Good News Friday– CELEBRATING SUCCESSES

Staff inform the Headteacher of the significant achievements of individuals or groups of students during the previous week – in or out of school.

The students go to the Headteacher’s office at breaktime on Fridays to talk about what they have been doing and receive formal congratulations for exceptional, or outstanding, effort and achievement.

A special achievement card is given to the student to take home to parents in recognition of this to put in their record of achievement folder.

Congratulations for being Star Students!

This Week's Star Students

w/e 18th May 2012

YEAR 7	Jack Carullo	Sustained effort and fantastic project on one of the Greek Philosophers-well done!
	Lianne Marson-May Finn Zachary Niamh Cox	Enthusiastic and constant participation in AR
	Josh Carson	Always showing great enthusiasm for English lessons with positive participation in both AR and’ War Horse’.
	Molly Tucker	Super project ‘The Greek Philosophers’-well done!
YEAR 8	Zac Royall	Fantastic individual speaking presentation in English.
YEAR 10	Aaron Davidson Caleb Fayle	First students to comment on the R&P Blog-great work!
	Hannah Bailey	For an outstanding piece of creative writing for an English controlled assessment.
	Lewis Stillwell Michael Farrington	For working really hard at their English controlled assessments.
	Hannah Bailey	Circus performance at the Olympic Torch event
YEAR 11	Frankie Taylor Jordan Buxton Lacy Mikinver Declan Bell-Evans Danielle Allen Harriet Montague Callum Doggrell	Attendance Award
	Danielle Allen	Improvers Award
	Harriet Montague Callum Doggrell	Special Award for Achievement

w/e 20th April 2012

YEAR 7	Connor Pinder Amy Haselgrove Alex Coomber Ben Davis	For representing the school so well at the Boccia Tournament and for Connor and Amy being in the winning team.
YEAR 8	Beth Corfield Rosin Henman-Kyle	For superb skiing projects.
YEAR 8	Esme Salter Guy Tofield	For representing the school so well at the Boccia tournament and for Esme being in the winning team.
YEAR 11	Micky D'Andrea Rebekah Botterill Jordan Watson Kim Lester Melissa Nunn Amara Hunt	Excellent effort on their Geography controlled assessments (at least a grade higher than their threshold grades).
	Jordan Baker	Really great attitude this year in general, putting his all into his education with a more mature attitude have not had to make any negative phone calls home, well done.
	Micky D’Andrea Jasmine Chapman Conall Castle Keenan White	Superb effort in English CA with evidence of considerable independent revision (a big first!).

w/e 23rd March 2012

YEAR 7	Alex D’Andrea Mille Bailey Niamh Cox Lucy Pitman Cheri Neale	Superb marks in all assessments in French.
YEAR 7	George Tucker	Excellent effort and achievement in German lessons.
YEAR 8	Adam Gambardella	Fantastic effort at all times in French.
	Hannah Corrigan Dominic Inder-Goode Sophie Hayball	Excellent Humanities Extended Learning Projects (Olympics).
	Thomas Morris	For completing his Humanities Extended Learning Project without any support. Excellent effort.
	Niamh Leggett	Consistently superb effort in English.
	Jo Billany	Super attitude to her work and thoughtfulness shown in supporting another student. Thank you and well done!
YEAR 9	Kelsey Taylor Sophie Gould	For outstanding commitment and effort in PE dept – umpiring 4 sets of house matches.
	Cosmo Shaw Abbie Phillips	For an outstanding ‘problem page letter’ from a character in Romeo and Juliet.
	Tara Borzoni	Superb sonnet written on CE day.
YEAR 10	Alex Willsher	100% on French mock paper!
YEAR 11	Steph Bates James Hickson Eli Rowson Rosella Piccuito Lauren Wittleton	A* grade controlled assessment in French.
	Roo Black	Outstanding coursework – both workbooks completed to a extremely high standard.
	Matt Astles	Outstanding controlled assessment - literary re-creation.
	Frankie Taylor	Huge improvement in English in terms of effort and quality of work.
	Charlie Green	Consistently superb effort in English.
	Elliot Lintel	Always pushing himself to get good results in a subject he does not find easy.

