Sawtry Community College students triumph at the annual ...

Sawtry Community College students triumph at the annual Cambridge
County Council Art Competition
This year we had tremendous interest from our students for the Cambridge County Council Annual Art
Competition on the theme ‘Me, Myself and I’. Originally over 70 Sawtry students entered their own art
work. Those selected by the judges then had their work displayed in Huntingdon library where the public
voted for their favourites. The 30 Sawtry students featured made up the vast majority of this exhibition. The
final nine from each Key Stage which had been selected by public vote were then part of a touring exhibition
around libraries in Cambridgeshire. Once again the public voted for their favourite and the results were
announced at an Awards Ceremony in Hinchingbrooke House Thursday 12th September.
There were 9 finalists in the Key Stage 3 category including 8 Sawtry students: Amy Baxter , Sophie Barnwell,
Luke Doherty, Grace Whitney Fahey, Ellie Childs, Megan Childs, Saphire Coutanche, Charlie Farey. There were
5 finalists in the Key Stage 4 category including 4 from Sawtry: Dan Franklin, Lauren Thompson, Beth Miller, Ali
Francis. All the finalists were presented with a certificate and a mug with their own artwork printed on it. Ali
Francis and Ellie Childs both won their categories and were presented with a £50 voucher each.
They can now look forward to seeing their artwork featured on the side of Cambs CC buses.
It was a very enjoyable presentation evening with all students and parents enjoying themselves and it was
great to see Sawtry students dominating the competition.
Sawtry Community College Media Studies students sweep the board at
the Cambridgeshire Young People’s Film Festival.

The Media Studies Department at Sawtry Community College entered seven films into the Cambridgeshire
Young People’s Film Festival 2013. All seven were nominated for awards and each film was also awarded a
special commendation certificate.
Additionally our students won several trophies in the following categories:
Key Stage 4 section:
2nd place Trophy
Annabelle Davis, Autumn Rose, Andrea Cliffe, Georgia Barks
Key Stage 5 section:
1st Place Trophy
Tom Hughes
2nd Place Trophy
AJ Mulley
3rd Place Trophy
Alex Collins, Danny Duckworth, Tom Hughes
Additional Certificate winners:
Jane Gadsby
Isobel Guy
Ben Chance
Aimee Shipp
Stephen Payne
James Oldfield
A truly amazing achievement from our students and thoroughly deserved. Many Congratulations!
Sawtry Community College Art Students display their Art work at
Huntingdon Library
This week Mr Terry has taken a number of our GCSE and A Level students’ art work over to Huntingdon library
where they are being displayed and will remain on display for the summer holidays till September. There are
a dozen more works in storage there so the work will be rotated throughout the summer. It has been on

display since Monday and has already created a lot of interest with many people wishing to buy the
work. Please pop in and have a peek if in Huntingdon this summer.
Visit to Trundle Mere Lookout
Last week Mr Terry took some Year 9 G&T Art students to Trundle Mere Lookout to present their artwork to
the Project Manager of the Great Fen Project. The Trundle Mere Lookout is a recently completed Hide on the
outskirt of Holme wood and the students produced artwork of local wildlife mainly in the form of oil paintings
on canvas in the weekly after school G & T Art club. The following students: Katherine Hinton, Emily Dixon,
Sophie Maundrell, Dom Radfordl, Hannah Ainsworth, Izzy Ager and Toria Cater-Knowles all enjoyed an

