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Preparations for the Cathedral Concert

Students are preparing to pay tribute and launch the first ever Intergenerational Orchestra in Gloucester Cathedral The biennial Winter Concert is taking place on November 18th 2014, at 7:30 pm Year 7 Massed-Choir will be joined by Picklenash Primary School children singing "Count on me", "Cup song", two Afri-can Songs, "Mr Blue Sky" and "We are the students of Picklenash School." The School's Jazz band and Orchestra with Picklenash students will perform hits from Harry Potter and the Rock standard "Smoke on the Water" among others. Vocal solos from Rosita Da Silva Teixiera and Emma Gooch, and a piano solo by Jo Harding will be heard alongside Liam Bowers (trumpet) and Colin Willis (piano). The School Choir will sing a tribute to our beloved Brass coach and mentor, David Currie "It don't mean a thing if you ain't got that Swing" and a tribute to our Year 11 student "Will Luckett" to whom this concert's fundraising is dedicated. The whole concert will end with a rendition of the "Thunderbirds March" arranged by Richard Ling and performed by an orchestra that unites the forces of our current and past students as well as members of Newent Orchestra and people who are currently living with Dementia. This concert aims to raise awareness about Dementia. The now famous ukulele group will also make an appearance performing 'I'll be there for you' with the Music Tour Sing-ing group giving their first ever performance in concert before the Music Tour to London in February 2015. With its theme 'Reunion', the Winter Concert 2014 aims to bring to the fore an awareness of the history and community spirit that identifies our School. The Reunion celebrations are on April 18th 2015 and this concert is the beginning of those festivities. Tickets are £10 and £3 available from the Finance Office prior to the concert. Please pre-book to avoid disappointment.

Alex Wilson started learning music at Beau-champ Music Group. He started off attending playgroup there and after many sessions along the way, he finished up playing violin in the sen-ior orchestra as well as Prima Corda. He was taught violin by Caroline Lumsden initially be-fore having lessons via GAMPA. He was in the same school year as Amelia Jones. Alex arrived at Newent Community School in 1996 and left in 2003. He was very involved with the music at school and last performed there at Mary Wrenn’s leaving celebration. I understand that several members of staff al-ways knew him as “Mole” since he played that part in the 1998 school production of Toad of Toad Hall! After leaving Newent School he did a first de-gree in music at York University where he chose the piano to be his “first” instrument. He later took a Masters degree in performance at the Royal College of Music in London and he is now a professional musician. While still living in Gloucestershire, he played in the Cheltenham Symphony Orchestra as a violinist. He will be performing a recital at Gloucester Cathedral on the 12th November 2014.

Alex Wilson at Gloucester Cathedral

U13 Cricketers in National Finals

On Tuesday 16th September, our U13 cricketers travelled up to Northants County Cricket Ground to play in the Na-tional Chance to Compete finals. The players were issued with personalised shirts on arrival and took to the field for our semi-final to face Washwood Heath School from War-wickshire. Losing the toss, the team was sent into bat. There was a steady start from Elliot Finch and Jack Blackwell with El-liot making his 20 before retiring. Newent made 50 from the seven overs allowed which looked a below-par score. Washwood Heath School played some very attacking shots and despite a great over from Sam Mattingley which went for just two runs, they won the game with 9 balls to spare. This meant we were now playing Rainford High School from Lancashire in the playoff for third and fourth place. Again we were asked to bat and some lusty blows from Jake Wise ensured that Newent made 65. The match was tight throughout with some excellent bowling from Josh Ackerman and Jack Blackwell. Rainford hit a six in the final over of the match to win with five balls to spare. The boys played some good cricket but just came up short. The loss of Joe Whiting, who broke his arm in the summer holidays, and Jack Blackwell, playing through a sprained ankle he sustained playing football at the week-end, could have made a difference.

The boys were finally treated to a bowling master class from Warwickshire and England all-rounder Chris Woakes. Sky sports filmed the event and the programme was broadcast as part of the Game Changers series. They also got the chance to meet England women’s cap-tain Charlotte Edwards. This was a truly brilliant experience and a wonderful achievement to be fourth in the Country. The squad… Elliot Finch Jack Blackwell Joe Whiting Josh Ackerman Jacob Wise Tiger Manners Sam Mattingley Steve Loveridge Archie Rees Jack Matthews Harry Senior (Coach)

Commonwealth Games Triathlete Returns to Newent

On Monday 6 October 2014 three of the best Sport Lead-ers the Department has ever had, attended the Project Ability Ambassadors Training Course. It was a day’s training for young sports leaders to help support the deliv-ery of Sportsability Clubs and competitive opportunities for young SEND pupils.

