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FromthePrincipal
I am grateful to Cat Middle who has taken on the role of editor of the Courier and this edition is another wonderful celebration of the richness of learning at KEVICC, and of the diverse achievements of students, staff and the wider community. I am filled with an enormous sense of privilege as the new leader of this learning community. What strikes me, on a daily basis, is the wide range of outstanding opportunities that our students enjoy. I was fortunate to be able to spend an evening and a day at the Year 7 Okehampton residential trip where I saw, first-hand, the nature of the learning that went on that week with students and staff spending dedicated time together, sharing the challenges of archery, climbing, mountain biking and living together! Whilst we are developing the Personal, Learning and Thinking Skills (PLTS) throughout the curriculum at KEVICC, there is no doubt that Year 7 students are getting off to a flying start with these skills in the Okehampton week. At the other end of the age range, our older students have spent time in Granada for a language-study visit. Following the visit, the Spanish host families wrote to us at KEVICC, describing our students as young people with open minds and open hearts. What an accolade for them! Whilst we are working hard at KEVICC to ensure that our students achieve their very best in examinations, we do not take our eye off the other important educational aspirations enshrined in our College Values. We are developing young people who are caring and compassionate, resilient and brave, with a positive attitude to life. These are attitudes I believe our young people must develop in order to tackle the challenges of life, such as those wrestled with at the recent Copenhagen Climate Change Summit. Both the Big Stride, Small Steps and Garden Project articles here in the Courier demonstrate our commitment at KEVICC to the green agenda. Thank you to all the students, staff and parents who go the extra mile to make all these fantastic learning opportunities a reality! I wish all Courier readers a very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! Kate Mason
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School of Dreams
15th 16th October 2009
By Rebecca Pengelly
Year 7 students from KEVICC and Year 5 students from Marldon and Dartington primary schools participated in a two day workshop created by Honda. The School of Dreams programme explored the power of dreams, imagination and creativity.
Learners participated in activities that developed Personal Learning & Thinking Skills (PLTS) as they worked co-operatively in mixed teams on a variety of tasks requiring a range of thinking strategies including information processing, enquiry reasoning, creative thinking and evaluation, such as creating a dream catcher. dream was simple but it is more than that It is imagining something different. Darcie, a Year 5 student, thought it was a lot of fun and the activities we did were interesting as we got to make dream catchers and mind maps. It is really worth doing. as learning many new skills to aid them with their learning in the future. At the end of the programme, we were given a full set of resources including manuals, PowerPoint slides and props so that we can replicate the programme with other students in our school and our feeder primary schools.
At last we can tell you!

By Helen Ireland
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TACKLINGKEVICC'sCARBONFOOTPRINT SMALLSTEPS &ABIGSTRIDE

We have been beavering away to raise the money for our
granted. So, we'll have information boards and a viewing panel to see the woodchip being carried by a rotating screw (auger) into the boiler. Well alsol be able to display data about it on computer screens using a sophisticated ICT monitoring programme. The "small steps" of our energy project will be a new Building Energy Management System, insulation of Old Court and Main Court, electrical efficiency measures and a programme of awareness raising to make sure we all save energy.
Energy project and we've heard, in the last couple of weeks, that the final big pieces of the funding jigsaw have fallen into place. Since we were offered 89,000 from a central government source (Dept of Energy & Climate Change) in July, and 30,000 from the Lottery (Community Sustainable Energy Programme), we have been offered an amazing 117,000 by Devon County Council and 19,000 by the utility company eDF. All of that comes to over a quarter of a million pounds, plus the College's own contribution, so the tender for a new biomass heating system has been let. These are very expensive pieces of equipment - modern, effective & efficient.
We have lots of detailed planning still to do but the aim is to install the massive boiler in the ground floor of the existing boiler house at Redworth, with probably 10,000 litres of thermal store: enormous water tanks to store the heat generated by burning woodchip. At the moment, there are two pre-70's oil tanks from when the school was heated with cheap oil. These will be removed and the building remodelled to accommodate all the new equipment, control panels and gas back up. Just outside the boiler house is space for a fuel store. This is where the woodchip deliveries will arrive by lorry (and, yes, you're right - the transport for that will have a carbon footprint, but tiny compared to the gas we use at the moment). So this is the BIG STRIDE in tackling our carbon footprint: the switch from fossil fuel to sustainable locally sourced wood fuel. There are a couple of companies seeking our business already. Fuel from biological sources is carbon neutral. When trees grow they take carbon dioxide out of the air and fix it in the timber. As this is burnt in the boiler, over 90% of its energy is harnessed as heat and the CO2 is released back into the atmosphere. However, it is a short cycle, unlike CO2 being emitted from ancient fossil fuel sources. Moreover, we want to make it obvious how we will be heating half the college. Gas is piped in underground, we don't notice it, we take it for
This will be an exciting project, supporting the other green initiatives at KEVICC to:
reduce the environmental impact of the college spend our budget in the local economy understand the responsibility we all carry, making changes in our lives take advantage of the educational opportunities offered by the project This project has been initiated by the KEVICC Environmental and Sustainability Group. If you would like further details, please contact: Chris Harris (Business Manager) charris@kingedwardvi.devon.sch.uk or Helen Ireland hireland@kingedwardvi.devon.sch.uk
Cross phase group working cooperatively together with Honda School of Dreams All teaching staff participated actively in the activities and teamwork and found the days extremely beneficial to their students. Gareth Brown from Marldon Primary School felt that children working across schools in groups was invaluable and that all activities were based about working collaboratively. He felt that it gave children confidence. As they say, dreams can come true and by giving them a voice it had a real impact. Karen Bradford from Dartington thought that their students really benefitted from working with people they didnt usually work with and the workshops meant they wanted to take more risks with their learning. Students from KEVICC learnt that they were able to extend their learning in the PLTS and many took lead roles in group work as well
Students using mind mapping tools to help recap ideas During the first day learners discussed different learning styles which they incorporated in their final group project about dreams. Throughout the project, students focused on effective presentation and communication techniques which cumulated in a group presentation. Honda demonstrated the power of dreams and how individuals can realise their own dreams by using real world examples from Hondas own experience. KEVICC students Ella Watkins and Matt Swiss enjoyed the activities. They helped us to understand what dreams mean as before I thought a
PAPERRECYCLINGUPDATE
Elmhirst and Redworth are joining Kenicott with the paper recycling. It is very important that we all work together to make this scheme work. Please use the recycling bins for paper only. It will take a bit of time to get used to separating waste but it will be worth it! Pilar Fernandez
Mixed group of students presenting their dream to the rest of the group and teaching staff including R. Pengelly (Head of Year 7), E Osborn (Team leader of Year 7 Core Curriculum), R Hutchinson and S McGinnis (Vice Principals) and Kate Mason (Principal).
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Year10Rugby
By Charlie Stephens
Results wise it has been a successful season for the Year 10 team but with a little more commitment in some areas it could have been even better. One match was lost: a friendly against Churston Grammar School by a score of (024). However, the team won all their South Devon group games beating:
SchoolSport CoordinatorReport
By Martin Vizor School Sport Coordinator
Tournaments
Towards the end of the summer term, South Brent, Landscove and Marldon Primary Schools represented the Learning Community at the School Sport Partnership Athletics Finals. South Brent finished first and Marldon third. South Brent went on to represent the School Sport Partnership at the regional finals in Torbay. The first tournament this term was the Central Venue Indoor Athletics Tournament held in the KEVICC Sports Hall on 21st and 28th September. This was, again, won by South Brent with The Grove coming second. Josh Green and Ryan Jeffery from Year 12, who are working hard to achieve the Level 2 Sports Leadership Award, officiated at these events. On 19th October, eight teams entered the Year 5/6 Hi 5 Netball Tournament. Two of our smaller schools were successful in this event with Diptford finishing as runners up to Harbertonford. These schools will now go on to represent the Learning Community at the Partnership Finals. Josh Green and Ryan Jeffery again officiated at this event. The picture below shows action from the tournament.
