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national award, which Highcliffe now holds for the next three years. There are rigorous condi-

t i o n s t h a t have to be met to qual-ify for t h e award, s h o w -ing that H i g h -c l i f f e offers a

full range of artistic ex-periences in lessons such as art, music, drama, and

d a n c e , w o r k s with the l o c a l commu-nity, and provides a wide range of a r t i s t i c activities and op-

portunities outside nor-

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INSIDE THIS ISSUE

Important Notices

Pages 2-3 In the Community

Page 4 Faculty News

Pages 5-11 The International Dimension

Pages 13-16 ...high, higher, Highcliffe ...

Pages 17-18 Achievement Reporting Slips

9 H2U—Reporting the Year

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Vol. 4 Issue 5– July 2005

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Reporters : Gemma Lane (10.3), Lucy Brosnan (10.3), Harry Sherwood (10.6), Rachael Pickup (10.7), Brianna Booker (10.8), Chantelle Albin (10.2) Editor Mr Coughlan

Editorial Team......

HIGHCLIFFE ACCEPTS ARTSMARK AWARD

On Tuesday 5th July, Mrs. McGrath and Mr. Yapp accompanied Year 9 students Anna Davies a n d G e o r g e Knight to the Arts Council’s a n n u a l Artsmark Celebra-tion at the Octa-g o n Thea t r e in Yeovil. Highcliffe was invited to the event to be pre-sented with t h e A r t s m a r k Award, in recognition of the com-mitment the school has to encourag-ing the arts through les-sons and e x t r a -c u r r i c u l a r activities. Artsmark is a

mal lesson time through clubs, recitals and per-formances. The picture shows Anna and George accepting the award on behalf of the school from Mr. Nick Capaldi, the Chief Ex-ecutive of the Arts Council in the South West.

Report by Mr Yapp

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Important Notices

Admissions Governors wish to inform parents of the latest news with regard to the meeting on 28th June to consider the Highcliffe proposal to increase the admission number. After some 3 hours of presentation, dis-cussion and deliberations the panels of the SOC (the Dorset School Organisation Committee) voted as fol-lows: 3 in favour of the Highcliffe proposal, 1 ab-stention and 1 against the proposal. This means that the pro-posal will go for final deci-sion to the Office of the Schools’ Adjudicator. It is envisaged that it will be some 6 or so weeks before the decision is known. Governors wish to thank all the members of the com-munity who took part in presenting the proposal and, of course, all parents who have responded dur-ing the consultation. Provision for School lunches: September 05 As previously reported, the school will have consider-able major buildings –related works going on over the summer. The re-medial works programme for the school kitchen is likely to mean the kitchen will be out of use for most of September. Scolarest will aim to provide a lim-ited range of cold food and sandwiches throughout this period. Every effort will be made to get the kitchen ready and resume our normal school lunch

provision as soon as possi-ble. School Closed for build-ing works. This summer will see an-other intensive programme of works to improve our school. The school will be very much “out of bounds” to all students. There will be numerous groups of contractors work-ing on site. There will be health and safety plans and insurance implications. Vari-ous areas will be handed over to contractors and nor-mal school cover/routines will not apply. Please help; your cooperation is most ap-preciated. London 2012—It’s for all of us!

A long time ago, a young boy had a dream and he dared to pursue it. Seb Coe be-came an English Schools Athletics Champion and moved on to be-come an out-standing Olym-pian. It is easy to see where the vi-sion came from for the London Olympic bid (2012).

Coe studied eco-nomics and social history at Loughborough University and won his first major race in 1977. Coe won four Olym-pic medals and set eight world records in middle dis-tance track events. Coe be-

came Member of Parlia-ment for Falmouth and Camborne in 1992. He was created a life peer in 2000 as Baron Coe, of Ranmore in the County of Surrey.

When London announced its bid to hold the 2012 Olympics, Coe became an ambassador for the effort and a member of the board of the bid company. With the May 2004 resig-nation of chairman Barbara Cassani, Coe became the chairman for the latter phase of the bid Lord Coe has now led us to more success. He took up the challenge to secure the Games and won it, with his team, in Championship

style; he continues to pursue the dream. We all now have to get behind him and rise to the rallying call. His dream can be our dream – that we will do our utmost, with what we have (and can get) to give our students the chance to be potential Olympians. It’s good to know that some students are begin-ning to talk about it already! Over the coming years, there is some form of sport and recreational activity to meet everyone’s interests and needs.

Our success with the Olympics will also be measured in our healthy living.

Report by Judith Potts


Thank you to all As the academic year draws to a close, I would like to take the opportunity to thank everyone for all their best efforts. This year has seen many aspects of improvement. It has been a bumper year in terms of awards and achievements, some of which are covered in this edition. These are reflection of our ambition as well as the total of indi-vidual and team energies marshalled to the goal. Well done... behind every successful person is a team of others helping along the way. I would like to thank our School Council for all their hard work and contribu-tions. They have met regu-larly and helped to shape the new mobile phone pol-icy, reviewed school dress, catering provision and

helped design the new online shop and much more. The new Year Councils will be another big step for-wards. Again, our H2U News team has helped keep us all up to date throughout the year. Day by day, it is easy to see individuals and groups, such as Prefects and Helping Hands make High-cliffe an even better com-munity. Thank you to each of you who are not “named” here for your contributions. In recent weeks we have seen our students behave in exemplary manner in the examinations, on the sports field, undertaking visits and other activities. They are frequently commended for their good behaviour and ef-forts, making activities both enjoyable and successful. We can all therefore look forward to ending the year with the forthcoming Activi-

ties Programme. As we break for summer, Highcliffe will be making the most of opportunities on a more global platform; we have the Kenya expedi-tion by students, the first leg of our exchange visits our twin school in South Africa (4 staff will be work-ing in our twin school dur-ing the summer) and Mr Gould & Mrs McGrath are going on a study visit to Cape Town with the Dorset Music Service. Finally, I would like to wish everyone a well deserved and very happy summer break with your friends and family. See you all in September

Judith Potts Headteacher

Key Dates 2005-2006 (May be subject to amendment)

AUTUMN TERM Thursday 1st September 2005 – close 2.00pm 20th December 2005

Half Term Break Monday 24th October – Friday 28th October inclusive Start-up arrangements

Thursday 1st September Year 12 Course Registration, Staff Training Day Friday 2nd September Year 7 Student only, Year 13 Course Registration

