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The school year of 2013-4 has been a busy and productive one so far. As shown by the range of sporting, musical and extra-curricular activities con-tained in this newsletter, Stanwell pupils are certainly making the most of all the opportunities they are offered both inside and outside school. Highlights of this term have been our wonderful production of Disney’s ‘Beauty and the Beast’, national success in the Young Enterprise scheme and the news that we have once again been placed in Band 1 by the Welsh Government’s school rankings. Many thanks to all the staff, pupils and parents who have worked to-gether to make these excellent achievements possible. I wish you all a peaceful and happy Christmas holiday. Mr D. Jones, Headteacher. Y mae campau’r flwyddyn academaidd 2013-14 gan ddisgyblion Stanwell yn drawiadol tu hwnt! Mae’n arbennig i weld y gweithgareddau all-gyrsiol di-ri yn yr ysgol a hefyd yn y gymuned. Rydym wedi mwynhau sawl uchafbwynt eleni, fel y sioe gerdd anhygoel‘Y Brydferth a’r Bwystfil’, llwyddiant cenedlaethol Menter yr Ifanc a’r newyddion ein bod ni unwaith eto wedi cael ein teliyngu â band 1 gan Lly-wodraeth Cymru. Hoffwn i gymryd y cyfle hwn i ddiolch i’n disgyblion, staff, rhieni, llywodraethwyr a ffrindiau’r ysgol am eu cefnogaeth eleni. Dymunaf wyliau hapus ac ymlaciol i chi gyd. Mr D. Jones, Pennaeth.

Greetings from the school

School Announcements The date of 2014’s PTA quiz will be Friday 31st January. This event is

one of the social highlights of the school year so gather your teams to-gether and register! The maximum number of members per team is 6 and entry costs £7 per head to include a buffet supper. Wine, beer and cider can be purchased on the night to accompany your meal. Please telephone main reception to reserve your team’s space—we look forward to seeing you there!

Parents and pupils are reminded that Monday 6th January is an INSET day.

Friday 20th December Last Day of TermCHRISTMAS HOLIDAYS

Monday 6th January INSET DAYTuesday 7th January First day of term for pupilsTuesday 28th January Year 11 Parents' EveningTuesday 4th February Year 9 Parents' EveningTuesday 11th February Year 12 Parents' EveningTuesday 18th February Year 11 Options EveningMonday 24th February HALF TERMTuesday 4th March Year 8 TEAMX Parents' EveningTuesday 11th March Year 8 WORKL Parents' EveningTuesday 1st April Year 8 Options EveningTuesday 8th April Year 10 Parents' EveningFriday 11th April Last Day of Term

EASTER HOLIDAYSMonday 28th April First Day of TermMonday 5th May Bank HolidayTuesday 6th May Year 7 TEAMX Parents' EveningTuesday 13th May Year 7 WORKL Parents' EveningMonday 26th May HALF TERMTuesday 1st July New Year 7 Parents' EveningWednesday 16th July Last day of term for pupils Thursday 17th July INSET DAYFriday 18th July INSET DAYMonday 21st July INSET DAY

Stanwell School

CALENDAR FOR 2013/14

Year Group Date Department Destination9 6th February Geography London

10, 11, 12, 13 21st February Skiing AustriaAll 21st February Art Venice9 February RE London8 6th March Welsh / French Disney Paris

10, 11, 12 15th March French Exchange12 20th March History London10 10th April History Berlin

12 & 13 10th April Economics, BiS, ICT New York8 & 9 14th April Skiing Austria7 & 8 April Art London

9 6th June PE Storey Arms9 26th June History France7 10th July French FranceAll 17th July Music Europe

In addition there will be day trips organised. Information will be sent home as dates are finalised

Proposed overnight trips January 2014 to July 2014

Stanwell School

School Holiday Dates

2013/14

2014/15

Eco-Schools

“Eco Stanwell Meetings Thursday at 3.00pm in F26”

Mrs J Laity

The Eco Stanwell committee has continued to work enthusiastically and effectively during the first term of this academic year. The dedicated members of the committee meet once a fort-night with the aim of improving and conserving both the school and local environments.

The students representing the Eco-Stanwell committee are listed below. Welcome to both old and new members, especially the younger Year 7 pupils who have joined the group since September 2013. The majority of the environ-mental activities, resources and inspiration comes from these committee members.

Environmental activities this term The pupils have completed a review of the

school environment for autumn 2013. This will be used to create an action plan for this coming year and will outline the areas

Support Eco StanwellEnergy Classification Chart Stanwell are

aiming to be at the B classification

which is the second most

efficient group

This is where we are

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Year Name

13 Dan Richards Danielle Carey

12 Sam Laity Phoebe Paley 

Harriet Blunden Rebecca Te Water Naude 

Megan Herritty Megan Wookey Emily Thomas

11 Lauren Rogers Lucy Bond 

Jessica Boland Tasha Smith 

Ellie Webster Katie Macleod

10 George Prickett Robert Harvey

Sean Mian 9 Robert Brown 

Michael Conway Harry Newman  

Clodagh McKechnie George Lush 

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the committee has identified as important environmental concerns at school. Update of Eco code. The present Eco-

Stanwell environmental code has rep-resented the school for quite a few years. The committee has decided a new more modern design is needed. As a result pupils throughout the school have been asked to create an updated Eco code. Some entries have been handed in following Eco week but there is still time to enter the competi-tion (deadline 10th January 2014). The image below shows the present design; can you create something that will show the aims and policies of a more environmentally friendly school?

Eco Week 2013—The title for this year was “Switch Off Fortnight”. This is a national event where individuals are encouraged to switch off unused items to help reduce electricity waste. Pupils at Stanwell participated in a number of activities to support this event, including assemblies, work-sheets and poster designing. The aim was to reduce the levels of electricity used during the month of November, the biggest month for electricity use at Stanwell. Updates on the results of this scheme will follow shortly.

7 Arianne Banks Enyala Banks Zoya Yousef Lucy Jones

VALE OF GLAMORGAN RECYCLING OF CHRISTMAS CARDS COMPETITION 2013/2014

Please bring in old, unwanted cards to F26

Deadline: Friday 10th January 2014 (first week back after the Xmas holidays)!

ECO-STANWELL MEMBERS WISH TO THANK YOU FOR YOUR CONTINUED SUPPORT.

Eco-Schools Mrs J Laity

“mixing well with other like minded young people”

Pictured is Clo-dagh McKechnie of Year 9 who was individual winner for most Christmas cards recycled in the county in Janu-ary 2013. Can you become a winner in 2014?

Projects for 2014 Development of the new conservation area

within the school. Initial work has begun on the designated wildlife area. This has been cleared and now needs to be created and estab-lished. Volunteers will be required during the spring months and if you feel you have some-thing to offer please contact committee mem-bers or Mrs Laity in F26.

Fairtrade fortnight: this occurs during the be-ginning of March-more information concern-ing the event will follow.

Duke of Edinburgh Award Scheme

. This year has already seen the Open Gold participants out on expeditions. They suc-cessfully navigated their way around Mid Wales for the 4 days to complete the expedi-tion section of the award. The participants must complete all the assessors evidence for their other sections too, including volunteer-ing, skills, physical and residential. This will then mean they get an invitation to Bucking-ham Palace! Well done to all those who com-pleted the expedition.

Over 180 Year 10 pupils are currently under-taking the Bronze award scheme. Due to such high numbers, the participants will be split into two groups for the expeditions and will need to attend the one day walk, one practice and one assessed expedition. Pupils must complete at least one section of their award prior to the overnight practice expedi-tion. The dates for expeditions for Bronze award holders are as follows:

1st February 2014(Cowbridge) 8th February 2014(Cowbridge)

12-13th June 2014

19-20th June 2014 26-27th June 2014

3-4th July 2014 The Silver award participants enrolled in Sep-tember of Year 11. All pupils continuing from the Bronze should have completed their bronze award on line and received a certificate. The Silver expedition dates are:

27-29th March 2014

3-5th April 2014 The Year 12 participants have also now en-rolled on the Gold Award. All pupils who at-tended the meeting have received a place on the gold award scheme. They will be looking forward to their first aid training starting in January. Participating pupils and their parents are re-minded that certification at any award level depends on pupils uploading evidence to their edofe accounts. I wish all our students a healthy and happy Christmas and New Year.

‘Over 180 Year 10 pupils are currently undertaking the Bronze award scheme’

Miss H Jenkins

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In October, a number of pupils from Years 7–10 took part in two day visit to London. They had opportunities to visit the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew and the Tate Modern, where they produced some superb studies in support of their course-work. The pupils also visited the Apollo Victo-ria Theatre where they got to watch a visually stunning production of ‘Wicked’. Pupils attending the KS3 Art Club on a Monday have been working hard to produce some beauti-ful studies for the David Shepherd Wildlife competition. They have produced a variety of work based upon the theme of ‘It’s Our World’ and have learnt how to draw a variety of differ-ent creatures. KS3 pupils have had the opportunity to enter the ‘Sail Art Competition’ promoted by Ben Ainslie and the Campaign for Drawing. A beautiful, vi-brant design by Isaac Singh of 8L has been sub-mitted to the next stage of the competition. On Tuesday 26th November, Dr Roberts visited the Art and Design Department to view the amazing pastel painting of Millais’ ‘Ophelia’ which was kindly donated to the school. This beautiful piece was accompanied by a very interesting story:

‘Back in 1999, by chance whilst out shopping, we came across a young 22 year old homeless man called Derek on the streets of Harrow in Northwest London. We had seen him a few times engaging in pavement pastel painting, then one Saturday he had a very large piece of paper taped to the pavement on which he had started to sketch an image from a small postcard that he had in his pocket. Although he had only just sketched the right corner of her face showing her right eye, we both instantly recognised the image, that of one of our favourite pre-Raphaelite paint-ing 'Ophelia' by Millais. In awe of the challenge that Derek had obviously set himself as a way to gain some income for his survival on the streets of London, we asked whether he would consider us supporting him with a view of buying the painting on completion. Surprised he said "sure, no one has ever asked me before!" We bought him lunch, left a few coins, shook hands, gave him our telephone number agreeing that there would be no time frame for its completion. We saw him periodically over the October and No-vember of 1999, and as the weather wors-ened, Derek slowly disappeared from the streets of Harrow. Time moved on, and in October 2003 we were selling our home in London to return home with new jobs and opportunities to Cardiff and Penarth. With literally 2 weeks to go until the actual move, the phone rang and it was Derek! Ophelia was completed and to our surprise Derek had been busking and painting his way around Europe for 3 years. We laughed, as parts of Ophelia had been painted in Madrid, Barcelona, Toulouse, Rome and Venice to name just a few. We took delivery of the finished painting as we were moving to Penarth. A dear friend kindly framed it, as Lyn in her own right is a master framer. Ophelia hung in our home for 8 years, and it was only when we simply did not have the wall space to show her in our new home that she finally went on to new and more creative pastures in the Art and Design department of Stanwell School! It is with sincere pleasure that we have been able to visit the school to see for ourselves Ophelia's final resting place’.

‘It is with sincere pleasure that we have been able to visit the school to see for ourselves Ophelia’s final resting place’.

Miss R Lewis

Department News

Astudiaethau Busnes The Business department has had a very busy term so far with workshops, fundrais-ing events and award ceremonies taking place. A group of pupils from Year 9 took part in the Think Big workshop in Cardiff. Pupils developed their communication and team-work skills in working with pupils from other schools to de-velop a website to pro-mote their ideas. Congratulations to Al-exandra Ruge-Hayes and Scott John who were members of the winning team (right). A selection of pupils from Years 10 and 12 have been taking part in the Young Enter-prise scheme. The scheme gives pupils the opportunity to set up and run their own businesses. The teams have been raising funds for their business ideas and for vari-ous charities by selling products at the school’s Open Day and, more recently, at the Young Enterprise Christmas Fair at IKEA, Cardiff. The teams were extremely professional and gained invaluable experi-ence whilst interacting with customers and learning to co-operate with each other.

Above and bottom left: members representing the 3 Young Enterprise teams who are competing this year. This year’s Young Enterprise teams will no doubt be inspired by Chelsea Mace (Year 13), Owain Osborne-Walsh and Amelia Rowlands (Year 11) who were successfully shortlisted for ‘PWC

YOUNG ENTERPRISE AWARD’ at the National IWA/Western Mail Business Awards 2013. Congratulations to Chelsea Mace, winner of the Young Enterprise Award.

“Together we can do so much”

Mr J Crook

Drama

“I just wanted to say thank you for inviting me in to school last week. I loved meeting your students and can you thank them for me for getting up and performing” (Shelley Norton)

After Christmas the Drama department will be holding KS3 Drama club on Fridays for pupils who may be interested in trying out acting, building up their confidence or simply wanting to make new friends and have fun. The Drama club will be open to all pupils in Year 7 and 8. Pupils in Year 7 have been working on basic Drama skills this term including use of dramatic devices, projection of voice and use of clear facial expressions and body language. Year 8 pupils have been working on challenging top-ics such as ‘Sam’s Story’. It is about a boy who decides to run away from home as a means to escape his problems. Pupils have applied a range of devices to explore the issue, and produced mature and meaningful work as a result. Year 9 pupils have created some fantastic work based on ‘Our Day Out’. Miss Davies and Mrs Matthews led a superb trip to a local nursing home; Year 10 pupils created and performed a Christmas-based piece of theatre. The trip was a great success and the Year 10 pu-pils worked very hard on the play. Well done!

The Drama department has had a very busy and productive term. Rehearsals for the sen-ior production of Beauty and the Beast took up a great deal of time and energy and per-formance week was an incredibly exciting time for the department. Well done to all of the cast, crew and staff who gave of their time so freely and worked so hard on the project since September.

Year 11 GCSE Drama classes have recently performed their Unit 1 Devised Drama ex-amination performances. Their hard work and commitment to making and performing interesting and dynamic stories really paid off with the positive results they achieved. Year 12 A-Level Drama and Theatre Stud-ies pupils enjoyed working with Shelley Norton from the Big Talent Agency in No-vember. The workshop was based on effec-tive audition techniques and text work, us-ing Joan Littlewood’s Oh What A Lovely War! as a basis for performance. Pupils found the workshop very beneficial and Seren Adamson went on to audition for Shelley outside of school and successfully joined the agency.

Miss S David

sample the produce! On the last day they visited ‘The Bread Show’. to watch how the professionals made crepes and pancakes before taking turns making their our own pancakes, adding scrummy fillings before eating them. A great trip! Visit to ‘Love Food, Hate Waste’ Year 10 food technology class had a great day out despite the weather. Pupils enjoyed demon-strations by TV chef, Richard Fox, on how to create interesting and tasty dishes from left-overs.

Cookery competition Congratulations all the competitors in the Year 9 and 10 cookery competition. Especially to Ellie Humphrey and Maisy Holland for joint first place in the school final. Both Ellie and Maisy will be going on to the local stages of the competition, where they will be competing against other school finalists.

Good luck girls!

It has been another great term in Design & Technology with many pupils taking advan-tage of the opportunities available. Boulogne trip Pupils from Year 8 had a fantastic trip to Boulogne in October. They visited a bou-langerie where they were able to get involved

in kneading and shaping the bread dough. They were also able to practise croissant roll-ing skills before getting to sample some of the boulangerie products, which was un-doubtedly the highlight of the trip! The following day they visited a confection-ers where they watched a demonstration of how sweets were crafted from boiling syrup and sampled the warm sweets they had just watched being made. They then journeyed into the countryside to visit a goat farm and see how the goats are reared and how the milk is used to make cheese. The trip also contained a visit to a chocolate factory where the pupils learned how chocolate is made and also how the cocoa beans were grown, har-vested and processed to become chocolate. Pupils also learned about the variety of prod-ucts that come from different parts of the co-coa tree before yet another opportunity to

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“sampling boulangerie products”

Mr N Gifford

helmets for Easter eggs and had a fabulous time.

Go4SET

For a third year running a Stanwell team of Year 9 stu-dents has participated in this introduction to engineering. Once again the team has been lucky enough to be mentored by a professional engineer from ARUP.

Six Engineering pupils attended an open day at Bristol Technology & Engineering Academy where they undertook a team challenge and learned about the ten week challenge they have entered.

The team were tasked with solving a real life engineering problem. The pupils had to work as a team and create a solution to the problem. They also had to build a model of their design. They were only given a map of the rail track, paper straws, masking tape and blue tack. The team won the day challenge, by setting a faster time than all the other schools. The team is now meeting weekly after school with an ex-ternal mentor and are designing an eco friendly classroom of the future.

Enthusiasm for engineering continues to grow in Stanwell with students participating in many engineering projects.

Engineering in Education Scheme (EESW)

Our participation in the scheme has run for over fifteen years now, and this year is no exception. Two teams from Year 12 have been linked with RWE NPower (Aberthaw) and are investigating environmental issues that staff at the plant are trying to address. Both teams have made a fantastic start and are looking forward to developing their ideas at the Cardiff University workshops during the last week of term.

