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Dear Parents/Carers, It has been another busy year at Stanwell and one that finishes on a high with the publication of the Estyn report following the inspection in May 2015. I am delighted to announce that our school has been judged as Excellent, both for current standards and prospects for improvement, as well as Excellent for all three key questions. This is a remarkable achievement which justly reflects the commitment and work ethic of our school community. I invite you all to view the full report via the school website or the Estyn website and I am sure you will share our feeling of pride. Other notable highlights of this year include our two successful musicals, ‘Aida’ and ‘Lion King Junior’, our accreditation as an Improvement Hub for the Central South Consortium, our first school sportsday at Leckwith stadium and the completion of our new synthetic and natural turf pitches. In order to improve access to and from the school buses, we have constructed a footpath across the field to the boundary in Victoria Road where the bus bays will be marked out by the Vale of Glamorgan Council for use from the start of the Au-tumn term. It is clear from this newsletter that our pupils are certainly making the most of the multitude of opportunities offered to them at Stanwell and in the wider community. The achievements are very impressive and I hope you enjoy read-ing all the news of trips, visits and participation in extra-curricular activities. On behalf of the staff and governors, I wish you all a happy and restful sum-mer holiday, Derek Jones, Headteacher.

Greetings from the school

School Announcements First day of term for pupils is Wednesday 2nd September AS and A Level results are available from school on Thurs-

day 13th August GCSE results are available from school on Thursday 20th

August

Tuesday 1st September First Day of TermWednesday 2nd September First day for pupilsTuesday 6th October OPEN DAYFriday 9th October Sports Award CeremonyTuesday 20th October Sixth Form Information EveningMonday 26th OctoberFriday 30th OctoberTuesday 3rd November Year 13 Parents' EveningTuesday 10th November Year 7 Pastoral Evening14th - 17th December Senior ProductionFriday 18th December Last Day of TermMonday 21st DecemberFriday 1st JanuaryMonday 4th January First Day of TermTuesday 5th January First day for pupilsTuesday 26th January Year 11 Parents' EveningTuesday 2nd February Year 9 Parents' EveningTuesday 9th February Year 12 Parents' EveningMonday 15th FebruaryFriday 19th FebruaryTuesday 23rd February Year 11 Options EveningTuesday 1st March Year 10 Parents' EveningTuesday 8th March Year 8 TEAMX Parents' EveningTuesday 15th March Year 8 WORKL Parents' EveningThursday 24th March Last Day of TermFriday 25th MarchFriday 8th AprilTuesday 12th April Year 8 Options EveningTuesday 3rd May Year 7 TEAMX Parents' EveningTuesday 10th May Year 7 WORKL Parents' EveningMonday 31st MayFriday 3rd JuneTuesday 5th July New Year 7 Parents' EveningFriday 15th July Last day for pupils (provisional)

HALF TERM

If there are any changes to the above list you will be notified accordingly.

CALENDAR FOR 2015/16

HALF TERM

CHRISTMAS HOLIDAYS

HALF TERM

EASTER HOLIDAYS

Proposed Overnight Visits 2015‐ 2016 

This is a proposed list of overnight trips for the next academic year.  

There may be some changes to it but you will be notified accordingly. 

There will be many other day trips taking place during the next academic year and you will 

be notified accordingly via your child. 

If you wish for your child to attend a trip but feel that there are financial difficulties 

preventing your child from attending please do not hesitate to contact your child’s Year 

Tutor to discuss a payment option. 

Year Group  Department  Location  Date 

Year 7  Pastoral / Welsh  Llangrannog  16th – 18th Sept 2015 

Year 7  French  Boulogne, France  7th – 9th July 2016 

Year 8  History  London  10th – 11th Dec 2015 

Year 8  French / Welsh  Paris  3rd – 5th Mar 2016 

Years 8 / 9  Ski Trip  Austria  25th Mar – 2nd April 2016 

Years 8 / 9  History  France  25th – 27th May 2016 

Year 9  Geography  London Olympic sustainability 

1st week Feb 2016 

Year 9  Welsh  Glan Llyn  6th – 9th Nov 2015 

Year 9  PE  Storey Arms  Weekend ‐ May 

Year 9/10  Geography  Iceland  Half term Oct 2015 

Year 10/11  Geography  Sicily, Italy  22nd‐26th Oct 2015 

Year 10 to 13  Performing Arts  New York  15th – 18th Feb 

Years 10 to 13  Ski Trip  Austria  12th – 20th Feb 2016 

Year 10 to 13  Music  Italy  1 week  July 2016 

Years 10 to 13  Music  Italy  13th – 19th July 2016 

Year 12  Geography  Various, South Wales  End of Nov 2015 

Year 12/13  Geography  West Coast America  12th‐20th Feb 2017 

Year 12 / 13  Music Technology  Monmouth  2 nights, November 

  DT  France  22nd – 26th Oct 2015 

Year 11  Drama  London  19th ‐21st Nov 2015 

Years 9 to 13  Art  Amsterdam  12th – 15th Feb 2016 

Year 10  History  Berlin, Germany  23rd – 27th Mar 2016 

6th Form  History  London  17th – 19th March 2016 

6th Form  RE / Media  Rome, Italy  8th – 12th April 2016 

6th Form    Borneo  9th – 30th July 2016 

School Holiday Dates

2015/2016

Tuesday 1st September 2015 is an INSET Day. First day for students is Wednesday 2nd September 2015.

All schools will be closed on Monday 2nd May 2016 for the May Day Bank Holiday.

Additional INSET days are to be taken at the school’s discretion and will be communicated to parents via printed material.

Term Begin Half Term End

Begin End

Autumn 2015

Tuesday 1st Sept 2015

Monday 26thOct 2015

Friday 30thOct 2015

Friday 18th Dec 2015

Spring 2016

Monday 4th Jan 2016

Monday 15thFeb 2016

Friday 19thFeb 2016

Thursday 24th March 2016

Summer 2016

Monday 11th April 2016

Monday 30thMay 2016

Friday 3rd June 2016

Wednesday 20thJuly 2016 (TBC)

2016/2017

Thursday 1st September 2016 is an INSET Day (TBC). First day for students is Friday 2nd September 2016 (TBC).

Term Begin Half Term End

Begin End

Autumn 2016

Thursday 1st Sept 2016

Monday 24thOct 2016

Friday 28thOct 2016

Friday 16th Dec 2016

Spring 2017

Tuesday 3rd Jan 2017

Monday 20thFeb 2017

Friday 24thFeb 2017

Friday 7th April 2017

Summer 2017

Monday 24th April 2017

Monday 29thMay 2017

Friday 2nd June 2017

Friday 21st July 2017 (TBC)

All schools will be closed on Monday 1st May 2017 for the May Day Bank Holiday.

Additional INSET days are to be taken at the school’s discretion and will be

communicated to parents via printed material.

Please note that these dates have been directed by Welsh Government in

accordance with Regulations as All Wales agreement was not reached on

them.

Eco-Schools

“number of bio-diversity surveys”

Mrs J Laity

The Eco Stanwell committee has continued to work tirelessly on a number of environmental projects over the spring and summer terms. The effort and enthusiasm shown by committee members along with the support of pupils and staff, has resulted in the school gaining the third and last ‘Green Flag Award’. This award recog-nises the commitment the school community is making towards improving the environment both within school and the wider area. The next stage is to gain a Platinum award, an award very few secondary schools achieve.

THE GREEN FLAG Outlined below are some of the environmental actions the committee has addressed: 1. Fairtrade - the committee aims to promote

and support the Fairtrade movement and as part of this process, pupils from all year groups were offered a range of Fairtrade goods to help support farmers from poorer countries of the world. During ‘Fairtrade Fortnight 2015’ a stall supplying Fairtrade goods was created during break times with Fairtrade chocolate, bananas and hot choco-late proving to be very popular with both pupils and staff alike. The committee aims to achieve Fairtrade status for Stanwell School following a number of events organ-ised over the last two years. The committee wishes to thank all students, staff and par-ents for supporting Fairtrade activities dur-ing this time.

2. The wildlife garden - Plans to develop a large wildlife garden adjacent to the new all-weather pitch are still ongoing, with the com-mittee hoping that work will commence in this area during the new academic year. As part of this process pupils are required to complete a number of biodiversity surveys including one concentrating on the bird population within this area. With this in mind, a number of com-mittee members participated in the ‘Big Bird Watch Garden Survey’ organised by the RSPB during early spring. Pupils arrived at school early and, using a check list supplied by the RSPB, conducted a thorough survey of the ar-ea. This was a national event and the data col-lected by eco members contributed towards a much larger national survey. The results of the Eco Stanwell survey are outlined below:

The smaller wildlife garden located near the sixth form cafe has now become an established garden with a range of plants, herbs and fish, offering wildlife and members of the school community a safe and relaxing environment. This area extends behind the art block, where a section has been roped off and seeded with wild flowers supplied by Kew Gardens, the Royal Botanic Gardens Society based in Lon-don. This organisation is trying to encourage the development of wildlife areas around the UK by supplying a ‘Grow Wild’ pack for free.

BIRD WATCH SURVEY SPRING 2015 TYPE OF BIRD NUMBER

Magpie 3

Common Seagull 10

Song thrush 4

Wood pigeon 6

Greater Gull 4

Berwick swan 3

Jackdaw 1

Starlings 3

Blackbird 7

Welsh Senior Eco-Committee – Sharing,

Inspiring, Empowering!

Sponsored by Julie Morgan AM

On Monday 29th June 2015, four Eco Stan-well members were invited to participate in an annual Senior Eco Schools meeting held at the Welsh Assembly, Cardiff Bay. Pupils from many secondary schools in South Wales shared ideas and discussed a number of environmental issues on a national scale. The focus for the day was ‘If we look after Wales – Wales will look after us!’ Pupils were asked to discuss a number of items out-lined on the new Welsh Assembly ‘Environment Bill’. This is a proposed law coming in force in 2016 that will help man-age ways of tackling climate change in the future. A number of environmental issues are addressed within the bill including future en-ergy, minimising waste and sustainable transport. On the day pupils participated in a series of workshops and a very informative question time session with the Minister for Natural Resources, Carl Sargeant. Two or-ganisations supporting the workshops were Sustrans and Love Food Hate Waste, both of whom supplied useful and informative infor-mation for pupils to apply back in school.

Eco Stanwell committee aims to conserve the environment and as such have created a statement to promote this as outlined above.

Eco-Schools Mrs J Laity

“national competition organised by Keep Wales Tidy”

Young Reporters for the Environment In-ternational Winners.

Two Year 12 students have gained interna-tional recognition for an environmental re-port titled ‘Boiling the Planet Away’. As part of the Welsh Baccalaureate programme in the sixth form, students are asked to research and report upon an environmental issue of interest to them. Sarah Brabham and Alice Holder created a 1000 word repor t dis-cussing the environmental impacts of boiling a full kettle of water unnecessarily. This was then entered into a national competition or-ganised by Keep Wales Tidy, called the Young Reporters for the Environment. The girls were successful in gaining first position to become Welsh winners for the 15-18 writ-ten category. Subsequently, as national win-ners, the environmental report was resubmit-ted into an international round, where entries

from around 29 countries were judged by experienced journalists including Huw Ed-wards. The results were announced in May and both girls must be congratulated for gaining third place internationally, the only British students to do so.

Stanwell PTA

Dear Parents and friends of Stanwell School,

We are pleased to have the opportunity to tell you who we are, what we do and some of our achievements on behalf of the school.

The PTA committee is made up of Stanwell staff and parents and we meet to discuss infor-mally how we can best support the school and our children in school.

Our main role is to raise funds and be a link for the parents and friends of Stanwell to the school, but we also support the school by help-ing out at functions, such as plays, concerts, and parents' evenings.

The main way in which you can support the school through the PTA is by;

Becoming a part of the PTA and supporting the events we run and support. Our AGM will be on the 22nd September 2015 at 7pm in the 6th Form Café and we would encourage as many parents and friends to attend as pos-sible.

Become a member of our 100 Club. This is a monthly lottery where for £12 for the year, you are entered into a draw and can win up to £25. You can download forms from the website (see web address below).

Join us at our social events such as our Christmas Market (November 28th 2015 1-4pm) and the ever-popular Quiz Night (date in January 2015 to be announced).

The details of all the PTA’s activities and up-coming events for the next academic year, in-cluding a form to join the 100 club, can be found on the school website page under the heading ‘Information for parents’.

The web address is http://www.stanwell.org/school/pta/. You can also find us on Facebook (Stanwell School PTA) and on Twitter (@Stanwell_pta) where we will keep you updat-ed with regular news and events.

The money we raise for the school has allowed us to make substantial donations towards the school's exchanges, the Debating Society, library books, computer equipment, equipment for the Duke of Edinburgh Award Scheme, sports equip-ment, clothing and awards, musical instruments, stage lighting, dance studio mirrors and video editing equipment.

Our target in 2015-2016 is to raise £22,000 to buy a new minibus for the school for the safe transportation of the pupils. To date, we have al-ready raised and given to the school £7,000 for the new minibus

We would welcome your support, as a member of the PTA Committee, and/or helping out at PTA events. We meet each term and would like you to join us. Details are posted on the website nearer the time of the meetings.

“Our target in 2015-2016 is to raise £22,000 to buy a new minibus”

Duke of Edinburgh Award Scheme

The summer term is always a busy time with expeditions and this year has been no differ-ent. The Bronze and Gold groups have fol-lowed on from the very successful Silver ex-peditions.

The Silver assessed expedition took place in April in the Brecon Beacons area. This was the largest Silver group in one expedition with 102 pupils completing their journey over the three days. Pupils were generally well prepared with their packing and for the cold nights.

The bronze group was split again this year to accommodate the large numbers on expedi-tion. The first groups undertook their practice expedition from Kenfig Nature Reserve to Nash Point and their assessed expedition down the Gower in June with the following half of the group completing theirs in July.

The gold groups have just completed their assessed expedition up in Mid Wales and proved yet again their excellent teamwork and navigational skills.

Many thanks to Paul James who co-ordinates the Gold award. With 9 pupils attending St James Palace before Christmas to receive their Gold award from the Duke of Edinburgh him-self, let’s hope this year’s group numbers are as pleasing.

The expeditions are always very well support-ed by staff and parents, with the latter helping to ensure that participants arrive prepared and that expedition equipment is returned in a suit-able condition by the deadline date. Staff help to deliver the training throughout the school year, drive minibuses for expeditions or help with the equipment handling. Without this in-valuable support the scheme would never be successful. A big thank you as always to the contributions throughout the year and please can participants remember to upload their as-sessors reports for all their eDofE sections to get the final completion for their award. Well done to all participants that have already re-ceived their certificate of completion. We look forward to another year of high num-bers of uptake and completion of the Award at Bronze, Silver and Gold level.

“9 pupils attending St James Palace”

Miss H Jenkins

Arlunio

“tonal drawings of plants were used as inspiration for colourful, stylised paintings”

Miss R Lewis

Department News

Year 4 pupils from Albert School

Primary School Workshop Pupils from a number of local primary schools visited the Art Department in June as a part of Year 5 Enterprise Day. They produced a num-ber of fantastic mirror designs that drew inspi-ration from friends or members of their fami-ly. The finished products will be available to buy during New Year 7 parents evening on 7th July, with all of the proceeds going to charity.

Year 5 Enterprise Day

Award Ceremony: Art & Design Award winners 2015

The Art Department were delighted to award the KS3 award to Lily Ireland (8R), KS4 award to Charlotte Hardy (11T) and the Sixth Form Award to Duncan Keeling (Y13). All the winners demonstrated a superb level of dedication and commitment to their studies resulting in outstanding pieces for their projects and final exam. Well done to you all!

Art Visit to Madrid and Toledo: February 2015

Pupils from Years 7-13 took part in a won-derful visit to the historic cities of Madrid and Toledo. Time was spent viewing the varied art works in the Prado, Thyssen-Bornemisza and the Reina Sofia Museums.

Right: beautiful coursework studies by Charlotte Hardy (11T), based on ar-chitectural photos of Amsterdam.

We were delighted to welcome 49 Year 4 pu-pils from Albert School on 1st July to take part in a creative workshop in the department. Mrs Penny and Miss Lewis introduced the theme of Art Around the World. Bold tonal drawings of plants were used as inspiration for colourful, stylised paintings.

Mobile sculp-ture by Dun-can Keeling (Y13), final piece for A2 Fine Art based on the theme of disruptive weather sys-tems.

