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This term has been packed with the achievements of MVC students. Looking back gives a flavour of the manyopportunities available from Art exhibitions through to sporting excellence.

You might think that things would ease off towards the end of term. And yet, as I write this some students arerepresenting the college at a cross country event in Royston whilst others are on a gifted and talented computingtrip. Students are also gearing up for next week’s Christmas Extravaganza and Charities Morning on Friday.

The range of experiences available to our students never ceases to amaze me, along with the commitment of thestaff who make these events happen.

I wish you all a peaceful Christmas and look forward to a successful new year.

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In year 11 students start their Sciencecoursework, to help the students,specialists from each topic come inand talk to the pupils about thecoursework subject they have chosen.Some of the topics chosen are: Issunbathing dangerous? Should thegovernment fund embryonic stem cellresearch? And Should all girls bevaccinated for HPV?

Harry Leitch and Kate Blair, two PhDstudents from Cambridge Universitycame in to give a presentation on StemCells to the year 11 class doing theirbiology coursework. After a briefintroduction the session began with a‘Stem Cell Decisions’ game, where weused a paper counter to try and makeas many stem cell tokens as possible.The object of the game was to showthat stem cells can ‘self-renew’ or copythemselves, but also differentiate intospecialised cells. We discussed whystem cells need both of these functions,the first to continue the process, thesecond to grow and repair the body.

We then talked about tissue stem cells,which are found in the body and canbe used to transplant in humans in amethod called ‘Stem Cell Therapy’which helps some conditions currently.

Then we watched a video of stem celldivision speeded up, and had to spotthe point where differentiated cellswere being made. Two important factsto remember are; it is hard to isolatecells in the human body, in acontrolled environment (e.g. alaboratory) proteins can be used totrigger differentiation.

How far would your stem cells reach ifyou laid them all out? To London? ToParis? Unbelievably, the correct answeris around the Equator not once, nottwice but FOUR TIMES!! And how longdoes it take to make say... 2 million redblood cells? A week? A year? It’sactually much faster than that, withmillions being replicated in mereseconds. To demonstrate this, we hadraces of counting to 20(Ollie Smith won with animpressive 3.6 seconds.)Taking a gamble, the pairof PhD students leadingthe session set us the taskof playing ‘Stem CellHappy Families.’ The ideawas to cultivate a group offour cards with the samecell type, for examplebrain cells. Once thisgame was over, our

knowledge of anatomy was testedwhen individuals had to go to the frontand stick a cell type in the right placeon a human body poster.

Finally we discussed Embryonic StemCells specifically, which are only foundin the uterus for a short period of timein early gestation (around 3-8 daysdepending on species.) Stem Cells canbe used for three primary reasons; tomodel diseases, to look for cures ortreatments and to screen drugs beforehuman trials. The potential ofEmbryonic Stem Cells could be huge,for example treating spinal injuries,Parkinson’s or Alzheimer’s (by replacingneurons). Also, tissue stem cells (foundin the human body after birth) cannotbe made for all cell types.

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Bronze AwardIt is the day before my group and I goto do the practice training for theBronze Duke of Edinburgh Award. Inmy group there is Ellie, Mollie,Imogen, Cait and me, Molly. I havepacked my 60 litre rucksack withfood, clothes and equipment that Ineed for the three days that we arethere for. I am a little nervous but veryexcited. About a week before thepractice all of our group and parentsmet up. We got out the list of thingsthat we needed and figured out whoalready had things, and who stillneeded to get equipment. Once wehad sorted all of that out, we werethen ready to go on the expedition.

On Friday 20th May we were the firstgroup from MVC students to joinComberton Village College in theBronze Duke of Edinburgh’sExpedition Training in the Chilterns.We changed into our outdoor clothinggear at lunchtime ready to set off

straight after school on a doubledecker bus, where thankfully theComberton teachers had saved seatsfor us. When we arrived our firstchallenge was to put up our tents,we achieved this through brilliantteamwork! Next challenge was tocook our meal using for the first timea trangia stove on which is very hardto get the temperature right. Our finalchallenge before bed was a practicenavigation around the campsite.

After our first night of camping, weate breakfast and headed off withanother group and teacher. Our firsttask was to figure out how fast wewalked over a certain distance, thishelped us time our routes. We walkedfor a few more hours, learning how tocorrect ourselves when we went thewrong way. Then, after a brief rest webegan again and were left by theteacher to find our way to camp byourselves. Although, making anaccidental detour we made it back ingood time and rushed for a well

desevered, refreshing swim in thepool. Later we worked well as a teamto plot and calculate our route for thenext day, by this time we were verytired so went to bed and prepared forSunday.

