A good summer of sport at Chancellor’s School was capped off this week with the year 9 and year 10 cricket teams both been crowned District Champions after a very impressive season from both sides.

The year 9 team won all of their 4 league fixtures on route to the final against Monks Walk.  The final proved to be a close affair with Chancellor’s eventually wining by 8 runs.  The team made up for an uncharacteristically poor batting performance by producing an outstanding bowling and fielding display under the outstanding leadership of Luke McGee.  Chris Prince and Rifat Alam both took 3 wickets to secure what was a very well deserved victory.  The following pupils have represented the year 9 cricket team during their championship winning campaign: L. McGee, C. Hill, B. Ray, A. Brown, L Parker, N. Clifford, D. Mackey, C. Prince, C.Molnar, R. Alam, T. Church, C. Dudrenec and C. Crowhurst.

The year 10 team won 3 of their 4 league fixtures to secure a place in the final against Stanborough.  The game turned out to be a role reversal of the year 9 game where a strong batting performance was required to secure victory.  Priyan Mistry turned on the style with the bat scoring an outstanding 80. Matthew Swallow also scored an excellent 28 not out. The following pupils have represented the year 10 cricket team during their championship winning campaign:  J. Kinsley,  M. Swallow (wk), G. Lumb, P. Mistry, S. Thomson, B. Whittington, C.Watson, D. Millard, A.Clark, S.Hunt, J.Mertal, A. Ahsak, G.Maynard, S.Waterhouse  and K.Chui

Congratulations to all pupils on a superb season.
Mr Welch
Head of PE

We were lucky enough to be visited last Thursday by Tim Harrison, a multi- national award winning science teacher who gave an experiment packed lecture on „gases in the air‟. Highlights included pupils getting to see the effect of liquid nitrogen on flowers, gloves, eggs and bananas! They had „explosive‟ fun with hydrogen filled balloons and saw some dramatic experiments with solid carbon dioxide.

All the pupils really enjoyed the lecture and went away enthused about science.

Mrs Hearn

Well done to Hailsham House - a cheque in the sum of £102.78 has been sent to The Rainbow Trust, the children's charity for our House. This money was raised by the lunch-time film club in Room E42, supported in the main by Year 7s and the efforts of Beth Draper and Kayleigh Gilbert at the beginning of the year. I would like to see more support for the film club when we come back in September from the other years, especially since it is for a good cause and the weather will not be so great!

Mrs Shum,
Head of Hailsham House

At their meeting last week the Governors approved a Community Cohesion Action Plan. This can be viewed on the school website. Any comments or suggestions are welcome.

We also addressed certain curricular issues identified by Ofsted. From September all Year 12 pupils will follow a course leading to AS Level citizenship and all Year 10 pupils will study for a GCSE short course in Citizenship.

There has been a rearrangement of Science options at GCSE. We are no longer offering Psychology, Environmental Science & Health and Human Physiology as options. All Year 11 pupils will be studying Triple Science, Additional Science or Core Science. In Year 10 pupils will follow courses leading to Triple Science, Core and Additional Science or BTEC Science.

We are delighted to announce that our choice of Christmas Production for December 2010 is ‘Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland’. This year the decision has been made by the pupils. Year 11 and 12 students who wanted to be involved in the process consulted pupils in all year groups and looked through a number of different suggested scripts. ‘Alice’ was first suggested independently by Vicky Milner, Year 11 and Sasha Daley in Year 10.

Years 11 and 12 were once again consulted before a final decision was made. The Performing Arts Department are looking forward to auditions in September and hope to see lots of pupils taking part. We will, as always, make sure that everyone who wants to be involved will have a role to play in the school production.

Last Friday we had our first showcase performance featuring all the Arts at Chancellor’s. Year 7 and 8 pupils performed four drama pieces, three of which had been directed by Year 10 pupils as part of their BTEC Performing Arts Course. E-motion, our youth dance group, choreographed by professional dance company C-12, performed three pieces and we were also pleased to watch a performance by members of C-12. The Choir performed numbers from their repertoire, which they are taking on tour to Spain next week. We plan to have regular updates on the progress of the tour on our website next week.

There was also a display of art work by pupils from the school for members of the audience to view. This first showcase was a celebration of Chancellor’s achieving the Artsmark Award. Adam Towndrow, director of C-12, presented the Artsmark Certificate to Miss Pemberton at the beginning of the performance.

The Food department at Chancellor’s school is delighted to offer a new course to year 9 pupils from September 2010 leading to the award of BTEC qualifications for successful students.  BTEC qualifications can be extended with other courses of study and also make a good learning platform for further courses such as GCSE and A level work.

The course is a nationally recognised and accredited one, designed by Jamie Oliver in conjunction with Edexcel.  It offers the opportunity for students to develop good life skills in choosing and preparing food for the family, skills they will use for the rest of their lives.  It is a practical course encouraging students to develop good organisational and independent learning skills.

Well done to Rebecca Smith 7A, her poster for the annual ‘Keep Chancellor’s Litter Free’ poster competition was chosen as the winner by Mr Phillips.  This year the standard of entries was very high and Mr Phillips had a tough job deciding!  Rebecca will receive a prize at the end of year celebration assembly.  Her poster will be copied and laminated and they will be displayed around our School to remind us all to keep Chancellor’s a litter free zone.

Congratulations are in order for everyone that entered the competition – your efforts and participation are appreciated, and I hope that you will all try again next year.  To see the shortlisted posters and the winning one, go on to our School website and Intranet.

Mrs Shum

The Winning Entry:

Here are a few other notable entries:

This week, our Year 12 pupils spent a day in a series of workshops designed to introduce them to safe motoring. Perhaps the activity with the most impact was a visit from the fire service, who simulated a road traffic accident and demonstrated cutting trapped victims from a car.

We hope that this day will have helped pupils to understand that the pleasures and convenience of motoring also have a reverse side and to appreciate the importance of safe driving.

On Wednesday afternoon, following a request from Year 8, our pupils were able to watch the start of England's World Cup match against Slovenia.

Ben Lee and Mitchell Robertson came to see me to make the request. They presented me with a large number of signatures in support and gave me a reasoned argument and helpful suggestions as to how it could be organised with minimal disruption to lessons.

I was very grateful to the ICT Network team, particularly Mike Huttlestone, who rigged up the technology so that we could use the largest space available, the gym.

Pupils co-operated well. Those who wished to, saw the game, and were, no doubt glad that it had the right result!

Well done to the following pupils who have handed in an essay for the above competition.  The essays were imaginative and well written.

Alejandro Carruthers-Hierro 8H
Charlotte Day 7S
Michael Fraser 7H
Samantha Over 7M
Rebecca Smith 7A
Oliver Virtue 7H

These have now been sent off.  Fingers crossed that we will be hearing some good news in September when winners will be notified.  Copies of the essays will be put on display in the RE classroom, E42.

These pupils have also earned valuable points for their Houses, which could make a difference to the final result in a few weeks’ time, when the winning House for this academic year will be announced!

In August 2010 Tim Dixon, a former Sixth Form student of Chancellor's School, will be climbing Mount Kilimanjaro to raise money for Childreach international.

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