Week ending 12 th February 2016

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1 Parents Bulletin Week ending 12 th February 2016 News in brief FREE Cycling Courses available in half-term Any students wishing to book a free 1:1 cycling course with Bob Lawrence can do so at All ability levels are welcome and groups can also be accommodated. Lessons available 7 days a week starting from your home or other convenient location. Electrical and pedal cycles available to borrow and teachers are DBS compliant. Build your own Computer The next two sessions will take place on Tuesday 23 February and Wednesday 16 March in Lab 1 at 7.30pm. Please inform Mrs Williams on: swilliams@thecedarsschool.org.uk if you plan to attend. Lawn Tennis Association (LTA) We now two full teams, thank you to our volunteers! Music There will be free taster lessons for those interested in learning drums and bassoon after half- term. Please let Mr Schellhorn know if you would like to have a lesson. Upcoming Events Monday 15 February Friday 19 February Half-Term Holiday Thursday 25 February Evening of recollection for mums* pm *At Hillcrest 33 Plough Lane, Purley, CR8 3QG (Tel: ) Friday 26 February Parents Coffee with the Head 9.30am Friday 26 February 2.30pm Football v Wallington U12(h) Friday 26 February 7.30pm PAT Race night

2 English Mathew Arnold, most famous for his poem Dover Beach, was a Victorian writer who worked as Her Majesty's Inspector of Schools, and championed the idea of giving everyone a liberal education. In his classic work of social criticism, Culture and Anarchy, he criticised the tendency to live only in the present. Arnold wanted all people to benefit from the great minds of the past, just as we do at The Cedars. He argued that an education in whatever was true and beautiful would seek... to do away with classes; to make the best that has been thought and known in the world current everywhere; to make all men live in an atmosphere of sweetness and light. Dr Anthony Radice Head of English Maths Answers to previous puzzles Tortoise and Hare Hare > (Not drawn to scale) Tortoise ---> m Hare: 800m / min Will take the hare ½ min. Tortoise: has to cover 1.5m in ½ a min. 3m / min is tortoise s speed so as to dead-heat with the hare. Answer: 3 metres per minute

3 a) See grid above. b) See grid above. c) See pattern below: Answer: = x - d) See grid above. e) 35 5 x 9 10 = 35 Paul Moloney Head of Mathematics Classics Nuntii Cedri The discipline of Classics of course includes Ancient Greek as well as Latin. Edward Barnett and James Egwu are two students who have now started to learn the Greek alphabet. Edward can now write the name of his class mates in Ancient Greek script. Parents may be interested to know that students who want to read Greek along with Latin at University can take it up in their first year there without previous study at school. We are fortunate in London in that anyone, whatever age or previous experience, can have a taster of Ancient Greek in the Summer Schools which are run by the University Classics Departments of King s College and University College. There are also a range of short summer courses at the City Lit College in London. The part time Ancient Greek classes at the City Lit are popular with beginners and experienced Classicists alike. Another way to extend your son s interest in the Classical World is through theatre visits. Last year London theatres were awash with productions of Greek tragedies. You may not be aware however that University Departments also put on productions at quite reasonable rates. One of the highlights of the year for the beginners class I teach there is our visit to the annual Greek play put on by the prestigious Classics Department at King s. This week s production was Alkestis by Euripides. The outstanding feature of the King s interpretation of these great

4 dramas is that they link the action to modern themes in truly inventive dramatic performances. Here the play, with its themes of sacrifice and loss, combined references to TS Eliot s The Cocktail Party, to 1950s London and to the ancient kingdom of Thessaly. The audience were brilliantly entertained with stunning musical and dance accompaniments put on by the cast of students from a wide range of departments. Family outings to student performances such as this one are a good way to encourage your sons to be ambitious about preparing for university entrance.. It is never too early! Derivations AM comes from the Latin amare to love. The Roman god of love was known by two different names, Cupid and Amor. In English, a person can be amiable which means friendly or good-natured and in Spain the word for friend is amigo. Amicable friendly, peaceful Enamored charmed or fascinated. Latin Challenge Year 7 Pompeii. Painted wall graffito. Business is good. salve, lucrum! salveo, ere: be well, greet. lucrum, i n.: profit. Year 8 Cagliari. Part of a longer funerary inscription, cut into a rock, on the transitory nature of human life. qui legis hunc titulum mortalem te esse memento. Qui, quae, quod: who, what (relative pronoun referring to addressee of memento); lego, ere, legi, lectus: read; hic, haec, hoc: this; titulus, i m: inscription, notice; mortalem esse: you to be; mortalis, e: mortal; memento memini, isse: imperative: remember. Years 9 and 10 Caesar, de Gallico 5.9.6: The Seventh Legion deploys into a formation to flush out hostile Britons from the woods in 54 BCE. In the testudo, soldiers held their shields defensively: the front line held their shields in front, the men on the sides held their shields out to the side, soldiers within the formation held their shields overhead this was, essentially, an ancient tank. At milites legionis septimae, testudine factā et aggere Ad munitions adiecto, locum ceperunt eosque ex silvis Expulerunt, paucis vulneribus acceptis. testūdo, testūdinis, f: fortification; adicio, ere, adieci, adiectus: join, add to; eos: the Britons; expello, ere, expuli, expulsus: drive out, expel; paucus, a, um; few, little; vulunus, vulneris, n: wound; accipio, ere, accepi, acceptus: receive. Dr Tom Spencer Latin

5 Important dates 2016 Some key dates for the current academic year are listed below: Wednesday 2 nd March 2016 Tuesday 26 th April 2016 Wednesday 25 th May 2016 Thursday 30 th June 2016 Saturday 2 nd July 2016 Y9/10 Parents evening Key Parent Function Details will be confirmed closer to the event. New parents induction & GCSE options evening (Y8) Summer Concert and Prizegiving PAT barbecue The last word You change your life by changing your heart. Max Lucado