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We have had a won­der­ful week this Read­ing Week, with this year’s theme being “Sto­ries From Other Coun­tries”. A num­ber of events have been hap­pen­ing at lunchtimes and dur­ing the school day, and spe­cial lessons with an inter­na­tional story theme have been enjoyed by pupils in var­i­ous lessons across the curriculum.
Here are some of our events and com­pe­ti­tion winners:
Mon­day:
All of year 9 enjoyed watch­ing the film The Book Thief, which has com­ple­mented their learn­ing about World War 2 and The Holocaust.
Cake com­pe­ti­tion win­ners for a cake based on the Greek myth Pandora’s box — Elysha Mason and Elyesse Van Aalst from 9JN
Tues­day:
Origami work­shop — the results were beautiful!
Wednes­day:
Year 9 dra­matic sto­ry­tellers group per­for­mance — The Bat­tle of Song — a tale of magic and power from Finland
Thurs­day:
Dress up as a char­ac­ter from a book from another coun­try. Win­ners: Ewan Tyler and Gemma South­wood (7JS) and Christina Zalewski (8CC). Staff win­ner: Mrs. O’Shea.
Trea­sure hunt prize winners:
Adam Wright and Casey Jones

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An excel­lent two hours with a qual­i­fied instruc­tor who had this to say about the group:

‘Thanks for today’s ses­sion,
Fan­tas­tic group of kids they are a credit to your school.’

Kieron Dri­ver

Cycling Oper­a­tions Co-​ordinator

Bette­shanger Sus­tain­able Parks

This is the first of three ses­sions they have to develop their skills and time trial results. As part of their Unit 10 Land-​Based Adven­tur­ous Activ­i­ties, it allows all the stu­dents to even­tu­ally achieve a ‘Dis­tinc­tion’. Who said learn­ing can’t be fun?

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We were invited to the coun­cil cham­bers for a series of pre­sen­ta­tions with ques­tion and answer oppor­tu­ni­ties regard­ing var­i­ous top­ics: how the dif­fer­ent lev­els of gov­ern­ment work; crime sta­tis­tics in Thanet and the police response; Alan Faulkner from the fire ser­vice dis­cussed young dri­ver respon­si­bil­ity; the impor­tance of waste dis­posal and related coun­cil projects and, finally, how var­i­ous offices link together for a multi-​agency response.

Stu­dents all had indi­vid­ual micro­phones and were a credit to the school with some inter­est­ing and very per­ti­nent ques­tions. Watch this space for a project they are going to get involved in lead­ing on from this enter­tain­ing and infor­ma­tive session.

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What a tremen­dous evening! This was the Dia­mond Jubilee cel­e­bra­tion of the award and every recip­i­ent received a ‘goody bag’ of var­i­ous gifts. Var­i­ous dig­ni­taries from around Kent were present but the real stars were all the stu­dents receiv­ing their awards. We had twenty four Bronze recip­i­ents and we are immensely proud of their achieve­ment. Thank you to all the par­ents or guardians who gave their sup­port on the night and the raf­fle raised a bril­liant £353.00 to sup­port fund­ing of this event for next year. Lastly, spe­cial men­tion and thanks to Maisie Waller for her superb singing and stu­dents from the Ursu­line for their per­for­mances as well.

To the Year 10s who have enrolled; make sure you are get­ting your Skills, Phys­i­cal and Vol­un­tary sec­tions under­way and reg­is­tered on the ‘edofe’ web­site. Your prac­tice and assessed expe­di­tions are being sorted out for the start of Year 11, Sep­tem­ber and early Octo­ber, but you must ensure the other sec­tions are being com­pleted oth­er­wise you will not com­plete the award.

Well done to the suc­cess­ful Bronze recipients!

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EAGLES house has been work­ing hard to raise money for our two cho­sen char­i­ties for the year — these being Can­cer Research UK and The Breast Can­cer Care Foun­da­tion. Our first ven­ture which was the mam­moth KES to Paris run­ning, row­ing & cycling event raised a stag­ger­ing £1203.76. This was then fol­lowed up by a very suc­cess­ful cake sale organ­ised wholly by Hol­lie Tyrell and Chloe Men­zies (both in 8JLS) and they raised £48.59. Our most recent effort saw us sell­ing 137 char­ity wrist­bands in aid of World Can­cer Day and this raised £274. This busy time has meant we have raised so far this year a stu­pen­dous total of £1526.35.
On behalf of Eagles house can I thank any­one who spon­sored, ate cake, put money in a bucket, wore a bracelet, ran, rowed or cycled… every lit­tle did indeed help, and it’s thanks to you that we can split this money between the two char­i­ties. We are hop­ing to get one more event in before the end of the year to pass the magic £2000… so watch this space!
Eagles rock!

More Arti­cles …

  1. Read­ing Week 2016
  2. Mar­gate Rotary Club Swimathon Pre­sen­ta­tion Evening
  3. KES to Paris!
  4. Char­lie Richard­son
  5. Pre­sen­ta­tion After­noon 2015
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