Careers Evening - Ravensbourne School - Wednesday 24th February 5.00pm-7.00pm

Ravensbourne School has kindly invited all KS4 and 6th Form students (plus their parents/guardians) to their annual Careers Fair. Over 60 stallholders from a range of businesses, services and educational establishments have been signed up to attend the evening. This is an excellent opportunity for students to gain invaluable information, advice and guidance regarding their future career progression. A letter, giving more details, has been sent home with your child.

On this day in History - 4th February 1974

A bomb kills 12 including soldiers and children, when the coach they were travelling in was blown up. The prime suspect for the bombing was the Provisional IRA. Judith Ward was sentenced to life imprisonment in November 1974 but freed by the Appeal Court in 1992, after it was ruled that government scientists had withheld information. The IRA has been on ceasefire since 1997.

Keston School Victoria Project

Monday 1st February fourteen Year 12 & 13 students will visit Keston Church of England Primary School. They will

be spending the morning with Year 5 working with them on their Victoria topic as part of Hayes Specialist School community work. The pupils will be working in groups with the Hayes students to devise short drama pieces about different aspects of Victorian life. They will be re-creating a scene from school, a street scene with a crossing sweeper and chimney sweep and the story of how Dr Barnado started his work, amongst others. As well as helping the pupils create scripts and act out their scenes, the pupils will also film themselves so they can have a DVD of their work. It promises to be a very exciting day. Look out for the student account of the day in the next newsletter.

Music Technology Conference

Last Friday, Year 12 and 13 Music Tech students had the chance to go to a Music Technology Conference in London. We were given a huge pack of conference notes, full of helpful tips and useful information to help us with our sequencing and recording coursework, and advice for our exams. We were shown examples of other students’ coursework and then shown how to mix and add effects to the overall piece.

The speakers went into a lot of detail with the sequencing tasks, showing us good samples to use and how to input them correctly. They also gave us useful advice about the recording tasks, and how to record tracks and position microphones for certain instruments in a basic recording. This conference has helped us to understand what the examiners look for in our coursework, and how to make our work better to get the highest marks possible. Even Mr Hurst was taking notes!

By Katherine Vennard 13JT

Holocaust Assemblies

The theme of assembly this was week was the Holocaust. Holocaust Memorial Day took place on Wednesday 27th January. This year was the 65th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz concentration camp by the Russians. The horrors that were uncovered there have had an enormous effect on our subsequent history and show us the dreadful extent to which man has the capacity to bring hurt and suffering upon his fellow man. As time passes and fewer witnesses to the events of the Holocaust are with us to share their memories and to teach us their lessons, it becomes more important than ever to ensure that the legacy of the Holocaust is not forgotten by today’s young people. The purpose of this assembly was to ensure that our students do not become complacent about the society that they live in and to which they must seek to make a valuable contribution. By instilling in our students the values of enquiry over ignorance, they will play a major part in ensuring that hatred, prejudice and bigotry do not become a part of their own lives and that perhaps one day they can be eradicated totally from the communities we live in.

Mr McCambley , History teacher

Haiti Aid

The following students in Year 9 all volunteered to help Coney Hall Church load lorries with aid for Haiti at lunchtime on Thursday 28th January. Their help was much appreciated .

Miss Allman, Year 9 Achievement Coordinator

• Poppy Younger • Bradley De Bonno
• Jessica Hadjimina • Charlotte Green
• Ellie Gentle • Charlotte Harney
• Alfie Horwood • Benjamin Slocombe
• Joe Lawrence • Michael Kildiff
• Liam Cator • Michael Barney
• Freddie Deacon • Jack Cowell
• Jim Shipton

Haiti Charity News

On Tuesday 12th January 2010, an earthquake in Haiti (South America) caused devastation to thousands of lives. Even though they are still pulling people out of the rubble 2 weeks later, more than 200,000 people are assumed to already be dead. Hayes School decided we needed to do something to help. In one week, Hayes School raised a total of £1,852.25 and there still might be more to come! Haiti was also the Year 9 charity and out of the whole total, they raised £600 by
doing various money raising events including sponsored netball between the forms and hopping through the musicals.

We would like to thank especially the following students for being either charity reps or for raising money:

• Chelsie Steel • Fay Hollyoake • Kieran McGuigan • Chloe Edgley
• Paige Adams • Olivia Harris • Anna Hunter • Kiran Khan
• Fran Bailey • Vicky Pusey • Vinnay Vagela • Freddie Deacon
• Ross Martin • Poppy Simmons • Katie Hulm • Georgina Simmons
• Becky Jones • Jess Maguire • Rebecca Smith • Megan Cardy
• Nicole Easy • Alex Lowton • Vicky Rowedder • Chloe Graham
• Ellie Howarth

We would also like to thank anybody who bought in any amount of money during this special week. You all helped saved thousands of lives.

By Vicky Rowedder and Chloe Graham