Bottisham Village College Netwsletter Spring 2011

newsThe magazine of Bo�sham Village College Issue 4

Spring Term 2011BVCReasons tobe cheerfulare 1, 2, 3

From pages to poundsPage turning by Year 7 bookworms proved profitable for charityand for BVC when they took part in Readathon, the country’slargest reading event. They raised more than £400 for twochildren’s causes and earned the library a book token.� See Page 12 for more library news.

� Sculpture Trail� English block� Locality Team baseIt was a cause for triplecelebration when BottishamVC marked the opening ofthree important newdevelopments on theCollege site.And it also brought to anofficial close a £2.3 millionbuilding project which hasseen major improvementsand a final farewell tomobile classrooms.The College community wasjoined by around 80 guestsfor the special day whichsaw students given thehonour of cutting theribbons and declaring the

new English block, LocalityTeam base and SculptureTrail officially open.Invited guests includedrepresentatives fromLocality Team, sculptors,people involved infundraising, working parties,MP James Paice, Trustpartners, governors, formerprincipal Peter Hains andformer deputy principal JedRoberts.Starting the day’sproceedings was a welcomeby head boy Will Brown andhead girl Lydia Tabbron.� Continues on Page 2

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Term dates 2011/12Note: Two further training days are yet tobe confirmed.

Summer Term 2011April 26 – Staff training dayApril 27 – Term beginsApril 29 – Royal Wedding BankHolidayMay 2 – May Day Bank HolidayMay 30-June 3 – Whitsun halftermJuly 22 – Term ends

Autumn Term 2011September 6 – Term beginsOctober 24-28 – Autumn halftermDecember 16 – Term ends

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Welcome to the spring edition of ournewsletter. It reflects the energy andcommitment of our school community, itspartners and the achievements and talentsof our young people.We have enjoyed another busy andsuccessful term. Fundraising features highly,with particular mention of our contacts withthe Good Life Orphanage in Kenya and ourtwin school in Sri Lanka. Students have alsomade huge contributions to thosetraditional national fundraising drives, RedNose Day and Children in Need. Thank youall for your consideration and work onbehalf of others.We were delighted to welcome friends ofthe College to formally mark and celebratethe opening of our newest facilities and itslandscaping. The English and LearningSupport faculties and a further multi-usespace are by now well-established and muchenjoyed by the whole school. The Children’sCentre is the newest addition to ourimpressive new accommodation; it is a basefor our Locality Team, a hub which places

our College at the heart of our localcommunity. We are privileged and delightedto welcome this dimension into college life.As we approach the Easter holidays, ourYear 11 students will soon begin study leaveand prepare for the challenge of their finalexaminations. This will be their opportunityto consolidate the hard work they havedone so far. I know you will join me inoffering them our support and our bestwishes.

A messagefrom theprincipal

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A day for celebration� Continued from Page 1There was a presentation about the work of theLocality Team, its newly refurbished buildingand the positive impact it was having onstudents.The former modern languages block nowprovides a base for both Bottisham Children’sCentre and the Locality Team which works withyoung people who need extra support.Guests had an opportunity to follow the newCollege Sculpture Trail, believed to be the onlyone in the country at a state school. (For moredetails about the Trail see Pages 8 and 9).This new building, a curved wing on one side ofthe Principal’s Lawn, first ‘opened for business’last summer. It also houses the LearningSupport Faculty and the College’s SocialInclusion Unit.There were exhibitions about the newdevelopments plus a display of winning entriesin a recent Citizenship competition, open toKS3, to design a classroom of the future.Refreshments were provided by HospitalityDiploma students.“We wanted to mark these developments in aspecial way as we have marked importantdevelopments in the past because it’s a bigthing for the College. It’s such an improvement

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This term, the HospitalityDiploma students have beenworking on Unit 2 – customerservice skills for the hospitalityindustry. For their final assessment wehad planned for the studentsto serve lunch to 25 invitedguests attending the schoolfor the Specialist SchoolsAssociation Trust meeting onThursday, February 10. Thestudents had been preparingfor this for some time workingon the menus, preparingdishes in advance andorganising the team workneeded to operate such anevent.However, with all the carefulplanning we had not expected

that the conference would becancelled at the last minute.The students needed to beassessed and the food hadbeen prepared – so we wereon the hunt for guests!Thankfully, members of thelocal community, the LocalityTeam and the governors wereable to come to the rescueand the students were able toshow off their newly learntcustomer service skills. Mrs Matthewson

BVC’s Trust partners got involved inPSHE Day for the first time andtheir contribution ensured Year10’s careers day was as relevant aspossible.Marshalls, Cambridge BuildingSociety, John Lewis, Red2Green andthe Faculty of Education Universityof Cambridge plus the Army wereall involved in two-hour sessionsabout interview skills, careers intheir industry and conducted mockinterviews.In addition, they all took part in acarousel along with theCambridgeshire and PeterboroughNHS Foundation Trust (another

Trust partner), First Steps Nurseryand the Babraham Institute, giving30-minute presentations aboutcareers in their industries.“The day was excellent and thefeedback from the Trust partnersand students alike was that theyfound the day very useful andenjoyable,” said Mr Hall, Head ofLearning (Year 10).“A number of the Trust partnersgave feedback about the students’interview skills and evenhighlighted which students stoodout for them, which was greatfeedback for the students to hear,”he said.

Hospitality students are put to the test

Guests stepped in at the last minute to help Hospitality Diplomastudents when their original ‘customers’ dropped out

Careers day is areal partnership

Year 11 horticulturists visited the propagation unit atShropshires, Littleport, to see celery and lettuce crops. The unitprocesses some 100 million lettuce plugs each year.

