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The Newsletter of Mossbourne Community Academy
March 2015
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Dear Parents
Inside
Sixth Form
2-3
Saving a life
Plum prize at the Grocers'
Spotlight on our Head Girl
Teachers are humans too
Mossbourne Former Students' Association
4
Where are they now?
A backward glance
English
5
MCAPA
5
Science
6
The Sun and Moon get into line at
Mossbourne
Silent witness
Maths
6
I am delighted to welcome
you to The Mossbournian’s
Spring Edition. It seems
only a moment ago that
students and staff returned
to the Academy in January
rested and re-energised; I am
pleased to note that, at this
stage in the academic year,
students have settled to
their work with full focus
on achieving their potential
and are on track to achieve
high levels of excellence.
I would like to take this
opportunity to warmly
wish all those students
sitting public exams in the
forthcoming term every
success.
with the Academy can
reflect with pride on the
benefits arising from the
hard earned successes
of our Sixth Formers. In
the last edition of The
Mossbournian, I was able
to share my delight in the
stunning performance of
our students in exams,
across the board, and
particularly at AS level. I
now take similar pleasure in
seeing how these wonderful
results are enabling our
Year 13 students to take
the next step on their
journey, as they receive
offers of exciting places
at universities across the
country and abroad. There
is much here to celebrate
two offers received from
Cambridge colleges are
for English at King’s, and
Natural Sciences at Queens’.
We are also delighted
to learn that one of our
students has recently gained
an unconditional place to
read Maths at the worldrenowned Massachusetts
Institute of Technology
(MIT).
An additional nine students
are awaiting decisions for
entry to study Medicine,
and we wish them, alongside
any students still awaiting
decisions, the best of luck.
Extra-curricular
enrichment
Part of the Academy’s
philosophy is to ensure
that opportunities to take
part in a rich programme
of extra-curricular
involvement complement
the outstanding academic
education on offer here.
Mossbourne strives to
enrich every single student’s
development with a
broad range of activities
outside the classroom.
Opportunities bring
exciting challenges: for
example the prestigious
Norton Rose Fulbright
Insight Programme has
given fifteen students from
Senior Maths Challenge results
Maths puzzles
Library
7
Book marks with style
Religious Studies
7
It’s mental
Shabbat Shalom
Drama
8
Oh What a Lovely War!
EMA
8
None the wurst
Word of the week
History
9
Dulce et decorum est
A survivor’s story
The Book Thief
Keeping the memory alive
Music
10
A night to remember
The Little Shop of Horrors
Musically gifted
What a performance
Gifted & Talented
The cast of the school’s production of The Little Shop of Horrors
11
Gifted & Talented
University challenge
A bridge to success
MFL
12
Rosetta Stone
None the wurst
Design & Tech
13
Designer of the term
The Rowing Academy
14
Pathway across the Pond
PE Boys
15
Football
Athletics
Cross country
PE Girls
Netball
16
Now that the days are
longer and the weather
warmer, the new garden at
the back of the school is
blossoming. This project
took some time to achieve
fruition, but this tranquil
space with benches, tables
and landscaped flower
beds is an ideal space for
socialising at break and
lunch times. It is great to
see our senior students
taking the opportunity to
enjoy this new quiet space
away from the hive of
activity that is the rest
of the Academy.
This is also the time of year
when everyone associated
as we recognise the lifechanging significance of the
achievement of these places.
With most universities
offers now received, I
am truly delighted and
astounded to report that
65% of Sixth Formers have
received offers of places at a
Russell Group university - a
truly staggering percentage.
In addition to this, we must
applaud five students who
have received Oxbridge
offers. Three offers have
been received from Oxford:
PPE at Wadham, History
and Politics at Keble and
Biological Sciences at
Pembroke College. The
Admissions
With the Academy
delivering such excellent
outcomes, it is no wonder
that places at Mossbourne
are, once again, massively
oversubscribed, with eight
applications received for
every place available in
Year 7. Applications for
the Clivebourne Sixth
Form also remain high.
The number of admissions
received by Mossbourne is a
testament to the reputation
of our hardworking staff
who continue to ensure
that each and every one of
our students achieve the
outcomes they deserve.
Mossbourne the extremely
valuable opportunity to
gain work experience in
a top law firm this term;
similarly, Mossbourne’s
partnership with The
Grocers’ Company yields
many valuable opportunities
to attend events, network,
and win awards; the Sixth
Form lecture programme
continues to invite many
influential speakers, and
most recently a barrister
and a young film-maker
delivered inspirational talks
to our students.
Many and varied
opportunities at every level
have been available for all
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our students to involve themselves
in sport and the performing arts.
The Drama Department put on
a hugely successful production
of The Little Shop of Horrors, and
the Music Department continues
to offer an increasing number
of opportunities for talented
young performers to learn and
engage with music outside the
classroom. The department has
recently been gifted a Bechstein
concert grand piano from pianist
Roselyn Walter. Ms Walter most
generously decided her beloved
piano would be put to great
and worthy use at the Academy,
following her relocation overseas.
For this we are truly grateful and
know our new piano will bring
huge benefit to countless students
in the years to come.
Fundraising
Once again, Mossbourne students
have worked very hard to raise
funds to donate to various local,
national, and international
charities. A representative from
St Joseph’s Hospice visited the
school at the end of last year
to thank the students for their
tremendous efforts in fundraising.
To date, charitable activities at
Mossbourne have collected in
excess of £20,000 for the Hospice.
Other charities include Hackney
Winter Night Shelter, Prostate
Cancer, Namaste Children’s
Home in Nepal, Great Ormond
St Hospital, Crisis at Christmas,
and the Poppy Appeal. The
importance of this work by our
generous students is great, and I
hope to see this culture of giving
continue at Mossbourne.
As exams draw closer once again,
I would remind our students of
what can be achieved through
hard work, especially the kind of
focussed revision and practice
that takes place in the final
weeks. I encourage anyone
who is seeking motivation for
their studies to reflect upon the
successes of our students in the
past. Working with their teachers
and taking responsibility for their
own progress will bring our young
men and women the rewards
that will unlock the doors of
opportunity in the future.
I would like to use this occasion
to bring the key dates to your
attention, and to wish you all a
happy and productive term ahead.
Peter Hughes
Principal
Key Events and
Academic Calendar
SPRING TERM 2015
Start of Term
Monday 13th April 2015
Whole Staff Meeting
(Academy closes at
4.20pm)
Tuesday 14th April 2015
Mossbourne Parents'
Association meeting at
6.45pm
Wednesday 15th April
2015
Year 8 Parents’
Evening
Thursday 16th April 2015
SIXTH FORM
Saving a life
That was the primary purpose that led to the creation of the African
and Caribbean Leukaemia Trust (ACLT). The ACLT was co-founded by
Beverley De-Gale OBE and Orin Lewis OBE in 1996, after they received
the news that their six-year-old son Daniel De-Gale, had been diagnosed
with acute leukaemia.
Music Leaders' Concert Tuesday 21st April 2015
Year 10 Parents’
Evening
Thursday 23rd April 2015
Bank Holiday
Monday 4th May 2015
Year 11 GCSE Exams
Monday 11th May Monday 22nd June 2015
Year 13 GCE A/L
Exams
Monday 11th May Tuesday 23rd June 2015
Mossbourne Parents'
Association meeting at
6.45pm
Wednesday 13th May
2015
Half Term
Monday 25th to Friday
29th May 2015
Year 7 Exams
Monday 8th - Friday 12th
June 2015
Mossbourne Parents'
Association meeting at
6.45pm
Wednesday 10th June
2015
Years 8-10 Exams
Monday 22nd - Tuesday
30th June 2015
Year 11 Ball
Friday 26th June 2015
Summer Music Concert Thursday 2nd July 2015
(Young Mossician of
the Year)
PSHCE Day planning
(Academy closes at
2.30pm)
Friday 3rd July 2015
Sponsored Walk
Monday 6th July 2015
Year 12 Work
Experience
Monday 6th - Friday 17th
July 2015
Year 12 Sixth Form
Taster Days
Tuesday 7th - Wednesday
8th July 2015
Mossbourne Parents'
Association meeting at
6.45pm
Wednesday 8th July 2015
Year 6 Transition Day
Thursday 9 July 2015
th
PSHCE Day
Friday 10th July 2015
(Academy closes 3.25pm)
Year 7 Parents’
Evening
Tuesday 14th July 2015
Sports Day
Wednesday 15th July 2015
Whole School
Assembly
Friday 17th July 2015
End of Term
(Academy closes at
2.35pm)
Friday 17th July 2015
INSET Days
(Academy closed to
students)
Monday 20th Wednesday 22nd July
2015
AUTUMN TERM 2015
INSET Days
(Academy closed to
students)
Tuesday & Wednesday
1st & 2nd September
2015
Year 7 & 13 only Start
Thursday 3rd September
2015
Year 8, 9, 10 & 11 only
Start
Friday 4th September
2015
From left to right: Beverley De-Gale, Priscilla Dade (12 Pinter), Damla Denli (12
Berkoff), Taramon Yasmin (12 Hazlitt), Ayce Kurban (12 Berkoff), Zakee Abdi (12
Cavell), Qindan Wang (12 Hazlitt), Ms Igaba
Daniel’s only hope
of survival was
to receive a bone
marrow transplant;
bone marrow has
racially specific
characteristics, so
Daniel’s donor could
only be found from
the black or mixed
race population, of
which just 550 were
registered. In 1999,
after three years of
campaigning for
donors to come
forward and join the
bone marrow registry,
Daniel became the
first black person in
The donor registration drive was a huge success, signing up
132 new bone marrow donors
ACLT believe that
change comes from
the youth and with that
in mind, they enlisted
six Mossbourne Sixth
Form students
the UK (aged 12), to receive a life-saving
bone marrow transplant from an unrelated
donor. Daniel survived leukaemia and lived
for several more years but sadly, on the 8th
of October 2008, aged just 21, he died due
to other complications with his health.
