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All the latest news from 

Ringwood School 

~Specialist Language College~ 

Autumn 2008 

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Ringwood is an Outstanding 

School - OFSTED 2008 

The staff, students and 

governors at Ringwood 

School have been delighted 

with the glowing report received 

from Ofsted following their 

inspection visit on Tuesday 11th 

November, which has graded the 

school as outstanding overall and 

outstanding in its Sixth Form provision. 

The school, which is a specialist 

language college and caters for nearly 

1600 students, has earned top marks 

and has been described as a “fully 

subscribed school with a growing sixth 

form population where standards have 

been consistently well above average 

over the past three years.” 

The team judged the school as 

outstanding in all categories to include: 

overall effectiveness, achievement 

and standards, personal development 

and well-being of students, the quality 

of provision, and leadership and 

management. The report which has 

emerged is very special, as it is rare for 

a school to receive ‘outstanding’ in all of 

these areas. 

A r e v i e w b y H e a d t e a c h e r , C h r i s E d w a r d s 

Ofsted comments on the very 

high level of expectation and careful 

monitoring by senior leaders. They note 

that “the monitoring and evaluation 

of teaching is rigorous and underpins 

the continuing drive towards higher 

achievement … teaching and learning 

are outstanding overall throughout the 

school.” 

Ringwood students are justifiably proud 

of their school and the Ofsted team 

could see why: 

“The very high levels of care and 

support contribute significantly 

to students’ outstanding personal 

development and to high achievement 

patterns… Students thoroughly enjoy 

school and feel very safe and secure”. 

The team noted that students “have 

confidence that their views are 

important”, and in a separate letter, 

thanked them for their cooperation and 

complimented them on their enthusiasm 

for their school. 

With regard to the sixth form the team 

noted: 

“Sixth form students are very 

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impressively mature and provide 

excellent role models for younger 

students. Standards are consistently 

and exceptionally high and 

achievement is outstanding. The 

quality of teaching and learning 

across subjects is outstanding and 

successfully encourages students to 

become independent learners. Other 

aspects of personal development are 

not neglected in the relentless pursuit 

of academic excellence. A unique 

feature of the school is the large 

number of international students who 

opt to come to the school for their 

A-level studies from all parts of the 

globe including Kazakhstan, Latvia, 

China and Japan. They are not only 

successful academically but have a 

significant beneficial influence on 

the rest of the school through their 

commitment and sharing of their 

cultures. Leadership and management 

by the senior directors is outstanding 

and a powerful factor in the increasing 

success and continued growth of the 

sixth form.” (Continued on Page 2)

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Outstanding OFSTED continued.. 

The Headteacher, Miss Edwards, has 

paid tribute to staff and students: 

“I would like to take this 

opportunity to praise my colleagues 

for the dedication and commitment 

they show on a daily basis, enabling 

our students to receive the highest 

quality of education. The range of 

enrichment activities provided by 

staff both within and outside of 

school time is exceptional. I would 

also like to thank the parents for 

their ongoing support. The reason 

Governors’ Corner 

What a glorious time to 

be involved at Ringwood 

School – fifty years 

young and ‘outstanding’; the school 

that is, not me. This is my twentieth 

year here and I have been a governor for 

more than half that time and part of the 

sixth form since its inception in 1996. I 

currently serve on both the community 

and the staffing and curriculum 

committees which have given me the 

opportunity to contribute to formulating 

policies and forging links with the wider 

community and to be involved with 

ensuring that students receive the very 

best teaching and learning. It has also 

afforded me the opportunity to work 

with a committed and enthusiastic body 

of people from outside of the school 

who willingly give up so much of their 

time to ensure that Ringwood School is 

outstanding. 

In the early part of my life I learnt that 

Kevin Keegan and Malcolm Mc Donald 

are heroes, ‘Howay the lads!’ and The 

Blaydon Race were essential war cries, 

black and white had to be your favourite 

colour and to really belong you had to be 

a member of the black and white Toon 

Army! I am by birth a southerner, but by 

upbringing a Geordie although my awful 

girls’ school ensured I never acquired 

an accent, or, it has to be said, much 

knowledge of the sciences or maths but 

I was relatively proficient in needlework, 

tennis and deportment by the time I left. 

In truth my A- levels were good enough 

Mrs J Walder: Staff Governor 

students achieve outstanding results 

is due to the special partnership 

established between the family and 

the school.” 

She went on to thank families for 

returning the Ofsted questionnaire in 

such huge numbers. Over 500 were 

returned in time for the inspection. 

The inspection team were very 

impressed with the support provided 

by parents. 

While also wanting to celebrate the 

outstanding designation the school 

to gain me a place at Warwick University 

to read law – that is until cupid struck 

and I changed to English, history and 

politics at Newcastle . 

Blyth Spartans (also black and white) 

were in fact my local team as I was 

brought up on the North East coast in a 

house which had been a fort in the First 

World War. This was the stuff of Enid 

Blyton as we lived behind fortified walls, 

three foot thick with wired windows 

and a gun turret(minus the weaponry) 

on the roof. The garden was riddled 

with underground rooms and army 

huts with rude drawings on the walls 

which provided a paradise for childhood 

games and a haven for birds blown in by 

fiercesome north east gales. My father 

in a bid to keep us fit and healthy, made 

us swim in the sea every day from May 

to September which I am certain is 

responsible for my loathing of all things 

cold and my failure to make six foot. 

After graduating, I moved with my 

husband and daughter to Poole where 

my second daughter was born and it 

is she who is entirely responsible for 

my ability to thrive on about five hours 

sleep. When she complains about the 

unreasonable sleeping habits of her own 

children I can only laugh. After my fourth 

child went to school I decided it was 

time to work and I applied for a PGCE 

at Southampton University qualifying as a 

teacher of English. 

My first classroom at RIngwood, known 

as D15, was an old drama hut, painted 

black and situated where the Wessex 

building now stands. The roof was lightly 

attached to the walls which, in strong 

winds, rose and allowed the daylight to 

show through; my nearest neighbours, 

Mrs Bailey and Mrs Buxton, lived in 

similar but semi -detached huts; the rest 

of the English department were in Avon. 

At that time the school had only about 

750 students and I probably knew them 

all. Ringwood has grown in size and 

reputation since I joined and there have 

been many, many changes as we have 

tried to keep abreast of Government 

initiatives. For me the most exciting 

change was when we were granted a 

sixth form. I was initially asked to set up 

and co-ordinate GNVQ courses and two 

years later I became Deputy Head, a role 

I have so enjoyed that I cannot imagine 

not being involved with this vibrant, 

exciting part of the school. To teach a 

subject that you love to students of this 

age is a real privilege. The sixth form has 

marvellous community spirit which all 

external students comment upon when 

they join us. There is also an international 

flavour in keeping with our Language 

College status as each year we have 

students join us from all over the world; 

some of whom have gained up to five 

and half A grades; no mean feat in your 

second or, in some cases, third language! 

