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NEWSLETTER<br />
ISSUE <strong>20</strong><br />
<strong>Winter</strong> <strong>20</strong>12<br />
<strong>Greenhead</strong><br />
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The newsletter of <strong>Greenhead</strong> <strong>College</strong><br />
A Dramatic Feast<br />
As Autumn turns into <strong>Winter</strong> and the days and nights get progressively<br />
colder, the theatre seats at <strong>Greenhead</strong> <strong>College</strong> have been kept warm<br />
by hundreds of audience members enjoying a feast of great drama.<br />
The Autumn season was kicked off with ‘Blood Wedding’, with the<br />
production’s passion and intensity hotting things up across four<br />
performances. This was followed by the tension of ‘Our Country’s<br />
Good’ and the cutting satire of ‘Lady Windermere’s Fan’, both providing<br />
glimpses of eras long gone and the timeless heat of verbal sparring.<br />
Next on the playbill was the major college Enrichment production ‘At the<br />
Far Side of the Crooked Wood’. Audiences were drawn into a world of<br />
wolves and witches, fable and folly through music, drama and dance.<br />
Involving over eighty students from across the college in performance,<br />
design and stage management it provided a soothing winter balm for<br />
all who dared wander through the dangerous and macabre world of the<br />
crooked wood...<br />
Charity Day <strong>20</strong>12<br />
This year the college managed<br />
to raise an impressive<br />
£2721.40.<br />
This money will be split between<br />
our two GCSA chosen charities: The<br />
Benevolent Trust and The Forget Me<br />
Not Children’s Hospice. The Benevolent<br />
Trust works with soldiers from the<br />
Yorkshire Regiment who have been<br />
left emotionally or physically scarred<br />
along with families who are suffering<br />
from bereavement. They continue to<br />
offer their support long after the event<br />
has passed. £1360.70 of the money<br />
raised will go towards the £100K that<br />
is needed yearly for The Benevolent<br />
Trust to offer their continuous support.<br />
The Forget Me Not Children’s Hospice<br />
has been running for over 12 years<br />
and works with over 400 families who<br />
have a child suffering from a life limiting<br />
condition. They work with families<br />
from within the Kirklees, Calderdale<br />
and Wakefield region. Our remaining<br />
Fundraising Spectators: A panoramic shot of the student community enjoying the entertainment.<br />
donation of £1360.70 will go towards<br />
raising £3million that is needed to<br />
build a centre that is closely accessible<br />
within Huddersfield so that families<br />
do not have to wait hours for the help<br />
they need.<br />
The talent show on the day was a<br />
huge success, with a diverse range<br />
of acts from some very enthusiastic<br />
contestants. We saw more passion<br />
this year with the many variations of<br />
fancy dress costumes and the creativity<br />
between the finalists of the competition<br />
was outstanding. We saw a fully suited<br />
and electronic Iron Man, cupcakes<br />
and a Lego man, but the giant roll-on<br />
deodorant stole the show.<br />
We would just like to say thank you to<br />
all of the Yellow Helpers and a massive<br />
thank you to the staff and students<br />
of <strong>Greenhead</strong> <strong>College</strong> who donated<br />
so generously.<br />
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Radio One Calling! An Appointment with Bond....James Bond<br />
Rebecca is pictured (from left to right, fourth left) alongside Daniel Craig,<br />
Naomie Harris, BBC Breakfast Show host Nick Grimshaw and other<br />
competition winners.<br />
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Congratulations to A2<br />
student Rebecca Hamilton<br />
who recently won a Radio<br />
1 Nick Grimshaw Breakfast<br />
Show competition. The<br />
prize was to sit in on Nick’s<br />
breakfast show broadcast<br />
and interview Daniel Craig<br />
and Naomie Harris, who<br />
both star in the latest Bond<br />
instalment ‘Skyfall.’ In order<br />
to win the competition<br />
Rebecca “had to choose a scene from a previous James Bond film and attempt to recreate it<br />
in a one minute video of my own.” Impressively, Rebecca was “one of five winners who went<br />
down to London.” Post broadcast, the competition winners “went to a suite in The Dorchester<br />
Hotel to prepare for the interview.” Rebecca asked 007 aka Daniel Craig “When he (Craig)<br />
and Sam Mendes (director) were planning ‘Skyfall’ what did they want to achieve...why was<br />
this instalment any different?” Craig’s “response was at first they simply wanted to make the<br />
best Bond film possible. They discussed new ideas at the very beginning because the story<br />
from the previous two Bond films that Daniel had been in (‘Casino Royale’ and ‘Quantum of<br />
Solace’), had been wrapped up at the end of ‘Quantum of Solace.’ Craig said as a Bond fan,<br />
he’d always wanted to bring back the old Bond feel into the movies, but in ‘Casino Royale’ it<br />
didn’t seem appropriate as it would have been copying previous movies. ‘Skyfall’ gave them<br />
the opportunity to bring in new and old characters but reintroduce them properly for the first<br />
time.”Rebecca recalls that “My favourite part of the experience was gaining an insight into<br />
the behind the scenes aspects of the film and entertainment industry. I enjoyed learning<br />
about how much of an actor’s job comes after filming has finished. The film had to be heavily<br />
promoted and to do this, the crew travel to countries all over the world to be interviewed and<br />
later may return for premieres. It was incredible to have heard firsthand accounts of their<br />
experiences from being involved in such an iconic British film franchise.”<br />
The search for Lord Sugar’s<br />
Young Apprentice Continues....<br />
Watch out for Andrew Tindall<br />
<strong>Greenhead</strong>’s Andrew Tindall is<br />
currently appearing in the BBC<br />
series of ‘The Young Apprentice.’<br />
Andrew, 16, is an AS student<br />
who has joined the college from<br />
Salendine Nook High School.<br />
Being a School Prefect enabled<br />
Andrew to contribute to the wider<br />
school community. Making a<br />
contribution is also a feature of<br />
Andrew’s entrepreneurial ethos. Andrew demonstrated<br />
sales acumen at the age of ten by selling greeting<br />
cards. <strong>20</strong>% of the proceeds are donated back to<br />
charitable organisations. In terms of holding his own<br />
amidst national competition Andrew was one of 12<br />
shortlisted candidates competing against a wider field<br />
