Hreod on Saturday 22nd November, superb effort. There were 72 places available for the Swindon team, Greendown took 18 of them. This is an excellent effort when you consider there were 10 schools that competed. The following pupils achieved a top 20 finish and under old rules would have progressed to the Wiltshire finals. Under the new rules, it is only the top 12 that go through plus 2 reserves. (R = reserve).
There were also top 50 finishes for the other year 7 boys. We took a team of 14 year 7 boys; things look good for the future. Please see the list I sent on Friday to see the rest of the runners!
Tuesday, 25 November 2008
NEW LANGUAGES
Dear parents
There is an after-school club for pupils who speak Portuguese running at Greendown. Portuguese volunteers run the group and is open to any pupils who would like to attend from Portugal/Brazil.
There is an after-school club for pupils who speak Portuguese running at Greendown. Portuguese volunteers run the group and is open to any pupils who would like to attend from Portugal/Brazil.
Filming Opportunity
We have been chosen to be filmed for the YST National Sports Colleges Conference. We are one of three sports colleges that have been chosen based on recommendations from the Youth Sports Trust. I was wondering if you or your department would like to be involved. The two areas have chosen are below. If you would like to be involved, or have someone in mind, please let me know a.s.a.p. The filming will take place on Tuesday 2nd December!
Swindon vs Bristol Rovers Saturday November 22nd.
Now we have turned round looking west towards the Bristol town centre with the DAS enclosure behind us.
Here we are in this enclosure, after having walked around the pitch. This is the official executive box board welcoming Swindon’s Board of Directors.
And finally outside the Bass Terrace entrance where the Rovers fans stood. It was a great game and ended 2 all to Swindon!!
Picture are to come...
Here we are in this enclosure, after having walked around the pitch. This is the official executive box board welcoming Swindon’s Board of Directors.
And finally outside the Bass Terrace entrance where the Rovers fans stood. It was a great game and ended 2 all to Swindon!!
Picture are to come...
Thursday, 20 November 2008
Dame Kelly Holmes Runs To Greendown!
On the 19th of November, Dame Kelly Holmes visited Greendown School. Here she ran special workshops based on boxing, athletics, netball and cheerleading training. These workshops included pupils from Greendown and many other schools around Swindon. An extremely exciting event! Before this took place, Dame Kelly took some time for us to interview her about her life. This is what happened:
Who was your sports hero and have you ever met them?
Well, I managed to meet Tessa Sanderson in 1984 at Butlins after Tessa had just won a gold medal. As she was one of my heroes, it really inspired me and made everything seem real. I really started to work hard after this to make myself feel better.
What is your role in the 2012 Olympics?
I've got a job in the sporting legacy team. I'm also going to work with more school children, to try and keep them interested in sports and maybe help them to enter future Olympics. Most subjects are linked with P.E so it helps with everything really!
Was P.E your favourite subject at school?
Yes. I loved P.E! The problem was that in other subjects I didn't really concentrate as much, as I always wanted to be outside. I always got involved in school challenges and the duke of Edinburgh awards. At school I always wanted to join the army, because I wanted a challenge and to keep in top shape. So, I became an army fitness trainer.
We've noticed that you let people touch your medals. Is this worrying?
No, I really don't mind people touching my medals to be honest. Showing them to people makes me feel proud. They help to show people how long and hard my journey was and help people feel a part of it.
How has your life changed after becoming a dame?
I receive more important letters! Also I get a lot more busy publicity and I get to meet a lot more important people. Meeting the queen was also a fantastic moment!
Thank you very much for talking to us Kelly!
By Faye Rogers and Jess Harmer
Year 8
Who was your sports hero and have you ever met them?
Well, I managed to meet Tessa Sanderson in 1984 at Butlins after Tessa had just won a gold medal. As she was one of my heroes, it really inspired me and made everything seem real. I really started to work hard after this to make myself feel better.
What is your role in the 2012 Olympics?
