Worthing High School

Dear Parents, Carers, Staff and Governors,

What an exciting term! So much has happened and students have had such fabulous experiences, as well as undertaking exams and assessments, I am enormously grateful to our staff for giving so much time and energy to organising events. Students have shown amazing enthusiasm for all the additional opportunities.

I do hope you enjoy reading about all the experiences, successes and opportunities that have contributed to the life of Worthing High over the last term.

Carolyn DickinsonHeadteacher

More from the Head on page two

COMMUNITY LEADERS

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Year 10 had a fantastic talk from John Ayton (MBE) who talked about his career and entrepreneurial skills.

John’s business acumen started from a young age, he set up a jazz club in Oxford in a Turkish restaurant and also ran a mobile disco. After University he worked as a corporate lawyer in London and Hong Kong. In 1990 and built it to sales of over £50 million before selling the company in 2006. He still invests in emerging brands and is currently working with Bremont Watches. After showing a promotional video of Bremont which

showed close links with the aviation world, he told the students that watches sell for between £3,000 and £30,000. John then took his watch off and passed it round for all to look at, he then explained why this watch was so special...The aviation pioneers, the Wright brothers who designed, built and fl ew the fi rst ever plane in 1903, had kept the original muslin fabric used to make the wings of that fi rst aeroplane. The fabric was kept and handed down to the family until 1969 when Neil Armstrong (a friend of the family) offered to take it to the Moon with him, which he did. Bremont was fortunate enough to get the Wright family involved with

the design and they have incorporated a piece of the historic fabric within the watch. John looked slightly nervous without his watch, but wanted to share the privilege of holding such an amazing piece of history!

John also spoke about his wife and her new jewellery fi rm called Annoushka.John went on to explain how the company work with celebrities and their stylists to promote and advertise the jewellery.

John made it very clear that the students have the world at their feet and if they work hard, are determined and detailed in their work they can achieve

anything. He also suggested they were at an advantage living in the fast moving digital world.

July 2015

ENTREPRENEUR JOHN AYTON VISITSWORTHING HIGH AS PART OF THE

SPEAKERS FOR SCHOOLS PROGRAMME

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HeeneStuart Townsend

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SalvingtonLee Hardwick

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TarringMostefa Beda

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MESSAGE FROM THE HEAD

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Dear Parents, Carers, Staff and Governors,

Sadly at the end of term we say good bye to a number of members of

staff. I am going to start

with wishing a fond farewell to Dawn

Strong who has been at Worthing High for 28 years. Dawn has been a much valued member of the maths department and we wish her well as she starts a new chapter at Shoreham College. Similarly, Nicola Stevenson has been with us for 25 years, teaching largely in the PE department but has also delivered a number of vocational courses. Nicky has led many successful sports teams over the years and will be greatly missed. Andy Lutwyche departs for Roedean School; he will be very much missedby students and staff who have enjoyed his quick wit and creative approach to teaching.

We wish Annie Brown well as she leaves the English department for Cardinal Newman School in Hove, Melanie Phippen as she moves to become Head of English at Thomas Bennett School in Crawley and Steve Mansell as he heads to Tanbridge House School in Horsham.Karen Warland retires this year after 18 years; Karen notably ran the school uniform shop for many years and will be very a very much missed member of the Inclusion department. Linda Shirley also departs the Inclusion department this summer to start a new chapter as P.A to the Headteacher of Thomas A Becket Middle School.We wish Susie Brooks well as she leaves the History department to start at Shoreham Academy and thank Abi Whitehead who has been with us part time in the English department for the last year and now heads to Chatsmore High School. Lizzie Dathan is moving east to Kent and we wish her all the best at The Norton Knatchbull School.

