Category: Woodbridge News
On Friday, 13 October we held our Mufti Day to raise funds for the children’s charity Over The Rainbow, whose aim is to enhance the lives of children who are living with a serious or life-threatening illness, by providing financial support for specialist equipment for day to day living or to organise special days out to make their wishes come true.
Pupils wore their own clothes with a rainbow theme and all colours of the rainbow.
Year 4 hosted a cake sale in the hall at break and there was a bring and buy stall run by the librarians, a pick a stick stall and knock the mugs over. Well done to all.
Lily Constantine takes up the story: We all boarded coaches on our visit to Norfolk: our destination, The Green Britain Centre, Swaffham. This is the home of Europe’s largest wind turbine which you are allowed to climb. Wow! What an incredible feat of engineering, although we were all trembling in fear of heights! But by the time we got to the top the view was absolutely breathtakingly worth it. In total we climbed 67 meters (300 steps!); while we were climbing we found out that the person who designed it was Sir Norman Foster, who was the architect of the Gherkin and the Wembley stadium in London. After our descent we were lucky enough to view the world’s first wind powered vehicle. The whole day was a perfect mix of excitement and information, and we all learnt a lot more about how to enhance the power of wind.
Congratulations to James Phelan for winning the history society’s debate entitled, ‘The Worst Natural Disaster in History’. James fought off stiff competition from Chester Wigzell, Oliver Reid, Tom Jarvis, Joshua Cole and Eliza Kilburn with his passionate and convincing argument in favour of the events of 1816, the so-called ‘year without summer’. Thank you to Dominic Ellice-Freeman for so ably chairing the event.
A 7.30 start and miserable weather weren’t enough to dampen the spirits of the Young Enterprise team at the Framlingham Sausage Fest last Sunday; in just a few hours, nearly £350 was raised as part of the business’s first fundraising venture.
Exemplary planning and punctuality were integral to the group’s success and kept the stall and raffle running smoothly throughout the day. Joshua Bradbeer, Daniel Hempstead, Callum Sycamore and Jess Bowers were responsible for the stall’s successful setup, while later Jude Ashken and Cavan Fawcett helped to manage customers and promote the business during the day. Lily Proudfoot and Ella Holliday worked the crowds determinedly and pulled every passerby towards the stall, while Sebastian Lamb and Nathan Little worked to promote their product and provide market research for their team.
The company is now looking to start producing their products, and look forward to the quiz night fundraiser on the 8 November, Queen’s House hall from 6.30-9.30. Tickets are available from every member of the team, priced at £5 each.
Gunpowder, Treason and Plot! Year 6 Taster Afternoon – FULLY BOOKED
Saturday 4 November
from 2pm until 4.30pm
Woodbridge School
We are delighted to be hosting our first themed taster afternoon at Woodbridge Senior School on Saturday 4 November from 2pm until 4.30pm. The theme is seasonal – Gunpowder, Treason and Plot!
We have introduced the event to enable children to enjoy a classroom experience at Woodbridge Senior School alongside children of the same age who are potentially going to be joining Year 7 at Woodbridge in September 2018. The children (whether currently at The Abbey, our Prep School, or another school) will be able to make the first steps towards forging new friendships which we hope will ease their transition from Year 6 to Year 7.
The afternoon comprises exciting and stimulating sessions for the children along the Guy Fawkes theme (delivered by our academic staff) and presentations for parents (from Neil Tetley, Headmaster, and Nikola King, Deputy Head Academic). Neil and Nikola will provide an overview of all aspects of the Senior School including an insight into Learning@Woodbridge which is our individual approach to teaching and learning that supports the achievement of excellent academic results.
The afternoon commences in the School Hall at 2pm and the full schedule is detailed below:
2.00 – 2.15pm
Welcome in School Hall. Children will be allocated to their groups and introduced to each other by their group leaders (Woodbridge School Sixth Formers).
2.15 – 3.55pm
Children in activity sessions and parents in talks.
3.55 – 4.30pm
Children and parents reunited in the School Hall for informal afternoon tea with Woodbridge academic staff.
If you would like to book a place or find out more about the event please contact Mrs Clare Kneebone by email – ckneebone@woodbridgeschool.org.uk.
We look forward to welcoming you to a taste of what makes education at Woodbridge so special through our celebration of Gunpowder, Treason and Plot!
The school will be holding its annual Woodbridge Youth Poetry Festival from Wednesday 1 November to Thursday 2 November at The Seckford Theatre.
Following the success of our festival last year at which we welcomed the fantastic Mark Grist and Vanessa Kisuule, we are delighted to announce this year’s line-up for the 2017 festival.