I've got a job in the sporting legacy team. I'm also going to work with more school children, to try and keep them interested in sports and maybe help them to enter future Olympics. Most subjects are linked with P.E so it helps with everything really!
Was P.E your favourite subject at school?
Yes. I loved P.E! The problem was that in other subjects I didn't really concentrate as much, as I always wanted to be outside. I always got involved in school challenges and the duke of Edinburgh awards. At school I always wanted to join the army, because I wanted a challenge and to keep in top shape. So, I became an army fitness trainer.
We've noticed that you let people touch your medals. Is this worrying?
No, I really don't mind people touching my medals to be honest. Showing them to people makes me feel proud. They help to show people how long and hard my journey was and help people feel a part of it.
How has your life changed after becoming a dame?
I receive more important letters! Also I get a lot more busy publicity and I get to meet a lot more important people. Meeting the queen was also a fantastic moment!
Thank you very much for talking to us Kelly!
By Faye Rogers and Jess Harmer
Year 8
Tuesday, 18 November 2008
CHILDREN IN NEED UPDATE
£893.26 IN TOTAL RAISED BY EVERYONE AT GREENDOWN LAST FRIDAY FOR CHILDREN IN NEED! THANKS TO EVERYONE WHO TOOK PART!
Make your Mark Challenge!
In the early pre-dawn darkness of Monday November 17th, Mrs Mochan (Gifted and Talented Coordinator) turned on her laptop at home to read the secret brief for the Make Your Mark Challenge, the UK’s largest one-day enterprise competition for schools and colleges. At 9am, back at Greendown, she told 35 Year 9s and 10s who were participating in the event, what they had to do. They had just five hours to come up with an entrepreneurial idea - a unique and inspiring product or service which makes money - “inspired by the Olympic and Paralympic Values”. Their final presentation to a panel of judges, who had to pick a winning team, had to be supported by financial evidence, a competitors’ outline and a creative response.
This is the first time that Greendown has entered the Make Your Mark Challenge, which kick-starts National Enterprise Week. Teams of Gifted and Talented Year 9 and 10 students were also joined by year 10 Business Studies students and they were soon all busy discussing ideas, designing names and logos, working out budgets and researching competitors in the market.
Presentations began at 2pm before a panel of judges drawn not only from Greendown (Mr Tudor, Mr McGlaughlin, Mr Jones and Mrs Wilkinson) but also from the business community (Mr Robert Barrett, formerly Worldwide Line Manager with INTEL, and from ARVAL - Pam Halliday, New Business Development Director for UK and International and Alison Golden, Senior Accountant). Several teams presented impressive hand-drawn designs and PowerPoint notes, many had detailed budgets and evidence of research. And all impressed the judges.
In summing up, Mr Barrett praised how well the teams worked together and said the presentations were “models of cooperation and mutual support”. He also noted how seriously the students had taken the challenge, how well they had “thought through the issues” and in their responses to the judges’ questions “showed a depth of analysis that was very impressive.”
In the end, the team that won the judges’ unanimous vote as the winner was the S.O.S (Support Our Sports Stars) team. Their idea to produce a badge symbolising the 2012 Olympics and its partnership with up-and-coming sports stars of the future was considered to be both feasible and imaginative. And their presentation was both professional and convincing.
So congratulations to Kyle Fullerton, Tom Aslantepe, Scott Loudon, Joe Shepherd and Katie Tonks. We now wait to hear whether they have reached the next stage of the competition, to be held in Exeter on November 28th!
J Wilkinson and E Mochan
This is the first time that Greendown has entered the Make Your Mark Challenge, which kick-starts National Enterprise Week. Teams of Gifted and Talented Year 9 and 10 students were also joined by year 10 Business Studies students and they were soon all busy discussing ideas, designing names and logos, working out budgets and researching competitors in the market.
