House Point and Charity Update

Just to keep you updated about how the house points and charity totals are looking. Stevenson: 13,196 Newton: 13,146 DARWIN: 12,445 Telford: 12,179 Brunel: 10, 746 Top house point earners are: Year 7 – Harry Whittaker - 275 Year 8 – George Taylor - 177 Year 9 – Tanto Olaofe – 207 Year 10 – Oloke Olumayowa- 123 Year 11 – Nathan Miller - 88 Year 12 – Dan Cooke- 162 Year 13 – Dan Ahamefula- 51 The charity total currently stands at £402.52 which is excellent considering this is mostly from weekly collections. REMEMBER...you have the chance to win £10 if you can guess the time to the nearest 2 minutes for which I do the Gladi8or obstacle course in. It costs 50p a guess and you can find me in MA2. Competitions to happen in the next few weeks include yr 10 and 11 dodgeball and a Flappy Bird Competition!

Happy new year to all Darwinians! I hope you had a good break and you should all be settled back into school. Due to your generous donations in the run up to Christmas the total for Marie Curie currently stands at around £350. I know this can at least be doubled in the next 4 terms so keep coming up with charity fundraising ideas. Keep giving generously! We have all done a great job to move from 3rd place to 2nd in the positive house point total. The points total currently stands at... Stevenson: 14,727 DARWIN: 14,634 Newton: 14,542 Telford: 13,948 Brunel: 13,474 Please keep going with this as I know this positive trend can continue! The top house point earners in each year are as follows... Year 7 – Harry Whittaker - 251 Year 8 – George Taylor - 163 Year 9 – Tanto Olaofe – 189 Year 10 – Femi Okegbola - 114 Year 11 – Nathan Miller - 81 Year 12 – Dan Cooke- 156 Year 13 – Dan Ahamefula- 51 Please continue to look at the house notice board and blog for latest updates on house competitions and charity events.

Latest Totals Week Ending 15/11/13

Highest House Point Earners Year 7 – Joshua Rydell- 99 Year 8 – Joe Lambourne and George Taylor - 89 Year 9 – Tom Clark - 125 Year 10 – Olumayowa Oloke- 72 Year 11 – Nathan Miller - 71 Year 12 – Dan Cooke- 115 Year 13 – Dan Ahamefula- 42 Total House and C Points across the houses Newton: 7512 Stevenson: 7290 DARWIN: 6968 Telford: 6715 Brunel: 6404 Total Charity Money £164.40 Keep working and donating!! :)

Latest Totals

Highest House Point Earners Year 7 – Harry Whittaker- 83 Year 8 – Joe Lambourne - 85 Year 9 – Tom Clark - 117 Year 10 – Femi Okegbola - 65 Year 11 – Nathan Miller - 63 Year 12 – Dan Cooke- 100 Year 13 – Dan Ahamefula- 39 Total House and C Points across the houses Newton: 6731 Stevenson: 6612 DARWIN: 6157 Telford: 6049 Brunel: 5841 Total Charity Money £151.23 Keep working and donating!! :)

Charity Update

Thank you to all the charity captains that spoke on behalf of their form about their chosen charity. The overall winner was Marie Curie as chosen by year 10s. Well done Femi! Our current charity total is £100.74. Year 7 have raised the most so far with £18.53. Keep digging deep every week and if you have any fundraising ideas, please speak to me. Miss Lacey

Introduction to the Year 13 House Team My name is Dan Ahamefula and I am your house captain. I study Economics, English Literature and Business Studies. I have been a member of the Darwin house since year 7 for which I've had the privilege to particpate in a number of house activities. The family-orientated environment which the Darwin house is especially known for, has been a driving tool for myself over the past 7 years. Being able to give back to Darwin as a house captain is most definitely the best way I can show my appreication for support the house has given me. My contribution to Darwin over the past years has enhanced my skills as a team player and a leader, and it's with these skills I wish to captain the Darwin house. Hi, my name is Fatmata Lee and I'm the year 13 charity captain for Darwin house. I currently study Chemistry, Pyschology and Sociology. The reason I wanted to become charity captain is because I want to contribute to the school community. I look forward to working with you. Hi guys, my name is Rob Foreman and I am the year 13 sports captain for Darwin. I study German, Geography and Economics for A-Level. I wanted to be sports captain because I am a very keen sportsman and I want to contribute to the school more.

