lovering play for the Year 11 netball team. Dylan Jones came second in a squash competition at Sophia Gardens. A number of pupils in the form are currently working towards their Silver Duke of Edin-burgh Award. Dominic Alstead, Tara Lovering, Rebekah Stavrakis, Thomas Tunley and Ray Vandyck have all been busy completing the work required. James Lewis is an important member of the RE Committee. Ray Vandyck is part of the Eco Scools Committee and is also working towards his grade 8 in clarinet.
11L
Good luck to Elizabeth Ingram who is tak-ing her grade 5 piano exam. Many pupils have been awarded the Duke of Edinburgh bronze award; Alfie Chambers, Tom Collins, William Gale, Ieuan Hicks, Megan Lim, Olivia North and Amy Walsh. Da iawn! Amy Walsh has been extremely busy; she has passed grade 6 performing arts with a merit and grade 5 LAMDA with merit. Amy is also performing in ‘Aida’.
Dates for the diary:
January 5th 2015 - INSET day January 6th — First day back for pupils January 7th—External January GCSEs begin (timetable available on moodle.stanwell.org) January 8th—GCSE results issued for No-vember 2014 exams (Maths) January 20th —Reports issued to Year 11 January 27th—Parents Evening February 10th—Year 11 Options Evening May 8th —Start of summer written GCSE exams (timetable available on moodle.stanwell.org) August 20th —GCSE results and enrol-ment days for 6th form Nadolig Llawen a Blwyddyn Newydd Dda to all our learners!
Year 12 The autumn term has seen Year 12 students busily settling into their chosen AS level sub-jects and into life in the sixth form. We would like to express our pleasure in seeing so many of them continuing their studies at Stanwell, and would also like to welcome the students who have joined us from other schools. Students have already embarked on the sev-eral elements of the Welsh Baccalaureate Qualification, most notably the activities for the Essential Skill, ‘Working With Others’. They were organised into groups and had to design, market and manufacture a product to sell on the school’s Open Day. This involved a ‘Team Enterprise Day’, with a Dragons’ Den presentation where each group had to bid for an investment of up to £20 from local business people. The ‘Market Hall’ was a hive of activ-
ity throughout the open day with all of the groups making a profit. Staff, pupils and visi-tors alike all commented on the quality of the products and the professionalism of the stu-dents. Several groups of students also sold their products at the PTA Christmas Fayre. As well as organising community participation placements for the Welsh Baccalaureate, many students have started to prepare for future ca-reers and university courses. The year group recently visited the Careers Wales Fair in Car-diff, where many students tried their hand at a wide range of new skills including helping the BBC’s special effects department.
Many of our Year 12 students are involved in this year’s production of ‘Aida’ with Sam Jennings, Verity Tucker, Sian Smith, Alex Haines, Calum O’Neil and Lily Webbe all se-curing lead roles. Interim reports detailing the students’ progress in their subject areas thus far were distributed in November and a mid year report will be issued at the end of January following the December examination session. The Sixth Form Information Evening took place on the 6th November, where it was emphasised how important it was for Year 12 students to put themselves in the strongest possible position by the end of the year, not only in terms of AS grades but also by gaining as much relevant ex-perience as possible and developing the impor-tant skills required for both work and higher education. Parents also received details on the timing of assessments and reporting as well as a calendar of events and further detail on the WBQ. Many of our students have also been very busy with various extra curricular activi-ties: WB01 A huge congratulations to Rebecca Egerstrom who has been selected to represent Team GB in the U18s ice hockey team as Netminder.
“ busy settling into their chosen AS level subjects and into life in the sixth form.”
Mrs L Bekker and Mr K Watkins
Year 12 under 17 squad.