afternoon talking about their artwork and learning all about the Great Fen Project from the Wildlife Trust
staff. The hide is open to the public and well worth a visit.
Sawtry Community College Annual Art Exhibition
Once again there was a tremendous turn out for the Art exhibition on 25th June. The Sawtry Community
College Arts exhibition has now become an annual showcase of the tremendous work produced by our students
studying GCSE, AS and A Level Art. An evening perusing at leisure the wonderful range of work on show from
large-scale painted canvases and boards to sculptures and finely detailed pencil drawings.
The standard this year was the highest ever with many pieces demonstrating a technical content that would
equal the expertise of work done by more mature artists. Some students produced work that goes well beyond
the expectations of that level. Truly remarkable when many of these students have produced this work whilst
enduring the many pressures of all their other subjects.
This exposure informs other students to the possibilities of Art at both GCSE and A Level and contributes
significantly to its popularity at exam level and the subject’s rightful existence within the curriculum, which is
particularly pertinent now in these challenging times when schools are forced to focus on the more cognitive
subjects.
This year visitors to the exhibition were also treated to wonderful dance and musical performances on stage
from students from various years as well as seeing some film made by Media students in a specially created
cinema.
The exhibition this year was visited by primary schools, students, parents and family, artists, County arts
advisors, governors, arts magazine editors and most impressively the Chief Examiner for edexcel.
Responses from everyone were once again tremendous and acknowledged the hard work of the students and
teachers. Warwick Davies a local actor whose daughter Annabelle has just successfully completed her Art
GCSE commented ‘ what an inspirational exhibition! I am in awe of the talent on display at Sawtry
College. Well done to all.

Primary Challenge at Sawtry Community College
Wednesday 10th July marked 15 years of the Primary Challenge in the Design and Technology Department at
Sawtry. For the first time we have joint winners of the trophy. Congratulations go to William De Yaxley
Primary School, (pictured) and Stilton Primary school who won the event this year.
A huge thank you to the Design and Technology staff for all their hard work.

Sawtry Community College Student is Microsoft UK Champion in Word
The “Test Fest” is now complete and the UK Champions in Microsoft Word and Excel have been found.
Kieran Youngman,(on the right), came First in the UK in Microsoft Office Specialist Word and goes to
Washington DC to compete in the Word 2007 competition of the Certiport Microsoft Office Specialist World
Championships. Kieran is the UK Champion, beating students with his perfect score of 1000, in a time of 8 mins
22 seconds. AJ came second in the UK in Excel. Kieran is our fifth UK Champion. All have finished in third
place in the World Championship finals - or higher of course, with our World Champion in Excel two years ago.
This year, there will be 91 countries competing in the finals of the World Championships. Prize fund for each
category is as below:

For more information, please click here
On 5th July 2013 22 students pitted their fitness against the triathlon sport and came out smiling. Everything
went swimmingly..., bikingly and runningly to be fair. Great big thanks to Mr Moore, Mr Stevens, Ms Kerr, Dr
Phillip, Mrs Kay and Mr Bridgeman for assisting in various areas of the event.
The students are buzzing and have already signed up for next year’s one (yet to be arranged I might add).
There is also talk of a larger event being organised with outside agencies and involving multiple schools.
Lauren Steadman (ex-student and pro- paratriathlete) was lovely and encouraged the triathletes with stories
of the Olympics. The kids can also go home with the story that a GB Elite Paratriathlete started their bike
section. Not bad!
Click here for individual results.

Jaguar Maths in Motion 2013

Congratulations go to two of our students who have qualified to represent Sawtry Community College in the
Jaguar Maths in Motion National Final. Tommy Walters and Dan Seaman, both Year 8 students, have fine-tuned
their gear box ratios and aerodynamic down forces on the setting up of Formula 1 cars on different circuits
using simulation software. In doing so, they have beaten other school race teams in both the county and
nationally to qualify.
The challenge involves students working together in small teams, who compete against each other in an effort
to win Grand Prix type races and become UK champions. This activity involves using a wide variety of basic
mathematical skills ranging from measurement of angles and scale to the use of percentages and higher level
skills.
The venue for the final is the Heritage Motor Centre in Warwickshire where 30 teams from various locations
ranging from Scotland down to Cornwall, will be competing against each other to be the National Champions,
We must also mention Paul Dunn and James Gazeley , both Year 11 students, who represented their age
range for the first knockout stage in March, very well done!
Sing to the Future Competition 2013
Sawtry Community College has won the bronze medal at the Sing to Future competition 2013. It all started
back in March when we decided to use music in the teaching of languages. The project generated a huge wave
of enthusiasm amongst students. Over 200 students participated and 12 students were selected to compete at
the regional competition this year. Congratulations to all our German, French and Spanish learners for their
effort and great achievement.
Please click here for the French Performance
Please click here to view the German Performance
Please click here for the Spanish Performance
Parents and Students race in the Jaguar Maths in Motion Challenge
On the 17th and 18th of June parents joined students after school to construct and race Formula One cars in
the Mathematics Department. The Jaguar software enabled parents and students to work together in family
teams to calculate and then construct their own Formula One cars to race against each other in a great
friendly yet competitive family environment. Students themselves will then go on to race in local and national
competitions. The students, parents and staff all had a great time and the department is looking forward to
running the event again next year!
Winner: Becky Wilson and family
2nd: Robert Peden and family
3rd: Connor Blackett and family

