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<strong>Queen</strong> <strong>Katherine</strong> <strong>School</strong><br />
NEWSLETTER<br />
The Head Writes:<br />
Well, what a fantastic<br />
year. It has flown past.<br />
As always, we need<br />
to say a few farewells,<br />
though not as many as<br />
is normal. Pauline<br />
Peck, our Senior<br />
Laboratory Technician, has worked at The<br />
<strong>Queen</strong> <strong>Katherine</strong> <strong>School</strong> for 26 years and<br />
we wish her well.<br />
Rosie McNamara<br />
(photo right) has<br />
worked as a Learning<br />
Support Teacher for<br />
more years than she<br />
wants to remember, as<br />
has Alison Gracey one of our Learning<br />
Support Assistants. We wish them both well<br />
in their retirement.<br />
We say farewell to John and Julie Squire<br />
who are moving to Shropshire to be closer<br />
to family. Sam Reynolds moves for<br />
promotion as does Debbie Mulroy as<br />
Deputy Head of an outstanding school in<br />
Newcastle upon Tyne. We wish them all<br />
well.<br />
In addition, we say goodbye to our Year<br />
13 students. They have been a great Year<br />
group who have joined in wholeheartedly<br />
with the life of the school. Also Year 11, the<br />
majority of whom will join our sixth form in<br />
September. We wish those who are not<br />
coming back all the very best.<br />
We can also reflect on a year jam-packed<br />
with extra curricular activities from the<br />
Duke of Edinburgh Award to The Wizard of<br />
Oz and numerous departmental visits. We<br />
recall success in Technology competitions,<br />
student achievement, Diana Awards and<br />
their fantastic contribution to sport, art,<br />
music drama and dance.<br />
Furthermore, we were delighted that our<br />
application to become a Change <strong>School</strong><br />
through Creative Partnerships was<br />
successful. This builds on the updating of<br />
our Vision Statement which is included in<br />
the mail shot.<br />
Have a great summer.<br />
Stephen Wilkinson<br />
Headteacher<br />
<strong>Summer</strong> 2009<br />
Quelle Histoire!<br />
CLIL stands for Content and Language<br />
Integrated Learning, in other words, learning<br />
other subjects in a foreign language.<br />
QKS foreign languages students have been<br />
taking part in a CLIL project with post<br />
graduate teaching students from the University<br />
of Cumbria, which has involved the QKS<br />
students being taught History in their French<br />
lessons, entirely in French. They have learnt<br />
about the same topics they are covering in<br />
History (Year 8 the Industrial Revolution and<br />
Year 9 Technlogy in the 70s). Here are some of the comments from the QKS students:<br />
“…it was really fun.”; “I learnt some more about the industrial revolution.”; “We learned a lot.”;<br />
“I improved my French and History.”; “…it was different.”<br />
Official Opening of the<br />
new Modern Foreign<br />
Languages Suite<br />
The new MFL classrooms were opened on Saturday 13 June by Tim<br />
Farron MP and an invited group of former QKS students who went<br />
on to study languages at university.<br />
After a late breakfast of coffee and brioche, the visitors toured<br />
the new facilities, hearing from the teachers about the advantages<br />
of the state-of-the-art classrooms. As well as providing modern<br />
approaches to language teaching, the new suite is also showing the<br />
way in environmental issues, as the roof has solar panels and effective insulation of the rooms, in<br />
order to reduce heating costs. The photo shows Tim Farron MP cutting the ribbon.<br />
An Apology from the Editor!<br />
Last term’s Newsletter, due to an unaccountable editorial mix up, showed the wrong Alps<br />
thermometer, recording the success of QKS’ “A” level results.<br />
Here, we have the current version – apologies for any confusion caused.<br />
World heritage<br />
win for QKS<br />
Six Kendal students are heading to Britain’s Jurassic<br />
coast after clinching first prize in a contest to take part<br />
in a high profile international youth summit.<br />
The pupils of <strong>Queen</strong> <strong>Katherine</strong> <strong>School</strong> will be taking<br />
centre stage at UNESCO’s UK World Heritage<br />
gathering on 22nd May, joining young people from all<br />
over the world.<br />
They took gold in a Cumbria-wide competition where<br />
schools were invited to create a brochure, collage,<br />
poster, podcast or poem showing how they see the Lake<br />
District.<br />
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<strong>School</strong>s from the UK’s 25 World Heritage sites were asked to take<br />
part. Students from each of the winning schools will become delegates<br />
for the Lyme Regis summit.<br />
Project director for the Lake District World Heritage bid, Mike<br />
Clarke, explained: “We wanted truly inspirational pieces of work,<br />
capturing how our young people connect with this iconic place as we<br />
work towards possible World Heritage status.<br />
“Six young girls from Kendal impressed the judges with their brochure<br />
and are now poised to take part in a top-level prestigious gathering.<br />
“All the winning entries will be used for UNESCO UK’s Making<br />
Sense of Our Site project and will form part of the London 2012<br />
Olympic Games celebrations.”<br />
QKS teacher, Vicky Hatton, said: “This really is a unique and<br />
fantastic opportunity for our county’s senior pupils to play an<br />
important part in an international event. <strong>Queen</strong> <strong>Katherine</strong> students<br />
