Heathfield Headlines To keep up to date visit… www.heathfieldcc.co.uk Follow us on Twitter… @heathfield_cc Contact us… [email protected]| 01435 866066 Issue 78 17 January 2020 YEAR 8 VISIT HARRY POTTER Monday saw the annual Year 8 trip to the Harry Potter Studio Tour and Ms Ireland reports it was the best one so far. “The exhibition has grown yet again and as we walked into the new entrance I could hear the students gasp as they saw the enormous dragon hanging from the ceiling, all of them stopping to get a photograph. And the addition of Gringotts Bank - WOW! It was incredible, and as I rounded the corner with a group of eager students it took my breath away with its scale and attention to detail. It was incredible the next day to hear a student in his art class explain to his teacher how they achieved the marble effect on the pillars using specialist painting techniques. How amazing to think that student had taken on that knowledge. I wonder what else the students learnt, and I wonder how that learning and knowledge of industry might change their outlook on the subjects they want to take for their options? It really does open your eyes to the industries that are out there for our students to consider.“
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every movement was intriguing and allowed every student
taking part to see just how much creative lenience there is
On the 9 December 2019, Ned Bennett (a theatre director who trained at the Royal Court,
National Theatre and LAMDA) arrived at the College to meet with my 6th Form drama class
to discuss and teach workshops surrounding his recent direction of Peter Schaffer's EQUUS
for EET (a production with which he and his company have been touring the UK for just over
a year), and creative direction/dramatic development through the devising process as a
Bennett began with a warm-up through states of tension to loosen our bodies and warm our
minds to the movement, interaction and trust exercises that would follow; he immediately set an atmosphere of individual exploration and development of character and vision,
whole. Within this 3-hour workshop, Bennett ran through the way he, his production team
and his actors created the incredible production we had watched at Trafalgar Studios, in
September; elucidating the manic time frames and organisation that goes in the creative
process and methods with which he got his actors to prepare, train and embody themselves
as the roles they had earned.
space and sudden change in speed and direction sequences) to
successfully cultivate an individual perception and portrayal of
a pre-written character. I particularly enjoyed the moments at
which Bennett instructed us collectively to move closer or
further away from a partner based on a relationship within
Equus and the emotions within that all the while still taking part in the movement exercise as viewing just how different
within which he explained his preference of focusing less
on his own, but harder on each individual actor’s vision
for his/her own character within the production. Using both highly intense and precise jerky physical exercises,
Bennett demonstrated the
control needed (e.g. within
the start/stop, orbit, close
Follow, far follow, negative
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within perception and led me personally to understand exactly why Bennet believed so
strongly in allowing the initial and base characteristics of each role within Equus to be
decided by the actor playing it. I believe that the way in which he guided me and my class
through the kind of planning, incremental rehearsal, and collaborative development that
went into his direction of the play has highly benefitted our abilities to plan and produce
top-tier performances of our own. I also believe that the exercises he taught us
implemented new key teachings and skills we must know near-perfectly both for our
devising processes and written examinations. This provided me with the conclusion that
the workshop itself was a very successful, valuable experience; it was one that not only
helped to ensure higher quality work ethic and results within our futures, but also
provided a deal more clarity surrounding his (and his teams) utterly fantastical production
of Equus (meaning that writing about it will be a lot easier), and the work we have
already done in a way that will make my future in our A-Level drama course much
brighter.
Mollie Goddard, Yr12
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Each term, meaning full term and not half-term, every tutor will be introducing new
words to students. Across all subjects in the curriculum, teachers will be using these
terms and encouraging student use of them.
We know how important having a varied vocabulary is for students both to help
communicate ideas within the classroom and achieve academic success but also being
effective communicators outside of school when wanting to show the best of themselves
in an interview.
It will help make a difference if you are able to work with the College in encouraging
students to build their vocabulary so, in Heathfield Headlines, we will share with you one
of the Words of the Term each fortnight with a very brief activity idea to help
consolidate the word within your child’s vocabulary.
Something that is not usually done or seen.
Synonyms: rarely, infrequently, hardly ever.
Activity:
Sometimes we don’t see enough of certain things in life (maybe kindness).
Talk to your child about what things they seldom see enough of and why they
would like to see more of those things. Perhaps consider what they can do on an individual level to encourage and promote it.
READING RECOMMENDATIONS
Seldom (Adverb)
For many years, To Kill A Mockingbird was Harper
Lee’s one and only novel – but what an incredible
novel it is!
This is the story of America in the 1930s through eyes
of Scout, the child of a white lawyer who gladly
supported the black community by taking on the
injustices they suffered in the courtroom.
Even though the prejudice that existed meant a black
person could not win a case against a white person,
Atticus (Scout’s father) would show up the ridiculous
nature of the prejudices people had.
Modern readers may find the opening chapters a little
slow in pace but stick with it and you’ll read one of
the best stories ever written.
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SUSSEX SCHOOLS CROSS-COUNTRY
On Tuesday 14 January our Key Stage 3 and 4 runners
travelled to Brighton Rugby Club for the annual Sussex
Cross-Country event.
On a day when the elements decided to throw
everything but snow at us, all athletes competed
brilliantly and produced some outstanding results.
The Year 8 runners were competing with and against
Year 9 students. Similarly Year 10 students were in races
with Year 11 athletes.
Without doubt, the two leading performances were
from Rae Le Fay, finishing 7th and Isabelle Chappell
finishing 12th in the Junior Girls race. Ziggy Henry led
the boys home in 51st position, in a race, just like the
girls, that had over 150 runners on the start line.
Well done to all, on a very cold wet and windy day.
Rae Le Fay, Isabelle Chapman, Zoe Wright, Ollie Moore,
Ziggy Henry, Jake Standing, Rob Blackhurst, Zack
Richardson and Eddie Wally. Rae Le Fay
Year 8 Boys
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KABUBBU 2020 – 25 DAYS TO GO!
Vaccinations have been had, visas have been applied for, some cases have been
packed, money for accommodation and travel has all been paid and Team Kabubbu
are ready to set off on their Ugandan adventure on Wednesday 12 February.
We do still have a little way to go before we have reached our fundraising target of
£500 per person. This goes directly towards the help we will give to the village of
Kabubbu when we are there, e.g. materials for the community challenge where
families are helped directly, bricks and mortar for the house we will build, and more.
If you would like to make a donation please go to our fundraising page at