issue 20 march 2013

Issue 20 March 2013 1

Issue 20 March 2013

HEADITORIAL

Dear Parents and

Students,

Yesterday was World

Book Day. We had a

special assembly where

we were delighted to

welcome Ros Barber who

read an extract from her

fascinating verse novel,

The Marlowe Papers, and

all the girls received their

£1 World Book Day

tokens. Interestingly,

yesterday also saw the

publication by Dundee

University of a study that

found that teenagers are

selecting "easier reads" in

their book choices, rather

than more challenging

classics.

The study of reading

habits of 300,000 pupils in

1,600 UK schools found

many 13- and 14-year-

olds opting for books with

a primary school reading

age. The report claimed

that the average

reading age of the books

chosen by 13 and 14-

year-olds was only 10

years and that both high

ability and struggling

readers tend to read

books that do not

challenge them enough.

The report authors argue

that without guidance

from teachers and

librarians there seems to

be a "slump" in the

reading levels of books

chosen by teenagers,

who appear disinclined

Duke of

Edinburgh

Bronze Award

Expedition

Training -

50 girls from

Year 10 spent all day Sunday in

school training for their

forthcoming Bronze Award

expeditions. Workshops

included first aid, food and

cooking, rucksack packing and

equipment and perhaps most

crucially of all navigation and

map-reading. The Vicarage

Lawn became a hive of activity

as girls tackled tent pitching.

Thanks go to Bob Rhodes and

his team of DofE volunteers and

also to Mrs Thomas and Ms

Tyson for generously giving up

their time. At the end of next

week girls will put their newly

acquired skills to the test in the

navigation walk at Devils Dyke.

Mr C. Condon

Individual Success

Mia Battle Welch won the

springboard drama

championships for the third

year running, Mia had to do a

piece from Shakespeare, Mia

performed Joan of Arch, a

poem from D H Laurence, and

did a sight reading from Great

Expectations. Mia also won her

class of prepared prose

reading from “The Hunger

Games”.

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The Tickets for the BHHS Charity

Fashion Show are available via

ParentPay. We are looking

forward seeing you on Tuesday

12th March at 7pm.

Year 7 and 8 Tea Party

The Year 7 and 8 girls invited

their primary school teachers to

a tea party at Brighton and

Hove High School on

Wednesday. They had a

delicious tea in our canteen

and then the girls took their

visitors on a tour of the school. It

was lovely to see so many

happy, smiling faces. The

teachers were delighted to see

their ex-students in their new

environment and the girls were

happy to be reunited with

them. Thank you to all the staff

and girls who attended, it was

a jolly occasion.

Mrs C. Schilt, Head of Drama

Pupils’ linguistic skills were put to the test in the Foreign

Languages Spelling Bee Final hosted by Howell’s School in Cardiff

on Tuesday 5th March.

Year 8 and Year 9 pupils went head-to-head with girls from 17

other GDST schools from across the country, to prove their

language skills. They were tested on the spelling and

pronunciation of 140 words in rounds in five different languages -

French, German, Spanish, Latin and Mandarin. The final followed

four semi-finals which took place across the country last month,

involving 21 schools and over 370 pupils.

The competition was one of a series of activities to mark the

GDST’s 140th Anniversary which is being celebrated this year. It

was designed to focus students’ attention on the importance of

learning foreign languages as well as being a fun way to

encourage students in Years 8 and 9 to actively improve their

vocabulary, spelling and memory skills. Gemma Bovill, Lucy

Ritchie and Katja Ward (year 9) have been practising non stop

for the last few months and took part in the final with a lot of

enthusiasm and passion. After travelling to Wales on Monday

and spending a night in Boughrood they made us proud

reaching second place (after a very close nail biting tie break…)

We were made very welcome at Howells and were entertained

in a very warm Welsh tradition with music, songs and poetry. A

wonderful day to remember! Mrs G. Burnet-Smith

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to try more complicated

works. They also warn

that by not engaging

with more sophisticated

books they fail to

engage with bigger and

more complex ideas:

"They're not only not

reading at a higher level;

they're not thinking at a

higher level."