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Every Sunday in a small village in a coastalregion of Kenya, up to 1,500 children lineup patiently for a hot meal.Some walk barefoot for five miles in theblazing African heat to join the orderlyqueue, others have a baby brother or sisterstrapped to their backs.But for the vast majority, the feedingstation at Kikambala provides their onlyregular meal of the week and it is wellworth the wait. No child is ever turnedaway.And afterwards they return home withtreats for their families – a bag of maize,bananas, sometimes sweets or even pairsof flip flops.It costs around £600 a week to fund theFeeding the Children project andBottisham VC raised this – and more – at arecent fundraising day in aid of three

Kenya-based causes.Non-uniform plus a series of cake stalls ona Love Kenya Day (on February 14,Valentine’s Day!) collected a total of£1,215.73 which will be divided betweenthe feeding station, the Shariani MedicalCentre and the Good Life Orphanage. Theday was organised by the college’s StudentLeadership Team.BVC’s link with Africa has come throughYear 9 student Toby Brooker whosegrandparents retired to Kenya ten yearsago. Since then, Toby and his family havebeen regular visitors and become involvedin projects helping local Kenyan villagers.Toby’s grandparents were moved by howmany people in their adopted country stilldied needlessly from malaria and otherpreventable and treatable conditions andfunded the building of a medical centre.

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For most, the feeding station at Kikambala provides the only regular meal of the week

A NON-uniform day for BVC’s twinschool in Sri Lanka, raised £752.68.Previous fundraising has helpedRanna MV set up an EnglishActivity Room, provided books anda digital camera.

A day of spotty funat BVC put a realsmile on PudseyBear’s face. Theactivities, organisedby Year 11 studentsAlice Hubbard andLydia Tabbron, raised£1,504.09 for theBBC’s annual Children In Needappeal.

A student versusstaff basketballmatch, cake stallsand a talent showwere among theideas suggested forComic Relief fundraisingat BVC. Students decided on aseries of activities leading up toMarch 18 as Red Nose Daycoincided with PSHE.

Selling red rosesfor Valentine’sDay raised about£100 for theYear 11 leavers’

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This offers affordable diagnosis andtreatment for thousands of villagers, sometravelling up to 25 miles to get to the centreand the medical care it provides.BVC’s fundraising will buy a laptop forpatient records and stock control.The third cause, the Good Life Orphanage,provides a safe home and education forabout 50 children, many of them withharrowing stories of abuse, neglect andabandonment. It was set up in April 2008.BVC will be giving £215 towards educationalequipment such as books and pens.“What a great achievement raising£1,215.73. A superb effort. Asante Sana toall involved,” said Toby’s father, a governorat BVC. (Asante Sana = Swahili for thankyou).“Unlike some national charities, onehundred per cent of the money raised goes

directly to these projects.“The BVC leadership team are proposing tosupport these three projects on an annualbasis and we will provide a quarterlyupdate on progress,” he said.

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Next term Year 9s will have an opportunityto rise to the Royal challenge and sign upfor the Duke of Edinburgh’s Award.Bottisham VC has been running the bronzeaward for more than 20 years and it is stillproving popular with more than 60students currently taking part.It is hoped as many Year 9 students aspossible will become involved in the awardscheme, following in the footsteps ofhundreds of young people at the Collegeand millions of young people nationally.The DofE was set up in 1956 and attractsaround 275,000 14 to 24 year olds eachyear, completing bronze, silver and gold.The Award is dedicated to “the personaldevelopment of young people from allbackgrounds”.“It’s about students engaging with theirstrengths and improving their weaknesses;learning in school and outside. It’s about

friendship and teamwork,” said organiserMrs Rankine.Monday night is DofE night and participantstake part in a whole range of activities towiden their experiences and skills, includingmap reading, first aid and preparing for a

two-day (one night) expedition.They have to complete challenges in fourareas: volunteering, physical, skills andexpedition.The aim of the non-competitive scheme isfor young people to show ‘persistence,commitment and personal development’over a period of time rather than in a shortburst of enthusiasm, setting their ownchallenges and goals.The ten guiding principles are: non-competitive, achievable by all, voluntary,personal development, personalised,balanced, progressive, achievementfocused, demand commitment andenjoyable. Year 10 DofE participant Miguel Webstersaid he was pleased to be part of thescheme.“It’s a real team builder. You make friendsand get to know yourself better,” he said.

Developments in e-safety led toBVC being approached by thelocal media. We were delightedthat Year 7 students CaitlynSymonds and Jonah Spindelwere able to talk to them abouttheir school Internet safetylessons and show them thefantastic Movie Marker videoswhich they created in ICT. InJanuary they appeared on anedition of Look East on the BBC.Miss Hanley has been workingwith students in Year 7, 8 and 9to develop Internet Safetylessons which are bothinteresting and teach studentsnew information.“I feel that many students havebeen told the rules of InternetSafety for so long that they arenow bored with the idea of it. Ithink that a lot of the

information is repeated anddoesn’t always cover what thestudents want to learn,” shesaid.Questionnaires were carriedout with KS3 students to findout about their ICT use andwhat concerns they had, if any.The results were fascinating!Then in December, the KS3students evaluated theirInternet Safety lesson.The results from these twoquestionnaires were taken to afocus group made up ofstudents and ICT teacherswhere they were analysed. Thefocus group then planned andwrote an Internet Safety lessonfor Year 7, 8 and 9 along with allthe resources that would beused.Finally, these lessons were

evaluated again by the studentsto see if they were moreinteresting and gave thestudents information whichthey hadn’t known.The results from all of this arenow being processed and morewill be reported about this inthe next magazine…watch thisspace!I have developed an e-safetypage on the school website andis available on the student tab.There is information on onlinefilters, as well as where to gofor help and advice for allmembers of Bottisham VillageCollege and parents.There are posters in all the ICTrooms and outside ICT supportwith help and advice on a rangeof ICT issues.Miss Hanley

