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News from Ghana Indian Arts Day Tug of War And More.

Issue 3

HEADTEACHER: Mrs J Bernard
Newsletter Editor: Mrs L Sheppard 1

Contents

Able Linguists visit France.. 3 MFL Leaders... 4 Music and Dance Achievement.. 5 HistoryBattle of Cheriton.. 6 History Human Rights day.. 7 History Palestinian Day.. 8 New Science Leaders.. 9 Indian Arts day.. 10 Go Day Workshops... 11 Hampshire Book Award and Carnegie.. 12 Second Life... 13 News From Ghana.. 14 Head to Head.. 15 Sports Report... 16 Sky Living for Sport.. 18 Tug of War... 19 Perins Alumni... 20 Staff News... 21 Uniform... 23 Community NewsFun Camp.. 24 Car Park and Buses... 25
ABLE LINGUISTS VISIT FRANCE This year once again a group of Able Linguists from year 10 have travelled to France to experience the culture and put their language skills to the test. The 12 pupils stayed in a gte in the little village of St-Denis-deGastines in the region of Mayenne located 30 minutes north of Laval. Their daily activities included a trip to the bakery for morning breakfast and various visits in the local area. They were given the opportunity to visit Laurent Reautes chocolate factory and an animal sanctuary in Chateau-Gontier. During the week pupils experienced the culture of the region through the local food and market, a visit to a Cider farm and museum with of course cider tasting and an evening in a crperie. Every day pupils worked on articles for a newspaper which will be published on the notice board outside R1. Pupils were able to use and develop their speaking and listening skills through various visits and a trip to the cinema. Through the writing work they produced they were able to extend their use of vocabulary and grammar.

Miss Sautier

We tried oysters and mussels in Mont St Michel and it was a great experience. We used our languages skills in a variety of different situations and really enjoyed the opportunity and the trip!
Marnie Bliss & Annie Brooks
The Gite in St-Denis-de-Gastines
Becky Boardman, Beth Leedham, Kat Happy, Jo Turner, Jack Armitstead, Mrs Bernard, David Cribb, Alex Cross, Jo Paton, Caroline Allen-Rogers, Rachael Ringrose, Andrew Fewtrell-Clarke, Hannah Lacey, abs Mat Oxenham, Kate Sloan, Jemma Carpenter.
Congratulations to the first students at Perins School to complete the Foreign Language leaders award from Head teacher Janice Bernard. To achieve the award the students worked with primary school children in their schools, helping them with French, German and Spanish. They also ran a morning session at Perins for 90 children from one of the feeder schools. Their professionalism was commented on by several of the visiting teachers. Kat Happy said, I taught German to years 2 and 3 at Sun Hill Junior School, Ropley and Cheriton schools. It was great playing language games with the children and they were really enthusiastic. Mrs Roots, head of Languages said, All MFL Leaders work very hard to prepare fun activities for our primary schools. The activities range from songs and stories to physical activities and craft all of which are to help to the children to learn French, German and Spanish. The Leaders learn the skills of planning, communicating, organising and leadership as well as improving their own knowledge and understanding of the language and cultural of the countries concerned.They thoroughly enjoy the opportunity to work alongside the little children

Able Linguists Day

On Wednesday 1st July, a group of students were taken to Southampton University to take part in an Able Linguists day. This was an opportunity for students to join in and have a day full of fun activities. Here, they were also able to meet other linguists from different schools for a French booster session. Then in the afternoon, they had two taster sessions of different languages, for example, Bulgarian and Portuguese. Finally, the day was rounded off by a lecture about how to make your language skills grow and develop. Ellie Grant 8D3

DAISY HULBERT (Year 11)

Daisy has been accepted into a London Ballet School. She is a very talented young lady, vocally and in terms of her dance ability and Im sure we will see her on the stage in a few years! Daisy did her DipLCM in Music Theatre Performance last Saturday and got a distinction. The exam consisted of a 20 minute program of varied repertoire including Operetta, Music Hall and Stage Musical pieces. She did Yum Yums song from the Mikado, Waiting at the Church, I feel pretty (West Side Story), Molls Prayer (Moll Flanders) and Green Finch ( Sweeney Todd). She had to introduce each song and had to do some libretto leading into one of the songs. All had to be done using movement, props and costumes from memory. Finally she had a discussion with the examiner about the songs, characters, mood of each piece and some biographical information about the composers and librettist. She got full marks; 30 out of 30 for the discussion.

