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Thursday 5th December 2013 7.30pm

School Assembly Hall Admission is FREE

The Glee Club presents

an entertaining medley of songs

from a range of musical shows.

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• Planners being signed: Please could parents sign each week Planners - Mr Dawson, Vice-Principal Pastoral has asked Form Tutors to give students Red Spots if they are not signed by a parent (Day Students) or a Houseparent (Boarders).

• Glee Rehearsal - Sunday, 1 December 2013 2 - 6pm. • Donations for ACE (e.g. shoes, school bags, school sup-

plies, clothing, books and soft toys or anything else suitable for a primary school aged student. - Tuesday, 3 December 2013

• Glee Performance - Thursday, 5 December 2013 • Family Picnic - Sunday 8 December 2013. • Parent Teacher Conference (Term 1 Reports) - Friday, 13

December 2013

SPECIAL POINTS OF INTEREST:

‘TWENTY-FOUR HOUR FAMINE’

The Twenty-Four Hour Famine has been a success! We have raised over NGN 450 000 for ACE and there are a few pledges yet to come in. This puts us over the NGN 2 million mark, 500 000 more than our target! The majority of partici-pants managed to go the entire 24 hours and they will be rewarded in Celebration Assembly on Friday with certificates. Daniel Chukwuma

raised NGN 78 000 on his own and is the overall prize winner! An honourable mention goes to Louis Wiszniew-ski for raising NGN 63 000. In addition to this, Khadija Muhammed Sani won both the Scavenger Hunt and the Newsletter competitions. The winning House was Senegal, by nearly N 100 000; they will get their Senegal only ‘Mufti Day’ as a reward.

I would like to thank a number of Nigerian Youth Award//Duke of Edinburgh Bronze candidates that worked all of the hours possible: Muhammad Gachi, Precious Nwa-eze; Orinaemi Davies; Aisha Adiya, Chiamaka Attuh and Margarita Madu. I could not have managed the event without their tireless efforts. As for staff, there are a number of people to thank for various reasons: Miss Britton, for helping just about every minute; Mr Akande for staying very late on Friday night to supervise and checking in on Saturday morning; Abdulfatai Bello for sorting out all of our room and technical needs at all hours; Mr Smith for popping in and out to help at key points, like bed time and study time; Mr Akinola for assisting with the boarding side of things and Mrs Briggs for offering French help. I suspect next year's Famine will be an even greater success! - Mrs Wyvill

Miss Britton helping students with their tents last Friday.

Students working during the ‘Famine’ in the School Library.

B E S T S T U D E N T O F T H E W E E K

CONGO HOUSE

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ACE Donations Appeal

As regular readers of The Re-gent Digest will know, TRSS has been active helping ACE, a charity which attempts to make a sustainable, realistic and effective difference in the lives of Africans. ACE’s mis-sion is to re-define the mean-ing of charity in Africa while providing education, literacy skills and training to African children and youths and it aims to effectively increase the literacy of over 6,000 Africans by 2017. Nigeria is Africa’s second largest economy yet poverty remains a ma-jor problem. According to Nigeria’s National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), the percentage of those who can afford

only the bare essentials of food, shelter and clothing – reached 60.9 percent in 2010. This means that almost 100 million Nigerians are living on less than $1 a day. More than half of the country’s 160 million inhabitants live without electricity, while the majority of the population has to rely on expensive generators run on diesel. To help the underprivileged in society, TRSS is helping in the wider community. The Nigerian Youth Award/Duke of Edinburgh Bronze students are looking for donations from children around the school for shoes, school bags, school supplies, clothing, books and soft toys or anything else suitable for a primary school aged stu-dent. Donations are due in on Tuesday, 3 December.

ACE Volunteers helping at a Government School in Durumi.

Khadijah Mustapha

helping in a Mathematics.

class.

TRSS students with Mrs Wyvill before starting their fast to raise money for ACE.

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STUDENT’S STORY: A SPOOKY NIGHT!

A isha Adebisi wrote this story about a spooky night for The Regent Digest. A few weeks ago, we published poems about refugees in Afghanistan and this gives an

idea what students are attempting with creative writing: It was one spooky night... My parents went on a ski trip to Italy for one week and didn’t take me along because of school and examinations so I was left alone. I was quite happy because there was no one to boss me around and I decided to pass time watching one of my favourite series, ‘Glee’. I was just set-tling down in the armchair and tucking into some butter popcorn when the ‘light’ suddenly went off. I groped around in the dark until I could switch on the flash-light on my mobile phone. I checked whether the light credit had finished and it did: it read zero! And what a night it would be! Out of impulse a ridiculous idea occurred to me: I decided to go

use the torchlight to guide me to the hallway and I would step outside for a walk. Then as I reached for the handle of the front door, I acted with hesitancy. What if a kidnapper was hiding in the bushes? I put this thought behind me as I turned the handle and walked into the compound. The security man was either asleep in his makeshift bunk or groping in the dark in the boys quarter so he didn’t see me as I opened the front gate and shut it noisily behind me. My body forced me along the quiet room until my thoughts were interrupted by the sudden appearance of a very weird shadow near a road turning. Then I heard loud footsteps approaching... As I turned around, I saw the most hideous creature I have ever seen, only 20 metres behind me! Then it froze for a second, glared at me while it beck-oned with its skeletal fingers in a cycling motion…

Aisha Adebisi

S tudents in Benue 3 have already started making donations for the ACE charity. Ansh Yadav, Mustapha Sanusi and Wisdom Elijah have made some small donations for

ACE. ACE current ly has a pro ject to improve lit eracy for students at a schoo l in Durumi. Last half-term Year 11 students raised money for ACE with a cake sale, which was a great success.

ACE DONATIONS ALREADY!

Nigerian Youth Award/Duke of Edin-burgh Si lver Award raising money with their cake sale.

Ansh Yadav, Mustapha Sanusi and Wisdom Elijah with their donations.