Students from Bottisham VCwere invited to meet thecounty council’s scrutinycommittee to discuss anti-bullying.The students presented afilm and website they hadmade about tacklingbullying in school, gave apresentation and answeredquestions from councillors.Themes for their work wereidentified after consultingpupils at partner primaryschools in Burwell,Bottisham and Fulbourn aspart of the Targeted MentalHealth in Schools project(TaMHS).Future plans include the filmbeing rolled out to all feederprimary schools to aidpupils’ transition tosecondary education.

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Amateur radio (sometimes called ‘ham radio’)has gained two, new, licensed operators. Year 8students Roman Armstrong and Adam Wrightsat and passed their Foundation Licence inradiocommunications at BVC. As a result theywere issued with their UK (M6 series) radiocallsigns by Ofcom – the government agencywhich manages the radio spectrum.Roman (M6RMA) and Adam (M6AWR) can nowset up and operate their own amateur radiostations and communicate with the tens ofthousands of other, licensed amateurs world-wide. Amateur radio licences are issued only toqualified applicants for the purpose of ‘selftraining and experimentation inradiocommunications’. The subject has nothing to do with local radio,broadcasting or licence-exempt radios. It is atechnical hobby with many aspects. Radio amateurs are the only users of the radiospectrum who are allowed to design, build, testand operate their own equipment. To do this –without causing interference to other users –requires a level of expertise which has to begained via courses of study and examinations ateach stage. The subjects Adam and Roman studied, both athome and after school for the Foundationexamination, included: basics of transmitters

and receivers, radio propagation, antennas,licensing conditions, Morse code, operatingprotocols and safety.Foundation licence holders are limited to amaximum radiated signal power of 10 Wattsfrom their station antenna (less than a typicalenergy-saving lamp). With just a 10W radiosignal you can literally ‘work the world’. Undernormal propagation conditions a 10W signalwill easily reach all of Western Europe, Russiaand North America. Under exceptionalconditions (during high solar activity forexample) working and talking with otheramateur stations in The Far East, Asia andAustralasia is achievable.If you want to find out more about becoming alicensed radio amateur, have a look at theRadio Society of Great Britain (RSGB) website atwww.rsgb.org and explore the articlesdescribing amateur radio. If you want to see anamateur station in operation or a chance to askquestions to see if you might like to become alicensed amateur radio operator yourself thencome along to the Radio Club in Room L1 afterschool every Wednesday. An interest in scienceand maths and a bit of determination will meanthat the Foundation exam should be wellwithin your grasp!We look forward towelcoming students (and staff of course!).Mr Howell (M0DCV)

Theatre groupin rehearsalImpact Youth Theatre is thrivingwith 15 students enjoying afterschool drama each Friday.The group is currently workingtowards a performance in thesummer concert based on Alice inWonderland. There is also anopportunity for improvisations,games and dance.Details of this and other after-school classes for the summerterm are in the extended schoolsbrochure which will be out soon.

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What do Madame Tussauds andBottisham Village College have incommon?Nothing obvious springs to mind, but theanswer lies in a small bronze sculpturemounted on a mahogany shield in thecollege’s main entrance.In Memoriam was modelled by former artteacher Steve Swales, who went on tobecome head technical sculptor at theworld famous waxworks creating many‘celebrity’ figures, including HM TheQueen.This is one of the many fascinating factsthat visitors to the college can discoverwhen they follow the new Sculpture Trailthat was due to be opened at the end ofMarch.It is believed to be the first trail of its kindin the country, featuring high calibrenational and international artists, to bebased at a state school.The bronze, which incidentally wascreated in memory of George Edwards –warden of Bottisham Village Collegeduring the war years of 1941-44 andCambridgeshire’s Chief Education Officerfrom 1954-1964 – is one of sevenstimulating sculptures now ‘open to thepublic’. Each of these has a story that cannow be told.Many parents and members of the local

community will have already seen orheard about the College’s latest addition,World Tree, a work by local sculptor MattSanderson, recently installed by the newEnglish block.But they probably don’t know very muchabout the site’s other pieces, what theyrepresent, when they were crafted andwho by.That should now end with the publicationof trail leaflets for both adults andchildren to ensure people of all ages candiscover the College’s sculpted secrets.They can take a walk of creative discoverythrough the school and its grounds.The task of designing a leaflet for youngervisitors fell to Year 10 media students EdGood and George Agnew. They’ve come up with a child-friendlyguide to the hidden artistic treasures onthe College campus, complete withinformation, pictures, questions andquizzes, as part of their media course.“We looked at other leaflets to get ideas.We wanted ours to be colourful to appealto children and to include questions aboutthe sculptures and a word search,” saidEd.And to ensure the designers are on theright track, their work has beenscrutinised and given the thumbs up by aYear 7 student focus group.