We woke up bright and early so wecould have breakfast and pack ourbags. We knew what was in front ofus but it wasn’t what we expected!The walk was 10km, there were a lotof hills and our heavy bags did nothelp the matter. We had to walkmostly on footpaths since we weren’tallowed on roads. It was tiring but wemade it to the end with time to spare.We worked well as a team whichhelped us navigate our way aroundwithout getting lost. We didn’t argue,the biggest problem we had as agroup was blisters on our feet! If ourteam can work like that on the realexpedition then I’m sure we won’thave any problems.

I was exhausted when I got back fromD of E, but I was also very proud ofour group members as I think we didvery well as a team. All our backswere very stiff from walking andsleeping on the floor mats so it waslovely to go home and sleep in ourown beds and not be cold all night!I also enjoyed my first proper food onMonday and it was the best bowl ofcereal ever! All my friends had to getup early to go to school on Mondaymorning, so I felt sorry for them, but Icould have a lie in as I was going onholiday that Monday which was anice break. I think overall that wefound the experience hard and tiringbut fun and educational and we arelooking forward to the assessed trip inSeptember although we’re a littlenervous!

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If somebody was to ask you “Do youwish to walk for six hours straightcarrying up to four stone on yourback?” most people would reply witha fairly blunt “No!” However, theDuke of Edinburgh Silver expeditionwas an opportunity a group of us atMVC could not resist.

With two groups from MVCcombining with students fromComberton Village College we setabout the task of an uphill struggleand a down-hill fall, with a chance toget to see and fall down much of theWhite Peak area of the Peak District.

Upon arrival at our first camp we weregreeted with the fact we would betaking part in a night expedition acrosssome “hills” in order to understandhow to navigate when you’re put onthe spot and in the middle ofnowhere. However, due to thiscountry’s fine weather, as soon as weset out it rained and rained, and rainedeven more. The night closed in andthe only light we had were our headtorches.

But it was great fun, to be walking inthe middle of the night in the pouringrain has some appealing aspects toit...Until you step into a marsh andyou lift up your foot only to realiseyou lack a shoe, and after a fair bit ofhunting around, cursing andthreatening the shoe so it would revealitself it began to strike me that Iwanted to be at camp.

One Melbourn group managed tomake it back after three hours ataround 11pm and groups continued toarrive until finally the last Melbourngroup dragged themselves back ataround 1am, with two groupmembers (Matt Davis and CameronDouglas) realising that they had lefttheir tent wide open. Of course,

arriving at camp the first it wastempting to close it for them, butwhere was the educational benefit inthat?

We woke the next morning to theglorious smell of wet socks, the soundof Matt’s disturbingly loud snoring andthe taste of methanol in our throats. (Imust explain that the only reason forthis is that our cooking pots werecontaminated with methanol and thetaste of “methy” pasta is fairlydistinctive).

However, we rose ready for our truehike to begin. Each group set off withan instructor to supervise this practiceexpedition into the task ahead. I shallnot lie, there was a fair amount ofwalking and the uphill climb could bechallenging but every group made itthrough to the camp after a tiringseven hours of walking, yet despitehow tired we were when we arrivedand realised that we were the firstgroup back the feeling of achievementwas so great we knew it was worth it.

The next day we set off again on adifferent route, but heading backtowards our start point so we could geton the coach and head on home.However, between us and the coachwas another day of walking. Our legshad not fully recovered from theprevious day and so to begin with itwas hard to imagine how we could doit all again, especially when myself andJohn Cooper decided to try and race tothe peak of a very high, very steep hill.As you can imagine, we laterdiscovered this was a mistake as wehad used a fair bit of energy on onehill, and when we reached the top wesaw that our route took us up anddown around seven to eight more hills.

It doesn’t sound very appealing, butwhen you are with a group of friends

who you can laugh with and willconstantly make you laugh the journeyseems so much easier.

We reached the coach (I will proudlypoint out, we were first again) just as itbegan to pour down with rain, and inquick succession the others groupsarrived.

Although tired and worn out, there arefew words that can describe how funthe expedition was and the sense ofachievement I got out of it, but what Iwill say is that if you are contemplatingwhether or not to do the Duke OfEdinburgh award: do not hesitate! It isone of those few moments you willremember for the rest of your life, andyou can always be proud of whatyou’ve achieved.

That was the practice expedition outthe way, some come July we will begetting ready to head out onto ourassessed expedition, and after thegreat time I had with everybody on the trip (despite the horrible “eat thecustard powder challenge” which wasfounded by Jonathan Cooper) I cannotwait to go back. And if you haveread this and now think to yourself“Why would you do it if you end upshattered?” then you will notunderstand the urge to get back andgo again until you have tried it.

