Hazelwick School Newsletter December Reflection: December 2015 Headlines Ms A Fearon, Headteacher We look forward to seeing all our students on Monday 4 January (week 1) for the start of the Spring Term. Welcome to this final edition of our school newsletter for 2015. I would like to start by wishing all students, parents and carers a joyful Holiday Season and a very happy and peaceful New Year. The final weeks of term have been immensely busy and productive. Year 11 students have sat their mock examinations and there has been a range of extra-curricular activities involving many of our students. During December, activities have included the Sixth Form Karaoke and ‘Festive Friday’, both being enormous fun while also raising money for charity. On the evening of 15 December, we held our Sixth Form ‘Celebration of Achievement’ where we welcomed back last year’s upper sixth students to receive their A level certificates. We also awarded subject and pastoral prizes. Fifty five students and their families attended and enjoyed a fabulous evening of celebration and catching up with friends after their first term at university or in employment. Throughout these weeks, we have ensured that the quality of teaching has remained high, enabling our students to learn in lessons right through to the end of term. We say goodbye to Dr Messenger, from the Science Department and we thank her for her contributions to our school in her time with us. Festive Friday Karaoke Karaoke Hazelwick has been out and about in the local community; our musicians have been performing in their first concert at the Bandstand in town. Year 8 and 9 students have shown tremendous thoughtfulness and generosity in the contributions they have made to the compilation of Christmas boxes for the residents of Crawley Open House. Year 7 made Christmas cards and hand delivered them to Francis Court Care home in Copthorne and spent time with the elderly dementia patients.
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Hazelwick School
Newsletter
Headlines Ms A Fearon, Headteacher
December Reflection:
December 2015
Headlines Ms A Fearon, Headteacher
We look forward to seeing all our students on Monday 4 January (week 1)
for the start of the Spring Term.
Welcome to this final edition of our school newsletter for 2015. I would like to start by wishing
all students, parents and carers a joyful Holiday Season and a very happy and peaceful New Year.
The final weeks of term have been immensely busy and productive. Year 11 students have sat
their mock examinations and there has been a range of extra-curricular activities involving many
of our students.
During December, activities have included the Sixth Form Karaoke and ‘Festive Friday’, both
being enormous fun while also raising money for charity.
On the evening of 15 December, we held our Sixth Form ‘Celebration of Achievement’ where
we welcomed back last year’s upper sixth students to receive their A level certificates. We also
awarded subject and pastoral prizes. Fifty five students and their families attended and enjoyed a
fabulous evening of celebration and catching up with friends after their first term at university or
in employment.
Throughout these weeks, we have ensured that the quality of teaching has remained high,
enabling our students to learn in lessons right through to the end of term.
We say goodbye to Dr Messenger, from the Science Department and we thank her for her
contributions to our school in her time with us.
Festive Friday Karaoke
Karaoke
Hazelwick has been out and about in the local
community; our musicians have been
performing in their first concert at the
Bandstand in town.
Year 8 and 9 students have shown tremendous thoughtfulness and
generosity in the contributions they have made to the compilation of
Christmas boxes for the residents of Crawley Open House. Year 7
made Christmas cards and hand delivered them to Francis Court
Care home in Copthorne and spent time with the elderly dementia
The Food Technology department have been busy this half-term. Thank you to the Food Technology ‘Let’s
Get Cooking Club’ who made Mince pies for the Christmas fair and Ellie Myers in Year 13 who made these
brilliant festive polar bears for a raffle prize.
Below is a recipe if you’d like to make them at home.
Miss Maides
Ingredients 175g butter
175g sugar
175g Self-raising flour
3 eggs
½ tsp baking powder
White chocolate butter cream 150g butter
400g icing sugar
1 bar white chocolate, grated small
36 white chocolate buttons
Chocolate icing writing pen
1 tsp vanilla essence
Method 1. Place all the cupcake ingredients into a bowl and use an electric whisk until the mixture is light, fluffy
and pale in texture.
2. Place the mixture into cupcake cases and cook on Gas mark 6, 180°C for 15 minutes.
3. Get them out of the oven, place them onto a cooling rack and leave to cool completely. 4. To make the icing, place the softened butter, icing sugar and vanilla essence into a bowl and whisk
until softened and the icing goes into peaks.
5. Use a palette knife and flatten the icing onto the cake.
6. Grate the white chocolate into a bowl and dip the cake into the chocolate so that it sticks.
7. Use two white chocolate buttons as the ears and place into the icing.
8. Cut one chocolate button in half and use as the nose.
9. Use the chocolate writing icing to complete the look. Add dots to the eyes and draw the nose.
10. If you have edible glitter, you may wish to add a sprinkle of glitter as well!
11. Finally, Enjoy!
And Happy Christmas from the Food Technology Department
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News, Events & Activities... Year 11 Product Design
Year 11 Product Design students are getting creative in their revision techniques. Students are
using "Quizzical Coasters" to support them in their everyday at-home independent study.
Students have a range of quick fire quizzical questions to recall key subject knowledge
everywhere they go!
Keep up the hard work!
Miss Jones
Year 10 Product Design and Systems & Control
The Year 10 students in Product Design and Systems & Control
have been working extremely hard. Miss Jones, Mr Jenkins and
Mr Dyke have nominated two students from each class and they
have been awarded – Star Designer.