Welcome Darwin to a brand new year! So far, so good.... We are currently first place in the number of house points but Telford and Newton are very close! We do however need to ensure that we do not get C points as they are bringing our total points down. I hope you enjoyed the first assembly on "My Word is my Bond" and understand the implications of following through with your actions. Make sure that if you sign up for a house event that you do it or organise somebody else to. You don't have to be good at the event to take part, just getting involved and trying your best is enough. On that theme, the first round of house football begins on Saturday 28th September with year 7s, followed closely by year 7 rugby on Saturday 12th October. I am sure that the year 7s will do Darwin proud and I look forward to watching a few victories :). Year 12 and 13 will follow on shortly after and dates will be confirmed. Please remember the promises that I made to you: 1) I will buy a tub of chocolates for the form that gets the most house points by Christmas 2) I will buy Krispy Kreme doughnuts for the form that collects the most charity money by the end of the year. 3) I will show you my very short appearance on Wipeout if Darwin are the overall house winners at the end of the year. Although a house charity has not been selected yet please remember to donate any spare money when the collection comes round as it will give us a great start. Keep checking the house blog for updates :)

Non-school uniform day

A big thank you to all the students in Darwin house who took part in the non-uniform day. The day added £155 to our total.

As a house our charity total is now a healthy

£1017.89

This is more than 50% of our goal for the year - well done to everyone but keep going as the £2000 is still a way off.

Question 2

Congratulations to Tom Clark of 8 Darwin who correctly answered that Dawin was born on the 12th February 1809 and that his wife was Emma Wedgewood.

Question 2

To answer this question you will need to look back through the blog to find some information.

Remember that the first student in Darwin to email the correct answers will be awarded a house point.

Good luck!

Our sixth form house team is made up of three students, Faye, Oliver and Nitto. Can you answer the following questions about them?

a) What subject do all three students study this year?

b) Which of the three students wishes to work as a primary school teacher?

c) When asked, what did Oliver describe as his 'like' and 'dislike'?

House point totals on the 14th February

The total number of House points scored by each house as of the 14th Feb 2013 are:




Brunel - 9283

Darwin - 9500

Newton - 9334

Stevenson - 9236

Telford - 9603



This puts us in second place with 20.2% of the total number of house points issued. Well done to everyone but keep trying - Telford are now only 103 points above us. Last week it was 121. The are 182 students in Darwin this year so you only need to gain one house point each for us to be in first place.



The totals for each form as as follows:



year 7 - 2010

year 8 - 1865

year 9 - 1669

year 10 - 1885

year 11 - 1174

6 Darwin 1 - 388

6 Darwin 2 - 477



Year 7 now have the second highest house point total. They are only being beaten by 8 Telford who have 2149.



In each form the highest achieving students are;



year 7 - William Spencely - 111

year 8 - Tom Clark - 161

year 9 - Olumayowa Oloke - 115

year 10 - Storm Kamber - 107

year 11 - Conor Dunbar - 150

6 Darwin 1 - Dan Ahamefula - 48

6 Darwin 2 - Milad Rouf - 63

Amount raised as of the 8th February

As of the 8th February the total raised by Darwin House for the Ellenor Lions Hopsice is

£848.05

This total includes weekly collections, the year 7 and 8 disco profits and the money raised by the doughnut sale organised by Nitto.

This is 42% of the £2000 total we have been set and averages out to £4.66 a person.

To be on target we need to reach £1000 by half term. There will be two opportunities to donate next week. Nitto, Chris and Matthew will be visiting all the forms on Tuesday to do their normal collections and on Friday we have a non-uniform day.

On this day you can wear non-uniform in return for donating at least £1 to the charity. All the money donated by Darwin students will go directly into our total.

 

Question 1

This one is a three part question

a) what year was Darwin born?
b) What is his birthday?
c) Who did he marry?

House blog quiz introduction

During the rest of the year I will be posting questions on the House blog. Some of them will require research and the answers to others will be found within the blog.

The first student in Darwin to email me the correct answer will recieve a house point. Please send your emails to stame@wgsb.org.uk

Good luck

Miss Tame

House point totals as of the 7th Feb

The total number of House points scored by each house as of the 7th Feb 2013 are:

Brunel - 8773
Darwin - 8974
Newton - 8801
Stevenson - 8727
Telford - 9095

This puts us in second place with 20.2% of the total number of house points issued. Well done to everyone but keep trying - Telford are only 121 points above us. The are 182 students in Darwin this year so you only need to gain one house point each for us to be in first place.

The totals for each form as as follows:

year 7 - 1909
year 8 - 1725
year 9 - 1621
year 10 - 1782
year 11 - 1080
6 Darwin 1 - 368
6 Darwin 2 - 457

Year 7 now have the second highest house point total. They are only being beaten by 8 Telford who have 2011.

