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Wednesday 15 July 2015

Year 8 French TYear 8 French Trip

Imogen Smith, 8AS, writes:


On July the 10th 123 Year 8 students travelled all the way to France in just one day. It all started at 6:20am in the morning as everyone started to appear and gather outside Chailey School. Everyone was dressed in their own clothes and ready for the long day ahead, including 16 teachers. The pupils and teachers all gathered in the main hall to have a briefing to find out which coach they were on and which group they were in. At around 7:00am everyone was on the coaches, ready to set off to the first stop, Dover.

About four hours later, the coach was parked up and Year 8 were taking over the ferry! It was a great ferry and had fantastic gift shops and cafes which everyone enjoyed, especially the teachers! You could also go up onto top deck and have a look at the lovely country to come. After a two hour journey to Calais, Year 8 went back in their coaches and arrived in Boulogne half an hour later.

As soon as Year 8 arrived, you could tell it was going to be hot. The highest was about 32 degrees but that just made it better! Firstly, the groups went off to the old town in which there was a cathedral and a great marketplace to buy lots of souvenirs, including a sweet shop! Lots of pupils enjoyed the freedom to go off by themselves and look around. It was also nice for others to spend time with their friends. After the old town, Year 8 walked to the market square in which they could also go off to different shops and buy gifts. This was basically a modern version of the old town. When that had finished everyone went back onto the coaches and travelled to the hypermarket!

The hypermarket was MASSIVE. You could buy things such as toys, food, sweets, drinks and even stationery! Year 8 had about half an hour in the market and bought their dinner and sweets! This was a highlight for Year 8 as they were allowed to walk around this enormous market seeing new French delicacies that they had never seen before. About 45 minutes later, Year 8 boarded the coach and had their dinner on the way back to the ferry. Year 8 made it onto the ferry half an hour later and set sail back to Dover. By this time it was around 8:00pm so you would think that everyone would be tired, but oh no. Year 8 wanted their final chance to be active on the ferry and have a good time with their friends. Finally at 9:30pm the ferry was parked up and Year 8 were in their coaches ready to travel to Chailey. The journey on the way home was a lot shorter and at 11:40pm Year 8 had arrived home, running into their parent’s car and falling asleep.

It was a fantastic day and all of the students and teachers enjoyed it as a school trip to remember! But it was all down to the teachers who had a lot of pressure, but kept cool. The trip couldn’t have happened without them, so everyone is very grateful. Thank you for such an amazing day!!!






Wednesday 8 July 2015

Wales Camp

More photos from Mr Hillier








Curriculum Enrichment Week Day 3

Year 8 are having a day in the Science department enjoying activities linked to forensics.







Big Bang Fair

Ms Thust writes:

The Science department took 58 Year 9 students to the annual Big Bang Fair at the South of England Showground in Ardingly along with more than 5,000 other 9 - 19 year olds.  The students had the opportunity to be involved in an engineering workshop where they were challenged with building a balloon hotel to specific design requirements. Josh Stanway, Jodie Payne and Ben Carpin were all in the winning team! The students also enjoyed a day of exciting and fun-filled shows, interactive displays and hands-on workshops all aimed at inspiring them to consider the varied opportunities and careers that studying STEM subjects can open up to them. We also bumped into an old Chailey student, Tim Lawrence, who was showcasing a 3D printer he had built himself. Very inspiring!




Tim Lawrence with his 3D printer

South East Special Leaders Award

Ms Thust writes:

The South East Special Leaders Award is an engineering challenge that more than 480 students across the South East entered. There were 120 finalists and 7 of those were from Chailey. Tomos Whelpton and Eloise Taberman-Pichler were winners for Year 8 and attended a prize giving ceremony at Sussex University on Saturday for their wonderful engineering designs.




Wales camp

Mr Hillier has sent some more photos







Philip's pen recycling scheme

Pen Recycling is a great way of raising money for charity and helping to recycle. I have a team of helpers who help me collect the pens.They are: Barney Morris, Joe Shoubridge, Adam Heasman and Josh Sharp. We are all very dedicated to bring this service to the school.  We also get asked lots of questions. Here are some answers!

Q: What happens to the pens?

A: I give them to the NSPCC, then they sell them to a recycling company. The NSPCC get money to go to the charity and the pens get melted for the plastic. Then they will be made into new things.

Q: How much money do the NSPCC get?

A: It is all done on the weight of the pens. It is £1.59 per kg.

Thank you very much for donating your old pens. If you have any old pens at home please bring them in.

Philip Payne & Team.