However, the story did not end there. The
organisation lived up to its purpose as
ACLT continue with their life-saving work
of spreading awareness surrounding bone
marrow, blood and organ donation in the
hope of increasing the number of ethnic
minorities registered on the bone marrow,
blood and organ donor registers. ACLT
actually registers all ethnicities, including
white Northern Europeans, aged 16 to 55
years as bone marrow donors, with strong
emphasis on the black and minority ethnic
communities due to a lack of donors within
these communities.
ACLT believe that change comes from the
youth and with that in mind, they enlisted
six Mossbourne Sixth Form Student
Ambassadors to support their noble cause
of spreading the message and making a
difference. Through their work, students at
Mossbourne will come to understand that
fear of pain from a needle should not stop
you from saving someone’s life. With the
help of the ACLT the Student Ambassadors
organised and held a donor registration
drive at MCA which was a huge success,
signing up a total of 132 new potential
bone marrow donors, 32 signed up to
donate blood at a later date and 19 joined
the organ donor registry. Many students
and staff took away literature about
becoming blood and organ donors.
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Plum
prize
at the
Grocers'
Spotlight on our Head Girl
It’s not every day that
top executives, knights
of the realm, baronesses
and the Lord Mayor
gather to hear a bunch
of Sixth Formers
present their business
ideas.
Q.You joined Mossbourne in the Sixth Form. Why did
you decide to come here?
A.It was meeting the teachers who seemed so passionate
about their subjects, and I wasn’t used to seeing that!
So it was on a cold winter’s
night that The Grocer’s
Company Academy Awards
saw the gathering together
of the great and the good
to witness three academies
battling to win the prestigious
award for best business idea.
The teams’ brief was to launch
a service or product with a
(hypothetical) one million
pounds of equity that would
initially launch in the UK,
but have global potential.
The judging team, including
Baroness Martha Lane-Fox,
founder of Lastminute.
com, were to assess each
team’s idea in terms of
creativity, social impact and
profitability. Sitting amidst
the tinkle of wine glasses
and the glow of candlelight
we nervously listened to
the other two teams’, City
Academy, Southwark and
Chelsea Academy, present
their product. They both
seemed very confident; their
presentation slick and their
ideas inventive.
Q.Who would play you in the film of your life?
A.Oprah Winfrey.
Here we get to know our Head Girl, Jessica Olumide-Olanrewaju
(13 Wollstonecraft). She gives her thoughts on her role and some other things!
Q. What has been the highlight of your career as Head
Girl so far?
A.Organising the Angel Tree charity at Mossbourne. As a
Sixth Form we raised over 90 presents for disadvantaged
children last Christmas. What was great about this was
that the aim was to collect just 24 presents!
Q.What are you hoping to do after Mossbourne?
A. I hope to go on to study PPE at University. After I have
completed this my aim is to complete a Graduate Diploma
in Law (GDL) which will enable me to achieve my future
goals: to work with children’s rights and global economic
welfare within the United Nations.
Q. Who would you invite to your dream dinner party?
A. Plato, Malala Yousafzai, Nelson Mandela , Michael
Jackson and Tyler Perry.
I would invite these
people and more,
because by integrating
some of the greatest
people from the past,
present and future,
you are sure to be guaranteed an
experience which is TIMELESS.
Q. What is your desert island read?
A. Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak.
Q. What is your favourite film?
A.The Shawshank Redemption
Q. If you had one superpower what would it be?
A.Healing.
Q. How would you like to be remembered as Head
Girl?
A.Someone who cares more about the school community
than self-image.
Q.Tell us a joke
A.The only thing I use BING for is to search Google.
Teachers are humans too
In the second of our series of Teachers
Are Humans Too (TAHT), our Sixth Form
roving reporter Phoebe Levermore (13
Wollstonecraft) chats to music teacher
extraordinaire, Mr Samuel, who reveals
which piece of music he will take to a
desert island. As Phoebe says, “TAHT is an
insight into the lives of Mossbourne teachers,
because contrary to popular belief they don’t
live at school and do have lives outside of
teaching…”
From top to bottom:
The awards took place in the splendid
surroundings of Grocer’s Hall
The Mossbourne team had
The Lord Mayor of London presents
been expertly mentored in the
the team with the trophy
financial aspects of our idea by
a top executive at Santander
Grocer’s Academy Awards victorious
Bank and in the marketing
team: from left to right, Umar Hayat
aspects by the creative director
(12 Berkoff);
of advertising agency Bartle,
Rowen Goldman-Hudson
Bogle and Hegarty. When it
(12 Kingsley); Omar Adam (12 Morley);
came to our turn, this expert
Magnus Moore (12 Morley);
advice proved to be invaluable
Natalie Robinson (13 Kingsley);
and the presentation went
Lewis Stromberg (12 Caine)
without a hitch – unlike
the rehearsals. The judges
warmed to the Mossbourne product which was called ‘Findr’: wearable
technology that alerts the user to the location of lost items, particularly useful
for dementia sufferers. The slogan, ‘Never Lose Again’ certainly seemed to
resonate with the audience. However, we could not rest on our laurels as
some tough questions from the judges followed, which tested some of the
team’s strategic thinking and planning. At this stage we knew the result hung
in the balance.
A tense hiatus followed while the judges deliberated. The Master of the
Grocer’s Company then took to the stage to say the judges had found it very
hard, but in a closely fought contest Mossbourne had won the day. The Lord
Mayor presented the team with the beautiful silver camel, (emblem of the
Grocer’s Livery Company) and £5000 for the school. What an experience for
these budding entrepreneurs; they could certainly give Sir Alan Sugar a run
for their money.
I think Music and
Drama essentially
offer skills in a
more practical way,
over something like
Maths
Recently,
Ms Ball
enlightened
students with
an assembly
on the
importance of
the creative
arts, such as
Music and
Drama, and
how they can
forge new
pathways in our brains, opening us up to many new
ways of thinking. What was also made clear is that
performance arts are unequivocally cool, case in
point: Mr Samuel. For this edition of TAHT, we met
with Music teacher Mr Samuel for a Desert Island
Discs-style chat.
We jumped straight in: what is the importance, do
you think, of studying Music at school? Without
hesitation, he began. “I think Music and Drama
essentially offer skills in a more practical way, over
something like Maths. You learn how to work as a team,
as well as how to work independently. It encourages you
to use your initiative to improve something.”
Mr Samuel then steps into controversial territory:
the age-old argument of which is the hardest A-Level.
“I think it’s sensible to put a disclaimer in here, and
state that each subject undertaken at A-Level has unique
challenges and schools of thought, and all that jazz (pun
intended), though this is mostly so the likes of Dr Green
and other HODs don’t hunt me down with pitchforks
in hand, claiming that
their subject is, in fact,
the most challenging.
But, undeniably, Music
does provide you with
skills that can be applied
to so many areas of life,
and you might just end
up becoming a really
amazing musician in the
process.”
“Unlike a subject like
Maths,” he continues,
“where two plus two is
always four, in Music,
tastes may be different,
but it doesn’t mean one
of us is wrong. Unless
you like Nickelback, then
you’re wrong.” (Sorry,
guys, it’s true.)
Mr Samuels
Phoebe Levermore
As is the aim of TAHT,
we wanted to get to know Mr Samuel a little more.
What would be his first choice of music, if he
were stuck on an island that conveniently had a
record player? “Donna Summer, I Feel Love.” Being
(unfortunately) unaware of this particular track,
I had to look it up whilst writing this. I was not
disappointed. “It’s a song that transformed all pop
music after it, it was the first song to be completely
synthesised; it was completely ground-breaking.”
And let’s be honest, it’s the perfect song to keep
morale up once, after a few days, you begin fully to
comprehend what it means to be stranded, alone, on
a desert island. Seriously, it’s on Spotify, listen to it.
And what if food supplies begin to dwindle, winter’s
coming and all the dolphins have disappeared? “‘The
End is Nigh’ kind of thing? It would have to be Sarah
Brightman, Time to Say Goodbye.” Self-explanatory,
really. Definitely the kind of track you could see
over the final scene of a film where the protagonist
walks down a long road onto the horizon. Or over a
scene in a film where someone stranded on a desert
island has lost all hope and begins to say goodbye to
their new-found friends (rocks with eyes drawn on).
An excellent choice.
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Mossbourne Former students' Association
Where are they now?
Liam Downes (2004-11) is in his fourth year at Cambridge
University. For this final year he is studying Business
Management and hopes to become a management
consultant based in Germany, where he can utilise his
language skills.
Suhana Chowdhury (2012-14) is taking a gap year to
volunteer for the International Citizen Service and will
be travelling to Africa. In the autumn she will be studying
Geography with Economics.
Fiona Ibanichuka (2004-11) is living and working in
Switzerland. Recently graduating from Nottingham Trent
University with a degree in Biological Sciences, Fiona is now
Reviews Assistant for a leading science communication
publisher based in Lausanne.
Mark Keothavang (2004-11) After achieving an upper
second class degree in Marketing Management at
Staffordshire University, Mark spent some time as a tennis
coach before his present role as Marketing Assistant for the
Telegraph Media Group.