Monday 5th September All Students (7 – 11) Tuesday 6th September Sixth Form Curriculum starts

Friday 11thNovember Year 11 Progression Day (school closed Years 7 – 10)

SPRING TERM Wednesday 4th January 2006 – close 2.00pm Friday 31st March 2006 Half Term Break Monday 13th February – Friday 17th February 2006 inclusive

SUMMER TERM

Tuesday 18th April 2006 – close 2.00pm Friday 21st July 2006 Half Term Monday 29th May 2006 (Bank Holiday) – Friday 2rd June 2006 inclusive

Staff Training Days 2005/2006 Thursday 1st September 2005

Friday 21st October 2005 Monday 5th December 2005

Tuesday 31st January 2006 Wednesday 15th March 2006 Tuesday 4th July 2006

School closed on following Public Holiday Monday 1st May 2006 – May Day


In the Community

Summer Ball

This fabulous annual event was once again held at the Heathlands Hotel in Bournemouth. 200 Year 11s dressed up in their long dresses, DJs and Tuxedos, arriving by skate-board, bus, vintage cars and very nice sports cars. An evening of dancing, eating, lots of laughing took place with the main Awards Ceremony kicking off at around 9pm. These awards are the equivalent to the Year 11 Oscars and are voted for by the stu-dents in Year 11. The win-ners of a wide variety of awards were, in no par-ticular order: Laura Butterworth, Michael Green, Amy Davey, Jack Dunwoody, Ursula Holland,

Luke Barrett, Stephanie Doe, Jonnie Galpin, Holly Ransom, Danil Lancing, Lucy Husband, Chris Bond, Sara Blackmore,Sam Leigh, Rachel Coleman, Gary Miller, Sofia Vincent, David Blackbourn, Megan Pennell Craig Brewer, Katherine Stevens, Luke Benham, Holly Davies, Joe Potter, Sara Blackmore, Siobhan Quesnel, Jamie Currie and James McDon-ald Next year’s Summer Ball has already been booked for Friday 30 June at the Heathlands Hotel. New Year 11 students - book your limos now!

Sally Riley

up Avonbourne Business & enterprise College won and now go through to the re-gional heat. They were presented with certificates by Judge John Beashel.’ Our congratulations go to the Avonbourne team as they also do to our own students who worked ex-cellently throughout the day and were a credit to the school.

Report by Mrs Stone

Mock Trial Competition

A group of KS3 students spent an exciting day at the law courts recently. For those of you who missed the report in the Daily Echo, here it is in full. ‘ Schoolchildren took control of a magistrates’ court and held mock tri-als – observed by real-life court staff, police and even a crown court judge. The pupils, aged be-tween 12 and 14, were in-volved in the regional

heats of the national mag-istrates’ mock-trial compe-tition at the law courts in Poole. They took the role of lawyers, witnesses, magistrates and court staff and were judged by a

panel of magis-trates and pro-fessionals. There was also a separate con-test for pupils playing the role of a court re-porter to be judged nation-ally by a mem-ber of the Press Association. Children from Avonbourne,

Highcliffe and Bourne-mouth School for Girls took part. Last year’s runners-

Highcliffe Mock Trial Team

Sophie Leftwich

(magistrate) Ben Farnath – Jones

(magistrate) Catherine White

(magistrate) Jamal Al-Sheikhly

(1st defence lawyer) Laura Fisher

(2nd defence lawyer) Max Cherry

(1st prosecution lawyer) Maxwell Saban

(2nd prosecution lawyer) Fiona Kyle

(1st prosecution witness) Daniel Crane

(2nd prosecution witness) Nicola Huggens

(1st defence witness) Ellena Sheldon

(2nd defence witness) Jennifer Larsen (court usher) Sarah O’Neill

(legal adviser ) Sarah Maitland

(reserve / court re-porter / general help)

Mrs Stone—Staff

Miss Blinkhorn—Staff


Faculty News

English—’H-A-R-D-S-P-E-L-L’

At the end of June, a num-ber of students took part in the second annual "H-A-R-D-S-P-E-L-L" competition. This is a nationwide spell-ing competition run by the BBC. Those who win their school round get the op-portunity to take part in a regional heat in Exeter. If they get through that they take part in the televised final. At our school, a number of students took part in the first rounds. Students had to attempt a number of difficult spellings. The two highest scoring students were Aaron Street and

Marco Bauder both in Year 7. They took part in a competition in the library in front of a number of supporters from their year group. They had to stand up in front of the audience and spell 50 "tricky" words such as "rhythm" or "luminescence". After some close intial rounds, Aaron Street shot ahead in the final round to claim victory.

Both their names have been sent off to the H-A-R-

D-S-P-E-L-L organisers so there is a chance that they could go into the next rounds. Let's wish them luck! Overall, I'd

like to say a big well done and thank you to all those who took part. Look out for the next competition next summer!

Report by Mr Bryden

Pond-Life!

The Science Faculty is planning the creation of a wildlife area to the side of the new Da Vinci building. This is to include a pond, marshland

and meadow. It is hoped that stu-dents, families and the local community will become involved

in this exciting project so…

WATCH THIS SPACE!

Space-Life Maybe one day Highcliffe School will have its own astronaut… I will let Miss Tupper take up the story from here. ‘One giant leap… A couple of weeks ago I had the amazing good for-tune to be awarded a last minute schol-arship from Honey-well to attend a Space Academy for Maths and Science Educators at the US Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama. I have had one of the most fantastic experiences in my

Science Takes Us From Pond–life to Space-life

life and have brought back a wealth of resources for Highcliffe School thanks to the amazing generosity of Honeywell employees. By donating a proportion of their wages to community projects, they sponsored 144 teachers from 18 coun-

tries and 32 US states to learn about space sci-ence and space explo-ration with the aim of inspiring our

students to enjoy studying Maths and Science lessons and to pursue mathematical and science related careers.


