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COMPTON SCHOOL

National Teaching School

A Converter Academy

“ Outstanding” Ofsted

NewsletterJuly 2013 Issue 3

Visit the school website on www.thecompton.org.ukThe school website is updated regularly. Please visit for the most up to date information.

Year 8s enjoy the sunshine and the view on a trip into Londonwith design in mind

Dear Parents and StudentsWhat a term! What a

year! This is probably ourmost successful yet as webegin to mark the 21stbirthday of the school. Our

Newsletter and Celebration Evenings, asusual, mark some of the highlights. Thankyou all for coming to support these specialevenings where we recognise individual andschool achievements.

Our regular celebration trips take place inJuly each year and include the Year 11Prom, the Year 10 Boat Party and the daytrips to London Zoo (Year 7), Chessington(Year 8) and Thorpe Park (Year 9). Thankyou to the staff who help make all theseevents so successful.

21st Birthday of the Opening of TheCompton School

Having already had a celebration withStaff and Governors, in September we willbe sharing this important milestone withstudents and will produce something lastingon display around the school.

Special information mentioned atCelebration Evening

If you attended any of the CelebrationEvenings you will have been reminded thatwe received a letter from the Government asone of the ‘Top 100 Schools’ nationally (outof 1000s!) for the progress students makehere. Additionally we received our very bestGCSE results last summer and are set to geteven higher results for our current Year 11 -both fitting markers for us as we move intoour 21st year.

My CBE honour, Honorary Doctorate andshortlist for Headteacher of the Year werealso mentioned. They mark not just mysuccess but more importantly the success ofthe school. As a Teaching School, many ofus provide a wide range of support forcolleagues and schools within and beyondBarnet. For example, this year I have led avery successful school improvementprogramme for schools across London and

of the 11 schools inspected, nine movedfrom ‘satisfactory’ to ‘good’ and one to‘outstanding’ in OFSTED terms. Involvementin this work always brings benefits for TheCompton too. Financially, of course, but alsoit provides exposure to new ideas and bestpractice from elsewhere. On the back of thiskind of work, we continue to get better andbetter. I have also become the Vice Chair ofthe Secondary Headteachers’ ReferenceGroup whose work is to advise ministers andcivil servants at the Department forEducation and I am also part of anothergroup discussing Cultural Education withministers. So, The Compton continues to beright at the centre of education nationally andhopefully we can have some influence onpolicy as it develops.

Another important update provided at theCelebration Evening was about ourExpansion Programme. We have alreadybegun taking in an additional 30 children ayear (from September 2012). In preparationfor a new building, we moved out of the twoblocks at the front of the school into 10 (veryimpressive) Portakabins. The old blocks willbe demolished during the summer holidays.Work will then start on a three storey buildingwhich will house Creative Arts and ModernLanguage departments along with StudentServices and Curriculum Support. Weanticipate this building will be completedwithin the next school year. All very exciting!

Our plans to provide a high quality 6thForm continue, and we have been toWestminster to discuss these plans withministers and civil servants. We anticipateopening this in September 2015.

Farewells and WelcomesAs is usual in schools at this time of year,

some of our staff are leaving at the end ofterm:

Alison McCrory, Head of Geography, willbe moving to another school to take on anSEN Teaching role. Paul Cooper, SairaGolamgouse and Claire McHugh from theMaths Department will all be taking on newMaths teaching positions in other London

Schools and Tessa Lambert from History willbe teaching in Hertfordshire. From ourCurriculum Support Department we sayfarewell to Nitsa Caruana, our SENCO, andMassy Tabib-Zadeh, who will be anAcademic Mentor at Kids Company. Alsofrom Curriculum Support, we will saygoodbye to Sarah Sullivan and Sam Bernardwho are both returning to University to do aPGCE and an MA, respectively, whileFrancesca Kletz will be travelling andworking in Australia. Joe Strong, YearManager, will also be leaving at the end ofthe year along with Cover SupervisorsElizabeth Sanchez and William Eastmentwho is going to train as a teacher on theTeach First programme. Finally, AnnaBunting-Branch, our Art Technician, has anew position at another London school

I want to take the opportunity to thankthem all for their many invaluablecontributions whilst at the school. We willmiss them and want to wish them all the bestfor their future careers.

I am delighted to inform you that we haveappointed an exceptionally strong team ofnew teachers and support staff fromSeptember. We warmly welcome them to ourschool community.

Dina Constantinou will be teaching Art andKathryn Rambaut will join the Englishteaching team. New to Geography will beKatie Metselaar as Head of Department andLucy Bevan as teacher. Esther Harvey willbe 2ic in History, David Spitz, 2ic Maths,while Emad Elkhalat and Josie Curtis willaslo teach Maths. Devki Shah will beteaching Science. Joining CurriculumSupport as SENCO is Kate Hudson andNiamh Hickey will be a TA while Kevin Clarkwill both be our new Playground Coach/TA.Vicky Cran will take the role of Year Managerwhile Danielle Irving becomes Key Stage 3Leader and will also teach Maths. We alsowelcome Michael Marks to BusinessStudies, Lukasz Tokarz to English, HannahMann to History, Muriel Kosovsky to ModernForeign Languages, Matt Demetriades,Richard Ige and Sofia Munoz to PE. Thereason for this increase in staffing is becauseof the expansion in student numbers we arecurrently undergoing.

And finally, filling the new role of EmployeeRelations Advisor is John Sear.

