Posted by nigel_rice, on Monday, October 31st, 2011 at 10:33 am.
Monday 12th October
School Sport:
Saturday 1st October – Lime House U13 Girls Hockey lost 1-2 to their counterparts from St Bees. Throughout the game, Vicky Bruno and May Percival were a constant thorn in the St Bees defence, but the team was unable to convert sufficient chances, while St Bees were far more clinical at the opposite end.
Monday 3rd October – Lime House U11 Girls Hockey took part in a seven a side tournament organised by Austin Friars/St Monicas. In thie first game, they emerged victorious 2-0 against St Monicas, before being defeated by a strong Casterton side by 0-2. Other matches resulted in a goalless draw against Windermere, a 0-1 defeat against Mowdon Hall and a 1-2 defeat against Hunter Hall. All the players were commended by Mr Bills for their efforts, with standout performances coming from Beau Studholme (Yr5) and Abbie Spittle (Yr5) on her debut.
Wednesday 5th October – Lime House 1st XI Girls Hockey defeated St Bees 2nd XI by 2-0. With a much changed lineup from last season, the 1st XI approached their first fixture this season with some foreboding. After a reasonable first half played into a strong wind, the side regrouped at half-time. A much stronger second-half performance tested the well organised St Bees defence and forced the St Bees goalkeeper into a number of good saves. Alice Chamberlain (Yr10) made a number of probing runs down the right-wing, which resulted in the award in a number of penalty corners. One of these was eventually converted by Alice Murray (Yr12) with a powerfully driven shot in the bottom of the goal. The second goal arrived soon after. The St Bees defence cleared the ball into the path of Vanessa Wroblewska (Yr11), who placed her shot into the bottom left corner. The whole team deserved credit for their effort, but a special mention should be made of Anaid Titoyan (Yr10), Vicky Bruno, May Percival and Sarah Saint (all Yr8) who all made their 1st XI debuts, playing against pupils who were a minimum of three years older than themselves.
National Poetry Day
To celebrate National Poetry Day last Thursday, some groups devoted their lesson to various poets. Year 7 studied “Daffodils” by William Wordsworth and have been challenged to learn at least one stanza by heart; Year 8 have been doing some creative writing on “The Listeners” and “Someone” by Walter de la Mare and Year 9 have extended their reading of “Private Peaceful” by Michael Morpurgo with an analysis of the “Anthem for Doomed Youth” by Wilfred Owen. The year 10 group, including our overseas pupils, grappled with the Scottish dialect of “To a mouse” by Robert Burns which has greatly enhanced their understanding of their GCSE set text “Of Mice and Men” by John Steinbeck.
Assemblies
The junior school class assembly this week was led by the infant’s class. The assembly theme was ‘seasons’ as this is what we have been learning about in class over the last few weeks. The lower and upper juniors were welcomed to the assembly by Bruno Studholme. In class the infants had created some seasonal pictures and had written sentences to read out. Each child then showed different props and clothing and the juniors had to guess which season they were from. Niamh Marshall ended the assembly by reading a poem titled ‘The haymaker’.
Army Careers Exhibition at Alcar
The Army Careers Exhibition was again this year a big success with thousands of pupils from around the north of England getting a chance to browse round and enjoy the stands, displays and demonstrations at the event. This year a total of 60 students from Lime House School attended getting a chance to take part in Military vehicle tours, tackle the Mini Assault course challenge, take some pot shots on the Paintball range and enjoy some of the more exciting activities that although not for everyone were enjoyed by most. The climbing tower, aerial ropeway and mini motorbike were great fun but not for the faint hearted and just as entertaining to watch as students queued to get their chance. The day was enjoyed by all and the pupils from Lime House School seem to be all ready looking forward to next year. Well done all and thanks to all the Armed Forces for all their efforts in arranging such and enjoyable and informative event.
Activities
Over the weekend, the main activities offerered to boarding pupils included a trip by students to Whinlatter ‘Wild Play,’ which is a new facility built at Whinlatter Visitor Centre targeted at children aged 7-12. Other students decided to participate in music activities, swimming and cinema trips, while new pupils in Year Nine and Year Ten were given the opportunity to visit Maryport Aquarium.