Astudiaethau Busnes Land Rover factory tour

Pupils from Year 10 and Year 12 were given the opportunity to attend a trip to the Land Rover factory in Solihull in April. During the trip pupils were given a safety presentation followed by a video that detailed the history and product range of Land Rover. In small groups, pupils also received a guided tour of the factory outlining several stages of the production process enabling pupils to get a sound understanding of how computer-aided design has improved the efficiency of the pro-duction line. Detailed explanations of Just-in Time, Right-First-Time and Lean Working practices were covered.

Pupils examined Land Rover’s marketing strat-egies and Total Quality Management tech-niques during a lecture packed with insider knowledge.

Activities that were observed on the factory floor were then reinforced as pupils had to produce models by setting up their own assembly line.

Some pupils had a natural flair for programming a robotic arm to perform tasks seen as part of computer-aided manufacture in the factory.

Throughout the trip pupils developed their teamwork, communication and problem solving skills.

London trip In the summer term, a group of Year 9 pupils joined with the Economics department on an overnight trip to London to visit the Bank of England, Metal Exchange, London Dungeons and the Emirates Stadium.

“Some pupils had a natural flair for programming”

Mrs J Macnamara

Drama

“Well done to all those who participated in the spectacular 2015 production!”

The Lion King—Junior Musical

Well done to all those who participated in the spectacular 2015 production! The junior cast and African Chorus members dedicated a great deal of time, effort and enthusiasm to making the show a great success with audi-ences. Well done to each and every cast, crew, and orchestra member for your effort, creativ-ity and commitment. Thank you also to all of the staff who made such an invaluable contri-bution to the production.

School Awards

Congratulations to Nia Hopkins (KS3), James Price (KS4), and Chloe Lewis (KS5) for achieving the Drama cups in this year’s Award Ceremony. It has been a busy and successful year for the Drama department. Pupils in Years 11,12,13 have taken their external examinations, and we wish them every success in the summer! We wish the best to the Year 13 Drama pu-pils who are sadly leaving this term.

Mrs S McGowan

London Theatre Trip The Drama department has organised a visit to London’s West End in November 2015 for GCSE Drama pupils. This will give pupils the opportunity to watch two exciting pieces of live theatre (Miss Saigon and The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time). The trip includes an overnight stay in a central London hotel. The pupils and staff are very much looking forward to the pro-spect.

Year 7 Drama Club

Drama club members have been busy learn-ing their lines and rehearsing for this Sep-tember’s performance of Macbeth. Pupils have been working on the play for several months, and will perform to an audience in the Autumn term. Well done to all members of the club for their fantastic commitment and hard work! It has been a pleasure to see your performance skills and confidence de-velop.

Evita 2015 We are pleased to announce Andrew Lloyd Webber’s musical Evita as the upcoming senior production for 2015. Auditions will be held for Years 10-13 this Autumn, so keep an eye on the plasma screens for fur-ther details.

A big thank you to George Lush, Anna Bosley and Nancy Blenkinsop for their help with costumes and masks and

also thanks to Mr Watkins’ Year 9 graphics class who helped with the painting of many of the props used.

All those who helped thoroughly enjoyed the experience and were impressed by the show.

Marie Curie: Cake Bake.

This term the Yr8 food group decided to raise money for the Marie Curie charity and partici-pated in the Cake Bake. Students from all years

KS3

Junior Production: LION KING.

This year, staff and students from the D&T de-

partment enjoyed working with other de-partments in the school in the production of Lion King Jr. The challenges for this show

were daunting, with staff and students having to manufacture a range of puppets and costumes for the show. From the making of

grassland and lioness headdresses, the Zazo handpuppet and full body costume for Pumba the ever talented warthog!

Dylunio a Thechnoleg

“Manufacture a range of puppets and costumes for the show”

Mr N Gifford

Design Technology Mr N Gifford

“innovative use of equipment and materials”

were able to buy cakes and buns made by Year 8 during their break time. A total of £142.13 was raised for the charity.

sublimation printing demonstrated by Kate Wilkins in the design of her evening gown. Peter Tuthill’s design for a camping aid dis-played an attention to detail that was not only impressive but resulted in a prototype that was used during a recent DoE Gold expedition. It worked well as he was able to eat a warm meal

that evening! Fi-nally, Martin Doyle left a posi-tive impression on the moderator with his take on a coffee table, a wine table! His innovative use of equipment and materials has meant that his pro-ject has bee long listed by the WJEC for entry into the innovations award

in October. Good luck Martin!

KS4 &5

This year’s coursework submission in all the Design & Technology project areas proved to be yet another creative example of the abilities of the pupils studying this subject.

At GCSE level, students studying Textiles and RMT were singled out for praise by the visiting moderator who felt that their crea-tivity was impressive.

Following the inspection, the AS and A2 students assembled a display for the visit-ing WJEC moderator.

He praised the range and variety of work on display and the skill lev-

el of the students in-volved. He was im-pressed by the use of ‘Free sewing’ displayed in Amanda Dave’s black dress and he also commented favourably on the use of

Economeg a Gwleidyddiaeth

Government and Politics Government and Politics students have been extending their understanding of the demo-cratic processes in the UK and the USA. Year 13 students have taken a keen interest in US Government this year—including analysing the evolution of the US constitution and eval-uating the effectiveness of the US Congress, the Supreme Court and the Presidency. For example, they investigated the impact of the Supreme Court on US political culture. Key questions included whether the Court is too political (in terms of the impact of its rul-ings) and whether it plays a significant role in the protection of civil liberties. They also con-sidered which of the Executive or the Legisla-tive branches are the most influential and as-sessing whether the term ‘Imperial Presiden-cy’ is actually an over-statement. They also held a debate to focus on the effectiveness of the US Constitution. Year 12 students have been busy studying key aspects of UK Politics. For example, they have investigated the role of leadership in po-litical parties to ascertain whether the leader-ship or the mass membership dominates. They have recently investigated the impact and ef-fectiveness of the Welsh Assembly. In addition, Year 12 and 13 Politics students enjoyed the experience of a lecture held by Charles Clarke (ex Home secretary) at USW. This event gave students the opportunity to further their understanding of elections, gov-ernmental business and offered a fascinating insight. In addition, we all watched the 2015 election and the leadership debates with great enthusiasm and interest. Keen readers are welcome to follow us via Twitter on Politics2XL.

“congratulations to Stanwell’s Monetary Policy Committee”

Economics Congratulations to Stanwell’s Monetary poli-cy Committee! Having won the Welsh heat of

the Bank of Eng-land 2.0 Challenge they were awarded second place in the Area Finals, beating seasoned competi-tors such as Mill-field School. The

pupils made a presentation to members of the Bank of England recommending the level to set the base rate. Following their presentation they faced rigorous questioning from the judging panel. Pictured left to right are Jamie Hitchen, Megan Doran, Zola Hargreaves, Carys Warner and Jay Kapuria.

July saw GCSE students have the opportunity to take part in a two day visit to London, the commercial capital of the world. This was an excellent opportunity for pupils to gain a fur-ther understanding of the economy and the impact on business. Activities included; visits to the Bank of England, The London Metal Exchange, the Science Museum and Arsenal’s Emirates Stadium. Pupils were entertained with dinner in Covent Garden and a visit to the London Dungeons. To keep up to date on all things to do with Economics please follow us on ECON_2XL.

Mr J Crook/Mr G Penny

Team B (Stuart Keeling, Bryce Maher, Peter Tuthill and Christopher Lewis) worked with RWEnPower and researched and designed a method of reducing sulphur dioxide emissions.

Cardiff University & WWU

Year 13 were once again given the opportunity to use the testing facilities at Cardiff Universities Engineering Department to aid them with their ‘Applied Engineering Systems’ unit. The students were able to carry out a number of tensile tests on sam-ples of steel with var-ying carbon contents, and then analyse the results. To be able to complete their ‘Engineering Envi-ronment’ unit, the students also spent the day at Wales & West Utilities in Treforest. They were given a tour of the facility and specifically access to and explanation of the control systems that govern the gas pressure in the net-work of pipeline around the country. From this they were able to gain an under-standing of the complexities involved in predict-ing the amount of gas required in different parts of Wales at different times of the day and year.

Go4Set A Year 9 team consisting of Leah Edwards, Joya Sims, Yaseen Ghandour, Zacchary Filliau, Connor Hamilton, Ellie Adams and Libero Tassinari worked with ARUP for 3 months. They were set the task of designing a zero-carbon classroom for a school of the fu-ture. Throughout the scheme they had to pro-duce designs and develop one into a scale mod-el which was presented at the award event in February. The team had a fantastic experience working with the engineer from Arup.

Engineering in Education Scheme

April 2015 saw the conclusion to the 25th En-gineering in Education Scheme (Wales). Two teams of Year 12 students have worked ex-tremely hard over the six month scheme with great success. Team A (Jack Jones, Josh Lewis, Wil Mere-dith, Ed Fudge, Simon Barber, Ryan Gilli-gan, Morgan Jones and Zac Dyer) worked with Lion Laboratories and produced a fully coded test station to test the main PCB from the Lion DS-10 Interlock system. The compa-ny are hoping to install the test station on to their production line in the coming months.

Peirianneg

“work in the engineering and construction industry”

Mr K Pepper

Engineering Mr K Pepper

“Engineering in Education Scheme”

Engineering Club Our new Engineering club is coming to the end of its first year and it has gone from strength to strength.

Pupils across all year groups have enjoyed the various activities that have taken place in the club, ranging from guest speakers to

computer aided design to design and build activities using meccano. Shown above are members of the Engineer-ing Club with representatives of Laing O’Rourke who donated a number of meccano sets to the group.

Talent 2030 Congratulations to the six pupils who en-tered the Talent 2030 competition this year. Charlotte Welsh (Y7), Maria Gallone (Y7), Raya Dean (Y7), Harriet Marshall (Y8), Meredith Holland (Y8) and Famke Ash-more (Y8) all worked collaboratively to come up with solutions to modern day engi-neering issues of their choice. We look for-ward to entering pupils into the scheme again next year.

Saesneg Penfriends in Nagasaki, Japan

Mrs Sheldon's Year 8 class have received an-other parcel of penfriend letters from Futsu-Cho Junior High School in Nagasaki, Ja-pan. The Japanese students have sent person-alised letters to Stanwell students, telling us about school life in Japan and sending small gifts of origami and stickers. Year 8 pupils were busy writing friendship poems to send back to our Japanese friends before the Sum-mer holidays.

Book in a Day On Wednesday 3rd June, Stanwell hosted a writing workshop organised by Steve Chap-man and the Central South Consortium. The objective was for pupils to write a book in a day. Year 8 pupils worked with primary school pupils from across the Consortium. Pupils worked hard to create different chap-ters of the book and Year 8 pupils did an out-standing job helping to edit the work that was produced. It was a very successful day and the writing was of an excellent standard. “Everyone learned something new about writ-ing or about making books,” Ffion McCul-loch.

English Revision Club Year 10 students showed real dedication in the run up to their English Literature examina-tion

by attending after school revision club. Pupils really got stuck in to our ‘circuit training’ on ‘Of Mice and Men’! Everyone worked very hard and had a positive attitude, which helped create a lovely learning environment. Pupils worked on whole-class activities, carried out group discussions and were enthusiastic about the ‘quick-fire’ revision tasks. We wish them the very best for results day and well done for working so hard.

Creative Writing Club

The Creative Writing Club has had an excel-lent year. We’ve entered several competitions, including BBC Radio 2’s 500 Words and the Young Writers’ ghost story competition. We have spent the majority of the year working on creating an alternative mythology for the crea-tion of the world. The idea is that every reality, every mythology, is actually a computer simu-lation, connected on a network. The basis for the club’s mythology is when the network crashes due to a virus and all the realities be-come aware of the face they are programmes. Currently, they are writing the war between the Megabytes and the Gigabytes and having a lot of fun doing it.

The Writers’ Squad. We participated in the Penarth Writers’ Squad again this year and had three Year 7 pupils, Bethan Chalk, Jamie Collinson and Jac Tucker attended. They were involved in three workshops with published authors who gave them great advice and feedback on their writing. It was a hugely enjoyable experience for the pupils.

“Everyone learned something new about writing or about making books.”

Mrs M Williams

Daearyddiaeth

“Geography is important because it is relevant to all that we do and opens our eyes to the world we live in.”

It has been a very busy term in the Geography department. Year 7 pupils have been learning about Rivers and Water Aid. The pupils have found out for themselves the difficulties encountered by people from around the world who suffer from water scarcity. Our particular focus was on a rural village in Zimbabwe, where the pupils had to problem solve a situation where they had to get water from a river 7km away from their village.

Year 8 pupils have been studying Tropical Rainforests and enjoyed a visit to the education centre in Bristol Zoo, where they were able to get a little too close to some of the animals that live in this hot and humid climate! As

you can see from the photos below, some of the pupils got to hold the hissing cockroaches from Madagascar.

Year 9 students have made excellent progress at the start of their GCSE studies . In February, some Year 9 pupils went to London for two days. The aim was to gain valuable fieldwork skills in preparation for controlled assessment assignments all Geography pupils are expected to complete as part of the GCSE course. The first day involved a ride in the ‘Emirates Cable Car’ to gain an aerial view of the O2 Arena and other redeveloped areas along the River Thames. Visits to the ‘Sustainable Cities’ exhibition and the Natural History Museum followed. The second day involved a visit to the redeveloped Stratford area of London where the Olympic Park now shows evidence of the legacy of the 2012 London Olympics and a study of why these games were described as the ‘greenest Olympics ever’!

Mrs H Jarman

Geography

“Geography is found in everything we do and everywhere we go.”

In March, a number of Year 12 geography students visited Cardiff Bay and Cardiff City centre to complete a human fieldwork investigation into the impact of regeneration schemes on the inhabitants of Butetown and Cardiff City centre. The day was sunny and windy and the students learned and applied a variety of fieldwork techniques that they used in their AS geography exams in May.

In June, 135 Year 10 pupils also visited the Cardiff Bay and the Butetown area to explore for themselves the economic, social and environmental impacts of regeneration on the original inhabitants of the areas. The results from the day will go towards a project which is 10% of their final GCSE grade.

For a large part of the year, Geography club members have carried out research and used their vast knowledge of literature to identify fictional books that contained maps, to create a literacy display. Pupils researched the books to locate the maps, which were then extracted and used in the display and connected with the birth place of the author. The result is now displayed in the Geography department and looks very impressive.

On June 30th, three pupils from Year 8 and three from Year 9 attended the Geographical Association Welsh Wize Quiz in Cardiff University. Both teams made an excellent effort and represented the school brilliantly. The Year 8 team were on top form and came joint first, and therefore are South Wales champions. A massive well done to both teams.

Mrs H Jarman

Hanes It has been another very eventful and enjoya-ble term in the History Department. Throughout the year, Year 7 pupils have been studying Medieval Life and the challenges facing people at this time. They have been studying many diverse and interesting topics, ranging from the Black Death to medieval medicine. Their effort and enthusiasm in class has been outstanding and they should be con-gratulated on an excellent year’s work. Year 8 have been thoroughly interested in studying World War One throughout the sum-mer term. Topics studied have included the assassination of Franz Ferdinand and the many reasons why the men of Great Britain joined up in their millions. The enthusiasm for History has been a delight to see and their work in class has been most impressive. Year 9 pupils have been studying the rise and the fall of the American economy as part of their USA 1910-1929 course. Topics covered include the causes of the economic boom and the Wall Street Crash. They have worked su-perbly all year and will no doubt carry this through into Year 10.

In preparation for their controlled assessment in Year 10, forty-one Year 8 and 9 pupils vis-ited the battlefields of the Great War. Sites visited included Ypres, where the pupils demonstrated great maturity whilst witnessing

emotional and touching ceremony of the Last Post at the Menin Gate. They also visited Mametz Wood, the scene of tragic heroism by men of the 38th Welsh Division. The behav-iour of Stanwell pupils was exemplary and they were a credit to themselves and the school. Once again, the thriving annual History De-partment visit to Berlin was a huge success. It is now in its sixteenth year and is more popular than ever. Eighty-five Year 10 pupils travelled to Berlin over the Easter holidays to visit sev-eral sites of historical interest with particular

emphasis on Nazi Germany and the Cold War. Sites visited included Sachsenhausen Concen-tration Camp, the Olympic Stadium, Check-point Charlie, the Brandenberg Gate and the Reichstag building. On a lighter note, pupils watched, listened and danced to tribute acts such as Elvis, Freddie Mercury and Tina Turner and enjoyed a lively meal in the Hard Rock Café! Year 13 pupils Rebecca Nation, Isaac Ridgly, Maddy Rufo and Emma Thorne had the privilege of being selected to participate in the Auschwitz Initiative this year. They met with a Holocaust survivor before visiting Auschwitz in February. All of the pupils remarked that it is an experience that will never leave them.

