H 2 U Excellence by Design and through Innovation Year 10—A Platform for Success! about the achievement of examination results. We are keen to develop student re- sponsibility and excellent working relationships. I trust that you will recognise from this special edition of H2U the many and varied opportunities that our stu- dents have been making the most of. I have thoroughly enjoyed working with the year group and watching the considerable progress made in all areas of their school life and personal development. Year 10 Progress and Achievement Having already achieved the best ever Key Stage 3 results we have set high aspirations for GCSE achievement. The target we have set - 75% of the year group to achieve 5 or more A*-C passes - would surpass our previous best results but is a realistic goal. Students have already completed a major part of their GCSE courses with modular examinations al- ready being taken in Mathematics and two ma- jor Science examinations “I believe in using what you have, instead of mourning for that which you do not. In thirty years time, I want to be able to look back at my youth and know that I used my talents fully: that I wasted nothing” A former Highcliffe Sixth Former A year in review It seems only a few weeks ago that we began as Year 10 with our first assembly and I laid out our “Three R’s” agenda - Responsi- bility, Respect and Re- sults. Life at Highcliffe is not only Contributors : Mr Jones, Mat Downs, Adam Sloper, Rachael Smith, Charlotte-Anne Donnachie, Jonathan Shires, Mrs Finch, Josh Power, Miss Reeves, Mrs Karanja, Mrs Bunnett, Charlotte Barrington, Robyn Phillips-Major, Becci Salter, David Levesley, Mrs McGrath, Mr Burgan, Mr Simmons, Mrs White, Mrs Bower, Mr Hallam, Miss Kovacevic, Mr Rycroft, Miss High, Rebecca Carling, Justin Williams, Joshua Baker, Tom Nicholson, Callum Gillard, Max Baybut, Miss Doughty, Miss McMillan, Mr Trevorrow. Editorial/Production Team: J Potts, J Coleman, M Gower, S Bagshaw, P.Coughlan The Credits Participants in the recent Comenius Project Workshop (see full story inside)
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H2U
Excellence by Design and through Innovation
Year 10—A Platform for Success!
about the achievement of examination results. We are keen to develop student re-sponsibility and excellent working relationships. I trust that you will recognise from this special edition of H2U the many and varied opportunities that our stu-dents have been making the
most of. I have thoroughly enjoyed working with the year group and watching the considerable progress made in all areas of their school life and personal development. Year 10 Progress and Achievement Having already achieved the best ever Key Stage 3 results we have set high aspirations for GCSE achievement. The target we have set - 75% of the year group to achieve 5 or more A*-C passes - would surpass our previous best results but is a realistic goal. Students have already completed a major part of their GCSE courses with modular examinations al-ready being taken in Mathematics and two ma-jor Science examinations
“I believe in using what you have, instead of mourning for that which you do not. In thirty years time, I want to be able to look back at my youth and know that I used my talents fully: that I wasted nothing”
A former Highcliffe Sixth Former
A year in review It seems only a few weeks ago that we began as Year 10 with our first assembly and I laid out our “Three R’s” agenda - Responsi-bility, Respect and Re-sults. Life at Highcliffe is not only
Contributors : Mr Jones, Mat Downs, Adam Sloper, Rachael Smith, Charlotte-Anne Donnachie, Jonathan Shires, Mrs Finch, Josh Power, Miss Reeves, Mrs Karanja, Mrs Bunnett, Charlotte Barrington, Robyn Phillips-Major, Becci Salter, David Levesley, Mrs McGrath, Mr Burgan, Mr Simmons, Mrs White, Mrs Bower, Mr Hallam, Miss Kovacevic, Mr Rycroft, Miss High, Rebecca Carling, Justin Williams, Joshua Baker, Tom Nicholson, Callum Gillard, Max Baybut, Miss Doughty, Miss McMillan, Mr Trevorrow. Editorial/Production Team: J Potts, J Coleman, M Gower, S Bagshaw, P.Coughlan
The Credits
Participants in the recent Comenius Project Workshop (see full story inside)
as well as substantial amounts of coursework. The Year Ahead Year 11 will continue to be an extremely busy time and students will need to balance their workload and continue to meet course-work deadlines. Most subject areas offer support for students to complete coursework offer-ing numerous lunchtime and after school sessions. The Key Stage 3 booster programme proved to be a particularly successful sup-port to student achieve-ment and this will be built upon after Christmas when we will put together a simi-lar key stage 4 booster programme. Supporting Individual Students To help monitor individual and group performance an extra progress check has been introduced through-out the year. The three
key factors that we have chosen to monitor are at-tainment, attitude to learn-ing and attendance. Attainment In terms of attainment the latest predictions indicate that as well as a large num-ber of top grades being pre-dicted we are still on target to have 75% of students achieving 5 or more A* - C grades at GCSE. Attitude My experience in teaching has shown that the most important factor in success-ful achievement is the atti-tude to learning that is shown by students and it has been my pleasure to recognise the efforts of our students. From the last round of pro-gress checks we sent out nearly 60 letters of com-mendation to students who were showing excellent atti-tude to learning in at least five subject areas. Most re-cently students seeking
greater responsibility and leadership have been made prefects. Attendance Attendance at school is a key factor in achievement and the following statistics show a startling correlation between attendance and achievement, but they are a reality. I am pleased to say that attendance in Year 10 has shown an im-proving trend and this year has shown an improve-ment on previous cohorts: If a Highcliffe student is absent less than one day a month, they have a 87% chance of getting 5 A*s - Cs. Or put another way, if a student misses less than 7 days (including holidays, illness, etc) in the year up to May, they have almost 9 chances in 10 of getting 5 A*s - Cs. If a Highcliffe student is absent less than one
day a fortnight, they have a 75% chance of getting 5 A*s - Cs This suggests that if a stu-dent misses less than 15 days (including holidays, illness, etc) in the year up to May, they have almost 8 chances in 10 of getting 5 A*s - Cs. If a Highcliffe student is absent once a week or more, they have only a 20% chance of getting 5 A*s - Cs If a student misses more than 30 days (including holidays, illness, etc) in the year up to May, they have only 2 chances in 10 of getting 5 A*s - Cs. It is a main priority of the school to monitor the at-tendance rates of our stu-
dents. It has such an effect on your son or daughter’s learning and understand-ing. I hope with your con-tinued support at home, we can make the atten-dance of the year group a real strength. I would like to finish by drawing your attention to a pair of related statistics In the box to the right are the current attendance fig-ures for the year group. The slide below, which has recently been displayed on the screens around school show how achievement at school can reflect on earn-ings.