Check out the Mossbourne Former Students'
Association on:
Muberra Keven (2011-13) After a year studying Psychology
at the University of Hertfordshire, she realised it was not for
her, so decided to take a gap year. She has spread her wings,
starting her own web design and marketing business and
embarking on a course in photography.
Ted Levermore (2004-11) emailed saying ‘ I write from
our cabin on a massive Roman excavation site that doesn't
seem to want to let us finish in time (or within the budget!).
It would seem the life of an archaeologist is a varied (and
tiring) one to say the least’.
Yasmin Nartey (2005-12) is studying Politics and
International Studies at Warwick University. She says, ‘I
wanted to try new things so I took Arabic as an extended
part of my course which was challenging, but worth it in
the end. In my second year, living off-campus was a bit of
a shock but by that time I had established a good group of
friends and they were really encouraging. Now I’m in my
final year I’m excited about writing my dissertation as the
topic is something I'm really interested in. Studying and
@mca_alumni
MossbourneAlumni
living at Warwick has been quite a journey but I hope to end
up with a First and then continue to study for a Master’s
degree’.
Muna Nassrallah (2004-11) having graduated with a degree
in Psychology she has decided to take a gap year before
embarking on a PGCE course to become a teacher.
Ujan Ozbas (2005-12) is in his final year of his History of
Art degree at the Courtauld Institute of Art and is busy
writing his dissertation on Emoji.
Maya Welford (2012-14) is taking a gap year before she
starts university to study Psychology. This summer she
will be travelling to Sri Lanka to take part in a Psychology
placement where she will be working in different areas
including a psychiatric facility and a rehabilitation centre.
A backward glance
Willie Watkins, attended Hackney Downs
School (HDS) from 1953-1960 and is now
President of The Clove Club, their Old Boys’
Association, which was founded in 1884. He
reminisces about his time in HDS and the
amazing achievements of those once educated
on this very site. As one famous old boy, Sir
Michael Caine, would say. “Not a lot of people
know that.”
One of our old boys
developed the first anti-virus
software for computers,
while another became
commercial director of the
Intel Corporation
From the left, clockwise:
An aerial view of the old school taken in 1930
A class in 1908; the school was for boys only
Hackney Downs School, which existed on the
site before Mossbourne Academy was built
I am a former pupil of Hackney Downs School (formerly
The Grocers’ Company’s School) which stood on the site
for over a hundred years, until fate decreed that the School
should close and eventually be replaced by Mossbourne
Community Academy. Where now our magnificent semicircular, tiered Theatre, our convertible Gym and Swimming
Pool, the echoes of activity inside and outside of the School,
whether athletics practice in the “Front” playground, or
break-time football in the back?
They all exist in the collective memory of the “Old Boys”
(HDS was a boys only school!), collections of photographs,
and in the career successes of many who were educated
in this corner of Hackney Downs. Most readers will have
heard the name of Harold Pinter, the poet and playwright
of international fame, but not many will now remember
Sir Maurice Evans who was a celebrated Shakespearean
actor before World War Two. Sir Arthur Gold was a
famous administrator in Athletics and he lead the British
contingents to Mexico and Montreal in the 70s, while a
more recent pupil was Dalton Grant, the British High
Jumper and Olympic entrant whose career was sadly not to
be crowned with a gold medal, though he tried very hard and
was to be encouraged by Sir Arthur.
In the medical field we had Dr.Ralph Shackman, who was a
pioneer of Kidney Transplantation, and Dr. Josh Silver (once
Tutor for Admissions at Oxford University) who devised
the “Focussing Lens”, a system whereby the lens itself could
be manually focussed by the user and eyesight corrected
without the need for an optician. This is being developed
to make it so cheaply that it will revolutionise life for many
people in poorer countries at negligible cost.
One of our old boys developed the first anti-virus software
for computers, while another became commercial director
of the Intel Corporation; others became judges, senior
policemen and senior army commanders. One of our
number, Air Commodore Henry Jones, was the first official
historian of the RAF, and was instrumental in establishing
the Empire Training Schools in Canada and elsewhere
during World War Two. We even have an old boy, honoured
by the Russian Government, who helped them to reform
their penal code following the dissolution of the USSR
(not to mention Old Boys driving Armoured Cars in Russia
during WW1 on behalf of the Royal Navy, but that’s another
story)!
Of course, I could go on (and on and on!) extolling the
virtues of the successful Old Boys who hit the headlines and,
when re-discovered in our archives, the memory echoes of
yet another Old Boy who once memorably said “Not a lot of
people know that!” (Sir Michael Caine, HDS 1944-1945!).
Achievements in later life, at whatever level, need to be
shared. The Alumni can often tell you of the success
of someone you knew at school and you can bask in the
reflected glow – or perhaps you will be the achiever and
inspire those who follow you to emulate, or even exceed,
your example. One of our Headmasters memorably said
“Whilst we are proud of our successes in academic subjects
and sports, we also aim to turn out young men!” Today, of
course, he would have added “and women”. And today, as
well, we are already beginning to hear the names of former
pupils of MCA succeeding at university, and they continue
the traditions established in this corner of the Downs.
Please remember your old school, and help the school to
remember you!
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English
Studying World War One
poetry, Year 8 English
students were inspired to
write some of their own
poems. They all crafted
heartfelt verses describing
the pity of war. Hope
Ipoku (8 Marconi) wrote
this anguished poem How
They Had Us in response to
The Call by Jessie Pope.
MCAPA
Jean Ormerod-Kossoko (7 Moore)
was inspired by this term’s study of
Dylan Thomas’s and W.H. Auden’s
poems. The reference to Auden’s
Stop All the
Clocks is clear
in the fourth
stanza … And
the moon and
the sun...
Gratitude
What is gratitude? I bet you’d like to know.
You won’t find out until this poem tells
you so.
This poem tells you what I am grateful for.
Put them together, the definition should
hit top score!
How They Had Us
Prising us from our lives,
That’s how they had us.
Ducking us, the rest die,
That’s how they had us.
Getting down on our knees,
Praying ‘Oh God, please’
Some even took their lives with
ease.
That’s how they had us.
I’m grateful for all my every day objects.
A fire poker. A huge computer
And a lovely necklace made of pewter.
One should be grateful for life in general,
And science – making water, it’s definitely
a neutral.
Grateful for my fire that I must not touch!
And my early memories as such.
I’m grateful for my mother, so interested
in travel.
But enough small talk – let the plot
unravel.
Happy for a war,
That’s how they had us.
Hefting our naïve brothers out
the door,
That’s how they had us.
Watching friends die
Some tears came to eye
And we wondered why.
That’s how they had us.
I’m grateful for the universe. And the
moon and the sun.
And occasionally going out can be such
fun!
Grateful, having known that dog, Tilly
Sometimes in the swimming pool she was
rather silly.
She was great fun, but now she is dead.
I always think of her, even in bed.
Furious with the Government,
That’s how they had us.
Sealed with questions,
That’s how they had us.
To settle an idiotic feud
Their propaganda put us in the
mood
To fight and die crude,
That’s why they had us.
Two opposites: being grateful and indebted
One is good, the other is like being
dissected.
But the world is not grateful, what a
shame.
Are we destined to always be the same?
That’s all I have now on gratitude.
If you want to maintain it, control your
attitude.
School council
The school council weekly meetings are lively
times with students fizzing with new ideas for
school projects. Under the wise guidance of
Ms Afolayan the council is run independently
by student councillors who have implemented
some very positive changes to the school.
So far this year, the school council has negotiated for the
mezzanines to be used at lunchtime for Year 11 revision
and there have been changes in the lunch time menu
with a request for a pasta bar granted; pasta is now
always an additional choice with a meat or vegetarian stew. The use of the green
space at the back of the school came under discussion and is now open to Years 10
and 11 at lunchtime. Indeed the council have interesting ideas of opening up more
of the area at the back of the school for recreational purposes, so watch this space
–literally!
To find out more about the school council and their activities there are notices
and updates on the noticeboard by the front gate. School councillors are Halima
Mohamed (11 Milton), Rayanna Small-Robinson (11 Bannister), Aishat Azzan
(10 Moore), Justina Nwofor (10 Marconi), Abdul Ahad Mulla (9 Moore), Madina Safi
(9 Mandela), Jamal Sabrah (8 Bell), Aimee Buckingham (8 Milton).
Going, going ... gone
Siobhán Beatty, Chair of
the Mossbourne Academy
Parents’ Association, reports
on a successful new initiative
where the bidding is fierce
and the stakes are high.
Following on from the success
of last year’s inaugural event, we
held another Auction of Promises
in February. Once again parents
and local businesses ‘promised’ a
range of goods and services that
the Mossbourne community
was able to bid for online and at
auction night. This year we were
particularly delighted by the
number and array of promises
made by Mossbourne staff. The bidding was
fierce for the chance to be chauffeured by
Mr Hughes and the opportunity to have a
rowing lesson and meet an Olympic medallist
organized by the Director of Rowing at the
Academy. I am looking forward to my Arabic
lesson and brushing up my Spanish.
Auction night was an enjoyable albeit low
key event and we’d like to offer our heartfelt
thanks to everyone who contributed to its
success. We hope all bidders are pleased with
their promises. The loudest applause is for
Frances Shipsey who has not only spearheaded
the project again this year but was also the
auctioneer on the night. We are delighted to
report that we made an astonishing £1,520.
Our secondhand uniform sales are continuing
to grow in popularity. These are held at every
parents’ evening and are open to all, whether
or not it is your child’s parents’ evening.
