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UCKFIELD COLLEGE LIFE

October 2019

Behaviour for Learning Masterclass for Staff on Inset Day

Uckfield College staff along with some teachers from local
schools had an Inset day focusing on behaviour for learning
on 14th October. This masterclass was led by Tom Bennett,
lead behaviour advisor to the DfE, Chair of the Mental
Health in Schools panel and Teacher-Fellow of Corpus
Christi College, University of Cambridge.
He shared his experience and techniques gained through
his career working with schools throughout the UK and
around the world.
Hugh Hennebry, Principal, said, "Our staff further
developed powerful strategies and habits that we use in
order to create calm, safe spaces where children can think,
learn and grow."

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Farley Art Exhibition and
Awards

On the evening of Friday 18th
September Ms Archer and Ms Jennings
attended the exhibition at Farley Farm,
Chiddingly.

These awards are a biannual event and
are open to every school in East
Sussex. Each school is invited to submit
up to 6 pieces for selection in various
categories covering both GCSE and A
level. We are very proud that ALL the
work we submitted this year was
selected for the exhibition.

At the opening night awards are given
for each category and this year these
were presented by Pop artist icon Sir
Peter Blake (he designed the cover for
the Beatles album - Sergeant Pepper).

Work was submitted last academic year - and it was lovely to see family of students who are now away at
university.

Fantastically, of our 6 students, 5 won an award!

Each category receives a 'highly commended' and a 'winner'

Our awards were: (Molly Maltby also had work in this
GCSE Painting - highly commended Alexandra Adam - Yr 10 work!
category)
GCSE Photography - WINNER Isabel Warriner
A level Painting - highly commended Ethan Harmsworth-Causer
A level Photography - highly commended Mia Dadswell
A level mixed media - WINNER Charlie Legh-Smith

Our ex 6th Formers have now all been invited to apply for a bursary of £300 each to further their art
studies.

Congratulations to everyone - what fantastic achievements!

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Make your Mark Vote

We are delighted that we got 1,423 votes (89.5% of students in the school). ‘Protect the Environment’
won for the UK issue quite overwhelmingly (827 votes!), followed by Hate Crime with 203 votes. For
the devolved issue, Knife Crime won with 499 votes, and then Mental Health with 350 votes.

More information will follow over the next term about how our students can work on issues like this,
how they go about it and who can support them etc..

Thank you to all students involved.

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Tiger Innes, Year 10 wins prize at The Big Futures Show

Matt Ryan from Young Enterprise visited the college last Friday to present Tiger Innes with a prize after
she won the £10 Challenge when we took all our Year 9 students to The Big Futures Show in Eastbourne in
April.
Tiger's business was called Doggywoggydodah - the judges liked the name and it's connection to the
famous cake shop! They also thought that Tiger presented her business idea very well.
Tiger put her entrepreneurial idea to practice during the summer holidays with Eleri Rose; they paid for
stalls at several markets and sold bags of their doggy biscuits; it was a great success! Well done Tiger!

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Zoological Society London (ZSL) poo hunter Skypes Y12
Biologists

Henrike Schulte from the Zoological Society London spoke with Biologists from Y12 on Friday 11th
October about her PhD research, conservation and academic pathways that involve animals and work
around the World.
Nathan asked how humans can help with climate change and conservation and Jess followed with
questioning when Intervention becomes Interference. Ellie was interested in when does the cost
outweigh the benefit in conservation in more general societal terms. Freddy opened conversations
about careers in zoology and the range of possibilities for anyone considering this path. Henrike
pointed out the importance of having ‘non-scientists’ working within science projects - coding,
modelling, languages, economic patterns, financing and many more areas are linked closely to charity
and research work with animals.
Henrike explained how two things that make a great scientist are ‘perseverance and curiosity’ and
these are definitely valued highly in the Science department at Uckfield.
We hope to collaborate on further activities with ZSL in the future so watch this space!

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Geography lecture: ‘Deserts in a warming world’

After school on Tuesday 15th October a group of Year 12 and 13 A level Geographers headed down to the
Falmer Campus of the University of Brighton to attend a lecture put on by the local Geographical
Association. Ironically, given the incessant rain of October so far, the lecture was entitled ‘Deserts in a
warming world’ and was given by Professor Dave Nash of the university. He gave a very interesting talk
investigating the conditions that create deserts and how they are expanding as a result of climate change.
Surprisingly, 45% of the earth’s terrestrial surface and a third of the world’s population belong to areas
classified as ‘drylands’ so what happens there has huge implications for the planet. The Chinese have
already planted 66 billion trees in an attempt to stop the spread of deserts but in many areas more modest
adaptation can help, for instance using water more efficiently and planting more drought resistant crops.

This is the first lecture of the 2019-20 season and our students will have the opportunity to attend future
talks on a range of interesting and relevant topics given by academics or practitioners.

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Year 7 Boys’ Football Success!

The success has continued for Year 7 boys' football with yet another win coming in the form of a 4-1
victory away against Warden Park School. This sees the boys become the first year group to make it
into round 2 of the Sussex County Cup. The team were fantastic throughout with an outstanding team
performance! Man of the match was Sebastian Smaldon with the goals coming from Sonny Causton,
Toby Morrall (x2) and Jack Meier. Well done all for this excellent result!