Martin Gent, College warden 1976-1991,is chair of the David Urwin Arts Awardwhich gifted World Tree to BVC. Heexplained how the trail will work.“The Trustees of the fund have alsoencouraged the setting up of a SculptureTrail at the College with information nextto each of the seven works and a leafletwith brief details about the artists. Therewill also be a website with a range offurther information,” he said.“While pupils will be able to enjoy thesculptures every school day, parents andanyone in the community will be able towalk round the trail outside school hourswhenever the College is open.”Sculptures have been repaired andrealigned in readiness for visitors.Mr Gent said there had always been astrong tradition of nurturing the arts atBVC going back to its opening in 1937when Henry Morris, Chief EducationOfficer and pioneer of village colleges,presented the school with its firstsculpture, the Harvest Panel, in the mainfoyer.About £3,000 was raised to set up the trailand ensure the sculptures are lookingtheir best. A further £500 to £1,000 will beneeded for the project’s future upkeep.“We have to provide for the futuremaintenance of the sculptures so that

there is no possibility of this becoming adrain on school funds,” said Mr Gent.“I am wondering whether anyone readingthis newsletter who cares about the artsin general and Bottisham in particularwould help.” Donations can be sent toMartin Gent, 10 Waterside, Ely, CB7 4AZ,or direct to the College. Cheques shouldbe made payable to the David Urwin ArtsAward.

On the trail of the College’s sculptures

The Bottisham Stone: Glynn Williams 1987.Carved from a block of Bath stone in a temporarystudio at the back of the College, the work wascommissioned as part of the College’s GoldenJubilee celebrations and the first of its outdoorsculptures. Glynn Williams is a professor at theRoyal Academy of Art.

Quiescence: Hideo Furuta 1995.Commissioned by the College to markthe new main entrance and publiclibrary. It depicts a Japanese gardenand the simplicity of its design is toevoke a feeling of calm for all visitors.

The Alignment: Christine Fox1989. Former art teacher RonNix originally saw this piece atCambridge Open Studios. Thepiece has a strong connectionwith the seasons and the sun. Itcomprises a bronze “Goddess”,with contrasting Welsh slatesand green granite.

World Tree: Matthew LaneSanderson 2010.Commissioned by the Trusteesof the David Urwin Arts Awardand donated to BottishamVillage College. The galvanisedmild steel sphere stands at 3.3 metres and weighs aboutone ton. Matt Sanderson isbest known locally for hisinsect-like time eater on the

Corpus Christi Clock.

Cell: Matthew LaneSanderson 2003. This is asecond work by MattSanderson on the College site.This sculpture, a1200mm diametersteel globe, issituated in theCollege’s sensorygarden.Harvest Panel: Loughnan Pendred

1937. Commissioned and presented byHenry Morris to celebrate the College’sopening. The10ft oak panel represents thedifferent stages of harvesting in the 1930s.Through his career Loughnan Pendredcreated a significant number of memorialsand carvings for churches and colleges.

In Memoriam: SteveSwales 1976. Representseducation from‘cradle to thegrave’. It wasmodelled inclay, then castin bronze beforebeing mountedon a mahoganyshield. Stevewas an artteacher at BVCfrom 1974 to1985 before tak-ing up a job withMadame Tussauds inLondon.


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What do Madame Tussauds andBottisham Village College have incommon?Nothing obvious springs to mind, but theanswer lies in a small bronze sculpturemounted on a mahogany shield in thecollege’s main entrance.In Memoriam was modelled by former artteacher Steve Swales, who went on tobecome head technical sculptor at theworld famous waxworks creating many‘celebrity’ figures, including HM TheQueen.This is one of the many fascinating factsthat visitors to the college can discoverwhen they follow the new Sculpture Trailthat was due to be opened at the end ofMarch.It is believed to be the first trail of its kindin the country, featuring high calibrenational and international artists, to bebased at a state school.The bronze, which incidentally wascreated in memory of George Edwards –warden of Bottisham Village Collegeduring the war years of 1941-44 andCambridgeshire’s Chief Education Officerfrom 1954-1964 – is one of sevenstimulating sculptures now ‘open to thepublic’. Each of these has a story that cannow be told.Many parents and members of the local

community will have already seen orheard about the College’s latest addition,World Tree, a work by local sculptor MattSanderson, recently installed by the newEnglish block.But they probably don’t know very muchabout the site’s other pieces, what theyrepresent, when they were crafted andwho by.That should now end with the publicationof trail leaflets for both adults andchildren to ensure people of all ages candiscover the College’s sculpted secrets.They can take a walk of creative discoverythrough the school and its grounds.The task of designing a leaflet for youngervisitors fell to Year 10 media students EdGood and George Agnew. They’ve come up with a child-friendlyguide to the hidden artistic treasures onthe College campus, complete withinformation, pictures, questions andquizzes, as part of their media course.“We looked at other leaflets to get ideas.We wanted ours to be colourful to appealto children and to include questions aboutthe sculptures and a word search,” saidEd.And to ensure the designers are on theright track, their work has beenscrutinised and given the thumbs up by aYear 7 student focus group.

Martin Gent, College warden 1976-1991,is chair of the David Urwin Arts Awardwhich gifted World Tree to BVC. Heexplained how the trail will work.“The Trustees of the fund have alsoencouraged the setting up of a SculptureTrail at the College with information nextto each of the seven works and a leafletwith brief details about the artists. Therewill also be a website with a range offurther information,” he said.“While pupils will be able to enjoy thesculptures every school day, parents andanyone in the community will be able towalk round the trail outside school hourswhenever the College is open.”Sculptures have been repaired andrealigned in readiness for visitors.Mr Gent said there had always been astrong tradition of nurturing the arts atBVC going back to its opening in 1937when Henry Morris, Chief EducationOfficer and pioneer of village colleges,presented the school with its firstsculpture, the Harvest Panel, in the mainfoyer.About £3,000 was raised to set up the trailand ensure the sculptures are lookingtheir best. A further £500 to £1,000 will beneeded for the project’s future upkeep.“We have to provide for the futuremaintenance of the sculptures so that

there is no possibility of this becoming adrain on school funds,” said Mr Gent.“I am wondering whether anyone readingthis newsletter who cares about the artsin general and Bottisham in particularwould help.” Donations can be sent toMartin Gent, 10 Waterside, Ely, CB7 4AZ,or direct to the College. Cheques shouldbe made payable to the David Urwin ArtsAward.

