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MARCH 2014

Dates for your diary

6 Mar Curriculum consultation evening 7pm

11 Mar Year 9 Dalehead Foods trip

14-15 Mar ‘Little Shop of Horrors’ 7.30pm

17-21 Mar Science Week

20 Mar Year 10 Art trip to Tate Britain

26 Mar GCSE Dance

27-28 Mar GCSE Music

2 Apr GCSE Drama

4 Apr End of term

Tickets are selling fast

for the whole school

musical Little Shop of

Horrors. Buy your

tickets on Squid now!

LVC CRICKETERS SCOOP ROY BURRELL TEAM AWARD

The Year 11 girls cricket team are celebrating after

winning the prestigious team award at the Roy

Burrell Sports Awards at Netherhall on 4 March.

The awards recognise exceptional sporting

achievement among year 11 students who have

competed at county, regional or national level. Over

their five years at LVC, this group of girls have won

five indoor and outdoor county championships and

taken part in the regional finals at Trent Bridge,

narrowly missing out on the national final at Lord’s.

Many of them play for local clubs and they have

recently formed a Linton women’s team. ‘It is 12 years

since LVC last won the team award and this is a

fantastic reward for all their hard work, success and

enthusiasm,’ said head of PE John Maddock.

The award caps a brilliant few weeks of sport at LVC. The Under 14 girls basketball team

were crowned district champions and the Under 16 boys and girls both reached the semi-

finals of their events. Year 10 sports leaders organised a Key Stage 3 badminton and table

tennis tournament as part of the Sainsbury’s School Games and LVC teams won both

events. The Under 13 girls cricket team will represent Cambridgeshire after coming second

in the Lady Taverners indoor competition, while the Under 15 girls came third. Four LVC

athletes will represent the county at the English Schools Cross-Country Championships on

15 March. There are sports fixtures after school every Wednesday, and over 100 students

are taking part in Thursday after-school sports clubs ranging from fencing to fitness.

Twelve talented LVC swimmers travelled to Sawston Village

College to support disabled swimmer John Willis in his 50:50:100

challenge to swim 1,000 metres in 50 different pools. You can

read John’s inspirational story and support his charity at

www.power2inspire.org.uk

The spirit of the Olympic legacy is alive and well at LVC!

From the Principal…

Dear Parents,

It is finally spring and with this season of new growth,

Linton Village College enters a new phase of its

development. From 1st April, we will become a multi-

academy trust with The Meadow School, Balsham.

The two schools will be governed by one Board of

Directors and will report to Board committees on their use

of resources and pupil standards. The Trust is to be called

Chilford Hundred Education Trust, but both schools will

retain their current names as part of it.

I will become Executive Principal of both Trust schools and

continue as Principal of LVC. A head teacher for The

Meadow Primary School will be appointed before the end

of April.

Now that my role has grown, we have needed to appoint

a slightly bigger senior team at LVC. From September,

Helena Marsh (currently Assistant Principal at Sawston)

joins Tim Darby as Deputy Principal. Our wonderful

Denise Hall is taking retirement at the end of the year and

will be replaced by Shahla Matarazzo (a senior teacher at

Saffron Walden County High School) who joins Doug

Brechin and Angela Cassidy as Assistant Principal. This is

an exceptionally strong and talented group of people and I

very much look forward to working with them.

Enjoy the daffodils and the sunlight.

Caroline Derbyshire

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sQuid online payment deadlines

Duke of Edinburgh award OVERDUE

South Africa 2nd deposit OVERDUE

Year 8 Enrichment Week deposit OVERDUE

Haverhill bus February OVERDUE

Tate Britain 10 March

Little Shop of Horrors (Friday) 13 March

Little Shop of Horrors (Saturday) 14 March

Ypres choir trip deposit 21 March

LVC Sailing Club 24 March

Enrichment Week final payments 30 April

South Africa final payment 1 May

Ypres choir trip final payment 13 June

When making payments of less than £10 for ‘Trips and

Offers’, you must top up your online purse by £10 to

avoid a 25p administration charge.

Please address any sQuid queries to helen.fenn@lvc.org

and trip queries to amanda.clay@lvc.org

STUDENTS TRAVEL TO FRANCE AND AUSTRIA

Year 10 GCSE

French students

spent a week at

Château de la

Baudonnière in

Normandy,

immersing

themselves in

French language and culture. ‘The experience has really

helped to boost my confidence when speaking French and I

had a really good time as well,’ said Amy. ‘You pick up a wide

range of language that you wouldn’t necessarily learn in

class,’ said Matt. ‘A great way to immerse yourself in the

French language,’ said Harry.

A group of Year 10 and 11

students spent February

half-term learning to ski

in the Sportwelt Amada

region of Austria.

LVC TECH STUDENTS PICK UP ANOTHER PRIZE

Year 9 students

took part in the

annual Rotary Club

Design Technology

Tournament at the

Freemasons Hall in

Cambridge.

The students had to solve a ‘make and design’ challenge

against the clock without any help from teachers. The

LVC team won the award for best design portfolio and

presentation for the fourth year in succession. Well done

to James, Megan, Amy, Ivor, Zoe, Tom, Archie and Clara.