of 50,000 applicants. At time of going to print in week<br />
6, Andrew is still a contender, with the prospect of being<br />
hired. Two weeks remain to see who Lord Sugar will<br />
hire. The coveted prize is a £25,000 investment in the<br />
future of the hired candidate.<br />
The BBC Young Apprentice website notes that the<br />
selected candidates have had to demonstrate an<br />
“academic flair and burning passion for business.”<br />
We wish Andrew every success in the final stages of<br />
this exciting contest. The college also congratulates<br />
him on this outstanding achievement.<br />
Gold at the Palace<br />
Congratulations to Leigha Farrington (pictured<br />
below left outside St James’ Palace), in attaining<br />
The Duke of Edinburgh’s Award. Leigha was<br />
presented with her Gold<br />
award at St James’<br />
Palace on November<br />
14th, <strong>20</strong>12. Leigha left<br />
<strong>Greenhead</strong> in <strong>20</strong>12 and<br />
started an adult nursing<br />
degree, at the University<br />
of Huddersfield. The Gold<br />
award was presented to<br />
Leigha by the Duke of Edinburgh and she recalls<br />
this as “an amazing experience.” In order to<br />
obtain the Gold, Leigha has achieved the Bronze<br />
and Silver stages of the scheme, which makes<br />
this attainment highly impressive.<br />
Leigha is convinced that The Duke of<br />
Edinburgh’s Award programme has provided a<br />
vital underpinning in gaining her undergraduate<br />
place at university. “All the volunteering at the<br />
118th Huddersfield Brownies has been a means<br />
to succeed.” Leigha has been volunteering<br />
with the Brownies since she was 15. She has<br />
thoroughly enjoyed obtaining the award as part<br />
of the college programme.<br />
Well done on this outstanding achievement.<br />
Creative Achievement Celebrated<br />
Zoe Griffin and Alice<br />
Cousins with a visitor to<br />
the Exhibition<br />
The Private View in June<br />
provided a wonderful<br />
celebration of the creative<br />
achievements of 75 A2<br />
Art and Design students.<br />
This year’s show was more<br />
diverse than ever with a huge<br />
variety of work including<br />
some exceptional sculpture,<br />
drawings, paintings, prints, fashion and textiles and<br />
the highest number we have ever had working in<br />
video, film and installation. The nature and quality<br />
of the work on show is reflected in the offers our<br />
students received from universities and colleges<br />
around the country. Three of this year’s cohort were<br />
given places on the highly competitive Architecture<br />
course at the Bartlett UCL. We are very proud of the<br />
achievements of all the excellent young people we<br />
have worked with over the past year.<br />
The following words were written in the ‘Comments<br />
Book’ on the evening of the exhibition.<br />
“Amazing show – high standards of work and<br />
presentation. Very good ideas from very talented<br />
young people.”<br />
“Outstanding! A credit to all staff and students.”<br />
“An eclectic, vibrant and highly thought provoking<br />
presentation of work.”<br />
Cosmopolitan Capital:<br />
Art and Design Trip<br />
The Art and Design<br />
trip to London in July<br />
offered the opportunity<br />
for students starting<br />
their A2 course to<br />
experience the mesmerising energy of one<br />
of the world’s most vibrant and cosmopolitan<br />
capital cities. We arrived a matter of weeks<br />
before the start of the Olympic Games. The<br />
flags, advertisements and road markings were<br />
all in place making for an international cultural<br />
extravaganza.<br />
Over three days we scrutinised exhibitions of work<br />
in Tate Britain, Tate Modern, The V&A, The Royal<br />
Academy, The Serpentine and The Fashion and<br />
Textiles Museum.<br />
As well as an array of Fine Art past and<br />
present, we also saw a huge diversity of work<br />
from Fashion and Textiles to Architecture and<br />
Product Design. Artists included were Thomas<br />
Heatherwick, Damien Hirst, Leonardo Da Vinci<br />
and Mary Quant.<br />
A memorable time was had by all. The research<br />
and practical work done on the trip has provided<br />
a fantastic spring board for students’ Units 3s.<br />
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Dr Kevin Conway 1947-<strong>20</strong>12<br />
“A remarkable man who left<br />
a lasting impression”<br />
Kevin Conway, Principal<br />
of <strong>Greenhead</strong> <strong>College</strong><br />
from 1987 to <strong>20</strong>02,<br />
sadly passed away at<br />
the start of the term,<br />
August 28th. Our<br />
sympathies are with his family and friends,<br />
but his unforgettable personality and<br />
achievements as a leader of the college<br />
touched us all positively, and we have<br />
much to celebrate and remember - the<br />
college thrives on his legacy.<br />
Kevin established <strong>Greenhead</strong> <strong>College</strong> as<br />
one of the country’s best. As Professor<br />
John Tarrant, former Vice Chancellor of the<br />
University of Huddersfield now Secretary<br />
General of the ACU notes, “For 14 years<br />
Kevin was Principal of <strong>Greenhead</strong> <strong>College</strong>.<br />
He led what was an averagely-performing<br />
college when he arrived to become the<br />
top sixth-form college in the country.”<br />
After his retirement from the college and<br />
in spite of deteriorating health, Kevin<br />
pioneered an educational consultancy<br />
called Alps. Alps is currently based in the<br />
Media Centre in Huddersfield with over <strong>20</strong><br />
full time employees. Forged on a central<br />
premise within his work, this Advanced<br />
Level Performance System used raw data<br />
to set challenging but achievable targets<br />
for students. It is a testament to Kevin’s<br />
passion for sharing educational practice<br />
that his Alps philosophy is now utilised by<br />
teachers nationally in many hundreds of<br />
schools and colleges. Alps now works in<br />
70% of England’s sixth forms.<br />
Kevin was brought up in Beragh, near<br />
Omagh, Co Tyrone in Northern Ireland.<br />
He was schooled by the Irish Christian<br />
Brothers. He gained a first-class honours<br />
degree followed by a doctorate in Physics<br />
at Queens University Belfast. His first<br />
teaching post was at the British School of<br />
Brussels, Belgium returning after 8 years<br />
Diverse Debate<br />
No matter how low the outside temperature<br />
plummets, issues at <strong>Greenhead</strong>’s <strong>College</strong><br />
Debating Society always remain heated. With<br />
respectful, intelligent discourse flowing from<br />
the speakers and audience alike, the Debating<br />
Society is the place to be if you wish to<br />
