Appleford School, Shrewton, Nr Salisbury, Wiltshire, SP3 4HL

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A P P L E F O R D

AUTUMN TERM 2016

SPEECH DAY

(SUMMER TERM)

The sun shone on the last day of the 2015/2016 academic year, with parents, friends and families filling the sports hall to share in the celebration of a year at Appleford.

During the ceremony, pupil Evie Halpin sang beautifully and David Yip played the violin.

STAFF NEWS

Our lovely registrar/secretary Jan Lock is on maternity leave until October 2017. A little brother for Matilda, Alfie is already keeping Mum busy.

WEDDING

VENUE

Four huge teepees arrived on Appleford’s front lawn at half term. These were to celebrate Mrs Clark’s (Head of Lower School) daughter’s wedding. Mrs Clark made her daugh-ter’s wedding dress, and wore

NEW

BOARDING AND

PASTORAL STAFF

Miss Cleaver Houseparent Willow House

Mrs Mills Science

Technician

Mr Anderson Houseparent The Beeches

Mr Bell Houseparent Elm House

Mrs Bell Assistant

Houseparent Elm House

Miss Palmer Boarding Assistant

Mrs Craggs Boarding Assistant

Mrs Williams Boarding Assistant

Mrs Thurston Boarding Assistant

Miss Cox Boarding Assistant

Mrs Gray Head of Boarding & Pastoral Care

Mr Cull Assistant

Pastoral Care

Mrs Filkins Deputy Head of Boarding

Mr David King (Headmaster of Appleford), Mrs Sarah Rose Troughtron (Lord-Lieutenant of Wiltshire), Dr Peter Gardner (Proprietor) and Mrs Gill Watson (Chair of the Friends of Appleford).

Tom Edmunds (Head Boy) and Charlotta Timms (Head Girl) both gave an excellent end of year speech, sharing past memories of their time at Appleford .

NEW BUILDINGS

The art block being demolished in

preparation for the arrival of Willow house.

The new Science and Drama block arriving to be known as The Rookery.

a hat made for her by Sarah Dawnay, (milliner) our uniform shop lady.

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HEADMASTER’S

TEA PARTY

Pupils invited to have afternoon tea with Headmaster, Mr King, in recognition of their having been great ambassadors for Appleford.

HARVEST FESTIVAL

Under 13 boys took part in their first tournament of the season at the National Dyslexia Football competi-tion, finishing in third place overall.An excellent perfor-mance from all involved, showing great team work, spirit and determination.

CONKER

COMPETITION

Pupils took part in the annual conker competition, using the abundance of conkers which fell from Appleford’s Horse Chestnut trees.

Peter and Elliott take aim!

Parents enjoyed another wonderful evening of fine dining at Appleford. Guests arrived in their finery to an excellent meal (prepared by our catering team) in the school dining hall, which had been transformed for the event.

NATIONAL DYSLEXIA FOOTBALL

COMPETITION The Lower School attended a Harvest Service at St Mary’s Church where the pupils presented various items to celebrate the Harvest. Mr Parsons from the Trussell Trust gave an excellent talk about ’sharing’ and received food the school had collected.

OF MICE AND MEN

To support their cross curricular work, year 10 drama students performed section of their GCSE literature piece to their English lesson classmates, making the learning process interactive and a whole lot of fun.

Year 10 pupils bringing John Steinbeck’s characters to life, encouraged all students to learn in a different manner.

SCHOOL

DIARIES

New bespoke school diaries for pupils, full of useful infor-mation and to keep organised.

JUSTIN ALLEN

SKI AWARD

Photos of Harry winning the Junior Fiesta Championship at Brands Hatch. He has also won the Rooky Cup and is the youngest person to win the Junior Championship 14—17 year olds (Harry is 14). Harry did a radio interview and was also in Autosport magazine.

Sunday 13th November saw the Appleford Scouts parade in Shrewton for the first time as part of the village Remem-brance parade and service. Seven Scouts represented the Troop and were a credit to themselves, the Scouts and the school, we were very proud to be marching alongside them. We also had the added excite-ment of parading with our brand new Troop flag which arrived that morning. Huge thanks to those that joined us and we hope that the rest of the Scouts that may have been parading elsewhere had a lovely morning too.

In September Justin passed a ski assessment and was admitted as a member of Ski Milton Keynes (SMK) Race Team. He had to undertake a timed slalom run and demon-strated his ability to spin 360 degrees clockwise, and anti-clockwise.

CONSTANCA

SWIMMING

Constanca is a member of the Salisbury Stingrays swimming club and re-cently won 6 gold and 3 silver medals.

CHILDREN IN

NEED

Mark Cousens and Stanley Kynaston-Stear decided to raise money for Children in Need by having a cake sale at school. They raised £60.00

APPLEFORD

SCOUTS

HARRY WINS

AGAIN

David, Yr 11 pupil, enter-tained guests by playing his violin. Leah Beasley, Yr 10, made the delicious deserts for 60 guests. The Friends of Appleford held a raffle and played a ’heads and tails’ game, which raised a wonderful £512.92 for the school.

PARENTS’ RECEPTION