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Hazelwick School

Newsletter

Headlines Ms A Fearon, Headteacher

Dates for your Diary:

Thurs 14 Aug:

AS/A2 Results Day

Thurs 21 Aug:

GCSE Results Day

Fri 22 Aug:

Year 11 post-results

advice day

Thurs 4 Sept:

Year 12, enrolment,

8.30am

Fri 5 Sept:

Start of term

Thurs 18 Sept:

Primary School Open

Evening - school closed

from 12.20pm

Fri 19 Sept:

INSET day - school closed

for students

Mon 29 Sept - Wed 1 Oct:

Year 7, CAT tests

July Reflection:

Headlines Ms A Fearon, Headteacher

July 2014

Welcome to the f inal

newsletter of the academic

year. I do hope that you have

e n j o y e d r e a d i n g o u r

newsletters and learning about

the wide range of activities

that our school community has

been engaged in throughout

the year. This final newsletter,

once again, is full of

information about the amazing

opportunities that we offer

our students, including drama,

sport, visits abroad, science

and technology, and working

with our locality primary

schools. Recent student

surveys reported very positively on the appreciation of students for the wide range of extra-

curricular opportunities that they are offered at Hazelwick.

We say goodbye to a number of staff at the end of this term: Mr Muggeridge (Sociology),

Mr Young (Subject Leader, Media), Mrs Zeidler (Maths), Mrs Leates (History), Mrs Hyde (ICT),

Mr Gray (English/Media Studies), Mr Bailey (English), Mrs Allan (Geography), Miss Mooney

(English), Mr Lambert (History), Mrs Abdullah (Maths), Mrs Searle (Economics), Miss Jupp

(PE), Mrs Patel (Science), Miss Jackson (Sociology), Mr Little (Cover Supervisor), Mrs West

(Headteacher’s PA), Mr Grant (Support Worker), Mr Ford (Drama Technician), Miss Pordage

(Media Technician), Miss Bedingfield (Resources Technician), Mrs Ridgill (Library Assistant).

We extend our warmest thanks to all for their service to our school and wish them all the

best for the future.

I take this opportunity to send my very best wishes to all our students who are moving on to

new challenges in the future and hope that every member of our community has a very

enjoyable summer break.

Thank you to Year 8 and Year

10 parents, who completed

surveys at recent Parents’

Evenings. The results were

immensely pleasing with 98.5%

of parents agreeing that “My

child is taught well at

Hazlwick”, 97% said “My child

enjoys being at Hazelwick” and

98% of parents stated that

they would recommend

Hazelwick to other parents.

News, Events & Activities...

Year 12 Psychology and Health & Social Care On Tuesday 24 June, 45 Year 12 Psychology and Health & Social Care students attended a talk with a visiting speaker

from the Mental Health Foundation. The students were interested to hear his experiences of mental illness and his

fascinating life story. Psychology students followed the talk with discussions with their teacher about the effects of

mental health disorders on individuals, and the Health & Social Care students will use the information gained from the

talk in their coursework assignments. The students found the talk incredibly thought-provoking, as well as helping

them as they move into their second year of A level courses. We hope that the speaker will come back and visit the

school again next year.

Mrs Banbury

Visiting Author On Wednesday 9 July, the well-known and successful crime fiction writer

R.J Ellory visited Hazelwick to deliver a Creative Writing class to Year 12

students of English Language & Literature. Mr Ellory spent over three hours in

the LRC with the students, taking them through the process of penning prose

fiction and including them in some enjoyable writing exercises.

His response to the work produced by the sixth formers was very encouraging

indeed and they were favourably compared to groups of much older and more

experienced writers he had delivered similar work-shops to. Students were

equally impressed, describing Mr Ellory as an “inspiring man” who “has

encouraged me to take my English studies outside of the classroom”. After the

session, the rest of the English Department were able to enjoy meeting Mr Ellory

over lunch in the LRC. A thoroughly enjoyable morning was had by all.

