At Presdales we want to celebrate all the cultures and nationalities within our school community. With this in mind at the start of December we held an International Breakfast. 16 students from across different year groups met for Breakfast and found out some interests they have in common, as well as what languages they all speak. We hope that this will grow into something that will make all our students more aware of the international side of Presdales. We invite interested students to join the International Presdales google classroom where they can put ideas down for future International themed events: https://classroom.google.com/c/NTc0OTk4OTcyOTQx?cjc=gkatopn
On Saturday 26th November the Year 12 Bar Mock Trial team was at Snaresbrook Crown Court competing in the Outer London regional heat of the Bar Mock Trial. After a long and exciting day the team ran out winners of the heat and have now qualified for the national finals where they will compete against schools from all round the UK at the Royal Courts of Justice in London at the end of March.
The members of the team are: Adesola, Sophie, Francesca, Yu Qiong, Zoe, Matilda, Jasmine, Rebecca, Seren, Ruby, Kim, Calum, Evelyn
Last week Year 11 Russian took part in the International Spelling Bee with our partner school in Yakutsk (https://arctic-school.com/en/home/). Mrs Willett was proud of all of Year 11 for being willing to try something new. Congratulations in particular to Venus Sahan and Daisy Reid for making it to the second round and very well done to Esme Sabin as the overall winner. Our students were surprised to find out that whilst we were in lesson 1, the students in Siberia had finished school and also that it was -40 there! We heard a performance of the traditional local instrument called a khomus and found out a bit about each other’s hobbies.
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On Tuesday 31st October Year 8 students participated in a virtual STEM morning. Through a live stream students meet Engineers. The students were given two Challenges. Working to a tight deadline, students built an Eco Factory Roller Loader, this was a marble run to safely move a product from A to B, the slower the better. Well done to the winning group, Jemima, Kennedy, Liv, Millie, Charlotte and Emily. The second challenge was called BEST Pitch, teams had to brainstorm and come up with an idea for an invention or piece of tech, and then present their ideas to the others in their form group. The winning idea was a Colour Changing Radiator. Excellent work by Mia, Gabby, Mia, Sienna R and Sienna Musk.
“I really enjoyed the virtual steam week video call because it was fun and gave a lot of inspiration to do a stem involved job. My favourite part is when we had to make a marble take the longest to touch the floor whilst moving. Overall, it was a great experience and recommend it for future years”. Amelie Langford
Medical Mavericks
On Wednesday Medical Mavericks spent time with Year 9, they explored different professions in the NHS and had a chance to try out a range of medical equipment.
• Ultrasound
• Pulse Doppler
• Keyhole Surgery
• Blood vessels infrared Vein scanner
• Recording an ECG
• Exploring the eye
• Hearing
• Reflexes
What the students had to say:
‘I really enjoyed Medical Mavericks. It was really fun and exciting to learn about what practice is like with different professions. I love learning about the less well known jobs. The activities were interesting, I especially enjoyed the drunk goggles and looking at growth plates to see if I was going to grow taller. Great experience.’ Athene 9IS
‘I loved the Medical Mavericks lesson. I really enjoyed being able to use all the equipment that would actually be used in a hospital.’
‘The Medical Mavericks was an interesting experience. It allowed us to do things with proper/ modified medical equipment. I enjoyed doing keyhole surgery. Drawing blood was definitely the worst, it was difficult. I was the session had been longer!’ Cecilia 9IS
‘I really enjoyed Medical Mavericks, as it gave us a taster activity into what the different Jobs are in the NHS. I think it was really cool how they can tell if we will grow taller or not. That was my favourite.’ Marlee 9IS
Dr Tina Chowdhury
On Thursday morning Dr Tina Chowdhury came in and talked to students in the Upper School about her research and work in Bioengineering. Dr Chowdhury works with a cross-disciplinary research team at Queen Mary’s. Her work looks into preterm premature rupture of the fetal membrane. Her team are working hard to find solutions and also investigating the possible cause, including black carbon particles (from pollution) and their presence in the fetus.
Green Engineering
Simon Green and Chelsie Graffato gave a presentation to Year 10 about Green Building Design. Simon is a local Green Building Design consultant. They shared the experiences with the students, describing the different areas of building service engineering, the skills required and the pathways into engineering.
Presdales Dance evening 2022 took place last Wednesday and Thursday and this years’ theme was ‘Musicals’. All solos, duets and group dances were choreographed by the students themselves who put on a very impressive show. Each year groups’ dance club routines were choreographed by our dance leaders who worked extremely hard to choreograph such fantastic dances in and around their GCSE and A Level studies since September and have been committed to running numerous practices to ensure the dances were ready on time. Well done and huge thank you to Jessica Downing, Seren Miller, Kaia Reynolds, Emily Fitzgerald, Sienna Akore, Ellie Carter, India Elkes and Lydia Botting.
There were also several people behind the scenes who the show couldn’t have happened without. Thank you to our A Level PE students Josh White, Maisie Johnson and Molly Barnard who managed the sound and lighting for the performances and also to the PE department everything they did to make the show such a success.
If you came to see the show, I am sure you appreciated how amazing it was and what talented dancers we are lucky to have at Presdales.
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