MBHS NEWS
Autumn Term
Newsletter
Mr Hemingway’s Welcome...
I have to be honest, I didn‟t
much like school as a teenager.
Or, would it be more accurate to
say, I didn‟t like the school I
attended.
It was brand new, large (around
2000 pupils) and more than a
little frightening!
With the exception of the Art
teacher, who became a good
friend, the majority of the teaching staff didn‟t know who I was
and had little time for me
(particularly as I was no good at
football!)
It was only when I became a
teacher, while I waited to be
discovered as an artist, that I
became aware that relationships are at the heart of a good
education.
So, what has this got to do with
Market Bosworth High School in
2012? Well, it‟s simple. I would
have loved to have attended
this school as a teenager. It is
happy, safe and fun. It provides
challenging and supportive environments for staff and pupils.
But more than anything, it is a
school where the individual
counts.
I hope that this revised newsletter will pass on a flavor of what I
proudly describe as the best
school in the county!
John Hemingway
Principal
The Science of Sound
Across the world pupils sat eagerly awaiting a momentous
occasion - no, not the moon
landings! Hooked up to the internet, in classrooms everywhere, pupils got to witness the
very first live Science lesson
online.
The lesson was streamed live
from The Royal Albert Hall on
Wednesday 11th October and
lasted 15 minutes covering the
science of sound. The lesson
was taken by TV presenters
Dallas Campbell and Dr Yan
Wong from „Bang Goes the
Theory‟.
Pupils were able to ask questions via twitter and during the
lesson two questions were answered by the presenters. One
of these questions was submitted by Ava Sjoberg in year 9
asking „Can sound warm things
up?‟. Pupils in year 9 watched
the lesson during their own Science lessons and really enjoyed
the way corn flour danced on
the loudspeaker from the vibrations and that sound could shatter glass. It was a perfect opportunity to extend their learning in
an interactive way.
What’s been happening...
Howling Halloween and Musical Magnificence
2
Fantastic Fundraising for Children in Need
2
11-16 and Name Change Update
3
Sporting Successes
3
Movember, National Skills Show and Ex-Pupil Success
4
PSA, New Faces and WW1 Day
5
Photos and French puzzle
6
WW1 History Day with Andrew Spooner for
Year 9 students—see page 5
Open mornings for Year 6s to look around
Year 7s take a trip to Kenilworth castle
Movie Makers film at Belgrave Hall for their
latest film project
Halloween disco—see page 2 for details!
Children in Need—see page 2 for details!
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Howling Halloween
Through the dim, flickering
candle light the ghouls and
ghosts, vampires and witches, zombies and skeletons
crept and crawled out of
their graves and hovels into
MBHS for a fiendish Halloween disco.
The disco, on Friday 2nd
November, was for our Year
7 pupils and they did not
disappoint. The costumes
were terrifying, the dancing
devilish and the competitions electrifying!
The disco was held in the
canteen and drama studio,
both suitably decked out in
cobwebs, bats, skeletons
and pumpkins.
Whilst the spooky tunes of
„Thriller‟ and „The Monster
Mash‟ emanated from the
drama studio disco room,
many of the undead creatures competed at apple
bobbing, flour bobbing,
mummifying Mr Khan,
twister and stick the nose
on the witch. As well as
having a great time covering
each other in flour and toilet
tissue mummy bandages
the undead enjoyed chomping on hot dogs, sweets and
crisps and slurping down
vile-looking, taste bud tingling punch!
There were also competitions for the best costumes,
the best dancing and the
best pumpkin carving.
With teachers dressed to
scare (a knife wielding
ghost face, several witches,
a mad scientist, a killer
zombie convict, a zombie
woman and several skeletons) and the screams and
shouts of fear and glee
ebbing away, the disco,
organized by The PSA, was
a complete success with the
Year 7 pupils having a fantastic time. One pupil, Tom
Miles, said „I love it. I want
to come again next year!‟
Fantastic Fundraising for Children in Need
The
amazing
running
total so far
is £2003
Each year Children In Need is a
day set aside for charity; fundraising designed to help children in
need of support, care and rest
bite. Schools work with children
from all walks of life, all backgrounds and the varying difficulties these may give. Market Bosworth High School is no different,
but on Friday 16th November they
excelled in showing what support
and caring really is.