Sports Leaders Train for Sportsability

The outcomes of the event were to improve knowledge and understanding of working with young SEND pupils, Seated Volleyball, New Age Curling, Goalball and Boccia. The expectation was that after the training the young Sports Leaders should feel confident in supporting the delivery of any of the named activities at Sportsability Clubs within the school or in the local community. The day was structured around an athlete mentor wel-coming and supporting this event. Newent’s mentor was Mel Clarke, the Paralympic Archer who visited Newent Community School and Sixth Form Centre last year. The students also worked with other sports leaders from across the County. Each session was focused on an overview of an activity with the rules, progression of the activity, and how to adapt the activity to suit the needs of all SEND learners.

Commonwealth Games individual Bronze medallist, Gold medallist in the team Triathlon and former Newent School student, Vicky Holland popped in to see us with her med-als.

She spent the morning talking in assembly and meeting out Year 7 and 8 PE classes. Her testimony was truly inspiring and she talked about making the most of every opportunities and never giving up. It was great to see her back. The students had the oppor-tunity to speak to her and she signed autographs at break. Her morning finished with a talk to our A-Level PE students about her experiences.

Silver Mark to School For Games

We are delighted to announce that we have been award-ed a Silver Sainsbury’s School Games Mark.

The Mark rewards Schools for their commitment to, and development of, PE, school sport clubs and competitions. The Mark award recognises the hard work that we have undertaken to ensure all young people have access to a wide breadth of sports opportunities within School. We are really proud of all our successes and particularly grateful for the hard work and endeavour that many of our students show.

An ensemble of twenty-seven Year 11 GCSE drama students performed a play called ‘Our Day Out’ by Willie Russell on Friday 17th October 2014. The audience which consisted of parents, friends and staff laughed their way through on hour of theatre. The characterisations were well thought through and hard hitting messages were communicated in a light hearted way. All students achieved top grades for this piece as they multi-roled their way through in an effective and pacey way.

Willie Russell’s Our Day Out Wins Drama Students Top Grades for GCSE

Jambo! Hola! Bula! Prynhawn da! Tere!

Over 6,000 languages are spoken across the world and one Friday in September it seemed as if most of them could be heard in Newent. Every year on 26 September the European Day of Languages is celebrated throughout the European Union and we joined in this year to celebrate the wide diversity of languages spoken within our school. Teachers demonstrated their linguistic skills within their normal subject lessons and support staff too could be heard conversing with each other on the phone in French. An amazing array of languages were represented, including Kiswa-hili, Spanish, Fijian, Welsh and Estonian. Year 7 students spent much of the day racing around the school to try and win a competition to find speakers of the more obscure languages. Congratulations go to Lillie-Mae Taylor C8, who was first through the door of the MFL depart-ment at the end of the day with her winning entry.

REUNION - A Theme for 2014-15

Join us for Newent School’s

50th Anniversary

Saturday 18th April 2015

The event is open to all past pupils and staff. Those who left 1965-1990: 2pm - 4.30pm Those who left 1991-2014: 4.40pm - 7.30pm IMPORTANT: please let us know if you intend to come.

Email newentschool50@yahoo.co.uk Or

Write to Pippa Palmer, ℅ Newent Community School Include your name - maiden name if appropriate - your year of LEAVING and your tutorial if you remember. It would be great if you could bring your memorabilia along with you, whatever it is!

Please help us to make this BIG!

BEE Weekend (Biological Ecology Experience)

And On the Theme of Reunion... By Pippa Palmer

Recently over 100 ex Newent Grammar School students (pre 1965) attended a reunion at Newent Community School and Sixth form Centre: all were in their 70s, 80s or 90s. The main hall was a buzz of conversation, one lady brought all her old school magazines whilst another clutched some treasured photographs. The oldest member in attendance was William Howell, who was 94 yrs old. He informed me he attended the

Grammar School (the building on the traffic lights) be-tween 1931 and 1938. He became a Production Engi-neer, joined the RAF then lectured at Gloucester Tech-nical college based in Brunswick Square between 1960 - 1983, where he fulfilled the role as principle lecturer in Production Engineering, having a book published on Basic Engineering. He informed me that he had a pride in his school at Newent, and recognised the history of the green and yellow school colours, along with the school song and prayer book. The 2 Freeman brothers, Eric and Barry, both well known in Newent today were also present at the Reunion and enjoyed seeing various people who travelled back to the area for the afternoon.

