20 July 2018 Issue 11

2017/2018

Farlingaye HIGH SCHOOL “You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the

more you have.” (Maya Angelou)

Head’s Message As the Farlingaye School year has drawn to a close, I have been once again delighted by the sustained energy and engagement shown by staff and students. There has been a wealth of purposeful activity, both in school and out, that has shown us at our best. The feedback from our staff who have led Activities Week trips, visits and workshops, and from other adults who have encountered our students, has been overwhelming positive. I am very proud of the fact that so many students have made the most of the opportunities offered to them. It has been a great few weeks for sport at Farlingaye. The first of our new-look Sports Awards Evenings was a tremendous success, and I am very grateful to the PE team, whose desire to promote active participation in sport was so strong that it led to a brave and creative re-think of how we celebrate sporting endeavour. The event brought hundreds of participants and a wide range of local sports clubs to our fields. Students and their families tried their hands at lacrosse, volleyball, croquet, tennis, rugby, athletics and cricket, and a great time was had by all. We also had an excellent sport day, described within on Page 4, while a number of our students have excelled themselves in competition. Indeed, we can again celebrate having a team of national champions! Congratulations go to our wonderful U-13 Girls Handball team, descriptions of whose amazing exploits also feature inside this edition. It was lovely to see so many family members attending the recent performances of Bugsy Malone. Staff and students worked incredibly hard to make this latest Junior Production another great success. It was evident to all the audience members that everyone involved had a lot of fun working together to put on a great show, especially when it involved shooting each other with gunk while trying out their the comedy 1930s New York accents. I thought the whole thing was ‘poifect’! Several of the recent achievements described in this Forum, including the extraordinary successes of some of our younger students at the national Teen Tech competition and the excellent response to the Tenner Challenge, have exemplified the ability of Farlingaye students to face challenges, think creatively and find solutions. This creativity and ‘can do, will do’ attitude both inspires and is inspired by the tremendous efforts of staff, and is an indicator of why we were able to secure the Artsmark Gold Award this month. This prestigious award is a richly-deserved recognition of all that has been done at the school this year to promote creativity and endeavour. I would like to wish all our families a wonderful summer break, and happy results days in August for all our Year 11, Year 12 and Year 13 students. Years 7, 10, 11 and 12 return to school on Wednesday September 5th. Years 8, 9 and 13 return on Thursday September 6th.

MFL students get a taste of studying at the University of Cambridge On June 27th, we had the great opportunity to go to the University of Cambridge to find out more about studying languages at University. We had a short introduction about the benefit of language learning in general, before diving into an authentic university lecture on the Mexican Poet Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz and on how words impact culture. In the master classes that followed, we were all able to improve our A level language skills and then got to experience a new language, chosen from Arabic, Chinese, Russian and Portuguese. One thing that really stood out to us was the enthusiasm the lecturers had for their subjects. This really motivated us to continue to pursue languages beyond Year 13. This was further reinforced by some fascinating facts and statistics we were shown: only 5% of the world’s population speaks English as a first language; and it is EU policy for all people in Europe to speak their mother tongue plus two other languages. This demonstrated the importance of language skills in becoming a global citizen. We also learned that Monolingualism has been scientifically proven to be bad for your health. Huge thanks to Magdalene College, Mrs Green, Mr Tait and Annalena for taking us on this amazing trip. Imogen Howe; Katya Bathgate; William Charity; Jessica Lait; Rachel Swan; Olivia Heeley; Eliza Burkitt; Boogie Thompson; Beth Hanson

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Grundisburgh Primary – German Taster On Monday July 9th, Year 6 students from Grundisburgh Primary School visited Farlingaye for a German taster afternoon. Anna and Annalena, originally from the University of Wuppertal in Germany and currently on a work placement at Farlingaye, taught the most important phrases you need to know when starting out in a new language. Students then tested two language learning apps to evaluate their effectiveness and appeal to learners. They were then joined by Year 9 students of German at Farlingaye, who ran a number of interactive activities and games with the Year 6 students, teaching them basic vocabulary, such as numbers, colours and animals. The Year 6 students thoroughly enjoyed the afternoon and were engaged and enthusiastic throughout. I would like to thank the Goethe Institut London for their financial support and the following Year 9 students for their hard work and commitment when preparing and delivering the activities: Betty Freeman; Lily Thompson; Orla Whittingham; Neave Matthews; Matilda Nunn; Iris Rea; Nellee Berry; Dylan Hoyle; Jamie-Lee Buckmaster; Amélie Magotte Some great feedback from Year 6 included: “Really fun and best lesson ever”, “The activities on the iPads were really fun” and “My favourite thing was the memory pair game with Year 9.” Mrs Green

