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Dear Parent

Welcome to the Winter edition of The Fountain magazine, which isslightly later than normal in being distributed to parents due to theadverse weather conditions experienced before the end of the AutumnTerm. Thankfully, the College was not forced to close during this periodand, as I stated in the College newsletter, we always strive to keep theschool open when there has been a fall of snow. Of course, such a viewis not always appreciated by the majority of our young people!

The Autumn Term was a particularly busy time for the College. OpenEvening was, as always, a source of pride to the staff with so many ofour pupils coming in to support the school. Open Evening is vital forthe recruitment of pupils to the College for the following September,but it also gives staff the opportunity to demonstrate their skills andengage with new and established parents.The College buildings, in particularFountain Court and the Science Wing,looked beautiful on the evening. Over thenext term, we are looking forward to thecompletion of the new Food Technologyarea and the redevelopment of theEdinburgh Wing.

We also had the opportunity to celebratethe record breaking examination results ofour former Year 11 pupils at our annualPresentation Evening. Derek Redmond,the former British 400m athlete andOlympic Gold Medallist, made an inspirational speech and it waswonderful to see so many young people back at the College and tohear how they were settling into post-16 education or training.

Sawston Village College has also become an International School, atIntermediate level. This award, from the British Council, recognisesthose schools which broaden knowledge and understanding of globalcitizenship and I have been delighted with the progress we have madein this area. We are actively pursuing links with China, Rwanda andRussia, and the work undertaken so far was showcased by theInternational Forum at a special evening in December. Linked to thiswork has been the Design for Change project, which has seen SVCpupils working with younger children in our feeder primary schools.Congratulations to all those involved in the international dimension ofthe College’s work, which goes from strength to strength.

Alongside the global citizenship programme, the College organisedtrips to the Battlefields of Northern France and to the Christmasmarket in Cologne; to Bassingbourn Barracks for CoPE, and to the

Babraham Institute as part of a Science visit; to The Junction andKing’s College for Drama and Music respectively, and many othervisits and events, some of which are described in this magazine. I am very grateful to my colleagues for organising and leading theseopportunities, and also appreciate the commitment of parents insupporting them, especially in the current financial climate. Theexperience of pupils at Sawston Village College is enriched by beingable to get out of the classroom and use the opportunities providedto us by living and working on the doorstep of Cambridge and suchopportunities are at the core of the provision that we offer our youngpeople.

However, the College is constantly looking at how to improve andexpand its work and the term ahead promises to be just as hectic. We are currently reviewing our approach to recognising achievement

and rewarding pupils for their hard workand success and will be consulting withparents on the proposals later in the year.We will also be trialling our parent versionof the Frog virtual learning environment,which pupils have been successfully usingsince November. After all the problems lastyear, it has been pleasing to see pupilsengaging with it so enthusiastically and webelieve it has huge potential to improvecommunication with parents.

Finally, the Pupil Senate and our ArtsDevelopment Manager, Lesley Morgan,

will be continuing the projects linked to our 80th anniversary. Therecreation of the original tree planting ceremony in 1930, directed by aprofessional film crew, was one of the highlights of the Autumn Termand we are excited about seeing the completed film. Alongside thisthere are a number of other exciting developments taking place,building up to a formal celebration in the Summer Term. SawstonVillage College, the first community school, has a unique place not just in the history of education in Cambridgeshire but also in thedevelopment of schooling in Britain and beyond. Our 80th anniversarycelebrations are important in ensuring that pupils and the widercommunity understand the heritage of the College and remind us ofthe need to keep the visionary ideas of Henry Morris alive, especially in the challenging economic conditions we currently face.

I hope that you enjoy reading this edition of The Fountain. Thank youto all of our local community for your continuing support and we wishall of our readers a very Happy New Year.

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We were delighted towelcome so many of ourformer pupils and theirparents to the Sports Hallon 11th November for ourannual presentation evening.In addition to the traditional awards presented bysubject departments for achievement and endeavour,prizes were also given for outstanding achievementacross all subjects to Hannes Whittingham, whoachieved 12 A* grades, Chloe Jacot and Baixue Heboth of whom achieved 10A* grades. Diana Paulding,Zuhair Crossley and Emily Cowling received prizes fortheir outstanding contribution to the school and LukeBucklow was the recipient of the Henry MorrisCommunity Award.

We were joined by former British athlete, Derek Redmond, who entertained the audience with anecdotes abouthis sporting career and demonstrated that a combination of very hard work and the support of his familyenabled him to achieve success in not just one, but three different sports!

It was wonderful to catch up with our former students over refreshments and to witness them taking pleasurein all that they had achieved, individually and collectively, at Sawston Village College.

