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Tutor Group Band Chain length Placing

7PO I 54m

7ASH I 77m 3rd

7AMB I 28m

7VEC G 34m

7AMD G 80m 1st

7ELC G 44m

7DJS S 75m

7LNR S 78m 2nd

7MEH S 75m

Totals I band –

500 points G band –

1000 points S band – 750

points

Tutor Group Band Chain length Placing

8MPC I 110m 1st

8SP I 102m 2nd

8LAM I 81m

8SL G 50m

8LG G 74m

8HED/KE G 64m

8PB S 46m

8PDH S 60m

8DSF S 87m 3rd

Totals I band – 1750

points G band – 0

points S band – 500

points

Learning Community Update

March – Red Nose Day Year 7 and 8

‘We are miles better’

February – Rotary Club

Ilkley Pancake Race results.

October – KS3 Dodgeball

What a year it has been for our Learning Communities — our students have competed, raised money and more importantly, had fun...proving that Community really does count! Here’s a round up of the year.




Tutor Group

Band Money raised Placing

9JP I £22.69

9GPS I £163.08 1st

9MWC I £81.81

9CW G £45.86

9KL G £94.02 3rd

9ALC G £95.77

9HM S £25.61

9JB S £62.38

9MEK S £112 2nd

Totals I band

3000 points G band

1000 points S band

2000 points Tutor Group

Band Money raised Placing

10JLF I £102.08 1st

10JI I £77.53

10HGH I £39.55

10SMD G £79.57 3rd

10CT G £62.36

10AHF G £31.82

10LSL S £57.51

10BJS S £68.14

10LO S £85.20 2nd

Totals I band

3000 points G band

1000 points S band

2000 points

March Year 9 and 10

June

Well done I

Band!




This week our MFL team hosted Languages Week and it has been full of activities for all year groups. Here’s just a taste of what our students have been

up to!

Year 12 took part in a Japanese and Chinese taster session ran by York University.

Year 9 took part in quizzes and played El Juego de la Oca as well as listening to Adam Bennet talk about his recent travels in Guatemala.

Year 7 built straw models of famous European landmarks.

Anyone recognise the Eiffel Tower and the Leaning Tower of Pisa?

Year 8 tried their hand at Panuelo and took part in their language treasure hunt...some of them even braving the heavy downpours to find their clues!

Year 10 enjoyed a French breakfast with Mr Mouton, tasted French food and took part in MFL inspired Art lessons.

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7LNR are the

winners

No one caught

8SL!

The race for Super Tutor Group is over! 7LNR, 8SL, 9HM and 10JI have been crowned as champions!

It was a very close run thing in all year groups and congratulations to every one of our students who contributed stamps and credits to their Tutor Group and been involved in the activities. Key Stage 3 winners will now head off to Ilkley Lido on Monday 20th July and Year 10 will go bowling.

Super Tutor Group winners




Year 10 Super Tutor Group Congratulations to 10 JI on becoming Year 10 Super Tutor Group Champions this year! They will have a trip to Matrix Ten-Pin Bowling at Skipton on the afternoon of Monday 20th June. The final results have been worked out as an average of credits per student and have also taken into account bonus points from Inter Tutor Group sporting activities and rounders.

Super Tutor Group winners

9HM pipped

everyone at the post!

5th 10GW 56 points

6th 10JLF 54 points

6th 10LO 54 points

8th 10CT 53 points

9th 10AHF 44 points

2nd 10LSL 64 points

3rd 10BJS and 10SMD

59 points

1st 10JI 65 points




Sadly our 1stXV lost away to Harrogate Grammar school today at Harrogate. Final score 15-3

Well done to Matt Revis (8SP), Ryan Stockley (8SP), Fin Tunney (8LG), Alex Bentley (8SL), Isaac Hutton (8LAM), Charlie Harrison (8PDH), Lawrence Stephens (8SP), Oli Adams (8SP), Joe Wolf (8DSF), Will Preston (8LG), Matt Macgregor (8SP), Jacob Spauls (8LAM), Sam Bretherick (8LAM), Archie Elgood (8LAM), Cameron Hawdon (8LG), George Kapur (8SL), Charlie Wilde (8MPC), Charlie Brow (8LG), Reuben Tometski (8MPC), Robert Adams (8LG), Freddie Smart (8LG), Tom Davies (8LAM), Oliver Doyle (8PB), Charlie Day (8LG), Josh Rowland (8PDH), Adam Haw (8PDH), Aron Russell (8LAM), Morgan Grimshaw (8DSF), Fin Grimshaw (8PDH), Dom Coy (8SP), Ethan