In each form the highest achieving students are;

year 7 - William Spencely - 110
year 8 - Tom Clark - 151
year 9 - Olumayowa Oloke - 112
year 10 - Storm Kamber - 104
year 11 - Conor Dunbar - 146
6 Darwin 1 - Dan Ahamefula - 41
6 Darwin 2 - Milad Rouf - 63

William Taylor of 7 Darwin and Edwin Park of 8 Darwin have both also achieved over 100 house points.

Well done to everyone - keep this going. In the past Darwin have always been very successful in the house point competition and it would be great to win again this year.

total so far

As of the 11th November we had raised £115 as a House. We do though have several events happening over the next few weeks which should help increase our total.

Joe Robinson in 6 Darwin 2 is running a sixth form pool competition - please see him for details if your would like to take part.

8 Darwin are running a FIFA competition in the lunchtimes in Sc4.

Christams catalogues - please make sure you hand in your orders to Miss Tame by the ne dof November or if you order online please make sure you add in the school code on your form.

Bag packing day - on the 25th November please come and join us in Sainsbury's in Crayford to help shoppers pack their bags and hopefully collect some money for our total.

Miss Tame

Charity collections so far

So far from the Darwin charity weekly collections we have £69.94.

We still have a long way to reach our total of £2000. Please give generously on a Tuesday to help us reach our total. Please also look out for details of our fundraising catalogues and our bag packing day at Sainsbury's in November.

House points totals on the 19th October

Well done to all students in Darwin House as you have earnt 811 house points in the last 7 school days. Our total number of house points now stands at 2596.

Here are all the house totals so you can compare our progress to the other houses.

Brunel 2603

Darwin 2596

Newton – 2578

Stevenson – 2519

Telford – 2731

Here are the total number of house points earnt so far by each form.

Year 7 – 476

Year 8 – 512

Year 9 – 555

Year 10 – 447

Year 11 – 348

6D1 – 116

6D2 – 140



Well done to everyone and especially to 9 Darwin who have achieved an average of 22 house points each so far this year.

 

Our top achievers in each form are:

 

Year 7 – William Spencely – 36

Year 8 – Tom Clark – 68

Year 9 – Oloke Olumayowa – 54

Year 10 – Nathan Miller – 32

Year 11 – Conor Dunbar – 54

6D1 – Dan Ahamefula – 16

6D2 – Tom Wright - 19

Congratulations to all of the above.

Highest House Point totals in each form on 11th Oct 2012

The following students had the largest totals of House Points as of the 11th October 2012

Year 7 – William Spencely – 25

Year 8 – Tom Clark – 41

Year 9 – Oloke Olumayowa – 43

Year 10 – Nathan Miller – 23

Year 11 – Conor Dunbar – 39

6 Darwin 1 – Dan Ahamefula – 9

6 Darwin 2 – Tom Wright - 10

House Points as of 11th October 2012

As of the 11th October 2012 these were the House Point totals were as follows

Brunel – 1825


Darwin – 1785

Newton – 1776

Stevenson – 1775

Telford - 1888

Darwin form House reps

Darwin Form Tutors and Form bases

Year 7 – Miss Clark - BS4


Year 8 – Miss Kemp - SC4

Year 9 – Miss Evans - LA4

Year 10 – Mrs Chambers - LA2

Year 11 – Dr Musami and Mrs Manning - SC3

6 Darwin 1 – Miss Stibbons - HU4

6 Darwin 2 – Mr Hollingsworth - SC2

Darwin Form Captains

Year 7 – Tom Shrimplin


Year 8 – Charlie Jones

Year 9 – Femi Okegbola

Year 10 – Daniel Bradshaw

Year 11 – Adam Smalley

Darwin Sports Captains

Year 7 – Frank Mulholland


Year 8 – Tanto Olaofe

Year 9 – Charlie Wisby-Thomas

Year 10 – Conall de Hoog

Year 11 – Max Kane

 

Darwin Charity Reps

Year 7 – Brendon Mphisa


Year 8 – Daniel Dzimega

Year 9 – Femi Okegbola

Year 10 – Finlay Cain

Year 11 – Adam Smalley / Imran Rouf

 

Darwin School Council Reps

Year 7 – Rohan Phull and James Bruce-Quansay


Year 8 – Edwin Park and Harry Perkins

Year 9 – Chris Osinaike and Ryan Beebeejaun

Year 10 –

Year 11 – Lewis Jeffries and Conor Dunbar