The Battle of Cheriton and Tour of Winchester
On 3 beautifully sunny days in June approximately 170 year 8 pupils were unleashed on the beautiful and tranquil countryside of Cheriton and went to battle as if they were soldiers in the English Civil War. In some quiet woodland just north of Cheriton a group of dedicated historical actors and historians from the Sealed Knot, set up a living History camp to reconstruct aspects of life during the English Civil War, near the original site of the battlefield. This event formed the focus of the day with students being divided into four groups to firstly understand what life was like in the seventeenth century, from clothing and cooking to remedies. A second activity was a demonstration of weapons and tactics used during the war. The third activity was to know how to fire muskets, pistols and a cannon, and lastly a historian talked to the pupils about what happened during the Battle of Cheriton in 1644. The morning ended with a pitched battle on a near by field with pupils being given mock pikes! The student thoroughly enjoyed the morning and thankfully there were no injuries! In the afternoon, the pupils took part in a guided tour of Winchester, with 3 professional guides taking the pupils and staff around the main historical landmarks to explain the Tudor and Stuart connections with Winchester. Cromwell and the destruction of the West window of the Cathedral was one of the main attractions as well as the house where Cromwell had supposedly signed the surrender of the city. The Great Hall of Winchester was another site we visited as well many other points of interest, some of which were connected to Charles II and Sir Christopher Wren. The day was a great success and enjoyed by both pupils and staff alike. The History department would like to thank all those who took part and helped out on the day. Miss Lewis
Holocaust Day On Tuesday 9th May this year, all the Year 9 students were involved in a Human Rights Citizenship day, focusing primarily on the Holocaust. The day was made up of 5 workshops and highlight of the day was a talk by Holocaust survivor Josef Perl, whose book Faces in the Smoke is on the shelves of both the History Department and the Library. The workshops were delivered by Miss Thomas, Mrs Pearce, Miss Spreadbury, Mr Howe, Miss Lewis, Mr Prankerd, the Reverend Phil Collins and Chris Archbold from the Holocaust Education Trust. The first workshop was designed to introduce Human Rights, so that students had an awareness of what human rights are and how they are abused in different countries. The second workshop was on Stereotypes and Anti-Semitism in order to introduce different types of prejudice and their origins, especially anti-Semitism. The third workshop was on what factors made people victims and also perpetrators of the Holocaust and the final workshop explained to the pupils what the Holocaust was and how the decision to murder an entire race of European Jews was discussed at the Wansee Conference just outside Berlin in January 1942. After the teaching sessions, all the students gathered in the Main Hall to listen to Josef Perl tell his amazing story of survival against all odds and Josef Perl there was also time to ask Joe many questions. Sadly, Joe has now retired and this was the last time he will give his talk at Perins so Miss Thomas and two pupils presented Joe with a gift and card from the school. In return Chris Archbold then presented the school with a certificate to thank us in helping to perpetuate the memory of those millions who suffered in the Holocaust. This event once again proved to be a great success and the History Department would like to thank both the staff and the students who took part and contributed to the day. Miss Thomas

Palestinian Awareness Day
On Tuesday 7th July, approximately 100 year 9 students, were involved in a Palestinian Awareness Day, when the History Department welcomed 8 visitors from Palestine aged between 16 and 25, with Nidal as their team leader. They travelled all the way from Beit Sahour, which is a Palestinian town east of Bethlehem. Also involved in the day were 2 guest speakers, namely the Rev Pat Clegg who has visited Palestine on a number of occasions and Naira Antoun who is the education officer for CAABU (Council for Arab-British understanding) and who lives in London. The first session began in the Main Hall with introductions on both sides. Session 2 involved teaching the students about the Geography and History of Palestine, with the Rev Clegg looking closely at the Land and its people. Session 3 was called What is so important about an Olive Tree, when Naira looked into Palestinian culture and identity and also looked at some of the negative ways in which the media has reported Palestinian issues. Session 4 was taken by Miss Thomas, who posed the question Security, yours or mine?, where the realities of life for Palestinians today were discussed and also problems posed by the Israeli settlements, checkpoints and the Security or Apartheid Wall. For session 5, everyone met back in the Main Hall for Question Time, when we listened to our guests answer a number of questions about their lives from how many brothers and sisters they have, to their favourite sports and which music they liked to listen to. There were many questions asked by the year 9 students, and some of the star players in this were Suzie Boardman, Becki Hart, Cameron Wicks and Alec New. The final and probably the most looked forward to session was the dancing! Miss Tourino kindly organised all the dancers, ranging from year 7 to 10 to perform. Ashley Wilmot introduced each dancing group in turn. All the groups amazed us with their excellent choreography and the spectators really enjoyed themselves, clapping and singing along throughout! Finally the Palestinian dancing began, with the dancers in costume, and they truly amazed us with their energetic and skilful dancing. The year 9s really entered into the spirit of the moment and the morning ended with a brief goodbye to our Palestinian friends, who then joined us for lunch before their final farewells. This event proved to be a great success and there were many positive comments from the year 9s in their evaluations. Thank you to all of the year 9s and the amazing dancers who took part. Miss Thomas
New Science Leaders for the Autumn term
The Science Department are pleased to announce the following students will be Science Leaders in September 09. They all went through a rigorous selection procedure involving writing an application form and then being interviewed by members of the Science staff and last years Science Leaders. We have lots of new projects in the pipe line including an Animal Club and Rocket competition as well as continuing the good work from our Leaders last year working in our feeder schools and running Science club.

