SCIENCE WEEKThe Science Department marked National Science Week with a number of activities for all year groups including a Crime Scene Investigation project for Year 7 students and a hovercraft activity for Year 8 students.

On Friday 20th March students in all years had the opportunity to view the partial Solar Eclipse. Despite cloudy skies, 84% of the sun was blocked by the Moon and there was a noticeable darkening of the sky.

BEVIN NEWS www.ernestbevin.org.uk Issue 84

Friday, 27th March 2015WORD MILLIONAIRES

Congratulations to all our Word Millionaires this term, some of whom are pictured below with their favourite books. This means there are over 25 boys in college who have read, understood and successfully quizzed on a million words since starting the Accelerated Reader programme in September.

A reminder to all students you should be reading regularly (not just in the reading period after lunch) and taking a quiz on the book as soon as you have finished it. Quizzes must be taken at school but parents can sign up for email updates; more information on how to do this can be found on the college website. You will need to ask your son for his username and password.

http://www.ernestbevin.org.uk/curriculum/ accelerated-reader-scheme

WORLD WAR I COMMEMORATIONAs part of a government initiative, Ms Thompson and two Red Tie students, Warren Flynn 10JB and Omar Ahmad 10JB joined a tour of the World War I battlefields in Belgium and France to commemorate the centenary of the First World War. The group visited a number of key locations and memorials including the Menin Gate Memorial to the Missing and Tyne Cot cemetery.The boys filmed a video diary whilst in Flanders and footage they shot was used by the BBC News School Report team. The BBC School Report Team have also filmed a local history project based in Tooting called the Summerstown 182 which is tracking down information about the 182 men on the War memorial in St Mary’s Church, Summerstown, SW17.

The finished film can be viewed on the college websitehttp://www.ernestbevin.org.uk/curriculum/ media-studies/bbc-news-school-report-2015

MATHS TEAM CHALLENGEWe were invited to enter a team of four for the Regional Final of the UKMT Team Challenge held at Trinity School, Croydon on 13th March. It was an exciting opportunity for the boys to show their mathematical skills against other schools including Sutton, Wallington Grammar, Wilsons and our hosts, Trinity. Boys took part in a Group Round where they had to solve ten questions of varying type and difficulty. The team had to decide their own strategy: whether to work in pairs, individually or as a team, to answer the questions in the time allowed.They then had to complete the Cross Number which is similar to a crossword but with numerical answers. The last two events were the Shuttle and Relay events where the team had to compete against the clock to correctly answer a series of four questions. This event involved lots of movement as well as mathematics. It was a race against the clock with lots of activity and excitement.Well done to Hathisan Kanthakumar 9GCL, Ravin Ramroop 9TP and Adam Dyczko and Sundeep Dhamrait 8YC for representing the college. This year we could not come in the first 10 out of the 36 teams despite all our great efforts. Better preparation for next year boys! Mr Segbafah

Diary DatesFriday 27th March

Last day of termMonday 13th April

College ReopensThursday 23rd April

Year 8 Parents Evening

NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM VISITYear 8 Science Classes have been visiting the Natural History Museum this term. They visited the Discovery Centre and the dinosaur exhibition as well as visiting the Mammal Gallery.“We looked at many fossils, including one of an Ichthyosaur. They looked really, really cool. We even got to see the only fossil with evidence that some dinosaurs had feathers.”

Dhruv Patel 8JAS

FAIRTRADE FORTNIGHTThe Geography Department has marked Fairtrade fortnight ( 23rd Feb to 8th March) with a series of lunch time sessions to learn more about Fairtrade.

A small group of G&T Purple and Yellow ties have spent three lunch times learning about the importance of Fairtrade and raising awareness about where in the world their food comes from. The boys worked in small groups to study a particular Fairtrade product. The boys even got to sample some Fairtrade food. Miss Head

DESIGN AND TECHNOLOGY CLUBSince September Year 7, 8 and 9 students have been taking part in the Design and Technology Club. The purpose of the club is to allow students to develop their own project ideas and explore a range of materials. One student is in the process of building a 3D Printer and another has constructed a set of headphones!

