Citizen 10th December 2010 - the City of London School

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Page 4 School news First term at City by Alex Kitsberg 0GM I can’t believe my first term at City is almost finished; the time has flown by so quickly. It seems like only yesterday when I was putting on the uniform for the first time. On my first day I was quite nervous; I didn’t know what was going to happen, or what would be expected from me. To make matters worse, there was a tube strike! I left really early and travelled by car with some friends. We got as far as Euston, where we abandoned the car and got a tube to Bank. Coming out at Bank station, what an amazing sight met my eyes! It was a World War Two memorial parade and fly past. There were soldiers on horseback, infantrymen marching smartly along, then came the war veterans with their shining medals. High above me in the sky a hurricane along with a Spitfire and Lancaster Bomber roared over the City. It was a great start to the day. One of the best things this term was the trip to Stubbers. The activities there made everyone think together as a team. I got to know not only my classmates but also people in other forms (including the Prefects). Some of the activities intimidated me at first but with my friends’ encouragement I managed to overcome my fears. At City, there are loads of clubs to choose from. The Freshers Fair informed me about each club. There seemed to be a club for all my hobbies. Some of the clubs however were only for certain ages so that helped me cut down the selection of which to join. Still, I was amazed that City had so many clubs on offer. The thing that struck me about City was that boys have a lot of independence. There is travelling into school in the morning and travelling home in the evening on the tube. I began to feel more comfortable and relaxed the more frequently I went on the Tube. A big shock to my system when I started City was the knowledge that there would be a time pretty soon when the teachers expect me to be able to find my own way to the classrooms and there aren’t any reminders about when homework is due in. City is a dream come true for me; I always wanted to come here. I’m really having a fantastic time, whether it’s being involved in inter-form swimming or football competitions, running to Patrick’s Needle with the jogsoc, building ‘Airfix’ models in the History Society, having snowball fights in the courtyard, or the early morning football training, I really feel part of City and am really enjoying myself. Friday December 10 2010 FRIENDS OF CITY OF LONDON SCHOOL STREET DRUGS -PLEASE LET US KNOW BEFORE THE END OF TERM IF YOU PLAN ON ATTENDING- WE NEED TO KNOW WE HAVE ENOUGH SEATS -THANK YOU- The PSHE Department and The Friends of CLS invite all parents and guardians to a presentation and Q&A session on Thursday, 13th January at 6.45pm School – This is the 1st Thursday of term - The presenter will be an Old Citizen, Simon Leigh MSc, NCAC, UKRCP. He will be talking to all 4th Formers the next day, Student Day, Friday 14th Refreshments will be served afterwards. A letter with full details has been sent to all parents and guardians via SchoolComms and Friends’ group email. If you have not received it please email friends@clsb.org.uk. There is no charge but places are limited; please reserve places at friends@clsb.org.uk NEXT TERM’S COFFEE MORNINGS All Coffee Mornings for Parents and Carers are held in Cafe 101 (Salvation Army), 101 Queen Victoria Street, London EC4 - entrance opposite The Sports’ Entrance of School ie the swimming pool side. These are an excellent opportunity for parents, old and new, to make contact with other parents. 3rd and 4th Form Coffee Morning Thursday 20th January 8.30am - 11 am Contact Lorette Fredericks 3rd Form (see below), Erica Cosburn 4th Form (erica.cosburn@btinternet.com) 5th and 6th Form Coffee Morning Wednesday 26th January 8.30am - 11 am Contact Fiona Yates 5th Form (fcyates@aol.com), Stephanie Martinez J6th (stephanie@primex.co.uk), Deborah Dorrance-King S6th (see below) OG, 1st and 2nd Form Coffee Morning Thursday 3rd February 8.30am - 11.00am Contact Jane MacLean at jane.maclean@btinternet.com or Deborah Dorrance-King (see below) CONTACT Deborah Dorrance-King 0797443 1348 and Lorette Fredericks, lorette. fredericks@bt.com, Co-Chairs FoCLS or friends@clsb.org.uk