Many of you will have seen Vanessa speak at Speech Day, so you will be aware of how inspiring and mesmerising she is. We can guarantee that you will find Lemn and Rebecca equally exciting!
Booking Tickets
To book tickets for the event, please visit www.ticketsource.co.uk/seckfordtheatre
Tickets are £5 each per evening, and pupils can enter for free.
Wednesday 1 November, 7.30pm
Lemn Sissay MBE
To watch Lemn performing his poetry, please click here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_Jc6BlW7Qo
We are delighted and excited to invite Lemn Sissay to the festival.
LEMN SISSAY MBE is associate artist at Southbank Centre, patron of The Letterbox Club and The Reader Organisation, ambassador for The Children’s Reading Fund, trustee of Forward Arts Foundation and inaugural trustee of World Book Night, and an honorary doctor of Letters. He has been a writer from birth and foremost he is a poet.
Lemn is author of a series of books of poetry alongside articles, records, broadcasts, public art, commissions and plays. Sissay was the first poet commissioned to write for London Olympics. His Landmark Poems are installed throughout Manchester and London; they can be seen in The Royal Festival Hall and The Olympic Park. Sissay’s installation poem what if was exhibited at The Royal Academy alongside Tracey Emin and Antony Gormley. As a radio broadcaster Sissay makes documentaries for the BBC. He is a regular contributor on BBC Radio 4’s Saturday Live and also contributes to the BBC’s Book Panel.
Sissay received an MBE from The Queen for services to literature, and an honorary doctorate from University of Huddersfield. He is also Chancellor of Manchester University.
Thursday 2 November, 7.30pm
Vanessa Kisuule
To watch Vanessa performing her poetry, please click here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3b-B4G8lQdk
We are delighted to welcome back to the Festival the wonderful Vanessa Kisuule, who wowed audiences at last year’s festival and as the School’s Speech Day speaker this year.
Vanessa Kisuule is a writer and performer based in Bristol. She has performed at an array of renowned poetry events and venues such as The Royal Albert Hall, The British Library, Blahblahblah at the Bristol Old Vic, Tongue Fu and Chill Pill in London, as well as many festivals including Shambala, WOMAD, Wilderness, Secret Garden Party and Glastonbury. She has worked with the Southbank Centre, RADA, The Bristol City Council and Warner Music and had her work featured on BBC iPlayer, BBC Radio 1 and Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour, The Guardian, Huffington Post, Gal Dem Magazine, Dazed and Confused, Blue Peter, Sky TV and TEDx in Vienna. Her debut poetry collection ‘Joyriding The Storm’ was published in April 2014 by Burning Eye Books and her second collection is due in 2017. She was the recipient of The Jerwood Micro Arts Bursary in 2017 to undertake extensive dance training, and also received the prestigious Leverhulme Arts Scholarship in 2017 from Bristol Old Vic.
Rebecca Goss
We are delighted to welcome fantastic Suffolk based Poet Rebecca Goss.
Poet Rebecca Goss grew up in Suffolk and returned to live in the county in 2013. She lived in Liverpool from 1992 – 2013, where she studied English at Liverpool John Moores University. She completed an MA in Creative Writing at Cardiff University, then taught Creative Writing at Liverpool John Moores University for some years.
Her pamphlet ‘Keeping Houston Time’, came out in 1997 with Slow Dancer Press. Her first full-length collection The Anatomy of Structures was published by Flambard Press in 2010. Her poems have appeared in many literary journals, anthologies and have been broadcast on BBC Radio 4 and BBC Arts online. She is a previous recipient of an Authors’ Foundation Grant from the Society of Authors. Her second collection titled Her Birth was published in July 2013, by Carcanet/Northern House. It was shortlisted for the 2013 Forward Prize for Best Collection and won the Poetry category in The East Anglian Book Awards in 2013. In 2014 she was selected for The Poetry Book Society’s Next Generation Poets.
In Year 2 this term pupils have been learning about places in Spain. They have also created their own passports and learnt some really useful Spanish vocabulary about people and places in an airport. Pupils have been using their thinking skills to work out the words in groups. During the last lesson of this half term, pupils re-enacted an airport scene. It was great fun and they all spoke lots of Spanish too! Huge thanks to Mrs Hutchinson for all her help and well done to everyone in Year 2!
Mrs Verona
This week the Reception children have been learning about Autumn. At the beginning of the week they went on an Autumn Walk through the valley at the Senior School. With a partner, the children collected lots of different autumnal natural objects. They found nuts, leaves, twigs, pine cones, seeds and squirrels! When the children returned to the classroom they used the objects they had found in their art work. Today the children were planting tulip bulbs in the outside area, and they will now have to wait until spring to see the flowers grow!
Art club completed their clocks this week. They are all functioning as well as looking amazing!
