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24th April 2015

Academic Year 2014-15 – Number 9

Bar Mock Trial

The Skinny Jeans

Gardeners plus One Intermediate Maths

Challenge 2015

Author Visit

Library Donations

Book Mastermind Area

Finals Music Round Up

Little Screening of

Horrors

RoboCup CoSpace UK

Challenge

PE Round Up

Suffolk Indoor Rowing

Championships Wheeling

Rugby Champions

Farlingaye Flyers

County Sports Hall

Athletics Finals

Year 7 and 8 Handball U13 Netball—League and

Tournament Success

U15 Netball

Other Results

THE CHORAL CONCERT FINALE

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Bar Mock Trial

T WENTY six Year 9 students were chosen to be part of this year’s

Bar Mock Trial competition. Farlingaye

had two teams, and roles included lawyers for both defence and prosecution, magistrates and ushers. I was lucky enough to be a defence lawyer defending Olivia Campbell-Barr, who was charged with theft. We were well prepared and our confidence improved during group and individual sessions with Ms Hargadon and a dry run performed a couple of days before the competition.

The trials took place in Ipswich Magistrates Court and six schools including ours were involved. Each version of the trial had a Lead Magistrate and a Court Steward to guide the proceedings, as well as the competition judges.

The day itself was nerve-wracking and exciting at the same time. Questioning the defendant was fine

because we had rehearsed it so many times we were word perfect, whereas cross-examining the other school’s witness was harder as I had to be able to improvise if I got an answer I wasn’t

expecting. Despite being very nervous before we went in, when I came out, I wanted to do it all again!

Knowing this court is used for actual trials made the whole experience seem more important. I was now sitting in exactly the same place as the defence lawyers I had seen on our earlier visit. Being locked in the dock must have been even more daunting for my witness, Olivia, who, the Lead Magistrate pointed out, was facing a possible custodial sentence if I didn’t get her off!

Prizes were awarded by Simon Spence QC with Farlingaye coming 1st and 2nd. We’d like to thank all the court staff who volunteered to help as

well as Ms Hargadon, Mr Tunaley and Mr Picton, who were there on the day supporting us.

It was a great experience and I had never done anything like it before. It

gave us a fantastic insight into the many aspects of the judicial system. Katya Bathgate 9F

The Skinny Jean

Gardeners plus one J UST before we broke up for the

Easter holidays, I was invited to appear on stage at the Edible Garden Show at Alexandra Palace in London.

I was extremely excited to meet and perform with the Skinny Jean Gardeners. If you don't know who these guys are, they are brothers based in Essex and often appear on Blue Peter.

They've also spent time with Jamie Oliver and Jimmy Doherty at Jimmy's Farm.

LUCAS HATCH WITH THE SKINNY JEANS GARDENERS

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I spent two days with them on stage. There were two staged areas at the show. One was called the Potting Shed, where there were practical demonstrations throughout the day,

and the other one was called the Expert Theatre, where we gave advice and answered detailed questions.

There were approximately 200 people watching and even more on the Saturday which was a little daunting but I thoroughly enjoyed it. I was lucky enough to meet James Wong - a well

known botanist. He was on before me so I think he must have been our warm up act! I also met this year’s Big Allotment Challenge contestants. It was interesting to meet them after watching this year’s series on TV.

It was a brilliant day - one I will remember! I have also been invited to the BBC Gardeners World Live at the NEC in June, to perform with the Skinny Jean Gardeners again! It should be fun! Lucas Hatch 9F

Lucas Hatch won RHS Young School Gardener of the Year 2012 and last year he won best in show for his garden design at the Suffolk Show 2014.

Intermediate Maths

Challenge 2015

I N the recent Intermediate Maths Challenge, open to students in Years

9, 10 and 11, over 70 students accepted the challenge and produced a

fantastic set of results with many notable performances. In total, 56% of the students received a certificate, a good haul considering the difficulty of the paper. Gold certificates were awarded to Lotte Tyndale-Hardy and Samuel Hopgood of Year 11, Alex Cooke, Peter Strulo, Sam Cottee, Anna Vincent and James Liddell of Year 10 and Josiah Brown of Year 9.

Additionally, the award of 9 Silver and 22 Bronze cer t i f ica tes rea l ly emphasises the Maths talent across the Key Stage 4 groups.

