Reception, Year 1 and 2 pupils had the most amazingday when they visited Drusilla’s Zoo on Wednesday 27thFebruary. The children took part in a prehistoric workshop,which allowed them to interact with some real life speciesthat have evolved since the time of dinosaurs, including abearded dragon and a cockroach. A tour around the zooand a trip on the train, gave the children the opportunityto see many other interesting and rare animal species, ourfavourites being the red panda, meerkat and marmosetmonkey.After a lovely picnic lunch in the sunshine, the childrenput their own monkey skills to the test in the play area!

Our Visit to Drusilla’s

Senior Science Club Racing Robots

On Saturday 9th February Emily O in Year 6,competed in the Independent Schools AssociationFencing Competition. Having battled hard againsttough opposition, Emily went into the quarterfinals ranked in 4th place. In the knock out stageEmily’s opponent, who was much bigger than her,was able to block her every move, so she did notstand a chance, but bravely stood her ground. Weare very proud of her perseverance and tenacity.Other than nursing a bruised arm from a sharpBlow, she had a lovely day. Well done, Emily!

Emily O Fences Her way To The Very End!

Fairtrade Pancake Breakfast

As part of Fairtrade Fortnight, our pupils and their familiesenjoyed a Fairtrade pancake breakfast, consisting of yummypancakes, blueberries and cream! The breakfast was a greatsuccess and raised over £100 for local charities. Our thanksgo to Miss Lowe for organising this event.

Year 7 Scientific Journeys Eurotunnel

Year 5 and 6 visited Preston Manor, wherethey experienced the life of a Victorian maid.They were put under the care of the Head-maid,Miss Rose and Housekeeper Mrs Storey, whowere very strict! Their jobs included cleaningcarpets with tealeaves, polishing and dusting,making beds, washing clothes, polishing boots,cooking and setting the table. The girls even learnt how the Victorian’s would make lemonade. At the end of the day the ladies decided if any of the maids were good enough to be employed!

Shoreham Food bank DonationsKind-hearted pupils and their families have been makingextremely generous donations to the Shoreham Foodbank,providing them with basic foodstuffs for local homelesspeople. Below is a letter of thanks to The Towers:Thank you so much for The Towers very generous support ofShoreham FoodBank; your Harvest Festival donation amountedto a shade over 137kg.I know that again you have been very generous in making adonation to Shoreham FoodBank even this week - thank you.

For your information, this donation is coming at just the right time as at the moment we are in afood shortage situation.We have had a tremendous response with donations for Harvest and Christmas last year, but throughJanuary this year we have been receiving our highest numbers of clients for some time; hence ourfood stocks have become depleted.

Year 5 and 6 visited Preston Manor

Year 7 Medieval Medicine Day

The Day Of The Year 8 Drama Competition

Beautiful Pre-Raphaelite art from talented Year 5

On Thursday 21st March the Junior School had their Performing Arts afternoon. The audience wastreated to wonderful instrumental performances, lovely singing, brilliant dancing and two excellentdrama pieces, ‘Oliver with a Twist’ and Macbeth in 5 minutes! There was such a great diversity of talent on show and everyone performed with great confidence and enjoyment. Well done to everyoneinvolved.

Junior Performing Arts

All of the drama pieces were amazing and seeing them a second timeduring Open Evening was even more fantastic than the first. It wasamazing and shocking how many parents and visitors came thatnight, thank you all for your support of the Year 8.There were six groups who were given different colours to includein their dramas and all explored different themes. They also hadto incorporate music, stylised dance and a poem. The yellow groupwon and the reds came second. Well done both teams as it wasextremely hard to choose because they were all brilliant. All of thesynchronised dances were amazing and fluent, good songs werechosen as well.