Friday December 10 2010 Goodbye Jack! Mr Griffin Second Master At the end of term we will be saying goodbye to Mr Jack Paxton, our GAP year student from Australia, who has been with us for the past twelve months. We thank him for the work he has done and wish him well for the future. In January we will be welcoming his successor Mr Will Mackenzie, also from “Down Under”. I fear the temperature difference may well take him by surprise! He is looking for accommodation from the end of January. If any parent would be prepared to offer this, he would be most grateful. Please let me know (gsg@clsb.org.uk) and I will pass on the details to Will when he arrives. Many thanks. Page 5 School news Mahnoud Ghanem 4B Citizen Reporter Last week central London was sprinkled with a festive dusting of snow, enough to cause tube disruptions for those coming to school, and no end of beautiful sights - albeit nowhere near the four foot depth experienced in the countryside. City demolishes King’s College School in Hans Woyda maths Daniel Hu 5H Citizen Maths Correspondent Last Tuesday, with snow affecting transport, City’s Hans Woyda team of Nimrod Nehushtan in 3rd Form, Daniel Hu in 5th Form, Cumar Vasudeva in J6, and Jonathan Berger in S6 travelled all the way to Wimbledon by taxi to play King’s College School in the last game of the group stages. We have started very well this year, fighting hard against the reigning champions Westminster School in a close match where we lost 49-53, though setting a school record in the number of points scored. It also happens to be the highest scoring match so far, and our 49pts is the highest scored by a losing team so far this year. And in our next game, we did even better, crushing Cardinal Vaughan 55-33, setting another record. Our impressive points difference (like goal difference in football) meant that though we had lost one game, we just needed a win this time to go through to the knockout stages. Since even Cardinal Vaughan had beaten KCS 37-28, we aimed to go even higher this time, and get closer to the 77 point maximum. When we should have begun, their 3rd Former had still not turned up, and it seemed to be a good omen for us, but (un) luckily, they found another 3rd Former in the corridor who was willing to play against us. We started confidently, though slowly, cruising to a 12-6 lead after just the first Starters round, and in the next Geometry round, we got 3 right and 1 wrong, whereas they got the opposite of 3 wrong and 1 right, making us 18-8 ahead. In the next round of Mental Arithmetic and Probability, both teams did well, with all 8 questions being answered, but with Nimrod getting us a bonus point when their backup 3rd Former failed to answer one of theirs. We went into the Team round 27-14 up, and when I saw that the question was simply to make 36 using as many of the sets of 4 numbers as possible (and the 4 basic operations of adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing, with brackets), I smiled to myself, as this was a game that I often play with my family, learnt in China, except that we had to make 24. For example, if you had the set {5, 5, 7, 8}, you could make 36 like this: (8-5) x(5+7)=3x12. Or if you had {3, 3, 3, 3¬}, you could say that (3+3)x(3+3)=6x6=36. We just ran out of time when we had done it for 27 out of the 28 sets on the paper, and since KCS had only made 15 of them, we gained the full 5 points, and KCS got 0. In the Calculator round, we charged ahead again, getting all 8 potential marks, bringing the score to 40-18 in front, and continued in the Algebra round, gaining all 8 marks, with Nimrod once again taking a bonus point when his opponent faltered. At 49-22 up, we needed four correct questions out of eight in the final head to head race round to set another record for the 3rd time running, and we got exactly 4, with KCS taking 3, bringing the score to 57-28. Westminster has probably beaten Cardinal Vaughan, and this would leave our table as follows: Westminster top with 3 wins, CLS 2nd with 2 wins and 1 loss, Cardinal Vaughan 3rd with 1 win and 2 losses and KCS 4th with 3 losses. This would also mean that we would progress to the plate competition, and Westminster to the main competition. Some interesting facts about this year’s scores: CLS lost with 49 points to Westminster, the highest a losing team has scored. The lowest a winning team has scored is 22 by King Alfred against University College who scored 19. The lowest score has been 12, by Blackheath High, and the highest has been 64, by both St Paul’s, and Harrow. Well done to Nimrod who again got all his individual questions right, and we look forward to next year when we will aim to get as far as possible in the knock-out stages of the plate competition.
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