A s the curtain comes down on 2019-20, I thank you

for your support and good spirits on the journey

we have taken alongside each other.

The year has been unforgettable in many ways, but

most significantly because the overwhelming majority of pupils

have managed to retrieve so much out of a situation that has

been so difficult. Chulmleigh pupils have snatched victory from

the jaws of defeat.

St Augustine prayed ‘Lord make me good, but not yet’

because he knew it was the ‘right thing’ to be good, but

wanted to enjoy a lifestyle that was less than good. Our pupils

have worked hard, ‘living in the day’ and enjoying what they

have; they have not wasted large amounts of time thinking

about the past or the future. There is nothing to be gained in

being mournful about a year cut so short, and it can be an

equally fruitless waste of time planning an ‘amazing’ future

which does not take into account the fact that that we change

our minds all the time, particularly when we are young.

Chulmleigh pupils have, overwhelmingly, used their time

wisely and deserve congratulations.

Thank you and goodbye…

We say a fond goodbye to Mrs Perry, Mrs Fraser-Smith and

Mrs Wall at the end of this academic year.

I am grateful to Mrs Perry for the wonderful work she has

done with the PE Department. She has fitted into the team so

well, and as she finished the maternity leave cover, she went

on to cover for the Year 6 Academy and has done a great job.

We hope to see you again Mrs Perry, you have been a great

colleague.

Mrs Fraser-Smith has been the mainstay of our Outdoor

Education provision for many years. A familiar sight to

successive parents who have watched their children march

over the finishing line at Okehampton Army Camp each May

(prior to this one) for Ten Tors, Mrs Fraser-Smith has brought

organisation, discipline and professional knowledge to our

Outdoor Education Programme. Be it Ten Tors, Duke of

Edinburgh or on enrichment days – Mrs Fraser-Smith has been

at the forefront. We will miss her energy, drive and passion

for what she does and wish her well in her exciting new

endeavours. We feel reassured that should we ever have an

issue on Dartmoor with our groups, it could well be Mrs

Fraser-Smith who rescues us in her role with the North

Dartmoor Search and Rescue Group. We have also been

delighted by the opportunities offered to our pupils (past and

present) through the outdoor education experiences offered

by Sea, Moor, Explore – and we are very pleased that Mrs

Fraser-Smith will continue to be involved in this group going

forwards, as well as hopefully continuing as a volunteer for

Outdoor Education activities.

Mrs Wall completes 16 years’ service at Chulmleigh College

and moves on to a role in Somerset as Head of Year 7. I know

she is excited about the opportunity to take this role and that

she will continue to do great work. Mrs Wall has worked so

hard over the years with a very strong sense of determination

to ensure that all our pupils get the best that we can give

them. She is a great teacher and has shown huge commitment

and has made a big contribution to our success. We have

known Mrs Wall as a teacher, Head of House, Head of Science

and more recently as Senior Teacher. So many of our pupils over the last 16 years have been supported and challenged by

Mrs Wall. She leaves a Science Department that achieved

some of the very best results in the region in 2019.

In September we are due to take 703 children in the College,

the school has had to grow. We will have a six class structure

in Years 7-9 and have taken on more teaching staff to

accommodate this. We are pleased to welcome Miss Sterland,

who joins us as our new Head of Science and Senior Teacher;

Mr Foster who joins us to teach PE, PSHE and to coordinate

Outdoor Education; Mrs Penny who joins us to teach Art and

Textiles; Mr Jackson who joins us to cover the maternity leave

of Miss Josling and Miss Cook who will join the MFL

department to cover maternity leave for Mrs Chauvin from

October/November. Miss James, who was covering maternity

leave in the Science department, now joins the permanent staff

from September and will be teaching across the Maths and

Science departments. We were also pleased to welcome Mrs

Payne to our MFL department at Easter.

Although we are a growing school, there remains an

abundance of space for our children and, like us, I am sure you

are proud to be part of a school that is growing; not because

of house-building but because our educational offer is popular

with families from far and wide.