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This year’s trip to Wales certainly didsurprize many of us because of theunbelievable weather and the amount offun that was provided.

The trip to Wales replaced the annualtrip to Centre Parcs which some peoplemay see in a negative light, however Ireckon that all the exciting activities inWales were even better than what theold trip would have been just becauseyou really get to be involved witheverything and do things that youwouldn’t usually do, like jumping off areasonably high pole on to a trapeze orkayaking backwards through somereeds, and those are just examples.

As my year’s trip in year 9 was cancelled,we had to tag along with the year belowus, which at first we saw as a bit of adowner but it didn’t turn out to be as bad

as we thought. The experience made merealise that the current year 10’s aren’ttotally as annoying as I had previouslythought, which if you haven’t alreadyguessed was very annoying indeed.

The staff at the activity site were prettycrazy, as proven by them trying to get usto sing about digesting bananas andother things around the campfire. Inaddition to that thought, during the quizthey would throw packets of saladcream at us, just to get us to shut up.

One inconvenience was the fire alarmgoing off in the middle of the first night,which led to standing in the cold until,none other than, Ben Stalley woke fromhis annoyingly deep sleep.

We were very well fed in each meal ofthe day, which is just as well because

for all the activities, you had to be quiteenthusiastic to be able to enjoy them tothe max.

A few of the groups were, almostliterally, thrown straight in the deep endas soon as we got there, as we did a raftbuilding activity which resulted in chaosand sinking rafts left, right and centre.This activity was done in the lake,which you would think was freezing butdue to the unusually mild weather waspretty warm.

Nevertheless for some people this mighthave been a once in a lifetimeopportunity. And if I was given theoption, I would definitely go on this tripagain.

By Eden Harbud

Try-out for Paralympic Stadium, try-outfor International Goalball competitorsand try-out for MVC student journalistsOn Sunday 4th December, three Year 9 students fromMelbourn Village College, Amelia Edwards, Courtney Coxand George McDermotte travelled to London to report onthe international Goalball test event at the Olympic Park.European champions Great Britain competed againstOlympic champions the USA, World Champions China andCanada and Sweden.

The Paralympics Co-ordinator stated that the test event wasbeing held to find out how the athletes will experience thenew stadium. It was also to try out the buildings’ facilities,timing and staffing. He informed reporters that 80% of thework takes place behind the scenes. He said that the eventhad gone really well “It has been an excellent weekend”.

Team GB were the youngest team competing and are allpart-time players. Their older, more experienced opponentsplay professionally. Despite this the team did brilliantly,coming closest of all the teams competing, to beating WorldChampions China. In an interview, Georgina Bullen, formerstudent at Melbourn Village College, gave the players’perspective on the new stadium, the teams and the event.Georgina loved the stadium “It’s great, isn’t it!” and the

facilities. It held some surprises; the floor was “less slippythan we are used to” and the ball “had more bumps on itand so hurt more”. Georgie and her team mates now have towait to find out whether they will be competing in the actualParalympics. They will find out by March 9th at the latest“and that is very late”. She told us that many of the playersget on well off the Court. “It is always amazing to getpositive quotes from the top players in the world when youcome off the court”.

The event went smoothly and it was a great indicator of howexciting the Paralympics will be in 10 months’ time. It wasdaunting for us at first, but getting the opportunity to workalongside experienced BBC reporters and getting access tothe athletes and senior officials was good. It makes us feelexcited about the events in 2012. We were really pleased tohave this opportunity to be some of the first people to see(and report on) events in the Olympic Paralympic Park.

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ART DEPARTMENT

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Royston Arts Festival teamed upwith stART for a project crossingcounty lines. Artist Jo Chapmanran workshops in Roysia andGreneway Middle Schools andMelbourn Village College on thetheme of this years’ festival,‘Crossing the Line’. Jo brought asuitcase of items to each school,which students used with theirown items to create colourfulassemblages. Students swappeditems into the suitcase so eachschool was using materialsdonated by the others.

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ART DEPARTMENT

School Motto GraffitiedThe college is celebrating its newmotto through graffiti art created bystudents. Last term students voted ona replacement motto for the latinNisi Dominus Frustra and contributedideas for a piece of graffiti art. ArtistJason Cool of You So Ugly graffitiprojects worked with Melbourn youthclub over the summer as part of theArtsmash programme to create the artwork on the walls of the new wetweather shelter.

Two of the students who took part inthe project, Orla Condra and BethKelly, represented MVC at a celebrationevening for the artsmash project, whichthe graffiti workshops were part of.Images of the graffiti were on displayand were praised by the Chairman ofSouth Cambridgeshire District Council.