around the school with everybody
enjoying the wide range of fundraisAll pupils and staff were invited to ing opportunities. Although the fundwear non-uniform or fancy dress
raising lasted for just over an hour
for a small donation. There was a during lunchtime, everybody got
multitude of outfits based on the
involved with selling, challenging,
pyjama theme, from animal
buying, competing, supporting and
„onesies‟, to spotty and stripy,
laughing. Miss Burton said “It was a
even the staff got involved with
truly successful day with all pupils
The Hulk making a very special
and many staff entering into the spirit
appearance! The Year 7s took
of the day. The pupils were excelcontrol of organising the fundrais- lently behaved and have produced
ing, with help from enthusiastic
some thought-provoking and sensiOur amazing pupils put on a
students from Years 8 and 9, and tive work as a result of the day. It
spectacular array of activities and Mrs Warner. There were cake
has made me immensely proud to
stalls to raise a fantastic amount sales, celebrity horse racing, blind- work at MBHS.”
of money to support Children In
folded tasting, ice cream floats,
Need. Despite the current ecoPlayStation challenges, timed
Gone are the days of guessing how
nomic climate with many feeling rowing, penalty shootouts, choco- many sweets are in a jar (although
the squeeze, the total currently
late kebabs, tombola, nail painting, that was on offer for all the sweet
stands at just over £2000, an
the curiously titled „cup of surpris- lovers!) Here stands a student body
amazing tribute to the pupils who es‟ and much more; all to the
pushing their imagination, thinking
want to make a difference to
sound of various buskers showoutside the box and being innovative
those less fortunate than themcasing the excellent talent the
to help support a fantastic cause.
selves by creating a fun and ex- pupils have.
Mr Khan has compiled a Youtube video of
citing day, and the support from
some of the highlights: www.youtube.com/
The atmosphere was buzzing all
parents and carers.
watch?v=PAI_6kts9M
Musical Magnificence
On Monday 12th November, parents, staff
and pupils came together to appreciate the
musical magnificence of some of the most
talented pupils at Market Bosworth.
Performances included „Super Trooper‟,
„Can You Feel The Love Tonight‟, „Valerie‟,
„Greensleeves‟, „Skyfall‟ and „Theme From
William Tell‟.
The evening was a spectacular display of
singing and musical performance from
pupils across all three years.
With such talent on display a huge well
done needs to go out to the performers and
Miss Britten for their hard work and dedication.
There were original arrangements by pupils themselves, as well as a range of clas- Performers: Will Beckwith-Chandler, Andrew Goodrich, Georgia Woodcock, Susical and more modern pieces.
sanna Densham, Natalka Smaditch, Emily
Beckwith-Chandler, Alice Lyon, Megan
Wright, Katie Halloran, Jake Skemp, Ellie
Davies, Asha Singh, Grace Abrahart, Shania Singh, Sam Lovett, Josh Blewitt, Josh
Cartwright, Sophie Wilkins, Abby Kelwin,
Georgia Phillips, Tess Grewcock, Evie
Pearce, Jake Daniel, and Ben Hughes.
The evening was enjoyed by all who attended and Miss Burton, Head of Expressive Arts, spoke of how proud she was of
the pupils showcasing their extraordinary
talents.
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Sporting Success!
Young Sports Leader
Award 2012/13
After reading through nearly
45 applications for this
year‟s young sports leader
award the final decision on
the successful candidates
has been made.
Massive congratulations go
to:
MATT FIELD, ASHLEY
KIRK, HARRY MOIR, CAMERON COLLINS, MACH
MOORE, BEN HUGHES,
CIARAN GRIMMER, BEN
WOOLLEY, JACOB BAILEY, ADAM PETTITT,
CHARLIE BRAMBLE,
CHLOE FARRINGTON,
FREYA HOLT, GEORGIA
WOODCOCK, GEORGIE
HASLAM, NADIA SMART,
JASMINE TOWERSEY,
EMILY CZECHOWSKI,
NIAMH HARRIMAN, FIONA
KINNIS, EMMA KELWIN,
EMILA BURGIN, SUSANNA
DENSHAM.
Tag Rugby Festival Success
Market Bosworth High School
hosted the first of their 10 feeder primary school sports festivals for 2012/13 on Wednesday
10th October, with over 140
children from Congerstone,
Sheepy Magna, Barlestone,
Witherley, Newbold Verdon and
Desford participating in a Year 5
and 6 Tag Rugby Festival. The
whole day was a fantastic success with a double victory for
Congerstone, who were
crowned Year 5 and Year 6 Tag
Rugby Champions. Children
from all schools had a thoroughly enjoyable day with an excellent standard of rugby being
displayed by all players. Special thanks go to David Fitt and
Luke Green for helping referee
during the day and to all of our
Year 9 Sports Leaders Morgan
Lock, Kai Tunnicliffe, Jacob
Bailey, Harry Moir, Ashley Kirk,
Rian Carrington, Ciaran
All pupils have made a fantastic effort to outline their
skills, qualities and reasons
for wanting to be a sports
leader within the application
process and they have all
been a pleasure to read.
Unfortunately spaces are
limited and only 22 pupils
were able to be chosen. All
pupils that applied deserve
a big well done as they
have made my job very
hard with such high quality
applications.
