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Dear Parents, Pupils and Staff of Stanwell School, We should all be very proud of the individual and col-lective achievements contained in our Christmas News-letter. So many of our pupils are taking the opportunity to develop their skills and talents and this publication seeks to celebrate the successes our pupils and staff have attained through dedication and hard work. There are some outstanding examples of individual bril-liance and it is gratifying to see that several Stanwell pupils are Welsh and British international athletes. The students interviewed for their sporting, musical and dramatic abilities are excellent role models to their peers. As a school, we encour-age all of our pupils to excel and continually seek to offer enhanced provision, guidance and support in order for each student to achieve his or her potential. It is with great pleasure that I announce the appointments of Miss S Owen, Mr M Lewis and Mr J Mansfield as Assistant Head Teachers. Merry Christmas and many thanks to all who have played a role in Stanwell’s con-tinuing success this term. Mr A. Lewis Acting Head Teacher.

Greetings from the School

School Announcements PTA Quiz

On the 21st January 2011 the P.T.A. Quiz Night takes place. Please contact the school office in January for tickets.

Grease This year’s Senior Christmas production is ‘Grease’ the musical, which is tak-ing place from Monday 13th to Thursday 16th December. Tickets are priced at £9 for adults and £7 for concessions. Please contact the school office for last minute tickets.

School Uniform Cardigans will become part of the school uniform from the start of January 2011.This suggestion came from the School Council and has been agreed by

the School Governors.

S C H O O L C A L E N D A R2 0 1 0 - 2 0 1 1

Please note some dates may need to be changed

SEPTEMBERMonday 6th Start of Autumn Term Monday 6th INSET Day Tuesday 14th Year 12 Enterprise Day Tuesday 21st Governors’ AGM Thursday 23rd Reports issued for Year 13 Thursday 23rd PTA AGM Friday 24th Year 12 Dragons’ Den

OCTOBERWeek beginning Monday 11th Primary school visits Wednesday 13th Open Day 3.00 p.m. - 6.00 p.m. Thursday 21st – Monday 25th Geography Trip to Iceland – KS4 & KS5

Monday 25th October - Friday 29th October - Autumn Half Term

NOVEMBERTuesday 2nd Year 7 Pastoral Evening Wednesday 3rd Higher Education Admissions Tests Thursday 4th Geography trip to Cadbury’s World – Year 8 Monday 8th November GCSE resits begin Friday 12th Admissions deadline for September 2011 (next year’s Year 7) Friday 12th Interim reports issued for Year 12 Tuesday 16th Year 13 Parents’ Evening Tuesday 30th Governors’ AGM with Parents

DECEMBERThursday 9th & Friday 10th School of Dreams Workshops (Year 7) Monday 13th – Thursday 16th School Production - Grease Friday 17th Last day of term for pupils

Monday 20th December – Monday 3rdJanuary - Christmas Holiday

JANUARYTuesday 4th Start of Spring Term – INSET dayWednesday 5th First day of term for pupilsWednesday 5th Year 12 examinations Week commencing Monday 10th

Monday 10th – Friday 4th February Interim Reports Years 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 issued Modular A/AS Level examinations

GCSE Modules (Science) Thursday 13th November GCSE results Tuesday 18th Year 11 Parents’ Evening Friday 21st PTA Quiz Friday 28th Reports issued for Year 12

FEBRUARYTuesday 1st Year 9 Parents’ Evening Tuesday 15th Year 11 Options Evening Friday 18th Ski Trip – KS4, KS5

Monday 21st February - Friday 25thFebruary - Spring Half Term

FEBRUARYMonday 28th Eisteddfod – Year 7

MARCHTuesday 1st Eisteddfod – Year 8 Tuesday 1st Year 8 Parents’ Evening Wednesday 2nd National RE Festival Event Thursday 3rd Eisteddfod – Year 9 Tuesday 8th School Photographs – Years 11 & 13 Thursday 10th A/AS & GCSE Science Modular results Tuesday 15th Year 12 Parents’ Evening Tuesday 22nd Year 10 Parents’ Evening

APRILTuesday 5th Year 8 Options Evening Tuesday 12th – Friday 22nd German Exchange Visit to Staufen Thursday 14th Cardiff & Vale Youth Wind Band Concert Friday 15th Ski Trip – KS3

Monday 18th April - Monday 2nd May - Easter Holidays

MAYTuesday 10th Year 7 Parents’ Evening Monday 16th A/AS/GCSE Examinations Monday 23rd Y10 Work Experience Preparation Day

Monday 30th May - Friday 3rd June - Half Term

JUNEMonday 13th Year 12 Work Experience Tuesday 21st Year 12 Parents’ Higher Education Evening Wednesday 22nd Sixth Form Induction Day for Year 11 Pupils Monday 27th Year 10 Geography Fieldwork Trip Monday 27th Year 9 Proto Toy Day

JULYTuesday 5th New Parents’ Evening – next year’s Year 7 Monday 11th Year 10 Work Experience Thursday 21st End of school year for pupils(subject to change) Friday 22nd, Monday 25th

& Tuesday 26thINSET days

AUGUSTThursday 18th A Level Results Thursday 25th GCSE Results

SEPTEMBERMonday 5th Start of Autumn Term Monday 5th INSET day Tuesday 6th Start of term for pupils

SCHOOL HOLIDAY DATES 2010/2011 Term Begin Half Term End No. of School

Days Begin End

Autumn 2010

Monday 6 Sept 2010

Monday 25 Oct 2010

Friday 29 Oct 2010

Friday 17 Dec 2010

70

Spring 2011

*Tuesday 4 Jan 2011

Monday 21 Feb 2011

Friday 25 Feb 2011

Friday 15 April

2011 69

Summer 2011

Tuesday 3 May 2011

Monday 30 May

2011

Friday 3 June 2011

*Tuesday 26 July 2011

56

* See School Calendar for INSET days. TOTAL 195

S C H O O L H O L I D A Y D A T E S

2010 – 2011 Term Begin Half Term End

Begin End

Autumn 2010

*Tuesday

7 September 2010

Monday

25 October 2010

Friday

29 October 2010

Friday

17 December 2010

Spring 2011

Monday

4 January 2011

Monday

21 February 2011

Friday

25 February 2011

Friday

15 April 2011

Summer

2011

Tuesday 3 May 2011

Monday 30 May

2011

Friday 3 June 2011

Friday 22 July

2011

* First day of term for pupils: Monday 6th September is an INSET day. There are two further INSET days to be arranged. Parents will be notified of these when the school calendar is issued in October.

2011 – 2012 Term Begin Half Term End

Begin End

Autumn 2011

*Tuesday

6 September 2011

Monday

24 October 2011

Friday

28 October 2011

Friday

16 December 2011

Spring 2012

Tuesday

3 January 2012

Monday

13 February 2012

Friday

17 February 2012

Friday 5 April

2012

Summer 2012

Monday 23 April

2012

Monday 28 May

2012

Friday 1 June 2012

Wednesday

25 July 2012

* First day of term for pupils: Monday 5th September is an INSET day. The above dates are in line with other Vale of Glamorgan schools. We do not expect the dates to change but reserve the right to do so.

a bowler than a batter”, and that her cricketing

has allowed her to compete against other counties, Gloucestershire, for example. On followed Natalie Gill (Year 10 gymnast). Natalie was very modest – endearingly so, in fact; she reeled off her achievements – most notably a gold in the British Gymnastics Finals – and detailed her intensive training routine (four sessions a week, poor girl!) Nonetheless, she told me, she feels as though it is worth the effort. And I do not doubt her; only last week-end had she won a bronze for her perform-ance in a regional competition. The concluding interviewee was Matteo Holmes (Year 10 athlete). He was an interest-ing figure to observe; his character oozed a quiet, assured confidence. And one could be left with little doubt as to why this was follow-ing the blitz of medals he has won. A weekly diet of two hours javelin and likewise for ham-mer has resulted in: Welsh Championships – gold in hammer, bronze in discus and javelin; Welsh Inter-regional Championships – gold in hammer and javelin; South Wales Inter-regional Championships – gold in hammer and javelin. What I found most intriguing about all of the above was their modesty; they had no real inclination to compile grandiose lists of awards and appearances. Rather, I had to prise the details of their achievements out of them! Matteo’s closing line epitomised this for me: “Anything else?” I enquired after the im-pressive résumé (jokingly, of course). “A cou-ple, yeah” was his response. Marvellous. Written by TGH. With thanks to Caitlin

Couper.

Interviews English A Level students have enjoyed

interviewing sporting and musical stars of the school. First into the room was Tom Downey Year 11, trombonist. A reserved character in spite

of his imposing figure, he swiftly divulged his instrument of choice – the trombone – and his ensuing success: in March he played in Carnegie Hall, New York as a part of the Cardiff County and Vale of Glamorgan Wind Band. He hopes to progress into orchestras one day, perhaps even giving lessons. Not bad for someone who took up the trombone on the basis that “there were no trumpets left!” Following his punctual departure, Emma Da-vies (Year 8 cricketer) joined us. Emma,

having started her career in cricket during her primary school years, was picked for Wales by the time she was eleven – an hon-our she has retained to this day as a mem-ber of the All Girls Welsh Under 15s. She went on to inform me that she “was more of

“a gold in the British Gymnastics Finals”

What was it like when you went to the Commonwealth Games? There was quite a relaxed atmosphere in Team GB. The facilities were excellent in the International zone; there was a 50m pool, a gym and loads to do when you weren’t competing or training. We couldn’t go outside very much as the heat was too draining. I already knew David Davies as he is my teammate at Cardiff and he intro-duced me to the rest of the team like Re-becca Adlington the Double gold Olympic medal winner and James Goddard. What are your plans for the future? I’m taking a gap year next year to concen-trate on swimming as that time will be cru-cial in the run-up to the 2012 Olympic Games and I really want to be picked. I am the British junior record holder for the 200m medley and I also compete in the freestyle 200m and 400m, so I am defi-nitely aiming to be in the GB Squad for London 2012.

Lloyd Chalke, Year 12, is a Welsh Youth International rugby centre. He also plays for Cardiff Blues Under 18 team and is contracted to the Cardiff Blues academy.

Interviews

Ieuan Lloyd, Year 13, has represented both Wales and Great Britain at interna-tional swimming competitions such as the Commonwealth Games and the European Junior Championships. He has been selected for the Great Britain World Class Development Squad which allo-cates funding to the most promising ath-letes. His next challenge is February’s GB v Germany Senior duel meet. Ieuan, how old were you when you took up swimming? My dad first took me swimming when I was 3 and when I was five, my older sis-ter Megan got picked for the Cardiff swimming trials. I went along too and im-pressed the coaches. Since then, I’ve worked my way up all the squads to the top squad. What are the most important elements in your training regime? I have 10 training sessions a week of around 90 minutes each. These take place before and after school and also at the weekend so it’s a massive commit-ment. I don’t really have a specific die-tary regime, I just have to be sensible and healthy most of the time with what I eat.

“aiming to be in the GB Squad for London 2012”

Owen, when did you realise that you were such a good runner? That happened during the Sports Day when I was in Year 7 as I won the 1500m race by a big margin. I then joined Barry and Vale Harriers and went to train at Jen-ner Park. I started training 2 or 3 times a week and now I’m up to training every day, sometimes twice a day. Do you still take part in athletics events or do you just focus on cross country now? All winter I do cross-country but I still run track events in the summer. I run the 800m, 1500m and the 3 and 5 kilometer races. My favourite event is cross-country though. What are your objectives for the future? I would love to get picked for an Olympic track event and I want to compete in the next Commonwealth Games. With Cross country, I want to make it to the European and World Cross Country Championships representing Great Britain at the highest level.

Interviews

Lloyd, at what age did you become interested in rugby? When I was in junior school, I only played football but when I came up to Year 7 in Stanwell, some friends told me that I should try out for Penarth RFC. Within a month, I had not only been picked for the Penarth team but also for the Cardiff and Vale district team! How did you decide which position to play? I had watched rugby with friends before starting to play and I always knew I wanted to be a back. Because of my size and weight, I thought I’d be better suited to centre and that’s the position I’ve al-ways stayed in. As a member of the Cardiff Blues and Wales youth teams, do you ever get to meet any of the senior players? Yes, we see them all regularly at the training centres. At under 16 level, I played alongside George North. Martyn Williams and Gethin Jenkins are the players that speak to the youth team the most. Who are your sporting role models and what are your dreams for the fu-ture? Sonny Bill Williams the New Zealand centre is the player that I admire the most. My ambition is to be a senior Inter-national for Wales and to get British Li-ons caps.

Owen Haswell represents the Welsh Cross Country team at Under-20 level. He has competed in the Home Countries Cross Country International against run-ners from England, Scotland and all-Ireland.

“make it to the European and World Cross Country Championships”

Untold Stories Exhibition

Stanwell School was pleased to be of-fered the opportunity to contribute to the “Untold Stories” exhibition, held at the Art Central Gallery in King’s Square, Barry. The purpose of the exhibition is to dis-play pieces of work, including art work, poetry and textiles to commemorate indi-viduals who have suffered in past events and also pay homage to brave heroes past and present. Pupils were encouraged to focus on the Holocaust or one of the World Wars. However, the contribution could also be about a famous individual from history or someone (past or present) who has acted in a brave or humane manner and made a difference to people’s lives. As anticipated, an impressive number of pupils were eager to contribute to this initiative. The exhibiters visited the Art and Textiles departments and were highly impressed with the standard of work on display. The exhibition is an initiative to help commemorate Holocaust Memorial Day 2011. The exhibition is working in alli-ance with the Welsh Assembly Govern-ment and the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust. The exhibition is situated in the Art

Central Gallery in King Square until the end of January. Opening times are Tues-day till Saturday, 10am-4pm. Some pupils chose a family member as their inspiration for this competition; for example Amelia Rowlands produced a creative piece dedicated to her great, great uncle Archibald Rowlands who was a key figure in the War Office during the Second World War.

“pay homage to brave heroes past and present”

Mr G . Penny

Untold Stories Exhibition

Year 7 - Poppy Wilde, Katy Gibbs, Josh James, Kiyan Tavanaie, Ella Buehner Gattis, Hugo Dodd, Dominic Littlemore, Olivia Hann, Tristan Good-way-Sims, Jacob Troth, Liza Anna Kiss, Joel Cockerill Evans, Calum Wincott, Beth Macmillan, Kirsty Jones, Jonathan Iqnacio, Morgann Rees, Paul Monaghan, Ella Robert-sem, Seren Lewis, Dafydd Jones, Sophia Holmes, Harri Pain, Caitlin Ellis, Lucy Richards, Clara Hall, Lily Machlab, Rachel Short and Emily Wooster Year 8 - Emilie Waite, Eric Aydin, Cerys Salter, Morgan Bird, Jac Hum-phreys, Amelia Rowlands, Jessica Boland, Stuart Keeling, Sarah Brab-ham, Olivia Hamzelou, Rebecca Villis, Phoebe Christie, Jenny Arthur, Tho-mas Keenan, Andraya Campbell, Mor-gan Jones, Kate Wilkins and Maisie Hallett Year 9 - Silvia Suliokaite, Kathleen Ahearne, Channing Davies, Ellie Trott, Leah Wenger, Grace Lloyd-Williams and Jessie Preece Year 10 - Emma Smith, Daniel Skentel-bery and Robyn Grant Year 13 - Amy Evans

'There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.’ – Maya Angelou

We hope that many pupils and their families will take an interest and visit this impressive exhibition. A special thanks and congratulations to the pupils who have worked so hard to contribute to this initiative. There has been a consid-erable level of enthusiasm and the les-sons of these stories serve as an inspi-ration to us all.

