Bellemoor School | Southampton

On Wednesday 25^th June 2008 we welcomed 166 Year 5 pupils from Shirley and Hollybrook schools. The focus of the day was to formulate ideas and plan and design the front area of the school. The best ideas are to be presented to a landscape gardener who will incorporate these ideas and eventually plan the proposed area. The pupils came up with some outstanding ideas and have certainly made the planner’s job extremely difficult! The staff of Upper Shirley High really enjoyed having the pupils for the day; the children really went about their task with enthusiasm and vigour and were a credit to their accompanying teachers and schools.   Congratulations to USH students for their outstanding support.

 

The Year 5 day with Shirley last Thursday was literally a rip roaring success with pupils demonstrating the 5 thinking skills in relation to solving a major crime in school - who kidnapped the pantomime horse? Well done to all pupils for their excellent deduction and many thanks to USH students for their support.

 

We have a large number of boys receiving awards this year and therefore we must keep strictly to a maximum of 2 guests please for each prizewinner otherwise we will not be able to accommodate everybody.   Next year we will address this issue by having two separate celebrations for KS3 and KS4.

On Wednesday this week the student council have organised with 7a1 an auction of pre-owned electronic games, DVDs and CDs e.g. Nintendo DS, PSP, PS1 and PS2 etc. It will take place in the Business Centre from 3.30 - 4.30 with Mr Eggett as the auctioneer. Viewing will take place from 3pm. In addition there will also be another naughty tuck shop, and a raffle.

All proceeds will go towards helping the children of South Rwenzori in Uganda, orphaned by Aids. The school has already had a number of activities to support this charity.

 

The championships took place at the Sport Centre on 19^th June and we enjoyed a very successful day, winning the Year 8, 9 and 10 and overall field events trophies, and only failing to win the Year 7 trophy by 1 point! Well done to all the boys who participated and congratulations to individual champions:

Joe Keane - discus; Jordan Bampton - javelin; Sean Jenkins - long jump and Phil Collins, Devan McClure, Lewis Marsh and Nicky Winter in the 4 X 100m relay.

Edward Moore - 800m; Dillon Lodge - triple jump and Jordan Owton - javelin.

Ryan Whitlock-Cox - 100m; Jack Stanley - 200m; Jay Buckingham - 400m and Daniel Lampard - shot.

Russell Hack - shot; Liam Finlay - high jump; Zahir Mehdi - 3000m and Jutiar Hasan Hamid - 800m.

 

Amarpal Gill from year 8 has just become the first student from the lower school to achieve his Platinum award for the Reading Challenge. Well done, Amarpal, a great achievement!

Hollybrook held their multi sports day on our site last week. Our year 9 helpers were superb and they did a great job in encouraging the younger children – especially the year 3s!

Mrs Silk visited Wickes to ask if they might contribute towards the new gardens the Gardening Club are working on. The manager immediately offered a huge grab bag of gravel and it arrived the following day! We were also given a generous reduction on other purchases towards the gardens so we are very grateful to Wickes for their generosity.

 

The Year 10 street drummers and band were playing at West Quay recently in support of Hampshire Autistic Society. They put in a fabulous performance and impressed the many onlookers.  Meanwhile our rock and jazz bands are busy, supporting Shirley Junior School’s Giant Tea Party and our GCSE Art Exhibition. The jazz band will be playing at the Bellemoor Celebration on 12^th July.

 

Welcome to Mrs Parsons, who joins us on 1^st July as Academic Leader in the Maths department.

 

 

On Saturday 12^th July we will be holding a ‘Farewell to Bellemoor’ celebration with ex-boys and ex-staff coming back to celebrate the school’s history before we officially become Upper Shirley High School. If you happen to be an ex-boy, or know of other ex-boys, please share this information and put the date in your diary. If anyone has photographs of the school which they would be happy to share with us I would be very grateful as I would like to create a pictorial history board for the celebration. If you are interested please email my PA, Clare Challis (clare.challis@ushschool.org).

 

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