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As we approach the summer holidays I want to start by thanking you all for all you have been doing during these difficult and challenging times – it is quite remarkable to think of the resilience and energy that has been demanded of everyone this term – and the work you have been engaging with to make things as positive as possible. Thank you, to you and to all your families. All the events, activities and achievements in this term’s Summatim are even more impressive as they took place when the school was mostly closed and reflects the hard work, talent and determination of our students alongside the constant support of parents, governors and a committed and dedicated staff.
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Senior Prefect Team 2020 - 2021
18 outstanding young men and women were put through a daunting process involving student votes, staff votes and an interview with the Headteacher, the Director of Sixth Form and their Head of Year. The interview panel were extremely impressed by the high quality of all those on this final shortlist. Warmest congratulations to joint Captains of School: Rose Hind and Joshua Selfridge, with Vice Captains: Ayomide Akande, Sheena Akende, Georgia Higgins, Srikar Namireddy, William Song, Mitra Stainsbury and Ishkaar Ujoodia.
Students’ Return to School It was a real pleasure to welcome Year 10 and 12 students back to school for sessions in a full range of subjects. It was wonderful to see them back in school enjoying socialising again with their year as well as going over the work they should have covered during the lockdown period.
Year 12 also went through all the information needed to complete their UCAS applications. Under normal circumstances, this would be a very busy day in school with a variety of speakers from different universities, but this was not possible this year. Thank you again to all the parents for supporting your child and the school during the return period.
Everyone at school is now planning, reflecting, organising, communicating, adjusting, reshaping and responding in preparation for the full return of school in September. We look forward to seeing smiles and hearing laughter across all year groups when the new academic year commences. Although things will be different, with talk about bubbles, social distancing and handwashing, what I do know is that the values of our School will continue to shine through all our endeavours.
Andrew Rees, Headteacher
Summer Term 2020 – in this issue:
University Offers
This has been a record year for students’ successes in Medical related courses. 48 students have gained Medical, Dentistry or Veterinary Science offers. This is very impressive and congratulations to the students for their hard work in preparing for their interviews. 38 of these offers are for Medicine, which we should be very proud of in this current climate and continues the impressive number of Olavians who have entered the profession. This is alongside all of Year 13 who must be congratulated for their excellent work on their applications and gaining their offers across a wide variety of courses.
Page 2: Sport, Olympiads, Challenges and Science
Page 3: English and Drama, Music and Celebration
Page 4: Societies and Humanities
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SPORTS Cricket Team of the Century CRICKET TEAM OF THE CENTURY
Team Sheet: 1. Ishkaar Ujoodia (2014 – current)
Head Coach - Mr D. Craig Asst Coach - Mr R. Archer
2. Tomas Gallagher (2010-17) 3. James Goodman (2002-09)
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Asst Coach - Mr A. Kenward
4. Daniel Fargie (2008 – 15) 5. Nick Round (1999– 06) 6. Sohayl Ujoodia (2011 - 18) 7. Kieran Walton (2011 - 18) 8. James Greenidge (1995 -02) 9. Hasan Rahij (2011- 18)
There has been lots of voting and interest in the Olavian Cricket Team of the Century from current Olavians
10. Nick Chute (1995 – 02) 11: Matt Twose (2001 - 08) 12th Man: Matt Lane (2011- 18)
and Old Olavians. This initiative by the PE Department has even been liked by ex-England star, Kevin Pietersen!
Sports Competitions
The PE Department ran an online Twitter voting system to decide the ‘St Olave’s 1st XV team of the decade.’ After careful discussion and deliberation between coaches, past and present, they eventually narrowed each position down to include four players. Each day of voting included a different position and the person with the most votes was selected as a member of our ultimate ‘St Olave’s 1st XV team of the decade.’ The aim of this initiative is a simple one: to reconnect Olavians past and present, which hopefully rekindles some great memories for all.
Fives Courts
Progress on the development of the new Fives Courts has continued at a rapid pace during the course of the summer term, with the external walls all now in place and the project scheduled for completion in August. The doubling of the school’s capacity from four to eight courts will enable us to become a Fives hub and to foster more readily the extensive talent which Olavians show for this specialised and fast paced sport.