Report by Mike Jones Head of Achievement
Year 10
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£15.01 £15.01 per hourper hour
What do you want for your child?What do you want for your child?
Current Year 10 Attendance Statistics for the year 2006/07
Total attendance rate in
Year 10: 92.45% Total authorised
absences (explanation received in written form): 6.87%
Total unauthorised
absences (no explanation received in written form): 0.68%
NB. The current total of unauthorised absences stands at 0.68% for the year group. Please can I ask parents if your son or daughter is off school for
Get the News If you are reading this we can safely assume that you are in-terested in news about the school and the educational ex-perience of our young people. Why not visit the school web-site which has a range of infor-mational and interactive con-tent designed to keep High-cliffe moving forward in its de-velopment of home-school communication. As well as being able to access news about school events, not to mention the ability to view the electronic version of H2U, many subject areas have a dedicated area and many are also developing learning materials for the school’s VLE (Virtual Learning Environment), the ‘Resource Bank’, which is constantly being updated. This allows students to download information and work packs directly related to lessons and work on them at home. Your own area Parents have their own section of the site where they will find a wealth of useful information and documentation including: § Attendance Booklet § The school’s Dress Code § Copies of the weekly student bulletins containing useful information for that week § A copy of the school calendar § Homestudy Policy and Timetable § Information on the Highcliffe School Association (HAS) § Guidelines for parents on internet safety § The Annual Report to Parents § Links to a range of useful education sites My Highliffe As well as this, a key component of this programme is the ability for you as parents to access ‘My Highcliffe’ and see specific information relating to your child. For obvious reasons this is password protected. If you have not yet attempted to access this area please go to www.myhighcliffe.com and download an application form, we are certain you will find it a pro-foundly useful facility. Online Shopping Finally if you shop online you can benefit the school, and therefore your child’s education, by logging on to the Getit4schools logo on the site. Via this you can connect to the online stores shown below. Each time you make a purchase via this route the school will receive a royalty payment. The more we get the more extra opportunities we can provide for the students. Please explore the website and if you can think of any ways to improve it please contact us. Your feedback allows us to improve.
From 8th to 11th June, the Highcliffe Year Ten Young Language Leaders (Charlotte Donnachie, Jonathan Shires, Adam Sloper and Rachael Smith) were privileged to host the annual conference for the Comenius project, ar-ranged by Mr Campbell who invited students and teachers from the Gesam-tschule Rheydt-Mülfort, Mönchengladbach, Ger-many, the Instituto di is-truzione superiore, “R Casimiri”, Gualdo Tadino, Italy, the Stryn Vi-daregåande skule, Stryn, Norway and finally the London Nau-tical School, London to come to Leeson House for four days this summer.
The theme of the interna-tional project was: “The Changing World of Work”. This is a three year project in which the four countries undertake a study of the changes which have taken place in the working world over the last fifty years and in the career and higher education opportu-nities for young people in the four partner countries.
The activities included: Presentations from
each of the partner countries about their schools and aspects of interest in their home ar-eas. For example the Nor-wegians pre-sented their breath-takingly beautiful home town on a fjord and also made a quiz with prizes from a
sought-after Nor-wegian clothing manufac-turer and were keen to tell us that polar bears do not roam on the
streets in Norway! The Highcliffe students gave a presentation about in-terviews they have completed with members of their family about em-ployment and also gave an idea of the history of the area with a talk about the Tolpuddle
Martyrs(thank you to Ms Barrall for the infor-mation). The German school presented their
school and its educa-tional aims, the Italian school had a presenta-tion about their school and home town in Umbria
in central Italy, the London Nautical School explained its maritime origins which arose from the sinking of the Titanic and the need to educate young people about sailing.
Each country set up an individual table with typical foods and other items of interest: for instance carnival cos-tumes from Germany, Norwegian food and traditional bridal cos-tumes and from London
a bottle of HP sauce! The
findings of the ques-tionnaire activities were pre-sented by the Nor-wegian staff who
had done some tables and graphs to compare
The International
Dimension
The school sees its responsibilities as a Language College as going beyond the teaching of languages. It is about giving our young people a true sense of the world at large as well as their responsibilities and their opportunities within it. A vital component of this is the development of links with our partner schools whether via electronic technology or by the use of personal experience.
the four countries re-garding employment. Then groups of stu-dents analysed the findings and presented their conclusions to the rest of the delegates.
A CD of all the confer-ence material was pro-duced so that all the delegates were able to return to their home country with an impres-sive study of the pro-ject theme and also happy memories of good times spent along with the hard work.
There was time for some fun and cultural visits. We were lucky enough to visit Corfe Castle when there was a re-enactment of some histori-cal events from 978AD, and it was ironic that this in-cluded a mock-battle be-tween the Saxons and the Vikings – we managed to keep the Germans and the Norwegians apart! We had a lovely boat trip in superb weather from Swanage to Poole which gave the visi-tors a tremendous impres-sion of the Jurassic Coast.
At the close of the confer-ence we all evaluated our work and reflected on our time together – the major conclusion was that many new friendships had been created and that the work done together had helped bond the group and break down frontiers, as well as giving the chance for lots of fun and enjoyment.
