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The Year That Was Story by Louise Griffiths (Year 10) This year has been a big one. A year of change and excitement and new experiences. Whilst some doors closed, others opened. So let’s go through the highlights of this year. The languages department had an amazing year as they travelled to Germany and France. At the start of the school year thirty four students took part in the annual German Exchange. They spent five days with their exchange partners from Stadtisches Gymnasium, Bad Laasphe School and participated in a large range of activities. These included a designing project where they created a bag that reflects the exchange, a scavenger hunt, shopping in the beautiful city of Wetzlar, spending time in their exchange partner’s lessons and many more. In February, 39 GCSE French students went on a four day trip to the Château de Grand Romaine in France. Throughout the four day trip, students did a variety of activities including a visit to the Palace of Versailles, a trip to a chocolate factory, a visit to Montmartre, Sacré Coeur and taking on the ‘Preparez à manger’ task. The task involved students going out to a local market town and buying the ingredients for a meal they had to prepare and present in French. The students enjoyed the trip as it was an opportunity to really experience french culture and explore the language. This year was a big one for the Performing Arts department from workshops to performances to tours. In October, a group of Year Eight and Year Nine students spent a weekend participating in a physical theatre workshop. The workshop was led by Mark Worth from the performance company ‘Highly Sprung’. Students explored the issues that teenagers face such as social media and exams through movement. The workshop, which was based on ‘Highly Sprung’s’ 2016 performance ‘Witness’, helped the students develop new performance skills and techniques. Miss Julius, Leader of Learning for Performing Arts, commented “It was brilliant to see students challenged and performing in a new way.” The school has always had a tradition of producing annual Arts Spectacular evening in the autumn term but this year we decided to try something new. Students from every year group performed in our Music Concert. It was a fantastic evening that meant that the Music Department could show off the amazing talent they have. The evening saw a mixture of performances from drumming to guitar to singing. Just before February half-term we had our annual school production. This year we performed the challenging and dark Lord of the Flies. The play tells the story of a group of children stranded on a desert island. The production was supported by a strong ensemble and leads from across all the year groups. The show took a huge amount of effort, time and teamwork from September to February but was a huge success. Before we broke up for May half-term students from Year Seven, Eight and Nine went on a music tour of local Primary schools. The tour took place over three days and gave students the opportunity to perform and share their talent with the local community. Over the three days they visited six local Primary schools performing a one hour set. The students who took part found it hard work but a really enjoyable and rewarding experience. Finishing the year off on a high Key Stage Three students performed in the Physical Fellowship, the U.Ks only physical theatre workshop for young people. On Monday 2nd of <strong>July</strong> students travelled to the Coventry Belgrade Theatre to participate in workshops with some of the U.Ks leading theatre companies including ‘Vamos Mask Theatre’, ‘The Royal Shakespeare Company’ and ‘Motion House Dance Theatre’ and then performed their piece in the evening. Students worked with ‘Highly Sprung’ performer Ben Morley for two days creating a performance. The piece, based on the theme of reconciliation, explored the issues of war and colonisation and the impact they have on society. The students worked extremely hard on the performance and they did an amazing job at performing in front of a live audience.
Just before the Christmas holidays, we hosted our annual awards evening celebrating academic success. We began the evening with a performance from the school choir and then awarded the GCSE certificates. Awards we given out to Key Stage Three and Fours students and there were Year Eleven awards for progress and attainment. As the celebration came to a close the special awards were given. These special awards included The Lydia Bennett Memorial Award for Sports Woman of the Year, the Pride of Wilnecote award and the Overall Contribution to the Life of the School award, which was awarded to Mr Tonks as a celebration of his retirement. The awards evening was a fantastic evening which really demonstrated the excellence that our school has.
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