The Weekly Newsletter of Tockington Manor School 17th October 2014
TOCKINGTON TRACKER TOCKINGTON TRACKER TOCKINGTON TRACKER TOCKINGTON TRACKER Headmasters Corner It is hard to believe that we have now reached the first half term break of the year but, looking back at what has been achieved, I can certainly see that the children are ready for a rest. The Geography field trip to Wales last week was, as always, action packed and I thank Mr Jones and Mr Cann for their hard work and congratulate Year 8 on everything they achieved. Last Sundays trip to the Cheltenham Literature Festival was again a most enjoyable day out and I would like to pass on my appreciation to Ms Case and Mrs Gooch for organising such a stimulating day. Last year the children met with Emma Thomson and this year did not disappoint with the children meeting David Baddiel and Prof Robert Winston. Last weeks Open Day was very busy and, as always, the children left us very proud in the way that they conducted themselves; it is lovely to hear such nice comments being made by our many visitors. Thank you to the many of you that came to speak with teachers in our two Parents Evenings earlier this week. After the break we hope to include some photographs of this afternoons Harvest Festival and the official opening of the new look Senior Library. Now, for some staffing news. Miss Garcia will be leaving us to return to Spain during the break. We thank her for all that she did for the school during her half a term here and we wish her every future success. Miss Fox is no longer working in the boarding house. Mr Perez and Miss Hale will continue to work in the house together with Mr & Mrs Glanville. Thanks to Miss Fox for all her help during her time in the house. Sadly, I have to inform you that our much-liked and popular Bursar (a description seldom given to a Bursar!), Mr Keith Nicholls, will be leaving us at the end of the term to return to Suffolk. Keith has been with us for six years and has become a friend to us all and I know he will be missed. Following on from last weeks interviews I am, however, pleased to announce that Mr Paul Griffee has been appointed and he will start with us on 1st December to ensure that a smooth handover takes place. Paul is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants and is thoroughly looking forward to joining us. In the hope that the wet weather subsides for a while we wish you an enjoyable and relaxing break. Year 8 Geography Fieldwork Trip What an action-packed, eventful week we had at the Stackpole Estate in Pembrokeshire! The focus of the week was an in-depth study of the impressive sand dunes at Freshwater West (one of the dunes was home to the shell house in the recent Harry Potter film, as well as appearing in the Robin Hood movie). Year 8 were a pleasure to take and all worked hard and were a mature, responsible group. We undertook a range of activities during the week: coasteering around Stackpole Quay, a night line; a 12km walk along the Pembrokeshire coast, mountain biking around the estate, a beach clean at Barafundle Bay took part in the John Muir Award Scheme and followed an historic trail around Stackpole, home to the Campbells of Cawdor (1689-1975). Eco News Congratulations to Roshan Patel on being awarded his eco-monitor badge after his sterling effort heading our recycling team. 2012 Tockington Manor School, Washingpool Hill Road, Tockington, Bristol, BS32 4NY. The Weekly Newsletter of Tockington Manor School 17th October 2014 TOCKINGTON TRACKER TOCKINGTON TRACKER TOCKINGTON TRACKER TOCKINGTON TRACKER November MONDAY 3 TUESDAY 4 WEDNESDAY 5 THURSDAY 6 FRIDAY 7 SATURDAY 8
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SALAD BAR Grated Cheese Tuna Mayonnaise Cold Ham Boiled Eggs Cold Ham
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A CHOICE OF HOMEMADE CAKES & BISCUITS AND WRAPPED BISCUITS Gloucestershire League Cross Country We had an excellent start to the Gloucestershire League Meetings. The first event was held at the Cotswold Farm Park with over 20 teams taking part. We are the only school participating in this competition with athletics clubs spanning from Cheltenham, Worcester, Swindon, Stroud, Gloucester, Droitwich, Hereford and the Forest of Dean. Our current standings are: U11 Girls = 4th (Dalis Jones 2nd) U11 Boys = 5th (Otis Walker 8th) U13 Girls = 5th (Ellie Parker 5th) U12 Boys = 2nd (Alex Grocott 2nd) Well done to all of our athletes on a commendable effort. The 2nd meeting is at Malvern on Saturday 1st November. Clothes for a Cause The next big clothing drive will be during the week after half term with a collection on 10th November. parents can drop off any good quality clothing, shoes, bags and belts in the back lobby during that