Whiteside (8PDH), Nathaniel Richardson (8PB), Emily Field (8LAM), Arran Burnett (8HED/KE), Rachel Scott (8PDH), Kara Milligan (8PDH), Amy Moore (8DSF), Beth Day (8PB), Amber Medway (8PDH), Emily Rayland (8PDH), Georgina Mumby (8LAM), Lauren Jackson (8PB), Amber Woffindin (8DSF), Chloe Needham (8PDH), Alice Rodley (8PB), Navrita Ranu (8SL), India Sahota (8LAM), Hollie Westerman (8HED/KE), Keeley Burnett (8LG), Lily Gazeley (8HED/KE), Emily Saravia Etchell (8DFS), Charlotte Sayers (8PDH), Olivia Collins (8LG), Emily Dover (8HED/KE), Faith Bradley (8DSF), Jess Norris (8PDH), Caitlin Lister (8PB), Caitlin Ives (8DSF), Vega Morris (8LAM), Ruby Sugden (8HED/KE), Maisie Warren (8SP), Sophie Kirkup (8LAM), Michaela Wells (8PB), Bethan Morley (8PDH), Elise Crabtree (8DSF), Ella Shouler-Harris (8SL), Lana Melechi (8MPC) and Hannah Marshall (8PB) who all competed in the annual multi-match sports event at St Mary's, Menston last Friday.

Harry Smith (10BJS), Callum Graham (10BJS), Matthew Spencer (9JP), Ollie Burton (9ALC), Antonia Fern (9MWC), Sophie Armitage (9JB), Kirsty McMillan (9MEK), Ellie Cooper (9ALC) and Bea Waller (9MEK accompanied the Year 8s as team managers.

The team were overall winners and crowned as Multi Match Champions!

Bravo to Ella Madden (10HGW), Alice Wriglesworth (10HGW), Hannah Richards (10JI) and Bethy McKeefry (10JLF) who all took part in Burley in Wharfedale’s Community Choir concert on Saturday night. The singers performed their songs: ‘What I’ve Been Looking For’, ‘Somewhere Over The Rainbow’, ‘Rumour Has It/Someone Like You’, ‘Wings’ and ‘Keep Holding On’ beautifully to a packed Queens Hall audience. Additional congratulations go to Hannah and Ella, who after a successful audition, have secured a place in the Yorkshire Youth Choir. The pair will go on a residential to Queen Ethelburga's in the summer or Easter where they will rehearse for a concert!





Alex Bentley (8SL) and Emily Dover (8HED/KE)

Stef Rose (7LNR) and James Patchett (7MEH)

Joe Haigh (9GPS) and Ellie Cooper (9ALC)

Annie Edwards (10LSL) and Ben Singleton (10CT)

Congratulations to everyone who received their sports awards, colours and certificates in their recent sports assemblies. We know it’s all about the taking part...but the winning is quite nice too! Well done to our individual winners of the Sports’ Awards this year...team IGS did pretty well too!

U12 Bradford Netball Tournament Semi-Finalists Junior Boys’ West Yorkshire Sports Hall Athletics Finalists 2nd in the Junior Girls’ Oakbank Partnership Sports Hall Athletics Competition. U12 Leeds Football Champions Junior Girls’ Cross Country English Schools Finalists U12 White Rose Schools’ Rugby Series Festival Winners U12 White Rose Schools’ Rugby Series Finalists U12 Yorkshire Cricket Cup Area Finalists U12 Bradford Rounders League Winners

U13 U13 Boys’ Football League Runners-Up U13 Rugby Union Yorkshire Cup Quarter Finalists U13 A Netball Bradford Tournament Runners-up and 3rd in League Junior Girls’ Cross Country English Schools’ Finalists 2nd in the Junior Boys’ Oakbank Partnership Sports Hall Athletics Competition. Year 8 Annual Multi Match Champions 2015

U14 U14 B North West Leeds B Team Tournament Winners U14 Boys’ Cross Country English Schools’ Finalists U14 Hockey Tournament Champions

U15 U15 Leeds-Bradford Cricket Area Finalists Intermediate Boys’ Cross Country English Schools Finalists U15 Football Leeds Semi-Finalists U15 A Bradford Netball League Runners-up

Senior 1st XI White Rose Schools’ Rugby Series Festival Winners 1stXI White Rose Schools’ Rugby Series Champions Netball League Runners-up