40 Sports Leaders from KEVICC were involved in the running of two Hi 5 Netball Festivals for nearly 300 Year 3/4 children from ten of our primary schools. The students were trained in their BTEC Sport lessons and then ran their activity with a partner for five groups of 14/15 children. KEVICC students were complimented on their leadership skills by the primary school staff attending the event. All the students made significant progress during these festivals. The pictures below illustrate some of the students at work.
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Coombeshead Kingsbridge Teignmouth South Dartmoor
(57-0) (37-27) (19-10) (21-19)
Unfortunately, due to a lack of numbers we had to concede the match against South Dartmoor Community College meaning they, instead, progressed through to the Devon Playoffs finals night. However, many students have shown an impressive commitment and, to those, we say a big well done and lets hope next season will be even better. I am pleased to note that many of the squad are now playing regular club rugby; this will further improve their performances. Jack Brierly, Todd Lowry and Charlie Fisk have progressed through to South Devon Schools Trials. Good luck to them!
Scott Hingston, Alex Posniak, Harry Davis and Sam Hedges
Festivals
On 24th September Year 10 and Year 12 Sports Leaders ran a Key Stage 1 Minifestival for St Johns, Grove and Stoke Gabriel Primary Schools. Year 6 students from St Johns acted as team leaders. The photos below show a selection of the activities run by KEVICC students.
School Sport Partnership Leadership Academy Five Sports Leaders were selected, on the basis of their performance at some of the above events, to attend the School Sport Partnership Leadership Academy at the Leisure Centre in Moretonhampstead on 11th November. The students, pictured below, are Josh Green, Sam Nicholls, Beth Ricketts, Laura White and Jonathan Finch.
into primary schools using the impetus of the London 2012 Olympic Games to get more children involved in sport at every level. The second group looked into the possibility of setting up a Sport Council in College in which the views of students about Sport and Physical Activity at KEVICC could be brought forward. The students all registered for the Youth Sport Trust online volunteer passport scheme. This allows the students to log all their Sports Leadership training aswell as the volunteer hours they complete, both in College and in community clubs.
ClimbingClub
This term and next term we have both Primary and Secondary Climbing Clubs running. These clubs are funded in part by a government scheme called Sport Unlimited. Thanks to the generosity of Miss ONeill in giving her time, the funding will be used to buy new climbing equipment.
The students underwent multiskills training and learnt about some playground activities to use with Year 7 students. In the afternoon the students were split into two groups. The London 2012 Young Ambassador group focused upon developing a presentation take
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FOOTBALL
KennicottFootball Update
By Chris Chisholm
After several years of unprecedented success (having won the league on two occasions, runners-up on three and double winners in the memorable 2004-05 season) the Kennicott faithful expected a season struggle with mid-term obscurity an unfriendly beast at the best of times as Harry Rednapp knows only too well. However, as many know, its a funny game football and, just when you think you know something about it, you find out you knew nothing (ask Rafa Benetiez if you dont believe me!). The Class of 2009 have been revealed to be a rare vintage, with many old legs refinding their boots and making the Kennicott debut, led by Ben Im fairly reliable Hubbard and Sam three point lane Ben-Guest, eagerly supported by Mike Liver who? Douglas, Ryan Keep it green Jones and Glyn I am getting there Oakley. The upper sixth have turned up in their droves. Well all apart from Kei I dont train in the rain Kwagia who remains elusive on and off the field. This collection of old timers have mixed readily with new boys Connor Mr Reliable Field and Richard overlap Harris and Josh from London. Only five players remain from last seasons runners-up squad, led by the captain Sean mustnt grumble Holden who is truly
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a class act on any football field. He has been well supported by Mark there is no i in team Gilmour, Matt one foot or two Evans, Tom right arm over Durman, Charlie grow your own Watson and Ryan three off the tee Stevenson. The first warm up game was a turgid affair against the boys from the local Sports College who posted their first win at KEVICC since 1999 by a single goal. Unperturbed by the start of the season, the team really hit their straps, winning the opening encounter by six goals against Teignmouth and wins against St Cuthbert Mayne (5-1) and Churston (4-2) soon followed. Their last win was a comeback-from-behind victory against South Hams team rivals, Kingsbridge, who have yet to beat Kennicott in the league this century! On a muddy surface, a 2-1 deficit was turned into a 7-2 win, thanks to the wing play of Holden, Watson and Stevenson and the finishing of Mark put me down for six Gilmour. Twelve points from four games is an excellent start but, as seasoned watchers of Kennicott know only too well, harder games lie ahead against their nemesis South Devon College, last beaten in 2003, the boys from the local eleven-plus establishment and the Torbay Sports College but, so far, Kennicott can be proud of their team with twenty players regularly turning up for training and a brand new pristine kit generously sponsore, once again, by Kingfisher Print who have been excellent supporters of College football.
FootballMatchReport
By Anthony Goss
You thought the season was over when England beat Andorra. In order to commemorate one of KEVICCs finest and most well respected teachers, the late Mr Tellam, the leaving Year 13 students played a charity football match against the teachers. After a minutes applause, the match got under way. In the blistering heat, the students had the early possession and chances, with Troy Abraham missing the first of many. After this
As ever, in keeping with the festive season, it is the time to be merry and, in keeping with tradition, I have asked Santa for a few gifts: A set of anti-teflon gloves for Tom Durman; a compass for Richard Harris to find where the goal is; a decent team to support for Michael Douglas; FIFA Manager 2010 [South Devon edition] for Charlie Watson as he likes to move in management circles; a right foot for Connor Field; standing up medicine for Matt Evans; a Green Army for Ryan Jones; made to measure shorts for Sam Ben-Guest; a book of passing for Mark Gilmour; training timetable for Kei; a portable goal for Razzer and The Life and Times of General Custer for captain Sean Holden. As for the coach, it seems Christmas has come early and I just wish for more of the same in 2010. The beautiful game is still alive in Totnes and if you dont believe me see for yourself on any given Wednesday.
early threat, the match began to settle down (apart from when Jonjo Reeves fell over himself!) The students thought that they took the lead seven minutes in, however Jack Pollard admitted fouling the teachers keeper Bradley Turner. Against the run of play, the teachers took lead with Lewis Newman-Hopkins running down the left and lobbing Ian Caunter in the students goal, to the shock of the students manager Anthony Goss on the side line. With less than 10 minutes left of the first half, Charlie Baxendale scored a goal which is already being described as goal of next season. The young Totnes player was given too much room and he punished the teachers with an amazing long range effort. At half time the score was 1-1. After the much needed break (especially for the teachers), the students continued to press on and were rewarded for their efforts with Baxendale scoring another good goal from just inside the area. The students thought that they had won it half way through the second half when skipper Ivan Woloshak set up Jim Pomeroy on the edge of the area. However, the teachers were not finished yet. Alan Hartigan and Jason Beynon continued to press on and within the space of five minutes they were level again. Lewis scored another lob from the left hand side and Hartigan scored after the mistake between Caunter and student defender Ross Davis. This spurred the students to press for a winner and from then on it was one-way traffic. Towards the end, the students came close with Jonjo Reeves, Krysten Coombs, Callum Browse and Josh Patmore. Despite this, pressure, the teachers defence stood strong, with Derek Davies commanding the back four and taking on a few students as well. The match finished with the score tied at 3-3. Forgetting there was extra time, both teams agreed to go straight to penalties. Jonjo and Krysten scored for the students (Krystens penalty being one the luckiest penalties ever) and Matt Griffiths and Duncan Chilton scored for the teachers. Both Turner and Caunter made first class saves in the shoot-out. At the end of the shoot-out it was 2-2, with both teams missing three penalties each, most notably Beynon clearing the goal and hedge behind. This meant it went into sudden death. Caunter and Abraham scored for the students and Lewis got
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his third but Derek Davies, who played so well in defence, missed his penalty which gave the students the win. Ross Hammond presented a trophy to the students captain, Ivan, for their efforts. Special thanks to: Neil Pollard for refereeing the first half; Connor Field for collecting money and refereeing the second half; to Liam Bligh and Adam Perryman for being linesmen with make shift flags; Rob Jones for collecting in more money; Michael Sealey of Totnes Trophies and Engraving for kindly donating a trophy; Steve Jane for obtaining permission from the FA; to the College for allowing the match to be played on the site; to the groundsmen for cutting and marking out the pitch and putting the goals and nets up and, of course, everyone who came, watched and played.