Early October, Year 11 biologists ven-ture in to the thick, impenetrable jun-gle of The Forest of Dean. Pitfall traps constructed and fungi found, our in-trepid ecologists gather at The Bracelands Adventure Centre to set up the moth trap with Lepidopterist Rick Benson-Bunch. Mr Smith demonstrates the delights of statistics and bats become the focus as night falls. Next morning, moths are identi-fied (Yellow Underwing, The Snout but no Setaceous Hebrew Character). Mammal tracking and woodland flora/fauna follow. A great weekend – good food, good company and brilliant biol-ogy.

Over 50 students went to the Tamworth Snowdome to either learn how to ski or improve their confidence on the slope as free skiers in October. This is one of 3 trips organised to give students the opportunity to develop their skills in this sport. It also supports the Austrian Ski trip which takes place every year during February half term.

Enquiries are already being made for 2016 trip to Aus-tria. If you think you may be interested in coming to the Snowdome or in joining the 2016 Austrian Ski Trip, please make contact with Miss Palmer.

Snowdome Trip to Tamworth - October

Recognition for ELBS Vegetable Growers in National Magazine

You may remember a previous Newsletter which de-scribed the warm and successful growing summer enjoyed by ELBS students who produced crops in the specially constructed tunnels and raised beds outside the G-Corridor. The pictures are a reminder of the glo-rious weather of the season and of the obvious pride the ELBS students justly took in their produce. The page reproduced here is from the National Vege-table Society’s quarterly magazine for Autumn 2014. Society member and judge, Mr. Mike Davies, writing in the magazine commented that “The onions in par-ticular were very good.” He said, “We have tried to persuade the exhibitors to enter the Show at the New-ent Onion Fayre, as, with harvesting, they would not be disgraced in the local classes.” Mr. Davies was very impressed by the efforts of the students and commended the teaching, led by Mrs. Price, for raising the standards so high, not just in the growing of onions but of the broad beans, potatoes, carrots and beetroot. - and he should know!

Keith James, the famous Singer-Songwriter is visiting our School on November 25th. Keith will give a workshop to all our GCSE and A level Music students and a con-cert to all who wish to attend (starting at 3:45) in the Main Hall. Tickets for the concert are £2.50. Keith will include songs from his recent tours and CDs taken from: Time let me play, from the poetry of Dylan Thomas; Duende. From the poetry of Garcia Lorca, Pablo Neruda, Isabel Allende and Gabriel Garcia Marquez; Nick Drake on William Blake; The Songs of Leonard Cohen. The workshop will take place in the Main Hall from 1pm until 3pm and anyone who is free to watch and listen is in for a treat! Keith is a master of the guitar and has been writing songs for many years. The workshop will finish at approximately 3:00pm and there will be some time for questions and autographs. During the workshop Keith will cover 3 main subjects: Lyrical content: ban all blandness and cliché! Be daring

A Very Special Musical Experience on November 25th

and adventurous. Express yourself without being bound by the meter and phrase. Don’t be afraid to edit. Various guitar tunings: discover many ways of tuning a guitar and the many ways that these tuning combinations open voices and harmonic modes that can otherwise not be achieved. Presentation: A talk about the importance of presenting a set of material to an audience in an engaging way.

"Prototypical singer-songwriters of his calibre don't fade away, they just get wiser" - Alan Cackett, Maverick Magazine" “...some of the most atmospheric and emotive guitar based music you will ever hear" - The Independent "Musicians brave enough to make music they really believe in. Keith James is one of these" - Bob Harris, BBC Radio 2

Live at the Lake nets £900 for School Music

Live at the Lake this year was a great success! Both cur-rent and former students took to the stage in mid-July, to showcase their musical talents. We had many people come to the lake to enjoy free, quality music and lovely food provided by the Good News Centre. Thanks to raffles and donations, the event raised over £900 to help fund future music projects at Newent Com-munity School and Sixth Form Centre.

