Become a Blogger!

Be a Blogger!

Why be a blogger?

Being a blogger is an extremely good experience in so many ways! If you love writing about things that happen either to you or to your college, let us know and you can join!

You can edit the blog, eat biscuits and basically have a great time!

What can the blogs be about?

Absolutely anything, but they need to be something that people will be interested in, like awards, assemblies, shows or charity events. They also need to be relevant, you can’t talk about something that your mate in Trinity did, but something someone did or held in Stanford. Usually what you did, or your form.

I don’t do anything interesting!

Have your form? If they have, then you can write about them, or what they did. Ask people in Stanford you know, if they did something cool, and write about it. Have you been to the cinema or theatre recently; read a good book or visited somewhere different? Share your experiences with the Stanford Bloggers!

Christmas Jumper Day Update

Today was National Christmas jumper day; it was a great success as every Stanford pupil brought in a £1 or more. In total we raised £236 pounds!!

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Let’s hope we do as well next year!



Stanford students showing off their jumpers!

S6's Form Assembly

On the 1^st December S6 did our form assembly on mythical creatures. We did about how tales and stories can tell morals and teach you lessons. For example, King Midas wished for everything he touched to turn to gold. As he wished, Dionysus, the god, granted his wish and let everything he touched to turn to gold. Once King Midas had had his wish for a couple of days he wanted to change it. Everything he touched turned to gold including his food, drink and even his daughter.

Dionysus told him that if he wanted to undo his wish he would have to wash his hands in the River Pactolus. Midas did so and when he returned home ever thing had become normal.

From then on he was a better person, generous and grateful for all goods of his life.

By Briar Darlington

Stanford Students Update

Misha Twardochleb in S7 competed in a British Biathlon and her team came 4th place in running and swimming overall.

George Hills in S1 won two trophies and a certificate for sports in the awards assembly.

V.I.P. Night out at the Theatre!

On Tuesday night I went to the Regent Theatre in Hanley to watch the pantomime ‘Dick Whittington’. I got a VIP experience as my dad had free tickets from Signal 1 because he works there. We had free drinks and luxury food, such as mince pies, in the interval. The pantomime was very funny. We had the programmes for free, and we also had a free Christmas gift. Jonathan Wilkes played Dick Whittington, Louise Dearman played Alice Fitzwarren and there were lots of other funny actors. The whole show was very funny and I definitely recommend going to see it. It is on untill the 4^th January 2015 so there is plenty of time to see it.

By Becky Ault S11

Kirsty wins her race!

Kirsty Low in S11 took part in an athletics event with other students from Year 7 at NCHS last week. Kirsty's team came first over all beating all of the competing schools. All of her team won a medal. Well done Kirsty. 

Hannah

Christmas Jumper Day!

In 2014, Save the Children’s annual Christmas Jumper Day is taking place on Friday 12th December. Now running since 2011, the charity is asking even more people across the UK to help “make the world better with a sweater”.

George in Asda is the official retail partner for Save the Children’s Christmas Jumper Day and the partnership is aiming to raise money of over £750,000! A range of “Save the Children” Christmas jumpers for men, women and children are now on sale, with prices ranging from £7 to £14. The jumpers are raising funds for Save the Children’s vital work in the UK and are available to buy in Asda stores nationwide and online at George.com.

There will also be fundraising in Asda stores across the UK, starting with bucket collections on Friday 5th December, helping to give thousands of the UK’s most disadvantaged children a good start in life and chance to fulfil their potential.

When is our Christmas Jumper Day?

We are asking staff and students to “make the world better with a sweater” by wearing a Christmas jumper for the day and donating £1 to the school’s four main charities.

Christmas Jumper Day 2014 is on Friday 12th December.

Who can take part?

Everyone! We want to spread the jumper joy to offices, schools and homes around the country. So get your workplace, school, friends and family involved, and help us raise money as much as they can to help transform children’s lives.

Heather Meldrum S4

Urban Vibez!

Chloe Overhand S11 and Emily Bryant in S12 are members of a dance group called Urban Vibez. The group did a dance show last week on the 15^th of November at Newcastle Lights with her dance team, Urban Vibez. They’re performing on the 23^rd November at Mitch Theatre, 30^th November she is performing at the Stoke lights switch on, and are also doing a competition at Fenton Manor.

Jade Miller started the dance group and is currently very successful. 

Anti Bullying Week 3rd - 28th November 2014

What is Anti Bullying Week?

Bullying is a large issue worldwide. Anti-Bullying week is a UK event held annually in the third week in November. The week aims to raise awareness of bullying in schools and elsewhere and to highlight ways of preventing it.  

The theme for this year’s anti-bullying week is “Let’s stop bullying for all.”