On the trail of the College’s sculptures

The Bottisham Stone: Glynn Williams 1987.Carved from a block of Bath stone in a temporarystudio at the back of the College, the work wascommissioned as part of the College’s GoldenJubilee celebrations and the first of its outdoorsculptures. Glynn Williams is a professor at theRoyal Academy of Art.

Quiescence: Hideo Furuta 1995.Commissioned by the College to markthe new main entrance and publiclibrary. It depicts a Japanese gardenand the simplicity of its design is toevoke a feeling of calm for all visitors.

The Alignment: Christine Fox1989. Former art teacher RonNix originally saw this piece atCambridge Open Studios. Thepiece has a strong connectionwith the seasons and the sun. Itcomprises a bronze “Goddess”,with contrasting Welsh slatesand green granite.

World Tree: Matthew LaneSanderson 2010.Commissioned by the Trusteesof the David Urwin Arts Awardand donated to BottishamVillage College. The galvanisedmild steel sphere stands at 3.3 metres and weighs aboutone ton. Matt Sanderson isbest known locally for hisinsect-like time eater on the

Corpus Christi Clock.

Cell: Matthew LaneSanderson 2003. This is asecond work by MattSanderson on the College site.This sculpture, a1200mm diametersteel globe, issituated in theCollege’s sensorygarden.Harvest Panel: Loughnan Pendred

1937. Commissioned and presented byHenry Morris to celebrate the College’sopening. The10ft oak panel represents thedifferent stages of harvesting in the 1930s.Through his career Loughnan Pendredcreated a significant number of memorialsand carvings for churches and colleges.

In Memoriam: SteveSwales 1976. Representseducation from‘cradle to thegrave’. It wasmodelled inclay, then castin bronze beforebeing mountedon a mahoganyshield. Stevewas an artteacher at BVCfrom 1974 to1985 before tak-ing up a job withMadame Tussauds inLondon.


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The annual GeographyPrimary Worldwise Quiz tookplace on the morning ofTuesday, February 15. The quiz ran from 9.15 until10.45am and all the BVCfeeder primary schools wereinvited. The morning consistedof seven rounds and prizes of£100, £50 and £25 wereavailable for the top threeplaced schools. Year 5 andYear 6 pupils were invited totake part. The quiz rounds were: Round1 – Which Flag? (7 questions);Round 2 – Capital Cities (7questions; Round 3 –Geography in the News (10questions); Round 4 –Geography and Sport (10questions); Round 5 – MapSymbols (6 questions); Round6 – Continent and CountryShapes (10 questions); Round7 – Mixed Bag (10 questions). The quiz was a real success.The level of knowledge wasincredible. We were soimpressed by the enthusiasmand ability of the pupils. Thewinning school received £100for a humanities resource oftheir choice and there werecash prizes (£50 and £25) forthe second and third schoolsas well. Year 11 students helped torun and the quiz and they dida fantastic job alongside MsMilne.The winning school wasTeversham (record highscore), followed by Burwelland Cheveley in third. Theschools were all very close!We had a fantastic time andare looking forward to nextyear already!Mrs Hutchison

Bottisham VC was one of fiveschools taking part in acelebration of student dramaat the Theatre Royal, Bury StEdmunds.The theme of last month’sfestival was Power. A group of20 Year 10 students performeda short drama, Setco Play,which they had devised anddirected themselves.The piece, set in the future,

told the story of a world ruledby a supermarket chain calledSetco and where democracy nolonger existed.“The group’s aim was toproduce a piece that is almostlight-hearted to readily engagethe audience, but to includeserious dark undertones tomake the audience aware ofthe power of supermarketchains as they spring up

everywhere on our highstreets, “ said drama teacherMiss Dando.She said the inspiration for thedrama came from aproduction of 1984 the grouphad seen at the Theatre Royallast year.This was the second time thetheatre had hosted a festivalof original dramatic work bystudents.

Some of the cast members of Setco Play, which they performed at the Theatre Royal

Theatre power play

Bottisham VC musiciansperformed at a spring concertstaged at West Road Concert Hall,in Cambridge.The Circle Link Art Partnershipevent featured a combinedprimary school choir ofapproximately 300 singers as wellas items from the College’sorchestra and jazz band. The evening culminated with all

musicians performing together.“This is the second year we haveperformed at West Road having,in 2010, filled Ely Cathedral as theculmination to our Sing Upproject, these events reflectingthe developing artspartnership within ourcommunity of schools,”said arts developmentofficer Mr Minchin.

Auditions forBVC’s summerconcert will takeplace in the firsttwo weeks of thesummer term.Application formsare avail-ablenowfromthe musicdepartment.