week. You can use any plastic bags including bags for other charities. Last time we made 212 and are trying to beat that. If you have any questions, please contact Sarah Preston. Girls Football Club This will start after half term on a Tuesday lunchtime with Mrs Hinchliffe. Lower School Request Please can the children practise tying their shoe laces over half term. It would help ENORMOUSLY when they are putting their trainers and Astro-trainers on! Dance Exam Congratulations to Ella Howard-Robinson who gained a Merit in her Grade 4 Modern Dance exam recently. Congratulations Rohan Rohan Howard-Robinson was part of cup winning Clifton U10 Lavender team. Fabulous playing in all their matches meant the team won four of their five matches and drew on the fifth, earning them the cup. Clifton U10 Stripes played an excellent tournament too, coming in a close second, winning the Plate. Rohan has played for Clifton Minis since the age of five, kept a close eye on by coach dad!. 2012 Tockington Manor School, Washingpool Hill Road, Tockington, Bristol, BS32 4NY. The Weekly Newsletter of Tockington Manor School 17th October 2014 TOCKINGTON TRACKER TOCKINGTON TRACKER TOCKINGTON TRACKER TOCKINGTON TRACKER Bonfire Night Please save the date of 14th November for the ever popular bonfire night celebration at school. This year we will be staggering the start times to enable the younger children to come earlier and have the option of going home earlier. The Nursery and Lower School timings are from 4.30 pm for food, sweets and glow sticks, 5.00 pm disco and the bonfire lighting at 6.15 pm. The Upper School will be supervised at school as usual until 6.00 pm when they must be collected by parents unless boarding. They can then watch the bonfire before making their way to the colonnade for food etc and their disco will continue until 7.30 pm. It is always a wonderful event so please come along and support FOTM. Get Crafty over Half Term for FOTM! We know you are all desperate for a break, but if you have some time to spare over the holiday and are looking to get creative, why not enter these competitions for FOTM? Design a poster for our Christmas Fayre on 29th November. Make it bright and festive, and include the times 12-4pm, the date obviously and you might like the include the information that there will be craft stalls, a children's craft activity area, Santa's grotto, pocket lady and some yummy festive food! Be as creative as you can - the winning poster for the Nursery, Lower School and Upper School will each win a prize and have their poster printed to advertise the event. All entries to be in to school by 3rd November - leave with the school office. Lantern Competition 1.00 Entry per Jar. Prizes awarded to Upper School, Lower School and Nursery. All you need is an old jam jar, string, a working LED tea-light candle and paint. Bring your jam jar, ready with its LED candle and your 1 to the front entrance hall on Monday 10 th November. Dont forget to put your name and Year Group on the bottom! Go on, get creative over the holiday! Cheltenham Literature Festival Twelve book lovers and two teachers ventured off to the Cheltenham Literature Festival on Sunday and had a fantastic day meeting authors, listening to their writing journeys and buying books. Here you can see the children meeting Sir Robert Winston and David Baddiel, who has just written an hilarious book called "The Parent Agency". We also saw Christopher Lloyd, the Shakespeare man, who really helped to make sense of Shakespeare in no time at all. Angus found himself in costume in "Much Ado About Nothing" marrying a bride he had never set eyes on before! We also listened to delicious poetry being performed by a range of actors and saw the great Jacqueline Wilson, who has just published her one hundredth book - "Opal Plumstead". The day was a real treat for us all and we came back with lots of enthusiasm for reading. We look forward to the next Festival. A huge thank you to Mrs Gooch for all of her help and to all the children for making the day so delightful. 