OLYMPIADS AND CHALLENGES Isaac Physics Challenge
Congratulations to Year 12 students Joshua Selfridge and Arunabh Bagchi who were selected to attend the Virtual Isaac Physics Senior Physics Challenge, led by Fellows at the Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge. This event consisted of one or two sessions each day of pre-recorded mini lectures on topics including ‘A Cavendish Quantum Mechanics Primer'.
‘Oxygen’
Well done to Year 9 student, Avdesh Dagar, who produced an excellent webpage in response to an enrichment activity set by the Chemistry department.
Junior Mathematical Challenge
Well done to Year 7 and 8, of whom 117 and 125 students took part with very high proportions gaining certificates. Unfortunately, there will be no follow on rounds this year. We would especially like to congratulate Angad Arya and Edward Hawkins for gaining the highest score in their year group, with Edward gaining full marks. A huge thank you to Mrs Berry for her hard work in supporting this event.
Olavian Mathematical Newsletter
Congratulations to the students who put together the first edition of the Olavian Mathematical Newsletter featuring a wide range of articles, including one from Dr Ashford on his journey into mathematical research. Other articles include: Surya Senthilkumar – ‘The power of graphs’; Rishi Tandon – ‘The importance of mathematics on our lives’ and Advait Menon – ‘The Mathematics behind neural networks’.
Year 13 Biologists
There has been outstanding work undertaken remotely by our students and staff this term. Dr Bradley shared the following: ‘Being isolated at home has, by no means, prevented our students from engaging in practical work. One of the topics covered in Year 13 relates to how organisms can become habituated to stimuli. This means that they learn, through experience, that stimuli that cause them no harm can be ignored. In the case of the snails, gently touching them between the eye stalks with a cotton wool bud for the first time results in immediate withdrawal of the stalks, which gradually then re-emerge over a period of seconds. By the tenth time they are touched in this way, the snails have learnt that the repetitive ’touch’ stimuli causes them no harm and do not withdraw their eye stalks at all! They have become habituated to the stimuli of ’touch’ and can focus on more threatening stimuli (such as avoiding dry conditions) or more rewarding stimuli (such as smell of food)’.
Periodic Table
SCIENCE Junior Physics Society
Year 9 Physicists have shown the initiative and drive to set up their own Society during the School closure. The Society had its inaugural meeting on 1st June, where Aaditya Nandwani gave a superb presentation on ‘The Big Bang and Formation of the Early Universe’. The meeting was well attended, and we look forward to more high quality presentations from our budding Physicists.
Junior Physics Challenge
The whole of Years 9 and 10 were given the opportunity to sit the Junior Physics Challenge in exceptional circumstances and, given the issues with access to IT equipment in some cases, we had a fantastic turnout of about 70% of the two year groups. The students worked really hard and achieved fantastic results once again with 59 Gold, 52 Silver and 51 Bronze awards. Particular congratulations go to the eight Year 9s who have already achieved a Gold award in this difficult test. They were Ojas Tiwari, Joshua Mead, Nirros Sarvamohan, Amitan Joseph, Benjamin Sharp, Avdesh Dagar, Abhinav Perikala and Ioan Negru. Well done to all who participated.
Chemistry Journal
Congratulations to editor Surya Senthilkumar and all the students who contributed to the first issue of the Olavian Chemistry Journal. This is a superb piece of collaborative work, achieved throughout lock-down. It features a diverse selection of topics ranging from explosive reactions to electron microscopes. This issue aims to display the energy and excitement of the world of chemistry, as well as the dedicated passion of the writers of this journal.
This beautiful periodic table island was created by Year 12 student, Sarah, after reading 'The Periodic Table' by Peter Atkins.
Space Research
In Physics, Year 9 student Wafi has been working on essays about Space, including research on Galaxies, Stars and Black Holes. This is the opening to one of his essays: 'Galaxies, Stars and Black Holes - The Master Players of the Universe Galaxies, stars, planets and Black Holes are present in the biggest structure in the universe called the Great Wall which is a giant sheet of galaxies 500 million light years long and 16 million light years thick. Who knows - there may even be a bigger supercluster of galaxies lying somewhere in the universe, awaiting for science to unveil its presence?'
Cambridge Chemistry Challenge
64 students took part in this year's remote Challenge and were presented with various scenarios and contexts to apply their chemical knowledge and mathematical skills to solve a selection of problems. The tests are mainly designed for Year 12 students, so huge credit must be given to the nine Year 11 students who took part this year. Well done to all students and thank you to Dr Carpenter for her supervision, organisation and administration of the tests.