I have always been interested in sport, 

watching my children compete at school, 

county, regional and national level and for 

years have enjoyed running; completing 

the London marathon on two occasions 

which was a wonderful experience. But, 

gardening is my real love and these days 

occupies most of my spare time. 

S u b m i t a n a r t i c l e 

Do you have an achievement you would like to celebrate, a story to share or an event to advertise? 

Please email your story and photos to: faye.wharton@ringwood.hants.sch.uk 

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Edited by Faye Wharton 

has received, Miss Edwards promises 

that Ringwood School will not stand 

still and agrees with Ofsted’s view 

that “the school is not complacent 

and is always striving to improve 

further.” 

She continues: “We will now move 

forward with our exciting plans for 

improving the school further, with a 

particular focus on the 9 gateways 

of ‘personalising learning’, to 

include providing a broader range of 

learning pathways for all students.”


Headteacher’s News 

Celebrating success 

and shaping the 

future for all learners. 

As we move 

into the 

Christmas 

season it is my great pleasure to be 

able to share with you some our 

success stories and aspirations for the 

future. 

As you have already heard we are delighted 

that the Ofsted team graded the school as 

outstanding overall and outstanding 

in the Sixth Form during the recent 

inspection. This was in line with the self 

assessment made by the school in the SEF 

(Self Evaluation Form). The Lead Inspector 

was so impressed with all aspects of the 

Sixth Form, that during his feedback to me 

at the end of the day, he said that if he could 

award a ‘super 1, a 1* grade’ he would have 

done so, because the Sixth Form was better 

than outstanding. The report recognises the 

exceptionally and consistently high standards 

achieved in all aspects of the school’s work. 

This report is very special, because it is 

very rare for a school to receive outstanding 

in all areas. 

During his feedback to the Leadership Team 

and the Chairman of Governors, the Lead 

Inspector praised the students for their 

behaviour, maturity and exceptional leadership 

of projects both on the school site and in the 

wider community. 

We already have plans in place to move 

forward with the personalising learning 

agenda with a focus on the 9 gateways of 

Your Governing Body needs you! 

More importantly, your fellow 

parent governors need you! 

Being a parent governor has many 

rewards. If you are a parent and are 

‘personalising learning’, now known as the 

four ‘deeps’ – Deep Learning (Assessment 

for Learning - AfL, Student Voice, Learning to 

Learn - L2L); Deep Experience (Curriculum 

and New Technologies); Deep Support 

(Advice and Support, Every Child Matters); 

and Deep Leadership (Workforce Reform 

and School Design). This will enable us to 

provide a broader range of learning pathways 

for all students from transition at the end of 

Year 8 to Year 13 and beyond. 

11-19 New Forest Learning Partnership 

Ringwood is now a well established 

member of the 11-19 New Forest Learning 

Partnership; the consortium leading diploma 

development in this area of Hampshire. The 

school is leading on the introduction of the 

first two diploma lines in September 2009: 

Environment and Land Based; and Society, 

Health and Development, in partnership with 

Priestlands School. 

Built Environment 

We are planning to increase the size of our 

Sixth Form from 310 to 420 over the next 

three years. This development will provide 

an entitlement for every student to remain 

in further learning at Ringwood until the 

end of Year 13, on courses designed to meet 

individual learning needs. By moving forward 

with the Personalising Learning agenda, we 

will also be exploring increased provision 

for community learning. Providing more 

flexible learning spaces on and offsite will be 

an important part of our journey towards 

providing a truly integrated community 

learning provision. This will require a 

curriculum which offers a broad range of 

subjects and levels of study to include GCSE, 

A Level, BTEC, Specialist Diplomas, City and 

Guilds and other QCA accredited courses at 

interested in sitting on the Governing Body, 

please contact the school. 

We are seeking a person who fits the 

following description 

•Currently has a child or children in our school 

•Has an open and enquiring mind 

•Shows a willingness to listen and make 

informed judgements 

•Is able to work well with others 

•Is interested in education generally and our 

school in particular 

•Has a desire to play a part in improving our 

school 

•Is willing to give about 20 hours per term to 

attend meetings and training (both usually in 

the evenings) 

If you match the above description, you 

could be the very person to become a 

parent governor. Everyone has something 

to offer and we want people from as many 

levels 1, 2 and 3. 

The school is currently working with 

Hampshire County Council and the Learning 

and Skills Council in preparation for a new 

post-16 building on the school site. A 

proposal for a skills centre in Ringwood is 

also going forward as part of an application 

being made by Brockenhurst College. We also 

have a number of other site refurbishment 

plans linked to this development to help us 

deliver a more skills based curriculum in the 

future. 

Investors in People Re-accreditation 

2008 

In the same week that the Ofsted inspectors 

were in school, we were also undergoing 

our IiP re-accreditation under new more 

rigorous criteria. I am delighted to say that 

we have been re-accredited with the Investor 

in People Standard for a further two years. 

The standard provides a framework that 

helps organisations to improve performance 

and realise objectives through the effective 

management and development of people. 

We recognise that our staff are the school’s 

greatest asset, and we know that is order to 

continue to be successful we need to invest 

in our staff, helping them to achieve their 

potential, improve their skills and gain greater 

job satisfaction. We do appreciate our staff 

and value the excellent contribution they 

make to the success of the school. My thanks 

go to Mr Paul Fox, Deputy Headteacher, who 

has the oversight of continuing professional 

development in school and is coordinating all 

the work we are doing on ‘building capacity’ 

for the future to include our work on 

leadership development. 

I would like to take this opportunity to wish 

you all a happy and restful Christmas. 

backgrounds and interests as possible. 

REWARD - In return we can offer: 

•An insight into the wider perspective of the 

school through long-term planning 

• A chance to develop skills in strategic 

management 

•The opportunity to work with our team of 

governors and staff in improving our school 

•Training to develop an understanding of 

specific school leadership and management 

issues 

•The support and assistance of local and 

county staff 

•A sense of achievement in making a difference 

to our school and community 

•The pleasure of seeing children learning 

If this sounds like you, then please get in 

contact with Alison Jones who will be happy 

to talk to you.

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Investors 

In People 

Investor in People’s, Clive 

Lewis, recently visited 

Ringwood School to assess 

the standard in which the 

staff work. 