Mrs Butcher

Young Interpreters' Celebration Morning On Tuesday 8 July, 14 Hazelwick students from Years 7-12 visited Three

Bridges Infant School as part of being young Interpreters. During the delightful

morning we took part in various activities: these included quick cricket, which

was a chance to bring everyone together whilst simultaneously being a fun sport

to play. Another activity I personally enjoyed wholeheartedly was learning

Japanese and doing calligraphy, as it meant I could walk away speaking such an

intriguing language and even producing my own Japanese calligraphy. Learning

to adapt to a new school life in another country with an unknown language is

always difficult and the story-telling activity in Portuguese and Bangla allowed us

to realise this. We even got beautiful henna patterns drawn on our hands and

Tamil dancing was another activity that we all had the pleasure of learning. It

was also a great opportunity to meet Young Interpreters from different local

primary schools.

Anushka Suharu (Year 10)

The Year 10 Product Design group were

challenged to design a range of body

adornment pewter products. They have

made moulds and followed the pewter

casting process to manufacture a range of

commercially viable pieces of jewellery and

key rings.

Miss Jones

Year 10 Product Design

It’s been a fantastic first year for the Accelerated Reader Scheme at Hazelwick. A huge well done to all of the Year 7

students with their reading progress. I have very much enjoyed our reading sessions.

This month there have been seven new millionaire readers – well done!

Khizar Mahmood Sara Qureshi Ross Wadey Ama Thompson Lydia Bennett

Adam Funnell Luca Stone

Over the course of the year the library borrowing figures for Year 7

have increased by 25%. We have had 15 millionaire readers and one

double millionaire reader - Hassan Marzook.

The Year 7 students have been enthusiastic and have put in lots of

effort with their reading. You should all be very proud of the

progress you have made with your reading this year.

Well done to you all!

The Millionaire Club (L-R)– Szymon, Hassan, Ross, Khizar, Adam, Ama, Tim,

Katie, Ellie, Lydia, Lewis, Luca, Danyal, Jad, Sara (absent) and me!

Summer Reading It’s not expected that the students record their reading over the

summer holidays, but I would like to encourage the students to read as

much as they can ready for September.

Have a super summer break!

My star reader this month is Mushahid

Sudhozai! Mushi has made great progress

this year with his reading and quizzing.

Well done!

If you would any further information about

the Accelerated Reader scheme, please feel

f r ee t o e -ma i l me d i r e c t l y :

[email protected]

Your support, as always, is greatly

appreciated.

Mrs E Gray

Year 10 Hazelwick Students Teach French and Spanish at Northgate Primary School On 30 June, I had the privilege of taking 25 of our very motivated and able Year 10 students to Northgate Primary School, so

that they could have a go at teaching some French or Spanish to those much younger than themselves.

I must admit, it is a daunting prospect to have to prepare materials and plan a half-hour lesson for the very first time but our

students, I am very proud to say, rose to the occasion with gusto!

They taught a variety of age groups from Reception class to Year 6. All of them put in a lot of hard work, making original

teaching resources and then delivering very stimulating and challenging half-hour lessons. Very well done to all of them!

Here are the accounts - and some photographs - from three of our students: by Mr Bentley

As part of my role as a student learning Spanish

at GCSE, I was honoured to participate in such a

delightful morning at Northgate Primary School.

Classes I taught were two Year 6 classes - Aspen

and Juniper class - as well as the adorable

students in the Year 3 Hawthorn class.

All pupils had a positive attitude, which added to

the enjoyment of the morning. All pupils were

interactive during all our games and worked

really hard.

It was an extraordinary opportunity.

Anushka Suharu 10AMC

On Monday 30 June, a number of students who took

French/Spanish GCSE were offered a great opportunity to

teach young primary school children the language we

study.

This was very rewarding, as we not only discovered how

well we understand basic Spanish but also it developed our

communication skills, consequently improving our

confidence. There were points where the children

laughed. making the day even more enjoyable.

