Yarm Preparatory School Issue 526

Friday 27th January 2017

Head’s Message . . .

A winter chill has certainly cut through the region in the last few days and the school has not gone without

it fair share of bitter winds. This certainly hasn’t dampened the warmth within our community or the

vigour with which the pupils embrace the outdoors. Playtimes have remained as lively as ever and our

fixtures have been well enjoyed. The netball, football and hockey fixtures played this week have allowed

many pupils to enjoy the thrill of playing in a competitive match. The results have been excellent and will

be reported in forthcoming pages, this week and next. However, there is more than just the result that

the pupils take away from these experiences. They allow our pupils to develop respect for the laws of the

game, understand the spirit in which each sport is played and learn how to win with dignity and lose with

grace. These are life lessons that transcend the pitch or court and are some of the reasons why we believe

that every pupil should have the opportunity to play sport.

We celebrate the start of the New Year and the end of the Year 6 Transfer Papers this week with our

YPSSC disco! I am very grateful to the Social Committee for organising this event and to the staff who are

taking control of the festivities. No doubt it will be a fun filled affair and allow for some serious dancefloor

action. Photos to follow next week!!

Heads’ Challenge: Which word in the dictionary is spelled incorrectly?

Bill Sawyer

@HeadPrepYarm

Visit the Prep School Pages:-

www.yarmschool.org

'Big Artists' have been working hard on Monday afternoons and they have created these beautiful fish drawings using oil pastels, watercolour paint, chalk pastels and the odd sparkle. I'm sure you will spot them around school.

Mrs. McCormack

Yazdan reaches

for the stars on

‘Let It Shine’

Tune in to ‘Let It Shine’ this Saturday (BBC1, 7pm)

to watch Yazdan Qafouri’s audition. The show aims

to find a boy band to be in Gary Barlow’s musical

which will feature Take That songs. Yazdan is a

‘regular’ on stage in school music concerts, plays

and musicals. Fingers crossed he gets 15 stars from

the panel of judges. The whole school is behind

him and we hope he goes far in the competition.

Good luck!

6G—Bread Making The first part of baking bread is measuring and stirring

the ingredients. The fungi (yeast) is used to make the

bread rise. When we added the dried yeast it rapidly

multiplied because it had warmth, food, flour and H20.

As the yeast multiplies it lets off bubbles of CO2 gases

which form bubbles of CO2 (Carbon Dioxide). The next step is kneading the dough to

make sure the ingredients are properly mixed. As we were kneading the yeast was

still multiplying.

The final stage to making bread is to cook it in an oven, but before we do that we can

divide our bread and make it into shapes we want to make. I made a breaded plait.

We let the bread rise. The bread was rising because of the yeast which was rapidly

multiplying inside the bread. We left it in the oven to

cook. Whilst the bread was cooking the hot tempera-

ture was killing the yeast, leaving the bubbles of CO2

behind.

Baking uses living things like yeast to make food like

bread.

Adhi D, 6G

4J—The Iron Man The Iron Man gazed down at the rocky beach, it was a tall

and dangerous drop onto the jagged rocks. Suddenly he

slipped off the tall and treacherous cliff. There was silence

for a long time. As he fell he got faster and faster. Then

his body fell on to the jagged rock, his whole body was

scattered all across the beach. His great iron body was in

shreds! That night two gulls were hunting for food. One

of the gulls stayed at the nest and the other went hunting

for food. One of the gulls went to see what was in shreds.

He swooped down and picked up the eye of the Iron man

thinking it was food and took it to its mate. They both

pecked at the eye that stared at them mysteriously. The

gulls didn't like it.

Cameron C, 4J

The Iron Man peered worriedly over the cliff,

scanning the treacherous and vast sea. Confused

and mystified he stepped forwards and teetered on

the edge. Suddenly he slipped off into nothingness,

CRASH! BANG! SMASH! hitting snags and rocks as

sharp as knives. A second later he hit a large patch

of rocks. His body parts went flying and scattering

far and wide over a plain of rocks and sand.

Darkness grew blue. A hungry seagull stared at a

shiny object hidden in a patch of red seaweed.

Patrick T, 4J

The Iron man stood proudly at the very top of the

dangerous and steep and rocky cliff. He gazed down at

the treacherous and murky sea and walked to the very tip

of the cliff and clumsily, but unknowingly tumbled down

towards the beach. There was silence for a second but

then CRASH! BANG! SMASH! he was rolling down the cliff

as fast as lightening crashing into rocks and falling onto

the rocky beach. As soon as he hit the beach, he smashed

to smithereens, his body parts hidden behind the sharp

rocks. The water boiled and boomed. A ravenous seagull

curiously peered down at the Iron Man’s eye.

Harry S, 4J

As the Iron man gazed down at the dangerous,

murky, impatient and furious sea, the waves swayed

from side to side. Whilst the Iron Man was standing

at the top of the cliff he teetered on the very brink.

But then, the Iron Man fell off the enormous cliff.

He was falling as fast as lightening. BANG! CRASH!