Presentations began at 2pm before a panel of judges drawn not only from Greendown (Mr Tudor, Mr McGlaughlin, Mr Jones and Mrs Wilkinson) but also from the business community (Mr Robert Barrett, formerly Worldwide Line Manager with INTEL, and from ARVAL - Pam Halliday, New Business Development Director for UK and International and Alison Golden, Senior Accountant). Several teams presented impressive hand-drawn designs and PowerPoint notes, many had detailed budgets and evidence of research. And all impressed the judges.
In summing up, Mr Barrett praised how well the teams worked together and said the presentations were “models of cooperation and mutual support”. He also noted how seriously the students had taken the challenge, how well they had “thought through the issues” and in their responses to the judges’ questions “showed a depth of analysis that was very impressive.”
In the end, the team that won the judges’ unanimous vote as the winner was the S.O.S (Support Our Sports Stars) team. Their idea to produce a badge symbolising the 2012 Olympics and its partnership with up-and-coming sports stars of the future was considered to be both feasible and imaginative. And their presentation was both professional and convincing.
So congratulations to Kyle Fullerton, Tom Aslantepe, Scott Loudon, Joe Shepherd and Katie Tonks. We now wait to hear whether they have reached the next stage of the competition, to be held in Exeter on November 28th!
J Wilkinson and E Mochan
school hockey team
the Greendown school hockey teamstarting a 11:
Tim,Callum,Earl,Lewis,Josh,Jamie,Luke,Jon,Shawn,Griffin,Gary
subsAsh,Reed,Dan,Jordan
there is a game against Wootten bassett
by Jonathan Shail
Tuesday, 11 November 2008
Children in Need
Greendown School are invited to help raise money for BBC's Children in Need. Friday 14th November students can wear non-school uniform for a donation of £1. The money will be collected during tutor time on Friday morning.
BBC's Children in Need's mission is to change the lives of disadvantaged children and young people in the UK.
Last year in 2007 the BBC's Children in Need Appeal raised over £37 million. Every penny donated to the charity, a penny will go towards projects helping disadvantaged children in the UK. Greedown School was able to make this promise because the charity uses its investment income to cover all operational costs. Thanks to the public donations and amazing efforts of fundraisers, schools, businesses and corporate partners were able to provide support to thousands of youngsters aged 18 and under.
For more information visit www.bbc.co.uk/pudsey
By Rhiannon John Yr8
BBC's Children in Need's mission is to change the lives of disadvantaged children and young people in the UK.
Last year in 2007 the BBC's Children in Need Appeal raised over £37 million. Every penny donated to the charity, a penny will go towards projects helping disadvantaged children in the UK. Greedown School was able to make this promise because the charity uses its investment income to cover all operational costs. Thanks to the public donations and amazing efforts of fundraisers, schools, businesses and corporate partners were able to provide support to thousands of youngsters aged 18 and under.
For more information visit www.bbc.co.uk/pudsey
By Rhiannon John Yr8
Black history month workshop
A few weeks ago, 3 lucky students took part in a black history month workshop. The students travelled to the Wiltshire music centre in Bradford upon Avon to meet the famous Jamaican poet, Lennox Cartly.
Here, he shared his favourite poems with us and talked to us about his experiences with racism. His story was moving and really made you think about how distressing the time must have been for him. The brilliant thing was that he used his experiences to make him a stronger person and to help others who are having the same problems. He has a fantastic personality!
Later, Lennox helped all of us to create our own poetry about racism and how the world was changing. He really brought out the best ideas in us and we all managed to write a great piece of meaningful poetry. We shared the poetry with each other and Lennox then gave us some tips on how to improve the poems. I think it will help me with future poetry!
In this workshop, I felt as if I had learnt more about how to cope with problems and had found out about many brilliant people that the world has forgotten. It was a moving workshop and I will never forget it!
By Faye Rogers Yr 8
Here, he shared his favourite poems with us and talked to us about his experiences with racism. His story was moving and really made you think about how distressing the time must have been for him. The brilliant thing was that he used his experiences to make him a stronger person and to help others who are having the same problems. He has a fantastic personality!