OFSTED
As part of the Post OFSTED process the college received a monitoring and support visit by HMI Taylor on 7th
May 2013. Since our OFSTED inspection in February 2013, the college has been successfully implementing
agreed recommendations and this is reflected in the letter attached
OFSTED have introduced a PARENT VIEW feature on their website where you can complete a simple
questionnaire at any time during the academic year. This can be accessed here
The First Pond Dip of the year
On Wednesday 1st May, a gloriously sunny day, students from the Year 7 Science Club enjoyed the first pond
dip of the year. Great fun was had by all with some great finds being made including Pond Skaters, Snails,
Water Scorpions, Water Boatmen and many more species that represent a very healthy pond!

Cambridgeshire Art Challenge
We are really pleased that a number of our Key Stage 3 students have had their work accepted for the
Cambridgeshire Art Challenge with the eventual winner winning £100 and runners up getting £50 and all
winners having their artwork displayed on the sides of buses and on mugs.
There is a display of the 30 students' artwork in Huntingdon library. There are only 3 other pieces from other
schools. Unfortunately 18 students artwork was not picked for display. The display then moves onto further
libraries where the public vote for their preference.
The three exhibitions will take place at:
Huntingdon Library - 11th - 25th April
St Ives Library - 29th April - 10th May
St Neots Library - 13th May - 23rd May
The general public will vote for their favourite 9 pieces from the exhibition and these will progress to the final
round. Voting slips are provided in each of the library exhibitions.
We also have 5 students in key stage 4 in the final round as well so we have a very good chance our students
will be among the winners
4th March 2013
Dear Parents/carers
OFSTED INSPECTION 6TH AND 7TH FEBRUARY 2013
The College was inspected on the 6th and 7th February under a new and very rigorous Ofsted framework. The
full report will be available on the Ofsted website. The main findings are summarised in the following
quotations:
of subjects.”

ional expectations.”
kes them well rounded and confident.”
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carers speak well of the school’s work.”
The report, however, indicates that progress in English, although improving, is not as good as in other
subjects. 68% of our students achieved a grade C or above in English GCSE 2012. The College is well aware of
the issues involved in English teaching and with a new department in place, we are confident that good
progress will be made during the next twelve months.
We were very pleased that the report confirmed our own analysis of the College’s strengths and areas of
improvement. We would like to thank those parents who gave their views to the Ofsted team. We would like
to congratulate our students who gave such a positive impression with their hard work and good behaviour.
Yours sincerely
J STEWART
Principal
To view a copy of the Ofsted report please
Sawtry Junior School Art Display visit
Last Thursday, Sawtry Junior School visited the Sawtry Community College to view the Art exhibition. 90 Year
3 and 4 students enjoyed a morning of looking around the exhibition and completing a questionnaire about all
the work on show and also producing their own drawings.
Year 10 art ambassadors helped out with their tasks as well as inviting the students to participate in a
communal Pop Art painting. The students thoroughly enjoyed the morning and went home inspired by the Art
work they had seen.

