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Senior House WWI Battlefields Visit
Spring Term 2013 Newsletter
Pictured above left to right: • Junior House Activities (Thunderous Thursday) • Soumya meets a Barn Owl • RSIS Project in India • Junior Round Square Conference
Lottie, Laura and Jessica,
Lower Three, have been
selected to attend the 2013
Children’s International
Summer Villages as part
of the UK Delegation
See page 6
Young Enterprise Dip It
ALSO INSIDE: YOUNG ENTERPRISE DIP IT • SWIMMING GALA • HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL AND FRENCH MUSICAL SOIRÉE •
JUNIOR HOUSE NEWS • WESTFIELD ASSOCIATION NEWS • ROUND SQUARE ACTIVITIES • SCHOOL NEWS
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Diving in action!
Abby Hillier
Jessica
Lanceley
SWIMMING
GALA
Emilia
Collier
Alex
Henderson
Tweed House
Emily
Gold
Joely
Hawke
Honor
Hierons
Coquet House
Mrs Collier with Alex Vincent
and Louise Greenshields
The obstacle race
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Wansbeck House
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School News
n!
Author Visit
Sometimes school can be murder!
UJUK Young Enterprise Company attended the
Commonwealth Day Observance Service in Westminster Abbey
Four members of the UJUK Young Enterprise Company attended the
Commonwealth Day Observance Service in Westminster Abbey on 11 March
organised by The Royal Commonwealth Society in the presence of HRH The
Duke of Edinburgh. As one of the winning companies for the National
Competition 2012, they were invited to apply for tickets and were delighted to
be successful. Mrs Gaynor, Head of Business Studies accompanied by Miss
Emma Gillespie, the Young Enterprise Mentor and UJUK Young Enterprise
team members Honor Hierons, Sarah Harrison, Grace Lloyd-Jones and
Georgina Forster headed off to London to attend the ceremony. This was a
wonderful experience for our Young Enterprise students.
Young Enterprise
Dip It Young Enterprise Trade Fair
Dip It girls and their
young models at The
Trade Fair.
Felicity Ronn preparing
the stall at the Trade Fair.
Sarah Makepeace and
Emily Ward wearing
Sandwich Boards
DIP IT attended the Metro Centre
Young Enterprise Trade Fair in
February and broke the school record
for sales by selling over £100 of stock.
Mrs Wilkes’ twins were on hand to
sell the new tie dye babygros!
To celebrate World Book Day on March 8,
CJ Daugherty, author of the best-selling Night
School series of teen novels, visited Westfield where
she recounted some of the experiences that have led
her to create stories for young adults that involve
political espionage, murder and romance.
She talked of her experiences of working as a crime
reporter and being witness to grizzly real life crimes
in her native United States. She also shared stories
about her time working in intelligence for the British
Government. The girls were enthralled and are
avidly reading her two books, Night School and
Legacy .
Co-op
Fairtrade
Recipe
Competition.
As part of their Home
Economics course this
term girls from Lower
Four, Upper Four,
Lower Five and the
Lower Sixth were asked
to create a recipe using
selected Fairtrade
ingredients. Entries
have been forwarded to
the Co-op and the most
creative are to be
included in a Fairtrade
cookery book to be
launched in October.
Winning pupils will be
invited to the launch
event and asked to
cook their recipe
alongside a Co-op chef.
Let’s keep our fingers
crossed. Some of the
dishes created are
shown here
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Lucy Blair and Lucy Hall
Musical
Moments
High School Musical
The Crew at rehearsals: Lucy Blair, Lucy Hall, Jessica
Coventry, Lucy Hatton and Verity Hodgson-Bajoria
The Jocks, The Thespians, The Brainiacs, The Skater Dudes, The Adults, The Cheer
Leaders and all the crew had a fantastic time at the wonderful Senior House Production
of High School Musical. The cast, stage hands and production assistants have all worked
very hard under the expert direction of Miss Emma Baldwin and Mr Graeme Wilson. The
hard work at the rehearsals really paid off, resulting in a fantastic performance. A
special mention should go to all the girls who played the lead roles, all of whom are still
only in Upper Four – a fantastic achievement! Well done, everyone!
Vive la France!
The French Musical Soirée on 13 March was a great success.
Great Music, Great Company, Great Wine and Great Food!