The week consisted of 46 hours of classroom train-ing, field training and as-tronaut train-ing. This is a diary of my week: Saturday 25th June 2005 Arrived this evening at the US Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama to a special re-ception laid on for us at the museum. Still in a daze after the meal, we were taken to our home for the week, the Univer-sity of Alabama Halls of Residence where we were measured for flight suits and given our first batch of goodies – bags, school re-sources and a ‘supersized’ t-shirt – by the time I got there the smallest size left was XL!! Sunday This morning we were put into nine teams. I was one of 18 in ‘Team Destiny’, along with teachers from Ireland, China, the Nether-lands, the Czech Republic, Canada, America, Bermuda and India (but represent-ing the United Arab Emir-ates). I learned so much today about US space travel and its history, about rockets and shuttles and the practicalities of eating, sleeping and going to the toilet in space…it’s an art form for astronauts! We were told all about our simulated mission for the end of the week and after learning the history of the mission patch (a symbolic badge which is sewn onto a flight suit), we designed our own patch for our mis-

sion. As if that wasn’t enough to cram into one day, we took part in a NASA

Engineering Design Challenge and of course the highlight of the day was the astronaut simulators…directly after lunch! The MAT (Multi-Axis Trainer) made me very dizzy (although surprisingly not sick) as it simulates tum-bling through space!

The 1/6 M i c r o -g r a v i t y C h a i r , w h i c h s i m u -l a t e s wa lk ing on the m o o n , w a s m u c h less of

an or-deal! I also tried the MMU (Manned Manoeu-v r i n g U n i t ) , w h i c h hovers on a cushion of air, simulating operating a vehicle in space and you have to drive and park it (no comment please Miss K!). Monday Much more free time to-day and the chance to explore the museum for ourselves and again get my head around this amazing history. Just in case there was any danger of us getting bored, a scav-enger hunt was organised for us on articles relating to

space history. We also at-tended a session called Rocketry Unit; an impres-sive cross-curricular pro-ject carried out by an American high school, and saw the film ‘Fighter Pilot’ in the Imax today…made me more nauseous than the simulators! Tuesday Made and launched bottle rockets this morning and later in the day studied the graphs made by launching miniature rockets using camera film canisters, fizzy drink and Alka-Seltzer! Fi-nally got to see life outside Space Camp and the Uni-versity with a guided tour of Huntsville. We also found out from NASA about all the education re-sources that are available for a number of subject ar-eas and attended Maths and Geography workshops. After dinner we were given a presentation by Ed Buck-bee, who worked closely with the Mercury astro-nauts, the first Americans in space. He was also the first director of the Space and Rocket Center in 1970. During an ice cream social afterwards he signed per-sonalised copies of his

book for all 144 of us! Wednesday Hot air bal-loon con-s t r u c t i o n this morn-ing and had ‘ d e e p t h o u g h t s with Dan’…what is

more amazing, the thought that there is intelligent life on other planets or that in the vastness of the uni-


verse we are all there is? After lunch we were given our roles for the mission tomorrow and underwent some necessary training! I was selected as Mission Specialist, not only getting to sit in on the action in the orbiter on the flight deck, but would also put on a space suit and do an EVA (Extra Vehicular Activ-ity), where I would leave the orbiter and using a chair which simulates a fric-tionless envi-ronment, carry out mainte-nance work on the space sta-tion. This mis-sion training was followed by ‘Aviation Challenge’ on the lake. We took part in two water ac-tivities, a zip-wire into the lake and the Heli-Dunker, where you are dropped into the water in a barrel and have to get out! Thursday Launched our hot balloons this morning, which looked amazing floating over the Pathfinder shuttle in the heart of the Center. Then all kitted out in our flight suits we carried out our At-lantis Mission. Such fun! We performed the best EVA the staff had ever seen, however as we crashed the orbiter into the space station, it made little difference, as we would not have survived the mis-sion. On the plus side we landed back on Earth safely! We saw a fantastic Imax film this afternoon called Space Station and this evening returned to the Imax for a presenta-tion by Story Musgrave, an astronaut who went on

multiple missions and was heavily involved with setting up the Hubble Telescope. We were all given a person-ally signed copy of his DVD and he took the time to chat to each of us. Friday Graduated this morning and received my wings!! I have used the word amazing sev-eral times, but it has truly been a unique and amazing

e x p e r i e n c e both personally and profession-ally. I will m i s s t h e friends I have made in such a short period of time, but am

excited about sharing my experiences and resources with Highcliffe students.’

Report by Miss Tupper One day, maybe Highcliffe will have its own astronaut. Maybe that astronaut could be you. Miss Tupper hopes to set up a Space Camp Club for High-cliffe students from next term. Look out for details in Sep-tember. British Grand Prix Silverstone 9th & 10th July 2005 Everyone arrived at 7am outside school on Saturday morning, bright eyed and bushy tailed waiting eagerly for our coach. We arrived at Silverstone for the day’s qualifying at around 11:00am and settled down to watch the Formula One qualifying - painfully loud, we were all grateful for our earplugs, supplied free,

with many thanks, by Bournemouth Kawasaki. Despite all the noise Mr. Evans managed to fall soundly asleep next to the racetrack watching the Formula 2 race! Excitement rose when Jenson Button recorded the second fastest time giving him a great position for tomorrow’s race! During the rest of the weekend we were able to see two races with the For-mula 2 cars, the Porsche 911GT3 Michelin Supercup, the Maserati challenge race and classic car racing, which included cars dating back to the 1950’s that slipped and slid their way around the track. We left the track at 6.30pm to travel to the ho-tel, our beds were very welcome and after only a few hours sleep we crawled out at 4.30am! Mr. Evans assured us an early start was a necessity! We

arrived at the track at 7.15am and hav-ing thought the place was packed

on Saturday it was a bit of a shock when the Sunday was even worse! However, we were pro-

vided with a spec-tacular perform-ance from the Royal Air Force’s Red Ar-

rows. They wowed the


crowd with twists, turns, dives and breath taking stunts. Some of which in-volved 400mph fly bys, 800mph dives into turns that required the pilots to cope with 7 times the force of gravity. When the time came for the main event, the cars out-did their previous re-cords of noise and raced round the track finally naming Juan Pablo Montoya the 2005 winner of the British Grand Prix! Jenson Button, Miss Guer-rini’s favourite, disappoint-ingly only managed 5th af-ter such a promising start. After this the vintage rac-ing continued, cars that

were so prehistoric in com-parison and yet brilliant to watch! We left Silverstone, ex-

hausted, di-shevelled and dusty at 4.15pm. The journey home was long and

hot, although Mr. Evans and Miss Guerrini kept us entertained with a little karaoke (the less said the better!) but we were still left feeling the effects of a fantastic weekend at Silverstone. Thanks Mr. E!!!! A more detailed report will be on the school website and the Physics website.

ance of the beautiful and tender The Lord Bless You and Keep You by John Rut-ter. In total contrast they then performed Adiemus by Karl Jenkins, featuring a solo from Emily-Jane Charge. For the second half of the concert the choir collabo-rated with The Grange Choral Society and per-formed the 20th century masterpiece Carmina Bu-rana by Carl Orff. The choir demonstrated their calibre blending per-fectly with the much larger adult choir. The students were praised on the quality of the performance as well as their mature, commit-ted and professional atti-tude to joint rehearsals and the final performance. The school looks forward to the opportunity to col-laborate with the Grange Choral Society for future projects.