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Members of OWL and the Rotary Club of Sawston Districtplanting a thousand bulbs on the bank alongside theEdinburgh Wing.

Certificate presented to OWL (Opportunities Without Limits)who are based at Sawston Village College.

In recognition of World Polio Day in October, Rotariansacross the country linked up with schools, businesses,organisations and individuals to plant millions of crocuses.The bold purple colour of the Ruby Giant crocussymbolises the dye used to mark a child’s little finger oncethey have been immunised against polio, a crippling, andsometimes fatal, disease and still a terrifying reality forchildren in parts of Africa and Asia. However, it stillthreatens children everywhere; being highly virulent it isonly ever an air-flight away from the UK. The flowers willhopefully emerge in February 2011 when Rotarians will be

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Sawston Celebrates Turning 80If you were anywhere near Fountain Court on the morningof 4 November, you might have wondered why there wereso many young people out and about and what they weredoing with an at-first-sight rather sickly-looking tree.

The answer is linked to Sawston Village College’s 80thanniversary and the visit of the then Prince of Wales to openthe school on 30 October 1930. The vision of ‘educatorextraordinary’ Henry Morris, who was Secretary ofEducation for Cambridgeshire, Sawston Village College wasthe very first village college in the country, a heritage ofwhich it is rightly very proud.

To celebrate its 80th anniversary and with a £25,000funding award from the Heritage Lottery fund, the school isplanning, over the anniversary year, to make a film aboutthe life and legacy of Henry Morris, working closely inpartnership with the Henry Morris Memorial Trust andSawston Village History Society.

To launch this special project over the anniversary week, thePupil Senate, whose members form the project steeringcommittee, delivered assemblies on Henry Morris to eachyear group. However, after the Year 9 assembly on 4November some forms stayed behind. The reason for thiswas that they were about to recreate the opening of theschool when the Prince of Wales planted a tree. Thatparticular tree is still clearly marked with a plaque today,outside the Edinburgh Wing, facing Fountain Court.

The school has archive footage of the Prince’s arrival and histree planting and wanted to record a modern-day ‘take’ onthe opening. Working with a team of professionalfilmmakers led by Peter Harmer from Stories - Projects inFilm, young people from the school’s Cinema Club werebehind cameras, catching footage from every available

angle, while Year 9s were joined bythe Pupil Senate and visitingpupils from Cottenham andComberton Village Colleges torecreate the occasion of theopening.The scenes captured willbe edited with the original archivefootage to form part of the HenryMorris film.

The role of the Prince of Waleswas ably played by SawstonVillage College’s own Mr Stewart, and Mr Long, fromSawston Youth Drama, made an impressive Henry Morris.The tree was researched and chosen by Year 11 pupil,Sarah Hill, Head of the Environment Forum. AMetasequoia Glyptostroboides, the tree is a deciduousconifer, which explains its current brown and rather leaflessappearance. It is, however, a rather special tree of greatbotanical interest and known as a ‘living fossil’ since it wasthought to have been extinct before being rediscovered inChina in the 1940s.

After the tree-planting, the Pupil Senate, accompanied by the visitors from Cottenham and Comberton retired to the Henry Morris Hall to hold an unprecedented jointmeeting of the three school councils. This was supportedby a representative from the Specialist Schools andAcademies Trust, who is particularly interested indeveloping further links between school councils indifferent schools. The discussions were ably led by our PupilSenate representatives, who were thoroughly impressive:courteous, professional and inspiring. The Senate are nowforging links with their peers in these other villagecolleges, with a view to collaborating on projects andcontinuing to learn from each other how best to lead pupilvoice projects. Everyone was left excited at the prospect ofthis new partnership.

Work on the Henry Morris filmwill continue over the next twoterms and run alongside otheractivities to mark the school’s80th anniversary. There will bean anniversary celebration inJuly 2011, when the HenryMorris film will enjoy itspremiere screening.

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On the assault course we had to runand flip over a metal bar and thenclimb over onto a 6 foot wall. Afterthat we jumped over a ditch andwalked across a wall and jumped offat the end that was called thecatwalk. Then we all ran onto a greenhill and jumped off it, then jumpedacross a few logs, we then had tocrawl in mud again learning how tostay low so the enemies cannot spotus. Half an hour later we had lunch forroughly half an hour.

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They followed a scheme of workwritten by the Art Department,which involved looking at anddrawing birds, studying the work ofthe Illustrator Eric Carle (who isfamous for his book ‘The HungryCaterpillar’) and using his techniqueof using tissue paper to makepictures.

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Every year the Geographical Associationholds a general knowledge fun quiz.This year’s event took place at ColeridgeCampus, Parkside School on Tuesday 23 November.

Sawston Village College entered a teamcomprising Matthew Evans, MichaelMiddleton and Eleanor Parkhill fromYear 10.

