NP NewsIssue 153: Friday 23rd March 2007Headmaster Writes
Trevor Lee Top
KS3 News
Mr Crook TopKS2 News
Football Rugby Cricket Congratulations go to Chaneil Patel 5T who goes from strength to strength with his Tae Kwando and has won the U11 trophy at the London Championships and Tej Thakkar 3B won a medal for a football tournament. On more routine matters: Please check that your son has his games clothing. If he has inadvertently picked up another boy’s kit please can it be returned a.s.a.p. to the correct owner. If you need to see a teacher or collect your son early please remember to call in at the office so that they can phone down. Finally I would like to take the opportunity to wish everyone a safe and Happy Easter. Mr Rice TopJunior School News
Miss McNerney TopSATIPS COMPETITION RESULTSA few weeks ago the boys entered the SATIPS General Knowledge Quiz which is open to all independent schools. This was our first time and the Junior & Senior teams performed admirably. The Junior Team finished 42nd out of 107 schools and the Senior team were 20th out of 65 schools. Individually the highest placed boys were Vivek Midha 13th out of 1600 entries in the Junior section and Peter Ladd 19th out of 900 entries in the Senior section. Congratulations to all the boys who took part. For those back here next year keep reading the paper and books to pick up new snippets of general knowledge. Mr RICE TopMIP & MVPMost Valuable PupilThis time we congratulate Hashim Bhattee (Y8) Robert Wells (Y4) Jack Bayes (Y5) Kyan Karashah (Y5) Most Improved PupilThis time we congratulate Achuthan Baburaj (Y4) Tsukasa Yamano (Y6) Ho Lam Chan (Y3) Andrew MacLean (Y5) To encourage further effort and achievement, two cups are awarded to boys in the Senior School each week: Most Valuable Pupil of the week and Most Improved Pupil of the week. house pointsCongratulations to these boys (top 7) who received their Merit badges for more than 100 House Points this term. Rishav Shah Y5T RUGBY TOUR OF ITALY
LONDON RUGBY SEVENS TOURNAMENT mr rice Topart competition
ART COMPETITION VIEWING Once again another very successful Art Competition, and a valuable showcase for our talented young artists. The subject, `Underwater', emerged as the clear favourite, the other choices being, `My favourite sport', `An Animal" and,`My favourite holiday destination'. Judging an event such as this is always hard, particularly this year as the standard of work was so high. My thanks go to Miss Bricknall, Miss Hunter, Miss Edwards and Miss Bangert for helping me to make some very difficult decisions. The winning entries are: Y7&8 Alex McCormick’s picture here. mrs middleton Topviking invasion
mr watts Topnews day
After much impatient waiting and considerable hard work, both the Newspaper and the Website teams sent off the final copy of their product to the TES Newsday judges; who I’m sure were anticipating the successor of last year’s over-all newspaper winner: The Core. Fears of the newspaper not being finished on time were subsided with thanks to everyone who spent time slaving away to proof read the various articles. Images and layout were hardly an issue; just fitting the space that seemed to cause problems for both projects. A special thank you should go to Mr. Smith, Mr. Newton and Mrs. Smith for all their guidance and assistance, Mrs. Lee for giving her assistance with the printing and not to forget Mrs. Smith for letting us all use her Learning Resource Centre- a huge risk! Nobody knows what twenty seven thirteen year-olds could get up to! The only difficult part left is awaiting the result and whether any of us can stay calm until we find out how well our marvellous Aurora and The Nexus do. david randall y8 Top
beale clear speaking competitionThis week saw the culmination of both the Junior and Senior Beale Clear Speaking Competitions. After weeks of careful preparation and recitals in their English lessons and house meetings, the finalists and their reserves performed in front of a full assembly. The standard of recitals from Year 5 and 6 was most impressive, providing the judges with an unenviable task. Those eventually placed included Jake Gelernter (4th), Alex McCormick (3rd) and James Fowler (2nd) with Vivek Midha winning the Junior Beale after a clear and expressive rendition of 'The Listeners' by Walter de la Mare. The Senior Beale was also of a very high standard throughout. Oliver Gamp, Greshan Rasiah and David Randall proved inseparable, finishing joint runners-up with their Shakespearean contributions, but the final winner was Ammar Malik with a moving performance of 'Bury Me in a Free Land' by Francis Harper. Congratulations to Vivek, Ammar and all those who took part. mr smith Top
tremendous bangThis week Dr. Sie, from Harrow School came to give a Chemistry lecture to Y6-Y8. After a general Chemistry introduction, Dr. Sie conducted several thrilling experiments. He showed how dry ice sublimed and then used the dry ice to make a liquid mixture with a temperature of -78oC. He used this to freeze a banana. After this he used a soapy solution to make bubbles of methane, which he set on fire. He followed this with rocketing bottles and blowing the lid off a coffee tin! There is no question, however, that the exploding balloons were the favourite experiment. Each balloon was filled with a metal salt (as a spray) and hydrogen. A flame was used to make each balloon explode, producing different coloured flames according to the metal spray inside. Last of all Dr. Sie lit a balloon containing a mixture of oxygen and hydrogen and this produced a tremendous bang, sending shockwaves down the hall! Thank you Dr. Sie and Dr. Davies for arranging this fascinating event. raghav vohora y8 Top
uniform saleThank you to all that supported our first ‘New Look’ Uniform Sale. The next sale is on Wednesday 20th June from 3.00 – 4.30pm so please visit us to have a browse or bring your unused items of uniform to the Office in the week leading up to the sale. For more details and to print off pricing labels, look at the PA section on the NP website. |
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A busy and successful Spring Term comes to a close next week. Congratulations to our artists for their school art competition entries, to our Year 8 journalists for their Times Educational newspaper and website entries, to our poets for their recent recitation and to our rugby squad for their successful Italian tour. Best wishes to our skiers who hope to conquer the slopes of Alpe d’Huez next week.