On Monday the 5th of December wehad a famous Poet and performer,Adisa come into our school to performto us for an hour. Year 7,8 & 9 found itreally good and amusing, he was sofunny and the way he bought theAudience into his performance wasgreat. He bought us ‘into his world’ as

he says. We asked him questions andhe always answered intriguingly whichthen brought him on to performing apoem. It was great the overallperformance and we all enjoyed himcoming in and performing.

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Romeo and JulietAt the end of September, year 10students went to The Junction Theatrein Cambridge to see a vibrant andexciting interpretation of Shakespeare’sRomeo and Juliet. Their reviewsshow how much they enjoyed theproduction. Seeing a live play had areally positive impact on the gradesthey achieved in their first ControlledAssessment for English Literaturethis term.

Full reviews can be seen on ourwebsite www.mvc.org.uk

As we walked into The Junction,squashed by the crowds, I wasn’treally sure what to expect. I knew thestoryline of the play, and almosteverything that happens. So,wondering what I could gain out ofthe performance, I sat down andwatched the stage.

Traditionally, in the play, Shakespearedoes a prologue, summarising themajor events of the play, before you’veeven seen (or read) it. For theperformance, this was recited by apuppet, being controlled and voicedby actors / actresses. I think the waythey did this was quite clever, becausein the play, it wasn’t said by anyparticular person, and in theperformance, they expressed that bynot using people, but a puppet.

Overall, I think it was very successful,and gave off exactly the right feel. Itmade you laugh, and it made you cry.The actors had been cast perfectly;Mercutio one of the best. He showed asense of madness, and enthusiasm.Benvolio had a true look of loyalty forRomeo, as his best friend. Also,Romeo and Juliet made their love lookvery realistic.

Written by Nadia Cohen

The atmosphere inside the auditoriumbefore the play had even started waselectrifying. There can’t have beenmore than 100 people watching andso every member of the audience feltvery close to the stage and the action.In just an hour and a half, I wasmoved to both laughter (from thehilarious Mercutio) and tears, ofcourse at the ever-tragic ending.Shakespeare himself would have beenproud of how well his most famousplay was portrayed. Whilst stayingclose to Shakespeare’s original lines,the actors successfully won over theaudience by adding modernisingvariations to the play. For example thefight scenes were not fought withswords but with extremely effectiveorbs of light attached to the actor’spalms. I was very impressed with howwell the particularly famous speechesof Romeo and Juliet were presented.An instance that showed this was thefamous balcony scene. Despite theabsence of an actual balcony, theactors spoke the words from the heartwith passion and the lighting wascleverly utilised to add definition tothe beautiful speeches and thedramatic impression.

Written by Ed Mallen

I thought the Romeo and Julietproduction was good and it helped meunderstand the story a lot morebecause you could see and understandthe words because of the acting.Although there were only a few actorsand actresses they very cleverly usedpuppets, music, instruments and propsto make it very clear who was whoand even when changing characters.I wouldn’t have understood the storythoroughly though if it were the firsttime i had seen/come across and ithad not been explained to me. I hada nice time and i thought it was reallygood and worth it.

Thank you for taking us!!

Written by Jenny Lanzrein

The performance of Romeo and Julietwas well acted and very different fromthe films of Romeo and Juliet that Ihave seen. They captured Romeo andJuliet perfectly and added a moderntwist to this. They did so by...

LightsThe lighting in the fighting scenes wasexcellent. The light represented theweapons harming the enemy (e.g.guns, daggers, poison). They woreblack gloves which had lights insidewhich only shone when being used asa weapon. The scene was made moredramatic by adding music whensomeone was hit.

LanguageThe language they used made itclear and understandable. Their ownlines that were added in made itamusing

The puppetsAll of the younger characters wereplayed by people but the Adults wereplayed by puppets. The puppetsworked well as every puppet wasdifferent. They were made of outdifferent materials and colours. Youcould still tell which puppet wassupposed to be which characterbecause there was a certain elementof the puppet that reminded you ofthat character. My favourite characterwas played by the nurse. MaxHumphries the designer and creatorof the puppets based the puppets onthe magical side of Romeo and Juliet.He said that all the 8puppets took ayear to design and make.

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DANCE DEPARTMENT

Dance this term!Dance this term has been as busy asever preparing for the ChristmasExtravaganza. As well as dances fromyears 7, 8, 9, 10 and 11 dance groupsthere is also a performance from theMVC Competition Squad and this yearwe are very privileged to be joined byPAD Co. The Primary Alliance DanceCompany (PAD Co) is a free dancecompany made up of 28 dancers fromvarious primary schools aroundMelbourn, and this year they are veryexcited to be joining the MelbournVillage College Dancers in the MVCChristmas Extravaganza.