Kaylan Patel 10SMO

Before visiting Northgate, I was apprehensive as to how the children would react to the resources that I had put

together for the past two days. My teaching partner, Sarah, and I had decided to introduce the children to Spanish

colours and animals. I’d spent hours trying to think up well known cartoon animals, making them the right size,

labelling them, making clues for a match-up exercise, checking the Spanish name over and over, as well as laminating

them. This was the same for the colours. Having to educate up to twelve children was challenging, as we had to

come up with twelve pets and twelve colours to teach – the ‘animals’ match-up exercise included a chipmunk!

Even before meeting the children, I completely empathised with my Hazelwick teachers! We also had stickers for

the children after each session.

With our stickers and resources in our bag, I worried that some children would find our exercises boring and

others perplexing. However, when we reached Northgate, I was proved wrong. I n our first half an hour session

with the Year 5 class, the children loved our match-up exercises and found humour in pronouncing the Spanish

words – especially ‘un pez’, the word for fish. They then went on to ask mature questions and some came up with

ways to remember Spanish words.

Our Year 3 session came next and the children were just as interested as our Year 5s. T hey particularly liked our

game in which they’d get up and play games. They also enjoyed making impressions of animals.

The Year 4 class consisted of just 14 students, so we were given six. They seemed to enjoy spotting similarities in

colours between Spanish, English and French.

Overall, I felt the morning was extremely rewarding and gave the Hazelwick students an experience of what being a

teacher can be like. It felt great when the children understood and they appeared to enjoy themselves as much as

we did. Northgate Primary School was extremely welcoming and the pupils a pleasure to teach. T hank you for the

opportunity.

Isabel Summers 10SHS

Year 10 Hazelwick Students Teach

French and Spanish at Northgate

Primary School (cont’d…)

Year 8 Trip to Paris The French Department ran its

annual Year 8 trip to Paris last

month, with 42 students and five

members of staff. We spent a very

enjoyable long weekend visiting

Paris’s many monuments and

generally appreciating the culture of

this wonderful capital. On our way

down , we stopped o f f at

Pierrefonds, an idyllic small town,

famous for its castle (which has been

used as a backdrop for the TV

programme Merlin). It provided

plenty of opportunities to speak

French and to taste some delicious

ice-cream (not just your everyday

vanille, fraise, chocolat but perhaps

tastier flavours such as pistache,

mangue and caramel au beurre salé).

After a very busy Saturday, sight-

seeing in the centre of Paris, visiting

the Louvre to see La Joconde (Mona

Lisa), going down the river Seine on

a bateau-mouche and then going up

56 floors in 38 seconds to the top of

the Tour Montparnasse for a

panoramic view of the city, we were

all ready for a rest. So Sunday was

spent at Parc Astérix, France’s first

theme park and based on the stories

of Asterix by Albert Uderzo and

René Goscinny. As well as going on

a large variety of roller coasters, and

rides and themes from historic

cultures, such as the Romans and

the ancient Greeks, we all enjoyed a

spectacular show about the theft of

the most famous painting in the

world (La Joconde, again!), full of

explosions, chases and stunts!

Monday morning provided an

opportunity to visit Montmartre,

with extensive views of Paris from

the steps of the Sacré-Coeur Basilica

and then, much to our regret, it was

time to leave.

A big thank you to Mrs Hay, Mrs

Burke, Mr Chalmers and Mr Davies

for giving up their time and to all the

Year 8s, who were excellent

company and a credit to the school.

Special thanks to Colin Nietzer, who

took many of these photos of the

trip.

Mrs Hughes

Pierrefonds

On a visité Paris et c’était fantastique! On a

vu la Tour Eiffel, la cathédrale de Notre-Dame

et la pyramide du Louvre ou on a acheté des

souvenirs. Il faisait très chaud! Le lendemain

nous sommes allés au Parc Astérix - c’était

cool. Il y avait un spectacle de dauphins et on

a fait le tour de nombreux manèges. A mon

avis, c’était un beau séjour à Paris!