After much deliberation the following pupils' pieces of work were selected for the exhibition:-

“Pupils ...worked so hard to contribute to this initiative”

Mr G . Penny

to all pupils, parents and staff for making Stanwell a ‘Green Environment’ to be. During Eco Stanwell week 2010 the whole

school considered the sustainability of mo-bile phones. Students considered in depth the impact that consumer choices have on resources and conflicts around the world. Did you know: There are 45,000 mobile phones in use

in the UK at this moment. 77% of the population use a mobile

phone. 90% of 15 - 25 year olds own a mobile

phone. In 2000, the estimated demand for mobile phones and other electronic goods was at a record high. The price of coltan on the world market in December 2000 reached $400 per lb compared with less than $50 per lb in January 2000. As a result of the coltan boom, workers in the Congo who had earned $1 a day were able to earn $80 a day as miners. All across eastern Congo large numbers of people from all sections of the community, including chil-dren, rushed to join the 'Coltan Boom'. Help! Please could you help us with our Christ-mas Card campaign. As part of a county competition students are asked to collect Christmas cards for recycling. The pupil with the most cards wins a prize. Last Year Jack Powell Year 9 won £100 by col-lecting 1007 cards. See Ms H Morgan for more details.

Eco-Schools

Eco Stanwell September 2010 saw the introduction of our new Eco Stanwell committee, I would like to take this opportunity to intro-duce our new members: Pupils YEAR 7: Emily Ross,Bethan Hearne Jamie Green YEAR 8: Lucy Bond, Harvey Atkins YEAR 9: Utako Wirth YEAR 10: Leonor Worssam, Emelie Johnson YEAR 11: Seren Vickers, Joe Ingram YEAR 12: Corey Alcock,Helen Brabham YEAR 13: Barcley Nickels, Jessica Herrity The committee meet once a half term to discuss environmental issues that are impacting on our school. The aim of the committee is to ensure that the whole school is working towards our environ-mental goal: ‘Stanwell School wishes to excel at promoting en-vironmental awareness throughout the school and the wider community by encouraging respect for

the environment throughout all aspects of the school life’.

Current topics include: litter, conserva-tion, energy, reduction of plastic cups and promotion of recycling practices within the school. Eco Stanwell has a number of action plans to work towards this year: Creating a Conservation Area Reducing the use of plastic cups Reducing Energy consumption in the

school Promoting global issues e.g. mobile

phones In November Stanwell School achieved its Second Green Flag Award as Awarded by Keep Wales Tidy. Thank you

“Working towards a sustainable future”

Ms H Morgan

(both Year 13). We asked why they chose to be part of the production this year. They both explained that they were in last year’s production and it was such an incredible and massively popular show that it was a “no-brainer” in deciding whether or not to participate this year! We also asked how the cast were feeling about the show at this mo-ment in time. Thom noted that “the general feeling in the group is one of mass excitement, I feel particularly proud of the show so far and now see-ing the staging and costumes coming together really has put a lot of pride into people’s performances. There’s a sense that you’d be letting the team down if you gave a lack-lustre perform-ance.” Watching the show coming together with cast, crew and music is really proving how strong Stanwell school

productions can be, with the dedicated influence of the teachers and pupils alike, this year’s musical extravaganza seems set to be just as successful as its predecessors.

Grease the musical We talked to the cast of the senior musical ‘Grease’, in order to see how the production is coming along with the curtain call fast approaching. The general excitement about the show seems to be building by the day and

the cast and teachers are working countless hours in order to create a magnificent spectacle. Danny Zuko, leader of the T-birds, played by Taite Drew (Year 11) is paired with Sandy, played by Emma Campbell (Year 13). After asking both of them how they were feeling about playing the lead roles they said, “we’re very excited to be playing such well known characters, with Grease’s popularity being on such a global scale, this gave it an added pressure as everyone knows the songs.” They continued by saying that they both felt very pleasantly surprised for getting the chance to be the leads and are feeling apprehensive about their per-formances. Kenickie & Rizzo are the other “loved-up” stage couple played by Lowri Protheroe and Thom Stephanakis

“feel particularly proud of the show “

Duke of Edinburgh Award Scheme

This year has seen record numbers of participants taking up the Bronze Duke of Edinburgh Award Scheme. The aim is to develop the opportunity for expedi-tions to be completed through the me-dium of canoeing or kayaking. The walk-ing expedition section will still be an inte-gral part of the scheme and will be un-dertaken during the summer term. Many of the successful Bronze Award participants have continued onto the Sil-ver Award. This means the expedition section is for 3 days and 2 nights. This is also the second year that Stan-well have had so many pupils hoping to participate in the Gold Award scheme that we have an open Gold group. These participants include Corey Al-cock, Niall Armstrong, Emily Chick, Ben Cockerill Evans, Alys Davies, Zoe Farbrace, Sam Harries, Grace Jen-kins, Tom Knight, Stuart Macleod, Tom Pain, Cem Papaker, Iestyn Penry Williams, Andrew Sims, Caroline Smee, Andrew Somers, Rose Tuthill, Rhys Ward, Eleanor Way, Faye Wig-more and Josh Woodcock. These pu-pils need to complete the 4 sections of the Award, the expedition section being 4 days and 3 nights. The Gold partici-pants also have to do a further section to the Award—a residential section. The expedition dates have been provi-sionally set for next year. They are as follows: Bronze Award Sat 5th March—Cowbridge Fri 24th June—Sat 25th June

Overnight practice Sat 2nd July—Sun 3rd July Assessed expedition to the Gower. Silver Award Fri 25th Match - Sat 26th March Practice to Hay on Wye Fri 1st April—Sun 3rd April Assessed expedition to Brecon. The open Gold participants should be completing their expedition in the following September, as well as those Bronze par-ticipants undertaking a canoeing expedi-tion. Well done to the following open Gold par-ticipants who have recently completed their expedition in Mid Wales 29th Sep-tember to 3rd October. They are Georgia Dodd, Laura Morgan, Laura Flynn, Dan Phillips, Caitlin Couper, Alice Davies, David King, Thom Stephanakis, Jack Kinnersley, Jamie Lam, Nick Williams, Hal Szary and Amila Alim. I was de-lighted to receive a letter from the Expedi-tion Assessor on the standard of the par-ticipants who said they stood out as being particularly competent and able to fulfil the challenge and that they have achieved the expedition section of the Award in the most difficult of conditions. Many thanks to all the staff, parents and those at the Vale for their continued sup-port without which the Award could not be so successful.

“standard of the participants “

Miss H Jenkins

Art Untold Stories Exhibition

As preparation for Holocaust Memorial Day 2011, pupils from Stanwell School were invited to respond to the theme of ‘Untold Stories’ through their art work. Art pieces ranged from illustrations of war poetry to portraits of inspirational family members. Well done to the follow-ing pupils who have been successful in having their work exhibited at ‘Art Cen-tral’ at Barry Town Hall. Selected work will continue to tour the country. Y7: Poppy Wilde,Katy Gibbs, Josh James, Kiyan Tavanaie, Ella Buehner Gattis, Hugo Dodd, Dominic Lit-tlemore, Olivia Hann, Tristan Good-way-Sims, Jacob Troth, Liza Anna Kiss, Joel Cockerill Evans, Calum Wincott, Beth Macmillan, Kirsty Jones, Jonathan Iqnacio, Morgan Rees, Paul Monaghan, Ella Robertson, Seren Lewis, Dafydd Jones, Sophia Holmes, Harri Pain, Caitlin Ellis, Lucy Richard, Clara Hall, Lily Machlab, Ra-chel Short, Emily Wooster. Y8:Emilie Waite, Eric Aydin, Cerys Salter, Mor-gan Bird, Jac Humphreys, Amelia Rowlands, Jessica Boland, Stuart Keeling, Sarah Brabham, Olivia Hamzelou, Rebecca Villis, Phoebe Christie, Jenny Arthur, Thomas

Keenan, Andraya Campbell, Morgan Jones, Kate Wilkins, Maisie Hallett. Y9: Silvia Suliokaite, Kathleen Ahearne. Y10:Emma Smith, Daniel Skentelbery. Y13: Amy Evans. Tate Britain Photo of London Trip

On the 25th November, our sixth form vis-ited Tate Britain in London to develop their critical analysis of other artists’ work. Stu-dents worked in selected rooms to embel-lish their journals and collate information for units 1 and 3. WashingtonGallery Continuing their gallery visits, members of the 6th form visited an exhibition of the work of Helga Prosser and Helen Mowatt

“successful in having their work exhibited”

Ms R Lewis

Department News

‘In Flanders Fields’ by Tristan Goodway Sims, 7L

Art Ms R Lewis

“developed their knowledge of the formal elements of art and design”

at the Washington Gallery on Sunday 24th

October. Manga Club Manga is a popular style of Japanese comic strip cartoons. Pupils attending Manga Club this term have been shown how to create figures in the Manga style and have started to develop their own Manga characters. The pupils will ulti-mately be able to incorporate their new characters into a chosen story or comic strip of their own design. Whilst learning how to create this style of image the pupils have developed their knowledge of the for-mal elements of art and design, possible careers in the arts industry and are encour-aged to use a variety of creative skills. Club members include: Jessica Boland, Patrick Charleson, Sam Chimuzi, Anton Elliot, Caitlin Ellis, Meg Hann, Sophia Holmes, James Lewis, Jason Machlab, Lily Machlab, Katie Macleod, Jane Nor-ton, Ella Robertson, Keira Ryan, Emily Walters, Ellie Webster, Sam Whilstshire and Johnathan Wright. Primary Liaison The Art & Design Department really en-joyed working with Year 6 pupils who worked with tremendous enthusiasm to produce excellent mono prints based on Japanese design.

Key Stage 3 Art Club Art Club members are given opportunities to develop their artwork by receiving addi-tional support with class based activities

and participating in National or local com-petitions. During this term members of the Art Club have been developing entries for the Global Canvas Competition, based around the theme of Tomorrow’s World. Whilst attending the club pupils are encour-aged to expand their practical skills when using a wide range of media. Club mem-bers include : Tim Burns, Alicia Chapple, Abbie Isaacs, Seren Lewis, Harri Pain, Morgan Rees, Lucy Richards and Ella Smith.

Business Studies

Young Enterprise has got off to a flying start since September! Currently we have two groups running in Year 10 and Year 12. The businesses are run and managed by the students through-out the academic year. Year 10 Manag-ing Director is Tom Davies, Year 12 Managing Director is Steph Leech. Both MDs will have important roles throughout the year, motivating their teams and coordinating the businesses’ activities.

(Year 10 Team)

Open Day was a great success for the teams with a range of different enter-prising gaming activities taking place. These included ‘Beat the Welsh Stig’, ‘Name the Teddy’, Guitar Hero, and ‘Guess the number of sweets’. Stu-dents had also taken the time to create handcrafted items to sell at the event including key rings, bookmarks and cards. The teams made over £200 be-tween them at the event. This money has now gone towards paying their reg-

istration fees and for developing their new business entrepreneurial ideas.

(Year 12 Team)

The Year 9s have started the GCSE course well and have been studying a range of topics including ‘Managing their Money’ and ‘Financial Responsibil-ity and Decision making’. All students have made an excellent start to the topic ‘Big Innovation Ideas’ where they have been designing and marketing a new product for the UK market. Stu-dents have shown incredible teamwork and communication skills with the pres-entation of their ideas.

Homework Club has been well attended by students wishing to improve on the quality of the work and gain additional support from their subject teachers.

Young Enterprise has got off to a flying start!

Mrs J Macnamara

Drama

“credit to the talented performers”

spooky ITV Drama’ A bouquet of barbed wire’. Another star from Spooks, Robert Bathurst made up the cast with West End Star Ruthie Henshall also appearing. Class work is going very well with year 7 enjoy-ing studying Welsh Folk stories, year 8 studying ‘Bugsy Malone’ and year 9 looking at Willy Russell’s famous musical play ‘Blood Brothers’. The recent year 9 assessment was a credit to the talented performers we have here at Stanwell. Year 10 have been shocked by the real life case of Derek Bentley and are currently in the process of their very first devised piece. This means that students create completely original drama from scratch based on a stimulus. With such a serious stimulus I have been impressed by students’ sen-sitivity and maturity. Year 11 are just about to complete 30 % of their controlled assessment and we wish them very well with this. Year 12 and 13 are also about to embark on practical coursework. Good luck to them too. Extra curricular activities have been impressive this term with Lowri Protheroe, Leilah Harriet and Seren Vickers being part of The Royal Welsh Col-lege of Music and Drama’s Young Actors Studio. Many students are also considering auditioning to be part of the prestig-ious National Youth Theatre of Wales. We wish them all the best. The following sixth form pupils are planning to audition for Drama School or do a degree in the subject: Lowri Protheroe, Alex Mancuso, Emma Campbell and Alex Varney. And remember ’Grease is still the word!’.

The Drama department is very busy at the moment rehearsing for our senior production ‘Grease’. Script and choreography rehearsals are well under way and students have shown much positivity and enthusiasm for the pro-ject. We have high hopes the production will

be a sell out just like previous Stanwell pro-ductions. The AS and A level students recently visited The Theatre Royal in Bath to see a production of Noel Coward’s ‘Blythe Spirit’. The stu-

dents were excited to meet stars of stage and screen such as Alison Steadman who plays Pamela in the hit TV programme ‘Gavin and Stacey’. Hermione Norris who has appeared in ‘Cold Feet’, ‘Spooks’ and recently the

Miss R Davies

Food Technology

Year 11 have made a great start this term in their assessment work. They have shown commitment and creativity in their designs of chilled deserts and pasta.

Years 9 and 10 have been busy making and decorating a range of cake and pastry products that have been truly scrumptious.

Year 8 have exceeded all ex-pectations in their practical work, creating sophisticated and exotic meals such as sushi, calzone, paella and lasagne.

Year 7 have shown great potential and ambition in their cake projects making some truly unique, decorative cakes.

EESW Again this year a team of enthusiastic Yr12 stu-dents consisting of Helen Brabham, Katie Row-lands,Andrew Simms, Alex Samual, Rosie Tuthill and Danial Luxton, will participate in the Engineering Education scheme in Wales. For a 3rd year we have been teamed with Aberthaw power station and have been set a challenging task. The team have already had an informative site visit and gained further understanding of the project. The team will be working to solve the prob-lem over the coming months. Go4Set

Seven pupils from Yr9 : Kathleen Adheren, Megan Wokey, Jay Kupria, James Humpage, Alasdair Cavelair, Jack Powell and Tommy Hig-gins, have embarked on the Go4set engineering scheme. Following the launch event we have been linked with ARUP engineers in Cardiff and have been set the task of designing a new sports venue for the Penarth area. The team have discussed ideas with the link engineer and are currently pre-paring for a presentation in February.