Check the Mossbourne calendar for dates.
MCAPA invited staff to bid for funds for
special projects and after the success of the
auction we were able to support several great
initiatives. We shall be inviting further bids
in the summer term. MCAPA is also working
with the Student Council to discuss funding
for improving the playground and making it
an inviting space for all students.
Join Us
Being involved in MCAPA has helped many
of us forge new friendships, has allowed us to
feel part of the Academy community and has
generally just been great fun. We welcome all
parents so if you too would like to be part of
this expanding team, please email us or speak
to any of us wearing MCAPA name badges at
school events.
For up to date information on what we are up
to check out our Facebook page.
Happy Easter to you all and we hope to see
you next term at a meeting, a social evening or
a MCAPA event.
Sweet charity
Once again the pupils at MCA have worked hard to
raise funds to be donated to various local, national and
international charities. The decision of where to donate
was based on previous years, and also at the suggestion of
pupil representatives. It is worth saying that the school’s
donations to St Joseph’s Hospice have now exceeded an
astounding £20,000. A representative from the hospice
gave a presentation at the end of year assembly to thank
Mossbourne for all the work that they had done in order to
make such substantial donations.
It is anticipated that we will be involved in Red Nose Day and of course the annual
sponsored walk, where I hope last year’s total amount raised will be exceeded.
Recent donations have been made to these charities:
Hackney Winter Night Shelter
£1000
Prostate Cancer
£1000
St Joseph’s Hospice
£3000
Namaste Children’s Home Nepal
£1000
Great Ormond St Hospital
£2000
Crisis at Christmas
£300
Poppy Appeal
sealed collection containers
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SCIENCE
MATHS
Senior Maths Challenge
results
This year’s Senior Maths Challenge was a big success. On
November 26 students took part in the competition and 17
of those students received Bronze, Silver or Gold Awards.
The Best in Year Award for Year 12 went to Conall Hill (12
Kingsley). The Best in Year for Year 13 went to Elias KassellRaymond (13 Wollstonecraft) and Best in School went to
Nathan Creighton (9 Brunel).
Well done to all participants!
Gold
Elias Kassel-Raymond (13 Wollstonecraft)
Conall Hill (12 Kingsley)
Omar Adam (12 Morley)
Nathan Creighton (9 Brunel)
The Sun and Moon get into line at
Mossbourne
Mossbourne will be plunged into darkness by a near total eclipse on Friday 20th
March. At 9.30am 84% of the Sun will be covered by the Moon, as it transits across our
star, starting around 8.45am.
This is the first eclipse in the history of Mossbourne, with the last UK eclipse occurring back in 1999
before most of our students were even born. All students in science lessons will be going out to witness
this remarkable event using special safety glasses, as looking directly at the Sun can damage your eyes even
when it is mostly hidden.
What an amazing end to British Science Week.
Silent witness
The Biology students were treated to a taste of true forensic science with a visit from Dr. Stefano Casalotti,
a senior lecturer at the University of East London. He showed how it is possible to identify a person from
a few blood cells. He described how a forensic scientist must first copy the DNA and make a lot more of it.
This is done using a polymerase chain reaction (PCR). After this an individual’s DNA profile can be seen
using a technique called gel electrophoresis, and the identity is revealed.
Left to right: A DNA profile
Gel electrophoresis used in forensic science labs
Silver
Faiz Shaikh (13 Caine)
Gabriela Barzyk (13 Caine)
Lewis Stromberg (12 Caine)
Aeshah Rawat (12 Kingsley)
Kashif Ahmed (12 Wollstonecraft)
Bronze
Conor Kirby (13 Berkoff)
Sajid Hussain (13 Cavell)
Riccon Narine-Turnbull (12 Morley)
Mohammed Bangi (12 Caine)
Keiran Hylton (12 Hazlitt)
Tayib Hussain (12 Hazlitt)
Oliver Chen (12 Kingsley)
Joshua Ilelaboye (12 Pinter)
Maths puzzles
Year 7
At the Soft Boulder Café, each table has 3 legs,
each chair has 4 legs, and all the customers
and the 3 members of staff have 2 legs
each. There are 4 chairs at each table. At a
certain time, three-quarters of the chairs are
occupied by customers and there are 206
legs in the café. How many chairs does the
café have?
Year 8
In a 7-digit numerical code each group of 4
adjacent digits sum to 16, and each group of
5 adjacent digits adds to 19. What is the sum
of all 7 digits?
Year 9
Given any integer n, Paul adds together the
distinct factors of n, other than n itself.
Which of the numbers 1, 3, 5, 7 and 9 can
never be Paul’s answers?
Year 10 & 11
Let p and q be prime numbers with p + q = 2
and p greater than 3.
Prove that pq + 1 is divisible by 36.
123
4567
?
36
Submit your answer to Mr Mayhew in the Maths
office for the chance of winning a prize!
The Mossbournian | March 2015 | Page 7
LIBRARY
It’s been a busy term in the library. Here our librarian, Ms Myers, rounds up
the many book-related events of the past weeks.
National Short Story Week
To celebrate National Short Story Week the library ran a writing competition. It was a hard
decision to select the winner after all the wonderful stories I was privileged enough to read
from the pupils! But after much deliberation the winning story was written by Anh Nguyen (8
Milton). Her spooky horror story has been proudly displayed in the library for students to read
all term.
It’s wizard!
The first annual Harry Potter book night was celebrated around the
world on February 5th. To mark this auspicious event the Library
Monitors, as reward for all their hard work, were invited to an evening
of Hogwarts fun and prizes. The pupils were sorted into Hogwarts
houses, and took part in a very tricky quiz. Mossbourne’s biggest Harry
Potter fan, Maria Ossorio (8 Brunel), deservedly took the grand prize
answering all the questions correctly!
Boffin boy
Last term the Year 7s all chose a free book from the Bookbuzz
Book Trust scheme. The winner of the Bookbuzz mini-review
competition (launched in last term’s newsletter) was Ayomikun
Agbedun (7 Brunel) who wrote about his chosen Bookbuzz book
Boffin Boy Goes to Hollywood by David Orme. He was rewarded
with book vouchers to spend at Mossbourne’s annual Scholastic
World Book Day Fair. Here we can read the winning entry:
The book is super hero fiction and it’s about a super hero saving the
world. I liked the name of Boffin Boy’s rival, ‘Green Tights Man’,
because it is a very funny name. I also enjoyed the part when all the superheroes ran away! This
book is good because it can be recommended to people who are starting to read independently and it
is great fun and full of humour. Overall I’d recommend this book to a friend or my siblings because it
would make them laugh, I’m sure they’d like it!
Book marks
with style
To celebrate World Book Day the
library held a book mark design
competition. Some very creative
designs were submitted and three
students were grand prize winners!
Thyreece Williams (8 Bell), Jamal
Sabrah (8 Bell) and Sarah Biliutut
(7 Moore). The winning book
marks were printed and available
for students to take home from
the library, and the winners were
awarded with books, and goodie bags
including vouchers to spend at the
annual World Book Day book fair.
The fair itself was massively popular
with staff and students alike, and
raised a huge amount of money
for the library to spend on new
books. Thank you to everyone who
supported the fair.
Top: Reading is universal designed
Jamal Sabrah
Left: Brain is still hungry designed
by Sarah Biliutut
Right: You left off here designed by
Thyreece Williams
Religious Studies
It’s mental
Shabbat Shalom
Religious Studies students were
introduced to the power of the mind
when an ordained member of London’s
Buddhist centre carried out a workshop
on mindfulness and Meditation. This
coincided with a Year 8 unit of work
on ‘How Buddhists Worship’. Ligia de
Andrade Lima (8 Moore) reveals her
innermost thoughts.
Year 7 students have been studying Judaism and the
weekly festival of Shabbat. They have taken part in
shared meals together and discussed the idea of there
being a “compulsory day of rest each week”. What would
be the plus, minus and interesting aspects of this idea if
it was to become law?
Right: Practising the calming qualities of
meditation and mindfulness is not as easy as
it looks
Right: Year 7 students light candles and eat braided challah bread
to mark Shabbat
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Drama
Oh What a Lovely War!
The tragedy of World War was tackled with humour and heart in a
highly evocative production of Joan Littlewood’s ‘Oh What a Lovely
War’ at the Theatre Royal in Stratford. It was a great privilege for 75 A
level and GCSE Drama students to see this landmark of British theatre.
Our budding actors and directors were stunned by their first experience
of Brechtian theatre and by the plethora of theatrical techniques
employed by the cast.
Enriched by this experience, students have since incorporated some
of these techniques in their own pieces. These range from intricate
movement sequences overlaid with verbatim voiceovers, to hard-hitting
placards displaying racial stereotypes and pertinent social questions.
All told, the students were thoroughly inspired by this production and
pledged, as they waved ‘goodbye-ee’ to the bright lights of Stratford
East, to make visits to the theatre a regular occurrence.
Right: A lively performance of Oh What a Lovely War brought
inspiration to drama students and highlighted the tragedy of the Great
War
EMA
None
the wurst
A seviyeli öğrencileri kollarını sıvayıp
önlüklerini giyerek bilinçli bir şekilde
Güney Almanya yemeğini pişirmek için,
bayan Simpson ve yardımcı dil asistanı
Bayan Hausknecht’ın uzman yol gösterimi
altında oldukça ilham aldılar.
