Summer 2017: Issue 19HettonHeadlines

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I am delighted to welcome your to our Summer 2017 edition of Hetton Headlines. I hope you enjoy reading through our award-winning magazine, taking note of all the amazing activities and achievements over the past term. Achievement takes many forms and, at Hetton School, this core belief is expressed through our ‘Learn to Achieve’ strategy. This states that intelligence and skills can be developed and all students can achieve no matter what their starting position.

We create in our students a desire to learn which then allows them to embrace challenges, persist in the face of setbacks, see effort as the path to mastery, learn from criticism and find lessons or inspiration in the success of others. All of this then results in improved levels of achievement.

At Hetton School we talk about achievement in all aspects of our student’s lives. This ranges from our improving GCSE results, to being highly commended in the Department for Education ambassador awards for our ‘Hetton Honours’ system.

Our sports leaders excel and we have added to the success of our Cricket Academy by creating a Sports Leadership Academy and Girl’s Football Academy (in association with Sunderland Foundation of Light).

What is never forgotten is the need to challenge all students to achieve the best GCSE results they are capable of. This is especially the case for high-achieving students, many of whom go on to the best colleges, universities and valued apprenticeships in the region.

Hetton School is a vibrant learning community, rich in extra-curricular experiences, including student visits to New York, Costa Rica, Cambodia and China. Since being judged ‘Good’ at our last inspection, the school has moved into our brand new building. Currently we are expanding rapidly with a 20% increase in intake for September 2017.

When you consider all we do already, together with our plans for the near future, this is an exciting time to be a part of Hetton School. You can follow our news updates via our website, blog, Facebook page, Twitter posts or via the link we send to parents each week.

From the editor

Welcome to issue 19 of Hetton Headlines. The first year in our new school building is drawing to an end and what a year it has been. It has been great to see students taking more of an active role both within school and Hetton Headlines.

Keep up the good work. Enjoy your summer everyone.

Ms Haddock,

Class Student Editors - 10A2 and 7A1

Cain Forster – Student editing contributor for Sport

Craig KnowlesActing Headteacher

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Visitors for a dayOn the 7th of July 2017, following the community performance on July 5th, Year 5 students were invited to Hetton School for a short rendition of School of Rock. It was a great performance with all students participating in questions, singing and generally having a great time.

However, this wasn’t the first time Year 5’s visited. On the 19th of June 2017 Year 5 students from Eppleton Academy, East Rainton, Easington Lane, Hetton and Hetton Lyons Primary Schools visited Hetton School for the day.

They arrived at 9.30am and were greeted in the Sports Hall by Sky Sports Ambassdor, Craig Heap. Craig provided a short presentation on his career, which included a section on his Commonwealth and Olympic achievements.

The Year 5 classes then started a sports carousel. The carousel included activities such as hockey, martial arts, dodge ball and archery. Year 5 had lunch in the school canteen and by 2.30pm had participated in all the activities on offer. The activities were led by staff from Keep Active and supported by Hetton School’s Year 10 Junior Sports Leaders.

Both days were a great success and all of the Year 5 students were a credit to their Primary Schools. Many Thanks go to Mrs Humphrey, Miss Davies and Mrs Ridley for organising such successful events.

Google Expeditions team pays a visit to Hetton SchoolDuring the spring term Google Expeditions have been working with selected schools across the country to try and develop virtual learning within the classroom.

On the 11th May, Google Expeditions visited Hetton School. They brought with them 60 headsets and all students at KS3 level, and a selection of students in year 10, had the opportunity to experience virtual lessons using 360 photo spheres and 3D images whilst covering topics such as the Amazon Rainforest, Earthquakes and even Space.

The Google Expeditions programme is a tool teachers can use to make lessons interactive and more visual. Google have developed this programme with partners such as David Attenborough, who have helped create the 300 expeditions available.

The next step is for Hetton School to find funding to purchase some headsets of our own.

