The Wyvern Issue
Darlington School of Maths and Science
English Congratulations to the 20 pupils from DSMS who have had their poems published in „Poetry Matters 2011‟. A copy of the book will be on view in the library.
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2011
Bye, bye Branksome Bugle some Hall and now adorns the wall of the foyer in DSMS. Have a look out for it if you ever visit the school. Some of the school staff don‟t even know where it comes from.
Each pupil in Year 7 will be receiving a free book this month from the national “Booked Up” scheme. The pupils all chose a book from a long list of titles available.
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 today! We have renamed our newspaper the Wyvern because that is the mythical creature on this carved stone crest of the Kitching family (above). This block was once situated over the front door of Brank-
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
new era. There might be a slight difference in how much we can fit on a page however we make sure that only good quality content makes it to the pages. 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. More on page 4
School Newspaper Mentioned by OFSTED In July our school was visited by Ofsted inspectors. Every pupil and member of staff received a copy of the report so I do not need to repeat the results here – what I would like to say though, is how proud I am that the school newspaper team was praised by the report. Each term we seem to get more pupils involved in writing articles for the paper and we would like to invite any new year 7s who
have anything to say to come and see us. If you want to do a book, film, or game review or have a hobby or sport you would like to tell us about or anything else you are enthusiastic about – come and see me (Mrs Surtees), Liam Pape, Katie Appleyard or any of the editing team in the library before school, at break or lunchtime. The newspaper has a new name now and an exciting new look so help us to
make the content equally new and interesting. Thank you to David Regan and The Branksome & Cockerton Partnership who sponsored us when we first started and enabled our paper to be distributed to 2,000 homes in the area and thanks too to our new head teacher Mr Kipling for enabling us to now produce our newspaper in colour. By Mrs Surtees