Following the Intermediate Maths

Challenge, a select few are invited to sit follow on competitions if they score highly enough. I am delighted to announce that Lotte Tyndale-Hardy, Samuel Hopgood, Sam Cottee and Anna Vincent have qualified for the Pink Kangaroo and Josiah Brown for th e G r ey Ka n g a roo . S p ec i a l

congratulations to Alex Cooke and Peter Strulo who qualified for the Maths Olympiad, a wonderful achievement. These rounds were, by all accounts, tough papers. The results should be here in the coming weeks.

Exceptional performances Highest in the school Alex Cooke Highest in Year 11 Lotte Tyndale-Hardy Highest in Year 10 Alex Cooke Highest in Year 9 Josiah Brown

Examples of questions (No calculators allowed!!) Q1. What is the value of 1 – 0.2 + 0.03 – 0.004? A. 0.826 B. 0.834 C. 0.926 D. 1.226 E. 1.234 Q5. Which of the following numbers is

not a square? A 16 B. 25 C. 34 D. 43 E. 52 Q11. Three different positive integers have a mean of 7. What is the largest positive that could be one of them? A 15 B. 16 C. 17 D. 18 E. 19 Q20. A voucher code is made up of four characters. The first is a letter V, X or P. The second and third are different

digits. The fourth is the unit’s digit of the sum of the second and third digits. How many different voucher codes like this are there? A. 180 B. 243 C. 270 D. 300 E. 2700

Well done to everyone who took part, rising to the challenge and representing Farlingaye so well. Mr Daly

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Author Visit J OSHUA Winning, a local author and

freelance journal ist v is ited Farlingaye library to talk to Year 9

and 12 students about his childhood in Suffolk and what inspired him to become a writer.

Joshua spoke about his writing and his first book “Sentinel”. He read a short passage from “Sentinel” and spoke about his career as an author and journalist. Away from book writing, Joshua is Contributing Editor at Total Film magazine and also does freelance writing for MovieScope, Grolsch Film Works and Spirit & Destiny. Mrs Mason

Donations

T HANK you to those who have donated books to the library. We

are very grateful for all the fabulous books we’ve received. Mrs Mason

Book Mastermind Area

Finals

O N Friday March 20th, Alexander

Richards, 9I, took part in the Book Mastermind Area Final at Copleston High School.

Alexander competed against several schools from the county such as, Copleston High School, Ipswich High School, St Albans and Suffolk New Academy.

Alexander was challenged with two rounds; during the first round he was asked twenty questions on his chosen book “The Fault in Our Stars“ by John Green. The second round consisted of twenty general knowledge questions.

I am pleased to announce that Alexander won the Area Final and has gone through to the County Final, Friday 8th May at Riverside Centre, Stratford St Andrew.

Good Luck Alexander. Mrs Mason

LEFT: JOSHUA WINNING TALKING TO STUDENTS IN

THE LIBRARY.

BELOW: ALEXANDER RICHARDS ANSWERING

QUESTIONS AT BOOK MASTERMIND

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Battle of the Books

N ORTHGATE High School hosted the event, with four other

schools attending. Each school had

previously voted for their favourite book and these chosen books had been sent to the other schools, to be read and discussed. This year, the four books all had the same themes: war, loss and the reflection of society now as a whole.

The book choses were: “Sister Assassin” - Farlingaye’s choice; “Between Shades of Grey” - St Alban’s choice; “Split Second” - Copleston’s choice; “Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children” - Northgate’s choice.

“Sister Assassin”, our choice, is about two sisters whose world is turned upside down when Annie (who’s blind) has a vision of their parent’s death. A mysterious man turns up offering them a place to a

prestigious private school but Fia has a bad feeling. Over the next two years, Fia is dragged deeper into the Keane Foundations web of lies and discovers her own powers.

The thing that makes you think in this book is how far you would go to protect your own family. However, the downside of this book is that it jumps from Fia’s perspective to Annie’s, this point was very much picked up on by the other schools. After 45 minutes of intense

discussion, each table was asked to vote on their favourite books and soon it was clear that the battle was between “Split Second” (Copleston’s choice) and “Between Shades of Grey” (St Alban’s choice). We had a short break, where many cheese balls were consumed and cakes eaten! Finally it was time to vote, each person had to write the book of their choice on a slip of paper. Eventually after the votes were counted “Between Shades of Grey” won, with “Split Second” coming a c lose second. Overa l l , the participants had a great time discussing and debating and we can’t wait until next year’s battle. Beth Scahill, 10E, and Samuel Neal, 10R

World Book Day

Competition

S TUDENTS were asked to guess the member of staff behind the

book from photos on a poster. The winner Erin Hamilton, 10A,

received a £20 amazon voucher. Runners up, Tom Allen, 7N,

Andrew Lamb, 7E, and Stanley Willy, 10R, each received an Easter egg.