Ms. Paget

This year, in our Spanish and French clubs, we had the opportunity to take part in a range of fun activities and games with Rosa and Elodie - our two international teacher helpers. In addition to the interesting games and activities, we also had the opportunity to try lots of tasty French and Spanish food. Something I think everyone should try!

In French Club, we often played the game ‘Mille Bornes’, which is card game in which you have to try to ‘travel 1000 miles’ whilst dodging obstacles put down by other players. In Spanish club we played various card games, found out about some strange Spanish customs and learned about a different Spanish footballer each week.

I thought that working with Rosa and Elodie was both interesting and fun. It was really hard to say goodbye when they left to go home, but I am looking forward to meeting the new assistants next year. Why don’t you come and check it out sometime?

Amy Ritchie (7B1)4

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Young Physicist of the Year 2017On Tuesday 20th June Jacob Smith attended an award ceremony at Durham University held by the Ogden Trust. He was the recipient of the 2017 Young Physicist of the Year 2017. The evening involved a reception where Jacob was able to meet physics graduates and look at the cutting edge work taking place at Durham University and then attend an award ceremony led by Professor Carlos Frank. It was in this ceremony that Jacob was recognised for his excellent work in Physics and is now able to access the support and funding offered by the Ogden Trust should he wish to study Physics in the future.

We are extremely proud of Jacob and wish him every success in the future.

Recently thirteen of our students took on and completed the challenge of the Bronze Duke of Edinburgh Award Expedition.

The practise expedition took place within the Durham area and saw students camp out under the stars at Moor House. The expedition formed the last section of the Award as students had already completed the Volunteering, Skills and Physical sections. As part of the expedition, the students walked 15 miles in a two-day trek - one of them being the hottest day of the year.

During the practise, students’ nerves were further tested as many took part in a Campfire ‘Bush Tucker Trial’ that saw an interesting combination of unusual food being presented to blindfolded contestants.

An ‘attractive’ Bush Tucker menu was provided by Mr Turner, and consisted of: • Cockroach smoothie – uncooked oats with

choc sprinkles• Piranha Smoothie – tuna and milk sludge• Dog food – mars bars and jelly • Frogspawn – creamy tapioca The qualifying expedition took place two weeks later along Hadrian’s Wall in Northumberland. Students were assessed on their map skills, orienteering, camp skills and their ability to assemble a secure tent.

Well done to everyone who took part, completed the task and was signed off to receive his or her Bronze award. We look forward to hearing about you achieving your Gold Awards in the future!

Hetton School have recently won the ‘Fair Achiever’ school award, which is the highest achievable award from the Fair Trade Charity.

We have won this due to Hetton School students’ hard work in baking and planning a Fairtrade breakfast and break for staff for two consecutive years.

As well as this, Hetton School has adopted a Fair Trade policy, which aims to promote fairness throughout the school by completing Fair Trade challenges, continuing to hold Fair Trade events within school and promoting Fair Trade within the local community.

In April, three GCSE RE pupils: Layla Tipton, Aimee Potts and Joshua Wilkinson - along with Miss Dowsland - taught a lesson about the benefits of Fair Trade to Year 5 pupils at Hetton Lyons Primary School. This experience has helped prepare year 5 pupils for getting involved with Fair Trade events when they come up to Hetton School.

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Bronze Duke of Edinburgh

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Students from year’s 9 and 10 were lucky enough to take part in a craft work shop with two local glass artists. Each student made a glass tile which would then be fused in a kiln and added to a ‘coal cart’ sculpture 24 other schools in the area have also taken part to collaborate on this exciting sculpture. The ‘coal cart’ will be unveiled at Houghton Feast and then go on display in Houghton library.

Students learned lots of new skills and knowledge about working with glass such as scoring and cutting

bulls-eye glass, working with frit, copper and mica powder.

If you are interested in any future workshops please see Miss Ruddell for your name to be added to the list. Well done to everybody who took part in this project, your behaviour and effort was outstanding.

The year 11s have just completed their textiles controlled assessment and have created some stunning designs and practical work in the process.

Pupils had two design briefs that they could choose from; cultural influences and education. Each student interpreted their chosen design brief in their own way and as a class they created a range of clothing and textile products. Students have developed a range of skills and techniques throughout their two years of studying textiles, and from this they have independently created their own practical outcome.

Here is a range of their work; Miss Black is one very happy teacher.

If you would like to see more of these designs and more, please follow our Instagram page.

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Well done year 11!

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African Inspired top and skirt. Kayley Binns

A selection of design ideas. Morgan Smith

Under the sea inspired educational wall hanging. Millie Bond

Rio carnival inspired dance costume/bikini. Natasha Scotter

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Mr P’s puzzles

At the Hetton “Café on the Corner” bake-off, prize money is awarded for 1st, 2nd and 3rd places in the ratio 3 : 2 : 1. Last year Mrs Brown and Mr Green shared third prize equally.

What fraction of the total prize money did Mrs Brown receive?

Five friends are having lunch together in the School Dining Hall (ok, on the benches at the bottom of the main staircase!).

• The first friend eats there every day;

• The second friend eats there every other day;

• The third friend eats there every third day;

• The fourth friend eats there every fourth day;

• The fifth friend eats there every fifth day.

They agree to have a special meal the next time they all eat together.

In how many days’ time is the special meal?

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This year we have again been celebrating the success of students in Years 7–10 at Hetton School who have successfully completed their Bronze, Silver or Gold Hetton Honours Award.

Over 400 students have now completed their Bronze Award, over 150 have completed their Silver Award and 52 have completed their Gold Award. All students have been awarded their certificates and pin badges in a series of very positive assemblies. The students that have completed their Gold Award deserve a very special mention as they have taken advantage of a range of opportunities in extra-curricular life at school. This is an outstanding achievement and shows a great desire to stand out from the crowd.

The Hetton Honours scheme encourages our students to take advantage of the many extra-curricular activities that are on offer at Hetton School. They must gather evidence of how they have completed each of the seven sections of the award - Responsibility, Extra-curricular, School Support, Peer support, Environmental, Community and School Trip. We were delighted to welcome our Vice - Chair of Governors, Mr. Wilkinson, and Mr. Knowles, Acting Head teacher, to the assemblies held last term and we will hold further assemblies in the near future.

Mr. Knowles has congratulated all of the students that have completed their Awards and highlighted how important it is for students to take part in wider school life. Getting into college, university and finding a job is becoming increasingly competitive and by completing their Hetton Honours, these students are putting themselves into a fantastic position to succeed in life after school. Well done to all involved.

Mr. Magee

Hetton Honours

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Tamzin MonckThis book is a mysterious and gripping book. It is about a boy who is having strange, vivid dreams that look real. A girl appears in all of them; however she is a having a similar dream too.

The girl has the brightest eyes Ethen has ever seen, but she is hiding a secret. The secret between them is so strong; no one can ever f ind out.

This is one of the best books I’ve read. It’s mysterious, intriguing and incredibly gripping. Read this book and decide what you think of their life-threatening secret.

Year 7 share their reviews

Jessica Smith ‘The diary of Anne Frank’ by Anne Frank is about a young girl who was a Jew and went into hiding after Hitler started putting people into the concentration camps. Anne was a German girl who all the boys admired. I really liked how detailed Anne wrote her diary entries and how they were about her thoughts and feelings. I liked how this book has a different perspective to The Boy in the Striped Py jamas which we have been studying this year. I think it helped me understand the situation more by reading both the Jew perspective and the regular German perspective. I would also recommend this to people who are 11-12+ because maybe if you ’re any younger you wouldn’t be able to understand certain words and things she is thinking.

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.“

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Over to the boys next time.

Eleanor FogginThe Secret Dairy of Adrian Mole Age 13 3/4 is an amazing comedy. Adrian is a young boy whose parents split up and are seeing different people; he is in love with a taller girl; and ‘Noddy’ wallpaper is a major problem for him.

I love this book because of the type of things the author says. The book is in the perspective of a young boy who thinks he is the best at literature and who thinks he is in love. This is one of the funniest books I’ve read. I’d def initely recommend it.

This novel is all about a girl called Evie who realises her dad has disappeared. Following a message pre-recorded by her dad, she discovers a totally different world in which she can be free - doing whatever she wants without getting bullied. However, the characters within this world become evil due to her unpleasant cousin.

Username Evie is an outstanding book. I thoroughly recommend this remarkable story. It is a very easy book to read because it is fu ll of graphics. I like the main character because she expresses her thoughts and feelings in many different ways. She learns to control how to react to bulling; however, that is not the end of her problems.

Give this adventurous book a go!

Emily Davison

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.”

New York 2017

On April 8th students from years 7 to 11 met at Hetton school at 4am and headed to Manchester airport; then boarded a plane to New York! Whilst there, we saw famous landmarks, a Broadway show, the beautiful Central Park and also took part in a lot of shopping.

Every single day to night was packed with activities. One day we were shopping and sightseeing then finishing off the day with a delicious meal as a big group; while on another we were spending the day on bikes at central park and enjoying some wonderful New York pizza for tea.

This trip was so much fun and students enjoyed every minute.

Lucy Cullen 8A2

You will not see anything like it in your life!”Mia Jackson

“ Sensational views from the top of buildings all the way to street level!”Sophie Kent

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London April 2017

In April, Hetton School visited London for their annual English, Media and Performing Arts Trip. 53 students from year 9, 10 and 11 and 4 members of staff travelled to London on Friday lunch time, arriving for their evening meal at the Rainforest Café. The following morning, after being woken at 6am by a fire alarm, which ensured that everyone was awake, we visited Madame Tussauds. Whilst there, students were able to take selfies with their favourite celebrities, including Kim Kardashian and Johnny Depp. Additionally, they were able to make use of the new attraction, which comprised of sitting on the chairs and pretending to be judges on the TV show ‘The Voice’.

After a short drive, we arrived at the South Bank to enter the London Dungeons. Whilst in the Dungeons, students would move from show to show witnessing special effects, stages, scenes and rides. It was hilarious, fun and sometimes a bit

scary. Following the Dungeons we took a short drive and then a walk to Covent Garden, for students to have some time to shop. We then continued on to Pizza Express, where the entire restaurant sang happy birthday to Verity and she received a lovely cake that everyone got to share. After a short walk to The Prince Edward Theatre, we took our seats to watch Aladdin. Everyone laughed from start to finish and we even had a little sing song.

On Sunday morning, we travelled back to the South Bank to go onto the London Eye. From the top, we took in the sights of London and of course took the occasional selfie. We then made our way to the Harry Potter studios. Whilst there, students had the time to explore the studios and Verity even got to open the doors to the Great Hall featured in the films. We loved seeing the Forbidden Forest and being scared by Aragog and his friends. We

enjoyed Butterbeer and visited 4 Privet Drive, Harry’s house.

After a fantastic few hours at the studios, we then made our way home. We had a fantastic weekend with our students, who behaved and represented the school brilliantly. The highlights would definitely include the Genie in Aladdin and the entertaining way that he played this character and seeing the joy and smiles on student’s faces when they experienced the wonderful world of Harry Potter. Finally, a special mention goes to Ellie and Holly, who promised that they would be up on time this year. Unfortunately, 11.20am came and went with Holly and Ellie still tucked up in bed. Better luck next time girls!

Thank you to Mr Watson for organising this trip and to Mrs Scott, Miss Dowsland and Miss Black for coming along.

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Both days were a huge success! Congratulations to both cricket clubs, Garry Adey, Hetton Lyons and Sam Blacklock, Eppleton. All of the participants performed to a high standard and they all displayed excellent team work. Both days could not have happened without the contributions of our Hetton School sports leaders. Well done to all involved!

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On the 14th and 20th of June, the Hetton School Sports Leaders took part in a primary school kwik-cricket festival at Hetton Lyons Cricket Club and Eppleton Cricket Club. The students in the Junior Sports Leaders class were taught the Cricket basics of umpiring and scoring by Sam Blacklock, the Durham County Scoring Officer for County Durham. Sam came in to the once-a-week lessons for two weeks to show Junior Sports Leaders how to do the job well.

Eppleton’s first cricket festival was great. It was super having Hetton School Sports leaders with us to officiate throughout the day. Some of the students’ knowledge of cricket was great and really helps when the games are going ahead. Hopefully it can become a yearly event at Eppleton. It’s great to have links with Hetton School and hopefully it will continue to grow.

Sam Blacklock ”“The students went to Hetton Lyons one week followed by a visit to Eppleton. Schools who participated in the competition were all our local schools, but some schools from a little further away also came to trial.

All Sports Leaders took part with umpiring and scoring the games. The primary teachers were impressed with the skills of the Junior Sports Leaders, as well as how good all their students became.

This was the first time the Sports Leaders had actually led activities this year, but we are looking forward to the mountain of activities planned over the summer. The weather for the day was extremely pleasant, which was a great bonus! All of the Sports Leaders enjoyed the day and were pleased with how organised it was.

The Primary School teachers were also impressed that they didn’t have to stand umpiring and scoring all day.

Leadership skills were in abundance during these days and everyone left feeling a sense of accomplishment - well done to everyone who took part!

Around the wicket!

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17-5-17Hetton Under 13’s v Easington Under 13’s at EppletonHetton batted first and scored 134/0 from twenty overs. Jake Pratt got his first ever 100 (he actually got 103) and made the local paper. In reply, Easington batted and scored 120/6 from 20 overs. Jack Scott was the pick of the bowlers with figures of 3 wickets for 22 runs. A special mention must go to Joseph Holmes as he was magnificent behind the stumps. 18-5-17Hetton Under 15’s v Ingleby ManorHetton batted first and Callan Salkeld made a good start with the bat, scoring 38 before being caught on the boundary. Oliver Watt also played his part with the bat scoring 35 runs. All in we score 192/6 from 20 overs. This is the highest score any of my teams have ever made! Ingleby came in to bat and it was clear to see they were going to be no match for our bowlers. Their top scorer got 14, with Miles Birbeck and Oliver Watt taking out their better batsmen. We then passed the ball around the field to give everyone a bowl and Mason Oliver took 2 wickets as well. They were all out for 39. 22-5-17Hetton Under 14’s v EgglescliffeOn an astro turf wicket and long grass in the outfield, Hetton batted first and got 118 all out. Despite having a broken hand, Logan Barton top scored with 64. Egglescliffe’s reply was very good and in the last over they needed 7 runs from 6 balls to win. Oliver Watt stepped up to the job but they got a run a ball for the first 5, meaning 2 runs needs to win from the last ball. Oliver had others ideas and comprehensively smashed their batsman’s middle stump, meaning we won the game by 1 run! 25-5-17Hetton Under 12’s v WhitburnAnother game where we won the toss and batted first, we scored 118/2 from 20 overs (this is a very good score for year 7 kids). Daniel Walker got his first ever 50 runs and carried his wicket the entire innings and finished on 61 – he was over the moon! Whitburn’s reply was not very strong. James Fish opened the bowling and took their opener’s wicket with the 3rd ball, he finished with 3 wickets for 10 runs from 4 overs. Ty Wilkinson had bowling figures of 2 wickets/11 runs. We passed the ball around so we could see what the team is capable of as this was our first game. Whitburn’s top scorer was ‘wide’, meaning a little bit more bowling practice is needed. All in all, they only got 79 runs.

13/6/17School’s Under 14 team beat Durham School in the County Cup. For those who do not know, Durham School is a private school who have amazing facilities, including a number of pitches and international coaches who they fly in from Australia every year!

