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ONWARDS School Charities Children’s Chance (Mayor’s Appeal) and the Children’s Society The Spring term has been yet another success in terms of fundraising. At the end of term 3 a cake sale run by 7B raised £78. A fantastic group effort within this form resulted in a range of delicious cakes and biscuits that were enjoyed by the whole school. Term 4 was kick-started by a very successful fashion show organised by the year 12 charity prefects, involving students as models and clothes from several Salisbury shops, including Mistral, Kew, Anokhi, East, Fat Face and Next. This was a wonderful event which raised just over £1000 and you may have seen the article/pictures in the Salisbury Journal. This was followed soon after by 7A’s inventive ‘duck event’: students bought plastic ducks and personalised them over the holidays’ These ducks were then entered into a competition, with entries including ‘Duck Whittington’, ‘Duck of the North’ and the winning ‘punk duck’! 9B held a “B fair” with various stalls on 19th March and, following in this trend, 7E and 7N ran an Easter fair on March 25th. 11A held a staff versus staff netball match and there have been a couple of successful raffles. 6th formers will be running the usual end of term cake sale, which is always a big hit with both pupils and teachers. (Mrs Tallis) Charity Events The Y13 charity prefects and a group of six 6th formers took part in the annual Alabaré sleep out in the Cathedral cloisters on 26th February, an event run by a Christian charity that supports homeless people throughout Wiltshire. This was a brilliant event, and it was fantastic to join with other church groups and individuals to raise money for such a worthy cause. Although it was damp and there was a general lack of sleep, spirits were still high. Christabell Pidduck in 11E made an incredible individual effort to raise money for the Haiti earthquake appeal, raising £250 by selling handmade bookmarks and badges. Further money was raised for Haiti when the senior charity prefects collected spare change from all year groups, collecting just over £150. A group of sixth formers put on an excellent production of “The Importance of Being Earnest” and contributed profits to Help for Heroes. Finally good luck to the Year 13 pupils who will be abseiling down the front of the Wiltshire College, Salisbury in aid of EdUKaid on 31st March and to the Year 9 pupils who will be acting as “teddy medics” at the teddy parachuting event for the STARS Appeal on Saturday 24th April. We would like to say a big thank you to everyone who has run or supported an event this term. Those tutor groups who have not yet reached their charity target should be thinking about what they can do next term. (Year 13 Charity Prefects) Salter’s Festival of Chemistry Another star team of four Year 8 students took part in the Salter’s Festival of Chemistry at Southampton University on 24th March. During the day their observational and practical skills were tested as they carried out chemical tests to solve a murder mystery. All four enjoyed working in the University Chemistry lab with undergraduate students to help them. The bonus was winning second prize in one of the challenges, Well done, Polly, Esther, Emily and Kellie. (Mrs Wrighton) 2
ONWARDS British Physics Olympiad 2010 The British Physics Olympiad is a competition designed to test understanding of the physics syllabus in an interesting and challenging way and select a team of five to represent the U.K. in the International Physics Olympiad. Our A2 physics class all had the opportunity to take the first paper and Miranda Kent and I did sufficiently well to take the second round paper, something which we were pleased about until we realised that it was a three hour exam! We both gained gold certificates in the second round and were two of fifty students invited to take part in the third round of the competition (another three hour exam!). We have also recently gained gold certificates in the UKMT Senior Maths Challenge and hope to continue our interest in physics and maths next year, when Miranda intends to study physics and I hope to study maths at university. (Jocasta Patel 6PJW) British Biology Olympiad 2010 Congratulations to the Year 13 biologists who took part in this year’s competition. Many schools compete and each school is able to enter ten students. We were delighted to discover that several girls featured amongst the medal winners. Katie Davies was invited to take the second exam paper indicating that her result for the first paper placed her amongst the top forty students in the country. Well done to all the girls. (Mrs Wilkes) Gold Medal - Silver Medal - Bronze Medal - Highly Commended - Commended - Katie Davies Charlotte Little Mei Ling Henry & Mary Price Rachel Beagrie, Sarah Brown, Louise Cooke & Hannah Grayer Rose Adams Science Day On March 18th, to celebrate National Science and Engineering week, all our year 10 students took part in our annual Science day. Students enjoyed a range of activities run by real scientists from companies such as Qinetiq, DSTL, and HPA. Margaret Clayton ran a session looking at Kinetic Theory and scientists from Southampton University demonstrated a high powered laser. We also had the Explorer Dome set up in the small hall: students crawl inside and different constellations are then projected on to the inside of the domed tent. A new activity this year was Meet the Scientists Speed Dating. Groups of 3 or 4 students had five minutes to interview a scientist and find out as much about their background, job, training and reasons for becoming a scientist as they could, before moving on to the next. The feedback from the day was extremely positive and we hope to be able to offer this fantastic opportunity to Year 10 students next year. (Mr Jones) 3
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