Skipper Ivan Woloshak and manager Anthony Goss with the trophy
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The Garden Project

Project Aim: to work with young people to develop the garden area as a productive, educational and enjoyable resource.
The Kennicott Garden Club set up by Neil Edwards and now coordinated by Cat Middle runs on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday lunch times. It also takes place on Thursdays after school, in conjunction with the Duke of Edinburgh Award. The Garden Club runs events, workshops and activities to attract students into the garden. Events so far have included an apple picking party, apple pulping, juicing and pasteurising. The Garden team has also run workshops on building raised beds, sheet mulching and bio-dynamic crop rotation. The apple juicing event was very successful and attracted over 40 students throughout the lunch break. Approximately 50 litres of apple juice was produced and sold in the Dining Room and at a College evening event. Land preparation is well underway, with the raised beds finished and in place and horse manure on the way. We are now focusing on designing the garden using a sustainable integrated holistic design system called permaculture.
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Project Aim: to set up composting and wormeries for the food waste and other inputs from the College to fertilise the garden. A staged process will build over one year, starting with just 5kg of waste from the kitchens per day, developing it to use up to 15kg (as well as paper towels, shredded cardboard and garden trimmings). Regulations relating to Animal By Products will be followed.
Brown bins and corn starch bags are now in place in all three of the kitchens, so all compostable waste is being collected by the council. New research into aerobic composting systems has been completed, including a site visit to Riverford and meetings with both the Devon Community Composting Network and RIDAN (www.ridan.co.uk). A decision has been made to implement the RIDAN system into the main Dining Room. The location has been decided and logistics are underway. Worm beds are currently being set up in the garden. If you would like to get involved in the worm farm, then please contact Cat.
Project Aim: to establish poultry keeping, starting small with a flock of 15 hens, in an area protected by an electric fence, for free range egg production and increasing the numbers as we gain experience. The supervisor, recruited with livestock keeping skills, will organise a core group of responsible young people and community members to form a rota for their care, including weekends and holidays.
A number of local fencers and craftsmen have quoted on the chicken coup and fencing work and the Garden Team has made a decision on who to go with. This will be implemented by the end of the year. A chicken house has been sourced through Freecycle and is onsite waiting for its occupants. Two students have so far volunteered to be part of the core Chicken Care Group. Research has been undertaken into what type of chickens to get and where to source them locally. If you would like to join the Chicken Group and learn how to take care of poultry then, again, please contact Cat.
Who has benefitted so far?
Over 60 students have been involved in some way with the garden, both through the garden events and activities and through the lunchtime club. There are also the students, staff, parents and community members who have benefitted from drinking KEVICC juice from the Dining Room, and at the evening event where the juice was sold for 1 per cup. Some members of staff have also come to use the garden to relax in during the lunch break. The project is being publicised through the College website and Portal, regularly through the daily bulletin, and a low energy hand painted chalk board has been placed at the entrance of the college. There will also be updates printed in The Courier and the local press. Cat Middle (Garden Supervisor) cmiddleditch@kingedwardvi.devon.sch.uk
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Thanks to all those who made the Apple Juicing event such a success. Hopefully, see you same time, same place next year?
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The Global Dimension at KEVICC
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KEVICC is also getting involved in the British Council run project called Connecting Classrooms. This project is aimed at embedding the global dimension further into the curriculum. KEVICC has joined the Devon cluster that is going to be linking with Japan and Korea. The project has gone through the initial set up stages and KEVICC is in the position to now join the cluster as it expands. Year 7-9 students will be carrying out project work and then contacting students in Japan and Korea to share this work. The students will be using the British Council web based forum for communication. This is currently in its early stages but we hope it will help our students to understand and empathise with different cultural opinions. We recently welcomed some Nepalese visitors from Mahan Siddhartha High School in Kathmandu. The school was established in 1993 by the headteacher, Babu Ram KC, and his wife Jwala. The visit was arranged by Angus Peachey in 8Sn1 whose family has a link with this school. The visitors spent the day touring KEVICC, observing lessons and talking to 8Sn1 about life in Nepal. The differences between our school and theirs are great. They currently have around 500 pupils aged from 3 up to 16 and about 40 boarders in total, the majority of whom are orphaned and being supported by the school. They are without electricity for up to 12 hours in any one day and the school doesn't have a generator or any alternative forms of power. Children learn English from the youngest age, and older children work only in English for all classes. KEVICC is very grateful to our visitors for the beautiful picture that they gave us and for the insight into their culture.
We hope that they enjoyed their visit. This is going to be an exciting year for the Global Dimension at KEVICC, with new and familiar projects running. There will be plenty of opportunities for all our students to get involved. Lucy Carpenter International Dimension Coordinator Year 8 Cultural Awareness Project: Day 1 This is an annual project, now in its sixth year, which aims to get Year 8 students thinking creatively about issues of culture, race, gender and equal opportunities. On 16th November students produced a tapestry to represent their tutor group identity and started to think about where they belong and how they represent themselves. Each tutor group worked exceptionally hard to get the tasks set completed in the allocated time. The tapestries produced were creative, colourful and interesting. Engagement in the work was good and the majority of students proved to be a credit to their year group. Team work was vital to get all sections of the work completed and groups worked very well together. The tapestries produced by each tutor group are going to be displayed for other year groups to see and the tutor groups will revisit this work in the summer term. Students will also be following up the theme of identity within their academic tutoring programme. Lucy Carpenter International Dimension Coordinator
KEVICCSPACEFLIGHT PROJECTUPDATE
Last year, four of our Year 10 students won a competition run by Cambridge University to build an experiment to fly into space. The experiment to measure altitude and levels of EM radiation (UV, visible and infra-red light) was completed by the deadline and flew into space one sunny morning in July. Sadly, there was a problem with the quick release mechanism and, after blowing off course, the high-altitude balloon and all the experiments landed in the Shortly after take off the balloon starts to rise over Cambridge North Sea. They were eventually recovered a couple of months later on a beach in Denmark. None of our data survived, sadly, but there were two photos from another experiment that prove we really did make it into space! Kizzy Brooks, Matt Trott, Rory Clements and Ben Ayles-Evans the KEVICC Spaceflight team - have been offered a chance to build and fly a second experiment in the new year. They are currently seeking funding for the project. Here are the two photos that were salvaged from the spaceflight. The number hanging down is part of the flight reference for the University experiment. Katrina Fennell
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to engaging our students in activities that widen their understanding of the world around them. Our link with the Mathieson Music School is still going strong; we will be visiting them again in February 2010 with a reciprocal visit in June 2010. This year we are jointly working on a project called Futures. Year 9 students will begin to think about their own futures, their local communities futures and the future of the planet. They will be sharing this work through work exchanges with the students in the Mathieson Music School. The aim of our link with Mathieson is to share teaching and learning strategies and to gain a better understanding of each other's cultures.
The balloon reaches the edge of the atmosphere and goes into space, at its highest it was 3 times higher than an aeroplane gets to.