Highcliffe School Sum-mer Concert On 28th June Highcliffe School held its annual Summer Concert. The concert fea-tured solo per-formances from Jonathan Shires and Adam Horwich on pi-ano, Beth Waters on flute, Harriet Bailey on cello, Laura Willis on saxophone, Couros Sheibani on guitar and Hannah Evans singing one of her own composi-tions. In addition to this the school Jazz Band per-formed C-Jam Blues and La Bamba. The

school choir demonstrated its versatility singing a se-

lection of pieces in Pop, Gospel and Classical styles. Highcliffe School Choir at the Re-

gent Centre Christ-church On 9th July Highcliffe School Choir performed a concert of classical music at the Regent Centre in Christchurch. Under the direction of Mr Trevorrow

and Miss McMillan the school choir opened the con-

cert with a fine perform-

Music Events

Food Glorious Food! Before going off on Work Experience 4 Year 10 stu-dents kindly helped Miss Jose by turning Highcliffe Junior School Hall into a French Café for the whole of Year 3. Victoria Harris, Felicity Andruszko, Celia Moran and Jenny Rogers served out food and drink and ensured that the 70 eight year old students spoke in French! Thanks also to the Year 3 teachers Miss Gray, Miss Dayman and Mrs Shilton who took part. We received some lovely thank you letters

Modern Foreign Languages


from the Year 3 students which you can see dis-played in the Language Corridor along with some photos of the event. Back at school some Year 8 Spanish students have had a tapas party where they tried out tortilla de patatas made by Marta, chorizo, lomo, patatas bravas and queso. Simi-larly some other KS3 stu-dents will have opportuni-ties for experiencing a tra-ditional German Eis Café or Italian Gelateria.

Report by Miss Jose Seville 2005 During Activities week Miss Jose and Mrs Snell are off to Seville with the Year 12 Spanish group as part of a course-work research trip. The students are do-ing their A2 level course-work on various aspects of tourism in the region of Andalucia and will be going to the Pabellón de Energias renovables, to the Anda-lucian Government and to interview local tourist offi-cials in the Conse-jería de Turismo. Watch out for a re-port on our return! Report by Miss Jose

Lights, Camera, action…… On Thursday 7th July some Year Nine and Year Seven students had the opportunity to make a name for them-selves by taking part in the filming of a training video for the Cambridge Exami-

nations Board. Highcliffe’s Italian department was asked by the Board if they could come and film some of our students taking part in speaking tests in the

new Lan-guages Lad-ders assess-ment scheme; this is a new kind of foreign language ex-amination

which is being introduced nationally in September, and for which Highcliffe Modern Languages Faculty has been a pilot for the last twelve months. Students – thoroughly pre-

pared for the limelight with uniforms spick and span – arrived on Thursday morning ready for a gruelling day

of speaking tests with their Italian teachers Miss Court and Mr Campbell in front of the cameras. Nerves were soon quelled and the Highcliffe Italian students easily warmed to the chal-lenge and showed a lot of patience with the constant

retakes re-quired when Mr Campbell in-sisted on say-ing ‘15 minutes’ instead of ’15 seconds’, which just goes to prove that not all teachers are cut out for the silver screen.

However, as the saying goes, “It’ll be alright on the night”, or in our case, on the training video.

By the end of the day both the film crew and the rep-resentative from the Cam-bridge Board were all very happy with the students. “Of the five schools that we have visited to film in, the Highcliffe students were the best” was the comment from Mrs Vivien May, the director of the video production and a for-eign language teacher. The video will go to schools nationally to assist teachers in their training for the new Language Lad-ders assessment scheme. Students taking part were: Year Nine - Emma Fisher, Ellie Stanton, Sarah Rogers, Nicola Rogers, Amirah Peersaib, Fiona Kyle, Virginia Moseley, Ja-mie Rickard, Joe Prodomo, Tom Prodomo. Year Seven - Alexandra Duncan, Jade Southwell, Lauren Cooper, Ellia Bea-sley and Graham Vey.

A number of Year 9 stu-dents took part in this na-tionwide competition which tests your ability to think laterally to solve complex maths puzzles. We achieved some excellent results, with two students, Catherine White and Fiona Kyle, making it through to the Kangaroo Challenge. The Kangaroo Challenge is a similar competition in which entrants compete against students from the

Mathematics The UKMT Maths

Challenge


whole of Europe. Both stu-dents received certificates of achievement in the Kan-garoo Challenge and Cath-erine White received a commendation for finishing in the top 25%. Congratu-lations to all who entered.

Report by Mr Gutteridge

The CC4G offering is recog-nised by industry as devel-oping skills and is recog-nised by teachers as making a direct contribution to the capability of students. It is also complementary to the National Curriculum and written by education special-ists with a lifetime of experi-ence of working with ICT. All the activities are mapped to the National Curriculum Pro-gramme of Study At Highcliffe CC4G consists of 36 hours of innovative, exciting and educational e-learning

courseware, and over 50 hours of further offline extension activi-ties. The courseware pro-vides club ac-

tivities which are compel-ling, inspiring and relevant to the lives and lifestyles of young girls. CC4G also pro-vides club folders, pens and other items for the members in order to encourage an in-formal, club environment. From September 2005 the club will start officially at Highcliffe for all KS3 girls.

Report by Miss Lord

group of students followed a work-related programme and had the opportunity to add a vocational element to their curriculum. We would like to thank our training partners in this venture and the employers who provided the work placements. It has been a very successful year and we would like to congratu-late: Jamie Stone (placed at Leslie Atkins Shop-fitters where he has gained valu-able workplace experi-ence). Hannah Martin (Childcare, placed in a playgroup where her contribution was valued highly). Jenna Grove (Beauty Ther-apy, gained useful salon and customer relations ex-perience). Robert Boivin (NVQ Sport & Recreation, highly thought of by the providers and has gained a great deal from the course). Karl Croker, Charlie Tindle, David Morris and Ross Hol-land (Engineering NVQ1, During their time have de-veloped skills and made a variety of useful items). All of the students follow-ing this course have also gained accreditation through ASDAN at Bronze or Silver level. Congratula-tions to them all and we wish them well for the fu-ture as they progress into Sixth Form or move into further training with em-ployers.

