Have a look at some wonderful snow moments at Taverham Hall School:
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Shipwrecked en France!
Language skills were given a theatrical boost when our Year 3 to Year 6 pupils together with pupils from Taverham Junior School watched the play ‘Shipwrecked en France!’ (in french) performed by the Onatti Theatre Company at Taverham Hall School. The story was about a 13-year-old schoolboy who gets stranded in his dinghy while on holiday in France.
The actors enjoyed performing to the children and picked out a few volunteers who were encouraged to use their language skills to be involved in some of the scenes. The Onatti Theatre Company specialises in performing plays to young children in foreign languages.
Our thanks go to our Head of French, Miss Sarah Menegaz, for organising such an enjoyable afternoon which helped build the pupils’ confidence and understanding of spoken French.
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Taverham Hall’s Photography Club Exhibition
The photography club at Taverham Hall is fun and educational in many ways. It gives each individual the opportunity to explore how we see the world and to make the most from our cameras.
The idea is to work on the manual settings and less on the automatic and programmed settings. You will discover how much manual control on your camera’s settings will improve your image making.
During the Autumn Term and number of our parents have been working, Debby Besford, a professional photographer who has many years experience.
During the eight week course they covered location and portrait photography as well as working towards a photographic narrative. The final result is a series of images that can be diverse in subject matter and achieve good results for their technical and creative abilities.
- Areas covered include:
- Getting to know your Camera (Megapixels, Resolution, and File Formats)
- Exposure (ISO, Aperture and Shutter Speed) and Metering
- Histograms
- White Balance
- Camera Modes
- Composition Techniques
- Basic lighting techniques
- Focusing
- Photographic exhibition
The photography club’s exhibition, on display in the Outer Hall, is just one excellent example of four parents who wanted to understand how to work creatively and confidently with their DSLR cameras.
Photography exhibitors: Alex Crossley, Annie Crabtree, Alison Leinster & Jo Gudgin.
If you would like to find out more about the Photography Club at Taverham Hall School and are also keen to improve your camera skills then book a space have some fun learning – please contact:
Photography tutor: Debby Besford
Professional freelance photographer & Lecturer of Photography
mobile:07812 663448
Aeromodelling Update
As the aeromodelling club moves into its second year, the standard of workmanship continues to improve, allowing the pupils to build complex structures and models that are capable of performance flight.
Most pupils were baffled when the first project was to build a cube using 3mm sq strips of balsawood. However, all became clear when they started the structure of this term’s project – The Pushycat. This model features a complex structure built entirely from small strips of balsa wood, individually glue together to produce a rigid box structure. The cube skills were put to good use, as the pupils have built extremely light airframes capable of handling high loads.
We also introduced the process of tissue covering the models, which is tricky and requires a great deal of patience. The models are powered by rubber motors and wound using small geared winders and are capable of flying for over a minute in the school’s Sports Hall!
Taverham Hall School – Independent Schools Norfolk
More Swimming Medals……
At the UEA mini meet in January two pupils won gold, silver and bronze medals:
Gemma won gold medals in the 50m freestyle, 25m backstroke, 25m breaststroke and 25m butterfly and a silver medal in the individual medley.
Claudia won a gold medal in the breaststroke and bronze medals in the front crawl and backstroke.
Well done!
Taverham Hall School – Independent Schools Norfolk
Christmas and Face Britain Competitions
In the run up to Christmas the children in Junior Art Club enjoyed
drawing pictures with a Christmas theme to enter in the competition
organised by Abbotts Estate Agents. We had some wonderful, imaginative
work and all the children who entered were awarded certificates.
Alice was the winner with her lively picture of Rudolf the Red nosed
reindeer and enjoyed her prize of a bag containing all sorts of
goodies.
These imaginative self portraits below were created by the children in
Junior Art Club and are being entered into the Face Britain project
organised by the Prince’s Foundation for Children and the Arts. Their
portraits will be part of a record breaking on-line gallery and will
be used for art installations across the country as part of the 2012
celebrations. The portraits will also be projected onto Buckingham
Palace to make a special portrait of the Queen!
You will soon be able to see their work and can find further information at
http://www.facebritain.org.uk/#
Schools Fantasy Football League Update
For the school’s internal league competition for December the following pupils have obtained certificates for Managers of the Month:
Year 4 – Ben B -Team: Ben’s 11
Year 5 – Henry G – Team: Gravy Heads
Year 6 – Ryan G – Team: Going up up up
Year 7 – Will G – Team: Will Owns Ok
Year 8 – Freddie M – Team: Flashy Fred’s Footballers
Owls’ Winning House Supper
At the end of another busy term, Owls enjoyed the privilege of celebrating their win with our new initiative ‘The Winning House Supper’ set up and decorated in our beautiful Drawing Room.
The evening was great fun, game orientated and a very fitting way to recognise all the hard work each pupil and member of staff had put into their studies, sport, music and drama this Autumn term.
Have a look at some very enjoyable moments of Owl’s Winning House Supper:
A Fesitval of Nine Lessons and Carols
The decision to have a whole school celebration of Christmas was a real success this year at Taverham Hall.
The Sports Hall was transformed for the event with extra seating and amazing Christmas decorations provided by our Head of Art, Mrs Stamp.
The Reverend Vesey led the worship and the Chapel Choir, resplendent in their new robes provided truly excellent music. Mr Jonathan Dodd was the accompanist and the music was conducted by the school’s Director of Music, William Drew-Batty. Well over 400 attended and readings were provided by both pupils and staff.
Our choristers have been very excited about wearing their new robes and the choir looked very smart for its leading of the music at our school carol service. Due to an historic link between a past owner of Taverham Hall and a late bishop of Norwich the choir has traditionally been one of the few prep schools in the country, not related to a cathedral, to be allowed to wear a red cassock and white surplice. However, these robes were nearly eighty years old and sadly it was time for them to be replaced. The new robes, designed by the school’s Director of Music, William Drew-Batty and his sister, Kate Langran (www.sewfabric.co.uk) are in the style of a hooded cape in blue wool, lined in red, to represent the historic link, and finished in gold trim and the school badge and seem a very fitting new addition to our choir in line with the school’s 90th jubilee celebrations.
Christmas Doors Decorations
Our pupils have really risen to the challenge to create the most eye catching Christmas door this year – have a look below at some of their fabulous designs.
Our Head of Art, Mrs Stamp, summed up the designs well “Interesting, colourful, surreal or just plain quirky! My favourite is: ‘it’s raining pupils’ and I like the use of ties on Mrs Rust’s year 4 door.”
The Headmaster’s PA, Mrs Lara Golden, was asked to judge the competition and the winners were Mrs Pennell’s Year 5 Christmas door “lovely nativity scene, very much the spirit of Christmas. Lovely donkey!”
Runners up were Mr Martin’s and Miss Chapman’s Year 7 doors, “brilliant fireplace, love Rudolf peeking out of the top of the chimney” and “fabulous use of staff and children photographs. Mr Worrall as Rudolf” and Mrs Rust’s Year 4 door “great kings and beautiful use of materials.”
