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18th - 29th Jan 2016 

Imberhorne School 

Compassion 

Achievement 

Respect 

Endeavour 

The cornerstones of our 

learning community 

We hope you enjoy the latest edition of our 

fortnightly newsletter, bringing you a flavour of 

all the wonderful things that have been 

happening in and around school over the last two 

weeks. A special thank you must go to Henry 

Grub and Niamh Herrett for the outstanding work 

they have been doing to raise awareness of the 

‘Don’t Stand By’ campaign from the Holocaust 

Education Trust….really inspirational! 

The Contact Team 

Out of This World 

The Imberhorne Gardening Club have been 

selected to take part in an exciting new project 

called ‘Rocket Science’, involving the 

planting of seeds after they have travelled 

into space. 

The seeds, which have spent the last few 

months under micro gravity conditions at a 

space station, will be received by our students 

in March to be planted. Their growth 

will be measured under strict conditions 

against that of mere earthly seeds and their 

progress will be noted to see if they’ve 

been affected or whether they grow at all! 

BBC News Reporting 

From Imberhorne 

Monday 18th January had a buzz of excitement 

to the day, as a BBC News crew visited 

to interview our students for an article due to 

be aired in February. Hugh Pym from the 

BBC Newsdesk reported from a Year 10 

PSHCE lesson and then interviewed a small 

group of Year 11’s on the issues surrounding 

the emotional and mental well-being of young 

people today. Following a government task 

force initiative, the news team were interested 

to find out from our students what pressures 

they think young people face. 

Chosen for the work that we completed last 

year, piloting resources from the Samaritans 

in our PSHCE lessons, we were thrilled to be 

invited to take part in this report. Not only 

was it a fascinating insight into what goes on 

behind the scenes of a national news item, it 

also gave our students the chance to voice 

their opinion and reflect on an important topic, 

something we encourage our students to do 

in their fortnightly PSHCE lessons which focus 

on a variety of personal, social, health 

and citizenship issues. 

Mr Turner, leader of PSHCE provision at KS4 

said, “the students involved today were a 

credit to the school and young people, the 

crew were so impressed with their maturity 

and awareness. They spoke eloquently about 

important 

issues and 

I’m really 

looking forward 

to the 

report”. 

Imberhorne Lane East Grinstead West Sussex RH19 1QY 

T: 01342 323562 F: 01342 317366 E: info@imberhorne.co.uk www.imberhorne.co.uk

Fixture Results 

U12 Boys Basketball - 21st January 

Imberhorne 32 v Oakmeeds 16 

Player of the Match: 

Cameron Beeney 

“Imberhorne continue to develop with a fine 

display against Oakmeeds. A well drilled defence 

was the springboard for another great team 

performance” Mr Byrne 

U15 Boys Football -19th January 

Imberhorne 3 v Oathall 3 

Players of the Match: James Pearse & Matt 

Mowbray 

“Imberhorne started strongly on the slick 3G 

surface but it was Oathall who took the lead 

after a few errors from us. After a swift 

turnabout at half time and with the score 1:1 

Imberhorne dominated the start of the second 

half but again fell behind due to a wonder goal 

from Oathall. Heads didn’t drop though and 

Imberhorne got back in the game. Final score 

3:3. What a game, next step St Bedes County 

Cup Quarter Final” Mr Collyer 

U15 Boys Football - 26th January 

Imberhorne 0 v St Bedes 3 

Player of the Match: Lewis Michael 

“On a horrible pitch and in horrible conditions Imberhorne’s cup double dream got 

washed away in the rain and sleet. After a bright start by our boys, St Bedes took 

control scoring two quick goals. Imberhorne had no answer to the gale force winds 

and horrendous pitch” Mr Collyer 



REMEMBERING THE HOLOCAUST: DON’T STAND BY 

By Niamh Herrett and Henry Grub 

Listen to Niamh and Henry’s radio broadcast 

www.meridianfm.com/listen-again/ 

In November last year, we visited Auschwitz-Birkenau, the infamous concentration 

and death camp in Poland that was in use during WW2 – 70 years ago. This week, 

people across the world have been remembering the genocide on Holocaust 

Memorial Day 27th January. The Holocaust is not only a historical event but 

something that has repercussions and lessons for us in the modern day. 