Later, Lennox helped all of us to create our own poetry about racism and how the world was changing. He really brought out the best ideas in us and we all managed to write a great piece of meaningful poetry. We shared the poetry with each other and Lennox then gave us some tips on how to improve the poems. I think it will help me with future poetry!
In this workshop, I felt as if I had learnt more about how to cope with problems and had found out about many brilliant people that the world has forgotten. It was a moving workshop and I will never forget it!
By Faye Rogers Yr 8
Happy 10th Birthday.
On October 2008, Greendown took part in a Citizenship project. this was held by the Mayor of Swindon. This was a day full of fun, and a lot of good stuff to be doing. This was being held at the Plus One Center in the Town. At 9am the pupils from Greendown and the other schools such as Ridgeway, St Joes and Dorcan and we all went down to the council chambers were we sat and had a formal opening and the mayor was in his formal robes. Once we was in the council chambers he told us the history about Swindon and how he came into his role and he will only spend a year being Mayor. Then his right hand man who drives him around and makes sure that is safe brought in a big iron mace which goes back to one of the princes of England. So after this we went back to the plus one center and we was told to start on our project which was about Swindon. We has to find out what people like and dis-like about Swindon. Then the pupils from Greendown went in town with a member of staff and we asked people what they thought, we then went into two groups and the 1st group went round and was asking questions the 2Nd group went round taking pictures of town. After this day we went back to Plus One Center and made it into a video and we showed the Mayor what we had done through out the day. at the end of this day Greendown had taken over 360pictures.
This was also the 10Th year that the citizenship project had been running so this means that we all got cake and everyone had some.
This was also the 10Th year that the citizenship project had been running so this means that we all got cake and everyone had some.
Monday, 10 November 2008
South West Cross Country Finals in Yeovil
12 of our pupils represented Greendown school in Yeovil on Saturday at the South West cross country finals. In cold, wet and extremely muddy conditions, our pupils did the school proud. With the likes of Millfield and nearly all private schools lining up against us it was always going to be tough.
Inter Boys – Finished 4th (one place off qualifying for the national finals) – 11 teams of 6 competed
Junior Girls – Finished 8th - 11 teams of 6 competed
All pupils did well, however a special mention must go to Jo Shepherd who finished 5th in his race, beating several national cross country finalists, and Nyle Clinton who was competing a year young, and finished 10th. Tom Aslentepe finished a gutsy 25th.
Please congratulate the following pupils if and when you see them!
Jo Shepherd
Tom Aslentepe
Michael Chambers
Louis Butcher
Nyle Clinton
Braedon Cleverly
Carmen Lee
April Lee
Jodie Tilemans (filled in last minute, was excellent)
Bethany George
Jess Dodson
Chloe Proctor
Inter Boys – Finished 4th (one place off qualifying for the national finals) – 11 teams of 6 competed
Junior Girls – Finished 8th - 11 teams of 6 competed
All pupils did well, however a special mention must go to Jo Shepherd who finished 5th in his race, beating several national cross country finalists, and Nyle Clinton who was competing a year young, and finished 10th. Tom Aslentepe finished a gutsy 25th.
Please congratulate the following pupils if and when you see them!
Jo Shepherd
Tom Aslentepe
Michael Chambers
Louis Butcher
Nyle Clinton
Braedon Cleverly
Carmen Lee
April Lee
Jodie Tilemans (filled in last minute, was excellent)
Bethany George
Jess Dodson
Chloe Proctor
Friday, 7 November 2008
Thursday, 6 November 2008
FOUR GOLD STARS !!
Recently awarded to our School Kitchens from Swindons Environmental Health Department and an overall rating of 'very good'. Big thanks to all our hard working staff there who never fail to produce good wholesome food each day within government guidlines. If you havent tried it yet you must!
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