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Friendly Face Wins Logo Contest Art Student, Kaitlyn Richards was the proud recipient of two complimentary cinema tickets for winning the logo contest for the Year 9 Friendly Faces group. Friendly Faces is a group of students who are available for Years 7 and 8 to air any problems they may be having at home or school, socially or academically. The meetings are held in confidence and students can go and see them at break and lunchtimes in the office opposite the Key Stage Office. Well done to Kaitlyn; her design fits perfectly the role of the Friendly Faces. The logo has been comprised of the words ‘Friendly Faces’ and has been written in a font style that is bubbly, soft-edged, bright and colourful. It also has a clever use of one ‘F’ for both words. A great effort that has paid off with a free trip to our cinema! Kaitlyn was able to work on this outside her lesson time at Art Club, which takes place every Friday from 2.50 to 4:00pm. We will soon be painting the backdrops and sets for the Grease musical production so if you are a budding theatrical artist, please stop by on a Friday afternoon, or see Mr Winser for more information. Mr Winser, Head of Art Year 10 student Lisa Reynolds was pleased to w i n t h e ‘ W e ’ r e Celebrities Get Us Outta Here’ knitted snowman competition before Christmas. Money raised was donated to the Year 11 Prom. Grand Prom Venue Booked With plans well underway for the 2012 Year 11 Leavers Prom it got me thinking about my leavers prom and how over 10 years ago I was getting just as excited about my Year 11 prom. Back then the prom wasn’t on the same scale as today's and I think we were one of the first NWHS year groups to successfully organise one. The ‘Class of 2001’ prom was held in the school hall and we all gathered on the quad (which is now the English/Arts Classroom and the Library) to watch everyone arrive. The transport methods were less extravagant. I remember arriving in a ‘limo’ with 5 other friends which looked more like a stretched Cortina with two extra seats in the boot! The dresses were more commonly off the rail summer dresses, only the odd few had purchased ‘proper’ prom gowns. Despite that we had a wonderful evening and all enjoyed celebrating our final days at North Walsham High School. Below is an article that featured in the local papers on 5 th July 2001. Taster Squash Sessions Rossi’s Squash and Bowls club invited twelve students to take part in a taster sessions at their sports centre. Two groups of six Year 10 students were fortunate to have a qualified coach teach them the basics of squash. None of the students had tried the game before and were quite bemused to be given a pair of protective goggles to wear. The Rossi’s team are trying to encourage more youngsters to take part in the sport by showing them the game of racketball, which is a simpler version. They hope eventually they will advance to the full squash game. The feedback from the students was very positive; with a little more practice NWHS might produce another squash world champion! This year’s prom will be slightly grander. Being held for the first time at Drayton Old Lodge in Norwich. The committee have opted for a ‘Red Carpet’ theme with a disco. The elegant grounds will enable some wonderful photo opportunities. The whole year group are currently voting on dinner/ dessert choices with options such as a pizza/ pasta bar, chip shop or hot dog stall as well as the ever popular chocolate fountain and new ideas of an ice cream bar or candy buffet. Many fundraising events organised by the committee have already raised over £550. A mufti day for the whole school scheduled for Friday 30 th March will also help boost funds. Please note the prom is open to students from NWHS Year 11 only. We urge students to get their £10 deposit in as soon as possible so further plans can be made. Miss Bullen, Prom Coordinator (3rd from right, me as a NWHS student aged 16) Town’s Diamond Jubilee Plans A few weeks ago, Ayla O’Connell and I were invited to North Walsham Town Council Offices to discuss North Walsham’s plans for the Queens Diamond Jubilee street party. The committee was made up of valued members of the community. We mainly talked about what the earlier Jubilees were like and how we could stay true to the original street parties but also keep it modern to attract the younger generations. We discussed possibly having a powerpoint showing the previous parties playing in the background. It was also said that we would have the original recipe for jubilee cake being used! We should be having the traditional set-up of tons of tables put together for a community feeling. We are attending the next meeting on 21 st February when we will have more news for you on this exciting event. Nathan Price, Year 9 Student