Report by Kim Appleton (Support Tutor)

ICT

Computer Clubs for Girls specifically addresses the gender imbalance within the ICT industry, where only 20% of professionals are women. Research shows that after the age of about 13 or 14, negative attitudes towards ICT become en-trenched. Com-puter Clubs for Girls offers a highly inno-vative solution that under-stands youth culture, is rooted in employer needs, recognises the misconcep-tions young people hold, and the constraints on schools. It offers girls an insight into what working in technology really means, and helps them to understand the role of ICT in their world. Skills development is em-bedded within fun, educa-tional activities based on girls’ interests – music, ce-lebrities, media, sport and fashion. Girls will learn new skills in using and combining ICT applications and tools including digital photography, graphic de-sign, sound recording, ani-mation, editing and much more, all set in engaging themes such as Celebrity, Fashion, Dance and Sport.

Work Related Learning

Work Related Learning at Highcliffe The class of 2005 have just completed their Key Stage 4 programmes and for some of them the curriculum they have followed has been markedly different from the traditional diet of GCSEs. A


This has been a really busy summer of sport for the students and the PE dept with a full range of activities, competi-tions entered and suc-cess. Athletics Most recently the school took part in the district athletics competition, this was held on Thurs-day 30th July at Kings Park stadium, with stu-dents from Years 7 to 10 taking part. While the weather on the day was disappointing ,all the students were a credit to the school and there were a number of com-mendable results, in-cluding: Adam Horwich (Yr7) 800m 1st, William Baughan (Yr7) shot put 1st, Lucy Burgess(Yr7) 200m 1st, Jamal Al-Sheikhly (Yr9) Discus 1st. Sports Day During the previous week the school held its own sports day on a hot and humid day. This was the first time for some years that all year groups participated; the competitors’ and specta-tors’ behaviour was su-perb, cheering on their peers. Notable achieve-ments were; Christopher Symons (Yr9) 1500m and Troy Bell (Yr10) 100m both beat the

school records. which were previously set back in 1979. Rounders Congratulations to the Year 10 girls rounders team who won the New Forest Rounders Tourna-ment. This year the school has also entered the County Rounders leagues for the first time with Years 8 and 10 girls and also a Year 10 mixed team participating. This was an excellent opportu-nity for the teams to play some games against other schools across the county. Well done to all those who took part es-pecially the mixed Year 10 team who finished 3rd. Cricket In Cricket all years groups participated in both the County and Town Tournaments. The most successful was the Year 8 team who got to the semi finals of both

competitions. The most improved team were the Year 7 who made signifi-cant progress in all their practices and matches. Also well done to the Year 9 team who were the most dedicated, having up to18 students attending regularly to practise. Tennis The tennis players have also been busy with the Year 10 team entered in the county competition, several friendly fixtures and both Year 10 and 8 school tournaments. Football While it may be sum-mer, that has not stopped the Year 7 and 8/9 combined girls foot-ball team participating in the Littledown 5-a-side league. Both teams eventually finished 5th.

Report by Mr Hallam

PE—A Busy time of year

What sport do you like

doing? Have a happy

healthy Summer!

In addition to this, the stu-dents have had to demon-strate their leadership skills by completing 10 hours of voluntary leader-ship in the community.

Another year of the course came to end on the 29th June 2005, when the following stu-dents led their final sessions at Ballard School in front of the external moderators : Tori Cum-mings, Mat Eaton, Carl Foster, Oli Fos-ter, Rich Hick-ling, Max Hollo-way, Liam Jes-sop, Scott Joy, Bryn Kewley, Ollie Madariaga, An-thony Mitchell, Ryan New,

Dean Prodomo, Craig Saunders, Emma Talbot, Dana Wells and Aaron

Wheeler. The Ex-ternal Verifi-ers said that the course was 'one of the best they have seen', and recom-mended that all the students should pass the course. Congratulations to Highcliffe's second batch of sports

leaders.

purposeful and enjoyable sporting and recreational ac-tivities. The award is also designed to encourage peo-ple to get involved in organ-ising and assisting with the provision of sport on a vol-

untary basis. Over the course of the year the CSLA students have been involved in the running of a number of events such as the Christ-church Tag Rugby Festival for the local Primary Schools and Highcliffe's 2005 Sports Day. They have also benefited from gaining a St John Ambu-lance First Aid Qualification.

An American Friend The Sixth Form was lucky enough to enjoy a visit from a young American lady recently. She spent time looking at the full range of Sixth Form life in an English school. Here is the text of a letter from the young lady. ‘Dear Mr. Emmel, Thank you very much for the opportunity to ex-perience a day in the life of your English school. I ended up having an ab-solutely amazing time and I met some very nice kids. I came out today thinking that I would really like to leave Ameri-can school and come and do the Sixth Form at your school. I honestly had an amazing time! I can't imagine having a better time in testing out a school for the day and everyone was so nice to me - both students and teachers. I thank you so much for giving me the op-portunity to have the great deal of fun that I had to-day.

Thanks again, Carina Gerveshi’

Community Sports Leaders Award (CSLA) The Community Sports Leaders Award (CSLA) was introduced to Highcliffe last year to enrich the learning of the 6th Form students. The prime aim of the CSLA is to produce responsible, motivated and confident people who can lead safe,


14—19 At Highcliffe

As the Sixth Form continues to grow in size it is not only the academic side of life that benefits. The social life of the Sixth form also moves forward in leaps and bounds. Sixth formers and Staff en-joying themselves at the Summer BBQ

and the Year 13 Leavers’ Meal.


The International

Dimension

The school sees its responsibilities as a Language College as going beyond the teaching of languages. It is about giving our young people a true sense of the world at large as well as their responsibilities and their opportunities within it. A vital component of this is the development of links with our partner schools whether via electronic technology or by the use of personal experience.