will speak at the summit; I know they will do a great job.”<br />
UNESCO Youth Conference –<br />
The Lake District as a<br />
World Heritage Site<br />
Bethanie Murray, Ruth Bell, Lucy Gray, Flora Wharton, Firth<br />
Bower and Fiona Ducksbury report on their winning proposal<br />
of the Lake District as a World Heritage Site.<br />
“We were told about a competition where we were to put<br />
forward our local area i.e. the Lake District as a World<br />
Heritage Site by creating a podcast, brochure, collage or a<br />
poem. We decided to create a brochure, as it is an attractive<br />
way of putting forward ideas and pictures.<br />
We believed the Lake District should become a World<br />
Heritage Site because the exquisite landscape is very<br />
important to us, unique and vital to the community.<br />
Our brochure was created mainly in English lessons where<br />
we all worked exceptionally well in a team. This was<br />
mainly due to being very good friends and knowing each<br />
others’ strengths.<br />
We included imaginative texts about popular<br />
destinations, many of our own photographs and fact files<br />
on the most spectacular lakes.<br />
Once we found out we had won, we were all very<br />
excited and couldn’t wait to attend the UNESCO Youth<br />
Conference in Lyme Regis.<br />
After a seven-hour train journey to Lyme Regis, we<br />
were greeted by the organisers of the event and sunny<br />
weather. After our excitement of seeing the sea, we sat<br />
down to a tasty barbeque. We were all shattered after the<br />
Big Red Shed Opening<br />
March 2009<br />
Just a few photos of<br />
last term’s big event,<br />
when the Big Red Shed<br />
was opened by David<br />
Bell, Permanent<br />
Secretary of DCSF.<br />
On a lighter note,<br />
Dan Taylor tries the<br />
Mayor’s chain for size,<br />
and the real Mayor for<br />
2008-9, Clare Feeney-<br />
Johnson, chats to<br />
students.<br />
long journey and returned to our cottage in Charmouth, which caused<br />
great excitement, as it was more a mansion than a holiday cottage.<br />
On Friday 22nd May we went to the UNESCO Youth Conference in<br />
Lyme Regis.<br />
We were given an introduction about World Heritage by a Professor<br />
from UNESCO and about what we would be doing during our time<br />
there. We took part in lots of activities including ice breakers and<br />
creating a newspaper front page about the threats to World Heritage<br />
Sites. These included topics such as The Ice Loss in Las Glaciarous. We<br />
presented these to the rest of the<br />
delegates. Throughout the day we<br />
listened to presentations from other<br />
current or potential World Heritage<br />
Sites. We then performed our<br />
presentation about our Lake District<br />
brochure. We talked about what we<br />
had created and why the Lake<br />
District is important to us, along with<br />
showing photographs of our area.<br />
The Lake District was definitely the<br />
place with most to offer.<br />
We learnt a lot throughout the day<br />
including what UNESCO<br />
does, how different<br />
World Heritage Sites are<br />
in danger and what needs<br />
to be done to protect<br />
them.<br />
We finished our visit<br />
by writing a statement to<br />
send to UNESCO about<br />
how we should deal with<br />
problems in World<br />
Heritage Sites in the<br />
future. We also attended<br />
a fossil festival and had<br />
walks on the beach and a<br />
paddle in the sea.<br />
The trip was a great<br />
experience for all of us and<br />
we thoroughly enjoyed it.<br />
Thanks to Mike Clarke at<br />
the Lake District National<br />
Park for choosing our<br />
brochure, also thanks to Ms<br />
Mulroy and Miss Metcalfe for<br />
organising and accompanying<br />
us on the trip.”
CAREERS<br />
Year 7 – Monday 11th May. 60 Year 7 students<br />
took part in an Aimhigher activity called ‘The<br />
Learner Journey’.<br />
The morning<br />
started with a<br />
t e a m b u i l d i n g<br />
game called<br />
‘nerves of steel’<br />
(photo right), and<br />
in teams the Year<br />
7’s then worked on various activities exploring<br />
the ‘journey’ leading up to University.<br />
Year 8 – On Tuesday 31 March a visit to<br />
Lancaster University was enjoyed by 40 Year 8<br />
students.<br />
Student Ambassadors provided the students<br />
with information about University and gave<br />
them a tour of the campus. Following their visit<br />
to the campus the students worked in teams to<br />
put together a presentation for their parents in<br />
the form of role plays and quizzes about what<br />
they learnt on their visit to Lancaster University.<br />
Year 9 – Earlier this term, Year 9 took part in an<br />
Aimhigher event called ‘get the whole picture’.<br />
On 8th May, 45 students took part in this highenergy<br />
and interactive series of games delivered<br />
by Corporate Adrenalin (photos below). The aim<br />
of the event was to explore issues around Higher<br />
Education. The students were divided into<br />
teams and worked their way around the<br />
challenges which included games called<br />
‘Managing Your Dosh’, ‘Mastermind’,<br />
‘Pictionary’ and many more. The teams collected<br />
a jigsaw piece each time and gained points for<br />
each activity. The team with the most points<br />
received a well-deserved box of sweets! Fun was<br />
had by all!<br />
‘Olympics come to Kendal’<br />
On the morning of Wednesday 3rd June, 24 Year<br />
10 students took part in an exciting event<br />
organised through Impact Training.<br />