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Okehampton
YEAR7 OKEHAMPTON TEAMBUILDING TRIP2009
Year 7 have just returned from their team building residential trip to Okehampton Activity Centre in North Devon. We were all very tired and muddy after three days of outdoor activities. The weather was not great but the team spirit was strong and we all got stuck into our various activities despite the constant rain and mud. It was my first time joining Year 7 on their adventure and I was really impressed with the way so many of our youngest students handled going away from home for the first time and working through many personal challenges like fear of heights (one I share!). We took part in a range of fantastic activities like archery, mountain biking, climbing, abseiling, gorge scrambling, high ropes, kayaking, canoeing and raft building. Many students tried out new things that they had never done before and there were many profound learning experiences as we learnt to overcome our fears and take a leap of faith. There are too many photos and stories to fit in this article, but here are a few to give a flavour of the week. More magic moments and stories from the students will appear on the College website. A big thank you to all the staff who gave their time freely to help and support our students, and a big thank you to the students themselves who were great ambassadors for the College during their time at Okehampton. Katrina Fennell
GRANADA
Someperspectivesonthe triptoGranadawithAS/A2 students
17th-24thOctober2009 ByRosieNanjiRowe
We received lots of compliments about our KEVICC students. They were great ambassadors for Totnes and KEVICC. Here are some examples: You are the easiest and most pleasant group for all of our teachers here with very polite, respectful and well educated students; normally young people who are very interested in lessons and activities. I dont know if the reason is that they come from the countryside or that you as the supervising teachers do a great work here. Teachers here and all the landladies were happy with you; there were no problems at all I think you agree. Director Margret Fortmann - Administration and Marketing Escuela Montalban Granada Comments, translated from Spanish, made by teachers to Terry Hopkins and Rosie Nanji-Rowe during the study visit: We love your students. They are very openminded and enthusiastic and respond to all our activities. They seem very happy and have a go at everything. Maria Rodrguez - Director of Studies and teacher They are so nice to work with and we enjoy all the students from Totnes. They are pleasant and very well -mannered. We had a lot of fun together Francisco Jos Guirado - Teacher Your students have a good level of understanding of the language and are very attentive. They are lovely to be with and very polite. Juan Castro - our guide at the Alhambra You are very lucky to teach such nice students. They are open-hearted. They make our job so enjoyable. Marisa Muoz Lozano - Teacher Landladies went out of their way to praise our students. Here are some of their comments to us on saying goodbye at the coach: The boys, Richard and Joe, have been wonderful. They were very polite and well-mannered. I want you to tell your school that I am very impressed with your students from Totnes. Carmen Ruiz Can they stay for longer? I dont have girls. I would love to have girls just like these. (Jasmine and Zoe.) Thank you for coming. Mara del Mar Sanchez One landlady gave me a handwritten letter. Translated, it says: I would like you to know just how good and respectful Melissa and Alexandra have been. I would like to say thankyou to all of you for the days which they have been in Granada. Thankyou. Respectfully yours, The family of Martinez Perendrz Some reports by KEVICC students who took part in the trip: To sum Granada up in one word: amazing. Our host family were lovely and we are still in touch with some students from Norway who were staying with us. The lessons were engaging and interesting, even if we were too tired to concentrate sometimes! I will never forget Maria. She was the nicest teacher imaginable and we all learnt so much with her. The trips were all very interesting, especially the beach at Nerja! I really enjoyed the freedom we had, going out and experiencing the real Spain in our free time was a definite highlight. During the trip we got a real feel for Spanish culture and the balance between social and cultural activities and those with a more academic slant was perfect. I had a brilliant time and if I had the chance would definitely go again (hint?!). Bethan Phillips - Year 12 IB Student
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The trip to Granada in October of this year was, without a doubt, an unforgettable experience, perfectly merging the study of the Spanish language and understanding the Spanish culture, particularly the culture unique and iconic to the south of the country. During the morning, we went to a language school in the centre of the city. The teachers were friendly, helpful and I feel I improved a lot. After school, we visited a variety of places, for example the breathtaking Alhambra and the gorgeous Arabic baths. However, in my opinion, the best part of the trip was the visit to the flamenco caves. Much to my surprise, the family of dancers was a traditional gypsy family who had been dancing for generations. On the walls around the cave were photos of them with various celebrities including members of both the Spanish and English royal families and Gene Kelly! Instead of staying in a hotel or a hostel, we stayed with people around the city. Our host ladies did not speak any English, forcing us to communicate the entire time in Spanish. Not only did this give us plenty of practice, but we were also able to compare the differences between everyday life in Spain and England and have the opportunity to chat to a Spaniard about issues in Spain. I would like to thank our host ladies and the school in Granada for an amazing time. Further, the trip would have been impossible (and nowhere near as enjoyable) if it had not been for Rosie and Terry. Thank you so much for organising everything and for being such lovely company. Gracias! Imogen Hambly - Year 12 IB Student
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tolerance - la convivencia - as yet unparalleled, which flourished for almost eight centuries. We enter churches built upon mosques and hear the call to prayers from the minaret of the recently completed mosque which has been built to serve the needs of the now established Moslem population of Granada. We end up reaching one of the viewing points miradores at sunset and are able to view the Alhambra bathed in pink light whilst young Granadians gather and play the guitar. Tuesday: Lessons in the morning are fun and, after lunch, we go off in groups to explore the city, admiring the wonderful Renaissance and Baroque architecture and absorbing the underlying Arab influences in rounded archways, inner courtyards, balconies and fountains. Narrow cobbled streets give glimpses into both past and present and we move from shadow to sunlight, resting in squares and by fountains and gardens. Some of us end up stuffing ourselves with chocolate and churros in the oldest churreria in Granada. Later we meet after a light supper and walk to the 14th century baths where we relax and get a massage. A sensory treat. Wednesday: Lessons are still fun and everyone turns up on time! I hear Joe got locked in a wardrobe! We visit the Pabellon, part of the Science Museum, with fantastic information about Al Andalus and the Arab legacy in science, language and architecture. Thursday: Lots of laughter coming from the classrooms. Everyone is obviously enjoying themselves. This is an afternoon to do some shopping and explore the centre of the city a bit more. Some of us find our way to the Arab quarter - el Albaicin - where we relax in a teteria, choosing from a selection of exotic-sounding teas such as 1001 noches, suenos del Alhambra , Dawn in Granada. Later that evening we wind our way up to the caves of Sacramonte where we watch a gypsy flamenco show - tablao - performed at
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During our week in Granada there were many highlights: watching gypsy flamenco in Sacromonte; a visit to the Arabic baths; strolling through the narrow streets of the old Moorish quarter of the Albaicn; lingering in the small squares looking over the Alhambra and the beautiful snow-covered mountains of the Sierra Nevada. Here are some notes from my diary: Saturday: Its two in the morning and the fantastic Ross Hammond and Sarah Kehaya are ready to drive us to Bristol airport. We are off to Granada! Arriving in Granada at midday we are met by a clutch of landladies who bustle us off for lunch. Later we meet at the school and check out the city centre, making sure were back in time for dinner at eight. Sunday: We have a great day on the beach at Nerja. Some of us opt for paella, others a dip in the sea. On the way, our coach driver talks about the English residents, climate change, illegal immigration and the changing fortunes of Malaga and the Costa Tropical Monday: Maria, Paco and Jos, conduct an enjoyable morning of lessons, totally in Spanish. Later we meet up for a guided tour of the Arab quarter with Paco who explains the history of Arab occupation of the peninsular and the period of religious and cultural
la Cueva Castanera. Inside, the walls are covered with photos of celebrities who have visited the cueva including the Duke of Windsor and his wife in the 1950s, and Ingrid Bergman. It is an exciting performance and we get a taste of flamenco and the spirit of duende through the dancers dramatic expression and the intensity of stamping and clapping, rhythm, colour and movement. Friday: We meet up with our entertaining guide, Juan, for a tour of the Alhambra. Juan gives us a fantastic insight into the history of the city of the Alhambra and adds in some of the best known legends surrounding the Nazrid dynasties. Reeling with historical vistas and panoramic views, we head for the summer palaces, the Generalife where we admire the acequias (irrigation channels) and absorb the atmosphere in the cool inner courtyards and gardens of the sultans. Stories of beheadings and court intrigues weave in and out of the columns and archways and the magic of the place touches us all. Friday evening and we say goodbye - mwa, mwa to our landladies. We dont all want to go home! Eight hours later, Martin Walker and Jonathan Mason meet us at Bristol airport. The support from all mini-bus drivers was much appreciated. Special mention, of course, also goes to Terry Hopkins and Sam Wills for being great leaders on the trip. Rosie Nanji-Rowe
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Year7settlingwell intoPhysical Education
A warm welcome to the new Year 7 students who have started their first units of work in PE. The areas they will cover over the next year will include multi skills and games activities - such as rugby, football, netball and hockey, as well as less traditional games like dodgeball and rock-it-ball. The students will also put together a range of aesthetic performance in dance and gymnastics and take part in many other exciting new sporting activities over the coming year and beyond. Welcome!
