Castle Rock News 23rd April 2015 Follow us on twitter @castlerockhigh

CONTENTS: P2 - Breakfast & Twilight Club; Attendance P3 - Modern Languages Students Of The Week Word, Fact & Phrase of The Week PE - Extra-curricular timetable Maths - Junior Maths Challenge

P4 - Creative Arts - News P5 - Creative Arts - Extra-curricular clubs

Dates for your Diary Wednesday 29th April - Science Live Wednesday 13th May - Science Live Friday 15th May - Year 9 Photos Saturday 16th May - Craft Fayre Wednesday 20th May - Year 7 into 8 Parents Evening Friday 22nd May - Break for Half Term Monday 1st June - Back to School Wednesday 4th June - Year 8 into 9 Options Evening

Breakfast Club A great way to socialise before school starts! Monday - Friday 8.00 - 8.30am

Twilight Club Monday - Thursday 3.10 - 4.30pm Friday 3.10 - 4.00pm Food is available during this time.

Library Opening Hours Monday – Friday 8.00 – 8.30am & every break & lunch time

ATTENDANCE Up to 23rd April, attendance for the academic year is: Whole School

95.83%

Lords

96.24%

Twickenham

96.45%

Wembley

95.80%

Wimbledon

94.92%

MODERN FOREIGN LANGUAGES Students of The Week Year 7: Sam Hall & Jake Jordan Year 8: Katie Spiers & Marcus Nash Year 9: Melissa Farmer & Will Haywood WORD OF THE WEEK : Manger (to eat) PHRASE OF THE WEEK : J'ai mange (I have eaten) FACT OF THE WEEK : Although croissants are associated with France, they actually started in Austria!

MATHS 2015 Junior Mathematics Challenge. On Thursday 30 April, twenty year 7 and 8 mathematics students will be competing against the best junior mathematicians in the country for the UKMT Junior Maths Challenge. Students will complete a 25 question multiple choice paper on a whole array of very challenging mathematics. The awards they are striving for are the Gold, Silver and Bronze certificates and if someone does exceptionally well, they may be invited to compete in the Olympiad Mathematics Junior competition who compete at a European level. Currently these students are preparing rigorously on Wednesday lunchtimes and results will be published when we receive them. We wish them all the best! Mr Saye

PE DAY

MORNING

LUNCH

8-8.30

12.20 - 12.50

MON

Rounders (Open to all)

Projects

Sports Captains

Golf

Leaders

(External Coach, open to all) Netball (All years)

TUE

Year 7

WED

Year 8

Badminton (Open to all)

THU

Year 9

Handball (Open to all)

FRI

AFTER SCHOOL

Inter team

Cricket (External Coach, open to all)

Creative Arts Castle Rock Steel Pan Band at ‘The Green’ On Sunday 26th April our wonderful steel pan band are performing in Ravenstone as part of a St Georges day event. The event will take place at ‘The Green’ where there will be a spitfire flypast, birds of prey flying display, a court jester and various stalls and refreshments. The event runs from 12 noon until 4pm and our steel pan band will be performing at 1pm. Please do come down and support us if you are able to!!

Wind Band perform at ‘Spring Soiree’ This Tuesday evening we are performing at ‘Spring Soiree’ which is a concert to be held at New Swannington Primary school. As part of the rehearsal process Miss Govier has worked with New Swannington’s choir to prepare a cover of ‘I’m Yours’ by Jason Mraz, which will even be accompanied by Ukulele! In addition to this, our extremely talented Wind Band will be performing a selection of pieces including ‘Uptown Funk’ and ‘All of me.’ This has been a great project to work on and we really look forward to their performance!

The Beatles Museum This Friday our GCSE Music groups are visiting ‘The Beatles Story’ in Liverpool as part of the GCSE music course focuses on learning about ‘Music of the 1960’s.’ Whilst there students will experience the Beatles Story through a series of attractions. They will learn about the Beatles’ lives, times, music and influential legacy using interactive screens, a giant piano and pieces of music history that has never before been seen outside of the USA. There are large collections of memorabilia and photographs of The Beatles as well as other iconic bands of the 1960’s, such as The Rolling Stones, that have never been seen before worldwide.

New Clubs in Creative Arts STAGE DESIGN Are you interested in stage design? Would you like to help make back drops and a variety props for a real production? If you are interested please go to Mr. Boulton's room tomorrow after school until 4:15.

MUSICAL THEATRE ( Lunch time) Musical Theatre workshops will be on Friday in the Drama room at 12:35. Please eat your lunch immediately at 12:20 and change into your PE Kit ready to begin at 12:35. ALL YEARS ARE WELCOME! Year 9 Performing ARTS Workshops are continuing this half term on Wednesdays after school Look out for more information on their final performance which takes place on Wednesday 24th June at the Century Theatre.

Creative Arts Extra-curricular Timetable Lunchtime Monday

Tuesday

After School

Year 9

Year 7

Drama Studio Time - Miss Kinder

Personal Challenge Projects

Music Studio Time - Mr Sergent

Year 8

Year 8 GCSE Music - Miss Govier

Music Maestros - Miss Govier

All Years

All Years

Art Studio Time - Mrs Briggs-Minton

Castle Rock Live Lounge - Mr Sergent

Steel Pan Rehearsal (Invite only)- Miss Govier

Wednesday

All Years Drama Rehearsal Time - Miss Kinder

Drama Workshops (Year 9) -Miss Kinder

Music Studio Time - Miss Jacklin

Thursday

Wind Band - Miss Jacklin

All Years North West Voices - Miss Govier Young Designers - Miss Ahmed Year 9 Art Club - Mrs Briggs-Minton

Friday

All Years

All Years

Design Studio Time - Miss Nicholson

Steel Pan Workshops (External Coach/Invite only)