Mr Lewis reports; “It was evident that 

many of the areas of good practice, 

identified in the last report, remain 

strong features of the school. Among 

these the support given to staff, through 

both the departmental system and the 

Year grouping, is both recognised and 

appreciated by staff at all levels. People 

were confident that, when they needed 

assistance or support with any problems 

that they encountered, it would be readily 

available. Equally the support given for the 

development of staff remains a priority 

in the school and its importance is widely 

recognised.” 

Therefore Ringwood has been 

awarded Investors in People 2008-09. 

Words from the Head boy & girl 

H e n r y B a r k e r a n d J e n n a H a r r i s 

The festive season is now 

upon us and the stocking 

full of surprises offered 

has substantially grown 

as we get further through the 

month... 

Firstly, the Ofsted inspection we 

had on the 11th November went 

extremely smoothly, the results 

from which are truly outstanding 

and reflect the hard work teachers 

and students alike put in - qualities 

which we believe to have continued 

to make our school such a success. It 

was not just teaching standards that 

were examined on the day but also 

the school’s extra-curricular activities, 

including our Eco School status and 

the new Student Voice System, both of 

which gained much praise and really 

inspired the inspectors alongside many 

more involvements. We would like to 

say a huge thank you therefore to all 

those students and their parents who 

returned a phenomenal number of 

reply slips, the response from which 

really contributed to the overall 

success of the inspection. 

The school’s Golden Jubilee has so 

far proved to be a huge success after 

being started off by the Sponsored 

Walk and Quiz Night, both of which 

were extremely popular. The Walk in 

PTA News & 

Dates for the Diary 

Many thanks to all of 

you who joined us for 

our Jubilee Quiz last 

month. We all had a 

really good evening. 

We have several events arranged 

for next year. Here are some 

teasers for you:- 

QUIZ NIGHT - Friday 23 January 2009. 

Further information will be sent out in 

the New Year. 

FILM NIGHT - Friday 13 February 

2009....and ‘Yes’ the film will be relevant 

to the date! Details will be released at 

the Quiz Night. 

SUMMER BALL – July 11 2009. This 

unique exciting event will celebrate 

Ringwood School Golden Jubilee and we 

particular attracted a lot of attention as 

the entire school trekked the four point 

two mile route and managed to raise a 

substantial amount of funds which we 

can now put towards refurbishing the 

school’s main hall for future community 

events. The whole school really 

appreciates all of the support shown by 

everyone out there and hopes that you’ll 

be able to enjoy more of our associated 

proceedings. 

Other events which will shortly be 

making an appearance include the Senior 

Citizens’ Christmas Party on the 8th 

December, a popular meeting of two of 

the area’s generations usually separated 

from one another, as members of our 

Sixth Form entertain many of our “more 

mature” citizens with singing, dancing, a 

traditional meal and presents for all. The 

are all looking forward to our Summer 

Ball. 

The latest 50/50 club winners have 

been drawn and notified of their win. 

Congratulations to the holders of ticket 

numbers 48, 5, & 9. 

Your PTA secretary, Anne Kearl, can be 

contacted via pta@ringwood.hants.sch. 

uk or through Reception. 

Please get in touch. You are all PTA 

members and we look forward to 

hearing from you. 

We will be serving refreshments at the 

Christmas Concerts so we will meet 

many of you then. 

Wishing Everyone a Happy Christmas 

and New Year from the PTA. 

“We Will Rock You” production is well 

on its way for ‘curtain up’ and promises 

to be another incredibly triumphant and 

exciting time for all. 

The new Student Voice System 

continues to run well with many young, 

innovative minds only too eager to 

help expand our influence within the 

school. A recent collaboration between 

a Sixth Form student and Ringwood’s 

Town Council concerning a campaign 

on transport costs has been encouraged 

by Student Voice members, as has the 

promotion of the WOTS (Word on the 

Street) project alongside a fair trade 

smoothie campaign, so watch this space! 

We wish every one of you a very 

merry Christmas and a happy new year 

and offer luck to those preparing for 

exams in January.

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Golden Jubilee Sponsored Walk 

This year is Ringwood 

School’s Golden Jubilee. 

The school opened its 

doors to students in 

1958/9 and was officially opened in 

June 1959. To give an added focus to 

our celebrations we are embarking 

on a major fund raising campaign 

aimed at fully refurbishing the 

school’s main hall which, despite 

alterations and renovations down 

through the years, remains largely 

as it was when the school first 

opened. 

Students and staff are going to be 

involved in a range of events throughout 

the year to mark the occasion, the first 

of which was the sponsored walk which 

took place on Friday 24th October and 

coincided with ‘International Walk to 

School Month’. As a ‘Healthy Schools’ 

award winner we thought this was a 

highly appropriate way of starting off the 

year sending as it does messages to our 

young people about physical fitness and 

healthy lifestyles. 

For the event we joined forces with 

the Rotary Club who devised a fourmile 

route for us and supported the 

occasion by helping with the marshalling. 

The Rotary Club of Ringwood has 36 

members who give freely of their time, 

supporting projects and raising funds 

for local, national and international 

communities all over the world. 

Over 1800 students, staff, Rotarians 

and parents took part today in the very 

successful Ringwood School Golden 

Jubilee sponsored walk. 

Headteacher, Chris Edwards 

said: “What an amazing day! It was 

a wonderful community event in 

celebration of our Golden Jubilee. 

Over 1800 students, staff, Rotarians 

and parents completed a 4.2 mile walk 

around Ringwood. The day began with 

students learning a little more about the 

school through a series of assemblies 

which helped them to find out what 

school and community life was like fifty 

years ago. The atmosphere was very 

special with everyone entering into 

the spirit of the occasion. The day was 

made even more special when a number 

of x-students took the opportunity to 

greet us en route to pass on memories 

from bygone years. The event has raised 

over £10,000 for the school and The 

Rotary Club of Ringwood who this year 

have adopted the Princess Royal Trust 

for Young Carers. Thank you to everyone 

who was involved.” 

If any reader is an ex student with 

memories of school life from 1958 or 

some old reports, photographs or any 

other memorabilia which we could 

borrow please contact the school as 

we are compiling an alumni and would 

welcome any details. More information is 

on the school website or email 

alumni@ringwood.hants.sch.uk

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Eco News. . . 

Students take up the Climate Change Challenge 

On Monday 10th 

November, New Forest 

District Council hosted 

a Climate Change Conference 

for sixty student delegates from 

secondary schools across the 

New Forest and Southampton. 

The venue was Appletree Court, 

the Council’s headquarters. 