FranticThursdays! PEExtraCurricular
Thursdays are an absolutely wild afternoon with the whole of Elmhirst being used for extra curricular Sport! We have Year 7, Year 8 and Sixth Form rugby training as well as Year 7, Year 8 and Year 9 girls hockey and football. On the Redworth site there is more sport with girls netball being played every Thursday.
Thursdaysarean absolutelywildafternoon withthewholeofElmhirst beingusedforextra curricularsport!
LeadershipTraining
As part of the BTEC Sport Programme, Year 10 students have been working with Martin Vizor our School Sport Coordinator. They have been developing their leadership skills ahead of running Netball Festivals at KEVICC for Primary School Students. The training helps the students to develop their organisational skills, communication skills and allows them to work with young people. The experience is great for them developing confidence and is fantastic fun. Several students have since been selected to go to a Leadership Academy where they will develop their skills further. Well done to all the students involved!
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For the first time, this year, we have offered students theTriple Science course at GCSE. It has been enthusiastically received with two groups of students opting to take the course. In the 6th Form, with the introduction of the International Baccalaureate at KEVICC, students can now choose from a huge range of options to suit their needs and ambitions: IB Biology, IB Chemistry, IB Physics, A levels in Geology, Chemistry, Physics, Biology, Human Biology, Environmental Studies, Applied Science (Single and Double) and BTEC Science.
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We are delighted that two of our laboratories were refurbished over the summer holidays at the cost of 40,000. As part of the refurbishment of Lab 19, we also installed 12 computers. These have been particularly useful for Year 10 students doing BTEC Science.
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Science week trips to Exeter University for a medley of hands-on fascinating Science experiments Year 10 and Year 11 trip to the National Science Live conference. Year 13 Human Biology trip to the Pathology Labs and Blood Bank at Torbay hospital. Year 13 Biologists and Human Biologists are to visit @Bristol for a DNA workshop Year 12 Biologists will be doing a residential field trip in Pembrokeshire Year 12 Environmental Studies students have been to Oyster Cove conducting ecology rocky shore surveys and species identification and have been to the zoo for a talk on the conservation role of zoos and endangered species. Plus much more in the pipelines!
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On Tuesday 17th November, KEVICC students video productions were screened at the Barn Cinema, with music from Louis Clayton. This is the sixth annual film festival and our third year at Dartington. The quality of work, which included GCSE and A level work, remains high with some exceptional pieces including Ben Boyd Taylors GCSE production No Glory for Heroes. Bens short film was selected for the National Film Festival at the Bradford Museum of Film and Photography, earlier in November. There was an increased number of GCSE productions screened this year, a reflection of the range and quality of students work at KS4. This year the GCSE Media Studies results were a staggering 93% A*- C with 57% of students gaining an A* or A grade. A level grades were also impressive with many students going on to media production courses at Falmouth, London, Bristol and Bournemouth.
At the beginning of term, 15 Year 11 mathematicians travelled to Exeter University to discover how maths is used beyond the classroom. It was the first time I had been on the trip and it was a truly inspirational day. We talked about Derren Browns so called prediction of the lottery, how credit card payments are encrypted simply using prime numbers and the Travelling Salesman Problem, amongst other things. The students got to experience lectures, workshops and role play at a prestigious university. The day ended with a hilarious talk by Colin Wright on Maths and Juggling. I think the students would agree that it was the funniest hour and a half of maths we have ever experienced. It was a real laugh-out-loud lecture. If you ever get a chance to see Colin Wright in action, it is well worth watching. He juggled the whole way through his talk and even juggled five balls at one point, making up tricks as he went along. Danielle Scagell
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Last year was the first time we offered Geology through to A2 level. The result? Three of our students gained places to read geology at university. Ross Minall is at Plymouth University and Steph Walker and Jack Anderson (after his gap year) are at Royal Holloway and Bedford College (part of the University of London). The picture is of Steph in front of the magnificent Founders Hall which is one of Royal Holloways halls of residence. Dave Waistnidge
BandNight 1 was held on Thursday 1st October in the Ariel Theatre and built on last years successful band nights. The emphasis on informality did not stop the bands from producing high quality musical material, whether it was home-produced or cover versions of other artists songs. The range of styles was also impressive, with hard rock rubbing shoulders with grunge, jazz, ballad and folk. With such a diverse and large student population as KEVICC, it is inevitable that different students of many ages presented a wonderful mix of musical gems.
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Were often asked for ideas for reading material for students.
6th Form physics trip to discover the origins of the universe We are planning an end of year trip to Geneva, Switzerland, to visit one of a tiny handful of places in the world where experimental particle physics pushes at the boundaries of established and specualtive theory and understanding about the very structure of the cosmos: CERN.
There are lists of suggested titles on the English page of the College website, and I strongly recommend this site:
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Visite Vire Vive le plaisir! 2009 has seen yet another successful French Exchange! 34 students spent eight days in Vire in June 2009. The return leg of this Exchange was completed in October when these 34 students hosted their French partners here in Devon. This exchange is open to all students studying French in Year 8. The dates of the next visit to France are: Monday 7th June Tuesday 15th June, 2010. Patricia Rhodes
Sweet Addiction set the ball rolling with a rollicking rock number. Although sounding a little under-rehearsed, they gave a good account of themselves and warmed up the sizeable audience of about 80 people. A duet, consisting of Jethro Cooke on guitar and Lilly Unwin on vocals, accompanied most sensitively by Chris Smith on drums, made a beautiful contrast. These two newcomers to the KEVICC should go far. Itty Gyro and the Pink Lloyds were a young band but have tremendous energy, and are really tight. I was sorry to hear from one band member that they might be breaking up: this is a shame, as they have a great future if they keep together. Cable to the Moon are experienced old-timers, being Year 13 students. They produced a stunning piece, lasting over 10 minutes, surely worthy of (and inspired by) many classic extended rock anthems. Theirs was a tour de force. The material never outlasted its welcome and the interplay of the four members of the band was exciting and musical. Environmental Noise were a new band. Focusing on the vocal talents of Holly Cosgrove gave the band a strong resonance and the accompanying instrumentalists played with real intelligence and sensitivity. The Jazz Trio that followed are very experienced Year 13 musicians and gave us a wonderful rendition of two classics. Will Gornalls pianistic skills develop apace. Face Value ended the gig in fine style: their exciting and extrovert presentation willing the loud and enthusiastic audience to get up and dance with them in an exciting and fitting finale number. Our thanks, as ever, to Tom Spurling for his professional skills with the sound and light management. Rupert Bond
www.booktrustchildrensbooks.org.uk We have some wonderful student writers at the College. In the English department, we give students lots of opportunities to develop their writing skills, both within the classroom and through extra-curricular workshops. This poem is by Oscar Kary (Year 10): Fear A jumble of words A ripple in water A distortion of sound A stutter in laughter Darker than time Clear as a black night Bringing us together But the start of every fight It is the heart of our insecurity The rhyme to our impurity The rhythm to our insanity The voice of our blasphemy More provocative than love Meaner than the whitest of doves Faster than our very destruction But always one step behind Pushing us along It is here always listening Inside our unconscious mind The greatest of liars The cage of the spark That will light the most beautiful fires
This incredible place is the result of countless billions of euros and international collaboration far beyond that which the world of politics achieves! It can accelerate particles until they travel round a 27km circular track 11,000 times a second. It is the birthplace of the World Wide Web, made the discovery of W and Z particles, and created and captured the first anti-hydrogen atoms! It has a string of Nobel prizes and Nobel laureates to its name, and currently involves 8000 scientists from 60 countries. The experience will be a fantastic opportunity for those thinking about, or actively seeking to pursue, the study of Physics further, or a fascinating glimpse of fundamental research to those who will ultimately follow a different path. We go at a particularly exciting time with the opening of the Large Hadron Collider imminent: the most powerful particle accelerator ever. Of course, it would be a shame to travel so far without taking in some of the sights, so we also plan to visit the famous alpine town of Chamonix, where we may be able to take a telecabine into the mountains, walk inside a glacier etc. and to visit the excellent science museum Futuroscope in Paris.
