Month: January 2016

This term, in PSHE, the Reception children are thinking about their emotions and how to cope with feeling sad, happy, worried, excited etc. Biscuit and Eileen are visiting each week to tell stories and talk to the children about their feelings. Today the children listened carefully to Biscuit as she told them how she had once broken her Mum’s best vase and how worried she had been. They had lots of ideas about what she should do.

Emily Hauser in conversation

Thursday 28 January, 7.30pm

Woodbridge Library

‘For the Most Beautiful’ is a brilliant debut novel, re-imagining Homer’s ‘Iliad’ from the perspective of the women who were there.

The author is Emily Hauser who grew up in Woodbridge, studied in Cambridge under Mary Beard and is now pursuing a PhD at Yale University. In her brief visit home from the USA, Emily will be visiting us to talk about her novel. Come and meet her!

Tickets £5 with refreshments. Tel: 01394 388890

Emily will also be visiting the school on the same day to talk to our Classics students in Y10 and above.

Many congratulations to Y7 Tobias Juszt who was part of the IES (Ipswich East Suffolk) Hockey U14 Boys’ Team that won the Suffolk Youth League Championships, earning their Gold Medals after a long and successful season.  Congratulations also to Y9s Oliver Juszt and Alex Weir-Simmons who have made it into the Suffolk County Hockey squad for the second year running and have even been asked to play up a year, joining the U15s.

By Ruby Cole

Before Christmas, we went to Leiston Film Theatre to see Lab Live hosted by EDF energy.  There were two acts: one was about micro science and one about the circus of science.  They were both very inspiring and I really enjoyed seeing them.

The micro science was very interesting as we looked at pixels inside a phone and we also looked at what different animals looked like under the microscope.  They looked really unrecognisable when they were under the microscope. The presenter who was telling us about micro science had to wear a special suit to make sure that no hair or skin could get onto the microscope because that could ruin his sample.

The other show was on forces like gravity, friction, pushing and pulling and twisting. The presenter was amazing at juggling and he was telling us that forces only work in pairs.  He also got one of the teachers to come up and he put a cup of water onto a tray and then he told the teacher to rock the tray side to side and then do a circle and the cup didn’t fall off because there was a balanced force. He also told us about air resistance, and that two different shapes might fall at different speeds.  Then he showed us a clip on the moon and the two shapes dropped at same speed.  That’s because there was virtually no resistance. The last thing he did was amazing: he got onto a massive unicycle and he was juggling at the same time and he said if he kept the unicycle level with him he would stay on. [The editor adds that he reckons there’s more to it than that having never lasted as much as one second upright on one wheel… and he even has trouble on two from time to time]

Congratulations to the following, who were successful in last term’s ABRSM music exams.

Grade 1

Grade 2

Grade 3

Grade 4

Grade 5

Grade 6

Grade 7

Grade 8

Georgia wins place with Royal College of Music

Many congratulations to Georgia Dawson who has accepted a place from the Royal College of Music.

Florence and Owen Accepted into National Youth Choir

Many congratulations to Florence Gidney and Owen Butcher who have both been accepted into the National Youth Training Choir.

Emily Promoted to the Senior Girl’s Choir of National Youth Choir

Many congratulations to Emily who has successfully auditioned and has been promoted to the Senior Girl’s Choir of NYC.

Three in term, and one on Christmas Eve – all wonderful in their own way: magnificent singing (the Chamber Choir under Ms Weston quite stunning, and the congregations joyfully robust as well), excellent and thoughtful readings, and, on Christmas Eve, wonderful costumes and a story beautifully told.  Our thanks go to Rev Wilson, to St Mary’s, and to all in the congregations for such a glorious end to the calendar year.

The best performers in the National mathematics competitions are invited to take part in very demanding international extension challenges.  This year we had four who cleared the hurdle in the Senior event and took part in the Kangaroo round.  Best amongst them was Emily Barker who scored an excellent 60 marks to gain a merit (the top award possible, given to the top 25% of candidates – on this occasion those scoring 50 or above).  Not far behind, and earning qualification certificates, were Jason Li, Catherine Hua and Cara Pan. Many congratulations to our quartet.

Charlotte Dinwiddy and Jennifer Clare played with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in a “The Music of Bond” Concert at the Regent Theatre in Ipswich towards the end of last term.  Jennifer takes up the story: ‘Five members of the Orchestra (two violins, a viola, a cello and double bass) played alongside our small string ensemble from Suffolk Music as we tackled many pieces as well as our own arrangement of Bond themes.  It was a great experience to be part of and a brilliant night of music to follow.’

Woodbridge School is delighted to invite you to participate in our second Young Musician of the Year competition which will be held at The Abbey, Woodbridge School’s Prep School, and we hope that you enjoy the process of preparing for the competition as well as the actual event. Following the success of the Junior competition last year, this year we have opened up the competition to include Intermediate and Senior categories, for musicians up to the age of 18.

We are fortunate to be welcoming R. Smissen of The Academy of St Martin In The Fields as our adjudicator and we know that you will find feedback on the day constructive and positive. Music has the power to transform lives and so we believe that you will find this competition an enriching experience.

PLEASE NOTE THAT THE SENIOR (AGES 16-18) AND INTERMEDIATE (AGES 12-15) CATEGORIES WILL TAKE PLACE ON THURSDAY 3 MARCH. THE JUNIOR CATEGORY (AGES 7-11) WILL TAKE PLACE ON FRIDAY 4 MARCH.

Details

Open to all instrumentalists age 18 years and under. Only one entry per candidate.