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INSIDE: German Exchange • Food Hygiene • Impact Day • Sports Day

The Year 11 PromOn Friday 26th June we held the mosteagerly anticipated event of the school yearat The Chesterfield Hotel. Over 230 Year 11students and staff enjoyed an unforgettableevening beginning with magnificent arrivalsin pink limousines and a variety of othereye-catching vehicles.The outfits were fabulous as you can see fromthese photos – both boys and girls had pulledout all of the stops. The Prom Committee hadworked hard for over a year under theguidance of thetheir Head of Year Sally Phippsto make this a truly memorable event. Theclimax was the ‘crowning’ of the Prom Kingand Queen, Rory Bradford and Jodie Twigg.

Duke ofEdinburghGold Awards

Inter-school debate on MPs’ expenses

The VI Form Prom

On Friday 19th June Tupton Hall hosted anevent organised by School Matters, the localnewspaper for schools. Natascha Engel, theMP for North East Derbyshire, agreed toanswer questions from Y10 students on herrole as an MP and the topical matter of MPs’expenses. The other local schools involvedwere; Parkside, Springwell, St Mary’s,Hasland Hall, Brookfield and Bolsover.For ninety minutes students asked perceptiveand penetrating questions that showed that theyhad done a great deal of research. There were some very uncomfortable moments for theMP but it was generally felt that Natascha Engel answered students’ questions in astraightforward way that was not patronising. Three of our students; Meghan Lilleyman,Marcus Walker and Ashley Gregory said, ‘We thought the experience was very useful asit helped us to understand and learn more about the present situation in parliament.’The students were clearly enthused by the debate with most saying that they would likethe opportunity to visit parliament and see it in action for themselves.A longer article appears in the July edition of School Matters

On 19th May 2009Abbey-Jo Mooresand NatashaGanecki receivedtheir Gold Duke ofEdinburgh’s Awardcertificates from HisMajesty Prince Philipat St James’s Palace,London. Theseawards were theculmination ofseveral years of enjoyable hard work,dedication, teamwork and personaldevelopment. Both Abbey-Jo andNatasha began with Bronze thenprogressed to Silver before their Gold.Natasha was involved with the Air TrainingCorps for her Service; she did music(playing an instrument) for her Skill. MartialArts was her Physical Recreation and for theResidential she completed her CommunitySports Leader Award. Abbey-Jo Helped ata Youth club for her Service and played ina band for her Skill. Her Physical Recreationinvolved Fitness Activities and herResidential was a Cookery course. Theyboth completed their practice expedition inthe Yorkshire Dales and their final assessed4 day expedition was in the Dark Peakarea.Currently nearly 50 students aged 14 andupward are involved in the D of E at TuptonHall at all three levels: Bronze, Silver andGold. We now have many moreapproaching their Gold completion with aqualifying expedition in Snowdonia in July.Abbey-Jo and Natasha, however, willalways be remembered as our first twoGold award holders.

Well done both of you.

On the 22nd May the Sixth FormProm was held at the SheffieldPark Hotel, over 180 students andstaff partied the night away. Theevening included a three course sitdown dinner, staff and studentawards and a spectacularMacarena finale. It was a fittingend to a wonderful school year forthe students who all lookedabsolutely fabulous. The SixthForm Council did a fantastic job oforganising and running the event.Congratulations to them fororganising a brilliant social event.

Come Alive with Science 2009As part of National Science and Engineering week theTupton Hall School Science department laid on a series of‘come alive with science’ events. The events spannedMarch and April and included over 150 children from bothTupton Hall and surrounding primary schools. The programme was delivered in conjunction with Igniteand funded by the East Midlands Development Agency.Pupils worked in teams to complete a range of activitiesaimed at encourageing students to think of science,technology engineering and maths as creative and funsubjects and showing in a practical, hands-on way howscience can inspire curiosity and a spirit of inquiry, as wellproviding options for exciting future study and careers. Allpupils had the unique opportunity to work with a real scientist and engineer to completethe activities which included, building giant kinetic machines, desert island survival andthe air ship challenge.Holmgate Primary School said ‘ It was a fantastic day. The children learned lots andwere fully engaged in the activities’. Tupton Hall pupils said ‘the best thing was that itwas practical and enjoyable because we had a choice of how to do things’ ‘it mademe think of science in a different way’ and ‘it was awesome’.

