LSF.WEEK 20 MAY 2022 - #CCFANNUALREVIEW #CORPSOFDRUMS - LOUGHBOROUGH SCHOOLS FOUNDATION
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LSF.WEEK
20 May 2022
#CCFAnnualReview
#CorpsOfDrums
Paris Trip Back at the Chateaux the children
challenged themselves with orienteering
Year 6 pupils spent a wonderful week in Paris at the Chateaux Grande Romaine. and problem-solving activities. They also
During their stay they visited the market town of Brie where they were able to enjoy enjoyed swimming in the outdoor pool
the local market stalls and complete a town trail. and had fun dancing at the evening
disco. The pupils also spent a magical
day at Disneyland Paris where memories
were made that will last a lifetime.
The trip culminated with a visit to the
centre of Paris where everyone ascended
the Eifel Tower to enjoy spectacular
views of the city. This was followed by
a leisurely river cruise along the Seine,
taking in more of the city’s historic
buildings.
ISFA National Boys Football Forest School
Competition. Year 6 have also been using a variety
of tools at Forest School to create
On Tuesday 3 May, the boys U11 football
wonderful art pieces.
team travelled to St George’s Park to
take part in the ISFA National Football
A fantastic way to showcase their
tournament which consisted of the top
creativity whilst making the most of the
24 schools in England.
sunny weather!
The boys were confident after winning
Meanwhile, the Kindergarten children
the Midlands qualifier but were aware of
have also been enjoying the sunshine
the test to come.
and have visited Forest School to dig for
insects and make a fire with Dragon
The boys did a fantastic job, topping their
Sneezers!
group having won four out of the five
games. This set up a tense quarter final
in which, after great determination and
effort, we just fell short, losing 1-0 to the
impressive Brentwood Prep.
Finishing in the top eight is a great
achievement and the boys should be very
proud of their efforts and development!
Great job boys, you did the school
community proud!
Andrew Earnshaw
Headmaster
Young Enterprise Success Maths Challenge
On Wednesday 4 May our Year 12 Young On Thursday 28 April, Year 7 and 8
Enterprise company ‘Soul’, represented pupils took part in the UKMT Junior
the School at the county final. Maths Challenge.
They were interviewed by the judges This is a national challenge that
about the company they have been encourages mathematical logic and
running and presented to the other reasoning to solve interesting problems.
finalists and judges the story of their
business. Ava, Eva, Seb, Marie and Isaac all gained
a bronze certificate and Evie achieved
The team came away with the Customer the best in school with a silver award.
Service award as well as the main prize Well done to all the students involved as
of County Champions. They will now well as to Mrs Bacall, Mrs Mistry and our
represent Leicestershire at the regional Business Adviser, Don Bennett. Best of
awards in a few weeks’ time. luck to them all for the regional awards.
Triathlon News Beautiful Backdrops
On Friday 13 May, eleven Amherst pupils Year 6 have been studying A
from Years 4 to 9 travelled to Ipswich to Midsummer Night’s Dream and Tudor
compete in the National ISA Triathlon. Theatres.
The pupils all raced with confidence and Part of their closer look homework
determination to secure good times in was to create a theatre backdrop which
the three disciplines. The final results
are not yet all available, but we do know
depicted a woodland scene. They could Minnie Shoots and Scores
make it either 2D or 3D and use whatever
that Katie in Year 9 secured Silver in the materials they wanted. On Saturday 14 May, Minnie in Year
senior girl’s category.
7 competed in the regional indoor
Well done to Katie and all our As an example, here is Lola’s backdrop. England Football Futsal final in
triathletes. Norwich.
There were four teams competing to
represent the Midlands in the National
Final.
Minnie and her team played four games
and won all four. They will now go to the
National Final. Not content with this, the
next day Minnie played in the Under-13s
nine-aside league cup final and won that
too.
Combined Cadet Force Annual Review An unstoppable footballing force and
one to watch for the future!
On Saturday 7 May Loughborough Schools Foundation held its annual CCF Review.
This was a wonderful event for our Year 13 students, with Yasmin winning Cadet of
the Year and Grace leading the RAF cohort to success in the drill competition.
Well done to Yasmin, Grace, and all our CCF members.
Lael Takes a Hattrick
On the same day that Minnie’s team
won in Norwich, back in Loughborough,
Lael in Year 7 played his debut for the
Grammar Cricket U12 B Team and took a
hattrick (three wickets in three balls).
Hopefully, the A team beckons after such
Julian Murphy a stunning debut.
Head
Diversity Day
After a discussion of cultural heritage in
assembly led by the Diversity committee
and Sathya on the tabla, the LGS school
community enjoyed events to celebrate
cultural diversity.
