Onwards - July 2012 - South Wilts Grammar School for Girls

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ONWARDS The Arts Festival Poetry Competition 2012 – The Olympic Dream Year 8 students were invited to enter a poetry competition as part of the Arts Festival. It was designed to give students the opportunity to think and write about the Olympics and to use their creative skills. Prizes and certificates were awarded and the short-listed poems were published in an anthology given out during the festival. Well done to all the students who entered, and special congratulations to Lucy Street, Laura Coakley and Bethany Puzio, for their truly outstanding poems. Themed around “The Olympic Dream”, these poems explore the determination, aspiration, pride and pressure involved in participating in the Olympic Games. All the poems entered are available for everyone to read on the English area of the school VLE in the ‘Best of the Best’ section and in book form in the Learning Resource Centre. (Mrs Coundley) Congratulations! Rachel Abbott has recently graduated from Bristol University with a 2:1 Honours Degree in Music and Victoria Clarke with a First Class Honours degree from Leeds University. (Mrs Poppleton) Chamber Orchestra On 12th July we very much enjoyed an informal concert of beautiful music given by the Chamber Orchestra and held in the Music Department. The orchestra, under the direction of Mr Parsons, played exquisitely with great style and verve. The members have had a very happy and hugely successful year, and wished to play together for a final short concert before several of their number left to begin their university courses in the Autumn. (Mrs Poppleton) Year 7 Concerts Each form in Year 7 is ending the term with a lunchtime concert, which they will have organised and advertised themselves. They have risen to the challenge and prepared very enjoyable and varied programmes. We are very impressed by both their bubbling enthusiasm and their great musical talent. Pro Corda National Chamber Music Festival Prizewinners’ Concert On Sunday 15th July 2012, I performed at Wigmore Hall. Getting to this stage was a combination of teamwork, a lot of practice and determination. I am playing as part of a violin trio, and we have been playing together for almost a year now. Our trio won the U16 section of the Pro Corda National Chamber Festival for Schools. The first round was at Guildhall School of Music and Drama, the music school I attend every Saturday in London. We played to two of the most senior people at Pro Corda, and it was almost like a workshop so that they could see how we responded as a group to coaching. In the second round we played to the head of Pro Corda, Andrew Quartermain. All went according to plan and we learned a couple of days afterwards that we had got through to the finals. Suddenly, we found ourselves heading up to Kent to Sevenoaks School for the finals. We performed to a panel of judges on a huge stage at Sevenoaks. This was the most important performance so far. Later that day, I got a call from one of my trio members screaming down the phone that we were playing at Wigmore Hall! The Prize-winners concert was on Sunday 15th July 2012 at 6:00pm we all enjoyed the experience. (Anita Monserrat 9A) 16
ONWARDS Netball 6 girls attended U14 and U16 satellite netball trials for talented performers this term. Well done to Sophie Waddington, Emma Vaughan, Izzy Dickson, Imogen Kunzer, Phoebe Wing and Hannah Pickup for being nominated based upon their excellent play for the school this year. Congratulations to Hannah Pickup on being successful - she will be attending the academy from September and good luck to Sophie who will be going back for further assessment. (Miss Weir) Year 8 Helen Forrest Congratulations to Helen Forrest who won the U15 girls Long Jump for the Air Cadets and also came 3 rd in the Dorset and Wiltshire wing. School District Athletics The following girls successfully qualified for the Schools District Athletics Cup, representing the Salisbury Area. On a very cold and blustery Saturday the girls performed brilliantly: (results below) Athletics Lizzie Clifford (Year 11) throughout February participated in two major Indoor Athletics events. At the Birmingham Indoor National Arena she competed in the 300m and was placed 4 th in the final. In the 60m Hurdles, Lizzie was placed 1 st resulting in her becoming the Midland and South West Champion. Later in the month, again at the BINA, she was placed 5 th in the semi-final of the National Indoor Championships resulting in a UK ranking of 16. Lizzie was also selected to participate in the school games held at the new Olympic Stadium where she gained a Silver Medal in the 300m Hurdles and therefore placed 2 nd in the UK! An outstanding achievement. In the Outdoor season, Lizzie qualified for the Finals of the Aviva ESSA Track and Field Championships: one of the highest competitions in the country, in which she was 2 nd in her heat qualifying for the final and being placed an overall 4 th . Well done Lizzie and good luck in the English Championships in Bedford in August. (Miss Marsh) Year 12 Ellie Ingram 1 st in Javelin & qualified for South West representing Wiltshire Year 11 Lizzie Clifford 1 st in the 300m Hurdles & qualified for South West representing Wiltshire Year 11 Harriet Dawson 5 th in the 200m Year 10 Anna Barnes 4 th in the High Jump Year 10 Sophie Kalik 3 rd in the 1500m Year 10 Imogen Kunzer 3 rd in the 300m Year 10 Clover Crosse 6 th in the Javelin Year 9 Alice Smith 4 th in the 100m Year 9 Year 9 Becky 4 th in the 200m Perriment Georgie Holman 5 th in the Hurdles Year 9 Hannah 2 nd in the Javelin & qualified for South West representing Richards Wiltshire Year 7 Rachel Herring 2 nd in the 200m Year 7 Anna Tuck 6 th in the 800m Year 7 Harriet Legg 3 rd in the High Jump Year 7 Tara King 4 th in the Long Jump 17
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