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Indian Arts at Perins

During May, all the Year 7 students at Perins were involved in an Indian Arts Day. In art, Pratima Kramer; a practising Indian artist spent the day teaching Indian style printing. Students had prepared a background to print on ahead of Indian Arts Day and after Pratima had demonstrated the technique, students printed traditional Indian motifs. Pratima brought some examples of her own work and spoke about the history of Indian art. Even Mrs Bernard, the head teacher, rolled her sleeves up and had a go! Rakhi Sood came in to teach Dance at the school, she used a fusion of Traditional Indian Style Dance with the more commercial style of Bollywood. The pupils enjoyed learning the dance, which was performed to Jai Ho from the movie Slumdog Millionaire. In music, Iqbal Pathan, through the company Arts Asia, gave the students an insight into South Indian Tabla. The Tabla is the main type of drum used in Indian music. He showed some playing techniques and the students looked into how musicians learn rhythms through remembering different vocal sounds. Mrs Tanner, music teacher said We were all amazed at how fast Iqbal could talk these rhythms and how many different sounds the Tabla could make! For drama, Paul King, a well respected theatre practitioner and expert on Indian storytelling, introduced the students to the fantastic adventures of The Ramayana. Students dramatised the opening of the story of Rama and his brother Lakshmana in the style of traditional Indian travelling theatre companies using narration, music and plenty of action! The resulting performances were fantastic, contributing to a very entertaining day. Last but not least, in the Food Tech department, a chef from the Shapla Restaurant in Alresford showed the students how to make different types of curry and the variety of herbs and spices used in Indian cookery. The tasting session afterwards was very popular! Matthew Parker (12) said It was a brilliant day and really fun. I particularly enjoyed trying lots of different curries!
Gifted and Talented Go Day Workshops
On Monday 29th June and Tuesday 30th June, over 100 pupils from year 7, 8, 9 and our primary feeder schools were involved in special half day Go workshops. The workshops were designed to challenge the pupils in terms of thinking, logic and evaluation. The event also promised to encourage respect and improve attitudes to learning, as well as providing the pupils with an opportunity to work with others from different year groups. Go is a strategic board game for two players. It is also known as igo (Japanese), weiqi (Chinese) or baduk (Korean). The game is played by two players who alternately place black and white stones (playing pieces, now usually made of glass or plastic) on the intersections of a grid. The object of the game is to control a larger portion of the board than the opponent. A stone or a group of stones is captured and removed if it has no empty adjacent intersections, the result of being completely surrounded by stones of the opposing color. Go originated in ancient China more than 2,500 years ago, and although it is not known exactly when the game was invented, by the 3rd century BC it was already a popular pastime. The game of Go has respect for the dignity of your opponent built in to the etiquette, and, when you make errors of judgement, the board is a safe place to fail. Also, in Go you can be sure that your ideas are being considered seriously, since to underestimate even a weak opponent is to court disaster. The Go board is a vast domain - 361 points of intersection - you only know just how big this is when you've tried it. You are free to play anywhere you like. No two Go games are alike, or even similar. This alone makes Go unique. There are more Go games than there are atoms in the observable universe. A game on the full-size board has never (unless deliberately copied) been played before, and will never be played again. This puts special importance on the here and now, the unique encounter between two humans. The days were a great success and were thoroughly enjoyed by all. Peter and Shirley, who led the workshops, have kindly given the school a GO board, so we hope to start up our very own club so watch Moodle for more information! Thank you to Mr Nick Eacott and Miss Amy Craig for all their help. Miss Lewis If you would like further information on the game of Go please look at the following we address http://www.zenmachine.co.uk/ index2.html