If you would like your

daughter to broaden the

range of her reading,

encourage her to talk to

her English teacher or

have a look at the extra-

curricular clubs we run at

BHHS on the Library

Section on the Portal.

You might also like to

explore the World Book

Day website which has

lots of excellent ideas for

reading for young

people

www.worldbookday.com

Have a good weekend.

Jennifer Smith

Calendar

Monday 11th: p1-3 Fashion Show rehearsal Tuesday 12th: Y9 Canteen Committee meeting 7pm Fashion Show Wednesday 13th: Head Girl Hustings 7:30pm Springboard Concert (Dame Felicity Lott) Thursday 14th: Head Girl Hustings Spanish Exchange students arrive 6:30pm Ides of March lecture Friday 15th: Y10 Maths competition Sunday 17th: D of E Navigation walk

Year 10 Drama Evening

Last Thursday the Year 10

Drama GCSE group performed

their improvised exam pieces in

the Drama studio.

They were devised around the

theme of power and used

Pinter’s plays and status games

as their stimulus.

They performed to an

exceptionally high standard

and impressed their audience

with their variety of ideas. They

included sinister plot lines such

as the family who were

affected by a wish to bring evil

to the family in the form of an

abstract masked figure and the

ghost story of the girl who died

in a school fire.

There were also elements of

comedy in the drunken

grandfather who ruined

Christmas by sitting on

‘Sprinkles’ the cat!

They certainly took their

audience on a roller coaster of

emotions!

Mrs C. Schilt, Head of Drama

The Mary Schofield

House short story

competition

We were, once again, stunned

by the talent on show when the

Heads of House read the

entries for this term’s House

Short Story competition.

Heads of House had the tricky

job of selecting the shortlist but

we were able to pass on the

trickier task of picking the

winners to Ros Barber.

Ros is a nationally acclaimed

poet and experienced creative

writing teacher. She runs

workshops entitled: ‘How to Be

the Writer You Dream of Being’.

Her verse novel, ‘The Marlowe

Papers’, has just come out in

paperback and is a witty,

powerful re-imagination of

Christopher Marlowe’s life: no,

he didn’t die in that duel in

Deptford; yes, he lived on in

disguise and wrote the plays of

Shakespeare.

Ros is due to debate the

provocative and contentious

Shakespeare authorship

question in the Stratford Festival

with Professor Stanley Wells! The

novel itself is extremely clever

and enormous fun....as Ros

herself proved to be in the

inspiring workshop on

Marlowe’s ‘Dr Faustus’ which

she ran for our U6 English

Literature A Level students.

Mrs K. Ashdown, Head of

English

Congratulations to all those who entered the Mary Schofield

House Short Story; please enjoy their stories on the

competition page of the English portal! Here are the results:

BEST IN HOUSE

Junior Senior

Grey: Scarlet Forrester; Lyttelton: Ella King;

Gurney: Clara Browne-Amorim; Stanley: Niamh Jones

Lyttelton: Agatha Steeles;

Stanley: Alanah O’Rourke

SECOND PLACE

Lyttelton: Ella King;

Lyttelton: Agatha Steeles

WINNERS

Junior

CLARA BROWNE-AMORIM FOR GURNEY

Senior

NIAMH JONES FOR STANLEY

BHHS Community Choir and Orchestra Concert Many thanks to the girls, staff and parents involved in last night’s Choral Concert. The evening was full of stunning performances from all choirs. The Community Choir is now a regular fixture in the school calendar and hopefully we will see even more staff and parents participating next year. The School Orchestra will be rehearsing as normal on Tuesday as the instrumental concert on May 9th is very early in the Summer Term.

Mr Lloyd, Director of Music

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Dance

A massive congratulations to Eleanor Palmer, Lizzie Smith, Erin Tanyar and Ray Adams

Row Farr who all successfully auditioned for The Place Centre for Advanced Training

Satellite Programme last week. The girls were spotted through their performances at

Momentum by the Dance development officer at South East Dance. In addition to

this, Zoe Cartlidge and Olivia Fallon have also successfully auditioned for a place in

the Brighton and Hove Youth Dance Company and spent half term working with Tony

Thatcher (the programme leader for MA choreography at Trinity Laban) creating a

piece which was then performed up at Laban as part of the CoLab project. Well

done girls! A very proud Miss James, Head of Dance

Cross Country

The senior school Cross Country teams have had a busy week. Last Thursday they competed in the Sussex Schools Year 7 and 8 County

championships at Christs Hospital, Horsham.