“The enthusiasm for History has been a delight to see”

Mr G Morgan

Technoleg Gwybodaeth

course have been learning about the basics of computer programming, creating conditional and interactive programs using Python. Python is an open sources programming language and works very well with PyScripter an integrated development environment, both of which are free to download onto your home computer, so coding can continue at home! Pupils in Year 10 ICT pupils are currently producing graphics work relating to a new ride in an existing Theme Park. This work will be submitted to the exam board this November. Year 11 pupils studying ICT have created some fantastic Heroes and Villains project, most notably Seren Marsh, Megan Jones, Amy McAndrew, Ffion Phillips to name a few. I wish all our Year 11 GCSE students all the best for this summer’s results in both core and option ICT and Computer Science.

Sixth Form There was some excellent A2 pupils’ work for their Multimedia and Graphics Unit this summer, notably William Creaven, Rhys Evans and Madelyn Rufo. William Creaven also won the GTi Information Technology Award in the recent annual Awards Ceremony. The programming work produced at AS and A2 by computing students was also first class, of particular note was Wei Haw Ong in Year 13 and in Year 12 Jack Jones and Jack Bosley produced excellent projects. Jack Bosley also won the AP Bartlett Cup (Computing) in this summer’s Awards Ceremony. I wish all our AS and A2 students all the best for this summer’s results.

Mr P Davies

Primary Liaison We’ve had a number of successful transition visits this year in IT from both Year 5 and 6 pupils. Year 6 created interesting videos to raise awareness and teach younger pupils the importance of e-safety. Some pupils also made cool animations using Flash as well! Year 5 pupils showed their creativity during the enterprise day by designing a ‘World’s best teacher’ mirror. We look forward to meeting you all again in September.

Key Stage 3

At Key Stage 3, pupils learned about e-safety, spreadsheet, database and presentation skills. Additionally they were introduced to coding through Scratch, a programming language and online community where you can create your own interactive stories, games and animations. Next year we will be looking for a small group of volunteers from KS3 to become Digital Leaders. More information about how to get involved will be available in the coming year.

Key Stage 4 Pupils in Year 10 Computing studying the

“Multimedia and Graphics Unit”

Code Club A group of mostly year 7 pupils attended code club on Wednesday eve-nings along with a few Year 8s, 9s and 10s. They learned how to set up and use the raspberry pi to code using Scratch and then they were introduced to Python.

Mr A Meddins

Mathemateg It has been a successful year in the Mathe-matics department. Following on from the GCSE exams sat in November by Year 11, the results in January were fantastic! 87% of the pupils who sat the exams achieved a C grade or higher which represents the best re-sults in Maths ever! All the pupils and staff are to be praised for the effort put in—the year group really bought in to the revision process and the opportunities presented to them showing that real hard work and determination can be rewarded! Years 12 and 13 have also taken their AS and A Level examinations respectively. We say goodbye and good luck to our Year 13 stu-dents and look forward to welcoming back some Year 11 pupils for AS Maths and Fur-ther Maths in September. Year 10 pupils have nearly finished the GCSE Maths course. It is now their time in the spotlight where, following the summer break, they will be concentrating on revision techniques and practising past papers in prep-aration for their GCSE exams in Novem-ber—it is hoped that they will adopt the same positive attitude as the current Year 11s so that they can be just as successful! A weekly homework club will run from September on a Monday evening and will be open to all Year 11 pupils. In February, the top sets from Years 9, 10 & 11 took part in the National UKMT Maths challenge at Intermediate level. Congratula-tions to the following pupils who all achieved gold certificates in their respective challenges: Year 9 – Felicity Allen, Oliver Marsh and Katie Jackson Year 10 – Daniel Anderton, Dylan Hughes, Gwyn Donlan and Owain Thomas Year 11 – Jess Martin, Jonathan Wright,

Seren Marsh, Tim Burns, Calum Wincott and Joe Short In April, the top sets from Years 7 and 8 also took part in the National UKMT Maths chal-lenge at Junior level. Again, congratulations to the following pupils who all achieved silver or gold certificates: Year 7 – Matthew Pringle and Lucas Groves (both silver) Year 8 – Max Baker (best in year), Billy McCullagh and Rory Skinner (all gold)

Year 8 pupils proudly showing their certificates

Well done to all 357 pupils who took part in the UKMT Maths challenges, in particular those that achieved gold, silver or bronze cer-tificates. In May, Years 7, 8 and 9 sat their Welsh Gov-ernment National tests. Pupils worked hard in the run up to these and fingers are crossed for a successful outcome. Key Stage 3 Maths Homework Club continued this year with games, numeracy activities, help with homework and revision tips. Finally, and once again, a big thank you to the Year 12 and 13 pupils who completed their community service with the Maths department. Whether it’s helping in Key Stage 3 or Key Stage 4 Homework Clubs or assisting within Maths lessons, their time and efforts are great-ly appreciated.

“concentrating on revision techniques and practising past papers”

Media & Film

Once again, it is most satisfying to look back on a productive year in the department. So many things have happened and so much has been achieved. Year 9 & 10 students have started to become confident media analysts, with two examina-tions under their belts and some very promis-ing pieces of early coursework – especially the Year 10 Science Fiction Controlled Assess-ment. Year 11 students applied themselves through-out the year to the task of becoming thoroughly prepared for their GCSE examination. This involved the production of a coursework folder reflecting their very best work and sitting a written examination in June. Outstanding con-trolled assessment folders were produced by Hugo Dodd, Ellen O’Rourke, Lily Winnan, Megan Jones and Emily Geen. This year ’s paper focused on TV & Print-based Advertis-ing. This topic stimulated great interest and enthusiasm on the part of pupils. Year 12 students seem to have relished their first year of A Level study and have just fin-ished the first two of their four modules. The first module was a series of coursework pieces that tested their creative and analytical skills to the limit; the second was a tough external exam that focused this year on magazines for people from different ethnic backgrounds. Students of note for coursework excellence include Joe Andrews, Lauren Faulkner, Michael Regan and Ioan Morgan-Jones. This year was char -acterised by some superb short films. Year 13 students have concluded their two year programme of study and we wish them all the very best for their exam results and future choices. We have seen some accomplished coursework pieces from this cohort, particular-ly from Sinead McCausland, Grace Rees-Williams, Emily Raby, Lydia James and Be-

than Gillum. Extra-curricular

The department has also been extremely busy with extra-curricular activities this year. This has includ-ed the design and production of the promotional ma-terial for ‘Aida’ and ‘The Lion King Jnr’.

The department also designed and produced the pro-gramme for the Stanwell School Awards Ceremony. At the ceremony, the Media Studies Awards for GCSE and A Level were won this year by Hugo Dodd (Year 11) and Bethan Gillum (Year 13). Hugo has worked enthusiastically and consistent-ly, producing an outstanding coursework folder, whilst Bethan received this year’s A Level Media Prize for her consistently high standards of attain-ment.

Film Studies 2014/2015 has been another encouraging year for Film Studies. The standard of filmmaking has im-proved once again with impressive productions in Years 12 and 13. Lauren Faulkner, Ethan Nicholas, Ioan Morgan-Jones, Joe Andrews, Morgan Da-vies and Curtis-Lee McDonnell all produced su-perb work. There have also been excellent creative screenplays and digital storyboards submitted for assessment. The third annual Film Studies prize went to Calum Page-Beighton for his filmmaking, commitment in class and his overall enthusiasm throughout the year.

BTEC Creative Media Production

The department’s third qualification also went from strength to strength this year with a number of students in Year 13 attaining a Distinction with Stephanie

“designed and produced the programme for the Stanwell School Awards Ceremony”

Mr I O’Rourke

Ieithoedd Modern Easter was celebrated in style this year with the “Grosse Ostereierjagd” (Easter egg hunt). Pupils had to use their detective skills to locate 20 eggs hidden around the school. Each was decorated in two colours with the name of a German town. The main winner was Phoebe Scott-Quinlan (8X). There were runner-up prizes for Rebekah Coles (10M), Rowan Deininger-Smith (9O), Luisa Diment (8X), Harry Newman (10L) ,Lucy Richards (11M), Olivia Tyso (8X) and Natasha Walker (8L).

There were also consolation prizes for the following pupils: Yola Bailey (8X), Ruby Bollington (10R), Rob Brown (10W), Lucia Cavaliere (10M), Jade Griffiths

(8M), Carmela Hermogeno (10K), Lucy Jones (8E), Sam Kneale (8X), Megan Lee (8E), Ffion McCulloch (8M), Rhiannon Pearce (11X), Alex Ruge-Hayes (10A), Lauren Ruge-Hayes (8O), Amina Safdar (10T) and Alicia Wells (8K). The annual visit to France was again a great success with both staff and 108 members of Year 8 thoroughly enjoying their cultural experience. Pupils had the opportunity to see a number of famous Parisian landmarks as well as spending a day in Disneyland where a special St. Da-vid’s Day celebration was taking place!

A big thank you to Miss Cross and Mrs Symonds for organising this.

“The annual visit to France was again a great success”

Mrs T Davis

MFL The French department enjoyed a visit to the seaside town of Boulogne in July. 43 pupils from Year 7 spent two days prac-tising their French and sampling the de-lights of French culture and cuisine.

The pupils visited Nausicaa, Boulogne’s aquarium where they got to see some very interesting specimens of sea life.

They also had the chance to barter for trin-kets at the morning market in Wimereux.

At the end of this academic year we bid farewell to a number of people who are important to us in the MFL department.

At the end of May we said goodbye to our French assistant Marion Averty and our Austrian assistant Melanie Egger. They both did a fantastic job helping prepare our A level students for the oral exams.

Mrs McMahon has been with us since Christmas and has done a great job. We wish her luck as she moves to Caerleon School in Sep-tember.

Finally we are very sad to announce the retire-ment of Mrs Symonds who has been working in Stanwell for 23 years. She has been a won-derful teacher and has contributed so much to the department. She has organised numerous trips to Paris as well as travelling annually to Boulogne. She has been to Berlin with the History department, has been on the German exchange many times as well as walking many miles on D of E expeditions. She will be greatly missed by us all.

“The French department enjoyed a visit to the seaside town of Boulogne in July”

Mrs T Davis

One of the highlights was most definitely making and, bien sûr, eating our own crêpes in a traditional restaurant. C’était super!

Cerddoriaeth

The spring and summer terms have, as is cus-tomary, been very busy in the music depart-ment with a great deal happening both in and out of the classroom.

GCSE and A Level Music and Performing Arts students have been working diligently to prepare for assessed performances, controlled assessments, written examinations and the submission of composition portfolios. Practi-cal work from students at all levels has been highly praised by visiting examiners.

The amount of extra hours put in by students in devotion to their studies has been stagger-ing and we are hoping for some fabulous re-sults in August.

Junior Production - Lion King Jnr

The end of term would not be the same with-out the traditional Junior Musical! This year, students in Year 8 and 9 were given the chance to tread the boards in a spectacular sell-out production of ‘Lion King Jnr’.

As usual, the production was a massive team effort with staff from all departments coming together to support a cast, crew and orchestra of 300 pupils to produce a truly spectacular run of final performances. A special mention must go to the talented staff of the DT and Maintenance departments who created truly stunning masks and remarkable props (including a life size elephant!) .

The casting process began in March with Mu-sical Director Miss Ghazi-Torbati and Direc-tor Mr Sullivan having the difficult decision

of allocating the many roles. After extensive deliberations Kaitlin Daly (Year 9) and Harri-son Shaw were cast as younger Nala and Simba and younger Simba, with Emily McConnon (Year 9) and George Jones

(Year 9) being cast as older Nala and Simba, Ophelia Scott (Year 8) was cast as Rafiki.

The orchestra was made up of pupils in Year 7-10 who tack-led the challenging score which includes famous numbers

such as Circle of Life and Can you feel the love tonight.

Despite being a ‘Junior’ version of the sell out West End production, the demands of the show are no less taxing and, as usual, pupils rose to the challenge of this ambitious project with spectacular results and several standing ova-tions! There were so many stand out perfor-mances (far too many to name individually!),

“...as usual, pupils rose to the challenge of this ambitious project with spectacular results.”

Miss K Lomas

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huge well done to all performers, musicians and crew involved!

The cast in rehearsal

“The talent you are nurturing at Stanwell is quite staggering!”

Miss K Lomas

Young Nala (Kaitlin Daly), Zazu (Tom Grif-fiths) and Young Simba (Harrison Shaw)

Pride Rock - complete with flamingos, ga-zelles, birds, giraffes, a cheetah and an ele-

phant!

The whole cast on stage for the finale, con-gratulations to all!

Spring Concert 2015

The Spring Concert took place in the school auditorium on Wednesday 18th March. The concert featured performances by all of the department’s instrumental and vocal ensem-bles, namely Senior Jazz, Brass Band, String Group, Junior Orchestra, Junior Girls’ Choir, Junior Boys’ Choir and Senior Choir.

The performance culminated in the traditional medley of songs performed by all students in Year 7, this year the songs of Queen were used to close what was an absolutely spectacu-lar concert. We received many letters, tweets and emails with excellent feedback, some highlights are:

“I'd also like to thank and congratulate you for putting on such an uplifting evening's en-tertainment at the Spring Concert this week; the talent you are nurturing at Stanwell is quite staggering.”

“What a super performance, Spring has be-gun!”

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Brass Band

Junior Boys’ Choir with added beat-boxing!

Marie Curie Hospice Visit

On Thursday 16th April, musicians from Years 10-13 visited the Day Therapy Centre

of Marie Curie Hospice in Penarth. The stu-dents gave a short concert performing instru-mental and vocal numbers such as Some En-chanted Evening, Someone to Watch Over Me and I Wish I May. We would like to thank the patients and staff for such a warm welcome, it was such a worthwhile event.

Performing Arts Showcase

A Showcase Concert for GCSE Performing Arts students took place on Wednesday 20th

“The event was completely organised and run by students.”

Miss K Lomas

April. The event was completely organised and run by students; from tickets and programmes, to stage management, light and sound! It also provided an opportunity for Year 11 students to practise their devised pieces in readiness for their practical examination.

The event also featured song and dance num-bers from the Year 9 and 10 Performing Arts groups and a performance of songs from Les Miserables and Chicago by the newly formed Show Choir. The event was hugely successful, many thanks and congratulations to all students

who were involved!

MAT Orchestra Course

On 18th June the Music department welcomed 40 young musicians from our partner Primary schools to Stanwell to take part in an all day orchestra course in which they performed 3 challenging classical works, including an ex-tract from Beethoven’s 5th Symphony! The day

culminated in a short concert to showcase their achieve-ments which was met with rapturous ap-

plause by the invited audience. Well done to all students who took part in the event.

The entire orchestra!

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Goodbye & Good Luck Year 13!

It is with great sadness that we bid our out-going Year 13 cohort (some of whom are pic-tured above) a fond farewell. They have all made stellar contributions to musical life at the school through their involvement in pro-ductions, ensembles, concerts and music tours, and have been an absolute delight to teach.

Many of the students leave us to follow spe-cialist degree courses in the arts at some of the most prestigious universities and conserva-toires in the UK. We are sure you all have fantastic futures ahead - please keep in touch!

Rotary Concert

Stanwell had the pleasure of hosting the annu-al concert held by the Rotary Club of Penarth on May 21st.

The Brass Band performed three items: a traditional march Slaidburn, followed by Lament featuring Year 13 instrumentalist Peter McDonough finishing of with Take That’s Rule the World. Over £700 was raised for the nominated charity ‘Supporting Young Carers’.

“Many of the students leave us to follow specialist degree courses in the arts at some of the most prestigious universities and conservatoires in the UK.”

Miss K Lomas

Award Ceremony

Many students have represented the music department through their performances at award ceremonies throughout the year.

Rhodri Jones (Year 13) and Rebecca Thompson (Year 13) per formed instru-mental and vocal items in the A Level cer-tificate presentation ceremony at the start of the spring term. The returning students pre-sent at the ceremony were impressed and touched by the quality of their performanc-es.

In the main school awards ceremony that took place on Wednesday 26th June, flautist and recipient of the Ann Johnson memorial cup Huw Boucher (Year 7) performed a superb rendition of Kern’s Smoke Gets in Your Eyes while vocalist and recipient of the Sixth Form Music award Alasdair Cavaye (Year 13) per formed a moving interpretation of Some Enchanted Evening. Both items were extremely well received by the audience in the packed auditorium.

Deciding the recipients of the music awards is always a challenge for staff due to the great number of talented musicians at the school who show a great deal of commit-ment to the arts, both in and out of school.