become better informed and to express your<br />
own views on a range of topics.<br />
This year the debates were kicked off with<br />
a topical contest about journalistic freedoms<br />
with both the proposition and opposition<br />
putting forward strong arguments and<br />
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to take up a post in Dane Court School,<br />
Broadstairs, Kent. After a tenure as Vice<br />
Principal of St Brendan’s Sixth Form<br />
<strong>College</strong>, Bristol, Kevin moved to <strong>Greenhead</strong><br />
<strong>College</strong> in 1987.<br />
Martin Rostron, <strong>Greenhead</strong>’s current<br />
Principal, observes that Kevin’s faith was<br />
an instrumental factor in shaping the<br />
college’s enduring success. Every student<br />
and member of staff was “valued and<br />
treated with kindness and love, reflecting<br />
his own beliefs.” He never pushed for his<br />
own advancement but retained a clear<br />
unfaltering focus on his central educational<br />
ethos which was that young people should<br />
be provided with the highest standards of<br />
teaching and pastoral guidance in order to<br />
realise their opportunities. Staff working at<br />
<strong>Greenhead</strong> during Kevin’s time recall him<br />
as “ a wonderful listener”, “a magician”,<br />
“a giant” who altered the landscape of<br />
post compulsory education. Kevin “knew<br />
everyone by name and the little things<br />
that matter.” He contributed “such a big<br />
difference to the lives of so many pupils<br />
and staff.”<br />
His achievements led him to being<br />
honoured many times for his educational<br />
work, including receiving a CBE in<br />
<strong>20</strong>01, and an honorary degree from the<br />
University of Huddersfield. Outside of<br />
work Kevin was a devout parishioner at<br />
St Patrick’s Roman Catholic Church in<br />
Huddersfield and as a lifelong Manchester<br />
United fan enjoyed going to Old Trafford<br />
with his sons, as season ticket holders.<br />
Kevin was married to Mary for 43 years<br />
and the couple have four children, Martin,<br />
Mary, Simon and David. He also leaves<br />
seven grandchildren-Fynn, Zac, Thea,<br />
Michael, William, Katherine and Noah.<br />
The college received tributes from all<br />
corners of the country recalling that<br />
“teaching, learning and people were<br />
always at the heart of everything for<br />
Kevin.” It is a legacy to be valued and<br />
to preserve within our college today.<br />
rebuttals, but the floor voted that the privacy<br />
of the individual is more important and the<br />
motion, “Journalistic Freedom Should Allow<br />
Images of Celebrities to Be Freely Published”,<br />
was defeated.<br />
The society has debated a whole range of<br />
issues each argued and deliberated by the<br />
speakers with the members of the floor<br />
casting the final vote for the winning side.<br />
Fascinating subjects, facts, opinions and<br />
diverse banter have all made the Debating<br />
Society a wonderful enrichment to take.<br />
Muneera Lula<br />
Annabel Scholey: A Sparkling Decade<br />
of Acting!<br />
Former <strong>Greenhead</strong> <strong>College</strong> student Annabel Scholey,<br />
is certainly one to watch! Since leaving <strong>Greenhead</strong> in<br />
<strong>20</strong>02, Annabel consolidated her academic success at<br />
The Oxford School of Drama.<br />
A diverse range of acting roles has followed, including playing<br />
Hermia alongside Dame Judi Dench in <strong>20</strong>12. This critically<br />
acclaimed production was directed by Sir Peter Hall. The<br />
production also marked a reprisal of role for Dench, who played<br />
Titania almost fifty years after she debuted in the role for the<br />
Royal Shakespeare Company. The Stage credited that there<br />
was “terrific comic attack from Annabel Scholey as Hermia.”<br />
Hall also cast Annabel as Julia, in Sheridan’s The Rivals<br />
alongside Penelope Keith and Peter Bowles in <strong>20</strong>10. The<br />
Telegraph noted that Annabel’s performance enhanced “this<br />
happy comedy with an edge of real poignancy.” More recently<br />
Annabel played Lady Anne in Sam Mendes international<br />
touring production of Richard III (<strong>20</strong>11-<strong>20</strong>12). The tour played<br />
at The Old Vic in London, The Hong Kong Arts Festival, Spain,<br />
Singapore, reaching New York in January <strong>20</strong>12. Playing<br />
opposite American screen and theatre legend Kevin Spacey,<br />
in the title role, the production and Annabel’s role within it was<br />
superbly reviewed. The LA Times credits “Annabel Scholey”,<br />
who<br />
“delicately<br />
makes<br />
plausible the<br />
infamous<br />
seduction<br />
Annabel Scholey and Kevin Spacey in Richard III<br />
in which<br />
Richard,<br />
the man who decimated her world, alchemizes her hate<br />
to confounded desire.”Annabel notes that her professional<br />
highlight to date has been performing Lady Anne at The Athens<br />
and Epidaurus Festival. Mendes production played for three<br />
nights to a sellout audience of 14,000. It was performed in the<br />
open night air at an Amphitheatre. Here, theatre was played in<br />
a “rock concert atmosphere” and Annabel refers to this as an<br />
“amazing emotional and spiritual experience.”<br />
In <strong>20</strong>12 Annabel performed at The National Theatre, alongside<br />
Christopher Ecclestone and Jodie Whittaker. Annabel played<br />
Ismene in Polly Findlay’s contemporary interpretation of<br />
Sophocles Antigone. Critics commented on her “deeply<br />
moving” performance. When asked what advice Annabel would<br />
give to any young adult who has aspirations to succeed in their<br />
chosen field, she references the importance of “self belief!”<br />
Within the acting industry you encounter “an unemotional and<br />
hard” series of hurdles. It is important to be “well rounded in life<br />
and enjoy other hobbies.” “It is also important to keep positive<br />
and to retain the purest form of you.”<br />
<strong>Greenhead</strong> wishes Annabel continued happiness and<br />
success for the future. We will keep watching her outstanding<br />
contribution to the arts.<br />
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New Faces • New Faces • New Faces • New Faces<br />
Economic Tips<br />
Batley-born Zak Basser gives us his likes, dislikes<br />
and key tips to life at <strong>Greenhead</strong> <strong>College</strong> for students<br />
and teachers. Zak joins the team teaching Economics<br />
and seems to have settled well into his first teaching<br />
position. He likens his job to being a performer, claiming he could never<br />
work in a normal office. He has a “passion” for his job and couldn’t see<br />
