No.  57

19^th March, 2010

JUNIOR JOURNAL

KS1 STAR CHARTS

Well done to Kerryn Mullis, Grace Pamplin,

India Finch-Hatton, Jay Paull and Joel Andrews for completing their Key Stage 1 star charts.

YEAR 5 AND 6 NETBALL

Year 5 and 6 Netball Team played well against East Coker School in a league match on Monday.  East Coker won in spite of a spirited defence by our team.

YEAR 6 CROSS-COUNTRY

The Year 6 Cross Country Team ran in the Somerset Schools Primary Championship at King's College, Taunton on Saturday. 

James Bridge came 2^nd, Declan Kinsella came 24^th, Emma Denham 26^th, John Hodder 46^th and Callum Harvey 50^th.  This was enough to give the team 5^th place overall in the Championship.

Well done to all the team.

YEAR 5 AND 6 FOOTBALL

On Wednesday, the Year 5 and 6 Football Team played against Sunninghill away.  They played a brilliant game and won convincingly 9-2.

A fantastic result – well done team!

COMMEMORATION SERVICE

The Junior Commemoration Service will take place on Thursday, 25^th March at 2pm.  The Senior Commemoration Service will take place on Friday, 26^th March at 2pm.  Both services will be held at the United Reformed Church on Princes Street.  I hope that you can attend one of these services, which is always a splendid occasion in the school year.

JUNIOR PUBLIC SPEAKING

On Tuesday, the Juniors had the opportunity to perform their speeches in front of the school and with our Drama coach, Thalia Squires, as judge.  They worked hard to prepare a range of talks and poems on subjects as varied as the French Revolution and Dancing.  In Year 3, first place went jointly to Esmee Williamson and

Sebastian Finch-Hatton.  Wasib Altaf came second and Erin Keating gained third place. 

Year 4 – first place went to Hannah Humphreys, Abi Kinsella came second and Jo Stosiek came equal third with Patrick Kampf.  George Chapman came first in Year 5, with Emily Williams sharing second place with Kamakshi Singh and

Cheryl Nahar coming third.  Jonathan Hayes came first in Year 6, closely followed by James Bridge in second place and John Hodder in third.

JUNIOR JOURNAL continued  ……….

R.A.I.S.E. EXHIBITION

Examples of art work from the Junior Department have been included in an exhibition of art from local primary and preparatory schools.  The exhibition is at Sherborne House, Sherborne and will run on Saturday, 20^th March and then from Tuesday, 23^rd to Saturday, 27^th March from 10.30am to 4.30pm each day.  Admission is free and all are welcome.  Come and have a day out at a unique local school's art event!

KINDERGARTENS WEEKLY TRIPS TO YEOVIL LIBRARY

Since September 2009 Kindergarten have been visiting Yeovil Library every Wednesday afternoon for storytime.  Stories are told to the children by a different librarian each week.  This visit covers many areas of the foundation stage.  Storytime is also open to the general public and is from 2.15-2.45pm each week.

Mrs J Ellis  -  Head of Juniors

TAUNUSSTEIN EXCHANGE 2010/11

For the past 12 years The Park School has maintained an exchange link with a school in Yeovil's twin town in Germany, the Gesamtschule Obere Aar in Taunusstein near Frankfurt.  Following six very successful exchange visits in recent years, plans are being made for the 7^th such exchange for 2010/11.  The exchange is open to all pupils studying German in Years 8-11 next year.  A letter has been sent to parents via pupils this week giving approximate dates and other information.  Any parents who are interested in their son/daughter taking part in the exchange are requested to fill in the slip accompanying the letter by Thursday, 25^th March to receive further details and a registration form next term.

Mr E S Winter – Head of Modern Languages

YEAR 10 BTEC SPORT COURSE WORK

The Year 10 students have been set their Muscular System assignment.  The following deadlines for submission of work applies.

Task 1 – 2^nd March, Task 2 – 16^th March,

Task 3 – 24^th March, Task 4 – 20^th April.  Failure to meet deadlines could result in work not being available for external verification and ultimately failure in this subject.