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Year 11 historians are due to travelto Berlin this Easter on a schooltrip teacher Miss Hammonddescribes as ‘one of the highlights’of her year.During the three-day trip toGermany, 40 students arescheduled to visit the BrandenbergGate, the site of the Berlin Wall,the 1936 Olympic Stadium,Goering’s Air Ministry, theHolocaust Memorial, PotsdamerPlatz, the Reichstag – the seat ofGerman Parliament – andSachsenhausen ConcentrationCamp.The group will also see some of thecity’s museum exhibitionsfeaturing the Gestapo, Resistancemovements and the Jews inGermany.“For me, it’s a great trip on somany levels,” said Miss Hammond,BVC’s head of history.“So many key events in the 20th

century focused on Berlin andbeing able to learn about them atthe sites gives us a great overviewof the period.“Being able to see Sachsenhauseneducates pupils about theHolocaust in a way I never could ina classroom.“For many pupils, confidence isbuilt as they successfully navigatetheir way round a major Europeancity and learn to use the publictransport systems; for some, itignites a passion for foreign travelwhich goes on well into later life,”she said. “It’s definitely one of thehighlights of my year!”

To mark HolocaustMemorial Day, 27January, all BVCstudents were askedto fill in 1,500 smallsquares, eachrepresenting a childmurdered in theHolocaust (1.5million).These were then displayed for two days so studentsand staff could get an idea of the huge numbersinvolved.It was introduced in Citizenship classes in whichsurviving diary entries were read in class to give ataste of the children’s lives.Also a presentation was given in year assemblies inwhich Anne Frank and Hana Brady’s stories werefeatured (their pictures appeared on the wall as well).Mr Mitchell

Items representing the Britishway of life have winged theirway to Bottisham VC’s twinschool in Sri Lanka as part of acurriculum exchange project.Year 8 citizenship students wereinvolved in Culture in a Box,creating documents, projectsand articles of interest andsending them to Ranna MV. Their teacher, Miss Gleeson,said they had come up withplenty of original ways ofsumming up their country.“At Bottisham we includedinformation about our school,sport, our hobbies, families andpets. We sent some informationabout Christmas and otherreligious celebrations.“Students sent photos andtalked about the things they

enjoy doing such as playingsports and watching TV.”Booklets were made about theBritish seasons, food, moneyand the Royal family.

Miss Gleeson included a Guideto Citizenship in the UK.“8.4 really enjoyed the projectand enjoyed receiving the boxfrom Sri Lanka including

information about their mainreligion Buddhism and a figureof Buddha, information abouttheir national animal thepeacock and about Sri Lankandancing,” she said.Bottisham’s box was receivedwell at Ranna MV.“The students were very excitedto see exactly what you hadsent in the box and tounderstand what you thoughtrepresented your culture best.“They were very happy andinterested to receive theproject from their overseasfriends,” said a representativefrom ASL (Adopt Sri Lanka)TWINS.Future link projects include anart topic on fish and an Englishproject on Poems for Peace.

Students from 8.4 look at some of the items sent from Sri Lanka.

Class packs ‘Britain in a box’

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Our Library Senior Studentshelped to celebrate World BookDay by dressing up ascharacters from books andrunning a quiz for others toguess who they were. They alsoorganised a literarywordsearch. It was great funand not quite as easy as youmight imagine, so it introducedan element of real competitionto the day. Many thanks tothem for all for their efforts.Both competitions proved verypopular and the winner of eachreceived a box of Maltesers.Every student in the schoolshould have received a £1 booktoken on World Book Day. Inparticipating shops these couldbe exchanged for one of sixspecial World Book Day booksor could be put towards anyother book as long as it cost atleast £2.99.Get Caught! reading quietly inthe library and you will begiven a free raffle ticket. Thedraw at the end of Februarywas won by a Year 9 student.We will have another draw justbefore the end of term – so trygetting stuck into a good bookand see if you are the lucky

one next time.Ms Lockett librarian� World Book Day is aworldwide celebration of booksand reading and is marked inmore than 100 countries. In theUK and Ireland, it took place on

March 3.The day aims to encouragechildren to explore thepleasures of books and readingby providing them with theopportunity to have a book oftheir own.

Poet laureate Carol Ann Duffywas one of the performers atan event held to aid andinspire GCSE English students.Miss Duffy, pictured, who wasappointed to poetry’s top jobin 2009 succeeding AndrewMotion, was joined by GillianClarke, John Agard, MonizaAlvi, Imtiaz Dharker andSimon Armitage, at PoetryLive, held at the CambridgeCorn Exchange.

Congratulations to Year 7 who raised a fantastic£463.65 with their avid reading for Readathon.Money raised goes to support children withserious illnesses. Not only did they raise thatamount for other children, they also earned thelibrary a book token worth £92.73 that we canspend with Scholastic Books to buy new stock.Well done Year 7!The Readathon is a charity running the UK’sbiggest sponsored reading campaign.It raises money for two charities – CLIC Sargentwhich supports children and young people withcancer and The Roald Dahl Foundation whichoffers practical help for children and young

people with rare blood and brain conditions –as well as encouraging recreational reading.Ms Lockett librarian

Poets go liveto help GCSE English exampreparations

The poets’ works are featuredin the GCSE anthology.The annual conferenceattracts hundreds of KS4students from across theregion and this year was noexception. Among them were more than70 Year 11 students fromBottisham VC.The poets talked aboutthemselves, their work andthe inspiration for theirpoems before reading someof them aloud.The event included tips andadvice for exam success.“The students really

benefited from listening tothe poets they are studyingtalking about their own workrather than just reading thepoems on the page,” saidMiss Ceranic, assistantprincipal and head of English.

Y7 readers turnpages into £s

Year 7s show off the certificate they receivedfor raising money for children’s charitiesthrough the Readathon scheme.

A celebration of books

Looking the part. The Library Senior Students who dressed up astheir favourite fictional characters for World Book Day.