Delegates from Centrica Plc were on a 4-day<br />
team programme with Impact Training and the<br />
pro gramme involved working with the com -<br />
munity which is where QKS became involved.<br />
QKS have previously been involved with<br />
successful events through<br />
Impact so we were delighted to<br />
have this oppor tunity to work<br />
with them again. Centrica is a<br />
leading inte grated energy<br />
company, the parent company<br />
of British Gas. The delegates<br />
are based mainly in the South of<br />
England and are currently eight<br />
months into a two-year grad uate<br />
pro gramme with Centrica.<br />
The team of 19 that would be<br />
working with QKS students<br />
received their brief at 2pm<br />
the day before and then had<br />
only a few hours to come up<br />
with a programme to be<br />
delivered to our students.<br />
The brief was to come up<br />
with an advertise ment/<br />
marketing idea based on a<br />
fictitious sporting or music<br />
event that would be<br />
coming to Kendal and the<br />
students would work in<br />
small teams. They also had<br />
to support the students with completion of a unit<br />
of work towards their Asdan qualification called<br />
‘Working with Others’ this would be 1 of 6 of the<br />
required units for achievement of the quali fi -<br />
cation. The delegates would support the students<br />
with team working, communication techniques,<br />
Magistrate Magic!<br />
<strong>Queen</strong> <strong>Katherine</strong> <strong>School</strong> pupils took part in<br />
the local heat of the Magistrates’ Mock Trial<br />
Competition on Friday 6th March.<br />
Fifteen pupils, playing the roles of lawyers,<br />
witnesses, magistrates, court staff, journalists<br />
and artists attended the competi tion at Kendal<br />
Court. In an exhilara ting and highly com -<br />
petitive atmos phere, QKS’ legal team fought<br />
valiantly against competition from five other<br />
planning, and motivation.<br />
The delegates arrived at QKS with the theme<br />
of ‘Olympics come to Kendal’ and had with them<br />
an array of costumes, props, art materi als, media<br />
technology etc etc for the students to work with.<br />
They had pro duced a clear timetabled plan for<br />
the morning and were very organised. Small<br />
teams were formed and the challenge began! The<br />
dele gates sup ported and<br />
guided their teams and the<br />
work that was produced was<br />
brilliant. Each team presen ted<br />
their finished advertise ment<br />
to a panel of judges from the<br />
Centrica team; there were<br />
video clips, radio jingles, and<br />
very eye-catching, colour ful<br />
posters. The panel were very<br />
impressed with the team work<br />
of the students through out the<br />
morning. The standard of work<br />
pro duced was first class but<br />
there could only be one winning<br />
team: Shawn Stewart, Joshua<br />
Nicholson, Michal Bialka and<br />
Daniel Blenkharn came up with an<br />
event entitled ‘Heat Wave’ and<br />
pro duced a video clip and two very<br />
colourful posters promoting the<br />
event.<br />
Students thoroughly enjoyed the<br />
day and gave very positive comments<br />
about the day and the Centrica team<br />
such as ‘ It was a confidence boost for<br />
me’, ‘It was really really great and the members<br />
helped us a lot’, ‘I had good fun and it was<br />
different to normal lessons’.<br />
The day was a huge success, the challenge was<br />
completed and the students achieved a very high<br />
standard of work.<br />
local schools. Jacob Parker-Whitehead in<br />
Year 8 won the ‘outstanding performance’,<br />
prize so especially well done to him!<br />
The Citizenship Foundation run this presti -<br />
g ious competition annually to pupils in Years 8<br />
and 9 and our students rose to the challenge in<br />
style! In the nationwide com petition, pupils<br />
prepare the prosecution and defence of<br />
specially written criminal cases which they<br />
enact in the adversarial environ ment of a real<br />
magist rates’ court. QKS stu dents learnt a great<br />
deal about the British legal system<br />
and thoroughly enjoyed this unique<br />
experience.<br />
Left to right: Rowan Derham,<br />
Hope McNulty, Olivia Winter,<br />
Emma Sandham, Chloe Dawson,<br />
Keziah Baskerville-Muscutt, Jacob Parker-<br />
Whitehead, Ben Powell, Jenna Roberts,<br />
Donesha Holmes, Lucy Downham,<br />
Oliver Staton, Charlie Maguire,<br />
Michael Johnson and Kelsey Lees
GCSE Mathematics Parent Support Evening<br />
On the 14th of May the maths department hosted more than 80 parents to<br />
assist them in supporting QKS Year 9 students who are taking their first<br />
module in GCSE mathematics this summer. The initiative was timed to<br />
coincide with National Adult Learners’ week.<br />
Parents were introduced to<br />
topics such as probability and<br />
types of averages as well as<br />
reviewing some real life<br />
examples of how data can be<br />
misrepresented – recalling the<br />
phrase ‘lies, damn lies and<br />
statistics!’ It was a daunting return to the mathe -<br />
matics classroom for some, but the evening passed<br />
off with good humour and a good measure of<br />
enjoyment all round. As well as knowledge, parents<br />
left the evening armed with revision guides, website details and the<br />
calculators, compasses and other maths equipment which can become last<br />
minute panic buys around exam time.<br />
To quote some statistics of our own: 66% of parents strongly agreed that<br />
What have mathematicians<br />
ever done for us?<br />