In the assembly they speak about Bars and Melody. Bars and Melody are anti-bullying ambassadors, they are a duo that came 3^rd in X factor and gained a small amount of fame with their song Hopeful. Hopeful was written by the boys themselves, Leondre Devries and Charlie Lenehan. Their inspiration was from Leondre’s story of being bullied in primary school.

The Peer Councillors also reminded the colleges that they are in room 14 (Miss Mitchell’s room) every lunch for anybody who wants to sort out problems or just chat.

There is also an Anti-bullying week competition. To enter, demonstrate how initiatives led by young people can help stop bullying and cyber bullying for everyone, whatever their ability.

You can design a gadget, draw a picture, write a story, song or poem, take a photo, shoot a film or documentary. The first prize is £300, with £75 for the runner-up.

Alika Mundy 

Stanford Supporters!

Here you’ll gain a wonderful insight into the vital work they do to keep their three air ambulances operational across the Midlands.
Their vision is to provide first class life saving care to patients across the six counties they cover, by ensuring they reach the most appropriate Trauma Centre for their needs within the Golden Hour!
As Midlands Air Ambulance Charity (MAAC for short) remains one of the region’s most treasured charities, they are extremely fortunate to have a great number of volunteers, fundraisers and supporters to assist them. Their passion and commitment enables them to raise the £6.5 million needed each year to remain operational and MAAC would not be the great success it is today without their hard work and dedication.
In addition to the terrific fundraising support, they have excellent working partnerships with the NHS, their suppliers, including Bond Air Services, and industry organisations such as the Association of Air Ambulances (AAA).
The Midlands Air Ambulance is the only charity responsible for funding and operating three air ambulances serving the communities of Gloucestershire, Herefordshire, Shropshire, Staffordshire, Worcestershire and the West Midlands. This constitutes the largest air ambulance operating region in the UK.

Since 1991, the charity has responded to more than 40,000 missions averaging 3,000 per year or nearly ten each day, making it one of the longest established and busiest air ambulance organisations in the UK.
The charity’s three aircraft each carry a crew comprising pilot, two paramedics or flight doctors plus full life-support medical equipment. Operating from strategically located regional air bases, the maximum flying time to hospital from anywhere in the region is less than 15 minutes.

What is not widely known is that Midlands Air Ambulance receives no Government or National Lottery funding. In excess of £6.5 million is needed each year to keep its three Air Ambulances operational which is donated entirely by the public and local businesses, with four in ten of those we help funded by gifts in wills.

If a patient reaches hospital within 60 minutes of injury (referred to as the ‘Golden Hour’) their chances of survival are dramatically increased. That is why the rapid response of the Midlands Air Ambulance is so vital in an emergency situation.
By Kian Mundy and Heather Meldrum

Body Boarding in Wales!

During the summer holidays, my family and I went to Pembroke, Wales, on an 8- night holiday. We stayed in a Travelodge hotel which was good, although the beds weren’t exactly very comfortable!

As well as going to numerous different towns and after winning lots of prizes in dozens of amusement arcades, my brother and I were then finally allowed to go body boarding!

Although we have done it many times in the past, this would prove to be a whole new experience for me.

We drove down to a beach somewhere in Pembrokeshire (I have forgotten the name) and the waves were big and intimidating as it was late in the afternoon- I had never seen waves this big!

Spooktacular 2014!

Spooktacular is always such a success with different types of acts from drama clubs to advanced singing groups.

We are both in the year 8 drama club and in our group we all decided to do Coralline as our piece.

It went all according to plan in fact it went so well that multiple people came up to us and congratulated us.

We are both also in Evolution and we performed a song called Left Outside Alone by Anastasia. We were the last act to perform in the show.

Scuba Diving

In the half term, I went to Tenerife and stayed in a place called Alcalá, which is on the west coast. When I was in Tenerife, my parents paid for me to do scuba diving in the sea, the instructor was a really nice the guy that took me into the sea.He was called Frank.

He said there might be a possibility that we would see turtles and that if we do not to put my fingers near its mouth “as they will see your fingers like sardines and will bite your fingers off!” He showed me where we were going to swim. At this point, I was really excited!

Then we got on our wet suits and put the gear on my back, it was really heavy! Just to add to the weight, Frank adds 2kg to each pocket in my gear. Then we had to walk down to the sea; the tank of oxygen on my back was the heaviest thing so Frank told me to walk like a hunchback so I wouldn't hurt my back.

When we got down to the water he told me to put on my flippers and then straight after that I put my mask on and it had to be tight so no sea water would get into the mask. Then we got into the sea!

Welcome to the Stanford Bloggers!

The following students are Stanford Bloggers:-

Heather

Year: 7

Form: S4

Likes: Reading, Science, Animals

Dislikes: Beef Burgers and Pink

Lily

Year: 8

Form: S5

Likes:Turtles

Dislikes:Spiders

Hobbies: Swimming

Alika

Year: 9

Form: S11

Likes: Trampolining, Drawing, Reading and Youtube

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