In the Year 7 race where there were about 120 runners, Almi Nerurkar ran very strongly to win and become County Schools Year 7

champion. Her team mates who ran very well were Alex Lange-Andrews, Abi Roach Penn and Phoebe Munro.

In the Year 8 race Josie Grumitt had a strong run to finish in 8th place and she was 'followed home' by Carmen Adjare, Miriam Ritterband

and Mia Roach Penn.

As a result of these races, Almi and Josie have both been selected to run for Sussex Schools in an Inter- Counties match in Essex on March

23rd.

The first Inter-house Cross Country event was held at Hove Rec on Monday and the senior team event was won by Lyttelton. Individual

placings were: 1st Almi Nerurkar, 2nd Josie Grumitt and 3rd Eve Hull.

Finally on Wednesday 6th the Year 7 and 8/9 teams competed in the Trust Championships at Lloyd Park, Croydon. Almi Nerurkar finished

2nd in the year 7 event and Ella Witt came 12th in the year 8/9 event. They were ably supported by Alex Lange-Andrews, Abi Roach Penn,

Phoebe Munro, Eve Hull, Carmen Adjare, Elena Cooke, Mia Roach Penn and Josie Grumitt. Well done to all the runners.

Mrs S. Thomas

U13 Netball

Congratulations to the Under 13 B team who beat Windlesham House last week 18 goals to 11 we also beat St Christopher’s last night

by 22 goals to 8 the team : Amelia Stentiford, Agatha Steeles, Charlotte James, Imogen Jones ,Hafsah Butt, Kimya Haji Sabagh, Ester Silva,

Geny Hughes, Penny Majithia, Rosie Richardson and Alicia Phillips all played exceptionally well.

The Under 13 A team also beat St Christopher’s 23 -16 in a very hard fought match. The team: Natasha Rustemeyer, Chloe Whitelam,

Sophie Wolff, Maisie Robin, Lily Belton (who had her best match of the season) Mia roach Penn and newcomer to the team; who was

brilliant Phoebe Mercer. The Under 13 team played Windlesham house last week in the Semi Finals of the Sussex Cup but sadly lost.

However, they did exceptionally well to progress so far in this competition.

Ms E. Osborne, Head of PE

U14 Netball

Congratulations to the Under 14 team who also managed to go through to the semi-finals of the Sussex Cup; we played Hurst in this semi-

final and despite been ‘neck and ‘neck’ all the way through this match we lost.

Well done to all these teams, and good luck to the under 14 Netball team who play in the Sussex Independent Schools tournament at

Roedean on Saturday.

Ms E. Osborne, Head of PE


JUNIOR EDITORIAL

Dear Parents,

What a wonderful week

this has been. The

activities this week have

really inspired the girls

and this culminated in a

memorable suffragette

march around the

school. I was particularly

struck by the way the

year 5&6 girls truly

engaged in the role play

and their passion and

enthusiasm. World Book

Day also prompted some

wonderful outfits and

activities. We hope that

our art installation based

on the butterfly theme

(inspirational women) will

be on display above the

entrance to the hall early

next week for us all to

enjoy and remember a

truly memorable week.

Best Wishes

Sian Cattaneo

FAIRTRADE FORTNIGHT

As part of the city’s Fairtrade

Fortnight celebrations Henry

Matenda, a sugar producer

from Malawi, visited the Jubilee

Library on Saturday. He gave a

fascinating talk about his work

and described many of the

benefits that the Fairtrade

premium that he and the other

483 small farmers in his Co- op

receive provides. He spoke

about bore holes which have

brought fresh water to the

village, and how electricity now

makes it possible for everyone

to use computers and watch

television, and to connect with

the wider world. Henry also

described how The Fairtrade

premium has enabled a school

to be built in the village, which

now provides an education

and life opportunities to its

children.