MUSIC AND CELEBRATION
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Chemistry
Year 9 Chemistry students have been experimenting at home to see what percentage of air is made up of oxygen.
Year 12 chemists created these colourful posters on the Enthalpy Cycles during the lockdown period.
Life Cycle of a Star
Year 9 Joshua Miles produced an excellent poster on the Life Cycle of a Star.
MATHEMATICS AND COMPUTING Mathematics
Mr Savage, Dr Ashford and their Year 11 Maths classes explored some aspects of the AQA Core Maths qualification (Level 3) including ‘back of envelope’ calculations (a.k.a. Fermi estimation) to determine, roughly, how many dentists are there in Bristol and how many piano tuners are there in London. This is having already finished the Free Standing Maths Qualification.
Perse Coding Team Challenge
Mind Maps
Sixth Form Biology students created mind maps on various topics, including Dreams and The Brain.
CREST Awards
Three Year 8 students have been awarded a Bronze Level CREST Award for experimental work that they carried out before lockdown. Congratulations to Year 8 students, Amogh Bhat and Joshua Fakulujo for their investigation into how different types of metal affect the current in a circuit and to Aravinthsri Sivasritharan for his experiment on how to increase the percentage yield in an acid-base reaction. Huge congratulations to all the boys for their efforts. They will receive certificates when we return to school.
Choristers of the Queen’s Chapel of the Savoy
Many thanks to everyone who was able to participate in the 2020 Perse Coding Team Challenge Round 2. Due to unprecedented circumstances following the spread of COVID-19, unfortunately only 11 teams from St Olave’s were able to make an entry at such short notice. The results achieved by students were outstanding and included six Distinctions, five Merits and three Higher Participation Certificates. St Olave’s has been ranked in the top ten performing schools nationally once again this year.
Chess
Chess Club hosted their first tournament online which lasted a gruelling two and a half hours with five rounds being played. It was good to see 26 players from across the school participating. Congratulations to our top three players: 1st Place: Agastya Singh - 4 wins, 1 draw; 2nd Place: Srikar Namireddy - 4 wins, 1 loss; 3rd Place: Linus Luu - 4 wins, 1 loss. Online Chess Club continued with quick matches over an hour. Congratulations to our top three players: Yong Wang - 51 points; Ben Joshua Yip 34 points; Aneesh Sagar - 30 points.
ENGLISH AND DRAMA Coronavirus Chronicles
The English Department invited students to write a poem or short story responding to the current situation. Thank you to Year 11 student Krishna Akella, who was the first to submit a poem, and we hope we shall see many more.
The National Theatre
Olavian playwrights have been hard at work completing their plays for submission to The National Theatre. Although unable to meet with our playwright, Jennifer Farmer, for feedback, we did receive some helpful written advice. The students have created some fantastic work and it has been a pleasure reading them. The subjects range from immigration detention centres, to hired hitmen, to political activism, to the Education system, to a man who has gambled away his freedom.
The Queen’s Chapel of the Savoy is closed and will remain so for the foreseeable future. Their Sunday services have nevertheless been taking place via podcast through Spotify and other platforms (search ‘Royal Chapel Savoy’). Only some of these services have been able to include choral music sung by members of the choir for obvious reasons. However, thanks to technology and the hard work of musicians and those with superb sound editing skills, it has been possible to incorporate a few recordings featuring just our Olavian Choristers.
Shape Your Own Sound Challenge
Congratulations to Alfie who, despite lockdown, entered the SYOS (Shape Your Own Sound) Challenge. SYOS is a Paris-based saxophone and clarinet mouthpiece company who have set ten musical challenges. It was an international competition for all ages and Alfie was the winner.
Lower School Celebration
Our annual Lower School Celebration event took place remotely this year. Prizes will be distributed when we return to school in September. Congratulations to all the boys who won Academic, Diligence, Tutor and Governors’ Awards.
Young Financial Journalist of the Year
Congratulations to Year 10 student, William, on winning the Young Financial Journalist of the Year (14-15 age group), a competition run in partnership with the Financial Times. William’s article looked at how technology could change the future of banking, and Claer Barrett, one of the judges, said: ‘I thought this entry was a great piece of writing, and showed in-depth knowledge of the banking sector, rather than facts being parroted. This writer actually did something with the information, and thought through the consequences, and prescient – the move towards digital currencies and crypto could be nearer than we think. Quite, as the current crisis has proved (cash is dead!)’