U16 U16 Rugby Union Regional Nat West Finalists and Yorkshire Cup Semi-Finalists





Well done to all our Maths students (all 185 of you!) who took part in the Junior Maths Challenge recently. The results are in! Students at Ilkley Grammar School achieved 9 Gold, 31 Silver and 37 Bronze certificates in this year’s UKMT Junior Maths Challenge. Over 240,000 of the brightest Year 7 and 8 students from across the UK sat the Junior Maths Challenge with roughly the top 6% receiving a Gold certificate,13% a Silver and 21% a Bronze. In particular we would like to congratulate the following Gold certificate winners: Nathaniel Richardson (8PB), Samuel Bretherick (8LAM), Emmot Finch (8DSF), Arthur Turner (7VEC), James Holmes (8DSF), William Brookes (8LG), Matthew Abel (7ELC), Erin Bellerby (7ASH) and Tom Jackson (7AMB). Less than 3% were invited to sit the follow-on competition, ‘The Junior Kangaroo’ and we're very proud to say that Nathaniel Richardson was invited and took part at the beginning of June. It was a great effort from Nathaniel who narrowly missed out on a certificate of merit.

Mathemagical! On Monday July 6th, IGS invited in our feeder primary schools into the ‘Magic Circle’ where they looked at a number of illusions before seeing and learning a range of Mathemagical tricks. The Year 5 students were amazed by the skills of our Year 9 Mathemagicians who then very generously let them into their secrets of how their tricks were performed. Once they were skilled at tricks such as the ‘Super Human Calculator’, ‘Die Hard’ and ‘999 – but no help required’ it was then their turn to impress. “I had a great time and I have now learnt some new things”, “It was great” and “Very fun and a good way to spend the afternoon” were a few of the feedback comments received from our visiting students. The visiting adults were very impressed by our Year 9 Mathemagicians, Well Done to Angus Brown (9ALC), Darcey Charlesworth (9MEK), Imogen Parton (9MEK), Aidan Scaife (9JP), Tom Still (9HM), Cameron Tilley (9CW) and Izzy Weir (9HM) who wowed the Year 5s with their mathemagical tricks!





Well done to Kate Hodsman (10BJS) a regular rower at Bradford Amateur Rowing Club. Kate has recently started competing in regattas in a double crew. Last weekend she competed in the Runcorn Regatta and came away with a gold medal.

Congratulations to Kezia Finch (10AHF), Flora Lee (10BJS), Emily Robson (10LSL), Emily Priest (10JLF), Helena Carslaw (10CT) and Bethy McKeefry (10JLF) attended a presentation day for their recent languages competition, Mundo Hispano on July 2nd at York University. They had a fantastic day with activities including: Mexican Bingo, Pictionary, piñata and mapping el Camino de Santiago. The girls won the best poster and best gauchos award.





Congratulations to Nathan Foster (9MWC), Jamie Spiller (9KL), Euan Savage (9HM) and Jasper Evans (9HM) who received their Edge Hill Maths Challenge certificates this week. They represented IGS as Noah's Arc in the final at Edge Hill University, Ormskirk, on Wednesday 1st July.

This was the culmination of months of hard work solving and presenting 2 high level Maths problems. The boys had passed both previous rounds and competed in the final 30 teams nationally. The boys had to present their final solution to a panel of judges and then answer questions based upon their solution. Fantastically, the boys came second overall and were awarded the 'Newton Prize’. What an amazing achievement! Congratulations Noah's Arc!

Well done to Jamie Simpson Kidd (8PB) who, as part of Horizon Taekwondo Academy, competed at the Dome Open at Doncaster last weekend. The format of the competition meant that athletes weighed in to be entered into weight groups, and then competed against hard trained athletes from other clubs from around the country in a knock-out system – winners going through to the next round. Jamie won Silver, defeating 2013 National Champion Alex Sanderson from Team Ultimate (Doncaster) in the Semi Final of the 49kg Cadet category, before narrowly losing 5-4 (in a really hard fought contest) to Great Britain team mate Owen Turner from Team Ultimate (Doncaster) in the final.

Jamie Simpson Kidd (far right)

Left to right: Lucy Mitchell (Maths), Jamie Spiller, Jasper Evans, Euan Savage,

Nathan Foster and Sue Davey (Maths).




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Year 12 Physics Visits to the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) in Geneva The Physics department have recently ran two trips to CERN, the home of the Hadron Collider. Pete Beaumont physicist and travel writer (and teacher of Physics!) describes how they got on.