MUSICMusicians and singers from Bevin have taken part in two concerts at the Royal Festival Hall during March. The school choir and 7TEW took part in the iGospel concert as part of a 700-strong choir gathered from all over London. They sang a selection of gospel arrangements of popular songs. A special mention to Rayyan Akram 8JAS who sang a solo.Our musicians also took part in the Wandsworth Brighter Sounds concert organised by the Wandsworth Music Hub. We had three students who played in the orchestra Omar El Amine 11AB, Tyreke Bartley 9MJH and Dejean Bartley 9MAS. The choir also joined 200 or so singers from other Wandsworth schools to perform two large choral works.

WORLD BOOK DAY Boys from Years 7, 8 & 9 enjoyed a talk by an author of teenage fiction as part of World Book Day celebrations. William Osborne, who has just completed his third action adventure story set during the Second World War, talked to the boys about his inspiration for writing books and about his former career as a a Hollywood screen writer (with the Mummy Returns, Twins and Golden Eye to his credit!)After his talk Mr Osborne answered a number of questions from the enthusiastic audience and signed copies of his two published books Hitler's Angel and Winter's Bullet. He said he has just submitted his 3rd book to his publisher and will start work on his 4th book shortly.

Congratulations to the following boys who have won some fabulous book prizes for their participation in the World Book Day quizzes:

Library quiz: Usman Syed 7JDB, Aushur Ali 7JDBSachin Nagulendran 7DD

Big Nate quiz: Hanan Arain 8JAS, Mohammed Sohaib 8CBWimpy Kid quiz: Nidarsan Ravikumar 10EJ, Muhammed

Surfoodeen 10EJ, Ishaq Uddin 7DEPlease come to the library to collect your prizes. There will also be a small prize for everybody who took part.

Mrs Richards, Librarian

Teachers in the Design and Technology department have seen an improvement in the design and practical skills of students attending the club.Both Mr Laher and Mr Lee agreed that the quality of ideas and standard of practical work have been very high.. The club is open from 3:30 to 4:30pm every Tuesday in room 102.

MARCH QUIZ SOLUTIONSBrain Trainer – Easy 33: Medium 94 ; Hard 184

Polygon words – ale, axe, axel, axle, eat, eta, exalt, exult, late, latex, latte, lea, leat, let, leu, lute, luxate, luxe, tael,

tale, tea, teal, text, textual, tule, ute

WANDSWORTH YOUNG CHEFJahni Campbell-Jackson 10JY came runner up out of the seven finalists in the Wandsworth Young Chef of the Year competition.

His menu was: - Starter: Sticky jerk wings with sugared oranges.

Main: Pad Thai with prawns. Dessert: Simple chocolate brownies.

Jahni’s ‘Sticky Jerk Wings’ were especially praised by the executive chefs who judged the competition.

U15 NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPSTwo teams from Bevin competed at the U15 National Championships held at Wessex Sports Centre on 21st March. One of the teams, Greenhouse Mallory Eagles won all their matches, including beating the other Bevin side, to secure a place in the last six to compete for the National title.Umang Patel 10ECB, who was named the coach’s Man of the Match, said: “We haven’t played a lot together and we are not necessarily the best team physically but we won on the day because of the great team work. We were really able to motivate and encourage each other as a team which made the difference.”

CRICKET At the beginning of March Sinjun Grammarians Cricket Club arranged for Andrew Hall (an ex-South Africa cricketer) to come along to a special training session at Bevin. The session went very well and the boys thoroughly enjoyed themselves. Andrew Hall came in his capacity as Director of Junior Cricket and part of his remit is to get more state school children playing for local cricket club like Sinjuns, who play at Trinity Fields.

Training has started for the upcoming cricket season. Sessions take place from 7.30am on Thursday mornings. Any boys interested in playing cricket are welcome to come along. Mr Wiseman

CROSS COUNTRYWell done to Mohamed Mohamud 9MJH who has been wearing his England Athletics Team tie with pride around college this week. Mohamed was part of the England team who raced against teams from Ireland, Scotland and Wales in Dublin on 21st March. Mohamud took 5th place helping England to win the Gold team medal.

Mohamed gained his place on the England team at the Schools International Athletics Board Under 15 Cross Country Championships when he finished 8th in the 3.6km race. His achievement was even more remarkable given the fact he tripped at the start of the race.Mohamed has joined Herne Hill Harriers where he is continuing to develop his skills. Dubbed Bevin’s very own ‘MO’ we look forward to more great things to come!