Cologne 2008 – Ashgate 2009In July 2008 Tupton Hall School’s Year 10football team embarked on a Footballand Educational trip to Cologne,Germany. The team raised over half ofthe money required to go on the trip(over £5,000) by undertaking a numberof fundraising events which included carwashes at Morrison’s supermarket and atthe school and two challenge matchesagainst the schools Year 9 and 11 teamsat Saltergate.

During the visit the team competed andwere victorious in winning a four teamtournament against German opposition.The boys also visited Cologne’s Cathedral,Sports Museum and the Energie ReinStadium, home of Bundesliga teamCologne F.C.The trip was extremely enjoyable andsuccessful both on and off the pitch. All ofthe 20 students behaved impeccablythroughout and were a credit to themselvesand the school.

Ashgate Hospice bag pack atSainsbury’s supermarketIn the wake of the successful trip toCologne the team decided it would be agood idea to undertake a fundraising eventfor a worthy charity. As a result on the 26thSeptember the team and other studentsfrom the school spent the day packingshoppers bags at Sainsbury’s inChesterfield. The student’s efforts resulted ina magnificent £500 to be donated toAshgate Hospice.

P.E. Staff, Mr. White and Mr. Jenkins with theYear 10 boys’ football team in the dug out of FCCologne’s Energie Rein Stadium.

P.E. Staff, Mr. White and team members ThomasMitchell and Jordan Burrow presenting the £500cheque to Emily from Ashgate Hospice.

The Year 7 Poetry reading competitionEvery child in Year 7 takes part in our annual poetry reading competition in theirEnglish classes. Each class sends their ‘winner’ to the Final held in front of thewhole year group in the Richard Smith Hall.This year the standard of entries was high once again with some original writing as wellas published poems. Nine brave students were warmly applauded and cheered by theirpeers and some students gave particularly animated performances. Ultimately, the panelof staff judges had the difficult task of picking the overall winners;1st Ali Taylor HA2nd Caitlin Russell H@3rd Sean Brailsford TAThe other students who gave readings were; Sophie Wood G@Caleb Wilkes GAMacaulay Pearson G@Lorna Smylie HAAlex Mosely G1Chloe Pugh GA

The German Exchange 2009-10THS hosts international event!No, I’m not talking about the G8Summit, but one with as muchimportance! Having built on linksestablished over the last 2 years, thenewly re-established GermanExchange once again became part ofTupton Life.Having decided to focus mostly on Y8students, we deliberately set up a verysmall scale exchange; we did not wishto over-extend in the first year! We set up links between the school in Pfungstadt, nr.Darmstadt in mid-Germany, we made these links tangible by inviting the Germanstudents over to spend time with their British counterparts. We had our German studentsto stay with us 17th – 24th June, with the German member of staff staying with me.During their stay, we went bowling together (to break the ice!), took them to Chatsworth(to enhance their cultural awareness!) and sent them off to Meadowhall (to buy theirsouvenirs!) On all occasions, we as a school could not have wished for better mannersor attitudes from the German or British students. The German students were alsofortunate enough to spend time in our school system, and learned a great deal aboutour differences and also our similarities.The plan is now for us to return the visit in November, where I am sure our students willbe shown the same care and respect that the Germans were exposed to here. Many thanks to all who were involved and here’s looking forward to November!

Mr. Ford (Head of MFL)

Art AwardsYear 7Gold Joseph White 7G1Silver Sophie Mahadevan 7GXBronze Josie Allen 7CAEffort Sean Smith 7H1Year 8Gold Sophie Corker 8CASilver Chloe Bradbury 8GABronze Bethan Lowry-Fields 8CXEffort Lucy Harris 8TAYear 9Gold Hayley Watts 9CXSilver Laura May 9T1Bronze Chelsea Hardy 9G1Effort Samantha Hobson 9H1Year 10 Gold Lily Hammond 10H1Silver Jade Coughlan 10HABronze Jema Grafton 10HAEffort Kayleigh Flaxman 10HAYear 11Gold Emma Booker 11C1Silver Jessica Solly 11GXBronze Sophie Cocker 11H1Effort Alexander Marsh 11G1Year 12Gold Amy Goulding 6EPIEffort Aimee-Rose Spacie 6RCH