2012 Tockington Manor School, Washingpool Hill Road, Tockington, Bristol, BS32 4NY. The Weekly Newsletter of Tockington Manor School 17th October 2014 TOCKINGTON TRACKER TOCKINGTON TRACKER TOCKINGTON TRACKER TOCKINGTON TRACKER House Talent Competition Formerly House Music, the House Talent Competition is now an annual event to find the best and most entertaining talent in the school. The afternoon started with a welcome to the adjudicator, Christopher Winter, a local musician and producer. There followed a variety of instrumental and vocal solos from some of our schools finest musicians. Clarinet, trumpet, flute, cello and piano solos intermingled with vocal performances and Aditi Mehendale topped the scoreboard with 25 out of 25 for her stunning Bach Grade 5 piano recital. This year there were two new TALENT rounds; namely PERFORMANCE and WILDCARD. The performers in these heats deserve special credit as they designed and rehearsed their acts themselves with only a small amount of staff input. Dalis, Talia and Rachel executed their Acro-dance fantastically for ALEXANDER. Roshan went on to play an inspirational drum improvisation for CHURCHILL. He was drumming so fast that we could not see his hands! CUNNINGHAMS Georgina and Tabitha gracefully performed their own contemporary dance routine. The WILDCARDS certainly lived up to their name! New arrival, Victoria from Spain, stunned us with her mature rendition of Count on Me. For CHURCHILL, Alex, Rohan and James absolutely brought the house down with their hip dance routine. This was closely matched by a witty Take That masked performance by George, Alex, Henry and Tom. They really could go professional. Finally came the House Songs round. Song choice proved to be successful and ALEXANDER attained the highest marks for this round, bowling us over with their rendition of Bon Jovis Living on a Prayer. They sounded like a choir in their own right! CHURCHILL held their own, overcoming challenging technical difficulties without losing focus and performed Hall of Fame by The Script very well indeed. CUNNINGHAMS song was Happy by Pharrell Williams which proved to have more complicated harmonies but they pulled it together and went on to be overall winners of the coveted House Music/Talent Cup! ALL children put in so much effort and energy into rehearsing and performing and everyone thoroughly enjoyed this wonderful display of Tockingtons current Talent. Well done everyone, remember to feel proud of yourselves for a moment before you move on! Mrs Sapkota & Year 7 News from the Library The Library refurbishment team excavated more than just books when they discovered this miniature lesser-known dinosaur called the Bibliosaurus. Its bones were expertly r ec ons t r uc t ed b y t wo buddi ng palaeontologists, Lucy Allan-Jones and Oliver Shutt, and the result can now be seen on display in the Non-fiction section of the library. Poem to be Published Anya Constantinescu has had great news this week as she is going to be published in a poetry book marking the 30th anniversary of the Born Free Foundation. Children from all over the country entered poems. Anya has been invited to a ceremony later in the year to mark this great achievement. She will then discover whether her poem is overall winner for her age group. You will notice that the poem was written and entered for the competition when Anya was in Year 5. When she goes to the presentation evening, she will be in the presence of Virginia McKenna, whose life work was saving lions like Elsa. Well done, Anya! We wish you every success with the next round! This is the poem which Anya wrote...
Animal Homes There are animals on land, There are animals in sea, There are animals everywhere, Living with me!
There are animals in trees, There are animals next door, There are animals near you, Just go and explore 2012 Tockington Manor School, Washingpool Hill Road, Tockington, Bristol, BS32 4NY. The Weekly Newsletter of Tockington Manor School 17th October 2014 TOCKINGTON TRACKER TOCKINGTON TRACKER TOCKINGTON TRACKER TOCKINGTON TRACKER Year 3-8 Cross Country Pumpkin Pursuit Winners Alex Grocott, Otis Walker, Beth Pritchard, Ella Howard-Robinson, George Symonds, Adrian Ng, Amy Tucker, Alys Wakeling, Archie Symonds and George Bloomfield. Well done to all the runners. Notes from Mrs Hinchliffe Swimming Well done to Rafael, Maya, Emily and Arthur who have gained three swimmer of the week stickers, gaining a cer- tificate each. Year 3 Science Please could Year 3s bring in a named torch for a new topic on light. Year 3 have made a fabulous start and will be bringing home their fossils when they are set. I have had a great deal of fun teaching Year 3 and I think they have had fun too! Photography Competition It is time to get your cameras out again and get snapping over half term! The theme for the competition this term is Festivals and Lights. Think of the warm glow of the fire, lanterns and candles, street lighting, Bonfire Night, Hallow- een and Diwali amongst many others. The closing date for entries is Monday 24 th November. Entries should either be emailed to the school office or submitted to Mrs Mockridge on a named USB stick. Remember to take as high a reso- lution image as possible because the winning entry will be reproduced onto a canvas. Runners-up will win a prize too! The competition is open to everyone and the winner and runners-up will be announced at the end of term. Good luck