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ncw news Autumn/Winter 2018
BBC Radio Drama
Students have been involved in an days within NCW ground.
exciting opportunity to feature in a new
BBC Radio 4 Drama about a visually We were required to make background noise
impaired school. such as children in a classroom and students
during a PE lesson, as well as having some
Written by Mandy Redvers Rowe, the radio spoken lines alongside the professional
drama ‘Blind School’ is written about Nina - a actors!
girl who is losing her sight and arrives at her
new school. The play exposes all of Nina’s It was really exciting to work with a proper
ups and downs with her deteriorating vision, recording crew and actors, as I have always
and adapting to her new environment. been interested in radio dramas from a young
age. I hope that I will have the opportunity to
“I volunteered along with several of my peers, do this again in the future.”
and we practiced reading parts of the script
as part of the audition so that our lines were Amber, Sixth Form Student.
fluent. The radio drama ‘Blind School’ is set to be
The next week, people from the BBC came aired in February 2019, so more information
to NCW and recorded us reading the script to will be shared soon!
see who best fit the brief.
I and several other students were chosen and
the recordings took place over the next two
Jingle all the way!
With Christmas very quickly looming, we have been getting in to the festive
spirit here at New College Worcester!
Fun at the Fayre
Once again, we made the annual visit to the
Worcester Victorian Christmas Fayre which
boasted streets of stalls full of festive treats,
arts, crafts and gifts. It was a wonderful
atmosphere and a jolly time was had by all!
Oh Christmas Tree…
This year, we have entered the Christmas Tree
Festival at Worcester Cathedral, which runs
from 8 December – 3 January. We are one of
many schools as well as local businesses and charities that will provide and
decorate 95 glittering Christmas trees which line the medieval cloister, creating
a magical display – we are very excited to be involved!
In preparation, students and staff have been getting crafty during lunch times
and have made a number of sparkly decorations to hang on our NCW tree!
Classic Rhythm
NCW students experienced an interactive
music workshop with talented chamber
group, Classic Rhythm.
Classic Rhythm is a successful trio for flute, piano
and percussion, which has played to sell-out
audiences all over the UK as well as broadcasting
on Classic FM and being featured on BBC2.
The group visited NCW to provide an afternoon
All lit up
of interactive music, playing a number of different This week, we also continued a new
pieces to compliment students’ recent studies tradition at New College – the annual
of period music genres. This included Baroque, Christmas light switch on and competition!
Classical and Romantic and featured instruments Students, staff, friends and family
such as the piccolo, xylophone and glockenspiel. gathered for nibbles, festive drinks, carols,
Students had the opportunity to guess which entertainment and lots of twinkling lights
and Grottos – all prepared and organised by
instruments were played and what they were made
students, house and hostel staff.
out of, as well as get up to have a go themselves!
Thank you to all the staff in the houses
Mrs Christie, Head of Music, praised: “This and the students for providing a fantastic
was a brilliant workshop for the students. They evening. The bar has certainly been raised
got up and played the percussion, answered and this year!
asked great questions and all took part in a group
performance. Thank you Classic Rhythm” After lots of deliberation and judging,
Bradnack House was named Christmas light
champions of 2018 – well done to you all!
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Poland Trip
Four eager students set off on a trip to Lublin, substantial lunch
Poland as part of an EU Erasmus Exchange! of dumplings
before the group
NCW was invited to take part in an exchange were whisked off to see Lublin Castle, Museum and
with the title Included-Cultured in Lublin, Poland - underground tunnels.
bringing together five specialist schools from Poland,
Romania, Spain, Bulgaria and Turkey. Four NCW The second day focussed on the beautiful historic
sixth formers, accompanied by Mick and Mrs Currie town of Kazimierz Dolny where students visited a
headed off to their base - the Polish host school monastery, a Jewish graveyard desecrated by the
SOSW Lublin, which caters for students of all ages Nazis and hiked up a ravine, ending the day with a
with a visual impairment and other special needs. cultural exchange through music at a school disco!
The visit was an action packed cultural extravaganza, On the last day, students went to the Majdanek
which began with an art activity and a fortifying former concentration camp and were shown some
of the horror of the camp and were able to handle
examples of art designed to subvert the Nazi system.
Grace and Freya loved the tourist bus in the art
centre of Kazimierz Dolmy. “The food was best,”
says Andrew after sampling many forms of Polish
dumplings while for Max it was all brilliant but
particularly “the meeting and greeting, the visits and
the disco”.
Throughout the exchange, NCW students mixed with
their European peers. This visit is part of an ongoing
exchange between the schools and NCW hope to
host an event in 2020. The programme is completely
funded by the EU.
Fundraising News to continue the project and work for NCW? A skydive, a 10k run, or
will commence shortly in Modern even a marathon. Whatever it is we
Foreign Languages, followed by can help, simply get in touch with
the Humanities department. The fundraising@ncw.co.uk.
refurbishment programme has
been totally funded by external Thank you!
grants. We would like to say a huge thank
you to all of our recent donors:
We Need You!