Rebecca Thompson

Year 13

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This year, the winners of the Key Stage 3 Young Musician Award were Thomas Martin and Emma Monaghan. The Hilary Midlane Young Singer Award was presented to Niamh Banniser while Peter McDonough received the Sixth Form Instrumentalist cup. The two recipients of The Glenda Palmer Award for Extra-Curricular Performing Arts were Amy Guppy and Sam Jennings. Warm thanks and congratulations to all students involved!

Huw Boucher (Year 7) performs Smoke Gets in your Eyes

Eisteddfod 2015

The Music department thoroughly enjoys sup-porting the Welsh department through con-tributing to the annual Eisteddfod.

Over 60 competitors entered the various mu-sic competitions which featured a diverse range of performances; from songs from the shows to classical to pop.

The event provided a great platform for stu-dents to showcase their individual musical talents and the standard was so high, we are sure the task of singling out a winner must have been very difficult indeed!

“...we are sure the task of singling our a winner must’ve been very difficult in-deed!”

Miss K Lomas

Special thanks must also go to the House Captains who assisted with auditions, judg-ing and the smooth running of the day. Da iawn pawb!

Year 7 Eisteddfod competitors ready to per-form!

Emma Monaghan (Year 8)

Rock Academy Wales

Rock Academy Wales, who de-liver a superb and inspiring programme at Stanwell, will again be offering

a summer course this year. Please see www.rockacademywales.com for further

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African Drumming Workshops

On Monday 23rd March we welcomed Phelps Music to the school to deliver African Drum-ming sessions to musicians in Year 8, 9 and 10. Each group had the opportunity to use au-thentic African instruments with the sessions each culminating in a group composition, au-dio of which is available on the Phelps Music website (www.phelpsmusic.co.uk). The work produced by students was highly impressive and all students enjoyed the day immensely.

Year 5 Product Jingle Workshop

The department was delighted to support the Year 5 Enterprise day in which students de-signed and marketed their own personalised mirrors. Students took part in workshops to compose jingles for their product—all were so well written and catchy, and the visiting stu-dents were an absolute joy to work with.

“...all students enjoyed the day immensely”

Misss K Lomas

Instrumental ,Vocal & Digital Music Lessons

Academic Year 2014/15 Every September, peripatetic music teachers hold a meeting so that existing and potential learners can sign up for lessons – this year, the meeting is scheduled to take place on:

SEPTEMBER 8TH IN THE SCHOOL AUDITORIUM at 2.00pm

Interested pupils should excuse themselves from lessons period 6 and report to the audi-torium. They will also be given the oppor-tunity to meet up with the peripatetic teach-ers who are from CAVMS, Cardiff and the Vale County Music Service and Reid’s Dig-ital Music. It is important that everyone in-terested in receiving tuition via the school attends this meeting; it may not be possible to sign up so easily at a later date. We advise that the decision to have vocal or instrumental lessons is discussed carefully at home. There is a cost attached to lessons; this is dependent on the lesson length and group size; this information will be availa-ble from instrumental teachers. Bills for tui-tion are then sent out at the end of every term. For further information please see Miss Lomas or a member of the music team.

Astudiarthau Corfforol

Girls’ Basketball

The girls have had a fantastic season this year competing in the new South East Wales Girls Basketball league that was set up in Decem-ber. The league was split up into two catego-ries, Years 7-9 and Years 10-11. All year groups were highly successful and played against many teams in the area such as Cow-bridge, St Cyres, Cwm Rhymni and St Rich-ard Gwyn. Their commitment and enthusiasm in participating and improving their skills has been outstanding and all girls have worked extremely hard to obtain numerous victories against these teams.

The Year 10 and 11s were entered into the South Wales Basketball Championships host-ed by Cardiff City’s House of Sport in No-vember. Here they played against a number of teams in the Vale of Glamorgan and achieved 1st place in the regional qualifiers. They then went on to obtain 3rd place in the finals of this competition in January. All girls thor-oughly enjoyed the day and were compliment-ed on their high standard of basketball by many coaches who observed their matches.

Mr I Summerfield

There has been a high level of interest in girls’ basketball from Year 7 and 8 this year and many players show who show considera-ble promise for their years ahead competing in the league. Special mention goes to Emily Skinner, Carmela Hermogeno, Cora Wall (Year 10) and Niamh Sultana (Year 7) who have been selected to represent the Welsh U16s and U14s girls’ squads this year. Well done girls!

A special good luck also goes to Emily Skin-ner who will be competing in the U16s Girls’ Basketball FIBA European Champion-ships in Andorra in July. Emily was also cho-

sen as one of the ‘superstar 5’ players of the tournament and received Cardiff City football tickets.

Athletics

Many pupils from across the year groups have taken part in athletics competition throughout the summer season. There have been a number of good individual results and team results in the knock out cup.

“All girls thoroughly enjoyed the day ”

Physical Education

“broke the county record for the javelin”

Mr I Summerfield

In the Year 8 and 9 championships, Megan Sully came 2nd in the county in the 100m after winning her heat and leading the girls to victo-ry in the relay. Isobel Brown also came 2nd in the 1500m. In the Knock Out Cup competition, both the boys’ and girls’ teams in both age groups qualified for the finals. All teams com-peted well but it was the U16 boys who shone – coming 2nd in their age group. They now qualify for the Welsh schools’ final in Brecon in July. In the Year 7 girls’ javelin competi-tion, Scarlett Russell broke the county record for the javelin.

Congratulations to the following pupils who represented the county at the Welsh Schools in July; Taiya Jones Rhys Jones, Jay Morse and Alice Nottingham.

Congratulations also to Taiya Jones who won the combined events competition in Brecon with some excellent personal bests in the long jump and high jump. Jay Morse set championship records in both the Discus (42.88m) and Shot (13.01m).

Tennis In the U13 boys’ and girls’ Vale tournament both Stanwell teams were successful in winning and now go through to the South Wales final in September. The teams consisted of Alex Lewis, Rhys Lewis, Lucas French, Jack Rees, Emily Griffiths, Lily Ireland, Zoya Yousef and Lu-cy Jones. In the U15 tournament, the gir ls won convincingly against a strong St. Cyres team to go through to the South Wales final. The team included- Libby Smith, Rebecca Da-vies, Lauren Ellis and Grace Beacall. The boys still need to finish their matches against Barry boys and St.Cyres to secure their place in the South Wales round. The boys’ team consist-ed of: Tommy Friel, Rory Wilshire, Sam Han-cock and Zain Yousef.

Physical Education

“outdoor activities weekend”

Mr I Summerfield

Wimbledon On July 1st 8 members of the senior tennis team and Mr Summerfield and Mrs Hunter went to Wimbledon to watch Day 3 of the ten-nis. On the hottest day of the year, we saw Gri-gor Dimitrov, Maria Sharapova, Kevin An-derson and Venus Williams. A great day was had by all and we even managed a group photo on Murray Mound.

Storey Arms The PE department ran another successful trip to the Storey Arms Centre, an outdoor activi-ties weekend at the beginning of June.

The Year 9 trip consisted of 50 pupil who were able to experience a range of activities from gorge walking to caving in a variety of challenging settings. Located in the heart of the Brecon Beacons national park all pu-pils had to overcome a series of challenges which were designed to build teamwork skills, develop confidence and create a sense of achievement. All pupils enjoyed learning from their instructors in depth knowledge which had links to science, ge-ography, history and maths, as well as de-veloping their physical abilities under the watchful eyes of their expert leaders. A great time was had by all.

Physical Education Mr I Summerfield

Sports day On Wednesday July 8th, Years 7, 8 and 9 were bussed down to Leckwith for the inaugural Stanwell Sports day. All competitors and spec-tators thoroughly enjoyed the day with wins in Year 7 for Morgannwg (Forms X and L), Gwynedd in Year 8 (Forms E and O) and Dyf-ed in Year 9 (Forms T and W). There were some excellent displays of athletics with a number of school records broken. In Year 7, Scarlett Russell broke the girls’ javelin record with an impressive throw of 26.10m. The boys in 7X broke the relay record. The 1500m race brought the most school records with three new times being set. Isobel Brown and Louis Spen-cer in Year 8 and Callum Eva in Year 9. Taiya Jones also set a new school record for the 800m in Year 9. A great day was had by pupils and staff.

“competitors and spectators thoroughly enjoyed the day ”

Seicoleg

Welsh Baccalaureate Individual Investiga-tions

A record number of students have opted to complete an investigation in to a range of top-ics relating to either Psychology or Health and Social care. As a requirement of the investiga-tion the students need to compare Wales with another country. Some of the investigations have focused on the cultural differences when diagnosing mental illness. The students have reported finding this an interesting topic area

and are looking forward to the A2 Psychology course, during which we get to grips with cultural differences in more detail.

AS Psychology

In lessons this term, students are received tast-er sessions in the topics they will be studying next year. Together with Health and Social Care students, they will be learning about some of the key issues surrounding psychiat-ric problems and their diagnosis, considering media portrayal of these illnesses and possible causes and treatments.

A2 Psychology

The department bids farewell to our A2 stu-dents this term. They have worked exception-ally hard and we are sure that they will be awarded results to be proud of in August.

We wish them well in their future endeavours.

Psychology Award

Congratulations go to Kayley Birch-Hurst on winning the Psychology Award. Throughout her two years on the psychology course Kayley has been mature, thoughtful and thought-provoking in lessons.

She has performed at a consistently high level, and demonstrated a real talent for tackling sen-sitive and controversial topics in an academic manner worthy of an undergraduate student. We are going to miss having her in lessons.

Staff

We would like to take this opportunity to thank Miss Bowditch for her work this year in the Psychology and Health and Social Care depart-ment. The students and staff have expressed their gratitude for all the time she has given up to help.

We wish her well in her new position as Head of Health and Social Care at Hereford Sixth

“Congratulations go to Kayley Birch-Hurst on winning the Psychology Award.”

Miss K Collins

Addysg Grefyddol

Carol Evans RE Award 2015

Georgina Bartlett of Year 12 received the above award at the Stanwell Award Ceremo-ny on 24th June. Georgina is an outstanding student whose essay responses have been of a consistently high standard throughout this academic year. We look forward to reading her A2 essays next year.

Goodbye to Year 13

The department bid a fond farewell to Year 13 who have been a wonderful group of stu-dents demonstrating a genuine interest in the subject. We asked them to comment on what they had enjoyed about their studies in reli-gion and ethics and their responses highlight-ed the enthusiasm for discussion based activ-ities and challenges. One student comment-ed, “Studying RE at Stanwell has helped me become confident in developing my own opinions and decisions in every day life and important issues involving people on a world wide scale.”

The class of 2015: Emma Bright, Ellie Mun-ro, Alexandra Ward, Tomos Derrick, Joel Freebury-Jones, Anna Kinnersley, Jacob Lewis, Katie Alstead and Patrick Charleson.

RE pupils using their talents Lowena Diment (pictured below) has had her po-em “What does religion mean to you” published in a book entitled “Spirited Words” after entering a competition organized by United Press.

Lowena is a talented RE stu-dent and the full text of her poem can be seen in the RE area of the school website. This year, RE Club wanted to support a local char-ity. During Open Evening both parents and pupils were invited to vote and the winner was Morel Court Care Home in Penarth. Since then the pupils of RE Club have worked hard to think of ways for pupils to get involved with Morel Court’s resi-dents. During the summer term a visit involving members of RE Club and Miss Ghazi Torbati’s Year 9 performing Arts class was arranged so that the residents could enjoy tea, cake and entertain-ment; all provided by a collaboration between RE and Music. Tom Burge from Year 8 (pictured above) has been a committed and enthusiastic member of RE club this year.

“In RE we have interesting and thought provoking discussions about real life topics.”

Mrs J Skilton

What does religion mean to you?

To me it is to keep an open mind To be faithful to friends, loyal and kind.

Gwyddoniaeth

Dr H Roberts

It has been a busy and successful year for the Science department. Pupils in Years 10, 11, 12 and 13 have taken their external examinations, and we wish them the best of luck. We say a sad farewell and good luck to all the Year 13 pupils as they go on to pastures new, but look forward to welcoming back many of the current Year 11 pupils for AS Levels next year.

Applied Science It has been a positive year for Year 11 Applied scientists with the majority completing coursework in plenty of time for the May deadline. This has allowed almost everyone to achieve the level 2 (GCSE equivalent) qualifications on offer to them. Year 10 have a hard act to follow, but they are currently on track to be equally successful. The Year 13 class had all of their coursework sent off, and we wish them every success on results day. In other news Year 12 begin the most exciting part of their course as they research their individual project over the summer holidays - a daunting task as there can be no help from their friends! Each pupil has to design and investigate a project of their own, as well as choosing which two of the voluntary modules they would like to complete. The whole department wishes them every success. Biology We continue to be very proud of the efforts of all GCSE and A Level Biology classes as they have prepared for examinations this year, good luck to you all when you get your results. Particular congratulations are due to Emma

Donovan who has been awarded the Kathleen Evans Biology Prize for the best results at AS Level, she thoroughly deserved the excellent results she gained last year. Milissa Sorenson will also be looking forward to the summer as she has been awarded a prestigious Nuffield Bursary. She will be working with the entomology department of the National Museum, we hope you enjoy your time there. Chemistry This has once again been a very busy year for pupils studying Chemistry. Many pupils sat external examinations in both January and June, and we wish them all the best in the summer. If the results reflect the commitment to their studies then they will be very successful. Pupils in Years 10 and 11 completed their controlled assessment tasks and should be commended on their efforts.

“a busy and successful year”

Science

Dr H Roberts

The practical aspect of the course, while challenging, has been enjoyed by all pupils. Pictured are Ruby Bollington and Isabelle Hodgson car rying out a titration, and Owen Day and Alex Hodges investigating the reaction of a metal with an acid.

Many of the A Level Chemists have performed very well in their modules throughout the year, with special congratulations to Daniel Cerasale who has been awarded the Winifred Bevan Prize for A Level Chemistry for his outstanding achievements in theoretical and practical Chemistry.

Physics The effort and commitment of pupils from all Key Stages should be commended this year. Good luck to all the pupils who will receive their results in the summer, hopefully all your hard work will be rewarded. Congratulations to Izaak Lee for being awarded the Key Stage 4 Physics prize, while Jack Davies was awarded the pr ize for Key

Pupils commitment, effort and interest have been exceptional

Stage 5. Their commitment, effort and interest in the subject has been exceptional throughout their studies.

The eclipse in March provided an awe inspiring opportunity for pupils to use different methods to view the eclipse safely, including

using pin-hole cameras, eclipse glasses and our telescope. Pictured above are Year 13 pupils Jack Davies, Matthew Holder and Sam Laity who helped to monitor the progress of the eclipse, giving pupils and staff a chance to view it safely. This was a great opportunity to view a solar eclipse as the next one is in 2026!

Cymraeg Mrs C Flaherty

We are delighted with the successful events and trips that the Welsh Depart-ment have been involved in since Christmas. Firstly, congratulations to the competitors of the Urdd Swimming Gala who reached the finals on Sunday 25th January: Elizabeth McCullagh, Amy Bond, Megan O’Brien, Lloyd Hanson and Josephine Harries. Well done to all who participated, it was a hugely enjoyable event.

St David’s Day 2015

The Welsh department and a selection of Year 7 pupils took part in the St David’s Day parade in Cardiff on Sunday 1st March. The pupils were close to the front of the parade with yel-low and red dragon flags. It was a fantastic opportunity to celebrate the day and soak up the lively atmosphere. The parade finished at Cardiff castle just in time for Welsh cakes be-fore a dramatic change in the weather. The Stanwell school section even appeared on the ITV news.

Eisteddfod results

Years 7 and 8 thoroughly enjoyed the Eistedd-fod on March the 3rd. Many pupils took part in the homework and stage competitions. These included Welsh and French recitation as well as vocal solo, musical theatre and popular mu-sic, dance, instrumental and many others.

“Thousands watched parades across Wales celebrating St David’s day!”

Cymraeg Mrs C Flaherty

Blood Donation Station

Awards Ceremony 2015 Congratulations to the following who won awards for their enthusiasm and com-mitment towards the Welsh language and culture: Hannah Salmon– Mags Roberts Award for Welsh (Key Stage 3) Seren Marsh– Mags Roberts Award for Welsh (Key Stage 4) Joseph Short– Alwyn Prosser Memorial Cup for Welsh Huw Boucher– Ann Johnson Eisteddfod Cup Finally, we, of course, wish our GCSE Year 10 and 11 pupils, all the very best as they await their exam results. Pob lwc!

Gwyliau hapus i bawb!

Sophie Thomas and Megan Thompson from Powys and Paris Jackson Newman from Dyfed won the Welsh Year 7 homework competition which was to write about their ideal school. Dylan Lyle from Powys, Adam Grosfils from Gwent and Jacob Sweeney from Powys won the Welsh sketch. Llongyfarchiadau!

