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Wider Learning Bulletin 7 – 19 / 01 / 18

For the next 8 weeks we are havingBarristers from Gray’s Inn train 13 lucky year 11s as part of their Griffin programme. The students will be trained in how to do a mock trial and then prepare a case to be presented at the Royal Courts of Justice by a real Judge. Students will be working after school on Wednesdays with trainee and qualified Barristers as part of the project.

On February 22nd we are running the 2nd

annual Twyfordian Journalism Conference with speakers from BBC, Manchester University and some home grown talent. Anyone interested in attending from Y11-13 should speak to Ms Marshall ASAP as letters will go out next week.

We will also be participating in the Ealing Spelling bee this year and some brave year 7s and 8s have already signed up to take part. There will be lots of practice going on ahead of the Competition on

28th February.

Work Experience:With 72 placements secured, we have 38% of the year with placements, leaving 62% needing to hand in their application form, the deadline is Thursday 8th February.

Places include: South Ealing Dental Practice, Imperial College, House of Commons, QPR, Red Bee Media, ST Martin in the Fields Church, V&A Museum and Vodafone to name a few.

If students need any help or guidance, they can see Mr Barley (IAG Coordinator) in the LRC.

T 9W 3Y 13F 10R 12D 13C 12

Total 72

Netball:• Well done to Year 12 (with the fantastic Scarlett Johnson and Scarlett

Bulatovic joining the team from Year 11) who lost narrowly by 2 goals to St Benedict’s. It was a thrilling game and they all played brilliantly but the player of the match went to Lucy Jacks.

• Year 13 lost 20-13 to St Benedict’s but won the last quarter. Absolutely superb performances with player of the match going to Isabella Lill.

• Well done to the Year 7A and Year 8A Netball teams for both winning against Elthorne school. Standout players were Rebekah Colinese and Nia Lee for their excellent defence.

• We are very much looking forward to taking the KS4 netball squads to England vs Australia at the Copper box in Stratford Monday 22nd January. Come on England!

• Keep up the excellent numbers at training and good luck to Year 9 at their tournament on the 24th January and to Year 11 against St Augustine and West London Free School next week.

Miss Eliason and Mrs MacDonald

Sport Report

Badminton:Year 8 are Badminton Borough champions

and will represent Ealing in the London youth games. Well done to the team, we will keep you updated with their progress.

Basketball:Huge congratulations to the Yr 9 and 10 Basketball team who put up a strong fight to Acton High Yr 11 team. Both teams were even the whole way, but unfortunately in the end Twyford lost by 4 points. However the Acton team were made up of year 11s, so the fact the game was so close

was a great achievement. Absolute standouts were Daniel Alawode, Makhai Dawkins, Tommy Svanidza and Henry Okenla.

Football:A big well done to the U18s, 1st 11 who

beat Cardinal Wiseman 2-0 and have now qualified for the Quarter finals for

the Middlesex cup. Excellent effort!

Drama

A huge well done to Tyler Davis (Year 13) who along with his group Spirit Young Performers Company (photograph below) were awarded a prestigious full scholarship with ‘The Stage’ 2017-18.

The Stage Scholarships have been running for more than 20 years, helping many hundreds of young people follow their dreams, with former winners going on to work in shows ranging from Wicked in the West End to Robert Icke’s production of Oresteia.

Spirit Young Performers Company will be performing at ‘The Stage Scholarship Awards’ on Friday 26th January. We wish Tyler and his group the very best of luck and I am sure it will not be long until we see them on the West End!

Frantic Assembly Workshop with Y10On Friday 12h January, Year 10 GCSE Drama students took

part in a Frantic Assembly workshop with one of their talented practitioners, Paolo. The workshop taught the

students some of the basics Frantic Assembly techniques and they will be able to use these skills from in their own

Devised Performance work over the coming months.

‘Things I know to be True’ at The LyricOn Tuesday 16th January we went to watch Things I know to be True with our Y12 and 13 Drama students. It was an absolutely outstanding performance, we were all gripped from start to finish and a few of us (including myself and Ms Ighorae!) shed a tear in the final scenes! If you get a chance to see it, I would highly recommend it, we all agreed that it is one of the best performances we have seen for some time.

Weds 24th Jan

3:30-5:15pm

Act 1 Scene 4 (Ned, Patty, Dewey)

Act 1 Scene 5 (Rosalie, Dewey, Teachers,

Summer)

Weds 31st Jan

3:30-5:15pm

Act 1 Scene 6 (Dewey and Child roles)

School of Rock Rehearsals have got off to a great start. Please see the upcoming rehearsals below. The full schedule has also been emailed out to all cast members.