Well done to all. Mrs Mason

ERIN HAMILTON WHO WON THE ”GUESS

THE MEMBER OF STAFF COMPETITION”

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Music Round Up

I T has again been a sensational and busy half term in the Music

Department. Following the success of

‘Little Shop of Horrors’ we moved onto the AS and A2 recitals at St Mary’s church. Year 12 and 13 musicians perform and record their exams during the day and there are two informal concerts where students perform part of their repertoire for parents and peers. Really wonderful evenings.

A round of ABRSM grade exams a few weeks ago had our musicians preparing for a range of grades, instruments, styles and voices. We look forward to great successes. We are also waiting for our Grade 5 Theory exam results. Trinity grade exams are underway, supporting the huge variety of musical interests and skills the students have.

Wednesday March 15 th saw Celebration of Schools Music at Snape. The programme featured

Sinfonia, conducted by Mr Phillips, playing Farandolle, Elgar’s ‘Enigma Variations’ and ‘Pirates of the Caribbean.

The students’ behaviour was exemplary and we received some

wonderful feedback from parents and audience members with children from other schools. Sinfonia did indeed sound amazing!

On Thursday March 19th Big Band

played in Woolverstone as part of the ‘Rotary Club Young Musicians Showcase’. ‘Absolutely awesome’, ‘Wow!’, and ‘A secondary school too, imagine!’ and ‘Premier League’ were

but a few of the comments received after the performance. Mr Phillips led the the programme with favourites such as ‘Get Happy’ featuring soloist Verity Poulston and ‘String of Pearls’.

Our Choral Concert with our feeder primaries was on Monday and Tuesday of the last week of term. This

is a massive undertaking for all in the Music Department, especially Mrs Phillips who co-ordinated and orchestrated the whole event. Students from Farlingaye’s six choirs joined forces with different primary schools over the two nights to perform a variety of songs and styles. Both concerts finished with the finale, all the students singing ‘Sit down, you’re rocking the boat’. Our soloist Fabian Marshall-Tierney performed brilliantly! This is a fantastic opportunity for children as young as 6 to perform alongside students as old as 19, they can see what can be achieved and the opportunities as they move up to Farlingaye.

A really busy term for all concerned but what an achievement! Without your support these events can’t happen so a huge thanks from us. Ms Martino

SINFONIA PERFORMING AT SNAPE MALTINGS

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Little Screening of

Horrors

I T has become a tradition to have an

Osca r - s ty l e inv i ta t i on -on ly screening of the school musical and on Thursday March 26th the cast, musicians and crew arrived in black tie to watch the video of this year’s production of “Little Shop of Horrors” in the Sixth Form Common Room. As ever we had the red carpet out to add

a sense of occasion and the students enjoyed reliving the performance and being back together again. Being in a show always creates a real sense of team spirit and it was lovely to recapture this for one evening. DVDs of the show can still be ordered from Mr Picton. Ms Tyndale-Hardy

RoboCup CoSpace UK

Challenge

L AST month, four Year 8 and 9

students, Oscar Pycroft, James Frost, Will Mathew and George Field, went to BT at Adastral Park for the RoboCup CoSpace UK Finals.

On the day, the students worked in pairs and had to program a virtual buggy around a field to collect as many points as possible in 8 minutes.

To make it more difficult, the students on ly rece ived the cha l lenge information on the morning. They then had 2 hours to prepare for the knockout rounds. The event was very tense and exciting.

Although they did not win the overall competition, the team won the ‘Endeavour’ award for hard work and perseverance.

We are now looking forward to next year’s competition.

A good day was had by all. Mr White

LEFT:

LEWIS

WILSON

RIGHT:

COLLETTE

WRIGHT,

KASSI

YULE AND

ILSA

ERNEST

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PE Round Up Suffolk Indoor Rowing

Championship

O N March 20th, over 50 students from across all year groups had

an early start in order to travel to north London for the National Junior Indoor Rowing Championships.

Students had been training very hard in the run up to the event and received s o m e e x p e r t c o a c h i n g a n d encouragement from Mr Hall and a local rowing coach, who kindly offered to help them prepare.