DramaYear 7Gold Matthew Parker 7TASilver Katie Wareham 7GXBronze Lorna Smylie 7HAEffort Alexandra Reddish 7GAYear 8 Gold Daniel Haynes 8TASilver David Spendlove 8T1Bronze David Lovell 8CAEffort Joshua Marshall 8HAYear 9Gold Jack Gaunt 9TASilver Cara Ainger 9CABronze Abigail Hutton 9GAEffort Bethany Wood 9CAYear 10Gold Adam Edwards 10TASilver Amy Duly 10HABronze April Haywood 10HAEffort Aiden Evans 10GXYear 11 Gold Jodie Twigg 11C1Silver Louise Smith 11GXBronze Jena Hardy 11CAEffort Amy Gaunt 11CXYear 12Gold Robert Clay 6KAL Effort Emily Cooper 6KBTYear 13 Gold Jenny Hampson 6TTA Effort Gary Freeman 6JFO

MusicYear 7Gold Luke Downing 7HASilver Hannah Ganecki 7H1Bronze Holly Irving 7C1Effort Scott Leedham 7GAYear 8 Gold Samuel Walder 8T1Silver Daniella Mulvey 8G1Bronze Sarah Cox 8HAEffort Bradley Wilson-Hunt 8G1Year 9Gold Abigail Hutton 9GASilver Nathaniel Marsh 9T1Bronze John Durham 9TXEffort Beth Green 9C1Year 10Gold Fiona Whittingham 10G1Silver Adam Edwards 10TABronze Jennie Schofield 10C1Effort Joseph Cobb 10T1Year 11 Gold Caroline Rynott 11HASilver Claire Durham 11C1Bronze Zara Limer 11CXEffort Adam Smart 11TAYear 12Gold Joshua Hunt 6KALEffort Sarah Bell 6AWY

Expressive Arts CelebrationEvening Awards

ARTSCafé

Two Drama groups performed;• Tissue – Michaela Lennon, Nick Evans, JodieTwigg and Alex Brazier (pictured right)

• Too much punch for Judy – Helen Kearney,Nick Russ, Tom wardlow and Sophie Cocker

There were also solo musical performances byZara Limer, Caroline Rynott and Adam Smartand duets from Jess Solly and Richard Fox /Clair Durham and Rosie Nutting.Parents and guests were also able to enjoy aninformal buffet in the Richard Smith Hall.Many thanks to Lisa Dana and all of the staffin the Expressive Arts Faculty. On Thursday 14th May we held this event tocelebrate the work and success of our GCSEstudents in Art, Drama and Music coursework. All Year 11 Art students exhibited their worksome of the best pieces are shown in thesephotographs.

Parents viewed an extensive exhibition of Art work and were alsotreated to performances by the school band and the lower school dramagroup. A special presentation was made to Mr Keith Myhill who is retiringfrom Tupton Hall this summer after 37 years as an Art teacher.

The following students received awards at this event on Thursday 2nd July;

Food HygieneCertificates

Students from the A level Health and Social Care course havepassed their Basic food Hygiene certificate. This nationally recognised certificate is offered to all students following a KS4 Food Technology or Health and SocialCare course in Year 10. Well done to those who have passed.

Year 8 Impact day

Year 7 Impact dayThe Year7's had another great IMPACT day on24th June. The main themes were charity,behaviour and careers. We raised money byrunning round the track and also had a pennyrace. In their forms, the year 7's created theirYr8 form charters and we also have a disabledguest speaker to talk to the pupils about herdisability - she commented on how positive thepupils were in their reactions to her.

On 24th June Year 8 had a fashion show ontheir IMPACT day. After working on anenvironment al theme they had to modelrecycled rubbish to promote eco-schools and theimportance of recycling. The day was a greatsuccess and enjoyed by all Year 8 students.

Licence to Cook SchemeThe Food andTextiles departmenthave had a busy year! We haveintroduced the new Licence to Cookscheme with Y7 who are working towardstheir assessment certificate. The Active KidsGet Cooking scheme has been rolled out toall KS3 student. So far this year we havepresented Bronze, Silver and Gold tostudents in Y7, 8 and 9 a total of 863certificated in all, a wonderfulachievement! Well done!

Clothes ShowYear 10 Textiles students have attended theClothes Show at the NEC, ChesterfieldCollege Hair, Beauty and Fashion showand Derby University Degree Open Day forschools, for inspiration in their courseworkat GCSE. See our displays up in theTextiles corridor.

