The academic year at King’s Bruton isrounded off with the presentation ofprizes and a speech given by an invitedGuest of Honour on the final Saturdayof the School year. This is a veryimportant whole-school event and ispreceded by a Leavers’ Service in StMary’s Church. Parents are invited tothe Prizegiving ceremony, and wepresent academic prizes along withprizes for Music, Art, Drama and Sport.I also present my own Headmaster’sprizes, and one of the most important ofthese is the Headmaster’s Prize forOutstanding Academic Achievement.The prize this year goes to Samuel Chanwho is also awarded the School prizesfor Further Mathematics and Physics.Samuel has been supported by the EALdepartment throughout his time atKing’s and he has clearly excelledacademically. Samuel has also been amember of the Headmaster’s EssaySociety which is a small group ofinvited Upper 6th Formers who discussan essay with me, the Director ofStudies, and the other members of theSociety. Samuel talked about hisExtended Project Qualification on the4th Dimension. I must admit, a lot of itwent over my head but it was so great tosee him get across his ideas so

eloquently. Sam, who is from HongKong, is hoping to go on to UniversityCollege, London and I have no doubthe has a very bright future ahead ofhim.Corey Tam, also from Hong Kong,

has been awarded the Upper 6thMathematics prize and there are twoEAL prizes this year. These are awardedto Christina Witte in the Upper 6th andto Jinyuan Zhang in the 3rd Form.Christina is from Germany and Jinyuanis from China, and they have bothshown outstanding progress in theirEnglish over their time at King’s. I will also be saying good-bye to the

School Prefects and one of the SchoolPrefects this year is Bastian Maiworm.Bastian joined King’s in the 4th Formfrom Germany and decided to stay onfor the 6th Form. Bastian has been an

outstanding member of his boardinghouse and of the School.I am delighted to see EAL pupils

being awarded prizes in our end of yearPrizegiving, and it is a real indication ofthe success of our EAL department thatpupils from overseas, who maybe join uswith limited English in some cases, willall grow and flourish at King’s. We wishour EAL and Upper 6th leavers all thevery best for their future careers and wealso look forward to welcoming the newpupils in September. I am already planning a trip to

Beijing and Shanghai in September2015 where I hope to meet parents ofour current pupils as well as talking toprospective pupils about the wonderfulschool community of King’s Bruton.I wish you all a relaxing summer.

Ian Wilmshurst

M6 - The EAL Newsletter

Edition 7, Volume 1 June 2015

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Pure concentration from Eudes Even more concentration from Anton

Circus skills at the end of term for 3rd & 4th Form

My Grandmother told me a story abouthow many years ago the people wholived in her small rural village in China.A group of dragons lived in the sea andthey slept during the day and woke upat night to destroy the fields, fishingnets and people’s houses. There was aclever old man from the village whotold everyone to build light houses ontop of the sea to scare the dragons off.If they make the light appear light asthe day then the dragons won’t wake up.So the villagers built many big light

houses and put them in the sea. Duringthe first night with the light houses, thedragons were too dumb to find out thatit was night. As a result, the dragonswere deluded by the light of the lighthouses and they have thought it wasday time ever since. The villagers nolonger have problems from the dragonsas they sleep all the time now. My ‘Lighthouse in a Box’ is ready to bemade into a mini light house should thedragons ever decide to reappear.

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You never know what you might findunder a teacher’s bed. During or to beprecise at the beginning of WW2 theHead of History was searching throughthe archives like on any one of thosenormal days when he suddenly foundhimself with a very rare document

related to King John. It was a treaty thatthe Barons wanted him to sign so thatthe taxes would be more reasonable.After the war the Magna Carta washanded over to the AustralianGovernment for the reasonably lowamount of £12, 500,which eventuallyhelped to put forward the constructionof Lyon House and the acquisition ofHazlegrove prep school.

A copy of the school's Magna Carta

History underthe bedBy Jaime Colomer3rd Form Old House

The Dragonsand the LightHouses The story behindmy DT projectBy Robert Yin

Interview with Sam Chan, U6thBlackford, Winner of the Further Maths,Physics prizes and the prestigiousHeadmaster’s Prize for OutstandingAcademic Achievement talking abouthis 5000 word EPQ project on the 4th

EPQ Project on Thefourth Dimension

Maria’s art display

Sasah’s art in detail Sasah’s GCSE art

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dimension which he presented andspoke about at the Headmaster’s EssaySociety. (Unfortunately, we can’t publishit until it’s been marked.)