Humanities Trip to Italy

On 20th March at 4am, 40 students arrived at the school, as did Mr Goddard, Ms Kennedy, Mr Newitt, Mr Campbell, and Mrs Downie, (the trip leader). We were all ready to set off for an action packed week in Italy. We went straight to Rome that day (Sunday) and stayed at the Ho-tel Concorde in the heart of Rome. On the Wednesday we spent most of the day travelling south to the area of Naples by coach, where we stayed at the Ho-tel Oriente before leaving for home on the evening of Saturday 27th March. Whilst we were in Italy, we visited lots of historic monuments, geographical sites and religious places. We visited the massive Co-losseum in Rome, where the ancient Romans fought to the death against each other or against wild ani-mals. We also visited St Peter’s Square and the Ba-silica, where the Pope de-livers his speeches. We also saw the Vatican and Sistine Chapel. The Sistine Chapel was beautiful and grand with its high ceiling

famously painted by Michelangelo. We had a look around the Roman Forum, where we met up with some students from a Rome school. They had prepared presenta-tions for us in English, and showed us around all the ruins. We talked to them in Italian about school and

music and lots of other things. On the way to Naples, we stopped off at a place called Monte - Cassino. This is an abbey high up on a mountain. The abbey has been rebuilt as it was destroyed in a violent bat-tle in the 2nd World War. We learned that the heavy bombing killed many sol-diers; on the nearby hills there are cemetaries and memorials from many dif-ferent nations.

While we were in Vico Equense (just outside of Naples) we were able to visit Pompeii and Hercula-neum, which were towns buried in 79A.D. by a mas-sive eruption of Mt Vesu-vius. It was very strange to walk around, as the houses and shops had been so well preserved, and the colours of the walls were still vibrant. It was easy to see where chariots had driven along,

and how people lived. But it was horrible to see the body casts of adults, children and pets lying exactly as they were when Ve-suvius erupted 1900 years ago. After seeing what it did, we then had the chance to climb up Mt Vesuvis. We went quite a way by coach, but once we were up above the clouds we

had to get off and walk the rest of the way to the summit. It was an amazing sight and gave us an idea of how big the eruption must have been. We could see Pompeii in the dis-tance, and look right into the crater of the volcano. During our stay in Italy, we had nightly meetings and awards were given out to people who had worked hard or had done good things. Certificates and prizes were awarded, but the wooden spoon was the


most sought after item. It was given each evening to the person who had said or done the silliest thing that day. There were times when people felt homesick, but there we also times when we felt on top of the world (literally). Lots of funny things hap-pened and we had each other, which made it an amazing experience, and helped take our minds off being away from our fami-lies. We all learnt a lot from this trip, not only about all of the wonderful places we visited, but also we learnt about each other and our-selves. We all had many brilliant experiences, which made it a week that we will never forget, and that was made even better by the stu-dents and the staff who went.

By Catherine White 9:1

Mr Hill & Mrs Madariaga took a group of 22 Year 9 students to Cholet on the annual French exchange. They went by Eurostar through the channel tunnel to Paris where they crammed as much sighseeing as possible into a day and a half. The high-lights were the Eiffel Tower, the boat trip on the Seine and the Sacré Coeur. This was at the height of the heat wave and there were temperatures of over 35° to contend with! The TGV, even more comfort-able than the Eurostar, took them down to Cholet where they met their pen-friends and spent a week with their families. It was a very active week and great fun was had by all. The Trémosports, an alternative sports day, saw all students participate

alongside their partners and, amazingly, half of our

students ended up be-ing awarded medals for be-ing in the group who were the over-all winners of the competi-

tion. Other highlights were a day at the exciting Fu-turoscope and another at the Puy du Fou theme park. The most unusual activity was a "Soirée Mousse" at the local ice rink when then whole rink was covered in foam! The students must be com-mended on the way they involved themselves fully in the activities and on the way they integrated with the French students and families. The staff commented that they were excellent am-bassadors for their coun-try.

Report by Mr Hill

Congratulations to PSBB!

We have just heard that our twin school in Madras, India has been successful in its application for the International School

Award.

We look forward to working together on many projects in a long and fruitful future relationship.

Look out for exciting news of a student exchange visit…

soon!

Cholet


spent time at the American war cemetery, the site of thousands of graves, most belonging to soldiers under 20 years old. The visit to this enormous memorial was a sobering experience; however its bold architec-ture and pristine presenta-tion gave us a different feeling than that of the simplistic German ceme-tery. Before returning to the accommodation, we stopped to see the remain-ing artificial harbours used in the D-Day invasion at Arromanches . The day was completed with a fine meal at a local French res-

taurant followed by an open-air con-cert. The next day we took the coast road back to the port of Ouistreham, cross-ing Pegasus Bridge and the Bailey

Bridge memorial. The whole group experienced both an enjoyable time and an informative trip about what happened on the shores of northern France during World War Two, that certainly brings to life the A level history course.

Report by

Andrew Satherley

The weekend of history and language was memo-rable for many reasons. It was the natural thing to do – to take History and French students to an area pro-viding educa-tional enrich-ment in both subjects. Many hidden tal-ents and person-alities were re-vealed, many a landing beach was stormed, and many French words were spoken. Bridges were crossed, new friends were made (M. et Mme Maurice, Clive, and the waitress!) The football match and the penalties! The driving. The video camera. The dance mat competition. The list is endless. What was clear was how much everyone got from the trip and that it was certainly worth all the hard work.

Report by Mrs Finch From the historian’s point of view, the visit to the landing beaches in Nor-mandy and the war memo-rials provided the most lasting memory of the trip. Following our arrival, a good deal of time was spent at Le Mémorial de Caen providing an interest-ing insight into conflict in the 20th century, focusing on both World Wars and the Cold War. The first day came to a close with an enjoyable barbecue kindly hosted by the parents of Mr Maurice, where games of badminton and petan-que were enjoyed by eve-ryone till poor light stopped play.