The KS4 London trip during thesummer term, was a roaring successwith 25 dancers staying in a 4 starhotel for 3 days and dancing their

socks off! The residential trip includedamazing tickets to 3 West End showsand then classes with the stars of thoseshows at the world famous PineappleDance Studios. Although a lot of hardwork was involved there was also timeto play! Students went shopping onOxford Street and Covent Garden,meals out in restaurants, cuddling agiant M&M man, wandering aroundChina Town and 3 students ranthrough a park’s water display (it’s ok,they were allowed to!). It is the firstresidential trip that the dancedepartment has run and it was such ahuge success, with high praise fromboth students and staff, that we aim tomake it an annual event. A specialthank you to Miss Beth Hunt for allher support on the trip - who knewEnglish teachers, could dance!!!

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MATHS DEPARTMENT

Cipher ChallengeAlice, Jessie, Elise, Natalie, Irini, Daniand I have been taking part in theNational Cipher Challenge; it is achallenge that we receive every week orevery other week.

You have to work out a code and applyit to the text. At first it was very easy andwe had worked it out within 5 minutes,but as we went on it became a lotharder to do. When it got to the 4th or5th week it started to get very difficultbecause the letters were in blocks of 5or 8 and completely random codes.Jessie is the best at working them outbecause she has made a computerspreadsheet which helps her. I think weare all enjoying it a lot and it is a goodchallenge, also if you win (somethingthat we will never do!) you get prizemoney. Last year some of us competedin it but we only got to about the 6thlevel, this year we are already on the7th so at least we are doing a bit better.

It has been a good experience and weall have liked doing it, that feeling ofsatisfaction when you finally work outthe code. Have a go yourselves!

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AnswerGuys, we made it up over the roof lastnight! Hardest yet; getting past the nightwatch was not easy, but it beatseverything we’ve ever climbed. Can’tbelieve we’ve done Bletchley! But that’s

not the most amazing thing. Someoneelse had been up there before us, and Idon’t mean recently. When I wascrossing the ridges I pulled on a brick inone of the chimneys and it came out inmy hand. Thought I was stuffed for aminute, but C grabbed me and we gotsafe again. Anyway behind the brickthere was a packet wrapped in some oldcloth and stenciled with one word. I hada quick look inside and found whatlooks like an old notebook and a bunchof papers. Most of it is in a code so Idon’t know what its about, but it looksinteresting. Here is the first page of thenotebook, wondered if any of you couldcrack it. Anyway, it gave me an idea. Weshould have a new name for the NightClimbing Club. We could name it afterthe word on the packet, what do youthink? It just says, Tempest.

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TIBET WORKSHOPYear 10 students took part in aTibet workshop given by membersof Cambridge University researchproject for the Social AnthropologyDepartment.

They produced calligraphy, woodenblock printing and Buddhist imagesduring a two hour workshop.

They were introduced to theculture and religion of Tibet andgiven access to Buddhist books,art and literature.

All the students are takingGCSE art and will complete asmall project based on theworkshop as part of their GCSEwork.

The collaboration was a greatsuccess and we are hoping tofurther develop links with this

Cambridge university department whowere very impressed with the students.

The students were a credit to the schooland showed creativity and enthusiasmthroughout the workshop.

More pictures can be seen on our websiteat http//www.mvc.org.uk/index.php/curriculum/mit/art/art-gallery.html

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Fast Track Biology at MVCI did the Biology GCSE in year 8 which is2 years early. I felt that I was luckybecause no one had done this before andI wanted to see what GCSEs would belike so I decided to try it.

The lessons included answeringquestions, making molecule models andwatching interesting videos. We gothomework every week, one of whichincluded making a DNA structure out ofjelly babies which was really fun becauseyou could eat them afterwards.

The class size was really small so it waseasy to keep up and get help. I alsomade some friends from the year above

who helped me with revision andhomework.

Finishing this GCSE early gave mefreedom to have 2 free lessons a week.This helped me catch up with homeworkor do extra languages. I thought this wasreally useful because having 6 sciencelessons a week would have been a heavyload. I also got the chance to do ASBiology after school on Thursdays whichwas a good experience to see what ASlevels would be like.

‘’I remember dissecting a sheep’s heartand a cow’s eye and finding it reallyinteresting. I’d never done that sort ofthing before and thought it was reallycool.’’ - Katya Lukina

‘’Doing this GCSE made me realise thatI’m interested in this subject and it wasgood to do AS Biology because I learnt asubject I enjoyed in great detail. It wasalso good to see what the AS course andwork is like’’ - Jenny Kreit

‘’I enjoyed being in a small class becausethe atmosphere was comfortable andfriendly. Learning a subject for the love ofthe knowledge is different to worryingabout grades.’’ - Jess Finn

GEOGRAPHYYear 9 Students recreated a volcanoexplosion during a recent geographylesson.