WB04: Well done to Eleanor Webster who has taken part in the BBC3 debate show Free Speech and is also a member of the Learning & Teaching Group. Congratulations also to Lowri Thomas for winning the regional heat of a de-bating competition about the Magna Carta, and well done to Alice Holder for completing her bronze and silver Duke of Edinburgh awards. Katie MacLeod has attended a work placement at Arup (engineering firm). Sam Jennings has a busy year full of drama ahead of him, playing Radames in the school musical, ‘Aida’, Javert in ‘Les Misérables’ with the Mark Jermin Stage school (next March), and is involved with the production of ‘Phantom of the Opera’ (next April). Curtis-Lee McDonnell is doing his grade 8 in guitar and will be opening for the Welsh band, Peasant’s King as a support act next year. WB05 Jenny Blunden and Emilie Waite helped or-ganise the collection of Operation Christmas Child shoe boxes and Children in Need events as members of the Charity Committee. Emilie Waite, along with Jack Jones and Eric Aydin is also working towards her Duke of Edinburgh gold award. Jack Jones is also a key member of the team taking part in the Engineering Educa-tion Scheme Wales, working with Lion Labora-tories. Alex Collins spent a week filming with BBC’s Casualty. WB06 Congratulations to Georgina Bartlett who was awarded Highly Commended at the Historical Association's 'Great Debate' competition in No-vember. A keen photographer who co-founded the photography club in school, Mark Norton recently received a highly commended award in
“ students have also been very busy with various extra curricular activities”
Mrs L Bekker and Mr K Watkins
Rebecca only started playing in January of this year so this is a fabulous
achievement. Well done to Emily Walters who won the Carol Evans Award for RE ear-lier this year. She currently volunteers for the Year 7 and Year 8 History and RE clubs. WB02: A big well done to Niamh Teague for helping to raise a massive £16,000 for Teen-age cancer trust in October. Morgan Bird, Alex Warren and Laura Huntley have all helped to raise almost £3000 with the charity committee for Children in Need. Abbie Isaacs has appeared on BBC3 to discuss the impor-tance of free speech. Tom Keenan has show-cased his impressive musical ability by play-ing the drums in Swansea jazz festival. Well done to Lauren Falkner and Ioan Morgan-Jones who have both helped to start the pho-tography club and have also assisted with the eco-committee. WB03 Verity Tucker performed to much acclaim in the lead role of Aida in the senior musical. Phoebe Christie was part of the Teen Spirit team who raised over £16,000 for the Teenage Cancer Trust and Thomas Mullett has been selected to represent Wales at the World Scout Jamboree in Japan next year. Also represent-ing Wales, but this time in netball is Elizabeth Birch Hurst who has been selected for the
Year 12 Deklan Grotz who has just become a part time
coach for U14 and U15s rugby. Finally, well done to Courtney Fettah and Sian Smith who both had parts in the school’s production of ‘Aida’. WB09 Da iawn to Teigan Couper and Georgia Wilt-shire on achieving their silver Duke of Edin-burgh award. Best of luck to Megan Clarke, Olivia O’Kell and Cerys Salter who are partici-pating in the senior production of Aida. Megan and Cerys have also been busy outside school as they have successfully passed their grade 6 guitar exam and intermediate ballet exam respectively. Well done to Emma Davies for running the popular after school cricket club for pupils, re-ceiving a cricketing award from Sully CC Men’s 2nds and taking part in Welsh cricket trials. Fi-nally, a thank you to our form reps, Ellen Ashton and Zac Dyer, for working hard and taking the form’s ideas forward to year council. WB10 Students have been involved in a variety of excit-ing fund raising activities; Milissa Sorenson helped to raise £17,000 for Teenage Cancer Trust through her involvement with the ‘Teen Spirit’ committee. Andraya Campbell and her Team Enterprise group managed to raise £60 through their sale of personalised rocks; this has been do-nated to Teenage Cancer Trust and Lesotho. Am-ber Randall has passed her grade 5 music theory and gained a place in the Cardiff County Youth Orchestra. Seren James passed her National Ice Skating Association Level 1in figure skating whilst Harvey Atkins has completed the Grand Prior award for the St John’s Ambulance. In rowing, Sophie Gracia-Thomas won the Cardiff Head race and was awarded the fastest female boat of the day prize and more recently also won the Monmouth Head race.
Mrs L Bekker and Mr K Watkins
the young photographer category of the Royal Horticultural Society Photographic competi-tion.
