PRINTED ON RECYCLED PAPER ISSUE 15 JANUARY 2011

INSIDE: Duke of Edinburgh’s Award • Trip to Italy • Lets get Cooking • River Study

Tupton Hall held the annualGCSE Presentation eveningon Thursday 18thNovember and it wasattended by over 300students, parents,staff and governors.2010 was a recordyear for GCSEsuccesses with 77% ofthe students achievingfive or more GCSEpasses. 59% of thestudents achieved thisstandard including

English andMaths.

All of the studentswho attended were presented withtheir GCSE certificates and theGovernors presented a series ofspecial prizes for achievement andprogress in particular subjects. Ofparticular note were the awards foroverall achievement presented toMatthew Fox and FionaWhittingham as they achieved thehighest average points score in theiryear group. Poppy Marriott was giventhe award for service to the school andshe is now a Gold Sports Ambassadorfor North East Derbyshire.

The Ryan Walker MemorialAward for success on avocational course waspresented to DannyLocker. The AnnaRichards MemorialAward forovercoming adversitywas presented toJess Cocker whocollected it on behalfof Nathan Edge.The guest speaker wasMr. Mathew Davis aformer professional

footballer who had tore-shape his ambitionsafter injury prevented him playing at the toplevel. He found a new vocation in teachingand is currently Head of Year 10 at TuptonHall School.This was a joyful and inspirationaloccasion and it was great to see thestudents having moved on successfully tothe next phase in their young lives. I amvery proud of them all. Special thanks goto Mrs Alyson Webb and Miss R. Oakley fororganising the evening.

Patrick CookHeadteacher

Celebrating GCSE success

On 13th July five Tupton Hall Students completed the YES! (YouthEngagement Scheme) Project with the Derbyshire Fire and Rescue Service.These were Ross Francis, Charlie Turner, Joel Bird, Merryn Walker andJordan Turner. The scheme gives young people the opportunity to learn anumber of fire fighting skills as well as things such as first aid, team workand shelter building. The project was a fantastic opportunity for the students and they all fullyembraced it, winning a number of awards between them including the topaward. Each week the instructors awarded gold stars for outstanding effort and achievementand though the other four were high on the star chart it was Merryn who won the award at thepassing out parade for gaining the most gold stars throughout the course. By winning thisaward Merryn made it two top awards in a row for Tupton Hall students after BrandonGreenfield also won the award during the last YES! Project earlier in the year.The next group of four students to participate in the Yes Project have just had their inductionsession and we are hoping that they will repeat the success of the previous Tupton Hallstudents.Mr Hendley, Aspire Centre

YES! Project

Bienvenus à Tupton Hall!Hi!I found your schooldifferent from ours. Schoolis very big. It's great. I likedpractising your differentsports. You are very brightin arts, it is wonderful whatyou do. I would like to goback! Bye!Created By Lucie CherrierHello, I found your school very big, beautiful and more modernthan my school. I liked practised your differents sports.:-)How do you imagine French school is? Bye bye :-DCreated By Ornella DegouyThank-you for coming to our school, we hope you enjoyedit. Hope to see you again soon! :)Created By Beth-Laura HardwickThese are examples of some of the comments posted onthe French Exchange Forum on the THS website after a 2day visit from 44 students from the Marie-Curie Collège inTroyes, Chesterfield’s twin town in France. A two day visit was planned which engaged the Frenchstudents in a variety of sporting activities and gave themthe opportunity to experience every day life in an Englishschool. The visit was an overwhelming success. Many thanks to all the staff especially the PE staff whoclearly were instrumental in making the visit a success. We are now planning an exchange visit to the Marie-CurieSchool in April 2011. Students who study French in Y9 and10 will have the chance to experience life in a Frenchschool and get a taste of French culture at first hand, asthey will be staying with a host family. They will also havethe opportunity to practise and improve their French, ofcourse! To see more about the school, including photos oftheir visit, go to this website: www.clg-curie.ac-reims.fr

Merci beaucoup et au revoir!