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Trampolining news - Poppy, Millie and Ryden in Prague
Friendship Cup

Well done to Millie Dadswell (Year 10), Poppy Bissett (Year 9) and Ryden Temple (Year 8) who
participated in the Prague Friendship Cup in Prague, Czech Republic on Friday 11th October. This was
their first International competition and they all did fantastically well. The competition was
represented by 14 different European countries.
Poppy competed in individual age 13-14 and came 27th, Millie age 15-16 and came 19th, Ryden age
11-12 and came 19th and he also competed in the Synchro competition and came away with a Bronze
medal, a fantastic achievement!

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Charlie Yeates selected for Sussex Schools FA U16's Football
Squad

Congratulations to Charlie Yeates in 11M who has successfully been selected to represent the Sussex
Schools FA U16's Football Squad for the upcoming 2019/20 season.
Charlie will be representing the County for the second year running, with the Squad competing in the
SEESFA League (South East England Schools FA) and the English Schools FA National Cup, where
Sussex are reigning National Champions.
Charlie, along with his team, proudly represented County on Saturday 12th October 2019. Playing
against Kent Schools in Canterbury for the first match of the season, Sussex Schools won with a
professional performance resulting in a 2 - 0 win.
Charlie has also just heard that he has been selected for The Sussex County FA U16’s Representative
Squad for the 2019/2020 season. Well done Charlie! 

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UCKFIELD COLLEGE PHYSICAL EDUCATION
SPORTS REPORT

All the sports news and results from this week!!

Uckfield College U13 Swim Team 2019

Sussex Schools - Secondary Schools Team Championships

Well done to Christie Hart, Teia Goldsmith,Rosie Phoenix, Copper Gagola, Callum Jones, Jack
Carter,Mollie Carter, Harley Le Levre, James Dooris, Ellie Dooris, Sam Harrop and Clara Williams who
all competed at the sussex secondary schools team championships at the Sovereign Centre
Eastbourne on Wednesday.
The students from Y7 and Y8 competed in the boys and girls 4 x 50m Medley and the 4x 50m
Freestyle relay. The boys came second in both their heats and the girls who it must be said were
competing in a very tough heat finished 4th in the medley and 5th in the freestyle relay.

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We now have to wait for the other competitions around the country to complete their comps, the top
20 fastest teams from across the country will compete at the London Aquatics Centre in a few months.
Even if we don't qualify for the final it was a superb day with some really excellent swims from
everyone.

Girls 4 x 50m Freestyle Relay Team

Boys 4 x 50m Freestyle Relay Team

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Girls 4 x 50m Medley Relay Team

Boys 4 x 50m Medley Relay Team

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Hockey Club

Excellent turnout to Hockey club this year, Director of Hockey, Mrs Meacher said, ‘it is fantastic to see
so many keen players, some really good players as well, we are really looking forward to our 1st
tournament of the season in a few weeks ’. (Hockey Club is every Wednesday from 3:30pm till 5pm
on the 3G.)

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Y7 Netball Team

The year 7 Netball teams played against Heathfield last week. Mrs Levett said ‘​ Their play is really
developing and their team work was great’​. The A team lost 5-1 and the B team drew 3-3.

And this week the Y7 Netball girls played in their first netball tournament at Heathfield. Mrs Levett
said the ‘The girls played brilliantly and finished in 3rd and 5th position’. Well done girls!!

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Year 7 & 8 Girls Football Team

Mr Sidwell was delighted with the 28 year 7&8 girls he had turn out to his football trial, he said ‘the
standard was really high and he is very much looking forward to the 1st tournament next month’.

Rugby Fixtures

U16 County Cup Rugby vs Beacon
lost 28-36

Y11’s 1st county cup game of the season unfortunately ended in defeat. Mr Levett said ​‘It was a really
good entertaining game,very end to end, with some great creative phases of play from both teams,
one of our strongest players suffered a nasty injury just after half time and this tipped the balance in
Beacon’s favour. Ultimately though Beacon made less mistakes than us and this made the difference.’
Never mind lads on to the next game.

Y9 County Cup Rugby v Heathfield

22-37

Mr Levett said ‘It started off a really close game, it was 0-0 for 20 minutes, but slowly Heathfield
started to command their territory more and more, then their big ball carriers put Heathfield on the
front foot and some stand out performances from Heathfield’s Centre provided them with some good
opportunities, which they capitalised on. We put up a good fight but it was not enough to secure a 1st
win of the season.

Follow us on Twitter!!! To keep up to date on all the Sports news from Uckfield
PE department follow @uckfieldcollegePE on Twitter. Thanks for reading our
Sport Report.

Mr Topping

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Ms Archer’s paintings exhibited in London Gallery

Ms Bethan Archer, Curriculum Leader of Art & Photography is really proud to have recently had her
work selected to be exhibited in a gallery in London.

Ms Archer has been painting orangutans for the past two years following several trips to do voluntary
work in the Samboja Lestari Sanctuary in Borneo run by the BOS Foundation. The paintings she
produces are from her own photographs mostly, and she has recently collaborated with National
Geographic photographer Wiwik Astutik, who she met on her first visit to Borneo.

The students always tease Ms Archer about her love of orangutans but they are fascinated with her
stories, and have greatly benefited from her re-found passion of painting in oils

Ms Archer’s pieces are part of a group show at the Gallery Different in Fitzrovia, London, just off
Tottenham Court Road. The show runs from Friday 25th October through until October 29th and the
Gallery is open from 11am - 8pm each day.

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Please keep in touch!

We always love to hear news of our students’ achievements out of College, so please do e-mail to
keep us updated with the fantastic range of activities they are involved in. Please e-mail details to
Toni Fletcher,​ ​[email protected]​.​ We look forward to hearing from you. Thank you.

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