Autumn Term 2015 House Competitions

Inter House competitions 2015 Let the games begin!! Please read the following PowerPoint slides and choose which competition / competitions you will take part in this half term!!! You have to be in it to win it!! Read the individual details very carefully to make sure you know when; where and what you need to do to enter!

Entering a competition The competitions will be launched: - In weekly bulletins; in assemblies; by the Staff organising the competition; HOH or House Captains Details will also be emailed by Mrs Mynard to All Staff and students at the beginning of each half term. Students/staff enter a competition via the member of staff/student running it. (Details will be on the PowerPoint information slides) A Launch meeting will be held by the member of staff/student in charge

Please make sure you come along and support your fellow house mates!! Spectators Please make sure you come along and support your fellow house mates!! All are welcome Please check the venue of the competition so that you know where to come

Results of competitions Results will be fed back through assemblies; via email; on the television screens; notice board and the school website Students will receive individual house points for participating and gain more for finishing in the top 5 The winning House will receive house points towards the competitions cup that will be awarded at the end of the year

Faculty/Subject Member of staff Competition Venue Time/deadline date Autumn Term 2015/16 September- October Launch date Faculty/Subject Member of staff Competition Venue Time/deadline date 07/09/2015 Worship Head of worship Scrolls Welcome service 15/09/2015 11/09/2015 LRC S Potter Reading challenge 24/10/2015 English AGW Poetry   24/09/2015 Restaurant S Beasley Sodexho Healthy Eating  Restaurant 11/12/2015 14/9: - Applications by 24th Sep Business/ICT VMB Student investor challenge 12/10/15-29/1/16 14/9:- online register by 30/9/15 Maths CJD Cipher Challenge 30/09/2015 14/9: -Register by October 1st Mathematician Video competition 01/10/2015 14/09/2015 PE TEM Year 9 girls Hockey Astro Monday 28th September Friday 2nd October SPG Football year 11,12,13 Monday and Thursday lunch time 12/10/2015 House Harvest Festival collection for Wimborne food bank w of 19/9/15 05/10/2015 Pumpkin carving hall w/c  19/9/15

Year 9 Welcome Service at Wimborne Minster Competition Time! On Friday 18th September at 1.45pm, Year 9 will be taking part in the ‘Welcome Service’ at Wimborne Minster. Last year each House created a scroll on what their year 9’s this year will contribute to the QE family. These scrolls will be presented to the Head Teacher and the Governors at the Welcome ceremony. There were some fantastic entries last year!

The Year 9 Welcome Service At Wimborne Minster Deadline? Each acrostic will need to be typed and sent to Miss Forster (SForster) by Tuesday 15th September at the very latest! What to do? Each set of year 9’s in each tutor group in each house (with some help from the tutor and rest of the group!) needs to put together an acrostic poem of their house name outlining what they will bring to their house and to the QES family. Rewards Finally, the best acrostic poem out of the 5 houses will be awarded a prize of 50 house points to add to that houses grand total. Everyone get involved! Miss Forster will then judge the best one in each house and award 5 house points to each member of that tutor group. What happens next? From all the entries for each house, Miss Forster will then put together 1 acrostic poem to be printed on a scroll for each house, and will be looking for year 9 pupils to take part in presenting the scrolls at the Welcome service – a boy and a girl from each house.

The Year 9 Welcome Service At Wimborne Minster In summary: Year 9 (with help!): Design an acrostic poem of your house name explaining what you will bring to your house Send it to Miss Forster (SForster) by Tuesday 15th September at the latest Ideas to include and an example (early entry! Well done to TLGS): Extra-curricular Achievement Enjoyment Confidence Passion Teamwork Enthusiasm Support Participation

All reading from the LRC earns house points – some books than others! LRC House Competition All reading from the LRC earns house points – some books than others! Each half term the number of house points earned by students in each house will be tallied The higher up the league your house finishes the more points it will earn towards the end of your competition. Read to succeed!!