In Year 8, Kayleigh Fisher, Jessie Lieu, Hannah Murphy and Sophie Anderton and David Thomas all from Powys won the Welsh homework competition which was to create a family album. Llongyfarchiadau!

House Champions 2015!

Dyfed won the Year 7 Eisteddfod and Morgannwg won the Year 8 Eisteddfod. Llongyfarchiadau!

“Cenedl heb iaith, cenedl heb galon.”

Members of the Welsh department waiting to give blood. A big thank you to Miss Anthony and Mrs Kynaston for all their hard work in organ-ising a successful blood donation station.

WorkSkills

We bid farewell to the Year 11 class and wish them good luck as they move on to Further Ed-ucation or Appren-ticeships pro-grammes and hope they put to good use the skills they have learned over the past three years. I am sure that the students will look back and have good memories of their volunteering work at Barry Island and Penarth. The Year 9 & 10 classes were invited to take part in the Keep Wales Tidy Na-tional beach clean week on the 22nd May and completed 7km litter pick along the old railway line, cliff tops and on to the Penarth beach. Tim Wort, Keep Wales Tidy Education Officer kept their 10,000 twitter followers up to date with their progress! The Year 10 pupils are: James Alsop. Jonathan Bennett, Mat-thew Binding, Thomas Bullen, Josh-ua Cheeseman, Luke Cole, Mason Dargie, Lia-Maree Dyer, Morgan Ev-ans, Owen Harvey, Katie Hudd, Cam-eron Jenkins, Cerys Johns, Morgan Jones, Katie Thomas, Rhys Walker and Chelsea Williams.

The Year 9 WorkSkills students have been studying the short course Level 2 BTEC in Money and Finance Skills. They completed the course in June and achieved accreditation. Congratulations to Rhys Chick, Ashleigh Clarke, Lizzie Denton, Harrison David, Sam Ferriday, Sam Froggatt, Joe Griffiths, Jack Harding, Max Harlock, Luke Haynes, Jay Jones, Jack Matthews, Kieran Murphy, Ja-cob Rosser and Paula Williams. I know that they are looking forward to undertaking some further volunteering work in the Autumn term and hopefully the weather will remain favoura-ble! This term the Year 10 pupils have been using the WorkSkills course to prepare for their Work Experience placement in July. The pu-pils will spend a week at the following organi-sations. Good luck to all students and make sure you get your booklets completed please! The group enjoyed their time in placements at Pearson Motors, Murch Infants School, Vale of Glamorgan Visible Services Ysgol Pen y Garth, Cardiff Ice Rink , Crwys Motors, Victo-ria School, Hazelhurst Nursery, Cardiff Dogs Home and M & Co.

“prepare for their Work Experience”

Mr. R Deighton-Jones

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Since joining Stanwell School in September, this year group has been remarkable. Their behaviour has been exemplary and their achievements have surpassed all expectations. I do hope you take the time to note the names of the pupils in this newsletter, I am confident that they will be the stars of stage and television in the future!

My favourite memories of Year 7 must be their superb efforts on behalf of our charities, Children in Need and Lepra ( a charity that helps victims of leprosy). They raised literally thousands of pounds, with over £1500 for the Lepra Dance-off alone.

The Christmas Nativity play was a new development and it was a joy to see the efforts to which the pupils went to in order to prepare. Similarly, the Year 7 Concert received great acclaim from the audience and proud parents.

During the inspection week, our pupils showed just how well they perform in Stanwell classrooms. They are an integral part of decision–making in our school and the form representatives worked tirelessly in support of their committees.

The pupils have earned their Summer holidays and I look forward to hearing of their future successes higher up in the school and beyond.

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Yoav Abramovich won a football tournament with the school in Cardiff City training ground. He has also reached the final of a rugby tournament with Sully Rugby Club. Ella Beddard has competed in gymnastics tournaments and came first. She also competed in a netball tournament and her team came fourth. Ellen Carolan has achieved a karate blue-belt with Kansai Karate. Lloyd Clarke has won 3 gold medals with Cardiff Amateur Athletic Club and plays rugby for Penarth Athletic Club. He also won a rugby tournament with the school rugby team. Tia Criddle has just got her brown belt in karate. William Davies competed in the School Eisteddfod competition for pianists and came 3rd. Michael Dolbear achieved 6 As in his fir st

“achievements have surpassed all expectations....”

Miss R Sterlini & Mr M Baldwin

Year 7 report. Naomi Edgell will be doing her grade 3 piano exam in the summer holidays (having achieved a distinction in her grade 2). She has also run in the Race For Life .

Jonathan Evans competed in the table tennis tournament with the school and came 3rd. Emily Hall will be going to the European Sailing Championships in July. Jessica Hayes will be doing an 8 mile bike ride for Four Paws Animal Rescue in the summer. Isabella Huggins competed in a gymnastics competition with the school and came first. Anna Hughes has competed for the school basketball team. She performed as Miranda in a local production of ‘The Tempest’. Mia Llewellyn achieved a level 5 in her ice skating with Planet Ice. Brooke Martinson and Cyprian Wachowicz have 100% attendance. Christopher Slack competed in team Wales’ Kumite team kata and individual kata in Belgium. Tomos Watkins played the saxophone in the orchestra in the school’s production of The Lion King. He will also be representing the school on the Penarth Youth Action council.

Chris Slack receives his award (below)

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Tia Lee has recently per formed as a solo skater in an Ice Skating show at Planet Ice. Isobelle Adams has just per formed in Hansel and Gretel at the Millenium Centre. Sally Henry has just completed grade 5 in the harp, piano and flute. Oliver Hill has just completed grade 1 violin. Lola Davies is due to appear in the musical Annie with the Big Talent Drama Group. David Young competed for Bar ry Swimming Club and came 1st in the breaststroke at the Cardiff swimming gala. Morgan Lloyd William has just completed his grade 5 piano and Charlie Jowett has just completed his grade 5 in the violin. Morgan McGuigan has achieved a blue belt in karate and belongs to Penarth Amateur Boxing Club. Charles Edwards is a member of the Cardiff City Football Academy. Devon Tyso is completing his grade 2 guitar. Jack Rees has just completed his grade 4 saxophone.

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Seren Baker has taken par t in a swimming gala and won a medal. Millie Pinkerton has also competed in swimming galas, representing Cardiff Swimming club. Kieran Bowen has played rugby for the school team and played in the match held at Cardiff Arms Park. Jacob Bowman has played football for Sully and Barry Town teams, he also likes to play tennis in the summer. Osian Saunders-Jones also plays tennis and made it the finals after competing in a competition. Isabelle Carter has taught herself to play the piano and can now play a number of songs confidently. Toby Chapman and Kieran Jenkins competed in the Vale cup football final

“taught herself to play the piano!”

Miss R Sterlini & Mr M Baldwin

Year 7

for Sully. Cameron Fofana took part in a worldwide tournament called ‘Super Cup’, out of 150 participants he came 3rd. Ellie Griffin has competed in netball matches supporting the school. Lauren Harris has been chosen to join the football team that will be playing representing South Wales. David Keane helped with a char ity event raising money for Dinas Powys tennis club. Tilly McKechnie competed in a street dance competition held in Southport, she won 2nd prize. Jasmine Ringer plays football for a local team and recently they competed and won a tournament. Molly Stroud ran 3 miles cross country with the school and came in 73rd place out of 250 pupils taking part. Megan Webber auditioned and has now been offered a part in a show produced by Jeff Guppy’s school of music and drama. Alivia Williamson attended the Russian ballet summer camp school and has participated in the English youth ballet.

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Matilda Whiting and Jacob Bannister have been working hard this term in orchestra rehearsals for The Lion King. Leah Meek has achieved several gymnastic medals this year. Eleanor Price is currently working hard to raise money for a local charity. Finn Keane has recently ‘man of the match’ for his local football team. Nadia Brown won the Maths symmetry competition in the Eisteddfod this year. George Marshall came third in the Welsh Mountain Bike Championships. James Good

plays for Swansea Football Academy, and recently competed in Belgium for an international tournament. Eve Traynor is a competition dancer and is attending the finals for the British Championship. Congratulations to all of the pupils for their fantastic successes this year!

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Several members of the form have been busy raising money for a great cause. Bethan Pollock and Lily Durham completed a 2km run around Cardiff to raise £65 for Cancer Research. James Harvey and Rhydian Jones both raised £40 for Cancer Research by completing the Race for Life. James Harvey has also reached level 10 in swimming and lifeguard training. Ella Radford played the part of Cosette in Mark Jermin’s production of Les Miserables which included singing a solo. Emily Richards is going to take part in a performance of Harry Potter with the

“Russian Ballet school summer camp”

Miss R Sterlini & Mr M Baldwin

Year 7 Jeff Guppy School of Drama and Musical Theatre, playing the role of Hermione. Scarlett Russell is Wales’ best under 13 girls javelin thrower with a personal best of over 28 metres. Niamh Sultana has travelled to Surrey to play basketball for Wales in the under 14 squad. Keep up the excellent work.

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Huw Boucher has had a fantastic fir st year at Stanwell. He has recently had a distinction in his grade 7 piano exam and his grade 6 flute exam. He was awarded the Dorothy Grace Atkinson Memorial Prize for Pianoforte after achieving the highest distinction marks in the Cardiff area in his piano exam. He won 1st prize in the Bristol Dance Eisteddfod and will be going to Romania soon for the World Cup Dance competition. Huw also won the Ann Johnson memorial trophy and was asked to perform in the school’s award ceremony. He will be playing the harp in a chamber group in Claire Jones’ concert in Merthyr Tydfil soon.

Agatha Leach is very pleased that her netball team came 4th in a competition. Edward Norton’s fantastic football skills have won him a place on a football tour with Cardiff City to Holland. Emily Reypert has gained an impressive 75% in her grade 5 theory exam. Anton Rogan has also had success in his grade 5 piano exam.

Mia Smith has completed Blades 3 in rowing and has now joined Channel View Rowing Club. Flora Tassinari is busy

preparing for her grade 5 music theory exam and she will be playing the violin in the Lion King orchestra. She has also recently received the Lily Ann Rogers award. Madlen Thomas will be representing Wales in the British Ice Skating Championships in July. Pob lwc Madlen!

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Leon Sinden came 2nd in a first aid competition he entered with St John’s ambulance service. Joseff Rosser tr avelled with his football team ‘PG10’ to Madrid in half term. Jamie Cook sails for Cardiff Bay Yaught Club and recently competed in the European Sailing championships. Tom Lumsden has been chosen to be the captain of the Sully Blues football team. William Odgers came 3rd place in the shot put in the Cardiff and Vale athletics competition. Benjamin Price came 1st place in a recent shooting competition. Hashaam Kahn received an award for having the ‘hardest punch’ in his Tae Kwon Do club. Flora McWilliam and Emily Bickel ran 3 miles for cancer research and raised £200. Megan Mitchen r aised £160 at her comic relief cake sale. Jessica Jones has recently been awarded her black belt in karate. Amy Prangley plays for the Vale Girls’ football team and they came 2nd in the league. Georgia Carr swims for Cardiff and has had 2 personal bests in her recent swimming competitions.

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Tom Walters passed his grade 4 drum exam with distinction and was in the top 40 of a UK Young Drummer of the year.

“hardest punch in Tae Kwon Do club”

Miss R Sterlini & Mr M Baldwin

Year 7

Tom Walters

Darcey Harry is cur rently fir st in the British rankings for 50m freestyle for her age and has represented Cardiff swimming club recently at a gala in Germany. She is also playing in the Junior Welsh Golf open. Lloyd Kaged played in the football team which got to the final of the South Wales cup. Rhys Knapper passed his grade 5 piano with distinction. Alex Lewis was selected for the South Wales 12 and under tennis team. Sophie Lias came fir st overall in a Welsh Gymnastics competition and got a part in a movie. Cerys Porter has had a story published. Ben Sale achieved level 7 in his swimming club. Angharad Sommerin won best footballer of the month and had a main part in a production of Annie. Kobe Stephenson won a gold medal for kick boxing in a competition and he attended training sessions at the Spanish F1 Football academy. Sophie Thomas passed grade 1 piano.

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7K have thrown themselves into the sport offered at Stanwell with gusto; Natayah Birchall, Emily Clarke, Steffan Crimp, Will Doran, Skye Regan, and Sam Wheatley have all got involved with either rugby or touch rugby. Football continues to be popular, especially with the boys, with Sam Davies, Johnny Robinson, Josh Slatter, Will Doran, Steffan Crimp, Skye Regan, Danny Sullivan, James Murphy-Johns, James Young and Luca Gentile all involved in clubs inside and outside the school. James Murphy-Johns got to the cup final with his football team. He is not the only highflyer as Steffan Crimp plays cr icket for Wales, Ben Harvey won a medal for karate and Jessica Bullock played basketball for the school. Sadie Evans and Emily Lam have also taken up netball, a new sport for both of them. Not only are they a sporty form but they are artistically talented as well. Sadie Evans and Anoushka Broughton have flute lessons, Megan Thompson is involved in the choir and the orchestra, Steffan Crimp, Luca Gentile, Jessica John, Natayah Birchall and Sam Wheatley were all involved in Mr Baldwin’s Nativity extravaganza, Lauren Whittaker, Anoushka Broughton and Steffan Crimp were all part of the Drama club, which put on ‘Macbeth’ as their production this year.

Finally, 7K has its share of academic stars: Joshua Slatter and Steffan Crimp were involved in the UKMT Maths challenge and Niamh Pearse r eceived the two hundred stars award in French. Overall, 7K have had an excellent year and made a great start to their time at Stanwell. Da iawn.

Miss R Sterlini & Mr M Baldwin

“UKMT Maths challenge”

Year 7

Miss R Sterlini & Mr M Baldwin

“Albert Hall and Her Majesty`s Theatre.”

November. She also took part in a charity event for Tenovus, where she had to jump off St David’s Hotel and zipwire across Cardiff Bay. Megan Drake got down to the final 3,800 in BBC Radio 2’s 500 words Competition out of 120,000 entrants. Charlie Smith won a prestigious Blue Peter badge for writing a review of one of the episodes.

Ashlin Blackburn is a member of the Sea Cadets who won the District Unarmed Drill Competition taking home a trophy. The cadets had to perform a routine and came out on top, beating competitors from Barry, Cardiff and Rhondda Cynon Taff. Lucy Warren is taking part in the upcoming Race for Life for Cancer Research UK in Cardiff. Also, congratulations to Niamh Millar who has qualified for the Great British Development Squad in Skating. She has also passed her level 10 field moves skating test.

Alissa Colderley successfully qualified for Cardiff and the Vale Netball Team for U13s. Over 120 people applied for only 20 places. Niamh is also one of only 2 Year 7 pupils to qualify for the Penarth All-Stars, who didn’t lose a match all year and qualified for the Nationals where they achieved an impressive 4th place. Dafydd Hobbs and Evan Hocking have recently been awarded scout badges for attending a Water Activities Day down at Barry Docks.

Well done Thomas Savill for winning the Golf U12s County Championships at the Vale Resort. He walked away with an impressive trophy.

Rugby Mad 7K!

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Lili Nehemiah is a member of a prestigious dance club called Paaw and has recently performed in the Royal Albert Hall and Her Majesty’s Theatre. In October, she is due to perform in Sadler’s Wells Theatre, which is the world’s no.1 venue dedicated to international dance. Francis Dawson is a member of The Mark Jermin Stage School and recently performed in a semi-professional production of Les Miserables. He has also performed in a professional production of Jesus Christ Superstar. Congratulations to Alex Hawkins who passed her grade 2 piano. She also recently passed her grade 2 in ice-skating. Alexandra Iredale has been given the role of Cinderella in her dance school’s production, which they will perform in the West End’s Palladium Theatre in

Year 8 It has been a very busy and exciting spring and summer for Year 8 pupils. They have taken great care and consideration in selecting their option choices for the GCSE programme. In pastoral lessons, pupils have learned about a range of events, both local and global, and have benefited from the experience and knowledge of guest speakers. PC Mudie has delivered a range of informative sessions on drugs awareness. Pupils have also improved their awareness of global citizenship and history; Remembrance Day, Holocaust Memorial Day, World Book Day and the importance of reading have all been subjects of assemblies this year.

The Key Stage 3 Musical ‘The Lion King’ kept many pupils busy due to rehearsals, but the results have been worth the incredible effort of staff and pupils. The initial 3 nights sold out and an extra matinee performance was allocated for the Sunday which was also a full house. Great acclaim was given to all performers and those behind the scenes. The annual Eisteddfod was also very successful with many pupils showcasing their talents on stage and in homework competitions; well done to all those involved.