The Large Hadron Collider is the world’s largest particle accelerator. It is a ring of ultra-high vacuum pipes, 27km in circumference and 100m underground, straddling the border between France and Switzerland. Two beams of charged particles, usually protons, build up speed through several stages until they are travelling at 99.99999% of the speed of light (of course they can never get up to 100%, as any Physics student will explain!) and are then fired in opposite directions around the pipes.

These beams would naturally travel in straight lines but they are deflected into a circular path by gigantic electromagnets. This video shows a very small version of this. Click here for the video. To make these powerful enough to bend the beams they must be supplied with a huge amount of electrical current and this is only possible by using superconducting wires. The wires are superconducting because they are cooled with liquid helium to a temperature of just 1.6 degrees above absolute zero, which is a temperature colder than outer space, so the scientists like to describe the LHC as “the coolest place in the Universe”.

Photo courtesy of CERN



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The LHC forms the protons into bunches which travel along together and then, at certain places along their path, smash into the ones coming the other way. Although the aim is very good, and there are billions of protons in each bunch, only about 20 actually hit each other on each orbit. However, since the protons make 11,000 circuits every second for ten hours a day (by which time the surviving protons have travelled as far as Neptune and back) there are many, many collisions to be analysed. This is why the LHC sends data from its detectors to “The Grid” – one of the most powerful computer networks in the world. It was while he was working out ways to share information across CERN’s computer networks that Sir Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web.

The collisions involve a great deal of kinetic energy. Einstein’s famous equation E = mc2 tells us that mass and energy are interchangeable, so we get the strange situation where new particles are formed from the energy of the collision. For example, two protons smashed together can sometimes become four protons – two have been created “out of nowhere”. Imagine smashing one rock down onto another and two new rocks, identical to the originals, suddenly appearing. But this is commonplace in the LHC and is no longer of interest. Lots of once unknown but now familiar particles are made in every collision.

But in a very tiny fraction of collisions something new and interesting will be made. Now imagine banging the rocks together and a banana or a piano suddenly appears. But it lasts only for the tiniest fraction of a second before decaying into more ordinary things again. You would have to be ready with your very fast cameras to know that it was ever there at all. Some of the detectors in the LHC are the same size as the front of a cathedral.

These new and exotic particles are what scientists are looking for every day at CERN, and of course they have already found one of the things they were trying to find: the famous Higgs’ Boson, a particle which helps explain why other particles have mass.

After this discovery the LHC was turned off for a while for checking and maintenance. It is also turned off every winter because it uses up a great deal of the electricity which is needed at that time of year to keep the city of Geneva warm and lit up! However, it was recently switched back on and is being run at higher and higher powers looking for more exotic particles and testing deeper and deeper Physics theories. Further information can be found here: http://home.web.cern.ch/topics/large-hadron-collider


One of the magnets in the LHC

Photo credit Daniel Bond (12DXB)


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This is the exciting place to which I have taken two groups of Year 12 students this year. Six accompanied me in March, combined with students from Ermysted’s Grammar School and Dixon’s Academy. During our two day stay we had a fascinating tour of the United Nations building, a pleasant walk around the end of Lake Geneva and the beginning of the river Rhône, a treasure hunt and lunch at CERN before our tour. We were able to watch some of the scientists at work as they ran various tests on the machinery.

Seventeen further students attended the slightly hotter second visit with temperatures averaging 35oC, the climate getting to even the keenest Physics students! We were treated to a superb “son et lumière” about the history of CERN, before visiting the building where the giant magnets are tested before they are lowered underground. Click here for the video.

Our guides were Italian, Chinese and Greek, emphasising the cosmopolitan nature of CERN, which prides itself on making its data available to scientists from all countries of the world. This carries on a fine tradition: through the centuries scientists have many times continued cooperating even in times of war between their countries. Despite the heat, the students were positive and cheerful throughout and asked lots of interesting questions. It goes almost without saying that they kept up the excellent reputation which Ilkley Grammar School students have been building up for many years.

Well done and thank you to the students for their behaviour; Gil Wilson for kindly giving up her weekend to join us and Mark Armstrong and the staff in the finance office, especially Joy Heyworth, for helping to organise the trip to run so smoothly. I hope there can be another such trip next year, preferably without a heat wave!

For all those keen scientists out there, here’s a date for your diary. On the 14th July, the New Horizons Probe is flying past Pluto!