w/e 9th March 2012

YEAR 7	Ben Davis	Always giving his best.
	Ella Bremner James Cook Rhiannon Locke	For excellent contribution in French and outstanding Wanted posters.
	Pip Lovell Molly Tucker	Excellent Humanities ELP-Olympics.
YEAR 8	Micky Santos	Working hard in English.
YEAR 8	Beth Corfield Josh Smith	Outstanding English homework.
YEAR 9	James Durbin	Real improvement in English.
	Brandon Keep	Fantastic piece of circuit training homework in P.E.
	Tiffany Christian	Outstanding English homework.
	Elspeth Macgeogh	Outstanding h/w effort in English.
	Jack Sorrill	Huge improvement in terms of his approach to lessons (very much noted in Maths).
	Ellen Tuffin	Excellent Humanities Project-Olympics.
YEAR 10	Daisy Withers	Completed her first piece of GCSE ICT coursework to Distinction (2 grades above her threshold) after attending numerous after-school sessions. Great commitment and dedication.
YEAR 10	Joe Mills Ezzie White	Full marks in English CA.
YEAR 11	Marco D’Abbraccio Zoe Tofield	Working hard independently on exam revision.

w/e 5th March 2012

YEAR 7	Ella Bremner	A fantastic homework for French - great project on pets.
YEAR 7	Charlie Appleton	For outstanding contributions to Science lessons.
YEAR 8	Adam Gambardella	For excellent effort and attitude in Science.
YEAR 10	Courtney Adams Lewis Stillwell Georgia Payne Daisy Withers	Fantastic poetry anthology for extended homework.
	Roland Hall	Excellent focus during R&P mock.
	Maddie Wakeling	A fantastic piece of writing in French – AS level standard.
YEAR 11	Kimberly Lester	For achieving an A grade in her Coursework for GCSE Additional Science.

w/e 24th February 2012

YEAR 7	Gabriel Huddy	For excellent work, focus and attitude to learning in Geography.
YEAR 8	Zac Ganfield	For superb contribution (bringing in and explaining crystals collection) in science.
YEAR 10	Francesca Fallows Rishi Gordon Alex Willsher	Achieving A* in recent Practice paper, in Maths
YEAR 11	Aaron Everett	Seen in canteen being helpful and supportive to a Year 7.
	Saxon Fleetwood Kasey Owen	Great performance developing in drama as part of unit 3.
	Janey Ferguson Zoe Dines Georgia Daly Peter Wilmington Tom Morgan Steph Bates	Great effort in developing unit 3 drama.

w/e 03 February 2012

YEAR 8	Juma Barry Lucy Williams Lindsay Neale
YEAR 9	Kirsty Daly
YEAR 10	Caleb Fayle	Impressive designs produced at the Clarks Design Workshop Day in December.
YEAR 11	Declan Bell-Evans Rebekah Botterill Danny Chant	Superb Collaboration skills to produce excellent powerpoint on Lifecycle of Stars.

w/e 27 January 2012

YEAR 8	Lyndsey Neale Lucy Williams Juma Barry Roisin Henman Kyle Bethany Dyer Ruby Dawson–Saeed Ryan Anderton Jo Billany Hannah Corrigan Sophie Hayball	For outstanding French writing from memory – great effort and great levels achieved.
YEAR 9	Phoebe Sturt	Superb homework again in English. Didn’t want to write one poem so did three!
	Kirsty Daly	Superb personification poem in English.
	Elspeth Macgeogh	Superb poetry homework in English.
	Connor Holdsworth	Superb effort in English on poetry homework. Really imaginative ideas.
	Brandon Keep	Another great homework.
YEAR 10	Beth Lovelock Georgia Corrigan	Both 100% in Autumn term weekly French vocab tests! Only year 10s to do so!
YEAR 11	Roo Black	Excellent start to Art exam preparation.

