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The News Magazine of Comberton Village College ISSUE 21, SUMMER 2009
SCHOOL VISIT: María Teresa Rodríguez Suárez, of the Spanish Embassy, at CVC with Assistant Principal and Director of Language College Rachel Hawkes and Deputy Principal Mary Martin.
Poster is top class YEAR 9 pupil Audrey Braven-Ayres reached the final of a national art competition. Her poster was shortlisted in the top 100 of the more than 1,600 entries for the Young Brits at Art competition run by the Equality and Human Rights Commission. All entrats were told to submit art work that told their story about what it is like to be a young person in Britain. Audrey and the other top 100 entrants were invited to the South Bank Centre earlier this month when the 10 winners were announced. l Telling a Story — Page 11
Comberton has been named as a Spanish School of the Year.
the Spanish embassy annually chooses up to five secondary schools for the prestigious accolade and this year Comberton shares the honour with three London schools and one from Sheffield the announcement follows a successful visit to Comberton by maría teresa rodríguez Suárez of the Spanish embassy. the best schools were selected on the following criteria: provision of Spanish and students take-up; Innovation in pedagogy and curriculum; extra-curricular activities, use of ICt and International links. Comberton deputy principal mary martin plus Jane Driver, maria Collado Canas and Agnieszka barcz-morgan from the modern Foreign Languages Department collected the award from the Spanish Ambassador, He Carles Casajuana, at the embassy earlier this month. In addition to the designation 'Spanish School of the Year 2009', the college also receives a number of prizes including £500 cash, a further £500 Spanish teaching
materials, and a week's paid trip to Valencia for six students and a member of staff. this is not Comberton's only languages award this year. the college also won a european Awards for Languages for its Spanglovision project, a Spanish song competition in which all Year 7 students participate. Another member of the department, Leigh mcClelland,collected that award at the annual eAL Awards ceremony late last month. Comberton has had its Language specialist status for three years and the end of this term marks only the third year that Spanish has been the first foreign language taught at the college. rachel Hawkes, the Director of Language College, said: "We are thrilled to have been chosen for both these awards. "We are now looking forward now to the teaching of our 11 KS4 Spanish classes beginning in Year 10 this September, as well as to broadening our links with our three Spanish-speaking partner schools in Gijón and Figueras, Spain and Arequipa, Peru." l Global Festival — Page 6