Congratulations to Memunatu Barrie and Reanne Fernandez, our fantastic Lister finalists in the Jack Petchey Speak Out Challenge for the borough of Newham.

Joining 19 other finalists, Memunatu and Reanne gave confident, passionate, powerful speeches before a crowd of several hundred supporters.

There was a brilliant buzz throughout the evening, with an eclectic mix of speakers who entertained, moved and inspired.

Well done again to Memunatu and Reanne for all your hard work and energy!

More pictures and videos at http://www.speakoutchallenge.com

On Tuesday 14^th May all year 10 GCSE drama students went on a study trip to the Fortune Theatre in Covent Garden. We went to watch the ‘spine-chilling’ thriller ‘The Woman in Black’ which we are studying for our Unit 2 exam.

The play was amazing! As soon as we entered the auditorium we felt the strange, oppressive atmosphere. There were only two actors in the play but they multi-rolled so well it seemed like there were 20. When the Woman in Black appeared on stage unexpectedly, all 41 Drama students shrieked in terror as we looked at her wasted, pale, skeletal face and piercing red eyes through her black veil. Even the teachers jumped!

The trip was fun as well as educational because we learned a lot of techniques and strategies that we can utilize in our exam. I hope there are more trips like this. Thank you to All the Drama Teachers.

Sahar Zahoor Year 10

Dance Episodes II

Friday, 24^th May 2013

12:35-13:10 pm (Lunch time)

Dance Studio

Come along to the show and see some of  the amazing pieces GCSE Dance year 11s created  for their final  exam.

If that’s not enough the Lister Street Dance Crew will also be performing their award winning Dance. 

If you want more the audience can also enjoy pop corn and sweets.

  Contact the Dance Office for a ticket, ONLY 40 Spaces allocated. Staff and students welcome.

See you there, well if you get an invite.

Thanks, 

 Dance Team

Congratulation to Rachel Shaw who got a silver medal in Fencing in the U14 Girls Age Group of the British Youth Championships, held at Sheffield Arena recently.

“What a fantastic achievement for Rachel who is now the number 2 in GB. Rachel who will now prepare for the London Youth Games, representing Newham in May”, said coach, Ms. Strachan.

Over 60 students came into the assembly hall at lunchtime on Wednesday to learn some useful signs in British Sign Language. We were impressed by their high level of focus, positive attitude and good behaviour. If you missed Wednesday’s session there is another chance on Friday lunchtime to come along and learn some basic signing skills during Deaf Awareness week.

I enjoyed the trip we took to the ‘Poet in the City’ event at King’s Place. A group of Year 11 students travelled by tube, accompanied by Mr Battersby and Miss Sharp. We were later joined by Mr Wilson at the event.

The event itself was very interesting and entertaining. It focused on the Ancient Greek story of Helen and the Trojan War. Helen was described as the most beautiful woman in the world. There are many versions of this story and Helen has been portrayed in many different ways, ranging from an evil temptress to being described as helpless, and controlled by men because of her beauty. The stories are always about war and conflict.

The evening was made up of four academics who discussed their interpretations and experiences of this ancient story: Simon Armitage (poet), Bettany Hughes (historian and broadcaster), Simon Mundy (poet, novelist and biographer) and Caroline Bird (poet and playwright) interacted in a fascinating way and spoke passionately about their views.

Overall, I found this event very interesting and useful. It has helped me improve my own interpretations about poems and stories I have studied. I look forward to similar trips in the future.

Rubina Begum

This year we put in an application to the Prince’s Trust to work on the Design Quest project, which brings together artists, designers and museums to work with students in secondary education on creative projects. We were very lucky to be one of the 3 London schools to be selected!

On Thursday 25 April, Year 7 Specialist Curriculum went to Bermondsey to see the Kaffe Fasset exhibition at the Fashion and Textiles Museum.  The textiles were a riot of colour and pattern.  The Princes Trust sponsored Lister to have a guided tour of the exhibition, look around the amazing workshops of Zandra Rhodes and take part in a drawing workshop led by a fashion designer.  Safiya gave the trip 10 out of 10.  Nishat loved the way Zandra Rhodes was inspired by the 1970s patterns she said, “ the designs were amazing and unique it brings the 1970s alive today”. The students really liked the ‘touching wall’ where you could feel Kaffe Fasset’s actual knitted, woven and embroidered fabrics.  Year 7 Specialist Curriculum are now going to design their own collections inspired by the exhibition which will go on show at the fashion and textiles museum later in the summer.

Taniya said “I thought it was a really fun trip because I saw different types of fashion designs and found out how important colour is in Kaffe Fasset’s work.”

Arif thought “the dresses were fantastic because they showed different designs we don’t often see today.”

Billy said, “I think the Kaffe Fasset drawings were amazing”.

By Ms Mortimer

Last week 20 students from year 9 travelled to Gonville and Caius College, part of the University of Cambridge, to see what life at university might be like.

The students were given a talk about the benefits of going to university and had the chance to talk to some current undergraduate students about what their day-to-day life was like at Cambridge.  A tour of the college (during which some of the students had the chance to see Stephen Hawking’s study!) was followed by lunch in the dining hall.

After lunch the students were given a tour of the medieval town centre and had the chance to see the University Museum of Zoology.  The students enjoyed the day and benefited from seeing how life at one of the Country’s best universities might be like.

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We will be holding our termly PTA meeting on this evening from 5.30 – 6.30 pm, here at Lister.

All staff and parents are invited to attend: previous attendance is not required.

It would be fantastic to see as many parents and staff there as possible to build on the good work already being done by the PTA.

We believe that it is essential to have the views and support of as many parents and teachers as possible to help make Lister a truly outstanding school.

There will be light refreshments available at the meeting.

Please see or phone Mr. Smith (Assistant Headteacher) for more details.

We look forward to seeing as many of you there as possible.