Spring Term 2013 Newsletter

ALSO INSIDE: YOUNG ENTERPRISE DIP IT • SWIMMING GALA • HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL AND FRENCH MUSICAL SOIRÉE •

JUNIOR HOUSE NEWS • WESTFIELD ASSOCIATION NEWS • ROUND SQUARE ACTIVITIES • SCHOOL NEWS

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Lottie, Laura and Jessica,Lower Three, have beenselected to attend the 2013Children’s InternationalSummer Villages as part of the UK Delegation

Pictured above left to right: • Junior House Activities (Thunderous Thursday) • Soumya meets a Barn Owl • RSIS Project in India • Junior Round Square Conference

Young Enterprise Dip It

Senior House WWI Battlefields Visit

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Diving in action!

Abby Hillier

JessicaLanceley

EmilyGold

JoelyHawke

HonorHierons

Mrs Collier with Alex Vincent and Louise Greenshields

EmiliaCollier

AlexHenderson

SWIMMINGGALA

Tweed House

Coquet House

The obstacle race

Wansbeck House2

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UJUK Young Enterprise Company attended the Commonwealth Day Observance Service in Westminster Abbey

Four members of the UJUK Young Enterprise Company attended theCommonwealth Day Observance Service in Westminster Abbey on 11 Marchorganised by The Royal Commonwealth Society in the presence of HRH TheDuke of Edinburgh. As one of the winning companies for the NationalCompetition 2012, they were invited to apply for tickets and were delighted tobe successful. Mrs Gaynor, Head of Business Studies accompanied by MissEmma Gillespie, the Young Enterprise Mentor and UJUK Young Enterpriseteam members Honor Hierons, Sarah Harrison, Grace Lloyd-Jones andGeorgina Forster headed off to London to attend the ceremony. This was awonderful experience for our Young Enterprise students.

Dip It girls and theiryoung models at TheTrade Fair.

Felicity Ronn preparingthe stall at the Trade Fair.

Sarah Makepeace andEmily Ward wearingSandwich Boards

DIP IT attended the Metro Centre

Young Enterprise Trade Fair in

February and broke the school record

for sales by selling over £100 of stock.

Mrs Wilkes’ twins were on hand to

sell the new tie dye babygros!

Young Enterprise

School News

To celebrate World Book Day on March 8, CJ Daugherty, author of the best-selling NightSchool series of teen novels, visited Westfield whereshe recounted some of the experiences that have ledher to create stories for young adults that involvepolitical espionage, murder and romance.

She talked of her experiences of working as a crimereporter and being witness to grizzly real life crimesin her native United States. She also shared storiesabout her time working in intelligence for the BritishGovernment. The girls were enthralled and areavidly reading her two books, Night School andLegacy .

Author VisitSometimes school can be murder!

Co-opFairtradeRecipeCompetition.As part of their HomeEconomics course thisterm girls from LowerFour, Upper Four,Lower Five and theLower Sixth were askedto create a recipe usingselected Fairtradeingredients. Entrieshave been forwarded tothe Co-op and the mostcreative are to beincluded in a Fairtradecookery book to belaunched in October.Winning pupils will beinvited to the launchevent and asked tocook their recipealongside a Co-op chef.Let’s keep our fingerscrossed. Some of thedishes created areshown here

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Dip It Young Enterprise Trade Fair

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MusicalMoments

High School MusicalThe Jocks, The Thespians, The Brainiacs, The Skater Dudes, The Adults, The CheerLeaders and all the crew had a fantastic time at the wonderful Senior House Productionof High School Musical. The cast, stage hands and production assistants have all workedvery hard under the expert direction of Miss Emma Baldwin and Mr Graeme Wilson. Thehard work at the rehearsals really paid off, resulting in a fantastic performance. Aspecial mention should go to all the girls who played the lead roles, all of whom are stillonly in Upper Four – a fantastic achievement! Well done, everyone!

Vive la France!The French Musical Soirée on 13 March was a great success.

Great Music, Great Company, Great Wine and Great Food!

Our Senior House and Junior House ensembles performed a varied and excitingprogramme alongside performances by The Senior Band, The Wind Band, The LowerThree Recorder Ensemble, The 5+ Ensemble and The Jazz Band. The Senior Choir andthe Chamber Choir performed and guests enjoyed a variety of instrumental and vocalsoloists, poetry recitals in French and a beautiful dance performance. Our High SchoolMusical Crew performed some of their songs from the show. It was a night toremember!