Girls into Engineering

This year girls from Year 8 and 9 enjoyed partici-pating in the ‘Girls Into Engineering’ scheme which was based in Car-

diff University School of Engineer-ing.

During the day they built bridges, electric motors and crash

Design Technology Mr N Gifford

“ten week challenge they have entered”

Economeg a Gwleidyddiaeth Economics Visit to London

The spring term will see the Economics and Business Studies departments visiting Lon-don. This will be an invaluable opportunity for pupils to gain an understanding of the current economic climate, and the impact on business. The trip takes place over two days and includes a visit to Coca Cola head Office, Lloyds of London, The Bank of England and Wimbledon. In the evening the pupils will be entertained with dinner in Covent Garden and a visit to the London Dungeons. Economics in the News

This month saw the Chan-cellor George Osbourne making his Autumn state-ment. Year 11 students took part in a lively de-bate questioning the cur-

rent policies and produced a rival manifesto of their own.

“Making sense of every day decisions”

Government and Politics Government and Politics students have been extending their understanding of the democ-ratic processes in the UK and the USA. Also, a department twitter page has been set up(@Politics2XL) which many are following. Year 13 students will be sitting their A2 mod-ule (Politics of the USA) in January and they have taken a keen interest in US voting be-haviour, political parties and pressure groups. Several members of the class have given su-perb presentations, all focusing on key issues; examples include the possible 2016 Republi-can Presidential candidates, voting behaviour, turnout levels and party factions. They have also recently completed two debates. The first questioned whether there is a tangible voting behaviour in the USA or whether it is based mainly on short-term factors. The second de-bate explored the importance of primary elec-tions and the electoral college system. Best of luck for the examinations! Year 12 students have been examining whether the UK needs a written/codified con-stitution and whether the Prime Minister en-joys too much influence. They have also stud-ied factors which influence voting behaviour in the UK. These factors include primacy is-sues such as class, ethnicity and age as well as factors which include the role of the media. Students have also analysed the current posi-tion of the Electoral System in the UK. They have recently prepared for lively debate re-garding a possible reform of the current elec-toral system of FPTP to the Alternative Vot-ing System.

Mr J Crook/Mr G Penny

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Macbeth Production Year 11 pupils attended a theatre performance and workshop on Shakespeare’s ‘Macbeth’ on Tuesday 1st October. As part of the morn-ing workshop the director and actors discussed costumes, setting, delivering soliloquies and fight scenes in the play. It was a very interac-tive experience and our pupils asked some really insightful questions and took an ac-tive part in the discussion. During the after-noon session, they watched the same actors perform the whole play which will be really beneficial to them when writing their English Literature controlled assessment.

King Lear Lectures Twenty seven Year 13 English Literature stu-dents enjoyed Sovereign Education's 'King Lear' lectures that were held in Cardiff in No-vember. The speakers were extremely knowl-edgeable and enthusiastic and really helped the students to enrich and enhance their under-standing of this excellent Shakespeare play. The topics covered a huge range to inspire pu-pils, such as exploring the Fool's role, the kinds of madness in the play, human identity and the world of King Lear. It was a huge success and very enjoyable!

Young Writers’ Squad At the end of September, two Year 7 pupils were selected to take part in the Young Writ-ers’ Squad creative writing workshop in Cogan Primary School. While they were there, they were given advice from published authors as well as taking part in the Spooky setting work-shop, where they wrote a fantastic opening to a horror story. Both Harriet Marshall (7M) and Hywel Edwards-Sim (7E) said that they had an amazing time. 'It was really useful.' Harriet enthused. 'I was really able to use some amaz-ing adjectives to add some oomph to my set-tings.' Hywel agrees, stating: 'I was taught how to vary my sentence structure to add tension to my writing. I'd love to go to the next one!'

Open Day There were some fantastic wizarding activities available in the English department for Open Evening this year. There was plenty on offer; spell-binding games, mind-boggling magical quizzes, descriptive writing activities, and cer-tainly never a dull moment to give everyone a taste of Stanwell. Honestly, who would rather go to Hogwarts?

The Open Day ‘Spelling Bee’ was also a great success. Many pupils faced the challenge and won prizes in their age group. Creative Writing Led by visiting speaker Mr S Chapman, Year 9 pupils continued with their creative writing project this term. Sixteen, Year 9 pupils sup-ported Year 6 pupils from Evenlode Primary Schools with their novels.

“pupils asked some really insightful questions”

Mrs M Williams

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“Geography is everywhere and everything”

As Geography is all around us, the department has taken every opportunity this term to explore the world beyond the classroom.

In September, Year 10 Geographers took part in a day of interactive hazard management provided by the British Cartographic Society in association with the Geographical Association. During the day, entitled ‘The Restless Earth’, the pupils mapped and managed the Japanese earthquake and subsequent Tsunami using GIS strategies and

Ipad technology. Some of the winners are shown above.

Year 8 visited the Cadbury World factory in Bournville. Pupils were given a talk on the economic value of the chocolate industry, relating to the location and manufacturing of products in the developing and developed world. This gave the pupils the opportunity to discuss the issues and ethics of Fair Trade. After their talk the pupils explored the factory, sampling many varieties of chocolate, getting involved with interactive

exhibits and learning how all cocoa beans in the UK come from Ghana.

During the half term holiday, a selection of pupils from Years 10 and 11 visited the Bay of Naples, experiencing the many geographical features that the physical and human landscapes had to offer.

The students had the opportunity to see for themselves several locations of geographical interest that currently relate to their studies. These included a visit to the Island of Capri, a walk around Sorrento, exploration of the ruins of Pompeii and Herculaneum, a climb to the top of Vesuvius, in the Vesuvius National Park, a tour of underground Naples and a visit to the sulphur fields at Solfatara.

Mrs H Jarman

Geography

‘Geography is important because we've got the whole world in our hands!’

During the Italian evenings pupils delighted in a range of activities from making and eating Italian pizza, beach volleyball and completing a quiz (where the tie breaker was decided in a dance off between the Year 11 boys!) During November, the Year 12 AS Geography students went to the Field Studies Centre at Nettlecombe Court near Taunton. During their stay they completed two fieldwork investigations as required for their WJEC syllabus. The physical investigation explored the effectiveness of flooding on the River Tone in Taunton, while the human investigation looked at rural settlement in the villages of Exford and Wheldon.

It was certainly an adventurous experience for the 36 pupils and 3 members of staff!

On the 9th of December, 150 Year 7 pupils visited the Field Studies Discovery Centre at

Margam Park. Whilst at the centre, pupils completed river studies techniques and team building games; an enjoyable day was had by all!

For Open Day the department focused their efforts on the theme of Rainforest Sensations in F22 and geographical games in F25. Activities included taste challenges, interactive quizzes and shake and sniff games. The displays attracted a lot of visitors and there were many questions about the subject, including the content of the GCSE and A level courses. During the term Mr J John has been working with the Year 7 and 8 geographers in in Geography club. The focus has been building a model of a volcano, here is the result so far: Keep up to date with the latest news from the geography department by following us on Twitter: Stanwell Geography@GEOG2XL

Mrs H Jarman

Hanes It has been another excep-tionally busy and eventful

term in the History Department. Highlights have included the October Open Evening, where pupils - and parents alike - had the op-portunity to take part in several activities, in-cluding archery, code-breaking, a crime-scene investigation on famous historical murders and the chance to enjoy an art exhibition on World War I. A good time was had by all. History Club has continued to attract many interested and enthusiastic historians. All of the members have been eager to learn about History outside the classroom and have thor-oughly enjoyed activities such as castle build-ing and role-play.

(Members of History Club re-enacting a scene from Horrible Histories!)

History pupils have studied a lot of exciting key issues this term. In Year 7 pupils have been learning about the Battle of Hastings and who became King of England in 1066. They are looking forward to studying how William the Conqueror overcame his problems and life in the Medieval period. Year 8 have enjoyed studying all about the Tudors during this Autumn term.

Topics have included Henry VIII and his six wives, the Elizabethan Religious Settlement and The Spanish Armada. In addition to learning in the classroom, 44 very excited Year 8 pupils also visited London in December. They thoroughly enjoyed their

visit to the Tower of London, espe-cially seeing the place where Anne Boleyn and Kathe-rine Howard were executed. They also had a great time exploring the cul-tural side to Lon-don; especially vis-

iting Covent Garden and seeing War Horse in the West End. Year 9 have begun the GCSE course with a highly impressive attitude and have been look-ing at key events in the battle for civil rights in the USA. Events studied have included the Montgomery Bus Boycott and the Importance of Martin Luther King. To reward them for an excellent term’s work, 119 Year 9 students re-cently attended a private showing of The Butler which helped them better understand the civil rights movement. Continuing on from their superb progress last year, Year 10 have been studying the Rise of Hitler and how he transformed Germany from a democracy into a dictatorship. Year 11 are currently examining Racial Issues in the USA, 1929—2000. Topics have in-cluded WWII and the influence of individuals like Martin Luther King Jr and Malcolm X. They should also be proud of the very impres-sive exam results they achieved in the summer.

“History Club has continued to attract many interested and enthusiastic historians”

Mr G Morgan

Technoleg Gwybodaeth

sheet skills already and outstanding exam results were achieved by Rebeca Pires-Jenkins, Tara Robinson, Andrew Te Water Naude and Anna Webster who all achieved full marks.

Most recently, Year 8 pupils have been excitedly building their own computer games using Mission Maker. Many pupils are very enthusiastic and it has given everyone the chance to show their crea-tive side. After School Clubs KS4 Homework club is up and running on Wednesday evenings. We are encouraging pupils to attend these sessions specifically if you miss lessons or need to catch up with any coursework that is outstanding. Some pupils have been making improvements to their Unit 1 GCSE coursework, most notably Harry Griffiths who has already improved one whole grade from his interim mark. Don’t leave it ‘til the last minute, come and do little but often in the IT rooms each week! From December 5th, we are running a new club for Year 7 pupils. Code club will teach pupils programming skills in a fun environment. Pupils will earn certificates for each new level reached.

Mr P Davies

Sixth Form Sixth Form computing students have been de-veloping a computer program this term to regularly test pupils’ spelling ability. Of par-ticular note are the systems developed by Ben Howe and Wei Haw Ong. Pupils in Year 13 have been developing their multimedia and graphics skills. Congratulations to Liam John and Wei Haw Ong who had near perfect scores in the mock exams in December. They have produced some excellent work so far this term of particular note are Sian Moss and Marco Sun who have developed some very professional graphics work. Key Stage 4 Year 10 pupils have been introduced to com-puter graphics through the Artwork and Imag-ing topic this term. Joseph Valek has worked hard during all lessons to produce excellent 3D character designs that demonstrates a vari-ety of well thought-out design techniques. Year 11 Option pupils are currently working in class on their Game Creation Unit, which is being enjoyed by all. Some pupils already have ideas for interesting game, these include Will Macleod, Kieran McGavin and Joshua McKenzie. Key Stage 3 It’s been an exciting and busy start to the year for Key Stage 3 pupils. Year 7 pupils have settled in well and have enjoyed their lessons in which they have been learning about their school email, Moodle and practical issues such as the effects of cyber bullying. Out-standing performances in their test came from: Enyala Banks, Emily Griffiths and Rowan Higgins. Pupils are also preparing themselves for a spreadsheet exam after the Christmas break. Good luck Year 7! Year 8 have been examined on their spread-

Games Design with Year 8 pupils

“ programming skills in a fun environment”

Mr A Meddins

Mathemateg It has been another busy term

in the Maths department with the main focus being the November GCSE exams. Home-work Clubs on both Monday and Thursday evenings were well attended and hopefully these extra sessions, alongside the past paper revision during lesson time, will prove fruit-ful - fingers crossed for early January when the results come in! A special thank you to members of the 6th form who also helped out during these after school sessions as part of their community participation for their Welsh Baccalaureate. Selected A-level pupils took part in the ‘Senior UKMT Maths Challenge’ in Novem-ber. Both Balaji Krishna (Year 12) and Sheng Bei (Year 13) achieved Gold certifi-cates. Ieuan Jones, Tomos Davies (both Year 13) Leo Tucker, Elis Vandyck, Rho-dri Jones, Rebecca Te Water Naude, Adam Jones and Jack Davies (all Year 12) achieved Silver certificates and Keiran Brit-ten, Craig McKellar, Sion Thomas (Year 13), Stavros and Tato Katsikeas, Jack Powell, Kathleen Ahearne and Jay Kapu-ria (all Year 12) achieved Bronze certifi-cates. Our congratulations go to all of these (pictured below).

A number of the 6th formers named previously as well as Luke Morley, Lukas Moser, Suzie Collins, Liam Fisher (all Year 12), Harry Fudge and Dan Soltys (both Year 13) took part in the Glamorgan 6th form quiz - all thor-oughly enjoyed the experience. For the first time ever in September, a number of Year 11 to 13 girls entered the Girls Maths Olympiad (pictured below). Special mention should be given to Katie MacLeod (Year 11 - 3rd from left) who got a Distinction.

Once again the ‘Maths Mindbenders’ on Open Day was a great success. Many current and potential pupils enjoyed the five-puzzle treas-ure hunt around the Department. Those that completed the puzzles received a certificate and a prize. This year, we also ran a Simon Says competition which was won by Jessica Jones from Victoria Primary - da iawn ti! Finally, the KS3 homework club has proved to be popular again with large numbers of pupils attending. Also, another big thank you to members of the 6th form who have been as-sisting in Maths lessons, again as part of their community service. Your efforts are greatly appreciated!

“Year 11 to 13 girls entered the Girls Maths Olympiad for the first time”

Y Cyfryngau a Ffilm

The Media & Film department has had another successful year in terms of our pupils’ attain-ment. The summer brought some excellent re-sults where our students performed brilliantly in both GCSE and A Level examinations. We are now in our third year of teaching Media Studies from Year 9 and our new cohort of stu-dents are more enthusiastic than ever. Pupils who have started particularly well are: Morgan Jones, Eiman Khan, Zain Yousef and Maddie Lloyd. One of our Year 13 students, Dan Skentelbery, has established the Media Club, which gives pu-pils from Years 7 and 8 the opportunity to get a taste of what Media Studies is like. They look at a diverse array of media platforms and texts such as TV Drama, for which they produced story-boards for cliff-hangers with excellent examples coming from Jake Finch, Ben Hanson and To-mos Hughes. The students got a chance to use Adobe Photoshop making film posters: Tom Croll and Ruben Jones produced outstanding work. You may have seen Amy Hann, Rowan Higgins, Dylan Moss and Phoebe Quinlan dur-ing open day producing their very own two min-ute short film within four hours!

As a department we have also supported Stanwell’s senior production of ‘Beauty and the Beast’-providing poster and programme. As you can see from the pictures below, cast members rehearsed in earnest for some time!

Years 10 & 11 have been working hard on their con-trolled assessments and have just sat their end of year exams. Pupils of note so far are: Lucy Rich-ards (10); Anton Elliott (10); Ella Robertson (10); Emily Geen (10); Timothy Burns (10); Joseph Coole (11); Georgina Bartlett (11); Joe Andres (11); Sasha Horrobin (11); Erin Clissold (11); Samuel Singh (11) and Amy Gifford (11). Ruth Blenkinsop has also joined us from Australia and has made a great start in Year 10. AS Film Studies has a larger than usual cohort this year and they are readying themselves to make some amazing films in the new year. AS Media students have recently sat an end of year internal exam and are about to embark on their first piece of course-work. A2 Film and Media students’ preparations for their final exams in May are well under way.

‘The students got a chance to use Adobe Photoshop to make film posters.’

Mr I O’Rourke

Ieithoedd Modern Open Day

One of the highlights of the term was the ever–popular Europa Café on Open Day. There was a fabulous selection of cakes, kindly baked by our wonderful students. The “Decorate a cup cake” competition took place again and the entries were great and very creative but first prize went to: 1st Prize – Juli-ette Cavaye (9R) for her beret-wearing cup-cakes!

2nd Prize – Lucy Jones (7E) for her most origi-nal “burger” cakes.

3rd Prize – Niamh Sweeney (9T), Aimee Lintern (9L) for their amus-ing cakes! Highly commended to: Megan Doran (Y12), Kathryn Morgan (9A), Katherine Peach (9X), Seren Mirza-

Davies (9X), Charlotte Peach (7T) and Nia Isherwood (7X).

In the large cake category, first prize went to: Ben Croll (9T), Annie Higgins (9M), George Lush (9X) for their splendid Deutschland cake.

2nd Prize went to: Seren Mirza-Davies (9X) and Jade Eastwood (9A) for their col-ourful fish cake.

3rd Prize went to: Kathryn Morgan (9A), Katherine Peach (9X) for their patriotic German flag cake!