Key Stage 3 Arts Evening on Thursday 21st February 2013
Sawtry Community College hosted a Arts evening on Thursday which was a great success. We had a lot of
visitors who enjoyed the Art display and the wonderful Music and Dance performed by our students. In
addition visitors helped paint the Pop Art communal painting and tried their hand at mono printing with the
help of art Ambassadors Megan Edwards and Lyndsay Baker. A big thank you to all that helped, especially
Mr.Green and Mrs. Thompson.
Jaguar Maths in Motion Christmas Fun Race 2012
Every year, Jaguars Maths in Motion holds a Christmas Fun Race for students and teachers in the following
categories: Age 1 (primary pupils), Age 2 (Years 7, 8 and 9), Age 3 (Years 10 and 11) and a Teacher’s
Category. Sawtry Community College entered three categories, namely Age 2, Age 3 and the Teacher’s
Category.
This is a simulation software to help students understand the application of Mathematics in the real
world. Students prepare their car by calculating accurately the length of the track, the amount of fuel to put

into their car, the safe/maximum speed of the car, aerodynamics, engine tuning, gearbox ratios and
suspension adjustments.
We are very fortunate this year because for two out of the three categories, we were placed in the top 10
schools in the country. Out of 200 entries, James Gazeley (Year 11) and Paul Dunn (Yearr 11) came runners-up
in Age 3 category. Mr Valmonte came 9th in the Teacher’s Category. Well done to Daniel Spencer and Max
Buchanan, both in year 8,for representing the school in the Age 2 category.
Of Mice and Men Drama Assessment
On Thursday 31st January several Year 11 students studying "Of Mice and Men" dressed in costume for their
drama role assessment. They all did BRILLIANTLY and their enthusiasm for the characters really shone
through.
Year 13 A-Level Certificate Presentation Evening

Sawtry Community College hosted its annual Year 13 Presentation Evening on WEdnesday 9th January 2013
with guests Lauren Steadman, Paralympic Swimmer and Paratriathlete and Mr Adrian Graham, Chairman
Ramsey Road Runners, attending in addition to our ex- Year 13 students.
The evening was to celebrate academic and social achievement in the Sixth Form. As well as the examination
certificates, four awards were handed out; two for best academic achievement (Jonathan Collard and Carolyn
Daly) and two for outstanding contribution to Sawtry Community College Sixth Form (Harry Alexander and
Luisa Giaffreda). This is the third year that Mr Fraser has put the celebration evening on and it has proved
popular with former students who have enjoyed catching up with former peers and teachers after they've
started university or employment. Lauren presented the A Level certificates and talked to last year's Year 13
group.
Lauren gave a slideshow presentation about her Olympic experience and what she has achieved in swimming to
enable her to get so far in her sport. She spoke about the sacrifices she has had to make and the hard work she
has had to put in over the years to achieve her goals. The audience of young adults found this very inspiring as
they embarked on their university studies and new careers. Lauren also spoke about how she got started and
her time spent at Sawtry Community College.
Lauren was then presented with a cheque from Ramsey Road Runners Chairman Mr Adrian Graham as they
continue to support Lauren in her sporting career. Lauren was delighted to receive this and thanked Adrian
Graham for all his, and the club’s support, and said it was very much appreciated and does assist her greatly.
Please see below pictures of the sixth formers with Mr Fraser receiving their awards and one of Lauren with
Adrian Graham, Ramsey Road Runners receiving her cheque.

Midlands Schools' Trampoline Championships
On Sunday 20th January Chloe and Daniel Grieves represented the college at the Midlands Schools' Trampoline
Championships. They managed to get through the snow to Wales and compete. Daniel won the U15’s title and
Chloe came second in the U18 girls. Congratulations to them both!
Iceland Trip 2012

We collected 86 Shoeboxes for the Operation Christmas Child 2012. Thank you
and well done to all those who donated a box of goodies.

