Flames of Hope Charity Cheque

A selection of pupils presenting the cheque to Flames of Hope

In assembly on Friday we presented a cheque for £27,000 to Flames of Hope, our chosen charity for last year. Our pupils raised the money through a wide variety of activities ranging from boxing to painting. 

A huge thank you to all of our parents for their support and help in raising this fantastic amount which will help with the building of a school in Kenya for pupils who have difficulty speaking. It is part of the Vanessa Grant Trust who we have supported in the past.

This year's charity is the Demelza Hospice who care for terminally ill children in the Southeast.

Scholars visit WW1 Battlefields

8A recently visited Flanders and The Somme to tour the battlefields of the Western Front in Flanders and on the Somme. They had a memorable time and were very lucky to stay in Talbot House in Poperinge, Belgium. This was set up in 1915 as a “home from home” for troops recovering after battle and is kept today as a living museum. 

Highlights of the trip included the last post ceremony at the Menin Gate at Ypres, Tyne Cot cemetery, Passchendale, Hills 60 and 62 and many of the famous landmarks of the battle of the Somme 1916, including the Lochnagar Crater, Delville and Mametz woods, the Thiepval memorial, the excavated trenches in Thiepval Wood and the Sunken Lane and Canadian Memorial Park at Beaumont Hamel. The scholars are now busily working on their extended projects. Oh, and there was a modicum of chocolate shopping too!

Making Scholarship History

Congratulations to Giulia who has created history by being the first ever girl to win a football scholarship in the history of Ardingly College.

She will be training with the Ardingly U16 Squad during the Summer Term.

#ProudToPlayInPink

Grass Roots Success

Congratulations to Josh, Isla and Lolly who all qualified for the NSEA Grass Root Championships yesterday.

#proudtoplayinpink

Nelson win Senior House Cross Country

All the runners after the race

Congratulations to Nelson who were victorious in the Senior Inter-House Cross Country:

The Mighty Nelson

 Every runner's position counted and the final results were:

1. Nelson
2. Drake
3. = Wellington and Marlborough

Drake Darts

Marlborough Movers

Wellington Wanderers

Warming up with TLE

Bede's Galactic Challenge 2017

A team of Year 7 and 8 pupils travelled to Bedes Senior school to take part in the Bedes’ Galactic Challenge. The brief was to design and cost plans for a mining base on Mercury. There were lots of problems to overcome but by dividing into sub groups or divisions meant that each company managed to get the work done in time. 

The final presentations were PowerPoints given to a panel of judges. Brambletye was one of seven schools competing and our pupils presented themselves so well that their peers voted them into two of the three 'Company President' roles and five of the eight 'Head of Division' positions.

British Wildlife Centre Owls on flying visit!

The British Wildlife Centre owls came to visit Year 8 on Monday. They are doing an ecological study of owls at the moment and meeting the owls in the flesh (feather) puts all the theory into context, especially how they can fly silently when hunting. 

The Barn owl flew in the theatre much to the delight of our Y8 pupils.

1st Team Girls have had a fantastic Hockey Season

Indoor and Outdoor Hockey:

Played 19             Won 15                 Drew 2                  Lost 2

Total Goals For: 100

Total Goals Against: 29

Winners of the Copthorne Indoor Tournament

This year’s 1st Hockey Team developed into one of the best and most successful hockey teams that Brambletye has produced since the introduction of girls’ hockey in 1999. This year we were fortunate to have five girls in the squad who had served their apprenticeship and had represented the 1st Team last year. In practice sessions this term, all the girls worked extremely hard on their body strength, fitness and skill both on and off the ball. As the season went on we managed to record some fabulous victories over some very strong opposition teams in both indoor and outdoor hockey matches. 

The season produced numerous highlights but the pick of these included beating Handcross Park 7-0, beating Cumnor House 8-2, beating Holmewood House 9 - 7 and the fabulous hockey played by all our 1^st Team girls in the East Grinstead U 13s Outdoor Tournament. Nevertheless, the icing on the cake came in our very last fixture of the season when we won the Copthorne Indoor Tournament.

Meanwhile, this week the exciting news also came through that our Captain of Hockey had been picked to represent Sussex! 

Year 7 visit the Natural History Museum

Yesterday Year 7 went into London on the train in order to visit the Natural History Museum. This was to support their work in Biology this term.

They had hands on experience with samples in the Discovery Centre where they had to try to work out what the samples were and where they came from:

Over the course of the whole day they made a short film about food chains ... the final editing was done on the train journey home ... here is just one of the films.