Individual mentions include Bradley Henwood (Y7W) for his hole in one at Bushey Golf & Country Club, Dilraj Sarvaiya (Y8MS) for passing his ECDL first module, Riyan Shah (Y7B) for passing LAMDA grade 3 with distinction and every single Y8 pupil for their place and/or award at 13+. Y8 have been honoured with 14 awards at five schools. Year 7 have returned to new setting arrangements after half-term to ensure similarly thorough preparation for their transfer in 2008. They have enjoyed a dedicated study skills session at School to focus the mind. Years 7 & 8 were also treated to an illuminating and explosive chemistry lecture by Doctor Sie from Harrow School. All boys will receive an end of term Progress Report and we look forward to seeing parents and pupils at Target Setting on Tuesday, 24th April. Revision packs will be available at this time. Happy holidays in the interim. 
As the end of term approaches there have been many events for the boys at school. For year 5 & 6 there was the Beale Clear Speaking Competition, won by Vivek Midha 6F. Y6 participated in a Study Skills morning, where they leant techniques to help them revise. They had an explosive Chemistry lecture from Eric Sie who is a master at Harrow School. Y5 had a Sound Talk from Dr David Sharp. There were music recitals for Years 3 to 6 and Y4 were invaded by Vikings. Years 3 & 4 have been regularly rehearsing ‘Little Red Riding Hood’ for their production in the last week of term. Years 3 to 6 had House football, where all the boys represent their house, football fixtures and the U10’s were runners up in the recent NP tournament. Phew! On top of all this there were the everyday lessons. Thanks to all the staff that organised these fantastic events for the boys. Sport is very important to boys and on the website under my article in the newsletter you will find links which are useful to help develop their skills further outside of school. 
During the February half term an U13 rugby squad went for 4 days to Italy to play rugby accompanied by Mr Johnson, Mr Lambden and Mr & Mrs Rice. On the Friday prior to the tour the squad had a training day when Sebastian Taylor, the captain of the Swedish rugby team, came to help. He was very impressed with the way the boy trained and the level of skill. He was pleased to meet Ben Pinsent who is NP’s Swedish player and looks forward to seeing more of him in the future.
On Monday 19" March, Northwood Prep was invaded by Vikings! Thorulf Hammersson and his wife Gudrum spent the day with Year 4 who had all dressed up as bloodthirsty Vikings. The day was an integral part of the History studies both classes have been undertaking this term about Vikings. We started with a talk from Thorulf about Viking seafarers, raiders, explorers and traders. Gudrum then informed us about home life in Viking times and how to handle everyday objects. The boys also took part in a Viking quiz and the morning ended with Thorulf giving a demonstration of how to make Viking chain mail armour and also how to mint Viking coins. In the afternoon Thorulf talked to the boys about a range of Viking armour & weapons including the spear, sword and battle-axe. Then Thorulf demonstrated his skill with a sword and battle-axe, attacking a melon with great gusto! Some of the boys had the chance to try on Thorulf's chain mail armour and to find out just how heavy it was! The boys tried their hand at Viking spear wrestling and finally a mock battle. Both forms faced each other in a shield wall and on the given command attacked each other with tremendous war cries and much enthusiasm. The battle honours were even and it ended in a draw. We all declared the day a great success and are now busy writing our own Viking reports.