A huge congratulations for outstanding effort, behaviour and
subject knowledge in these lessons – a superb start to Year 10!
Festive Cheer
Hazelwick's musicians have been spreading festive cheer throughout Crawley this month. Senior Soul
Band performed some funky carols at the Christmas fair whilst the newly-formed Junior Soul Band
visited the Band Stand in town to perform for the local community. Despite blustery winds, they
performed brilliantly in (for most) their first concert at
Hazelwick. We eagerly wait to see what they do next!
Miss Burchill
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News, Events & Activities... Imperial College
Hazelwick’s pioneers of computer science are coming!
On Friday 4 December, a group of Computer Science 6th Form students went on a trip to the Imperial
College London for a lecture on ‘The Pioneers of Computer Science’. With speakers from Amazon, BT,
Apps for Good, Google and The University of Coventry, the lectures promised to be inspirational.
Debbie Forster from Apps for Good discussed the opportunities that tech would offer the students in the
jobs market and was a great advocate for encouraging girls into Computer Science.
We were given an insight into what it takes to design and deliver innovative new data centres by Dave
Bowen from BT.
Isabella Pighi from Google was one of the data scientists that was involved in the Ebola crisis and she gave
the students an understanding of how they managed to control the situation through the use of
telecommunications data.
The students related to the coding/programming that Byron Cook from Amazon talked about, and were
able to appreciate how these advances in mathematical logic and computing would affect the world in
which we live.
But the highlight of the day was without a doubt the speech by Kevin Warwick from The University of
Coventry. The talk was both engaging and highly relevant to what the students were currently working
on in school. The Turing’s Imitation Game (a.k.a. the Turing test) involves trying to tell the difference, in
conversation, between a human and a machine. Actual examples were given of machines performing very
well and fooling interrogators. The enthusiasm for
computer science was clearly evident when the students
were given the opportunity to try the test for
themselves to see how well they performed.
The trip was enjoyed by all and was a valuable
experience that helped not only to enhance their studies
but also to support the students in preparing for, and
giving an insight into, future careers as Computer
Scientists. For one young lady on the trip the whole day
from start to finish proved to be an experience she will
never forget, as this was the first time she had been on a
train, the Underground and to London!
Mrs A Kansara
Computer Science Department
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News, Events & Activities... Italy Trip – October 2015
During the October half term break, 28 students (from Years 10-12) took part in the Classics
Department’s 10-day grand tour of Italy, accompanied by old timers Mr Hopkins & Mr Palmer and
newcomers Mrs Lawrence & Miss Scott – a great team! The group travelled by coach and covered a
huge distance, cramming so much into the short time away. The 2015 trip was a great success and a
truly memorable experience.
Starting off in Florence, we were impressed by the sheer beauty of the whole city, the awesome
grandeur of the enormous Duomo and the artistry of Michelangelo’s statue of David. Heading south to
the Bay of Naples, we climbed to the rim of the crater of Mount Vesuvius, before strolling round the
evocative remains of ancient Pompeii. Next stop – Rome. First of all, the stunning St Peter’s and a mere
500 steps to the top – but what a fantastic view of Rome from the top of the dome! And then, so many
sights – the Trevi Fountain (minus the water!), the Colosseum, the Circus Maximus, the river Tiber, the
Pantheon, arches, obelisks & elephants, the Forum, the Palatine Hill, a genuine Italian market. And, on
the last night, a great pizzeria followed by Piazza Navona and an unmissable ice cream at the legendary
Giolitti’s gelateria.
Heading north towards Venice, we stopped for lunch at Assisi, the beautiful town of St Francis, with its
cobbled streets, quaint buildings and serene atmosphere! Venice, was of course stunning, coming
gloriously into view at the end of a boat trip across the lagoon; the view looking down on the whole of
Venice from the top of the bell-tower; walking on the raised platforms to keep our feet dry as the water
-level rose; the exquisite ornamentation of Basilica San Marco; the simple elegance of St Mark’s Square,
with the orchestras playing in the evening; the focal point of the Rialto Bridge; the novelty of crossing the
Grand Canal in a gondola, like a real Venetian commuter – and for a mere 2 euros! And there was time
for a bit of shopping, too.
We all headed home exhausted, but filled with great memories, a love of Italy and a wish to return and
see more. The staff were thoroughly impressed by the attitude, behaviour, cooperation and enthusiasm
of every single one of the students – they were a fantastic group and a real pleasure to be with, as well
as being fine ambassadors of Hazelwick and a credit both to themselves and to the school. We
thoroughly enjoyed their company and we are very proud of them all.
More pictures can be found on the website, in the Gallery under Italy 2015.
Winner of the Blue Peter Book Awards 2015 (Best Story)
The Spy Who Loved School Dinners by Pamela Butchart This is the sequel to Baby Aliens Got My Teacher and in this story Izzy and her gang suspect the new French
student, Mathilde, of being a spy. Izzy’s suspicions are aroused when Mathilde loves the school dinners and
asks for seconds! If you enjoy over the top characters combined with silly capers, then this is a must read!
Reading Level: 7 to 9
Interest Level: 7 to 11
AR Level: 5.3
http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/30330883
Costa Book Awards The Category winners of the Costa Book Awards are due to be announced on January 4, with the name of the
overall winner revealed on January 26. I have included the link to the four titles shortlisted for the Children’s