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5 Year 9 French Trip

6 Nickelodeon Competition

7 Sports News

8 Children in Need

2 Field Trip to Juniper Hall

3Arts Depot‘Open 2011’Competition

4 Look We Have a Poet!

5 Latin at Ashmole

Autumn 2011 Volume 2, Issue 10

Dear Parents, Carers, Friends and Students,

Traditionally, the Autumn Term is a time when we review the successes achieved by the students in their Summer 2011 examinations.

Ashmole students achieved very well. 96% of Year 11 students obtained 5 or more A* - C passes at GCSE with 78% gaining that result with English and Maths included. There were 99% passes at A level with 90% gaining an a A* - C grade. At A level, we have seen in recent years the introduction of A*. Nationally about 8% of A* are awarded. For Ashmole students, over 12% achieved an A* which is a very impressive result for a non-selective 6th Form.

Individual successes were considerable. Two Year 11 students achieved an A* in all their GCSE subjects plus one AS grade A in Mathematics. In the 6th Form, we had three students who gained places at Cambridge University and one

at Oxford. One of these students achieved 5 grade A* A levels. This particular student also achieved the highest mark in the whole country in Biology, he is now studying Medicine at Cambridge.

We were very pleased to celebrate these successes and many more at our recent Prize Giving Evening.

As you are aware, we constantly want to improve the service we provide to students and their parents/carers. This term we have launched our new website which contains a welcome video and a virtual tour as well as plenty of information about the school. Further developments will follow with the website later in the year.

Parents and carers should be aware of their child’s username and password to Fronter, a web programme that gives you access to our online resources that are used at the school. These resources include details of schemes of work for the subjects your child studies.

In the event of an emergency closure (snow for example) the school will use Fronter to provide a day’s work for each subject on that day. Please therefore, make sure that you have these details.

Finally, as the end of term approaches, Seasons Greetings to you all.

Derrick Brown Head Teacher

Message from the Head

ON Thursday 17th November the annual Prize Giving

Evening was held at the school.

Over 200 prize winners and

their parents listened to the guest

speaker, Dr Andrew Bell, the

Admissions Tutor from Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. After the formal part of the evening, guests enjoyed a buffet reception in the school refectory.

Ms Barnes

Prize Giving Evening

Dr Andrew Bell

Sports Ambassadors receiving their prizes

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2Science @ Ashmole

Field Trip to Juniper Hall

ThE Year 13 Biologists visited Juniper hall in Surrey on a

residential field trip this September. Nearby Box hill is going to be part of the London 2012 Olympic Cycle Road Race and there are 10,000 visitors expected to this site per day. The students were considering the effects that this may have upon some of the local plant species growing in the area. In addition they had the chance to get their feet wet and dipped their wellies in the River Mole where they learnt how to sample the water invertebrate species which live

there. They set Longworth humane mammal traps in the evening and managed to catch a couple of field mice and a slug! They also met Moth-Man, a local Lepidopterist who specialises in the study of moths. he showed the students how to sample the different moth species living in the area. All of the students worked incredibly hard to plan, trial and conduct their individual investigations. Well done!

Miss Shipton, Mrs Doyle and Mr O’Dwyer

CONGRATULATIONS to Christos Panayi who has received an award for his performance in his A level Biology examination.

Christos gained the highest mark in the country. he has been invited to attend an awards ceremony at the Salters’ hall. Christos is now studying Medicine at Cambridge University, we wish him every success for his future career.

Miss Shipton & Mr O’Dwyer

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3Art & Technology @ Ashmole

ThIS May, Olivia and I entered the Artsdepot ‘Open 2011’

competition and were accepted to exhibit selected pieces of work from our Fine Art AS courses. Olivia’s pieces ‘Emily’, based on the movement of a girl dancing ballet, and ‘Replication of Cells’, based on the extraordinary mystery of a cell dividing and growing, were accepted for exhibition. My piece, ‘Latch’ which is based on the mystery in the book ‘The Secret Garden’, was also accepted, Our pieces were on display to the public in the Apthorp Gallery in Artsdepot, North Finchley from

the 20th July to the 4th September 2011. Olivia’s piece ‘Emily’ was selected as the winner of the Artsdepot best young artists award. This competition is a great way to get young and aspiring

artists to build in confidence and be recognised for their work.

Matthew Jeffery 13/N1 and Olivia Medcalf 13/N1

Arts Depot‘Open 2011’

Competition

IN July the National Students’ Art Exhibition was held in the

Mall Galleries. Stephanie Murphy, an Applied Arts student, entered two paintings, one still life and one portrait. She was selected and commended to have her work shown at a further exhibition.

This is a highly prestigious event and the quality of work was exceptional. Stephanie has gone on to study an Arts Foundation course at Loughborough University.

Ms Edwards

National Students’ Art Exhibition in theMall Galleries

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4English @ Ashmole

A number of Year 12 students recently participated in the Cambridge Union School

Debating Competition. Dorela Dervishi 12M1 and Ekta Rayani 12J2 won their first round debate and are through to the next stage of the competition. Well done, girls!