Thank you to all of the lighting crew who helped on the day, you were so helpful and we would have been in a lot of trouble without you! Thank you to the wonderful Mrs Nixon and Mrs Gray for helping us all out and judging the performances. Thank you all who came and I hope you can come next time!Taylor H

Year 10 and 11 GCSE History and Drama pupils enjoyedhalf a day each up at Horsham’s Capitol Theatre watchingand participating in two interactive plays, which featuredGCSE exam-boosting workshops. Year 10 went to see TheDoctors’ Show to help with their Medicine c1250-2019topic, where an imagined future ‘edutainment’ channelused virtual reality to bring great figures back from thepast world of medicine to quiz them about theirsignificance to the medical world. Along with otherschools, the girls had to state how much progress theythought was being made in each era whilst watching the

highly entertaining and informative show. They had to vote on how successful GCSE pupil answers on eachera were in interactive exam workshop sessions throughout, and so became an audience of GCSEexaminers for a morning!Year 11, who watched The Doctors’ Show last year, participated in Hitler On Trial to help with their GCSEtopic on Germany 1918-39. They watched a play of an imagined scenario where Hitler had survived theSecond World War and was put on trial for a number of crimes, including of course, crimes againsthumanity. The girls had to judge whether he was guilty in the case of turning Germany into a totalitariandictatorship – and if found guilty, he would be executed! The show also contained a GCSE exam-boostingworkshop where, as with The Doctors’ Show, the girls had to see how they compared against other schoolsin deciding what levels and marks to give to GCSE exam answers displayed via a large screen to the wholeaudience.The girls had been given pride of place for both shows at the front of either the stalls or the balcony as a“thank-you” for the help they have given the hosting company when they had the unique and privilegedrole of previously giving feedback on the show’s question booklets and also the GCSE extension booklets,which the hosting company, School History Scene, provides for all pupils attending the show. Last year,Towers girls were lucky enough to meet the actors and School History Scene’s Director, Josh Brooman,author of numerous GCSE History textbooks, who commented on how lovely our pupils were. Year 11have also been helping with resources for the next SHS show, The Inquisition of Queen Elizabeth I, andhave been involved in the creation of GCSE resources for pupils around the country.Undoubtedly these experiences will have helped pupils’ understanding of both GCSE topics and examquestions. As always the girls did the Towers proud!

Year 7 learning to make neutralisation rainbows

Hitler on Trial

Fifty years ago this July, Neil Armstrong, Edwin ‘Buzz’ Aldrin and Michael Collins were astronauts on Apollo11 . On July 20, 1969, Armstrong became the first human to step on the moon. The whole Apollo 11programme required the skills of approximately 400,000 engineers, technicians and scientists. When thethree astronauts returned to Earth, they had to stay in quarantine for three weeks as a precaution againstspreading unknown infections. Currently, China is exploring the dark side of the moon. Earlier this year,Chang’e-4 became the first spacecraft to land on the far side of the moon. Potato and cotton seeds, taken tothe moon on the Chang’e-4 mission, have begun to sprout. The sprouts mark the first time biological matter has been grown on the moon. In the next 50 years of space exploration, scientists are hopeful that they will find other life in the universe. The Mars One mission aims to build a permanent human settlement on Mars. The Mars One crews will go to Mars to live, explore, and hopefully create a second home for humankind.Saskia D - Year 10 STEM Ambassador

Remembering The 1969 Moon Landing

Madelaine P, in Year 11, competed in the Sussex CrossCountry League over the weekend of 9th and 10thFebruary. A very accomplished and experiencedcompetitor, Madelaine was part of the gold medalwinning team in the under 17 girls’ section.Congratulations to Madelaine for another well-deservedsuccess.

Madelaine Runs to Another Success

Lucia P, in Year 7, represented The Towers in the 12 years and under woodwindcategory in The Worthing Music and Arts Festival. She thoroughly enjoyedperforming pieces on both her clarinet and recorder and was awarded 1st and2n d place respectively.As a result of her high scores for her festival performances, Lucia was selectedby the adjudicator as one of 10 ‘outstanding performers’ from the piano andinstrumental section. This is a great achievement as there were more than 90competitors in this section. Lucia was invited to play her recorder in the FestivalGala and wonderful Mrs Gray accompanied her on the piano. Well done, Lucia!

