Appleford School, Shrewton, Nr Salisbury, Wiltshire, SP3 4HL

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A P P L E F O R D

EASTER 2016

WELCOME

APPLEFORD SCOUTS

Appleford has a Scout Group! Pupils have said about their new Thursday evening activity:

“It’s amazing” “It’s great”

“I want to be a Scout”

“I think it’s good for exercise

and team work and for making

friends” “It’s bigger than my

other one” “I get to learn different

stuff” “I like it quite a lot because we

do a lot of activities” “You make

knots and practice doing things” “It’s

good, my Mum runs it”. “You have

fun” Pupils have just completed the

four week trial period and will now be

able to join up starting after Easter.

There will be a formal Scout investiture ceremony at the end of April to welcome them to the Scout family.

CROSS

COUNTRY RACE

William Anderson and Rose Harris won the Lower School race and Laurence Newman and Charlotte Evans won the Upper school race with lots of support.

Taylor was 18 years old on 8th March 2016, having been at Appleford since he was 9yrs old under the care of Mrs. Wedd. To celebrate this momentous occasion he, Mrs Wedd and other boarders went out for a wonderful meal to one of his favorite restaurants, which was decked out with balloons and banners.

TAYLOR IS 18!

We often share the achievements of our pupils in our Newsletters. Now it is the turn of our staff. Did you know that we have many artistic staff, with talents including: Dressmaking (including making own wedding and bridesmaids’ dresses), loose covers, felt work, layering and cutwork hangings, fantasy artist, make-up artist, skin care expert, potter and stain glass window creator. Gardeners, bakers, farmers and musicians, including a singer who is regularly employed to sing at weddings and one who was a back-ing singer for Barry Manilow.

WHAT A

PERFORMANCE!

Appleford pupils took to the stage in a house team ‘Sing Off’ competition. Congratulations to Evie who received the highest score and to Oscar who received a standing ovation for singing ‘Empty Chairs and Empty Tables’ from Les Misérables.There were some amazing performances. Other photos show the staff performing for the pupils.

Head of Pastoral Care, Head of Learning Support and Speech and Language

Therapist sang their rendition of:

Shake it up and Raise me up!

OUR STAFF...

On the sporting front, staff achievements include: Junior County boxing lightweight champion, representing South West England in Judo, archery Leader, black belt in kick boxing, played snooker with Stephen Hendry, played County netball, played football for Swindon Town and AFC Bournemouth, rifle range instructor and even ran the London marathon dressed as a bee!

Languages spoken include: German, Spanish, French, Italian, Afrikaans, Welsh, Mandarin, semi-fluent in Korean and British Sign Language. Other talents or achievements include: Counsellor, foster carer, dog breeder, ploughed for the University of Oxford ploughing team (in the 1970’s, and got a quarter Blue for it!), Gold Medal in LAMDA, Missionary in East Africa and being awarded an MBE. Finally, famous people met include President Obama, Prince Charles, Meatloaf, Sooty, Cilla Black, Rick Wakeman, Norman Wisdom, Duke of Edinburgh, Archbishop of York Dr John Sentamu, Kenny Logan and of course our Patron, Zoë Wannamaker.

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BINGO!

A fantastic Bingo night was held in Elm Boarding House. Mr Woollard, boarding assistant and cleaner at Appleford very kindly donated some of his prints from his paintings as the winning prizes. Joshua was the very happy winner. Mr Woollard is a self taught Artist and some of his paintings and prints adorned the walls at Appleford. View some of his paintings on: www.danwoollardfantasyart.co.uk/

Stormtrooper, aka Mackenzie Hill, was spotted in the school playground with Alex, Peter, Cameron & Jamie.

PANCAKE

DAY

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Joshua receiving his winning prize from Mr Woollard

Laureance, Chair of the School Council, gave a presentation to the school about our charity for the year, Help for Heroes. Bracelets and badges for sale in the school foyer.

STORMTROOPER

IN SCHOOL

Above staff (Mrs MacCormac, Mrs Barnett, Mrs Francis and Mr Goodings) get ready for a competitive start to the race. Below pupils ran well on a bitterly cold day.

NEW CHAIRS

The winning team, Leah, Callum, Edward and Jamie won 100 Housepoints for their House. Well done.

The Friends of Appleford, along with Imperial Charity, purchased new chairs for the Sports Hall. Thank you.

Elvis has waited 3 years for this match - he asked his manservant, Dan, to challenge Mr King to a duel. On behalf of his master, Lord Elvis of Appleford, the valliant Sir Filmore threw down the green gauntlet and Sir King of Devon nobly accepted the challenge. A tense, fiercly fought battle ensued, and after only a short while, Lord Elvis claimed victory over his opponent. Sir King did not hesitate to rechallenge, and we await the next exciting installment of.... ELVIS V KING chess challenge of the century.

ELVIS V KING

CHESS CHALLENGE

The catering team at Appleford entered the ‘War of the Works’ competition on Spirefm. They went head to head with another local business each day for a week, tackling 10 general knowledge questions each day. Appleford won the challenge and staff enjoyed delicious pizzas as their prize. Appleford (at the time of writing this) was in 5th position on the leaderboard.

GOODBYE

Mr King, Headmaster, said goodbye to Charlie. Charlie has been at Appleford for 8 Years and is now off to pastures new.

Laureance and Laird, winners of the mini saga story writing inter house competition, win book vouchers for their splendid entries. Well done!

Competition

Winners

Training at London Irish Rugby Ground

Pupils in Yr 9—11 were thrilled to be able to visit the London Irish home ground and have a training session. A huge thank you to Adam’s parents for setting this up.