I hope that you have a restful and enjoyable summer break,

and look forward to welcoming all of our pupils back to school

in September.

Mr Mike Johnson, Executive Headteacher

Monday 20th July 2020

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Dear Parents & Carers...

OPTIME

TOUT SUR MOI WINNERS!

T his term Year 7 have been creating a

booklet all about themselves entitled 'Tout

sur Moi".

It has been really interesting finding out

more about our pupils and we are delighted to

announce the winners! All the winning booklets

will be shared on our Facebook page over the

summer holidays.

We chose two winners from each class, well done

to: Ben Grech; Emily-Jade Passmore; Felix Denno;

Jack Clarke; Jack Williams; Jamie Crump; Oliver

Smith; Rhianna Dennis; Rose Stone; Daniel Langrill;

Jeremy Catling and Milly Hampson.

The MFL department has been amazed by all the

pupils’ work and effort in completing their booklets

and we intend to display them all in our

Department corridor in September.

Mrs Johnson

YEAR 10 AWARDS

E very year we celebrate

the progress and

attainment of our pupils

in each year group for

all subjects. Although we

cannot do this in person this

term, we are celebrating the

success and hard work of the

pupils by sending certificates

and letters home over the

Summer Term. This week is the

turn of Year 10 and, of course,

those important badges, which

pupils wear with pride, will be

provided when we return to a

school-based learning

experience.

These awards provide us with

the chance to reward pupils for

their great efforts and

achievements during the last

twelve months, including these

recent weeks spent home

learning, which so many of our

pupils are doing with great

success.

Thank you for all of your

support, especially during these

challenging times.

Well done to all the Year 10s

who’ve received an award.

Mrs Burks

Ciara Blacker

Max Bonner

Edward Bonning

Che-che Bradshaw

Amber Brook

Holly Burrow

Florence Cutler

Emily Dart

Ryan Dawson

Savannah Down

Finley Doyle

James Edwards

Katie Elder

Frankie Ellis

Freddy Elson

Benjamin Elston

Chloe Hartrey

Poppy Hughes

Millie Jones

Danny Kendall-Torry

Poppy Kenny

Charlie Lenarduzzi

Mary Lucas Ridge

Brady May

Maisie McArthur

Ben McPherson

Jessica Miners

Lily Mogford

Eliza Moore

Megan Perry

Charlie Phillips

Rhys Roberts

Mollie Rowe

Jamie Ryan

Summer Sargisson

Eve Scarbrough

Finlay Sermon

Sam Stredwick

Izzy Swift

Benjamin Turner

Josh Watkins

Gemma Westacott

Joe Whittick

Abby Williams

Luke Wilson

ACCELERATED READER UPDATE One Day Left to Reach Our Target!

W hat an unbelievable weekend for

quizzing! This is definitely our best

yet with you quizzing almost 2

million words a day from Friday to

Sunday. I can see that a

lot of you have been

finishing and quizzing

some really long books.

We now have just one

day left to go – today! Mr

Payne will be ready and

waiting tomorrow to see

if he needs to sing. We

need to quiz 1,257,775

words today! Can we do

it?

Accelerated Reader

totals for Friday July 17th to Sunday July 19th.

Number of quizzes passed: 48.

Number of words gained: 5,809,234.

Top Year Group: Year 7.

Miss Nunn

DUKE OF EDINBURGH AWARDS

D uke of

Edinburgh

Awards

As the school

year comes to an end, we

have more pupils who

have completed the Duke

of Edinburgh Bronze

Certificate of

Achievement, and our first who has completed the Silver

Certificate of Achievement. The timescales for the activities vary as a participant goes through the Bronze,

Silver and Gold levels. For Bronze, the participants

undertake two activities for three months and one for six

months; this changes to two activities for six months and

one for three months at the Silver level, with the

participants choosing which ones they wish to spend

longer doing.