It has been a very busy start to an exciting year GCSE Year 9 and 10 have made a fantastic start to the GCSE course and are building upon their skills. Pupils are looking forward to their next project where they will be making products in a range of media. Year 11 Year 11 are settling into their CAT projects. Pu-pils are producing some good quality work and are looking forward to producing the artefacts after Christmas. KS3 Year 7 pupils have been working on a wide range of projects from hats to lights. Pupils are enjoying the project and are producing some excellent work. The bag project in year 8 continues to be a suc-cess. Pupils have produced a range of bags in-cluding Boot bags, hand bags, tote bags and drawstring bags. The food project and electronic game continue to generate a great deal of inter-est and enthusiasm. Open Evening Year 9 pupils Silvija Suliokaite, Jessie Preece, Leah Wenger, Megan Morgan, Grace Lloyd-Williams and Ellie Trott produced excellent tex-tile pieces to exhibit in the ‘untold stories exhibi-tion’. The exhibits have been chosen by the Arts Council. Well done Girls! Once again pupils have helped with the demonstration of both ma-terials and equipment, particular thanks to Amila Alim. After School Textiles Club Pupils are encouraged to attend the workshops after school to complete projects and to increase their machine skills or for any extra support.

Design Technology

All year groups have made a fantastic start to the year. Years 11, 12 and 13 are currently final-izing the designs ready for manufacture next term. Three members of the 6th form; Amila Alim, Beth Owens andJamie Lam have enjoyed suc-cess earlier this term. Their projects from last year were selected for the WJEC innovation awards and were on display for two weeks at venues across the country.

Design Technology

“exhibits have been chosen by the Arts Council”

Mr N Gifford

Economics and Politics

growth and minimum unemployment si-multaneously. This was followed by a dis-cussion of the causes, effects and possi-ble solutions for poverty in a country like this. Sixth Form It is a pleasure to report that three stu-dents in year thirteen are attempting to gain entry to Oxbridge—two for P,P and E at Oxford (David King and Jack Kinner-sley) and one for Economics at Cam-bridge—Martin Boden. This group has been studying the macro—economy, the case for and against the cuts in public expenditure and arguments for and against our joining the euro—topical indeed. The year thirteen group have been study-ing whether or not our political system sustains an ‘elective dictatorship’ and whether or not there is a crisis in participa-tion and should this crisis be addressed by making voting compulsory. The formation of the coalition has provoked many inter-esting questions too—are ‘hung’ parlia-ments likely to be a regular feature from now on? What are the implications of the UK adopting the AV system for General Elections for a smaller Commons elected via constituencies of more equal size? We have been impressed with the quality of presentations produced by the A2 group on ‘Aspects of the US Presidency’ - these presentations help satisfy some of the re-quirements of the Welsh Baccalaureate qualification. Particularly impressive have been the efforts of Peter Woolley, Amy Evans, Holly Flynn, Alex Wing and Laura Thomas.

“quality of presentations produced by the A2 group “

Economics has proved to be a popular choice with students choosing their op-tions either in year nine or ten. Year ten students have recently completed their ’Guide to the Local Car Market’ mini-projects. They produce a ‘Which’ style re-port, offering recommendations and ‘ones to avoid’ in three price categories. This covers the syllabus requirements of budgeting, personal life-cycle issues and competition between suppliers. Among many good efforts Lauren Beeslee, Emma Hughes and Emma Berry pro-duced first-class work. Year 10 As part of their study of how firms com-pete the year ten group have just played the ‘Fresh Oven Pies’ business game. Each team has to decide on its price, out-put and advertising budget. Their orders are influenced both by these decisions and those of their rivals in a market that is first growing then shrinking. The most profitable team and hence the winners were the team comprising Victoria Ling, Harry Fudge and Lucy Mort who proved adept at matching supply and demand at a profit-maximising price. At the time of writing this group is under-taking a project on the ‘Best bank ac-count for fifteen year olds’ using weighted criteria. Year 11 Year eleven students have been learning about the macro-economy—how we measure economic performance and what tools the Govt has at its disposal for trying to achieve low inflation, economic

Mr J Boggan

English Magazine writers’ club All the English teachers are very proud that some of the very best young writers in Stanwell have formed a writing society under the able leadership of Kirsty Woodford, Year 13. Members meet every Monday in the resource centre to discuss current affairs and decide on topics for their articles. Around 30 young writers attend each week and are guided in their efforts by the senior editorial team consisting of Kirsty as Chief Editor; Tom Harry Year 13, Political Correspon-dant; Kim Lewis Year 12, Home Affairs; Bill Jones Year 13, Science and Tech-nology; Frankie Law Year 11, Entertain-ment; Laura Thomas Year 13, Legal Af-fairs; Alice Fudge Year 12, Fashion and Media. Lauren Beeslee, Tom Rose, Ellen Rowlands, Millie Earp and Laura Gilbert who are all Year 10 pupils, are the senior feature writers. The society always welcomes new members of all ages and plans for a trip to London to visit the Houses of Parliament are being discussed.

Japanese penfriends Year 7 have been writing penfriend letters to Futsu Chu-Gakku (Futsu Junior High School) in Kyushu, Southern Japan. Stan-well students have been telling Japanese pupils about life in Wales, our festivals and culture and what it's like to be a pupil at our school. They are eagerly anticipating their replies from Japan in the new year. The standard of pupils’ work on this topic has been superb in terms of content and presentation.

Mini sagas Miss Light’s Year 8 class have been devis-ing pared down short stories for the na-tional mini sagas competition. This in-volves creating an entire story in no more than 50 words! Some of the entries so far have been true feats of ingenuity. Open Day The school’s open day was a very busy time for the English Department, with many prospective parents of Year 7 and Year 12 taking the opportunity to discuss the curriculum with members of staff. Miss James and Miss Phillips ran a creative writing workshop and Mrs Sheldon held an interactive literature quiz.

“Pupils’ work….superb in terms of content and presentation”

Miss S Owen

Geography

“Autumn Term Has Been Very Fieldwork Friendly!”

Fieldwork Fun! Geography has been fieldwork friendly this term with a visit to Iceland - the country, not the supermarket! During October half term a large group of GCSE and A Level students spent 5 days visiting a huge array of geographical sites and scenery in this amazing country. Geysers, waterfalls, black volcanic beaches, the Mid-Atlantic ridge, hot springs, geothermal power stations, volcanoes and glaciers were just a few of the amazing places of interest on our fun filled itinerary. Pupils even had time to experience Icelandic Horse Riding, visit Reykjavik’s famous Ice Bar, undertake a Zip Wire Challenge across the River Varma and swim in the famous geothermal Blue Lagoon! In contrast, Year Eight visited Cadbury World in Birmingham to complement their unit of study entitled “The Geography of Chocolate”. Pupils experienced a talk on The Location of Industry and the benefits of Fair Trade; developing an empathy and understanding of issues surrounding farming in LEDCs. A tour of the factory and some free samples were gladly accepted and a visit to the Chocolate museum and the interactive exhibition were also thoroughly enjoyed. Year 12 AS Level students were fortunate enough to be invited to a Tectonics Conference in London, learning about the cause and impact of volcanic and earthquake hazards around the world. Guest speakers included Dr Iain Stewart from the BBC TV series

“Power of the Planet”. Well informed students are now ready to tackle their first AS Level examination with added interest and case study materials to

enhance their exam answers!

Open Day

An eventful evening was had by all in the Geography department, with Chocolate tasting, fair trade quizzes and interactive map games entertaining both pupils and parents alike. Pupils were astonished at how much profit a typical chocolate bar company makes and most were ready to support, or at least sample, some Fair Trade chocolate by the end of their visit.

Ms H Morgan & Mrs R Selman

Fieldwork fashion at its best!!!

A warm dip in the Blue Lagoon

History It has been another busy and enjoyable term in the History Department. Highlights have included the October Open Evening with a Medieval theme. The opportunity to test their archery skills was enjoyed by both pupils and parents alike! The department was delighted that so many History Club members came along to help out including: Lewis Bennett (7T), Sebastian Gordon-Davies (7X), Emily Pearce (7X), Elizabeth McCulloch (7E), Lydia Ferriday (8O), Amy Gifford (8O) and Lauren Vowles (8W).

History Club has once again been a roaring success with an enthusiastic group of pupils from Years 7, 8 and 9 all eager to learn about History outside the classroom environment. They have been meeting regularly on a Mon-day after school and have been creating dis-plays on topics such as famous assassina-tions that will be exhibited in several of the History classrooms. They have also demon-strated their creative skills in preparing and creating props for the Open Evening.

History pupils have studied a lot of interesting key issues this term. In Year 7 pupils have been learning about the Battle of Hastings and who became King of England in 1066.

Year 8 have enjoyed performing plays to find out why Henry VIII got married 6 times and why Elizabeth decided not to marry at all! They thoroughly enjoyed their visit to the Tower of London in November especially seeing the place where Anne Boleyn and Catherine How-ard were executed. They also had a great time exploring the cultural side to London; espe-cially visiting Covent Garden and seeing Blood Brothers in the West End.

At GCSE level Year 9 and 10 have been studying the problems and challenges of 1920s America including the Prohibition and the rise of gangsters. Both Years have made an encouraging and enthusiastic start to the course. Well done!

Year 11 have been examining life in Nazi Ger-many before and during World War II. Re-cently they have studied the reasons for the Holocaust and the impact of war on Germany.

“History pupils have studied a lot of interesting key issues this term”

Mr G Morgan

Information Technology

As part of Stanwell School’s Transition arrange-ments, the ICT department played host to pupils from Albert, Sully and Evenlode Primary Schools earlier in the term. The aim of the project is to enable pupils in year 6 to use the ICT Depart-ments software in preparation for when pupils come to Stanwell in September 2011. Following on from the transition activities, parents were able to see the work that their children had produced during the school Open Day. Open Evening was again a big success, a big thank you to all pupils who supported the department. The ICT depart-ment had its regular Cyber Cafe; delicious cakes

were baked this time by Isabel Grafton 7R and Abby Mills 7K, thank you girls! Key Stage 4 pu-pils, Robert Turton 9M, Kieran Gibbs 9O, Kyle Strenstrom 9R, Zed Strong 9K and Corrie Wolfenden 10E, helped organise and advertise the Games Zone. This allowed parents and Year 6 pupils to experience both playing games, with the Nintendo Wii, and game creation, using the latest Mission Maker software. At KS3 we have been developing pupils web design and databases skills and many pupils

have shown a high level of ability in class com-pleting good work and offering support to others when it was needed. Key Stage 4 pupils in year 10 have produced some excellent work this term, particularly Riyad Auckbarally, Nicholas Pimlott, Chelsea Mace and Sian Moss . Pupils have very successfully

started to create their own online blog which will act as a project diary and they are enjoying updating this at the end of each lesson. Pupils are already achiev-ing a very high standard of work in lessons and this is a very pleasing start to the course. With coursework deadlines looming for year 11 pupils ,they have been working hard to complete their DIDA Unit 1 and Unit 3 coursework. Although homework clubs have been quiet this term, they have been very beneficial to those who have attended, being able to take full ad-vantage of the focused support from teachers. Some pupils have worked exceptionally well in their own time, notably Joe Keenan, Callum Masters, Alexan-der Williams, Ben Ware and Rachel Thompson.

In order to support pupils learning Stanwell School has introduced a Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) which aims to give pupils access to teaching and support resources both in school and at home . The ICT Department have now placed their sixth form and Key stage 4 resources online and aim to have their Key stage 3 resources online by mid December. where homework and marking will now be done elec-tronically, starting in the New Year.

URL : Moodle.Stanwell.org

Mr P Davies

Maths Once again the “Maths Mindbenders” on Open Day was a great success. Many current and potential pupils enjoyed the six-puzzle treasure hunt around the De-partment. A record number: 140, com-pleted the puzzles and received a certifi-cate and a bar of chocolate. The double Mathematicians in the Sixth Form took part in the “Senior UK Maths Challenge”, with the top student being Matin Boden in Year 13, who achieved a Gold certificate. Silver certificates went to the following Year 13s: Jack Law, Jack Yeo and Liz Elder. Bronze certificates were awarded to Tom Wil-liams, Year 13, Rhea Ghosal and Daniel Luxton, both Year 12. Our con-gratulations go to all of these for their achievements. Teams were entered in the University of Glamorgan's Under 19 and Under 17 Maths “Pub Quizzes”. Two Stanwell teams were entered in each competition, both competitions had 54 teams from 24 different schools.

In the Under 19 quiz the Year 13 team of Jack Yeo, Jordan Ford, Liz Elder and Martin Boden came joint 4th with the Year 12 team of Liam Pace, Daniel Lux-ton, Rhea Ghosal, Nial Armstrong and Wei Ong finishing 12th. In the Under 17 quiz the Year 11 team (pictured below) of Harry McDonough, Kai Cheung, Joe Ingram, Charles Fear and Frankie Law were 4th and the other Year 11 team of Rachel Fegan, Amy Palin, Joe Keenan, Seren Vickers and James Chaffey finished 12th. All the stu-dents enjoyed the afternoon competitions and did very well in our first year in the competitions.

The Key Stage 3 “Puzzle of the Week” competition has been enthusiastically re-ceived this term. A different Mathematical problem is set each week with a randomly selected correct entry drawn. The winners so far this term are : Year 7— Ethan Hutching, Lewis Bennet, Jamie Penberthy and Alex Hamzelou. Year 8— Daniel Roberts and Nicole But-ler. Year 9— Jack Powell. Homework Club for Year 11 has started and will be continuing on Mondays. This proved invaluable last year, producing very good results, and we look forward to seeing a positive response again this year.

“Teams finished 4th in both the Under 19 and Under 17 Maths Quiz competitions”

Mr M Lewis

Media & Film

The Media & Film department has much to celebrate so far this year and many things to look forward to in 2011. The first high point was on the GCSE and A Level results days in August, when staff were delighted to note the high stan-dards of attainment reached by most pu-pils. A*-C was 87% at GCSE and 100% of A Level pupils attained a D or higher—well done to all! The department has also started teach-ing the first year of A Level Film Studies. The new Year 9 cohort have made a confident start to their GCSE course and have already displayed their skills as me-dia analysts in recent textual deconstruc-tions. Pupils who have worked particu-larly well this term include Channing Da-vies, Lambert Kalongo, Joel Ringer and Kirsty Lam. Year 10 have been working hard on their induction course and have been focus-sing recently on constructing original film posters in preparation for their course-work. Creative work has already been produced by Megan Tunley, Zach Ghazi-Torbati, Louis Curtis, Ella But-ler-Kavanagh and Broni Coles. Year 11 pupils have been busy complet-ing pieces of coursework for their final folders based on ideas for posters adver-tising new teen films and excellent work has been done by Alana Thomas, Lisa Gourley and Joe Clissold. Year 13 pupils have been working hard this term on their coursework module, which is worth 50% of their total A2 grade. They have been producing re-

search investigations on topics of their own choosing and towards the end of term started planning their creative pieces. Par-ticularly strong pieces of work have been produced by Bethan Savoury, Sophie Chatham, Darren Breed, Becky Boyce and Alex Mancuso. Year 12 pupils are starting their coursework module soon and are already planning their films! Pupils who have already produced excellent work in-clude Olivia Davies, Jacob Smith, Jordan Holt, Sam Green, Jennifer Adams and Tom Campion. Earlier in the term, a group of our Year 12 & 13 students participated in National Film Week and visited the Odeon Cinema at Cardiff Bay for a special screening of James Cameron’s Avatar. The department also created the digital dis-plays for Stanwell’s production of ‘Grease’. Projections were used as part of the stage set with the original designs courtesy of Year 13 pupil, Matthew Goodfellow. Matt also helped with the production of the pro-gramme advertising the show. Film stu-dents from within the Media Department recorded the production for posterity!. Open Day was a great success this year. Year 12 & 13 coursework films were on show as was our portable lighting rig, film camera and editing suite.

