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PRINCIPAL’S WELCOMEAs the school year draws to an end, it’s wonderful to be celebrating a wide range of achievements and successes our students have had recently.

Harry Simister Year 12 has been awarded a runner up place at National level, in the “Furniture Makers’ Award” for product design AS project

On Monday 18th July we will be welcoming back to the North Campus many former students from the first few years of the school in Roade, which opened 60 years ago. We hope to do the same to recognise the corresponding anniversary of the school in Deanshanger in 2018.

This week will also see our rewards trips and celebration assemblies, recognising the positive attitude, attendance and effort of our students. Congratulations to you all for a very positive year, and I wish you all a very enjoyable and well-deserved summer holiday.

You can read about some of these in this newsletter, including the Northamptonshire Healthy Schools challenge, furniture design and the Lego Mindstorm, but there have been others too, including dance, swimming and music.

DESIGN ACHIEVEMENT

Harry has won £75 in vouchers and EWS has won a grant of £250 towards the cost of materials and or field trip costs. The judges were impressed by Harry’s design,

in particular they were impressed with the skill and creativity that went into making it.

Harry and a few other EWS students have been invited to the Young Furniture Makers’ Exhibition which will be held in London this October. Harry will display his piece at the exhibition, meet older students perusing furniture/product design and meet established business owners/corporate members in the industry. Well done Harry!

DESIGN

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On the 25th of May 2016 year 8 took part in presenting the ideas that they had gathered over the course of 3-4 weeks in PSHCE lessons to raise awareness of unhealthy relationships and how this can be prevented, helped and demolished. The students had the set amount of time to research what unhealthy and healthy relationships were and the aid that can go towards preventing them as well as their ideas of promoting the awareness and what they would do to help. With the help from our local PC, Pete, the year 8 students presented their final ideas to a selection of year 9 students in hope to be picked to go forward to a competition where the best idea will be taken in by judges and used nationally.

Three forms competed: 8FK,8SC and 8LB. The first form presented an adept presentation which held clear information and broke it down nicely for the audience to stay enthusiastic but also gain knowledge and moral from it. The presentation was spoken very confidently and clearly showing the

aim of their idea. It also included merchandise, which became a very popular idea throughout, to raise money with bracelets at ｣1.00 and badges at 50p. They continued with the fact that the money would go to organizations such as Tender to further the cause.

The second idea was around the same basis however the detail was much more intricate towards the merchandise but also the help that they themselves would want to provide also adding in interactive things such as quizzes to allow people to see if they themselves were in a unhealthy relationship and therefore created a lot of audience participation. The group touched on the fact that they had began their own website for the help of suffering people in these types of relationships and went on to show us examples of merchandise sold (a lollipop with a bracelet) to show how else to raise awareness.

Lastly, the third group was split into three miniature ideas and hinted on the fact that social media and other networking sites could use some improvements and so they

continued with the idea that a ‘red button’ should be in place when the user feels unsafe or unsure which alerts a helpline or the police.

All ideas were thought to be very thoughtful and clear on the main goal. However, after conversion, we came to the decision that both 8LB’s group and 8FK’s group should join as both held strong factors that the other group needed. The ideas of the first group was broken down very clear but knowledgeable and the presentation, both in the speaking and visual sense, was very gratifying whereas the second group had very strong ideas on how to help, both in raising money, and the fact they had touched on making a website impressed very much and was believed to be a very good and complex idea. So, with some improvements on both sides, we had decided that the two groups did in fact mingle and were take on to, hopefully, win the competition!

Written by Scarlett Nevill Year 9 EWS South

HEALTHY RELATIONSHIPS – PRESENTED BY YEAR 8

Geography homework recently was to make a model of a volcano or the structure of the earth. Here is Zack’s

innovative and very tasty idea!