“To make our volcano...We shaped the actual volcano around abottle, using straws and tissue paper tomake the shape, we then put some paperaround it so that we could paint thesurface. To make it explode we used abottle of coke which we easily slotted inthe middle of the volcano, we thenadded LOTS of red food colouring(which also went all over our hands!!) tomake it lava coloured. We crushed sometrebor mints and mixed it with somebicarbonate of soda to create the perfectexplosion! When it was time to make iterupt we simply poured the mixture in tothe coke and SPLAT, it went everywhere!!”

By Lucy and KatherineA video of the “explosion” is available onour website athttp://mvc.org.uk/index.php/curriculum/sah/geography.html

What did you do at chemistry camp?“On the first day, I got there and we hada lecture in the afternoon about the legalfireworks and how different elementscreate different colours when they areoxidised. For example, we used elementsthat create a certain colour to make apaint and then mixed this with egg.On the first evening we did a pub quiz.On the second day, in the morning welearnt how to make benzocaine which isa painkiller used in dentistry’s and it tookages because it was really hard.However, using the labs made it easierbecause you get to use all of this newequipment. In the afternoon we weremaking this kind of dark stuff which wascold and then we did titration with somepotassium iodine and basically what youdid is you put it into this beaker ofsolution and on contact with it... itglowed bright yellow. On the morning ofthe last day we did clock reactions, clockreactions are really cool. We spent agescreating these solutions. I put it in abeaker and stirred and then after acertain amount of time it turned jet

black. It was really interesting. Then wetested with different concentrations andamounts of the solution to try andcalculate the time. So in the end we hada clock face down on our benches. Thelast thing we did was oscillating clockreactions which were crazy! It isbasically the same thing but defies allchemistry conventions. If you plot agraph of chemical reactions with aprecipitate product, if you look at themass of the product on the y axis of thegraph, the graph will go up and up withtime but will then soon level off, thereaction will just come to an end withoscillating clock reactions.”

Would you recommend thechemistry camp to other people?“Yes, if you are one of those people whohas an interest in science then theyshould go. Not only does it challengeyour understanding but it also challengesyour concept of chemistry. In order toappreciate it fully you need to enjoychemistry. It is good if you want to gointo a career in chemistry. The peoplewho ran the course were nice too.

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Royal InstituteMaths MasterclassesWhen I got the invited to the mathsworkshop in Cambridge I was reallypleased because I was being rewardedfor my hard work in maths. The mathsworkshop was at the CambridgeUniversity with other students fromdifferent schools but they were all inyear 8. It lasted for 5 weeks. From MVCthere was Elise, Jessie, Reece and I. Thefirst week was one of my favourite weeksbecause we had mathletics which was amaths quiz against other teams. Ourteams were the people sitting on ourtable which was everyone from MVCand we all really enjoyed it. There were20 questions and you got 3 points for

your first attempt if you got it right,2 points for 2nd attempt that you gotright then 1 point for third attempt butthen you get none if you don’t get it onthe third attempt. They started off easybut then got really difficult. Me andReece went as a pair to work thequestion and Jessie and Elise wenttogether. Even though we came last itwas a lot of fun!

At the start of one of the sessions wemade circles from a piece of A4 paper.We started off by making a hole for yourfinger then for your head to fit throughthen big enough to fit round the wholetable. It was really fascinating to see howyou could make a piece of paper in amassive circle. At the end this boy

completed this circle that was bigger foreveryone to stand round and hold apiece. It was huge!

I really enjoyed the five sessions andthey were all really interesting. I wasglad that I got chosen. I learnt things thathave already been handy in my mathslessons and whenever Mr Raynerexplains about the thing I learnt, italways makes me remember the mathsworkshop and how good it was! At theend we got a certificate given to us by amathematician and a wallet about mathsand other places to do with maths.

It was really great to be there on aSaturday morning at a University ofCambridge and that had greatbiscuits!!!it was a great experience!

Teenage Charity WorkersFor the past 4 years a group of studentshave given up their time to do voluntaryCharity work. On Saturday 19thNovember they helped at the Blue SmileCharity Ball at Chilford Hall, Linton.

Blue Smile is a children’s charity forunderprivileged and vulnerable childrenin Cambridgeshire. The groups’ effortsraised over £2,000, the auction raisedover £6,000.

Overall the ball raised an outstanding£8,500.

