A Long Piece of Rope - Chloe Kirk

A long piece of rope
Climbs from the sky
To the ground
Grinning
And it slips
Falling into the sky
Through the clouds
And from view.
Clutch at the grass
I don’t want to fall into the sky too

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Gifted and Talented French Club

Joseph Ewing, Kit Wolverson, Maxine Lartey, Lindsay Pain, Anastasia Saunders and Elizabeth Oloyede. Headed up by Jean Pascal, the French club of 6 this year was a great success and, over a stretch of five varying projects, a proud follow-up to last years group.
French club is aimed at giving us the chance to improve and enjoy our skills with the French language. And we have. The year started with our first project of French Comics and although we had just three people at the time, we had a great time creating our own comics and acting them out in front of the other language groups. For the second project we gained another member and our French Christmas was a big success. The next module of French Stereotypes was slightly more subdued but our next hit was most probably the best we’ve had. We did Tecktonik. In short this is a brand of clothes in France that was turned, by the youth, into a new and innovative dance which is all the rage! We just couldn’t resist and had both of the other language clubs and the language teachers up and dancing with us ☺ Finally, we ended the year with our last project of French Who Wants To Be A Millionaire which was, again, great fun.
Looking back together, we’ve had some real good fun and the only thing left to say is MERCI JEAN PASCAL!!! ☺
Au Revoir!

Gifted and Talented German Club

G+T club German group

Guten Tag!
We are the German club and for the past year we have been focusing on aspects of German culture and language. We have been helped by Michel Bakker, the German language assistant, who has helped us very much. We have focused on many different topics all of which we have enjoyed extremely.

These included: a Blind dating show called Herzblatt (heart beat), a German soap opera called Glückliche Tage, involving rambunctious school girls and their rebellious boyfriends, “Weihnachten” (Christmas), Famous German bands such as “Die Ärzte” and “Nena” as well as famous German stereotypes such as sausages and Lederhosen.

We certainly have had fun during the last year, and would like to thank Michel for all his help but especially for all his patience.

Tschüs

Der Deutsche Klub

Georgia, Louis, Eva, Tashi, Emma, Miranda

Gifted and Talented Spanish Club

Spanish G+T club

Over the last year a group of three year 9s and five year 8s met every Thursday afternoon with Domingo (the Spanish language assistant) to improve and stretch our Spanish speaking skills.
We are: Lotte Blackwell-Green
Sean Lawless
Lucy O’Brien
Fiona Canniffe
Lilia Aryan
Lanah Rashid
Francina Escudero
Jodi Kiang

At the beginning of the year we were chosen by our Spanish teachers to take part in this club because we were seen as gifted and talented. Each module we chose a project to work on and when we had finished we would present it to the teachers and the French and German club. It was great fun and we learnt a lot, not just about the language but also more about Spanish culture and Spanish people.

We did a mixture of projects ranging from Spanish music, where we sang our own rendition of Shakira’s ‘Estoy aquí’ to cooking Spanish food, where we burnt the flan. It was yucky!

We all had a fantastic time getting to know each other and Domingo, and learning more about the Spanish culture. It has been an experience we’ll never forget.

Lotte: ‘This year has been great. Doing different projects on Spain has been really fun. Domingo was really nice.’

Sean: ‘The club gave us a good opportunity to learn Spanish outside the classroom doing different activities.’

Lucy: ‘My best bit of Spanish club was doing all the presentations with my friends and having a laugh making the flan, even if it did go slightly wrong.’

Fiona: ‘I liked playing the Spanish games and making the presentation for Spanish sayings because we had such a laugh!’

Lilia: ‘I enjoyed it a lot because we explored different areas of the Spanish culture that you wouldn’t normally do in lesson. The cooking presentation was the best.’

Lanah: ‘I loved the whole of Spanish club, but one of my main memories was getting messy crushing tomatoes with Jodi using a garlic press.’

Francina: ‘I enjoyed when we went to food tech and we made pan con tomate and flan, which went wrong!!!’

Jodi: ‘This year has been full of memories. I’ve loved it all, but some things that have been really great are making new friends and having a laugh together, doing some crazy things, like singing (hey, all in the name of education). Getting to know Domingo has been really great too. He is such a star! I’ve learnt so much about Spanish culture and it has really helped to improve my Spanish!’

All that is left to say is ‘MUCHAS GRACIAS’

Rugby and its Enjoyment

by Eric Jay

Rugby is a very enjoyable sport. You can play all sorts of things with the ball!
Our rugby team get to play different games; for example, you could test your strength by lifting your partner up on your back and try to run to a certain spot on the pitch!
Rugby isn’t about rigorous training every Thursday. Rugby is more likely to be about FUN!
The best thing about rugby is (if you know how to play it by the rules) CONTACT RUGBY. If you can play this, and you have confidence in yourself, you could be playing in lots of rugby games! Also, if you are playing another team, you have the pleasure of knocking them down without any remorse. This will make you feel good, especially if it’s a person you know and hate! You don’t have to look tough and act tough, you just need to know how to play the game properly. We have some players that are very fast and strong, despite their size! I think we have a good balance of team members, who will commit themselves to getting tackled to the floor and getting muddy.
We don’t just play rugby for fun. We play it for our enjoyment too.

Creative Writing Club

This year we’ve been writing about secrets - everything from teenage pregnancy to sibling rivalry, a hidden murder and someone’s mum hiding out in the basement.
Come and add to the scandal! Write poetry and short stories and get advice from a published author.
Fun exercises and challenging subjects will help you express yourself, and strengthen your vocabulary.
Come along, Mondays at 3.30 in the library, or for more information email Miss Wyld at wyld@baconsctc.co.uk

Rugby Club

by Mr Foster

Where can you grab hold of your mate, dump him on his backside in the mud, and then have members of staff not only fail to tell you off, but offer you advice on how to do it better next time? Come to Peter Hills on a Thursday after school and find out.

That's what around twenty boys in year 7 have been doing all term, and they are now looking forward to their first competitive full contact fixture against Charter. They have already won one tag rugby game against a City of London Academy that included several year 8s and 9s.

The senior boys sides have played two fixtures, both against Charter. In the first game Charter were too organised and ground out a 23-5 win despite a try by Sammy Ajose. In the second however, Bacon's won the physical battle thanks to big hits from Alex Surguladze and strong runs from Joe Dalton. Joe's try and two from Sammy Ajose looked to have won the game for Bacon's, only for a last minute score to steal victory.

The biggest success story has been Aaron Redgrave, who has represented South London, London, The south of England and now the Combined Regions in Rugby League against Wales, Cumbria, and Lancashire. As well as this, Aaron is now on the books at Harlequins RL, London's professional rugby league team.

The rugby club is always looking for new members from all years, boys and girls. If you are interested, see myself or Mr Darragh.