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Tuesday, 19 May 2009
Monday, 18 May 2009
Pupils take maths to town - from Swindon Adver..
MATHS came out of the classroom and on to the high street as a school brought the overlooked subject to the masses.
The object of Greendown Community School’s Maths Day held in the Parade in the town centre was to demonstrate the role it plays in business and everyday life and encourage people to improve their numeracy skills.
The school has been designated a specialist mathematics and computing college and Gill Sarjent, director of specialism at Greendown, came up with the idea to promote maths in the community.
With additional stalls provided by New College, the Water Research Council, construction company Beard and feeder school Tregoze Primary, the event outlined the role of maths in arenas including nature, the body, magic, sports, construction and art.
There was also a maths competition to win an iPod Touch.
“We’re showing that maths is everywhere and that people use maths all the time and to show that it’s going to be important,” said Mrs Sarjent.
“It’s needed for everything – we wouldn’t have technology without maths.
“Life would be very different. People admit to needing help with their literacy and will go for help with it, but sometimes people are perversely quite proud that they cannot do maths.
“People are afraid of maths, but we want to show it’s nothing to be afraid of, that we use it all the time and it can be fun.”
Greendown headteacher Clive Zimmerman said the school was trying to make parents and children aware of the importance of the subject, with a view to expanding this to provide family learning courses.
South Swindon MP Anne Snelgrove had brought along MEP for the South West Glyn Ford to see the initiative. She said: “I’m so pleased that Greendown as a community school is coming out into the heart of the community in Swindon.
“We all need maths and what they’re doing is showing maths has a role in jobs and in the world.
“Schools should be doing more of this – the days of closing the gates at 3.30pm after the last bell has rung have gone forever.”
Mr Ford said: “We should not be intimidated by science and maths.”
Tregoze Primary pupils Akash Rajendrakumar and Shona Dwyer, both 11, ran a maths stall, which included fortune-telling to demonstrate probability, and said it was one of their favourite subjects.
“Maths is not scary,” said Shona. “It’s something that you use every day in any job.”
PS One lucky lady from Cirencester won our IPOD touch and its in the post to her!
The object of Greendown Community School’s Maths Day held in the Parade in the town centre was to demonstrate the role it plays in business and everyday life and encourage people to improve their numeracy skills.
The school has been designated a specialist mathematics and computing college and Gill Sarjent, director of specialism at Greendown, came up with the idea to promote maths in the community.
With additional stalls provided by New College, the Water Research Council, construction company Beard and feeder school Tregoze Primary, the event outlined the role of maths in arenas including nature, the body, magic, sports, construction and art.
There was also a maths competition to win an iPod Touch.
“We’re showing that maths is everywhere and that people use maths all the time and to show that it’s going to be important,” said Mrs Sarjent.
“It’s needed for everything – we wouldn’t have technology without maths.
“Life would be very different. People admit to needing help with their literacy and will go for help with it, but sometimes people are perversely quite proud that they cannot do maths.
“People are afraid of maths, but we want to show it’s nothing to be afraid of, that we use it all the time and it can be fun.”
Greendown headteacher Clive Zimmerman said the school was trying to make parents and children aware of the importance of the subject, with a view to expanding this to provide family learning courses.
South Swindon MP Anne Snelgrove had brought along MEP for the South West Glyn Ford to see the initiative. She said: “I’m so pleased that Greendown as a community school is coming out into the heart of the community in Swindon.
“We all need maths and what they’re doing is showing maths has a role in jobs and in the world.
“Schools should be doing more of this – the days of closing the gates at 3.30pm after the last bell has rung have gone forever.”
Mr Ford said: “We should not be intimidated by science and maths.”
Tregoze Primary pupils Akash Rajendrakumar and Shona Dwyer, both 11, ran a maths stall, which included fortune-telling to demonstrate probability, and said it was one of their favourite subjects.
“Maths is not scary,” said Shona. “It’s something that you use every day in any job.”
PS One lucky lady from Cirencester won our IPOD touch and its in the post to her!
Friday, 15 May 2009
National Cup Results
Inter Boys – 3rd (out of 8)
Junior Boys 5th – (out of 9)
Junior Girls 7th – (out of 10)
Some good individual performances yesterday… the Inter Boys have an outside chance of qualifying.