himself doing anything else other than teaching Economics.<br />
We were interested to know if Zak had any tips for us as students and<br />
he said that it’s very important to stay on top of your work during college.<br />
Finally, Zak’s most important tip... ‘Smile’ (you’ll get better grades).<br />
Beth Graley & Louisa Hillaby<br />
A friendly and helpful welcome<br />
<strong>Greenhead</strong>’s new Library Assistant, Caroline<br />
Batchelor, joins us after an interesting and varied<br />
career. Most recently she worked in administration<br />
at Huddersfield University in the School of Music,<br />
Humanities and Media, though she began her adult life studying French<br />
and German at Aston University in Birmingham, during which time she<br />
spent a year on work placement in Frankfurt.<br />
After completing her studies, she spent two years in Japan on the JET<br />
(Japan Exchange and Teaching) Programme, an experience she highly<br />
recommends, saying that the “really friendly people” at the schools<br />
where she worked made her time extremely enjoyable. On returning to<br />
England, she worked at Nottingham Trent University’s Business School,<br />
before returning to live in Huddersfield, where she grew up.<br />
Since starting at <strong>Greenhead</strong>, she has been bowled over by the<br />
friendly and helpful welcome she has been given, as well as by how<br />
hardworking our students are. Outside of work she likes spending time<br />
with her nine year old son, and reading.<br />
Luke the Duke of Biology<br />
Originating from Somerset, Luke Sinnick has taken<br />
the Biology block by storm with his broad experience;<br />
ranging from teaching English abroad as a foreign<br />
language, to working with students who have learning<br />
difficulties. Luckily for us, Luke enjoys working with sixth formers and<br />
disclosed that <strong>Greenhead</strong> students in particular “already seem hardworking”.<br />
Luke acquired his BSc at Bristol University – which he highly<br />
recommends to us prospective undergraduates. Aside from the world of<br />
academia, Luke enjoys recreational enjoyment such as listening to indie<br />
and reggae music, along with reading about politics.<br />
Holly Whitford and Leona Leveridge<br />
The rewards of independent thinking<br />
Lusia Taylor studied at Nottingham University, then<br />
travelled extensively and worked in London and<br />
abroad, before entering teaching in <strong>20</strong>02. Over the<br />
past 10 years she has rediscovered her roots back<br />
in Yorkshire, returning to the Psychology Department at <strong>Greenhead</strong><br />
<strong>College</strong>, where she herself was a student. When interviewed Lusia said<br />
that in teaching she enjoys helping people to think for themselves and<br />
develop an interest in the subject. If Lusia had not become a teacher<br />
she would have gone into clinical / educational Psychology. Outside<br />
of college, she enjoys spending time with her family and her interests<br />
include music, books, films and keeping fit (although this has taken<br />
somewhat of a back seat since becoming a mum).<br />
Nicole Capewell & James Kernan<br />
LARPing About<br />
Upon meeting Michael Rees for the first time, it<br />
becomes clear he is an enthusiastic Drama and<br />
Theatre Studies teacher. After pursuing a variety<br />
of careers including working as an IT technician, a<br />
playwright and a chef, Michael decided to teach at <strong>Greenhead</strong> as he<br />
considers it to be a very positive, friendly place. Additionally, it is indoors<br />
and doesn’t involve heavy lifting – Michael’s two ideals. In his spare<br />
time, Michael enjoys playing the guitar, and our favourite...LARPing (Live<br />
Action Role Play – Google it!) After informing us that he was a runner<br />
up in a stand up comedy competition, we assume that Michael took<br />
inspiration from his favourite playwright, Eugène Ionesco. In a movie<br />
of his life, Michael would be played by Bruce Campbell, a well-known<br />
American cult film actor.<br />
Alexandra Tattersley and Lauren Flint<br />
Figure-ing a stake at <strong>Greenhead</strong><br />
A former student from Brigham Young University<br />
in Utah (the likes of Mitt Romney and Stephanie<br />
Meyer who wrote the Twilight series also studied<br />
there), Noelle Abdy’s passion for teaching Physics<br />
is certainly valued. When she isn’t working in Maths and Physics Help<br />
or looking after her five-month baby girl, Canadian-born Noelle enjoys<br />
synchronized ice skating. As a keen ice skater, Noelle’s dream job was<br />
to be a mascot at hockey matches, as the joy of wearing a costume and<br />
remaining incognito seemed exciting and entertaining. Noelle enjoys<br />
most music and occasionally turns on Radio 2. She had previously<br />
worked in Scunthorpe and Leeds but enjoys her work being closer to<br />
home and appreciates the fact that “<strong>Greenhead</strong> students are willing to<br />
learn.” Noelle also loves that by the end of the year, her students will<br />
finally understand her jokes about The Big Bang Theory.<br />
Mohammed Yoosoof and Katie Sherdley<br />
Experiencing Sociology First Hand<br />
The newest addition to the Sociology Department,<br />
Pippa Pennington, is excited to return to teaching after<br />
maternity leave, with a part time post at <strong>Greenhead</strong><br />
<strong>College</strong>. Having previously worked in high school<br />
sixth forms, she is enjoying the atmosphere at <strong>Greenhead</strong>, as she says<br />
it is “a nice place to work.” Pippa explained that she has a passion for<br />
Sociology as she loves how students are experiencing the subject first<br />
hand for themselves. Her hobbies include netball (having played in the<br />
Pudsey and West Yorkshire leagues), and going to see indie bands of<br />
the nineties such as Shed Seven! She prides herself on her eclectic<br />
music tastes. In the future Pippa is possibly interested in setting up a<br />
Criminology enrichment.<br />
Megan Byrne & Jake Ross<br />
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First Team Football<br />
With a nucleus of players from last year and<br />
the addition of some talented A1 players, the<br />
1st XI have made a successful start to the<br />
season, remaining unbeaten so far. However,<br />
four games have been lost to the weather<br />
and it will be difficult to fit them all in, given<br />
the number of games to play. In the league<br />
Minsthorpe, Barnsley, Brighouse and Dearne<br />
Valley have been defeated and we played<br />
out a 4-4 draw with Calderdale. In the British<br />
<strong>College</strong>s’ National Cup we scraped through<br />