Year 10studentsvisited thePomegranatetheatre to seeRomeo andJuliet

The performance was a humorous, witty and intelligentproduction that really did allow the students to see thewords come alive on stage. This was followed by anexclusive Q and A session with the actors in which theTupton girls were given the chance to swoon overMercutio.

Mr Frost

The Guest Speaker was Mrs. Carol Hull, formerAssistant Head, who has a long association withthe VI Form. Local MP Ms. Natascha Engel wasour special guest. Students received their A Levelcertificates and special prizes were awarded byMiss Charlotte Evans, Head of VI Form:Old Students’ Prize – Achievement and Service –Robert Clay and Jessica Wragg Les Spriggs Memorial Prize – Adam BaxterBoth sponsored by The Rotary Club of Clay Cross.Ian Forsyth Prize – Daniel FoxSt. Lawrence Prize – Lauren Atack Sponsored by St. Lawrence ChurchJonathan Rhodes Memorial Prize – Daniel AshmoreMalcolm Smith Prize – Lucie HartlandMiss Downie Prize – Laura HopkinsonGovernors’ Award – Adam Hadfield

Mrs Hull congratulated the students on their achievements and advised them todisregard press comments that A levels were getting easier.Mr Cook drew a contrast between access to higher education in 2009 and2010. In 2010 only 65% of the students gained university places. Many studentsare re-applying this year including Adam Baxter (3 A*s, 1 A and 1 B), who nowholds an unconditional offer from Oxford University.Mr Cook drew a contrast between access to higher education in 2009 and2010, the A Level results in each year were comparable but 85% of the 2009students had their places confirmed within two hours. The story was verydifferent in 2010 with only 65% of the students gaining university places and ittook nine days to secure all of these places. Many students with good and evenexcellent results missed out on places and are re-applying this year. Thisincludes Adam Baxter who gained 3 A*s, 1 A and 1 B. We are please to reportthat he now holds an unconditional offer from Oxford University to readPhilosophy, Politics and Economics. In closing he drew attention to a recentarticle in the Daily Telegraph which stated that 1 in 3 applicants were likely tomiss out on a university place this year.Ms Engel said how much she had enjoyed her contact with the students throughschool visits including a Question time style debate. She then recounted her ownexperience of coming out of university at the height of the recession in the early1990s. She advised students to be positive about the future saying that with adetermined approach they could go into successful careers.

Patrick Cook, Headteacher

Sixth Form Prizegiving

A Level subject prizes:Science Faculty – Hamblin Memorial Prize – Laurence CainesPhysics – Nikki AtterKim Trickett Memorial Prize - Kiranjit VirkBiology – Callum TaylorHuman Biology – Alexandra SkinnerPeter Brabbing Prize – Sarah WilsonChemistry – John WhittleEnglish Faculty - Written English – Aimee SpacieSponsored by The Rotary Club ofClay CrossSpoken English – Emily CooperSponsored by The Rotary Club ofClay CrossEnglish Language – Rachael FinneyEnglish Literature – Frances TelfordMedia Studies – Alex NeathSport/PE Faculty - Mr B F RiceMemorial Prize – Michael EdwardsSport/PE – Paul MildenhallEric Flint Prize - Helen SollyExpressive Arts Faculty – Art – Victoria Hall and Amy GouldingMusic – Sarah BellDrama – Rachael FinneySocial Science Faculty – Law – Donna SansomPolitics – Lucie HartlandBusiness – Elliot TurnerEconomics – Adam Baxter

Sociology – Cerys BinghamPsychology – Richard PickeringICT Faculty – Simon ClarkDesign and Technology Faculty –Design – Scott WoodhouseHealth and Social Care – Rebecca BriddonMathematics Faculty – Further Maths – Daniel FoxMaths - Tom FreemanHumanities Faculty – ReligiousStudies – Lucy BarrettGeography – Tom UllathorneTravel and Tourism – Sally TaylorHistory – James KingLanguages Faculty – German – Natalie KearneyFrench – Matthew CharlesworthSpanish – Becky Buxton