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Work the Change On Tuesday June 19th, 47 Year 12 students were trained as Peace Child International Work the Change Ambassadors. They then delivered sessions to the whole of Year 10 in groups of 3 or 4 on the following day. The Ambassadors were great and did an amazing job and both Year 10s and 12s got so much from the day. The lead from Peace Child International, Rosey Simonds, sent the following email: “I am so glad the school were pleased with the results. We thought that the Ambassadors were amazing and the best group we have ever had. The year 10s were really well behaved which was good and it was a pleasure to be in Farlingaye for the 2 days.” The 47 Ambassadors are: Rachel Amoils Annabel Anderson Katya Bathgate Isabella Campbell Casey Henry Patrick Coe Hannah Coles Faith Daniels Maddie Deans Lotte D’Hane Mollie Forsdyke-Day Harry Fosker Lucy Fruin Beth Hanson Olivia Heeley Heleena Houston Imogen Howe Morgana James Flo Lewis Luke Mann Siobhan Mannby Amy McArdle Jacob McKenzie Isobel McEwan Naomi McGregor Ella Naqvi Kate Nolan Tom Norton India Parkinson Fin Quilliam Kitty Read Abi Rew Harriet Spence Della Stiff Hannah Taplin Boogie Thompson Phillippa Unthank Maddie Venn Evan Vincent Laisa Waqausa Adi Georgie Beavis Tiah McGlynn Lilla Ronai Sadie Ellie Lottie Passmore Lucy Reeve Ellie Billington By Mr Lampard

Year 5 ICT Day On Thursday July 5th, the Technology faculty played host to 115 students from six of our primary feeder schools. Students from Melton, Grundisbergh, Sandlings, Hollesley, Bawdsey and Eyke spent the day going through an introduction to computer programming making use of BBC Micro:Bit boards connected to their computers. Throughout the day, students attempted a series of challenges trying to display text, images and animations on their boards. A fun day was had by all, with lots of success demonstrated in computer programming by many students, many of whom left us keen to come back to Farlingaye and discover what else they could program a computer to do. Mr Dadge

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The Suffolk Schools Sailing Regatta 2018

On Thursday June 28th, 21 students from Farlingaye participated in the Suffolk Schools Sailing Regatta at Alton Water. The conditions were perfect for fair racing, with warm sunshine and a building breeze. Five students enjoyed the ‘OnBoard’ fleet learning to race followed mini-racing in the afternoon, hopefully they will all graduate to the main fleets next year! These students were; Samuel Ngassa, Catherine Galbraith, Daisy Hester, Olivia Russell and Sophie Wallis. The others entered the six main racing fleets for a four race series. Our most successful sailors were in the Topper fleet with a commendable and close fought win for Sean Woodard, hot on his heels in 3rd was his sister Ciara. Hugo Passmore (10th) Jess Wright (11th), Alice Rains (13th), Lucy Rains (17th) and Annabelle Whittle (25th), also did very well in this fleet. In the Slow Handicap fleet Daisy Nunn was an excellent 2nd overall in her Cadet and Tristan Whittle 5th, Oliver Cavanagh came 12th, in a hired boat, and Barney Barnes with Harry Linsley came 15th. In the RS Tera fleet, James Russell was 4th, (however in my view he was 2nd as he was beaten by two students from Colchester Grammar school!) The Lasers are always highly competitive and Hazel Whittle did very well to come 6th, James Denny was 7th and Will Doble-Thomson was 12th. We had a fun day (most importantly) but also did very well, as ever, as a school. If you take Royal Hospital School (which have a number of people on sailing scholarships and a huge sailing budget) and Colchester Grammar School out of the equation, we had the best results of any school in Suffolk. Something the team should be very proud of! We look forward to another year next year with our building success and increasing interest in participation. Mr Harris

Sports Day

On a blisteringly hot Wednesday at the end of June, we held Sports Day. It was a day of wonderful camaraderie, cheering and clapping, and people of all abilities participating. The students were able to put our new long jump track to good use, kindly funded by FHSF. The new records mad on the day were: Year 7 Girls’ 800m Hannah Gray 2min 46.16 Year 8 Girls’ Triple Jump Libby Chandler 9.40 m Year 8 Boys’ Triple Jump Ivan Perez Sanchez10.65 m Year 8 Boys’ Shotput Ben Wakeling 10.01 m Year 8 Girls’ Discus Amelia Willett 22.31 m Year 9 Girls’ Long Jump Ella Brown 4.69 m The winning tutor groups were: 7F, 8H, 9R, 10F.