SMASH! the Iron Man crashed onto the rocks and he

was smashed to smithereens. Then there was si-

lence. There sitting on the rocks was the Iron Man

all separated. His eyes had fallen out, his head had

fallen off. A little while later a ravenous seagull

came and took the Iron Man’s finger.

Samuel A, 4J

Happiness

Happiness is a life time experience! Did you know that 15 minutes of laughter could give you a happy

and healthy life. Sadness will give you nothing at all. If you smile at someone else, if you’re lucky you

will get a warm smile back. When you feel angry all the happiness will start to slowly, slowly float out

of you. Nobody on this Earth would want that to happen. So try your best to keep happy and you will

soon be happy all the time.

Nora S, 5P

Primary Schools Singing Day It was lovely to take choristers to the PAA on 24th January to join forces with choirs from Layfield and Hurworth Primary Schools for our annual Primary Schools' Singing Day. I had planned 5 songs (2 rounds, and one in 2 parts) and couldn't believe how quickly the children learnt them - so fast, in fact, that Mr Williams had to do an emergency run to Reprographics to

get another song printed off for us to do!

There were 85 children in total and it was such a joy to see them all talking, playing and singing together.

My thanks to Mr Williams for all his help.

Mrs H Craven

Year 3 Music

Year 3 have been learning about note values and have been busy composing their own rhythms before moving on to composing 2 part drumming rhythms. I have been very impressed by their hard work and excellent progress

Mrs H Craven

Hockey

The U10A Boys hockey team travelled to

Cundall Manor for the first game of the sea-

son, with some players playing their first ever

competitive game of hockey. The boy's went

down 3-0 but their performance improved

over the course of the game, keeping a clean

sheet in the second half as well as hitting the

post. Special mention must go to Oscar

Thomas, who played in goal and made some

fantastic saves, all of this considering he had

only practised once in full pads prior to the

game.

Mr C Simpson

On a bright and clear afternoon the U11s

travelled to Cundall Manor for their first

hockey fixture of the season. After a tentative

start Yarm started to dominate possession

and put Cundall under significant pressure.

However, it was Cundall that got their name

on the board first with what felt like the first

attack of the match. This seemed to galvanise

Yarm who responded quickly bringing the

scores level. The match evened out after this

with good attacking and defending shown by

both teams. As the match drew into the final

quarter, the fitness demonstrated by Yarm

started to take its toll upon Cundall. The

counter-attacking play from Yarm provided a

couple more goals ensuring victory in a well

fought game by both teams. Result 1-3 (Yarm

win).

Mr P Underwood

Eleven students at Yarm School have received offers to

study at Oxford and Cambridge this year.

They will be studying a wide variety of subjects at the

two prestigious universities, including chemical engi-

neering, mathematics, natural sciences, philosophy,

French and linguistics, music and economics.

From the eleven students Ellen Bower (FP), Natalie

Forrest, Brandon Lockey, Joseph Luke, Aidan Rigby,

Lucy Walker and Sam Wasson (FP) have secured an

offer from Cambridge and Naman Garg, Freya Gittens, Neha Vaze and Freddie Wiles have secured an

offer from Oxford.

David Dunn, Headmaster at Yarm School, said: “We’re delighted for our 11 students; they have dedicat-

ed so much time and effort to their studies and extra-curricular activities, the offers they have earned for

Oxford and Cambridge are fully deserved. It also shows the excellence of our teaching across the board.

“Every year the competition increases for places at the top universities and, along with fantastic GCSE

and AS grades, students must also have high predicted grades, complete an aptitude test and impress in

a rigorous interview. At Yarm School we endeavour to provide our young people with not only academic

excellence but also life skills that will be invaluable at university and in their chosen careers.

“Having eleven pupils receive offers from Oxford or Cambridge makes me really proud. They have

worked extremely hard with their teachers. It is great, once again, to have so many successes out of a

year group of just over 100. I would like to wish all students the best of luck with their studies and future

careers”

Oxbridge Success

Netball

On Friday 20th January the U10 A and B trav-elled to Bradford to play netball. We all had a really great time, as everyone played really well and we had a good mix around of positions. For our next game we are going to work on passing square and strong shoulder passes.

Tilly G, 5B

POM U10A- Pearl Lightwood

POM U10B- Josefina Stuani

Scores:

U11 B Lost 5-3

U11 C Won 14-4

U11 A Won 23-0

U11 B Won 18-0

Miss R Bradley

Runswick Bay

During summer holiday

school we went to

Runswick Bay. At

Runswick Bay everyone

found lots of clay so I

asked Mrs McCormack if I

could make something

out of the clay. She said yes so I decided that I

would get some and try and make something.

At home I spent a long time picking out all of

the little rocks, I decided to make a small

bowl. The next day I brought it to Mrs

McCormack to put in the kiln.

Just before Christmas I glazed the pot before it

went in the kiln one more time. Now that it is

done I am very proud of it.

James W, 6M

Yarm House Chess 2017

Round One Report

This year's House Chess Championship started with a dramatic round featuring lots of great games.

Telford, the defending champions, began their title defence with a strong statement of intent as they beat an experienced Brunel side by a resounding score of 11.5-4.5. Yusuf Syed was the day's top scorer with three wins for Telford and Miles and Seth Holland picked up a fab-ulous tally of four and a half points between them. Ben Meager and Piya Nag completed the Telford scoring with two wins each.

