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Head Pupils Elected On Tuesday, July 2, the new Head Boys and Girls

were announced following an election held on Fri-

day, June 29. On Friday, the candidates (of whom

there were six girls and four boys) addressed the

sixth form in Mrs Jones’ classroom as they tried to

convince both teachers and students to vote for

them. All candidates put forward very valid reasons

as to why they should be elected and it meant that

it was very close once the results had come in. The

emerging winners were Ben Capener as Head Boy,

with Lewis Smith as Deputy and for the girls Rachel

Walters got the position of Head Girl whilst Rebecca

Humphreys is now Deputy. Head Boy Ben Capener

said: “I’m really pleased to have won the position of

Head Boy and look forward to making it a great

year for all our sixth formers.” Deputy Head Girl Re-

becca Humphreys added: “I’m privileged to have

got the position and look forward to contributing to

life at our sixth form”. The winners shall now meet

with the senior members of staff to begin discussing

the future of the sixth form. They will also be meeting

with the prefects of the sixth form to arrange events

and make sure the sixth form has a good and en-

joyable year.

(R-L) Rachel Walters, Ben Capener, Rebecca

Humphreys and Lewis Smith

Gemau Cymru ON Saturday 14th till Monday 16th July 3 pupils and

a member of staff will be travelling to Gemau Cym-

ru in South Wales to take part in events. Ffion Butler

and Luke Griffiths are swimming, Mr Chesher is tak-

ing part in the High Jump and Oliver Wilde is taking

part in Sailing. It is a great privilege for our students

and staff to take part in such an inspirational and

public event for Wales. We wish them luck!

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Having a ball OUR new Year Sevens enjoyed their first Newtown

High School disco on Wednesday, July 11. On the

evening of their final Induction Day, all were invited

to an exciting, Olympics-themed disco in the school

hall, wearing Olympic colours and dancing the

night away. A Level Business students sold tickets

and supervised the disco. The students had a won-

derful night and are looking forward to many more

over their years with us.

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Sports Day 2012

Eisteddfod

Year 10 Work Experience

Summer Holidays! Last year’s sport day was sunny,

Hope this years is too!

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Year 7 induction YEAR six pupils from local primary schools recently

spent three ‘Induction Days’ with their future Learn-

ing Mentors, in preparation for their move up to

High School in September. The new students were

welcomed in an assembly before spending the rest

of their time in timetabled lessons, getting a taste of

High School life. They also received a PSRE induc-

tion from Hope Church, which was enjoyed by all.

We are looking forward to getting to know them all

better when they join us in September.

Chinese Talk IN early July, we welcomed a visitor from 5,000 miles

away to our Modern Foreign Languages depart-

ment. Phoebe, a teacher from Guangzhou in Chi-

na, came to witness Welsh and French lessons in our

school, as well as teaching a lesson to Year 8 and

Year 9 classes herself. As an English teacher in Chi-

na, she knows the challenges of teaching students

a second language, but was extremely impressed

by the students’ enthusiasm for Modern Foreign Lan-

guages, as well as the stimulating lessons and excel-

lent standards of teaching she observed by Miss

Smith and Madame Despres teaching Welsh and

French respectively. The colourful and informative

wall displays that are key features in the MFL class-

rooms particularly caught her eye. She even took

pictures of the bright displays, to show to her col-

leagues back in China, who teach in bare-walled

classrooms. The students enjoyed the opportunity

to meet a teacher from a different country and it

was a very fascinating experience for all involved.

We hope to further build on our links with schools in

China. A Japanese teacher is visiting soon.

Phoebe talking to students

about Chinese education

WITH Olympic Fever firmly setting in and excitement for

the London games building, a number of lucky pupils and

staff had the experience of a lifetime when they were

able to go and watch the Olympic torch being carried

through Welshpool. The Olympic torch even came into

School (Pictured left)

Last Year’s Year 7

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Funky Fashion! OUR Sixth Form Fashion and Clothing students have been working hard all year to produce their final BTEC

coursework, showcased in their fashion show which took place in assemblies this term. Students Holly Jer-

man, Kerry Roberts, Rebecca Humphreys, India Jones, Eve Woodhouse, Amy Woosnam and Imogen Or-

rells, Year 12, and Will Oxford, Year 13, produced their final designs after months of designing, planning and

making each garment by hand to gain their qualification. The Year 12s were given the briefs of ‘Organic’

and ‘Rebel Without Causes’ to create their pieces, while Year 13 worked on the theme of ‘Tradition vs. Mo-

dernity’. Other students volunteered their time to model the collection in the fashion show, which went

down a storm with the audience. Student India Jones said: “The fashion show was a perfect opportunity

for all the students to finally show off our extremely hard work from this year. The whole process was suc-

cessful but the finish was amazing and we are so grateful to our audience and models.” Rebecca Hum-

phreys added: “I think considering we had limited time to plan the show, we pulled it off to a good stand-

ard, we all enjoyed it and we’ve had some excellent feedback! We’d love to do something like this

again.”

