Onwards - July 2012 - South Wilts Grammar School for Girls

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ONWARDS Year 8 Challenge Day On the last Thursday of term, the girls from Year 8 were involved in The Challenge Day. This involved them working in teams from their new tutor groups to undertake a variety of crosscurricular challenges. The girls were able to pick from a selection of activities that allowed them to play to their strengths, be they creative, physical or mathematical. In the Engineering challenge teams worked innovatively to build vehicles from cds, cotton reels and elastic bands. The winning team managing to create a machine that covered a distance of 6 metres! In Maths, the girls worked with 6th form students to crack a challenging crossnumber and produced some impressively high scores. Imagination and focus were needed for the Archaeology challenge in which the girls had to decide where to dig and how to budget their investigation as well as interpret their finds. Potions and Bunsens galore were in use in the Sherlock Holmes Chemistry sessions as the girls deduced the identity of elements from various chemical tests. They also produced an iodine clock that could time to the nearest second! In the Classics challenge, presentation skills were key as they battled it out in a bidding war to save their site of classical importance. The Languages task was a monster jigsaw puzzle built up using translations of French and German. The competition really heated up in the Computing session as teams solved binary puzzles to reveal QR codes and raced across the room to scan them in and score their points. The competition really bubbled over in the Physical Endurance session as every team member fought for form glory! All of the points scored throughout the day by the teams were added together and displayed on the screen in reception. Mrs King was entertained all day by the continuous stream of Year 8 who were eager to see where they ranked. The team scores were combined to produce an overall score for the form group. These points were turned into precious seconds for the final challenges. The enthusiasm with which all of the girls took on the tasks was commendable and we were proud of how hard they worked so late on in such a busy term. The champion form to be announced…(Mrs Brown) 14
ONWARDS Midsummer Night’s Dream Final performance of A Midsummer Night’s Dream now done and we were all wiping away the remnants of the stage make-up. Everyone was crying and laughing at the same time, but it was an especially special performance as it will be the last one with our wonderful director, Mrs McLannahan. We will miss her so much it is unbelievable, but we wish her all the best! The whole cast and crew had a great time and we couldn't have done it without every single person who took part! Thank you everyone who watched, acted or worked back stage. Thanks to our light and sound techies and our amazing orchestra and composer. Also, thanks to everyone else who did anything to support the production and make it a success. Glitter is still glimmering on the stage, reminding us that even though the show is over, we will remember it for years to come. (Natasha White 9W) Year 8 Arts Festival - The Legend of Callipateira After the auditions for this musical, set at the ancient Olympics, the pupils started to learn their words and rehearse their parts. All the pupils taking part gathered together and practised to produce a fantastic performance. The actors, the dancers, the singers and the narrators all put 100% effort into creating this show, making it a complete success. As the performance drew closer, pupils who weren’t performing on the stage took up the roles which would add the finishing and important touches to the show. There was set painting, mask masking, programme writing and the very important backstage crew who controlled the lighting and set the performers up with their microphones. Along with the performance, every pupil was given the chance to go to a Classics workshop and to enter the Olympic Poetry competition and the results were given out at the end of the performance. We would love to thank Mrs Timperley for her hard work for making this Arts Festival happen. (Alex Collyer and Rachel Lang Year 8) This year’s school production was A Midsummer Night’s Dream, which took place on the 3rd, 4th and 5th July. It saw girls from right across the school take part as well as Bishop Wordsworth boys. The three evenings were a great success and fantastic fun! I would like to thank all the staff and students who helped to make the show a success. Their hard work and commitment really paid off and it was even commented how professional the show was. I am very proud of you all and thank you for making this a magical last production for 15
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