Ana yemek Şnitzel’di; ekmek parçacıkları ile kaplı
ince bir biftek, Magnus Moore (12 Morley) ve Paul
Akintan (12 Morley) tarafından hazırlandı ve buna
Laurence Maidment-Blundell (13 Hazlitt) ve Keiran
Hylton (12 Hazlitt) tarafından hazırlanan ‘Kässpätzle’
(mantı makarna ) eşlik etti. Tatlı Alman karnaval
zamanında yenilen tipik elma keki gibi ‘Apfelküchle’
(elmalı börek) Asha Seekings (12 Cavell) tarafından
pişirildi. Herkes Kässpätzle’i çok doyurucu buldu.
Un, yumurta ve sudan yapılan hamurlar kaynayan
suyun içerisine sıkıldı. Kaynadıktan sonra soğan
ve Emmenthal peyniri ile karıştırıldı. Keiran: ‘Ben
ve Laurence, kattığımız çaba ve işi düşünürsek,
hazırladığımız Spätzle tahmin etmediğimiz kadar
lezzetliydi. ‘Zor işti’! dedi.
Eğer bu Alman menüsü ağzınızı sulandırdıysa,
Camden Pasaj’ındaki ya da Portobello Market yakını
Golborne Yol’undaki Alman/Avusturya mutfağı
Kipferl Restoran’ı deneyin. Afiyet Olsun!
A Seviyesi öğrencileri geleneksel Alman
yemeklerindeki hünerlerini gösterdiler.
Word of the week
Haftanin keli̇mesi̇
The students in our school learn a word each
week. As teachers we encourage them to use the
word during that week in their verbal or written
responses at school.
Words that have been learnt so far
Şimdiye kadar öğ renilen kelimeler
Okulumuzdaki öğrenciler her hafta yeni bir
kelime öğrenmektedir. Öğretmenler olarak
öğrencilerimizi o hafta içerisinde bu kelimeyi,
okulda sözlü ya da yazılı olarak kullanmaya teşvik
ediyoruz.
Reticence
-(ağzını açmama, isteksiz)
isim
Introspective
-( içgözlemsel)
sıfat
Admonish
-(kibarca uyarmak)
Confidentiality -(gizlilik)
fiil
isim
Word of the
Week
Sustainable
-(sürekli, devamlı)
zarf
Epitome
-(mükemmel, ideal)
sıfat
Foreboding
-(önsezi, kötü birşeyin olacağını
önceden hissetme)
isim
Honning
-(daha iyi hale getirme)
isim
Imminent
-(yakında, an meselesi)
sıfat
Postulate
-(doğru varsaymak, farz etmek)
Concomitant
-(birbirine bağlı, beraberinde gelen)
sıfat
Chosen by Mr Hughes
Irrevocably
-(değiştirilemez bir şekilde, geri
alınamaz)
zarf
Colloquial
-(günlük konuşma dilinde)
sıfat
“With audacity one can undertake
anything, but not do everything.”
– Napoleon Bonaparte
Avarice
-(servet tutkusu)
isim
Noun
Juxtaposition
-(normalde birbirine yakınn
olmayacak şeylerin birarada
bulunması)
isim
Eeire
-(tuhaf, ürkütücü)
sıfat
A willingness to take bold risks.
“He whistled at the sheer
audacity of the plan”
Belligerent
-(kavgacı, dövüşken)
sıfat
Audacity
-(küstahlık)
isim
Permanence
-(istikrar, kalıcılık)
isim
Audacity
fiil
Rude or disrespectful behaviour
Weekly Literacy Focus 17:
Formal vocabulary
The Mossbournian | March 2015 | Page 9
HISTORY
Dulce et decorum est
Discovering the grave of a long-lost family member in a World War One
cemetery was a profound experience for Daniel Cumpstey (9 Bannister). Here
he describes a History trip which had great personal significance.
Driving through Belgium after embarking
from the ferry gave all of us history students
a real sense of the landscape where so many
World War One battles took place. Once we
had arrived in Ypres, we visited a preserved
trench which gave us an insight into the
terrible conditions the soldiers endured,
ducking in and out of dark trenches and
huddling together to avoid snipers.
Daniel Cumpstey lays a wreath to
remember the soldiers who died in World
War One
Our next stop was a German burial site where
over 4000 soldiers had been buried in one
mass grave. In contrast, most of the 2000
soldiers in the British cemetery had individual
graves although many of the grave stones were
blank.
The memorial for all soldiers who were
never found, the Menin Gate, had personal
significance for me as it was here on Panel 38
that I found the name of a long-lost family
member. His name was Harold Cumpstey.
I knew he was there as my Granddad had
discovered this previously, but it was still a
shock to see his name and I felt honoured
to be given the task of placing a memorial
wreath on behalf of the whole school.
This was such an interesting an eye-opening
trip, we learnt so much about the fighting
conditions, how bad the war was for both
sides and how much each sacrificed.
A survivor’s story
The Book Thief
We were extremely honoured
to welcome Holocaust survivor
Professor Yohanan Friedmann to
the school this term.
On Holocaust Memorial Day on 27th January Eri Okoye
(9 Mandela) reflected upon The Book Thief by Markus Zusak at
Hackney Town Hall. Here is what he said:
For so long we have focused on the
negative aspect of every disaster:
and how can we not? The disastrous
amount of lives lost, the devastating
amount of wreckage left behind and
the seemingly endless amount of
pain endured leaves a never ending
shadow in its wake. Whilst reading
The Book Thief, I was both terrified
and shocked by these ominous
themes.
Holocaust survivor, Yohanan Friedmann
As a scholar of Islamic Studies at the
Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Professor
Friedmann was on a research trip to
London; while here he found time to talk
to Year 11 about his childhood during
the Holocaust. Both staff and students
were extremely moved by Yohanan’s story
of imprisonment, and life and death in a
concentration camp in the latter part of
World War Two.
Yohanan sadly described how lucky he was
not to be sent to a labour camp with his
father, where he would surely have died.
Instead he was transported to a ‘show
camp’, Theresienstadt, with his mother.
This camp was created to reassure the Red
Cross that the Jews were being treated
well; Professor Friedmann described it as
‘The Ritz’ of all the camps. In this way, the
Nazis successfully fooled the international
community into thinking the Jews were
being well treated.
After the war his parents returned to
Slovakia before the family emigrated to
Israel in 1949.
The History Department and students
felt extremely privileged to hear his story
and we look forward to accepting his kind
offer to visit us again in September.
What most people take away from
the book are the abysmal acts
committed during the War and
Holocaust, and yes, the Nazis did
commit unforgiveable crimes, but
this isn’t what I take away from it.
I take away the fact that even in
such fearful times, people could
still find small fragments of joy and
love in even the most miniscule of
things, that on any other day, they’d
have taken for granted: Liesel, with
words; Max, with finding refuge
in basic human kindness and Rudy
with young naive love. Even the
fact that these people could wake
up knowing that their days would
only be pain filled, is to me, truly
inspiring.
The theme of today is keeping the
memory alive and after reflecting
on the book, I realized that each
character kept some small memory
alive. Liesel kept The Gravedigger’s
Handbook, and to her, this was her
own covert way of remembering
her late brother. Even Papa kept
the accordion to remember the man
who died for him.
By why keep memories of
suffering? Well the book has taught
me that memories of suffering are
the building blocks for humans.
There’s suffering right from page
one. Cold, hunger, guilt, both
physical and mental abuse all play
a huge part in the characters’ moral
views and this is strongly reflected
in real life. The book has taught
me that humans are contorted by
joy, as well as trepidation. It has
also taught me that the two words
aren’t necessarily antonyms. Joy can
be hiding in pain; you just have to
find it.
Finally, although you could never
even begin to imagine how the
Jewish people of the time must have
felt, the book has managed to give
me a small insight into how it may
have been to have to face such
levels of discrimination on a daily
basis, so with this quote from the
book, I leave you.
“Imagine smiling after a slap in
the face: then imagine doing it
24 hours a day.”
Reflecting upon the
Holocaust and the
lessons we can learn,
Eri Okoye talks about
The Book Thief and its
themes
A trip to the Menin Gate, a memorial to
honour World War One soldiers who were
never found, was a moving experience
Keeping the memory
alive
Holocaust Memorial Day was marked with a
poignant ceremony at Hackney Town Hall.
Luke Fisher (13 Caine) and Libby Chase (13
Pinter), following a visit to Auschwitz, were
invited to speak. Libby reports on a very
moving and thought-provoking occasion.
Luke Fisher and Libby Chase give a speech at Hackney
Town Hall in memory of Holocaust victims
Luke and I were asked to speak at The Hackney Town
Hall for Holocaust Memorial Day following our visit to
Auschwitz in November. The theme this year is ‘Keeping
the Memory Alive’, and as 2015 marks the 70-year
anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, it emphasizes
how it is more important than ever to remember the
Holocaust and its victims. A letter written by Zalman
Gradowski, a Jewish man forced to work in one of the
crematoriums, was found buried in the grounds nearby.
It reads:
Dear discoverer of these writings
I have a request of you: this is the real reason why I write,
that my doomed life may attain some meaning, that my
hellish days and hopeless tomorrows may find a purpose in
the future. I pass on to you only a small part of what took
place in the hell of Auschwitz Birkenau. It is for you to
comprehend the reality.
It is becoming less and less easy for those who were
there to tell their stories, so it falls upon our generation
to keep their stories and their legacies alive in people’s
memories. Auschwitz is one of the most important global
memorials to state-sponsored suffering, and a physical
reminder of what the misuse of power can lead to; it
highlights the importance of learning from the atrocities
of human history so that we are better equipped to
safeguard our future.