AS AND A2 ENGLISH COURSEWORK

All English coursework to Mr McNeal by the end of the term to be marked.

GCSE ENGLISH

Any outstanding coursework pieces must be given in to Mr McNeal or Mrs Scannell by the end of term.

YEAR 11 FOOD TECH

Coursework for Year 11 Food Tech must be submitted by next Wednesday, 24^th March.

YEAR 11 TRIPLE SCIENCE

Year 11 GCSE Triple Science Biology Coursework (on Osmosis) is to be handed in to Mr Ennals by Wednesday, 24^th March.  However, scripts may be submitted earlier, from Monday, 22^nd March.

SPANISH STUDENT

Are there any Year 10s or 11s who would like to host a Spanish student for 3 weeks in June/July end of term?  Please contact Mr Bate for more details.

P W BATE

PTA AUCTION OF PROMISES

The PTA are very excited to announce, that after two and a half years of intense fund raising we are now able to place an order for some new playground equipment.  We would like to thank you all for your continued support which has made this possible.

We are holding our Auction of Promises and Gifts on 28^th April, where we hope to raise enough money to complete the playground project and to purchase benches and equipment for the senior school.  We have an assortment of exciting lots: Yeovil Town Football Clubs mascot, Dream car rides, Sailing, a gourmet meal being cooked in your own home, gardening, archery lessons, pony trekking and much much more.  A list of promises will be available next week. 

Tickets are £2.50 per person and this will include entry and supper.  Due to licensing laws we ask that you bring your own drinks.  Tickets are on sale from Mrs Farley in the Junior School Office or Mrs Williamson in the Uniform Shop.  Supper will be served from 6.30pm with the first lot to be auctioned at 7pm.

We look forward to seeing you at which we are sure will be a very enjoyable evening.

The PTA wish you a very Happy Easter and thank you for your continued support.

Thank you.

Mrs D Williamson - PTA

UNIFORM SHOP

The Uniform Shop will only be open on Tuesday next week (23^rd March) 3pm – 4.30pm.

ISA ART COMPETITION AT HOLY TRINITY SCHOOL, TEIGNMOUTH

On the 4^th March The Park School did extremely well with the ISA Art Competition with 4 first prizes and 3 runners up.

1^st u11 3D – Oliver Gregory

1^st u16 Art – Samantha Pratt

1^st u16 3D – Jacinta Chant

1^st over 16 3D – Qinglan Zheng

Runner up u14 Art – Emily Francis

Runner up u16 3D – Harriet Gregory

Runner up u16 Textiles – Thai Lepuri

Congratulations to all pupils involved and more information can be found on the website.

Mrs A Briggs – Head of Art

PUBLIC SPEAKING

On Monday we were off again to participate in the Senior Public Speaking Competition at the Gryphon School, Sherborne.  This competition was cancelled at the last minute in 2009 so it was pleasing to be able to let the Junior Pupils have a go at the difficult art of speaking in front of an audience.

We sported two under 13 teams:

Gabriella Ball, Luke Brickley, Peter Francis,

Olive Holliday, Luke Humphrys and

Hugh Scannell.  They had nine teams with which to battle it out and Peter Francis and colleagues came second.  Olive Holliday's team came fourth.

Congratulations, once again, to our pupils who represented the school with such enthusiasm and aplomb.

DEBATING CLUB

The editor of this newsletter has suggested, in the nicest possible way, that the common good would be best served if the Debating Club report were kept brief this week.  Wherefore…..we met on 17^th March to debate the proposition that "Our society's preference for watching rather than playing sport is unhealthy".  We debated in the British Parliamentary style, with James Eddey, Chris Bunker, Jeannette Franks,

Natash Dennington, Tamsin Eddey and

Emily Mangles on the platform, and

Dominic Stephens, Yarong Chi and

Sam Ashdown speaking from the floor.  It was ferocious at times but no serious injuries were sustained.  Tomorrow we will be hosting the Regional Final of the ESU Mace, with eighteen  schools participating, and on Monday we will be debating at Chilton Cantelo.  If you want to know more you will have to wait until next week when you should find something on the school website.