Highly commended: Harry Newman (9L)

We also had a languages quiz which was won by Guillaume Bigsby. (Y8) Many thanks to all staff, pupils and, of course, par-ents for helping us out by either baking or visiting the café.

“...the ever-popular Europa café on Open day”

Mrs T Davis

MFL French Club

Following the successful introduction of the Spelling Bee last year, the current Year 7 pu-pils have risen to the challenge of learning the alphabet and the fifty French words for Stage 1 of the competition. The aim of the competition is to increase knowledge of the vocabulary in a fun but competitive way. The class competitions take place soon and the two class winners will then go forward to compete in the Stanwell final in the Spring Term. We are hoping to then take a team to compete in the regional final where the Stan-well champions will test their knowledge against other local schools. A group of dedi-cated Year 7 pupils have attended an after school French club on Monday to improve their skills and to join in various games ac-tivities that have helped them learn their French.

Max Baker (7K), Ethan Millinship (7R), Joseph Doust (7L), Adrian Antkiewicz (7E), Deiniol Knight (7L) Daniel Cozma (7W) with their teachers- Miss Cross and Mrs Symonds at French club.

German Club

This year we also have seen the re-launch of the Year 7 German Club under the guidance of Mrs Worman. Pupils are getting a head start for Year 8 by learning German words through all sorts of games and activities.

Stanwell-Staufen German Exchange

Plans are underway for the German Exchange. In July the German pupils will be visiting Penarth. They will be attending classes and we have lots of other exciting activities planned, including a visit to Oakwood! The exchange is

currently in its 32nd year and offers many pu-pils the unique opportunity to experience an-other culture first hand.

“The French club hopes to be successful in the Spelling bee again this year.”

Mrs T Davis

Megan Strong (7O) and Ciara Hay (7T)

MFL Paris Trip

On the international front, Mrs Symonds will be taking a group of 55 Year 8 pupils to Paris in March next year. This is a joint venture with the Welsh department to sample the St. David’s Day celebrations which take place in Disneyland Paris.

Pupils will also be enjoying a boat trip down the Seine, a visit to the Eifel Tower and to the cathedral of Notre Dame.

Language Ambassador Ex-Stanwell pupil, Matt Levy has been work-ing with the MFL department. He is currently studying French and Translation at Cardiff University and is acting as one of their lan-guage ambassadors. This involves him helping out in various French classes and he has even taken a few lessons himself, including teaching the subjunctive to Year 13! He also talked to pupils about the advantages of studying for-eign languages. He is going to begin teacher training next year and all staff agree that with his diligent attitude and enthusiasm, he will make a great teacher and be an asset to any department.

Pupil Achievements

Lots of pupils in French and German have been working hard this term and we have awarded a record number of merit points and certificates. These pupils have then been en-tered into the monthly raffle draws and there have been lots of lucky winners. The December winner are: In German: Y8-Maddy Carver Y9-Caitlin Duggan Y10-Seren Lewis Y11-Chandni Kerai Y12-Sam Hills Y13-Emma Berry In French: Y7-Finley Stevens Y8-Stanley Murphy-Johns Y9-Idrees Maskeen Y10-Ellie Humphrey Y11-Ffion Wood Joyeux Noël and einen guten Rutsch ins Neu-jahr to you all!

“We have awarded a record number of merit points and certificates.”

Mrs T Davis

Paris 2012

Cerddoriaeth

The Christmas term is traditionally a busy one for the Music department and this year is no exception. We continue to make use of the excellent facilities available to us and these have been further improved by the refurbish-ment of C2, one of the main teaching spaces. Extra-curricular activities continue to flourish and attendance has been excellent at Junior Orchestra, Senior Jazz, Junior Girls’ Choir, Senior Girls’ choir, Barbershop and String Group. Please see a member of the Music de-partment if you’d like to get involved with any of these groups when they recommence in 2014.

Senior Production – Beauty and the Beast

The preparations for the magical senior pro-duction of ‘Beauty and the Beast’ occupied us all from September onwards with rehearsals taking place throughout the term. The produc-tion was a real team effort with the final week of the show seeing several departments, staff and hundreds of pupils working together, sup-ported by senior management, to produce a performance that has joined the school’s rich tradition of musical theatre.

The show was cast in September proving an extremely difficult task for all those involved due to the highly impressive standard of audi-tions. The show ran from December 16th-19th (inclusive). The music of ‘Beauty and the Beast’ proved most enjoyable to rehearse.

Once more the orchestra, made up almost ex-clusively of Stanwell pupils from Year 8 to Year 13, relished the challenge of performing parts written for professional musicians.

The leader of the orchestra, Year 13 pupil Robert Cavaye commented “It’s an honour to lead this fabulous group of musicians. I’m sure the show will be spell-binding”.

Rock Academy Wales

The Rock Academy Wales initiative has gath-ered real momentum since beginning at Stan-well in 2012 with students performing several local gigs. If you are interested in developing your musi-cal talents in a slightly different way, see a member of the Music department for further details.

GCSE Performing Arts Wales Millennium Centre Trip

“magical senior production”

Ms K Lomas

Music

Year 9 and 10 GCSE Performing Arts stu-dents took part in a series of workshops at the Wales Millennium Centre in an event run by the company ‘Creative Choices’. The event was designed to give students practical ‘hands on’ experience of career paths within the in-dustry such as lighting design, stage manage-ment and marketing. The experience also links to units studied as part of their course on employment within the Performing Arts in-dustry.

Students were even lucky enough to be treated to a lunch-time concert by opera singer and former Daybreak ‘Woman of the Year’ Kate Woolveridge as part of the day.

Students were unanimous in their whole-hearted appreciation of the experience which will, we are sure, prove to be beneficial in their future studies.

“The department will continue to build links with this exciting new venue”

Ms K Lomas

Penarth Pier Pavillion

The Music department has had the privilege to be involved in two events taking place at the newly re-opened Penarth Pier Pavilion. Deputy Head Boy Zac Ghazi-Torbati co-ordinated a group of musicians that included sixth form students Alasdair Cavaye, Robert Cavaye, Rhodri Jones and Tabitha Minns who provided musical items for an event held at the impressive new building to promote tourism in the Vale of Glamorgan. Well done to all involved!

The Junior Girls’ Choir and the String Group will also be performing at the venue on Sunday 22nd December as part of the Pa-villion’s ‘Advent Sundays’ programme of events. The chosen repertoire will include popular music as well as more traditional festive items. The concert will take place from 3 o’clock onwards and admission is free. Mince pies and other seasonal refresh-ments will be available for audience mem-bers.

It is hoped that the department will continue to build links with this exciting new local venue.

Music

Year 13 Concert Trips

Year 13 Students have attended two trips this term. The first to St David’s Hall to see a per-formance given by the BBC National Orches-tra of Wales which featured Shostakovich’s 8th Symphony which links with one of their A2 set works. The second trip was to Cardiff University to see the Carducci string quartet perform a series of pieces again linked to their examination.

As well as being enjoyed by pupils, the con-certs also gave students valuable insight into the music they are studying and will hopefully give their preparations for their final exam an extra boost!

Pupil News

Year 9 pupil Emily Alford was recently suc-cessful in gaining the role of choirboy in Welsh National Opera’s autumn production of ‘Tosca’.

As well as performances in the WNO’s home venue of the Wales Millennium Centre, Emily has also been on tour with the company, per-forming in venues from Llandudno to South-ampton. Emily hopes to one day forge a ca-reer in the opera world and we wish her every success, well done Emily!

“The Music department will be taking their talents on tour”

Ms K Lomas

Music Department Tour 2014!

The Music department will be taking their talents on tour in July 2014 when a group of instrumentalists and singers will be travel-ling to the beautiful city of Paris to give a series of concerts and see the sights.

The trip is being expertly organised by Mr Sambell; watch this space for further details.

Music in the Vale 2013

Stanwell played host to the annual ‘Music in the Vale’ contest for young musicians on the 23rd and 24th November.

Despite fierce competition, Year 10 pupil Paul Monaghan won an award for ‘Most Promising Performance’ in the Intermediate Singer category.

The school was delighted to host the awards and the organisers remarked favourably on the facilities available.

Astudiarthau Corfforol

Football

Years 7, 8, 10 and 11 teams have all pro-gressed to the second round of the Cardiff and Vale cup. They all made at least the quarter finals last year and are all aiming to go at least one round better this time.

Strong performances to date have been from Year 8 who beat Barry with Lucas Murray and Toby Dyer leading by example. The year 10 team also beat Barry in a close match, where they came back from 2-0 down to win 3-2; Harry Williams and Owen Lloyd put in strong performances within a talented team.

Year 9 have recently made a good start to their league campaign beating St. Richard Gwyn 5-2. Harry Smith and Jordan Bir-chall provided outstanding performances.

Cross Country

The cross country season has started quickly this year with a surge in participation and commitment to the Friday training sessions held at school. Many of the pupils have en-joyed the Cardiff and Vale races and a number of pupils have joined local clubs and are regu-larly racing all over South Wales

Rhys Jones (Year 9) has shown continued commitment to training, finishing 1st in his county races and 6th on the Welsh Schools competition in Brecon where he was also rac-ing against pupils in Year 10. There have been some excellent individual and team results this season with the girls’ U13 team coming 2nd in the South Wales schools competition and the U13 boys finishing 3rd. Recently at the Welsh School cross country competition the same girls’ team came 1st!

“excellent individual and team results”

Mr I Summerfield

Netball Year 7 Year 7 netball club has proved popular again this year with over 40 girls attend-ing after school club on a Monday. Both 7A and 7B have had a number of matches with the A team winning com-fortably against Bro Morgannwg, Llant-wit and St.Richard Gwyn. Players of the match have included Hannah Williams and Ophelia Scott. The B team has also started the season well with a draw against S.Richard Gwyn and wins against Llantwit and Bro Morgannwg. Katy Matthews and Olivia Tyso have been named Players of the match on a number of occasions. The Year 7 team is cer-tainly one to keep an eye out for as the season continues with a high standard of netball being shown. Year 8 The Year 8 team continues to train hard and make progress. Both the A and B team are yet to win a match but have shown improvement in their skills and are working hard in training.

These pupils represented Stanwell in a competitive environment and all can be proud of their achievements. Well done to: Louis Spencer, Dan Jones, James Dawson, Callum Russell, Rhys Jones, Matthew Dawson and Elliot Richards.

Physical Education

“combines aspects of Netball and Touch Rugby”

Mr I Summerfield

The 8B team played in a recent B tournament held at Talybont where they played a number of teams from Cardiff and the Vale. They fin-ished 15thout of 22 schools. Players of the match have included Sarah Pascoe and Han-nah Fletcher. Year 9 The Year 9 team have also continued to train hard and despite losing matches against St. Richard Gwyn and Llantwit, are working well together. Congratulations to Emily Skinner and Lauren Stephens who were selected for the Cardiff and Vale development squad. Year 10 Year 10 have started the season very well with a win against Bro Morgannwg and St. Richard Gwyn. They are playing some skilful netball and with consistent shooting from Rebecca Humpage, Jordan Thomas and new addition to the team Lucie Dyer, are another team to watch this season. Before Christmas, the girls will play in the Year 10 tournament and hope-fully will play as well as they have been. Year 11 Despite losing two of their opening matches, the Year 11 team are demonstrating some lovely netball and improving every match. With the Year 11 tournament fast approaching, the girls will be hoping to do well again this year. They have been a strong team throughout their time at Stanwell and have shown great commitment over the years.

County Netball Congratulations to Annabelle Birch-Hurst (Year 10), Tizzie Birch-Hurst (Year 11) and Laura Gale (Year 12) who were all selected for the county netball squad. Annabelle has also been selected for the Wales U15 squad.

Senior Tennis The Senior Boys tennis team recently played in the South Wales round of the AEGON tourna-ment and beat Ysgol Strade. They now face Llandovery College for a place in the next round of the South West region. 5x60 5x60 is a programme that offers pupils the chance to participate in exercise for 60 minutes 5 times a week. This term pupils have enjoyed activities such as boys’ basketball, girls’ foot-ball, street dance and yoga as well as some taster sessions and competitions!

Atomic Touch

In September, 70 year 7 pupils were provided with the chance to try a new sport created by the Welsh Touch Association. Atomic Touch is a fast paced, mixed gender, team sport that combines aspects of Netball and Touch Rugby. Next term there will be the opportunity for the school to win a spot in the National Atomic Touch Championships and play as a representa-tive of the Cardiff Blues! If you would like to give Atomic Touch a go there are sessions running for years 8 & 9 every Friday lunch time and sessions after school for all KS3 pupils on Thursdays during the week one time table.

Physical Education

Squash In October, Squash Wales kindly provided over 100 pupils from Years 7 & 8 with the chance to try Squash. All of the pupils had a great time and came away with some new- found skills. If you’d like to try Squash there is a new Community Club running out of Penarth Leisure Centre every Friday evening from 5:45pm. Table Tennis 8 boys from Years 7 and 10 were selected from the Table Tennis club to represent Stan-well at the Vale 5x60 Table Tennis Tourna-

ment. With Year 7 winning 15 out of 20 games and Year 10 winning 17 out of 20 games, both teams finished as clear winners! Both teams will now go on to compete in the regional competition.

Badminton 8 pupils from Years 9&10 represented the school in the Vale 5x60 Badminton Tourna-ment. Congratulations to both the boys’ and girls’ teams who came 3rd and 1st respec-tively. On the 4th December, 8 Year 7&8 pu-pils will also have the chance to compete. We wish them the best of luck in all of their games!

Girls’ Basketball Year 7 & 8 girls have had a fantastic start to the season this year obtaining numerous wins

“came away with some new-found skills”

against St Cyres. Their commitment and enthusiasm to participate and improve their skills has been outstanding and all the girls have worked extremely hard. Year 9, 10 and 11 girls have also had a good start with a number of successful wins against Cwm Rhymni and St Cyres. They are now look-ing forward to competing against different schools in January. Year 9 girls have also been entered into the Welsh Schools Bas-ketball competition and are eagerly await-ing their fixtures. Special mention goes to; Rebecca Eger-strom who has made a superb contribution to all games this year and also to Rosina Peterson, Hannah Ross and Connie Shah. Well done to all teams! Sports Award Ceremony On 27th September, Stanwell held its sec-ond annual Sports Award Ceremony to celebrate the many sporting achievements of pupils in the academic year 2012-3. Our guest speaker for the night was Ashleigh Crowter, sports correspondent for BBC Wales and the presentation he gave was very entertaining. Pupils received a variety of awards for their contributions to school sport, with over 350 pupils being com-mended in all. Congratulations again to everyone who took part.

Mr I Summerfield

Physical Education

“powerful and skilful players in the side”

Mr I Summerfield

Rugby

Year 7 It has been a very good start to the rugby year for a large group of pupils. The group has trained really well and are starting to play a very good and expansive style of rugby. Aled Rees, Drew Musa, Ryan Allen and Daniel Hayes have been the backbone of a very good set of backs. The forwards are now coming together and proving to be a very ro-bust unit and are well led by Evan Lloyd, Max Crandon and Will Hardy. It is still early days but if the group continue to work hard in training their hard work could see them reach the Vale final in May. Year 8 The Year 8 rugby team are again proving to be an excellent all round side with a number of exciting new players. Ben Hayes, Mat-thew Barber, Ben Hanson and Will Hall have been ever present in the back division in all games. The forwards are continuing to make progress and are proving to be a real handful in the games, the side is well led by George Cowley who has had excellent sup-port from Ellis Smith and Cai Lloyd.

Year 9 The Year 9 rugby team has had a very good start to the season, winning 4 out of their 5 matches against teams such as Ysgol Bro Morgannwg, Barry Comprehensive and Llantwit Major. The team, captained by Geraint Williams can always be relied on to put in a good performance no matter who the opposition are! With an abundance of power-ful and skilful players in the side this could be a very promising season for Year 9.

Year 10 So far the Year 10 rugby team are unde-feated in the Vale league with only 2 matches left. Captained by Spencer Robin-son, the team seems to have gelled this sea-son, producing some outstanding perform-ances particularly against strong teams such as Ysgol Bro Morgannwg and Cowbridge School. Many players in this side have also repre-sented the Vale of Glamorgan Schools rugby team on a regular basis this year. They include Joseph Short (c), Rhys Jones, Spencer Robinson, Owen Lloyd, Morgan Rees, Joshua James, Basil Crack, James Price, William Gale, Alex Drake and Rhys Picton.