After last year’s competition some students joined the local club and it was fantastic to see how much progress they had made; acting as fantastic role models on the day to the less experienced rowers.

Students are divided into year groups for the competition and they have to row as far as they can in a given time, as they get older they have to row further. This truly is a National competition as schools and clubs from all over the country come together to try to gain national accolades; in many age categories there were well over 200 competitors. All the students did

fantastically well on the day and there was a lot of focus on beating personal best scores and most of them did this

and some by quite a considerable distance. Top two places in each year group are l isted below, huge congratulations to all who took part: Year 7 girls

Lauren Birch 26th Jasmine Carlin 35th Year 7 boys James Heeley 78th Year 8 girls Abigail Karklines 26th Kate Mellor-Hine 51st Year 8 boys

Nyles English 113rd Luke Jelinski 119th Year 9 girls Charlotte Wells 17th Gemma Ramsey 40th Year 9 boys Troy Wingar 22nd Jay Berry 159th Year 10 girls Tilly Barnard 29th Beth Scahill 70th Year 11 girls Lotte Tyndale-Hardy 4th Mia Gaines 16th Year 11 boys John Warren 60th

Junior Girls’ Relay Team (Charlotte Wells, Abi Karklines, Gemma Ramsey, Lydia Bridgeman) 9th out of 75 teams.

A number of Farlingaye students also took part in the Suffolk Indoor Rowing Championship on March 28th at the Deben Rowing Club in Woodbridge.

Albert Robson and Charlie Linsell in Year 12, Izzy Milenkovic and Lotte Tyndale-Hardy in Year 11, Tilly

Barnard in Year 10, Hannah Taplin in Year 9 and Eleanor Abbott and Gabriella Spalding in Year 7 all took part in the competition, which even saw competitors from Essex coming to try out in their neighbouring county. All our students did really well, with Eleanor, Hannah, Lotte and Charlie each winning their year group. Charlie

LOTTE TYNDALE-HARDY AND CHARLIE LINSELL

WITH THEIR ROWING AWARDS

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and Lotte also won the overall Junior Men’s and Women’s competition respectively with Lotte rowing at 99.9% Olympic Gold Medal standard and Charlie at a stunning 105.1% Olympic

Gold Medal standard. Miss Alexander

Wheeling

L AST weekend, Ceri-Ann Proctor, 9L, represented Great Britain at

the World Qualifications for Rhoenrad (gymnastic wheeling) in Capelle a/d IJssel, Rotterdam. Unfortunately she was 1 point off qualifying to take part in the World Championships in June.

Everyone at the event gave her lots of encouragement and took the trouble to speak English to her. The Dutch are all surprised that she has been

wheeling for such a short time and that she is already competing at the highest possible level at such a young age. She is the first and youngest girl from outside of the Netherlands to compete there.

While at the competition, the Secretary of the Dutch Wheeling Federation expressed how pleased they were to have her at the competition and that they want to see more of her at

their competitions. She has progressed at such an incredible speed to have been competing at level 5 only a month earlier at Grou and now to be competing at a level 1. He felt her skill

needs to be encouraged. She stayed on in the Netherlands

after the competition as she had been invited by Anoushka, a Dutch coach she has with her in the competitions, to join their Elite Squad at training on the Tuesday. This was a very intense 2 1/2hr session for her, in which she was

shown and helped to do lots of new moves. What an honour to train with 4 such high standard wheelers! Mrs Proctor

Rugby Champions

O N Tuesday March 17th, Farlingaye U12s won the Suffolk Schools’

County Rugby Finals at Woodbridge Rugby Club. The victory meant that they progressed to represent Suffolk at the Eastern Region Finals at Thetford Rugby Club on Thursday March 19th. Farlingaye played five matches at the Finals. They won all five games and only conceded one try in the whole tournament, against a very able

YEAR 7 AND 8 SPORTS HALL ATHLETICS TEAMS

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Wymondham High side, Norfolk’s County Champions. Farlingaye excelled against Cambridgeshire’s Champions, Thomas Deacon Academy, winning 30-0 with six different scorers, in a very

one sided match. I would like to thank the boys for being dedicated to training throughout the year and always showing excellent sportsmanship in their matches. There is unfortunately no progression from the Eastern Region Finals so we look forward to another good season next year. Mr Steed

Farlingaye Flyers

T HE Farlingaye Flyers competed in the Woodbridge School One Day

Event at Poplar Park, Hollesley on Sunday March 22nd 2015.

