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SPORT CROSS COUNTRY, INDOOR ATHLETICS AND MORE

February Edition /thecyfle

During the past few weeks, the IT Department

has been busy creating and expanding

Dashboard, the school’s digital environment.

Dashboard allows students to receive

personalised information, data and other

relevant news which helps keep them

informed and engaged in school life.

The new version of Dashboard, in which 800

students took part in testing brings new

personalised data such as students own

attendance percentage, reminders,

homework, detentions and integration with

our Virtual Learning Environment, Moodle.

The new version also allows students to further engage and interact with their Student

Council and pupil representatives using the Llais Cyfle tools which allow students to post

suggestions and vote up other suggestions and ideas posted by other students.

A new feature of Dashboard is ‘Memories’ - these digital snapshots allows students to interact

with recent school events, news and achievements and give support for these. The new

version of Dashboard also integrates the brand new school reward system - Cyfle Coins. We

look forward to all students using the brand new version when they return after half term.

THIS EDITION: SPORT GALORE

Cross

Country

Inside

EDITORS

Mr R Williams and Mr J Mitchell

NEWS EDITOR

Abbey Carter

SPORT EDITOR

Ellie Williams

LLAIS CYFLE EDITOR

Alice Butler

ENTERTAINMENT EDITOR

Owen Thompson

PHOTOS EDITOR

Esme Morris

PUBLICITY COMMITTEE

Hannah Owen

Alice Butler

Danielle Chaney

Nicole Jackson

Logan Ricketts

Abbey Carter

Amy Davies

Chloe Megan Ralph

Jack Bright

Ellie Williams

Esme Morris

Owen Thompson

Lowri Francis

Eve Connah

We as a Maths department would like to congratulate our Year 11 pupils, who sat their

GCSE in November!

These two classes worked very hard for 7 weeks in the hope to reach their target

grades. They attended extra revision sessions with Mr Davies and ensured that they

worked to the best of their ability on classwork, homework and revision. These great

results reflects the commitment that they showed towards gaining their GCSE in

Maths.

These results show that we gained an extra 26 C grades and an extra 10 A* to B

grades on the Newtown campus. I would like to also mention that we saw some pupils

move up two grades in such a short time, which has to be congratulated. These pupils

are: Justice Dean, Freya Bond, Liam Irving, Oliver Hawkins, Lily Mitchell, Maria Smith and

Bethany Wilson.

At the John Beddoes Campus, the pupils have also worked really hard during the 7

weeks, attending revision sessions during LMT, lunch and after school. The recent

results show that we gained an extra 7 C grades and an extra 6 A* to B grades.

I would like to also mention that we saw some pupils show a massive improvement and

move up by over 40 marks or two grades in such a short time, which has to be

congratulated. These pupils are: Tamera Farell, Josh Porter, Inez Schnierer, Ellie Niblock

and Oliver Latham.

Congratulations again, as this means that currently 65.3% have achieved at least a

grade in GCSE Maths. I hope that this will encourage others in Year 11, who are sitting

their GCSE in June, to remain focused in lessons, to complete all homework and to

revise regularly to ensure more success in August.

School Categorisation

Please visit our website for the full letter and correspondence

from ERW regarding school categorisation.

Official Notices under the Llais Cyfle Constitution

The Cyfle Coins (Approval) Measure 2016 was assented to by the head teacher on the 5th

February 2016.

1 election was held for School Council due to a vacant position.

The annual Rotary organised

Young Chef Competition was held

at our Newtown Campus in

January with 6 students

participating. Judged by chef

royalty, Neil Roberts who is local to

Newtown along with taste testers

from Rotary itself, a high quality of

food was on offer. Students were

tasked with creating a healthy

meal to develop their food

presentation skills along with

considering food hygiene

standards and development of

their organisational and planning skills. There was certainly a high standard on offer

and the contest was very close indeed. The winning dish was served by Kyle Rowlands

and consisted of a chicken liver pate, Madeira pork and chocolate and raspberry

tartlets. Coming in second place was George Betton with his wild mushroom

bruschetta, chicken casserole with dumplings and sticky toffee date pudding and third

place was Liam Morris who made a stuffed mushrooms, chicken casserole and

pineapple upside down. Kyle will now cook his menu with Mr Roberts at the annual

Rotary Dinner held on the 26th April 2016.

