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Bradley Turner
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Brad Turner
Head of Year 7 and teacher of English, Film amd Media
is now on
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Feel free to check out his posts to keep up to date with all things Year 7 related.
There will be lots of insider info about the Okehampton Residential !
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Bradley Turner
24 September
Tom and Jacob from 7ESS deep in discussion this morning
about their
#thunk
- would you rather never again see the
colour blue or never again hear music?
Bradley Turner
11 September
7SHG were sorting out teams for House matches next week
when I visited this morning - Elsa and Tallulah look like they
have the girls' netball team selection well in hand!
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Bradley Turner
16 October
7SHG were sorting out teams fpr House matches next
week when I visited this morning - Elsa and Tallulah look
like they have the girls' netball team selection well in hand!
Bradley Turner
2 October
Carys from 7HLI picking out a reward in tutorial this morning
for her excellent work in Science this week - well done!
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Bradley Turner
9 October
The highs and lows of 7DHR's
#RugbyWorldCup2015
sweepstake this morning as Hannah watches on while Grace
& Rosanna draw their teams
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Form tutor Tom Hasbury and 7THY didn't let the
weather dampen their enthusiasm for House Matches!
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Sixth Form
... to our oldest students
KEVICC rowers
Matt Swiss in year 13 and Heather Swiss
in year 12 have had a very successful year on the water.
They both took up the sport as part of a new junior intake
in November 2012 at the Dart Totnes Club where they have
received excellent coaching and support.
In his first full competitive season in 2014,
Matt won both the J16 (under 16) single
sculls and J16 boys quad West of England
Championships, and also performed well
as a single sculler in several national
competitions, including fourth place in
the National Junior Championships. Last
October, he set out on the long and arduous
process of trialling for the GB Junior team.
This included several trips to the National
Watersports Centre near Nottingham; two
trips to Boston and to GB Rowing HQ at
Caversham. Having made it through all of
these stages, Matt was invited to the five-day Final Trial in
early July. He performed so well at this that he was selected
for the GB Junior team that competed in the Junior Rowing
World Championships in Rio de Janeiro in August. The whole
team spent ten days training at Pangbourne and Caversham
before flying out to Rio for further training a week before
the championships started. Double sculls Matt, and Scott
Ozsanlav-Harris from Cheshire, made it through to the finals
and gained ninth place overall.
Matt’s determination and dedication, and an arduous six
days-per-week training programme devised by his Dart
Totnes coach Simon Gifford-Mead, ultimately paid dividends
with a GB Rowing Vest. The whole
experience of being part of a professional
set-up, and competing on the spectacular
rowing lake that will stage next year’s
Olympic Rowing Regatta, has given Matt
the incentive to continue rowing at a high
level. He has his sights set on next year’s
National Championships and, while the
Rio Olympics will be too early for him,
maybe we`ll see him at Tokyo 2020?!
Meanwhile, in slightly less exotic locations
around the south-west of England, Heather
had a very successful season as a member
of the Dart Totnes J16 girls quad. They remained unbeaten
throughout the whole season of 10 official West of England
regattas, winning the Championship. They also competed in
the one-off South Coast Championship held in September
and won that too! Heather hopes to compete in more events
next year as a single sculler and, like her brother, has now
started a full winter training programme.
Britain Needs Scientists Day
Our first lot of talks were on a variety of
topics; tiny printed chips for biological
experiments, more about aliens, and
then how maths fits into epileptic fits,
all given by top Exeter scientists.
Lunch centred around a game where
you had to move a ball away from you
to your opponent, using only brain
activity, picked up by an electrode on
your forehead. There were clear winners
(Katie), and losers (Tom, Amoria).
The afternoon’s lectures were also
good. Dr Tom Constant (no relation of
Planck) gave a very good speech on
light, and lasers and astrophysicist Dr.
Alice Mills, gave a very excitable lecture
on the universe and what’s going on in
it, and also on her recent visit to Chile
and the VLT (very large telescope).
All in all, a very top day, and we now
feel even more like studying to become
British Scientists.
Tom Ingram, Will Paterson
Riverfly Monitoring
During the summer year 12 Biology
students had the opportunity to put
some of their practical skills to use as
part of a National Riverfly Monitoring
Project. The initiative is overseen
by the Environment Agency and
the Avon Angling Association, and
KEVICC Biology students are playing
an instrumental role in protecting
the health of their local rivers by
monitoring their riverfly populations.
Riverflies, along with other freshwater
invertebrates, are at the heart of the
freshwater ecosystem and are a vital
link in the aquatic food chain. Students
spent a day carrying out detailed kick
sampling from two specially chosen
sites along the River Avon. From our
own small sample, it is clear that we are
very lucky to have an extremely clean
and healthy river with an abundance
of invertebrates and we must strive to
keep it this way!
The data collected has been uploaded to
Shore Thing project
Year 12 Biology students also took part
in an initiative working with schools
and community groups to collect
information on the marine life of rocky
shores around Britain. The site chosen
to survey was Saltern Cove in Torbay
which has a rich diversity of marine life
and is partially protected.
Once at the site, students used
quadrats to make a transect survey
of the shore identifying the species
distribution and abundance and then
performed a timed species search for
certain species which are believed to be
changing their distribution in response
to climate change. These include the
Asian shore crab, orange-tipped sea
squirt and the green ormer.
The data collected by the students
will go forward to a national database
collated by the Marine Biological
Association Labs at Plymouth Hoe. All
the information collected by volunteers
will be made available online. If you
are interested in taking part contact
the MBA in Plymouth.