Report by Adam Sloper, Rachael Smith,
Charlotte Donnachie and Jonathan Shires
Conference Findings about Employment Across the Four Countries
· Italy had the highest number of males who had attended university. · Most females who went to university were from Norway and the UK · Most people with a low secondary education were from Germany. · Most people with a high secondary education level were from Norway. · The quality of working conditions has improved in all the four countries. · In Italy the majority of people felt their working conditions had not changed
much, but the main changes were in pay . · In Germany the main changes have been in technology and in pay, both for
the better. · In all four countries men worked longer hours than women, probably due to
family commitments rather than because lack of equality of opportunity. · Approximately 10% of people questioned in the four countries were not in
employment for whatever reason.. An example of the graphs produced:
When the 29 Year 10s EVENTUALLY got to Berlin after a 5 hour delay at Stansted airport, it was too late to take in the sights and sounds of the historic German capital city. However, following a lazy breakfast at the hostel the group were faced with blaz-ing sunshine as they crossed the city – from East to West - taking in many of the sights that we would grow to recog-nise over the next few days. The first port of call was the awesome Olympic Sta-dium, host to last year’s World Cup Final. We were denied access inside as there were earnest preparations for the German FA cup final. So we headed back into the city centre – quickly learning the German for ‘water please’ at various ki-osks to cope with the 32° heat. Our next stop was Pots-damer Platz where the group had the chance to visit the Sony Centre, the fastest elevator in Europe and some all important shops. The heat was in-tense and some were visi-
bly flagging when we stopped at the Museum for Contemporary Art to view the most recent exhibition – ‘Expressions of pain and suf-
fering’ (we had our own ex-hibits in some cases espe-cially after delays in the sweltering heat in the greenhouse-style station!).
The heat built up to an im-pressive storm in the eve-ning and we braved the rain to go to the Reichstag and the famous Dome with a
plan to see Berlin by night. Unfortunately train delays resulted in our missing the last entry to the building and we had to make do
with an open air concert outside the famous Brandenburg Gate. Not the plan – but good fun. Day two ran like clockwork with all the trains behaving themselves. We started at the Topography of Terror, the for-mer SS head-quarters to
have a educational tour of the rise of the brutal prac-tises of Hitler’s secret po-lice during the 1930s and World War Two. We then
took another water stop be-fore walking to Checkpoint Charlie for some photos and souvenirs. We then suc-cessfully made it to the river cruise to have an alternative perspective on the city – the River Spree proving to be the best place to be in the heat, with a de-
lightful guide talking us through the famous land-marks. The groups di-vided – half going to visit the cool and calm of Ber-lin’s Cathedral, going to
the top of the Dome to get fantastic views of Berlin, to the crypt with the tombs of the Kaiser’s family. The other group opted for the TV tower and some more shopping. There was a welcome return to the hostel for a shower and food before we visited the Sony Centre to view the premiere of ‘Pirates of the Caribbean 3’ – in English as a surprise treat for the stu-dents. There were mixed reviews of the film but top marks for the comfy seats! Sunday started sombre and reflective as we headed north to Sachenhausen, home of Berlin’s concentration camp. We were told of the terri-ble conditions the political prisoners had to suffer and the dehumanising treatment by the Nazis to prevent rebel-lion in the camp. We took a quieter walk back to the sta-tion just missing the rain to head back into the West side of the city to the Kurfurstendamm area – a chance to use the shops to shelter from the welcome downpour. In the evening we finally made it to the Reichstag and queued in the evening sun to be re-warded by impressive as-
pects of Berlin from the glass Dome that had a hel-ter-skelter style ramp to the top. We returned to the
hostel for an early night – or not as it turned out…. Monday was our last day and an evening flight home meant we could see more of
the city, starting with Trep-tower Park. This was a short journey from the hos-tel and the home of East Berlin’s Soviet memorial to the fight for the city in 1945 and recounts the history of the Great Patriotic War in carved marble, overshad-owed by the giant statue of a victorious Soviet soldier
carrying a child. We walked along the riverside to get to the East Side Gal-lery – a 1.3 km section of
the Berlin Wall that was been left due to its collection of inspiring street art, that reflects the thoughts, frustra-tions and hopes of the many Berliners who were divided by a concrete wall for nearly 30 years (1961-89), that stood as a monu-ment to the Cold War and the ideo-logical differences of USSR and Amer-ica.
The group split up as some were keen to return to the Olympic Stadium and oth-ers wanted to see other places in central Berlin. We met back at the hostel for
a final hearty meal and the transfer to the airport. No de-lays this time, al-though some rigor-ous security checks! We arrived back in England to pouring rain – not surprising as it was a Bank Holiday, and the long drive back to Highcliffe – safe and sound. The city of Berlin is an amazing place and we could have done with several
more days to fully appreci-ate what there is to see and experience. Hopefully the students will have memories that will stay with them for many years to come and inspiration to return.
A not-so brief summary of the trip So where would you start talking about a trip so jam-packed with goings-on of every nature, stretched across two different coun-tries, and almost two weeks spent therein? An unforgettable ex-perience, 15 kids learning to get on together and be the best of friends, and of course, meeting some extremely friendly and amaz-ing people. I guess that would be as good a way as any. I think one of the most special things about this trip was that almost every preconception and prior thought or worry you went in with was quite literally turned on its head. That’s an extremely diffi-cult thing to achieve under any circumstances and in any situation, so to achieve it while working with a per-son from another culture who you are meeting for the first time is an awesome thing. I was extremely nervous about meeting my part-ner. Living in the house of somebody you’ve never met before, for almost an en-tire week, was something I had never experienced be-fore, so I had absolutely
no clue how it was going to turn out. Needless to say, all my worries were baseless! This part of the trip was ac-tually a very enjoyable op-portunity to get to know a foreign person very well, and we definitely left good friends. It’s an experience
that proved to be very en-joyable, despite my early doubts, and I would recom-mend it to anyone who isn’t
afraid to meet new people. But of course, there was more to the trip than this, but maybe it was good to
get that out of the way. We had a series of really interesting and informative events that were planned by both the Dutch teachers and the English managers of the trip that really made the science part for the trip
slide by with-out too much bad feeling, but a little work is al-ways good to keep you on your toes! We visited a wind farm in Holland where they test new blades, stood under one and heard it ‘whirr’, toured
around an interactive mu-seum called ‘Electronica’ and even climbed up a windmill and saw clogs be-
ing made! Back in the UK we went to El-ing tide mill, one of the old-est working mills in the world we were also spoken to by a represen-tative of Vesta on the Isle of Wight, who make the wind turbine blades. As the project
came to a close we all pro-duced a fully-fledged pres-entation about different methods of alternate en-
ergy. This involved making papier mache working models of our energy re-source. The teachers and students together man-aged to make them really informative; the audience of parents and friends were genuinely impressed! Which brings me neatly to my next pointt about he Dutch students who first accommodated us so well during our visit to Holland and then allowed us to re-turn the hospitality. They amazed me every time I spoke to any of them, as it felt like just talking to a English person – that is how good their grasp of
our language was. I used to forget I was talking to a Dutch person, so on the very few occasions they did-n’t understand something, it always came as a shock to me. I would commend every one of them for making the trip such a wonderful experi-ence too. Thanks guys! But most of all I was amazed as always to wit-ness a great social event. Things happen on trips, things that often slip through the gaps in what some people perceive. How-ever, if you can feel what’s happening, or if you see it afterwards, it really is what you carry with you ever af-
ter from the event. All these things, and more, have combined in such a way as to make a com-pletely great trip, a won-derful and new experience, and a chance to meet some amazing people. What more can we ask? All that’s left to say is; Con-gratulations Mr. Evans, Miss High, and the Dutch representatives. Congratu-lations to those Dutch stu-dents who made the trip what it was. And to all my friends, I simply say: Thank you.