Mugdha Bandyopadhyay 8GSA

At the top of the Tour Montparnasse

continued overleaf...

Year 8 Trip to Paris (cont’d…)

Modelling some recently purchased

Eiffel Tower earrings

Inside the Louvre

Gathered outside the Louvre

Read On!

Keep Reading! Key Stage 3

Keep the reading habit going over the summer holidays with my new list of recommended reads for Key Stage 3 students.

All the books listed are available for students to borrow from the school library before the end of term, to read over the

holidays.

Author Alert: * Tiger Wars by Steve Backshall

* Hostage by Chris Bradford

* Coco Caramel by Cathy Cassidy

* Artemis Fowl: The Graphic Novel by Eoin Colfer

* Ghost Hawk by Susan Cooper

* The Book of Doom by Barry Hutchinson

* Itch by Simon Mayo

* Foul Play by Tom Palmer

* Goblins by Philip Reeve

* Quidditch Through the Ages by J K Rowling

* Phoenix by S F Said

* Fight for Freedom by Simon Scarrow

* Liar & Spy by Rebecca Stead

* Demon Dentist by David Walliams

* Paws and Whiskers: animal tales chosen by Jaqueline Wilson

Impress Your English Teacher: * Coraline by Neil Gaiman

* Elidor by Alan Garner

* Gone series by Michael Grant

* Dept 19 series by Will Hill

* Lost Riders by Elizabeth Laird

* A Medal for Leroy by Michael Morpurgo

* I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith

* The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien

Keep Reading! Key Stage 4

Here is my new list of titles to keep Key Stage 4 students reading over the summer holidays. Some of the titles will have

adult themes. All these titles are available from the library and can also be borrowed over the summer holidays.

Impress Your English Teacher: * Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

* A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

* Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

by Arthur Conan Doyle

* Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier

* Lord of the Flies by William Golding

* Looking For Alaska by John Green

* In Darkness by Nick Lake

* A Song of Ice and Fire (Game of Thrones)

by George R.R. Martin

* NW by Zadie Smith

* The Time Machine by H.G.Wells

Author Alert: * The Coldest Girl in Coldtown by Holly Black

* The Reluctant Assassin by Eoin Colfer

* Heroic by Phil Earle

* The Butterfly Clues by Kate Ellison

* The Fault in our Stars by John Green

* Mud, Sweat and Tears by Bear Grylls

* Bzrk by Michael Grant

* The Enemy series (zombies) by Charlie Higson

* Rock War by Robert Muchamore

* Maximum Ride series by James Patterson

* Divergent Trilogy by Veronica Roth

* Race the Wind by Lauren St John

* Slated series by Teri Terry

Continued overleaf...

Read On! (cont’d…)

BookBench Competition Year 6 pupils have been taking part in a competition to create a

design with a book theme for a bench that will be housed in the

library for students to use in September. A pupil from

Northgate Primary School has won the competition and, as a

prize, he will be invited with some friends to assist the Art

Department to transfer and paint his design on to the bench. I

would like to thank all the pupils and staff that made this

competition a success, as we received 145 imaginative entries.

Watch out for the ‘Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix’

bench in September and I will include a photo of the finished

bench.

News Flash! I have some exciting news to share with you. I have just received

confirmation that the novelist, Lesley Pearse, will be our guest speaker in

the Autumn term. This will be our second author talk for adults and I

know that Lesley is an excellent and entertaining speaker. The date for

your diaries is Thursday 13 November, 7.00pm to 9.00pm. I will feature

Lesley’s books in an article nearer the time but if you would like to check

out her books and biography, please click on the link below.

http://www.lesleypearse.com/

Happy Reading!

Mrs Thornton

Please see the school website for

Mrs Thornton's ‘First World War

Centenary Book List’. It can be

found on the library webpage

towards the bottom of the page

under the heading ‘Useful Links’:

http://www.hazelwick.org/Library

Hazelwick Library images

http://www.hazelwick.org/Library

Rehearsals for this year’s Shakespeare Schools Festival are well under way in the Drama Department.

