Parents News Issue 16

20th February 2012 - Issue 16

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FEBRUARYTue 21st

Year 12 Parents Evening 16:30 to 18:30

Thurs 23rdPTA Quiz Night 18:30 to 22:30

Tues 28th PTA Bids meeting 18.00

Wed 29thBattle of the Bands 18:00

Fri 2nd - Mon 5thGCSE Exams

MARCHFri 23rd

Adult Education end of term

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Mayor of London Visits Chiswick Community School Last Thursday, Chiswick School welcomed some very important visitors – Boris John-son, the Mayor of London, and Olympic gold medallist, Sebastian Coe. They came to announce to students and staff the out-come of a project called ‘ticket share’ which will enable a large number of schoolchil-dren to enjoy free tickets to the Olympics this summer. Our school has received 158 of these free tickets, which means around 1 in 8 students will receive one.

Before Boris Johnson and Lord Coe arrived, the PE department selected around thirty students to play a few basketball and volley-ball matches in the Sports Hall. Slowly, the journalists and cameramen started arriving and setting up around the hall. They filmed the chosen students playing their games; narrowly missing being hit by volleyballs several times...

At about 3.30pm the Mayor and Sebastian Coe arrived and almost immediately joined in with one of the basketball games, where Boris Johnson tried his hand at some shoot-

ing. Both of them then tried a bit of volley-ball and Sebastian Coe seemed to be really good.

After that it was over to Mr Ryan to say a few words, before Boris Johnson explained about the free tickets to many Olympic events for schools and revealed how many tickets Chiswick had been allocated. Then Sebastian Coe spoke about how the Olym-pics could inspire young people to get involved in sports and join clubs; part of London’s Olympic bid had been about how they would get young people interested in sports.

PTA QUIZ NIGHT IS BACK!

on Thursday 23rd February, 2012.6.30-10.30pm

in the School Assembly Hall

Yes, it’s back, trying to bring some good cheer

and light-hearted fun into the Winter evening

We intend to make it frivolous,with Supper thrown in for the

OUTRAGEOUS price of£6 PER HEAD

(now, be honest, we can’t make a better deal than that!)

Grab a friend or two and book

yourself a table viaJo Lovatt (020 8995 4219 or

[email protected]) and please let me know if you have

any dietary requirements.

Thank you and hope to see you there……

Monique is a fantastically talented and committed young lady. Her ambition is to become an athlete and run for her country.Currently aged 13 she is running the 100 metres in 13 seconds. For her year this is an excellent time. She has run for the London Borough of Hounslow coming fourth in the London Youth Games, and has also been on trial for Middlesex. She has won the event for Chiswick at the Borough Athletics and Indoor Athletics events.

'I train three times a week,' says Monique 'jogging, sprinting and doing stretches. I belong to Lynford Christie’s Athletics club. My role models are Jessica Ennis, Usain Bolt and Mo Farah. I know Mo Farah is not a sprinter but he is a very outgoing and en-gaging person!'

We wish Monique all the best in the fu-ture and hope London 2012 inspires her to achieve even more.

CHISWICK ACHIEVERSChiswick Achiever Olympic Special

Free Olympic Tickets for You!

Yes, you heard correctly.

Last Thursday 2nd February, Boris John-son (Mayor of London) and Lord Seb Coe (Chief of the London Olympic Bid and ex gold medallist) visited the school to an-nounce a new programme which gives sec-ondary school children a free opportunity to visit the Olympic or Paralympic games.

We spoke to Lord Coe afterwards and asked him what kind of legacy the Olym-pics would leave London with, to which he replied that the Games would ‘leave London with a lot of new facilities’. When asked who would be an ideal Olympian or other sportsperson for young people to have as a role model, he said that ‘everyone is a role model’, going on to explain that all sportsmen and women had followings and were role models in different people’s eyes.

Photographs were then taken outside, with students, the PE department and Mary Ma-cleod, the local MP, who was also present.

Before he left, Alfie Howell and I were able to ask Boris Johnson a couple of questions. Firstly, what was he hoping the Olympics would do for London’s image around the world? He said that they were hoping a million people would come to London for the Games, with hundreds more millions watching it on TV and seeing how great London can be. People around the world will be watching the opening ceremony and London will be able to show itself at its best. He also mentioned the Olympics being ‘great leverage for investment in the city. The Games will be great for Lon-don and everyone will be entering into an Olympic spirit.'

My final question to him was about what Olympic event he would most like to com-pete in. His response was that he would like to do the 100 metre sprint!

By Laura reid

Visit to Chiswick School continued..

125,000 kids from across the whole of London will be in with the chance of going to see an event from Volleyball to Horse Riding or even the 100m final. When Boris announced that the school would be receiv-ing 158 tickets, far off most guesses of 10 and 25, a huge applause echoed around the hall. Journalists and photographers were also there to catch this all for local newspa-pers and even national television.

Boris even managed to sneak in a nifty joke during the announcement, exclaim-ing ‘Don’t let your parents worry that these tickets are all being purchased with tax payers’ money, it’s all being paid for by sponsorship!’ Furthermore, Mr Ryan added to the announcement, saying ‘To have this many tickets is absolutely fantastic.’ Lord Coe seemed very adamant that by giving away these tickets, more young people will become interested in sport and concluded that the Olympic committee were striving to ‘get as many young people active as pos-sible.’

To round up the event, Grace Lee, Year 10, said ‘It’s fantastic that so many students have been given the chance to go to the Olympics and experience such an exciting event first-hand.’

Let’s hope you get a ticket!

By aLfie HoweLL

Monique Craib-McKenjie, Year 9