Grimmer and Matt Field for all
their hard work and mature attitude throughout the day. Head of
PE Matt Stubbs was impressed by
the standard of rugby on show
and looks forward to working with
the pupils in the future.
11-16 Update
Over the last year developments in the educational system in Leicestershire have taken a
swift and dramatic turn.
In May, MBHS became
an Academy. Although
this has had little impact
on the day-to-day running of the school it has
opened opportunities for
taking the school into a
new era.
Until recently, Leicestershire has had an unusual
educational system in
that pupils transfer to a
high school (11-14) and
then onto an upper
school or college to complete their GCSEs and A
-Levels.
are now working hard to
create a challenging,
comprehensive, innovative curriculum.
As you may be aware,
MBHS has finally received confirmation that
we can become an 1116 GCSE school as of
September 2014.
This is an exciting time
for all at MBHS and staff
This is a great
We will be working on
producing an outline of
what this curriculum may
look like and will continue to update you of our
progression on this as
soon as possible.
opportunity to
We would like to thank
you for your continued
support during this very
exciting time.
their GCSEs
continue to
encourage
success for all
our pupils in
The Market Bosworth School
Over the past decade Market
Bosworth High School has
been named several things:
Market Bosworth High School
and Community College, Market Bosworth High School - A
Specialist Sports College.
Bosworth School. We will
also be changing our logo to
the one pictured left.
Our uniform will remain the
same except we will be
phasing out our current
school jumper and labeled
uniform over the next few
As Market Bosworth High
School enters a new, exciting months so when you order
era it seems like a perfect time new uniform it will have our
new name and logo feato consider a name change
tured on it.
that reflects our 11-16 status.
It has been decided that as of Our current uniform will still
be perfectly acceptable and
January 2013 the school will
now be known as The Market there is no need to buy new
uniform especially for this change.
Some of you may have noticed
that our school website has
been unavailable recently. This
is due to the previous Leicestershire County provider
(EMBC) being replaced. We
are now working with a new
website company and will
hopefully have the site up and
running soon. There will also
be a new website address,
www.tmbs.leics.sch.uk to reflect our new school name.
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Movember!
Movember has been
sweeping Market Bosworth
High School! The annual
charity event that lasts for
the whole of November
sees men around the world
attempting to grown a
moustache in support of
men‟s general health, specifically men suffering from
prostate and testicular cancer.
It began in Melbourne and
is now a global movement
so far raising over £79.3
million with over 854,000
Mo Bros (male members)
and Mo Sistas (female
members).
Many male members of
staff at MBHS have spent
their Movember shampooing, scratching, nurturing
their „tashes in the hope that
they would not let their Mo
Bros down. Mr Modha, Mr
Croucher, Mr Beckitt, Mr
Turnell, Mr Taylor-Gorringe,
Mr Khan, Mr Black, Mr
Stubbs, Mr Hemingway, Mr
Slack, Mr Rowland, and Mr
Lockley have all been sporting some of the most impressive „tashes seen in
Bosworth for a long time!
„tashes hoping that the Mo
Bros persevere!
There has been a raffle for
staff, sponsorship and mini
moustached gingerbread
men available to raise money for such a fantastic
cause. In total over £260
has been raised, a fantastic
tribute to the staff.
Disappointingly, however,
as December begins there
are little or no remnants of
the moustaches to be seen!
The Mo Sistas have been
providing positive encouragement for these fantastic
The National Skills Show
The National
Skills Show
provides
‘hands on’,
inspirational
access to
future career
choices.
On Friday 16th November, a
group of Year 9 pupils visited
The National Skills Show at the
NEC in Birmingham with
Mrs Wood,
Gifted and
Talented Cooriginator.
The show is
designed to
inspire visitors
whilst thinking about skills and
the world of work. Skills competitions, awards and activities
are all aimed to bring skills to
life and change the way people
think about skills, training and
apprenticeships.
The show provided a huge
range of „hands on‟ activities
for our pupils to try. This included
practical skills such as building,
car maintenance, gardening,
hairdressing, beauty
therapy and catering,
as well as computer
aided design, aircraft
simulation, robotics,
medical technology
and animal care.
bility. It was a trip that helped inspire
and interest the pupils in terms of
considering their future career choices.
Everybody involved
had the opportunity to
experience the skills and activities
that they wanted so that they
could get the most from the visit.
The pupils agreed it was a stimulating and fun visit rating it a 4 out
of 5!
The vast range of activities on
offer was seen as a strength, as
was the organisation and accessi-
The only weakness seen by the
pupils was the massive queues for
activities, with The National Skills
Show being incredibly popular. Their
advice - get there early!
Ex-Pupil’s Success!
At MBHS we are always delighted
to hear how our former pupils are
doing once they have grown up.