Many people, over the years since, have said “never again”. Everybody today 

recognises the significance of the Holocaust, the sheer number of people 

systematically murdered had never been seen before or, thankfully, since. But there 

is always the question, “how did the Holocaust arise?” Naturally, it is easy to 

attribute the event to Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party. Whilst this is mostly true, it is the actions of the 

public, ordinary people, that also had a hand to play. 

This is how the Holocaust can teach us such profound lessons today. For it is the actions of us, the ordinary 

people, that can help ensure that an event like this never occurs again. 

In 21st century Britain, we find ourselves in a complicated web of international crises, which are fuelling 

controversial public and political opinions on both sides of the Atlantic and in Europe. Journalists, 

columnists and politicians are regularly voicing racist and prejudiced comments and the media is in danger 

of indoctrinating people in the UK to support their agenda. 

One thing that the Holocaust has taught us, in a broad sense, is the idea that we shouldn’t “stand by”. This 

is the theme this year for Holocaust Memorial Day – don’t stand by. In the 40s, victims were taken to the 

camps aboard trains. But who drove these trains? The train drivers were not forced to carry out this task; 

and they could easy have said no and continued with their usual tasks. If every train driver had said no, 

would this not have caused a break-down in the system? It would probably not have prevented the 

Holocaust, but it could have caused a delay and saved lives. The lesson here, is that if we speak up, we can 

challenge what is wrong and prevent discrimination. 

In a wider sense, Auschwitz thus teaches us to challenge acts of prejudice or discrimination, in wider 

society and in our local communities, even if unpopular or inconvenient. We must also promote tolerance 

of others by recognising the role every member plays in the town, or at a national level. It is also important 

that we increasingly learn not to take the media at face value, critically challenge and evaluate what you 

read and watch. We must learn to say “I disagree” with what we are exposed to. By accepting intolerance it 

will grow, just like it did in the 30s before WW2. 

We are very lucky today to live in a democracy. We can be involved in the democratic process of the UK 

and we should exercise this, because we need to ensure that we influence the government’s role in global 

events. It must not be forgotten the Nazis started out life as an ordinary political party, but because they 

were not held to account by the public, they worked their way into a position of ultimate power. By making 

sure we engage in our democracy, we keep it as a democracy. We keep it free and fair for the generations 

that come after us. 

Today, we view the Holocaust as one of the darkest periods of human history. Whilst it is central that we 

do not forget those who were murdered, it is of the utmost importance too that we learn from history; so 

that from the victims’ deaths there is hope for the future. After all, George Santayana once said; “those who 

do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it”. 



On 15th January, a group of Year 9 girls attended a Computing and Robotics 

Workshop. The session was run by Curiosity Hub, an organisation formed by 

the University of Brighton, to 

support the promotion of 

STEM subjects (Science, Technology, 

Engineering and 

Maths). Students really enjoyed 

the activities and got an 

insight into robotics. Mr Sisley 

commented on how many girls 

will now be inspired to study 

the subject further. 



Angry Gulls 

On 13 th January we held a Year 9 science workshop for our passionate 

and talented scientists. 

We had two visiting staff from Brighton University, Richard Robinson 

and Jonathan Hare, who set up and organised ‘The Angry 

Gull Workshop’. The challenges were to make a mechanism to 

drop ‘poo’ from a plastic seagull and to calculate the trajectory of 

the poo to land on a specific target...a teacher or a pupil. 

Toby Chatfield, a Year 9 student said “I liked how much freedom 

we had when we were making the mechanism. I thought it was fun 

and interesting. The two Scientists who ran the workshop were 

passionate which made it even better for us”. 

Congratulations to the following students for completing their 

Duke of Edinburgh award. A huge commitment is needed for this programme 

and we are very proud of their achievements. 

BRONZE 

Gareth Worts * Lucy Lines * Charlotte O’Neill * Hannah Ridgers * Harry Burge 

Georgina Clark * Lauren Sinden * Megan Humphreys * Charlotte Paton 

SILVER 

Rebecca Taplin 



Carl Rafala Workhop 

Student Review 

We were lucky enough to participate in a 

wonderful workshop on 22nd January. 

We would like to thank our teachers for 

providing us with the opportunity and 

Carl Rafala for showing us how to creatively 

express ourselves through the media 

of short story writing. 

