As part of the Induction into the Lower Sixth at Rishworth the students undertook a two day, non-residential teambuilding course in a local outdoor pursuits centre. The activities were all designed to be challenging and to get the students to work together to achieve particular goals. Activities including raft building using plastic barrels, rope and wooden poles and then paddling the rafts across a reservoir, paddle boarding, climbing and abseiling on a variety of climbs on an indoor climbing wall as well as a variety of team building activities, some intellectually challenging while others were more physically demanding. Without doubt, the Lower Sixth fully enjoyed the two days, despite the “coldish” water and found the whole course a worthwhile addition to their induction into the Sixth Form. The induction finished with a whole Sixth Form social on the Thursday evening. I would like to place on record my thanks to all the Lower Sixth who attended – they were a credit to themselves and to the School. I would also like to thank Mr Beecher and Mr Jones for their support over the two days.

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Y12 Team Building

December 2018

Y12 Study Skills Day

Year 12 took part in a Study Skills Day organised and led by

Dr Ladds and Mrs Ellis. Students were introduced to a range of new

skills including: how to use exam mark schemes; academic writing;

memory techniques; Google tips and tricks; referencing and

reading for academic purposes. They were also given hints and tips

on how they can build upon the skills they already have. The

students were all provided with an exercise book for each of their

subjects and were shown how to create their own revision guide

through condensing their class notes on a weekly basis.

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Amber came 3rd individually this summer at the BD U35 Championships and her team also achieved 3rd place.

During the summer, Lucy also made her England debut.

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Lucy and Amber Mothersdale

Library Craft Club

Craft Club takes place every Thursday lunchtime from

12:45pm in the Library with Mrs Ellis and Mrs Moore.

Since September we have tried a variety of different

crafts including: paper quilling; pom-poms; poppies

with plastic bottles; origami; Swedish hearts; paper

chains; cross-stitching; Halloween pumpkins and

bookmarks.

Escape Room - Library Induction

Year 7 pupils were tasked with ‘escaping the library’ as part

of their induction. Each class was divided into three teams

and were given 30 minutes to solve a series of puzzles. The

puzzles included: spot-the-difference; boggle; alphabetising

cards; code breaking; a treasure hunt and finding objects in

pictures.

Once a puzzle was solved, the team were provided with an

information card which allowed them to complete their quiz

sheet. To ‘escape the library’ they had to complete all of the

puzzles within the timeframe - thankfully they all escaped!

As part of their KS3 English reading lessons, Mrs

Ellis challenged students to read a book of their

choice during the first half-term.

During the October holiday, students prepared

their one minute sales pitch which they would

use to persuade their peers why their book is

the most exciting and fabulous one to read.

On the day, students were sat opposite each

other and had a minute each to ‘sell’ their book

before the whistle sounded and they had to

move onto their next ‘date’. Each student was

given a score sheet and were asked to rate each

of their class mates on how likely it was that

they would go away and read the book sold to

them. The winner from each class got a hamper

of sweets.

Xiana Harron

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Speed Dating with Books

Xiana Harron has been appointed the Leader of Musica (Kirklees) Youth Orchestra, a position she will hold for three years. She is one of the youngest to have held this role.

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Students are challenged to read a book and then produce a book trailer so that we can go to the ‘movies’ and decide which books we will go on to read.

Photography Club

Join Mr. Smith in Room 8 for Photography Club from 12:50pm every blue week Monday.

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Netball: Girls v Boys

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Our day out to Arconic was amazing and is one we will always remember. It was awesome to see how metal is forged and stretched.

To start off the day, an important man, the site director, gave us some background information about Arconic. He told us such things as how much revenue the business made in a year and other important facts that were extremely interesting and made us think. Did you know that almost every plane flying in our skies will hold at least one Arconic part?

Then we were given a tour around the shop floor and got to see Arconic’s 1000 ton forge, extrusion area and also the place where they manually pass red hot metal through rollers and then put it through a machine to straighten it. The forge was unbelievably hot (1700oC) and even though we were behind protective screens, we could feel the intensity of the heat.

After our tour it was time for lunch and we had PIZZA! And not just any pizza, but hand-stretched, wood-fired pizza with a choice of toppings - they were absolutely delicious. This was followed by an equally delicious homemade chocolate brownie. We have to say, Arconic do great lunches!

Whilst we were waiting for the other team to enjoy their lunch, we got shown a really interesting presentation about all of the manufacturing equipment, and how aeroplanes are built. It really gave us food for thought and we realised what an advanced, forward thinking manufacturing plant this was. We would love to work here one day (and not just for the lunches.)

Once lunch was over, we all got back together and went into the main training room to be told of our challenge.

They explained to us that we had to make paper aeroplanes and ‘sell’ them for Arconic Pounds. To start off the practice challenge we were given 75 Arconic Pounds (A£). We had to decide who was going to be the team leader and also the banker. These people weren’t allowed to make the planes.

The aim of the trial was to produce perfect paper planes, on time, every time. If any were rejected then we faced a fine. Perfect ones earned us money per plane.

After our practice trial we came 4th and then we repeated this process and came 3rd! So in the end we came 3rd place. Not too bad out of 4 … if it had been the Olympics we would have got bronze! It was a great lesson in learning how precise each item has to be in manufacturing. Anything less than perfect is not acceptable. And also, that good teamwork was vital for success. This is quite reassuring to know when you think about the hundreds of thousands of parts that have to work together successfully when building a plane.

At the end of the day, we were given goody bags and they were full of cool things. We really enjoyed our trip to Arconic and we are very grateful that we were given this opportunity.

Science Trip: Arconic

Claudia Cattell & Olive Le Fevre, Year 8

Willow Clarke-May

Willow competed at the U16 World Championships in

Russia and finished 16th out of 60 for trampolining.