Work Experience Abroad
During the October half term myself and a fellow French A level student partook in work experience in France.
For a week Jess and I submerged ourselves in foreign culture and used the time to practice our speaking skills
during our placements and elsewhere. Despite being organised through a partner company, it was down to us
to create and manage our own placement applications to ensure we received employment from a business that
best suited us.
We were both placed in Café / Brasserie type businesses in the beautiful city of Lille. At the start we were
picked up by coach and driven, via the ferry, to the city where we stayed in a modern hotel situated in the
very heart of downtown Lille. After meeting the group leaders and the other 30 odd students also participating
in the trip, we explored our surroundings, visiting local shops and looking around town.
Each weekday we went to work, engaging in roles that allowed us to utilise our language skills through talking
with customers, as well as learn a little about their culture. Such as the cuisine – personally I worked behind
the bar serving customers as well as working in the kitchen learning about the preparation of classic French
meals.
However, as mentioned it wasn’t solely at work where we used our French, our group leaders organised
activities outside of our placements such as bowling and nightclubs where we were able to practice more. We
even went to see the new Bond film, Skyfall which was very beneficial.
It was so enriching to take part in an experience like this, and would recommend it for anyone whom takes a
language, French or not; as without realising it, the experience really does help your French.
Aj Mulley and Jess Blundell.
Junior Winner of the Young Person of the Year Award Goes to Helen
Foster R-KS
Helen Foster of R-KS has been awarded the Young Person of the Year Junior Prize for Cambridgeshire.
Along with her family, Form Tutor and Head of Zone Helen made her way to Ely Cathedral last week to be

presented with the prestigious award. As part of this she was awarded £100 and also nominated Cancer
UK to receive another £100 donation.
Over the past few years Helen has single handily raised £1400 for various charities by setting up events in
her local area. In 2011 she organised a village cake sale and completed a sponsored bike ride to raise
£250. She then repeated the event for Children in Need bringing in a further £118.52! This placed her in
good stead for a larger event in the village hall where she organised stalls and a local celebrity (Tamwar
from Eastenders) to open the fete. This raised an amazing £1032.03!
Well done Helen!
ART Trip to London OCTOBER 2012
On Thursday 11 October Year 10 art students from Sawtry Community College went on an Art trip to
London. Travelling by coach the students first visited the Tate Modern. Here they studied the Modern Art
work including Cubism to help them with their Art coursework. The Tate Modern was also home to some
spectacular and amusing artwork including the new Turbine Hall installation featuring a roaming hoarde of
people.
Next it was onto the Tate Britain via a gentle boat ride down the Thames past the Houses of
Parliament. Enough time to tuck into the packed lunch.
At the Tate Britain students were able to enjoy the Turner Prize with the excellent Paul Noble proving
very popular, followed by the Performance Art of Spartacus Chetwynd. In contrast the Tate Britain also
displayed some classical art as well as the greatest collection of Turner paintings. Exhausted from the
days exposure to Art the very well behaved and content students enjoyed the journey home with plenty
of inspiration to help them with their GCSE Art.

Look at the amazing selection of home baked cakes that were made for the
Macmillan Coffee Morning, well done to our fabulous bakers!
Year 12 Art trip
Year 12 artists enjoyed a day out yesterday for an art field trip. They visited Houghton Mill and Grafham
Water and the studies and recordings they produced will be used to create some very promising artwork.

GCSE RESULTS 2012
Statistics
% of students achieving 5+ A*-C grades 98%
% of students achieving 5+ A*-C grades (including English and Mathematics) 65%
% of students achieving at least 2 higher grades in Science subjects 94%
7 of students achieved the English Baccalaureate combination of qualifications. (This particular model was
not even announced when the year group chose their options. The figure rises considerably next year
which is the first true test of this measure.)
84% of students achieved their expected level of progress or higher in Mathematics. The expected
progress in English will be finalised following the conclusion of the current official invesigation into the
nationwide issues experienced this summer.
Over 50% of all entries achieved a grade B or higher with 20% achieving an A or A* grade.
27 students achieved at least 7 A/A* grades from GCSE or equivalents. One student achieved the
equivalent of 10A* and 2 A grades which was an outstanding performance.
“These are another excellent set of results with 2/3 of the students achieving 5 A*-C grades at GCSE
including English and Mathematics as part of their programme.
Science, ICT and Mathematics continue to be real strengths at the college.
We would like to congratulate all of the students and staff for their achievements this year and recognise
the enormous effort they have put in to achieve these results.
These are our first set of results since achieving Academy status. They set a very high bar for future year
groups to jump.”