Particularly good performances
Ryan Martin and Jo Shepherd 800m (ran 2:11 and 2:12 – excellent times)
Carmen Lee – 800m
Harry Batty and Josh Paradise – 400m (both 60s)
Ryan Martin – Discus (34m)
Josh Jefferies – Shot (11m+)
Thanks for allowing them to represent the school, they were a credit to Greendown and despite being asked the time and ‘when is my event?’ 40,000 times, they really were very good
Christian Dobbs
Director of Sport
Junior Boys 5th – (out of 9)
Junior Girls 7th – (out of 10)
Some good individual performances yesterday… the Inter Boys have an outside chance of qualifying.
Particularly good performances
Ryan Martin and Jo Shepherd 800m (ran 2:11 and 2:12 – excellent times)
Carmen Lee – 800m
Harry Batty and Josh Paradise – 400m (both 60s)
Ryan Martin – Discus (34m)
Josh Jefferies – Shot (11m+)
Thanks for allowing them to represent the school, they were a credit to Greendown and despite being asked the time and ‘when is my event?’ 40,000 times, they really were very good
Christian Dobbs
Director of Sport
Tuesday, 12 May 2009
A message from your PE department!
Athletics Trials and Competitions
After School Training
Open session for all pupils every Tuesday and Wednesday
High Performance (invite only session) - Thursday
Tuesday, May 12th Quad Kids
Thursday, May 14th National Cup Round 1
Wednesday, June 3rd SSAA Trials - 1.00 - 5.00.
Tuesday, 9th June: Y9&Y10 Swindon Championships
Saturday 13TH June, County Champs at Salisbury
Saturday 20th June, - SW Champs
Monday, 29th June - Y7& Y8 Champs
Tuesday, 14th July –School Sports Day @ County Ground Track
After School Training
Open session for all pupils every Tuesday and Wednesday
High Performance (invite only session) - Thursday
Tuesday, May 12th Quad Kids
Thursday, May 14th National Cup Round 1
Wednesday, June 3rd SSAA Trials - 1.00 - 5.00.
Tuesday, 9th June: Y9&Y10 Swindon Championships
Saturday 13TH June, County Champs at Salisbury
Saturday 20th June, - SW Champs
Monday, 29th June - Y7& Y8 Champs
Tuesday, 14th July –School Sports Day @ County Ground Track
Radio 1's Big Weekend
Last weekend, Swindon played host to Radio 1's biggest event of the year. As Lydiard was transformed for the festival, many were left devastated when tickets weren't received in vast amounts of Swindon.
The festival took place on both the 9th and 10th of May, with 20,000 people making their way to Swindon for the collaboration of artists to perform an array of songs.
Saturday saw artists such as Snow Patrol, The Saturdays, The Script, Calvin Harris and Dizzee Rascal take to the main stage, which held 15,000.
On Sunday, it was the turn for artists such as Ne-Yo, N-Dubz, Akon, Scouting for Girls and Alesha Dixon to perform for the crowds in the tent, which was the largest in the country.
Overall, the event succeeded in shining a spotlight on Swindon.
By Nathalie Cannell and Kirsty Soo
Year 9
The festival took place on both the 9th and 10th of May, with 20,000 people making their way to Swindon for the collaboration of artists to perform an array of songs.
Saturday saw artists such as Snow Patrol, The Saturdays, The Script, Calvin Harris and Dizzee Rascal take to the main stage, which held 15,000.
On Sunday, it was the turn for artists such as Ne-Yo, N-Dubz, Akon, Scouting for Girls and Alesha Dixon to perform for the crowds in the tent, which was the largest in the country.
Overall, the event succeeded in shining a spotlight on Swindon.
By Nathalie Cannell and Kirsty Soo
Year 9
Maths Day
This Saturday, the Greendown Maths department will be going into the town centre to give people an insight on how maths is used in everyday life.
This will be outside Debenhams and there will be a number of different things to do on this day.
There will be a competition, where you will be given the chance to win a I-POD TOUCH which is valued at £160. So this is a amazing opportunity to have a fab day out.
This will be starting at 11am till 4pm so if your in town then please come along and see what amazing things you can learn.