Endeavour Technology and ICT Enrichment Morning: On Wednesday June 27th, 102 students from Years 7, 8 and 9 were involved in our annual Endeavour Technology and ICT Enrichment Morning. Students were selected to participate in specific subject sessions including Textiles, Resistant Materials, ICT and Catering for periods 1 and 2. A whole range of exciting activities were organised for students to take part in. This year we were lucky enough to have CISCO come into school and assist with the Resistant Materials session. CISCO are a multi-national company who specialise in communication logistics. They invest in smaller companies who provide cutting edge IT solutions. They came to us due to our winning the 2017-18 Little Big Awards and provided a Bloodhound challenge to create the fastest vehicle using compressed air. Bloodhound are attempting to break the land speed record in 2019 with a speed up to 1,000mph. Over in ICT, Students were shown how to program a robotic buggy or created electronic dice using BBC micro:bits and electronics kits. Students had to put the electronic circuits together and write out the code for a program that would generate a random number and then display it using the LEDs. Some of the more ambitious students made dice that would set off an electric fan every time a ‘6’ was thrown on the dice! Ms Gray worked with selected students to learn about chicken which included boning out, stuffing and rolling a chicken thigh with lemon and sage. This was served on a bed of tomato and spaghetti. In Textiles, students had to design a fabric print for children’s wear which was then judged by Nikki Taylor from ‘Rose and Guy’, a local children’s wear designer. The winners were Bethany Rosser who came first, Harrison Strand came second and Sophie Willsher who came third. The winning designs were featured on the ‘Rose and Guy’ Instagram account with close to 20,000 followers. Nikki wanted to thank all the students who took part as all of the designs were superb. The morning was a real success and students commented on how much they had enjoyed the opportunity to speak to experts from industry as well access activities outside of the curriculum. One student said ‘I’ve realised that textiles isn’t just sewing’. Another student commented on how ‘the session made me think about design and to take the finest details into account.’ As a Faculty, we are looking forward to next year’s Enrichment Morning already! Mrs Cornell

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Artsmark This year our school has been engaged in the process of a journey towards achieving Artsmark status. To apply to become an Artsmark centre we have committed to a continued development of our outstanding provision of opportunities for students to engage in creativity across the curriculum. This includes both our extra curricular programme of events and activities along with our provision within school for students to gain confidence through creative practice in a range of forms. We are delighted to announce that we have been awarded Gold Artsmark status as a recognition of the embedded creative practice here at Farlingaye and the excellent engagement and participation of our students in both enrichment and daily practice in lessons. A huge “well done” to our students and staff for all they continue to contribute towards a culture of creativity at Farlingaye. The Artsmark Award panel made the following comment about our submissions: “The panel commend your commitment to the arts and note the embedded practices which run throughout the school. Purposeful pupil engagement is authentic with many examples of how pupils engage in the delivery of the arts such as Sixth Form students running the “Art is the Cure Club” for KS3 students and A Level Drama students running workshops for GCSE Drama students. It was pleasing to read how you are engaging boys in the arts with the introduction of photography. To progress further, the panel look forward to hearing how you develop your leadership role in supporting and influencing other schools. This will take time to generate tangible impacts and effects on pupil outcomes. Congratulations on your Artsmark Gold Award!”

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Teen Tech Finals On Monday June 25th, Joash Jennis, Harry Lansley, Tristan Whittle and Alice Gilman-Earle all of Year 8 Endeavour attended the national finals of the Teen Tech Awards, a national STEM organisation. The boys produced a concept of a pollution fighting drone for the environment category whilst Alice entered a mobile app which logs clothing and suggests your outfits based on mood/occasion. The students had to present to an esteemed panel of industry experts and scientists who have appeared on various television programmes. This day represented months of hard working investigation into a problem and developing possible solutions. I am delighted to say both projects won their respective categories and the students will now be invited to Buckingham Palace to show their winning ideas to HRH Duke of York in the new term. A huge well done from all the Endeavour team! Mr B Hawtin – Endeavour co-ordinator.