2-1 at Rotherham and now have a home tie<br />
against Scarborough <strong>College</strong>. Unfortunately, top<br />
scorer Sylbert Stewart has left college to take<br />
up an offer at Halifax Town Academy and fellow<br />
striker Luke Hill has been injured since the first<br />
game of the season.<br />
However, we can look forward with confidence<br />
to the rest of the season. RF<br />
Hockey<br />
The <strong>Greenhead</strong> Hockey teams have enjoyed<br />
a successful term. The girls’ team, captained<br />
by Abi Sawyer, qualified for the North round<br />
as undefeated champions at the County round<br />
of the National Schools’ competition. Expertly<br />
coached by Kelly Fillingham, they went on<br />
to be clear winners of their pool, narrowly<br />
missing out on automatic qualification in the<br />
final by losing 2-1 to Cheadle Hulme. As the<br />
second placed team in the North they will now<br />
attend play-offs to reach the National Finals in<br />
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February. This could be history in the making<br />
as <strong>Greenhead</strong> has never made it so far in this<br />
competition.<br />
The mixed team, captained by Sam Spencer,<br />
has had a run of wins over colleges from the<br />
Yorkshire and Humber region beating Bishop<br />
Burton, Wyke and Pontefract putting them<br />
second in the league to John Leggott midway<br />
through the season.<br />
The girls’ team may reach a second national<br />
final if they beat John Leggott on December<br />
12th at Lockwood and join our other amazing<br />
athletes who have already qualified to the<br />
British <strong>College</strong>s’ National Finals for Sport at Bath<br />
University in March <strong>20</strong>13.<br />
Individual Hockey honours have been attained<br />
by Katie Firth, Abi Sawyer and Jack Canham<br />
(GK) who have been selected for the British<br />
<strong>College</strong>s’ hockey team. They now go on to<br />
receive squad training and international playing<br />
experience. MSH<br />
Netball<br />
What a start to the season for all three<br />
<strong>Greenhead</strong> netball teams! The first team went<br />
to the Regional Round of the British <strong>College</strong>s’<br />
Championships at York and were the outright<br />
winners and have qualified for the National<br />
Finals in Bath. In a tournament of 14 teams,<br />
no team achieved a half score against the<br />
<strong>Greenhead</strong> squad. In the National Schools’<br />
competition, the girls sailed through the County<br />
round and are now in the Regional round in<br />
February. Five of the players: Harriet Gill, Lydia<br />
Walker, Georgia Hamilton, Olivia Blackburn<br />
and Tayla Booty have also made it to the final<br />
trial for the British <strong>College</strong>s’ squad. A fantastic<br />
achievement!<br />
The Second team are having a tremendous<br />
start to the season, obliterating any opposition<br />
in their path on their journey to greatness!<br />
Currently at the top of the league, captain,<br />
Emily Woodings is confident of continued<br />
success.<br />
As for the Third team, don’t let the ‘3’ fool you.<br />
In the same league as the Second team and<br />
other Yorkshire <strong>College</strong>s’ First teams, they<br />
are becoming the stars of the show, nearly<br />
defeating the Second Team in an inter-college<br />
clash. Dynamic duo Alannah and Georgia Booth<br />
have led their team well! SY<br />
British <strong>College</strong>s’ Final<br />
The British <strong>College</strong>s’ qualifying tournament<br />
for the Yorkshire and Humberside Region was<br />
held at York University in October. Winners<br />
from these championships were selected to<br />
represent the Region at the National <strong>College</strong>s’<br />
finals to be held in Bath in March. <strong>Greenhead</strong><br />
took part in all the sports on offer and had<br />
incredible success. We now have students<br />
competing at the Finals in badminton, cross<br />
country, netball, squash, swimming, table<br />
tennis and tennis and are hopeful of even more<br />
success in hockey and trampolining who have<br />
to compete later in the year to qualify. SY<br />
Netherhall Visit<br />
Rawthorpe Junior<br />
School, part of<br />
the Netherhall<br />
Learning<br />
Campus, visited<br />
<strong>Greenhead</strong><br />
<strong>College</strong> as<br />
part of the voluntary service enrichment<br />
programme. The pupils had a guided tour of<br />
the college, followed by an IT Session where<br />
they created their own CV. The <strong>Greenhead</strong><br />
Voluntary Service programme allows students to<br />
complete voluntary work and gain certificates to<br />
demonstrate their long-standing commitment to<br />
their community. Over 500 students participated<br />
in the scheme over the last academic year. It is<br />
a fantastic opportunity for students to learn vital<br />
skills which they may need for their university<br />
courses and future professions. A special thanks<br />
to Sam Rowntree and Alex Colbert who have<br />
given up their time to volunteer each week at<br />
the school throughout the year and Caroline<br />
Marshall who co-ordinated the visit. For further<br />
information about GVS, please contact Claire<br />
Barnes or Gill Fenney. LJ<br />
Law Brought to Life at <strong>Greenhead</strong>!<br />
On the 23rd of October, Law students<br />
had the delight of ‘Red Mist Training’<br />
delivering two interactive investigation<br />
sessions in the morning and afternoon.<br />
The directors of the event made<br />
four hours fly by with this creative murder mystery<br />
workshop, giving us a chance to taste the life of a real<br />
detective. We were put into groups and given packs<br />
with pictures and information about a scenario that<br />
was based on a true case, with just a few of the facts<br />
changed. We were kept constantly on our toes with<br />
reminders to ‘think outside the box’ and look out at all<br />
times for clues to try and work our brains as to who<br />
the killer was.<br />
The organisers were extremely personable and made it<br />
easy and enjoyable for everyone to get engaged in the<br />
task. Not only was the day incredibly interesting, it was<br />
also insightful, with many pupils stating they “learned<br />
a lot” and that it “made law fun!” It even led a couple<br />
of students to claim “I really want to pursue a career in<br />
the police now!” and “this experience has convinced<br />
me that working in the police is what I want to do.”<br />
By Leona Leveridge<br />
A most curious visit<br />
Pictured: Mark Mitchell, Head of<br />
Business Studies, with Charlotte<br />
Nicol, Richard Purchon and business<br />
student Viviane Kemgne<br />
In October<br />
