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in-form 3-7 NOV 2014

B WEEK

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Good luck to our Year 8 thespians who are in the final week of rehearsal for their inaugural Purple Tie Production of ‘Gangs ‘n’ Gals’. They have all been working extremely hard over the last few months and everyone with a ticket is looking forward to the show. In fact 2 people you know quite well have a message for you! The last few tickets are still available but are selling fast. There are 2 shows: Tuesday 4th November and Wednesday the 5th November. Curtain up is at 7pm.

Break a Leg!

Click here for your good luck message!

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Gangs ’n’ Gals has been written by two Year 11 Drama GCSE students Charlotte Armitage and Rose Blackburne with the supervision and support of Miss Watson. Songs from the 1920s era and other well-known musicals have been combined with the original script and Charleston choreography to produce a super-hot show! With fun characters, interlinked storylines and toe-tapping songs ...it’s a show not to miss!

Charlotte Armitage (11ACD) and Rose Blackburne (11VEB) – Writers The real ideas for Gangs and Gals were formed when it was still referred to by us as 'The Purple Tie Production’. The script itself took shape during lunchtimes and was passed back and forth for weeks across email, with new scenes being added and dialogue and characters appearing and disappearing with every edit. The final scenes weren't actually written until rehearsals were well underway! It has been a fantastic but rather surreal experience to watch a story that was nothing but a figment of our imagination take shape—to watch the characters that were once referred to as 'girl 4' or 'rival gang member 2' be brought to life by students. We’ve also been involved in directing as well. Working with Year 8, the 6th Formers, and Miss Watson has meant that 'Gangs and Gals' has become a much bigger project than scribbles on the back of a worksheet. I’m sure on show nights we will feel rather like proud parents watching their child enter the big wide world. Remember us when our next show hits the West End!

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Daniel Burgess and India Sahota

Star of the Speakeasy

Beatrice Riley and new

waiter Donald

Feuding brothers

Antonio and Big Bucks

Elliot Thompson and

Matthew Hodson

Trouble Causer

Velma

Sophie Tarring

Old timer Jack

Fin Tunney

There’s no business like show business...missed Thursday’s

flashmob...watch it here!

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Dinner Time Rota (No bags in Dining Hall)

B Hall Packed Lunch Year Time

Sitting 1 Year 8 N4 12pm

Sitting 2 Year 7 N3 and N6 From 12.10pm

Sitting 3 Year 9 Social Area D Floor Not before 12.15pm

School Nurse drop-in Session:

Tuesday 4th November, Medical Room. No appointments required, they are here to listen not to tell!

iPad drop in session:

Tuesdays and Thursdays 12.15pm - K3

Independent Learning :

(click here for KS3)

(click here for KS4)

Please remember your manners when in the lunch time queue, if you misbehave you will be sent to the back of the queue. 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/The Courtyard Cafe at lunchtime unless you have essential medication (i.e. Epipen or Diabetic equipment).

Use a Tree...Plant a Tree Update

Coming Up…

Friday 24th – Monday 27th October

Belgium visit, departs 10pm returns 9.30pm

Monday 27th October to Friday 3rd November

Half term

Monday 3rd November

School reopens

Gangs ‘n’ Gals Dress Rehearsal 3pm

Tuesday 4th November

Gangs ‘n Gals 7pm B Hall

Year 8 Alan Gibbons Workshop

Wednesday 5th November

Gangs ‘n Gals 7pm B Hall

Thursday 6th November

Post 16 Open Evening 6-8pm

...EVERY WEEK...EVERY WEEK...EVERY WEEK...

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Year 11 Work Experience Well done to Year 11 who have spent this week out in the workplace for work experience week. We have had a real mix of businesses involved, from restaurants to engineering firms, museums, newspapers and sporting organisations. Whether you stayed local or travel further afield, we know it can sometimes be a bit overwhelming leaving school, your friends and familiar surroundings for a week, but you all rose to the challenge! The feedback already received, as you would expect, has been super and we look forward to welcoming you back into school on Monday 3rd November.