English Faculty Theatre Trip

The Duke of Edinburgh’s AwardThe Autumn term of 2010 was a busy time for our D of E participants with close to 50 students walking and camping in the Peak District during October. From Friday 8th to Sunday 10th, twenty-two Year 11 students completed their three-day Silver expedition. Day one began near Errwood Reservoir in the Goyt Valley and ended at acamp site near Gradbach. It was a tough day of mists, moorland and challenging navigation.Day two ended at a camp site near Crowdecote and the final day saw them arrive at ParsleyHay Visitor Centre via Hartington. Congratulations to the following four groups: • Will Nutting, Adam Bargh, Liam Curry, James Day & Josh Mellor.• Ellice Holmes, Daniella Jowle, Emily Weston, Tess Goulding, Lauren Smith & Hannah Lloyd.

• Callum Howie, Jack Nemeth, Luke Cooper, Laura Bassett, Jade Thirkell & Hayley Watts• Michael Jerman, Charlie Box, Dom Clapham, Chloe Britland & Elizabeth Passey-Heaton

Later that month, on Friday 22nd & Saturday 23rd twenty-one Year 10 students successfullycompleted their two-day Bronze expedition. Beginning in Baslow, they walked throughChatsworth Park and woods to their camp site near Lathkill Dale. Their second day took themvia Youlgreave to the finish at Winster. Congratulations to the following four groups:• David Lovell, Sam Wilby, Sian Griffiths & Natasha Shipman. • Guy Lawrence, Jack Laird, David Wilkinson, Eleanor King, Hayley Cheung, Chloe Pickering & Lucy Harris.

• Tom Smith, Luke Almond, Ben Mitchell, Robert Arnold, Bethany Willis & Katie Bonsor.• Jack Bingham, Jess Bown, Harry Cornish & Harry Jackson.The post-expedition presentation evening where groups talk about their expedition aim and experiences to invited guests, parents and staffshould have been on Tuesday 7th December in the Richard Smith Hall, but the snowy conditions forced a postponement. Hopefully, by thetime you read this, it will have taken place successfully on Thursday 20th January.Currently members of Year 9 are being introduced to the D of E and it seems likely that up to 30 may wish to enrol in the coming weeks. This will mean that close to 90 students could be involved in the D of E. Planning for events in 2011 is now under way and will include Practice and Qualifying expeditions for all three levels: Bronze, Silver & Gold.Bronze and Silver expeditions will take place in various parts of the Peak District. Two areas being considered for Gold are Snowdonia andThe Isle of Arran. Members of Year 9 are being introduced to the D of E. Close to 90 students could be involved in the D of E in 2011. Practice and qualifying expeditions for all three levels: Bronze, Silver & Gold will take placeFinally, I’d like to thank the following members of staff for all their help and support: Rebecca Avery, Paul Curtis, Martin Ebbage, Paul Goodliffe, Lauren Hutton, Rachael Laughton, Amanda Neville, Rachael Parkinson, Michelle Smith and Debs Stimpson.

Ian Parfitt , D of E Co-ordinator

A group of Year 8 Gifted and talented students spent the day withprofessional writer Wes Magee in October. Students were given theopportunity to see performances of Wes Magee’s poetry and playscripts. They then worked with Wes throughout the day to createtheir own poetry, an opening chapter to a novel and a play script. “I really liked the workshop and it was great meeting Wes” AdamWilbourne 8TX“I really enjoyed it; I learnt a lot, I’m glad I was picked!” HeatherLynch 8HA“It gave me a chance to use my imagination” Danny Stevens 8T1“I thought the students were most willing, hard-working, responsiveand talented” Wes Magee

Mr D Frost, Acting Head of English

Poet visits Tupton Hall

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Tupton Hall held two Y11 EnterpriseDays recently, which were a greatsuccess! All year 11 students took part inactivities that encouraged them to workas part of a team, take risks, makedecisions as well as trying to developtheir financial capabilities. These arekey characteristics of successfulentrepreneurs. The events were run by 'Bright Futures'who received rave reviews from thestudents. The main focus of theirenjoyment was the afternoon sessionwhere they looked at the design of themakarapa hat that was created for theWorld Cup in South Africa and appliedthe same principles of design to creatinga similar hat for the London 2012Olympics. Year 10 students had theiropportunity to become moreenterprising. ‘Bright Futures’ introduceda range of topics from famousentrepreneurs and the skills they need tobe successful to less well knownindividuals who were making their ownsmall mark on the business world. Onesuch inspiration was a young man wholoves snowboarding and developed hisown business.

