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Half Term Challenge: Castle & Trench Building

The History Department would like to set a Half Term Challenge, with the offer of 30 house points prize to the winning entry, 20 to second place and 10 to third place.

Year 8 - build an accurate British/Norman castle. It can be Motte and Bailey, Square Keep or Concentric (no fairytale castles please). It can be large or small. Made of anything...previous entries have been made of; cardboard, Lego, clay, play dough or cake!

Year 9 - build an accurate WW1 trench. Again it can be made of anything. No restrictions on size.

They should be brought to HI1 after half term. Deadline for entries is the 14th of November. Groups of students can build together but points will be awarded per castle not per student.

Presentations and Prizes to be awarded in assemblies on the week of the 21st of November.

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Term Roundup: House Cup

Phoenix from the Ashes – Battle for the House Cup

Itchen House delivered a devastating blow to Northam House in the battle for the House Cup with a reversal of positions at the end of the Half-Term. A win for the Year 7 Itchen Team in the Year 7 Sports day and a fine display in the classroom saw Itchen rise from 4th on the Leader Board in the summer to 1st place – so far…. With the House Cup being awarded at the end of every term Kingsland, Chapel and Northam will, I have no doubt, be on the charge as we move into the next half-term. Students earn points for their House through academic achievement, high quality of homework, excellent attendance and perfect punctuality and for contributions to the school and the wider community.

4th Northam 6269 Points

3rd Chapel 6450 Points

2nd Kingsland 6462 Points

1st Itchen 7001 Points

Term Roundup: Can Cook - Will Cook

The House ‘Cook-off’ was battled out on Monday 17th October with a fine display of culinary expertise demonstrated by students and staff alike. The judges impressed with both the quality and varied menus enjoyed the chance to taste the best of the best. As usual the menus were a celebration of different cultures and influences, with a three course meal cooked for under £20. It was great to see staff and students working together and learning from each other. Chapel House came out on top with a starter of Deep Fried Haloumi Cheese with Garlic and Chilli served with a fine salad, Chicken Breast wrapped in Bacon with Daupinoise Potatoes finished with a dessert of Banoffee Pie. Truly delicious...!

4th Kingsland 223 Points

3rd Northam 232 Points

2nd Itchen 257 Points

1st Chapel 270 Points

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World Challenge: Tanzania Expedition 2011

Cantell Maths and Computing College took 11 students to Tanzania in July and August 2011. The expedition proved to be an inspirational and life changing experience. The team carried out a project in a primary school in Moshi at the start of the expedition. The students raised the funds to be able to spend over £1500 (over 4 million shillings) on materials to be able to concrete a floor in a classroom and paint an additional classroom (including painting the Cantell Logo on one wall)
Our students also taught lessons and on the final day were able to lead the whole school in traditional English games.

The students also used the money they had raised to participate in a conservation project in Kilimanjaro National Park where between us we planted over 350 trees!

From Moshi we then travelled onto the Monduli Mountains for 3 days of acclimatisation treks. This proved to be quite challenging but also extremely rewarding as we were invited to stay with a massai tribe. Our next and most challenging part of the expedition came next.... we began out ascent of Mount Kilimanjaro! The climb took us 4 days and was extremely challenging, walking through rain forest and hot temperatures to summit day where we walked at extreme altitude in the dark at -15 degrees! 9 out of 14 of the team managed to reach the summit of Kilimanjaro but all of the team made it to at least 500 meters from the summit.

Ngorogoro Crater provided our rest and relaxation where we enjoyed the company of Elephants, Warthogs, Buffalo, Hippo, Lions... to name just a few!!

Miss C. Herridge

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Head Boy & Head Girl 2011-12

Following a rigorous application and interview process I am pleased to announce the Head Boy and Head Girl for 2011-12 are Jake Barinov and Fiona Campbell.
They will be ably supported by 4 deputies who will each head up our new houses - Hidayat Peruzi, Binay Shrestha, Jennie O'Neill and Lily Rogers.
This has certainly been the closest contest in my memory with 13 hopefuls making it through the interview process. I would like to take this opportunity on behalf of the staff and students in congratulating all the applicants in there endeavors and they must be commended for their professionalism and support for each other.

Each of the Prefects will play a lead role in our new tutor groups as Head of Tutor supporting the mixed groups of students.

Mr.Curtis

The full Prefect Team 2011-12 are:

Music & College Open Evenings

The Academy for Music and Sound has two more open evenings before the summer. They run from 6.30 to 8.30pm on Tuesday the 5th of July and Tuesday the 26th of July. Ideally students should book by contacting the academy on (023) 8082 966, Southampton@academyofmusic.ac.uk or on their website www.academyofmusic.ac.uk.