Our form representatives this year have been: 8T– Zeus Kampas and Kayci Yip 8E - Thomas Martin and Lucy Jones 8A - Matthew George and Ellie Silvey 8M—Shafi Chowdhury and Natasha Croll 8X– Jericho Aguinaldo and Phoebe Scott-Quinlan 8W - Owen Evans and Zoya Yousef 8O - Louis Spencer and Isobel Brown 8R - David Thomas and Megan Sully 8K – James Lewis and Carys Thomas 8L – Elinor Pyman and Daniel Hale Huge congratulations to the following pupils for receiving an award at the school’s annual Award Ceremony: Jacob Adams, Daniel Cheeseman, Kayleigh Fisher, Nia Hopkins, Lily Ireland, John Lemmer, Thomas Martin, Faith Mattinson, Ethan Millinship, Phoebe Scott-Quinlan, Rory Skinner, Dex Trivett, Mia Suttcliffe-Hill and Chloe Williams. Well deserved! Congratulations also to those pupils who have achieved 100% attendance during the year, an impressive achievement. 8T 8T have produced another excellent year’s work. Ryan Allen has recently achieved his black belt in karate, whilst Jordan Jones has joined Cogan Football Club. Holly Jenkins was a member of the Cardiff and Vale county football team who were successful in the cup. Jay Snook is a member of the Park Lions football in Barry and the school tennis club. Gabriel Howard plays football for Sully Reds U13s who

“Great acclaim was given to all performers and those behind the scenes.”

Mrs R Baker & Mr G Penny

Year 8 have been crowned champions. Owen Jones plays football for Dinas Powys FC and Ossian Lambert-Jones has joined an archery club in Llantwit Major. Adam Weir continues to excel in the cornet and has just passed his grade 5 exam. Zoe Mules is currently working towards her grade 3 singing exam. Charlotte Peach is a keen member of the local sea cadets and her hard work was rewarded when she was presented with an award. Alexandra Burrows regularly attends ballet classes in Barry whilst Yahlini Smith achieved a distinction in her acting exam. Hannah Evans has taken part in numerous clubs including football, street dance and life guarding at Cogan Leisure Centre and is working towards her Rookie Lifeguard award. Finally, Kayci Yip and Georgia Flowers-Evans have been volunteering in the local community. Kayci regularly helps out at an elderly peoples’ homes and Georgia assisted at the Sully Primary School fete. Well done 8T! 8E It has been another successful term for the pupils of 8E. Pupils have excelled both in

school and through extra-curricular activities.

A special mention is given to Rhys Lewis; Rhys helped out with a Year 6 writing workshop and has been selected to represent Great Britain at the European championships participating in a sailing event. Noticeable mentions go out to the following pupils. Hywel Edwards-Sim secured a lead roles in the junior school production of Lion King. Both Maisy Gibbs and Ophelia Scott were selected for the ‘LA Hub’ netball team and attended the educational visit to Paris. Ophelia’s work has also been selected to be featured on the wall of excellence. 8A 8A are keen thespians and many held an active role in this summer’s junior performance of The Lion King. Thomas Griffiths played Zazu. Matthew George, Nicholas Johnson, Joseph Ramage and Thomas Ramage were cast as hyenas. Laura Macleod contributed to the chorus and Hannah Kidby participated in the grassland scene. We also have some very good mathematicians; Hannah Kidby, John Lemmer, Laura Macleod, Imania Malik-Stephens, Billy McCullagh, Joseph Ramage, Thomas Ramage and Dex Trivett all contributed to the UKMT Junior Challenge and Billy McCullagh is through to the UKMT Kangaroo round. Thomas Griffiths, Joseph Ramage and Thomas Ramage are members of the school cricket team and John Lemmer is in the school rugby team. Joseph Moores came second in a recent athletics competition and is through to the final of a boxing competition. Meredith Holland has reached level 10 in figure-skating. Mia Gordon-Davies has reached grade 6 piano. Well done to such

Mrs R Baker & Mr G Penny

“Pupils have excelled both in school and through extra-curricular activities.”

Year 8 talented students. It has been a pleasure being 8A’s form tutor this year and I wish them the best of luck for next year.

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8M has been a very active form, taking part in events and contributing to teams, as well as achieving a number of individual awards. The form has a strong representation in the Arts. Firstly, Harriet Marshall is currently working towards grade 4 in the piano and grade 5 in the viola, whilst Dylan Moss completed his grade 2 guitar exam and is now working towards grade 3. The drums are a popular instrument in 8M with Dylan Smith working towards grade 3 and Megan Harvey having achieved grade 3. Ava Hughes and Eva Summerhayes are performing a Bliss dance show and Nia Hopkins won a dance competition with a solo performance. The school production of Lion King has provided the pupils of 8M to display their talents as both Courtney French and Reuben Jones are par t of the cast. Faith Mattinson passed her St. John’s exam and came first in the Novice St. John competition. Carys David has been assisting with char ity work. Tom Burge has taken part in a run for cystic fibrosis. Amira Arwo achieved a purple one stripe in karate, Natasha Croll came first in the UK kudo championships, Harriet Marshall passed her level 10 ice skating and Ffion McCulloch achieved a mer it in her grade 4 ballet examination. Well done to you all!

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technique. Jericho Aguinaldo, Will Hardy, Adam John, and Dan Munro-Morris were part of the football team that won the Vale of

Glamorgan U13s cup at Jenner Park,they also won the U13s league.

Dan Munro-Morris was also a member of the team that won the South Wales and Welsh field hockey final playing for Whitchurch Hockey Club, he also came third in a County Golf Competition. Well done! Zachary McLellan-Morgan and his football team, Cogan U13s reached the Cardiff and Vale cup final. Jericho Aguinaldo came second in a badminton competition for the Vale of Glamorgan, he was also a member of the Sully A U13s league winning football team. Phoebe Scott-Quinlan was awarded the Lily Ann Rogers award in the school award ceremony for Academic achievement. Isabelle Dain-Smith, Zoe Jennings, Leila Nicol, Harrison Shaw, Olivia Tyso and Stephanie Willan all performed in the junior production The Lion King. Harrison Shaw played the part of Simba. Olivia Tyso and Isabelle Dain-Smith also

Mrs R Baker & Mr G Penny

“Congratulations also to those pupils who have achieved 100% attendance during the year.”

Year 8 played for the school netball team ‘Penarth Allstars’ which secured 1st place in the Vale, 3rd place in the County and 4th place in Wales. Nia Isherwood and Leila Nicol both joined sur f and life saving club in order to coach the U10s.

8W Maliyah Khan had a very pleasing result in her recent French speaking assessment. Josephine Paine continues to attend gym and art club. Tariq Amari recently participated in football trials for Penarth AMB and was successful playing for the B team. Ethan Mulcahy and Joseph Thompson have been enjoying Athletics club this term. Evan Lloyd remains captain for both the school rugby team and the Penarth club. Sophie Whittaker competed in a swimming gala and recorded a PB in all 25M events. Zoya Yousef has gained a place in Stanwell’s U13 girls tennis team. Jacob Adams received the Year 8 Lily Ann Rogers Award. Bethany Kelly has been involved with Bliss Dance school in Penarth while Olivia Rees has been dancing with Pukka dance school in Barry. Several of the boys continue to represent the school with football including Daniel Cozma, Ethan Mulcahy, Liam Perry, Jagjeet Singh-Landa and Jamie Taylor, whilst Aliyah Jama has also had continued success with Vale Ladies football team playing as a striker.

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It has been another successful term for 8O. Well done to Louis Foscolo winning the double (the league and cup final) for his football team, Sully Reds. Matt Wiltshire scored 2 tries that

“They have taken great care and consideration in selecting their GCSE options.”

helped Penarth through the first 2 rounds of the cup, they were knocked out by Pontypool RFC but they did beat the team that knocked them out of the cup last year. Congratulations to Gethin Glynn who has passed his trumpet grade 3. Seren Jones has achieved grade 4 piano. Tom Featherstone has reached level 4 for his ice skating. Well done to Alys Price who has started gymnastics with Planet Gymnastics and she was awarded 1st place for her floor routine and the vault. Lily Coughlan Dovey has been chosen to compete for the under 15s national dance squad of 2015, well done! All pupils have shown improvement throughout the year and have made the effort to engage with the huge range of activities that Stanwell has offered this year. 8R

Grace McIntosh has gained a place in the Michelle O’Donnel Irish Dance School in South Wales and achieved a trophy for most promising dancer, she has also completed

Mrs R Baker & Mr G Penny

Year 8 grade 3 for her singing and is aiming to complete grade 4. She has also been playing netball for the School team and the Penarth All Stars. Kayleigh Fisher received the Lily Ann Rogers award for Endeavour. Ella Cole has played a gig with Rock Academy and has achieved grade 4 on the drums. Caitlin Dowling has achieved grade 2 flute. Ethan Millinship has been playing for his local team Sully Reds and they have won the League and Cup, he also won the linguist award at the school’s annual award ceremony. Nicholas Hague Jones has been busy playing rugby for both Penarth RFC and Stanwell where they reached the final of the Schools’ rugby cup, he has also been running for the the Stanwell cross country team and he competed in the athletics team. Karl Webber has also been playing rugby for both Stanwell and Penarth RFC. Lily Ireland won an U14s gir ls open tennis tournament for Windsor Tennis Club. Ellie Macmillan has also played netball for Penarth All Stars and she is a member of the A Team for Stanwell in addition to playing basketball for Stanwell School and Penarth. Pia Sully has won 3 gold medals at the Cardiff swimming gala, she competed in the 50m front crawl, 50m butterfly and 100m back crawl. Morgan James has played rugby for OPRFC and achieved the most improved player award this season, as well as playing football for Sully and attending the Air Cadets (R.A.F). Wyn Price won the piano competition in the Year 8 Eisteddfod. Megan Sully has achieved a new personal best in 100m. Katy Matthews has been

“The annual Eisteddfod was also very successful with many pupils showcasing their talents.”

playing netball for Penarth All Stars and they came sixth in the Welsh netball league. 8K 8K pupils have had a fantastic year with some very impressive achievements. Felix Price continues to astound with his lifeguard competitions, securing 1st place in all his

races, including 5km long distance, sprints, board paddling, beach flags and sea swim. He is currently graded at a level 7 for his lifeguarding skills which is extremely impressive considering the average level for his age group is 5! Carys Thomas also tested her swimming skills, participating in three swimming competitions. She participated in the Arena League where she reached the 3rd round, the

Mrs R Baker & Mr G Penny

Year 8 Cardiff Meet where she competed in the 50m breast stroke and 50m front crawl. She also competed in the club championship for Barry Swimming Club and won silver medals in the 50m breast stroke, 50m front crawl, 200m breast stoke and 200m front crawl. Both Lowri Hayman and Emily Huish have moved up a level in dance, well done girls!

Max Baker was voted the suppor ters’ player for Sully Blues U13 and Jack Walters’ football team came first in a county football tournament. Penarth RFC won the Blues cup – well done to Rhys Newman who was par t of that winning team! Mae Atkins also won a final with the county football team. This has also been an impressive year for musical instrument achievements with the very talented Jack Garrett achieving an impressive 90% in his grade 8 guitar exam. The guitar achievements continue with William Cornelius moving up to grade 2 and Cathleen Tan also taking up the instrument. Tomos Hughes has now reached grade 4 piano. In addition, many members of 8K contributed to ‘The Lion King’. Well done to all!

8L 8L have had yet another busy term. Deiniol Knight was par t of the team that won the South Wales and Welsh field hockey final while playing for Whitchurch Hockey Club. Arianne Banks and Enyala Banks have been very musical, they have both passed their grade 5 piano, they have also performed in a charity show for the musical theatre school which they attend. A big congratulations to Olivia Tucker

“In pastoral lessons, pupils have learned about a range of events, both local and global.”

who came 2nd in a Paaw competition that she competed in for the first time.

Well done to Elinor Pyman who came 3rd in the under 14s Athletic competition. Hannah Williams, Mia Sutcliffe-Hill and Emma Monaghan are in the Penar th All Stars Netball team who are currently undefeated so congratulations to them.

Emma Monaghan was highly commended for her singing in the South Glamorgan festival and Mia Sutcliffe-Hill achieved a distinction in grade 4 ballet and solo awards.

Congratulations to Hannah Williams who secured 2nd place in the Nationals for netball and to Seren Sullivan who came 4th in the Vale of Glamorgan under 13s B championships. Megan Edwards achieved fir st place in her first ever archery competition.

Mrs R Baker & Mr G Penny

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It has been a very busy and challenging year for our pupils after embarking on their GCSE courses. For the most part, pupils have shown great determination and endeavour during this key transitional period in their education. The progress shown by the vast majority of pupils is excellent, and pupils should be very proud of their individual ac-complishments throughout the year. In pasto-ral lessons, pupils have learned about a range of events, both local and global, and have benefited from the experience and knowledge of guest speakers. Pastoral ses-sions have covered a range of themes, includ-ing Remembrance Day, international day of peace, anti-Smoking awareness, respect, de-termination, humility, and the power of speech.

The junior production of ‘The Lion King’ has proved to be one of the most spectacular and well-praised productions at Stanwell. The effort, commitment and talent of those involved has been outstanding and inspiring; huge congratulations to all of those who took part in a memorable production.

We would also like to congratulate the fol-lowing pupils on achieving 100% attendance this year:

Felicity Allen Matthew Barber Samuel Barden Guillaume Bigsby Elliott Davies James Dawson Rowan Deininger-Smith Ellen Driveman

Sonny Edwards Aidan Emberson Ben Evans Jake Finch Kab Fordjour Eleanor-Rose Griffiths Elinor Hawkins Joel Heaton-Jones Amy Jordan Holly Keith Owain Lane Cai Lloyd Jamie Locke-Jones Jack Matthews Dylan Penry-Williams Jack Ruelle Nicky Tsoi We both wish the year group an enjoyable and relaxing summer holiday. Return to school refreshed and ready to embark on the next stage of your education!

Mrs K Chelliingworth & Mr R MacPherson

‘Return to school refreshed and ready to embark on the next stage of your education’

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9T

9T has been extremely busy with extra-curricular activities this term, particularly in the sporting domain. Many pupils are in-volved in water sports. Hannah Stephens came third in a sprint kayaking marathon, and Owain Jones won 5 regattas in his first year of rowing. Felicity Allen came third in the silver fleet at the National Sailing Com-petition and is going to the Feva World Championships in Germany. Our footballers include Rhys Taylor who plays for Holton Rd, who has made great progress this term and Joe Donovan, who played with the Sully Colts in the Semi-finals of their league cham-pionship. Luke Warlow won the top goal scorer award for Cogan Football Club. We also boast many athletes. Taiya Jones came 1st in the Jenner Park Schools Athletics Com-petition; including coming 1st in high jump, 800m, long jump and relay. She is the county champion for 800m and long jump and came 3rd in the high jump, whilst Jay Morse is now the UK no.1 discus thrower and the Welsh no.1 hammer thrower, following in the foot-steps of his Olympic athlete brother, Brett. James Gilbert has been awarded two yel-low tabs in judo, whilst Daniel Sheppard came 2nd in an archery competition. Lowri Bullivant came second in the Vale Tram-polining Competition, as well as competing with her cheerleading team, joined by Kayleigh Johns. Kaitlin Daly came second in her solo in an Artistic Roller Skating Competition in Newbury and 3rd with her team. Our musical pupils include Hannah

Weeks who has completed her grade 5 singing exam, as well as her grade 3 tap dancing exam. Darcey Conway passed her grade 5 Flute exam with merit and Ellen Driveman passed her grade 4 piano exam with merit.

9E The pupils of 9E have had a busy year with many pupils working really hard and achiev-ing a lot of success. Ceylin As has been awarded the Lily Ann Rogers prize for pro-gress and endeavour, while Keiron Alexan-der was given a trophy for Man of the Match in a recent football game. Connor Hamilton plays hockey for South Wales and has also competed in the Welsh club fi-nal. Anna Bunford-Davies r ecently compet-ed in a cross country riding competition and achieved second place and Andrew Te Water Naude completed a tr iathlon. A very well done to everyone for a really successful year.

9A

Some fantastic musical talents in 9A with Jack Ruelle gaining a mer it in grade 6, cornet. Also successful were Grace Beacall, grade 4, Karishma Krishma, grade 2 and Christina Kulamannage, grade 5, all in piano. Charlie Thomas has been showcasing her amazing figure skating skills, performing at Cardiff’s ‘All Around the World’ gala. She has also represented the school in athletics. Isaac Grant landed himself the suitably comedic role of ‘Pumba’, in the school pro-duction of ‘Lion King’. In sports news, Niall Murphy won player of the season at Dinas

Mrs K Chelliingworth & Mr R MacPherson

‘The pupils have had a busy year with many pupils achieving a lot of success’

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football club. Henry Kynaston won the coaches player award in the school basketball team and Nathan Terry achieved a yellow belt in tae kwondo. Congratulations to Evie Bamford who won a Red Cross fir st aid completion, a very rewarding hobby. We would also like to wish Nashasha Davies good luck in her future trampolining compe-titions.