A large number of students and staff
dressed up in a wide range of cultural
attire ranging from kilts to thwab,
dashiki to sarape. At break time the
students enjoyed a cake sale with delights
ranging from Eccles cakes to jalebi.
These were sold and consumed at
record speed whilst a group of invited
dhol drummers added musical
accompaniment to the festivities.
At lunch time, Masala chips also added
diversity to the usual Friday chip day!
The Debate LADS Race Motor Sports
Hailed as the debate to end all debates, The last two weeks as the sunshine has Rally Driver, Ruairi Bell, visited the
the Senior Prefects vs the Senior poured onto the majestic quad, boys and Grammar School to give an interesting
Leadership Team! staff have competed for the Barnett Cup talk to a range of boys who are
in the LADS race. interested in Motor Sports.
The motion?
This House believes that homework The Head Boy and Prefects recorded The boys enjoyed hearing Ruairi talk
should be banned some very tight timings and the cups about his life, how he got into the world
for the overall winner, lower school and of rally driving and some useful insights
This was proposed with tongue very upper school winners and fastest teacher, on how to progress with this interest.
firmly in cheek, however Dr’s Waters, will be announced soon in assembly.
Willmott and Mr Parish put out a The talk finished with boys being
passionate plea to ban homework citing allowed to try on his racing helmet!
its impact on wellbeing, time spent with
the family and effectiveness.
They lost again (or did they?) against the
well-honed skills of the Head Boys and
Deputies who passionately debated for
homework to remain.
Mental Health Awareness During Thursday’s assembly they
discussed how happiness helped with
Week positive self-esteem and highlighted the
ten ways to happiness.
Embracing the theme of loneliness; the
Wellbeing committee started the week The week culminated with loneliness
by discussing what this meant in the 21st fighting activities such as board games
century. in the library, Wii sports for the Sixth
Form, a scavenger hunt and throughout
the week the boys also raised funds for
Christopher Barnett charity, MIND.
Headmaster
New Recruit Youth Mental Health First
Oakley the cockapoo is joining LHS as
Aid
our very own Wellbeing dog and has Over the last four weeks, a group of LHS
made a great impact since starting her staff have undertaken Youth Mental
role last week! Health First Aid training.
Oakley will be popping into form Working with our fantastic trainer, Clare
times and PHSCE lessons, as well as Pinchess, we spent four evenings gaining
being available for walks at breaks and a greater awareness of the importance
lunchtimes. of mental health, common conditions
affecting young people and how we can
Congratulations too to our newly elected provide immediate support in a school
Wellbeing Prefects, Martha and Emily. setting.
They have lots of fantastic ideas for
the year ahead and will be leading the We all found the course incredibly
Wellbeing committee, where students useful and, at times, quite stretching as
from all year groups come together to it asked us to reflect upon challenging
discuss their ideas and initiatives on experiences and scenarios. Nonetheless,
pastoral care and Wellbeing. we all came away feeling much more
empowered and I am extremely proud
of my colleagues for giving freely of their
time to develop their knowledge and
Year 13 Leavers skills in this area.
On Friday 13 May we celebrated our Year 13 Leavers’ Day. We will be offering further sessions later
in the year.
The day began with interform quizzes and challenges, followed by a final breakfast
all together. After this the Senior Prefect Team presented an assembly with
memories, videos, pictures and stories from their time at LHS before we all went out
onto the quad for an afternoon tea party. It was a fantastic day.
Our Year 13 pupils have been a real credit to the school, and it was so nice to wish
them well as they now embark on study leave in preparation for their A-Level
examinations.
Junior Maths Challenge
The results of the UKMT Junior Maths
Challenge came through last week and
we are very proud of Lindsay who is in
Year 8 and has been invited to participate
in the Junior Mathematical Olympiad on
14 June.
Less than 0.5% of Junior Maths
Challenge participants are invited to
take part in the Olympiad, so Lindsay
has done exceptionally well.
Teentech
Two groups of Year 9 Computing
students are celebrating since they have
made it through to the final stage of the
Teentech competition.
Teentech is a national competition where
students from around the UK solve real
life problems by creating innovative
products which are then assessed by a
panel of judges.
We are proud of our students since only
a few groups make it to the national
Fiona Miles finals.
