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On Monday 24th June, we were delighted to welcome back 2013 Leaver, Dr Alice Pennington.
On Monday 24th June, we were delighted to welcome back 2013 Leaver, Dr Alice Pennington.
Sunday 23rd June saw the girls of St Cecilia’s House (Year 9) heading to Cirencester Park Polo Club for our last outing as a House. We enjoyed learning the basics of polo from the top of very tame wooden horses, while appreciating the grace and beauty of some very real ponies being prepared by grooms, near to our picnic spot.
Congratulations to Lily (Year 9) who competed in the Pentathlon for Wiltshire at the South West Combined Events in Exeter on Sunday 23rd June. She finished in 17th place, with the County Team finishing in an impressive 2nd place.
Four teams of LV (Year 10) girls doing their assessed Bronze DofE expeditions set off on the morning of Sunday 23rd June, prepared for sunshine and thunderstorms! Once all the teams set off in the right direction for the campsite Wild Country Assessors monitored their progress through the checkpoints.
On Thursday 20th June the MIV (Year 8) girls travelled to the Dorset Coast to carry out Geography Coastal Fieldwork, consolidating work completed in the classroom. After some changeable weather earlier in the week we were blessed with dry and sunny conditions, although a little cooler and windier than normal at this time of the year.
On Monday 17th June, the Year 10 and Year 12 artists went on the annual trip to London. We visited LARA art school and enjoyed a morning of charcoal-based life drawing and then spent the afternoon in the Royal Academy of Art at Phyllida Barlow’s ‘Cul De Sac’ and the Summer Exhibition.
The LV (Year 10) Geographers left school on Monday 10th June bound for Exeter. Here, they completed the human fieldwork element of the GCSE course.
During Donaldson Week, the MIV (Year 8) girls had a wonderful week on the Isle of Wight; it was a little damp but that did not stop the girls throwing themselves into all of the activities.
The Year 7 girls had a wonderful week at Adventure International in Bude with Mrs Thompson, Miss Turley, Miss Galdes and Mrs Muir. Torrential rain occasionally added an extra dimension to the challenges, but Bude’s microclimate was on our side and the weather was often better than expected: we even had some spells of sunshine.
On Monday 17th June, 11 biologists accompanied by Mrs McKernan, Mrs Mutch, Dr Massey and Mr Paddock travelled to Helwell Bay, Watchet on the North Devon coast to carry out fieldwork on a rocky shore ecosystem.
Led by Mrs Haydon, Miss Wright and the Green Team there has been a gear shift in our efforts to reduce our global footprint this year.
On Saturday 15th June eight members of staff took part in the Accenture Nottingham Triathlon.