In September we look forward to welcoming a number of new staff. We have two NQTs starting – Anna Champion joins the Maths Department and Suzanne Bryant joins the MFL department. We welcome Natalie Hoad from Portchester Community College, as the new subject leader for Media Studies, and Cara Conrad who returns from the Malaysia as subject leader for Geography. I am very pleased to say that Lee Hardwick, current Geography

subject leader has been promoted and joins our extended leadership team as Community Leader for Salvington.Stuart Townsend joins us from Brighton Aldridge Academy as Community Leader for Heene and Dr Amanda Jakes joins us from Beacon School, Crowborough and will be Community Leader for Broadwater. In Geography Anna Gannaway joins us from St Phillip Howard School and we welcome David Sax in to the History Department.Finally we welcome Louisa Loney on to the senior leadership team. Louisa joins us from Cavendish School, Eastbourne and will lead on KS3 Student Progress and Feedback for Learning across the school.We look forward to next term with great excitement, not least of all because we will be welcoming Yr 7 students in to the school for the fi rst time and we look forward to seeing all Yr 7, 8 and 9 students proudly wearing the new school uniform.I do thank you all for your support over the last year, Worthing High continues to grow as a school of excellence and your commitment to your children and their education remains at the heart of all that we do.I wish you a lovely summer and look forward to working with you over the coming year.

Very best wishes

Carolyn DickinsonHeadteacher

MESSAGE FROM THE HEAD

The last day of this term for students will be Wednesday 22 July 2015. Please note that there will be an early 1.30pm finish.

Thursday 20th August Year11 Students collect their results

The Autumn Term begins with an Inset day - Thursday 3rd September 2015 Friday 4th September is the first day for Year 7 and Year 8 ONLY

(Yr 9 Buddies and Yr11 Student Leaders) 8.40am start

All year groups return on Monday 7th September at 8.40am.

Week 1 on our two week timetable

Nicky Stevenson

Andy Lutwyche

Dawn Strong

TERM DATES AND ARRANGEMENTS:

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MIND THE GAP!MIND THE GAP!

On Friday 8th May, a group of 30 year 9s visited Ferring Rife and Goring Gap to investigate extreme weather events. In particular they were examining fl ood risk and how that risk is managed on both a river and the coast.

Fieldwork is a vital part of Geography allowing students to apply their theoretical understanding to the real world. The students enjoyed their opportunity to extend their knowledge in this real context.

The work set on the day was designed to stretch students to work to the highest possible standard, a challenge which was confi dently and enthusiastically met by the students. The group were actively engaged throughout the day even completing a beach profi le which is content not usually addressed until sixth form.

Lizzy DathanGeography.

My TES Award “Bev Evans Resource Contributor of the Year” Nomination, 2015

The afternoon of June 19th, 2015 saw me sat on a train to London, freshly dry-cleaned suit (including waistcoat) packed neatly into a suitcase for an awards ceremony at the Grosvenor House Hotel on Park Lane.The awards were hosted by educational publishers the “TES” or “Times Educational Supplement” and are considered one of the prime movers in educational journalism, but they also have a large bank of online resources uploaded by teachers from around the world (81,644,142 teachers and students according to the website at the time of writing this article). It’s this section where I have been involved for a few years.

I have just over 450 maths resources on the site which have been downloaded almost 1.2 million times with generally positive feedback. The other seven nominees have a similar portfolio on the site (I presume, although I haven’t looked in all honesty), so having been chosen by a group of panellists including Baroness Floella Benjamin (for those of a certain age) and Anthony Horowitz, I was sampling the delights of the Southern service to London Victoria.

The evening itself was busy and a little overwhelming if truth be told. There were approximately 1200 people at the dinner (I did an estimate based on

the number of tables and people per table; maths teachers are never off duty) and the ceremony was hosted by top comedian Greg Davies. There were 17 awards in total with food and drink (mainly the latter) fl owing for those who could afford central London prices!

Did I win? Of course not, a guy based in Malaysia who produces languages resources won the award (I hope the shipping out to Kuala Lumpur doesn’t cost too much for the glass trophy) but it was a great experience and especially lucky that I packed the waistcoast as it acted as an impromptu corset.

Andy LutwytcheMaths

TES AWARD NOMINATION 2015

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Back in June a friend of mine, David Lock sent mean unusual request. David is Vice Director of a boys’ orphanage called Boytown in Bortnyky,Ukraine and has worked there for the past 9 years. The orphanage is sponsored by the charity Miles Jesu. David was returning to England for a short break to visit family and friends. Whenever David returns he is always fund raising for the boys, last time he wanted dried and tinned food, this time he was after shoes and trainers.