“The Media & Film department has much to celebrate this year and many things to look forward to in 2011.”

Mr I O’Rourke

Modern Foreign Languages

This term has seen a big change for us in the Modern Languages department as we have decided to strengthen the ties between French and German resulting in more joint ventures. The first evidence of this was the “Europa Café” on Open day. It’s popu-larity was unaffected by the change of name and if anything the wider range of cakes available made it even more popu-lar!

There was a fabulous selection of cakes and biscuits, kindly baked by our tal-ented students. Eva Vestergaard (Y9) baked an authentic German “Gugelhopf” cake which was delicious. The “Decorate a cup cake” competition took place again and the entries were wonderful and very creative, making choosing the winners very difficult. Luck-ily PC Emma Mudie was on hand to help us select the winners.

First prize went to Isla Williams (Y13) with her very imaginative “Hamburger” cup cake.

Second prize went to Phoebe Christie (Y8) and joint third prize to Ellie Davis (Y13) and Emma Davies and Milly Wil-liams (Y8). Amy Yeo (Y7) also had a prize for the best presentation as her cup-cakes arrived in a beautiful box tied up with ribbon!

We also had a quiz where people had to identify why various German and French people were famous. This was won by Daniel Casseldine (Y7) with a little help from mum!

A big thank you to our helpers on the day: Martin Doyle (Y8), Ellie Davis (Y13), Er-genia Brusnitskaya (Y8) and Christina Bugert (Y8).

“The Europa Café on Open Day was a huge success!”

Mrs T Davis

Modern Foreign Languages

In September we celebrated the Euro-pean day of Lan-guages by giving pupils taster ses-sions in other lan-guages, such as Spanish, Italian and Russian.

The prize for the most adventurous teacher goes to Miss Lemon who taught some Swedish at the request of her Y11 class. Some very keen pupils had even been to Ikea to purchase some authentic Swedish food to add to the festivities and baked some traditional Swedish delights. In October a group of A level French stu-dents saw Truffaut’s “Les 400 Coups” (The 400 Blows) at Chapter Arts centre as part of the National Schools Film week. The pupils enjoyed their first experience of “New Wave” cinema, which was introduced by a senior lec-turer from Cardiff University. Planning for next year’s German ex-change has begun. In April we will be travelling to Staufen. Year 9 are looking forward to meeting up with their pen-friends again after spending a most en-

joyable ten days together in July. The year 8 pupils are being matched up and will soon be finding out the names of

their partners.

On the in-ternational front Mrs Symonds will be tak-ing a group of 55 Year 8 pupils to Paris in March next year. This is

a joint venture with the Welsh department to sample the St. David’s Day celebrations which take place in Disneyland Paris. Pu-pils will also be enjoying a boat trip down the Seine, a visit to the Eifel Tower and to the cathedral of Notre Dame. Lots of pupils in French and German have been working hard this term and we have awarded a record number of merit points and certificates. These pupils have then been entered into the monthly raffle draws and there have been lots of lucky winners. In German: Y8 Lucia Attanasio,Y9 Clara White Y10 Bryony Guerrier,Y11Joe Keenan Y8 Kira Geach, Y9 Megan Herritty, Y10 Nishma Bhatia, Y11 Sara Aeyad In French: Y7 Emily Geen, Y8 Lucy Bond, Y9 Elliott Davies, Y10 Laura Gilbert Y11 Anna Walsh Y7 Georgia Logan, Y8 Thomas Mullett, Y9 Fiona McGavin, Y10 Jack Baker, Y11 Kayleigh Porter

Joyeux Noël and Fröhliche Weihnach-ten to you all!

“We have awarded a record number of merit points and certificates this term.”

Mrs T Davis

Music

Following excellent summer results both at GCSE and A Level, we were soon steeped in serious auditioning when we decided to present the hot West End musical ‘Grease’. We obtained the rights to perform the show, and have been extremely busy in rehearsals ever since! The performances have been scheduled to take part Dec 13th -16th inclusive in the school auditorium - and at the time of writing, students are really looking forward to the performances. The production offers opportunity for crea-tive staging, exciting solo, ensemble and chorus pieces– not to forget our talented musicians, always accompanying the singing and dancing so professionally. Taite Drew in Year 11 has been cast as Dann

and Emma Campbell in Year 13 as Sandy. Other senior groups and Key Stage Three extra curricular music groups have also been working hard this term and have en-joyed building up repertoire and skills in

weekly after-school rehearsals. The senior jazz group and senior choir began learning their new repertoire in earnest at the start of term, and all Key Stage 3 music clubs such as Outsiders, Junior Jazz and Girl’s Choir have been preparing for a concert, which they hope to perform in the New Year. Girl’s Choir are singing songs such as ‘Put Your Records On’ and ‘What If’. Junior Jazz have been playing ‘I Feel Good’ and ‘Rock Around the Clock’. Out-siders (KS3 boys choir) have been per-forming songs such as ‘Dreaming of You’ and ‘Boulevard of Broken Dreams’. It is always such a pleasure to rehearse with our pupils as their hard work, obvious

talent and dedication brings superb re-wards.....all these groups will have an opportu-nity to perform publicly next term – so watch this space! Many pupils in Stanwell have peripatetic in-strumental or vocal lessons and the numbers this year are again high. It should be noted that the department has a selection of instru-ments available for pupils to learn, (these in-clude an oboe, bassoon and some cellos). If anybody is interested in learning, please see a member of the music department to find out more details, as pupils can sign up for lessons after Christmas. Many pupils have again attended Music Tech-nology workshops, which are held regularly after school and appeal to many pupils. Mr Reid, the music technician, has prepared courses which so many pupils really enjoy. The computer suites and the recording studio have been updated to include the latest ver-sions of Sibelius, Cubase and Reason - and this has been most beneficial, not only to Key Stage three classes , but especially to our cur-rent examination students who are working hard to produce compositions for their GCSE and AS / A Level coursework portfolios. Many pupils have been busily preparing them-selves for music practical examinations at the end of this term. We hope all your hard work has been worthwhile...and that you pass with flying colours. In addition, Stanwell is always well repre-sented in County Music concerts at the end of term, and all those involved deserve praise and recognition for their contribution. During the last week of term, many of our pupils will have performed in City Hall, St Davids Hall and Cardiff County Hall, in senior County groups such as Jazz News, the County Youth Choir and the County Youth Brass Band. Well done everybody.

Have a Happy Christmas!

“pleasure to rehearse with our pupils”

Mrs J Richards

Physical Education

Netball Year 7- This club has proved popular once again with over 40 girls attending every Wednesday after school. It has been really difficult to chose an A and a B team with the standard being so high. The girls have played in a number of matches with successful wins against St. Richard Gwyn and Bro Morgannwg. The 7B team recently played in a 7B tournament at Talybont, where after playing an exhausting 7 matches made it through to the final against Llanishen. They unfortunately lost in the final 4-1 but showed an excellent display of netball throughout. The girls were awarded with medals by a Welsh netball coach. Hopefully the 7A netball team will do as well in March. Year 8– The Year 8 team has continued to build upon the excellent play produced in Year 7. They have won a number of matches including beating Llantwit 13-1 and St. Richard Gwyn 7-0. The girls are working hard in the build up to the county tournament where they narrowly missed out on reaching the final last year. A special mention to Milly Williams who has joined the team this year and has al-ready made some valuable contributions. Year 9- Training has been going well with the Year 9 team with plenty of competition for positions. They have had some good matches against St. Richard Gwyn and Llantwit. Keep up the good work girls.

Special mention to Carys Warner, Leah Wenger and Laura Gale who have all played very well so far this season. Year 10– Year 10 have also been working well so far this season. They have lost 2 of their 3 matches but had a good win 6-2 against St. Richard Gwyn. It has been really nice to see Martha Jenkins back training and playing after a year out. She has contributed well to the team. All girls have played well so far and need to keep up the good work. Cross country Girls– The cross country season got off to a good start in September with good runs from Emily Wooster (Yr 7), Kate Coker (Yr 9) and Anna Mirza Davies (Yr 8). These three girls have progressed in every race and are currently in a very good position going into the championship in January. In the South Wales schools competition, there was another impressive run from Kate Coker. On a cold day in November, a team of 10 Year 7 and 8 girls travelled to Brecon for the Welsh schools competition. Kate Coker produced a fantastic run coming 4th in a very tough field, while Emily Wooster, Anna Mirza Davies, Rebecca Humpage and Annabelle Birch– Hurst finished in close succession which re-sulted in the Year 7 and 8 team coming 4th in Wales. Well done girls!

“girls were awarded with medals by a Welsh netball coach”

Mr I Summerfield

Physical Education

Boys - The boys’ cross country team got off to a flying start in September with the Year 7 team coming second in their first race. Strong performances from Cameron House, Ethan Hutchings, and Alex Lan-grish helped the team make their mark against tough opposition. The whole team have showed commitment in their training, turning up in any weather conditions with their hard work paid off in the second league race which they won as a team and Spencer Robinson winning out of over 200 competitors. They are currently 1st in the league with one race left to go in January. The team recently travelled to Brecon to compete in the Welsh Schools Champion-ships, gaining vital experience ready for their January league race. In other years, Rhys Fford (year 8), Ieuan Jones, Elliot Richards, Tamas Barry and James Flanagan (year 10) have all worked hard in training and improved through each race with Rhys, Ieuan and Elliot represent-ing Stanwell at the Welsh Schools Champi-onships in Brecon.

Girls Football Year 7, 8 and 9– We have recently started a girls’ football club here at Stanwell and it has gone from strength to strength. Atten-dance rates have been very pleasing and new pupils continue to show interest in join-ing. In the matches, the girls have per-formed extremely well and are currently un-defeated, having beaten Bryn Hafren 2-0 (goal scorers: Kelsey Murray and Ellie

“showing commitment in their training”

Wenger (Yr 8) and Cowbridge 9-0 (goal scorers: Kelsey Murray, Ellie Wenger, Lucia Attanasio (Yr 8) and Ellie Rees (Yr 9). Well done girls and good luck for the rest of the season! Rugby Year 7– An excellent start to the year, for Year 7 Rugby with many enthusi-astic and talented Rugby players. At present the team is unbeaten having played Llantwit Major, Barry Boys and a strong Cowbridge side. The team has been well led by Spencer Robinson and has received excellent support from Joe Short, Charles De Grey, Will Gale and Morgan Humphries. The top try scorer of the three games has been George Rob-erts in the backs. Year 8– The Year 8 Rugby team are making steady progress but are being hindered by poor attendance at train-ing. The team has benefited from an influx of new players who have equipped themselves really well. Zak Dyer, Oliver Shore, Liam Quinn, Ellis Pymon and James Cople have been present at all games and train-ing . With regular attendance at train-ing by all players, performances will improve. Year 9- The year 9 rugby team has played some very high quality rugby this term, with a number of strong

Mr I Summerfield

Physical Education

powerful forwards and fast running backs, they have been able to provide some breath taking moments of rugby for the many dependable spectators that have watched their matches come rain or shine. Year 10- Year 10 rugby has started on a positive note with some very good away wins. This is a side that has shown, in some hard, physical games over the past two seasons, that they have a pas-sion for the sport and the potential to be a very good side. With four current dis-trict players (Harry Roberts, Nicholas Boudier, Matthew Allen and Alan Doyle) and many others playing to that standard , it will be interesting to see just how well these young men can do.

Seniors- This has been a very exciting year for the Senior Rugby Side. They began with a team building evening at the White Water Rafting Centre which was a huge success. This was followed by being accepted into the Blues South League in which they have put on many good performances against teams such as Howells and Ysgol Bro Morgannwg. They have also been lucky enough to have a new Canterbury kit given to them by Stanwell PTA for which they are very thankful.

Girls Basketball-

Year 7,8 and 9– Basketball club has proved to be very popular again this year

“team building ...huge success”

with its attendance growing in Years 7, 8 and 9. The girls have shown excellent commitment and dedication to their train-ing and have worked extremely hard since the start of term. They are now looking forward to beginning their season with a number of games lined up for the end of December against St. Cyres and Cowbridge. I am sure that we will see the same success from these young girls as last year. Special mention goes to Seren Marsh, Rebecca Humpage, Anna Jones (Yr 7), Rebecca Egerstrom, Shanice Donovan, Ellie Wenger (Yr 8), Keeley Durham, Harriet Blunden and Leah Wenger (Yr 9).

Football Year 8 - The Year 8 football team, led by Mathew Bennett, has made a great start with a win away at Barry, the team is go-ing from strength to strength in training and we are looking forward to more fix-tures in the near future.

Year 10 - The Year 10 team had a strong start to the season with a 5-0 win against Michaelston Community College. The team have been showing commitment in their training and have worked hard in their other matches and are looking for-ward to future fixtures. Top goal scorer – Fraser Hodgkins, Captain – Max Bram-hill.

Mr I Summerfield

Psychology

It has been a busy and enjoyable term in the Psychology Department. Highlights have in-cluded the October Open Day which was a great success as visitors were keen to get in-volved. Favourite activities included the Stroop test, which required participants to override the automatic process of reading meaning into words, as well as attempts to guess the real smile from a series of genuine and posed photographs.

Year 12 have worked hard this term as they have been introduced to research into the na-ture and structure of memory. This has in-volved practical class experiments to assess the differences between short term and long term memory. Students have also used cogni-tive models to explain how memory works. They particularly enjoyed designing models of their own in class. This knowledge of memory has been applied to everyday life when looking at the accuracy of eye witness testimony and techniques to improve memory including mind maps and peg word methods.

Students have examined evidence which shows these strategies work. This has an im-portant message as the students prepare to sit their first AS exam in January on Memory, Attachment and Research Methods. Year 12 groups have been looking at the key impact of attachment theory on society. They

have looked at the roles of comfort, responsive-ness and food in order to understand that there is an interaction of many factors in producing developmental outcomes. More recently stu-dents have enjoyed looking at topical issues re-lating to attachment including the issue of day care. They have examined research which sug-gests day care can be potentially harmful whilst other contradictory studies have asserted the benefits of day care for social development.