Our Senior House and Junior House ensembles performed a varied and exciting
programme alongside performances by The Senior Band, The Wind Band, The Lower
Three Recorder Ensemble, The 5+ Ensemble and The Jazz Band. The Senior Choir and
the Chamber Choir performed and guests enjoyed a variety of instrumental and vocal
soloists, poetry recitals in French and a beautiful dance performance. Our High School
Musical Crew performed some of their songs from the show. It was a night to
remember!
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We
were able
to visit
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5 the grave of Nina Winn s relative,
Lance Corporal ELW Broad, RAMC who died on 5 August
1918 and was buried at Brandhoek Cemetery in Belgium.
School News
Help for Heroes
Valentine’s Day Disco
We were able to visit the grave of Nina Winn’s
relative, Lance Corporal ELW Broad, RAMC
who died on 5 August 1918 and was buried at
Brandhoek Cemetery in Belgium.
Georgina Forster and Medina Shahid organised a
Valentine’s Day disco for girls and boys in Years 7,
8 and 9. Newcastle School for Boys joined in and
a great time was had by all. The sale of tickets
raised £450 in aid of Help for Heroes.
Battlefields
We shall remember them…
Girls from Lower Four to the Upper Sixth visited the World War One
Battlefields of the Somme and Ypres during the February half term,
accompanied by Mrs Harris, Mrs Boyce, Mrs Dodds and Westfield old
girl, Stephanie Forster.
The visit was a very informative and moving experience for all the girls.
As well as visiting the Battlefields, the girls had the opportunity to
practise their French and learn some words in Flemish.
National
Careers Week
The Australian Imperial Forces Memorial at Polygon Wood.
In the preserved trenches at
Sanctuary Wood, Hill 62 with our very
knowledgeable guide Mr Peter Crook.
Senior House girls attended
a variety of interesting talks
during National Careers
Week. We were delighted to
welcome several old girls
and parents who discussed
careers in Engineering,
Accountancy, Advertising &
Marketing, Art & Design,
Dentistry, Health Care,
Nursing and Midwifery, Law,
University Lecturing and how to set up a
business. An inspiring week for everyone.
Emma
Marshall
Miss Thomasson
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ACTIVITIES IN
‘
Junior H
CISV
Cartoon Club
The perfect
Westfield girl!
Three girls from Lower Three
will be heading for different
parts of the North and South
American continents this
summer as part of UK
delegations to Children’s
International Summer Villages
(CISV). Lottie Coventry has
been selected to go to
Fredericton in Canada, Laura
Dayson to New York and
Jessica Baker to Mexico City.
We look forward to hearing all
about their adventures on their
return.
Junior House girls have been
enjoying a short course in cartoon
drawing and studying ‘Manga’, a
Japanese form of drawing, well
known to young people through
comic strips and advertising. They
had great fun lampooning the staff!
Chinese New Year Dragons
Chinese New Year
WATCH OUT!
There's a dragon about!
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r House
Visiting Author
Our World from My Window
Westfield School Junior House hosts young German visitors
In February, eight nine and ten year olds from Germany and their teachers became
part of the Westfield School community as part of their European Commission
project, entitled ‘Our World from my Window’. This project involves three schools,
Westfield, Armin-Maiwald-Schule from Monheim am Rhein in Germany, and
L’Ermitage International Ecole de France from Maisons-Laffitte, just south of Paris,
working together on the theme of the cross-curricular project in art, music, dance,
history, geography, ICT and language lessons.
Jacqueline Harvey
acts out the story
with Ruby
Our visitors experienced the beautiful Northumbrian coastline, albeit in biting
winds, and visited Tynemouth with our Lower Three girls. They also joined in art
and IT lessons in school, as well as being taken to many other splendid local sights
over the weekend by their host families, including Bamburgh, Seahouses and the
Chinese New Year festivities in Newcastle.
Some of the children from Germany were paying a return visit following Westfield’s
visit to Monheim in November 2012, so a few tears were shed on parting. Some
may get the chance to meet again when Westfield and Armin-Maiwald-Schule visit
L’Ermitage School in France in June.
Visit To Sea Life Centre
The Comenius project
Exploeing the beach
Saying Farewell!
Swimming Gala
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Junior House
Tasting French foods
Lower One 'Sunflowers'
Churros from Spain
Explore Europe Week
Buenos Días, Guten Tag, Bonjour, God Dag, Buongiorno,
Bom Dia, and Goedendag are all greetings that pupils have
been using during our European study week. Each year
group studied the language, food, products, culture and
customs of a different country, producing displays,
artwork, leaflets and posters. Making the most of the
international students in the school, information was
supplied and visits were made by parents from Holland,
Germany, Sweden and Portuguese speakers from Brazil.