There are 26 boys in the orphanage aged 6-18 years. The boys often have sad and upsetting backgrounds; their parents have died, or been put in prison or have been deemed unfi t as parents, due to drugs, alcohol, abuse and violence.

Previously people donating shoes gave only small sizes, as they think of the orphans as being very young. Therefore the older boys were desperate for shoes.

I looked around at home and dug out some old train-ers of mine and my son’s, but I then realised I work at a school and can access hundreds of people, so I sent out a plea via email to parents, students and teachers, requesting boys shoes sizes 5 - 10.

The response was amazing, over 50 pairs of shoes, trainers and football boots were donated. Also the schools science department donated some text book as well as 3 (old, no longer needed) microscopes! David was delighted and obviously knew the boys would be too. David’s car was fi lled and now he just needed to fi nd a way across the channel (because of the strike) and start the two day drive down to the Ukraine.

David made it back safe and sound and would like to say a huge thank you to all who donated from himself, and more importantly from the boys.

Mr Peacock

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UKRAINE ORPHANAGE SHOE APPEAL

POCKET ROCKETAt the Worthing College Year 10 STEM Gifted and talented workshop in July, Olivia Baker and Adam Jones won after building the best rocket , it travelled 80.5 metres. Harry Tipton , partnered with a St Andrews student came second with an 80 metre fl ight. The nearest team was 20 metres short of our winning teams. Well done Worthing High!

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Worthing High School Prom was a great success, held on Friday 3rd July at the Hilton Metropole, Brighton.175 students arrived in style in a variety of wonderful vehicles, delivered to a seafront jam-packed with spectators.

The Metropole really delivered the “wow factor”. As they entered the main hall the year 11 leavers were welcomed by ex-student musicians who played an acoustic set as the party-goers sipped on their pre-dinner drinks.

Students were entertained further whilst waiting to be served, and whilst eating their beautifully presented delicious meal, with close -hand magic by a magician who has recently appeared on national TV.After dinner speeches and awards followed before two students kicked off the evening’s dancing by performing a well-rehearsed dance routine.

The students literally had a ball and, despite there being further opportunities for fun with a photo booth full of dressing-up props, the majority never left the dance fl oor.

The Resident DJ, who has seen many, many proms, commented that our students were “the best bunch that I can remember: polite, respectful, friendly and great fun!”

Student Iwan Jenkins emailed the school the next day saying “Just wanted to say a MASSIVE thanks for organising last night’s prom; it was absolutely amazing, I had so much fun and I know that everyone else who came felt the same! The magician was really good, the food was delicious and the venue was brilliant. Many Thanks”.

A CD containing over 500 photos of the evening is availible from the school for £5.

Mr Peacock

LEAVERS PROM 2015 AT THE METROPOLE BRIGHTON

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LEARNING RESOURCE CENTRE

Hosted by Chris Riddell, The Children’s Laureate

The presentation evening of The Amazing Book Awards was held on Friday 10th July and truly lived up to its name, it was AMAZING!. We had approximately 400 students/parents attending from over 30 schools across the South Coast.

This year we were joined by all 5 of our fi nal shortlisted authors: James Dawson, Sally Green, Emma Haughton, Annabel Pitcher and Jon Robinson. Hosting the event was the incredibly talented Chris Riddell, (current Children’s Laureate) who entertained everyone with his wonderful illustrations. Chris drew the authors as they talked about their books and answered questions from the huge audience.

The winners were:

Students introduced the authors and presented the awards

The back story of the Awards… • Established in 2011 by School Librarians: Sally Baker of Durrington High School, Louise Guile of St Andrews CE School for Boys, Rachel Johnson of Shoreham Academy and Amanda Phelan of Worthing High School. • Students at participating schools are involved in the entire process of nomination, shortlisting and fi nal voting. Every reader gets a vote; no staff member gets to veto their decisions. • From starting with 12 active schools in 2011, we now have 31 schools across the South Coast in the scheme. The project reaches more than 400 readers across several counties. More schools are joining in 2016.

For more information: http://amazingbookawards.co.uk/

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The wonderful, award winning, Sophie McKenzie came to visit us today to talk to our Year 8 and 9 students. We were also joined by students from other middle/secondary schools across Sussex.