GEOGRAPHY

PSHE

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Tuesday 28th June was very fun; everyone was really welcoming and we all enjoyed it. When we arrived, we met an officer who took us around to the control rooms. It was very fascinating! We watched how they answered calls and how they used CCTV to help them. We also got to see the main area where they answered other calls.Afterwards, they took us to the hall where we performed our presentation on Healthy Relationships. It was so much fun, even though we were nervous, as they set it up like dragons den. The judges seemed very nice and after a few minutes we weren’t as nervous. It was very enjoyable, I loved that we finally got to present our ideas and gain feedback. After presenting, we thanked the judges and went outside.

Outside, there were the Police Dogs named Max and Tommy. They were very cute, the person with them showed us the tricks the dogs did (paw/ high five). It was all very cute. They also explained to us what the dogs did during their time working with the police, also what they did when they became old. After spending a lot of time with Max and Tommy, we went over the gardens to where they had got a fire engine.

In the fire engine, we got to sit in the seats and try on the helmets. It was very interesting looking at all the

equipment they used. We were aware that the people were on-call, so we went over to the police van. We all went to the back and a few of us went into the cage! It was really funny, we also got to sit in the driver’s seats. It was very amusing. We then went back inside.

We went to the room labelled crime scene. When we arrived they explained how they set up a crime scene and what our aim was. We got to wear some really cool suits and were told what each piece of equipment was and its function. We then got to walk around a room collecting anything useful to the crime (gloves, jacket, footprints and screwdrivers) as well as that; they showed us how to find finger prints on the window. It was very interesting. After they gave us certificates and a diary, we headed to the canteen.

In the canteen, the people were very kind and the food was delicious. We then said thank you to everyone who made our day great. It was such a fun day, we learnt a lot. It was fascinating as well as fun.

They got through to the final and came within the top 8 schools in the country!

The Art Department ran the 100 minute impact session for students.Students were asked to alter a page of a book in a way that expressed their own personalities, hopes, dreams, positive affirmations. Students select words that meant something to them. Students were then asked to add Zentangles to fill in areas. They were asked to consider the expressive qualities of colour.Throughout the session students had two one minute sessions of silent reflection.The Assignment phase will build on these skills and a

wall hanging will be created for the Mindfullness Room in lower college.The students really got on board and created some very thoughtful work, which will be collated into a book for the Mindfullness Room.‘In the impact session we all had a book page and we circled words that were positive. Then we connected the words together and made a pattern with the space left around the selected words. I think it was a fun activity and it worked well with mindfulness’Bethany Guess - Year 7

The Art Department ran the 100 minute impact session for students.

Tayla Lowe, Tayah Bywater, Lucy Sommerville, Ocean Emmett Kirtland, Millie York, Mia Wallis, Sadie Smith, Brooke Wallace, Daisy Fulton, Lola Clark, Kizzi Taylor

NORTHAMPTONSHIRE COUNTY HEALTHY SCHOOLS

EXPRESSIONISM AND MINDFULLNESS IMPACT SESSION YEAR 7

CHALLENGE

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MINDSTORM CYBORGS FANTASTIC SUCCESS

The team achieved a trophy for the Best Robotic Design, and narrowly missed out on a place a the Nationals later this month.

The day, held at the prestigious Manufacturing Technology Centre (MTC) in Coventry consisted of a timed space challenge programming missions, a team work challenge, a research presentation and a design interview.

All that attended represented the school brilliantly and the team is already looking forward to next year’s competition!

Lego Mindstorm club continues this term on Wednesday lunch times on South campus for anyone that wants to come out and see what it is all about.

Well done to the following students:George Carlier, Dyalai Zak Muriu, Manav Patel, Katja Carbery, joseph Spencer, Robert Judd, Jacob Henry, Charlie Ward, Bailey Young, Josh Toyer

The LEGO Mindstorm Team – named the MINDSTORM CYBORGS competed in the regional space challenge event put on by Tomorrow’s Engineers Today with fantastic success.

The task was to build a Jitter bug for racing and also decorate them with an insect inspired shell.On both days the pupils worked hard over the 100 minute session to get their Jitter bugs working and performing well for the races and also produced some colourful and imaginative decorated designs some of which are shown here.

Year 8 pupils on South Enjoyed their recent Design Technology impact sessions 9th and 19th of June.

