Catering - King's High

The New Academic Year
Celebrating German Nikolaustag
Open Morning
In early November
King’s High opened
its doors to potential
parents and girls. It
was a busy morning
and we welcomed
nearly 500 people to
our school.
In December the Year
12 German group
organised a German
baking session to mark
Nikolaustag in Germany.
(St. Nicholas Day). The
group baked typical
German Christmas
biscuits (Plätzchen) and
'Stollen' following
German recipes and
also created their own
version for one.
RA Life Drawing
Thirty girls took part in a
Life Drawing session here
and at Warwick School. It
was organised through
the Royal Academy's
outreach programme and
will provide the basis of a
figurative project being
developed as part of AS
and A2 work. Pupils were
encouraged to think in
new ways about their
drawing and push the
boundaries of their
techniques.
Dazzling Future Beckons for Musicians in
National Orchestras
Debbie Rothwell, Year
11, has won one of only
160 coveted places in
the National Youth
Orchestra. Debbie, who
started to play the violin
at the age of 6, will join
other talented young
musicians for a series of
residential courses
during the coming year.
Congratulations are also
extended to Georgina
Wilson, Year 8, who has
won a place in The
National Children’s Wind
Sinfonia. Well done,
Debbie and Georgina!
Catering
All 7 members of the King’s High
catering team recently completed
their hygiene certification at
Henley College. We congratulate
Mrs Dudley and her team on their
success and on maintaining a high
nutritional food standard for all
our girls.
After Dark – Magic!
Sarah Barker-Doherty’s After
Dark was an evening of theatre to
be remembered. A Midsummer
Night’s Dream was full of
movement, full of life, very
beautifully staged and very funny.
Grimm’s Tales gave the audience a
sharp new take on traditional
‘fairy tales’. The small sixth form
company stamped itself on the
minds of the audience through
physical and verbal tricks and
clever ‘multi-role’ performances.
An atmospheric double bill was
complemented by collages of
poetry from KS3 and the Sixth
Form.
PTA Fashion Show
The PTA Autumn Fashion Show
held at the Bridge House Theatre
on October 3rd. “Domino, Merino
and Justina” arranged the fashions
which kept everyone engaged.
A raffle was held during the
evening which raised £900.00 for
Anita Burrows at Myton Hospice.
Celebrating Success
in Year 12
Liz Walker talks to Year 12 girls
It’s fast becoming a tradition that
Year 12 receives its GCSE
certificates at a special celebratory
afternoon. New this year was the
fact that the girls themselves gave
the ‘speeches’, short profiles
outlining the many achievements of
their tutor groups, and then
listened to ‘old’ girl and real friend
of the school, Liz Walker talk about
her achievement.
Liz is a barrister in Birmingham,
defending young offenders who
rarely if ever thank her, always
want more and who can be abusive
if they don’t get it. Liz’s message
was simple: whatever the response
of her clients, she is there to do her
absolute best and cannot go home
at the end of the day without
having done so.
Congratulations to Miss Blachford,
from ICT, for defeating stiff
competition to win the local
“Teacher of the Year” competition.
Miss Blachford was nominated by
our girls and all calls to the voting
line were in aid of Children in Need.
Sporting
Success
Our hockey and netball teams have been very successful in the
county championships this year. A number of our girls have also
gone on to play for their County – we congratulate you all.
Meanwhile our girls are making their mark in the water, winning
a recent swimming gala and water polo matches.

king’s high
news
Winter 2007
Happy New Year!
www.kingshighwarwick.co.uk

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Dame Judi walking through the guard of honour
Talking to the Head Girl, Depute Head Girl and Senior Prefect
Guadete! A day of real star quality
Dame Judi Dench opened the Sixth Form Centre and St Mary’s on
19th December. Her presence and the sound of her memorable voice
opening the building and chatting to the girls will be an on-going
inspiration in the building for years to come.
Everyone formed a guard of honour from the Hall to the Sixth Form
entrance where Dame Judi was greeted by the prefects, a gleaming
common room and a festive spirit. Jane Marshall spoke of the immense
pleasure Dame Judi’s wonderful performances have given to us all from
the heady days of the sixties to Merry Wives, the Musical, today. Dame
Judi replied with an anecdote about apparently poaching deer from
Charlecote Park (in excellent company there) and a wry smile about the
cartwheeling in her current RSC role. Jemima Middleton and Faye
Merralls held aloft a beautiful blue ribbon, symbolic of what both
buildings have to offer and Dame Judi cut it, and thanked Ruth Burns
before taking a tour of the new building.
She loved the space and the views and admired the design before
making an unobtrusive exit stage right.
The Festive
Season at
King’s High
Christmas Cards for CAMFED
A range of celebrations took place to mark the festive period at
King’s High. A Christmas card competition was held among Key
Stage 3 girls, and the winning designs produced as King’s High
cards, sold in aid of our chosen charity, CAMFED.
The Christmas concert at the Guy Nelson Hall concluded with a
specially arranged performance of Robbie Williams’s Angels. It
was a triumph. as was the rest of the programme. The audience
enjoyed a range of musical talent which helped to create a
memorable and festive evening.
A festive school logo (design by Philiippa Twohig-Howell, Year7)
and Landor House in the snow (design by Alexandra Pullen, Year 9)
The choir sing out at the Christmas concert
Festive lunch at school – girls get into the festive spirit…!
At St Mary’s on the last day of term
Collecting boxes for Operation Christmas Child

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Best of
the West
Riding Tour
Visiting the Grand Canyon
132 girls jetted off to the States on 19th
October for a 10 day tour of California and
Arizona.
The tour began in Los Angeles, visiting Disneyland, Universal Studios
and Hollywood, and then moved on to the amazing Grand Canyon,
where the girls took a sightseeing tour along the south rim, ending in a
wonderful sunset over the canyon at Desert View point. The final half
of the trip saw the girls enjoying a real ranch experience at the White
Stallion and Lazy K ranches, with trail rides through the colourful desert,
team penning, a fun rodeo and breakfast cookouts. The girls had the
opportunity to meet and learn about desert animals and plants as well
as enjoying the stunning scenery, especially the spectacularly rugged
Rincon mountains.
Seeing the stars in Hollywood
Ranching US style
Autumn in Paris
81girls travelled to Paris for a long weekend during the Autumn Half-term. The action-packed
trip took in the Eiffel Tower, a trip on the Bateau Parisiens on the Seine, the Centre Pompidou,
the market in Brie Comte Robert, a visit to Vaux le Vicomte and a trip to Disneyland.
Important Dates for your diary this term…
On a Bateau-Mouche
Visiting Vaux le Vicomte
• January 30th – Year 9 Parents Evening
• February 28th – Year 7 Parents Evening
• March 12th – 16th March – Half Term
• March 17th – Old Girls’ Association Netball matches (pm),
AGM and Annual Dinner
• March 19th – Year 10 Parents Evening
• March 21st – Parents’ Association A.G.M. (7.30 p.m.)
followed by tours of St Mary’s and the Sixth Form Centre
• March 24th – The Dance Concert,
Bridge House Theatre (7.30 p.m.)
• March 29th – Senior Concert, St Nicholas Church (7.30pm)
• April 24th – Summer Term begins