Finally, yet again I want to extend a hugethank you to parents for all the support youprovide for your sons and daughters and forthe school. We could not do our job withoutthis. To all our students I want to say welldone to you all for working so hard andachieving your very best, we continue to bevery proud of you. Have a lovely Summer.

Teresa Tunnadine

Information from the Headteacher

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Message from the School GovernorsDear Parents

Since I commented on it in the last Newsletter, there has been no let-up in in the mediaabout the focus on school governance with recent announcements from the EducationSecretary, the Commons Education Select Committee and Ofsted amongst others. Wehave just established a strategic committee which, over the course of the next academicyear, will look at how to make our Governing Body even more effective. Thereafter, asa measure of such effectiveness, we aim to apply for a recognised quality standard suchas Governor Mark.

Over the last year we welcomed three new members taking up vacancies on theGoverning Body. The skillsets that governors bring from their lives outside school arevital in our drive for continual improvement, especially in light of the significant projectsplanned and underway, such as the expansion programme and sixth form. We areparticularly interested in trying to attract new governors with business / professional skills(eg. legal, financial etc.).

A Parent Governor vacancy will be advertised next term, so if you think that you’d liketo be part of our team of governors, please look out for details when they are circulated.In the meantime, if you have any questions about becoming a governor, please feel freeto contact me on the email below.

On behalf of the Governing Body, I wish you all a wonderful summer holiday. Sebastian Wood

Chair of Governorschairofgovernors@thecompton.org.uk

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AWARDS AND WINNERS

Celebrating the Achievers of Spring 2013Congratulations to all these studentsCongratulations to all these students

whose efforts and hard work lastwhose efforts and hard work last

Spring have been recognised throughSpring have been recognised through

The Compton School’s Award systemThe Compton School’s Award system

Headteacher’s Award Winners - Year 77C - Amira Siregar, Sahil Nakrani7O - Lara Taylor, Sundeep Bhudia7M - Sarah Yeboah-Smith, Jaymin Shah7P - Bhavini Sohelia, Abdulrahma Abdulrahman7T - Jordan Nabadda, Amaan Kaleem7N - Danielle Cass, ZubeenRehman7S - Anish Sheth, Quraisha Ibrahim7H - Lena Chagas-Mckenzie, Jason Ross

Headteacher’s Award Winners - Year 88C - Louis O’Shea, Blessie Simbol8O - Malek Issa, Niralee Shah8M - Dorian Williams, Priyanka Siregar8P - Kieran Markey, Olivia Lynch8T - Akram Ahmed Halim, Tiara Wijaya8N - William Lloyd, Maryam Rizvi8S - Amaan Nath, Lois Campbell

Headteacher’s Award Winners - Year 99C - Jason Tsu Cheng, Clara Therese Lescano9O - James Ross, Najuma Greenwood9M - Kelvin-Jesse Kretchy, Zaynab Chowdhury9P - Akhil Shah, Winney Siburian9T - Titus Tan, Claudia Dellamura 9N - Rina Yamashita, Eren Ali 9S - Chloe Jakharia, Youcef Sedaoui

Headteacher’s Award Winners - Year 1010C - Emma Lloyd, Laura Rozman, Zahraa Hussein 10O - Micha Claydon, Elena Bozova, Priya Makani10M - Wajid Caudry, Alisha Gohil, 10P - Stephen Bell, Chloe Hunte, Jessal Visavadia, Sepideh Noohi, Samradnyee Kolas, Mohammad Shah 10T - MadinaTaraki, Constantino Sandamas, Annet Kem10N - Naweed Azizi, Jade Springer, Umika Patel, Julia Karpa 10S - Sonya Soltani Pari 10H - Aneri Damodar, Michael Charalambous, Jack JuddRobinson

Headteacher’s Award Winners - Year 1111C - Roksanna Ehsanifard, Dhilan Vithaldas, Akshay Depala, Cil Poon11O - Olivia Belton, Yanitsa Gencheva, Priyanka Jadav, AndrewSpann11M - Hasan Habib, Katharine Breadmore, Maneeka Kothari,Nikit Patel11P - Meryem Recber, James Martin11T - Ella Asheri, Puja Bhagat11N - Elizabeth Akamo, Andrew Angeli, Sheel Kothari11S - Megan Hurry, Ellie Morley, Karim Sedaoui, Farah Siregar

GOVERNING BODY FACT-FINDING

School Governors Drop In For a Chat

Students, parents and staffshared a delightful experienceat the Jack Petchey AwardsEvening for Barnet schools andclubs on Wednesday 3rd July.The evening was filled withmotivational stories of youngpeople overcoming difficultiesin their lives and others makingan impact on those aroundthem by their acts of kindness,positivity and role modelling.

Our two Year 7 winners werebusy celebrating the first of theseason’s Celebration Eveningsback at The Compton Schoolso were unable to join us, but

the other students did afantastic job of representing theschool, in perfect schooluniform and accepting theirawards from the Deputy Mayorof Barnet with great pride.Family and friends also did anamazing job of supporting allaward winners. Commentsfrom peers and staff as to whythe students should win wereshared with the audience,recognising the significantcontributions each andeveryone of them has made tomaking the school a safe andhappy place to be.

Award winners;Year 7: Zoraiz Khan, EloiseTagholm-ChildYear 8: Gabriella Kyriacou,Jordan StrzekliYear 9: Shuab Mohamed,

Claudia Dellamura Year 10: Georgie Ephgrave,Francesco PignatelliYear 11: Natalie Tawdrous

Karen HandAssistant Headteacher

On Monday 20th May, four of our SchoolGovernors, Dasha Amosova, PrakashGohil, Howard Davies and Stephen Harris,visited the school.