Year 11 Year 11 have had an unfortunate start to the season having 3 teams cancel matches against them, however they still managed to progress to the second round of the Welsh Cup in which they lost to a well drilled Whitchurch side. Dan Watts (Capt.), Soli-man Kahn, Edward Drake and Caleb Docking have also represented the Senior Rugby Team and Cardiff Blues U16s. Senior Rugby Although they have suffered with many in-juries including to their Captain Harry Roberts, the Senior Rugby Side (now cap-tained by Sam Sellick) have maintained their undefeated run of 19 matches in the

Physical Education Mr I Summerfield

Cardiff and Vale Mid-week league and have progressed to the second round of the Welsh Cup where they will travel to Porth to play Ysgol Gyfun Cymmer. Many play-ers in the team are also playing at represen-tative level; these include Sam Laity – Crawshays 1st XV, Matthew Holder – Cardiff Blues U18s and Joel Ringer – Car-diff Blues U18s and Wales U18s.

Gymnastics

Well done to all of our gymnasts who rep-resented the school in the Welsh Schools’ Novice Competition at the National Sports Centre. Many congratulations to all of our competitors, for many of them it was their first competition experience. Our boys’

team consisting of Jake Carr, Dafydd Morgans and Ieuan Murray, performed extremely well and achieved 3rd place, bringing home bronze medals. Special mention to Chloe Poole and Chloe Fletcher who have assisted with the club this year. Their help and support continues to be greatly appreciated.

Trampolining A number of our pupils represented the school in trampolining recently in the Welsh Schools’ Trampolining Competition at the National Sports Centre. We had numerous teams and individual competitors in the beginners, novice and elite categories. Well done to all of our pupils who took part, they did extremely well and for many this was also the first time that they had ever competed. Special mention to Miss Lane who has assisted with the club on a Monday evening and who has given up her own time on the weekend to assist with judg-ing on the day. Her support continues to be appreciated.

U13 Beginners’ Team Mia Gordon-Davies, Alina Ovcharenko, Alys Price U15 Girls Novice A Team Alisha Marsh, Eva McWilliam, Beth Mac-Millan U15 Girls Novice B Team Alice Bright, Francine Couzens, Elin Mat-thews

Special mention to Ieuan Murray, Taiya Jones, Bethan Woodley and Kelli Poole who have successfully made it through to the zonal round of the competition in Loughborough early in the new year. We wish them every success. On behalf of the club we would like to thank the coaches at Caerau Vale Trampoline club for their support leading up to the competition and for giving up their time on the day to pro-vide judges and marshals on behalf of the school teams.

“Cardiff Blues and Wales U18s”

Seicoleg

Psychology

Year 12 students have been studying Ap-proaches in Psychology and, as part of the Cognitive Approach, produced some excellent animations and videos giving examples of at-tributions and explaining the complex con-cepts behind it. The Department was particu-larly impressed with the work produced by Catrin Morgan, Ellie Munro, Alice Not-tingham and Tori Williams.

Year 13 have been studying Research Meth-ods and have carried out a number of interest-ing investigations into a range of aspects of behaviour including personality, memory and even mobile phone usage. The results were then analysed and presented to the rest of the class. Alongside this, students have delivered presentations on a range of fascinating Psy-chology topics as part of their Welsh Bacca-laureate qualification. Luke Waddon’s pres-entation on Social Psychology applied to the London riots was particularly impressive.

A number of Year 13 students have also been busy preparing their UCAS applications to apply to University to study Psychology. We are delighted that so many students will be continuing their studies in the subject beyond this year.

Our Student Voice group met again this term and gave us some useful feedback and ideas about Psychology lessons. As a result of some of their suggestions the Department will be starting a new discussion group next term with the aim of exploring topics from outside the specification in more depth.

In September, the Psychology Department moved into its own suite. This has created a base for the Department and the opportunity to create new displays and use brand new ICT fa-cilities.

Health and Social Care

Students of Health and Social Care have been privileged to welcome a number of visitors into lessons this term to talk about their work in a range of Health, Social Care and Early Years settings. The Year 12 students have been visited by Early Years professionals from a local pri-mary school and childminders as they complete their coursework on early years provision in the local area. Year 13 students welcomed a visitor from a local residential home to share informa-tion about their work and the students were also invited in for a visit next term. Such visits help the students gain a real insight into how what they are learning about in lessons is applied in a real care setting.

“Year 12 students...produced some excellent animations and videos”

Miss K Hall

Addysg Grefyddol

Open Day The RE Department had a steady stream of visitors during the evening. Artefact displays provided a colourful background and visitors enjoyed taking part in the quizzes with many adding to the “What are your Christmas tradi-tions?” board.

Making a difference Year 10 pupils have raised funds for Poon-cholai children’s home this year, and it was interesting for visitors to see the range of pub-licity material promoting the work of Poon-cholai produced by Stanwell students and pre-sented in the wall displays in the department area. Stanwell pupils have raised enough money to continue sponsoring the two pupils we have supported for the last 5 years and with the ad-ditional money collected we have sent Christ-mas presents for the children.

Above are some of the some of the Year 10 pupils who raised money this term for Poon-cholai Children’s Home. The following photos are of the two pupils sponsored by Stanwell. The first photo is of Pravenkumar and the sec-ond is of Essakiyammal. We look forward to hearing from them after they receive their Christmas gifts and cards which were also pur-chased from the money raised.

RE Club Over the last few weeks, members of the RE club have been working very hard preparing Christmas decorations ready to decorate our Christmas tree at St Augustine's Annual Christ-mas Tree Festival. This year, we are focusing on the idea of Christmas around the world for our entry. We have chosen our top 25 traditions, based on the Advent countdown, to help explain some of the wacky and wonderful ways people mark this special time of year all around the world. Among our favourites have been the idea of BBQ on the beach in Australia, the early-morning roller skate to church in Venezuela and the tradition of German children leaving a boot or a shoe outside their bedroom door in the hope of finding a tree branch covered in sweets the following morning. Using photographs, flags, recipe cards and some model replicas, are aim is to represent each of these traditions on our tree.

“Bringing joy to others”

Mrs J Skilton

Gwyddoniaeth

Mr P Johnson

Chemistry The Chemistry department has made a very busy and productive start to the academic year with both Year 10 and Year 11 pupils completing their GCSE controlled assessment tasks. This is an important part of the final grade and all pupils have been mature and diligent in their approach to the work. The AS Level results in the summer were good with some outstanding individual performances. Of particular note was Eve Carter who only dropped 11 marks in all three of her AS Level exams, with Tomos Davies, Omar Ghandour and Robert Jones also achieving excellent results. A number of sixth form pupils took part in a “Classroom Medics Workshop” where they looked at blood pressure measurement, X-ray and CT scan analysis as well as using a patient simulator named Stan the

human manikin to make medical diagnoses. Open Day was a great success with bumper crowds coming to watch the “Flashes, Bangs and Chemistry Magic”

demonstrations. The Chemistry staff were ably assisted by Ben Croll, Chloe Dicks and Annie Higgins. The pupils impressed the visitors with their knowledge and enthusiasm for the subject, as well as their competence when doing the demonstrations.

Biology This is always a very busy time of year as we head towards external examinations for GCSE and A Level. The AS Level results in the summer were good with some outstanding individual performances. Of particular was Robert Jones who achieved full marks, 300/300 on the AS papers. A number of Year 12 students visited the national museum in Cardiff to take part in celebrations to mark the centenary of Alfred Russell Wallace, co-discoverer of the theory of natural selection. Year 12 have quickly settled into their studies and a number visited St. Cyres School in October to attend the ‘Genetics Roadshow’ organised by Gene Park Wales. In December Jamal Akhtar, Emily Thomas, Leo Tucker and Robert Turton took part in the ‘Brain Bee’ at Cardiff University, a quiz and study day for those interested in neuroscience. Open Day was also a great success with large numbers of visitors taking the opportunity to carry out a range of experiments. The hard work of Molly Britton and Erin Clissold was appreciated by all of the teachers.

The Biology department has also made a late entry into the world of social networking with our own Twitter feed, this can be followed @Stanwell_Biol. Become a ‘follower’ for latest departmental news and other related tweets!

‘Open Day was a great success, with bumper crowds’

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Science

Mr P Johnson

Applied Science Solving crime has been the order of the day in Applied Science this term, with Year 13 working on the practical techniques associated with Analytical Chemistry in the context of Forensic Evidence. A Forensic Science Report forms part of their A2 coursework and they have to write a report on a particular case. It is sometimes difficult to find out the information, so it was very exciting to have a visit from a Crime Scene Supervisor, Detective Sergeant Andy Jenkins who is a very experienced CSI Manager who covers Pontypridd and Merthyr Areas. We were lucky he could fit us into his busy schedule once again and we hope he continues to visit us in his retirement. Year 11 work was sent to the exam board so that by March we will know the results of the first qualification. The students are now working towards their second qualification. Years 10 and 12 will have to work hard to live up to the standards set this year!

“pupils visited Cardiff University’s Physics department”

Physics The Physics department has had a very busy term with controlled assessment practical exams being done in Years 10 and 11. In addition many pupils in Years 10, 11 and 13 are preparing for external modules in January 2014. In September, 30 Year 12 and 13 pupils visited Cardiff University’s Physics department for their annual sixth-form Physics conference. In December, 28 Year 10 and Year 11 pupils attended the annual Institute of Physics lecture at Cardiff University. The AS results in the summer were good with the following pupils Tomos Davies, Daniel Soltys and Eve Carter all achieving very high UMS marks. Open Day was a great success with many children and parents discovering how many toys have their origins with Physics alongside demonstrations of rockets and balloons being squashed on a bed of nails.

Cymraeg Mrs C Flaherty

The Welsh department has had a very active term! We enjoyed the inaugural Year 7 transition trip to Llangrannog in September and also took a group of 30 pupils to the Glan-llyn Urdd camp in November. Pupils were encouraged to take part in a wide variety of outward bounds activities including orienteering, climbing and raft building on the banks of beautiful Lake Tegid in Snowdonia.

Rory Skinner in Year 7 impressed us with his creative writing, he wrote an exciting poem about colours, which he named Lliwiau! Lliwiau! Lliwiau!

Following the Bitesize Workshop, Rhys, Mat-thew and Tom were asked to share their opin-ions on the brand new software TouchCast in a Vox Pops interview with the BBC. This app lets you record a video and overlay widget – like elements that can hold web pages, maps and more. TouchCast is a very interesting con-cept that mixes video with the web. The boys had the opportunity to explain how they felt this new development in technology will change education in the future.

Elizabeth McCulloch of Year 10 is a keen swimmer and organised a team to represent Stanwell in the Urdd swimming gala in early December. The team was very successful in all categories. Lloyd Hanson came 2nd in the 100m freestyle and 1st in the 100m butterfly. Andrew Flanigan was 1st in the 100m breast-stroke and the 200m individual medley.

“Lliwiau, Lliwiau, Lliwiau”

Three pupils from Year 12 were invited to attend a BBC Bitesize Welsh second language focus group at the BBC headquarters in September. They had the opportunity to meet the producers of BBC Wales Interactive and Learning and share their ideas on the content of the website. Matthew Holder, Tom Chandler and Rhys Savory spent the day brainstorming and sharing their experiences and ideas as Welsh Second Language GCSE students. Their input and creative ideas were very much appreciated by the team and Marc Real, the assistant producer, was very impressed with the boys’ readiness to share their opinions.

Cymraeg Mrs C Flaherty

Lloyd Hanson, Andrew Flanigan, Kabir Knupp and Rhys Jones won the 4 x 50m freestyle relay and the 4 x 50m medley relay. Sam Wilcox was 1st in the 100m breast-stroke and 2nd in the 100m freestyle.

Rhys Jones came 3rd and 4th in the 100m freestyle and 100m back-stroke. Megan O’Brien was 1st in the 100m freestyle and 2nd in the 100m butterfly. Rachael Flaherty came 2nd in the 100m freestyle and 1st in the 100m but-terfly. Elizabeth McCulloch was 2nd in the 100m freestyle and 100m butter-fly. Amy Bond was 1st in the 100m back-stroke and 2nd in the individual medley. Elizabeth, Amy, Joanna Hourihan and Amy McAndrew made up a great relay team, coming 3rd in both the 4 x 50m freestyle relay and the 4 x 50m medley relay. Ffion McCulloch was 2nd in the 100m free-style and 4th in the 100m butterfly. Ffion McCulloch, Pia Sully, Famke Ashmore and Isobel were our junior girls’ relay team who came 2nd in the 4 x 50m freestyle relay and 4th in the 4 x 50m medley relay.

Amy McAndrew and Joanna were 2nd and 3rd in the 100m breast-stroke. Diolch yn fawr also goes to Louis Fo-scolo, Daniel Jones and Naomi Hills for representing Stanwell so well on this exciting occasion. Pob lwc to those going through to the final in the Spring.

For Open Day the Welsh department had an arts and crafts session, along with a quiz on Welsh celebrities, en-wogion o fri! Much fun was had by all.

“Enwogion o fri!!”

Sgiliau Gwaith Gwaith

It has been a busy term for the three Workskills classes. The Year 9 group have started the ‘Finance & Money Skills’ course and have com-pleted the first three units learning about income and expenditure and how to budget. The Year 10 group started the main Workskills course looking at dif-ferent types of unpaid work. On the 11th November, Natalie Sargent from the Vale Volunteer Bureau came into school and gave an interesting talk on volunteering and discussed the range of opportunities available to pupils. The Year 11 group reflected on their work experience placement in the sum-mer and on school Open Day, three year 11 pupils; Thomas Jones, Austin Squire-Wood and Harvey Valvo, set up a games skills challenge in G15 rais-ing £20 for Cancer Research. The Year 9 and Year 10 pupils have un-dertaken litter picks with Keep Wales Tidy and the Vale of Glamorgan Visible Services Depart-ment. On the 14th November, 23 Year 9 and 10 pu-pils joined Richard Weaver of Keep Wales Tidy, they set off from school and walked along the Old Railway Line footpath from Archer Road up to Cliff Tops cafe in Penarth.

Pictured are Year 9 pupils Rhys Walker, Mat-thew Binding & Cameron Jenkins collecting litter along the old railway line in Penarth.

On the 28th Novem-ber, 20 Year 9 and 10 pupils visited Barry Is-land. This is the 5th year that Workskills classes have worked with the Vale of Glamor-gan Visible Services. Unusually for a Workskills litter pick in Barry, the weather was excellent with no wind or rain!

The pictures show Year 9 pupils Morgan Jones, Morgan Evans, Sam Jones, Katie Thomas & Katie Hudd collecting litter from the Barry Island car park. It was an enjoyable afternoon for all who participated.

“It was an enjoyable afternoon for all”

Mr. R Deighton-Jones

Pontio Blwyddyn 7

For the first time at Stanwell, 240 of the new Year 7 pupils went to Llangrannog for three days to complete a variety of teambuilding activities. The purpose of the trip was for pupils to develop positive relationships within form classes, across the year group and with their teachers, as well as improving their Welsh language skills. The activities included horse riding, go-karting, the high ropes course, orienteering, problem solving and trampolining to name a few.

The pupils gained confidence with their peers over the three days, forming solid friendships within both sides of the year. A number also demonstrated some independence and coped exceptionally well away from home.

The pupils’ enthusiasm towards all the set tasks was outstanding. They supported each other in their groups so even those pupils that were nervous about some of the tasks had a go and in most cases completed the task very

successfully. It is hoped that the experiences and friendships made in these three days will help them throughout their time at Stanwell.

The staff at the centre were excellent reinforcing safety as paramount whilst also ensuring it was a fun experience for the pupils. They responded to being spoken to in the Welsh language and the use of Welsh was implemented throughout the time of the visit.

The pupils are to be congratulated on their enthusiasm and behaviour and many thanks to staff for their support on the trip.

We will look forward to this visit continuing next year.

“solid friendships within both sides of the year.”

Miss H Jenkins

Newyddion Blwyddyn 7

Blwyddyn7

The first term in a new school is always likely to be a challenge but our new intake has settled into life at Stanwell magnificently. The pupils have obviously impressed their form teachers with their achievements both sporting and musical. The Llangrannog trip was a new development this year and we were very pleased with how the pupils responded to situations that were very definitely “ out of their comfort zone.” We would also like to congratulate all those who helped raise the superb sum of nearly £1500 for Children in Need!

7T

Congratulations to Ryan Allen for getting into the Welsh Under 14s basketball squad. He is busy preparing for games in Surrey, which will take place in the new year. Ryan is also aiming to get his black belt in karate. Sophie Eveleigh is also hoping to grade in Taekwondo. Recently, Ossian Lambert-Jones has earned his bronze certificate in young lifeguards. Gabriel Howard has been invited to train with the Vale of Glamorgan cricket team. Zoe Mules is globe trotting to South Africa with ‘Only Kids Aloud’, next year, as well as gaining grade 3 in singing. Adam Weir achieved grade 3 in brass, Jordan Jones attained grade 4 in drums and Yahlini Smith is aiming for grade 5 piano and appearing in a theatre production of “Grease’. Congratulations also to the team that made and sold cakes for children in need day and Zeus Kampas who raised £219 for charity. Well done 7T!