The following day, whilst the French students were visiting the surrounding area, the history group spent the day visiting the

permanent reminders of the last world war. Our first visit was to the German war ceme-tery, a som-bre and

sparse memorial in com-parison to the vast Ameri-can cemetery we would see later. Our next visit was to the Omaha landing beaches. Lit-tle was left there to symbolise the events that took place 60 years previously, how-ever a worthy re-enactment staged by the history students did justice to the original invasion. Af-ter scaling the cliff at Omaha Beach and being treated to the spectacle of Dean climbing with the equivalent weight a soldier would have had to carry ( Jack on his back!), we

Normandy—The Historians’ View

Normandy—The MFL View

On Friday the 25th June 14 Year 12 and 13 students began their journey to Normandy in France ac-companied by Mrs Finch, Mr Doyle, Ms Barrall and myself. Students were all set to experience for them-selves the Normandy land-ing beaches, French cul-

ture and all its charms. Friday The journey on the boat began quickly with a series of challenges; on board in the arcade Adam Thomp-son proved unbeatable on the tennis game, Mr Doyle king of the slalom skiing game and Sian Owen


French cuisine! Sunday Sunday morning started very dynamically with a big football match, and after 90 minutes of tension and changes in fortune, Mr Maurice’s team eventually triumphed in a penalty shoot out. A special men-

tion goes to Joel Perry whose skills as a mid-fielder could be com-pared to Zi-dane, to Dean Pro-domo who mounted a

nearly impregnable de-fence of goal, but most es-pecially ‘la palme d’or’ must go to Mrs Finch whose skills as a defender will surely make her the next target for Chelsea manager Mourinho. As our trip was coming to an end it was time for us to head to Ouistreham, making our way through various Nor-mandy landmarks: bun-kers in Villers, sea food market in Trouville, Pega-sus bridge and Deauville. All staff thoroughly agreed that the students made us very proud and were a credit to the school. Bravo à tous!

Report by Mr Maurice

dancing queen on the dance mat. After all this hard work a good old French restaurant was all we needed and what a pleasure it was to see our students going for an “entrecôte sauce bordelaise” instead of a bowl of chips with ketchup! Arriving in France, our cultural tour started straight away visiting “Le Mémorial de Caen”, an impressive museum where the realism of film and exhib-its focusing on the D-day landings impressed and moved us all. As the long journey and early start began to catch up with us, it was time to make our way to the ‘Collège agricole de Tourville’ where we were going to stay. The ‘Collège’ has an idyllic setting with its castle nestled in six hectares of parkland crossed by springwater streams and grazing cattle. Stomachs were starting to growl and it was time for us to have a good barbe-cue at the Maurice family home and try a few local specialties (snails had to be part of the menu!) Appetites appeased, we all went to bed to get our energy back for another full day. Saturday The French group started the day with a guided tour of Honfleur, an old maritime port well known for its old dock and old, narrow paved streets. After the historical talk on Honfleur the students were given free time to dis-cover for themselves the tastes, smells and colours of a typical market and its local produce, all the while of course, chatting with the stall

holders in French! The after-noon saw the second part of our immersion day in French life and the highlight of the day was to take place in Pont-Audemer (Mr Maurice’s home town). Divided into two teams, the students took part in a treasure hunt gathering information by visiting differ-ent places in the town ac-cording to in-structions and clues left in envelopes with the staff of each place the students were to visit. Admirably conquering any lingering nerves, the stu-dents zipped about the town in a frantic race to find the information they needed to

reach the final destination. Congratula-tions to all the students who all grew in confidence in talking to the locals and completed all the tasks. Af-

ter all this hard work it was time to relax and what bet-ter way in France than to re-join the historians and eat in a typical Normandy restau-rant; students have to be congratulated again on their courage in trying the famed

‘The trip was excellent, probably the highlight of the year! I really grew in confidence when using my French on the treasure hunt in Pont-Audemer.’ ‘Great trip, great company! A really nice way to end the year, great hospitality at M. Maurice's house. It was a lovely weekend, however it would have been nice to spend a little more time in France!! ‘ ‘C'était formidable! We had a fantastic time, spoke lots of French and ate lots of snails!’ Adam Thompson, Joel Perry (Twynham), Lucy Emmett


high...higher...Highcliffe!

As you know, we believe it is very important that we recognise the achievements made by all of the members of the school community. This applies whether those achievements are academic, sporting or social and also whether they are made in school or outside school. The more achievements are recognised, the greater the

incentive to achieve even more.

Henman, Murray, Horwich?

Adam Horwich 7.4: Over the last 4 months Adam has played a succes-sion of tennis matches for his club (Hale Gardens Tennis Club in New Milton) in the 12&U - 2005 Na-tional Junior Club League (County Division). On 25th May his team won the final to become the best team in Hampshire and IOW.

Throughout the competi-tion Adam won all 12 out of 12 sets in his singles matches and in his doubles matches he and his part-ner dropped only one set (out of 12). Adam's team now move on to the Na-tional phase of the compe-tition playing other coun-ties throughout the UK.

Once again the school was well represented in the ‘Race for Life’ fun run which took place recently in Bournemouth. A sizeable number of both non-teaching and teaching staff blew the dust off the ne-glected running shoes. The team put up a creditable performance with Mrs Bewley being our highest placed finisher. Special mention must also be made here of Amanda Alexander 7.3. She com-pleted the course and in doing so completed her fifth ‘Race for Life’. Well done, Amanda!

Race for Life

Fantasy football League

It was another exciting season this year in the Fantasy Football competition. This contest was open to staff and stu-dents of all years and we had a record number of participants this year at 112. Unlike last year, where Mr Gutteridge dominated the staff league, it was a close run event with the lead changing many times. Un-fortunate injuries to key players mean that Mr Gut-teridge was unable to maintain his unbeaten re-cord and eventually had to hand on his title to a wor-thy successor. In the FA Cup it went right down to the wire, the win-ners only being decided on the day of the final. It just doesn’t get more exciting than that. Does it?

Here is a list of the winners from each year group:

Year 7: James Emmett

Year 8: Liam Burton

Year 9: James Cornell

Year 11: Dan Seymour

Year 12: Lucy Emmett

(yes, they are brother and sister – that’s one talented family. Come on Lauren,

enter next year). And the overall winners:

Third Place: Matt Baker - Year 13

Second Place: Nainik Patel - Year 13

School Champion: James Cornell

FA Cup winners:

Kayleigh Slapp and Laura Higgs-White.

Interesting to note that once more, both the over-all winner and the FA Cup winners were taught by Mr Gutteridge, as last year. Coincidence??? If you are interested in en-tering next year, informa-tion will be provided in the Student Bulletin and in as-semblies in September. You don’t need any knowl-edge of football to enter. Which reminds me, the winner of the staff league was our very own Mr Hughes. Congratulations to him. See you next year!