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Jazz
Our Jazz Band would normally have played in the summer concert and to make up for no performance this year they put together an online recording of ‘Vehicle’ by James Peterik, organised by Year 13 Senior Prefect, Joel Kavoor, with video and sound editing by James Bergin and Joseph Barradell.
‘Jazz Chickens’
Environmental Society wrote news articles and a blog on a range of issues from ‘Why learning a language could help to solve the climate crisis’ to a response to ‘Scientists Warn 12 Years to Save Planet’. The Society meets remotely every Friday to discuss and debate a variety of environmental issues. Students can upload work in the form of essays and videos into their virtual locker. They can record their school, co-curriculum and outside school achievements and activities such as volunteering, teamwork and leadership. As they progress, they build up their profile ready for creating their own references for work experience, apprenticeships and higher education. Reflecting on and recording their successes and competencies helps boost students’ confidence.
The Olavian Economist
Lancaster Writing Awards
SOCIETIES
Mr Greenwood and Mr Carroll along with members of the Classics Society and Economics Society held a joint talk about the Economics of Diocletian and the Later Roman Empire. Diocletian saved the Roman Empire following the Third Century Crisis; during the 200s emperors were proclaimed and dethroned within days by the fickleness of the legions, plague and economic turmoil were rampant and it took one man (and his three partners) to reorganize the empire and unwittingly lay the foundations for modern Europe.
Physics and Engineering Society
The Society have been posting weekly on their Instagram various articles, videos, news and facts to replace the talks they would normally have, which has increased the Society’s following significantly. They have also started a new series called 'How It Works' to discuss the physics behind everyday scenarios in short videos. The first episode was about how footballers score the perfect goal (the curved path of a ball in the air). This has over 140 views currently!
Environmental Society
Environmental Society is launching an exciting upcycling competition over the summer, where students and staff form a creation using materials that are to be thrown away or recycled. These creations can be a sculpture, a piece of artwork or anything else that catches their imagination as long as it uses materials which were destined for the bin. The best projects will be featured on the Environmental Society section of the school website, as well as winning points for their house.
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HUMANITIES
Humanities Essay Competition
Classics and Economics Society
Black Tudors
Year 7 students are continuing with the production of some excellent work around Black Tudors, and a special mention should go to Year 7 student, Nathan Inwang, for his recent work.
A band comprising Lower and Middle School students, called the ‘Jazz Chickens’, created a video performance of a medley of songs.
Congratulations to Shrinidhi Prakash whose essay on WB Yeats came 2nd in the Criticism category for the above Awards.
researchers there work with policymakers and international business partners, and their work is regularly cited in international media including the BBC and the FT.
Congratulations to Year 12 students Rose Hind and Ishan Kalia who have been shortlisted for the New College of the Humanities Essay Competition out of 5,000 entries. Ishan’s essay was entitled ‘Which problems will Economists need to solve in the next 20 years and will artificial intelligence help them?’, and Rose’s essay was: ‘Should the law allow government to strike special deals with certain companies in order to attract foreign investment?’ Good luck to both students for the awards ceremony.
History Society
The Society has been meeting regularly during lockdown, with members from Year 7 upwards. Year 12 student, Edward Foxhall, led a talk on the evacuation of Dunkirk. Students were asked to watch clips of the film beforehand and the discussion centred on the history of the events. Edward then answered questions on the topic, with the whole meeting shared on Microsoft Teams and recorded for students who missed it. Further debates included History Society joining with Feminism Society to discuss the Suffragettes and their impact in history.
Congratulations to our economists on the publication of the 5th edition of The Olavian Economist. This was written by Sixth Form students, the Economics Department, some Year 11s and Old Olavians. Copies are available to purchase via Amazon at a cost of £5 each, with all profits being donated to NHS related charities.
Olavian Economists’ Blog
Sixth Form students created a thriving Olavian Economist Blog where A Level Economics students are sharing some very interesting articles on areas such as: ‘Entrepreneurship in Emerging Economies’; ‘A Brief History of the Tarriff’; and ‘Time to switch to the Doughnut’.
Untold Stories
The History Department are putting together articles on the topic of 'Untold Stories' for history which has often been under-represented. The History and Politics blog has also received a number of very good submissions from pupils of all year groups and staff.