7E

Pupils of 7E were very busy running 3 stalls for Children in Need and raised an impressive £70 for charity. We had a superbly run patisserie stall which sold delicious delights including homemade brownies, cakes, fudge and toffee. The boys pulled together and invented a new game –Pin the spot on Pudsey – an innovative twist on the classic ‘Pin the tail’ and finally Eve Cabral and Hope Lacey ran the ‘guess how many sweets’ stall. A very big thank you and well done to all of you who ran the stalls and contributed food to sell or made items for the stalls. 

We also have some very sporty and successful members of 7E who deserve to be mentioned. Rhys Lewis has been selected for the British National Sailing squad after participating in the British Sailing competition held in Scotland over the summer and coming in at an impressive third place. Congratulations! Well done to Maisy Gibbs and Ophelia Scott for their sterling contribution to the Year 7 A team netball girls who haven’t lost a match yet this term. Keep up the great effort ladies! Not to be outdone by the girls, Michael Bennett and Rory Skinner have helped Penarth Town Lions and Dinas Powys beat Inter Penarth 5-1 and 9-1 respectively, well done boys! Congratulations are extended to Tom Jenkins and Rory Skinner for being selected to play for Stanwell’s table tennis team. Very good luck to Sophie Hunnam and Alex Powell who are busy preparingfor their jazz and tap dance exam December 17th and also to Amelia Ringer who is

“........settled into life at Stanwell magnificently.”

Miss R Povey and Mr M Baldwin

Newyddion Blwyddyn 7

Year 7

Rhys Lewis 7E

busy getting ready for her ballet exam on December 5th.

Finally, a very big well done to Ben Johns who bravely completed a triathlon in August to raise money for Ty Hafan; a fantastic effort Ben, keep up the good work!

7A

7A has some national champions in its midst; Dex Trivett is the Welsh champion for gymnastics for his age group and Amelie Lloyd is the Welsh champion for karate for her age group. Amelie is also in training for her black belt in karate. In other sporting news it seems our form is crazy for football; Billy McCullagh plays for Sully B team and recently won a match against the Cadoxton B side. Joseph Ramage plays for Cogan club who won their last game 8:1! Not to be out done by the boys, Mia Gordon-Davies plays for Stanwell. Well done to all of you. To end on a musical note, Meredith Holland plays the violin while Mia Gordon Davies has just completed her grade 4 on the piano. We look forward to future performances from all the musicians in 7A.

7M

Raheem Khan has enjoyed playing rugby for his team ‘Kyacks’. Shafi Chowdhury has enjoyed being part of the Penarth Town football team. Sachin Bhatia enjoys playing the drums outside of school. Carys David has been involved with horse riding. Faith Mattinson and Hana Richardson have both participated in a cross country event. Both girls were very successful and finished high up the rankings. Jac Herbert has been involved with a show ‘Sleeping Beauty’ outside of school. Eva Summerhayes has raised money during a Charity Dance event with her Sully Dance Group. Harriet Marshall has passed her grade 3 Violin. Nia Hopkins is preparing to perform in the Royal Albert Hall in May 2014.

7X

Congratulations to Harrison Shaw who is not only one of our form representatives but he has been elected as the Year 7 rep for the whole school council! Well done to Calan Cross who achieved “pupil of the month” in English. Izzy Dain-Smith is in the school A team for netball. Luisa Diment is learning to play the drums. Will Hardy and Dan Munro-Morris represented the Mike Fowler Football Academy against the Manchester City Academy! Both, as well as Adam John, play for Sully Reds who are currently unbeaten in their league. Jacob Huish has started playing football for Penarth Town Lions while Thomas Quinlan plays for Inter Penarth. Zoe Jennings has singing lessons once a week. Sam Kneale has got into the Welsh squad for sailing - look out Sir Ben Ainslie!

“Dex Trivett is the Welsh champion for gymnastics.....”

Miss R Povey and Mr M Baldwin

Year 7

Megan Lages has been very busy - she has a grade 4 ballet exam to do, she has just started grade 2 singing and she enjoys horse riding. Leila Nicol and Stephanie Willan are members of PAAW musical theatre who performed in the Christmas light “switch on” in Penarth. Another busy member of the form is Aled Rees who has done a triathlon for Ty Hafan, plays scrum half for Penarth and is a member of Penarth cricket club who are Cardiff and the Vale champions. Olivia Tyso competed in a “mini burn” - 3km run, 2km canoe and 5km cycle!

7W

Emily Griffiths has represented the school at basketball, netball and football. Zoya Yousef came first in doubles tennis and second place for singles. Lucie Franks is doing really well with her ice skating and is hoping to soon pass her level 8. Josie Paine is doing well in swimming and nearly on level 9. Aliyah Jama has been playing for Cardiff City Ladies football team. Ethan Mulcahy has captained Cardiff and The Vale cricket team and is hoping to soon secure his place on the Welsh team. Liam Perry completed his life saving award. Evan Lloyd captained the Penarth and school rugby team. He was also part of the team to win the DC Thomas Cup in the Millennium Stadium.

Adam Nilsen has scored 27 goals in 10 games already this season! Tariq Amari has almost achieved his black belt in karate. Sophie Whittaker has competed for the school at swimming on the 4th December.

Sion Easthope had a short story published in the newspaper. Jacob Adams is very proud of his 84% in his latest Maths exam. Adam Hall achieved 100% in his French exam. Kimberly Bowes is learning how to play the piano. Chloe Garrard is involved in a gymnastic competition with school. Jagjeet Singh-Landa has reached

level 7 in his swimming lessons.

7O Our form members have had a very eventful few weeks! Everyone pulled together on Children in Need Day to raise an impressive £80 for charity! Our two stalls sold a variety of delicious homemade milkshakes. A huge thank you to all who ran the stalls and to everyone who contributed to such a successful morning. Particular mention must be given to Isobel Brown and Megan Strong, who showed great initiative by conducting questionnaires in advance of the event. Their results helped 7O to plan and prepare milkshake flavours, costs and logistics. Well done girls! It is this ingenuity which has seen Megan Strong become elected as our form representative, alongside Neil Power, and also as the Year 7 representative on the school council. Well done to both!

“100% in his French exam!”

Miss R Povey and Mr M Baldwin

Year 7 7O pupils have also had several sporting successes in recent weeks. Congratulations to our two speedy Louis! Firstly, a huge well done to Louis Spencer, who was ranked 13th in Wales for his age in the 3000 metres. Keep up the good work, Louis! Secondly, congratulations to Louis Foscolo, who is a member of Whitmore Bay Surf Lifesavers Club. Louis was ranked as the 5th fastest boy in Wales for his age – outstanding! Our sporty girls also have a lot to be proud of; Alys Price came an impressive 5th in a recent Glamorgan Schools trampolining competition. Congratulations Alys! Finally, a big well done to keen footballer Seren Jones, who was recently awarded player of the month for her team. Seren was rewarded with match tickets for her achievement. Enjoy the match, Seren! 7R

Everyone in 7R has had a great first term at Stanwell School and there have been many positive comments made about their experiences so far. Ethan Millinship has been successful in his French lessons this term and enjoyed them thoroughly. Ethan and Matthew George are members of Cogan AFC and contributed to an 8-1 defeat of the Penarth Tigers.

Nicholas Hague-Jones has played rugby for Stanwell this term and was part of the team that beat Llantwit Major School. David and Lloyd Thomas have completed a section of the Taff Trail on a BMX bike, well done boys! Kayleigh Fisher was very proud to

achieve highly in her Drama work as well as accumulating enough merit points to be invited on the reward trip this Christmas. Katy Matthews is proud of her ‘girl of the match’ title in netball this term. Megan Sully was excited to score a goal for her football team.

Ellie Broad took part in a swimming competition and came 1st, 2nd and 3rd in different events- wow! Pia Sully has also been swimming and clocked up an impressive 32 lengths in just 16 minutes. Sophie Coop has taken part in a gymnastics competition and is currently awaiting the results.Ellie Macmillan was outstanding in a climbing competition this term and came 1st out of a large group of 60 competitors.

7R also had two groups involved in raising money for Children in Need. There was a stall to guess the number of sweets in the jar and a stall to build the best Pudsey Bear out of Lego. The team members were; Matthew George, Eddie Price, Morgan James, James Simpson, Amani Halim, Alicia Hopkins, Ella, Jessie Lieu, Kayleigh Fisher, Caitlin Dowling, Katy Matthews, Ruhama Ali. Thanks to all members of the teams for their contribution to raising an outstanding overall total for their year group. Well done to everyone in 7R for all your achievements this term! 

7K

Jack Garrett achieved first place in a County karate tournament and also received and award for quadbiking. Uzma Maskeen was awarded a trophy for the five hour walk she completed for Children in Need. Carys Thomas is currently

“best Pudsey Bear out of Lego”

Miss R Povey and Mr M Baldwin

Year 7 rehearsing for her grade 3 violin exam. Tomos Hughes achieved a level 7 award in swimming. Robert Creaven was selected for the Welsh Basketball team. Max Baker came 2nd in the Central England Open in karate for his age group. Cameron Sultana, Cameron Willan and Rhys Newman played for Penarth in a rugby tournament in Llantwit and came 4th. Mae Atkins' team, Vale Girls FC came 1st in the local football league. Felix Price won a tennis tournament with Barry Island Tennis Club. Jonah James was part of the team who made a film about the school's fund-raising for Children in Need. Cori Reed ran 10 miles around Cosmeston over half term for Latch.

7L

Members of 7L ran a craft stall to raise money for Children in Need selling crisp packet keyrings and flower clips. Jessica Alstead, Arianne Banks, Jasmine Borde, Serena Jemmett, Emma Monaghan, Elinor Pyman, Seren Sullivan, Mia Sutcliffe-Hill, Olivia Tucker and Hannah

Williams all worked hard making the products and running the stall. Arianne and Enyala Banks have successfully auditioned for Britain’s Got Talent. The guitar and singing duet must now wait until February for the next set of auditions—fingers crossed for you girls! Max Crandon, Daniel Hayes, Ethan Hosken, Daniel Jones and Drew Musa have all played rugby for Stanwell. Daniel Jones has also represented Stanwell for cross country. Megan Edwards, Emma Monaghan, Seren Sullivan, Mia Sutcliffe-Hill and Hannah Williams have all represented Stanwell for netball. In addition, Joseph Doust has designed a new flag for Llandough Hospital.

The contribution of Year 7 to raising funds for Children In Need was exceptional. Thank you to all the pupils (and their parents!) who supplied delicious cakes. Everything sold out and it was wonderful to see so many of our pupils working together to raise money for such a worthy cause.

The teachers and pupils of Year 7 wish you all a wonderful Christmas and a happy new year.

Miss R Povey and Mr M Baldwin

“first place in a County Karate Tournament ..........”

Blwyddyn 8

This has been a busy and exciting term for Year 8. All pupils have embarked enthusiastically on the ‘Real Game’. This is an effective and fun way of giving pupils a glimpse of what it is like living and working as an adult. Mr Pritchard from Careers Wales has also been helping to prepare our pupils for their option choices later on this year. Look out for more updates on Moodle regarding option choices in the new year. Pupils have also enjoyed a varied pastoral framework. In assemblies, recognition has been given to world events, historical memorials, activities and the precepts of the week. Assembly themes have included Olympic Values & Remembrance, with further presentations from former World Boxing Champion Nicky Piper regarding the work of the George Thomas Hospice, Barnardo’s & the School Charity Committee. PC Mudie has also delivered a number of informative sessions on drug awareness to individual forms, as well as advising pupils about safety on Halloween and Bonfire Night. Pupils in Year 8 have also shown their generosity and compassion by participating in a range of worthwhile causes to help those less fortunate than themselves. Numerous cake sales, non-uniform days and a ‘wear your Christmas jumper day’ have helped to raise a considerable sum of money for organisations like Children In Need and Save the Children. Well done Year 8! Many exciting trips have also taken place this term. Pupils enjoyed sampling the delights at Cadbury World and also experienced the culinary wonders of France on the trip to Boulogne earlier in the term. The recent history trip to London was also hugely popular. Pupils enjoyed visiting a range of historical sites, such as the Tower of London. They were also inspired by the quality of

the West End production War Horse. Many pupils were also rewarded for their continuing progress, endeavour and service to the school on the Year 8 trip to watch The Hobbit 2, which capped off a very productive and pleasing term in Stanwell. We wish the year group a restful and enjoyable Christmas break and look forward to another exciting and fruitful term in the new year. This year our School Council representatives are Thomas Atkinson and Bronwen Pearce. Both have taken on the responsibilities of the role with great enthusiasm and maturity, adding much to the School Council meetings. Each form has elected form representatives for the Year 8 Council. Their job is to act

as the link between pupils and the School Council and they have a great opportunity to raise issues that pupils feel are important to them to help improve the whole school environment. They Year 8 form representatives are as follows: 8T– Kaitlin Daly and Daniel Sheppard

“Pupils in Year 8 have shown their incredible generosity and compassion”

Mr R Macpherson & Miss Sterlini

The Tower of London, Year 8 History Trip

Year 8 8E– Connor Hamilton and Anayah McNamara 8A– Oliver Stock and Amy Stout 8M– Kate Powell and Nathan Waite 8X– Isobella Morse and Jordan Sheppard 8W– Thomas Atkinson and Jessica David 8O– Antony Jomon and Holly Morgans 8R– Sara Buckland and Toby Dyer 8K– Bronwen Pearce and Ethan Shellem-Prince 8L– Katie Boden and Andrew Lewis

Congratulations to all of the above! 8T There were many sporting achievements within 8T this term. Congratulations to Jay Morse who continues to excel in the discus, finishing the season ranked 1st in Wales. He also received an award for Best Achiever in Cardiff Athletics Club. Well done to Taiya Jones, who came 3rd in a trampolining competition as well as achieving 16th place in cross country for Wales. Felicity Allen successfully got a place in the Welsh squad for sailing and Hannah Stephens passed her junior life-saving exam. Congratulations to Silva Brindle who achieved 2nd place in the Welsh athletics competition and to Kaitlin Daly for her many achievements in her roller skating career. On a musical note, well done to Darcey Conway for passing her 4th grade flute with a merit. Da iawn pawb!

8E It’s been a busy term for 8E, well done to every single one of you on such a successful term! Many pupils have excelled in numerous different sports; Gracie Frankling made the A team in netball, Connor Hamilton has been chosen for the badminton team, Callum King has taken part in a BMX tournament, and Rhian Shillabeer has taken up windsurfing! 8E also has some particularly talented musicians this year. Patrick Grafton and Grace Mallory performed for the switching on of the Penarth Christmas lights and Ceylin As will be taking part in a concert in Penarth Pavilion. Niamh Taylor-Hoare has passed her grade 3 flute exam, whereas Dan Marsh in now working towards his grade 3 on the trumpet. As well as musicians and sports stars, 8E has some very talented dancers; Holly Thomas has just passed her grade 4 ballet exam and just in front of her is Elin Phillips, who recently passed grade 5 with a distinction. As well as taking part in numerous school clubs, lots of pupils in 8E have deservedly gained enough house points to go on the Christmas reward trip. A great start to Year 8 – keep it up! 8A It has been a busy term for members of 8A who have been participating in a wide range of activities. Congratulations to Grace Beacall who has passed her Grade 3 piano and good luck to Evie Bamford who is working towards her Grade 5 trumpet while Christina Kulamannage is working towards her grade 5 piano.

Mr R Macpherson & Miss R Sterlini

“...finished the season ranked 1st in Wales”

Year 8 Eleanor Croft starred in ‘Joseph and his Technicoloured Dreamcoat’ with H from Steps. Ellie has also passed her life guards exam and is now a Nipper Junior. Well done Eleanor! Alice Young has also been honing her performance skills in the St David’s Hall with ‘Dance Angels’. Our form also has some talented sports people. Joe Griffiths has reached level 3 in sailing. Charlie Thomas came first in a figure skating competition. The football team that Jack Ruelle and Sonny Edwards play for has reached the semi finals of the cup. Isaac Grant competed in “The Road to Wimbledon” tennis competition and reached the final. Callum Eva plays football for Newport County and Cardiff and Vale County School Boys. Hannah Ross is busy playing hockey and her team have won most of their matches so far this year. Finally, Henry Kynaston is continuing to enjoy playing basketball, with his team enjoying some excellent results. Fantastic achievements from all! 8M Macy Chinn raised money for the NSPCC by completing a charity walk from Sully to Cardiff Bay. Cerys Harvey plays netball for the school team. Luke Haynes raised money for charity with the Penarth Sea Cadets decorating Christmas trees. Nathan Waite has been playing football for the school and rugby for both the school and the Vale of Glamorgan.