Art Exhibitions Our A level and GCSE Art students presented their work in two stunning exhibitions this Summer to celebrate and share the creative outcomes of their artistic endeavours. Students worked hard to curate and organise their own exhibition spaces and presented a range of exciting outcomes. From textiles, to sculpture, painting, print, illustration and photography, there was a diverse range of artwork on display. We are very proud of the excellent standard of work the students have achieved, and the wonderful array of imaginative compositions. Many of our A level students are moving on to exciting new horizons including degree courses in animation, textiles and fine art and foundation courses. We wish all of our art students every success in the future.

Bugsy Malone “They could have been anything that they wanted to be”. At the start of July, the Lower School students staged the musical “Bugsy Malone”. Over 100 students were involved in the huge production. With gangsters, molls, splurge guns, a vintage car and a fantastic musical score, the production wa a “(Fat Sam’s,) Grand Slam”. The acting and singing was excellent and the choreography and dancing was outstanding. The music, lights, sound system and back stage duties were all performed by our own students. It was a fun, raucous spectacular, that was a feast for the eyes and ears.

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Year 10 Business Studies For the last four weeks of the summer term, Year 10 Business Studies students have been taking part in the Tenner Challenge. This required them to work in groups of up to four to come up with a product or service that they could research, make and sell within the timescale, with a maximum initial investment of £10 starting capital per person. They were required to produce a presentation to explain their ideas, discuss their research findings and decisions, calculate costs, revenues and break-even, with the intention of making a profit and the incentive that it is then shared between the team. Students came up with a range of ideas, including car washing, selling a range of items, including sweets, fudge, cake sales, smoothies, chocolate gifts and ice creams. They rose to the challenge well, identifying sales opportunities during Sports Day at the Lower School Production and Mini Fest and amongst students at school. Posters displayed around school advertised the variety of products available and some teams even went so far as to use the power of technology, with adverts on Instagram, Snapchat and even creating a small website. The students worked well applying their subject based knowledge and developed key skills in communication, teamwork, responsibility, planning, decision-making, stock control, economies of scale, financial awareness and advertising, with a variety of levels of success. Profits raised ranged from £5 to as high as £100. However, the Cool Dudes excelled themselves in terms of their initiative and profits levels, raising a whopping £512 from selling ice cream! They are very kindly donating their profits to a chosen charity and the school library, which reinforces the entrepreneurship, values and kindness of our Farlingaye students. Students enjoyed the challenge and the opportunity to be creative and I hope will be inspired by their new founded entrepreneurial successes! Fantastic effort Year 10 and congratulations to the Cool Dudes – James Heeley, Liam Brooks, James Gilman-Earle and David Donovan! Ms Gray-Moloney Business Studies

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Biology Challenge In June, seven of our A level Biology students completed the Intermediate Biology Challenge. It is a national competition for 16-17 year olds studying in the first year of A level Biology. Our students did exceptionally well, all 7 achieved an award. Jacob McKenzie achieved a Commended award. Siobhan Mannby was given a Highly Commended. Lucy Beamish achieved a Bronze award, Boogie Thompson and Katya Bathgate were given a Silver award and Vacha Fadia and Lucy Reeve gained a Gold award. Only 7% of the 8000 participants across the county were given a Gold award so we feel very proud to have 2 from our school. Lucy also received an invite to attend the award ceremony in London to receive her award and meet some key biological scientists. Mr Parks

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Volunteering in Ghana I decided to volunteer in Mpraeso, Ghana for 4 weeks this summer predominately in a teaching role but also occasionally supporting the community with building projects. During my 4 weeks I supported two separate communities, one of which was a refugee community from neighbouring countries such as Benin, the other a school for Ghanaian children. I taught basic English and Maths skills, sports and Music. One weekend, I went on a safari and found myself 10 metres from wild elephants! Whilst teaching, one of the children at the refugee school was bitten by a venomous scorpion so another volunteer and I took her to hospital to be given injections to prevent the side effects. I found the whole experience has had a huge impact on me and I'm looking forward to further volunteering in the future. I would highly recommend any similar volunteering experience to the sixth form leavers. Thank you for the whiteboards you donated for me to take with me. Harry Ellis, ex-student

Mr Fitch’s Gardeners Earlier this year, Mr Fitch’s group of gardeners dug out some allotments and planted them up with vegetables. They recently harvested their first crop - a bumper quantity of potatoes.