Report by Mr Gutteridge


Well done to all who took part in the sports day. (see the earlier report in the Faculty News section)

The overall Team Competition Results were as follows:

Sports Day Results

Past Students

Also seen recently in the Daily Echo was an article that brought us up to date with the activities of a past student, something we particularly like here at H2U. The student is Lucy Falconer who went on from Highcliffe to graduate in Law. We will once again let the Echo take up the story. ‘Earlier this year Lucy, of Bournemouth, successfully

screen tested to land the part of a starlet in the forthcoming independent film Land of the Blind, starring Ralph Fiennes and Donald Sutherland. She also plays an 18-year old girl called Rachel in a Channel Four drama, Kill Me if You Can, due to be screened in September. Perhaps an even bigger thrill was filming for Eas-tenders. She plays a girl

going out on a hen night… Before going to university, Lucy, who went to High-cliffe School…’ It is great to here of a for-mer student doing so well.. If you know of any past students, or indeed are one yourself, that we could feature in H2U please let us know.

Year 7 Year 8 Year 9 Year 10

84 pts 7.2 126 pts 8.8 122 9.7 121 pts 10.4

81 pts 7.8 121 pts 8.6 113 9.4 115 pts 10.7

80 pts 7.7 107 pts 8.4 109 pts 9.6 112 pts 10.5

73 pts 7.5 102 pts 8.1 108 pts 9.3 107 pts 10.2

71 pts 7.3 101 pts 8.3 101 pts 9.1 101 pts 10.1

71 pts 7.4 93 pts 8.7 91 pts 9.2 82 pts 10.8

56 pts 7.6 88 pts 8.5 86 pts 9.5 67 pts 10.3

54 pts 7.1 76 pts 8.2 67 pts 9.8 35 pts 10.6


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Da Vinci Centre Opening, DIG presentation at 'Dorset Healthworks', Visit from Louise of DEED, Shoebox Appeal, Successul SCITT Bid, CADARTS success, Bournemouth University Bi-ology Day, Southampton University Biology Trip, BA Festival of Science, Southampton Univer-sity Languages Trip, French Cinema Club, Cholet Exchange Trips, Corfe Castle Fieldwork, Mill Lawn Fieldwork, Hengistbury Head Fieldwork, Rugby Success, Netball Success, Girls Football Development, Indian Exchange Trips, Videoconferencing with students in India, Italian Ex-change Trips, Japan Exchange Trips, Grace Godwin’s Tetrathlon Success, James Taylor Char-ity Swim, Joshua Thayne Cricket Success, Bethan Needs Music Awards, Amber Stark Poster Competition Success, Annabelle Heasman Archery Success, Lewis Aimson Football Tourna-ment in Italy, Chelsea Buckingham Readathon, Alex Martin Maturity in a crisis, Amirah Peer-saib Maturity in a crisis, Will & Rebecca Carling Bravery, European Schoolnet Award, Highcliffe Achieves Specialist Science College Status, Leading Aspect Award, Links with Leeson House, Christmas Carnival, H Factor Show, Christmas Concert, Charity Concert at Highcliffe Golf Club, Charity Carol Singing at Saxon Square, OFSTED Young People Conference, CHOPPS Pro-ject and Meridian TV visit, People & Places Pro-ject – South Africa, Blood Brothers Trip, Global Rock, Town Cross- Country Championships, Dorset School Team Tumbling, New Forest ‘Art 4U’ Competition, New Futures Specialist Schools’ Trust and CISCO Sys- tems Conference Link-up, Tsunami Information and Response, Post- Japan visit Display Evening, Tsunami Eye-witness re-port, Katie Rustom Dance Champion, Aaron Medhurst – St John Am- bulance, Youth Parliament Elections, Alex Sach’s Parliamentary Visit, High-cliffe’s very own ‘Good Samaritan’, The Christ-church Community Part- nership Tree, The ‘Shout About’ Conference, Po- lice Training Video, School Transport Consultation, Velodrome Visit and Pro-ject, European Union Science Olympiad, ‘Ripe Ideas’ visit, New CADS/ CAM facilities, Artist visit to Sixth Form Art Group, Christchurch Schools’ Sports Awards, Basketball Success, Dorset Schools’ Rugby Compe- tition, South West Cross Country, Links with Bal- lard School, Ex-students working to support Ex- pressive Arts at Highcliffe, Othello Day Study Trip, Young Language Leaders visit Leeson House, Im- perial War Museum visit, Sixth Form Fancy Dress Charity Collection, Ecology field Trip to Leeson House, Sixth Form Slave auction, Emma Jones Gymnastics Success, Sixth Form Littledown Entitile- ment Programme, Trip to Parliament, Max Hollo- way Sailing Success, Heythrop College Trip, Xmas Market visit, Euro-pean Union E-Twinning launch, Philip Sparks’ Sporting success, Fenella & Josh Courage Charity fundraising at Ringwood Carnival, Rebecca Carling Ballet success, Abby Jacobs Ballet Awards, Jonah Hales and Charlie Sugden Rugby Success, Expressive Arts Student wins place at NY School for the Performing Arts, Global Rock Success, The School’s continuing building projects, sixth form CSLA group and the Christchurch Tag Rugby Tournament, Visit to the school by former student Commander Ewence OBE, New Helping Hands Cohort, Sixth Form CSLA group and St John Lifesaver Course, Pretty Mades Fashion Show, ‘Share a Smile’ Performance, Comic Relief Events, Young Musician of the Year Competition, ‘Songs from the Musicals’ Performance, F1 Challenge, IBM ‘Blue Fusion’ Event, Einstein’s Pants Performance, KS5 work shadowing in Chemistry, The Formation of the Science Club, ‘Einstein Relatively Light’ Public Lecture, SWS Chemistry Treip, Year 7 Rugby at Twickenham, Year 7 Netball Success, Thomas Smith Swimming success, Au-thor visit, book Fair in the LRC, French Immersion Day, Spanish Confernece in London, New Buildings at Joubert Ludidi, Dominic Bryan Football success, Charity Funds Report, Chris Sy-mons Cross-country success, Performing Arts Summer School at Bournemouth University,

The background to this page consists of a list of stories that we have been able to bring you in H2U over this last academic year. The number of people involved in this is incredible and without them there would be no sto-ries, no H2U. We at the team would like to take this opportunity to thank every-one, staff, students, parents, external organisaqtions for all their hard work which cre-ates this, the Highcliffe School Community…

Thank You all! Enjoy the Summer

Holiday Period and we will be together again

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