8X There have been a number of superb achievements by members of 8X this term. Alex Brown plays football for Dinas Powys as well as the Vale county team. He also plays rugby for the Old Pens. Gabriel Butler Kavanagh competes for Monster Energy BMX TEAM and has won many competitions including the Dew tour. William Hall continues to excel in the world of sailing. He has had incredible success

sailing for team GBR, and recently won a national event, beating 400 competitors at Rutland. John Jones has been involved in a number of sporting pursuits. He canoes at Cardiff International White Water centre, swims for Penarth, recently winning 6 races, plays tennis for Penarth Lawn Tennis Club as well as playing badminton and squash. Megan Marsden played the lead in a production of ‘Chitty Chitty Bang Bang’. Tiegan Sissons took part in a charity dance show at the Paget rooms. Kristy Webley came 4th in a Great Britain qualifier show-jumping event. 8W During the autumn term, pupils in 8W had a number of sporting and academic achievements. Jessica David was selected as a member of the chorus for the senior production of ‘Beauty and the Beast’. Lewis Donovan recently took part in a cross country championship and competed in every race. Courtney Evans achieved third place in a gymnastics competition in Cardiff. Morgen Jay is a member of Dance Angels and, in September, won a group dance competition. Lydia Milward was awarded third place in a cross country triathlon in October 2013 and her team also reached third place overall. Lucas Murray received the school sports award for Junior Footballer of the Year and Rhys Woolmer has participated in the Vale of Glamorgan County Cricket trials. Harrison Williams has gained his black belt in karate and won a gold medal in the Western Karate Championships. 8O It has been a very busy term in the sporting lives of many members of 8O. It is pleasing to see participation in such a wide range of different sporting pursuits available both in school and the wider Vale.

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Mr R Macpherson & Miss R Sterlini.

“Will Hall continues to excel in the world of sailing”

Year 8 Jacob Hatcher plays football and cricket for Dinas Powys and is a member of Penarth badminton club. Kelli Poole has recently taken part in a gymnastics competition. Likewise, Joshua Cook came 12th in the London Open Gymnastics tournament in September. George Cowley continues to swim for Penarth water polo club, while also excelling at karate. He has also been selected as captain of the Stanwell Year 8 rugby team. Well done! Sophie De Grey is a member of Cogan swimming club and represents the school at cross country. Joe Driscoll plays for Dinas Powys football club and Old Penarthians Rugby Club. Holly Morgans has also continued to pursue her interest in dressage, competing in events regularly. 8R It has been a very busy and exciting term for members of 8R. Toby Dyer is thrilled to have had the opportunity to play for the school’s football and rugby teams. Ryan Packer achieved 1st place in the Dinas golf championship tournament and he has played football for the Cogan Chiefs. Matthew Frost sat his grade 4 theory exam. Katie Streets has had a poem and a story displayed on Penarth Pier. Katie also had the chance to read her poem aloud to an audience. Josephine Harris is taking part in the Welsh National Swimming Gala and she was under the 30th place in the Welsh National Competition for breaststroke. This means that she is now in the top 30 in the nation. Chloe Lam is pleased to have passed her grade 2 piano exam. Mary Kate McGrath has passed her grade 5 theory exam and Connie Shah has got a medal for cross country. 8K The pupils of 8K would like to congratulate Ethan Shellem-Prince on winning the gold medal at an international tae kwondo competition. Well done to Ben Hanson on your

“It has been a very busy and exciting term”

2nd place in the welsh judo championship and Ellis Dibble on his selection for Cardiff and the Vale football squad. Bronwen Pearce has shown outstanding promise achieving her grade 4 ballet and congratulations to Kate Beeslee on obtaining her black belt in karate. 8L This form is replete with pupils who are involved in a vast array of extra-curricular activities. Jacob Dimond has competed in 4 races within the Vale and is now the number one 1500m runner. Finlay Hynes has enjoyed attending karate and free running clubs outside of school. Cai Lloyd plays for Penarth RFC and the team are currently competing for the Blues Cup. Renee Eshel and Darcy Richardson have been attending trampolining club and represented Stanwell in the Welsh regional finals. Renee Eshel also placed 6th in the competition. Amoy Brown and Rebeca Pires-Jenkins are members of the school’s netball team and played in a netball tournament. Alice Short has been practising hard as part of the orchestra for Beauty and the Beast. Eve Lumsden has attained a merit in her Grade 4 ballet exam. Katie Boden entered a dance show on 29th November for charity with her dance group ‘Bliss’. Anna Webster has been very busy achieving a grade 4 in both her LAMDA (Musical/Drama Award) and ballet exam. She has also performed two shows at her Majesty’s Theatre and the Grand Theatre in Swansea, and is now looking forward to another performance at St David’s Hall after Christmas. Katie Boden, Freya Hall, Eve Lumsden, Gabriella Merrick, Anna Webster have all won places on the reward trip. Well done!

Mr R Macpherson anad Miss R Sterlini

Blwyddyn 9

It has been an interesting and challenging start for Year 9 pupils who have begun to study their chosen GCSE courses. They have been approaching their studies with great en-thusiasm and maturity and we hope this posi-tive attitude will remain throughout the 3 years. Pupils have been gathering evidence of their successes inside and outside school for their progress files, as well as writing per-sonal statements about their achievements. This year our School Council representatives are Rebecca Davies and Henry Waddon They have been participating in School Council meetings discussing and promoting issues raised by Year 9 pupils and feeding back during year group assemblies.

Year 9 Form Reps:

9T– Emily Alford and Harrison Ashby 9E– Victoria Lewis and Ian Margrain 9A– Menna Bafaqih and Samuel Thomas 9M– Annie Higgins and Henry Waddon 9X– Lauryn Perkins and Daniel Anderton 9W– Clodagh McKechnie and Rob Brown 9O– Chloe Adney and Michael Conway 9R– Tamasin Stephens Collins and Thomas Griffiths 9K– Olivia Davies and Ethan Harris 9L– Rebecca Davies and Owen Day 9T

A number of pupils have made great strides in their musical achievements. Congratula-tions must go to Emily Alford who is taking part in the WNO’s production of ‘Tosca’ and is also a member of the WNO singing club and has guitar lessons. Niamh Sweeney came second in a tennis tournament. Elspeth Robertson performed in the Rugby League World Cup opening ceremony, she also en-joys dance, piano and flute lessons. Chelsea Williams continues with her singing lessons Lowena Diment enjoys ballroom dancing and swimming. Jordan Birchall and Liam Carter are members of the football team. 9E Congratulations to Geraint Williams who has been selected to be the rugby team cap-tain. Alexander Owens is also a member of the rugby team and part of the swimming squad. Ieuan Murray has taken part in a gymnastics and trampolining competition. Cameron Jones attends ‘Outsiders’ singing group and is in the Vale U14’s golf squad. Harry Smith and Sam Bohlen are members of the school football team along with Kota Wirth who represents the school at tennis. Harri Barlow received top marks in his Tae kwando grading and Benjamin Roderick is now a brown belt. Benjamin will also be playing piano at the Millennium centre. A special mention must go to Alexander Whitfield who has raised nearly £1000 for Children in Need at Penarth Yacht Club. Alexander is now in the Topper National Intermediate Sailing Squad and the Welsh National Topper Squad.

Mrs K Chelliingworth & Mr A Chambers

“School Council representatives are Rebecca Davies and Henry Waddon”

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9A Kathryn Morgan is a member of the school basketball team. Alexandra Ruge-Hayes and Stephanie Knight represent Stanwell school in the netball team. Noah Bushby has successfully completed his trial for Cardiff Development football academy. Jade East-wood has passed her grade 3 flute exam whilst Rebecca Johnson has developed in confidence and skill through her time in Mark Jermin’s stage school. Dafydd Mor-gans is captain of Wenvoe Colts football team, whilst Rhys Butler has been recog-nised for his outstanding contribution to the same team. Alexandra Slack entered the European Karate Championships in Sheffield to represent Wales and will also be attending the International Karate Championship in Malta in March. 9M Eamon Aeyad is currently boxing at Barry amateur boxing club and recently fought in his first fight. Haaris Khan is continuing his boxing training with Penarth ABC and regu-larly competes in matches. Andrew Salter and Henry Waddon are participating in the school production of Beauty and the Beast. Henry also has the part of Enjolras in an up-coming production of Les Miserables. Maxine Pwele represents Stanwell in the basketball team. Alex Milner has become a Senior Scout. Tom McSorley took part in a course by the WNO. Matthew Bridge spent a day at Cardiff Library on a course about robot programming. Khalif Jama has had trails for the Wales National Football Team. Lucia Cavaliere has competed in several horse riding competitions. Emma Squire went to the European Karate Championships to represent Wales.

9X Chloe Waite has enjoyed attending creative writing club, she has competed in different types of writing skills competitions. Lia-Maree Dyer has attended singing and drum lessons after school. Mohammed Hussain has memorised 25 chapters of the Quran off by heart, with only 5 left to accomplish. Daniel Anderton and Jack Cooke play rugby and football for the school teams. Jack also plays hockey for the school. Bronwyn Morgan has enjoyed attending junior girls’ choir. She is due to attend a concert with the choir at Penarth Pier. Lauren Stephens was chosen as captain of the netball team, she has also attended two netball county trials and has started to coach Year 7 players. George Lush has been entered for an elite under 14s trampolining competition and he has been busy planning lots of events for the eco-committee. Zain Yousef is a member of Penarth lawn tennis club where he won the handicap tournament consolation draw. Chloe Taylor took part in the ice-skating competition for the opening of Cardiff’s Winter Wonderland. Cora Squire took part in a recent cooking competition, she has got through the heats stage of the competition. Maximilian Paley received awards for rugby and football at the Stanwell sports awards evening, along with Katherine Peach who received an award for basketball. Darwin Alford and Daisy Osborne-Walsh are plan-ning to climb Snowdonia for Children in Need. 9W Samuel Holland has taken part in the Go4set engineering competition and has achieved Rock Climbing level 4. Joshua Meek has

“Alexandra Slack and Emma Squire represent Wales at Karate”

Mrs K Chelliingworth & Mr A Chambers

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been selling poppies for RBL and also took part in a Remembrance Day Parade. Bethany Bratby has raised money for Lesotho and ‘Help for Heroes’ by taking part in bake sales. Abigail Dave has organised 3 charity bake sales and is on the charity committee. Ellie Murray came first in the BDO street dance competitions and performed Roller Derby. She has now won three dance compe-titions, was a semi finalist in a street dance competition and completed in national com-petitions. Ffion Blunsdon is in the girls’ choir. Robert Brown has represented Stanwell at cross country. Macauley Winton, Richard Lee and Adam Hearne are members of the foot-ball squad. Adam is also a member of Penarth Lawn Tennis Club and has repre-sented the school at gymnastics. Lauren Ellis and Ella Williams are both members of the netball squad. Clodagh McKechnie has been working hard as a member of the eco committee. 9O

Morgan Ashton plays for Penarth rugby team under 14s. Morgan and Jack Vowles also represent the school in the rugby team. Jack Carr and Jack Swaine represent the school in the football team. Chloe Adney is a member of the sea cadets where she took part in the Remembrance Sunday parade through Penarth and was honoured to be asked to lay a wreath on their behalf at the Cenotaph. Owain Thomas is a scout and also took part in the Remembrance Sunday parade through Penarth.

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Juliette Cavaye is a member of the orchestra for school’s production of ‘Beauty and the

Beast’. Lauren Birch Hurst, Caitlin Duggan and Ruby Bollington are members of the school’s netball team. Joe Stephens-Collins and Tobias Friedl represented the school in a Badminton tournament. Anna Gallone is a member of school trampolining squad. Rose Wilcox, Tobias Friedl, Caitlin Duggan and Ruby Bollington enjoy the peripatetic music lessons in school.

Joe Munn, Caitlin Duggan, Joe Stephens-Collins and Thomas Griffiths are members of the school tennis team. Phalisha Valji took part in a dance to celebrate the festival of light, Diwali.

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Carmela Hermogeno has represented the school in the basketball team. Madeline Lloyd achieved a distinction in her grade 8 flute exam. Megan Jenkins has achieved highly in ice skating. Samuel Stapleton and Jacob Mills have been selected for a ten week engineering project called Go4set. Their task is to design an eco classroom. Kitty Dunning is enjoying attending the school badminton club.

9L Kristopher Black took part in the German exchange programme. Oliver El-Jawhari is a member of the Penarth Tennis Club. Re-becca Davies travelled to London for an audition with Disney! Alana Stokes is part of Barry WMCA and is by all accounts a very talented gymnast. A special mention to Owen Day who raised money for a spon-sored rowing event in which he rowed 23 kilometres, a great achievement.

“Charity Bake sales for Lesotho and Help for Heroes”

Mrs K Chelliingworth & Mr A Chambers

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The Autumn term has been an eventful and challenging one for Year 10 pupils. A number of departments have embarked on controlled assessments which will contribute to the pupils’ overall GCSE grades. Pupils have had to adapt to the rigours and challenges that this has presented. Pupils appreciate that cer-tain assignments completed in Year 10 consti-tute a proportion of their final GCSEs grades in the Summer of 2015 or even before. A number of pupils have been attending courses at Cardiff and Vale College and the Military Preparation College. This gives pupils an opportunity to experience areas of interest which could be developed into a career in the future. Pupils have begun to arrange their work ex-perience placements which will take place in July 2014. The majority of pupils have already explored the Careers Wales website and have applied for placements or have organised a self-placement. A significant number of pupils have partici-

pated in extra curricular visits this year. Many attended the rewards visit trip to the cinema to view “The Hobbit—The Desolation of Smaug”. Other visits have included the Geog-raphy visit to Italy and the Welsh excursion to

Glan Llyn in November. A significant high-light was the Drama visit to two local care homes to entertain the residents and spread some festive cheer. Year assemblies and PSE lessons have been both interesting and informative. Cardiff Met-ropolitan University presented a useful Higher Education workshop which afforded pupils the opportunity to begin thinking about life post 18 at university. Carol Evans from the Malar-chi Pooncholai Trust addressed the year group in relation to the Children’s Home in India. Since this assembly in September we have re-ceived a letter with details regarding the young orphan who is sponsored by the year group. The year council representatives have met on a number of occasions this term—the aim being to raise and discuss vital issues relevant to Year 10 pupils. The council members are Charlotte Hardy, Harri Pain, Lily Winnan, Sam Lawrence, Sonal Kerai, Jonathan Wright, Rachael Salisbury, Joseph Valek, Tom Morley, Emily Geen, Alex Langrish, Erin Summerhayes, Ebony Rees, Jonathan Ignacio, Basil Crack, Abby Mills, Joseph Burge, Elynne Steed, Alex Lean and Eliza-beth Ingram. The School council representa-tives are Joseph Burge and Lily Winnan. 10 T Pupils in 10T have been very active this year. Sali Harmes will be performing in ‘Les Miser-ables’ with the Orbit theatre company and will be performing in London next year whilst also working in Ty Hafan. Charlotte Hardy has completed her grade 7 flute exam recently and will be performing in ‘Les Miserables’ with the Orbit theatre company. In addition she is sing-ing with the Welsh National Opera and still found time to compete in the rowing champi-onships for the school! Seren Marsh is also

“Pupils have began to arrange their work experience placements”

Miss L Bekker & Mr G Penny

Blwyddyn 10 competing for the school in the rowing championships and has represented the school in netball and basketball. She has also completed her grade 5 piano and is awaiting her results. Paul Monaghan won a prize in the South Glamorgan festival for young mu-sician in the intermediate category and won the most promising musician of the Vale of Glamorgan cup. He is also performing as part of ‘Only Boys Aloud’. Harri Pain is in-volved in the Welsh sailing squad and has achieved his grade 4 guitar and grade 5 pi-ano. Rhys Jones volunteers for Cardiff RFC. Emma Spray has completed her grade 6 bal-let (RAD) and is awaiting her results. Mat-thew Dawson has represented the school at football, rugby and cross-country and is play-ing rugby for Penarth and football for Sully. Tom Marsh won the U14 and U16 tennis tournaments at Windsor tennis club. Ben Stewart was a Welsh novice boxing finalist and is playing football for both the school and Barry. Ella Buehner Gattis achieved a distinction for grade 5 double bass and is in the orchestra for the school production of ‘Beauty and the Beast’. She also volunteers at PLTC. Anna Jones has completed a leader course and volunteers at her local tennis club. Sofia Nardone came third in her first go-karting race and was awarded best novice driver. 10E Alex Drake has successfully won a place at the Vale schools’ rugby squad. Iwan Hop-kins won manager’s player of the year at Co-gan football club. Ellie Humphrey won a food technology competition. Emily Glaze completed the Aspire channel swim where she swam 22 miles (the length of the English channel) in 3 months. Elizabeth McCulloch achieved double A and winter national times

in swimming. Sonal Kerai has participated in various charity walks in aid of cancer research UK.

