At the end of November, we represented Presdales School and travelled to Germany to take part in a seminar with students and teachers from all over England and Germany. We worked together to understand our cultural differences and build up long lasting friendships in our respective countries.
The British Council organised 24 schools (12 English and 12 German) to work together for 4 days, staying together in a youth hostel in Duisburg. We took part in many icebreaker activities which helped us build our confidence and social skills. On the second day, we went to the ‘Gymnasium am Neandertal’ in the small town of Erkrath with Anne and Raik (the two students representing their school). All the children were excited to see us and we got asked lots of questions about our lives and life in England. We were shown a lot of hospitality by all the staff and students. We met with the headteacher, Herr Gruttmann and two of the teachers who teach English at the school to discuss what it would mean to partner with the school. After having a tour, we spent break time exchanging numbers, taking photos and chatting with the children. Once we had returned to the youth hostel for lunch, we played more icebreaker games with both German and English students. In the evening we played football in the sports hall. On the third day, we went on a trip to the Düsseldorf Christmas markets with Anne and Raik. Together we ate German food and bought souvenirs for ourselves and our families. We got back to the hostel and played more sports. Exhausted, we all went to bed. The next day we met with our partner schools to construct a presentation about our hopes for the future of an exchange. We used the last of our free time saying goodbye to the German students and spending what time we could with the English students.
This trip has been a huge success. We found an amazing partner school and we look forward to a full partnership, exchanging cards, letters and emails, doing projects together and reciprocal exchange visits with the school in the future.
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Adelaide Peart and Rhianna Venables (Year 9)
The Year 10 GCSE Music students held their annual tea-time recital on Thursday 5th December. It was a well-attended event, with parents and teachers enjoying some fantastic music and wonderful homemade cakes – which has always proved to be a winning combination! The students delighted us with a variety of pieces, with many of them switching between multiple instruments. The pupils’ versatility and professionalism shone through – well done to all those involved.
Congratulations to the following students on their recent instrumental examinations:
Esme Sabin – LCM Pop Vocals Grade 4 – Distinction
Olivia Hankin – LCM Pop Vocals Grade 5 – Pass
Juliette McKenna – LCM Musical Theatre Singing Grade 6 – Distinction
Ruby Morgan – Voice Grade 5 – Merit
Presdales Music department hope that you can join us for our annual Carol Service at St Mary’s Church, Ware on Wednesday 18th December at 6pm. As well as joining in with the traditional hymns, you can hear some festive favourites from the Orchestra, Recorder Group, Hand Chimes, Bella Voce Choir, Junior Choir and the Presdales Staff Choir.
There will be refreshments and mince pies available after the event (which should last roughly an hour). No tickets necessary, just turn up with your best singing voices and Christmas cheer.
Well done to the U13 girls who played in the county table tennis finals last week. The girls came 3rd in their pool so unfortunately didn’t get to the finals, but they played excellently against some tough competition!
Congratulations to the U16 table tennis team who came 5th in their County Tournament. Star Player was Charlotte Slack!
A huge well done to the Year 7 netballers who played amazingly last week in freezing conditions! The red team came 3rd out of 7 teams in their tournament and the blue team came 1st out of 7 teams in their tournament – winning all their games. Congratulations girls! Star player for the red team was Darcie Docker and Beth Botheras was star player for the blue team.
Well done to the U14 Badminton team who came 6th at the County Finals. Some tough competition but the girls did amazingly well!
Congratulations to the U16 Badminton team who came an impressive 3rd at the County Finals last week!
Last week we had 2 mixed Year 7 teams playing in a mini Round Robin 8-a-side football tournament at Haileybury.
Presdales won the tournament, with 4 wins and 2 draws. Our girls played some lovely football. The matches were played in a good spirit against competitive Haileybury teams. Well done girls!
The results were as follows:-
Team 1
Drew 0-0 Won 1-0 Won 3-0
Team 2
Won 1-0 Won 1-0 Drew 0-0
Scorers were Eva D, Darcy C, Maia K x 2, Georgiana F x 2.
This week the U14 football team played Stoke Newington School in Hackney and, unfortunately, they lost 0-1 in the first round of the Sisters in Sport National Cup Competition. However, the girls are to be commended; they never stopped trying, but just couldn’t fashion an equaliser despite dominating most of the second half. Stoke Newington defended very well and made it difficult for our forwards with several good blocks from our shots on goal. At the other end, Eva Cullen played brilliantly throughout and made one particularly outstanding save to keep the score at 0-1!
Defensively, Presdales showed great determination and largely managed to contain the threat of their no9 who was exceptionally good. Hannah and Ella deserve special mention for the way they defended against her. We threw the kitchen sink at Stoke Newington in the last 15 minutes moving Ella from Centre Half to Centre Forward, and it (very nearly) paid dividends…! Unlucky girls – a great overall team performance, however. Star Players were Eva Cullen and Ella Richardson.
Well done to the U12 basketball team who came 3rd in their pool at the County Final. They were all fantastic!!
Also, well done to the U14 Basketball team who came 3rd in their pool this week at the County Basketball competition. Well played!
Sienna-Rose White (Year 9) and Lucy Dell (Year 10) have both successfully auditioned and been selected to represent Team England in the Dance World Cup taking place in Rome in 2020. To qualify you have to be in the top 3 in the country in your chosen genre picked via video audition. Sienna and Lucy will be part of a Street Dance Group and are both very excited for this opportunity to represent Team England! Good luck girls, we can’t wait to hear how you get on.
Alice Lynn and Martha Ker (both Year 7) recently represented Hertfordshire in their first hockey tournament against Essex/Cambridgeshire/Bedfordshire! Well done girls.
Phoebe Prentice (Year 7) and Erin Taylor (Year 8) recently competed at The Winter Wonderland Cheer Competition at the Five Lakes Resort, Colchester, for Herts Allstars in the new team ‘Senior Passion’. After performing amazing stunts, they came a fantastic 3rd. Amazing result! Congratulations to you both and your team!
Jasmine Braddock (Year 8) competed for Herts Allstars at Future Cheer Winter Wonderland 2019 with her 2 teams, Herts RE1GN and Herts Intensity, who both came 1st. RE1GN also won Grand Champions and got the highest score of the whole competition. An amazing first competition for Herts Allstars on their road to Summit 2020! Well done, Jasmine.
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