Embedding sustainability into 

each school’s ethos was the 

major theme, initiated and led by 

Ringwood School’s sustainability 

coordinator, Gill Hickman. 

Ringwood School has gained the 

Green Flag, EcoSchools’ top award, 

on two successive occasions, in 2006 

and 2008, and assisted by a grant 

from the National College for School 

leadership, has formed a community 

of ten schools with the aim of sharing 

best practice. 

The keynote speaker was Alan 

Lovell, the Chief Executive of a 

leading renewable energy company. 

He has met 2004 US presidential 

candidate and Nobel Prize winner Al 

Gore, whose film ‘An Inconvenient 

Truth’ was a wakeup call to the world. 

Recently Alan met Al Gore again, who 

passed on new information for him to 

add to his presentation. The students 

were transfixed by the possible impact 

of climate change on life on earth in the 

latter half of the 21st century. 

The presentation was followed by a 

series of workshops where the students 

could debate the effects of climate 

change, sharpen their knowledge of its 

causes and look for ways of tackling its 

impact. The ideas flooded in, some usable 

right away, others with a more whacky 

approach. Each student, with the help 

of community networking organisation 

Footprint Friends, was able to assess the 

size of their own impact on our planet 

and had the chance to paint their feet 

to symbolise how they would try to 

reduce their carbon footprint. Footprint 

Friends also filmed thirty students who 

had questions for Ed Milliband, the new 

Secretary of State for Energy and Climate 

Change. Several of them wondered why 

the government seemed to do so little; 

others thought there wasn’t enough 

information around regarding climate 

change issues. The video has been sent to 

Ed, and answers are awaited! Watch it at 

http://supporters.footprintfriends.com/ 

forums/p/387/722.aspx#722 

The final session was delivered 

by environmentalist, activist and 

performance artist Danny Chivers. He 

brought together some amazing ideas 

from students for combating climate 

change and finally delivered his poem 

“Consumed”. The young audience 

reacted with cheers and tumultuous 

applause. “Consumed” can be listened to 

at www.myspace.com/dannychivers. 

Gill Hickman said: “The day was filled 

with Inspirational speeches, poetry, 

social networking and art, which were 

all used to convey strong environmental 

messages. The best of the students’ 

questions have been filmed and a copy 

sent to Ed Miliband. We were delighted 

to be able to liaise with NFDC for this 

event and I would particularly like to 

acknowledge the assistance of Keith 

Smith in its organisation. Each school 

group took away with them an expensive 

remote energy monitor presented by 

Footprint Friends. What an inspiring day!” 

This picture 

is taken 

from the 

climate 

change 

conference

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M i n s t e a d 

As part of our sustainability 

outreach work with 

SUSschools (our community 

of practice), we have arranged a full 

day visit by each participant school 

to Minstead Study Centre. This is 

in addition to the shared day in late 

July. Each school arranges the day as 

they wish, with most taking up Jane 

Pownall’s suggestions. Ringwood’s 

‘Movers and Shakers’ day took 

place on November 4th, and our 

team comprised 32 Year 7, 8 and 9 

students. 

Students learnt about waste and energy. 

They particularly enjoyed visiting the 

sustainable building, and all students should 

now know how to make compost. All 

photos of the day are available here. The 

day was filmed by Footprint Friends and 

by Jonathan Blease who is making a film 

about Minstead Study Centre. 

We were joined by Footprint Friends 

http://www.footprintfriends.com/ who are 

passionate about involving students in the 

debate about climate change. They say, “We 

all leave footprints and for this we are 

responsible. We also need to demonstrate 

that people around the world really care 

about future generations and the state of 

our planet both now and in the future. 

Through Footprint Friends we can join as 

Big Dig 2008 

Fifty small trees were planted around the new 

science pond area on what was yet again, 

another muddy day for the ‘Big Dig’. Eco Reps 

from each tutor group came along with wellies on 

foot to plant a tree for their tutor group. 

one community, one voice. If you think 

about climate change - talk about it. If 

you talk about it, action will follow. A lot 

of action is needed”. Footprint Friends 

have already recorded the day on their 

website at certainly had a big impact on 

our students are these photos show. 

Visit the website and join up! 

Trainee Teachers 

(PGCEs) learn about 

Sustainability 

As part of our outreach work 

on sustainability, 65 trainee 

teachers visited Ringwood at 

the start of a sustainable weekend. 

They were shown the work that we 

have done on sustainability and were 

given tours of the school by Year 7, 8 

and 9 students. These students did a 

great job talking to the adults. 

Many Southampton students have sent 

e-mails of thanks. in particular, they say 

how they notice the difference between 

Ringwood and their ‘placement’ schools: 

these are schools in which they practise 

teaching! This is the whole idea behind 

‘training the trainer’ and it is why this is a 

significant part of our outreach work. 

Well done and thanks to all, and special 

thanks to James Fullick (Y13) and Tom 

Wickens (Y13)who showed their own 

presentations to this very large and 

somewhat daunting audience, and to Ms 

Wood who showed students her great 

work in the canteen, and to Mr McNulty 

who talked about land-based science. 

PGCE students went on to enjoy 

a weekend at Minstead and Tile Barn, 

Brockenhusrt.


English Department News... 

N a t i o n a l P o e t r y D a y W i n n e r s 

In the last edition of Ringwood in 

the News, we reported on the 

English Department’s one day 

event celebrating National Poetry 

Day in October. Love it or hate it, the 

theme was the inescapable “Work” 

By Ariella Thompson 

Wrong 

Don’t you think 

This world is a little bit wrong? 

Without money 

we are nothing; 

we are wrong. 

It takes us half our lives 

to get out of debt; 

half our lives 

in miserableness. 

This is wrong. 

We can’t have children 

‘til we’re forty two 

and by then it’s too late! 

Don’t you think this is wrong? 

We spend our lives fretting 

on our day’s pay, 

rent and 

more bills every way… 

wrong. 

To waste away 

our lives on money, 

wrong, wrong, wrong. 

But what can we do? 

We can say… IT’S WRONG! 

A politically charged effort for National 

Poetry day, by James Fullick, Year 13 

English Department: a Royal 

Theatre visit 

Twenty eight students from 

Ringwood School enjoyed an evening 

visit to Portsmouth’s New Royal 

Theatre organised by the English 

Department on Weds 19.11.08. Mrs 

Walder, Mr Leigh and Mr Cornish 

accompanied the students from years 

10, 11 and 12 to see Arthur Miller’s 

Death of a Salesman, widely considered 

to be one of the most important plays 

of the twentieth century. 

and our students certainly had some 

great ideas on the topic. Following a 

day in which a number of staff and students 

enjoyed a varied poetry reading session at 

lunch time, we are pleased to announce the 

following winners and publish three of the 

By Abigail Sibley 

Work 

Sitting 

At a squalid desk. 