Annie Jaspal came 3rd in the 90 cm section, an amazing achievement.

Jasmine Slater was riding a new horse and just missed the placings to come 11th in her section. Lauren Hassan and Olivia Lewis did well to get around the challenging course. Both also did well in their Show Jumping and Dressage.

Beth Fewings and Amelia Slater did well to finish their challenging 80 cm

Hunter Trial but neither was placed on this occasion.

Well done girls. Mrs Slater

County Sports Hall Athletics

Finals

L AST term, our Year 7 and 8 Sports Hall Athletics teams competed in

the County Finals. Both the boys’ and

girls’ teams had previously won the Ipswich and South Suffolk competition and as a result represented the area at the County Finals. The students love the atmosphere of Sports Hall Athletics where they compete to gain points for

the team. Events include the standing triple jump standing long jump, shot put, speed bounce and various running events. Students love being involved in the various relay events on the day and

it is a great preparation for the outdoor athletics season. We encountered some strong opposition from the rest of the County, but both the boys and girls were delighted to find out they had won the event and both teams were declared County Champions. Well done to everyone involved! Miss Alexander

Year 7 and 8 Handball

T HE boys’ and girls’ teams both entered the South Suffolk

Handball tournaments for the first time. With it being a new sport at Farlingaye everyone was a little unsure about the standard of opposition and a few of the students were a bit apprehensive, but excited nonetheless.

Both teams had a thoroughly successful day. The girls beat Copleston, East Bergholt and Northgate to top their group, whilst the boys beat East Bergholt, Hadleigh, Felixstowe, Northgate and St Albans. As a result of both teams playing so well they topped

their respective groups and qualified for the Suffolk County Handball Finals.

On County Finals’ day the best 6 teams from Suffolk participated, with two teams from North Suffolk, two teams from West Suffolk and two teams from South Suffolk. The Farlingaye boys were then in a group of 3 against Pakefield and Horringer, whilst the girls were against East Point Academy and Hardwick.

Both the boys’ and girls’ teams won their first game, with the boys beating Pakefield 14-2 and the girls beating East Point 4-3. This meant it came down to the final game in the group to decide if the boys and girls teams

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progressed to the County Final. Unfortunately the girls came up against some very strong opposition in the form of Hardwick and narrowly lost

5-3, despite some great play from Ellie Richards and Polly Haste, whilst the boys drew 7-7 with Horringer meaning they progressed to the final to play Thurston.

Having watched Thurston waltz through their group, playing some excellent handball the boys knew they were in for a difficult challenge.

However, Farlingaye started the game with a fantastic intensity; Tom Sidhu’s workrate, combined with the skill of Seb Mobee and the finishing prowess of Josh Smedley meant the boys raced into an early lead. This was a lead they never looked like relinquishing with Finn Jones and Isaac Feavearyear looking solid in defence, being ably backed up by Tom Shallish in goal and Jude Machan in midfield. As the game progressed the boys’ team played some excellent handball and created some great scoring opportunities, and it was Farlingaye who were victorious, winning 9-3.

Well done to all the students who took part Mr Payne

U13 Girls Netball: League

and Tournament Success

T HE U13 team rema ined undefeated the whole season

leading them to win the U13B League and gain promotion next season. They played teams from Copleston, East Bergholt, Ipswich High School,

Northgate, Woodbridge and Ipswich School. The team was both strong in attack and defence, their greatest win saw them scoring an impressive 41 goals against Copleston, and the girls only conceded 20 goals throughout the season. Miss Govier

U15 Girls Netball

W ELL done to the U15 girls who competed in the U15A league

and finished 3rd in the league just behind Ipswich High School for Girls and Kesgrave High School. They played 8 games across the season which also included teams from Copleston, Ipswich High School (B team), Ipswich School (A and B team), St Albans, Woodbridge. The girls were strongly matched with Kesgrave who they played early in the season, the game was closely contended but they narrowly lost by just 4 goals, the final score being 15-19. The girls also gave the league winners Ipswich High

School for Girls a good game, the final

score was 15-28. The team showed their strength when playing against Ipswich School, a well fought game that finished with a close victory to Farlingaye (25-24), other victories included Ipswich High B, Copleston, Ipswich School B, and St Albans. Miss Govier

U15 Netball 42 6 Ipswich High School for Girls

U15 Netball 26 13 St Albans

U13 Netball 23 5 Ipswich High School for Girls

U15 Netball 26 24 Ipswich School

More Results

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