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Young Entrepreneurs rise to Fiver challenge
Budding entrepreneurs in Years five and six at Towers School Upper Beeding have had the opportunity to get involved in new after school club this term. The girls are taking part in The Fiver Challenge organised by the Young Enterprise Scheme under the watchful eyes of Mary Thain, Junior School Administrator and Amanda Spells, one of its “mumpreneurs”. The Fiver Challenge runs throughout June and provides an interactive, fun way of introducing financial literacy, resilience and teamwork to primary students. Students have a month to set up a mini businessRope and s, create product and Swina gs or service they can sell or deliver at a profit and along the way learn some key business skills. Each member of the group is
School reflects on bus It has been a very busy and recording breaking year for the Performing Arts at Collyer’s. As the college approaches July’s Welcome Days, where new students begin their Collyer’s journey, it is only right that the college has been celebrating the achievements of the past year. Record audiences have attended numerous shows including: ‘Into the Woods’, ‘TWENTY’ (the 20th anniversary celebrations of the college’s NEW GROUND student dance company), the ‘Movember Gigs’, ‘Bedlam Years’ and ‘Act for Change’. In January the college presented Steven Sondheim’s challenging musical ‘Into the Woods’. The talented cast and crew included students from across the college and the fantastic set and props were designed and created by members of ‘The Art Class’, which forms part of Collyer’s 4As adult education provision. The production received rave reviews from staff, students and parents with standout performances from Darcy Davies as the Witch, Orla Ridpath as Red Riding Hood and Heather Bailey as Jack. The Collyer’s annual dance show this year was entitled TWENTY, to celebrate the 20th anniversary of NEW GROUND, the college’s student company. Each
year approximately 15 dancers are selected by audition to join the company. The dancers rehearse weekly to create work for public performance and represent the college at open evenings, community events and of course, the annual dance show. Over 300 students have taken part in NEW GROUND since its formation in 1997. Many of those students have gone on to study and train at professional level and now work as choreographers, teachers and performers within dance companies, musical theatre, TV and the music industry. Head of Dance, Andrea Martin said, “It has been a great privilege to direct the company since 1999 and this year it has been exciting to celebrate with old faces, as well as to welcome Hayley Ovens to the department and the company. Hayley teaches part-time at Collyer’s and spends the rest of her week working as a dancer and education manager at Ceyda Tanc Dance in Brighton, so she brings a wealth of professional experience to benefit the students”. The music departments’ live performances have raised nearly £1000 for charity so far this year at large scale events including the ‘Movember Gig’, Christmas Concert and Battle of the Bands. Collyer’s boasts some outstand-
ing musicians including: Lizzie Britton – winner of the Outstanding Contribution to Collyer’s Extracurricular Music award at the Prizegiving event as the choir leader and band leader; Nick Hoad – an exceptional composer; Jacqueline Lowe – an outstanding harpist and stalwart student bands The Fables, The 109s, A Million Hippos and Wave Floor. In September students performed the musical ‘Bedlam Years’ about British values & voices from the 1700s. Following on from the success of Bedlam Years, Drama student Clare Packham, produced and directed the show ‘Act for Change’ in November. Clare said, “I decided to direct and produce this show, not only to develop my directorial skills but to support the charity ‘Act for Change’. The project is about increasing diversity in the arts, a cause close to me as an aspiring artist. I selected a range of scenes, speeches and songs and used non-traditional casting to prove your talent is not determined by your race, sexual orientation, class, gender or other factors.” Vice Principal Steve Martell said: “Collyer’s has enjoyed a stunning, record breaking year in performing arts. It is no wonder that we are now attracting young performers from across the south
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given £5 as start-up capital to get their business off the ground and has one month to keep it going, produce products, market them, sell them and deliver at a profit. Nineteen students are taking part in this challenge working in small groups of 2 to 4. They are producing a huge variety of products from fidget spinners, badges, hair ribbons, bags, fortune tellers, to decorated rocks and more. This week, after taking some professional photos of their products for a website and catalogue, each group went home with £5 to spend wisely on materials during the holidays. “Pounds, Pennies, Prizes,” as the s they would call their ing Thing limb group decided shop selling all of their products, will be open for business in June. Girls are pictured getting involved.
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