Head
As the weather has been starting to warm up, we have been taking lots of our activities outside, working hard to provide an amazing variety of exciting experiences for the children at Nursery and of course we have many more activities planned over the coming weeks. Our younger members of the Foundation have been having lots of fun with water play in the garden, using colourful, fizzy bath bombs and having fun exploring animals they might find in the water, be it a pond or the sea. The children in Pathfinders have been conducting some science experiments over the past couple of weeks. In addition to their butterfly farms, they have created erupting volcanoes and used paint to create their own colourful explosions! The older children in Innovators have been focusing on the topic ‘people who help us’ rehearsing their skills as dentists and firefighters by dressing up in role- play costumes and using paintbrushes with water to wash away the fire as quickly as possible and practising cleaning teeth! During Mindfulness Week, the children in Pioneers embraced a positive mindset through all areas of their learning. The children enjoyed creative opportunities to express their feelings and emotions, such as cloud watching and yoga. The children have been incorporating this into discussions about their upcoming transitions to school - sharing their excitement, worries and everything else in between! Carla Brindley Nursery Manager
IN THE NEWS... CCF PICNIC ON THE PARADE SQUARE On a warm and sunny Saturday morning, students and staff from across the Foundation took part in the highlight of the Combined Cadet Force calendar – the Annual Review. Corps of Drums opened proceedings After a final march past by the zipwire and reassemble it before firing with an impressive display before contingent, the drill teams from each it three times and running it back to the leading the contingent onto the parade section took to the field to perform start. With much cheering and support, ground - carefully avoiding the cricket their complicated rifle drill displays. In the Army won in a stunning record time square! The cadets, NCO’s and staff did a closely fought competition, the RAF of 2 minutes 10 seconds leaving them tied themselves proud with high standards emerged victorious. with the Royal Navy section with 20 wins of both presentation and discipline in apiece overall. Bring it on next year! front of parents and teachers, but most The morning concluded with a importantly, the Reviewing Officer Major cadet favourite – the legendary field Catherine (LHS Y12), RN Section Alex Dart of the Royal Anglian Regiment, gun competition, where each team a former LGS student who we were disassemble the gun, transport it across a delighted to welcome back.
IN THE NEWS... CCF PRESENTATION OF TROPHIES Jarram Trophy: Able Cadet Catherine S (LHS) Carter Cup: Lance Corporal Yasmin W (LAS) Winners of the Drill Competition: RAF Winners of the Gun Run: Army Presentation of Civilian Flying Wings (for flying solo) to Corporal Ed O (LGS)
IN THE NEWS...
YEAR 13 LEAVERS
We wish the very best of luck to all our wonderful Year 13 students in their A Level
examinations and future endeavours.
Loughborough Amherst School
Loughborough Grammar School
Loughborough High School
IN THE
NEWS...
BADMINTON BADMINTON
The Grammar School U18 Badminton first team had an excellent tournament at the Meanwhile, Mutiara in Year 4 at
Leicestershire County Finals recently. Fairfield, has recently won the U11 Gold
Circuits (Tier 1) Badminton Tournament
They played 12 singles matches and 6 doubles matches and lost only one match in the in both the girl singles and girls’
entire tournament. double categories. This is the highest
tier badminton tournament for junior
Winning games had an average margin of 21-5 and most notably one match scored badminton in England.
21-0 and was won by Sparsh.
Mutiara (age 9) is currently ranked first
There were outstanding performances from all players - Dani, Gordon, Sparsh, in England for the U11 category.
Adithya and Dan, who are all in Years 11, 12 and 13. Well done Mutiara.
TENNIS
Luca (Amherst) was interviewed on
BBC East Midlands this week about
his success in beating the number one
seed and defending champion to secure
the Boy’s singles title at the LTA Junior
National Under 18s Championships last
month.
We are looking forward to seeing Luca
play at Wimbledon and the Junior
Championships in June.
HOCKEY GYMNASTICS
Well done to High School pupils - Well done also to Isla from the High
Florence, Hermione, Sophie, Jessica, School, who competes as an Acro
Martha, Anna and Amelie - who gymnast.
represented Leicestershire in the U13
regional County Hockey Finals on Isla and her team competed through the
Sunday 15 May. regionals to get to the Grade 3 Womens
Group, National Development Plan
Seven counties were represented in the British finals.
U13 age group and Leicester Reds won.
There were 13 regions represented and
Isla and her team won and are now
British champions.IN THE NEWS...
News in pictures
PREP SCHOOL TRIP SELF-DEFENCE CLASSES
Pupils from Amherst Prep enjoyed their residential trip to Beaumanor Hall. This term, students from Years 7 to
13 at the High School have had the
The itinerary was packed full of activities such as archery, canoeing and climbing. opportunity to learn self-defence.
The children showed great determination as they embraced all the challenges and
a fun time was had by everyone. Classes take place Tuesday lunchtimes
and during the Health & Wellbeing
afternoons for Sixth Form.
These classes are delivered by a 3 x World
Kickboxing Champion and students
are learning how to defend themselves
against physical attacks whilst also
building their confidence and fitness too.
‘SPOTLIGHT CONCERT’
Music students across the Foundation recently performed in the Recital Hall at the
‘Spotlight on Keyboard and Chamber Music’ concert.
The audience were treated to many outstanding performances, and we wish to say
thank you to Mrs Reinhard, Head of Keyboards and Chamber Music, for arranging
this enjoyable concert.
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