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MUSIC
A night to
remember
An excited bunch of music students
recently crossed London travelling with
Ms Black, Mr Samuel and Ms Ryan to
Blackheath Halls to watch the Trinity
Laban orchestra perform Symphony
No 5 by Beethoven. Mikael Choudhury
(10 Brunel) describes the
trip.
We all had a great time
travelling on the DLR on the
way to Blackheath. We laughed,
joked and marvelled at the
really tall, beautiful buildings
at Canary Wharf where all the
accountants and bankers work.
When we arrived at the venue
we were allowed to have our
snacks before we went into the
concert hall which was packed
out with people - most of them
old. The concert lasted for 50
Top to bottom: Zara Kholil discovers a double bass is not so
minutes. When the orchestra
different to a violin, it’s certainly bigger!
played we listened and observed
Music students were treated to a concert in the magnificent
all the musical features that we
surroundings of Blackheath Halls
have been learning about in our
music lessons. Our friend Zara
After the concert we made our way back home
Kholil (9 Bell) had the fabulous
and we got back to Hackney late in the evening,
opportunity to play on one of the orchestra’s big
exhausted but happy. We all want to thank Ms
double bass. It was so much fun and Zara really
Black, Mr Samuel and Ms Ryan for organising a
loved because it was similar but much bigger than
fun and educational trip.
her violin.
Musically gifted
Last term, we were overjoyed to receive a wonderful Bechstein concert grand piano
(that’s a big, beautiful and very high quality one, in case you are not familiar with
types of piano!).
The Little Shop of Horrors
At the end of last term, the Performing
Arts team rocked the auditorium with a
performance of the musical The Little Shop of
Horrors.
Maulick Bangura (9 Bronte) and Kenedy Small (11
Bannister) took the leading roles of Seymour and
Audrey, capturing the audience’s hearts as they found
true love. Terell Rowe (11 Bronte) impressed with
his fantastic Barry White vocals as the man-eating
plant, although it was ex-staff member Mr Kinnair who was dressed up inside
the enormous plant costume! Jonah Mendel (9 Milton) gave an outstanding
performance as the gas-loving, eccentric dentist, whilst Joe Davidson (11 Bell)
was outstanding as the ever-grumpy Mr Mushnik.
The street urchins sang gospel/rock songs in beautiful harmony and the
chorus, in their wonderful costumes, sang and danced with gusto. The band
provided the backbone of the production and, led by Ms Black, worked really
hard and sounded truly professional. Enjoyed by all, this lively musical was a
tremendous showcase for Mossbourne’s Drama and Music department, who
were extremely proud of all who took part.
What a performance
Music Specialist students from MCA were invited to attend a
London Schools Symphony Orchestra (LSSO) concert at the
Barbican. The performance included Grieg’s Piano Concerto
and Rachmaninov Symphony No. 2. It was particularly special
for us as two of our own students, Matteo Walls (9 Bronte) and
Valentina Walls (8 Mandela) are members of this orchestra.
Fummi Ajayi-Ogunya (10 Bronte) describes how she felt
watching this performance.
Watching the LSSO at the Barbican was amazing; to see such young
performers play such complicated pieces just blew me away. I specifically liked
the piano solo due to the exaggeration in the performance and the fact that the
boy who was playing was so ‘into it’. It was as if no one else was in the hall just
himself. I want to thank Ms Ryan, Ms Black and Mr Samuel for giving us this
opportunity to be able to see this performance and I hope in future we will be
able to see performances like this again.
What is more, the piano was a gift from the extraordinarily generous pianist, Roselyn Walter and her
husband Ralph. Roselyn is moving back to South Africa and, having heard of how we value music, felt
that her beloved piano would be put to productive and worthy use in Mossbourne.
She is so right! The piano has a lovely tone and has been very well looked after. We are honoured and
grateful that our pupils now have the chance to play on such a splendid instrument. All the pianists
in the school are gradually being
invited to play it – everyone has
come out glowing! One pupil told
me, “It’s wonderful! It makes you
feel you can really soar.”
We look forward to showing it off
in future concerts in its new home
in the auditorium. Thank you so
very much to the Walter family who
have made this possible.
A concert at the Barbican was a real delight for Music Specialist students
It's showtime!
In an outstanding concert this term, Year 11
Music students performed in ensembles as
part of their GCSE coursework.
There was a huge variety of musical genres performed, including classical
music by Corelli and Dvorak, Jazz numbers such as Freddie Freeloader (Miles
Davies) and A Night in Tunisia (Dizzie Gillespie) through to pop classics
including Killing me Softly (Roberta Flack), Just the Two of Us (Bill Withers) and
I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Whitney Houston).
All of the students showed off their hard work from the previous five weeks, as
they worked together to showcase their talents. Congratulations to them all!
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MCA students tackle
global crises
Gifted & Talented
An early start did not dampen the ardour of the
debates in this term’s Model United Nations
Summit. Avalon Hale Thompson (11 Milton) and
Ben Willis (11 Brunel) tell of the tragedies and
triumphs of international affairs.
Future Cambridge applicants are pictured in the quad of Emmanuel College, Cambridge
University challenge
A group of our Gifted and Talented students
were the beneficiaries of a scheme initiated
by Cambridge University. This insight
programme is specifically designed to stretch
and challenge the most able students, while
motivating them to think about the realities
of life and study at Cambridge. Abolaji Oshun
(10 Marconi) reports on a stimulating day.
After an hour long journey from London to Cambridge
we were immediately greeted by current student
ambassadors, who humorously named themselves
‘Cambassadors.’ The morning then continued with a quiz
which aimed to test our general knowledge and see if we
knew any of the University’s celebrity alumni.
We then had an informative lecture by two alumni
students about university life. They gave us information
about lectures and seminars as well as telling us about
the 750 societies they offer. After a busy morning we
were shown to Emmanuel College’s restaurant, which
did not disappoint either!
The afternoon started with a tour of Emmanuel College,
where we saw student accommodation, lecture halls,
the library and the seminar rooms. We were pleasantly
surprised at the size of the rooms and the facilities there.
A debating contest followed this with the motion ‘All
students’ degrees should relate to their career paths’.
Mossbourne showed the ability to articulate arguments
better than the other schools there and we easily won
this contest.
After the ‘high’ of winning we were excited about the
last part of the day, with two taster lectures by PhD
students. The first lecture was on human dissection and
archaeology where we learnt how you could tell what
instruments doctors used in the last 300 years. The next
was by an eccentric who demonstrated his passion for
Assyrian history. His detailed knowledge of the period
was incredible, as was his desire to learn more.
Overall it was a thoroughly enjoyable experience and has
given all the students the motivation to try to get into a
top university, hopefully Cambridge.
A bridge to success
When a group of Year 10 students were
invited to Cambridge University they had to
revise some of their long-held opinions about
this ancient seat of learning. Mohammed
Munye-Abrar (10 Mandela) and Abdurrahim
Lorgat (10 Milton) found it hard to conceal
their surprise.
It is a firmly held belief that Cambridge University is
an exclusive institution; membership is hereditary. It is
the supreme example of elitism. So what a shock it was
to learn that a group of us from Mossbourne had been
selected to participate in Cambridge’s Black, Asian and
Minor Ethnicities (BAME) programme.
The programme is designed to give children attending
state schools a chance to see the magic of Cambridge
education in action. The first session introduced us to
the university and also to other students from different
schools around the country, from such far-flung
places as Birmingham and Manchester. On this day
we were treated to taster lectures so we could sample
the different courses that Cambridge has to offer with
subject categories alternating between scientific subjects
and the arts. The day also involved a Psychology lecture
on predicting behaviour.
Our second visit focused more on science as we tackled
the on-going and extremely controversial debate
about Arctic exploration for oil. The activities that day
included a trip to Cambridge’s Polar Museum and a
lecture from a senior professor whose life-long research
was relevant to the debate on whether to drill or not. We
were then split into groups to debate the motion, ‘This
house would support oil drilling in the Arctic region’.
Afterwards, we could safely say that our knowledge
about this heated debate profoundly broadened.
These visits have been informative and great fun and
we gained a rare insight into the lives of Cambridge
students. Our old prejudices were unfounded,
Cambridge is a place for people from all backgrounds
and walks of life. This truly is an extremely helpful
programme; bringing together ethnic minorities to
form a community with a shared vision and sense of
belonging.
Resolutions were fiercely debated at the recent UN Model
United Nations Summit
Wake up - 6 am - February – Saturday - School. Words you
pray never to be associated with one another. Arriving at the
school gates at 6.45 am armed with weeks of research on our
chosen country and topic, we were as prepared for a Model
United Nations summit as we’d ever be. Once we had arrived
at the John Warner School at 9 am we all dispersed into our
committees for some ‘intense lobbying’.
Allocated to the Ecology and Environment committee with Joe
Davidson (11 Bell), we anxiously opened a classroom door and
we were delighted to find 30 or so other delegates, all looking
equally nervous. Soon, with lobbying well under way, the
apprehension had burned off in the heat of the debate and was
replaced with excitement. It became easy to raise our placards
and make a ‘point of information’ (ask a question) or a ‘motion
to pass the point as a friendly amendment’; picking up the
jargon seemed the least of our worries. The debates were of an
excellent standard
and addressed
topics ranging from
The debates
the issue of finite
materials to the role
culminated with the
of religious law, to
General Assembly,
the relationship
between the
where members of all
Republic of Korea
and the Democratic
committees sat with their
People’s Republic
country’s full delegation
of Korea.