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Dinner Time Rota (No Bags in B Hall)

Sitting 1 12pm

Sitting 2 From 12.10pm

Sitting 3 Not before 12.15pm

Year 8 Packed Lunch Area:

N4

Year 9 Packed Lunch Area: Social Area D Floor

Year 7 Packed Lunch Area:

N3 and N6

Rotating lunchtime sittings are for Years 7, 8 and 9 only. Years 10 and 11 have optional sittings. Bags must not be taken into B Hall at lunchtime unless they have essential medication (i.e. Epipen or Diabetic equipment).

1. aperture

2. architecture

3. colour 4. composition

5. complementary

6. focussed

7. hessian

8. silhouette

9. sphere

10. spherical 11. symmetry

12. tertiary

A Levels Results Day

13th August A2 9.00am AS 9.30am

GCSE Results Day

20th August Between 9.00am and 12.30am

Students are expected to be in attendance to collect their results. Staff are available on Results Days to assist any student (in attendance) whose results are below expectation. It is school policy that results will not be given over the telephone or by e-mail. We will accommodate requests for alternative arrangements as outlined below, but these should be arranged before leaving for the Summer break.

1. Stamped self addressed envelope for results to be posted. 2. Written authorisation, from the student, for someone else (including parents) to collect their results

on the day.

Exam Exam

Results Results

DayDay

No sittings due to Challenge and Celebration

Week...grab bags available in B Hall.




Coming to IGS

December

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Burley Woodhead Headteacher Retires Burley Woodhead CE Primary School is holding a Celebration Service to mark the retirement of their Headteacher Julie Speight at St. Mary's Church on Wednesday 15th July at 7pm.

The service is for children and parents of past and present students, and members of the local community. Further information is available from:

[email protected].

Car Boot Sale We need volunteers for Saturday 18th July, 1.30 -3.30pm, for set up and Sunday 19th, 7.15 to 9am, for parking. Help is also required on the Sunday from 11.30am, to help clear the field. Can you help? If you can spare a few hours please email the PTA on [email protected].






Apprenticeship Opportunity: Talk Straight Over the past two years, we have gone from having just 14 employees to having almost 50 and we put our success down to the hard work and commitment of everyone in our business.

We’re a diverse team and pride ourselves on being so. With a workforce aged between 17-62, we employ people from many different backgrounds and walks of life. We know that it’s this varied combination of life experience, knowledge and skills that will give us the right balance in which can continue to grow and succeed. We’re constantly developing new roles across the business and currently have an opportunity for an apprentice.




Monday Orchestra grade 4+ 12.25pm B8 Mrs Chapman

Training Orchestra. Grades 0 - 4 12.20pm A7 Miss Murray

Tuesday Flute/Keyboard and Piano lessons A6 Ms Salter

Senior choir year 9 + 12.20pm A7. Miss Murray

Junior Flute Group

Senior Flute Group

TBC A6a Mrs Salter

Wednesday Drums lessons A6 Mr Lewalski

Samba Band lessons 12.30pm A7 Mr Lewalski

KS3 choir 12.20pm B8 Mrs Chapman

Thursday Brass lessons A6 Mr Griffiths

Sax/Clarinet and Swing Band A6 Mrs Anderson

Violin/Viola lessons A6 Mrs Briggs

Swing band 12.30pm B8 Mrs Anderson

Friday Voice lessons A6 Miss Van Terheyden

Guitar lessons A6 Mr Wells

Rock Club 12.30pm B8 Mr Wells

(Student timetables are displayed outside A7—see Mrs Chapman B8 or B14

registration for further help)

Instruments, particularly large ones can be stored in B8. Ensure you put your

instrument here before registration and make sure it is named.




Dates for the Diary

July Friday 10 Transition Sports Day Year 10 reports issued

13-17th July Challenge and Celebration Week Year 10 Work Experience Week

Sunday 19 PTA Car Boot Sale Monday 20 Super Tutor Group Tuesday 21 Year 10 Blackpool Trip Celebration Assemblies Wednesday 22 Celebration Assemblies School closes 1.15pm

23rd July - 2nd September Summer Holiday

September Thursday 3 School closed Training Day Friday 4 School opens Years 7, 12 & 13

Term Dates

SUMMER TERM 2015

Wednesday 22 Jul School closes 1.15pm

Summer Holidays: 23rd July—2nd September

AUTUMN TERM 2015

Thursday 3 Sep School closed Training Day

Friday 4 Sep School opens for Year 7, 12 and 13

Monday 7 Sep School open for all years

Friday 23 Oct School Closes

Half term: Monday 26th October— Friday 31st October

Monday 2 Nov School re-opens

Friday 18 Dec School closes 1.15pm

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