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History YEAR 7 CASTLE COMPETITION O


ver the Easter Holidays the Year 7 students from all pathways designed and built castles using household items. The resulting


castles were fantastic and ranged from classic English, Welsh and Scottish castles to French and Japanese inspired castles. The History Department spent much of the day judging over a hundred castle and after much deliberation as the castle were so fantastic, the following prizes were awarded:


1st Place - Hannah Chapman 2nd Place - Mark Slatter and Alex Payne 3rd Place - Tyler Roberts and Jacob Weiss 4th Place - Oliver Lewis and Adam Bluett 5th Place - Aaron Griffi ths Head Teacher’s Award - Alex Green and Barnaby Fairfax Head of Year 7 Award - Max Atkinson, Saskia Butler and Jenna Elliott


HISTORICAL WRITING COMPETITION


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ll 60 Year 8 Ruby students wrote a short story set in


World War One after reading Michael Morpurgo’s Private Peaceful. This inspired them to produce their own fi ctional story set in a historical period. Mr Nash and Miss Elrick selected the three that would be submitted to the national competition. A judging panel of Dave Martin, Beth Brooke and Nigel Watt (teachers at All Saints Comprehensive School, Weymouth) and Fiona Ray (teacher at Dorchester Middle School) and four Year 6 and 7 pupils from Dorchester Middle met on Saturday 12th June in the Dorset County Museum to read and discuss the short listed stories.


Out of all of the national entries in the Year 8 category, fi ve stories were short listed. One of our entries formed part of this short list; this was William McAuley’s work ‘Only 14’ which tells the story of an underage soldier that enlists in the army to fi ght in the First World War. This is clearly a fantastic achievement for William. Well done!


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