WB07 William Chappel is a volunteer in a Tenovus Charity Shop. Congratulations to Lily Webbe who secured one of the lead roles in ‘Aida’. James Harvey, Rebecca Lim and Abigail hodges have completed their D of E Silver Award and have recently started working to-wards the gold award by volunteering with Dinas Powys Cubs, Beavers and Stanwell’s English Department respectively. Further afield, Ffion Wood volunteered at a school in Sri Lanka and Molly Holloway spent some time helping on a Medical Volunteering Pro-ject in Ghana. Congratulations to Rebeka Thompson who has been selected for the As-sociates programme with Ballet Cymru. WB08 Well done to Samuel Wilcox who has helped raise £2000 for the International Glaucoma Association by climbing Mount Kilimanjaro. Further congratulations go to Solomon Borde and Nicole Butler who have also been busy raising money for charity; Solomon ran the Cardiff Half Marathon for Velindre and Nicole participated in the 5k Rainbow Run for Ty Hafen, raising £135 and £300 respectively. Also, well done to Thomas Hann who came first in a freestyle longboard competition and
“climbing Mount Kilimanjaro”
Blwyddyn13 This term is always a busy one
for the students of Year 13 with the UCAS process getting well underway. 170 students are expected to apply to study at universities this year with one student applying through CUKAS to study in a college of music and drama. All have been assigned a UCAS tutor to support them through the process. Several specialists in various fields have been con-ducting mock interviews with students in preparation for their applications and it was particularly pleasing to see several former stu-dents such as Megan Boot and Owen Haswell amongst these. Iwan Hopkins from Cardiff University also gave a presentation to the year group on interview techniques whilst Adele Rushton of Bristol University gave advice on writing an effective personal statement. Bud-ding medicine and dentistry students have been receiving advice from current students in the field and we would like to say a special thank you to Martin Blamey, formerly of Ca-reers Wales, who returns every year to give advice and support to those applying to study in this very competitive field. We extend our congratulations to the 15 students who have been offered an interview at Oxbridge. For those who are choosing a different path after their time at Stanwell, specialist advice and support will be offered during the next half term on writing a letter of application, seeking and applying for employment. Guid-ance will be offered via the Careers Officer and Mr R Deighton-Jones (our Work Related Education co-ordinator). All Year 13 students continue to work towards obtaining the Welsh Baccalaureate qualification. This is being graded for the first time this year and many university conditional offers received thus far have featured the Welsh Baccalaureate. Stu-dents have been collecting evidence for their Level 3 Communication Portfolio which in-cluded a debate on Humanitarian Aid con-ducted in the classroom. They have also been
completing the Problem Solving Essential skill on researching the different options available to them after their time in the sixth form. Dr Pooky Knightsmith, a specialist in the field of child and adolescent mental health, spoke to the year group about dealing with stress and anxi-ety, especially during examination periods. Coping strategies were discussed and a great deal of positive feedback was received form the students. Due to the removal of the January external modular examination period, internal examina-tions were sat by the students prior to the Christmas break. This gives both staff and stu-dents a real indication of how they are progress-ing at A2 and meaningful and specific feedback can be given in order to set targets for the last stretch of their sixth form education. On a lighter note, several of our Year 13 stu-dents will play leading roles in the school's sen-ior production of ‘Aida’ which will be per-formed during the week prior to the Christmas break. Tom Chandler and Luke Morley have secured main parts while many Year 13 stu-dents are members of the cast, stage crew or orchestra. We would like to wish all Year 13 students a very merry Christmas and a happy new year
after what has been a very busy term.
“170 students are expected to apply to study at university’”
Mrs A Mansfield and Mr M Gershenson
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Well done to Nicole Morrick who has achieved a merit in the grade 5 examination on the cello. WB02 Daniel Parselle and his band performed in the recent Oxjam concert which raised a consider-able amount for Oxfam and Namika Birchall spent some time during the summer at ITV Yorkshire learning about the Media industry and observed programmes such as Emmerdale being filmed. Well done also to Alice Nottingham who was a volunteer worker at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow. WB03 Callum Page-Beighton has written a review for a public British Psychological Society lec-ture which is to be published in the BPS South West hub review. The lecture was by Profes-sor Stephen Beuton on 'Low Frequency Noise- hearing impacts annoyance'. WB04 A big congratulations to Tom Chandler who has recently been voted the Youth Mayor of the Vale of Glamorgan. Tom fought off tough competition and campaigned tirelessly to win this prestigious position.
WB05 Peter McDonough has passed his diploma exam on the euphonium and Owen Rees has been chosen for the senior rugby team. WB06 Matthew Whitfield was ranked first place in the UK youth sailing squad qualifiers and con-sequently secured his place within the squad and Katie Way has been volunteering with Cancer Research. Well done to Rebecca te Wa-ter Naude who has been chosen for Welsh Rowing Academy training and to Kieran Hop-kins who has been an important member of the senior rugby team throughout the term. We also wish Robyn Keane the very best of luck after being accepted by Project Trust to take part in an 8 month teaching placement in Chile next year. Robyn will be going to Chile to teach next year.