By Geraldine Gibbons

Eyes Focused on the Horrors of Borrowing

At this year’s Real Money event, Year 11 students were given the opportunity to learn about personal financ-ing, the issue of credit, debt, house financing and economical budg-eting. In the picture, students are getting to grips with the pitfalls of com-pound interest on loans, and the need to estimate realistically the cost of borrowing money. Members of the local community joined the groups to fulfil the role of facilitators and we are extremely grateful to them for sharing their experiences and expertise.

Chelsea’s Choice: Empowering Children

By Di Harrill Head of PSHE

As I am sure you are aware, the sexual exploitation of children across the UK has been in the news recently and continues to be a concern. Dangers can come from the any area of their lives, the internet and social networking sites such Facebook and Twitter but also through friendship groups and people known to the young people themselves. We also know that the best protection we can give to young people is knowledge of the dangers so that they are aware and can protect themselves, as well as letting them know where they can go for help and support if they are worried. All of our Year 8 pupils watched the play Chelsea’s Choice on Monday 29th Sept. This tackled the difficult

issues surrounding Child Sexual Exploitation. The play provided an opportunity for interaction with the actors helping pupils to see the choices Chelsea has made and how she might have chosen differently. This activity in secondary schools is part of a proactive programme of work around raising and tackling the com-plex nature of Child Sexual Exploitation and being sup-ported by Gloucestershire Safeguarding Children Board and all Partner Agencies in the County. The play was a powerful and memorable way to enhance the PSHE curriculum and help our young people to stay safe. To support this play, in PSHE lessons students have been looking at exploitation and sexual exploitation, this topic will be continued and further explored as they pro-gress up the School.

On the 24th September the Under 16s hockey squad went to Cheltenham College to play in the County Tournament. Following an 8-0 win against John Kyrle the week before, the team were in high spirits for the tournament despite the 7:45am start! The county standard was very high, playing matches against Wycliffe, Dean Academy, St. Edwards, St. Peter’s, Katherine Lady Berkeley and Balcarras. The team, under Emily Arkell’s captaincy fought hard to secure two wins against Balcarras and Dean Academy. The team finished 5th in the county which will set them in good stead for the forthcoming fixtures against St. Peter’s and High School for Girls. Particular mention should be given to Emily Arkell, Anya Laybourne-Davies, Maddie Smith, Tilly Blakemore and Charlotte Hayward for their outstanding performances.

U16 County Hockey Tournament - Cheltenham

Many Year 7s entered the Great New-ent Bake Off with some amazing ex-hibits which Mary Berry would have enjoyed sampling. A big thank you to all who took part. Remember the Featherstone Decorat-ed Christmas Cake Competition, spon-sored by Newent Rotary Club, will be coming up in December. This is al-ways a popular and extremely creative competition. Perhaps the winner will come this year from these bakers?

Great Newent Bake-Off Hooks Year Seven Chefs

U14 County Hockey Tournament - Cheltenham

The Under 14s travelled to Cheltenham College on the 8th October to compete for the County Plate. Newent were pitted against some experienced and skilful teams such as Wycliffe and Balcarras but nevertheless were resilient in their man-ner and fought hard to secure a win against Bournside and draws against King’s and High School for Girls. The team played solidly together but there were notable performances from Kira Sheppard, Lucy Parish, Zoe Ravenhill, Mabel McClellan and Charlotte Renouf-Watkins.

On Saturday Newent Cy-cling cycled from School through the back lanes and cycle lanes to Gloucester. From there we carried on to Saul Junction located on the Gloucester to Sharp-ness Canal for lunch. On the return journey we had small renditions of Jason Derulo from Emily and Charlotte which helped the group cycle faster. Luckily we were very lucky with the weather as the rain kept off but the wind was a quite strong at times. We are looking to run the popu-lar Coast to Coast Cycle trip and something for the even more adventurous next season. More news of this in the new year. Well done to all the partici-pants who successfully completed the 44 miles and many thanks to Miss Hughes and Mr Drake who drove the support vehicle.