Y11 Students Display Handball Excellence

Y11 students held an Intra-LanguagesHandball tournament as part of a jointModern Foreign Languages and PEproject.Students spent Thursday lunchtimespractising handball and their skill levelswere evident in the final tournament. The tri-nations final involved all threelanguages. Students had to be studyingthe language of the country theyrepresented.The French ran out victors over theSpanish 6 goals to 2. The fired-upFrench team squeezed the Germanteam out 6-4, but both teams madethe final, as the Spanish team weredefeated 6-2 by the Germans.The French won the closely fought final8-6. Top goal scorers were Jack Brownand Jordan Spolding, but specialmention also to excellent goalkeepingby the German keeper, Vikram Virk.Many thanks to the PE and MFL staffwho turned out to help in practice andin the final matches, and to thededicated Y11s.

Enterprise Days

Let’s Get Cooking ClubGains Accreditation!

Magic Room Re-VampDuring the summer break we have had the opportunityto refurbish our Positive Support Room, fondly knownas” The Magic Room”. The room has been transformedby specialist optical lighting, exciting new furnishingsand resources creating a multi-sensory experience forstudents referred for Positive Play support.

Lets Get Cooking Club has met the Let'sGet Cooking activity requirements for ourfirst year and followed the Let's GetCooking guidelines for running a healthycooking club. The club ran by MissPearson and Mrs Cheetham in Designand Technology, to date has helped 148club members learn new cooking skills! Ithas also held 13 club sessions and 5community sessions, involving 73 parents,family members and people from the local community. We are keen toincrease this, so anyone who would be interested in helping or has anyinteresting ideas for sessions please get in touch! The club proving very popular with the current year 7’s and 8’s and is goingfrom strength to strength. We recently held a ‘Squash Discovery Session’ withhelp from Mrs Stew, where club members were shown how to makebutternut squash soup, and oven baked crisps and chips to taste. They alsogot to take home a butternut squash and a recipe to cook at home withparents and develop new skills.Year 8 Peak Challenge Group also has been involved with Let’sGet Cooking, raising money for Children In Need. The smallgroup of 10 students rolled and cut out over 100 Pudsey bear

shaped Gingerbreadmen, then decoratedand sold them tostaff and students.The groups raised£58.75 in less thanhalf an hour! Thankyou to all the staffand students whoput their hands intheir pockets to raisemoney for thisworthwhile cause.

Poppy Marriott and BethClarke who are 6th Formstudents have completedclose to 600 voluntary schooland community based hourswith the Chesterfield andNorth East Derbyshire SportsLeadership Academy. Theywere awarded an'outstanding services toschool' award by the PEdepartment.

In the community, Beth and Poppy have set up a High 5Netball session at Ashover Primary School and taken partin community placements with local sports clubs: Bethwith Clay Cross Cricket Club and Poppy with ChesterfieldAthletics Club.Beth has been nominated for an award at the NationalOSCAs (Outstanding Services to Cricket Awards) at Lord'sCricket Ground as well as recently volunteering at aninternational womens' Cricket match. Poppy was selectedas one of only 50 leaders in the UK to attend a YoungLeaders’ Camp organised by UK Athletics. She was alsoawarded the 'Most Outstanding Young Athletics Leader2010.’ As well as contributing to school and community life, theyare developing many skills and are building on analready attractive CV!