Oxbridge University Offers

Well done to the following students who have successfully gained Oxbridge University offers for 2018:

• Ben Francis – History, Cambridge• Joe Francis – Maths, Cambridge• Elizabeth Biggs – Biological Sciences, Oxford• Dominic Carrington – Music, Cambridge• Maya Dhillon – Spanish and Linguistics, Oxford• George Holderness – Maths, Cambridge• Nat Karmios – Computer Science, Cambridge• Isabella Lill – English, Oxford• Cecilia Lusuardi – Medicine, Cambridge• Natasha Mallett – Theology, Oxford• Oliver McAllister – PPE, Oxford• Cara Murphy – Music, Oxford• Nima Sahba – Land Economy, Cambridge • Laura Thomas – History, Cambridge• Effie Webb – Psychology and Linguistics, Oxford• Isabella Farr – Engineering, Cambridge

Miss Fancourt (TAP Coordinator)

Duke of Edinburgh Training Day – Bronze and Silver onSaturday the 27th January. All students completing the award must attend this compulsory training session.

Silver:Location: Twyford, Meet in D14Time: 9am – 3.30pmBronze: Location: Twyford, Meet at the Elms LawnTime: 9am – 4.30pm

Activities of the day: First Aid training, Navigation training, Food and stove safety, Route planning.

Duke of Edinburgh Award – Training day

Languages

Spelling Bee: The First round of Spelling Bee was a success…. Congratulations to the following students who learnt their 50 words extremely well and were able to spell a lot of them in the target language in only a minute! They are now going to receive another 50 words to practice for the second round. They will be coached by Ms Meechan every Wednesday lunchtime – bonne chance / Buena suerte to them….French: Anna O’Driscoll, Evie Theobalds, Josh Kapff, Oliver Kostrowicki, Maysa Brice, Hanako Orui, Tobias Ioni-Frederking, Andrew Sulaeman, Hanniel Daddey, Safa Sharaf , Marko Trtica, Babkr Al-ShalanSpanish: Bea Curtis, Katie Nili, Limbani Kafwanka, Tom Ennis, Max Munro, Joe Povey-Donohoe, Dora Neascu, Zaynab Othman, Emily Youna, Simran Kajevic, Mathis Desodt , Enrico Robinson, Harris Gill , Edith Bailey

Future Linguists club:On Wednesday the 10th of January, the Future Linguists club kicked off again, with Miss César bringing a very special cake; the “galette des rois” (King’s cake). At the start of January, French families celebrate Epiphany by eating this delicious cake together. The tradition dictates that in one of the slices, the baker has hidden a trinket… Whoever finds it in their slice is crowned King or Queen for the day! To avoid cheating whilst the cake is being sliced, the youngest person in the family goes under the table, and says which slice of the cake should go to whom. Maysa Brice (Y7) was crowned queen! A special thank you to Dylan Hodgson, our Year 12 helper. All year 7 and 8 students are welcome to join the club.

Upcoming events in Languages:• UK Linguistics Olympiads - any Y11, 12 or 13 students interested

in joining should contact Effie Webb or Maya Dhillon (Y13 students) or Miss César.

• Our Y12 French class are going to the BFI on the 31/01 with Miss César, for a French film workshop (Le Cinéma Français: Contemporary Dramas and the Nouvelle Vague)

• The Y10 French exchange is fast approaching – we will be hosting French students from Lyon from Thursday 1st February – Thursday 8th February. Our Y10 students will travel to Lyon, France from Saturday 19th May – Friday 25th May.

Music

SPRING 1 Time Event

9/2/18-12/2/18 Chamber Choir Tour to Belgium

SPRING 2

5/3/18 1.30pm4:30pm

Classical Music Competition –beginners then intermediates

6/3/18 6.00pm Classical Music Competition –advanced

22/3/18 6.30pm Twyford Voices

Please find information about upcoming Music Events in the Spring Term. Please contact the Music College if you have any questions.

MusicCollege@twyford.ealing.sch.uk

Science

Engineering Taster Day at British Airways

On the 14th of December, a group of girls who are all interested in

Engineering attended a British Airways Engineering taster day.

Geetanjali Biswas, in Year 12, who attended the day, summarised the

experience:“The taster day provided us with a new perspective on aeronautical, design and

software engineering and the vast amounts of effort that goes into place to make

everything run smoothly and safely. For students aspiring to be engineers it is

already extremely difficult- even more so as a woman- however, our experience at BA

showed that at the end of the day, it doesn't matter who you are or how smart you are; it's not always your grades that

gets you places, it's your interests and your work ethic that drives you to your final

destination.”

Please find information below about the upcoming External Speaker talks in Science. Please speak to Mrs Hunter for further information: