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A Word From the Head of Service

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A Word From the Head of Service

Why am I always so surprised at the wealth of events that pupils have been involved in during a term at TMBSS? Each edition is even more packed with super articles from a great range of curriculum areas and these are only a selection from everything that is happening.

One of the proudest moments of the year so far was our involvement in the Holocaust Memorial Day in January. Everyone conducted themselves with the dignity that the occasion deserved and paid tribute to those who had suffered.

Overall the quality of the work displayed here and in our settings is stunning. It compares most favoura-bly nationwide, as demonstrated by the competitions that students have been entered for. In addition, many are preparing for examinations and moving on to their next placements.

April, 2017

Issue 5

Holocaust

Memorial Day

Holocaust Memorial Day (HMD) takes place on or near the 27th January each year in memory of the millions of people who have been murdered or affected by the Holocaust and more recent genocides such as those in Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia and Darfur. HMD has tak-en place in the UK since 2001 as a UK wide event with over 7,700 local activities taking place. It is commemo-rated on this date to mark the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, the largest Nazi death camp.

As part of the HMD celebrations, students from all cen-tres joined at the Shrewsbury site to consider this year’s HMD theme of ’How can life go on?’ and plant a cherry tree. Students read poems written by Holocaust survivors such as The Butterfly by Pavel Friedman and extracts from books such as The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas and The Diary of Anne Frank. Others, who

were unable to attend, watched a live streaming of Mala Tribich’s account of her experiences

Everyone who took part in the ceremony, particularly the readers, were a credit to TMBSS. Students of all ages approached the day’s events with empathy and respect and appreciated the significance of this important occasion.

O. Charnell-Jones (Y9)

reading ‘First They Came for the Jews by Martin Niemöller

Focus on Food Technology is always popular and the exciting examples

below show some great examples of what’s going on the kitchen...

Breakfast around the world:

Key Stage Three pupils have been researching breakfast dishes from different cultures, from European to Asian dishes. The pupils have made a variety of breakfast dishes which include American pancakes, egg and bacon muffins and cereal bars. The pupils have been learning about what makes a balanced diet by studying the ‘Eatwell Plate’, and put this to good use by developing healthy breakfast options such as smoothies and yogurts.

Cultural Cuisine

Some of this year’s GCSE pupils have been developing products which would be sold at a festival. They had to choose a cultural cuisine and produce a range of dishes from that particular area. Once they had chosen a dish they then developed the ingredients and flavours to fit the purpose of their design criteria and target market.

Homemade vs Store bought:

Year 10 pupils in Ludlow have been analysing store-bought food compared to homemade meals. They’ve investigated a range of dishes such as macaroni cheese, chilli con carne, lasagne and spa-ghetti bolognese from a range of grocery stores and scored them by sensory appeal (taste, smell, appearance, colour and texture).

They then made each dish from scratch and compared their taste test results with the shop bought versions. The students also researched Standard Food components which factories use to speed up the process of mass or batch produced food dishes ready for their exams .

Young Author at Work

His strawberry blonde hair draped with weeds and sludge, he raised his head above the water and signalled his men to

move closer to their target; a small Malayan village apparently under use as a government camp. As they trudged closer

through the murky water, the soldiers beheld an extremely disturbing sight.

Around eight guards fighting for the Malayan government dragging poor, innocent civilians by the neck, before beating

and tying them up with no remorse or hesitation. The cries emanating from the civilians made the soldiers cringe with

hurt.

“Lads!” called Lieutenant George Oliver, “Those civilians are in need of or help!”

“Sir, we can’t! We haven’t a chance! We’ll all perish before we even reach the place!”

“You think I care whether I lose my life for the greater good? Why else did I join the military? I’m sure you joined for the

same reason! Now, make your choice, because you’re either with me, or against me. MOVE!” roared George, “Now

Snakes, Rogers, you’re with me, we’ll flank the left side. You three flank right. The rest of you, go through the centre and

rescue as many civilians as you possibly can. GO!”

Two groups consisting of three men crept around either side of the wooden fence surrounding the village, rifles ready,

While the other group clambered into prone position and

crawled through the murk on the edge of the village. As the

young Lieutenant wrapped his hand around the door handle of

the first hut, a loud metallic clang rang around the village, fol-

lowed by a cry of. “Open fire, we’ve been compromised!” In a

flash of sheer shock and worry, George turned sharply to face

the Malayan soldier standing behind him, pulling the trigger of

his Lee-Enfield rifle as he did so. Instantly feeling remorse for

his actions, with tears running down his dirty face, he ran over

to the lifeless body slumped over a log in front of him. Even

with the pool of scarlet blood beneath him and the open bullet

wound in the side of the head, the Malayan looked so peaceful

in death. This one didn’t look very experienced, with an age

range between fifteen and seventeen and his combed fair

flecked with bits of dirt.

The Lieutenant, who in all honesty wasn’t too experienced

himself, closed the eyelids of the soldier to show respect to the

spirit of the man lying before him, and muttered a small prayer,

moments before another gunshot reminded him where and

who he was. He darted into cover, before seeing one of the

Malayan soldiers aim directly at his head and pull the trigger.

With only a split second to think, George darted back behind

cover, with the bullet cracking with wood of the crate he’d cov-

ered behind.

The Lieutenant looked to his left, to see a woman crouching over a young boy.

“Come on! Get over here! You’re not safe!” George called over to the family, taking their hand and pulling them behind

the crate as well. As George cocked back his rifle, he noticed the wound in the boy’s leg.

“There’s only one thing I can do now!” though George, hoisting the mother and son onto his back, “There’s been enough

casualties!”

George sprinted through the crossfire, dodging bullets being fired from both sides at all angles. Once he was only a few

feet away from the supposed rendezvous point, he left the woman and child down off his back and escorted them to a

large boulder, behind which lay 2 of his men.

“Where are the rest?!” cried George, looking towards the men.

“We’ve sorry sir, we tried to save them, but we couldn’t. You don’t know what it was like out there!”

“Well, I’m glad you two are safe,” sighed the Lieutenant, “From the frequencies I’ve been receiving through the radios,

we have a base camp not far from here, a few clicks north. If you ask me, it’s time we leave.” George once more hoisted

the woman onto his shoulders into a fireman carry, Captain Snakes carrying the boy. Following north on his compass,

Lieutenant George Oliver said, “Come on lads, let’s go home.”

A beautiful and very personal piece of extended writing by Lewis Oliver and inspired by his grandfather.

Key Stage 3s get the Keys to the Church

KS3 pupils from Bridgnorth Centre spent a morning looking at architecture and meeting the people who run three local churches. Each church was a different denomina-tion and the pupils had the opportunity to quiz a Roman Catholic Priest and a Baptist Pastor.

In the Catholic Church, St John’s, we met Father Ian, the parish priest, who let us look around the church and talked to us about the history of Catho-lics in Bridgnorth. There was a sanctuary and a font where babies are chris-tened or baptised. There was a box on the wall beneath the crucifix where bread and wine is kept. The priest sits in a chair in the left hand corner of the church. We drew pictures of the objects and paintings which we liked.

At the Baptist Church, we met Graeme who is the pastor for the church and surrounding area. The church looked much more modern than St John’s, and although there is a big organ in one corner of the building, there is actually a rock band who play every Sunday during the service. Graeme ex-plained that for a long time it was against the law to be a Methodist. While we were there, some of the people from the church pulled back the carpet and lift-ed the lid of the baptism ‘bath’ – it was big enough to fit whole adults in and had steps leading down to where the water would go.

Our final visit was to St Mary’s Church which seemed more traditional and had beautiful stained glass windows.

R. Cornes-Shuker Y8 Bridgnorth

Community Competition with the

Ironbridge Museums To celebrate 50 years of the Ironbridge Museums, the trust has held a community art competition. Entries needed to be in this month, and had to celebrate the museums in some way.

KS3 pupils from Ludlow Education Centre put together a piece for the competition that incorporated the things they liked from Blists Hill Victorian Museum and Enginuity.

The centre piece was a fairground ride, surrounded by Vic-torian tile designs, and then bunting which contained imag-es from the museums.

The winner will receive a cash

prize, top 10 will be on display

from May until January, and all

entries will be visible in a virtual

gallery on their web-

site, so we shall all

keep our fingers

crossed

TMBSS Students Enter World Famous Saatchi

Competition Several of our secondary pupils have entered a renowned worldwide art competition held by the legendary Saatchi Gallery, London. The Saatchi Gallery Art Prize for Schools is open to students from primary and secondary schools as well as sixth form students from around the world. The winning school will receive £10,000 and the winning pupil will win £2000.

Competition entries are wide and varied as there is no prescribed theme for works entered and students may use any media, such as sculpture, painting, installation, photography, video and mixed media. TMBSS students really rose to the challenge and submitted an ec-lectic range of work for judging. Competition pieces were a mix-ture of work completed in art lessons, finished Arts Award projects and some were pieces that had been produced independently at

Despite a short time frame within which to enter the competition, it was impressive to see how quick-ly we could pull together our en-tries. The result is a really inter-esting mix of collage, mixed me-dia, photography, painting and drawing. One unique piece was even created using only make up!

The work submitted for entry can be viewed on the Saatchi website at www.saatchgallery.com by clicking on ‘school visits and prize’, ‘prize’, and then typing TMBSS into the search bar.

Sprechen Sie Deutsch?

Some of our younger secondary students have been learning new and exciting things in German. So far this year, they have learned many new phrases about hobbies, appearance and pets.

They have also used a variety of card games and bingo to help learn some German verbs and sang songs to learn the alphabet . They have even made Lebkuchen and apple pan-cakes.

Exploring Shropshire Through John Muir

The John Muir Award Trust says that their programme is ’’an environmental award

scheme for people of all backgrounds… It’s non-competitive, inclusive and accessible’ making it perfect for those of our students who also enjoy learning in an outdoor classroom. The Award encourages people to connect with, enjoy, and care for wild places and as part of this, some students from Shrewsbury have been exploring the lo-cal area. They have visited Nesscliffe and Haughmond Hill and have picked up litter and studied wildlife and plants such as deer at Attingham Park. They have also helped to walk rescue dogs for Grinshill Animal Rescue centre. Other activities have included rock climbing, biking and adventure games.

"I enjoyed exploring on the

bikes and going up

Nesscliffe" K Evans-Jarvis

"I have enjoyed so far, biking

Attingham Park and rock

climbing" R .Windsor

Creativity at A number of students from our Bridgnorth and Ludlow centres regularly attend sessions at Crowsmill Craft Centre. Participants have amazing opportunities to develop skills in many areas such as woodwork and carpentry,

metal work, welding, plastering, charcoal making and horticulture.

Crowsmill Centre say that they aim to ‘deliver and em-bed social skills, vocational skills and ,where possible, qualifications that help people find their own hidden skills and talents’.

All of our students who have attended have nothing but praise for the lottery funded centre and have come away with no end of beautiful and original pieces of work.

You can visit the website via the following:

www.crowsmillcraftcentre.co.uk

"When I went to Walford College I spent time in the reptile section. I got to hold baby bearded dragons and milk snakes. We then cleaned out two lizard pens. I really enjoyed it as it was a very different experi-

Walford Campus, part of North Shropshire College, is based in a beautiful rural setting close to Shrewsbury and offers some of the best agricultural facilities in the region. The campus has a particular focus on land-based specialisms and vocational placements here are very popular amongst our pupils.

K. Mansell from Hook-A-Gate centre has been attending a six week taster placement at Walford College in the Small Animal Care de-partment..

Working Hard at Walford

J. Ellis (Y10) at Crowsmill Craft Centre

Shropshire Community health are now able to offer our students invaluable and confi-

dential advice and support through a new texting service. School Nursing offers this

excellent service through a number of qualified school nurses who are responsible for

the health and wellbeing of school aged children and the new online and texting ser-

vice makes them that much more reachable

Other News…

End of term: Thursday 6th April

PD Day: Friday 7th April

Start of term: Monday 24th April

Bank Holiday: Monday 1st May

Half term: Mon 29th May- Fri 2nd June

New School Nurse Texting Service

Congratulations… Well done to:

T. Roberts,

E.Jones,

W. Coadey

L. Kane.

All four students entered a competition last term with Young Writers and their work has been chosen to be included in the next series of publications

Available Mon

to Friday 09.00-4.30

We do not usually inform your parents, teachers or anyone else if you contact the school nurse. We might inform someone if we were concerned about your safety, but we would usually speak to you first. Your messages are stored and can be seen by other healthcare staff who follow the same confidentiality rules. We aim to reply to you within one work-ing day and you should get an immediate bounce-back to confirm we received your text. Texts will not be seen outside of normal working hours. If you need help before you hear back from us, contact a member of school staff or your doctor. Our text number does not receive voice calls or MMS picture messages. Prevent the school nurse from sending messages to you by texting STOP to our number. Please respect your schools mobile phone policy. Messages are charged at your usual rate."