Foundation Magazine 2021-2022 | Mount Kelly

PERFORMING & CREATIVE ARTS
LAMDA
What a year! We were back at
the City of Plymouth Festival
after its cancellation the year
before. It was the 107 th festival and
the 24 th year that pupils from Mount
Kelly have taken part. Unfortunately,
Covid-19 caused many pupils to have
to pull out, but we still managed to
have 52 take part. The standard, as
normal, was extremely high and all our
pupils held their own.
We had 3 first places: Jessica Hatch,
Tiggy Hutchins and Sophie Varcoe &
Keira Semple, in a duologue poem.
Tiggy was also awarded the The Barrett
Memorial Cup for the most promising
competitor under 12 years of age.
Second places were awarded to
Jemima Aldridge, Filly Hookway, Carlyn
Hatch, Toby Coleridge and Eliza Kumar
& Keira Semple (in a poetry duologue)
Third places were achieved by Robin
Farrington, Flora Mee-Langmead, Bea
Rainsbury, Pippa Hasbrig-Hartley,
India Caldwell, Anneloes Salmon and
Alfie Forer.
I was extremely proud of everyone
that took part and grateful to parents,
friends and family that chauffeured and
chaperoned the pupils.
In December due to Covid-19 numbers
we had to postpone the LAMDA exams
until January, which had a knock-on
effect and meant that for half of the
Lent Term we had exams taking place.
By the end of term, we had caught
up and everyone had taken what they
wanted to. The Summer Term was
somewhat calmer but we still managed
to fit three exam sessions in.
Over the year we managed to take
over three hundred exams, the majority
of which were passed with distinction
and we retained our 100% pass rate of
the last seven years.
DESIGN & TECHNOLOGY
AT THE PREP
PERFORMING & CREATIVE ARTS
It has been an exciting year in the Prep
DT studio. This year we have tried to
link our science topics with our DT. To
begin to move towards a STEM (Science,
Technology, Engineering, Maths) based
approach.
All the children from Year 2 to Year
6 have enjoyed time in the studio.
The department has covered food
technology, mechanical engineering,
electrical engineering, resistant materials,
moulding, amongst others traditional
crafts such as woodwork.
The pupils have been taught a number
of new skills such as soldering, using fret
saws and pillar drills. Children in Year
3 and 4 took turns using the vacuum
formers to mould facemasks and
chocolate bar moulds.
The Year 5 children made bug hotels
using recycled materials and linked
to their science topic ‘properties of
materials’ made cool boxes to keep
an ice pole frozen. During the ‘forces’
topic they saved Eggburt from being
scrambled by designing and making a
parachute to soften his landing. The most
popular topic and a nice present for the
house cook was Year 5 made a wooden
trivet to hold a hot dish or pan.
The Year 6 pupils made using recycled
materials animal houses which were
either bug hotels or nest boxes. Using
mechanisms such as pulleys and levers
they made working model fairground
rides – powered by an electric circuit.
Year 7 enjoyed a STEM day or engineering
at the Faraday Challenge. They made
coat hooks from acrylic and studied
plastic waste around the world. Being
challenged to make a (and race) a hover
boat designed to pick up waste plastic
from rivers.
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