Looking Promising for New Year

Nine students from Newent Community School trained Staff at Picklenash Primary and Glebe Infant School this week. The training focused on a formative Programming Language that teachers at Picklenash and Glebe are pre-paring to deliver to their pupils over the coming months. The training was a resounding success for our students as they were incredibly proud of the fact that they had represented our school so brilliantly and had the oppor-tunity to tell teachers what to do for a change! The feedback from our Primary colleagues was excellent, with staff feeling that the event had been a great success and commenting on the fact that the student trainers had done a wonderful job which made for a very worthwhile training session, equipping them with the necessary com-puting skills in a fun and informative way. The students involved in the Squad were chosen from a range of year groups and included: Jordan Nugent Year 11 (Squadron Leader) Aidan Horton Year 11 Rebekah Sutton Year 8 Charlie Millman Year 11 Leah Sampson Year 8 Harry Jackson Year 10 Lewis Mitchell Year 8 Nieve Mullins Year 8 James Bailey Year 10 This training event represented the second outing for the Cyber Squad within a week as they had previously sup-ported the Computing Department at the Newent School Open Evening, demonstrating fun, interactive games and APPs they had made in lessons and highlighting key computing concepts that are covered across all the Key

Cyber Squad Community Action

By Ed Glynn Computing Teacher and Squad Organiser

As part of a glistening Open Evening, Year 10 Drama students demonstrated just how much potential they have and proved exceptional ambassadors of the Per-forming Arts at Newent. Mrs Arrowsmith's Year 10 group rehearsed and per-formed their World War 1 monologues whilst Mrs Hood's class, inspired by Margaret Atwood's 'A Handmaid's Tale' experimented with creating a future dystopia.

Stages. Their third and final engagement this term will be to pro-vide advice in connecting and using our school’s online reporting systems for Year 7 Parents at the ‘Meet the Tu-tors’ evening (23rd October). They will be on hand to guide and support parents and students during the even-ing – plus, will be able to offer advice and help with other technology and e-safety. So if your technology is causing you trouble, the Cyber Squad are there to debug your digital dilemmas!

Showcase Drama

The 2014 summer exam results saw yet another set of excellent PE results. GCSE PE maintained 80% of A* to C grades for the second year running. Furthermore, historical data predicted that there would be 3 As or A* however the department was delighted to find that 7 students secured the top grades - Abbey Seeliger achieved an A* and the follow-ing students all achieved A grades: Hollie Luther, Gemma Green, Luke Johnston, Autumn Barnes, Jon Hogg, Amber Wilkins, Anton Ranken. A2 results were also along the same vein with 80% achieving A*- C grades and consequently all Year 13 students were able to secure the university or other destination of their choice.

Brief PE Note on Strong Exam Performances

Year 10 GCSE Catering and Food and Nutrition classes enjoyed a very informative visit from Rhys Thomas, Divisional Environmental Health Officer for the Forest of Dean. He brought along some physical ‘exhibits’ found when inspecting catering establishments. He also showed a num-ber of photographs, enti-tled ‘The Good, the Bad and the Ugly’ to help explain the role of an Environmental Health Officer. Students will never look at a kitchen in the same light again!

'To assist GCSE Catering students with their studies of Unit 3 - Health Safety and Hygiene, the School Medical Officer, Lisa Jevons, gave a presentation to the two Year 10 Catering classes. Students carried out practical activities and learned about basic first aid procedures which may be required in a Catering kitch-en.

The Realities of Catering and Working in Food Preparation

By Lesley James

Congratulations to (name removed) and (name removed) who have been appointed as Mountbatten House Captains. Both (names re-moved) wealth of extracurricular opportunities alongside their studies. In addition to a range of sporting activities xxxxx was involved in the ‘Commenius Project’ in Year 8. As a result, his skills in public speak-ing were developed as was his ability to mix with and work alongside a range of staff and students. Xxxx has been involved in nearly every extracurricular activity that the school has to offer. She is a keen cy-clist, a key member of the cycle team and has been involved in every school production since Year 8. I am delighted to have two such fan-tastic young people as role models for the younger members of Mountbatten House. Congratulations also go to (sequence of names removed) who have been appointed as this year’s Mountbatten Vice-Captains. Talent In-spiration Programme team manager, sports captain, primary school athletics coach , 100% attendance, Gold Sports Ambassador, drama