10A Grace Loweth and Bethan Hearne will be holding a stall selling Christmas decora-tions at IKEA for young enterprise on Thurs-day. Thomas Morley was pleased to secure 100% attendance. Jessica Martin won a ten-nis competition at Penarth tennis courts for a mini under 16s tournament. Emily Geen passed her grade 7 piano exam. Grace Samuel won a 5 x 60 Badminton competition at school. 10M There have been a number of notable dramatic and musical achievements in 10M this year. Ffion McGowan has danced with the English Youth Ballet while Olivia Barrett and Ebony Rees are appearing in ‘The Diary of Adrian Mole’. Ebony is also a principal in the produc-tion of ‘Beauty and the Beast’. Rhys Capener is performing with 140 other boys in the “Only Boys Aloud” choir where he will be perform-ing in front of over one thousand people- good luck Rhys! Taylor Phillips is assisting back stage for the senior production of “Beauty and the Beast”, Gwennan Jones has begun drums lessons and Bryony Aird has passed her grade 3 music theory. Jonathan Ignacio is partici-pating in the senior production and has audi-tioned to appear in an Orbit Theatre production of ‘Les Miserables’. He also enjoys running for Cardiff AAC and playing tennis at PLTC. There are a number of sporty pupils in 10M. Owen Lloyd is an important part of the Year 10 rugby team while Rosina Peterson is a member of the girls basketball team. James Riley and Ryan Webber are having a success-ful season with the Cogan B football team.

“A significant number of pupils have participated in extra curricular visits”

Miss L Bekker & Mr G Penny

Blwyddyn 10 Morgan Rees has been awarded the 4th belt in kickboxing, and is currently preparing for the 5th belt.

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Hugo Dodd sang with the Only Boys Aloud choir at the Swansea Grand Theatre. William Marsh competed in a badminton competition and was elected captain of the school football team. Jay Ruckley qualified for the semi-finals playing for Cadoxton Imps football team. Elynne Steed has passed her grade 2 clarinet. Ethan Hutchings played for the school U15s rugby team - scoring a hat-trick of tries while playing on the wing against Bro Morgannwg.

10W

It has been a busy and successful term for 10W with many sporting and academic achievements to reflect this. Nathan Frost represented the school in both rugby and football. He also represented two local teams: Penarth in rugby and Cogan in foot-ball. Well done to Francine Couzens and Beth Macmillan who represented the school in a trampoline competition. The school team gained a respectable 4th place in the novice category. Lily Winnan continues to progress in her rowing career and was chosen to repre-sent the school in the latest competitions. It has been a very creative term for Sam Wilt-shire and Jess Williams. Sam has almost completed his first album and Jess has con-structed a successful short film.

10O

There have been a variety of achievements in 10O this term, with form members playing in the school’s successful football and rugby teams, participating in the school musical and attending visits. Morgan Crimp, Jacob Troth and team members, won the 5x60 school tennis tournament, Joseph Valek has passed his radio training, enabling him to present a show on Rookwood Sounds and Jacob Troth and Lloyd Hanson have undertaken swimming time trials and competed at local swimming galas. Con-gratulations also to Lloyd Hanson, on passing his grade 5 trumpet examination and running for the school’s cross-country team in a recent competition. Tom Pascoe plays for Park Li-ons FC, the PG10 Football Academy and Sully Centurions’ Cricket Club and has also been selected to play for the Vale Cricket team. Jo-seph Valek and Jacob Troth have passed their Duke of Edinburgh First Aid assessment .

“There have been a variety of achievements in Year 10 this term”

Miss L Bekker & Mr G Penny

Blwyddyn 10 10R Alex Langrish participated in the recent ta-ble tennis competition in which the team were victorious. Annabelle Birch-Hurst and Lucie Dyer have played netball matches for both the school and Penarth teams. In ad-dition, 3 members of the form were selected for senior roles in ‘Beauty and the Beast’ - Lewis Campbell, Isabel Grafton and Logan Nicol. 10K Basil Crack has been selected for the county rugby team. Many pupils have earned suffi-cient housepoints for a place on the reward trip. These include: Bethan Laventure, Abby Mills, Morgan Rose, Basil Crack, Dominic Alstead, Ray Vandyke. Tom Tunley and Ray Vandyke are performing in the senior musical production of 'Beauty and the Beast'. 10L It has been a busy term for 10L pupils, with a significant proportion of the form participat-ing in the Duke of Edinburgh sessions as they aim to achieve the “bronze award” this year. There have been numerous musical and dramatic achievements, starting with Eliza-beth Ingram who is playing the part of a ‘silly girl’ in the school production of ‘Beauty and the Beast’, as well as taking her grade 6 ballet and achieving a distinction in her grade 4 singing. Olivia North has achieved a merit in her grade 5 singing, and Tom Sharpe achieved a distinction in grade 7 piano. Amy Walsh passed her grade 5 mu-sical theatre exam with a distinction and is

also participating in the school production, and Charlotte Way is taking part in the Christmas show with the Jeff Guppy School of musical theatre. Finally, Alfie Chambers completed his grade 4 trombone, and has also won several awards for his rugby playing.

There have been a number of sporting achieve-ments to note, starting with Henry Ward who was a runner up in the under 18s doubles final in the Penarth lawn tennis club Junior Tourna-

ment. Tom Collins won 1 out of 2 races in the Worcester Rowing Regatta, and Amy Walsh has competed in time trials with Penarth Swimming and Water Polo Club. Lastly, Tris-tan Goodway-Sims achieved a yellow black strip belt in tae kwondo, as well as finishing 2nd in a friendly tournament. All the pupils in 10L are looking forward to a well earned break, and best of luck to any pupils who will be preparing for their first external GCSE modules this January!

“Best of luck to pupils in their first external GCSE modules in January”

Miss L Bekker & Mr G Penny

Blwyddyn 11

It has been a busy term for Year 11 as pupils complete controlled assessments and work to-wards achieving their GCSEs in the summer of 2014. The Maths GCSEs and mock examinations have now finished and Year 11 pupils will re-ceive their school reports on Thursday, 23rd January 2014.

During their pastoral lessons, Year 11 pupils have had a variety of outside agencies involving them in workshops and discussion groups. Fire Service officers have spoken to a number of forms on Road Safety and PC Emma Mudie has talked to pupils about sexual consent, Halloween and Fireworks. Mr Alun Pritchard of Careers Wales has started his one-to-one career inter-views with pupils.

Alongside this, assemblies have taken place where recognition has been given to world events, activities and the precepts of the week including Respect, Values, Remembrance, Is it OK to fail?, Anti-bullying week, World Aids Day and Eco-School Week. Also, making use of the school facilities, Year 11 have looked at dis-ability in the iPad room and the results of dan-gerous driving using ‘The Crash’ resources in the Learning Resource Centre.

Homework Clubs have been running throughout the term and will continue right up to the sum-mer GCSE examinations. We encourage all pu-pils to take part in these sessions if possible in order to fulfil their potential at GCSE. For fur-ther information on homework clubs and support provided in Year 11 please go to :

moodle.stanwell.org

“Mae hi wedi bod yn dymor prysur i Flwyddyn 11”

Miss L Jenkins & Mr B Crompton

This year our School Council Represen-tatives are Emma Davies and Joshua Lewis. Each form has elected representatives for the Year 11 Council. They are as fol-lows: 11T– Natasha Harries and Jordan Van Praag 11E– Ethan Linay-Ataou and Lily Webbe 11A– Tom Hann and Kelsey Murray 11M– Nicole Butler and Joshua Lewis 11X– Alice Holder and Harry Jowett 11W– Emma Davies and Joshua Whittaker 11O– Sally Jones and Michael Phillips 11R– William Brown and Lauren Faulkner 11K– Rebecca Egerstrom and Samuel Wilcox 11L– Shannon Ensor and Max Scott

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‘campau chwaraeon’

Miss L Jenkins & Mr B Crompton

11T

Louis De Claire, Rhys Knight, Sam Nilsen, Peter Tuthill, Thomas Frankland and Sam-uel White have all played football for Sully. Congratulations to Verity Tucker on passing grade 3 on the french horne. Shanice Donovan has been extremely busy playing in the girls’ football and basketball teams.

11E

Congratulation to Mathew Bennett who is the top scorer for Newport County where he repre-sents the team as a striker. Jack Bosley has been attending Jara programming club and is currently participating in the Duke of Edin-burgh Silver Award. Teigan Couper is also participating in the DoE Silver Award. Edward Drake has represented the school’s rugby team as a tight head prop. Congratula-tions to Isaac Dyer on passing grade 7 on the trumpet. He also represents the school rugby team as a fly half. Phoebe Christie, Niamh Teague and Milissa Sorenson raised £358.33 for the Teenage Cancer Trust by holding a bake sale and raffle in school.

11A

Georgia Atkinson and Kelsey Murray have both been busy representing the school in net-ball, basketball and football. Thomas Fox has participated in a tennis tournament for Windsor tennis club. He has won 4 games and lost 2. Da iawn! Thomas Hann is currently participating in the Silver DoE Award Scheme. Congratula-tions to Rebeka Thompson who performed in Ballet Cymru’s superb production of ‘A Mid-summer Night’s Dream’. She is a very talented

dancer, as we can see from this stunning pic-ture taken during rehearsals.

11M

Congratulations to Elizabeth Birch-Hurst who has been selected for the U16 county netball team.

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Christina Bugert, Yoko Hargreaves and Laura Huntley have successfully competed in show jumping events. Well done to Ta-sha Smith on creating a new logo for eco-schools. Alex Warren and Kate Wilkins are busy preparing for a dance show in the Millennium Centre. Congratulations to Ellie Donovan on passing grade 4 on the flute. Rhodri Guerrier has been running a pro-gramming club for one year as part of his DoE qualification. Kwabena Fordjour en-joys running with his fitness club.

11W Joshua Whittaker has represented the school in rugby and cricket. Congratulations to Amelia Rowlands who achieved 2nd place in Gemau Cymru (rowing).

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‘llawer o bobl yn gweithio am eu gwobrau Dug Caeredin’

Miss L Jenkins & Mr B Crompton

Also, she was a finalist tin the IWA Business Awards. (Pictured opposite with Owain Os-borne-Walsh.) 11O Congratulations to Thomas Mullett who rep-resented Wales in the 2013 WUKF European Championships for Karate; the biggest karate event to take place in Britain this year. 11R Alexandra Wallace continues to volunteer at the PDSA. Good luck to Chloe Laventure who will be hoping to attain a place in the Welsh netball trials. Many of the form are in-volved with the Duke of Edinburgh Award ; Eric Aydin, Simon Barber, Erin Clissold, Lauren Faulkner, Fynn Lacey, Jack Ma-jeed, Thomas Moreton, Christopher Morri-son and Mark Norton. 11K Congratulations to Courtney Fettah who came 1st in the International Dance Organisa-tion. Well done to Rebecca Egerstrom on passing her football trials; she now represents the county team as goalkeeper. Da iawn Sam Wilcox for representing Cardiff Swimming Club and Stanwell School in the Urdd swim-ming gala.

11L Congratulations to Virginia Leo on passing grade 5 music theory exam. Max Scott has applied for Brit School in London, pob lwc! Well done to Harvey Atkins on success-fully completing his lifesaver FAW with St Johns Ambulance. Congratulations to Seren James on passing her gold level on figure skating. Also, she is currently working to-wards her black belt in karate. Pictured be-low is Owain Osborne-Walsh (With Ame-lia Rowlands 11W) who was a finalist in the IWA Business Awards.

Dates for the diary:

January 6th 2014 - INSET day January 7th — First day back for pupils January 8th—External January GCSEs be-gin (timetable available on moodle.stanwell.org) January 9th—GCSE results issued for No-vember 2013 exams January 23rd—Reports issued to Year 11 January 28th—Parents Evening February 18th—Year 11 Options Evening May 12th—Start of summer written GCSE exams August 21st —GCSE results and enrolment days for 6th form Nadolig Llawen to all our students!

Blwyddyn12 It has been a pleasure to welcome

the students of Year 12 into the Sixth Form of Stanwell School and it is particularly pleasing to see that nearly 80% of last year’s Year 11 have decided to continue with their studies at our school. We would also like to extend a warm welcome to the 5 students who have joined us from other schools. They have really hit the ground running this term with all stu-dents completing the Team Enterprise task which forms the backbone of the Working With Others Essential Skill as part of the Welsh Baccalaureate qualification. Students were placed in groups and each group were asked to design a product to sell on the school’s Open Day on October 8th. We are pleased to report that all groups made a profit which was then donated to the charity of their choice. The ’Market Place’ on Open Day was certainly a vibrant scene of colour and serious business deals!

Selling candles as part of the Team Enterprise task . We are very grateful to the local business peo-ple who gave up their time to support this event as part of the Dragons’ Den. Each team had to present their ideas to the ‘Dragons’ in order to make a bid for a loan of up to £20 to

Year 12 entrepre-neurs.

Welsh Baccalaureate tasks continue with stu-dents settling into their Community Participa-tion placements. Many have chosen to support younger pupils with their learning in various classes whilst others have decided to broaden their horizons by working in the community through volunteering in local charity shops or supporting younger children in primary schools. All members of the year group have also been asked to start looking into possible work experi-ence placements for June 2014. Mr Deighton-Jones has provided all students with Careers Wales log in details with the advice that it would be best to get this organised as soon as possible. Interim reports were issued to all students at the beginning of November detailing teachers’ views on the initial progress made in all sub-jects. A full written report will be issued to-wards the end of January in response to the in-ternal examinations recently sat. Thank you to all parents who attended the Sixth Form Infor-mation Evening on October 22nd. Information was given on the external assessment dates, forthcoming events and expectations of the school. This information is now available on Moodle. Many students have been giving their future career paths serious consideration. There has been an impressive response to the super - curricular opportunities advertised on the daily bulletins with many students applying for places on Preparation for Law courses and opportuni-ties for those planning to study Medicine, Vet-erinary Sciences and Nursing. Prospective Ox-bridge students have also started to research the process and requirements. We would like to end by taking this opportunity to wish all members of the year group a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

‘The ’Market Place’ on Open Day was certainly a vibrant scene.’

Mrs A Mansfield , Mr M Gershenson and

Mr R Relph

Year 12 WB01 Well done to Nicole Morrick who has recently obtained a life guard licence and to Leo Tucker who achieved gold in the UKMT Maths Challenge. Congratulations to Cris-tiano Nardone who is the Llandow Kart Club Junior Honda Champion 2013. He also com-peted in the 2013 ABkC and MSA British Championship in Cumbria and achieved 3rd place smashing the current lap record for Jun-ior Honda. He now holds the lap record at Cumbria Kart Club Circuit.

Nicole Morrick The new life guard

WB02 Well done to Daniel Ellis who has been playing American football for the South Wales Warriors and to Joel Ringer who has been playing for both Cowbridge College Rugby Academy and for the Cardiff Blues U18s team. Zed Strong has founded the Stan-well Miniature War Gaming Society this term and Kathleen Ahearne is the CCVG Youth Band’s first B Flat and E Flat clarinettist. The very best of luck to Amy Guppy who is a cast member of the school production of ‘Beauty and the Beast’ and to Luke Morley who is taking part in a skydive in aid of the charity Following your Dreams who support people with learning disabilities. He hopes to raise £500.

Luke Mo-rely hopes to raise £500

Cristiano Nar-done, the Llandow Kart Club, Junior Honda Cham-pion 2013.

WB03 Calum Hughes has recently taken part in a skydive from 13,000 feet raising over £1300 for Juvenile Diabetes Research Founda-tion and Megan Wiltshire was part of Take Over Cardiff event with the Young Critics, re-viewing numerous acts. She, along with Katie Alstead, also supported the school in helping with the Year 7 Llangrannog visit.

Well done to Calum Hughes on his recent skydive.

WB04 Well done to Grace Hewlett who has passed grade 7 on the piano and to Emily Moulton who recently auditioned for the new Star Wars film. Jay Kapuria is working to-wards the Duke of Edinburgh silver award and Tom Chandler is volunteering for the Penarth Pavilion Project.

Tom Chan-dler, volun-teer for the Penarth Pa-vilion Project

‘Many impressive achievements by Year 12 students‘

Mrs A Mansfield , Mr M Gershenson and

Mr R Relph

Year 12 WB05 Mark Monaghan has won the Penarth Regatta and has also passed grade 6 on the pi-ano, Wil Creaven has also excelled by being chosen for the Welsh Performance Sailing team. Well done to Lambert Kalongo who has become vice captain of the Rodallega Bombs FC who won the Power League 5 a side competition and to both Lydia James and Hannah Harries who are involved in this year’s production of ‘Beauty and the Beast’. WB06 Well done to Liam John and Kieran Hopkins who are key members the Dinas Powys RFC Youth team. WB07 Morgan Clarke is a member of the Penarth RFC youth side and congratulations to Daniel Hourihan who has obtained Level 1 coaching awards in gymnastics and swim-ming. Megan O’Brien, our champion swimmer

WB08 Martin Griffiths has been busy; he is a news pre-

senter at Bro Radio in Barry and is also in-volved in setting up a radio station at our school. He has recently become a youth leader in his Scout group and has secured the leading role of Maurice in the school’s production of ‘Beauty and the Beast’. Well done to Kyle Jones who has completed a photography course at his local youth club and to Megan O’Brien who is a key member of the City of Cardiff swimming team who recently won round 2 of the National Arena Swimming League at Millfield School. Both Megan Hol-land and Catrin Morgan are members of the ‘Beauty and the Beast’ cast.