For further information contact Nigel Smith (Deputy Principal) at the College.
Statistics
A LEVEL RESULTS 2012 - 15.08.2012
Pass rate at grades A* – E 98.8%
Pass rate at grades A* – B 52.0%
Pass rate at grades A* – C 76.0%
A* grades 4.9%
Average point score per student 280 (UCAS pts) 680 (DFE points)
Average score per entry
89.9 (UCAS) 223 (DFE)
“We congratulate everyone involved in achieving these results. They are without doubt some of the best
the college has achieved. 7 students gained at least 3 A level passes at A/A* grades and a further 7
students achieved straight A grades on their Childcare course. This means that in total nearly 20% of our
cohort achieved the maximum grades.
We wish the students every success in whatever they do next, whether that be university or entering
employment.”
For further information contact Nigel Smith (Deputy Principal) at the College.
50 Years of loyal service
Fifty years of loyal service to Sawtry Community College governors, staff, students and parents comes to an
end this term with the retirement of Carol Chisnall and Jenny Keeble.
Carol Chisnall, with 28 years’ service, and Jenny Keeble, with 22 years’ service, have worked in the college
and community administrative areas covering all types of work to become true multitaskers. They have always
been friendly voices on the end of the phone; supportive colleagues in the office and dealt with, so efficiently,
the often last minute events sprung on them.
Both Carol and Jenny have been great assets to the College with their ever ready smiles and words of advice
and wisdom. They will both be very sorely missed.
Enjoy your fully deserved retirement and those precious moments with the family and the increasing number
of grandchildren.
Good Luck,
All the staff at Sawtry CC.

Maths Roadshow
Last week for Work Experience 8 Year 12 A level maths students went to different local primary schools and
hosted a selection of fun maths related activities. We visited the Holme Primary School, Alconbury C of E
Primary School, Sawtry Junior School and Fourfields Community Primary School. We provided four activities
that the children could participate in small groups and then rotate around so they could have a go at all the
activities but have sufficient supervision in small groups. A pair of students ran each activity and managed to
produce a lesson plan that provided lots of support and fun for the students. The activities we put on were
leaping frogs, vedic square, flexagons and the handshake problem. It was very rewarding to see the students
get a positive and exciting experience from the activities as well as using fundamental mathematical skills.
GCE and GCSE Art exhibition 2012

There was a tremendous turn out for the Art exhibition on 26th June. The Sawtry Community College Art
exhibition has now become an annual showcase of the tremendous artwork produced by our students studying
GCSE, AS and A Level Art. An evening perusing at leisure the wonderful range of work on show from largescale
painted canvases and boards to sculptures and finely detailed pencil drawings. Visitors, teachers and
governors were impressed by the art produced by the young students of this school.
The standard this year was the highest ever with many pieces demonstrating a technical content that would
equal the expertise of work done by more mature artists. Some students produced work that goes well beyond
the expectations of that level. Truly remarkable when many of these students have produced this work whilst
enduring the many pressures of all their other subjects.
Because the power of art is immediate, which sets it apart from other subjects. You are confronted by an
image or artefact that has an immediate impression on the viewer. This makes young people feel special and
raises their self-esteem, which other students find irresistible and then they want to be part of the same
successes. This exposure informs the students to the possibilities of Art at both GCSE and A Level and
contributes significantly to its popularity at exam level and the subject’s rightful existence within the
curriculum, which is particularly pertinent now in these challenging times when schools are forced to focus on
the more cognitive subjects.
Sing to the future Language Beatz Competition 2012
The French department took a group of students to the first ever Sing to the Future Language Beatz
competition at Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge on Thursday 28th June. Students devised their French
song independently and organised their own music arrangements.
Although we did not win, the students were a real credit and we really thought our students performed
incredibly well. It takes a lot of courage to sing in front of others in a foreign language.
Since Sawtry Community College joined in April, the whole experience generated such a wave of enthusiasm
across our year 8 linguists.
Thanks to the year 8 students for their active participation.
Well-done to Kirsty Knell, Lucy Warminger, Chloe Naegeli, Savannah Lunn, James Digger, Jo Coles who
represented Sawtry Community College, pictured below with Mrs O'Grady.