They were given the opportunity to visitlessons, meet with staff and students andto get a real feel for what happens in theschool every day. The Governors reallyenjoyed their visit and fed back howinteresting and engaging they had found it- particularly their meeting with students.

Students were also able to ask the

Governors about their role and to share

ideas about what they like about the

School and how they might improve it. Governors will continue to visit at

different times of the year and will feedback their findings to the Governing Body.The students who met the Governors wereGabriel Musker, Nella Pignatelli, NuhurMudey, Karishma Chauhan, Amaan Nathand George Lesbirel. They were extremelyengaging and the Governors were veryimpressed!

Louise TaylorDeputy Headteacher

JACK PETCHEY AWARDS EVENING 2012-13Barnet Schools Awards Bonanza

Imperial War Museum comes to The Compton School

Our visit to Finchley Reform Synagogueto remember the Holocaust had to becancelled in January due to the snow.However, shortly before the Easter break,visitors from The Imperial War Museum, inconjunction with the Synagogue, came tous to provide a workshop on the Holocaustfor Year 9 students. Rabbi Jacobi, a localHolocaust survivor, came along to sharethe story of how he was luckily evacuatedas a boy as part of the Kindersportprogramme. The speaker from the ImperialWar Museum provided an excellentintroduction to the workshop and RabbiJacobi’s life story gave a fascinating insightinto his lucky escape from Hitler - who therabbi saw at the Berlin Olympics in 1936 -shortly before leaving Germany for the UK.

Below is an extract from a piece of workentitled Holocaust Survivor by Khadijah

Sufi, Year 9, based on Rabbi Jacobi’sstory:

Rabbi Jacobi was born in Germany andattended a mixed faith primary school.When it came to applying for a secondaryschool, he was especially keen to go to areally good school which was very close tohis home. The Headmaster accepted hisapplication but, to his dismay, the Mayorrefused and sent him to an all-Jewishsecondary school. Rabbi Jacobi wasdeeply saddened by this.

He recounted a day when a parade wentby. He watched out of the window, only tosee Hitler marching down the streetamongst the Nazis and their supporters.This is when Rabbi Jacobi’s life took a turnfor the worse. It started off like any otherschool day; he woke up, got dressed andwent to school. He returned from school tofind his Jewish neighbours’ shop burneddown to the ground. Deciding it wasn’t safefor him to stay, his parents sent him to

Amsterdam to live with his uncle. Little didhe know, he would never see his parentsagain.

In Amsterdam he needed to work to helpearn a living, but after a few months, theNazis invaded Amsterdam. His uncle senthim to live in an orphanage. Things gotworse and the next thing he knew, he andall the other Jewish orphans were taken tothe coast by his teacher who somehowmanaged to persuade the captain of astationed ship to take the children toEngland. They were saved.

If it wasn’t for his teacher in Amsterdam,Rabbi Jacobi could well have died and wewouldn’t have had the honour of learningabout his experiences. We had the chanceto ask him questions and even found outthat he was a close friend of Anne Frank’sfather! Students described the session as‘interesting’ and ‘touching’. It was apleasure to have him at The Compton.

Holocaust survivor helps studentsprepare for their exam

In preparation for their exam on Life inGermany 1919-45, a visit by FreddieKnoller, a retired businessman, author andHolocaust survivor, was arranged for theYear 11 students. They spent an afternoonlistening to Freddie’s story which told of hisearly life in Austria, his capture and escapefrom a concentration camp and thefreedom he found in the USA and Britain.The afternoon was moving and informativeand provided students with a valuableinsight into life in Nazi-dominated Europe.

Michael BarrettHead of History

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The Compton studentsare a generous bunch, andit seems never more sothan when paying not towear school uniform andwhen eating cakes!

In March, wearing non-uniform, cake sales andother fundraising activitiesgenerated an amazing£1,625.83 on Red NoseDay and all proceeds

were donated to ComicRelief. Then following thisin May, similar activitiesmeant another CharityDay raised a fantastic£1015.83 for the DisastersEmergency Committee(DEC) Syria Crisis Appeal.

Well done and thank youto all who contributed.

Joe Strong andChristopher Walker

Year 10 and Year 8 Managers

Mufti and Cakes Make Money for Charity

Key Stage 3 Art ClubThe Compton School

Art Club has had greatsuccess in 2013! Weworked on designs forthe Mayor of London’scompetition to designan artwork for theFourth Plinth inTrafalgar Square. All of

the finished artworkslooked amazing!Students were inspiredby aspects of London,the Olympic Gamesand their community.Bhavini Sohelia’ssculpture, ‘PublicPlaylist’, won the BarnetBorough Prize. Her

work will be on displayin City Hall until nextyear.

Currently in Art Club,we are making artworkabout the history of ourschool. In the year ofThe Compton School’s21st birthday, studentsare creating imaginarystudents who haveattended the school.They are working onportraits of their

imaginary student, andtheir own blue plaquessculpted in clay!

Key Stage 4 Art ClubYear 11 students

have been developingnew skills in after-school workshops. Weexperimented withdifferent drawingtechniques and madereliefs inspired by

Action Painting. Wealso worked together asa group to produce ashort animation usingclay sculptures and astop-frame technique.The resulting video,inspired by the forces oftime and decay innature, can be seenonline atwww.vimeo.com/comptonart.