Year 13 are also preparing for exams early in the new year. They have shown great interest in the topic of psychopathology as we have dis-cussed the issues surrounding the classification and diagnosis of depression. Students have en-joyed exploring the various explanations of de-pression and the different approaches to treat-ment ranging from drug therapy to psycho-analysis or ECT. Students have also enjoyed studying the new topic of addictive behaviour. They have looked at initiation, maintenance and relapse of specific addictions such as smoking and gambling and more recently have been learning about interventions to deal with such addictions. In research methods students have been revising the various ways in which re-search can be conducted and have been consid-ering how the scientific method can be applied to human behaviour. Many students in Year 12 and 13 have taken advantage of Psychology drop-in sessions on Wednesdays from 3-4.30pm. Students have used these sessions as an opportunity to begin revision early or to revisit more challenging as-pects of the course. These will continue in the new year and all Psychology students are wel-come to attend. We wish all the students taking exams in Janu-ary the best of luck.

“Students ….taken advantage of Psychology drop-in sessions”

Miss L Donovan

Religious Education

Open Day The RE Department had a steady stream of visitors during the evening. Many pro-spective pupils and parents contributed to the “Questions for God” asking challenging questions of God. As thinking skills re-main such a key focus in RE it was en-couraging to see so many future Stanwell pupils thinking philosophically. Artefact displays provided a colourful background and many were interested in the Smart Board display of work produced by students to publicise the work of the Pooncholai Children's Home, for which the RE Department has raised funds over the last few years. The presentations high-lighted the difference in lifestyles between pupils at Pooncholai and those at Stanwell and the link with India provides real-life ex-amples to support the pupils’ study of wealth and poverty as part of their GCSE course. As both Year 9 and 10 have raised funds for the children’s home this year, it was interesting for visitors to see the range of publicity material promoting the work of Pooncholai produced by Stan-well students.

Pooncholai Pupils celebrating Christmas

Pupils signing Christmas cards for children at Pooncholai Children’s Home

Year 13 hard at work! The RE Department’s first cohort of A Level students are working hard as they approach their final exams. They are now studying how to apply ethical theories to the issues of war and medical dilemmas including cloning and stem cell research. Dealing with such controversial topics is what makes the course so stimulating and exciting and all the students are rising to the challenge.

Stanwell pupils are making a difference

Mrs J Skilton

Science

APPLIED SCIENCE It has been an exciting time with the introduction of A level Applied Science in September. The students who are studying the course have thrown themselves into the first topic on Health Science. It has been a pleasure to teach such an enthusiastic group—but somewhat disturbing to see how much some of them relish the dissection ! The whole department wish them every success with their first external examination in January. BIOLOGY Despite this very busy term two members of year 13, Jessica Herrity and Elizabeth Turner have found time to complete the CREST Gold Award for work that they did in university this year, congratulations to them on receiving this prestigious award from the British Science association. Open Day was very busy in the Biology department, the most popular activity being testing different foods. Homework Club and the 6th form revision sessions have been well attended this term, thanks to all those pupils and students who have kept us busy. Year 12 enjoyed an informative visit to Cardiff in December to the annual Genetics Lectures organised by Gene Park Wales. Year 13 also found the visit of Anne Marsden, a specialist in the treatment of kidney disease particularly informative, and her talk prompted much discussion. Finally we would like to wish all those taking external examinations in January every success. PHYSICS The Physics department has had a very busy start to the year. It has been particularly pleasing to see and support so many keen GCSE and A level students in study periods and after school. Open day for the Physics department proved particularly popular this year with many visitors competing for the best fruity battery and crowds gathering to watch the balloon on a bed of nails pressure demo.

“Year 12 enjoyed an informative visit to Cardiff in December...”

Mr P Johnson

SCIENCE Year 7 pupils have been enjoying some extra-curricular activities in their first term at Stanwell. Under the enthusiastic guidance of new members of staff, Ms Brown and Mr Patterson, they have been attending Science Club each W e d n e s d a y evening after school to get some hands-on experience with activities such as ‘Flubber’, making paper aeroplanes and water rockets, as well as Alka Seltzer rockets. They have been having lots of fun building ‘straw structures’ and carrying out some Forensic Science with Fingerprinting. Other activities have included a CSI Investigation entitled ‘Who killed Woolly’? and have also been carrying out a Space research project. Regular attenders include : Ffion McGowan, Grace Samuel, Orla Emberson, Grace Loweth, Tristan Goodway-Sims, Izaak Lee, Henry Price, Paul Monaghan, Tristam Worssam, Joel Cockerill-Evans, Amy Bond and Josh James. CHEMISTRY Alex Hodgson and Ben Hopkins (both Year 13) continue to carry out an excellent job as Stanwell representatives on the Industrial Liaison Panel which meets regularly in Sully, discussing issues and events at the major Industrial sites between Sully and Barry which may impact on the immediate community. Open Day in the Chemistry Department proved to be very successful with many visitors experiencing such events as ‘Purple Clouds’, ‘The Mighty Whoosh’, custard powder explosions and how not to put out a Chip Pan fire !There were also displays on ‘Chemistry through the Key Stages ‘.

Welsh As ever, the Welsh department have started the new academic year in a very busy manner! Open day was very successful. ‘A Taste of Wales’ was well received by numerous visitors who were happy to sample Welsh cakes, a selection of Welsh cheeses, cockles, lava bread and other delicacies. Visitors also had the opportunity to play Welsh Scrabble and see the resources used in class.

Pupils in Years 9 and 10 have begun studying the new GCSE course. In Year 9 and 10 the topics studied are Holidays, Sport, Fashion, Welsh Stars, Cinema and the World of Film, Pop Music, Charity and Part-Time Work, The Area, Welsh Culture, Myself, Special Events.

Year 10 pupils will sit an hour-long reading and writing examination in June which will be worth 25% of their final grade. They will also complete a controlled assessment in the Spring term. In Year 11 the topics studied are Leisure Time, Alcohol, Drugs and Smoking, The Environment, Keeping Fit and Healthy, Family and Friends, Home, The Weekend, The Media, Technology, Celebrations and School Experiences. Year 11 pupils will sit another hour-long reading and writing examination in the Summer term which will again be worth 25% of their final grade. They will also complete a Controlled assessment in Year

“In November we took a trip to Glan-llyn Urdd centre in North Wales”

Mrs C Flaherty

11 and a group speaking exam. In November we took a trip to Glan-llyn Urdd centre in North Wales for a group of Year 10 pupils.

They had the chance to take part in a variety of outwards bounds activites in a

Welsh environment on the banks of Lake Tegid near Bala.

An excellent time was had by all and the pupils behaved exceptionally well. Despite the wintry conditions, pupils were able to take part in climbing activities, a rope adventure course and lake-based

activities. In early December, the year 12 & 13 students and staff enjoyed a visit to the Millennium Centre to see a Welsh language pantomime– oh yes we did!We’re looking forward to our trip to Disneyland Paris with the French Department to the St David’s Day festival for Year 8. Pupils will be able to enjoy Disneyland to the sounds of Welsh choirs and a Welsh crafts market. We will also

Welsh

“We’re looking forward our trip to Disneyland Paris with French Department ...”

Mrs C Flaherty

and can now confidently describe the Vale of Glamorgan in Welsh! Matt Holder, Owen Rees, Georgia Chaffey ,Chloe Fletcher, Emily Thomas, Megan Wookey, and Rebecca Te Water Naude prepared very detailed and interesting conversations. Tim Binding, Isaac Ridgley, Aidan Singh, Joel Ringer and Cassie Richards also performed exceptionally well. Year 10 pupils have responded very favourably to the new GCSE course, their speaking exams have shown great promise and a very mature attitude towards the demands of the course. Jack Hayward, Rory Hay and Adam Rees spoke very well as individuals and as part of a group in their test about holidays in Wales. Lucy Berry and Stephanie Price also performed well. Erin Murray and Natasha Hole have also shown great effort and determination in preparation for the speaking test. In March a group of Year 11 will be sitting their first external speaking exams and will be performing role-plays and giving presentations about their favourite topics, pob lwc! The Welsh department staff are available at all times to support pupils and help them prepare for these exams. Of course the Eisteddfodau will be taking place in early March too, lower school pupils should ask their subject teachers for details about homework and stage competitions in order to earn points for their houses. In Welsh lessons pupils are rewarded for effort, good work and good behaviour with raffle tickets which are then entered into regular draws. Recent winners are Erin Louise Gwynne, George Prickett, Rebecca Johnson, Hannah Lewis, Hannah Williams, Ffion Wood, Liam Fisher, Elizabeth Trigg and Nicole Morrick.

be visiting Paris and seeing the famous landmarks.

Welsh homework club for KS4 is on a Monday to offer additional support and help to pupils. Welsh club for KS3 is on a Wednesday in G19. Pupils can come to have extra support and help with homework or just to enjoy fun activities Many pupils in Year 7 have shown great promise already! Da iawn Robyn Iredale, Jack Powell, Sofia Nardone, Chloe Poole and Alice Bright. A special mention is also deserved by Tristan Goodway-Sims, Izaak Lee, Poppy Wilde, Bethan Davies, Claire Halligan and Jasmine Rahman, who have also been working very hard. Olivia North, Isabel Grafton, Amy Hickery and Ray Vandyck, Joseph Short and William Marsh and Jay Ruckley have worked extremely hard, da iawn! Rowena Cameron, Megan Jones, Chloe Parselle, Daisy Williams and Alice Durham all scored 100% in their recent speaking exam, da iawn! Year 8 pupils have been studying the topic of holidays and have recently completed their speaking tests. Callum O’Neill, Sol Khan, Harry Griffiths Ben Rose , Taylor Alexander and Kieran McGavin all performed particularly well, ffantasteg! Rhodri Guerrier, Max Shepherd and Peter Tutill performed an interesting and well prepared conversation, da iawn! Year 9 have studied the local area this term

Workskills

It is the second year of this BTEC course and has been introduced into Year 9 and Year 11 for the first time. The Year 11 stu-dents have been completing their course-work from Year 10 and evaluating their Sum-mer Work Experience placements. Some students will be able to go on and study for the Extended Certificate Qualification to gain a second ‘B’ grade GCSE. Year 9 and 10 pupils have been investigat-ing Volunteering and welcomed Holly Wil-liams from the Vale Volunteer Bureau as a guest speaker in October. Holly explained about the different types of volunteering

work available and the benefits of volunteer-ing when applying for employment or further education courses. Holly arranged for the Year 9 Pupils to volunteer with ‘Keep Wales Tidy Campaign’. The pupils undertook litter picks at The Knap and the Causeway in Barry and the Cliff Tops in Penarth.

Denny White from the Visible Department of the Vale of Glamorgan Council visited school

on the 2nd November to provide a Health and Safety briefing with the Year 10 pupils and ar-ranged for them to undertake litter picks with her team on Barry Island.

They gained teamwork and communication skills; learned about environmental responsi-

bility and the highlight for many of the pupils was the hot chocolate from Marco’s Cafe on the Island! On the 19th November the pupils visited the Council’s ALPS offices to collect their Certificates from Miles Punter ‘Head of Visible Services’ at Vale of Glamorgan Coun-cil.

“benefits of volunteering when applying for employment”

Mr. R Deighton-Jones

Year 7 The start of a new term is always a busy time for both staff and pupils. The new year seven cohort has been especially active, with two major fund raising efforts in aid of leprosy charities and Children in Need. The pupils worked tirelessly in aid of these charities and raised literally hundreds of pounds. Membership of clubs and societies is at record levels and the new sporting initiatives have been a very welcome addition to extra-curricular activities.

7T The form is full of promising pupils. Many of the boys play rugby for either league leaders Sully or else Dinas Powys. Joe Short has become captain of Cardiff Blues under-12 squad and Matthew Dawson was picked for trials to play for Cardiff. Alex Hamzelou is now a green belt in Taekwondo and Emma Spray achieved Grade 4 in dance. Ella Buehner Gattis achieved a level 4 in sailing, whilst Maisy Holland has achieved a Grade 6 in kayaking. Harri Pain is to be congratulated on being selected to represent Wales in sailing. Charlotte Hardy passed her Grade 5 flute exam with merit and has been singing with the Welsh National Opera, along with Paul Monoghan and Hollie Day. Dafydd Jones now has a Grade 4 in guitar and Seren Marsh has achieved a Grade 1 in piano.

7E Chloe Poole came second in South Wales in gymnastics competition with her team called Cardiff Central and raised £50 for LEPRA. Elizabeth McCulloch and Amy McAndrew are both in the regional team semi-finals with

their swimming club. Amy was also part of the Stanwell netball team that came second out of twenty teams in a recent tournament, whilst Elizabeth was also awarded over 100 merit stars in French. Rhian Cull achieved a silver award for cheerleading. Emily Glaze was awarded 142 merit starts in French. Ella Robertson was part of the Stanwell running team that came first in a Cardiff and the Vale competition. She also completed her grade 3 piano exam. Abigail Mock moved up a level in horse riding and achieved a grade 2 in violin. Abigail Mock, Alice Durham, Jasmine Rahman and Joel Price were all awarded more than 100 merit stars in French. Alice also got more than 50 daffodil merits in Welsh. Francesca Le Guilcher was part of the Stanwell netball team that beat Westbourne school 12-1 this term. A significant number of the rest of the form received merits in a variety of subjects. 7A The form has enjoyed sporting and musical success this term. Emily Geen has been awarded a brown belt in karate. Spencer Robinson plays for Penarth RFC and they came second in the District Cup. Harry Williams enjoys playing for Cardiff City FC at the under 12 level. This term Liam McLelland has achieved Grade 1 in drums, whilst Ellen O’Rourke has been awarded Grade 4 in trumpet. Also, Coire Clarkson completed her stable management qualification.

“The pupils worked tirelessly in aid of these charities and raised literally hundreds of pounds.”

Miss R Sterlini and Mr M Baldwin

Year Group News

Year 7 7M The form has had a wealth of achievements already this term. Amy Bond won a Gold medal in the 50m breast stroke at a Welsh Swimming Gala. Rhys Capener came fourth in a Jubilee Field Shooting event. James Price beat all competitors to come first and win the Masters Trophy in Golf. Well done to Caitlin Denton who came second in a Welsh rock climbing competition at Boulders, climbing faster than most of Wales. Good luck to Ffion McGowan in your Grade 3 Ballet exam and Lucy Richards who is preparing for her Grade 1 Piano exam. Morgan Humphreys has been selected to play cricket for Wales. 7W The form have had a very busy term indeed! As well as practising hard for their Christmas assembly, they have also been winning medals and competitions galore. Francine Couzens came second in a horse riding competition. Not only did Bethan Rose win a show jumping competition, she was also a champion in the Mountain and Moorland horse riding competition. Well done girls!

Nathan Frost won bowler of the year for Penarth under 13s, while Kyle Brooks passed his grading in karate and went on to win silver in this category in the Welsh league, don’t mess with him! Daisy Williams came third on bars in a gymnastics competition, as well as coming first on the beam. Lauren Slater, another budding gymnast, won a gold medal on beam and came third on the floor exercises.

Also, Lily Winnan won a gold medal in the Butterfly stroke and finally Kyle Llewelyn received his gold award in lifeguarding.