The annual Sports Presentation Evening took place on Thursday 9 th December in the Atrium at NWHS. The guest speaker was again an ex-student who has succeeded with sport being a major part of her life. Mrs Fayanne Connelly (nee Julian), a Sergeant in the Royal Artillery (Gunners), spoke of the core values that sport and the army share, of the way they both enhance teamwork, leadership, fitness and initiative. She passionately spoke of the boundaries that sport can cross and of the friends and opportunities that sport had given her throughout her life and still give her. Mrs Connelly was there throughout the evening to help hand out the various awards along with Mrs Brooker and our Chair of Governors Mr Russell Solly. These awards CROSS COUNTRY SEASON From left to right, Silver award winners Lucy Ellis, Olivia Slater, Graham Hinton, Daniel Cresswell, Grant Johnson and Daniel Middleton with Sergeant Fayanne Connelly. It has been cross country season at North Walsham High recently and the school, district, county and regional championships have all taken place. The school championships were run in the week before Christmas in dry conditions as every student competed in individual and form championships. Congratulations go to our individual winners who were; Year 7 Girls – Lauren Hemp, Year 7 Boys – Kieran Wright, Year 8 Girls – Erin Smith, Year 8 Boys – Jack Tritton, Year 9 Girls – Amy Hemp, Year 9 Boys – James McCrohon, Year 10 Girls – Danielle Lee, Year 10 Boys – Daniel Cresswell, Year 11 Girls – Sarah Annison, Year 11 Boys – Ben Wright. The top eight finishers in each race qualified for the district event which was held on Tuesday 10 th January as we welcomed over a dozen other schools to NWHS. In an incredibly successful day for our runners five of our six teams finished first in the overall competition. We had one individual winner and twenty seven runners who qualified for the county race at Sloughbottom Park, Norwich. This event welcomed all the best cross country runners Sports Sports Presentation Presentation 2011 2011 included our Bronze, Silver and Gold colours, the recognition of our winning teams and individuals and the presentation of the Graeme Wilton Award for Sporting Excellence to Gaby Ryan for her exploits in gymnastics and dance. The presentations were interspersed with video and picture clips as the evening whizzed on with plenty of laughs and applause. In true Sports Personality style the final award was only able to be presented to one half of our Sports Personality of the Year duo as Daniel Crosby was unable to attend due to playing football. Georgia Bryant’s obvious surprise and delight at being the female recipient more than made up for this and the faces of all the winners made it a truly memorable evening. from all the different districts in Norfolk, who were competing to become county champions and to qualify to run for Norfolk . The competition began brilliantly for NWHS as in the very first race Lauren Hemp WON the Year 7 Girls race. This is an amazing feat for somebody who is proving to be a very talented all round sportswoman. There were other notable performances from our students as Kieran Wright came 32 nd in the Year 7 Boys race, Georgia Wager finished 15 th and Amy Hemp 20 th in the Year 9 Girls race and James McCrohon came 36 th in the Year 9 Boys race. In the older age groups the distance of the race was a huge factor and all athletes who completed the race should be commended, especially Danielle Lee who came 27 th in the Year 11 Girls race and Andrew Mitchell (20 th in the Year 11 Boys race). Mr Bradshaw, Head of PE BASKETBALL TRIP Early on Sunday 15 th January, 50 of us were up before daylight to catch a bus to Birmingham for the British Basketball Cup Final. Among us were a selection of students from Years 7 to 11, all hoping to see a great spectacle. We were not disappointed as we watched the Women’s league game and dunk contests - some of which were from trampets with people flying 15 feet in the air! There were also shows from the BBL Babes cheerleaders which meant that there was never a dull moment during the 5 hours that we were there. We all decided on which team we would support before the Cup Final and in the end the Newcastle Eagles were too strong and beat the Plymouth Raiders (a pity some of the students got their faces painted with the losing teams colours!). We arrived back at school at 10:40pm on Sunday night after a long but exciting day: some dreaming of Cup Final glory in the future. Iain Mills, PE Teacher Lauren Runs for Norfolk Lauren Hemp’s reward for winning the Norfolk Championships was a place in the Norfolk team that travelled to the Royal Hospital School, near Ipswich for the Anglian region championships. Here the best athletes from Northamptonshire, Suffolk, Cambridgeshire and Lincolnshire were competing. Having met the team bus at 9.30 on Saturday 4 th February, Lauren was transported with her teammates for her race to begin at 12.30. The course was a mixture of gravel paths, school fields, a raised sea wall, meadows and the edge of ploughed fields. A determined run from Lauren saw her finish in 9 th place, an amazing effort in a quality race. This would have qualified her for the English Schools Championships if there was a race in the Year 7 age group. She will have to wait for the Year 9 race to go that one step further. Well done again Lauren!! SKI TRIP 2013 FEB ½ TERM Ziller Valley, Austria Ask the PE staff for more info
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