The debates
culminated with the General Assembly, where members of
all committees sat with their country’s full delegation and
debated the best resolutions from the committees. One of these
was mine (Ben’s), on the role of UN peacekeepers. The debate
was fierce, with Sweden’s continued attempts to derail my
resolution. However it was eventually passed by a resounding
majority, with a rousing speech from my ally, Chad.
The day ended soon after with an awards ceremony in which
Ben Willis (11 Brunel) was awarded a distinguished delegate
award for the Political Committee, Sam Willis (12 Morley)
was awarded the distinguished delegate award for the Security
Council, and Russia as a delegation was commended for its
contribution to debate. Putin would be proud. So, ultimately a
successful day of Model UN-ing! Thanks to Ms Martin-Smith
for all her guidance.
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MFL
Rosetta Stone
The Academy encourages all
students and staff to become
multilingual so sign up to the
acclaimed language learning
programme Rosetta Stone and
learn a language. Don’t forget you
can access Rosetta Stone from
home. Here’s how:
Accessing Rosetta Stone from
home
• Go to the Mossbourne website and under the link ‘About Mossbourne’ you will find a link to ‘Rosetta
Stone’. Click on the yellow box and this will take you to the Mossbourne Rosetta Stone site.
• Username: firstname.lastname (all lower case) For example: john.smith
• Password: rosetta
• On an ipad, iphone or android, you need to download the Rosetta Stone app and select the ‘Education
and enterprise’ login option first. You will be then be asked for your username and password (as
above) and the portal name, which is: mossbourne.
• You will then be given some options. Please select ‘Launch Rosetta Stone’. From here, you choose the
language you would like to study and the level of difficulty. (It is advisable to start from level one and
work your way up in order to get used to the programme)
• Each time you log in, you can select a specific skill you would like to work on and your progress will be
saved for the next time you log on.
Please use the programme for at least one hour per week in order to gain maximum benefit from the
acclaimed Rosetta Stone language learning approach.
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Design & Tech
Designer of the term
Amy Paterson (13 Berkoff)
has been selected as our
‘designer of the term’.
Amy has been working very
independently on her project
which she has been developing
since January. She has given
herself a very tricky challenge
to design a creative solution to
aid children who are physically
impaired and find holding a
pencil difficult. After completing
carefully carried out research,
the product has been developed
through drawing and making
models. Watch this space to see
the exciting results next term!
Paul Akintan and Magnus Moore prepare the Schnitzel
None the wurst
Preparing a traditional southern
German meal was quite a revelation
for A-Level students, who donned
their aprons to cook up a storm
under the expert guidance of Ms
Simpson and language assistant Ms
Hausknecht.
The Spätzle that we
made was surprisingly
delicious; it ought to
have been considering
the amount of work
and effort Laurence
and I put into it!
The main dish was Schnitzel, a thin steak
surrounded by breadcrumbs, made by
Magnus Moore (12 Morley) and Paul
Akintan (12 Morley). This was accompanied
by Kässpätzle cooked by Laurence MaidmentBlundell (13 Hazlitt) and Keiran Hylton (12
Hazlitt). Dessert was Apfelküchle, made by Asha Seekings (12 Cavell), which is a kind of
apple cake typically eaten in the German carnival season. Everyone found the Kässpätzle
very filling. It is made from a flour, egg and water dough which is then squeezed into
boiling water. Once boiled it is mixed with onions and Emmenthal cheese. Keiran states:
“The Spätzle that we made was surprisingly delicious; it ought to have been considering
the amount of work and effort Laurence and I put into it. #Nothingbutgraft.”!
If this has whetted your appetite for German cuisine try out the German/Austrian Kipferl
restaurants in Camden Passage or Golborne Road near Portobello Market.
Guten Appetit!
A-Level students try their hands at cooking traditional German fare
Above: Amy Paterson using the
wood lathe to make the first
phase of her final prototype
Seeing the light
Our Year 10 GCSE groups have been learning Resistant Materials theory
through the physical act of making. Of course, if you make something
you are bound to remember what to do next time, and the proof is in the
pudding - or in this case, in the lamp.
Students were asked to make these lamps using a series of processes which they had not used
before. Using only three different materials, they were able to concentrate on learning new
skills without the (potentially stressful) task of actually designing the lamp. What excellent
results we had! Now they are ready to design their own projects; with some theory already
covered, we are expecting great results next year.
Students made
these lamps to
learn more about
resistant materials
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We’re going downhill
The Rowing Academy
Above: The conditions were perfect in Italy for skiing
The Mossbournian Ski Trip this February half term to Falcade, Italy
was a huge success with perfect snow and weather. Imogen Hathaway
(9 Marconi), Lucienne Jacobs (9 Moore) and Cameron McAdie
(11 Milton) describe the best of times.
William Manning, Head Rowing Coach at Princeton University, meets top rowers Kesiah
Roe (12 Cavell), Jucha Willers Moore (13 Berkoff) and Elias Raymond Kassell
(13 Wollstonecraft)
Pathway across the Pond
Mossbourne Academy Rowing Club was recently paid a visit by a
representative from Princeton University. William Manning, Head Coach of
the prestigious Princeton Rowing Squad, travelled to Hackney Downs in the
light of our high profile successes this season.
A British record, a European Open medal and a string of Great Britain hopefuls justified the
Head Coach’s trip from Princeton, New Jersey. Manning knows what it takes to make it to the
very top as a rower. He spent sixteen years at Harvard University coaching the sport and also
worked with the US Olympic crew for Athens 2004 before moving to Princeton University last
year. “I came over here to find out all about the rowing programme Mossbourne offer, and how
they have managed the success they have in such a short space of time. What some of these guys
have achieved is phenomenal.”
On the slopes with Mr Farley and the half term skiiers
Every morning we awoke in our hotel room to the sound of Mr Kliber and Mr Austin
pounding relentlessly on our door and, after a quick breakfast of warm bread rolls
and jam, we would head for the slopes. The weather was not only gorgeous but we
also had great instructors who, despite the slight language barrier, managed to help us
become better skiers, and share a laugh or two on the way.
Wilma, one of the group’s instructors, knew the standard to which we could all ski
and gave us every opportunity to excel, as well as giving us the chance to try more
difficult slopes, if we felt comfortable doing so. There were several occasions where
members of the group collided, which only added to the laughter in the ski sessions.
Occasionally we would turn around to find Myron, engulfed in snow with his skis
nowhere to be seen, rolling around making strange wailing/laughing noises, or
Lucienne shouting words of apology as she uncontrollably whizzed in front of us.
Luckily, despite the numerous falls, no one came back from the trip with more than a
bruise or two!
Throughout the week, as we progressed in our lessons with our helpful, yet fierce,
Italian instructors, our skiing skills began to improve. Falling over every minute
became falling every hour by Wednesday. Every morning we would learn a new skill.
Every afternoon we would ski down a new slope and feel free from the crazy world
surrounding us. Every evening we would return to the hotel feeling as though we had
achieved something, as well as feeling pain in our hamstrings, shins and calves.
In the evening, after our meal, we would have our après ski activity, such as a visit to
an ice rink. On our last night at the hotel we had a karaoke/disco night. This was the
best night of the week. The karaoke was followed by several dance battles between
the PE teachers…and horrific dancing from some
(no names... *cough* Mr Kliber *cough*), although
Ms White and Ms McWilliams restored the staff’s
dignity.
The journey home was a lot more restful and quiet
than the journey there and we couldn’t wait to get
home to our own beds. Arriving back at Mossbourne
and seeing our parents waving at the school gate,
gave us a twinge of regret as this was the
end of one the best experiences we have
ever had. We skied, socialised, learned un
pò di Italiano, and so much more. We’re
certainly coming next year; it was worth
every penny.
The possibility of studying and rowing in the States, often with a full scholarship, is an
exciting opportunity that could await current students at Mossbourne Rowing Academy. These
scholarships are awarded based on a range of criteria which can include rowing ability, academic
ability or even family income. The Princeton coach went on to say, “The reason for my visit
was to make these children aware that the opportunity to come to America is a real possibility.
Britain have a great reputation for producing the best rowers in the world, and it's refreshing to
see a school from Hackney build a bridge, allowing these students to access what is an expensive
sport. The opportunity they provide is outstanding and I'm confident it won't be long before a
Mossbournian will be racing for the Princeton Tigers in a big Ivy League rowing meet.”
Matt Paul, Head Coach, said, “It was great to meet Bill, an experienced coach who has worked
with some of the best athletes in the world, and fantastic that he complimented our students
on the quality of their rowing.” Mossbourne’s programme has already provided students with a
platform for success, with Olu Olatunde gaining a place to study and row at the University of
North Carolina last year. There is also the possibility of more students rowing in the states next
year, with Washington University, a powerhouse in US rowing, meeting another rower from
Mossbourne later next month.
Some of the successes within the programme in recent times include a British record. Sam Nunn
who has been rowing for three years with Mossbourne, holds the indoor British record and
recently travelled to the European Open held in Holland. Competing in the Under-23 category
at just 18, Sam claimed the silver medal just 2 seconds behind first place.
If you are interested in finding out more about the rowing academy, visit our website at http://
www.mossbourne.hackney.sch.uk/
Rowers, Elias Raymond Kassell (13 Wollstonecraft), Abdul Ibitoye (12 Pinter) and Oliver
Chen (12 Kingsley) give our American visitor a tour of the school
The Mossbournian | March 2015 | Page 15
PE BOYS
Football
Athletics
Year 7 football
Year 10 football
The Year 7s have continued their excellent
start to their Mossbourne football
careers. Despite their middling position
in the League table, the squad have really
developed in terms of depth and flexibility.