Nathan Frost passed his grade 3 theory and grade 4 practical examinations in piano. Sam Tucker passed his grade 4 on the drums and has won “Music Maestro” twice!

Within school, Dan Buckingham won pupil of the month in English and numerous other pupils in the class have won similar accolades in other subjects. And finally, Ben Thomas won the Primary Liaison Geography competition, he was awarded a jigsaw for his excellent Year 6 Passport to Stanwell.

7O 7O are a very sporty form group this year. Jamie Evans, Rhys Lane and George Prickett play football for Cogan, Joshua Dixon, Jacob Troth, Joseph Odgers and Joseph Valek play football for Sully and Thomas Pascoe not only plays for Wenvoe, he is also their top goal scorer! Lloyd Hanson came third in the South East Wales Regional Swimming Championships, while Faye Bramhill and Grace Pope are both Level 10 swimmers. We also have some talented cricketers, with Morgan Rees, Jacob Troth, George Prickett and Morgan Crimp all playing for Penarth. Lloyd Hanson, Lewys Davies and Morgan Rees all play for local rugby teams and Megan Jones, Jacob Troth, Joel Cockerill-Evans and Thomas Pascoe are all members of a local tennis club. Well done to Georgina Smith who recently came first in a horse-riding competition and to Grace Pope who rides to a level 4 standard. Rachael Salisbury is a member of the National Ice-Skating Association and Joel Cockerill-Evans is also a keen ice-skater. 7O’s talents do not lie solely in

“Faye Bramhill and Grace Pope are both Level 10 swimmers.”

Year 7 the sporting world, we also have some fabulous actors and actresses, with George Prickett appearing in a film version of A Christmas Carol and Amy Hickery appearing in a production of Annie. Along with many others, Jasper Aeschlimann and Maya Shamte are keen musicians, both at grade two on the guitar. 7R Erin Summerhayes has played a leading role in the school`s football team that has a hundred percent record of success this season. Alex Langrish came ninth in Cardiff and the Vale cross-country competition. Annalelle Birch-Hurst has played netball for the year 7A team and was part of the girls` team that came fourth in the all Wales cross-country. Charles de Grey enjoys playing for the Year 7 team and Lewis Campbell has represented the school in cross country. Ben Walsh and Ethan Inker both play football for Sully.

Emily Roberts passed her out-of-water exam as part of her swimming course. Lucie Dyer was part of the 7B netball team that came second in Cardiff and the Vale tournament.

7K Morgan Rose came first in both the Dragon Challenge and Club Championship at Llandow. Fantastic result! Finn Hunt is the top goal scorer for Sully Football Team. He scored 34 goals in 10 games helping put Sully at the top at the Cardiff Cup League. Brilliant effort! Olivia Hann won a trophy for swimming—50m butterfly, well done! Congratulations to Abby Mills who took part

in a 15 mile for run for Children in Need. Dylan Jones has been busy helping out at the Cardiff food bank, packing boxes of food up for those in need. 7X 7X have been busy preparing for their joint Christmas assembly with 7W. The theme of the assembly is X factor and the meaning of Christmas. Several pupil have been given solo singing and speaking parts. Congratulations to Joshua Brooks who has been awarded first place in five swimming races. Caitlin Ellis was involved in a Netball tournament in which 20 school in the Vale took part. The school team were awarded second place. Orla Emberson achieved her grade 2 piano. Congratulations to Ethan Hutchings who was Awarded a Maths prize for “Puzzle of the Week.”Rebecca Johnson was awarded ‘player of the year’ for the Sully football team. Seren Lewis came second in the Welsh Challenge Cup for gym. William Marsh plays for Sully football team and his team are now top of the league and have qualified for the semi finals. Jay Ruckley has been filming ‘Sparticles’ for CBBC. He has also starred as Jason Mason in the CBBC programme, ‘Grandpa in my pocket’. 7L Congratulations to Rachel Short who came third in Welsh Novice Champs gymnastics. Murray Boyne plays football for Sully. Tim Collins represents the school cross country team. Cian Burne has completed grade 3 in piano and clarinet. Will Gale is a member of Cardiff Blues rugby team. Shay Gibbons is a member of the vale football squad. Ieuan Hicks is working towards grade 1 on the guitar. Amy Walsh has had an audition for the Gong Show and was successful and is currently performing in the New Theatre in ‘Wind and the Willows’. Well done to the whole year group on a very promising start to the academic year!

“Ethan Hutchings who was Awarded a Maths prize for Puzzle of the Week.”

Year 8This has been an active term for Year 8. All pupils have embarked enthusiastically on the electronic version of the Real Game. This is an effective and fun way of allowing pupils a glimpse of what it is like living and working as an adult. Mr Pritchard from Careers Wales has also been helping to prepare our pupils for their option choices later on this year. Alongside this, assemblies have taken place and recognition has been given to World events, activities and the precepts of the week, including The Real Game, 9-11, Respect, Values, Remembrance and Anti-bullying Week. The ‘Is it’ Drama Company delivered a powerful production and discussion on bullying. Ms. Emyr from the Rotary Club spoke about polio and the planting a crocus campaign. PC Mudie gave several informative presentations on Halloween, fireworks and gangs. She has also started her lessons on Drug Awareness. This year our School Council Representatives are Emma Davies and Harry Jowett. Each form has elected representatives for the Year 8 Council. They are as follows: 8T- Emma Llewellyn and Rhys Knight 8E- Tesni Chinn and Thomas Keenan 8A- Kelsey Murray and Matthew Jones 8M- Milly Williams and Rhys Fford 8X- Emma Davies and Harry Jowett 8W- Sian Smith and Caleb Docking 8O- Sally Jones and Calum O’Neill 8R- Harriet Alderman and William Brown 8K- Elinor Mahoney and Edward Herbert 8L- Seren James and Max Scott This year our Eco-School Representatives are Lucy Bond and Harvey Atkins. Ryan Johns and Michael Regan are our Food & Fitness Representatives.

Jacob Heaton-Jones, James Senior, Sarah Brabham, Georgia Atkinson competed in the All Wales Schools Liaison Police Quiz recently. The team came 4th but the final scores were very close! 8T A busy term for 8T, with many getting involved in sporting activities. Shanice Donovan plays football for Dinas Powys under 14 and also represents the girls’ football team at school. Emma Llywellyn competed in a karate competition in Wrexham and won 6-0! Benjamin Tanner plays football for Dinas Powys. Samuel White plays rugby for Penarth and football for Sully A. Annabel Richards competed in a recent tennis tournament, representing Windsor Tennis club and winning 4 trophies. Verity Tucker has been asked to dance in an upcoming show in the Paget rooms. Hannah Sood has recently performed at the Paget Rooms with the Jeff Guppy School of Musical Theatre and she has also acted in the Wizard of Oz in the New Theatre in Cardiff. 8E Daniel Watts has represented East Wales at rugby and is a member of the Penarth rugby team. He also plays football for Cardiff City and Dinas Powys. Matthew Bennett plays football and dodge ball for the school. He also plays football for Sully A team and the Vale of Glamorgan. Isaac Freeman is also a footballer and plays for Cardiff. Samuel Jennings is a member of the school’s rugby and football teams. Congratulations to

“All pupils have embarked enthusiastically on the electronic version of the Real Game.”

Miss L Jenkins and Mr A. Meddins

Year 8 Teigan Couper for passing her grade 4 Saxophone exam! 8A Megan Hain has recently performed in the Kontakt production in the Sherman theatre in Cardiff. Kelsey Murray plays football for Dinas Powys as a striker and is also a member of the under 13 netball team. Georgia Atkinson is also a member of the under 13 netball team. Maisie Squire is a member of Barry Harriers running club and also represents the school at cross country. 8M A busy term for pupils of 8M. Elizabeth Birch-Hurst is a member of the Under 13 netball team and has also represented the school’s team who are unbeaten this term! Well done ladies! Lucy Bond has competed in a swimming gala and represented Cardiff Swimming club. She has also improved her personal best recently! Nicole Butler is rehearsing for her street dance performance with Mollie Doble. Callum Lee plays rugby for Barry and they have recently beaten Brecon RFC to go through to the next round. Joshua Lewis plays football for Sully A and has scored 13 goals so far this season. Michael Regan plays rugby for the school team. Max Shepherd recently came 2nd in a Water polo competition. Well done all! 8X A talented form! 8X have been very busy! Congratulations to Christina Bugert who is currently working on her gold level in figure skating. Ashley Cullen and Sebastian Dumitrescu both train regularly with Sully rugby club and Cardiff fencing club. Emma Davies is a member of the Wales U13’s

Girls Cricket and Canton netball team. Good luck to Ellie Donovan who is currently studying her grade 2 flute and grade 1 Piano. Congratulations to Elliot Green who has a yellow belt in Judo. Alice Holder competes regularly in horse riding competitions and has won several trophies. Yoko Hargreaves also enjoys horse riding and has recently taken part in a show jumping event in her riding school. Congratulations to Rhodri Guerrier who has passed a mechanical and electrical course in Sea Cadets. Harry Jowett is currently working towards his grade 5 piano exam and recently passed grade 4 on the trumpet. Nicole Rose regularly runs for Cardiff Athletic Club. Congratulations to Iestyn Willis who now has a yellow belt in Judo. Callum Keating regularly enjoys surfing in Llangenith. Alexandra Warren is working towards her grade 4 piano exam but has found time to raise money for Children in Need by dancing with Kate Wilkins. Well done all! 8W Callum Bevan plays football for Sully A. Caleb Docking represents the school and Penarth at rugby. Joseph Fettah is a boxer for Rhoose ABC. Emma Harrison is very busy playing football, ice-hockey, basketball and taekwondo. Ellis Pyman is a member of the Cardiff Devils U14 ice hockey team. Congratulations to Lucy Skentelbery who came 4th in a trampoline competition. Sian Smith is looking forward to performing in Scrooge in the New Theatre, Cardiff. Joshua Whittaker has recently joined Sully’s rugby team and came 2nd in an athletics competition. Daniel Wilson has also joined Sully football club.

“The school’s netball team are unbeaten this term!”

Miss L Jenkins and Mr A. Meddins

Year 8 8O Leon Appiah is a member of the school’s football and rugby teams. Congratulations to James Harvey who came 1st in a Karate competition. Well done to Thomas Mullet who won a gold medal in a Kumite tournament . Lucia Attanasio represents both the school’s and Dinas Powys U14 girls’ football team. The school’s football team won their first match 2-0. Well done! 8R Harriet Alderman and Emily Franks are looking forward to December when they’ll be performing with their dance group around Wales. Eric Aydin has recently joined the school’s rugby team and has played in his first match. Simon Barber is a keen member of the badminton club. Congratulations to Sayalie Borade for achieving grade 3 piano with a merit. Evgenia Brusnitskaya is very busy after school swimming, horse riding and learning the piano. Tonicha Harlow is also a member of the girls’ football team at school. Thomas Moreton plays rugby and football for the school teams and is also a keen tennis player. Liam Quinn has also played for the school rugby team. 8K Congratulations to Jenny Blunden who came 1st in a horse riding competition. Lauren Bryars is a member of the girls’ choir. Alexander Dale recently participated in a golf competition. Jacques Broomfield came 2nd in a golf competition in Dinas Powys. Congratulations to Annabel Davies who came 1st in a swimming competition and also Scott Duffield who has won 3 trophies playing tennis. Dylan Falcon represents Penarth U16 basketball team.

“The school’s football team won their first match 2-0. Well done!”

Congratulations to Samuel Grace who came 2nd in the Welsh ski team and Rebecca Lim who came 2nd in a badminton tournament. Niall Seeley plays football for Cardiff. Good luck to Samuel Wilcox who will be taking his grade 4 piano exam soon. 8L Harvey Atkins plays rugby for the school team and Sully. Keeley Bevan is a member of a street dance group and has won many competitions and awards. Congratulations to Solomon Borde who came 3rd in a squash competition. Holly Gillingham plays football for the girls’ school team. Well done to Lois Crandon who came 1st in her horse riding competition. Hazel Doran is currently on her gold stage with the Lifeguards. Stephanie Friend has recently passed her grade 2 on the piano with distinction. Seren James has passed her green belt in Karate. Thomas Jones has joined the football team at Sully Sports. Congratulations to Virginia Leo who passed grade 3 on the piano with merit. Hannah Lewis is very busy with after school swimming, playing 5-a-side football for Dinas Powys and playing the saxophone. Austin Squire-Wood is a member of the Cardiff Bay Ski Club and has recently passed mono skiing. Morgan Smith plays rugby for Penarth and football for Sully. Max Scott plays rugby for Sully.

Miss L Jenkins and Mr A. Meddins

Year 9

It has been an exciting and challenging start to Year 9. For the first time pupils have be-gun studying their GCSE Options in Year 9 and are approaching their studies with great enthusiasm and maturity. We are sure that the pupils will continue this hard working and mature attitude throughout their GCSE studies. Pupils have been working hard on their Pro-gress Files and have been gathering evi-dence of their successes inside and outside school. As the year continues, pupils will be writing Personal Statements and adding fur-ther information to their Progress Files. The pupils have received talks from PC Mudie on Drugs Awareness and Halloween as well as a presentation from the theatre group Going Places. This year our School Council representa-tives are Georgia Quick and Calum Hughes and they have been working hard in meetings discussing issues raised by Year 9 pupils. Each form has elected representatives who will be on the Year 9 Council: 9T- Georgia Quick and Archie Speake 9E– Daniella Cabral and Rhys W Evans 9A– Ellicia James and Daniel Parselle 9M– Megan Herrity and Elis Vandyck 9X– Rebecca Thompson and Aidan Singh 9W– Yasmine Cole and Calum Hughes 9O– Nia Harris and Duncan Keeling 9R– Kiera Ryan and Peter McDonough 9K– Suzie Collins and Zed Strong 9L– Emily Moulton and Tim Binding 9T There have been some excellent achieve-ments from 9T this term. Beth Johnson is singing and dancing in a Christmas Produc-tion of “Puss in Boots” at the Paget Rooms. Kathleen Ahearne has been volunteering at Christian Aid in Cardiff Bay where she has

been helping to sort and pack presents for less fortunate children. Congratula-tions to Alice Nottingham on a very successful season at Cardiff AAC which resulted in her coming in 20th place in the Welsh Long Jump competition. Well done to all of 9T for their generous con-tributions to Operation Christmas Child. 9E There have been some notable perform-ances this term with Abigail Phillips tak-ing part in a ballet show and Megan Woolmer performing in a pantomime. Well done to Luke Morley for achieving distinction in his Grade 1 drums and good luck in his upcoming grade 4 piano exam. 9A 9A have been very busy on the sporting front recently. Well done to Rhodri Har-mes who won some tennis tournaments over the summer while Stanley John-son won a shooting competition. Con-gratulations to Siena Monaghan for get-ting a place on the South West Wales Regional Sailing Squad. Good luck to Steffan Penry-Williams and Ben Chalke as they work towards upcoming musical exams. 9M Several theatrical members of the form have been rehearsing hard for upcoming productions: Alasdair Cavaye and Fiona McGavin will be appear in PODS Christmas Pantomime while Leon Rogers is performing in Peter Pan. Well done to George Kynaston in achieving Grade 2 in saxophone and taking part in a recent kayaking competition.