Mind brimming with unfulfilled thoughts. 

Creativity choked 

By the noxious smoke of business. 

24 hours a day. 

7 days a week. 

Work follows, 

Creeping, 

Winding its fingers through 

Matted hair. 

Life’s plans, 

Shattered. Broken by the whip 

Wielded by your own hand. 

Addictive promises of that 

Glittering, 

Shimmering pile of coins. Clogging 

The ducts and tubes 

Of the lungs of your hope. 

If religion is the opiate of the masses, 

Then is Work the cigarette? 

Written by Mr Cornish, Head of English 

Beginning with a gratefully received smooth 

coach trip from Ringwood through the 

rush hour traffic, the students presented 

themselves immaculately throughout the 

visit and everyone enjoyed the production. 

For some, the play will be studied as GCSE 

coursework whilst for others it serves as 

wider reading on the new AS level English 

Literature course. 

The play sees Willy Loman, a struggling and 

tired old travelling Salesman in 1950s America 

in the latter stages of his career. His ambitions 

have been flawed and the dreams he has 

most creative efforts. Well done to all who 

took part and to these students in particular. 

Class Poems 

1st Ariella Thompson 10S 

2nd Abigail Sibley 7H 

3rd Joe Lillis 7I 

Mr Heywood performing “JABBERWOCKY” 

D e a t h o f a S a l e s m a n 

held onto throughout his life are proving to 

be worthless. Biff and Happy, his two sons, 

see their father’s failure in different ways, 

leading to tense arguments and family conflict 

throughout. Caught in the middle of it all is 

Linda, Willy’s long suffering wife. 

Alongside the domestic drama, Miller 

explores the social impact of the American 

dream, with tragic consequences. 

Following the play and another long drive 

home, we returned to Ringwood at half past 

eleven, bleary eyed but suitably challenged, 

entertained and provoked.


Christmas comes in a Shoebox 

Over 280 gift-filled shoeboxes 

will find their way to 

children in Montenegro 

and Tanzania this Christmas 

thanks to students at Ringwood 

School who have supported Rotary 

International’s Shoebox Appeal. 

Rotary’s annual appeal, which is now in 

its twelfth year, asks people to gift festivewrapped 

shoeboxes filled with games, 

educational materials and toys, in the 

hope of giving less privileged youngsters a 

brighter Christmas. 

Students were able to pick the sex and 

age group of the child to whom their box 

will be given and among the many items 

donated were toothbrushes, crayons, 

notepads, cuddly toys and more. The 

school also collected £200 which will 

help towards transportation costs of the 

gifts. 

On Thursday 23rd October Ringwood 

Rotarians came to collect the boxes from 

the school. 

Children in Need 

Student Support sold 

many cakes for this year’s 

Children in Need appeal and 

raised over £175.00 on Friday 14 

November. 

Claire Waine, Teaching Assistant said 

“I just want to say a huge thank you to 

those of you who supported our cake 

sale on Friday in aid of Children in Need, 

Film, Camera, Action 

Students in Year 10 and 11 

received media training at 

Panasonic Headquarters 

in Bracknell as part of a global 

citizenship competition they are 

entering. 

The eight students were taught how 

to construct effective news reports in 

order to prepare them for making their 

own film on the subject of the media’s 

negative representation of youth. This 

will be entered in Panasonic’s worldwide 

Kid Witness News competition, which 

aims to provide students with media 

equipment to allow them to make 

citizenship news reports. Earlier in the 

week, media trainer James Stead visited 

the school to teach them how to use 

media equipment, including a £1,600 

broadcast quality camera donated to the 

school by Pansonic. 

So many came in and bought cakes, it was 

fantastic to see them all!” 

The students outside Panasonic Headquarters in Bracknell. 

Alumni... 

Ex student Simon Lock is currently 

employed as an apprentice and 

entered the EEF Apprentice 

of the Year Competition for South 

West England 2008. Simon is to be 

congratulated on being a second place 

winner and will be attending an Awards 

Ceremony in Weston-Super-Mare on 

Thursday 11th December.


Read all about it 

Students in Year 7 were 

delighted to receive a free 

book as part of a government 

initiative to encourage reading. 

All 252 students in the year were 

able to choose from a variety of titles 

offered by the Book Trust, including 

exciting adventure stories, poetry 

and non-fiction. Year 7 student Justin 

Roberts said: “I chose the poetry 

book, which has a poem for each day 

Two Y11 drama students, 

Jessica Osborne-Lax and 

Maisie Jenkinson, achieved 

100% in their GCSE Drama, making 

them two of the top 10 students 

in the country. Their amazing 

achievement was recognised by the 

exam board Edexcel when they sent 

a letter of congratulations to the 

school. 

Drama teacher, Mrs Nixon-Young, said 

“I am absolutely thrilled. All of the class 

gave their best performances in their 

exam and should be very proud of their 

achievements. I was at home recovering 

from an operation when Miss Edwards 

phoned me to deliver the news. It was 

the best get well medicine I could have 

asked for. Jess and Maisie were brilliant 

students who constantly worked to 

their full potential and I am elated that 

their hard work and talent have been 

rewarded. Their performances as Greta 

and Gregor from Berkoff’s adaptation of 

Metamorphosis were exceptional. I was 

mesmerised by their stage presence. As 

a teacher there is nothing more that you 

Year 7 students receive their free book 

of the year. I’ve enjoyed reading them 

– some are very funny!” English KS3 

co-ordinator, Mr Murray, said: “This is 

the second year we’ve been able to 

offer a free book to Year 7 students and 

it’s an excellent way for them to start 

English in secondary school, especially 

as we incorporate the scheme into 

Accelerated Reader, a programme 

designed to encourage and develop 

reading skills.” 

Outstanding Achievement for Y11 Drama students 

can ask for; I was blessed with a fantastic 

group.” 

Students of drama have to achieve 97% 

in order to achieve an A* grade at GCSE. 

This highlights the ability and dedication 

that is needed to gain such marks. A 

Design Challenge 

Would you like to design 

an area of the school? 

The mound between the 

Avon Block and the Sixth Form is to 

be replaced by three trees* and we 

want you to design the surrounding 

area! The picture shows one design 

by Liam Aldridge (Year 9), using the 

computer program SketchUp, but you can 

draw or even create a 3D model of your 

own design. If you want to share your 

ideas, why not come along to the Built 

Environment Club one Thursday, where 

we are not only re-designing the mound 

but also helping to plan the new school 

building. See Mr Heywood for more 

information. 