After his talk Henry spent some

time looking at the exhibition of

artwork that Year six have

mounted. He was very

impressed and he asked Mrs

Hadfield to send a message to

the girls. He said that this was

the first time he had ever left

Malawi, and he had learnt

many new things, but the thing

that had touched him most

was learning how Fairtrade is

promoted not by advertising

but by word of mouth. He had

never expected to find out that

schoolchildren like our Year Six

girls would be involved in

spreading the word about how

choosing Fairtrade products for

our weekly shopping can

change lives. For this he sent

them very warm and heartfelt

thanks and an assurance that

their work meant a great deal

to him. He took a set of their

lovely posters to put up in his

village shop in Malawi.

WORLD BOOK DAY

Yesterday BHHS Juniors

celebrated ‘World Book Day’,

as usual there was a wide

range of interesting and varied

costumes which we admired in

a parade in assembly- thank

you for all the hard work in

putting these together!

To keep within our ‘Women’s

Week’ theme each year group

focused on a different

inspirational female writer,

which included: Julia

Donaldson, Shirley Hughes,

Beatrix Potter, Grace Nichols,

Anne Fine, Carol Ann Duffy and

Christina Rossetti. Girls learnt a

little about the history of the

writer and their achievements

then explored some of their

poems and stories. Jo Rees

and Sasha Dugdale joined us

for the morning, running writing

workshops for some of the Key

Stage Two classes. We would

like to give them a heartfelt

thank you for their continued

dedication to the school.

All girls have been given a

book token which they can

redeem at most children’s book

stockists. We hope that

yesterday has continued to

inspire the girls to read and

explore different authors and

poets!

Yr1 GET ON THEIR BIKES!

On Friday the girls in Year 1

brought their bicycles to school

as part of our “On the Move”

topic. They learned about the

environmental and health

benefits of cycling while having

lots of fun! The girls donned

their helmets and cycled

around easy and more

challenging circuits, and found

out about the different parts of

a bicycle.

The fun continued on Monday

when Scout’s mum, Kirsty, told

Year 1 all about her job as a

train guard. The girls were

fascinated and have been

chatting about it ever since!

Many thanks to Y1 parents for

bringing in all the bikes and to

Kirsty for her inspirational talk.

MEDICATIONS

Just to remind parents that if

their child brings any form of

medication into school, this

includes lip balms and lotions,

please provide a letter giving

the school the authority to

administer the medication.

Calendar

Saturday 9th:

U10 Netball - B. Hill 9.00-12.30pm

Monday 11th:

Yr 2 visit to Paradise Park

Swimming Gala - Eastbourne

(4.30pm)

Tuesday 12th:

Fashion Show - Senior School 7pm

Wednesday 13th:

U11 Cross Country – Lancing

U10 Netball – Brighton College

Parents’ Evening 5.30pm

Thursday 14th:

Maths Challenge

Yr 5 Brighton Museum & Royal

Pavillion

Parents’ Evening 5.30pm

Friday 15th:

Last Yr3 & Elite Swimming of Spring

Term

On Wednesday the school was taken over by our Year 5 and Year 6

suffragettes!

During the week Year 5 and Year 6 have been learning about

the women’s rights movement and many have been captured

by tales of courage and determination. The topic has inspired

pupils and teachers alike and has been part of our Women’s

Week. Pupils were particularly interested to find out about the

many links to the suffragettes and the GDST! The sister suffragettes

spent the morning preparing banners, sashes, chants, speeches,

posters and decorative hats. It was a fantastic team effort which

was embraced by all, the morning felt very purposeful and

industrious – several girls commented that they couldn’t wait to

re-enact the famous suffragette slogan of ‘deeds not words’.

The march was a great success, as the sister suffragettes stormed

through corridors and classrooms urging other pupils to listen to

their cause and stand up for their rights! The girls were unfazed by

the film crews and photographers as they seemed completely

immersed in their new roles. Miss Berlin said ‘I am delighted that

the girls have taken this project on with such passion and have

enjoyed the day so much. I hope it has been a memorable

learning experience, which will inspire them further’.