Sixteen schools took part and our teammade it through to the final where theycame third after King’s School Ely (2nd)and Perse School (1st). Our team werethe highest placed state school comingahead of Oundle School and Hinchingbrooke.

The team each won £15 WH Smith’s vouchers for reaching the final. Congratulations to the threestudents showing such good geographical knowledge and skills.

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Class 2 from Stapleford Primary Schoolvisited the College to learn aboutTheatre Sound and Lighting

On Monday 29 November, Class 2 from Stapleford School arrived at SVC to betaught some basics in Theatre Sound and Lighting by Peter Noble,

Tim Savill and Nick Drew of Year 9.

Ms Eden-Green the class teacher of Year 2 was veryimpressed with the way in which the Year 9sexplained some intricacies of tech work on stage.Then Lauren Thompson, Max Reader and RosieFeatherstone of Year 10 went through some actingtechniques on the HMH stage and kept the Year 2senthralled. It was a successful liaison between thetwo schools.

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September 2010 marked the beginning of the SVCInternational Forum. The excellent work completedlast year by the International Coordinators(organising International Week and setting uppartnerships with schools in Rwanda, Russia andChina) laid a foundation for the official forum to beestablished. Emmeline Carr in 11DB was successfulin achieving the role of International Forum Chairand has led us through a number of excitingprojects this term.

The forum is currently divided into four subgroups:Linked-in (this group are responsible formaintaining the links with our three partnerschools); Curriculum (this group are workingtowards embedding a global ethos in our lessons);Events (this group are in charge of organisingInternational Week, International Christmas Eveningand publicity of the forums work); Design forChange (this group have been focusing on a globalschools competition). Each group has made somefabulous progress this term and we would like totell you a little about the Linked-in and Design forChange groups in more detail.

Linked-inWe started our partnership with Russia inSeptember 2009 and have made some excellentfriends and colleagues. During last academic yearour project focused on ‘getting to know oneanother’ and finding out about our schools andways of live. This year we have a new team in bothschools who are focusing on two projects:“We canTalk to the World” (sharing our freedom ofcommunication and experience of other placesand cultures) and “Learning Partnerships” (wherewe will share information about our teachers andlessons). The Russian school is called Gymnasium16 and is situated in the city of Krasnoyarsk.Krasnoyarsk is smack bang in the middle of Siberia.When we thought of Russia, we imagined thefamous cities of Moscow and St.Petersburg whichthemselves seem very far away. We learnt thatKrasnoyarsk is actually 2084 miles from Moscow(the distance of going back and forth fromLondon-Paris 50 times!), a massive 3516 miles

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north-east from here. Each member of the SVClinked-in group has a Russian e-pal who wecommunicate with regularly. Even though ourfriends live to far away we have found that thereare many similarities between us, as well asdifferences.

In our most recent exchange we sharedinformation about Christmas traditions in Englandand in Russia. In England, even though we havecommunities from a diverse range of religiousbeliefs, Christmas is ‘celebrated’ (you would be ledto believe everybody celebrates it by the largeamount of advertising and marketing!) on the 25thDecember and the winter school holiday allows forthis. In Russia, the majority of the populationbelong to the Russian Orthodox Church soChristmas is celebrated on January 7th. Previously,Christmas was celebrated on 25th December, as ishere, but after the 1917 revolution Christmas wasbanned throughout Russia, along with otherreligious celebrations. It wasn’t until 1922 that theholiday actually began to be openly observedagain yet the Orthodox Church follow the oldJulian calendar which is 13 days behind theGregorian calendar used in the Western nations,hence the 7th January. The Yule-tide (festive andmerry days around Christmas) is called sviatki andhas many traditions and ceremonies attached to it.

One of these ceremonies is called Kolyadki (Christmas Carol) and involves the wishing of wealth and happiness onChristmas Eve. People dress as manger animals and travel from house to house singing the kolyadki - some songs areabout Baby Jesus, some are homages to the ancient Solar goddess Kolyada who brings lengthening days of sunlightthrough the winter. In return for their songs, singers are offered food and coins. The classic Christmas characters are DedMoroz (grandfather frost, a bit like Santa Claus but wears a blue suit) and his granddaughter Snegurotchka (Snow Maiden).

Design for ChangeThe Design for Change group was created in response tothe global schools competition of the same name. LastMarch, Phoebe Gilderdale went to India as part of herWork Experience and visited the Riverside School inAhmedabad (www.schoolriverside.com). Whilst there, shemet the head teacher Kiran Bir Sethi who had set up thiscompetition last year for schools in India. This year, shewas opening the opportunity up to the whole world toencourage pupils from all communities to say “I Can”. Theforum decided we would like to enter as the philosophiesand ethos mirrored ours. When we read accounts fromprojects entered last year, we were struck by just howamazing some of the stories were. Students, someyounger than us, came together and managed to stop 16

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child marriages. Another group auctioned their artwork to raise money tobuy hearing aids, giving the gift of sound to those who were not asfortunate as them. We realised that issues in our community did not evenbegin to compare to those faced by millions across the world living inpoverty and danger, faced by starvation and disease, living life as adesperate struggle.