These students also give up theirSaturdays to do bag packs in localsupermarkets, to raise funds for, TeenageCancer Care, Wallace Cancer Care andBlue Smile.

We are very proud of this group offriends. They are, Lauren Morley, EmilyNewman, Kerry Martin, AriannaBroadbent, Georgia Bridges, BeckyGreen, Anelka Tokley, DaniiChamberlain, Perrie Benstead in year10, and Connor McCormick in year 9.

ConstructionYear 10 BTEC Construction group visited aour building site in Barrington on severaloccasions witnessing the constructionprocess of new houses. Students wereable to take photographs and ask lots ofquestions which will be very useful incompleting several units of their BTEC.

Who KilledMr Wainwright?During activities week a complex scenariowas created, where Mr Wainwright hadbeen murdered, to allow students atMVC to carry out a number ofexperiments that would be carried out ifthere was an actual murder.

These tests involved: chromatography inktests; testing the antibodies in (fake)blood samples; testing stones from theshoe of the murderer; testing for poisonsin blood and a drink found on the crimescene; and finally tying to match fibresamples found on a cricket bat near thecrime scene.

There were also a number of interviewswith the teachers recorded so thatstudents could pull out evidence fromthem to give them more of an idea ofwho the murderer was. On Wednesday13th students that had carried out thetests were able to share what they haddone with the community on a slot onRadio Cambridgeshire. Luckily MrWainwright has not been murdered andreturned from a school trip to Wales thefollowing week.

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There have been some outstandingperformances this term in the PEdepartment, most notably by some of thefootballers. The year 11 football teamhave gradually progressed over the yearsand as a result we decided to enter theminto the national football cup. During thefirst couple of rounds there were someexcellent performances none more sothan a 7-1 win over St Ivo. Unfortunatelythey lost in the fourth round to a teamfrom Bury St Edmunds. This was a defeatthat was out of the blue especially asthey had dominated the play throughout.Hopefully the team will go on and winthe district cup at a local level.

There have also been two outstandingindividual performances from ByronLawrence and Liam York. Byron hasbeen selected by Ipswich and has justsigned a two year deal. Liam continuesto make excellent progress for Luton andwill hopefully break into the first teamset up soon.

In rugby there were some excellentperformances from a number ofindividual students including LouisBodrozic, James Meecham and EddieTywman. All three have gained places inthe Cambridgeshire County team. Thishelped the year 9 team gain third placein the district competition. Otheroutstanding performances includedWill Tucker, Ben Greenaway, JamesFowkes and Jacob Townsend.

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Leadership AcademyThe leadership academy have been busythis term, running the year 5 winterfestival in October and helping umpireand referee the high 5 tournament andthe yr5/6 indoor 5 aside football. Theyalso helped set up and marshal the yr5/6 cross country which took place inearly December before the secondarycompetition later in the day.

Some of the students had the opportunityto attend a number of different coursesin order to gain qualifications. This term,the South Cambs Partnership ran thefollowing courses:

Rugby Leaders Foundation Course

EHB Hockey Leaders Course

Disability Sports Awareness Course

FA Junior Football Organisers Course

Young Netball Organisers Course

Netball Umpiring Course

They also had a number of trainingsessions and academy meetings. Theyraised money for their sports festival inthe summer at the Charities morning atthe end of term.

The Young Ambassadors had a meetingin December and have set in motion aseries of activities to celebrate theOlympics and Paralympics values forLondon 2012. Different departments aregetting involved in the Spirit of theGames. Sophie Payne is the partnershipGold Ambassador and Tilly Gomm is thePlatinum Ambassador, and they went tothe Oval to meet others from Londonand other counties and to discuss how topromote the Olympics and to getchildren involved in more sport.

Sam Robinson, who is a YoungAmbassador and part of the LeadershipAcademy, won the Cambridgshire LivingSports young Volunteer of the year Award.He now goes onto the Regional area nextterm. He has also been nominated for theRoy Burrell Award for volunteering. Sincethis report Sam has now won the BBCLook East Youth Community Volunteer ofthe Year for the Eastern Region.

HockeyThe year 7 hockey team had a good startto the year beating Manor 13-1 anddrawing against Bassingbourn 1-1. Intheir first ever hockey tournament theyhad some very good games and hadwins against Cottenham and Swavesey.

The girls have progressed extremely welland they look forward to the netballseason after Christmas.

The year 8 hockey team travelled toSwavesey VC for their 7 aside hockeytournament. They worked hard butinsufficient practice meant they were notas well drilled as some of the otherteams. As a result they lost 2 and drew1 in their pool so did not progress anyfurther in the competition.