YEAR 8 DESIGN TECHNOLOGY IMPACT SESSIONS

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THE CILIP CARNEGIE & KATE GREENWAY CHILDREN’S BOOK AWARDSOn Friday 10th June 2016, Mrs Taken and I had the pleasure of taking a group of The Elizabeth Woodville students to Sponne School for their annual Carnegie event.

The morning was a great success. The following report about the event was written by India Abbott (8JT) and Maia McDonald (8JT). Mrs Pitson, Librarian

On Friday 10th June, ten students from our school went to Sponne School for a Carnegie Shadowing Morning. The Carnegie award is for books aimed at children and young adults. We had eight weeks to read eight books shortlisted for the award. Every Wednesday lunch time, we met to discuss the books and practise for the quiz.

When we arrived at Sponne, we were put on tables with students from Sponne for discussions and debates over the books we had read. It was interesting to see other people’s points of views on the books. We also had a look at the shortlists for the Kate Greenaway award.

The Kate Greenaway award celebrates illustrated stories.

After a break, we got back into our school teams for a quiz. The quiz included lots of challenging questions. Our school came joint first with a team from Sponne. We were very happy!

Next we had a vote for which books we wanted to win. “One” by Sarah Crossan was the most popular choice for the Carnegie award and it ended up winning the actual award. We also voted for which book should win the Kate Greenaway award and we chose “Once Upon an Alphabet”. The book that actually won was “The Sleeper and the Spindle” by Chris Riddle.

We made lots of friends there and hope to go again next year!

YEAR 5 TALENTED ART PUPILSThe Art department was pleased to welcome year 5 talented art pupils for a printing workshop. The pupils worked hard and presented some beautiful Mono prints of Birds. Here is some of their work:

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MY EXPERIENCE WAS AMAZING!My experience was amazing! We made birds out of ink in red, blue and black. It was so much fun to look around and see all the incredible art. I enjoyed my first visit at EWS!

Mollie Dobner – Cosgrove Primary School – Year 5

IMAGINATION RUN WILDI really enjoyed this morning as you can let your imagination run wild. What I also liked about today was how kind everyone was and that you can really design anything. I hope other people who come here think the same thing.

Oliver Painter – Blisworth School – Year 5

LOVELYI think this visit today has been great fun and I really liked printing my bird. It turned out to be a lovely bird when on paper.

Sophie

MY EXPERIENCE WAS AMAZING!My experience was amazing! I learned lots and did lots. The activity we did was amazing. I really enjoyed myself here at EWS. I would love another opportunity to come here again.

Charlotte Brookes – Blisworth School – Year 5

GREAT FUN ALL ROUNDI enjoyed the visit to EWS. It was great fun all round. The ink part was my favourite though. I like how my bird turned out.

Riley

PROUD OF MY WORKI enjoyed coming to EWS. Learning how to print with the press was fun and I enjoyed making my board with the different materials. I liked my outcome from the press and I was proud of my work. Thank you for having me! I loved the Art Block.

Tom Hornsby

KIND AND HAPPYI enjoyed it because we made birds and used different materials to make them and we used our imagination. We had a tour around the gallery and everyone was so kind and happy. We learned lots about art and then printed them, which was fun. I made lots of friends and met new people. I am looking forward to coming here.

Tilly Mosters – Hartwell

CANTEEN FOOD WAS SUPER!My experience was great. The staff and pupils were really friendly. I thought the canteen food was superb! There is some amazing equipment in the Art Block. I would love the opportunity to come here again!

Harriet Stubbs – Blisworth School – Year 5

YEAR 5 TALENTED ART PUPILS FEEDBACKA few comments received from the students who attended the day.

NOT WHAT I EXPECTED BUT IN A GOOD WAY!I’ve really enjoyed my experience in EWS art. It was not what I expected but in a good way. I thought it was very clever how we did the activity and I might recommend it to our teacher to do at school. Thank you very much it was great fun.

Harry Faulkner – PS. I LOVE ART!

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