Picture: Michael Woods


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Fashion showFriday, May 6Join us for our very first FashionShow and Catwalk. Available forpurchase on the evening, alarge range of current seasontrends from popular high streetbrands, many up to 50 per centoff retail prices. Sizing rangesfrom 8-18. Fashion accessoriesalso on sale. Adult ticket £5(including a glass of wine).Under 18 £3 (including softdrink).Tickets now on sale [email protected] or07881 588971

Summer BallSaturday, July 2A night not to be missed.The Year 11 Leavers’ Ball hasbeen a tradition for many years.It is a wonderful celebration ofthe students’ time spent atBottisham. The ball is held in themagnificent marquee on thePrincipal’s Lawn.

Although we have in the past,and once again this year, beenextremely fortunate to receivea substantial discount towardsthe cost of the marquee, wealways rely on parentalinvolvement and support tofund the cost by holding theBottisham Ball, which takesplace the day after the Year 11event.Come along to a fabulousevening and in turn ensureyear after year the wonderfultradition for our Year 11 Promcontinues to be so special. Theevening is open to all, so booka table and bring along friendsand family to dance the nightaway.This is a truly good value

evening with superb food and

entertainment that bringspeople back year after year.Tickets sell out so don’t waittoo long to book yours.The evening begins with aChampagne reception; sitdown three-course dinner,cheese and biscuits and teaand coffee. The entertainmentcontinues, dancing the nightaway to the fabulous musicfrom The Mind the Gap Band.Why not get a table together? Tickets cost £45 each. Pleaseemail [email protected] contact Claudine Batemanon 01223 811250 Ext 275 or07747 484058If you are unable to make theevening but would like to helpwith setting up on the Saturdayand/or clearing up on Sunday

morning, please contact asabove.

Friends AGMMonday, July 11 at 7.30pmLecture RoomThe Friends committee isseeking new members. Wehave been lucky to have acommitted group of parentswho have supported Friends,but as their own children leaveBottisham we desperately neednew blood and ideas. As ourlogo reads, our aim is ‘Fun andFundraising’. We meet once aterm and are always looking fornew events to hold during theyear. Our events are not just forfundraising but for giving theopportunity for parents tosocialise and meet.As we have a number ofmembers leaving us at the endof this term, we would love youto join us.Please consider joining theFriends and making adifference.

MP Jim Paice (left) is pictured with chairof governors, Mr Hodgson, and deputyprincipal, Mr Tooley, admiring the WorldTree sculpture on a recent visit to BVC.“Mr Paice was in school for a general visitand particularly to see the great range ofcurriculum that we have on offer,” said

Mr Tooley. “He was particularlyimpressed with the Hospitality facilitiesand the calm but purposeful atmosphereof the school. We then went on todiscuss current education policy andwhere we are looking to take the schoolin the future.”

Dedicated followers of fashion . . .

MP drops in . . .BVC staff and horticulture students wereamong the crowds when the Prince ofWales arrived by helicopter at AngleseyAbbey, Lode, for a visit as part of BritishTourism Week.The group are working on a marketgarden project at the National Trust site.

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Our Library Senior Studentshelped to celebrate World BookDay by dressing up ascharacters from books andrunning a quiz for others toguess who they were. They alsoorganised a literarywordsearch. It was great funand not quite as easy as youmight imagine, so it introducedan element of real competitionto the day. Many thanks tothem for all for their efforts.Both competitions proved verypopular and the winner of eachreceived a box of Maltesers.Every student in the schoolshould have received a £1 booktoken on World Book Day. Inparticipating shops these couldbe exchanged for one of sixspecial World Book Day booksor could be put towards anyother book as long as it cost atleast £2.99.Get Caught! reading quietly inthe library and you will begiven a free raffle ticket. Thedraw at the end of Februarywas won by a Year 9 student.We will have another draw justbefore the end of term – so trygetting stuck into a good bookand see if you are the lucky

one next time.Ms Lockett librarian� World Book Day is aworldwide celebration of booksand reading and is marked inmore than 100 countries. In theUK and Ireland, it took place on

March 3.The day aims to encouragechildren to explore thepleasures of books and readingby providing them with theopportunity to have a book oftheir own.

Poet laureate Carol Ann Duffywas one of the performers atan event held to aid andinspire GCSE English students.Miss Duffy, pictured, who wasappointed to poetry’s top jobin 2009 succeeding AndrewMotion, was joined by GillianClarke, John Agard, MonizaAlvi, Imtiaz Dharker andSimon Armitage, at PoetryLive, held at the CambridgeCorn Exchange.

Congratulations to Year 7 who raised a fantastic£463.65 with their avid reading for Readathon.Money raised goes to support children withserious illnesses. Not only did they raise thatamount for other children, they also earned thelibrary a book token worth £92.73 that we canspend with Scholastic Books to buy new stock.Well done Year 7!The Readathon is a charity running the UK’sbiggest sponsored reading campaign.It raises money for two charities – CLIC Sargentwhich supports children and young people withcancer and The Roald Dahl Foundation whichoffers practical help for children and young

people with rare blood and brain conditions –as well as encouraging recreational reading.Ms Lockett librarian

Poets go liveto help GCSE English exampreparations

The poets’ works are featuredin the GCSE anthology.The annual conferenceattracts hundreds of KS4students from across theregion and this year was noexception. Among them were more than70 Year 11 students fromBottisham VC.The poets talked aboutthemselves, their work andthe inspiration for theirpoems before reading someof them aloud.The event included tips andadvice for exam success.“The students reallybenefited from listening tothe poets they are studyingtalking about their own workrather than just reading thepoems on the page,” saidMiss Ceranic, assistantprincipal and head of English.