We take a great interest and pride
in how our pupils develop into
young adults.
On the 24th November Miss Collinson attended a regatta at Bosworth Water Park. There she
bumped into a past pupil of MBHS
working as the head chef. Miss
Collinson says:
I was pleasantly surprised to see
an ex pupil from MBHS behind the carvery and in the role of head chef.
I spoke with him after the ceremony and
he reminded me that he attended MBHS
between 2003 and 2006.
After attending Ashby College he began
working at The Curzon Arms in
Twycross. Whilst working full time in the
kitchen there Ryan studied for his Level
2 NVQ in Catering. This involved being
assessed frequently by outside assessors. He then went on to study for his
Level 3 NVQ at Loughborough College
whilst working part time.
I asked him if Food Technology at MBHS
had inspired him and he said „I remember
making things like oat cookies and lasagna and taking those recipes home to
adapt them and make them my own.‟
It is fantastic to hear how successful our
ex-pupils have become and it makes us
proud that his inspiration began here at
MBHS!
Look out for Ryan at Café Kouts at Bosworth Water Park.
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PSA—Christmas Light Switch On
The Market Bosworth
PSA have been working
hard to raise funds for
the pupils at Market Bosworth High School.
Some of their initiatives
have included the Year 7
Halloween Disco and the
sale of stationary and
equipment for life at
MBHS. The aim of the
PSA is to raise money
for the benefit of the pupils at MBHS. This might
take the form of new
equipment, trips, activities and suchlike that the
school budget may not
be able to allow for.
ing from 5pm.
On Thursday 6th December Market Bosworth
held their annual Christmas light switch on and
late night shopping.
The evening, despite
being very cold, was an
incredible success with
both the tombola and
donations for car
parking raising
an impressive
£755 for the
PSA.
In support of this the
PSA held a stall in the
square with a tombola
where adults could win a
bottle of something tasty,
and children could win a
delicious chocolate prize.
They also be opened the
school‟s car parks for
parking during the even-
We would like
to thank everyone who donated prizes for
the tombola or
came along and
supported us!
New Faces
This year we have had a record
number of new faces join us at
MBHS. Over the next few newsletters we will be introducing you
to some of those new staff members.
port both Leicester City and
Leicester Tigers and I go and
watch matches. I also like to
go to concerts.‟
Finally we have Peter
Croucher.
First up is Zoe Comelio. „I was at
college before coming to this job
and I feel very fortunate to be
working in such a lovely place.‟
Zoe is working in the main office.
„Before returning home to
the UK I was living and working in Switzerland for an
International School/Centre
that ran as a ski/snowboard
As well as Zoe we have Jane Bee school during the 5 months of
winter and as a language/
our new finance officer.
outdoor adventure centre
„Before joining Market Bosworth
during the summer months.
High School I worked in a very
Therefore I love snow sports
busy primary school office. I sup- and adventure activity and
have basic skills in speaking
French. As well as my passion for the outdoors and
extreme sports I am a musician and have played the
guitar for 20 years. As a
result working with young
people for the majority of
my working life I have decided that I want to become
a teacher. Now working for
Market Bosworth High
School as a Classroom
Cover Supervisor I am hoping to be able to pursue this
career sooner than later.
Year 9 WW1 Day
Andrew Spooner of Skylark Battlefields Tours
visited the school in October and gave a presentation to the whole of
year 9 about the life of
the soldier during the
First World War.
Pupils got to hear accounts of day to day
existence of the
„Tommies‟ in their
trenches as well as han-
dling and seeing various
pieces of equipment and
weapons demonstrated.
In the afternoon Andrew
did a hands on session
for some gifted and talented students including
other artefacts and original letters that are too
delicate to be used by
large groups.
The interest in the First
World War is quite re-
markable and it seems
to capture the imagination more than any
other conflict of modern times. We will be
running a trip to the
battlefields again in
March 2013 for Year
9s to really visualise
the battles.
Zoe Comelio
Peter Croucher
Market Bosworth High School
Back Lane
Station Road
Market Bosworth
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01455 290251
Find the underlined words:
le gui
Joyeux Noël
un cadeau
un ruban
Père Noël
le Réveillon
la neige
un jouet
décembre
la fête de Noël
la veille de Noël
l’hiver
un bonhomme de neige
Castles of the Term
As part of their Humanities Homework for half term year 7 students
were invited to
design and construct a castle
based on their knowledge of castle
defences and their trip to Kenilworth Castle. There were many
wonderful designs and several
proved very tasty too. Many thanks
to parents who helped their sons
and daughters in kitchens and
sheds. We had a great time in our
first lesson back after half term
admiring and eating castles.
une chandelle
Noël
Père Fouettard
la crèche
un flocon de neige
le sapin