Westholme NL Xmas 2010.indd - Westholme School
Westholme NL Xmas 2010.indd - Westholme School
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ool Caligraphy<br />
Congratulations to the following<br />
Year 7 pupils on their success in the Handwriting Competition.<br />
7W – Iniyah Sulaman<br />
7S – May Daley<br />
7L – Layla Ahmed<br />
7M – Daisy Hancox<br />
Overall<br />
Handwriting Winner –<br />
Daisy Hancox of 7M<br />
EPr STUdY daY<br />
<strong>Westholme</strong>’s former Head of EPR,<br />
Mrs Pollitt and her beautiful guide dog<br />
Kray visited school recently to the great<br />
excitement of the girls!<br />
The Year 11 EPR students spent a day coming face to face<br />
with issues in our society such as homelessness and asylum<br />
seekers.<br />
During the morning the students visited Bramwell House,<br />
the local Blackburn Salvation Army hostel where they<br />
learned about the Salvation Army’s history and how they<br />
help the homeless and vulnerable. After a tour of the hostel<br />
the girls travelled to St Silas’ Church where they met Tanya,<br />
an asylum seeker from Congo who told her moving story.<br />
The afternoon was spent discussing what makes us British<br />
and global citizens. All agreed that it was an excellent, eyeopening<br />
day.<br />
BIOLOGY CHALLENGE<br />
The Biology Challenge is a national competition and is the junior version<br />
of the British Biology Olympiad for Sixth Form students.<br />
Eighteen <strong>Westholme</strong> pupils have been awarded certificates for their<br />
achievement. This is a far higher number of awards than any of the<br />
other local schools and compared favourably with some of the very best<br />
schools in the country!<br />
Bronze AwArd Silver AwArd Gold AwArd<br />
Emily Cheetham<br />
Alice Hicks<br />
Charlotte Jackson<br />
Ruth Scott<br />
Emily Thornhill<br />
Abbie Turner<br />
Emily Birkett<br />
Rebecca Flynn<br />
Olivia Grady<br />
Lydia Mackean<br />
Jessica Newman<br />
Elisabeth Poulson<br />
Eleanor Whittaker<br />
Heather Wilkinson<br />
Jessica Charlson<br />
Emily Richardson<br />
Charlotte Stockwell<br />
Sophie Ward<br />
SALTERS’ FESTIVAL OF CHEMISTRY<br />
A team of four Year 8 pupils, accompanied by Miss Hughes, went to Manchester<br />
University to take part in the Salters’ Festival of Chemistry. The first thing<br />
on the agenda was a challenge to solve a murder! Florrie Slater and Sarina<br />
Ahmed Issap worked on using chromatography to solve part of the crime and<br />
Paasha Ahmed and Saara Mulla experimented on different liquid solutions<br />
and substances to make observations and record their findings.<br />
After the murder case closed, the girls then faced their next challenge: to boil<br />
an egg for exactly one minute – using only chemicals. The girls had to cause a<br />
chemical reaction which lasted as close to one minute as possible – easy you<br />
may think, but actually it was very challenging!<br />
Later in the day there was a ‘Flash Bang’ show in the theatre, with fun<br />
experiments which shocked and entertained. The Year 8 team agreed that<br />
they’ll never look at chemistry in the same way again!<br />
WESTHOLME SENIOR SCHOOL FOR GIRLS<br />
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