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Sherburn
Students Pull Back the Iron Curtain in Berlin
38 students and five staff from Sherburn High School braved freezing temperatures
(-10 deg.) as they toured revitalised Berlin just before Christmas. History is
all around you in Germany's capital city and visits to the Brandenburger Tor,
Checkpoint Charlie, the Reichstag and Marienborn transit crossing highlighted the
turbulent nature of post war Berlin. Our students were particularly interested
in the human stories surrounding the divided city - the ingenious and sometimes
fatal escape attempts and the enforced separation of families.
But the modern face of a vibrant, united town situated in the middle of Europe
was also on show. Breathtaking views from the Fernsehturm (TV tower) revealed
the Potsdamer Platz shopping complex and the new parliament building - a glass
dome designed by British architect, Norman Foster.
Students gazed in awe as they strolled around the KaDeWe - Berlin's answer to
Harrods - looking for last minute presents, before rushing off to the local Starbucks
for a warming hot chocolate!
Head of Modern Foreign Languages Neil Snowdon said ‘Everyone enjoyed themselves
and even the Siberian chill prepared us for the snows of early January!’
11.01.2010
Christmas
Lunch
The Year 10 Student Council at Sherburn High School organised a complementary
Christmas Lunch for people who make a valuable contribution to the Sherburn community.
The students felt that they would like to say thank you for all the hard work
that volunteers put into organisations such as Meals On Wheels, community centre
support, youth work, the list is endless… The lunch took place on Wednesday
16th December at Sherburn High and was a roaring success with students working
very hard waiting on tables, serving drinks, organising a raffle and giving out
gifts. Achievement Support Assistant Jill Smith said that she was extremely proud
of the effort students gave to the event and had excellent feedback from the
guests!
11.01.2010
Oxfam
Unwrapped Fundraiser
The
ELBS (Environmental Land Based GCSE Science group), Year 7
Garden Club and SHS CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) members
are all people who enjoy growing their own flowers and produce
for pleasure. They realised that gardening in some countries
is done for survival rather than pleasure and wanted
to help growers that were not as fortunate as they were so agreed
to hold a fund raising activity with the aim of buying seeds
and tools for someone in the developing world.
A decision was taken to hold a Christmas stall selling festive treats, crafts
and of course plants with fun competitions. A locally grown pumpkin was acquired
from Ledston and a competition was held with students, staff and parents guessing
the weight. Harewood House kindly donated a generous prize of a family ticket
to use at the winners leisure during the 2010 season. Chloe Bredesen guessed
the correct weight of 8kg, she and her family are looking forward to a fun filled
day at Harewood. The Christmas stalls did a roaring trade, who was to know there
were so many keen young gardeners and the snow tub lucky dip and guess the number
of snowball competitions proved popular, (the total number of snowballs in the
jar being 187), congratulations to John Wagstaff who had the nearest guess.
Overall
we
raised more than £70, enough to Plant an allotment, buy farming tools and
buy a rainwater collection system. Thank you everyone, parents, staff and pupils
for your support and Thank you to Harewood House Trust for their generous donation
of the family pass as a prize. Staff at school are also making contributions
rather than sending each other Christmas cards so that should help boost funds
also!
14.12.09
Students
Paint Watercolour Picture of Sherburn Church
A
group of year 9 students were looking at proportion in art
they then painted a watercolour picture of Sherburn Church
and the following six students have been selected to have
their pictures framed and displayed within the church building,
so well done to Daisy Goodman, Beth Beck, Katie Hayes, Hannah
Jarvis, Jake Westerman and Harrison France.
14.12.09
Eurofest
Competition
A
competition to design a logo for Eurofest was held in October
and students in Year 8 in six North Yorkshire schools took
part. The competition was won by Katie Clarke in 8SHD and Kieran
Gilbertson in 8SHD was a runner-up, congratulations to both
students. Eurofest is a mock trade fair organised by the Modern
Languages Forum and NYBEP (North Yorkshire Business and Enterprise
Partnership) who devise the program of events and is hosted
by Selby College.
The
winner, Katie, will be spending some time with a professional graphic
designer at some time in the future as her prize. Well done to
the other students who took part in the competition.
24.09.09
Hindu
Puja Ceremony
Head
of RE, Mrs Fielding performed a Hindu Puja ceremony in her classroom
for year eight students. Mrs Fielding greeted students in traditional
Hindu costume and welcomed them with ‘namaste (hello/welcome)’ at
the door and asked them to remove their shoes before entering.
Puja
means to make offerings to an image or picture of one of the gods
or goddesses and a Hindu house always has a shrine.
Students gathered
around a shrine whilst Mrs Fielding conducted the ceremony, beginning
with meditation and prayers. As part of
the National Curriculum students
learn about different religions and wherever possible Mrs Fielding tries to bring
a flavour of each religion into the classroom.
23.09.09
Pride
Of Sherburn High
Year 11 Student Brad Appleton was nominated via the PE Department
and School Sports Partnership to be a ‘Young Ambassador’ for
young people and sport. He had to submit an application form
the Programme Development Manager
at the Barlby School Sports Partnership. He was one of only two students from
the area chosen because of his enjoyment of sport and his leadership skills
which developed in year 10 on the sports leader’s course.
He
was then invited to a confererence along with other Young Ambassadors.
He learnt that his role will be to be a young person’s
voice as we head to the Olympic Games 2012.
He will have the opportunity to inspire young people of all
ages to get involved in sport both for fun and competition
and to enjoy a healthy lifestyle.
Brad
was also invited to speak at The Barlby Primary School Conference
on October 8th and to give a presentation at Brayton Junior
School on November 10th. Rachel Cale, School Sport Partnership
Co-ordinator said ‘This is a great achievement for Brad
and I am sure he will be a great ambassador for young people.’
20.11.09
Proud
Harvest
The staff and students at Sherburn High School are extending
the school’s
links with the local community. This year the GCSE Environment and Land Based
Studies group (ELBS) have been growing a variety of salad items and vegetables
and wanted to share the fruits of their labour with others. They decided to
donate a box of their own produce to All Saints Church, Sherburn
in Elmet for their
annual harvest festival.
The box held a variety of produce including tomatoes, herbs, peppers,
chillies, shallots and potatoes among others. The box has since been
presented to St George’s
Crypt in Leeds which is a charity that provides shelter
and advice to homeless, rootless and disadvantaged people. This charity was started
in 1930 to help people who have found themselves with next to nothing as a result
of the depression which many people will be able to relate to in the present
climate.
10.11.2009
Year
7 Theme Week
Over the past week all 127 students in Year 7 have been working in small groups
to design a new eco-friendly vehicle. This week has allowed them to work with
people they might not usually choose to work with, creating ideas and designs
that are good for the environment. As a result, it was clear that the students
would need to consider the finer details of being eco-friendly, and the ways
in which technologies are changing to allow for this.
Consequently, all their lessons this week from Science, to Geography to English,
have been centred on this theme, and the ultimate design and advertisement of
a brand new vehicle.
Theme week organiser, Head of Year 7 Miss Wilkinson said “This has been
a worthwhile week, showing that students gain a lot from the opportunity to
take part in activities such as this. It has really shown some of the fantastic
ideas
and creations that students can come up with!”
27.09.2009
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