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newsletterIssue No 8 | 2014-15 | Friday 30 January 2015
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Dear Parents,
The Senior School, as always, has been a hive of activity this week. All of our students are given the opportunity to try a multitude of experiences and unearth hidden talents and interests and on Wednesday our Year 9 students showcased their talents in design, drama, music and visual arts in a spectacular Creative Arts evening. On page 5 of this newsletter there is a link to some wonderful photographs to remind us of the super evening. Thank you all for providing the inspiration and encouragement to all of our students.
Tuesday this week was International Holocaust Remembrance Day. In our busy everyday lives it is important to stop and consider the actions of others and the impact that they have on us, and this week two of our students took part in a unique commemoration that used music, poetry and personal testimony to mark 70 years since the liberation of Auschwitz concentration camp. The Holocaust Memorial Day concert took place in Westminster and coverage from the BBC event can be found via our News pages.
In my pre-Christmas newsletter I encouraged members of our community to support our Under 14 and Under 16 netball teams as they competed for the title of County Champions. Thank you to all of those who supported our teams as they now join the Foundation’s Under 19 team in the Regional finals this weekend. Having one team qualify for Regionals is an achievement, three teams is exceptional.
I am sure you will join me in wishing them the best of luck for tomorrow!
With kind regards,Mrs Alison WallHead of Senior School
Introduction - Head of Senior School
U14 netball team U16 netball team
Good luck to all our athletes competing this weekend!
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Guten Tag! 你好! Привет!
Year 8 Global Outlook was a little different this week. The girls had a go at learning three new languages within just under 2 hours!
There were tasters in Russian, German and Mandarin Chinese. Mrs Chang helped the girls choose a Chinese name for themselves and have a go at writing it using Chinese characters. In Russian they were counting with help from Dr Kopanitsa’s Matryoshka, Russian dolls as well as learning the Cyrillic alphabet. With Frau Freeman there was a lion hunt and a catchy song in German.
The response was very positive and the girls clearly enjoyed learning about several different languages and cultures. This will help them to make their language choices next year, as they could start one of them in Year 9.
If you are interested in learning more about languages and the future, there is a very useful document published by the British Council, which identifies which languages are need in the UK for the future. Click the following link to see the full report: http://www.britishcouncil.org/organisation/publications/languages-future
Exciting afternoon of Language Tasters
As seen during Wednesday evening’s Creative Arts celebration, Year 9 Drama students were recently very excited to have taken part in their Stage Combat Module - Armed Combat session with external expert Tom Marty.
Here is a video showcasing what they learnt, please click on the image to view.
Year 9 Stage Combat Module Armed Combat session
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Stephen Perse Foundation students Olivia Petryszak (Year 10) and Hannah Brock (Year 11) both took part at the National Holocaust Memorial in London this week.
The event was held on Tuesday 27 January at Central Hall in Westminster, and had an audience of 200 survivors and 1,000 guests including Prime Minister David Cameron, the Prince of Wales and Duchess of Cornwall, and the archbishop of Canterbury, who gathered to listen to music, poetry and writings.
The pieces our students were singing included ‘Elijahu hanawi’, a Hebrew song by Jewish composer Viktor Ullmann, who lived in Prague before the war, written at the time of the holocaust, as well as the more modern song ‘I Believe in the Sun’ by Howard Goodall. The latter is a setting of an anonymous text found written (originally in French) on the wall of a cave in Cologne where Jews had been hiding.
The musicians taking part in the performance for the Holocaust Memorial Day had been working with the renowned cellist and vocalist Simon Wallfisch. Simon comes from a very musical family and both his father and grandmother played the cello. His grandmother, Anita Lasker Wallfisch, was the leader of the women’s orchestra in Auschwitz concentration camp - which is the only reason she survived the war.
Olivia and Hannah took part in the memorial with the Aldeburgh Young Musicians, who last year participated in a course run by Simon Wallfisch dedicated to the holocaust and the music based on and written at that time. His grandmother also attended a few days of that course, and told them her stories of the holocaust and what it was like being alive at the time, especially about being in Theresienstadt, a ghetto concentration camp in which she spent much of her time.
You can watch the BBC coverage of this unique commemoration, using music, poetry and personal testimony to mark 70 years since the liberation of Auschwitz concentration camp, by clicking here.