Report by Josh Power
Calling Year 9
Would you like to be part of the exchange next year?
If so… ...contact Miss High as soon
as possible for a letter Hurry, hurry, hurry! Places
A New Arrival for Child Development In February the Child De-velopment Department welcomed the arrival of a 6-½ pounds bouncy baby girl. Ellie Mai, as named in a democratic election by Year 10 Child Development, is a virtual baby who cries, fusses and makes happy sounds depending on her care needs. Par-ents and students were in-vited to a meeting to be introduced to Ellie Mai and given an explanation of what caring for her will en-tail. Parents were over-whelmingly supportive with many a wry smile when I suggested she maybe awake for most of the night! The main emphasis is for the students to care for Ellie Mai so they have an insight into the de-manding role of being a mother. The weekend arrived with Charlotte Barrington being the first student (victim) to take home Ellie Mai. To help complete the illusion Mrs Downie kindly donated a pushchair with fitted car seat to help transport Ellie Mai. Mrs Barrington and a very nervous Charlotte ar-rived on Friday to have a final run through. Char-lotte was asked to com-
plete a diary of her week-end, describing Ellie Mai’s care needs and her own per-sonal thoughts. Ellie Mai was dressed in newborn baby clothes so at a quick glance she looked very life like. Ellie Mai was pro-grammed to start at 4pm finishing at 4pm on Sunday; this allowed Charlotte to get
home prior to the start of the simu-lation. On Monday a very tired Charlotte and mum arrived to hand over Ellie Mai.
Charlotte overall scored 100%, which is fantastic, considering she was the first student to take part in the simulation. What we did discover is that Ellie Mai is not designed to be trans-ported in a pushchair, recording a mishan-dle every time she is pushed over a curb or bumpy pavement, she is from an American manufac-ture who has de-signed her to be transported in a car, not walked! Charlotte en-joyed the experience but re-alised how demanding a newborn baby can be. Mrs Barrington was very proud
of Charlotte as she cared for Ellie Mai's needs throughout the weekend without complaint and was extremely patient and car-ing. Throughout the subse-quent weeks Ellie Mai has enjoyed a more active so-cial life than I have, she has been to barbecues, restaurants, sleepovers and family rooms in pubs. The girls have said they have had very mixed re-sponses from the general public, from slowing down when they are walking home from school to an elderly lady 'tut-tutting' in a supermarket and mutter-ing ‘ they should be at least 20’. All the girls have arrived very tired on Monday morning, although enjoy-ing the experience have found that even going to
the toilet can be fraught with diffi-culties. They were surprised how mo-notonous caring for a baby can be; feeding, burping and changing nappies seemed to
be endless. From the dia-ries the girls have kept she is awake at least 2 – 4 times at least on one of the nights, with episodes of care required for 1 – 2
Curricular News
Child Development
As I was the first one to have the baby I felt quite scared, as I did not know what to expect. At the beginning of the weekend I was quite eager to see what it would be like but by the end I was very tired. This has put me off having kids for a while.
hours at a time. At the end of the experience the girls were given a sheet listing the times and dates of any missed care needs, their care rating and a cer-tificate to put into their Progress Files to say they have completed and sur-vived the Real Care Baby Experience. I would like to thank the parents for their continual support and the odd nights’ lost sleep but most importantly the students for their enthusiasm and fantastic care they have shown to out newest arri-val. Nursery Visits Year 10 Child Development In Year 10 students of Child Development were given the opportunity to visit local nursery to see how children play within a structured environment. This experience helped to link the theory of how chil-dren learn through play with the real thing. The students, if the nursery could accommodate them, were sent in pairs to nurs-eries which were close to their homes. Each student completed a booklet asking then to identify what ac-tivities the children partici-pated in, the routine of the day and the safety equip-ment, which was required for each nursery, this was collected the fol-lowing week. All the girls that partici-pated really enjoyed the experience, with some wishing do their two-week work experience in a nurs-
ery. They were amazed at the different abili-ties of the children and how cute they could be! A thank you let-ter was writ-ten by each student and sent to the nurseries. From a teach-ing perspec-tive I can now relate back to the visits, using the knowl-edge the students have gained to help them under-stand how a child develops. Our Day at Chewton Common Playgroup at the Beach On March 21st, Mrs Bunnett ar-ranged fro the two of us to go to Chewton Common Play-group for the day. We were pleasantly surprised to find out that Helen, the manager of Chewton Common had arranged to take the chil-dren to the beach that day.
On arrival we were asked to help with setting up the equipment for that day’s activities, like setting up the windshield. At 9 o’clock steady amounts of chil-dren arrived for
the morning session. They were put into groups and sent to do activities.
Chewton Common Play-group sets themes for each week. That week it was desert, hence the reason we were at the beach! The activities for the toddlers include camel racing, writ-ing postcards to family and friends, building
‘pyramids’ and walking to an oa-sis otherwise known as the sandbank. After the activities the children had snacks and went home. We had to clear up and pre-pare for the after-
noon lot of children! We both agree that this was a good experience and we learnt a lot about the behaviour of children out-side their usual environ-ment. We both had to study the development of children’s fine and gross motor skills. It was also useful to learn about the development of their social skills by watching them play together. We would like to thank Mrs Bunnett for such a good experience.
Report by Robyn Phillips- Major
and Becci Salter
I took Ellie Mai hone on Friday 4th May and returned her on Sunday 6th May. Taking her home was a really good experience. On the first day I panicked and I was scared, but as the weekend pro-gressed I was a lot more calm and organised, I also recognised Ellie Mai’s needs. I would like to have the opportunity to take her home again, so that I have a better view about how new mums feel.