9M 9M have proved throughout the year to be an exceptionally hard working form, both in school and in extra-curricular activities. Aca-demically the class has been consistently per-forming to a high standard with individuals reaching and surpassing their targets, such as Emily McConnon who has moved up 2 sets in Mathematics, Katie Nicol who has moved up in both Mathematics and Science and Amandine Ware who very nearly achieved full marks in a recent Media Stud-ies exam. On the sporting front 9M has also excelled, with Mila Monaghan winning an extensive amount of sailing trophies in vari-ous tournaments that culminated in her being selected for the Laser 4.7 Great Britain Sum-mer Squad. Nathan Waite has also performed particularly well, being selected to play for his men’s cricket side and was able to take 3 wickets in one game. We also have many future football stars in 9M who have all had a successful season (Owain Lane, Joe Jenkins, Matthew Dawson, Dylan Penry-Williams). Luke Haynes showed great skill to come second in a kayaking competition and Kate Powell did exceptionally well to come 3rd in

a cycling competition at Newport Velo-drome. In the Arts 9M has also shown a vari-ety of talents such as Niamh Bannister who is currently singing in the National Children’s Choir of GB and Cerys Harvey who is at-tending auditions to pursue a career in acting.

9X Rhys Meddins won a 5 hole golf competi-tion at Cottrell Park and received a set of golf balls in recognition of this achievement. Dyl-an Wright represented Penar th three times in the junior badminton team. He com-peted in tournaments against Brecon, Abergavenny and Merthyr Tydfil. Ellie Bar-rington has reached level 5 in Ice Skating. Ellena Jones and Mya Denton helped with the recent Year 5 Enterprise Day which was a huge success. Cyril Hickman took part in a parade with the Lord Mayor of Cardiff to commemorate Remembrance Day. Kayleigh Taylor has been attending Homework Club. Elinor Hawkins has completed level 1 and 2 in ice skating and enjoys regularly at-tending her swimming and rowing clubs. Kate Buckland has represented the school as part of the Netball and Athletics Team. She is also in the production of ‘The Lion King.’ Kristy Webley continues to excel in horse riding and qualified in the 138cm Gra-ham Heath class at Scope Festival 2015 in the 1metre 5-1metre 10 class. Megan Marsden played the par t of the lioness in the production of ‘Lion King’ and she is also a valued member of the Senior, Junior and Show Choir. Mason Enticott played the role of the hyena in ‘The Lion King’ and we en-

“Our sportsmen and women have had a wonderful year”

Mrs K Chelliingworth & Mr R MacPherson

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joyedseeing him in action. Tiegan Sissons was also in the show. Jordan Shepperd is a valued player in Basketball Club. William Hall is par ticipating in the wor ld champi-onships in Poland in the summer holidays – we wish him luck in this next adventure. Sa-rah Pascoe passed her grade 5 piano exam and was in the chorus in the Lion King. Li-bero Tassinari has represented both the school and the Vale in basketball and has played water polo for the Welsh Wanderers. Da iawn 9X for all of these excellent achievements.

9W

Nimrod Abramovich received the ‘Most Improved Boy of the Year’ award for water polo. Ellie Adams played the role of Simba’s mother in The Lion King Junior. Thomas Atkinson played football for Newpor t County Academy and was part of the team that won the Junior Premier League. In row-ing, Sophie Brewster achieved 800m in less than four minutes. Leona Cook passed her debut grade on guitar in March. Jessica Da-vid has taken par t in both dance and cheerleading rehearsals. Ben Evans has been regularly attending guitar lessons. Kab Fordjour r eceived ‘Players’ Player of the Year’ award at Sully FC. Morgen Jay had a main role in the production of The Lion King Junior and was offered a trial for Cardiff Swimming Club. Lydia Milward was part of a tetrathlon team that came second at a com-petition in May. Lydia was selected to repre-sent Wales and she achieved second place at an event in Ledbury. Bronwen Morgan-

Jones and Charlotte White are working towards grade 3 piano. Lucas Murray was part of Newport County Academy and was captain of the team that won the Junior Prem-ier League. He received ‘Squadman of the Year’ award with Cardiff and Vale Football Academy. Tara Robinson has attended the Mark Jermin Stage School and has been vol-unteering at Liege Manor Equestrian Centre every Sunday. Ellis Smith helped his team to win two rugby tournaments and the team maintained an unbeaten record for ten games in a row. Harrison Williams attended the Eu-ropean karate Championships as part of the Welsh team. He won a bronze medal in team kata and a bronze medal in team kumite. Rhys Woolmer has played for Bar ry Ath-letic FC and was part of the team that won the Vale of Glamorgan Football League. April Corbett, Dillon Lee and Lewis Do-novan have regular ly par ticipated in dif-ferent sports this year.

9O 9O pupils continue to impress with their achievements both in and out of school. Sam Froggatt has just passed grade 2 piano. Sam Wright has passed grade 5 trumpet and grade 4 guitar. Harmony Hewlett has achieved grade 7 in piano and grade 5 in vio-lin. She will also be part of the Lion King Orchestra. Sadie Lewis achieved grade 3 bal-let and modern dance in PAAW, and took part in the recent school production of the Lion King where she played a lioness. Kelli Poole, Nancy Blenkinsop also had par ts as animals in the school production, da iawn chi. Fiona Brunker came 2nd in the Cardiff and Vale Competitions qualifying for the na-

“a pro-active member of the Eco-committee”

Mrs K Chelliingworth & Mr R MacPherson

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tional advanced first aid finals for St John Ambulance. She was also part of the chorus for the school production and as part of PODS has helped work on The Railway Children and Hot Mikado. Shannon Smith has passed her membership and completed her first aid course for St John Ambulance. Well done to Holly Morgans who has been picked to compete for Wales at the Byrds inter-regional dressage horse riding competi-tion. Holly has also been selected to repre-sent Wales in a National Competition for British Dressage. Rowan Deininger-Smith achieved 3rd place in the county chess tourna-ment. Jacob Hatcher has captained his local cricket team and along with Jacob Rosser caught a Koi ornamental fish as part of their fishing hobby. George Cowley captains Penar th Rugby and, as part of the school team, got to the semi-finals in the sevens Vale Cup tourna-ment, alongside Yaseen Ghandour. Da iawn to George Cowley as part of CVSRA rowing club he has won 3 gold medals, two in the Monmouth Reggatta two and four man sculls and one as part of a four man scull on the Olympic course at Dorney Lake, Eton. Jo-seph Williams became the players’ player of the year for his local team, while also achieving 3rd place in his clubs junior karate competition. Yaseen Ghandour became Eurpoean champion for his age group in breaking and sparring and British champion for weapons and form, he is currently one away from black belt. I am very proud of everything the pupils have achieved this year— enjoy the summer 9O and well done all!

9R

9R pupils have been very busy this year, both inside school and out. First let’s talk about our achievements in school, many of our form members have excelled and improved greatly in their subjects: in Art, Sophie Bale has im-proved from a C to a B, Lily Sellick has gone from a C to an A in History and moved up a set in Science, Mollie Hogg has also moved up a set in Science to set 1 and in addition has been awarded the Lily-Anne Rogers award which she collected at Award Ceremony.

Connie Shah has improved in Maths to move up a set and finally Holly Keith has also improved in Science to move up to set 2. We also have a lot of talented musical pupils in 9R: Chloe Lam has achieved grade 5 in piano, Ellie-Rose Griffiths took the solo in her church choir, Jamie Locke-Jones has com-pleted grade 3 guitar and Jozef Bailey has completed grade 2 piano. Well done to all our budding Beethovens!

In addition to academic achievements and musical accolades, several members of our form have been busy representing various clubs, teams and countries both inside and out of school in a range of different sports. Jozef Bailey has completed the highest level of rookie lifeguard training with Cogan Leisure Centre; George Jones has completed a junior coaching course with Penarth Tennis Club; Josephine Harris swam for a Cardiff based club, winning several medals and represented

“several members of our form have been busy representing various clubs”

Mrs K Chelliingworth & Mr R MacPherson

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Georgia Harris is soon to become par t of the Cardiff Comets ice hockey team and has officially become part of the Cardiff Athlet-ics Team. Matthew Hocking has gained his Level 1 power boating licence and is hoping to achieve Level 2 very soon; Sara Buckland has achieved a personal success by skiing down the longest black run in Europe; Joel Heaton-Jones r epresented Old Pens in a 7s tournament in Weston-Super-Mare; Matthew Frost has been busy winning the cup with Cogan Football Team, beating Llandaff North 72-0 with Penarth Rugby Team and winning the backstroke competition for Penarth; Kieran Murphy has also been busy swimming and came second for his team at a recent competition. Toby Dyer represented South Wales in the regional basketball tour-nament in Bangor and came second; Ben Hayes and Callum Russell both played in the cup final for Penarth in the Arms Park and won and Callum also came 3rd in South Wales in the 800m and competed in a cross-country competition for South Wales and the Vales of Glamorgan. Some members of our form have other interests including Arron Speake who attended a programming course during the Easter holidays and learnt Agile software development including C, ro-botics and electronics. This is something which Arron hopes to pursue as a career path later on in life and something which also in-terests Jamie Locke-Jones who has com-pleted 4 python courses. Finally, two of our members have been busy raising money for charity: Ellie-Rose Grif-fiths has raised £63.50 by running 5k for the Lesotho Trust and Katy Cutts has raised an impressive £105 for Race for Life 2015. 9K 9K have taken part in a wide range of extra-curricular activities this year. Bethan Wood-

ley took 1st place for the Vale in a trampolin-ing competition. Ethan Shellem-Price won both the Welsh Taekwondo and Kick-boxing competition for his age- group. Ben Hanson won the silver medal for his weight and age category in judo and Stanley Murphy-Johns came 3rd in the 1500 meter race for Cardiff. Mair Jones, Lauren Richards, Elinor Hain and Hannah Salmon travelled to London to take part in a dance competition and all did very well. Bronwen Pearce successfully com-pleted her grade 5 ballet exam. Ellie Warren completed her grade 4 piano exam.

9L

Anna Webster took her grade 5 LAMDA acting exam last December and had a role in the school production of Lion King. She has also performed at Her Majesty’s Theatre and Shaftesbury Theatre in London with her thea-tre school. Alice Short has achieved piano grade 5, tenor horn grade 7, and was part of the orchestra for the Lion King production and received an award in the National Youth Brass Band Championships of Great Britain. Gabriella Merrick , Andrew Lewis and Cai Lloyd were par t of the Lion King cast. Isaac Singh has just finished grade 7 for the drums and is currently working towards grade 8. Thomas Ralphs is currently on grade 3 for the drums, whilst Rory Norris has achiegrade 2 on the guitar. Eve Lumsden is part of the Lion King cast and has grade 5 ballet. Jacob Diamond has played football for the Development football squad.

“competed in a cross-country competition for South Wales”

Mrs K Chelliingworth & Mr R MacPherson

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It has been a busy term for Year 10 pupils,

both in terms of academic challenges and extra

-curricular involvement and we are proud to

look back over a very varied and successful

year. Pupils have had to apply themselves fully

as they prepared for their external GCSE ex-

ams and they have coped admirably with their

external modular examinations. Many have

already completed numerous controlled assess-

ment tasks that contribute to their final GCSE

grades. Good luck to all who have worked so

diligently.

Our pastoral programme has included a varied

and diverse selection of topics and Year 10

pupils have explored themes such as poverty,

homelessness, success, coping with failure,

internet safety, sexual exploitation and alcohol.

We have also had a host of visiting speakers

including Barnardos, various theatre in educa-

tion groups and our police liaison officer, Em-

ma Mudie. Our pupils have responded to some

very thought provoking topics with maturity

and sensitivity and for this they should be con-

gratulated.

Our Military Prep pupils have successfully completed their first year qualification. These pupils have been involved in exciting expedi-tionary/military style exercises whilst also practising their skills of planning and prepar-ing a small expedition, living and cooking in

the field, camouflage and navigation. In addition, the pupils who attend Cardiff & Vale College have successfully completed their first year of their qualification. Our pupils are enrolled on hair and beauty, construction and motor vehi-cle courses and will continue with these studies in Year 11.

As expected, the level of participation in the

Duke of Edinburgh scheme has been impres-

sive. As part of the scheme the pupils have un-

dertaken fundamental first aid training and

most pupils have completed their assessed ex-

pedition. Many pupils in Year 10 have also

been involved in the numerous departmental

trips that have taken place this year.

“Many pupils in Year 10 have also been involved in the numerous departmental trips”

Mrs R Connor and Mr A Chambers

Blwyddyn 10 Extra curricular activities and indeed home-

work club provision have been well attended

by many Year 10 pupils. These clubs benefit

our pupils immensely and are a source of

great educational and enjoyment for those

involved. A full list of clubs can be found on

our Year 10 Moodle page which is updated

regularly.

A ‘Work Experience Preparation afternoon’

was completed in June and this session ena-

bled pupils to prepare for their placement,

providing essential practical advice about

working with adults whilst also encouraging

the pupils to think about health and safety

implications whilst in the work place.

“A full list of clubs can be found on our Year 10 Moodle page which is updated regularly.”

Mrs R Connor and Mr A Chambers

Work Experience Week

All Year 10 pupils undertook a Work Ex-

perience placement from the 6th- 10th July.

Our pupils conducted themselves with

professionalism and maturity and many

employers spoke highly of the contribu-

tion made over the course of the week.

This experience is most valuable for our

pupils as it provides a platform for them to

develop essential work skills and focus on

their powers of communication in a pro-

fessional environment.

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“There has been an abundance of positive news this term.”

Mrs R Connor and Mr A Chambers

There has been an abundance of positive news this term. 10T Lowena Diment has had a poem success-fully published by United Press in a book entitled ‘Words’, and Ben Jones continues to play rugby for the school team. 10E Chloe Dicks and Penny Moon attended the school ski trip and Cameron Jones was part of a local football team that recently won the Vale of Glamorgan Cup. Harry Smith has been awarded a football cup and Alex Whitfield has been selected for the British Sailing Squad. Congratulations must also go to Geraint Willimas who has been selected to tour with the Vale District Rugby Team. 10A Noah Bushby has passed his grade 1 cor -net exam and Rhys Butler was awarded play-er of the year in his local football team. Eli Jennings r ecently received a school award for endeavour and Alexandra Slack has recently competed in Belgium in a Euro-pean karate competition. 10M Khalif Jama went on a football tour to Holland with his local football club. Madeline Morrison and Henry Waddon have performed in a recent performing arts showcase at school.

Tomas McSorley took par t in a Youth Musical Theatre production and is awaiting a Cardiff Blues trial date. Maxine Pwele has taken part in an athletics competition and Em-ma Squire also competed in the European Championships in Belgium for karate . 10W Alex Hodges came third place in a recent Cardiff rowing regatta and Josh Lewis has been successful in gaining a place with Car-diff Blues Rugby Under 16s team. Ellie Mur-ray has danced in the Royal Alber t hall in London and Clodagh Mckechine has danced in a recent concert with the national dance company of Wales.

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“Under 15 Welsh basketball team”

Mrs R Connor and Mr A Chambers

10O Catrin Jones has qualified as a fir st aider , young lifesaver and has also passed grade 5 theory and also achieved a merit in her re-cent grade 5 music exam. Josh Lewis, Rich-ard Lee, Jack Cooke, Tommy Friel, Ge-raint Williams, Ethan Harris, Morgan Ashton, Rhys Jones and Antonio Peacock have just won the regional heats and have progressed to the finals of the Welsh Schools’ Athletics Competition. We wish them all the best for the next round of com-petition. 10 R

Thaine Baker has played rugby at both

school and club level and Osian Boland has

joined Penarth Air Cadets. Ellis Hawkins

Payne has completed a piping course with

Penarth Air Cadets and Josh Starling and Joe

Stephens Collins have per formed with the

school show choir.

10K Gwyn Donlan has passed his grade 4 gui-tar exam and Carmela Hermogeno has been selected for the Under 15 Welsh basketball team. Sophie Page has volunteered with PDSA.

10X Jack Cooke has par ticipated in football and athletics and Lia Dyer has represented the school in a recent athletics competition. Ben Evans has passed his recent grade 6 guitar exam and George Lush attends art club. Max Paley has passed his grade 6 guitar exami-nation and Chloe Taylor has attended a ca-reers session with the Royal Navy. 10L Many pupils in this form have taken ad-vantage of the various trips on offer at school. Owen Day has volunteered at the local li-brary and Josh Cheeseman has been involved with litter picking. Jack Lee has been selected for the Vale under 15s rugby team. We hope that all our Year 10 pupils have a

happy and healthy summer and we wish the

cohort every success with their GCSE module

results this August.