By Kirsty Gordelier, Head of Mountbatten

A big thank you goes to all students who do-nated shoes to the Great Western Air Ambu-lance Re-use Your Shoes campaign. The shoes that you have donated will go on to raise much needed funding that will go towards the purchase of a Euorocopter EC135. The more modern helicopter will allow for: • Faster arrival at incident • Side loading –easier access • More spacious - allowing better inflight treatment • More equipment • Better hospital access • Enable patients to be accompanied The Great Western Air Ambulance service does a fantastic job serving over 1.2 million people in our region. We thank them for the time that they spend with us during House as-semblies and for the lifesaving work that they do.

production role, Duke of Edinburgh Scheme, Comenius Project representative, high effort levels on every report, meeting or above MEG in all subjects: the enthusiasm and ef-fort of these young people is second to none. I am honoured to have such a wonderful group of young people, at my side, helping me to run Mountbatten House during this aca-demic year. With their support I know that Mountbatten House will continue to grow from strength to strength. I would like to thank them and our Mountbatten prefects for the pride and effort they put into all aspects of Newent Community School and Sixth Form Centre.

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Geography Field Trip And the Dog Biscuit Experiment

By Dan Tinson

Last month all Year 11 Geography students, with Miss Morgenstern and Mr Gibson, went into the Forest of Dean to survey Blackpool Brook for a controlled assessment, vital for GCSE course work. For three days in the week beginning Monday 15th of September each class travelled to the various sites they had chosen, to study how a river changes as it progresses downstream. They took with them an array of apparatus that would be used to deter-mine the gradient, width, velocity and sediment size. All of the data collected from the survey is being used to an-swer a 20 hour assessment question. As detailed in the assessments, the Brook started at a shallow depth and gradually deepened, to the grievance of some of the students who fell in. There were no inju-ries, only soggy socks and water-filled wellies. This all sounds very laborious and unnecessarily compli-cated; however, this was far from the case. The short journey to the source of the river was soon whiled away with chatter and the injection of background knowledge from Mr Gibson. On arrival the pupils were enlightened with a short introduction to the site. Notes were made, at the second stage, on the many obstacles and points of interest in the landscape. When the trip reached the fol-

lowing three sites, the class divided into pre-planned groups to research the dimensions of the ‘upper’, ‘middle’ and ‘lower’ courses of the river. A tiny rocky stream beneath an arch of trees, was first in the study. Spaced at regular intervals, each team of five used clinometers to find the river’s gradient and metre rules etc. for all the other necessary measurements. In addition, dog biscuits were issued to all groups to, be-lieve it or not, help determine the river’s speed; they were dropped into the water and timed as they floated 10 metres downstream. The first measurements completed the class then travelled to the more open setting of the penultimate location. It was within the parameters of a comfortably large pic-nic area, that they repeated the aforementioned method and observed the growing wa-terway. Lunch was had at around 12 o’clock, after which studies were continued at the ‘lower course’. Up to this point the field work had been quiet, with only a few minor altercations regarding terrain, and the pro-duction of the note-sheets. It was at the last accessible section of the river that difficulties arose. Broken branch-es and fast flowing currents made the students’ task a little more interesting. Acrobatics on half-submerged boulders and valiant attempts, resembling a ferry launch, to traverse the chest high flows, were just some of the alternative methods by which the ‘lower course’ was ex-amined. The trip concluded in the early afternoon, to the mutual amusement of students and staff. On their return to school the class had the new challenge of using their knowledge and data results to commence their report, having taken full advantage of the experience. The Blackpool Brook project gave everyone the chance to experience a study themselves; it was a memorable occasion where a great deal was gained. Miss Morgenstern and Mr Gibson should be congratulat-ed for the success of this year’s field trip and their resili-ence in the face of semi-aquatic sixteen-year-olds.

Year 8 Students Impress as E-Bug Educators

Year 8 Students had the opportunity to work with a Coun-ty health project on the science of hygiene. They took the course first themselves to learn as much as possible in the short time about the kind of contamination that could put us at risk in daily life if we fail to wash hands properly, or if we are careless with food handling and simple things like sneezing. The students then taught Year 7 and primary school chil-dren the same basic lessons they had absorbed them-selves. They were absolutely magnificent: they had tremendous confidence and were able to firmly communicate the mes-sages. Their audiences, touring the hall in small groups, were all fascinated by the demonstrations the Year 8 stu-dents gave, often with a considerable sense of theatre. It was a very encouraging exercise, showing students at their finest.

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