Mini Olympics ON Wednesday, June 27, a number of Sixth Formers

volunteered at the ‘Mini Olympics’ held at Maldwyn

Sports Centre. Students Lewis Smith, Callum Lewis,

India Jones, Eve Woodhouse, Lara Parry-Roberts,

Mark Jones and Leela Davies all gave up their time

to help with the successful event. The day began

with the students, from local primary schools, danc-

ing and parading in the ‘Opening Ceremony’, rep-

resenting various countries. They were then able to

participate in a variety of different Olympic events,

supported by our volunteers. This is an excellent ex-

ample of how Newtown High School pupils get in-

volved in the community.

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Celebration of Youth On Friday 27th April, a number of students from

Newtown High School attended the ’Rotary Cele-

bration of Youth Night’ which reflected on the suc-

cesses of the young people within our community

over the last year. Held at Latham Park in Newtown,

the pupils were invited to present their achieve-

ments to the local Rotary club, whilst some were

awarded for their success in the recent Young Rota-

tory Competitions. Before the presentations began

everyone was to treated to a wonderful three

course meal which was prepared by Newtown High

School pupil, and winner of the Regional Rotary

Young Chef Competition, Rayne Harbon (Year 10)

After this, Jack Taylor (Winner of the Rotary Young

Musician Regional award) performed on his guitar

whilst Kate Metcalf (Rotary Young Regional award

runner up) performed on her Violin. Then Newtown

High School’s Interact club (Ben Capener, Rachel

Walters and Adam Halford) gave a presentation

revealing what they had got up to over the last

year. Then special guest, Russell George presented

the awards to the winners, including Naomi Head-

ley who had won in her category of the Rotary

Young Musician regional Competition.

Pupils brave weather Recently a group of year 11 students went out to

brave the British summer by taking a visit to Ynyslas

beach sand dunes. They bravely faced the wind

and rain to complete beach profiles and discover

the plant successions of the beach using quadrats

and identifying booklets. Also as a part of their ex-

perience they used new tools such as ranging poles

and clinometers for the first time. Mrs Jones added

“The trip would have been lovely in the sunshine,

who would have thought that it would be so wet in

June?” However the students were treated for their

efforts with some nice warm chips for the journey

home. Now the year 11 pupils will use the data they

bravely collected to write up their controlled assess-

ments which will contribute to their overall GCSE.

Well done and good luck! Geography students doing some

experiments in the lovely rain on

Ynyslas beach

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Ski Trip 2014 To Saalbach, Austria

£950 payable over the whole year, £175 deposit required

by Autumn half term 2012

February Half Term 2014

See Miss Wainwright for more information

New York Trip

The New York Trip is now full!

45 Students are going to be embarking on a trip to New

York City in October 2013. Hope they have a great time!

Trips

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Technology iOS 6 and Android 4.1, it’s a great time for

smartphones

Apple and Google have gone head to head

again after releasing their respective operating

systems.

Apple announced iOS 6 at WWDC this year

and it is set to blow people away with more Siri

integration, brand new maps, Passbook and

much more.

Google have gone down the responsive ap-

proach and provided us details at their devel-

oper conference, Google IO of Project Butter.

Project Butter was to create buttery smooth

graphics and performance when using Jelly

Bean (4.1). Jelly Bean also brings in new sup-

port for applications from the Google Play

Store along with Google announcing a brand

new tablet, the Nexus 7.

What do you think about the two? Tell us on our

Facebook page!

Across Wales Walk On Saturday, June 23, a number of determined sixth

formers and Mrs Francis ventured up to Dolfor to

supply food and drink to the hundreds of walkers

taking part in the Across Wales Walk. The walk is

held annually and is a staggering 42 miles in length.

It is arranged by a number of the local Rotary clubs

who asked for our Interact club to assist in the run-

ning of their 49th walk. So on Friday, June 22, our

sixth form raided Mrs Millss’ kitchen to make sand-

wiches for the event. They managed to make sever-

al hundred sandwiches and were fully prepared for

the next day. Unfortunately the British summer was

to be typically wet on the Saturday as our sixth for-

mers went down to Dolfor to meet the many deter-

mined walkers as they journeyed in the wet weath-

er. Mrs Francis said “It was very wet!” but added

that it was a very enjoyable day and it was a great

success. The Rotary club has rewarded our hard

work with a £200 donation to Newtown High

School’s sixth form which has gone to purchasing

new sofas for the common room, Well done to all

involved!

WRITTEN BY

RICHARD WILLIAMS

From all of the The Cyfle team we wish you a

SAFE AND HAPPY

SUMMER!

Newtown Junior Cricket Club

Want to have a go at cricket this year? Then head

down to Newtown Cricket Club on Monday nights

(6:15-7:30pm) Two juniors teams are run. Under 13’s

and Under 15’s level. See Mr Davies for details….