Thirty students from Years 7-10 have been cast in Romeo and Juliet and they will be performing a 30-minute adaptation of

the Shakespeare classic at ‘The Capitol’ theatre in Horsham on Monday 3 November at 7.00pm.

Students have been rehearsing every Friday after school from 3.30pm to 5.00pm since April. Their commitment and

dedication haven’t gone unnoticed and I am very proud of the work they have produced so far. Not only have they been

challenged by creating work inspired by A-level performances, many students are being challenged by having to learn the

original Shakespeare language.

All cast members have been rising to these challenges superbly and I have no doubt that this will be a spectacular production.

Rehearsals will continue in September, culminating in the Festival performance in November. Further information about

tickets will be communicated nearer the time.

Mrs Lawrence

Year 7 Day Trip to Boulogne On 21 June, 50 Year 7 students from Block 1 went on a day trip to Boulogne-Sur-Mer (on 27 June, a similar party went

with students from Block 2).

It was a busy and fun day, with visits to the old town, a café to see them making crêpes and a boulangerie to see, and have

a go at, making bread and croissants. Students had the opportunity to practise their budding French skills and they

completed a small work booklet on the activities of the day.

Here are accounts from two of the participants :

The Year 7 French Trip

I loved the French trip to Boulogne, because there

was so much entertainment and we were never

bored. The ferry was really fun, because we

snacked, played and shopped.

I liked the old town, because we bought loads of

sweets and souvenirs. I also got a delicious Belgian

chocolate éclair filled with a chocolate mousse.

Later on in the day, we went to the biggest

shopping Mall in Europe. It was huge! Well, it was

bigger than the one in Crawley!

It was a perfect school trip. I can’t wait to go again

next year.

Alayna Moghul 7CBU

Boulogne Sur Mer was a very good trip. I enjoyed

pretty much everything. Making the crêpes was very

fun. I liked the mixing and flipping them in the kitchen.

When we got to the bakery, we looked at how bread

was made. I learnt the French words for the

ingredients and how long to cook it for. The lady let

us play with the dough, which was fun. Finally, when

we went to the shopping Mall, we saw that it was

massive. This was because it is the largest in Europe.

Sophie Lomas 7CBU

by Mr Bentley

Crawley STEMfest is a series of interactive activities,

demonstrations, workshops and shows that takes

place in schools and throughout the community

every summer. On Tuesday 1 July, a group of

Hazelwick students visited the main event, the South

-East ‘Big Bang Festival’. The annual event is a

celebration of Science, Technology, Engineering and

Maths and its main aim is to inspire young people in

these areas. Our students very much enjoyed

themselves and were impressed with the wide range

of activities that the Big Bang Festival had to offer.

Particular highlights included a Science magic show,

reptile rescue and Professor Hal Sosabowski’s

‘Bigger Bang’ show.

The festival also hosted the regional heat of the

National Science and Engineering Competition.

Hazelwick entered two projects: a Year 10

sustainability project in partnership with Gatwick

Airport and a Year 12 Engineering project,

completed with L3 as part of the Engineering

Education Scheme. Both projects were presented

professionally and confidently by our students and

the judges certainly seemed impressed by their hard

work and original ideas. Our Year 12 project was

awarded the ‘Thales Prize for Coding’, which is an

excellent achievement. Michael Vanea did an

excellent job of presenting the project and was

delighted to receive the prize on behalf of his team.

Crawley STEMfest

In addition to visiting the Big Bang Festival, various STEM activities

have been taking place at Hazelwick over the past few weeks. An

organisation called Robogals provided robotics workshops for

KS3 students and STEM Sussex worked with Year 9 Computing

students on an ‘antweight challenge’. Finally, Phil Edwards from

Weald Technology visited Hazelwick to give a talk about his

attempt to build the world’s fastest motorbike, a multi-million

pound project. It has certainly been a busy few weeks and we are

very grateful for all of the opportunities that Crawley STEMfest

has provided!