Victoria FreedHead of Art

ART DEPARTMENT

The Making of the Modern Masterpiece

HISTORY DEPARTMENT

Re-living The Holocaust Through Survivors’ Eyes

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In May 2013, 20 Year 11 GCSE Frenchstudents spent a lovely, sunny weekend inParis. On the Saturday, on arrival in Paris,

we visited the main shopping boulevard,admiring the grand architecture and tree-lined avenue of the Champs Elysées.Starting our promenade from the Place dela Concorde, we walked up towards the Arcde Triomphe, passing the magnificentGrand Palais and Petit Palais buildings. Inthe evening there were more sights in storewhen we embarked on the ‘Bateauxmouches’ Seine river boat cruise. On theSunday, we were up and out early to queueto visit the top of the Eiffel Tower and someenthusiastic students decided to take thestairs up! A successful trip and anenjoyable experience for all.

Miss MurugavaleHead of French

During the Easter holiday, Miss Cabeza and Miss Wandless took 20 students to Seville.It was a very successful trip packed with cultural and educational activities. They touredthe city of Seville and absorbed the Andalusían culture. Students and teachers enjoyeda flamenco lesson which was great fun and in which everybody participated. They spenta day at Isla Mágica were students enjoyed and went on all the rides. They practisedtheir Spanish on a daily basis as they had to order food, do shopping and ask locals fordirections. All the girls enjoyed the Spanish lessons due to the lovely teacher. On thelast night, the students went for tapas in traditional Spanish bars where they all had thechance to sit around the table and share their highlights;

“The Spanish trip was great fun. We got to experience another country and learn newthings about the Spanish culture. The highlights of the trip were the flamenco lesson andthe tapas tasting and Janto, our teacher was amazing!” Andreea and Jessica, Year 11

“We thoroughly enoyed our trip to Spain.It was filled with fun-packed and culturalactivities. We can't forget the amazing-tasting ice cream. The people werefriendly and we got to use our knowledgeof the Spanish language. Tapas night wasdefinitely our highlight.” Puja and Farah,Year 11

“I thought Isla Mágica was great and Ienjoyed the rides - we had a day ofadventure.” Harry, Year 10

“I liked going around the streets ofSevilla and taking in the wonderful cultureand architecture.” Julia, Year 10

“I liked the hostel.” Jehanzeeb, Year 10

Paris in the Springtime Tapas atBar GansaTo mark the end of Year 11’s five

years of learning Spanish, MsCabeza, Ms Wandless, Ms Sanchezand Elena spent a delightful eveningwith the GCSE Spanish students inBar Gansa, Camden.

Jess, Molly and Eve all agreed,“The entertainment was spectacularand the food was magnificent, alltogether it was a night to remember.”Meanwhile, Louis said, “I reallyenjoyed how the service was Spanishand allowed me to practise my skills.Also, I enjoyed how we danced(bailamos) and we sang (cantamos). Itwas an amazing night!”

The entertainment certainlyimpressed Georgia, Kaisiah andLouise who all said it was “Amazing!”and “Everyone was dancing andsinging, even the teachers; a greatnight!”

Charlotte and Nat were just asimpressed: “The food was amazingand ‘el flamenco’ was ‘estupendo’. Wereally enjoyed the whole night.”

The final word went to Elizabethand Julian who enthusiatically agreed,“The food was great but the best partwas definitely the dancing. It washilarious! We even did the ‘Macarena’and it was brilliant. It was a great endto GCSE Spanish!

The Spanish department would liketo wish their Year 11 students ‘buenasuerte’ for their exam results. ¡Hastapronto!

by Cristina Cabeza-Redondo

Over the past month the Business Studies department has taken all Year 10 students tothe Coca-Cola factory, based in Edmonton. Students were given the opportunity to see firsthand how a global company like Coca-Cola uses cutting edge technology to maximizeprofits and keep ahead of their competitors.

Students went on a tour of the factory and also worked in groups to create a brand plan,which was then presented back to the whole class. This really helped students to put intocontext the learning that has taken place throughout the year. Students also had anopportunity to learn about the history of Coca-Cola and the successful marketingcampaigns that have evolved over the years to help create a global brand. The success ofthe trip means we will certainly be going back with other year groups for a long time tocome!

Aashiq PujaraHead of Business Studies

BUSINESS STUDIES VISIT THE COCA COLA FACTORY

Always Coca-Cola

Modern Foreign Languages

A Taste of Andalusia

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Drama - Act Iby Zoe Merritt

OLD VIC NEW VOICES

Sweet Bird of YouthOn Monday, 24th and Tuesday, 25th June, 18

students took part in our second project with thecharity 'Tender'. The workshop equips youngpeople with an understanding of healthyrelationships, the skill to support others and itenables them to raise awareness about violenceand abuse. The two days allowed the students to

develop their understanding of healthyrelationships and to prepare scenarios to beperformed to another Year 9 class.

The students thoroughly enjoyed the two daysand we were impressed to see the mature andsensitive approach from most students.

Student's views:"It was worthwhile" Zenith Soni"Inspiring and we used a lot of drama skills"

Christopher Antoniou"The whole day was enjoyable. We thought it

was great! I learned a lot about domestic violence;I learned how to put myself in someone else’sshoes. We learned about different types ofviolence, not just physical." Sian Sinclair and ShaniaHughes.