Battle of the Books June 2018 We took nine students to the annual “Battle of the Books”. Thomas Mills High School hosted the event, with Kesgrave and Copleston 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. Students were spilt into small groups to discuss the different books. The books discussed were as follows: • Moth Girls- Farlingaye High School • Cuckoo Song – Kesgrave High School Pax – Thomas Mills High School 13 Hours – Copleston High School After all books had been discussed we had a short break with refreshments, students then had to vote for their favourite book. Once the votes had been counted 13 Hours won, Moth Girls came second, Cuckoo Song came third and Pax in last place. Students involved were: Natalie Rizzo, Yasmine Holbrook, Hope Ellen Barr, Hannah Baird, Matilda Sheldreake, Grace Nash, Lorna Murphy, Meredith Beattie and Jamie-Lee Buckmaster.

Sutton Trust US Programme Year 12 student Olivia Heeley has won a place in the seventh cohort of the Sutton Trust US Programme, which is run in partnership with the US-UK Fulbright Commission. Entry to the programme is highly competitive and Olivia was chosen from 1000 of the UK’s brightest students to be one of the 150 scholars. The Sutton Trust US Programme allows academically talented low and middle income British students to explore US higher education and what it would be like to study at a top US university. As well as supporting students in their exploration, the programme takes all 150 students for a week-long visit to the US, visiting different campuses and giving the students a flavour of life stateside. Speaking of her achievements, Olivia said: “I am honoured to have been chosen as a member of cohort 7. I am really looking forward to visiting US universities and exploring new horizons. The process has been long and difficult, but I know that it is worth going after what you want - there are always ways to achieve if you are passionate and dedicated enough. I hope that students will seriously consider applying to this amazing programme in the future.” Mr G Harris, Olivia’s US application councillor, said: ‘I am very proud to be Olivia's 'counsellor' for this super programme which will provide her with an amazing opportunity. It has been a privilege to see Olivia grow up and become so confident over the years; she does nothing by halves and fully deserves to have been selected. Olivia found out about this programme herself and went through the application process independently; an illustration of her initiative and commitment'. Earlier this spring, the students attended two UK residentials to learn about US universities and took an American admissions exam, the ACT. At the end of the summer, students on the programme will choose if they would like to continue to make applications to US universities alongside their UK applications. This second part of the programme includes admissions guidance from the Fulbright team, including university choices and support with applications and financial aid processes. 72 members of the cohort are heading to the US this summer to start their studies, after winning places and scholarships to study at American universities. The Sutton Trust US Programme is made possible through support from its founding corporate partner, Bank of America Merrill Lynch, whose investment is matched by Peter Baldwin and Lisbet Rausing who have generously supported the programme since its launch. The programme is also supported by the Robertson Foundation, Jerry del Missier, Martin and Antoinette Sullivan, The Neuberger Berman Foundation and EducationUSA.

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Young Chef Competition On the evening of July 11th, six amazing Year 7 students competed in the Young Chef Competition. The standard for these students was amazing. The Judges from ‘All Manor of Events, Henley’ were blown away by the talent of such young people. There was such a variety of tastes, textures, flavours and dishes presented it was a tough decision to decide on the top three. The students had to prepare, cook and present 2 dishes either starter/main or main/dessert in 2 hours for 2 people with a budget of £10 Winners: 1st Reuben Sampson 2nd Alice Potter and 3rd Archie Stollery….Reuben’s 2 course menu consisted of Peking duck goyza wraps with a citrus noodle salad followed by passion fruit set cream with meringue, fresh mango, white chocolate shards and mango puree.

National Handball Champions We are celebrating a spectacular win at the national finals of the English Schools’ Handball competition. Farlingaye entered a girls’ U13 team in the national competition as one amongst 1500 schools. We won the Ipswich and South Suffolk, the county, and the regional finals to go to Worcester for the national finals. It was a tense and tight match, going into extra time and then penalties. There isn’t a Handball Club within 60 miles of Woodbridge, and all the training was done in school. The girls are very talented in a range of other sports and transferred their skills onto the Handball court.

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