Chris TurnerCoaching and Leadership Officer

Year 13 Italian Job

At the end of October a group of Year 13 students took partin the Geography field trip to Sorrento in Italy. The aim ofthe trip was to study the cause, effects and management oftectonic landscapes. Students stayed at a hotel in thebeautiful town of Sorrento on the Amalfi coast. The tripinvolved visits to the Roman towns of Pompeii andHerculaneum, which were engulfed by volcanic ash the lasttime Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79AD, and the island ofCapri. Highlights of the trip included climbing the slopes ofMount Vesuvius, observing the steaming, bubbling sulphuricpools at Solfatara’s volcanic fields, playing football in thepiazza in Naples and sampling the fantastic Italian ice cream!The trip was thoroughly enjoyed by all who took part and willno doubt enrich the understanding of students in preparationfor the A2 Unit 4 examination in June.Mrs. A. BrownActing Head of Geography

At the end of September the Year 11 Geographers took part in a Rivers Study at Burbage Brook in the Peak District.As well as getting out in the fresh air, and getting our feet wet, the trip helped students’ understanding of riverlandscapes and processes. We had a go at fieldwork techniques such as field-sketching, measuring the river’svelocity, width and depth, and comparing the upper and middle course of the river. The fieldtrip introduced keyconcepts and built students’ confidence. Now they are even more prepared to tackle the examination, especiallyinterpreting questions about the physical environment. Geography... brought to life!

Mrs A. BrownActing Head of Geography

On Course with our River Study

ICT UpdateDecember 2011

Over the 20th and 21st ofSeptember 2010, the FIXUP TEAMfrom FIXUP SEMINARS based inLondon in association with theChesterfield & Bolsover &Staveley Learning Community*delivered inspirational sessions to3000 year 11 students within thispart of Derbyshire.The “Kick Start to Year 11” markedthe beginning of a very successfulyear for these year 11 students. Theywere involved in assemblies andworkshops that aimed to challengethem to be individuals, identify whattheir goals are in life and understandthat what they do now will impact onwhat they do in the future. Theassemblies and workshops were fullof energy, fun and interactive anddelivered in way to inspire thestudents to make the most of thiscoming year and beyond.

FIXUP TEAM (Focus Intoextraordinary Untapped Potential) is amotivationalcompany dedicated to the educationaland personal growth of young peoplewithin the UK and beyond. They stemfrom a diverse range of workingbackgrounds to provide flavour andauthenticity to their message.For further information pleasecontact; Jacqui Kinch – Learning CommunityManager on 07810 506975 Or emailJacqui.kinch@derbyshire.gov.ukCBS Learning Community is group of15 schools in this area, includingNorth East Derbyshire, ChesterfieldCollege and a group of trainingproviders and Connexions who allwork together to develop a curriculumthat is engaging to all learners from14 to19 years.

Kick Start to Year 113000 learners, 14 Schools, 2 Days, 1 Team, 1 Message

NO MORE EXCUSES! MAKE IT HAPPEN!

The Big EventOn Wednesday 8thDecember we took allof our Year 9 studentsto the Swanwick HayesConference Centre fortheir day at The BigEvent. The aim of theday was to give thestudents, who areabout to make optionchoices, theopportunity to meet ahost of trainingproviders and

employers in the ‘Marketplace’. There was also atheatre in educationperformance focusing onchoices available to students in

Key Stage 4 andbeyond. For manystudents the highlight of the day was listening to themotivational speaker Action Jackson whose aim is to inspirestudent to achieve their full potential. The student evaluations ofthe day were overwhelmingly positive and the organisers andproviders were very complimentary about our students’behaviour and engagement with the activities.The Big Event is organised by the Chesterfield and BolsoverStaveley Learning Communities for all Y9 students in North East Derbyshire.

Patrick CookHeadteacher

Online ReportingDay to Day reporting ofstudent attendance,Behaviour and progressis done through the e-portal parent view. Thiscan be accessed via theschool website by clicking on the e-portal icon at the top of the screen. Allparents should by now have received ausername and password to access thesystem if you have not then you canrequest log in credentials using thedetails below.

