Fyling Hall Matters Friday 25th November 2016 (Issue 10)

Words of the Week

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Tricky: widespread raging

Trickier: rampant turbulent

Trickiest: prevalent tumultuous

On this day in ... … 1922 Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon made a great archaeological discovery, with the uncovering of Tutankhamun’s tomb in Egypt. However they could not possibly have foreseen the huge impact this discovery would have on popular culture. Society was gripped by “Egyptomania”. Everything from jewellery and music to fashion, films and furniture had to have an Egyptian flavour. The most famous films of this era were: The Mummy (1932) and Cleopatra (1934). In the words of the song “Old King Tut was a wise old nut.” Damilare Williams

On November the 11th-14th London trip expert Mrs Wormald and Mrs Park decided to take on the challenge of giving 14 students the opportunity to explore London and its diverse culture. The trip included various shows and exhibitions including: ‘An evening at the Opera’ and an excellent performance of ‘A Man of Good Hope’.

For many students it was their first time experiencing London and the excitement never ended, from first time travels on the tube to sensational street food from various parts of the world. As the trip coincided with ‘Remembrance Weekend’ an agreed highlight of the trip was having the pleasure of watching the

compelling service at the Imperial War Museum which was then followed by free time exploring the museum.

Where most took advantage of the vast number of shops on Oxford Street, others explored the urban and atmospheric scenes of Brick Lane and what it has to offer. All in all, the experience was a huge success and has been highly recommended.

The attending students certainly felt they gained a true London experience, cramming in as much as physically possible in the time constraints of the weekend.

Anna-Luisa Ayckbourn

Cultural Trip to London

HIIT HIIT is high-intensity interval training, but what does it really mean? Sweat and tears! This type of training has become known as being up to 50% more efficient than traditional low-intensity, lengthier training programmes. At school the sports teachers have attempted to diversify Games activities; exactly what many students have been waiting for. But what do they think now that their wish has come true?

Kieran from year 13 said that HIIT is “better than rugby; you stay inside, so the only time you get wet is when you sweat”. I personally think that the great advantage of it is that it allows you to burn a lot of calories in a short time, leaving plenty of spare time to study so it’s a great option in exam season. However, as James Watson said “people seem to get more involved in HIIT than in other activities but we also need to practise rugby for matches”.

I guess a good solution is to keep on doing HIIT training when it’s bad weather and before exams. If that’s not enough for you though, there are HIIT training sessions after school on Wednesdays. Karolina Gruzel

Drama Show Back On Monday 21st November, Year 10 and 11 drama students performed multiple scenes from the play ‘DNA’ written by Dennis Kelly. Some of the parents and members of staff came to see the performance and gave some positive feedback like: “the performance was good, too good” and “the play was very convincing.” The play was about a young boy called ‘Adam’ who was abused by the rest of the gang and then falls to the bottom of a well; presumed to be dead. Soon afterwards, the gang find him bruised and bleeding, losing his sanity.

In the Y10 drama group Adam is played by Harry Foster and in the Y11 drama group Adam is played by Silas Venus.

Silas Venus-Haslett

Today our new maths teacher from the USA, Mr Nitschke, joined me to speak about his first weeks at Fyling Hall and obviously about himself as well.

First of all I asked him about his time at university, in particular about the courses he had chosen. He studied Physics and Mathematics, both in which he achieved a masters degree. Between University and Fyling Hall, a few years went past in which he worked as a professor for mathematics at a college, still in the USA. But that was not what he always wanted. Since he was a child, he lived in a very low populated area, far away from a city, in North Dakota. He always could see the stars and as he was looking up, he was interested in how the stars behave and what are their properties, therefore he wanted to become an astronomer. As it turned out, he didn’t get to get a degree in astronomy, but he still did physics, which includes that as well.

As I was asking him about his favourite hobbies, he thought for a short moment and then came up with

reading, watching historical films, maths and travelling, which not surprisingly all fits together: he could read an interesting book, watching a movie or solving some mathematical problems while he is travelling between the UK and the USA.

Then I asked about his views of our School. He is not only amazed by the school’s unique character and the landscape we live in, but also about the good relationships between the pupils and staff. He has experienced some differences between the way of schooling in his home country and this school and he also said that the students get pushed more to reach the best possible grades when it counts towards their future lives.

As an ending I can say, that he is “very happy to be here and excited about the future aspects of the school”.

Konrad Luedecke

Interview with the New Maths Teacher, Mr Nitschke

The Dangers of Online Shopping

It is extremely easy to be misled on the internet. The absence of physical face to face contact always makes it easier to lie, because it’s that much harder to find out the truth. Too many people forget that this doesn’t just apply to social media; it also applies to online shopping. In fact online shopping is all the more dangerous because there is money involved.

Many people who have bought enough things online have at least one horror story about being duped out of their hard earned cash, and now I have one. However please keep in mind that I’m not saying online shopping is to be avoided. Personally I still feel it has many advantages over physical shopping, one perk being you can shop in pyjamas without any disapproving looks or gestures!