Following on from my last article in Optime, Chloe

Charman has gone on to complete her Bronze. Before

we went in to lockdown Chole was attending hip hop

and street dance classes in Barnstaple; these classes went

online and Chloe was able to continue participating

weekly, as well as join in with other classes that her

teacher signposted her to. Chloe’s assessor commented

that Chloe “has the potential to go far with dance”.

Zara James is another pupil who had to adapt the

activities she participated in as a result of the lockdown.

Zara had chosen the Physical section as the six month

activity for her Bronze award and had been participating

in training for Ten Tors. Lockdown meant that all further

training and the event was cancelled. As Zara had only

completed four months she knew she needed to come

up with a new plan and so she decided to start cycling

from home. She kept a log of her rides and used the

Strava App to record what she did and help provide

evidence. Zara sent her evidence to Mr Covington, who

is a keen cyclist himself. She was able to show him the

progression she had made from short flat rides, to longer

much hillier one as she built up her mileage each week

and gained fitness and confidence.

Ed Bonning is the first of our participants to complete the

Duke of Edinburgh Silver Certificate of Achievement,

having spent six months on both his volunteering and

skills section and three months on his physical section. Ed

also participated in Ten Tors training for his physical, and

despite finishing many of the walks soaked through, he

always remained in good spirits and was an outstanding

role model to the other pupils alongside him. Other Year

10 pupils close to achieving their Silver certificate are

Tristan Frost, Abby Williams, Savannah Down and Jessica

Miners.

Perseverance, determination, adaptability, flexibility and a

commitment to see something through are just some of

the personal qualities that these pupils have

demonstrated in order to complete their Duke of

Edinburgh Awards this year, and I would like to

congratulate them and all the others who I know are still

working hard to finish and get signed off by their

assessors.

Susan Fraser-Smith

Outdoor Education Coordinator

DRAGON’S DEN COMPETITION

I n Year 8 PSHE this term we have been working on

our entrepreneurial skills. Earlier in the term pupils

were set the task of designing a ‘Dragon’s Den’ style

product. They had to watch the program first to get

inspiration and to be aware of successful and

unsuccessful strategies and projects. They then had to

think of a product and conduct market research before

finalising their design; calculating costs and writing a final

pitch.

Congratulations to Oliver Dunton for winning our in-

house competition with his operating systems tool and to both Charlie Swan for his ‘Melon Sports’, and Molly

Bailey for her ‘Saddlesoap’ design. Their hard work is

recognised and congratulations to them for coming close

runners up. Oliver will be able to collect his prize from

me in September, unfortunately it will not be in the form

of an offer of 50% of his profits in return for a £100,000

investment!

Please click on each image to see the complete projects.

Mrs Eaton

Oliver Dunton

Charlie Swan

Molly Bailey

Right: an entry by Emma Lassam!

ART CHALLENGE FOR

EVERYONE!

I am inviting everyone in our

Chulmleigh College family to be

involved in an art challenge. The

idea is to reflect and explore our

thoughts on the present time and think

about the changes we would like to see

happening in the world. I would like you

to be inspired by the work of political

artist ‘Bob and Roberta Smith’ to create

your own piece of art responding to the

question, ‘How do you want the world

to change after this?’

Think about how you would like the

world to change after Covid 19 - this

could be a big change or a small one, a

personal change, local or global!

You can use any art materials of your

choice, and that you have available, to use to create

your piece of work and the

size is up to you.

A display or exhibition will be

made of our work to serve as a

reminder of the present time

and how we would like our

future to look.

Use the support sheets in the

link here for ideas, more

information about the artist

and inspiration. You can even have see my response to the

challenge opposite!

Let’s get everyone involved -

pupils, teachers, parents,

grandparents, carers and

siblings!

Please upload a photo of your

work to ClassCharts or send a

photo of your artwork to

schapman@chulmleigh.devon.sch.uk. Even better

bring it, and any your family

have made, to school with you

in September so we can put a

fantastic display or exhibition

of the work together.

Have fun!

Miss Chapman

Left: Rhiannon has written a more optimistic

version of Shakespeare's 'Seven Ages of Man'

speech, to learn and perform and it's beautiful!