On Friday 27th March, 27 AS and A level maths students, accompanied by<br />
Miss Carolyn Metcalfe and Dr Rob Petrie, went to The Theatre by the<br />
Lake in Keswick to listen to lectures given by two leading mathematicians.<br />
Professor Chris Budd discussed “What have mathematicians ever done<br />
for us?”, explaining that without maths we would have no mobile phones,<br />
internet, food on our tables, etc. etc.! Whilst Rob Eastaway told us about<br />
what happens “When maths meets psychology”,<br />
and discussed human intuition, Derren Brown, and<br />
how to win at “Rock, Paper Scissors”!<br />
Matt (“Burger”) Baker’s never-ending picnic<br />
(photo left) caused much amuse ment, as did his<br />
attempts to demonstrate his snooker-playing ability<br />
when he was called up on stage! Granted, even<br />
Ronnie O’Sullivan may struggle with a pen and two<br />
two-pence coins on an overhead projector!<br />
German Exchange<br />
20 students from Years 9, 10 and 12 went to Neckargemünd on the<br />
German Exchange.<br />
The Realschule is now in a brand new building and is probably the<br />
most modern and environmentally friendly school in Germany. As<br />
usual we were made very welcome. Students went to lessons with their<br />
partners, visited Neckargemünd, Heidelberg and Mannheim. As the<br />
weather was quite warm and dry we also walked along the Neckar and<br />
then up to a ruined castle. We are looking forward to meeting again<br />
when the German group returns here in July.<br />
Here are a few quote from the diaries that students kept of the visit:<br />
Ruth & Eleanor: “We went swimming in Heidelberg in the biggest swimming<br />
pool ever! It had eight outdoor pools and three were salted, it also had 13<br />
indoor pools and a massive slide and a diving board – it was heaven!”<br />
Kieron: “We went to Mannheim where we first went to a palace where we had<br />
a tour. After this we went into town and we were with our German partners.<br />
This was one of the best parts of the week. Later on, after a fantastic day, we<br />
went home.”<br />
Ella: „Deutschland war super! Es war warm, die Häuser waren charmant, ich<br />
habe einen wunderbaren Urlaub gehabt!“<br />
Jazz: “This week has been too short and it makes me sad to even think about<br />
leaving.”<br />
Fiona: “I had chocolate spaghetti ice cream!”<br />
Lucy: “The family were very friendly and looked after me well.”<br />
Will: „Ich möchte wieder zurück und es war die beste Reise mit der Schule.“<br />
the evening was useful in developing their understanding of maths content<br />
and 68% strongly agreed that they would like to attend follow on sessions.<br />
Comments on the feedback form included ‘Well organised session – con -<br />
veyed what I needed to help my son’ and ‘A lot more fun than I expected’<br />
Commenting on the event David Rees, Second in Maths said, ‘This was<br />
a step into the unknown for us but we were delighted by the response and<br />
positive attitude shown by parents. We certainly intend to try this again.’<br />
George Aggidis the QKS Link Governor to the Maths department said<br />
‘This very successful evening and the very positive<br />
response from parents, is another indication that at<br />
QKS we are fortunate to have such a talented Maths<br />
department that produces excellent results for our<br />
students’.<br />
The photographs show a group<br />
of parents taking part in an<br />
exercise to demonstrate some of<br />
the terminology used in data<br />
analysis.<br />
Eastern European Visit<br />
Ms Watson and Mr. Forsyth took fourteen Year 13 students to<br />
Budapest at the end of the spring term, as the group had already<br />
studied Eastern Europe within their history course.<br />
They visited a range of<br />
sites connected with the<br />
Communist era around<br />
the city, in particular<br />
places and memorials<br />
associated with the 1956<br />
Uprising. The picture<br />
shows them posing in<br />
front of all that<br />
remained of a huge<br />
statue of Stalin after the<br />
uprising, the rest having been pulled down! They also saw memorials to<br />
Holocaust victims and historical sites going back to the Dark Ages and<br />
visited some open-air thermal baths. Budapest is a beautiful city set on<br />
the Danube with good public transport. A great time was had by all<br />
and, just to make it all worthwhile, the 1956 Uprising was on their exam<br />
paper this year!<br />
Arts Evening<br />
The Arts Evening was another great success, taking place at<br />
the end of last term, on March 29th.<br />
As usual, we were offered a wide variety of performance –<br />
music, drama and dance.<br />
Musically, we had classical cello from Daniel Crompton, a<br />
samba band, Kathhryn West singing Purcell, flautist Heppy<br />
Deane and the Senior Choir singing “The Rhythm of Life.”<br />
There was also a wide variety of dancing – Dance Projects<br />
from Years 7 and 8, Year 10 GCSE, who took us beyond sanity<br />
and reason, and Year 12 dealing with Ying and Yang.<br />
There was also semi professional Funk Explosion,<br />
“Fallen Angels” – a GCSE Group Dance assessment<br />
piece, a performance about an Indian Monsoon by the<br />
QKS Dance Group and Jade Stein’s GCSE piece about<br />
knife crime. Drama was represented by an excerpt form<br />
the successful performance of Dracula, excerpts from<br />
John Godber’s “Teechers” and “Like a Virgin” and<br />
“Fairytale Heart” which won the 2008 Drama Trophy.<br />
Another highly successful and enjoyable evening for<br />
all who attended.