Year 10 Food and Nutrition students developed their high level technical skills by learning how to joint chickens.

Year 10 Food and Nutrition

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Children in Need

Boarding Activities

The Sixth Form Charity Committee arranged for

teachers to be ‘slimed’ by students to raise

money for Children in Need. £1,4517.87 was

raised in total with combined events to be split

equally with Martin House Children’s Hospice.

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Morrisons Trip

Sixth Form Food Science and Nutrition students had the opportunity to visit the Farmers Boy Food Factory in Bradford today. The factory manufactures food for the Morrisons Group. Students had to follow strict hygiene procedures prior to being allowed onto the factory floor and all found the outfits very strange. Students were surprised by the sheer scale of the factory and the amount of food being generated in this the largest manufacturing site in the UK. Students then spent some time in the test kitchen where they were put into teams and were asked to design and make some food using a set of ingredients. Just forty minutes later and the Morrisons’ staff were really very impressed with the dishes produced. Morrisons offer many exciting career opportunities and the students were able to talk about the degree apprenticeships they offer and careers in the food industry. Food for thought for them all.

Prompted by Mr Robinson, volunteers from Year 11 and the Lower Sixth, formed a team to organise and run our own Macmillan Cancer Big Coffee Morning. The group created some publicity posters and made their own cakes and also persuaded parents and others to make cakes. On Friday 5th October, at morning break, in the Dining Room, the team helpfully supported by Mrs Murrell, the catering manager and several of her staff, sold their cakes for a minimum donation of 50p per cake. The hard work paid off! The team worked effectively as a cohesive unit and deserve a huge CONGRATULATIONS. Their hard work resulted in £338.96 being raised for a most worthy cause. I would like to thank the team of Year 11’s and Lower Sixth who were instrumental in rising to the challenge and putting on the event. Without doubt, some of the students (and their parents) are excellent examples of “Mr Kipling” in that they made some exceedingly good cakes. I would also like to thank all those who contributed with their 50p or more donations to help make the whole event a big success.

Macmillan Coffee Morning

Mrs Hall

Mr Robinson

Demi Xiong: Art Project

The oil painting is part of Demi’s personal investigation into how the brain works and how this has been and can be portrayed in Art.

The photograph for this piece is part of a series, taken by Demi. The model is her mum.

Demi is showing through using the reflection of glass, how a person reflects.

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Cranedale Trip

In what turned out to be a handful of beautiful Autumn days, Ms Sheldrick and the Upper Sixth Biologist’s headed out to the North Yorkshire Moors to immerse themselves in Ecology fieldwork. Whilst not all members of the party were as keen as Ms Sheldrick was, they each got stuck in and learnt a range of new practical skills amid the beautiful scenery. First up on Monday was a trip to Filey Brigg to look at a variety of different sampling techniques, with a little bit of rock pooling to keep us on our toes. Watched on by a seal swimming in the North Sea we counted limpets, barnacles, anemones and a range of seaweed species. Monday night we set a range of humane traps to sample the wildlife around the centre. With Rishworth students proving they are far more hardy around critters than the other students at the centre.

Tuesday brought the sun and an early morning jaunt to look at last night’s catches, we were successful with a little field mouse and less successful in catching a vole. Lots of mini-beasts and moths indicated a good diversity of wildlife in the area and set us up for the rest of the day. The rest of Tuesday was spent at Tophill Low, a fantastic Bird Wildlife Sanctuary supported by Yorkshire Water. Here the students gathered biological data to support the theories of succession.

After a late night on Tuesday preparing for the Ecology coursework, Wednesday, our final day, was spent sampling the biotic and abiotic factors of Pocklington Beck to look at the impact of pollution due to the sewage works. After a fair amount of wet wellies tromping in the stream to collect data and then a huge amount of time counting the invertebrates they caught, the students were able to conclude statistically that the pollution did have a significant impact on the Beck. Fascinating to see that Environmental Health were also at the Beck, completing exactly the same techniques as our Biologists… I hope they concluded the same!

As always Cranedale itself was warm and welcoming with superb hospitality; we all probably came back a few pounds heavier. I am confident the Sixth Form are now better prepared for this aspect of the A Level and are inspired to take study Biology further in the future.

Ms Sheldrick

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Sports Tour: South Africa 2018

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Sport Representative Honours

Congratulations go to...

Charlie Slim who was selected for the West Yorkshire Hockey Squad (U13) .

Lilly Furse and Emily Crowe who have been selected to play for the U17 Hockey West Yorkshire Squad at the JAC’s.

Willow Clarke-May who competed in trampolining at the English Championships and won. She beat the current British Champion. Willow was also selected to attend the World Trampolining Championships for Great Britain in Russia.

Emma Fletcher who has been selected to train with the Manchester Thunder U17 Futures Netball Squad.

Lucy Mothersdale who was invited to attend the U25 Home International Dressage Competition representing England over the summer. She finished 12th out of 120.

Jasper Male got into Yorkshire U14 development team for cricket and advanced to the full U14 Yorkshire team against Lan-cashire in a two day game.

Georgie Westwood who was selected for the U15 North of England Junior Hockey Performance Centre which began in September.

Gina Speakman has been selected as part of the squad on the World Talent programme for pentathlon GB.

Archie King has been selected to represent West Yorkshire in the Junior Academy Centres at U14 level, whilst Isabelle Crowe has been selected for the U15.

Alex has qualified for the second time for the official England Fencing Team for the 2019 season. He has had another incredible year, winning the British Youth Championships last May for the second time, the Yorkshire Youth Championships for the third time, and is the #1 nationally ranked fencer in his age group – the Under 13s, whilst being one of the youngest in this age group, successfully fighting his way to the top of the UK league (the Leon Paul Junior Series).

Alex Lister