Year 7 will spend the afternoon of Thursday 12 February off-timetable for their second PSHE event under the umbrella heading ‘Managing Change’.
During this afternoon, half of their time will be spent taking part in a drama workshop exploring the issue of cyber-bullying, whilst a second session will introduce them to the concept of ‘resilience’ as a tool to aid them through the highs and lows of life.
If you have any queries about this event, please contact Abbey Jones, PSHE Coordinator ([email protected]).
Year 7 Managing Change PSHE Event - Thursday 12th February
Holocaust Memorial Day
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Nominations are now open for the current Year 11
This website gives more background information about the ISH, Heidelberg and its research institutes: http://www.ish-heidelberg.de/
The XXth International Summer Science School will take place from 19th July to 15th August 2015.
We have been asked to nominate ONE student from the Stephen Perse Foundation.
To be considered as our nominee, interested students should please e-mail Mrs Paris with a short paragraph about why they would like to attend - by Friday 16 February.
The annual Engineering Education Scheme residential took place last week at the University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, and students from the Stephen Perse 6th Form were there. This year the students have been working the “Buddy Bot”: a small roving vehicle that can move around the living area of the home helping the parent keep a closer eye on their young children. To read more about it click here to visit the 6th Form News pages.
The Scheme is organised by the Engineering Devepment Trust (EDT) and is run by Roger Bett, Curriculum Leader in Design and Engineering at the Stephen Perse Foundation.
Watch this space for news of the Go4SET project, a sister project, with Year 9 girls.
Engineering and enterprise
Cambridge City Council sponsor three students each year to take part in the International Summer Science School in Heidelberg, and nominations are now open for the current Year 11.
The ISH is a project for young people from Heidelberg’s sister cities and partner organizations who are interested in natural sciences and would like to get a practical insight into the laboratories of renowned research institutes. The participants should be at least 16 years of age.
Last summer Kristie Leung (then Year 11, now in Lower 6th) was selected from Cambridge to participate in the International Science School in Heidelberg.
To read her report from the event click here to go to the News page.
International Summer Science School
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Our fabulous Year 9 showcase on Wednesday evening proved just how incredibly talented and creative our students are. Parents, families and friends were treated to a fabulous exhibition of work completed in Design and Visual Arts lessons; this was followed by accomplished performances and presentations of extracts of work created in Music, Digital Art and Drama lessons.
We would like to congratulate all of the students in Year 9 who worked so hard to make the event a success.
For more information about this event see the full programme here: click here.
You can watch clips of the Drama performances by clicking on the three video images below:
Year 9 Creative Arts Evening
To see a full gallery of photos
from the event please click here
to go to our news page.
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Nicky left school 2009, having studied A level Design Technology with Mr Bett, and today visited our Year 11 DT lesson to talk to them about her career so far.
Having gone to Brunel university, Nicky now runs her own product design consultancy. Her time at Brunel taught her about how people use products, interact with them, the way people look at products. The most important thing was about designing products around people, rather than the other way round.
Whilst in U6, Nicky won a major design award that has had a major influence on her direction and work. Her innovative toboggan design project, won Young Designer of the Year, a national competition for all schools, sponsored by Brunel. As it happened, one of the judges was then Nicky’s tutor at Brunel University where she read Product Design Bsc - a 4 year course with a year in industry. In her final year, Nicky was responsible for running the ‘Made in Brunel’ showcase event for engineering and industrial design.
At university, Nicky went on to win the Eco Project competition run by M&S. Her design was a simple point-of-sale waste disposal product for homewares aimed at smaller M&S stores usually frequented by commuting customers.
While at university, Nicky worked for Cambridge Consultants and then had a great grounding at heavyweight consultancy PearsonLloyd (working on prototypes for stay-clean chairs, which has now been launched to market).
She has already set up her own product design consultancy, Koti (www.kotistudio.co.uk), with a friend from university, based in Cambridge, mainly focussing on homeware and product design. Koti is ‘home’ in Finnish, a strong influence, and also they mainly design homewares. They are also applying for Design Council funding to enable them to get their own products to market, and to develop their own brand of products.