Rivers Fieldwork<br />
Both Year 7 and Year 12 Geographers have been<br />
involved with fieldwork on the subject of<br />
“Rivers.”<br />
Year 7 have studied the River Mint and<br />
followed it to its confluence with the River Kent.<br />
Year 12 have surveyed down stream changes on<br />
the River Sprint in Longsleddale.<br />
GEOGRAPHY – OUT AND ABOUT<br />
St Bees Fieldwork<br />
Year 10<br />
Year 10 had another successful<br />
trip to collect fieldwork data at<br />
St Bees.<br />
Groups were investigating how the coastline<br />
has been managed to prevent erosion. The first<br />
group were very lucky with the weather and<br />
enjoyed glorious sunshine all day. We now wish<br />
them good luck in the writing up of the report by<br />
October half term.<br />
Members of the Geography Department were<br />
invited to the Geographical Association Annual<br />
Conference in Manchester in April to pick up<br />
their Quality Standards Mark for Secondary<br />
Geography. The Department has been<br />
nationally recognised for the quality of the KS3<br />
curriculum. It is one of 20 departments in the<br />
country to receive the award.<br />
Films and Shakespeare<br />
Three Year 10 students (Jamie Stanley, Joe<br />
Mills and Alice McLoughlin) spent three<br />
sessions at Kendal Library as part of a film -<br />
making workshop run by local filmmaker Tony<br />
Wilkinson, Kendal Library and the English<br />
department.<br />
The students were taught basic camera<br />
techniques and interviewing skills, and were<br />
then asked to produce a short film on Kendal<br />
Library in honour of its 100th birthday. The<br />
film, which is currently being edited, will be on<br />
at the library in the next few weeks and will<br />
also be shown in front of an audience of<br />
specially invited guests, including historian<br />
Simon Schama, at the official celebration event<br />
later in the year.<br />
On Monday March 16th 45 Year 9 students<br />
were involved with the English Department’s<br />
annual Shakespeare Day.<br />
The event, which asks students to look at<br />
Shakespeare as more than just the stuffy<br />
writer many see him as, involved students<br />
making modern day ruffs, insulting each<br />
other Elizabethan style and performing<br />
modern versions of Shakespearean plays. It<br />
was a fantastic day and<br />
the teachers involved<br />
(Miss James, Ms Parry,<br />
Ms Davies and Mrs<br />
Bowers) were extreme ly<br />
impressed with the<br />
enthusiasm and<br />
creativity displayed.<br />
The photos show students<br />
busy on Shakespeare Day.
Duke of Edinburgh’s Award<br />
The Duke of Edinburgh’s Award has once again received a positive uptake<br />
this year for all three awards.<br />
41 Year 10 students have undertaken the Bronze Award, culminating in<br />
two expeditions in June around the Windermere area. Co-ordinators Jan<br />
Hayward and Chris Rhodes have also offered an exciting programme of<br />
activities for the Bronze Award students, including climbing and navigation<br />
clubs, first aid awareness training and a skills course run by Kendal Fire<br />
Station. Students have been invited to be involved in two local conservation<br />
projects, at Serpentine Woods and with the North Kendal River<br />
Enhancement Group, enabling them to contribute to their local<br />
community including litter picking, woodland maintenance, and enhancing<br />
public footpaths by planting and weeding. 19 Year 11 and 6 Year 12<br />
students completed their Silver Training Expedition in March, despite<br />
blustery conditions in the Yorkshire Dales, and will be completing their<br />
Qualifying Expedition in September. As always, the willingness of The<br />
<strong>Queen</strong> <strong>Katherine</strong> <strong>School</strong> staff to help run the award has been invaluable,<br />
and enabled a high number of students to participate.<br />
Swimming<br />
<strong>Queen</strong> <strong>Katherine</strong> <strong>School</strong> is once again<br />
attracting headlines in the swimming world<br />
when two of its students together with a former<br />
student took their talents well outside the<br />
County boundaries to take part in events as far<br />
apart as Liverpool, Sheffield and Manchester.<br />
In the North West Regions Youth<br />
Championships held in Manchester, 16-year-old<br />
Victoria Hevey (photo, top) took her career to<br />
new heights. The 16-year-old swept into the<br />
Bronze Medal position in the 50m Backstroke<br />
final with an outstanding piece of backstroke<br />
sprinting, finishing in a Personal Best time of<br />
33.13 and claiming a new Long Course Club<br />
Record for this distance. Old boy, Sam Kaye<br />
(photo, centre), travelled to the Ponde Forge<br />
National Pool at Sheffield to take part in the<br />
British Junior D.S.E. Championships.<br />
Competing in five events Sam enjoyed a hugely<br />
successful weekend, first of all achieving a<br />
personal ambition in setting a new British<br />