Perins Students judge the Hampshire Book Award
A group of year 8 students from Perins were selected to participate in this years Hampshire Book Award. Organised by the School Library Service, the award promotes the enjoyment of reading, gives the opportunity for enthusiastic readers to read books from different genres and to judge for an eventual winner. The students read all six short listed books, and then had the chance to discuss the books with each other in regular meetings in the school library. They were evaluating the titles for enjoyment, engagement and enrichment. Last week, the participating students who were Sam Pakenham-Walsh, Pascale Chalmers-Arnold, Jasmine Latter, Olivia Probert, Tom Hanks, Mia Burns, Lucie Poole and Beth Farrer voted individually for their favourite book.
involved and we had some lively discussions. The winning book Dogfight was the favourite for our group vote and it was interesting that the girls in the group would normally have seen it as a boys book but they loved it!!
Pascale Chalmers-Arnold (13), one of the student judges said, I thought it was really good fun and I wouldnt have read the different types of books if I hadnt taken part.
Two of the group, Mia Burns and Tom Hanks, visited the Discovery Centre in Winchester this week where they discussed the books with pupils from other schools and voted for the winning title. At the end of the day the winning book was announced as Dogfight by Craig Simpson.
Mia and Tom at the Discovery Centre

Carnegie Winner

The winner of the CILIP Carnegie Medal this year is Bog Child by Siobhan Dowd. Set in the times of the Troubles and hunger strikes in Northern Ireland, with the mystery of a child found in a peat bog who appears to have been murdered, it is a gripping page turner and a contemplative read that makes one think about politics, violence, self sacrifice and the importance of love and of life itself.
Tom Hanks (13) said, It was really good and it was great to meet other students from other schools.

In the autumn all the young judges will have a chance to meet the winning author. Mrs Linda Sheppard , Librarian, said, This is the first time we have judged the Hampshire Book Award at Perins. It was a really enjoyable experience for all

Get a life!

Perins School has joined the virtual world with its latest ICT venture by joining the Skoolaborate partnership in Second Life. Second Life is a virtual world developed by Linden Lab that launched on June 23, 2003 and is accessible via the Internet. The software enables its users, called Residents, to interact with each other through Avatars that they can personalise however they wish. Residents can explore, meet other residents, socialise, participate in individual and group activities, and create building and possessions to enhance their activities. Skoolaborate is a global initiative using a blend of technologies including blogs, online learning, wiki's and virtual worlds to transform learning. The aim is to use these tools to provide engaging collaborative learning experiences for students aged between 13 and 18 years of age. Their virtual learning space is secure (all adults must have a criminal records check and have sent it to Linden Lab before they are granted access) and only accessible via invitation. Students from all around the world are invited to participate including schools and organisations from Australia, New Zealand, Taiwan, Japan, Singapore, Chile, Portugal, the UK and the USA. Since joining the project in the spring term Perins has introduced 7 students (Claire Brewer, Clodagh McSweeney, Peter Hurrell, Zach Gilmore, Doug Cairns, Suzie Boardman and Sasha Lawson) via an extra curricula club and has been very pleased with the activities the students have been getting involved in. Students have been mainly involved with the Social Action area within the Skoolaborate island, participating in activities focused on ethical issues, debates, displaying their ideas in a virtual Slavery Museum and on a Dilemmas Tapestry. The latest project to be undertaken by the Skoolaborate partnership is to produce a Machinima (film making using virtual world avatars as the actors) film in world written and starred in by the students of the schools involved. This project is now in full swing and Perins is proud to say the script is provided by one of our students. Claire Brewery or ClaireDustykins as she is known in Second Life has written a super Sci-Fi script to be put into production over the summer! Well done Claire!! The Perins Second Life group will continue to meet over the summer in our virtual world, and more projects with more students to join are planned for next year. One day we might even try teaching a lesson from the comfort of our own homes! Mr Prankerd

