Summer 2012 Newsletter - St. Marylebone CE School

Every year, our top students take part in the UK Mathematics Trust
Individual Challenge. These involve 25 maths based problem solving
questions. The results are in for the Junior Challenge (Years 7 and 8)
where 37 of our students received awards.
Particular congratulations go to Anglela Sun (Year 8) for getting the
highest marks in her year group. Further to this, Kira Miller (Year 7)
received the highest mark overall. Well done girls!
Engineering at St Marylebone
The beginning of May saw the completion of the Engineering Education Scheme, with all of the teams
from London schools attending the Celebration and Assessment Day at Halcrow in Hammersmith. Our
Marylebone team submitted their report, delivered their presentation, and showed off their display stand to
the assessors and other engineers.
After six months of working after school every week, the team were rewarded with excellent feedback on
their project about designing a dam in Burkina Faso. They gained especially high praise about their
presentation and were rewarded with the highest mark for their presentation across the London schools.
The students have also been awarded with the British Science Association Gold Crest Award, recognising
that the students did over 100 hours work on this project. This achievement is equivalent to achieving an A
at AS Level.
Our team must be congratulated on their achievement this year. They have
gained many new skills throughout the course of this project and will take it
through to University and beyond.
A video featuring St Marylebone School’s Team can be found on the school
website at http://intranet.stmarylebone.westminster.sch.uk/community/
news.htm
10 members of Year 7 and 8 had the opportunity to represent St Marylebone School at a both enjoyable
and educational workshop at Queen Mary’s University, to experience a day of engineering. When we first
got there, we didn’t really see engineering as a job, but just something you do when your car breaks
down! But a lecturer came to talk to us about his research, and how important engineering is every day.
We then went on to the first workshop, a parachute building one! We were all in teams and we had to
build a parachute out of bin liner, string, and sellotape, but we had very strict rules. We had to protect a
cup of rice as it landed without spilling any. We then launched our parachute. Both our teams did well
and managed to protect the rice and landed it as close as possible to the target.
After lunch we had an amazing tour of the entire University, where we got to see the library and shops
and even where the students live. It’s like a little village that has everything! Finally we had the bridge
building workshop which was similar to the parachute one. We had to build out of straws that would hold
as much weight as possible until they broke. Overall, it was an inspiring, educational trip that I would
recommend any one who has the chance to go…to go!
Luma Abbas Year 7