Ms O’Carroll

YEAR 12 English Literature AS students have been studying the collection Look,We Have coming to Dover by the North London poet,

Daljit Nagra. Nagra’s collection won the Forward Prize for Best First Collection; as well as being shortlisted for Guardian First Book Award in 2007, the Costa Poetry prize and the Jerwood Aldeburgh First Collection Prize. The students have to write a 1000 word essay on the collection as part of their coursework.

We were lucky enough to be able to get Daljit to visit Ashmole to read his poems to the students and answer their questions. These are some of their comments about his visit.

Ms Doherty

HAvING Daljit Nagra in our library was a fun experience

because this was the man that we were studying and writing about. We actually got to meet him and talk about his works, which is quite special since Shakespeare and heaney are far too busy to come to Ashmole! The most important thing we learned from him was that there are not any right or wrong interpretations when it comes to poetry, some of the points we made were completely new to Nagra because in English Literature we have to look deep into the verses until we can find an original analysis of the text and Nagra doesn’t always dwell on the small meanings we pick up, he just writes poetry and leaves it to us to interpret.

Jake Wiafe

NAGRA writes in an exciting way. My favourite poem is

A Prelude to Suka’s Adventures as I feel it discusses a sensitive topic but uses blunt and unforgiving phrases and devices.

Amy Howard

IT has really helped in terms of analysis - to help me understand

the effects of the language and structural devices used.

Liam Jones

I REALLY enjoyed it! You’ve got some fantastic students. They’re

very bright and asked some very intelligent questions.

Daljit Nagra (poet) about Ashmole AS

English Literature students

Debating

Daljit Nagra (poet)

Look We Have a Poet!

LAST year, a number of students in Years 8 and 9

attended a Latin club after school where they studied book 1 of the Cambridge Latin Course. In addition, some Year 12 students followed the course as part of their enrichment programme. All students learnt how to understand the language so that they could read stories about a family living in Pompeii in the build up to the eruption of vesuvius. They also watched short films to learn about Roman culture and civilisation as part of the course. Congratulations to the following students who passed the book 1 Written test and

received a certificate from the Cambridge Latin Project:

Deanna Emeny 9M2

Sophia Karydis 9J1

Lucy Jenkins 10N1

Nathan Lyne 10J1

Sophia Mousicos 10J1

Jenny Orriss 10N1

Sophia Panayi 10S1

Beatrice Peev 10M2

Parisah hussain 10M1

Sabrina Guselli 10N2

Imane Berkani 13M2

Nailah Deer 13S1

Aaron Luk 13J1

Ms Moon

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NEARLY 170 pupils in the current Year 9 spent five days

in France at the end of the Summer Term, staying in a small hotel in Agon-Coutainville , a small town by the sea in Normandy. As well as visiting famous tourist attractions like the Bayeux Tapestry and Le Mont Saint Michel, the groups visited a zoo and had the opportunity to practise their French at a market in nearby Coutances where they bought whatever they fancied for their picnic lunch from the stall-holders: some lunches were stranger than others!

From the excellent projects that the students put together, the disco extravaganza and also the theme park we visited at Parc de Bagatelle on the last day were huge successes.

I would like to thank both the brilliant staff who accompanied us and also last year’s Year 8 for making this such a fantastic and memorable trip. Bravo!

Mr Pearson, Trip Leader

IT was an amazing experience and I loved the food.

Jennie Balaganeshan 9M2

The trip was so fun, I got to know lots of people and improved my French a lot.

Deanna Emeny 9M2

It was very enjoyable and I learnt a lot about the culture and learnt new vocabulary as well.

Yasmin Azedou 9J2

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Year 9 French Trip

Tyler Vohmann – 11N2

Tyler has made outstanding efforts in improving his work so much so that in Maths he has moved up two sets.

Gong Li – 13M1

Gong joined Ashmole in September 2008 with very little knowledge of the English language and has gained excellent grades in both GCSEs and AS level exams. Gong hopes to go to university to read Natural Sciences.

Elliot Monk – 11M1

Elliot went to Namibia in the summer holiday to help with a conservation project. This involved planting trees and building a waterhole for elephants. He had to raise the money to take part.

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6News @ Ashmole

Nickelodeon Competition

Jack PetcheyAchievement

AwardsSUMMER TERM

WINNERS

NAYANNA Wallace of Form 7N2 entered Nickelodeon’s

nationwide competition to find a young presenter for a day on house of Anubis, a very popular children’s programme. Nayanna sent in her show reel and was chosen as one of the six finalists out of a cast of over 1500 entrants.

As one of the finalists Nayanna was whisked off to their central London

studios in a big chauffeur driven car to attend workshops and have lunch in Charlotte Street.

Although Nayanna did not win, she received a fantastic video camera and a large goody bag stuffed with fabulous gifts. Reaching the final six in such a huge competition has left Nayanna with wonderful memories of a day well spent in London.

Community NewsOn Saturday 24th September the Ashmole Greek School held the blessing for the new academic year 2011-12. The blessing was performed by his Eminence Archbishop Gregorios of Thyateira & Great Britain. Among those who attended was The Worshipful the Mayor of the London Borough of

Barnet, Councillor Lisa Rutter and Derrick Brown, the headteacher of Ashmole Academy.

