Year 7 Dance
In the light of Mrs Johnson-Walker's assembly Mrs Smith decided to introduce a different stimulus for the Year 7 Dance unit with class 7WPE6; the current, devastating news of the 'Australia Bush fires' as our stimulus. The students have had two lessons and developed their own freeze frame, a key movement to be repeated throughout their dance, in different ways to bring it back to their main message / element. They have started to choreograph their own small sections of dance linked to the bush fires, most have chosen to tell the story of the animals trapped within the fires. Today the students developed their actions and focused on how they moved their body, known as dance dynamics, and how the story and dance can be built up and calmed back down again.
"Making Salts"
"Making Salts" practical from Yr 9 and Yr10 classes, with Miss Golding and Mr Potier.
In this required practical the students investigate the reaction between an acid and an insoluble base, to prepare an aqueous salt solution. After the excess base has been filtered off and the concentrated salt solution is evaporated, high purity , dry copper sulphate crystals are formed . When the procedure is followed precisely, some crystals of a size of 2 cm or inches can be achieved.
Science Club
During Miss Woodcock's Science Club session the Year 7 students created a winter/ snowy scene by growing salt on cardboard Christmas trees, using sodium chloride solution and potassium ferricyanide.
During the last week of December they also created some snow/glitter globes and decorated them with a Plasticine snowman (which they made from scratch) and filled the globes with glitter glycerine and water.
Music Success
The Autumn Term saw a number of Winston students sit graded instrumental exams. The results have now all come back and we are so proud of them and what they have achieved. In particular we would like to highlight Freddie Garner and Ned Bird who gained a distinction and a merit in their grade 7 exams respectively, and Josh Prince who gained a distinction for his grade 6.
Congratulations to all of our students!
The full list is shown below:
Name
|
Instrument
|
Grade
|
Result
|
Sam Bishop
|
Drum kit
|
3
|
DISTINCTION
|
Jack Anderson
|
Drum kit
|
1
|
MERIT
|
Harry Faulds
|
Drum kit
|
1
|
DISTINCTION
|
Henry Salter
|
Drum kit
|
2
|
MERIT
|
Freddie Garner
|
Drum kit
|
7
|
DISTINCTION
|
Matt Early
|
Guitar
|
3
|
MERIT
|
Ollie Storey
|
Guitar
|
5
|
MERIT
|
Aniya Lumsden
|
Bass Guitar
|
1
|
DISTINCTION
|
Olivia Laurent
|
Guitar
|
4
|
MERIT
|
Paola Hagen-Zanker
|
Guitar
|
1
|
MERIT
|
Sienna Sutton
|
Guitar
|
2
|
MERIT
|
Ben Howell
|
Piano
|
2
|
DISTINCTION
|
Hannah Pratt
|
Piano
|
2
|
PASS
|
Ned Bird
|
Piano
|
7
|
MERIT
|
Darci Sutton
|
Piano
|
2
|
MERIT
|
Dan Jacobs
|
Piano
|
5
|
PASS
|
Josh Prince
|
Violin
|
6
|
DISTINCTION
|
Emma Anderson
|
Clarinet
|
2
|
DISTINCTION
|
Jess Dunipace
|
Voice
|
1
|
PASS
|
Fern Curtis
|
Voice
|
1
|
PASS
|
Katie Gershikov
|
Voice
|
3
|
PASS
|
Josh Ryley
|
Theory
|
5
|
DISTINCTION
|
Jo Stathopoulos
|
Theory
|
5
|
DISTINCTION
|
Tharusha Fernando
|
Theory
|
5
|
PASS
|
