Year Eight

The last few weeks have been extremely busy with many different activities taking place.

 

The Science Department and Technology Department joined forces to organise “Rocket Day” -  a fantastic experience for all students in the year group. The day was spent designing and making rockets and, in the afternoon, the competition began to discover who would win the prizes for the best designed and most effective rockets. The presentations were made in our year assembly with many students winning trophies for “teamwork” and “design”.

 

In June, a Community Clubs Fair was organised for students in years 7,8 and 9. Among the activities on offer were Taikwondo, Athletics, Rugby, Cricket, Dance, Gymnastics and many others. The students were lucky enough to be coached by both Chew Valley PE staff and professional coaches in the many different disciplines.

 

The trips to Barcelona  and Normandy were a great success. The Modern Languages staff were full of praise for the way in which the students conducted themselves.

 

Many of our students were involved in the Lower School production “Private Peaceful”. The performance was extremely powerful and a credit to the enthusiasm and hard work of the youngsters involved. Our thanks go to Miss Bainbridge and Miss Hauff who worked so hard to inspire the students produce this wonderful production.

 

Sports Day was a wonderful occasion – the weather was fine and the competition was fierce with many impressive performances from students in Year 8.

 

Many year 8 students went to the “Minor Athletics” at Bath University – those who deserve special mention are Lukas Gentle (hurdles and Long Jump)and Vicky Vipond (800 m) who both  went on to compete in the Avon Championships. Lucy Reynolds also deserves a mention – she came second in the 100m event

 

Congratulations to the girls’ cricket team who  won the BANES final and consequently went on to represent BANES in the AVON Championship, where they came third.

 

The  boys’ cricket team  beat Norton Hill with Edward Stowell hitting the top score of 29 not out.  They  won their league and went on to play Writhlington School in the BANES final, and although they unfortunately lost, fielded extremely well with Tyler Wiltshire and Liam O'Shea in particular standing out, while Harry Sparkes and Fergus Bowen batting particularly well.

 

Mr Jones' year 8 team beat Mr Brown's team in a friendly cricket match with Scott Parsons and Michael Bray batting extremely well.

 

Congratulations go to Laura Finch and Vicky Vipond who won the year 8 doubles and also to Laura (again) and Becky Fenn who won the year 9 doubles in the BANES School Tennis Tournaments.

 

As mentioned in the last newsletter the Year 8 Rounders teams have had a successful season. Many girls represented the school in various matches and much enjoyment was had by all. The only slightly disappointing note was that they came 3^rd overall in their annual tournament after losing by half a rounder in the semi-final match against Ralph Allen School, who were the eventual winners! Never mind …revenge will be sweet next year I’m sure.

 

Following on from our incredibly successful cake sale earlier in the year, we would like to hold another one in September to raise money to buy a storage shed . The shed will be used to store grain and other supplies for the chickens that are going to be kept in school by the “Chicken Team”. Further details will follow!

Finally, Mrs O’Callaghan would like to by say a big “thank you” to our year 8 representatives, Julia Head, Meg Abernethy-Hope and Joe Torrible. They have done a fantastic job this year on behalf of the whole year group. Elections will be held in September to appoint representatives for year 9.