Lucy Blair and Lucy Hall

The Crew at rehearsals: Lucy Blair, Lucy Hall, JessicaCoventry, Lucy Hatton and Verity Hodgson-Bajoria

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Girls from Lower Four to the Upper Sixth visited the World War OneBattlefields of the Somme and Ypres during the February half term,accompanied by Mrs Harris, Mrs Boyce, Mrs Dodds and Westfield oldgirl, Stephanie Forster.

The visit was a very informative and moving experience for all the girls.

As well as visiting the Battlefields, the girls had the opportunity topractise their French and learn some words in Flemish.

Help for Heroes Valentine’s Day DiscoGeorgina Forster and Medina Shahid organised aValentine’s Day disco for girls and boys in Years 7,8 and 9. Newcastle School for Boys joined in anda great time was had by all. The sale of ticketsraised £450 in aid of Help for Heroes.

Senior House girls attendeda variety of interesting talksduring National CareersWeek. We were delighted towelcome several old girlsand parents who discussedcareers in Engineering,Accountancy, Advertising &Marketing, Art & Design,Dentistry, Health Care,Nursing and Midwifery, Law,University Lecturing and how to set up abusiness. An inspiring week for everyone.

We shall remember them…

The Australian Imperial Forces Memorial at Polygon Wood.

National Careers Week

School News

We were able to visit the grave of Nina Winn’srelative, Lance Corporal ELW Broad, RAMCwho died on 5 August 1918 and was buried atBrandhoek Cemetery in Belgium.

In the preserved trenches atSanctuary Wood, Hill 62 with our veryknowledgeable guide Mr Peter Crook.

EmmaMarshall

Miss Thomasson

We were able to visit the grave of Nina Winn s relative,Lance Corporal ELW Broad, RAMC who died on 5 August1918 and was buried at Brandhoek Cemetery in Belgium.

Battlefields

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Junior HACTIVITIES IN

Cartoon Club

Junior HCISV

Chinese New Year Dragons

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The perfect Westfield girl! Junior House girls have beenenjoying a short course in cartoondrawing and studying ‘Manga’, aJapanese form of drawing, wellknown to young people throughcomic strips and advertising. Theyhad great fun lampooning the staff!

Three girls from Lower Threewill be heading for differentparts of the North and SouthAmerican continents thissummer as part of UKdelegations to Children’sInternational Summer Villages(CISV). Lottie Coventry hasbeen selected to go toFredericton in Canada, LauraDayson to New York andJessica Baker to Mexico City.We look forward to hearing allabout their adventures on theirreturn.

Chinese New Year

WATCH OUT!There's a dragon about!

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r Houser House

The Comenius project

Visiting Author

Jacqueline Harveyacts out the storywith Ruby

Exploeing the beach

Swimming Gala

Our World from My WindowWestfield School Junior House hosts young German visitors

In February, eight nine and ten year olds from Germany and their teachers becamepart of the Westfield School community as part of their European Commissionproject, entitled ‘Our World from my Window’. This project involves three schools,Westfield, Armin-Maiwald-Schule from Monheim am Rhein in Germany, andL’Ermitage International Ecole de France from Maisons-Laffitte, just south of Paris,working together on the theme of the cross-curricular project in art, music, dance,history, geography, ICT and language lessons.

Our visitors experienced the beautiful Northumbrian coastline, albeit in bitingwinds, and visited Tynemouth with our Lower Three girls. They also joined in artand IT lessons in school, as well as being taken to many other splendid local sightsover the weekend by their host families, including Bamburgh, Seahouses and theChinese New Year festivities in Newcastle.

Some of the children from Germany were paying a return visit following Westfield’svisit to Monheim in November 2012, so a few tears were shed on parting. Somemay get the chance to meet again when Westfield and Armin-Maiwald-Schule visitL’Ermitage School in France in June.

Visit To Sea Life Centre

Saying Farewell !

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Buenos Días, Guten Tag, Bonjour, God Dag, Buongiorno,

Bom Dia, and Goedendag are all greetings that pupils havebeen using during our European study week. Each yeargroup studied the language, food, products, culture andcustoms of a different country, producing displays,artwork, leaflets and posters. Making the most of theinternational students in the school, information wassupplied and visits were made by parents from Holland,Germany, Sweden and Portuguese speakers from Brazil.