Political Economy Society
Ishan Kalia gave a great talk on the IMF and its response to the Coronavirus pandemic. Ansh Batura gave a similarly impressive pre-recorded presentation on the theme of Business Economics, entitled ‘Pricing Strategies and Tactics’. In addition, Political Economy Society ran a debate in collaboration with Environmental Society, on the motion ‘Is it possible to save the Earth without getting poorer?’
Sheffield Political Economy Research Institute
Congratulations to Ishan Kalia whose article on ‘Wealth taxation and its importance in the current context’ has been published on the blog page of the Sheffield Political Economy Research Institute (SPERI). This is an international research institute which aims to understand the major economic and political challenges arising from capitalism. The
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‘Lockdown Chronicles’
The school is aiming to create an historical record of the unique experiences of school life during the COVID-19 lockdown. By asking for contributions from across the Olavian community, we hope to capture the broadest possible range of thoughts, feelings and emotions on how school life has changed during these unprecedented times. We hope the Lockdown Chronicles will serve as a record for future generations of Olavians which they can explore and learn from when they reflect on the pandemic.
Page 6: Lockdown Initiatives, Art and Technology, Student Achievements
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ACADEMIC JOURNAL SAINT OLAVE'S GRAMMAR SCHOOL
PUNK SUBCULTURE THROUGH THE AGES
Student Publication
Congratulations to Lasith Siriwardana who recently had an article that he wrote for the Olavian Economics Blog published in the Sri Lankan Sunday Times
MFL
Year 12 Germanists prepared a virtual tour of the East Side Gallery in Berlin, analysing the artwork on display, understanding the background of the artists and building an interpretation of the Gallery as a place of memory for all people. Year 10 Germanists learnt about typical German food and created presentations of themselves describing a photograph of a favourite dish in German. Students who were due to visit Wilhelmshaven on their Exchange in July sought alternative ways to engage with their partners e.g. by translating a series of questions from English into German and sending these to their partners to find out how their city has responded to the Coronavirus and how they feel about this. Year 10 French students revisited the imperfect tense and the topic of healthy living in the present context of quarantine, writing about their lifestyles pre-quarantine and contrasting them with the way they live now.
presentation in German on the benefits and risks of driverless cars to the rest of the Year 12 German class earlier this year, which was recorded, and submitted to this prestigious national competition. We received the comment from the organisers of the competition that ‘the judges were very impressed with your entry’, along with the news that JJ had won in this category. Unfortunately, the prizegiving ceremony which usually takes place at the University of Oxford has been postponed to 2021, but JJ has received an electronic copy of her certificate.
MFL Journal
Congratulations to Min Jie (JJ) Guo in Year 12 who has won the Year 12 and Year 13 Oxford German Olympiad 2020 Category. The theme for entries into this category was ‘fahrerloser Verkehr’ (driverless cars). JJ gave a fascinating
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ISSUE 6
Careers Update
To support those interested in a career in finance, Morgan Stanley provided links to attend their virtual Banking Early Careers Programmes. The Virtual Mixed Open Day is aimed at all Year 13 students and consists of interactive workshops and presentations about the company. ‘Step In, Step Up’ is an introductory two-day programme designed for Year 12/13 female students. This virtual programme comprises divisional overviews, case studies, panel sessions and interactive workshops. The Royal Society of Biology published a lively and informative online magazine focussing on careers in Biology titled ’A Guide to Biology Careers - Spotlight on the Life Sciences’. Numerous subdisciplines of Biology were featured such as agroecology, bioengineering and synthetic biology. Specialists describe their work and career paths in interviews which highlight how the boundaries between traditional subjects blur and increasingly merge with disciplines such as Maths, Physics and Chemistry.
COMMUNITY Site Developments
Aspiring medics of African-Caribbean descent in Years 10 to 13 or their parents may be interested in joining the network of ’Melanin Medics’. Their mailing list has events, work experience opportunities and application tips. Despite advances, African-Caribbeans are still underrepresented in Medicine and the charity is dedicated to ensuring that the increase continues.
It is a real pleasure to see the recently created PA Quad between the ADT and Science blocks looking magnificent having been re-seeded, dressed and kept thoroughly watered during lockdown. We now need students back to use it. During the Easter holidays, St Olave’s was awarded the Healthy Schools London Bronze Award for deepening our focus on health and wellbeing, and further supporting the attainment, achievement, health and wellbeing of our pupils, staff and wider school communities.