* The trees are being generously 

donated by former student Will Jones 

through Banyard Ltd, Arboriculture and 

Landscaping. 

From left to right: Maisie Jenkinson, Mrs Nixon-Young and Jessica Osborne-Lax 

special mention should also go to the 

other members of their performance 

group: George Robinson who also 

achieved an A* and Stephanie Dearden 

who was awarded full marks in the 

performance section of the course.


Super Mathematicians Achieve Amazing Results! 

Congratulations to Ben 

Griffith and Lucy Trubacik in 

Year 13 and to Shan Chuan 

Xing and Nam Le Hoang in Year 12 

who achieved gold certificates in the 

UK Senior Mathematics Challenge 

on the 8th November. Lucy set a 

new Ringwood record as the first girl 

to ever achieve a gold certificate in 

the Senior further Maths Challenge. 

Lucy who is a principal student for 

the mathematics department plans 

to continue studying mathematics 

at University next year and we wish 

her every success with that. 

Many students also achieved silver 

and bronze certificates. Congratulations 

to Matt Rickman and Chris Pollok who 

achieved silver certificates and Rebecca 

Shering and Jordan Hughes who achieved 

bronze certificates. 

Three Year 11 students did remarkably 

well because they competed in the Senior 

Challenge with students two years older. 

Congratulations to Simon Hookins who 

achieved a silver certificate and Keira 

Timmins and Melanie Davis who achieved 

bronze certificates. 

Could you answer the following questions 

to achieve gold ? 

1) Cheryl finds a bag of coins. There 

are 50 coins inside and the value of the 

contents is £1.81. Given that the bag 

contains only two-pence and five-pence 

coins, how many more five-pence coins 

are there inside the bag than two-pence 

coins ? 

2) In a sale a shopkeeper reduced the 

advertised selling price of a dress by 20%. 

This resulted in a profit of 4% over the 

cost price of the dress. What percentage 

profit would the shopkeeper have made 

if the dress had been sold at the original 

selling price ? 

3) In 1954, a total of 6527mm of rain fell 

at Sprinkling Tarn and this set a UK record 

for annual rainfall. The Tarn has a surface 

area of 23,450m2. Roughly how many 

litres of water, to the nearest million, fell 

on Sprinkling Tarn in 1954 ? 

3) 153 million litres. The volume of water which fell at Sprinkling Tarn in 1954 is 23450m2 x 6.527m ≈ 153,000m3. 1 cubic metre = 100cm x 100cm x 

100cm = 1,000,000cm3, 1 litre = 1,000cm3, So 1 cubic metre = 1000 litres. So 153,000m3 = 153,000,000 litres 153 million litres of rainfall fell at 

Sprinkling Tarn ! 

2) 30%. Reason : Let the original selling price of the dress be S. Let the original cost price of the dress be C. Then S x 0.8 = C x 1.04 

So S = C x 1.04 ÷ 0.8 = 1.30 x C = 130% of C 30% profit if dress had sold at original selling price. 

Answers 

1) There are 4 more five-pence coins than there are two-pence coins. Reason : Let the number of five-pence coins be x. Then 5x + 2(50–x) = 181. This 

simplifies to 3x + 100 = 181 x = 27. So there are 27 five-pence coins and 23 two-pence coins. 

Ringwood Idol 

Ringwood Idol competition 

was held on Thursday 13th 

November and was organised 

and run by Year 13 BTEC Production 

Arts. The event was a tremendous 

success, and Mrs de Lancy Green, Head of 

Drama, thanked everyone who took part. 

Winners were; 

Pop Idol - Yr 11-13 

Charlie Rix ( Yr 11) 

Dance Idol 

Nicole Neal (Yr 12) 

Pop Idol -Yr 7-10 

Ella Thomas (Yr 8) and she was the overall 

winner of Ringwood Idol. 

F r e n c h C l u b 

Every Monday between 

1-1.30pm Madame Schmitt 

runs a French Club for all 

students. 

The picture opposite is from a lunch time 

where students tasted typical French 

food. Students were blind folded and 

ended up tasting food they wouldn’t have 

tried if they could see. They really enjoyed 

the activity and most of them were really 

surprised (in a positive way)by the different 

tastes. Some took the French food home 

to make their parents try it. They are now 

working on their next project which is 

looking at certain areas of France and its 

culture, including their Music and Dance. 

If you fancy trying a bit of French culture 

then please come along, everyone welcome.

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W h a t i s E n t e r p r i s e ? 

Enterprise is more than 

starting your own business it 

is the development and skills 

to help young people when they are 

at work. 

All schools have to incorporate 

Enterprise into KS4 curriculum. But at 

Ringwood Enterprise is about equipping 

students with skills, making them 

more independent, creative, innovative, 

problem solving and working as part 

of a team. It is about students using 

their initiative to find out things for 

themselves and resolve issues when 

they arise in a confident, mature and 

Year 12 & 13 Leisure Studies 

students have recently been 

busy organising trips as part 

of their course for the lower years. 

Bowlplex - Year 13 Leisure Studies 

students, Dan Clark, Rebecca Anderson 

and James Bockett, organised a year 

7 visit to Bowlplex in Tower Park, for 

their current coursework assessment. 

Miss Young’s tutor group, 7I, won the 

opportunity for the visit by winning a 

year 7 quiz, which was also organised 

by the Leisure Studies students. It was 

a thoroughly entertaining evening with 

certificates and prizes handed to highest 

responsible way. 

The government want students to 

consider starting a business of their own; 

a Richard Branson of tomorrow! 

In the recent Ofsted report, the 

inspectors commented on the enterprise 

in Ringwood School and said: 

“An excellent range of enterprise activities 

help students’ economic understanding, and 

prepare them extremely well for 

the adult world beyond. The school’s language 

specialism has enhanced its impact on the 

wider community. Students 

undertake enterprise activities which 

demonstrate the economic impact of business 

Imagine 

you were told to 

create a 3 course dinner for 4 

people on a budget of £5.00. How 

creative would your menu be? How 

resourceful could you be in attaining the 

ingredients? Could you arrange the meal 

in 2 hours and would everyone enjoy it? 

If the answer it yes then you are 

showing good entreprenual 

skills. 

T h r e e e n t e r p r i s e e v e n t s d e s c r i b e d b e l o w 

Beat the Boss 

Students in Year 10 found out 

if they had what it took to 

‘Beat the Boss’ as they took 

on the challenge of designing an 

educational game for pre-school 

children. 