Many Ashmole Academy students and parents are involved in the Ashmole Greek School which is held every Saturday on the school premises.

IN recent years Ashmole Academy Business Department has made

a strong business link with Coca Cola Enterprises Ltd in Edmonton, a franchise bottlers for the popular drinks company. This term the Year 10 BTEC Business Extended Certificate Level 2 class have visited the plant where students and teachers alike learnt a variety of interesting facts about this iconic drinks firm.

This trip was broken into three parts. First students watched a brief video about the history of Coca Cola. Then the students watched and participated in a

presentation by an experienced Coca Cola employee. Students actively contributed to the presentation and confidently answered questions on Coca Cola’s change in brand over the years and their marketing strategies.

The tour of the site was by far the most interesting part of the day. Students were engrossed by the production of the product. With a highly automated plant students struggled to see an employee on site but were intrigued by the size of the operation.

Another successful trip organised

by the Business Studies Department enhancing the integration of the classroom with real life businesses!

Miss Archeou

StudentS’ quoteS

“We learnt how the Coca Cola business operates on a daily basis”.

Malik Ali

“The most interesting part of the day was when we went into the factory and saw the whole production process”

Shannon Tube

Visit to the Factory

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Sports News

Sports Ambassadors

7Sports @ Ashmole

IT has been a fantastic start to the academic year of 2011-12.

The senior netball team had an outstanding win in the Barnet Cup. There were 15 teams competing and they were victorious beating Mill hill Public (the favourites) in a close and compelling final. The team were captained by woman of the tournament Sarah Marshall who withstood huge pressure and shot consistently throughout. They were also wearing the new Senior Netball kit which may have given them the edge! Many congratulations ladies I was exceptionally proud!

Miss Murphy

X-COUNTRY results have been really pleasing so far this year

and to name but a few notable performances have come from Nathan Thomas, David Gaskin, Ruth Nugent and Alex Green. We look forward to a highly successful Barnet Championships in January.

All football teams have made a very strong start to the season, particularly the Senior Football First XI who have had an unbeaten start to the season and show much promise this year. Top of the league currently – let’s hope they stay there!

LiLY Tyrimos, Rhys Thompson and James

Reavell have been selected as Young Sports Ambassadors for Barnet. At the Oval on the 18th of November they were involved in various workshops led by Olympians introducing them to their role as a Young Ambassador.

They will be involved in promoting the Olympic and Paralympic values throughout the school and are excited to help organise and advertise London 2012 next year. This is a fantastic achievement and all three must be congratulated!

Miss Murphy

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Dates For Your DiaryAutumn Term finishes on Friday 16th December at 1.00 pm

Spring Term starts on Tuesday 3rd January at 8.40 amWeek 1

NAOMI Lyne

and Natasha O’Leary from the 6th Form

were amongst a group of local students who visited the holocaust Survivors’ Centre recently. The students had already visited Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp as part of a project called ‘Lessons from Auschwitz’.

Naomi said “The Project has provided an incredible opportunity for me to expand my knowledge and further my understanding of the holocaust in a way that is just not possible inside the classroom. It has been very special to meet with the survivors here at the Jewish Care’s Survivors’ Centre and I look forward to playing my part in ensuring that their stories are never forgotten.”

ON the week of the 16th November, 2011 the Senior

Team was fundraising for Children In Need. On Wednesday students participated in karaoke and on Thursday there was a student vs. teacher netball match (which the teachers won, 12-2). Some brave sixth form boys also waxed their legs on Friday to help fundraise. A good time was had by all and in the end £750 was raised for the charity. Thank you to everyone who participated.

Mrs Thompson

Holocaust Project

8News @ Ashmole

Spring Term 2012First Half Term Tuesday 3rd January – Friday 10th FebruaryHalf Term Monday 13th February to Friday 17th FebruarySecond Half Term Tuesday 21st February – Friday 30th MarchNB: Easter Bank Holiday Friday 6th April to Monday 9th April

Summer 2012First Half Term Monday 16th April – Friday 1st JuneMay Day Monday 7th MayHalf Term Monday 4th June to Friday 8th JuneSpring Bank Holiday Monday 4th JuneQueen’s Diamond Jubilee Tuesday 5th JuneSecond Half Term Monday 11th June – Tuesday 17th JulyStaff Training Days Friday 6th July, Wednesday 18th July

Thursday 19th July

Other Dates For Your Diary5th January Year 12 Parents Evening26th January Year 7 Parents Evening9th February Year 11 Parents Evening1st March Year 8 Parents Evening13th March Year 9 Options Information Evening15th March Year 9 Options Guidance Interviews29th March Year 10 Parents Evening

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A s h m o l eA c A d e m y

IN September this year we invited parents to

apply for a Parent Governor vacancy, we received four nominations and a ballot was held. Mrs Allison Walling was elected as the new Parent Governor in October and will serve a 4 year term.

Ms Foye Clerk to the Governors

Parent Governor Election