Sarah Tunnadine 2ic Drama

On Tuesday, 2nd July, 16 Year 10students went to see the last of thefree Old Vic plays, Sweet Bird ofYouth by Tennessee Williams,bringing to a close anothersuccessful year in connection withthe Old Vic Theatre.

The play stars Kim Cattrallalongside acclaimed Broadway

actor Seth Numrich in the powerfuland poetic play, which is directed byOlivier Award-winner MarianneElliott.

Molly Gabriel-Stogdon, summed itup saying, "A brilliant night ofromance, violence and the desire torecapture youth".

Oliver! Over the past three months,

the creative arts departmentshave been working hard toproduce, direct and design ourSummer production of Oliver!

As the newsletter goes topress we are in our finalweeks of rehearsal. We lookforward to publishing reviewsand production photos in ourautumn newsletter.

ANOTHER MEMORABLE COLLABORATION

Tender Project

Above: Drama trip students outsidethe Old Vic Theatre

Left and below: scenes from the OldVic Drama workshops

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Drama - Scene IIby Zoe Merritt

On 9th May, Year 10 GCSE Dramastudents went to the Fortune Theatre tosee 'The Woman in Black'. The intimateVictorian theatre provided the perfectsetting for this intense and thrilling 'playwithin a play'. Our students reviewed the'thriller' for their Unit 2 written examresponding skillfully to the theatricalexperience; Shannon Bafundila wrote‘Rumour had it that 'The Woman inBlack' herself would be floating aroundthe room’; Nijam Quayum wrote ‘Thebest part was the screaming’; Tate Joneswrote ‘The style of the play was very 'filmNoir', shadows and light was used tocreate a tense atmopshere’; DaryaGoussarova wrote ‘I wanted to find outwho 'The Woman in Black' was; Why isshe haunting him? how did she die?’.

The theatre trip provided students withthe opportunity to compare film with alive theatrical experience. Althoughresponses were mixed about which was

more horrific, it was undeniable that oncewe finally had left the egde of our seatsthere was a shared sigh of relief from theintensity of the immense suspensecreated live in the Fortune Theatre.

Liana AnthonyDrama Teacher

In April, Miss Oakley andMiss Doyle challengedstudents to read as manybooks as possible from the listof ‘50 Books to Read BeforeYou Grow Up’. Staff also tookpart in the competition and thedisplay in the LRC givesstudents the chance to guesswhich member of staff has readwhich number of books!

Three students submittedexcellent entries for thiscompetition and werepresented with a certificate and

a book token prize in assembly.Alice Gregson in 9S has read

29 out of the 50 books andcomments: “The competitionwas really good because itencouraged me to read books Iwouldn’t have chosenotherwise.” She recommendsUnLunDun by China Mievilleabout an alternate London.

Jolie Featherstone in 7S hasread a total of 24 books. Herfavourite so far is MySwordhand is Singing by

Marcus Sedgwick: “Human-eaters come to a little villagenear the woods and a boy andhis father want to stop themonsters, with only a swordand a song.”

ShaelleTwum-Barimah in 8Ohas read 47 out of the 50 bookson the list – an outstandinga c h i e v e m e n t ! S h erecommends Percy Jacksonand the Lightning Thief by RickRiordan: “A fantasy book with ahalf-goat, half-man, a comedy

that made me laugh for ages”The list can be accessed

from the resources folder ineach tutor group’s Literacyroom on Fronter and includes arange of classic and modernfiction recommended forstudents from Year 7 upwards.Students who want to read thebooks can ask Miss Doyle inthe LRC for more information.

Linda Oakley Literacy Coordinator

and Dominique DoyleLRC Manager

50 BOOKS TO READ BEFORE YOU GROW UP

Literacy Challenge Yields Three Winners

Journalism Club has had a really busy year! Our students were honoured to be from one of thefirst schools to tour the new BBC Television Centre in Oxford Circus. As well as seeing a workingnewsroom in action, the students were invited to record their own radio drama; Oliver and Priyawere selected to be the sound technicians and Emma, Amin, Shola, Sara, Sarah and Akshay allhad speaking parts. In the afternoon, the students were able to watch a live weather report andeven had a go at filming their own weather.

Emily PeelStudent Journalist Coordinator

JOURNALISM CLUB

A Journalistic Taster at the BBC

YEAR 10 THEATRE TRIP

A Thrilling and Intense Theatre Experience

Arts AwardYear 10 students have begun work

towards their Bronze Arts Award. Toachieve Bronze, a Level 1 NationalQualification, our Year 10s need to takepart in an arts activity they enjoy, go toan arts event, research their artshero/heroine and share their skills withothers. Year 10s who have played a rolein ‘Oliver’ and who have been part of the‘Old Vic School’s Club’ have beeneligible to take their Arts Award. Theaward will be completed in the autumnterm.

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by Angelina Barlow

Woodhouse College SoloPerformance Evening

On Tuesday, 2nd July, I was luckyenough to be offered a chance to performat the Woodhouse College soloperformance evening. It was an extremelypleasant evening, featuring many soloistsfrom ages 12 all the way up to A’ Levelstudents. Regardless of age, all of theperformances were to a very highstandard and I was honoured to beincluded in such a group.

I played Herbie Hancock’s excellentJazz standard Cantaloupe Island onCornet, accompanied by Jayne Barnes onpiano and, oddly enough, a violinist. Myoriginal plan was to convince Jayne to addin her own solo, but after she refused (“I’mnot a Jazz player”) I managed to convinceone of the A’ Level violin players toimprovise along with me.