w/e 20 January 2012

YEAR 8	Luke Harmon	For his amazing skills in learning French words and for his great attitude in French
YEAR 10	Lewis Stillwell	For some really good work in class and excellent effort on his English controlled assessment
	Josh Pether	For always working to the best of his ability and an excellent attitude to learning in English
	Daisy Bentley	For supporting another student this week when they needed her
	Georgia Payne	For consistent hard work and fantastic leaflet production in Science BTEC
	Courtney Adams	For consistent hard work and fantastic leaflet production in Science BTEC
	Jack Hothckiss	For making a fresh and positive start to R&P lessons this term
YEAR 11	Roo Black	For an outstanding presentation on First Aid for Cadets
	Rebekah Botterill	For excellent attitude to learning and being a brilliantly motivated independent learner
	Jamie Fouracres	Positive and engaged start to ‘Religion and Science’ module
	Jordan Baker	For showing mature and very responsible leadership skills in Tutor Group

w/e 13 January 2012

YEAR 7	Molly Tucker	Excellent effort on Humanities extended Learning Project (Energy Saving)
YEAR 8	Zoe Kingham Evie Baksh	Excellent h/w in English in English. Effective research using books rather than internet!
	Ruby Dawson-Saeed Juma Barry Tallis Staple	Excellent extended homework project
	Elliot Thomas	Excellent groupwork in English
	Oliver Hughes Sebastian Steenkamp	Excellent extended homework project
YEAR 9	Phoebe Sturt Brandon Keep Tiffany Christian Elspeth Macgeoch	Excellent h/w effort in English and classroom effort in general
	Luke Penny	Excellent work and effort in English so far this year Excellent extended homework project
	Jess Whittaker	Such a positive start to the new term in English
	Connor Gillentine	Excellent Extended homework project (Crime & Punishment)
	Sean Phillips	Excellent effort in extended homework activity
	Matthew Pursey	Excellent extended homework project
YEAR 10	Amber Owen	Fantastic creative writing in English
YEAR 11	Jordan Baker	Terrific effort shown in English

w/e 09 December 2011

YEAR 8	Sebastiaan Steenkamp Gabby-Lukins Brown Oliver Hughes Maya Harrod Hannah Corrigan Meryn Knight Juma Barry Ruby Dawson-Saeed, Jo Billany Tallis Staple	For excellent Humanities Extended Learning Projects (Journeys)
YEAR 9	Kishi Childs	Very informative and well-presented Humanities project ‘Crime and Punishment’
	Connor Gillentine Matthew Pursey Caitlin Sully Georgina Franks Ellen Tiffin Luke Penny Sean Phillips Abigail Phillips	For excellent effort on their Humanities Extended Learning Projects (Crime and Punishment)
YEAR 10	Daisy Withers	Continued helpfulness and kindness shown to younger students
YEAR 11	Becky Coomber	Great focus, great questions and enthusiasm shown in lesson ‘Religion & Science-Big Bang Theory’
	Callum Doggrell	For assisting with a poorly student, before and during Break

w/e 02 December 2011

YEAR 8	Josh Marshfield	For excellent notes (between 5 and 8 pages each!) on violent volcanoes.
	Vincent Way
	Maya Harrod