Belgium Battlefield Visit Good luck to 80 of our Year 9 students who set off on their Great War battlefields visit of Ypres and the surrounding region on Friday. The visit is jam-packed full of history and will cover the British and German military cemeteries of Tyne Cot and Langemarck, the Diksmunde Museum, the remnants of the Death trench at Diksmunde, and also Talbot House where troops could relax behind the lines. While there, they will attend and participate in the Last Post ceremony at the Menin Gate at Ypres and have the opportunity to pay respects to Ilkley Grammar School old boys and, perhaps, family members, who died during the conflict. A wreath will be laid at this ceremony. The visit will also take in the Canadian monument at Vimy Ridge and the French National Memorial at Notre Dame de Lorette near Arras and then on to see Thiepval, Morlancourt Ridge and the Newfoundland Memorial park on the Somme. This visit is always a moving experience, make the most of your time there, remember you are our

2 places have become

available on the 2015

Ski Trip to Sugarloaf Mountain Resort in

New England, USA on 30th

March– 7th

April 2015.

These places are open to any students in Year 10, 11,or Post 16.

For further information please contact Ms Haigh, Head of Post 16

or Mr Peltier, PE Department.

Ski Trip 2015...urgent...Ski Trip 2015...urgent...Ski Trip 2015...urgent

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Congratulations to Maisie Liptrot (7ELC). Maisie competes in artistic gymnastics which includes performances on 4 pieces - bars, beam, floor and the vault for Harrogate Gymnastics Club and is in their Elite National Squad.

Maisie competes in regional and nationwide competitions and was recently placed 6th in Yorkshire in a Level 5 competition against some very tough competition.

Her success is a true testament to just how hard she works - training for 16+ hours a week which includes going to the gym for 4 hours practice straight from school.

Well done to our Year 10 football team who secured a draw against St Mary’s on Tuesday. The final score was a very close 1-1.

Well played to our Year 9 footballers who were in action in Central Venue Football at Horsforth on Tuesday. We saw some fantastic goals in two tight matches. The scores were:

IGS 1-3 Horsforth, goal by Adam Hayes (9CW) IGS 1-0 Prince Henry’s, goal by Matthew Spencer (9JP)

Congratulations to our U15 netball team who competed against Skipton Girls’ School on Wednesday. They played very well with a final score of 27-9 to IGS

Well done to our Year 8 footballers who were in action on Wednesday night. They played at Abbey Grange and the results were:

IGS 0– 0 Horsforth

IGS 3—0 Abbey Grange

Goal scorers were Morgan Grimshaw (8DSF)and Adam Haw (8PDH).

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IOS 8 Upgrade - Urgent It is essential that all students update their iPad to IOS 8 and then continue to update all apps. It is becoming more frequent that students cannot open the documents they require during lessons

because a large number of iPads have not been updated.

Please come to one of the iPad drop in sessions on Tuesday or Thursday lunchtime in K3, if you need help updating your device.

Miss Brides

MONDAY 3rd Nov

Netball U15 @IGS (SMB)

TUESDAY 4th Nov

Girls’ Football Year 9 @Oakbank (LV)

Senior Hockey Training (Years 9/10/11/12/13) (JH)

WEDNESDAY 5th Nov

Netball U15 Emerging Schools League @UAK

THURSDAY 6th Nov

Hockey Training Year 7 and 8 (AJK)

Basketball Year 9 @Samuel Lister (MWC) 3pm

FRIDAY 7th Nov

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In the News

Good luck to all our

students who are performing in Bugsy Malone with the Ilkley Amateur Operat ic Society.

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Year 8

Our Year 8 assembly this week was taken over by The Great Year 8 Bake Off! Over the last few weeks, cakes have been baked and tasted, with finalists gaining a place from each tutor group for Thursday’s final.

The cakes looked...and tasted...delicious.

The judges poked, prodded and tasted their way through the fine array of baked goodies, and named both a student tutor group and tutor winner!

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Student Tutor Group Winners

Tutor Winners

Mrs

Druett

Mr

Fountain

Mrs

Goodyear

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The Gift of Giving

Year 8 students are taking part in Operation Christmas Child; they will be putting together a Christmas present in a wrapped shoe box which goes to a child who would otherwise not receive a Christmas gift. We are hoping to receive more than 100 boxes. The deadline for bringing Christmas boxes to the Key Stage 3 Hub is Tuesday 11th November.

Senior Choir for Years 9-13 The Senior Choir will now meet every Thursday lunchtime in A7 at 12.20pm.

Miss Murray

Poppy Appeal Each year the nation expresses its unequivocal support for The Royal British Legion's work through the Poppy Appeal. It takes 350,000 volunteers and staff to organise the Poppy Appeal each year. Money raised goes to support their welfare work for the Armed Forces community.

More than 40 million Remembrance poppies, 500,000 poppies of other types, 5 million Remembrance petals, 100,000 wreaths and sprays, 750,000 Remembrance Crosses and other Remembrance items are made each year.