YOUTH OPPORTUNITY PANELThe Wandsworth Youth Council have £75,000 in the pot that they want to give to young people. Young people could be granted up to £5,000 for each project they want to run. The Youth Council is looking for 6 young people, aged 13 - 19, who live, work or go to school in Wandsworth to become a part of the YOF Panel and help decide how the £75,000 YOF is spent.

Apply via this link: http://youth.wandsworth.gov.uk/youth/downloads/

file/34/yof_young_person_panel_member_application_form

Deadline for applications is Wednesday, 8th April, 5pmIf you are interested in applying for a YOF grant to run a project more information can be found on the Youth Council webpage http://youth.wandsworth.gov.uk/

BEVIN’S GOT TALENTWell done to Praveen Shanthakumar 10AQ who won Bevin’s Got Talent with his Indian Dance routine. Well done to all the other finalists and thank you to everyone who came along and supported the acts as well as donating to the two charities Trinity Hospice and CARAS.

VOLLEYBALL: U18S GRAND PRIXIn the U18s Grand Prix we defeated Tendring 3-0 (25-17, 25-8, 25-7) in the morning to secure our place in the semi-final against Boswells Blaze. Having played them back in December in the semi-final of the U18s National Cup and lost in straight sets, the squad was keen to take revenge and make a final this year.In an epic five set battle Boswells Blaze managed to hold their nerve and win the deciding fifth set 15-11. The match was a fantastic spectacle and Ernest Bevin College, as one of the very few purely school based teams, can be proud of their performance. The Ernest Bevin College squad is: Adam Baiza (C), Cameron Carrington, Kory Bristol, Eric Chao, Arran Simon, Tino Masanga, Sebastian Espin, Ali Ahmed, Kieron Dyer, Toby Shatimehin, Britton Howe, Jordan Robinson. MVP was Toby Shatimehin.We now focus our attention on finishing the league and gaining automatic promotion to Division 2 and also retaining our London Youth Games title in a few months’ time.Finally well done to Cameron Carrington, Adam Baiza, Arran Simon, Ali Ahmed and Dimetrie Grey who all attended the National Junior/ Cadet Camp in Kettering in March.

VOLLEYBALL: LONDON YOUTH GAMESOur volleyball team representing Wandsworth yet again reigned supreme at the London Youth Games male school volleyball finals at UEL Sportsdock on Thursday 12 March.The team were going for a fourth title in a row and showed their quality throughout the day starting with a 25-14 win over Thomas More Catholic from Croydon. They then saw off the challenges of Park High School from Harrow, Redden Court Academy from Havering and Orleans Park from Richmond to book a spot in the final.There they faced a well-drilled Beths Grammar School from Bexley but they proved too strong on the day with a 25-14 victory.Well done to Ali Ahmed 10AQ, Dimetrie Grey 10EJ, Vinojh Kalaiselvan 10ECB, Umang Patel 10ECB, Ebenezer Aduobi 10EJ. Great team effort!

JUDOThe British Schools Championships is the highlight of the year for the younger EBC Judo athletes, this year we entered a relatively inexperienced squad as all of our older pupils are ineligible due to their high competition achievements.Nadir Dafallah 9MJH recently took part in Pre Cadet ranking events which is a step up in difficulty for him. These events helped prepare him for what was a fantastic performance at this year’s national schools championships winning all his matches to scoop the gold medal and national title.Notable performances were also achieved by Ellis Mersh 9TP who fought his way to the bronze final in the under 55kgs category which he lost, never the less Ellis is certainly one to watch for the future.

This year we entered three year seven’s for the first time, Kheireddine Guemmane 7SH, Ayoub Dafallah 7JDB and Zain Choudry 7DD all fought with great tenacity and endeavour winning several matches but not able to get amongst the medallists, no doubt this experience will serve them well in future tournaments.On the following day the older boys attended the English Open event and Adam Adaman 13RCS won a silver medal. Mohammad Alip 12BXB represented England at a European Cup event in Spain and achieved a very creditable 9th place.

Mr Bonti

LONDON YOUTH GAMES FEEDERWe took 12 of the younger judoka from the school and club to the London area Youth Games feeder level 2 competition at the University of London. All 12 came home with a medal. Well done!

GoldAdem Aouicha 7TEW, Amar Loukrichi 7TEW

Ishaq Alleyne 7JDB, Hisham Dob 9MJHSilver

Sorab Sultani 10LDBronze

Shamel Kutty 7DD, Samuel Brooks-Gilzeane 7DDCyprian Gut 7DD, Ahmed Rajah 7SH