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The AS textile group was treated to a wonderfully informative presentation based on the current exhibition at The Totnes Costume Museum at Bogan House.
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TheSkriker
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This tucked away museum in the High Street houses some beautiful gems, representing over three hundred years of costume. Each summer, a themed exhibition focuses the curator Julia Foxs creative and incredibly knowledgable mind to form a show. This years theme is pattern and printing in textiles, with a collection ranging from 18th century spring gowns, showing single colour printing created for Nelsons celebration, to current day screen printing by the foremost designer practitioners Susan Bosence and Caroline Hall. Julia brought to life the social and historical stories behind each costumes origins, providing animated insight for our students. Within Julias vast wealth of knowledge was her specific hands-on involvement and experience with the Dartington Workshops during the 1960s.
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Year 12 gained huge insight into the social history underlying the development and production of textile decoration over the centuries, which today are often taken for granted. We would urge other students and parents to seek out this incredible collection housed in the oldest authentic dwelling in our town.
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The photography department is running a competition each month where members of staff can submit an image to them (room 35) and the one that they think is the best will be displayed in The Courier. Photos can be left in Ken Isaaks or Nick Rangecrofts pigeon holes. All photos will need to have the entrants name on the back. The photos will be returned back to the entrants pigeon hole when the judging is complete. Alternatively, images can be e-mailed to Ken Isaaks: kisaaks@kingedwardvi.devon.sch.uk Get snapping!
At the end of the half term, the AS Theatre Studies group performed a potted version of Caryl Churchills unusual play The Skriker. The class worked particularly hard as the entire process took five weeks from page to stage. The Skriker is a shapeshifter: ancient and damaged. She is a creature from English folklore, a world long gone, intrinsically connected to nature and who has become redundant in todays consumerist, wasteful society. The Skriker wants to take a baby as it will revitalise her fading powers. She appears in different guises to two teenage girls, Lily and Josie, offering them wishes in return for Lilys baby. Eight members of the group played the role of the Skriker as a chorus and took separate opportunities to lead the ensemble when she appeared to the two girls in a new form. The style was intensely physical and required complete discipline from the performers who worked very hard to achieve a polished and fluid finish. Congratulations to all those involved! Jo Crook
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Life has been so busy this term that we have barely had time to think about those who have left us and to wish them all the very best of luck in their new pursuits. Last year at Totnes School of Dance, saw one of the most important steps forward in our training provision since we moved into our purpose built studios six years ago. It was the end of the first two year cycle of our new BTEC courses. Courses at Level 3 (A level) and Level 2 (GCSE) concluded with all of our National Diploma students and three out of four of our National Certificate students gaining the maximum distinction grades (equivalent to three or two A Levels at grade A). Our Level 2 students were equally amazing with half of them gaining Distinction * (equivalent to four GCSEs at grade A*). At FDI, nine students successfully passed in one, two or three dance genres an outstanding achievement by any standards! We are so excited by the way our full time course has developed from the original two students seven years ago one of whom is now a full time member of our talented teaching team to the 40 BTEC students we are now preparing to take their next steps on the road to a professional dance career. And because we write the course ourselves, we are in total control of the course so that training dancers is still our primary focus.
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anyone passing the hut where the dancers spend their time might have been forgiven for wondering if they had wandered away from the usual pathway into another place entirely. Instead of dancing, they were singing - loudly and confidently - all day long. The genius behind this choral wonder - most dancers really don't like opening their mouths to sing out - was an unassuming man with a very big voice and an even bigger passion for musical theatre, called Steve Pritchett. Steve has taught in nearly all of the professional dance and theatre colleges (including Arts Ed, Mountview and Bretton Hall) for around 20 years and has worked as musical director, coach, audition and rehearsal director on nearly every West End show which has played over a similar time. He regularly rubs shoulders with the likes of Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber, counts the likes of Will Young amongst his students and personally knows more West End and pop stars than most of us could name. We had a fantastic day. The students made a glorious noise that they didn't know they could make and they learned so much about auditions for colleges and professional work. Steve, in turn, was blown away by the standard of our students, commenting that the work he pushed them to do was not altered in any way from the scores which would be used for the actual shows themselves, with all the original harmonies and nuances being included in minute detail. He found it hard to believe that some of those attending were in Year 10 and he felt that the Year 13 students who are on the audition rounds this year would be very likely to be successful at any of the colleges they apply to, stating that most of them he could have picked up and dropped into an Arts Ed or Mountview student group that very day. The promise shown by the lower years impressed him so very much that he was very keen to keep an eye on them and has offered to come back in early spring to work solely on audition skills, choice of song and styles of delivery. Having such a positive response from someone who was going back to London to have lunch the following day with Robbie Williams, before flying to Milan to work with the foremost theatre school in Italy, is a huge accolade for both the students and the teachers they work with every day here in Totnes. The buzz he left behind persists and has given the students another push to raise the stakes and truly reach for the stars. I think they may just get there too!
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Newsfromthe DramaDepartment
Never mind a comparison with a summers day this is truly the season of most wonderful mists and mellow fruitfulness, close bosom-friend of the maturing sun and I love it ! Once again, the busy squirrels that we are in the Drama Department have been gathering nuts and plumping out hazel shells metaphorically of course. Rehearsals are well underway for West Side Story, the challenging and moving production that we are staging between February 10 13 . Tickets will shortly be available from the Ariel Centre at the same price as last year of 8, 6 concession, 3 for KEVICC students. True to form, this is an ambitious piece, particularly when it comes to the orchestration (did Bernstein have to make things so complicated?) and the choreography (damn that Jerome Robbins!). It is also, of course, a very powerful and moving piece and it is lovely to see these early threads of dance, music and drama coming together. We have a very talented cast, from top to bottom , and I am sure that they will all rise to this challenge. We took all of our GCSE Drama students in Year 11, all 55 of them, to London in October to see a stunning production of Warhorse. We brought most of them home! Some would have stayed and seen the show again if the could have. The following week we hosted two nights of colourful chaos in the form of the fantastically funny Forkbeard Fantasy again watched and enjoyed by many of our students. I would love to live in their heads for a while I imagine it to be a place of inspired lunacy! And, to top things off, we hosted a Frantic Assembly workshop on the 24th November. The following week Mrs Crooks AS group staged an adaptation of Carol Churchills Skriker. This was a visual and aural treat for us and is discussed in a separate article. Since half-term, we have had a trip to see Grand Guignol at the Drum in Plymouth a dark and disturbing tale. We have the hilarious That Magnificent Man and his Flying Machine in rehearsal. Postponed from fireworks night, it can now be caught at the first of our famous Christmas Late Night shopping events, outside the Mansion, on 8th December. The show feels like it is the love-child of an encounter between Monty Python and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang dont miss it! The Year 12 Performing Arts group is working on two shows Complicites Street of Crocodiles and Frantic Assemblys Peepshow. The former can be caught on the evenings of 9th, 10th, and 11th December. It is, indeed, all going on in the Performing Arts department much to celebrate and look forward to. There is nothing mellow about us!! Jonathan Mason
So where did our graduates go? Our 15 & 16 year old leavers went to: Ballet West (Scotland) - Joe Wakefield Hammond College of Performing Arts (Chester) - Victoria Pearman Performers College (London) Matthew Edwards Idyllwild Academy of Performing Arts (California) - Miracle Chance Our 6th form BTEC leavers went to: University of Middlesex (Dance & Performance) - Joe Eames Nottingham University (BEd with Dance) - Ruth Bowker London Studio Centre - Becky Cook and Jodie Burrows Performers College - Layla WalterBodyworks (Cambridge) - Chloe Weaver As part of the Vocational Dance Foundation Course, the BTEC studies emphasise the theoretical and contextual study of technical and creative dance providing students with the academic experience and UCAS credits they need to succeed in degree level courses, either at dance college or University. The optional FDI courses start students on the road to becoming teachers in their own right and integrate well with the BTEC studies. But the focus of the course remains on training and turning out highly skilled, mature dancers who win funded places at the colleges of their choice. Far from being a specialist choice, Totnes School of Dance Vocational Dance Course, provided in partnership with Kennicott 6th Form College, opens the doors to academic and vocational choices at degree level or as trainee teachers, within a framework where would-be dancers are trained to reach their physical peak in readiness for what might lie ahead. Jacqui Gee
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Our fantastic KEVICC Percussion Group - Jamie Benzies, George Hadow and Harriet Riley (Year 13) and Kizzy Brooks, Jess Clarke, Molly Lopresti-Richards and Bill Massey (Year 11) entered the Music for Youth Regional Finals earlier in the year and were selected to perform at the National Finals in Birmingham in the summer. They said it was great fun and that they just love playing together. They said they enjoyed the experience of a music competition as well! They also performed at Dartington earlier this term as part of a South West Music School Young Artists' showcase. Harriet, Kizzy and Molly have all been selected, through a really testing audition, to be SWMS students. South West Music School is part of a new national network of Centres of Advanced Training, supported by the Department for Children, Schools and Families Music and Dance Scheme, for exceptionally talented young musicians aged between 8 and 18. There are only about 45 students altogether, so for KEVICC to have three percussionists accepted is quite exceptional. We are very proud of them all, and of Kath Banks, our percussion teacher who directs the Percussion Group.