Oxford German Olympiad
BLACK HOLES: NATURE'S GREATEST MONSTER
While in lockdown, the final touches to the latest edition of the MFL journal were added. Its modern finish complements the wide range of articles presented from ancient Chinese mythology to Catalan poetry, via a pre-COVID-19 exclusive interview with the UK Ambassador to Spain on career opportunities related to studying Modern Languages. Articles were written in a total of six languages by Sixth Formers. Whether you are interested in history, music, human rights or literature, you are bound to find something you enjoy reading.
Healthy Schools Award
Year 9 Germanists learnt new vocabulary to identify family members and how to describe their personalities. They also recorded themselves speaking in German about a family of their choice to describe the relationships between the family members and embedded these recordings into a PowerPoint slide to create a presentation. Year 9, Mark Sanu, produced a fantastic Stop Motion Video to describe his ‘best friend’ in German. Year 9 Germanists studied a short-film entitled ‘Felix’ analysing the characters, talking about the plot, learning key words, writing film reviews in German, using an impressive range of structures and vocabulary, and featuring welljustified opinions.
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Wellbeing Journal
Congratulations and thank you to Mrs Maxwell and the students who contributed to the third edition of ‘INSIGHT’, the Olavian Wellbeing Journal. In the foreword Mrs Maxell states ‘This journal demonstrates how Olavians engage in research and writing far beyond the curriculum in a measured and thoughtful way. The articles here are varied, challenging and poignant and show our thinking needs to be constantly challenged. I am grateful to all of those involved in putting this journal together and hope it provides a moment of reflection.’
Work Experience
We encourage our senior students to undertake work experience as part of their careers’ education. This year, unfortunately, opportunities have been affected by the virus. In order to improve how we offer work experience to our students in the future and to assist those who have completed it, we are requesting students’ feedback on any experiences undertaken this year. There is advice about finding and applying for work experience on Unifrog and opportunities are promoted on Springpod, InvestIN and Moodle.
What Career Live
‘What Next’ features information and links relating to careers and universities. There are university open days, apprenticeship opportunities, company profiles, jobs with ongoing training and information for parents. They have gone virtual with their careers exhibition which is open for registration and takes place on 7/8 August. There are also numerous workshops, talks and advice sessions including some for parents and carers
Apprenticeships
Higher and degree apprenticeships are increasingly an option for students. Employers use rigorous selection processes to ensure their investment in a young person will be worthwhile for their organisation. Useful information to guide students and their parents is contained in The National Apprenticeship Service’s Parents’ and Carers’ Pack June 2020 which is now available to download from their website. The detailed guide contains clearly presented information on finding an apprenticeship in the current situation, traineeships are explained and there are interviews with current apprentices.
Feminist Society
During lockdown Camille Saunders delivered an excellent talk in collaboration with the MFL Society on how different cultures have impacted the feminist movement. Feminist Society also joined with the Environmental Society to look at how climate change disproportionality impacts young girls and women - a unique topic which stimulated interesting debate.
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Summer Term Clap for Carers
Sixth Form Congratulations Evening
Thank you to Mr Birtchnell, Ms Benham, Ms Clift and the new School Captains, Rose and Joshua, for hosting a Microsoft Teams live event for the Year 11 students who we hope will join us in the Sixth Form in September. The event allowed us to highlight many of the outstanding opportunities and support when the new term begins. We hope the session alleviated any concerns, anxieties and challenges students might have about joining us either from our current Year 11 or from another school.
STUDENT LOCKDOWN INITIATIVES Musical interludes
Many of our students have been involved in engaging with their neighbours during the Clap for our Carers. Year 8 student, Yiming, played ‘You Raise Me Up’ on the violin and Year 10 student, Rohan, together with his neighbours and members of his family, performed ‘Always Look On The Bright Side of Life’. Well done and thank you to everyone who was involved with Clap for our Carers. St. Olave’s has a long tradition of providing medical students and many of them will now be working on the frontline. We are also aware that there will be critical workers and keyworkers in many of our families.
Radio Society of Great Britain
Congratulations to Year 8 student, Tymoteusz, who completed the Ham Radio Foundation course organised by Essex Ham Radio. After this he continued to self-study different aspects of electronics, technology, radio wave propagation, physics, health and safety, legal regulations. Tymoteusz has now passed his Amateur Radio Examination Foundation Level, organised by the Radio Society of Great Britain, achieving 24 out of 26 points. He has already received his ham radio licence issued by OFCOM.