Thunderous Thursday raised over £600 for the RSPB Harapan Rainforest Appeal.All the girls and staff dressed as ‘Our Forest Friends’, including tigers, bears,badgers and rabbits and a few fairies and elves!.

ACTIVITIES IN Junior House

Explore Europe Week

Thunderous Thursday

Early Years

Transition

Pillow Fight Game

Churros from Spain

Tasting French foods

Lower One 'Sunflowers'

Investigating countriesand their language

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Young Engineers launch

Primary Engineering Programme

Transition girls joined other pupils to launch thePrimary Engineering Programme for NE Schools,which is funded by NE engineering companies inconjunction with the EEF ManufacturingOrganisation. The companies involved will provideteacher training and resources to 28 schools in thenorth to promote engineering and involve youngstudents with the excitement of scientific discoveryand invention. Our young engineers thoroughlyenjoyed the launch of the programme, encouragedby juice and cupcakes, and are looking forward tolearning and creating throughout the coming months

Image Theatre’sproduction of ‘The Happy Prince’told a moral tale indrama and song withmuch audience andpupil participation.

Image Musical Theatre visit

Primary Engineering Programme

Trewitley Owls Visit

South Indian Owl

Soumya meets a Barn Owl

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'Back to the Future' Round Square Conference

'Back to the Future' was the theme ofthis year's Young Round Square RegionalConference held at Westfield School.European Delegates from Years 6 and 7and staff members joined our delegatesfrom Lower Three and Upper Three.

We were delighted to welcome theparticipating Round Square schools ofGordonstoun, IS Zurich, Abbotsholme,Box Hill, Ermitage, Herlufsholm,Louisenlund, Birklehof and theSamworth Academy. Newcastle Schoolfor Boys also joined us at the conference.

Delegates tried their hand atorienteering, pottery and bushcraftfollowed by a visit to Kielder Observatory.They enjoyed making music, tacklingtechology projects and exploring ideas intheir barazza groups before enjoying theconference dinner and disco.

Learningbushcraft

Archery

The Barbecue

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Round Square International Service Projects

During the Christmas holidays,three Lower Sixth girls flew off fortwo weeks to work in Cambodiaand India on RSIS Projects.

Elena Campbell thoroughly enjoyedworking in Cambodia in the communityof Prokeab in the Trapeang Thum district,about 87km south of Phnom Penh, where

she became involved in many projectswithin the local community. EmmaBriggs and Ruth Henderson worked oncommunity building projects inKatapathar Community in the Garwahlregion in Northern India as well ashaving the opportunity to explore thelocal sights. This was a life-changingexperience for all the girls.

Elena With children

Bycicle Time

The Foreman Working Hard

The Team

Time for Sari shopping

EmmaandRuthpainting

Enjoying the local culture

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The Westfield Association

New Chairman Nominations are invited for the position of Chairman of The Westfield Association. Mrs Dawn Wilson, the currentChairman, would like to handover the reins of this veryinteresting role to anenthusiastic, committed, expert delegator!

Please email Jane Jokelson atwestfield@westfield.newcastle.sch.ukif you would like to beconsidered for this very valuable role.

The Pie and Peas Quiz Night was great funwith a full house. The triumphant jointwinners of the Trophy were the Mushy Mindsand Cox & Corbin (the Physicists).

A huge thank you to Mrs Deborah Oldroyd for the delicious home made pies, to ourfantastic Quiz Master, Mr Graeme Wilsonand for everyone who helped to organise theevent, run the bar and clear up afterwards.The event raised just under £500 which is agreat achievement.

...The pictures say it all!

Another great event for our Junior Housegirls. Thank you to the organisers andparticipants who all had a great timedancing!

Dates for your diary:

Next Term

The Spring Fayre...

will take place on Saturday 11

May from 11.00am until

1.00pm.

The Camellia Ball ...

(Bond style!) will be held on

Saturday 29 June from 7.30pm

till 1am. Tickets will be

available next term. The Pie and Peas Quiz Night

The Junior House DISCO

The Pie and Peas Quiz Night'The Lawson Gang'

The Senior House Staff Team

Mrs Simmonds, Mrs Greenshields

and Mrs Lawson

Lower Sixth naturally knewthe names of the boys in OneDirection!

Mr Ian Briggs and Dr Corbincollecting their joint trophy

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