New players have started to carve their
niche within the team with established
players proving their worth. The boys
are still striving to improve their League
position as we head into the last three
weeks of the season.
The Year 10 team has had its best season
since starting the school. They have
worked well as a team, particularly
when defending. Their resilience and
determination have meant they have
stood their ground in games and scored
goals on the counter attack. Other schools
have been astonished with the pace of
the Mossbourne forwards’ attack and
this has led to some fantastic goals being
scored. With a range of Goal of the
Season candidates, Jaydon Gilbert (10
Bannister) has to come out on top with an
unbelievable strike from 40 yards into the
top corner of the net.
In cup competitions the team have
shown their best form, particularly
in the National Cup. Some excellent
performances led them into the last 32
in the country before a difficult loss to
Oxford Academy on penalties. The team
are still in the London Cup where they are
in the last 16, awaiting their next fixture
in March as they look to bring some much
deserved silverware to Mossbourne in
their first year.
This particular year group have five
representatives in the Hackney district
team: Nahum Melvin Lambert
(7 Milton), Harvey Mesaki (7 Banister),
Sacrario Waugh (7 Bell), Michael Suli (7
Bannister) and Sonny McLean (7 Bell) all
representing the district and performing at
a high level.
Year 8 football
The Year 8 team have continued their
fine run of form in the Hackney League
and are now unbeaten in their last eight
matches. There have been some excellent
performances in these games, particularly
from Akan George (8 Bronte) in goal who
has made some fantastic saves this year to
keep a number of clean sheets.
The team are still in the quarter final of
the Inner London Cup and are due to play
City of London Boys School in March, the
school who defeated them at this stage last
year. As the team are playing so well, we
hope for victory this year.
Harrison McGullicuddy (8 Bell) has
also been recognised for his excellent
performances by being offered a 6-week
trial at Fulham FC. We wish Harrison the
best of luck in this trial and hope he scores
goals for Fulham, as he has done on so
many occasions for Mossbourne.
Year 9 football
The Year 9 boys have had their strongest
League campaign to date this term, and sit
third in the table. Alfie Kingsley Smith (9
Moore) and Jonah Mendal (9 Milton) are
having particularly good seasons, so much
so that they have represented the Year 10s
on a couple of occasions, a testament to
their footballing abilities. It is very rare for
students to represent older age groups and
this should be commended. Divorne Daley
(9 Bell), Jayden Silcott Brown (9 Brunel)
and Alex Forbs Da Costa (9 Mandela)
remain the goal scoring threats. A quarter
final against Cardinal Pole awaits the boys
in the coming weeks, as they strive to
reach the last four in the London cup.
Unfortunately the boys have been knocked
out of the cups this year, narrowly losing
on penalties against a strong Evelyn Grace
side. It was an excellent performance by
the team, particularly in the absence of
their inspirational captain, Fionn Glancy
(10 Bronte), who the PE department wish
a speedy recovery from another leg injury.
Fastest boy in the
country
Myron Rhule-Alexander (9
Bell) won Gold and Silver at
the South of England Indoor
Championships back in January.
He won a Gold medal in the 200
metres, for which he now tops
the UK rankings and a Silver
medal in the 60 metres, where
he is 2nd in the rankings. His
coach has said he is training
very hard and will hopefully be
even faster when it comes to
sports day.
Myron Rhule-Alexander tops
the UK rankings for the 200
metres
Year 11 football
The Year 11s have continued their fine
form this year and await a quarter final
clash with Crown Woods in the London
Cup. The highlights of the season for the
Under 16s remains a nail-biting win over
local rivals City Academy, where a number
of the boys faced good friends in what was
a fiercely competitive affair. When City
took the lead after 10 minutes, it looked
as if Mossbourne would find it difficult
to overcome the deficit as City dominated
possession. A tactical masterstroke from
Mr Kliber ensued and Mossbourne were
asked to press the ball higher up the pitch,
with Jordan Lema (9 Brunel) orchestrating
this from centre midfield, whilst Kye
Mitchell (11 Bronte) and Victory Akam
(10 Mandela) led from the front. This
disrupted City’s rhythm and Mossbourne
quickly levelled after a fine cross from
Josh Edwards (11 Bronte) allowed Victory
to bravely beat the keeper to make it 1-1.
As penalties loomed, Emanuel Seriki (11
Moore) got on the end of a George Pearson
(11 Mandela) corner and allowed Kye
Mitchell to pounce and give Mossbourne
the lead, which proved too much for City
as the game finished 2-1.
Nile Mckenzie takes the lead in the Islington Running League (Years 9-10 event)
Cross country
Islington Running
League
Luca Minale (8 Moore)
maintained his 100 per
cent record in the Years 7-8
boys’ category with a fourth
successive win in Monday’s
race around Emirates Stadium,
with Nile McKenzie (10 Moore)
matching that achievement
in the Years 9-10 event. Luca
completed three laps of the
stadium in a time of seven
minutes and 38 seconds,
Luca Minale maintains his unbeaten record in the
consigning a Highbury Grove
Islington Running League (Boys’ Year 7-8 category)
student to the runners-up spot
for the fourth time this season.
It means that both boys will
hold on to their respective individual titles
National Championship
when the League resumes in March and they
are both determined to take this excellent
The National Cross country championship
form into the track season. Another
was held at Parliament Hill on Saturday
Mossbourne student, Harrison Elles (8
21st February and Luca Minale performed
Moore), took third place with a time of eight
exceptionally well, achieving 13th place
minutes and 3 seconds.
which was fantastic in a field of nearly
400 competitors battling in the Under13
In the Years 9-10 race, McKenzie (seven
age group in very tough conditions. Luca
minutes and 21 seconds) held off a fast run
was very pleased with this result, as he also
from a St Aloysius student to beat him by 2
beat many athletes who had bested him in
seconds.
previous races.
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PE GIRLS
Netball
Under 14 (years 8 and 9)
It has been another exciting and successful term
for sport at Mossbourne Academy.
Both the Year 8 and Years 10 and 11 Girls’ netball
teams entered the New Year unbeaten in all their
matches since the start of the Hackney Netball
League back in September. This currently puts
them first in the League, an incredible feat of
which they should all be very proud. The results
are below, along with ‘Player of the Match’
allocations. The Year 9 Netball team had a good
start to the netball season, winning most of their
League games.
Year 8
League matches played to date
League matches played to date
Mossbourne
Player of the match
Bishop Challoner
Won 16-0 Sienna Nava (8 Milton)
Bride Central
Foundation
Won 22-2 Condoleezza Al-Smith
(8 Brunel)
Eastlea Mossbourne Won 4-2
Under 16
League matches played to date
Mossbourne
Player of the match
Bishop Challoner
Won 21-3 Fllanza Rexhepi
(11 Brunel)
Bride Central
Foundation
Won 19-1 Fllanza Rexhepi
(11 Brunel)
Eastlea Mossbourne Drew 3-3
Mossbourne
Maddie Coode (9 Bronte)
Player of the match
Kenedy Small
(11 Bannister)
Bride Academy
Won 32-3 Sienna Nava (8 Milton)
Emerson Park
Won 19-5 Janai Wilson (11 Bell)
Stoke Newington
Won 17-3 Maddie Coode (9 Bronte)
Brampton Manor
Drew 16-5 Janai Wilson (11 Bell)
Cardinal Pole
Won 14-1 Maddie Coode (9 Bronte)
Clapton Girls
Won 14-9 Condoleezza Al-Smith
(8 Brunel)
Petchey Academy
Won 25-1 Maddie Coode (9 Bronte)
Hackney New
School
Won 25-1 Condoleezza Al-Smith
(8 Brunel)
League matches left to play
Mossbourne
Player of the match
Our Lady’s
to be played on 12/3/2015
City Academy
to be played on 17/3/2015
Skinners Academy
to be played on 19/3/2015
Haggerston
date to be confirmed
Years 10 and 11
With an invitation from Jennette
Arnold of the London Assembly four
Sixth Form girls travelled to City Hall
to mark International Women’s Day.
Gabriela Barzyk (13 Caine) reports on
an inspiring evening.
It was a spectacular
event with splendid
views of London
and some thoughtprovoking talks. This
is particularly true of
the speech delivered
by a Female Genital
Mutilation survivor
from Sierra Leone
who told of the brutality she and the female
members of her family had endured; we were
left in no doubt that this wicked practice
should be stamped out .
Lighter aspects of the evening came courtesy
of a couple of amazing musical performances
and the opportunity to mingle with many
powerful and influential women, including
Girl Guiders!
Under 9
League matches played to date
Mossbourne
Cardinal Pole
Won
Bride
Won
Stoke Newington
1 point loss
City
1 point loss
League matches left to play
Mossbourne
Skinners’ Academy
Mossbourne
Our Lady’s Convent
Mossbourne
Haggerston
Sixth Form girls meet Jennette Arnold at
City Hall to mark International Women’s
Day
League matches played to date
Mossbourne
International
Women’s Day
Player of the match
Bride Academy
Won 7-5
Kenedy Small
(11 Bannister)
Stoke Newington
Won 7-3
Kenedy Small
(11 Bannister) and Levi
Eziekel (11 Milton)
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League matches left to play
Mossbourne
Player of the match
Skinners Academy
to be played on 5/3/2015
Our Lady’s
to be played on 12/3/2015
City Academy
to be played on 26/3/2015
Haggerston
date to be confirmed
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