Global Rock When, in January, our Ex-pressive Arts class discov-ered we were doing Global Rock, I couldn’t help but wonder how I felt about it. I’m not a dancing person, I was already doing two other shows, and the con-cept of doing another just wasn’t too interesting. Through three months, I can’t believe how many different opinions I had of Global Rock- apprehen-sion, nerves, hatred, love and of course a strong passion to win. Best of all, I knew I wasn’t the only one and with each rehearsal I felt a bit more confident about our success. A professional choreographer came along and helped us as we de-signed the three blocks of the dance, these being - the calm and almost sopo-rific display of the compo-sition of atoms, the con-trolled passage of electric-ity down a wire, and finally the idea of electric sparks, and the short period of madness before it finally dies away. The piece was about 8 minutes, entitled ‘Shock to the System’, and was a dance about the im-portance of electricity in our age. So as March began to come to a close and spring hit, we all headed on down to the Bournemouth Pavil-
ion. Although we knew other schools were performing, we’d yet to see everyone in the same place doing their show. We walked in to the sound of a fast techno beat as a school were performing a piece using ribbons, blocks and a whole series of other technical effects. After changing in the gigantic ballroom, we got ready for our first rehearsal of the day. Everything went smashingly as we got used
to the size of the Pa-vilion stage, which is much lar-ger than the dance studio. Every-thing ran smoothly,
something we were glad for after a rather disastrous run through the lunch time the day before, and after a sec-ond run through straight af-ter, I probably wasn’t the only one who felt better about our performance- yes, we were the only abstract styled performance there, and yes there were some truly epic and moving per-formances- but that was all the more reason for us to try to win. After an hour or so out on the town we all returned for the afternoon of practising and watching other perform-ances before we did it be-fore a packed audience- every ticket had sold out! So when it came to performing, we were glad that we opened the second half, as it gave us time to prepare. Before we knew it, clad in our black outfits and swim-ming hats and painted like
Ziggy Stardust, we headed out to prepare for our per-formance. Our chants of how incredible we were rang out across the dress-ing room as we proved that, even if we weren’t a school of trained dancers, we were certainly very, very loud. Our performance came and went quickly, and after watching the video of it all, it looked spectacular, with mist, strobe lighting, and some great performances from all of us. Afterwards,we representatives stepped out and answered some questions before dis-appearing back into the wings for the next school to perform. After all the performances, we were called up to first of all meet the sponsors- and a lovely group of peo-ple they were- before the award ceremony. We won ‘best original concept’ and although we didn’t get an awarded place, I still feel that the experience was incredible- the chance to do all that we did was great, and I’d like to thank the Expressive Arts staff for all they put up with in their dancing odyssey. I’d also like to thank the other students for all the effort they put in and the great attitude they all had and the incredible sense of teamwork!
Report by David Levesley Planet Steps Dance Workshop-A Community Project
It is often stated that guys don’t have the dancing tal-ent of girls so when I was
invited to take part in a dance workshop, I had to wonder ‘how hard could it be?’ We’d worked with the choreographer, Nicky Pen-fold before and we started the day off with a thorough warm up to some Base-ment Jaxx songs before we then moved on to attempting to learn the routine. The start was easy, with a simple turn and a lunge- but then we got to our first hurdle, the task of lunging and stopping in a kneel. Sound difficult? It was for me and after enough failed attempts (and a good few friction burns scattered across my feet) I think Nicky decided that maybe we boys weren’t suited for the more urbanised dance sections. After two hours of physi-cally scarring but nonethe-less fun work, we had a break before returning for another hour in which we had duets to choreograph. I must say this was easily the best part of the re-hearsals, as I grasped it fairly easily, and it was good fun as well. After an hour of this we took a much needed lunch break where the cool Spring air soothed out limbs after the intense work so far. The last two hours focused on refining the piece be-fore finally performing it for a Year 7 audience who seemed positively bedaz-zled by the performance.
After five hours of dancing, we returned home before going to the Grange School for the performance for that evening which involved sev-
eral other local schools. Having watched the work of the other schools, we were treated to several per-formances by professional dancers and
musicians. Their African pieces were really quite in-credible: the dancers not only had excellent choreog-raphy but also managed both to keep a cool demean-our and stay in character. One piece (which involved our choreographer Nicky) left blurs of crimson through the air behind each well-timed limb that swept through the space with im-peccable synchronicity. The best performance for me, however, was the Mon-golian dance. Not only was the costume positively gor-geous, but also the dancer really did make it feel as if the chang-ing dy-namics and tem-pos were as flowing as water. It was, as someone men-tioned afterwards, ‘mesmerising.’ Finally we came on stage, and I must say the Highcliffe group of 30 students gave their all and combined with excellent lighting and sound we were met by rapturous applause from the 300 strong audience.
Before we left there was the finale, which involved everyone performing the same dance routine to-gether with the audience (sadly, I don’t think any-one told my parents about this!) I’d like to thank the Ex-pressive Arts staff for their efforts in creating this great experience for us, and also Wise Moves Dance who co-ordinated the evening allowing us to develop our dance and performance skills. Written by David Levesley
Ballard School link Staff at Highcliffe School are busy establishing links with Ballard School in New Milton in order to share ex-pertise and resources be-tween the 2 schools. Re-cently, Mrs McGrath ran a series of drama workshops with Year 9 Ballard stu-dents and is hoping to use their excellent Performing Arts facilities to host a
Highcliffe produc-tion in the sum-mer term. We are also en-couraging our students to at-tend a range of performance based extra cur-
ricular activities at Ballard and to take a leading role in helping direct future performances. Both schools are involved in an exciting dance project which will take place in May. Watch this space for future exciting develop-ments!
Year 10 UKMT Challenge The students pictured are proudly displaying the cer-tificates they were awarded for their efforts in the national competition sponsored by UKMT. The school had a particu-larly good year this year with 5 Gold, 15 Silver, 11 Bronze Awards. J.Golding was the best in school and as a result qualified for next stage of the challenge. Maths challenge questions Were/are you proud of your mathematical ability? Can you do as well as the students? Try the ques-tions in the boxes.