The 2013 Poppy Appeal raised an amazing £39 million. The target for the 2014 Appeal is £40 million. You can help and show your support by buying a poppy from your Key Stage Hub after half term.

Year 8 Writing Workshops The acclaimed writer, Alan Gibbons, is coming in to host a Year 8 writing Workshop on Tuesday 4th November. The day will begin with a presentation to all Year 8 students in B Hall and then each band will experience a workshop session also in B Hall. Morning Registration: Year 8 should register as usual in tutor base you will then be escorted up to B Hall by your tutor to enable a prompt start in B Hall at the start of Period 1. Each Band will then experience an hour workshop with Alan Gibbons.

Period 2 Workshop in B Hall with I band Period 3 Workshop in B Hall with G band Period 4 Workshop in B Hall with S band

Mrs Fielding

Alan Gibbons

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Available daily…

There is also a range of cold meals, sandwiches and pizzas available every day and remember the meal deal is still only £2.15. This includes a hot meal and a pudding or drink. The same price covers a choice from the cold selection and a juice and a small dessert.

SCHOOL MENU

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Top Deals this Term

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Tweet Advice on Staying Safe on Twitter from Bullying UK

Tweet Sensibly Twitter is a very popular social network used by many different age groups, and especially used by many celebrities to keep in touch with fans and by others all over the world to break news stories or just say what they are up to at any given moment. While Twitter has been great at helping people communicate quickly and in a very open manner, it's not without its problems. Always follow the usual rules of cyber safety and in addition here are some Twitter specific safety tips.

Never give out your real address, or any personal details - remember on Twitter everything

you say can be open to the world Never give out your password - also be extra careful when you sign into Twitter through

other websites. (Some are scams trying to find out your log-in details!) Think before you Tweet! - anyone can see what you say unless you make your profile

private Don't Follow Back people you don't know - this can help protect you against Direct Message

spam. You can still talk publicly using @replies

Go Private If you don't want the world to see everything you say on Twitter make your profile private, the option is in your settings on Twitter.com. That way only people you follow back will be able to see your updates, your tweets will also be hidden from the public search as well.

Pictures and Other Media As with any internet service be careful what you post on Twitter, it's really easy to post pictures or video onto Twitter but you must take care not to post anything that could embarrass you later or get you or anyone else into trouble.

Twitter and your Location One of Twitter's more advanced features is being location aware. That means if you turn the feature on people will be able to see where you posted a tweet from, using your exact location. Stay clear of this feature if you want to remain private.

Prevent Your Twitter Account From Being Hacked or Stolen Sometimes people will try to take over Twitter accounts so they can send private messages or spam to a person's followers but there are lots of ways you can guard against it. Don't click links in Direct Messages unless you were expecting a link from that user. Most hacks happen when you put your Twitter log-in details into a compromised or fake website. Be careful of sites that look like Twitter.com but aren't. Only log-in to Twitter.com if you typed the link in directly or accessed through a link you know is safe (Bookmark). If a link is not a Bit.ly link be extra careful. Bit.ly is the most popular link shortening service and does a good job at fighting these nasty links. If you think your account has been hacked change your password immediately. If you can't log-in you can use the password reset tool on the Twitter support site to generate a new random password to your email address.

More advice on eSafety is available on Realsmart here.

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Most, if not all of you have seen Grumpy Cat one of the

many meme stars on the internet. Are you creative, fun and

have a sense of humour? Think you can up with a better

meme than this one? Then the KS3 iPad meme Competition

is for you.

The IGS Save our iPad campaign 2014 needs your help.

What we want is for you to create a fun, creative meme that

will help us to spread the message about looking after your

iPad and the dangers of breaking them. Send your entries

and any queries to ipadhelp@ilkleygs.ngfl.ac.uk by Friday

November 14th

.

Include your name and Year group on the

entry. The winning entries, one each from Year 7, 8 and 9

will be posted on Realsmart, and on posters around the

school Each winner will receive a prize.