What? Submit up to two poems on a subject of your choice with the theme of ‘summer’, of no more than 30 lines. You must include your name, age, teacher’s name, school’s name, address and contact number. Why? All entrants receive 10 House Points House winners win hundreds of points for their houses, bringing them closer to the competition cup! Competition winner wins a £50 Amazon voucher! School winner and run up win vouchers Winner and runners up will be published in a real e-book! Excellent opportunity to boost your C.V. Great preparation for GCSE Literature Study or A level Creative Writing How and When? Either bring your complete poems to Mrs Wright in C101 by Thursday 24th September, email to awright@qe.dorset.sch.uk or post them directly to NACE Poetry Competition, The Core Business Centre, Milton Hill, Abingdon, Oxon, OX13 6AB by Friday 25th September. Entries will be judged by a panel including novelist Adele Geras. All entries to Mrs Wright in C101 by Thursday 24th September 2014 – each entry wins 10 House Point!

Results will be given in the last week of this half term We want you to be as healthy as possible this term, so the healthier your lunch is, the more points you will collect! And the more points you collect, the closer you are to winning £60 in SayShopping vouchers! Check out the points chart on the posters and following slide to work out your score! Results will be given in the last week of this half term \

Item Points Main meal plus starchy carbohydrate 3 Pasta King 2 Salad pot – no dressing 5 Salad pot – with dressing Pasta salad Item Points Jacket potato – with one filling 3 Daily Soup and Bread 5 Fruit – fresh, dried or tinned Drink – water bottle or fruit juice

Win The Business & ICT House competition Check your emails for the application form and instructions Win a trip to New York Win House Points Spend a virtual £100,000 Registration is now open. Formal competition runs from 12 October 2015 – 29th January 2016. Application forms should be submitted by 24th September to allow time for practice. The Business & ICT House competition

See your maths teacher for more details.

Year 9 Girls Hockey Inter House Competition Venue: - Astro Time: - Lunch time Specific Dates: - Monday 28th September Friday 2nd October Teams must consist of: - players from the same house 7 a-side Compulsory Kit (or no play) Gum shields Shin pads Team names to Mrs Mynard by Friday September 25th 2015

Inter House Football If you are interested in entering a team into the 5-a-side tournament, please register with Mr Drewitt in the PE office by Friday 18th September. Squads must consist of no more than 7 players Year 9’s will play on a Monday lunch Year 10’s will play on a Thursday lunch Year 11’s will play on a Friday lunch

Harvest Festival House Competition Deadline date for weights to be emailed to Mrs Mynard: - Friday 16th October Each Student will bring in donations and give to their tutor for Wimborne food bank from the list on the next slide 5 house points= donation 10 house points = a meal e.g. pastas and sauce The tutor will collect foods House captains will identify a date for them to bring their offerings to the house office. They will then collate the weight of all foods donated for each tutor group and inform Mrs Mynard Tutor group results will be announced via each house The winning House will be the total amount of weight collected overall The winning tutor group/ house will be announced with the competition results

Wimborne Food Bank – Official Shopping List Food Items (no fresh food!) Milk (UHT or powdered) Sugar Squash/Fruit juice (NB Best by.. Date!) Tinned or packet soups Pasta sauce jars Tinned sponge pudding Tinned tomatoes Tinned rice pudding Tinned custard/powder Breakfast cereals/oats Tea bags/instant coffee/hot chocolate Instant mash potato Rice/pasta Tinned meat/tinned pies/stew Tinned fish Vegetarian meals Tinned vegetables Baked beans Tinned fruit Jam Biscuits/cake bars We would like to be able to offer toiletries Toothpaste/Toilet rolls Soap/Shampoo/conditioner Toothbrushes Washing up liquid Washing powder/tablets Sanitary products for ladies Please stick to the list!!! Please buy items with at least six months left before the Best by/Use By date.

House Pumpkin Carving Venue : - Foyer or Hall Time: - Lunch time 1:30-2:00pm Date: - Wednesday 21st October Competitor registration: - Names to Mrs Mynard by Friday 16th October Bring your own pumpkin to carve Carving utensils provided Mr McLeman and Mrs Watson will judge!!

Good Luck everyone