Report by Mr Burgan
1) What is the size of the marked angle SXT? 140 degrees 120 degrees 75 degrees 105 degrees 135 degrees
2) At half time in a netball match, Jokers were leading Jesters by 3 goals to 2. Seven goals were scored in the second half. Which of the following could not have been the result of the match? Jesters won by 2 goals Jesters won by 4 goals Jokers won by 2 goals The match was drawn Jokers won by 3 goals
Many more available on the UKMT website: www.ukmt.org.uk
Maths
A Level Mathemat-ics ? On average, a stu-dent with Mathemat-ics A Level can ex-pect to earn 30% more over their working lifetime than those without.
Work Related Learning
Make Your Mark Na-tional Enterprise Chal-lenge. On Tuesday 14th Novem-ber, 2 groups of Year 10 students were invited to work off-timetable to par-
ticipate in this national chal-lenge. The students had to come up with an original money-making idea that could ‘Make life fun… and earn a ton’. Their ideas could be a product to sell, a space, area or a place to put to better use, or even a ser-vice to provide. The idea might make money for the individual or a particular or environmental cause. The
challenge focused on en-terprise, innovation and creativity or the teams who had only 4 hours to complete the challenge. The hardest part for each team was agreeing on the initial idea. They then had 4 different ‘action stages’ to fulfil; 1) To describe their ideas on a single sheet.
2) To produce a money-matters document outlining cash-flow and any projected profit. 3) To outline com-petitors. 4) To prepare a presentation to pitch and sell their idea. Both teams worked relent-lessly on the challenge and by 3.00pm they were ready with their ideas and presentations to show the guest judges – Mr Camp-bell, Mr Simmons, Mr Cal-lear and his Year 11 Busi-ness Studies group. The 2 ideas were a ‘Gymbus’ – a mobile gym for all sectors of the community, and ‘Swift’ - a seated mono-rail/travelator, to help weary shoppers move around the huge shop-ping malls we have to-day. It was a very ‘Dragon’s Den’ sce-nario – with the judges grilling each team on their ideas. Even with Mr O’Connor’s input, there was no outright winner so both entries were submitted to the Enterprise Regional of-fice for them to make the decision. The following Monday af-ternoon, after assuming both ideas had been un-successful in qualifying for the Regional Finals, there was a call to say that the Swift team had made it through to the next stage of the compe-tition – in Exeter - in 2 days time! It was all systems go for the team to
make slight adjustments to their presentation – with staff generously allowing them time to work together on Wednes-day after-noon. The team drove down to Exeter Racecourse with Mrs Finch and Mrs Rose on Thurs-day morning, to compete against 20 other schools in the South West Regional Fi-nal. There were 2 presenta-tion sessions – half in the
morning and the rest in the afternoon. There was a fairly tense but excited at-mosphere in the room won-dering what other ideas stu-dents from the other schools
had come up with. We were 4th to go in the afternoon ses-sion and it be-came very nerve-wracking as our time ap-proached espe-cially as we discovered we
were also being judged on sticking to a 5 minute pres-
entation deadline. The Highcliffe entry was noted for the smart pres-
entation of the group, their use of technology and their time keep-ing, and being the only group who did their pres-entation
without prompt cards or a script. Other entries in-cluded an MP3 hat, MP3 boots, a virtual shopping mall and a family challenge
theme park. Unfortu-nately the Swift idea was not selected to go for-ward to the National Fi-nals, losing out to an idea for outdoor play equipment called the ‘Pyramid slide’. The Swift team did a fantas-tic job at representing the school at such a high level of competition, es-pecially given the short notice for preparation. We learned a great deal about the process for next year. Hopefully we
can build on the experi-ence for next year’s chal-lenge and look forward to making our mark again. Congratulations to all stu-dents and staff who par-ticipated and helped in the challenge, but especially to the Swift team – Georgina Partridge, Lucy Harrold, Jenny Herrod, Josh Power, Gareth Walls, Sammy Joynson and Dom Bush- Hipwood.
Report by Mrs Finch (This is a reprint of mate-rial from an earlier issue)
This two-week opportunity to go out into the world of work is invaluable in terms of career decision-making and work-related learning. First-hand experience is gained regarding expecta-tions of professional people and employers in terms of punctuality, appearance, attitude and initiative. Many students will enjoy the way they are treated as young, capable adults who can make a positive contribution in different ar-eas of work. They will also manage to find out more about their personal skills and qualities that can sometimes be missed in a school environment. It has been encouraging to see most Year 10 students
organising their work ex-perience in good time to en-sure that they would be maximising the opportuni-ties provided by their place-ments. The planning started in November and many have found to their benefit that the most popular place-ments are soon taken, espe-cially when there are 12 other schools competing for availability in the Dorset re-gion. We have a wide variety of placement destinations, both local and across the county, ranging from pre-schools and junior schools, to radio stations, hospitals, restaurants, hairdressers and the army. It will be important for the Year 10s to realise that they
are representing them-selves, their families and the school. They will need to be prepared to do new things and be willing to learn, to communicate with others and to show initia-tive. They will be treated wherever possible as regu-lar employees so they will get a true work experience that could help shape their future career aspirations. The school and the work experience team wish them all the very best of luck with their placements. Report by the Work Experi-
ence team – Mrs Finch, Mr Simmons, Mrs White
and Mrs Bower.
Year 10 Work Experience 9th-20th July 2007
“Work experience is defined as a place-ment on an employer’s premises in which a student carries out a particular task or
duty, or a range of tasks and duties, more or less as an employee, but with the em-phasis on the learning aspects of the ex-
Town Sports Success! On 24th May, the PE dept entered the annual Town Sports Athletics Competi-tion. This includes the best competitors from all the schools in Bournemouth, Christchurch and the New Forest. Our competitors truly ex-celled themselves in their performances, attitude and behaviour and were a real credit to the school!!! As a school the boys fin-ished in 5th place out of 13 schools and the girls fin-ished in 4th place out of 14 schools. Notable top 3 per-formance are shown in the table. All of those students who have finished in the top 2 places were selected to
compete for Bournemouth Schools in the County Ath-letics Competition on 9th June, where Tom Mepham was selected to represent the County in the South West Schools Competition. On 7th June we took our senior (Yr 9/10) Athletics team to compete at Canford school in a event that in-cluded most of the top pub-lic schools in the region. The girls team went on to finish second, only losing out to Parkstone Grammar by 6 points! While the boys team finished 5th. The most notable of the results was by Charlotte Mortimer (Yr 10), who was awarded with the ‘VICTRIX LUDORUM’, which is the award for the best performing female
competitor. Well done Charlotte!! This has been a busy sum-mer of sport for all at Highcliffe, with the girls teams playing more Rounders fixtures than ever before all over the County. The boys’ Cricket teams have had consider-able success to date with all years going through to the Bournemouth Schools semi finals, which are to be played in late June. The Year 7 and 8 teams have also made it through to the County Quarter finals and are waiting to hear who they will play in the next round.