Sophie told us about how she became a writer and where she got her inspiration for the characters in her books. A group of students were asked to act out a section from her new book “All

My Secrets”, where Evie suddenly discovers that she has been left ten million pounds in a trust fund!

Students were able to get their books signed by Sophie and chat

to her afterwards.

We look forward to welcoming the author C J Daugherty to the school in October.

LEARNING RESOURCE CENTRE

Meeting the Authors - SOPHIE MCKENZIE14th July 2015

We have had some fantastic results in Accelerated Reader this year, some students have moved up 3 years in reading ages and this has been down to their commitment to reading. Library lessons are all about getting students to read for fun and I am pleased to say that with AR we have motivated many students to read, try new authors/genres and generally get excited about books. Next year we will be running AR with Year 7 and 8 students but the library is always open for everyone and we will continue

to recommend and discuss the exciting world of children’s fi ction with them.Here are the top AR Awards achieved this year by students, but in addition to this I would also like to say a big congratulations to all those students who moved forward and achieved their personal goals in AR. Keep up the good work!

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CAREERS IN WRITING NETWORKING VISITProfessional writers visited Year 9 students and Mrs Brown in June to share their ideas, experience and examples of their work. Students spoke to advertising creatives, bloggers, copy writers and a crime reporter about their careers and the power of language.

Everyone enjoyed the experience: students made some useful contacts, shared their ideas for pitches and some students were even offered work experience placements!

Mrs Brown, Key Stage 3 English Co Ordinator

ELECTION 2015All students took part in a mock election activity during their form time. This involved students learning and being involved in the whole election process from registering to vote to deciding on their own manifestos to try and win the student vote. On 7th May all students then placed their vote and the results were counted. The winning party across the school was the Progress party.

The week of June 29th- July 3rd was Worthing High School’s annual enrichment week. The purpose of this week is to provide a varied range of extra-curricular activities for Year 8 and 9 students

Year 8 students enjoyed two days out of school on trips in the local area. The Weald and Downland Museum in Slindon hosted students for a mixture of workshops and talks on both days. These focused on the important role of the museum in preserving the architectural heritage of Sussex buildings and the associated crafts.

The day spent at Plumpton College again blended talks with hands-on workshops, this time focusing on the range of post-16 courses on offer.

At the end of the week, Y8 students took part in a PSHE Day with workshops provided by Santander Bank and Northbrook College. Workshops on offer included the role of banks, motorsport and theatre make-up among others.

Year 9 spent the fi rst two days of enrichment week enjoying GCSE “Taster Sessions” for their four options. These provided an opportunity to see exactly what their GCSE/BTEC course will involve and ensure that students ‘hit the ground running’ in September when they embark on their Key Stage 4 courses.

On Tuesday 29th June, thirty Y9 Triple Science students were fortunate enough to secure places to visit the Royal Society Summer exhibition. This provided students with a rare opportunity to visit the Royal Society, the most pre-eminent scientifi c institution in the UK. Students listened to a key-note lecture and then visited the exhibition, coming face-to-face with some of the most well-respected scientists and their cutting-edge research. Finally, at the end of the week Y9 students also took part in a PSHE Day. Students were involved in sessions on: the role of banks (provided by Santander); liberty and the rule of law; democracy in the UK and the justice system in England and Wales.

Thomas FlowerAssistant Headteacher

ENRICHMENT WEEK

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YEAR 5 TASTER MORNINGSOnce again Worthing High opened its doors to over 800 Year 5 children and parents of Worthing and Lancing. The Taster Mornings gave children an opportunity to experience life at Worthing High School; children took part in Science, Design Technology or Physical Education lessons. Parents had a tour around the school from our Year 8 and 9 students, looking at lessons and meeting the leadership team.

I would like to thank all the Year 8 and 9 tour guides who demonstrated maturity, confi dence and pride in their school.

Paul Slaughter Assistant Headteacher

WEALD AND DOWNLAND OPEN AIR MUSEUMTuesday 30th June was a truly enriching day as our year 8 students enjoyed discovering traditional buildings in a rural landscape that tell the stories of those who lived and worked in them over half a millennia ago. Even the beautiful weather was au “rendez-vous” in The Weald and Downland Museum in the stunning Sussex country side!