Meanwhile, Brunel captain Samantha Botterill led by example (as usu-al) and scored an excellent win, which was added to by Shlok Arcot, Aryan Nalawade and Oscar Thomas. James Waine earned a draw too, but it wasn't enough to keep pace with Telford.

Stephenson started their match with Arkwright in very determined fashion, taking an early - and commanding - lead. Gaurav Kannan was on great form as he powered his way to two fine wins and further wins were earned by Ajay Selvan and Frankie Parker. Ayan Thomas drew his game and everything looked great for Stephenson.

However, Arkwright may have been in big trouble but they fought back in excellent style, with wins by Aditya Paul, Ammar Soni, Sophia Kusterer, Adhithyan Dinakaran and Oliver Cochrane, plus a draw by Grace Crawford. Remarkably, this turned the match completely around and Arkwright emerged victorious, by the narrow margin of 5.5-4.5.

Round two will provide an opportunity for both Brunel and Stephenson to battle their way back into the title race but Arkwright and Telford will be hoping to keep their initiative going and to keep their match victories going. Anything can happen - and probably will!

Sean Marsh

4J—Indian Food Last Friday, Mrs.Soni and Mrs.Gulve very kindly brought in Indian food for 4J to taste. We have been studying Hinduism and it was a lovely ending to our topic. There was an assortment of chickpea curry, pilau rice and puris. For dessert, we tasted a variety of Indian sweets which Mrs Jones really enjoyed! Very many thanks to both mums for giving us the opportunity to taste this amazing food.

Mrs N Jones

Next Week:

Mon 30 Brunel House Duty

House Chess—Arkwright v Brunel, Stephenson v Telford

SATIPS Handwriting Week

Tue 31 Year 5 trip to MIMA, Middlesbrough

Wed 1 Feb Learning Support event (rearranged from January)

Fri 3 5J class assembly

U10/11 Netball v Bronte House (away; 2.15pm start, 5.30pm return)

U10/11 Barnard Castle Football and Hockey triangular (12.15pm depart, 1pm start, 4pm return)

Year 6 Science lessons with Nottingham University

Mon 6 Stephenson House Duty

Terrington Hall Cross-Country (12.30pm depart, 5pm return)

Safer Internet Week

House Chess—Arkwright v Telford, Brunel v Stephenson

Wed 8 Tempest class photographs (NOTE THE CHANGE OF DATE)

Thu 9 Telford Valentine Cake Sale (for the house chosen charity)

6G class assembly

Fri 10 IAPS U11 Boys’ Hockey (Repton; 7am depart, 7pm return)

Half-term begins

Mon 20 Pupils return

Telford House Duty

Woodland Week (details to follow)

Tempest Class Photographs

Tempest will be coming in shortly before half-term to

take the class photographs. Please note, they will be

here on WEDNESDAY 8TH FEBRUARY, not the

Tuesday, as previously noted in the term card.

I must also stress that, due to time constraints, there is

no time to take individual photographs on this day.

Please ensure children come to school dressed in the

correct school uniform.

Mr Stone

Grammar School Lane

A reminder to parents that car access to Grammar School Lane and the

school site is prohibited, unless permission has been given by Mr

Sawyer or Mr Stone. This is for the safety of your children.

Safer Internet Week The last week before half-term is Safer Internet Week. If there are

any online issues you would like to find out about, please contact Mr

Stone.

Prep Celebration Assembly 3A Endeavour— Lily C. Values— Samuel S.

3H Endeavour— Henry B. Values— Manya R.

3N Endeavour— Frankie P. Values— Gracie R-H.

4J Endeavour—Poppy F. Values—Olivia M.

4P Endeavour— Millie C. Values— Shola A.

4S Endeavour— Dhruv W.. Values— Jake L.

5B Endeavour— Olivia A. Values— Tilly G.

5J Endeavour— Harriet J. Values— Haris S.

5P Endeavour— Harry J. Values— Henry P.

No Year 6 awards this week as they were all taking part in the

Senior School transfer papers!

Head Teacher’s Awards:

Harvey D. (Y3); Freya T., Matthew L., Lola V. (2), Charlie L. (2), Ffion R.

(Y4)

Coming Up: February

Thu 23rd—Year 4 trip to Vindolanda

Sat 25th—UK Chess Challenge—School Round

Tue 28th—House Pancake races

March

Mon 6th—Year 3 trip to Murton Park

Tue 7th—HMC Football and Netball

Wed 8th—Year 5 London residential

Fri 10th—6M class assembly

PLEASE NOTE DATE CHANGE

Thu 16th—Yarm U9 Football and Netball tournament

Fri 17th—6M class assembly

PLEASE NOTE DATE CHANGE

Fri 17th—Brunel charity event

Mon/Tue 20th/21st—Parents’ Evenings (4-6pm)

Thu 23rd—Year 6 trip to Durham Cathedral

Thu 27th—Jess Dunkley Dance Assembly

Wed 29th—Term finishes—no after school care