Get Cooking ClubMiss Pearson has beenrunning the Let’s Get CookingClub with students and adultsattending regularly andeating fantastic new foods.Look out forfurtherdevelopmentsin this area.

Health and Social CareYoung ApprenticeshipstudentsTen of our Year 11 students havesuccessfully completed the Health andSocial Care Young Apprenticeship.This course is run jointly with Age Concernin Chesterfield and we are delighted with

their success. Two students gaining starredDistinctions (equivalent to GCSE A*), 5 gaining Distinctions and 3 gainingMerits. The qualifications equate to fourGCSE passes and will boost both personaland overall levels of attainment at theschool.Two of the students, Emily Chappell andCharlotte Power represented the school ata meeting the National Director Of AgeConcern in Chesterfield on 21.5.09.

Sports Leadership Presentation

ICT UpdateNetwork and hardware:Our school network has been furtherimproved this year to improve speed andreliability and a number of furtherchanges are planned over the next 2years. Watch this space for details! There are now 4 trolleys of laptops forextended curriculum use around school,and an ever increasing number of dataprojectors and interactive Whiteboardsinstalled in classrooms. The number ofcurriculum computers continues to risealso, and our rolling programme ofreplacing the oldest ICT equipmentmeans that by September 2009, allareas of the school will have seen thebenefit over the last three years.

Student information:Parents of Year 7 students now have fullaccess to information on their children viaInternet access to e-portal, our schoolManagement Information System. Parentsof Year 8 and Year 9 students will haveaccess during June. The remaining Yeargroups will follow suit. To gain access tothe system, click “Parents” from the schoolhomepage (www.tuptonhall.derbyshire.sch.uk),then click on the “Access to e-portal” linkon the LEFT hand side of the page.

Parent section of the website:Clicking on “Parents”, on the schoolhomepage, leads to an area of informationon most things parents should need toknow, including letters home, forms,policies term dates, and a useful NEW

feature; a “Parental Views” survey. Thelink for this is on the LEFT hand side of thepage. Please feel free to add commentsabout any aspect of school life and/or ICTissues. You can choose to leave yourname, or be anonymous.

SAM Learning:The school continues to subscribe to SAMlearning; a web based revision andlearning tool. Students are able to log in,revise, or complete specific set tasks left byteaching staff. SAM learning suggest 10hours of use will significantly improveresults and as it is available from anywherewith an internet connection, students shouldbe encouraged to use it at home as muchas possible. Year 9 have recently beenintroduced to SAM learning in preparationfor their GCSEs next year. Prizes, includingiPods, are to be awarded to the biggestusers by the end of the school year!

ICT Curriculum:ECDL (European Computer Driving Licence)has been taken by a pilot group of staffand students this year. From next year weare able to offer thecourse to anyone inour community.Adverts will beplaced in localschools, communitycentres etc. duringJuly and August. Students havecompleted their ICTcoursework and theearly signs are that

our GCSE performance will be very goodthis year in ICT.A brand new Key Stage 2/Key Stage 3transition programme involving 5 of ourfeeder Primary Schools is underway. ICTstaff will be teaching Year 6 students in thefirst place and Tupton Hall will have afollow-up event where the Year 6 studentswill complete their work at specificworkshops – a great way for the studentsto get a feel for their next school and to tryout the ICT facilities.A group of Gifted and Talented ICTstudents are to receive a fantasticexperience courtesy of the Nottingham e-learning centre. They will be working for aday with Industry standard digitalvideo/photo editing systems to create arange of digital material.For any further information, please use theParental survey mentioned above or emailNick Melton, Assistant Headteacher (ICTSystems):

nickm3@tuptonhall.derbyshire.sch.uk

On the 23rd June Tupton hall held theirannual Sports Leadership Presentation topresent certificates to those students whohad achieved one of the nationalleadership awards. The eventrecognised the efforts of over 100hundred students ranging from Y10through to Y13.

Within Y10, twenty one students gainedtheir Dance Leaders Award whilst a furthereighty one were presented with their Level1 in Sports Leadership. Level 2 inCommunity Sports Leadership Awards werepresented to a further twelve Y12 studentswith three Y13 students receiving theirLevel 3 Higher Sports Leadership Award.