Newtown High School also played host to the annual Urdd Cogurdd competition in

which 5 students took part in the first

round. The task was to create

flatbreads, pea hummus and a

tropical fruit salsa, as well as making

and decorating carrot cupcakes all

within one hour and 30 minutes. A

massive thanks to Mrs Heulwen

Jones who kindly judged this stage of

the competition with Lowri Francis

and Josh Wall going through to the

next round. Congratulations to all

give participants who had a very

hectic hour and half in the kitchen,

producing credible finished work.

Written by Mr Lemon - Drama

As Drama Teacher here at Newtown High School, I'm proud to say that our imminent

production of John Godber's Teechers has sold out the extended allocation of tickets

for our 3 nights of performance.

An incredible amount of work both by actors and technical workers has been put in

since undertaking the production and I'm sure all of you who have got tickets will

thoroughly enjoy the production.

The play is a fast paced comedy about school life as told by those on the inside

throught the lives of three school leavers. We have adapted the script to modernise

and localise it and you may even see some people you know.

Last term, all Year 7 pupils on our Newtown Campus learnt words from a list of 50

which they then practise spelling. Congratulation to all of our Year 7 pupils who did try

very hard and make some amazing progress, bravo!

In each class, we asked for volunteers to try and spell those words out loud using the

French alphabet in December. The class winners are the pupils who managed to spell

the most French words accurately under a minute:

7CL

Emily Bleakley

Carys Breeze

Libby Isaac

Keera Sevier

Connor Lovibond

Caleb Roberts

Harriot Watson

Amber Tait

Taylor Griffiths

Samuel Wall

7YL

Elukia Selvaranjith

Callum Morgan

Emma Holwill

Connor Cullen-Jones

Matthew Owen

Jez Wheeldon

Harry Billington

James Sayce

Thomas Jerman

Joshua Oldfield

7FL

Huw Mainwaring

Kezia Morgan-Rickard

Alex Jones

Leanne Moore

Ellys Clements

Jayleigh Wilson

Oliver Thomas

Jayden Elliott

Lucy Jones

Lewis Rose

7LL

Owen Paul

Hannah Williams

Ozhan Ongun

Michalina Ujma

Ffion Roberts

Lucia Jenkins

Rio Leek

Ellie Harris

Imogen Dunkley

Jack Evans

7EL

Ethan Frost

Kareena Bryan-Jones

Liam Williams

Cameron Burton

Brooke Hamer

Aled Nevill-Bond

Iris Shanahan

Taylan Andrews

Henry Leah

Cameron Tearle

7DL

Rachel Hughes

Luci Wood-Reynolds

Taylor Jones-Davies

Dominik Syrotnik

Oliver Wood

Jayden Sharp

Goosebumps (PG)

When the monstrous creations of Goosebumps author R. L. Stine

(Jack Black) escape from a series of magic books that act as their

prisons, only Stine and a motley crew of teenagers can stop the

rampage of the escaped beasts!

Why should you go see it?

OK. It sounds terrible! You will read the synopsis and think “ohh

deeaarr”! But trust me…… it ain’t half bad! Its very tongue in cheek, it

knows it’s a very silly film, but that just adds to the charm of it. The

cast do a very good job of keeping the story going in a fun and light-

hearted way without ever becoming annoying as is so often the case

with children in films. Jack Black, who can often go OTT with his

roles, is also on good form and plays the oddball author with much

energy. Definitely a guilty pleasure of a film!

Dad’s Army (12A)

Walmington-On-Sea, 1944. With Allied forces poised to invade Nazi-

held France, the fate of the world lies in the hands of a Home Guard

unit filled with complete idiots. Don’t panic!

Why should you go see it?

Let be honest…. the only reason pupils from Newtown High School

are going to go and see this is when their dad’s drag them too see it.

But I really think you should go and see this off your own back! For

one thing you will never see a more quintessentially British film this

year… or maybe ever! We Brits have a very different brand of

humour to the Americans so there's no fart jokes or pointless bad

language here…. I would say its more like an old Carry On Film in

style, and in my mind praise doesn't come much higher than that.

Its not perfect by any means, the plots all over the place and the

script is a bit dodgy, but its enormously entertaining for the whole

family and definitely worth a trip to the Cinema.

So its February. Not usually the best time for films. This is the time of year when studios bring out their

quirky numbers that they feel are more risky in terms of Box Office figures compared to those in

Easter and Summer. However, I love this time of year! For a start the weather is SO horrendous you

don't feel guilty going to the cinema loads; and secondly the films that come out are not really that

heavily publicised so you can actually go in without knowing that much about films and be genuinely

surprised when you find something you think is great. This is true for both the films in this edition, you

might not have heard of them and they are a bit out of the ordinary but none the less, well worth a

watch. Enjoy!