“Great achievements by Year 13 students”
Mrs A Mansfield and Mr M Gershenson
Well done to the following pupils who have attended
school every day since September
(up to w/b 11 December 2014)
100% ATTENDANCE ACHIEVEMENT: AUTUMN TERM 2014‐15
YEAR 7 PUPILS:
Name Reg Ali, Tasneem 7O
Alsop, Charlie 7X
Awed, Jamal 7K
Bax, Kitty 7X
Bertini, Rosa 7A
Best, Ryan 7E
Bigsby, Stefan 7R
Blackburn, Ashlin 7L
Bollington, Daisy 7M
Bradley Glinister, Max 7E
Bullock, Jessica 7K
Carolan, Ellen 7T
Carr, Georgia 7O
Clarke, Lloyd 7T
Cook, Jamie 7O
Courtney, Ella 7M
Crandon, Marisa 7T
Cross, Gregory 7L
Curtis, Angel 7E
Davies, William 7T
Dawson, Francis 7L
Dicks, Sophie 7O
Dolbear, Michael 7T
Donnelly-John, Tia 7E
Donovan, Benjamin 7R
Donovan, Jacob 7O
Drake, Megan 7L
Name Reg Dunning, Jack 7W
Edwards, Charles 7E
Eshel, Grace 7X
Evans, Oliver 7E
Farrugia, Samuel 7R
Griffin, Ellie 7A
Grosfils, Adam 7M
Groves, Lucas 7X
Harris, Alana 7O
Harris, Lauren 7A
Hawkins, Alexandra 7L
Heale, William 7O
Henry, Sally 7E
Hocking, Evan 7L
Hughes, Felix 7L
Iredale, Alexandra 7L
Jackson-Newman, Paris 7W
Jones, Charlotte 7W
Jowett, Charlie 7E
Kaged, Lloyd 7R
Keane, David 7A
Khan, Hashaam 7O
Kibblewhite, Luc 7T
Knapper, Rhys 7R
Lam, Emily 7K
Lau, Tin Yiu 7L
Lee, Tia 7E
Name Reg Lloyd, William 7O
Lloyd-Williams, Morgan 7E
Lumsden, Tom 7O
Marshall, George 7M
Martinson, Brooke 7T
McWilliam, Flora 7O
Millar, Niamh 7L
Minchin, Lewi 7T
Nardone, Luca 7T
Norton, Eddie 7W
Odgers, William 7O
Petersen, Jack 7L
Pisani, Jaisu 7M
Powditch, Louis 7T
Powell, Phoebe 7E
Press, Hannah 7L
Price, Ben 7O
Radford, Ella 7X
Rees, Jack 7E
Rees, Lili 7A
Richards, Emily 7X
Roderick, Lucy 7L
Rosser, Joseff 7O
Russell, Scarlett 7X
Savill, Thomas 7L
Selman, Ellis 7W
Sheppard, Jasmine 7R
Name Reg Sinden, Leon 7O
Skone, William 7R
Slack, Christopher 7T
Smith, Arron 7X
Steacy, Callum 7E
Stephenson, Kobe 7R
Stroud, Molly 7A
Sullivan, Mia 7L
Sweeney, Jacob 7A
Thomas, Sophie 7R
Thompson, Megan 7K
Togden, Raechel 7M
Tomalin-Reeves, Eva 7L
Tweed, Izaac 7L
Tyso, Devon 7E
Utting, Rebecca 7E
Wachowicz, Cyprian 7T
Walters, Tom 7R
Warne, Joshua 7L
Warner, Lucy 7L
Webbe, Marcy 7W
Welsh, Charlotte 7O
Wheatley, Sam 7K
Williams, Imogen 7X
Williams, Luke 7T
Young, James 7K
Youngs, David 7E
YEAR 8 PUPILS
Name Reg Ainsworth, Harri 8L
Allen, Ryan 8T
Alstead, Jessica 8L
Anderton, Sophie 8R
Attwood, Franklin 8O
Baker, Max 8K
Banks, Arianne 8L
Name Reg Banks, Enyala 8L
Bosley, Georgia 8X
Boyland, Jonti 8L
Burge, Tom 8M
Castillo, Reinel 8A
Chandler, Menna 8A
Charles, Samuel 8E
Cheeseman, Daniel 8A
Chowdhury, Shafi 8M
Cole, Eleanor 8R
Coyle, Miller 8O
Croll, Tom 8K
Cummins, Amelia 8A