Fundraising
Well done to Danis Wu in Year 11 who put together a video and a GoFundMe page to raise money for the NHS during the Coronovirus crisis, raising several hundred pounds. Brothers Arjun and Angad Arya were really touched by what they heard on the news and this made them show great empathy towards the vulnerable and homeless people. Being inspired to do their little bit, they took part in the 2.6 Challenge, which raised £1,123 by running and biking on a daily basis. Year 8 students have been making great use of their time in between remote learning - Joseph cleared out his book cupboard with a view to donating those he no longer wants to charity, whilst Ayan spent approximately five hours and
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used over 1,000 loom bands to create a fantastic rainbow tribute to the NHS and Frontline workers.
ART AND TECHNOLOGY ‘My Favela’
7B completed some brilliant pieces of work where they design and build their own 3D cardboard structures. They were asked to create a drawing focussing on perspective as part of their project.
ARTiculation Challenge
Year 9 student, Oscar Virgoe, has been selected as a finalist in this annual competition for his presentation on Philip Hardwick and the architecture of Euston Station. The competition is dedicated to engaging Key Stage 4 students with art and to develop their confidence and ability to express their opinions, thoughts and conclusions. Oscar took part in the virtual Final, adjudicated by Helen Watson, the director of the Tetley in Leeds.
Art Project
SELKENT
Galactic Challenge
Well done to all the students who responded to an enrichment work opportunity they were offered during lockdown. Each of our teams received excellent personal feedback on their entries and were awarded the following results. Special mention goes to: • ‘Proxima’ - Vaibhav Mehra (10N), Siddarth Mishra (10L) and Harsha Pendyala (10N) - Best of KS4 • ‘Project OPIS’ - James Hayes, Sophie Bata-Madden and Nicholas Munro Y13 Best in KS5 • ‘The Bumblebee’ - Amogh Bhat (8L), Srithan Chanda (8L) and Raagav Manivannan (8H) - Gold Award • ‘The Lunar Loner’ - Shaun Abraham (8B) - Silver Award • ‘Moonsensus Nomad’ - Arpan Sharma (7C) and Kaustubh Malviya (7C) - Bronze Award • ‘Roll-Model’ - Aashman Kumar (8B) and Jawad Uddin (8B) - Bronze Award • ‘Apollogy’ - Aarav Gupta (8B) - Bronze Award
Robot
Year 7 student, Yash Ghanate, made his own robot over the lockdown period.
Old Olavian
Congratulations to Benjamin Ryan who achieved a First Class in Economics and Econometrics from the University of Nottingham and was awarded the School Prize for Performance in Undergraduate Final Year from the University of Nottingham School of Economics. Benjamin is currently undertaking a summer internship in Leveraged Finance at Citi and will be commencing his postgraduate studies at Cambridge in September.
Student Achievements Well done to Nam, Tristan, Jacob, Tymoteusz and Louis in Year 8 for creating these splendid pieces of artwork as part of their Surrealism project.
The James Dyson Foundation
Dyson engineers have designed challenges specifically for children. Ideal for home or in the classroom, they encourage inquisitive young minds to become excited about engineering. Congratulations to Year 11 student, Navaneeth, who has been active in lockdown completing the challenges.
Computer Animation
Year 13 student, Alex Cockshott, has accepted an unconditional offer to study Computer Animation Technical Arts at Bournemouth University from September 2020, and is preparing for this by teaching himself 3D Animation using Blender software.
Design Technology
Elliott helped his father repair furniture and Raunak developed his CAD skills using Fusion 360.
• Rohan and his team won the SELKENT Under 12C Navy League 2019/20.
• Joshua Williams Ward has been offered a place at the National Youth Theatre. • Year 11 Isaac Clark took part in the King’s Health Partners Virtual Medical Summer School, attending a week of lectures and tasks, with content delivered by various organisations. As part of the topic on stem cell research, his entry for ‘creatively recreating’ an image of a mouse’s mouth was tweeted by King’s.
Staff Departures:
Retirements: Ms Gillian Gardiner, Teacher of Spanish and French, Mrs Janine Penny, Teacher of Mathematics Leavers: Mr Joshua Peters, Sports Coach
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