Report by Mr Hallam Netball The Year 10 netball team have had another great year. The team includes Aimee Chester, Lucy Bur-gess, Megan Jones, Clare
Langley, Dani Seton-Smith, Charlotte Mortimer, Laura Jones and Bethany Jessop. Every year there is a county preliminary tourna-ment at BSG where area schools compete for a place in the Dorset County Championships. This year the Year 10 net-ball team won and they competed in the finals at Leweston School in Sher-bourne. The standard of the others team was very high and
Design & Technology
Celebrating Achieve-ment 2007 As is now a regular feature towards the end of the school year the Design and Technology Faculty invites you to attend its annual exhibition. In the Da Vinci Centre you will see a collection of work that sets down a standard and a challenge to the stu-
dents in Year 10, that chal-lenge is to match/exceed next year the level of work on display this year. All the pieces on show have been presented for assess-ment in the 2007 external examinations at GCSE, AS and A2 levels. The work covers a range of subject specifications in the areas of Art & Design, Photography,
included many private schools in Dorset who the team had never played before. The girls really enjoyed the day and were de-lighted to achieve 5th place overall. This was a fantastic result and the girls were a credit to the school. Later on in the year the team reached the final of the Bournemouth Schools annual knock-out plate tournament. The team entered were a
year young so their oppo-nents were Year 11 girls. The game was against Twynham and proved to be a tough game. Not only was the competition fierce, but the weather conditions were terrible. At one point snow was falling heavily!!! How-ever, the girls battled on through the cold and man-aged to win the match. It has been a fantastic year for the Year 10 netball team. They will be a tough team to be next year, when they are in Year 11.
Report by Miss Kovacevic
Catering and Design & Technology . The team hope that you will enjoy the exhibition very much. As you browse please accept the fruit juice and canapés pre-pared and served by the students of the Year 10 Catering group. As you enter the building
you will find Electron-ics and Textiles work in the glazed display areas to the right and left of the main doors. GSCE student work features mostly on the floor of the atrium. Shown in this area is a selection of pieces presented for assess-ment in Graphic Prod-ucts, Resistant Materi-als, Electronics and Art & Design. The Electronics sec-tion includes a num-ber of interactive pro-jects and someone will
be on hand to help you with these. On the upper level of the building you will see work submitted at AS and A2 level in Art & Design, Graphics, Photography and Art Tex-tiles. Obviously we are limited by space in the amount of physical work
that can be displayed. So please do not forget to take time to study the plasma screen where showing continuously will be a range of work by stu-dents in Art, Design and Technology. The exhibition will remain in place for visitors until 6th July. Please do come along, we are sure that you will not only enjoy the evening but will leave with an improved respect for the work and talent of our young people.
Every room at Highcliffe School now recycles paper. Josh Muir in Year 7 de-votes most of his free time to emptying these recy-cling boxes; he is a real asset to the Eco group. S-factor Greenies have continued to meet regu-larly and most recently planted some sunflower seeds in a competition to see whose grows the tall-est, so look out for tower-ing plants! In a previous meeting they all made bee nests. Miss Artym kindly donated some bamboo and we cut pieces of that and bundled them together… it makes the perfect home for our furry buzzing friends! S-factor Greenies are visit-ing the SITA recycling cen-tre in Hurn soon to find out what happens to waste that we all put out for re-cycling. This is sure to be a really interesting trip, it follows on from the talk that the group had re-cently from Laura Snoul-ton, Recycling officer for Christchurch Borough Council. Look out for a re-port on this in the next is-sue of H2U. The pond is gradually look-ing more natural, plants have been scattered around the edges and it has become alive with damselflies and there seems to be a regular dragonfly. When a Year 8 class were using the area recently a small frog was spotted jumping in the grass. The group were careful not to scare it and we are sure that there are
many more hiding about the place. A really exciting dis-covery was a newt tadpole; the small frog tadpole like creature with red gills was caught when some blanket weed was being cleared from the pond, it was re-leased back into the wa-ter and there should be more wher-ever that one came from! This shows how successful the pond has been and we are sure than a lot more wildlife will be attracted as time goes by. In Activities Week a group of students will be making the dipping platform for the
school pond, following this the area will be available for use by students during Science lessons and under supervision by a science teacher at other times if requested. Some moth traps will also be made; of
course we will set them free again. Don’t go thinking that moths are just little brown
butterflies; I’m sure that you will all be amazed at what a variety of colours, shapes and sizes moths can be.
Report by Miss High
Eco School
FACTFILE: • Newts start off life as an egg, then de-
velop into a newt tadpole, then a fully fledged newt!
• There are three species of newt found in The UK: Smooth newt, Palmate newt & Great crested newt (least common)
• Newts eat small invertebrates • A newt tadpole is really called an eft • Tadpoles develop front legs before back
The auditions to be se-lected for the National Youth Ballet 20th Anniver-sary were held in Manches-ter, Birmingham, Essex and five separate audition dates in London. My first audition was held in March at the English na-tional ballet school, Lon-don. Within a few days I received a letter asking me to a call back and casting audition held at the same place in May. There were about 200 girls and boys from 8-18 years recalled from all the audi-tions around the country. NYB were looking for about 80 cast members. When I arrived for the call back audition there was a television production com-pany filming the process and I was interviewed on my arrival. The TV Com-pany are hoping to make a documentary series on the NYB as it is the 20th anni-versary. It was a full and exciting day and we all left not knowing if we had made it into NYB or not. It was fantastic news when I re-ceived my letter a week later saying I had been se-lected. The whole cast will
attend a summer school at Elmhurst Bal-let School, Birmingham in August. We have to rehearse every Sunday in September and Oc-tober in London. This year the main bal-let we will perform will be ‘The Old Man of Lochnegar’ based on the book by Prince Charles. There will be a gala performance at Sadlers Wells theatre, London fol-lowed by five performances
in Leatherhead theatre Surrey. Report by Rebecca Carling
Year 10 go high...higher...Highcliffe!