w/e 18 November 2011

YEAR 7	Gabriel Huddy	Excellent written homework for P4C.
	Ewan Wilson	Excellent written homework for P4C.
YEAR 8	Luke Harmon	For really getting involved and asking smart questions on the Reformation trip. They all did the school proud!
	Janavi Newcombe-Hall
	Aaron Griffiths
	George Leigh
	Ellie Loxton
	Micky Santos
	Kieran Liversidge
	Paige Vincent
	Vincent Way
	Andrew Bastable
	Ethan Lintell
	Hannah Corrigan	For an excellent History assessment
	Sophie Hayball
	Josh Clark
	Jenny Davis
	Jasmine Ellis
	Oliver Hughes
	Husker Webster
	Vincent Way	Excellent Art homework, going above and beyond the task set
	Guy Tofield	Continued perseverance-reading every morning before school with Mrs Plant .
YEAR 9	Nino Meriano	Fantastic attitude to learning, contribute great ideas to discussions and always work really hard to produce their best work despite finding English challenging. They were confident enough on punctuation last Friday to correct work on the board as part of class discussion!
	Sophie Gould
	Elspeth MacGeoch	Super group work in class.
	Stacy Dyer
	Dylan Robinson	Super written work on what happened to the people of Easter Island.
	Sam James
YEAR 10	Alice Gibbings	For excellent work, attitude and progress in Geography.
	Caleb Fayle	For excellent work, attitude and progress in Geography.
	Lewis Stillwell	For working really hard in his controlled assessment for English and producing nearly a page of written work!
	Charlotte Parsons	For really excelling in her controlled assessment, she was focused, determined to do her best and managed distractions from another student brilliantly well.
	Maddie Wakeling	Excellent art homework showing an improvement in drawing skills
	Izzy Hicks	Excellent art homework extending drawing skills on a larger scale
	Scarlett Isaacs	Super contribution to class discussion on euthanasia.
YEAR 11	Roo Black	Really working hard to understand complex texts and thinking about how best to constantly improve her essay writing skills for exams. Always trying to improve her work – she never ‘coasts.
	Aaron Davidson	For honestly sharing his concerns about his controlled assessment for English and listening well to advice. He can be very mature in his approach to learning.
	Callum Doggrell	For always being kind and thoughtful to both staff and students. He came to thank me for inviting him to attend Parade on Friday and I was very touched.
	Steph Bates	Great speaking assessment in French
	Rosella Piccuito	Great speaking assessment in French and wonderful object pronouns

w/e 11 November 2011

YEAR 8	Sunny Wade	Huge improvement in learning habit and therefore achievement in year 9 in French
	Charlie Burrough	FANTASIC convincing arguments for animals being used as food-respectful and detailed arguments presented orally to the class.
	Aaron Griffiths	For a fantastic History assessment
	Josh Smith
	Beth Corfield
	Roisin Henman-Kyle
	Jo Billaney
	Max Mortimer
YEAR 9	Stephen Le Cocq	For big improvement in effort and work in Geography.
YEAR 10	Lucy Brown	For excellent test results in Geography.

w/e 14 October 2011

YEAR 7	Herbie Hallett	Fantastic Identity project and model-has to be seen to be believed!
	Kylan McEver	Identity project-amazing metal work model of his favourite things-great skill demonstrated!
	Fay Henman-Kyle	Identity project-super movie
	George Tucker	For great collaboration and myth writing in English.
	James Burrough	For great collaboration and myth writing in English.
	Ed Nash	For coming back after school to do homework
	Danny Stott	For coming back after school to do homework
YEAR 8	Beth Corfield	For a fabulous volcano model – complete with lots of little people!
	Zac Royall	For frightening Mrs Manning with their violent volcanic eruption!
	Andrew Bastable
	Lucy Morcombe	For outstanding effort and achievement in English this half term (Desert island story)
	Hannah Corrigan	Excellent use of mixed media in Art homework.
	Luke Harmon	Fantastic attitude in French - focused, helpful and completing work to a high standard
YEAR 9	Harry Antell- Burrows	Commitment and focus in Art
	Elspeth Macgeoch	For an excellent Extended Learning Project on China. A pleasure to read.
	Tiffany Christian	For a super Extended Learning Project on China
	Brandon Keep	For an excellent Extended Learning Project on China
	Bethany Goodwin	Great work in Music where she is composing a chord progression and melody line
	James Brunt	Excellent horror writing in English
YEAR 10	Bethan Bullock	A great start to the course in drama and a very impressive price of homework
	Francesca Fallows	Have been performing at Strode Theatre all week in ‘Half a Sixpence’
	Lauren Bilsborough
	Shea Brue-Watson	For Performing in assembly on Tuesday
	Alex Willsher
	Hannah Willsher
	George Ponting	Brilliant contributions to poetry lesson
	Natasha Andrews	For an excellent start to their GCSE History course.
	Caleb Fayle
	Rishi Gordon
	Will Hecks
	Indi Hinton
	Hayley Holman
	Dylan Marr
	Hayden Osborne
	Harry Phelps
YEAR 11	Charlie Green	Consistently superb effort and attitude in English. V positive role model to others in the group
	Janey Ferguson	Good work in drama GCSE especially the monologue she wrote in role as Abigail
	Janey Ferguson	Excellent development in drawing skills for self portrait piece
	Lucy Bowditch	Excellent organisation with Record of Achievement file