Record and taking the Gold Medal for 50<br />
Butterfly in 29.64. With an immaculate start and<br />
displaying his outstanding talent and skill he<br />
held off all opposition and stormed to a thrilling<br />
finish for a historic win. He then went on to win<br />
a further four Gold Medals over the two days<br />
with outstanding performances in the 100m<br />
Butterfly, 50m Freestyle, 100m Freestyle and the<br />
4 x 25m Freestyle Relay. His time of 1:06.86 for<br />
100m Butterfly and 1:01.62 for 100m Freestyle<br />
also brought him New Club Records, both of<br />
which have stood for a number of years. In a<br />
second visit to Sheffield Sam competed in the British International<br />
Disabled Championships from which he came away with three Gold and<br />
three Silver Medals. His best times in the five events that he entered also<br />
produced new 50m Long Course Club Records for him and his time of<br />
I:05.97 for 50m Butterfly fell just outside the Qualifying Time for the<br />
European Disabled Championships. 14-year-old Bethan Richards (photo,<br />
bottom) took a gold winners medal at the British Gas ASA National<br />
SPORTS ROUND-UP<br />
Water Polo Championships, held at the Manchester Aquatics Centre. In<br />
this instance she was playing for City of Liverpool who beat City of<br />
Manchester in the finals. Just to settle the side down after a nervous<br />
opening few exchanges ‘Hot Shot’ Beth scored the first two goals to put her<br />
side 2–0 in front and then went on to collect a total of 6 goals in a series of<br />
three matches, which they won 10–6, 12–9 and 12–4. Beth has also earned<br />
a place on the Cumbria swim team who will be representing the County in<br />
this year’s North West Regions Inter Association Galas being held at<br />
Salford, later this month. All three swim and train with Troutbeck Bridge<br />
swimming club.<br />
Fit4Life<br />
The official end to the Fit4Life programme and associated funding really<br />
has finished with a flourish this term.<br />
The Mountain Boarding sessions at “Surf-The-Turf”, the Lakeland<br />
Mountain Board Centre in Sedgwick were suitably extreme with wet and<br />
muddy conditions seemingly every week just to make things interesting!<br />
The Gym sessions in the Fitzone at Lakes Leisure in Kendal have gone<br />
very well with all students completing the full induction to enable them to<br />
become established members. And finally, the Street Dance classes with<br />
the Year 9’s have been fantastic with the instructor Jeni really setting a high<br />
standard and playing some great tunes!<br />
Table Tennis<br />
Zarah Dixon has qualified as U/13 Girls County Champion and goes to the<br />
English <strong>School</strong>s Individuals National Championships in Doncaster.<br />
Girls Football Cumbria <strong>School</strong>s League Finals<br />
Following their victories in the South Lakes tournaments in February all<br />
three of our girls teams went on to compete in the Cumbria finals in<br />
Penrith.<br />
The U12 team<br />
finished as runners-up<br />
having beaten <strong>Queen</strong><br />
Elizabeth, Solway and<br />
Millom and drawn with<br />
Richard Rose Central<br />
and Richard Rose<br />
Morton. The U13 team<br />
finished in 3rd place<br />
following victories<br />
against Netherhall,
Kirkbie Kendal and<br />
Richard Rose Morton and<br />
unfortunate losses to<br />
Trinity and St Benedict’s.<br />
The U15 team remained<br />
unbeaten all day to finish<br />
up as champions with wins<br />
over St Benedict’s,<br />
Richard Rose Central and<br />
Kirkbie Kendal and a<br />
draw to Richard Rose<br />
Morton. It really has been a great season for girls’ football here at <strong>Queen</strong><br />
<strong>Katherine</strong>. Many thanks has to go to the guys from IBIS JFC for all of their<br />
help and support again this season.<br />
County Representatives<br />
This summer we have had a wealth of students asked to represent the<br />
county in their respective sports.<br />
Amongst those receiving their county honours this term are Darren<br />
Braithwaite, Lisa Nicholson, Claudia Hardy, Ashleigh Kennedy, Georgia<br />
Kennedy, Siena Townley and Kerry Nelson for U15 County Cricket,<br />
Bradley Earl for U13 County Cricket and Lauren Hackett, Ashleigh<br />
Kennedy, Claudia Hardy and Lisa Nicholson for U16 County Football.<br />
Gifted and Talented Workshops<br />
Once again this summer term we have been able to offer a series of<br />
practical sessions for selected small groups of students.<br />
The sessions are organised as part of the<br />
South Lakes <strong>School</strong><br />
Sports Partnership so that able students from across the South Lakes can<br />
come together for practical activity. In recent weeks both the Year 7 and<br />
Year 8 groups have taken part in multi-skills competitions designed to test<br />
levels of speed, agility and power. The Year 7 girls’ team especially<br />
produced some excellent results to bring home the winners’ medals! The<br />