Its hot and wet this time of year in Ghana with temperatures of 30+ degrees C, similar to those we had at the beginning of July; unusual for us but normal to Ghanaians. At the New Tafo Methodist Junior High School they are preparing for end of year exams. In their system if you fail the end of year exam you have to re-sit the whole year again so students are very busy revising as much as they can. However, with few text books and only some students able to buy exercise books a lot rides on how much you listened and understood during the lessons. Outside the classrooms the students have been busy with their machetes (long blades) cutting the grass for the football pitch. Football is their favourite game and they were extremely pleased to receive the football kits we gave to the Head Teacher, Madam Juliet Asafo, who visited Perins in February. The picture below shows the New Tafo students in blue and yellow just before their match against a neighbouring school. Perins also donated the red kit too so the game was held in our honour! The match finished in a 2 -2 draw and all students, both players and supporters, had a great time. Thanks for helping to make this possible. Mr Clarke
The Head Boy and Head Girl Interview each Other
Kathryn Stokes Interests: Art and swimming
Jo Dennehy Interests; Football and tennis
How did you become head boy and girl? First of all, we applied as prefects and mentors. We then had to have an interview with two teachers, chosen at random. After the interview, prefects, mentors and buddies got selected. Within the 45 prefects, 6 people got chosen as senior prefects and house captains. We all then had a second interview, with Mrs Bernard and Mr Nevola stating why we wanted the role as head boy / girl. What is your role as head boy and girl? We work together with the senior prefects to ensure all POR (positions of responsibility) holders are doing their duties. We also have toattend meetings, as student representatives from the school. Another role as head boy and girl is to help out on days such as Induction Day and with tours of the school for visitors. We will also be helping with some assemblies too. How do you think you can improve the school? As head boy and girl, we hope that we can improve the school by listening to other students, from the new year 7s to the current year 10s, and making the school a better place to learn. We hope that we can help students and improve the student voice.

Cricket

Perins hosted a regional team from Australia from the Mornington Peninsula near Melbourne. Tuesday 23rd consisted of lunch at the school, a 30-over Cricket match at Old Alresford. It was a narrow win or the Perins team which featured some over-age players to make the game competitive. The event finished with a high with a barbeque.

TENNIS

. Year 7 and 8 County Tennis Finals On Thursday 1st July we took, Sam Pakenham-Walsh, Jonny Hart, Leah Rushworth and Olivia Probert, our four Tennis representatives to Totton and Eling Tennis Centre for the County Finals. They had already played all the schools in our partnership and won the privilege of attending so as a department we were extremely proud of how they had already done. School competing on the day included Kings, Portsmouth Grammar School, Oaklands, Sherfield, Mountbatten, Robert Mays, Christ the Kings and Bitterne Park. All 4 players played 8 singles matches and then in doubles they played another 8 matches, a long and tiring day in the heat. Our pupils played very well, all wining at least 2 matches each over the course of the day and coming 7th overall. Well Done! County CupYear 10 The Year 10 tennis team is into the semifinal of the County Cup. Theyre hoping to retain their title two years ago. Team consisted of Hannah Stratten, Lizzi Flesher, Clare Stratten and Rhiannon Thomas.
Students at Perins are excelling in athletics events in the county. Jack Walker (Yr 9) came 4th in the final of the 800 metres race in the track and field event of the Hampshire County Championships. Then he achieved Bronze the next day in the 1500 metre race. His mother, Mrs Lou Walker, said If the race had been 20m longer hed have got Silver but its all experience and the speed and level was so much higher than Jacks really had to deal with before. The Junior Girls (Y7/8) Track and Field Team competed in the County Round of the Track and Field Cup at Portsmouth. They won their match, beating St Swithuns into second place by only 4 points, and now progress through to one of the regional matches in June. Mr Mark Faulker, PE teacher, said It was a fantastic team effort with high scoring individual performances by Charlie Hurrell (100m), Abi Hughes (200m), Issy Wallace (800m) and Rosie Carter (Long Jump).
Junior Girls Athletics team
A Year 9 boys team have made it to the Hampshire Track Knockout Final at Bar End in Winchester. District Sports The girls team came runners-up on Wednesday 24th June. A pleasing achievement. District Champions on the day were Georgie Dustin (yr10 100m), Lizzie Flesher yr 10 Discus), Georgie Dustin, Sophie Hollingdale, Frainey Spurge and Libby Bristow (yr10 4x100mrelay), Ruby Farr (yr7 600m). The boys team: Jack Messenger (yr 800m) and Jonah Dykes (yr8 Hurdles)