Miss Reid

Year 10 Project Stand

Floating tap

During the Summer Term, a group of Year 9 students

took part in the ‘Thales Treasure Hunt’. This is an

electronic engineering challenge for schools devised by

Thales, who are an international engineering company,

working in the fields of aerospace, security and

transportation.

Each week, the students designed and constructed

various intricate circuits, under the guidance of experts

from Thales, the ultimate goal being to create a metal

detector. During the last session, our students

competed against each other using their detectors in a

treasure hunt challenge. The winners of the challenge

were Salehah Khan and Sam Lopez. The 18 students

who took part thoroughly enjoyed the sessions and

learnt a lot of new skills.

As Hazelwick winners, Sam and Salehah attended the Big

Bang South-East festival to compete against other

schools. They represented Hazelwick in an excellent

manner and, although they didn’t win the final, they

certainly impressed the judges with their electronics

skills and intelligent questions.

Miss Reid

Thales Treasure Hunt

Deep in thought and hard at work

- Hazelwick winners,

Salehah Khan and Sam Lopez

Cambridge Chemistry Challenge The Cambridge Chemistry Challenge is an annual competition by

Cambridge University, which aims to stretch and challenge students

interested in Chemistry. Participants complete a 90-minute exam

paper which consists of extremely challenging questions that go

beyond the A level syllabus. This year, seven of our Year 12

students completed the challenge and I am pleased to say that three

of them did well enough to receive a certificate! John Ward and

Charlotte Warnes both received ‘Copper’ award and Daljit Sidhu

received a ‘Silver’ award. This is a fantastic achievement for all three

students and demonstrates a high level of competence in Chemistry.

Miss Reid

Exeter University Year 12 Residential Trip To say that the Exeter trip was educational and entertaining

would be an understatement. The amount of bonding and

amazing experiences we had as individuals, and as a collective,

was absolutely astounding. From Segways to coastal

scrambling, to being in a children’s fun park for the entire

evening, there was never a minute where there wasn’t

anything to do. To top it off, the weather was absolutely

spectacular with clear blue skies and warm sunshine all week.

The University of Exeter was an inspiring and amazing place

for the year group to experience what life will be like at

university. The university is a highly prestigious Russell Group

institution, with stunning campus grounds and beautiful archaic

buildings, like Reed Hall where we were fortunate enough to

eat on a few nights. While we stayed in Exeter, we each had

our own en-suite room and were able to use the various

facilities available to us on the Streatham campus, such as the

recently-renovated sports centre, which many people on the

trip took advantage of in their spare time.

Whether splashing in the canoes, climbing the high ropes,

hiking over Dartmoor or hitting a bull’s-eye, everyone had a

great time. We also saw some of the cultural highlights of the

area, such as the Abbey, Powderham Castle and the

underground passages. A talk by admissions tutors on how to

begin writing an effective and successful personal statement

was incredibly insightful for our year group, the majority of

whom are starting to think about university. In addition, we

heard a lecture by a renowned writer and philosophy lecturer

at Exeter, Edward Skidelsky, on the concept of money and self

-satisfaction, which quickly sparked off a heated debate among

students… and teachers!

I would really recommend this trip to future years, as it is an

absolutely amazing week and the experiences of it will stay in

your minds for the rest of your life.

Paige Johnson and Emily Hawkins (Year 12)

...News, Events & Activities

On Thursday 26 June, the A level Food Technology group visited London’s

Borough Market. Their task was to investigate new and exciting food

products, to help inspire their coursework cooking tasks.

Each student was given £5 to spend on an ingredient or product they had

never used or seen before. Here are the results…

Miss Maides and Mrs Froger

Products bought by the students

Chicken Teriyaki

Gluten free chocolate beetroot cake

Lemon mousse with lemon and rose petal shortbread

Talented Athlete

Raft-Building Workshop

On Wednesday 9 July, students on the Talented Athlete Programme attended their last workshop at Tilgate Park. The aim of

this workshop was to help improve communication and team-work skills. All of the students worked hard, threw themselves

into it and managed to build a raft that they then sailed round the lake. Once again the students were a credit to the school.