We went in to bat first, and after hitting a 4, Logan got caught behind with a very good catch from their wicket keeper in the first over. Jake Pratt came in with Oliver Watt and between the pair they steered us through the majority of the game. Jake scored 24 runs but Oliver scored 42 not out. Paul Lawson scored a quick fire 9 to help but their 20 wide balls also helped. We finished with 111/2 from 20 overs.

Logan opened the bowling wanting to make amends for his batting performance and did just that. From his 4 overs he only gave away 17 runs and took 2 wickets. We got 3 of their batsmen out for ‘ducks’ but their opener scored 41 not out. Their 5th batsman who came in was very ‘swing happy’ and slogged 25. This resulted in a very close game going into the final 4 overs. Ella Tomys and Mason Oliver stepped up and made sure they got less than a run a ball which left the final over to Oliver. They needed 16 to win (15 to draw). They needed boundaries. Two ‘dot balls’ put us into the driving seat. ‘4’ from the third meant they needed 2 6’s. Two singles and another dot ball meant we won the game. Durham School scored 102/4 from their 20 overs.

As a result, this put us into the semi final.

Finally for cricket, on the 3/7/17 our Under 15’s will be travelling to Kendal for the day, representing County Durham in the National T20 cup. By reaching this stage, it puts us in the top 16 school teams in the country (this includes private schools!).

Football focusLast but not least, our year 9/10 football team were rewarded with their efforts of reaching the cup final by going to watch Sunderland v Middlesbrough under 15’s, the game Cain Sykes (Year 10) was playing in. SAFC won 4-1 – the first time I have seen a victory at the SoL in ages!

The annual Durham University Schools’ Science Festival aims to support the next generation of scientists from the local area by stimulating an interest and wider participation in science. Since 1995, the festival has attracted many thousands of Year 9 and Year 10 school students from across the region.

Durham University’s

We need to find the Lowest Common Multiple of 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5.Taking each of the numbers in turn……

o The lowest common multiple of 1 and 2 is 2

o The lowest common multiple of 2 and 3 is 6

o The lowest common multiple of 6 and 4 is 12

o The lowest common multiple of 12 and 5 is 60

The answer is they will eat their special meal in 60 days’ time

Third prize wins 1/6 of the prize money Half of 1/6=1/12

Mr P’s puzzles - the solutionsQuestion 1 Question 2

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This year, Durham University organised a three-day festival to be held from Tuesday 28th to Thursday 30th March 2017, hosted by the Department of Biosciences at Durham University. As in previous years, the festival was designed primarily for Year 9 and Year 10 students. There was no charge for taking part and many schools and colleges sent students to take part in the many exciting hands-on activities from departments such as Archaeology, Anthropology, Biology, Chemistry, Computer Science, Earth Sciences, Engineering, Maths, Museums & Libraries, Physics, Psychology and School of Applied Social Sciences Sport. Schools were invited to attend either a morning or an afternoon session. Students worked in a team of four from their own school, and

followed a half-day programme covering a selection from the interactive science activities.

The aim was to engage the students with exciting activities that improve their understanding of real-life science and technology whilst increasing their awareness of opportunities. The programme was demanding, but experience showed positive outcomes for our motivated students. Mrs. Chalk,Preparation for Adult Life Co-ordinator

All you need is:

• Card (9 square pieces)

• Pens• Scissors • Noughts and crosses (made out of card, or

items from a game you may already own e.g. red

and yellow counters from connect 4).

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Top Revision Tips

Cut your card into 9 squares and write down what you want to revise with a question on one side and the answer on the other.

Place the completed card in a 3x3 square with the question facing upwards.

Decide if you are noughts or crosses and pick a question you want to answer.

On your turn - if you know the answer, you turn the square over over and place the nought or cross on it.

If you think you know the answer but get it wrong, you lose a turn.

Alternatively, if you don’t know an answer you may choose for your opponent to answer it (in the hope they get it wrong), or lose a turn.

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Bright skies and bright futures

Take a look at the achievements from the past term at Hetton School. Staff, students and facilities helping our students

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