Jack Walker

Judo Champion is mentor to Perins Students Tom Davis, Commonwealth Judo Champion and potential Olympic Champion visited Perins School to work with students who have been chosen for a Sky Living for Sports event at the school. The idea of the event is to raise self esteem in students through the medium of Karate. Students will have the opportunity to develop basic Karate skills with a Coach over a three week period, learning a basic Kata. The students will then invite a friend or a teacher to train along side and be taught by them for a further two weeks in preparation for performance of a synchronised Kata in a mini competition. The final week the students will be in competition with the rest of the group with certificates & medals to be presented at the celebration event attended by Tom Davis. Eleven students chosen from years 7 to 9 met Tom Davis earlier this week. Georgie Dustin and Jamie Charlton-Little, school Ambassadors for Sport were also involved in leading the group. Tom gave an introductory talk to motivate the students. He spoke about the six keys to success that every athlete needs including mental toughness, people skills, hunger to achieve, life knowledge, breaking barriers and planning for success. Later, the participants were given an opportunity to practice some skills which involved some team games and some Judo skills. Tom Davis was entertaining and inspirational. His own dream is to become the first British Olympic Judo Champion. Calum Sheppard, (13) said, I really enjoyed the day and Tom Davis had a great sense of humour. Im looking forward to the coaching sessions after half term.

Tug of War InterHouse challenge for National School Sport Week
During the week from 29 June to 3 July, Inter House tug of war games were held at lunchtime. The PE department organised the tug of war challenge as part of the Lloyds TSB National School Sport Week which took place across the country. The initiative is to help to motivate pupils and fulfil objectives for PE and school sport using the inspiration of the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games and Values. The aim is simple: To help excite and motivate pupils to do more sport by celebrating and profiling all that's been achieved in PE within schools, and launching new sport based initiatives. Lloyds TSB National School Sport Week is integral to the delivery of the Government's PE and Sport Strategy for Young People and contributing towards the target of offering young people five hours of high quality PE and sport a week by 2012. The week before, staff members at school did a tug of war to show how its done!! There was a good bit of competition between the year groups and students turned out in force to cheer for their year. The year 7 team won but maybe not so much due to strength and technique as to the fact they had more people!!! During a scorchingly hot week, tutor groups and their supporters turned up to tug and to cheer. On Wednesday, 9C3, Miss Packs tutor won the day for Challenger. There was huge excitement every lunch time as teams changed their techniques to win the games. Winners: 10C3 9C3 8D1 7C1
We have decided to establish a Perins Alumni Association to do the following: provide regular reunion activities to share news of former pupils to keep former pupils up to date with developments at school to establish a means of communication with former pupils who might be interested in sharing relevant life experiences (education, careers & gap years) with current Perins pupils to promote local sports clubs amongst our former pupils to offer teacher training opportunities to appropriately qualified former pupils to qualify local, former pupils as sport coaches & officials who can then be employed to enhance the schools ever expanding after school sports program
To kick start proceedings we will be holding our inaugural Perins Old Pupils Day on Friday 4 September, 2009. In the day time we are hoping that former pupils will return to inspire Y11 pupils with talks on further / higher education, career paths & gap years. In the evening, matches between old pupils and local Alresford sides will play rugby, netball, tennis, football, basketball and badminton. A bar and hog roast will be available after these! Elaborated details can be found on MOODLE, alternatively contact MR Whybro whybror@perins.hants.sch.uk
Russell North Modern Pentathlon
Russell North, a former student of Perins (2005 leaver) is making very good progress towards performing at the London 2012 Olympics. He is now representing the Senior Great Britain Modern Pentathlon team and has been travelling around the world, participating in different events.