Year 9 students followed a slightly different format with sport specific<br />
advanced skills workshops allowing them to participate in their specialist<br />
activities. Across these workshops 20 of our students benefited from the<br />
experience of working with top coaches and other able performers in their<br />
chosen field.<br />
BTEC Sport and Outdoor Education –<br />
Mountain Walking Expedition<br />
This year’s BTEC expedition (photos right) was once again successful, with<br />
all students completing the two-day walk and overnight camp at Mosedale<br />
Cottage.<br />
With the added challenges of night navigation and chocolate<br />
orienteering the students all did exceptionally well and seemed to have lots<br />
of fun along the way!<br />
South Lakes District Athletics Competition<br />
For this year’s District competition we took 28 students down to Blackpool<br />
to compete against some of the best students from across the South Lakes.<br />
In a very tough field our guys performed strongly and came away with<br />
some of our best ever individual results.<br />
Y11 Dan Harrop 100m 11.56 secs 2nd in final<br />
200m 24.43 secs 1st in final<br />
Y10 Lisa Nicholson Javelin 25.28 metres 2nd in final<br />
Corrie Morris 100m 14.98 secs 6th in final<br />
Sarah Burrow High Jump 1.22 metres 5th in final<br />
Keir Loudon 100m 12.57 secs 4th in final<br />
Callum Blaikie High Jump 1.80 metres 1st in final<br />
Darren Braithwaite High Jump 1.63 metres 2nd in final<br />
Jake Gill High Jump 1.49 metres 3rd in final<br />
Richard Corrie Long Jump 4.85 metres 3rd in final<br />
Jack Leader Discus 22.16 metres 2nd in final<br />
Y9 Robbie Ingram 400m 60.51 secs 2nd in final<br />
800m 2 mins 16 secs 1st in final<br />
Long Jump 4.28 metres 4th in final<br />
Rory Blakeney-Edwards 200m 26.47 secs 1st in final<br />
400m 59.25 secs 1st in final<br />
Tom Hartley 1500m 4 mins 54 secs 2nd in final<br />
Nathan Holme Discus 23.36 metres 1st in final<br />
Chesney Walling Javelin 25.76 metres 4th in final<br />
James Renwick Javelin 20.15 metres 9th in final<br />
Samuel Hall 100m 14.80 secs 8th in final<br />
Zoe Barrett 100m 14.50 secs 5th in final<br />
Megan Sullivan 800m 2 mins 46 secs 2nd in final<br />
Molly Atkinson Javelin 20.90 metres 1st in final<br />
Joelle Campbell High Jump 1.46 metres 1st in final<br />
Long Jump 4.57 metres 1st in final<br />
Y8 Jessica Hodsman 200m 29.09 secs 3rd in final<br />
75m Hurdles 13.35 secs 2nd in final<br />
Long Jump 4.40 metres 3rd in final<br />
Katie King 800m 2 mins 47 secs 3rd in final<br />
Long Jump 3.98 metres 6th in final<br />
Rachel Camp 100m 16.21 secs 6th in heat<br />
Lindsay McLean 800m 2 mins 52 secs 7th in final<br />
Fae Bellouere High Jump No result<br />
Caitlin Postlewaite Javelin 9.82 metres 10thin final<br />
Zarah Dixon Shot Putt 5.80 metres 11th in final<br />
Following on from this event, 19 students were asked to represent the<br />
South Lakes at the County Championships later this month. Megan<br />
Sullivan, Katie King, Jessica Hodsman, Joelle Campbell, Lisa Nicholson,<br />
Rory Blakeney-Edwards, Robbie Ingham, Tom Hartley, Nathan Holme,<br />
Chesney Walling, Daniel Harrop, Callum Blaikie and Richard Corrie will<br />
be The <strong>Queen</strong> <strong>Katherine</strong> <strong>School</strong> representatives for the competition in<br />
Carlisle.<br />
Team Results<br />
Y7 Boys Cricket v Kirkbie Kendal Won (134/2 with<br />
KK all out for 40)<br />
Y7 Boys Cricket v Lakes Lost (by 13 runs)<br />
Y7 Boys Cricket v Sedbergh<br />
(County Cup 1st round) Lost (by 5 runs)<br />
Y9 Boys Cricket v <strong>Queen</strong> Elizabeth<br />
(County Cup 3rd round) Lost (by 50 runs)<br />
Y10 Boys Cricket v Ullswater Lost (by 1 wicket)<br />
Y11 Girls Rounders v Kirkbie Kendal Lost 9½ – 11½<br />
Y8 Girls Rounders v Kirkbie Kendal Won 13 – 12<br />
Y8 Girls Rounders v Kirkbie Kendal Lost 9 – 17<br />
Y7 Girls Rounders v Cartmel Priory Won 16½ – 9<br />
Y8 Girls Rounders v Cartmel Priory Won 17½ – 5½<br />
Y9 Girls Rounders v Cartmel Priory Won 13 – 10½<br />
Y10 Girls Rounders v Cartmel Priory Lost 14 – 20½
Adult Education Courses in and around Kendal – Autumn 2009<br />
Code Subject Tutor Wks Day Start Times A B C<br />
Art & Craft<br />
KEN9075 Pencil, Pen & Pastel for Beginners James Devaney 5 Thu 17.09.09 10:00-12:00 *£28 *£23 *£7<br />
KEN9076 Pencil, Pen & Pastel, Beginner Plus James Devaney 6 Thu 05.11.09 10:00-12:00 £34 £27 £9<br />
KEN9019 Drawing with Colour James Devaney 1 Sat 31.10.09 10:00-16:00 *£28 *£23 *£7<br />
KEN9056 Making Beaded Jewellery Rachel Hearne 5 Wed 16.09.09 19:00-21:00 £28 £23 £7<br />
KEN9057 Making Wrapped Wire Jewellery Rachel Hearne 5 Wed 11.11.09 19:00-21:00 £28 £23 £7<br />
KEN9054 Stitch and Felt Angela Barrow 1 Sat 28.11.09 10:00-16:00 *£28 *£23 *£7<br />
KEN9055 Making Your Own Clothes Sue Scott 13 Wed 16.09.09 19:00-21:00 £73 £59 £19<br />
KEN9053 Sewing Easy Christmas Gifts Sue Scott 6 Mon 02.11.09 19:00-21:00 £34 £27 £9<br />