As you know, we believe it is very important that we recognise the achievements made by all of the members of the school community. This applies whether those achievements are academic, sporting or social and also whether they are made in school or outside school. The more achievements are recognised, the greater the
incentive to achieve even more.
Replacing Darcy Bussell?
A passion for volunteering
The photos on the follow-ing page show Year 10 student Justin Williams taking part in a recent fundraising activity on behalf of the organisation Coping with Chaos. As you will see from the let-ter he has written below Justin has a passion for his work for the organisa-tion, giving up a consid-erable amount of his spare time to support teenagers in need of a helping hand. This is a strong component of the spirit that we try to en-gender in all our students here at Highcliffe, en-
couraging them to engage with the world around them and values the needs of others at least as much as their own. Well done, Justin.
“Unit 2,TheFamily Centre BondAvenue
WestMoors Dorset
BH220LL 01202855105
Dear Friend, I would like to tell you about our organisation ‘Coping with Chaos’. We work with children with
disabilities such as ADHD., Autism, Asperger’s Syn-drome, wheel-chair users and many more. An example of the type of services we offer is that we have just started up a youth club for the teens of ‘Coping with Chaos’. It meets on a Wednesday night 7:00 – 9:00 and is called ‘Awesome Nights’. Chaos ar-ranges play opportuni-ties for the ‘Chaos Kids,’ the ‘Chaos Crew’ get paid to play – the sorts of events organised include visits to places like Monkey World, Rossmore gym and swimming pool, the Ice Rink and Lulworth Castle. The kids are able to attend 4 ‘play opportuni-
ties’ in one week, there are 2 opportunities in one day.
At Chaos most of our kids are lively so it gives the par-
ents a break when half-terms and holidays come round and each kid get as-signed 1-2 crew members. Most of the crew members are in full time education in Universities, Colleges and
Schools.
The crew ranges in age from 14 + (at the moment) when your 14 you get paid £3:00 an hour when you 16 you get paid £5.50 an hour and when your 18+ you get
paid £7.50 an hour. If you would like to know
more about the work of our organisa-tion or even volunteer please call or write to us the address is at the top of the letter.
Alternatively log on to www.copingwithchaos.org Yours sincerely Justin Williams (Crew Member)”
Remembering
To mark the 25th anniver-sary of the Falklands War there was a parade through Christchurch un-der the auspices of the Royal Navy Association. The parade went from RBL
Bargates to The Priory where a commemorative service was held. The pa-rade was joined by mem-bers of the Army, Royal Navy, Royal Air Force Fleet Air Arm, Wrens and other organisations including various cadet forces.
To our knowledge four students from the school took part in the event. Joshua Baker, Tom Nicholson,Callum Gillard and Max Bay-but. We include pictures here that appeared in the Echo
Twenty-four students are presently completing the Duke of Edinburgh Award, where students show commitment in a physical rec-reation, a skill and a service for 3-6 months. To ac-company this they must also com-plete an expedi-tion with an over-night stay, so last weekend (23rd/24th June) was their practice expedition. The students did ex-tremely well as the weather showed little mercy, with even thunder storms as they find space to pitch their tents around the puddles. The students
set off well and made good time throughout the first day, working well in their
groups to complete the route they had created. The students set up camp suc-cessfully and managed to cook their food when the
rain stopped for a few hours. We took the oppor-tunity to play a game of
rounders and Miss Clarke showed us how to play. On the second day the stu-dents were deter-mined in the relent-less rain to make it to the end in good time and the spirit of everyone was superb. We made it back safe and sound; it was an excellent practice and an enjoyable weekend. Now the final awaits us on
the 6th/7th July to finally complete the Duke of Edin-burgh Award.
As well as many soloists and small groups. Tickets on sale at lunchtimes
from Mr Trevorrow £2 students/£3 adults.
Year 7History & Science Activities in WinchesterTake your child to work dayEmer-gency Services Safety DayAll AbroadSports Tournament FinalsYear 8AFC Bournemouth CoachingMedia DayHistory & Science Activities in WinchesterThe Real GameSnowdome TripHengistbury Head & Highcliffe CastleSports Tournament FinalsYear 9Job Shad-owingCHALLENGE DAYFairford Air TattooCycilng@Moors ValleyHengistbury HeadThe Great Egg ChallengeArt ProjectThe Music & Maths ChallengeAFC Bournemouth CoachingArt Across CulturesThe History Scrapheap ChallengeSports Tournament FinalsYear 10HealthworksExpres-sive Arts ProjectFood Technology Visit to FranceDorset Enterprise & Skils ProjectGeography AS Field-workSet Design and CreationRopes CourseGCSE Art DayEnglish Theatre TripTextiles:Clothes RecyclingSports Tournament FinalsYear 7History & Science Activities in Winchester-Take your child to work dayEmergency Services Safety DayAll AbroadSports Tournament Final-sYear 8AFC Bournemouth CoachingMedia DayHistory & Science Activities in WinchesterThe Real GameSnowdome TripHengistbury Head & Highcliffe CastleSports Tournament Final-sYear 9Job ShadowingCHALLENGE DAYFairford Air TattooCycilng@Moors ValleyHengistbury HeadThe Great Egg ChallengeArt ProjectThe Music & Maths ChallengeAFC Bournemouth Coachin-gArt Across CulturesThe History Scrapheap ChallengeSports Tournament FinalsYear 10HealthworksExpressive Arts ProjectFood Technology Visit to FranceDorset Enterprise & Skils Pro-jectGeography AS FieldworkSet Design and CreationRopes CourseGCSE Art DayEnglish Theatre TripTextiles:Clothes RecyclingSports Tournament FinalsYear 7History & Science Ac-tivities in WinchesterTake your child to work dayEmergency Services Safety DayAll AbroadS-ports Tournament FinalsYear 8AFC Bournemouth CoachingMedia DayHistory & Science Activities in WinchesterThe Real GameSnowdome TripHengistbury Head & Highcliffe Castle-
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