Issue No. 006, 9th December 2011 - The Alice Smith School

For internal circulation only 9 th December 2011
Around the Campus
Year 10 PSHE Day - Friday, 3 rd December
By Emma Parsons, Teacher - Business Studies and Economics
On Friday 3 rd December, Year 10 students had their first PSHE day of
the year. Students took part in three workshops throughout the event.
Mr John Collins, Vice Chair of the Board of Governors, gave an exciting
session encouraging leadership and teamwork based around a lost in
the desert scenario. Students had to work together to try and work out
how to survive as well as evaluating their performance working in a
small team. Mr Jennings and Ms Cooper led a Thinking Skills workshop
and students gained an insight into their preferred learning style. A
practical and festive introduction to MUN was delivered by Sixth Form
enrichment students Amulya Vadrevu, Chui-Jun Tham and Chui-Joe
Tham.
In conjunction with this session other MUN students, Kieran Stenson
and Matt Morisset alongside Mr George, presented an Introduction to
MUN in the Key Stage 3 assembly.
A big thank you to Mr John Collins, all the staff involved, Sixth Form
MUN students and to Year 10s for their hard work and enthusiasm
throughout the day.
KLASS MUN
By Chui-Joe and Chui-Jun Tham
KLASSMUN 2011 began as an idea. As to whose idea it was, no one
knows. But as most ideas are prone to do, this idea grew. It grew to
incorporate not only the school‟s MUN Directors, but also a team of
four, five, then ten and more students, all of them dedicated to their
tasks, if a little insane for taking them on in the first place. Schools
were invited, a list that expanded and contracted as emails were sent
and received, and eventually, KLASSMUN 2011 settled into its final
shape: five schools would come down on a rainy day and engage in
two days of debate.
After the opening ceremony, the delegates convened in two separate
committee rooms in the Steve Warry Centre. They then divided further
into groups to camp out in the IT rooms upstairs. These makeshift
camps turned into hotbeds of discussion, as the students argued with
each other over the best ways to solve the issues set their committees
(including nuclear non-proliferation and youth crime). Their discussion
was both incisive and stimulating, and – discounting the occasional
tangent toward AK-47s and various parental infractions – produced five
amazing resolutions for debate the next day.
Debate commenced at 9.00 am, and before long, the delegates were
subsumed into mind wrangling, frustrating, but ultimately satisfying
argument over each resolution. The admin attest to this; they passed
many, many notes. The delegates attest to this: they answered many,
many questions. The Chairs – well, they got very acquainted with their
gavels. Meanwhile, the Secretariat will only say that they refrained from
eating all the food (unlike the day before), and that everything else is
strictly confidential.
An MUN discussion in action
Finding out what kind of thinking
style you have
Explaining the importance of teamwork
At the MUN opening ceremony
KLASS Times I page 18