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Director of Drama, Mr Duncan Ellis, took time in Chapel on 10th June to celebrate the terrific achievements of our girls in the last round of LAMDA performance examinations. Across the board, the results were outstanding, with virtually every girl receiving a Distinction.

Last Thursday (4th June) saw our first Virtual Science Club, 'Science Club @ Home',  for Years 7 and 8.  The girls had a wonderful time experimenting with soap boat racers and looking at convection currents.

Last week, we had our first virtual fixture with Downe House and Sherborne Girls. There were three categories: a 3km Virtual Race for all age groups; a Pentathlon Challenge for the Year 10 down and a TikTok Challenge for Year 11.

Each year, a limited number of spaces are made available for Fourth Form girls who would like to learn to play a new instrument as part of a free trial scheme, MINIS (MINority Instrument Scheme), which runs through the Autumn and the Spring Terms. There is a long list of instruments available, which is made up of some of the less obvious choices.

A number of Year 12 students are Young Leaders with the different Rainbows, Brownies and Guides in Calne. Whilst the units are not meeting in person, we have just started running virtual meetings on Zoom for different units in the area, combining different groups into weekly sessions.

Our Year 8 girls have been enjoying exchanging letters with the elderly residents of Penn Court during the lockdown. As it seems that it might yet be some time before the girls can visit in person, they decided they would like to do something to show their continued support.

Many congratulations to Jane Wu (Year 13) who has had her artwork selected for exhibition at the prestigious Young Artists' Summer Show 2020 by the Royal Academy of Arts in London.

‘In order to be helped, one must help, and in helping, one is helped’.

Following their success at the County Final, St Mary’s Young Enterprise company, ‘Perspective’, represented the school at the ‘virtual’ South West Regional Final, held online on Tuesday 2nd June.

This week we have challenged Downe House and Sherborne Girls' to a Virtual Sports Fixture, with results being announced this Friday, 5th June. Events include a pentathlon, a 3km race on Strava and a Year 11 TikTok Challenge.

Due to a family connection, Year 11 pupil, Isabella, has the great privilege of owning some signed, first-edition books by Daphne du Maurier, along with some original newspaper articles on 'How Daphne du Maurier writes her best sellers'.

Last week, during the amazingly sunny weather, we had the opportunity to take some photographs of both the Lime Kiln Garden and the new Library.