GrapeVine - November 2009

G e o g r a p h y s t u d e n t s e x p l o r e N a i v a s h a We departed from Greensteds early on Sunday morning and headed to the Malewa River. It was here that the stu-dents undertook various river investigations. De-spite the fact that the river was extremely low, there were many stu-dents who managed to fall in and get soaking wet. Following our investiga-tions we then headed to Naivasha where we stayed at Elsamere Field Studies Centre. The stu-dents enjoyed various things at the centre; in-cluding Mr Kimani’s bon-fire stories, hippo askaris and table tennis. READ ON... Page 2

A B O U T G R A P E V I N E In this document we aim to commu-nicate with you all about what is hap-pening within the school. This in-cludes events that have happened in the recent past, anything that’s coming up in the near future and any results or awards. It’s infor-mation that will hopefully give you an insight into why we are so proud of our school. Email :[email protected]

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GrapeVine, November 30, 2009 Michaelmas Issue 15

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Wishes students and staff a happy

holiday ENJOY YOUR

VACATION

INTERNATIONAL WEEK

Elegance, pomp and colour were the common words during this year’s International week. In this photo Yena and Kim took to the stage in a real Korean style. Congratulations to all students for rep-resenting your countries during this week. This is the reason we are proud to celebrate our diversity in a multi-cultural school.


ROUNDERS REPORT

During our stay in Na-ivasha we headed to Mt Longonot where the stu-dents investigated the im-pact of footpath erosion. The students completed their investigations fully, which to their great pleas-ure, allowed us time to trek up to the top of the mountain. The students all did this very well and showed real team spirit in helping one another to reach the top.

G e o g r a p h y s t u d e n t s e x p l o r e N a i v a s h a

From PG1

W e l l d o n e t o o p e n A a n d B t e a m s

The Open A rounders team completed the rounders league season unbeaten when they won the final match against the B team. They started off by restrict-ing the B to only 2 rounders in the 1st innings and stretched their lead in the 2nd innings to a final score of 17 to 6. Well done to the entire team for an excellent season.

Open A rounders Elsewhere, the Open A rounders team continued with their winning ways by beating Turi by 16 rounders to 3. After a slow start in the first innings where they only managed 5 to Turi’s 3, the second half saw them a much improved fielding which restricted Turi to only 1 rounder. The girls scored double the number of rounders scored in the 1st innings to bring their total to 16. Well done to the entire team for mak-

ing that 6 wins out of the 6 matches. Open B Girls Girls Open B rounders team has played 9 matches over the past 3 weeks and have made good progress as the season progressed. They had wins against Nai-robi Academy, Turi and Premier and drew against Brookhouse. Their difficult matches came against Pe-poni A and Hillcrest A where unfortunately the girls lost both matches. The team has worked very

hard throughout the last few weeks giving each other encouragement and support. The girls have made a good name for the ‘B” team and I am proud of all the work and effort they have put it. A great start to the season, but more hard work is ahead for the upcoming tourna-ment.

By SPORTS DEPT.

“Well done to the

entire team for an

excellent season”

The juniour cross country performed very well at the Upcountry Juniour Cross Country Competition in Turi. All the athletes finished their races which was a result of their effort in training. Half of the team athletes finished in top 30 positions in their re-spective categories which is better than last year. Outstanding performance by Fadhili Lugano who was fifth and amazing Norah in year1 made us proud. Special thanks to Mr Domingo, Mr Mar-tyn, Mr Munene for working together to train the team.

J u n i o r c r o s s c o u n t r y r e p o r t


MEDIA TRIP

SCHOOL BEAUTIFICATION - UPDATES

Beautification of school kicks off in high gear The Art and Design Depart-ment has embarked on a beau-tification programme of the campus. This is a project to re-design the school landscape and give the campus an “artistic green look.” They will be putting in place clearly marked pathways around the entire Greensteds School compound. Thanks to the synergy between students and staff, more and more seed-lings and trees are being planted everyday. The second phase of the beau-tification project will involve setting up garden benches at identified sections of the school compound. More sug-gestions towards this project will be highly appreciated. Compiled: T. Butama

Media students have visited the Standard Media Group. This is home to Kenya’s first private tele-vision station – KTN. This was the second media trip this term following an earlier one to the Daystar studios. The students were well behaved and enjoyed learning about different aspects of the media. The A-level media students had a chance to wit-ness a live talk show being pro-duced. Everything was happening on real time; the interviews, cam-erawork, stage direction, graphics

and transmission to a home audience. They were also allowed into the edit-ing suites and the KTN library where a wide range of video and audio con-tent is stored. The trip comes in handy for year 12 students who are expected to conduct an independent study of a media house of their choice. We hope this will improve the quality of research papers that they write for Unit1 coursework. Esther a year 13 student was con-cerned about the technical aspects of production. She spent a big part of

the trip collecting information on the current software and technolo-gies being used in a television sta-tion. She has chosen to research, script, shoot and edit a video docu-mentary on the school band as part of her coursework. The year 8 students who came along were amazed at how the me-dia operates. They spoke to media personalities and listened to speeches from various section edi-tors. To them this was a first media trip and everything including the media terminologies was amazing. As part of English, they are en-couraged to develop media skills.

M e d i a s t u d e n t s s u r v e y t h e S t a n d a r d M e d i a G r o u p a n d i t s p r o d u c t i o n s i n K e n y a

By O. OMOTTO


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A group of students form Greensteds went to Sirare Primary School where they helped fellow students. They found students who do not have shoes. Children here either use slippers or go barefoot. The result is jiggers!! These are bugs that go under your nails, toes and fingers to destroy them. The treatment for this is very simple – DETTOL OR SAVLON – but the school in Sirare is poor and would not be able to afford this for every child. Almost all of the 300 plus children have the jiggers. There are others in the village as well, raising the number to about 500 children.

INSPIRATION COLUMN By C. WERUGIA

IMAGE OF THE WEEK

Anti-jigger Campaign in Nyahururu

Losers live in the past. Winners learn from the past and enjoy working in the present toward the future. The reason most people never reach their goals is that they do not define them, learn about them or even seriously consider them as believable or achievable. Winners can tell you where they are going, what they plan to do along the way, and who will do it. Winners are not those who never fail, but those who never quit. Winners compare their achieve-ments with their goals, while losers compare their achievements with those of other people. That is my thought for this week. Let’s meet again in our next issue after mid-term break. Send feedback to: [email protected]

You may have read in Grapevine that we will be running a new column starting from this edition. Well, here it is! I in-tend to write on several issues and it should be a mixture of fiction and true stories. Self-matters and self-development, quotes from important peo-ple (even my own), anecdotes, challenging ideas for students, parents and teachers.

By F. KAIME

CHARITY

Jessie, Sandra and Kathleen displaying different cultures during this year’s Inter-national Week. It was an event full of fun and lessons to be learnt.

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GrapeVine - November 2009