I would also like to note that there wasan excellent performance from JasonCheng, who played Csardas, by Monti, onviolin.

A further note is that I play in the BarnetYouth Brass Band, which rehearses onThursdays from 5.15pm to 7.15pm atMoss Hall Junior School, and I wouldencourage any brass player grade 5+ tojoin. If you wish to know more, you cancontact Peter Yarde-Martin, ourconductor. It is a very highly thought-ofband and it really helps increase yourskills as a musician and a band player.

Gabriel Musker

Barnet Music FestivalOur splendid Boys’ A Cappella Group

(Martin Evans, Jake Taylor, Louis O’Shea,Taran Patel, Ramin Ehsanifard, AnthonyBrown, Yashil Gopee, Gabriel Musker) andThe Flat Caps (Ramin Ehsanifard, AnthonyBrown, Gabriel Musker, Taran Patel)performed at the Barnet Music Festival. Welldone and thank you boys as it was afantastic performance.

On Thursday, 20th June, I and sevenother students in our school's A CappellaGroup performed as guests at theartsdepot's Barnet Music Festival - acelebration of musical talent in Barnet'sschools that takes place every year. Wewere performing That Lonesome Road byJames Taylor. Being an A Cappella groupwith no instrumental backing, it was vitalthat we all brought the performancetogether. It was an immense success, dueto hard work from ourselves and Alex, amember of an A Cappella quartet, whohas been coaching us since beforeChristmas. Jake Taylor

On 1st July, ten Year 7 studentstravelled to Camden asking the question“What does the Roundhouse have to offerme?” They were not disappointed with theanswer!

Upon arrival, they were taken to themain space; an area which has a capacityof over 3,000 and which has hosted worldfamous artists such as Bob Dylan, JimiHendrix and Muse. The students learnedhow this space is transformed toaccommodate concerts, plays, filmproduction, circuses and even red carpetafter parties. Next they were given a tourof the Paul Hamlyn Roundhouse Studios;24 state-of-the-art studios where facilitiesinclude TV, radio and music production,media suites and rehearsal rooms formusic and performance. The studentswere impressed with the Apple Mac suite,DJ decks and recording studio. Theyeven got to meet one of the Roundhouseindustry professionals who discussed hiswork with radio broadcast and workingwith young people to help develop theirskills.

“I really enjoyed the trip to theRoundhouse; the structure of the buildingand the individuals we met were inspiring.I hope to take part in the ‘It’s Magic’course this summer.” Jaymin 7M

“The history of the Roundhouse is veryinteresting and the equipment, rooms andstudios are amazing.” Soraya 7C

If you like being creative, you’ll find

something to capture your imagination atthe Roundhouse. This summer, there area range of music, media and performingarts courses to get involved in. Below is ashort selection but for more information onthese courses and others offered bythe Roundhouse, please visitwww.roundhouse.org.uk/take-part.

* Create an album in a week * Radio DJProject * Make a Play in a Week * TVProduction * Multimedia Blogging * PolishPoetry Project * Storytelling and GameDesign * It’s Magic! * FreerunningIntensive * Gorilla Circus: Flying Trapezeand Aerial Skills *

Alice GrayMusic Teacher

Around the Roundhouse Summer SerenadeOn 11th June, over 30 students from

Years 7-10 participated in the spectacularSummer Serenade. Despite the lack ofsummery weather, the evening was agreat success and gave students theopportunity to showcase their talents.Staff, parents and students were treatedto performances by talented soloists andstudent led ensembles, including The FlatCaps and the Year 9 band. In aprogramme ranging from Saint-Saens toSlash, the concert provided something foreveryone.

Alice GrayMusic Teacher

21st BirthdayCelebration

A variety of talented musiciansfrom The Compton, Years 7 to 10,performed at the 21st BirthdayCelebration that was held for Staffand Governors.

Well done and many thanks .

Our Very Own Musical Youth

MUSIC DEPARTMENT

Musical Notes

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Earlier this year, all Year 9 studentswere taken on a trip to the Victoria andAlbert Museum. Food Technologystudents looked at the wonderfulceramics that were on display andwhen they came back to school theybegan to use the artefacts they hadseen as inspiration for food products.Students learned many decorativetechniques so they could create foodwith a focus on surface decoration andform. The pinnacle of their hard work indeveloping their ideas was acompetition to see who had created themost effective food product, obviouslyinspired by the ceramics. Judgesappeared from far and wide, not only tolook at the cakes but also to taste them,before a decision was made about thewinners, who were Rosie Newby,Mehmet Recber and AmeliaKibblewhite.

The Design and TechnologyDepartment would like congratulate thestudents for their hard work andcommitment. Also commended for theirentries were Priya Mandal, AnthonySparks, Danny Tooley, ClaudiaDellamura, Nika Namini, DanielleVarney and Daniel Ross.

Julie Tinsley2ic D&T

The Design and TechnologyDepartment had the pleasure of takingthe Year 8 students on two trips to theDesign Museum in Shad Thames in April2013. The students travelled to theDesign Museum in style on two RouteMaster London Transport buses,attracting quite a lot of attention,especially as we crossed Tower Bridge!

The trip was entitled ‘Design in Mind’and the focus for the day was to open ourminds to the examples of great design wecan see around us in use every day. In theDesign Museum students were given theopportunity to open their eyes and mindsto the important work designers do and togain inspiration from the exhibits andrecognise iconic designs.