Y7 readers turnpages into £s

Year 7s show off the certificate they receivedfor raising money for children’s charitiesthrough the Readathon scheme.

A celebration of books

Looking the part. The Library Senior Students who dressed up astheir favourite fictional characters for World Book Day.

Picture: Michael Woods


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Prepare for theathletics seasonWe have a good athletics traditionat Bottisham and are currentlyholders of the Jubilee Cup, whichis the main inter schools athleticstrophy in this area. One reason forour success is that we provide theopportunities for all students totrain and find an event that theyenjoy and want to develop. Thematches in the summer term alltake place on a Wednesday afterschool, so if you can keep thisevening free you will be availableto train or to be selected for theseevents. Athletics is also a great way forwinter games players to improvetheir strength, speed andendurance during the summermonths, whilst having a lot of fun.

Well done, AlfieCongratulations to Alfie Ball inYear 8 who is the captain of theCambridge and District schoolsunder 13 football team who havereached the semi finals of theNational Schools’ FA Cup. So farthey have had victories overPeterborough (4-2), West Norfolk(4-0), Bedford (4-0), Worksop (5-0)and a fantastic result against avery strong Liverpool team (4-3after extra time). The boys playYork in the semi-finals and wewish Alfie and the team all thebest.

Athletes in actionBen Snaith and Jake Mair (Year 10)have been producing someexcellent athletics performancesin the 400 metres and 60 metresrespectively at a number of highlyranked indoor competitions inLondon and at the NEC inBirmingham. The wonders of moderntechnology have enabled theGCSE PE class, of which they areboth members, to watch theirperformances on Youtube and toanalyse their technique. They areboth hoping to have a greatsummer of athletics and we wishthem well.

A number of Year 11 SportsLeaders have been involvedin primary schools sportsevents and festivals thisterm.Year 5 and 6 teams fromBottisham, Teversham,Great Wilbraham andBurwell primary schoolscompeted against eachother in a round robinevent on Tuesday, February8, efficiently coordinatedand officiated by Year 11Sports Leaders at BottishamVillage College.

On a much larger scale, 15Year 11 Sports Leaderssuccessfully planned anddelivered a Football Festivalto 206 Year 4 pupils fromour 11 feeder primaryschools at Burwell VillageCollege on Tuesday, March15. The leadersprofessionally ran funfootball activities for thefirst hour, followed by amini 7 a side tournament.The day markedsignificance in thecountdown to the London

2012 Olympic games, with500 days to go, leadershanded out stickersrecognising pupilscontributions andachievements in associationwith the Olympic values:respect, friendship andexcellence. An enjoyableday was had by all!Sports leaders were: Lizzie Mann, CiaraO’Brien, Levi Knox, Bradly Devonshire, SamMorris, Archie Roe, Jack Tomlinson, ChrisEnnis, Chris Darling, Ryan Lee, TeddyFisher, Sampson Marino, Tyler Carr,Tommy Stevens, Chris Summerskill, JordanWhippy, Josh Vowden, Ricky Ripa andShayne Deegan.

Mr Alvey

Sports Leaders from the College have helped to run events for primary school pupils

Students lead theway for youngsters

Our Young Ambassadors Hayley Rasdalland Tom Bicknell in Year 9, Matt Marshin Year 10 and Rebecca Knowles in Year11 have been very busy this term;spreading the word about the London2012 Olympics in a Year 7 assembly. Next will be undertaking the process oftraining the two Year 5 pupils selected in

each of our 11 feeder primary schoolsand planning a sporting event to coincidewith the major countdown days to theOlympic Games – watch this space!

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The Ski Trip in February to Austria saw, within aweek, the absolute beginners turned intostudents who were confident in skiing down theblue run, which has also been known as theLadies Olympic Downhill (1976).All 24 students made excellent progress over theweek with some skiing the red runs and evenattempting jumps and tricks on the last day.One of the most talked about activities on thetrip was the five kilometre toboggan run. Youand your partner had to work together, trusteach other and learn how to brake (with yourheels) very quickly – not all managed to stay onthe toboggan. A fantastic trip with lots of great memories.Miss Mann

Sport

Congratulations to the following year11 students who were awarded theprestigious Roy Burrell Award forachievement in sport at the recentceremony in Cambridge, attended bymore than 400 people. They werepresented with their awards byheptathlete Grace Clements, 2010Commonwealth bronze medal winner. Rebecca Knowles: Sports LeadershipAmbassador.Alistair Kingdon: County rugby andcounty cricket.Shayne Deegan: National autograss carracing champion.C.J. Kindred: County tennis.Penny Weiser: National sailing squad.Lewis Steckelmacher: National sailingsquad. Will Strathdee: County athletics.Sam Morris: County cricket and countyfootball.Chris Darling: County athletics andcross country.Josh Vowden : County cricket.Chris Summerskill: County cricket.

Mr Alvey says:

Learn to winwith graceand lose with

dignity. Over 200students from all year groups havebeen participating in inter schoolmatches in recent weeks. The one consistently pleasingaspect of these games is thepositive attitude of the players andthe respect that they have showntowards the officials and theopposition. Being able to maintainself-discipline when things arecompetitive and perhaps not goingyour way is a fundamental lessonto learn. Well done to you allfor the fine example you set.

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Awards forsportingachievers

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Look, there’s snowstopping our skiers

Here is Sam Christie thinking aboutwhether he should attempt this trickwhich the ski instructor is performing –one minute later and Sam was on thefloor. Left, on the toboggan run.

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