U16 Girl's Football

Congratulations goes to the U16 Girl’s Football Team who beat St. Paul’s Academy 4-0 at a recent fixture at home. If any other Year 10 and Year 11 girl’s would like to join the team and play a few fixtures between now and the end of the year, then all you need to do is sign up on the Football board. A big well done to Laura Day, Nikki Lamboura, Ruby

Briant, Jade Stone, and Roxy.

The U14’s played The James Alleyn School in a friendly this week. Following their success in the Year 9 Ravensbourne tournament, they continued to play on form and were unlucky not to score more than the result could give them credit for. Well done to Kiera Hewitt-Brown for scoring the winner. The team consisted of Amy McKerrell, Hayley

Hawkins, Abi Sweetman, Vicky Pusey, Shanel Peat, Katie Green and Kiera Hewitt-Brown. The Year 8 team will play their Year group tournament on Tuesday 9th March.

Miss McSharry

Numeracy Week - 8th-12th February 2010 - Part 2

Friday 12th February - This was a big day because we hosted two events: A Puzzle Challenge Day for Year 7 developed by the Happy Puzzle Company and a roll of talks and workshops with Matt Parker.

Matt Parker is a secondary school Maths teacher but works for Queen Mary, University of London. His life goal is to make people more excited about Maths. The way he communicates Maths is very engaging and entertaining.

He spent a whole school day with us and delivered talks and workshops for around 300 of our students. Here’s the opinion of one:

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On Friday 12th February to celebrate the end of Maths week, many Year 9's took part in an intriguing Maths lecture to enable us to gain a better insight on how Maths effects every day life whether you think about it or not. Firstly we sat down in the main hall and the lecture told us about his ‘party trick’. The trick consisted of him knowing the probability of how many people would share a birthday and then working out how many people were actually literally at the party. After he said how you could bet money with someone as the probability was very high – he also mentioned how you’re more likely to die in the next few hours than you are to win the lottery!

Another thing he mentioned was the fact that Maths is always used in The Simpsons and Futurama, as the writers are Mathematicians and find it ‘humorous’ to include the ‘on-going jokes’. They have many qualifications such as PhD’s. The picture of the Klein’s bottle is a famous Maths shape which is one of the many jokes included in the cartoon show Futurama. Overall I felt it was a great way to gain a better understanding of Maths whilst making it fun and interesting for all, no matter what ability you are.’ Megan Powell, Year 9

More to come next week… ‘Maths in the Simpsons Talk by Matt Parker’

International Book Day is on 4th March and the Maths department suggests you read ‘The Universe and the Teacup’ by K.C. Cole. K.C. Cole demystifies Mathematics and explores its applications to our everyday lives, showing how Maths can simplify problems so we can understand and solve them... ‘Delightful…she has written a Science book which is aimed at non-scientists and which should help us all to cope with the barrage of numbers which confront us every day’ quoted Simon Singh, author of Fermat’s Last Theorem.

On this Day in History - 12th March 1930

Mohandas Gandhi begins a campaign of peaceful civil disobedience against British rule in India.

Known as 'Mahatma' (great soul), Gandhi was the leader of the Indian nationalist movement against British rule, and is widely considered the father of his country. His doctrine of non-violent protest to achieve political and social progress has been hugely influential.

Year 9 Football Team2

The Year 9 Football Team won the Ravensbourne Girl’s Football Tournament beating many schools in the borough such as Bishop Justus, Coopers, Charles Darwin and only losing to Bullers Wood! Bullers Wood lost their final game and drew in one other, to allow Hayes School to deservedly win the overall tournament. The girls did fantastic, and a huge congratulations goes to Daisy Stoneham, Charlotte Stevenson, Amy McKerrell, Vicky Pusey, Katie Green and Shanel Peat! Thank you and well done.

Miss McSharry

Ski Trip to Tignes

On Valentines Day we met at the school at 4 O’clock, so we were all half asleep when we said goodbye and set off on the coach to Tignes. There isn’t much to say about the journey, so I’ll skip straight to the day after, when we had all our gear on and were ready to ski.

We started skiing on the Monday and we learned fast. I had never been skiing before, but even the beginners group were skiing on blue runs by day two. The mountains were amazing. The feeling of standing at the top of a slope, seeing all the mountains around you is one that cannot be captured in a photo.

The next few days went past in a blur of skiing, relaxing in our ‘chillax’ room and, of course, falling over on the slopes. We learnt so much, it’s amazing that it was only a week. But on the other hand, it went so quickly. Before we knew it we were packed up and ready to go… and return to beautiful England where it was forecasted to be damp and cloudy, with a high possibility of rain and sleet.

On the way back, we were given a brilliant goodbye from Tignes, with the coach going past probably the most beautiful scenery I have ever seen, including a frozen waterfall.

I honestly recommend this trip, and if anyone has the time to go, I guarantee that they won’t regret it.

Daniel Thomas

LOVE2

Many of you will have seen the advertisements around the school for the ‘LOVE2 Festival’ and thought what is this all about???

Well, it was a chance for all the females in the school, who don’t usually take part in Sport, to come along and experience a range of activities totally free of charge. External Professional coach’s were brought in to deliver activities such as Dance, Cheerleading, Softball and Extreme Golf. These were themed as part of ‘The All American Dream’ - Sports that are untraditional to us UK natives. The 3 day festival was a great success and girls will be continuing their experience with opportunities such as FREE Golf Tuition with a Golf Pro at West Kent Golf Club for 10 weeks, where they will have the option of joining the club long term at a reduced rate. UNITY Dance group will also be continuing to work with our Dance department free of charge for the next 6 weeks.

I want to thank you all for coming along and supporting your peers and friends in trying a new sport, and also demonstrating that you care and ‘Love’ the healthy body that you have and will continue to improve it too.

Miss McSharry

Tesco's School Vouchers

We are collecting these again. Please can they be placed in the collection bin in the Study Centre. Last year we managed to buy 2 digital camera’s, keyboards and mice with the vouchers the school collected.

Mr Veldtman, Director of ICT