Monday 19th October
ASSEMBLIES
This weeks Upper Junior Assembly centred around recent descriptive work covered during Literacy. Narrated by Leon Turner, it began with a series of ghostly character descriptions of a highwayman and his steed, a beheaded Tudor nobleman and a one-legged sailor. Noah Dalgliesh, Alex Juhoor, John Coulthard and Elizabeth Coulthard read out their diamont poems based upon interesting animals, contrasting one with another. The audience were encouraged to participate having been given a series of adjectives as clues to favourite foods and famous people. Daniel Blaylock and Mirren Pinkerton showed us how best to describe our changing moods. The audience was bemused when a thief ran into the assembly hall and pinched the narrator’s script. They proved to be very observant witnesses however, successfully describing what she was wearing. The closing prayer focussed minds upon the beauty and power of words.
DEBATES
7T’s debate last week argued the motion: pupils should be allowed to wear non-uniform in school and show their individuality. The class was evenly split to deliver its arguments although, perhaps surprisingly, there were a few more arguments against this motion than there were for it. The Year 7 pupils did a marvellous job in looking at both sides of the argument, as initially many were in favour of wearing non-uniform but once they considered other factors, such as the importance of looking smart and tidy if we all wore the same uniform and how this can be a valued lesson for life, they were able to make more informed decisions. All pupils have to be commended for delivering their arguments clearly and concisely, but special praise has to go to Joseph Marrs and Amy Brennan who did a wonderful job in answering questions from the floor. The votes were then cast, and it was very surprising to see the motion was defeated unanimously as all members voted against it. Pupils obviously see the advantages of wearing school uniform!
THE PHYSICS OF SUPERHEROES
Some of Lime House School’s sixth form Physics students, George Don Chima, Michael Don Chima, Samuel Ho, Alzhanov Daulet, Clement Hung, Ringo, Ken Xu and Tony Tang were fortunate to be able to attend the recent Institute of Physics lecture held at Westlakes Science and Technology Park in West Cumbria. Professor Alan Davies, a mathematics lecturer at University of Hertfordshire, started his lecture by informing a large audience that his motivation to develop his lecture had been provided to satisfy students demanding that their physics modeling examples be made more “true to life”. He developed a lecture showing how the feats of various superheroes (has anyone heard of Vanishing Violet? ) could be tested with Physics. The students gasped with horror when he “proved” that Spiderman had “killed” his girlfriend by imposing un-survivable G-forces on her with his web-rescue. It was an extremely enjoyable and entertaining lecture and Clement made certain that Ms Bradley knew that they, too, felt she should give them “true-to-life” examples such as the feats and exploits of Superman and his fellow Superheroes! What better way to spend and evening than being entertained by mathematics and physics.
JUNIOR SCHOOL
The year 3 / 4 class assembly was about Diwali the festival of light. The children made divas lamps from clay to show everyone. They explained the different ways that people celebrate the festival of Diwali. They linked Diwali with other festivals that use light to celebrate and showed pictures of fireworks using powerful adjectives to describe their firework.
The Junior school went on a trip to Carlisle Castle. They learnt about different aspects of Castle life. A workshop was held by the heritage team about medieval food and how a person became a Knight. Some of the children were able to dress as a knight and a spit boy. The experience was linked with a trip round the castle looking at different aspects of how a castle was built.
Monday 31st October
Poetry Club
The first meeting of poetry club discussed the meaning of poetry and how its condensed language can convey in a few lines to its reader a spectrum of emotions, from laughter to reflection: the world view to introspection.
The group then worked on the poetic device of alliteration, to form tongue-twisters. Maggie Lo, year 9, meditated on a melange of meaningful and meaningless musings to entertain her friends.
Next we concentrated on concrete poems, not as heavy as you might think- these are shaped poems which reflect the subject matter.
Latterly, due to this hallowed time, we are studying themes and ideas connected with the gothic genre, and using extracts of Tennyson’s “The Kraken” and “In Memoriam”, in addition Browning’s ”The Laboratory” as models before we create our own gothic poetry.
Infants & Lower Juniors
On Tuesday 18th October the infants and lower juniors visited Pizza Express in Carlisle for a pizza making workshop. The restaurant managaer welcomed the children and explained what they would be doing. Each child enjoyed making their own base by patting and stretching out the dough before placing this on a tray. They then decided which toppings they would add to their pizza before these were put into the oven to cook. Afterwards all the children enjoyed eating a slice of their own pizza before returning back to school where they ate the rest for lunch. A special thanks to the staff at Pizza Express, Kate and Rachel, for making this trip so enjoyable.