The Wyvern @DSMS_Wyvern
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Very Peculiar Since last time we have discovered a Marmite flavoured chocolate so we tried it and here is the response. Rebecca Parkinson - Nice, but I wouldn’t go out and buy it. Miss Bloomer - It tastes of gravy. Tyler Hutchinson - Tastes of ... (not printable!) Katie Appleyard - Shoudn’t have been invented. Almost made me sick. Mr Thompson - Not too bad.
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Science Superstar in School The first DSMS award evening took place on Tuesday 8th November 2011. There was a variety of awards from Excellence in English to Citizenship awards and awards for helping the community. The previous year 11s received their GCSE certificates as well. Professor John Kilcoyne from Brainiac was there to give people their awards and he also performed a stunning show at the end where he blew stuff up. Headteacher, Mr C Kipling,
quotes “The award evening was superb. Well done to all those involved. Professor Kilcoyne was a star.” Doctor John Kilcoyne quotes “I was very privileged to be involved in such an evening which demonstrated all that education is about! Confidence of pupils and past pupils being strengthened by public celebration of their achievements. All organised by the dedicated staff who patently took pride and pleasure in their students' successes.”
Roxanne Wood, 13, received 2 awards for MFL and History. She told us “I was very proud of my self, it inspired me to do well next year.” For more photos of Professor John Kilcoyne at DSMS visit our blog. (Address on page 8)
Bye, bye Branksome Bugle We have renamed our newspaper the Wyvern because that is the mythical creature on this carved stone crest of the Kitching family (left). This block was once situated over the front door of Branksome Hall and also used to adorn the wall of the foyer in DSMS. Have a look out for it if you ever visit the school.
The motto carved in stone is “Nunquam Cedo” which means “I never yield” or “I never give up”. Hopefully this motto still inspires members of the school even t o d a y ! Anyway, we have had to rename the newspaper because people think that it would be a good idea to revamp the newspaper as
the school goes into a n e w e r a . Altogether we made 8 editions of the Branksome Bugle and in that time we met many politicians, other journalists and we represented the school on numerous occasions like the time when we went to Downing Street to drop off a children's charter.