Investigating countries
and their language
Thunderous Thursday
Pillow Fight Game
Early Years
Thunderous Thursday raised over £600 for the RSPB Harapan Rainforest Appeal.
All the girls and staff dressed as ‘Our Forest Friends’, including tigers, bears,
badgers and rabbits and a few fairies and elves!.
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Transition
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Primary Engineering Programme
Young Engineers launch
Primary Engineering Programme
Transition girls joined other pupils to launch the
Primary Engineering Programme for NE Schools,
which is funded by NE engineering companies in
conjunction with the EEF Manufacturing
Organisation. The companies involved will provide
teacher training and resources to 28 schools in the
north to promote engineering and involve young
students with the excitement of scientific discovery
and invention. Our young engineers thoroughly
enjoyed the launch of the programme, encouraged
by juice and cupcakes, and are looking forward to
learning and creating throughout the coming months
South Indian Owl
Soumya meets
a Barn Owl
Trewitley Owls Visit
Image Musical Theatre visit
Image Theatre’s
production of
‘The Happy Prince’
told a moral tale in
drama and song with
much audience and
pupil participation.
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Round Square Conference
'Back to the Future'
'Back to the Future' was the theme of
this year's Young Round Square Regional
Conference held at Westfield School.
European Delegates from Years 6 and 7
and staff members joined our delegates
from Lower Three and Upper Three.
We were delighted to welcome the
participating Round Square schools of
Gordonstoun, IS Zurich, Abbotsholme,
Box Hill, Ermitage, Herlufsholm,
Louisenlund, Birklehof and the
Samworth Academy. Newcastle School
for Boys also joined us at the conference.
Delegates tried their hand at
orienteering, pottery and bushcraft
followed by a visit to Kielder Observatory.
They enjoyed making music, tackling
techology projects and exploring ideas in
their barazza groups before enjoying the
conference dinner and disco.
The Barbecue
Learning
bushcraft
Archery
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Emma
and
Ruth
painting
Time for Sari shopping
Round Square
International Service Projects
During the Christmas holidays,
three Lower Sixth girls flew off for
two weeks to work in Cambodia
and India on RSIS Projects.
Elena Campbell thoroughly enjoyed
working in Cambodia in the community
of Prokeab in the Trapeang Thum district,
about 87km south of Phnom Penh, where
Elena With children
Bycicle Time
she became involved in many projects
within the local community. Emma
Briggs and Ruth Henderson worked on
community building projects in
Katapathar Community in the Garwahl
region in Northern India as well as
having the opportunity to explore the
local sights. This was a life-changing
experience for all the girls.
The Foreman
Enjoying the local culture
The Team
Working Hard
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The Westfield Association
Mr Ian Briggs and Dr Corbin
collecting their joint trophy
Lower Sixth naturally knew
the names of the boys in One
Direction!
Dates for your diary:
Next Term
The Spring Fayre...
will take place on Saturday 11
May from 11.00am until
1.00pm.
The Pie and Peas Quiz Night
The Pie and Peas Quiz Night was great fun
with a full house. The triumphant joint
winners of the Trophy were the Mushy Minds
and Cox & Corbin (the Physicists).
The Camellia Ball ...
(Bond style!) will be held on
Saturday 29 June from 7.30pm
till 1am. Tickets will be
available next term.
'The Lawson Gang'
New Chairman
A huge thank you to Mrs Deborah Oldroyd
for the delicious home made pies, to our
fantastic Quiz Master, Mr Graeme Wilson
and for everyone who helped to organise the
event, run the bar and clear up afterwards.
The event raised just under £500 which is a
great achievement.
The Senior House Staff Team
Nominations are invited for
the position of Chairman of
The Westfield Association.
Mrs Dawn Wilson, the current
Chairman, would like to hand
over the reins of this very
interesting role to an
enthusiastic, committed,
expert delegator!
Please email Jane Jokelson at
westfield@westfield.newcastle.sch.uk
if you would like to be
considered for this very
valuable role.
Mrs Simmonds,
Mrs Greenshields
and Mrs Lawson
...The pictures say it all!
Another great event for our Junior House
girls. Thank you to the organisers and
participants who all had a great time
dancing!
The Junior House DISCO