Music Success for Lucia

Year 6 Sweet Classification

Caitlin and Taylor Swim to Success

Caitlin and Taylor (Year 8) started 2019 off brilliantly! On Sunday, January 6th, they both competed in Splash Into 2019 Open Meet in Felpham. Caitlin gained her county time in the 50m butterfly! Finishing with a time of 35.75 and winning a bronze in the age 13 group for 50m butterfly. She also had a personal best time of 32.43 in her 50m freestyle and came 4th in her age group for 13 year old girls. Taylor got bronze in the 50m fly and silver in the 200 individual medley. Caitlin and Taylor were obviously delighted after a successful day in the pool.Congratulations!

On Friday 11th January, senior and junior pupils were luckyenough to meet former GB rhythmic gymnast, Lynne Hutchisonwhen she came to launch the new gymnastics club. DuringLynne’s impressive gymnastic career, she represented Englandat the 2010 Commonwealth Games in Delhi, India, where shewon a bronze medal in the team event. She also competed forTeam GB at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London. Pupils and staff were fascinated by the videos of her performances. Her inspirational hard work, perseverance, dedication and success certainly gave pupils food for thought!

Former Olympic Gymnast’s Assembly

Year 5 & 6 Victorian Tea Party

mine were way off! Then we made models of the planets with fruit.Later we had science and that was the best part of the day! We used Bunsen burners to fire up rockets. We used liquid hydrogen and made popping noises. We had another science lesson with Mrs Baker, during which we did tests, and fiddley things that space men would have to do.Next, we had a space themed lunch of hotdogs and rocket lollies.Our last lesson was art and we were drawing pictures that inspired us of space (that got a bit messy!).My favourite part of the day was defiantly science, getting to wear goggles and coats and using theBunsen burners. It was such a fun day!By Belle

STEM DAYOn STEM day, we did lots of exciting things and we hadsuch a fun day. There were two groups, Apollo and NASA,I was in Apollo. There were other schools there as well.STEM means science, technology, engineering art andmaths.First, we did ICT and made animations on Scratch aboutrockets flying into space or to earth.After that, was playtime, when we had cookies and a drink( that was yummy )After our yummy snack we had maths and we wereestimating where the planets were from the sun to Pluto -

‘We’re going on a bear hunt’ fun for the Juniors during World Book Day

Year 10 PGL Netball Trip

first game was against Parkland Academy, which they won 5-2. They also won their second game againstJoyce Frankland Academy 14-12. This was a close and very exciting game, with 26 goals in just 16 minutes.Sadly, the girls lost the last two games, which were tough, but two wins and two losses was a good result.On Sunday morning they played two more games with the aim of getting through to the semi-finals.It was raining heavily and conditions were far from ideal, but the girls continued to work hard.They drew their first game 5-5 against Chislehurst and Sidcup School and lost their last game by justone goal, 6-5. Overall The Towers came 6th out of 10 schools.The girls played their hearts out and did The Towers very proud. The competition was hard but thewhole weekend was a great experience for them all, providing them with lots of laughs. The girls werelucky enough to meet Eboni Chambers, who plays for England Netball and Team Bath in the NetballSuper League.Miss Swain

The Year 10 netball team spent the weekend of 1st,nd and 3rd March at a PGL 2 centre in Liddington. Theirtournament on Saturday afternoon, gave them timein the morning to experience all the outdoor extremeactivities, zip wire, high ropes, vertical jump, climbingwall and many more, which they thoroughly enjoyed.Then in the afternoon things became more serious, asthey had four important netball games to play. Their

Year 3 Playing With Shadows

Upcoming Events Next Term

BikeabilityMusic Concert - Journey Around The

WorldYears 7 & 8 Parents Evening

Junior PlayYear 11 Leavers Mass & Prize Giving

Sisters Coffee MorningD of E

Junior Choir CompetitionMFL Residential TripYear 9 Big Bang Trip

On Friday 8th March Year 3 and 4 went to FishbourneRoman Palace and Gardens. The children had anamazing time and discovered so much about theRomans.In the morning the children pretended theywere back in Roman times by engaging in lots of interesting activities. They learnt how to grind flour, write the Roman alphabet on tablets (not the kind we use today though) and how they built arches using a key stone. They also had lots of fun dressing up.After the workshop the children were shown thestunning mosaics and had a look around the museum.Fred and Frida (the palace skeletons) were a real hit!

Year 3 and 4 Trip to Fishbourne Roman Palace and Gardens

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