issue 35 . june 2011 . www.buckswood.co.ukThank you everyone for making such a fantastic school year

Buckswood schoolF I N A L N E W S L E T T E R O F T H E Y E A R

ASCOT 2011 – all very posh!

Tea in the Tree

Graduation Class of 2011 – Congratulations

The Tejuoso brothers compete

against each other

The family come together

Mr Fish leads Morning Assembly

Romain for the High Jump!

Cup and Trophy Winners 2011HOUSE CUPS Kipling House Trophy Linus SchumacherWells House Trophy Nikolay BanevMilne House Trophy Alexey VasilievSchool House Trophy Brandon BattenRowling House Trophy George WilliamsGuestling Hall Trophy Isabel Cox ChaparroDay Pupil Alexander Ashton / Sonny PringleSPEAKING CUPS Senior Speaking Luke SmithJunior Speaking Derya Khalilpour

MUSIC CUPS Progress in Bagpipes Dale WattsMusic Performance Grace StevensMusic Adrian Yurchenko / Toby CowlingMusic Shield Connor Holland

ACADEMIC CUPS (EFL) Progress in EFL Jorge MorenoMotivation in EFL Victoire Deslandes

ACADEMIC CUPS (Junior / Senior) English - Junior Eleanor McDonaldEnglish - Senior Jamie OsbornMaths - Junior Eleanor McDonaldMaths - Senior Niloufar ZanganehasadabadiHistory - Junior JordanThorpeHistory - Senior Lisa AtfieldLinguist - Junior Alexandra AgoshkovaLinguist - Senior Sam Mark NevilleScience - Junior Max LakeScience - Senior Tariel BeroshviliICT - Junior Georgie ShriveICT - Senior Elizaveta SakaraGeography - Junior Daniela KeithleyGeography - Senior Edward Cheevers

ACADEMIC CUPS (Business)The Enterprise Cup (Business Abbie Ferguson / Harry Spearing / Studies - Potato Project) Hollie SprengerGCSE Business Management Milie Mitchell-PointerEconomics Ablay Amanbayev

ACADEMIC CUPS (Other) Law

Alan CheungAccounts Suzie LarkinDrama Emily BaileyPolitics Isabel Medrano CerezoLEGEND CUPS Legend Cup - most character Junior School Charlie CooperLegend Cup - most character Senior School Ehimemen Enaboifo

SPECIFIC JUNIOR SCHOOL CUPS Progress in the Junior School Ollie ArcherAll rounder in Junior School Jodie Davis

The family come together

Romain for the High Jump!

Rain did not stop play!

InternationalFriends for ever!

Sports and Speech Day

Rain did not stop play!

Where everyone is a winner

Wisdomwaiting forhis race

InternationalFriends for ever!

SPORTS Archery Katherine (Katie) PerkinsBasketball - Junior Max OlujobiBasketball - Senior Owolabi Bade Joko TejuosoGolf Senior Victor De RivoireGolf Junior Charles PomfretCricketer of the Year George AvannRugby Players of the Year James BallMot improved rugby player Alex CullenTennis Susie LarkinChess Tariel BeroshviliHockey - Junior Christian HutsonHockey - Senior William OrrSwimming Olivia Llewellyn JonesDANCE ACADEMY Dancer of the Year Mila MorgenszternMost improved dancer Hollie Sprenger

FOOTBALL ACADEMY Best Footballer - Junior Oscar Kotting McMillanBest Footballer - Senior Koya Yamamoto

HORSE RIDING ACADEMY Effort in Horse Riding Eleanor Simes

SPORTS PERSON OF THE YEAR Sportswoman of the Year - Junior Alana LawesSportswoman of the Year - Senior Jade Hart-JonesSportsman of the Year - Junior Harry Phipps / Christian HutsonSportsman of the Year - Senior Shane Hart-Jones

BOARDING HOUSE Friendship Fedor Pankratov / Friedrich LattermanFriendship Eleanor McDonald / Melissa Carden

/ Celestine Leafe RobertsCharacter in the boarding house Guillaume Carpentier

ENDEAVOUR AND PROGRESSEndeavour Shield Olliver WatsonPerseverance cup Jessica Humphries

101 THINGS TO DO AND PASSPORT TO SUCCESS WINNERSPassport to Success - Junior Matthew McDonaldPassport to Success - Senior Fidel Paleho Moloi101 Things to Do - Junior Laymonas Vorobyev101 Things to Do - Senior Franklin Bexhell

HEADMASTER’S AWARDSThe Wisdom cup for kindness and Sincerity Ivane TkeshelashviliMillennium Cup (for running the Headmaster office) Florian KollmeirCommunity Cup Tobias CuthbertSwaziland Cup for Charity Shane Hart -JonesWisdom Shelto Wurfbain

ECIS AWARDS ECIS - Student Marc SalzmannECIS - Teacher Tim FIsh

STUDENT OF THE YEAR Junior Student of the Year Gemma HubertStudent of the Year Nina Kozhevnikova

The Surfing Dudes Go To Newquay Over Half Term

Windsurfing at Rye Water Sports

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Other News at BuckswoodBuckswood In FranceSqualls of horizontal rain led to a slightly foreshortened excursion

for windswept Buckswood pupils in Boulogne and La Cité

Europe, but Forms 1 and 4 worked hard in Carrefour to find and

answer everything on their worksheets. They were then released

to roam free to spend their five euro notes and engage innocent

members of the indigenous population in

conversation. Andrew Orr said Bonjour

and Ça va? to a likely-looking lady who

responded Ça va - et toi? before revealing

that she had been teaching English for

fifteen years.

A triumph for Mr Baker when he won a supermarket lottery and came away with his

entire shopping trolley of cheese and wine (mostly for Mrs Marsh) for free. However, Alex

the bus driver fared less well as he was hit on the head when the

wind blew the luggage compartment

lid shut . . .

Now where’s the price

Lord Nelsonarrives at the

school

Buckswood in France

2011 Senior Prefects

Tea in the Tree

Buckswood Pupils are invited to tour inside the

Houses of Parliament

Buckswood Gains “Food For Life” AwardThe catering staff at Buckswood school, Hastings, are celebrating their success in having gained the bronze award in the Food for Life Partnership. Head Chef, Fred Bramble, received notification this week from Food for Life Partnership officials notifying them of the bronze award. “This is a tremendous accolade for the school,” he said. “I lead a brigade of chefs who are committed to the highest standards of food hygiene and preparation.”

In communicating its success to the school, officials have invited Buckswood to go one stage further and aim for the silver and gold awards and have urged the school to celebrate its success. “You can now

add the Food for Life Partnership Bronze award logo to your website, letterhead and any other school publications such as your menus,” they said. “You will also receive a certificate to display in your school.”

In order to gain an award of this magnitude, Partnership officials must be satisfied that schools serve seasonal school meals that are at least 75% freshly prepared by a well-trained school cook. Buckswood’s commitment to the highest standards of catering extend beyond the kitchen, into the dining room. The school’s emphasis on table manners and dining room etiquette, for example, equip the three hundred and eighty students with the necessary social skills to dine with confidence at formal dinners and functions, at which there are many throughout the school year for the benefit of the students.

Mr. Bramble went on to extol the virtues of table service, a unique feature of the family atmosphere at Buckswood. “Our students are served by a head of table in the old-fashioned manner,” he said, “we don’t have endless queues of children waiting to have scoops of mashed potato slapped onto their plates!”

And the wine menu? “Well, funny you should mention that,” said Mr. Bramble, “the school is currently planting its own vineyard!”