See photo on the left


U9 NETBALL TOURNAMENT A huge congratulations to the U9 Netball teams who played in the tournament that we hosted for the first time on Saturday. Both teams

really did the school proud. The ‘B’ team who were playing in an ‘A’ team standard tournament played some of their best Netball and

held their opposing teams to some very respectable score lines. The ‘A’ team played their socks off throughout the tournament, they were

unbeaten throughout the group stages and secured some very convincing wins throughout the morning, including; LOGS – 5-1, Farlington –

5-3, Burgess Hill – 9-0 and St. Bedes – 6-0. The team went on to win their semi-final and gain a place in the final. Again the team put on a

fantastic team performance and at half time were 3-2 up. In the second half of the game the team conceded a couple more goals and

narrowly missed out on the shield, but achieved a very respectable runners up position in their first ever tournament! A big thank you to all

the staff and parents who came to support the event.

KS2&3 CROSS COUNTRY EVENT Well done to all the girls who participated in our first of many inter-house cross country event on Monday. We

were really pleased with all the girls’ effort and determination in all of the races. All of the girls who participated

in the fun runs gained house points for participation and for the competitive races, points were awarded for

their positions and scored towards the overall house results, which were as follows:

KS2: 4th Grey, 3rd Gurney, 2nd Lyttleton, 1st Stanley

KS3: 4th Stanley, 3rd Gurney, 2nd Grey, 1st Lyttleton

A big congratulations to the girls who won a medal. These included;

Year 3&4: Bronze – Daisy Lampard-Sawyer, Silver – Liberty Gardner, Gold – Esme Boden

Year 5&6: Bronze – Berniya Hamie, Silver – Bessie Pratt, Gold – Lola Baker

KS3: Bronze – Eve Hull, Silver – Josie Grumitt, Gold – Almi Nerukar.

Once again many thanks to all the parents and staff who contributed to the organisation and support of the

event.

In-house Gymnastics Competition: A big congratulations to all of our competitive gymnasts who participated in this event. We were very pleased with the standard of

Gymnastics that the girls produced. All 23 girls took part in both a floor and vault competition to battle it out for 6 positions at our Trust

Gymnastics Rally. The results were as follows:

Best in year 3: Jaia Sahota-Lyons & runner up: Hannah Dalgelish

Best in year 4: Scout Adams & runner up: Isabel Mostyn

Best in year 5: Ella Sahota-Lyons and Hannah Briscoe & runner up: Freya Mainprize

Best in year 6: Sadie Mitchener & runner up: Olivia Crosby

Best overall Floor: Sadie Mitchener

Best overall Vault: Scout Adams

CLUB CANCELLATIONS Monday 11

th

Hockey Squad for years 5, 6 and

some yr 4s

Wednesday 13Th

(Parents’ Evening)

Study Support for years 3 and 4

Ceramics for yr 5

Design & Technology for yrs 3 and 4

Maths Games for yr 2

Thursday 14th

(Parents’ Evening)

Art Club for yr 4

Netball clubs for yrs 3 and 6


Nursery Newsletter

It is Grandparents’ Afternoon on Friday the 22nd March. Even though Friday afternoon

may not be the normal day for your daughter to attend Nursery, she is very welcome to

come and join us in the Nursery after lunch and show her grandparents around the

Nursery and school. Please see me if you decide to do this and I can give you more

details. It is important we know the numbers in advance so that we don’t run out of cake

and tea for the adults!

A few weeks ago the girls decided they would like to create

their own marching band. So they chose their instruments and

marched in time to “Twinkle Twinkle Little Star” complete with vocals. After a few

marches around the Nursery garden, they moved on to parade around the main

playground. Rousing stuff for the whole of Radinden Manor residents!

Spring was in the air this week and we certainly made the most of the good weather.

We have now put up our ‘kindness tree’ on the wall in the Nursery (many thanks to Miss Page

for making the tree). When a child is being especially kind or helpful, we make a note of it on

a laminated leaf with the child’s name and it is placed on the tree to celebrate.

Do you have a hobby or skill you could share with the children? Or maybe you could tell them about your

job. Please come and talk to me if you would like to do this.

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