Could you, your friends and family Richard Freeman, David and Sally
or workplace join our ‘Adopt a Scott, Waitrose Worcester, Irwin
We are delighted to confirm that Collection Tin’ campaign? If so Mitchell Solicitors, David Bryant,
the refurbishment of the Maths contact emillward@ncw.co.uk who Timothy Body, The Spires Hospital,
department was completed in will be delighted to hear from you John Claricoat, Events with the
time for the beginning of the and will be able to provide you Edge, Chris Sewell, The Gordon
new academic year, with Maths with a collection tin. Gray Trust, The Baron Davenports
teachers and students all agreeing Charity, Evesham Rotary Club,
it is a wonderful improvement. Perhaps you could take up a Jaki Meekings-Davis and ALL of
We have been fundraising hard personal challenge, raising funds our regular monthly givers.
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Clearwell Caves
New Age
After studying different types a large audio speaker played a Kurling
Win!
of sound waves in Physics bass note. Students were then
class, a group of Year 9 able to experiment with the sound
students put their learning becoming quieter and louder
into practice and were able when moving around and marking
to experiment with the their map with pins to try to NCW students battled it
reflection of sound on a visit identify a pattern. out for the New Age Kurling
to Clearwell Caves. champion title on Friday 19
Asher said, “We worked out October!
The caves exploit over 4,000 years that by being closer to the cave
of mining history and present walls, the sound was much more Some of our Year 8 students
many impressive caverns created amplified. It was a really fun along with PE Teacher Mrs
by iron miners. experience, but informative too.” Wallcroft, were invited along
to Regency High School to
As part of the students’ trip, they Students also had a tour of the take part in the New Age
each used a tactile map to help main cave, and explored the Kurling competition. NCW
them orienteer independently passageways, which were set up played games against local
around part of the cave whilst to imitate the echolocation of bats. schools Regency, Christopher
Whitehead and Tudor Grange.
Crime Scene!
Mrs Wallcroft supported the
team by placing herself behind
the target and clapping, to
enable NCW team members to
Undaunted, students got get an accurate shot.
straight to it with masks and
gloves, and entered the crime Mrs Wallcroft congratulated
scene to begin investigating and the students, “With all of the
looking for clues. noise and distraction from
other games taking place in
After reviewing the evidence the sports hall, NCW students
– footprints, fingerprints, really focused and did very
incongruous items: spanner, well. Rico was very accurate,
hammer, reflective jacket – both Daniel and Carys
they concluded that a male were consistent, Finn really
handyman had vandalised the enjoyed himself and Keira was
classroom. extremely tactical, knocking
Year 11s arrived at a recent
English class, which wasn’t The possible suspects could the opponent’s stone out of
quite as they know it! only be Mr Hinds, Mr Snowdon the way each time!”
or the caretakers. But who could After a tough few games, they
The room had been sealed off it be?!
with caution tape and could not claimed the title and won the
be entered – a crime had been The investigation continues… competition! The team will now
committed! be entered into the regional
Worcestershire School Games.
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Paris Trip
Students Harrison, Sophia, the history of Louis Braille Foreign Languages, said:
Ilja, Syd, Chelsea and and visiting Le Mur Des Je “Ryley was amazing at taking
Ryley took a trip to Paris in T’aime (the I Love You Wall) photographs! We have also
November. in Montmartre, on which the brought back 3D models of
phrase ‘I Love You’ features in the Cathedral and Eiffel tower
Particular highlights included 250 languages. which will feature in a new
visiting Notre Dame Cathedral, tactile display soon!”
Versailles Castle, seeing Mrs Molina, Head of Modern
Lord Mayor’s Show
NCW students were Lord Mayor of London is The Worshipful Company of
honoured to be invited officially sworn in. Lightmongers, our Head Boy
to participate in the Lord and Head Girl have also been
Mayor’s Show in London Students Tom, Rico, invited to attend a grand
on Saturday 10 November. Carys, Daniel, Ciara and dinner in the New Year – we
Amber were all delighted look forward to hearing all
Students and staff members at being involved in such a about that!
met at the crack of dawn poignant event, and did a
on Saturday to set off brilliant job walking the 2.5
on their travels down to miles procession through
London, catching the train to Westminster along with horse
Paddington and experiencing drawn carriages, bands,
the bustling Underground to military and other supporters.
St Pauls.
Miss Ross said, “It was a
The Worshipful Company huge honour to be invited
of Lightmongers have and involved. Well done to
supported NCW for a number all of those that attended
of years, and generously and for representing NCW
enable us to take part in the amazingly!”
annual Lord Mayor’s Show
– the day in which the new As part of our support from
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Goalball for GB! For the first time in history,
Goalball UK took both a
male and a female talent
team away to represent
Great Britain at an
international tournament
in the Netherlands – NCW
was well represented in both teams!