Students enjoyed a variety of workshops including milling fl our in a working watermill, cooking in a Tudor kitchen, blacksmithing in a Victorian

smithy and got their hands dirty making a wattle and daub wall. A huge interest was shown by all and many curiosities satisfi ed.

Amy Saunders wrote the following about the trip.

When we arrived we saw the spectacular site which was the Weald and Downland Museum. First we split in to groups so we could take in what these people used to live like. The fi rst house we saw would have been owned by someone who had the money to pay for a brick house. After we had a look around we moved on to an activity, where we had a go at wattle and daub like they would have done and also weaving too.

Throughout the day we tried a lot of different things which we wouldn’t have the chance to do anywhere else! There where many highlights throughout the day. Furthermore, the lunch spot was just divine, tranquil and it showed us how amazing wildlife in Britain is.

I would like to say thank you to the Weald and Downland Museum for letting us have a look around.

Mostefa BedaAssistant Headteacher

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INTAKE DAY

A fi rst for Worthing High School this July saw two Intake days fi lling the school with over 200 Year 6 and 200 Year 7 students. With both Year 6 and Year 7 students moving up in September children met their Community and Pastoral Leaders and spent some time with their new tutor groups. The day was spent experiencing a few lessons in Maths, English and PE with a couple of quick assessments. The day was full of excitement and new friendships as students from different middle schools and even countries came together to form new learning relationships at Worthing High. I would like to praise the new Year 8 buddies for guiding and looking after the new intake throughout the days, you made me proud!

Mr Slaughter Assistant Headteacher

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Woodwind Music Lessonswith Ms K. Hogg (BA Hons) PGCE.Exciting opportunities exist for pupils to start FLUTE-SAXOPHONE-CLARINETwith the West Sussex Music Trust from September 2015. The lessons can either be group or individual sessions. Information about the cost of lessons,instrument hire, music centre activities, help with fees and terms and conditions can be found on our website www.westsussexmusic.co.uk. To apply for lessons please use the online form in the “Making Music” section. If you need any further information please contact me onkatherine.hogg@westsussexmusic.co.uk

WORTHING HIGH SPONSORED WALK FRIDAY 18TH SEPTEMBER 2015

Once again students and staff of WHS will all be taking part in our biggest charity event, The Sponsored Walk in the beginning of the new term.Matthew Clegg, Year 9 writes:On the 18th September, the students of Worthing High School will walk across the South Downs to raise money for Chestnut Tree House. Each student will gain sponsors and we aim to raise £12,000 for this charity. Chestnut Tree House is an amazing charity, which supports children with life-limiting conditions. They are currently caring for over 300 children from all across Sussex. This walk gives an opportunity for every student to make a difference to the lives of terminally ill children.Ways to donate: All students have a Sponsor Card where you can complete your details and students will collect their cash after the walk. www.justgiving.com/WHS-walk-2015 via School Wisepay or text to: 70070, Code WHSS50

LIP SYNC BATTLEOn the last day of term (Wednesday 22nd July) during period 3 and 4 students will be watching their favourite members of staff performing their own version of the US hit TV show Lip Sync Battles.

Students, please bring in some money to donate into a collection bucket as you enter the hall.

All money raised will be kick-starting our fundraising efforts for Chestnut Tree House before the sponsored walk in September.

WWildlife Rangers Join us on Tuesdays in school holidays and get close to Nature this summer. Have fun being a part of this great group of young people who get outdoors and take action to protect and learn about their

local wildlife.

These fun weekly sessions include practical conservation tasks to improve habitats, surveying and monitoring plants and animals,

gardening for wildlife, bushcraft and lots more.

To find out more, contact Tom Simpson Call: 07825797521

Email: thomassimpson@sussexwt.org.uk booking essential, for further information please visit:

www.sussexwildlifetrust.org.uk/wildaboutworthing

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ECO SUMMITOn Monday 13th July, 13 students from years 8 and 9 attended the 8th eco-summit held by the EYE project.

The day allowed students to discuss environmental issues with students from a range of other local schools. Students also took

part in a number of workshops on a number of subjects including solar energy, and the need for reducing, reusing and recycling our resources. During the day, students were also involved in updating the EYE charter which is an agreement between all the member schools.A recent competition held by the

EYE project was to design a new mascot for the project. The Key Stage 3 category was won by Holly Harris and Caitlin Ford and the 2 girls also won the overall competition. They were presented with their prize at the eco-summit by the Mayor and Mayoress of Worthing and their mascot will now be used across the EYE project material.