Doyle, Jack 8L
Edwards, Megan 8L
Evans, Caitlin 8X
Featherstone, Thomas 8O
Fisher, Kayleigh 8R
Glynn, Gethin 8O
Goodhew, Angharad 8O
Griffiths, Emily 8W
Hardy, William 8X
Holland, Meredith 8A
Holman, Anthony 8L
Hughes, Tomos 8K
Hunnam, Sophie 8E
Jenkins, Thomas 8E
Johnson, Nicholas 8A
Jones, Daniel 8L
Jones, Dylan 8L
Jones, Elinor 8W
Jones, Gwyn 8L
Jones, Reuben 8M
Kneale, Samuel 8X
Lacey, Hope 8E
Langford, Erin 8W
Lee, Megan 8E
Lee, Thomas 8O
Lewis, James 8K
Name Reg Lewis, Rhys 8E
Lougher, Joshua 8M
Macleod, Laura 8A
Marshall, Harriet 8M
McCullagh, Billy 8A
McCulloch, Ffion 8M
McGowan, Rhys 8E
McLellan-Morgan, Zachary 8X
Moser, Simone 8X
Moss, Dylan 8M
Mudie, Jack 8T
Mulcahy, Ethan 8W
Murray, Georgia 8K
O'Grady, Natasha 8O
Peach, Charlotte 8T
Perry, Liam 8W
Power, Neil 8O
Pritchard, Jack 8M
Pyman, Elinor 8L
Ramage, Joseph 8A
Ramage, Thomas 8A
Reed, Cori 8E
San Diego, Julia Alyssa 8K
Scott-Quinlan, Phoebe 8X
Scott-Quinlan, Thomas 8X
Selman, Lauren 8R
Skinner, Rory 8E
Smith, Yahlini 8T
Snook, Jay 8T
Stockley-Jones, Jack 8M
Sullivan, Seren 8L
Sultana, Cameron 8K
Sutcliffe-Hill, Mia 8L
Thomas, Carys 8K
Thomas, David 8R
Thomas, Lloyd 8R
Thompson, Joseff 8W
Tucker, Olivia 8L
Tyso, Olivia 8X
Name Reg Walker, Natasha 8L
Weir, Adam 8T
Wells, Alicia 8K
Williams, Hannah 8L
Wiltshire, Matt 8O
Wingren, Jessica 8K
Yang, Denis 8E
Yousef, Zoya 8W
YEAR 9
Name Reg Allen, Felicity 9T
Awed, Mohamed 9A
Bale, Sophie 9R
Bigsby, Guillaume 9A
Brown, Amoy 9L
Bunford-Davies, Anna 9E
Davies, Elliot 9R
Dawson, James 9M
De Grey, Sophie 9O
Donovan, Joseph 9T
Drake, Jonathan 9E
Driveman, Ellen 9T
Edwards, Sonny 9A
Emberson, Aidan 9M
Farrell, Dan 9K
Fletcher, Hannah 9A
Fordjour, Kab 9W
Grafton, Patrick 9E
Hatcher, Jacob 9O
Jackson, Katie 9E
Jenkins, Joseph 9M
Jones, Mair 9K
Jordan, Amy 9E
Lane, Owain 9M
Lee, Dillon 9W
Lloyd, Gethin 9T
Name Reg Matthews, Jack 9A
Monaghan, Mila 9M
Murphy, Kieran 9R
Murphy, Niall 9A
Nicol, Jacob 9E
Richardson, Darcy 9L
Rosser, Jacob 9O
Ruelle, Jack 9A
Shillabeer, Rhian 9E
Stock, Oliver 9A
Stout, Amy 9A
Taylor-Hoare, Niamh 9E
White, Callum 9E
Yamada, Wataru 9M
YEAR 10 PUPILS
Name Reg Adney, Chloe 10O
Alsop, James 10O
Anderton, Daniel 10X
Bagshaw, Scott 10T
Baker, Thaine 10R
Bennett, Jonathan 10O
Birch Hurst, Samuel 10E
Bird, Stuart 10T
Blunsdon, Ffion 10W
Bollington, Ruby 10R
Bratby, Bethany 10W
Bratby, Rebecca 10T
Carr, Jake 10O
Chamberlain, Olivia 10R
Chapman, Sophie 10K
Charles, Matthew 10M
Cheeseman, Joshua 10L
Crockett, Lauren 10E
Croll, Ben 10T
Denton, Macey 10O
Name Reg Donlan, Gwyn 10K
Donovan, Danny 10K
Dyer, Lia-Maree 10X
Eastwood, Jade 10A
Ellis, Lauren 10W