This prompted us to notice an issue that we had already identified as inneed of addressing. Some countries, such as Rwanda where one of ourpartner schools is based, have very limited amounts of freedom - theycannot afford the luxuries that we take for granted, from the internet to aroof over their heads. The last civil war in Britain was the War of the Rosesin 1638, but in 1994 the genocide hit Rwanda, killing 800,000 people in just

100 days. Yet even after so much disaster and struggle, the children remain so positive about life, as was clear in the letterswe received from them in the summer. Our friends in Russia have told them of times when communication and artisticfreedom was very much censored. Even now, with more freedom ofspeech, as aforementioned, the pupils of Gymnasium 16 live in the middleof Siberia, so far away from Europe with very expensive travel costs,making it very difficult for them to see and experience the world. As theyouth of British society we could not even begin to contemplate howlucky they really are to live with so much freedom and how little anyonestops and considers how other people live in other parts of the world. Thisidea became the focus point for our project: Freedom is not Free. We feltthat we needed to do something about the growing sense of apathyevident in our generation so we planned an awareness campaign that welaunched on Monday 18th October. The campaign was to include fourdifferent strands: publicity to the school community through posters andyear assemblies; an arts competition on the theme of freedom; workshopsin SVC; workshops in local primary schools. All parts of the campaign weresuccessful and we had some stunning entries in the competition that included poetry, painting and even a song! Theworkshops in SVC went very well. It was rather nerve wracking for the team of year 11 presenters to ‘teach’ their peers butboth participators and leaders gained so much from the experience. Participators gave very positive feedback about thepupil-led activities, one pupil saying that it really made them think differently about the privileges we have. Likewise, inour local primary schools, all pupils engaged with the topic. The SVCworkshops focused on ‘The Game’ where each table became a country forthe lesson with a variety of problems to solve, each with relevant budgets,political situations and varying freedoms. The primary workshops focusedmore on our partner school in Rwanda, using real information to teachthe pupils about life for children in a different country. Even though wecompleted and submitted our project on November 24th, the themes ofthis project will continue to lie at the heart of the International Forum. Youcan see our competition submission at www.designforchangeuk.org.

It has been a very busy but rewarding term for us and we hope to fill youin with our next instalment soon.

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Remembrance Day is very different for me now. This yearwas the first time I had worn a poppy and thought aboutall those men who gave their lives in such terribleconditions.

I loved this trip! You would think that visiting cemeterieswas boring, but I could not believe how much I learnedfrom it.

The best bit was the Menin Gate. I was very emotionalthat the Belgians remember every night their freedomand we only do it once a year.

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Year 9 student Peter Noble, from the school ‘tech’ team,recently celebrated success in securing funding from theJudith Parnwell Awards. These Awards were set up tocommemorate the contribution to school life of well-loved former school nurse, Judith Parnwell, who sadlydied from cancer. In this, the last year of funding, judgeswere looking, in particular, for projects which showed andfocused on community benefit, helping those less able,developing life skills and commitment outside school.The judges, who included Judith’s children, Lisa Bedfordand Giles Parnwell, were also interested in projects whichdemonstrated clear objectives, and showed originalityand evidence of teamwork and enthusiasm.

Peter applied for funding for additional stage lighting andbrackets, and since the school tech team supports school,extracurricular and community productions, the judgeswere easily able to identify community benefit, andevidence of great enthusiasm and teamwork in his bid.

Awarding a total of £2,000, the judges were able tosupport five different projects, with the application fromthe tech team claiming second place among thoseprojects supported. Top of those projects awardedfunding was the International Forum, whose applicationthe judges felt showed commitment to both communitybenefit and helping those less able. All of the judgeslooked forward to hearing more about the developmentof this project in the future. Further projects whichreceived support included Sawston Youth Drama,Junior Sports Leader Award and the Foreign Film Project.

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STOP PRESS!School of Lego, a short film made by students from Sawston Village College,supported by an award from funding body First Light Movies, has been shortlistedin the category of ‘best animation’ for the First Light Awards 2011, due to takeplace at the Odeon, Leicester Square in March. With four films shortlisted in this category, allfingers will be crossed when the judges announce their final verdicts at the event in London.Among the star-studded line-up expected at the awards are Daniel Craig and Harry Potter filmdirector, David Yates.

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