The annual Powys Schools cross country championships was recently held in Dolerw

Park, Newtown. Newtown Campus pupils represented the school extremely well once

again, with our Year 7 girls team winning their age-group, both our Year 8 & 9 boys and

girls teams coming second and our Yr 10 and 11 boys team coming third. With up to

eighty runners in each race, notable individual results came from Olivia Robson 4th,

Shannon Walker 4th, Sally Murton-Davies 5th, Dylan Downs 6th, Tayla Trigg 6th, Dray

Rogers 7th and Carys Breeze 9th. Special mention must go to the level of participation

from our pupils, over sixty in all and to the pupils who have gone on to be selected for

county in the Welsh Schools cross country championships. Da iawn pawb a phob lwc!

Team results

Yr 7 girls - 1st

Yr 7 boys - 6th

Yr 8 + 9 girls - 2nd

Yr 8 + 9 boys - 2nd

Yr 10 + 11 boys - 3rd

County selection

Yr 7 girls - Olivia Robson, Sally Murton-

Davies, Cerys Breese, Olivia Isaac

Yr 7 boys - Dylan Downs

Yr 8 + 9 girls - Tayla Trigg, Seren Lloyd

Kerry

Yr 8 + 9 boys - Tom Davies, Josh Wall

(reserve)

Yr 10 + 11 girls - Shannon Walker

Yr 10 + 11 boys - Dray Rogers

5x60 on the John Beddoes Campus

John Beddoes Campus girls have been in action in the South Powys Indoor Hockey

Tournament. This was a very competitive fixture with Schools across Powys battling it

out for the tournament crown. We had two teams representing the school, the A team

was captained by Meg Cosgrove and the B team was jointly led by Mair Hughes and

Holly Dodgson. And to cut a long story short……WE WON!!! Our A team were in

blistering form and

demolished the

competition ending up

coming 1st overall. The

B Team also played

fantastically coming 4th

overall. The players of

the tournament were

Hannah Bright and Mair

Hughes who were

absolutely fantastic

throughout. Well done

to everyone who took

part!

Year 7 success

On Sunday 31st Jan. Year 7 Girls were crowned Powys Indoor

Football Champions. They beat competition from Llanidloes,

Llanfyllin and two teams from Welshpool. They beat Welshpool B

2-0, Llanidloes 1-0, drew 1-1 with Llanfyllin and beat Welshpool A

1-0 in a decider to win the competition. Congratulations to Ellys

Clements, Lillie Bryant, Abi Powell, Olivia Robson, Carys Breeze,

Libby Isaac and Leah Ralph-Bloor

County Selection for Welsh Sports Hall Athletics Championships

Rhys Humphreys and Niall Bentley have gained selection for the Powys Sportshall

athletics team which will be competing in the Welsh Schools championships in

Cwmbran next month. Rhys a Niall pob lwc a da iawn!

The Cyfle - Feb Edition - Edition #10

Edited by Mr R Williams and Mr J Mitchell

rwilliams@newtown-hs.powys.sch.uk / jmitchell@newtown-hs.powys.sch.uk

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The North v South Powys Indoor athletics

championship was held on Wednesday 27th

January 2016. Niall Bentley, Rhys Humphreys,

Tomas Parry and Lucy Hinkley were selected to

represent North Powys and Nathan Weale,

Evan Lee, Jordan Price, Chris Rowlands, Hannah

Bright, Holly Dodgson and Ellie Williams were

selected to represent South Powys.

Newtown Campus

Niall came 2nc in the U13 Boys Shot, Rhys

Humphreys came 1st in the U13 boys 4 lap running, Tomas Parry came 3rd in the U13

boys Triple Jump, Unfortunately Lucy Hinkley was unable to compete due to academic

commitments.

John Beddoes Campus

Nathan Weale came 2nd in boys 2 lap, 4th in the 4 lap and 1st in the triple jump, Holly

Dodgson came 2nd in girls triple jump and 3rd in long jump, Hannah Bright came 2nd

in the girls 6 lap and 1st in

triple jump, Chris Rowlands

came 1st in the boys 4 lap,

4th in shot and 1st in long

jump, Jordan Price came 3rd

in the boys shot, 7th in 2 lap

and 1st in the speed

bounce, Evan Lee came

2nd boys 2 lap, 1st in the

triple jump, 3rd in speed

bounce and 4th in the shot

and Ellie Williams came 2nd

in girls speed bounce and

5th in the 4 lap