As well as a visit to the museum,students walked along the Thames toTower Bridge and also visited City Hall.

The Design and TechnologyDepartment would like to thank thestudents for their excellent behaviour andto say thank you to all staff who camealong to assist us.

Julie Tinsley2ic D&T

by Anne Brown

Year 9 Cultural Arts Competition

Many of the GCSE Textiles students willbe including a recycled element in their finalproduct. To assist students in achievingcreative results. I would like to ask parentsto donate old jewellery, buttons, ribbon,buckles, beads etc., which students coulduse to decorate their final products.

Recycle Your BeadsButtons and Buckles

In June, 18 of our Year9 Product Designstudents were selected toparticipate in a two dayworkshop run by theVictoria and AlbertMuseum. The studentswere introduced to theV&A’s artist in residence,Julia Lohmann and givena behind the scenes tourof her studio as well as apreview of her neverseen before work. Juliaspecialises in usingseaweed as asustainable resource tomake products and the

workshop showed ourstudents how to createstructures using rattanwhich could then haveseaweed attached tothem.

The students’ brief wasto design a ‘hiddenspaces’ structure. Theyworked in groups to makea model, using the rattan,and then covered themodels using seaweed

by putting Julia’stechniques into practise.The final results werefantastic and verycreative.

The final seven modelswill be displayedalongside Julia’s work atthe V&A during theLondon Design Festivalin September 2013.

Rob HallSenior D&T Technician

Hidden Spaces at the V&A

DESIGN AND TECHNOLOGY

Creating, Making, Designing, Refining

Design in Mind

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MATHS DEPARTMENT

The Compton Loves MathsHuge congratulations

to Andre Jenkins andMichael Cataeno whotogether have won theNational Final of the2012/13 Jaguar Cars“Maths in Motion”™Challenge, beating offstiff competition fromschools across thecountry. The NationalFinal took place at theBritish Heritage MotorCentre in Gaydon onWednesday 26th June.The boys had previouslyqualified through a seriesof internal school races,regional heats and thesemi-final.

Established by Jaguarin 2000, the Challenge

this year attracted entriesfrom more than 100,000students, making it thelargest maths challengeof its kind in the UK.Students are tasked withsetting up a virtual racing

car to compete on acircuit against otherschools. The teamshave to use all theirmathematical expertiseto accurately measuretrack length and the

angles of the bends andconsider other factorssuch as fuel load, tyresand speeds. The data isfed into a computersimulation and all thechallengers eventuallyrace against each other.For this year’s final,teams had just 90minutes to prepare theircars.

Michael Cataeno, Year10, said, “I really enjoyedthe races, they arestressful but fun. Thesecret to our successwas teamwork andpushing the limits,constantly adjusting ourcar to take more risks tomake sure we got the

maximum speed withoutcrashing. I’ve been goingto the Maths in Motionclub for the last two yearswith Ms Lewis and it’sreally increased mymaths skills and interest.”

Well done boys. Wewere absolutely thrilledto qualify for the final andwinning is a fantasticachievement It wassuch an exciting day andI am so proud of you.

The Club will continuenext year – look out fordetails and we lookforward to seeing lots ofyou there.

Joanna LewisMaths Teacher

The Junior Maths Challenge tookplace in April with entrants from Years 7and 8. The Challenge question papersare designed to stimulate interest inMaths and involve answering 25multiple choice questions in an hour,under exam conditions.

Special mentions and congratulationsgo to Jillian Cheng (best in Year 7) andAmir Razak (best in school and best inYear 8). Well done to all who took partand congratulations to the following whoachieved certificates; GOLDY7: Jillian Cheng, Chihoro GonY8: Amir Razak, Jessica Baker, Cate

Mandell, Michael Spann, Lois CampbellSILVERY7: Josephine Chadwick, AbdulrahmanAhmed, Sarah Yeboah Smith, FaizalNuamah, Jaymin ShahY8: Raza Naqvi, Ferdous Azizi, NiraleeShah, Nikhyl Bhagat, Ben Manuel,Adrian Chudzinski , Blessie SimbolBRONZEY7: Ahmed Haji, Csilla Florian, AmiraBhatt, Y8: Ryan Bemaninaeini, Emma DeDuve, Sam Lhuillier, Maeve Gibson,William Lloyd, Maya Somasa, ErfanNajimi, Baransel Yildirim, ChhayaGanda

Junior Maths Challenge 2013

TCS first across the Jaguar “Maths in Motion”™ Finishing line

Les Ratcliffe, Head of Community Relations atJaguar Landrover, and the winners of the 2013

“Maths in Motion”™ Challenge

STEM CLUB

Big Bangs and The Animal ManThe Big Bang Fair is the biggest celebration in the country of

Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths (STEM) andattracts over 65,000 people either visiting or presenting. For thethird year, 20 KS3 students were lucky enough to attend whatwas by far the best Big Bang Fair to date.

We arrived around 9.30am after taking three separate tubes,an overground train and the DLR and we headed straight to ourfirst show - The Guinness Book of Records Live. Thisshowcased the strangest world records such as ‘The fastesttime a dog can do 100m on a skateboard’ (apparently it’s19.678s, by Tillman the English bulldog!) The show alsoattempted to break world records, live, including doing the mostspins on an office chair in one minute and the longest timesomeone can be stuck to a wall with tape… Unfortunately norecords were broken.