Deputy head in World Karate Championships
From 18th to 21st June, Deputy Headteacher, Mr Nevola was competing in the World Karate (WUKF) Championships in Odessa, Ukraine. Following his winning the English Karate Federation Championships earlier in this year, he travelled to the Eastern European Port, hopeful of improving on his double bronze at the last Worlds. After some enlightening experiences going through customs, where it was evident in the protocols and security, that it was a communist country, the Athletes travelling were treated like Football stars with TV interviews and autograph signing sessions. Mr Nevola eventually took a Bronze & a Silver in his events, and now knows the Romanian, Russian, Hungarian & Ukrainian National Anthems very well as the Eastern Block Countries took a high proportion of the Medals available at the Championships!!
Race for Life In Memory of Angela Mackie Angela Mackie was our very vibrant head of drama. She was hugely respected throughout the county, an Advanced skills teacher and popular with all staff. She sadly died from cancer 2 years ago (she had been in and out of remission for about 20 years though very few people knew). She was determined to die in service so her family particularly her 2 grow up daughters would really benefit from her pension. Angela was memorable as a positive up beat person and for her amazing drama productions. I have been doing Race for Life for years, but decided we should make it more home based in memory of Angela. This is our 3rd year. Seventeen ladies from Perins walked through the Hampshire countryside on the hottest day of the year so far, to raise some money for this very worth while charity please note WALKED, it was a little hot! Two others joined us for cream tea, where we all raised a tea cup to Angela.
A few staff will be leaving us this term to move on to ventures new. Mrs Clayton is leaving to have a baby but will be back. Miss Pratt will be getting married and she will return as Mrs McLaughlin. The school staff and students would like to give our best wishes to the following:

Mr Little

Miss Whiting

Mr Saunders

Mrs Tanner

Miss Parisi

Mrs Dorchain Mr Ledsham

Miss Murphy

Mrs Clayton Shepherd

Miss Pratt

We have strictly enforced the school uniform rules this term and most of the students have responded brilliantly to this. We have focused on skirt length, shoes, coloured underwear, fitted shirts, cardigans, ties and top buttons. We are aware that summer holidays is the time of year when many parents purchase replacement uniform, so we just wanted to help and advise as much as possible. Here is a brief summary of potential pitfall areas to help.
skirts should be no shorter than 8cms above the middle of the knee. They should be loose fitting and lycra content should be minimal (ie the skirt should not cling) school shirts should not be fitted bras should not be visible through shirts no cardigans, navy blue jumpers only shoes should be black or brown. No boots, canvas shoes, or open shoes Jewellery: only 1 piercing in each lobe. No other piercings are acceptable and will be removed. No other jewellery should be worn no visible make up scarves should be navy blue or black coats should have no logos and be dark or beige blazers should have the school badge on

trousers should be black or dark grey; worn on the waist and secured with a black belt only. No large buckles or logos are acceptable scarves should be navy blue or black jewellery. Only 1 piercing in each lobe. No other piercings are acceptable and will be removed. No other jewellery should be worn no visible make up shoes. No trainers black or brown plain navy jumpers blazers should have the school badge on
Schoolkit in Basingstoke are being particularly helpful with regard to uniform. They have a copy of the uniform policy, so please do visit them for advice. A word of warning, Marks and Spencers are selling girls blazers, which are fitted and with a bright pink lining. These are not acceptable for school.

A reminder for parents

If your son/daughter is unwell, please could you call into the school office to advise us on each day of absence? When students return to school tutors need a note/email to confirm absence. Many thanks
We wish you all a good summer The Guidance Team 23

FUN CAMP

* GREAT NEWS FOR WORKING PARENTS THIS SUMMER * For many years Fun Camp has been providing holiday playschemes at Perins for school children aged 4 to 11 years of age. For the first time we have the opportunity to extend our opening times to cater for working parents and those wanting their children to have FUN and enjoy something different this summer. This is thanks to the generous support of Alresford Town Council and their kind contribution of 600 which has meant that Fun Camp can now offer childcare from 8.30am to 5.30pm. Not only will the money help support funding for staff but also Fun Camp can now offer themed days with a variety of different activities including; Spanish Day, Martial Arts and Bouncy Castle, Trampolining and Food Fun and Sports and Water Fight Day! In the May half term the themed days included an Emergency Service Day where we visited both Alresford Police and Fire Station; children had a tour of the stations, had fun using the hose, trying on the uniforms, asking lots of questions and even got to climb aboard the police cars and fire engine! For further information about our exciting NEW themed days and to find out about our GREAT discount go to: www.perins.net. Francis Chapman and one of the Alresfords Fire Fighters Martin Cheyney
BUSES Basingstoke Transport for Students- Pick up points Oakley Kempshott Dummer A30 North Waltham Brighton Hill Hatch Warren Beggarwood The company are willing to extend to other areas of Basingstoke dependent on demand. Contact Sharon Davis- Car Park and Building Works The work on the new car park and playing field footpath commenced on 29th June. Work will proceed over the summer holidays and should be near to completion at the start of the new school year. The roof of Eliot block is also being replaced.

And finally.

Mrs Bernard and the staff at Perins would like to wish you all a happy and relaxing summer break.