No matter how old you are you can still learn new things, so come along and have fun. Even bring the kids too.
by Jonathon Shail
Year 10
This will be outside Debenhams and there will be a number of different things to do on this day.
There will be a competition, where you will be given the chance to win a I-POD TOUCH which is valued at £160. So this is a amazing opportunity to have a fab day out.
This will be starting at 11am till 4pm so if your in town then please come along and see what amazing things you can learn.
No matter how old you are you can still learn new things, so come along and have fun. Even bring the kids too.
by Jonathon Shail
Year 10
Tuesday, 5 May 2009
Young Poets Shine In Slam
Four groups of year 8 students travelled to Commonweal School with our teacher Miss. Bourton to take part in a performance poetry competition called the 'poetry slam'. The two hosts Marcus Moore and Sarah-Jane Arbury asked us to take part in many different drama activities including acting as a family and creating a full working cuckoo clock using our bodies. After this, the hosts gave us inspiration for our own poems by reading their own work to us. We now set to work on our own poems for the main competition. There were many different theme's of poems from different groups which made the judging more interesting, as we had to perform our original poems to the other groups. The poems with the most actions and feeling went through to the final slam which will take place on Saturday the 9th May. Two groups from Greendown including students; Faye Rogers, Jess Harmer, Jenni Walker and Becca Nicholls in one group and Zoe Samwell, Amreen Hussain, Sophie Wood and Kara Sloan in the other group managed to get to the final. Our poems will be performed on the 9th so wish us luck!
Faye Rogers and Jess Harmer 8DS#
POSTCRIPT UPDATE from Tanya Bourton - teacher.....
Unfortunately, we did not make the final. It did not help that other schools had a lot of louder supporters which seems to sway the markers! Unfair but that is how it goes.
On a positive note, we can be very proud of the two groups as they were brilliant and behaved much better than other groups. They were an absolute credit to our school and to themselves. I was so proud of them and their efforts. My parents came along and told me how wonderful our pupils were, on stage and in general behaviour.
Thanks goes to Cathy, Nikki and Jon Young who all came along to support the teams. Also, thanks to the teachers who allowed me to take the pupils out of lessons.
Finally, we must thank the pupils who worked so hard and did us all proud.
Tanya Bourton - Teacher - 11th May 2009
Faye Rogers and Jess Harmer 8DS#
POSTCRIPT UPDATE from Tanya Bourton - teacher.....
Unfortunately, we did not make the final. It did not help that other schools had a lot of louder supporters which seems to sway the markers! Unfair but that is how it goes.
On a positive note, we can be very proud of the two groups as they were brilliant and behaved much better than other groups. They were an absolute credit to our school and to themselves. I was so proud of them and their efforts. My parents came along and told me how wonderful our pupils were, on stage and in general behaviour.
Thanks goes to Cathy, Nikki and Jon Young who all came along to support the teams. Also, thanks to the teachers who allowed me to take the pupils out of lessons.
Finally, we must thank the pupils who worked so hard and did us all proud.
Tanya Bourton - Teacher - 11th May 2009
Book Fair
On the 9th of November Mrs Eagle and Miss Hardcastle (from dorcan school) are arranging a book fair for 11 schools around Swindon.
There will be a range of activites for all the pupils such as a trip to the Wyvern Theatre for year 8 pupils, to meet an author called Darren Shan. Also Mrs Eagle has arranged a gothic author to visit called Sarh Singleton. A team of Greendown pupils will wisit Dorcan school for a book quiz and at Greendown school a tram of pupils will complete an activity booklet.
The book will be all around school but mainly based around the Resource centre. Pupils are involved in the activities but only at Mrs Eagles invatation.
By Holly Seore and Rhiannon John
Year 8
There will be a range of activites for all the pupils such as a trip to the Wyvern Theatre for year 8 pupils, to meet an author called Darren Shan. Also Mrs Eagle has arranged a gothic author to visit called Sarh Singleton. A team of Greendown pupils will wisit Dorcan school for a book quiz and at Greendown school a tram of pupils will complete an activity booklet.
The book will be all around school but mainly based around the Resource centre. Pupils are involved in the activities but only at Mrs Eagles invatation.
By Holly Seore and Rhiannon John
Year 8
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