Finally, students were able to talk to repesentatives fromcompanies such as BAE, BP, Shell, Raspberry Pi and the ArmedForces to find out more about their jobs as well as gettinginvolved in many of the hands on activities.

In May, Year 7, 8 and STEM club welcomed Mitch, TheAnimal Man, along with all his furry friends. Year 7 and 8students were taken out of science lessons to learn more about

some of the animals of Africa.The animals included a hissingcockroach, a chameleon, agecko, a royal python, a pigmyhedgehog, a tarantula and avery cute meerkat!

During the session, thestudents learnt interesting factsabout the animals including that a chameleon cannot changecolour to match its surroundings but it does change colour tomatch its mood. If it is angry, it may go black, or ill, it may goyellow and, the best one of all, if pregnant the female will gomulti-coloured! Another great fact was that meerkats may live inlarge groups of up to 20 but only one female meerkat (the alpha)is allowed to have babies. All the other meerkats then take onroles to care for the offspring such as teachers or babysitters.

The students also had a chance to get up close and personalholding a gecko, python, cockroach and tarantula. They werealso able to pet both the hedgehog and the meerkat and somevery excited teachers even got to hold the meerkat! The day wasa great success.

Nathalie McTavishSTEM  Club Coordinator

UKMT Team MathsChallenge 2013

In March, a team of Compton students went toPreston Manor School, Wembley, to compete in theRegional Final of the UKMT Team Challenge. Ourteam, Blessie Simbol, Cate Mandell, Amir Razakand Titus Tan, were selected from a number of verytalented Year 8 and 9 mathematicians who attendafter school Maths Club.

Blessie said, “We enjoyed a day of Maths. Thefour challenges tested our mathematical skill, ourspeed and our teamwork. We tried our best andcame 11th out of 23 schools. It was a fantasticevent.”

Well done, team, for an amazing result. Joanna Lewis

Maths Teacher

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SPORTS by Nikki Chodurek

We entered 12Athletics leaguemeetings this seasonand had 40 to 50students attendathletics training everyWednesday evening.Training obviously paidoff as the Year 7 Girlswon the Barnet League,Year 8 Girls came 3rdand the Year 9 and 10boys were positioned4th.

Many thanks to MrMarks, Mr Taylor, MrClark and Ms Kelly fortheir help in officiatingat the meetings.

The highlight of theseason was the BarnetChampionships where20 Barnet schoolscompeted against eachother in all athletic

disciplines. This washeld at the AllianzStadium – over 1000students participated.We had an amazingday with numeroushighlights: we won theYear 7 Girlscompetition, came 3rdin the Year 8 Girls’

competition and wonthe Relays Cup.Overall we came 2nd –an amazing and brilliantset of results!

Congratulations to all80 students who tookpart in this highlyprestigious andcompetitive day.

A selected group of Year 8 and 9 girls wereinvolved in a cycling project this term and learntmany new skills and had lots of fun! Many thanksto Ms Bailey for liasing with the British CyclingFederation and enabling this to happen.

National School Sports Week Compton Goes Up a GearWe had a hugely successful

National Schools Sports Week thisyear. The students were involved inInterform Tug of War and the winnersof each year were 7H, 8S, 9N & 10T.

Ultimate Frisbee, Tag Rugby,Softball, Short Tennis, Dodgeball,Handball and Volleyball were alltaught in lessons.

Many thanks to Mr Strickland andMiss Bailey for organising this fun-filled week.

Well done to all of our Year 9 SportsLeaders this term who have done a sterlingjob in organising, officiating and teaching Year3 and 4 students at our ‘cluster’ PrimarySchools. They have been superb role modelsand excellent practitioners. Thanks also mustgo to Ms Bailey and Mr Strickland for intiatingthese days.

2013 Brings Amazing Athletic Successes

Many thanks to Ms Kelly and Ms Sullivan for running Tennis Club everyTuesday evening and to Mr Marks and Mr Horstman for running Football Club

all year, every Wednesday evening

After School Sports Clubs

Sports Leaders

News at The Compton School

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Students return to school on Monday, 9th September 2013, Week 1

SPORTINGSPORTING EXCELLENCEEXCELLENCE

Repesentative Honours 2013Repesentative Honours 2013The Compton School community is brimming with sporting talent. So many of our students represent school, district

and county (and maybe one day, even country) in their sport and we celebrate them here.

Amy - Middlesex Football Sean - Middlesex rugby trialist Jack - Middlesex rugby trialist Devini - England KarateChampion

Bennie - All round schoolrepresentative in Football,

Rugby, Athletics and Cricket

Gabriel, Sian, Daniel - BarnetAthletics Team

Year 11 Girls Barnet SchoolsTrampolining Silver Medallists

Harriet - Barnet TrampolineChampion, U16 Girls

Year 8 Rounders BoroughSilver Medallists

Year 9 Rounders BoroughSilver Medallists

Year 9 and 10 Girls’ Rugby Middlesex Champions 2013

Year 7 Girls Netball Team -represented Barnet in London

Youth Games

Lewis - Brentford FootballAcademy and Barnet Athletics

Championships

Leanne, Ellie and Khadijah - Barnet District Netball Team

In addition;  Robyn Palmer, Josephine Chadwick, Faizel Nuamah - Barnet Shaftesbury Harriers Athletics ClubYear 7 Girls Football Team - represented Barnet at Brunel University

SPORTS by Nikki Chodurek

News at The Compton School