What’s an EPQ?It’s an Extended Project Qualificationwhich universities like to ask for inaddition to your subjects. It would bevery good if you can do it as it’s mostlikely to be the subject you study inyour first year at university.What’s the criteria for choosing thetopic?You can choose any topic you wantexcept the topics you are doing for yourA‘level. So for example I’m doing sixMaths topics and I couldn’t choose anyof those six for my EPQ. The idea isthat you do extended research into adifferent but related area.What’s the topic that you chose andwhy?I chose the fourth dimension because welooked at it in last year’s Physics classesand I found it quite intriguing. I think Iwill continue in this area in the future.How did you start to approach the topicof the fourth dimension?I was with my friend one day and wejust kind of discussed how the fourthdimension evolved and I thought it wasquite fun.What are the names associated with thefourth dimension?Tesseract is the shape of the fourthdimension object. Stephen Hawkins, hestudied black holes the relation with thefourth dimension.Can you briefly tell us what the fourthdimension is?It’s basically the dimension above us,that is, we can’t comprehend it, as wecan’t comprehend any dimensions thatare higher than us. It is like an extendedtube. A square is a two dimensionalobject and a cube is three, and you justextend it perpendicularly. So if youthink of a cube extendedperpendicularly upwards that should bea fourth dimensional shape but we can’treally imagine that in our head becausewe’re restricted with the rules in that

dimension and our vision. Black holesare the tunnel to the fourth dimensionand basically we can’t get into a blackhole and get out of it because of thegravitational pulls and we would beripped apart.So do you see a time when our brainswill evolve to be able to see it?No. We just can’t. I don’t think we canever think in the fourth dimension as it’sjust impossible.What are the applications of the fourthdimension? Is it purely a Physics area?Yes, and maybe Maths, Astronomy andQuantum and Abstract Physics.What was your angle for the EPQ?My specific topic was: time and thefourth dimension and to discuss why itis the fourth dimension or not. Howparallel universes relate to it as well as

Black Holes and dreams; our sub-conscious. It’s very hard to explain!Have you seen the movie ‘Interstellar’?Not yet but I’ve bought the book whichexplains how they did the movie withmy prize money.Did you reach any conclusions in yourEPQ?My conclusion was it doesn’t reallymatter as it doesn’t affect us even if itexists as we can’t reach to the fourthdimension as it’s physically impossibleto reach it. I’ve got one more question. Is there afifth dimension?Yes, they’ve extended to the tenthdimension of size but I think if we can’tunderstand the fourth dimension whyare we talking about the fifth andbeyond? I think if we just think aboutthe fourth dimension we can get furtherinstead of extending it to the fifth and

sixth.I know I said last question, but whereare you hoping to go to university andwhat have you got to get, along withyour EPQ?UCL and I need A* A* A.

A brief introduction to the ExtendedProject Qualification (EPQ) from MrCupit, the new Director of Studies.The EPQ is a free standing qualificationthat allows students to explore a topic oftheir choice. This self-motivated projectallows students to explore an area ofpersonal interest and extend themselvesbeyond the curriculum. The EPQ carriesthe same amount of UCAS points as anAS level and students are able to achieveA*-E grades.Students completing an EPQ will

participate in a course of study skillsthat include areas such as researching,referencing, ICT skills, presentations,academic writing and critical thinking.This will provide students with the skillsrequired to complete this independentproject.All Lower Sixth students at King’s

will complete an EPQ unless they arecompleting a BTEC. This requiresstudents to complete the study skillssessions, fill out a log-book and produceeither a 5000 word essay or an artefact.We believe that the skills that studentswill develop through the completion ofthis project will help them with theirAS/A-level examinations and alsoprepare them for life beyond King’s.Many students that have completed theEPQ have found that it has helpedenhance their UCAS application andmany have been questioned on theirEPQ titles and project outcomes atUniversity interviews.The EPQ course starts in September

of the Lower Sixth year and will rununtil the end of the Easter term. Links towebsite for more information:www.aqa.org.uk/programmes/aqa-baccalaureate/extended-project/the-aqa-epqhttp://filestore.aqa.org.uk/subjects/AQA-W-7993-SP.PDF

