INSIDE THIS EXCITING ISSUE: - The TES

Public Services Course
Off To The Lake District
Thanks to extremely generous sponsorship from the Challenger Trust,
forty Public Service students from years 10, 12, and 13 will spend a week
in the Ennerdale valley of the Lake District doing a variety of outdoor and
adventurous activities this June.
Amongst other things they will conduct an overnight camping expedition,
rock climbing, gorge walking, canoeing, and conservation tasks.
The pupils will be given a budget to plan and buy their own food which they
then have to cook over the course of the week. As a result of the £7,500
sponsorship pupils have been offered this course for just £30 a person.
Library News
The Library has continued to be very busy this year.
Every Tuesday and Thursday during tutor period we have a group of volunteers
from Deutsche Bank who come along to help students with reading and maths.
Gemma Williams and I have run Lego Club during lunchtime on Tuesdays and
this has proved to be very popular with a number of students. It is a time when
the boys just sit and chat with each other while they create all sorts of amazing
structures.
During Wednesday lunchtimes Mr Dowe, one of the science teachers has been
coming to the Library to help with Chess Club. Lots of boys come along every
Wednesday to play chess and they love to challenge Mr Dowe to a game.
On Friday lunchtimes Miss Waheed and I have a reading club for some Year 7
& 8 students. The boys can read fiction or non-fiction and once they have read
their book they write reviews for us.
Here are a few photos taken during different sessions held in the Library.
Lesley Petersen – (Librarian)
Lordswood Boys’ School in
Harborne picked to have a
special Olympic oak tree
A Birmingham School Has
Planted A Special Oak Tree
To Mark The London 2012
Olympics
Staff and pupils at Lordswood Boys’ School and Sixth Form Centre in Harborne
planted the “Coubertin Oak”.
It is one of 40 being put in the ground to form a “ribbon” between Much
Wenlock in Shropshire and the Olympic Park in east London. The trees have
been grown from acorns taken from a tree planted in a field in Much Wenlock
in 1890 in honour of Pierre de Coubertin, the founder of the modern Olympic
movement.
In 2004, in anticipation of London winning the bid to host the 2012 games, the
acorns were gathered and planted. They were transferred to the Royal Botanic
Gardens in Kew where professionals have overseen their growth and prepared
them for planting. Forty schools and colleges along a route across the country
have been chosen to have one of the trees.
Article from Birmingham Mail - May 2012
Planting Of An Olympic
Courbetin Oak Tree
In recognition of its international work connected to the 2012 London
Olympics the school was chosen as a secondary school site for the planting
of one of the oak trees grown from acorns taken from an oak planted in 1890
during the Wenlock Olympian Games organised for the visit of the future
founder of the modern Olympic movement, Pierre de Coubertin. 40 oaks have
been planted in a ‘ribbon’ between William Brookes School in Much Wenlock
and the Olympic Park.
To honour our planting the Lord Mayor of Birmingham, Councillor Anita Ward,
and Sir Adrian Cadbury attended a ceremony on 19 April and filled in the
first soil. Sir Adrian represented Great Britian in rowing at the 1952 Helsinki
Olympic Games.
Farewell To Clive
Clive Humphries, Head of Sixth Form and Olympia House will be leaving
Lordswood Boys at the end of the academic year. He has served the school
as a teacher for over 30 years (it’s hard to find an accurate figure) and also
attended the school as a student, starting his secondary education on the
5th September 1967. He will be greatly missed by all the students and staff
at Lordswood.
“During my first year at Lordswood
Boys’ School Mr Humphries taught
me. I thought he was an amazing
teacher. I also found that he had
a great sense of humour, for the 6
years I have been here he still hasn’t
lost it. He will be missed.”
Aaron Bhurji, Yr 13 Student.
Lordswood GIRLS’ FIRST
FLYING EXPERIENCE
Recently 5 Lordswood Girls’ School students were given the opportunity to try
and air experience flight at R.A.F Cosford. The 15 students ( 5 girls and 10 boys)
were given the opportunity to fly a Grob Tutor 115E .
Before the flight everyone was kitted out with the “stylish” flight suits!
Everyone was shown the health and safety video, where they were shown how
to exit the plane while in flight—in case of an emergency! In the flight a lucky
few were given the chance to try out aerobatics such as a loop, a half cuben
and a barrel roll!
Some were even given the chance to take control of the aircraft while in
flight. To round it all off, a trip to the R.A.F museum followed their amazing
experience !
Phoebe Harris
A Grob Tutor in flight !
On March 21st 2012 five students from Lordswood Girls’ School and ten
students from Lordswood Boys’ School had a brilliant opportunity to fly with
RAF Cosford tutors.
As we arrived at RAF Cosford we were shown a detailed twelve minute tutorial
about health and safety and, in case of emergency an evacuation from the
Grob Tutor 115E. We put our teachings from the video into practice with a
prop Parachute bag.
We were then geared up with the ‘latest’ flying overalls and ballroom white
gloves...We patiently waited as the Grob Tutors were being prepared for our
arrival. To pass the time we visited the exclusive RAF Cosford museum full of
famous planes and their development through time and air.
The Grob Tutors were finally ready. Here we go...
One of the students has explained her experience, ‘It was a great opportunity,
where I got the experience to take control of the plane and perform aerobatics.
I would recommend this exhilarating experience to everyone.’
We all got to learn so many things and we hope to develop our skills and
knowledge in the near future.
Alisha and Sakina
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