There are also open evenings (particularly aimed at year 10s) at City College on the 15th June from 5-7pm (the first 100 year 10s and 11s get a free cinema ticket!) and at Eastleigh College on the 22 June (5.30 -7.30pm).

Garden Party at Sir Patrick Moore's House

Sir Patrick Moore, well known for presenting The Sky at Night on the BBC for over 50 years, invited Cantell’s STEMNet students to use his garden to help them raise funds for a trip to NASA in the USA.

The day included stalls, games, a music ensemble, a book auction (books donated and signed by Sir Patrick) and a special pamphlet looking at the history of the Apollo mission. The pamphlet was specially written for the day by Sir Patrick.

garden party The students in the music ensemble have now been asked to perform some of the Military Band repertoire Sir Patrick Moore has composed himself!

The total funds from the day totalled an astonishing £900! We would like to thank all the students and staff who helped out on the day especially Matthew Goddard, Caroline Tolchard and Gary Stokes.

Cantell's BBC Visit

king leer In our current GCSE drama project our teacher Miss. Phillips set us the 'challenge' of putting on a production for ourselves by ourselves. The class had been split up into three groups; the production team, the actors and the directors. We have to produce and perform in our play.
The directors chose 'King Lear' however we took on the approach of making it our own modernised version, bringing it to a modern context. The outline of the story is that Sir. Lear is splitting his company to his three daughters. As a director I had the idea of using a news broadcast as an introduction to 'set the ball rolling' for the rest of the play. So on the off chance that they would get back to me I emailed the BBC in Southampton requesting to use their recording equipment and studio.

Miss. Phillips had not known about me doing this until it was confirmed that the 12th May was our date to go to the BBC. So with a 10 minute script written and the students Jennie O'Neill, Megan Pitt, Ishwar Pillay, Rowan Hughes, Jodie Fisher, Miss. Phillips and I we went to the BBC. king leer
We started our day by having a tour of the BBC into their 'newsroom' followed by the look into the actual studio, then we had our half an hour session to record with BBC South Today's Tom Hepworth a regular presenter on the morning and lunchtime show. We got to then see how they put out their BBC news out live at 2 O’clock.
Everyone at the BBC was more than kind and very easy to work with. We had a fantastic day and will be showing our news report before our production of 'Sir. Lear' starts. Dates are still to be confirmed, will be put on the website when we know.

Jake Barinov - Year 10

Geography Trip 18-05-2011

On Thursday 5th May, the Geography Department took a joint group of Year 10/Year 11 GCSE students to Christchurch Bay, on the South Dorset/Hampshire Coast. Students were able to see first hand evidence of coastal erosion, methods of protecting coastlines from the effects of weathering and the sea, and were able to explore the long term implications of coastal management.

Coastal management can be a controversial subject for many people, including homeowners, tourists, environmentalists and taxpayers (who ultimately end up paying for coastal defences). Trying to reconcile differing opinions is no easy matter, and understanding likely outcomes of protecting some areas of coastline and not others is crucial.

geo news Imagine your home was about to fall into the sea and needed to be demolished, and that the council had informed you that you were not entitled to compensation. How would you feel? Or alternatively, supposing your home had become more at risk as a result of the council deciding not to improve or renew existing coastal defences. Should you receive compensation?

From the point of view of the Taxpayer, why should people who benefit from a coastal view be entitled to public money in order to be able to continue to enjoy this privilege? The money could be better spent improving inner City Schools, or building new hospitals and paying for other Public Services, or so the argument runs.

geo news Whilst inspecting the coastline and cliffs, and understanding the human and physical processes at work at several different sites remained the key priorities for the day, there was still time to enjoy a brief game of cliff-top cricket over lunch, much to the amusement of several locals at Barton-On-Sea!

Finally, whilst it may have been instructive to observe the power of the elements in their full furious glory, with rain soaking the students and waves pounding against the cliffs, I don’t think anyone was particularly disappointed with the unseasonal sunshine we were forced to endure!

Mr Butler
Geography Department

Upcoming fundraiser 16-05-2011

Bus Route Change 04-05-2011

Bevois Hill road has been opened again and therefore bus service will resume the normal route. The school will still be open as normal and unaffected by the polling station in the gym.

Holiday Revision Timetable 08-04-2011

To download timetable click here

Students' visit to Biomed Centre 01-04-2011

Cantell students visited the hospital on Thursday for the opening of the Southampton Centre for Biomedical Research.