THE E.Y.E. PROJECTThe E.Y.E. Project held a competition earlier this year for pupils to design an eco character to become the E.Y.E. Project Mascot. The E.Y.E. Project Committee chose Key Stage Category winners and an overall winner of the competition. The following designs were winners of the Key Stage Categories:

Key Stage One Winner - ‘Oakley’ designed by Sophia age 6 from Rustington Community Primary SchoolKey Stage Two Winner - ‘Sir Leafy’ designed by Jensen age 9 from Shoreham CollegeKey Stage three joint winners: ‘Recycling Rosy’ designed by Izzy age 14 from Durrington High School and ‘Eddie Eco Eye’ designed by Caitlin & Holly from Worthing High School.The overall winner of the competition whose character was chosen to be the E.Y.E. Project Mascot was ‘Eddie Eco Eye’ and Worthing High School have received the prize of £250 to be used towards their eco initiatives. Well Done!!

The winners were announced at the 8th Worthing &

Adur Eco Summit held at Shoreham College on 13th July by the Vice Chairman of Adur. Prizes were presented to Worthing High School and to any winners that were attending the event.

Thank you to The Southern Co-operative for sponsoring the competition and presenting Worthing High School with their winning prize.

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PLUMPTON COLLEGE TASTER DAY

During the enrichment week all of our Year 8 students experienced a taster day at Plumpton college. The day involved students rotating around the different areas of animal care, equine activities, agricultural and horticultural activities as well as a tour of the campus. Many students were able to hold and touch the animals in the reptile centre including a corn snake and Hugo the skunk. During the equine activity students were shown how to groom a horse and were then allowed to have a go. The highlight of the day was a visit to the onsite fully working diary farm where students were taught where their food comes from. The day fi nished with a talk from the college about the many different careers in the industry.

Sam Ayres Assistant Headteacher

WORK EXPERIENCE 2015Year 10 Work Experience Week – Monday 29 June to Friday 3 July.

Our Year 10 students returned from yet another successful week’s work experience, with over 230 students placed in local and national businesses. The employers, who offer their services for free, commented on the high quality of the students working with them, their attitude and enthusiasm for what they were being asked to do.

The school’s dynamic Work Experience programme is designed to begin to equip students to take advantage of opportunities in an increasingly competitive work place. It also aims to raise the profi le of Worthing High School students amongst local employers.

Work Experience provides the opportunity for students to explore the world of work and make decisions on possible further education and career paths. It also provides them with the knowledge about their employability skills that employers are looking for.

This experience can also provide an initial link to a future

employer and will also assist in building personal confi dence and discovering qualities students never knew they had.

Well done to all Year 10 students!

Liz Millar Careers Adviser

NORTHBROOK DRAMA VISITA group of Foundation Degree students from Northbrook College came to visit the year 10 GCSE Drama group to share a wonderful piece of Theatre in Education that they were touring around local schools. The piece was shot through with some breath-taking singing in the form of solos, duets and choral numbers. Their theme – “Image” delivered a powerful message about the dangers of our infl uences from our peers, the media and the increasing threats from social media on our own image of ourselves. However strong the message, the actors managed to deliver this with humour and self-deprecation to entertain us. Their props and costumes were great as was their use of projection and multi-media to help deliver their ideas.

All of the class enjoyed the experience and were happy to engage in a Q&A with the group at the end of the piece to fi nd out more about everything from their devising methods to the course that they were on.

Katie HunwickLeader of Drama

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BRIGHTON HISTORY

Year 10 investigate the importance of Brighton as a growing town in History

On 7th, 8th and 9th of July our 150 Year 10 GCSE Historians visited Brighton for the day to explore the sites in order to see for themselves the reasons why Brighton grew to be such an important town from 1500 -1900. The changeable weather did not deter our enthusiasm as we compared aspects of the tourist town Brighton today is today with its roots as a fi shing village. We visited the Royal Pavilion, the museum, the Steine, the Palace Pier and surrounding area including the Metropole, Grand and Old Ship Hotels. The

trip on the train and entrance to the station in particular gave students the opportunity to imagine the excitement of the trip to Brighton tourists would have experienced when the railway was a novelty in

the 1840s. Students were able to envisage what the up and coming city of Brighton was like as it developed from 1500-1900, and can now return to their classwork having experienced the city fi rst hand.