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History underthe bedBy EudesLocquevilleYou never know what you might find iflook under a teacher’s bed at King’s.You could find money, exam papers oreven… But you would never expect tofind an original Magna Carta unless youare looking under a History teacher’sbed at King’s. You would never believeit but it happened in 1939 at thebeginning of the Second World War. There are only four original copies ofthe Great Charter of Liberty in thewhole world, and Tom Tremlett, whowas the Head of the History departmentat King’s during the WWII, found onedating from 1297 in the archives. Heprotected it by keeping it safe under hisbed.

Seven years after the end of the war,in 1952 the Magna Carta was sold tothe Australian Government for the sumof £12,500. It is now on show in theParliament House in Canberra. Themoney was used to build Lyon House atKing’s and buy King’s prep school,

Hazlegrove House, which is seven milesaway.Does this mean we should look

under Mr Bunday or Mr Fletcher’s bedin the hope of finding more hiddentreasure…?

Handing over the Magna Carta to the Australian government

A brief history

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Eunice and Nicole with Ross, King's veryown Justin Bieber Outside New House

U6th Further Mathematics:Samuel Chan

U6th Physics:Samuel Chan

U6th Mathematics: Corey Tam

Painter Stainers’ CompanyPrize: Alexandra Kostyuk

Most Improved English asan Additional LanguagePupil, Junior:Jinyuan Zhang

Most Improved English asan Additional LanguagePupil, Senior:Christina Witte

Headmaster’s Prize forOutstanding AcademicAchievement:Samuel Chan

Third Form Effort Prize:Guillermo Brey

Fifth Form Effort Prize:Julia Feron

Prize Winners

Alex’s DT project Henry’s DT boxes

Edward’s DT project Sasha’s DT project

Examples of GCSE DT Final Projects

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Speaking● Keep eye contact● Answer examiners questions clearly● There’s no reason to be nervous● Find out who your speaking partneris going to be and try to makecontact with them to get firstlywarmed up and secondly get used totheir accent

● Try to use adjectives

● Don’t over prepare, this happened tome and my partner, we couldn’tremember what our names were andwhere we came from

● Listen to the examiners’ questionsand answer clearly

● Answer+1 ( don’t just give a simpleanswer)

● This is going to be the first part ofthe exam and the examiner willknow you are nervous so use that towin points.

● Make the examiner know you arenot nervous - do that by breathingbefore you go in.

● Think you are better than yourpartner.

● But don’t control the conversation!!!!!● Speak fluently and if you don’tknow what to say, think for a sec, it’s

better to say something relevant thanrepeat yourself.

● Think outside the box: if they askyou about “weather” don’t just give asimple answer but add experiences orthings you know about it, THEYLOVE IT!!!

● Anticipate: if the examiner just askedyour partner what he/she sees in thetwo picture exercise (people cooking,

explain the difference) the examinerwill most probably ask you if youlike cooking. Put yourself in thatsituation and think what you couldsay, like: I’m glad you asked thatbecause I really like cooking.

● Make things up instead of not sayinganything.

Listening● Listen to the whole thing beforeticking an answer

● Don’t just tick an answer if you hearthe same word in the question,they’ll probably use similar words

● Don’t worry if you didn’t get it thefirst time you always hear thespeakers twice

● Follow instructions (e.g. Capitalletters)

● On the answer sheet there’s a sectionwhere you put one letter in each boxand leave a space between the words,write the letters in capital

● Listening: - listen carefully and don’ttick an answer just because they saythe word , because they try toconfuse you

● For the listening always try to listenwith your right ear: we are betterdetecting words with our right ear,the left ear is better for songs andmelodies.

● The time is really important in allsections.

● After each exercise there is going tobe time to read.

● Try to read all the key words.● You can underline the words.● It is your paper and no one is goingto use it again so you can dowhatever you want to it: even drawcats if you want. The examinerswouldn’t care!!!

Top Tips for FCE - Thanks to Ece, Anne-Sophie and Raimon.