The event included a presentation from LucyRoberts, who outlined her experiences as aSports Leader and how it had helped her ina number of ways – most recently whenshe was given the opportunity to become a‘Sports Ambassador’ for the area.Food Leadership awards were alsopresented to several students includingNatalie Worth and Kia Ramsdale whohave worked exceptionally hard to supportthe ‘Lets Get Cooking’ after school andholiday programmes. At present TuptonHall school is working alongside nationalgoverning bodies to develop this newleadership qualification – as a result thesestudents were the first nationally to bepresented with these awards.

A group of Sports Leaders lead a newand exciting competition as part of ClayCross Carnival. A ‘Crazy Catch’competition was run over 4 different agegroups – catering for all ages andabilities. As the sun shone the adultsand children came to see how manytimes they could ‘Crazy Catch’ in 1minute.Medals and prizes were awarded by theSports Leaders to the winner and runner-upin each age category.A great day was had by all – especiallyPoppy Marriott, Beth Clarke, Lucy Robertsand Mat Fox – who worked consistentlyhard throughout the event.

Poppy Marriottpresenting the winnersmedal to the winner inthe Under 5’s agegroup.

Beth Clarke presentingthe winners and runnersup awards to 2 of ourown students.

Sports Leaders Shineat Clay Cross Carnival

Tupton Hall School, Old Tupton, Chesterfield, Derbyshire S42 6LG Tel: 01246 863127 email: info@tuptonhall.derbyshire.sch.uk www.tuptonhall.derbyshire.sch.ukedited, designed & printed by pickards.org.uk printed on recycled paper

This year’s Sports Day had highexpectations from the onset and it

did not disappoint. Highlyorganised year groups had meantthat teams were selected well in

advance of the competitionresulting in a full complement of

athletes in nearly every event. Withwell over 400 students

participating this was a highlyenjoyable day for both studentsand staff. Student behaviour was

really good and made for apleasant and sporting atmosphere.The results were possibly the closestwe have seen in a while with only

a few points separating the Houses in the end.

1st Hunloke 2nd Gladwin3rd Cavendish 4th Turbutt

This is the second year on the trotthat Hunloke have won, but only

narrowly beating Gladwin this time.The PE Department would like

to thank the all the staff on behalfof the students for their helpin making this day possible.

On Tuesday 12th May 2009 the Year 11 and 6th form football teamswent head to head at Saltergate for bragging rights to be crowned thebest team in the school. It really was a game of two halves with the6th form dominating the first period. By the break they had racked upa 3 - 0 lead with goals from Kris Lowe and two from Paul Mildenhall.After some choice words and a tactical reshuffle during the half-timebreak the Year 11 team were transformed in the second half. They laidsiege on the sixth form goal with Scott Margereson in the Year 11 goala virtual spectator. Goals form Karl Hallam and Jordan Lemon reducedthe deficit and despite their best efforts to score an equaliser the 6thform team held on for the victory. A special mention to Ellis Wall andPaul Mildenhall who put in man of the match displays for their teams.The event raised over £1000 pounds which will be split between theAshgate Hospice (Year 11) and a charity chosen by the 6th form students.I would like to take this opportunity to thank the players, students whohelped out on the night and the staff from the P.E. Department who gaveup their time to make the event a huge success.

Many Thanks Andy White

Year 11 versus 6th FormCharity Match at Saltergate

North East Derbyshire Sports DayThursday 2nd JulyOnce again this was held at Tupton Hall so that localschools could use the excellent athletics facilities. It was avery enjoyable event despite the very hot weather. The results were as follows;1st - Tupton Hall School2nd Tibshelf School, 3rd Dronfield Henry Fanshawe School4th Eckington School, 5th Deincourt School

Mr Carl Sinclair, Head of Physical Education

The North East DerbyshireAthletics event, hosted atTupton, has been running formany years now. The eventbrings together teams of 26students from within eachyear group from our area schools, which includeDronfield Henry Fanshawe, Eckington, Deincourt andourselves Tupton Hall. We also invite a Guest School whothis year was Tibshelf School, who are also a SpecialistSports College. The guest school is altered each year,with the previous guest being Brookfield, anotherSpecialist Sports College. Commitment and organisationfrom all schools made this a superb event with manyevents being closely contested. All schools participated inthe right spirit and made this event highly successful andenjoyable for everyone concerned.

Sports Day 25 June 2009