Special thanks go to our outside 

business helpers who took part in the 

challenge and came up with their own 

ideas to provide competition. 

All groups were judged on the original 

idea, creative design, teamwork, and 

group presentation and justification of 

ideas. 

S t u d e n t ’ s 

come 3rd 

Place 

An event organised by Solent 

Skills Quest, in Lyndhurst, 

saw six of Ringwood 

students come third place in 

competition. 

The six students who were 

competing against all other schools 

in the county had to design a 

layout for a new restaurant, think 

of a theme, produce advertising 

posters, produce a new menu and 

work out the costs. Students had 

then to do presentation to group 

of business leaders. 

The students were: 

Andrew Tauber 

Sophie Jones 

George Attwell 

James Levy 

David Lloyd 

Mat Wilson 

S t u d e n t s 

c o m p e t e f o r 

Prom contract 

Year 11 recently spent an 

Enterprising morning 

putting together a tender 

to try and win the contract for the 

organisation of a school prom. 

In groups of four, students had to 

present their ideas to a business advisor 

at the end of the morning and persuade 

them why they should get the contract. 

Students Enjoy Leisure Time 

scoring individuals and teams. 

Thorpe Park - Year 13 

Leisure Studies students, 

Siobhan Groves, Melissa 

Stone, Amber Burridge and 

Lucy Shearing, organised a 

visit to Thorpe Park for 25 

year 8 students. The visit 

was organised as part of 

their current coursework 

assessment. It was a very well 

organised visit and all students 

had a very enjoyable and safe 

day out. A big well done to all 

involved. 

within the European and global 

marketplaces.”


Hard Work Sails off 

Rutland was the last of three 

events to get in to the 

National squads, there are 

only 60 places available and 276 

sailors wanting a place. 

The events are held at two reservoirs, 

Grafham and Rutland, and one on the 

sea which this year was in Pwllheli. Each 

event is stressful but the worst is the last 

one as there is no room for mistakes. 

My results now place me at 56th which 

hopefully is good enough for a squad 

place. The squads then train all winter 

for another competition held over two 

weekends early next year to qualify for 

a place to represent Great Britain in 

three major events in various parts of the 

world. 

Not only did I have a fantastic weekend 

of sailing but at the prize giving I was 

presented with the Ambassador of Sailing 

trophy by Nick Rogers GBR’s 470 Silver 

Olympic medal winner. This trophy was 

given for contributions both on and off 

the water in Great Britain and abroad. 

Rising Star Bethany Lowen 

Talentcall 2008 

the south’s 

premier 

variety talent 

competition arrived 

in Bournemouth 

in November, a 

competition which 

invites anyone who 

thinks they have talent 

to audition. 

On Sunday 14th November 

more than 1,000 people 

packed Boscombe’s Opera 

House to be wowed by 20 

acts who made it to the 

grand final of Talentcall 

2008. One of these was 

year 10 student, Bethany 

Lowen, who walked away 

with the winner’s trophy 

and a £1,000 cheque after 

impressing a spellbound 

audience and five judges, 

including Daily Echo editor 

Neal Butterworth and 

top local comedian Scott 

Charlton. 

Bethany captivated the 

audience and judges with an effortless 

rendition of Eva Cassidy’s ‘Wade in The 

Water’ and Van Morrisons ‘Moondance’ 

Congratulations also go to talented 

W r i t t e n b y J o s h u a P o t t s 

Picture taken by the Daily Echo 

vocalist Samantha Laurilla’s ex-student 

from Ringwood who performed her 

own opening version of Fallin’. 

N e w F o r e s t 

Netball Tournament 

Year 10 students represented 

the school in a New Forest 

Netball Tournament on 

Wednesdays 19th November and 

won the festival overall, for the 4th 

year running congratulations go to: 

Amelia Jane Williams 

Caroline Empson 

Alice Holmes 

Emily Rosie 

Cara Marks 

Mary Melrose 

Sophie Neal 

Kathryn Watson 

Abigail Fletcher 

Sixth Form presentation 

celebrates achievement 

Former Year 13 students 

came back to Ringwood for 

the evening on Monday 15 

December to attend the Sixth 

Form Presentation Evening. 

Whilst facing new challenges such 

as university and employment, the 

presentation was an opportunity 

to reflect back on their successes 

and celebrate their achievements at 

Ringwood with old friends and teachers. 

Most of the awards this year were 

kindly sponsored by local organisations. 

Our thanks go to the New Forest 

District Council for sponsoring the 

programme and Language College 

Shield. Thanks also to 2CR FM; Alex 

Guy Photography; Armfield; Barclays; 

Bournemouth & West Hampshire Water; 

Canon John Turpin; Dean & Dyball; 

Ellingham & Ringwood Rugby Club; 

Forest Forge; Liberty’s Raptor & Reptile 

Centre; Ringwood Musical & Dramatic 

Society; Palk Downton Solicitors; 

Ringwood School PTA; Ringwood Town 

Council; Rotary 

Club of Ringwood; 

Shorefiled Holidays; 

Somerley Estate; The 

Ringwood Carnival 

Society; and Ziegler 

Rickman.


F r e s h e r s F a i r 

On Monday 15th September 

Ringwood School held its 

very first ‘Freshers Fair’. 

This was an event showcasing all 

the extra-curricular activities and 

opportunities available to young 

people across all year groups at 

Ringwood School. 

Whether you were interested in the 

skills of debating, wanted to turn your 

hand to film making or radio, have a 

particular penchant for music or PE or 

just want to know what the Amnesty 

International group get up to then this 

was the event not to be missed. There 

were lots of students and staff on hand 

to help and encourage everyone to 

get involved. Ringwood School’s first 

Freshers Fair was a huge success with 

lots of students coming along to see and 

sign up to the diverse opportunities on 

Year 12 Health and Social 

Care students recently 

faced some of the problems 

experienced by people with 

disabilities in Ringwood. Here are 

three students describing what 

they experienced. 

In our Health and Social Care lesson 

we were split into two groups and 

given a wheelchair, some blindfolds and 

some goggles which had black tape 

over them. We did this because we 

were trying to find out what it felt like 

to be in a wheelchair, to be blind or to 

have tunnel vision. What we found out 

from our experiment was that when in 

a wheelchair people gave you a lot of 

weird looks. Also they felt as though 

they needed to shout at us, when it was 

our legs that were unable to work, not 

our hearing. When I was in a wheelchair, 

Written by, Mrs Laurilla 

offer to them. It’s still not too late to 

join any of the activities and clubs, so 

one of the best ways to get involved is to 

get yourself along to an extra-curricular 

activity and have a go. 

