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Speech Day 2010
Old Chigwellian Nick Laws, who recently won the BAFTA Film Award for producing Fish Tank, was the guest speaker on Speech Day on Saturday 10th July. Nick Laws, who was at Chigwell from 1970 to 1976, started his film career as a Post Boy at 20th Century Fox in London and then worked his way up in the Industry as an Assistant Director and Producer of Feature Films. He has worked on a range of pictures, from A Passage to India to the BAFTA winning documentary-drama Touching the Void. He has also worked on five feature films with Michael Winterbottom, including The Claim, a Western set in the American Goldrush. YES was his first move into Production Management followed by Bridget Jones - Edge of Reason, The Constant Gardener and Blood Diamonds, just to mention a few. Although his work-base remains in London, he is currently living in South Africa with his two children and his helicopter flying instructor wife, Jennifer. In his most well-received speech Nick Laws said that in one’s life there are occasions when one’s integrity is challenged, however a school like Chigwell gives one the values to determine what is right and wrong. |
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Beth MacGregor
We are delighted to announce that Beth MacGregor has been called up to play for the England Women's Cricket squad for the five match series against New Zealand to be played between 10th and 20th July. Beth is the first player from Essex to be selected for the full England Women's squad and the promotion follows her selection last summer and earlier this year for the England Women's Cricket Academy. In March Beth went to Bangalore in India with the Academy side where they played matches against local teams, received specialist training in conditions where the next Women’s World Cup is due to be played and took in some IPL games involving the Royal Challengers. In addition, Beth has been chosen as a senior member of a combined England Academy/England U17 team to play matches against Ireland, Scotland and the Netherlands in the European Women’s Championship in early August. |
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The Risham Sarao Prize awarded to Rachel Bradley
Rachel Bradley, who came first among the 23 Sixth Formers who achieved the Chigwell Gold Award, will be the recipient of the Risham Sarao Prize on Speech Day. The Chigwell Award was established last year in order to acknowledge and praise our Sixth Formers’ achievements and their many contributions to the community, something that often goes unnoticed. The Gold Award is bestowed to the students who have completed four sections: volunteering in community service, acquiring work experience, completing a personal development course and a physical challenge. Rachel excelled in all these sections. |
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Chigwell in National Hockey Finals
On 21st and 22nd April, Chigwell U14 Boys’ Hockey Team competed in the National U14 Schools Hockey Championships, having qualified as one of the top two teams in the entire East of England region before Easter. This was the first time ever that a Chigwell hockey team reached a National Finals competition and the boys acquitted themselves well, winning one, drawing one and losing two of their four group matches. In the process Chigwell scored seven goals, with Conor Caplan and Andrew MacGregor getting two each. Captain Will Godfrey, Albert Padfield and Josh Banfield were the other boys who can say they scored a goal at the National Finals! This ensured Chigwell finished third in their group so securing a top six finish. |
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Musician of the Year
The Musician of the Year Competition took place on 30th April with the finalists playing in front of an outside adjudicator, Mr Lee Ward, who is Director of Music at the London Oratory School and President of the MMA. David Albon (flute) was the senior winner, playing the ‘Scherzo’ from Prokofiev’s ‘Flute Concerto’, and Marianne Schönle (piano) was the junior winner, playing a piece by Tchaikovsky, ‘Doumka’. Beatrice Moore (violin) and Chris Wilson (jazz piano) were both highly commended. The other four finalists were Heather Cook (recorder), Gopal Kambo (piano), David Al-Mudallal (drums) and Yuriko Hijikata (violin). |
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Shehab Khan meets Labour VIPS
On 25th April Shehab Khan was invited to attend a Labour Party conference at Westminster by Sam Tarry, who is the National Chair of the Young Labour Party. At the conference he heard several speeches by many Labour personalities, including Gordon Brown. After the speeches Shehab had an opportunity to mingle with all the speakers and meet Gordon Brown,Yvette Cooper, Sidiq Khan and Ed Miliband with whom he chatted for half an hour.
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