Clients include John Lewis, Men’s Health, JosephJoseph (redesigning kitchen tools and gadgets); a number of lighting design products; designing a city bike, and Lakeland
Our year 11 students quizzed Nicky on their own portfolio products, and how her products become a reality in a financially competitive environment. Nicky discussed how many products don’t get taken forward, but how important it is to still develop your ideas that push boundaries - often a client can’t see how products can work until you can demonstrate its need to customers.
Alumni visit | Product Designer
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Pupils’ projects have something of a winning ‘Aura’ to themDeveloper Countryside has awarded the winners of its special Design and Technology competition in partnership with Year 9 pupils that could result in kick-starting a career in design for many of the students.
Nancy and Alice won the award for ‘best overall design’ with their tree stand (pictured) and Jemima and Chanumi won the award for ‘most innovative design’ for their reading chair.
The group of Year 9 pupils took part in the term-long competition in partnership with Countryside, to design furniture that could feature in one of the new Aura show homes, located on Long Road in Cambridge. The project included a trip to view the award-winning Aura development to inspire the pupils and help them get a sense of the environment as well as a presentation and guidance from Jamie Woodrow, Associate Director for Countryside, who co-ordinated the project. Using architectural working drawings, photography and computer generated images the DT pupils worked in pairs to produce prototypes of their designs, which were subsequently judged by Countryside on Wednesday 28th January.
Roger Bett, Head of Design and Technology at The Stephen Perse Foundation School, said: “This was a wonderful opportunity for the girls to acquire a taste for the real world of design, a project brief relating to a real marketing problem. The girls really enjoyed their visit to Aura and to experience first hand the issues relating to the brief. The girls have worked so hard on their projects and I would like to congratulate all the competitors for their entries to the competition.”
Jamie Woodrow, Associate Director at Countryside, said: “This project has been great to be a part of – since my initial presentation to Mr Bett’s DT workshop last term to seeing the results all the pupils hard work – I’ve been continually impressed with the pupils’ originality and interest throughout the whole project. Ultimately I hope this project has given them some insight into design and career inspiration.”
Jamie continued: “Deciding the winners was tough but my congratulations go to Nancy and Alice for an exceptional design which really captured the leafy environment in which Aura is set and contemporary beauty of the homes. I was impressed by the winners thought and attention to detail with the packaging and that the Tree Stand could be up scaled – used for larger practical piece of furniture such as a coat stand, as well as something smaller like a jewellery stand.
The reading chair which won the innovation prize was novel and Jemima and Chanumi had considered interesting details such as the inclusion of lights in the chair, with wires that were cleverly concealed – well done!
Lastly, I would like to extend an invitation to all parents to come and visit Aura and experience the show homes for themselves.”
For more information on the Aura development you can visit www.auracambridge.co.uk.
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Come and enjoy an evening of riotous comedy on Friday 27 February directed and performed by our extremely talented sixth form Drama Enrichment group.
The Physicists is a crazy black comedy set in a psychiatric hospital where nothing is at it seems - a physicist claiming to be Albert Einstein has just murdered a nurse whilst a few weeks ago another scientist claiming to be Sir Isaac Newton also murdered a nurse. Are they criminals or just mad?
In A Servant to Two Masters Truffaldino needs to make some money, fast. He gets a job as a servant and then realises he can earn double the money by working for two different masters at once. What can possibly go wrong? Expect disguises, mistaken identity, slapstick and a touch of romance.
Tickets available from the 6th Form College reception or email Ms Barrell on [email protected].
Tickets £5.00 for adults and £2.50 for students.
The Sixth Form Play - a double bill!
PFA Event | Valentine’s Bake Sale
Stephen Perse Junior School and Pre-‐Prep
Bake and Buy at this year’s annual
Valentine’s Bake Sale Stephen Perse Senior School Dining Room
3 pm onwards, Thursday 12th February
Please bake or donate Valentine’s biscuits, cakes, tarts, or other favourite treats and bring them to the Junior School in named containers on the morning of
Thursday 12th February. No nuts please.
Everyone is welcome, parents and carers too!
Please remember to send some money with the pupils on the day. All money raised goes to the PFA.
Don’t miss out!
They really do sell like hot cakes!
Stephen Perse Junior School and Pre-‐Prep
Bake and Buy at this year’s annual
Valentine’s Bake Sale Stephen Perse Senior School Dining Room
3 pm onwards, Thursday 12th February
Please bake or donate Valentine’s biscuits, cakes, tarts, or other favourite treats and bring them to the Junior School in named containers on the morning of
Thursday 12th February. No nuts please.
