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Inside this issue of
the Herald... December 2011

A Message from the Head
As a school community we continue in our concern for others and our responsibility
to try to make a difference to the lives of those less fortunate than ourselves. Our
students have been outstanding in their tireless efforts and generosity in raising
money for Children in Need, for our partner school in South Africa, Ntafufu Senior
Secondary School, as well as for many other charities. It is really encouraging to
see the young people of Swanshurst thinking so much about others who are without
our advantages, enabling them to develop an understanding of themselves and
their place in the world.

I hope you enjoy reading all the highly enjoyable and engaging articles in this
Christmas edition of the Herald and we all send you and your families every best
wish for a very happy new year,

Elaine Kenney
Headteacher

A Message from the Editors
A Message from the Editors

Welcome to the latest (and the best) edition of the Herald. It’s all change this year
with new editors on board and a whole new group of Year9 journalists as well.
We’ve all been locked away in our Herald HQ typing away like fiends and eating
lots and lots of cake (thanks to the wonderful editors)! Our wonderful writers have
been churning out articles quicker than we can check and put them in. I’m afraid
Miss Davies and I were nearly going blind at the end of two solid days of reading
and formatting, but it was definitely worth it!

This edition of the Herald is full of amazing articles, as well as several new features,
including a sports and literary section, with poems produced by our very own Her-
alders. We also have our the usual Herald classics, puzzle pages, Staff Leavers, as
well as articles about the many events that have gone on this term (we’ve certainly
been very busy).

We hope you all have a wonderful break over the Christmas Holidays! Don’t eat too
many mince pies and turkey! December 2011

A Social, Spiritual, Moral
and Cultural Edition
The Herald is always one of the highlights of my year. It provides an opportunity for
us all to reflect upon wide variety of opportunities offered to the young people of
Swanshurst School to grow and develop as people. This year the articles have been
placed into four categories to help explain how the activities link to the curriculum.
First are those providing an opportunity for pupils to take part in a variety of aes-
thetic and cultural experiences, both from their own backgrounds and the back-
ground of others. This is followed by those in which pupils are encouraged to re-
flect upon their own moral development and an understanding of right and wrong.
Thirdly following on from this pupils looking at the society in which we live, both
local and global, and their rights and responsibilities in it. Finally, all the activities
that help the pupils to develop their sense of themselves, who they are, their
strengths and weaknesses and how to achieve their full potential. You will see the
articles coded in the top left hand corner.

Mrs Wheeler (SMSC coordinator)
C
The Beauty That Slept
At the start of November, the lucky Year It was a great opportunity and some re-
7’s were privileged to see Raw Nerve’s ally interesting questions were asked;
Sleeping Beauty Story telling session. like how the actors had gotten into act-
They were absolutely fantastic and real- ing and what their favourite role was. JP
ly energetic, adding a twist to the well-
known fairy tale. Year 7’s loved it and
the use of many different hats amazed
some including Aisha, 7L “I couldn’t be-
lieve how they remembered which hat
belonged to which character!” When the
performance was over, the students
were treated to a question and answer
session with the actors.
Nice hat!
Cultural
Back to the Back to
Back Houses
On the 7th November a group of Swans-
hurst pupils and teachers were involved
in a really amazing trip to the National
Trust Back to Back Houses in Hurst St,
Birmingham. Mr Smith arranged for
Swanshurst to help create a visual tour.
Which meant the elderly and people
with mobility difficulties would be able
to see everything including the parts
they couldn’t access. Along with Mr clustered around the dining table read-
Smith, 9 Year 8 pupils, 2 Year 9 pupils, ing and playing games: Ms Lowe as Mrs
Mrs Taylor, Ms Alexander, Ms Lowe and Mitchell and Amelia, Sumbal and Abi-
Ms Griffin were given the task of creat- gail as the children. Then Imogen ran in
ing the visual tour. telling them they had to get out because
an air raid had started. They had to rush
Back to Back houses were the most com- down a staircase to the cellar which was
underneath the Levy House. They then mon type of housing for working class in
had to imagine there were bombs being the 19th Century. They were cheap to
dropped above and had to crouch down build and would be divided in two; one
in terror.
that would look out to the street and the
other on the back which would face the Then they went forward another 40
court. Everyone had a brilliant time years to the 1980’s and George Saun-
ders Tailors shop. Eleanor played the dressing up and playing the part of Vic-
part of his daughter which turned out to torians and people from the 1930’s who
be a coincidence as her family like had lived in these courts. Each student
George’s came from St. Kitt’s. Then they
had a task to do: Laura (Year 9) had to
ended up in the lovely 1930’s sweetshop
light a pretend fire under the boiler; where after learning about its history Mr
Kelsey (Year 9) had to use a dolly tub, Smith brought them a big jar of sweets
Imogen (Year 8) had to put out the wash- to share between them.
ing line and Tamera (Year 8) filled up
Now Ms Griffin will edit the film and buckets from the Standpipe. They even
send it back to the National Trust who took photos of Mr Smith pretending to
will be able to use it to help their visitors
use one of the outside toilets! be able to appreciate the truly wonder-
ful Back to Back Houses. After lunch they moved forward 70