Mrs Menniss

Sussex Youth Games Athletics On Thursday 10 July, our Year 7 Super 6 team

competed in the Sussex Youth Games.

Hazelwick was representing Crawley, having

won a qualifying competition where we beat

the other schools in Crawley. The athletes

acquitted themselves well and we had some

winners in a few events. Overall the team

came 6th. Well done to all athletes involved.

After the competition, the students had the

chance to meet GB athlete Lesley Owusu and

were given the opportunity to experience

different sporting activities in the activity zone.

The students had a great day and enjoyed their

unique experience.

Mrs Menniss

Sport...

Town Sports

On Tuesday 1 July, Crawley schools gathered at K2 Leisure Centre for the 58th Annual Town Sports Athletics Competition.

Hazelwick has been the holder of this trophy since 2009 and, therefore, the pressure was on for us to retain this prestigious

award for the 6th year running!

The day began well with many great performances in both the track and the field. Throughout the day updates of who was

in the lead were announced but points were tight at the top, so every result mattered! The final events at the end of the day

were the relays, which are worth double points, so the pressure was on for our teams to bring the baton home! Each one

of them did and maximum points were scored by every team!

The final results were as follows:

Junior Girls

1st Hazelwick

2nd Holy Trinity

Junior Boys

1st Holy Trinity

2nd Hazelwick

Inter Girls

1st Hazelwick

2nd Oriel

Inter Boys

1st Hazelwick

2nd Thomas Bennett

Overall Results

1st Hazelwick 1010 points

2nd Holy Trinity 785 points

This is an amazing points total

- 225 points ahead of our nearest rival.

Well done to the whole team.

Miss Oxby

Alice Steer, Isabella Stone, Tim Cook, Seth Bondonno,

Aaron Lewis and Hayden Crowhurst with the winners’

trophies

Primary School Rounders On Friday 11 July, I hosted a Primary School Rounders

tournament for Maidenbower, Northgate, Milton Mount and

Pound Hill Junior Schools. This was only the second time that

a Rounders competition has been organised for our cluster

schools. The pupils seemed to really enjoy the matches and

made fantastic progress throughout the tournament. At

times, there was some exceptional batting and fielding. The

winners of the Year 3 and 4 tournament were Northgate

Junior School and the winners of the Year 5 and 6 competition

were Maidenbower Junior School. Well done to both of these

teams.

This tournament could not have run without the help of our

Hazelwick students who umpired games, coached teams,

provided drinks and did a whole range of other jobs. These

students were a mixture of Hazelwick Leadership Academy

students, Talented Athlete Students, GCSE PE students and

Rounders team members. A massive thank you to all of these

students: Naomi Beale 10JHA, Alex Ardisson 10TDY, Tom

Jellicoe 10SMO, Olly Fensom-Gobel 10SMO, Ashley

McDermott 10JPL, Luke Elliman 10LMA, Edward Jones

10GGR, Rania Beni-Ich 10GGR, James Lowe 10MLO, Latisha

Fuller 10JPL, Jordan Prior 10JHA, Dani Saunders-Cubitt

10GGR, Teona Lofting 10JHAL, Matt Davies 10JPL.

Mrs Menniss

Northgate Infants

Maidenbower Juniors

Primary School Athletics On Friday 13 June, Oriel and Hazelwick hosted a cluster

Athletics tournament for The Brook, Maidenbower Infant,

Maidenbower Junior, Pound Hill Junior, Northgate Primary

School and Three Bridges Primary School. The pupils

really enjoyed the competition and we had some really

close races. The Infant competition was won by Three

Bridges Infants and the Junior competition was won by

Maidenbower Junior School. Well done to both of these

teams.