KEN9096 Have a Crafty Christmas Sue Oliver 6 Tue 03.11.09 19:00-21:00 £34 £27 £9<br />
Computing & Digital Photography<br />
KEN9014 Computer Basics Anita Crompton 2 Wed 16.09.09 19:00-21:30 £16 £13 £5<br />
KEN9048 Beginner's Internet & Email Anita Crompton 10 Wed 30.09.09 19:00-21:30 £70 £56 £18<br />
KEN9067 Intro to using Spreadsheets Chris Wood 4 Mon 28.09.09 19:00-21:30 £5 £5 £5<br />
KEN9068 Using Databases Chris Wood 5 Mon 02.11.09 19:00-21:30 £35 £28 £9<br />
KEN9104 Developing your Computer Skills Anita Crompton 10 Tue 22.09.09 19:00-21:30 £70 £56 £18<br />
KEN9105 NOCN Level 1 Award in ICT Anita Crompton 22 Tue 22.09.09 19:00-21:30 *£149 *£149 *£45<br />
KEN9018 ECDL Debbie Robinson 34 Mon 14.09.09 18:30-21:30 *£249 *£249 *£55<br />
KEN9107 Digital Cameras & Image Editing Pam Grant 6 Tue 29.09.09 19:00-21:00 £34 £27 £9<br />
KEN9108 Adobe Photoshop Made Easy Pam Grant 5 Tue 17.11.09 19:00-21:00 £28 £23 £7<br />
Cookery & Exercise<br />
KEN9006 Vegetarian Oriental Cookery Rachel Storry 5 Wed 23.09.09 19:15-21:15 £28 £23 £7<br />
KEN9038 Vegetarian Indian Cookery Rachel Storry 5 Wed 04.11.09 19:15-21:15 £28 £23 £7<br />
KEN9087 Yoga in Natland Tracy Fogg 12 Thu 17.09.09 19:00-20:30 £51 £41 £13<br />
KEN9040 Chakra Yoga Workshop Deyna Hirst 2 Sat 14.11.09 10:00-16:00 £42 £34 £11<br />
Employment & Family<br />
KEN9058 Resolving Problems in the Family David Walton Tbc £5 £5 £5<br />
KEN9088 Get That Job! Impress at Interviews David Walton 2 Sat 26.09.09 10:00-16:00 £5 £5 £5<br />
KEN9062 Thinking About Your Finances Moira Hanning 4 Wed 23.09.09 19:00-21:00 £23 £18 £6<br />
KEN9063 Planning & Managing Your Finances Moira Hanning 10 Wed 04.11.09 19:00-21:00 £56 £45 £14<br />
KEN9101 How to Help Your Child with Maths Rachel Storry 5 Wed 23.09.09 17:00-19:00 £28 £23 £7<br />
Languages<br />
KEN9008 Latin for Beginners Celia Forsyth 12 Tue 15.09.09 19:00-20:30 £51 £41 £13<br />
KEN9033 German Beginners Nela Geuer 12 Tue 15.09.09 10:00-11:30 £51 £41 £13<br />
KEN9034 German Beginners Katrin Hertel 10 Tue 15.09.09 19:00-20:30 £42 £34 £11<br />
KEN9090 Italian Beginners Amanda Rose 10 Wed 23.09.09 10:00-12:00 £56 £45 £14<br />
KEN9022 French Beginners Roger Newsome 12 Mon 21.09.09 19:00-21:00 £68 £54 £17<br />
KEN9007 French Beginner Plus Florence Tourne 12 Mon 14.09.09 19:00-21:00 £68 £54 £17<br />
KEN9023 French Improvers Roger Cleave 12 Thu 17.09.09 19:00-21:00 £68 £54 £17<br />
KEN9016 Spanish Beginners Pilar Valera 11 Thu 24.09.09 19:30-21:00 £47 £38 £12<br />
KEN9009 Spanish Beginner Plus Pilar Valera 13 Tue 15.09.09 19:30-21:00 £56 £45 £14<br />
Science, History, Literature & Music<br />
KEN9080 Geology & Mineralogy of Cumbria Chris Lane 10 Tue 22.09.09 13:30-15:30 £56 £45 £14<br />
KEN9083 People. How We Behave & Change David Walton 10 Tue 22.09.09 19:00-21:30 £70 £56 £18<br />
KEN9036 Find Your Family History Online Anita Crompton 4 Mon 28.09.09 19:00-21:00 £23 £18 £6<br />
KEN9081<br />
History & Development of<br />
Decorative Art Chris Lane 10 Mon 21.09.09 19:00-21:00 £56 £45 £14<br />
KEN9082 History of Still Photography Pam Grant 5 Mon 21.09.09 19:00-21:00 £28 £23 £7<br />
KEN9071 Capturing Nature in Poetry Janni Howker 12 Thu 17.09.09 13:30-15:30 £68 £54 £17<br />
KEN9106 Two Golden Ages of English Music Elizabeth Dodd 10 Mon 28.09.09 19:00-21:00 £56 £45 £14<br />
Outdoor Skills<br />
KEN9077<br />
Beginners Map Reading &<br />
Navigation Chris Lane 5 Wed 23.09.09 19:00-21:00 £28 £23 £7<br />
KEN9078 Mountain Safety & Navigation Chris Lane 2 Sat 07.11.09 10:00-16:00 *£42 *£34 *£11<br />
SED9102 Farming & the Fells - 3 Farm Visits Tbc 3 Sat Tbc 09:00-13:00 £34 £34 £34<br />
SED9085 Dry Stone Walling Tbc 2 Sat 26.09.09 09:00-16:00 *£79 *£79 *£79<br />
SED9086 Dry Stone Walling Tbc 2 Sat 17.10.09 09:00-16:00 *£79 *£79 *£79<br />
SED9100<br />
Coppicing for Firewood &<br />
Other Uses Rebecca Oaks 2 Sat 31.10.09 09:30-15:30 *£74 *£74 *£74<br />
Information<br />
These courses are<br />
organised by Sedbergh CDC<br />
in partnership with QKS. In<br />
addition to the classes<br />
shown here we have wide<br />
selection in Sedbergh and<br />
Kirkby Lonsdale. Look out<br />
for our full colour brochure in<br />
early August. Our website<br />
www.sedberghcdc.org.uk<br />
will also be updated to show<br />
full course details.<br />
All Adult Education courses<br />
in the county will be listed in<br />
the August edition of “Your<br />
Cumbria” which will be<br />
delivered to you in late<br />
August.<br />
Enrolment<br />
Evening<br />
Wednesday 9 th<br />
September, QKS<br />
5 – 8pm<br />
Payment<br />
Please send the appropriate payment by cheque<br />
payable to Cumbria County Council. Include one<br />
£2 annual centre fee per person unless one of<br />
your bookings is marked *.<br />
Fee A: Full Adult Fee, B: Over 60 on 1 st September,<br />
working less than 16 hours per week, C: Qualifying<br />
Benefits or aged 16-18<br />
Sedbergh CDC<br />
The Cottage, Long Lane<br />
Sedbergh, LA10 5AL<br />
015396 21031<br />
admin@sedberghcdc.org.uk<br />
www.sedberghcdc.org.uk