TFL Drama Competition On June 10th the Drama club took part in a performance competition for Transport for London. The requirements for the competition were to devise a 15 minute piece of Drama about road safety, using the theme: “Don’t die before you’ve lived” from the TFL adverts.
Sodexho Healthy Dessert Competition
The group had three sessions with professional drama practitioner, Kelly Wilkinson, to come up with ideas for their performance, which ended up being about getting into a car with someone who is driving dangerously. The students put in a lot of hard work and effort to get their performance ready and spent many nights in rehearsals after school. After a warm up performance at the Wimbledon showcase, the girls were ready to present their performance in the competition.
As apart of GCSE Food Technology we were asked to design a healthy dessert suitable to serve in the Academy dining room.
We competed against Bishopsford, Wimbledon High and Ricards Lodge for the prize, which was judged by a panel of experts. The girls put on a great show and pulled off their best performance to date. Ricards Lodge managed to grab the winning slot, but the girls still came away with a huge sense of achievement for the great performance that they all put in. Well done to the Drama group for all your hard work and effort, I’m sure next year we’ll be even better and get that elusive first place. A big thanks to Kelly Wilkinson for all of her help on the project and to Dilys Martin for organising the event.
Following that, over six weeks in our lessons we completed a project designing a healthy product to be sold in the dining room. We tested out ideas and developed them. Then the dietician, the catering manager at HAM, the Principal Mr Halpin and Mr Morrison came to judge the final products.
Ms V Bradley, Teacher of Drama
Media and Sports Workshop at Harris Bermondsey
The dietician from Sodexho came in and gave the class an insight about the process they have to go through to produce a suitable dessert for school dining rooms. After that, we had a demonstration from two chefs that work for Sodexho and they showed us how to create a healthy product in a limited time of 40 minutes and they created a large variety of products for us to sample.
There was hard competition, but my product stood out from the rest of the desserts. As a result, I was awarded the winner of the competition and my product will now be sold in the Academy’s dining room and if it is a success it will be sold nationwide. Look out for my ‘Healthy Strawberry Cheesecake’. I enjoyed the task and it gave me an insight to the real world in the Food Industry and improved my enterprising skills. I am looking forward to listening to my new iPod which was the prize of the competition. Alison Macaulay, Year 11
In July several high-achieving Year 8 students showed some fantastic enterprising skills over at Harris Bermondsey. Sixteen students with a range of different skills were selected to represent the Academy in a cross-federation Media and Sports workshop. Each student entered a mixed team, with other students from across the federation and worked together to create a DVD promoting aerobic exercise. The students worked with experts to hone their presentation, filming and performing skills, before performing their pitches and sequences before the judges. All of the routines will be made part of a Federation DVD so watch this space for your own copy! A fantastic effort from all participants and an especially big well done to Leah Kempadoo in B8B who was part of the winning team. Ms C Robson, Teacher of English and Media
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