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ChristmasConcerts
The KEVICC Christmas Concerts will be on Monday 14 December at 6pm in the Great Hall at Dartington, and Wednesday 16 December at 7pm in St John's Church, Bridgetown, Totnes. Everyone is very welcome to come and share these very special KEVICC occasions, which this year are entitled A Festive Celebration of our Family and Friends, but please note that admission this year is by ticket only in both venues. Tickets for Dartington are available from the Dartington Box Office 01803 847070, and for St John's from KEVICC Reception 01803 869200. Events in the Ariel Centre Spring 2010. Watch for posters for details! 14th January - Drumcrazy 10th Anniversary Community DrumCircle 20th January - Practical Musicianship Workshops 3rd February - Practical Musicianship Workshops 20 March - Harberton Folk present Aly Bain & Phil Cunningham
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KEVICC is delighted that John and Jan Culf of Harberton Folk have come back from retirement to programme folk events in the Ariel Theatre again. Already this term they have put on two successful events and, by the time you read this, they will have had another sell-out event in early December. There are several expensive pieces of 'kit' in constant use in the College that have been bought for us by Harberton Folk: the projector in the Theatre; the power unit for the Theatre seating; six large trestle tables for events use - and many many thousands of pounds have gone into microphones, speakers, lightin, tech desk improvements and drinks glasses. John and Jan have just paid 300 for chair fixings that will enable us to put in an extra row of seating for capacity audiences that complies with health and safety requirements. These have already been used twice and are highly successful. Not only are we really grateful for all their financial support, but also they give the College, and the local community, wonderful evenings of highly professional music. Thank you, John and Jan, all your volunteer stewards and your new team of supporters from the Harberton Cricket Club.
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For three weeks in the summer, the Dartington Summer Youth Programme ran on the KEVICC site, with stunningly good courses available to students both locally and nationally. Professional groups such as 6pac Jazz, tutors from the Birmingham Music Conservatiore and individuals highly respected in their field ran courses in jazz, strings, rock, sound engineering and folk. For the students involved they had opportunities to play in ensemble groups of very high calibre, to have
professional one-to-one sessions, to learn and develop skills and friendships .. .and to have a great deal of fun. The concerts were thrilling occasions, and the standard of performance very high indeed. Comments from parents included: I am so glad my son attended the course. He is having a wonderful time. What an exceptional opportunity for my children to work alongside professional musicians. Every KEVICC musician should want to come on these courses.
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Did you know that around 550 KEVICC students have been involved in creating Transition Tales since the project started in 2007? WhatisaTransitionTale? Transition Tales are stories of a not too distant future the year 2030. Stop for a moment and think how old you will be then and what you want to be doing. Whats it all about? Imagining and co-creating visions of 2030 has been the exciting pulse at the heart of the Transition Tales project.
After a pilot session with one class of Year 9 students, the Transition Tales project kicked off in 2008, working with the whole of Year 7 and all of their wonderful staff at KEVICC, thanks to Emma Osbourn, dynamic Year 7 Curriculum Team Leader. Out of this came a full series of films - News Reports from 2030, co-written, co-directed and co-produced by Year 7. In the Autumn of 2008 these were uploaded onto YouTube. Type in Transition Tales to see all the films. The films premiered at the Ariel Centre as part of the Totnes Festival, supported by the renowned and thought-provoking storyteller Ashley Ramsden of Emerson College. In 2009, Year 7 recorded a whole load more exciting films fairy tales, ads, TV programme spoofs, stories of all kinds. These are in the process of being edited and will be going on to YouTube too. The 2009 programme had new features, including a trip to the woods and a chance to play The Quest to 2030 - a game that really allows you to live in 2030. The interest this game has stirred outside of KEVICC means it will be going on a nationwide tour next spring. This years Year 7 - you are not forgotten! In the summer term, you will be heading on an adventure to Embercombe, an inspiring education and community project near Exeter, on a whole Transition Tales day out. Not been involved yet and feeling left out? Not for long! We want to work with as many KEVICC students and staff as possible. These are a few of the things looming large on the horizon that we are really excited about: Your amazing garden some great Transition Tales are yet to be created there. Did you know the garden is growing some of the food that might end up in your school lunch...and that you can help grow it? Media students. Are you in Year 12 or 13 doing Media this year? Are you looking for a special project? If so, we need you! We desperately need help to finish editing 2009s films ready to upload onto YouTube, so far our only offer has come from someone in Berlin we reckon a KEVICC team of editors will be the best! Too busy this term? You can be involved in the summer term - come to Embercombe with us and film the whole project! Your Family groups are needed to pilot a Transition Tales across the generations project. Get together a load of your family and friends as wide an age range as you can and well come along and run a Quest 2030 session with you. Its great fun! Story Tellers. No matter what year group you are in, no matter whether you are student, parent or staff, if you want to tell Transition Tales we want to hear from you! So whats all the fuss about? We are co-creating Transition Tales with as many people as possible across the country and beyond because we believe people make all the difference. With all the stuff youll have heard on the TV and radio about Climate Change, the Credit Crunch, unreliable oil supplies and other such monsters, were going to need a whole bunch of heroes. As we have shown at KEVICC, with an energetic burst of community building and a lot of new ideas, we have all the heroes we need! To find out more and to get involved, contact Steph Bradley, and the others in the Transition Tales team, Jeff van Zyl & Mara Greene at transitiontales@googlemail.com A sample of our projects:
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sumed interest and understanding of our farming heritage; improved relations between the generations; healthier transport and building the list goes on. This case has proved so compelling that many other towns, villages, cities and islands have taken on the idea. There are now hundreds of Transition communities across the world and thousands more considering it.
A Celebration of Local Food Guide It takes about ten calories of fossil fuel energy to get every calorie of food onto our plates so how will we feed ourselves when there is less oil available? is a big question we have been asking. Beginning with the celebration of local food, many other food and gardening projects have followed.
Transition Together - Many people want to take practical action in many ways but find it very difficult to do so on their own or as a single household. With this in mind, Transition Together was designed. Transition Together is a very local, community-building programme available for free to anyone living here in Totnes and its surrounding villages. It is packed with top tips on ways you can take effective, practical, money and energy-saving steps together with a group of neighbours, friends and family.