Andrew Lansley, the Secretary of State for Health and Dame Sally Davies, the Chief Medical Officer for England performed the opening ceremony and visited the Students at work. The Students who visited (and those who visited the Science Learning Centre recently) really impressed the staff who worked with them.Their good behaviour, clever they were, and what intelligent questions they asked.

A New Dance Production 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland' 31-03-2011

Wednesday 6th of April. Click here for more info.

BTEC First Certificate – Child Care, Learning and Development 29-03-2011

The students are currently in the final year of the BTEC level 2 course and are studying unit 2 – Keeping Children Safe.

During the lesson seen here the students were learning to recognise the importance of Hygiene within a child care setting.

‘Calamity Claire’s Creche was set up and students were asked to help me to identify why the nursery had failed its recent OFSTED Inspection.

Students then went on to identify the problems, state why it was a problem within a Child Care setting and provide solutions to the problems. This then gave the students the information to enable them to complete their assignment task.

Celebrate the Royal Wedding with a themed Menu
28-03-2011

To celebrate the upcoming Royal Wedding, a new menu has been released. You can grab a copy here

National Indoor Rowing 23-03-2011

Jay MacWilliam & Ben Shutt represented Southampton at the national indoor rowing championships on Friday March 4th. We received the final results this week.

Jay finished 19th overall (131 competitors)
Ben finished 7th overall (75 competitors)

Well done to them for their hard work, they were up against some highly trained rowers!!

Facebook & Twitter 23-03-2011

A new facebook page has been created to keep you update with all the events and happenings around the school. Facebook and Twitter will be linked into the web site to provide users with an array of communication tools, we will introduce a dedicated video channel filled with student work and school's video publications.

To find us on Twitter search for Cantellschool and on Facebook we are listed under: Cantell Maths & Computing College. Please feel free to drop us a line on Facebook or even a tweet!

Red Nose Day Event 23-03-2011

To raise money for Red Nose Day, our students took part in sponging teachers! We will have the gallery online for your viewing later on today.

Spelling Bee Competition 18-03-2011

Year 7 attended "The Times Spelling Bee 2011" this week and had a great time! The contestants had to be from Year 7 and we took Kamal Farrah, Christina Munford, Jacob Ridley, Najeebullah Walizada and Nayaab Hussain.

They were absolutely amazing and we came 5th out of the 9 schools competing.

This is especially impressive as it is the first time we have entered and we had no idea what it was going to be like. In fact, it was really scary! They had to stand in the spotlight, behind a podium with a microphone, on stage at Cineworld, with eight other schools and their supporters looking at them.

This part involved correctly spelling every word given to them by the "Spellmaster" or they were eliminated! We survived until Round 6 (out of 9). Have a go yourself here

Ms. Sheath who organised the trip was really blown away by their confidence in front of the other schools and would like to thank them so much for their perfect behaviour and effort.

Please praise them if you see them.

Mansell Construction Event 17-03-2011

Our students had the chance to meet with construction experts from Mansell who held a workshop on various aspects of the construction industry. The students involved took part in hands on tasks such as brick laying and where given talks on electrics, plumbing and health and safety at work.

For information on Mansell and their collaboration with schools and local goverment follow this link To view photos from the event click here

Latin Competition results 16-03-2011

We congratulate Josh Sayer, Gabe Greer, Jacob Scott and Shoubhik Rahman on winning the GOLD medal in the Junior Latin reading category at the competition on Friday, beating Westgate and King Edward VI into second and third places respectively.

Matteo Filipik won bronze in the Senior Latin reading category. He was competing against 6th formers from Winchester College, Portsmouth Grammar, St Swithun's and Bedales.

A big, well done to all who took part and we will keep you updated with any further news.

Oscar & The Daily Mail news just in! 15-03-2011

Over the past few days, Oscar and the RA team have been gaining more and more coverage to the point of reaching India! Follow this link and see for yourself.

Yet again our Oscar makes the headlines in the Daily Mail, to read the full article click here

Concert with jazz musician Soweto Kinch 14-03-2011

They will be having a number of workshops with him, and then performing live alongside him in two concerts on Thursday 7th April at the Guildhall. Click here for tickets and further info.

Oscar & RA make big news 09-03-2011

The Restorative Approach team and the school mascot Oscar, have made an appearance in the local newspaper the Echo. The article can be found in today's edition or here

Courtesy of Southern Daily Echo.

New Menu Released 01-03-2011

The new school canteen menu which starts after Easter Break has been released. Find it here or download a copy her

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Music & College Open Evenings

Garden Party at Sir Patrick Moore's House

Cantell's BBC Visit