Summer 2012 Newsletter - St. Marylebone CE School

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After our successful deployment of the St Marylebone Video project last year, we secured funding to run the same project again this year. It was suggested that we run the project with just two schools this year, chosen as St. Luke’s Primary and St. Barnabas Primary School. Miss Parkes and Miss Shaikh decided to hold two insets at each of the primary schools, teaching them how to use the camcorders and video editing techniques. This was to enable the school to have more ownership of the project and the ability to train other staff in the school. Additionally, the project gained further support from the Year 9 ICT scholars who visited the schools to help with filming. At the end of the project both schools taking part in the project were invited to an afternoon in the St Marylebone School Theatre where their work was shown on the big screen. The students were also each given a DVD of their work. After evaluating the project with both the teachers and students it was evident that it was successful and the skills learnt will be used again in the future by the schools - some of the students even commented on how they would help their parents make DVDs of holidays and use their new skills in after school clubs so the project will truly have a lasting impact. Church Choir Lilly Tyler and Mimosa Canneti Stephen Lawrence was a black British teenager from Eltham, south east London, who was murdered in a racist attack while waiting for a bus on the evening of 22 April 1993. A gang of white youths attacked Stephen chanting racist slogans. This term, St Marylebone School Church Choir were invited to sing at a special memorial service for Stephen Lawrence. We were so proud to have the opportunity to sing at the Stephen Lawrence memorial service. We were all very respectful and understanding to the family members and friends of Stephen Lawrence. Whilst everyone entered the church, we sang a selection of songs from "A Little Jazz Mass" by Bob Chilcott. During the service we sang a South African arrangement of "Instruments of Peace". Family members and friends of Stephen Lawrence smiled at us singing and seemed to enjoy it very well. When the service began, Stephen's brother did a speech followed by a couple of other relatives. At the end of the service, we all put our hands together for a prayer about Stephen and any other young children that might have experienced the same death as Stephen. It was an event we will always remember. “Your voices were uplifting and brought warmth. Thank you for taking the time to support Stephen’s Memorial Service. Your attendance at the service made it very special.” Doreen Lawrence
Day Of Games Fifteen Year 9 students have been working with College Park students and practitioners from the Graeae Theatre Company on the ‘Day of Games’ project across six sessions this term. The project aimed to create five different accessible games (one from each school taking part in the project) which could then be played against other schools at the Day of Games event which took place on 10th July. The event included an opening ceremony, at which the students performed a piece of movement theatre work based on the Jubilee line (!) and sang a school anthem which had been specially composed for the event as part of the project. The St Marylebone game was an accessible version of ‘Wink Murder’ which had been cleverly adapted to use touch rather than sight for the ‘murders’ and gave additional support to the detective. Points were awarded for the most creative ‘death’ and for correctly guessing who was acting as the murderer. The girls took part in the Day of Games, competing in the newly created games for medals which were awarded in a medal ceremony at the close of the day. As you can see from the pictures, St Marylebone students did very well and were awarded a variety of medals! Exam Results Last term a number of students were entered for external instrumental exams. Everyone worked really hard in the lead up to the exam and their dedication paid off with some impressive results. Congratulations to all the students named below who all passed their instrumental exams! JEHAN AKHTAR KATHLEEN CRANHAM ISABELLA DI STEFANO LILY DOUGLAS ZUZANNA GRZESKIEWICZ JESSICA HARE ROSIE HUBBARD ALICIA LAI JOVANA PEPIC FAZANA RATTA ALISHA WALTERS GENEVIEVE WILLIAMS SERENA YAGOUB
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