The day started off with a quick and 

helpful crash course in short story writing, 

provided by our visiting American 

author. This taught us how to structure 

and manage our writing, which allowed 

us to tap into our inner authors. The 

mentoring that Rafala provided gave us 

confidence to transform our ideas into a 

story. 

The rest of the day involved us planning 

and developing our thoughts until we 

were comfortable and certain that we 

could write and elaborate on our stories 

well. 

Twenty six of our most keen Key Stage 3 

creative writers were given the opportunity 

to take part in a one day workshop on 22nd 

January with published writer Carl Rafala. 

The workshop was combined with the composition 

of entries to the ‘500 Word 2016’ 

challenge. This is a prestigious annual 

short story competition offered by BBC 

Radio 2. 

Miss Badshah said “They have all worked 

so hard and are thoroughly enjoying the 

day” 

We look forward to reading a few of the entries 

and hope to publish one or two in a 

future edition of 'Contact' and on our website. 

Please use the following link for more information 

on the BBC Radio 2 competition: 

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00rfvk1 

Once we began, Rafala continued to advise 

and inspire us with encouraging 

words and thrilling concepts to add clever 

twists to our work that you wouldn’t 

typically expect. 

The only way this workshop could have 

been better, is to have given us another 

day with Rafala as we enjoyed the experience 

thoroughly. So all in all, a wonderful 

day. 

By Georgie Pullen, Emily Benson and 

Josh Frankhuijzen 



Dates for your Diary…. 

Notices…. 

February 

Mon 1st 

Tue 2nd 

Thu 4th 

Tue 9th 

Wed 10th 

Swedish Musicians’ visit 

Year 11 Targeted Mentoring 

Year 9 Dance Workshop 

KS4 Piano Master Class 

Intermediate UKMT Maths 

Challenge 

Year 9 Careers Workshop 

Year 9 Consultation Evening 

School finishes at 1.15pm 

 

We are delighted to announce that ‘Aura’ 

the Imberhorne Student run Young 

Enterprise business will be at all Parent 

Consultation Evenings this year to introduce 

their product and hopefully make some 

sales! 

They have launched their innovative, and 

fun water bottles for only £6.99! 

With many benefits to the bottle, it 

provides a clever mechanism to drink fruit 

infused water, it is BPA free and it’s fun! For 

updates, you may follow Aura on twitter 

or Instagram: @aurabottles and visit 

their page on Facebook. 

Thu 11th 

Fri 12th 

Year 12/13 Theatre Studies 

Evening Performance 

Ski Trip departs 

 

 

CONGRATULATIONS, 

THANKS OR GOOD LUCK 

TO………… 

...Katie Byrne in Year 12 who has 

won a story writing competition 

for the Hawth Youth Theatre 

Group. Her story is one of 6 

winning tales that will be turned 

into a piece of masked theatre as 

part of their Easter workshop. Well 

done Katie! 

...Jamie Hayes in Year 11 who 

recently fund raised for the 

Chestnut Tree House in Sussex by 

holding a cake sale and collecting 

£65.60 for the charity! 

...Tilliana Greenwood for 

achieving distinction for her Grade 

6 ISTD and RAD Ballet exams. 

 

...all our parents, staff and students 

for raising £2266.98 for St 

Catherine’s Hospice on our nonuniform 

day. 

 

The Year 9 Careers Workshop is on Tue 9th 

Feb 9am-11am. We would be really grateful 

for volunteers from the Imberhorne 

Community to support this event. We like to 

have as many volunteers from as many 

different career backgrounds as possible to 

give our students a wide and varied 

overview of career types and industries. 

Small groups of students sit with each 

volunteer and ask a series of yes/no 

questions about their job. After 5 minutes, 

they guess what the volunteer’s job is. The 

volunteer then talks about what their work 

involves, how they came into their career 

etc. before rotating round to another group 

of students. 

If you or someone you know is 

interested in ‘volunteering’ then please 

get in touch with Mr Jim Turner, our 

Careers Officer, jturner@imberhorne.co.uk 

or alternatively, Mrs P Hattam, Work 

Experience Coordinator, 

phattam@imberhorne.co.uk It’s a fun event 

for all those involved. Our volunteers have 

always enjoyed the experience!

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