Mrs Menniss

Three Bridges Primary

Maidenbower Juniors

Milton Mount Sports Day

On Thursday 26 June, Hazelwick hosted Milton Mount Sports Day. This was a successful morning with parents, staff and

students expressing how much they had enjoyed it. This event would have been impossible to run without the help of the

Year 9 Hazelwick Leadership Academy who led, scored and managed various stations. All of the students did really well and

enjoyed the experience. Many staff and parents commented on how fantastic the students were and they really appreciated

their help. Well done to all of the students involved.

Mrs Menniss Year 9 Hazelwick Leadership Academy

Sian Bishop 9TCH James Murphy 9JOW

Sophie Hughes 9TCH Noah Rocha 9HME

Tom Hughes 9JBA Joe Stewart 9HME

Abbie Linturn 9JOW Danielle Cutler 9SOX

Sophie Linturn 9TFR Jack Stratton 9JBA

Archit Patel 9JBA Callum Jardim 9AGO

George Cook 9MMA Laura Szczegolska 9TCH

Sophie Gilbert 9MMA Tia Forde 9JOW

Georgia Mockler 9SOX Abby Ford 9RNU

Hannah Pirie 9HME Tubah Roshad 9TFR Year 1 and 2

Gifted and Talented Day On Wednesday 2 July, 30 Gifted and

Talented students from Milton Mount,

Three Bridges and Northgate came to

Hazelwick to take part in a workshop.

This workshop helped to develop

teamwork and communication skills

based around the Olympic Motto ‘Faster,

Stronger and Higher’. The pupils

worked together with our Year 8 Gifted

and Talented students. These students

were Josh Shadbolt (Football), Hayden

Crowhurst (Football and Swimming),

Danny Cashman (Football), Jess Lambert

(Football, Athletics), Johanna Akoachere

(Football, Athletics) and Alice Steer

(Athletics). This was a very enjoyable

experience and both sets of students

worked very hard together.

Mrs Menniss

Year 1 and 2 Gifted and Talented Athletes

Five Hazelwick students travelled to Birmingham on

Thursday 10 July for this prestigious annual Athletics

event. Four of the students had been before and it

was a first-time experience for George Crocker.

George performed well in a high-quality 800m event,

to finish 5th in his heat with a time of 2.07. Also in

the Junior age group was Sophie Linturn, who found

herself in an extremely fast heat. Sophie acquitted

herself well to finish 6th in her heat with a time of

12.8. Sophie then ran last leg in the 4x100m Relay.

The team won their heat well and qualified

comfortably for the final. In the final, the team

managed to run even faster and after initially being

disqualified were reinstated to their original position

of 4th. However, the team that should have been

disqualified finished 3rd and kept their position,

meaning the Sussex team missed out on the bronze

medals. In the inter-age group, Sophie Mansfield

finished 3rd in her heat of the 800m, with a time of

2.14 and Jonny Haines achieved a 2m personal best in

the Hammer (56.83) to finish in an excellent sixth

place. Our sole representative in the Senior age

group, after the withdrawal of Joel Buckett with an

injury, was Holly Talbot-Smith. Holly went off hard in

her heat of the 400m Hurdles and was rewarded with

a time just shy of her best in 65.86 for 6th place.

All the students should be congratulated for their

efforts. Brighton College was the only school in the

county to have more athletes selected than

Hazelwick. Well done, Hazelwick!

Mrs Reynolds

Hazelwick at the English Schools Athletics Championships

...Sport Homework Club A reminder that Homework Club runs in the Learning Resource Centre, Monday to Thursday, from 3.10pm to 4.30pm,

for students in Years 7, 8 and 9 to study and, where necessary, to receive support from a team of Teaching Assistants.

For further details, please ring Mrs Bending on the school number (extension 2333).

The majority of the photos featured in this newsletter were taken by Barry Holder and more of his

excellent photography can be viewed on the school website.

For more details, please see the school website - www.hazelwick.org or contact us on 01293 403344

Year 7 Athletics

Congratulations to the Year 7 Athletics team, who won the Crawley Area Super 6 competition. They will now represent

Crawley in the Sussex Youth Games on 10 July at K2.

Mrs Menniss

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