Charlotte Nicol<br />
and Richard<br />
Purchon, ex<br />
<strong>Greenhead</strong><br />
students,<br />
came into<br />
AS Business<br />
Studies<br />
classes to<br />
discuss<br />
their innovative new business entitled Most<br />
Curious Tours. The business partners run<br />
guided tours around London aimed at young<br />
people with a passion for the arts. Their<br />
unique selling point is the interactivity of the<br />
tours, for example the Literary Tour is hosted<br />
by a published poet who reads out poems<br />
during the tour while their Opera Tour has the<br />
tour guide singing to the tourists. They also<br />
run a Classical Music Tour and a historical<br />
pub walk. <strong>Greenhead</strong> business students<br />
were able to ask questions to the partners<br />
who won a Shell Livewire award and could<br />
be named as the best entrepreneurs in the<br />
country later this year.<br />
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Lessons from<br />
Auschwitz<br />
Earlier this year, four <strong>Greenhead</strong> students<br />
participated in the ‘Lessons from Auschwitz Project’<br />
organised by the Holocaust Educational Trust.<br />
This involved a one-day visit to the former Nazi<br />
extermination camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau. All<br />
found the visit to be a deeply moving experience.<br />
In Hannah James words, “It’s different for everyone,<br />
but it certainly makes you think.” She describes<br />
how the sight of the ‘arbeit macht frei‘ gate as you<br />
enter, and seeing all the material proof - mass of<br />
human hair, shoes, teeth, spectacles, suit cases<br />
etc makes the hairs stand up on the back of your<br />
neck and sends a shiver down your spine. It’s<br />
hard to imagine the suffering that took place at<br />
Auschwitz. The thought, she says, of SS Rudolf<br />
Hoess, the Auschwitz Kommandant, raising his<br />
family little more than <strong>20</strong>0m from the gas chamber<br />
at Auschwitz deeply sickening, making the mass<br />
murder of a race a seemingly everyday experience.<br />
Tom Beaven too, was struck by the sheer logistical<br />
and technological scale of Auschwitz and how<br />
clinical the whole process was, where man’s<br />
scientific advancement seems to have outstripped<br />
his wisdom and our respect for basic human rights.<br />
It made Tom think about the way technology is<br />
sometimes used today to discriminate against<br />
others, especially cyber bullying on the internet<br />
and other related technologies. He says, “It is<br />
my belief that technology, for all its benefits, has<br />
depersonalised and aided many forms of prejudice;<br />
the anonymity and wide audiences available on the<br />
internet form only one such area which presents<br />
disturbing possibilities.” Reflecting on the tragic loss<br />
of life at Auschwitz, for Kyle Hallas the message<br />
is clear, ‘”We should live our lives to the full and<br />
never be afraid of ‘failing’ because there are far<br />
too many people in the world that have never had<br />
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Participants left to right: Hannah James, Kyle<br />
Hallas, Tom Beaven and Poppyanna Waterman<br />
the chance to pursue their opportunities in life.”<br />
He was keen to reiterate that people should never<br />
be persecuted on the basis of their ethnicity, race,<br />
religion or even politics. A view shared by Hannah,<br />
“People aren’t born prejudiced, like the children of<br />
the Third Reich you’ve got to be taught to hate and<br />
fear from an early age, and for me that is one of the<br />
ugliest things about the world today. By educating<br />
people on the Holocaust, and even subsequent<br />
genocides like Cambodia, Rwanda, and even more<br />
recently in Darfur and Sudan, future generations<br />
can be taught not to discriminate and learn from the<br />
mistakes of their ancestors. We’re all people, and it’s<br />
important that we should embrace our individual and<br />
cultural differences, as it’s something that makes<br />
us all unique.” A message shared by Poppyanna<br />
Waterman, “Even though we recognise the horrors<br />
of the Holocaust, many still seem not to have learnt<br />
the true message: tolerance. As children we are<br />
taught that we live in an accepting society, and<br />
I’m sure many people are. But since my Auschwitz<br />
experience, I have noticed more intolerance, and I<br />
am more determined to stop it.” All were keen to<br />
reinforce the strengths of living in a democracy and<br />
the importance of safeguarding human rights and<br />
freedoms. They are planning to further promote<br />
their ideals of tolerance and fighting prejudice in the<br />
forthcoming Holocaust Memorial Day – ‘A Bridge of<br />
Voice’, January 27, <strong>20</strong>13.<br />
Diane Beaven and Simon Barratt<br />
Imperial<br />
Honours<br />
Congratulations to Carrina Turner<br />
and Morgan Turner, two former<br />
students on their outstanding<br />
achievements. Carrina left<br />
<strong>Greenhead</strong> in <strong>20</strong>03 to go to Imperial<br />
<strong>College</strong> London to study Chemistry<br />
for eight years. This resulted in<br />
her becoming Dr Turner with a<br />
PhD in Nanotechnology. During<br />
the course of her studies, Carrina<br />
visited many countries and became<br />
a licensed scientist. In <strong>20</strong>07 she<br />
won the Degussa Award for Physical<br />
Chemistry and in <strong>20</strong>12 won the<br />
John Kilner Prize for Physical<br />
Chemistry. Carrina comments that<br />
her teachers at <strong>Greenhead</strong> were<br />
inspirational and really encouraged<br />
her to aspire towards a fruitful<br />
career in science and technology.<br />
Morgan left <strong>Greenhead</strong> in <strong>20</strong>06.<br />
She gained a BSc (Hons) at<br />
University <strong>College</strong> London in Biology<br />
progressing to acquire her MSC<br />
DIC at Imperial. Morgan is currently<br />
a PhD research student on a<br />
scholarship with Glaxo Smith Kleine<br />
Pharmaceuticals in Immunology at<br />
the University of Birmingham.<br />
Pictured on the way into the Royal Albert<br />
Hall, in which both sisters were presented<br />
with awards, degrees and a doctorate.<br />
Results & destinations<br />
Another outstanding year for results: we are acclaimed by the Sunday Times<br />
as the best college in Yorkshire, and third best nationally! In a year when<br />
top grades at A-level were deliberately suppressed by examiners across<br />
the country, our students still excelled with 12% at A*, 50% better than<br />
the national average, and almost two out of every five grades were A* or<br />
A grades. There are too many individual stories of outstanding achievement<br />