“pupils will continue this hard work”

Mrs K Chellingworth & Mr H Roberts

Year 9

9X Good luck to Kathryn Tann as she per-forms in the upcoming PODS Panto-mime of “Puss in Boots” and also to Lydia James as she performs in play titled “Luggage”. Congratulations to Rho-dri Jones for passing his Grade 6 Piano exam. 9W There have been some notable musical achievements in 9W with Balaji Krishna passing his Grade 3 guitar and Ben Brewer, Zola Hargreaves ,Grace Hew-lett and Sam Lewis all passing piano exams. Emily Thomas passed her Inter-mediate Foundation ballet exam with a merit and Jade Detheridge passed her Grade 5 ballet exam. Congratulations to Spencer Ward-Henry for being selected for the Cardiff Blues West Under 14’s and Jamie Hitchen for attending trials for the Welsh Cricket Squad. 9O There have been some excellent sport-ing and musical achievements from pu-pils in 9O. Duncan Keeling, James Squire-Wood and Dan Cerasale have been members of a successful Sully football team. Well done to Rebecca Te Water Naude on passing her Grade 3 violin exam and good luck to Lissie Brit-ten in her upcoming Grade 5 drum exam. 9R There have been some impressive sport-ing displays from many of the form this term. Morgan Clarke, Kieran Hopkins, Jacob Frost, Niall Curtin and Cea-Jay Morgan have all been members of suc-cessful football teams. Gabriel Acker-

man recently won a rowing competition while Harriet Blunden has won a show jumping and dressage competition. 9K There have been many and varied achievements from pupils in 9K. Will Creaven is in the GB National Sailing Squad and came 1st in the Welsh Sailing School Championships while Jaq Allen was part of a team that came 2nd in a kay-aking competition. Congratulations to Joe Prosser and Tommy Higgins for passing their drum exams and Hanir Mousa and Patrick Charelson for passing their piano exams. Emma Bright has returned for her 7th year at the Helen O’Grady Drama Academy and Megan Holland has achieved her Grade 5 jazz dancing award. Good luck to Suzie Collins as she pre-pares for her Baden Powell Award in Girl Guiding and Isaac Ridgley as he repre-sents the school in the Welsh National In-door Rowing Championships. 9L Congratulations to Kate Coker for her ex-cellent performances in Cross Country run-ning. Kate has represented South Wales this season and came 2nd in a recent com-petition. Well done to Leah Wenger for getting a trial for the County Netball team. Gabrielle Williams has continued to work hard in the performing arts and has been awarded a Bronze Medal for completing three years at Stagecoach. A final special mention must go to Calum Hughes for his presentation to raise money for diabetes research. He did an excellent and informative talk and should be congratulated. Well done Calum!

“excellent sporting and musical achievements”

Year 10 This has been a busy term for Year 10 who are embarking on their chosen GCSE courses. Having achieved very good lev-els at the end of Key Stage 3 pupils find themselves having to adapt to the rigours and expectations of study at GCSE level. Many departments have already begun controlled assessments that will contribute to their overall grades and it is essential that pupils appreciate that work completed in Year 10 will be examinable in the sum-mer of 2011 or even before. The majority of pupils have been issued examination timetables for Science Modu-lar exams in January. Pupils have begun planning for their work experience placements which will be un-dertaken in the penultimate week of the summer term. They benefited from an as-sembly headed by a representative of Ca-reers Wales and pupils are advised that they should be searching through the Ca-reers Wales website for suitable place-ments as vacancies do get filled very quickly. A number of pupils have been attending vocational lessons at Barry College to fur-ther their career opportunities in these fields of interest - Health and Beauty, En-gineering and Motor Vehicle Mechanics. In addition, 10 members of the year group have enjoyed attending Military Prepara-tion College on Thursdays. 10T Congratulations to Kate Mathias and An-nes Lloyd who have achieved Grade 5 and Grade 6 in their piano examinations respectively; Annes has also achieved Grade 4 in her Clarinet examination. Ca-lum Jalil has joined the Penarth Patriots Basketball team and played in his first

match. Well done to Ralf Warren who gained a distinction in his Guitar Grade 2 examination. Lauren Mudie has just audi-tioned for a part in the production of The Pirates of Penzance in the Everyman Theatre, she is also singing in a Christ-mas Concert. Erin Murray has also been selected to play for Wales in Basketball and Football. Isobel Sinnott-Newland has begun preparation for her grade 8 piano exam. 10E Congratulations to Samantha Wood as she has raised £50 for the Dog’s Trust by participating in a 10km fun-run. Harry Roberts recently scored a hat trick for Sully A against Cogan. Bethany Park-house enjoyed the recent visit to Glan Llyn with the Welsh Department. Josh French has joined a mixed martial arts class and came second in a Ju-jitsu tour-nament. Henry El-Jawhari is progressing well in karate, and he is currently first in his category/group. Daniel Soltys is par-ticipating in Grease. 10A Well done to Paige Wilding who gained a distinction in her recent L.A.M.D.A acting examination. Joe Pollock enjoyed the re-cent Geography visit to Iceland and James Bendon enjoyed the recent visit to Glan Llyn with the Welsh department. Emma Smith’ s contribution to the Untold Voices Competition has been on display in the Central Art Gallery in Barry. Annika Bugert has passed her grade 5 violin exam with merit. Emilie Johnson contin-ues to play wing attack for Canton Netball Club. Congratulations to Tom Williams who has competed for the Welsh Athletic Squad in the Celtic Games.

“This has been a busy term for Year 10”

Mr G Penny & Mrs M Williams

Year 10 10M James Flanagan has completed the Duke of Edinburgh Award and entered the Welsh National swimming competi-tion. Matthew Allen has been playing rugby for the Vale and he recently scored 2 tries. Sam Rose and Tom Rose have passed the Bronze Medallion Lifeguard Course. Rakeem Islam, Stephanie Price, Laura John and Emma Hughes all enjoyed the recent visit to Iceland with the Geography De-partment. Joe Dyer gained a distinc-tion in his Grade 4 guitar assessment. 10W Jacqueline Dich, Beth Carter and Eve Cater are all looking forward to partici-pating in a Dance performance in Octo-ber. Emma Jones has enjoyed her re-cent trip to Glan Llyn with the Welsh De-partment 10O Well done to Ieuan Jones who has com-peted in all of the Cross Country races so far. Congratulations to Kieran Brit-ten who has passed his Grade 6 guitar examination. Sam Sellick has just com-peted in the Welsh indoor rowing cham-pionships. Zach Ghazi Torbati is look-ing forward to the school production of Grease, he is a ‘T Bird Gang member’. Friederike Rabiger has enjoyed her stay in Wales and Stanwell but will be returning to Germany before the Christ-mas holiday.

10R Well done to Rob Jones, he has been in-vited to take part in a Maths course in the University of Glamorgan. Ross Freaney, as part of the Penarth Air Cadet Squadron, has volunteered to build a hovercraft. 10K Well done to Leah Byrne who has passed her Grade 3 piano examination with merit. Congratulations to Taro Wirth who has been awarded the Edith Wilson award and best string performance in the South Gla-morgan Festival for Young Musicians for his performance on the cello. Taro has also achieved an A* in his GCSE German examination and Nicholas Constantino Russell achieved an A* in his Spanish GCSE. Tomos Davies is the Managing Director of a business called ‘Young Guns’ and has also been selected for the Penarth Hockey team. Liam Walker and Scott Taylor have both joined the Penarth Panthers football team and have scored a combined total of 14 goals; they are also undefeated! Saul Enos has kindly volun-teered to help coach the Albert Road School rugby team. Kate Mathias, Max Bramhill, Saffron Collins Tong, Luke Smith, Emilie John-son, Josh Biss, Danielle Carey, Rakeem Islam, Hannah Scott, Oliver Strong, Chelsea Mace, Zach Ghazi Torbati, Zoe Harding, Robert Jones, Victoria Ling and Liam Walker have been voted in as form group members of the year council. Chelsea Mace and Oliver Strong have also been selected to represent the year group on the School council.

“Throughout the term there have been various opportunities for pupils”

Year 11

11T Charlotte Preece has one of the main roles in the musical Grease. Molly Crowther, Liz Pascoe, Leah Dalby and Beth Hopkins are also involved in the show. Emma Jagne and Mott Morgan are helping backstage for the production. Aimee Brinn achieved her Bronze Duke of Edinburgh Award. Other re-cipients of the Bronze award are; Sam Wat-kins, Hamish Couper, Oliver Tucker, Mott Morgan and Thomas Lewis. Tegwen Al-sop won a medal for the 100 metres running AAC at Leckwith. 11E Catherine Porteus is working towards her grade 6 piano and her grade 7 violin. Josh Ellis is in the orchestra for Grease. Bhaveena Gami entered a chess competi-tion and completed a charity walk for diabe-tes. Victoria Isaac worked as front of house for the school production of ‘Grease’. Elis Jones has completed his grade 4 in drums. Emily Woodley has completed a trampolining coaching course. Rebecca Trigg is completing a cheerleading course and is in the production of Grease. Henry Stephanakis is also in the production, as a T Bird. 11A Amy Lovering plays for the school Netball team. Tami Grotz is in the production of Grease along with Amy Palin and Jenny Selio. Tom Downey and Michael Williams are part of the orchestra for the school pro-duction. James Porteus is in the Welsh de-velopment squad for cricket. John Ellis and Ben Burrows both went on the Iceland trip. 11M Rachel Mahoney, Sally Wigford and Laura Elder are all taking part in ‘Grease’.

Joseph Keenan is doing a recital at Llandaff Cathedral. He is also partici-pating in Grease and successfully completed his Bronze Duke of Edin-burgh Award. Daniel Seal, Jemma Pitt and Christine Stevens are par-ticipating in the Duke of Edinburgh Silver Award this year. Seren Vick-ers has successfully completed her Bronze Duke of Edinburgh Award , she is also part of the eco-schools committee. She is participating in the school show and has also just started a course at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama and is working towards her Grade 6 in saxophone and Grade 8 in cornet. Amy Young represented the girls junior hockey for air cadets. Taite Drew is taking the lead in the Grease production. 11W Beth Cowley is one of the Pink La-dies in the school musical. She is participating in the Duke of Edinburgh Silver Award scheme. She is also working towards her grade 6 piano. Beth is also involved in the composi-tion section of the Penarth Pavilion Project and has been accepted to play for South Glamorgan Under 16

“successfully completed her Bronze Duke of Edinburgh Award”

Mr B Crompton & Miss H Jenkins

Year 11

11 W continued.. Lauren Bishop is helping backstage in the school musical. Matteo Attanasio is in the band for the production of Grease and is working towards his Grade 8 in trumpet. Callum Willis is in the soccer team for the Cardiff Development Squad. Tom Lander is working towards his Silver Duke of Edin-burgh Award. 11O Ross Miller plays for the Cardiff Devils U16’s team. They won the league without losing a game. Kirsty McGarrigle has been fundraising for the breast cancer unit at Llandough Hospital. Christy Simmonite went on the school trip to Iceland and helped backstage in the musical. Mikaela Wood won first place in her trampolining competition and will now be competing at national level. Mikaela is also participating in Grease, along with Elin Davies and Fiona Bell. Vincent McKernan is taking part in the Silver Duke of Edinburgh Award. 11R Gwynfor Parr, Joe Ingram, Martha Shep-herd, Molly Andrews and Maddy Payne are in the Grease musical. Joe Ingram has also taken part in (Boys Only) with the Na-tional Dance Company of Wales. Ethan Sherridan Bazzard has passed his grade 3 guitar exam. Charlotte Bishop is playing county hockey and has been selected for the county hockey team. Shafila Alim achieved grade 7 in the violin and is playing in the band for the show. Joe Clissold won two gold medals in the Tae-kwon-do British open and got into the British interna-tional squad. Chris Moffat completed grade 8 in the guitar. 11K Emma Davies has recently passed the Bronze Medallion course in swimming. Eloise Procter is in the main chorus in

Grease. Bethan Colley is also help-ing with the lighting for the musical. Isabella MacGregor achieved her grade 5 in guitar. Osei Neale achieved his grade 6 in trombone. Paul Jones went white water rafting with the school senior rugby team. The pupils will have a busy Christmas revising for their external exams in January. The dates for these exami-nations are: Resit Biology 1: 13th January 2011 Biology 2 Resit Chemistry 17th January 2011 Chemistry 2 Resit Physics 19th January 2011 Physics 2 The paper 2 examinations are for the pupils who have taken the separate Science options. The Applied Science resit exam is on 13th January 2011. Economics exam 26th January 2011.

“revising for their external exams in January”

Mr B Crompton & Miss H Jenkins

Year 12 It’s been an exciting term in Year 12 with the Welsh Baccalaureate course well un-derway. Students have been busy work-ing on the Team Enterprise activity that serves as a basis for the requirements of the Key Skill of ’Working with Others’. The teams worked on designing, planning, producing, financing and marketing their products, leading up to the October Open Evening where a ’Trade Fair’ was held for the new businesses to sell their products. This was incredibly successful with all teams selling high quality products, mak-ing a profit and pupils thoroughly enjoying the new experience. We may see some budding entrepreneurs from the year group in the future. All groups were given school loans decided on by local busi-ness people to finance their product. How much depended on how they impressed in a ’Dragons’ Den’ style presentation given by each group. We would like to thank all the ’Dragons’ for their help and contribu-tion in making the Team Enterprise activ-ity such a success.

The students are also in the process of fulfilling their 30 hour ‘Community Partici-pation’ commitments. Some have cho-sen to do this in school through helping younger pupils in classes as part of Stan-well’s long running ’Buddy’ Scheme whilst others are helping out in the community. Many have continued the links that Stan-well has with various charities including

The Red Cross, Marie Curie, The Alz-heimer's Society, PHAB and Oxfam. As part of the ‘Wales, Europe and the World’ element of the Qualification, stu-dents have taken a module entitled ’Understanding Democracy.’ They consid-ered how Stanwell would operate as a di-rect democracy and the arguments for and against lowering the voting age; as well as investigating the political systems in other countries. They have also embarked on their ’Essential Skills Wales’ communica-tion work by considering the position of the Welsh language in contemporary society. Several of our students are already seri-ously planning for the future, taking part in the Medlink and other Workshop confer-ences at Nottingham in December. Others have been spending time with Barry Magis-trates, who have been taking sessions in school with those interested in a career in Law. Several students-Ben Bellingham, Kate Humphries, Victoria Scaglioni, Sarah Boden, Jasmine Vincent, Natalie Caple, Tom Elliott, Jorjah Chedzey, Emily Da-vies, Miles Braithwaite, Sochia Enos, Elise Westcott, Grace Jenkins, and Jes-sica Neff are looking forward to raising money for the Joshua Foundation. Pat-rick Mullan, Ella Mott-Riley, Andrew Gra-ham, Victoria Scaglioni and Tom Elliott are busy raising funds for the Lesotho Project. Daniel Luxton, Alex Samuel, Helen Brab-ham, Andrew Sims, Katie Rowlands and Rosemary Tuthill are working hard on their Engineering Scheme project. We would like to finish with a reminder that Year 12 students will receive a Mid Year report on their progress in January and also to thank all parents for your acknowledge-ments of the November Interim reports.