years from the Victorians to the 1940’s “It goes without saying that we all had a
where they played the part of the Mitch-
brilliant time and it was one of those
ell family. They started off as a family
days we will never forget!” ABM
Cultural
Can O’ Fun In Can-
non!
‘We had a really lovely day and didn't
want it to end!’

Thirteen Year 8 students went out on a
trip to Cannon Hill Park with Mr Smith to
reminisce about Birmingham’s past! I
bet most of us have been to Cannon Hill
Park at least once, but probably never
like us when we were fortunate enough
to be taken there by Mr Smith.

We spent a really wonderful morning
My, my, what a big rock! walking round the park with Mr Smith as
our guide along with three more staff
It was a lovely autumn morning with the member, Ms Alexander, Ms Lowe and
sun shining and the leaves changing Mr Cashmore.
colours, as we walked across the grass
to the Golden Lion pub. We had also The purpose of the trip, apart from ap-
met Tony Frost, the Chairman of the preciating the lovely features of this ex-
Friends of Cannon Hill Park and Alan, cellent park, was to examine the history
one of the Park Rangers. of Birmingham. Firstly we went to see
the 'moon' rock (which was sadly not
We were on a roll with our ‘Water from the moon), a large piece of rock
theme’ and went to have a look at the deposited by a huge glacier that creat-
model of the Elan Valley and learnt ed the Rea Valley during the Ice
about Birmingham's water supply. We Age. Then Mr Smith told us about the
finished off by looking at the war memo-Pershore Road, part of which was built
rial to the people from Birmingham who by the Romans as part of Infield Street.
were killed in the Boer War.


‘Time flies like an arrow,
Nature fle a butterfly’


SB
Who’d think the roads we ‘romed’ on were part
of our history?!
Cultural

Swan Pals
Swan Pals was started as part of the Eng- Swan Pals speak out!
lish Department’s efforts to promote
global communication through letter Ishbel 8A: “I joined last year in Septem-
writing. The Wednesday lunchtime club ber and have enjoyed every meeting.
has been running since October 2010 My Pen Pal is called Nampebwa Brenda
and has a membership of about 30 girls. and we have been in contact ever since.
The girls were linked to their pupils of a Some girls get presents off their pen
similar age in a rural school in Uganda pal. We don’t just make friends on the
and they have since been communi- other side of the world, we make them
cating through letter-writing. here too! Because it is at lunchtime we
come here and eat and talk. It is like a
Apart from improving their letter writ- picnic but warmer!”
ing skills, the students have learnt about
the lives of their peers. They share ex- Izzy, 8A: “I have a Pen Pal called Be-
periences and are also learning Swahili atrice. She is