to single out an individual – <strong>20</strong> students got A/A* in five subjects!<br />
As we would expect, about 90% of leavers went straight to university:<br />
more will follow after a Gap Year. It was a bumper year for Oxbridge, with<br />
32 getting places, but also almost 40% of places were at the ‘prestigious’<br />
Russell Group universities. Well done to everyone: few did not get a place at<br />
one of their chosen institutions, and activity in Clearing was relatively quiet.<br />
Next summer’s results? Even better, we expect, as AS-level grades were<br />
higher than those for the previous cohort: students achieved 34% of results<br />
at grade A, compared with 29% in <strong>20</strong>11, so we are hoping to beat the<br />
40% A*/A barrier at A-level in <strong>20</strong>13! Also, our first years are settling in well.<br />
Congratulations to all on their teamwork – students, staff and families.<br />
Working in harmony obviously produces our great results!<br />
One thing to note for the future: in a precipitous decision, made just before<br />
this was written, Ofqual (the government regulatory body on examinations)<br />
have forbidden any January examinations , starting in January <strong>20</strong>14. All our<br />
students will be able to take January exams after this Christmas, but our<br />
present first years will have to take all their second year exams at the June<br />
sitting. We are still pondering the implications. Resits will also be affected:<br />
only once per exam will be allowed and – obviously – it would be taken a<br />
year later. There is a big incentive for our A1 students to put all they can into<br />
doing well this summer!<br />
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World Challenge Expeditions to Nepal and Mozambique<br />
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Important Diary Dates<br />
We have a record number of first and second year students taking up the challenge of<br />
expeditions to Mozambique (<strong>20</strong>14) and Nepal (<strong>20</strong>13). Fundraising is going well to raise<br />
money so we can complete projects in local communities in our respective countries.<br />
You can help to raise funds for the projects by going to www.easyfundraising.org referring<br />
to <strong>Greenhead</strong> <strong>College</strong> before making your online purchases. A donation is made by<br />
the company to our site and all proceeds will go directly to the projects in Nepal and<br />
Mozambique. You don’t pay a penny; any help will be gratefully received. In the past we have<br />
built an orphanage in Namibia, two toilet blocks - one in Thailand, the other in a remote<br />
village in the Upper Amazon region of Peru, as well as painting schools and teaching. BF<br />
World Challenge Training - The Students’ Perspective<br />
On the 17th and 18th of<br />
November, in sub zero<br />
temperatures, three teams of<br />
students went to the North<br />
Yorkshire Dales to train for their<br />
world challenge expedition to<br />
Nepal. We learnt valuable skills<br />
Students on a recent World Challenge Expedition to Ecuador which will help us when we<br />
reach our real destination. These<br />
included putting up a tent, cooking outside and learning what to do in emergencies which<br />
could arise whilst trekking. In addition to this it was an opportunity to really get to know the<br />
other people in our teams and practise working together in different roles. We are now one<br />
step closer to being ready for our big adventure in Nepal.<br />
Alice Meadows and Jonathan Kain<br />
Brewing up a business<br />
James Clare, Mark Mitchell,<br />
Harry Hayre and Harry Phillips<br />
Ex <strong>Greenhead</strong> college student James Clare has just opened his<br />
third business! Brew coffee shop is a student-friendly coffee and<br />
sandwich shop with the capacity to move into live music events<br />
later this year. Brew was opened to help cover the rental costs<br />
of the property which houses James’ other companies upstairs.<br />
His design agency Miln is run in conjunction with partner Tom<br />
Wicks another <strong>Greenhead</strong> leaver from last year. GCL is an IT consultancy business which<br />
James directs with another partner. The 18 year old from Honley is fast becoming a serial<br />
entrepreneur. In addition to running the three companies, he is studying for an Enterprise<br />
Development degree course at Huddersfield University with Theo Paphitis of Dragons Den<br />
fame as his mentor.<br />
Poetic Prizes: “A pure combination of word and thought”<br />
Congratulations to Jasmine Simms who should be commended for<br />
her outstanding contribution to Poetry. Jasmine has recently been<br />
awarded first prize in the 15-18 category of the Ted Hughes Young<br />
Poets Award for her poem ‘Stranger.’ Jasmine was also amongst<br />
85 commended Foyle Young Poets of the Year in <strong>20</strong>12, shortlisted<br />
from 7,351 entrants. This was for her poem, ‘My Monday Morning<br />
Girlfriend.’ Jasmine travelled to the South Bank Centre in London<br />
on National Poetry Day for the ceremony. In October, Jasmine also won the Ryedale Book<br />
Festival Young Poets Competition with her entry ‘Freckles.’ Jasmine began writing poetry<br />
at the beginning of Year 10 with the Calderdale Young Writers Group. When asked what<br />
inspires Jasmine to write, she references “reading and working with other young poets.”<br />
Jasmine also utilises within her verse some “creative own experiences relating to youth....<br />
physicality has influenced my style. The use of free verse and the sonnet forms are<br />
significant influences.” When asked why poetry is important Jasmine observes that “poetry<br />
is dependent on the idea that there are things which cannot be said literally. Poetry is a pure<br />
combination of word and thought.” Well done on these outstanding achievements.<br />
DECEMBER<br />
18 Festival of Nine Lessons and<br />
Carols (7.30pm Holy Trinity<br />
Church)<br />
21 <strong>College</strong> closes<br />
SPRING TERM<br />
JANUARY<br />
7 <strong>College</strong> opens<br />
9 Exams begin (until 30 January)<br />
10 January Open Evening<br />
(6.15pm-9pm)<br />
11 AS General Studies exam for<br />
all A2 students (9.00am)<br />
15 January Open Evening<br />
(6.15pm-9pm)<br />
17 AS General Studies exam for<br />
all A2 students (1.30pm)<br />
21 January Open Evening<br />
(6.15pm-9pm)<br />
29 Term 2 Enrichment Enrolment<br />
11.05-12.05pm (6 period day)<br />
FEBRUARY<br />
15 <strong>College</strong> closes<br />
HALF TERM<br />
25 <strong>College</strong> opens<br />
28 Employer and Gap Year Fair<br />
(4.15pm-6pm)<br />
MARCH<br />
