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Dr Irene Broadley-Westerduin
B.Sc., PGCE, M.Ed., M.Sc., Ph.D., CPsychol
Chartered Educational Psychologist
Mobile: 07966 497 051
Email: irene@eduk8.uk.com
www.eduk8.uk.com
Assessment of Learning, Emotional & Behavioural Difficulties
in children and adults
Member of Association of Educational Psychologists, the British Psychological Society
the Association of Child Psychologists in Private Practice, and Expert Witness
SCHOO
The children at Salisbury
Cathedral School were
delighted to get into the
Christmas spirit early this
year. Each child brought in a
Christmas wrapped shoebox
overflowing with thoughtful
goodies to be sent by the
Trussell Trust to families in
Bulgaria, including the
children of the Lipnitza
Orphanage. The children
took their boxes to the
cathedral for a special
service, when Revd Jenny
Taylor, Chaplain of the
Cathedral School, blessed
the boxes before they went
on their way.
St Swithun’s pupil
researches climate in
the Arctic Circle
An adventurous pupil from St Swithun’s
School, Winchester, took part in the British
Schools Exploring Society expedition to
undertake research into climate change for
the Meteorological Office, spending three
weeks in the Arctic Circle. During her trip,
Cecily Henderson, aged 17, spent a week
sleeping in tents and snow caves in sub-zero
temperatures, endured a 36-hour snowstorm
and faced the threat of polar bears.
The expedition was based in Svalbard, a
snowy archipelago 600 miles from the North
Pole. There are few roads or tracks, just
mountain ranges and endless expanses of snow, ice, glaciers and fjords.
Inspired by her interest in geography, Cecily was keen to challenge herself
with the physical demands of the trip. Her fieldwork included keeping a
temperature log, meteorological observations, ice-core sampling, lightintensity
readings and a study to measure the rate of melting. All data
recorded was passed to the Met Office to use as part of their ongoing research
into climate change. Cecily also experienced a solar eclipse during her trip,
and climbed Mount Newtontoppen.
Pupils in Year 3 at Leehurst Swan School, Salisbury, have been
busy preparing shoeboxes to be sent to children in other lands
through the Samaritan’s Purse Operation Christmas Child charity.
Earlier in the autumn term they raised £230 at a sale for Oxfam,
organised by staff. Staff, parents and children have been thinking
about others as they prepare for the festive season.