Huge congratulations to Molly Seymour in Year 8 who won the 100 yard Freestyle Championship!
Well done to the 32 students who participated in our language exchange with Spellian. This year we continued our partnership with Liceo Ancina in Italy and began new connections with students IES Severo Ochoa in Spain and Gymnasium Holzkirchen in Germany.
Spellian conversations are done from home, by video conference, using the Spellian online platform. Each conversation lasts around 30 minutes, with half of the time spent speaking in Italian and half in English. The programme provides an excellent opportunity for students to strengthen their listening and speaking skills and boost their confidence in speaking a foreign language in a relaxed and friendly atmosphere. Many of our students have formed real friendships with their partners and discovered lots of interesting details about life in Italy, Spain and Germany. Video calls with people we don’t know can be intimidating and we are very proud of the resilience shown by the students who took part.
We will be launching Spellian 2023-24 again in September to MFL students in Year 10 upwards and we strongly encourage students to take part (it even counts towards the Skills section for the Duke of Edinburgh Award!).
Mrs Evenden
Year 7 Victrix Ludorum
Daisy Goodwin – 1st in High Jump and equalled the school record, 1st in 200m and broken the record
Year 8 Victrix Ludorum
Florrie Pidduck – 1st in 800m and broken the record
Amy Little – 1st in high jump and broken the record
Year 9 Victrix Ludorum
Rosie Bentley – 1st in high jump and set a new record of 1.49m
Year 10 Victrix Ludorum
Lucy White – 1st place and new record in triple jump which stood since 2012
Beth Botheras – 1st place and new record in 300m which stood since 2010
Year 12 Victrix Ludorum
Jess Downing – new record in discus and the 300m
Other records broken:
Josh White (Year 12) – high jump which is now 1.76m!!
Ollie Hobdell (Year 12) – 1500m
Tobeya Ikeyina (Year 12) – shot
Josh Hole (Year 12) – 200m
Jack Markham (Year 12) – Javelin
George Reilly (Year 12) – 800m
Teah Gregory (Year 10) – high jump
Martha Ker (Year 10) – 800m
For the second year running, a Presdales student has been celebrated at the British Council ‘Celebrate Speaking!’ event.
‘Celebrate speaking!’ is a festival of languages in education and community through speaking and performance. Students were encouraged to prepare and recite a poem in the language they are studying. The committee were impressed with the Russian submission by Nicol Coman in Year 9 entitled ‘Autumn in rowan beads’ and invited her to perform it at the live event on Thursday 4th May. Mrs Willett and Nicol enjoyed a variety of performances in over 15 languages and lots of the students talked about words they enjoy saying in their foreign languages. Nicol presented her work proudly and professionally.
Well done Nicol!
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