Evans, Ben 10R
Gimber, Kieron 10K
Griffin, Olivia 10A
Griffiths, Thomas 10R
Haq, Iman 10R
Harris, Genna 10L
Hawkins-Payne, Ellis 10R
Higgins, Annie 10M
Hills, Naomi 10O
Holland, Samuel 10W
Hughes, Dylan 10T
Islam, Salsabeel 10K
Jama, Khalif 10M
James, Samuel 10O
Jones, Catrin 10O
Jones, Rhys 10O
Keane-Adams, Luc 10R
Khan, Aymen 10K
Knupp, Kabir 10L
Lawley, Moses 10R
Lintern, Aimee 10L
McKechnie, Clodagh 10W
Mills, Jacob 10K
Morgan, Bronwyn 10X
Morgan, Kathryn 10A
Murray, Ieuan 10E
Newman, Harry 10L
Ong, Wei-Shen 10T
Peacock, Antonio 10K
Pwele, Maxine 10M
Robertson, Elspeth 10T
Roderick, Benjamin 10E
Rogers, Daniel 10O
Ruck, Matthew 10R
Name Reg Scrivens, Joseph 10X
Spencer, Evie 10W
Spinola, David 10R
Squire, Cora 10X
Stapleton, Samuel 10K
Stephens-Collins, Joe 10R
Svendsen, Samuel 10M
Thomas, Owain 10O
Trunin, Anton 10A
Twamley, Jessica 10O
Waddon, Henry 10M
Walker, Rhys 10M
Wall, Cora 10R
Whitfield, Alexander 10E
Williams, Geraint 10E
YEAR 11 PUPILS
Name Reg Adney, James 11E
Aeschlimann, Jasper 11O
Alstead, Dominic 11K
Anwar, Sumaiya 11X
Barrett, Olivia 11M
Bird, David 11W
Buckingham, Daniel 11W
Burns, Timothy 11A
Cole, Gregory 11W
Collins, Tom 11L
Crimp, Morgan 11O
Cross, Jamie 11M
Dawson, Matthew 11T
Emberson, Orla 11X
Evans, Jamie 11O
Fitt, Bethany 11R
Frost, Nathan 11W
Name Reg Gale, William 11L
Geen, Emily 11A
Glaze, Emily 11E
Grafton, Isabel 11R
Grosfils, Daniel 11O
Hardy, Charlotte 11T
Harvey, Isaac 11X
Harvey, Robert 11K
Hermogeno, Lex 11L
Hickery, Amy 11O
Hicks, Ieuan 11L
Hopkins, Iwan 11E
Hopkins, Mathew 11X
Hutchings, Ethan 11X
Ignacio, Jonathan 11M
Iredale, Robyn 11W
Jackson, Aled 11X
Jones, Anna 11T
Jones, Kyrsty 11L
Jones, Megan 11O
Jones, Milo 11E
Jones, Rhys 11T
Lam, Thomas 11K
Lane, Danielle 11L
Langrish, Alex 11R
Lean, Alex 11L
Lee, Izaak 11R
Lewis, Seren 11X
Lim, Megan 11L
Lloyd, Owen 11M
Loweth, Grace 11A
Marsh, Seren 11T
Marsh, Tomos 11T
Marsh, William 11X
Matthews, Cerys 11O
McCulloch, Elizabeth 11E
McGowan, Ffion 11M
McSorley, Callum 11T
Merrick, Francesca 11A
Name Reg Morley, Thomas 11A
Norton, Frankie 11R
Odgers, Joseph 11O
O'Rourke, Ellen 11A
Parselle, Chloe 11O
Pearce, Rhiannon 11X
Penberthy, Jamie 11E
Peterson, Rosina 11M
Phillips, Joseph 11R
Pope, Grace 11O
Powell, Jack 11K
Price, James 11M
Price, Joel 11E
Prickett, George 11O
Pringle, Luke 11T
Proctor, Catherine 11M
Rees, Morgan 11O
Rees, Morgan 11M
Ritchie, Ellie 11L
Saji, Linda 11A
Sawyer, Jordan 11L
Shamte, Maya 11O
Sharpe, Thomas 11L
Short, Joseph 11T
Summerhayes, Erin 11R
Tavanaie, Kiyan 11T
Troth, Jacob 11O
Tucker, Sam 11W
Valek, Joseph 11O
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