Charlotte, Chelsea and former NCW student Kali
Messing
were amongst the players selected for the Women’s
Squad, and Stuart and former student Naqib for the
Men’s!
about on Chelsea was delighted to be picked, “It was a great
experience – I was also the youngest player in the
women’s team”
the River!
Back in October, BBC’s ‘Countryfile’ paid
Both teams played brilliantly, with many scoring
their first international goals or defending their
first international penalty. We are very proud of the
a visit to glorious Worcestershire, where squads who represented Great Britain and NCW with
presenter Matt Baker found out about pride, passion and determination. A special shout out
plans to save Pershore Lock Island and goes to the men, who came third overall after beating
the surrounding wildlife. Greece in the third/fourth playoff. Great effort!
TV presenter Matt Baker also met with Congratulations to everyone!
a group of NCW students to experience
nature from the water. In a bid to
encourage interaction with nature along
the river, the Avon Navigation Trust joined
forces with Bonkers Activities to offer
eight of our water-loving students the
opportunity to KataKanu down part of
the River Avon – whilst also being filmed
for the show!
Students visit the Pershore Activity
Centre regularly for a weekly
Paddleboarding Club, so are no
strangers to the river. This was a brilliant
and new experience for some of our
Inclusive Sports
students to be involved in the filming,
albeit a wet and windy day during Storm
Callum!
Chelsea said, “It was a really cool
experience. It was great to be able to
describe how it felt from my perspective
Festival
Year 8 students were excited to attend an Inclusive
being on the water. I loved meeting Matt Sports Festival at the University of Worcester
Baker and being on TV!” recently, and try out lots of different sports! These
The episode aired on Sunday 4 included Wheelchair Basketball, Tri-Golf, Blind
November. Football, Goalball, Boccia, New Age Kurling, seated
Volleyball and Table Cricket.
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National
Poetry Day
As part of National Poetry Day, students
from NCW were invited to BBC Hereford
and Worcester Radio to share their
inspiring poems.
Following a trip to Hartlebury Castle where
students worked with Worcestershire Poet
Laurette, Maggie Doyle, young people from
NCW had the opportunity to share their own
poems on local radio station, BBC Hereford and
Worcester.
Students Martha, Paige and Tobias were filled
with confidence as they were interviewed in
turn by Radio Presenter Tammie Gooding, and
asked to read aloud their beautifully creative As part of
writing inspired by the history and atmosphere of National
Worcestershire’s Hartlebury Castle. Poetry Day,
students have
Describing the experience, Paige said: “We
also created
were able to explore the history of the castle;
a ‘Poet-Tree’,
the stories of the bishops, an old-fashioned
which stands
schoolroom and artefacts such as carriages and
proud within the
household appliances from the Victorian era.
college grounds,
The opportunity to be aired on the local radio holding short
was incredibly exciting, and gave us all a chance poems and
to understand how the radio works.” creative writing.
Congratulations
Alan!
Here is Alan, one of
our Senior House
Parents, who has
recently reached
a milestone of
20 years working
Parliament Week at NCW! Over
the years he has
During UK Parliament Week we were supported literally
supporting the Vote 100 campaign, hundreds of young
celebrating 100 years since the first women people in their NCW
were able to vote! Our display was prepared journeys and into
with print and Braille materials linked to the world as adults.
women gaining the vote. Congratulations Alan!
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n I n N e e d
Childre
Well done to students unfortunate victims – Mrs The Elizabethans won, but we
who organised a variety of Bufton, Mrs Price and Mr all had a brilliant time and the
activities in aid of Children in Hinds. It seemed the majority new cricket kit looks fantastic.
Need! had it in for Mrs Bufton, who
ended up with the bucket over The cricket match raised
The week was kicked off her head! around £80 alone with the
with the annual Great NCW selling of cakes and drinks!
Bake-off, which received On Thursday was a very sour
some impressive entries! After Lemon Eating competition, Other smaller activities
much deliberation, tasting and in which students had 30 running throughout the week
checking for soggy bottoms, it seconds to eat as many lemon included a Name the Bear
was concluded that Fizzy with slices as they could – even the competition and Guess the
her Lemon Roulade and Mrs rind! Well done to Stuart, who Sweets in the Jar.
Smith with her Pudsey Tray won by managing 3 slices! Now that the cakes have been
bake won the competition! eaten, our sponged teachers
To end the week on a high,
The remainder of the cakes, students organised a charity have dried out and the money
tarts and bakes were sold cricket match playing has been counted, we are
during break times to the rest against the Worcestershire very proud to have raised a
of the college. Elizabethans (and some fantastic £359.95 this year.
members of staff in sim Well done and thank you to
Next (and possibly the specs!). All involved gave
highlight for many students) everyone that helped towards
a great effort, and showed raising money!
was Sponge Throwing! teamwork and communication
Students and staff paid £1 skills.
for 3 attempts at hitting the
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