Health & Social care Students 

experience difficulties 

I was asked by our teacher to buy 

some cat food from a supermarket. 

When doing this the woman at the till 

was rather discriminatory, as I handed 

her the money but she handed the 

change back to the woman pushing my 

wheelchair not me. 

(Ashleigh Read) 

While I was pushing Lily in the 

wheelchair we had to go and buy a 

newspaper from the newsagents. It 

was difficult to get the wheelchair in 

because the shop was so small and with 

the other people around trying to get 

their newspapers as well, I felt like we 

were just in the way. It was then difficult 

to get the wheelchair back out of the 

shop because we couldn’t turn it around 

because of lack of space and we couldn’t 

go forward because there was a pole in 

the way which the wheelchair couldn’t 

fit past. I did find that getting from the 

zebra crossing on the road onto the 

pavement was difficult even though the 

path had been lowered. Also with the 

blindfold on it was very difficult not to 

knock things off the shelves because 

they were so close together. 

(Nichola Mitchell) 

When we were trying to cross the road 

with the wheelchair we found it hard to 

get up the kerb as the wheelchair got 

stuck. The person wearing the blindfold 

felt quite worried that they were going 

to walk in to something, they also had 

to trust the person guiding them a lot. 

I think it could be hard to be alone in 

Ringwood Town if you have a disability as 

we found it very hard. 

(Abigail Duffell)


News from the PE department 

Year 9 Rugby Team step up to 

higher level and win Tournament 

Some of the top Rugby schools 

in Hampshire took part in 

the annual Yr9 10 A-Side 

Rugby Tournament. This is the first 

time that Ringwood have stepped 

up to a higher level of Rugby 

competition as we normally take 

part in the emerging Hampshire 

Schools’ tournament. 

The tournament included schools like 

Lord Wandsworth College, Salesion 

College, Portsmouth Grammar 

School, The Kings School Winchester, 

Hampshire Colegiate School, Swanmore 

School, Perrins School, Oaklands School. 

The competition was played in four 

pools of three schools with the first 

placed school progressing to the cup 

competition, the second placed school 

to the plate and the third placed school 

to the shield competition. 

Ringwood were in the pool with 

Congratulations to the Junior 

Girls’ Team who attended 

the National Schools 

Swimming Gala. The Junior Girls’ 

Team came 6th out of 17 schools, a 

great success - well done. 

An account of the event written by 

Junior member of the team, Lisa 

Devine. 

On the 16th Ellie Beckwith, Alice 

Talbot, Maddy Lumley & Lisa 

Devine went to The Quays in 

Southampton for a 2 o’clock warm 

up. It was a hectic start with us not 

knowing where to sign in so we 

could actually swim, but luckily we 

were able to sign in ok with help 

from Lisa’s mum. 

Portsmouth Grammar (eventual runners 

up of the cup) and the Hampshire 

Collegiate School. A close game against 

Portsmouth losing two tries to one and 

a convincing points win against HCS saw 

us through to the Plate competition. 

Here we were up against Swanmore & 

Perrins. Ringwood played an excellent 

handling and running game and were 

resolute in defence. They overcame both 

schools by over twenty points to win 

the plate competition. 

The Kings School, Winchester, beat 

Portsmouth Grammar in the final of the 

cup & Lord Wandsworth School won 

the Shield competition. 

Ringwood players were: Jack White 

(Capt), Stephan Baker, Charlie Heggan, 

Jack Kelly, James Morris, Ben Kakera, 

Josh Rayner, Zac Chilcot, Jack McGill, 

Lewis Burrell, Jack Ellis, & Max 

Beresford. 

Junior Girls do Swimmingly Well 

Our first race was 4 x 50m freestyle/ 

front crawl. We got a time of 2:08:90 

which got us into the final. In the final 

we came 6th out of the 8 and altogether 

6th out of the 16 junior (year 7 to 9) 

schools. 

Our next race was the 4 x 50 medley 

relay with Ellie doing the backstroke 

with a time of 34:81, Alice with breaststroke 

on 40:02, Lisa on the butterfly 

39:35, and Maddy freestyle 32:96 with 

a final time of 2:28:14. We got into the 

final, once again, but changed our order, 

so Lisa did the breast stroke, and Alice 

did the butterfly and we came 6th with 

a time of 2:26:35, one place ahead than 

when we did it before. 

It was an exciting day with a lot of 

panic, and a Sunday to remember. 

Badminton Tournament at Applemore 

U16 Badminton 

Tournament at 

Applemore Recreation 

Centre. U16 Girls played 

a round robin and came 3rd out of 6 

teams. They were awarded a bronze 

medal each. U16 Boys came 3rd 

in a very strong group of 4 but and 

unfortunately did not manage to go 

through to the semi final. 

RESULTS 

New Forest Schools Cross 

Country Championship 

RESULTS. 

All those in the top 20 qualify for 

County Championships 

U16 Boys 

Andy Welch 6th 

Kieran Dyer 8th 

Tom Lawrie 11th 

Dan Norris 27th 

Alex Cridland 32nd 

Jack Reynolds 43rd 

Pete Butcher DNF 

James Hickman DNF 

U14 Boys 

Will Davies 11th 

Sean Ashby 28th 

Stefan Baker 41st 

Tim Chapman 45th 

Will Dence 64th 

Callum Gillet-Bower 

66th 

Tom Morris 70th 

Habib Halim 78th 

Jack Kelly 92nd 

Oliver Wells 93rd 

Jack White 97th 

U16 Girls 

Jade Talbot 11th 

Jordan Kirby 20th 

Alice Holmes 29th 

Caroline Empson 36th 

Harriet Rodger 37th 

Hannah Clancy 39th 

Kate Morley 40th 

U14 Girls 

Tyler hole 5th 

Jessica Carey 22nd 

Hannah Gilling 23rd 

Kirsty Chatfield 24th 

Bryony Whiting 49th 

Turlin Veral 51st 

Sarah Tap 54th 

Lauren Goodwin 88th 

Carlie Mckenzie 89th 

U13 Boys U13 girls 

Dominic Vieten 20th Emma Hardwick 7th 

Will Read 26th Rhiannon Gibbs 12th 

Shaun Rouse 27th Selin Veral 13th 

Matt Harrisson 37th Victoria Morris 18th 

Lucas Cameron 39th Teryl Hills 25th 

John Pogliaghi 40th Lucy Hines 36th 

Callum Wadlow 45th Amy Vaughn 41st 

Oliver Nash 52nd Alisa Poulton 45th 

Congratulations 

Darren Symes has been selected 

to take part in the UK Dance 

Championship.

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