Video's available to watch or download: Video 1 Video 2 Video 3
Mini Olympics at Alconbury Primary School
On Monday 18th June a number of Year 10 students helped lead a Mini Olympics Activity day at Alconbury
Primary School.
The pupils represented the school fantastically showing enthusiasm and maturity beyond their years not just to
lead 60 young pupils but to actually teach them specific athletic events including shot put, javelin, middle
distance running, hurdles and discus.
The primary head teacher and class teachers were delighted with how the Mini Olympic afternoon went and
how all the pupils were engaging in different activities and listening carefully to our students. The atmosphere
of the day was excellent with the year 5/6 students all carrying flags of different nations.
The pupils deserved the praise they received and the three cheers they got from the pupils at the end of the
afternoon.

Salters Science Festival Challenge Day
Elliot Rose, Kiran Mistry, Eva Davies and Hannah Chatfield were nominated by their Science teacher,Miss
Calder, to take part in a Salters Chemistry Challenge on the 15th of March – held at the University of East
Anglia.
Their initial challenge involved the students getting up for a 6.30am start – to set off. We arrived in Norwich at
around 8.30am – after a few wrong turnings; but arrived slightly early!
In the morning the students were asked to identify some anions using wet chemistry techniques and
Chromatography. Quite a task considering that identifying anions is part of the GCSE Chemistry course and
usually studied at year 11.
After lunch the students were given another task where they had to add citric acid to sodium hydrogen
carbonate –an endothermic reaction - the challenge involved finding the right method to reduce the
temperature to 10.5 degrees centigrade within 60 seconds. The second attempt worked a charm.
The day came to a close with the prize giving ceremony, all the schools that had participated were given some
goodies from the institute as well as certificates. When the prize giving for the challenges came about we
were all waiting with a fervent anticipation for Sawtry Community College’s name to be read
out. Unfortunately we didn’t win the challenges but we all felt as though we had gained a valuable
experience.
The journey back was full of conversation about the Challenge, University life and various aspects of Science.
All in all, a very fun (and Science) filled day! We also made the local newpaper, click on the link below to see
the article.
http://www.huntspost.co.uk/news/latestnews/sawtry_students_head_to_university_of_east_anglia_for_science_festival_1_1379045

Cancer Research Fundraising event
On Saturday 14th April 2012 in Alconbury Memorial Hall I organised a charity event in aid of Cancer Research
UK. The event was opened at 10am by Himesh Patel who plays Tamwar Masood in EastEnders with the Hunts
Post present to take photos. There was a table top sale indoors with a car boot sale outside and a fire engine
in the car park. I also organised a large raffle, tombola, cake sale, teas, coffees, cream teas, bric-a-brac stall,
book stall, lucky soap star sweepstake, tea run sweepstake, guess the name of the teddy bear and guess the
weight of the cake. The day was very well attended by the community. The Hunts Post are wrote an article
about the event and I have been back on Huntingdon Community Radio to announce the total. The current
total is £1030.03 and it still has the chance to rise! Donations welcome!
Helen Foster, R-KS
http://archantcambs24.newsprints.co.uk/search/scu/p/u/84522/7/the%20hunts%20post

Can I say how well you did to organise the cancer fundraiser at the Alconbury Memorial hall recently.
I was really very impressed with your efforts and I think you set a fine example for other young people (and
older ones!) to follow in fundraising for good causes. It was also nice to meet your mum – who was clearly and
rightly very proud of your achievements.
So very well done to you.
Kind regards
Jonathon"
Sport Relief 2012 Friday 23rd March