Picture above: Theo Warrington playing the piano at Brighton Station

Susie BrooksHistory

GIFTED AND TALENTED MFL DAYOn Thursday 9th July MFL Department had invited some talented Year 5 linguists from fi ve of our feeder schools (Vale, Orchards, Thomas at Beckett, Downsbrook and West Park) to spend a day with us learning languages. We also had seven Year 9 Language Leaders working with us all day.

Ben Dean Year 9, explains what the day was about:‘On Thursday 9th July, I helped the school’s language department in a Year 5 Gifted and Talented MFL Day. The pupils had a lesson of all the MFLs which are taught at Worthing High School. First, they practiced breakfast in France

with Mr Beda and learned about different dishes and drinks in the French culture as well as the normal things they have at home. They then had a lesson of Spanish with Mr Jones and learned about pets, this involved saying the pets they had at home and also fun games like noughts and crosses and bingo. After their break they had a German lesson with Miss Karonen and learned about weather phrases, they had to write a script and perform a weather forecast, in groups,which was recorded. Finally, at the end of their day, Mr Janardo took them for another Spanish lesson and learned about different colours. ‘

It was a real pleasure to work with such keen students and everyone had a good time. Big thank you to all Year 5 students and their teachers for sending them, to the whole of the MFL Department for running activities and to Lyla Hone, Megan Brinkley, Harriet Dunn, Henri McKeown-Slater,

Chris Applegate, Ben Dean and Charlotte Bevis in Year 9 for helping us!

Merci beaucoup! Danke schön! Muchas gracias!

Miss KaronenHead of MFL

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WHS CRICKET ACADEMYWorthing High School Cricket Academy in partnership with Sussex cricket

Over 150 year 5&6 students from Broadwater, Chesswood, Downsbrook, Thomas A Becket, Durrington Middle and Downsbrook Middle attended. Students were taught by Worthing High School sport leaders in the morning developing their cricket skills and completed a carousel of activities. In the afternoon students participated in a tournament where the Sussex’s mascot ‘Sid the Shark’ joined in with the fun. Excellent cricket was on display all day. Students played several

games before moving into a number of cup, plate and shield competitions. The overall fi nal was played between TAB 1 and Downsbrook 3 – with some fantastic fi elding and batting skills on show. TAB 1 were victorious and were crowned for the second year running ‘Worthing High Schools academy cricket tournament winners’. Sid the shark presented all students with

a certifi cate and the winners with a medal and the Ashes trophy. Worthing High School is already looking forward to the tournament next year. Photo: TAB winning team George, Daniel, Ash (captin), Sid the Shark!, Issy, Anna, Jack, Mary, Jacob

Miss FieldLeader of PE

STUDENTS INSPIRED IN SPORT BY HANNAH BEHARRYENGLAND AND GB BOXER

During the day Hannah delivered inspirational assemblies to KS3 students on her life describing how, once faced with an uncertain future, she discovered a positive channel for her energies at All Stars, one of London’s most prominent boxing clubs. Hannah went on to explain how she has transformed her life through sport, not only excelling at boxing, but acting as a strong role model for her local communities by promoting boxing in schools. For the rest of the day Hannah worked with KS4 students on reaching your potential and a ran a fi tness session with a group of Year 9 girls. We look forward to completing new projects next academic year.

Miss FieldLeader of PE

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ACTIV8 DAY 2015Worthing High School held its annual Activ8 Day on Friday 10th July. 38 tutor groups, representing each of the four communities, took part in a carousel of activities including bench ball, softball, lacrosse, volleyball, hockey, handball, rowing, basketball, dodge ball, nerf and football. Tutor groups were looking to earn as many points as they could for their community through team work, participation, effort and competition. There was a real sense of community ethos throughout the school which created a great atmosphere for students and staff.

All four communities were fantastic and it was hard to announce a winner. The honours this year for the fi rst time went to TARRING.

Miss M Field Leader of PE