TransitioninAction throughoutTotnesand theDistrict

Transition Tales is the schools programme that came out of the Transition Town Totnes Project. It began at KEVICC and continues to grow and get more exciting here while it also attracts interest from beyond the Totnes district boundaries. Transition Tales is now being taken up by communities and schools across the UK, Europe - even worldwide. The Transition Town Totnes project tells a similar story. Inspired by a project he had conducted with a group of students in a town called Kinsale in Ireland, teacher Rob Hopkins, together with fellow Totnes resident, Naresh Giangrande, started to develop a process by which members of the community could come together and explore the implications of diminishing oil supplies (peak oil) and climate change, and how, as a community, we can take positive action to do something about it. The residents of Totnes and District responded enthusiastically and the Transition Town Totnes project was born in 2006. Since then a range of projects have sprung up across the town and district, all creatively addressing the twin challenges of peak oil and climate change by strengthening our communities and relocalising our services. The people involved in the Transition Town project firmly believe that by tackling these issues as a community we can actually enable our town and district to become an even better place to live than it is already: more local jobs; vibrant town and village life; reThe future with 2030 Vision As KEVICC students have been invited to imagine what they will be doing in 2030, residents of all ages across Totnes and District have been invited to do the same as part of our Energy Descent Plan Project. What will Totnes and District look like in 2030 once we have successfully made that Transition to being significantly less dependent on oil? And what do we need to put into place in the meantime in order for that to become reality? Perhaps the most famous being the Gardenshare scheme that links people with gardens who do not have the time or skills to manage them, with people who want to get growing but have no garden. TV chef, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, got wind of this project and used a TV programme filmed in Totnes to launch his national Landshare scheme. The Totnes Pound - Currently about 80p in every pound spent in a typical rural town such as Totnes leaves the local economy after the first transaction, such as through national and international chains. Our iconic local currency, the Totnes Pound, is designed to keep money circulating within the local economy. Every time you spend the Totnes Pound, you are helping to strengthen the local economy and build resilience into our community. The Energy Descent Plan process asked those questions and many of its findings through the community responses will be available in print this winter. Many of the ideas that emerged are already coming into being. We are beginning to see projects that involve local landowners, builders, the NHS, local schools and many other keys pieces of our community infrastructure come together in some very exciting proposals and businesses. At a time when much of our economy is in recession, TTT is creating jobs and bringing investment into the town. To learn more or to get involved in Transition Town Totnes or any of its established projects, please contact us on 01803 867358 or totnes@transitionnetwork.org.
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just how far away it was from North Devon, much to my parents amazement! I then worked for a spell in the gas industry before moving to settle in Cheltenham where I still live. My work was initially as an engineer (electrical/electronic), then as a Project Manager, growing up with the development of PM as a discipline, then working and helping develop Programme Management. I've also studied law and psychology a bit too. I've worked a lot with computers, and was on the net in the 1990s, before the web was invented, back in the old FTP days. I have had my own web site for over 10 years. I've done a lot of conservation work, both with the local wildlife trust and, globally, with Earthwatch in South America. I've travelled to 55 countries plus 32 states in the US and given a talk at the Royal Geographic Society in London about Earthwatch. I love public speaking and am a keen photographer, initially with my own darkroom before the digital days, and done some video editing too. Richard Walter I've installed solar PV and a wind generator on my house and run them, along with a solar hot water system, for nearly four years. I'm currently installing a Ground Source Heat Pump system in our cottage in Ireland, and will then build a micro-hydro system there, so I'll have experience with all the micro-gen systems available. I've retained my schoolboy disinterest in all things sporting (!), neither watching nor taking part in any sports, but I have been dancing and helping teach Salsa for about 11 years and, more recently, DJing, mostly for Salsa nights and other one-off events. I am very pleased, and truly honoured, to be elected Deputy President of the Old Totnesians. Its a society I was aware of when I left KEVIC in 1972 but, at that time of transition from grammar school to comprehensive, there was little contact between the society and those then at school. Re-establishing this link and making the Old Tots relevant to today's alumni is something the committee have been working on for some time now, and that I wish to help develop.
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Annual General Meeting and reunion at the Royal Seven Stars Hotel, Totnes on Friday 23rd October.
The website also contains many archives of the old schools of Totnes and these are being added to all the time. Members of the Society are the alumni of KEVICC and the previous three schools which were joined together in 1966 to form the current College.
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The Old Totnesian Society has appointed a new Deputy President with a view to bringing together alumni from the old boys and girls who attended the separate schools prior to amalgamation in 1966 as well as the students and staff who now leave KEVICC. He is Richard C Walter who is married and lives in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire. He is from the same year group as retiring President Alison Strong, being at school from 1965 to 1972. Richard is soon to take early retirement which will enable him to develop his many interests further and to devote more effort to the Old Totnesians. Here, Richard tells us a bit about himself and his interests.
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Prior to meeting at the hotel, members met for an informal gathering at The Mansion, Fore Street, Totnes where stories of old, various photographs and even an old school report were shared with friends. The retiring President, Ms Alison Strong, in her address to the meeting, welcomed a number of new faces and reported that a number of new members had joined the Society and it that it was hoped that this would lead to more. Members heard of the support given by the Society to various departments at KEVICC and to individual students. Details of these are contained in the latest Society newsletter, copies of which will be available in the Kennicott Library. The more members there are will result in more finance being available to offer further support. The new membership package for school leavers, which enables individuals to obtain a five or ten year membership at a reduced rate, was reported upon. The new President is Roger Foord-Evans of Buckland-in-the-Moor. He was a former pupil of the Grammar School from 1946 1949. Roger has served in the Royal Navy, been a tea planter in Pakistan, been involved with social work with disturbed teenagers and young adults and finally a psychotherapist in Mental Health. Roger already has a connection with the College in that he has grandchildren there as students. He has also been working with the History Department on a project concerning Captain (Major) Willis V.C. which it is hoped will result in an interesting booklet about a heroic old boy. The Society has a website - www. oldtotnesians.com - which is linked in with the College website and it contains details of forthcoming events.
Dartington
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A fantastic range of live music events will be breezing into Dartington this spring.
Kicking off the programme on 7th February is the Britten Sinfonia who will be presenting their selection of music from both sides of the Atlantic, Britten America. This concert offers a rare opportunity to hear celebrated tenor Mark Padmore paired with the exuberant violinist Pekka Kuusisto in a new work by Nico Muhly, composer for the Oscar-nominated film The Reader. Muhly is gaining a reputation as being one of the most impressive composers of new music, effortlessly crossing the boundaries between classical and pop music. On 20th May folk-lovers are in for treat as Mercury Prize nominated folk singer Eliza Carthy comes to the Great Hall. Winner of a staggering seven BBC Folk Awards, Eliza has performed and recorded with a diverse range of artists from Paul Weller and Billy Bragg to Damon Albarn and Nick Cave. Eliza is a truly innovative singer and fiddle-player and this, combined with the amazing atmosphere and acoustics of the Great Hall, makes this a unique folk music event. For this performance, Eliza will be joined by Barney Morse Brown from The Imagined Village and Phil Alexander from Salsa Celtica. Visit www.dartington.org/arts for dates, ticket prices and to hear or watch some of the above artists at work. You can also call the Box Office on 01803 847070. For more information on the Arts at Dartington you can join Dartingtons Facebook group at www.facebook.com/Dartington or follow us on Twitter at www.twitter.com/DartingtonHall. There is a further list of events here : http://www.dartington.org/arts/live-events
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Contemporary theatre show by Third Angel, Class of 76 on 25th February Singer/songwriter showcase from fantastic regional musicians on 27th February Jackie Oates, a young female folk singer who won the Best Newcomer award at the BBC Folk Awards 2009. She was a founder member of Northumbrian group and Mercury nominated Rachel Unthank and the Winterset until early 2007 before starting to make her mark as a solo artist. More information here: http://www.jackieoates.co.uk/biog She will be performing on 6th March in the Great Hall. Joe Broughtons folk and world music group, Urban Folk Quartet. Joe has run the Folkworld course at the Dartington Summer Youth Programme for last three years which is always highly oversubscribed, so this is brilliant opportunity to see him play with his band. 26th March in the Great Hall. Tickets are available for these events from 16th December.
My time at Totnes was spent at Kennicott as a boarder.

My time at Totnes was spent at Kennicott as a boarder. Being born on a farm in North Devon and passing the 11+, the only option was to board either at Totnes or Crediton. In 1965 there was space at Totnes and that's where I was sent. The transition to comprehensive, under Mr Snape, happened in my second year so schooling took place in a round robin of environments from Mansion to Girls High to Redworth and back to Mansion, all among a myriad of building works and the creation of a 6th Form centre at the Mansion. It was a brilliant lesson in adapting to change, one that has served me well. After Totnes, I decided to study Engineering at Lancaster. Only after choosing it did I find
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