But at all times one must be smart and always do their research. Essentially my story is that my mother asked me to buy myself something for my birthday, taking advantage of the week of Black Friday sales which is currently on Amazon UK. So I ordered myself a pair of wireless headphones for £20, when normally they’d be £60. However when they arrived I found them to be, in polite terms, highly disappointing and not remotely worth the price. They sound and feel cheap and horrible and honestly I can only blame myself for not doing extra research beyond reading the Amazon customer reviews. All I can really say is be smart and do your research, so hopefully you won’t end up like me with twenty pounds down the drain.

Damilare Williams

Snapshot

There have been many sporting fixtures this week and a busy weekend for boarders. On Saturday they headed out to Teesside Park to watch a film and then a trip to Whitby on Sunday afternoon. On Tuesday the Y7 girls went to Lady Lumley’s to take part in a netball tournament. Then the U15s girls played a home match at Scarborough College on Thursday. With a 4-1 win.

Also on Thursday, the U12 junior school boys played a football tournament at Pindar. The rain has come all at once this year with some matches being cancelled and school being very wet. However, it has not dampened sprits as many matches still went ahead with our usual enthusiasm and determination. This weekend sees U16s and u14s matches against Read on Saturday at home and a paintball trip on Sunday to Yarm. Clem Bentley

Pupils playing a word building game in creative writing club.

News Team

Editors Karolina Gruzel Amy McMorrow Reporters Karolina Gruzel Amy El-Barghouty Silas Venus-Haslett Anna-Luisa Ayckbourn Konrad Luedecke Damilare Williams Clem Bentley

The Week Ahead Sat 26th 10:30am U16, U14 Rugby v Read (Home) Sun 27th 8:00am Paintball @ Battlezone Yarm Tues 29th 2:30pm U13 Hockey v Scarborough College (Away) 4:00pm Year 11 Rugby festival @ Malton RUFC Wed 30th 2:30pm 1st XV Rugby v Scarborough College (Away) 4:00pm U13 Basketball v Eskdale & CCW (Home) Thur 1st 2:30pm U15 Hockey v Red House (Home) 3:30pm Years 7-11 Badminton competition @ Lady Lumley’s Sat 3rd 10:30am 1st XV, U14, U12 Rugby v Hull Collegiate (Away)

Trump supporters who claim to be open-minded say that he will not do most of the things he says. However, I think this argument is invalid. His words can be as harmful as his actions. It’s about what he stands for. He stands against all values I find beautiful in our century.

I am always moved by posts on ‘Humans of New York’, and so it happened this time. The Muslim journalist said she is confused because although Trump supporters do not show her their aversion, they are “supporting someone who said [I] should be banned from the country”. She feels that no matter how hard she tries she’ll never be part of the community and although people are friendly together, deep in their hearts they believe that America belongs to white people.

I think her example shows the deteriorative effect of Trump’s word. I find it increasingly concerning as events in America influence the trend of nationalistic movements around the world which I can observe in my own country of Poland. Trump may not build the wall between the Mexico and USA, but he’s certainly built walls in people’s minds.

Karolina Gruzel

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Opinion Piece - Trump Travesty?

Inspirational Quote: Don’t worry about failures, worry about the chances you miss when you don’t even try.

On the morning of the 9th of November the whole world was awoken to news that Donald J. Trump was to be the next president of the United States of America. Donald Trump was born on the 14th of June 1946. Before you get out your calculators to check we can confirm that he is indeed as old as you think ….he’s 70. And if you thought his name was bad enough he actually changed it from Drumpf to Trump.

But I guess we have to look on the bright side of life, at least he’s better than Adolf Hitler! And we all hope he lasts the year because Americans have a way of ‘getting rid of’ unwanted people.

Congratulations are in order. Well done you Americans: you voted a fascist, racist, homophobic, sexist, Fat Cat.

So tough man, you still going to build that wall and ban all Muslims entering the country?

Fact File

As a teen he was sent to military school for bad behaviour – don’t worry guys he’s ok now…

He is a germophobe: he doesn’t like to shake people’s hands.

Trump has had a various amount of affairs.

Donald Trump is oversensitive about the size of his fingers: once an editor of a magazine called him, and I quote: ‘short-fingered vulgarian.’

In 1990 Trump won a Razzie (Golden Raspberry Award) for Worst Supporting Actor. This was for his role in “Ghost Can’t Do It”. Trump supposedly doesn’t drink so why did he release his own vodka brand?

He has also made his own board game… so all you budding Trump supporters best get yourself down to Walmart and purchase your very own!

Amy El-Barghouty

Opinion Piece - Did You Make the Right Decision America?

Photos of the Week

Form 3’s rockets—created as a 3 week prep for science.

Y11 drama practice in the barn

Anna Ayckbourn playing the drums in London

Some of the 80 Christmas boxes that our pu-

pils donated to the church

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