The year 9 hockey team moved to fullsided 11 a side game this year and thetransition went well, they played withina triangular pool in their tournament andbeat The Perse, but unfortunately did notprogress to the finals.

The U16 hockey team reformed this yearwith new players coming in from Year10, there was some excellent play in allareas of the pitch. The team was strongand they had some spells of brilliance.Unfortunately although they played wellas a team they did not progress to thefinals of the tournament.

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Sports stars inspire atYoung AmbassadorConferenceWorld Silver medallist and British indoorand outdoor long jump record holder,Chris Tomlinson made his way to Londonon Friday 18th November, along with theOlympic Torch, to open the YoungAmbassador Conference at The Oval.

Over a hundred 14-19 year olds fromacross the country attended the eventafter being selected by their schools tobecome Young Ambassadors, tasked withusing London 2012 to inspire other youngpeople in their schools and communities.

The day was led by a team of Olympicand Paralympic Athlete mentors,including Paralympic middle distancerunner, Tim Prendergast, formerOlympic swimmer, Adam Whiteheadand Paralympic Silver medallist,Clare Strange, as well as a number ofexperienced Young Ambassadors. Thementors shared their own experiences ofwhat it’s like to be part of an Olympicand Paralympic Games and encouragedthe Ambassadors to think about howthey can make London 2012 relevant totheir own communities. A number ofexperienced Ambassadors alsodiscussed their important role and theways in which they have made animpact in their schools and communitiesover the last 12 months.

The group of young stars have beenacknowledged for the prestigious rolesby their schools, having shownexceptional commitment and ability asyoung leaders or volunteers, to becomeYoung Ambassadors, an initiativepresented by Adidas and delivered bythe Youth Sport Trust. Central to theirmission will be spreading the Olympicand Paralympic values of respect,friendship, personal excellence, courage,determination, inspiration and equalityand showing how people can adoptthem into their lives.

The aim of the conference is to inspireand motivate the Young Ambassadorsthrough London 2012 and the Olympicand Paralympic values, so that they canthen go back to their schools and inspireand motivate other young people.

With a World silver medal under his beltand training well underway for nextyear’s 2012 Games, Chris is no strangerto commitment, perseverance and teamwork. He opened the conference bysharing his experiences of what it takesto be an elite athlete and being involvedin an Olympic Games, the importance ofrole models and the impact of inspiringothers.

Chris said: “I’m privileged to be involvedwith the Young Ambassador programme.Competing at an Olympic Games is theultimate achievement and the bestfeeling to know you have trained hard,pushed yourself and your boundaries,and have come out fighting in winningform. It’s an incredible experience andhas definitely changed me as a person.I’m really looking forward to meeting theYoung Ambassadors and hope thatthrough hearing about my experiencesthey will come away energised andmotivated to help get their friendsparticipating in sport.”

Alison Oliver, Director of Sport at theYouth Sport Trust, which is responsible fordelivering the programme said: “Our

YoungAmbassadorsprogrammedemonstratesthe influencethat youngpeople canhave as rolemodels withtheir peersand thoseyounger thanthemselves.Since theinitiative launched in 2006, thousands ofyoung people have been recognised bytheir schools for their ability andexceptional commitment as youngleaders or volunteers. With the London2012 Olympic and Paralympic Gamesdrawing closer, these conferences play acrucial role in encouraging YoungAmbassadors to harness their passion forsport and use their energy to makeLondon 2012 relevant to other youngpeople within their own schools andlocal communities”.

Sporting achievement –Byron LawrenceCongratulations to Byron Lawrencefor his achievements with IpswichTown Football Club. Byron verynearly became the youngest playerto take to the field. Ipswichmanager, Paul Jewell, wasdetermined to give Byron his debutin a senior game but things didn’tquite go to plan. Byron obviouslyhas a bright future ahead withIpswich Town.

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LIVING SPORTAt the recent LIVING SPORT awardsceremony hosted by Newmarketracehorse trainer and TalkSport presenterMicky Quinn elite sports stars rubbedshoulders with grassroots volunteers asthe county honoured both its topperformers and unsung heroes.

Daniel Goodfellow, scooped theGOLD Young Sports Performer of theYear award after winning the bronzemedal at the European JuniorChampionships, among numerousother titles and medals this year.

Sam Robinson was named theBarracudas Activity Day Camps YoungCommunity Volunteer of the Year, aftersetting up a basketball programme.He also coaches at school holidayfootball projects and advisescouncillors, police and other officialswho are working to develop positiveactivities for young people.

The winners now go forward to theBBC East Region sports awards. At therecent Eastern Region finals Sam wonthe BBC Look East Youth CommunityVolunteer of the Year.

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