“incredibly successful with all teams selling high quality products”

Mr K Watkins and R Relph

Year 13 Since completing their AS examinations, Year 13 have been focusing sharply on their post-18 intentions, which for the ma-jority means moving into Higher Educa-tion. Indeed, much time has been spent researching courses and making impor-tant decisions about what to study and where. Personal Statements have been drafted and re-drafted, UCAS forms have been completed and references have been written and then discussed in 1:1 situations. A lot of tutorial and assembly time has been dedicated to UCAS-related activities, representatives from Cardiff University have given a valuable talk on interview techniques and they and other agencies have conducted a series of mock inter-views. With this the largest Year 13 the school has ever had, it is not surprising that we have a record number of students applying to Oxbridge with a total of 21, as well as an additional 10 who have chosen to study Medicine, Dentistry or Veterinary Science. We wish them and all our other students every success.

The highlight of the term, though, has un-doubtedly been the opening of the new Year 13 Study Centre on Monday, 13th October. This provides a very large, multi-functional and attractively furnished area with access to computers and private study rooms, as well as informal seating

and a new secretarial office.

The Head Boy and Head Girl, Daniel Phil-lips and Sarah Jones, performed the opening ceremony during which they ex-pressed their gratitude to all staff, builders and contractors, who had worked so hard to complete such an exceptional facility. Year group members have also been busy in a personal capacity: Emma Campbell starred in the lead role of Sandy in the Senior Musical Grease and Isla Williams played Patti Gilmour. Arthur Kelly played in the band. Joe Rogers, Joshua Wainscott, David Richards, James Verdon, Jordan Rha-man and Tom Gillanders continue to per-form regularly for the Senior Rugby team. Several students have continued links with various charities-Joe Turner with St John’s Ambulance; Sophie Mair with Marie Curie, Amy Pemberton with PDSA, Natasha Martell with the Joshua Founda-tion and John Teagle with a monthly ‘Homeless Run’ in Cardiff with his church. Many students have been successful with their Duke of Edinburgh Gold Award- Peter Wooley, Jessica Eades, Georgia Dodd, Peter Pemberton, Tomos Davies, Caitlin couper, David Ring, Laura Flynn, Sam Pena-Taylor and James Brown. Jamie Lam and Amila Alim had their Product Design projects selected for dis-play at the Wales Innovations Exhibi-tions.

“record number of students applying to Oxbridge”

Mr K Watkins and R Relph

Congratulations to the following pupils who have all achieved 100% attendance from 7th September 2010 to 30th November 2010: 

Year 7

Name Reg

Adams, Ffion 7A

Adney, James 7E

Aeschlimann, Jasper 7O

Bain, Robert 7M

Beedell, Olivia 7K

Bright, Alice 7L

Chambers, Alfie 7L

Cole, Gregory 7W

Collins, Thomas 7L

Crack, Basil 7K

Crimp, Morgan 7O

Cull, Rhian 7E

Dawson, Matthew 7T

Donovan, Shaun 7L

Drake, Alexander 7E

Durham, Alice 7E

Edwards, Daniel 7A

Ellis, Caitlin 7X

Emberson, Orla 7X

Evans, James 7O

Franks, Lauren 7X

French, Elias 7W

Frost, Nathan 7W

Gibbons, Shay 7L

Gibbs, Katy 7R

Grafton, Isabel 7R

Hamzelou, Alexander 7T

Hardy, Charlotte 7T

Harmes, Sali 7T

Hartland, David 7A

Harvey, Robert 7K

Hayer, Jorawar 7L

Hayman, Morgan 7R

Hicks, Ieuan 7L

Hilbert, Amy 7X

Holland, Maisy 7T

Hopkins, Iwan 7E

Hopkins, Mathew 7X

Hourihan, Joanna 7T

Humpage, Rebecca 7K

Humphreys, Morgan 7M

Hunt, Finn 7K

Iredale, Robyn 7W

James, Joshua 7A

Jennings-Slater, Lauren 7W

Jones, Anna 7T

Jones, Dafydd 7T

Jones, Gwennan 7M

Jones, Kyrsty 7L

Jones, Milo 7E

Langrish, Alex 7R

Lee, Izaak 7R

Lewis, James 7K

Lim, Megan 7L

Lovering, Tara 7K

Loweth, Grace 7A

McCulloch, Elizabeth 7E

McSorley, Callum 7T

Mian, Sean 7K

Mills, Abby 7K

Mock, Abigail 7E

Morgan, Robert 7E

Norris, Finlay 7E

Odgers, Joseph 7O

O'Rourke, Ellen 7A

Pain, Harri 7T

Parselle, Chloe 7O

Penberthy, Jamie 7E

Peterson, Rosina 7M

Phillips, Joseph 7R

Phillips, Taylor 7M

Pollock, Matthew 7K

Poole, Chloe 7E

Price, Henry 7T

Price, James 7M

Prickett, George 7O

Proctor, Catherine 7M

Putland, Nicole 7R

Rees, Morgan 7M

Rees, Morgan 7O

Richards, Lucy 7M

Rogers, Matthew 7R

Rollings, Ellie 7K

Saji, Linda 7A

Salisbury, Rachael 7O

Samuel, Grace 7A

Shamte, Maya 7O

Short, Rachel 7L

Sims, William 7A

Stanton-Foo, Amy 7W

Stewart, Benjamin 7T

Summerhayes, Erin 7R

Tavanaie, Kiyan 7T

Thomas, Chloe 7A

Troth, Jacob 7O

Tucker, Sam 7W

Tunley, Thomas 7K

Turpin, Benjamin 7L

Valek, Joseph 7O

Way, Charlotte 7L

Williams, Daisy 7W

Williams, Harry 7A

Wiltshire, Samuel 7W

Wincott, Calum 7W

Winnan, Lily 7W

Wright, Jonathan 7E

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Year 8 

Name Reg

Appiah, Leon 8O

Arthur, Jenny 8M

Asprou, Mario 8W

Atkinson, Georgia 8A

Attanasio, Lucia 8O

Aydin, Eric 8R

Barber, Simon 8R

Bartlett, Georgina 8W

Bennett, Mathew 8E

Bills, Katherine 8K

Borade, Sayalie 8R

Borde, Solomon 8L

Bosley, Jack 8E

Broomfield, Jacques 8K

Caple, James 8X

Chatham, Evie 8W

Couper, Teigan 8E

Crandon, Lois 8L

Crothers, Daniel 8A

Cummins, Lauren 8E

Davies, Annabel 8K

Dhar, Tanni 8A

Doble, Mollie 8M

Docking, Caleb 8W

Doyle, Martin 8T

Dumitrescu, Sebastian

8X

Dyer, Ella 8X

Evans, Megan 8W

Fettah, Courtney 8K

Fford, Rhys 8M

Fordjour, Kwabena 8X

Frankland, Thomas 8T

George, Callum 8T

Guerrier, Rhodri 8X

Hallett, Maisie 8L

Hargreaves, Yoko 8X

Heaton-Jones, Jacob 8A

Herbert, Edward 8K

Ireland, Max 8O

Jones, Sally 8O

Jowett, Harry 8X

Keating, Callum 8X

Knight, Rhys 8T

Kuck, Isabella 8A

Lee, Callum 8M

Lewis, Christopher 8L

Lewis, Hannah 8L

Lewis, Joshua 8M

Lieu, Kerstin 8T

Lim, Rebecca 8K

Mahdi, Samir 8K

Matthews, Greg 8A

McConkey, Joshua 8E

McDonnell, Curtis-Lee 8E

McGavin, Kieran 8A

McGavin, Stuart 8M

Mirza-Davies, Anastasia

8R

Morgan, Megan 8O

Morgan-Jones, Ioan 8L

Mullett, Thomas 8O

Norton, Mark 8R

O'Leary, Caitlin 8W

Patel, Kishan 8E

Pateman-Chang, Madison

8O

Phillips, Michael 8O

Procter, Euan 8E

Prosser, Adam 8K

Pyman, Ellis 8W

Reed, Chantelle 8O

Rees, Emma 8T

Richards, Annabel 8T

Roberts, Daniel 8T

Rogers, Lauren 8A

Rowlands, Amelia 8W

Sharpe, Lucy 8T

Skentelbery, Lucy 8W

Stafford, Jamie 8W

Stroud, Hayley 8E

Tanner, Benjamin 8T

Warren, Alexandra 8X

Wilson, Daniel 8W

Wiltshire, Georgia 8W

 

 

 

 

 

Year 9 

Name Reg

Ahearne, Kathleen 9T

Allen, Jaq 9K

Andrew, Mark 9E

Birch-Hurst, Kayley 9M

Black, Katherine 9R

Blunden, Harriet 9R

Britten, Elisabeth 9O

Browne, Tomei 9O

Campbell, Jake 9L

Cavaye, Alasdair 9M

Chaffey, Georgia 9O

Chalke, Ben 9A

Collins, Suzie 9K

Crack, Matilda 9L

Cranston, Daniel 9M

Davies, Channing 9W

Davies, Evan 9L

Davies, Jack 9E

Donovan, Emma 9E

Doran, Megan 9O

Farmer, Tom 9K

Findlay, Andrew 9R

Fisher, Liam 9A

Franks, Chloe 9E

Frost, Jacob 9R

Gale, Laura 9A

Geen, Thomas 9T

Gunner, Ashley 9X

Harrington, Tamsyn 9E

Harris, Nia 9O

Higgins, Thomas 9K

Hitchen, Jamie 9W

Hopkins, Kieran 9R

Hourihan, Daniel 9O

Howe, Benjamin 9T

Johnson, Cameron 9W

Jones, Oliver 9T

Kalongo, Lambert 9X

Keane, Robyn 9A

Keeling, Duncan 9O

Kneebone-Hopkins, Caitlin

9T

Krishna, Balaji 9W

Lam, Kirsty 9A

Legge, Thomas 9O

Lewis, Jacob 9E

McGavin, Fiona 9M

Miller, Lauren 9E

Milward, Hollie 9L

Monaghan, Siena 9A

Morgan, Jonathon 9K

Morgan, Megan 9R

Munro, Ellie 9E

Nottingham, Alice 9T

O'Brien, Megan 9W

Ong, Wei Haw 9K

Packer, Chloe 9O

Paley, Phoebe 9X

Parselle, Daniel 9A

Phillips, Abigail 9E

Price, Dylan 9W

Ridgley, Isaac 9K

Robinson, Seren 9M

Scott, Jemima 9M

Scrivens, Amy 9L

Sheppard, Ellicia 9A

Sibert, Imogen 9R

Strong, Zed 9K

Tann, Kathryn 9X

Te Water Naude, Rebecca

9O

Thomas, Emily 9W

Trigg, Elizabeth 9K

Vandyck, Elis 9M

Warner, Carys 9W

Way, Katie 9E

Wenger, Leah 9L

Williams, Hannah 9E

Williams, James 9R

Williams, Victoria 9M

Wooster, Daniel 9X

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Year 10 

Name Reg

Beeslee, Lauren 10A

Bellingham, Thomas 10W

Berry, Lucy 10T

Bhudia, Shravan-Chandan

10T

Biss, Joshua 10A

Boudier, Nicholas 10K

Boyle, Sophie 10E

Bridge, Sara 10M

Broomfield, Saffron 10W

Carter, Eve 10W

Cavaye, Robert 10T

Chatham, Lettie 10K

Coughtrey, Matthew 10M

Dich, Jacqueline 10W

Doust, Sara 10W

Duggan, Jessica 10A

Earp, Emily 10E

Elsen, Alexander 10E

Fford, Dewi 10O

Flanigan, James 10M

Flynn, Holly 10K

Frankland, Bethan 10O

Gill, Natalie 10R

Guerrier, Bryony 10R

Harding, Myles 10E

Harry, Samuel 10E

Herve, Eleanor 10W

Ho, Chun 10A

Hodgkins, Fraser 10W

Hopkins, Henry 10O

Hughes, Emma 10M

Jones, Robert 10R

Lam, Haw Yee 10W

Lee, Matthew 10M

Minns, Tabitha 10E

Ong, Pei Pei 10T

Pena-Taylor, Emilio 10R

Pollock, Joseph 10A

Price, Stephanie 10M

Prusak, Sofia 10R

Righton, Daniel 10M

Roberts, Harry 10E

Robinson, Florence 10R

Rodwell, Laura 10R

Samrout, Henryk 10R

Sinnott-Newland, Isobel

10T

Skentelbery, Daniel 10T

Squire, Ellice 10E

Taylor, Amy 10W

Thomas, Sion 10O

Warren, Ralf 10T

Wilding, Paige 10A

Williams, Iwan 10K

Williams, Owain 10E

Wooding, Samuel 10W

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Year 11 

Name Reg

Allen, Lloyd 11R

Allen, Louie 11K

Attwood, Georgina 11E

Benjamin, Alex 11M

Couper, Hamish 11T

Cross, Bethan 11E

Davies, Emma 11K

Davies, Owen 11M

Elder, Laura 11M

Ellis, Joshua 11E

Finlay, Kyle 11A

Ford, Abigail 11W

Frost, Laura 11O

Geach, Jordan 11R

Gimber, Lauren 11M

Gourley, Lisa 11K

Hill, Allister 11K

Hodgson, William 11M

Hopkins, Beth 11T

Horrobin, Sinead 11R

Isaac, Victoria 11E

Johnson, Jake 11M

Jones, Cameron 11T

Jones, Elis 11E

Lander, Thomas 11W

Law, Francis 11O

Macleod, Katie 11W

Margetson, Jack 11T

Masters, Callum 11E

McAndrew, Elliott 11W

McGarrigle, Kirsty 11O

Parr, Gwynfor 11A

Phillips, Christopher 11K

Porteus, James 11A

Robinson, Chloe 11T

Runnalls, Edward 11A

Stavrakis, Ashley 11O

Stephanakis, Henry 11E

Thomas, Alana 11A

Woods, Laurence 11O

 

 

Year 12 

Name Reg

Biss, James W01

Blunsdon, Chloe W06

Borade, Tanvi W02

Caple, Natalie W02

Cattle, James W08

Doyle, Megan W06

Game, Alexander W04

Graham, Andrew W04

Harbour, Holly W04

Johnson, Stephanie W05

Jones, Talia W02

Lam, Natalie W07

O'Beirne, Ciaran W01

Offley, Andrew W08

Parkhouse, Naomi W01

Petherick, Alexander (W05)

Price, Calum W04

Samrout, Mouna W05

Sheppard, Joseph W01

Troth, Rosanna W08

Woodcock, Joshua W02

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Year 13 

Name Reg

Barry, Lauren B03

Boden, Martin B04

Bowles, Laura B04

Chatham, Sophie B08

Cooksey, Alice B01

Davies, Ashley B07

Dennison, Ross B05

Gambling, Laura B02

Geere, Joe B02

Harry, Thomas B04

Hodgson, Alexander B04

Kelly, Arthur B02

Law, Jack B01

Mair, Sophie B06

Morgan, Daniel B03

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