QUIZ NIGHT

Raised over £400!

We have been helping the Chernobyl trust since the start of our course and it has been amazing to see how much can be done to help if everybody works together. At the quiz we raised over £400 which will help bring a child from the radioactive zones of Bulgaria to have a holiday here in the U.K. Once they are here they can finally get clean water to drink and clean food to eat with a shelter above their heads and people who cares for them. It is a truly a great charity to support and I am glad to help with my IB class. 

          The quiz was quite stressful to organise but we somehow managed. We all worked together, assigned jobs to everyone. We all had to deliver letter to shops to get raffle prizes and bring food. My contributions were coconut macaroons and caramel bites. We had cupcakes, a chocolate fountain, fruits, marshmallows, cheese & crackers, quiche and for drinks we had tea, coffee, water, juices and fizzy drinks. For the quiz itself we had 10 rounds all with 10 questions. My quiz round was films and to be honest I was quite shocked that some of the teachers didn't know the name of the cat that loves to eat lasagna - Garfield. It was really fun to watch the teachers getting competitive with each other and congratulations to Arwel's team that won! Better luck next time to the other teams next year at the new IB1's quiz.

Me with head caterer, Lil' Oliv

           I think doing this quiz has really helped our class to better work together and it really shows how much can be done if everyone participates. We will, as the new IB2's, be doing more to help our chosen charities in the second year to help those that need our help. We hope to get the same response from the quiz and we are happy to be a part of helping those we have helped to have a chance at a new life.

ART TRIP

Pinhole Photography with Vivien Rickman-Poole

Our picture with Vivien herself.

Us in the classroom making our pinhole camera:)

For our CAS day out we went to Bodelwyddan Castle to see and learn more about Francesca Woodman's art work. She took many photographs of herself in black and white for the viewer to interpret. Her photographs have a kind of mystery to it and it may even hold the key to the reason of her suicide when she was only 22. Vivien was the artist that we met when we got there. An interesting fact about her is that she goes swimming everyday in rivers, lakes, seas but never in a swimming pool; even in the winter! She taught us how to make a pinhole camera using a coca cola can interestingly enough. All we had to do was poke a pin on the side of the can, make a shutter and lid with duck tape and put in photo paper. With the picture taking, we went around the castle and took pictures of the scenery or ourselves; we could be as creative as we wanted. The pinhole camera had to placed still and the shutter taken off for a maximum of 4 seconds, any longer and the photo paper would have had too much exposure and turned completely black. Also to prevent it from getting too much exposure it was recommended that we didn't face our pinhole camera at the sun. I think it was great to experience things like this because it lets you see the world in a different perspective, you aren't just trapped to belive in one thing and I think that's what's great about art, is that it's open to interpretations and you can express things that couldn't be expressed through words. This trip has also let me be creative and a sort of outlet from work. A balance is definitely required for a healthy life or else we might stumble into a deep depression and isolate oursleves from the world. We can only make assumptions as to why Francesca Woodman took her own life at such a young age but she would have had been unduring a hell for her to make that decision.

Our break spent at the swings!

One of my pictures.