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1 st place Sarah Hunt 10KResults including appearance points6 th Britten, Lawes5 th Ryder4 th Hepworth3rd Austen2 nd Newton1 st KingStill to be added are the House points for the Form Room decoration completion, as tutor groups constructChristmas Trees, Father Christmases, and festive up their form rooms. Final House totals for this term will beannounced in final assembly. Also awarded in final assembly will be the Merit Mark Cup, which will be awarded tothe House that has been awarded the highest number of Merits, Ace Cards and Head’s CommendationsRemember you are rewarded for taking part; it isn’t just about coming first, second or third!Mr Higgins, Mr Evans, Mrs Ponte, Ms Montgomery, Mrs Crowder, Mr Thompson, Mr RobinsART FACULTY NEWSAs we reach the end of the autumn term Y11 GCSE Art and Textiles students are in the final hours of their mockexams, bringing to completion some exciting pieces of animation, painting, printing, sculpture and textile work. Y10are now working on Art and Textile pieces with everything from a Dalek portrait to a life size figure made of shoes.Sixth form students are working hard to complete their second piece of coursework in Art, Graphics, Photographyand Textiles, again with mixed media portraits, life size joiner photograph portraits, illustrated childrens’ books andan enormous fabric lion mask . The completion date for all this work is the end of January so that our A Level andAS students can start their actual exams in February. As always the standard is high with students developingaccomplished and highly individual pieces of work.In Photography students have been using our new darkroom, built over the summer, so now they can explore theiridea using film and traditional forms of wet photography alongside the digital they are all used to.In the lower school, the kiln has been working flat out to fire Y7’s clay portrait heads and the Y9 students’ dragons,alongside lino prints and still life paintings, while Y8 have all made a sculpture of a hand metamorphosing intosomething else.Outside lessons members of the sixth form have been working with local artist Melissa Canepple, planning andpainting the new mural in the underpass at the bottom of Station Road. Previous students from SJL were involvedin the painting of the earlier mural during the 80s, so it’s excellent that our current artists braved the cold tomaintain our tradition of community involvement.Students from all years have been involved in the Art Faculty’s House Competition to design and produce theschool Christmas card. Ms Robins was our judge, casting a festive eye to separate the naughty from the nice.There was a large number of entries and a high standard so even short listing was difficult with Y10’s Sarah Hunt’sSJL themed Father Christmas being chosen for the official school card.
Sadly at the end of this term we are saying goodbye to Mrs Rigby, one of our two wonderful technicians. MrsRigby who has been with us for six years, as well as helping to keep the Art faculty organised which is no meanfeat in itself, has led art club, worked with students in textiles club, run an after school art sessions for adults andsupported students in lessons. She leaves SJL to continue her involvement at the Samuel Ryder Academy whiledevoting more time to her own illustration work and we wish all the very bestMr Higgins, Mr Carey, Mrs Gibson, Ms Lange, Mrs Ponte, Mrs Pullinger, Mrs Redford, Ms RichardsonSJL DRAMA 20122012 was not only a great Sporting year but it was also an impressive one for Drama and Performing Arts withmany trips and three shows in the old school Hall. Hairspray in March was a triumph in spite of postponement andsaw an entertaining synthesis of sixties music, funky dancing and American pastiche. The expertise of Ollie Slade,Aiden Doyle, Jamie Pritchard and Renatta Maniski-Luke supported Pari Shahmir as Tracey which made for athrilling production as well as a plea for racial integration. June saw a thirtieth anniversary production of SueTownshend’s Adrian Mole which came with a blessing from the author herself thanks to a link exploited by Adam“Adrian” Wilmshurst. Mrs Milton’s production saw a fine young cast playing the comedy and emotion of the Molefamily mid-eighties’ crisis with great performances from Tom Pigram, Adam Wilmshurst, Kimmy Turner, SophiaBlackburn, Sophie Caplan, Patrick Brine, Rory Glass and Ben Douglas and so many more! Theatre trips to BillyElliott, Shrek, We Will Rock You and A Midsummer Night’s Dream helped inspire and entertain aspiring Dramastudents in all year groupsAfter the Olympics we turned our attention to Dickens’“second greatest Christmas story ever told!” MissBritton’s fantastic production of A Christmas Carol wasa real seasonal treat with a “middle school” cast drawnfrom year 9 – 11. Jack Pannaman led the castbrilliantly, playing mean Scrooge and then kind Scroogewith equal conviction. The ghosts were brilliantly spookywith the smoke and shadows effects and the snowmachine blew loud and strong providing a foamy effectwhen the real stuff lay on the ground outside. Isupported Stage Management on this production underthe iron rule of Hannah Walpole and got a right tickingoff on the first night at the interval when a chair didn’tappear in the right scene. I was reminded how much funit is working back stage and that timing andconcentration are as vital for those behind the scenesas they are for the performers.
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