Below: Daisy Garland has created some excellent

costume design work based on Romeo and Juliet.

Please see over the page for more work…

Ms Feasey said: I have so much enjoyed seeing

the knowledge, hard work, originality and

creativity displayed in the tasks you have

submitted in lockdown. Thank you for this. The

future of the Arts is safe in your hands!

A MORE POSITIVE VERSION OF ‘ALL THE WORLD’S A STAGE’ From ‘As You Like It’

Performed by Jaques

All the world’s a stage,

And all of life actors upon it;

They have their delights and despairs;

And one man in his time plays many parts,

His acts being seven ages. At first the infant,

Burbling and blinking in its tiny cot;

And then the school-boy, with his satchel

And shining morning face, chatting with friends,

On his way to school. And then the lover,

Rushing, flushed with excitement, to kiss

His mistress’ lips. Then a soldier,

Full of glory hopes, and bearded like the pard,

Devoted to country, and brothers in arms,

Prepared to stand the test,

Even in the cannon’s mouth. And then the justice,

In fair round belly with good capon lin’d,

With eyes twinkling and patient brow,

Full of sound advice and the wisdom of age;

And so he plays his part. The sixth age shifts

Into the nimble and enthusiastic grandparent,

Playing weekly ball with chocolate-filled children;

His suitcase packed, and pension well sav’d,

A wide world to explore; and though with big manly voice,

Turning again toward childish treble, he tells of tales past.

Last scene of all,

That ends this beautiful eventful history,

Is wise in age and peaceful satisfaction;

Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, yet sans worry.

By William Shakespeare.

Edited to be more positive by Rhiannon Griffiths

Left: Zak Flanagan's work is a

comedy version based on hair!

Below: Tom's Media/Drama

script about Johanna Nordblad,

an inspirational figure, is really

well researched, engagingly

presented and has a real sense

of how sound and image would

be used. To see the complete

work please click on the image

below far left.

MATHS PUZZLE OF THE WEEK 11 Solution: 34

Well done to: Elena

Carey; Lucy Webber;

Megan Prince; Stacie-May

Campbell; Owen Jones; Sara

-Jayne Clarke; Isabel Prince;

Oliver Palin; Isaac Pinhey;

Sophie Cooper; Mungo

Kevern; Willow Karczmarz;

Daniel Upright; Alexander

Cox; Emily Passmore;

Rhianna Worley; Sadie

Dearden; Evie-Grace

Manley; Rhiannon Griffiths;

Ashley Vanstone; Harry

Wills-Port; Maddy Godly;

Jack Clarke; Felix Stapley;

James Harmer.

A great effort from:

Hope Baker; Zachary

Parkinson; Dylan Goldsbury

House Points have been

awarded on

ClassCharts.

Look out in September for

the next weekly puzzle.

Have a great holiday.

Mrs Button

RPE STAINED GLASS WINDOW DESIGNS Some of the RPE classes have been

working on designing their own stain

glass window. We looked at why stain

glass windows were an important way

of communicating religious stories

and then we looked at a variety of

windows - both ancient and modern.

Pupils were then invited to design

their own, based on ideas and

concepts that have resonated with

them during this year, both in school

and at home. Here are some of the

results, right and over the page.

Mrs Eaton

Right: Sophie Cooper

Dylan Goldbury

Rose Stone

Alyssa Norman

Francis Kelly

Libby Buswell

Tallulah Boyd Lola Fitzsimmons

Do enjoy creative writing? If so, why not enter the Appledore Book Festival Young Writers’ Competition?

You can enter poetry or prose (a short story or description) and it can be on any topic at all. This could be something

you have already written and which you are really proud of, or you could write something specifically for the

competition. You might want to write about something inspired by your lockdown experience, or you could let your

imagination run free and let it take you on a different kind of journey. It is completely up to you!

If you do decide to enter the competition, please make sure you edit your work – a piece of wonderful writing will be

ruined if half of the capital letters are missing!

Miss Nunn