w/e 07 October 2011

YEAR 7	George Tucker	R&P poem ‘the meaning of Life’. Excellent work achieved.
	Grace Dyga	For having her Humanities identity project taken to China!
	Emma Berry	For having her Humanities identity project taken to China!
	Lily Hickman	For having her Humanities identity project taken to China!
	Gabriel Huddy	Fantastic comic strip on the creation of the universe -amazing graphics!
	Jack Carullo	Terrific Presentation on robots in English
	Joy Danaan	A terrific presentation on her ambition to be a photographer.
YEAR 8	Ellie Loxton	An excellent assessment task on the Kobe earthquake – achieving Year 8 threshold level.
	Lewis Chapman	Super attitude to learning R&P Thursday P5.
	Sebastiaan Steenkamp	Fantastic extension work in English
	Sabrina Vincent	Excellent change of attitude and participation in PE.
YEAR 9	Georgia Latty	An excellent leaflet on drugs (homework) completed to a high standard both in detail and presentation – English
	Sunny Wade	An excellent leaflet on drugs (homework) completed to a high standard both in detail and presentation. Good referencing and use of website links for further info – English
	Sean Phillips	An excellent leaflet on drugs (homework) completed to a high standard both in detail and presentation. Good referencing and use of website links for further info – English
	Nino Meriano	For starting this year with an outstanding approach to his written work and always giving it 100% even when it is challenging. – English
	Oscar Wickham	Engaging presentation with Alasdair-Religion & the Media.
	Alasdair Howard	Engaging presentation with Oscar. Religion and the Media.
	Emily Brine	Terrific contributions on National Poetry Day
YEAR 10	Connor Coburn	An excellent start to his GCSE Geography course. Great attitude and effort.
	Daisy Bentley	Enthusiasm, team work and encouragement of others as well as her willingness to take a leading role in supporting others in their learning of new skills (like drill). – Cadets
YEAR 11	Ash Crowther	An excellent lesson. Ash even found his own quotations from Macbeth.
	Harry Neale	Brilliant work recently including finding his own Shakespeare quotations.
	Janey Ferguson	For giving up her time to help with hockey club for Year 7 & 8 afterschool.