Everyone is welcome, parents and carers too!
Please remember to send some money with the pupils on the day. All money raised goes to the PFA.
Don’t miss out!
They really do sell like hot cakes!
Stephen Perse Junior School and Pre-‐Prep
Bake and Buy at this year’s annual
Valentine’s Bake Sale Stephen Perse Senior School Dining Room
3 pm onwards, Thursday 12th February
Please bake or donate Valentine’s biscuits, cakes, tarts, or other favourite treats and bring them to the Junior School in named containers on the morning of
Thursday 12th February. No nuts please.
Everyone is welcome, parents and carers too!
Please remember to send some money with the pupils on the day. All money raised goes to the PFA.
Don’t miss out!
They really do sell like hot cakes!
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Inspire MeWe have two exciting Inspire Me events coming up - Inspire Me: Crime event is a workshop-based pupil event on Thursday 12 February 4.00-6.00pm at our new 6th form centre for Year 9-Upper 6th students only, there are limited spaces so please book using the SchoolPost reply form (sent Thursday 8 January). There are also limited places for parents who wish to hear the wider talk at 5pm on Forensic Linguistics from our speaker, SPF parent, Luna Filipovic. More information on the event is here.
Inspire Me: Third Sector on Wednesday 11 March with Dame Fiona Reynolds DBE 7.30-9.00pm at the Senior School. If you would like to change the world, this event is for you! Hear inspiring stories about working in the charitable sector, with a guest presentation on our history of fundraising for Barnardo’s and why it is so important. More information on that event is here.
If you would like to reserve places, please use the SchoolPost reply form or email Melissa Santiago-Val.
Inspire Me: Third Sector
Wednesday 11 March 20157.30pm-9.00pm
Senior School HallStephen Perse Foundation
Want to change the world?
Speakers:•Dame Fiona Reynolds DBE •Barnardo’swww.stephenperse.com/inspireme
Learn all about following your passions, volunteering and working in the third sector. Everything from running
the National Trust to how the school has supported Barnardo’s for over 60 years.
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For further information on either event stephenperse.com/inspireme or email [email protected]
Speaker:Dr Luna Filipovic, a forensic psycholinguist who has worked on high-profile legal cases where language has determined the outcome of a case, for companies such as Amazon and Apple.
This is a workshop event for Years 9-Upper 6th only, and places are limited - so please book early (through SchoolPost).
• Interested in language, crime, evidence,
psychology, forensics and truth..?
Stephen Perse 6th FormVenue: Shaftesbury Building,Time: 4.00pm-6.00pm(For Yr 9-U6 only)Thursday 12 February 2015
Inspire Me:Crime
• Does language affect how we perceive and remember events?
• Can language change the outcome of
a case?
Inspire Me: Third Sector
Wednesday 11 March 20157.30pm-9.00pm
Senior School HallStephen Perse Foundation
Want to change the world?
Speakers:•Dame Fiona Reynolds DBE •Barnardo’swww.stephenperse.com/inspireme
Learn all about following your passions, volunteering and working in the third sector. Everything from running
the National Trust to how the school has supported Barnardo’s for over 60 years.
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o: D
avid
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For further information on either event stephenperse.com/inspireme or email [email protected]
Speaker:Dr Luna Filipovic, a forensic psycholinguist who has worked on high-profile legal cases where language has determined the outcome of a case, for companies such as Amazon and Apple.
This is a workshop event for Years 9-Upper 6th only, and places are limited - so please book early (through SchoolPost).
• Interested in language, crime, evidence,
psychology, forensics and truth..?
Stephen Perse 6th FormVenue: Shaftesbury Building,Time: 4.00pm-6.00pm(For Yr 9-U6 only)Thursday 12 February 2015
Inspire Me:Crime
• Does language affect how we perceive and remember events?
• Can language change the outcome of
a case?
Our next meeting will be on Monday, 2nd March 2015, at 8pm (contact Julia Payne on 01223 510546). We will discuss ‘Alan Turing: The Enigma’ by Alan Hodges and ‘The Accidental’ by Ali Smith.
We always have a lively discussion and are keen to welcome new members. If you are interested in finding out more, please contact Martha Crouch for details (07768311015 or email [email protected])
Book Club