Get Memeing and good luck…

KS3 iPad MEME COMPETITION

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Calling all Dancers! You are invited to attend a contemporary dance workshop run by Northern School of Contemporary Dance (NSCD). The workshop is free of charge and will take place in school on Monday 8th December 2014 3-5pm (in the Gym). NSCD are a Centre for Advance Training in Dance and run the Yorkshire Young Dancers (YYD) scheme. The YYD and NSCD aims to provide 13-17 year olds access to high quality dance training whilst developing creative potential as dancers. The workshop at Ilkley Grammar School offers an opportunity for students to experience contemporary dance and to consider if the YYD scheme would be suitable for them. A dance artist from NSCD will deliver a 2 hour workshop based on contemporary technique and choreography. This workshop also acts as a preliminary audition onto the YYD scheme. If you would like to take part then please see me for a letter which needs to be signed and returned by parents/carers. The deadline to confirm a workshop place is 27th November. Miss Watson

WB Autumn term Week

Year 10 Year 11

03-Nov En - Extended reading Sc - ISA 8B

10-Nov En - Extended reading 9A

17-Nov Fr - orals 10B

24-Nov Review Day (28.11.14) Review Day (28.11.14) 11A

01-Dec

Sp - orals H&S - Deadline 1 (4.12.14) Dr - Drama in the making 2 Mu - performance 1

12B

08-Dec En - Spoken language Mu - performance 2 13A

15-Dec En - Spoken language 14B

GCSE Overview

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Ilkley Grammar School

Post 16 Open Evening

Thursday 6th

November

Our Post 16 Open Evening gives students a chance to

investigate the opportunities available to them at Ilkley

Grammar School. The evening involves a programme of

subject seminars. Students are asked to look at the

schedule in advance and consider the sessions that they

would like to attend. There will also be a presentation in

F Hall with Miss Haigh, Head of Post 16, to get an

overview of provision and expectations at Ilkley Grammar

School.

The first sessions will commence promptly at

6.30pm. Entry and registration are at Main Reception

from 6.00pm. There will be an opportunity to see the

facilities of Post 16 prior to commencement of the

evening.

This evening is the first of our Post 16 events to help

students focus on their future, and especially to help them

decide whether Ilkley Grammar School’s Post 16 is the

most suitable option for them.

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Last tickets remaining!

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York City FC are holding trials for boys up to

15 years old. The trials take place on Friday

31st October...interested?

Contact 07974 020392 for further details

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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.

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A Message from the Lady Mayoress Mrs Elizabeth M Sharp It is my cherished ambition to create a district-wide talent competition that crosses all boundaries of school age, is fully inclusive, totally cohesive, and free to enter. This, then, is the Lady Mayoress Festival of Talent, and is aimed at all primary, secondary and further education establishments throughout the Bradford Metropolitan District. I need you to get involved.

How? As I have visited schools since becoming Lady Mayoress, I have been struck by the number of children and young people who have huge amounts of talent in the sphere of performing arts. I wish to provide them with an opportunity to showcase their talent in a free-to-enter competition that will climax in as ‘showbiz’ a final as we can create, to take place in the Henry Mitchell Theatre in Bradford College in early March. There will be three winning age groups, as mentioned above. Each winner will take part in the Schools Proms at St George’s Hall on 25th and 26th March, 2015. They will receive a trophy, a certificate, an opportunity to perform at a Lord Mayor civic event, and afternoon tea for themselves and their families in City Hall with the Lady Mayoress. Performances must be to a maximum of three minutes, and can be in Singing, Dance, Instrumental Music playing, Drama, Comedy, etc. and can be solo, duos, trios, quartets, etc. groups, bands, choirs. The only stipulation is that the performances are student-led, created by the performers themselves. While their support and advice is encouraged, teachers should have no input in the creative process. I want your school in there! I already have a few, but I need so many more. I envisage this to be a high-profile event that in the later stages, ie. semi-finals and finals, will raise money for the Lord Mayor’s Appeal as tickets will be sold to the general public and to all supporters. You may already know that the Lord Mayor’s Appeal this year is supporting Marie Curie and a community-based project of his devising called ‘Make It Happen’, in which small sums of money are donated to help people less well-advantaged to create something good for them, and to fulfil, if possible, cherished ambitions, such as leading the Bradford City Football Team on to the pitch at Valley Parade, etc. If you are interested in this exciting initiative, contact the Music and Arts Service at http://www.bradfordmusiconline.co.uk/site/lady-mayoress-festival-of-talent/ to register your involvement. The closing date for acceptance is 27th October and all acceptances must be received by that date. So please, what are you waiting for? It’s time to shine. With warmest wishes and grateful thanks,

Elizabeth M Sharp, Lady Mayoress, BMDC 2014/15

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Burley Scouts and Guides Bonfire

Burley-in-Wharfedale Burley Scouts and Guides bonfire will be on Saturday 8th November, near to the Scout Hut at the bottom of Peel Place. It starts at 6pm and the bonfire will be lit at 7pm, followed by fireworks at 7:30pm.