w/e 30 September 2011

YEAR 8	Dylan Watts	Excellent and enthusiastic in Geography. A very good assessment piece produced.
	Adam Gambardella	A super assessment piece on the Kobe earthquake.
	Tallis Staple	All helped to run an arts session at Glastonbury Montessori. Fantastic ambassadors for the school. Polite, well-mannered and excellent with the young children. A credit to St Dunstan’s.
	Bethaney Dyer
	Aaron Griffiths
	Kieran Liversidge
	Roisin Henman-Kyle
	Beth Corfield
	Charlie Ware
YEAR 9	India Jenkins	Amazing story.
	Sunny Wade	Great attitude and work produced in Geography.
	Connor Holdsworth	Improved attitude to learning in Art.
	Jacob Allman	Much more focused attitude in R & P this term.
YEAR 10	Chris Punter	An excellent start to their Geography GCSE course. Very positive attitude!
	Aaron Davidson
	Joe Mills	An excellent start to his GCSE German course.
YEAR 11	Sharma Everson	Excellent use of extra Art sessions to extend and improve coursework.
	Melissa Nunn	Excellent use of extra Art sessions to extend and improve coursework.
	Steph Bates	Excellent development of ideas an sketchbook.
	Jack Kearton	Mature approach to his controlled assessment in History.
	Declan Bell-Evans	Responsible attitude as a prefect. Helped a younger student when he was in need.

w/e 23 September 2011

YEAR 7	Lewis Farrington	BLP Challenger badge awarded. 1st in year 7!
	Ben Davis	BLP Challenger badge awarded. 2nd in year 7!
YEAR 8	Jake Harvey	Fantastic prefects for Primary Languages Day
	Ethan Lintell
	Aaron Griffiths
	Oliver Hughes
	Sophie Hayball
	Hannah Corrigan
	Beth Corfield
	Bethan Drake
	Jo Billany	Poetry writing in R & P. Not only writing a great poem, helping others to achieve too.
	Bethan Drake
YEAR 9	Kishi Childs	Improved attitude and conduct in Art.
	Georgina Franks	Amazing stories.
	Jade Chance
	Ellen Tuffin
	Tara Borzoni
	James Durbin
	Bradley Reed
	Charly Smith	Improved attitude in Art.
	Jarrod Williams	Practical solution to a technical problem and cheerfully explained.
YEAR 10	Jessica Barlow	Excellent start to GCSE Art and Design.
YEAR 11	Hannah Gane	Great contribution to class in R&P discussion on censorship/violence in the media .
	Phoebe Cornford
	Noah Venkatasamy-Mills
	Laura Gane	Determination to turn things around. Positive attitude improved uniform and some good work. Very supportive of others in some difficult situations. Learning Mentor.

w/e 30 September 2011

Year 7	Herbie Hallett	Accepting reading challenge (to read a Jacqueline Wilson book) and completing it in 2 nights.
Year 8	Hannah Corrigan	Won specialism awards in July.

Year 9	Nick Redmore	Excellent attitude towards learning in Geography – a big improvement from Year 8!
	Jacob Allman
	Deborah Botterill	Excellent work completed.
	Stacey Dyer	Helping in year 8 assembly and being excellent members of the tutor group.
	Elspeth Macgeoch
Year 10	Ben Mason	Won specialism awards in July.
	Alex Willsher	Won specialism awards in July.
Year 11	Marco D’Abbraccio	Exceeding his FFTD grades in Y10 in both GCSE Eng lang and Eng lit exams. Brilliant work for Controlled Assessment in Media.
	Danny Chant	Brilliant work for Controlled Assessment in Media. Exceeded FFTD target by two grades.
	Jordan Buxton	Excellent work on her Geography Controlled Assessment.
	Rebekah Botterill	Achieving above her threshold grade in her Geography modular exam.
	Conall Castle	Sustained hard work and commitment to his Diploma Principle Learning.
	Amara Hunt	Outstanding effort and work in IT Diploma Principle Learning
	Phoebe Broek	Completing a magazine while working in the careers library Lovely attitude and pride in her work is great to see. Phoebe generally is trying extremely hard in all her lessons – when not in lessons works independently on Science, Maths and English producing some excellent work.
	Austin Fouracres	Excellent work on Controlled Assessment in Media.
	Noah Venkatasamy-Mills	Won specialism awards in July.
	Chelsea Davis	Won specialism awards in July.

St Dunstan's School

Good News Friday– CELEBRATING SUCCESSES

This Week's Star Students

w/e 30 September 2011