WB09 Well done to Ruth Garner who has raised £150 for the Philippines appeal and to Beth Johnson who recently ran a 10k race for charity. Congratulations to Lissie Britten who has achieved second place in her first dressage competition, she is the reigning champion in the Novelty Show classes and she won first place in her first ever show jumping competition. Nils Deeg and Lukas Moser have both passed grade 6 on the drums. Nils was also successful at grade 8 on the piano. Suzie Collins has also passed grade 5 on the piano WB10 Phoenix Kaged has been representing Cardiff in athletics and congratulations to Alas-dair Cavaye who cycled from Land’s End to John O’Groats in the summer, raising £1500 for charity. Alasdair has also passed grade 5 in Music Theory and has received the Chief Scouts Platinum Award. He now part of the Lord Mayor’s Scout/Explorer Unit. Well done to Ben Howe who has been attending climbing sessions at The Project and has completed the 6B+ wall and to both Zola Hargreaves and Anna Kinnersley who are members of the school charity committee. Zola is also respon-sible for the idea of a Teachers’ Fashion Show for charity which we’re all very excited about!

Zola Hargreaves is organising a teachers’ fash-ion show for charity

‘Many Year 12 students raise money for charity’

Mrs A Mansfield , Mr M Gershenson and

Mr R Relph

Blwyddyn13 The students of Year 13 have hit

the ground running this September. Naturally, the UCAS process has been the priority for many. Each student was assigned a UCAS tu-tor in order to provide help and support with their application and personal statement. The majority of students have now applied to their chosen universities and many have received conditional offers. 18 students have applied for Oxbridge and several others applied through the CUKAS process hoping to study at schools of Music and Drama. At the start of the year, Adelle Rushton from Bristol Univer-sity came in to talk to the students about writ-ing personal statements and Ewan Hopkins of Cardiff University also gave a presentation to the year group on interview techniques. Mock interviews have been arranged for those stu-dents who expect this to be part of the process at their chosen universities. We would like to thank Martin Blamey, formerly of Careers Wales, for his continued support in organising these invaluable 'practice runs' for our pupils. Students who do not wish to study at univer-sity have been receiving help and guidance via the Careers Officer and Mr R Deighton-Jones (our Work Related Education co-ordinator). Advice was given on writing letters of applica-tion, producing CVs and where to look for em-ployment opportunities. We wish all students the very best of luck with their applications and plans for the future and we hope that all are able to fulfil their ambitions within higher education and employment. Two of the Essential Skills within the Welsh Baccalaureate Qualification were completed this term. All students were required to submit their work on Problem Solving which ad-dressed the issue of deciding on which path to take when leaving Stanwell in the summer. In addition, all were required to submit their Communication Portfolio which contained written, reading and presentation tasks under-taken by the students.

All members of the year group have now re-ceived their examination timetables for the January session. The number of exams sat by pupils will differ greatly depending on subjects and decisions to re-sit AS modules. As a result, no block period of study leave has been organ-ised and lessons will continue as normal throughout the period. In its place, individual study leave programmes will be organised for each student in the year group following a dis-cussion between students and the pastoral team. This will allow those who do have exams the time in which to prepare thoroughly whilst also enabling teaching of A2 topics to continue with as little disruption as possible.

On a lighter note, many of our Year 13 students are involved in both cast and orchestral roles, with Zachary Ghazi Torbati, Luke Waddon and Alys Wilcox undertaking principal parts. We congratulate and thank them all for their contri-bution to the show’s success.

Mock Interviews with Martin Blamey

“ the year group have now received their examination timetables for January”

Mrs R Connor, Mr K Watkins

and Mr R Relph

Year 13

WB02 Joe Pollock has completed his Duke of Edin-burgh Gold Award Expedition and Luke Smith was the winner of the Vagabond Com-edy Show 2013. WB03 Riyad Auckbarally has been selected for the Cardiff Blues under 18s squad and Rosie Cockerill Evans has graduated from the jun-ior team to the adult Tiger Bay Brawlers Roller Derby Team. Lettie Chatham and Mille Earp have successfully completed their adult leader qualification for Girl Guiding. Samuel Hall continues to play for Old Penarthians 1st team and George Johnson has represented the school in tennis, where the team made it through to the next round in the British School Championships. WB06 Joe Dyer and Dewi Fford finished top of the Stanwell five a side football league along with Fraser Hodgkins, Scott Taylor and Lloyd Phillips. James Flanigan made the trials for the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games in swimming and Charlotte Goodway Sims has completed a BTEC in Public Services. WB07 Jessica Duggan has completed her Duke of Edinburgh Gold Award. WB08 Katie Phillips has achieved grade 7 in con-temporary movement with specialisation in jazz and Jessica Plowright has sold one of her original Art works. Congratulations must also go to Chelsea Mace who has won the IWA- Western Mail PWC Young Enterprise Business Award, she is now going to the Inspired Wales Award Launch in January

It is with sadness that we reflect upon the death of one of our Year 13 students, Robert Togden. Robert had been very unwell for some time and sadly passed away in November this year. Robert’s Memorial Service was held at the Paget Rooms on Saturday 23rd November and this was attended by many of our sixth form students wishing to pay their respects. Robert will be greatly missed.

Robert Togden at Caerphilly Castle, 2012

“We wish all students the very best of luck with their applications and plans for the future.”

Mrs R Connor, Mr K Watkins

and Mr R Relph

Well done to the following pupils who have attended school every day since September

 

 

 

 

100% ATTENDANCE ACHIEVEMENT: AUTUMN TERM 2013‐14 

YEAR 7 PUPILS: 

Name Reg Aguinaldo, Jericho 7X

Akhtar, Aleena 7W

Ali, Ruhama 7R

Allen, Ryan 7T

Amari, Tariq 7W

Anderton, Sophie 7R

Baidenko, Anastasija 7K

Baker, Max 7K

Banks, Arianne 7L

Banks, Enyala 7L

Borde, Jasmine 7L

Castillo, Reinel 7A

Chandler, Menna 7A

Cole, Eleanor 7R

Croll, Natasha 7M

Cross, Calan 7X

David, Carys 7M

Davies, Joseff 7X

Dodd, Charlie 7K

Doust, Joseph 7L

Edwards, Megan 7L

Fisher, Kayleigh 7R

French, Courtney 7M

George, Matthew 7R

Gibbs, Maisy 7E

Glass, Bethany 7E

Green, Callum 7O

Name Reg Griffiths, Emily 7W

Hague Jones, Nicholas 7R

Hall, Adam 7W

Hardy, William 7X

Hayes, Daniel 7L

Hayman, Lowri 7K

Holland, Meredith 7A

Hopkins, Alicia 7R

Horrocks, Jody 7K

Hughes, Tomos 7K

Isherwood, Nia 7X

Jenkins, Thomas 7E

Jones, Daniel 7L

Jones, Dylan 7L

Jones, Elinor 7W

Jones, Lucy 7E

Jones, Reuben 7M

Kneale, Samuel 7X

Knight, Deiniol 7L

Lee, Grace 7O

Lee, Thomas 7O

Lewis, Rhys 7E

Lieu, Jessie 7R

Lloyd, Evan 7W

Marshall, Harriet 7M

Matthews, Katy 7R

McCullagh, Billy 7A

Name Reg McCulloch, Ffion 7M

McLellan-Morgan, Zachary 7X

Millinship, Ethan 7R

Mills, Ethan 7M

Moss, Dylan 7M

Mulcahy, Ethan 7W

Murray, Georgia 7K

Newman, Rhys 7K

O'Grady, Natasha 7O

Peach, Charlotte 7T

Perry, William 7W

Price, Felix 7K

Price, Wyn 7R

Pritchard, Jack 7M

Proctor, Megan 7A

Quinlan, Phoebe 7X

Randall, Jacob 7L

Rees, Olivia 7W

San Diego, Julia Alyssa 7K

Sealy, Laney 7O

Selman, Lauren 7R

Skinner, Rory 7E

Spencer, Louis 7O

Stevens, Finley 7R

Stockley-Jones, Jack 7M

Sullivan, Seren 7L

Sultana, Cameron 7K

Name Reg Summerhayes, Eva 7M

Thomas, Carys 7K

Thomas, Lloyd 7R

Thompson, Joseff 7W

Walker, Natasha 7L

Weir, Adam 7T

Yip, Kayci 7T

 

YEAR 8 PUPILS 

Name Reg Bailey, George 8M

Barber, Matthew 8X

Brewster, Sophie 8W

Brown, Alexander 8X

Brown, Amoy 8L

Bunford-Davies, Anna 8E

Carver, Madeline 8A

Cook, Joshua 8O

Croft, Eleanor 8A

David, Harrison 8T

Davies, Elliot 8R

Davies, Natasha 8A

Dawson, James 8M

Dibble, Ellis 8K

Donovan, Joseph 8T

Drake, Jonathan 8E

Driveman, Ellen 8T

Dyer, Toby 8R

Edwards, Cameron 8K

Edwards, Sonny 8A

Emberson, Aidan 8M

Evans, Ben 8W

Frankling, Grace 8E

Froggatt, Samuel 8O

Frost, Matthew 8R

Gilbert, James 8T

Griffiths, Eleanor-Rose 8R

Name Reg Harding, Jack 8O

Hatcher, Jacob 8O

Hayes, Ben 8R

Hocking, Matthew 8R

Jackson, Ffion 8L

Jomon, Antony 8O

Jones, George 8R

Lane, Owain 8M

Lloyd, Cai 8L

Lovering, Sofia 8K

Lumsden, Eve 8L

Matthews, Jack 8A

Milward, Lydia 8W

Monaghan, Mila 8M

Penry-Williams, Dylan 8M

Pires-Jenkins, Rebeca 8L

Price, George 8K

Rees, Thomas 8W

Rogan, Victor 8E

Ross, Hannah 8A

Salmon, Hannah 8K

Shah, Constance 8R

Stephens, Hannah 8T

Tassinari, Libero 8X

Te Water Naude, Andrew 8E

Tsoi, Nicky 8O

Warren, Eleanor 8K

Woolmer, Rhys 8W

Wright, Samuel 8O

Yamada, Wataru 8M

 

YEAR 9 

Name Reg Anderton, Daniel 9X

Bagshaw, Scott 9T

Baker, Thaine 9R

Bennett, Jonathan 9O

Name Reg Bird, Stuart 9T

Blunsden, Ffion 9W

Bosley, Anna 9M

Bratby, Rebecca 9T

Bridge, Matthew 9M

Bushby, Noah 9A

Butler, Rhys 9A

Carter, Abbey 9L

Chamberlain, Olivia 9R

Chapman, Sophie 9K

Crockett, Lauren 9E

Ellis, Lauren 9W

Gallone, Anna 9R

Gimber, Kieron 9K

Griffiths, Thomas 9R

Hawkins-Payne, Ellis 9R

Hearne, Adam 9W

Hearne, Amy 9R

Hermogeno, Carmela 9K

Higgins, Anna 9M

Holman, Daniel 9R

Howe, Georgia 9O

Hughes, Dylan 9T

James, Samuel 9O

Jones, Rhys 9O

Jones, Samuel 9M

Khan, Aymen 9K

Knight, Jodie 9T

Knupp, Kabir 9L

Lawley, Moses 9R

Lewis, Victoria 9E

Mair, Lauren 9M

Morgan, Bronwyn 9X

Morrison, Madeline 9M

Newman, Harry 9L

Nurse, Lucas 9W

O'Hanlon, Taia 9A

Peach, Katherine 9X

Peacock, Antonio 9K

Name Reg Pwele, Maxine 9M

Robinson, Adam 9X

Roderick, Benjamin 9E

Safdar, Amina 9T

Smith, Harry 9E

Spencer, Evie 9W

Squire, Cora 9X

Sweeney, Niamh 9T

Thomas, Katie 9K

Thomas, Samuel 9A

Watkins, Sophie 9O

Whitfield, Alexander 9E

Wilde, Frazer 9W

Williams, Ella 9W

Williams, Geraint 9E

Wilson, Carys 9E

 

YEAR 10 PUPILS 

Name Reg Adney, James 10E

Alstead, Dominic 10K

Bond, Amy 10M

Bright, Alice 10L

Chimuzi, Samuel 10M

Cole, Gregory 10W

Collins, Thomas 10L

Couzens, Francine 10W

Crimp, Morgan 10O

Cross, Jamie 10M

Davies, Lewys 10O

Dawson, Matthew 10T

Dodd, Hugo 10X

Durham, Alice 10E

Ellis, Caitlin 10X

Fitt, Bethany 10R

Fitt, Jordan 10L

Gale, William 10L

Name Reg Geen, Emily 10A

Grafton, Isabel 10R

Green, Joseph 10R

Grosfils, Daniel 10O

Hardy, Charlotte 10T

Harvey, Robert 10K

Hermogeno, Lex 10L

Hicks, Ieuan 10L

Holbrook-Fox, Savanna 10O

Hopkins, Iwan 10E

Humpage, Rebecca 10K

Inker, Ethan 10R

Iredale, Robyn 10W

Jackson, Aled 10X

Johns, William 10W

Jones, Dylan 10K

Jones, Kyrsty 10L

Jones, Megan 10O

Jones, Rhys 10T

Judge, William 10T

Lane, Danielle 10L

Langrish, Alex 10R

Lee, Izaak 10R

Loweth, Grace 10A

Marsh, Seren 10T

Marsh, William 10X

Matthews, Cerys 10O

Matthews, Elin 10R

McCulloch, Elizabeth 10E

McSorley, Callum 10T

Mian, Sean 10K

Mock, Abigail 10E

Morley, Thomas 10A

Moser, David 10A

Odgers, Joseph 10O

Owusu, Daniel 10M

Pain, Harri 10T

Parselle, Chloe 10O

Pearce, Emily 10X

Name Reg Pearce, Rhiannon 10X

Phillips, Joseph 10R

Pollock, Matthew 10K

Poole, Chloe 10E

Powell, Jack 10K

Price, James 10M

Pringle, Luke 10T

Proctor, Catherine 10M

Putland, Nicole 10R

Rees, Morgan 10M

Revell-Griffiths, Jack 10A

Riley, James 10M

Ritchie, Ellie 10L

Rollings, Ellie 10K

Saji, Linda 10A

Shamte, Maya 10O

Sibert, Lucy 10O

Sims, William 10A

Smith, Georgina 10O

Summerhayes, Erin 10R

Tavanaie, Kiyan 10T

Thomas, Benjamin 10W

Troth, Jacob 10O

Turpin, Benjamin 10L

Vandyck, Ray 10K

Walsh, Amy 10L

Way, Charlotte 10L

Wilde, Poppy 10W

Williams, Harry 10A

Williams, Jessica 10W

Williams, Lily-May 10L

Wiltshire, Samuel 10W

Wright, Jonathan 10E

 

 

 

YEAR 11 PUPILS  

Name Reg Appiah, Leon 11O

Bennett, Mathew 11E

Bosley, Jack 11E

Butler, Nicole 11M

Candy, Alexander 11M

Chatham, Evie 11W

Cummins, Lauren 11E

Davies, Morgan 11T

Dhar, Tanni 11A

Drake, Edward 11E

Evans, Megan 11W

Ferriday, Lydia 11O

Fettah, Courtney 11K

Franks, Emily 11R

Freeman, Isaac 11E

Fudge, Edward 11K

Gilligan, Ryan 11W

Green, Elliot 11X

Guerrier, Rhodri 11X

Hallett, Maisie 11L

Herbert, Edward 11K

Jones, Lily 11X

Keenan, Thomas 11E

Lieu, Kerstin 11T

Maher, Bryce 11O

Majeed, Jack 11R

McConkey, Joshua 11E

McGavin, Kieran 11A

McGavin, Stuart 11M

Merrett, Hannah 11K

Moon, Joseph 11M

O'Leary, Caitlin 11W

Palmer, Cerys 11L

Procter, Euan 11E

Prosser, Adam 11K

Rufo, Kenn 11K

Shore, Oliver 11M

Name Reg Skinner, Ella 11E

Stafford, Jamie 11W

Tanner, Benjamin 11T

Tuthill, Peter 11T

Warren, Alexandra 11X

Webbe, Lily 11E

Wiltshire, Georgia 11W

 

 

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