We are sure that all their hard work and revi-

sion will pay off! Good luck everyone!

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Since Christmas, Year 11 have undertaken GCSE modular examinations, been preparing themselves for the summer GCSE assessments and deciding on their options for September; whether to stay in Stanwell, to study at college or to seek employment. Students have attended the 6th Form Options Evening, intention interviews, assemblies and Induction Day to introduce the new subjects available in the 6th form and the conduct required to excel at AS/A Level. The summer GCSE examinations started on Fri-day 8th May and ended on Monday 22nd June, during which time formal revision sessions were held and other sessions were arranged by various departments in order to consolidate learning and ensure key skills were refreshed immediately prior to the important external exams. Attend-ance at the formal revision sessions was good, which shows the enthusiasm and commitment of Year 11 pupils.

On Tuesday 28th April the MPCT held its annu-al Awards Ceremony. Ten Stanwell Year 11 pu-pils attend MPCT one day a week and study BTEC Public Services, along with many pupils from other schools from Cardiff and The Vale of Glamorgan. The Awards Ceremony was for MPCT’s three South Wales Centres: Cardiff, Rhumney and Bridgend. This makes the achieve-ments of the Stanwell pupils even more prestig-ious. The afternoon started with a fabulous dis-play of PT skills and students on parade, fol-

“Llongyfarchiadau mawr!”

Miss L Jenkins & Mr B Crompton

lowed by presentations by the pupils. We were delighted to win the Schools’ Award for the Cardiff Centre and Jane Norton collected the award on behalf of the school. In addition to this great achievement, there were many individu-al winners:

Winner of the Most Promising Student:

Rebecca Johnson

Winner of the Best PT Male: Morgan

Rees

Nominated for the Players’ Player: Amy

Stanton-Foo and David Warner

Nominated for the Best Academic Port-

folio: Ffion Phillips and Jasmine Rah-

man

Nominated for the Best PT Female:

Amy Stanton-Foo Public Speaking Awards: Charles de Grey, Rebecca Johnson, Morgan Rees, Jasmine Rahman, Amy Stanton-Foo.

Llongyfarchiadau i bawb on completing Cardiff & Vale College courses and the Military Preparation school course in Cardiff.

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“Pob lwc i bawb”

Miss L Jenkins & Mr B Crompton

A big thank you to all the Year 11 form repre-sentatives in particular Lily Winnan and Jo-seph Burge on representing Year 11 on the School Council. This has been a very exciting year for Year 11 with regards to their sporting achievements. Several individuals have had great success in their particular fields. Worthy of a special mention is Owen Lloyd who played superbly in the second row for Wales U16 v England

U16. Congratulations to all pupils in Year 11 who have participated in extra-curricular activities this year. 100% of Year 11 pupils have partici-pated in one or more extra–curricular activities.

The Year 11 Moodle pages have been successfully developed and enhanced throughout the year. They have proved to be an invaluable source of information to pupils and parents with details of exam timetables, GCSE re-sits and homework clubs being published there. In particular, key information was communicated to pupils once the GCSEs had commenced and pupils were on study leave. Details of arrangements for results day will be published via Moodle and the school website, so please keep checking for up-dates. You could also follow us on: @StanwellYr11

Indeed, we look forward to results day on Thursday 20th August where we hope that the pupils’ hard work will be suitably rewarded with excellent GCSE grades. We wish our Year 11 students every suc-cess and look forward to seeing many of the pupils return to Year 12. It has been a great year with many fantastic achieve-ments. We wish those not returning to Stanwell the very best of luck in their chosen career paths.

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This has been a crucial term for Year 12 with the students sitting their external AS examina-tions. These began during the week beginning May 11th with the year group starting their study leave May 3rd. Since their return, the students have been focusing on several ele-ments of the Welsh Baccalaureate. Each stu-dent has completed a week of work experi-ence and most have been working with a local employer. This has given them an invaluable insight into the world of work and, hopefully, will have helped to focus their attentions on a possible future career. All have been writing their Individual Investigations; a minimum of 3000 words on an academic topic in which they have a particular interest. A group of ten students took time out from their busy exam timetables to take part in the InterAction Council conference at Newport’s Celtic Man-or. They were able to ask questions of and debate with a group of 25 former world lead-ers including former Prime Ministers and Presidents.

Many students are now starting to consider what path they may take when their time at Stanwell comes to a close next summer. Our pupils are starting to research universities and courses as well as familiarising them-selves with the UCAS application process.

James Brennan of Cardiff University has spoken with the students about 'Life at University' and many parents attended the Higher Education Information Evening, when Ieuan Hopkins from Cardiff Univer-sity guided parents on how they could sup-port their children through the UCAS pro-cess and provided helpful information about student finance. Ieuan’s presentation is available in the 6th Form moodle area along with a great deal of other supporting material.

Head Boy and Head Girl

Appointments With Year 13 leaving to focus on their A Level examinations, this is the time of year when Year 12 students now take their place as the senior pupils in the school. The student senior team and prefect group have been elected. Joshua Lewis and Al-exandra Warren are now Stanwell' s head boy and head girl with William Brown and Ellen Ashton as their depu-ties. 16 prefects were also chosen. W01 Megan Hain recently sang and danced in a showcase for the ‘Superstars in the Making’ theatre group. Sally Jones has been busy fundraising for her visit to Le-sotho this summer. Hannah Sood will shortly be dancing for Performing Arts Academy Wales at Barry Memo. Emily Walters applied to The Guardian to re-view children’s and young adult novels. She has been accepted and is all set to re-view these books for The Guardian on-line website. WO2

Miss L Bekker and Mr K Watkins

“a crucial term”

Year 12 on work experience with Wildgaze Films in London’s Soho. Musically, Niamh Teague and Ioan Morgan-Jones have passed grade 8 oboe and grade 7 recorder respectively. WO3 Thomas Mullett will be representing Wales at the World Scout Jamboree in Japan in July. Rhodri Guerrier is well on the way to com-pleting the Duke of Edinburgh Gold Award. Elizabeth Birch-Hurst has been selected for the Wales U-17 netball team. Stephanie Friend and Lucy Sharpe have gained a merit and dis-tinction respectively, Stephanie in grade 5 pi-ano and Lucy in intermediate modern dance. Verity Tucker has been successful in attain-ing a place at the Glasgow Academy Musical Theatre Arts. W04 Well done to Sarah Brabham and Alice Holder who have won the Young Reporters for the Environment Project for Wales—they both received a letter from Andrew RT Davies AM, Leader of the Welsh Conservatives to congrat-ulate them. W05 Evgenia Brusnitskaya attended an Engi-neering course at Loughborough University and completed a 2 week work placement at the civil and structural Engineering companies Bhpl and ARUP. Lauren Cummins completed her work experience at Wales News

Service. Emilie Waite will be spending 2 weeks in Thailand this summer with Global Volunteer-ing International. Alex Collins worked as an ex-tra on ‘Casualty’ and Eric Aydin worked as an extra on an American TV show. He also held a photo gallery and music event. Rachel Gilbert passed her grade 5 on the flute. W06 Ashley Cullen passed both recruit test and interview for the Royal Marines. Mark Norton will be attending the Maths Summer School at Edinburgh University. He also participated in the UWC short course where he discussed politi-cal issues with people from Europe and the Mid-dle East. Joshua Whittaker was top goal scorer at Gol Wednesday League. Joshua Lewis and Rhys Knight were par t of the successful Sully Youth team who went on to win the South Wales League Championship. Matthew Bennett will have a trial for the American soccer team, Orlando City S.C. this August—we wish him every success. W07 William Chappell completed an interesting work experience placement at Cardiff Universi-ty’s Chemistry department, where he learnt about different techniques for chemical analysis. W08 A big well done and good luck to Sian Smith whose talents have earned her a place at the Arts Educational School’s London Musical Theatre summer school. Good luck to Georgina Smith and Gabrielle Harding who are working towards the Duke of Edinburgh Gold Award. Finally, congratulations to Deklan Grotz for winning the progress and endeavour award for Year 12.

“Young Reporters for the Environment”

Miss L Bekker and Mr K Watkins

Year 12 W09 Congratulations to Teigan Couper, Megan Clarke and Georgia Wiltshire for their participation in Gold Duke of Edinburgh. Tei-gan and Georgia are also par ticipating in residential this summer in Storey Arms, Brec-on and Thailand respectively. Zac Dyer has recently passed his grade 6 piano and is pre-paring for his grade 8 trumpet exam. Zac has received an offer to work at Gilbert Engineer-ing over the summer and Sameera Actie has also secured a job with a security firm in sum-mer. Congratulations to Lois Noble who has been selected as one of only eight students from the whole of Wales to attend the Lord Edmund Davies Legal Education Trust scheme. She will be shadowing solicitors and barris-ters and marshalling with Judges. Emma Da-vies has been running a cr icket club in school and earned her 7th Welsh cap this year. Emma has also per formed as par t of the African Chorus in the school’s production of ‘Lion King Junior’.as well as performing in the Chicago medley for Show Choir along with Megan Clarke. Finally, well done to Cer-ys Salter for being chosen as dance captain in an upcoming production of Fagin with Youth Music Theatre UK in Bracknell W10 Stuart Keeling has set up and run an 8-aside football league at Headlands School, where he rented facilities. This was a 12 week league with numerous teams competing. Eve-ry Monday Harry Griffiths has tutored Year 5 and Year 6 students in Bute Town Communi-ty Centre. During these sessions he was sup-porting students with their English and Maths skills. Daniel Wilson has completed his Bronze Duke of Edinburgh Award with an expedition to Swansea. Annabel Davies is in the process of completing her Gold Duke of Edinburgh

Award with a five day expedition to mid-Wales. Milissa Sorenson has secured a placement over the summer with the Nuffield Entomology Research Facilities at Cardiff Museum. She has also been accepted for the Rotary Club ‘Leadership Award’ where she will both learn and teach new skills .

Milissa has also been par t of the Teenage Cancer Trust group ‘Teen Spirit’ where they have raised £32,968. Olivia Dwyer has raised £3,700 in eight months for the Penarth and Dis-trict Lesotho Trust; she is aiming to raise £4,500 by summer. Martin Doyle has been nominated by WJEC for the ‘Innovations Award’ for his A level DT project.

Amber Randall has achieved a ‘distinction’ in her grade 6 violin. She has also been assisting in the school productions. Seren James has completed her black belt grading for Karate, she was awarded first dan.

Miss L Bekker and Mr K Watkins

“ earned her 7th Welsh cap this year”

Blwyddyn13 The final two terms are always busy for Year 13 and this year was no exception. The vast majority of students in the year group have been working tirelessly to complete course-work pieces and, in particular all aspects of the Welsh Baccalaureate, before timetabled les-sons ceased. It has been a encouraging to see that their efforts have been duly rewarded with the qualification featuring in over 50% of of-fers from the students’ first choice universi-ties.

163 students applied to UCAS and most have now confirmed their firm and insurance choic-es. Indeed, 5 students have received offers form Oxbridge. Congratulations to all those who have received offers and good luck in meeting the requirements.

Guest speakers from various universities have been advising the students on different aspects of university life. James Kerr of Swansea gave a presentation on the realities of universi-ty life and Alex Kennedy of the University of South Wales spoke to the year group about finance and budgeting. Cardiff’s Iwan Hop-kins gave advice on interview technique and Julian Gould-Williams of Cardiff’s Business School allowed the year group to gain experi-ence of a typical university lecture. All ses-sions were extremely informative and, at times, very entertaining.

Students who wish to enter the world of work after leaving Stanwell have also been receiv-ing specialist advice. Local businessman Carl-michael Reardon-James, a volunteer business ambassador with Careers Wales has been tak-ing sessions with those seeking employment on where to look for work in their field of in-

terest, writing CVs, interview technique and arranging work experience with local firms. The students found these sessions very useful and informative.

Year 13 students have also been contributing to worthy causes this year. They turned out in droves to donate blood allowing Stanwell to be the first school in Wales to host the Blood Ser-vice for a day and many also provided swabs to be used in an important Meningococcal study following a presentation by Sam Rose of the University of Wales hospital.

Rebecca Te Water Naude organised a very successful hustings event for sixth form stu-dents in the period leading up to this year’s gen-eral election. Local candidates from the 5 main political parties answered questions posed by our sixth form students on a variety of topics from lowering the voting age to class barriers within the high echelons of British politics.

We celebrated the achievements of the year group at the Valedictory dinner held at Holland House Hotel, Cardiff on Friday July 3rd. All remains is to wish our students the best of luck for results day on Thursday, August 13th and also for the future.

‘The final two terms are always busy for Year 13 and this year was no exception’

Mrs A Mansfield Mr M Gershenson

Well done to the following pupils who have attended 

school every day since September

Stanwell School’s Attendance figure for 2014‐15 is 

95.6%.  Thank you for your continued support in 

raising the annual performance figure.  

100% ATTENDANCE ACHIEVEMENT: AUTUMN TERM 2014‐15 

YEAR 7 PUPILS: 

Tasneem  Ali 

 Charlie  Alsop 

 Kitty  Bax 

 Ryan  Best 

 Daisy  Bollington 

 Max  Bradley Glinister 

 Jessica  Bullock 

 Georgia  Carr 

 Lloyd  Clarke 

 Jamie  Cook 

 Marisa  Crandon 

 Francis  Dawson 

 Michael  Dolbear 

 Benjamin  Donovan 

 Megan  Drake 

 Charles  Edwards 

 Oliver  Evans 

 Adam  Grosfils 

 William  Heale 

 Felix  Hughes 

Alexandra  Iredale 

Charlotte  Jones 

Lloyd     Kaged 

 David  Keane 

 Tia  Lee 

 Tom  Lumsden 

 Brooke  Martinson 

 Jack  Petersen 

 Phoebe  Powell 

 Ben  Price 

 Ellis  Selman 

 Arron  Smith 

 Molly  Stroud 

 Sophie  Thomas 

 Eva  Tomalin‐Reeves 

 Rebecca  Utting 

 Tom  Walters 

 Imogen  Williams 

YEAR 8 PUPILS 

Sophie Anderton

Max Baker

Arianne Banks

Enyala Banks

Reinel Castillo

Natasha Croll

Jack Doyle

Megan Edwards

Caitlin Evans

Kayleigh Fisher

Emily Griffiths

Tomos Hughes

Reuben Jones

Samuel Kneale

Jamie Lawrence

Thomas Lee

Joshua Lougher

Laura Macleod

Billy McCullagh

Rhys McGowan

Ethan Mulcahy Charlotte Peach

Neil Power

Jack Pritchard

Aled Rees

Lauren Selman

Rory Skinner

Jack Stockley-Jones

Mia Sutcliffe-Hill

Lloyd Thomas

Joseff Thompson

Adam Weir

YEAR 9 

Felicity Allen

Matthew Barber

Samuel Barden

Guillaume Bigsby

Elliot Davies

James Dawson

Rowan Deininger-Smith

Ellen Driveman

Sonny Edwards

Aidan Emberson

Ben Evans

Jake Finch

Kab Fordjour

Eleanor-Rose Griffiths

Elinor Hawkins

Joel Heaton-Jones

Amy Jordan

Holly Keith

Owain Lane

Cai Lloyd

Jamie Locke-Jones

Jack Matthews

Dylan Penry-Williams

Jack Ruelle

Nicky Tsoi

Wataru Yamada

YEAR 10 PUPILS 

Daniel Anderton

Thaine Baker

Jonathan Bennett

Ffion Blunsdon

Rebecca Bratby

Jake Carr

Ben Evans

Kieron Gimber

Annie Higgins

Samuel James

Richard Jones

Aymen Khan

Clodagh McKechnie

Benjamin Roderick

Samuel Stapleton

Owain Thomas

Anton Trunin

Rory Wiltshire

YEAR 11 PUPILS  

Adney, James

Alstead, Dominic

Cole, Gregory

Collins, Tom

Dawson, Matthew

Fitt, Bethany

Frost, Nathan

Grafton, Isabel

Ignacio, Jonathan

Iredale, Robyn

Lean, Alex

Lee, Izaak

Loweth, Grace

Peterson, Rosina

Prickett, George

Rees, Ebony

Rees, Morgan

Tavanaie, Kiyan

Troth, Jacob

Tunley, Thomas

Turpin, Benjamin

Walsh, Amy

Williams, Harry

Willson, James

Wiltshire, Samuel

Wright, Jonathan

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