A.Adams(Network Manager)

andya2@tuptonhall.derbyshire.sch.ukN.Melton

(Assistant Head teacher ICTSystems and Reporting)

nickm3@tuptonhall.derbyshire.sch.uk

Parental Engagement.Following on from the year 7 Parentalengagement sessions we will be runningsessions for parents of Year 8 and Year9 students. These sessions aim to giveadvice on e-safety and the use of the e-portal system and will also explainsome of the data found within the e-portal system that shows how studentsare progressing.Sessions will be arranged for the NewYear and details will be available on thehome page nearer the time.

Careers in Sport • Careers in Sport

Tupton Hall School, Old Tupton, Chesterfield, Derbyshire S42 6LG Tel: 01246 863127 email: info@tuptonhall.derbyshire.sch.uk www.tuptonhall.derbyshire.sch.ukedited, designed & printed by pickards.org.uk printed on recycled paper

The autumn term has seen Tupton Hallput on numerous sporting events andcompetitions for the local primary schools.The events as normal have been wellattended and enjoyed by all involved.The Year 1&2 multi skills festival, held on23rd September attracted nearly 100students and was organised and run byTupton’s Yr12 CSL Students.The Year 1&2 Key Step gymnastics event,held on 14th October saw 4 teamscompete and showed the excellentgymnastics work that has been going onin the primary schools.

The Year 3&4 Key step gymnastics event,held on 4th November, saw 7 teamscompete in a new style of event whereprimary schools displayed their gymnasticstalent. This was the best supportedprimary gymnastics event we have held atTupton and the parents who came all saidthat their children really enjoyed theoccasion.8 teams competed at the annual Yr5 & 6Tag Rugby Festival on Thursday 21stOctober – where Deer Park and Holgatekept up their tradition in the event andqualified for the district competition whereDeer Park emerged as winners and nowprogress to the county championships. Amassive thank you goes to Bob Curry

from Tupton Rugby Club for running theevent and further demonstrating theircommitment to the development of rugbyat primary school level.Thursday 25th November saw an end tothe family festivals this term with Tuptonhosting the notorious Yr5&6 sportshallathletics. The highly competitive event willsee 2 of our schools go through to thedistrict finals.Tupton Hall would like to thank all of theStudents who have volunteered to run orparticipated in these successful events forall ages.

Nick Rosling, School Sports Co-ordinator

Former international boxer inspires studentsto choose a career in SportFormer international heavyweight boxer Dermot Gascoyne, was one oftwo special guests to attend the Careers in Sport evening held at TuptonHall School in November.This is the first event of its kind that the Specialist Sports College in NorthEast Derbyshire has held with over 100 students and parents attending.Darren Norwood, Community Sports Development Manager at the school

said “The aim of this is evening was toshow our students that there are manydifferent jobs available within theSports Industry and that it’s not justabout being a PE teacher.”The students were joined by a number of peoplewho currently work within the world of Sport.The evening was brought to a close by the former boxer, now a Sky SportsLiving for Sport ambassador. He shared some of his stories about hisprofessional boxing career with Frank Bruno and Lennox Lewis and thevalues that sport has taught him. Dermot finished with the phrase “A littlehard work now means an easier life in the future, an easy life now means aharder life in the future” and he urged the students to start thinking about their

future and asked the question “Who do you want to be?”

Shooting STARS meet JESSICA ENNIS at the English Institute ofSport in SheffieldOver 40 students from across North East Derbyshire attended the EnglishInstitute of Sport in Sheffield in November as part of the Shooting STARSprogramme.The programme supports Gifted and Talented children within PhysicalEducation and Sport; this includes physical workshops, nutrition, psychologyand visits to high performance centres.This year’s group is made up of students from Year 5 to Year 7 who wereselected from over 300 students identified by their school as being Giftedand Talented. Throughout the day the students took part in a range of activities, including iceskating, basketball and athletics. The students also got the chance to have abehind the scenes tour of the EIS and were able to see the places where Olympianspast, present and future train, including going into the Great Britain Boxing Centre andbeing able to step in the Olympic ring.The highlight of the day came, when the group met current World and European Heptathlon Champion, Jessica Enniswho was preparing for a training session. The next workshop is in January 2011.

Mr D. Norwood – Community Development Officer

Multi Skills Festival