7 Results from January exams<br />
14 Exam re-sit deadline (1.35pm)<br />
14 AS Parents Evening (L – Z)<br />
w/c 18 AS Assemblies<br />
18 Governors’ meeting<br />
19 AS Parents Evening (A – K)<br />
22-24 National Sports Finals in Bath<br />
w/c 25 A2 Assemblies<br />
26 Spring Concert<br />
28 <strong>College</strong> closes<br />
SUMMER TERM<br />
APRIL<br />
10 & 11 Library open for revision<br />
(9.30am – 4.00pm)<br />
15 <strong>College</strong> opens<br />
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us’ on Twitter!<br />
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Gold Achievements<br />
Congratulations to Jacob Ragan on his achievement as U18<br />
National Champion in Track Cycling. This summer he won Gold in<br />
the Scratch Race; this was obtained at the National Championships<br />
which were hosted at the Manchester Velodrome. Jacob was also<br />
awarded Silver in the Individual Pursuit Race. Outstanding! MSH<br />
The college website has had a facelift!<br />
In October we launched a new version<br />
of our website. Although the content<br />
is continually updated, the design had<br />
remained the same since <strong>20</strong>05 – an<br />
aeon for a website! Our site is produced<br />
and maintained in college by a small<br />
team of amateur web developers<br />
and the content provided by subject<br />
departments and other cross college<br />
areas. The new design hopefully<br />
performs more effectively with mobile<br />
devices such as phones and tablets.<br />
The focus of the site has always been<br />
on information for prospective students<br />
and their parents but should be useful<br />
to current students as well. To keep<br />
you up to date with our latest news<br />
and announcements we invite you to<br />
‘like us’ on Facebook and ‘follow us’ on<br />
Twitter. There are links from the website<br />
homepage.* We are being supported<br />
with our venture into the world of social<br />
media by one of our first year students,<br />
Regen Gregg, who is helping us<br />
maintain these microsites. We hope to<br />
develop our website and prospectus to<br />
reflect the achievements of our students<br />
and allow for greater interaction and<br />
communication with anyone who<br />
wishes to be involved with the college.<br />
If you have any suggestions, please let<br />
us know.<br />
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Wolfson Windfall<br />
When Ofsted come calling we have always been able<br />
to count on one thing: they will criticise our buildings!<br />
In <strong>20</strong>04 students told them they wanted more social<br />
space and inspectors agreed that ‘accommodation<br />
is congested.’ In <strong>20</strong>07 the inspectors said we should<br />
address ‘the overcrowding of student social areas<br />
and in a minority of classrooms’.<br />
In difficult times it has not been easy to find the<br />
money to make any changes, but in the last 12<br />
months we have done just that, on a big scale! Most<br />
of our laboratories have not been significantly altered<br />
since they were built, in 1962. However, thanks to<br />
a generous six-figure donation from the Wolfson<br />
Foundation, we have been able to remodel five<br />
chemistry and biology labs in the summer, as well as<br />
providing various upgrades. Staff and students alike<br />
are very impressed – ‘Fantastic! Liberating!’ they say.<br />
We have also received large grants from our<br />
funding body (the Education Funding Agency) for<br />
‘refurbishment.’ This has been used to great effect.<br />
The English department has undergone a makeover:<br />
16 tiny, dark and dingy rooms were gutted at<br />
Whitsun. Without pulling down the building we<br />
have remodelled the interior and we now have<br />
twelve amply sized rooms with new equipment and<br />
furniture, and better light throughout. Check out the<br />
mood lighting in the corridors!<br />
The Maths and Physics departments have migrated<br />
to the large brand new building on the old tennis<br />
courts. This is the biggest of our recent projects. It<br />
provides four labs, a dozen classrooms, and a drop-in<br />
IT room for help sessions, as well as offices, toilets<br />
Climbing for BEAT<br />
Congratulations to <strong>Greenhead</strong> personal tutor<br />
and teacher Peter Sylvester, who has raised<br />
£1150 on behalf of BEAT (Beating Eating<br />
Disorders) charity. This was achieved as a<br />
result of climbing Mount Kilimanjaro. The<br />
picture below shows Peter at the summit.<br />
Peter references three things that made this<br />
experience so special:<br />
1.“Reaching the summit with little problems, just<br />
a mild headache.”<br />
2.“Having the two chefs bake me a cake for my<br />
and stores. The<br />
spaciousness of the<br />
corridors and rooms<br />
is really delightful.<br />
We finished the first<br />
phase last Easter,<br />
but further money<br />
meant we could<br />
add a storey! The<br />
recently finished<br />
top floor is largely<br />
an open space,<br />
which will be a great<br />
asset for summer<br />
examinations –<br />
air-conditioned, it<br />
will mitigate the sweltering conditions students have<br />
often had to suffer before now.<br />
Not content with this, we have also made a new<br />
entrance gate (actually, it’s the old one re-opened)<br />
at the bottom corner of the grounds. This will help<br />
pedestrian safety, as at present most students<br />
dodge cars at the main entrance gate. The new<br />
path from this gate leads up to our most recent<br />
addition: an extension to the student social area with<br />
a new entrance door for the main hall area, which is<br />
providing improved circulation for all.<br />
Inevitably, we have had difficulties while we have<br />
been building – congestion in the corridors, limited<br />
parking etc – but no major disruptions, and now it<br />
is all behind us we look forward to getting the full<br />
benefit of the improvements. We cannot guarantee<br />
that upgrading the premises will produce even better<br />
exam results, but at least our facilities are much<br />
enhanced and everyone feels better for it! MR<br />
50th birthday and then<br />
having them plus several<br />
porters sing happy<br />
birthday to me in Swahilimemorable!”<br />
3.“Raising over my target<br />
of £1000 for BEAT- If anyone else wants<br />
to add to the total they can do so by visiting<br />
www.justgiving.com/peter-sylvester”<br />
BEAT’S website is www.b-eat.co.uk if<br />
anyone requires any further information.<br />
Photography Acknowledgement: Thank you to Ian Kennedy for his range of excellent photographs which feature in this edition of <strong>Greenhead</strong> News.<br />
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