Eva, Ece and Anne-Sophie play onemore tennis game

Grammar exercises on the surface tablets for Guio & JY

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You never know what you might find ifyou look under a teacher’s bed atKing’s. You could find money, exampapers or even a ticket for a boat trip toGreece. But there was something veryunlikely to find that had been under ateacher’s bed. Guess... well, I bet you’llnever get it so I’ll tell you anyway. AMagna Carta.A Magna Carta is a kind of

testament with all the laws written on itfrom a very long time ago. I’m talking

about 1297! We had been keeping it formore than 600 years until we sold it tothe Australian Government for £12,500in 1952. The school still has a copy ofit which is situated between the Englishand Music departments in the MemorialHall.Now, let’s move on to some history.

The Magna Carta was written by theKing’s Barons during King John’s reignwhen there was feudalism. The Baronswrote it for one simple reason. Theywanted a fair and efficient society. Theythreatened the King to sign it! If hedidn’t the barons would revolt, so KingJohn signed it and happy days. Actually,my Housemaster, Mr Bunday is atRunnymede today with the Queen,15th June, as it is the 800th anniversaryof the signing of the Magna Carta. Ihope he’s not revolting…

History underthe bedBy Lluis MontalatVerheyen 3rd Form Blackford

● Eliminate answers: the audio isplayed twice so always try toeliminate answers the first time andthen come to a conclusion thesecond time. If you don’t know theanswer always put something.Whatever you think is most related.

Writing● Know who you’re writing to ● Is it in a formal or informal style?● Magazine, newspaper etc.● Answer the question ● Keep it accurate and brief ● Use paragraphs / punctuation ● Introduction-main part-conclusion● What are you writing? Report,article, letter, review (differentcharacteristics)

● You have to distinguish between 5different types of writing ( they allhave to look and sound different)

Use of English● Prepare as much as you can (it`sgoing to be really hard)

● The difficulty of this part dependson your 2 hours before.

● People will tell you it is the mostdifficult part but if you havepractised and know grammar youhave nothing to worry about.

● Divide up the time for each part.● It is key to have the time sorted upotherwise you run out.

● Fill every gap: it counts the same ifit’s wrong than if you didn’t putanything.

Lluis & JY try fencing

Lucky Yan!

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“The lift to success is out oforder. You’ll have to use thestairs… one step at a time.”Joe Girard

No person can reach success just bytaking the easy routei. I have just read abook by Sally Gardner, ‘Tinder’, basedon Anderson’s ‘The Tinderbox’, wherethe main character used the power ofthe tinderbox as an easy way to successto achieve his goal.ii Just to lose it all inthe end because of one small mistake.iii

Life is the same.iv If you use a ‘cheating’way eventually you will lose it all; likeOtto Hundebiss did.v You have to buildyour life from nothing and keep it safeand secure so no one piece will fall off.vi

But sadly none of this success will saveyou from Death in the end of yourjourney.vii Life is an illusion betweenBirth and Death so does it really matterwhich success we choose? viiiYes. Becauseit is better to make this illusion worthwatching, doesn’t it?ix

Why is this an excellent piece ofwriting? Let’s analyse why.

i Snappy, short opening sentencegains the reader’s attentionimmediately.

ii Longer more detailed sentence withgood use of vocabulary.

iii Short sentence. A mix of sentencelength makes it easier for the readeras we must always keep our readerin mind when writing.

iv Snappy and short, expressing anopinion which he encourages youto agree with.

v Effective use of semi-colonpunctuation gets extra marks

vi Effective use of collocations andphrasal verbs gains you extra marks.

vii Good use of contrasting ideas.viii Rhetorical question near the end

maintains the readers’ interest.ix Question tag – nice!

The lift to success is out of orderBy Nikita Bogachev 4th Form, Old House

Michael learning circus skills

We’ve had some really lovelyinternational pupils this year; be theyhere for a term or all year. All but onewho sat an examination passed. Thatincludes the Cambridge PET, FCE andIELTS. We continue to achieve 9 in theIELTS for listening, well done toChristina and Sasha, and Eva achievedour first ever 9 in the speaking exam.We are also running our first intensiveEnglish course for pupils coming inSeptember, something we hope tocontinue next June. Lots to say but I’lllet the pupils speak for themselves withtheir work and pictures included in thisM6. Looking forward to meeting all ournew EAL pupils on September 6th.

Mrs Maistrello getsthe last word.

He really is smilingbehind the board!